Apple 2000 Vol 7 No. 1 1992 02 BASUG GB

-Apple2000 y THE NATIONAL APPLE USERS GROUP FEBRUARY 1992 | IN BUSINESS THE BEST OLUTIONS ARE THOSE YOU FIND BEFORE YOU ENCOUNTER THE PROBLEMS If the Information ‘Technology industry stands for one thing, it stands for solutions. New answers to new challenges. New opportunities. New efficiencies New capabilities Which is why forward-thinking companies turn to the IT industry as a way of looking over the horizon. To anticipate tomorrow's business needs. Ta takea hearing on the future To stay ahead. And there’s no more productive way of doing this than by coming to The Which Computer? Show in April. Because the entire show is geared to total business solutions. In place of a show differentiated by (echnology is one differentiated by applications driven by business needs, Where manufacturers from all fields of the 1 industry will be combining their technology and their talents to present a co-ordinated, solutions- driven response. he most visible changes will be five Application Centres dedicated to key business sectors; Sales & Marketing, Accounting & Finance, Manufacturing & Engineering, Retail & Distribution and Desktop Publishing [Cl Number of FREE tickets worth £29 | each (nas of), r COMPLIMENTARY | TICKET APPLICATION WORTH £20 | To: The 1992 Which Computer? Show, PO Box 18, Barking, Essex IGHI OSA. | Supporting these will be Appli- cation Trails, a colour-coded system to help visitors easily identify the exhibitors who can help with their particular line of business. Significant advances in the industry will be represented in specialist Zuno- vation Centres, devored to Multimedia, Open Solutions, Objects, Networking and Innovations in OS/2 in association with TBM. Also for the first time, MacWorld Expo, the show for business and cor porate Macintosh users, will he incorporated into The 1992 Which Computer? Show as a centre It’s altogether a more focused show, a more effective show. And onc where every minute of your time as a visitor will be well spent. And by visiting Gommunications 92 at the NEG on the same dates, you can make even better use of your time, fulfilling your combined com- puting and communication needs in one visit, So send for your complimentary ticket (coupon replies must be returned (0 us by 27 MARCH 1992) and make a date in your d the only show that genu! resents every business and every industry. Ti Pease send me information on Conunusications 92 a ti —— | Company —___ Addlress BEWHICH COMPUTER? | | —— | = | | | | | February 1992 Apple2000 The All Apple User Group Committed to All Apple Users including Macintosh The Apple2000 magazine is published by Apple2000, P.O.Box 3 iverpool, L21 8PY Contact Points Administration: Irene Flaxman Wranagat: (OR: as thee i See a7 Apple Hi Hotline: Dave Ward ‘Wisikita (CHEE TEED Helse itss) Ieee Sitti Macintosh Hotline: John Arnold Wiajeine GRE BEEP Mon-Fri 1900-2100 TABBS: Ewen Wannop - SYSOP saa isi ASUG.1 Local Groups: John Lee ‘pean ganas nm tga4 expe TimeOut & ProSck: Ken Dawson ti EE RT AppleWorks: John Richey Wpibreed 5 stnee iy Apple2000 supports users of all the pels San USS The ITT 2020, 1, I, Ils, //e, //c, //e+, Ugs, Ugs+, ///, Lisa, XL, Mac 128, 512, MacPlus, Classic, Classic II, SE, SE/30, Mac LC, II, Isi, Hex, Uci, Iix, Ifx, Quadra, Portable and PowerBooks Contributions and articles for the magazine are always welcome. 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Key: 2B Applet, //eand/ic BY B Apple /// i=] 3) Apple lgs 1] 8 Macintosh, Lisa B A, Macintosh II mre Apple2000 February 1992 T vsex cxour CONTENTS CHNETTHON Chairman's Comer Ewen Wannop 2 Members’ FREE PRIZE DRAW 2 Letter Box 3 Information and Contacts n Applektrse ProlOS 8 and ligs 12 Hotline News Dave Ward 13 Hypertext in Context — a review David Durling 4 An Introduction to HyperStudio Roger Wagner Publishing 15 Bank Street Writer Plus — a review Dave Ward 22 AppleLink Tidbits Apple Computer 23 SCSI Termination Micronet Technology, Inc. a4 Prince of Persia — a review Sam and Dave Ward 26 Compuserve/Forum — message thread 27 A2.Central — collated articles A2.Central 32 The Nibbler 38 MacChat Norah Arnold 42 DeskWriter C — a review Ewen Wannop 45 Law Office Manager 2.0 — press release ‘Avocat Systems 46 Kid Pix — a review David Tointon 47 Mac-graphics — a review Ewen Wannop 48 Bane of the Cosmic Forge — a review Peter Kemp 49 RAM Image Transfer Materials Ewen Wannop 50 About Enhance 2.0 — press release MicroFrontier, Inc. $2 CareTracker — press release Med4th Systems $3 Easy Color Paint — press release MECC $4 After Dark and More After Dark — a review David Tointon 58 How to Program the Mac Brian DeLacey $6 In Control — press release Attain Corporation S7 AppleTalk Remote Access — press release Apple Computer, Inc. 58 MacX25 1.0.1 — press release Apple Computer, Inc. 60 AppleShare Server 3.0 — press release Apple Computer, Inc. 62 My House — press release Laureate Learning Systems 63 Committee Member Self-Portrait John Amold 64 April '92 Diary — A.G.M. and MacWorld Expo 6S Claris Resolve — a review Geoff Wood 66 Phone Code Locator — press release & speciat offer Telephone Europe 69 MacSat Il Open Day — press release Celtip Computers 69 LabVIEW Developments — press release National Instruments 70 Farallon Support for New Macs — press release Farallon Computing 71 Optical Storage — press release MicroNet 71 News from Apple (UK) — press releases Apple Computer (UK) 72 «and the Rumours... 72 Peripheral Upgrades — press release Apple Computer (UK) 73 Userland Frontier — press release Userland Software, Inc 74 ‘TypeStyler — press release Studio Box 74 What's Yours? Dan Gutman 7s PhotoShop 2.0.1 — press release Adobe Systems 75 Mac 13 76 Mac Library 76 MacICP 1.1 — press release Apple Computer, Inc, 78 NetMinder — press release Neon Software, Inc. 79 Members! Small Ads. 80 Advertisers’ Index 80 There are a number of ways to contact Apple2000 If you wish to order goods or services from. Apple2000 or just leave us a message, call Irene on \im i s#ithiilil? (Ansafone during the day). Altematively you can Fax, your order to lil |iieltuliitfi? or write to the PO Box. If you usc comms you can leave orders on TABBS addressed to the SYSOP or contact us on AppleLink (BASUG, 1), If you are experiencing problems with Apple hardware or software Dave Ward and John Amold run the Hotlines and will try and help you solve it, 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 as a result of letters received, in the journals of Appic2000. A little 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. Chairman's Corner Apple2000 1980-1992 O This is the first issue of the Apple2000 magazine in 1992 and brings with ita crucial year for Apple UK. We expect the announcement of new dealer price structures shortly and the availability of the lower end machines direct from High Street outlets. This will put Apple on a tightrope. No longer are they in the high price, high profit margin, safe position they have held for so long. The cut throat market place is where we see them placed now. All the recent price cutting of Macintoshes has been reflected by the drop in PC clone prices, A Macintosh for £750 may seem a bargain, but offset this against a full colour VGA 386 PC for the same price! The new low prices of Macintoshes is affecting software prices at last. An integrated package like ClarisWorks, BeagleWorks or GreatWorks can be bought for around the £100 mark. A complete working system with computer software and printer will cost you about £1500 including VAT, the educational price is only £900 + VAT. O Changes have also happened to our magazine. We have jong printed in Bookman and Avant Garde typefaces. With this issue we change to Stone. This face was only drawn a few years ago and so is quite modern. We hope the changes will make reading of the magazine easier for those with poorer eyesight. Let us know how you like the new look! O The Apple II scene is also changing. System 6.0 is not yet with us for the GS but has been espied in dark comers. It brings with it a break from the need to format all your disks with ProDOS. It now supports HFS formatas well as ProDOS, Note that the emphasis is on HFS format, and not Macin- tosh. This simply means that both the Mac and the Ilgs can use HFS formatted disks. It does not mean that cither can share each others files, though standard text files can be read by word processors on each side. There will be other files that can be shared in due course. System 6.0 is an exciting development and brings with it a harmonising of the Finder with the Mac. It is however nearer System 6.0.x on the Mac than the newer System 7.0! We see dealer support for the Apple II shrinking as time goes on. This will not affect Apple2000. We shall continue to support ALL Apple computers. We are aware that a great deal of our Apple II members are actually beginners. Weare going to address their needs more closely in the future. Ewen Wannop O FREE PRIZE DRAW Check the membership numbers shown below. If your number is included in the list, you've won a prize! To claim your prize, write to the P.O. Box. Please Indicate your type of computer, as some prizes are machine-specific. Any prizes which have not been claimed by 31st March will be re-drawn at the A.G.M. (11th April), for distribution amongst the attendees. Only current members are eligible. Committee members are not eligible. 2794 — 2630 — 886 — 1913 — 4064 Apple 2000 October CrossNumber Solution O Winners of the October CrossNumber competition:- M.D, Bass of South Croydon (membership no. 2972) won the Apple II prize of the Carmen SanDiego trio. A.J. Robinson of London (membership no, 1224) won the Apple IIGS prize of the Pyware MusicWriter. Terry Cymbalisty of Leeds (membership no, 1166) won Tesserae for the Mac. O Several people pointed out that there were a number of possible answers for 9 down although in fact everyone sent In the answer that was intended. More to the point, there was an error in the diagram where a square was left as white when it should have been black! We apologise for these errors. Due to the poor response to the competitions, we have decided to discontinue them for the time being. (F > The Editorial team is: Apple II 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 (081-227-4818) for our printing service. Apple2000 are Founder Members and Wholehearted Supporters of the Apple User Group Council Annual subscription rates are £30.00 for UK residents, £35.00 for E.E.C. residents and £40,00 for other overseas members. Apple2000™ Is a trading name of BASUG Ltd, a non-profit making independent company limited by guarantee. 