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Don't wait another million years. Get it today at B. Dalton's Soft­ ware Etc., Babbage's, Egghead, Electronics Boutique, Software City, Walden software, Sears and wherever fine software is sold. •Apple // GS and Amiga ve111lona only I I I I I FEATURES -· Years Gone By We chart the history of home computing by offering up covers and articles from the last nine years of COMPUTE! magazine./Gregg Keizer 18 That Was Then, This Is Now What were 15 movers and shakers in the computer industry doing nine years ago, and what are they doing now?/Paul Freiberger and Dan McNeil/ __ 26 100 Milestones in Computer History Our birthday present to you-the most important computer hard­ ware, software, and publications on a collector's-edition poster. Editors 43 Conversations Epyx Grows with David Morse Epyx's CEO spells out what it takes to move an entertainment publisher past the $100-million mark. Keith Ferrell and Gregg Keizer_ 10 Buyer's Guide Classic Software Browse through these 70 classic programs from personal comput­ ing' s history. - Caroline D. Hanlon 54 REVIEWS

Fast Looks 62 The Three Stooges Keith Ferrell 66 The Graphics Studio Steven Anzovin 67 Ultima V Shay Addams 68 SEPTEMBER Word bench Heidi E. H. Aycock 72 1988 Stealth Mission Tom Netsel 73 VOLUME 10 Twilight's Ransom Brian Summy 75 NUMBER 9 Read 'n Roll ISSUE 100 Carol S. Holzberg 77

The Leading Magazine or Home, Educatlonal, and Recreational Computing I I I I I COLUMNS Editorial License Throughout its first 100 issues, COMPUTE! has been the maga­ zine that always speaks first and clearest to the home user. Gregg Keizer 31 News & Notes CES wears many guises, Nintendo faces great DRAM drought, and GEOS gets to two./Editors 6 Gameplay Comics on computers take on the columnist, and win. Orson Scott Card 9 Impact The first 100 issues of COMPUTE! have seen the magic of a revolu­ tion's first decade. David D. Thornburg 12 Discoveries Writing, the key to success in school, can be fun and fruitful with a word processor. David Stanton 80 Levitations The Consumer Electronics Show sure isn't what it used to be. Arlan Levitan 88 Letters COMPUTE! helps take a bite out -COMPUTE! SPECIFIC of crime!/Editors 13 New Products! MS-DOS Zak saves everyone's IQ, PC gets Clifton Karnes 36 palm-sized, sports explode from Accolade, and more new products. 64 & 128 Mickey McLean 34 Neil Randall 38 Apple II Gregg Keizer 39 Amiga Rhett Anderson 50 Macintosh Sharon Zardetto Aker 51 Atari ST David Plotkin 52 Hints & Tips Editors 15

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ooking back is only slightly less dan­ False: The average consumer can't do gerous than looking ahead. something useful with a computer. Every L Both pastimes-nostalgically month, COMPUTE! magazine shows how glancing at the past or pretentiously predict­ you can make the personal computer not ing the future-are often carried out with lit­ only useful, but indispensable, to modern tle information and an overpowering desire life. · to look for trends and patterns. Hindsight The second condition of today's state of has only one advantage-at least we can be personal computing is that the dominant relatively sure of the facts. computer system-in the home as well as in COMPUTE!'s With that caveat in mind, we've decid­ business-is the IBM PC and its clones and ed to set aside most of our normal activities compatibles. The system has won over the and dedicate this issue to remembrance of home market because of typical consumer Founding things past ... our past specifically, a part of issues-price, performance, and price. The the computer industry's past generally, and best evidence that the PC compatible is the Principle-to perhaps even a bit of your past as well. champion of the home comes from software The reason? This is COMPUTE!'s publishers, who continue to report phenom­ Talk to All lOOth issue, as well as its 9th anniversary. enal growth in MS-DOS entertainment and The numbers, when compared to magazines education titles' sales. in other fields, are not impressive. Life mag­ The effect of the PC compatible on the Computer azine recently celebrated its IOOOth issue; future home market? I'm not going to guess. Time is in its 65th year of publication. But Today, though, its impact is significant in Users-ls a in the personal computer publishing world, two areas: The first is an increase in non­ heading into a 10th year is the equivalent of game use of home computers; the PC and Strength several lifetimes. compatible made their reputations in the of­ It would be easy to take this birthday fice, and much of that work and software That's Lasted opportunity to look back and reflect on great has come home. The second is the clamor achievements. Or to look ahead and set for an easier-to-use interface, something less grander goals. I don't want to do either. In­ clumsy than MS-DOS's commands. Tandy a Lifetime in stead, let's look at now, today. Two things has offered its DeskMate as one graphic al­ stand out. ternative; IBM is working on another. Personal First and most important, there is a What does all this mean to COM­ home computer market, a consumer market PUTE! magazine as it heads into its tenth Computing for personal computers. Millions of Ameri­ year? cans have brought the personal computer I think it's a reaffirmation of COM­ into their homes-recent surveys indicate PUTE!'s focus. COMPUTE! has always spo­ that 20 percent of American households ken to the home user first and most often. have a personal computer. That's an impres­ The magazine will continue to feature appli­ sive figure. It's particularly impressive when cations and issues of concern to anyone who you remember the death knells everyone has a personal computer at home-concerns was sounding for the home computer in ranging from home entertainment to educa­ 1984 and 1985. Here's an example: John tion, desktop publishing, and financial plan­ Scul.ley, president and CEO of Apple, in his ning. The fact that more and more of the book Odyssey, cal.led the home market "a magazine's readers own IBM PC compati­ figment of everyone's imagination," and bles is an important, but not driving, influ­ said that "People weren't about to buy ence for COMPUTE!. Nine years ago, the $2,000 computers to play a video game, bal­ most important machine to the magazine's ance a checkbook, or file gourmet recipes as readers was the Commodore PET. Half a some suggested. The average consumer sim­ dozen important personal computers have ply couldn't do something useful with a ridden the crest of popularity since then. computer." Those claims are both true and Another half a dozen may do so in the next false. nine years. And COMPUTE! will be there to True: They weren't about to buy $2,000 speak to those users of future computers. computers. Instead, they bought $1 ,000 (and That's been the strength of the maga­ even less expensive) computers. zine, this founding principle of communi­ True: People aren't satisfied with com­ cating to all computer users, not just a puterized checkbook balancing and recipe narrow niche of those who share a brand filing. They want to do more-word pro­ name. It's a strength that's lasted a lifetime cessing, home education, telecommunica­ in personal computing, one strong enough tions, and financial planning. to last several more. c:i

4 COMPUTE! Get ready for four of the most challeng- Permanently You will when you endure There are boulders, rivers, potholes, ing, rugged, rump-bumping cross the longest winter of your life in the ice, and mudbogs to contend with. What sleet and slosh of The Michigan are mudbogs? You'll find out. (Just after Course. The Georgia Red Clay you find out there's a Demon 4 x 4 chas­ Course has enough mud to keep ing you all through the race. A Demon you a human fossil for 2,000 years. hellbent on your destruction.) And then there's Death Valley If you win enough races, collect Get it. D-E-AT-H Valley enough points, only then will the Plenty of thrills guaranteed on the following grounds: gumbo mud. packed sri ow.skid·SDtld. a rid t/1 e scrubbiest /errain Soll/Ii ul the border. Start with pre-race strategy. Victor's Cup be yours. It's ';.. country road racing courses this earth Select and customize your personal the least we can do. After l has to offer. vehicle. Your supplies. Your repair equip- all, you did go through 111 Fight the torturous terrain of Baja. ment. Believe us.You'll need everything. hell to get there. Rocks, boulders, skid-sand, even a few spikey cactuses. And of course, heat that's hot enough to fillet any forehead. 4x4 OFF-ROAD RACING Ever had your hands stuck to the wheel? Commodore 6·11 128. IBM-~ COlll/Jatibles. Amigo BYEPYX news¬es

Consumer mained one of the more potent Electronics Show means of hyping products, Wears Many Hats with clips of films on which ga mes are based, in-depth Or was it the Celebrity Elec­ looks at the programming ef­ tronics Show? forts that went into products, Endorsemenrs was one of and ple nt y ofjust plain blar­ the names of the games in hi­ ney. (O ne com pany's taped cago, wi th appearances by Pete spokeswoman, in as attracti ve Rose (for Mediagen ic via elec­ a Japanese accen t as we've troni c hookup), wrestl ers King heard. intoned sonorousl y Kong Bundy (Vendex) and about "Superman's gu ll frie nd , Andre the Giant (Nintendo). Louise Lane.") VCRs them­ and even Robocop (Nintendo selves figured in Epyx's prod­ again). uct line, wi th both VCR games Maybe it was the Cos­ and H on~e Video Producer. Computer Music tumed Electronics Show. Was it the Cinematic Crossover Act Booths were attended by per­ Electronics Show? Could have so nnel weari ng assorted kim o­ been-software publishers Jim Cuomo is a mu~1t1an who nos, combat gear, coats, ca ps, later wi th a hit game. Now showed games wants to bring serious music clogs, and promotional apparel game designers design the look based on into computer games and seri­ of every stripe. and feel of the game. Game mov- ous computer-game music into Could it have been the programmers write the code. your home. His new CD (the Closed-circuit Electronics Game artists design the graph­ kind you play through your Show? Pete Rose appeared on ics and animation. And game stereo, not the kind you hook a live feed, but musicians write the music. up to your computer), Ga me videotape re- Play: Top Scores from Com­ Game Pla_v consists of 15 pwer Ac1ion/4.d1•em 11res. is a se lections from nine ga mes. collection of his computer The songs are the originals­ composi tions from such hit right out of the computer, games as SD.I. and Defender sweetened a bit by Cuomo's ofthe Crown. saxophone. clarinet, and re­ The sounds associated corder. and Cami lle Safeferis' wi th early computer games are percussion. blips, bleeps, wh istles, and Unfortunately, yo u're not buzzes. These sounds haven·1 Likely to find the CD in your disappeared, but rea l music local Record Bar or Camelot has appeared. Far more im­ Music store. You'll have more pressi e than the randomly success if you go directly to the generated computer "'music" source-Pigeon Music, 11684 of the past, more carefully Ventura Boulevard, Suite 520, chosen and adapted th an the Studio City, Californ ia 91604; occasional public domain or (818) 505- 1077. plagiarized so ng from ea rlier Even if you survey each games, modern game tunes are computer game as it co mes now custom-designed sou nd­ along. you probably haven't tracks composed by real heard all these pieces. Game musicians. Play brings to light music that Cuomo is a product of the only the best game players age of specialists. Game design hear-the music from the cli­ is fa r removed from the da ys matic finales of the games. In when a programmer would other words, the songs for submerge into a back room winners. and emerge several months - Rhett Anderson 6 COMPUTE I news¬es

ies and television programs, Storm Rising ready to rise, .vhich recreate Japanese them from established soft- including The Three Stooges while Accolade's tank simula- history. ware superstars such as Br0- and Rocket Ranger (Ci nema- tion was referred to as a Test What about the Calisthen- derbund-and the shortage of ware), Twilighr Zone and The Dri ve on treads. Rainbird com- ic Electronics Show? Athletics DRAM (Dynamic Random Honeymooners (First Row), missioned its Carrier Com- played a big part in nearly Access Memory) chips, which Plaroon (Data East), H ii/ow mand, while Activision every software line, with Acco- will have an effect on the (Mindscapc), and enough Top christened the U.S.S. Ocean lade showing Serve & Volley availability of those cartridges. Gun- and Rambo-compati- Ranger missile ship. Interplay tennis, Fasr Break basketball, (The chip shortage is growing bles to alter the global balance turned chess into a combat Rack 'Em billiards, and TKO dire enough, we heard, that of power. No sign of Crocodile sport with Ba11le Chess. boxing, complete with blood. bribes are being offered in ex- Dundee on disk-but give Mindscape went vertical with Mountain climbing, of all change for chip allocations. No them time. a Harrier combat simulator. things, is coming from Epyx, word on whether the bribes Might have been the Epyx brought Ba11leship to and TV football. from Cinema- were successful.) Character-based Electronics disk. Three Sixty's Harpoon ware. Pere Rose Pennant Fever For software publishers, Show. Although lnfocom promised to put the whole of is ready to hustle for Game- the DRAM shortage, while not showed no new products, oth- the U.S. and Soviet navies on star. Dolphin Marine Software exactly a plus, was not exactly er companies filled the void in computer screens. Tai to, flush puts players at the tiller. a minus, either: You don't text and text/graphics games. with coin-op success, is putting Some said it was the Car- have to put chips in a disk. Paragon's Guardians ofJn fin- on a push into the software tridge Electronics Show. Chalk Some publishers hope the an- iry lets you try to save JFK, market with a number of up another big year for Nin- ticipated shortage of cartridges Interplay gives you William games, including Operation tendo, which dominated the will spur consumers toward Gibson's super-selling Neu ro- Wolf, which might be the most software hall with a booth that computers, where you only mancer. and Lucasfilm ex- violent-and addictively so- seemed to go on forever. The buy silicon once. (The down tends the Man iac Ma nsion game ever introduced. Combat game maker is convinced that side is that once is going to intenace with Zack McKracken of a more ancient variety is its sales will go on forever, too. cost more. Blue Chip president and the Alien Mindbenders. found in Koei's Nobunaga 's Talk at the booth was divided John Rossi noted that DRAM Or the Combat Electron- Ambirion and Romance ofthe between the variety of new prices are going to have an im- ics Show. MicroProse has Red Three Kingdoms. simulations game cartridges-many of pact on computer prices.) l>

SEPTEMBER 1 988 7 For all of Nintendo, Sega, more. more graphics and more var­ third in the game hardware and Taito's cartridge empha­ ·· 1t was really something ied indexing to give people market, plan on bringi ng sis, not to mention the chip that was sort of waiting for more nexible ways to get at the several more million house­ shortage. CES was good for CD-ROM," BT0derbund prod­ information," Jordan said. holds into the game-system software publishers- pe rhaps uct manager Joanne Bealy "We're aiming fo r user seren­ resurgence. the best software CES in recent said. "'And then wi1h Hyper­ dipity, for letting them fi nd All this hardware has cre­ yea rs. There was a sense card as the front end, it's a per­ things that they wouldn't ex­ ated a fierce demand for game throughout 1he show that soft­ fect match. It's ideally made pect to find ... cartridges. To prevent a repeat ware was back as a major force for CD-ROM and Hypercard. " Jordan said putting the performance of the disaster in consumer electronics, with a The catalog wi ll use digi­ catalog on Compact Disc ful­ that overtook Atari in the early growing market that neither tized pictures and sound. fills the original idea of The 1980s, when supply out­ chip shortages nor cartridge "When someone is looking at Whole Earlh Cat­ stripped demand and the mar­ wars can dim. alog. Before decid- ket was plagued by shoddy ing to print the games at fi re-sale prices, Nin­ information in tendo has kept considerable a book, the orig­ control over the manufactur­ inator of the ing process. Nintendo makes catalog wanted all the game ca rtridges, for in­ to have a phone­ stance, and all ocates cartridges in database. to the various ga me publish­ "The fan­ ers. as well. It hopes to keep tasy at the the lid on the number of car­ time was a tridges available at any one computer, time, and it promises to keep which 20 quality high, answering con­ years ago cerns about the two primary was not contributors to the Atari deba­ feasible cle last time around. to do," And some of the games he said. are impressive. The Nintendo " It's kind system plays ga mes that com­ of inter­ pare with those which ran on esting that it eight-bit computers three or has come back around to that." four years ago. Aimed at teen­ - Heidi£. H. Aycock agers, the predominant play­ a musical item, they will actu­ ers, the games are mostly all y be able to hear a sample of sports-, action-, or fantasy-ori­ Catalogs on CD the product," Bealy said. ented. A few games outside Games Hot, but these genres are appearing, You'll have sound, better in­ The project isn't really in­ Cartridges Cool dexi ng, and hyperlinked cross tended to make BT0derbund's however, including The Bal/le­ references between catalog en­ fortune. It's more like an ex­ If the recent Summer Consum­ fields ofNapoleon. a strategy tries, but yo u won"t be able to periment in a growing field er Electronics Show in Chicago war ga me based on the Napo­ read The Elec/ronic Whole with a product that is well-suit­ was any indica tion, dedicated leonic era, from BT0derbund. Earth Catalog in the bath­ ed to the new medium. game-system sales have yet to Elementary action role-playing room-unless you happen to ·'We have no expectations peak. The Nintendo ex hibit games are also finding their keep yo ur Macintosh and CD­ of this being a moneymaker," sprawled over a major portion way to lhe game systems; sev­ ROM drive next to the sink. Bealy said."It'sjust that we of the noor dedicated to com­ eral were on display at the Sega The Poi nt Foundation, wa nt to get into this field . I puter so ft ware· under its um­ ex hibit. One even includes a which puts together The think this will encourage other brella were more than a score small battery 10 keep saved Whole Earth Catalog. has giv­ developers to go for it. l think of game-system-cartridge pub­ games active until the next en BT0derbund Software an ex­ it's going to become an indus­ lishers, including familiar playi ng session. clusive license to market a CD­ try standard." computer software names like Trouble looms for the ROM version of the catalog. For the Point Foundation, Br0derbund, Activision, and dedicated game systems 1his Hypercard will be the interface CD-ROM is a new way to pre­ Data East. The Sega and Atari yea r, though. The DRAM chip for the product. BT0derbund sent a special publication. displays weren" t as large, but shortage (and even a reported Software plans to release the "What we see at this point is a they added to the combined spot shortage of ROM chips) is package this fall, but a price very important long-term ad­ game-system square footage, havi ng a big impact on Nin­ has not been determined yet. vantage in that the CD is both which easily dwarfed that tendo and its competition. The catalog lists all kinds very easil y updatable and it's of the computer-oriented Each cartridge re.quires several of tools and how to order also much bigger in capacity companies. RAM chips; the shortage of them. Tools include more than th an a print book," Keith Jor­ Nintendo expects to sell such chips and the spiraling hammers and sc.rewdrivers. for dan, project manager at the seven million of its game sys­ cost of those 1hat are available The Whole Earth Catalog lists Point Foundation, said. tems in the U.S.A. this year; have put a crimp on sales plans books, records, software, and ··we'll be able to include Sega and Atari, second and co111;11u('(/ 0 11 pg. 81 • · - ~~--Jlf , - 4r"'1~··~ .Si· ~- - .· . . . ~ ORSON SCOTT CARD

he Infocom people have long tried to mal animals to grow into humongous earn the title i111 eraclil'efiction for monsters that destroy cities. When Lane T their tex t adventures. ow, in col­ Mastodon is sent to Jupiter to stop the ray, laboration with Tom Snyder Productions, the Blubbermen confuse things by mabng they've created lnfocomics. clones of Lane and his two helpers-age­ What a great idea! Comics have really nius boy and a nubile girl he rescued from a come of age in the last ten years daring to derelict spaceship. call themselves graphic novels and insisting Gamma Force: Pit ofa Thousand on being judged agai nst artistic standards as Screams is a superhero comic about three I Take On high as those applied to prose fi ction. Imag­ people who come from a planet that was ine something as good as Batrnan: Th e Dark taken over by the Nast. They each die and Knigh1 Returns or The Watchmen on your then are brought back to life with special lnfocom's PC, Mac, or Amiga. Computer comics could powers which they must use to defeat the combine terrific an, exceptionally good story­ Nast. One can fly, one can control water, Computerized telling, and the chance for yo u lo experience and the girl, a good fighter, is their leader. events in a way yo u simply can't on paper. Zorkquest: Assault on Egreth Castle is a Comic Books, But if you expect all that, you' ll be letting fantasy adventure about a small group of your expectations rise a little too high. travelers who are unexpectedl y involved in and the Result The an was the biggest disappointment. battling an evil magician. The characters are In the PC versions at least, lnfocom decided pretty ordinary· still, each has a surprise or to rely on a boot disk to stymie the software two for us. Cliches? Yeah. Lots of them. Isn't Pretty: pirates-but what that means is that the About as many as in George Lucas's Willow. game has to work on the lowest form of What finally dawned on me is that old lnfocomics 3, game computer: a vanilla PC with a CGA guys like me aren't really the target audience screen, with a maximum of four colors. for Infocomics. See, I performed a scientific Reviewer 0 That's right, fo lks, a maximum of four col­ test. I strategically lef1 the games lying ors. Son of like time traveling back to 1984. around where they'd be found by some of Worse yet, the story is almost entirely the shoner people in my household, and carried by narration in a box under the pic­ then I lurked. ture. The art is mere illustration, and a static My son Geoffrey played for hours. He illustration at that. As a result. the best sim­ didn't know about my ironclad law that a ulati on of comics an on the computer con­ good game is one that lets the player change tinues to be the superbly animated Sierra the outcome. He didn't know he was sup­ games-visually, lnfocomics aren't even in posed to be annoyed by the CGA screen. He the running. didn't know the stories were cliches-when What about the use of the computer's you're ten years old, all stories are new. possibilities? Here the lnfocomics score I interviewed him for this column. ''I pretty well. They don't even pretend to be really got excited about finding out what playable games. You don't make a single happened next," he told me. Zorkquest was choice for the characters; the stories end the his favorite. "The best thing is you can fol­ same way no matter what you do. low your own way through the story, just lnfocom's game designers use a hyper­ finding out what you're most interested in. text approach in Infocomics. At many You only go back to find out the other pans branch points in the story, yo u can switch of the story when you want to." from one character's point of view to anoth­ Problems? " I got confused at first-by er's. If yo u want, you can get inside a charac­ followi ng one character all the way through. ter and see a flashback of his or her past, or Things kept happening that I didn't under­ you can flip back through the story to an stand until I followed other characters and earlier branch point and choose to follow a found out what they did." Will he play different character's adventures through the again? Sure. He wants to go back to explore same time period. You don' t have control even more. over what happens-but you have a great Score: lnfocomics 3, Reviewer 0. deal of control over the order and depth of the presentation. What about the stories? But maybe-since Infocom really does My first thought was that they were shallow try to get better even when their first at­ and predictable-and I found no surprises. tempt is a hit-maybe future Infocomics Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen is a will come with better an and better stories. Buck Rogers-type space adventure. It be­ Please? I'll never be ten again, but I'd gins with rays from Jupiter that cause nor- still like an lnfocomic I can enjoy. El

SE P T EMBE R 1 988 9 • 11111 conversations

Epyx Grows pyx chairman and chief with executive officer David Morse attracted a good bit of attention at the Summer David EConsumer Electronics Show when he announced an ambitious Morse schedule for expansion that would drive the company to $100-million size by 1990. A cofounder of Amiga Computer (sold in Keith Ferrell 1984 to Commodore Business Machines), Morse combines an engineer's fascination and Gregg Keizer with technology with a businessman 's con­ cern for growth and profitability-all of it informed by an awareness of the entertain­ ment industry and software's place in that industry.

oyToys target market. Is that a limitation? How do you combat Epyx has found a great That's what we know. Over the last five that? years, Epyx has built up a lot of knowledge deal of success reaching Teenage girls have other interests. They as to what our consumers like, and we're what is primarily an just don't seem to be focusing on comput­ Badolescent male market trying to take advantage of that. ers. I don't know if one software company with sports-related products. Will teenage can change that, but we are consciously try­ boys remain the core of your market, or do ing to do some things that would broaden you see the company reaching out to other here the Girls Are the appeal. consumers in the years ahead? What about players who aren't teenage males-can As we go down the road, we'll probably you produce software for broaden that a lot. It's certainly our goal to Wgirls? ames to Come appeal to the very wide range of entertain­ Are there entertainment ment software users, and I think that you've We've tried to do that, but we have not had categories we haven't seen us, in the past year, get into some huge success. We'd love to get the other seen yet? other categories. half of the market. The first thing that's had G that sort of appeal is California Games. In There may be. Some of Is your collection of VCR sports games an the testing that we've done, we've found the stuff that we're conceptualizing right attempt to reach beyond the adolescent that California Games has equal appeal to now might turn out to be a new category of male audience or an attempt to deliver new girls and boys. There are a lot more boys game, or a mixture of several categories. products to the industry's traditional pn our market] since more boys are into market? computers. What sorts of things are coming up?

