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A sim- ple keyboard command selects the desired System version at boot “7, time, Additionally, Switch Hitter lets you change your l18S's System Spoed and Startup Slot at boot time and start up a 3,5" or 5.25" disk, all without having to wait for your hard drive to boot into the Finder. nw And remember, you're dealing with Quality Computers, the hard drive leader. The Q Drive comes with a 30- day money-back quarantee and a one- year limited warranty. A great drive and great support, at a great price— that’s the Q Drive. Find out why it's the best Apple hard drive value—test drive one today! 1-800-777-3642 / We will meet or beat any nationally advertised price* / School P.0.'s accepted by phone, fax or mail / School Editions © Lab Packs * Networks © Site Licenses Circle 136 on Reader Service Card. CLEAN IT UP! 1993 issue of inCider/A+, until I got to Paul Statt’s "Quick and Dirty” Startus Report (p, 64). The more I read it, the angrier and more frustrated I got. Not only was it about computer pornography, but it included a long list of where it can be purchased. Porno- graphy isn’t a victimless crime — 100 percent of the men convicted of sex offenses, including rape, use porno- graphy. Catch that? One hundred percent! Now I know that not all people who use pornography are sex offenders, But why glorify such a social ill, especially in a family magazine? Another thing that frustrated me to no end was the implication that “every- one” is doing it. Well, believe me, loud and clear: No, everyone is not doing it! Please, for the sake of family values, stay away from glorifying social ills. Leave it to the pornographic magazines to do their own advertising. Mark H, Ford Beverly, NJ [ivi READING YOUR APRIL 8 ¢ inCider/A+ * July 1993 LETTERS We regret your anger and frustration, Mark — but you missed the column's point by a wide margin: Mr. Statt clearly laments the fact that pornography finds its way into almost every new medium. And he offers a long list of multimedia products — not pornographic, but alternatives to porno- graphy — that adkere to even the loftiest definition of family entertainment and enrichment values, Be assured that we do not review pornographic products, nor do we accept advertising for them. —W.K. CONVERTED ITH OUR RECENTLY PURCHASED Yrcisrns 600CD we received an offer for a free six-month subscription to either Macworld or inCider/A+. Because your magazine is reputedly written for the beginner, we selected inCider/A+. Needless to say, I was chagrined to read in your May issue that we shouldn’t “expect much Mac coverage” in your magazine. That's especially troubling because your logo on the front cover reads inCider/A+: Apple I/Mac. If you don't intend to really cover the Mac, why include it in your logo? I've also heard that you're publishing a new Macintosh magazine called MacComputing and that it's similar to inCider/A+. Can I switch my subscription to that new publication when it becomes available? D. Astiz Livingston, NJ Done. You and other readers like you who have recently requested a free trial subscription to inCider/A+ will automati- cally receive MacComputing, beginning with the first issue (September), which will be mailed to you in early August. At the same time, we'll continue to cover the Macintosh in inCider/A+ because many readers own both Apple machines and want information about them, but also want in-depth articles about their Apple Hs. —eds. DATAQUEST REQUEST TEACH SEVENTH-GRADE GEO- graphy and have been using the MECC DataQuest series of data- bases (The World Community, Latin America, and Asia) on 18 Apple He computers quite happily for five years. The information is dated now, however, and MECC no longer sells the program. I'm looking for updated data or a replacement program. Any help from your readers? Harris M. Thomas Box 210223 Auke Bay, AK 99821 NEW APPLE II HAT LUCK! WE CAME ACROSS inCider/A+ by accident in a book- ore and bought it on the spot. Your April issue starts a feature series that deals with our exact situation: Our acighbor just gave us an Apple Ile because she couldn’t trade it in for a new PC. Fortunately she’d kept all the instruction manuals, plus PFS Write, VisiCalc, and several children’s games. You can’t imagine our delight when we read the article by Tony Diaz and Paul Statt (“II Essentials: Hardware,” p- 50) on enhancing our very first com- puter. It also taught us beginners what a lot of the terms mean. And we can’t wait for the May issue dealing with applica~ tions for the Apple II (“Il Essentials: Software,” p. 36). Thanks! Sandra J. Wall Castleton, VT See also “II Essentials: AppleWorks” (June 1993, p. 38) for some basic tips on running this popular integrated package. —eds, ZIP TECHNOLOGIES CV-Technologies ay Pea cacti igen ci i i smo Seacion e deh Tobi Scouerrial ‘ ZIP 8000 8MHz for lie $135.00 ag ft eae iy terminator access panel SExsorne! ‘SCSIID selector Engineering Wea itt eee Sfar Soar tu Alo Mitty a TransWarp GS w/32K......$289.00 |” | 3252." por Wettonaia'te Ariat strane the bylingadentagect ou rote. rela pokey, You rebeivea fulreind fessshippng and landsavice “ios $10a/s116 . a re Ci AE. 4 APPLIED ENGINEERING Vulcan Gold 40.....$589 Apple SuperDrive [F.....$138 EVulcan Gold Upgrade$ 47 3.5" interface for A2 and ligs /Req'd for 1.44mb. £5.25" for LC or A2....$189 Zoom 2400bps Extemal wécable -$99 AMR 5.25" for LC or A2.$119 it 4S $218 AE Datalink 2400 intemal wiRteadytink - $143 ‘erat uppredetile SCSI chive support, RAMFast GS w/tms $1BStwicriee - $199 wjo} RAMFast ROM Urcnape $15 (nev. 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The program is being piloted in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and North Carolina for the 1993-94 school year. Principals in public and private schools in those states will receive participation kits next month, For more information about Computer Learning Dollars or to request a free copy of the founda- tion's annual publication, Computer Learning, which desoribes the group's other programs, contact the Computer Learning Foundation at Dept. ES3-T1, P.O, Box 60007, Palo Alto, CA 94306-0007, (415) 327-3347, fax (415) 327-3349. 10 © inCider/A+ * July 1999 GOOD THINGS IN SMALL PACKAGES ‘ou can take ergonomics one step further now with the Laser PC4, No, it's not a wrist rest or one of those chairs that makes you look as though you're in traction. The PC4 is a lightweight, disk- less notebook computer you can carry easily to school, camp, and maybe even to the beach (if you're a hopeless worka- holic). With the PC4's built-in word processor-plus-spell checker, database, and spreadsheet, you can prepare many of the same types of documents you already create with AppleWorks 3.0. In fact, you can connect the PC4 to any Apple II or compatible computer and transfer files to and from AppleWorks 3.0 with the new patch program Bridge- It. After you install it (a simple, one-time procedure), you can transfer files between the PC4 and an Apple II by invoking an option in AppleWorks’ Other Activities menu. According to Andrew Kramer, president of Perfect Solutions Software and the exclusive distributor of the Laser PC4, “the market for these devices is huge,” with countless school systems already placing PC4s in their media centers. ‘The PC4 sports a full-sized keyboard and a four-line, 40-character LCD (liquid-crystal display) screen, The computer comes with 32K of RAM (random-access memory) — enough to hold 15 typed pages. Longwinded writers can expand the notebook’s capacity to 128K. Although it's not a PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) slot, the PC4’s one expansion port can accommodate an add-on the- saurus module. Two features help make the PC4 a great equalizer. First, it can transfer files between IBM-compatible and Macintosh computers as well as Apple IIs. Second, the Laser PC4 is surprisingly affordable. The PC4's IBM version costs $199; the Mac version, which supports printing