kek@mgweed.UUCP (Kit Kimes) (12/10/84)
January 1985 ANTIC TOC Theme: Super Utilities Page Article 12 COMMUNICATIONS: Starting a Bulletin Board Part II A review of available BBS software. 17 THE TOOLBOX: BASIC Searcher BASIC Searcher finds the lines containing any command, operator, function or variable in your BASIC program. 19 TYPO II An easier proofreader for Antic type-ins 20 PROFILES: Interviewing Dan Bunten The designer of "Seven Cities of Gold" and "M.U.L.E.". 30 Q.T. (Game of the Month) Q.T. is an inventive game boasting three different screens, each with six increasingly nerve-wracking levels of difficulty. [24K cassette, 32K disk] 33 SCRAMBLE [Bonus Game] A computerized, competitive version of the familiar word finding puzzle. 34 WIDE TEXT The easiest and most powerful method ever developed for inserting bold double-width Graphics 1 letters anywhere on the screen in Graphics 0, the standard text mode. 36 TOUCH TABLE CURSOR Control the cursor in your own BASIC programs with a KoalaPad or Atari Touch Tablet. Perfect for selecting menu options or educational quiz answers. 40 DISKIO: Supercharger for Atari DOS DISKIO is a superb enhancement for DOS 2.OS. For openers, it provides access to nearly all the DOS functions directly from BASIC or Atari Assembler Editor. It also has an alphabetical disk directory display and needs only a few keystrokes for disk file operations. 44 THE PARALLEL BUS REVEALED The first part of four parts. Until now, the Parallel Bus Interface has been one of the big mysteries of ATARI XL computers. This important ANTIC series--by one of ATARI's former top technical executives (Earl Rice)--will at last provide all the information necessary for tapping the power of this 100K byte/second connection. 48 ESCAPE FROM DOS3 Say goodbye to glitchy DOS3 forever! Convert your files back to good old DOS 2.0S. You'll need three blank disks and your DOS 3 Master Disk. You also need an article from July 1984 ANTIC. 51 SOFTWARE LIBRARY All the programs from the magazine are here in the middle. 65 NEW BOOKS FOR ATARI Roundup of the latest releases. 69 OPCODE FINDER Opcode Finder is a chart that conveniently brings together the symbols for all three formats of representing machine language subroutines in BASIC programs. This information makes it a lot simpler to hand-disassemble short sub- routines for study or modification. 76 NEW ATARI FLIGHTS A software review and comparison of FLIGHT SIMULATOR II, SPACE SHUTTLE and F-15 STRIKE EAGLE. 79 PRODUCT REVIEWS SOFTWARE: Rome and the Barbarians (KRENtek Software) Napoleon at Waterloo (KRENtek Software) Epidemic (SSI) Star Wars (Parker Bros.) Bruce Lee (Datasoft) Quest of the Space Beagle (Avalon Hill) Realm of Impossibility (Electronic Arts) Rails West (SSI) X-BASIC & SCROLL-IT (SUPERware) Montana Reading Program (PDI) Chaos (Touch Stone Software) BOOKS Adventures with the Atari (Reston Publishing) Comments: Someone asked about Keystroke Artist. I noticed in one of ANTIC's own ad that they have back issues of the magazine now available on disk. Keystroke Artist was in the 8/83 issue and it is available for $12.95 plus $2 shipping. If you buy three disks (any issues), you get a fourth free (total $38.85 + $2 shipping). The new Customer Service Number for Atari is (408)-745-4851. No longer toll free. The subscription rate for ANTIC is going up January 1985. They are still honoring the $24 per year rate through 12/31/85. ANTIC is compiling a list of all ATARI User Groups. If you are an officer and would like to get a free listing in ANTIC magazine, write or phone them. If you don't have the address or phone number, email me and I'll give it to you. Happy computing... Kit Kimes AT&T Consumer Products Montgomery Works Montgomery, Il. 60538-0305 ..!ihnp4!mgweed!kek