Apple 2000 Vol 5 No. 3 1990 06 BASUG GB

= THE NATIONAL APPLE USERS GROUP JUNE 1990 VOLUME 5(3) ~ YOUR INTRODUCTION TO A WORLD OF INFORMATION CompuServe Forum. The world’s largest on-line information service for PC’s, And now it’s here, in the UK. For you. 0,000+ members worldwide. ©@ Contact with over 100 countries. © Nearly 200 special interest groups (everything from current affairs to the latest software developments). © More than 1400 information databases. © 27,000+ public domain and shareware programs available to download, © Extensive electronic mail connections throughout FRE second membership, for a strictly limited period, with every new membership. Plus additional free usage credit for you. the world (including Internet, MCI mail, Telex, Fax and Postal delivery). Find out about the best on-line club in the world. Call our sales support team free on the number helow. Now. Or write to: CompuServe Forum, FREEPOST (BS6971), P.O. Box 676, Bristol BS99 1NZ. And get on-line to the world. BUR Ob SEE BS eOR Nee’ 0800 289 378 9.00am-9.00pm(Mon-Frit) CompuServe FO R UM Apple2000 The All Apple User Group Committed to All Apple Users including Macintosh June 1990 Apple2000." CONTENTS Chairman's Corner Letter Box Hardcore Pips Compuserve/Forum Smart Money GS — A review Memory Moan New London Phone Codes — A macro Apple Finder Update AppleXtras PS and Ilgs Its Free by Air! Date Arithmetic in AppleWorks Nite Owl Battery — A review Quickie Scanner — A review SoftCat Corner Rumour Factory TransWarp LightSpeed Hotline News Vulcan Hits Back! — A review Mastertype — A review AppleShare and the Apple II ‘The Nibbler GS/OS Error Finder MacChat Mathematica — A review The Mac CAD/CAM Book — A review INIThound Hypercard Forum Virex v 2.7 — Press Release A/UX 2.0 For FullWrite Fans Network News: ‘TN # 251 Safe cdevs System 6.0.5 TN # 253 ‘SICN' MacWorld Expo, San Francisco The Omnis Connection Thanks for the Memory Club Business Hewlett Packard's DeskWriter AppleXtras Macintosh disk 3 Mac Library Local Groups Members’ Small Ads. Advertisers’ Index There are a number of ways to contact Apple2000. Force users who have a query about the service can contact the adminis- trator, John Lee, directly for help and advice. Call him on the number opposite or send a message to his box on the Force. If you wish to order goods or services from Apple2000, call Irene on (fill Gite et? or (during office hours) call Alison on if 74'S Both have Ansafones, in case they're not around. Alternatively you can Fax. to (jill SHS: G6 write to the PO Box or (if you use comms) you can leave orders on TABBS addressed to the SYSOP. June 1990 Ewen Wannop 2 3 Cliff Wooton 6 8 John Beattie 4 Bryn Jones 15 Harvey Nyman 16 Elizabeth Littlewood 16 18 J.J. Taylor 20 Andreas Wennborg 22 Dave Ward 24 John Beattie 24 Jon Gurr 25 Kenneth Gluckman 26 Charlie Stillman 27 Dave Ward 29 Jihad Jaafar 30 Terry Morris 32 Dennis Doms 33 38 39 42 John Arnold 44 David Durling 48 48 50 53 54 58 60 64 64 65 Dave & Irene Flaxman 66 Bill Pearce 68 Bill Mealey 69 AGM Minutes 70 75 76 T 78 80 80 If you are experiencing problems with Apple hardware or software Dave Ward and Tony Dart run the Hotlines and will try and help you. We are very interested in the activities of local user groups, and if you have any information which you would like publicised John Lee would like to hear from you. We reserve the right to publish, without prejudice, any advice or comments given to members in the journals of Applc2000. A litle praise for a few of our authors wouldn't go amiss. Send all comments, and contributions, via the PO box, especially suggestions about what you would like to see in your magazine. Apple2000 Apple2000 P.O.Box 3, Liverpool, 121 8PY Fax. @25 S22 G07 ( appie2000 supports users of all the opr computers. The ITT 2020, I, I, I+, //e, //c, /{e+, gs, Ugs+, ///. Lisa, XL, Mac 128, 512 MacPlus, SE, SE/30, Mac II, ex, Ici, Ix, Mfx and Portable Contributions and articles for the magazine are always welcome. We can handle any disk size or format. Please send to the PO Box, L21 8PY. NOTE: In general the front half of the magazine is for the Apple Il, Apple IIgs and Apple /// The back half for the Macin- tosh and Lisa. Look out for the descriptive page icons. Key: Apple ll, //e and //c Apple /// Apple IIgs Macintosh, Lisa | Girate s I & ff Contact Points The Force and Local Groups John Lee Wengnere (HF Metetitis ti Administration Irene Flaxman Ord Sm 200 Fae Od Ged ONO Apple II Hotline Dave Ward (CoS) HRD Mon-Fri 1900-2100 Macintosh Hotline Tony Dart DOSE MEGD Mon-Fri 1900-2100 TABBS Ewen Wannop - SYSOP Whaytyetea, (0) Fase ay Chairman's Corner The AGM has come and gone and the new committee are in place. We had hoped to have more members come along for the day and join in the workshop. Perhaps itwas the late announcement that prevented you coming to Luton. We are trying to find a suitable venue wellin advance for the AGM next year. That way we can havea full workshop and set of events that should certainly attract you all. If you know of a suitable venue that is either free or at a very nominal cost, please let us know. Apple (UK) go from strength to strength. Their attack on the Education market has had an effect. Over 30% of their business is now in that field, and they continue to make headway in the face of the IBM spectre. It has been rumoured that IBM will try and attack the low end of the have been hard hit by the clone market and want to try and intro- duce a cheap machine. They tried this once before with the PC Jun- ior and came a cropper. If they manage it this time, what will Apple do to retaliate? We hear rumours of a colour Mac that will sell for a $1000. Is this just wish- ful thinking or can Apple really do it? Of course they have a machine already that is colour and could be enhanced to provide Mac/like capability. But the Ilgs future is another story ... While on the subject of Mac's and Education, I presume all of you who are either teachers, lec- turers or students are aware that you are eligible for educational discounts. Check with your local Educational dealer, and produce some proof that you are within education, and you will get around 30% discount on original Apple equipment. from the new CompuServe/Fo- rum members in sending in your CISID's. Ifyou are to be contacted through the EasyPlex mail service we need to know your ID. Your password of course you must not divulge to anyone. The ID's I al- ready have are: Ewen Wannop 76224,211 Andreas Wennborg 72451,3104 Elizabeth Littlewood 100016,401 Jeremy Quinn 100016,560 Compuserve is an addictive experience. I have included the edited text later in the magazine from a two and a half hour confer- ence that Apple2000 took part in. It was quite a sobering experience to think that I was sitting at home talking with others all round the world, with no barriers other than the way we use our common lan- guage of English. Quite a lot of the edited material concerned the different meanings that we put on words in different countries. At one stage we were talking about how beer was made. I mentioned that malt was used to make beer in England. This tick- led the American's pink to think that beer in England was made from malted milk shakes! With a long hot summer hope- fully started as you read this. Why not get a cool drink and keep out of the harmful rays of the sun by writing an article for your favour- ite Apple2000 magazine? (a market once more. Evidently they Ihave not hada greal response Ewen Wannop é aa >) Annual subscription rates are £25.00 for UK residents, The Editorial team is: £30,00 for E.E.C. residents and £35.00 for other overseas members. Apple2000™ is a trading name of BASUG Ltd, a non- Appie'll Macintosh profit making independent company limited by guarantee. Ewen Wannop Norah Arnold The contents of this journal are copyright of BASUG Lid and/or the respective authors. Permission is granted for non- commercial reproduction providing the author and source are properly credited and a copy of the relevant journal is sent. The opinions and views expressed are those of the vari- ous contributors, and are not necessarily endorsed by BASUG Ltd. This journal is published bi-monthly by BASUG Ltd as a benefit of membership in February, April, June, August, October and December. The copy date is the Ist day of the month preceding publication. Advertising rates are available on request. Apple™ and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. Macintosh™ is a trademark of Macintosh Laboratory Inc and used with the express permission of the Irene Flaxman Many thanks to all those who work behind the scenes and who receive no personal credit. These people are the stalwarts of Apple2000. Additional thanks to Walter Lewis of Old Roan Press (051-227-4818) for our printing service, and to Ian Sharp of Sharp Studios (051-227-2788) for our cover design. Apple2000 are Founder Members and Wholehearted Supporters of the owner. Telecom Gold™ is a trademark of British Telecom ple. The FORCE™ and Apple2000™ are trademarks of BASUG Apple User Group Couneill Lid. Nw ) 2 Apple2000 June 1990 General LetterBox Hawkhurst Kent Dear Ewen and fellow members of the committee, Thinking about the morning's events on the way home from the Apple2000 AGM on Saturday after- noon, I felt that I have tow rite and thank you and your colleagues on the committee for all the hard work you put in to keep this club running. You may be interested to hear of two recent occasions which highlighted to me once again how important a club such as Apple2000 is for ordinz members. The first concerns my col- league in Denmark. He bought an Apple //c several years ago for his personal use and that of his son, and they have been trying for some time to find enhancements and add-ons for this machine. They only know the Apple company as a possible source, and you know how uninterested they are in their ‘old’ models. I was not surprised to hear that they drew a © total blank on all fronts. | told them about Apple2000 and hope that he has signed up. Anyway. I will remind him when I next go over there. The second concerns a friend of mine, also a man in his sixties, who retired from regular work and started up asa consultant, for which purpose he bought himself a computer to do his word processing and data base work. Although the dealer from whom he bought the machine set it up for him, he was absolutely helpless on what to do next and didn't know where to turn. He had no clue on where to find programs, how to load one up when he got hold of it, format a disk (he didn't even know that disks needed to be formatted), read what was on his hard disk, how to make the printer work, etc. Being in a business environment it was an IBM clone, because that was the sort of machine he had been working on before and there was no point in directing him to Apple2000, Fortunately I was able to help him from my very limited know!l- edge, but I was alerted to the total absence of a similar organisation for the IBM clones. It is interesting to note in passing that while training is available it costs around £150 per: a and they take three days to tea DOS! If there are any enthusiasts around, they are not very visible and charge plenty! I thought these snippets might interest you as