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EDITORIAL TEAM
Editor: Jim Panks
Personal Newsletter Peter Stark 18 Assistant: Graham Attwood)
Timeout Series - 1 Audrey Friend 20
i Mac Editor: Norah Arnold
Wizardry IV Len Cavanagh 24 Assistant: Irene Flaxman
Starglider Neil Hartley 25 a; 4 L
Timeout Series - 2 Peter Davies 26 Advertising: Alison Davies
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Publish-It! Peter Stark 35
Cirtech Promdisk Adaptor Dave Ward cL! DEPARTMENTS
Merlin 8/16 Dave Ward a4 Contents 2
Editorial 3
Local Group News 8
Hot Line News 10
Local Group Meetings 12
NowsBytes 13
Omnis Tips 16
Lotters 37
Members Small Ads 83
Mac2000 Norah Arnold 48
AlphaPop Bill Pearce 50
P.D. ii Wright 52
Mac II P.D. Preview Tom Wrig ADVERTISERS
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| Editorial
Time for a rest!
For the last two and a half years I have been editing and compiling the magazine for the club on
| a temporary basis - hoping that something more permenant could be achieved. This temporary
| job has in fact accounted for most of my spare time when I have not been working, or carrying
| out the chairmans duties.
My life has revolved around the club and I have put all my efforts to making it THE user group.
Ihave now decided that I should take a rest and devote more time to my long suffering family.
It seemed that the AGM would be the best time for me to announce my resignation so that the
new committee can start afresh.
I would just like to thank all those members that have contributed to the journal and helped me
make it such a success. I wish all the advertisers every success and thank them for supporting
me. I have enjoyed the experience and hope that you will all understand what pressures are
involved in producing our bi-monthly magazine..
Tam not leaving the User Group circle completely as I am setting up a local group just off the
| M25 on the Kent/Surrey/London Border. With the same sort of support I hope that this will be
a successful venture and give me more time to explore my machine and help other users without
the constant pressure of editorial deadlines and the associated problems.
I wish the new team good luck and hope that the membership will support them as they have
supported me..
Aig Veoses
Jim Panks
Apple2000
ox 3. Liverpool,
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News
Tom Wright keeps us all up to
date on the local group scene.
Well it’s that time again and I am happy to
report that in general the health of local
groups appears to be quite good, there is
more good news of emerging groups and I
am still hoping that somebogy will volun-
leer to regenerate the Glasgow group.
Ron Hoare, contacted me the other
night to let me know about the continuing
developments in the ‘Apple-Dorchester’
area. As a result of Ron’s continuous ef-
forts an inaugural group meeting is to be
held on May 3rd, the venue will beas listed
in the contacts list and all Apple fans will
be most welcome. The venue has some
Apple ]{ machines there which will be
available for anyone who doesn’t bring
take their own. Please check with Ron
before going along to the meeting to en-
sure that there are no last minute changes
of any kind. Apparently Ron has been very
busy spreading the Apple word in his part
of Dorset both as part of his professional
activities and on a personal basis; results
are that not only is the educational orchard
expanding but some of the people he has
spoken to will be going along to the meet-
ing.. My best wishes to the group.
Tunderstand that the revived Liverpool
group got off to a good start, do contact
them and find out what you are missing. I
have to apologise to Irene Flaxman for
having given the wrong telephone number
in the last issue, the correct number has
now been included in the contact list as
051-928-9097. Anyone interested should
contact Irene at the number provided to
find out more about the group. Users of all
Apple machines will be welcome. Good
luck to all our members in the area who are
joining this new group.
My own involvement with MidApple
has reduced a little recently due to the fact
that I am no longer able to find time for
committee work. The A.G.M., took place
at the last club night, followed as usual by
the annual ‘junk’ sale which always in-
cludesa high proportion of very good buys
for members. I suppose the fact that I
noticed that all items on sale were Apple }{
related is a reflection of my own moving
interests these days. Users of all Apple
machines are welcome at MidApple.
T had a very striking reminder of the
helpful and friendly nature of user group
members the other day when Bob Hall
phoned from the U.S.A. As some of you
are aware Bob did a lot of work for the
Gateway club over at Mildenhall while he
was over here, his friendly knowledgeable
manner was always a pleasure and his
fricnds missed him when he returned to the
U.S.A. Believe my surprise when out of
the blue he phoned up to say that he has
found a book that I asked him abouta year
orso ago. Whatis more he said that he will
be back in the U.K., briefly and will bring
the book with him ! You can’t buy that sort
of help folks, if you are in the neighbour-
hood of the Gateway club go along and see
them. The members there are all very
helpful and nice people. Oops ! ! while
typing this lot I have just found my own
membership renewal reminder for the
Gateway club, if you are reading this
honoured Chairman the money will be in
the post this week, honest.
Funny that I was moaning last issue
about the lack of activity from Apple U.K.,
and the User Group Council, well people
who know me will realise that the fact that
Twas moaning wasn’t funny it was the fact
that the Council had been resurrected even
while I was moaning. With the newly
formed committee we will hopefully now
see some meaningful action from the
council which hadn’t previously made
much of a showing.
I understand that among other things
revealed from a poll of Apple U.K em-
ployees was the opinion that most user
groups are heavily into software piracy
and that dealers don’t like us too much
because we rob them of profits by selling
disks etc. Now I admit to being unfamiliar
with almost all of Apple U.K’s employees
but I do wonder how many of them are
members of local groups and where they
gained the experience that tells them that
there are such a lot of pirates in the groups.
Obviously there have been software pi-
rates in ALL areas including I don’t doubt
several well known companies for many
years but it does seem a bit of a check for
this sort of accusation to be thrown so
lightly.
The bit about user groups doing deal-
ers out of sales also seems a bit strange, I
seriously doubt that any Apple dealer
would pick up our sales if we stopped
selling disks as we sell low priced products
topeople who in the main wouldn’tpay the
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Apple2000 - For all Apple Users
April 1988
very high prices that are common for disks
from dealers.
One thing that we are certainly notinto
is the cheap direct import of Apple
branded goods from the U.S.A whichis an
activity that one commercial organisation
which Apple U.K see fit to have on the
Council does engage in; what is more
Apple have even announced that the 90
day U.S warranty will cover goods im-
ported in that manner. Perhaps Apple U.K
see organisations robbing dealers of the
profit margins from sales of Macintoshes
as a good thing ?
Many groups have benefited from
Mary Ainsworth’s visits, and those of her
colleagues and I am sure that we are all
hoping that those visits will continue to
provide us with excellent product demon-
strations, but, I would like to think that
Apple U.K haven't forgotten that most of
the users who have seen their demonstra-
Local Group
News
tions have already bought properly im-
ported Apple equipment at profit to both
the dealers and Apple U.K., and will do so
again.
The vast difference in approach to user
groups between Apple Inc., in Cupertino
and Apple U.K., continues to be a source
of concern for many of us. The excellent
Apple User Group Connection Newsletter
which is published in the U.S.A will hope-
fully be one of the things that jogs the
memory of the new council members
while they are busy developing whatever
is going to emerge. Believe it or not, my
personal thanks to Apple U.K as well as
the recently elected Council officers for
the work that is being done.
I’m not sure whether or not the next bit
belongs in this column but I can't resist
mentioning the fact that Apple2000 now
has David Szetela, Manager of Apple
Computer Inc., Developer services listed
as a subscribing member. The arrival of
David’s lewer was one of the things that
cheered me up during my recent spell of
wrestling with crutches and walking
sticks.
By the time this column next appears 1
expect to see another group listed. Appar-
ently during the recent workshop at
Kemsing several users were very keen to
start another group so we should soon see
yet another addition to the circle of
friends.
Please remember that if you are think-
ing of starting a group and want help we
will help where we can. I am still in proc-
ess of getting ready to move house so if
you have any difficulty reaching me that
will be the reason, Irene Flaxman will help
pass on messages if necessary (see con-
tacts listing), Until the next issue.
