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ROGER WAGNER and OVE (KOE ose 44 SEPTEMBER 1983 eee Learning To Type, Uniquely Typemeister Bruce Zweig wrote MasterType to teach himself and built Lightning Software to share the fun of it ANDREW CHRISTIE 204 Apples in Space—For the Masses Princeton's Gerard K, O'Neill thinks a lot of the future. Building Mass-Drivers to put giant objects in orbit—with the help of an Apple—is one big step toward getting there. eo et Debut: If Then Maybe . THE SOFTALK SAGES 49 lind Grade Chats ... . DENNIS OSROW 116 How Apple Presents Lisa ... DAVID DURKEE 160 Debut: Follow the Floating Point ... DAVID DURKEE 195 Backtalk: Updating Past Softalkers . ..TOMMY GEAR 220 Hot Rod Ill: Souping Up II Emulation . GEORGE OETZEL 252 Newspeak . Edited by DAVID HUNTER 287 Storytalk: pelea, Reade een Bright”. . LISA MICHAELS JONES 294 by Mark Pelczarski 125n ge Mi AB Computers. 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Design by Kurt Wahlner, photo by Bill Fitzgersié Credite Composition by Photographics, Hollywood, Califor fia, Printing by Valkmuth Printers, a the University of Califor ‘of VisiC orp, San Jose, California. SoftC ard Is « trademark of trosolt, Believue, Washington Softaik is a trademark of Softalk Pubshing ne North Hollywood, Caer, Softalk. Volume 4, Num tephon: paid ai North Hollyeeed, California; and nade tional mating offices Postmaster: Send address changes to Softalk, Box 60, North Hollywood, CA 91003 ree Subscriptions: Complimentary trial subscription to all own- ersof Apple computers in the USA. Ifyou own an Apple but you've send your name, address, and Apple serial nto Soltalk C ition, Box ight weeks for pro pple Computer Inc Sending your warranty cart to Apple Compute sill ot nform Sot Paid Subscriptions: $24 per yeu. A the end of rial period, each rier ul Remote espone w requred oly itp with uc receving Sofa. Lack of fesponse wll be taken 38 yOUr shows tdacontac the magurne Speci te fr schol branes, $12; concurrent additional subscriptions for schools and I frais Secah Heat low Sto gh wees for paws Wh Febraury 1081, 8250 hrouph uly 1981 susothough Cember 1985, . Noncinber 1s and December 192 ae sol out Decmber 98h Febroary ang Say 19 February 1983 are in short supply Prone! 1 you haves reeshed Your Sofa by the fees ‘of the manth, oF it you have other problems with your subscription Ha Schick can help out Cal (13) o¥08074 Moving Scr ae ares and label ftom a tecent Soft to Soll Creation, Box 60, North Hollywood, CA 31604, tele Phone(213}980:5074, Pleas allow sx toeigh wecks for processing @®SOLFTALK SEPTEMBER 1983 CONTEST: “1 WAS A TEENAGE APPLE” There once was a computer company in Cu- pertino, California, that had lots of Apples ly- ing around in its offices. There were all kinds— Ils, Ils, Lisas, yet-unnamed computers, and an old Apple I used as a dart board with Peter Mc- Williams's picture on it. One day, when Steve Jobs was shaving his pet gerbil (“If you shave a gerbil, will it get a tan?” was Jobs's Zen question of the month), Jobs's electric razor caused a power overload, which resulted in some of the fuse boxes catch- ing fire and burning up several offices. (Sure, it’s improbable, but this is just a contest.) Well, one of the rooms that burned down was the Apple Computer Relics room where lived an Apple II, a II Plus, a Ie, a III, and a . All five computers were totally destroyed: crispy critters. During their lives, each computer wrote programs in either assembly language, Cobol, Basic, Fortran, or Pascal. No computer could write in more than one language, but they all could run programs written in any language. Each was used for only one function; data- base management, adventure games, arcade games, fantasy games, or word processing. None of the Apples was used for more than one application. In other words, the Apple that played adventure games did nothing else but play Zork, Wizard and the Princess, Mask of the Sun, and so on. Through some strange turn of events, each one of the computers was reincarnated and be- came either a doctor, disc jockey, samurai war- rior, lawyer, or stand-up comic, and was either single, engaged, happily married, happily di- vorced, or twice divorced. One spring weekend, they all happened to meet by chance at the Legal Aspects of One- Liner Radio Personali Impersonating Ear- Nose-and-Throat Japanese Soldiers Conven- tion at the Motel Six in Cheeseburg, Ohio. They really hadn’t changed that much, even though they were now human and no longer computers. Naturally, they immediately recog- nized each other and hit it off great. Unfor- tunately, they couldn't remember completely which computers they were, or what their lives were like. But they did know the following: 1, The Lisa played a lot of Wizardry, Ul- tima II, and dungeon games. 2. The one that used to program in Cobol was divorced, 3. The one that had been a II Plus would have to leave the convention early because he had a hot date with his financee back home. 4. One of them bored the rest of the group about how he spent weeks trying to get SOS commands to execute from assembly language. 5. The Ie spoke Cobol. 6. The former II's second wife divorced him because he wallpapered the bedroom with disks full of saved games in progress, all of which he was in the process of solving. 7. The single man didn’t speak a high-level language. 8. The one who used to write in Pascal did a lot of word processing. 9. The samurai warrior was a more sophis- ticated model Apple, and the lawyer an earlier model, than the stand-up comic. 10. In his previous life, the disc jockey tried to combine his interests by writing Ultima XII with all goto and print statements, and a whole bunch of for-next loops. Il, The doctor fell asleep listening to another guest reminiscing about taking inven- tory, collecting axes, and parsing f-words, 12. The stand-up comic's jokes mostly end- ed with punch lines such as “How many fields to sort?” and “By last name?” These poor bozos couldn’t figure out who was who, but we bet you can. In fact, we'll give away $100 worth of Softalk advertisers’ prod- ucts to the one who can correctly match all five humans with the computers they used to be, the language each spoke, the applications each was used for, and their current marital status. All you have to do is write down the occu- pation, marital status, model of Apple that per- son used to be, computer language, and its ap- plication, and send it in with a facsimile of the coupon below. That's it! In case of a tie, a winner will be dragged screaming from within the ruthless random number generator. Mail in your entry with the following infor- mation, postmarked by October 10, 1983, to Softalk Reincarnation, Box 60, North Holl wood, CA 91603. Go! Name: aaaueeee == Address: City, state, zip: Phone number, —___ a My computer deale: Here’s what I wanna win: Signature: __ CONTEST WINNERS What a mess. The June Final Exam contest sent readers scrambling to libraries, writing let- ters to Apple, and looking up Wozniak’s phone number in the directory. Needless to say, it probably disrupted a lot of innocent people's lives. The carnage of contests, oh, the carnage. It really wasn’t that hard. As we said in the tules, all information was at one time or another publicly available if you knew where to look. He Looked, He Wrote, He Entered, He Won. Brian Fleming (Los Altos, CA) knew where to look, Fleming's research skills helped him answer all but two questions correctly, which won him all of $100 in prizes. He says h fave of robots hit the you The Spy Strikes Back” (or How to Not Be Seen) by Robert Hardy and Mark Pelczarski The spy Is back! Once again wit and stealth are the tools of his trade as he attempts to thwart an internationai terrorist’s threat to biackmali the world community. Can you aid him In his efforts to evade the patrolling siectronic guards, while searching the myriad rooms of a five-story castle, rounding up the clues needed to locate Dr. X’s nuclear laboratory? Colorful graphics, great sound, and real-time action make this new game maddeningiy addictive! Avaiiabie on Apple disk, Atari 32K disk and 24K cassette. OnIy $19.95 Pensuin SOftWare” sce Steen, erases ait tego Geneva, IL 60134 Dealer orders only — call (800) 323-0116 Atarl (s a trademark of Atari, Inc. Apple Is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. 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THE PR@ FESSOR Box 301 * Swanton, VT 05488 * [514] 747-9130 FREE brochure of over 50 programs! SEPTEMBER 1983 @®TOFTALK he’s going to blow it all on part of a Sweet Mi- cro Systems Mockingboard, which he'll pick up at his local store, Mission Computer Center, Tt seems that one of the reasons some Ppeo- ple enter these contests is just to get their names printed in this section of the magazine. Witness one entry we received that included the follow- ing note. “When I forgot to double-space my Why Not Kumquat? entry, | became angry. When I forgot to send in my correct count of 349 tur- keys, I had a mental breakdown. Not this time! Thope you realize I want my name to appear in Softalk, even if it means embarrassment. I’m desperate for attention! Please notice my smart- alecky answers.” Whoever you are, you forgot to include your name with your entry. Them’s the breaks. Resourcefulness was the key to this contest. Some contestants’ references even included the corporate librarians at Apple. Larry Glisson and Glenn Parrish (Fort Lauderdale, FL) went straight to the source, the Woz himself. “We got the answers to some of the questions from Steve Wozniak (even better than interviewing Steve Jobs!),” they wrote. “If you wish to call him, his phone number is (408) 946-PQRS. Don’t print the number, he doesn’t want publicity! Please!” Killer Questions. Question twenty-seven seemed to stump a few people. One person in- formed us that Amy Doaks is “Mr. Doaks’s daughter.” Tom Lullo (Naperville, IL) guessed “Amy Doaks is Steve Wozniak’s fiancee. If this guess is right, tell Steve *Congrats’ for me.” If Lullo’s guess is right, somebody should tell Wozniak’s wife, Candi. What color feet does the blue horse have? Well, we don’t know of too many blue horses; the horse on the cover of the June issue was an off-white color, and you couldn’t see its feet anyway. The answer to this one was found in the Applesoft Tutorial on pages 85 and 104 for the II Plus and He respectively, It didn’t matter to David Tseng (Marlboro, NJ), who let us know very concisely that “horses have hooves, not feet.” Touche. Did everyone find Richard Shacklock’s six- teenth-century poem? Here’s what Kevin Eanes (Fresno, CA) sent us: “I once had a machyne called ‘The Computer.’ It was a perfeckt devyce—a real beaut, sir. But I lefte my Apple to lye And my wyfe used it in a pye. There was only one thing to do: scolde her.” “If you haven't guessed,” Eanes added, “I don’t know the answer to this question, I hate poetry, I never heard of Richard Shacklock, and | wasn’t around in 1565!” The essay question was just for fun—a big chance for people to get their names mentioned here for coming up with imaginative answers. Unfortunately, not too many people decided to have that much fun with it. Most essays explain- ing why the Apple is the best darn personal computer in the universe sounded like this: “It’s versatile; it has more software available for it than any other; it’s expandable; it’s the one I have; it just is; it’s a good bargain for the Morey... Boring. Contest winner Fleming decided his own reasons were unimportant. “‘Why is Apple the best darn personal computer in the universe? It seems quite unnecessary to make up reasons to support the statement when so many have said it so well: ‘The best stands out’—Howard Software Services ‘Dollar for dollar, feature for feature, noth- ing else even comes close!'—Sierra On-Line “Ya gotta have one’—Sweet Micro Systems. ‘Penguins say frnk, frnk’—Penguin Software “The above statements speak for them- selves.” Aaron and Ben Lanterman (Bridgeton, MD) answered the essay question best by stat- ing simply that “tno one can afford a Lisa.” Good answer, but try telling that to the back- ordered Lisa division at Apple. One of the questions that caused the most confusion was number eight, the date the first Apple II was made available to the public. The correct answer to this question depended on whom you asked. The official correct answer was May 10, 1977. According to Phil Roybal, Apple’s product marketing manager, Europe, and former corporate communications man- ager, this was the date it was available for pur- chase, hence publicly available. However, the Apple II was introduced to the i ‘st West Coast Computer Faire. where it gets messy. According to Ap- ple’s calendar, this all happened on April 20, 1977. But Jim Warren, boss of bosses at Com- puter Faire, the Faire’s sponsor, says Apple is lying; in his diary, the West Coast Computer Faire took place April 15-17, 1977. You just can’t take anybody's word anymore. So, if your answer was any of these three dates, you're in good shape. As a closing note, here’s what Richard Wins- low (Wheatland, WY) had to say about the contest; “While I'll probably not win, at least I've had some fun, met some people, and learned something more about my Apple.” Isn’t that what it’s all about anyway? An End to This Limerick Madness. Funny thing about voting. No matter who wins, al nobody is satisfied. Presidential elections, ion, World Series most valuable players, limerick contests. The only person who'll be satisfied with the outcome of this contest is Sonia Kantor (Palo Alto, CA), whose limerick received the most votes and won by a landslide. It wasn’t even a close race. Her limerick was number four, which ended with “Hugh, let Pa curd the whey” (hidden name; Hewlett-Packard), Kantor wins the long-awaited $100 in fabu- lous gift items for her Apple, which, no doubt, son Jason will help pick out. Jason Kantor, the contest-winners faithful will remember, was crowned Softalk Slob of the Month back in May for having submitted his Puns ’n’ Ana- grams entry with torn and frayed edges, MANY HAVE TRIED, FEW HAVE SUCCEEDED THE ONLY ADVENTURECADE™ The ADVENTURECADE™ revolution has arrived! Through the integration of the two most popular types of computer games, high resolution adventure and fast action arcade, Mind Games has established a new state-of-the- art in home entertainment...the ADVENTURECADE™! The arcade will challenge your abilities as never before! If you survive the Order direct or see your dealer. VISA or MASTERCARD $37.95 unyielding bombardment of the Pykronian Air Command and escape the crossfire of the deadly Android Patrol, your skill will then be put to the test as you enter the high resolution adventure dimension and challenge the domain of Dunmark Pykro. Here you will venture into a realm of creativity that is limited only by your imagination. ie 420 South Beverly Drive Suite 207 Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (213) 277-8044, Extension A-1 ~ Written by Greg and Gil; Assembly Language (48K); Requires an Apple Il, II+ or lle computer with DOS 3.3; Apple Il is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. The Desecration, © 1982 by Mind Games, Inc., ADVENTURECADE™ is a trademark of Mind Games, Inc. All artwork’ © 1982 by Mind: Games, Inc. Ne 6 ®TOFITALK SEPTEMBER 1983 fs eee 2 LAIR 7 aN A BOLD NEW CONCEPT IN COMPUTER ADVENTURES FORBIDDEN QUEST" is the first in a series of ARTEXT"™ adventures combining spellbinding prose and five BY by 11 original graphic art prints. Clues within the 5 prints must be cleverly deduced and applied to Solve your quest. As the hero in this science fiction thriller, you alone are responsible for your fate. You must call upon all of your skill and cunning to prevail against hostile environments and treacherous aliens to attain the ultimate conclusion. The beautiful princess in the illustration (Forbidden Quest ARTEXT print No. 3) is one of the many challenges you will face in conquering the worlds of FORBIDDEN QUEST THE DESTINY OF THE CITIZENS OF YOUR GALAXY DEPENDS ON YOUR SUCCESS! TREAT YOURSELF TO A NEW ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE Ask your local dealer or CALL TOLL-FREE 1-800-522-1500 ext. 831 (orders only) 1-408-625-0125 (orders, general information, HINTS) OR SOURCE (TCPO07) “1 COMPUSERVE (74035, 130) $39.95 plus $1.50 postage, add $3.00 for C.0.D. Calif. add 6% sales tax Mastercard, Visa, C.0.D. WELCOME Forbidden Quest for Apple” ]{/}[e (48k) DOS 3.3 and Apple /// emulation |BM® -PC and compatibles. (CP/M® versions available soon) pryority soflware, inc 25570 Chiquito PI Carmel, Calif. 93923 DEALER AND DISTRIBUTOR INQUIRIES ARE INVITED APPLE, IBM, and CPIM are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.. International Business Machines, inc, and Oigital Research, Inc. respectively. Forbidden Quest and ARTEXT are adematks of Pryanity Software, Inc. copyright 1983 Pryariy Software, Ie WH Rights Reserved, smeared ink, grease stains, and other grimy marks. Since then, that title has been revoked, and all rights and privileges that go with it have been canceled. Sonia Kantor explains: “Jason was kind of upset at first, because it wasn’t all his fault. We would all work on the puzzle after dinner just about every night, and it was my husband who made most of the mess.” Only after some school chums remarked to Ja- son that they had seen his name in Softalk did the former Slob of the Month realize it wasn’t such a bad deal after all. Lessons like this are always learned too late, and such is the case for Jason. The Slob of the Month for May has now been defaulted to his father, Robert Winning a contest always involves a bit of talent, luck, and a little strategy. In the case of the Limerick contest, it involved a lot of strat- egy. See, just as in real-life stuff like political elections, there’s always the matter of who should have won, who wanted badly to win, and who did win. Kantor did win, that much is cer- tain. But how she did it is another story. The voting looked more like the petitioning process for Dr. Demento’s Top Ten than it did a civil democratic event. Votes came in for every limerick, but in the final analysis it wasn’t a question of which limerick was the best written or the most popular, but rather who could round up the most people to send ina post card with a number written on it. All but four of Kantor’s votes came from her home-town area of Palo Alto. At first, the contest staff was stumped. ‘She sure has a lot of neighbors,” remarked one vote counter. ‘‘Either that or she’s holding a lot of Palo Altoans hos- tage,” added another. It was neither case. As Kantor tells it, all the votes came in from students of her English as a Second Language class. The limericks were given to the students (or so we were told), and they were to vote for lim- erick number four “‘if they wanted to pass the class.” Well, that’s one way to campaign for votes, and it doesn’t seem too different from the way things work in Congress. Congratulations are in order to Kantor for going beyond her job duties of teaching the English language and teaching the true Ameri- can way as well. Hurrah. For each devious action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Sort of. When it came time to draw from the pile of cards that voted for limerick number four in order to award the $50 voters’ prize, the card that emerged was one of the four that didn’t come from Palo Alto. It was one of three that came from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At least this winner wasn’t one of Kantor’s Kommandos. So we thought. No, Ellen Lang (Milwaukee, WI) isn’t one of Kantor’s English students. She's a sister-in- law. Nepotism, nepotism. Lang doesn’t have an Apple, so she really had no use for $50 in soft- ware. Instead, she’s taking the cash and will “put it toward our trip to Europe.” That ought to buy her enough airplane fare to get about six miles over the Atlantic. Who Should Have Won. Apparently, the GOTO page 299 “Great graphics itke Transyivania’s would have been | pretty hairy without The Graphics Magician.”