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‘Suprises: with AppleWorks mmon Mistakes...Owners Make “Medley and Desktop Publishing “Tip on tcons and the GS Finder Virus Warning - "Load Runner" ~. Conference with. Rodger Wagner 18 | Balance of Power - The 1990 Edition’ 22 Talking Sticky Bear 22 _ Beware! : 23 _ Reasons Not to Write Articles... 24 Disk of the Month 25 Apple-Q Inc. Auction Form 27 ¢ Giant 28 page edition | This Month... General Meeting Sunday 18th Febraury 1990 Hours: 11.00 am to 4.30 pm Next Month... General Meeting Sunday 18th March 1990 Hours: 11.00 am to 4.30 pm Committee Meeting Monday 19th February 1990 Starts: 7.00 pm Committee Meeting Monday 19th March 1990 Starts: 7.00 pm All meetings are held at: Hooper Education Centre, Kuran Street, Wavell Helghts Coming Events... February: Apple-Q Auction will be held. So check you house for anything (computer related) you would like to sell. Check out the Editorial for more details. March: Rob Neary, from Ramware, will be back for another demosration with education software. April: Bulld your own Hard Drive. We will show you how and how ‘to manage your Hard Drive. Membership Fees Joining Fee: Adults: — $10.00 (add to Membership Fee when first joining) Students: $5.00 (under 21 years & on production of Student Card) Annual Subscriptions: Adults/Students: Corporate Membership: Associate Membership: $25.00 $50.00 $10.00 (BBS only) At the discretion of the Executive Committee Contributions to Apple-Bug We are always looking for articles for publication in Apple-Bug. You can send your article to The Editor, P.O. Box 6375, Gold Coast Mail Centre, Qld. 4217 or hand it to a Committee Member during the General Meeting. If possible, send the article on disk. The disk will either be posted back to you or handed to you at the next meeting. The deadline is the Committee Meeting following the General Meeting. Disk contributions can be accepted on: Apple Il - Dos 3.3, CP/M, Apple Pascal & Prodos Text files. Also Appleworks and Zardax files. Mac - Text file on a 400K or 800K disk (also MacPaint pictures). Other word processing files can be translated. Apple-Q Inc. Information Page Executive Committee Vince Crosdale President (07) 351-3090 John Finch Vice-President (07) 260-5218 Bob Godbehere Secretary (07) 808-3892 Bernie Benson Treasurer (07) 345-1545 ‘Ann White Registrar (07) 371-4067 Dale Rodgie Editor (075) 38-6942 ‘Sheryl Mann Software Librarian (071) 96-7401 Brett Dutton Hardcopy Librarian (07) 397-8087 Bulletin Board - Apple-Q Inc. BBS On-line: 24 hours a day Telephone: (07) 851-1711 (Bulletin Board) (07) 351-3090 (Voice) Baud Rates: 300, 1200/75, 1200 & 2400 (CCITT & BELL) Data Specs: 8 Data bits, 1 Stop bit, No Parity, Full Duplex Sysops: Vince Crosdale, Graham Black Copying Fees Apple-Q Inc. has a wide selection of Public Domain, Shareware and Demonstration software available to members. We charge a copying fee so the group can obtain more software to expand the library. The copying fee for 5.25 inch disks is 50 cents a side with a minimum charge of $2.00. For the 3.5 inch disks, the fee is $3.00 per disk. See the Software Librarian at the next Meeting for a catalogue. Also see the "Disk of the Month” section for more great Public Domain software. On the inside back page you will find a software order form. This form can be filled out if you wish to order by mail or you can order and pick it up at the meeting. For mail orders, remember to add $2.00 for Postage and packaging. More Info... + The copying of Commercially produced software is not sanctioned by Apple-Q Inc. and members who do so risk expulsion from the group. + Application for membership or Renewal of membership and a)! other mail, should be sent to Apple-Q Inc., P.O. Box 721, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101. Articles for Apple- Bug can be sent to Editor, P.O. Box 6375, Gold Coast Mail Centre, Bundall, Queensland 4217. + No one is allowed behind the Trading Table counter except the Committee members and anyone appointed to work at the Trading Table. Advertising Classified advertising isFree to all Financial Members. For non- members, the charges are $18.00 for a Half Page and $30.00 for a Full Page. For more information, contact the Editor on (075) 38-6942 (after hours). Production Information The Apple-Bug was written with AppleWorks. AppleWorks GS was used for the Page Layout and the orginal copy was printed on a LaserWriter. February 1990 Editorial by Dale Rodgie Welcome to the 90's. 1990 promises be to an exciting year for Apple computer user's. With new products expected to be teleased soon and the second annual Apple User's Group Convention in April. Rumors of new Apple models are everywhere - better, stronger, faster. Sounds like an ad for the six million dollar man, I would like to thank John Finch for his talk on lightning protection for computers. We have all learned a lot from your talk. For those who couldn't make it, it was a very enlightening experience. Due to a few problems, I was unable to print the January edition before the meeting. So this edition is twice the size - pages plus a 4 page Disk of the Month Catalogue Liftout. You will notice some more changes in the format of the Apple-Bug. I am trying to bring up the standard of this publication to match newsletters from other user's groups. I hope you like it. If you have any suggestions, please contact me. Disk of the Month In the centre 4 pages you will notice the Disk of the Month Catalogue Liftout. This liftout contains a description of the Disk of the Month disks including this month's offering - Dos 3.3 Game Disk and the Apple IIgs Games Disk #3. Also included in this catalogue are some specials. The liftout also contains the Software Order Form. When you send the liftout in for an order, we will send a replacement to you with your disks. Apple-@ Auction It's that time again for the bi-annual Apple-Q Auction. The auction will work much like the last auction. Bernie Benson is ‘ndling the recording of the auction items. You can contact Amie before the meeting to lodge the items you wish to auction. However, Bernie is working on a "first in - first served" basis. The first person to lodge your items with Bernie will get at the top of the auction list.. Check the back of this edition for the Auction Form. | Apple-Q Auction this month! See Editorial for details. a J * The auction starts at 1.00 pm - get your items lodged before 12,00 pm. + All auctioned items must have a Reserve Price of no less than $5.00. + Apple-Q gets a commission of 10 percent of the final auctioned price. + Apple-Q Inc. takes no responsability for software or equipment lodged at this Auction. + You can auction any computer related item - software or hardware. * Bernie can not finalize payments until after the auction. So if you have to leave early, we will post a cheque to you (minus $1.00 to cover handling). AppleWorks SIG If there is time after the Auction, Bernie will be looking at the word porcessor and data base from Appleworks. Trading Table Remember that the Trading Table will be open at the General Meeting. Along with our low cost blank disks we have: Apple News AppleWorks GS Upgrade AppleWorks GS v1.1 has now been released in the US. AppleWorks GS 1.0 v2 will "not" import classic AppleWorks 3.0 files. So AppleWorks GS v1.1 has been upgraded to handle the new file format. The printer driver have been re- written and they have increased the speed at which AppleWorks GS will print to an Imagewriter printer. Also the custom dictionaries can be larger. The upgrade is available in the States for $29.00 (US). If you bought Appleworks GS in Australia, contact Data Flow for upgrade information. Mouse Mats $8.00 Mouse Holders $6.00 80-column cards (not extended) $30.00 Computer Manuals (from) $1.00 Time Out for AppleWorks 3.0 Data Flow has announced that Beagle Bros has now upgraded the Time Out series to work with AppleWorks 3.0. To qualify for the upgrade you must send your original disk to Data Flow with a cheque for $20 per program, plus $3 postage. If you purchased a Timeout program since July of this year the Upgrade is free. HyperStudio is Complete A finished version of HyperStudio, for the Apple IIGS, is now shipping. HyperStudio is HyperCard for the GS. The package includes a digitizing card, speaker and microphone. Though the hardware is not top of the line, the package gives 4 Apple-Bug you access to the many features of HyperStudio. Applied Engineering Upgrades Applied Engineering has now released upgrades to all its software across the range, to take advantage of System 5.0. AW 2 Expander Version 3.2 is the latest release for all A.E Ram Cards. PC Transporter System Disk Version 1.3 is also now available. Mac Music Publisher Repertoire Pty. Ltd. have released version 2.5 of Music Publisher. Music Publisher features a Presto Keyboard, real time page entry, MIDI time dilation and speed improvements. Music Publisher retails for $995.00. Phone (08) 363-2600 for more information, Re-ink your Printer Ribbons Windsor Software offer a re-inking service at a very cheap Price. For around $4.00 to $5.00 you can get most popular black ribbons re-inked. Also Windsor Software pay for postage both ways. You can contact them by phoning (07) 356-1759. Queensland Computer Expo November 8th to 11th was the dates, the R.N.A. Showgrounds was the place for the 1989 Computer Expo. Over 100 exhibitor's were at the expo this year. On the Apple front, three dealers had stalls at the Expo. They were Computer City, Byte Technologies and Barkly Computers. Out of all the displays, the one from Computer City was the best. They had a number of machines from the Apple Ile to the new Mac Portable. A GS had a new demo program called Nucleus. It takes the GS to the limit of it's graphics and sound capabilities. Also Computer City was demonstrating a new digital camera. Unlike other cameras, it contains a computer disk. The image is scanned and stored on the computer disk in the camera. In the demo, the image was then superimposed onto a Mac screen. Byte Technologies had a display with a large projection screen. Demonstrations using MIDI instruments connected to the Mac were projected onto the screen. At the Barkly stand however, a lone Mac stood among MS-DOS machines. Looking around the Expo, I found a number on Mac II's being used for demonstrations. As is the custom, specials abound at the Expo. One stall was selling Seagate 10 megabyte hard drives for just $199.00 each. Too bad it would not work with my GS. Rumors of new Macs Several new Macs are planned for release during 1990 (or so the rumor goes). For starters, a new Mac II machine designed for CAD and engineering applications. It is believed to contain a 68030 microprocessor running at 33 Mhz and 6 expansion slots. The new Mac will have a speed increase of between 30 and 100 per cent over the Mac IIci. It is rumored to be called the Macintosh IIxi, Rumors of the low end colour Mac are still going around. In the December edition of A2-Central, Dennis Doms looks at the rumor in detail. Firstly, he says that if Apple did release a low cost Mac, then most the current Mac owners would certainly not be happy with paying thousands of dollars more for their Mac, Also the idea of a cheap colour Mac would not be able to be achieved with present technology. For example, adding a colour RGB monitor to a Mac would bump the cost by almost $700.00. That is about the difference between a monochrome screen and an RGB colour monitor. New Apple Il products for January Apple plan to release a number of Apple II products during January. However, my source was tight-lipped about the details. But he was excited! Aussie Modem sold in US Apple's Australian built 2400 baud modem is now b sold in the States. Apple Computer (Australia) and NetComm joined together to develop a modem for the Australian market. Now NetComm is shipping the Apple modem to the States. NetComm expects to make 10 million (US) with this deal. Infer-red Appletalk Dataplex Pty Ltd., of Melbourne, has developed an infra- red transceiver which is Appletalk compatible. A test was just completed that linked two Appletalk networks together. In the test, a tansceiver was positioned on the roof of the two buildings containing the separate networks. The test was carried out over 12 months