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Many members who have contacted the
Hotline have expressed the view that there
could be more articles etc. on Apple //
computing. On the other hand many
members that I talk to seem to have some
unique knowledge of a particular Apple /
/ program that would appear to be of inter-
est to many other users. The solution to the
problem of lack of Apple // computing
articles seems simple ! In fact if you send
inenough Apple // stuff the meagre results
of my lucubration could be committed to
balaam !!
The inclusion, in the Hotline News last
time, of the complaint regarding the Apple
Ilgs upgrade chips was rather unfortunate
since many members contacted me to say
that they have had their machines up-
graded a few days prior to the appearance
of Apple 2000 magazine. It’s a pity that
this article has to be written before it
appears and may be at least 4 weeks out-
of-date. The fact remains, however, that
we have had to waitmany months without,
apparantly, any official word. The answer
seems simple; Apple Computer (UK)
should state their position at the outset
even if the news is bad! After all they have
probably got perfectly good reasons for
apparantly holding-back.
Hot Li
News
Some members who have contacted
me regarding the ‘date’ problem with Pro-
DOS version 1.1.1 seem to think that this
is duc to a bug and inculpate Apple Com-
puter. Actually nothing could be further
from the truth. When ProDOS was intro-
duced Apple programmers incorporated
into ita little routine that would provide
the year for those clock cards that did not
provide such information. Most clock
cards fall into this category, incidentally.
This routine can only work for 6 years
at most and it seems impossible that a
better one could be devised. The carly
versions of ProDOS work from 1982
through 1987 and 1988 will therefore
appear to the algorithm as 1982! Although
Apple Computer haven’t advertised this
as a potential problem they have updated
ProDOS and the later versions have been
adjusted to work until 1991. The best
answer is to get the latest version of Pro-
DOS V1.4 from your dealer or elsewhere.
Alternatively, if you must for some reason
still use an old version of ProDOS that
only works until 1987 please see Hotline
News in Apple 2000 magazine, February
1988, for the patch.
Onc of the difficult areas is interfacing
AppleWorks with printers. Since many
Apple // computer users choose Apple-
Works we get a lot of enquiries regarding
such interfacing problems. If you have had
problems with interfacing AppleWorks
with a particular printer which now works
please lets us know how it was donc as it
might save others many hours work.
Martin Lawrie of FREELAND wrote
to us regarding publishing programs for
the Apple }[ plus and look-alikes but the
address on the letter was insufficient toen-
able us to write and I don’t have access to
the membership database. Unfortunately I
don’t know of any publishing programs
that work on the Apple J[ plus. Programs
such as Publish Itare very new and require
at least an Apple //e 128K. If anyone
knows better please let us know.
_—_ zz
Dave Ward is the Apple2000 Hot Line
Manager and he is our front line man for
queries of a technical nature. If he can't
help you he is sure to know someone who
will. Please HELP Dave by caling be-
tween 7 p.m. and 9 p.m, - queries outside
these times can be left with the Adminis-
trator on (0 7H and will be dealt
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NEW GROUPS STARTING UP
M25 BUSINESS MAC GROUP
Contact Jim Panks Tel: iF a
Venue — Sir Mark Collett Pavilon, Heaverham Road,
Kemsing, Sevenoaks, Kent.
Meets First meeting 4th May at 1900hrs
Next meeting 1st June at 1900hrs
LIVERPOOL APPLE USER GROUP
Contact Irene Flaxman Tel: Hi} ait aie
Venue Check with Irene
Meets 2nd Monday of each month. Check
with Irene for news
DORCHESTER
Contact Ron Hoare Tool; itn eter,
Venue Newton Magnus & Co., Arrowsmith Court
Station Approach, Broadstone
Meets FIRST MEETING May 3rd, at 7.30pm
PLEASE let Ron know that you are going before the
date of the meeting so that he can update you on
arrangements if necessary.
DONCASTER - SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Contact Colin Withington Tot: iil iif
LEEDS
Contact Bob Miller
T.Veluppiltai
ACTIVE APPLE DEDICATED GROUPS
APPLE II PROGRAMMERS CLUB
CONTACT Philip Dixon TEL : \iiiéstiititt|\\
VENUE — None — operates as a postal group via a
monthly newsletter.
BENTWATERS APPLE USER GROUP
CONTACT John Thomas Tel : (iitiai Zitat
VENUE — RAF. Woodbridge
MEETS 7.00pm first Tuesday of each month
BRISTOL GROUP (B.A.U.D
CONTACT MIKE FARMER ee
VENUE Decimal Business Machines, Three
Queens Lane, Redcliffe
MEETS —7th of each month, or the Friday nearest
if the 7th falls on a weekend.
BURNLEY APPLE USER GROUP
CONTACT Rod Turnough Tel :\ii*iit: *tiittt
VENUE — Michelin Sports Centre
MEETS — 2nd Wednesday of each month
CAMBRIDGE APPLE USER GROUP
Contacts L& Archibald Tel: Tiiieie#|\/if¥7
Richard Boyd Tok: stat
Venue Parish Hall of St Mark's Church, Barton
Road, Cambridge.
Meets Fortnightly will altarnate between Apple |
and Mac Example dates are Mac 3-2-88
‘Apple }[ 17-2-88. Check with lan or Richard
CROYDON APPLE USERS GROUP
EAST MIDLANDS MAC USER GROUP.
CONTACT Nick Helm — Tel : iiiliiaiilifat
VENUE Wilford Cricket & Rugby Club, Nottingham
MEETS 8.00pm on the first and third Wednesday
EDINBURGH GROUP
CONTACT Ricky Pollock Tel «(fit ay /uiy rath
VENUE Proteus Micro Systems, 55, Frederick
‘Steet, Edinburgh, EH2 1LH
MEETS — Monthly, chock with Ricky.
ESSEX GROUP
CONTACT Pat Bermingham Tol: iiatisi ite
VENUE The Y.M.CA, Victoria Road, Chelmsford
MEETS — Third Friday of every month
GATEWAY COMPUTER CLUB
CONTACT Phil Herberer Tel: (Zyéseil)) itis
VENUE — Bob Hope Recreation Centre,
RAF Mildenhall
MEETS — AMS conference room, Mildenhall base.
Normally at weekends, check with Verne,
HANTS & BERKS GROUP
CONTACT Mike Hollyfield Tel : Fit *itiatty
VENUE — Thames Valley Systems , 128 High
ia Street, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 1PT
MEETS — 7.00pm on the second Monday
HERTS & BEDS GROUP
CONTACT Norah Armold Tel : (isiiisdyriitt it
VENUE The Old School, 1, Branch Road, Park
Street Village, St Albans, Herts
MEETS 8.00pm on the first Tuesday.
KENT GROUP
CONTACT Richard Daniols Tel : iitffiisiiieat
VENUE — Microspot 5-11, London Road, Maidstone.
MEETS — 7.30pm on last Monday of each month.
LONDON APPLE Il COMPUTER CLUB
CONTACT Chris Williams Tel : (ff) siitibeiitit
VENUE Studio 8, Wharfedale Projects, 47,
Wharfedale Road, London, N1 9SE
MEETS 6.00pm, first Wednesday of every month,
LONDON MACINTOSH GROUP
CONTACT Maureen de Saxe Tel :/fti-ittifutttitit
VENUE — Room 683, London University Institute of
Education, Bedford Way, London, WC1
MEETS —_6,00pm on the second Tuesday.
MACTAFF - SOUTH WALES MAC GROUP:
CONTACT Lorrain Thorback Tel : iii ttitite
VENUE — Apple Centre South Wales, Longcross
Court, 47 Newport Road, Cardiff
MEETS — 7.00pm on the first Thursday .
MIDAPPLE
CONTACT Tom Wright Tel : fifi? Masti
VENUE _LT.E.C., Tildasley Stroet, West Bromwich.
MEETS —_7.00pm on the second Friday.
