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C,w the command structure better, the following should prove useful: DRAW ON THREE HELP COMMAND DIRECTORY ABBREVIATIONS BACKGROUND = BG CLOSED APPLE = CA CLOCKWISE = CW COLOR OPERATING TABLE = COT COUNTERCLOCKWISE = CCW FILE OPTIONS MENU = FOM FOREGROUNDmmands. This is not as complete as it might have been, since many of the commands have variations that require interchanging of the OA/CA/CONTROL/NUMERIC KEYPAD controls; but, for the convenience of members who missed the meeting and have a desire to knois brings subscribers in subsequent issues. A compendium of commands used with the Draw-on-Three program was issued to the meeting July 30th. For its brevity it is helpful in obviating constant referral to the text to locate appropriate operational cos that frequently boast programmers and technicians from Cupertino. The meetings are held at 735 Timor Court starting at 7:00 p.m. and are presided over by John Cowman. Annual dues are $10.00 and further information will be provided concerning what th !"#$ Tuesdays) in San Jose, showed up to participate in the discussion of Draw-on-Three's attributes. Since they concern themselves with many of the programs and problems of usage we are now addressing ourselves to, members might want to attend discussion VOLUME 4 NUMBER 8 AUGUST, 1987 The July 30th meeting was a success by any standard if attendance could be the criterion, since more than 20 members attended. Some SIG members of the Apple /// Unanymous Group, which meets twice each month (2nd & 4th ƶ!,UPGRADE.512KN ƶ"/WHY.512K.UPGRADZ<ƶ*ONTHREE.PRODUCTvƶ' '.DRAW.ON.3.CMDS ƶ.ON.THREE.PRODSIBEST OF ATUNC 4 PI PD DISK =+IBOTM/2-.5):I=IBOTM:I/2=I/2)I=I-1 œ2120B=B$(I),16)," ")-1 B$(I),"BASIC 0")850B$(I),"TEXT 0")890 B$(I),"CAT 0")1140*B$(I),"FONT 0")18504B$(I),"FOTO 0")1930>B$(I),"PASTXT 0A = C sets CIRCLE mode and >0 draws CW from cursor. <0 draws CCW from cursor. NOTE: Set the desired degree via the Shape Utility Menu OA+A resets degrees to 0 degrees of arc. E,Y = E sets ELLIPSE mode and origin. Set your eccentricity via Program Configuration Menu. OA+E resets ellipse eccentricity to 1.0 H sets elliptical arc mode and origian; arcs >0 are CW and all arcs <0 are CCW. Y sets polygon mode and origin (Set polygon via the Drawing Mode Menu) B,X = B draws a RECTANGULAR BOX the siile. <1-3> In modes (color 280), (B7W 560), (color 140) 1 displays drawing screen #1 2 displays drawing screen #2 3 displays drawing screen #3 NOTE: The manual contains further information concerning accessing Screens 4, 5 and 6 (Modes in B&W onlyiminate a color from an object being drawn. <0> displays menu screen. Use the JS, M or Arrows to select a menu and a function within that menu. Press the appropriate buttons or RETURN to select the highlighted function. CA+D = Allows you to delete a fs on the 40x24 pixel region @ = Toggles the zoom coordinate display ON/OFF. <.> or Spacebar displays palette and COT screen. Select new pen and/or fill colors from the palette and set color priorities via the COT. Use the command, for instance, to el = Turns OFF shape recording mode OA+O = Turns ON shape recording mode and sets the shape ORIGIN. Use this command to begin a new shape record. OA+X = Sets the X,Y scale factor to 1.0 and G display currently the selected drawing screen. <-> Zoompreviewed nondestructively and dragged into position. For larger objects, preview only the top left corner. A beep will confirm the legal preview size. OA+S = REBUILD SHAPE - redraws from the shape's record. OA+Y = Turns ON shape recording mode OA+Nrsor). NOTE: Any number of copies may be made. To cross a screen edge, scroll the screen, restore, then scroll back to the original screen. OA+V = PREVIEW. Toggle this mode ON/OFF. A preserved area of approximately the total screen size may be y be preserved at a time. WARNING: Preserved objects are lost during texturing operations and during any subsequent preserve. OA+R = RESTORES the most recently preserved window (or a portion thereof, referenced to the top left corner of the opened cug at the cursor. Press any key (except 'T') to abort flood texturing. If the cursor is open, all pen colored areas within the cursor window will be textured. OA+P = PRESERVES the region within the window defined by the open cursor. Only one object mas the pair of colors in a texture table cell to be the open and fill colors and/or patterns via the FOM. See the Fotofile TEMPLATE.TXTR to change the texture patterns. OA+T = (closed cursor) FLOODS a contiguous area of one color with the pattern startin NOTE: Think of the - as the horizontal or row control and the | as the vertical or column control for manipulating the C.O.T. OA/ = resets the COT (when the COT/palette screen is displayed) to the default of no effect on the drawing. OA+M = modifieupper righthand corner of the QWERTY keyboard.)) |*- = Put cursor on a CELL of the COT * key sets a COT Cell to pen color - key sets a COT Row to subtract the color at the left labelled Pen. | key sets a COT Column to protect the color labelled Screen o the color under the graphics or text cursor. (The pen used for lines, dots, arcs, boxes, text characters, etc.) F sets the FILL or BG color. The FILL Color is used for erasing and is the BG color for text. ((The | (SHIFT+BACKSLASH) is in the extreme e entire screen with the current Fill Color. To erase a small region, use an open cursor in the filling mode. OA+B,F = Set the BRUSHING or FILLING mode OA+N = INVERTS the colors within the window defined by the open cursor. P,F = P sets the DRAWING PEN tze of the opened cursor. X draws a CLIPPED CORNERED BOX. ~ = Floodfill = FILLS or FLOODS a contiguous area of one color with the pen color starting at the cursor location. NOTE: Press any key other than (~) to abort the floodfill. OA+CA+E = ERASE th) <4> or ? = return to the HELP menu. All keyboard commands which are enclosed in < > brackets refer to specific numeric keypad keys. <5> = Displays cursor status screen. The cursor coordinates and opened cursor dimensions are displayed on the screen. <6> = Displays color/texture menu. Put cursor over desired color/texture pattern and press button or RETURN to select pattern. Press to return to the drawing screen. <7> = Displays drawing and polygon menu screen. Select a drawing mode and/othout loosing what you have created on the other tow. Unlimited fonts can be created. Text can be added to your graphics as easily as typing. Sixteen colors and numerous texture patterns are accessed and used in your creation quickly and easily. For t%'()hour or so, the user can drqw complicated graphics and sketches with a few keystrokes. Goemetric shapes can be drawn with only a few commands. Lines, dots and patterns are not complicated to construct. Draw On /// allows access to three drawing screens wi VOL. 2 NO. 2 DRAW ON /// I recently purchased Draw On ///. This package is all that it is advertised and more. At last, us non-programmers can now create graphics and sketches and fully utilize the color capabilities of the Apple ///. Within an this bargain that once sold for Big Bucks! - Ed Suttles rred to the Apple /// Pascal Package. For those having a need to know more about the intricate programming techniques that are afforded by using Fortran and Pascal with potential applications for graphics and machine languages should avail themselves of . or + sets the dot or crosshair cursor. By pressing the same keys again, the function is toggled to make a blinking cursor appear or disappear. OA+CA+X,Y = Reverses joystick sense. OA+CA+C = Toggles cursor ON/OFF The July issue of the newsletter refelution B&W 560 mode 3 = Sets the full color 140 mode. NOTE: Remember that screen #2 in mode 0 (Zero) overlays buffer #1's high memory. OA+ARROWS = Screen in desired direction. OA+CA+0-7 = Sets transfer option mode. SHIFT+ARROWS = Accelerates the cursor.URN or TAB. To start a new line or set an origin, press the appropriate mode key: (D K L R C A E H Y S). 1 - 3 = Graphics modes 0 = Sets the currently selected drawing screen to mode B&W 280. 1 = Sets the limited color 280 mode 2 = Sets the High Resoe string as an overlay I = writes the string in invert mode. CA+T = sets the direct text screen mode ON CA+G = sets the direct text screen mode OFF NOTE: Direct text is normally set to OFF. TAB = lines, dots etc. are drawn by pressing the JS button, RETOR, MOVE IT TO THE TOP LEFT CORNER OF THE WINDOW. PRESS OA+C to enter the Cursor Adjust Mode. Press OA+C again to fix the cursor dimensions. CA+C = Closes the cursor. T = prompts for text string engtry. W = writes the string as pen on fill. O = writes ths are placed in a 7-pixel segment. <9> = Toggles Rubberband Mode ON/OFF Rubberband is non-functional in mode 1 (color 280). Circle, ray, arc, ellipse and polygon origins are marked with an extra cursor when rubberbanding is in effect. TO OPEN THE CURSr polygon type. Press RETURN or button to accept both selections and return to the drawing screen. <8> = Toggles GRID ON/OFF. SHIFT+OA+ARROWS = Adjusts grid spacing. The grid is invisible in mode #1 (color 280) screen and until different FG or BG colorhose who are already using Graph n' Calc or Apple Buisness Graphics, these fotofiles can be loaded into one of the Draw On screens and then you can add text, change colors, or anything imaginable to really add the personal touch to your graphics. Any part of your drawing can be zoomed into for detail work. Any object can be rotated, enlarged or made smaller without re-doing. Any paart of the screen can be erased. You can use either the arrow keys, cursor ///, mouse or joystick to move any of the four with the optional command menu display: OA will always mean OPEN APPLE: OA? = Open Apple Question Mark = Help = Instructions: This gives five pages of help concerning the various sequential key operations OAD = Open Apple Driver, which, when togANAGER" who found its operation a little difficult because of screen switching routines. Well, in answer to requests that it be provided, the following will shed some light on the mysteries of operating GM. After booting the program you are presentednly display pique and stubbornness by rejecting everything 'you' did by returning error messages. Only time and a lot of help from our fellow computer sufferers heals such wounds. Apparently, that is what has happened to many who purchased "GRAPHICS M demonstration disc (which he had memorized by heart) showing off what the computer could do given intelligent commands. Very impressive and conducive to his sale! Strange that when you sat down to play your newly purchased machine it should so suddee (or think they do), they take for granted that others will know exactly what's happening as they go about poking the various keys to get desired results. Compare that with the first time you witnessed a computer salesman demonstrate all the magic of aram nor think that a sequential listing of the routines used would be of interest to members. My apologies. I just assumed everyone had diligently read their instructions before coming to the meeting. It is regrettable that, when one masters a routin at the monitors trying to follow what was happening there. And, the accompanying handouts displayed a plethora of printout results without a clue as to how they were accomplished. Little did I foresee or expect the resultant interest shown in this prog*,-./0123456789program format, little was said regarding my outstanding presentation of "Graphics Manager" in April. Ha! It was so outstanding as to be ethereal in that not much of the sequential key-operation filtered down to the audience who were intently squintingAPPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL 4 NUMBER 6 JUNE, 1987 GRAPHICS MANAGER CONT. Since our last general meeting involved discussion of the upcoming elections and genial chitchat about various problems concerning continuation of the present t a future users meeting. Incidently, Mel Astrahan, the author off Draw On now has a nice little slot machine available for the /// for $15. A cute little game for the money. It is called the Apple /// Fruit Machine. - John Rollins cter fonts. Draw On can be used with the UPIC interface as well. The price for Draw On /// is $179. I have not seen nor do I use a program on my /// that contains such power for tthe money. If all goes planned I will give a demonstration off Draw On a cursors available around on the screen. I use a Pkaso U printer interface with an Apple Dot Matrix Printer. I can then make a hard copy of my drawing without special controls. What I see on the screen is what I get on paper. Even the different charagled gives a number of choices of the driver to be used coincident to the type you use with your A/// OAP = A selection of printers from among the many that may be used with the A///. Instructions contained in the Graphic Manager booklet outline proper combinations to avoid forward feed and this may be tricky at first when synchronizing printouts. Practice makes perfect and a little helps mastery of this routine. 