with the system being used 9 hours a day and 5 days a week. The test was carried out over 830 metres and the success rate with this system was 100%. Th transceiver converts the electronic signal from the Appletalk cable to an optical signal (light) which is then focused on the other transceiver. The other transceiver receives the light signal and converts it back into an electronic signal. The DPX-725, as it is called, costs between $13,000 and $15,000. It is available from Dataplex - phone (03) 735-3333. Game of the times... Just 48 hours after the US invasion of Panama, Abracadata released a game called "Catch Noriega". The object of the game is, of course, to capture Manuel Noriega. Once he is captured, he then is interrogated by none other than Tammy Baker. The game is available for the Apple Ile and the price quoted was $119.00. I don't know if this is US or Australian dollars. I would expect that this game would take a few months to get to Australia. New GS Software So What Software has released a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor. Using the editor you can construct pull-down menus, windows, dialog boxes, cursors and icons. The editor then outputs to a source code file for Assembly Language, C, Pascal and even Applesoft Basic. The address for So What Software is 10221 Slater Ave, Suite 103, Fountain Valley, CA 92708, U.S.A. February 1990 5 Seven Hills Software have released a font editor for the GS called Font Factory GS. It uses the standard GS desktop to edit the font. You can load more than one font onto the desktop. It also scales fonts and has Smoothing function. It was recommend by Larry Miller from the Apple IIGS Buyer's Guide. You can contact Seven Hills Software at 2310 Oxford Road, Tallahassee, FL 32304, U.S.A. Another offering from Seven Hills Software is Disk Access. Disk Access is a New Desk Accessory that allows you to do many of the operations available in the Finder. You can initialize disks, create a folder, delete a file or folder, name a disk/folder/file, catalog disks/folders/files, copy files and find file by name...just to name a few. All this can be accessed from most GS applications including Appleworks Gs. Apple lIGS Buyer's Guide The latest edition of the Apple IIGS Buyer's Guide has hit the newsstands. It covers many of the new GS hardware and software available and also has hints and tips. If you are looking to buy GS software, check it out. Computer City is on the move (finally!) After many months, Computer City is moving to their new site in Woolloongabba, bigger and better than ever before! The address will be 116 Ipswich Rd, Woolloongabba. Ph: (07) 891 6299 Fax: (07) 391 1829. We'll see you there! Macintosh Mumblings by John Finch Have you hugged your hard disk today? No! Do you tealise the problems that can come from a neglected hard disk? Thad a SOS call the other day from someone who was having problems with their Mac. Programs were crashing and all sorts of weird alert boxes were coming up on screen. My first question was "When did you last do a ‘back up’ of the hard disk?" - Well do it NOW. After a few more questions | asked about hard disk maintenance - like backing up, it had never been done. Well a check of the disk produced a unbelievable fragmentation of 67% - that's right, 67%, no wonder they were having problems. Using a de-fragmentation utility "Disk Express", I had them back in business within a couple of hours. So what is "fragmentation?" For those who do not know; supposing you had a storeroom full of big boxes on the shelves, all neatly stacked. As you took the big boxes pur they were replaced with smaller boxes, but the remaining big boxes are not moved at all. After a while you would have quite a bit of wasted space around the smaller boxes where you could not fit anything in. It is not quite as simple as that, but to carry the analogy further, supposing you also had some weak or damaged shelves, or some damaged boxes that you needed to reuse. Then the problems of your store room are similar to the problems that can occur "When did you last do a ‘back up' of the hard disk?" on a hard disk. When this happens to your hard disk and it is called ‘fragmentation’. To cure it you must remove all the boxes out of the store and re-stack them. Doing this 're-stacking’ on your hard disk needs a utility program. Unfortunately there are no public domain utilities that do the job, at least none that I know of. However, even if there was a public utility available I doubt if I would use it - not unless I KNEW it was reliable. Whilst preparing for this article I experimented with some PD utilities that "tested" my hard disk. The result was a damaged disk format and I have spent the last 4 hours rebuilding my hard disk. So "beware of Greeks bearing gifts" - cheap is not always beautiful, especially when you are playing with hard disks. The program may well work fine on the programmers disk. Mine it corrupted. ‘There are two utilities that I have safely used: "Symantec Utilities HD TuneUp" and "DiskExpress”. Either program will do a satisfactory job for a full disk maintenance. Disk Express is slower, but that may mean it is more thorough. HD TuneUp had a fast de-fragment option that only took a few seconds. A full maintenance with either program takes quite some time. What the program does is effectively take your software off the hard disk, sweep the cobwebs out of the comers and put your software back neatly and contiguously on the disk. The end result will be faster access and safer use. Macintosh Technical Tip Modifications to Microsoft Word/Excel to increase dialog box sizes. by Dr. A. E. Mc Clintock Problem I like to use meaningful titles for my documents in Microsoft Word and in Excel; sadly, however, long names are truncated in the Dialog Box from which you are prompted to open a file. Often the important part of the name is not visible. I want to see the whole file name, up to the 32 characters allowed by the system. 6 Apple-Bug Solution Use ResEdit to make changes to (a copy of) the program. This is what you do for Microsoft Word (version 3.01): Make a copy of Microsoft Word (just in case...) Double Click on ResEdit (1 used version 1.2b2) Double Click 0 Copy of Microsoft Word Double Click on DLOG Double Click on -3998 Click and drag the Dialog Box down a bit From the DLOG Menu pick Display as Text Next to the word "right" change 375 to 475 From the DLOG Menu pick Display Graphically 10 Double Click on the now larger box 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 Drag all the buttons on the right over to the right 12 Click and drag to the right on the bottom right comer of the shaded box which shows where the file names are listed, this will widen the scrolling window. 13 Close all windows, answering "Yes" to the prompt to Save Changes 14 When you are happy that the copy of Microsoft Word is working OK, discard the old version. Tf you want to do the same for Microsoft Excel, you do the same as above except Step 5 uses ID number 270. EDITOR: Reprinted from Ausom News (Apple Usé Society of Melbourne), June 1989. Lissner Relates Beginnings EDITOR: This letter was reprinted from the AppleWorks Forum. AppleWorks Forum is a publication of the National AppleWorks Users Group, Box 87453, Canton, Michigan 48187. Phone (313) 454-1115. The cost of membership is $27 (U.S.) a year. Dear Cathleen, Thank you for inviting me to participate in the NAUG seminars at AppleFest in Boston this past Spring. I always appreciate the opportunity to share ideas with fellow AppleWorks users. We received some interesting questions about the relationship between AppleWorks and ///EZ Pieces, the AppleWorks clone that runs on the Apple /// computer. Our fellow NAUG members might like to know something about the development of ///EZ Pieces. In 1981, I wrote, and Apple published, Quick File for the Apple II and ///, a predecessor of the AppleWorks data base. As a result, | had a cordial working relationship with many people at Apple Computer. In late 1982, some of these same people met with me to figure out what I should do next. Not much came of these meetings until we saw the Lisa Office System, and realized that the same integrated software, minus the graphics interface, could be done on the Apple II. Although Apple had no further part in the early development of AppleWorks, Apple was definitely my first choice as a publisher. At this point my friend Don Williams, then still at Apple, convinced me that getting influential people at Apple to use the program was the best way to get a consensus regarding the marketability and significance of such a program, Since most of the people at Apple were using Apple /// of Appleworks computers at that time, an Apple /// version of the program was important to their decision making process. My intent was to get the Apple people to use the Apple /// version, win their support for the program, and then ask them to market both Apple II and Apple /// versions of AppleWorks, then called Apple Pie. There is only one source code for ///EZ Pieces and AppleWorks, so each feature | added worked in both programs. Small portions of the source code included for one machine would be omitted for the other machine because of differences in input/output methods and memory management. Building a version for one machine or the other was a matter of making minor changes, and then rebuilding the startup and program disks, After working on Appleworks for about ten months, we finally reached an agreement that Apple would be the publisher of the Apple II version and have an option on the Apple /// version, so we handed that completed version to another publisher with whom we had hastily contracted. Once Apple became the publisher, our four-person e”” became a team of twenty or more professionals. Until that u. we really hadn't understood that programming is just a piece of a major engineering, testing, product design and marketing project that precedes every successful software product introduction. Given the ultimate popularity of AppleWorks, one must wonder what impact Apple's decision not to publish ///EZ Pieces had upon the longevity of the Apple /// computer. My best wishes to you and to my fellow NAUG members, Cordially, Robert Lissner ° Price Drop on We are now selling 3.5 inch disk for just $20.00 We don't know how long we can 3.5 inch Disks a box. Six dollars a box saving from lost month. hold this price, so get in quickly! February 1990 AppleWorks 3.0 Tips and Hints by Dale Rodgie Frozen? If you ever find AppleWorks frozen, just hit <Control>- <Reset>, but not <Open Apple>-<Control>-<Reset> (this reboots your computer). When you reset, AppleWorks brings you back to the Main Menu with all desktop files intact in most xases. Spell Checker Hint If you are checking a word processor document and AppleWorks finds an misspelt word, you can type the letter <G> to get suggestions of what the spelling should be. “qpleWorks then checks the dictionary for possible gestions. This can take some time. However, if you see the correct word appear on the screen, you can press <Esc> to stop the disk access. Then just select the correct spelling as normal. Getting errors trying to read... If you are using Appleworks 3.0 on an Apple IIGS, you could run into problems. AppleWorks does not like reading or writing files in subdirectories that has lower case letters in the subdirectory's name. This problem will only occur if you use a GS application to create the subdirectory under GS/OS System 5.0 or higher. There are two ways to get around this problem: 1. Only use AppleWorks to create subdirectories that will contain AppleWorks files or 2. if you use a program like the Finder, make sure you only use UPPER CASE characters in the subdirectory name. How to Avoid Surprises with AppleWorks 3.0 by William Marriott - Claris Technical Support Many users call Claris Technical support with questions about the new version of AppleWorks, the most significant upgrade to the program since its introduction seven years ago. This article answers some of the most common questions about AppleWorks 3.0 Has the new version of AppleWorks caught you off-guard? Perhaps your printer no longer works like it used to, or a feature that you used often has changed. Read this article for solutions and explanations to some of the most