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inCider mw" OD 7 February 1981 System Software ! For GS and Mac Allin the Apple Family Hard-Disk Drives The SCSI Side of Life Reviews: BannerMania Ga es LogoExpress ; Gold Rush! EuroWorks 3.0 USA $3.95 Canada $4.50 Tt 64K Video RAM Controlled by our own Video Display Generator (VDG) array, this feature off-loads video work from the 128K system RAM, providing both analog and digital (IBM®-type RGB) outputs. Very Large Scale Integration We manufacture our own custom gate 3 arrays to improve performance and # make our products compact, reliable, and affordable. Triple Speed Processor than the He®. IMB RAM Boar Controlled by our own Memory Management Unit (MMU) array, add an extra 1MB using inexpensive 256 x 1 DRAM's. Apple® Compatible ROM Since 1985, we have made a huge investment to develop and maintain the only legal Apple com- patible ROM on the market Built-In Ports Video and disk expansion, two serial, a parallel, and a mouse/ joystick port are part of our motherboard design. The EX/2 even adds a MIDI port and Real- Time Clock. Universal Disk Controller Our unique UDC array allows the use of both 3 1/2” and 5 1/4" drives. The 128EX/2™ even supports the IIGS@ compatible “Daisy Chain” drives. Having all this performance usually means compromising one thing. Price. But like a good book, this story has a surprise ending. With a one year warranty, the Laser 128EX™ and 128EX/2 cost about half of what you’d pay for a stripped Apple IIe. Want more inside information? Find out the reason why inCider said “Look at today’s Laser if you want to see tomorrow’s Apple.” Call (708) 540-8911 for a free catalog and the name of a Laser dealer near you. ueation programs, cll us at (708) 40-3000, Laser 128EX and 128EX/2 ae trademarks of Laser Computer, Inc. Apple le and IIGS ae rep- ideal undcroarks of Apple Compute, loc For Those Who Know Better Circle 175 on Reader Service Card. Why do over 25,000* Apple® owners like you buy Softdisk’and Softdisk G-S every month? 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And QUE All to get you up and running in less at $149.95 (suggested retail), than one hour. very affordable. In fact, with We've even improved our award-winning our 60-day full money-back guarantee, downright ways. New features include expanded PostScript festa Sate wae cs support and improved memory, Printshop IGS unbeatable, and Laser Computers. TIMEWORKS See your favorite Dealer or order direct from Timeworks, 444 Lake Cook Rd., Deerfield, IL 60015. Or call 1-708-948-9206. Fax: 1-708-948-9212. te291P ‘Timeworks and Publish-It are trademarks of Timeworks Inc. Circle 140 on Reader Service Card. p. 37 p. 47 Cover Photography + Ed Judice FEBRUARY 1991 Vol. 9 No. 2 ARTICLES Browse through thousands of commercial and public-domain stacks or write your own — 37 HyperCard Ilcs: The Apple II Culture Reborn for home, school, and small-business applications, Apple’s popular multimedia product for the Macintosh is reviving the do-it-yourself spirit of the Apple II. Tired of the floppy-disk shuffle? Get a SCSI hard drive and “cache” in on speed and storage. AT Hard-Disk Drives Made Easy: The SCSI Side of Life In the second installment of our six-part series, we'll put three interface cards to the test — Apple’s High Speed SCSI, CV Technologies’ RamFast, and CMS’ SCSI. Nowhere are Apples’ shared traits more evident than in the machines’ system software — 52 Family Ties: A Striking Resemblance in System Software an integrated, consistent method of file and program organization and maintenance. Master the GS’ Finder and system tools and you've got it made on the Mac. COLUMNS inCider’s View + Dan Muse The Heat of Battle... 8 Reporting from the front lines, our intrepid editor in chief takes on the critics as we gear up for another month of expanded Il/Mac coverage. AppleWorks in Action + Ruth Witkin The Taxman Cometh It’s that time of year again — so get organized with the help of an AppleWorks spreadsheet. Bridging the Gap + Gregg Keizer Macintosh Odyssey 6 The lure of the Mac doesn’t mean you have to give up your II — the two machines can achieve a peaceful coexistence. Press Room = Cynthia E. Field ‘Top Form... 10 If you're drowning in a deluge of bureaucratic paperwork, Publish It! 3 can bail you out. Apple llcs Basics = Joe Abernathy Tools of the Trade .. wl ‘Tap into the power of the Toolbox and make a splash on your GS’ screen. Learning Curve + David D. Thornburg Pursuit of Knowledge a, We need more hackers — in all areas of schol- arship. Can computers keep kids’ intrinsic love of learning alive? Downloaded from www.ApplezOnline.com DEPARTMENTS Letters to the Editor What’s New Hardware, Software, Education Notes APA Notes, Shareware Solutions .... Wrap That Rascal: Got a Virus?, Ejecting Disks, AppleWorks Crash, File Transfer: IBM to Apple, Can't Copy Disks, Using Classroom Monitors, AppleWorks Clinic....28 Reviews BannerMania, LogoExpress, Gold Rush!, EuroWorks 3.0. Hints & Techniques ColorWorks: Bright Ideas... Editors’ Choice Plumb Crazy: Pipe Dreams... February 1991 » inCider + 7 [NCIDER’S VIEW There’ no retreat. They don’t eall us the F-Troop of magazine publishing for nothing. + inCider * February 1991 THE HEAT OF BATTLE By DAN MUSE * EDITOR IN CHIEF “The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling us that batile was on once more... —with apologies to Thomas Buchanan Read PETERBOROUGH, NH — Month 3 on the front. Heavy artillery firs from Apple II on-line services and user groups keeps inCider/A+ editors and writers on the defensive, while strong support from loyal readers keeps troop morale high. A decisive vietory at the Minnesota Educational Computing Conference in November rein- forces staff objectives. HQ expects a tough battle at Long Beach in early December, though, where critical forces are sure to launch a heavy offensive at AppleFest. IF INCIDER/A+'S DECISION TO ADD coverage of the Mac were described as a war, the above depiction would be appropriate. Given the shots fired in all directions, maybe the battle metaphor applies. Since our Decem- ber issue hit the streets, emotions have run high and attacks have been numerous. Each conver- sation with a reader is a battle in itself. We win some and lose a few. The mood in our other- wise peaceful New England offices has ranged from the contentment that comes from knowing: we're on the right track to a shell-shocked numbness that goes with a steady barrage of verbal and written attacks. (And, please, let’s leave my mother out of this.) The decision to expand our coverage to address the Macintosh in education and home uses has incited battles that are not without casualties. We expected that. But there’s no retreating now. They don’t call us the FTroop of magazine publishing for nothing. We remain convinced that the Apple II — inCider/A+’s bread-and-butter — and the Macintosh share many traits. This month’s cover story on Hyper- Card IIcs (p. 37) discusses the similarities between it and the Mac version. “Family Ties — A Swiking Resemblance in System Software” (p. 52) explores the many common attributes of the Mac and GS Finders. In short, if you've used a Mac, using an Apple Ics comes naturally, and vice versa. Also this month — while our critics launch bombs — we're launching a new column called Bridging the Gap (p. 66). According to colum- nist Gregg Keizer, Bridging the Gap is all about “ingenuity in building links between two powerful computers.” Notice, naysayers, that the column isn’t called “Killing the I” or “Better Living Through Macintosh.” Then why discuss the Mac at all, you ask? The ammunition to defend our position is plentiful. Look at the statement issued recently by Robert Puette, president of Apple USA. To understand Apple’s position on the Apple II doesn’t require reading between the lines, it just requires reading: “We have no plans at this time to introduce new, stand-alone Apple II models. However, we will incorporate Apple II technol- ogy into current and future platforms . ... We believe that this compatibility strategy will preserve customers’ investments in the Apple II, while allowing them to move to new technology platforms if they wish.” That’s about as black-and-white as Apple can say anything. Puette didn’t say, “We cannot comment on unannounced products,” even once. Say what you will, but that’s progress. We don’t agree with Apple’s decision to not develop new Apple II platforms. After all, six million users can’t be wrong. While the decision to not make new IIs is a bad one, the idea of protecting your investment through shared peripherals, networking, new operating systems, and so on is a good one. 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Put a fast-moving processor on it, so that publishers, once again, will see this machine as a platform for meaningful software. I picked up Time magazine and saw a two- page ad from Apple that completely demor- alized me. It showed a picture of the MS-DOS Windows sofware with the caption, “Now that everyone agrees how a computer should work . . . look at the only one that works that way” — and it included a picture of a Mac. Mr. Sculley, there’s another computer that works that way. Look around the back halls — your company makes it. Doyle H. Brown 123 Edward Street Athens, PA 18810 Sculley’s promise to “continue to nour- ish” the Apple II family, I can assure him that Apple has lost many customers with his decision to discontinue the Apple contract with the Army/Air Force Exchange Service military sales outlets. Customers shopping for their first computer have their choice of anything you can think of except Apple computers. If Mr. Sculley is serious about | READ WITH AMUSEMENT JOHN 12 * inCider * February 1991 TO THE EDITOR his commitment to customer support and increasing the Apple community, he should renew his contract with AAFES. David J. Pollock P.O. Box 8851 APO NY 09012 they owe as much to me. I’ve spent several thousand dollars on software and upgrades as an Apple devotee since 1980. I'm now running two II Pluses and a Tle as well as a Mac Plus. It was a real service to the Apple II community for you to print John Sculley’s open letter. Unfortunately, he doesn’t raise my level of optimism. Mr. Sculley states that he has put the future of the Apple II in the hands of the vice president of soft- ware — hardly the most effective company officer to promote hardware improvement. | FEEL I OWE A LOT TO APPLE AND Arthur Radcliffe 2818 Chaparral Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 R. SCULLEY WROTE US DEDI- cated II