September – October 1995 — Vol 17 No 5
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Overview
How to Ask for Help With Your Mac (Lawrence I. Charters, 18). Quicken 5 (Lauri Rohn, 23). The Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS (Wayne Brissette, 26). MacroMedia Director (Scott Smurthwaite, 27). Graphic Tips (Carol O'Connor, 30). Passage to Vietnam: State-of-Technology CD-ROM (Dennis R. Dimick, 34). Artists on Exhibit (Ann Aiken, 38). Looking for Good ROMs: Voyage(r) of Discovery (Dennis R. Dimick, 54). Photoshop 3.0: Power, Elegance, Convenience (Dave Kramer, 64). Color Discrepancies on a Color Style Writer Pro (Denny Crag, 68). Adding an Application to the Launcher (77).
Apple II: KansasFest '95 (Seth Mize, 70) — annual Apple II/IIGS festival in Kansas. Adventures in Installing Appleworks (Geraldine Wright, 73). How to Modify Your Cursor III Joystick to Play Apple II Games (Ed Gooding, 75).
Apple III: Mousing Around With the Apple /// (Paul Campbell, 76). Apple ///: Printing from BASIC and Pascal (78).
Highlights
How to Ask for Help — Lawrence I. Charters
New VP-Mac writes a help-asking primer — practical netiquette + tech-support advice.
Photoshop 3.0 — Dave Kramer
Photoshop 3.0 (1994) — layers introduced! Major Mac DTP/photo turning point.
MacroMedia Director — Scott Smurthwaite
Director multimedia authoring — predecessor to Flash (Macromedia bought FutureWave's FutureSplash in 1996).
Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS — Wayne Brissette
Apple's color LaserWriter — major peripheral.
Passage to Vietnam CD-ROM — Dennis R. Dimick
Multimedia photojournalism — Rick Smolan's project (after From Alice to Ocean reviewed 1993-01 — V15 N01).
KansasFest '95 — Seth Mize
Annual Apple II/IIGS festival — still active in 1995.
Entities
People: Lorin Evans, Lawrence I. Charters, Lauri Rohn, Wayne Brissette, Scott Smurthwaite, Carol O'Connor, Dennis R. Dimick, Ann Aiken, Dave Kramer, Denny Crag, Seth Mize, Geraldine Wright, Ed Gooding, Paul Campbell Topics: KansasFest, Photoshop 3.0 Layers, Color LaserWriter, Multimedia CD-ROM References: Photoshop 3.0, MacroMedia Director, Quicken 5, Color LaserWriter 12/600, Passage to Vietnam
Connections to other issues
- Lawrence I. Charters now writing as new VP-Mac
- Photoshop 3.0 = layers era; predecessor to Photoshop's modern paradigm
- KansasFest = continuing Apple II community celebration
- Multimedia CD-ROM follows From Alice to Ocean (1993-01 — V15 N01)