commonly asked questions about AppleWorks 3.0: Qi use a mouse with my old copy of AppleWorks to rose commands from menus and navigate in the spreadsheet. Why did Claris remove this feature from AppleWorks 3.0? A. AppleWorks has never supported a mouse. Many programs which customized AppleWorks features were available for earlier versions of the program. If a friend or your dealer configured AppleWorks for you, your copy may have been "enhanced" with extra features like time and date display, screen savers, customized error bells, cosmetic changes to the AppleWorks screen, and macros. Since you could use a mouse with the older version of AppleWorks, you most likely had a "macro" enhancement installed. Your copy of AppleWorks has been modified if you have a file called "ULTRA.SY STEM" or "SUPER.SYSTEM" on your disk. If you wish to use the mouse (or other enhancements) with AppleWorks 3.0, you will need to install new versions of the add-on software. UltraMacros 3.0 is compatible with the new AppleWorks, and adds mouse capability. A 50% discount coupon for UltraMacros is included with the 3.0 upgrade. The special offer for TimeOut UltraMacros expires at the end of the year. Quis AppleWorks 3.0 compatible with my accelerator card? My cursor flashes much more slowly in AppleWorks 3.0 than it did in 2.1, A. Your accelerator card is still functioning and speeding up AppleWorks operations. In older versions of AppleWorks, using an accelerator card (or using AppleWorks on an Apple IIgs) caused the cursor to blink very quickly. In fact, some of the newer chips made the cursor flash so fast it was hard to find on the screen. In AppleWorks 3.0, the cursor is programmed to flash at the same rate whether you have an accelerator card or not. Other parts of AppleWorks have also been changed to accommodate accelerator boards. For example, when AppleWorks performs a sort, it no longer lists the time it will take to complete the task. Instead, a "progress bar" shows you the rate at which the task is being completed, Qa. T have a No-Slot clock, which worked fine with version 2.1, but no longer seems to work with AppleWorks 3.0. Does version 3.0 support clocks? A. AppleWorks supports ProDOS-compatible clocks. For example, if you use AppleWorks 3.0 with an Apple Ilgs, you do not need to enter the date or time when you start AppleWorks. Also, your files will be "stamped" with the time of their modification. The No-Slot clock is not normally ProDOS compatible. You make it compatible by modifying ProDOS with a special 8 Apple-Bug “patch.” The ProDOS shipped with AppleWorks 3.0 does not include this modification. If you have an older (patched) version of ProDOS, you can copy it from your AppleWorks 2.1 disk to the ProDOS disk supplied with AppleWorks 3.0. Your clock should then work properly, Q. Ihave a large data base created in AppleWorks 2.1 on two 5.25-inch disks. When I try to open this file in AppleWorks 3.0, I get an error message and I can't open the file. Av tt you have extra memory in your computer, you can create files that are too large to fit on standard 5.25-inch disks. You need to save the file to a larger disk: either a 3.5-inch disk, which holds 800K; or a hard disk, which will hold at least 5 MB (about 5,120K), depending on the hard drive, For earlier versions of AppleWorks, memory board manufacturers offered a utility that allowed users to take advantage of all the memory in their computer, without purchasing additional disk drives. These utilities modified AppleWorks to "segment" files to two or more disks when saving large files. If you have segmented files that you wish to use with AppleWorks 3.0, you have the following options: + Wait for the memory card manufacturer to release a compatible version of the utility. Applied Engineering and Checkmate have promised new versions of their utilities that will be compatible with AppleWorks 3.0. + Purchase a 3.5-inch disk drive or hard disk. To open large files in AppleWorks 3.0, open the files from a disk copy using AppleWorks 2.1. Copy the files to a 3.5-inch disk drive or hard disk. You will then be able to open the files from the 3.5-inch disk drive or hard disk with AppleWorks 3.0. + Segment the file into chunks that can fit on a single disk, then combine the files in memory. Use AppleWorks 2.1 to open the large file and then manually segment it across two or more disks. Open the file with AppleWorks 3.0 and then combine the files in memory. A final note because of its additional features, AppleWorks 3.0 uses 16K more memory than older versions. If you had files that were near the limit of the Desktop, you may not be able to open them in AppleWorks 3.0. If you have files you are unable to open, you will have to make the files smaller or purchase additional memory, if you want to take full advantage of the new version. Q. 1 installed my Epson printer using the AppleWorks Printer Information setup menu. When I try to print, garbled text and extra characters appear on the printout. The AppleWorks codes are different than the codes in my printer manual, so I changed the codes to match the printer manual. The printer still doesn't work properly, even when I add it as accustom printer. What am | doing wrong? A. You installed your printer correctly. Unfortunately, there is a problem associated with removing printers from the printer list that was discovered after Claris shipped AppleWorks 3.0. The problem is not limited to Epson or ImageWriter printers. For the most reliable printer setup, do not remove the ImageWriter from the printer list. Recopy the AppleWorks program disk and add the Epson printer to the printer list. Your printer should work properly. Qa added a header to an AppleWorks word processor document using different tab settings than those used in the body text. When I print out the document, the first page prints properly, but subsequent pages use the header tab settings for the body text. What's happening? A.. The header resets the current tab settings whenever it prints. For example, you might set up a header with only one tab stop, a center tab, for the page number. The body of yor text might use a more complex tab settings for columns am indented paragraphs. The tab settings for the body text will be in effect until the header prints on the second page. When the header prints on the second page, the tab settings reset to the header tab settings. The header tab settings remain in effect for the rest of the printout. If you want to have two separate rules for your body and header, insert the ruler for body text bef the Page Header End command. Q. ike the ability to have multiple-line headers and footers, so I added a 15-line footer to my document. When I print the document, it prints past the perforation on my paper! How can I correct this? A. Printing can become erratic if there are more than nine lines in a header or a footer. Unfortunately, there is no solution to this problem other than using fewer lines in your headers and footers. Q. Ihave a Brother printer that I use with AppleWorks 3.0. Although, I set the "Needs line feed after each return" option in the "Add a Printer" menu to "No," and the interface car¢ setting is correct I still get double-spaced output. How can correct this problem so it will print single-space output? A. Some Brother printers interpret the return character at the end of the printer code as a printer command, others do not. If you get double- or triple-spacing from your printer, re-enter the code for 10 characters per inch without the ret character. You should now be able to print single-space output. If that workaround fails, remove the codes for 10 characters per inch and 6 lines per inch altogether. Q. My Panasonic printer puts a zero at the beginning of every line. How can I eliminate the zeros from my output? A. The AppleWorks print driver uses codes for characters per inch that do not work well with some models of Panasonic printers. The solution is to use the following codes, taken from the "PRINTER CODES" database on the sample files disk: 10cpi_ Escape P Control-A. 12 cpi Escape P Control-@ Refer to pages A-9 through A-12 of the AppleWorks Reference manual for instructions on entering the codes. Q.. I defined a "Color IW" and used the new special codes February 1990 9 area to set up commands for color output on my ImageWriter II. Then I added a "Foreign IW" which had special codes for foreign language output. When I went back to use the driver for color output, I discovered that my special codes for color had been replaced with special codes for those for foreign language. Am I limited to only one set of special codes? A. in AppleWorks 3.0, you can define up to six special printer control codes per printer. You would expect that each of the three possible printers would have unique sets of special codes, and they can except that the labels for those todes remain the same for all printers, The codes themselves are unaffected. For example, special code #1 for the Color IW is different than Special Code #1 for the Foreign IW, even though both codes might be labeled "Print Spanish.” This is an inherent limitation in the program. Q, Tused the 10 cpi code for my Star printer listed in the /RINTER CODES" database supplied with AppleWorks 3.0. When I print, "ES" appears at the beginning of every line of my document. Are the codes listed in the database incorrect? A. You're probably entering the code as it appears in the Multiple Record Layout. In that view, the columns are too narrow to display the entire code. If you entered part of the code, it probably won't work properly. To view the entire code, press Open Apple-Z for Single-Record Layout. You'll discover that the complete code for 10 cpi on a Star printer is as follows: Escape B Control-A Escape W Control-@ You entered "Escape B Control-A ES," which would cause the "ES" to appear at the beginning of every line. Qu prepared a report in the Data Base module and specified that I needed three copies. The first copy printed out fine, but other two copies printed out with only the header and the first ord of the report. How can I resolve this problem? A. There are a couple of alternatives. You can print the report to the Clipboard and then move the file from the Clipboard into the Word Processor module. You can then print the report from the Word Processor. You can also press Open Apple-C to copy the database records you want to print. Open a new spreadsheet document and press Apple-C again to copy the database records from the Clipboard to the Spreadsheet. The Word Processor and Spreadsheet modules will print multiple copies properly. Q. 1 tried to use the FastCopy program included with AppleWorks 3.0 to copy AppleWorks. However, when I insert my original disk, the computer beeps and I get the message “This disk must be write-protected!" As far as I can tell, the disk is write-protected. What should I do now? A. FastCopy requires you to write-protect your source disks (the disk you're copying information from.) If you have problems copying your disk, try the following techniques: * Use nonreflective opaque tape to cover the notch. Some disk drives (including later model Apple drives) use optical sensors to see if a write-protect notch is covered or not, and it will not recognize disks with transparent or shiny tape as being write- protected. + Use thicker, sturdier tape. Some drives use a mechanical button that is not fully activated when thin tape is used. + Make sure the tape wraps around both sides of the disk. If you only lay the tape sideways, across the surface of the disk, the detector mechanism may not work properly. + Try a different copy utility, such as Copy II+, or the programs included on the ProDOS Users Disk that came with your computer. Q.. Hike to use the option "Omit line when all entries on line are blank" in the Data Base to make my mailing labels more attractive. But when I print three-across labels, sometimes AppleWorks omits the line, and sometimes it doesn't. It works fine with one-across labels. How do I correct this problem? A. AppleWorks will only omit the line if all entries on the line are blank. If other labels in the same row have information on that line, the lines will not be omitted. To minimize the problem, sort your database by the categories which most often have blank entries. Those