users in order to look like an angel while he stabs us in the back. Where are the commercials and ads for the II? The support he talks about is a joke — and what about those prices? Why don't all the II users pool their money and gain a controlling interest in Apple Computer? We could make a change for the better. Ruel Smith inCider subscriber offered little or no support to its users. Apple users have demonstrated a much greater degree of loyalty to Apple than the other way around. Jerold Murdock Rt.4 Box 340-E Henderson, NC 27536 |= LONG FELT THAT APPLE E, THE APPLE II FAMILY, ARE VY: slaves that keep the Macintosh experiments alive with the money we spend on Apple II systems. You give us lip service and nothing concrete to increase our longevity. This is an injustice to the productive brother that keeps the family alive. Phillip Tulim P.O. Box 5473 Chevak, AK 99563 R. SCULLEY REMINDS ME OF the coach of a losing team who's trying to give the troops a pep talk in the hope that somehow it'll make a difference in the outcome of the game. When I read between the lines, I get a completely different view. But, when you think about it, what else could he say? James Harris 6990 Peters Road Fairburn, GA 30213 On THE OTHER Hand ssue of inCider/A+ and read “All in the Family” (inCider’s View, p. 8). I want to commend you on it. This is the type of attitude and point of view I've wanted to see from you for quite some time. Next, I'd like to see you challenge third-party developers to develop hard- ware/software so that the IIcs can use Mac software. (I know Apple has an- nounced that the Mac LC will be able to use Apple ITI software, but I think the other way around is more important.) Jim RECEIVED MY NOVEMBER Thanks again for taking this major step. Robert Kielhorn 6147 North Landino Drive Westlake Village, CA 91361 Sticky SITUATION the Apple II, they put more Apple IT owners in a bind. While playing ‘Trinity (an Infocom game) I got stuck, so I ordered an Invisiclues hint book. A week after I placed my order, the company informed me that it no longer produces this book. If anyone has the hint book, I'd like to either buy it or trade it for one of mine. This lack of customer support is another sign of the declining world of the Apple II. If companies can’t even provide the neces- sary information to sustain today’s old programs, what kind of support will we receive when tomorrow’s programs become old? I encourage all software producers to stand by their customers or they may end up losing them. A S FEWER COMPANIES SUPPORT Brian Devendor 5742 N. 96th Street Milwaukee, WI 53225 We can't help you with your search for the Invisiclues hint book, but Quest for Clues ($25), from the people who bring you Questbusters, The Adventurers Journal is the next best thing. To order your copy, contact Questbusters, PO. Box 5845, Tuscon, AZ 85703. (The company doesn’t list a phone number because it doesn't take orders or give hints over the phone.) The last part of your letter shines light on a crucial flaw in the thinking of many manufac- turers of hardware and software for the Apple IT market. Not supporting older products sets a dangerous precedent indeed. — eds. LaseRWRITING WITH IIE-ASE column you stated that using a Laser- Writer with Apple II computers requires an Apple II Workstation card. (See “Staying Loyal,” p. 12.) This is true only if you want to network several computers with your printer. If you're using only one computer, you can connect your computer to the RS-232 25-pin port on the Laser- Writer TINT, IINTX, and PLPNT via a Super- Serial card or the Ilc/IIc Plus serial port If you have a LaserWriter SC or PLPsc, you must use an Apple High-Speed SCSI card to connect to an Apple II Plus, Ile, or IIcs. The IIc/IIc Plus can’t connect to the SC printers, because there’s no way currently to convert its serial port to SCSI. There are also many non-Apple laser | N THE OCTOBER 1990 LETTERS THe AppLe Iles: Wuat THE Mac LC SHouLp Have BEEN? OUR POINT IN DECEMBER’S article “Meet the Mac LC: What the Apple Ics Should Have Been?” (p. 40) suggests that if the Mac LC had been introduced in 1986, rather than the IIcs, people would've been fairly happy with a transition to the Mac. History doesn’t accommodate “what ifs,” however, so at this point, we should ask, “Is the Apple IIGs what the Mac LC should have been?” The unexpected factor today is the world of multimedia — and the Apple Ics is arguably the ideal multimedia (or hypermedia) machine. Regardless of what term you use, this environment will be more significant in the "90s than desk- top publishing was in the 80s, particular- ly in the classroom. The ideal multime- dia machine should have color graphics, excellent sound, and the ability to con- nect to laser discs, CD-ROM, and VCRs. It should be easy and intuitive to use, as well as affordable. Users should be able to present their work, and record and transport it easily to share with others. The Apple Ics has all this and more. Let’s suppose a student creates a multi- media report and presents it to the class. With the Apple Ics, he or she can use a standard classroom monitor or a TV — without special hardware. Although a TV isn’t great for displaying 80-column text screens, multimedia presentations with graphics, larger text, and