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More Than 650 Product Listings And Descriptions
Inside Apple's
Latest IIGS
Videodisc
Adventures
First Look At
AppleWorks 3.0
GS/OS 5.0:
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The Future Of The IIGS
The SIDER just got SMALLER and
TWELVE TIMES FASTER
First Class Peripherals now offers you 3 new solutions to end your floppy shuffle
nightmares.
Available in 20, 40, or 70 megabytes, the Sider now features a smart looking cabinet
design which is lighter and more compact than ever before. Esthetically appealing
the New Sider models provide more desktop space with their unique zero footprint
design.
Resting comfortably beneath your GS monitor or your Macintosh, the quality look
is matched by the higest quality components and the latest in hard-disk technology.
The new DF-series SIDERS offer a high performance 3%" drive which operates at
nearly 3 times faster than other drives available Adding our new DMA SCSI card
will allow your Sider to operate at an incredible Twelve (12) times faster.
Although you may use Apple's SCSI card, your data transfer rates are improved
by over 15% when using the SIDER DMA SCSI card.
The New Sider DF2 is a 20 megabyte hard-drive that will support Prodos, Dos 3.3
CPM, Pascal and GSOS or can be ordered to support only ProDos & GS/OS. The
New DF4 and DF7 are designed to support Prodos and includes utilities that will
automatically load GS‘OS, ProSel and RAM BASED driver software that will
maximize the performance of GSS.
If you already own a SIDER, you can achieve the same high performance ratings
by simply updating your system with a new SIDER DMA SCSI card and software.
All SIDER products are backed by a one year warranty, a dedicated tech-support
hotline and the best upgrade and trade-in program in the industry.
Order Today! The new DF2*, DF4 and DF7 are available for your Apple Ie, Apple
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D2* 20 megabyte hardstisk subsystem-multi of support... $549 sauz price $465
DF2* 20 megabyte compact hard disk-prodos Only...........- $595 save price $505
MIS-DF2* 29 megabyte compact hard disk multi of support. ..$595 sate price $5005
DAT 40 megabyte harddisk subsystem prodos Only..........- $849 sae price $720
MSDAT* 40 megabyte hand disk subsystem-multi of support. $849 sauz price $721)
DF4 40 megabyte compact hard-disk subsystem -prodos Only $895 sate price $760)
DIT 70 megabyte hard-disk subsystem:prodos Only... $949 sauz price $905
DFT 70 MB compact hardstisk subsystem-prodos Only. $995 save price $845
D9 90 megabyte harddisk subsystem-prodos Only... $1395 sate price $1185
C96 90 megebyte hard-disk & 60
subsystem prodos Only... Re aig $1995 sae price $1695
DMA-SCSI pata scst card for Sider hard drives. $150 saz price $125
*Features a 54" SASI drive and is not Macintosh compatable.
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Legendary designer Chuck Hayes scores again
with FlightStick™ the most durable and superior joy-
stick in the market today, outlasting the competition
up to 100 times.
The contour pistol grip, tactile trigger and fire but-
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time and realistically simulate actual flying.
Added throttle control for IBM models gives you
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CONTENTS
Editor’s WindOW........+.00000
Columns
IGS Address
The editors of The App! id
columnist Larry Miller answers letters and ques-
tions from readers.
IGS Press: An Eye For Color.....12
Gary Ramey explains the do's and don'ts of using
color to create documents that dazzle instead of
fizzle.
Class Action: IGS
Videodisc Adventures ..... +14
Carol Holzberg says that the IIGS and videodisc
technology have the potential to revolutionize
classroom instruction.
Shareware Solutions: Low-
Cost Excitement....... see 8
Joe Kobn knows where to find arcade-style
‘action, skill and games of chance for about $5 to
$10 each.
Inside AppleWorks: An
Identity Crisis...
Why does AppleWorks GS prefer to be known as
“Pollywogs?” Joe Walters bas the lowdown.
R & R: The Reality Of
Simulation ......
Peter Chin uses bis IIGS to do many things be couldn't nor-
mally do, such as commanal a submarine. You can, too.
Features
What's Inside The
An assortment of IIGS “outdoor
winter amusement,
ple Buyer's Guide ae
VOL. 3, NO. 2 WINTER 1990
System Software 5.0 Sends The
IGS Into Overdrive... edd
Few system software releases have been as anx-
iously awaited as this one. The good news is, it
was worth the wait,
AppleWorks 3.0, A Classic Is
Improved...
The most popular Apple II software product
receives a major overbaul.
eck
Product Reviews
Revolution ‘76
53
Apple IIGS Hardware
And Software Directory
Animation... eabenitoase
Presentation graphics and more
AppleWorks ..... co
Compatible programs, $for AppleWorks
Books And Publications.............58
Literature of interest
Business Productivity 20059
Integrated software, accounting packages and
more
Creative 60
Paint, draw and more
Desk AcCCeSSOFIES «1.00.00 OL
Pop-up accessory software for home and business
Desktop Communications.........62
Telecommunications programs for file transfers
and more
Desktop Publishing.
Combined graphics and text software
Education...
Reading, writing, arithmetic and more
Entertainment......
Games, simulations, adventures and more
Memory boards, disk drives, modems and
Training, writing and MIDI software for music
Software and utilities for connecting to AppleTalk
networks
Online Databases ....
Information utilities available online
Personal improvement, finance and more
And Utilities ..
Programming languages and more
Word Processing ...
Graphics- and text-based programs
Other Software...
Public domain software. ‘and ‘Shareware
Indexes
Ad Index...
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2° Winter 1990
The Power and the Glory
Vulcan internal hard drives are not only the
fastest hard drives on the market, they're the
most powerful. By a long shot. Vulcan's built-in
power supply was custom-designed by Applied
Engineering to provide the power other systems
(and your unenhanced Apple Il) lack.
Sheer, raw power
A typically enhanced Apple II system (with 3
or 4 expansion cards) needs a heavy duty power
supply. Vulcan’s power supply is rated at more
than 70 watts. Double the capacity of other
hard drives and double the native capacity of
your Apple. The power supply components are
heatsinked to the aluminum case, and to
harness all that power, Vulcan incorporates an
ultra-quiet, flush mounted cooling fan.
Unmatched speed
For speed, Vulcan incorporates an ultra-fast
16-bit data bus controller, not the less expensive
8-bit others use. The result? You'll load
AppleWorks GS in less than 14 seconds. Boot
GS/OS into the finder in 18 seconds. Verify
disks at the astounding rate of more than 180
blocks per second, Vulcan wins any speed test.
Upgradeable Flexibility
Choose a Vulcan from 20, 40, 100 — all the
way to a staggering 200 MEGs. Vulcan is
upgradeable, so it grows as your needs grow.
And we don’t mean by daisy-chaining additional
hard drives. When you upgrade Vulcan, you pop
one out and replace it with another.
Use virtually any operating system: GS/OS
(v5.0 is included), ProDOS 8, DOS 3.3, CI
or Pascal 1.3. Vulcan supports them all with
sixteen partitions (access four simultaneously).
Choose slot 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 or 7. Even pseudo-slot
to slot 7 from elsewhere. Vulcan works on
110/220 VAC, even European 115/230 VAC
at 50-60 Hz.
Easy to use
Vulcan simply pops in; replacing the Apple
power supply under your computer's hood. Our
built-in firmware automatically installs itself as
a Desk Accessory for write protection and
partitioning. The software we provide lets you
easily park heads, back up and reformat
Vulcan gives your Apple llcs, Ile, [+ or II an
upgradeable combination of useable speed, safe
power (it's FCC certified) and practically
unlimited size. It's a powerful and glorious
advance into the Apple Il future.
Order today!
To order or for more information, see your
local dealer or call (214) 241-6060 today, 9 am
to 11 pm, 7 days. Or send check or money
order to Applied Engineering. MasterCard, VISA
and C.0.D. welcome. Texas residents add 7%
sales tax. Add $10 outside U.S.A
Vulcan 20 MEG . -+ $699
Vulcan 40 MEG . $899
Vulcan 100 MEG . - $1795
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EDITORS? win DOW
Chip Shots
computer show that counts — AppleFest.