It still addresses that segment. We're trying We're going to do a lot of simulations, role­ Why is that? to be very disciplined as far as defining our playing games. We like the action/strategy business in technology-based entertainment Basically it's directly proportional to the in­ category, which can cover a lot of ground. aimed at teenage and young-adult con­ terest in computers, and boys seem to have We'd like to do some things that are very sumers. Whether it's computer games or a much higher interest in computers than strategic but which also have a lot of action, VCR games or other products, that is the girls do. and raise the level of that category. 10 C 0 M P U T E I The company actually started with and not get into that trap. There are certain ing games. We're paying more attention to it. Temple of Asphai [a role-playing adventure) things that we do that are based on for­ and so forth, and we really don't see why mulas that we know are going to succeed. Atari ST? we can't do more of that sort of thing as But we've also made a real effort to do well. some off-the-wall stuff. ST is important to us in Europe and is ba­ sically a nonfactor in the United States. Without abandoning your existing base. Such as?

Yes. We're continuing to do a lot of sports With something like LA. Crackdown [a po­ eal Computers for games. Our Games line is not at an end­ lice thriller] or Final Assault [a mountain­ Real People you'll see some more things there. climbing game], we're starting to do things The focus on sports products and that aren't really proven products. They're a What's it going to take to teenage products is where we are right little bit off the beaten path. And some of create a VCR-size home­ Rcomputer market? now, but you will be seeing our approach the stuff that we've been putting into the grow much broader. development process in the past six months I think price is one thing. If you look at And there's a big, long tail on that is much less cautious and much more penetration of videogame machines, it has young adult market, that goes out to include adventurous. been and will be a lot higher than comput­ people in their 30s and 40s. That helps us­ ers. Part of that is because of price. we don't restrict ourselves. We will sell our achine Specifics Usefulness is important. Computers games to somebody who's 40 years old. have to be more important to more people. Sports games have a lot of appeal. It's Let's look at some other a major segment of the software busi­ hardware and get some Does ease of use figure in that? Are people ness-but it's not the only segment. And quick responses to various Mcomputers. scared off by the keyboard? we want to be in all of the segments of the business. MS-DOS machines? Sure. I'm scared off by that. I will not use The PC is the main platform that we're go­ an IBM PC; it's too much trouble. So to the average guy, who doesn't spend a lot of igger and Bigger but ing to have to work on in the next few time with computers, it seems like a lot of Fewer and Fewer years. That is dearly what's driving the mar­ ket right now and where we really have to hassle. Can a company grow to excel to do well. $100 million or larger in a B It's not easy to do. Do you see new technologies such as CD­ couple of years based on ROM or CD-I (Compact Disc-Interactive) software alone? Commodore 64? having an effect on the entertainment Sure. It might take a while longer, but the industry? The 64 is what has driven the market, but market is growing. The penetration of there are no new 64 buyers, or very few. Yes, I do. I don't know which one, and I computers in the home !s edging up. I don't It's a consistent group that's not growing. don't know when. Sooner or later it'll get think it's going to go to 50 percent or any­ Just as a result of the aging process, it's developed and get useful enough versus thing like that, but it is growing. Software going to shrink as part of our business. the price that the impact will grow. sales are up dramatically. To do the next step in graphics, for ex­ It's possible and probably likely that ample, the barrier is not basically power or Amiga? you'll see entertainment software compa­ being able to put the stuff on the screen. nies approaching $100 million. If we want to show the world what we can My ·ex-Amiga guys at Epyx could give Another reason that's going to happen do, and show them our best work, we'd like you absolute cartoon-quality resolution in is that the business is becoming more and to do it on Amiga. It's gradually becoming six months, but the price would be out of more concentrated. It's more and more diffi­ more important. I hope for Commodore's sight because of memory requirements. cult for new companies to get into the busi­ sake it becomes a lot more important. ness. Marketing and distribution is a real barrier. I think you're going to see some ooking Ahead Apple II? consolidation that will result in fewer What are the biggest chal­ companies. Or at least fewer companies Apple II is a consistent, known market. But lenges and frustrations of that fully distribute and market their it's hard to do our best stuff on the Apple II. the industry? products. L What excites me is just the endless array of Apple I/GS? Is that good for the industry? How will it af­ possibilities, the things we can do and make happen to make our company grow while fect consumers? I put the GS in the same category as Amiga. We can do some good things-not as good providing exciting products and experiences I think it'll mean better products. There are as Amiga, but it's becoming more and more for our customers. going to be some filters they'll have to pass interesting. The frustrating thing is that you can't through before they reach the market. do them all. You 've 9ot to pick one or two That's going to weed out a lot of marginal Macintosh? or three and do them well. things. A lot of retail space is wasted on products that aren't any good. Macintosh is becoming more important to Where do you see Epyx at the turn of the As retailers have fewer vendors, there us. We've got our first Mac II product com­ century? will be more of a selection process. ing up. I can't think that far ahead-1990 is as far as I go. Will creativity suffer as a result of fewer Is the Mac likely to become more of a fac­ companies? Do we run the -risk of a tor in the entertainment business? me-too/copycat entertainment software And Epyx is going to be a $100-million Yes. There are a lot of Mac Pluses and SEs company in 1990? industry? in homes, a lot of people are playing games That may be. We're working real hard to try on them. That's a lot of opportunity for play- You heard it here first. El S E p T E M B E R 1 9 8 B 11 ne of my most treasured possessions no excuse for computers being any harder to is my coll ection of CO \1 PUTE!s use than a CD player or a television set. 0 dating back to the fi rst issue, pub­ One criterion for measuring a comput­ lished September 1979. I had the honor of er's responsiveness to the user is to measure writing an article for that first issue and, ex­ the time and keystrokes (or mouse clicks) it cept for two issues, I've had something to takes to bring yo u from an unpowered sys­ say in every one since. tem to the start of your desired task. Ad­ With an office nestled in the heart of vances in the design of user interfaces, Silicon Valley I' ve seen apricot orchards lit­ coupled with improvements in computer The First 100 erally replaced by Apple buildings. I saw the systems' speed, have moved us far along the first PET; watched Atari grow, collapse, and path toward user friendbness. grow again; observed Apple's transformation A second criterion for ease of use is the Issues of ofa city; and witnessed the pain and glory of ex tent to which the computer allows yo u to more software companies than I can count. feel that you have stepped through the look­ COMPUTE! Looking back on 100 iss ues of COM­ ing glass and are touching the application it­ PUTE!. I've learned one thing-in the self. Again, progress has been made, but Reinforce One words of IBM's Harvey Long, those who five there is still room for improvement. by 1he crystal ball ea1cru shed glass. I pre­ The second topic I have addressed on a dicted the dem ise of the Tl 99/4 just before continuing basis is that of software copy­ Principle­ its sales skyrocketed and resci nded my rights. From my perspective there are as­ prediction just before the product was pects of th is topic that are crystal clea r and Those Who discontinued. some that are cloudy. When I bought my first computer (a One point is clear: The duplication and Live by the Commodore PET), it came with a tin y in­ sale (or gift) of copyrighted software is struction manual that was vi rtually useless. wrong and should be punished. People who Crystal Ball Eat User groups we re essential in those days be­ rip off software are stealing just as people cause they provided a forum for sharing the who counterfeit money are. secrets of our computers. One user group's I don't see copy-protection as a cure, Crushed Glass publication that was of great value in the however. Copy-protection works to the det­ early days was the " PET Gazette," pub­ riment oflegitimate use rs who want to make bshed by Len Lindsay from his garage in backup copies or transfer their programs to Madison, Wisconsin. As far back as 1978, other media, like hard disks. Also, pirates Len had advice for computer owners that easily can break most copy-protection still applies today: If you have n't seen a schemes. piece of software with your own eyes, pre­ The fu zzier side of the copyright issue tend it doesn't exist. I find it strange that involves the protection oflook and feel­ people are still wi lling to pay in advance for the visual displays and the behavior of a vaporware and then wait a year or even program independent of the program code longer for deli very. itself. There is a point where it's very diffi­ As personal computer use bega n to ex­ cult to distinguish between the expression of pand beyond the hobbyist market, there was a program and its underlying idea. a need for general magazines. Robert Lock Lawyers tell me that expressions can be called one day to tell me that his company copyrighted but ideas cannot. Now that had purchased the " PET Gazette" and was more look-and-feel cases are coming to changing it to a quarterly magazine that ad­ court, we ca n only hope that the judges and dressed all computers using the 6502 micro­ juries have the wisdom to make the riglll de­ processor-a list that included the PET, cisions. My fear is that bad decisions will Apple II, Atari 400 and 800, OSI Challenger cripple innovation in an industry that sorely Sym-1 , AIM-65 and KJM-1. needs it. I was asked to write about the social im­ Looking to the nex t 100 issues of COM­ pact of this technology and "Computers and PUTE!, l hope we'll grow beyond the point Society" (now " Impact") was born. where software thievery is an issue. I also As J look back over my years on these think that we'll see computers getting easier pages there are some subjects that have a and easier to use. special place in my heart. Remember that it's you, the computer First, I" ve always thought that comput­ user, who ultimately shapes this industry. ers are not, in th emsel ves, interesting, but Thanks for yo ur yea rs of support. I look for­ that their applications are. Computers were ward to our continuing dialog on these pages created to meet the needs of people. There is in the yea rs to come. t:J

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Editor Gregg Keizer Senior Art Director Janice R. Fary Features Editor Keith Ferrell Assistant Editors Heidi E. H. Aycock -~~~fters Clifton Karnes Assistant Features Editor Tom Netsel Buyer's Guide Coordinator Caroline Hanlon Editorial Assistant Mickey Mclean Copy Editors Karen Siepak Tammie Taylor Karen Uhtendorf Stall Contributors Rhett Anderson David Florance John Shadle Randy Thompson Contributing Editors Arlan Levitan David Thornburg ART DEPARTMENT COMPUTE! Fights Crime I wo uld like to commend you on the Assistant Art Director Robin Strelow Through most of the 1980s, I have been improvement of your magazine. It's an Junior Designer Meg McArn Mechanical Artists Scotty Billings investigating hi gh-technology and com­ excell ent idea to eliminate the type-in Robin Case puter-related cri mes for the Austin Po­ programs. I think most people would PRODUCTION li ce Department. During that time, prefer doi ng something else on their DEPARTMENT Production Director Mark E. Hillyer COMPUTE.I has been my number 1 re­ computer besides spending two or three Assistant Proc1Jc1ion Manager De Potter source. Our offices have an assortment hours typing in a program they may not Production Assistant Kim Potts Typesetting Terry Cesh of IBM mainframes and personal com­ ge l lo work. Carole Dunton puters; at home, I have an Amiga 500 Your new format is a vast im­ Advertising Production system. But to be a successful investiga­ provement over the old one. I currently Assistant Anita Armfield tor, I must keep on top of all the latest own an IBM PC and a Commodore COMPUTE! PUBLICATIONS advancements in technology, and I 128, and your magazine is the only one Group Vice President, Publisher/Editorial Oirector William Tynan have to be familiar with as many differ­ on the market that satisfies my need for Managing Editor Kathleen Martinek ent computer systems as possible. information on both machines. Senior Editor Lenee Elko Editorial Operations Director Tony Roberts I subscribe to numerous computer JeffBarth el Executive Assistant Sybil Agee publications, but COMPUTE! has con­ Senior Administrative San Francisco, C4 Assistant Julia Fleming sistently provided me with the best Administrative Assistants Iris Brooks information. I applaud the new format. Cathy McAllister The deletion of type-in programs leaves Better Than a Laser? ABC CONSUMER more room for the useful reviews and MAGAZINES In your July issue page 93 Neil Ran­ articles. I especiall y enjoyed David Senior Vice President Marc Reisch dall, in his "COMPUTE! Specific" sec­ Vice President. Advertising Peter T. Johnsmeyer Thornburg's recent article on vi ruscs­ Vice President, Finance Richard Willis tion on the 64 and 128, says, "A good Vice President, Production Ilene Berson-Welner a problem I began dealing with long 24-pin printer can provide copy that is before the general public knew about it. CIRCULATION actuall y superior to that produced by a DEPARTMENT I'm looking forward to my next issue of 300-dot-per-inch laser printer." Wow! I Vice President Robert I. Gursha COMPUTE'. Subscription Staff Ora Blackmon-DeBrown hope your author knows something I Herold Buckley Mitch Frank Sgt. Robert Ansley don't, but I doubt it. Beth Healy Austin, TX Enclosed is a sample of24-pin out­ Thomes 0. Slater James J. Smith put driven by a Commodore 64. I trust A Heather Wood you agree that it is not up to laser quality. Subscriber Service (800) 727-6937 Hurray! No More Type-Ins I reall y beli eve that this is a gross mis­ Congratulati ons. The new form al of statement and demands a retraction. One of the t'\BC PLBUSHING 0 Companies CO 14 PUTE! is right on target for me. I Thanks for a usually fine magazine President Robert G. Burton 1330 Avenue of the Americas started my subscripti on to yo ur maga­ and for your attention. New York. NY t 0019 zi ne in I 983 and also subscribed to Les Tremayne COMPUTE!'s Gazeue when it was in­ ADVERTISING OFFICES Sunnyvale, C4 New York: ABC Consumer Magazines. Inc., 825 Seventh troduced. As my computing needs have Ave., New York . NY t0019. Tel. (212) 265-8360. Pater T. grown and changed from the YIC-20 to Johnsmeyer. Group Advertising Director: Bernard J. Mr. Randall responds: Although laser Theobald. Jr .• Advertising Director. the Commodore 64 and now to the primers generally produce output superi­ Greensboro: COMPUTE! Publications. Sutte 200, Macintosh, COMPUTE! has changed 324 West Wendover Ave .. Greensboro. NC 27408. Tel. or to that ofdot -matrix printers, I have (919) 275-9809. Kathleen Ingram. to cover a broader range of topics. seen output fro m some 24-pin dot-ma­ New England & Mid-Atlantic: Bernard J. Theobald. Jr., The type-in software was great at (212) 315- 1665; Peter Hardy (508) 681-9000; Kathleen trix primers that is superior LO what's Ingram (919) 275-9809. the beginning, but for the last few yea rs, produced by some 300-dot-per-inch la­ Midwest & Southwest: Jerry Thompson, Lucille Dennis I haven't typed in a single program (312) 726-6047 [Chicago]: (713) 731 -2605 [Texas]; ser printers. Perhaps my original state- (303) 595.9299 [Colorado}: (415) 348-8222 [Callfornla]. from any magazine. 111 em would ha ve benefited from some West, Northwest, & Bri tish Columbia: Jerry Thompson. The fea tures, reviews, columns, elabora1io11, bur ii is tn1e. Lucille Dennis (415) 348-8222. and the " COMPUTE! Specific" sec­ Southeast & International: Peter Hardy (508) 681-9000; Ma ny 24-pin printers actually have Kathleen Ingram (919) 275-9809. tions are terrific. I like everything in a higher dot-per-inch (DP!) resolution Address all advertising materials to: Anita Armfield. them. But there is still room for im­ than some laser printers, and they can COMPUTE! Publications. Inc .• 324 West Wendover l'lle. • provement. The small print you use produce amazing results. My advice for Suite 200. Greensboro. NC 27408. makes it difficult to read. I would much anyone planning LO buy a 24-pin do/­ Editorial Inquiries should be addressed to The Editor. prefer a larger print size. matrix or laser printer is LO get some COMPUTE!. 324 West 'Mlndover Ave .. Suite 200. a.__ Greensboro. NC 27408 O' Arthur Mah samples ofthe output before you buy Slave Lake. Alberta and to shop around. 1> PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. More ST read Einstein, you should remember. tended graphics capability is BASIC 8.0, First, let me say that I've been a reader Mr. Evans, in his quest for knowl­ by Walrus Software, available from Pa­ of COMPUTE! since 1983, and I will edge, asked a very legitimate question tech Software (P. O. Box 5208, Somerset, continue to be, but the recent change in and yo u sidetracked him. Instead of New Jersey 08873). BASIC 8.0 extends your magazine has brought to light a shedding light, you returned to trivium. the I 28's BASIC 7.0 with a number of flaw in your reporting. COMPUTE! In common vernacular, you gave him a hi-res drawing commands. As the new constantly places emphasis on the snow job. In view of his apparent basic graphics chip becomes more common, Commodore systems at the expense of knowledge the ex pressions he men­ we hope to see more applications that others. The Atari ST and Mega com­ tions were (i n my humble opinion) en­ take advantage ofits power. puters outperform the Amiga but your countered in the solution of some COMPUTE! addresses many tuto­ coverage of the Atari is lacking. simple equation such as the quadratic. rial and technical issues in our "Specif I haven't seen, for example, a re­ A far better answer would have been to ic" sections-which cover MS-DOS view of Spectrum 5 I 2 for the ST. This refer to such. I believe that Mr. Evans is machines, th e Commodore 64 and 128, program allows the simultaneous use of a searcher and would have arrived at and Apple. Amiga, and ST computers­ 512 colors on the screen and provides the truth: that there is a square root of and in "Hints & Tips." more than 23,000 colors through dith­ - I which in computations produces ering. It even has the ability to display vectors which have real values and are the famous Amiga HAM pictures. This always positive. Virus Damage is a major software release that rivals My compliments to Arlan Levitan My machine was recently infected with the Amiga's graphics. for his comprehensive coverage in his a virus. The damage resulting from the At Spring COMDEX a data sheet article on page 86 of the above-named infection took three months to repair. was provided detailing a genlock sys­ issue. But why were pages 84 and 86 The symptoms started when I was un­ tem for the Atari, a long-heralded swapped? Turning backward is just not able to write to the disks because they Amiga-only extra. There are also ST in accord with today's thinking. were reported full by the operating sys­ packages for MIDI and desktop pub­ Gayle Jones tem. I started using backup disks, but lishing that haven't been reviewed in Defiance, OH they also became infected and were thus COMPUTE!. damaged beyond ri;: pair. After weeks of Your omission of type-in programs We didn 't mean to give Mr. Evans a trial and error, neither I nor my friends has not hurt yo ur magazine, but this snow job. Mr. £ 1•a11s didn't explain why were able to discover what was causing system bias has. Show the computer in­ he was trying to take a square root ofa these problems. As a result of my dustry what all systems have to offer, 11egarive number. We assumed (perhaps friends' helping me, their systems also and I'm sure the user of any computer incorrectly) ji-om his question that he became infected via disks used in my system will be fascinated. was not trying to use a formula from system. How far the virus spread be­ Da vid Brown physics. It seemed more likely that the yond my immediate group is unknown. Atlanta, GA formula was a financial or a simple geo­ I frequently read yo ur magazi ne metric one. and have not seen any articles fore­ COMPUTE! makes every effort to be There is indeed a mathematical warning yo ur readership of softwa re vi­ fair in irs coverage ofeach major com­ abstraction ofthe square ro01 of - I. It's ruses. I eventually read a Newsweek puter. To guaramee this. each issue has commonly referred to as i. Readers in­ article that described the problem. It a "COMPUTE! Specific" section in terested in rhis subjecr should refer to was astounding to find the virus prob­ which developments for individual com­ complex numbers in an advanced­ lem being discussed in a periodical that puters (including the Atari ST) are mathematics text. is dedicated to general news events when discussed. As for Mr. Levitan's column, begin­ COMPUTE! had no mention ofit. Jn our first issue with our new for­ ning a column on the final page ofa I think it is your responsibility to mat (May 1988), David Plotkin. our magazine is a common journalistic keep your readers informed about com­ Atari ST expert, reviewed the producr technique. Some browsers flip through a puter problems which could result in you mention. Spectrum 512. Jn the cur­ magazinefrom back to from. months of work being lost. The damage rent issue, Mr. Plotkin covers the gen­ just to my system could buy a subscrip­ lock product for the ST ro which you Don't Forget to Teach ti on to ten magazines for the next five refer. years. Through "News & Notes," product Thanks for Clifton Karnes' nice review of the I 28 D (COM PUT£!. May 1988). Ralph Allen reviews, and Mr. Plotkin 's Atari ST He mentioned the increase to 64K in Arlington. VA "Specific" section, we flJ to keep readers abreast ofthe latest developments in 80-column video RAM. I would like to Atari ST and Mega ST hardware and know how to make use of this addition­ COMPUTE! has covered the 1•irus story software. al RAM. In particular how can I create since its beginning with the Commodore hi-res multicolor graphics? Amiga. In our March 1988 issue. we I like the new, readable format of published a feature, by Amiga expert Positively Square COMPUTE!. as well as the increased Jim Butte1field, on the virus. Thatfea­ You implied in your answer to Shane number and quality of reviews. Thanks lllre contained a program to detect the Evans in June's "Hints & Tips" that for the good work. !fit means the loss virus on an Amiga disk. there is no such thing as the square root of tutorial articles, however. that is In subsequent issues, we've followed of a negative number. Have you forgot­ regrettable. the virus story and its spread to the I BM ten the} factor defined as the square Hilary Stinton PC and Macimosh computers in our root of - I? As a retired electroni c engi­ Santa Cruz, C4 columns, news stories, and "Specific" neer, I have been using it for the past 60 sections. We've also discussed commer­ years or more (I'm now 81) in the study The only product that we're familiar cial antiviral programs that can detect of waveforms and quanta. If you have with that fully supports the I 28D's ex- viruses before they do damage. [!) 14 C 0 M P U T E I __nn_~ts&tips