video sequences from a laser disc look fine. On a Mac or a PC, a projection system that can handle true color probably costs $2000-$3000 or more. Laser discs combined with a Video Overlay Card let anyone create exciting results. On the Apple IIGs, a school can buy a such a card for about $400. On the Mac LC (if a card were available), using the slot for a video card would preclude using the Ie card. On other Mac models, cards that work similarly to the Video Overlay Card cost around $2500. On the Mac the projector and Overlay Card combined translate to an additional $4000-$5000. You can also route the Apple Ics video through any common VCR and record both the audio and video portions of the presentation. With this capability, parents can see what their chil- dren do at school and keep a permanent record of the moment. Also, businesspeo- ple can go to conferences with just a videotape — without lugging tons of computer hardware. Macs and PCs require a special adapter (an NTSC converter), which can be an expensive addition. Once you're aware of what the GS can do, hearing that another computer can’t be recorded with a VCR is like hear- ing it can’t be attached to a printer. Schools that purchase Mac LCs, hoping for a color multimedia machine, will be surprised to discover that HyperCard on the Macis only black-and-white. A limited ability to display single-color graphics images is available, but to just draw a line or two in color, you'll need a IIcs with HyperCard or HyperStudio. Want to use the microphone on the LC? You'll have to. leave HyperCard, run a separate pro- gram, and go through some additional steps to incorporate the sound. On a IIcs with HyperStudio, you can easily integrate sound into the overall environment. Last of all is the GS’ working environ- ment. Stack building on the GS is signif icantly easier. Thousands of schools are using the Apple Ics for multimedia right now, and projects created entirely by first- graders are by no means unusual. Through user groups, mail-order cata- logs, and on-line services such as America Online, CompuServe, and GEnie, you'll find almost 200 megabytes of all kinds of hypermedia applications (stacks) — all for the Ics. What does the future hold for the Ics? The machine is not outdated tech- nology. It sports features that aren't currently available in any machine, and offers a solution that’s relevant to the next revolution in computing. If you haven't seen yet what multimedia and the Apple IIGs are all about, now is the time to find out what the future holds and how you can make that future a reality. Ifyou have a Ics already , you'll be happy to know you own the best machine with which to enter the ’90s. Roger Wagner Roger Wagner Publishing 1050 Pioneer Way, Suite P EI Cajon, CA 92020 inCider * February 1991 * 13 [ETTERS TO THE EDITOR and ink-jet printers with RS-232 interfaces. The Hewlett-Packard DeskJet and DeskJet+ even have Epson FX emulation cartridges available that'll let you print 300 DPI resolution graphics. There's no such cartridge available for the HP LaserJets, but HP’s technical service says that one may be available soon. Gregg D. 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In our July 1990 issue we stated incorrectly that Magic Window is a discontinued product (“Spell it Right,” Letters, p. 10). According to Jon Gurr, Managing Director, MGA SoftCat, 41 Clinique Ports Street, Rye, East Sussex TN31 7AD, England (FAX 011- 44-797- 226721) MGA SoftCat stocks ArtSci’s whole range of productivity tools for the Apple II series, and ships worldwide. Magic Words is a spell checker specifically for Magic Window, and the company can supply Magic Window users with a copy for $29.95 requires 48K and DOS 3.3, with Magic Window, Magic Window Il, and Magic Window Ile. For a catalogue and price list giving details of other “discontinued” products, write or fax the address above. To execute command 4 (unlock) before command 2 in December's “Ile Plus Speed" program listing (p. 22), add: 145 POKE L=1,4 : CALL : REM Unlock the accelerator Thanks to Chuck Stites from Ormond Beach, FL, for calling our attention to the omission. 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Carroll told ider/A+ that the Apple Il spirit is alive and well in Italy. The enthusiasm toward the Apple Il at Rasse- gna Del Computer e Attrezza- ture Ufficio — a conference for Apple and MS-DOS computer users — was reminiscent of the “enthusiasm you'd find at AppleFest,” Carroll says. The conference, which ran from October 19-21, was organized by Claudio T. Alfieri, managing director of The Woz- WHars Applied Engineering — a hit in Italy. niak Foundation. Alfieri, whose organization has no official ties to the Woz, played host to Carroll and Milks and treated the pair like “kings,” according to Carroll. Each morning Carroll and Milks were picked up in a limousine and driven to the conference. According to Carroll, someone signaled the conference directors as the two were about to enter the hall, and the duo was sere- naded with “The Star Span- gled Banner.” This tribute occurred on each of the three days of the conference. Carroll said that both he and Milks had interpreters, who made it easier to get a true sense of exactly how Italian Apple Il users feel. You may be surprised to learn