SOUTH EAST ESSEX MAC GROUP
CONTACT Mick Foy Tel : ()Pilieiiiinit
VENUE —D-P.S., Acom House, Little Oaks,
Basildon, Essex.
MEETS First Monday of every month
THE MIDLAND MAC GROUP
CONTACT Wan Knezovich Tel : (fissile
CONTACT Graham Attwood Tel: iii iil VENUE Spring Grove House, West Midiand Safari
VENUE 515, Limpfield Road, Warlingham, Surrey Park Bewdley, eae
MEETS — 7.30pm on the third Thursday. MEETS 8.00pm on the first Tuesday .
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THE NORTH EAST APPLE USER GROUP
CONTACT Philip Dixon Tol ; taitaisttiasty))
VENUE —AppleCentre North East, Pontoland Road,
Ponteland, Newcastie-upon-Tyne
MEETS First Wodnesday of every month
THE NORTH WEST APPLE COMPUTER CLUB
CONTACT Jim Rosco Tol :/fasn-itii11)\
VENUE — Horse & Jockey Pub., Winwick Road,
Warrington
MEETS First Monday of every month
POOLE MACINTOSH USER GROUP
CONTACT David Huckle Tel :/fiiiiestiiaie
VENUE Deverill Computers (Dealer)
hhec House, 34-40, West Street, Poole,
Dorset, BH15 1LA
MEETS — Four times per year.
SOUTHAMPTON
CONTACT Geoff Parson Tel : {fy tility "isin (yi)
iP atta (haa,
VENUE — January meetings were on the 8th and
22nd Contact Geoff for details.
MULTI-INTEREST GROUPS WITH APPLE USERS
AMONG THE MEMBERSHIP
CREWE COMPUTER USERS CLUB
CONTACT PiguiitEsiieyaviaite 25) Spah ryrane trp,
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VENUE — Christ Church Hall, Crewe
MEETS Fortnight, Fridays, 7.30pm to 10.00pm
LEICESTER GROUP
CONTACT Bob Bown Tel : (iiititifiitit:
VENUE ee Pub, Braunstone Lane,
MEETS 709m to 10,0pm on first Wednesday .
THE NORTH WEST APPLE USERS GROUP
CONTACT Max Parrot tis litt dati?
Et | Eat Ha
Day iit
Staff House (2nd floor), University of
VENUE
Manchester, Institute of Science and
Technology, Sackville St, Manchester,
MEETS — 8.00pm on the 3rd Thursday of month
WEST MIDLANDS AMATEUR COMPUTER CLUB
CONTACT John Tracey Tel : itis “fiir
VENUE Hill Crest School, Simms Lane,
Netherton, Near Dudley.
MEETS — 7.00pm on the 2nd & 4th Thursday.
APPLE DEDICATED GROUPS
IRREGULAR ACTIVITY
FURNESS AREA
CONTACT Alan Curtiss — Tel : \sistttelisi//H¥
NOTE There has been more activity in this area
recently, | have been unable to contact Alan for some
time so check with him yourself.
APPLE USERS IN CONTACT
NO ORGANIZED GROUP
HARROGATE AREA
CONTACT Peter Sutton Tol : ta[ittetityaiin
A number of keen Apple users in contact with each
other.
April 1988
MacSerious
getsserious.
The MacSerious Company have taken
action to stop the grey importing of soft-
ware that they are official U.K. distribu-
tors of.
Inastrong message to those that engage in
this activity Jim Mangles, Managing Di-
rector of the company has written inform-
ing infringers that he will take legal action
if they do not stop.
MacSerious has not done this in an attempt
to keep prices up because in a statementto
Apple2000 Jim Mangles states that the
| prices of software from his company will
| now be only 10 to 15% over the dollar
price. The reason for this is the import and
transportation costs.
«
MacWorkStation
"announced.
| Apple Computer have announced the re-
| lease of a set of developement tools to
allow easy connectivity between IBM,
mainframes and minis and the Macintosh.
The three new products are MacWorksta-
tion, MacAPPC and a Coprocessor plat-
form.
| MacWorkstation will allow Macintosh
aplications to be produced on a host ma-
chine without the programmer knowing
the Macintosh programming techniques.
The Mac can then be used as an intelligent
host terminal, with applications running
on the host machine. MacWorkstation is
shipping now ata price to in-house corpo-
rate users for a cool $2,5000. Developers
can have a licence for just $5,000.
| MacAPPC will enable Mac developers to
communicate with IBM micros, mini and
mainframe computers. MacAPPC will
| allow communications with any machine
| which uses the LU 6.2 protocols.
This is another step in Apple's attempt to
woe users of other operating systems and
is a welcomed addition.
«
NewsBytes
Price tumble on
Mac Products.
Apple Computer UK have announced new
pricing on the Macintosh range. The new
prices came into effect on 25th January but
were too late to put in the last issue.
Macintosh II Prices.
With single 800k drive £2995
With internal 40MB drive £3795
Macintosh SE Prices.
With twin 800k drives £1995
With internal 20MB drive £2595
Macintosh Plus £1495
Other Products.
Tape Backup 40SC £1195
Apple 13" Colour Monitor £695
External HD20SC Drive £795
External HD40SC Drive £1295
External HDB0SC Drive = £1995
Internal HD20SC Drive £695
Internal HD40SC Drive £995
Internal HD80SC Drive £1795
For a full price list of all Apple products
contact your local Apple Dealer.
«
Early Times
Early Times is Britain's first quality news-
paper for young people and it is produced
on the Macintosh,
The cover price of 5Op brings a lively
quality newspaper with editorial aims of
both informing and entertaining the 8-14
year old age group.
The editorial team headed by Carole
Woodford use Macintosh DTP solutions
to write and produce the finished artwork.
The content of the newspaper includes
news, sport, music, computers, model
making, DIY, games, fashion and many
special features aimed at informing with-
out talking down to the young reader.
The issue sent with the press information
was impressive and contained most of
what was promised. Early Times is avail-
able from most newsagents.
«
Blyth wintop
honour.
Byth Software have been awarded the
British Design Award for Omnis 3 Plus.
The British Design Council Award judges
chose Omnis 3 Plus largely because of the
careful attention paid to the details of its
design. The judges were particularly im-
pressed by the way it exploits the facilities
of the Macintosh for which it was de-
signed. The software manuals, sales litera-
ture and product packaging also received a
mention. Niroo Rad, Blyths Sales and
Marketing Manager has the following
words of encouragement to Omnis Users
and potential users "We listen to what our
users say and operate a formal system -
using Omnis 3 Plus, of course - to record
and identify the needs of our users. The
‘wish’ listis a vital ingredientin the process
of developing new and improved prod-
ucts”,
Blyth Software have one of the best user
support programmes in the software mar-
ket and combined with excellent software
deserve this award for British excellence
in an international market,
Apple2000 is run on Omnis 3 Plus and we
are proud to have Blyth as an Apple2000
Recommended Dealer.
«
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The latest member of the group is Apple
Computer Inc. We have received a request
for a subscription and of course are de-
lighted to oblige.
The list of members grows daily and hav-
ing Apple Inc join such honoured mem-
bersas Steve Wozniak makes us feel it's all
worthwhile.
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News WANTED
Dealers, Distributers etc send us your
press releases and news .
April 1988
Apple2000 - For all Apple Users
[ss
QuicKeys now
updated
CE Software have released version 1.1 of
the superb utility reviewed in the February
issue of Apple2000.
The new features now make it easier to use
and you need not go into the Control Panel
to create macros. This major update has
answered some of the user feedback.
It just shows that some software publish-
ers can respond quickly to users needs and
suggestions, CE Software have made a lot
of friends in the Mac World and by this
sort of response they will certainly make
many more.
The new QuickPanel allows the user to
make macros from within any program
without waiting for the Control Panel
which can take a while if you have a large
complicated System. You can also cut,
copy and paste macros which can be help-
ful when creating seperate sets for individ-
ual programs.
QuicKeys has risen in price slightly but
still remains one of the best value for
money utilities around today.
