benw@desoto.UUCP (B Weber) (07/03/84)
----- 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