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1980--- You can damage your PET 1983--- The factors which determine "Readers' Feedback," the with this POKE. Luckily, it is the In 1983, "Ask the Readers" how ettectively a computer can precursor to " Hints & Tips," only POKE which is known to changed its name back to manage memory are the first appeared in the July/ be risky. as far as we know. "Readers' Feedback," but amount of memory the central August 1980 issue of COM­ You can POKE freely any­ not to the original format. processing unit (CPU) chip can PUTE! (Issue Number 5). where else. To provide answers for address directly and the num­ For its first year, the col­ readers as quickly as possi­ ber of bits the CPU can trans­ umn simply printed the com­ ble, COMPUTE!'s editors fer to or from memory at one ments that readers wrote on -1982--- began answering readers' time. To use your phrase, a 16- the 3 X 5 Editor's Feed­ questions-a policy we've bit machine has more horse­ back cards inserted in each I ha ve a few questions regard­ continued. power, since it can grab 16 bits issue. ing that pernicious malady at a time from memory instead known as "Atari lock-up." I have a VlC-20, and I want to of 8 bits. Most home computer "Please make longer programs First of all. does this happen know which is be1ter for the CPUs, like the 6502 chip used available on tape." with other brands of micros? computer-to leave it on con­ in the Apple, Atari, and Com­ "I'd like to sec more business Secondly, though it is generally stantly or shut it ofTwhen you modore, can directly address applications reviews." a1tributed to "over-editing," are done using it? 64K and transfer 8 bits at a " l like COMPUTE!-kecp it go­ wh y docs it occur at all? And Bob Weber time. The 8088 CPU in the IBM ing! Make it monthly!" finally, has an yone else suf­ PC and PCjr can directly ad­ fered a similar occurrence dress 1024K. However, it orga­ "Let's get a high-level language This is debatable. Some would for the PET." which I shall dub "two-line nizes this memory into 16 say that the initial power surge lock-up"? In this frustrating in­ blocks (called segments) of ''Give more space to Apple when turning on a computer is stance, the cursor advances 64K each. IBM's Microsoft and Atari, and cut PET cover­ actually more damaging to the one row after a return, then BASIC was written to operate age in half." electronic components than docs nothing! The screen may within one segment, which is "l want my COMPUTE! to ar­ leaving it on continuously. On be cleared or reset , but any why only 60K is available for rive on time." the other hand, most electronic command issued will have the programming after the com­ parts have a definite life span, same two-line response fol­ puter takes away what it needs and leaving the computer on lowed by zilch, cipher, naught, for its own operations. Al­ 24 hours a day could shorten 1981 --- nothing. though the PC and PCjr are the overall useful life of the usually called 16-bit comput­ In 1981, readers' enthusi­ Greg Kopp computer. ers, their CPUs can actually asm and their questions transfer only 8 bits at a time. had grown to such an extent Several readers have respond­ The CPU in the new Macintosh that " Readers' Feedback" ed to the issue raised by Greg can directly address 16 mega­ changed to " Ask the Read­ Kopp in " Ask the Readers," -1984--- bytes (16384K) and can trans­ ers," a column where read­ May 1982, about the occasion­ fer data to or from memory 16 ers would write their ques­ al "lockup" where the Atari will, Methods of RAM manage­ bits at a time. t ions and other readers mysteriously, "go away" and ment arc among the most im­ would respond in subse­ no longer respond to the portant aspects of computer quent issues. keyboard. operation. but I can find prac­ Bill Wilkinson, COMPUTE! tically no information on this. 1985--- columnist and one of the au­ How does one computer com­ I saw a cryptic comment-I thors of Atari BASIC, responds pare with another in memory Is it possible to get the pro­ think in COMPUTE! # IO:"PET with " All substantial software management? Why is it that cessing power of a $4,000 Exec Hello" by Gordon Camp­ has bugs. If it's in ROM , the even in the IBM 16-bit com­ IBM PC XT for just $500? bell. Second paragraph: POKE bug can't be repaired unless a puter, BASIC RAM is limited That was one of the ques­ 59458,62 (this may damage new set of ROM chips are to 60864 bytes with 256K tions back in 1985. The an­ your machine). Can I damage brought out. For whatever rea­ memory installed? What about swer may seem ironic today: a PET with POKES?? It scared son, Atari has never brought the new Apple Macintosh? The Sinclair QL mentioned me. out a new ROM set. To be fair More than anything else, the in our response to the fol­ Felix Rosenthal about it, there are bugs in the speed with which swaps in lowing question is still alive original TRS-80 which have memory arc made determines in Europe., but it never made never been fixed either." the horsepower of a computer. it in the U.S. market. And Orville E. Bean you can get an XT compati­ ble for $500 in 1988.

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I read your piece on the PCjr Here's the genealogy of Judging by the letters we re­ 1988--- in the October 1984 COM­ SpeedScript tor the Commo­ ceive , and by the questions In May 1988, COMPUTE! PUTE!. How dare you say that dore 64. The original 64 Speed­ and comments in the user was redesigned and " Read­ there will soon be computers Script (now called version 1.0) group newsletters that we ers' Feedback" was re­ with the processing power of appeared in the January 1984 read, there is a great deal of in­ named " Hints & Tips." the PC XT for less than $500 GAZETTE. A slightly modified terest in emulation-making Although the department's and not say what they are? I version (1 .1) appeared in COM­ one computer run programs name has changed, our goal was trembling on the verge of PUTE!'s Second Book of Com­ written for another. is still to provide timely and putting out $600 or $700 for modore 64 . The next major Emulation is a complex complete answers to read­ an Atari 800XL system, and update, SpeedScript 2.0, ap­ subject, so let's begin with a ers' questions. now I don't know what to do, peared only on the premier simple question that was popu­ and won't until your article en­ COMPUTE!'s Gazette Disk, in lar a few years ago: Why can 't 1 have a very perplex ing prob­ titled .. Some M achines for May 1984. Like the original, its my 64 run VIC programs? lem . Is there such a thing as a Less Than $500 Which Offer title screen did not include a (Some people asked the oppo­ con ve rsion table or program to More Processing Power Than version number; however, it site question: Why can 't my change Commodore 64 pro­ a $4,000 PC XT" appears­ can be distinguished from oth­ VIC run 64 programs?) They grams so that I can use them probably (as they sa y in the er versions by its custom char­ continue by saying that the two on my Plus/ 4? I love m y com­ computer biz) sometime dur­ acter set and help screen. computers look similar. use the puter, but it's frustrating trying ing the first quarter of 1985. Version 3.0 made its debut same peripherals, and were to convert programs m yself. I Norman Har11 veg in the March 1985 issue of made by the same company. tried to type in one program by COMPUTE! and on the special Although there are many leaving out the POKEs. H a' A recent CES report included COMPUTE! Disk for that differences between the two No way. So what's a Plus/ 4 four paragraphs on the new month. It can easily be distin­ computers, the major differ­ owner to do? Sinclair OL, which has been guished from its predecessors ence lies deep within the com­ Doug R. Lewis available in Britain for several because the command line puters themselves: They have says SpeedScript 3.0. Several ditterent display hardware. The months. Standard features of The ditterences in the hard­ the QL include 128K of RAM minor bugs were corrected for VIC uses a video chip called version 3.1. It was this version the VIC; the 64 uses a chip ware of the two machines (expandable to 640K); a Motor­ make it ditticult to convert pro­ ola 68008 microprocessor; that appeared in the book called the VIC-II. For a program two grams written for the 64 to run built-in microdrives for mass SpeedScript: The Word Pro­ to work on two computers, it on the Plus/4. The Plus/4 is storage; a full-sized, 65-key, cessor for the Commodore 64 must " see" the same hard­ what's known as an orphan. typewriter-style keyboard with and VIC -20, and on the com­ ware registers in the same Many orphan computers special function keys; BASIC in panion disk for that book. Fur­ memory locations. were born in the explosive peri­ ROM; an operating system in ther corrections appeared in Adding components to od that occurred before the in­ ROM that supports windowing the December 1985 issue of your old computer to gain the dustrywide shake-up in 1983. and multitasking; and more, all COMPUTE! and resulted in ver­ speed and graphics capabili­ The Mattel Aquarius, the MSX for$499. sion 3.2. This version appeared ties of the new computers is computers, the Commodore As you can see, the QL ar­ on the January 1986 COM­ simply not feasible. To add the Plus/4 and 16, the Texas In­ guably has more processing PUTE! Disk. features of the Amiga to your struments Tl-99/4, the Coleco power than an IBM PC XT. The For a description of how 64, for example, you would Adam, and the Timex Sinclair XT's CPU is the same chip SpeedScript 3.0 ditters from have to replace the micro­ are among the dozens of com­ found in the PC: the Intel 8088, previous versions in terms of processor, keyboard, RGB out­ puters that are now called an 8/16-bit microprocessor. features, see the article in put, and sound and graphics orphans. The QL's 68008 is a 8/32-bit the March 1985 issue of chips. Indeed, a 64 has almost microprocessor, a version of COMPUTE!. nothing that an Amiga could Many people enjoy their the 68000 chip found in the use. In essence, you would orphans. Some buy a full or­ Macintosh. have to add a whole Amiga to phan system, with plenty of your 64. software, as their first system. 1987- - - Others want their old soft­ Needless to say, it's cheaper to One theme in 1987 was em­ ware to run on their new com­ buy a used Coleco Adam than 1986--- ulation-having one com­ puter. This approach is only it is to buy a used IBM AT. You puter emulate another. slightly more promising. Pro­ can learn a lot by using one of By 1986, SpeedScript, the these computers for a while. most popular series of pro­ Users who were considering grammers are working on an And if you write your own pro­ grams ever offered bv a moving up to more powerful Atari 8-bit emulator for the ST grams, you may never need computer magazine, was machines didn't want to and a Commodore 64 emulator another computer. available in versions for Ap­ lose their existing ma­ for the Amiga. Unfortunately, You may love your Plus/4 ple, Atari, and the original chine's software. this approach is bound to lead now, but someday you may de­ Commodore. In fact, Speed­ to lackluster results. cide that you'd like to buy a Script had become such an Rumors abound th at the The best solution to the new computer. institution that people be­ A miga is or can be compatible problem is this: If you want to ca me interested in its with the Commodore 64. ! f it run programs written for a spe­ Before you buy a com­ history. we re. I would buy one without cific computer, or if you want to puter, read all about it. There hesitation. write programs to take advan­ are many excellent computer tage of the power of a certain magazines available. For in­ What are the differences be­ William F. DeBerg computer, buy that computer. tween SpeedScript 3.0, 3.1, stance, COMPUTE! Publica­ Ca n I ex pand my VIC to run Any other option will lead to 3.2, and so on? tions publishes magazines 64, 128. A m iga. or A ta ri ST frustration. Leo l\lfi1che11 er devoted exclusively to the programs? Apple II , the IBM PC and com­ Jeffrey M. 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For 100 issues, COMPUTE! magazine ha charted the explosive growth of personal computers. We've reported on the trange and the sublime, and we've offered up technological help and comfort to millions. In this, the first issue of COMPUTE!'s tenth year, we take a moment to trace the times gone by.

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,#~-~:·.;~:,::=-... _. ... ___ _ tel,,,, ___ ·--·--- ~;.:-...=..,""='.~~ I\ COM"1TB -Mt,,..""'-Jl ...... - ... _ -~-, _,.,. __ _ look• At ... "'· .... nte H.. TIS·tO ----·_.~=.:~-= : ~..::.:~7;.:_-.. _... CGJof Comput~ -...... ____.-..-.---"""· ------···--""'-~.------....,_..." __-"'"'· ._,...... ---- - .o#- ...... 1 ...... , -...... -. TlmH SqlHl:reOn ..( " Your A.to ri -...... ----... ,.. ... ·-...... --;:::-..::.;:.~-_ ...... __- _ ...... ---~--··...... al· .. -·---·-" ...... w .. _ ,'_ .. November/ n- ...... -....&-- .. --... lnler1oc~ ...... --4 ...... -.-- .. KIM/HM AIM/ -·-+·~-··-"7_....,...._ ... ,,.. __ ._ _ ,.. _.. ... , December 1980 OSI WHh ASIC ..._,,_ -- .-·-,.,-...... __...... _ ..... ";" .. _ Issue #7 •...-.-·-;. ...-:::: -.-.. ·-==: ... - ...... :" ..._,r:: ..._, _, ...... ___ __ ....~,,~- 1... ,-----·-·__ 152 pages Combining IASIC And .. -:::-."".'="==.:-~~.. ~ Machine .. -.... --...- ...... Language, II ,rt: --··if.;..~:: ... ~I~:~~~:~,- . . :!\":.~:-· ...... _ ... - .. ~~~;.,;':~-.~-- .. Harry Blair was the artist whose work was Many of the articles in the early issues of COM­ synonymous with CO \1PUTE! and who created PUTE! looked like this. Titled "Atari Joysticks on virtually every cover of the magazine. His the OSI Cl P," this hands-on article showed read­ cartoonl ike style-relaxed, informal, and person­ ers how to build and program a joystick interface able-was immediately recognizable on the news­ for a single-board computer. Thoroughly technical, stands. The exclamation point had been added by complete with soldering directions and pin di­ this time. finalizing the magazine's name. Another agrams, articles like this were eagerly sought by item of interest in this, the last bimonthly iss ue, early COMPUTE! readers. 1> included the debut of the OSI Gazette inside COMPUTE!; the Ohio Scientific Instrument com­ pany produced single-board complllers such as the Challenger and Superboard II that, compared with today's machines, were more kits than computers. This issue also looked at the new TRS-80 Color Computer, a Radio Shack machine that is still be­ ing sold today. S E P T E M B E R 1 9 8 8 19 Kidt fOf

••1"1.~t .. c- 11i E V/\Z. ·n~ - .,,,,_ I§:' J! ~ rt -=-:-~! ~'-- ' ...'... l COMPUTE . ... ~.l,t«"l The.Journal For Progressive Compuftlg Player-Missile _Graphics wlththeATARI Personal Computer System

January 1981 Issue #8 144 pages

An embarrassing mistake put the wrong year on Chris Crawford has been writing games for a long the cover date; this is actually J98J's January is­ time, as evidenced by this insightful article on sue, not !980's. It is also the first monthly issue of Atari computer player/missile graphics. Famed for CO \1PUTE!. Typical cover highlights of the time such classic commercial efforts as Eastern Front hype programs for loading Commodore PET tape and, most recently, Balance of Power, Crawford files into an Apple II and for putting 40-column here outlines how to utilize one of the Atari's most screens on an 80-column PET (the latter was writ­ impressive features, the spritelike player/missiles ten by freelancer Richard Mansfield, who later be­ that made programming animation so easy on that came senior editor and then editorial director). machine. In years past, Crawford was director of The most interesting aspect of this cover, however, research at Atari; today, he's a freelance game is the mention of player/ missile graphics (called designer. sprites on other computers) for the Atari.

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This was COMPUTE!'s largest issue, nearly break­ Eight different personal computer systems were ing the 400-page barrier, with more than 250 supported by COMPUTE! in this issue, including advertisers listed. In hindsight this moment was the now-defunct TI-99 from Texas Instruments. also the apex of the home computer-buying curve. "Get the Gold" was a TI-specific adventure game When the huge jumps in home computer owner­ with some interesting sound effects. Note that ship didn't keep coming, companies which had ex­ readers could send $3 to the author of the pro­ pected 300-percent growth but which were actually gram for a copy of the program on cassette tape experiencing only 30-percent growth found them­ (tape drives provided a more common and less selves in a pinch. Many went out of business. At expensi ve means of storing computer information the same time, however, COMPUTE! was con­ than the costly disk drives of the day). Some pro­ tinuing to chart the upswing in personal and home gram authors made more money from selling such computer use. One of the features inside this issue, tapes than from COMPUTE!'s purchase payment. in fact , was titled "The Home Office," presaging a phenomenon that's only now gotten national attention.

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In the seven months from the December 1983 is­ Take a look at the cutline below the photo on this sue, COMPUTE! got smaller and began covering first page of the rover story about the new Apple three more personal computers-IBM's PC and Ile. See the price? The lie is still sold, though it PCjr and the Coleco Adam. (None of the three are has been forced into a minor role as the Apple officially available, for even the venerable PC has llGS is marketed most heavily. Its current sug­ been supplanted by IBM's PS/2 line.) The big gested retail price, however, is on ly $995, and news thi s issue was the introduction of Apple's that's with a monochrome monitor. Hardware new Ile computer (which debuted in April). The prices continue to fall at an average rate of 20 per­ inside features of note covered everything from cent per year something well illustrated by this the evolution of the Commodore 64 RO Ms to two now-dated article. games for kids. 22 COMPUTE ! March 1985 Issue #58 160 pages

The most popular program published by COM­ SpeedScript was a long program, one of the longest PUTE! Publications has undoubtedly been Speed­ published in COMPUTE! magazine. Because Script, a word processor written by program editor SpeedScript was written in assembly language, Charles Brannon. First published in COMPUTE!'s readers used an entry-checking utility called Gazette, a Commodore-specific magazine, more "MLX" another program developed by program than a year before it appeared in COMPUTE!, editor Charles Brannon, to type it in. MLX made SpeedScript was a full-featured, easy-to-use word it possible for sophisticated software to be entered processor that was also blindingly fast. SpeedScript without errors a development that greatly ex­ was so good, in fact, that it was comparable to panded the universe of type-in programs, and commercial word processors of the time. Versions something other computer magazines duplicated. for the Apple II and Atari eight-bit computers quickly followed in COMPUTE!, and SpeedScript was used to launch a new series of disks which contained the programs found in the magazine.