an indication of the value Apple2000 to the Soaatne community. It also made me think a bit about the Macintosh members needs which came up briefly during the meeting. I believe I am right in thinking that the Macis much more of a user's machine than the II series which is a version for enthusiasts. The inside of the Mac ts as much a black box as the IBM clones. Users might therefore be much more inter- ested in possible applications, availa- bility of programs and what such a machine can and cannot do. Not only the commercially available programs for the serious user, but possible shareware items for the off-duty hours, if there is such a thing for Mac software. I bought a family tree gene- alogy program on IBM shareware for which I was not prepared to pay the commercial price of £150. Once a user knows what a spreadsheet can do he may well be prepared to pay a serious price for a good one. For ex- ample, I would not dream of doing my engineering calculations any other way, and am looking actively for a good sketching and drawing progeny, You may therefore like to poll Mac members in the next issue of Apple2000 magazine if they would support a workshop on applications, combined perhaps with a listing and analysis of available software. Make them answer by filling in a postcard and sending it back, so that you col- lect some directions in which to pre- pare a workshop. I hope this idea ts of value. Meanwhile, again many thanks for all your efforts. Mike Worth P.S. The Mac is an expensive machine which implies that the owners have money. Would they be prepared to pay for a bit of a workshop and thus give the organisers more scope and elbow room? Q Thank you for all the kind words about Apple2000, it is always good to meet people face to face at events such as the AGM who have just been names up until then. I was interested in your two stories. ‘There are a few Apple User Groups round the European area, and per- haps the nearest to your friend in Denmark would be the Swedish Apple User group. If he has a modem, the whole world becomes accessible to him for help with his Apple. This can be through Bulletin Boards like TABBS or CompuServe. As to your friend with the IBM clone, perhaps he would like to contact: PC Independent User Group, The Computer Advice Centre, 87 High Street, Tonbridge, Kent. TNS 1RX. Theyare an independent group who try to provide for the PC what wedo for the Apple. Your comments on workshops for the Macintosh are interesting. We have tried workshops both as teach- ing workshops and on a basis similar to the workshops held at Bidmuthin for the Apple Il. It is sad to say that the response was very disheartening, We can but try again of course and would therefore like a vigorous response from the Mac members as to what they would like and what they would be prepared to pay for. Your comment about Mac owners having money is not altogether true. Usually they have no money left after they have bought their Mac! Either that or they are using Mac's at work rather than their own machines. Ewen Wannop e AppleWorks LetterBox ial Claggpeienedll tessa ieeapeesa Binkath Clwir cine Dear Editor, Would your correspondent Terry Morris indicate the string containing the elusive ‘$' byte in SEG.SS of AppleWorks so that I could find itwith a string search program please? George Shiffner OThe conversion of '$' signs and other characters that are country specifc has been extensively dealt with by our friends in Sweden. If Terry still needs help we can ask them to give us details. Ewen Wannop Please submit all letters and articles to the magazine on disk wherever possible. The disks will be returned to you when the magazine is published. If you have a modem, send us letters, articles and Public Domain programs either to BSG005 or to TABBS (Ma FANT June 1990 Apple2000 Beem 3 TABS Card Wanted London Colney Anodising Co. Ltd. Lyon Way Hatfield Road St. Albans Herts AL4 OLB 0727-34231 Dear Sir, We are looking for a Tabs Software Interface card to fit either an Apple / /e or a Il+ machine. Trevor Francis QI know of no direct sources of these cards these days. You could try Eric Sausse (/ii'st..4=7@H) who sells vari- ous cards and manuals for the II series. If any member has one that itd do not need, please get in touch with Trevor. Editor e llgs LetterBox Penn Wolverhampton Dear Sirs, I am currently trying to decide whether to pass my Apple IIgs on to iny seven year old daughter or whether to trade it in for an Amstrad or similar which has a wealth of edu- cational software. Iam led to believe that there is very little suitable software for children and that what is available is very expensive. I would be grateful for any information you may be able to let me have to expedite my decision. AM. Andrew O The Apple IIgs has been considera- bly undersold in this country and so much of the software has simply not been brought over into the UK. It is however the standard machine in the American schools and there is a wealth of software over there, You will find that there are a few pieces in our library that would be suitable for a seven year old. You could also try the other public domain libraries such as Computability. You should also try MGA and Bidmuthin who hold cata- logs of all software available for the Iigs in the States, they would be able to order any of this for you. However, it is not cheap, there is no solution to that one I am afraid. We would be sorry to see you with an Amstrad of course! Editor © //c LetterBox Langport Somerset Dear Sir, Having purchased an Apple //c a few weeks ago and now joined Apple2000 I hope you will be able to help me with a few problems. I bought the computer in Germany (2nd user). Included was a monochrome moni- tor, Apple Scribe printer, associated cables and AppleWorks V1.2. I have since purchased a second drive and Cirtech Z80 card from MGA SoftCat. My first problem is with Apple- Works. On trying to load file.4 a memory full error occurred and I was unable to load the file. Is this due to the version of AppleWorks? I have noticed on the bottom right corner "55k Avail.” is there on startup. “53k TPA" is mentioned when booting CP/ M Plus V3.0, Is there something Lice | here? By the way “55k Avail.” was there before I fitted the Z80 card. My second problem is with the Phil- lips Video Monitor CM 8500 which has a colour composite video and sound input at the rear (both phono sockets). How do I connect this to my Apple //c? The Technical Reference Manual mutters on about NTSC for the American version but I found out that the output at the Apple //c's video phono socket is only mono- chrome. Is the output at the D-type video connector composite video? Tales J this print the best I can expect from the Apple Scribe printer or ts it worth the head as mentioned in the user handbook? Lastly, where can I purchase ribbon cartridges for the Scribe printer as you are reading the last one? Alex Mc’ Qt would be advisable for you to up- grade to AppleWorks V2.0 if you can. This version of AppleWorks has greater support with additions like the TimeOut series than you will get TE Lae Fouace rightly contuned by the 53k and 55k messages. The Apple //c has a total memory of 128k. CP/ M uses part of this memory and gives you an apparent memory size of 53k. AppleWorks and the operating sys- tem ProDOS take up some of the memory as well. The 55k ne is simply telling you how much desktop pices have left after these program has en loaded. On a machine with a lmb memory card. you would see a message saying you had something like 995k Avail’. File.4 was created on a Ilgs with full memory. As you have found it will not load on a machine without extra memory of some sort, as Be is re too big. e //c gives you NTSC composite colour at the phone socket on, the back. //c’s sold in the UK had a special PAL colour adaptor packed with them. This Apple adaptor 7 MUMMHI WL Wi ti st The YE WME MET dtd Apple2000 Mie WT Hitt idde~——- Bulletin 7/111 The Apple Bulletin Board System Board Speeds: V21(300) to V22bIs(2400) 8N1 24 hours System U The TABBS message system is more than justa Bulletin Board, With a shopping mall where you can browse the Apple2000 catalogues and order the goods you require; a library with over 60mb of compressed files for the Apple II, igs and Macintosh; the NewsBytes™ news files updated weekly bring you the latest in world computer news; a private and public E-mail service; file transfers that can be enclosed in private or public mail; message areas covering many topics includ- ing the Apple II, the IIgs and Macintosh; Xmodem, 1k Xmodem and Ymodem file transfers; multi-speed access at all common speeds; 24 hour operation; and much, \ >>>>> TABBS TOP MENU <<<<< <#>Endeall <.>Utilities <;>Time <G>oodbye <1> Apple ][ folder <2> Apple IIgs folder <3> Macintosh folder <4> Apple2000 folder <5> Developers folder <6> Public areas <D>ownload Libraries <tPailbox <tPews Colums <A>dvertisment Hoarding <S>hopping Mall <Wehat’s new on TABBS <iPelp files for TABBS much more make TABBS the premier Apple Bulletin Board serving Europe. \e =f Give TABBS a call today. Ring TABBS on @Uiatij?4i087 at any speed through V21, V22, V23 to V22bis 8N1 TABBS Is available 24 hours a day & : D 4 a @ Apple2000 June 1990 plugged in to the video ‘D' socket on the back gives composite PAL colour and sound that can be plugged in to a monitor or video recorder. Ifyou do not have one of these adaptors, try Eric Sausse (0724-855795) who might be able to help. If you connect the phono output on the back to a PAL monitor you will get mono- chrome output as you have found. The ‘D' connector does not have composite video as such, it does have a rather non-standard RGB colour however. This will not fit normal RGB monitors unfortunately! I am not familiar with the Scribe printer, but the print quality does seem to be lacking somewhat, it could well be worth changing the head. Try Eric Sausse or MGA for ribbons. I suspect however it may not be possible to get a new head or ribbons this side of the AUantic. The Boffin ¢ General LetterBox Piadivacnity ial London Dear Editor, I sometimes wish that Apple 2000 could have a wider range of articles. For instance, there were two mathematical programs of interest to computer owners. One on “chaos” was in “New Scien- list", the other , on Julia func- tions, appeared in Beebug, the BBC owners magazine. Ewen Wannop tells me that Apple 2000 cannot afford to pay its contributors. Would it help if members were asked to state their professions when joining BASUG? Then maths lecturers could be asked directly to help with articles - a surer wa’ acquiring contributions than wailing for volunteers. Arthur Robinson. QI agree with you. It would in- deed be nice to have a wider range of articles in the magazine. We are of course a User Group run as a non-profit making con- cern. We are all volunteers anddo what is needed either through sheer pleasure, or maschocism! We rely on the help that members can give to make the whole proc- ess a two-way event. Members can contribute and give in return by writing articles as Arthur suggests. Unfortu- nately the editorial team rarely have the time to chase up all the leads that we might. There are just not enough hours in the day to achieve that! I hope that this letter stirs some of you into ac- Apple2000 Reviews “Reviews of software and hardware in the Apple2000 magazine are provided in the main by members of Apple2000. The comments and opinions of members on the products reviewed in this magazine are not necessar- ily the opinions of Apple2000. Apple2000 does not en- dorse the review results, nor does it suggest that any comments necessarily provide any recommendation for any purchasing decision. If you have specific questions regarding apparent limitations or aspirations for a cer- tain product, please contact the supplier or dealer for further details.” NEW PRICING Address Book (MUSE) £19.95 ‘Store 700 names and addroseos, then print envelopes and mailing labels. 