that they feel much the same way most Apple Il users feel in America edited by Paul Statt — angry and frustrated. In fact, Carroll brought back 1500 letters to Apple express- ing support for the Il line. How do Italians feel about the Mac? True Apple II lovers reacted as expected. “Some put their fingers in their mouths, but those were the hard-core types. Others expressed some interest in the just-announced LC, I and Classic,” Carroll si Most of the enthusiasm centered around the Ilics, according to Carroll, who also said that the hot Applied Engi- neering products at the confer. ence were the TransWarp GS and the Sonic Blaster. And just how had all these Italians heard about Applied Engineer- ing? “They had inCider/A+,” Carroll claims. (Yeah, we knew that.) —D.M. SOFTWARE Q TimeOut o SuperForms Sometimes all it takes to make a difficult task simple is to team up an Apple Iland a Beagle Bros product. With Beagle Bros’ release of TimeOut SuperForms the prayers of teachers and businesspeople have been answered. No longer do teachers need to wrestle that mimeograph machine to create exams. Instead, with TimeOut SuperForms in combination with AppleWorks 3.0 and TimeOut SuperFonts, they can create custom forms complete with lines, boxes, and grid: The product even includes vertical and horizontal lines, corners, and check boxes, so that small-business owners can create order sheets and schedules in no time. Once you design that award-winning form, use the program's FormFiller to fill that masterpiece with information from a database file. Then when you're ready to show the form to the public, Time- Out SuperForms will transform it into a word-processing file you print using TimeOut SuperFonts. So what are you waiting for? For $69.95 you can buy TimeOut SuperForms and make reading between the lines a snap. For more information contact Beagle Bros at 6215 Ferris Square, Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92121, (619) 452-5500, or circle 353 on the Reader Service card. 16 * inCider * February 1991 —CB. The Visionary GS video digitizer reviewed in the September 1990 issue of inCider (p. 36) is now available from New Con- cepts, 665 West Jaskson ‘Street, Woodstock, IL 60098, (815) 338-8658 or (800) 869-9152. UPDATES “Weigh all the evidence. You'll choose Bx x Preparer’.” prepare taxes for a living. And if there’s one thing » and handles the whole thing for you. T’ve learned over the years, it’s this: Be careful. And consider the fact that, no matter | The software industry is as renowned for its how many investments you need to hype as for its report, Tax Preparer’s unlimited capac- successes. And tax ye allows for them. software is no excep- Final output is so straightforward, we prea all tion. 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(Other professional soft- ware by HowardSoft includes a Laser Option for generating Form 1040 graphically on a laser printer; a Cali- fornia Supplement” for preparing Apple Il family @ $250 —_ —_____ My check isenclosed (Include 725% sales tax for California addresses) Please charge to my Visa C1MasterCard ‘Acct. no, —— Signature the state return starting with Federal data,and Real Estate Analyzer” for analyzing income property before J andafter taxes) Or call (800) 822-4-TAX to order by phone. ‘Tox Preparer, Partnership Edition®, Tax Preparer: California Edition and Real Estate Analyzer ate trademarks of HowardSoft; IBM of International Business Machines Corporation; Apple of Apple Computer, Inc Circle 88 on Reader Service Card. Users & Programmers Sharing the Power to Create ‘VAW tip: APA member Jack Countryman has a great new tip that can save you hours of rekeying data. Now you can transfer data into Apple- Works from about any pro- gram or operating system — including those that support: non-Apple computers. Some programs print data only on paper, others print to non-ASCII disk files, still others print to non-PraDOS disk files or files that are unreadable by AppleWorks. To make matters even more complicated, you probably have difficulty trans- ferring DOS 3.3, Pascal, and MS-DOS files. But by using this technique, conversion of data from Bank Street Writer, PFS Write, various educational programs, spreadsheets, data- bases, and other applications into the AppleWorks word processor is relatively easy and inexpensive. (You can’t transfer graphics, though, only text.) You'll need two computers and a connecting modem cable, but you won't need a modem. The first (source) computer may be any brand, use any operating system, and run any source program that will print data to most printers. An Apple il is the second (destination) computer. You'll need an Apple II telecommuni- cations program that will capture a ProDOS ASCII 1 file or an AppleWorks word- processing file on the Apple |! side. Connect one end of a modem cable with an RS-232C or an appropriate cable con- nector to the serial printer port of the source computer. Then connect the other end of the cable with appropriate cable connector or adapter (AS-232C or DIN mini-8) to the Apple II's modem port. Apple lle owners who normally use the Apple Super 18 » inCider * February 1991 Serial Card (SSC) for their printer can configure it easily for a modem port (AS-233C). The Apple tlc and lics have built-in modem