Apple 2000 Vol 6 No. 4 1991 08 BASUG GB

THE NATIONAL APPLE USERS GROUP Apple2000 USER GROUP CHAE LTH What would work be like if everybody used MacDraw Pro? MaclWrite II FileMaker Pro MacDraw I! MacProject II Claris CAD SmartForm Series MacPaint MacDraw Pro Librart Tent - & Awfully b} by Small Colour PICT HB csq-maa4 by Colour MacDrew CMYK 12-4 2 ipa ltegs u Pale purpl| Clean Up TIEF Pale-purp| Claris Colours MacPaint 2.0 PANTONE |/Custom Palette Macilrite 11 [i pantone to cv Microsoft Word 4.0 KOE More Graphic More Sharing More Colourful New Product More Rewarding Could your job do with some blue” is never confused with your “sky blue”. really exciting changes? Text. It’s the Achilles’ heel of most graphics Well, here’s our best idea yet: the software - but not this one. You'll work with new MacDraw™ Pro. the same powerful formatting tools that our MaxDrawPro | — We've taken the graphics tool you | MacWrite™II software is famous for. know and love - MacDraw II - and packed it with The result: instead of inventing unheard of power and new features. More than 100 new _ tools that do new things, we let you use familiar features in all. tools to do unheard of things. In other words, It’s the ideal, all-round graphics software for simply powerful software. presenting, publishing, designing and illustrating! But why read about it? Just visit your nearest Allow us to illustrate. Claris dealer. Curves. A hassle with most drawing programs; And draw your own conclusions. no big deal with MacDraw Pro. Just use your mouse to click out the general shape you want, Upgrade from MacDraw Il for £175. Call and that’s it. If you need more precision, you can Freephone 0800 929005. use standard Bézier handles to fine-tune what you've drawn. Colours. With MacDraw Pro you create your own custom palettes, and keep as many open GEARS as you wish. 2 You can even name each colour, so your “logo Simply powerful software:” ©1991 Claris Corporation. All rights reserved. Claris, FileMaker, MacDaw, MacPaint, Mac Project, Mac Woe, Smantorn and “Simply powerful software” are txemarks of ‘Claris Corporation, Microsoft a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. PANTONE i a repistered trademark of Pantone, Inc Cais leeenotiona, nc., | Roundwood Avenue, Stockley Park, Uxbridge, Middlesex. UB} 1G. Telephone: 081,736.0101. Distributed in the UK by Frontline Distribution, Intec: 1, Wade Road, Basingstoke. Hampshire RG24 ONE. Telephone (0256) 463;44, For upgrade enquitics for the Reputic of fretan call Dublin (01) 767 814 including Macintosh August 1991 Fax: ki $29 G37 Apple2000 Apple2000 The All Apple P.0.Box 3 User Group Liverpool Committed to 121 8PY All Apple Users Ot pz 4nd Sak GS | aN CO NTE NTS Apple2000 supports users of Chairman's Co: Ewen Wanno| 2 all the Apple computers. The ite bo ‘aoe 3 ||| 1rr 2020, 1. 11, M+, //e, //e. Information and Contacts 8 //c+, gs, Ugs+, ///, Lisa, Raper pie Seder August Competition 9 XL, Mac 128, 512, MacPlus, AppleXtens ProDOS 8 and IIgs 10 Classic, SE, SE/30, Mac LC, II, CNC Trainer — a review Peter Davis 11 Iisi, Hex, Ici, Ux, Ifx and the Disk Zaps Part 6 Ewen Wannop 12 Mac Portable Publish-It! 3 — a review Dave Ferris 14 Contributions and articles for Ralph Russo — biography 16 the magazine are al Disk Access NDA —a review Dave Ferris 17 welcome. We can handle Clock Year Routines Richard Brown 19 Oe oc format Ph ay Ultimate Fonts — a review Peter Stark 20 disk size or format. Please seni Salvation Renaissance — a review Dave Ward 21 to PO Box 3, Liverpool, L21 8PY MD-Basic — a postscript Peter Davis 22 ‘The Apple //¢ Motherboard Lorin S. Evans 24 NOTE: MusicWriter — a review Stuart Anderson 26 The front half of the magazine Font Factory GS — a review Fred Greatorex 28 is mainly for the Apple Il, Apple II Information Source Peter Davis 30 f Internet Stephen Pickering 32 ape and Fed The leis Libresy IOS Update = tosh and Lisa. Look for the KansasFest — stop press 36 aeacrints et ‘The Nibbler Speaks The Nibbler 38 lescriptive page icons. MacChat Norah Arnold 42 Key: ‘The MacRam Portable — a review Mike Dawson 45 Apple Il, //e and //c a System 7 Discussed 48 — Committee Member Self-Portrait Mike Dawson 50 Apple /// B Si —a review Peter Kemp 52 Win-a-Mac Draw 55 Apple Igs “3 On Location Pam Wilson 56 Macintosh, Lisa 8B Battlefront Game System — a review Peter Kemp 58 Icon Vaults Paul Schliesser 60 |{\ Macintosh 1 A) Launch of ClarisWorks — press release Claris Corporation 6 Qu Fontographer 3.3 — press release Altsys Corporation 64 CD-ROM Directory — press release TEPL Publishing 65 Ga se DR Color MacCheese — a review David Evans 66 Faces —a review Peter Kemp 68 Contact Voyager Desktop Planetarium — a review John Arnold 70 % Computer Assisted Learning David Durling 72 Members Smal Ads. 75 OInTs AppléXtras Mac 10 76 Mac Library 77 : Apple Computers in Hollywood Apple Computer Inc. 78 Administration: Irene Flaxman Kieiiiae: (Orel) Gises ed SuperCard 1.6 — press release Aldus Corporation 79 Face int Ge GIF Portables to the Persian Gulf Apple Computer Inc. 79 on wis . Members’ Small Ads. : 80 Apple II Hotline: Dave Ward Advertisers’ Index lett Pre ie BRE Panna . Local Group details have been removed. ‘They will be included in Apple Slices in future. wear Tat USD SGD Macintosh Hotline: John Arnold Wieiisse: (Ghsaata: AIG There are a number of ways We are very interested in the activities Wier Uanma Eo to contact Apple2000 of local user groups, and if you have information which you would like Ifyou wish to order goods or services an 1 from Apple2000 or just leave us a ps a John Lee would like to hear message, call Irene on. Sifll-tSiiis titi you (Ansafone during the day). Alternatively We reserve the right to publish, can Fax. your order to ‘iijill-siiit without prejudice, any advice or © or write to the PO Bax. Ifyou use — comments given to members as a comms you can leave orders on TABBS _ result of letters received, in the journals Pay to the SYSOP or contact us of Apple2000. on Link IG.1). 3 Apa (BASUG:L} Alittle praise for a few of our authors Timeul ores ‘ies es ae Ifyou are experiencing problems with wouldn't go amiss. Send all comments, : Apple hardware or software Dave Ward —_ and contributions, via the PO box, AppleWorks: John Richey and John Amold run the Hotlines and _ especially suggestions about what you OLE FHSS will try and help you. would like to see in your magazine. & gy e August 1991 Apple2000 \ 1 Chairman's Corner Apple2000 1980-1991 QO System 7.0 for the Macintosh is now firmly in place. The trepida- tion is over and we now have hada chance to experience the beast in depth. This edition of Apple2000 has been prepared under the new System and we are able to report that so far we have had no prob- lems. In fact our original pessimism has give way to elation as we realise that System 7.0 seems much more stable than its predecessor System 6.0.7. Of course this may simply be due to the fact that there are now less CDev's and Init's on our sys- tems than before. Iranthe ‘Before You Install' Hyper- Card stack to see which files I should take off and which I should leave. I received a pessimistic re- port from the stack, as in practise Ihave been able to keep many of the applications it said I should up- date! The main files I have kept from my original system are Suitcase and Adobe Type Manager. Suitcase has allowed me to mount some odd fonts that would not install in the System 7.0 suitcase and Type Man- ager allows me to mix TrueType and Postscript transparently both on screen and to various printers. So far I have printed to the LaserWriter, StyleWriter and Hewlett Packard DeskWriter. Theconclusions area big thumbs up for Apple. They got it right in the end. The main omission from my point of view are no ProDOS or MS-DOS drivers to bypass File Exchange. Although there is a new version of File Exchange it still has the bug which prevents raw transfers to a ProDOS disk. The lack of MacroMaker has been solved with the release of QuicKeysversion 2.0. QO We are now at that slack time of the year for Apple when we can expect announcements of price re- ductions on certain models. If by the time you read this reductions have been made, it will be fairly certain that those models will ei- ther be dropped or upgraded in the autumn round of releases from Apple. We can expect a new LaserWriter series, a tower Mac and possibly a superfast SE/40 using the new 68040 chip. O The Apple II has not been forgot- ten by Apple after all. At Kansas (see separate report) there was an- nounced System 6.0 for the IIgs. This is a revamped operating sys- tem and a Finder which is now more Mac like. In fact with a Mac FST included it has become more powerful than even System 7.0! An Ethernet card has also been announced and a SuperDrive card which will bring 1.4mb HD disks to both the IIgs and the //e. It seems that we can continue to see some kind of support for the I series even if they do not openly advertise the fact! Qi HyperStudio and HyperCard GS are now firmly part ofthe IIgs scene. The ability of HyperStudio to con- trol Hypermedia systems such as video recorders, video disks and Midi devices have made it a power- ful addition to the repertoire of the teacher in American schools. Beta versions of HyperMover that allow files to be interchanged between HyperCard for the Mac and Hyper- Card GS have been seen. We shall be bringing you a full review of HyperCard GS very soon and hope- fully by then we shall see final versions of this important utility. O The moves between Apple and IBM have brought much specula- tion to the Apple world. I do not see Apple giving too much away to IBM and do not see them losing any market lead asa result. The Classic and LC have taken the world by storm. We are already seeing the price of hard disks tumbling down, itjust remains for software toreach a sensible price and the Mac world should be at last seen as a real alternative to MS-DOS. Ewen Wannop « members. Annual subscription rates are £30.00 for UK residents, £35.00 for E.E.C. residents and £40.00 for other overseas Apple2000™ ts a trading name of BASUG Ltd, a non-profit making independent company limited by guarantee. The contents of this journal are copyright of BASUG Ltd The Editorial team is: ~)\ 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 to BASUG Ltd. The opinions and views expressed herein are those of the various 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. Tle Apple Slices newsletter is pub- lished in the intervening months. 