Little BITS
By Andrew Roughan
Copyright (c) 1990 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
o Well, what a great response last month's issue received! The article concerning the "new" Apple ///e and ///e+ caused quite a bit of stir. This article was in fact a humurous, farcical account. Unfortunately a few of our newer members were mislead. I apologise for that and I undertake to reproduce the entire article in future!
o I now have my new GS and I have to say that it is a wonderful machine. One statement I made in the last magazine, concerning the new machine, was that there was 1.25 MB of on board RAM. This is incorrect, there is only 1.125 MB.
My only disapointment so far has been that I cannot run that fantastic graphics and sound demonstration program, NUCLEUS, because the authors have used ROM incorrectly for the new machine.
o February's GS SIG was a very entertaining meeting. The main demonstration was of a MIDI system, comprising ROLAND keyboard and MasterTracks Jnr software, given by John Paske.
Attendees actually saw the new GS and the differences in the machines were pointed out.
Various hardware issues were discussed.
Speed up hardware - ROCKET chips perform well if you can get them
- TRANSWARP cards perform very well also.
- ZIP chips had a high failure rate and were not recommended
Various Hard drives and tape drives were discussed. Three attendees offered their 60MB CMS hard drives for sale. They are buying 100 MB replacements!
The demise of Call APPLE was lamented. Also the current problems of SEAHORSE were mentioned.
o Frank Revill is no longer Marketing Manager for Apple Computer. He now holds the prestigious position of Customer Development Manager and can now "officially" support the A.U.G. Keep up the great work Frank.
o Two American publications, A2 Central and Sourcerors Apprentice, were hailed as very good investments. It was noted that the latter is the only known regular Apple // technical publication besides Apple's own Technical Notes. Here are the addresses for these publications.
A2-Central: A2-Central
PO Box 11250
Overland Park
Kansas 66207
ph 913-469-6502
Sourcerors Apprentice: Ariel Publishing
PO Box 266
Unalakleet
AK 99684
ph 907-624-3161
o After last month's review of Appleworks v3.0, I thought a few prices may be of interest.
Appleworks v3.0 is available from Dataflow RRP $375
Dataflow are offering upgrades from all previous Appleworks versions. Send them the front cover of your Appleworks Reference manual, together with $119.95 and $8 for postage & packing. Please state whether you need the 3.5" or 5.25" version.
Dataflow also handle the TimeOut application upgrades. Send them your original disk and $15.95. It is recommended that you call Dataflow to find out whether a TimeOut upgrade for your title is available yet or not.
Dataflow Computer Services Pty Ltd.
134 Barcom Ave
Rushcutters Bay NSW 2011
02-331-6153
o A new AE Expander revision for Appleworks v3.0 is due for USA release in February or early March. Expect it out here shortly after that.
o Here are two questions I received about Appleworks v3.0. There were some others, but I am told the answers can be found in the Appleworks reference manual.
Q Old files from Appleworks v2.0 have boldface continuing now where it shouldn't be. What's going on?
A V2 automatically stops Boldface when it encounters a linefeed. V3 doesn't. Therefore to fix your problem, make sure each boldface begin command corresponds with a boldface end command.
Q Can anyone tell me how to make a permanent change to the default options on the wordprocessor?
A Use SuperPatch. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find out where SuperPatch was available from. Does anyone know?
o Upgrades for Applied Engineering GS RAM and GS RAM+ cards, so that they will work with the new Apple //GS, are now available. Revisions A & E GS RAM and revisions A & D GS RAM+ can be upgraded with a $30 Pal chip exchange. The upgrade for revisions C & D GS RAM involves sending the card back to AE in the States. Contact Two Series Software (02) 606-9343 for more details.

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