store2@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes) (09/03/87)
OCTOBER 1987 ANTIC TOC
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8 I/O BOARD
Letters from Readers.
12 PRODUCT REVIEWS
Software
Guitar Wizard (Baudville)
Linkword Languages (Artworx Software)
Ultra Menu (Computer Software Services)
Hardware
Ultra-Speed (Computer Software Services)
15 SUPER DISK BONUS
The bonus program for disk subscribers this month is
the ANTIC Spelling Checker that allows up to 10 personal
dictionaries of approximately 6300 words each.
16 STARTING OUT: ATARI ANIMATION
This is the fifth lesson in the series. It covers bit
mapping and has an interesting demo.
24 GAME OF THE MONTH: RESISTORS
This action game teaches binary and electronics. It uses
a redefined character set for the graphics. BASIC
27 USERS GROUP: ACENET
A discussion of the 17 Southern CA user groups that make
up ACENET.
32 NEW PRODUCTS
A description but not a review of several new products
available for the Atari computers.
This month they describe the Okidata 180 printer, Cycle
Knight (Artworx Software), the pocket calculators with the
Atari logo on them, Microstuffer (Supra) and XR 100 Bar
Coder (Xenia Research)--an inventory bar code reader.
33 PAGE 6 EXCHANGE: GRAPHICS IMPOSSIBLE
Two eye-popping demos of graphics techniques often mistakenly
considered impossible--mixed vertical display lists and dual
players on the same horizontal line.
37 FOOTBALL PREDICTOR
A program that helps you pick the winners and beat the points
spread. It is claimed that this program had nearly a 60%
success rate against the points spread last year.
39 TELEPROMPTING WITH ATARI
An article on how Q-Tv of Los Angles use the Atari 130XE
as the basis of a teleprompting system.
40 ANTIC PROMPTER
Now you too can use your Atari to prompt you when you give
those important speeches at club meetings, etc. This
program will read a file written in AtariWriter, Paper Clip
or its own editor and display it in large letters. You use
the joystick to select speed and direction.
42 MAVERICK ATARI SCHOOL
A writeup on the PCS School for Advanced Learning in Nampa,
Idaho.
44 BONUS GAME: MATH FLASHCARDS
No fancy graphics. Just a direct, no-nonsense program that
kids enjoy using.
46 BONUS GAME: NAME THE PRESIDENTS
A simple, short program helps youngsters learn the Presidents
of the U.S.
47 CHECKBOOK BALANCER
A compact but powerful user-friendly calculating database.
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52 ANTIC PROMPTER ST
Now you too can use your Atari to prompt you when you give
those important speeches at club meetings, etc. This
program is written in GFA BASIC, runs on any color or
monochrome ST and will smoothly scroll text files (using
very large letters) up the TV screen at speeds ranging from
very slow to faster than most people can talk.
55 ST PRODUCT NEWS AND REVIEWS
Software
Balance of Power (Mindscape)
First Shapes (First Byte)
Kid Talk (First Byte)
Math Talk (First Byte)
Speller Bee (First Byte)
New Products (description only)
Supercharger (Migraph), Font Pack I (Migraph), Personal
Draw Art (Migraph), Technical Draw Arts (Migraph), Label-
Master Elite (Migraph), Sub Battle Simulator (Epyx),
ARTablets (EI/O Products), New Aladdin (magazine of disk),
SoftWerx Maxpak for 50 Bux (SoftWerx), P-edit (KEPCO),
Sales-Pro Software System (Hi-Tech Advisers) and Encrypt
(Middle Coast Publishing).
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63 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.
Comments: One of the products reviewed this month is Ultra-Speed, a
replacement OS chip for XL/XE machines that allows high-speed
access with most disk drives modifications and virtually all
software. It allows you to switch between it and the original OS.
It provides a true cold-start by pressing [HELP] and [RESET].
There is a new regular feature in ANTIC called Page 6 Exchange.
It consists of programs originally published in a British
publication called Page 6. They, in turn, will be able to print
programs from ANTIC.
Kit Kimes
AT&T-ISL
1100 E. Warrenville Rd.
Naperville, IL 60566
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