on the ImageWriter I, is $219. Bridge-It software for AppleWorks 3.0 is $35. The same computer works with all three plat- forms; only the cabling differs from system to system. For more information, contact Perfect Solutions Software, 12657 Coral Breeze Drive, West Palm Beach, FL 33414, (800) 726-7086, (407) 790-1070, fax (407) 790-0108. The Laser PC4 lightweight portable computer makes working on the road a little easier. MS-DOS APPLEWORKS* “Cider Ar Mango, Aust 199 Remarkable Technologies CALL FOR NETWORK AND SITE LICENSING Circle 33 on Reader Service Card. REMARKABLE TECHNOLOGIES, 245 PEGASUS AVENUE, NORTHVALE NJ 07647. TO ORDER CALL TOLL-FREE: 800-782-1955 FOR TECHNICAL INFORMATION: 201-767-5522 - FAX: 201-767-7227 Wuarsn ¢ BUMPER CROP he Apple Il world hever stands still. This month's product harvest includes = few version of Help Our Earth! designed for students in Kindergarten through grade @. Last year on Earth Bay Monarch Software released a version of the program for 4th through Sth graders, Both versions let teachers integrate ecology, process writing, literature, and video into a Janguage-arts or Science curriculum, Both products work with the. AppleWorks word pragessor Students can work individually or collaboratively, publishing poems, stories. plays, journals, letters, and essays about ecology. Monarch’s new release includes ten ecology-based files, a colorful beok, and a video you can use as spring- boards for expressive writing, plus 6 reproducible Instructor's Guide featuring an extensive bibliography. Help Our Earth) is priced at $149 for a six-pack license; 9 for 4 site/net- work license. District licenses are also available. For a free 45-day trial, eentact Monarch Software, P.O, Box 147. 112 Husum Streer, husum. WA $8623, (808) 647-7997, 12 inCidar/Ay + July 1953 APPLE (S08) 493-1395. For more information, circle number 350 on the Reader Service card a HYPERPLANET othen Earth seems to be popular with Optilearh Inc.. as well, Qur Environment, an jnteractive videodise program for HyperStudio and the Apple liss, features five modules: Chief Seattle's Warsing, Motion Sequences Visual Glossary and Panorame {with 11,000 stil images), Geography Access. and Presentation Maker. The pro- gram addresses global issues such as popula- tion growth, food security, Species extinction. renewable energy resources, changing climate, urban challenges, and industrial development. The Our Environment videodisc is $395; accompa- nying HyperStudio Stacks are $955. You can purchase sepa- rate teacher and student manuals for $30 and $15, respectively. The complete package (s priced at $495. For mare information. contact Optilearn at 15 Park Ridge Brive. Suits 200. Stevens Point. Wi 54481, (715) 344- 6069. or circle number 351 on the Header Service card. > FAMILY TIES hat some people refer to as “roots” Rohert M. Merrill calls “genealogical recreation.” Merrill recently AP PiLJE IG released version 4.0 of his inexpensive Appie ll genealo- gist’s program, Family Tree Merrill says the program is in use |n all 50 states and many foreign countries. as well, The fatest version incorporates four- and five-generation lay- ut capability, automatic chiart numbering, and optional inclusion of birth, marriage and death infarmation with each name in descendant charts. Family Tree 4.0 now includes complete implemen- tation of GEDCOM. a format. that lets you share genealogy files with PC and Mac programs supporting that standard. Family Tree is priced at $49.95 (plus $2.50 shipping), Registered users may upgrade to version 4.0 far $10 plus $2.50 shipping. If you'd lke to sheke a few nuts out of your family tree, contact Robert M. Menrill, 6180 Via Real A@5, Carpin- teria, CA 93013-2863, (805) 684-3356, or R MERAILLS on GEnie. For more informa: tion, circle number 352 on the Reader Service card. ° DELTA DRAWING UPDATE ower Industries LP has Pee version 4.3 of the company's popular Apple \I graphies learning pragram Delta Drawing Today According to company presi- dent Jeffrey Borenstein, simple menus make the soft- ware easier to use and let students load and save draw- ings easily, Other enhance- ments include improved 15- color printing and an expanded picture gallery created by the noted children’s artist Ed Emberiey. instructions are provided for exporting draw- ings ta other programs such a5 TimeOut SuperFonts. Publish {t! 4. and Print Shop Companion IIcs. The single user version of Deita Drawing Today 4.3 is $69.95. A ten- disk lat pack costs $270. Network versions for 25 and 50 users are $395 end $595, respectively. Registered users may, upgrade to the latest version for a special price of $19 now through July 31, 1993 Users who purchased the product after Decemben 1. 1992. can receive the upgrade free by calling the company at (800) 385-5008 For additional information, contact Power Industries LP, 37 Walnut: Street. Wellesley Hills, MA 02181, (617) 235- 7743, fex (617) 235-0084. or circle number 353 on the Reader Service card A PERFECT TEN nhancing your Apple || E computer curriculum for the 1993-94 school year will be a lot easier thanks to MECC's latest crop of Appie ll products. Amazing Arithmetricks (grades 5 through 12) provides math instruction against 6 carnival backdrop. Arizona Mix (grades 5 through 9) gives social-studies students the opportunity to exercise problem-solving skills end develop an appreciation for cultural diversity as they participate in @ geology simu- jation. CryptoQuest (grades @ through 9) challenges students to become code busters as they learn to enci- pher and decipher messages. In Dog Sled Ambassadors forades 5 to adult). students set out from Beringia International Park to visit Alaskan villages, where they accept cultural artifacts fram the elders. On the trail students must cope with bad weather, accidents, injury, and iliness. Dueling Digits {grades 3 thraugh 6) helps students understand place: value and number concepts, while Eerieville Library (grades 4 and 5) invites students to explore a haunted library {watch out for polter- | @ neighborhood garage sale in {i @s they create animated stories by selecting the who. what, where, and when of each play, {n Pizza to Go (grades 3 through 6} students use simple and compound machines. including levers, pulleys, and gear wheels, ta thwart the Pizza Pests, a gang of thieves. Kids conduct Write This Way ($99.95) includes a word processor, spelling and capitalization checker, built-in dictionary, grammar checker {with teacher- controlled grammar aptions), and a user dictionary, Designed for students in grades 4 through 12, the program is especially helpful for learning-disabled and hearing-impaired students and others trying to over- come barriers such as dyslexia and dysgraphia. Teachers can configure the: program to reflect each student's needs. An instructor's manual Treasures for Sale (grades 3 through &). where they perform market research and explore the use of adver- tising as a form of persuasive writing. Each of these new MECC products is priced at $59. Site licenses and special school membership program are available. For more infor- mation or to request a free catalog, contact MECC at 6160 Summit Drive North, Minneapolis, MN 55430- 4003, (800) 685-MECC, {612) 569-1500, or circle number 354 on the Reader includes suggested activities and a wealth of reproducible lesson sheets. To learn more about Write This Way, contact Hartley Courseware, 133 Bridge Street, Dimon- dale, Ml 48821, (800) 247- 1380, fax (517) 646-8451, or circle number S55 on the Reader Service card. Service cand. a REACHING OUT geists) in search of Stories, fables, jokes, weather bulletins, and other documents, Kids should get a real charge out of Electrifying Adventures (grades 3 through 6 and junior high) as they string lights to illuminate their way thraugh 9 cavernous maze or use electrical devices to overcome barriers. Playing the game, students learn about series and parallel circuits, voltage, and switches. Meanwhile, On Stage (grades K through 2) helps young story- tellers bring their ideas to life woman Telaina M. Eriksen, even Hills Software has released Spectrum, graphics- based telecommunica- tions program for the Apple lls. The program supports baud rates from 50 to 38,400 and many file-transfer protocols, including Zmodem and Compu- + | Serve'B+. A powerful yet WORD'S WORTH easy-to-use scripting A“ word-processing language lets you tailor program designed to Spectrum for individual needs. recognize specific language You can use the program to prablems is now being offered | emulate a bulletin board or by Hartley Courseware. set up the program to send Accarding to Hartley spokes- and receive electronic mail automatically. A text editor i = supporting ASCII (American + Stendard Code for | {nformation Interchange). + Teach, and AppleWorks 3:0 + file formats is built in, Spectrum requires System 6.0, 1 megabyte of RAM, one 3.5-inch disk drive thard drive recommended), and e modem. The program is fully compati- ble with The Manager, the ; company’s multitasking i GS/OS extension, Spectrum carries a suggested retail price of $129.95. Owners of any commercial telecommunica- : tions program can trade up i to Spectrum for $50 plus + $3.50 shipping, now through July 31, 1993. After July 31, the upgrade price increases to $60 plus $3.50 shipping. Contact Seven Hills Software at (904)'575-0566, (904) 576-9415, fax (904) 575- + 2015, or on America Online. ? AppleLink, and GEnie at = SEVENHILLS or at ? 75300,1743 on CompuServe. For more information, circle number 356 on the Reader Service cand. ° STYLE AND SUBSTANCE kK Sink Software is the exclusive publisher of OmniPrint, e powerful Apple- Works 3.0 printer enhance- ment costing $49.95, with school site licenses priced at only $99.95. After installing OmniPrint, you can easily incorporate its commands * Into AppleWorks documents duly 1993 + inGidar/A+ + 19 WHAT'S NEW te print text, including stylish fonts, mousetext, foreign- language characters, and mathematical symbols, or to add graphics clip art te your work, OmniPrint requires. AppleWorks 3.0 and supports ImageWriter printers Umage- Writer Il recommended). To learn more about spruc- ing up your work with Omni- Print, contact Kitchen Sink Software, 303 Knebworth Court, Westerville, OH 43081, (614) 851-2111, (B00) 235-5502 (orders), or circle number 357 on the Reader Service cerd. . EASY AS A,B,C eepers ABCs js an animated program that introduces children ta the alphabet and encourages them te read. Developed with Baudville's Take f Animation and Programmers Tool Kit, Peepers ABCs runs on any B4K Apple tl computer. {A Special GS version is also in the warks,) The program is recommended for students in preschool through grade 3 and costs $29.95. For more information, contact Pictorial Batiads, GO77 Cortez Drive, Huntington Beach, CA 92847, (714) 891-0839. or Circle number 358 on the Reader Service card. oa WE GOT HARDWARE equential Systems, @ Ss longtime Apple (I supporter, recently announced a flurry of new hardware enhencements. G:talk LTO ($94.95) is a LocalTaik option card that lets you integrate an Image- Writer Il printer into an Appletvalk network. 14 ¢ inCider/A+ + July 1993 MegaBUFF ($179.95) isa high-performance, network- compatible, internal printer- buffer card for the Imege- Writer Il With e 1-megabyte capacity, it’s ideal for Apple liGsS users or anyone who needs to create and print lengthy documents. Q-System GS is a fully automatic. intelligent printer- sharing system capable of interfacing up to eight computers to a single printer or plotter. The unit features eight RS-428 serial ports with mini-DIN8 connectors and one Centronics-type parallel port. Meanwhile, Sequential Systems’ O-talk:lws is stand-alone printer buffer/server for AppleTaik networks that include several ImageWriter printers. With Q-talk:iws there's no need to install a LocalTalk option card in each |mageWriter |i on the network. To learn more about these Jatest Apple It enhancements {you can use them with Macs, as well}, contact Sequential Systems, 71200 Diamond Circle, Lafayette, CO 80026, (800) 759-454¢ sales), (600) 988-1717 (customer service), fax (303) 665-0933, or circle number 359 on the Reader Service cerd. > SCIENCE MATTERS ‘alcon Softwere recently released its 1893 Chemistry Catalog featuring programs to supplement high schoo! and college instruc- tion. The company’s Inteaduction to General Chemistry and Introduction to Organic Chemistry run on 48K Apple Il computers. For more information about the company's offerings, contact Falcon Software, Box 200, Wentworth, NH 03282, (603) 784-5788. or circle number 360 on the Reader Service card. @ PICTURE THIS addieback Graphics recently released a new Apple lIGs version of My Paint ($48.95). Among other new | features, version 2.0 includes © digitized sounds and ant Alphabet: Fun! coloring book on disk. Other disk-based color- ing books are available et $19.95 each, including Majelix (Characters (with phonics- "based neading-system charac- ters), Numbers, Shapes and Fun [for early learning). Mother Goose Favorites (with popular storybook characters), The Star Kids (for positive rein- forcement], Dinosaurs of the World (with giant “thunder lizards"), and Panther Dream, based on the environmental * book of the same title by Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir and Wendy Weir. To tearn, more, contact Saddiehack Graphics, 12812 Garden Grove Boulevard, Unit P. Garden Grove, CA 92643, 1714) 741- 7093, fax (714) 741-7095, or circle number 351 on the Reader Service card. HIGH RESOLUTION Ho": 2.1, Vitesse’s updated collection of printer drivers for the Apple : lics, is available now, The package includes drivers for © Epson LO lend compatible 24-pin) printers, an improved driver for the ImageWriter Il. and drivers for the NEC PinWriter, most laser print- ers, and severe] Hewlett- Packard (HP) printers, The latest version features newly added drivers for Hewiett- Packard DeskJet and DeskWriter models SOOC end S50C. Harmonie's suggested ; Petail price is $58.95. Registered users who purchased Harmonie after March 1, 1983, will recsive e free upgrade automatically. Other regis- tered users of Harmonie 2.0, ‘or higher may upgrade to version 2.1 far $14.95 plus $3.50 shipping {$7,50 ship- ping outside the U.S. and Caneda), The company aiso announced @ Separate package with printer drivers for HP printers only. Vitesse's HP Printer-Driver Pack costs $29.95. Pertect- Image, the company's imageWriter II driver only, is aiso aveilable for $29.95. Vitesse has also released the first major revisian to Salvation-Bakkup, a hard-disk drive backup utility for the Apple lIGs. Version 2.0's features include optional tompression algorithms that significantly reduce the number of disks required by up to 60 percent, support for fow- and high-density 3.5-inch drives, compatibility with SCSI tape-backup drives, recognition and backup of HFS (Mac) disks, and improved macro support. The suggested retail price for Salvation-Bakkup 2.0 is $69.95. Registered users. Can acquire the upgrade for $39,95 plus shipping from Quality Computers or directly from Vitesse. If you purchased the product on or after March 1, 1993, you'll receive a free upgrade automatically when you register. For more infor- mation, contact the company q et 13908 Amar Road, Suite 2A. P.O, Box 929, La Puente, © CA 91747-0929, (800) 777- 7344, (818) 813-1270, fax on the Reader Service card, Edition $35 ° MATCH GAME jings for Learning's latest release, <in COMMON> Words & Things, challenges students in grades 6 and above to figure out which objects go together based on common, traits. For instance, you'd match Apollo with <Zeus. Poseidon, Hestia> and not with <Costa Bica, Guatemala, Nicarsqua>. Besides Greek gods and Central American countries, <in COMMON> games fea- i ture other categories. includ- ing words that begin with a onyms, and rhyming words. <in COMMON> Words & i Things costs $65 fram Wings (818) 813-1273, on