ports (DIN mini-8). Your Apple I! terminal program settings should be set to text capture, half- duplex (host), S600 baud, DCD off, and DSR/DTR off. To start the transfer, boot: your Apple Il terminal program, get inte terminal mode, and turn on the recording buffer. Then from the source computer use the source program to print the desired data from the source computer as if to the printer. The text data will appear on the screen of the Apple ll and your recording buffer file will captured it. Save this file to disk. Now quit the terminal program. From the Apple- Works AWP, create an AWP file from an ASCII (TXT) if necessary, then read the file with your AppleWorks word processor. If you're using Time- Out TeleComm (see the AW enhancement below) you need not make the ASCII-to-AWP. conversion. You may need to clean up the file to remove spurious characters caused by control printer codes sent by the source program. Once in the AWP. you can manipulate the data and transfer it to a data- base or spreadsheet. If you can print data to paper, you can usually capture the same data to an AppleWorks file. YAW enhancements: APA members Mark de Jong and Mark Munz have upgraded Beagle Bros’ TimeOut TeleComm to version 1.2. This program works within Apple- Works Classic and provides full-featured telecommunica- tions, an on-line or off-line editor, full-range downloading capabilities, and outstanding conferencing facilities. It also lets you paste an AppleWorks file directly to modem output without going off line. You can save the data you capture from information services or BBSes directly to an Apple- Works AWP file. TeleComm v1.2 is a solid terminal program worthy of interest to all AppleWorks users. ‘WAWpersonality: APA mem- ber Mark de Jong is the orig- inator and co-author of TimeOut TeleComm, and author of other popular AppleWorks enhancements. When he's not programming for the Apple II or solving computer problems, Mark likes to enjoy the warm sun of Southern California by sailing an 18-footer on San Diego Bay. Mark and his wife Sharon live in the Point Loma district of San Diego, CA, with their two daughters, Janessa ‘and Nicole. Mark often shares his musi- cal expertise playing his much- loved guitar for friends or at church-sponsored events. In his role as technical support: manager at Beagle Bros Inc., Mark is widely known for his friendly and helpful support of Apple li users. He's a frequent, visitor to on-line services and the Pro-line telecommunication network. ‘WAW macros: Many times users don't know how to create an AppleWorks word- processing (AWP) file from an ASCII (TXN file they've down- loaded from an information service, a BBS, or another computer. Here's a time- saving UltraMacros macre for veteran users that will make this process easy. To use this macro, compile with the TO.Macro. Compiler, set your path (prefix) to the location where the file is stored, hold down the solid- apple key (option key), and tap the t key. T<all : oa-Q ese rtn>3<rtn>2 <rtn: {display files list}: msg ‘ Highlight ASCII (TXT) file to convert to AWP & press Return key’: keyto 13 Return Key}: rtn ahead>.wp<rtn : file & add suffix}: oa-O>Im<rtn>O<rtn> rm<rtn>O<rtn esc>! {zero margins} {wait for {load ‘AW news : APA member Dan Crutcher (Macro City) has released an interesting set of original macros that include a hangman game, a check writer, and a workhorse macro. Don Aquilino (ACTAsoft) is receiving praise for his full- featured professional double- entry bookkeeping system, Alpha Check Plus. If you don't have the Patcher that fixes some annoying AppleWorks 3.0 bugs (it's freeware from Beagle Bros, Inc], contact your local Apple User Group or APA. They have a copy reserved for you. APA members contributing to this month’s notes include Don Aqui Crutcher, Mark de Jong, Dave Gair, and Mark Munz. For a 5.25-inch disk that includes a set of templates, macros, and detailed documentation for tips described above, send $4 ship- ping to APA at the address below. Please include the inCider/A+ issue date with your request. For membership infor- mation contact the AppleWorks Programmers Association, 6531 Lexington Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90038, modem apa@pro- apa.cts.com (213) 463-9289, voice (213) 469-9916. The AppleWorks Programmers Asso- ciation is registered with the Apple User Group Connection. Wars FOREVER AMBER RS One of the drawbacks to using Maes in school systems has been the cost — not just of the computers, but of the peripherals, as well. Although the ubiquitous amber monitor that most classroom Apple Ils use won't work with a Mac, Amdek (now a part of Wyse technology) has intro- duced the Amdek Power- Page, a low-cost mono- chrome 14-inch video-display subsystem for the Mac. The advantage over the Mac monitor is obvious — the Power- Page monitor is 200 percent larger than the built-in 9-inch monitor on the Mac SE or Clas- sic. You can use the Power- Page monitor and your built-in monitor at the same time, and display different windows on each. The 14-inch screen means that every student in the class- room, not just the ones in the front row, will be able to see. An advantage you won't see is that the PowerPage sys- tems — the Amdek monitor and a Lapis video card — costs | only $599. Also you can