Held every six months by alternating
between Boston and San Francisco, AppleFest
is the place to take the industry's temperature,
meet readers and contributing writers face to
face, exchange notes with Apple II vendors,
and party like gangbusters for three days
before going back to work,
The latest AppleFest was held in San
Francisco in September just a few weeks
before the big earthquake. Although I person-
ally was unable to attend due to tight dead-
lines, those who were at the show tell me that
the closest approximation to a 7.0 on the
Richter scale involved a heated verbal
exchange between keynoter Jean-Louis
Gassee, president, Apple Computer, Inc.
products, and William Mensch, the designer
of the 65816 chip residing inside every Apple
IGS. Apparently, Gassee was trying to wrap
up his speech when he said something about
how Apple was unable to speed up the IGS
hardware because it couldn't find enough
high-speed 65816 chips.
At this point, Bill Mensch pounced on
one of the open microphones, held up some
little packages and said something to the effect
that, “I'm the designer of the 65816 and I have
here three 12 MHz 65816s. If you order them
we can ship.” Mensch claimed that he had
been trying to tell Apple, without success, that
the high-speed chips were available. Mean-
while, Gassee said he hadn't heard from
Mensch since the IIGS was first introduced.
Chips being as they are, the existence of
three ultrafast renditions in Bill Mensch’s
I nthe Apple II world, there is only one
pocket doesn’t necessarily mean that his
company, Western Design Center, can
manufacture the silicon in sufficient quantity
to meet Apple's needs. Even if it could,
Apple may have other reasons for not using
the faster chip, including reliability issues
and price.
Whatever the reason, the IIGS user’s
dream of a faster machine will have to be sat-
isfied for now with accelerator boards from
third-party suppliers and the impressive soft-
ware speed injection afforded by GS/OS Ver-
sion 5.0, reviewed in this issue.
On a more positive note, this AppleFest
continued to demonstrate the versatility of
the Apple IIGS when placed in the hands of
creative individuals. For example, a IGS set
up ina central location drew crowds
throughout the show during a demonstration
of a HyperStudio stack describing the loca-
tion and contents of each show exhibit.
Softdisk Publishing announced a new
IIGS “magazine on a disk,” reviewed in this
issue. Unlimited Software unveiled some great
new IIGS clip art, reportedly every bit as good
as its earlier Macintosh offerings. And the
Apple Video Overlay Card and a host of new
IGS games reasserted the IIGS' superiority as
a premiere game and graphics machine.
Speaking of games, our consummate
gamesmith, Peter Chin, takes a look in this
issue at some of the best armchair entertain-
ment this side of the Super Bowl. And if your
budget gets in the way this Christmas, Joe
Kohn’s “Shareware Solutions” describes a
number of wonderful IIGS games available
for little or no cost.
Also in this issue we provide a first peek
at the new AppleWorks 3.0 (it isn't IIGS spe-
cific, but you'll probably want to use it any-
way), take apart the “new” IIGS to see what's
changed (and what hasn't) and examine the
potential of the IIGS and videodisc connec-
tion in Carol Holzberg’s “Class Action.”
So there you have it. Whether the games
are being played at the corporate level or
under the control of your joystick, the IGS
market remains as interesting as ever. Hl
— Paul Pinella, Editor-in-Chief
4 Winter 1990
Fan mail GS
“TransWarp GS has performed flawlessly ... I've
become addicted to computing at warp speed ...
once you get a taste, you'll wonder how you ever
got anything accomplished with your LIGs lumber-
ing along at an unaccelerated pace ... it’s an
improvement you're going to appreciate every time
you place your fingers on the keyboard.”
— Owen Linzmayer, Technical Editor, A+
“T'm stunned ... bordering on speechless. I used to
dread waiting and waiting to run GS/OS. I don't
anymore. TransWarp GS breathes new life into my
computer. Thanks AE, you guys are in a class by
yourselves.”
— Joe Kohn, The Source
“Once I started using the original TransWarp in
my old Ile, 1 found I couldn't do without it,
TransWarp GS promises to be equally indispensable.”
— Lafe Low, Review Editor, Incider
“This is the card you want. Sell whatever secondary
peripherals you must in order to get a TransWarp
68 plugged in.”
— Joe Abernathy, Houston, TX
“Together with my RamKeeper, you have given me
a color Mac at one-third the price. Thanks.”
— Richard Artz, Ft. Collins, CO
“Thave conducted some recent tests which indicate
that the ‘little’ IGS (with TransWarp GS) outper-
Jorms the MacSE. Your engineering department
should take a bow.”
— George Dombrowski, Jr., Chicago, IL
“TransWarp GS will be the best $400 you ever
spent.”
— Dan Muse, Editor in Chief, Incider
“WOW WOW WOW! I am completely blown away
with how fast it goes. Unbelievable.”
— Dean Esmay, A2-Central
“TransWarp GS is by far the best money I've spent
on my GS since purchasing my Datalink. Hats off
to everyone at AE for another great product!”
— Greg Dacosta, GEnie
‘TransWarp Gs is rapidly changing the way people use
the Apple Ics. Join the thousands of TransWarp Gs owners
who've discovered computing at Warp Speed. For more than
nine years, Applied Engineering has led the way with proven,
reliable products for the Apple Il line. We plan to keep it
that way. Thanks for the vote of confidence, folks.
TransWarp Gs Accelerator ..............- $399
Order today!
To order or for more information on TransWarp 68, see
your dealer or call (214) 241-6060 today, 9 am to 11 pm,
7 days. Or send check or money order to Applied Engineering.
MasterCard, VISA and C.0.D. welcome. Texas residents add
7% sales tax. Add $10 outside U.S.A.
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IIGS Address
‘The editors of The Apple lIGS Buyer's Guide
and Contributing Editor Larry Miller answer
letters and questions from readers.
Address all inquiries to I1GS Address, c/o
The Apple IIGS Buyer's Guide, Redgate
Communications Corp., 24 New England
Executive Park, Burlington, MA 01803.
Questions may also be sent via electron-
ic mail on CompuServe (71625,567) or
MCI Mail (352-9601). Individual respons-
es cannot be guaranteed.
Hexed By A Printer
First, I use an ImageWriter I with my
GS. When using AppleWorks with one
of the proportional fonts, if I try to print
an address or date on the right side of a
page, it ends up printing in the middle.
Is there a way to fix this? I got my
address on this letter to print on the
right by setting the left margin to 6.2
inches.
Second, sometimes when I print, I get
a bunch of what looks like hex numbers.
The only way to stop this is to turn off
the printer. When I turn it back on, it
works fine, What's going on?
Greg Anderson
Minneapolis, MN
You've already discovered the best solu-
tion, but let's see what causes the problems
you report. The second problem is straight-
forward, so we'll look at it first.
What you occasionally see when you
print are hexadecimal numbers. They look
like pairs of characters consisting of numbers
from 0 to 9 and the letters A to F. Apple
included the capability to print data received
in this format in the ImageWriter II as an aid
to programmers. A programmer having a
problem printing can turn on the hexadeci-
mal data dump and compare what the printer
is receiving with what it should be receiving.
You and other users (including those of
us at The Apple lIGS Buyer's Guide) have
been perplexed by a small design flaw in the
printer. The Hex Dump mode is activated by
turning on the printer while holding down
the Select button. Unfortunately, the buttons
on the ImageWriter II are narrow and close
together, and the Select button is next to the
Power button. It's easy to hit the Select but-
ton accidentally when turning the printer on.
Once you've activated the Hex Dump mode,
the only way to return to normal operation is
to turn the printer off and on,
Proportional fonts print the way they do
in AppleWorks because they are different
from normal fonts. Type a few words with a
proportional font and then change to a
monospaced font. Twelve characters per inch
is a good choice. That's because it’s the clos-
est match for the character size of the propor-
tional fonts, Now print out your sample.
Note how much wider the spaces
between words are in the 12-characters-per-
inch sample than in the proportional fonts.
The text screen of an Apple I1 is strictly
monospaced, so AppleWorks can't accurately
show the effect of using a proportional font.
Furthermore, Version 2.1 or earlier of Apple-
Works handles tabs by inserting enough
spaces into a document to reach the next tab
stop. If you try to get around the space prob-
lem with tabs, you end up back where you
started.
With an earlier version of AppleWorks,
the only tool you have to place text where
you want it — no matter what font you're
using — is the margin settings. The recently
released AppleWorks Version 3.0 has true
tabs that do a much better job of placing text.