For more details and current price ring
MacLine on 011-642-4242
«
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New Mac Mag
launched
The latest magazine to hit the streets for
all Macintosh Business users is called
Apple Business and is published
monthly by International Magazines plc.
It is not going to replace MacUser but
the first issue did show some promise, it
is very glossy and fairly well presented.
If you wish to receive a copy why not
drop International Magazines a line and
ask to be included on the free subscriber
list.
The address is:
International Magazines plc.
Kiln House, 210 New Kings Road,
London SW6 4BR
No sign of new software house -
will Claris find a U.K. home ?
Claris still have not found a distributor for
the new Apple software which is being
released shortly. Although they had a big
launch recently the distribution in the U.K.
is with Apple U.K.
Rumours of heat being generated between
P:&P Micro Distributers and MicroSoft
over Claris have been denied but still we
wonder who will be given the job. The
latest rumours are that Claris may set up
its own distribution channels. That would
appear to be the most expensive option but
something needs doing shortly or we will
be left in the same old situation of waiting
months for new software.
The new updatcd offerings include
MacWrite 5.0, MacDraw Plus, Mac Proj-
ect and a new MacPaint. MacWrite 5.0
includes an interactive British Spelling
Checker and MacDraw Plus has a layer
system which will help when drawing
complex artwork,
Expect to see these new goodies by the
middle of the year.
«
CLANK IS:
MacWrite®
The standard in word processing with the
simplicity of the Macintosh® personal computer.
Based on the original program by Encore Systems.
Spell Finder™ ©1967, Microlytios, Ine
UFO Systems, Inc., Kerox Corp.
All rights reserved
Macintosh drivers by Millennium Computer
Version 5.0 January, 1988
© 1985, 1987, 1988 CLARIS™ Corporation
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New for the Macintosh - Claris MaeWrite Version 5.0
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Apple2000 - For all Apple Users
April 1988
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Omnis Tips
Printing Problems
Compiled by Blyth Technical Support
Print Record - How to
get the last page?
Problem:
The last page in a report doesn't
get printed when using ‘Print
Record’.
Cause:
Omnis doesn’t know that the
report has been completed,
and is still busy assembling the
next page of output.
Solution:
You have to execute a ‘Print
Totals’ command to let Omnis
know your report Is done. ‘Print
Record’ just takes a snapshot of
the Current Record buffer using
the currently selected Report
format.
Whether you use it to print single
records, or many records in a
| loop. a ‘Print Totals’ is necessary
to force the printing of the last
record/s, the Totals section (if
any), and the issuing of the final
form feed.
BE ne ae
Printing across the
page.
Problem:
In the Report parameters win-
dow, Omnis won't allow you to
specify more than one record
across the page.
LaserWriter hangs
after a few records!
Problem:
The LaserWriter only prints some
of the records in a selective
report, then hangs.
Cause:
The LaserWriter timed out while
Omnis was searching for the
next record that matched the
search criteria. (Older Laser-
Writer drivers have shorter time-
outs.)
Solution:
Specify a sort order for the re-
port format. This doesn’t slow
the report printing appreciably,
and eliminates the delays be-
tween records. Omnis doesn’t
need to sort indexed fields, so if
the field you sort on is indexed,
you will need to specify a sec-
ond sort field as well. (i.e. a two-
level sort)
Cause:
‘Columns per record’ multl-
plied by ‘Records across page’
has to be 240 or less.
Solution:
Reduce the ‘Columns per rec-
ord’ value.
Printing reports to
the LaserWriter
Problem:
Printing a report to the Laser-
Writer causes a system bomb..
Cause:
Omnis saved job and page
setup information from the
printer driver with each report
format when it gets created.
Because Apple’s LaserWriter
drivers are not always upwards
compatible. when you up-
grade to a later version of the
driver, the report crashes be-
cause of version-specific code
that was saved before.
Solution:
Ensure that Omnis regenerates
the report info using the new
driver. Do this by gog to the
report parameter screen, se-
lecting both Job and Page
Setup in turn, and hitting OK for
each.
Pes orl
AppleTalk
ImageWriter Printing
Problem:
The system bombs during print-
ing to an AppleTalk
ImageWriter. Specifically, the
second report of the day
causes a system crash.
Cause:
Version 3.24 and earlier versions
require you to print with fonts
whenever you print to the
AppleTalk ImageWriter.
Solution:
Get an upgrade to version 3.25,
16
Apple2000 - For all Apple Users
April 1988
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Personal
Newsletter
Personal Newletter from
Softsync claims to
bring the exciting world
of DTP to the Apple //-
Peter Stark sees how
well it does the job.
Personal Newsletter is
available from MGA
Microsystems, Pear Tree,
Appledore, Kent TN26 2AR
The price is £59.95
inclusive of P&P and VAT.
It can be both useful and
interesting to have the abil-
ity to use a micro for pro-
ducing short newsletters and the
like, containing both text and
graphics. Of course, this also of-
fers you the chance to reveal that
personal touch of artistic creativ-
ity which had previously remained
unobserved by your friends. Per-
sonal Newsletter is a recent
product of Softsyne, Inc. which
could well appeal to those of uswho
have an Apple IIc, IIGS, or Ile (with
128K and 80 column board).
General description
Personal Newsletter was sup-
plied to me as three non-protected
5.25" ProDOS disks: the Master, a
Fonts/Samples, and a (double
sided) Clip Art disk. These are
supplemented by an excellent 192
page manual. Either one ortwodisk
drives can be used. Relatively
little disk swapping is involved, so
one drive is quite sufficient in
practice. For certain operations, a
mouse Is useful, but is by nomeans
essential.
Text layout and creation
A major feature of Personal
Newsletter is that il enables you to
create rectangular ‘windows’
which hold the text that is entered
and eventually printed. The main
pageistreated as ‘page 0’. andupto
nine further windows can be put in
at any one time. Text can be placed
in any window, and words wrap
round at the line ends (i.e. the
window borders) as with any rea-
sonable word processor. Various
text handling facilities are avail-
able, such as cut, copy, and paste.
Each window can be moved around
on the page very easily, and can be
superimposed on other windows if
you wish. Text can be either typed
in or imported from ASCII text
files created by other word proc-
essor programs such as Apple-
Works. If the text is too long for the
originally selected window, you
can arrange for it to flow into other
windows if you like. This makes it
very easy, for example, to produce
text in two or three columns.
Styles
The style of chosen parts of the
text can be varied to some extent
(bold; underline; outline; italics;
centred; or left- or right-justi-
fied, etc.), as can the spacings be-
tween lines and between charac-
ters. The claim in the manual that
Personal Newsletter ‘comes with
many fonts on the Fonts/Samples
disk’ is something of an over-
statement. There were, in fact, 6
fonts on this disk: a useful num-
ber, but not what most people
would call ‘many’.
An important point to be aware
ofis that all ofthe text ona page has
to be of the same font and size (12
point). Ifyou change the font at any
stage, the whole of the text on the
page is changed accordingly. This
seemed something of a limitation.
Admittedly, it is usually not
good practice to have lots of differ-
ent fonts on a single page. but it
would have been nice to have the
chance to use at least a couple of
different text fonts and/or sizes
per page. Ifyou want to have larger
text, for headlines etc., you need to
use and magnify text in graphics
mode (as mentioned below).
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Graphics
Tocomplement its text handling
facilities, Personal Newsletter
has a number of graphics options.
One of these options allows you to
draw, using a variety of brushes,
patterns, and tools, and then to
move the result onto the text page.
As a second possibility, you can
import standard or Double Hi-Res
screen areas created by other pro-
grams. A third option enables the
user to import graphics created
using programs such as Print Shop
or Dazzle Draw, or from the Clip
Art disk which is supplied with
Personal Newsletter. Further Clip
Art disks in the same series are
available from Softsyne, Inc.
Graphics which are originally
onDOS3.3 disks must first be con-
verted into ProDOS format. In all
these cases, the imported graphics
can be moved about the page with-
out any difficulty, and can be edited
quite simply. Relatively large
graphics necd to be edited in sec-
tions, as the graphics editing win-
dow is limited in size (just over
one inch in depth).
