May 1988 — Vol 10 No 5
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Overview
Two cover-banner stories: The Great Apple Lawsuit (Apple vs. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, look-and-feel suit filed March 1988) — covered by Bill Hole in Developer's View and by Joseph A. Hasson in legal analysis. Macintosh Virus: Technical Notes — first systematic Pi coverage of Mac malware (the nVIR/Scores viruses of 1987-88). TimeOut AppleWorks Enhancements for IIGS (Chuck Ward). Personal Newsletter and Publish It! (Ray Settle) — desktop publishing for the Apple II. MacNovice Column: Word Processing — The Next Generation (Ralph J. Begleiter). Views & Reviews: MidiPaint and Performer (Raymond Hobbs) — Mac music software (Mark of the Unicorn). 1987 WAP Journal Index by Author, Part 1 (Harvey Kaye) — the second installment of Kaye's indexing project.
Table of contents (selected)
| Section | Author | Page |
|---|---|---|
| President's Corner | Tom Warrick | 4 |
| AV-SIG News | Nancy Seferian | 6 |
| Q & A | Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field | 10 |
| Using ProDOS-16 and Sider on IIGS | Chuck & Gail Ward | 12 |
| Apple IIGS SIG News | Ted Meyer | 13 |
| TimeOut AppleWorks Enhancements — IIGS | Chuck Ward | 14 |
| Meeting Report | Robert C. Platt | 18 |
| Best of the TCS Education Board | Peter Combes | 20 |
| The Sesame Street Crayon (//e) | Adam Briggs | 24 |
| Pascal News | Robert C. Platt | 24 |
| Bit Image Graphics on the Imagewriter | Ray Settle | 25 |
| Best of the Apple Items from TCS | Lou Pastura | 27 |
| On the Trail of the Apple /// | Dave Ottalini | 32 |
| Annapolis Apple Slice News | Katherine M. Cave | 33 |
| World Builder Contest Extended | — | 34 |
| 1987 WAP Journal Index by Author: Pt 1 | Harvey Kaye | 35 |
| Desktop Publishing SIG—April 6 | Cynthia Yockey | 39 |
| Personal Newsletter and Publish It! | Ray Settle | 40 |
| GameSIG News | Charles Don Hall | 41 |
| The Design Page for W.A.P. | Jay Rohr | 42 |
| MacNovice: Word Processing | Ralph J. Begleiter | 47 |
| Developer's View: The Great Apple Lawsuit | Bill Hole | 50 |
| Macinations 3 | Robb Wolov | 56 |
| Excelling on Your Mac: Part 20 | David Morganstein | 58 |
| Views & Reviews (MidiPaint/Performer) | Raymond Hobbs | 60 |
| Macintosh Virus: Technical Notes | — | 68 |
| HyperCard SIG News | Robert C. Platt | 70 |
| Is Your SE Fan Too Loud | Chuck Sicard | 71 |
| MacRecorder: Add Sounds to Stacks! | David Kreisberg | 72 |
Highlights
The Great Apple Lawsuit
Apple v. Microsoft and HP (March 17, 1988) — Apple's look-and-feel suit over Windows 2.03 and HP New Wave. A landmark case that dragged on for years and ultimately failed for Apple. Pi covers it from both developer and legal angles (Bill Hole and Joseph A. Hasson).
Macintosh Virus: Technical Notes
First systematic Pi virus coverage — the nVIR and Scores viruses appeared 1987-88, and Pi members need defense info. Pre-internet era; viruses spread via floppy disks.
Personal Newsletter and Publish It! — Ray Settle
Two Apple II desktop publishing packages — Publish It! (Timeworks) was a notable Apple II DTP entry.
Views & Reviews: MidiPaint & Performer — Raymond Hobbs
Mac music software — Performer (Mark of the Unicorn) became the standard MIDI sequencer for Mac.
1987 WAP Journal Index by Author Pt 1 — Harvey Kaye
Continuation of Harvey Kaye's indexing project (started Jan 1988).
Entities
People: Tom Warrick, Nancy Seferian, Robert C. Platt, Bruce F. Field, Chuck Ward, Gail Ward, Ted Meyer, Peter Combes, Adam Briggs, Ray Settle, Lou Pastura, Dave Ottalini, Katherine M. Cave, Raymond Hobbs, Harvey Kaye, Cynthia Yockey, Charles Don Hall, Jay Rohr, Ralph J. Begleiter, Bill Hole, Lynn R. Trusal, Robb Wolov, David Morganstein, Larry Feldman, Joseph A. Hasson, Chuck Sicard, David Kreisberg, Paul Koskos, Bill Baldridge, Martin Milrod, David Weikert, David Todd Topics: Apple v. Microsoft & HP, Mac Virus 1988, Look and Feel, Mac Music Software References: Publish It!, Personal Newsletter, MidiPaint, Performer, MacRecorder, Grappler C/Mac/GS, Sesame Street Crayon
Connections to other issues
- Apple v. Microsoft & HP continues across multiple issues — also covered 1988-06 — V10 N06 (Hasson Pt 2)
- Mac Virus 1988 coverage will repeat as nVIR/Scores spread
- Harvey Kaye's indexing project began with 1988-01 — V10 N01