1. LOAD FOTOFILE 2. PRINT (normal) OAK 3. GRAPHICS [ENTER] 4. PAPER TEMPLATE [.] es as to the results you obtain where the size and accuracy of the printout is concerned. The storage of DOS 3.3 graphics is not difficult using the menu commands but remember that each GRAPHICS SCREEN (regardless of the size of the stored image) AUTing insofar as the placement of printout is concerned. Also, it is important to remember that, although there is a direct connection between the Graphics Screen and the Paper Template, they are separately programmed by the cursors in the different modng over to rationalize your graphics. Once the PT image meets with your approval, you are ready to go to printout. Using the keypad 0, followed by 2, you should get the planned, desired results. Again practice is required to obtain the proper positione of what you have selected with your GRAPHICS SCREEN cursor only. If that is satisfactory, then you are ready to return to the main menu and order your printout. If not, you can start over on the PT screen by erasing what you have done there and startiAPHICS SCREEN. IMPORTANT: Say at this point you want to have an idea of what the printout will look like. While in the PAPER TEMPLATE mode, press OAV to see a sample of the proposed printout projected on the PT screen. This will correspond to the sizd 2.00, be careful to adjust ratio printout by using the OAA to make the adjustment to include the Y ratio corresponding with the X selection you've just made. The resultant picture will be double the size of the area enclosed by your cursor on the GRraphics-screen-controlled-area encompassed by the cursor on that screen. Since we said you wanted to print twice the size of the boxed-in area of the GRAPHICS SCREEN, we must make X conform to 2.00 and adjust the Y to compensate. When you have selectehe cursor-controlled area on the graphics screen. Using OAC here allows you to expand the cursor along the x-axis, so that you can make any potential printout any size you want. If you select 1.00, then the ratio will be equal to the same size as the g etc). Now that you've got an idea of delimitation of the graphics area you are ready for setup of the printout. [.] switches to the TEMPLATE SCREEN and allows you to set up the proper X/Y ratios for printout. Say you want to print twice the size of tEEN, be sure and FIX the size of that area by using OAC again which will freeze the window and allow you to move it around the screen and select any particular portion for reproduction (the BIRD's head, its feet, part of the foliage in the picture etc., by drawing the (OPEN) cursor from the upper left to the lower right across the screen to either include a part or all of that screen and the picture of BIRD. IMPORTANT: Once you've determined the size of the area you wish to reproduce on the GRAPHICS SCRraphics Screen. So, now what? The BIRD fills the screen, doesn't it? OAC toggled opens/closes the cursor to delineate the screen size, meaning that you can limit your projected printout to any part or all of the picture shown on the GRAPHICS SCREENdes For our purposes, let us use the given graphics and load the bird from the Graphics Manager Disk (.d1/bird). Once done, you will see nothing until you either select menu option 3 or [ENTER], which shows the bird downloaded from the disk on the G5. SAVE FOTOFILE 6. SAVE PATH PREFIX 7. SAVE CURRENT SETUP 8. SET GRAPHICS FONT OAE = ERASER = Toggle ON/OFF OAF = FILL = TOGGLE White/Black FONT = .D1/FONTS/Up Arrow shows font selection menu OAT = Text = toggle to select various text moOMATICALLY takes up to 12-1/2% of the disk's storage area, so that 8 SAVES are the maximum. Try 9 and you will have a jumbled display of only part of what your GRAPHICS SCREEN showed when you decided to risk saving it. When the subject of the Draw-on-Three program is discussed in July, this will be reviewed and handouts covering command combinations will be made available for those interested in this exceptional graphics program. The one question that seemed to be uppermost in everybody's mind had trd that expands the RAM of an Apple /// to 512k. This board does not currently have Apple ][ emulation, but later in the year Bob hopes to have a 512k+128k 2e board for the /// available for under $1000, if the demand is there. As far as Bob knows, On=?@ABCDEFGKearny Street in downtown San Francisco. President Chuck Schreiber brought the meeting to order at 7:00 pm. 38 people were present. The speaker for the evening was Bob Consorti, editor of On Three magazine, who came mostly to demonstrate his new boaAPPLE /// USERS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL. 2 NO. 3 THE APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MINUTES OF THE USER'S GROUP MEETING HELD FEBRUARY 21, 1985 The meeting was held at the offices of Gensler & Associates, an architectural firm located at 550 ph-N-Calc, Business Graphics or PFS Graph, this program will solve the problem. It works as a stand alone program or part of the DeskTop Manager program from ON Three. ujitsu DPL-24, and all printers connected via the Pkaso and Pkaso/U cards. If anyone has a non-supported printer, please call or write ON Three as Mel can add support fairly easily. If you have had problems printing graphs you have created with Gra:<r A/// word processor. You control the size, where on the paper, and the orientation. The Graphics Manager supports the following printers: IDS PRISM, Okidata 92/93, Epson FX-RX-MX, Apple DMP, Prowriter, Imagewriter, Imagewriter II, Fujitsu JX-80, F VOLUME 3 NUMBER 8 AUGUST 1986 GRAPHICS MANAGER This program allows you to print graphics for A/// or Apple ][ programs on your A/// in native modes. You can read in Print Shop graphics, rotate, change their size and print it in the middle of youher white/black FILL allows for a great latitude of erasure or coloration of any graphic. Again, practice in their use enables the user to obtain better results and accuracy with time." - Ed Suttles o do with manipulation and alteration of uploaded graphics taken from downloaded images or "Printshop" icons or other graphics. The CAC (Closed Apple C) in combination with the OAC to control the size of the cursor and the feature that permits using eit Three and Titan are the only two companies still developing for the /// now that Quark has abandoned the field. The Titan board does have emulation, and can go to 192k in that mode, but according to Bob the extra 128k is usable only as a RAM disk, leaving only 64k for Apple ][ programs. There seemed to be a strong interest in the group for a board that would offer both 512k native and 128k in emulation (for Pro-DOS programs). Pro-DOS is a subset of SOS. It is possible that the ][ will eventually9.00. Elliot Fabric, /// enthusiast and strong supporter of the ATUNCs, was injured in an automobile accident recently and it was suggested that messages could be left for him on the Apex Bulletin Board. - C. Coles, Secretary g out with a /// packet which will have the source code for SOS, drivers, pinouts, etc. There are 25,000 Apple /// owners who own an average of three each and a couple dozen /// user's groups still in existence. A collection was taken which netted $2talyst 2.1 is out, it doesn't trash your disks and it includes Discourse. One club member has been having problems with getting Draw-On /// to work with the Grappler+ printer interface card and Orange Micro has not been cooperative. Apple may be cominably bad. There are special versions of Draw-On Three for Epson printers and for Apple ][ digitizer pads. Apple prototyped things on the /// for the Mac, such as the mouse-controlled cursor. There probably will not be a 68000 board for the ///. Ca is done by simply writing a new blank directory (that's why it happens so fast). John Leininger of Apple said that you can probably use an Altos to completely reformat a Profile and that if the Profile takes more than one minute to warm up, it is probC. The 10mb version costs $1299, the 34mb $2299. They both use Backup /// and have an advantage over the ProFile in that they have a special area for sparing out bad blocks. One bad block on a ProFile means a trip to the repair shop, since reformattingn eliminating the need for dynamic driver loading with big programs such as BPI accounting. A RAM-disk driver is included. On Three also has two hard disks available called Trustors, they will work with both the ][ and /// and, with a card, the IBM Pemory remaining indicator will indicate this only by starting over after the first 256k is used up. There is a new version of Applewriter called Super Applewriter 'I' that will make use of the new board. Catalyst works directly with the new board, ofte him, and he responded that since there is no longer a /// group at Apple, there is nobody to get upset with him. Quark has "not been cooperative", so Word Juggler users will not benefit from the new board. VisiCalc can use the extra memory, but the me expanded memory. Apple refused to license 3EZ Pieces to On Three for upgrading because they are afraid that it would make Appleworks look bad, so On Three is disassembling 3EZ to get it to use the expanded memory. Bob was asked how Apple feels abouting with Dr. Wendell Sanders, the father of the Apple /// (mother unknown), to ensure that their board will be compatible with all current software. All programs will have to be run through an update program (included with each board) to make use of thf 500 becomes available at the end of March. Although installation instructions come with the board, Bob recommends that you have your dealer do it. With the new board BASIC has 460k available, but Pascal is still limited to 64k. On Three has been worke 512k board has recently been lowered from $949 to $599 due to lower chip prices, but On Three is apparently willing split the difference with anyone who bought one at the old price. There will be no boards available until the current production run o be expanded to the level of a ///. Apple currently has an internal program to change over from ///s to Macs and is selling off its used ///s for $450, but Consorti mentioned that of six that he recently received, four were bad. The price of the On ThreAPPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 3 NUMBER 6 JUNE 1986 REVIEW OF SOME "ON THREE" SOFTWARE I've been using Selector /// on the Apple Unidisk for about three weeks, but not without a few calls down south for a little help. The folks dowc.(818-701-1355), challenging David Rowe's offer. This debate is instruc- tive and educational to us A/// users. We do like to have cheap + good services. The problem is to have the service, not just promises. I hope David Rowe and Sun Remarketing will hMOPQRSTUVWXrade, at a price that will make both On Three and SUN ashamed of them- selves. The second is an upgrade for 5MB Profile to 10MB". David did not elaborate what would be his price. Now I received the following letter from Bob Consoreti, CEO of On Three In VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 8, August 1988 UPGRADING from 256 to 512K In our last (July) issue, under the ATUNC MART section, we published David Rowe's (408-247-6457) offer as follows: "Two new projects are planned to offer to A/// users: The first is a 512K upgg. In order to get around the incompatability problem, I had to create three boot disks, one with the DTM driver, the second without the DTM driver (these two are used with the unidisk) and the last one with the DTM driver for the profile. - W. John talled on the unidisk and running selector /// - for instance: Draw On Three, Lazarus ///, the menu editor that comes with Selector ///, Pascal v 1.2 and the emulation ][ doesn't printout for some reason. Of course this could be something I'm doing wronhis program does in fact allow you to switch between programs with just a few keystrokes. I've installed this program on both the profile and unidisk. There are some drawbacks that should be mentioned. Some programs are not compatible with the DTM inst will only enhance graphs not produce them, at least not easilly. So I will have to say I have not used this program enought to give an evaluation. (Come to the July 31st meeting to get the lastest, editor). Selector /// has performed as advertised, tr 3 EZ Pieces and the graphing module. I use the calendar more than the other two options and couldn't give a good evaluation of the other two. Draw On Three is another product that was purchased, but I though that this product would do graphing, but iSelector ///, Desktop Manager and Draw On Three. Desktop Manager (DTM) has 3 menu options that come with the initial purchase, these options are: Notepad, calender and calculator. These options come in handy but I am waiting for the spelling checker foHJKLn there were quite helpful and were able to get me up and running without too many new gray hairs. Just for a point of reference, I've got the following equipment: 256 K Apple ///, IIe mouse, profile, and the unidisk (3.5") The software I'm using is ave more say on this subject, to keep us the public well informed.