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Compute Jul 1985 Amazing Online Databases: Instant Information J~1 ·:s 1985 Issue 62 Vol. 7, No. 7 I $3.75 Canada ;a.. 02193 - Ill ISSN 0194-357 X The Leading Magazine Of Home, Educational, And Recreational Computing Softball Statistics: Is Your Team As Good As You Think? Ready-To-Run Programs Inside For Commodore 64, VIC, Atari, IBM PC, PCjr, Apple, Tl Extended Color Mode For Commodore Computers Atari LIST Ser An Easier W Edit BASIC Viewpo In IBM 11\SIC How To Open Windows On Your PC 8J PCjr For SpeedScript 3.0 Word Processor 07 0 The OKIMATE COLOR The first affordable "color screen print" program on diskette. color printers! Now you're set. The new OKIMATE Personal Color Just plug your new OKIMATE Printers are breaking through in flying Printer into your computer colors. They're the first low cost personal with the PLUG 'N PRINT printers that let you print in rainbows of package*. And print. dazzling colors. It's that easy. 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It's com­ pletely compatible with your Atari® and Commodore® personal computers. Comes with a 9 element printhead. And prints a speedy 240 words per minute. For crisp. clean letters. reports. and homework. All this and beautiful color for about $200. Available wherever Atari and Commodore computers are sold. The OKIMATE 10 The OKIMATE 20. The color printer that's all business. The OKIMATE 20 Personal Color Printer is here to dazzle everyone. With the vibrant impact of over 100 sizzling colors. A 24 ele­ ment printhead that delivers letter quality characters. And the ability to print 270 words a minute for reports. financial state­ ments and letters. It's completely compat­ ible with IBM® PC and PCjr. And for all you Apple owners. the OKIMATE 20 works wonders with the llE~ the llC® and the Macintosh ~ It's affordable color printing for under $268. Available at computer dealers everywhere. The OKIMATE 20 Apple;=~~~~~=: HE _Apple llC and Macintosh cue~~-~ reg1<tered trademarksQIQ~l~!A of Apple Compu ter Inc j Q8Q5 4 Mt L NJ IBM PC and IBM PCjr arc regislercd tr .id~ma rks ol lmerndl!Onal Bustne s Mdch1nes Inc • a Ure , SYLVIA PORTER'S PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNER DOES MORE THAN MANAGE YOUR MONEY IT PLANS YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE TOO SYLVIA PORTER'S PERSONAL FINANCE SERIES combines the masters' touch of Sylvia Porter and the editors of Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine with all the computer tools you'll ever need to help manage your money on aday-to-day basis and plan your financial future, too. In Sylvia Porter's style, without complicated financial jargon or "computerese". Volumel Your Personal Financial Planner: For Your Financial Future: Helps you track your day-to­ • You 'll be led step-by-step through a day financial data, then com­ series of questions regarding your life bines this information with your and lifestyle, your financial goals, and future financial objectives to your current financial condition . Your produce the most comprehen­ answers will enable your computer sive and easily-understood finan­ to determine and print a summary cial planning program available. of the amounts you must save each year to meet your financial For Your Day-to-Day objectives - in both real and inflated dollars. Affairs: • Helps you plan for protection • Maintains your electronic check­ against major medical adversities· book and credit card system. and other financial setbacks. • Writes your checks and balances • Each program interfaces with your checkbook . (We even built in a others in this series. Your calculator and memo pad for you .) information can be • Prepares and monitors your budget. incorporated into letters and • Classifies and tracks your taxable reports produced by income and expenses. Timeworks' 'Nord Writer. • Calculates your net worth and gener­ • Everything is integrated. You ates customized personal financial need to enter data only statements. once . • Tracks your financial assets - and your insurance policies. Available for Apple, IBM • Graphically generates supplemental data, and