July 1990 — Vol 12 No 7

Overview

Cover-illustrated issue with multiple themes: "New Wine in Old Macs" (page 19) — upgrade Mac SE/Plus paths. MacNovice on Hard Disk Partitions (page 22). AppleFest-ivities (pages 51-55) — plethora of AppleFest reports. HyperCard Stack Designs (finally) (page 14). Balance of the Planet review (Mary Ann McQuinn) — Chris Crawford's ecological-simulation game. Tele-Foster Grandparent program (Mary Kercher) — TCS-mediated mentorship between seniors and special-education students. Copy II Plus review (page 58). GeoCalc review (page 59). Publish It! 3 (Gary Hayman) — IIGS DTP update. Quicken and AppleWorks 3.0 (Gary Hayman) — interop. Byts and Pyces (Gary Hayman) — Apple II miscellany column. Apple II Forever! — "Apple taking the II seriously?". Lap Link Mac review (34). Intro to BASIC (for real, this time) (60). Colophon: "This issue created on a Macintosh IIfx and printed on a LaserWriter IINTX. The program used was PageMaker 4.0, the word processing program was Microsoft Word 4.0; the principal typeface is Adobe Garamond for the articles; and Helvetica and Condensed Helvetica for headlines."

Table of contents (selected)

Club News: Officers list still shows David Morganstein President (election vote underway; outcome in 1990-08 — V12 N08)

SIGs and Slices (11-12); HyperCard Stack Designs (14); WAP Artists in Review (16); Macinations (26); New Wine in Old Macs (19); MacNovice on Hard Disk Partitions (22); Lap Link Mac review (34); RGB Circuit diagram (39); AppleFest reports (51-55); Copy II Plus (58); GeoCalc (59); Intro to BASIC (60); Publish It! 3 (61); Byts and Pyces (62); Quicken and AppleWorks 3.0 (63); Apple II Forever (64); Balance of the Planet (65); Tele-Foster Grandparent program (66)

Highlights

Mac IIfx-produced

Colophon discloses production stack: Mac IIfx + LaserWriter IINTX + PageMaker 4.0 + MS Word 4.0 + Adobe Garamond — top-of-line Mac DTP setup.

New Wine in Old Macs

Upgrade paths for SE/Plus — keep your old Mac competitive (SE/30 upgrade kit, accelerators).

MacNovice on Hard Disk Partitions

Begleiter on partitioning — practical for the new generation of larger hard drives.

Balance of the Planet — Mary Ann McQuinn

Chris Crawford (Eastern Front, Trust & Betrayal) goes ecological — Balance of the Planet simulates planetary environmental management. Earth Day was just months old (1990).

Tele-Foster Grandparent — Mary Kercher

TCS-mediated mentorship matching seniors with special-education students. Pi's community outreach reaches new depth.

Apple II Forever!

Featurette — Apple's official "Apple II Forever" rallying cry of late-1980s being assessed.

AppleFest-ivities

Multi-author AppleFest dispatches across 5 pages — the IIGS scene's biggest annual show.

Entities

People: David Morganstein, Frank Potter, Nancy Seferian, Gary Hayman, Mary Ann McQuinn, Mary Kercher, Paul Schlosser, Robb Wolov, Ralph J. Begleiter, Chris Crawford Topics: Mac IIfx Production, Apple II Forever, Mac Upgrade Paths, AppleFest 1990, Tele-Foster Grandparent References: Balance of the Planet, Lap Link Mac, Copy II Plus, GeoCalc, Publish It! 3, Quicken (Apple II), AppleWorks 3.0, PageMaker 4.0

Connections to other issues

• Tele-Foster Grandparent extends Phil Shapiro's community-outreach theme
• Mac IIfx Production = Pi journal itself uses top-of-line Mac
• Pi Elections 1990 outcome announced 1990-08 — V12 N08 (Eric Rall wins)
• Apple II Forever sentiment vs. growing Mac focus = a recurring tension