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<*******************[Ignore header path]*******************> FEBRUARY 1987 ANTIC TOC Theme: Word Processing page article 8 I/O BOARD Letters from Readers. 10 GAME OF THE MONTH: QUATRO A colorful computerized version of Blind Man's Morris, the traditional strategy game where you beat an opponent by lining up four pieces in any direction. Compete against your Atari or a human opponent. BASIC. 16 HOW TO WRITE BOOKS WITH YOUR ATARI A simple 'how to' write a novel using your Atari and a Word Processor by David Wade who has written 15 novels under his own and other names. (He uses an Atari 130XE and PaperClip). 20 SAN FRANCISCO FOGGER A program that checks your letters, reports and term papers for readability. It gives a Fog, Smog and Flesch Index output. Both 8-bit and ST programs are provided. BASIC. 24 WORD PROCESSORS: 7 FOR THE 8-BIT A review of 7 word processors available for the 8-bit Atari's. It includes a nice table of all important features and which Word Processors have what. 31 NEW PRODUCTS A description but not a review of several new products available for the Atari computers. 34 130XE DOUBLE FEATURE An article detailing the difficulty of using the extra 64K of memory from within a BASIC program. 35 RAM BANKS ON THE 130XE An article by Bill Wilkinson (of OSS) detailing the how to access the full 128K of memory, especially if you want to use OSS's BASIC XE. 38 130XE SLIDE SHOW This short program demonstrates how you can use Atari BASIC to control RAM bank switching. It allows you to store 8 graphic pictures in the extra memory and flash them at a rate you control using Atari paddle controllers. 42 ELECTRIC CHARLIE A program that uses pop-up windows to explain error message numbers returned by main program. 44 REBOUND CONSTRUCTION KIT A construction kit (and contest) to allow you to produce extra screens to go with the game 'Flip Ogart' from last months ANTIC. 47 PRODUCT REVIEWS Software Millionaire (Blue Chip Software) Super ReeveKey (Reeve Software) Top Gunner (MicroProse Software) World Karate Championship (Epyx Inc.) Hardware Dots-Perfect Upgrade Kit (Dresselhaus Computer Products) -an upgrade for Epson FX, JX, RX, and MX printers 52 COMMUNICATIONS: ATARI'S BULLETIN BOARD An article on Atari's own BBS. They are now running 5 ST's with hard disks and logging 12,000 calls a month. The five run duplicate but separate data bases. The five telephone numbers are (408)-745-5308, -5970, -2642, -4758 & -5664. 55 NEW OWNERS COLUMN This is lesson 11 on ATASCII, PEEK and POKE commands and what they do and how to use them. 60 USERS GROUP: WAACE The featured users group this month is the Washington Area Atari Computer Enthusiasts. This isn't a users group, per se, but an organization that exists to coordinate the efforts of all the users groups in the DC area. It also publishes the user group magazine 'Current Notes' that is highly respected thanks to Joe Waters. If I had to choose between it and ANTIC, I'd drop my ANTIC subscription first! ***********BEGIN THE ST RESOURCE SECTION********** 69 1ST WORD PRINTER DRIVER A generalized article on how to create a printer driver for use with your printer and Atari ST. 73 PRINTSET A short utility routine that automatically sends control codes to a printer when you turn your ST on. It is written in 68000 assembly language. 78 ST PRODUCT NEWS AND REVIEWS Software Multi-Forth (Creative Solutions Inc.) Mach2 Forth (Palo Alto Shipping Co.) Little Computer People (Activision Software) ST Scrunch (Cherry Software) DOS Shell (MichTron Inc.) New Products (description only) Video Digizer PRO (Print-Technik) Meteostat Weather Satellite Receiving Station (Print-Technik) Data Switch Box (Print-Technik) General Ledger Program (Synsoft) Star Fleet 1: The War Begins (Electronic Arts) LabelMaster (Migraph) FAST (Migraph) EasyDraw Version 2.0 (Migraph) PowerPlan ST (Abacus Software) AssemPro (Abacus Software) ST Peeks & Pokes (Abacus Books) BMS 3500 Hard Disk (Berkeley Microsystems) Metatrak (MIDIsoft Corp.) Zoomracks II (Quickview Systems) Plan Ahead (Advanced Financial Planning) Speller Bee (First Byte) KidTalk (First Byte) MathTalk (First Byte) First Shapes (First Byte) Quikcards (Hired Hand Graphics) Inagem Agenda+ (Inagem Technologies Inc.) Tass Times in Tonetown (Activision Inc.) Shanghai (Activision Inc.) Gamestar Championship Baseball (Activision Inc.) GBA Championship Basketball: Two-on-Two (Activision Inc.) TRANSFORM (Beam Team) Xtrack (Beam Team) Xnotes (Beam Team) Xsyn (Beam Team) ST-Pool (Shelbourne Software Systems Inc) ThoughtSpace TS-1A (ThoughtSpace Development) Publishing Partner (SoftLogic Corp) Trimbase (Talent Computer Systems) Haba MailRoom (Haba/Arrays) HabaMerge (Haba/Arrays) HabaView (Haba/Arrays) HabaCheck (Haba/Arrays) LisPas II ST (TommySoftware) Lock_It (TommySoftware) Crypt_It (TommySoftware) Musix 32 (TommySoftware) PayDay (Crystal Software) UltraCalc (Stone Age Software Inc.) Lewis 123 (Stone Age Software Inc.) Encrypt (Stone Age Software Inc.) ***********END THE ST RESOURCE SECTION************ 85 SOFTWARE LIBRARY This section contains all the program listings for the articles in this issue. 114 TECH TIPS This section is a collection of tips and short programs from readers or collected from various Users Groups newsletters. Coming next month: Inside Today's Atari, Wage/Hour Paymaster, Multi Autorun files & Rainbow Screenmaker Comments: Antic has reaffirmed its support of the 8-bit Atari users and stated that they do not believe an international monthly magazine can do a good job of supporting either computer if they do not support BOTH 8-bit and ST computers. Kit Kimes AT&T-ISL 1100 E. Warrenville Rd. Naperville, IL 60566 ...!ihnp4!iwvae!kimes