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 owner. Telecom Gold™ is a trademark of British Telecom ple. Apple2000™, Apple Slices. AppleXtras, Mac2000 and The FORCE are trademarks of BASUG Ltd. This issue was prepared using Aldus PageMaker™ 4.0, \ MicroSoft Word™ and Claris MacWrite™ under System 7.0. Apple Il Ewen Wannop Macintosh Norah Arnold, Irene Flaxman Reviews Elizabeth Littlewood 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 go to Val Evans for designing our front cover, and to Walter Lewis of Old Roan Press (051-227-4818) for our printing service. Apple2000 are Founder Members and Wholehearted Supporters of the Apple User Group Council nT Apple2000 August 1991 Hives: Hheaasti Witeredi ahh: Hayate Elid il aygte Bbsaaeal Piadlbaeare (Lava Siete: 4enLE Dear Sir, Re: Review of Last Word XTensions As the authors and developers of a range of Quark XTensions (note the correct style and spelling!) includin, the popular StoryEditor an OverMatter it is apparent that your reviewer, Ewen Wannop, lacks a com- prehensive understanding of Quark XPress and the “real world” require- ments of a sub-editor. Anybody who is familiar with, or uses, Quark XPress will know that XPress XTensions both start with the letter X, not ex, and the first two letters are always in upper case, The paragraph “Common Features” staes “Standard text attributes are dis- played but not the fonts they were originally created in.” One of the key reasons for designing StoryEditor was so that people who are working with small point sizes in XPress don't have to keep zooming in and wasting time scrolling around a monitor looking for the next piece of text. Therefore to actually display the correct font in the StoryEditor window would be ludi- crous. This is critical for newspaper and professional publishing applica- tions if Macintoshes and DTP software are ever to become “more than just toys”. These features on SII and Atex systems that all journalists and sub- editors love and want. Mr. Wannop clearly misses the whole point of the product. In “Conclusions” you say that “StoryEditor works after a fashion” yet didn't report one single problem with it. Was there a reason for this un- founded statement? StoryEditor is also £165 not £295 as you reported, As for the bugs you reported in OverMatter. Firstly what happened to technical support? Ifyou buya piece of software and it all appears not to work, do you just put it on the shelf and say “Oh well, never mind”? Of course not, you phone for technical support. This August 1991 is even more im t for product reviews since journalists should rec- ognise their responsibility to provide accurate information to their readers. Secondly, we have been unable to reproduce any of the problems you reported and of the dozens of copies we have shipped, we have had ONE tech- nical support call to report a different bug. This was fixed within 24 hours, There are not may software vendors who can claim a track record to equal this. These XTensions are being used in live production with no problems whatsoever. If and when you get any other prod- ucts to review I hope you will at least have the courtesy to phone the suppli- ers if there are any problems. After all, most of the problems we deal with on a day to day basis are caused by opera- tor error, lack of training and software conflicts. Why blame the vendors with- out so much as an investigative call? I hope to see my comments in a prominent position in the next issue. Yours furiously. Mark Anderson Technical Director QI stand corrected over the mistake of using the word ‘extension’ instead of XTension. There are many different kinds of users of XPress. Our members are not all sub-editors and would normally prepare and edit text copy in the more flexible environment of a word proces- sor rather than within XPress, If they did start with text copy in XPress, they can always export and re-import text either to a text file on disk or by the clipboard and MultiFinder to a word processor. My point about the attributes not being displayed was that I had no idea what was going on. The actual point size need not be shown in the StoryEditor display, but the font might be important for full editing to take place. I would still have to go through the text boxes one by one, or make a roof print, tomake sure all was well in Poth font and point size. It was be- cause I felt that more facilities should have been available that I said it “worked after a fashion”. My basic approach to the review was coloured by the high price of the prod- uct. The price I quoted was that given tome ur company in a letter on the 18th of February. I am very glad to see it is now cheaper. However the new price is the same as most full featured word processors such as MacWrite II can be bought on the open market. It is also around a third the price of XPress and so still seems to me a high Price to pay for its limited features. I could indeed have rung the support staff over the problems | had, but putting myself in the position of a normal customer and having read the manual, | presumed these crashes were to be expected. The manual clear! stated that the System could cras! while using OverMatter and that a free upgrade would be provided when the problem was solved. As the copy I had only had a 30 day life I was not able to test it further after the review was written. It seems odd therefore in the light of this to say you could not repeat the problems. Ewen Wannop « Stanmer Park Road Brighton Dear Terry Cymbalisty, Tread ce Vevencoltiie StyleWriter with great interest, having got the same set up and problems as yourself, and with apparently the same frustrations with the ImageWriter. I added a StyleWriter to my Plus and ImageWriter, and subsequently have got rounda couple of the problems you mentioned. pea ecties a Print Spooler, I had SuperSpool installed with 6.0.3, up- graded to 6.0.7 when | installed the StyleWriter, and now have both StyleWriter and ImageWriter attached to the Plus spooling merrily in the background whilst I continue work- ing. A quick click to the Chooser sorts out what I need. As you said. although nothing is specifically mentioned regarding the finite life of some 6000 copies, every Letters and Fax submitted to App! Apple2000 u should ring the Hotline to get help. 000 will normally be dealt wi ofthe editorial content of the next magazine. We shall endeavour toanswer problems if at all possible before publication, but due to the large volume of letters received this may not be possible in all circumstances. 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 to the Sysop on TABBS (ii Q Ifyou have an urgent problem ye 2 as part ATIF) geo ot report! read seems to mention the fact. I sue the StyleWriter for letters, in- voices, estimates, etc. (le. where pres- entation is important) and the ImageWrtter for quick hard copies, or less important correspondence. In this way I hope to extend the useful life (to me) of the StyleWriter. Thanks again for the review, very fair I thought. Joe de Hoop PS, I have just gone over to 7,0.... and no way will the Spooler work, so it's waiting time again! « Dear Editor, Why doesn't my new StyleWriter rinter print where I expect it to? This etter is printed using a Macintosh SE20. As you can see, the text is not in the centre of the page although the mar- gins are supposed to be 2.54 cms with a6cm top margin. The box round this paragraph shows it more clearly. FreeHand 2.0 also has a problem when printing to A4 paper - having selected A4 as the illustration size. A dialogue box tells me that the illustra- tion is too big to fit! I can draw smooth ellipses and lines at any angle, but tints and angled text prints at the same resolution as the screen. Gradual shades look like a series of patterns! I wanted a StyleWriter to provide on- the-spot proof copies when I visit cus- tomers to discuss design work but in practice, I have to return to the office and use the laser printer. Does the driver need a modification? Adrian E. W. Price West Hag] Worcesters! OFirstly your letter clearly shows that the left and right margins are not the same. The left is 2cms and the right almost 3 cms. I found exactly the same poe using MacWrite Il. I do not ow the answer to this one but I think I saw somewhere that there is indeed a bug with the StyleWriter driver that ineorrecuy Bae onanA4, This would explain why FreeHand thinks it can't print the complete drawing to that page size. I would suggest complaining to the dealer so he can inform Apple. There should then be an update of the drivers in due course to solve this problem. Secondly, using FreeHand to gener- ate artwork and printing to the StyleWriter or any of the non-post- script printers, just will not work as uu might expect if you are a regular erWriter user. Only PostScript can cope with tints, rotated text or any EPS. drawings. With a QuickDraw printer the Mac can only print any non- QuickDraw information in the files as screen dumps. TrueType cannot dis- play rotated text in quite the same way as PostScript. You may improve things by using Adobe Type Manager. The cumbersome and expensive solution is to use Freedom of The Press to interpret PostScript output intoa higher quality printout on the StyleWriter. Check out FOPas!am not surewhether there is support for FOP and the StyleWriter yet. The Editor é Newbridge-on-Wye Powys Dear Irene, I have been having some problems transferring data from Omnis 5 to Page- Maker 4, such that styles are picked up on the way. Neither Aldus nor B could solve the problem, but I finally cracked it! Ihad used the Omnis 5 parameters option to insert and one was at the top of the page and one on the left. thereby adding the spaces! Now that I have cracked it, perhaps the following instructions should be added to the manuals: PageMaker When printing to file in a database program, DO NOT insert margins, as PageMaker demands that the first tag is at the top of the page and is the first character on the first line. DO NOT use parameters to insert when printing to file, if the destination pi {such as Page- Maker) demands that the first tag is at the top of the page and is the first character on the first line. Frank J. Pycroft é Dear Sirs, We have asubstantial program called ‘ESIBEEP’ which runs on IBM-com- patible PC's. One of the Regional Elec- tricity Companies has asked us to investigate the possibility of transfer- ting this program to a Macintosh envi- ronment. 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The pro; consists of a computa- tion-intensive core written in Fortran TF. commnuar tenting trosee disc files with a front-end which is presently in Fortran 77 making extensive use of the Lahey ‘Spindrift’ windows facilities but is belng rewritten in C using C-scape for the screen handling, and a graphi- cal back-end which is again written in Fortran 77 using the HeartLand ‘Hgraph' package. I shall look forward to hearing from you or your members. P Basnett Research Officer Commercial Buildings Group OQ Can anyone help with this please? Dear Sirs, Concerning the letter from Mr. Lyes and the Boflin’s reply in the June 1991 issue of Apple2000, I would like to remind all members that the Format- 80 word processing system runs on the Apple lle and //e, is available new and is fully supported by Elite Soft- ware. Format-80 requires 64K RAM and an 80 column card and costs £99 plus VAT. Alternatively Wildword operates on an unmodified Apple }[+ and costs £35 plus VAT. Format-80 and Wildword are avail- able from Apple dealers or direct from Elite Software Company. G. K. Beckmann Elite erie Company, 4 Hawthylan: rive Hailsham East Sussex BN27 1HE Ol retreat with red face. Apologies to Elite and to Format-80. A quick glance atouradvertising would have reminded me of Format-80 still being in produc- tion. Ihave unfortunately been so used fqussvony soout ras es which are no longer available that I did not do my research properly. The Boffin « a Dear Apple2000, I have an Apple Ile with a Epson aero printer. I use the Apple Writer word processor to print a azine for a local football team (Bangor Ama. teurs). The problem I have is I need a software package toenable me to print headlines, borders small fonts and large fonts and some