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***********************Ignore Header**************************** November 1986 ANTIC TOC Theme: Personal Finance page article 6 I/O BOARD Letters from Readers. 11 BUDGET dB Budget dB provides the kind of powerful, user-friendly personal finance help you'd expect from a commercial software product. This BASIC program makes it a lot easier to create and maintain an itemized budget with categories that you can change to fit your own needs. It also balances your checkbook and reconciles your credit accounts, even if you don't want to keep up a monthly budget. 23 CALCULATE YOUR CAR LOAN With Car Financer, you not only can figure out how much your monthly payments on a car (or any financed purchase) will be, but you can also determine how you might save money with different payment plans. 27 GAME OF THE MONTH: CLIFFHANGER Cliffhanger is a frantic attempt to defy Martian gravity. With your mechanical catcher, you must grab debris as it hurtles--sideways--before it collapses the cliff you're standing on. BASIC. 31 V-GRAPH V-Graph draws professional-looking business or school graphs--bar, line or point graphs--that you can display, save and print. This straightforward, useful graphing program also accepts data from VisiCalc spreadsheets. BASIC. 34 PRODUCT REVIEWS (Personal Finance) Software INSYST! (SoSoft Software) Checkbook Plus (A-Plus Enterprises) Business Manager (Reeve Software) 37 AUTO TYPO An enhanced version of ANTIC's TYPO II. 42 XL COLOR BOOST An article describing how you can modify your 800XL to sharpen color and eliminate color smear. This fix has not been tried on any other model. 45 PRODUCT REVIEWS Software Quizmaster Construction Set (Ezuse Software) Print Shop Companion (Broderbund Software) Hardball (Accolade) Hardware Avatex 1200 Modem (E+E DataComm) 53 COMMUNICATIONS: BBS EXPRESS! A review of this software from Orion Micro Systems. It is written by Keith Ledbetter who wrote EXPRESS! and is a SIG*Atari sysop. 60 NEW PRODUCTS (DESCRIPTION ONLY) Software First Xlent Word Processor (XLEnt Software) Master Disk Directory II (Zobian Controls)--use with RAT YEMACYB (Electronical Software)--printing software Pro Football Handicapper (Software Exchange) Miniature Golf Plus (XLEnt Software) The Linguist (Gessler Educational Software) Hardware Persistent RAM Cartridge (Intra-Tech Computer Products) Reference Pak, Stamp Pac (Wise Products Co)--These two keyboard template cards work with XLEnt's Typesetter and Rubber Stamp 61 NEW OWNERS COLUMN This is lesson 8 and covers INPUT and DATA statements. ***********BEGIN THE ST RESOURCE SECTION********** 68 LDW COMPLIED BASIC A review of the LDW BASIC Compiler from Logical Design Works, Inc. 71 ST PRODUCT NEWS New Products (description only) Microsoft Write (Atari Corp.) Color Writer (Shanner International Corp) STKey (Shanner International Corp) Soundwave SW-1 (Shanner International Corp) Soundwave SW-8 (Shanner International Corp) MacroDesk (Shanner International Corp) PaintPro (Abacus Software) TextPro (Abacus Software) FilePro (Abacus Software) Introduction to MIDI Programming (Abacus Software) Paintworks (Activision Inc)---formerly N-Vision Menu+ (Metacomco) AC/Fortran (Absoft Corp) Leather Goddesses of Phobos (Infocom Inc) Moonmist (Infocom Inc) Trinity (Infocom Inc) Mark Williams C (Mark Williams Co.) Math Wizard (Unicorn Software) Decimal Dungeon (Unicorn Software) Fraction Action (Unicorn Software) Pro Football Wizard (MichTron) 8 Ball (MichTron) Your Financial Future (MichTron) Talisman (Talent Computer Systems) Workstation IV (Port-A-Byte) Word Writer ST (Timeworks, Inc) Swiftcalc ST (Timeworks, Inc) Data Manager ST (Timeworks, Inc) Hippo EPROM Burner (Hippopotamus Software) Leader Board (Access Software, Inc) The Timekeeper (Navarone Industries) 74 PC BOARD DESIGNER A review of PCBoard Designer from Abacus Software, Inc. 81 ST BASIC HANGMAN An ST version of this popular public domain game. 83 GRAPHIC ARTIST A review of Graphic Artist from PCA. The price of this sophisticated program was recently dropped to $199. 88 I*S TALK A review of this full featured communications package from Batteries Included. 93 ST PRODUCT REVIEWS Software Thunder! (Batteries Included) Cornerman (MichTron) Kissed (MichTron) Hacker II: Doomsday Papers (Activision, Inc.) Disk Library (Classic Image) Gateway (Action Software) ***********END THE ST RESOURCE SECTION************ 103 SOFTWARE LIBRARY This section contains all the program listings for the articles in this issue. Coming next month: Annual Shoppers Guide -Buying guide for 8-bit Atari software and peripherals -Stepper motor robot-controller for 8-bit and ST -New Atari printers reviewed Comments: For those of you interested in such things, Happy Computers is shipping Rev. 7 with their Happy Enhancement. This was favorably reviewed in the Oct. issue of "Current Notes". Does anyone belong to GCP (Games Computers Play, Inc)? Their ad is very enticing to anyone with 1200 baud. They don't charge a premium for it and don't charge a hourly surcharge for tymnet. There is a very impressive ad for Virtusonic Corp program called Virtusoso that allows your to combine music with animation, text or whatever you want to do. They claim they will ship Nov. 10. If anyone gets this software, please put a review on netnews. Kit Kimes AT&T-ISL 1100 E. Warrenville Rd. Naperville, IL 60566 ...!ihnp4!iwvae!kimes