circle 362 = for Learning/ Sunburst Communications, 101 ' Castleton Street, Pleasantville, NY 10570, {800} 921-7511. For more information, circle number 363 on the Reader Service card. a TYPECASTING iruelype font users should contact the M.D. Hunt j Company to learn more about its new TrueType Information Center: Volume 1. Company : Spokesman Michael D. Hunt : says the printed reference ‘ guide is targeted for use by : Apple lis desktop publishers } in homes and schools, The particular letter or prefix, syn- | § $17.95 with three-ring binder, $13.95 without. | Shipping is $4. You can also. | purchase disks conteining the TrueType fonts displayed in § the manual for as little as loose-leaf manual displays hun- | dreds of fraewere, shareware, | and public-domain TrueType _ fonts in its 60-plus pages. TrueType Information Center: Volume 1 costs UBACannda Tol Pree 800.624.2526 Circle 220 on Render Service Card. ; $2.50 each, A complete set of 39 3.5-inch disks with more than 300 fonts is | $97.50 plus $4 shipping. For more information, contact M.D. Hunt at 1006 South Philadelphia, Anaheim, CA 92805, (714) 956-5363, or circle number 364 on the Reader Service card. 708-888-8300 Best Service! Lowest Prices! July 1993 inCider/A+ + 15 APPLE CLINIC MOUSING AROUND Alternative-input devices and software can speed up cumbersome operations and boost your productivity. By CYNTHIA E. FIELD, Ph.D. EASTWARD HO HAVE TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT AppleWorks 3.0. Is there a screen saver available for it? Also, is there an enhancement that will let me use the mouse with AppleWorks 3.0? Where are those Beagle Bros when you need them? Dolores Greenberg La Habra Heights, CA While Beagle Bros may have disappeared, Dolores, their programs live on in Michigan, home of Quality Computers, the authorized distributor for Beagle Bros products. Time- Out UltraMacros will, among countless other things, let you use the mouse with AppleWorks 3.0. And TimeOut DeskTools Il features several AppleWorks enhance- ments, including the screen saver you're looking for. Both are independent products: you don’t need one to use the other. 16 ¢ inCider/A+ * July 1993 RIGHT ON TRACK "M A QUADRIPLEGIC WITH LIMITED [= of my arms. Using a mouse appli- cation on my GS is almost impossible. Are there any peripherals that can help me use my computer more effectively? I currently use a mouthstick and can also use a joystick. Gary Tanner Edmonton, Alberta Canada Believe it or not, Gary, the peripheral you may need is already at hand. Included with Apple lis System 6 is a special suite of enhancements for disabled users called Special Aids: Easy Access. The collection includes Sticky Keys and Mouse Keys. Sticky Keys makes it easy to work with ‘commands involving any of the four modifier keys: Shift, Open Apple, Option, or Control. For instance, let's say you want to print a document: Sticky Keys lets you press the open-apple key and then P instead of press- ing those two keys at the same time. Needless to say. Sticky Keys is a neat tool far people who use special input accessories such as a mouthstick, as well as for others who have difficulty typing with both hands simultaneously. Very young computer users can probably benefit from Sticky Keys and Mouse Keys, as well. While Sticky Keys lets you enter key- board commands more easily, Mouse Keys turns the GS’ numeric keypad into a ‘Stationary mouse. As you can see from the Figure. Mouse Keys lets you use the key- pad to move the cursor and select items. accompanying Figure, you use the numeric keypad's number keys to move the mouse cursor in various directions. You make small moves by pressing a key several times; you hold down a key to move the mouse a greater distance. The 5 key works like the mouse buttan. After you move the cursor to a disk ican, for example, you press 5 to select the disk. If you'd like to drag the disk, press the O (zero) key; it locks the mouse button in place so that you can drag objects. The decimal-point key unlocks the mouse button, Installing and activating Sticky Keys and Mouse Keys are easy. First. boot your GS. with your System 6 startup disk. (if you don’t have System 6, you can purchase it for $39 from the National AppleWorks Users Group. The Apple Catalog, and many other sources.) After the system loads and you see the Finder Desktop, insert the System 6 {ostall disk into a drive. Double-click an the Install disk icon to open it. Then double- click on the Installer pragram icon to start up Apple tics Installer 2.0. i H i When the Installer program loads, olick on the Qustomize button. You'l) be installing Easy Access features on your startup disk, ‘80 make Bure your startup disk’s name is displayed in the upper left-hand corner of the Customize screen. If the wrong disk name appears, click on the Disk button until you see your startup disk's name. Scroll through the System 6 enhance- ments directory until you find Special Aids: Easy Access. Select it and click on the Install button. The GS will scan your Grivas end ask you to insert SystemTools2, one of the half-dozen disks that make up the System 6 collection, Glick on the DK button when the success- ful installation dialug box appears, Then click on the Quit button to leave the Installer program. Awarning box will appear to tell you that: you must reboot your computer for the Easy Access tools to take effect. Just alick on the Bestert, System button. Because the Installer pragram places Special Aids: Easy Access into the System/ System. Startup folder on your startup disk, both Sticky Keys and Mouse Keys are aveil- able each time you start up your GS. You simply have to “activate” these features to use them, To activate Sticky Keys, press the shift key five times. An icon resembling 4 pressed key sppears at the far right-hand side of the menu bar to tell you that Sticky Keys is working. When you press a modifier key, the icon changes appearance to show you thet the system has received the input; a down @rrow appears on tap of the icon, You can lock @ modifier key for repeeted use by pressing it twice. You deactivate Sticky Keys the same way you activate it: Press the shift key five times. ‘You turn Mouse Keys on or off by pressing Open apple-Shift-Clear or by using Sticky Keys to press the open-apple key, then the shift key, then the cluer key. As discussed above, Mouse Keys, when active, transforms the keypad numbers into mouse moves. In 8 column published last year we reported thet another System 6 enhance- ment — CloseVlew, for visually impaired users — |s incampatible with AppleWorks GS 1.1 (Nearness of You," Apple Clinic, December 1992, p. 16). CloseView, which magnifies the GS screen, worked with LINK UP + MultiTech Systems, a modem manu- facturer, is offering a free 42-page booklet titled Madem Communications: The Basics of Modem Operations, with easy-to-understeand answers to questions such as “What is a modem?" “Haw do! install a modem?" and "How do | install communications saftware?” Endorsed by the National Apple- Works Users Group (NAUG), this introductory primer is an excellent starting point for Apple Il users considering buying a modem. It can also serve as an excellent text for a unit an telecommunivations ine high- school er post-secondary setting. For more information, contact Multi- Tech Systems, 2205 Woodale Orive, Mounds View, MN 55112, (800) 328- 9717, (612) 785-3500. + If you've been thinking about connecting your GS to a Hewlett- Packard color ink-jet printer, act now. Vitesse (P.O. Box 929, La Puente, CA 91747-0928, 800-777-7344) has begun shipping Harmonie 2.1 (359.95, upgrade $14.95), an updated interface package that includes the all-new GS/OS color printer drivers for the HP DeskJet and DeskWriter models S000 and 550C. With Harmonie installed. you'll be able to print beau- tiful color documents fram all standard GS programs. If you don’t already own Harmonie. you can also get those same drivers. in Vitesse’s lower-cost HP Printer Pack ($29.95), which