From: nparker@cie.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)
Subject: Re: Looking for some VERY OLD Apple software!
Organization: The Universal Society for the Prevention of Reality
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 08:47:54 GMT

In article <BvoI50.uH@world.std.com> jeffb@world.std.com (Jeffrey T Berntsen) writes:
>I'm looking for copies of what Apple used to call their "Contributed
>Programs" volumes 1 to 5.  These are five diskette, in DOS 3.2 format
>that Apple dealers used to give copies of many years ago.  (The documentation
>I have for them says September 1978; alas, my tapes {yes, tapes!} containing
>the programs weren't as long lasting as the booklets they went with.)  I'm
>not sure if it will refresh anyone's memory, but here are the contents of
>the disks:

I have disks with some of these programs on them.  At the computer store
where I got my IIGS, they were giving away copies of several of these
programs (on DOS 3.3 disks, without documentation) to new computer
purchasers as late as 1986.  My mother bought an Apple //e about then, and
since she had no use for these programs, they ended up in my disk box,
and I still have them today.

>Volume 1:
>   Hammurabi                    Pinball
>   Sink the Ship                Catch
>   Curves                       Seven
>   Towers of Hanoi              Nightmare #6
>   Color Math                   Mastermind
>   Othello                      Blackjack
>   23 Bricks                    Bone Tumor Differential Diagnosis
>   Yahtzee                      Hex Converter
>   Morse Code                   Integer BASIC CHR$ Function

I have copies of all of these except "Bone Tumor Differential Diagnosis"
and "Integer BASIC CHR$ Function".

>Volume 2:
>   (The Apple Magic Lantern, a series of hi-res images)
>   Musical Notation             World Map
>   "A Handsome Woman's Face"    Double Bessel Function
>   William Shakespeare          Tap Dancing Uncle Sam
>   "Joe sent me....."           Spirallellogram
>   Rocky Raccoon                Hi-res Character Set
>   Dollar Bill

I don't think I have any of these.

>Volume 3:
>   Intercept                    Airfoil
>   Microlisp                    Shootout
>   Hi-res Character Generator   Apple Vision
>   Internal Combustion Engine   File Cabinet
>   Integer Hi-res               Hi-res High-speed Kaleidoscope

"Apple Vision" was distributed for a long time on the old DOS 3.3 System
Master disk.  I think I also have "Shootout", but not any of the others.

>Volume 4:
>   (The Apple Magic Lantern II, more hi-res images)
>   Random Lady                  Lady Be Good
>   Macrometer                   Dip Chips
>   Tex                          Squeeze
>   The Time Machine             Winston Churchill
>   Hopalong Cassidy             A Girl's Best Friends
>   Baby Jane

I don't have any of these.

>Volume 5:
>   Chaser                       California Driver's Test
>   Mission: U-Boat              The Apple Organ
>   Add-Libs 1                   The Great American Probability Machine
>   Integer BASIC Renumber       The Infinite Number of Monkeys

I have "The Infinite Number of Monkeys" and maybe "The Apple Organ".
"Chaser" and "Mission: U-Boat" sound like things that could be there under
different names.

>If anyone knows of a current source for these, or better yet, would be
>willing to send me copies (preferably by email), I would be very thankful!

I don't suppose there's anybody out there with any idea whether or not any
of these programs were ever officially classified as freeware of public
domain?  (I sure hope so...if not, then my computer store was giving away
bootleg software...)

             - Neil Parker
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