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The surge in sales of IBM PC clones changed the Charting the more unusual and, in many ways, the flavor and content of COMPUTE! just as it did more powerful uses of personal computers is some­ the personal computer industry as a whole. As PC thing that COMPUTE/ writers have always enjoyed clones dropped in price and made their way into doing. Over the years, the magazine has taken its more homes, more of COMPUTE!'s readers readers into the mundane and the esoteric uses of wanted MS-DOS information and PC-specific pro­ personal computers. This feature about persona.I fi­ grams. One way that COMPUTE! satisfied PC nance software and portfolio management pro­ owners was to run an MS-DOS version of each is­ grams touched on everything from electronic sue's lead program-the game "Laser Strike" this banking to business simulations, where, if you lost time around. your shirt it was only an imaginary one. 1> SEPTEMBER 198 8 23 Comouff!IS h iM Ocu;oom; The 8rnl< ~ A ~ ~ I COMPUTE! ~: _ _~o,,. ... ~ l.Ol.IC ~ MG•KHG! lonol CC11nPb'19 ol hl;:::l'Clr>QOO"""'• •fl"W'\* :U ~ • l'V~ Jcr~Con-rc'liao• M M1QO~ ~p.l .....Atcitl .l __,,trcJ AIO"ltT., ...... Ai>JrJQ.,,,.,....,... , rr.:oo~:...,.a .. ,.. ~.,.,~J'u ~ ... l oo.-o!t'IQ""l'fll'll Al lfln.J ll] ~ HM N.IC«s0'\m!"08Cd~ llMMU~ rv!CClr.:rC!"Cl"O"t..,.~ September ~~Ol"'r • .._ """"IOiM'I ic,... Y.vC....ci. 1987 fMtW?lfl A ~fft 1'..ll~,...._..~Cl'OtdNno••1.-. Issue # 88 '-7"dd....-O~ 116 pages ---

ll ,1i· .•I 11.11 As evidenced by this cover, COMP TE! was trying Solitaire games have always been extremely popu­ to support a lot of different computer systems-ten lar with readers- not surprising, really, when one at the time according to the table of contents-al­ realizes that much of the time spent in front of a though type-in programs were offered for no more computer is time spent alone. This card game was than six of those systems. While there was some­ typical of many published in the magazine; it had thing for everyone in this issue-from an audio re­ originally been written by an outside programmer corder for the Apple II to extra memory for the on the Commodore 64. Only after a program had Atari- the fragmentation of the magazine's contents been purchased was the COMPUTE! programming actually meant there was only a little for anyone. staff let loose to create what were called homogs, or translations, for the other five computer systems.

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Leaf through a yearbook of the class voted most likely to succeed in the microcomputer industry. Where were they nine years ago, what have they done, and where are they now?

n the fall of 1979, the personal another company. We were four computer industry had entered a employees." stage of transition. Though few Not for long. realized it, the halcyon days of VisiCalc was a revolutionary the hobbyist were ending and Paul Freiberger product, tapping voracious demand the machines were beginning to move and and selling as fast as retailers could into mass society. Dan McNeill stock it. Moreover, since for a year it Two pioneer companies, IMSAl ran only on the Apple II, it firmly en­ and Processor Technology, folded. At trenched Apple in the industry. the same time, VisiCalc and WordStar Bricklin, now a minor statesman debuted, sparking an upsurge in de­ in the field, looks back with fondness mand for computers. Sales at Apple on many aspects of his life: the awards quadrupled in 1979, and cofounder he has won, the products he has made. Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC mak­ " I've also had people say, 'You helped ing notes for the Macintosh. CP/M me get into computers; thank you very was the major operating system, and much.' One woman said VisiCalc IBM's first personal computer was still helped her meet her husband. She two years away. needed help using it." The technology has come a long Today Bricklin runs Software way since then, and so have most of Garden, a small but flourishing firm the prime players in the computer Dan Bricklin- that sells a program for software devel­ world. Some destinies have flared opers called Dan Brick/in's Demo Pro­ against the night sky, visible far be­ gram. Though currently interested in yond the precincts of the industry it­ Author of VisiCalc; Founder of Soft­ voice recognition, he is alert to all self, while others have dimmed or ware Garden possibilities. "There are many more faded. metaphors to be worked out besides We talked to Bill Gates, Nolan the spreadsheet and paste-up board," Bushnell, Andy Hertzfeld, Gary In mid-October 1979, Dan Bricklin's he said, "and if I knew what they K.iJdaU , Adam Osborne, and ten other Software Arts had just started shipping were I'd be working on them. notables, asking how they've fared, VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet. "A "I'm in a much better position what highlights stand out in their ca­ month or two later," he said "we than I ever dreamed of," he mused. reers, and whether they've enjoyed the moved out of the basement in Cam­ "Who would have thought, way back ride. bridge which we were sharing with when . . . . " 26 C OMP UTE ! " In the fall of 1979, Pizza Time a crux. "I was realizing that I was never was very profitable and growing by going to make any money off safety Roger Buoy leaps and bounds," Bushnell said. "We reflectors." he said. "I was at th P. point had 15 stores at that time. It grew to a of giving up. I was certainly confused. total of 280 stores and $240 million f'd been poor for a long time." President, Mindscape per year." His brother Doug owned a TRS- In many ways, Bushnell has been 80, and Gary had used it a bit. Doug a frustrated bystander to the computer suggested selling software, and in Feb­ In the fall of 1979, Roger Buoy was in business since 1979. "My prime ruary 1980 they founded Br0derbund. Sydney, Australia, programming main­ involvement was through 1978; then I By December 1980, their Alien frames, as he had done since 1961. He was excluded for the following five Rain was topping VisiCalc in sales worked at Rolls-Royce, monitoring the years because of a noncom petition and their lives had changed forever. engine later used in the Concorde. agreement with Atari." ''It was the first time anyone had ever Buoy saw the potential of per­ He has other regrets. "At Atari, had a game sell better than VisiCalc. sonal computers soon after the Altair, we talked about doing a personal com­ We went skiing to celebrate. And we and he wrote a few Altair programs as puter before Apple. But we thought it paid ourselves, for the first time. We'd a pastime. One tracked average scores was a smaller market and that the been accruing three-dollar-an-hour sal­ for his wife's tennis team. game business had greater potential. I aries. That was a highlight. I hadn't But he didn't seriously enter the also think I could have sold Atari to had any income since 1978." industry until 1983, when he founded Warner while keeping the rights to the Bank Street Writer provided an­ Mindscape in Northbrook, Illinois, personal computer business." other memorable moment. It was "the just outside Chicago. "'The Silicon Since then, Bushnell has created first time we had done something Prairie,' we called it," Buoy said. firms like a smiling god spinning off other than games." After the company "We went through the most diffi­ planets. His companies have manufac­ had sold about 50 copies of the pro­ cult times of the industry," he said. tured robots, video terminals for shop­ gram, "Time magazine came out with "1984 through 1986 were dog-day ping centers, talking teddy bears, and a story saying it was a breakthrough years, and surviving that was a many other items. Recently, he an­ because it featured ease of use rather tremendous accomplishment. The suc­ nounced plans to make coin-operated than features. We went from selling 50 cess of Balance of Power is also some­ video games, for his heart has re­ copies to, for a while, 10,000 a thing I take pride in, after so many mained with the computer business. month." said not to sell it because it was a "You're dealing with a fascinating In the past nine years, he has seen niche product. It's sold over 150,000 class of people," he said. "There are the business grow far more compet­ copies by now. very few mental slugs and I think itive, particularly with the boom in " I believe good entertainment will that's exciting. The friends you ha ve Nintendo products and entries from always sell," he added "and I think and· the people you meet are the lit­ the British and French. " It isn't just there are many things left to be done, mus test of whether you're having a 'Throw stuff at a wall and yo u'll ~t with particular emphasis on the user good time." some good sales,'" he said. "Back in interface. Even the Mac is rocket sci­ 1981 we could do that." ence to the uninitiated."

Cary Carlston - Nolan Bushnell Jan Davidson Cofounder, Broderbund Software President, Davidson and Associates Founder of Atari,· President of Axion In 1978, Gary Carlston was driving in Scandinavia and nearly hit a child In the fall of 1979, Jan Davidson was By fall 1979, Nolan Bushnell had gone waiting for a school bus. He decided launching a tutorial service and trying through several careers. He had found­ youngsters needed safety reflectors, to determine whether she could use a ed Atari and popularized Pong, the and began marketing animal-shaped 48K Apple II as an instructional tool. breakthrough videogame. In 1976, he'd ones in the United States. But he had "I had purchased almost every piece sold Atari; in 1977,' he'd started Pizza failed to study the distribution before­ of educational software available. That Time Theatre, a fast-food chain with hand, and the business was gasping. was 20 packages at most." computer entertainment. By the fall of 1979, he had reached Their quality amazed her. "Most SE PT E M BER 1 9 88 27 of it didn't work," she said. "A lot world affairs, the TV show he watched Of his recent traveling, Gates had misspellings on the screen and last night, and whatever else springs to said, "I think I'm going to tone that weren't designed very well . It prohib­ mind. down, spend more time at head­ ited me from using this computer for The past nine years have been a quarters on product-design decisions. education." carnival for Dvorak, who relishes his Sometimes I feel it would be fun to fo­ So, drawing on her background as celebrity in the computer-journalism cus on one product for a month, but I a teacher, with her sense for holding world. "As a hobbyist, this is like a have people who work for me who get children's attention, she started writing dream come true," he said. "Instead of to do that." her own software. spending a lot of money and effort to "The most rewarding thing has keep up with the industry, things are been the response from users," she thrown at you by the tonnage. I feel said, "whether it's been talking to like a kid in a candy store." teacher conferences or the letters from kids saying, 'I hated math till Math Blaster' or 'I never liked reading till I got Word A/lack.'" Davidson feels the educational potential of the machine has scarcely been touched. "The big thing is, you learn more if you're interactively in­ fred Gibbons volved," she said. "I see the computer, video, and publication industries merging, and that will be particularly President, Software Publishing important in education, because the William H. Cates value of the computer as a learning tool will be greatly enhanced by video." In fall 1979, Fred Gibbons was prod­ Cofounder and President of Microsoft uct manager on the Hewlett-Packard 3000. "Steve Jobs came to H-P and walked me around the parking lot try­ In the fall of 1979 Bill Gates was 23 ing to recruit me to work on a project and already a veteran computer exec­ called Sara, which turned into the utive, running one of the largest soft­ Apple III. He gave me an Apple II to ware firms of the time. Four years take home to get religion." earlier he had joined MITS, maker of Gibbons rejected Jobs' offer. He the first commercial PC, the Altair. said, "Steve made me aware of PCs Soon after, he founded Microsoft on and I followed up on that." In April the strength of the BASIC he had 1980, he incorporated Software john Dvorak written. Publishing, and recently observed, It was a crucial moment in his ca­ "We were profitable in a matter of reer. If Microsoft BASIC had foun­ months, without venture capital." Columnist dered, he had considered "doing pure Software Publishing's PFS line of soft­ theoretical computer science or pure ware-low-cost and simple-to-use mathematics, or possibly being some productivity programs-became the In the fall of 1979, John Dvorak was kind of trial lawyer. I think I would company's bread and butter. selling software. He owned a small have ended up in Al research." The highlights of the last nine firm called California Software, and But it flourished, and since then years "have to be those first orders in was also producing "Dvorak's Soft­ his life has been one unbroken ascent. my company. And seeing my products ware Review," a newsletter. Such programs as Excel, Word, and sold on the Super Bowl by IBM. But "The big highlight for me was the Chart have earned hefty revenues, but going public would be it. You've realization that the IBM PC would be his greatest coup was in 1981 when he achieved the objectives and the prom­ a dominating computer for a long pe­ introduced MS-DOS, the IBM PC ises you've made to give a return to riod of time. The PC legitimized the operating system. the investor." business." Dvorak is still disappointed Today, Gates, 32, is the youngest The vagaries of the industry have by the scarcity of conceptual break­ self-made billionaire in the nation and fascinated him. "No MBA could ever throughs such as VisiCalc. "It's the probably the most powerful person in have predicted 1-2-J's success, or hardest thing to achieve: to find an­ the industry. A few months ago he dBase's. And there have been in­ other use for these computers." toured the country promoting IBM's credible failures, like Visicorp. They Today, Dvorak has established PS/2 machines, for which Microsoft could have been the next Lotus." himself as a major character in the in­ has written the base operating system, Has he enjoyed it? "That question dustry, known to everyone and famed OS/2. He is also working on the is similar to: 'Do you like winning a for outrageous utterance. He also has Presentation Manager, its graphic user marathon?' The process of building a an OpEd column in the San Francisco interface. "It's all a huge challenge and top-tier company is a difficult one and Examiner, where he speaks freely on opportunity for us," he said. I've wanted to run that race." 28 COMPUTE !

ter wait six months to get my master's on national television. What im­ degree," said Andy Hertzfeld. "That pressed me most was that all that Trip Hawkins cost me about 48,000 shares of Apple notoriety and publicity made it hard stock." to get work done. I was more in­ Despite this inauspicious start, he terested in programming." President, Electronic Arts moved to Cupertino in August 1979, By 1983, DRI had become one of and by that fall he was working on a the largest software companies in the silent thermal graphics printer. By world earning $200 million per year In fall 1979, Trip Hawkins, business 1981 ·he was ensconced under the fam­ and employing more than 600 people. marketing manager at Apple, had just ous pirate flag atop one of the Apple Since then, the firm has shrunk sub­ completed ''the first-ever field training buildings. helping write system soft­ stantially, though it remains larger program in computer software." ware for the Macintosh. than it was in 1979, and l(jJdall is a Around then, Steve Jobs took hjm The most rewarding experience very wealthy man. to Xerox PARC to see innovations that was "obviously, doing the Mac. It was Recently, l(jldaU and his wife later appeared in the Macintosh and, having m y work affect a lot of people formed a corporation called Video De­ via add-on software, most other PCs. and make the world a better place." sign Group to make local commercials ''Steve had a lot of crazy ideas He also enjoyed the quickness and and videos for the computer industry. \ hich made sense intuitively. He technological caliber of the people He also did well from the sale of a ma­ reall y had the vision," Hawkins said. working with him. jority interest in his CD-ROM company, Jobs invited Hawkins to work on Lisa After the Macintosh, he went on Knowledge Set, and reports that Dig­ the germ of the Mac. "Till then it was to write Switcher and Servant utilities ital Research turned a profit the last a pretty conventional computer: green and clever software for ThunderScan three quarters under a new president. display, no bitmapped graphics. The and the Radius big screen. flicker was really noticeable." If Dvorak is like a kid in a candy In 1982 he founded Electronic store Hertzfeld is like a kid making Ans. It blossomed into a major soft­ candy. "The best thing about working ware firm, with such best-selling in the computer industry is I love games as Pinball Construaion Set and programming," he said. "It's not really Earl Heaver Baseball. work. It's fun ." In retrospect he seems most pleased by his original contributions to the field. "We were the first to talk of programmers as software artists, and the programmer as a producer. I think we had a lot to do with pioneering retail Robert lissner sales, in terms of developing our own direct sales. And everybody thought we Programmer, Author of Apple Works were nuts to support the Amiga." He added. ''It's all been incredibl y gratifying. I still get goose bumps In the fall of 1979, Robert Lissner was when I see people in the store buyi ng Cary Kildall a consultant for a school d.istrict in Electronic Arts software. We've sold San Jose, Californ.ia, programming well over five million games now and mainframes as he had for 17 years. He it's amazing to me." Author of CP/ M; Chairman of Digital wondered if his knack for tight code Research would ever find satisfactory outlet. In August 1981 , a friend took him to Apple, telling him that he should be In 19 73, Gary l(jldall wrote CP/M, an writing for personal computers. operating system designed to get a disk "Mainframe programmers often think drive to work with a computer. Six personal computers are jokes, at least years later it was an industry stand­ at first," Lissner said. "In my case, it ard, and his company, Digital Re­ appeared they were for hobbyists." search, was hauling great bags of cash He quickly changed his mind. Ap­ to the bank. ple executive Mike Markkula offered And that was just the beginning. him work on QuickFile. an early file Andy Hertzfeld " We were still relatively small;" he re­ manager for the 64K Apple II. "I saw called. " In 1979, I'd say we were doing that personal computers had a lot maybe $5 million per year, and em­ more horsepower than I realized " Macintosh Programmer ployed about 40 people. Lissner said. "I didn't see any prob­ "That was the heyday for the lems making something run on 64K." small independent manufacturers," he He finished QuickFile and, late in ''I was offered a job at Apple in noted. " We were getting a lot of action 1982, came across the Lisa office sys­ December 1978, and I decided I'd bet- from the press and we were appearing tem. He recalled, "Someone said, 'If 30 COMPUTE! S T A R ICE HOCKEY Designed by Ed Ringler

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He began writing was going to reach 80 percent in two Steve Wozniak App!eWorks, and it went on to become years. The realities of the industry the most popular and acclaimed have molded the companies that have application ever to appear on the survived." Apple. Engineer and cofounder, Apple "The acceptance of Apple Works Computer first within Apple and then by the marketplace" was the high point of Lissner's last nine years. "It's that I In the fall of 1979, Steve Wozniak was did what I thought I was good at, writ­ at Apple, occasionally offering advice ing small, high-speed code, and there on the infant Apple III and working was a market that appreciated that." on other projects. When Apple went Lissner continues to work on re­ public in 1980, he instantly pocketed visions to the program, and also re­ more than $150 million. In 1981 , after cently cofounded Connect, which a near-fatal crash in a plane he was markets a wide area network. Adam Osborne piloting, he began distancing himself from daily corporate operations. Since then, he has been a man of leisure, President, Paperback Software community benefactor, and seeker of self-fulfillment. First, he returned to the Univer­ In the fall of 1979, Adam Osborne was sity of Cali fornia at Berkeley to earn embarking on the greatest project of his degree. To avoid favoritism, he his life. He had already sold Osborne took courses under the name Rocky and Associates, his publishing com­ Clark and generally sat quietly in the pany to McGraw-Hill and was build­ back of the room. At least once, ing the prototype of the Osborne 1, though, he startled a professor with a Morse the first portable computer and the detailed critique of the class. He Da~id first with bundled software. graduated in May 1986, and, in his He unveiled the machine in 1981 commencement address, he called that President, Epyx and appeared on the cover of national his crowning achievement. magazines and on TV news shows. He Under the heady influence of claimed he would take on Apple and Berkeley life, he conceived the US In the fall of 1979 David Morse was cut a blazing swath through the Festivals, two rock concerts which lost vice president of marketing and sales industry. about $30 million. But Wozniak never at Tonka Toys, a job completely un­ But his company faltered because cared about fabulous wealth, and he related to computers. Then in 1982 of hasty growth, failure to advance the does not regret these affairs. he met Jay Miner, who was designing product line, and IBM. The last de­ In addition, he formed a new the Amiga computer. Miner's ideas cade has not been springtime for Os­ company, CL-9 (for Cloud Nine), to fascinated Morse, who decided to help borne. ''I'd say there have been very market infrared remote-control devices create a company to build the few highlights," he said. "I introduced for TVs. He also took up kayaking computer. the Osborne 1, but that turned into a with ex-wife Candice, a kayak slalom "Certainly the most memorable nightmare because of the lawyers. It's champion, and suggested turning part thing was, when we were starting been a bleak last nine years." of San Jose's Guadalupe Park into a Amiga, to walk into a 5,000-foot­ Osborne is now president of world-class kayak course. In 1987, square building, and I was the only Paperback Software, whose most sa­ Wozniak funneled more than half a guy there. And I was terrified: How lient program is a Lotus /-2-3-compat­ million dollars into a Bill Graham am I going to do this? How am I go­ ible spreadsheet called VP-Planner rock concert at Moscow's Izmailovo ing to start this company?" (Lotus has sued for copyright infringe­ soccer stadium. Another signal moment occurred ment). "It's been very, very tough," he Today, sheepskin in hand, the on January 1, 1984, when all the said. "The financial community said technical wizard behind Apple has his prototypes worked for the first time. they didn't want to invest in me, so I teaching credentials and will teach ele­ "Until that day, I wasn't sure we had to do it on a shoestring. Despite mentary school children. It's always could build a great product," he said. that, we've fought our way to number been a dream of his. "Then I was convinced we had some­ 1 in Al software, and we expect to thing good." establish ourselves as number 2 in the Paul Freiberger, coauthor of Fire in the Val­ Now, at Epyx, Morse rides the va­ ley, one of the first books to detail the his­ spreadsheet market." tory of personal computing, is a former editor garies of the computer game market. Even so, he would accept a decent with Popular Computing. Dan McNeill, who "You'd be amazed at the financial dis­ offer. "Everything I've got is always has written several books and numerous ciplines at Epyx," he said. "I think for sale," he said. "I'm not in this for magazine articles on the subject, has been that a few years ago everybody the ego. It's for business." reporting on personal computers for years. 32 COMPUTE ! NRI Hands-On Training With an IBM PC Compatible Plus 20 Meg Hard Disk GET THE KNOW·HOW TO SERVICE EVERY COMPUTER ON THIS PAGE

