benw@desoto.UUCP (B Weber) (09/24/84)
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November 1984 ANALOG Table of Contents
Page Article
17 ATARICON REPORT
Report on the Atari User's convention held in
Southfield, MI this past August.
33 BOPOTRON!
BASIC (16/24K) climbing game
39 CIRCUIT DATABASE
32K disk BASIC program that allows you to design
store and recall electronic schematics. Input
for various electronic symbols are done with
a single keystroke!
51 XL-DOS
Atari DOS 2.0S modification that allows DUP.SYS
to reside in the unused top 16K of memory (on
XL machines ONLY). Ends loading time to get to
the DOS menu, and MEM.SAV is no longer needed.
55 CASSETTE COMPRESSOR
BASIC (16K) program that takes any tape file
that will fit in core and writes it out
using short interrecord gaps. Speeds up tape
loads considerably.
58 BOFFO
16K BASIC program that converts object code into
BASIC data statements
63 BOPOTRON CONSTRUCTION SET
16K BASIC program to allow you to create your
own BOPOTRON screens (see above).
72 RACE IN SPACE
16K/24K ML game. You and an opponent pilot a spaceship
through asteroid fields.
90 UNICHECK
A "universal" checksum program that, like C:CHECK
and D:CHECK, is used to find typing errors. This
differs in that it is loaded from an autorun.sys
file and is core resident...the checksum program
can be called anytime without disk usage.
97 AN INTERVIEW WITH FREE FALL ASSOCIATES
An interview with Jon Freeman and Anne Westfall
of Freefall Associates (authors of ARCHON and
ARCHON II: THE ADEPT).
HARDWARE REVIEWS: NONE
SOFTWARE REVIEWS: Pengo (Atari) - "Superb Graphics & Sound"
Infidel (Infocom) - "High Quality Entertainment"
Mr. Robot (Datamost) - "Okay"
Flak (Funsoft) - "My sympathy to anyone stuck with this dog"
Questron (Strategic Simulations) - "Meaningless Xerox copy
of Ultima"
Archon II: The Adept (Elect. Arts) - "Superb"
PLUS: Reader Comments, "Griffin's Lair",New Products,
Ask Mr. Forth, BASIC training" columns.
ALSO: Check out the 4 page center spread for the OKIMATE 10 printer...
26 colors on any paper, 240 "words per minute", direct connection
to the Atari and...Less than $250!!! Anyone have any specifics
on this product? Post them!!
Ben Weber pyuxmm!benw
AT&T Technologies
Piscataway, NJ