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Prepared using Aldus PageMaker™ 4.0, MicroSoft Word™ and Claris MacWrite™ under System 7.0 using Adobe™ Stone. = y ) February 1992 Malaga Spain via TABBS Dear Ewen, I have found more problems in the last months than in all my previous experience with the Apple. As I have told you, I bought a IGS colour monitor from Bidmuthin, but! have found that a lot of programs do not work with the combination of AE ColorLink-GS and the colour Monitor, not only games but even some Beagle Bros software (such as Beagle Graphics). | have posted messages on AppleNet and I have also sent a request for help to Beagle Bros and to Applied Engineering, with no answer. I have also sent a fax aboutit to Bidmuthin, but they say they can’thelp, I've also seen the fact you mentioned in the last number of Ap- ple2000 about the fall of advertising (Where has MGA SoftCat gone?). The last Bidmuthin bulletin I received tells the readers that Bidmuthin will begin to sell only Mac and MS-DOS clones. I have received a Fax from Steve Morrisby telling me that “we will continue to sell Apple II products to _existing_ customers, but we will not take on any new Apple II ones. Also we won't be carrying stock, but will be able to obtain items for you”. I do actually understand that there are strong business reasons to follow the Mac & MS-DOS path, but in any case the real effect for all us Apple II users is that we are even more orphans than ever before. And what about the USA? Well, the last order we received from Programs Plus contained some items that were already used, lacking even the disks that should be included with the cards we bought. The 8 mhz Zip Chip didn’t work (I'm speaking of the MARCH! this year). We returned it for replacing and we have just received it (Yes, NOVEMBER, and after a lot of Faxes asking for it). | think we could say the same things about A2-Central (Note the crash of 8/16 magazine). I’m beginning to be a bit uncomfortable with an Apple //e. Sure, the machine still nuns fine, our ProLine system works so well that some users do not think it is ninning on an Apple //. But I’m tired of all the efforts I must make to get the hardware and software I’m looking for. My main interests in computing, besides the work I do at the univer- sity, are languages and 2D-3D graphics (Well, Lalso look for some games for my son). When speaking of “languages” I don’t mean “commercial” programming, but only the interest on the new trends in computing (Graphics based Pascal and C, OOP, Artificial Intelligence languages, andso on). Until now I have been comfortable with Apple Pascal and other CP/M based traditional languages, such as For- tran or Cobol. However, | have been searching for better tools to program the //e and I’ve found that there is NOTHING to really do this. The only language which uses the graphic interface is MICOL Basic, and I'm not sure .) 3 about their real level of quality. I still have some options. I can continue looking for the few items we can still get. Maybe I could even get a PC- Transporter card, to “upgrade” in some way my //e, but... could I use all the MS-DOS based languages such as Turbo Pascal $.xand 6.x, C++, and all the rest with this card? If so, it would be a good solution, because the Transporter is getting very cheap these days, and I could continue still using all the software I have for the //e. Ihave even thought of getting a IIGS (only a CPU, given that I already have a colour monitor and 3.5 drive). In this case, what memory should I have? Where should I buy it? By using a IIGS I could keep using much of the stuff 1 actually have, and there are a lot of products (more recent programming languages) for the IIGS. However, it seems that the same problem will happen again after some time and I then will left with _two_ outdated machines... I must say that I do notlike the idea of having a MS-DOS machine, I have lots of shelves full of Apple II related stuff (not only hardware and software but books, magazines etc.) and I wouldn't like to begin getting more stuff for another fully diverse machine. Howeverit seems the best way (Sorry, T know you don’t like MS-DOS machines!). And as fora Mac? NO thanks. Apple has a very odd idea of what should be their support to customers, and even iff use Macs at work, I can’t buy a new machine each year for my own use. Here in Spain, all we old Apple users have alot of negative experience with Apple’s marketing. They make great machines, but all stops there. If you have a problem, Apple’ssupport is reduced to “Oh, get ournew machine and all will be solved”. Sure, in the MS-DOS world there are also new machines and there also are some compatibility problems, but all in all, itis anyway much more stable than the Macone. All the main packages run on all machines, from old PC to 386's. You can get more power and speed if you like, but you are not forced to buy a new machine. However, in the Mac world, you can actually find the following scenario: a user owns a Mac ZZ, dated two years ago. He now needs to use the program AAA. Well, he can buy it, But now he finds that AAA is made only to work with version 99.x of System software. Sure, he can actually upgrade to such a version, but he needs also a memory-drive-chip upgrade. Oh, well,... Finally, our user will find that _all_ his software he bought two years ago does not run with the new “upgrades”. And as for the software's developers? Sorry, they are out of business... This is not a Sci-Fi story. Some of our users have actually found such a case. Apple’s advertising speaks a lot of compatibility be- tween all Mac applications. However it does not say that you get such compatibility at a given time, that is, the software produced at the present will run on nearly all Macs. What about a Mac only two or three years old? Forthe “upgrade” way: | would include a Hewlett Packard Inkjet 500, Bidmuthin gave me a quotation of £499, How- ever, I have seen on PCW some ads of mail order suppliers selling it for £299. It sounds a large difference. Are actually there reliable suppliers among those mail order vendors? 1 would also consider getting Publish-it v4. I have seen that Programs Plus only sells version 3. What do you think about this program for the //e? The programming languages question however remains the same, If I’m right, there actually are LISP, PROLOG and some others, but they are hard to get. Well, [was writing a message and it’s now became along letter! The question is: Ewen you have a lot of experience with all the three environments, so, please, what do you advise &B@egs 4 me? (Maybe I will do better going for the lounge bar tonight...) PS. Our BBS number is +34 $2 132942. Note that it is near fully translated to Spanish. José Accino QI think we have all got very depressed in the last few months with the way things are going in the Apple II world. Reading between the lines, this is clearly how A2-Central feel, and I also feel that way too. It is now clear now that Apple really do want to forget the Apple Ii ever existed even though they still make a lot of money from it. They have now missed the opportunity to introduce a new CPU and it seems are now going to support existing Apple II users only through system upgrades interspersed with a few bits of ancillary hardware and nothing else. The dealers are also feeling the draught as you have noticed and are looking at other computers to make money with, I don’t blame them. If Apple do not admit the Apple Il exists (except for the IIgs prices tucked away at the back of their current price lists) the you cannot really blame them, ClockTower still supports the Apple Il and MGA still support the Apple II, but they have been feeling the pinch and so have cut down on their advertising in the last few issues. Tam resigned to all of this now, but will do whateverIcan to support existing users of the Apple II series. The Apple II computers that still survive are not going to go away and shall need support for some time to come. Thave always predicted that one day Apple will drop the Macintosh. With the new projects being undertaken under the Apple/I8M alliance, this day is not far off. I suspect the Macintosh world will then get exactly the same treatment we have had! Meanwhile Apple2000 still supports ALL Apple comput- ers and always will! You have not been able to get some programs to work with the AE ColorLink-GS, I must have missed out that this device existed, but can only guess that it is the Double Hi- Res programs that do not display in colour. This was a problem with many of the RGB boards around a few years ago. There is no solution if that is the case other than to get Apple 2000 allgs CPU torun the monitor! Ifyou do go the IIgs route then you should be able to get one from any Apple dealer, including Bidmuthin. Thee Ilgs is still in the Apple price lists! There are some secondhand ones every so often in the magazine but they usually come with drives and monitor. You would need to get at least the full 1.25 megabyte basic IIgs, but if you intend to programme with it then I would suggest at least 2 mb if not 4 mb. I found that I could not work easily with under 2 mb using the APW shell and have the Cirtech Primo card with 4 mb on board. An accelerator is a must for the IIgs, ] use the TransWarp one, and have a computer that is as fast as my SE/30 sitting next to it and with as much memory! APC Transporter will of course work in the //e as well as the IIgs. Itisa 756k XT clone using CGA colour graphics. As long as MS-DOS software will run in thatenvironment, itall does actually work. Even comms programs using the serial ports. I use it to get material in and out of the Bulletin Board computer almost every day. 1 agree with you about the policy Apple have over upgrading computers at such frequent intervals. Technol- ogy does not stand still and Apple are obliged to be at the leading edge. The computers do indeed get upgraded too fast. However, in the Macintosh world most users are ‘power users’ and will probably only use a few programs on their computers. They will not worry if the computer only last a year or so as they will wish to upgrade anyway. Iam in this position at the college where I teach. Our first Macs were SE's. These are now too slow for our needs and with only 20mb drives have been relegated to word-processors. They seemed fine when we first got them, but the SE/30’s we have replaced them with are so much faster. I now need another SE/30 and discover it has been made obsolete! I shall be trying some LC’s and will see how we get on with them. However they will probably be obsolete by next year when a 69030 version appears. The LC is a possible solution to your dilemma. With a/ /e board inside it you would be able to use your //e software and also have the full Mac environment at your fingertips. Witha builtin 40 mb hard drive and a SuperDrive, it is also cheaper than a Ilgs. It will run the Soft PC program as well so you can have your MS-DOS machine that way! This is laa FELLTTATTTTAL LAEEL ATA TA ATAA AATA Att LEE PEL TLE PIE TEE TIP OEE Abdes GADPEEP ARLES — AETAS ete righis LEA LED bball hl TAFE LEE ast Vbdd bE ddd ddEdEd TAEEE EE AGATE ft} ///// The Apple Bulletin Board System Speeds: V21(300) thru V42bis(9600) 8N1 24 hours lodem: PACE Ultralink 32 using V42 LAPM MNP TABBS is available Q The TABBS message system is more than just a Bulletin Board, With a Shopping Mall where you can browse the Apple2000 catalogues and order the goods you require; a library with over 2000 compressed files for the Apple II, Ilgs and Macintosh; a private and public E-mail service; file transfers that can be enclosed in private or public mail; message areas covering many topics including the Apple II, the ilgs and Macintosh; lively debating halls; with Xmadem, Ymadem, Kermit and Zmodem file transfers; multi-speed access at all speeds up to 9600 baud; 24 hour operation; and much, much more make TABRS the premier Apple Bulletin Board serving the United Kingdom and Europe. Give TABBS a call today! Ring TABBS on (@22%) 743797 at any speed through V21, V22, V23, V22bis to V42 MNP 8N1 A A 2000 >>>>> TABBS TOP MENU <<<<< e. PP <#>Endeall <.