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S E P T E M B E R 1 9 8 8 35 rest of the screen consists of Other developers actively Tandy's rectangular application box­ creating DeskMate applica­ es-applications and their as­ tions include Br0derbund, sociated data files. 3Com, Digital Learning Sys­ DeskMate Desklvlate comes with tems, Electronic Ans, Epyx, several built-in applications, The Learning Company, Soft­ Leaves including Text, a word proces­ ware Publishing, Star Soft­ sor; Draw, a drawing program; ware, and Symantec, so there Filer, a simple database; Tele­ should be a good sampling of Home; BASIC com, a telecommunications software with the DeskMate's module; Calendar, an appoint­ look available soon. andGEOS ment book; and Worksheet, a Whether or not DeskMate spreadsheet. The applications becomes the new standard in­ are all basic, introductory pro­ terface for low-end PCs, we'll Make Friends; grams, but some of the mod­ soon have several easy-to-use, ules are surprisingly strong. consistent Desk.i\tfare-look­ New Chips The ensemble will definitely alike products from which to get a new user off to a good choose. stan. Take Years When Tandy recently an­ In addition to the applica­ nounced that it was licensing tions, DeskMate boasts a num­ its DeskMate interface to ber of desk accessories, in­ Off Apples; third-pany developers, PC cluding a calculator, a calendar, users raised a number of a clipboard, a note pad, and a DOS Booksl1 elf Amiga's questions. phone list. These accessories What is DeskMate" Will it are available from the desktop Whether you're a novice, a run on my PC compatible? or from any of DeskMate's power user, or a programmer, Monster What DeskMate products will supplied applications. if you want to get the most be available? Will I need a What Tandy is licensing from your PC, books are the Arcade Game; copy of Desk \1ate to run these to third-pany developers is ke ys to knowledge. But choos­ programs? The answers to DeskMate's look and feel and ing the right reading material these questions shed some the DeskMate runtime mod­ isn't easy; there are more DOS Newest Mac light on one of the most inter­ ule-essentially DeskMate's books available than you can esting software announce­ device drivers. This means shake a stick at. Separating the Desktop ments of the vear. that you don't need a copy of good from the bad is an almost DeskMaie is a graphics in­ DeskMate to run the programs impossible task for a beginner; terface that Tandy has been which span the DeskMate in­ it's no easy matter for a sea­ Buzzword; bundling wi th its Tandy IOOO terface; all of the new Desk­ soned pro, either. To make it series of PCs for four years. Ma1e-interface products will simpler to find the books you and No The product staned out as a be stand-alone applications. If need, here's a tour of some of simple text-based program. but you do have a copy of Desk­ the best DOS books around. has matured into a full graph­ Afate, it wi ll automatically rec­ If you're new to MS-DOS, Gloom, No ics interface complete with ognize the DeskMate-interface Van Wolvcnon's R111111i11g mouse suppon. There are two products, but this seems to be MS-DOS(Microsoft Press, variati ons of DeskMate: Per­ the only connection. $22.95) is essential. Now in its Doom for ST sona/ DeskMate, an edition What DeskMate products third edition, this well-written specially suited to the Tandy will we be seeing? Only a few volume has become a classic I OOO's hardware, and Profes­ titles arc known for cenain: In­ and is a must-have for serious sional DeskMate. a version tuit's popular check-writing PC users. Seventeen chapters that suppons networking and program, Quicken: Sierra's and five appendices guide the runs on any PC compatible. nagship word processor, new MS-DOS user through the There arc only minor differ­ Home Word; and Activision's DOS basics, covering every­ ences between the two. outstanding music-composi­ thing from calling a directory Desk.i\tfate's interface uses tion program, Music Studio. to LANs and DOS 4.0 (a mul­ the desktop metaphor familiar In the educational arena, ti tasking version of DOS 3.2 from Apple's Macintosh and First Byte is releasing eight available only in Europe). One from such PC products as DeskMate-interface products of the book's pluses is a DOS Windows and GEM. But Desk­ for children. Titles cover the command reference, which Mat e has its own look. Al ­ topics of geometry, mathemat­ can make this volume a handy though the top line of the ics, speech, reading, and guide for anyone whose PC screen spans a menu bar, the spelling. system doesn't include an MS- 36 COMPUTE ! - COMPUTE!. specific

DOS manual. If you can only rupts; DOS functions; program chines, the Apple in the For­ The C7 positions the roller un­ buy one DOS book, buy this building; and programming tune lOOO's eye must be the der the palm of yo ur hand­ one. languages. One of the book's Macintosh; Toshiba is un­ the traditional location. Inside the IBM PC. by Pe­ most valuable features is its doubtedly selling its popular Both mice are available in ter Norton, (Brady, $19.95; a well-annotated reference of portables to the movers and serial and bus configurations, disk is available for $65.00) is ROM-BIOS routines and DOS shakers. and both companies offer vari­ the now-classic nuts-and-bolts services. Why do more of these ous software-bundling options. introduction to the PC. If Also for programmers is companies use IBM's PCs than The basic package from Micro­ yo u're interested in learning Advanced MS- DOS. by Ray any other machine? First on soft includes the mouse (and a more about your machine's Duncan (Microsoft Press, the list was compatibility with mouse card if you choose the hardware and system software, $22.95). Its 13 chapters cover the existing software base. bus mouse) plus mouse drivers this is the book to buy. The the history of MS-DOS. the Next came technical capabili­ and some ready-made menus book's 22 chapters cover ev­ programming environment, ty. And last, service was that allow you to use the erything from the origins of MS-DOS tools, MS-DOS de­ deemed important. mouse with applications not the PC family to an analysis of vices, file and record handling. What machines are on the designed to support the device. DOS disk structure. A com­ directories, subdirectories and Fortune I OOO's List for next Also included in the basic panion disk contains programs volume labels, disk internals, year? IBM , Compaq, Apple, package is PC Paintbrush. a from the book. Inside the IBM memory aJlocation, DOS in­ Zenith. and Toshiba. drawing program. More ex­ PC is an excellent supplement terrupts, installable device pensive bundles include ei ther to the author's famous Norton drivers, and DOS filters. There EasyCA D or Microsoft Win­ U1i/i1ies. is some duplication between dows and PC Paintbrush for Supercharging \llS-DOS this book and Norton's Pro­ Windows. Missing from the (Microsoft Press, $18.95) is gram mer's Guide. but Ad- Mighty Mice Microsoft bundle is the soft­ Van Wolverton's sequel to 1·anced MS-DOS concentrates ware that allows you to write it"s aimed on specific applications. The Running MS-DOS The PC mouse is becoming yo ur own mouse menus. This at the intermediate user who book boasts lots of examples in more popular every day. and package is available from Mi­ wants to move up to the pow­ C and assembly language. the batt.le for best mouse is crosoft for an additional $25. er-user class. The book's 300 In a category all its own is narrowing to a race between The Logitech Mouse pages cover the hexadecimal The MS-DOS Encyclopedia Microsoft and Logitech. Mi­ comes with lots ofready-to-go numbering system, the extend­ (Microsoft Press, $134. 95). crosoft has recently introduced menus; a compiler that allows ed character set, the ANSI.SYS This is Microsoft's be-all-and­ a redesigned two-button PC you to create your own menus; driver, printer codes, DEBUG, end-all reference to MS-DOS. mouse that it hopes will take sample programs; and Point, a designing interacti ve menus, Its 15 70 pages are divided into the mouse-using world by mouse-driven text editor that CONFIG.SYS, setting up a five sections covering the de­ storm. Logi tech has continued one software expert named as ramdisk, and advanced disk velopment of MS-DOS, pro­ to develop and refine its popu­ one of the best products of and file handling. Six appendi­ gramming in the MS-DOS lar three-button mouse, with 1987. Other bundling options ces and a glossary round out environment, user commands, the C7 model as its flagship. include everything from desk­ the information. One of the programming utilities. and sys­ The two mice couldn't be top publishing software to an book's strengths is that it tem calls. Fifteen appendices more different. The Microsoft EGA card-and-monitor guides you step by step round out this amazing com­ device is small and stream­ combination. through the process of building pendium. This is the final lined. with a very light dicking Choosing between these a custom batch file menu sys­ word on MS-DOS for action and short button-travel. mice is difficult. Both are ex­ tem. By the time you've fin­ programmers. cellent performers. If you can, ished the book, yo u'll have a Perhaps this mouse's most no­ ticeable characteristic is its try both mice before you buy. friendly menu-driven interface If you ca n't try the mice, and for your system. large left button. You use the left button about 95 percent of money is an overriding con­ DOS Ins/ant Reference the time wi th most applica­ cern, Logitech is the better buy (Sybex. $ 10.95) is an easy-10- Corporate Computers tions, so Microsoft has decided by a small margin. use. quick-reference quide to that it should be larger. The The Logitech Mouse is MS-DOS commands that cov­ IBM may have lost the home right and left buttons are sepa­ available from Logitech, 6505 ers DOS ve rsions through 3.3. PC market to the clone mak­ rated by a ridge to make it easy Kaiser Drive, Fremont, Cali­ The discussion of each com­ ers, but IBM is still the darling to tell them apart. fornia 94555; (800) 231-7717. mand includes information on of the Fortune IOOO. The Logitech Mouse is A Plus Package is $119 for the ve rsion, type of command, According to a recent Gal­ rectangular and wide (to ac­ mouse and software. Other op­ syntax, options, command use, lup poll, IBM is still number I co mmodate its three buttons), tions include the Publisher messages, and more. Appendi­ with corporate America. with has a firm click, and sports a Package ($179), logiC4DD ces include batch files, CON­ 96 percent of those companies longer button-travel than does ($189), and logiPailll ($149). FIG.SYS, hard-disk partition­ surveyed indicating they use the Microsoft device. Although The Microsoft Mouse is ing, a glossary, and ASCII Big Blue's microcomputers. available from Microsoft, codes. the C7 is wide, the mouse is Compaq runs a distant second designed to be held between the 16011NE36th Way, Box If you're a programmer, at 52 percent, Apple garnered thumb and little finger, which 97017, Redmond. Washington there are two indispensable ti­ 21 percent, and Toshiba is quite comfortable and al­ 98073-9717; (800) 426-9400. tles. The first is Programmer's America came in fourth with a lows the mouse to be used for The PC Paintbrush package is Guide to 1he I BM PC. by Peter respectable 13-percent re­ long periods without fatigue. $150. Other bundling options Norton (Microsoft Press, sponse (the percentages add up Both mice offer excellent include EasyOID ($175) and $19. 95). Its 426 pages include to more than 100 because control, but each is different. Microsoft Windows and PC information on the anatomy of many corporations use more The Microsoft Mouse places Paintbrush/or Windows the PC; ROM; video, disk, and than one kind of microcom­ the rollerball near the finger ($175). keyboard basics; the ROM­ puter). Although the poll end of the mouse, gi ving it an BIOS services; DOS inter- didn't mention particular ma- unusual, though pleasing, feel. - Clifton Karnes 1>

S E P T E M B E R 1 9 8 8 37 COMPUTEt·1; spec~1c

with which you create GEOS­ With GEOSand the inter­ then plan your route to capture style menus. A separate pro­ preter systems in place, you every station on your map of gram lets you fashion GEOS­ have only 15,800 bytes of free France. Standing between yvu style dialog boxes. which are programming memory. Over­ and success are enemy-held probably the key to GEOS 's la ys, which Becker BASIC al ­ bridges. Clearing these bridges Macintosh-like interface. Be­ lows, help out here, and you is needlessly di fTicult because sides listing these features, the can free SK if you decide not of enemy fighters strifing your box briefly outlines Becker BA­ to use hi-res graphics. All in engine, enemy-occupied sta­ S/Cs new commands for edit­ all, it's an impressive package. tions, and such niceties as an ing, disk access. graphics and engine that tends to accumu­ animation, and sound. late too much steam pressure. In all, Becker BASIC con­ When you capture a station, sists of273 commands. Gold Printer yo u can radio ahead to get help Among these, yo u'll find 53 from fellow resisters. Use their commands to aid disk access, Super Graphix Gold is the help to take bridges. plus 18 dedicated to creating most advanced printer inter­ sound, 20 to hi-res graphics, 37 face in Xetec's growing line to sprite creation and anima­ (Xetec, 2804 Arnold Road Sa­ By now. everyone knows that tion, and more than 20 to edit­ lina, Kansas 67401 ; 913-827- Berkeley Soft works' GEOS is ing and programming tools. 0685). It has 4 built-in fonts Mini Golf the 64's Commodore-suppon­ DSQCONCAT forex­ and 4 that can be downloaded ed operating system. Packaged ample, lets you simultaneously to RAM. An accompanying Mi11i-P1111. also from Accolade, with the 64C since the com­ add multiple sequential files to utility disk holds 40 more is simply a lot of fun. A nice puter first appeared, GEOS a new file: DSAVEL saves fonts. and all fonts make use of recreation of a fairly standard has spawned its own forums specified lines ofa program to underlining, italics, and super­ miniature putting course, the and applications groups on tel­ disk; DMYPEEK pulls indi­ and subscripting. Funher­ game also includes courses ecommunications service , in­ vidual bytes into memory; more, all fonts print in nine ranging from the unlikely to cluding Q-Link and Compu­ DRESET resets the disk drive. different pitches. the nearly impossible. As with Serve, and Berkeley has The sound commands give The interface has 16 DIP many computer golf games, released several highly useful you control over volume, fre­ switches, all easily accessed. the trick is to apply enough GEOS-based products. Wheth­ quency, wave, and envelope. There are modes for 1525 em­ power at the proper angle dur­ er GEOS 128 will become the Commands such as SDNOTE ulation and ASCII conversion ing your swing, but you're I 28's official operating system let you access a speci fie note. (as well as many others), two hampered by windmills, remains to be seen. but it cer­ SDVCFfO gives you control available screen-dump modes, swinging logs, and the inevita­ tainly has a good chance. As of over voice filtering. and a command channel with ble walls and bridges, plus a this writing, it is not being SDRl GMODO controls more than 30 commands and wealth of other strange sur­ packaged with the 1280. ring modulation between two a host of other features. With prises. The only problem with The problem is that not voices. support for standard serial for Mini-PW! is that it's difficult all software publishers recog­ The graphics commands the 64 and fast serial for the to determine the direction of ni ze the GEOS standard. Some give you full control over boxes, 128, and with a built-in 32K the inclines. Still, as a group popular programs simply will frames, and lines. HRSTRlNG print buffer (which eases wait­ activity, it's almost as enjoy­ not load from GEOS. and allows you to perform a series ing time substantially), this able as the real thing. most copy-protected entenain­ of commands with one con­ printer looks like a winner. ment software, which has a trolling command, which Xetec, incidentally, pro­ huge impact on the 64/ I 28 saves some execution time and duces two lower-cost inter­ marketplace, relics on good some memory. With the sprite faces. the Super Graphix Jr. old Commodore BASIC to get commands, you control color and the Su per Graphix; both Oldies But ... staned. GEOS has reached a (MBSETCOL). horizontal and also offer high quality. point where it needs third-pany vcnical ex pansion (MBXSIZE Although hardly new, two re­ suppon to verify its official and MBGTXSZ), and sprite cent Infocom offerings deserve status: fonunately, developers collision. Meanwhile, editing attention. Border Zone, an Iron Curtain espionage story, arc staning to come to its aid. commands include a sophisti­ puts you in the role of not one, One significant rece nt cated TRACE. which has, French Trains but three major characters. product is Becker BASIC. from among other things, a mode This multiple point of view Abacus (5370 52nd Street, that moves you through the On the games scene, Acco­ makes it the most sophisticat­ Grand Rapids, Michigan program from command to lade's recent offerings are worth a serious look. ed interactive fiction to date, 49508). Actually developed by command. The Traill is a point-of-view-style and it suggests a fascinating Data Becker in Dusseldorf, Becker BASIC contains game that places you in the future for the genre. The West Germany, Becker BrlSIC three interpreter systems. The French Resistance during game's online hints are highly extends the 64's BASIC 2.0 Input system and the Testing World War II. For some rea­ welcome. and is compatible with GEOS. svstem work together. You can son, the sheer romance of the Another departure from In fact, it runs under GEOS 64 s:.Vitch from one to the other French Resistance has made the norm is Nord a11d Berl (but not GEOS 128). without losing the program in few inroads in the Nonh Couldn '/Make Head or Tail of The back of the box tells memory. The Run-Only sys­ tem lets you distribute the pro­ American game market, a It . which is lnfocom's first you pretty well all you need to point The Trai11 takes to task. shon-story collection. Unlike know about Becker BAS/Cs grams you've created to be used without Becker BASIC. Here you capture a most lnfocom stories, the in­ capabilities and whether or not train-a real train, with real terface demands an ability to you will want to give it a try. It Another program, Convener. coal, not one of those depress­ play with words rather than a includes a program called Pull­ convens your programs to ing modern diesel things- and knack for logical progression Down Menu Construction Set G£0Sformat. 38 COMP UTE ! COMPUTE!;h speC!J'IC

from one place to the next. Cli­ shipped with incomplete docu­ then withdrew sound tools, and an internal 31/2-inch drive, ches, puns, and other kinds of mentation. Specifically, infor­ leaving Cinemaware in the would have made an excellent wordplay make this game truly mation on how to format a lurch. The company was forced companion to the more expen­ intriguing and educational. Ac­ presentation disk (what the to create its own sound-cre­ sive and expandable Iles. tually, most interactive fiction program calls a show disk) was ation tools to recode the music Iles E'•erywhere. If Ap­ depends on learning the de­ missing, as were details on and sound effects in the game, pleFest in San Francisco last signer's word systems, but using the package on a Iles delaying it several months, ac­ September showed the Iles Nord and Bert elevates the pro­ with a single 31h-inch drive. cording to Cinemaware . wave forming, Boston made it cess to a new level. Although copies had been plain that the machine is the Finally, an oldie. Since the released to the computer press, Apple of choice among devel­ 64 is an old machine by com­ and sneak copies had made opers (and users who have puter standards, an occasional their way to dealers, Cottrell AppleFest Boston deep pockets). With the excep­ look to the past is more than said that very few copies of tion of several desktop pub­ justifiable. This is true espe­ Showoff made their way into The Eastern installment of Ap­ lishing programs, the most cially since the 64 was unques­ users· hands. Brnderbund is pleFest. the rejuvenated Apple exciting Applen software is tionably the best game machine planning to re-release the pro­ II user show, was held in the being written for the Iles. Dit­ for a few years, and many good gram in mid-July. almost-finished Hynes Con­ to for the hardware that drew games were designed for it. In informal testing at the vention Center May 20-22 in crowds of users-a perfect ex­ This month I'd like to re­ COMPUTE1 office, however, Boston, Massachusetts. Amid ample is Applied Engineering's call Electronic Arts' Ultimate we experienced problems the plaster dust and jack­ Audio Animator, a MIDI­ Wizard, primarily because my seemingly unrelated to incom­ hammer sounds of construc­ equipped board that includes children play it at least two plete documentation. Art im­ tion, more than 21 ,000 people software which records a hours every single day. A ported from Deluxe Paint II, packed the aisles and browsed MIDI instrument, edits the jumping game along the lines for instance, went through an the displays of Apple II-specif­ melodies, then plays them of Donkey Kong, Hard Hat unexpected color transforma­ ic hardware manufacturers back. Mack. Lode Runner, and tion. Another problem was dis­ and software publishers. GSWorks on the Screen. Jumpman. Ultimate Wizard co vered when creating back­ With more floor space GSWorks. a six-application in­ uses graphics and sound ex­ grounds, called templates: they and more exhibitors than last tegrated package for the Iles, tremely well. Add to these should've automatically re­ year's opening AppleFcst in was up and running in demon­ some very attainable goals and peated from frame to frame. San Francisco, the Boston ver­ stration form at AppleFest. a commendable lack of vio­ but did not. sion was yet another indica­ Still scheduled for an August I lence, and you have a favorite tion of the continued interest release, the program packed for anyone over the age of 6. in the Apple II , especially the. the curious around the large By now, the game is available Apple I !GS. Though Apple re­ StyleWare booth. The package by mail-order for next to noth­ portedly pressed Cambridge looked good, at least in dem­ ing; if you're in the market, No More Fun Marketing, the show manage­ onstration, and it undoubtedly consider it. ment, into including more wi ll be one of the most antici­ - Neil Randall Most of us like to play a com­ Macintosh products on the pated (and hyped) Apple II puter game now and then­ floor and more Macintosh ma­ programs this year. maybe more now than then in terial on the many panels, the More GEOS. Berkeley some cases-and computer people there were clearly root­ Softworks, makers ofGEOS, entertainment has alwavs been ing for the Apple 11. the graphics operating system a big pan of any machi~e's Highlights of AppleFest now available for the Apple Il, software repertoire. But if Ap­ Boston follow. showed prerelease versions of ple has its way, that won't be AppleLink. Apple's own three new GEOS applications true of the Apple llGS. big news was the introduction geoPublish (desktop publish­ Its recent reorganization of AppleLink-Personal Edi­ ing), geoCalc (spreadsheet), has made it plain that Apple tion, the Apple-sponsored tele­ and geoFile (database). Not ac­ thinks little of computer enter­ communications service tually new, since all three have tainment. Home computing available on QuantumLink of working versions under Berke­ areas of interest have been Virginia (sec the August issue ley's Commodore 64 GEOS, shunted to business (home of­ of COMPUTE! for AppleLink they're scheduled for staggered fice) and education (home details). Planned for startup release throughout this year­ learning) divisions within the June I (the already-printed geoPublish is closest to com­ company. There has been no monthly guide to AppleLink pletion, with geoCalc and geo­ mention of home fun or of any had events scheduled from File further behind. All are home-based activity that that date), the service seemed worthy of attention, especially doesn't fall into the categories to have little chance of meet­ from anyone who has a I 28K of working or learning at home. ing the deadline. Apple spoke­ Apple lie or lie and wants to Developers putting to­ speople were only saying make use ofa full-featured gether entertainment products su 111 mer when asked for a Macintosh-like interface and Brnderbund, which only re­ for the llGS aren't getting debut date. integrated applications. cently released Showoff. its Ap­ much help from Apple, either. No-Show. Even though a CD-ROM in the Glass ple llGs-specific desktop Cinemaware, which just re­ new Apple II computer had Case. You had to look hard for presentations package, has leased its Defender of the Crown long ago been rumored for roll­ it. They weren't making a big temporarily withdrawn the in a lies form, and which has out, perhaps at AppleFest, no deal ofit. 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ries of Apple II hard disk processor replacement for the warp GS. The prototype shown While the Amiga is al­ drives), you could find a CD­ Apple Ile, seemed to be com­ at AppleFest Boston will lead ready a popular home com­ ROM drive for the Apple lI ing to the rescue last Septem­ to a $299 board either by the puter, whether it can become a and Macintosh lines. When ber. The Zip Chip ($129) was end of the summer or some­ standard business computer would it be available? Shrugs touted as being up to four time in the fourth quarter of remains to be seen (witness the all around. Who makes the times faster than the 6502. the year, depending on which difficulties Apple had in push­ d.rive? More shrugs. How Horrendous shipping delays Applied Engineering person ing its Macintosh into the busi­ much would it cost? Around (caused by manufacturing you spoke with at the show. ness arena). The Amiga's $800, $900-somewhere in problems and a huge demand Whether it's available in Au­ hardware is up to the chal­ there. Talk about laid-back for the chip, according to Zip gust or December, the acceler­ lenge, but there will have to be marketing. Technology) made a for of peo­ ator will reportedly double the a lot more (and better) busi­ Timeout Times Four. Bea­ ple skeptical. COMPUTE! speed of the IIGS, to about 6 ness software developed before gle Bros. made a splash at last magazine still has not received megahertz. the Amiga can compete in the year's AppleFest when they re­ a chip for evaluation, for in­ In a completely subjective business market. leased their Timeout series of stance, although one was test on a Transwarp GS proto­ Apple Works add-ins. Ranging promised for arrival last Janu­ type-equipped Has, Deluxe from small utilities to full­ ary by the company's CEO. Paint II operated noticeably fledged applications, all Time­ The Zip Chip was at faster. Such time-i ntensive out programs can be run AppleFest Boston in late May, tasks as painting with full­ Make a Video directly from AppleWorks. again showing how fast it screen brushes were much fast­ Four new additions to the line makes 8-bit programs like er on the prototype. In fact, the Video software is the current were introduced at AppleFest AppleWorks. Several of the response was much closer to rage among Amiga users. Tele­ vision stations and animation Boston: Thesaurus, Desktools Apple Ile computers at the that of Deluxe Paint II running studios are using the Amiga for II, Macrotools. and Power­ Berkeley Softworks booth were on a Commodore Amiga, a dry runs of graphics and ani­ pack. With the exception of Zip Chip equipped; the speed­ 68000-driven computer which mations; artists are discover­ Macrotools. ($25.00), the new up of their geoPublish. geo­ also uses several graphics chips ing Amiga digitizing, painting, packages cost $49.95 each. Calc. and geoFile programs to take some of the processing and animation software; and Soviet Software. Terris. a was noticeable and welcomed. load off the 68000. home users are connecting game that's gotten a lot of Another promised chip re­ - Gregg Keizer Amigas to VCRs to make their press because it was developed placement made an appear­ own videos and movies. in the Soviet Union, is being ance at AppleFest-the Rocket The Director, from The readied for the Apple 11 and Chip from Bits and Pieces Right Answers Group, is a IIGs by Spectrum HoloByte. Technology. The prototype display-and-animation pro­ Terris is deceptively simple: chip shown at AppleFest gramming language that makes Colored blocks of various seemed similar to the Zip in it easier than ever to master shapes drop from the top of both look and result. The the graphics of your Amiga. the screen as you rotate and Rocket Chip sped up the ma­ The word move them into position at the chine and the software running programming may scare off some potential bottom. Large groups of peo­ on it by as much as five times buyers. It shouldn't. If you ple had to stare over shoulders the normal speed, the compa­ know BASIC, you'll find your­ to watch Spectrum HoloByte ny claimed. T he chip can also self right at home with personnel hog the game-it's be slowed sufficiently so that The Di­ be making thar addicting. the gazelle-l ike computer can rector-you'll Direc­ run programs that require tor scripts in minutes. If you've slower spi>eds. never programmed before, Witllbut our having had a Th e Director's excellent man­ chance to eval uate ei ther chip, ual will tutor you. The demos Fast. Fast Relief however, recommendations on the disk and the examples certainly cannot be made. It in the manual are very helpful; The most exciting thing on the would be prudent to wait until they show you how to program Apple II hardware horizon is the desired chip is available in everything from a simple slide­ the appearance of speed-up number before ordering- you show program to a full-blown chips and boards. Apple II shouldn't have to wait longer Commodore recently an­ animation with text, color technology is over ten years than a few weeks for any prod­ nounced that it has shipped cycling, sound, and more. old now, and in many ways it's uct you order by mail to over 600,000 Amigas world­ To write a Director script, showing its age. arnve. wide in the two years since the you use a text editor to enter Much of this aging prob­ The Zip and Rocket chips machine's release, at the same Direcrorcommands. The lem is centered around speed, take care of Apple Ile and lie time noting that the Amiga MicroEMACS editor supplied or the lack of it. The recent owners, but what of those with development community has on your Amiga Extras disk surge in graphics-intensive an Apple II GS? The II GS may written more than 1100 soft­ works well. To run a script software-desktop publishing be the fastest Apple II out of ware programs for the graphics­ called dog, for instance, simply programs in particular-has the box, but it's still too slow intensive computer. type direc1or dog. Director cre­ pointed out the slowness of the for many of the 16-bit applica­ Max Toy, president and ates a file called dog.film, then Apple II's 65C02 microproces­ tions either available or under CEO of Commodore Business executes the script. After the sor. The processor is just not development. Applied Engi­ Machines, said, "We see the dog.film file has been created, fast enough to handle the full­ neering, known for its Trans­ Amiga becoming a standard you can show your animation screen graphics necessary in warp acceleration boards (as business computer as we ll as by typing projecror dog.film. such software as Springboard well as for such hardware as the graphics system for corpo­ Projector is a program that can Publisher. Publish It!, and PC Transport, the MS-DOS rate communications depart­ be freely redistributed-good GEOS. computer on a card), is in the ments, television studios, and news for budding animators The Zip Chip, a micro- midst of developing Trans- video production houses .'~ who want to share videos with 50 COMPUTE ! COMPUTE!;t; spec~1c