pictures etc, Is there a package that will do all this for meand be compatible with my existin; software ie. AppleWriter or would have to purchase a new word process- ing package. also have a interface card I received August 1991 with my Apple it is marked Ramex 128 iss5 Vergecourt Ltd. 1982 could you tell what this card is and what it does. One other question I would like to ask is there any golf games on the market for the Apple Ile like the ones available for IBM ie. World tour golf or Augusta ST.Andrews if there ts could you tell me where to buy them. Robert Tipping Q You will not be able to print head- lines and borders or even font changes from within AppleWriter other than the font styles already built in to the printer. You would need to use eithera full blown desk top publishing pro- gram like Publish It!, or generate ma- terial from other programs and cutand paste using scissors and a pot of glue. Print Shop will give you borders and banner headlines. Fenty cea neCut SuperFonts under AppleWorks will give you beautifully printed fonts. There are other such programsaround. Check with Bidmuthin or MGA what they have in stock. The Ramex 128 card is a 128k memory card. It can be used in two ways, either by programs which recog- nise it and use it for storage such as Copy Tl Plus, or with its own supplied software it can turn it into a pseudo disk drive. This is of limited use these days as it does not conform to the standard device format that most pro- expect of a Ram disk drive un- ler ProDOS. World Tour Golf runs on the IIgs , but I am sure there should be a ue which will run on the //e. eck again with Bidmuthin or MGA 1 for availability. The Editor é Sel ft North Yorkshire Dear Ewen, I am in the process of deciding to have my syMBiile hard drive converted from DOS/PASCAL/CP/M to DOS/ PASCAL/PRODOSas per the article by Eric Sausse in Apple2000 Oct. 90. I use the Apple //e enhanced. So would you please put your ProDOS hat on and answer a few questions on the pro's and con's of the subject. 1) I have quite a few DOS 3.3 pro- gram disks that I use occasionally. Would it be to any advantage or indeed possible to change these disks to Pro- DOS? Please tell me how to achieve this if there is an advantage. I have tried CONVERT on the ProDOS User's disk but lost my way. I also have Copy II 7.4 which also claims to convert. 2) ProDOS comes in many versions, from, (I believe) 1.0.1 to the P8 series. Are there any snags in standardising on the latest version by replacing the earlier versions with version 1.97 (XTRAS.TOOLS/ Disk PRO.25). Arun through of the method(s) involved would be most appreciated. Apple2000 3) ProSel 8 looks to be a good idea to use as a program selector, or maybe something less sophisticated would suffice. Have you and observations on this point. Eric Leadbeatter QI am not all that familiar with the limitations of using a syMBfile with ProDOS. Certainly some of the older custom drives which did not conform to ProDOS block standard could only be used with custom ProDOS often supplied with the drive. | am not sure if that is the case here. Anyway, to answer your questions as best I can. 1) DOS 3.3 programs can be con- verted in some cases to ProDOS. This only usually applies to Basic programs which are not operating system de- pendent. Even then there may be some disk commands in Basic programs that will need to be changed or altered to work under ProDOS. INIT com- mandis Bee presentin robs AP cations or programs usu- ally not Maat they require DOS 3.3 vectors to be ina particular place in memory for them to work. Text files Cay be converted of course, but the hi- it is ust str as this is done. This Rene on ee if the data was text. 117.4 will convert files as Ihave descril but whether the resulting file will run will depend on the above. 2) ProDOS does indeed come in many versions. The changes over the years have been for many reasons. Some have simply been bug fixes, but many have been to cater for evolving ma- chines like the //c and IIgs. The most recent ProDOS not only sees the clock on the ligs but is also network aware, I don't this is something Pes would need to worry about yourself. To replace with a new version of ProDOS you normally would only need to copy the new one over to your boot disk. Precisely what your syMBfile requires in the way of customised ProDOS may preclude this being done in quite suc! asimple way. I would suggest keeping a copy of your oi ProDOS on the syMBiile and then trying out the latest ProDOS and work backwards from there. Although ProDOS 1.0.1 does still of course work I would suggest er vane eta pe 3 is in a good program selector. There are now quite a few of these selectors in our libraries, check out the Xtras notes in the magazine. The latest ProDOS also has a program selector built in soifyou are able torun this version of ProDOS you can use that instead. Each selector has its own flavour and which suits you will de- pend on exactly how you want to use your hard disk. There is even MouseDesk fromApple which gives a Macintosh like selector but you would need a mouse card to make that work. Ewen Wannop « 5 GSBe esa Long Street Devizes Dear Sir, I have an Apple //c from which I have been attempting to transfer some text (orrather ASCII files) toa PC which is my main computer. I have been the modem/serial port on the Apple, (which is a five-pin DIN socket) to connect a null modem cable for serial transfer to the PC. ‘As | have no communications soft- ware for the Apple (only AppleSoft Ba- sic), I have so far been attempting to redirect output to the serial port means of the command PR#2 wil Kermit (a very good comms program) running on the PC. This, however, causes the Apple to hang and the PC responds with various error messages (for example: unable to receive initiate packet). I believe the problem might possibly be that the Apple is not recognising that there is any device connected to its serial port and therefore not transmitting any- thing. I have checked the wiring of the DIN serial lead and believe it to be correct. I believe I have tried all the obvious possibilities for the solution of this problem within the limited software available to me (ie. AppleSoft on ROM) and perhaps you have a comms pro- that would do the trick or any other advice on how to get this to work. I do not seem to be able to format (or INIT) 360k 5.25” discs, but if It would help, I could forward an unformatted disc to you. Sally Scott-White PS. [am desperately trying to avoid the massive retyping job that would be inevitable if the comms link fails, and having set up a link the Apple is useful to carry around for other in the future and I'd like to avoid using a disc conversion service. Q First of all as you may well have surmised, Apple 5.25 disks are not pre in the same way as IBM disks. This means you cannot inter- change them directly between the two machines. The only way to transfer files using the //c is by a direct link between the ports. So far so good, you have already got this con- nection setup. However the method you have tried just will not work. In any connection tween two machines there must be some attempt to control the flow of information. This is simply to stop the output flow when the other end cannot accept any more input. Often the method used to control flow can also allow for some form of simple error correction. Kermit, like many communications programs, uses a flow control and error correction based on splitting the data up into separate packets. It then receives these packets one at a time verifying them before asking for the TA next one. Unless you alsorunaversion of Kermit on the //c, no packet that Kermit on the IBM will recognise will be sent out. Hence the error message you quote. We do have aversion of Kermit in our library. It is not very friendly and cer- tainly is not as good as an IBM version. It would however do what you want. You will need to use such a comms program of some sort on the //cas this is the only way the Apple can commu- nicatesi outside itself. Which program will depend on the operating system you are using. I presume you are probably using the ProDOS oper- ating system and soa version of Kermit or a comms program supporting Xmodem transfer would also work. Kermit does not support Xmodem transfer so you might need another comms program on the IBM if you grace Reais {liar with Kermit ju are familiar wit ontheIBM then perhaps the Kermit we have could be your answer. 1 am not sure what you actually mean when you say you cannot format a 360k 5.25 disk. Only the IBM can format disks to that specification. Ap- ple disks are always 140k single sided and Apple format only. Ewen Wannop e TABBS E-Mail Dear Ewen, Iwould like to inform the members of APPLE 2000 that my Phone number has changed. It is now 091 257 9078 and NOT 0532 612 375. If people who require help and have large problems then either ring me just after 6pm or mail me on TABBS or ring me and then shew , gto me they may, Gone load their letter. Ifrin, please speak to me as I need to ng te Modem in. TABBS will be looked at once a fort- night if not more often. If the gentleman from Corbridge is still having problems then ring me because I am now living in Newcastle and can easily call. Now, I am asking for help. Does anyone have a Dollar (U.S) bank account so that I do not need to send money through the post for Shareware. In Bards Tale II what is the answer to the first snare of death. In Tass Times in Tone Town what do you do after having rescued Gramps. In Dream Zone how doyou geton the airship or into the Castle. How do you get into the closed room on the Heart of Gold in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Can all answers please be straight forward as I am not good at cryptic clues. I posses the Apple DMA SCSI card but the drivers will not work with the very latest GS/OS. Is there an update available and where can I get it from? Apple2000 Although APPLE 2000 has a list of members addresses which is confi- dential it occurred to me that many people must be living near one another but do not realise it. So with your help I propose to compile a table of names and addresses for each area. I will then submit this table to APPLE 2000 for publication. In order to achieve this I would be grateful if people interested in this would send their name, machine, ad- dress and phone number on a post- card to this address. Alan Armstrong Keynes 1234 567890 Apple |[GS or more detailed, Why am I doing this? Weil I wish to meet and correspond with other Apple ][GS users Ido not know where they live. If you live in a little town or village then please give your nearest large town and county. If you send your full name and ad- dress then when the table is published pies may be pestered with junk mail rom computer firms so be warned, also by supplying yor name and ad- dress you are wing it to be pub- hed but only, if they will, in APPLE Chairmen, Presidents etc of clubs could just send their club address and meeting times and a single contact address/ number. In a previous issue of APPLE2000 a reader mentioned an American Maga- zine called GS+. I have subscribed to this magazine fora and can thor- oughly recommend it to others. It is worth subscribing the $66 airmail or $45 surface mail for the magazine and disk. The has interviews with Apple related people be they