>Utilities Bulletin <:>Time <Groodbye Board <I> Apple }{ folder <2> Apple IIgs folder System <3> Macintosh folder <4> <S> <6> AppleZ000 folder Developers folder Public areas <D>ownload Libraries <M>ailbox <N>ews Columns <A>dvertisment Hoarding <S>hopping Mall <Wrhat’s new on TABBS <H>elp files for TABBS 24 hours a day > February 1992 real heresy, Ewen recommending a Macintosh! Publish-It v4 is an excellent program and it will support the LaserWriter. The llgs still has problems with some of the 16 bit software and runs smoother with P8 material. I would always use P8 AppleWorks rather than the GS version, but then I can use the Macwhen I need to for DTP. However IIgs programs support the DeskJet and DeskWriter, and with the new System 6.0 for the Ilgs will support the StyleWriter. Hewlett-Packard have recently dropped the price of the DeskJet and especially the DeskWriter. This may explain the difference in prices you have seen. The DeskWriter should now be the same price as the StyleWriter with the colour version around twice that price. The only real differ- ence between the DeskJet and the DeskWriter is the inter- face. The DeskJet is better for the //e and of course will work fine on the IIgs. The DeskWriter was designed for the Mac and will work on the IIgs using the Independence drivers from Seven Hills. Finally, there {s a reasonable choice of program lan- guages for the IIgs. Most programmers either use assembly language under Merlin 16 or APW. Pascal and C are also available for the APW shell as well. Ewen Wannop « Dear Apple2000, I would like to use “Compuserve” and send and receive Fax direct from my Mac Ilci using a separate BT line from my normal ‘phone. Can you recommend what to use hardware and soft- ware? Trevor Nicholas Berkhamstead Hertfordshire OQ To join Compuserve you should ring 0800-289 378 and ask for a membership pack. Mention that you are an Apple2000 member and give thern your membership number. You will need to purchase a copy of CIM (Compuserve Information Manager) software at the same time as joining. Although you can access Compuserve with standard comms software, CIM is recommended for ease and speed of access, it does not cost very much. You would like to use your I{ci for sending and receiving FAX. May I make a few observations. Using a FAX machine of any sort requires a dedicated phone line or a voice detecting switch that can switch the phone line when a FAX modem connects. However to receive FAXes, it also requires a FAX machine or interface that is active all the time. Although there are many FAX cards and modems that have software that will run in the background on the IIci, it means that you must leave the computer on all the time. There is also an overhead in processor time while a FAX is being received, and if you have a crash during FAX reception you will lose the incom- ing FAX. Sending FAXes are of course a different proposition and it means that you can use all the graphic interfaces of the Mac to process and generate FAX messages when sending from a Mac itself. Ifall you want to do issend text FAXes then Compuserve will do this for you without having a FAX line. You will not of course be able to get any in return. I personally feel that if you are going to send and receive many FAXes it is better to have a normal stand alone FAX machine. You can still send the output of your Mac, you would just have to print the document first. o 5 There are a number of FAX modems for the Mac. Both external and internal. | have not got an exhaustive listand have had little feedback from members. I will publish this reply in the magazine and hope that we can get direct feedback from members who have used them on the Mac. Ewen Wannop ¢ Dear Apple2000, I would like to ask about the PD Software library. When Iscan through the disk catalogue, I discovered that there are some fonts called Laser fonts. Are they PostScript fonts or are they just screen display fonts? Since I sometimes do graphic design to earn some extra money formy Mac, Ineed quite a lot of fonts butcan't afford to buy. If they are as good as PostScript fonts I would like to buy them all. Please tell me the disk number because I'm not quite sure which is PostScript and which is bit map display (on the old catalogue stack there is no file format display). I just want those that have PostScript output. Then I can put down my PD software order from to get the Special Offer with other disks. The other thing is I’m not sure whether I can receive E- Mail or not with my system.! tried to send this letter on TABBS mailbox but I failed. I'm a new user to modems, can you please give me the cure? Where do I upload an leave messages on TABBS? Chi Yin Tsang (Andy) Islington London O Printing fonts get many names. Laser fonts, outline fonts, Postscript fonts are all the same thing. They should include not only the actual printing font but a second file with the screen font. You will find a few of printing fonts on TABBS. Beware though that the TABBS library entry for macintosh fonts are nearly all screen fonts. The laser fonts are found in the DTP library. I may well change all these libraries about in due course as I now have more storage on the system. Just keep watching! I cannot easily point out all the disks which have printing fonts on them. You could ty ringing the Mac Hotline and asking Norah Amold which disks they are. She puts the Mac library together. The TABBS E-Mail is specific to TABBS only. It does not go beyond there. Private E-Mail from the Mailbox option goes to the person you have sentitto only, Public mail in the other areas is seen by all unless you make it private. Your own modem at home will not receive E-Mail without setting up your own Bulletin Board system. Ihe Fax option is quite different, though it means having a phone line dedicated to the Fax modem or having a Fax detector box that can ring your voice phone if no Fax tone is received. Leaving messages on TABBS will depend on who you want to send it to. If it isa private message to one person only, go to Mailbox and Post it. If you want to leave a general question go to the correct area, Macintosh in your case, and postit to ALL. Ifyou prepare a message in advance and send it, be aware of some constraints. TABBS takes all empty lines as the end of message entry. If there is some- thing, even a space will do, the it will continue to accept data. It has to perform word wrap at the end of lines, so this may confuse the process. Use a space as the first character of a new paragraph to make sure it does issue a line break. It can be quite tricky sending prepared messages so experi- ment till you get it right. Ewen Wannop SBeos 6 E-Mail Via TABBS Dear Ewen, I've founda cheap source of *internal* SCSI drives for for the MAC. They are Apple stickered and the one! bought, a Seagate 160MB, appears new. The suppliers, see below, claim they are sourced in the UK and offer a 90 day warranty. The prices are as follows. 20MB Miniscribe £80 40MB Quantum £120 80MB Quantum £180 160MB Seagate £325 The company offering these have been around for ages - they offered a hard drive kit for the BBC in 1988 - and usually supply and service HDs for IBM PC compatibles. They've been very helpful in the past when I had a BBC and turned up trumps when my internal HD went down about a month ago. It’s buyer beware I suppose but I’m very satisfied and thought I'd pass this on. Their name and address is: Commonside Unit 31 193 Garth Road Morden Surrey SM4 4LZ and their phone number: 081 330 7533 Other Mac 88’s have been reluctant to post this as they sell HD’s themselves. I do repeat ‘buyer beware’ but have to say that Apple’s disk utilities have recognised my drive and I have had no problems with {t over the last 4 weeks. Commonside reckoned to have even larger MAC SCSI drives soon when I got mine in October. They have 200 of the 80MB Quantums. If anyone is close to Morden how about checking them out? David Evans e Dear Editor, Despite the article in Sept 90 Apple Slices, I still haven’t manage to get hold of the actual wiring and component changes required to cure my Mac Ilcx of its problem. Readers may recall that the Mac declines to switch on until the power plug has been disconnected for more than about eight seconds and then reconnected. Sometimes it has taken ten minutes or more trying before the Mac can be brought into life, and this can be annoying and frustrating. T put an enquiry a few days ago on the ‘Mac new users and help’ forum on CompuServe, and got two immediate replies. The first reply, from the USA, said thatif] found the cure, be sure to let him know, for he had a Mac with the same problem, The second reply, also from the USA said why bother to switch the Mac off. He had had his Mac running nonstop for two years. However a Mac and ancillary gear takes around 3SOwatts, and would cost some £150 a year to keep running continuously. Then there is the problem that my cat likes to lie on the Mac Monitor, so smothering the ventilation slots. She has learnt not to do it when I’m Bes &@ Bideford North Devon Apple 2000 around, but the moment my back is tumed she homesinon the centrally heated spot. 1 am still waiting for someone to tell me the permanent cure. I purchased a DeskWriter soon after they appeared on the UK market, and I read Ewen's admirable report on the machine with interest and admiration. He doesn’t seem to have missed much, but, nevertheless, the printer does have some eccentricities which are revealed only after consider- able use. The quality of the print was in a different league to my previous ImageWriter 1, so that I could forgive H.P. some of the DeskWriter’s idiosyncrasies. It is important to riffle through the paper before putting it into the printer, for if two sheets stick together you will have the embarrassment of finding the first few lines printed on the lower sheet and the rest on the upper sheet. The paper feed is temperamental and if the top sheet isn’t absolutely flat, with no dog eared corners, then the paper feed will fail and the Mac will report that the printer is out of paper. Printing both sides of the sheet can be a problem if the first side isn’t pressed flat and completely dry. If the pile of paper is pushed tight against the inner stop, then the paper feed will probably fail. It’s best to leave a millimetre gap. The DeskWriter is limited to 50 A4 pages a day, which is a ridiculously low figure. If you use the printer only for the sporadic letter and the occasional print-out, or if you have a benevolent employer eager to provide new ink cartridges at £15 a time, then the limitation of the printer to about 150 A4 sheets of mixed “best” and “faster” printing (H.P.’s own estimate) per ink cartridge will be no disadvantage, though the cartridges always run out just as your back is tured and you are printing the second side. That works out at 10p an Ad page, just for the ink. If, like me, the majority of your printing is in “best” mode, then you can expect to print less than 100 A4 sheets per cartridge, and that comes to 15p for an A4 page. To keep costs down to an acceptable level, you have to reload the cartridge - I found Skrip ink the best of those available from my local stationer - and the way to do it by injecting 10ml into the foam interior of the cartridge by your local junkie’s syringe has been described several times in Apple 2000 and elsewhere. A cartridge will usually start to fail after a dozen or so refills. Isee that Ewen fell foul of the DeskWriter’s insistence on TIFF images at 300 dpi or an exact submultiple of 300 dpi. Some of the Desk Top Publishing programs have the infu- riating habit of shrinking images by about 5%, so that if you put a 300 dpi picture into them, you get a smaller 315 dpi image out, and the DeskWriter doesn’t like it, and will insert a checkerboard pattern of lines as on p 47 of Ewen’s article. John Stanier ¢ Dear Ewen, Having read with interest your article on the HP DeskWriter I wonder if you could offer me some advice regarding the use of an ink-jet printer with the Apple Ilgs. Is it best to use - An HP DeskJet 500 with an Epson FX Emulation card, or a DeskWriter with Harmonie and PORT.BXY Driver Utility. Does either set-up offer an advantage? The overall price is much the same but I can appreciate that the DeskWriter would be a better buy if ! was ever planning to get a Mac. i) Hornchurch Essex February 1992 Tuse AppleWorks 3.0 and Publishit! 2.0. Will either of the above work with PublishIt! ? 