—Mr. W.R. 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They'll have to qui Luckily, the they need: a puter, a camera for taking Snoopshots and even a not SHERFLEST RE _ . APPLE APPLE ® ATARI © IBM. WIZARD asp. “4 aie ik at danas Tl a ; Se ES ed Siam | hd 7 q ¢ Pane, r ae \ "4 s7 /Thexforemostzinnovators :ofsthesadventure:game-invitesyou.toim //explore an exciting realm. Explore history and captivating new r ome: Find all-of lealer or contact _ Sierra On-Line, Sierra On-Line. Building, Coarsegold, Calif. *"93614.-Phone (209) 683-6858. SUCAWMENTURE APPLE © ATARI i: THE DARK CRYSTAL and character namea are trademarka of Henaon Associates, inc. HI-RES ADVENTURE, SIERRAVENTURE and all other product titlea are trademarka of Slerra On-Line, Inc. SEPTEMBER 1983 SOFTALKE Ao | ALK Fastalk is a quick guide to popular, specialized, new, and classic software. When you need a particu- lar kind of program or just want to see what’s new, Fastalk is the place to look for fast answers. If a program has been reviewed in Softalk, it car- ries the issue date of the review in italics at the end of its listing, and the capsule description given reflects the published review. ‘A new software entry, which must be of profes- sional quality to be included, is designated by a check mark preceding its name. A new entry loses its check mark after its first appearance and drops out of Fastalk after one to three appearances (depending on genre) if it fails to gain popularity. A bullet preceding a title indicates a program that ‘Sofialk has designated as a classic, based on its ability to stand up over time, its significance for its time (breaking new ground or introducing a new genre), or its archetypal qualities. Other entries in Fastalk are there either by virtue of current activity (the programs are selling at least as much as the least-selling entry on any of the bestseller charts) or because they are representative of the best of programs for a special interest or need (such as card games or non-Basic-specific language terminal programs). Sofialk may arbitrarily omit any package from Fastalk, whether or not it meets the foregoing criteria. Adventuresome story games in which players must deduce commands, make maps, and solve logical puzzles. © Adventure. Crowther, Woods. The original text adventure, created on mainframe, contributed to by many over a long time. Very logical within fantasy framework, excellent puzzles, maps; complex, convo- luted, and great. Several publishers: Microsoft, 10700 Northup Wy., Bellevue, WA 98004. $28.95. Apple, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. $35. Fron- tier Computing, Box 402, 666 N. Main St., Logan, UT 84321. $10. Critical Mass. Blauschild. Rungistanian author’s next adventure; more colorful graphics, sophisticated and challenging puzzles. Sirius, 10364 Rockingham Dr., Sacramento, CA 95827. $39.95. 7/83. © Cyborg. Berlyn. Text adventure with brief action skill game hidden in plot, As a futuristic part man, part robot, you're lost in a strange forest, desperately needing food and power. At its release, in its realism and use of true plot, Cyborg represented one of the most significant advances in adventuring since the original Adventure. Sentient, Box 4929, Aspen, CO 81612. $32.95. 11/81. The Dark Crystal. Williams. Hi-res adaptation of fantasy movie. New puzzles challenge even those who've seen the movie. Sierra On-Line, Sierra On-Line Building, Coarsegold, CA 93614. $39.95. 4/83. Deadtine. Blank, Lebling. Episode one in a series of murder mysteries by the authors of Zork. Includes inspector's casebook, lab report. Text. Infocom, 55 Wheeler St,, Cambridge, MA 02138. $49.95. 8/82. Death in the Caribbean. Hess. Lush graphic adventure features a huge maze, mischievous ghost, pirate treas- ure, Well worth it, Micro Lab, 2699 Skokie Valley Rd., Highland Park, IL 60035. $35. Escape from Rungistan, Blauschild. Graphics adven- ture with some animated real-time puzzles, Espionage theme, Sirius, 10364 Rockingham Dr., Sacramento, CA 95827. $29.95. 8/82. @ Hi-Res Adventure #1: Mystery House. Williams. Whodunit in a Victorian mansion. First adventure with pictures. Two-word parser with logical comprehension. Sierra On-Line, Sierra On-Line Building, Coarsegold, CA 93614, $24.95. Hi-Res Adventure #2: The Wizard and the Princess. Williams. The king has offered half his kingdom to the ‘one who will bring back the kidnapped princess. Cross mountains, deserts; battle the wizard to claim your reward. Sierra On-Line, Sierra On-Line Building, Coarsegold, CA 93614. $32.95. 11/80. Kabul Spy. Wilson. Cold War espionage adventure in which you must slip into Afghanistan to rescue a physicist before the commies make him talk. Sirius, 10364 Rockingham Dr., Sacramento, CA 95827. $34.95. Mask of the Sun. A unique animated graphic quest with full though sometimes frustrating parsing. Moving from room to room involves seeing scenery along the way go by—a graphics breakthrough with nice puzzles. Ultrasoft, 12503 Bell-Red Rd., #200, Bellevue, WA 98005. $39.95. 11/82. © Prisoner 2, Mullich. Totally relandscaped but loyal version of original game: full-color hi-res graphics added, puzzles reworded, obstacles expanded. Sophisti- cated and difficult exercise in intimidation with ele- ments of satire, Escape from an island requires player to solve logical puzzles, overcome obstacles, and an- swer riddles, Excellent computer fare; nothing else like it, Edu-Ware, Box 22222, Agoura, CA 91301. $32.95. The Prisoner, 3/81, Prisoner 2, 10/82. @ S.A.G.A. Series. Adams. Scott Adams’s prototypi- cal adventures—12 in all—spruced up with 100-color graphics and Votrax vocals. Fun, not always logical, very story-oriented series. Each adventure has its own theme and often exotic locale. They map small but score big on imagination. Adventure International, Box 3435, Longwood, FL 32750. $29.95 each. 7/82. Serpent’s Star. Anson, Clark, Franks, Ormsby. Mac Steele searches the Himalayas for a legendary sapphire in Mask of the Sun sequel. Traps are less obvious. Delightful glimpse of a faraway mystical land. Ultra- soft, 12503 Bell-Red Rd., #200, Bellevue, WA 98005. $39.95. 4/83. Sherwood Forest. Holle, Johnson. Dating game in legendary times. In premiere Soffoon adventure featur- ing neat UltraRes graphics, Robin Hood woos Maid Marian all the way to the honeymoon. Go for it. Phoenix Software, 64 Lake Zurich Dr., Lake Zurich, TL 60047. $34.95. 3/83. Starcross. Science-fiction prose adventure that comes wrapped in a flying saucer. Set in the year 2186, main puzzle is to discover raison d'etre of miniworld aster- oid. Likable, engaging. Superior puzzles. Infocom, 55 Wheeler St., Cambridge, MA 02138. $39.95. 1/82. Suspended. Berlyn, Well-plotted adventure demands control of six independent robots who can act simulta- neously. Intelligent, challenging exercise in logic. A milestone. Infocom, 55 Wheeler St., Cambridge, MA 02138. $49.95. 4/83, @ Swordthrust Series. Set of adventures, seven so far, that integrate fantasy role playing. Create one charac- ter, make friends in each new adventure, battle mon- sters and achieve goals together. Good stories, fun to map. Vocabulary no mystery, but puzzles are. Single character goes through all. CE Software, 801 73rd St., Des Moines, IA $0312. Number 1 prerequisite for rest. Each adventure, $29.95. 8/82. ‘Transylvania. Antiochia. Some of best graphics ever in a hi-tes adventure. Excellent puzzles and logic—no unfair tricks, Enjoyable. Penguin, 830 4th Ave., Gene- va, IL 60134. $34.95. 6/8/. Witness. Galley. It’s 1938, a society woman is dead, the Killer is loose and may strike again. You have 12 hours a } to figure out whodunit before someone else takes the deep six. It may be you. Infocom, 55 Wheeler St., Cambridge, MA 02138. $49.95. 