(LKS) Dear Li Kung: Please send me more information on the price that company says they will have for their 512K memory expansion board for the Apple ///. I don't know how they will beat our price of $399. The RAM price explosion of the last 6 months has cut our profit margin substantially, even taking into account our price increase from approx. $299 to $399. We aren't making that much at all on the 512K, less when taking into accouf July. Sincerely, Bob Consorti President - CEO ON THREE, Inc. Dear Li Kung: As a postscript to the previous letter, I called up the place that is supposedly making the new 512K and the way, please note our new address and phone number for technical support. Our new order address is 11235 80th Avenue, Kirkland, WA 98034. The order line remains unchanged at (800) 443-8877. The California order line will be discontinued at the end oemory test, expander and ramdisk software. We feel that this makes a 512K upgrade within the reach of everyone now. Over the last 4 years we've met the challenge of all those who are "coming out with a 512K", I can't see how things will change now. Bycan purchase the additional 256K from a memory vendor (we provide a list). With our new 256K populated 512K board, they can add the 64K chips from their existing 256K board to get a total of 512K memory. Both new configurations will also come with our mn $300. Our 512K design splits the memory into two parts: 1/2 being made of 256K chips, the other 1/2 made of 64K chips. With our new zero-K board, the user can remove the memory from their existing 256K board and populate half of the 512K. Then they way around it, so the 512K becomes more affordable again. The August "ON THREE" issue will announce 2 new options for the 512K. The first is a zero-K board. The second is a 512K with 256K memory. The zero-K board will cost $160 and the 256K board will ru the 512K boards and the costs of the special parts, I'd be amazed if someone could come out with a 512K for less than $350 and make any money. We are sensitive to the 512K price increases brought on by the RAM price increases and we've been figuring aleasing a 512K for the A///. None of them made it to market and all seemed to have been market feelers more than anything else. The fixed RAM prices and royalties now consume about 75% of our cost of the 512K memory. Take into account the manufacture ofs sold, we pay royalties for the various software expansions on the 512K upgrade disk. If they can produce a lower cost 512K memory expansion for the A///, that's great! But over the last 4 years I've heard about 5 different people this close from repeople. But it literally took months of work just to get the various software updates working properly. Our update utility is not a public domain product, so they will have to recreate the expander software. This takes time and money. For every 512K that'ware. This upgrades all programs so they 'see' the extra memory in a 512K machine. Without it, the 3-EZ Pieces, AppleWriter, Basic, Pascal, Visicalc, MultiPlan and all the others will never use more than 256K. Now I'm not doubting the ability of those making less than our Apple II counter- parts. I'm only ashamed that the A/// market doesn't realize the deal they are getting. The A/// will not recognize the additional memory provided for by the 512K memory expansion without our memory expander softs with memory expansion software, just like the 512K. However, it doesn't have the expensive non-standard connectors and prom chips that are required on the A///. All in all, our A/// 512K board is less expensive and because of our additional costs, we'rent the royalties we pay. I guess I really do take offense at the suggestion that we should be ashamed at our pricing of the 512K. An Apple II card with 512K by Applied Engineering - the Apple II add-on board leader - costs $409. That board also cometalked with the person responsible. He said that it would use all 256K ram chips (16) and cost under $200. Well, the best price that I can get for (16) 256K ram chips is $232. That's $232 for the ram alone. Misc. other parts like the memory board and all of the non- standard components will cost a minimum of $40 more. That's $272 without soft- ware nor documentation. Let's say they can do that for $3. A total of 275 in cost and they are going to sell it for under $200? Let's get serious. A board withOTHER.COMPUTERSvƶ' '-A3.A2.MAC.ETCa ƶ/_/COMPUTER.TO.BUYs ƶE _/IBM.PS2.DISADVAz \\_-IBM.RUN.BY.A3ƶ/;_)LASER.128 ƶ\_/LASER.128.AS.A3 to pay to use Draw On /// with Catalyst. - Don Norris heet Model that would take over 20 minutes to load. There are other spreadsheets on other machines which are a lot faster. The only software which appears to benefit from the extra memory is Draw On ///, when used with Catalyst. $1000 is a lot of moneyK when you have several documents on the desk top. The software has never been tested with a 512 K ///, so who knows what will happen. Advanced Version Visicalc is another MIGHT, it has not been tested. Besides that who would want to build a Spread- sd processor portion yet does not use up all of the memory in a 256 K Apple ///. (Ed Note: The Data Base section only allows 3000 records per file and I have had more records than that a few times and still not filled up the 256 K.) It MIGHT work with 512 andard 143 K Apple /// floppy, and Apple Writer is limited to 64 K, so that rules them out as using the 512K. /// EZ Pieces also has file size limitations built into it also. For example you can create a Word Processor document, which fills up the woroftware that MIGHT be able to use the extra memory are /// EZ Pieces and AV Visicalc. Word Juggler and Apple Writer have been written with specific memory limitations, Word Juggler will not let you create a file in memory bigger than will fit on a st However, several questions occured as I reflected upon the possiblities of what use I could make of the extra memory. Looking at the software I am currently using, Applewriter, Word Juggler, /// EZ Pieces, and Advanced Visicalc, the only pieces of sY[\]^how to do it and in fact in one case even had made the necessary modifications to the main logic board. My interest was even further heightened when ON THREE announced they would soon be offering a 512 K upgrade. WOW! a full blown Apple /// at last !!! VOL. 2 NO. 2 512 K UPGRADE, WHY? As a real gung-ho Apple /// owner for four years I like many others was hoping and anxiously waiting for Apple to finish the Apple ///, by upgrading it to a full 512 K. I have talked to a couple of people who knew that type of configuaration would never be sold for less than it costs to make. After talking with that person, I came away feeling that it was indeed just another market feeler.(Bob Consorti).  ƶ\_ APPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 4 NUMBER 9 AN EVALUATION OF THE APPLE /// IN COMPARISON TO THE APPLE //, LAZER 128, 512 MAC AND THE LISA (MAC XL) ... I happen to have all of the above systems and have worked with them extensively. In rtill far and away the most comfortable to use over long periods of time. WJ doesn't feature multiple windows and certain advanced formatting features of such programs as Word 3.0. It's really not much of a loss for most of the work you would be doing. Idividual envelopes; inserting documents into a file, and chaining a series of files together for printing. Also the spelling checker, Lexicheck, still holds up beautifully against the competition for size and ease of use. Also the Apple /// keyboard is sothing I've used to date, including the new Microsoft Word 3.0 for the MAC Plus, that works any faster that good old WJ. Its editing functions are way, way ahead in terms of speed and ease of use. Also outstanding is its perfect approach to addressing inity of people need is simply a hardworking, non-eccentric machine with advanced database, spreadsheet and word processing capacities. Here's a quick report card comparing a few programs (from a prejudiced observer naturally) ... WORD JUGGLER - there is nple computer came of age. Oh, sure, you can add more memory, cut down all those extra nano seconds of waiting around, add pull down screens, a mouse, and an endless supply of desktop accessories, but most of that is really window dressing. What the majornormous flexibility and speed; has a system like Catalyst available to make a joy out of operating a hard disk, and features an operating system (SOS) that is still a marvel of engineering - well, where do you really have to go? With that machine, the Ap as a first-class system and fortunately they wrote some wonderful programs for it. Once you have developed a machine that can do outstanding word processing (Word Juggler or Apple Writer ///, if you prefer), has a desktop program like 3EZ Pieces with ehat had enormous capacity and computer power. This was especially true once it was upgraded to 256K and had a workable clockchip installed. Before Apple decided to runoff in other directions, there was enough time for it to be acknowledged by programmersended on the ///. And right now I continue to own and happily use 5 Apple ///'s. Who knows, I may even buy a few more. Why my continued enthusiasm? First, the Apple /// was truly a breakthrough machine. It was a grownup built for the business market tplace everyday. There are things I can do on the MAC 512 and MAC XL that the Apple /// can't touch in sophistication (i.e. advanced graphics and musical notation/midi interfacing). Still, strangely enough, most of my time and most of my love is still exps a swell item in its day, but it just can't stand up to the advances in computer technology that have taken place over the years since it was conjured up. Well, ladies and gents, that ain't exactly so. Yes, there are many new toys moving into the market`bcdefghijklmnopqeading through various Apple /// newsletters and magazines I sometimes feel a certain sense that some owners of the fabulous Apple /// felt left out and must watch their investment drift out to sea as some sort of relic of 'the good old days.' Sure, it wats biggest weakness in comparing it to the MAC and MAC XL is that it does not have their ability to change fonts and font styles with the ease of the Macintosh environment coupled to an Imagewriter II or Lazer printer. When I want to do a custom resume with a lot of pizazz, I do turn to my MAC to handle the job. Otherwise I usually keep it covered. (By the way, you do keep your machines covered if not in use and turned off, don't you?) 3EZ PIECES - Using the Switcher with a MAC Plus, employing a hard dhing the operating word is MAC. For everything else, turn back to your trusty workhorse, the Apple ///. That way both machines will last longer. For all the other secondary programs, from balancing your bank statements to figuring out you astrological fwhile you're at it as well as perhaps some other graphics programs. There are miracles in the capacity of that machine that our beloved Apple /// just can't come within miles of achieving. So for graphics and musical needs, oh, yes, and for desktop publis/// - Good graphics program for the Apple ///. I use it with Apple /// Business Basic to generate some neat stuff onto color videotape, but that's where it ends. If graphics are your bag, run, do not walk, and buy a MAC; also pickup a copy of Superpaint rosoft has a program for the MAC (with advanced macro capabilities) called Excel which is indeed wonderful if you need that much power. Still I doubt one person or business in a thousand has a need that really exceeds what 3EZP already delivers. DRAW-ON ronment, I have Multiplan. I've looked at it, tried it out - but there was nothing there that I didn't already have in 3EZP. Also my 3EZP spreadsheet could stay on my desktop with other files and be far more workable for my needs. I should note that Micted needs in spreadsheet work) that couldn't be done magnificently by 3EZP. I do have Advanced Viscalc - at least, I have it in the box. I haven't bothered to use it for more than 3 years and doubt I ever will again. On the other hand, in the MAC envi the Apple /// in 3EZP. So that program must still be doing a lot right for me -- and doing it better in most situations. As for spreadsheets, it depends what you need. I have never found anything that I needed to do (and I've had some rather sophisticat out with other material. I have virtually no limit to the number and layout of formats that I may want for printing or display. It also has some wonderful report generating techniques that are unknown in 3EZP. Still, 90% of my database work is done onbig gun in the MAC database race, is easier to use, but still has a number of limitations as well as extra features. Still I do use Microsoft File for a number of jobs. I can mix graphics into the database as one of the fields in a given file and print iglobal search, it can not run multiple searches on the same field, there is no way, in its printing mode, to ask it to skip blank lines keeping the record length the same (an unforgivable lapse in many printing situations), etc. Filemaker Plus, the other it, featuring enormous flexibility, but who the hell is likely to spend that kind of time to learn it? (and I'm pretty quick with this stuff). And even with that effort, Microsoft File's