1 have been told that the Deskjet S00 with the FX card will print PublishIt! documents provided that they are mainly text. Hopefully these are simple questions for you to answer. Finally my thanks toyouand all at Apple20060 forall you do. The magazines alone are worth the subscription al- though being a relativenewcomer to computers a good deal of it is above my head. Stephen J Raindle Oldo not have direct experience of the DeskJet 500, but as faras 1am aware the only real difference between it and the DeskWriter is in the input ports. On the DeskJet S00 I think there are both serial and parallel ports. If no serial port is available then you will indeed need the Epson card. If a serial port is available then you will be able ta direct connect to the GS serial port. The DeskWriter has a single mini-8 connector, but this can be used as either a direct connect port or an AppleTalk port. To direct connect on the IIgs you will need a standard ligs/Mac to ImageWriter II cable. AppleTalk requires two LocalTalk kits, but as there are no AppleTalk drivers for the DeskWriter on the Igs this is rather academic. If you are thinking of getting a Mac at any stage the DeskWriter is obviously the better solution. There are two methods of driving the DeskWriter. Harmonie as you mention and Independence from Seven Hills. Both as you point out need the high speed port driver PORT.BXY. I have used the Independence drivers in this combination and it works well from GS programs. They were originally written to drive the DeskJet 500 directly, but using the high speed serial driver are just as transparent, Driving specialist printers from GS/OS is normally quite easy as all you need are the correct drivers installed. Driving them from ProDOS 8 is another matter altogether. There is usually no way to intercept the output from the program you are using and get it to the correct drivers. Both AppleWorks 3.0 and PublishIt! just do not have the right drivers within them to drive either the Deskjet or the DeskWriter. Asyouhavea llgs, I would suggest taking the AppleWorks 3.0 files and printing them using a program like WriteAway. You will then be able to use the full range of fonts available to the IIgs. This route will not work with Publishit! however as it just does not have the right drivers. You will need to badger the publishers to include drivers for the DeskJet or DeskWriter! Ewen Wannop ¢ Dear Ewen, In reply to the letter of D Martin of East Ogwell, Newton Abbot which isin the Apple2000 of October 91 Vol 6(5) page 6 lower left: Payroll ][is written in Basic, and is copy protected. Ihave removed the protection and have recoded the National Insurance parts (but not the ‘contracted out’ options) to accommodate the current NI algorithm. Ifyou would kindly pass on my address to D Martin I should be able to help him. There have been many comments recently in both Apple2000 and A+ regarding moving data to/from MS-DOS oe 7 platforms. I have a copy of CrossWorks and find this an excellent piece of kit, The user interface on both the Apple and the MS-DOS ends are of the AppleWorks style, though notso smooth. Data is transferred rapidly via the serial port at 19k baud using the built in //gs and //c ports, or a Super Serial Card (others are supported) using the supplied lead which has three types of Apple serial plugs on one end, and the two types of XT/AT plugs on the other. Not only is the data transferred, but it may also be ‘translated’ from AppleWorks to the more common MS-DOS packages (Works2, Lotus] 23, WordPerfect5, DBase3). Most other MS- DOS packages read/write these common formats, making a long list of packages than can interchange data with AppleWorks. Occasionally the transfer hangs inexplicably, but when it does it is easy to escape from the situation and re-start. I find the package very convenient in that I can set up a document/spread sheet/data base on the friendly, quick AppleWorks 3, and when it is working, ship it across to MS-DOS to be tuned up on the customer's chosen package + the only danger has been when the Apple (with 1 or 2 usable meg) swamps the 640k MS-DOS limit. Tam told by Nigel Bradley that another, similar package exists for use with the PC-Transporter. CrossWorks is rather expensive; mine cost £100, so if members want discs translated, then I could provide a service at £5 a disc (all media to be supplied). Dave Sewart There is always more than one way to crack a nut when computers are involved, The advantage of CrossWorks is of course the built in translators. A comms program at both ends would do the other part of the process just as well though you would have to get the cable. The PC Transporter comes with a program to translate from ProDOS to MS-DOS, but does not include any other form of transiation. If anyone can tell us the name and supplier of the translator that Nigel refers to we will publish that information. Apple File Exchange on the Mac performs these kind of translations when you copy between MS-DOS the Mac or ProDOS. Ewen Wannop « Dear Editor, I would very much appreciate any assistance you could give me with regard to a data transfer problem. | have a substantial number of floppy disks carrying text files gener- ated by Wordstar version 3.3 under CP/M on an Apple //e. The problem is that I need to get these files onto an IBM PC compatible machine and be able to edit them once they have been moved. Do you know of any combination of hardware and software which will enable me to carry out both the transfer from Apple to IBM and retrieval of the data into a usable format on the latter machine. At present I have a couple of //e’s with floppy drives and a Cirtech PlusDISK, a Tandon 286 and a Tulip 386SX. I also have a Racal Milgo Maxam IV modem running off the Tandon and an old Pace Nightingale modem with a Mastercard which I have used with the Apple. I know that one can get a PC Emulator to work with a Macintosh and I believe there is one for the Apple IIgs, but is there an Apple emulator which one can putina PC, as this might solve the first problem. I would be grateful for any info and any source for the equipment required. Inciden- pa «| Ashton Chester 8 tally, I still have most of my Apple2000 mags over the last three years so if this topic has been covered, and you can recall the issue, perhaps you could let me know. I’ve not come across anything myself. Richard Holland PS 1 hope that some of the advertisers in Apple2000 who seem to have dropped away recently will eventually retum. There have been a number of occasions in the past when I have located and item via this source, and, of course, the magazine needs the revenue. O There is no Apple II emulator for the PC that I know of, and certainly I would suspect that it would not support CP/ M even if there was one. There are though various routes that will allow you to transfer the data from the CP/M disks to the PC, However there is one step that you may have to take first before you can transfer the files into the PC environment. This will be to copy the files from CP/M to the more Apple II friendly environment of DOS 3.3 or ProDOS. If you do not have such a utility then Chameleon from our Special Release software library will do the trick. APC transporter will certainly translate the files for you, but at a hefty price. It can transfer from ProDOS disks to standard 5.25 PC disks with ease. There is also SoftLink which is a hardware software package and will connect the two together and send the files to each other, and of course CrossWorks referred to in the previous letter. As you eiieod tare a modem and a serial port at each end, this will be the easiest way for you to transfer the files. If you are prepared to make up a null modem cable to connect between the two serial ports then you can dispense with the modems and simply connect the two together using a piece of cable. You then use a comms program at each end to transfer the files to each other using a file protocol such as Xmodem. If you do not have a CP/M comms program you will first need to transfer the files to whatever operating system yourcomms program uses, with Chameleon. If you have a Nightingale Mastercard combi- nation this will probably be DOS 3.3 under Data Highway. If you do not want to make up a cable, you can some- times plug one of the modem phone leads into the spare socket on the back of the other modem and connect the two that way. This does not always work however. You will be limited to a maximum of 1200 baud using the Nightingale in this way. We have covered similar topics in the magazine, though I am not sure of page numbers offhand. I hope this letter gives you some pointers as to how you will solve your problem. Ewen Wannop e Dear Sir, 1 heard of your group through Roger D’Arcy computers, and hopefully we can help each other eventually, but most probably you can help me more initially. 1 was able to purchase an Apple //e (at very low cost) complete with:- Monitor (monochrome) 2 disc drives and card 1 printer card 80 column card Model 7710 asynchronous serial interface and manual Graphics tablet (minus a couple of leads) and manual ase Glasbum North Yorks Apple 2000 Floppy discs: Apple presents, AppleWriter II (master), AppleWriter II (tutor), DOS 3.3 system master, ProDOS users disk, 5 unused disks. Manuals: Apple II, The Dos Manual, A touch of AppleSoft basic, AppleSoft Basic programmers reference Vol I & Vol II. The person who sold this said that it was outmoded and that no one provided any software etc. for itand the most TI could make of it was a word processor! I must explain that 1 know absolutely nothing about computers, but thought that the £20 this cost was worthit to learn alittle aboutthem and it wasn'ta lot of money to lose if things didn’t work out. What I am interested in is learning how to use this equipment and eventually putting it to some use. I haven't started into the books too much yet so I'll see how I go on with them. One of the things I would like to do is translate German - English and English - German. I have dozens (1000's probably) of cuttings from German newspapers and magazines. Conceming one of my interests, when they are translated | would want to have a printed copy to keep, is there such a program available? If not could one be made? lalso think a couple of easy exciting games would help me with familiarising myself with the computer. 