Which Apple For You?

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ProDesk
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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
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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
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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.
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Challenge yourself to a quest that's far beyond anything
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Beyc;md Zork is available ar your local dealer for rhe Apple II senes, Macintosh, Commodcre 128,
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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
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98 '-'f.!-.i-:-J." -'''- ~- Dan Gutman
Window Maker . --
Robert Vreeland -._-.. ·, .-._-: ,-..:.. .' ." . :.::_~\..~. 66
,_ .,, ., . Tips, Tricks, and Tidbit
~ ~ - The Editors s
104 ~
ProJ?OS File Stamper
Lotlls-Eric Simard
December 1987-Vol. 5, No. 2, Issue 6
The Substitute Teacher
David Stanton
27
IBM vs. Apple:
The Struggle for the Educational Market
Keith Ferrell
69
The Clipper
Jenny Schmidt
79
Number Construction Set \
Daniel L. Stone
83
Calendar Maker
'-oo1!'!::oe_:....,-~=-:-.::;..~ William Colernan
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Reviews
106 112
HardBall Stepping Out
David Florance Keith Ferrell
107 114
DiskFit Writer's Elite
Gregg Keizer Jim Trunzo
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Program Entry Utilities
118 126
Apple MLX: Machine Language Entry Program New Products
Tim Victor
128
124 Advertisers Index
Apple Automatic Proofreader
Tim Victor
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AppleWorks, Where
Coming Attractions
Are You?
The Apple llGS is an innovative
Coming in the February 1988 issue of COMPUTE!'s Apple Applications:
computer that runs most of the
existing Apple lie and lie soft AppleFest. Our firsthand report from the biggest Apple II fair of the
ware. But most people who buy year.
an Apple IIGS (and the numbers Laser Chess™. This machine language, double hi-res strategy pro
are increasing) usually don't want gram is a powerfully original, futuristic strategy game.
to run Ilefc software-they want Computers, Cameras, and Composition. Apple computers, video
to run IIGS-specific programs that cameras, audio equipment, and desktop publishing combine to create
make use of the machine's terrific multimedia classrooms.
sound and graphics.
Rat Race. A fast-paced arcade game where speed and dexterity is of
But the fact remains that
the essence. Run your rats and avoid the traps.
AppleWorks is the best selling Ap
Mastering MacDraw. Hands-on information about the most popular
ple program ever. It's the reason
drawing program for the Macintosh.
thousands of people bought Apple
lie and lie computers. NewsWriter. A printing and formatting utility that turns the plainest
A IIGS version of AppleWorks, Apple II text files into multicolumn newsletters.
or an integrated package like Locker. Secure your disks from prying eyes with up to four levels of
AppleWorks, could galvanize the protective passwords.
machine's sales. The IIGS's speed,
one of its strong points, and its has a lot of memory-more than ported; you should be able to
easy-to-add memory make it a twice what's found in a lie or Uc. open at least four at any one time.
perfect computer for large and Adding memory to the IIGS is Pull-down menus and mouse sup
sophisticated applications. both easy and inexpensive. And port are needed, but the interface
Yet many developers have large amounts of memory means should not be bogged down with
taken the IIGS's Macintosh-like the machine can run large programs. countless fonts or unnecessary
appearance too much to heart. The Apple IIGS needs a pro graphics. In all, GSWorks should
Frequently, the result is programs gram like Microsoft Works for the look clean and run fast.
which, though colorful and com Macintosh-an integrated package GSWorks could be the pro
plete with pull-down menus and of word processor, spreadsheet, gram that opens the doors to
zooming windows, suffer from database, telecommunications, acceptability and a significant in
slow speeds. Graphics manipula and graphics. This hypothetical stalled base. Without GSWorks (or
tion, whether in a drawing pro GSWorks doesn't need color; writ something like it}, the IIGS may
gram or in a graphics-extensive ing, calculating, filing, charting, well languish. That would be a
environment like a Mac-style and telecommunicating don't re shame.
desktop or window, needs high quire color. GSWorks should be I
processing speeds. Without such fast-scrolling through a word
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quickness, redrawing screens processing document or across a
slows to a crawl and typing fails huge spreadsheet should be at
to keep up with the typist. least as fast as in AppleWorks. Gregg Keizer
As if to compensate, the IIGS Multiple windows must be sup- Editor
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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
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currency exchange rates, schedules, and climate.
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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