August 1988 — Vol 10 No 8
Source
Open original PDF • August 1988 • Vol 10 No 8 • 87 pages • $2.50
Overview
Leadership transition: Robert C. Platt is now President of Pi (President's Corner by Platt; Warrick steps back after multi-year run that began ~1986). HyperCard 1.2 overview (Kenneth Knight) — covering Apple's update. MacNovice: FullWrite Follow-Up (Ralph J. Begleiter) — Ashton-Tate's FullWrite Professional (the long-awaited Mac WP that finally shipped April 1988). LaserPaint review in Bits & Bytes (Lynn R. Trusal). MacFlow flowcharting reviewed by Mike Dewey. JoyReader (shareware) by Phil Shapiro and Linda Van Zee. ProSEL on the Apple IIGS (Chuck Ward) — Glen Bredon's pro-level GS shell. Tutor-Tech: Hypermedia on the Apple II (Ray Settle) — yes, hypermedia for the Apple II. Telecommunications at Warp Speed (Eric Rall) — TCS continuing. Musements by Fred Seelig continues.
Table of contents (selected)
| Section | Author | Page |
|---|---|---|
| President's Corner | Robert C. Platt | 4 |
| Q & A | Robert C. Platt & Bruce F. Field | 10 |
| The JoyReader Shareware Disk | Phil Shapiro | 12 |
| JoyReader: A Review | Linda Van Zee | 12 |
| ZipChip for the Apple II | Bob Oringel | 13 |
| Tutor-Tech: Hypermedia on the Apple II | Ray Settle | 14 |
| ProSEL on the Apple IIGS | Chuck Ward | 16 |
| IIGS SIG Meeting Report | Paul Tarantino | 17 |
| Annapolis Apple Slice News | Katherine M. Cave | 18 |
| On the Trail of the Apple /// | Dave Ottalini | 20 |
| GameSIG News | Barry Bedrick | 22 |
| Gauntlet: A Double-Edged Sword | David Wood | 22 |
| Grammar Mechanics | David L. Porter | 23 |
| Might & Magic (Mac) | David L. Porter | 23 |
| Might & Magic (Mac) | Ann Baird | 25 |
| MacNovice: FullWrite Follow-Up | Ralph J. Begleiter | 32 |
| Macinations | Robb Wolov | 34 |
| FedSIG News | John Nelson | 35 |
| Sorry, a system error has occurred | Eric Rall | 38 |
| Macintosh Bits and Bytes (LaserPaint) | Lynn R. Trusal | 40 |
| AVSIG | Nancy Seferian | 42 |
| ReadySetShow: Desktop Presentation | Martin Milrod | 44 |
| Musements | Fred Seelig | 46 |
| Excelling on Your Mac: Part 22 | David Morganstein | 52 |
| Excel SIG Report | Larry Feldman | 54 |
| MacFlowing Report | Mike Dewey | 56 |
| QuickWork Version 2.0 | William R. Arndt | 60 |
| How Perfect Can WordPerfect Be? | Bonnie Walker | 62 |
| On HyperCard: An Overview of 1.2 | Kenneth Knight | 64 |
| Book Review: XCMDs for HyperCard | Robert C. Platt | 67 |
| HyperCard SIG News | Robert C. Platt | 67 |
| Telecommunications at Warp Speed | Eric Rall | 68 |
Highlights
Robert C. Platt becomes President — Robert C. Platt
Leadership transition — Platt (Pi's most prolific 1986-88 contributor: HyperCard SIG, Pascal News, Q&A co-author, VP) succeeds Warrick as President of Pi. Warrick had been President since the 1986 ingest.
HyperCard 1.2 Overview — Kenneth Knight
Apple's HyperCard 1.2 update — color hooks (still mostly 1-bit), color icon support, performance improvements.
MacNovice: FullWrite Follow-Up — Ralph J. Begleiter
FullWrite Professional (Ashton-Tate / Ann Arbor Softworks) — long-awaited Mac WP, finally shipped April 1988 after extended delays. Becomes the standard footnote-and-graphics-style Mac WP.
Tutor-Tech — Ray Settle
Hypermedia for the Apple II — Techware Corporation's Apple II answer to HyperCard.
ProSEL on IIGS — Chuck Ward
Glen Bredon's ProSEL — pro-grade IIGS shell/utility suite.
Entities
People: Robert C. Platt, Bruce F. Field, Phil Shapiro, Linda Van Zee, Bob Oringel, Ray Settle, Chuck Ward, Paul Tarantino, Katherine M. Cave, Dave Ottalini, Barry Bedrick, David Wood, David L. Porter, Ann Baird, Dana J. Schwartz, Ralph J. Begleiter, Robb Wolov, John Nelson, Eric Rall, Lynn R. Trusal, Nancy Seferian, Martin Milrod, Fred Seelig, David Morganstein, Larry Feldman, Mike Dewey, William R. Arndt, Bonnie Walker, W.R. Scott, Kenneth Knight, Bill Baldridge, Jim Little, David Weikert Topics: Robert C. Platt Presidency, HyperCard 1.2, Mac Word Processors 1988, Apple II Hypermedia References: JoyReader, ZipChip, Tutor-Tech, ProSEL, Gauntlet, Might & Magic, FullWrite Professional, LaserPaint, ReadySetShow, MacFlow, QuickWork, XCMDs for HyperCard
Connections to other issues
- Robert C. Platt Presidency begins this issue; Tom Warrick led Pi from ~1986
- HyperCard 1.2 follows HyperCard 1.0.1 coverage from 1988-01 — V10 N01 (Rick Chapman's Anomalies)
- FullWrite Professional — long-awaited; first announced in 1987, shipped April 1988