1 don’t know how the group (Apple2000) works but presumably you pool anything or loan it to people needing itetc. within the group. I am prepared to do this or buy such things as games, software w! ich | need etc. Well now you know about me and my aims etc. I will be pleased to hear from you, and get to know about your group. John Place Ql am sure we can help each other. You have captured the spirit of Apple2000 in a nutshell! The //e is certainly not outmoded. It is still being manu- factured and sold in the States, though Apple UK will not tell you that. It does make a good word processor, but with a wealth of software available for it and more being written all the time, it is still very much alive! There are several places in the UK, as you will see from the advertisements in the magazine, that still support the II series. Of course Apple2000 supports ALL Apple computers. Your price of £20 is a real bargain. The usual price is nearer ten times that. You will find of course that adding to the system will cost considerably more than your starting price. How we work as a group is to be a focal point for exchanging information. This is done through the pages of the magazine, the telephone and the Bulletin Board. Wedo hold extensive libraries of Public Domain and Shareware software, and sell copies of these disks at a nominal price. However these disks are mainly utilities and not full feature programs. The copyright law rightly forbids us in the UK of copying commercial software. This is normally available from a dealer such as ClockTower in London. Your main interest is in translation I see. There are no programs that I am aware of, even for large mainframe computers, that can successfully translate one language into another. It would be possible to translate a word at @ time, but not the meaning of sentences. This is just one of the things that computers have not yet learned to do asit takes far too much processing time and memory. It would be almost an impossible task, certainly on the //e to write a program to do it. A dictionary can do the word translation job just as well! I can see however that a word processor and printer would help you considerably in this task though, You have acopy of AppleWriter, though you donot say which version you have, If you do not have the ProDOS //e version then! g February 1992 would suggest either getting that one, or getting a copy of AppleWorks 2.1. AppleWorks has the advantage that you can bolt on extras such as spelling checkers. | have not seen aGerman dictionary for these modules but | would presume one existed. You will also need a printer. As you have a serial card you ought to look for an Apple ImageWriter printer. These are compatible with most programs on the //e. Altemma- tively you could get a parallel printer and there are lots of those about on the open market. We have just updated our library catalogue disk. If you ask for the library Ie catalogue disk you will get the right one for you. The disk costs £2 including P&P and VAT. In the catalogue you will see a large range of disks of different types, There are some games on the Xtras 5.25 disks that might interest you. Please note that these disks require a copy of Shrinkit to unpack some of the files. The Xtras scheme is normally linked to the magazine and so full descriptions are given in in the magazine of what is on the disks. [would suggest perhaps getting disks Xtras.P8.No.11, Xtras.P8.No.8 and PRO2S5. You will need to use the UnShrink program on PRO2S to unshrink the SHRINK program on Xtras.P8.No.11 to unshrink any .SDK files such as the one on Xtras.P8.No.8. Also on Xtras.P8.No.8 are some other games. All the disks have a variety of programs that will help you understand how the //e works. There is no easy way to learn how to use the //e, though the Apple ][User’s Guide for Apple ][ Plus and Apple //e may help. We also sell that book, order code 0 07 881176 7. The Editor é Dear Apple2000, T have recently bought and Apple II Europlus and an Apple //c, however I am in need of advice. Could you please tell me how I can get these machines to display on my TV as I cannot afford to buy a monitor. lam also very interested to know what kind of support you offer in the way of spares, add ons and software (I also need manuals). J Dorza Whitstable Kent Q We ourselves do not supply spare parts and ‘addons’ for the Apple II series. We do sell Public Domain and Shareware software but not full blown software packages. We support the dealers who still do sell these things. You could try ClockTower in London or one of the other dealers. Details of these dealers, and other advertisers, can be found in our magazine. You will probably find the //cis the most useful of the two computers. Itisstill being manufactured and software is still being written for it. Monitors are not expensive for monochrome ones. Al- most any monochrome monitor will do and you should be able to pick one up for about £10-20. Colour is a different matter. Both the II EuroPlus and the //c output NTSC line video. This is the US standard and will not by itself generate colour on UK televisions. You can get PAL encoder cards secondhand for the H+. This will give you not only PAL colour but an RF signal that will go into a television, The picture quality is not too good however. The //c originally came with a small odd shaped device in white plastic that hooked on the back of the //c and gave a PAL RF colour composite signal that would drive a television directly. You might be able to get one of these adaptors secondhand. .) 9 Otherwise it would be difficult to drive a television directly. Both computers however can indirectly drive a television in black and white only by connecting the phono video socket on the back to the line input socket of a video recorder. You can then use the video recorder to drive the television at RF level. The Editor s DD atime Civetiticiaal Dear Editor, Although this is my first year of membership, I bought my //e system back in early 1983 (for a lot of shekels). My system comprises of a //e with an extended 80-col card, 2 disk ][‘s, parallel printer card, green screen monitor and a Juki 6100 daisywheel printer. 1 use it mainly for WP and record-keeping. Firstly, referring to Lorin Enavs’ article in the August magazine, I decided to compare numbers, only to find them different. The chips are also in different locations. The motherboard photograph shown in the //e Technical Refer- ence Manual also bears little resemblance to my //e. My motherboard has slot 0 in the centre and a colour killer switch on the right-hand side. Anyway back to the article: 1, The start-up screen display is; ‘Apple ][* 2. White screen-printed at back left corner; Apple Ile; P.A.L. 1982 3. Behind slots 3, 4 & S in solder; APPLE COMPUTER; 820- 0073-B c1982 4. Location E2: 341-0135 CD ROM (printed); 342-0135-A (1982) fitted 4. Location ES: 341-0134 EF ROM (printed); 342-0134-A (1982) fitted 6. Location E9: 341-016x VIDEO ROM (printed); 342-0160- A fitted As you can see, the numbers are different to the article and Mike Bass’ letter in the October mag. Also, Idon'tknow whether my //e can be enhanced. Secondly, from the //e Tech. Ref. Manual, the video output, apparently, is a modified form of the NTSC system and not PAL. Here is a tip for anyone who begrudges paying the exotic price for a TV modulator and owns a video recorder. Locate the recorder VIDEO IN socket and plug into this, ensuring that you turn the videos’ tuner section off. See your videos’ operating instructions. This will work with any computer that outputs composite video signal of roughly 1- volt peak to peak. Thirdly, I can possibly help G Elliott of Cleveland (letter June), with a copy of the Quick File // Samples disk and original book from the Product Training Pack. So, if he or she would like to contact me if the above is suitable. Youcan print my name and address. As I too have ‘time on my hands’, due to my ‘enforced retirement’ from ill-health, | would be also be willing to copy (using AppleWriter //} relevant Apple J[ items as suggested by Harold Bennett. One last query. In the August 1991 magazine there is a list titled ‘APPLE I] INFORMATION SOURCE’. Does this list imply that copies of the articles etc. can be obtained from Peter Davis? Keep up the good work! Robert T Smith - &eée 10 OL apologise once again for the misleading article on the //e version numbers that we published. I explained all in the December 1991 letters pages of the Apple2000 maga- zine. From the numbers you quote you will see that you have a standard //e board. You will certainly be able to ‘enhance’ your //e, but will need to get hold of the chips to do so. The three ROMS, CD, EF and VIDEO, can be replaced with standard 64k EPROMs copied from a genuine //e enhanced set. To complete the enhancement the 6502 processor must be replaced with a Rockwell R6SCO2 chip. You may be able to commercially get hold of an en- hancement kit, but as Apple UK do not support the Apple II series any more, this may be difficult to find. The EPROMs are of course copyright by Apple and so should in theory not be copied. The R65C02 is easily obtained from many elec- tronic suppliers as are blank 64k EPROMs. I think an important point is being raised here, and one that you raise in your offer of a copy of the Quick File Samples disk. There is much in the way of hardware and software thats still required by users of Apple I] computers. Much of this is now unobtainable. The //e enhancement kit isacase in point. Ifyou did manage to finda kit, itis possible that this has been copied itself and is not original. In the same way that we now copy and supply Apple II System Software as it is not obtainable through a proper route, | think itis in order to copy the Apple //e EPROMs for personal use only. If you are in doubt about it, write to Apple and see what they say. We write to the Apple legal department and told them we are distributing Apple II System Disks. They did not reply. Other software which is known to be unobtainable, or the publisher no longer exists, can I feel be copled and passed on if it is to replace a damaged or lost original. It should not of course be copied for any other reason. The output of your //e is certainly PAL video and suitable for UK colour TVs. The P.A.L. on your motherboard indi- cates that. They did not publish a Tech. Ref, Manual for the UK version hence the reference to NISC colour, The list of articles by Peter Davis was only a reference to those he had collated himself. He is unable to provide copies lam afraid. However as Apple2000 is unable to reprint old magazines, and we do not hold stocks of thern (our garages are full of Apple2000 material as itis!), it is perfectly in order to photo-copy from any of our own publications. Ewen Wannop « Dear Ewen, First may | thank you and your colleagues on the committee, together with the regular authors of articlesand the other volunteers for the work they putin to run this club. Up to now I have been a lonely Apple, but things would have been much more difficult without your efforts. Unfor- tunately I have no special expertise to offer. Ihave been a member since 1983 following the purchase ofa //e. In April 1989 I acquired an ex-Tachograph Ilgs for £300 (incl. VAT) and little by little [ have built up my system. Part of that process of improvement involved buying a Cirtech PlusRam GS8 card with Imb (from A2000). One year later the Primo card was available (at a lower price) and the new phrase ‘DMA compatibility’ was introduced. I first had experience of this trying to use my new hard disk with the new Apple SCSI card early this year! 1 decided to phone those nice people at Cirtech fora chat about DMA; they soon replied with a diagram showing how @ Newcastle-u-Lyme Staffs Apple 2000 to adapt the PlusRam card to make it DMA compatible, without the expense of a new card. Since my last serious electronic soldering was as a Royal Navy Radar Mechanic in the 1940’s I did not tackle it. For £10 + VAT + P&P they made the modification. I had an extra 1Imb at the same time; who knows, with System 6.0. and HyperStudio 3.0 (my 2.1b arrived last week) round the comer it may be essential. I considered the information worth passing on because I have not seen it in print and there must be many with the older memory cards. Bill Ruston é Dear Sirs, Having acquired AppleWorks 3.0 some time ago, | find that I cannot set my printer up for word processing, | can manage the Database and Spreadsheet but as for the word processing side I am at a complete loss. I would be grateful if some help could be forthcoming. The printer I use is a CPA 80 {P} and try as I may Iam not able to set the printer up to give me what I require. My set-up is an Apple //e, twin 5.25 drives, Imbyte card and CPA 80{P)} printer and Grappler card. Any help would be appreciated. ME! I'm 68yrs+ not educated in the finer arts of comput- ing, though I know that 12x12=144 so the old grey matter is easily confused. I do notice that there is very little pertaining to AppleWorks 3.0 in the magazine these days. Still I hope that I can be given a ‘walking stick’ to help me on my way, G Philipson Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria Q You do not explain precisely what your problems are. I assume that you are not getting condensed and expanded text when this has been selected and that AppleWorks is only printing standard sized text. AppleWorks is orientated round the ImageWriter printer and any printers that do not accept those control codes will need to be installed as custom printers. I do not know the CPA 80 printer so do not know exactly what it requires. If you refer to the section on installing a custom printer on page A-6 of your AppleWorks reference manual you will see how to install a custom printer into AppleWorks. If you cannot see one which corresponds to your CPA 80 (refer to its manual for compatibility), then choose ‘custom printer’, Pages A-8 to A-9 then explain how to tell AppleWorks about the codes needed by your printer to print the various styles of text. You will need to refer to your printer manual for the actual codes required. Articles in the magazine are contributed by members. Nobody seems to be writing about AppleWorks 3.0 at the moment. Can anyone oblige? Ewen Wannop Olfyou have an urgent pnehens you shouldring the Hotline to get help. Letters and Fax submitted to Apple2000 will normally be dealt with as part of the editorial content of the next magazine, We shall endeavour to answer 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 retumed to you when the magazine is published. 