sorting and search commands are rather slow, it can not handle a ts you can view or print in 3EZ Pieces, but for the majority of assignments it's a wonder ... so fast, so logical, and so easy to use. It took me nearly six months to really learn Microsoft File for the MAC. It is an excellent program once you've learnedram (it's equally great in the world of the Apple // as well, particularly if you upgrade one of those machines to 640K or so, which is where I'm at with my Lazer 128.) You do have limitations in your Database size (3,000 records) and the variety of layouisk and onboard memory of 1 megabite or more, you can achieve some of the speed and ease of use you've been enjoying with 3EZ Pieces. At lower levels of sophistication there's nothing that comes close to the simplicity and performance of this amazing proguture, you'll have to be the judge as to whether you're already served with your Apple /// or Apple /// in emulation mode, or whether you need to switch to another machine. But for me, I still see a long and happy life ahead for my family of Apple ///'s. We play together (yes, we have a few game disks too), we work together, sometimes via my modum program I even send a few files from my Apple ///'s over to my MAC. The MAC's smiling face starts to change to a frown over the idea of it being fed by an obsare many. From the keyboard to the built-in features, these are very similiar machines. The operating system is rumored to be a superset of SOS, although with a 16-bit chip it will not need the A/// bankswitching scheme. Its floppy disk format is idermat. This can be done by serial cable for ASCII files, but your databases will be more difficult, although not impossible by any means. The other option that I normally consider is the Apple //GS. The similiarities between this machine and the A/// easy to learn and well supported by software. However, it is not cheap (there are no clones) and by the time you get a basic system with software, you will spend at least $4000. You will also have the problem of transferring you data over to the new fow programs and have to transfer your old data over to the new system. Another path is the MacIntosh. With the release of the MacPlus, SE, and Mac II (wonder if there will be a Mac ///, probably not) the Mac is a beautiful machine. It is relatively fast, pular programs are $300 each, although you can buy clones of most of those too. However, you will probably end up spending almost as much, if not more, on software as you did on hardware. You will also have to learn the new operating system, learn the nea clone, you can get new hardware for about the same price as the A///, except that I would not recommend anyone using a MS-DOS machine without a 20MB harddisk. You are now at least over $1100 and you still need software. Even at discounted prices the poer A/// from Sun Data. You are already familiar with the software, your data is totally compatible with the new machine and you can get one for less than $700. Another path to take would be to go to the MS-DOS (ie IBM or IBM clone) world. If you get rtuvwxworld isn't passing you by with the new Apples and IBMs that are out there. Your budget is not unlimited so cost is definitely a factor. If the A/// does everything you need except that you need another machine, then the obvious solution is to buy anothVOLUME 4 NUMBER 4 April 87 Buying a Computer ? Over the past few months I have been asked about variations on this basic problem. You are in need of another (or several more) computers and while you are comfortable with your ///, you wonder if there d both thumbing their noses at that other overrated, once-upon-a-time, bully on the block, Big Blue (otherwise known as IBM). Happy computing! - Barry Downes (New York member) r) olete beast like the Apple ///. Then it remembers - remembers how much its older brother passed on to it in its development stages. It smiles again. It realizes that brothers should live at peace with one another, acknowledging what each does best, anntical to SOS, so data files can be transferred. This means that you could take your 3EZPieces file and read it into Appleworks and continue working as before. With Appleworks, there would be no lost time retraining people to learn a new program. How many other A/// programs will transfer over remains to be seen as Word Juggler never did well in the A// world and Advanced Visicalc is gone. A new //GS system will cost more than an MS-DOS clone, although less than a IBM or a Mac. Also you will still neeS/2 for each machine! OS/2 needs l.5 mbytes of RAM and about 3 mbytes of hard disk space just to run. The cost for upgrading 8088-based PCs to be able to run OS/2 is estimated to be at least $2-3K. Applications software will be an even bigger financial bunsive to produce than those for PC or AT buses. 2: Lawsuits. 3: Relative lack of competition impedes incentive to lower prices. On the software side, the OS/2 cannot be easily transported from PC to PC. Users need a different machine-specific version of Orategy leads only to high prices and stagnant technology. On the hardware side, prices for PS/2 and clones are likely to remain high for 3 reasons: l: the MicroChannel architecture is more expensive to manufacture. Expansion cards are 15% to 30% more expeaucracy. "Micro-Channel" clones will inevitably appear. But the very high legal costs with IBM must be eventually paid by the users, by driving up the prices of the clone products. Although IBM's lawsuits are legal, it's monopolistic, anti- competitive stard. If technology improves, its built-in features may well bar an upgrade to better technology. This represents a giant leap backward, and is an outrageous slap to the users. Buying into the PS/2 trap will put users at the mercy of a giant insensible burel for personal use. Beyond that, PS/2 + OS/2 for the real world is a system very expensive, over-promoted, highly complicated, slow, confusing, and inflexible. Even more important: PS/2 is a closed system. Much of the technology is built into its motherboce, to accomplish what 95% of PC, A/// users need. The PS/2's merit is for centralized large corporate computing departmens that need easy, fast ways to interface microcomputers with mainframes, while still leaving some computing power at the desktop leve on PS/2 and its OS/2, by market, media and industry observers, who fall in love with IBM's hype without assessing its effect on its users. Even if there were no serious flaws with PS/2 and OS/2, the appropriate technology already exists, at much less pri philosophy toward technological development. It helps us further strengthen our faith and love of our own friendly, cheap, reliable old buddy A///. Thank you very much Lewis. (LKS) The present article attempts to look behind the drooling adulation heapedy{|}~reek CA 94596. This article was published in his Letter, excerpted by "Bay Area Computer Currents", 4-5-88 issue. The present version is again a digest of the excerpt. The purpose of presenting it here is not we are against PS/2. We like the author's nobleAPPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 5, May 1988 Excerpt of an Essay Lewis Perdue: PS/2 Is For Suckers (Editor's note) The author is the Editor-in-Chief of PC Management Letter, 1200 Mt. Diablo Blvd, #303, Walnut Cd new GS software, but all those AII+ programs you have been running in emulation will now run in native (8 bit) mode on the //GS. While there are more factors than this in your decision, this will at least give you a start. - Rod Whitten rden: First: OS/2 requires a special version. All existing applications software must be thrown away. Second: Special OS/2 versions are more expensive than their DOS cousins. Third: New versions need retraining, that costs as much as 9 times the price of the software itself. Fourth: OS/2 is exponentially more complicated to manage than PC/MS/DOS. It requires much higher level of technical expertise, which, if a company does not have, must be sought from expensive consultants. Fifth: System crashes and down-he PC with at least the two following sentences : mode com1 : 1200,e,7,1 ctty com1 Start now your PC and your A///. Start on the A/// your modemprogram ACCESS /// and set the appropriate parameters. Go to terminal mode. From this moment on, your PC i GILZE, the Netherlands) gave a demonstration of controlling an IBM-PC by an APLLE ///. I'll describe here how. Connect the serial port of an APPLE /// with a "nullmodem cable" to the serial port of an IBM (port COM 1). Create an autoexec.bat file on tAPPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 10, October 1988 Control an IBM-PC by an A/// by Hendrik Van der Straeten During our last quarterly meeting, in Belgium, our member, KEES VAN DONGEN (you can reach him at: Alphensebaan 43, 5126 PRar distant future.(LKS) most of us, a good old A/// at $400 or less is enough. A few who use graphics may need some additional systems. With upgrade paths ranging from expansion boards to motherboard transplants, a shift to OS/2 or any other fancy gimmicks should be pushed to a fwe A///, Lisa and AII users were obliged to pay Apple's mistakes -LKS). We the users should put on blinders and avoid the hype, glitz and hard sell of technology for its own sake, and focus instead on only enough technology to solve our own problems. For either crashed or gracefully. The new Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) with its 88000 or SPARC chips will mature sooner than later. All those who buy and use the PS/2 OS/2 systems now will simnply help IBM pay its own mistakes, much worse than what ways remember: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." (I believe PS/2 OS/2 will be a swiftly passing issue in the computer industry. Its total life span from birth to death could be only about 10 years. In fact it will not literally take off before it lands, an AT clone. Models 25 and 30 are just jury rigged XTs. What PS/2 OS/2 offers is confusion, new hardware ($), new operating systems ($), more omnplexity, more resources to administer and training, wasting time and money on IBM Pet Rocks. We A/// users alwISC chips - LKS), why should we hobble with a less than optimum system? Unix may be a better bet. 2: OS/2 is slow. Unix is 700% faster. An AT using OS/2 bogs down slower than a PC! 3: PS/2 is slow. Models 50 and 60 with 10 MHz creep along no faster than PS/2 OS/2 were a cost effective system, it's still only a technical mediocrity: l: OS/2 was written to run on the 80286 chip, not for the more powerful 80386. When we users of 8088 may leapfrog easily directly to 80386, (or directly to Motorola's 88000 Rtime will grow more frequent with the complicated software. Sixth: Human beings are not multitasking animals. Nobody can do well any one of 3 or 4 tasks at the same time. The alleged advantage of concurrent applications of OS/2 is simply not true. Even ifs controlled by the A///. You will see the MS-DOS prompt. Type on the A/// : "dir". As you know this command lists the files on an IBM-PC. Watch, the files in the current directory (the root directory) appear on the screen of the A///, followed by the prompt "C>" or whatever drive you have and is in use on the PC. You must have DOS 3.3 on the PC. Otherwise this trick doesn't work. Also all DOS commands don't work. Try out and see for yourself. A very fine demonstration with this connection is the cadprocessing and other clerical functions. I am considering purchasing the Laser 128 to replace the ///, however, it has been suggested that many //e programs can be adapted to run on the ///." The letter was longer, but will cover the remainder of the qAPPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL 4 NUMBER 6 JUNE, 1987 RECEIVED IN THE MAILBOX #2 "I recently acquired a used Apple /// system" and "am particularly interested in using the computer for educational therapy, as well as record keeping, word New York reach out to an even larger world - stay right up to date - and do it in a very flexible way. All this is thanks to the brilliant design of 3EZ Pieces and the enormous success of the matching program Appleworks in the Apple II world. - Barry Downes, w, disks using Appleworks or 3EZ Pieces can be read effortlessly by either computer system. We also did draft material as ASCII files in Appleworks, then moved it across to Word Juggler to finish it off in style. This approach did allow the Apple /// to . Now we could take the smaller Lazer 128 with us, do whatever word processing, spreadsheet or data base work we wished and then later transfer the files directly back into our Apple /// (3EZP program). As most of your readers by this time probably knold have a native environment for any Apple II programs we might want to use. Using Appleworks (3EZP matching kid brother) with our upgraded Lazer 128 we had available a huge desktop for 3EZP files. We also had the opportunity to add a spelling checker APPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 4 NUMBER 1 JANUARY, 1987 THE LAZER 128 (AN APPLE /// COMPANION ?) ... We recently bought a Lazer 128 and upgraded it to about 640K. Our intention was to use it as a kind