The graphics facilities also in-
clude letters and numbers as ‘text’
- which is useful for headlines etc.
The same six fonts are available in
graphics mode as in the normal text
mode, but more type styles are
available in the graphics mode
(nine, including: bold; reverse;
outline; and shadow). ‘Text’ pro-
duced via this graphics mode con-
sists, of course, of graphics im-
ages. It is not confined within text
windows, and cannot be edited as
simply as the ordinary text; in-
stead, it has to be edited in the same
way as other graphics. However,
graphics-type text can be moved
around on the page very easily, and
its height can be increased in steps
so as to produce reasonably large
headlines.
However, the enlarged versions
of letters and numbers are not very
smooth in outline. With graphics-
mode ‘text’, you can in fact arrange
to have several different fonts on
the same page (and eveninthesame
Apple /
graphic), by successively loading
different fonts from the files on
disk. This can be a little laborious,
but it does work, and can give in-
teresting effects.
I found that with certain of the
imported graphics, the image on
the screen is not an accurate rep-
resentation of the version that
would be printed out on paper. In
these cases, expansion to double
height is needed in order to give
acceptable printed results. This
potential pitfall was not spelled out
very clearly in the manual, al-
though it is hinted at.
With Personal Newsletter, it is
also important to be aware that the
text does not automatically Now
round the graphics. Careful plan-
ning is therefore needed to avoid
unwanted overlapping of text and
graphics. In general it might be
best first to decide where to posi-
tion your graphics, print out a
draft with just the graphics, and
then arrange the text windows to
suit your needs.
Documentation
The manual supplied with Per-
sonal Newsletter deserves mention
- and favourably. Quite a lot of care
has clearly been taken to make it
simple for even the near beginner
to learn how to use the program.
The descriptions of how to do what
are generally easy to follow, and
the reference section (‘Definition
by Commands’) ts helpful and
clear. Another useful chapter,
‘Hints And Tips’, gives sensible
advice on how to design and struc-
ture newsletters and other docu-
ments, and what sort of general
style to aim for.
Printing, and end results
Personal Newsletter can be used
with quite a number of dot matrix
printers. The appearance of the
printed material obtained is gen-
erally attractive and quite accept-
able for many purposes. The text
fonts are pleasant tolookat, andthe
Clip Art usually comes out satis-
factorily.
Just occasionally, some other
types of graphic (e.g. from a digit-
ized picture) may look a little dis-
appointing in the printed form. but
this is probably the fault of the
graphic itself rather than Per-
sonal Newsletter.
Overall impressions
As someone who is very far from
being an expert on computers, I
enjoyed Personal Newsletter and
found it pleasingly easy to pick up
and use. The manual was refresh-
ingly clear and helpful.
If you are mainly interested in
having a reasonably priced and
simple means of producing quite
acceptable newsletters and the
like, Personal Newsletter is well
worth considering.
On the other hand, if it is im-
portant to you to be able to place
several different fonts and sizes on
the same page, or to have such fa-
cilities as automatic wrapping of
text around graphics, or to be able
to print out with a LaserWriter,
then you may well prefer to think
about other alternatives (proba-
bly more expensive!).
Either way, you might also
think about Personal Newsletteras
an uncomplicated but reasonably
versatile aid to practising and
building up your skills at desk top
publishing.
April 1988
Apple2000 - For all Apple Users
19
Timeout is a new set of
7 enhancements for
AppleWorks -
Audrey Friend has tried
them out and reports on
the first three.
Apple /
Tam one of the Apple2000 mem-
bers who ‘took up the challenge’
thrown out by Jim Panks and Jon
Gurr in the December issue of our maga-
zine. asked if I might test three of the new
TimeOut applications from the point of
view of the computer user rather than that
of the computer ‘buff’.
TimeOut is the latest series of en-
hancement programs for AppleWorks,
and of the range of seven applications I
have tested three, namely DeskTools,
QuickSpell and UluaMacros. I have tested
them on my own Apple Ile, equipped with
a Flipper Card, 3.5 disk, Timemaster
Clock and Imagewriter, (set-up A); and on
an Apple IIe equipped with a pluuRAM
256K card, no clock card and two standard
drives, (set-up B). With the former set-up
AppleWorks, QuickSpell, UluaMacros
and DeskTools were all loaded into mem-
ory and left a desktop of 927K, instead of
the usual 1012K without TimeOut,
The Timeout Series
The TimeOut series is published by
Beagle Brothers, the package for each
program comprises a 5.25 “floppy” disk
and a 3.5 disk, neither of which is copy
protected, and a user's manual. Unfortu-
nately the box in which they are packed is
rather over sized and it was somewhat
alarming to hear the contents rating
around when they were delivered. One
manual was in fact slightly damaged.
Disks and manual are, of course, copy-
righted. As is their custom, Beagle Bros.
do remind purchasers to make the usual
working copy, after write-protecting the
master Disks.
TimeOut is the controlling program. It
is compatible with AppleWorks version
2.0 and later, but not with foreign language
versions of AppleWorks. It is reported to
be compatible with most enhancements to
AppleWorks, including Super Mac-
Timeout Series
roWorks, AutoWorks, Applied
Engineering’s desktop expander,
Checkmate’s desktop expander, and the
Pinpoint accessories.
TimeOut itself is a once and for all en-
hancement to the AppleWorks Startup
disk, after which the applications required
by the user can all be copied to the startup/
program disk, if working with a 3.5 inch
disk, or to a Timeout Applications disk if
working with standard drives. Even better,
for those users who have large memory
systems, the startup disk can be configured
so that all the applications are loaded into
memory at boot-up. Standard drive users
may have more than one applications disk,
provided that they all have the same name,
c.g. /TimeOut, the multiple disks may be
loaded sequentially into memory ina large
memory system, or used directly from disk
if memory is at a premium,
Explicit instructions are given in the
manual to enable the user to install Time-
Out, and I experienced no problems in
either the installation or getting the appli-
cations ‘up and running’ with set-up A
(see above), but became extremely frus-
tated in trying to get it installed in set-up
B. In fact] failed miserably to do so and the
whole system ‘crashed’. A telephone call
to Cirtech solved the problem. The
plusRAM modification to the startup disk
is still required, but the modification
which is made to the AppleWorks pro-
gram disk should be omitted by plusRAM.
users who wish to use TimeOut. Thereaf-
ter installation is perfectly straightfor-
ward.
All the applications work from within
AppleWorks and itis very pleasant indeed
not to be faced with learning complicated
new commands, Access to all of the Time-
Out applications is by Open-Apple-Es-
cape, and with one or two exceptions the
return to the current file is achieved by
pressing Escape. Once oa-esc
has been pressed the TimeOut ce
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Apple2000 - For all Apple Users
April 1988
menu pops up, superimposed on the cur-
rentscreen, and the application required is
selected either by number or by highlight-
ing it and pressing return. Most of the
commands and key combinations which
are valid for AppleWorks have precisely
the same functions in TimeOut applica-
tions. In general, the manuals are clear and
easy to follow, but there are some in-
stances where I feel that more information
is warranted.
QUICKSPELL
This is as one might expect a spelling
checker. The first stage is to specify the
location where TimeOut can find the dic-
tionaries, a process which is simple and
well documented in the manual. There are
three dictionaries, an internal one, a main
dictionary of some 80,000 words, and a
custom one, initially of 1K, to which the
user may add words at will, the ultimate
size of whichis limited only by the amount
of space available on the disk. The user has
a choice of checking the entire document
(ifmore than 100K morethan one pass will
be required), or a screen or a single word.