Commodore computers. such as percentages, ratios and charts. • You get our Toll-Free Hotline and our Cus­ Moderately Priced - from your tomer Technical Support Team at no charge. favorite Dealer or contact • You get Timeworks' Money Back Guarantee. Timeworks for the Dealer closest to you. (Details in each package.) Next in this integrated series: Your Personal Investment Planner. Other Timeworks Programs: The Evelyn Wood Dynamic Reader • Word Writer with Spell Checker Data Manager 2 • Swif!Calc with Sideways • Business Systems • Swiftax • Cave of the Word Wizard • Wall Street More power for your dollar. TIMEWORKS, INC., 444 Lake Cook Rd ., Deerfield, IL 60015, 312-948-9200 c 1984 SyMa Por1ers Personal Finance Magazine Co. & nineworu. Inc. All rights reserved. July 1985 I Vol. 7. No. 7 • FEATURES 16 How to Buy the Right Database Program . Selby Bateman • 26 Amazing Online Databases . Kathy Yakal • 30 Softball Statistics . Roger Felton 44 Fast Filer . Richard Mansfield and Patrick Parrish REVIEWS 52 Spelunker . Steve Hudson AT~ 52 Run for It . Karen McCullough AP/Af 54 HomePak . Sheldon Leamon 64 55 Gemstone Warrior . James V. Trunzo AP/"4 COLUMNS AND DEPARTMENTS 4 The Editor's Notes . Tom R. Halfhill 8 Readers' Feedback . The Editors and Readers of COMPUTE! • 14 HOTWARE . .... .......... ....... .. ... , ........ .. .. .. .... • 82 Computers and Society: Compilers, Interpreters, and Flow. Part 1 . .. .. .... David D. Thornburg 83 The World Inside the Computer: Here Come the Toy Robots! . Fred D'lgnazio • 84 The Beginner's Page . ... ........ .. ......... .. ......... Tom R. Halfhill 88 Telecomputing Today: Saving Money with E-Mail . .......... Arlan R. Levitan • 89 IBM Personal Computing: An Old-Fashioned Database . Donald B. Trivette 90 Programming the Tl : Using Tl Logo II . C . Regena 92 INSIGHT: Atari-Bargain Basement Networking . Bill Wilkinson THE JOURNAL 57 Commodore Recruncher . Jerry Smith 64 Extended Color Mode for Commodore . Jim Butterfield 68 Atari LIST Scrolier . Royce Decker 69 Viewports in IBM BASIC . John Kearney 72 Apple SpeedScript 3.0 ProDOS Converter . Kevin Martin 75 Apple Automatic Proofreader ... ...... .. .. .. .. ....... Tim Victor 77 Moving Memory with ROM for 64 and VIC-20 . Thomas Henry 79 Improving the Atari's Alphabet .. ...... ........ .. ... Rhett Anderson 80 Commodore 64 AutoPRINT . Rocky Moore 56 CAPUTEI Modifications or Corrections to AP Apple. Mac.Macintosh, Previous Artlcles NOTE: See page 93 Ill Atari, Y VIC-20, 64 Com­ before typing In fTIOCiklr9 64• . ~4 ~ 93 COMPUTEl's Gulde to Typing In Programs programs. Plus/ 4. 16 ~ 16, 96 Advertisers Index P PET/CSM. n Texas Instru­ 96 COMPUTE! Classlfled ments. PC IBM PC. PCJr IBM PCjr. CC Radio Shack Color Coml'i'\iter. 0 TOLL FREE Subscription Order Line Ge.nera1 1nte~ 800-334-0868 (In NC 919-275-9809) COMPUTE! The Journal for Progressive Computing (USPS: 537250) is published monthly by COMPUTEr Publications,lnc.~ COMPUTE! Publications, Inc., P.O. Box 5406, GreensbOro, NC 27403 USA. Phone: (919) 275-9809. One ot the ABC Publishing Compan'": V Editorial Offices are located at 324 West Wendover Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27408. Domestic ABC Publllhlng, President, Robert G. Burton Subscrip~ ons : 12 issues, $24. Send subscription orders or change of address (P.O. form 3579) to 1330 Avenue of !he Americas. New VOiie. New Yori< 10019 COMPUTE Magazine, P.O. Box 91 4, Farmingdale, NY 11737. Second class postage paid at Addr... all lnqul"" to: Greensboro, NC 27403 and additional mailing offices. Entire contents copyright ©1985 by P.O. Box 5406. Greensboro. NC 27403 COMPUTE! Publications, Inc. All rights reserved, ISSN 0194-357X. I ----Editors Notes---­ We visited Amiga in California a said he wasn't around. "Maybe you can screen at 70 hertz instead of the usual 60 few weeks ago, and it was reminiscent of go out for lunch and call back in an hour hertz, displaying a super-sharp image those 60 Minutes or 20/20 shows where or so and see if anyone is available," she that looks like a sheet of paper with crisp Mike Wallace or Geraldo Rivera pop up suggested.
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