store2@ihuxi.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes) (07/17/87)
AUGUST 1987 ANTIC TOC Theme: Atari Muscle page article 6 I/O BOARD Letters from Readers. 7 REBOUND CONTEST WINNERS Antic ran a contest for Screen Designs to go with the game Rebound. The winners are included with the monthly disk. 9 HAIKU POET This program generates Japanese Haiku poetry. You even get simulated bamboo flute music in the background. 11 DISK BONUS: ANTIC dataBASE Every month ANTIC is including a bonus program for disk subscribers. This month it is dataBASE, an easy to use file manager. This is the same program that used to be given away with the purchase of an Indus GT disk drive. 14 TAPELESS SPREADSHEET PRINTER Now you can print the output from SynCalc, VisiCalc and SpeedCalc sideways so that you don't have to tape sheets together if it is wider that 80 columns. 17 ATARI ANIMATION: LESSON 3 This lesson contains two useful programs: a professional quality character set editor with image-moving features and a short BASIC subroutine that converts ML code into ATASCII string variables for use in your BASIC programs. 24 POLYMOVE Polymove introduces you to "tweening", the computer process that removes much of the drudgery from animated cartoon drawing. 25 GAME OF THE MONTH: DIAMOND DAVE A humorous action game that's refreshingly non-violent. You guide a robot through a radioactive diamond mine while dodging mutant prairie dogs. 27 PRODUCT REVIEWS Software Age of Adventure (Electronic Arts) Ogre (Origin Systems, Inc) Branches (Sysco Software) Twigs (Sysco Software) Family History (Direct Lines Software) USAAF (Strategic Simulations, Inc.) 32 COMMUNICATIONS: COMPUTALK A review of this Texas BBS and an interview with its founder Kris Meier. He has multiplexed six 800 computers to one 20 Meg hard drive. 33 PC PURSUIT A review of what you get and how you can sign up for PC Pursuit. This is the service that allows you unlimited off-hours BBS access for $25 per month. 36 EDUCATION: Temperature Converter This BASIC program swiftly the equivalent temperature in Celsius, Kelvin and Fahrenheit. ***********BEGIN THE ST RESOURCE SECTION********** 42 PRESTIDIGITIZATION A review of the Color Computereyes, Print-Technik Realtizer and Navarone video digitizers. 49 ALPHABET FISH An educational game in FGA and ST BASIC. It is for pre- schoolers and primary grade-school children. 50 ST PRODUCT NEWS AND REVIEWS Software Pirates of the Barbary Coast (StarSoft Software) Boffin (Software Punch) Trivia Challenge (MichTron) Hardware Mouse Ball (E. Arthur Brown Co.)--a trackball mouse Books Atari ST Tricks and Tips (Abacus Software) New Products (description only) Micro Cookbook (FTL), Graphic Artist V1.52 (Progressive Computer Applications), Famous Course Disk: Volume II (Accolade), Chessmaster 2000 (Electronic Arts), GFA Draft (MichTron), TRIMbase (MichTron), Journey to the Lair (MichTron) and R.A.I.D. (MichTron). ***********END THE ST RESOURCE SECTION************ 57 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: I didn't have a chance to post the index to the July issue but the bonus disk program was an 80 column word processor. ANTIC was only 84 pages long this month but at least it is still coming on time. Subscribers of Analog tell me they still haven't gotten the July issue. Kit Kimes AT&T-ISL 1100 E. Warrenville Rd. Naperville, IL 60566 ...!ihnp4!iwvae!kimes