their friends and the rest of the mathematical, financial, scien­ when you shoot, you lose your Ready-Se1-Sl!oll' was on the Amiga world. tific, and programming func­ shields. After all the obstacles way. With the corporate pre­ The Director loads !FF tions; a File Manager to handle on the track have been shot sentation pie being so large, images of any resolution, in­ directories; and WordPerfect ·s down, you move onto another there are enough slices to go cluding HAM and overscan. Program Editor. track. Road111ars' digitized around. Some of the features include WordPe1fect Library is graphics arc especially nice­ Po1verPoi111 . Cricket Pre­ fades, dissolves, blits (using available from WordPerfect, the objects in the game have sellfs . . . . and Ready-Set-Sho111 the blitter to move rectangles 1555 North Technology Way, been digitized from models. are intended for static slides: with different effects}, wipes, Orem, Utah 84057; (801) 227- The result is a game that looks You create them on the Mac, stencils, built-in drawing com­ 4096. The price is $129. oddly realistic-halfway be­ have them turned into slides­ mands, and input commands. tween normal computer graph­ Microsoft and Cricket have If you have another ani­ ics and television. Digitized deals with slide-production mation program that produces sound effects complement the companies-and make your ANIM files (the !FF standard Amiga Arcade game. presumably corporate for animation files), The Direc­ Aaargh! and Road111ars presentation. tor can load and display them Sick of sticking quarters in ar­ ($34.95 each) are available Personally. I prefer dy­ as well. cade machines? A personal from Electronic Arts, 1820 namic presentations, using my The Director ($69.95) is computer has several advan­ Gateway Drive, San Mateo, Mac and a projector. If you available from The Right An­ tages over game machines, California, 94404; (800) 245- ha ve that setup-and there arc swers Group, Box 3699, Tor­ ranging from mass storage to 4525. a lot of hardware possibilities rence, California, 9051 O; (213) versatile input devices (mouse, - Rhert Anderso11 out there these days- you can 325-1311. joystick, and keyboard). use any of the presentation As a result, c.omputers can programs; you can also use play games that just wouldn't More. or HyperCard, or Video­ work in an arcade setting. But Works. and make interactive Perfect for those times when most or ani mated presentations. computer games seem too ce­ If the Amiga is going to be con­ rebral, you can always play one sidered a business machine, it of the many arcade-like games needs more heavy-hitting soft­ available for your computer. Quick Notes ware companies to develop On the Amiga, two new trans­ software. WordPerfect was the lations, Aaargh! and Road­ No online surcharge. The first (and so far the only) large wars, bring the arcade home. FCC's plan to impose a five­ software company to support Both programs are distrib­ dollar-an-hour surcharge on the Amiga. uted by Electronic Arts, connect time for online sur­ WordPerfect released the though they were created by viccs has been dropped, thank Amiga version of WordPerfect Arcadia, a company that sup­ goodness. If you use any of the almost a year ago. They were posedly uses Amiga chips in its electronic services, you know amply rewarded for their fore­ arcade machines. The excel­ how fas t the online charges sight. Supposedly, they re­ lent graphics and sound clearly rack up, even without a couped their investment show the arcade heritage of surcharge. almost overnight. these games. Gassee's stock. Jean­ What's next for WordPer­ Aaargh! is a one-player Louis Gassee sold more than fect? First, the company has game. The players choose be­ 60,000 shares of Apple stock in said that it will eventually up­ tween two monsters-a lizard Do yo u think desktop{lbli~h ­ February and March, netting grade the Amiga version of its and an ogre. The game is large­ i11g is the catch phrase today? about $2.7 million. Gassec, word processor to incorporate ly a smash-and-burn campaign If you do. you're a little behind Apple's senior vice president the features of its IBM PC ver­ done in the style of a Godzilla the times. The latest is desktop of research and development, sion, WordPerfect 5.0. When movie. The graphics and ani­ pres em at ions. isn't saying why. Maybe it's will that be? After the fiasco of mation are colorful and attrac­ When PowerPoillf was re­ because he laid out just under WordPerfect for the Macin­ tive. Aaargh!'s stereo sound is leased last year, it really de­ half a million for those shares tosh, which was delayed nice, too. Your goal is to fined the presentation-software about six months before; even month after month, WordPer­ smash the local buildings of 12 category. This software allows after the tax bite on the $2.2 fect would rather not say. The different cities, eating the food the user to design slides and million profit. he's left with a semiofficial word is that it will you find (including hot dogs, easily make coordinated hefty chunk of money. What's be available in a year and a hamburgers, tacos, and the res­ speaker's notes and audience Gassce like? I don't know, but half. But that's probably a idents of the cities). When you handouts. Microsoft saw the when I met him in San Fran­ longer wait than the consum­ find a golden egg, you must writing on the wall and bought cisco in January at an awards ers (or WordPerfect itself) battle another monster for it. the program. PowerPoi11t 2.0 is dinner. he was wearing a tux would put up with. These battles are real knock­ on its way. with a needlepoint cummer­ In the meantime, there's down, drag-out fights. In the meantime. Cricket bund, kiddy-print sneakers, WordPerfect Library, a collec­ Arcadia's other release is Presellfs . .. was finall y re­ and a diamond in his ear. tion of desktop programs. In­ Roadwars, a one- or two-play­ leased in Mav. I first saw the No thanks for the memo­ cluded are Notebook, which er game. If you play solitaire, program demonstrated in May ries. The memory-chip short­ lets you organize information you play against a competent 1987 at the New York Mac­ age is still driving prices up. into an index file format that (if rather dull) computer play­ Fair. and I was told release was Apple's two-megabyte upgrade can be read by WordPerfect ; a er. In Road111ars, you are one imminent. Cricket's an­ was less than $600 a few short Calendar designed for to-do of two balls rolling down a nouncemen t of the release was months ago; now it's $849. lists and memos; a versatile track. While in the form of a met by an announcement from Cray and Apple. When Calculator, which features ball, you are shielded, but Manhattan Graphics that Apple purchased a Cray to S E P T E M B E R 1 9 8 8 51 COMPUTE!;t; specyic

help in its research and devel­ so they' ll match 1hc System lined up in the windows, you opment 1he amusing thing 10 Tools number. ca n, of course, use 1he Clean­ note was 1ha1 Seymour Cray The 6.0 System set in­ up command to align them was using a Macintosh to doo­ cludes QuickerGraf, a Quick­ according to the in visible grid dle new designs for a new Draw speed enhancement by in the window. Bui if you're Cray. ow. Cray Research's And y Hertzfeld. He probably movi ng things around inside CEO, John Rollwagen. has did ii on a coffee break some a window. the alignment is been added 10 Apple's board of afternoon, after someone put quickly lost. If yo u drag an direcwrs. It's a nice marriage an idle question 10 him: "D'you icon around while holding for companies that make, re­ think Quick Draw could be the Option key down. it snaps specti vely. supercomputers made to work faster?" Also in­ into place on the grid when and super co mputers. cluded in 6.0 is a desk accesso­ you release it. ry. Macro Maker. which lets • When yo u drag an icon from you record keystrokes and one window 10 another (as in mouse movements. a folder-to-folder transfer), There's a terrific option the item is moved from one Out of Court slated for the 7.0 version: IAC place to the other. If you want (ln1erApplication Communi­ to move a copy of 1he origi­ We'll just ignore the Apple vs. cations). It will include a nal , hold the Option key Microsoft/ Hewle11-Packard li1- "smart" clipboard 10 lei you down while you drag the icon. Forecasts of impending doom iga1ion th is month. Maybe a paste betwee n applications and The original is left in place, for the ST are exaggerated. In quarterly report will be sum­ leave a dynamic link between and a copy is put into the new fact , several auxiliary hard­ cienl to keep us up-to-date on them. If the information in the spot. The copy has exactly the ware developers are showing what's sure to be a long, source document changes. so same name as the original; it confidence in the machine bv drawn-out precourt ballle. wi ll the pasted material. does not appear as "Copy releasi ng products thal make. MultiFindcr is slated 10 of.... " lhe ST even more powerful become 1he defaull operating and versatile. environment, although 1he The ST's doom-and­ Antiviral Rx Finder (Uni Finder?) will re­ gloom forecasts stem nol only mai n an option. With memory Click Art from the poor availability of The original Mac Peace virus chips so scarce and expensive. Mega STs, bu1 from 1h e rumor was generally benign, bu1 1he and wi1h MultiFinder's appe­ If you need bitmapped clip art, that Atari is going lo crack next one. popularly called tite for RAM. 1he change any one of Du bl-Click 's Wet· down on mail-order houses by Scores, has been nasty. A vi rus might have to wail until 1he Paint vo lumes is a safe bet. limiting 1hc shipments ofSTs is a self-replicaling, aulorun minimum RAM configuration The art is consistently excel­ 10 them and giving preference program 1ha1 can creep into thal comes with 1h e Mac can lent. There are 16 voiumes so 10 established dealers. your system or fil es if yo u use be increased cheaply and easily far sold in 2-volume sets for This strategy worked well infected software. 10 1wo megabytes. $79.95. In addition 10 terrific for Apple, enabling Apple deal­ Scores is rampant: The clip art. Wet Paint vo lumes ers (a nd Apple) to garner cross-cou nt ry plague has in­ include one of the bes1 desk ac­ hea lthy profit margins. This vaded ASA . Electronic Data cessories around: Art Round­ technique probably won'! up. Its original version was work as well for Atari, howev­ Systems in Dallas, and corpo­ Finder's Keepers rations in Washington, D.C. If great, bul the new, 2.0 version er, for the simple reason that you're into online systems. you boasts even more utility. Ap ples are available in a wide Last month's column included Basically. Art Roundup varie1. of computer stores. but ca n download one of the many some lips on usi ng Multi­ antiviral programs, some of lets you open any MacPai111 - il's hard 10 find a store that Finder. This month brings forma1 document and select stocks Alari computers. which were specifically de­ Finder tips. signed for fighting Scores. part ofi110 copy to the Clip­ Because of Atari's limited Look for KillScores, Ferret. • To close all the wi ndows on board. It includes a pencil and dealer network, a significant Vaccine, Interferon. or Virus the Desk Top in one click. eraser for touch-ups, and a se­ number of people buy STs Detecti ve. Apple has even hold down the Option key lection rectangle and lasso. You from mail-order houses. If that posted Virus Rx , an anti-viral while you click in any win­ can also flip, copy, rotate, or suppl y dries up, then it's likel y program of i1 s own. dow's Close box. even scale 1h e selection before that people who can 't get Atari •Returning 10 1he DeskTop it's placed on the Clipboard . STs from mai l-order houses from an application takes Art Roundup opens only a wi ll simply buy something time because the DeskTop is copy of the graphics document, else-perhaps a PC clone. The rebuilt, with windows and so the original slays intact no prices of1hese computers are Systematic Updates icons red rawn wherever you mailer whal you do. The new in the range of ST prices and left them. To save time, you version even leis you se1 up a PC software is plentiful. As I write this, 1he release of can keep everything closed. If quick slide show so that you System 6.0 is imminent, but yo u want 10 open a disk or a can thumb through a whole already there's a list offeatures folder, you can fool the Find­ folder of art very quickly. for the 7.0 version . Apple is fi­ er: Hold down 1he Option key Dubl-Click (18201 Gresh­ nally using a single number for as you open windows on 1he am Street, Northridge, Califo r­ Mouse Moving Over the System/ Finder combina­ DeskTop. The Finder won't nia. 91325 ; 818-349-2758) also tion. so we don't have to worry remember 1ha1 you opened has a line oflmageWri1er Practical Solutions' Mouse about which System goes with those items, and ii won't re­ fonts, called World Class Master ( 1930 East Gran I which Finder. Let's hope the draw them when you quit 10 Foms. whose quality matches Road, Tucson, Arizona 85716: System and Finder version the DeskTop. that of Wet Paint. 602-884-9612· $39.95) conve­ numbers are finally adjusted • If you like your icons neatl y - Sharon Zardetto Aker niently solves the problem of 52 COMPUTE ! COMPUTE!,,;h speC!JlC

simultaneously connecting two shortly. Installation is sim­ Universal Item Selector, gram is provided for setting joysticks and a mouse to an ple-there are no connect.ions from Application and Design the time on the clock but you ST. to solder. You simply remove Software (226 Northwest F can use the control panel ac­ Without such a device the cover of the Mega and plug Street, Grants Pass, Oregon cessory to set the drive clock. you must constantly plug and the board into two plugs that 97526; 503-476-0071 ; $15.95), Software packaged with unplug the mouse and joy­ are available inside the case. provides an excellent alterna­ the drive includes a hard drive sticks. Not only is this plugging (Remember that removing the tive to GEM's file selector. install program, a program for and unplugging inconvenient case voids the computer's It works much as the nor­ configuring the drive for auto­ and hard on the cables, but it's warranty.) mal file selector does, but it boot, a format program, and downright difficult on the 1040 The external portions of provides many extras. Placed some miscellaneous utilities. ST, with its hidden connectors. this genlock extend through in the AUTO folder, the alter­ Strangely, there's no backup­ Many games require you the expansion port on the back nate file-selector box appears and-restore program included, to plug a joystick into the of the Mega, with a small con­ any time your application so you'll have to find one mouse port. To start many of trol panel available for setting would normally show a file se­ elsewhere. these same games. you must special effects. The JR! gen­ lector; plus, you can call it The hard drive autoboot use the mouse to move the lock provides a jack for 1•ideo from the Desk Accessory will boot from the floppy in mouse pointer to their icons; in (for the external signal). The menu. Extra buttons include drive A ifthe Control-Shift­ then you double-click. After input can be any standard Copy, Move, Rename, Delete Alternate key combination is that, you have to unplug the NTSC signal: camera, VCR, Format, and Folder. held down during the boot mouse and plug in the joystick. even a TV cable. The cbm­ The Format function lets process. This allows you to Mouse Master eliminates puter graphics superimposed you format a fresh disk. The bring up your system with a this switching. The Mouse on the external video can be other functions can be per­ custom configuration (to use Master is a small box with a viewed on the color monitor in formed on single files as well GOOS, for example) without cable terminating in a pair of exceptionally bright, crisp as folders. The Rename func­ disabling the hard drive mouse/joystick connectors color. The JR! genlock also tion, when applied to a folder, auto boot. that plug into your ST. The has a video our signal for view­ actually creates a new folder, The documentation in­ box itself has a mouse port and ing the combined effects on a copies all the files to it, then cluded with the drive contains two joystick ports, all clearly standard TV or recording on a deletes the old folder. all the basics as well as much labeled. A switch on the top of VCR. The Copy, Move, and De­ information that is useful only the box le ts you switch be­ It's possible to provide ex­ lete functions can also be ap­ to an engineer. An explanation tween using the mouse in port ternal video with one VCR plied to groups of files using of how to add other drives to 0 and using the joystick in port and tape the superimposed sig­ wildcards. The file-selector the system is included, for ex­ 0. You can swi tch devices at nal with a second one. An au­ box itself has a horizontal ample, but it is far too techni­ any time. dio our jack is also provided to scroll bar so that the size and cal to benefit the average ST route sound to an amplifier. A time of creation of the file can user. second, RGB 0111 jack allows be viewed. Also, the status of previewing the computer ani­ any file (its size, the folder it's mation without the external in and so on) can be viewed, video. Thus, with two moni­ and the Read/Write status can Video Connection tors, you can view the com­ be changed. Finally, you can puter graphics either with or even print out a listing of the Husourccs A genlock allows computer without the external video. files and folders in the current graphics to be superimposed Software control of the directory. on an industry-standard exter­ Current Notes (published genlock is also possible, al­ monthly, except January and nal video source. While the though no software is currently concept sounds simple, a gen­ August) is an exceptionally available to integrate genlock well-written magazine for lock package is not-it may functions with other software have more chips than the com­ Atari users. It includes materi­ (such as the Cyber System Soft­ al on the ST and Ata.ri's 8-bit puter with which it works. ware from Antic). The JR! I lard racts There are many uses for a computers. genlock provides an industry­ Articles, opinions, exten­ genlock. The combination of !CD has released a new line of standard RS- I 70 signal and sive reviews, and regular col­ external video and computer hard drives in a case designed will even synch to the output um ns combine to provide a graphics can generate effects to fit under a monitor or a ofa digital VCR. well-rounded, informative, and that rate anywhere from trivial Mega ST (faST Disk Drives, pleasant reading experience. to stunning. ICD, I 220 Rock Street, Rock­ ford , Illinois 61IOI;815-968- There is even a regular With software such as the column devoted to questions Cyber series, available on the 2228; 20 megabyte-$699.95, 30 megabyte-$949.95, 50 me­ and hints on adventure games. ST for animation, a genlock Editor Joe Waters does an ex­ creates the perfect marriage of Be Selective gabyte-$1 ,099.95, dual 20 megabyte-$1 ,149.95, dual 30 cellent job on this publication. computer graphics and live ac­ An extensive public "domain The file-selector dialog box megabyte-$1 ,349.95, dual 50 tion. The recent introduction disk library makes it possible provided by GEM does work. megabyte-$1 ,699.95). These of the C.artoon Design Disk for to obtain a wide select.ion of but it's hardly convenient. For drives have a long, low config­ use with CAD 3D/Cyber Con­ good programs for a reason­ a machine that prides itself on uration that can make finding trol has made animating even able cost. point-and-click operation, space for one easier than might easier. For information, write there's entirely too much otherwise be the case. JRI's first-generation gen­ Current Not es. 122 North lock (P.O. Box 5277, PittS­ typing involved, and certain The drives include an ex­ pansion port for plugging in Johnson Road, Sterling, Vir­ burgh, Cal ifornia 94565; common functions are not ginia 22170; (703) 450-4761. A available at all (moving a file, other devices (such as a laser $400.00) works with the Mega one-year subscription is $20.00. ST only, although a 520/ as opposed to copying it, for printer or another hard drive) I 040ST version should ship example). and a built-in clock. No pro- - David Plotkin G s E P TEMBER 19 88 53 ------b----u~yer'sguide

Classic Software

Remember the first software you ever bought? Remember your obsession with finding a key to the locked room in the castle tower? Remember setting up your household budget on your first spreadsheet or writing typojree letters on your first word processor? Whether your first home computer was for games or productivity, there's a classic software package fisted in this buyer's guide that will remind you ofthe early days ofhome computers.

