kek@mgweed.UUCP (Kit Kimes) (11/07/84)
December 1984 ANTIC magazine TOC page article 11 COMMUNICATIONS: So You Want To Start A Bulletin Board? A short article on starting your own bulletin board and some problems associated with it. 12 EDUCATION: Tips On Buying Educational Software For Your Children What to look for in educational software. 17 INFO BITS A superbly simple file program. It provides an easy way to save and retrieve notes and references to short items that catch your interest. Requires disk drive. 19 WORD STORAGE SPACE SAVER A programming technique for storage and retrieval of words and sentences in string data without wasting memory space. 26 BIFFDROP (Game of the Month) A challenging and imaginative action-adventure game from Antic's star game designer, J.D. Casten. 31 BUYER'S GUIDE A guide to over 125 products, both hardware and software, for the ATARI. 51 SOFTWARE LIBRARY All the programs for the articles in the magazine are located here. 66 THE TOOLBOX: WINDOWS PART 2 The conclusion of a two-part series that shows you how to create on-screen text windows in Atari programs--in all graphics modes. 68 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE: ALL ABOUT I/O An important tutorial for both assembly language and BASIC. 74 PRODUCT REVIEWS SOFTWARE: GYRUSS (Parker Brothers) SPELUNKER (Broderbund) FROGGER II (Atari) BEACH-HEAD (Access Software) FOOTBALL (Atari) KEYSTONE KAPERS (Activision) PUZZLE PANIC (EPYX, Inc) SUPER MAILER PLUS (Royal Software) Utility MUSIC CONSTRUCTION SET (Electronic Arts) THE MASK OF THE SUN (Broderbund) ONE ON ONE (Electronic Arts) 90 BANNERTIZER Create horizontal or vertical banners with your 80 column printer--in letters up to 10 inches wide. COMMENTS: There is an advertizement for a company in Chicago called Skyline Marketing Corp. that is advertizing the AMDEK AMDC-I disk drive for $349 and the AMDC-II for $449. They are also listing reconditioned AMDEK Color I and Color I plus for $199. They carry a 30 day repair or replacement warranty. In general, only an average issue. Kit Kimes AT&T Consumer Products Montgomery Works Montgomery, Il. 60538-0305 ..!ihnp4!mgweed!kek