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Live MGA SoftCat (0797) 226601 41 Cinque Ponts St., Rye, E.Sussex TN31 7AD the Fantasy! on: Clearance prices valid for curteat stocks only, all prices include VAT, & "peices also include UK pip ER OF Ewen Wannop « June 1990 Apple2000 Hardcore Pips Unpublished in Hardcore August 1983 Cliff Wooton shows us how to convert Hexadecimal to Hex in Assembler Decimal to Hex Some time ago while poring over a disassembly of the Apple DOS, trying to find out about the syntax checker (just you try and find that in amongst 10k of dissassembled code) I came across a nifty little routine that was quite intriguing, and the approach used to solve the problem was quite original. The obvious way to multiply a number by ten would be to set up an indexed loop so that a number was added to itself 10 times. The ap- proach used in DOS would operate quite a bit faster if there was a signifi- cant amount of multiplying by ten to be done.. Basically you multiply by two, then store that value and multi- ply the original by two and two again. You then add the values together. On the face of it this is fairly simple. The clever bit is how to multiply by 2 each time. When you shift a value either in memory or accumulator, the carry is left holding the value that would have gone into the bit bucket, whilst a zero is lobbed into the other end. If you shift in the right direction, that is to the left - no, let me put that another way - if you shift left, right? Oh shift! If you ASL the operand it will be multiplied by two. If you ASL, ASL, and ASL the operand again it will be multiplied by eight. So ASL it, save it, ASL it, ASL it, then add them together and you will have multiplied by ten. That was easy wasn't it? No? O.K. then, looking at the flow chart and program steps below the operation should be clear enough. LDA #OPERAND GET OPERAND ASL A MULT BY 2 STA TEMP SAVE IT ASL A MULT BY 2 (4) ASL A MULT BY 2 (8) cle CLEAR CARRY ADC TEMP ADD THE 2 RTS GO HOME Fig 1. Multiply operand by 10 Aha! I hear you say, but what about multiple precision integers to be multiplied by decenary numerals. You did say that didn't bastd If you look closely (but not too closely) at the flow chart and program. you will see that there is a CLC hidden amongst the code. This is not just there to take up space. It is there (wonder of won- ders) to Clear the Carry flag. This has been provided (Oh thank you great and wonderous Mostek) to clear out any spurious data that fell into the bit bucket during the ASL operation. Since it is there we might (or might not) do something useful with it.” A short digression is called for here since we have to discuss another type of machine code instruction. Asacompanion to the ASL and LSR instructions, there are another pair of similar instructions called ROR and ROL. The function of ROR and ROL is similar to ASL and LSR, the only difference being that the data that went into the carry flag last time is popped into the back end of the oper- and instead ofazero. That is why they are called ROtate Left and ROtate Right. They will, if coded correctly, behave as a pair of contra-rotating ring counters. Now assuming we have used an ASL on the least significant byte of the operand (so as not to stuff any gar- bage into the bottom end), we can use a series of ROL instructions on each successive byte, moving all the time towards the most significant. In this way, the original program can be extended to allow the user to multiply for instance a two byte oper- and. is is illustrated in the flow diagram and associated listing below. ASL ROL BYTE1 FIRST MULTIPLY BT 2 BYTE2 BYTE] ASL A BYTE2 SECOND MULTIPLY BY 2 ROL A TYA ROL A THIRD MULTIPLY BY 2 TAY BYTE1 BYTE1 ADD THE 2 AND 8 TIMES TOGETHER ADC BYTE2 STA BYTE2 RTS Fig 2 A two byte multiply by 10 routine. You will notice that I have not opti- mised the code by using a subroutine to perform the ASL/ROL with an indexed loop. That is because it would have been harder to under- stand than it is already and since this article is aimed at the little applers and munchkins, I wanted to keep itas simple as possible. That's my excuse any way? Ifyou can optimise it, then feel free to send in a revised version tor the next issue. The routine becomes very useful when used to convert a decimal number with several digits. By set- ting up a loop around the multiply routine so that the accumulator holds each digit, the following routine could evolve a" 2* 3* MULTIPLY ACCUMULATOR 2 BY 2 * ae 5* 6 ACC2X2 ASL ACC2L 7 ROL ACC2H 8 RTS ge 10* 11* SHIFT MASK ADD & MULT ACC2 BY 10 * 128 13* 14 ACC2X10BLSR A 15 LSR A 16 LSRA 17 LSR A 18* 19* 20* MASK ADD & MULT ACC2 BY 10 * 21* zak 23 ACC2X10AAND #SOF 24 cle 25 ADC ACC2L 26 STA ACC2L 27 LDA #$00 28 ADC ACC2H 29 STA ACC2H 20* 31* 32* MULT ACC2 BY 10 * 334 34* 35 ACC2X10 JSR ACC2X2 36 LDA ACC2H 37 STA ACC2H 38 LDA ACC2L 39 STA ACC3L 40 JSR ACC2X2 41 JSR ACC2X2 42 cle 43 LDA ACC2L 44 ADC ACC3L 45 STA ACC2L 46 LDA ACC2H 47 ADC ACC3H 48 STA ACC2H 6 @ ‘Apple2000 June 1990 50* Handling very long Integers. In theory we could quite easily make the operand 48k bytes long but there would be little point in this, since we would then have no room left for the DOS or the pi to form. the calculation. This being the case, I have prepared a special version of the DOS for this particular applica- tion. The DOS itself runs in the language card (copies available direct at 200 dollars each). With this DOS you get the program to multiply the number stored in the 48k bytes of RAMand instructions on how to enter the number (unfortunately by hand using the 0:——convention from the monitor). There were several prob- lems involved, mostly due to the fact that the CPU wanted some of the memory for use by the screen editor, the stack and the input buffer. These problems are ¢: cure, simply unplug the CPU, to y- S1* 52* ACCUMULATOR 1 DEC TO HEX CONVERSION * 53* sa* 55 CONVERT LDA #$00 56 STA ACC2H s7 STA ACC2L 58 STA ACC3H 59 STA ACC3L 60 LDA ACC1H 61 JSR ACC2X10B 62 LDA ACC1H 63 JSR ACC2X10A 64 LdA ACC1IL 65 JSR ACC2X10B 66 LDA ACC1L 67 AND #SOF 68 cLe 69 ADC ACC2L 70 STA ACC4L 7 LDA #$00 72 ADC ACC2H 73 STA ACC4H 74 RIS 1S * This is more or less how the routine appears in the DOS disassembly when it is located at $21B9-$2202. For the purposes of the listing ACC1,ACC2,ACC3 and ACC4 are two byte accumulators. ACC1 is the source operand, while ACC$ ts the destination. ACC2 and ACC3 are working storage only. board and any other interfering chips. This will ensure that the memory is completely empty, allowing you to use the RAM for whatever purposes you wish. review it, she felt unable to put pen to paper as the product was so awful! Another reason, I feel, is that we have too many willing reviewers. People kindly offer to look at a product for a few days and then write about it. This seems fine, but in fact it is very un- likely that in such a short time a reviewer would find the more obscure faults or disadvantages that crop up with long use. Also there isa tendency to read the accompanying manuals and assume that what they say about their product must be true! This is a USER group after all. The people that should be writing about products should be those that actually use them. Let's face it, if sonisone. is fone templatin, a uct, want to ioe ir ees a prOokeat with it. If the product is good then there is no reason to worry if any member buys it. Of course we are happy to print that a product is good if it is, But we really need YOU, the User, to write and tell us if there is anything about a product that is not good. It could save someone from making a costly mistake. 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Some of the cast of Characters User ID Name 76703,1031 LM/AppleFest 73647,1506 Bill Dool 72451,3104 Andy - Sw 76702, 1007 JW/AppleFest 76535, 1306 the Dutch... 71260,2752 Los Angeles:Dave 73710,1626 Corey 100016,401 Elsby 100016,401 bill 76703.1034 Shawn — MAUG Zoo 76004,3333 Apple2000 73220, 1624 AFest Chicago 76702,756 Paul Miller Ente: AppleFest!! room... (JW/AppleFest) Hi (Apple2000) Hello land (JW/AppleFest) Greetings from the AppleFest in New Jersey! How are things in blighty old? Nice to have a user group around! I am from Al- buquerque, New Mexico. (JW/AppleFest) Genesys Is shipping. (JW/AppleFest) The Zip GS is not. (JW/AppleFest) No Apple here, no AE, no Claris. Other major names missing as well. wi/euplenes) Glen Bredon was here earlier, showing off the hot new ProSel version. (LM/AppleFest) The booth was jammed the whole time Glen was ple2000./ ere from Eng- ere. (the Dutch...) Pleeeeese tell more... (JW/AppleFest) Andy Nicholas showed up a. while back. (JW/AppleFest) We now stretch from Los Angeles thru NJ to England, Holland and Sweden. (Andy - Sweden) What is the hi spot of the Fest? (JW/AppleFest) There are about ten people in the booth right now. It var- ies second to second! The hi spot? I don't know. Probably just the MAUGers hanging around.... {the Dutch...) JW how ts Jason's new SHC? (JW/AppleFest) We've also been showing a demo version of SHRConvert2.7b1. It's real impres- sive. He messaged me earlier that On Three is not going to market it after all, so he’s looking for a new pub- lisher. (JW/AppleFest) Well, I think he's waiting on CIS to settle the GIF stan dard anyway. (Andy - Sweden) I'm ina sofa, with feet on the coffe table, the GS is connected to 27" TV! (JW/AppleFest) Wow! That must be ee for video games! pple2000) Got a pair of fleld glasses as well? (Andy - Sweden) Well Granny is not to keen on Arkanoid. (Elsby) Is Andy that short-sighted? (JW/AppleFest) Cheung Ma says his high point was seeing a 40 meg hard card for the IIgs and //e. From the Ingenuity folks. (LM/AppleFest) Marc Farnum Rend- ino says the high point for him was meeting Glen Bredon. (JW/AppleFest) Meeting Glen was certainly a major point, yes. (JW/AppleFest) Irwin Pamess. a pas- serby, says the high point has been being able to speak to the people who create the products. (Apple2000) We get the impression here in the UK that Glen must never leave his keyboard (JW/AppleFest) Loren brought a Minicamand ComputerEyes, and has been digitising MAUGers. We hope to upload some pics oon (JW/AppleFest) I asked Glen how big the source code is these days, and he indicated by holding his hands one over the other almost a foot apart. He did say he hasn't printed it out re- cently. (Shawn) Hello, World-wide folks! (LM/AppleFest) Shawn is logged on with a museum plece. (Bill Dooley) Hello from Escondido, near San Diego. (Shawn) I'm across the