Balance of Power Some of these programs may not be Mindscape available anymore , or may be sold as an Amiga, Apple II. Atari ST, IBM PC, Macintosh improved version with a new name. $49.95 The player takes the part of either the president of the Unrted States or the general secretary of the U.S.S.R. in this strategic simulation. As head of the nation, the Caroline D. Hanlon player has eight years to manage overt and covert ac­ tions, insurrections, political deceptions, divisions of troops, and diplomatic relations. During the course of play, each nation's prestige will rise or fall . Apple Works Claris Apple II The Brooklyn Bridge $249 White Crane Systems AppleWorks combines a word processor, a database IBM PC, IBM PS/2 manager, and a spreadsheet for the Apple II. Add -on $139.95 modules, such as the Timeout series, provide addi­ With this file-transfer utility, data can be accessed tional functions and increase the fl exibility of this in­ and moved between computers using either 3'h-inch tegrated package. Version 2.0 includes a mail-merge or 51A-inch disks. \kllumes with more than 32MB of feature. data can also be transferred . Peripheral devices such as printers, plotters, and tape backup systems are Apple Writer supported . An eight-foot universal cable is included. Apple Computer Version 2.0 adds a file manager, four DOS utilities­ Apple II Bank Street Writer move, remove, copy, and backup-device drivers, DOS, 64K required Br0derbund and Run, a utility that allows dual independent pro­ Not available' Apple II . Atari. Commodore 64 cessing so an application can be driven on a remote Documents could be written , edited, and prin ted on 64K required for Apple and Commodore: 48K re­ quired for Atari computer while another program runs on the master the Apple II with this word processor. There were tab­ $49.95 (Commodore, Atan) : $69.95 (Apple) computer. ulation files, glossary commands, split screens, and formatting features. Onscreen prompts, commands, and tutorials help writers use this word processor to create and edit documents ranging from letters to term papers. Edit­ ing features include copy, erase, and move.

·Although this program is not available from the manufacturer, you may be able to find it through other sources. 54 CO M P UTE! CP/M spreadsheets. It runs DOS applications in virtual 8086 F-15 Strike Eagle Digital Research mode and accepts batch files. Version 2.01 also runs Micro Prose 8080-series computers on 80386 machines and supports Lotus/ Intel/Micro­ Apple II, Atari, Atari ST, Commodore 64, IBM PC One disk drive required, two preferred soft .Expanded Memory Specification (LIM-EMS), 128K and CGA or EGA card required for IBM CP/M is not available retail, bu1 OEMs can pur­ version 4.0. $34.95 chase it directly from Digital Research. Players can ta ke part in seven historical flight mis­ An operating system for the 8080 series of comput­ sions, from dropping M-82 bombs on a Libyan oil re­ ers, GP /M includes an assembler. editor, debugger. Eastern Front finery to firing air-to-air missiles at a Syrian fighter. and file-management system. Atari Atari This F-15 combat-jet flight simulator displays more Not available· than 24 cockpit controls and features radar, launch indicators, electronic defenses, missiles, aerobatics, Crosstalk XVI The premise of this game was to command the Ger­ and mach-speed capabilities. There are four skill Crosstalk Communications man forces invading the Soviet Union in 1941 . Play­ IBMPC levels. 128K and DOS 2.0 or higher required ers needed to outmaneuver, surround , and destroy $195 the Soviet army before its huge reinforcements arrived. This telecommunications package allows automated Finder Apple Compu1er communication with either menu- or command-driven Macintosh operation. Protocols include Crosstalk, XMODEM . Not available· and Kermit. Popular terminal emulations supported. Finder is the system software included with the Mac­ Transfer rates range as high as 115,200 bits per sec­ intosh. It is the set of instructions that establishes the ond. Compatible with Windows. desktop and pull-down menus. dBase Ashton-Tate Flight Simulator IBM PC, Macintosh (called dBase MAC) Microsoft 256K required for IBM IBM PC, Macintosh $695 (IBM): $495 (Macintosh) 128K, color/graphics card required for IBM A relational database-management program, dBase $49.95 can be used to collect, store, and process infor­ Pilots can fly a single-engine Cessna 182 or a Gates mation such as mailing lists, research, inventory, ac­ Lea~et with this flight simulator. The program takes counting, expenses, and cost control. It includes pilots on scenic flights over the continental United applications for handling large quantities of data and States, Mexico, Canada. and the Caribbean, and to a programming language to create specific applica­ 118 airports. The instrument panel is displayed on tions. The current version is dBase Ill Plus. dBase IV the screen and includes fligh t controls and VFR and should be available in the fall of 1988. IFR instrumentation. Pilots can set conditions such as wind , time of day, and reliability of aircraft. Com­ puter pilots have an out-of-the-window view much DeluxePaint II like an actual pilot's. Electronic Arts Amiga, Apple llGS Kickstart 1.2 required for Amiga Gato $99.95 Eliza Spectrum HoloByte This paint program incorporates a variety of tools, in­ Artificial Intelligence Research Group Amiga, Apple II , Atari ST, Commodore 64, IBM PC, cluding ten built-in brushes; stenciling; four levels of Commodore 64, IBM PC Macintosh $45 zoom ; dotted freehand ; continuous freehand ; straight 128K required for Apple, IBM, and Macintosh line, curve. circle, and polygon tools; an overscan Eliza is a variation of the original psychoanalysis pro­ $14.95 (Commodore): $39.95 (Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, IBM): $49.95 (Macintosh) mode that eliminates the Amiga borders; more than gram designed by Dr. Joseph Weizenbaum of M.l.T. 65 fills; and a palette of 16 colors created from 4096 The user types in statements, and the program re­ Control panels constantly display the speed , depth, shades. The brush tool can be flipped, stretched , and sponds with questions or comments, similar to the heading, and radar trackings of a WWII Gato subma­ rotated or used like an airbrush. Spaces can be fill ed way a psychotherapist might respond to a patient. rine. The player is challenged to carry out missions in with patterns, solid colors, or gradient colors . The The source code is written in Microsoft BASIC, and the South Pacific and return to home base without fixed background allows the painter to attach a pic­ the program is available on disk. being detected or destroyed. Digitized voice com­ ture to the background so that it will not be removed mands relay the missions from SUBCOM . Levels of difficulty increase as the game continues. when it's painted over. The perspective feature lets Fastback the user rotate elements in three dimensions around Hazox a fixed point to create perspective. A range of colors IBM PC GEOS is cycled through a static image to create the illusion $179 Berkeley Softworks of motion ; as many as four cycles per picture can be Fastback is a hard disk- backup util ity. It can back up Commodore 64 stored . Pictures can be sent to selected printers. a 1OMB IBM PC drive in eight minutes on twenty­ $59.95 three 51A-inch disks and a 20MB IBM AT drive in This graphics operating system includes a word pro­ eight minutes on fourteen 51A-inch disks. The time, cessor, geoWrite; a color graphics program, geo­ DesqView Paint; desk accessories such as an alarm clock, a Quarterdeck Office Systems date. and volume are recorded on each disk, and the program checks the disk label to prevent writin g over note pad, a calculator. and a photo album; and a IBMPC desktop that manages files and displays them as 512K required a disk. The program disk also includes Freestore, a $129.95 utility to restore lost and damaged data. icons or text. DesqViewis a memory-resident, multitasking integra­ tor that offers bitmapped-graphics support for

·Although this program is not available from the manufacturer, you may be able to find it through other sources. SEPTEMBER 198 8 55 _ _ b_u~ye~ide

Hardball Lode Runner MacWrite Accolade Brnderbund Apple Computer Amiga. Apple II and llGS, Atari, Atari ST, Commo­ Apple II , Atari, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Macintosh Macintosh dore 64. IBM PC, Macintosh 48K for Apple; 12BK required for Macintosh and $125 256K and color/graphics card required for IBM IBM: jQ'fstick optional for all versions MacWrite is a word processing program that doubles $39.95 $14 .95 (Atari, Commodore 64): $34.95 (Apple, IBM): as a typesetting tool. It can be used to design logos, A baseball simulation, Hardball otters a 3-D perspec­ $39.95 (Macintosh) letterheads. announcements, advertising flyers, and tive of each field angle. Different screens provide the A Galactic commando searches for stolen treasures newsletters . It otters a variety of font sizes and strategy selections for the managers. There are six by running, jumping, drilling passages with a laser styles. Text can be formatted for left, right, and cen ­ pitches that can be thrown by left- or right-handed gun, and solving puzzles. There are 150 game ter justification, and the margins can be set fo r any pitchers, and players appear in large graphics. screens, plus a game generator to design new game width. The most current version is MacWrite 5.0. boards. HyperCard Managing Your Money Apple Computer MECA \.\3ntures Macintosh IBM PC, Macintosh One megabyte RAM and two BOOK disk drives re­ 256K, DOS 2.0 or higher required for IBM; 512K re­ quired quired for Macintosh $49 $219.98 HyperCard is a programming environment and devel­ Version 4.0 of Managing Your Money is a financial opment tool that is provided with Macintoshes planning package made up of nine integrated pro­ shipped since August 1987. It allows the user to cre­ grams. The programs cover major aspects of home ate and modify graphics, music, video, animation, financial planning such as checkbook management, and text on the Macintosh by linking information budgets, tax planning, insurance and retirement plan­ stored on cards. The program is designed so begin­ ning, and port1olio management. The software incor­ ning and more experienced programmers can devel­ porates the 1987 tax-law changes and contains a full­ op applications. People who bought Macintoshes be­ featured word processor with mail-merge capabilities. fore August 1987 can purchase the program for S49. The program can be used to set up budgets, track net worth , plan fi nances for a maximum of five years, keep records of insurance and investments, and print International Soccer checks, invoices, mailing labels, reports, graphs, and Commodore Business Machines Commodore 64 tax forms. Memos can be stored on the electronic Not available· ca lendar, and financial data can be exported to Lotus International Soccer was an arcade-style game that 1-2-3. replicated player action and ball movement on the soccer field. It was available as a plug-in cartridge. MasterType Mindscape Apple II, Atari. Commodore 64 , IBM PC, Macintosh King's Quest: Quest for the Lotus 1·2·3 48K required for Apple Crown lotus Development $39.95 IBMPC Sierra On-Line This typing program helps students learn to touch­ Apple II, IBM PC. Macintosh 256K required 12BK required for Apple, 256K required for IBM $495 type and improve their skills in using a computer key­ $49.95 An integrated package for business users, Lotus 1-2- board. By ottering onscreen prompts, the program Sir Graham. the brave and noble knight. undertakes a 3 combines a spreadsheet, graphics, and a database. encourages the students to watch the screen rather journey to find the lost treasures of Daventry and re­ The database can handle as many as 8191 records than their fingers. There are 18 levels, from single let­ turn them to King Edward . Along the way, the knight with a maximum of 256 fields and otters two levels ters to words and symbols. The package includes a meets many creatures. such as a witch. trolls, and a of sorting. The spreadsheet includes ten cell formats, user's guide. giant. There are a variety of paths to take, and Sir protected cells, variable column widths, and win­ Graham must re ly on skil l and intellect in order to dows, and it can perform a variety of calculations and Math Blaster! reap the rewards. This is the first in a se ries of King 's analyses. There are seven graph options for display­ Davidson and Associates CAies! adventures. ing data or creating what-if scenarios. Apple II and llGS. IBM PC 12BK required for Apple; 256K , DOS 1.1, and BASICA required for IBM Life MacPaint $49.95 Electronic Arts Apple Computer Students in grades 1-6 learn the basic facts of addi­ Amiga, Apple II , Atari. Atari ST, Commodore 64, Macintosh IBM PC, Macintosh $125 tion, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, $14.95 (Apple, Atari, Commodore. IBM): $19.95 decimals, and percentages. The 600 problems are (Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh) MacPaint is a drawing program designed specifically grouped by math area and level of dif1iculty. There for the Macintosh. It includes a variety of tools and Currently sold as part of the package Software Gold­ are four activities. The first activity explains the math palettes to use in creating detailed pictures and fact and the second activity presents a problem the en Oldies, WJlume I, Life is a computer simulation of shapes. Drawings can be modified pixel by pixel with the birth. ltte, and death of generations of cells. The user must solve. In the third activity, the problem is the Zoom option. The most current version is Mac­ missing a piece of information which the user must program uses its own objects, phenomena, and Paint 2.0. physical laws to determine the survival of the cells, supply. The fourth activity is an arcade-style game and the player can introduce patterns and situations. with 30 math problems. An editor helps users enter Life was designed in 1970 by John Horton Conway, a their own math problems. Cambri dge mathematician .

·Although this program is not available from the manufacturer, you may be able to find it through other sources. 56 CO M P U TE ! I I

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0 1 tr ,_.11,,, Microsoft Word The Newsroom Microsoft Springboard ,,,, ..,, l•"' .... r-• • ,.. ... ,., ,., . , !"' IBM PC, Macintosh Apple II , Commodore 64, IBM PC $450 (IBM): $395 (Macintosh} 256K and color/graphics card required for IBM This word processing package contains an outline $49.95 processor to help organize thoughts and ideas, a Desktop publishers can use this program to create glossary, a dictionary, and a thesaurus. Style sheets newsletters for family. clubs. school, or business . can be used to establish page formats. and the Newsroom contains a word processor and more than WYSIWYG display can include special character for­ 600 pieces of clip art. Text wraps around photos and mats. As many as eight windows can be in operation graphics added to the composition. There are five at one time, and the saved documents can be printed fonts. and the program supports most printers. on a variety of printers. The Norton Utilities Peter Norton Computing PaperClip Microsoft Works Batteries Included (Electronic Arts) IBMPC Microsoft Apple II , Atari, Commodore 64 $100 IBM PC, Macintosh $59.95 (Apple. Atari}; $49.95 (Commodore} 384K. graphics adapter card required for IBM The Norton Utilities recover lost data and aid in disk PaperC/ip provides a variety of standard word pro­ $195 (PC); $295 (Macintosh) management. The program, which indexes disk and cessing features and more specific options for each system performance and provides graphic tree dis­ Microsoft ~rks includes applications for word pro­ machine. Phrases, sentences. and blocks of text can plays for directories. can read. write, or modify cessing , database management, spreadsheets. and be moved, copied, and erased, and the whole docu­ ranges of clusters or sectors. Context-sensitive Help communications. The word processor contains a ment can be formatted for printing. A global search­ screens are available online, and batch files are inter­ 100,000-word spelling checker and an Undo com­ and-replace automatically changes words and active. All the utilities can run from one control mand. The spreadsheet has 57 built-in functions and phrases . With the horizontal scrolling, documents program. can produce charts. The database and communica­ can be as wide as 250 columns, and the program of­ ti ons functions handle and transfer large amounts of fers an BO-column video display so that the complete data. page can be viewed . Word processing features in­ clude columns. alphanumeric tabs, built-in arithmetic

·Although this program is not available from the manufacturer. you may be able to find ii through other sources. 58 COMPUTE ! __bu_Jye~ide

functions, headers, footers, automatic page number­ The Oregon Trail provin.g the industry and environment and by building ing, personalized form letters, mailing label and mail· MECC warships. There are four classes of warships, trans­ 1ng list capabilities, and printer commands for Apple II , llGS ports, and explorers. Game options include novas 0 underline, boldface, ital ic, superscripts, and sub­ 64K required natural disasters, solar debris. and xenophobes. A S55 tu­ scripts. The Commodore 64 version includes Spell­ torial is included. pack,. a spelling checker. PaperClip for the Apple Children aged 5 or older can relive the journey West provides macros and one-command access to the on the Oregon Trail while they learn about nineteenth· disk utility menu. The Atari version has dual text win· century American history. Color scenes depict the Sargon Ill dows for transfer of text between files, macro com· rugged landscape, covered wagons, and adventures Hayden Software (Spinnaker Software) Apple II, Commodore 64, IBM, Macintosh mands, Spellpack, and automatic Save. faced by the pioneers. The program also encourages users to practice decision-making and problem­ $39.95 solving skills. This computer chess program contains a library of PFS:Write more than 68,000 opening moves . instructions for Software Publishing novices, and brain-teasing chess problems for every· IBM PC PageMaker one to master. Players can replay 107 of the wor ld 's DOS 2.0 or higher and 512K required Aldus greatest chess matches an d review 45 classic chess $199 Macintosh, IBM PC problems. The program has nine skill levels. The IBM The first word processor in the PFS line, PFS:Write 640K. graphics card, DOS 3.0 or higher required for and Apple versions are on one flippy disk. can be used to generate form letters and documents. PC; System 4.1 or higher, Finder 5.5 or higher, and a hard disk required for Macintosh Data tables, graphs. and additional information can $795 (IBM); $595 (Macintosh) Seven Cities of Gold be added from other programs in the series (such as A desktop publishing package, PageMaker can be Electronic Arts PFS:Report and PFS:Graph). The word processor is Apple II . Atari, Commodore 64 , IBM PC, Macintosh currently marketed as PFS:Professional Write Ver­ used to design and produce documents by combin­ ing text from word processors with graphics from 64K required for Apple sion 2.0. People who own PFS:Write can upg~ade to S14 .95 (Apple II , Atari, Commodore 64, IBMj'C): PFS:Professional Write 2.0 for $50. paint, draw, and clip· art programs. Developed ·or an S19.95 (Macintosh) office setting, PageMaker includes a text edttor and tools to edit data and position graphics. define a for­ An educational adventure game, Seven Cities of Gold mat or layout, and then print out the document. Ver. helps recreate the Spanish exploration of the New Pinball Construction Set World. Players take the part of a conquistador to sion 3.0 is now available for the Macintosh and the Electronic Arts experience the thrills and problems of early explorers Apple II, Atari, Commooore 64, IBM PC, Macintosh IBM PC. $14.95 (Apple II, Atari, Commodore 64 and IBM); such as Cortez and Columbus. Obstacles include fi­ $19.95 (Macintosh) nancing the expedttion, navigation. resource manage· With. Pinball Construction Set, players can build, test, PAL ment. mutiny, disease, and the unpredictable natives. modify, play, and save their own pinball games. The Pro-Line Software Players can explore a variety of geographies in each Commodore 64 game. or they can play on geographically accurate 3- games include bumpers, flippers. springs, and an $19.95 illegal-tilt sensor. Gravity, speed . and scoring can be D maps with real weather conditions. varied to affect the way the game is played . Music Spinnaker PAL (Personal Assembly Language) is a machine language assembler for Commodore 64 and sound effects can also be added to the games. Shanghai This program was the first in the software-construction­ 8000-series, and 9000-se ries computers. It is av~il­ MediaGenic (formerly known as Activision) • set genre. able in The Programmer's Tool Box. from Spinnaker Amiga, Apple II , Apple JIGS, Commodore 64, IBM Software. PC, Macintosh 256K required for IBM: 512K required for Amiga. Apple llGS, and Macintosh The Print Shop Quicken Version 2 Br0derbund $34.95 (Apple II, Commodore 64 , IBM); $39.95 Intuit (Amiga, Macintosh): $44.95 (Apple llGS) Apple II, Atari, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Macintosh IBM PC and PS/2 Shanghai is based on mah-jongg, a game pl ayed by 64K required for Apple; 128K or 256K for color 256K and DOS 2.0 or higher required printing and DOS 2.0 to 3.1 for IBM: 512K for $49.95 the Chinese. Colored tiles are stacked on each other Macintosh; printer for all versions and must be matched and removed accord ing to the Version 2 of this program contains the same check­ $59.95 characters painted on each piece. There are solit aire Cards, flyers, stationery, and signs can be created writ ing and financial-management features offered by and multiple-player options. and printed using The Print Shop. There's an assort· the original version, plus some new capabilities. A ment of pictures, symbols, borders, backgrounds, bill-minder feature reminds the user when it is time to and type fonts and sizes. The graphics and text edi· pay a .bill, and the program can automatically write SideKick tors allow simple changes. The program prints to re curnng chec ks. Financial records can be updated Borland International most pri nters and accepts keyboard , joystick, or whenever a transaction occurs. Reports such as in­ IBM PC, Macintosh come and payroll tax records, budgets, and income 128K and DOS 2.0 or higher required for IBM: mo­ Koala Pad input. The package includes color paper dem optional and envelopes. and expenses can be generated and printed. Version 2 also allows an unlimited number of bank accounts $84.95 (IBM PC); $99.95 (Macintosh) and transactions. The package includes a quick-start­ A collection of desktop accessories, SideKick can be ProComm and-tips card, a manual, sample checks, sample en­ used whi le other programs such as 11.brdStar, Lotus. DataStorm Technologies velopes, and a check and envelope order form. Disks and dBase are running. Files as long as 25 pages can IBM PC are available in 31h-inch or 5'h ·inch format. Free tele­ be entered and edited wtth the full -screen editor. A 192K and DOS 2.0 or higher required phone support is provided. phone directory lists names. addresses, and tele­ $75 phone numbers . With a modem and the autodialer ProComm is a file-transfer system that supports sev· routine, telephone numbers can be located and dialed en protocols, including Kermtt and exploding win­ Reach for the Stars automatically. There is a monthly calendar for the dows. It provides a script language and offers Strategic Studies Group (Electronic Arts) _years 1901-2099, as we ll as an appointment calen­ Apple II , Commodore 64 dar to help the user keep track of meetings and ap· terminal emulation. The current version available is $45 ProComm Plus. pointments. The calculator can perform decimal-to­ One to four players compete to colonize empires in hexidecimal-to-binary conversions as well as standard space. Empires can be built and maintained by im- business computations. An ASC II table is also included. •Atthough this program is not available from the manufacturer, you may be able to find tt through other sources.