Queried words are displayed as ‘un-
known’ words. The options available to
deal with queries are to correct in context,
(either a single word or all
This presents a list of possible spellings,
usually the most likely ones at the begin-
ning of the list. If the required word ap-
pears pressing space bar whilst the word is
highlighted and then pressing Return, will
result in the instant replacement of the
word. If the suggested spellings list has not
been interrupted as above, it will print all
the likely (and some unlikely) spellings up
to 29 ata time. If the word required hasn’t
appeared a further list can be called by
selecting ‘more’ which appears at the end
of the list.
Itis difficult to spot double words with
a visual search, but QuickSpell will find
them very quickly. If any are found it will
tell you at the top of the unknown word list
how many double words there are, and
when option 5 is selected from the menu
they will be shown with the first word
highlighted.
The custom dictionary is stored on disk
as a standard ASCII file, this can be im-
ported into an AppleWorks Word Proces-
sor file and edited. The manual gives full
instructions for this process.
This is an excellent enhancement for
AppleWorks Word Processor files, Of
course the main dictionary gives Ameri-
can spellings but this is no real problem
tised on the DeskTools disk, and this
probably sells more applications packages
butI can’t help feeling as a user that it’s a
bit “naughty” that some users may buy
DeskTools when it appears from the “ads”
that it is the only way to get Word Count.
ULTRAMACROS
This is another truly excellent pack-
age. Asa very lazy typist I have long been
addicted to the use of macros and having
progressed from MacroWorks to Super
MacroWorksI thought! was content, until
I wied UltraMacros.
Before using UltraMacros a further in-
stallation procedure is necessary, that of
adding UltraMacros System to the startup
disk, and thereby making available a de-
fault set of macros. The process is simple
and the manual gives very clear guidance
on the macros, and how to edit the default
set for the user’s own requirements. There
are several files on the disk which are Ap-
pleWorks Word Processor files and these
should be loaded, printed if you have a
printer and read carefully, since they con-
tain useful examples and explanations
which are not in the manual. Otherwise
some surprises may occur. There is also an
apparent option to install a Pathfinder
repetitions of that word), to
replace the word, add it to
the custom dictionary or
ignore it. I ran a test docu-
ment of 3658 words con-
taining several technical
terms and checked and cor-
rected the entire file in
Imin.35 secs. (48 words
were listed as unknown).
A Quick memory list -
can be enabled/ disabled. If
itis enabled QuickSpell re-
members every word it
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menu. This is actually noth-
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Urilities
File Encryoter Word Count
ing but a menu of options
available through another
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2! Case Converter 10. Macro Option
injuatitied S: cee ise several dollars. Another good
one tthe 4. Date Converter 12. Page Preview is
(the: Abo] Sn. Gals, Converter. 1e. cogs Ceevl = reason for reading the awp
$+ Bore 14. Quickspett files on the disk, because one
6
of them describes this option
as a demo.
Space does not permit a
really full description of the
package, but there are some
looks up in the main and
custom dictionaries. The next time Quick-
Spell is used in the same session, the words
in the memory quick reference list are not
checked again in either dictionary. This
can save a lot of time if several checks are
made on the same or similar documents in
one session. The quick reference list does
however take up some room on the desk-
top, soif memory is ata premium it should
be disabled.
Another option is Get suggestions.
Timeout Main Menu
once the English versions have been en-
tered in the Custom dictionary. The man-
ual gives clear instructions with regard to
installation, configuration and the actual
use of QuickSpell, but it’s so easy to use
that you will probably find the manual
redundant after your first session. I have
one small criticism: there is word count on
the QuickSpell disk, it’s a logical place for
it to be, but the advertisements for Time-
Out do not say that it is there. It is adver-
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Apple2000 - For all Apple Users
very useful macros, like
Solid-Apple-Delete which will remove
the character under the cursor and move up
the characters from the right to fill the gap.
There is another for sequentially number-
ing a series of spreadsheet cells, yet an-
other copies labels or values from one
spreadsheet cell to another. Spreadsheet
columns can be shrunk or expanded, or
sorted alphabetically or numerically, or
telephone call details entered automati-
cally ina file, to give just a few examples,
21
The user can record macros for use in the
current application with the open-apple-X
command, and they can be saved and used
again. The current macro set can be loaded
intoa blank Word Processor file edited, re-
compiled and used all without leaving
AppleWorks. The current macros can also
be saved as a new default file. There is a
macro for automatic start-up, which I
modified for my own use and it now also
adds 3 files to the desk top which need to
be there each session. Another which I
have written will open a data-base file,
give it a name, enter the names of fifteen
categories, go to multiple record and enter
99 blank records. Not bad with one key-
stroke.
Another great advantage which UI-
traMacros has over its predecessors is that
one is not confined only to solid-apple-
(key) combinations for macro functions.
Keys normally reserved for open-apple,
and those solid-apple re-
served macro keys can all
be used with both-apples-
(key). There are open-apple
macros toenter the date, the
time, change case. Local
macros for use in any one of
the AppleWorks applica-
tions can be written, as well
as global macros to use in
them all. In facta single key
e.g. 'D' could conceivably
have eight different macro
definitions. This gives
enormous potential. It is
also possible with this
package for the program-
mers to write macros containing calls, if-
then-else, peeks, pokes, strings and nu-
merous other such terms which leave we
non-programmers gasping for air, but on
the other hand it’s not necessary to be a
programmer to use UltraMacros effi-
ciently. One can also have macros, which
may be left sleeping or rudely awakened
when required.
There are various ‘options’ also avail-
able on this disk, ranging from setting the
‘blink rate’ of the cursor, to switching the
screen off automatically in the absence of
a key press for a pre-determined length of
time, or saving the current macros as a
default set to activating a ‘key-lock’ for
disabled users. (There are several others).
Once more a super package, useful and
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from the
Uorks,
user friendly. Again an unadvertised
“bonus”? - the Data Converter.
DESKTOOLS
‘There are thirteen applications in this
package, viz. Calculator, Calendar, Case
Converter, Clock, Data Converter, Dialer,
Envelope Addresser, File Encrypter, Note
Pad, Page Preview, Puzzle, Word Count,
Utilities.
Selecting Calculator brings to the
screen a ‘calculator’ on the righthalf of the
screen and a ‘tape’ on the left hand side
upon which calculator results may be
‘printed’. In addition to the usual 0-9 digit
keys, and 4 basic math functions, it offers
+/-, square root, and memory keys. There
is one memory, with In, Add, subtract and
recall keys. Clear entry, equals and clear
all keys complete the customary key-
board. The maximum number of digits
which may be displayed is 20, and the
ties to the listed tasks, and mark the status
of those tasks e.g. completed or carried
forward. Escape goes to the previous level
of activity, several escapes to go from task
mode to current file. It works, it’s good,
and well documented in the manual.
Case Converter. I really don’t know
what use this will be to anybody. It will
convert from upper case to lower case or
vice versa. It will capitalise a sentence, or
a word. But, it only works on the entire
document. If one really wants every word
capitalised or every letter in the same case
then this works fine. Otherwise I can’t
help feeling that it’s a bit of a ‘stocking
filler’.
Clock. If you have a clock, this will
clear your current screen and show you the
time and date; if you haven’ta clock it will
show you the date you initialised at boot-
up, and a time of 0:00. If you have a clock
you probably don’t need this application,
and if you haven't it’s of no
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Data Converter. I
thought ‘good this will save
a lot of time on transfers
from Data Base to Spread
Hote Pad
Sheet’ - something which I
do frequently. It worked
This note pad con be repositioned
‘on screen with OR-D ond arrow keys
fine on the small samples
- given onthe TimeOut disks,
but when I tried it on some
data extracted from my own
files it was a disaster. The
equipped with a riimuer cura, a. wisny
Tyoe entry, or use @ comsonds
‘Timeout Notepad
sequence of operations follows standard
algebraic logic. Calculations may be
printed to the tape, which may be edited,
but a very good aspect is that the result of
acalculation may be entered directly into
an AppleWorks file (WP.DB or SS.) by
pressing E(nt). You cannot get back to the
current file from calculator by pressing
escape, only ‘O’ for off will do that.
Simple to use, clear explanation in the
manual, very good.