AppleWorks 3.0 can center or align text to
the left or right of a tab stop. It also has deci-
mal tabs for aligning numbers and it can do
space tabs — like the older versions of
AppleWorks,
Our early experience with AppleWorks
3.0 indicates that the default tab stops do not
do a good job of putting text on the right side
of a page. To get the desired results, you'll
probably have to make a new tab ruler. It's
easy to do, but it is an extra step.
‘There's an easy way to avoid fussing with
margins and tab stops when you want to
write a letter. Many of the documents you
write have the same format every time. Other
items will have some text, such as your name
and address, that's always the same.
Make a starter document, or template,
with the margins and tab stops set the way
you want and save that document. When you
want to write a letter, load the template and
work from that. Use Open Apple-N (key
combination) to change the document's
name before you save it to disk.
If you're as forgetful as we are, it helps to
lock the template file. AppleWorks can't save
toa locked file. If you forget to change its
name before you try to save a document cre-
ated from a locked file, you'll get an error
message informing you that the computer
couldn't delete the original file and the save
isn't complete. You then change the docu-
ment's name before attempting to save it
again.
Many utility programs can lock a file; you
can also do the same from BASIC by using
the Lock command, An easier way to lock a
file on a IIGS is through the Finder. To lock a
file this way, simply click on its icon to high-
light it. Then type Open Apple-I or select the
Info command from the pull-down menu,
The dialog box that opens with informa-
tion on the file will have a check box labeled
Locked. Click in this box and an X will appear
indicating the file is locked. (With the latest
system software, a padlock symbol appears
before a file's name to indicate it is locked;
older versions provide no such indication).
Parlais Vous Mainframe?
Not long ago, the computer system
where I work was modified to receive
access from outside terminals. So I
bought my own 2400-baud modem to
save time running back and forth to
work to use their terminals. After having
difficulty trying to emulate the proper
terminal type, I talked to my dealer,
6 Winter 1990
Break the IIcs sound barrier
Audio Animator™. All of the Sonic Blaster's features plus MIDI and external mixer
external mixer to allow easy access to volume
and record levels and microphone controls.
Connect a drum machine, keyboard, stereo, CD
player, even another computer. ... all without
disturbing the GS.
Software, Too.
The powerful, mouse driven software we
include presents you with easy to use pull-
Our new Audio Animator transforms your
IIGS from a beep box toa boom box! We've
combined a true MIDI interface with a stereo
digitizer, a stereo playback machine, an
external mixer, and enough powerful, feature-
laden software to unleash the sound potential
your IIGS was born with. Take full control over
MIDI compatible instruments, or record and
play back digitized sounds with unsurpassed
accuracy and quality.
Digitizing
Record sounds from your own
stereo, CD player, television, or VCR,
even a microphone. Audio
Animator’s built in oscilloscope lets
you control recording levels visually
and analyze inputted data. The
zoom function permits you to “see”
what your recording looks like in a
graphical format, You determine the optimal
balance between desired fidelity and available
memory.
Audio Animator even has an on-board
Analog to Digital converter to sample at an ex-
tremely fast rate (37,000 times a second), and
with sound quality near that of a compact disk.
With it, you'll obtain far higher levels of fidelity
down menus and SUPER HI-RES graphics
that make the Audio Animator almost as much
fun to see as it is to hear.
The MIDI portion of the software is an 8-
track, 16 channel MIDI sequencer with separate
channel record and playback filters and a
number of editing functions like cut, copy,
paste, punch in, punch out, and many more.
than with the GS’s Ensonig chip alone.
Play back on your own speakers Features:
The Audio Animator includes imput/oulput —* Stereo input and output adjustable from
external mixer
Mixer has DIN connectors for MIDI in,
MIDI out, and MIDI thru
Compatible with all software utilizing the
and thru for MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital
Interface) devices. Play and record melodies °
ona MIDI instrument, edit them and play them
back through any MIDI compatible instrument. ®
Iffact, Audio Animator lets you daisy-chain up Ensonig output
to sixteen MIDI devices. © On-screen oscilloscope to monitor inputs
Audio Animator comes complete with an and VU meter
* Editing functions such as fade-in, fade-out,
backwards, echo, silence, and amplify
* Compatible with standard MIDI file formats
including AIFF (Apple Information File
Format)
* Sequencer supports 2:1 and 2.67:1 file
compression
* MIDI quantization to 1/32 resolution and
transposition
Compare Audio Animator
with any other MIDI device or
sound digitizer on the market.
For completeness of the package,
ease of use, quality, and an
unmatched list of features . ..
you'll choose Audio Animator.
Audio Animator ........00 $239
Order Today!
To order or for more information, see your
dealer or call (214) 241-6060 today, 9 am to 11
pm, 7 days. Or send a check or money order to
Applied Engineering. MasterCard, VISA, and
C.0.D. welcome. Texas residents add 7% sales
tax. Add $10 outside U.S.A.
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IiIGs ADDRESS
T’ve been told that it is not possible
for my IIGS and Apple-compatible soft-
ware to access an IBM 3278-type termi-
nal. Would it be possible to use Applied
Engineering's PC Transporter card with
MS-DOS communications software to
emulate the 3278 terminal (VI'52 or
YT100) from my modem at home?
Craig Brubaker
Germantown, TN
A3278 (or other model with a similar
number) is a block-oriented device, but per-
sonal computers are byte-oriented. While
there are plug-in cards for Macintosh and MS-
DOS computers that allow them to connect
directly to a 3270 device, remote access is
almost always done via a protocol converter.
The protocol converter changes data from
the IBM’s SNA EBCDIC format to that of an
ASCII terminal. Any personal computer —
including your Apple IIGS, when equipped
with a modem — can communicate through
the protocol converter if it is using software
that emulates a terminal such as a VT52 or
VT100.
Most of the telecommunications software
listed in the “Desktop Communications” sec-
tion of this magazine's “Apple IGS Hardware
And Software Directory” should do the job.
Of the programs listed, we know of people
successfully using both MouseTalk and Pro-
Term to access mainframe computers. The
newer versions of Point-To-Point distributed
by Beagle Bros, should also work satisfactori-
ly. Ready Link —a new communications
software package from Applied Engineering
—also has good VT52 and VT100 emulation.
Some shareware programs may also work
well for you. Kermit, which emulates a VT100
terminal, is widely available for the Apple I.
There's also a terminal program that's just for
the IGS. Simply called GSVT, it also emulates
a VT100 terminal.
‘We're used to the IIGS not being taken seri-
ously by elitists who use other computers. And
we're used to hearing that the Apple Il can't do
things we know it's already doing. Still, it's dis-
turbing to think there are dealers who believe
the IIGS can't emulate a VT100 terminal. The
Apple Access II terminal program that many
dealers sell does an acceptable VT100 terminal
emulation. The other terminal programs are so
much better than Access II, however, that we
suggest trying them first.
Perhaps the person who said your IIGS
couldn't access an IBM mainframe thought
you wanted to tie directly into the system and
bypass the protocol converter. As far as we
know, there are no hardware cards that
enable any Apple II to perform this feat.
Hidden Fonts
Town a IIGS and use MultiScribe GS. 1
would like to write in French. I have
seen a display of the standard IIGS char-
acter set that includes characters I would
like to use, if only I could access them
with my word processor. I have tried the
French font built into my ImageWriter 1
and found it incomplete.
JP. Guggenheim
Bryn Mawr, PA
A character is represented in a computer
bya byte that can range in value from 0 to
255, fora total of 256 different values. The
normal ASCII character set uses up half the
possible values a byte can have. Macintosh
and IIGS fonts use the standard ASCII charac-
ters and also have standard characters for
most of the other 128 values available.
Macintosh users can access the extra char-
acters by using the Option key as a sort of
super Shift key. Pressing a key while holding
down the Option key generates one of the
extra characters. The Shift and Control keys
also work together with the Option key to
generate some of the extra characters. In
addition to diacritics and foreign characters,
the extra characters contain many useful sym-
bols, such as the cent sign, degree symbol,
checkmark, typographer-style curly quotation
marks and several math symbols.
With System 5.0, IIGS users have the same
method available for accessing the extra char-
acters. This method works with desktop
applications such as AppleWorks GS, Multi-
Scribe GS and MultiScribe's update — now
called BeagleWrite GS and available from
Beagle Bros.