7/83. © Zork I, Il, ML. Blank, Lebling. Text lives! Three masterpieces of logic and grand adventure to revel in. Hard, logical puzzles with erudite parser that under- stands complete compound sentences and questions, has amazing vocabulary. / and // use standard scoring, standard goals; //T has unique point system, and benevolence pays. Infocom, 53 Wheeler St., Cam- bridge, MA 02138. $39.95. Zork I, 6/81; Zork II, 3/82; Zork IIT, 9/82. Business Accounting Plus Hl and He. // version is integrated package; general ledger, accounts receivable and pay- able, and inventory-purchasing modules. Menu-driven; prompting. /e version is stripped and rebuilt to take advantage of available functions, Software Dimen- sions, 6371 Auburn Blvd., Citrus Heights, CA 95610. HT, $1,250; He, $995. ‘Apple II Business Graphics. Converts numerical data into charts and graphs. Features mathematical and statistical functions, Requires 64K, Apple, 20525 Mari- ani Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. $175. BPI System. Popular six-module business package; programs also available separately. Includes General Ledger (a bestseller), accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, inventory control, and job costing. Apple, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. $395 each; job costing, $595. Bulk Mailer. Marinello. Hard disk mailer handles 32,000 names, retrieves a name by account number in two seconds. Floppy disk handles 1,200 names per disk. Includes zip code inventory, duplicate entry killer. A technical and functional advance. Satori Software, 5507 N. Woodlawn, Seattle, WA 98103. Floppy disk, $125; hard disk, $350. 6/83. Cdex Training for VisiCalc. Brandt. Self-contained Apple-assisted training program and reference guide for the #1 electronic spreadsheet. User-selectable infor- mation. Cdex, 5050 El Camino Rd., Los Altos, CA 94022. $49.95. 3/83. ~ Compuquote. Cost estimation and price-quoting system that allows user to update, inflate or discount prices, figure costs based upon labor and materials. Includes light pen for most data entry. Peripheral Visions, 5285 Elam Young Pkwy., B400, Hillsboro, OR 97123. $275. The Data Bank. Garner, Flowers. Database manage- ment system for nonprogrammers. Generates mail lists, client files, letter files, checkbook records, student records, patient records, and recipes. FlowerSoft, 564 Tara, Manteca, CA 95336. $170. The Data Factory. Passauer. Database management system allows users to list files, get file statistics, select another file, transfer records to new database, and add fields to update forms. Disk swapping required; excel- lent product overall. Several compatible products avail- able. Micro Lab, 2699 Skokie Valley Rd., Highland Park, IL 60035. $150, 8/87. dBase II. Speedy relational database-management sys- tem. Requires CP/M. Ashton-Tate, 9929 W. Jefferson Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230. $700. DB Master. Comprehensive database- management sys- tem with password protection, extensive report creation options. 1,000 characters per record. Stoneware, 50 Belvedere St., San Rafael, CA 94901. $229. 10/81. DB Master Utility Pak #1 and Utility Pak #2. Compati- ble with version III. Translates DB files to Apple text, restructures existing files, replicates and merges, and 12 recovers crashed files. Pak #2 includes label printer, global editor, file merge, reblocker, and forms printer. Stoneware, 50 Belvedere St., San Rafael, CA 94901. $99 cach. FCM. Schoenburg, Pollack. Formerly First Class Mail. Fantastically user-friendly program for specialized database applications. Twelve fields, ability to sort and filter on any field or combination. Continental, 11223 S. Hindry Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90045. $74.95. 6/82. General Manager. User-definable database-manage- ment system; can use one to four disk drives or hard disk. Change screen and field formats without reenter- ing data, Current version supports IIe and 80-column. card at no extra cost. Sierra On-Line, Sierra On-Line Building, Coarsegold, CA 93614. $229.95. Hard-disk version, $374.95. The Incredible Jack. Word processor, database, and spreadsheet, plus mailing label print and sort. Gives 80-column w/c display automatically on the Ile, with 64K, 80-column card on the 11 Plus, Business Solu- tions, 60 E, Main St., Kings Park, NY 11754, $129. 8/82. InfoStar. Hajicek, Collier, Rubinstein. Database man- agement for nonprogrammers. Maintains updates, generates simple or customized reports. MicroPro, 33 San Pablo Ave., San Rafael, CA 94903. $495, Invoice File. Zornes. Template for DB Master gener- ates reports sorted by invoice number, customer num- ber, customer name, and product description. Includes instructions for creating customized reports; requires minimal knowledge of DB Master. Phoenix, 64 Lake Zurich Dr., Lake Zurich, IL 60047. $89.95. Legal Billing. Marinello. Complete billing system for lawyers prints customized statements, aging reports. Includes trust accounts, user-designated codes, auto- matic interest adder. For up to 200 clients and 4,000 transactions. Satori Software, 5507 N. Woodlawn, Seattle, WA 98103. $350. Mail Merge 3.3. File-merging tool requiring WordStar “RAM” That NEVER Forgets! HARDRAM Convenience of RAM/Security of ROM + Non Volatile (No loss of data if power is lost). ‘sNo Battery Backup needed (data is retained over ten (10) years) + Requires no EPROM programmer or Ultra-Violet light ‘Alter data one byte ata time of a block ata time, + Using HARDRAM [sas easy as using a Standard APPLE I RAM Card. ‘+ Switch selectable autostart on power-up. Permanently Store Alternate Languages/Operating Systems. Save Wear and Tear on Program Disks. {Instantly Run Any Program Stored In HARDRAM. Without Disk Access.) ‘New Commands/Utilites can be added to DOS or BASIC language with one time entry into HARDRAM and can be called instantly when your system is powered-up, ‘Custom Languages can be petmanently stores into HARDRAM (No more need to pre-boot!}. 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Dsaid $150, "APPLE Ilsa tridenarh of Apple Computer Ine waranty MARDRAMEEIGA OPTIONAL ited warranty IROUIRE ABOUT HARDRAM TOR OTTER CONPUTER SYSTENS [DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED. ‘Send 25¢ for our 1983 summer catalog of dectrone parts, {tree with ard) including resistors, Neonionuctors, plastic boxes, mot Tor ST PRICES — SAVE ; TINKER-TRON 0.BOX 53128 f ‘| conti TEXAS 79452 inas.2208 SOFETALK SEPTEMBER 1983 3.3. Combines files containing names and addresses with files containing letter texts. Personalizes form letters with specialized salutation and closing. Mi- croPro, 33 San Pablo Ave., San Rafael, CA 94903. $250. MagiCale. Graves. Electronic spreadsheet with auto- matic page formatting and support of additional mem- ory boards up to 512K. Compatible with VisiCalc and Magic Window II. Artsci, 5547 Satsuma Ave., North Hollywood, CA 91601. $149.95. Money Street. Checkbook financial system for small business, office, or home use. Keeps books, tracks deductions, helps cut expenses. CTS, Box 4845, Incline Village, NV 89450, $99.95. Multiplan, Easy-to-learn electronic work sheet using plain-English commands. Powerful modeling and pres- entation capabilities, For use in analysis, forecasting, technical engineering, and the home. Versions 1.04 and up use 80 columns and extended memory on the Ile. Microsoft, 10700 Northup Wy., Bellevue, WA 98004. $275. Payroll. Faulkner. Handles payroll accounting, report generation, and check writing for 300 employees in 15 divisions at Pascal speeds on non-Pascal-equipped Apple computers. Two disk drives required. Broder- bund, 1938 4th St., San Rafael, CA 94901. $395. PFS:File. Page, Roberts. User controls data in totally unstructured database. Up to 32 pages (screens) of information in each record. Ile version has 80 columns, w/c, Software Publishing, 1901 Landings Dr., Moun- tain View, CA 94043. $125. 10/80. PFS:Graph. Chin, Hill. Works alone or interfaces with files created with PFS:File and VisiCalc, Produces bar, line, and pie charts merging data from several sources. 80 columns and increased graphics support in Ie version. Software Publishing, 1901 Landings Dr. Mountain View, CA 94043. $125. 5/82. PFS:Report, Page. Powerful report generator designed for use with PFS:File. Sorts, calculates, totals, formats, and prints presentation-quality columnar reports. Soft- ware Publishing, 1901 Landings Dr., Mountain View, CA 94043. $125. 6/81. Quick File Ile. Easy-to-use personal database filing system that generates reports, sorts. Fifteen fields; files as long as disk allows. Ie, two disk drives. Apple, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. $100. Risk Simulator. Estimates probability distributions re- lated to risk situations, such as automobile mainte- nance expenses or employer funding of health benefits. Actuarial Microcomputer Software, 3915 Valley Ct., Winston-Salem, NC 27106. $185. State of the Art General Ledger and Budget Forecast- ing Module, The ledger does 12-period accounting, two-digit subaccounts; handles up to 470 accounts; enters 100 transactions before updating to permanent files. Budget module extends account number to nine digits; custom designs reports; does previous-year com- parisons. State of the Art, 3183A Airway Ave., Costa Mesa, CA 92626. $495, budget module, $395. 8/83. 7 Statpro, Imhof, Hewett, Blue Lakes Software. Complete workstation for data entry, storage manipu- lation, statistical and graphic analyses. Statistics mod- ule contains five sets of analyses: descriptive statistics, regression analyses, analysis of variance, time series analyses, and multivariate analyses, Wadsworth Elec- tronic Publishing, Statler Office Building, 20 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116. Thirty-two disks, $1,995. Videx Preboot VisiCalc. Prepares VisiCalc to run in 80 columns, u&lc, Advanced version uses mixture of existing memory cards, Videx, 897 N.W. Grant St., Corvallis, OR 97330. $49; advanced: $89. @ VisiCale. Bricklin, Frankston. Electronic work sheet for any problem involving numbers, rows, and columns. No programming necessary. VisiCorp, 2895 Zanker Rd., San Jose, CA 95134. $250. 