Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!omen!percival!gronke From: gronke@percival.UUCP (Lisa Gronke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: AppleFest 1987 Message-ID: <953@percival.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 10:59:59 EST Article-I.D.: percival.953 Posted: Sat Oct 24 10:59:59 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Oct-87 02:31:45 EST Distribution: na Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR. Lines: 82 While we are waiting for Sean Kamath's tome to appear, I thought I would post this brief report written by Larrie Easterly which will appear in the next issue (if we every get a newsletter chairman) of STEMS from A.P.P.L.E. (Apple Portland Program Library Exchange, the Portland, OR, Apple II users group). Larrie is currently co-president of the club and is a IIgs owner. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- AppleFest by Larrie Easterly There is only one way to describe AppleFest 1987; IMPRESSIVE. The San Francisco Civic Auditorium was packed with displays and people throughout the show while the seminars and product demonstration rooms on the upper floors of the building were filled to capacity. Leading figures throughout the Apple industry were in attendance as well as company presidents and engineers. Some of the more notable products shown were; MouseFiler by Harbor Software, a mousetext based desk top, looked like a very good desktop for IIe and IIc users and it is fast. Life boat, Harbors disk recovery program looked good too with a new version in works The Zip Chip by Zip Technolgies is a pin compatable chip that replaces the 65c02 in your IIe or IIc. Once installed your machine will run at a full 4 meghertz speed. Thector by Seria Online is a very fast and graphically amazing arcade game for the IIGS. PC Transporter by Applied Engineering was there and running all sorts of MSDOS software. Lots of hard drives by CMS, Sider, and Hammer were available in 20, 40 and 60 Meg sizes. CMS is handled by Call A.P.P.L.E. in Seattle. Digital Vision's Colour Computer Eyes is a good video digitizer for the IIGS. It even converts images to double high res. Call A.P.P.L.E. shared their booth with APDA. Future Sound's audio digitizer and software put the current version or the one from MdIdeas to shame. CheckMate Technolgies' Memory Saver Board is great.They have a 2 meg ram board coming out in November that will use 256k chips. MdIdeas Sound board has some new software coming. Their accelerator board for the IIGS, called GSX, is running at 180% increase at the present. They expect to ship late this year. Spring Board Publisher will be out in November. Applied Engineering's video digitizer is in for total redesign Epic Modems has a 2400 Baud model that fits inside your II for $179. There was a strong rumer of a new Apple computer coming next year as well as lots of new hardware. Look for new games from Infocom with graphics soon. TML and ORCA will have a compiled BASIC for the IIGS out soon. Apple's own BASIC is available from APDA as a beta version now. New system disk 3.1 with Finder is now avilable for the IIGS. A IIGS version of Fantavision is available now with an upgrade available to current owners from Broderbund for $20. Broderbund also has a version of Printshop for the IIGS. An upgrade costs $20. An interesting sidelight is that Printshop was origionally designed with no output feature. The printer output feature was an afterthought only weeks before it was to ship. Two on Two basketball by Activision is real good. Great graphics. Next AppleFest will be held in Boston in the spring and San Francisco in the fall. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisa Gronke, sysop, Applephilia BBS at (503) 591-8090 UUCP: ...tektronix!reed!percival!gronke