Ironically, there seems to be some interac-
tion between System 5.0 and Activision pro-
grams such as Writer's Choice Elite, which
could access the extra characters before Sys-
tem 5.0. Using the Option key no longer
works well to generate the extra characters in
these applications.
Because not all IIGS fonts use all of the
extra characters available (in fact, some fonts
don't use the entire ASCII character set), it's a
good idea to make a guide of the fonts you
use often. A printed guide can help you avoid
hunting for the keystroke needed to produce
the characters you want.
Cold And Warm Boots
I recently tried to warm-boot my [IGS
by holding down the Apple, Control and
Reset keys. I also pressed the Option key
in an attempt to reach the Control Panel.
I released the Reset key and held the
other three keys down as you must do to
reboot.
Instead of displaying the Control
Panel, the computer began a slide show
of colored graphics patterns. After sever-
al seconds, memory bank numbers were
displayed sequentially at the bottom of
the screen and the computer changed
border colors repeatedly. Finally, a tune
of ascending notes was played, and I saw
the message “System Good”. Is this an
internal memory-testing routine?
Ty Harris
Atlanta, GA
You're very close to the answer. The dis-
play you saw is generated by internal diagnos-
tic routines, but they test much more than
memory. The test will run through the same
series of numbers no matter how much memo-
ry is installed. Although the numbers look like
they might be memory bank numbers, they
refer to various systems in the IGS. Ifa system
should happen to test bad, the report will
include the number of the system that failed.
This information can help a repair techni-
cian diagnose a problem. For example, a prob-
Jem with the ADB controller (the keyboard and
mouse attach through the ADB) will be report-
ed in the 09000000 range. The test is mentioned
in the IGS Owner's Guide, but only ina small
paragraph in a rather obscure section.
The self-test has some use other than its pri-
mary function of diagnosing problems. Once
the test has been initiated, all of the indicators
the IGS stores — to tell whether it has been on
previously and is warm-booting or cold-boot-
ing from a no-power situation — are destroyed.
This means you can get the computer to doa
cold-boot without turning the power off, saving
‘wear and tear on many components.
As soon as the test begins, press Control-
Reset to reboot the computer. A cold-boot
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like this can be handy for changing Control
Panel settings that won't normally change
unless you turn the power off. Incidentally,
the normal reset procedure is sometimes
referred to as the “three-finger salute’; the
key combination necessary to enter the self-
test has been dubbed the “four-finger salute.”
The proper key combination to enter the
Control Panel as part of a reboot is to press
only the Option, Control and Reset keys
together.
‘We have both a simple IIGS system with
few accessories and an industrial-strength sys-
tem with many options on it. The simple system
almost always reboots with one key pressed,
though it sometimes requires a second reset to
get the computer to restart. The other system
sometimes requires several reset tries before an
attempt actually works. So if you ever have
trouble getting a reset to work, keep trying.
As useful as reset is on a computer, it
should be used with care on a IGS. Resetting
at the wrong time can have disastrous effects
on your disks. If a program crashes or
freezes, reset is the best way to restart the
computer. But never use the Reset key while
a GS/OS application, including the Finder, is
running. Important information about some
files may not have been stored to disk.
Using reset rather than the quit routines
guarantees that this information never gets
written to the disk, resulting in corrupted disk
files. If you forget and use reset by accident,
don't panic. Everything is probably fine. But
if you make the use of reset a habit, a prob-
Jem will probably surface sooner or later
under GS/OS.
‘The Finder and replacements such as
ProSel 16 have provisions for doing the
equivalent of a cold-boot as part of their quit
routines. So even the side trip through the
self-test isn’t always needed.
Loading Up On Hardware
Thave a IGS with 512K memory, an
Applied Engineering internal 2400-baud
modem, one 3.5-inch drive and one 5.25-
inch drive. I wish to upgrade by adding
Applied Engineering's TransWarp GS,
RamKeeper board, the GS-RAM board
with 1 MB and a second 3.5-inch drive.
My goal is to increase system memory to
run AppleWorks GS, decrease the load-
ing and operating time, and to retain
memory when the power is off.
Will there be enough room for this ad-
ditional hardware? Is there sufficient pow-
er in the IIGS to run all this equipment?
David Loring
Grand Ledge, MI
We can provide an affirmative answer to
each of your questions. The hardware you
wish to add to your IIGS should all fit with no
problem. Assuming the modem is in its stan-
dard slot (slot 2), that leaves slots 3 or 4 free
for the TransWarp GS. Any memory cards
attached to the RamKeeper could block slot 7
or slot 4 if a card is attached with a slot exten-
der, but never both.
Internal modems tend to use a lot of
power, and the TransWarp GS definitely does.
Still, if you have no other cards with a heavy
power draw, you should be fine. Memory
uses relatively little power. The RamKeeper is
externally powered, so it should provide little
drain on the GS power supply.
All those accessories produce a lot of
heat. You should add a fan to your IIGS when
you add the next accessory. External fans,
such as those supplied by Applied Engineer-
ing or Kensington Microware Ltd., doa
much better job than the Apple fan.
The system you've outlined is a good one,
but we see other ways to achieve your goals.
Granted, some of them are more expensive.
First, know exactly what a RamKeeper
does, It doesn't save the system memory when
the computer is turned off. It only retains the
memory in a RAM disk you've set up (which
the system identifies as a ROM disk). You can
keep your System files on a ROM disk and
start up the computer very quickly.
But you also want to run AppleWorks GS,
which is a very memory-hungry program. If
you can avoid it, don’t run the program with
the minimum amount of memory it requires.
Even the 1.5 MB of memory a GS-RAM card
can hold isn't enough to prevent running out
of memory occasionally when running
AppleWorks GS.
If you fill your Apple memory card to its
limit, and fill the GS-RAM card you are think-
ing about buying, you'd have plenty of mem-
ory for AppleWorks GS, but not enough to
have a useful ROM disk.
The cheapest memory available for the
IIGS uses 1-megabit memory chips. A memo-
ty card like the GS-RAM Plus, which uses 1-
meg chips with 2 megs of RAM included,
would probably be competitively priced
against a GS-RAM with a meg of memory,
plus enough memory to fill the Apple card to
capacity. That would give you the same
memory and room for future expansion.
If you want your System files to be on a
bootable ROM disk, you will definitely want
more than 2 megs of RAM in your IGS. If you
want to use the latest system software, along
with a good variety of fonts and a few desk
accessories, you'll probably need almost
another 2 megs of memory for the ROM disk.
‘That's before you put any applications on it,
If you want to use ProDOS 8 applications,
then the 2 megs of memory on the card will
be enough for quite a few applications.
Offsetting the cost of the extra RAM is the
possibility that, with a large ROM disk, you
may not need an extra 3.5-inch disk drive.
With the operating system on the ROM disk,
most of the time you can simply insert a disk
with both program and data in the 3.5-inch
drive and not swap diskettes around.
If you needed a separate program disk,
you'd find that once a program is loaded, you
don't really need to keep the program disk in
the drive and you can replace it with a data
disk, Diskette swapping will happen more
often, but it will not be as objectionable as
when using a single 3.5-inch drive.
Another thing to consider is to not pur-
chase either a RamKeeper or second 3.5-inch
disk drive. Rather, put the money you would
have spent on them toward a hard disk drive.
Using an Apple IIGS with System 5.0 on a
hard drive with a Transwarp GS can be very
enjoyable. A system configured like that has
the speed of an IBM PC AT.
Some of the faster hard drives available
for use with GS/OS are faster than a
RAM/ROM disk. Even slower model hard
disks provide a big jump in speed over
diskettes.
There’s a much smaller speed difference
between the hard drive and a RAM/ROM
disk. With a hard drive, you don't really have
much need for a second diskette drive of
either size. Usually, a diskette drive is used
just to transfer files onto the hard drive or to
run an occasional copy-protected program.
A Tale Of Two Printers
I'm a new Apple IIGS owner and have
imported some of my hardware, includ-
ing a Panasonic dot-matrix printer for
printing letters, from my old Apple Ie to
my IGS. I have an ImageWriter II in slot
10 Winter 1990
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1 and the Panasonic in slot 7. I only
want one printer to print at a time, but I
cannot seem to get any programs to
work with both printers plugged into
their slots at the same time. Why?
Tony De Castro
Clearwater, FL
We're not sure why your setup doesn't work.
