benw@desoto.UUCP (B Weber) (07/03/84)
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August 1984 ANALOG Table of Contents
(Printer Utilities)
Page Article
8 THE ATARI 7800
Description of the new 7800 game machine and the
corporate strategy behind it. ('Course, that was
before Atari was sold....)
13 PROSET
16K BASIC program to control fonts, margins and
other programmable parameters on the NEC8023,
Prowriter 8510 and PMC DMP-85 printers.
21 SELECTING YOUR PERFECT PRINTER
Description of the major types of printers and
help in determining what's best for you.
25 SPELLING CHECKERS FOR THE ATARI
Review of (what else?) spelling checkers. Reviewed
are Atspeller (APX), Spell Perfect (LJK), Spell
Wizard (Datasoft).
28 AVALANCHE
16K Cassette/24K Disk ML game (from BASIC program).
A QBert-like arcade game.
51 MATT*EDIT
40 Column, menu driven text and character graphics
editor. Print'em with Epson w/Graftrax or Gemini
printers. 24K BASIC.
59 GRAPH E'S
Make quality plots and graphs (with labels and
all) on your printer. 32K disk BASIC.
75 SPY PLANE
BASIC game (24K Cassette/32K Disk). Fly a "Spy Plane"
through obstacles to retrieve secret plans. Much
like Caverns of Mars II.
83 THE ANALOG CARD FILE
16K Disk. BASIC database program, simulates an
index card file. Much like the Home Filing Manager
from Atari, but no search capability. On the other
hand, multiple files can be written to disk.
87 THE ANALOG ATARI PRINTER SURVEY
A table describing the characteristics of various
printers: Atari 1025, Axiom GP-700AT, Gemini 10X,
Epson RX-80FT, NEC 8023A, Okidata 82A, Mannesman Tally
160, and C. Itoh Prowriter.
95 THE FERGEE FILE PRINTER
BASIC program (40K Disk) to print Bank Street Writer
files in formatted form. Geared for NEC8023AC printer
but easily modifiable for others.
HARDWARE REVIEWS: None
SOFTWARE REVIEWS: Jungle Hunt (Atari) - "If you're a master of the
joystick, this game is
probably not for you"
Cut & Paste (Electronic Arts) - "A turkey"
PLUS: Reader Comments, "Griffin's Lair", New products
and "Boot Camp" Columns.
Ben Weber pyuxmm!benw
AT&T Technologies
Piscataway, NJ