records will move to the top, and there will be a greater possibility of having a blank line in all three labels of a row. AppleWorks always omits empty lines when you print one-across labels. Q. The manual says that I can now use parenthesis in calculated fields. However, when I try the example in the manual, all I get is a series of pound signs ("######H#") in my report. Is there something wrong with my disk? A. Your disk is fine. The manual incorrectly states that AppleWorks 3.0 follows algebraic rules for evaluating calculated database fields, and allows parenthesis in those fields. Actually, calculated fields behave exactly as they did in AppleWorks 2.1. You should arrange the formula so that it does not use parenthesis. Q. in my original copy of AppleWorks, Open Apple-Tab moved the cursor to the previous tab stop. Open Apple-Tab in AppleWorks 3.0 moves the cursor forward to the next tab stop. The quick reference card says Open Apple-Tab moves the cursor to the previous tab stop. Which is correct? A. The quick-reference card is in error. In AppleWorks 3.0, when you press the Tab key (without holding down an Apple key), a formatting caret is inserted into your document, and the cursor as well as any text after the cursor moves to the next tab stop.Some users of earlier versions of AppleWorks may not want to use tabs this way, so Open Apple-Tab was changed to behave as regular Tab did in earlier versions of AppleWorks. Although you can no longer use Open Apple-Tab to move to the previous tab stop, Open Apple-Left Arrow provides a similar function: it moves the cursc- to the previous word. EDITOR: This article came from a U.S. bulletin baord. CLARIS is a trademark of CLARIS Corporation. AppleWorks Continued on page 11> 10 Apple-Bug Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon Games Eamon is a text based adventure game. Many are simple adventures that follow a simple slash and hack plot. The better ones require logic and problem solving. We have selected some of the best Eamon adventures. Adventures are graded according to difficulty and quality. All adventures require a 48K II+ or better. You also must own AQOOI to run any of the adventures. All of the disks are $4.00 each. Bulk discounts listed below. You may order any of these disks with the order form on the Disk of the Month liftout or purchace them at the General Meeting. Eamon Master & Beginner's Cave AQO01 is the master module for Eamon. It allows you to create, equip and save adventurers. AQOO1 is required to use any other Eamon adventure. AQO01 comes witt documentation and a limited graphic interface. Also included on AQOO1 is a simple adventurt.. to familiarize you with the game system. AQOO1 comes on a self-starting DOS 3.3 disk. Eamon Utilities & Eamon Dungeon Designer V7.0 AQ290 Contains utilities to resurrect and create super characters. AQ291 contains the newest version of the Eamon Dungeon Designer. It allows you to design new sophisticate” Eamon adventures. All disks: Quanity 1 to4 $ 4.00 ca 5 or more $ 3.50¢a Full set (33 disks) $100.00 Number Adventure Name Quality Difficulty AQO01 EAM.001 Eamon Master & Begin AQ290 EAM.290 Eamon Utilities AQ291 EAM.291 Eamon Dungeon Design AQ021 EAM.021 The Quest for Marron High Easy AQ034 EAM.034 Death's Gateway High Beginner AQO42 EAM.042 Alternate Beginners Cave Average Beginner AQOA7 EAM.047 FutureQuest High Average AQOS1 EAM.051 The Caves of Eamon Bluff High Easy AQUT4 EAM.074 DharmaQuest Exceptional Average AQUT6 EAM.076 The Search for Yourself High Easy AQT? EAM.077 Temple of the Trolls High Average AQO?8 EAM.078 The Prince's Tavern Exceptional Average AQO9L — EAM.091 FutureQuest II High Average AQIOO EAM.100 Sorcerer's Spire High Advanced AQIO7 EAM.107 The Last Dragon Good Average AQI08 EAM.108 The Mines of Moria High Average AQII3 EAM.113 The Life-Orb of Mevtrelek High Average AQII4 EAM.114 Thror's Ring Exceptional Advanced AQI20 EAM.120 Orb of My Life Exceptional Advanced AQI21 EAM.121 Wrenhold’s Secret Vigil Exceptional Advanced AQI23 EAM.123 Wizard of the Spheres Average Beginner AQI24 EAM. 124 Assult on Dolni Keep Exceptional Beginner AQI26 EAM. 126 The Pyramidof Anharos High Advanced AQI29 EAM.129 Retum to Moria High Advanced AQI32 EAM.132 Rhadshur Warrior Exceptional Advanced AQI37 EAM.137 The Ruins of Ivory Castle Average Average AQI38 EAM. 138 Starfire Average Beginner AQI40 EAM.140 Beginner's Forest Average Beginner AQI45S EAM.145 Buccaneer! Exceptional Advanced AQI47 EAM.147 The Dark Brotherhood Exceptional Advanced AQI4A8 EAM.148 Journey to Jotunheim High Average AQI61 EAM.161 Operation Endgame Exceptional Advanced AQI63 EAM.163 The Sands of Mars High Beginner February 1990 Hu AppleWorks is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. licensed to CLARIS Corporation. ProDOS is a registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc, Permission is granted to distribute this file freely, so long as it remains intact and unedited, Copyright (c) 1989, CLARIS Corporation, How to Rescue /RAM Disks The Question: What can I do about programs that trash ProDOS in my slot 7 RAMdisk? Can this be overcome? Every so often I boot \ program from a 5.25" disk and it runs fine. But when I try a warm Open-Apple/Control/Reset reboot, I am greeted with "Unable to load ProDOS." Sometimes if I boot ProDOS from a disk I can recover the RAMdisk, but too often I lose it and must reload. “he Answer: The problem is that the firmware on Apple's memory card keeps some values in the "Screenholes” to remind itself what's going on. Too many programs, particularly the copy- protected kind, assume they own the whole computer and walk all over the screenholes. When you try to reboot after using such a program, the RAMdisk appears damaged. But it's not, only the screenholes are. The solution is to reboot ProDOS from one of your other disk drives. Then fill all the screenholes with $AO, the ASCII code for the space character. Next catalog the RAMdisk. It will reappear, undamaged. Next you must press Open- Apple/Control/Reset to warm boot from your RAMdisk (and fix the screenholes). Here's how to fill the screenholes with $AO: 100 FOR ADR=1144 TO 2040 STEP 128 110 : FOR I=0 T0 7 120 : : POKE ADR+I,160 130 : NEXT I 140 NEXT ADR 150 HOME Locating Monitor's LIST Command by Craig Johnson Thave often thought it would be useful if I could locate and use the Apple monitor's LIST command. This LIST routine disassembles 20 lines of memory each time it is called. It starts disassembling at the memory location whose address is held in 58/$3A (lo-byte), 59/$3B (hi-byte). The actual list routine is located at 65118/SFESE in memory. The following Basic program shows how to use it. 5S TEXT : HOME 10 LO= 0 : HI = 224 15 POKE 58,LO : REM LO-BYTE OF ADDRESS 20 POKE 59,HI : REM HI-BYTE OF ADDRESS 30 HOME : CALL 65118 : REM DISASSEMBLE 20 LINES 35 HTAB 1 : VIAB 23 : PRINT “PRESS 'Q' TO END DEMO :"; 45 GET AS : IF A$ = "Q" THEN END 50 GOTO 30 Prodos Date & Time Routine by Brett Dutton For all those that have a ProDOS compatible clock, this program displays the time. It works best with the Ice Modem's built in ProDOS compatible clock but I am lead to believe that it will work with any ProDOS compatible clock. It is very short and easily modified to run scheduled programs or even an alarm clock if you wish. The useses are only limited by the imagination. 100 GOSUB 50000 110 PRINT TIMES 120 END 50000 REM 50010 50020 PRINT CHRS (4) "CLOSE" DAY = PEEK (49040) - (49040) / 32) * 32 YEAR = INT ( PEEK (49041) / 2) MNTH = ( PEEK (49041) - YEAR * 2) * 8 + INT ( PEEK (49040) / 32) INT ( PEEK 50030 50040 50050 MINUTE = PEEK (49042) 50060 HOUR PEEK (49043) 50070 PMS I": ON HOUR < 12 GOTO 50080:PM$ = "PM": IF HOUR > 12 THEN HOUR = HOUR - 12: GOTO 50090 IF NOT HOUR THEN HOUR = 12 TIMES = STR$ (MNTH) + "/" + STRS (DAY) + "/" + STR$ (YEAR) +" " + 50080 50090 12 Apple-Bug STR$ (HOUR) + ".": ON MIN > 9 GOTO 50100: TIME$ = TIMES + "0" 50100 TIME$ = TIME$ + STRS (MIN) + PMS: RETURN CrossWorks Review by Ian Wright I have written articles for Ausom News previously on the subject of moving data files from Apple II's to IBM compatible machines and back again. I have now found the ultimate solution. A package called 'CrossWorks' available from SoftSpoken in the U.S. provides a most elegant and efficient solution to this problem. ‘The package consists of a custom cable with DB25, 5 pin DIN (for IIc) and MiniDin 8 (for GS) connectors on one end and DB25 and DB9 connectors (for XT and AT respectively) on the other end, Also included is software for the Apple and TBM on both 5.25 and 3.5 inch disks. Transferring files is simply a matter of connecting the two computers with the supplied cable, running the software on both machines and using an AppleWorks-like menu to choose the files to be transferred. Once this is done the files move between machines at 19,200 baud, in most cases converting the relevant codes from one file (eg. WordPerfect) to the appropriate codes (eg. AppleWorks) for the other software. Files can be moved both ways and between almost all popular software packages. In my first half hour using the package I transferred a SOK AppleWorks database into a DBase II DBF file which was automatically created during the transfer and a 45K WordPerfect file into an Apple word processor file. Formats Formats supported included AppleWorks and standard ProDOS text files on the Apple and WordPerfect, DBase, Lotus, MS-DOS text files and delimited ASCII on the IBM compatible. Most common packages on both machines can deal at least one of the available formats. Ninetee spreadsheets and thirty-seven databases are listed as supportes. by CrossWorks as well as virtually all word processors capable of loading MS-DOS text files. Cost The package cost $79.95 (U.S.) plus $20.00 (U.S~ Postage which translated into around $134.00 (Aust.) whe.. purchased my copy. My order left around March 20 and I received the package on April 12, adding up to excellent service. If you have more than an occasional need to transfer data between ProDOS and MS-DOS systems I would highly recommend CrossWorks as a remarkably efficient and painless way to achieve this end. Availability CrossWorks is available from SoftSpoken at P.O. Box 97623, Raleigh, NC 27624, U.S.A. EDITOR: Reprinted from Ausom News (Apple Users Society of Melbourne), June 1989. Ten Common Mistakes New Apple || Owners Make by Ray Holan, Phillip Russell, and John Wrenholt Attempting to learn too many programs Surveys show that the average personal computer owner only knows about three or four programs. Don't think you can an expert on every program ever written. We work with Apple II's every day, all day long, and we only use three or four programs on a regular basis. Take it easy and completely master a couple of applications. Buying new programs before the full potential of old one is exhausted If you simply operate an application according to what you see in the menus and in the manual, you are probably missing a lot of capabilities. Almost every program has hidden features or ways to utilize existing features in imaginative ways. Milk that old program dry before you move on to promises of new programs. Not analyzing what tasks you will do on your computer before buying software If you don't, you may buy an overpriced program, loaa with complicated features, to do some simple task. For example, why buy a full-blown desktop publishing program like Publish It! or Spingboard Publisher, when all you plan to do with it is create a two-page semi-annual newsletter? Getting demoralized by comparing yourself to more experienced users Everyone out there knows someone who knows more about the Apple IJ than they do themselves. So what? If you are getting your work done on the Apple, you have nothing to be ashamed of. Apple II owners, as a group, are so enthusiastic about their computers that they are more than willing to lend a hand. Not only that, but you probably have enough knowledge already to help other, still newer, Apple II owners. Get into the give-and-take! You probably know more about the computer than you realize, February 1990 13 Not reading the manual Plan on reading the manual three or four times. Read it once before you even try using the software. Then read it again after you have used the program two or three times. You'll be amazed at how