We know of nothing that would prevent a pro-
gram from running with two printers or with a
printer in slot 7 — though that's a very unusual
slot for a printer, and some programs may not be
able to print to slot 7. We've seen a lot of com-
puter configurations, and the only times we
remember seeing a printer used from slot 7 are
occasions when the printer is running under
AppleTalk. Knowing more about the problem
might point us toward a solution that's more spe-
cific than the generic advice we're about to offer.
Our guess is that your Panasonic printer is
a parallel printer and uses an interface card
for printing. If that's the case, and you don't
need both printers to be available at the same
time, try the more usual method practiced by
IIGS users with both serial and parallel print-
ers. That is to use both printers from slot 1
Ittakes only a quick trip to the Control
Panel to change slot 1 from using the internal
printer port for your serial ImageWriter to
your interface card for your Panasonic. There
are also programs, such as the shareware
SWCP (Switch Control Panel), that make
changing a slot assignment even easier.
If you simply pop into the Control Panel
and change the slot setting, it generally won't
change immediately — it will requ a reboot.
There are desk ac
make the change effective sina ely.
If you need to have both printers available
at the same time, slot 2 is probably the second
most common slot assignment for a printer. If
you don't have a modem, move either printer
to slot 2. If you do have a modem, move
whichever printer won't interfere with the
modem (though, as long as it’s in the same slot,
you won't be able to use that printer in a pro-
gram that uses the modem) and use the Control
Panel to switch between printer and modem. ll
— larry Miller
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An Eye For Color
Used with discretion,
color can bea
dynamic force that
will make the reader
pick up a document,
read it and remember
the message. Adding
a multitude of colors
just because color is available in the latest
IIGS-based desktop publishing programs
usually doesn't work. Don't use color simply
for the sake of using color.
One of the most common misconceptions
about color is that color, any color, will attract
the eye and cause the reader to read more. It
is actually possible to cause just the opposite
response.
Before you begin to create your docu-
ment, take time to consider what purpose
color will serve.
Creative Contrast. If you don't use con-
trast, it is actually possible for your work to
become practically invisible. Red, orange,
green, blue and purple stand out fine on a
white background. But on a black background,
only yellow and orange are visible and easy to
read. If you must use red, blue, green or purple
ona black background, lighten the value. For
instance, use pink instead of red.
Be sure to try out color combinations by
actually printing them. Do not depend on
your monitor for color balance.
Remember, the ImageWriter II printer can
create fewer colors than the monitor.
Black Is Best. Many of us mistakenly
assume that using color for a word or phrase
‘we want to “jump off the page” will be the
best solution. Unfortunately, this is seldom the
case. Most of the time, black type will pop out
better than any other color or value against a
white background. This is because black and
white have maximum contrast.
White type will, therefore, usually be the
best choice against a black background. Due
to its high value, yellow follows a close sec-
ond in this regard.
A more effective approach to making a
word stand out in a headline is to have the
majority of the headline printed in a color
and the word or phrase that you wish to
stand out printed in black.
If you are having problems determining
what works best, try viewing your test print-
out from a distance. Many times, we can see
mistakes and problem areas when the work
is far enough away that distracting detail can-
not be seen. Another alternative is to show
your work to a colleague and question him or
her about what seemed to be the most impor-
tant parts of the document.
Color harmony, the relationship between
colors, is also important. Complementary col-
ors are opposite one another on the color
wheel. The basic sets of complementary colors
are orange/blue, red/green and yellow/pur-
ple. When colors are complementary, it does
not mean that they should be used together
because they complement one another.
The fact is that complementary colors
have a tendency to clash visually. The experi-
ence can be so strong that the colors appear
to flash violently. This may seem like a good
way to get attention, but the sensation is not
pleasant. The average viewers will tend to
avert their eyes rather than focus on the phe-
nomenon. It is best to avoid placing comple-
mentary colors next to one another.
If you wish to set a mood, think about the
key of the color combinations that you will
be using. For instance, low key means that
the colors are predominantly low in value
and intensity and, thus, produce a somber
mood. On the other hand, high-key colors
are high in value and very intense and pro-
duce a festive mood.
Getting It Printed. Before finishing your
design, determine how many copies of the
final piece you will need and the extent of
your budget.
If you only need a few copies and have
the time, it is feasible to use your ImageWriter
Il to print out all the copies. If you need sev-
eral hundred copies, you will probably want
to send the artwork to a professional printer.
Adding color to a piece that will be print-
ed can greatly increase the cost of the print-
ing job. You will not only have to pay for
another plate for each color needed, but you
will also have to pay for the printer's time
and the effort expended cleaning up the
press between each color. This can easily add
several hundred dollars to the job, depending
upon the complexity of the artwork and the
number of colors used.
If your desktop publishing program
doesn't generate color, you can still add color
through the print process, In fact, a commer-
cial printer will require that everything
brought in to be photographed be in black
and white and on separate pages. Taking a
color print(s) with you can help avoid any
confusion as to what color should be printed
and where.
Getting It Separated. When preparing
your document to be sent to a printer, break
down the design into its primary color ele-
ments; this is called making separations. To
do this, it will probably be easier to work
backward from the finished design than to try
to construct the pages for each color
separately.
Let's say that you are going to prepare the
page that the printer will use to print red ink.
You will follow these steps: load the finished
document. Have the software remove or turn
white everything that is not red. Turn the
remaining red elements to black and print the
page. Repeat this process for each of the colors
that you will need to have printed. These
pages will be used by the printer to make the
plates that will print the corresponding colors
on the final piece. Currently, GraphicWriter 2.0
is the only desktop publishing program that
can automatically make color separations of
this type.
If you determine that color is beyond
your budget, consider adding gray shades to
the document instead, Even though there will
be no color (other than black and white)
printed on the page, the reader will perceive
greater variety and this extra “color” will
relieve the tedium of a page printed only
with the extremes of black and white.
Used properly, color can add sparkle to
your work and illuminate your message. Used
improperly, it can create a dud. Remember
that the main uses of color are to attract atten-
tion, to emphasize a portion of the text or area
of the design, and to set a tone or mood. If
you keep the purpose of color in mind, then
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Videodisc Adventures With A IIGS
Multimedia
combines visual,
text, graphic and
audio elements into
a single computing
environment. It
joins a computer
with different
media, such as television, CD-ROM drives,
laserdiscs and slide projectors, to create an
innovative presentation right from the com-
puter desktop. While some people view mul-
timedia as the latest
fashionable buzzword
bandied by industry pun-
dits to generate excitement
about computers, others
perceive it as as a valuable
tool with great educational
potential.
‘Typical multimedia
development platforms
include expensive scan-
ners, audiovisual digitizers,
color boards, large-screen
monitors, optical discs,
large storage capabilities
and high-end computers.
But schools don’t have to
develop multimedia presen-
tations. Their audience
(students) is there to pri-
marily /earn from what
others have already devel-
oped.
‘There are several prod-
ucts available to enhance
any standard curriculum.
Because most educational
institutions already own
computers and a VCR-compatible monitor, all
that’s needed for a multimedia performance
is a computer-compatible CD-ROM or
videodisc player. Luckily for schools and con-
sumers, the prices for optical disc players
drop almost daily.
In Apple's eye, the future of multimedia
computing lies primarily with the Macintosh.
For K-12 educators, however, school comput-
ing frequently means Apple II computing
Optical Data, a leading publisher of archival
laser videodiscs for science education, gives
users a choice. It produces videodises that
The teacher and students above are us’
videodisc player and AppleWorks on an Apple Il. These components let
teachers using Apple IIGS computers bring dynamic interactive media into
the classroom.
interface with Macs running HyperCard or
Apple IIs running AppleWorks,
The Laser Disc Story. The laser
videodisc is an optical storage platter large
enough to accommodate vast amounts of
audiovisual information. It holds 54,000 visu-
al images on each side of a 12-inch platter,
roughly equivalent to 1,300 slide carousels of
80 slides each. Video motion runs at 30
frames per second, so a 12-inch disc plays
about 60 minutes.
aN
Typical videodiscs consist of huge visual
databases filled with text, audio and real-
world video images covering hundreds of
topics and thousands of records. Records
consist of full-color, still-action photographs,
slides, movie clips, real-time video, speech,
sound effects and music.