program- mers or corporate staff as well as sup- plying top quality software such as NDAs ( comms programs, WP pro- grams ) also software locks, window shufilers and a few other programs that I have not worked out what thr do yet. Each program is supplied with documentation and also information on how it actually works as well as the source code. So if you are learning or writing in Pascal, C or Assembly lan- guage then this magazine is a must. For others it is interesting and keeps you abreast of what is happening in the APPLE ][ GS world of the ole US of A. The address to send subscriptions to is:- GS+ Subscription Services. c/o EGO Systems PO box 15366 Chattanooga TS 37415-0366 USA. For those with business phones the number is: 0101 615 870 4960 August 1991 9am to 6pm EST. ( ie the middle of thenight. Ithink the 0101 gets America and the rest is what EGO systems give as their number. If anyone wants a single example of what the magazine is like then send me a SAE and an idea of what you are interested in. Alan Armstrong QI leave members to respond to most of what you have said. However the aioe nepat can be stn juicl usi e drivers on the System 5.0.4 disks and not the ones t came with the SCSI card. Simply tell the Installer on 5.0.4 you want to use the SCSI port and It willdothe rest. We will publish any names that you supply. We should print it as a sepa- rate sheet and supply on request as this would avoid some of the junk mail you suggest and could mean that the addresses were already sorted into areas, We cannot of course use our own database as we are bound by the Data Protection Act. If you yourself build a list of names and addresses on disk, remember that you too will be bound by the Act! The Editor e Compuserve E-Mail Dear Editor, Refthe DJ printer drivers. lam using Harmonic and the driver from Seven ane Software. They both seem to work wel They do however require some fine tuning to get the desired print out wiih so far I have found expensive in Ane genes info I have recently pur- chased an Indelible INK refill for HPDJ cartridge from a firm called RSC Cor- porate Computing. 0523, 243301. You get a package of two refills costing £7.99 + VAT. They consist of a plastic bellows containing the ink and a nee- dle tube that is inserted to the full depth of the cartridge. A gentle squeeze and you are up and running again ata quarter of the cost of a new cartridge. Anonymous ... {: but I have lost the ID of the person who sent this! Ed.) Biggin Hill Kent Va Dear Editor, 1) Please could you let me know whether any lib software exists for transferring an AppleWorks Database ontoa PC for use with Microsoft Works. 2) What educational software is avail- able suited to the bright 2-3 year old child. David Steiert Q You will need to make two steps to transfer Database files from the Apple to the PC. First you must print out the August 1991 data as a DIF text file. You will then need to transfer this to the PC (see the answer to Sally Scott-White above). I am assuming that Microsoft Works can then a standard DIF file. There are too disks in our library for us to be able to know exactly what would suit your child. We have not got acomplete description either of the disks as many are now quite old. I would suggest getting in touch with MGA in Rye. MGA hold a stock of software for the Apple and also have copies of US Catalogs that might be able to help further. The Editor ¢ Orpington Kent Dear Apple2000, I have an Apple IIgs and I think it is brilliant. The sound is excellent and the graphics are good. Now comes the roblem, I have seen pictures which ve 3200 colours a screen. They are excellent. What is the different be- tween them? How are they produced and how come programs cannot (Games, Art etc.) take advantage of it? Another question is how many col- ours a screen and line can 320 by 200 and 640 by 200 have? And why can't they have more? Please keep up the effort! A. J. Webber QO The hardware of the IIgs only allows a limited number of colours to be dis- played on any one line. For the 320 display mode this is only 16 colours. In the 640 mode this comes down to four colours, but by a quirk of the way the colour palettes are addressed in 640 mode, can appear to 16 colours through a dithering technique. You can see more colours on screen than this as each line displays using one of 16 colour palettes linked to it. Each of the 16 palettes can be set up with different colours. This means that an; one screen can have 16°16 = 256 col- ours. As these palettes can be changed easily the 256 colours can be chosen from a main palette of 4096 colours in all. Dithering can further increase the apparent colours but with a reduction in resolution. The 3200 colour screens are in fact an illusion. Persistence of vision does notallow the eye to see separately each of the 60 frames that are displayed every second on the ligs screen. All you see isa sea pcee The 3200 pic- tures are displayed using special soft- ware that changes the palettes while the screens are displayed. This can give the illusion of more colours on the screen as the palettes are changed dynamically. The software that achieves this illu- sion runs flat out while the picture is displayed. In fact if you switch your Ilgs to lmhz s; or even to the 50hz display. it will be too slow and run out Apple2000 of time and garbage the 3200 screen. There is simply no time to do anything else. For this reason these screens cannot be used in games or other as you must have some proc- ope: pager to do other things. Ihave seen a demo ofa proposed paint program called Dream Graphix that will allow working with these screens. I shall be interested to see if it ever appears on the market place. The Boffin ¢ London Vi Dear Sir, Ihave accidentally scrubbed my copy of WordHandler for the ]|+. Can anybody help me out with a copy of the master disk? | will reim- burse postage etc. Please phone ‘iif il- 73H! 1 S080 ((ttzagt) et (OOF Ak 1S: SURE (\eniseraata yet) Mr. Lee OQ Again, can anybody please help with this one? é Dear Ewen, Remember when I left you a message that New Century Schoolbook and Helvetica Narrow would not print tothe LaserWriter under System 5.0.x? I have been given the cure. The Font name in the Font ID information has to be changed. If you rename them to “NewCenturySchlbk" and “Hlevetica- Narrow” these will print out fine. Chris Beckett ¢ Market Drayton Shropshire Footnote: Sa page 6 of the June Apple2000 we asked ifanybody knew of the reference to the IIcx power supply problem that we had printed. If you remember we scoured the back issues and could find nothing. Of course we could not find it in the magazine, we did not think of checking Slices. It is pointed out firmly to us that the reference should have been page 7 of the September 1990 Apple Slices! The Editor ¢ &@ oo it O We have asked you all to send us your Compuserve/Forum ID's. Please send us your ID's either to the Ap- ple2000 ID 76004,3333 or to the PO Box in Liverpool or of course to the Sysop of TABBS (0225-743797). Apple2000 76004,3333 John Beattie 100012,360 David Collins 100016,3060 Michael Dawson 100015,2232 Gary Doades 100016,2353 Felim Doyle 100016, 1151 David Evans 100014,1161 Mateen Greenaway 100016,602 Alastair Greenstreet 100010,742 Dale James 100016,1152 Bryn Jones 71307,1457 Mark Hooper 100014,374 Jihad Jaafar 100016,526 Richard Kelly 100029,177 Peter Kem) 100016,1172 Andy Letchford 100016,1771 Elizabeth Littlewood 100016,401 John Maltb 100014,2216 Mark ONe! 100016,476 Steve Perry 100013,365 Jeremy Quinn 100016,560 John Richey 100016, 1037 Russell Ridout 72007,211 Arthur Robinson 73457.3614 James Southward 73767, 1336 Ahmet Turkistanli 100016,.3365 Donald Walker 100015,256 Andreas Wennborg 100012,342 James Walker 100013, 142 Ewen Wannop 76224,211 Brian Williams 100016,2735 Compuserve/Forum World's an ae online database with many spe: le forums. eC t AP! libraries of PD gle ShareWare soit- ware, real time conferences, message areas and much more. Accessed ether directly on 071-490 8881, or through the BT DialPlus net- work. You donot need to havea DialPlus account to access Compuserve. It will cost you around £8-£12 an hour inclusive of all online charges, network access and local phone call. To join contact: Compuserve/Forum Freepost (BS 6971) 15/16 Lower Park Row PO Box 676 Bristol BS99 LYN 0800-289 378 or 0272-255111 Mention youare an Apple2000 mem- ber and the Jolning fee will be waived. Ifyou are a Macintosh user then order a copy of Information Manager at the same time. ¢ td 2 Beefs QMany ofyou will already be members of AppleLink™ and others may be thinking of joining. For simple E-Mail it cannot be beaten. It will also keep wm up to the minute with what is appening at Apple headquarters. We would like you to send us your contact ID's to add to this list. Apple2000 BASUG.1 Cumbrian Computers CUMP.COMP Herts User Group NA-HERTSUG Liverpool Group = LIVERPOOL.UG Mosaic Computers MOSAIC.COMPU © Members having offered specialist help facilities are listed below: Alan Armstrong (Apple II+, IIgs) Grell SF Ken Dawson (TimeOut, ProSel) (FR ea satan A.W. Harmer (Mac) inti ELF Leonard Horthy (4th Dimension) CNAs SRNL John Richey (AppleWorks) rr eat UIn response to our recent request we have the first Radio Ham call sign! Harrington G1XLW. An (Packet Radio Mbox) GB7SUT T L i [s|HJO}RIT| PEJAITIEIN| HotioticHall Y/B/ETRIN|E|T| IC} Q The April Crossword was correctly solved by D. Price Jones (membership number 4453) who chose Newsroom as the prize. Apple2000 August Trivial Quiz Rules of Engagement The entry with the most correct answers will win first prize. Please remember to indicate which of the three prize choices you would like. Only entries from current mem- bers of Apple2000 will be eligible. No member of the committee or the editorial team may enter. Our decision will be final. Only entries received in the PO box in Liverpool before the 30th of September will be deemed eligible. How to Contact You Name? ..eereveres: aeeeereresesecesesen: sees Membership Number: ARO as ss cccssccsscsesesusisseinensesste Post your completed entry to: August Competition, PO Box 3, Liverpool, L21 8PY. Choose Your Prize Please indicate below which prize you would like, if you were to win. Game collection for Apple Ils, Disk Access for IIGS or Color MacCheese for the Mac. Oo oO Disk Access Game collection oO Color MacCheese Apple2000 prize competition August 1991 pple-pie A trivial quiz with a few apples* thrown 1. What river flows between Minneapolis and St. Paul? 2. What American comedian asked "What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?"? Who split the apple in Switzerland? Who baptised Christ? What was the kraken in aan Wyndhami's "The Kraken. Wakes"? ; Who was hit by an apple and said "ge F . What is the date when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Capricorit® Where are wineglasses placed at a table setting. Who won the Golden Apple awattled by Paris? 10, What is Great Britain's longest river? Os PPR, Henge oo 11, What relationship are James Arness and Peter Graves? 12. Complete the quotation:- When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then FRA Nopsesasapapassionssctae Pi tehiossessstensencsncas 13. What conflict was known as the war to end all wars¢ 14. What is Ray Bradbury's Illustrated Man illustrated with? 15. What is fermented apple juice called?” : 16. What's a.m. an abbreviation for as in 10 a.m.? 17. Who was England's first World Formula I motor racing champion? 