! ' s r--\ Hot, New Apple II And Ready To Type In And / Mac Business Software Run Programs: I li. JJ I J r. --......., =>6. The Substitute Teacher Teach Yourself Almost Vulcan Mines Making IIGS Music Anything With Your Apple Arcade Action At Its Best ProDesk Reviews Impressive ProDOS Program Launcher Writer's Choice Elite Which Apple For You? Take Your Pick From Five Hardball The Clipper Stepping Out Clip And Paste Any Hi-Res Great Computers Graphic Image Number New Columns Construction Set 1 2 Just For Fun Have Fun By Dan Gutman Building Numbers Apple News And Notes Readers' Feedback The Zork Trilogy has become a legend in its time, selling nearly one million copies! Now the legend continues with an extraordinary new Zorkian universe that breaks ground in computer gaming. For the first time, the character-building and combat of role-playing games joins the masterly prose and puzzles of lnfocom 's interactive fiction. s ~ gLzna at Beyond Zork u::/1 show you tb.t Beyond Zork sophisticated new interface makes 11 ~ unllkt! any mtl'r.utiU' Rory you 't.'<' smt before. On-rmY1t mappmg. Wmdow tfup/a-,-s. A characrl'r interaction more natural than ever, plunging you into a ethxacitt egmrolw!lzst mof sr torlmc-pgltahyaillllgll g ~ames, sYkoitll~jju,'lflly a blll ttmhed ed with the fa!JulouJ puZ7Ies and awanl-wirming prose world teeming with magic and peril. The vast and varied of lnfocom 1 interJCtiW fiaion. Southlands of Quendor come alive as you seek fantastic .5cr-ml shawrt u for the CommodotT IZB ...,.,,on. treasure and combat the vicious monsters who haunt the streets and wastelands. Challenge yourself to a quest that's far beyond anything you've ever experienced. Beyond Zork. The incredible new interactive story from the master storytellers at lnfocom. InFOC OR\ 115 CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge, MA 02HO Beyc;md Zork is available ar your local dealer for rhe Apple II senes, Macintosh, Commodcre 128, Amtg:z,JBM PC and 100% comparibles, and Acari ST. 'to orrlerdirt'CI, call1-8()().262-6868. Coming soon: Apple fiGS. Zork is a regisrerrxi tr.tdemark ofl nforom, Inc. 4 Editor's Notes Gregg Keizer At Work 46 Going To Work Gordon McComb 54 Macintosh: The Word . Dan McNeill Explosion The Apple IIGS 12 ~aking llGS Music R1ck Parfitt At Home 34 App!eWorks For Everyone Chnstopher Van Buren Columns 40 cO\ ~ ~hich Apple For You? - 6 regg Keizer · Apple News and Notes The Editors 86 .Vulcan Mines 61 Brett A. Painter Reader's Feedback The Editors 93 Pro Desk 64 David Bailey Just For Fun -- 98 '-'f.!-.i-:-J." -'''- ~- Dan Gutman Window Maker . -- Robert Vreeland -._-.. ·, .-._-: ,-..:.. .' ." . :.::_~\..~. 66 ,_ .,, ., . 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I c.~, m~ . .. ....~ .k the fallen mast and sails. Your next broadside ij c:;) explodes into her hull, ravaging her decks; personal toolkit for develop •.) ff, , then another until finally, she strikes her ing the ways to create and use .... 01 i'lttr'¥.,.• colors. The prize is yours. information. Its name derives from the way it treats infor o05Pn mation and accesses that information. Much like the HyperCard's applications are called by touted hypertext concept, clicking on the appropriate button on the HyperCard lets people locate Home card. information in a nonlinear fashion, by dynamically link 4 r11f' lOti Cio 1ooh Objet h ing one idea with another. I ~ The MiniF'inder 0~? P11 And its index-card look is ':J something most people can 'A. ......... get comfortable with in a mat- I '' 1ft (t I~ ter of moments. ,r;:;] 1 ~ 1 Here's how HyperCard '.:::J ,.._;. ~ works. Information is stored f~ on cards, screens which can _£J include such things as graph- ~1 ics, buttons to send the user ~, to other cards, and fields for ru~t~rencr\) entering and editing text. High Seas is an exciting, fast-paced While working within an ad One of the first HyperCard applications action simulation that puts you in dress-filer application of to appear on commercial databases like command of the most powerful ships HyperCard, for instance, you GEnie and CompuServe was this that ever moved under sail. can enter and delete names, MiniFinder. From Pirate or Captain of a single ship to addresses, and phone num Fleet Admiral, Garde's High Seas brings bers. You can search for any you into the world where sail and cannon name, sort the cards, even made nations. As a Privateer or Pirate turn to another kind of card (whichever status you prefer) prey upon a list of things to do, perhaps. enemy merchants. As Captain, you The HyperCard package command one ship of an entire fleet, or includes four BOOK disks, stand alone against the enemy. As about three megabytes of files Admiral, an entire fleet is yours in all its altogether. Sample stacks, the towering glory. term given to the collections of Available at your local retailer cards HyperCard uses, include OR ORDER such things as address filers, 1-800-367-1435 to-do lists, and phone lists. $49.95 APPLE II w/64k,//e,//c,//gs Announced stacks from devel [!JCorrin g fall ol87 for COMMODORE 641128 