much you missed the first time. Read the manual again whenever you have a problem with the program, The more complicated the program, the more value you'll get from reading and rereading the manual. Not practicing _ y Most frustrated computer owners don't practice enough. we say frustrated, because if you practice, you won't get frustrated. The normal problems of operating a computer are not beyond anyone of normal intelligence. It just takes practice. Don't operate your computer when you have am important task at hand. Practice a few minutes every day on ome new techniques, especially with files that you don’t nd "losing". Going it alone There is so much to know and so much new information coming out, it is hard for one person to keep current. Don't be so proud that you don't ask for help. Not joining an Apple Users Group Apple's idea of technical support is to refer you to an Apple dealer. That's support? Well, fortunately for Apple, there are hundreds for user groups out there. That's where technical support for the Apple II really exists. By staying in tune with a user group, you can avoid bad habit, overpriced products, and unnecessary headaches. Not using a "Copy and Play" technique The Copy and Play technique will make you an Apple expert faster than anything else you can do. Copy and Play means that you make a fresh copy of the System Disk that came with your Apple. Then, with your original safe in a drawer, you do anything you want to your copy of the disk. Let's say that you foul up in the worst possible way. What damage have you done? Absolutely none! You simply make a fresh copy and start over. We're continually surprised by the number of Apple owners who don't know how to format a blank disk or how to copy a file. On a IGS, try adding new fonts and new desk accessories to the System Disk. Don't be afraid to experiment. It's the best way to learn. Not backing up your data disks Even the most expert Apple users will occasionally clobber a disk and face the possibility of losing weeks of work. Backing up your most important disks on a regular basis will let you use your computer without worry. If something goes wrong and you lose 500 name and addresses from your Christmas list, there's no problem. EDITOR: Reprinted from the Apple Victoria newsletter. Medley and Desktop Publishing by Ted Meyer "Desktop publishing” is one of those catch-phrases that has become a common part of the vocabulary of just about anyone who spends time on microcomputers. Generally it ~fers to software that allows you to manipulate the layout of acks of text and graphics on a page or pages. Simple paint or draw programs will allow you to do this, but are quite often not designed to easily deal with the formatting of large blocks of text. Paint and draw programs usually work with only one page at a time. (In the case of draw programs this "page" can be vary large.) Word processing programs work easily with text, but they start to become hard to work with when you combine text and graphics together. Most word processors aren't able to easily put text into multiple columns on a page. A desktop publishing (DTP) program will not be great at making art and it won't be great at writing and editing text. However, it should be great at taking the result from graphics and word processing programs, laying it out on pages, and producing a professionally finished product, whether that product is a newsletter, ad copy, a letter to your mom, or a technical manual. The Mac broke ground in DTP when it was linked to Apple's LaserWriter. The Mac is still the premiere machine for this genre of productivity. There is no reason, though, why the IIGS can't produce newsletters, or whatever, of as high quality as a Macintosh. Both computers can access the same printers. The quality of what comes out of that printer is dependent wholly on the stream of bits and instructions that is sent to the printer. The ability of the user to easily and quickly manipulate that stream of instructions to the printer is what is determined by DPT software. This month we'll talk about the desktop publishing program "Medley" from Milliken Publishing. "There is no reason, though, why the IIGS can't produce newsletters, or whatever, of as high quality as a Macintosh." Medley Medley is different from the DTP software that I have worked with in the past. My Webster's abridged dictionary defines the word medley as a "riscellaneous collection of things.” In music we think of a medley as several tunes or songs performed to complement and interact with one another. 14 Apple-Bug Medley is a "medley" of software based on two full- featured programs - a word processor and a paint program. Medley also includes multi-page layout, drawing, and spell checking in a smooth, bug free, but slow environment. There is no question that as a word processor Medley is slow. 1 would never consider using it for basic word processing. I can type faster that it processes letters, And I am a slooow typist. This lack of speed makes the first hour of working with Medley very frustrating. Medley integrates many capabilities into a single package and, as a result, compromises on speed. After the first hour you will start to get the "feel" of the user interface. This is when the reaction time of slow software Starts to get really frustrating. Medley, however, was written so that it is "interruptible". This means that instead of having to wait for the software to finish reformatting a page after changing margins or tabs, you can just continue with your next command. You never have to wait for Medley to finish doing anything - just keep working at you own speed and Medley will finally update the screen when you slow down. This means that in some situations you will be giving commands "blind" while the program waits for you to finish before it refreshes the screen. "It has an automatic or manual hyphenation feature to prevent lines that look stretched." - Word Processing Medley starts out looking like a standard word processor for the IIGS. Once booted a white page appears with the cursor blinking in the top left corner. At this point you can start using it pretty much as you standard IIGS full-featured word processor. It will import Appleworks files or text files without any problems. The spell checker/thesaurus in Medley is one of the nicest I've used. It has an 80,000 word dictionary, and the ability to set up auxiliary dictionaries with your own specialized vocabulary. In addition, a dictionary with words specific to the document being edited is attached to each file. The thesaurus will very quickly supply you with alternatives for both words and definitions. Medley has formatting capabilities that are not available in most JIGS word processors. It has an automatic or manual hyphenation feature to prevent lines that look stretched. Page Numbering can be in standard (17), roman numerals (XVII or xvii), or written (Seventeen) and can be, along with headers and footers, set up for odd and even pages. For ease of editing, Medley has an option to display end- of-paragraph marks, spaces (as raised periods), and tabs. Normally, tabs create white space between the last character and the tab stop. Medley allows you to choose tab "leaders" to create indexes and such. For example, in an index you can choose periods as a tab leader which will replace the white space with a row of dots Glossary... seseeeeePage 124). There are four different types “Of tabs in Medley: left, right, centre, and decimal. Left tabs are the standard found in most word Gre: processors. A word that starts with a left tab has its first character aligned with the tab stop. Right tabs align the last character of a word with the tab stop. Centre tabs centre a word on a tab stop. And decimal tabs line up decimal points in numbers on the tab stop. Medley has micro-adjustment of line and paragraph spacing, called "leading", and it does a fine job in kerning of characters. It has the standard IIGS multiple font capabilities as well as the standard top, bottom, left, and right margin adjustments. It also has the ability to set a gutter margin for adding space on the “inside” of pages that will be bound together. Graphics Graphics are added to a Medley document by creating an art "area", These areas can be rectangular, round, or in any other irregular polygon, such as stars or pentagons. This allows wrapping text around a graphic of almost any sha This capability, by itself, put Medley in its own class. Once an art area is created, a full-featured paint program allows you to create or edit a graphic. IIGS users who use PaintWorks Plus will be very familiar with this part of Medley. Graphics can be imported using standard Apple preferred format, so most clip art collections can be used. Plus, Medley comes with a fairly extensive collection of its own clip art. Once created, an art area can be converted into a text area. Text can be “trapped” inside, and justified to the edges of any area - rectangular, circular, trapezoidal, or whatever. This can create some interesting effects, such as a circle or star of text. Medley can create global art and text areas which will appear on every page, and it can turn off these areas on individual, special pages. Text and art areas are used to do most of the layouts in Medley. Multi-column pages, for example, are formatted by creating tall, thin rectangles between where you want the columns to be. Problems Version 1.0 of Medley had a problem with printing ai page when condensed mode was chosen in the Page Setup dialog box. This problem has been completely solved in version 1.1, Generally, the best printed text output on the IIGS is achieved using the condensed mode. The IIGS's screen has a resolution of 640 by 200. This makes the pixels twice as tall as they are wide. An ImageWriter (or LaserWriter) produces dots that are the same height and width. In an effort to achieve a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment, the "normal" mode for printing with most IIGS specific software has the ImageWriter printing two dots, one above the other, for each “tall” pixel on the screen. As a result, a9 point font is really printed 18 points tall unless condensed mode is chosen. When graphics are created for the IIGS, they are designed to be viewed on the screen. To make them look good on the printer in condensed mode they need to be "stretched" vertically first. Medley deals with this problem by allowing you to import text with the page setup in normal mode and Disk of the Month Catalogue A complete catalogue of all the Apple-Q Disk of the Month disks and some great package deals. We have been offering these Disks of the Month for just over a year now, However, the one thing members keep calling for is a complete catalogue. So here it {s! This liftout {s not just a catalogue - we are also offering disk packages at a discount price for a Umited time only! Below you will see all our disks listed with a brief description of each disk's contents. Due to lack of space, not all the detail can be included. Check past issues of Apple-Bug for more details, All disks are available on both 5.25 and 3.5 inch formats except where indicated. Use the order form on the back page to order the disks listed in this catalogue. ( Apple Ie, Ic disks ) Terc Basic Enhancements Terc Basic adds new commands to Applesoft. Tere comes with its own full- screen editor, so that you can easily edit your programs. You then compile your program and run it. Using Tere Basic, you can add Text and Hires windows, improved GET commands, labeled subroutines, local variables, debugging commands...the list goes on. text without the hassle of using Appleworks. In most cases, when you quit from a program launched from Davex, you will return back to the Davex shell. You can even write you own commands. ATP-Pro - Comms program - includes: macros, on-line Help. Extended Command Processor 8 ECP8 is an operating system shell and program selector for use with ProDOS. It is very much like Davex and includes over 44 commands. You can also create Batch programs. ECP8 includes extensive documentation and the source code is included on the 3.5 inch disk. Appleworks Utility Disk #1 SuperPatch -This program has up to 30 different patches for Appleworks version 2.0 or 2.1. It is all menu driven. An Appleworks Utility - It allows you to lock, unlock, catalog, etc. Appleworks files. Templates - The second side of this contains a number of templates for Appleworks. Modem Utility Disk #1 Talk is Cheap - Comms software package. Has Binary II works on the GS. Kermit - Comms and file transfer program. Transfer between computers. BLU - BLU is a Binary Il utility. It allows you to make Binary II files. TEX - This one removes line feeds and carriage returns from text files. Disk Disintegrater Deluxe - Compact files or entire disks, It also contains other disk utilities. Freewriter - This is a text file editor. Appleworks Utility Disk #2 Listworks - List of information in multiple columns on your printer. RepairWorks - Repairs word processor, spreadsheet and data base files. Templates & Tips - 3 templates also. Appleworks Templates ADB.Fixer - The Data Base Repair Kit will help you recover damaged data base files. Instructions and a sample damaged data base are included. Templates - 32 Business and personal templates are also included. Prodos Pot-Pourti Cyberfind - Virus checker that looks for CyberAids and Festering Hate. Font Editor - This is a font editor for GS, Superfonts and Publish It! fonts. System Setup - Runs programs found ina certain directory on boot-up. Chameleon - Converts files between the four major operating systems. Dogpaw - Displays text files and Appleworks word processor files on the screen. Windows - This {sa front end for Dogpaw. Also program launcher. File Chopper - Chops large text files into a manageable size. Fontrix to Multiseribe - Converts fonts from Fontrix to Multiscribe Ile. TEX - Version 2.01 of the program that appeared on the "Modem Utilities #1". Type Changer - Changes the file type ofa file. Just select type from a menu. Davex Utility Disk Davex is a shell or command processor. In this shell, you can handle files, type Appleworks (WP) and text files and launch programs, You can also change any of its commands - eg. "CAT" to "DIR" or just "D". It can also convert Appleworks word processor files into Modem Utility Disk #2 ShrinkIT v2.02 - Utility program for achieving disks and files. Also other disk utilities, Excellent program! File Attribute Zapper II - Easily change the primary type, auxiliary type, and access bits of any ProDOS file. ProTerm Start - Alternative to the PROTERM.SYSTEM file on ProTerm disk to make ProTerm boot faster. Appleworks/Prodos Utilities Disk SEG.PR Editor - Customize the Appleworks printer commands. Columnist - Converts Appleworks or text files into columns. Mousetext Demo - Use Mousetext in your own Appleworks documents. ShrinkIt - Shrinklt compacts files or disks into an archival file. Use a file interface similar to the GS. Apple II Technical Notes If you are into programming your Apple Il series computer, this is the disk for you!, On the 3.5 inch disk is 141 technical notes covering many subjects. They have been compressed by a program called BLU (also on disk}. Pascal, Filetypes, Apple IIGS and GS/OS technical notes are available only on the 3.5 inch disk. Technical Notes Update #1 New Apple II Technical Notes released since the last disk. Notes are compressed by ShrinkIT (on disk). Apple IIGS notes only on 3.5 inch disk. ( AwoCaD Computer Aided Design program. AkroCAD was written to introduce the vocabulary and mechanics, found in most CAD systems, in schools.The AkroCAD diskette and this text is all that is needed, to learn the basic concepts of CAD, Two 5.25 inch or one 3.5 inch disk set for $8.00. Publish It! Utilities/Templates Templates - 3 Publish It! templates. Font.Scanner - This program scans all the fonts & displays the font info. Font.Editor - 8-Bit IIgs Font Editor - designed to let you create & edit fonts. Change Font Filetype - Changes font filetype so they can be used with Publish It! Fonts - 4 font GS families to edit. Apple || Games Disk Wheel of Fortune - Hires game from TV with sound effects & instructions. Uno - This is a text version of the card game. Includes instructions. LifeLike - Based on the game called Life. Hires game with instructions. Master Mind - Mouse required for this Mousetext version of Master Mind. Solitare - This Hires game is based on Paitence (loosely) with instructions. National Debt - Appleworks required. Balance the U.S. budget. Information is included to help you. Shark School - Educational game - simple drill and practice in arithmetic. Remember to check out each Apple- Bug for more Disks of the Month! Check out the specials on page four! ( Dos 3.3 disks ) Note: Dos 3.3 disks are only available on 5.25 inch disks, Dos 3.3 Utilities Disk Graphics Grabber - Converts Hires pictures into Printshop Graphics. Printshop Modifier - Patch for Printshop for an Auto Ice printer card. Syntax Checker - Checks for syntax errors in your Applesoft Basic programs, Applesoft Prettylist - Displays an Basic listing in an easy to read form. Disk Details - Displays a sector map showing all used sectors. Disa-65C02 - Disassembles sections of memory. Also works well in Prodos. Disk Master - Catalogue your disks, making programs easier to find. Power Kez - Adds macros to Basic. You can create your own macros. Disk Editor 2.0 - Modify Dos 3.3, edit disk sectors, search for strings or bytes. Reconstruct VTOC - Saves damaged disks. Remember ][ - Dos 3.3 Comms program. CP/Muffin - Convert files from CP/M to Dos 3.3, Also includes - Menu Writer, Diversi Copy, Dogfight (game), Disk Compare, Track Adder, Sector Adder, Dos-Purge, Disk Map, Disk Catalog Printer and Track & Sector Display Patch. Dos 3.3 Games Disk Acey Deucy - Hires card game. Bet against the computer - you start with $50. Anti-Gravity - Arcade style game that uses joystick or keyboard. Not for GS. Artillery - Hires simulation of applied physics. Try and destroy the tank. Checkers - Text version, computer is 'X" and you are '0’. Beat your Apple. Minature Golf - Hires golf game. There are ten holes and sound effects. Planet Of The Robots - Text adventure game - in the future. Hires Puzzler - Use arrow keys and ‘A’ and 'Z keys to arrange the picture. Hires Graphics - 9 Hires pictures are also included on this disk to use with Hires Puzzler. card game. It is a great game. GS Backgammon - Another popular board game for your GS. C Apple gs disks Note: Apple ligs disks are only available on 3.5 inch disks. Apple llGS Games Disk #3 Copy Killers - Collect the disks and avoid the pirates and the virus. Crystal Quest - Demo version. Play up to the fifth level. Dazzler GS - Score board for a word game. Fill Maze - A 3D demo and game. Instructions on screen. Four in a Row - Geta row of four to win. PLay against the computer. Music Game - Kids game - remember the tune. Video Poker - The old game of poker is now available on your GS. Yahtzee - This is the familiar dice game for the Apple IIgs. Hires Doodle Hires Doodle - Hi-Res Doodle is a graphics system that allows you to make drawings on the screen and then paint them with a variety of colours. Hires Pictures - 22 Hires pictures are also incly~“ on the disk. Apple IIGS Games Disk #1 Bounce It - Based on the old Brick-out game. Great graphics and sound. F1 Race - Drive this formula one car past those slower cars. Good. Shanghai - Demonstration version. Remove two matching tiles to win. Mastermind - Here is the GS version of that old game. Othello - Another old game now available for the GS. Towers of Hanol! -Move a set of blocks from one pole to the other. Mines of Moria The game of MORIA Is a single player dungeon simulation. A player may choose from a number of races and classes when creating their character, and then ‘run’ that character over a period of days, weeks, even months. Requires at least 1 megabyte to play. Apple lIGS Games Disk #2 As the Link Turns - Ever wanted to shoot a Mac but could not afford it... Solitaire - This is the GG-~~sion of the GS/OS Utilities Disk #1 Diced -Icon editor - change the size of icons without loosing the image, etc. Back Rest - Back-up your Control Panel settings and restore them. Install DA - Load DA's into desktop. CDA's - Nifty List, Massa & Mangler. NDA's - Master.NDA, Meltdown II, Membar, Screen Saver, Show Text, Analog Clock, Enigma & Font Viewer. Desktop Fix - Change the colour of the GS Finders desktop. Font Doctor - Font editor. Modify the fonts used by many GS programs. Font Invert - Like reading up side down? Well this one ts for you. Type Face - This one displays fonts on the screen. Inits - Animated Watch & Install ROM CDA's Mac Trans GS - Convert Macintosh files from a 400K Mac disk to Prodos. Animation Displayer - Displays Paintworks Plus animation files. that the computer can display. CheapPaint can also colour cycle and includes full documentation and comes ‘on a bootable GS/OS disk and requires an Apple IIGS with 768K or more. GS/OS Utility Disk #2 Vaccine II - This is a virus checking program. Instructions included. DeAre v1.2 - Extract archived files compressed by ‘ARC’. DigiPack GS - DigiPack GS is a disk packing and unpacking program, Doctor Daily - Virus detector. Automaticly checks for viruses. Fixer - Desktop based text file utility. Funkeys - Add macros to your GS. IconEd - Icon editor - features ‘tear- off the colour menu. SHRConvert v2.1 - Latest version. Includes converting to a GIF file. Program Icons - 33 new icon files. Also includes - LaunchBox, Line Edit Fix, P8 CDA Loader, Switch Control Panel, PrintBuf, SloSpeed, Squirt 16 & UtilityWorks GS. GS Desk Accessories Disk Install DA - Install CDA’s and NDA's after your GS is booted. DA Select - Deactivate any CDA, NDA or Init file, so it will not load on boot-up. CDA's - 23 of the best CDA's. NDA's - 28 of the best NDA's. Digitized Sounds - Theme Songs 2 Noize.816 - Noize is a slide show for sound files, Sounds - 4 theme songs, Animal Sounds - 8 animal sounds. Music Studio Songs #2 ‘There are 79 songs on this disk - volume M to Z. Requires Music Studio. Digitized Sounds - Music.Sounds Noize.S16 - Noize is a slide show for sound files. Sounds - 12 musical sounds. Apple IIGS Graphics #1 Cartoons - 11 pictures. Sesame Street - 3 pictures. Toys - 3 pictures. Program Pictures - 25 pictures. JumpStart Disk JumpStart - is a program launching program. You can build and maintain a Program selection menu so that you can quickly launch your programs. MouseTrap.CDA - Use the keyboard in place of the mouse - GS programs only. Alarm Clock - Reminds you of your appointments also monitor blanking. Desk Colour NDA - Change the desktop colour in most applications, Area Codes CDA - STD codes for USA and Canada. Digitized Sounds - Phrases #1 Noize.816 - Noize is a slide show for sound files. Sounds - 12 way out phrases. Digitized Sounds - Phrases #2 Noize.816 - Noize isa slide show for sound files. Sounds - another 20 way out phrases. Apple IIGS Graphics #2 Girls, Girls, Girls - 14 pictures. Cars - 9 pictures. Outer Space - 4 pictures. Planes - 5 pictures. Planets - 4 pictures.. CheapPaint CheapPaint is a paint program with all the features normally expected from today’s commercial paint programs, however it allows you the freedom of 256 colours on the screen at 3 one time. You can create any of the 4096 different colours Digitized Sounds - Sound Effects Noize.S16 - Noize js a slide show for sound files. Just click on it from the Finder and it will play all the sounds on the disk. Sound Files - 23 sound effects digitized sounds are on this disk. Music Construction Set Songs MCS Fix - This program fixes a bug in Music Construction Set. Rock Songs - 50 songs. Classical Songs - 19 songs. Show.tunes - 24 songs. Christmas Music - 41 songs. Other Songs - 31 songs. Requires Music Construction Set. Apple IIGS Graphics #3 Animals - 16 pictures. Flowers - 4 pictures. Landscapes - 10 pictures. Apple IIGS Graphics #4 Film and TV - 24 pictures. Famous People - 5 pictures. Music - 5 pictures. Product Logos - 5 pictures. Fantasy - 4 pictures. Digitized Sounds - Theme Songs 1 Noize.S16 - Noize is a slide show for sound files. Sounds - Addams, Batman, Beverly.Hills, Flintstones, Superman & Pink.Panther. Music Studio Songs #1 ‘There are 87 songs on this disk - volume AtoL. Requires Music Studio. Apple IIGS Graphics #5 Art - 17 pictures. Clip Art 320 - 4 pictures. Digitized Pictures - 16 pictures. The graphics on the six Apple IIGS Graphic Disks contain pictures stored in the Apple Preferred Format. The pictures are sorted into sublects. Apple liGS Graphics #6 Apple Ilgs - 6 pictures. Assorted - 3 pictures. Closeups - 3 pictures. ( Faces - 13 pictures. History - 3 pictures. Money - 4 pictures. ( Discount Packs ) Check the discount price table for prices. Prodos Shells Pack This pack includes Davex Utility Disk and Extended Command Processor 8. 