18. How many apples are on this page? Prize will be awarded to the entry with the most correct answers Photo-copied entries are quite acceptable, so there is no need to spoil your magazine & s August 1991 Apple2000 SBaSBebpgs A 9 AppleXtras /XTRAS.P8.NO.10/ =PATCH.BXY BIN 49 16-JUL-91 =POWERPRINT.SDK LIB 123 7-DEC-89 =BLKWORK . SHK LIB 54 16-JUL-91 =MORSE. BXY BIN 6 16-JUL-91 =F ILCOMP . SHK LIB 19 16-JUL-91 =SFGET.SHK LIB 16 16-JUL-91 /XTRAS.GS.NO.10/ =DESK.ACCS DIR 1 16-JUL-91 =-MOUSETXT. SHK LIB 4 16-JUL-91 =TWGSCDEV . SHK LIB 27 «16-JUL-91 =AUTOME . BXY $00 9 28-JUN-91 =MNUCLIR . BXY LIB 26 15-JUN-91 =DSKWICH . SHK LIB 78 9-JUN-91 =EYES.BXY LIB 11 4-JUN-91 ~BET1A4.BXY LIB 64 O4-MAY-91 =LITHIUM. SHK LIB 17 19-MAR-91 LNCHPD. BXY LIB 35 29-MAY-91 =REPRTR.BXY LIB 30 29-MAY-91 “PROGRAMS DIR 1 16-JUL-91 =WRDWRK . BXY LIB 47 29-MAY-91 LPR. BXY LIB 55 15-JUN-91 =FREE .BXY LIB 60 15-JUN-91 ~ICNPIX.BXY LIB 718 20-JUN-91 =VIRUSRX . SHK LIB 59 16-JUL-91 “REDRAW. BXY LIB 4 26-JUN-91 =RESICALC.SHK LIB 55 9-MAR-90 GAMES DIR 1 16-JUL-91 =BEYOND . BXY LIB $2 16-JUL-91 “HRTSGS . BXY LIB 124 4-JUN-91 /XTRAS.P8.NO.10/ QAll files on this disk have been shrunk using Shrinkit. PATCH.BXY The official AppleWorks 3.0 patcher from Beagle Bros. This is version 1.61 and cures all the known bugs in AppleWorks 3.0. POWERPRINT.SDK Unshrink to a 5.25 disk. These are the famous PowerPrint utilities from Beagle Bros. They have now been put into the Public Domain. They will allow you to prepare and use custom fonts for your dot matrix printers, Many different printers supported. BLKWORK.SHK A comprehensive and versatile ProDOS disk block editor or zapper. Use with care on copies only! MORSE.BXY This is a small program to test and teach you the Morse code. You must unshrink and transfer to a DOS 3.3 disk and then run under Integer Basic. FILCOMP.SHK A program which compares two files to sec if they are identical. This could be useful for Bulletin Board users to see if you already have that new file or not! SFGET.SHK Adds acommand toBasic that is much like the SFGet toolbox command on the ligs. This will allow you to select files with ease from a Basic program. Amo Apple2000 /XTRAS.GS.NO.10/ Q Many of these files have been shrunk using Shrinklt. Desk Accessory Directory MOUSETEXT.SHK A.useful CDA for proj which displays all the available MouseText characters with their Hex equivalents. TWGSCDEV.SHK ACDEV that displays in the desktop Control Panel. Allows you to change settings of your TransWarp accelerator directly from the desktop. AUTOME.BXY Changes the way menus pull down for a simpler action. This is an Init file that must be placed in the SYSTEM.SETUP folder. MNUCLR.BXY ‘Tired of those black and white menus? Put colour in your life with this desk accessory. DSKWTCH.SHK ACDA that adds comprehensive disk utilities to the Ilgs. Catalog, Format, Read file etc. Do not use with AppleShare active. EYES.BXY Some of you may have seen this on the Macintosh, now we have it on the IIgs. Those eyes will follow your cursor wherever it goes ... BET1A4.BXY Version 1.0a4 of the Big Edit Thing word processing desk accessory. This a bug fixed version. .SHK Saves and restores snapshots of your battery Ram. This is useful if you like to have different settings for different programs or to restoremaster settings after crashes! LNCHPD.BXY Apcogren launcher which configures TransWarp for specific settings when launching programs. Mainly useful for games which need to be run at fast or slow speed, REPRTR.BXY Another control panel CDEV to report on the current state of ae TransWarp accelerator. This one allows you to change speed and toswitch on the Ram Cache. Programs Directory WRDWRE.BXY Apowerful and comprehensive word processor. Fully supports font styles and colours. Full search and replace facilities and much much more. LPR.BXY For those working in the APW or ProSel shell environment, these are a set of utilitics to help you use your printer more usefully. FREE.BXY Freedom is a HyperCard GS resource utility. Itallows ee eae a ene eapere eect tne noes avESKoHEe stacks. ICNPIX.BXY A set of clip art pictures and utilities to allow you to build your own icons. VIRUSRX.SHK The latest version of the virus protection tool. REDRAW.BXY Redraws the desktop when it has been corrupted. Useful when the trashcan disappears. RESICALC.SHK Calculates resistor values from the colour bands. Games Directory BEYOND.BXY An excellent Tetris like game in a CDA for the IIgs. HRTSGS.BKY Agame of Hearts for those cardsharps amongst you! August 1991 CNC Trainer Peter Davis reviews a specialist vertical mill simulation program Have you ever been in a modern workshop and seen a single operator supervising maybe 2 or 3 milling ma- chines ? Most of the time he appears to be an onlooker while the machines cut and churn their way though the work in cloud of vapour and white cutting oil. Then occasionally he picks ofthe finished part, brushes and blows away the swarf, and sticks another blank piece in the holding vice. He does not wind any handles, he seems to be controlling the mill using a daz- zling array of push buttons on the front ofa box clamped on the side of the mill. These machines have Computer Nu- merical Control and the operator knows enough to visualise a very repetitive sequence of machining operations and has prepared a “prourars to create a component from drawings he was given with the job. Other machines pro- grammed in this way can be drills, plancrs, lathes, benders, and nibblers. Ihave very limited knowledge of the latest machine tools other than having seen themin use, and being aware that old style information included in ma- chine drawings has tobe supplemented toa considerable extent if the operator is not to be overloaded with extra work in preparing his machine tool pro- gram. Automatic machine tools A revolution took place within the last 20 years or so allowing for auto- matic operation of cutting sequences. The development depended on meas- urementin 3 dimensions of the cutting tool's position relative to the work. This Is no trivial matter bearing mind that position has to be known to better than 0.0001", which is well beyond the ability of the traversing screws built into these machines. To make a long story short, the break through was achieved at NPL who got inde- pendent measurement of slide posi- tion by counting the flicker of Moire fringes (superimposed diffraction gratings) and the interpretation of dig- ital encoders which were incorporated within the traverses and slides of the machine tool. Integral programmed computers Havingasuitably programmed small August 1991 computer on board the machine tool, it is only necessary allow the cutting tool to acquire a datum point on the work (the operator allows the tool to closely approach the work at a chosen spot). From then on the machine will perform its series ofoperations, gradually shav- ing down the work until the required shape ts achieved. The CNC package The CNC TRAINER package is con- cerned with simulating the program- ming of vertical mills. It is written to correspond with the language ANSI G- CODE. (American National Standards Institute) There are extensions relat- ing to other specific manufacturers languages namely BRIDGEPORT DIVER and DYNA POST processor. The program will operate on a 128k or 64k Apple II E/e/c/GS. There is an excellentAppleworks like Editor toenter code. A compiler checks the code you have entered, before saving the com- piled version. Having defined the size of the work piece, the program uses graphics to display the blank compo- nent, gives you manual control of the approach of the tool to a datum point on the work, graphically displays the path of the tool while simulating the cutting process. There are facilities to download G-Code (or other) from a machine, alternately a program writ- ten on an Apple Il may sent to a machine or tape punch via the Super Serial Card and RS 232 link (the nec- essary communications software is contained within the BRIDGEPORT Apple2000 and DYNA POST packages, it appears to function but was not tested). Operating language The programs are written in Basic using MicroDot System, some have been compiled using the Beagle Com- piler. Hard copy of the graphical out- put requires Beagles Triple Dump, which is not supplied. Hard disk op- eration has been catered for. Setting up (installing) the program requires experience and the preparation of sev- cral intermediate disks which in the end cost mea mild amount of time and confusion due tonot followinga manual addendum. The program itselfis Menu Driven and easy to use. The manuals are messy but comprehensive. A very good separate reference gives actual examples of simple machining apie tions with drawings set alongside the corresponding G-Code. Writing applications I tried programming, compiling and simulating several machining opera- tions with no difficulty. Errors in compiling are reported comprehen- sively, a really neat feature creates an Error File which can be examined later in the Text Editor. In simulation mode, the double high resolution graphics is quite adequate and very well designed to give realistic dynamic views in operation. Some of these op- erations are slow, but progress is con- tinuously reported on screen. Conclusions This isa specialized area about which Ipreviously knew next to nothing. Very few people will need this software, but for those that do, it gives every appear- ance of doing a very competent job. This must be a good example of how to design a training aid. Published by: Kitchen Sink Software Inc 903 Knebworth Ct. Westerville Ohio 43081 USA Telephone: 010/614/891/2111 CNC Trainer £39.95 Bidgeport Driver £24.95 Dyna Post processor £24.95 available from MGA SoftCat. Peter Davis « Disk Zaps and all that (part 6) a Gees Conducting ProDOS with the MLI Ewen Wannop continues with his series on disk structure First encounters So far in this series I have been talking about what can be done with disc zap programs such as Disk Man- ager, directly to the disc. I am going to digress a bit this time into discussing the MLI or Machine Language Inter- be handled froma p1 es gous to the RWTS and File Manager of DOS 3.3 combined. Unlike DOS, Pro- DOS has no internal commands that can be handled from a program or keyboard. All commands must be in- terpreted and passed to ProDOS by an external program the MLI. The BASIC.SYSTEM file included on most ProDOS discs, when run, will in fact echo most of the commands you have pu used to from DOS, It is the ied Basic that is actually execut- ing then commands, not ProDOS it- Allentry to ProDOS is taken through the MLI at $BF 00, and associated with this is a Control Block which you must set up before you enter the MLI. Pro- DOS is a more complex system than DOS, but once mastered, itis very easy to actually use. File handling at ma- chine code level is made very easy, and uu can quickly set up custom disc \dling from within your own pro- . You will need to add a small routine into your pro; however, and set aside an 18 block for passing control parameters. This rou- tine does all the hard work, and inter- faces you to ProDOS. In machine code it would look like Figure 1. This could equally well be set uy froma Basic programand then CALLed. There are a t number of com- mands available and each uses the control block in a different way. Each has a command number associated with it, which is entered into the coding following the JSR call to the MLI. It would be impossible to deal with all of these commands in this article. I can only give an illustration of one or two to show how they work. I hope this will hel; understand how to interface with ProDos, and you will then be able to follow manuals such as the ProDOS Technical Manual published by Apple. Ask a policeman ProDOS files can be date/time stamped, and ProDOS itself can cope with certain clock cards if they are fitted. I suspect only a few have actu- ally got clock cards fitted into their machines. However we can all set the time into ProDOS fordate/time stamp- ing, and we can all read off the time thatis currently in the system ifaclock card is fitted. 