covers Hewlett- Packerd LaserJet ||, LaserJet lip, LaserJet Ill, DeskJet, DeskJet 500, DeskWriter, DeskWriter, PaintJet, and PaintWriter printers. Looking good in print has’never been so easy. * Appie tle and Ile madem enthusiasts now have a familiar-looking, easy-to-run utility that can expand IBM files compressed with the MS-DOS utility ZIP. Useful mainly for text files, Russ Woodruffe's $10 shareware program UnZip He looks and operates just like the lle version of Shrinklt. You can download Unzip lle from America Online, where you can find it in the Utility Forum's ProDOS Utility section as UNZIPIle SHK, or from GEnie's Ae library, where it's file #20121 BULLETINS + Want to start your own electronic bulletin-board system? The Morgan Bavis Group has announced a major price reduction for ProLine, the popular Apple ll-based BBS, awarded five sters in the December 1992 issue of inCider/A+ (Reviews, p. 27). You can operate ProLine as an independent on-line system, you can network it with other ProLine sites, or you can link it to the Internet, giving local callers the ability to send and receive worldwide electronic-mail messages. ProLine 2.0 requires an enhanced lle or Apple liss, a modem, and a hard-disk Grive: It's available from the Morgan Davis Group, 10079 Nuerto Lane. Rancho San Diego, CA 31977-7132, (619) 670-0563, $159.95 plus $8 shipping U.S., $25 overseas (California residents add sales tax.) + Programmers interested in setting up their own BBSes should note that T.C. Wilson has authorized the free distribution of his powerful and flexible Apple Il-based telecommunications language METAL, Previously available for $95, METAL is now bundled with Joshua Thompson's freeware Future- Vision, a state-of-the-art BBS package. Where do you get it? Call the Virtual Space Industries BBS at (313) 842- 6739 (V.32 BIS) and download the program and associated file archives. You'll get your own personal! seria! number. You cen also call one of the other METAL support systems and download a copy, but at press time we couldn't determine Whether personal- ized serial-number stamping is avail- able at these sites or not. Call Damage Incorporated (V.32 BIS/HST 14.400) at (216) 328-0374 or The Atomic Playground (16.8K dual stenderd) at {614) 287-7931 far more information. Yeu can also download METAL and FutureVision from GEnie’s Ae area. in addition, Joshua Thompson will be offering tech support on GEnie’s A2 area and Usenet's alt. bbs, metal news- group. — Joe Kohn, Contributing Editor GRAPEVINE {SA MONTHLY COLUMN OF ON-LINE 1185, CHA, AND GOSSIP. CONTACT JOE KOHN AT JOKO (AMERICA ONLINE), 76702,565 (COMPUSERVE), LKOEIN (GENIE), ‘OR 76702.565@COMPUSERVE.COM OR JOKO @AOL.COM (INTERNET). July 1993 ¢ inCider/A+ © 17 APPLE CLINIC other GS programs we tried, however, We tested both Stivky Keys and Mouse Keys with AppleWorks GS, and they seem to work fine. We opened a new word- processing document, entered some text, selectéd it, made it boldface, saved it, and printed it with no untowerd effects. Using Specie! Aids is probably your least- expensive alternative, Gary. But you mention that you can use a joystick, Depending on haw much motor control you have in your hand, you might consider using 8 trackball (lass than $100 in most instances) instead of sither a mouse or Mouse Keys. Any ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) trackball should work on your GS. A trackball origi- nally purchased for my Mac LC sometimes does double duty on my GS. Plug the track- ball into the port on the side of the key- board you'd ordinarily use for the mouse. QWJust be sure your system is turned off before plugging or unplugging anything.) SPECIAL ASSISTANCE The Apple Catalog 1 Apple Plaza P.O. Box 9001 Clearwater, FL 24678-9001 (800) 795-1009 (292) 578-9200 fax National AppleWorks Users Group Box 87453 Canton, Mi 48187 (399) 454-1115 (313) 454-1985 fax (615) 359-8238 BBS 1D SLOTS [se FOR THE DETAILED description of networking an Apple Ics, ImageWriter II, laser printer, and Macintosh (“Network News,” Apple Clinic, March 1993, p. 16). Ihave one additional question: Can you setup a network as described and still use a hard-disk drive on the Apple IIcs? My hard-disk controller is in slot 7, and I use a ROM 01 GS. Wayne Whitlow Cupertina, CA Yes, you can still use your hard drive. As you discovered, Wayne, you must set slot 7 18 ¢ inCider/A+ * July 1983 in the Contral Penel of ROM 01 GSes to either AppleTalk or Your Card. You can't have it both ways. With your SCSI card in slot 7, you have a conflict if you also want to connect to an AppleTalk network. (Note that ROM O38 GS owners don't have this diffi- culty.) The problem's easily salved — install the hard-disk's SCSI card in another slot. You may want to experiment, and you should check the manual that came with your cerd to see what the manufacturer recommends. The final result will depend on the presence of other peripherals. At various times, I've used slot 2 and slot 1 for my hard-drive controller with no ill effacts. ‘Slot 2 works fine if you don’t have a modem. Also note that even though you plug the AppleTalk connector into serial port 1, which is typically essociated with slot 1, the slat’s setting in the Control Panel has no direct effect on AppleTalk — you can go shead and set slot 1 to Your Card and then install your hard drive there without any conflicts. Follow the usual precautians regarding static electricity before moving your hard-drive controller card fram slot 7 to another location, After the card's installed, access the Control Panel and set Startup Slot to conform to the hard-disk drive controller's new location. DRIVIN’ USE AN APPLE Iics AND SYSTEM 6 [« a StyleWriter printer at work. When 1 inquired at my local Apple dealership about purchasing a StyleWriter to use at home, the support personnel told me that the currently available model — the StyleWriter If — comes with new drivers for the Mac and no software or documenta- tion for the GS. Will the new printer work with the current System 6 StyleWriter driver? Ken Miller Wellington, KS Don't you just hate it when Appte ignores the GS, Ken? According to a spokesman at Sun Remerketing, the GS System 6 StyleWriter driver should work with the new-model StyleWriter Il, But other sources we contacted were less reassur- ing. At press time, Vitesse’s Jim Carson explained that Apple's latest StyleWriter II ink-jet printer is so “radically different” from its predecessor that even his company's about-to-be-released driver Gin Harmonte 2.1) doesn’t work with it. Vitesse's driver is said to be significantly faster than the StyleWriter driver you're using now. (See "High Resolution,” What's New, p. 14 in this issue, for additional information on Vitesse’s latest products.) You may be eble to save money and aggravation by purchasing the same model printer you use at work. At press time Sun Remarketing had some 800 of the original StyleWriters in stock. Where @ise can you get a printer that's capable of generating 350 dpi (dots per inch, 8 measure of resolution) for only $229 (plus $19 for the cable)? As you may know from your experience at. work, the GS’ StyleWriter driver isn't Perfect. For one thing. it doesn't commu- nicate properly with Seven Hills’ Express print spooler. Ink-jet printing can be a slow process even with a print spooler — but at least a spooler frees up your computer so that you can work on other projects while the printer is doing its thing. Printing @ single page at the Style- Writer's highest resolution with Apple's StyleWriter driver can take as long ss two minutes, Vitesse's driver is not only faster than Apple's driver, but is also compatible with Express. PRINT IT Apple StyleWriter ‘Sun Remarketing P.O. Box 4059 (801) 755-3960 ~ $229 plus $19 cable Harmonie 2.1 Vitesse, Inc; 1390S Amar Road Suite 2A P.O, Box 929 La Puente, CA 91747-0929 (800) 777-7344 (818) 813-1270 (818) 613-1278 fax $59.95 JUST YOUR TYPE HAVE WESTCODE'’S GS TRUETYPE Jewen= Pointless and 14 font