kimes@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes) (10/30/87)
DECEMBER 1987 ANTIC TOC Theme: Printer Power page article 9 I/O BOARD Letters from Readers. 10 NEWS UPDATE ANTIC tests the newest Atari hardware. 14 GAME OF THE MONTH: DUNGEON ARCADE An epic-scale fantasy role-playing adventure that offers elements of arcade action when you fight monsters in the 40-room dungeon. BASIC. 17 COMMUNICATIONS: ICONVERTER A program that converts any Print Shop icon directly to ATASCII graphics. A whole new treasure trove of online art is now available. 19 NEW PRODUCTS A description but not a review of several new products available for the Atari computers. This months list include Graphics Companion I (Datasoft), Lightspeed C, Classy Chassy and Time Bomb (Clearstar Softechnologies). 24 PRODUCT REVIEWS Software First XLEnt Word Processor V2.1 (XLEnt Software) Awardware (Hi Tech Expressions, Inc) 30 APPLICATIONS: SCIENCE STATISTICIAN Just what you need for all those laboratory experiments where you have to calculate averages and standard deviations for your results. BASIC. 37 NEWS STATION PAGE-DESIGNER A review of News Station and News Station Companion from Reeve Software. 40 P.S. ENVELOPE MAKER Now you can make an endless supply of custom-addressed envelopes just the right size for your Print Shop cards. 41 PRINT SHOP POWER TRICKS Master advanced PS techniques not documented with this popular software. Mix upper and lower case letters, place multiple graphics on the same page, etc. 42 MORE ICONS FOR PRINT SHOP Sources for public domain and low cost icon disks. 44 DESIGNER LABELS MAIL-MERGE A short patch for Designer Labels (ANTIC 4/87) that allows you to use PS icons to decorate your mailing list labels. 51 TURBOBASE BUSINESS SOFTWARE A review of MicroMiser's TurboBase Integrated Business Applications software. This company really knows how to support its users. ***********BEGIN THE ST RESOURCE SECTION********** 54 ST PRODUCT NEWS New Products (description only) This months list include: Plutos and Q-Ball (Mindscape,Inc), Hacker and Little Computer People--lower prices (Activision, Inc), MasterCAD (INDI C.A.), MIDI Maze (Hybrid Arts, Inc), SCAD (XETEC, Inc), IMG SCAN (Seymor-RAdix), Vegas Gambler, Vegas Craps and Club Backgammon (Logical Design Works, Inc) and Athena II (Iliad Software, Inc). 55 ST PRODUCT REVIEWS Software ST Wars (Miles Computing) 1st Math (Elmer Larsen Stone & Associates) Memory Master and My Letters (Elmer Larsen Stone & Associates) Numbers and Words (Elmer Larsen Stone & Associates) Shanghai (Activision, Inc) Hardball (Accolade Software) 57 MORSE CODE TRAINER This program (actually 2, one for the ST and one for 8bit computers) will take text from a file and send it to you as morse code. It also prints the text to the screen so you can see your mistakes as it sends. ***********END THE ST RESOURCE SECTION************ 61 SOFTWARE LIBRARY This section contains all the program listings for the articles in this issue. 82 TECH TIPS This section is a collection of tips and short programs from readers or collected from various Users Groups newsletters. This months is all sound effects. Coming next month: The sixth annual Shoppers Guide. Comments: The disk bonus this month is ANTIC PUBLISHER for the 8bit owners. It is a starter desktop publishing program that gives you some of the key capabilities of Print Shop and Newsroom. It features pull-down menus and joystick control. Kit Kimes AT&T-ISL 1100 E. Warrenville Rd. Naperville, IL 60566 ...!ihnp4!ihlpe!kimes