10/80. VisiFile. Creative Computer, Jameson, Herman. Data- base-management information system for organization and retrieval of information, allowing sort and modifi- cation of records. VisiCorp, 2895 Zanker Rd., San Jose, CA 95134. $250. VisiSchedule. Critical path PERT schedule planner. VisiCorp, 2895 Zanker Rd., San Jose, CA.95134, $300. VisiTrend/VisiPlot. Kapor. Combines VisiPlot graph- ics with time-series manipulation, trend forecasting, and descriptive statistics. VisiCorp, 2895 Zanker Rd., San Jose, CA 95134. $259.95. 7/81. Communications Apple Link. Jaffe, Pierce. Creates intelligent terminal at receiving end with no additional software. Only modem software known that can transmit Screen- Writer text files. Also transmits random-access text files. Computer Applications, 13300 S.W. 108 Street Circle, Miami, FL 33186. $59.95. 8/82. ASCII Express: The Professional. Robbins, Blue. Greatly improved version of original modem software package features automatic redial, individual macro files, and conversion of Integer, Applesoft, or binary programs into text files. Works with a plethora of hardware. Southwestem Data, 10761-E Woodside Ave., Santee, CA 92071, $129.95. 12/82. Data Capture 4.0. Copyable, modifiable smart termi- nal program; compatible with Apple III and most lower-case adapters. Southeastern Software, 6414 Der- byshire Dr., New Orleans, LA 70126. $65. 7/81. Dow Jones Connector. Guide to the use of the company’s News/Retrieval Service and Blue Chip membership, too. Dow Jones Software, Box 300, Princeton, NJ 08540. $95. Hayes Terminal Program. Standalone disk designed for the Micromodem II lets CP/M, DOS 3.3, and Pascal disks create, list, delete, send, and receive files. Opens access to nonkeyboard ASCII characters and prints incoming data as it’s displayed. Hayes Micro- computer Products, 5835 Peachtree Corners East, Norcross, GA 30092. $99. 9/81. Micro/Terminal. Access and exchange information with mainframes and minis, databases like the Source, and other remote terminals and personal computers. Allows keyboard mapping, u/lc, 80-column cards. Microcom, 1400A Providence Hwy., Norwood, MA 02062. $84.95. P-Term: The Professional. Supports al] Pascal-com- patible interfaces, asynchronous serial cards, Apple- compatible modems, and baud rates up to 2400. Southwestern Data, 10761-E Woodside Ave., Santee, CA 92071. $129.95. Softerm. Stricklan. Emulation program makes the Apple II Plus into a look-alike for many other popular CRT terminals, allowing use of programs written for other terminals without programming changes. Also enables access to mainframes, timesharing services, and other Apple computers. Keyboard macros and auto- matic answerback capabilities. Softronics, 6626 Prince Edward, Memphis, TN 38119. $150. TermExec. O'Neil. Turns Apple with modem into an intelligent terminal workstation. Features unattended long file capture, 300 or 1200 baud operation, back- scrolling, edited file capture of past terminal sessions from scrolling buffer, full-screen editor, macros, execs. For most modems, Exec Software, 201 Waltham St., Lexington, MA 02173. $79.95. Transend 1, 2, 3. Intelligent-terminal software with multiple hardware compatibility. Advanced, easy to use. / sends text only; menu-driven, limited editor, 2 sends text and files like VisiCalc, verifies transmission. 3 does both and handles electronic mail with automatic redial, clock calendar, and password protection. Up- grade: difference in price between two packages plus $20 service fee. SSM, 2190 Paragon Dr., San Jose, CA 95131. $89, $149, $275. 9/82, VisiTerm. Well-planned, comprehensive. Hi-res sixty- character display; wide range of protocols for sending text, VisiCorp, 2895 Zanker Rd., San Jose, CA 95134. $129. 9/81. Z-Term: The Professional. More than an update. ‘Compatible with a great variety of modems, interface cards, and screen modes. Simple file transfer with The day you bring your first CAI™ learr game home and watch your child pla you'll know the excitement of a wint choice. Active Family Your family and CAI’s growing family of animated, full-color programs have a lot to share —beginning with a willingness to reach beyond the ordinary to achieve the best. At Your Command You may meet a princess, a juggler or a dragon in Wizard of Words.™ You may appear as a guest on TV in Master Match,™ The Game Show™ or Tic Tac Show.™ Or, you may extend these programs still further with our LearningWare™ diskettes, offering hundreds of questions matched to the teaching strategies in the games. In every case, CAI puts a world of imagination and learning at your fingertips. And puts you and your child in control. Unique Approach Key features place CAI thinking tools ina class by themselves: Each program comes with its own library of subjects. But that's just the start. Our unique authoring system let's you or your child create your own lessons on any topic, tailoring the program to your family’s needs —and no computer knowledge is required. Add the fact that we've kept the vital ingredient —FUN - in learning, and ourproven success is no surprise. Over 2,000 school districts now use CAI programs to teach essential vocabulary and logic skills in a variety of subject areas. CAI supports its products —and you —with an unconditional guarantee and a free backup disk. And provides compatibility with the most popular computers: Apple,® IBM® (and soon Commodore™ ). Wise Choice CAI is a group of experienced educators and programmers who believe that success begins with opportunities you create at home. Ask to see a demonstration of CAI programs at your local computer store, and see for yourself just how rewarding a good education can be. I gy 7 Al, 1 Computer uh Advanced Ideas Bringing Ideas Home 1442A Walnut Street, Suite 341 Berkeley, CA 94709 (415) 526-9100 14 integrity. Southwestern Data, 10761-E Woodside Ave., Santee, CA 92071. $149.95. 5/81. Role-playing games uwolving characters that develop through experience in adventuresome stories, and whose actions players determine via set comunands. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Smith. Fanciful Arabian Nights role-playing game with a sense of humor. Fresh, fast action, challenging options, and secrets that are a joy to discover. Quality, 6660 Reseda Blvd., #105, Reseda, CA 91335. $32.95. 11/82. @ Beneath Apple Manor. Worth. The original dun- geon game for the Apple, created in 1978. Newly released version has hi-res, sound effects, a few more magic items, but still the classic game. Quality, 6660 Reseda Blvd., #105, Reseda, CA 91335. $29.95. 2/83. Knight of Diamonds. Second scenario of Wizardry, requiring thirteenth-level characters from the original, Individual quests on each of six dungeon levels. Great. Sir-tech, 6 Main St., Ogdensburg, NY 13669. $34.95 7/82, Legacy of Llylgamyn. Greenberg, Woodhead. Third scenario in classic Wizardry series. To save Llylgamyn, descendants of the adventurers of other Wizardry scenarios (requires Overlord) must wrest a mystical orb from the dragon L’kbreth, New full-screen dungeon, Lisa-like information screens. Sir-tech, 6 Main St., Ogdensburg, NY 13669. $39.95. 7/83. @ Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure. Clardy. Fan- tasy adventure far beyond one place and one setting. Castles, catacombs, an ocean voyage, and the orb of power. Synergistic, 830 N. Riverside Dr., #201, Ren- ton, WA 98055. $30. 10/80. @ Temple of Apshai, Lead title in Durjonquest series, winner 1981 Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design “Computer Game of the Year” award. Epyx/ | Ten NXBYZEHK MFNAQOXY VXBZCM KFG ASY GHABPOAY BZ EXKWAFCXOP COPYM THE ULTIMATE IN CRYPTOGRAM GAMES... The @ Base your predictions on the statistical analysis provided. @ Enter your own crypiograms (plain text or enciphered) @ Detailed help provided. Read the mrinalet the invisi- ble man and watch as he solves a cryptogram ®Apple Il, II+, lle, Applesoft 48K - 1 Disk - DOS 3.3 $19.95 Retailers inquire for rates. Friendly Software 302 Torbett, Suite 138 Richland, WA 99352 @®YOFTALK SEPTEMBER 1983 Automated Simulations, 1043 Kiel Ct., Sunnyvale, CA. 94086. $39.95. © Ultima, British. Hi-res color adventure, progressing from Middle Ages to beyond the space age. A master- piece, California Pacific, 1623 Sth St., Davis, CA 95616. $39.95. 6/81. Ultima Il. British. Faster play in a bigger universe with a time-travel option. Typically British look and feel. Events are much more interdependent; larger realm of fantasy with more transactions available. Sierra On- Line, Sierra On-Line Building, Coarsegold, CA 93614. $59.95. © Wilderness Campaign. Clardy. First fantasy game to leave the dungeon for the great outdoors; first in hi-res; first to bargain with merchants; and more. Synergistic, 830 N. Riverside Dr., #201, Renton, WA 98055, $17.50. @ Wizardry. Greenberg, Woodhead. Ultimate role- playing fantasy; ten-level maze in hi-res. Generate 20 characters, six at a time on expeditions. Gripping game; superbly reproduced. Sir-tech, 6 Main St., Ogdens- burg, NY 13669. $49.95. 8/81. Alpha Plot. Kersey, Cassidy. Hi-res graphics and text utility with optional xdraw cursor and proportional spacing. Beagle Bros, 4315 Sierra Vista, San Diego, CA. 92103. $39.50. The Complete Graphics System. Pelczarski. A wealth of graphics tools at a reasonable price. Make 2-D drawings with game paddles, add text in destructive, nondestructive, or reverse modes; create 3-D figures and shape tables. Manual features complete outline of command structure. Penguin, 830 4th Ave., Geneva, IL 60134, $69.95, Apple Graphics Tablet version, $119.95, 7/81. Fontrix, Boker, Houston. Character generator creates unlimited number of typefaces, uses them to write on a screen extended 16 times. Extremely significant devel- ‘opment in graphics. Data Transforms, 616 Washington St., #106, Denver, CO 80203. $75. 