8L xC)pJJJJ IH(ȱH:=IH[H`@H^H 2 9 @   I/H`JLNGȄBȄF aK ' faaFF  RJm# KKJ qJ )J ۈJJm  JFȱJGJKaȄM ' 5aaNNJFLGJ`a  XL LG &PRODOS`DaElH$?EGvѶK+`L XX LU ŠϠĠӥS)*+,+`F)) (*=GJFjJJA QE'+ '== `@ STSP8QSS8 m P o R(8RA2.2000.7.97* 1' @-A2.2000.INTRO+;9 +SNEEZE.DOCS; # 'STARTUP41WWROAD.APPLESN4&PRODOS^#B  'JB.6502   INTERVIEWS4FREE.A2.ADS &DOGPAW # #`pARTICLES A2.INFO.CENTER * .A2.20TH.BG.WOZ  ,BASIC.SYSTEM( ,SNEEZE.UTILS/ #@UNSHRINK?{0 # ~ FINDER.ROOT`  p+ FINDER.DATAaD p+ ? *+,-XYZ[\July 15th, 1997 - A letter from the Editor Welcome to the first issue of A2-2000, a freeware monthly disk-a-zine devoted to all Apple II models and users worldwide! Celebrating Twenty Years of Apple II Productivity I've been active and involved with the Apple II series of computers - for over twelve year now. I started out with buying my first Apple IIc - after having been introduced to it by Woz at the US Festival. I've watched the Apple II co mputer industry rise to it's peak in 1986 thru 1990 and then slide back to its current state of affairs with a healthy Internet presents, user community, webs ites, Usenet news groups, online services, BBS's, ftp sites and user groups worldwide. I've explored them all on a daily basis, for several years now. I see a very long and promising future still ahead for the Apple II computers and for those that continue to use and support them. I've seen many Apple II commercial software and hardware companies come and go. I've watched many publications come, prosper and end too. This is a fact one must accept in any computer platform and with any such industry. I'm sure many others will come and go. I've watched many Apple II computer users come, go and return also! It seems there is something about the Apple II computers they just can't do without. After twenty years of Apple II activities the A2 platform and its users are still very present amd very active (in smaller numbers - that's true). But, I'm also observing new and younger users inheriting Apple II models, buying them used and new (The Tiger Learning Computer). I've also noticed a fair share of new and older users enter and return to the Apple II community over the past few years - with much vigor and interest in the Apple II models they own and use for many, many needs. Over the years I've had some great joy and many rewards from the Apple II computers, with many friends and users, as well as some disappointments and problems that caused a bit of aggravation and pain. I've made some stupid mistakes and errors with my efforts over the years and I've learned a lot along t he way too. I've considered - on more than one occasion the option of leaving t he Apple II models behind and venturing into other more current computer technolo gies and platforms. But, in the end I've decided to remain and give all my productive efforts to the Apple II community that I possibly can give, for the balance of this century and for as long as I'm able to into the next millennium! Why? Because it's given me much more joy and rewards than it has aggravation and pain. Besides, I still have much faith in the future of the Apple II computers and a few more years of productive efforts I'd like to offer to it. I even intend to tap all the other computer platforms for what they can offer to the Apple II models and their users. And, why not - that's what they are there for anyway. I've found a great enhancement device to use for the Apple II computers too. It's called a Mac :) Using my great Apple II enhancement device to explore and tap all the resources during the past four years, I've learned about the offerings from the Internet and I've enjoyed using it from 5 up to as much as 12 hours per day, exploring all it has to offer the Apple II community. I've hosted a 'MegaWeb Site' (The GS WorldView EZine) and founded a worldwide Internet user group (US-A2WUG) both of which have offered much in the way of help to Apple II users around the world, who visit and enjoy their offered contents - for the past several months and years. With the departure of all of our Apple II monthly publications over the past years, I've felt the need for making available - a freeware monthly disk-a-zine like this to offer support, news and information on all the Apple II computer models have to offer their users around the world. Thus, I've decided to release A2 -2000 as such, in the hopes it will stimulate new interest, faith, production, development and the deserved appreciation in the Apple II computer models. And,I'm presenting some old classic and forgotten materials within the monthly issues of A2 -2000 also. To show the readers that after all these years, the Apple II's past is its future! Along with many old veterans and ICONS in the Apple II community, I intend to prove that Apple's past is INDEED it's future, to the best of my abilities. I've obtained ample permission to use most of the material from many old classic Apple II publications in this issue and all future issues of A2-2000. I'll be presenting in each issue of A2-2000 the most current news and product information I can gather also. I intend to continue with monthly releases of A2-2000 until at least - April, 2001 and as far beyond that date as possible. I'm sorry to say - with my many other personal and computer related obligations, priorities, etc. and in my haste to present it by the monthly relase date (7/15/97) - there is no table of contents to show you exactly what it contains with this first issue. If you are a real devoted Apple II user with a real desire to explore the contents - you can simply read the contents of each text file present in this premiere issue of A2-2000. I'll tell you this - you won't be sorry you did. So, take the time and explore it all at your leasure. With exclusive contributions by Steve Wozniak and many other Apple II ICONS and 6502 legends in the computer industry, I think you'll be impressed with what you find