2 disk set Modem Utility Pack This pack contains both the Modem Utility Disks containing 10 programs. 2 disk set Appleworks Pack This pack contains the Appleworks Utility Disks 1 & 2, the Appleworks Templates Disk and the Appleworks/ Prodos Utility Disk. 4 disk set Apple lIGS Games Pack This pack contains all three Apple IIGS Games Disks plus Mines of Moria. 4 disk set (3.5 inch only) GS/OS Utilities Pack This pack contains both the GS/OS Utility Disks. 2 disk set (3.5 inch only) Digitized Sounds Pack All six Digitized Sound Disks are included in this pack. 6 disk set (3.5 inch only) Music Studio Songs Pack Both volumes of the Music Studio Song Disks are included in this pack. 2 disk set (3.5 inch only) Apple IIGS Graphics Pack Six disks packed with GS graphics sre included in this pack. 6 disk set (3.5 inch only) Technical Notes Pack ‘This pack contains the Apple II Technical Notes Disk and the Technical Notes Update #1. 2 disk set Dos 3.3 Pack This pack contains the Dos 3.3 Utilities Disk, Hires Doodle and the Dos 3.3 Games Disk. 3 disk set (5.25 inch only) Remember to check out each Apple-Bug for more disks! C Disk Pack Prices ) Prices for 5.25 inch Disks: with disk without disk 2 disks $8.00 $6.00 3 disks $9.00 $6.00 4 disks $12.00 $8.00 Prices for 3.5 inch Disks: with disk without disk 2 disks $14.00 $8.00 4 disks $24.00 $12.00 6 disks $36.00 $18.00 These prices.are for Disk Packs only. ( How to Order! J You can order any these disks or disk packs by ordering at the General Meeting or use the Software Library Order Form below. You can also use the form to pre-order the disks and pick them up at the meeting - no waiting! Also other public domain disks and the Eamon Games Disks can be ordered using the order form. Remember that the prices listed below are for disk packs only. The normal disks prices are $5.00 with a disk and $4.00 without a disk for 5.25 inch disks. For 3.5 inch disks the prices are $8.00 with the disk and $5.00 without the disk. If you are posting the order form, send it to Apple-Q Inc., P.O. Box 721, South Brisbane 4101. Another copy of this order form will be sent (or given) to you with the disks you ordered. The prices offered for the Disk Packs listed on this page are for a limited time only. In the following months you will see some more great Public Domain software in the Apple-Bug. Amoung them is the Appleworks Utility Disk #3, Software Library Order Form Address: ..... Suburb: .. .. Post Code: .. Q Mail order or O Pick-up order at meeting Q Mastercard Q Cash (pick-up) Payment By: Q Bankcard Q Cheque Q Money Order Credit Card Number: Expiry Date: .... .. Signature: Disk or Pack Name 5.25" 3.5" Price $. ooooo0coco0o0no ooooocoocoo Sub Total Post & Pack Total Cost February 1990 IS then stretching the art when switching to condensed. Let's hope that any upgrade to the IIGS improves the vertical resolution of the super high-res screen. This would greatly alleviate formatting problems on the IIGS. When working with most DTP programs, it is suggested that you set up the page layout first. Text is imported after you've determined the format of your document. You can do this with Medley. In fact, it comes with a disk of “Style Sheets" which can be used as templates for your newsletters. I find it fun to put the text onto a blank page first, and then play with adding art and text areas. Some pretty neat effects can be created this way. Comparing Medley with other 16 bit IIGS software with page layout capabilities, such as AppleWorks GS or GraphicWriter II, is difficult. There is no question that Medley runs slow. But Medley can do a variety of things that AppleWorks GS and GraphicWriter can't. Wrapping text wound any shape, not just rectangles and circles, is a powerful feature. And Medley has an excellent ability to "fine- tune" the formatting of a document and produce a high-quality final product. In the speed verses quality battle, Medley wins on quality. What do you get? Medley comes with five disks: System, Program, Clip Art, Style Sheets, and Dictionary. Without at least two 3.5 inch drives you will be doing some disk swapping. Medley requires 1.25 Megabytes of RAM (I meg on your card) and a 3.5 inch drive. I recommend at least a second 3.5 inch drive and if possible a hard disk. (Seems like there's more and more software that needs that full RAM card and a hard disk.) Medley includes a well written 253 page loose-leaf manual and a four-page quick reference card. The manual includes "getting started" and "quick tour” sections for starting up and a reference section for looking up specific information. Printed copies of all of the Style Sheets and Clip Art are also included. The manufacturer's suggested price is $195.00 (US), but 1 have seen it available by mail order for as low as $126.00 (US) (Programs Plus - Incider 2/89). Milliken seems to provide very good support. Version 1.1 of the software will be provided automatically and free of charge by sending in the registration card. (I am presently working on a beta copy of 1.1) And the Style Sheet disk was also sent to me free without "In the speed verses quality battle, Medley wins on quality." prompting on my part. It is obvious that Milliken has spent a lot of effort designing and implementing Medley. It is an example is a product that really uses the IIGS's special features. Developers are becoming much more confident in the IIGS's user base and with the release of GS/OS, Apple's support of the system. With the release of programs like Medley and AppleWorks GS over the last year I believe that Apple can expect to sell a lot of GS's. I'm very much looking forward to AppleFests in Boston and San Fransisco this year. I expect we'll see a lot of interesting announcements from both Apple and developers. EDITOR: Reprinted from Applecations - Sydney Apple User’s Group newsletter. Tips on Icons and the GS Finder by Rob Moore and Jim Merritt EDITOR: These tips and notes come from the authors of the GS Finder. If you edit Finder icons, this article will help you to avoid some of the problems in changing icons. 1. Avoiding the dreaded ‘Disappearing Trashcan syndrome” a) Do not alter the GS Finder.Icons file in any way. There are better ways to accomplish the same functions. These will be explained later. b) Do not have any icons assigned to filenames with wildcards that also do not have the filetype specified. In fact, we highly recommend specifying a filetype for all icons you add to the icons folder. It's a rare case when you can specify a name and not also know the filetype. The subtype may or may not be specified. c) Above all, do not attempt to replace the "generic document” icon in Finder.Icons, that is used when no other icon matches the file name or filetype. This icon serves a special purpose in the Finder icon structure and must not be altered or moved. 2. How to properly modify the Finder.lcons. (Wait a minute - We said you couldn't do this!) a) Make a copy of the Finder.Icons file and delete all of the icons you don't want to change. You Must delete the Generic Document icon. It's last in the file. The Finder gets really upset if there is more than one of these. b) Edit the icons you want to change and save the file with a new name of your choice. Your edited icons will be used in place of the corresponding icons in Finder.Icons. c) You can change the Trashcan's image but you can't increase its size much. Don't try to change any of its other characteristics. 3. Fun with Folders. Want customized folder icons? It's easy. a) Open Finder.Icons and copy the Directory folder icon - labeled DIR. b) Open a new or existing icon file of your own and save the copied folder icon there. Close the Finder.Icons file. c) Edit the icon to add a picture or whatever and change the filename for the icon to the name of the folder you want this icon to represent. d) Now you have a customized folder icon. To do more, use 16. Apple-Bug copy and paste to duplicate the icon in your file and edit the copies. 4, Some general info: Other than Finder.Icons, icon files are loaded by the Finder in directory order. If there are multiple icons that could match a given file or filetype, the last one loaded will be used. This happens because the Finder loads the icons files as they're found in the directory and then searches the list of icons backwards from last to first looking for the first match it can find. Tf none of your custom icons match a given file, the Finder will always find a match of some sort in Finder.Icons, with the Generic Document Icon being the match of last resort. So if the Icon you see is not the icon you expected, you probably have more than one icon that matches your file and the one shown is farther down in the directory than the one you wanted. You can rearrange the directory or better still, just delete the duplicate icons you don't want. It's smart to delete any icons that you're not using. They're all loaded by the Finder and each uses a certain amount of memory, whether it's displayed or not. Have fun. Virus Warning - "Load Runner’ by Brian McCaig (Virus Buster) Well folks, here it is...installment number 3 in the Saga of the virus for the Apple II. First it was CyberAids, which wasn't all that great and was quickly defused. It was followed in June of 1988 by Festering Hate, a more sophisticated and deadly evolutionary offspring of CyberAids. FH. spread rapidly throughout the Apple II world and was particularly insidious as it; infected (usually) the first -SYSTEM file in the root directory, usually Basic.System, would infect more than one file per disk, would infect files in sub-directories, and when it ‘went off would destroy all volumes currently on-line at the time. This included RAM disks and Hard Drives! By now, most of you are aware of Festering Hate and that there are several good virus detecting/protecting programs available that have virtually eradicated the FH virus. It is to the credit of the Apple II community in general, and selfless people like Glen Bredon that FH was halted before it got too out of hand. As a matter of fact it was the very vehicle that spread the virus so rapidly that was also responsible for its quick demise. After I did my initial research on FH last year I wrote a brief study of it and uploaded the study to most of the active BBS's in Canada and the U.S. I also sent copies to Glen Bredon and others who acted very quickly to develop the ‘cures’. But it was the massive telecommunications network of Apple II users that spread the details so quickly and stopped FH. Now, number 3 virus has just appeared. Called, rather nostalgically, "LODE RUNNER’, it is not quite as destructive as its predecessors but its a virus nonetheless. Here's what T've been able to pull together so far: Source Although we're not 100% positive it appears that the program called SPEEDY SMITH is the culprit. A recent import from France, Speedy Smith is one of the fastest copy programs for the IIgs. A full 800K disk copy takes about 50 seconds (without verification) to 70 seconds (with) using SS. It has an excellent SHR screen with ‘thermometers’ that indicate the copy's progress. Unfortunately the reason we cannot either convict or acquit SS is that its creators have seen fit to invent their own DOS. This DOS is not readable by standard Apple Il sector editors such as the one in Copy II Plus. There are several reasons, however, for suspecting Speedy Smith. First SS's displays are in French and the virus's text screens are as well. When catalogued Copy II+ indicates that there are 292 used Prodos blocks, but adding up the individual files’ blocks only totals 148. And lastly, what better vehicle for the spread of a virus than a copy program? How was it Discovered? Lode Runner was discovered almost by accident by several members of the Apples BC Computer Society. Shortly after receiving several new disks of IIgs software, including Speedy Smith, one member found that his Test Drive II refused to run. This was followed by backups and originals of Space Quest I and Police Quest. At first it was thought that the member's IIgs was having hardware problems. But at the same time another friend from Eugene, Oregon contacted us about having seen a French hi-res screen appear on his monitor just before his Copy I+ disk was trashed. Not being Canadian he was only able to pick out the word "virus". Armed with this info and the ‘damaged’ Space Quest disks I spent a weekend checking things out. At the same time other friends in Oregon & California were independently analyzing infected disks. How do you know if Your Disks are ‘Infected! There are 4 ways of detecting Lode Runner: 1) When the virus "goes off" and erases your disk...nc exactly the most desirable way, 2) If you have a copy of Space Quest I then you can use it t check all your disks. Boot any suspect disk and wait until th drive stops. Replace the disk with Space Quest and do the or 4 fingered salute (OA-CTRL-RESET). Note: Keep Spac Quest write protected so that it dosn't get screwed up. Space Quest boots to the point where it asks you to press joystick button then you can be pretty sure that the previo disk is OK. If Space Quest trashes with an error messa; February 1990 17 (#206) then the previous disk is likely infected. If you DO get an infected disk then you MUST either power down your IIgs or run the self-test before continuing with your testing to clear the RAM as the virus seems to install itself there. 