7/83. GraForth, Lutus. A graphics language rewritten for maximum speed. Plotting, line, text display, character image, and high-speed 3-D graphics, with variety of colors and drawing options. Includes music synthesizer. Insoft, 10175 S.W. Barbur Blvd., #202-B, Portland, OR 92719. $75. 8/82. ‘The Graphics Magician. Jochumson, Lubar, Pelczar- ski, Outstanding animation package consisting of pic- ture editor and shape-table extender. Comes with utility program to transfer binary files. Penguin, 830 4th Ave., Geneva, IL 60134. $59.95; Apple Graphics Tablet version, $69.95. 5/82. ‘The Graphic Solution. Graphics editor and bit-map- ping animation system using film-editing techniques. Save hi-res screen as standard DOS file. No program- ming knowledge necessary. Accent, 3750 Wright Pl., Palo Alto, CA 94306. $149.95. 7/83. LPS Il. Superb hi-res-graphics drawing system with light pen. Draw freehand or use circles and lines to create geometric shapes. Fill routine with colors and patterns; fun animation demo; programmable Pentrak driver. Gibson, 23192-D Verdugo Dr., Laguna Hills, CA 92653. $349. 10/82. ~ Micro-Iilustrator. Island Graphics. Fun and friend- ly drawing program for the KoalaPad graphics tablet, Easy to learn and use, compatible with most game software. Koala Technologies, 4962 El Camino Real, #125, Los Altos, CA 94022. $124.95. 7/83. Scientific Plotter, Version I. Warme. Plots lab results as line graphs. Choose data format, length and position of axes, error bars; labels anywhere in four orienta- tions. Has standalone utility for creation of slicks and transparencies that allows printing of labels on any hi-res picture. Includes five demos, manual. Interactive Microware, Box 771, State College, PA 16801. $25. Zoom Grafix. Holle. Graphics-printing utility allows display of picture on-screen prior to print; prints out selected portion at any size. Phoenix, 64 Lake Zurich Dr., Lake Zurich, IL 60047, $39.95, 2/82, Bowling Data System. Data Dynamics. Two-disk rec- ord-keeping and report-preparation program for infi- nite number of leagues, up to 40 teams. Weekly recap, season average, more. Rainbow Computing, 9719 Reseda Blvd., Northridge, CA 91324. $149.95. @ Crossword Magic. Crossword puzzle maker. ‘Choose subject, words, and clues; program automati- cally connects words. Play on-screen or make printout. L&S Computerware, 1589 Fraser Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94087. $49.95. 10/81. Dow Jones Market Analyzer (formerly RTR Market Analyzer). Automatically collects, stores, and updates historical and daily market quotes. Provides technical analysis and plots 18 different types of charts. Dow Jones Software, Box 300, Princeton, NJ 08540. $350. 1” Dow Jones Market Manager. Portfolio manage- ment and investment analysis package that acts with News/Retrieval Service. Tracks all purchases and sales, maintains 26 portfolios. Uses tax lot accounting sys- tem. Dow Jones Software, Box 300, Princeton, NJ 08540. $299, Einstein MemoryTrainer. Rubin, Samet. Interactive tutorial with color graphics and gamelike practice sessions teaches methods for remembering names, faces, phone numbers, dates, and lists. Set your own pace, store personal memory techniques. Three disks, user guide included. Einstein, 11340 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064. $89.95. Family Roots. Professional genealogy database with unlimited-records capability. Unprotected; works with 80-column and u/Ic, Extensive documentation. Quin- sept, Box 216, Lexington, MA 02173. $185. Golf League Statistics. McQuinn. Manages, displays, and prints golf league statistics for up to 50 players and 20 teams. Tracks more than 100 statistics for each player in league, Disk Depot, 731 W. Colorado Ave., Colorado Springs, CO 80905. $139.95. Golf Statistician. Haberle. Helps golfers lower their scores by examining their strengths and weaknesses. GolfSoft, 10333 Balsam Ln., Eden Prairie, MN 55344, $34.95. Home Accountant, Schoenburg. Thorough, powerful home finance program. Monitors five checking ac- counts against a common budeet, plus credit cards and cash; one-step record or transfer of funds. Continental, 11223 S. Hindry Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90045. $74.95. 4/82, Know Your Apple, Apple Ie. Visually oriented com- puter tutorials with manuals. Cover disks, drives, and peripherals, Models of clarity. Muse, 347 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201. Know Your Apple, $34.95; Know Your Apple tlle, $24.95. Know Your Apple, 3/83, Micro Cookbook. Recipe-management system allows entry and modification; selection of recipes by com- mon ingredients, name, or classification, Calorie and nutrition guide. Virtual Combinatics, Box 755, Rock- port, MD 01966, $40, 6/83. NFL Scoreboard. Football point-spread prediction sys- tem gives probable scores, team performance sum- mary, divisional standings, and season play-off predic- tions. Can be used season after season. Micro Data, 741 Surrey Dr., Streamwood, IL 60103. $49.95. Personal Finance Manager. Gold, Software Dimen- sions, Handles 200 entries a month from 14 separate accounts. Search-sort-enter routine. Apple, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. $75. 11/81. Power of Words. Funk. Ten interactive word games by the author of the Reader’s Digest’s “It Pays To Enrich Your Word Power.” Humor, graphics, auditory clues demonstrate words and reinforce memory. Funk Vo- cab-Ware, 4825 Province Line Rd., Princeton, NJ Introducing BurgerTime*™ for your Apple and IBM. To beat this game, you've really got to move your buns. Now you can make your Apple*ll and IBM°Personal Computer sizzle. With fast-food action from BurgerTime™ by Mattel Electronics. Build a better burger. Hold the mustard. And watch out for those pickles! It’s a tall order to fill. But you've got to do it before those hostile hot dogs cancel it. BurgerTime™ from aioe ti Fall Mattel Electronics. A rare opportunity for computer game excitement. 18M’ Personal Computer 16 08540, Two disks, $49.95, 7/83. Special Effects. Pelczarski. Artist’s graphic package for creating and enhancing computer graphics. With 108 colors, 96 brushes, magnification, and point-by-point editing. Reverse colors, create mirror images, move images. Penguin, 830 4th Ave., Geneva, IL 60134. $39.95. 3/82. Tax Mini-Miser. Sunrise. Tax-planning package com- putes six tax strategies over one year or one strategy up to six years. Starsoft, 4984 El Camino Real, #125, Los Altos, CA 94022. $295. Tax Preparer. Record-keeping program with wide variety of federal tax forms and schedules; creates itemized lists. Yearly updates. Howard Software, 8008 Girard Ave., #310, La Jolla, CA 92037. $225. 3/81. Think Tank, Idea processor program allows you to see ideas in outline form. Outline can be collapsed to see the big picture or expanded to reveal hidden details. Living Video Text, 450 San Antonio Rd., #56, Palo Alto, CA 94306, $150, 8/83. Home ade Fast-action skull games; may include elements of fantasy. A.E. Horai. Blast away like mad in 3-D. Time the release and detonation of missiles and repel the next wave, Innovative graphics, new firing technique, and fugues to boot. Broderbund, 1938 4th St., San Rafael, CA 94901. $29.95. 2/83. @ Alien Rain . Suzuki. Monsters in this classic seem to take it personally when you gun down one of their own kind. Broderbund, 1938 4th St., San Rafael, CA 94901. $29.95. 9/81. @ Apple Panic. Serki. Rid a five-story building of crawling apples and butterflies by running up and down connecting ladders, digging traps, then covering critters before they devour you, Extremely addictive, ~ We Help Bring Your Family Together 6 Types of Charts and Sheets Indices | User Fields Notes, Footnotes and Sources No Limits Adapts to Your Hardware Comprehensive Easy to Use And Much, Much More Send for brochure and sample printouts. Family Roots includes detailed manual and 2 full diskettes of programs for your Apple II * or IBM PC !* | Other genealogy software also available. Price: $185 plus $3.50 Postage American Express, Visa & Mastercard Accepted QUINSEPT, INC. | P.O. Box 216, Lexington, MA 02173 (617) 862-0404 @® TOFTALY SEPTEMBER 1983 excellent hi-res play. Broderbund, 1938 4th St., San Rafael, CA 94901. $29.95. 9/81. The Arcade Machine. Jochumson, Carlston. Step-by- step arcade-game designer—shapes, scoring, sound, and titles. Begin with variations on five games included, then on to your own. Broderbund, 1938 4th St., San Rafael, CA 94901, $59.95. 11/82. vw Axis Assassin. Field. Blast-away arcader that gives 3-D perspective of fighting grid; allows bottom-to-top movement. Twenty possible grids, five zones. Elec- tronic Arts, 2755 Campus Dr., San Mateo, CA 94403. $35. 7/83. Autec. Stephenson. Graphic fantasy arcade with ani- mation throughout. Datamost, 8943 Fullbright Ave., Chatsworth, CA 91311. $39.95. 1/83. Bandits. Ngo. Fight off waves of multiple menaces | intent on stealing your supplies. Delirious nonstop action, animated to the hilt. Sirius, 10364 Rockingham Dr., Sacramento, CA 95827. $34.95. 7/82. ‘Computer art by M. Ramsey Beagle Bag. Kersey. Twenty games and miscellany, written in Basic and unprotected. Great humor, good two-player games. Manual is worth the price of admis- sion. Beagle Bros, 4315 Sierra Vista, San Diego, CA 92103. $29.50. 1/83. © Choplifter. Gorlin, Fly your chopper to rescue 64 hostages, avoiding interceptor jets, homing mines, and tanks, Challenging, realistic, and playful. Stunning graphics. Broderbund, 1938 4th St., San Rafael, CA 94901. $34.95. 