within this first issue of A2-2000. I had a mountain of contributions, past articles, reviews, interviews, etc. available and spent over a week just sorting thru them all - to determine what I wanted to include with this first issue of A2-2000. The contents just about cover everything you'd care to know about the Apple II computers over the past 20 years. Take your time, relax, read it all and enjoy! There's a lot more to come with each new monthly issue and I promiss you there will be a detailed table of contents for you to review - in each future monthly issue of A2-2000! The Apple II models have been improved, developed for and expanded - to offer things never thought possible with the introduction of each new Apple II model over the years of it's production. In this premiere issue of A2-2000 and every issue that follows - I hope to present an informative review for the reader with all the Apple II models have offered, can still offer and will be able to offer during the next several years. Expanding the user base of the Apple II computers with curremt emulators now available for all Apple II models on nearly every computer plaSneeze ====== Sneeze ("Applesoft Text-Based User Interface" --> "A.T.U.I." --> "Sneeze") is a text-and-graphics-display/menu/launcher program originally written for A2-Central On Disk. Thanks to the generosity of the people at A2-Central, I am able to release this public domain version to be used by anyone for any purpose, free of charge. (For subscription information on A2-Central magazine, write to: A2-Central, P.O. Box 11250, Overland Park, KS 66207) About Sneeze ============ Sneeze evolved  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123from an earlier program called "Windows". Windows (or "Window") was originally written by Andy Anderson 1987, and was later extensively modified by me -- Karl Bunker -- with help from Dean Esmay. Sneeze is the result of a complete rewrite of that version of Windows (and Sneeze version 2.0 is the result of a complete rewrite of Sneeze 1.x). As one might expect from a program with such a long and involved history, Sneeze is now quite a formidable little program. Here's a partial list of what it can do: * Navigate through your disks and directories. * Launch BASIC, SYS, and S16 programs. * Print TXT or AWP (AppleWorks Word Processor) files. * Display TXT or AWP files on-screen. * Display all of the more popular types of graphics files. * Copy files, with disk-swapping allowed. * Run on any 80 column Apple II except for the ][+. New Features: ============= For those familiar with earlier versions of this program, here is a list of features added since version 1.0: 1.01: Apple Preferred Format graphics that are two screens tall can be scrolled to view the lower half. OpenApple-X added to revert to the "copied-from" prefix after copying a file. 1.02: Bug with viewing multiple DHR graphics on a //e or //c fixed. Bug with launching AppleWorks after viewing graphics on a //e or //c fixed. 1.1: Scrolling in the filename display improved. Now supports 3200- color graphics on a IIgs. 1.11: Display of PNT 3200 graphics corrected. 1.2: Bugs in //e-//c graphics display fixed; DHR graphics display now works on Laser 128. Text file printing improved; new "Printer Options" screen. Various changes to the prompts. 1.21: Bugs in v.1.2's Dogpaw fixed. Printer Options enhanced. Other minor improvements. 2.0 Many major enhancements. Directory reading and file-list scrolling is humongously faster, most documented filetype abbreviations are shown, upper/lower case file names supported, etc., etc. Numerous enhancements to various other functions. 2.1 Easier (and now documented) use of archive-unpacking option. OpenApple- to enter slot/drive for new prefix. Bug in oot-slot fixed. 2.2 Copying of multiple files introduced. Conflict with ProDOS 2.0.1 and 3200 graphics fixed. Launches locked BIN files (again). Some little bugs fixed. Using Sneeze: ============= Most of Sneeze's functions are pretty self-evident from the list of commands shown on its screen, but some additional information will be helpful with a few of the operations. Pressing with a file highlighted will perform the "what you probably want to do" function on that file: program files will be launched, text and graphics files will be displayed, and folder (DIR) files will be opened. Launching programs: Sneeze can launch BASIC (BAS), system (SYS), GS/OS application (S16) files, and binary (BIN) files if they are locked. As you may know, some very large SYS programs can't normally be launched from BASIC. Although Sneeze is a BASIC program, it doesn't have this limitation. It can launch SYS programs of any size. When a SYS program quits or "exits to ProDOS", you will be automatically returned to Sneeze. If a BASIC program exits with a "quit to BASIC", you can return to Sneeze by entering "BYE" at the "]" prompt. S16 (IIgs application programs) can also be launched from Sneeze. To do this, however, you must have booted your IIgs into GS/OS, and have then selected Sneeze from the Finder, or some other GS/OS program launcher. If you haven't done this, the message "GS/OS not available" will appear when you select an S16 file. When you exit from an S16 program, you will be returned to your GS/OS launcher, rather than Sneeze. Sneeze can launch BIN files, providing they are locked; this requirement was added as a precaution, since many BIN files aren't intended to be launched (they may be graphics, or some other type of data file). Sneeze doesn't show which files are locked, so a prefix or suffix to a BIN file's name may be used to show that it is launchable. If a BIN file exits to the BASIC prompt (]), you can return to Sneeze by entering "BYE". If you launched Sneeze from another program launcher (either a GS/OS or a ProDOS 8 launcher), you can return to that launcher at any time by pressing OpenApple-Q. (Note: on most Apples, Sneeze displays the MouseText OpenApple symbol to represent the OpenApple key; on un-enhanced //e's, an inverse "oa" is used.) Viewing text: Sneeze can display or print TXT (ASCII text) and AWP (AppleWorks Word Processor) files. To view a file, just press with that file highlighted. Sneeze can also scan through a text file for a word or phrase. If you press (to scan the highlighted file) or OpenApple-S (to scan ALL the text files in the current folder), you will be prompted for the word or phrase to search for. Sneeze will then start "flipping through" the text file(s), and will stop if it finds the string of characters you entered. This search is not case-sensitive. If you want to abort a long scan, press OpenApple-. Printing text: To print a file, press