of portable Apple ///. Also we wou2850 KEERBERGEN BELGIUM and the graphic screen at the same moment. Now it is time to do some experiments yourself. If you have suggestions and/or questions, please contact me at: AUBAN (Apple /// users of Belgium and The Netherlands) Hendrik Van der Straeten Mechelsebaan 116 /cam program AUTOCAD on the PC. Start it from your A///. The text appears on the console of the A///. Start a ready made picture and watch, the text remains on the A/// while the design appears on the PC. Isn't that great ? You now have the text screen uestions in the answer. I am not sure what type of programs are needed for educational therapy, but if they are available on the //e, they can be made to run on the /// by purchasing a Titan /// + //e card from Sun Remarketing. As has been stated in pr5 connectors (for the ends of your cable) and as a length of 10 conductor wire that will reach from your printer to your A///. CONSTRUCTION The following is the order to connect the pins in the cable to make your own single cable, which replaces the mode RS232 cable. The later versions of the /// came without this cable. For those of you that do not have a modem eliminator and want to hook up a serial printer, following is the pin-outs that duplicate the modem eliminator. First you need two MALE DB-2APPLE /// USERS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL. 2 NO. 3 ****SERIAL PRINTER CABLE FOR AN APPLE ///**** MATERIALS The original A/// came with a "modem eliminator" cable which allowed one to hook up a serial printer to the A/// RS232 port (port C) with a standardƶ2/IMAGEWRITR.PROBƶ3(PLOTTING> ƶ5-POWERPRT.SIZEmƶ/:-PRINT.SPOOLERfƶ7-SERIAL.DRIVERƶ\!PRINTERSvƶ' '.CABLE.SER.PNTR ƶ,/DIABLO.PRT.PROBƶ--GEMINI.PRINTRƶ-+HP.LASERJETƶ\/HP.LASERJET.PNT Wƶ2/IMAGEWRITER.PTR. If you decided to sell the /// CPU with disk drive, you could probably get $250 for it. One place to advertise would be this newsletter. (Sun Remarketing, P.O. Box 4059, Logan, Utah 84321 - Rod Whitten iles and to configure your printer drivers. I am sure that you have many other questions, but many have been answered in past newsletters, which are available from our PD Library. Unfortunately, you need a word processor or 3 EZ Pieces to read these filestter sounded like you don't have any software, you should get System Utilities from our PD library. The operating system for the Apple /// is essentially on every bootable disk, however, system utilities will give you the ability to format disks, copy f memory the machine has. The Dealer Diagonistics program in our public domain library will answer this question or 3 EZ Pieces shows how much memory you have left when you boot up. If you have greater than 100K left, you have a 256K machine. As your leble for $99 from Sun Remarketing. The advantage of 3 EZ Pieces to anyone considering buying a //e or Laser is that with the purchase of AppleWorks, ones 3 EZ Pieces files will read directly into AppleWorks. The question was asked on how to tell how muchun on the Laser. The other functions, record keeping and word processing are available on the /// in native (256K) mode in numerous programs. Probably the easiest program to use for both of these functions is the integrated program, 3 EZ Pieces, availaevious newsletters, the Titan card will give your A/// the ability to run //e programs that require 128K and 80 columns. The Titan card is $199 from Sun Remarketing, which makes it cheaper than the Laser 128, also your second drive for the /// will not rm eliminator and the RS232 cable. The notation that I am using is as follows. 1 --> 1 means connect pin 1 at one end of the cable to pin 1 at the other end. You will be hooking ten wires to a total of nine pins. 1 --> 1 2 --> 3 3 --> 2 4 --> 8 5 --> 8 6 --> 20 7 --> 7 8 --> 4 & 5 20 --> 6 COST One can use either solderless connectors or soldered. I bought the parts to build my last cable for about $14. While this is not a large sion Program. In System Utilities edit the .PRINTER driver in the configuration block to read as follows: 08 2E 00 00 00. This is a change from the traditional 08 22 00 00 00 but it seems to work. Test it out for yourself if you're experiet of pages in Word Juggler and other programs. (Particularly true in printing pages with a great deal of single spaced text and bold facing.) By chance, we at last seemed to have cured the problem by making the following change in the System ConfiguratAPPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 4 NUMBER 1 JANUARY, 1987 CORRECTING PROBLEM WITH DIABLO 630'S ... Some Apple /// owners who have their computers connected to Diablo 630's may have experienced minor errors every now and then in the print ou and trying it out. Another method is to leave me a message on Draco-Alpha BBS and I will try to find someone in our help network that has your combination of program and printer. - Rod Whitten ter manufacturers; therefore, if at all possible, try your word processing program and the printer, BEFORE you buy to see if they support all the features that you want. In most cases this may mean packing your CPU into the dealer with your WP programve topic, the Dynax printer (and probably the Comrex) will fully support printer commands sent from Word Juggler. This includes super- and sub-script, underline, and bold. I have found that "Diablo" compatible means different things to different compu (12 cps) letter quality printer (the Dynax DX-15) connected to my /// through a 64K Microfazer buffer. I can send 15 pages of text to the buffer in about 1 minute, but it prints for about 20 minutes. ****WORD JUGGLER**** As a digression from the abo9600 baud, (0E)). This would enable you to get your keyboard operational again while the printer is still printing. You must then make sure that the printer (or buffer) is properly configured to accept this higher baud rate. For example, I have a slowrs Manual on pages 102 to 105. Instructions on how to changes your SOS drivers in on pages 2 to 18 of the same manual. ****BUFFER**** If you have a printer with a large buffer, or have an external buffer you may want to set the baud rate higher (say to a serial printer driver, and 2) that the driver configuration block is set to 1200 baud and odd parity. The value for 1200 baud is 08 and for odd parity it is 22. Detailed instructions on how to set this in the driver are in the Standard Device DriveR SOS driver is configured to match the printer. Usually the printers come set at 1200 baud and 7 bit, odd parity. See your printer manual to see if this is the way your printers dip switches are set. Now check your .PRINTER driver to see if it is: 1)avings over having it built for about $40, it is getting harder to have one made. With the above information, you can have it made correctly. DRIVER CONFIGURATION The other item you must check before trying to run you Serial printer is that your .PRINTEncing such printing problems. VOL. 2 NO. 12 DECEMBER, 1985 Q5. How does one get a Gemini 15 printer to print in enhanced and bold mode? A5. This procedure varies with every printer and program. The common thread is that the program you are using must have the capacity to sen 8 data bits, no parity and hardware handshaking. The above information was derived from the HP Laser Jet operator's manual pages G-37 to G-39. Oh!, by the way, this article was printed out on the HP Laser Jet -- sorry you folks will not be able to uration program, modify the RS-232C serial driver configuration block as follows: BYTE 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B - - - - - - - - - - - - VALUE 0E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 This sets the driver to 9600 baud,HP are selling their Laser Jet to a broad base of computer users. Th HP Laser Jet will configure the Apple /// using the following equipment: - Apple /// modem eliminator cable (A3M0019) - Standard male-to-male RS-232C Cable Using the system configP Laser Jet Plus model HP 2686A. Here's where the story gets interesting, while reading the manual to see how to hook up the IBM XT my eyes ran across the magic little symbols that all ///'er have come to know and like "///". It seems that the folks at /. But how can you sell an Apple laser printer for use on an IBM XT? So I called around to the various dealers of laser printers to get some kind of a handle on what is available. They all recommended the HP laser jet, so I put in a requistion for the Hlaser printer. Since the City's policy is to have every piece of computer equipment IBM compatible, this left out buying the Apple laser printer, I figured that if I could get an Apple printer in house maybe, just maybe, I would be able to hookup the // APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 3 NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 1986 THE HP LASER JET PLUS When the City asked me to purchase a laser printer for the office, I gladly did so, thinking that it sure would be nice if the Apple /// would drive the O do not work on your printer), but you can send them in the Spreadsheet mode and as long as you do not turn the printer off or send an over-riding command, it will continue to use the enhancement or pitch you have previously selected. ter printer), while Word Juggler wants to see ESCAPE p (printer control) followed by the hexidecimal code for ESC Q, which is $1B$51. One cannot send the printer control codes in Word Processing in 3EZPieces (if the default ones accessed by Open Apple d special codes "Escape Sequences" to the printer. The exact definition of what sequences your printer need is in your printer manual. Some programs (like 3EZPieces in the DP and SS modes or Visicalc) send them as ESCAPE Q (condensed mode on a ProWrisee the final print out. Take my word for it, the print out looks great. - John Spencer, San Jose (editors note: It does look very good, I will bring his print out to the next meeting.) VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 4, APRIL 1988 HP LaserJet Printer vs A/// - by Wendy S Coleman (608-238-9258) Here is the information from the HP LaserJet manual about configuring the HP LaserJet printer for the Apple /// using the serial port. I don't have the modem efollowing list: 1. Is the cabling seated properly? 2. Is the printer on-line? 3. Is printer working properly? Check by running a test print. 4. Is the computer working properly? Check by running an application you know works. 5. Have you configured thecommunication OK!" Type "system" and press return to exit BASIC. If you have followed these steps carefully, your A/// and the LaserJet series II printer are communicating with each other. IN Case of Difficulty If there is no communication, check the COMMUNICATION OK!" 40 Print #1;CHR$(13); (sends carriage return) 50 Print #1;CHR$(12); (sends form feed) 60 Close#1 (closes the serial port) 70 End Finally, enter RUN on the computer to execute. The LaserJet series II printer will print "LaserJet series on-line. Next, type in the following BASIC program. This program simply verifies that the computer and the printer are communicating. 10 Open #1,".RS232" (opens serial port) 20 Print #1;CHR$(27);"E"; (resets the printer) 30 Print #1;"LASERJET SERIES II assis ground l l chassis ground to 2 2 RD 3 3 . . . . 25 25 Communication Verfication To verify your configuration, power on the LaserJet series II and set the printer. Cable Pin Assignments You may wish to wire your own cable conector. In the illustrations below we have provided diagrams of the pin assignments for serial cables. HP LaserJet SII Computer (male connector) (male connector) che RS-232C cable. Connect one end of the Apple modem eliminator cable to the interface connector on the computer and the other end to one end of the RS-232C cable. The other end of the RS-232C cable should be connected to the RS-232 interface connector on Follow these steps to install the LaserJet series II printer to the A///. l. Turn off the system unit and the LaserJet series II printer. 2. Connect your LaserJet series II printer to A///, using both the Apple Modem eliminator cable and the male-to-malguration Computer system: A/// system, Serial communication interface. Printer equipment: HP LaserJet series II printer, A/// modem eliminator cable (Apple A 3M0019) Male-to-male standard RS-232C cable Connection Instructions ple /// Computer. Introduction This configuration guide will explain how to set up your A/// to communicate with the LaserJet series II printer. Before you begin, check the following list to be sure you have all the necessary components: Typical Confielated confusion. I normally use a Toshiba P1340 printer that has excellent letter-quality print. The HP LaserJet is not mine and I haven't taken the time to become familiar with it or the manual. Configuring your HP LaserJet series II Printer with an Apliminator cable and so haven't tried this. I have connected my Apple /// to the HP LaserJet printer using the parallel port. I used Word Juggler and configured it to emulate a Diablo printer. The LaserJet printed out the document with only some margin-r printer for the serial interface using the Control Panel? 