Calendar, valid from 1910 to 1999, is
avery handy little ‘pop-up’. If you have a
lot of appointments or you like to make
daily lists of the tasks you have to under-
take, there are facilities here for you to
enter them, have the appointments
chronologically ordered, allocate priori-
data used was some 150
records (well below the
maximum capacity of the
Clipboard), there were 3
text categories, and 5 numerical catego-
ries. All the textcategories transferred per-
fectly, three numerical categories ap-
peared on the spread sheet as all zeros, and
some of the entries in the remaining 2 nu-
merical categories had zeros substituted
for the original data. This represents a 60%
plus loss of data and is totally unaccept-
able, This was version 1.1, and I have
referred it back to MGA who have prom-
ised to contact Beagle Brothers. Perhaps
there is an update. Certainly I would not
trust this version in my type of work. The
manual devotes only half a page to this
topic, and gives no indication that certain
types of data may not transfer properly.
Dialer. I cannot comment on this one,
because I do not have a modem. I could
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April 1988
give a quote from the manual on what it is
supposed to do, but feel that it is probably
better to leave it for some one to report on
in the light of experience.
Envelope Addresser. Again, I won-
der why it’s included. Perhaps in the States
more printers take kindly to envelopes
than do most of ours. It works by present-
ing a facsimile envelope on screen to
which the address can be transferred from
the document currently on screen. Once
transferred the address may be reposi-
tioned on the envelope, and there is facil-
ity for typing in extra lines, e.g. ‘For the
Attention of ...’. I looked at it on screen,
but the Imagewriter doesn’t like enve-
lopes so I have notactually tried to printan
envelope with it. I have to say that I feela
facility for addressing labels one, two or
three across would have been infinitely
more useful. There’s not much point in
having mail merge, or window envelopes
and messing about trying to print individ-
ual envelopes.
File Encrypter has been included to
protect confidential work. It works on the
password system. When encrypt is se-
lected the user is asked to enter an ‘encryp-
tion code’ which may comprise any com-
bination of characters. As each is typed in
anasterisk appears on screen, Whenreturn
is pressed the code is requested as a veri-
fication procedure. When this is done if
the two entries agree the entire document
isencoded, and appearsas gibberish on the
screen. Decryption is exactly the same
procedure. Provided the codes are entered
in exactly the same format each time it
works fine. If lower case is entered at the
decryption stage and upper case has been
used at the encryption stage, which I did
deliberately to see what happened, then
the file is ‘clobbered’ which is what one
might expect. It’s simple to use, and well
documented.
Note Pad, as its name implies isalitde
note pad which pops up on screen when
called, very useful for making the odd
notes when an idea comes into your head
right in the middle of working ona totally
different file. It offers 10 lines of 40 char-
acters, and 32 pages. It can be edited or
saved to disk, and retrieved from disk at a
later time. Users unfamiliar with the use of
pathnames may have alittle difficulty with
this one, but once the pathname principle
is followed there should be no problems. It
Apple /
works, it's well documented and poten-
tially useful.
Page Preview gives a graphic repre-
sentation of the AppleWorks Word Proc-
essor document using dots for each char-
acter. I tried this with great anticipation,
and it seemed fine. The manual asks one to
try this out with a large file, so I did. I used
a file of some 4,000 words and gleefully
previewed it, and having ‘escaped" from
preview, pressed oa-p to print to the
Imagewriter. I was astounded to get half a
page of double spaced text and then a form
feed to the next page, where I again got
halfa page of textetc. Granted the parame-
ters were set for double spacing, so I ex-
pected that, but I did not expect half a
blank page. I then spentsome considerable
time investigating this problem and found
that at the AppleWorks default W.P. set-
ting the correlation between the preview
and the hard copy was reasonably good.
However as the parameters were changed
with regard to margins, characters per
inch, spacing etc the correlation between
the two decreased pro rata. With 17 cpi.
1.5" left margin, 1" top and right margins
and 1.5" bottom margin there was a differ-
ence of some 6 pages between the number
of pages on preview, and those actually
printed using oa-k to determine page
breaks instead of printing directly after
preview page formatting. Another discov-
ery was that if page breaks calculated with
0a-K are present in the document, itis im-
possible to get preview mode. Although
the TimeOut menu is called and preview
selected it simply returns to the current
screen. Once the page breaks are cancelled
by deleting one of them, preview can be
called again, Likewise if preview is uscd
first, oa-k page breaks cannot be calcu-
lated unless existing page breaks are can-
celled.
The annoying thing about this is that
the manual devotes only one page to the
absolute basics of using this application
and gives no suggestion that such difficul-
ties might arise, If preview has been de-
signed to work only with standard settings
then surely this should be made plain in the
documentation. As a non-programmer I
do not know if it is possible to make this
thing work equally as well with non-stan-
dard settings, but I do know that if the
presence of this application had been in-
strumental in causing me to buy this pack-
age I should feel that I had been ‘caught’.
Puzzle - sorry, but I feel that this is just
another ‘filler’. It’s the old fifteen tiles on
a sixteen square matrix, which are
scrambled when the game starts, and the
aim is to get them back into the original
arrangement with the aid of the arrow keys
and return. Yes it works, but perhaps it
should be on a games disk, rather than a
“work oriented disk’.
Word Count - excellent, very fast,
very easy. Counts the number of words,
number of characters, average word
length and tells the user the current line, I
wish it also gave the number of unique
words as does another well known docu-
ment checker. As previously stated this is
also on the QuickSpell disk.
Finally the Utilities.
This is one application which of neces-
sity appears on every applications disk. It
is menu driven, and enables the user to
configure various aspects of the ‘system’
which has been set up. Such matters as the
locations where TimeOut may find the
various applications when they are called,
a facility for dumping to and from mem-
ory, for changing the memory status of
applications, e.g.from memory to disk
based and vice versa. Changing the name
of an application or sorting the menu are
all dealt with through this facility.
In conclusion, it must be said that
TimeOut offers a great deal to the Apple-
Works user. In general it is possible to add
a great deal of power, and supply some of
those facilities which have been sadly
lacking. It is a great plus that they work
within AppleWorks, and an additional
benefit is that the oa-H command can be
used to print screens, a facility not avail-
able in some other enhancements to Ap-
pleWorks. I unreservedly recommend
QuickSpell and UltraMacros, It is proba-
bly inevitable that however objective one
trics to be in looking at software the sub-
jective element creeps in, and from my
own viewpoint DeskTools was very dis-
appointing, and I cannot recommend it in
its present form. also believe thatit would
be beneficial to the potential user to be
informed of all the applications available
ineach package so that before buying they
may know precisely which packages are
required for their own specific &
April 1988
Apple2000 - For all Apple Users
needs.
23
WIZARDRY IV
Reviewed by Len Cavanagh
The Return Of Werdna
Really I was trying to get hold of a copy of Ultima V, when
the friendly chaps at Strategic Plus convinced me that it still
didn’t exist. So, I was persuaded to purchase Wizardry IV, my
first foray into this series of Adventure /Role Playing Games.On
opening the package you find three double sided disks.
Thisisa large adventure. Although side Fis only an advertisc-
ment. We then come to the players handbook. Half of this booklet
is headed ‘The Prequel’, which gives you a rundown on how you
happened to be sleeping ten levels down in a dungeon. The
second half of the booklet explains how to make copies of the
master disks and how to save your game. You also get a spells
reference card in the package and that’s about it. There is no
description of commands that the game will understand, but you
do get dire warnings that if you haven't played a Wizardry game
before, then you have no chance. This game has a bit of a twist on
the normal theme. You as Werdna are not the good guy, and
whilst you are sleeping, in bursts a gang of do-gooder adventur-
ers. On waking you are naked and defenceless and this is where
your adventure begins. Having read everything in the box and re-
alizing how limited my chances were (having never played Wiz-
ardry 12 or3), I setoff. Most of the keyboard commands required
are fairly intuitive, so that on awakening I managed to gather a
party of monsters and fight everything in sight. The screen shows
you ina three dimensional maze, while any information required
is displayed in windows. It is very important to map your
progress in this game (graph paper is provided). Each level on
Wizardry IV has a different type of maze and layout. On reaching
a higher level you gain hit points and can collect more powerful
monsters to assist you. On each level there is only a finite num-
ber of opponents and once they are all killed, you are at liberty to
explore that level in safety. But, if you should Save your game,
then all your opponents are rejuvenated, and ready to do battle
once more.