Users cannot modify the information
stored on a videodisc platter. And data cannot
be added, deleted or otherwise altered. Nev-
ertheless, these optical devices offer teachers
a creative opportunity to supplement tradi-
tional textbook presentations. They enable
instructors to communicate conventional
ing an Optical Data videodisc, a
ideas in non-traditional ways, challenging
children to learn more about the world.
Viewers control the videodisc display.
Simple commands make it possible to search
through the frames rapidly or proceed direct-
ly to desired images. Users move from subject
to subject, cross-referencing or zooming in
on particular topics. There’s no need to view
materials in a restricted linear fashion. As a
result, the technology encourages youngsters
to be active participants rather than passive
recipients. Teachers can use audiovisual ele-
ments to support classroom
discussions or to clarify
complex concepts.
Living Textbooks.
Optical Data publishes sev-
eral interactive multimedia
libraries designed to inter-
face with the Apple Ile,
IIGS or Macintosh. The Liv-
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includes high school-ori-
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for classes in Earth, Life and
Physical Science.
One videodisc in this
series, called The Frog,
examines amphibian anato-
my and physiology in
detail. With more than 200
slides and 34 movie clips
stored on a two-sided
videodisc, it offers an alter-
native to dissection in the
classroom. Viewers can look
at slides to learn about major
tissues, bones and muscles,
embryology, development
and metamorphosis. Movie clips compare
human and amphibian systems, examine the
anatomy and physiology of major organs and
systems, demonstrate how the frog exercises
temperature control, and show the animal
obtaining food, water and oxygen in its natu-
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The Life Science package consists of two
two-sided videodiscs with still photos, movie
clips, diagrams and narrations. The first plat-
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biology. The second examines plant and
14 Winter 1990
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animal biology. The duration of each movie
clip varies with the subject matter. Some clips
include narration; others do not. Viewers can
listen to the narration in English or Spanish.
Optical Data also publishes a Space Disc
series with narration only in English. Current-
ly there are three titles, although more are in
the works, Voyager Gallery focuses on the
Voyager spacecraft and its billion-mile excur-
sion through the outer solar system to
observe Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and their
satellites. Planetscapes offers a two-sided
videodisc exploration of planets in the inner
solar system (Earth, Mars, Venus and Mer-
cury) with almost 12,000 video still frames
and 50 minutes of motion video clips. Topics
include the Earth's evolution, atmosphere,
orbital photography and airborne surveys.
Side 1 presents super-computer visualiza-
tions of Earth, with animated weather satellite
data, and a comprehensive Landsat Atlas of
the United States. Side 2 provides pictorial
surveys of the neighboring planets as viewed
from Earth-based telescopes and several
orbiting spacecraft.
Space Shuttle includes three double-sided
discs providing audiovisual documentation of
the development, testing and operation of the
first 11 missions of the shuttle. The platters
present launching and landing video high-
lights, cabin tours, weightlessness demonstra-
tions, parachute deployment, Sally Ride’s
flight and many more shuttle firsts,
IGS Connections. Viewers can watch
any of these videodisc presentations on a
monitor linked to a videodisc player
equipped only with a hand-held remote unit.
However, connecting the player to a comput-
er has advantages. For example, the accom-
panying AppleWorks database diskette
provides background information and
descriptions for each still frame and
motion clip.
Instructors can use the software as an
authoring tool to design customized interac-
tive courseware for their classes. While they
cannot alter platter materials, they can per-
sonalize the presentations by providing
descriptive information tailored to specific
classroom needs. The software enables them
to perform high-speed keyword searches. It
sorts and prints out data files and provides
hard copy of all frame descriptions.
Instructors familiar with AppleWorks will
find Optical Data's Apple II software easy to
operate. The disk consists of AppleWorks
database and word processor files. The
videodisc player responds to AppleWorks-
like specific commands issued from the
keyboard.
By pressing the Option key (or Closed
Apple key) simultaneously with another key,
users can search for information by chapter
or frame (Option-F), freeze the video motion
to display a still image (Option-Space), turn
the audio off (Option-Q), select the appropri-
ate audio channel (Option-Rlight! or Option-
Lleft}), scan forward or backward (Option->
or-), overlay the text in the data field onto
the videodisc visual (Option-O) and more.
Optical Data recommends a Pioneer
LaserDisc player (LD-4200) to run its optical
discs. Apple Ile users will have to purchase a
second 5.25-inch disk drive, Super Serial Card
and cable to connect to the player.
Individuals with IIGS machines need only
purchase a cable to connect the computer
directly to the player. Connection is made
through the modem port. There is no need to
purchase either a second 5.25-inch drive or a
Super Serial Card.
IIGS machines also simplify product oper-
ation in another significant way. Because a
3.5-inch diskette holds nearly 800K, all
videodisc records can remain within a single
database directory. The He's 5.25-inch
diskette is too small to hold all database
records in a single file.
Optical Data accommodates the 5.25-inch
diskette by segmenting the software's single
large database into several smaller databases,
each holding records specific to a particular
videodisc side. This makes cross-referencing
and frame searching much more difficult. For
the Ile to run an Optical Data LaserDisc at
peak efficiency, users will have to purchase a
3.5-inch disk drive and upgrade their Ie sys-
tem memory to 512K.
A New Frontier. LaserDisc products are
more expensive than either conventional
textbooks or computer software, but they
offer students the opportunity to learn about
a variety of topics in new and exciting ways.
The discs combine thousands of visuals into
one manageable library, which users can
access from a single source with just a few
keyboard commands. Students get to view
realistic photographs and real-time motion
video, accompanied by descriptive narra-
tions, music and high-quality audio. They
also get to work with AppleWorks and build
database management skills.
Scientific terms, concepts and subjects
come alive on the video screen with able
assistance from the computer. Students can
easily navigate through the collection of
video clips and slides, arranging the visuals in
any order, while adding descriptive informa-
tion to personalize their presentations.
LaserDisc technology and the Apple IGS
team up to provide valuable, innovative
teaching resources for any secondary science
curriculum,
— Carol S. Holzberg, Ph.D.
Shutesbury, Mass.-based columnist Carol
Holzberg is an anthropologist and computer
journalist. She writes for several magazines,
Serves as a computer consultant and is on
staff as the computer resource person at the
Shutesbury Elementary School.
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Font Factory GS is a "standard IIGs font" editor that
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Why Limit Your Choice?
Font Factory GS is great for automatically changing a
font size or for smoothing the ragged edges of a large
font. Design custom pictures or symbols. Use the
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Font Factory GS is supplied on a 3.5" disk and requires
an Apple IIcs with 768K and one disk drive.
Suggested retail price only $39.95 (demo $6).
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GS owners have wanted a way to manage their files,
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SHAREWARE SOLUTIONS
Low-Cost Excitement
Most Apple II user
groups maintain a
library of public
domain and share-
ware software, and
KL some of the very
highest quality
applications these
groups offer is IIGS entertainment software.
For assistance in locating an Apple user
group, call 1-800-538-9696.
After joining a user group, make sure to
get Nucleus GS, a dazzling and incredible dis-
play of IIGS graphics, animation and music. A
French program, Nucleus clearly demon-
strates why the GS stands for Graphics and
Sound. A graphic object that looks like a
strand of DNA appears within a window on
screen, surrounded by shooting stars, The
object turns and twists around three axes,
making an incredible 3-D representation. You
can control which axis the object turns on,
and it can revolve on 1, 2 or all 3 axes. While
the animation is displayed, toe-tapping rock
music plays. Nucleus requires 1 MB of RAM
and works on a IIGS with ROM 01.
Bounce It! by John Tierney was one of the
first IIGS-specific shareware super-high-reso-
lution games available. Like Arkanoid, it is
based on the classic Little Brick Out “ping
pong” program. Using the mouse to control a
variable-size paddle, one deflects bouncing
balls toward colored boxes that occupy the
top half of the screen. Each time the ball hits
a box, points are scored and the box is
removed. Remove all the boxes to complete
one of nine levels.
Thank Heavens. During game play,
Bounce It! plays music that sounds like it was
produced with an angel's harp. Player-
defined options allow one to speed up or
slow down the ball's motion, and the user
can make the paddle larger or smaller. The
options make it easy for children to play this
highly entertaining game. Bounce It!’s share-
ware fee is $10.