1 explained how the four time bytes were constructed in my last article. Within ProDOS thee bytes are posi- tioned at $BF90-$BF93. Adirect POKE to these addresses is all that is needed to tell ProDOS the time. Files written after that point will be date/time stamped. Do this from Basic or ma- chine code. To read the time, simply PEEK the same addresses. However, the time is not ni updated by ProDOS as it goes along. To read the current time the actual command ni ir to a two byte pointer to exit from routine error handling routine, the ACC holds the ProDOS error code Figure 1. SYSCALL JSR $BFOO the MLI DB CMNDNUM DW = CMDLIST block BNE ERROR RTS ERROR NOP QDLIST DS 18 be executed the 18 byte control Ame Apple2000 you will need to do a call to the MLI, if no clock card is present these bytes will be unchanged. The GET TIME command to ProDOS does not use the control block and so is slightly different from the norm. You only need to put the command number $82 into the CMNDNUM byte and doa JSR to SYSCALL. No DW follows for the control block, so there should be an RTS at this point. No error can be enerated by this call. The four bytes at BF90-$BF93 will be updated to show the new time. This should be done before each filing command to ensure that the clock is up to date. Blocking the System ProDOS has the equivalent of the DOS RWTS routine in two MLI com- mands, namely READ BLOCK and WRITE BLOCK. These will handle a block of two sectors back and forth to the disc. Most ProDOS MLI commands iden- the target file either by the pathname of the file, or the REFNUM allocated when the file was OPENed. The BLOCK commands deliberately do not use ei- ther of these approaches, you must use the UNIT_NUM of the device you wish to access, this allows true disc zapping tooccur. The UNIT_NUMquite simply is a number which tells Pro- DOS the Slot and Drive of the active device. Only the top four bits of the unit_num byte are valid, bits 4-6 are the slot number, and bit 7 ts off for drive 1 and on for drive 2. Using the routine I mentioned ear- ller, we must first poke $80 for read or $81 for write into CMNDNUM. Next we ue set up the control block as fol- CMDLIST +0= 3 ter count to follow: +1 unit_num of device to look at +2 low ofa 512 byte data buffer +3 high byte the buffer +4 low byte of block number on the volume you want +5 high byte of block number The data buffer is a 512 byte area of memory for the required block to be written to or from. Now do a JSR SYSCALL to do the actual work. Read or alter at will the buffer, and then write back to disc. Filing made easy Files are handled much the same way. There are various steps to han- a file. If it exists, would probably first todoa INFO to see what kind of the file it is. Next you would need to OPEN it, then you would READ it in chunks till done, then you would finally CLOSE it up. To write a file, you must first CRE- ATE the file, then it must be OPENed August 1991 WRITEten and then CLOSEd up to finish off. Figure 2 ‘This handles most file handling and likely events. As I mentioned previ- NAME CMNDNUM ously, Directories can be opened like files. To create a Catalog in your pro- ALLOC_INTERRUPT $40 —_ allocate an interrupt routine gram, you must OPEN the directory, DEALLOC_INTERRUPT $41 — de-allocate the routine READ it and construct the Satake QUIT $65 standard exit to SYSTEM file yourself, finally CLOSE it up READ_BLOCK $80 read block ‘This explains why most programs. or WRITE_BLOCK $81 write block Catalogs that differ markedly fromeach GET_TIME $82 get the time from clock device other. It depends on the individual CREATE $CO create a file preference of the software writer. DESTROY $Cl destroy or delete a file RENAME $C2 rename a file The full list ofecommands available to SET_FILE_INFO $C3 get info on the file interface with the MLI are shown in GET _FILE_INFO $C4 change the info on a file Figure 2. ONLINE $C5 find out active devices SET_PREFIX $C8 change the default prefix The last word GET_PREFIX $C7 find out the default prefix ProDOS is assured of a long future. OPEN $C8 open a file for read or write The current ProDOS has been updated NEWLINE $C9__ sets read to stop on a preset character to cope with the GS, and is now re- READ $CA read a chunk named ProDOS 8. A new ProDOS has WRITE $CB write a chunk been created for the 16 bit mode of the CLOSE $CC close up files GS, namely ProDOS 16. Current files FLUSH $CD flush out buffers to disc in ProDOS are compatible with the GS, SET_MARK $CE set position in a file and we are assured if they run on a / GET_MARK $CF find out position in a file /e they should run on the GS as well. SET_EOF $DO set new length of file Ihave neglected Pascal and CPM for GET_EOF $D1 find length of file some time, but will return to them in SET_BUF $D2_ set new ProDOS buffer future articles. 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The manual has a little since then as I upgrat first to version 2 and then to version 3. Each upgrade brought a sheaf of replace- ment pages and a supplement as well as anew quick reference card. The program requires an Apple // ¢ c or GS with at least 128k of memory and a single 5.25" drive plus either a mouse or tick. Practically you'd need 400k of memory if you wanied to load all the overlays and fonts, and that's before you start on your docu- ment! At least one 3.5" drive is better anda Ram disk or hard disk will speed things up. The alternatives to mouse control aren't really very easy to use. The program supports a large number of printer interfaces and most popular printers, including: Apple ImageWriter, Epson MX/FX/RX/LX, Gemini 10X/15X, Okidata 192/193/ 292/293 and all compatible printers. History Version 1 was, on reflection, awfully limited, especially compared with ver- sion 3. ere was no allowance for extended memory on a GS, overlays were loaded every time you switched function, and fonts had tobe read each time, it was all very time-consuming. Not only that, but typing text in di- rectly had to be done blind with the e at an unreadable size-to-fit, or if at full size, you ran the risk of losing several characters out of the middle of words as the screen shifted to keep up with the cursor. It was more effective to type the text into a Word Processor such as AppleWorks and then import be ood use ee as a page ut program only. Veraior 2wasa it step forward, recognising the //GS memory card, allowing you to load all overlays at startup, and keeping fonts in memory after they are first accessed. Other major steps forward included trans- parent text boxes, an on-screen pre- view mode. and support for PostScript Laser printing, which had to be pur- chased as a separate package with 4 Fie Edit Fart Farmat Page Objects Special Help LAYOUT. | > is ea ee a vB: ae HOO I | iT Oe: Publishit!v3'! Provides up to 24 font/ point size variations} hn any one document, up to § of he 7 families may be replaced.) These can be from extra font discs, of Mac; oe may also be used, though they are taller due to the aspect ratio. Bs fonts may be :- Standard, Bold. ceric Veaic UNDERLINED sersere (QUYLINE, SHADOW Pe combinations, not forgetting colour | Fig 1 i ublishIt!v3 ovides up to 24 font, oint size variations in any one document, up to 5 off the 7 familics may be replaced [These can be from extra font discs, or Mac font4 nay also be used, though they are tale Hue to the aspect ratio. All fonts may be :- Standard, Bold, .ccigt Vralic, Underlined *Pe#"** Outline, Shadow pr combinations, not forgetting colour Fig2 Publishit!v3 rovides up to 24 font/| oint size variations any one document, up to 5 o! the 7 families may be replaced. [These can be from extra font dises, or Mac font Inay also be used, though they are taller] Hue to the aspect ratio. All fonts may be :~ Standard, Bold.,....., ITALIC, UNDERLINED svrerseret (JOANIE, SHADOW pr combinations, not forgetting colour Fig 3 so Apple2000 August 1991 version 1. Version 3 again refined the program adding the ability to import SHR graph- ics, colour printing and the use o! Encapsulated PostScript within a text frame. The type-ahead now allows me to use the program as a word processor. The Program Publish-It! provides all the basic DTP elements, and more. ODocuments can be multi-page, up to 128 articles she de 64K aie with reset les to help im an graphics frames. rae sam- ple documents are included with the program disc and an extra disc (Design Ideas) can be purchased with more sample layouts and de- signs. Q Pages can be viewed at full-size (a portion of a page), half-size (bigger portion), double-size (smaller por- Uon) orsize-to-fit (displays the whole page - but don't expect to be able to read say thing but headlines). On screenrulers showyou exactly where you are on the page. Q Text frames can be linked to allow text to flow from column to column and across pages. QPublish-It! 3 comes with 7 font fami- lies at various point sizes as stand- ard. All except Deerfield.12 and Desplaines.12 may be replaced by other fonts up to a limit of 6 extra font families and 24 family/point size combinations. All fonts can be used in a variety of styles. When using a postscript laser peateel you can use the on-board fonts or you can download the bitmapped fonts for the fancier styles. Figs 1,2 &3 show fonts printed on an ImageWriter and LaserWriter with and without font substitution. O Page numbers may be put anywhere ona page and in any of the available fonts and styles. QO Text can be entered manually using the built-in Word Processor to cut & paste, search & replace. Or, text can be imported from any TXT file, AppleWorks WP or Bank Street Writer. Q There are controls for justification, margins and indenting which can be applied to page or to individual portions of text. Tab stops may be set and tab leader characters de- fined for things like table of con- tents. i.e. Table of Contents A Bibliography ..... liete. Q Text can be made to flow around overlapping text or graphics frames, or not, if requested. Text frames may be linked on one or more pages so text will flow throughout an arti- cle, with automatic word wrap and soft hyphenation, OKerning - horizontal shifting of char- acters for overstrike and diphthongs (and pound signs as f_ combined in one character spare). Q Graphics can imported from DOS3.3 (HGR, Newsroom Photos & Print Shop Graphics) or ProDOS (HGR, DHR, SHR plus Print Shop GS Graphics). The ProDOS types can be imported as colour images and printed out as such. O The ‘kage includes an art disc whiek