On each level there are special locations where objects are to
be found, which are necessary later in the game. The only real
problem with this game is the method utilized for copy protec-
tion, SIR-TECH provide you with a twenty one page booklet with
hundreds and hundreds of codes in it. Every time you reach anew
level, you are asked to decode a twelve figure code from the
booklet. This wouldn't be too bad, but the booklet is coloured
dark red and the codes are written in black, which achieves it’s
aim at being impossible to photocopy, also it’s almost impossible
to read and soon becomes quite annoying. My conclusions are,
that itisa cracking game, justas addictive as the Ultima series and
if anyone out there can help me to get further than level four, I
would be delighted.
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Apple /
TimeOut series
‘Open-Apple &
escape to TimeOut’
says Peter Davis.
Our second article on
Beagle Bros’ TimeOut
Series.
Following Jon Gurr’s offer in
Apple 2000 magazine, MGA Mi-
crosystems sent me some of
Beagles’ TimeOut series; SuperGraph,
SuperFonts, SideSpread and FileMas-
ter. Some are fine, and some really re-
markable. There were problems with File-
Master which vanished when MGA sent
version V1.2 of TimeOut and version
V1.1 of FileMaster.
Overall these ‘Pop Up’ packages inte-
grate nicely together, largely retaining the
AppleWorks User Interface and give a
glimpse of the possibility that we have not
seen anything yet when it comes to what
the Apple II can do.
HOW DOES IT COME
AND WHAT DO YOU NEED
Each separate pack comes with 5.25"
and 3.5" discs operating under ProDos 1.4,
patched with ‘Bird’s Better Bye’, a fairly
slim American Quarto ‘designer’ manual
and the usual card recommending OPEN
APPLE. Sadly absent are the Victorian en-
gravings, with Beagle Brothers brand of
Monty Python humour. Must be serious
commercial stuff this!
You need an Apple Ile, IIc, or GS and
at least 128K memory, plus Apple-
works2.0
PRELUDE
There have been a number of interrupt
driven software enhancements for Apple-
Works in the last few years. Some have
been very useful. Personally I have used
Pinpoint since 1985, and would be lost
without a spelling checker, a communica-
tions package, a note pad and a macro fa-
cility.
So what's new about TIME OUT? On
the whole the program has tried to keep the
AppleWorks user interface in place, you
are hardly aware that everything has
stopped, and you are no longer in Apple-
Works. You can use the clipboard to con-
vert spreadsheet data to data base and vice
versa. It now gives AppleWorks graphing
facilities comparable with Supercalc 3a or
Lotus 123. Full high resolution Graphics
text output to printers (with WYSIWYG
review) that can combine a range of fonts
and pictures and graphs, and the means of
printing a sideways spreadsheet (the print
quality is always stunning). TimeOut has
onc time installation and frontend modifi-
cation for printers, interfaces and RAM
usage which work with ease and grace,
and a fairly user fricndly filer.
MY CONFIGURATION
AND HOW ISET ABOUT IT
APPLE II c with UNIDISC 3.5, Epson
FX80 with serial to parallel interface.
APPLE II ¢ with DUODISK, UNI-
DISC 3.5, 1 meg PlusRAM, ImageWriter
I with SuperSerial card.
I decided to do all the initial work on
the Apple IIc on the basis that I should
work with ‘patchless’ AppleWorks first
and that this would show up any memory
limitations. I used Prosel as the initial
program selector,and just to make life a
whole lot casicr put everything on single
3.5" UniDisk. It took me about 2 hours to
have the whole package up and running,
and that is a tribute to TimeOut rather than
to me.
A few days later, after I decided that
cyerything was ‘Up and Running’, and I
patched another virgin version of Apple-
Works with the PlusRAM ‘minimum
patch’, re-installed TimeOut , and I hada
package that would work equally well on
either machine.
Finally I have a version of Apple-
Works which can be copied to /(RAM7 as
aRAM image with Pinpoint and TimeOut
Accessories both in place and working in
harmony.
(Please note well that there is no
Pinpoint compatibility when
UltraMacros is added from oc
26
Apple2000 - For all Apple Users
April 1988
TimeOut. This was a rather late discovery
for me, and does not negate the points I
have made about the products tested here,
Someone wishing to continue with Pinpo-
int and contemplating the purchase Time-
Out UltraMacros should bear this in
mind.)
CONTRASTS
If you look at the range of ‘POP UP’
accessories offered by Pinpoint and Time-
Out, you cannot help noticing a certain
resemblance, in fact you might think it a
little bit ‘Me Too’ with extras. Well the
TimeOut accessories are more than just
that, and I think it worth discussing some
of the contrasting approaches used to
achieve the same objective.
Pinpoint was released late in 1985. As
one of the first interrupt driven pieces of
software for AppleWorks, it may have
been pretty shaky at first, certainly not
now and Pinpoint’s comprehensive range
of accessories are something I use all the
time, Beagle Bros whose SuperMac-
roWorks is pretty good, have the advan-
tage of doing something with the benefitof
that experience, plus 80/80 hindsight
which is good. The range of packages they
now offer more than brackets anything
Pinpointcan do in AppleWorks and just in
case they rightly claim to have made
TimeOut Pinpoint compatible. While in-
stalling Pinpoint involves a number of
steps and not a little planning, including
the selection of printers, TimeOut requires
just one step to install, the same goes for
adding applications. With TimeOut
changing printers, configuring interfaces,
locating fonts and loading to /Ram are all
handled from within AppleWorks with the
aid of the UTILITIES accessory so that
changes are so easy that Appleworks
enhanced with TimeOut beomes aan cas-
ily transportable package. For these rea-
sons alone TimeOut would be preferred by
any first time user.
T have tested TimeOut with Pinpoint
and compatibility is perfect, even with
Pinpoint Accessories that coexist with
Appleworks like the Spelling Checker.
The problem is you have to install Pinpoint
last. After that TimeOut cannot be re-
installed, and you no longer have a trans-
portable form of Appleworks.
TimeOut is enabled with <Open
Apple-Escape> to bring it up, and I do not
April 1988
Apple /
doubt equally compatible with Au-
toworks, SuperMacroWorks which are
enabled by <Open Apple-P>.
Enabling Pinpoint causes Apple-
Works ‘to drop its drawers’ and save sub-
stantial part of the program memory to be
saved in form of a W.TEMP file to any
available disk or RAM space. This takes
time but leaves
so already, there are several file duplica-
tions on each installation disk, so care-
fully check that you use the most up to date
files. This is most important if you want
get the benefit of the latest upgrades. You
also need to copy all your AppleWorks
files to the disk for easy access. For my ap-
plications the files I needed to have were:-
the size of the Ap-
pleWorks Desk-
top unaffected.
TimeOut takes up
part of the Desk- TO.UTILITIES
top, you have 55K LE re
not S6K on an T0.SIDESPREAD
Apple IC. Once TO.eRRPH
you get to an ap-
Bin
Bin
Bin
Bin
Bin
12/01/07
9/23/87
12/01/87
9/11/87
10/16/87
5/10/87
Plication this | ------------------=-
swallows more
Desktop. The
Utility Options which enable you to load
specific Applications to /RAM for faster
operation on a 128K Apple IIc canalso cut
your desktop to 12K. Similarly there is a
definite limit to the number of fonts that
can be incorporated in one document.
Since many people have extended mem-
ory cards this may seem a small price to
pay.
Pinpoint disables [OA-H], whereas
TimeOut permits a screen dump under all
just about all conditions and as far as
possible retains the
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