7/82. Crisis Mountain. Schroeder. Run, crawl, walk, and leap through mountain maze fraught with rolling rocks, geysers, and chasms; defuse nuclear devices. Synergistic, 830 N. Riverside Dr., #210, Renton, WA 98055. $34.95. 10/82. @ Crossfire. Sullivan. Aliens come at you from four directions on a grid laid out like city blocks. Strategy and intense concentration required. Superb, smooth animation of a dozen pieces simultaneously. One of the For the Apple Hl, Hpi, anc Me Low AY LAGE: Forte IBM PC Introducing Lock ’N’ Chase” for your Apple and IBM. It'll give you a run for your money. No, it’s not a computer scheme to beat the stock market. It’s Lock ‘N’ Chase™* from Mattel Electronics. For your Apple” Il and IBM° Personal Computers. The computer game worth its weight in gold. o00800 oosi60 Picture yourself in a bank vault helping yourself to gold bar after gold bar. Tax free! But here come the cops! And the chase is on. While you try to slow your pursuers by slamming eet Se locked doors on them. Lock ’N’ Chase™* from Mattel Electronics. Good as gold. LOCK "W'EHASE M NETWORK by MATTEL ELECTROMCS® Apple® l,l Plus, and ile 18 great ones. Sierra On-Line, Sierra On-Line Building, Coarsegold, CA 93614, $29.95. 1/82. © Epoch, Miller, Superbly stylized animation en- hances this filmic shoot-’em-up. Tremendous sense of being in space; neat classical music and dramatic time-warp sequences. Sirius, 10364 Rockingham Dr., Sacramento, CA 95827. $34.95. 10/81. Evolution. Mattrick, Sember. Player is the prey in six stages from amoeba to human, Surprise ending isn’t fun. Sydney, 600-1385 W. 8th Ave., Vancouver, BC, Canada V6H 3V9. $39.95. 3/83. Frogger. Lubeck. Not even close. Sierra On-Line, Sierra On-Line Building, Coarsegold, CA 93614. $34.95. 12/82. © Gorgon. Nasir. Fly over planet shooting and dodg- ing invaders and saving kidnapped inhabitants. Out- standing hi-res graphics, challenging refueling se- quence, Sirius, 10364 Rockingham Dr., Sacramento, CA 95827. $39.95. 8/81. Hard Hat Mack. Abbott, Alexander. Poor Mack, He must avoid vandals, inspectors, falling rivets, and hungry cement mixers to complete his building. Elec- tronic Arts, 2755 Campus Dr., San Mateo, CA 94403. $35. 7/83. Highrise. Calabrese. Hard-hat Bamaby needs a keen eye for balance as he uses a springboard to stack oddly shaped blocks and build his skyscraper. Indudes a nontiming, nonscoring learning mode, Micro Lab, 2699 Skokie Valley Rd., Highland Park, IL 60035. $30. 5/83. Jawbreaker 2. Bueche. No relation or resemblance to Jawbreaker 1 or Bueche’s first. Very playable and addictive. Fun and refreshing, Sierra On-Line, Sierra On-Line Building, Coarsegold, CA 93614, $34.95. 1/83. Lode Runner, Smith. 150 unique levels in super run-climb-dig-jump game—or design your own puz- zles, scenes, and setups—in quest to retrieve stolen gold from the Bungeling Empire. Use monkey bars, trap DISKETTES 3M Scotcti BRAND AT SUPER LOW PRICES FOR YOUR APPLE COMPUTER Scotch DISKETTES ARE TESTED AND GUARANTEED ERROR FREE FILEWARE ™ Scotcti COMPATIBLE DISKETTE AVAILABLE (TM APPLE COMPUTER) APPLE CLUB MEMBERS WELCOME WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HOURS APPLE STACKER ™ CREATES A WORK STATION OUT OF ANY SURFACE FOR YOUR APPLE II. CATALOG FREE pee) wae MASTERCARD ® VISA # C.0.D. WE PAY SHIPPING CHARGES IM BEREVTON ve CALL TOLL FREE 800-922-8193 IN CA 800-468-1068 ‘Tayco Business Forms Computer Supplies P.O. Box 605 Newbury Park, CA 91320 ® TOFTALK SEPTEMBER 1983 doors, and ladders to your advantage. 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Rescue the Tweenies from the twelve planets of the Appel System. Armed only with short-range torpedoes, you must pilot a shuttlecraft through an asteroid belt and return the Tweenies to the mother ship. Got it, Jim? MicroSparc, 10 Lewis St., Lincoln, MA 01773. $29.95. Pinball Construction Set. Budge. Design and play your own computer games on-screen, with zero program- ming. A miracle of rare device. Superior. BudgeCo, 428 Pala Ave., Piedmont, CA 94611. $39.95. 2/83. Plasmania. Lubar. Shoot your way past antibodies and bacteria as you take a fantastic voyage through the veins of a critically ill patient. Sirius, 10364 Rocking- ham Dr., Sacramento, CA 95827, $34.95. 8/83. © Pool 1.5. Hoffman, St. Germain, Morock. Makes most shots you could on a real pool table, with the “Introducing Night Stalker for your Apple and IBM. No wonder some people are afraid of computers. Now there’s a computer game that'll leave everyone hanging from the rafters. Nightstalker™ from Mattel Electronics. 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And Quark is happy to provide the solution. A proven program for serious word processing. Quark’s new Word Juggler Ile turns your computer into a dedicated word processor. You get the extraordinary ease of use, sophis- ticated capabilities and straightforward docu- mentation that make our original Word Juggler a best seller on the Apple Ill. For example, there’s virtually nothing to memorize. Because principal editing functions are identified on a unique keyboard template — and nineteen, easy-to-install, replacement keycaps. Changing keys is quick and simple, too. Just slide our special keycap remover over the key — twist — and pull. Your new keycaps can be in place in less than two minutes. A flexible tool to increase your productivity. But don’t be deceived by Word Juggler Ile’s disarming simplicity. The program packs the powerful features you need to quickly perform the most complex editing tasks. Characters, words, even entire paragraphs can be deleted with a single keystroke. 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U.S. retail price 22 advantages of instant replay and slow motion, Four different games. IDSI, Box 1658, Las Cruces, NM 88004, $34.95, 6/81, @ Raster Blaster. Budge. First realistic pinball game. ‘Softalk readers’ Most Popular Program of 1981. BudgeCo, 428 Pala Ave., Piedmont, CA 94611. $29.95. 5/81. Sammy Lightfoot. Schwader. Sammy must dodge a variety of obstacles as he tries out for the circus. He evidently used to be a miner. Sierra On-Line, Sierra On-Line Building, Coarsegold, CA 93614. $29.95. Seafox. A good sub-versus-convoy home arcader. Variety of vessels, bouncing torpedoes, refueling dol- phins, and intelligent depth charges. Broderbund, 1938 4th St., San Rafael, CA 94901. $29.95. 11/82. Serpentine. Hypnotic snake-chase maze game. Clean action, thrills, hairy escapes. Recommended. Broder- bund, 1938 4th Ave., San Rafael, CA 94901. $34.95. 10/82, Sigma 7. Agranat. As leader of the Sigmonian race, you defend your planet against seven levels of maraud- ing aliens. Bandinelli Software, 1206 Caddo Dr., Opelousas, LA 70570. $19.95. Snack Attack. Illowsky. Three-maze eat-’em-up; starts at any of five speed levels. Nonfattening. Datamost, 8943 Fullbright Ave., Chatsworth, CA 91311. $29.95. 1/82, @ Sneakers. Turmell, Many-layered shooting game; one of the best. Stomping sneakers and other creatures requires varying techniques. Fun. Sirius, 10364 Rock- ingham Dr., Sacramento, CA 95827. $29.95. 9/81. Spy’s Demise, Zeldin, Hardy. Be the first on your block to run a maze of pile-driving elevators. Fast, frustrating fun, Complete puzzle after all nine levels. Penguin, 830 4th Ave., Geneva, IL 60134, $29.95. 11/82. Star Blazer. Suzuki. Bomb-run game with five levels, minutely exact animation, and style to bum. A joy. Broderbund, 1938 4th St., San Rafael, CA 94901. $31.95. 4/82. '*DOUBLES DISKETTE. STORAGE SPACE! | REDUCE YOUR DISKETTE | COSTS BY 50% “The back of | | | | your 51” single sided diskette has recording medium. 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Hanover Ave., Morris Plains, NJ 07960. $19.95. Super Taxman 2. Fitzgerald. Pac up your troubles! Bigger, more complex version of the most perfect extant rendition of a certain arcade game, H.A.L. Labs, 4074 Midland Rd., #23, Riverside, CA 92505. $25. 1/83. Vindicator. Huey. Mutants, vultures, hatchlings, and other lovelies try to steal eggs in Robotron-like game. Cute dragons. H.A.L. Labs, 4074 Midland Rd., #23, Riverside, CA 92505. $25. @ Wayout. Exciting 3-D maze that moves in perspec- tive as you play. Map displayed at all times. Lots of angles and cleptangles. Separate version for Ile. Exqui- site motion animation is a breakthrough. Sirius, 10364 Rockingham Dr., Sacramento, CA 95827. $39.95. 