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If you have a modem, send us letters, articles and Public Domain programs to the Sysop on TABBS February 1992 O Please send us your ID's either to the Apple2000 ID 76004,3333 or to the PO Box in Liverpool or of course to the Sysop of TABRS iin ais), ‘ual tpt 76004 ,3333 John Beattie 100012,360 Peter Bell 100010, 404 David Collins 100016,3060 Ken Dawson 100016,2275 Michael Dawson 100015,2232 Gary Doades 100016,2353 Felim Doyle 100016,1151 Greg Elkin 100023,616 David Evans 100014,1161 Matcen 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 Hizabeth Littlewood 100016,401 lohn Maltb* 100014,2216 fark O'Neill 100016,476 Steve Perry 100013,365 jeremy Quinn 100016,560 john Richey 100016, 1037 ‘ussell Ridout 72007,211 Arthur Robinson 73457,3614 John Stanier 100010,2611 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 Q Send us your AppleLink ID's to the Apple2000 box. 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Order from: Resource Central P.O. Box 11250 Overland Park Kansas 66207-1250 U.S.A. All usual credit cards accepted. OGS: the magazine for software develop- ers is published by EGO Systems. This magazine is published bi-monthly and is now the only magazine devoted to pro- gramming on the Apple IIgs now that 8/ 16-Central has ceased to be. Contact: EGO Systems PO Box 15366 Chattanooga TN 374150366 QO They do accept credit cards as far as we are aware. Subscription cost unknown at the time of writing. Q The A+ magazine is published every month and costs $82.97 for one year, Contact: inCider/A+ PO Box 50358 Boulder CO 80321-0358 <é Compuserve/Forum World's largest online database with many specialist Apple forums. Large li- braries of PD and ShareWare software, real time conferences, message areas and much more, Accessed ether directly on071-4908881, or through the BT DialPlus network, You do not need to have a 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 comtact: Compuserve/Forum Freepost (BS 6971) 15/16 Lower Park Row PO Box 676 Bristol BS99 1YN 0800-289 378 or 0272-255111 Q Mention you are an Apple2000 mem- ber. If you are a Macintosh user then order a copy of Compuserve Information Man- ager at the same time. cf @ & CompuServe is the biggest online sys- tem that interests Apple users. Ithas many areas within MAUG of specific interest to us, However, there is another online sys- term in the States that has special areas for Apple users. GEnie is a branch of the General Electric company and the online service is now available for UK users. The GE Services network that is used from the UKisin fact the one also used by AppleLink. Online charges to GEnie are charged in two price ene Peak periods (Mon-Fri 8 am to 6 pm Eastern Standard Time) are charged at $20 and offpeak (allother times) at $8. The offpeak charge is therefore cheaper than CompuServe. These however are the online charges only. You have to access GEnie in the first place, So far they have not installed a similar access to CompuServe so It will be necessary to have yourown PSSor DialPlus account andcall the NUA‘334219601282'. Thisisa URNUAsoonly the£1.65 anhour PSS charge will apply. The total charges for GEnie therefore work out at around £7.06 an hour offpeak. Enter XJM11797,CENTRAL at the U#= prompt when you reach GEnic and follow instructions. To obtain a DialPlus account contact: British Telecom Customer Service Managed Network Services St. Andrews House Portland Street Manchester M60 1BT See you all online! e S2Be@ees 12 AppleXtras Xtras.P8.No.13 Side One T BIN1.BXY LIB 2176 T ADOC.SHK LIB 56019 T LISTO24.BxY LIB 74496 Side Two T EAMON.GMH.SHK LIB 51149 T Eamon.194.SHK LIB 58213 T TRANSMOG.SHK LIB 14000 T MASSCHAN .SHK LIB 8751 Xtras.G$.No.13 Desk.Accs DIR > 1 $12 1 Calcul, BXY Lis 46080 1 QMount .BXY LIB 9472 1 CPUuse.BXY LIB 3328 1 Calendar .SHK LIB 16677 1 ShutDown.SHK LIB 4718 MENUTIME DIR > 2 512 2 MENUTIME .DOCS TXT 1028 2 MenuTime STR 459 Programs PiIRI= 4 ey 4 NIGHTSKY.GS.SHK LIB 204043 4 UtLaunch .BXY LIB 201472 4 CLOCK.GS.SHK LIB 11715 4 Apple.Bowl S16 19231 Graphics DIR = 5§ 512 5 SupVW22.SHK LIB 65096 5 SUPERMAGIC.BXY LIB 106160 5 Old.Master.3200 BIN 38400 QO It has been apparent from recent library sales that there is a growing need for material on 5.25 inch disk format. We therefore have expanded the Xtras P8 disk to two sides. ‘Twice the material for the same price! Just flip the disk for the extra programs. As there is nat too much new material appearing for P& these days we may have to use older material if necessary in the future. We shall endeavour to make sure all included material Is new to the Apple II library. The Editor é /XTRAS.P8.NO.13/ Oi Use Shrinklt to unpack SHK and .BXY files BINI.BXY A small utility in two parts to allow lower case input under DOS 3.3. The Installer ROM.ENH.VO.1R.1 is run to install the code for use, It will then clean up any line input containing lower case before the command is executed. Complete with Merlin source code. ADOC.SHK A-DOC is an AppleSoft Program Documenter. It will cross reference all the variables and other statements and ask you to enter an explanation. You can then print the result for reference or save for later use. The files must be run. from a disk called ADOC. LIST024.BXY Seren 2.4 of the excellent LIST file viewing and printing utility. @a@ Apple 2000 EAMON.GMH.SHK This ts the ProDOS version of the Eamon Games Master program disk. The DOS 3.3 version is in our II disk library, Eamon.194.SHK This file unpacks to create an adventure game to use with the Eamon Games Master disk. The Attack of the Kretons is one of the many Eamon adventure games available. TRANSMOG.SHK This is a “cellular automaton‘ from Glen Bredon. Some thing like the Game of Life. MASSCHAN.SHK This little program changes file types by directory. You can either Change All or Change From. It is useful for such things as changing the Font types for use with Publishlt! /XTRAS.GS.NO.13/ Calcul BXY A full featured scientific calculator in an NDA. The calculator is based on the Texas Instruments TI-35 scientific calculator and it uses the SANE toolkit for extra pase QMount.BXY QuickMount speeds up the mounting of a file server hard disk, When run it will mount a desgnated hard disk on the network. This little utility is from Apple and was wriiten for System 6.0. CPUuse.BXY Gives a thermometer bar graphic display of how busy the CPU currently is. Calendar.BXY A Calendar with a difference. Unpack and place the Icon in your Icons folder. Now restart the Finder and open the Calendar folder. You must use System 5.0.x for this. See if you can work out how it is done. A long standing Apple2000 member contributed this little utility. ShutDown.SHK Have you ever shutdown and forgotten you had important data in your /RAM disk? Never againl. This little reminder will let you know before that fatal moment! MenuTime A small Startup file that places a clock at the far right of your Menu bar. Instructions in the MENUTIME.DOCS file. NIGHTSKY.SHK See where the planets are from anywhere in the world. Input your latitude and longitude and a display of the night sky will be drawn. You can then print the screen if you wish. You can also 200m in to any part of the sky and ee the oe ih chase up. werful and impressive program. UtLaunch.BXY i i UtilityLaunch is an alternative programmable program Jauncher. You can launch by large icons or by a menu of buttons. Full instructions are given. CLOCK.GS.SHK A fun full screen analog clock for the gs, Run it when you are tied of playing Arkanoids! Apple Bort Improve your throw at the Ten Pin Bowl! A high-res representation of a three lane bowling alley from Apple. SupVW22,SHK SuperView Version 2.2. SuperView will view not only most picture formats but also PaintWorks animated pictures and 3200 pictures. An example of both animation and a 3200 picture is included. Use SuperView to view the last file on the disk. SUPERMAGIC.BXY Super Magic 320 is a set of assembly language routines for designing demo or arcade games. The ORG /M assembler or APW is required to assemble the routines for your own. use. A demo program is included to show you what the routines are capable of, Old_Master.3200 A tasteful 3200 picture of three unclothed ladies to grace your screen, February 1992 13 Appleseft Print-using routine From the questions received on the Hot-Line there are still many Applesoft BASIC users around. This is almost certainly because Applesoft is free, in the ROM, ofall Apple // computers from the Apple )[ plus onwards. This is com- pounded by many new users of Apple // computers who are buying them cheaply through auctions etc. Many program- mers spurn BASIC, but for writing simple text based pro- grams its ease of use and the speed at which programs can be written is difficult to beat. Presented here is a simple Print-Using routine that works with normal Applesoft and with the Beagle Compiler. To use it you need to make sure that you have set the string ZE$ = “000000000”, Also ensure that you have a string of spaces whichis SP$ =“ “. You should call the routine with the number you wish to format in the variable NU and the format in FMS. You will then get the answer in NU$ which you could print ata later time. Note that FM$ should consist of 999999s with the decimal point in the correct place, For instance if you wished to format .000789 as NNN.DDDD you would set FM$ = “999.9999” and would get the answer as‘ 0.0008’. The answer is in quotes to show the two spaces you get. 5 ZES = “000000000000” USPS (= * , 1600 REM “=== Print Using routine :FMS= formatter EG "999.99" = NNN.DD ETC. 1606 LN& = LEN (FM$) 1612 LD& = LN% - LEN ( STRS ( INT ( VAL (PMS)))) 1618 Lb& = LD% - (LD% > 0) 1624 LD = 10 * LDS 1630 N9 = INT (NU * LD + .5) : NUS = STRS ( ABS (N9)) 1632 ON LD% = 0 GOTO 1642 1634 M = Lot + 1 : IF LEN (NUS) < M THEN NU$ = RIGHTS (ZES + NUS,M) 1636 IF N9 < 0 THEN NUS = *-" + NUS 1638 M = LEN (NUS) - LD% > NUS = MIDS (NUS,1,M) + “.” + RIGHTS {NUS, LD$) 1642 IF LEN (NU$) > LN% THEN NU$ = LEFTS CO RMERRMAA HERE, LS) : GOTO 2 1644 NUS = 1654 RETURN 1690 GOSUB 1600:NUS$ = RIGHTS (SPS + NU$,LN*) “4 nus 48 + RETURN : REM === 4+VE === 1691 GOSUB 1600:NUS = “(" + NUS + ™)” : RETURN : REM === -VE === COMPUTER DOWN! 