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Q&A by Bruce F. Field Q. I have a /Ie, a Niceprint interface card from Spies Lab-oratories, and an Epson MX-80 printer with Graftrax +. This in

replacing the supply yourself. You just screw the new supply to the bottom plate of the Apple and plug it into the motherboard. Check the back pages

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THE BEST PICKS IN '86 by David Ottalini, III SIG Co-Chairman My penchant for listing things continues to get out of hand! This month and nex

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GAMESIG NEWS by Barry Bedrick JANUARY MEETING First. I can only hope that no one read my column in the January issue attentively enough to notic

ENCHANTED SCEPTERS: A Review by Barry and Ben Bedrick Silicon Beach Software, the AIRBORNE! people, have released this Macintosh graphic adventure wi

Now, F«Jr A Very Low Price, You Can Up Your Mac'· With A ~;12K or 1, 1.5, or 2 Megabyte Ram Upgrade Direct From VOAD Systems Examilrae These

PLAYING "TIME ZONE" by Steven Payne Since I have gained access to a computer only within the last 10 months, my newly acquired addiction

BARON: A Review '1y Chris Klugewicz '-' BARON, from Blue Chip Software for the Apple 1/ series and Macintosh, is the third in the com

WIZARDRY TRANSFER by Nicholas G. Carter The new Macintosh version of Wizardry is a superb blend of the now-classic game of Wizardry with the ease and

ADAPTING AN aD-COLUMN CARD TO WIZARDRY '-'by Steven Pearce Several months ago I purchased the first Wizardry disk ("Proving Gr

I OLDWARE (or LOWTECH) HAS ITS PLACE by Jack Mortimer Through the pages of this or other publications dedicated to microcomputer news and informatio

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WHERE TO PUT YOUR COMPUTER by Jack Mortimer Many of the [me articles in the pages of this journal discuss the technical aspects of the hard

QUAD THERMOMETER by Tam Riley We have come to rely on our personal computers for a great many tasks. This article will point out yet another task

whether the difference is enough to reduce the likelihood of component failure. We will need to measure the temperature of the room air and of the sev

the end of the tube but the tip of the thennistor must be allowed to stick out. The outer heat shrink may be any length from 114 inch to several inche

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uniform over the entire range. Data Logging We are now at a point that we can run experiments. Program #4 is the data logging program. It allows

the use of good scientific method. Temperature Resjstance ..Read ~Note: ~eprograms referred to in this article will be avadable soon 10 the W AP di

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"PRINT USING" FOR FORTH by Chester H. Page This application provides for right-justified "pictured" printing of numbers, for e

121F >R \ if single-precision number, set width aside 13 S->D \ convert number to double-precision fonnat 14 R> ENDIF \ recover width 15 --&g

PROGRAM SELECTOR REVIEW by Barry Fox (This review has been updated to reflect the new 2.0 version of Glen Bredon's ProSEL. Information conce

I you can update the disk on the desktop. It also allows you to create run lists of programs so you can run them either by pulling down the Run window

PASCAL AND MODULA-2 IMPLEMENTATIONS by Robert C. Platt This month's column will take a step back to provide Apple 1/ and Mac owners with an

Step-Lively includes the new QUED editor for entering programs from Paragon Courseware. (Call 518-785-7214). Modula-2 on the Applell '-' Aft

Clinton Computer --Here to Stay and Stronger than Ever Word from Our President We want to thank the Washington Apple Pi members because so many

. . '.' .Softviews ~.. : . ...:...I~ ~.~ •..,~",:~, ..., -~David .. ':;. ~.Morganstein ... ... This month a few words abou

The first of the new procedures is CLUSTER which pro-vides several cluster analytic techniques falling broadly into two categories: hierarchical tree

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objective viewpoint, Apple's arguments that theirs is a proprietary user interface are questionable at best. For one thing, most of the Mac us

¥~iD~~IGK ~PPb~ ~0~~ A SLICE OF THE WASHINGTON APPLE PI OFFICERS & CHAIRMEN ror 1986 President - Scott Galbraith Vice President -John Lee Sec

orator ball often did not strike the ribbon properly and only provided one point size for text. The Macintosh has changed all that and we now compose

Another owner of a Prometheus modem says that the manual is identical to his Prometheus manual. Therefore, Prometheus may be the "leading competi

BOOK REVIEWS by Robert C. Platt Welcome back to the Book Review comer. This month's column will cover a book on the history of microcomputing and

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remains to be seen. But Haba owners risk incompatibility with both Apple's new firmware and the disk protection schemes of software publishers.

sharper than the ImageWriter I. Harry Starr recommends lubricating the ImageWriter II rails with light oil to improve the registration on bidirctional

Q: Can you recommend MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) software? A: Not personally, but MacUser magazine had a comparative article in

by Ralph J. Begleiter MacN()l'ice C()lumn Hot Tips Many of you are still new to your Macintoshes, so you're probably still getting to know

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'EXCEL'ing WITH YOUR MAC by David Morganstein Microsoft's Excel program is just about the most powerful, yet easiest to use, Spre

row of the table, the various combinations. In our case, there are four companies and three products. The table shown below contains the names of the

EXCEL POWER: MANIPULATING CELLS by Tom Warrick To carry out a formatting operation on a number of cells in Microsoft's powerful integrated

ON JAN 22d WE WILL INTRODUCE THE MAC PLUS TO WASHINGTON. A FIRST. ON JAN 25th WE WILL INTRODUCE THE NEW SCSI HARD DISKS & UPGRAD

PRESIDENT'S CORNER by Tom Warrick WAP's semi-annual "garage sale" in December was a big success. We had record attendance, as we

HFS FOLLIES by Tom Warrick Apple's new Hierarchical File System (HFS) for the Macintosh is so unlike the file system Macintosh users are fami

Macintosh. The C language, however, has powerful built-in file-handling commands that use the equivalent of disk names, and many C programmers used th

o by James M. Burger RPPLE1S HD-2D G DRSCH HAPPY NEW YEAR It's hard to believe. Another year gone. It has been a roller coaster year for Apple.

downloaded a .5 meg data me off an online service; tty that on floppies and then tty to edit it). The drive appears to be solid and reliable. Wit

without major surgery, since the RAM chips are soldered to the DASCH's printed circuit board. Price. 512K - $495. 1 meg -$795. 2 megs -$999. DAS

MUSEMENTS ~Fred Seelig Macintosh PASCAL MacWrite, MacPaint, Word, and all those games are all right, but some of us users think that the best s

parameters to Toolbox routines. At this point you are really programming in assembly language, and that is painfully slow and prone to frequent crashe

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army to attack the kingdom. He has enlisted the aid of a wizard to call up the evil spirit "vaprak". A brave warrior will have to kill the

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