10/82. Zaxxon, Garcia. Arcades’ 3-D scrolling air raid brought to the Apple with little sacrifice in playability. Datasoft, 16606 Schoenborn St., Sepulveda, CA 91348. $39.95. Algebra 144. Sets of learning units progressing from algebraic rules to definitions to graphing and inequali- ties. Individualized teaching styles to fit everyone’s needs. Good for adults wanting to overcome math anxiety as well as for schoolkids. Edu-Ware, Box 22222, Agoura, CA 91301. $39.95 each. Algebra I, 5/81. Apple Logo, Papert. Custom version (by its inventor) of turtle graphics language. First-rate educational tool. Great kid-friendly documentation. Apple, 20525 Mari- ani Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. $175. Arcademic Skill Builders in Language Arts. Chafin. Word Invasion, Word Master, Word Radar, Word Man, Verb Viper, Spelling Wiz, Lots of action and great detailed graphics in arcade-style vocabulary-build- ing games. Comes with teaching package. Develop- mental Learning Materials, 1 DLM Park, Allen, TX 75002. $44 each. 7/83. Arcademic Skill Builders in Math. Chafin, Maxwell. Alien Addition, Alligator Mix, Demolition Division, Dragon Mix, Meteor Multiplication, and Minus Mis- sion. Arcade action blended with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems. Shooting correct answers to problems gets rid of pesky attackers, Choose speed, difficulty levels, game length. Develop- mental Learning Materials, 1 DLM Park, Allen, TX 75002. $29.95 each. 7/83. Arithmetic Skills, Helps children establish a_ strong foundation in basic math skills, computer literacy. Covers counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Pass-fail ratios can be parent-defined. Edu-Ware, Box 22222, Agoura, CA 91301. $49.95. Basic Tutor, Robinson, Moreno, Courseware Ap- plications. Basic tutorial for beginning programmer. Includes 120-page manual, six disks. SuperSoft, Box 1628, Champaign, IL 61820. $99. Bumble Games, Six math concept games for ages four to ten. The Learning Co., 545 Middlefield Rd., #170, Menlo Park, CA 94025, $39.95 Bumble Plot. Grimm. Colorful musical introduction to concepts of graphing and plotting. Teaches positive and negative numbers. The Learning Co., 545 Middle- field Rd., #170, Menlo Park, CA 94025. $39.95, 1/83. College Directions. Flanagan-Margolis, Gardner. Helps up to 20 students choose a college by exploring the features of more than 1,200 colleges. Assists students in developing a strategy for gaining admission, Systems Design Associates, 723 E. Kanawha Blvd., Charleston, WV 25301. $250. Compu-Read. Set of programs develops speed and retention in reading. Stresses character and word recog- nition, comprehension. Edu-Ware, Box 22222, Agou- ra, CA 91301. $29.95, + Computerized Career Assessment and Planning Program. Hyre. Helps students determine career op- tions through assessment of their interests and abilitic provides information on selected careers. Assists in developing and implementing career plans, includes more than 1,200 job titles. Systems Design Associates, 723 E. Kanawha Blvd., Charleston, WV 25301. $485. Computer SAT. Prepares college-bound student for admittance test. Diagnoses strengths, weaknesses; cre- ates study plan, exercises. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1250 6th Ave., San Diego, CA 92101. $79.95. Delta Drawing. Kids can make colorful drawings by using single-key commands. No special talent needed; this one develops programs that create complex graph- ics. Spinnaker, 215 Ist St., Cambridge, MA 02142. $59.95. 11/82, Early Games for Young Children. Paulson, Basic training in numbers, letters, Apple keyboard for chil- dren ages two to seven with no adult supervision. Has a neat little drawing program. Counterpoint Software, Shelard Plaza N., #140, Minneapolis, MN 55426. $29.95. 11/82. Early Games Music. Paulson. Illustrates music with fun and theory. Children compose music and set to graphics or learn note reading and piano keyboard. Counterpoint Software, Shelard Plaza N., #140, Min- neapolis, MN 55426. $29.95. 8/83. Emie’s Quiz. CTW. Four games, four subjects, one disk, Image recognition, counting skills, creativity, and Muppet expertise are introduced with lots of positive feedback. Apple, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. $50. 2/83. Facemaker. DesignWare. Exercises kids’ creativity and introduces programlike command sequencing as kids create faces and link them together in animated pat- tems. Spinnaker, 215 Ist St., Cambridge, MA 02142. $34.95. Fractions. Hi-res addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions. With learning manager system. Edu-Ware, Box 22222, Agoura, CA 91301. 49. ‘Game Show. Guess mystery words from clues given by “‘celebrity”’ partners—no threat to Liz Montgomery. Fifteen subjects cover vocabulary, history, algebra, and more. Add topics. Computer-Advanced Ideas, 14424 Walnut St., #341M, Berkeley, CA 94709. $39. Gertrude’s Puzzles. Perl, Grimm, Robinett. A delight- ful goose helps teach how to figure out situations given incomplete information. Super for developing reason- ing skills in ages six through forever. The Learning Co., 545 Middlefield Rd., #170, Menlo Park, CA 94025. $44.95. 2/83. Gertrude’s Secrets. Gertrude the Goose teaches four-to- nine-year-olds shape and color relationships. Solve logic puzzles, create forms. The Learning Co., 545 Middlefield Rd., #170, Menlo Park, CA 94025. $44.95. 2/83. In Search of the Most Amazing Thing. Snyder. Role- playing game lets kids negotiate with aliens, fly hot-air balloon. Ages 10 to adult. Spinnaker, 215 Ist St., Cambridge, MA 02142. $44.95. 7/83. Instant Zoo. CTW. Identify animals, test perception and reaction, match and decode words. Word editor lets you create your own word lists. Apple, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. $50. » Introduction to General Chemistry. Smith. Seven- disk tutorial with demonstrations and hi-res experi- ments covers subject matter from simple carbon chains to reactions of carboxylic acids. For college or ad- vanced high school students. COMPress, Box 102, Wentworth, NH 03282. Each disk, $60; set, $350. Juggle’s Rainbow. Nine learning games for prereading tots. Kids can create colorful pictures by using the System Saver” The most important peripheral for your Apple Mand iey For Line Surge Suppression The SYSTEM SAVER provides es- sential protection to hardware and data from dangerous power surges and spikes. \) : system saver _/ APPLEN / By connecting the Apple II power input through the SYSTEM SAVER, power is controlled in two ways: 1) Dangerous voltage spikes are clipped off at a safe 130 Volts B RMS/175 Volts dc level. 2) High fre- quency noise is smoothed out be- fore reaching the Apple II. A PI type filter attenuates common mode noise signals by a minimum of 30 dB from 600 khz to 20 mhz, with amaximum attenuation of 50 dB For Cooling As soon as you add 80 columns or more memory to your Apple II you need SYSTEM SAVER. Today's advanced peripheral cards generate more heat. In addi- tion, the cards block any natural air flow through the Apple II creating high temperature conditions that substantially reduce the hfe of the cards and the computer itself. SYSTEM SAVER provides cor- rect cooling. An efficient, quiet fan draws fresh air across the mother board, over the power supply and out the side ventilation slots. For Operating Efficiency SYSTEM SAVER contains two switched power outlets. As shown. in the diagram, the SYSTEM SAVER efficiently organizes your system so that one convenient front mounted power switch controls SYSTEM SAVER, Apple I, = monitor and printer. Lis POWER The heavy duty switch has a pilot light to alert when system is on.You'll never use the Apple power switch again! Easy Installation | Just clips on. | No mounting or hardware required. Color matched to Apple I — PATENT PENOING Compatible with Apple Stand $89.95 at your local dealer or order direct by phone or mail. For phone or mail orders include $2 5 handling. New York State residents tax. VISA and MASTERCARD accepted. Dealer inquiries invited Kensington Microware Ltd. 919 Third Avenue, New York NY 10022 (212) 486-7707 Telex: 236200 KEN UR “my KENSINGTON Ww] MICROWARE PRINTER 24 AMPERGRAPH AMPERGRAPH is a powerful, easy-to-use relocatable graphics utility for the Apple Il +/e. AMPERGRAPH adds twenty-two Applesoft com- mands that allow effortless generation of profes- sional-looking plots of scientific or financial data. All of the necessary scaling and screen formatting is ac- complished with just a few, simple Applesoft lines. Unlike most other plotting systems for the Apple Il which are stand-alone systems, the AMPERGRAPH utility provides extended BASIC graphics language macros that you can use directly in your own Ap- plesoft programs. The additional commands are &SCALE, &LIMIT, &AXES, &GRID, &FRAME, &LOG X, &LOG Y, &LABEL AXES, LABEL, &VLABEL, &CENTER LABEL, &CENTER VLABEL, &DRAW, &PENUP, &CROSS, &OPEN SQUARE, &CLOSED | SQUARE, &OPEN CIRCLE, &CLOSED CIRCLE, &ERROR BARS, &DUMP (to dump the graph on a Silentype printer) and &*DUMP (to link with AMER- DUMP, see below). $45.00 SAMPLE AMPERGRAPH PROGRAM LISTING: 10 &SCALE, 0, 80, 80, 13000 15 LX$ = “TIME (SECONDS)":LY$ = "VELOCITY (CMISEC)’ 20 &LOG Y: &LABEL AXES, 10, 10 “VELOCITY VS. TIME”: :&LABEL, 30, 30 FORT = 0 TO 80:&DRAW, T, 150 + TI2:NEXT T 36 FORT = 10 TO 70 STEP 10 40 &CLOSED SQUARE, T, (150 +T12)"(8 +.4° RND(3) ) 45 &ERROR BARS, 5, T12/2 50 NEXT T:&DUMP veLociry us Tine 1020304030 40 70 TIME cSECONOS) AMPERDUMP AMPEROUMP is a high-resolution graphics dump | utility which can be used either in menu-driven mode, or directly from your Applesoft program, with, ‘or without AMPERGRAPH. The following printers will work with AMPEROUMP: Epson MX-:80, FX-80, MX-100; Apple DMP, NEC PC-8023A-C, C. ITOH 1550, 8510A/B, 8600. AMPERDUMP offers many features which are not available in other graphics dump routines: * Horizontal magnifications: 3 with Epson printers (2.33 to 6.99 inches}; 12 with all others (1.75 to 7.78 inches) Vertical_magnifications: 9 with Epson printers (0.8 to 7.96 inches); 6 with all others (1.33 to 8.00 inches) * Horizontal and vertical magnifications can be specified independently * Normal / Inverse dumps * Fast * Adjustable horizontal tab * Easy to use + Compatible with AMPERGRAPH * Relocatable $40.00 The AMPERGRAPH and AMPERDUMP graphics utilities require an Apple I +/e (or Apple I with language card). The AMPERDUMP utility requires one of the following interface cards: Epson, Apple, Grappler, Interactive Structures, Mountain Com: puter, Epson Type2, Tymac, or Microbuffer II. AMPERGRAPH and AMPERDUMP are available from | your dealer or order direct. 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