6. Is the baud rate set the same for both printer and computer? The following is the explanation of the Figure, shown on the back page of the Newsletter, of the Serial Connection of an A/// to the Printer. Once you have the cable connections, the following steps will configure your A/// to print on the LaserJet series II printer. l. Power on the LaserJet series II printer and your computer. 2. Using the A/// System Configuration Program, mo no problem. As a last resort (just slightly before opening the living room window and dumping the computer and printer into the alley two stories below), I reversed the printer cable. That did it. The serial printer cable had a modem eliminator. Apparry time! It wasn't the software, because I had the problem with several different programs. The printer driver and disk files looked OK. I ran Confindence ///, it seemed to indicate all OK with the computer. The internal printer test seemed to indicate VOL. 2 NO. 12 DECEMBER, 1985 APPLE /// HINTS HINT 2: I recently moved my Apple /// to a new location. After plugging the Imagewriter back in, I noticed that it would print half a page and begin to print garbage. A half a page and then garbage everporates both the serial cable and the Modem Eliminator. An article on how to do this was included in the February issue of this Newsletter. r. The serial driver must be configured to match the baud rate of your printer (the Imagewriter is normally set at 9600 baud). The modem eliminator came from Apple with the earlier ///s, but not lately. Another solution is to build a cable that inco Vol. 2 No. 8 AUGUST, 1985 Q3. Can you use an ImageWriter with the A/// and do you need a new driver? A3. Yes. To use the ImageWriter one needs a standard serial cable (like you would use your modem with), a "Modem eliminator" and any serial driveo 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity and hardware handshaking. (copied from A/// 3-56) 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity and hardware handshaking. (copied from A/// 3-56) dify the RS-232C serial driver by setting the driver configura- tion block as follows: (for more details, refer to the A/// standard device drivers manual): Byte 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B value 0E 00 00 00...............80 This sets the driver tently, it is important to have the modem eliminator on the computer side, not on the printe side. A simple point worth noting! - Jeff Fritz ATUNC member in West Virginia VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 1986 ATUNC member Dr. Carlo Infante explores plotting and graphing with the ///. Have you succumbed to the listless repetition of certain features of your /// without allowing it full rein to prove what it is capable of in oth VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 1986 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Bill, I am pleased to see that ATUNC news progresses along nicely as a significant component of the Apple /// press. I wanted to take a minute to correct a slight mis-representation in Rod Whiuture meetings. If you can supply either contact Ed Suttles. the feasibility of use of graphics, these programs are designed to answer any remaining questions you might have regarding the subject and reacquaint you with your /// and its amazing potentials. - Ed Suttles We still need ideas and presenters for fed and lengthy, they are a necessary evil to achieving the best results in finite resolution through presenting any output in program form. Also, there is Sketchpad ///, which permits use of the Koala, joysticks and/or the mouse. If you have questionedout the extenuating, time-consuming programming that would be necessary otherwise. Not that programming language will be overlooked in our bringing to you those programs designed to educate the membership in use of graphics. Although they are complicatnds structure, which is at best an arcane science compared to the simplicity of Applesoft programming language. Fortunately, help has been afforded everyone with the wonderfully adaptable Draw-On-Three program and mice to simplify 'x,y' coordination withplest of programming techniques, Dr. Infante believes that his explanation will help all interested to start using what up to now has remained a dormant power waiting to be tapped. This will begin an exploration into the netherworld of ///-GRAFIX commaify what would appear to the layman as insurmountably difficult. And, by modifying your RS232 driver, it is possible to convert or re-instruct your printer to do the plotting of the output with the aid of your Business Basic tools. Although not the simsary which, in turn, will control the rest of the program to achieve a graphic plotting without repetitive programming of standardized routines. The 'core' line numbers that, in effect, affect the overall program rely on various GOSUBS to further simpll for architects, engineers and scientists and adaptable to the use of business graphologists, such plotting utilizes a 'template-core' feature, central to the program, that establishes key sequences that may be modified to reflect different data as neceser more exciting functions? Word processing, spread-sheeting and using data bases are all commendable in their own right; but, there are hidden talents in every /// just waiting to be brought to the surface. GRAFIX is just one of them! A useful tootten's piece on driver sizes. The Power Print program comes with 6 user selectable drivers sized at 2,4,8,16,24 and 30K - Rod had described it as a 24K driver. Although it is important to note that the larger .PPRINTS can start the user bumping into tly from disk to the printer without interrupting you. What added features does Discourse have when used with Catalyst ? When used in conjunction with Catalyst you can even switch programs while printout is in process. for example, you can use Disco and edit the contents of the spooler queue. Documents in the queue can be deleted, restarted or when used with Catalyst even re-arranged. How does it work ? Once a document has been written to disk, a very fast operation, Discourse routes it direcs" your documents to a hard disk or external floppy disk leaving your computer free for use. You can have as many as 14 documents queued for printout and still have complete use of your computer. The special spooler status option allows you to viewa software spooler designed for use with an Apple /// and a hard disk or external floppy drive. What does Discourse do ? With Discourse you don't have to wait for your document to finish printing before you can go on to other tasks. Discourse "spool VOLUME 3 NUMBER 8 AUGUST 1986 TOPIC: Discourse Don was the President of the Business Apple Group which was the predecessor group of ATUNC. He is very well versed in the use of both Discourse and Catalyst so bring your questions. Discourse is mysterious program bugs clear up if they re-order their driver file. - Daryl Anderson DA Datasystems ms runing in the SOS "Interrupt Environment" cannot access the A/// extended addressing modes; thus limited to the 32K SOS code plus a max of 32K driver code plus data. The fragmentaation of memory caused by this load process is why so many folks have found wolski's A /// Int'l Newsletter where Joe excerpted it from the Power Print Manual. My own extensive research showed this to be definitely the case - SOS will not load a driver across a 32K bank boundary - it is, in any case, to be expected since Drivers RAM. A feature is that, unlike, spoolers, they aare not tied in to inherently slow disk access. Rod indicated that he didn't find the 32K bank boundary problem noted in the previous ATUNC Newsletter. That piece appeared to be extracted from Joe Dobrondicated. Although the device name can, of course, be changed, it is important to note the distinction between Power Print - which is a Printer BUFFER, and a Printer SPOOLER. A limitation of buffers such as Power Print is that they take away from systemthe driver space limitations, many folks have found the 8K or smaller buffers quite useful and others simply install the larger ones as Catalyst Dynamically loadable drivers. I also note that Power Print is shipped as device .PPRINT, not .SPOOLER as Rod iurse to spool a length report written with Word Juggler, then use Catalyst to switch to VisiCalc to work on your departmental budget. Also, when use with Catalyst, Discourse indicates from which program each document originated, and even lets you rearrange them in the spooler queue. In the event of a power failure, Discourse will recoer unprinted documents and requeue them for printing. What are the requirements ? Discourse works with any printer connected to the serial port or Apple's UniversaAPPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 9 September 1988 AMORTIZATION by Wm. R. Smith (408-736-1317) Many of us here at ATUNC are amateurs, both in writing and programming. I do qualify on both counts. I became interested in real es?ƶ\%+DISK.LABELS > ƶ-FINANCE.DISKSƶGRAF.N.CALC.DEMƶƶSOFTWARE.MISCvƶ' '/AMORTIZATION.PG?ƶ9.BPI.GEN.LEDGER ƶ:BUS.GRAF.FAILbƶ:.BUS.GRAF.PRINT"ƶ /DATABAS.CONVERT_2ƶ .DISCOURSE.PROBre is a good section in the owners manual on how to edit this block for the various printer speeds. Most printers are 1200 baud. ber and will probably have a line under 4-Comment "Serial Printer Driver". If you find you do have a serial driver and it still will not print or just prints garbage, then go to 5-Configuration Block data and make sure these parameters are correct. Thethe driver, boot System Utilities, go to the System Configuration Program and Read the SOS.DRIVER file on the boot disk of the program that will not print. After Read(ing) the file, Edit the .PRINTER driver. A serial driver will have "n/a" in 3-Slot Num APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 3 NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 1986 Q2. My serial printer does not work, how do I know if I have the correct driver. A2. The most common name for your printer driver, serial or parallel, is .PRINTER. To look at oler status option. Don also says you can drive 2 printers at once with Discourse and an Apple ///. l Parallel card. Discourse must be used with an Apple /// and a hard disk or external floppy drive. 256K required. Discourse requires no special hardware; the entire program is contained on on floppy disk. It use 5K of your computer's memory. 9K with spotate mortgage amortization programs, both for myself and for several friends. The object was to use a suitable spread sheet such as 3-EZP and develop something that would be as accurate as a savings and loan or a bank (how ACCURATE are they?) and fully aess can be run (albeit crudely) using just this module. ` There are two main menus, one for data entry and maintenance, and one for printing reports. One can have any number of companies or divisions, each with it's own password. One can also add or desically menu-driven. The latest version is designated "F". The system takes almost 256k to work with and will do a screen dump. The program can merge departments in one company. Chuck feels that the main strength of the GL module is that a small businsing C.P.A. in Concord. BPI GL is the basic module for the BPI accounting series. Other models include accounts receivable and accounts payable, payroll, inventory, and job costing. The GL module costs $400 to $500, and is written in Pascal. It is basity in San Francisco and was brought to order at 7:10 pm by Club President Chuck Schreiber. Seventeen people were present. The scheduled demonstration for the evening, BPI General Ledger, was presented by President Chuck Schreiber, who is a practi APPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL. 2 NO. 1 THE APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MINUTES OF THE CLUB MEETING HELD DECEMBER, 20th, 1984 The meeting was held in room 201 of the Old Science Building at San Francisco State UniverC library. It's not 3 years, Wayne. It's only 30 days. (LKS) sector reproduced on page 8. His generous donation will please all of us fellow members, and especially Wayne Schotten, because as recent as in our July issue, Wayne hoped sometime in the next THREE years, someone else will donate a program to our ATUNth even the interest expense for each year calculated if desired. The diskette is named /AMORTIZATION, and has been donated to ATUNC's public domain library. (Editor's note): Bill's program is a long one, occupying 133K. It's a repetition of the model he sub-program, which I locked to help prevent problems from arising. After data are entered, calculated, and noted, it can be saved on another formatted diskette if desired. Every payment, new balance, and end or maturity of the note is computed -- wigree with their method -- right to the penny. This involves limiting the accuracy of the interest calculations to two decimal places (cents) and several other limitations which have, I believe, all been worked out. The entire diskette is taken up with tlete accounts and edit the company configuration. The financial statement is hard-wired and the historical balances make for a good audit trail. The program doesn't