use HARDWARE the Amdek monitor with IBM PCs and compatibles, if your school has them. The video output is IBM-standard VGA. The monitor, by the way, isn’t amber at all — it's a flat, high-contrast, non-glare, paper-white display. For details, contact Amdek at 3471 North First Street, San Jose CA, 95134-1803, (800) 722- 6335, or circle 350 on the Reader Service card. — P.S. GENERIC HARD DRIVE Quality Computers, the big mail-order dealer, has been selling a lot of hard-disk drives from many different manufac- turers. But now company president and founder Joe Gleason has decided that his firm can make a hard drive better than the competition's. The result is the Q Drive. The Q Drive features Conner's reliable drive mecha- nisms, Apple's High Speed SCSI Card, and Apple's Finder for the lis. It also sports the new ProDOS 8 mini-selector for other Apple lis. (For a generic drive it certainly uses brand-name parts.) The Q Drive manual gives you a lesson on GS/OS and ProDOS as it helps you set up the drive. In fact, the Q Drive software is so easy to use that it practically sets up the drive itself. You also get Quality Computers’ technical-support service, and the satisfaction of buying from an Apple Il leader. A 40-megabyte Q Drive sells for a competitive $599.95; the 100-megabyte drive sells for $999.95. (Add $100 for a RAMFast SCSI card instead of the Apple card.) For more information contact Quality Computers at 20200 E. Nine Mile Road, Box 665, St. Clair Shores, MI, 48080, (800) 443-6689, or circle 351 on the Reader Service card. —P.S. CYCLOPS BY PROXIMA eS Anyone who has taken a public-speaking class or has given a presentation knows how frustrating visual aids can be. Even the recent advances that let you project a computer screen on a wall have their limitations — in order to manip- ulate the machine, you must tap away at the keyboard or scrape @ mouse across a desk. Imagine, though, being able to stand at the front of the lecture hall and maneuver *William K. Bradford (Acton, MA) has released Legends of Raven, the second in its multicultural EDUCATION * NOTES : through a HyperCard or HyperStudio stack using only a pointer. Proxima, a division of Computer Accessories Corpo- pation, has just introduced Cyclops ($1995), a system for controlling your Apple ll or Mac while you use a projection screen. The system has two compo- nents — a camera and a pointer. The camera mounts on the back of a liquid-crystal-display monitor manufactured by Computer Accessories Corpo- ration, The pointer is about the length of a yardstick and has a red LED (light-emitting diode) at the tip. Once you position the camera properly, you show it the edges of the screen with the pointer, and your Apple I/Macintosh will have a point- and-click interface. The camera senses the bright LED against the room’s ambient light, and translates the position into the Apple Desktop Bus. No special software is | necessary. Proxima also offers a pen-sized laser that will project a red dot on your screen from up to 25 feet away. For details, contact Proxima at 6610 Nancy Ridge Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, (619) 457- | 5500, or circle 352 on the | Reader Service card. —C€.C. | Explore-A-Folktale series. The Raven legend comes from the early native civilizations of western Canada, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest. It costs $75, runs on an 128K enhanced Apple II, and input from a mouse is optional. Call (508) 263-6996 for details. 2MindPlay (Tuscon, AZ) has recently released Money ($19.95), its fifth issue of Kid-Leidoscope. This current-events magazine ona disk (Apple II) and its accompanying four-page newspaper feature stories of spending, earning, and saving money wisely. For the subscription rate of $79 you'll receive four issues — Wildlife, Living in Space, Fitness, and Dinosaurs. Send $3 ship- ping fee for a free introduction. Call (602) 322-6365 for details. *&The Milliken Storyteller for the Apple IIcs (Milliken Publish- ing, Saint Louis, MO) brings the classics to life. Three familiar stories —Henny Penny, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Ugly Duckling — come alive with graphics, sound, and animation. The Storyteller also includes quizzes and coloring screens to get kids involved in what they're reading. The Milliken Storyteller costs $49.95; a Story Collection Disk with Peter Rabbit, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Aladdin and the Magic Lamp is $24.95. The program requires an Apple IIcs with 768K of RAM and a 3.5-inch disk drive. Call (800) 325-4136 for details. *8 Intellimation (Santa Barbara, CA) has published its first Intellimation Library for the Macintosh — it catalogs 115 soft- ware and multimedia products developed by educators for educators. Many of the programs use HyperCard, and come on CD-ROM or videodisc. Programs range from an imaging program for chemistry classes to instruction in Chinese. For a copy of the catalog, call (805) 685-8587. February 1991 ° inCider + 19 Why Sensible G is first in its class. Now everything you write, from a school report to a business letter, can be stronger and clearer. With Sensible Grammar” A professional proofreading program for Apple II that checks your punctuation, usage, phraseology and more. Sensible Grammar scans