3) A better check (and much faster) is to boot Copy I+ and tun the 3.5" Sector Editor. Do a read of Block 0000 (Track 00, sector 00, side 01). If the first 3 bytes are 01 A9 50 then the disk is infected. Those 3 bytes aren't the only bytes that are different but they are all that is necessary to identify the virus. 4) If you recall, last year during the Festering Hate panic it was noted that one of the best ways to have an Apple II virus was in BLOCK (0) on any Prodos disk. At that point, anticipating another virus, Guy T. Rice wrote a small virus detector/fixer. If you put this program into the SYSTEM/SYSTEM.SETUP folder on IIgs disks then it ‘ould automatically detect and correct modifications to Block (0). Now for LODE RUNNER this will also work.. that is, it WILL detect LODE RUNNER and it will try to correct Block (0). BUT, it appears that due to the method of spreading of LR Guy's program cannot correct it. Every time you boot the disk it'll give you the virus detect error. | think the reason for this is that LR installs itself in RAM upon bootup in preparation for infecting a new disk.. and the only way you can be sure that its gone is to either power down or run the self-test.. and since Guy Rice's program does an auto-reboot and corrects the block (0) all in one step then the RAM never Teally clears and the virus re-infects the disk. And since you cannot write-protect the disk it becomes a vicious circle. 1am going to try to get these observations to Guy Rice in the hopes that he can modify his program. Note: Three other problems with using Guy's program: its no good for 5.25" disks, it only works with a IIgs and it only works with disks that are bootable. LODE RUNNER can infect ANY Prodos disk because it resides in one of the blocks created when a disk is formatted. There is a Sth way.. the friends in Eugene, Ore have ‘ritten a Binary program to detect and disarm the virus and I will try to include it in this file when I upload it. The reason theirs is successful is that the detector is not part of the disk being checked and thus the "circle" is broken. Method Of Spreading As far as we can tell the virus is spread two ways: by being copied with a copy program and by booting an uninfected disk (using OA-CTRL-RESET) immediately after running an infected disk. NOTE: For a disk to be infected it must not be write-protected. The virus does NOT infect actual files so none of your files will look modified in either their file length or their modified date. The virus also does not search all drives, as did Festering Hate, so cannot be detected that way. Because it doesn't infect files it only infects one spot per disk and cannot destroy any sub-directories. Therefore your cannot get rid of the virus just by re-copying the files...the virus is actually part of the Prodos kernel created when the disk is formatted. What happens when it "Goes Off"? To get Lode Runner to "go off" you must set your Control Panel's clock to the following: the MONTH must be October, the DAY must be an odd numbered day and the minute must be a number divisable by 8. Next you must boot an infected disk then boot (using OA-CTRL-RESET) any other disk. This second disk must NOT be write-protected or the virus won't activate. Once the second disk is booted the virus will appear. Its a ted screen with text characters as follows: +++ SYSTEM FAILURE in : 08 ttt and proceeds to count down to zero where the screen changes to another with a multi-colored scrolling background and the following text; 000E Copies. Distr:Artistes Associes = LOAD RUNNER Premier virus NON-DESTRUCTEUR sur IIGS par SUPER HACKER & du MASTERS CRACKING SERVICE SHYRKAN, 1988 Lyon By the time you've read the first screen the disk that you just booted has been rendered useless. LR does not appear to erase more than the current disk and doesn't seem to affect 5.25" disks. Not being an expert in French I am unable to determine whether the phrase below the title means: “The first non-destructIVE virus for the IIgs" or "The first non- destructIBLE virus for the IIgs". This is a ‘moot’ point however as it DOES destroy one disk when it goes off. In addition, and I believe that the writers of LR didn’t plan this, LR will destroy Space Quest 1 and Police Quest for the IIgs if they are booted AT ANY TIME after an infected disk.. and if they are not write-protected. It is not necessary for LR to “go off" for these programs to be rendered useless. I have only found these two that behave in this fashion but I am sure there are more. likely most of the Sierra programs for the IIgs. Acknowledgements As with the studies on Festering Hate there are many people who collaborated on the research for this virus. Many thanks go out to: APPLES BC members, Ross Woodhouse - for being so insistant that something WAS wrong. Pat Daley - for gathering data, programs and relaying info. EUGENE, OREGON users, Jack Stalcup - for accidentally setting the virus off because 18 Apple-Bug the battery in his IIgs was dead. And for sending the programs and keeping the communications alive, Neil Parker and Mike Suiter (sp?) - for analyzing LR and writing the detection/correction program. EDITOR: This article and the detection program was uploaded to a U.S. bulletin board. The full article and the virus dection program have been uploaded to the Apple-Q Inc. BBS. Real Time Conference with Rodger Wagner EDITOR: This is the transcript of a online conference with Roger Wagner from Roger Wagner Publishing as guest speaker. The conference was held on December 4th, 1989. This transcript is Copyright 1989 GEnie, All rights reserved. Permission has been given to reproduce this transcript. <(A2Pro Eric) A2PRO.ERIC> I'd like to thank Roger Wagner for being our guest here tonight. As you probably know, Roger publishes HyperStudio, called the best new Apple II application since AppleWorks. I personally think it's just great <grin>, and can be used to develop some really amazing stuff. And that's what we're here to talk about tonight. We'll be discussing how to develop ‘studioware' and use XCMDs to make your stacks explode with excitement. If you have a question, please type /RAI and wait for me to call on you. Roger, any opening comments? <ROGER, WAGNER> Nothing big for the moment. Thanks to you all for coming to learn more about programming in HS. The best way to start, since I think you all are fairly familiar with the software itself, is to just start answering your questions, <(Eric) E.MERRILL> Have you given some thought to developing a way to import stacks from <gasp!> Macs? “Roger publishes HyperStudio, called the best new Apple II application since AppleWorks." <ROGER.WAGNER> Reading Mac stacks is very problematic. The first problem is the screen re resolution. Since the Mac has 400 vertical screen lines, converting the screen would leave out half the information, and I think the results would be judged almost worthless. Then, there's the problem that most Mac stacks take a lot of memory (2-4Mb) and a hard disk. This isn't very standard for the GS. Then, there's the problem of Xcmds in 68000 code on the Mac. Not very encouraging, I know. But hey, I think we should get all those Mac people to start asking, "why can't I run HyperStudio stacks on my Mac?". By the way, I'd like to mention that those here tonight really have a good shot at those working on HyperStudio. Not only are myself and Eric Mueller here, but Michael O'Keefe is also here. Michael worked on the paint tools and quite a number of other parts of HyperStudio. <(Eric) EMERRILL> Thanks. <( Herb ) HHROWAL> Well, since I should probably get HyperStudio before I can start programming with it, what is the current version and price? <ROGER.WAGNER> HyperStudio is $149.95, and is version 2.0. This includes 4 disks: HyperStudio (system disk w/ HS), HS.Demo (demo stacks), HS.Art (250+ clipar’ images), and HS.Sounds ("clip-sounds), and also tht digitizing card and microphone. For anyone with version 1.0 or 1.2, they should already have received the 2.0 update. <( Herb ) HHROWAL> Thanks. <(Tyler) A2.TYLER> So the external speaker is no longer included, and if not why? <ROGER.WAGNER> The introductory price ae configuration on HyperStudio was $129.95, and included the speaker as an “offer you couldn't refuse." However, that's a lot of product on our end at that price. When we put the price back to a more realistic level, we made the speaker optional since some people said they already had a speaker of some kind. There is still a coupon in the box for $9.95 for the amplified speaker for those who don't have an external speaker of some kind. <(Dean Esmay) A2PRO.ERIC> Roger, when are you going to release a ‘run-time version’ of HyperStudio so that I can release my own stacks with a version to let others use it without HS? <ROGER.WAGNER> Good question! Basically, our first priority was to get the software finished. Now that this is done, I have talked to the authors about a run-time module. This will take a little while to finish up, but shouldn't take very Jong. I'm hoping within the next month or so. <(Tyler) A2.TYLER> Excellent! <(Dean Esmay) A2PRO.ERIC> Thanks Roger! <(Bryan) B.PIETRZAK1> I don't have HyperStudio (ye: could you tell me a little about Xcmds, and how they integrate with HyperStudio? (from a programmer's viewpoint) <ROGER.WAGNER> Sure! The theory of operation is teally simple: When HS loads any particular stack, it also looks for a file in the same directory as the stack named HS.XCMD. If it finds it, then it loads it into memory. Part 2: When a button is created, you can link the button to the Xcmd function, and define a string of text that will be passed to the Xcmd code when that button is pressed. Every button can have its own command string. Now, when the user clicks the button, HyperStudio calls the loaded code segment, and passes to it a pointer to the command string. It also passes a list of entry points for some basic HS functions, such as move to next card, previous card, find card #, find text, refresh screen, etc. When the Xcmd finishes, it returns via an RTL to HS, which continues with whatever it was doing. The only requirement for an Xcmid is that it be able to pick up the X and Y regs for a point to the table of other pointers. Thus, you can February 1990 19 write Xcmds in assembly language, C and Pascal. Ron and I are also going to discuss what needs to be done to make Micol BASIC a viable language for Xcmds. <(Tyler) A2.TYLER> Neat! <(Bryan) B.PIETRZAK1> Are they dynamic? How well does it run over a network? Does HS go back to the disk often (enough to aggravate :)? <ROGER.WAGNER> The commands are not dynamic, and one of the nice things about HS, as with many of our products, is that it is not disk-intensive. Once in memory, that's it. Only loading another stack needs the disk. HS runs very well on a network, and there are several schools that I know of curren