kek@mgweed.UUCP (Kit Kimes) (01/29/85)
March 1985 ANTIC Magazine TOC Theme: Printers page article 10 COMMUNICATIONS: The Biggest on-line Public Domain Library A discussion of what is available and of interest to Atari owners on CompuServe. 12 KWIK DUMP This is a fast screen dump BASIC program that works with most graphics disk file formats, including MicroPainter, Graphics Master, uncompacted Micro Illustrator and your own Graphics 24 (8+16) files. Written by Jerry Allen the creator or PRINTWIZ. 16 FONT MAKER Design custom font sets for downloading to your Epson FX-80 or Gemini 10X printer. Once the new fonts are installed in the printer, your Atari can be turned off without losing this new character set. 19 LABEL MAKER Print tiny return address labels with fancy borders, just like the ones sold in mail order catalogs. BASIC. Written for the Gemini 10X printer but can be modified. 21 CUSTOM PRINT With Custom Print you can make complete printouts of your programs or text files--printing any character in the Atari special set. 32K, BASIC and Disk Drive. 23 ANTIC 1985 PRINTER GUIDE What to look for in a printer as well as a feature by feature comparison chart on 8 different printers. 30 NEW COLOR PRINTERS A look at the Okimate 10 and the Seikosha GP-700A. 34 SECRETS OF ATARIWRITER (and Atari printers, too!) An authoritative compendium of never-documented techniques for using AtariWriter word processing software, plus little- known methods for getting more out of Atari-made printers. Written by Cassie Stahl who used to run Atari's own bulletin board. She now writes documentation for a major Macintosh software publisher. 38 LETTER PERFECT--IMPROVED A look at Version 6 of LJK's Letter Perfect. 46 THIEF (Game of the Month) A scrolling graphics maze adventure. Pilot a spaceship through dangerous caverns to recover stolen treasure. BASIC. Runs on all Atari Computers. 48 ZURK (Bonus Game) Enter the Laserfighting event of the Zurkian Olympics! Only the winner of the first-place Aluminum Medal of Zurk Survives. BASIC with ML sub-routines. 51 SOFTWARE LIBRARY This is the listings for all the articles in the magazine. 7 programs this month. 67 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE: KEYBOARD COMMANDER One-key [control] [shift] commands. Great one-handed commands to aid the handicapped or us lazy typers. 69 THE TOOLBOX: PARALLEL BUS REVEALED This is part 3 of 4. In this part we're ready to build a serial I/O board to take advantage of the 100,000 bytes per second data transfer speed of the parallel bus interface on the Atari XL computers. 74 PRODUCT REVIEWS Software: CUTTHROATS (Infocom) DREADNAUGHT FACTOR (Activision, Inc) BEAMRIDER (Activision, Inc) HOMEPAK (Batteries Included) Great value for money SUPER-TEXT (MUSE Software) "A living dinosaur" WRITERS TOOL (Optimized Systems Software, Inc) Comments: ANTIC says the subscription price is going up next month but they didn't say how much. Anyway, This is the last month at $24. There is an ad in the back for WOMBATS I from Dynamic Software Design. It is described as "new kind of adventure game where the action takes place mostly in your mind." I wonder if they have ever heard of Infocom. Anyway, it is supposed to be a spoof at adventure games and life in general. Sounds interesting but a little steep at $27.95 + $2.00 S&H. The ANTIC Software Catalog is the same as last month. Has anyone ordered anything yet? Kit Kimes AT&T Consumer Products Montgomery Works Montgomery, Il. 60538-0305 ..!ihnp4!mgweed!kek