your work for potential errors and automatically displays the sentences in which they ap- pear. It explains what’s wrong and even suggests corrections. Making changes 1s easy—a simple keystroke or click of the mouse, and you can do anything from replacing a phrase to rewriting it. And your formatting information re- mains unaffected. Sensible Grammar compares your text against a library of over 2000 phrases to identify informal, vague, racist, sexist, and other faulty language. plus you can add phrases of your own. It catches embarrassing typographical errors like misused capitalization and repeated words, alerts you to improper punctuation, and more. Sensible Grammar autoloads onto RAM cards, can be used with hard disks and works with most ProDOS word processors. And it costs just $99.95. So get Sensible Grammar. And write like a pro. Also available: Sensible Speller’ the electronic spelling checker with over 80,000 words from the official Random House dictionary. Works with most ProDOS word processors ($125). Report Card IT’ the grading system that makes compiling students’ marks simpler, more accurate, and more efficient. For Apple II and IBM ($59.95). Bookends Extended” a specializ- ed database for locating information and printing bibliographies. For Apple Iland IBM computers ($149.95), and for Macintosh computers ($99.95). Sensible Grammar is also available ina Mac version ($99.95). @ Sensible Software,” Inc. [2] 335 East Big Beaver, Suite 207 ae) Toy, Mi 48083 (313) 528-1950 Circle 240 on Reader Service Card. 20 * inCider * February 1991 Waars Tmagine combination of computer hardware and software so sophisticated that it creates interactive multimedia presentations complete with text, graphics, digitized sound, animation, and video — yet so simple that even a first-grade student can master it. Picture the price tag on a system that lets even a non-programmer build beau- tiful games, cookbooks, appointment calendars, visual databases, and inter- active educational tutorials. Do you think it's out of your budget? Well, guess again. With Roger Wagner Publish- ing (El Cajon, CA, 619-442- 0422) and your Apple lcs, you can make it happen. With a 1-megabyte Apple Iles you can use run-time stacks created with Hyper- Studio. Although authors need HyperStudio ($149.95) to create the stacks, you can buy these run-time versions for considerably less. In fact, Roger Wagner Publishing offers 10 demon- stration disks that include stacks, clip art, and sound, for $10. The package includes some of the best public-domain stacks avail- able and a version of Hyper- Studio, so that you can modify any of the stacks in the demo or create your own. Because these are run- time versions, however, you can't save your work to disk. Another source is The HyperStudio Network (RO. Box 103, Blawenburg, NJ 08504, 609-466-3196). Founded by two New Jersey teachers who saw the potential of HyperStudio and decided to put out a newsletter, this network provides its members with access to a library of public- MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AREWARE OLUTIONS vVvVVVVVVYV domain stacks, clip art, and digitized sound files. (Mem- bership is $29 a year.) The HyperStudio Network specializes in educational stacks, many of them for young children. Probably the most creative HyperStudio stacks have appeared in the public domain. Public-domain soft- ware refers to both freeware and shareware. Freeware costs you nothing. Share- ware is distributed at no charge on on-line services and through user groups, but if you use it, you must pay the author. Public-domain software is usually copyright- ed by the author. Two of the most talented individuals writing low-cost or free stacks are Scott Everts and Jim Hirsch. In the introduction to his Star Trek: The Next Gener- ation stack, Everts (PO. Box 227, Placentia, CA, 32670) offers some insight into the motivation of all stack developers: His ten-dollar shareware stack is a labor of love that contains volumes of little-known trivia about the crew of the USS Enterprise and their three- year TV voyage. By combin- ing beautifully digitized graphics images with sound effects, and providing details of every Star Trek episode ever aired, Everts has produced a stack so packed with information, that “trekkies” will think it's Star Trek heaven. The first sound you hear is the Star Trek theme. The eight 3.5-inch disks cover the first three seasons of Star Trek. dim Hirsch (12310 Jon- quil Street NW, Coon Rapids, MN 55433) is an educational-technology consultant who's produced a series of imaginative, artistic, and informative HyperStudio stacks. Hirsch often presents multimedia and hypermedia programs to groups of teachers, but he believes that everyone, not just teachers, can learn from his work. One of Hirsch’s stacks teaches youngsters about the value of money; another offers a self-paced tutorial for the AppleWorks GS word processor; another intro- duces the Apple Iiss, its components and peripherals; and another showcases the visual appeal of animation. Hirsch is also a fan of NASA and a follower of the space program, so he has created a stack about the October 1989 Atlantis space-shuttle mission STS- 34 that launched the Galileo probe to Jupiter. 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