GENIE & LAMP 10/12

[norman.dodge@techall.wa.com]

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     The Rational Person by Martin Sandry, Ph.D. and Kenneth Peiser,
Ph.D., two registered clinical psychologists is a multiple choice quiz
that attempts to help you understand rational thinking.  You are given
a scenario--"I'm with a friend, meet an old friend, and can't remember
her name." and are asked to predict both how a rational person would
feel and what s/he would think.  For both the thinking and feeling
options--which can you do in either order--you are given four possible
responses.  There are 31 scenarios for adults and 23 for
children/adolescents.  It's fairly easy to score well if you use some
common sense, but not so easy to get a perfect score.  In other words,
even adults who think of themselves as
<ahem> fairly intelligent and self-aware can learn something from this.

     This program is text-based, but it makes very good use of the text
screen.  It also has a good user interface:  power users won't get
frustrated by hand-holding, and new users won't get frustrated because
they don't know what to do.  It takes advantage of lower case and
80-column capabilities if it finds them, but doesn't assume they are
there.

     Freeware for any Apple II.


                 File #11714:  TELL.TIME.BXY (3780 bytes)
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     This simple BASIC program by Chris Deprospero uses a hi-res clock
to help youngsters use an old-fashioned round analog clock to learn to
learn to tell the time.  It has two modes--look at the hands and enter
the time it represents, or enter a time and have the hands move to that
position. The user interface is pretty simple, but it doesn't get in the
way.  An amusing anamoly occurs if you forget that you're supposed to
press Q to quit and try Control-C:  a new time is chosen and the clock
hands are drawn for that time--without erasing the old hands.

     Shareware for any Apple II ($5).



                 File #9116:  WORLD.DISK.BXY (57960 bytes)
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     World Disk by Michael D. Giltzow is an interactive electronic
political world atlas that resembles a HyperStudio stack.  The program
uses the 320-mode IIgs desktop to present a map of the world with 17
"plates" (only 3 of which are active in this demo version).

     After you choose a plate, you are taken to a
geographical/political area--in the demo, North America, Central
America, or the West Indies. Each plate has a number of political and/or
geographical regions.  For example, North America has such regions as
Canada, Alaska, the continental United States, Mexico, Greenland (?),
Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Hudson Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico.  In
"learn" mode, you can either click on the button for an area, or choose
from an alphabetical lists of names. In either case, the area is
labelled.  In "practice" mode, you must match the name to the button.
There is also an alphabetical name index that allows you to find a
country or area, no matter which plate you happen to be on.

     The maps are attractive and colorful, but not perhaps as
well-rendered as one might wish, even given the limits of resolution.
The island of Newfoundland--my home province--is recognizable only from
its position, not its shape.

     The programmer's credentials worry me more than a little.  First,
he manages to misspell "Arctic" as "Artic".  I recognize that this a
common error, but this was meant to be educational software and should
have been caught.  Second, the programmer doesn't seem to know the term
"political atlas"--instead claims it is a "country atlas".  So much for
the programmer as educator--what of the programmer are programmer?
Unfortunately, there are a few slips there as well.  The check boxes
next to the lists of name don't work in standard fashion in either mode.
 In "learn" mode, there is no way to uncheck a box at all.  In
"practice" mode, the check boxes behave more like radio buttons--except
that, if you try to check a second box, the first click turns off the
first box.  Another click is necessary to turn on the second box.
Somehow I get the impression that the arrival of HyperStudio quickly
relegated this program to the ashcan of history.

     Shareware demo for Apple IIgs with 756K ($12.50)



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                            >>> WHO'S WHO? <<<
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                    ~ GenieLamp Profile:  Ryan Suenaga

     This month we meet the new editor of GenieLamp A2, Ryan Suenaga.  A
prolific writer in the Apple II community, Ryan has several staff duties
on A2 both on Genie and Delphi.


GenieLamp>  Who are you, and what is your involvement with the Apple II
"""""""""   community?

Ryan>  I am, let's see, maybe starting with my name would work out: my name
""""   is Ryan Suenaga.  I'm the incoming editor of GenieLamp A2.

     My major contributions to the Apple II world have been with
writing. I have regular columns in Max Jones' _Juiced.GS_ ("II Be Named
Later"), and Steve Cavanaugh's _The Apple Blossom_ ("Talking.II"), and
I've had some things published by Howard Katz and Chris Serrau in _The
Appleworks Gazette_, as well as in _GenieLamp A2_ and _GS+ Magazine_.
I've had some things published in my user group's newsletter as well,
but I've pretty well given that up over the last few months.  I also do
some fooling around in _Hyperstudio_, and some sysop work in the A2 and
PowerPC areas on Genie and Delphi.  I also got involved recently with
the IIScribe forum on Delphi, which is a home for people who write about
the Apple II.

     During the regular workday, I'm a social worker for Kaiser
Permanente, which is a large health maintenance organization, as well as
a crisis worker for the Crisis Response Team.

GenieLamp>  How long have you been involved with computing in general
and """""""""   the the Apple II in particular?

Ryan>  My dad got the family a computer back in 1982; because he told the
""""   salespeople at ComputerLand that it was for the kids (me and my
older sister), they steered us to an Apple model.  In those days, there
weren't really many other Apple models besides the Apple II, so we went
home with an Apple ][+.  I still have that computer in a closet.  I've
been an Apple II fan ever since.

     Like nearly everyone out there, I've since been exposed to
Windows, MSDOS, and the MacOS, but I still use an Apple II for virtually
all of the real work I need to do.  I have two Apple IIgs systems and an
Apple //c+ running at home, as well as a few Macintosh systems to help
me with things that we can't yet do with an Apple II (I can't take one
of my II's under my arm and do some writing over at the coffee shop, and
I can't have one of the II's act as a file server, for instance).

GenieLamp>  Knowing that you have written many articles about the Apple
II """""""""   for various publications, where did your interest in
writing begin?

Ryan>  I don't really know where any of that started.  I had to write--like
""""   a maniac--while I was in graduate school.  In fact, I started
doing all of this Apple II writing around that time.  I rejoined my
local user group (Hawai'i Macintosh and Apple Users Society) around that
time, too,
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