families. I’m trying to convert some of them for a friend to use on a Mac LC II. Jason A. Partyka Chicago, IL is) black 1 red 2 dark blue 8 purple 4 dark green i 5 dark gray | 6 medium blue 7 light blue 8 brown | g orange | 10 light gray 1 pink 12 light green 13 yellow 14 aqua 15 white Table 1. Codes corresponding to Apple ligs border colors. Remember, fonts are software, tao, Jason. You could inadvertently breach 3 company’s copyright by giving TrueType fonts to your friend. Untess the fonts are in the public domain or are offered as share- ware, call the publisher to find out how you can acquire a license for your friand. Performing the actual conversion |s € snap, says Marty Knight, Apple Forum leader on America Online. (His screen address is AFLMarty.] Knight explains that Apple liGS and Macintosh computers use the same TrueType fonts, but the Mac can’t recognize your TrueType fonts until you fix each font's filetype and creator. Use a Macintosh utility such as Hax or FilaTyper Lite, both of which are available for downloading from America Online and probably from cther Mac saftware libraries, as well. Hax is freeware, while FileType Lite requires a $10 sharewere registration fes. Changs the TrusType fonts’ filetype to THO and the creator to DMOV. Knight cautions you to use all uppercase letters. COLOR BIND "D LIKE TO FOLLOW UP ON THE [<: “BASIC Needs” (Apple Clinic, ril 1993, p. 18), in which inCider/A + reader Jeremy LaCivita asked about Applesoft commands he could use to change background, text, and border colors on his Apple IIcs. To change border color, the command is POKE 49204,X where X is one of the GS’ primary color numbers 0 through 15. ‘To change background and text color, you have two options: POKE 49186,(¥+(Z*16)). where ¥ is the desired background color and Z indicates the text hue; or just POKE 49186,W where W is a value that corre- sponds to a text-and-background color- combo value derived from a table you published in your January 1991 issue. Colin Williamson Elizabethtown, PA You're right, Colin. In “The Screening Room: BASIC Color Match” (Hints & Techniques, January 1991, p. 96), Chris Duggan of Yukon, Qklehoma, described the use of the POKEs you mention, Tables 4 and 2 show the color codes Applesoft BASIC programmers like Jeremy and Chris employ, O black red TEXT black 0 1 2 3 red 16 7 18 19 d. blue 32 33 34 35 purple 48 49 #50 51 d. green 64 65 66 67 d. gray 80 681 BZ m. blue 96 97 98 99 1. blue M2 «1130~««114 115 brown 128 «129130 131 orange 144°°«2745°=~«CO«*AG147 L gray 160 161 162 163 pink 7 #177 (178 179 |, green 192 193 194 195 yellow 208 209 210 211 aqua 224 «225 «2260 227 white 240 241 242 243, BACKGROUND d. blue purple d.green d. gray m. blue |. blue brown orange 4 5 6 7 8 9 20 21 22 23 24 25 36 37 3839 40 41 52 53 34 55 56 57 68 69 70 71 72 73 84 85 86 37 88 89 100101 102 «103 104 105 116 117 18 «6119 120 121 13200«1330=C—i«d134 138 136 137 148 (149 1500 (151 152 153 164 «1650166 167 168 169 1800-181 1820 «183 184 185 196 4197 198 6199 200 201 212 2130 «214 «(215 216 217 228 «6229 «2300 231 2320 233 244 «4245 246 «247 248 249 |. gray pink |. green yellow aqua white 10 un 42 13 4 15 26 27 28 29 30 31 42 43 44 45 46 «(47 5B 89 60 61 62 63 4 75 76 Lie 78 73 90 91 92 93 94 95 106 «(107 108 109 «1100117 122 (123 124 125 126 «127 138 «1390-1400 141142143. 154 4155 156 187 158 159. 1700171 172 1730«174«— «175 186 0-187 188 189 #190 191 202 203 204 205 206 207 218 «219 220 221 «2220-223 234 =«—-235 236 237° «238 «= 239 250 251 252 253 254 255 Table 2. GS text and background color combinations. Read across for background color and down for text color. Use the selected value as W in the POKE 49186,W command. duly 1993 inGider/A+ = 19 DENNIS WARNESKY CINNAMON BEAR'S REVIEWS KKK KK POOR coop GREAT * $49.95 each OUTER SPACE ADVENTURE & UNDERSEA ADVENTURE *mon, admit it — of course you still love teddy bears. They’re pretty irresistible: Cute, fuzzy, and lovable, they make everyone feel comfortable and secure. That's why Cinnamon Bear’s Outer Space Adventure (for grades K through 3) and Undersea Adventure (for grades 1 through 3) are hits with adults and children alike. The cost of these packages is “bear-ly” believable because it includes a site license. That means every classroom in your school can have its own copy of the software. Both 3.5- and 5.25-inch disks are included. I tested these delightful programs on an Apple IIGS in my home office as well as on an elementary school’s Apple Iles and its Mac LC I in Apple Ife emulation mode. Cinnamon Bear's Outer Space Adven- ture helps beginning readers practice long and short vowel sounds with word 20 * inCider/A+ * July 1993 patterns (consonant-vowel-consonant and consonant-vowel-consonant-e). Cinnamon Bear's Undersea Adventure gives kids practice with vowel combinations: ai, aw, 6a, e@, igh, oa, 09 (as in food), 00 (as in book), ow (as in cow), ow (as in blow), and ow. Each Cinnamon Bear adventure begins with a two-page story appearing on screen in a large, readable font, It's a perfect way to introduce the software to the whole class. While you have the chil- dren's attention, you can use the Photo Album option to let the class preview the McCarthy-McCormack, Inc. 2885 Downhill Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80918 (800) 869-1446 | (749) 598-5579 fax « early language-skills builders *72BK Apple lle, tlc, lic Plus, IIs, Mac LC with Apple Ile Card * includes site license program’s pictures, words, and associated vowel or combination sounds. You'll like the colorful, animated images and the easy-to-read on-screen directions. Children can work at their own pace — with no pressure to “beat the clock” — because the games aren't timed. GO EXPLORING In Cinnamon Bear’s Outer Space Adventure, the cuddly teddy sits at the controls of his space- —J ship as he gazes at the stars and planets. A picture from the Photo Album, framed by a border, appears, accompanied by vowels and their short and long symbols. Using the arrow keys, you move the highlighted cursor to the correct vowel/symbol associ~ ated with the picture's name, and press the return key. If you're correct, the word appears in a box with the picture. Cinnamon Bear smiles and a tiny space- ship moves ahead on the galaxy game joard. If you're wrong, C.B. looks puz- zled, the word appears, and a highlight box flashes on the correct vowel sound. After eight correct answers you get to play a game in which you maneuver a spaceship through a maze. Using the arrow Keys, you must be careful not to touch either walls or whirling objects. You control your spaceship by pressing the spacebar to stop and restart. Before you begin each game you can slow the ship down by pressing the minus key or speed it up with the plus key. Apple IIGs Little ones learn their vowels as they blast off into an Quter Space Adventure. users should set System Speed in the Control Panel to Normal. Cinnamon Bear's Undersea Adventure works in much the same way. If you're a busy elementary-school teacher or parent, you'll be grateful for the contin- uity — students can play much more independently when software is truly user friendly. Cinnamon Bear’s little submarine is surrounded by colorful sea creatures. A picture from the Photo Album appears in the box; you must move the underline cursor to the correct vowel combination and press the return key, C.B. flashes a smile and gives a thumbs-up for cach correct answer. In addition, the word appears in a box above the picture as a miniature submarine advances through the undersea game board. If you're incorrect, Cinnamon Bear gives you a puzzled look, the correct word appears, the underlined bar flashes on the correct vowel combination, and the tiny sub stays put. Again, after eight correct answers, a game appears; this time you help Cinnamon Bear caprure creatures for his aquarium. You have 12 chances to cast your line (by pressing the spacebar) to fill an empty net. To win a Cinnamon Bear adventure game, you must move the tiny