Hard Disk Manual: Explanation of the action of the SCSI port, the hard disk, and how to connect them. Explanation of the hard disk software, and addi- tional utility programs for formatting, testing and using hard disks. Programmer’s Manual: Short explanation of programming the 1616, how to use system calls, a complete list of system calls, including file control, character I/O, video output, and graphics control. Technical Reference Manual: Using relocatable code, writing memory resident drivers, additional material on system calls, including character device drivers, disk device drivers, file systems, mouse, multitasking, etc. Assembler Users Manual:
Brief overview of using 68000 assembler, assembler directives, structured programming, macro and conditional assembly, linker errors. Shareware Manuals: An expanding set of manuals, on disk, produced by the Applix Users Group. These explain how to use a number of programs available on the first 30 shareware disks from Applix, all of which include source code. Anumber of additionalprogramsare availableat extracost,together with manuals. These include: BASIC Interpreter: Listsallcommandsand functions availableinSSBASIC, with additional information on calling machine code, and using files. Con- verted by Andrew Morton, of Applix, $69. Hi-Tech C Compiler:
Using C, features, standard libraries, style, pointers, C reference, linker, libraries. A standard K&R C, from a well-known Aus- tralian company, at $250. C Tutorial: A simple introduction to the C language, with over 50 programs on disk. Many can be used with the shareware Superscript mini C interpreter. Forth, fully extended version of the one made famous in Dr Dobbs, ported to Applix by Peter Fletcher. Documented on disk, plus reprinted manual, including full source code, $89. CP/M (ZCPR3 and ZRDOS) ported by Conal Walsh to run on the 8 MHz Z80 CPU on the Applix disk controller card. Very fast version, with full colour display. Includes disk controller upgrade to 64k.
Short manual and disks, and now includes hard disk support. Reads MicroBee and other CP/M disks, and costs less than $140. Minix, Andrew Tanenbaum’s version of the U NIX V7 operating system, ported by Colin McCormack of Tangled Web Software. Includes over 100 utility programs, manual, and four disks which include the complete source code, for round $200. A fine way to teach operating system design. Applix Utilities #1: A variety of U NIX style utility programs, about 30 in all, for text formatting, recovering files, sorting, searching etc., two disks worth, including source code, all for $29.95. Page 4 User Tutorial Manual Introduction