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Bill had an Apple IIgs with a plusRAM GS8 memory card and wanted to use an Apple DMA SCSI card to talk to his hard disk. Unfortunately the plusRAM GS8 like many other of the third party extended memory cards was not DMA compat- ible. John Robertson of Cirtech supplied Bill with a a description of how, with a few resistors anda soldering iron, he could make his plusRAM GS8 DMA compatible or he could send it to Cirtech to have the job done. Bill chose the latter. I have contacted Catriona McKendrick of Cirtech who has kindly given us permission to publish the method should other Apple 2000 members wish to upgrade their plusRAM GS8 boards. The details had not arrived by the time we went to press so they will appearin the April edition. High Speed DMA versus Cirtech SCSI Using standard Apple Iigs computers with a Cirtech Diamond hard drive I've found that there is very little difference in bootup times for GSOS 5.04 between the Apple DMA SCSI card and Cirtech’s own latest SCSI card which I believe does NOT use DMA! These boot up times are just about 25 seconds. I've always been surprised that the Apple SCSI DMA card isn’t that much faster! Dave Ward é & @ Hypertext in Context David Durling reviews a heavyweight book on Hypertext Hypertext in Context Edited by CLIFF McKNIGHT, ANDREW DILLON and JOHN RICHARDSON. Cambridge University Press (1991) The Cambridge series on electronic publishing. pp. ix + 166, £16.95 hardback, ISBN 0 521 37488X Simply stated, hypertext consists of nodes or ‘chunks’ of information and links between them. Any text which Teferences another can be seen as two nodes of information with the reference forming the link. Similarly, any text with footnotes can be seen as nodes of information, i.e. the text and the footnote, with the footnote marker providing the link. As such, hypertext is not new, with passing references going back to Aristotle. In the past there was certainly an appreciation of the interconnectedness of information. Although hypertext is notionally implemented in pa- per-based documents, it has had to wait for the enabling technology of the modern computer's processing power to provide the associative links. What makes hypertext differ- ent, and sets it apart from the most conceptually inter- twined paper document is that the links are machine supported. When the reader selects a hypertext link the apparent movement between the two nodes takes place automatically. This book seeks to explore the tripartite themes of peo- ple using computer based information to perform a task in a hypertext environment, In attempting to place current hypertext research in context, the authors have devoted some space to a history of the subject. Inevitably the 1945 Vannevar Bush article ‘As we may think’ is quoted, but the contributions of others are observed, from Ted Nelson (Xanadu and the Docuverse) and Doug Engelbart (Augment, and by the way the Inven- tion of the mouse) through to Randall Trigg (Xerox NoteCards). Even H.G. Wells had something to say on the subject. Bush, Nelson and Engelbart are seen as represent- ing three different views of hypertext, each of which has its adherents. The Bush view sees it as natural and reflecting (or modelling) the mind; Nelson has a vision of hypertext as a storage and access mechanism for all the world’s literature; and Engelbart sees it as an augmentation envi- ronment supporting planning and communication. There- fore it is clear that hypertext is not a unitary concept, that it can only be defined basically in terms of nodes and links, and that it may be manifest in applications which embody any or all of these differing perspectives. Additionally, hypertext may be part of a wider range of hypermedia (hypermedia is defined as including hypertext, but embrac- ing other media such as graphics, sound, video etc.) @B8es Apple 2000 A comparison of electronic hypertexts with paper based documents is unavoidable: we have been using paper based texts for several centuries and the point is well made that literate societies have developed considerable skills not only in the reading of texts, but also in the handling of them. For example, the size of a textbook is obvious, so is the reader‘s position in the text at any time - no such visual cues are obvious in a hypertext unless they are explicitly designed. Some authors have tried to map the physical world of texts by simulation of book structures thus provid- ing a virtual book, but the challenge is surely to find innovative cognitive structures for this new technology? One main promise of hypertext has been thatits associa- tive linkages and apparent non-linearity will significantly alter the ways in which we read, write, organise information and by extension, think. Substantial space is given over to a discussion of the nature of earlier societies with an oral- based tradition and their transition to literate societies, with evidence offered that thinking strategies are indeed affected and enhanced in the case of the latter. However, balancing this view is other evidence that many paper texts are not as strictly linear as first appearances might suggest, and that at least some of the claims for hypertext are so much hype. Clearly, electronic texts do have substantial disbenefits particularly in respect of the reader's ability to retrieve information and to maintain a sense of travelling through the information domain. Cognitive aspects of texts such as readability are re- viewed together with an informative discussion of naviga- tion, explained both in terms of geographical schemata and other models of cognitive mapping. It is helpful that these elements are dealt with in the wider context of information storage and retrieval systems. I was less happy with the reported findings from the authors’ own research, which seemed somewhat lightweight and inconclusive in comparison with other chapters, although this did little to detract from overall enjoyment and utility. This book would seem to be aimed at researchers in human-computer interaction, education, computer-based instruction and perhaps information science and the like, but it is written in a clear and helpful style which is penetrable by anyone interested generally in hypermedia It is well produced, free from major errors, and has clear diagrams. There isan adequate glossary of various hypertext systems in addition to good author and subject indexes. It seems good value when compared with similar works on the subject. It is of course tempting to speculate on whether it should itself have been published as a hypertext... David Durling 6 December 1991 a David Durling: JANET: D_Durling@uk.ac.open.acs.vax tel: (444) 0429 231015. fax: (+44) 0429 270958 Edge Limited, 2 Auckland Way, West Park, Hartlepool, Cleveland, TS26 OAN, UK. February 1992 An Introduction | to HyperStudio® Reproduced from material kindly donated by Roger Wagner Welcome to the world of HyperStudio® and the world of hypermedia! HyperStudio provides you with the complete system to create things on your computer that will make it more productive, more educational, and just plain more fun than you can probably imagine. But first, what is “hypermedia”? You're already familiar with the various ways of exchanging information that cur- rently exist. Newspapers, books, movies - all these are referred to as the media, and are those channels that handle the mass distribution of information. In addition. the term media also tefers to the specific physical farm that carries the information. This can be the printed word, a colourful artistic graphic, or an electronic image. However, for the most part, all or the current ways of conveying information in the modern world are passive. That is, you act as a silent viewer of the information presented. The word “hyper” is derived from a Greek word meaning extreme or beyond. The word hypermedia was coined to describe a way of communicating that went beyond the current notions of the media, Imagine starting with something commonplace, like a book. Thisisa typical form that information in our world takes. Now imagine that on each page of the book was not only text and pictures, but certain areas that you could touch with your finger that would suddenly expand into a whole new page of information, or that would perhaps instantly take you to an entirely different part of the book, perhaps even toa completely different book. While you're thinking of that, wouldn’t it be nice if the pictures on the page could actually be animated to show a bird flying, or the path that an army during the Civil War followed? Better still, imagine hearing the sounds of the battle while you read the text! Well, imagine no more, because this is exactly what hypermedia offers, and in particular, what HyperStudio deliv- ers! In this “hands-on” introduction, you'll see how a hypermedia application is created with HyperStudio, and get an idea of the tremendous variety of new applications now possible on the Apple IIGS! The HyperStudio Package The standard HyperStudio package consists of both hard- ware and software: * Software: 4 disks; System disk, Program disk, Clip-Art disk, Sounds disk. * Hardware: No-slot sound digitiser card and microphone Software HyperStudio and its associated programs run under GSOS. The main programs included are: * HyperStudio, the hypermedia viewing and authoring sys- tem for the Apple ee : j . serine Shop, a dedicated sound digitising and editing utility. + Sound Browser, a utility for quickly scanning disks and listening to digitised sound files. * Sight ‘n Sound. a utility for easily adding a start-up Super Hi-Res picture and/or sound that will be used as a given GSOS disk is being started up. The system beep sound can also be replaced with @ custom recorded sound, such as breaking glass, an aeroplane crash, “oops!”, or whatever. o 15 Hardware The hardware includesa sound digitiser and a microphone with stand. An optional hater posters amplified speaker {s available separately for $9.95. The digitising card does not require a peripheral slot in the computer, and can be used ina “piggy-back” configuration that allows the concurrent use of othersound I/O hardware (Sonic Blaster, MDIdeas, FutureSound, etc.) without changing wiring, removing cards, etc. Systern Requirements HyperStudio requires an Apple IIGS with a minimum IMb total RAM. ItrunsunderGSOS, andcan berun onan AppleShare Network. The memory requirements for any particular stack depend entirely on the individual characteristics of the stack you create. Thatis, depending on how many different backgrounds, graphics objects. and embedded sounds you use fora stack, the memory used by the stack can vary over quitea range. With no embedded sounds, and simple card backgrounds, vow stack could have hundreds of cards in it. HyperStudio is designed to optimise memory usage by compressing memory, and other techniques. HyperStudio itself currently uses 256K of memory for the program itself and working buffers. Typical stacks that we've seen so far average 200K. Digitised sound requires approximately 10K of RAM per second of sound. Thus, a 10-second sound would require 100K of memory. However, HyperStudio does not require that every sound in a given stack be loaded all at the same time, and in ractice, the amount of sound available in a stack Is more a ‘unction of disk size. Use of Stacks by Others There is no license fee required for the distribution of stacks created with HyperStudio to others. HyperStudio is required to run the stacks, but site-license and district-license arrange- ments are available at a reasonable cost. Miscellaneous HyperStudio® Points The following text was prepared as a quick collection of thoughts on what makes HyperStudio unique, and why it isa significant new level of software for not only the Apple IGS, but computers of all kinds. We hope it answers some of the questions you may have, and perhaps also gives you some new ideas to think about. 