street at the MAUG hotel (JW/AppleFest) Not to be confused with the Macintosh Inn. :-) (Apple2000) Using two tin cans and string Shawn? (Shawn) Nope, an Apple Lisa (or MAC xL) (Shawn — MAUG Zoo) Glen Is at the booth last time I looked (Glen Bredon) (JW/AppleFest) He's not here at the moment. (Shawn — MAUG Zoo) Probably went to fix some code (JW/AppleFest) Just adding an auto- matic coffee maker and disk swapper for 8.48. :-) (Apple2000) The Zip GSI gather is not going to appear for some time. any comments anyone? (the Dutch...) LM — did Apple leave anything behind like 2 new disks? (JW/AppleFest) Somehow, I don't think so. (Shawn — MAUG Zoo) Looking for Glen, right? (the Dutch...) Yeah it's for the instant ProSel beer cooler fix! Or maybe a conversion form Apple to Pepsi. Has any Apple official been beaten lately on this fest? ) (LM/AppleFest) We can't find Apple Officials... ai (JW/AppleFest) No Apple officials here. Not stupid! Oh, Larry and I saw the GS+ yesterday. Yes, I spelled it right! (Corey) Huh... (Andy - Sweden) GS+ the magazine or the MACHINE?? (Corey) GS +? (LM/AppleFest) It was the magazine, not the computer. (Andy - Sweden) Don't joke about thing like that JW :-) (Corey) How does the Magazine look, BTW (bill) what is the latest level for the ORCA software (JW/AppleFest) Can you be specific, Bill? Which package? We'll ask. (the Dutch...) ORCA-still firmly on place. oh yeah they have Zaplink.. (JW/AppleFest) MFR says ORCA/C is still in B11, unreleased. ORCA/CO- BOL is not out yet. :-) (Shawn — MAUG Zoo) What about ORCA/Fortran? (bill) we got the lot except for RES recently (Apple2000) How about ORCA/Ap- pleSoft Basic? (bill) and the shell says its 1.0B (JW/AppleFest) MDBasic is selling (Shawn — MAUG Zoo) Where? I want to buy it (JW/AppleFest) I think ORCA/Apple- soft is waiting for ORCA/Integer BASIC first. (the Dutch...) hahahahha (Shawn — MAUG Zoo) No, I mean I want to get MDBasic...is itavailable at (Apple2000) Thougt pple2000) Thought so. I suppose that we shall see the 13 sector single sided disk before we see Mac disk support on an FST! (Andy - Sweden) JW Does HS 2.1 compiles to stand-alone stacks? (JW/AppleFest) I'm not sure, but I think there is a separate run-time module to do that. We think it’s a separately available product, proba- 8 eG Apple2000 June 1990 bly doesn't cost much Itself, if any- thing, but stacks you create with it are free if the stack is distributed noncommercially, $100 license fee if uu sell it. dy - Sweden) Uhm... ouch. Was hoping for ready to run stacks. (JW/AppleFest) They'll be there be- fore long. As soon as this winds down,.... (Corey) How big is the HHGTM stack completed? (JW/AppleFest) The HHGTM stack is between 1 and 1.5 megs complete. It fits on two floppies now! The individ- ual stacks are small enough that it works on a one meg machine still. (the Dutch...) JW tell us about the new memory card. (JW/AppleFest) It's supposedly DMA- compat (Shawn asked), costs about $90, goes to4 meg with 1 ee It's called GS-Sauce or something like that. From the SSSI (Gen: ) people. (the Dutch...) Do they sell Genesys right now? (JW/AppleFest) Dutch, I think so. I didn’t see any packages, but Shawn says they have a few under the counter they will sell if asked. (Andy/Sweden) Huhu, Granny want's the TV... Eurovision song contest now on. Back granny, No put away the hatchet... No.... arrg.. (JW/AppleFest) Great timing, Andy! (Andy/Sweden) Hooray, beat her to the Uzi. can be online for a bit more now, hehe (JW/AppleFest) MFR says MIDI Synth is a tool, it will be on a System Disk. (JW/AppleFest) It's “released offi- cially in beta.” Available from APDA for something like $20 Comes with a development tool that lets you create ur own sequences. And it kicks mutt! (AFest Chicago) Ask someone if they've seen an Apple II CD. :) I read the report on SHRC 2.7. Sounds much easier to use. (JW/AppleFest) Not so much easier as more flexible and capable. The same functions take the same efforts, but there are a lot of new functions and conversions. Some great fea- tures! Jason does nice wor! (LM/AppleFest) The only thing that’s easier is looking at big pictures that need to scroll. (AFest Chicago) Can it convert a MacPaint file with a $0000 auxtype? umes the auxtype still be changed, it? (JW/AppleFest) I don’t know offhand, . Peter suggested that the pic of Glen should be the next ProSel-16 startup screen. :-) (Apple2000) Great, it is always an amazin; rience to see what leg- ends Took lke! . (AFest Chicago) I need a picture of Glen for my shrine. (LM/AppleFest) Hi, FTA!!! (Andy-Sweden) Bon soir FTA (LM/AppleFest) FTA—your demos have been in lots and lots of booths! (FTA) What's new overseas? (Andy-Sweden) FTA - I run all your pro; is at a user group meeting today. They all loved your work!! Q This was a choice selection of over twoand a half hours of chat. Itwas an addictive experience and one that Apple2000 will certainly do again! ¢ The Show Report O The following ts taken from a series of reports filed “live” from the AppleF- est held in Somerset, NJ from May 4 to 6, 1990. The report centers on the activities and observations of interest to mem- bers of MAUG{(R), the Micronetworked Apple User Group on the CompuS- erve Information Service. Where MAUGers go, there is ada fun! During the course of the show, I had the help of several MAUGers in as- sembling this, including Mike Enar- son, David Winograd, Robert Rosen- berg, Peter Chin, Shawn Goodin, Ray Merlin, Kathryn Beth Willig, Larry Miller, Merry Perry, Marc Farnum Rendino, Loren Damewood, Gene Whitehouse, Robert Rosenberg, Gary Utter, and David Alden. DAY ZERO - THURSDAY, 03 MAY 90 Greetings from the AppleFest/ ComputerFest/BusFest! It's Thurs- day, traditionally known as “Raid the Fest Day.” This raid, as you will see, was not much of a challenge. EMI (formerly Cambridge Market- ing, and now Exposition Manglement or some such) is on the Job, and the security forces are in place and living up to the standards they have repeat- edly set and maintained down through the years. The MAUG Zoo Is established in the Holiday Inn across the street from the Center, which makes moving back and forth easy. No waiting on the shuttle buses! The MAUG booth (which was prom- ised to be in a beautiful location but somehow got moved into an urban renewal zone) is next to the Quality Computers booth, and two spots down from the Apple IIgs Buyer's Guide booth. The appearance of the latter came as quite a surprise to the GSBG staffers in attendance, most of whom were not notified that the GSBG was going to be there. (That booth later got relocated as well, and we learned that the people manning the booth were folks we'd never heard of. Strangely, by about halfway through Saturday, they were gone anyway.) An interesting thing about the Quality booth ts that the sign on the booth originally read Zip Technology, and Quality had previously an- nounced that they were not planning to attend this Fest. We don't know the whole story on this, but somehow Quality ended up with the booth. Things not seen: Apple booth, Ap- June 1990 Apple2000 plied Engineering, Claris, Chuck's Big Pencils, Zip Tech, and helium. New things seen: Lots of non-Apple stuff (who cares?), the new issue of the Apple IIgs Buyer's Guide (which isa rp ad tn Sp featuring the Mac SE _and_ the Apple Ilgs. The IIgs photo ts er), the CDA “Serial Number Removal" booth... Nope Wagner was sctting up his booth, and had the little touch-screen kiosk set up running a HyperStudio stack that lets Festgoers locate booths and subjects of interest. pene out the kiosk, Kathryn Beth noted a subject named “Online Services,” and hit the button to see the list. GUESS WHICH SERVICE WAS MISSING FROM THE LIST, We gave Roger some serious hell about this, and made him correct the oversight on the spot. After things were pretty well to- gether at the MAUG booth (with the usual Cambridge-type flair for thor- oughness, our three rented GS's are missing one CPU with a SCSI card and two modem cables), we all ad- journed over to the Zoo and from there, caravaned over to Catari's for Italian food and good times. DAY ONE - FRIDAY, 04 MAY 90 Activity at the MAUG booth was lively from the start. We had people coming in all day. asking all sorts of questions. Some samples: “What does that MAUG thing stand for?” “How do I join?" “Is this the CompuServe booth?" “Is this one of those things you have tobuya modem to use?” “Is this NAUG?" “I have a CompuServe account, how do I join your Forum?" And so on. Variations were endless. Some folks had short questions, oth- ers needed a half hour or so to deal with. Having two online-capable machines handy really helped; we were able to actually show some ee le how to do something they adn't figured out. We opened the booth with no sign; the official one hadn't arrived yet. We found a “Hello, my name is...” sticker, wrote MAUG on it in big letters, and stuck it up on the back curtain. Looked great. Later, a slightly larger sign appeared, We picked up a dot- matrix printed banner somewhere mentioning MAUG and Apple II pro- ductivity. Then Neil Laubenthal ar- rived with a banner he had printed up for us that expanded the MAUG acro- nym and listed the “best place” motto. It must have been confusing for some Festgoers who, upon passing by more than once, probably thought we hada lot of booths. The missing components from yes- terday arrived, and we spent some time trying to get all three GS's up and running at once. At various times throughout the day, the machines ran telecomm Poe eaey as we appeared live online and demonstrated the Forum, the @e 9° “Hitchhiker's Guide to MAUG" Hyper- Studio stack, and a demo of a super new SHRConvert version (no, it’s not out yet. yell at Jason please). Some- times, MAUGers with new software toys would fire them up andrun them as well. The diversity of the screen displays seemed to help get attention; people would stop in tosee what in the world we were doing. The SHRConvert version men- tioned above was 2.7b1, and was not released outside the MAUG staff. It was provided by Jason as a demo of the version 3.0 yet to come. Several new features were apparent. includ- ing easy (and FAST) mouse-based scrolling of tall pictures, zoom to 4x. conversions from Amigas and some other new formats, import & export of Finder icons, capture of TDM 40- and 80-column screens, flexible size and aspect adjustment, cropping, print- ing, and much much more. All the file utilities (delete, rename, redefine type, etc.) are now combined into a single dialog box: pick a file and pick what you want todo with it. There was a lot more to this extensive revision, and we hope to see the release of the new package before the too-distant future. Oh, and the AOL Sysops came by and saw it and got this REAL pungy look in their eyes. They wanted it No, they didn’t get it, The panel sponsored by MAUG on Personal Productivil ising Your Apple went moderately well, Robert Rosenberg couldn't find the location for the panel and he walked in while Larry Miller was discussing hard- ware. Robert also nearly fell off the rear of the speaker's platform (hey, it was dark, there wasn't much room, and noone could make out whoany of the panelists were anyway). Robert was also upstaged just a tiny bit by Fox's