opers range from one that's a Another early HyperCard entry was this partial adaptation of The Whole dynamic chart of the e/eme11ts. Click 011 Garde® the element and additional information Earth Catalog to one that offers appears. Games or DL~tlnctlon thousands of facts for inter 8 Bishop Lane, Madison, CT. 06443 national travelers-such as currency exchange rates, schedules, and climate. Insist on GSRAMThl \Vhen You Buy Your IIGsTh' Expand the JIGS RAM and ROM with the GSRAM or GSRAM Plus with ROM Pak Available now with 256K to 8 MEG! With an optional piggyback card, )OU can expand GSRAM C\'en higher than 1.5 MEG! (Other cards are only expandable to 1 MEG.) GSRAM Plus-for Growing by Leaps and Bounds GSRAM Plus is the first Apple memory card to use 1 MEG RAM chips on the main board It's available with 1 to 6 MEG on board If you don't need the whole 6 MEG now, you can buy a GSRAM Plus '1\ith less memory and easily expand it in the furure. GSRA.!\1 Plus can be expanded up to 8 MEG '1\ith an optional piggyback card Remember the 16K cards for the U+ and C\'en have Pinpoint or MaO'O\vorks and )Our Easy Expansion the 64K cards for the Ue' AI the time, that fu\Orite spelling checker in RAM for instant Both GSRAM and GSRA.t\1 Plus use Standard much memory seemed like a lot But when response GSRA.t\1 and GSRAM Plus will C\-en RAM chips that are readily available and just the owners of these memory cards came to display the time and date right on the plug right in So unlike other cards, )Ou'U find us for more memory, many had to throw AppleWorks screen Nothing comes dose to expanding )QUf GSRAM or GSRAM Plus easy, away their smaller Apple memory cards or ay enhandng AppleWorks so much convenient and very economical And with to seU them. MOSt of our customers told us Turn Your IIGS into a Giant our optional ROM e.':pansion module )QU that had they known about Applied Engi Simply plug GSRAM into the lies memory can even increase the Des's ROM space and neering's larger memory cards when they expansion slot and )Ou\-e got up to 8 mega all in jUSt one slot bought their Apple, d1ey 'lvould haH~ pur bytes of RAM at your fingenips-all of it Quality and Support of the chased them at the same time instandy and automatically recognized by the Industry Leader GSRAM and GSRAM Plus are available 110\Y, IIGS. GSRA.M is compatible with all IIGS Applied Engineering is the largest supplier allowing up to 8 MEG of memory expansion software, induding AppleWorks, as well as of Apple peripherals in the world We That's 8 times the memory capadty of BASIC®, ProOos, DOS 3.3, PASO\L®, ''C' and im:emed the first large RAM cards for d1e Apple's card and just look at the benefits that 0'/M®. Apple With a 5-year "no-hassle" warranty and only GSRAM and GSRAM Plus have over Grow by Bytes or Megabytes outstanding technical support, )QU can be Apple's card sure GSRAM and GSRAM Plus will deliver the We offer GSRAM in two configurations so • Lower COSl you can increase )Our memory 256K at a performance you're looking for- or rerum • Has 6 RAM banks (Apple's card has 4) time (GSRA.i\0 or a m~tbyte at a time (cs them within IS da~ for a full refund • Has memory e-'l)aOSion pon RA.t\1 Plus). Bom offer full compatibility, lower • Has ROM e."J)anSion pon cast than oilier boards, and easy expandabil GSRAM with 256K $169 • No configuration blocks to set GSRAM with 512K $219 ity. 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Or send AppleWorks Power now, you can choose a GSRAM '1\ith less check or money order to Applied Engineer Only GSRr\,\1 and GSRA\1 Plus eliminate memory and e.'RAl\ I Plus increase d1e number "In qualil)\ of lines permitted in d1e word processing petformance. ~APPLIED ENGINEERING"' compatibilil): mode from 6,000 to O\-er 15,000. And only e.\pandabifity and a;RI\M and csRAM Plus offer a built-in support, ,tpplied The Apple enhancement experts. printer buffer so you am continue using r~·nglneeting~v GSRAM (214) 241-6060 Appleworks willie your primer is printing. c;s. and c.'!RAM Plus are RAl\1 and GSRAl\1 Plu~ C\·en expand the mtmber one. " nwnber of lines in the dipboard from 255 tO P.O. 13ox 798, Carrollton, TX 75006 Stet;e \floznia~ the creator 2047 and will auto segment large files so they of Apple Computer can be saved on two or more disks. You can CP/M Is a reg1<1crrtl lrJtlt!mark or O.gnal lle<.e>rch. Inc. High Expectations Card's ultimate application, CD Macintosh forums within days of Apple is expecting great things ROM, a reality. CD-ROM links a the product's announcement. from HyperCard. With its compact disc player, much like Stackware available for download HyperTalk scripting language the popular audio players, to a ing in late August ranged from (essentially a programming lan computer. Huge quantities of note-taking cards to program guage) it should be easy for users information can be stored on just launchers to one showing every to create new stacks of their own. one small compact disc. chemical element. Customizing cards and entire HyperCard seems tailor-made Look for even more sophis stacks is