1. Truly easy-to-use ee ails specifically for the Apple HGS. Not a clone of ee on the Mac, but software created from the start with the GS in mind. Many users have said it’s easier to use than HyperCard, in that HyperStudio is “quto-scripting“. It lets you do things, such as adding buttons, sounds, animation, etc. with just a mouse-click or menu choice, that would otherwise require manual scripting in HyperCard, or other authoring systems. HyperStudio does many things that would be considered “extras” in HyperCard or other systems, such as support for laserdiscs, digitised sounds, touch-screens, animation, and much more. HyperStudio is intuitive, offers immediate results, and is specifically created for the Apple 11GS, and also designed to perform and feel the way an Apple IIGS user would expect. HyperStudio is used In grade levels as low as Ist grade. A 4th grade class in New York created an entire “Class Autobiogra- phy” using HyperStudio, and even creating a interactive video laserdisc. HyperStudio’s “auto-scripting” means that anyone can create impressive stacks without having to learn program- ming. Even if you are comfortable with programming, HyperStudio lets you achieve the results you want in a fraction of the time otherwise required. 2. HyperStudio docs not require a hard disk, or memory beyond the now-standard 1Mb RAM. Once loaded, HyperStudio does not have to go back to the disk, unlike some disk-intensive software packages. A single 3.5” disk drive is quite sufficient for using the software. In addition, future nan-time packages are planned for HyperStudio that will let users run (but not create) stacks in as little as 768K RAM. HyperStudio is hard- disk and AppleShare network compatible. | 16 HyperStudio is sufficiently fast in its operation on a stand- ard Apple JIGS. It is compatible with the Transwarp GS, but functions very wel! without it. 3. HyperStudio is avery self-contained environment, while still maintaining compatibility with third party software and hard- ware products. It isn't necessary to buy a lot of add-ons to be able to use the product. At the same time, HyperStudio has built-in sport for many advanced technologies, such as the Edmark TouchWindow™, Apple® Il Video Overlay Card, and the Pio- neer 2200, 4200 and 8000 LaserDisc players. 4. HyperStudio now lets those who can benefit from a rich computer environment do so at a very affordable cost. HyperStudio offers similar functionality to systems on the IBM or Macintosh that would Cost many times as much as an Apple 11GS and HyperStudio. 5. Gutstanding features: a. 640 mode colour graphics. Built-in paint ram. Can import graphics from 8/16 Paint, PaintWorks Gold, Graphics Studio, Deluxe Paint II, and Computer-Eyes. [With Graphics Exchange from RWP, users can also convert Print Shop, News. Room, 320-mode graphics, and even Macintosh clip-art}. Get clip-art function is rather nice in that it has uses a second window for the imported graphic. Some pane programs require that you close what you've got, load Ist screen, copy image, and then load orig. graphic for the paste. Package includes over 250 clip-art images. b. Button actions include branching to other cards, stacks, launching applications, playing sounds, animation. visual transition effects, right/wrong answer functions for tests, user-defined “Xemds” in Pascal, C, or assembly language, and more, all selected with simple choices from menus and dialog boxes. c. Built-in text editor. Can import text from most word praces- sors (as ASCII text file or AppleWorks 2.0; word processor file). d. Built-in sound digitising. Includes sound digitiser card and microphone, Sounds can either be recorded right when a stack is being created, or Sound Shop can be used for more advanced editing functions. Many samples of music and sound effects are included in the package. Our digitiser is unique because it does not require a slot. Besides the obvious advantage of not using valuable “real estate” in a machine that is ever more slot-hungry, our card is also much more quiet in recording since we don't get any of the bus noise from the computer. The “piggy-back” design of the connectors on the card also means our card can be used right along with any existing hardware, such as the Sonic Blaster, FutureSound, ete. d, Pioneer 2200/4200/8000 video disc control. HyperStudio makes it a trivial process for anyone to add videa sequences to any particular card(s) in a stack There are over S00 video discs already in “print”, and the number of video disc players is increasing at a tremendous rate. Apple Il Video Overlay Card. For the ultimate {n interactive video, use of the Apple II Video Overlay Card combines the video image with an on-screen computer mage. Thislets you put buttons over the video image, draw arrows, circles, etc. over parts of the image, or put invisible buttons over parts of the video image, to be clicked on by the user. HyperStudio has specific control of the Video Card, not just incidental use, which means better control of “shimmering” on screens that have no video image, good use of colour for the paint toals on cards with video, and the option for truly full-screen video, which includes the screen border area. o 6. In education, teachers have long wished for good software for their own particular fields of interest. As a former teacher, however, I realise that time and money are always a lacking commodity. The problem is that very few people can spend the months of time normal) juired to write the software needed for a one-hour lesson. Wit HyperStudio, we have taken a dramatic step in the direction of creating a system where the time to create an application is closer to the time involved in using the application. Apple 2000 Drawing an analogy to written information, when you think aboutit, you can write (or word process) al a sj atleast somewhat comparable to the speed with which your words wil! be read. True, the time to research and organise the informa- tion itself is still a big variable, but the medium itself (writing or typing) is within an order of magnitude of the time required to view the output. To date, this {s a major barrier in computer information - the time to create the program is significantly longer than the final application. In some ways, the process is closer to hand-drawn animation, The only reason most com- puter applications are practical {s because the user is willing to repeat the same basic action over and over again - typing for example. This means a programmer can spend two months writing a section of code, because that section will be used thousands of times. When it comes to educational software, where any given part ofa program is only used once, the usage/ creation time ratio becomes very critical. HyperStudio is a breakthrough product because teachers will be able to create an enormous number of educational stacks In a time amount that is, for the first time, practical. 7. Subjects presented with HyperStudio can be done with the teachers’s own preferred emphasis and vocabulary. Highly specialised software such as ESL, safety, drug awareness, etc. is now ap eas by using HyperStudio to create the needed material. 8. The real signal that a product will be a success is when non- computer owners see a demonstration, and ask not “How much is the software?”, but rather, “How much is the compu- ter?“. It is this reaction that is responsible for VisiCalc selling the Apple II way back when, and desktop publishing selling the Macintosh in recent years. Because of the great impact of colour graphics and sound on the Apple IIGS. HyperStudio could well sell more Ap) le 1IGS machines than even HyperCard has sold Macs. Why? Because the Mac with HyperCard does shaw that the basic idea of interactive software, but all applications are in black & white, with little orno sound (and poor sound quality when used), and no use of interactive video on-screen with the computer images. Some of these problems can be solved, but only at costs of $10,000, or more. 9. Availability of stacks; third party products. The stacks created with HyperStudio can be distributed by their authors in any way they wish. This can be to other teachers in the school, other users in a club, or sold as commer- cial software. We have already been contacted by a number of private individuals, and commercial software companies, in- terested in producing and distributing stacks. CompuServe, Genie and America Online now have HyperStudio software libraries for exchanging public domain stacks. Some Users’ Groups are already offering member-created disks with HyperStudio stacks as part of their club library. A2 Central, publishers of the monthly Apple-related newsletter, is now offering a new publication, Stack Central, which is a HyperStudio-oriented “magazine on a disk” offering sample stacks, Spotty articles about what others are doing with Hyperstudio and more. There is also a newsletter, called the Hyperlearning Forum, available for HyperStudio users. Roger Wagner Publishing, Inc. is also working on a catalog for HyperStudio users that will feature commercial and publi¢ domain stacks. accessory products, and other information. 10. Special Education. Because of the cots of “point and click" operation, HyperStudio is an excellent tool for the creation of software for computers users with various disabili- ties. The ability to easily create stacks with voice prompting and reinforcement, large on-screen text, animation, and other features makes Si iota a very powerful tool. In addition, HyperStudio has built-in pales for the Edmark TouchWindow, which makes it possible to create stacks for use by very young children, or the general public unfamiliar with using the mouse to operate a computer. Using the Auto- Activate buttons in HyperStudio, it is also possible to create stacks that can be ee by simply clicking the mouse button (or other switch device). This means almost no motor i) February 1992 control is necessary to use the computer. 11. Home users with small children. Imagine taking the “Animals” screen from the HyperStudio disk, and doing a live recording of the animal's name, with an invisible button for each animal. When a child clicks on each animal, it says the animal name. I've even tried this with a two year old, and had the child say each word. You should see the absolute delight when a child hears their own voice from the computer, (Words are insufficient to communicate the actual thrill - |] sincerely suggest you try this with a young child yourself, and judge the results for yourself! ) 12. New medium for school reports. HyperStudio provides an entirely new way for students to create reports on a given subject. Rather than the tired, old written report, going from “Thomas Edison was born in “, and ending with “He died in “ imagine a hypermedia report where you can hear Edison's immortal “Mary had a little lamb“, and explore Edison's life via the logical connections of various events. Common Questions About HyperStudio What is the minimum hardware required? HyperStudio will run on a now-standard 1Mb Apple IGS, with a single 3.$” disk drive. How much memory does it take for a stack? O The biggest factor is whether you embed sounds in a stack or not. Excluding the sound data, alO-card stack might use 150K of RAM. Stacks can also be linked together, though, and so the actual size limit of a particular stack is not very critical, In fact, many people find it easier for a variety of reasons to break up the actual files into smaller stacks that branch among them- selves. Sound recordings take up about 10K of RAM for each second of the sound, However, sounds can also be disk-based, so the only memory needed is for just a particular sound as it is being played. Do I need a hard disk? OWe usea hard disk in ourdemonstrations because of the huge (30 Mb as of this writing) amount of public domain stacks that we like to have available as on-line as examples of what HyperStudio can do. HyperStudio is hard-disk compatible, and easy to install, but a hard disk is not required for its operation. Do you need HyperStudio to run the stacks? Is a “run- time” version available? O HyperStudio stacks are simply documents“, That is, like a word processing file or a picture from a paint program, your aes is simply data