discussion of desktop publishing. Shawn apologized for the sound of his voice (which grew worse as the day went on) and commented that “he must've caught a virus from his computer.” He spoke on telecom- munications, mentioning both com- mercial services and local BBS sys- tems. Gary Utter discussed pro; launchers and hard disks and Perry compared database 4 David Winograd showed up to moderate the panel and to show off his expen$ive $uit. Major problems seemed to center around the quality of the sound system, the noise of the bes I Py and the inability of the nie fol to get enou; it to videotape us. ee The show crowds weren't exactly huge. but considering that this was a work day, the number of people that were there portends well for the rest of the Fest. Two EMI reps, when asked, said the turnout was “better than expected.” Larry Miller showed up early in the day, and Glen Bredon stopped by to erry say hello. He had along a number of ProSel-16 disks, which he would happily swap for an original disk, should you happen to have yours along. Anyway, MAUGers were most pleased to meet Glen for the first time. as many have long believed he didn't exist anyway. He does, and so does Mike Dodge. But that’s another story. Michael Fischer came by several times during the day to say hello. Roger Wagner came by to see if any- one had a copy of the Utilities disk for the new SCSI card. Whoops! On the subject, HyperStudio 2.1 is now out and around, and shows a number of obvious visible differences from its iprodecesonrs. As nee free upgrade from 2.0, expect it to become the standard very quickly. This is important, as 2.1-saved stacks can- not be loaded by 2.0. Shawn convinced Pam Wagner to give him a 2.1 update disk, but she made him promise to provide his HyperStudio disk serial number no later than tomorrow or face a future with the Vienna Boy's Choir. Roger’s booth was busy all day, one of the busiest at the show. Apple users as well as users of those alien machines were captivated by the scenes they were seeing. Roger was also selling some new clip art and stack disks, Stack Central demo disks, and his other utilities of course. Well, here we are in the fifth para- graph in a row about Roger Wagner. so that should cue you in to what's coming next. Could it be? Is that what it looks like? After last September's AppleFest, many of the Speakers and direct par- ticipants received an apparently per- sonal letter thanking us individually for being the single most important person the show (or something along that line). In the letter, mention was made that the crowd of “nearly 20.000" was “the largest ever at an AppleFest.” Today, Larry found some show literature that mentioned that over “its past five shows, AppleFest has drawn an average of 26,000 at- tendees to each one.” Think about that. Loren stopped by the Prodigy booth, and told a rep hos he recall im- pressed with the software, and wanted to see the Apple II version. The rep told him there wasn’t one, and there was no intention of making any. When asked why, he went into the usual spiel about how the Apple II was dead, noone ras buying or interested in buying Apple II so! , and soon. Loren said, “That's too bad, I'd sure like to buy an Apple II version of your software.” “You and a lot of other people.” Loren told him to think about what he had just said. At the Quality Computers booth, three packages happened to be dis- played next to each other: Publishit 3, GraphicWriter III, and the 8 MHz Zip Chip. Sort of a Famous Vaporware Expo. We checked at several dealers, and surprisingly none of them seem to have any CompuServe startup kits. Unfortunate. as we have had several folks express a desire to pick one up. Peter discovered an antereatine freebie most of us would have missed. On an unattended table, there was a stack of 8x10 green envelopes adver- tising "a sweet deal from Commo- dore.” Peter discovered that inside the envelope were nice little packages of Jelly beans (along with promotional material for some kind of computer). The Thunderware folks were bor- rowing a part of Roger's booth to demonstrate the Lightning Scanner. They had this hysterical pamphlet that pictured a scan ofa woman's face labeled “Lightning Scan.” The same picture was right below it, labeled “Thunderscan.” Looked about the same. Under that was another scan labeled “Quickie.” It was little more than a thick black outline of her face. The fellow was demonstrating the device, and it appeared to work quite well, generating nice 640-mode B&W scans quic’ and easily. He was scanning and loading the scans into HyperStudio. Genesys apparently is shipping. Many told us so, and their literature implies so, but we couldn't find any Genesys packages at their booth. BEHIND EVERY ZIPPER... Late in the day, someone noticed the name tag on a fellow standing at the Broderbund booth (directly across the aisle from us). The tag read “Tony Vece.” No Zip booth, but Zip ople! He did not stop by the MAUG th at all. Anyway, he and another gentleman from Zip were removing a cover from a GS in the Broderbund booth. They got the cover off, and removed an interesting looking interface card from the machine. The card was shaped a lot like a well-known GS accelerator card from another manu- facturer, and had a ribbon cable lead- ing to an obvious 65-series micro- processor pin array. hey put itintoa box and left the booth for parts un- known. Peter got a good look at it at another booth, and reports that it is clearly a wire-wrapped proto and still tends to crash easily in certain combinations. Running for the checkbook yet Kathryn Beth Willig spoke with the Seven Hills people, and learned that they are working on Ilgs drivers for the H-P DeskJet and DeskJet Plus laser printers. When? They don't know. How much? They don’t know. “Maybe September.” Bets? INTERLUDE One of the advantages of having machines available on the show floor is that we can check in and see the latest messages and to some extent maintain conversations about cur- o oe Applie2000 June 1990 rent events in the show. In an early logon, we discovered a message had been posted by Bob Consorti in response to the earlier reports. Bob was particularly sur- prised by the story about the Zip GS, saying, “I'm quite surprised that Zip isn’t showing their Zip GS board. Two weeks ago at the National Apple Users Group meeting in Chicago, Zip had a booth and was passin; out a flyer on the 8 mhz Zip GS that they were ‘RELEASING’ at Ap- pleFest in NJ.” Well, some of us weren't surprised. There was already a reply posted to that message, from Ed Floden. Ed commented that on another online service, Vece had been pepe oe nouncing that Zip Tech would be displaying their wire-wrapped proto- type at AppleFest.” Gary Utter, who wasat the Fest, ran across Vece and the mythical vapor- board, and engaged him in conversa- tion without identifying his MAUG affiliation. As Gary later put it, "He showed me the board, let me hold it and examine it up close. The chi count is quite low, and the board itself is much smaller than a [TransWarp GS]. Tony SUGGESTED that they anticipate eventually being able to put it on a chip. He stated that it only draws a few milliamps. as opposed to two or three amps like ‘some other cards’ that he said (with a sly smile) that he could not name. He then went on to state that Zip did not intend to ship their cards with anything so unfriendly as a ROM chip that needed to be updated by the manufacturer. No no no... will do the configu- ration with any of the following: NDA, CDA, CDEV or a System program. ALL of these will be shipped on a disk, and in addition, the card will have a set of DIP switches, so the user can configure it manually, and never have to worry about it again. (MUCH better Ka what some OTHER cards use, eh?)” Referring to the show's lack of new products, Shawn told Ken, “Ingenu- ity, INC had a couple of interesting things at Barney [Stone]'s booth— a 40 meg hard disk on a card for the II, and their C drive for the //c. I also noted very little from IBM or Commo- dore, though Commodore had a nice booth. I think this indicates that EMI may have misjudged the audience here, did not do sufficient planning or marketing for this fest (witness the lack of vendor participation and the sound/lighting problems of the semi- nars), and disappointed many folks who attended. The Fest was fair to r, not the best one in the world, ut not as bad as it could have been. While we high-powered users tend to attend for the ean pe value, many others come for education that they can receive and be able to talk to the ‘movers and shakers‘ in the industry.” GARY'S REVIEW OF THE APPLEF- EST: First the bad points, there were no significant new hardware or software releases. The conferences were we INED by the r lighting and terrible pace de And there aoe an absolute DEARTH of decent souvenirs! Even the memorabilia that was for SALE stank. The people that sell Apple lo stuff to dealers and citizens could have made a FORTUNE with a booth. (Yes. I'm sorry, but it's true, neat souvenirs can ALMOST make up for no hardware or software.) Now the GOOD points... I had a wonderful time. It was it meeting eve! , even tho no one (ex- cept Tony Vece, of course) was any- thing like what I expected. I got to spend lots of time talking to almost all my friends and made several new ones. I got to spend a bunch of time talking to people like Dave Hill and George Wilde, planting the seeds of new features. And I especially en- Joyed my chat with Neil. And the low attendance had ONE good point, less competition for prizes! While I was busy bein) Se booth and the crowd, Susan was busy entering drawings, and we came away with $400 worth of software. On the whole, quite satisfying. Since this was my first Fest, I don't really have a basis for comparison. so lamnotas disappointed as I might be, heck. I LOVED IT TO DEATH! DAY TWO - SATURDAY, oF. MAY 90 Hello again from the AppleFest! Da Two is in the archives, and the MAUGers are tired but hanging in there. Still one day to go! Today was substantially different from yesterday. Not being a school or workday, Saturday brought out people en masse. This was one crowded Fest! Glen Bredon stopped by again this morning. Seems that Loren had immediately spotted a bug in ProSel- 16 8.47, which Glen had brought by yesterday. Today Glen had a fixed 8.47 for us already. He hung around the booth for a while rapping with the crowd. He took a for a while and showed us how the new ProSel Seotahnent calendar works. Loren showed him a way to crash ProSel with a tactical application of TDM (Loren says that technique is Finder- hazardous as well). The booth was incredibly crowded during the time Glen was there; word got around. After he'd left, some GEnite folks came by, asking if it was true that The Master had been there. When we told them it was so, they looked a lot like the AOL people who had seen SHRConveri 2.7b1 yesterday. The big thing for the day was the First International MAUG Online Conference. It started about 2:00pm Eastern time and didn't wind down until just after 5:00. It was kind of Eiteseotin to watch the aa saeltr, started out consisting o1 ol and Larry, on ss oe about two feet apart. Then Andreas Wennborg signed in from Sweden, widening