con taina over 200 graphics on a number of themes. There are other art discs available, with illus- trations on other subjects, such as People, Places & Things. QO There are some drawing tools for boxes, rounded boxes, circles or ellipses, plus horizontal and verti- cal lines. The shapes may be filled with gray-scales, predefined or user ple Pictures imported from HGR, Print Shop & Newsroom August 1991 Apple2000 Fig 4 %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-1.2 %*%BoundingBox: 0 0 300 360 %8Creator: Dave Ferris %tTitle: Publish-It! Pattern %tCreationDate: 14Apr1991 *%DocumentFonts: Helvetica- BoldOblique %%EndComment s /Helvetica-BoldOblique findfont 30 scalefont setfont 125 180 translate %- Circle of text p98 of Cookbook /CircleofText {15 15 345 { gsave rotate 0 0 mveto (Publish) true charpath stroke grestore }for }def %-Program +5 setlinewidth CircleofText 0 0 moveto (Publish-It! v3) true charpath gsave 1 setgray fill grestore stroke %-End a Fig 5 designed patterns. Q On a suitable colour printer [i.c. ImageWriter) text can be assigned a colour for printing, not shown on screen but indicated by a line over the top. QEditing commands are also available for objects, which may be cut, cop- ied and pasted They may also be grouped together for handling mul- ple objects which must stay to- gether. Object commands allow for aligning objects, setting which ones in front of others, whether they ave a frame, and even if they shouldn't be printed. Q Version 3 adds Encapsulated PostScript support to Laser print- ing. When using a dot-matrix printer m okt you are restricted to horizontal text going from left to right. With EPSon a LaserWriter you can put it wher- ever and however you like (see Figs 4 & 5). Some fancy effects can be achieved with just a few lines of code {and a bit of effort to understand PostScript programming). Documentation ‘As mentioned above the program comes with a large manual that is well written and full of examples and every- thi 11 need to know to get started quickly. Added to this a useful on- screen Help facility and the quick- reference card. However, the program is intuitively easy to use. you only need to resort to the manual to use some of the more esoteric features. Conclusion Publish-It! is easy touse, adhering to the standard Apple style GUI (Graphi- cal User Interface) on the DHR screen (//GS users must select ‘Monochrome” display to avoid coloured fringes). 1 have been using it in one version or another for about two now and! like it. I use it, amongst other things, to do sample layouts for reviews il this one. The claims tobe WYSIWYG, butis in fact WYSIAWYG (what you see is almost what you get). since screen fonts don't correlate exactly with the printed ones. For this reason a ‘Pre- view’ Co) is provided. This is stretched vertically due to the screen aspect ratio being different to the printer, but it allows you to sce the actual fonts and how all the page ele- ments go together. ‘There are a few features that | still find annoying:- OQ Dismounting and mounting fonts is tedious (one family point-size at a time). I have overcome this by writ- ing a startup program that installs one of several versions of the file DTP.PARM (which defines the alter- nate fonts and user defined fill pat- terns). Q Fonts have to be in the volume directory of any disc, since DTP.PARM doesn't allow for full pathnames. Q There is no access to the extended characters (such as pound sign) even when using a Macintosh font that has them defined. QEach page hasa memory limit, Ihave Tun into the situation where with a page full of 9 point text, I was told there was insufficient memory, even thou, actually had approximately 600K spare for the whole document. Q Vertical Kerning would be nice. None of the above problems really causes me grief (except perhaps the memory limit),’and I find the program performs as well or better than ¢x- pected. I have had access to Framemaker (a PageMaker look-alike for Sun workstations) and find that ba performs no better than Publish- It! 3. The ease of upgrading was a pleas- ure, going from version 2 to3, l‘phoned ‘Timeworks’ Update line in the States, quoted my registration number. my credit card number and told them what I wanted. A few days later I had it, and at a price that made up for the cost of the transatlantic ‘phone call. Dave Ferris « i eee SHR Imported picture Applie2000 info Product : Publish-It! 3 Publisher : Timeworks Inc. Available from: MGA SoftCat 41 Cinque Port Street Rye East Sussex TN31 7AD 0797-226601 Price : £129.95 WYSIWYP Value : ddddd Performance : eddde Documentation: ¢¢ée¢ Ralph R. Russo Director, Apple | Product Line Ralph Russo, Director, Apple II Prod- uct Line, joined Apple Computer, Inc. in 1984 as a member of the Macintosh Team. In his current position, he is responsible for the Apple II product line including product engineering, marketing, and customer support func- tions. During his career at Apple, Russo has held several senior management posts including vice president of World- wide Operations with responsibility for manufacturing, service, procurement and customer support. Prior to that, he was director of Worldwide Materi- als. In both of these positions, Russo played an integral role in the formation of ‘Apple's business strategy. Before joining Apple, Russo held management positions with Digital Equipment Corporation in both Mas- sachusetts and Colorado. In addition to his responsibilities at Apple, Russo serves on the Board of ‘Trustees for the California College of Pediatric Medicine in San Francisco. He is also a member of the Manufac- turing Advisory Board for the Kellogg School of Northwestern University. Other activities include coaching Little League baseball and youth basketball programs. Russo has a bachelor’s degree in History and a Master's degree in Busi- ness Administration. He also holds a certificate from Harvard's Executive Management Program. O Biography last revised Rev. 5/10/91 August 1991 Disk Access" NDA Dave Ferris looks at this useful little utility from Seven Hills Software Introduction rograms, they include a free program For Apple //GS users the Finder is launcher (Out to Launch!) with it. The an extremely clever and easy to use Finder is now completely redundant. rogram for handling filesandlaunch- Of course, you can forget launchers ing applications, however itis big, uses a lot of disk space, and is sometimes far more than you actually need. Fi- nally. once you have launched your application, you have lost all the file completely and create a turnkey disk, such as one I did for DeLuxePaint II. The Program Disk Access requires GS/OS 5 or handling capabilities until you exit later, and needs 128K of free memory back to the Finder or unless the appli- available, after any application is cation has a comprehensive set ofdisk loaded. The program itself takes 46K utilities built into it. and can run in as little as 64K. How- Disk Access from Seven Hills gives you the ability to do everything you need froma New DeskAccessory, with- out disrupting whatever you're doing. What's more, since the only thing you need the Finder for then is to launch ever functions such as copy require more memory for disk buffers. Both Disk Access and Out to Launch come onaGS/OS 5.0.? disk that starts up Out To Launch. The only applica- tion that you should launch from here Finder Menu | Facility Disk Access | Comments File New Folder | New Folder Open Open Print Show File then print display or save as text file for later Close Close ) Use Option to close to Close All N/A ) any level in pathname Duplicate | Copy Put Away N/A Validate Verify Edit Select All OAA or select multiple files by shift-click as Finder View Icon N/A by Ice Icon RAN Name Name ) Selected from preferences Date Modified ) dialog, allows forward Size Size ) or reverse sorting Kind Type ) or none at all. Disc Initialise Initialise ) With Option to change Erase Erase ) size or interleave Verify Verify Eject Eject (/A Check Drives | This function required by Disk Access as it doesn't handle new disk insertion Special Clean U; N/A Empty hh} N/A Deletes normally need confirmation Preferences | Preferences | ‘Temporary / Permanent Icon Info Item Info No ‘tory space summary) Shut Down | N/A Program launching and shut available through Out to Launch, Table 1 August 1991 Apple2000 is the Apple Installer program. Two install scripts are presented. The first takes care of not only installing Disk Access into System/Desk.Accs, but also copies an extra Ftype file to Icons. The second copies Out To Launch to System/Start!!! Warning - this should not be done on a turnkey disk without first moving or renaming Start, for later addition to the launch list. Thediskis accompanied bya manual of approximately 60 printed pages, plus a four page quick reference card. At first I found this a little daunting. WhoneedsaDesk Accessory that needs so much documentation, it must be difficult to use, Fortunately, this is not the case, although there are some ‘Power User’ features that need the quick reference card, at least until you have got the hang of them. Description Table 1 shows the set of Disk Access facilities and how they compare with the Finder (See Figure 1). Most of the commands can be in- voked in several different ways, e.g. click on a button, use OA-key or a single key in some cases. Many com. mands have further ‘Power User’ func- tions that can be invoked through the Option key, to speed things up. For instance a function can be cancelled by clicking on a Cancel button or typ- ing OA-Period or just Esc. Using Op- tion-Esc or holding down Option while clicking on the button will cancel a whole set of activities, such as multiple deletes or getting info on a list of files. I tried a number of the functions on both Disk Access and Finder to com- pare their speed. There is very little in it, though Disk Access comes out a litUe slower due to time taken up re- drawing the screen, before it starts copying, deleting etc, One thing I par- ticularly liked, when doing a sin, drive disk copy, Disk Access ejects the disk for you each time you need to change over. Why can't Finder do that? Seven Hills include in their manual a short list of known problems, these include anomalies if you try to run Disk Access with the Finder and prob- lems with switching from 320 to 640 mode (Disk Access always runs in 640 mode). This effects Deluxe Paint II leaving the color palette in the Dis! Access window - no problem, it just gets drawn over - and Beagle Draw which loses its non-standard font. There is also a problem with restricted memory that effects PaintWorks Gold anda patch that can overcome it ifyou have more than 1.25MBytes ofmemory. To those problems I canaddacouple that I ran into. First, when | tried to move a file to the same folder the window was flooded with garbage char- acters, This was subsequently re- drawn and everything was OK and I was unable to repeat it by perfc the same operation. Secondly, I copi my boot disk to a new disk. Disk a Rt Access makes an exact copy. whereas Finder won't allow two volumes with the same name. So, when I came to delete the . it wouldn't let me because it said there were files still open. Specifically it was talking about */System/Start (A.K.A. Out To Launch). I had to rename the disk before I could reinitialise it. faded The free launcher