Apple IIc Operation & User’s Manual

85 **************************************** * * * APPLE PRODOS SYSTEM UTILITIES * * FILER VERSION 1.0 * * COPYRIGHT APPLE COMPUTER, IN~., 1983 * * * **************************************** ? - TUTOR F - FILE' COMMANDS V - VOLUME COMMANDS D - CONFIGURATION DEFAULTS Q - QUIT PLEASE SELECT AN OPTION Pressing the question mark key causes a number of screen dis- plays to appear. These displays explain The Filer and a number of technical terms associated with The Filer. Before going further, you should be familiar with some important concepts that are ce ...

of different screens that appear. Are there any novel approaches that have not been used in countless other games? Use of Sound Sound in a game may range from a little beep to a baroque fugue. Is it possible to generate an infinite number of sound effects, including creaking doors, wind, and, of course, laser bursts? How effective are the sound effects? Are they realistic? Do they vary throughout the game? A pretty minuet of two bars is not so pretty after an hour or so. Sophistication This term can be used on all games but is partic- ...

Color Monitors (continued). Manufac- turer Computer Systems Electrohome NEC Home Electronics Sanyo Business Systems Texas Instruments TSK Electronics (TAXAN) Zenith Data Systems Diagonal Pixel Text Model Type Size Resolution Resolution VD/9 composite 9 in. 400 x 1024 80 x 25 color VD/ 12 composite 12 in. 400 x 1024 80 x 25 color VD/19 composite 19 in. 400 x 1024 80 x 24 color ECM 1302-1 RGB 13 in. 370 x 235 64 x 40 ECM 1302-2 RGB 13 in. 580 x 235 80 x 40 ECM 1301 RGB 13 in. 720 x 512 80 x 40 JC1203DH(A) RGB 12 in. 690 x 280 80 x 25 JC1202DH(A) RGB 12 in. 690 x 28 ...

The following terms are frequently used in reviews and descrip- tions of modems and related products. acoustically coupled A modem attached to the handset of a tele- phone is acoustically coupled. ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A code used by many computers to represent characters of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation marks. asynchronous Serial data may be transmitted using a number of protocols. There are two general ways to handle the transmission of serial data, synchronous and asynchronous. With asynchronous t ...

The Apple I I c Explorer's Disk is available as an option to this book. It provides a number of useful tools and further Applesoft BASIC programming lessons and examples. It was developed spe- cifically for the Apple I I c and the printers most likely to be used with it: the Apple Imagewriter and Scribe printers. The disk offers an initial menu providing access to the three Utilities and five Applesoft tutorials in exactly the same way that functions are selected from the System Utilities disk menus. After making the first selection, subsequent m ...