the scope of the CO considerably in one shot. Then Dave Gair pop, in from Los Angeles, and we were widespread indeed! There were up to 15 members in conference at a time, from such di- verse places as Los Angeles, Chicago, Sweden, England and Holland. We had two machines online in the th, and during the CO both Peter and Shawn happened to make trips back to their hotel rooms, and logged on from there. At one time we had four local machines on! On a couple of occasions, someone would ask about a certain product or if a certain acquaintance was in a nearby booth. If we didn’t have the answer offhand, we'd dispatch some- one to find out. It was a neat way to allow MAUGers to participate in the Fest even though they weren't here. Larry and | had some fun at one point when there were only a couple of users in the conference; asked what was the most interesting thing we'd seen, we told them it was the GS+, which we and Shawn had seen Fri- day. After they choked for a while, we mentioned and that we were referring to the magazine by that name, which has a booth here. Won- der what they were thinking of? ALIEN MINDS... Synnovation was demonstrating (at a user group booth) a prototype of their TurboRez graphics board for the GS; looked real impressive, but clearly it's not ready to ship. Their literature mentioned that they're aiming for a September release, though they’re not committing them- selves to that date. The Ingenuity folks had a demo of two products, the internal hard disk for the //c, and a “hard card” hard disk on a card for the IIgs and //e. Neither is shipping yet. Ikept sying to stop by and say hello to Mike Westerfield at the Byte Works booth, but he always had a crowd of hackers about, and all were talking in hex. Hard to get his attention: had to pop a flashbulb tn his face to get him to look up long enough to say hi! Tom Weishaar is here, and is often seen walking about the show floor and talking to anyone who says hello. Shawn spoke with him, and Tom graciously invited the MAUG folks to the GEnie party for tonight. Marc found a “computer furniture” booth with a IIgs set up (it was one of those tables where you look thru a glass plate on the tabletop to see the computer display underneath), Marc was taking pity on these folks. as they had absolutely no software to run on the machine, not evena System Disk. So Marc gave them one. Andy Nicho- las came over to do a Shrinkit GS June 1990 Apple2000 Sen demo, and the fellow in the booth lamented that he did not understand what was going on with his comput- ers. Mare was ly impressed with the demo. DAY THREE - SUNDAY, 06 MAY, 1990 Sunday wasn't as packed as Satur- day. There were a LOT less people present on the last day of the show. Miller and I happened into the Commodore booth and asked for a demo of the new 3000. The rep spenta half of the “demo” telling us how bad Apple is and how Apple designed the Macintosh and how Apple wasted its ROM space by putting a picture of the design team within it (he really emphasized that one) and so on. The demo consisted of showing us how windows work on the pee Slightly different than the Apple desktop interface, but mostly familiar. It moved smoothly, looked very pretty and sort of NeXT-like, and allowed easy icon editing on the fly, and could even make windows larger than the screen. Over at the Beagle booth, a couple of recent TimeOut releases, TextTools and MacroEase, were being show- cased, but due to bad timing. I couldn'tseem to hit the place ata time when someone was available to demo either of them. They both looked in- teresting, particularly TextTools, which Mark Munz described to me as “a way to make you feel really lazy in the AppleWorks word processor.” At Barney Stone's booth, a fellow from Ingenuity was showing proto- oftwo interesting products. One was an internal ora ¢ hard disk for the //c. This nifty little package re- places the //c internal drive (the demo machine was a IIc+, but the drive will work with either //c model). The removed drive. either 5.25 or 3.5, can be placed into an optional exter- nal case and chained from the smartport. Just the thing for the traveling Apple user! Shipping? Don't know. “Real Soon Now.” “As soon as we get the parts in.” Sounds a little familiar. The other product was a hard disk ona card for the //e and Ilgs models. Very light, very small. Didn't get any details, and no idea how far it is from shipping, but I have a feeling it'll do well. Barney Stone later corrected this for me: “The Ingenuity C-Drive is 20, not 40 megabytes (they may do a 40 later on), and is already shipping in limited quantities. We should have some soon. The price is $499. The boricdge is pe megabytes, it's a red weeks ai from shipping, and t price will be $699." The Triad folks, makers of GDL, the Graphic Disk Labeler, were taking up some space at Roger Wagner's booth, on the ImageWriter II with a color ribbon. At least one merry MAUGer bought one. Neil Shapiro appeared at the MAUG booth in late maw 8 and everyone was glad to see him. He brought along the whole family, and they seemed to have a good time too. Tom Weishaar, Oli Roosevelt and Kent Fillmore— t and present Sysops on compet- Ing ayaterna— all got a chance to that with him. Neil seemed pleased with the way things were going in the booth, and took some time to wander about the show and see what there was to see. Twilight Zone occurrences: You may know there are two Peter Chins that tend to show up at these things. Ours, and “the other one.” Well, on Sunday Larry and I were walking about the show when we ran into Peter Chin. Peter asked if we knew where Peter Chin was. We pointed at the MAUG booth. Peter immediately took off in the other direction... Larry and | are still puzzling over that one. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS: The dealer booths appeared to be doing brisk business throughout the show. Quality Software, next to the MAUG booth, never seemed to have a moment without at least a small crowd around it. In reality, the show itself, consid- ered asanational-class Apple II show, was a major letdown. It was very small, the keynote speakers really had nothing to do with the Apple II, the show was promoted asa mult le- machine show in which the Apple II would be grudgingly permitted to participate, Apple itself didn’t bother to show, and most of the major Apple Il publishers and manufactures skipped it. Had I spent money to travel to, stay near, eat during, and attend this show with no connection toa ie or other show operation, I'd be aw! angry about now. It really would se have been worth it. The floor space of the entire build- ing was about the same as the exhibit floors at the last couple of AppleFests, but there were no separate class- rooms at all, so the seminars were heldon the show floor in curtained-off areas. Further, about half of the remaining space was taken up by the food concession and two large cur- tained offareas that contained NOTH- ING. There were four and one half aisles of exhibitors, and just over half of these were Apple II related. That's right, the Apple Il managed to domi- nate the show even though EMI tried real hard to attract everyone BUT the Apple II folks. Nonetheless, I have the feeling that the upcoming Arizona Apple Fiesta is ‘oing to be significantly larger than show (with respect to the Apple II and Macintosh). even evident at the show! Sure, there were Macs at a few booths (even the Beagle Bros booth), but there were very very few (if any) Mac-specific booths present. Nor were there that many MS-DOS based displays; IBM itself (Northern NJ Marketing Group or some such) hada large booth set up with a couple of dozen PS/2's running, but there was no significant interest in it. We never saw more than a few IBM em- ployees and maybe two or three at- tendees standing around in it. In contrast, the “AppleFest Hands-On“ booth, featuring as many Apple II and Macintosh computers, was always crowded, with people sometimes standing in line to use an Apple. Atari? Invisible. If there was any- thing Atari-related at the show, | didn't see it. And I did look, though not that hard. The “generic” booths, stressing no particular computer type (dealers, the Nada-chair folks, educational organizations, etc) seemed to have some interest, though more than one MAUGer noted that at the dealer booths, the Apple software had the only crowds around, and the IBM and other stuff was pretty much ignored. The Commodore booth seemed to be the only non-Apple booth that really generated interest. Clearly, even though EMI adver- tised the non-Apple aspects of the show to Apple users, they must have somehow sent the message to the non-Apple people that it's an Apple show. At least, that’s how it appeared. It would be hard to recommend this show to anyone outside of MAUG or some organization with a separate reason to be there. A local resident would have a worthwhile time, but travel from halfway or more across the country would be hard to justify. Peter Chin said, “If it wasn't for the MAUG booth, we'd be bored to death.” Ken Buchholz spent two hours look- ing about the place and left in disgust. While Peter and I were talking to Mike Dodge. a Festgoer stepped up and asked Dodge if the show floor was the entire show; when Doce informed him that it was so, the fellow began to express extreme disappointment and chagrin; Peter and I remembered we had to be somewhere else. AppleFest is headed downhill. Since they've been trying to reduce Apple II involvement and increase the number of machines involved in the show, it's been getting smaller and smaller. I'd sure like to see a national App Ilshow, and I believe it woulddo quite well. Of course, the show was a great sucess for MAUG and MAUGers! As long as we're going there as a group. the trip will Se yectirehiic pee: See you at the next one! demonstrating their program and Incidentally, have you noticed a This report has been edited down printing lots of colorful disk labels lack of mention of the Mac in these _from the full text version to be found made from ligs graphics and printed _ reports? That's because it was barely on MAUG e 2 @ Apple2000 June 1990 lnSyuder OO = A new dawn The dawn of a new decade heralds the arrival of an exciting new concept in hard disk technology. In true future spirit, Cirtech’s pioneering design team brings you InSyder, a slot-in hard disk card for the Apple //. InSyder simply plugs into a standard slot in the Apple //e or IIGS — there’s NO power supply replacement, NO noisy fan and NO awkward cables! InSyder is fully compatible with GS/OS, ProDOS and the major operating systems. And with direct hardware access and full disk caching, InSyder supplies the performance demanded by the serious Apple user. Available in 20 and 40 Megabyte capacities, InSyder also provides a full feature SCSI port, supporting external devices. You can even share an external hard disk with up to seven other users. An optional Printer Adaptor also allows you to connect a parallel printer without losing valuable slot space! InSyder’s superior specification provides the totally integrated solution for the needs of the dedicated Apple user. InSyder — the dawn of the future! InSyder 20 Megabytes — £488.00 InSyder 40 Megabytes — £588.00 (Prices