F1 Raceway, by Joel Quejada, is a $15
shareware arcade game that puts you behind
the wheel of a Formula 1 race car, racing
against other cars and against the clock. F1
Raceway is a fast-action, mouse-driven game.
The mouse button controls acceleration,
while the Open Apple key is the brake. The
screen display consists of the race track on
the left and a dashboard display panel on the
right. Cars are passing on either side, and
you avoid them by frequent lane changing.
You'll need to keep an eye on the fuel gauge
and re-fill as necessary. F1 Raceway includes
digitized sounds of cars crashing and music
designed to keep you on your toes.
Most Apple Il user groups
maintain a library of
public domain shareware
software. For assistance in
locating an Apple user
group, call 1-800-538-9696.
Evil Forces. As The Link Turns, by Parik
Rao and Scott Pease, is a joystick- or key-
board-controlled arcade shoot-em-up that is
action packed and filled with humor. An evil
force has taken over Apple Computer, Inc.
and is attempting to close the Apple II divi-
sion. The goal is simple: save the Apple II.
‘You'll battle flying diskettes, joysticks, RAM
chips and Macintosh computers in this timed
game. The graphics are truly amusing, the
animation is very smooth, plus the sounds of
digitized gunfire add to the enjoyment.
Yahtzee, by Dave Buell, is a visually stun-
ning game. The classic board game has been
translated to the IIGS desktop in a way that
will keep you coming back for more action.
Yahtzee, played by one or two people, is an
addicting dice game. It’s also one of the few
games where the computer has no particular
advantage. It is easy and extremely gratifying
to beat the IGS!
In Yahtzee a player rolls a pair of dice and
attempts to come up with matching numbers
on the dice. Rolling dice with the same num-
ber, or getting a straight, adds up points. The
game requires the user to make quick mathe-
matical calculations. Actually, it's a thinking
person's strategy game. Yahtzee instructions
are included.
Brian Greenstone and Dave Triplett — the
team who created the highly acclaimed, com-
mercially available Xenocide game — have
also produced several excellent IGS arcade
games. Greenstone considers computer pro-
gramming an art form. After playing Copy
Killers and Quadronome, you'll know you've
seen the work of master artists,
Viral Infections. Copy Killers is a fast-
action, joystick-controlled arcade maze game.
The scenario pits the player, representing an
FBI agent, against software pirates who are
busy distributing illegally copied software
and computer viruses. The player roams the
maze shooting pirates; pirates shoot viruses
back. The viruses are persistent, and the play-
er often needs to get a shot of anti-virus
medicine,
Throughout the chase, manic music plays,
adding a degree of tension to the game.
Although the game ends when the viruses
multiply, Copy Killers is so challenging, you'll
‘want to play it over and over again.
Quadronome is a fast-action 3-D game
similar to racquetball. Played by one or two
players, it offers a unique visual perspective.
Side-by-side screens are shown. As the ball
moves away on one screen, it gets closer on
the other. The game is quite challenging, and
players may wish to reset the IGS’ speed to
Slow (1 MHz) when first starting out.
Although the Slow setting produces some
jerky animation, it does allow you to learn
how to play the game without missing every
ball. After lots of practice, reset the system
speed to Fast.
Card Fun. Doug Davies and Todd Wood,
employees of Word Perfect Corp., are another
software writing team. They have produced a
series of arcade games based on card games.
Some of their games closely resemble the
video games found in gambling casinos; oth-
ers are based on classic variations of solitaire.
All of Wood and Davies’ games are excellent;
we'll look at three of them: Video Poker,
Pyramid and Monte Carlo.
Video Poker has a $10 shareware fee and
is based on video games found in Nevada
casinos. A player starts with $100 and can bet
$1 to $5 per hand. The rules are classic five-
card draw poker; the action is completely
mouse driven. Five cards are dealt and the
player keeps or discards any number of
them. The object is to make the best five-card
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SHAREWARE
poker hand. The payouts are similar to those
ina Nevada casino. This game is a winner for
poker players! The screen is visually stun-
ning, and the face cards include humorous
graphics.
Monte Carlo, a $5 shareware gem, is a
variation of solitaire. Twenty cards are dealt
face up. The object is to remove adjacent
pairs of cards by clicking on them. When
pairs are removed from the playing screen,
new cards are dealt and the spaces are
replaced with the new cards. The cards are
dealt at random and, quite often, there are no
adjacent pairs. At that point, you simply start
a new round. You win by removing all 26
Pairs of cards,
This is a very quick game. Due to its
addictive nature, a Statistics pull-down menu
is provided. It shows how long you've been
playing, how many games you've played and
how many you've won. It's possible to play
upwards of 40 rounds in an hour; if you win
more than two or three of those rounds,
you're doing very well.
Pyramid is another $10 shareware solitaire
variation. Twenty-eight cards are dealt out in
a pyramid shape; eight cards occupy the first
row. The aim is to remove pairs of cards
adding up to 13. However, you can only click
on cards that are unobstructed, At the begin-
ning, that means a player can only choose
from the first row. As cards are removed,
those cards displayed toward the top of the
pyramid can be chosen. This is a very chal-
lenging game that’s lots of fun.
All of the above programs are IIGS-specif-
ic and GS/OS compatible. They will work
with either System Disk 4.0 or 5.0, Of all the
entertainment programs available for the
IIGS, these are the most exciting; contain the
best graphics, sound and animation; and
have the fastest action.
When you acquire any of the shareware
games, remember to honor the authors’
request and remit the small fee. Your check
will encourage the author to write even better
games in the future.
—Joe Kobn
Columnist Joe Kobn is the software librarian
for the Big Red Computer Club, a large
international Apple Il user group. You may
contact Joe at 166 Alpine St., San Rafael,
CA 94901,
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INSIDE APPLEWORKS GS
The AppleWorks GS Identity Crisis
AppleWorks GS is
having an identity
crisis. It doesn't want
to be called that any-
more. It doesn't like
the name.
Fire up the pro-
gram and open a
new Word Processor document. Type the fol-
lowing sentence: “The name of this program
is APPLEWORKS GS.” Use all caps for the
name. Now move the cursor to the beginning
of the file and invoke the spelling checker.
Surprise! Notice which word it flags.
That's right, AppleWorks, Now, the name
only triggers the spelling checker if you spell
itin all uppercase letters, but, as you'll see, it
doesn't care for it the other way, either.
All right, what does it want to be called?
Let's ask it. Click on the “Suggest” button and
see what it comes up with.
Interestingly, the first suggestion is. . .
AppleWorks. Are we off the hook due to case
sensitivity? Nope. Click on “Replace” and
watch what happens. It replaces the word
and immediately flags it as misspelled again!
Pollywogs To The Rescue. Ok, so it
must prefer the second choice. Click “Sug-
gest” again and look at the second suggested
word, Can you believe your eyes? Yes you
can. It sure looks like it wants to be known as
Pollywogs.
Credit columnist Larry Miller, our own.
“IGS Address” man, with this amazing dis-
covery. He immediately passed the news on
to the MAUG Apple II area of CompuServe,
and it spread like wildfire. In those circles the
program immediately began to be referred to
solely as Pollywogs,
But wait! There's more. I wrote a short
piece about this Pollywogs stuff, using Apple-
Works Classic, for a local user group newslet-
ter and spell checked the completed article
with TimeOut QuickSpell from Beagle Bros.
Guess what: It flagged Pollywogs as incor-
fect, suggesting the alternate spelling Polli-
wogs. Is there no end to this madness? Well,
my trusty dictionary (the printed-on-paper
type) lists both spellings as correct, but even
it doesn’t list AppleWorks.
‘Well, on to other business.
Page Layout. Last issue, we discussed
basic page-layout operations using Pollywogs.
Since then, I have donated the file containing
the demo newsletter to the public domain and
uploaded it to CompuServe. By now it should
be available on the other commercial services
and may even pop up in your local club's
library. If you don't see it, ask!
The upload includes the page-layout file
itself and a short word processor file explain-
ing some useful things to know about it.
The full text of the Generic Newsletter is pre-
sent, including the ever-popular Elvis article.
Once you have the file, feel free to make
any modifications you'd like. Experiment! It's
there to help you learn.
If you load the newsletter file into Polly-
wogs and the text looks weird, read the word
processor file. It tells you which fonts must
be installed for the thing to make any sense;
you may want to print this information for
reference. Also, if the text appears to run off
the page, be sure to enter the Page Setup dia-
log (under the File menu) and set Condensed
print. Then all will be normal.