spaceship or sub all the way around the game board. When you succeed, you're rewarded with an animated scene (and accompany- ing music) featuring Cinnamon Bear and friends congratulating you. ‘THUMBS-UP “Awesome!” was the cry of the second- graders who were my official classroom testers, Quickly mastering the appro- priate keys, chey whizzed through Cinna- mon Bear’s Outer Space Adventure. (They had learned short and long vowels C.B. and friends dive into an ocean of vowel combos in Undersea Adventure. in first grade.) “Great program!" added their teachers, who immediately marked this software for use carly in the school year. The children plotted maze routes and manipulated the ship carefully to the exit. Being video experts, though, the kids expected more “lives” with each game. They shut off the sound when they discovered thar the game runs faster without it — they wanted to have as much time at the computer as possible. Cinnamon Bear’s Undersea Adventure was an even bigger hit. “Excellent curric- ulum integration,” remarked the adults, noting that the program was teaching vowel-combination skills at the same time the children were testing the soft- ware. The underwater theme also fit nicely into the students’ current science unit on whale migration, The children felt the undersea game was more chal- lenging, too — probably because they hadn’t yet mastered all the vowel combi- nations it teaches. The Cinnamon Bear manuals cover the essentials; teachers will appreciate their brevity and concise wording. A printout of the pictures in the Photo Album would be a useful addition, howev- er. Using a FingerPrint GSi card, I made a screen shot of the graphics myself; the teachers preferred chat students consult these printed pictures rather than just guess at the answers. While I was printing the graphics, I discovered that Cinnamon Bear's Outer Space Adventure lacks pictures repre- senting the long ¢ sound. Dr. Kay McCormack, president of McCarthy- McCormack, explained that long ¢ wards fitting the consonant-vowel-consonant or consonant-vowel-consonant-e pattern can’t be represented by pictures. Classroom teachers whom [ questioned agreed and said that using Jong e as a distraction in the game actually helped students distin- guish between long ¢ and short ¢ sounds. It’s rare when early-elementary soft- ware meshes so perfectly with skills taught in the classroom, a partnership that makes the computer a truly useful learning tool. Take it from me and my enthusiastic second-graders; You and your class will love Cinnamon Bear’s adventures. He's simply irresistible. Midge Frazel Briigewater, MA lhings grow bigger in Texas: hats, steaks, supercolliders, even font packages. Bullseye TrueType Font Collection from [1 Productive boasts 16 3.5-inch disks containing some 300 archived TrueType fonts. Three bonus disks in the Bullseye package offer a number of extra goodies, among them a one-month trial membership on America Online and the necessary telecommuni- cations software. Hf you work in a mixed environment populated by Macintosh and Apple lcs computers, the ability to share docu- ments that use a common library of fonts is a powerful incentive for making the move to TrueType technology. But even the lone GS user with a trusty Image- Writer IL or high-resolution ink-jet printer can benefit from the largess included in this impressive bundle. NEW KID ON THE BLOCK Until just a couple of years ago, most GS enthusiasts had to satisfy themselves with standard ASCII text characters or plain-vanilla fonts like Shascon and Geneva, supplied with the Apple lcs operating system. These dit-mapped fonts are designed to be legible on the computer screen and on dot-matrix printers. Bit-mapped fonts aren't with- out problems, though. duly 1983 © inCider/A+ © 21 Ideally, every bit-mapped font size should have its own set of character images. For best results in creating text in Geneva, say, you need separate files containing 9-, 10-, 12-, and 18-point Geneva characters. (A point equals one 72nd of an inch.) At this pace, it doesn’t take long for bit-mapped fonts to mono- polize space on a floppy or hard disk. ‘The GS generates uncommon point sizes by resizing characters from the nearest bit-map size available, but the resulting text usually looks jagged and ugly — not. the staff of which easy-on-the-eyes term papers or top-flight résumés are made, By contrast, so-called PostScript printers such as the Apple LaserWriter use special fonts (written in Adobe Systems’ page- description computer language Post- Script} stored permanently in the printer’s memory or downloaded from the com- puter or a dedicated hard-disk drive. Because each PostScript character is defined by a mathematical formula describing the character's outline, these fonts are scalable: A single file contains information for every imaginable size. A PostScript printer can create characters of any size automatically by extrapolating from a single set of outline formulas, Even the smallest printed text looks terrific, but PostScript technology is expensive. Several years ago Apple developed a third font technology — TrueType. These fonts are scalable, compact, and easy to install; they generate both screen display and printer data from a single file. Perhaps more compelling for Apple Tics users in school, at home, or in the small office, TrueType fonts work well with less-expensive printers. That's because the computer — rather than the printer +— does the hard work of rasterizing the image (converting equations defining each letterform into concrete data the computer or printer uses to draw the character). Apple built TrueType into the Mac- intosh and licensed the technology to Microsoft for use in Windows 3.1, a move that expanded the potential market for TrueType fonts to millions of users of IBM PCs and compatibles. WestCode Software filled the void for GS owners by developing Pointless, a GS/OS system extension that brings TrueType font capability to the Apple IIs. 22 + inCidar/A+ * duly 1993 Pointless comes with a basic set of familiar fonts (Chicago, Courier, Courier Bold, Geneva, Monaco, New York, and Symbol), but you can install additional TrueType fonts, as well — a boon to GS users because amateur fontographers have designed countless TrueType fonts and donated them to the public domain. So how do you obtain these “free” fonts? It would take hours of expensive connect time to download the hundreds of fonts available from on-line services and bulletin boards. Add to that the time it takes to catalog the collection. For those who would rather spend their hours creating publications instead of organizing files, [I Productive has per- formed an important service. Bullseye TrueType Font Collection retails for $85, but mail-order distributors, includ- ing Resource Central, Roger Wagner Publishing, and TMS Peripherals, offer the collection at “street” prices, bringing the cost down to nickels per font. The TrueType fonts in the Bullseye package have been compressed to maxi- mize ayailable disk space; before you can use one, you must first decompress its “archive.” For your convenience, the package includes the latest version of GS-Shrinklt. After you decompress a selected font, use the Pointless control panel to add the new typeface to your GS system. The fonts you install appear on the Font menu of GS applications such as AppleWorks GS. MORE FOR YOUR MONEY Keeping track of more than 300 fonts would be a challenge if it weren’t for the HyperCard IGS Reference stack provided in the II Productive package. (A run-time version of HyperCard IIGs and some free stacks are included, as well.) The cards (screens) in the Reference stack provide information and visual previews of Bulls- eye's fonts. You can browse through the cards manually, select information about a specific font from an on-line index, or activate a self-running demo that flips through the cards. You can use Teach, System 6’s document-reading utility, to display and print a text