exclude VAT) CELE CI) wr ome CIRTECH (UK) Limited, Currie Road Industrial Estate, Galashiels, Selkirkshire, TD1 2BP, Scotland Telephone: (0896) 57790 Telex: 9312130256 (CI G) / Smart Money GS John Beattie takes a look at an accounting package for the Ilgs A little knowledge may be a danger- ous thing, but sometimes too much knowledge can be a real pain in the neck. It seemed obvious to me that, as an accountant, I was ideally sulted to review this Financial Manager pack- age from Sierra On-line. It is ProDOS 16 based; installs on a hard disk and is full of useful features such as graphs. However, in the same way as I imagine a trained musician would find many music moat pro, to be confusing, I found I had problems with Smart Money GS due to its very ease of use. It reminded me of the 3 rules: if something doesn't work - hit it; if it still doesn't work - try a new battery; and, finally, if all else fails, read the instructions. I know none of Sisee would ignore the manual, but ing an accountant with 25 years cxperlenee made me think | knew it Smart Moncy GS (there is a //e and//c version, but I haven't seen them) lets you set up accounts, record transactions and prepare statements showing income and expenditure and net worth among other things, all through pull down menus and mouseclicks. The program almost follows the Apple stan for ae stroke equivalents, although I would have preferred Open Apple-O to open a file, rather than to start up the Automatic Transactions portion of the program. Making a mistake like this will not, however, cause any problems and can easily be stepped back from. To start you off on the right foot, there is a tutorial which, with a demo file provided on the program disk, | would advise you to run through. It covers all aspects of the program and explains clearly what is happening at each stage. In any case, the program has been written so that errors (should you make them) can be cor- rected easily. The electronic equiva- lent of tearing a loose leaf sheet out of the book or using Tipp-ex to hide a mistake is important in any package like this. In addition to all the ted fea- tures ofan accounting package, there are 2 extra headings on the menu bar, 14 Planning and Miscellaneous. “Planning” gives access to small but useful features to calculate Loan Amortization (the calculation of re- payments showing their component capital and interest parts), Com- pound Interest and Annuities, plus a Calculator which ts very rudimentary indeed. Under the heading “Miscellaneous” on the Menu Bar, there are a number of useful additions: Reconcile lets you check off items, particularly in a bank, credit card or building society account to make sure that your fig- ures and theirs agree; Graphs lets you easily show (and print) bar charts of accounts information. plotting actual against budgets and showing last ‘ar’s figures if required, on a month month basis; Print Checks would low American users to print out cheques to creditors but 1am not sure if this is allowable under British banking rules; New Year creates a new file but brings forward balances on all asset and liability accounts, setting things up easily for the new year; Extend File allows you to make Toom in your data file by deleting all the transactions which you no longer need; Import File lets users of older versions import files; Export Files allows a file to be saved in the DIF format which lets AppleWorks users open it and manipulate the data in any way they want; Preferences lets you specify and save to disk informa- tion about your printer. As in all the pull down menus, the last item is “About........” and gives considerable help in context in each case, Reports, either in the formats given with the program or made up by the user, can be printed out or displayed using various criteria for the informa- tion to be sorted on: dates, accounts, types of transactions etc. As | said above, files can also be exported to AppleWorks and the information manipulated there. Appendices to the main reference manual include a very sensible a sonal note from the President of Si- erra On-Line which gives a wealth of down to earth advice including the classic “Don't panic”. He includes one or two tips which only a very ri- enced ea hares nae ete te and 8 ste; step through t uma er trying to reconcile a bank account. A further appendix sets out some commonly used accounting and fi- nancial terms with clear explanations of their meanings. There are a couple of things I didn't like: the dates are in American format and, while this is obvious once you're past the 12th ofeach month, it can be annoying to type in the wrong date -a minor point and one which could surely easily corrected. Smart Money GS was designed primarily as a personal financial and bookkeeping package rather than as a medium to record the transactions of a small business, so the reports and graphs assume that your year runs from January to December. If this is not the case, this can lead to some strange looking graphs and printouts. al- though as long as you remember the problem, it may spoil the look of the bs po but it isn’t fatal. Personally, I feel that the convenience of installii itona hard disk and the mouse b: interface make it very usable and while it may not awe eect designed to accommodate a small business, with a bit of forethought and planning when adding new accounts, {it can easily be used to do so. Smart Money GS needs an Apple Ilgs with a minimum of 512K of Ram. John Beattie « info Product : Smart Money GS Publisher : Sierra On-Line Available trom : MGA SoftCat 41 Cinque Port Street Rye East Sussex TN31 7AD 0797-226601 Price: £79.95 WYSIWYP Value : cee Performance : édde Documentation : édde Apple2000 June 1990 Memory Moan A concerted whinge about pre-GS memory management by Bryn Jones Memory Moan (Memory maps are simplified.) New Era When the }[e was introduced, it con- tained facilities for a 128k banked memory system. All you needed to implement this was an extended 80 column Old Era Using the un-extended 64k Jle was like using a ][ Plus with a language card. DOS3.3 and the graphics screens remained where they were. For historical reasons, the latter were stranded in the middle of main mem- ory. Graphics programs were put before them, after them, or wrapped around them. To add insult to injury, the graphics suffered from chronic MAN AUXILIARY LANG. CARD ProDOs. Peripheral WO Sys. Global Page Bi__ Global Page MAIN Basic Interpreter. Data MIC or $3 High Program. t High Res. (Main } Low Applesoft Program or Date, MIC. + Text. Thc Text. Butler. Stack. Zero Page. Fig t Under-utilised Auxi Menory. (Pros tin BASIC Syston} June 1990 colour anomalies. Solution? So Apple solved all this by placing a new, improved, graphics system to- tally in aux, right? Wrong! Instead. double high res. ar- rived. Something of an afterthought, it banked with standard res., and occupied the same central site in aux which had caused so much trouble in main before. There wasn't even any Applesoft support for it. See ProDOS (Fig. 1) Oh well, eventually they will give us a new operating system to utilise the banked memory, right? Wrong! Along comes ProDOS: it's not only hierarchical, it's HUGE. So they put it all in main memory! True they use the language card area, but there is still no more room for our programs than in 48k DOS3.3 days. Maybe enthusiasts don't write many big programs, but what about the developers? Ram Disk Wait a minute. Those crafty Apple chaps have solved all this by using aux. for a ram disk. At least you can instantly transfer code galore into what's left of main memory. All you need now is a lot of fancy ProDOS compilers with gepkics circumnavi- gation and overlay facilities to do it. Well there's Aztec C isn’t there! PS: Don't forget to put an 8k dummy file in / if you want to avoid having a hole bashed in your double res. auxiliary screen! More Banks So you add that AE/Checkmate memory expansion job, It's just more banks to swap with the one you've already got, but by installing a 65816 board as well, you can access the memory linearly too. All you need is an OS to support the new sixteen bit system. Rumour has it, the chap who was writing it went on his honey- moon, and returned to find GS's in the shops. Oh well, at least you can use sixteen bit assembler with eight bit languages (using ORCA/M 4.1) Isys rors supports it too, but thats about all. No DOS -in-the-wool Forth program- mer, he say: who needs DOS? It clut- ters up memory with a huge chunk of code, much of which remains unused by the average pro; anyway. ‘Just give me a super efficient driver to put Forth blocks on disk; I'll write the rest from scratch." Great idea, but what about the new driver needed for each new mass stor age device that comes along? MAIN AUXILIARY ANS cen Pus BUFFERS TPA Peripheral KO MAIN 48k ss CPIM Plus CPM rer o Utilities Program 3800H oS 3000H| High BBC Res? Basio 10004 Interpreter’ obooH Text. Text. System Page Page 0 Fig 2: Large TPA with banked OS. ( Cirtech CP/M+ & BBC Basic, } So let's try Cirtech's CP/M Plus. Now these chaps really know what they're doing. Main programmable memory (the Transient Program Area or TPA) starts at 0100Hex in AUXIL- IARY memory. It transfers to the main lan; ¢ card area for the last bit of memo! fore reaching the code which bank switches and calls the OS. The bulk of the OS is in main 48k ram. Result: A great big TPA. Granted CP/M Plus isn't hierarchical, but it does have 16 userareas. On any pesiculee drive, you only see those les which are applicable to your current area. General utility files can be kept in User 0 as ‘System’ files which are universally accessible. That's not bad at all. What's more, plenty of good compliers are available, and tons of PD software. At this point, the astute will see that the OS in main memory does not overlay the area where the video sys- tem expects to find standard res. graphics. Obviously, those Cirtech Apple2000 15 chaps will have Provides banhes phics support for selected inter- oe and compilers, right? Wrong! Theyve patches for MBASIC and GBASIC. The latter has it's interpreter wrapped around the parties area. This is for Apple graphics under standard CP/M, but should no longer be necessary for CP/ M plus (unless your providing double res, support) So it’s back to Apple J{ programmer's solution number one: Do it your ****** self. (I have, and it works) MAIN AUXILIARY LANG. CARD P Code Interprtr. Reserved tos Peripheral KO 48k SYSCOM' os RAM | program Steck, Data & 6502 Code | P Code meme i tees if J (Aux) Heap T Text. Text Buffers Evaluation ee || fee Tero Page Fig 3: Double Res. Piggy-in-the-Middle. (128k Pascal Perhaps this is Apple's ultimate solution. There is a 128k version which makes full use of banked memory. You can even squeeze seule resolution graphics into a le! It's a great juage wi fabulous Soentation infortu- nately the Apple Pascal OS is specific to the language, and is not exactly everybody's cup-of-tea. Nevertheless, many swear by it. It is a pity Apple no longer supports it, but who supports anything pre GS these days? Digisolve Why not banish that middle mem- ory bottleneck with Digisolve Graph- ics. Not only does this system provide vastly superior graphics for the | Plus/]le user, it