with that file highlighted. If you press OpenApple-P, a new screen will appear allowing you to set several "Printer Options": A page header for the printout, a set of control codes to configure your printer, whether the file will be printed on both sides of the paper, and the slot your printer is connected to. I'll explain each of these options in a little more detail: Page header: At the first prompt in the Printer Options screen, you can type in a header which will appear at the top of each printed page. If this header includes the character "#", that character will be replaced by the page number in the printout. Thus, if you enter "Page #" the actual header will be "Page 1", "Page 2", etc. Printer control code: Normally, Sneeze uses the default character set of your printer, and assumes that this character set is 10 characters per inch. Depending on your printer setup, you may want to have a "control code" sent to your printer before a file is printed in order to reset the character set, or to initialize the printer. For example, the control code to set an ImageWriter to 10 characters per inch is ESCAPE N. At the "Printer control code:" prompt you would press and then . (The will appear as an inverse "[".) Double-sided pages: If you like, you can have Sneeze print out a file using both sides of each page. Answer "Y" at this prompt in the Printer Options screen, and begin the printing. Sneeze will first print only the odd-numbered pages of the file; then it will prompt you to "Remove, reverse and restart paper". This means to remove the printed paper, turn it over, and reinsert it into the printer. Sneeze will then print the even-numbered pages. Thus, page 2 will be printed on the back of page 1, page 4 on the back of page 3, and so on. This option assumes you are using fanfold computer paper. Printer Slot: This, of course, refers to the slot your printer interface card is in. If you are using the printer port on a //c or IIgs, this is recognized as "slot 1" -- the default for this option. When you have set the printer options you want, you can begin the printing of the file by pressing OpenApple-. Graphics: Sneeze can display the following types of graphics files: Hi-res, Double Hi-res (DazzleDraw type), unpacked Super Hi-res (shown as filetype PIC), BINary SHR, Apple Preferred Format SHR, PaintWorks format SHR (both shown as PNT), BINary ".3200" graphics, PIC (unpacked) 3200, and PNT (packed) 3200. The IIgs-specific types can only be displayed on a IIgs. With Apple Preferred Format graphics that are two screens tall, you can see the lower half of the image by pressing the down-arrow key while the graphic is on screen. Not all files listed as PIC or PNT are actually any of the types supported by Sneeze, so you may occasionally see an "Unsupported graphic file format" message when you try to view SHR graphics. By pressing OpenApple-G, you can do a "slide show" of all the graphics files in the current folder. Each graphic will remain on screen until a key is pressed; pressing or OpenApple-. (period) will end the slide show. Displaying any type of graphic file requires 128K, and will cause any files you have on the slot 3, drive 2 /RAM disk to be erased. Don't use /RAM if you are going to be viewing graphics. Copying files: To copy files, start by pressing (it doesn't matter what file is highlighted at this point). Sneeze's display will change slightly, and as noted by a prompt, you can now select the files you want to copy by pressing the space bar. A check appears beside each file you select. When done selecting files, press , and you will be prompted to select the target volume and folder for the files to be copied to. Only folders, or DIR files, now appear in the file-selection list, along with the words "" highlighted, and the files will be copied. If necessary, different source and destination disks can be swapped in and out of a single drive. Archive files: Archive files (type LBR) are files that have been packed with the utility "ShrinkIt", written by Andy Nicholas. Files are usually packed into archive files for the purpose of uploading to online information services. Archives must be unpacked with ShrinkIt to restore them to usable files. There are various versions of ShrinkIt available, all written by Andy Nicholas. One of these versions is only for unpacking (not creating) archives and is called Auto-Unshrink, or simply UNSHRINK. Sneeze cannot unpack archives itself, but it can be used in conjunction with UNSHRINK to unpack archives. To do this, a copy of UNSHRINK must be in the same folder that Sneeze.Utils is in. UNSHRINK is freeware, and available in the download libraries of the major online services. If you received Sneeze on a disk from me, UNSHRINK is included on this disk. When you press with an archive file highlighted, you will first see a prompt telling you that the file is a ShrinkIt archive, and asking if you want to unpack it. Respond "Y", and you will be prompted to "Select target volume/folder", just as when copying a file (see above). Navigate to the volume and folder that you would like the archive's contents unpacked to, and press with "