use the system clock to set the date so that you can post checks for other days (or post-date a check). Up to 40 checks may be run in one batch. There can be up to 10 payroll accounts, although no tables are provided. State tables can be purchased for the payroll module, however. It is not possible to post accounts payable and receivfael who still had the PIK disk. Well, installation was no problem - you just needed to have two disc drives and an ability to read the English language. However, getting my "modified" program disk to work was another story. Print commands resulted inally alter my program disk to print to an Epson printer. Great! Only one problem - they had lost their disk! I didn't really feel like paying BPS $75.00 for something a dealer could provide, so I scouted around and found Profit Plus, an outfit in San Raast hope, and spoke to Eric. I knew he'd come through! Through Computer Connection, I learned that Business and Professional Systems, Inc., the creators of Business Graphics, had come out with a "PIK program" ("Printer Installation Kit") that could actuter), and I was told, "Nope, it can't be done!" But I didn't want to take "no" for an answer. I knew my /// could do it! I called a couple of dealers, and still, nothing but bad news. Finally, I called Computer Connection in downtown San Francisco, my ldo absolutely nothing with them - except maybe take a photograph and show someone a slide presentation. But that's not what I wanted! I wanted to print these great looking graphs! Well, I called the previous user of the program (it was an office compuram - on my screen, that is... I couldn't get the darn thing to print out on my Epson RX-80! In fact, it was only configured for a tiny handful of printers, none of which were available to me. I'd get some terrific looking charts on my screen, and could SOFTWARE APPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL. 2 NO. 7 JULY, 1985 BUSINESS GRAPHICS DRIVES A/// USER TO MACINTOSH! I'd never wanted to trade my Apple /// for a Macintosh until I encountered Business Graphics. It seemed like a great progr Pascal system and reduce the number of drivers in your SOS.DRIVER file to the necessary ones. APPLE /// USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOL. 2 NO. 6 JUNE, 1985 Q2. After installing Business Graphics under Catalyst, I get "stack overflow" when it tries to load, then "SYSTEM FAILURE 0F". What is the fix? A2. Remove the AIIFORMAT.CODE from youecently. For home use, some contenders are; Home Accountant, Your Net Worth, and The Accountant. DJ Home Budget was not recommended. mpared to budget, and YTD to budget. Chuck concluded that, considering the price, the program is an acceptable business tool. Competing programs are State-of the-Art ($2000), and Great Plains ($595 per module). The latter has undergone four revisions rable. The program will print four types of consolidated income sheets, including summarized and summarized comparative; four types of balance sheets, and sixteen income statements, including current, year-to-date, current compared to YTD, current co pages of garbage from my Epson! I called BPS in Massachusetts only to find that nobody there knew much about running their program on an Apple ///! They told me to play around with the dip switches, so I tried that too. Do you know how many millions of combinations 12 dip switches can make? I don't, but I'm sure I tried half of them! All to no avail... Like I said, I don't like to take no for an answer. Just to fool around, I tried commanding the program to print, not to an "Epson MX-80," but to al change was in the wire connecting the Universal Parallel Interface Card to my printer. According to the PIK manual, section 3.1, there is an error in the suggested wiring for Epson printers on page 8 of the UPIC manual. It should read as follows: MX-80), I had to use the command "Write Screen MX80GRAFTRAX" - "Write Screen MX80" wouldn't work. I also needed to change the driver on my boot disk to the driver that was provided with the PIK program. But the program still printed garbage. The finathe creators of Business Graphics, have developed a "PIK" program (Printer Installation Kit) which will modify your program disk to address several different printers. In order to get Business Graphics to work with my Epson RX-80 (a newer version of the BUSINESS GRAPHICS INTERFACE WITH EPSON RX-80 (technical info for above article) For those of you who own Business Graphics and felt that you could never print out your charts and graphs, here's some good news. Business and Professional Software, work, but with this wire modification, my Business Graphics charts were able to print out directly too! (Draw On /// made them nicer by adding textures and printing them in a smaller size.) I wouldn't have to sell my /// and get a Macintosh after all! 3. So I drafted a friend who wasn't afraid of a soldering gun and we tried modifiying the wire. Eureka! My graphs printed out from Draw On ///! And they were so nice! All the little bits were right where they belonged! And not only did Draw On ///seventh bit, so it was leaving a blank space all across the line. And the particular wire that carried the seventh bit from the UPIC to the printer was not connected properly! This hint came from the Business Graphics PIK program instructions, in sectionpleasure reading. For pleasure, I read the specs in the back of my manuals. So read the RX-80 manual I did, and the UPIC manual, and the Owner's Guide... and I found a clue! What was causing my "stripes" was that the printer was somehow not getting the who publishes On Three Magazine and is the dealer for Draw On ///, couldn't figure it out by phone. He too tried fiddling with the dip switches, but it made no difference. Finally, out of desperation, I decided to forget about this problem and do some s Graphics charts, etc..." We'll see! And sure enough, it did print Business Graphics charts - with stripes! Yes, stripes! What were these white stripes doing in the middle of my beautiful artwork?! Nobody seemed to know the answer. Even Bob Consorti, modifying the configuration block on the printer driver, and that helped somewhat, but not entirely. Finally, I gave up. I needed to print out some charts for a report, so I shelled out some big bucks and bought Draw On ///, "guaranteed to print Busineshairs? Is this story sounding all too familiar, and like something you don't want to hear again? Well, I'll make the rest short. Even using the Graftrax option, the printer would print some graph-like output, and then a few lines of garbage. I tried orked! It seems my RX-80 is a newer version of the MX-80 and automatically comes with Graftrax! I called my dealer to tell him this great tidbit I'd discovered, and he replied, "Oh, you mean I forgot to tell you?" So... what's five hours and a few grey n "Epson MX-80 with Graftrax?" What's Graftrax? Something you follow to catch giraffes in Africa? I don't know, I've never seen one. But I thought I'd give it a try - things couldn't possibly get any worse! Well, what do you know? The Graftrax option w Apple /// Epson 1 19 2 10 8 1 9 12 10 2 11 3 12 4 13 5 14 6 15 7 ect the Unidisk of the A/// immediately to your Mac (how? I'll tell you later). If you don't have a Unidisk, you have to transfer the files by a cable. A fieldname in a PFS-file is always terminated by a colon (:). After the colon, normally you find a spaep by step. 1. - A/// - PFS database and its output. First, a few interesting things you have to know: For my convenience I use on my A/// a Unidisk. I can put the files to transfer on the 3.25 inch. A Mac can read this disk. It is also possible to connchanges in the database to fit your desired layout. These principles are universal and in many cases you can exchange files between two databases on different computers and different operating systems : SOS , Prodos, MS-dos, Macintosh... Let us go now st. - Prepare the file for conversion to the Mac database. I use DBase Mac. In the following weeks I'll try other databases and conversions. If you are interested, send me a note and let me know what you want. 5. - Import your file in DBase Mac. 6. - Make your database an ASCII-file with all the fields and the data ? Yes, it's possible for all databases on the A///. Solution for PFS : print to disk. 2. - Do a little magic with this file (stripping the fieldnames). 3. - Transfer this file to your Mac. 4er searchings and reports for certain PFS-files. So I decided to convert my PFS-database to a Macintosh database. Here's how it's done. The principles are simple. 1. - What database do you use on the A///? In this case PFS-file. Is it possible to get fromort is printed. There are many ways to speed up the programs (that maybe the subject of another article), but there are limits. In many cases I have to wait half an hour or more before the report from a large PFS-file is prepared and printed. I need fastxcept it's not very fast. If you have to work with very large datafiles in a database (I personally use PFS), you can go away, have a cup of coffee while the A/// is searching the PFS-file. Unlike a printbuffer, you have to wait a long time before the rep APPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 11, November 1, 1988 Converting Databases from Apple /// to Another Machine. by Hendrik Van der Straeten As I said in a previous article, published in our Oct. issue, A/// is a fine machine, e or Compuserve # 76074,1671 ns, Business Graphics printed everything from my screen onto my Epson RX-80. It was a complicated route, but it's a route worth taking in order to make the most out of a good program that's available for the Apple ///. Zhava Glaser ATUNC Member 16 8 17 9 18 13 19 35 20 30, 33 Once I made these modificatioce. Otherwise, there are two possibilities: either you write or buy another Pascal program to prepare the outputfile, or you change your design of your PFS-file and add to the fieldlength one character. A fieldname and its contents have to be on one line or you get some trouble. There are solutions for it, but we assume here that all is on 1 line and there are no carriage returns in the contents of a field. Change the design of your PFS-file and add a new field with the fieldname "help:". Put this new fne) in the printed DATA file, we first printed all the fieldnames. Now we have to strip these fieldnames from the contents of the fields. For all empty fields, we should have a blank line. Because we are A/// enthusiasts, let this work be done by the A///le. But why not incorporate this option in a Pascal-program? It's a good exercise. So read on. 2. - Transformation in ASCII file and stripping the fieldnames. Now the little magic. Because an empty field in the PFS database gives no output (no blank liCII files. ASCII files have no internal format, they just are streams of bytes (known as ASCII characters). If you add the suffix '.ASCII' to the name of your outputfile (.U1/SIGNAL .ASCII), Pascal creates automatically an ASCII file instead of a DATA fi total because it lets you verify at the end that all records are transferred. On your Unidisk (or on your hard disk) is now a file called "SIGNAL". It is a DATA file. There are differences between DATA files and ASCII files. For transformation, we need ASr future use. Items are printed in the order as they appear on the screen. When the print specifications have been entered, press ENTER once again. After the last form has been printed to disk the screen indicates the total of printed forms. Remember thisow after 6 field names the "x". The last field has to be the added "help:" field. (If this field is not the last, you must redesign again your PFS-file). The "help:" field that contains your unique string will serve as a good recognized record delimiter fond PFS will ask you to specify which items are to be printed to your file ".U1/SIGNAL". A blank form reappears. For each item (field) you want to print, enter the character "x" after the fieldname. The output of every field will be on a new line. You put nl of fields you have in one record. Let's say that you have 20 fields in one record and you only need 6 fields in your DBase Mac. So put "lines per page:"6". The number of copies is always 1. When all of the options contain the information, press ENTER aile name to avoid difficulties later on. Now you are asked "lines per page:". If you are going to convert "x" fields per record, the answer is "x". (As you see, it's also possible to convert a part of a record). If you want all your fields : x = the totaess ENTER and the PRINT OPTION menu appears. Answer on "print item names (Y/N):" with Y. Put after "Print to:" the file name where you want your outputfile. I took : ".U1/ SIGNAL" because I want to print to my Unidisk. Take a legal SOS-name. Take a short f!) help you. Select the PRINT function from the main menu and enter the desired filename. Select the PRINT FORMS option. Now a blank form appears and you are asked to indicate which forms you want to print. You can now make a selection if necessary. Pre between the colon of "help : " and your character or string. PFS puts by itself this