also relatively easy, for accessing enormous amounts ticated stacks in the months to though it takes time. But as with of information. First of all, the come, both from shareware and most other computer applications, card-style interface can be im commercial programmers. many HyperCard users will prob mediately understood by almost ably leave their purchased stacks anyone, from school children to alone and use them as is. power users. More importantly, HyperCard is fun to play with, the ability to link information and but at the moment, its usefulness then let the user access that infor II On II is less than revolutionary. One rea mation in a nonsequential fashion son is its memory requirements. is perfect for CD-ROM, which al Software publishers aren't climb HyperCard requires a full megabyte lows for relatively fast random ac ing over each other to release hot of memory. In itself, that's not cess. And by allowing for new products for the Apple IIGS. shocking; all Macintosh computers graphics, video, and audio, Hyper Many publishers have canceled or now sold come with that much Card is properly positioned to act postponed their plans for Apple RAM. But many Macintosh owners as an interface for these aspects of fiGS software and instead are cau are comfortable only when using future CD-ROM. tiously introducing programs for more than one application at a One piece of announced the Apple lie and Tie. It's even time. Switcher and desk accessories stackware-the phrase being more revealing that many of the are the two most common exam coined for HyperCard applica products for the Apple IIGS are ples of that philosophy. tions- provides such an interface, simply versions of software which Yet HyperCard demands the not for CD-ROM, but for a laser first appeared on the Apple lie full attention of a one-megabyte videodisc. The National Gallery of and lie-versions that incorporate Macintosh. And since it's an Art Laserguide will work with The color and use the mouse interface. application, users must first quit National Gallery of Art videodisc Not that the Apple IIGS isn't whatever program is active- for and let users design their own an exciting computer or that it's instance, a word processor tour of the museum's works. Sort not selling. The fact remains that before running HyperCard. Look for all Renoirs, for instance, set there is software for the Apple for HyperCard to reach its stride the speed of the tour, and sit back IIGS which accomplishes tasks when Macintosh memory is at the and watch the masterpieces slide never before possible with an Ap two-megabyte point. by. Or select any painting or ple 11 computer. But the Apple With the amount of infor sculpture and read detailed notes JIGS is in a strange position, some mation a stack can contain ·(the about its artist, subject, or school. thing software publishers feel in upper limit is 32K per card,.which their pocketbooks. Its technology means that a stack could hold is far beyond the other Apple II megabytes of data), HyperCard And What Do They Think? computers, but because of limita doesn't seem practical on a floppy Some developers are bound to be tions in resolution and speed, it's disk-based Macintosh. less than enthusiastic about not quite a Macintosh. HyperCard has one glitch. HyperCard. It will obviously cut Businesses are cautious What the program calls the Home into the market of such products enough about unproven products card (a central stack that lets you as hypertext applications like that the slightly more expensive call other stacks and cards) is a Guide as well as simple file man Macintosh Plus is more attractive necessary part of HyperCard. agers traditionally used for the than the Apple IIGS (the Mac Plus 'Without it, stacks can't be kinds of information processing can now be found for several accessed. In fact, HyperCard won't that HyperCard is good at. hundred dollars more than an Ap run without the Home card. But a Others, though, can only be ple IIGS). On the other hand, new Home card cannot be created ecstatic. With the proper basic thousands of business, educa without HyperCard. Corrupt the information, the smallest tional, and home users are per Home card, and you're stuck. programming shop should be able fectly happy with their lie and lie to turn out stackware. Expect a computers. They have a computer number of the early efforts to with an unmatched track record at ROM And CD-ROM show up as shareware or freeware an affordable price. (One user The talk is that at some point on bulletin boards or commercial traded in his Macintosh for an HyperCard may become part of database services like Compu Apple lie because he realized that the Macintosh's ROM. That would Serve, Delphi, and GEnie. Both he wasn't doing desktop publish certainly solve the memory prob GEnie and CompuServe had ing, he wasn't creating artistic lem. And it would make Hyper- HyperCard-dedicated areas in their graphics, and he wasn't linking his 8 COMPUTE!'< ApJ•II' AJ•J•IIcali<'IIS December 1987

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