AppleWorks 3.0. Over on the eight-bit
side of the house, AppleWorks Classic has
recently been updated to Version 3.0. This is
of interest to Pollywogs users as it changes
some of the rules.
Pollywogs has some built-in compatibility
with AppleWorks and can directly import files
from all three of its modules without special
processing. However, the new AppleWorks
version added several new features that
necessitated changes in AppleWorks data file
structures. For example, new control codes
and tokens now appear within such files to
mark the application of some of the new fea-
tures,
A file created by AppleWorks 3.0 that
does not make use of any of the new features
will still load properly into Pollywogs, but a
file containing any of the new attributes (tabs,
for example) will not.
You can get around this by printing the
AppleWorks 3.0 file to a Text/ASCI file on
disk and then loading the ASCII file into Pol-
lywogs. Not the best possible solution, but
it'll get the job done. You may still have to do
some editing to make the Pollywogs file
match its AppleWorks-based original.
Asked about whether an update to Polly-
wogs might be in the works to correct this,
Claris representatives at AppleFest responded
with a strong refusal to comment.
Next issue, we'll see how much fun it is to
import graphics to the Page Layout module!
Tip Of The Month. Special thanks to
MAUG member Tom Hanks, who reminds us
that if you want to use large fonts in Pollywogs
(we had used 24-point Venice for the banner in
last issue's newsletter example), you must use
the “Choose Font” command directly under the
Font menu to set the size. The 24-point size is
nota selection represented in the Size menu.
Choose Font is a useful little shortcut that
allows you to set several font, size and style
selections using a single dialog box. In addi-
tion, it allows you to set any desired point
size for your text.
Be aware that if you try to print a font ata
point size that is not present on your boot
volume, Pollywogs will have to mathemati-
cally approximate the look of the font in that
size. This tends to have results that are not
aesthetically pleasing. The exception is the
case where you have a font twice the desired
size. When this is true, Pollywogs will use the
double-size font and squeeze it down to half
size. This shows best results when Better Text
is selected in the Print dialog.
HyperStudio Update. Shortly before
press time, we received from Roger Wagner
Publishing a prerelease copy of HyperStudio
Version 2.0. We're happy to report that it is
now complete, with all advertised functions
enabled and working. As an added bonus,
HyperStudio now supports touch screens for
users who really like to point and select!
This new version of HyperStudio requires
Apple IIGS System Software 5.0.2 or later and
will no longer run in just 768K; Wagner rec-
ommends at least 1 MB. Based on this new
complete version of HyperStudio, last issue's
Performance rating of 7.0 is raised to 9.0.81
— Joe Walters
Columnist Joe Walters lives in New Mexico
and can be reached via electronic mail on
CompuServe (72406, 742). Besides using
AppleWorks GS, be bunts for “Pollywogs” in
his spare time.
22° Winter 1990
Three ways to grow
Applied Engineering makes
three different memory cards
for the IIcs because every
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Gs-RAM”” Start with as little
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@ to 1.5 MEG (an amount that
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sion.) Incorporates 256K x 1 chips.
Gs-RAM w/256K $169
1 MEG $319
1.5 MEG $419
Gs-RAM Plus- Expands from
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Gs-RAM Plus w/1 MEG $379
2MEG $579
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a IIGS.
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Gs-RAM Ultra 256K $229
512K $279
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We've also added ROM sockets to the
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Consider your needs.
Need a moderate amount of memory?
GS-RAM lets you start small and takes
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GS-RAM Ultra is your card. And our GS
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Talk to us.
Your decision should be based on
anticipated maximum memory need and
growth path. Initially, it’s less expensive to
add 256K than 1 MEG, but buying a MEG
at a time could save you money over the
long haul. Call us. We'll be happy to
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DMA compatibility.
All three of our GS memory cards are
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Installation couldn’t be easier, the cards
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Still more:
Each of our GS memory cards comes
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THE, NEW
II1GS
HAT'S INSIDE
" Ew! IGS
AN X-R:
VIEW OF THE
RECENT IIGS
UPDATE FROM
APPLE.
pple calls it
a “memory
upgrade.” You
might call ita
set of overdue
engineering
changes. It’s
definitely not a new computer: The
name is still the same. It's the new,
improved Apple IIGS, now appearing
at an Apple dealer near you.
Externally, the “new” IGS is
unchanged — all the changes are under
the hood on a revised main circuit board
(which Apple calls the “logic board” and
everyone else calls the “motherboard”).
Apple's spec sheet simply refers to the
new configuration as an “Apple IIGS
with one megabyte of RAM.”
Code named “Discovery” during its
long development, the computer offers
two big improvements and many small
enhancements, at no increase in the list
price ($1,149). The first significant
improvement is a full megabyte (MB) of
RAM (1,024K) added to the mother-
board. This memory is in addition to the
128K of “slow” RAM that makes the
Apple Ie emulation work so well. The
original IIGS had only 256K of memory.
Last year Apple began including, free
with every system, a memory expansion
card with another 256K, for a total of
512K. To use the latest software, users
had to buy additional memory chips to
fill out this card. Apple probably saves
money by putting fewer bigger chips on
the motherboard, rather than on a sepa-
rate card. The memory expansion slot is
still there, and there will be plenty of
customers for memory expansion
beyond 1 MB.
The second major improvement is
256K of ROM, double the previous 128K
ROM. This allows the IIGS ToolBox to
be loaded rapidly from ROM, rather than
slowly from disk. Users will notice faster
start-ups, especially on a diskette-based
system. Our original (“Woz Limited Edi-
tion”) IIGS took more than 40 seconds
to launch GS/OS Version 5.0 from a cold
start. The new IGS takes less than 30
seconds under the same conditions.
“More” Slots
Although the IIGS has seven regular
slots (as well as the memory expansion
slot), there were some usage restric-
tions. Slot 4, for example, was almost
useless, because putting your own card
there disabled the use of the mouse.
This was a result of the way the IIGS
“mapped” the functions of slots and
ports.
On the Control Panel, this slot is
labeled “Mouse Port.” To the computer,
the firmware that controls the mouse
appeared as an Apple mouse controller
card in slot 4. On the new IIGS, only
24 Winter 1990
Memory Cards/Accelerators
Applied Engineering
GS-Ram, GS-Ram +, 6S-Ram Ultra
Best memory expansion cards for the lIGs.
256K $124
$160
$233
$277
SCALL
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‘a $204
GS-Ram Ultra 1-4 MEG SCALL
RamKeeper (G3 balfery backup) $138
RamWorks III Memory for lle
RamWorks Ill 256K $45
RamWorks Ill 512K $182
RamWorks II] IME $255
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RamWorks RGB options 594
6 Ext. 80 Col. card with 64K. (Mle) $49
RamFactor - RamDisk (Slotted Apple lis)
RamFactor 256K $182
RamFactor 512K $218
RamFactor 1 MEG $291
RamCharger (RF battery backup) $131
RamExpress (Ic Pus) SCALL
DClock (Clock for Raméxpress) $43
Z-Ram Ultra (for original lic)
Z-Ram Ultra 1 (Memory Only) SCALL
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256K DRAMs (set of 8 150ns/120ns) $40/$44
1 MEG DRAMS (set of 8) $161
‘TransWarp GS - More than doubles the
speed of your Apple 1IGS Computer! $291
TransWarp (Slotted Apple Us) $123
FastMath (Slotfed Apple fls) $131
PC Transporter - Run IBM software on
your Apple 11 (640K 18M) $365,
GE MS-DOS (4.01) $85
Installation kit, (1/68/He) $36/829
Single TransDrive $139
$262
* Combo TransDrive (5.25"E3.5") $262
Modems/Telecom Software
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DataLink 1200 bps (1/-+e1GS) $131
DataLink 2400 bps /1/+.e,11GS) $175
~ ReadyLink (128 supports VTI00) $72
Beagle Bros
Point-to-Point (128k supports VI100) $79
Morgan Davis Group
= ModemWorks (BBS Construction Set) $49
ProLine BBS (Best Apple II BBS) $175
Practical Peripherals
PM2400Sa (External) $199
PM2400Sa w/MNP5 (External) $239
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AMR HD's include SCSI controller card.
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y $899
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