file listing all fonts — from Adjutant to Zingnats. Many of the fonts in this collection sport, only uppercase letters. Presumably you'd use these fonts for titles, headlines, and subheads, and not for body text. Most of the Bullseye fonts lack extended sets of foreign or accented characters, such as #, 4, ¢, 8, and 4. Several “dingbat” fonts (graphics symbols) are included, though, as well as Hebrew and Cyrillic fonts, a Braille font, and at least two fonts made up entirely of fractions — great for math teachers. Perhaps the most bizarre is Ykcowrebbaj (Jabberwocky spelled backwards), in which all letters are mirror images of their former selves. Depending on number of characters and their graphics complexity, a True- Type font file varies in the amount of disk space required for its storage. A font may also inchide multiple styles, such as boldface, italic, and condensed, which can double or even triple the magnetic real estate required. The Reference stack can help you choose the right font and conserve hard-disk space, as well. RIGHT ON TARGET Take note of a few drawbacks here. Some fonts look good on screen, while others look good only when printed. Moreover, GS applications limit the max- imum type size you can incorporate into your documents, You should be able to create stylish and effective newsletter headlines, but if you need gargantuan letters, try a specialized program such as Brgderbund’s Bannermania or The Print Shop Ics. Generally speaking, the more power- ful your system the happier you'll be with TrueType fonts. The ideal setup includes a roomy.hard drive, several megabytes of RAM, an accelerator card, the latest version of GS/OS, and a bigh- resolution printer such as Hewlett- Packard’s DeskJet or Apple’s StyleWriter. But even if you use an ImageWriter II and one or two floppy disk drives, you can still manage. Pointless alone requires only 32K of disk space, and by ruthlessly eliminating unnecessary files you can install it along with a few fonts on the working copy of your startup disk. Whatever your next desktop-publish- ing project, the sheer variety of True- Type fonts offered by Il Productive can keep you and your work looking great for months and years to come. Mike Markowitz Long Beach, CA h, no, not keyboarding,” groaned my 12-year-old daughter when I asked her to help me evaluate UltraKey 2.0. She'd bad an unpleasant time in a mandatory keyboarding class at school last fall. She'd had precisely the same experience I'd had in school — sitting at attention, feet flat on the floor, body centered in front of the keyboard, wrists up and fingers curled, while the teacher droned, “A-a-a, s-s-s, d-d-d, fff,” patrol- ling the classroom to make sure nobody looked down at his or her fingers. ‘There are better ways to learn how to type. As more and more computers have appeared in the workplace, “keyboard- ing,” as my daughter calls it, has become a required skill for employed adults as well as students: Responding to a need for friendlier instruction, a number of computerized nutors have appeared over the years. The variety of available pro- grams ensures that there’s one just right for every age and learning style. UltraKey 2.0 is the culmination of Bytes of Learning’s nine years’ experi- ence publishing keyboarding instruction software. It’s a straightforward tutor with no loud sound effects to disrupt a class and no flashy graphics to divert atten- tion. Instead, keystrokes produce soft, typewricer-like clicks from the computer speaker. There’s no need to look down at your fingers, because the screen dis- plays a keyboard and hands that prompt you for the correct stroke. It’s effective and compelling. POWER UP The package includes a handy I4-page reproducible Student Guide, containing a table of contents, a keyboarding glossary, and clearly written steps for starting and using the program. All necessary operat- ing instructions, featuring text cues and animated graphics, appear on screen as you progress through each lesson. The Teacher's Guide assumes little computer expertise on the part of the instructor. It features 11 program options, including turning audio feed- back on and off, saving the best or the last test result, requiring one or two spaces between sentences, and specifying speed and accuracy criteria required for passing each skill check. The guide also contains helpful tips you can share with students as they practice their lessons and attempt the proficiency tests. While UltraKey assumes little computer expertise, it does assume some degree of motivation on the part of student and teacher alike. Instructors who participate actively in their classrooms by directing and developing activities to reinforce students’ keyboarding skills will probably benefit most from UltraKey. The Teacher's Guide includes suggestions for using the program in classrooms with limited access to computers, ideas for class activ- ities that employ keyboarding, and tips for extending the curriculum beyond simple keyboard geography. UltraKey’s classroom pedigree shows in the guide. The program rewards progress with on-screen messages, gives immediate analysis and feedback after lessons and skill checks, and lets students and teachers view detailed progress reports on screen or paper. UltraKey maintains student records in a central disk directory or on each student’s personal disk. If you choose to store data in one place, the 3.5-inch program disk can hold more than 500 student records, UhtraKey 2.0 is also appropriate for computer labs. It’s available in Apple TI, Mac, and MS-DOS versions so that you can provide uniform instruction. The manual offers troubleshooting tips and tech-support phone and fax numbers. You can also make an archive backup, guaranteeing quick recovery should you damage the program disk. NO-FRILLS EFFICIENCY Like any instructional program, Ulura- Key is more appropriate for some students than for others. Lacking any games disguising its exercises or any of “the other “bells and whistles” that have crept into educational software, UltraKey seems better suited to older students or to smaller classes where the teacher can provide close supervision. It’s also appropriate for introducing adult students to the keyboard, Later this year Bytes of Learning promises to release a companion pro- gram, UltraKey Manager, that will let teachers modify skill checks and add their own practice material to the pro- gram’s Challengers. These paragraph- centered typing tests are especially important in advanced or adult classes. UltraKey teaches only the standard QWERTY keyboard, so-named after the keycaps on the upper left row of letters. The typewriter was patented in 1867, and the QWERTY layout was developed intentionally to make typing difficult, so that the slow-moving mechanical works inside those first machines could keep up with the typist. Typewriter technology eventually improved, and in 1936 a second stan- dard keyboard layout was patented by August Dvorak, an efficiency expert. Although the Dvorak keyboard never caught on, it’s still around. Most Apple computers let you flip between Dvorak and QWERTY from the Control Panel (if you’re using a GS) or a switch at the top left of the keyboard. But for the time being, if you want to learn the more-efficient Dvorak key- board, you'll need to look for some other typing program — although a program- mer at Bytes of Learning says that the company could easily produce a Dvorak tutor if demand for one materialized. UleraKey 2.0 is a solid, well-documented, basic utor, developed and refined by teachers for classroom use. It lacks all those flashy special effects and games commonly found in today's educational programs; the absence of razzle-dazzle makes the teacher more responsible for ensuring his or her students’ continued interest and motivation. If you want a straightforward, no-frills typing tutor, even my daughter concurs that UltraKey 2.0 is the program for you. 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