uses it's own memory too. You can program it from any environment you care to choose. Just access the Digisolve registers via the input/output area. Of course. they stopped making it years ago, but keep ur eyes open for that second hand larga int What Now? Buy a GS? I'm still waiting for the Mac Ilex to come down to five hundred quid! Bryn Jones « The New London Telephone Codes SSE I, like I am sure many users, was faced with altering telephone num- bers on my address and other data- bases. However AppleWorks plus Ultramacros as so often can provide a very elegant solution. The series of macros set out below will make all the necessary amendments correctly for the various London exchanges. With the database in single record layout, and the cursor on the tele- phone number field, Solid. Apple Twill start the process. start T:<adb: onerr stop: begin: {loop through records} $9=cell: {capture current tel number} $l-left $9,2: {check if 01- exchange} if $1-"01" then sa-c: {subroutine to change number} else oa-down: {goto next record} endif: xpt>! C:<adb: {subroutine to change number} $2=mid $9,4,3: {current exchange number} $3—right §9,5: {current telephone number) $4 = left $2,2: {store first 2 digits exchange no} if $4 = “21” or $4 = “22” or $4 = “23” or $4 = “24” or $4 = “25” or $4 = “26” or $4 = “27” or $4 = "28" or $4 = “32” or $4 = “35” or $4 = “37” or $4 = “38” or $4 = 40” or $4 = “43” or $4 = “48” or $4 = “49” or $4 = “58” or $4 = “60” or $4 = “61” or $4 = “62” or $4 = “63” or $4 = “70” or $4 = “72” or $4 = “73” or §4 = “79” or $4 = “82” or $4 = “83” or $4 = “92” or $4 = “93” or $2 “473” ox $2 = “474” or §2 = "476" or $2 = “S11” or $2 = "512" or $2 = “515” or $2 = “537” or $2 = “538” or $2 = *976" or $2 = 978" or $2 = “987” {check exchange to change to 071} then sa-D: {subroutine for 071 exchange} else sa-E: {subroutine for 081 exchange) endif: sa-T>! D:<adb: oa-y: {clear current number} $5="071-"+$2+$3: {construct new number} print $S:rtn: {enter $5 as number) oa-down:oa-tab>! {goto next record in no field) E:<adb: oa-y: {clear current number} $5="081-"+$2+$3: {construct new number} print $S:rtn: {enter $5 as number) oa-down:0a-tab>! {goto next record in no field} 1 hope it may not be too late to save some members a lot of tedious work! Harvey Nyman « Apple Finder Update Softdisk For Apple II+, IIc, Ilgs and Laser 128 computers. Comments: Issue 99 contained:- Spanish Tutor: Print Shop Graphics; Font PFX - Prodos pathname utility; Tennis-Game; Appleworks lesson: Medical Expenses template; Sub Stalker - Game; Procopy - Prodos file copy command. Softdisk-GS Ilgs specific (768k minimum, 1.25 meg recommended). Comments: Issue 6 contained:- Puzzler - Super hi-res jigsaw puzzle maker; Menu Bar Clock - k Acces- sory; Spectrum Holobyte Solitaire le Review; Clip Art Jukebox - three songs; Atlantic - Font Mar- bleaire - Game: Greeting Card Tem plates for Appleworks GS. Q In addition both the above have readers’ letters, game clues and soon. They are both very good. The pro- grams work fine and the company are efficient. Both are available from: Softdisk Publishing P.O. Box 30008 Shreveport LA 71130-0008. Subscription rates: Payable to Softdisk Publishing, UK $27.95 for a 3 months trial offer which includes 1 free disk. (US funds Only) Or call 0101-318-221-8718 and quote a MasterCard or Visa number. 6 a @ Apple2000 June 1990 BIDMUTHIN New Products This Month Macintosh HP DeskWriter with APPLETALK PageMaker 4.0 Radius Pivot Monitor Apple Il New PC Transporter Bundle New 3.5" Drive for Ile Insyder 40Mb Call for details. Bidmuthin Technologies Ltd. Brent House 214 Kenton Road 2 Harrow Middx Tel: 081-907-8516 HA3 8BT Fax: 081-907-2756 NEW PRODUCTS June 1990 Apple2000 17 AppleXtr Q The second issue of the AppleXtras disk went more smoothly than the first. The only reported problem ts from those members who have still not upgraded to an en- hanced //e, they were unable to run some of the programs on the P8 disk. If you refer to the article by Alan Remu in the April 1990 issue of Apple2000, you see that the unenhanced // e was only sold for about 12 months from its introduction in 1983. Since 1984 the //e has only been released in its enhanced form sharing a software compatibility with the //cand the Iigs. However, many of the //e's in the UK were sold in that first 12 months, and there are quite a few that have still not been upgraded. Most of the new so! being released assumes that you have the enhancement fitted or you are running on a //c or IIgs. There are an increasing number of programs in the ProDOS library which require this enhancement. To enhance a //e you must c! e four chips. The CPU must be changed from a normal 6502 to a Rockwell R65CO02. There are other 65C02 chips around, but only the Rockwell one has the full enhanced instruction set re- quired by Apple software. Changing the CPU will allow much of the software requiring the enhancement to be run, but to get the full capability of an enhanced //e, the monitor Roms and character generator must also be changed. The enhanced Roms do not have the cassette tape routines but instead they re-introduce the mini-assem- bler. They also have a much enhanced 80 column scrollin; capability. The new character generator chip has the ful set of MouseText characters used by many of the newer programs. ‘Two routes are available for upgrading. Either you buy aready made kit oryou gt the chips and doit yourself. The original Apple upgrade kit is no longer available as new in the UK. You may however be able to find an odd kit in one of your dealers, but if this is not possible, try MGA for an enhancement kit or Eric Sausse (0724-855795) who may also be able to help. To do it yourself, you will needa Rockwell 65C02, three 2764 EPROM’s, an EPROM burner and either the source code for the chips or a friend with an already enhanced //e. I must emphasise that the code in these Rom's is the copyright of le, and may only be copied for use within an ical) 'e. The //e Rom's are not yet out of copyHeht. The 65C02 and blank chips may be obtained from Elec- tromail (0536-204555) or Maplin (0702-554155). OQ This months disks are described in the next columns. However I would like to mention that it is becoming increasingly impossible to make these disks completely ‘stand-alone’, and yet keep them fresh and up-to-date! On the IIgs disk we include a song for SoundSmith. The SoundSmith music program has not been released on the Xtras disks, but is available on 2GS029 or TABBS. Shrinkit is one of the most invaluable programs to be distributed as FreeWare. The new version on the igs Xtras disk should be used from now on for any shrunk files issued. Improvements in the NuFx process mean that files created with the new version may not extract under previous versions of Shrinkit Files on the P8 disks are onl: shrunk with the IPlus Shrinkit from the Xtras No. | disk. =WORDSEARCH SEO 130 8-MAY-90 =APPLE .UNIX SEO 33 8-MAY-90 =LONDON.CODES SEO 18 8-MAY-90 “GARFIELD BAS 17 «11-DEC-87 =PSEUDOFRACTAL BAS 1 18-APR-90 =CYBERFIND.1.1 BAS 11 31-JUL-88 MANDEL. SETS DIR 1 8-MAY-90 =MANSET . DOC TXT 22 1-APR-90 =MANSET BAS 12 31-MAR-90 SQUARE BIN 1 1-APR-90 =AW.SCREEN.MACRO AWP 71 + 22-DEC-89 =SON.OF.RAMSET BAS 3 17-MAR-90 /XTRAS.GS.NO.3/ =PRODOS sys 32 8-JUL-88 PROGRAMS DIR 1 8-MAY-90 =SHRINKIT302.BXY $EO 110 13-MAY-90 =DA.S DIR 1 8-MAY-90 ~SUPERINFO DIR 1 8-MAY-90 =SUPER. INFO $B8 Sl 4-MAR-90 =SI.YOUR1 TXT 3 4-MAR-90 =SI.YOUR2 TXT 1 4-MAR-90 =0S. ERRORS DIR 1 8-MAY-90 =0S.CALLS TXT 4 25-MAR-90 OS. ERRORS TXT 4 25-MAR-90 =PAINT.DA DIR 1 8-MAY-90 -D.T.PAINTER SBS 125 4-APR-90 =D.T.PAINT.NOTES TXT 17 4-APR-90 =KEYCAPS DIR 1 8-MAY-90 KEYCAPS22 $Be 47 27-JAN-90 =KEYCAPS . DOC AWP 10 27-JAN-90 =DFC.V1.3 DIR 1 8-MAY-90 =DFC.DOCS TXT 15 11-MAR-90 =DFC.NDA.V1.3 $B8 49 11-MAR-90 ALF DIR 1 8-MAY-90 ~WOWBASS $D8 12 30-JUN-89 =BASSDRUM. 2 $D8 8 30-JUN-89 =POPSNARE.2 $D8 10 30-JUN-89 ~KORG.FILTER $D8 8 24-JUN-89 =LASER $D8 52 17-SEP-89 YEAH $p8 18 30-JUN-89 “HIHAT2 $D8 6 10-AUG-89 =ALF $D5 16 8-DEC-89 =TECH.NOTES SEO 172 8-MAY-90 =GAMES: DIR 1 8-MAY-90 =BACKGAMMON: DIR 1 8-MAY-90 =BACKGAMMON $B3 131 28-DEC-88 =BG.V1.1.NOTES TxT 4 14-JAN-89 ~ONEARM. BXY TXT 602 10-MAR-90 “TITLE cl 65 8-MAY-90 =BOOT. SYSTEM sys 1 6-JAN-90 June 1990 Apple2000 ApplexXtras 5.25 ProDOS disk for the ligs, //e and //c The first three files on this disk must be unpacked with ShrinkIt from Xtras.P8.No.1. WORDSEARCH Wordsearch Version 3.0 - Wordsearch produces Wordsearch puzzles that help with vocabulary reinforcement for children. The program creates and prints puzzles up to 80 words. APPLE.UNIX Anix.System - A Unix like shell for ProDOS. You will need a working knowledge of Unix commands to operate within the shell. LONDON.CODES London.Codes - AppleWorks DataBase files with the new London codes. There is also a macro to convert to the new London phone numbers. GARFIELD Garfield - This will draw a HiRes picture of your favourite cat! PSEUDOFRACTAL PseudoFractal - A short and simple Basic program that draws fractal like objects. CYBERFIND.1.1 Cyberfind.1.1 - Finds files infected with the CyberAIDS or Festering Hate virus. MANDEL.SETS Manset - Generates MandelBrot sets on the Apple // series of computers. AW.SCREEN.MACRO AW.Screen.Macro - Saves snapshots of the AppleWorks screen to disk files. SON.OF.RAMSET Son.of.RamSet - An undocumented patch for AppleWorks to allow banks to be preserved for a Ram Disk. ONLY USE WITH A COPY OF APPLEWORKS. AppleXtras 3.5 ProDOS disk for the ligs Programs Folder SHRINKIT302.BXY ShrinkIt V3.02 - Unshrink to produce the latest version of this outstanding program. You should use this version of Shrinkit from now on as files we shrink using it will not extract with the older versions of the program. DA's - SUPERINFO Super.Info - An comprehensive NDA that gives you a great deal of useful information about your Ilgs. OS.Errors - Use these files instead of the Your’ files in the Su Info directory to display the GS/OS c: and errors descriptions. DA's - PAINT.DA D.T.Painter - A complete and comprehensive paint package in an NDA It will work under 320 or 640 resolution. DA's - KEYCAPS iaentr , . mr KeyCaps22 - Displays the complete character set available under an installed font. Allows you to see what characters you can obtain with the Option keys. DA's - DFC.V1.3 DFC.NDA.V1.3 - A useful file utility to copy, delete, view and otherwise work with files. Enhances any pro} to have these facilties available from the desktop. Music - ALF ALF - A music file and instruments to use with the music program SoundSmith. SoundSmith can be found on library disk 2GS029 or on TABBS. TECH.NOTES Technical Notes - The January set of Technical notes from Apple. This file contains many notes and needs to be extracted using Shrinkit. Games Folder Games - BACKGAMMON Backgammon - An excellent game of Backgammon. This program was written using TML Pascal. Games - ONEARM.BXY One Arm Battle - An addictive fruit machine simulation. It has excellent sound and phics. As this program has resource orks, it must be extracted using Shrinklt to a blank disk. Once it has been extracted, it can only be copied using the Finder. ¢ COMPUTER DOWN! * FAST TURNROUND - NORMALLY 2 DAYS * 3 MONTH WARRANTY * COMPETITIVE PRICES ON ALL SERVICES * TRADE ENQUIRIES WELC