kek@mgweed.UUCP (Kit Kimes) (07/10/85)
August 1985 ANTIC Table of Contents Theme: Telecommunications Page Article 9 WORLDWIDE USERS NETWORK An article on the activities of WUN and announcing that Chris Crawford would be teaching an 8 month course on Assembly Language on ANTIC ONLINE on CompuServe. 11 PROFILES: THE MICROBITS STORY An article on Alan Ackerman and John Wiley, founders of MPP. Where they're at and where they're going. 12 STARTING OUT: COMMUNICATING COMPUTERS A beginners guide to telecommunicating with your computer. 20 INTERIORS--OPENING UP THE 520ST An inside look at the 520ST. 22 MEET GEM DESKTOP--GET STARTED OPERATING YOUR ST A look at what GEM can do and how to use it. 24 ST SOFTWARE NEWS What some suppliers have announced. 25 ST FILE TRANSFERS WITH KERMIT How to "port" programs between Atari's. 28 ATARI 'TOONS Create funny and inventive cartoons with remarkable ease by animating text. Save your creations and play them back at any speed. 31 ATARI 'TOONS CONTEST Use the previous program and win a new MPP 1200 Baud Modem. Entries must be received by Oct. 1, 1985. 33 GAME OF THE MONTH: VALIANT Valiant is a big, fast-scrolling maze adventure from the Author of "Arena Racer" (ANTIC, May, 1985). BASIC with ML subroutines. 36 UNLEASHING THE 1030 MODEM How to access the powerful commands of the little-known device handler software built into the popular ATARI 1030 modem. Written by Russ Wetmore, it contains a lot of useful information and two BASIC programs to get you on line. 41 BULLETIN BOARD CONSTRUCTION SET A review of a new Bulletin Board program that gives a sysop more power than ever before. It supports several levels of security and privileges. This program will be sold by ANTIC through their catalog. They list three bulletin boards that are running this program so you can call them if you want to see it in action. 43 PRO*TERM: SUPERB NEW MODEM PROGRAM A terminal program for your ATARI 1030 that lets you upload and download files in capture and XMODEM protocol. It is packed with professional-level features including Sprint and MCI invisible-code autodialing and multi-disk-based directories. It is the second largest program ever to appear in ANTIC so you might want to buy the disk for this month. ($12.95 + $3.00 S & H) 45 LOW COST E-MAIL A discussion of what electronic mail can do for you and a look at email provided by CompuServe, etc. 48 DISPLAY MASTER Turn your picture files into silly putty by stretching, squeezing, folding, etc them with this program. It requires the ACTION! cartridge if you are going to type it out of the magazine. If you buy the disk, they include a run-time version that doesn't require the cartridge. 51 SOFTWARE LIBRARY The program listings for ATARI 'TOONS, PRO*TERM, DISPLAY MASTER, VALIANT and the two programs for Russ Wetmore's article on the built-in 1030 handlers. 72 PRODUCT REVIEWS SOFTWARE: SMART 1030 (E & B Computer Service) BALLBLAZER (EPYX Inc.) RESCUE ON FRACTALUS (EPYX Inc.) ADVENTURE MASTER (CBS Software) MAXWELL MANOR (Avalon Hill) Comments: On their editorial page, ANTIC listed a few statistics to back up their claim to #1 ATARI computer magazine such as: a Yankee Group survey ranked ANTIC in 6th place among all computer mags, ANTIC was the only Atari specific magazine to make a list published by "Computer Publication Retailer" survey and ANTIC is among the top three sellers at B. Dalton. ANTIC printed a letter from Broderbund Software that stated they were releasing CHAMPIONSHIP LODE RUNNER in response to readers of ANTIC writing to them. ANTIC urged this action a couple of issues ago. ANTIC is starting a section of the magazine that is devoted to the ST line of computers. As you can see from the contents, they are all grouped together. A very good Issue, especially if you are into telecommunications. Kit Kimes AT&T Information Systems Montgomery Works Montgomery, Il. 60538-0305 ..!ihnp4!mgweed!kek