inclu: is a nice amy launching Deluxe Paint II with it froma GS/OS 5.0.2 disk didn't work. After inserting the Key Disk it just hung. I suspect this is a variation of the PaintWorks Gold memory problem, which asmaller Ram diskmight have solved. MakingDeluxe Paint If the Start program solved it anyway. Conclusion In spite of a couple of problems, this is a very good, powerful. It allows you to do everything that you would previ- ously have needed to go back to the Finder for. It is almost too complex for adesk accessory, since the last nngs need is a load of manuals or even quic reference cards next to my computer for each NDA that I might want to use. Desk Accessories should be intuitive to use or have on-screen help. In fact Disk Access is easy to use and the ‘Power User’ features are intuitively easy once you know that they are there. Unfortunately, the pro; I would most like to use it with is a ProDOS 8 application which of course doesn't support NDAs. Dave Ferris < info Product : Disk Access™ Publisher : Seven Hills Software Available from : MGA SoftCat 41 Cinque Port Street Rye East Sussex TN31 7AD 0797-226601 Price: £39.95 WYSIWYP Value : éddd Performance : edad Documentation : édddd ad ao HII PREIE FELT SEL Saas = disk Access™ > Copyright 1989-90 Seven Hil Is Software Corp. == 5 aby Ta i C ten) C Quit) (Check Drives) (__ Eject) (Henfolder ) C tony) C_wave ) (__Renome _) (__Erase 1) (_ItemInfo_) (verity ) (find) (StowFite ) (Iinitiolize ) (Preferences ) | Nome “Total Free Location Original. Disk.t i600 346 Slot 5, Drive 1 $33 -Slot 5, Drive 2 EE aun FS satiate AMAT Lei ll RMD ESL (tral iif ton} None: Screend Baa : Allow Delete (Wer) treated: 2-Jo-S1 1100 ain fi Modified: 26-Jun-91 11:04 PH pf : Size: 65 Blocks Baal tow Write ¥ Finder E21 Allow Read F INSTALE| Type: fuxType: Co lovisible | Qut.to.l]’ Super Hi-Res screen inage Cinaetive Fi | (Concel This) (tance) 11) OK (efile _tait Pe Ss eR SE oo SEs FS Disk Access™ 0 Copyright 198-90 Seven Hills Software Corp. + : 1 i al a Preferences pide) fe : Ce Sort disks b Sort fil Cm) = 4 re] Sort disks by: ort files by: (tance!) |Tences | even g Nome - Nome E Total Size E i Jane Ofree O lupe L q or Sean di Type None Tear : FTeaporary | ‘ CoReverse CoReverse Show file types in: Showfilesizesin: Show time in: a @Plain text @ Blocks @iwrn a Oltexadecinal Obstes Ow hour 5 OK Bytes @ File Edit tap Ee LEME T IS Eada aa i SURNE Teor esta Disk Access™ 0 Copyright 1989-90 Seven Hills Software Corp. Apple2000 August 1991 Clock Year Routines Richard Brown explains how to compute the year without a clock Hotline News (February) alte an update of the ProDOS algorithm which computes the year from a non-year clock. Readers who do not use ProDOS or whose clock is not ProDOS compatible might like to see a re-print of the AppleSoft equivalent which was published in Windfall/ Apple user some years ago. This, suitably updated, is shown in the listing. Array M() represents the cumulative total ofdays in anon- leap year from end-January to end-November. (end-Decem- ber, M(12) = 365, is not needed), The value D = M(M-]) in line 240 may Instead be computed and array M() dispensed with if the program already has an array of days-in-the- month for use, say, in a date validation routine. The rules for placing the years in array Y() are as follows: 1. Choose (as for ProDOS) a range of years including the current year and with only one leap year. In this context itis not clear why the ProDOS algorithm should not also be updated similarly to cover years 1990-1995. 2. Find the weekday (0 = Sunday to 6 = Saturday) of Ist January of the first year in the range and put that year in the corresponding position (0-6) in the array. Con- tinue the years up the array, ‘looping’ back to Y(0) if necessary, but (again as for ProDOS) put the leap in twice in the sequence. The next update will be due in 1996 with the range 1994-1999, Postscript: The second listing gives a 100% proof of any amended array Y() by feeding correct data, as though from aclock, for every day in the sixyear span. (Run time around 3 minutes!). Presumably a similar force feeding of the ProDOS year routine could test any amended ProDOS year ‘array’. Richard Brown « August 1991 Apple2000 AppleSoft Year Routine per 200 DIM M(11):M(1): = 31:M(2) = 59:M(3) = 90:M(4) = 120:M(5) = 151:M(6) = 181:M(7) = 212:M(8) = 243:M(9) = 273:M(10) = 304:M(11) = 334 210 = Y¥(0) = 1995:¥(1) = 1990:¥(2) = 1991:¥(3) = 1992:¥(4) = 1992:¥(5). = 1993:¥(6) = 1994 220 REM Read clock, setting:- 221. REM DT = Day 223 REM M = Month 224 REM DW = Day-of-wk 225 REM (O=Sunday to 6=Saturday) 240 D=M(M- 1) + DT:W = DW+ 8 - (D - INT (D / 7) * 7)3V = W- ( INT W/ 7) YRS = STR$ (¥R) * 7):YE = Y(V) 250 aRR Check Validity of Year Array Y() ord oO GOTO 90 10 DW = DW + 1:DW = DW * (DW < 7): RETURN 30 VTAB 1: CALL -868: PRINT DI”.“M”.”YY: RETURN 90 ‘TEXT : HOME 100 DIM MM(12): FOR I = 1 TO 12: READ MM(I): NEXT 200 DIM M(11) = 0: FRI =1T011:9=Q+ MM(I) :M(I) = Q: NEXT : REM Load array M( ) cumulatively 210 Y(0) = 1995:¥(1) = 1990:¥(2) = 1991:¥(3) = 1992:¥(4) = 1992:¥(5) = 1993:¥(6) = 1994 212 + M-=1:DT = 1:DW = O:SY = 9999: REM Set DW to day prior to proper start value 213 REM (DW is immediately updated) 214 FOR I = 0 TO 6: IF SY > ¥(I) THEN SY = (I): REM Find start year in array ¥( ) 215 NEXT 216 GOTO 2000 240 D=M(M- 1) + DT:W = DW+ 8 - (D - INT (D / 7) * 7):V = W- ( INT (W/ 7) * 7):YE = YW) 250 RETURN 2000 FOR YY = SY TO SY +5 2010 FORM = 1 TO 12 2020 FOR DT = 1 TO MM(M) 2030 GOSUB 10: REM Update DW (0-6) 2035 GOSUB 30: REM Display date, (May be omitted) 2040 GOSUB 240: IF YR < > YY THEN 3000: REM If derived year wrong 2050 NEXT DT: IF INT (YY / 4) = YY AND M = 2 AND DT = 29 THEN GOSUB 10: IF YR < > YY THEN 3000: REM Handle leap year day 2060 NEXT M 2070 NEXT YY: VTAB 10: INVERSE : PRINT CHRS (7)” ALL OK “: NORMAL 2900 TEXT : VIAB 18: END 3000 VTAB 10: PRINT CHRS (7):: IF YY < > SY THEN PRINT “Y¥(“V”) should be “YY: GOTO 3020 3010 PRINT “Check first year at Y("V”) 3020 PRINT : POKE 33,33: LIST 210 3030 END 10000 DATA 31,28, 31, 30,31, 30,31, 31,30, 31,30,31 Ultimate Fonts Our regular contributor Peter Stark looks at a font aid for AppleWorks Introduction Ultimate Fonts is a program which makes it delightfully easy to modify AppleWorks word processor docu- ments containing text in various for- eign languages so that the necessary accents and other characters are printed out correctly. It is particularly useful for preparing documents con- taining German, French, Italian, Por- tuguese, Spanish, Danish or Swedish. Alternatively or as well, the printed copy can contain various other signs (cent symbols, paragraph or section marks, apples, and many others). Also, text fractions (e.g. 2/3) can be con- verted into fractions having the correct form and height. What is supplied, and what youneed Ultimate Fonts is supplied on a non- protected 5.25" disk. with a well writ- ten 36 page manual and a two-page addendum. The disk also includes sev- eral sample files, as well as some fonts which contain all the ‘extra characters’ which Ultimate Fonts needs. To be able to use Ultimate Fonts, you need to have AppleWorks 3.0, TimeOut SuperFonts, and TimeOut UltraMacros (Version 3.1 or later). How Ultimate Fonts is used Installation of Ultimate Fonts is ex- lained clearly in the manual, and I jound it easy in practice. Various ways of launching Ultimate Fonts are also described; the most convenient is from the TimeOut menu. Many fonts of the used with TimeOut SuperFonts have two ‘extra character sets’ which contain anumber of foreign language characters and certain other symbols. When you run Ultimate Fonts, it scans your Apple- Works word processor texi, looking for certain combinations of letters and/or other characters. Wherever it finds these, Ultimate Fonts converts them into different sets of symbols which later cause TimeOut SuperFonts to print out the appropriate foreign lan- guage characters and/or various spe- cial symbols or fractions. Just as a simple example: if your AppleWorks document contains “Gru..(ss)e”, Ulti- mate Fonts will find the “u.." and con- vert it into “<x2>_<x1>" (which, with a suitable font, TimeOut SuperFonts will a&se print out as a “u” with an Umlaut). Ultimate Fonts will also locate the “(ss)” and convert it into “<x2>g<x1>" (which TimeOut SuperFonts will print out correctly as the German “s digraph” character). To explain this example a little further: “<x2>" directs TimeOut SuperFonts to the font'’s first extra character set, in which (in many cases) the equivalent of *_” is a lower case “u" with an Umlaut. Thesubsequent“<x1>" returns TimeOut SuperFonts to the normal characterset. Likewise, "<x2>g” again directs TimeOut SuperFonts to the font's first extra character set, in which the equivalent of “g” is the Ger- man “s digraph” character; the “<x1>" which follows returns TimeOut SuperFonts again to the fonts normal character set. Thus, “Gru..(ss)e” is printed out as the German word for “greetings”. Not every font has the cor- rect ‘extra character sets’ for Ultimate Fonts to give the desired results, but many do. The fonts supplied on the Ultimate Fonts disk give attractive re- sults. Capabilities of Ultimate Fonts The combination of Ultimate Fonts with AppleWorks, TimeOut UltraMacros, and TimeOut SuperFonts allows you to produce many accented foreign letters (both upper and lower case) and quite a iieeber of special symbols. These include: a, e, 1, 0, and u with various accents etc. (acute, grave, circumflex, tilde, Umlaut, or diaeresis); n tilde; c cedilla; slashed 0; Joined ae and oe; double or single curly quotation marks; and inverted ques- tion and exclamation marks (as used in Spanish at the start of sentences). The ‘Legal and Monetary’ selection within Ultimate Fonts makes a lot of other useful symbols available, includ- ing: the correct s' for ‘registered’, ‘copyright’ and ‘trademark; pound, lire, yen, or cents; and apple, bullet. dag- ger. diamond, ellipsis, paragraph, and section marks. The ‘Math and Scien- tific Characters’ selection allows you to print the proper signs for: division; not equal to; less than or equal to; greater than or equal to; plus or minus; inte- ral, square root, function, Angstroms, legrees, and soon. The same selection set gives you the correct Greek sym- bols for delta (increment or differen- Apple2000 tial); mu (micron); pi; sigma (sum); and omega (Ohms). With certain fonts, vari- ous fractions can also be produced (half, thirds, quarters, or eighths), The necessary combinations of letters and or characters which Ultimate Fonts can recognise and convert are chosen well and are easy to remember. If you wish, you can change the source codes of various of the files that make up Ultimate Fonts, so as to pro- duce a customised version which suits your particular needs. However, you are recommended only to do this ifyou are experienced at pro, mac- Tos (and, of course, on. ifyou use a backup copy of Ultimate Fonts). In any case, it is interesting to look at the three source code files, as these provide interesting information about the way in which Ultimate Fonts works, as well as some useful ideas about how to programme macros. Menus Ultimate Fonts has two AppleWorks- style filecard menus (each of which has an associated help screen). The first menu deals mainly with foreign language characters, with ‘legal’ and monetary characters