benw@pyuxn.UUCP (B Weber) (05/03/84)
Kit Kimes had a good idea in posting the ANTIC table of contents, so I'm volunteering to post the monthly table of contents from A.N.A.L.O.G. (MY subscription!). I'll even steal Kit's format. Anyone for Hi-Res or Compute? By the way, the last issue (#19) of ANALOG is dated May/June, for the same reason that ANTIC skipped their May issue. Ben Weber pyuxn!benw May/June 1984 ANALOG Table of Contents (Telecommunications and the ATARI theme) Page Article 7 DARKNESS AT NOON A critical look at the financial and managerial problems that Atari is currently having. 30 SUPER SINE A BASIC program to plot up to 8 simultaneous trigonometric functions in graphics 8. Also squeezes 8 colors out of graphics 8. 35 BATTLE IN THE B-RING ML Arcade game (generated from BASIC program; Assembler listing also given). Retrieve an alien ramjet from the debris laden B-ring of Saturn 46 BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS A listing of 37 BBS's for the Atari 48 A LOOK AT MODEMS A brief introduction to modems and computer telecommunications. 49 PRINTER INTERFACE ADDITIONS Mods to the "Low Cost Printer Interface" article from ANALOG 16 (construction of a low cost Centronics interface) to work with Cassette based systems. 51 PUBLIC DOMAIN TERMINAL SOFTWARE Descriptions of publicly available terminal programs, such as COMM40, JTERM, and TSCOPE. 54 THE SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL Subtitled "...or How to write a modem program in one day". A BASIC program that generates a quick and dirty ML terminal program. 57 TOUCH-TONE DIALER Short BASIC program to generate Touch-Tone tones from a given phone number. 63 EDUCATIONAL COMPUTER GAMES An overview of what makes an "educational" computer game good or bad. 74 SO YOU WANT TO BE A SYSOP? The ups and downs of setting up your own Bulletin Board System 81 DEFAULT A short BASIC program that lets you change the default screen colors and margins, even through System Reset 84 SIEGE A BASIC game (16K Cass/24K Disk) in which you drop boulders on hoards of invaders trying to climb the walls of your castle. 93 SOLID STATES REVISITED New reader submitted shapes for the Solid States 3-D program (ANALOG #16). Includes an "A" and a nuclear reactor cooling tower. Also includes a routine to automatically rotate an object. HARDWARE REVIEWS: Hayes 1200 Smartmodem, Microram 64K Memory Board SOFTWARE REVIEWS: TeleTari, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Bruce Lee, MiG Alley Ace, BASIC XL, Dimension X, Star League Baseball. PLUS: Reader Comments, New Products, "Our Game" and "Boot Camp" Columns.