space if your fieldlength is long enough. It is quite a task, but let POWERKEYS or THE DESKTOP MANGER (use the point on the numeric keypad and add an ENTER in your MACROtring, for instance "$%$". This character or string has to be unique and will be replaced later by a record delimiter in the future database. You have to put the same character or string in the "help:" field of every record. Take care that there is a spacield on top of your design or at a place where you can reach it quickly. Done? Now put in this new field a character that does not occur in the contents of the whole database. I use the percent sign (%) but you may use another. You can also take a short s. The output file has to be an ASCII file. Let me give you an example of a UCSD Pascal program that does the job. Suppose you have the following DATA file : DATA file (as output from PFS): 1 record, last field = "help:" field1: abracadabra field2: 1234# field15: firstname field17: field20: 123-456-789 help: % And you want the following ASCII file with the fieldnames stripped : ASCII file (as input for your MACINTOSH) : 1 record, last string = "%" abracadabra 1234 firstname 123-456-789 #% These 6 linet window. Click OPEN and choose the file SIG. The file SIG appears in the window. First, count the lines, (Review the last page and count the lines on it. Add the total lines of all the previous pages to the number. Can it be divided by 6? Yes? So everythe linefeed, a carriage return followed by a line feed, a line feed followed by a carriage return. I use the carriage return. Take now your favorite word processor. I use MS-Word but all the others are good. Start MS-Word. Click CLOSE to close the currenize it. dBase Mac recognizes only 6 possible characters as field delimiters : comma (,), slash (/), period (.), colon (:), Tab, and Space. I use here the comma (,). dBase Mac recognizes the following record terminators : a single carriage return, a singl. - Preparing the file on the Mac. From now on we work only on the Mac.It is impossible to use this file (or another ASCII file) to immediately import in dBase Mac. This file, named "SIG", is the foreign text file to change in the way dBase Mac can recogn FILE EXCHANGE. Insert the disk and watch the Menu appear. There is an option "TEXT to TEXT" in the menu "Prodos to Mac". Disable the other possibilities. Start the transfer. A ASCII-file is created on the Mac with the same name "SIG". Quit the program. 4 both machines a communication program (Access /// on the A///, Red Ryder or MS-Works on the Mac). I use the first method here. The ASCII file to transfer is on the 3-1/4" disk and has the name : "SIG". Start your Mac and use the program PASPORT or APPLEhods to exchange files between A/// and Mac. The simplest and most practical is by exchanging 3-1/4" diskettes and let the Mac read these disks (the files are in SOS or Prodos format). Another method is to connect the two machines by a cable and to use onIt is this ASCII file you have to transfer to your Mac. The Pascal program does a lot of work and it is quit time consuming. Why don't you take a break while the program is working? 3. File transfer from the A/// to the Macintosh. There are different met TAU library (Third Apple Users - 1113 Wheaton Oaks Drive - Wheaton IL 60187; ask for TAU-078 NVASCI by Bloom). My "destination filename" was SIG. My ASCII outputfile from the above program was : U1/SIG.ASCI. Rename it for your convenience :.U1/SIG. lock); close (out file, lock); end. By adding the suffix "ASCII" to the filename, Pascal creates automatically an ASCII file. Once again I must warn you this program does no checks. If you want a good and safe program, write your own or buy one from thefile, out name); repeat readln (in file, dummy); delete (dummy,1,(pos (':',dummy))+1); {after the ':' there must be a blank character } {in the PFS-field - or you have to modify this program} writeln (out file, dummy); until (EOF(in file)); close (in file,y : string; begin write ('What is the original file ? Enter filename : --> '); readln (in name); reset (in file, in name); write ('What is the destination file ? Enter name : --> '); readln (out name); out name := concat (out name, '.asci'); rewrite (out FS data file created by the PRINT to DISK option in de PFS FILE menu}. {You have also to translate the datafile to an ASCII file}. {The result of the whole operation is an ASCII file} var in file : text; out file : text; in name, out name, dumms are multiplied by the total of forms printed by PFS. Here is a Pascal program that does the desired job. It's a simple program, but does no checks! So, be careful! Program STRIPPER ; {This program strips the first string terminated by a ':' from a}. {Ping is OK; if not, you've lost some lines and have to restart the whole process from the beginning on the A///). You notice very quickly every record delimiter. It's the "%" sign. Every new paragraph is the field delimiter. Change now every "end paragraph" (use in MS-Word the characters "^p") by the colon (:). Take the "change all" option. The contents of the window change completely. Notice that now the record delimiter is : comma-%sign-comma (,%,). Change now every occurrence of ',%,' by a new line (thisis to E8 C8 00 00 5A at Quark's suggestion, and the message "out of paper" came back instead. I tried E8 48 00 00 5A, and it was back to "printer power off." Has anyone had similar problems getting Discourse to work? Is there some way I can alter thetandard cable that came with the card. When I try to print something to .spool, it tells me my printer power is off. I am using the .printer driver that works with my printer; the standard configuration block reads 00 00 00 00 5A. I tried changing th VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 1986 Q6 Catalyst Problem I'm having a problem installing catalyst Discourse on my Profile. I am using an Apple/// with a Comrex CR-II (same as Brother HR-15) or an Epson RX-80 printer, going through a UPIC card with the sgium and The Netherlands) Hendrik Van der Straeten Mechelsebaan 116 2850 KEERBERGEN BELGIUM BELGIUM between an A/// and other machines. We are now working on file exchanging between PFS - A/// and 4th Dimension on a Macintosh. Any questions or suggestions? let me hear from you. You can reach me at the following address : AUBAN (Apple /// users of Bela little time if your text file is big. 6. - Make changes in the database to fit your desired layout. That is now your job. Refer to the manual of dBase Mac. POSTSCRIPT. This is the whole story. If there is interest, I'll show you how to exchange filesn text file in dBase Mac. From this foreign text file, dBase Mac will create a "foreign structure" file and import the data to a dBase Mac file. The steps to do it are described in the manual of dBase Mac, so I'll not explain it here. It's easy but takes 'e'!). dBase Mac will use these names (or characters) as fieldnames. Save the file as TEXT ONLY. Do not forget to take a different filename. Your ASCII file will look like this : a,b,c,d,e abracadabra,1234,firstname,,123-456-789 5. - Import your foreigse in dBase Mac. You can change these fieldnames later if you wish. Suppose you want to call the five fieldnames : a, b, c, d and e. At the top of your ASCII file in your word processor, add a new line and type : a,b,c,d,e. (Do not type the point after thet's all you have to do. Do it carefully, it's important! In most cases these are the basic principles to prepare an ASCII file for importing in a foreign database.To help dBase Mac recognize the file as a data- base file, let us create the fieldnames to u is in MS-Word :^n). The total of changes is the total of the records minus 1. Look at the end of the document: you'll see : comma-%sign (,%). Cut these two characters from the document and add manually a CR. Every new record begins now on a new line. Tha configuration block to have the spooler not receive imaginary error messages ? Thanks! A6 Your problem sounds like it could be a bad UPIC cable. If you want you could borrow mine for a day or two and see if it makes a difference. I just put Discourse up and have no problem at all. Just lucky I guess. Rod VOLUME 5 NUMBERS 12, December 1988 Finance by W. R. Smith (408-736-1317) As the result of efforts involving real estate mortgages, or notes, several formats have been evolved which are fairly quick-acting and are extremely accurate. The first of these to me know. Also thank you for your list of Apple ][ software. from our Public Domain Software Library ($3 for disk and $1.65 for some documentation). Another way would be to check out some of the Apple ][ magazines and check for disk label programs (I know I've seen them). If anyone out there has other programs let hope this information is useful. Thanks for your help. - Wendy S. Coleman, M.D., Wisconsin Dear Wendy: Welcome to ATUNC, good to have you aboard. In answer to your question about disk labels. One way to go would be for you to purchase Business Basic reschool and kindergarten number game) 6. Spelling Bee (wonderful word game program for preschoolers) 7. Master type 8. Microzine Magazine Disk Programs 9. Early Games for young children 10. Wizard of where (another preschool program) 11. Frogger I8K and works best with 80 column card). This program alone made the purchase of the Titan card worthwhile. It is a superb finacial program. 2. Print Shop 3. Newsroom 4. Create with Garfield (fantastic cartoon generator) 5. Counting Bee (a wonderful pver had any trouble getting any Apple ][ or //e program to work except Apple Logo. I haven't had the time or interest to get to the source of the problem with Logo. I have used the following Apple ][ programs in emulation: 1. Dollars and Sense (needs 12le ][ pogram for this purpose? One of my Apple ///'s has a Titan ///+//e card with 128 K and 80 columns in emulation. You asked about running games and other programs in emulation. My emulation is configured so that it works like an Apple //e. I have nels for my Apple /// floppy disks listing the files generated on Word Juggler. I do not have Business basic and assume that would be needed to use the program in the August Newsletter. Do you know of anything else that would do the job? Could I use an App tion while visitng with family in the San Francisco area this past summer. Although we have an active Apple group in Madison, there is little available for /// owners like myself. I am very interested in finding a program that would print out disk labeAPPLE THREE USERS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA VOLUME 3 NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 1986 Letter 3 Dear Bill: I am enclosing a check for a one year membership in ATUNC. I have two Apple ///'s, one at home and one at work. I noticed an advertisement for your organiza be released are two formats in Advanced Visicalc. These sub-programs, while slightly slower in action than 3-EZ- Pieces, are more sophisticated and provide printable copies of neat appearance. Volume 1 of 2, titled /FINANCE.AVC.V1, has a 20-year forma";"ANY KEY RETURNS TO THE MENU.">G$:::320H: Error Routine 202:U=11:"79C";"BAD PATH ERROR (NO DISK IN DISK DRIVE OR DESIRED FILE NOT FOUND.)"X=11000:X:::210Z a$="{,|,~,}; selects; back 1 level;1600 &:WW=1:0 :SEG=1;".D1/S EG.F" SEG=1".D1/SEG.G"diskname$=3802  CATCH PASCAL TEXT FILES 202 :F*=08:"78C";"SORRY BUT MENU.MAKER CAN'T READ PASCAL TEXT FILES."04=10:"78C"NOVEMBER":1750M$="DECEMBER":1750826);"-";M$;" ";Ѡ,2));", ";"19";Р,2);" ";/П,2))=>13П,2))-12;џ,6);:1780$П,2))=0"12";џ,6);:ٟ;$П,2))=>12" PM-":" AM-" 1830WW=1530 =26:=21 0,1670,1680,1690,1700,1710,1720,1730,1740^M$="JANUARY":1750hM$="FEBRUARY":1750rM$="MARCH":1750|M$="APRIL":1750M$="MAY":1750M$="JUNE":1750M$="JULY":1750M$="AUGUST":1750M$="SEPTEMBER":1750M$="OCTOBER":1750M$=")2070H540R\A$="RUNNING "+B$(I),16,B)f"79C";A$;:=0pB$(I),16,B) z::SEG=1".D1/SEG.T"t=+B$(I),16,B) yCT=CT+1~240:=24:=0:"@ ..... "DATE.TIME.LINE" ....JM=Ҡ,4,2))BTM1630,1640,1650,166Spencer st be computed on a 12 per year (monthly) basis only. Diskettes containing this program are available in the ATUNC public domain library. They are titled as shown above. this to 40 years due to lack of memory. It either removes some of the "bells & whistles" considered necessary, or reduces to 35 years. 35 was chosen as a worthwhile compromise. The 35-y format has all the features of the 20-year, except that payments muanything except 12 per year invalidates the accumulated interest capability. Volume 2 of 2, titled /FINANCE.AVC.V2, has a 35-year format. This was most difficult to construct, because the Visicalc program has only 254 rows. It was not possible to expande to operate, there is a help area on the spreadsheet that answers most questions that might arise. There is a further utility here in that the program can be converted to use any desired number of payments per year, such as 52, 4, etc. However, using t. It could be extended by taking the 20-year totals and transferring them to a new format. The format figures interest and principal computations on a one line-per-month basis. If desired, it will total the amount of interest for each year. While simpl