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SpeedScript Turbo Lightning Ultima I COMPUTE! Publications Bo rt and Origin Systems Apple II, Atari, Commodore 64 IBMPC Apple II , Commodore 64, IBM PC Varies 256K, DOS 2.0 or higher, and two drives required 64K required for Apple; CGA or EGA cards required SpeedScript is a word processor written in-house at $99.95 for IBM COMPUTE! Publications and published as a type-in Turbo Lightning is a RAM -resident integrated infor­ $39.95 program in magazines and books. It allows users to mation package containing a spelling checker, a the­ In this fantasy adventure, the player searches the write, edit. format. and print documents of all sizes, saurus, and a dictionary. It can be used with word land of Britannia and outer space for clues to defeat from letters to novels. Margins, page length, spacing, processors, databases, or other applications for the evil wizard Mondain. The game is written in as­ page numbers, headers, and footers can be changed whole-page or instant text correction. Words and sembly language for speed and graphics capabilities. or added to the document. Formatting features in­ phrases can be added to the dictionary, and the pro­ The package contains a double-sided disk, four clude pagination , underlining, and centering. Graphics gram recognizes upper-, lower-, and mixed-case maps, a reference card , a manual, and coins of the can be added to the text, and the files can be linked words. It can also provide synonymous or sound­ realm. to print one continuous document. This word pro­ alike words. Additional utilities are provided with the cessing program uses about 6K. It is available as a Turbo Lightning Libraries. Video Works type-in program in book form, on disk, or in book­ Spinnaker and-disk combinations. The price varies according to Apple II, Macintosh Turbo Pascal Not available· published format and machine required. Borland IBMPC An animation program, Videolo1tirks could be used to 128K and DOS 2.0 or higher required create presentations, storybooks, movies, and car­ Star Raiders $99.95 toons. It included drawing tools, artwork. Morials, Atari and examples. Atari, Atari ST The basis of Borland 's Turbo Pascal language-devel­ BK required opment system, Turbo Pascal is a Pascal compiler. $6.95 (Atari); $29.95 {Atari ST) The program offers window procedures, sound, VisiCalc color, graphics, 1/0 redirection, and DOS path sup­ VlsiCorp Star Raiders is an arcade-style game created for the IBMPC original Atari eight-bit machines. The Atarian Federa­ port. Errors can be located and corrected with the Not available· built-in, full -screen editor. MicroCalc, a spreadsheet tion is at war with the Zylon Empire, and the player's VisiCalc one of the early spreadsheet programs program, is also included. was mission is to destroy all the Zylon star ships. There created for use on personal computers. It predated are four mission skill levels. The game is available as Lotus 1-2-3. a plug-in cartridge. Where in the World Is Carmen Summer Games Sandiego? Epyx Br0derbund Commodore 64, Apple II , Atari Apple II and llGS, Commodore 64, IBM PC $19.95 64K required for Apple; 128K required for IBM: joy­ As many as eight players can enter their athletes in stick optional for all versions summer Olympic competition, including swimming., $34.95 (Commodore 64): $39.95 (Apple, IBM) diving, track, skeet shooting, pole vaulting, and The players follow Carmen Sandiego and her gang of gymnastics. thieves around the world , trying to solve mysteries while learning about world geography. The crime computer helps organize the clues, and the lo1tirld Al­ SuperKey manac provides information on the cities and coun­ Borland International tries visited. There are ten suspects in 30 cities, and IBMPC 128K and DOS 2.0 or higher required more than 1000 clues. For children and adults. $99.95 SuperKey is a utility program for the IBM PC and WordPerfect compatibles. It has macro capabilities so that many WordPerfect commands and keystrokes can be consolidated into IBM PC, Macintosh one keystroke. By using the U.S. government data­ 256K, two disk drives and DOS 2.0 or higher re­ quired for IBM encryption standard (DES), personal files can be en­ $395 crypted so no one else can read them. And without Designed originally for the IBM PC, this word proces­ the password, no one can decode the files. For more Wizardry-Proving Grounds of protection, SuperKey can lock the keyboard to pre­ sor contains a thesaurus and a dictionary to check vent access. Another feature automatically turns the the Mad Overlord spelling. Word processing features include automatic Sir-Tech Software formatting, footnotes, endnotes, automatic para­ screen off after a predetermined amount of time to Apple II , IBM PC save wear and tear on the monitors. graphing, outline numbering, indexing, table-of-con­ 48K for Apple; 128K and color graphics card for tents creation, five newspaper-style or parallel IBM $34.95 (Apple): $49.95 (IBM) columns, and a List Files option that permits file op­ ThinkTank erations such as rename, delete, and print without Choosing from five races and eight different profes­ Living Vldeotext (Symantec) leaving the program. Math columns can be added to Apple II , IBM PC and compatibles, Macintosh sions. the player assembles a party of six characters documents and automatically calculated. The merge DOS 2.0 or higher required for IBM: 48K required to explore a ten-level, three-dimensional maze. The feature can be used along with user-defined macros for Apple goal is to find Werdna and retrieve the stolen Amulet. for special functions. Multiple documents can be $195 During the search, characters can gain experience, printed, and the program works with more than 200 An outline processor, ThinkTank integrates word pro­ find treasure, battle dragons, and fight other foes. printers. cessing and graphics capabilities to organize Characters can be transferred to other scenarios. This thoughts and ideas. The ideas can be listed as head­ is the first of a trilogy. ings and subheadings or in paragraph format

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Accolade COMPUTE! Books Lotus Development Quarterdeck Office Systems 550 S. Winchester Blvd. Customer Service 55 Cambridge Pkwy. 150 Pico Blvd. San Jose, CA 95128 P.O. Box 2165 Cambridge, MA 02142 Santa Monica, CA 90405 Radnor , ~ 19089 Aldus MEGA Ventures Sierra On-Line 411 First Ale. S DataStorm Technologies 355 Riverside Ale. P.O. Box 495 Suite 200 2100 E. Broadway Westport. CT 06880 Coarsegold, CA 93614 Seattle, WA 98104 Suite 217 P.O. Box 1471 MECC Sir-Tech Software Apple Computer Columbia, MO 65205 Distribution Center P.O. Box 245 20525 Mariani /we. 3490 Lexington Ale. N Charlestown Ogdensburg Mall Cupertino, CA 95014 Davidson and Associates St. Paul, MN 55126 Ogdensburg, NY 13669 3135 Kashiwa St. Artificial Intelligence Research Group Torrance, CA 90505 Mediagenic Software Publishing 921 N. LaJolla /we. (formerly known as Activision) 1901 Landings Dr. Los Angeles. CA 90046 Digital Research 3885 Bohannon Dr. Mountain VifNI, CA 94043 60 Garden Ct. Menlo Park, CA 94025 Ashton-Tate Monterey, CA 93942 Spectrum HoloByte 20101 Hamilton Ale. MicroPro International 2061 Challenger Dr. Torrance, CA 90502-1319 Digital Solutions 33 San Pablo Ive. Suite 325 2-30 Wertheim Ct. San Rafael, CA 94903 Alameda, CA 94501 Atari Richmond Hill, Ontario 1196 Borregas Ive. Canada L4B 1B9 MicroProse Spinnaker Software P.O. Box 3427 180 Lakefront Dr. One Kendall Sq. Sunnyvale, CA 94088 Dragonfl y Software Hunt Valley, MD 21030 Cambridge, MA 02139 285 W. Broadway Berkeley Softworks Suite 500 Microsoft Springboard Software 2150 Shattuck Ale. New York. NY 10013 16011 N.E. 36th Wy. 7808 Creekridge Cir. Berkeley, CA 94704 Box 97017 Minneapolis. MN 55435 Electronic Arts Redmond, WA 98073-9717 Borland International 1820 Gateway Dr. Strategic Stu dies Group 4585 Scotts Valley Dr. San Mateo, CA 94404 Mindscape 1747 Orleans Ct. Scotts Valley, CA 95066 3444 Dundee Rd . Walnut Creek, CA 94598 Epyx Northbrook, IL 60062 Brnderbund P.O. Box 8020 Symantec 17 Paul Dr. 600 Galveston Rd. Origin Systems 10201 Torre Ale. San Rafae l, CA 94903 Redwood City, CA 94063 340 Harvey Rd . Cupertino, CA 95014 Manchester, NH 03103 Claris Hazox White Crane Systems 440 Clyde /:we . P.O. Box 637 Peter Norton Computing Suite 151 Mountain Vif!N, CA 94043 Chadds Ford , ~ 19317 100 Wilshire Blvd. 6889 Peachtree Ind. Blvd. Suite 900 Norcross, GA 30092 Commodore Business Machines Intuit Santa Monica. CA 90401 1200 Wilson Dr. 540 University Ive. WordPerfect West Chester, ~ 19380 Palo Alto. CA 94301 Professional Software (PSI) 288 W. Center St. 51 Fremont St. Orem, UT 84057 Needham. MA 02194

Word Pro WordStar Professional Zorkl Professional Software MicroPro Solid Gold Software (Mediagenic, formerly known CBM/PET IBMPC as Activision) Not available· Requires 384K or 512K with graphics card: EGA, Apple II, IBM PC WordPro was copyrighted in 1980 for the CBM/ PET CGA. VGA. or monochrome $14.95 computers. It was a word processing program with $495 In this interactive-fiction game, the player travels to editing, mail-merge, and printout capabilities. It was First introduced in 1979, WordStaris a word pro­ the ruins of an ancient empire far underground to designed to create multiple-page documents, form cessing program containing a spelling corrector, mail search for the treasures of Zork. letters , and mailing lists. PSI has replaced WordPro merge, a thesaurus, and indexing capabilities. The with the Fleet System products. most recent version is WordStar 5.0. Updates are available for $119.

·Although this program is not available from the manufacturer, you may be able to find it through other sources. [!I SEPTEMBER l 9 8 8 61 II REVIEWS

With a text or graphics screen dis­ played on yo ur monitor, you simply press the program's hot key to invoke Inset and grab the image. Inser presents a menu on the bottom of yo ur screen, with options to view a screen. save the current screen. edit the screen, print a screen, or get help. You can use your cursor keys or a mouse to select an option. Saving a screen is as easy as giving Inset the Save command and typing a filename. If yo u want to modify the im­ age before you save it l11Ser places a va­ Each month, "Fast Looks" offers up riety of commands at your disposal. Yuck It Up, Paint snapshots of the newest software and Perhaps the most important. are the Ink hardware for the Amiga Apple II. Atari commands. which control the way the Pretty Pictures, ST. Commodore 64/128. IBM PC. and screen's colors are printed on a black­ Macintosh lines of personal computers. and-white printer. Ink provides several Delve into These capsule reviews look at notable standard color mappings that print the programs and peripherals, products screen image as is, reverse the light and which have just arrived in our offices dark values or print a black-and-white Dungeons, Fly and which haven't yet been fully image. lfthe standard mappings don't evaluated. produce exactl y the printout yo u need, Invisibly over "Fast Looks'' gives you glimpses of there's a command that lets yo u selec­ important and interesting software and ti vely map each screen color to each hardware now. not next month. printer gray le vel. For complex color Enemy Territory, images. this command is a must. You can use lnser simply to grab Work Hard with screens and print them, but th e pro­ Inset gram's real power comes into play Words, Catch when yo u incorporate yo ur grabbed im­ lnser may be the easiest way on the ages into word processing documents. planet to break into desktop publishing. Merging text and graphics couldn't be Kidnappers in With l11Sef resident in your IBM PC's easier. All you do is place the name ofa memory. you can grab tex t or graphics saved sc ree n within brackets in the text the Big City, and screens, edit them, and insert them into at the spot where you want the screen word processing documents. printed. When it 's time to print, you Read All About It Installing lnser is easy. You simply use yo ur word processor's print com­ type INSET at the DOS command line mand. Inset monitors the output and prompt. The first time you run the pro­ prints the specified screen when it gram. you go through an installation comes to the name in brackets. procedure. The program asks you to an­ l 11Ser may not give yo u the power swer several questions about yo ur vi deo of some dedicated desktop publishing setup and printer, suggesting choices packages, but it provides all the tools when possible. You also have the op­ you need to produce first-class docu­ portunity to change defaults (such as ments that mix tex t and graphics. the hot key that invokes the program) - CK during setup. When yo u've finished the setup procedure, l11Sef installs itself as a IBM PC and compatibles-$99.00 memory-resident utility, taking up Inset Systems Mill Plain Ad. about I 37K of memory. If you decide Danbury. CT 06811 to alter your configuration later. yo u (203) 794-0396 I> can in voke a separate program.

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Not happy The program presents you with 14 with the way something looks? Resize command options. You choose one, an­ it, change the font, or reshape the layout swer some questions about the com­ and see it on the screen. There are are mand, and, presto change-o, you have a four views to choose from ranging program statement. You can't encoun­ from full-page to twice the actual docu­ ter synt;ix errors because Eiig•Laii' ment size. Publisher ST can handle Long-range contact has been made be­ types the command for you. practically all your desktop publishing tween the League and the Republic in For example, you choose an IF­ tasks. Newsletters, brochures, term pa­ Stellar Crusade. THEN statement by hitting the I key. pers, catalogs, leaflets, advertisements, Eiig•Laii' responds with a smaller labels, and almost anything else can be The time is the distant future, the group of options. You can choose from created with just a little imagination. setting a cluster of stars inhabited by different types of comparative state­ two cultures: one a corporate system, ments: IF variable 1 equals variable 2, the other based upon religious fanati­ IF variable 1 is greater than variable 2, cism. Players must plant colonies, de­ and so on. After you've chosen one, velop resources, and position war fleets Eiig•Laii' offers a choice of variables and assault troops to counter the for the statement. Finally the statement Tilneworks Desktop growth of the opposition. appears in your program listing. Stellar Crusade offers several levels You can edit programs by choosing PUBLISHER _ of play. At its simplest level, this is a View Or Change from the options. An­ strategy game in which task forces are other option reads from a file, and still moved about a stellar map over the another runs the program. There are course of four years, with each turn rep­ commands which display characters resenting three months. At its most and commands which erase characters. complex, the game spans decades, and You don't even have to remember the each turn calls for economic, explora­ commands because they're on the tion, and military decisions and invest­ screen. ... ments, as well as starship and weapons This process saves you from those . .: ". design and configuration. A variety of hours of frustration spent wrestling • • W.I II• I \,/ tl --·~ ·-· .. , scenarios provide for games that last with syntax and rules. Eiig•Lan' can't lh .... , •t I , .... l•••tU.•ol,.•• anywhere from a couple of hours to as prevent yo u from making logical errors, many as 40 hours. however. No programming language Although this is not a graphics can do that. But you'll be able to con­ game, its graphics are excellent. The centrate on correcting your errors in Publlsher ST is a full-featured desktop publishing program which takes full ad­ basic star map of the cluster is quite logic not format, because Eiig•Laii' vantage of the ST's graphics abilities. convincing; icons are used to good ef­ takes care of some of the more tedious fect for deriving information about con­ tasks. trol of various star systems. Eiig•Laii' won't be your last pro­ Best of all, Publisher ST takes full A menu-driven interface makes gramming language; after a while, you'd advantage of all the built-in graphics ca­ getting to know Stellar Crusade's me­ need a more complex language because pabilities of the Atari ST. The main in­ chanics simple and efficient. The docu­ this package isn't powerful enough for terface includes four modes: text, mentation is thorough without being building applications and games. paragraph, drawing, and layout. You ex haustive or exhausting. Reminiscent -HA can import text from any ASCII-based in some ways ofSSG's Reach for the word processor (or use the accompany­ Stars, Stellar Crusade has more than a IBM PC with at least 256K-$49 ing converter program to change the few original and thoughtful touches, Gentry Software P.O. Box 4485 file's format) and import graphics from making it one of the more mature SF Springfield, MO 65808 Easy-Draw, NEOchrome, or DEGAS. games seen lately. (800) 346-9475 The program works in color or mono­ -KF (800) 634-8439 in Missouri chrome. As for printing Publisher ST drives practically any printer you

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have-dot-matrix or laser-including also available. A86 is distributed as by heartless banker I. Fleecem. all Epson-compatibles and the Apple shareware, so you can try the program Ma, the widowed orphanage owner, LaserWriter series, or any other Post­ before you pay for it. weeps helplessly. Her charges are going script-compatible printer. -JS to be cast into the streets ofStoogeville. Timeworks has a solid product No true Stooge could let that happen. here. If you do desktop publishing on IBM PC and compatible computers-$50 registra­ Our boys take to the streets to earn the tion fee the ST, you won't find a more appeal­ money to save Ma and the kids from Eric Isaacson ing package. 416 E. University St. homelessness. They only have 30 days -DF Bloomington, IN 47401 before Ma loses everything, and the (812)339-1811 boys lose their chance to marry Ma's Atari ST with at least 512K-$129.95 gorgeous daughters. "Hiya Toots!" Timeworks The money is earned the way 444 Lake Cook Rd. Contributing to " Fast Looks" this month Deerfield, IL 60015 were Heidi Aycock, Keith Ferrell. David Flor­ you'd expect the Stooges to earn mon­ (312) 948-9200 anca. Cli fton Karnes, and John Shadle. ey. The boys move through the streets ofStoogeville in search of opportunity. What they find is something else. The Macro Assembler A86 town is set up like a board game, with various competitions derived from Programming 8088 assembly language classic Stooge nicks. Players put the trio (the native language of the IBM PC and TheThree through their paces in pie fights, boxing compatibles) isn't for everyone. It's for • Stooges rings slapping and eye-gouging con­ those who are willing to spend hours tests, vicious bowls of oyster stew, and staring at a few lines of code with the Breathes there a player with soul so a wild gurney race through crowded fervent conviction that the bug will be dead who never to himself has said: hospital corridors. "Calling Dr. How­ found. Assembly language can be ex­ " Hey, Moe! Yabibibibi! Nyuk! Nyuk! ard! Dr. Fine! Dr. Howard!" tremely frustrating, and it demands un­ Nyuk!" The Stooges have arrived on Contests are selected via an icon­ limited patience. But its speed borders disk. driven interface that represents the next on the miraculous· you can do with it High time, too. After a decade of six squares in the game board. Hit the what can't be done with any high-level Pac-Men. Boulder Dash-ers Mario right square, and you get the chance to language. Once you've learned assem­ brothers,' and others, we finally have the make some bucks; the wrong square bly language, you have the power to trio of characters who patented their costs you time. The contests become speak to the microprocessor in its na­ own form of arcade action half a centu­ progressively more difficult, and more tive tongue. ry ago. Arcade action? "Why soitanly!" profitable, as you move farther into the If you're ready to take the plunge Think about it. A typical Stooges town. into learning 8088 assembly language, short placed Larry, Moe, and Curly in a All of the events are well realized. A86, Eric Isaacson's shareware assem­ race against time or circumstance, dur­ Larry's race to fetch the violin whose bler is an excellent choice, primarily ing which they overcame-or over­ " Pop Goes the Weasel" can turn Curly because it avoids many of the complex­ whelmed-a variety of obstacles at a into a boxer rather than a boxee comes ities of the Microsoft Macro Assembler breathless pace. from the short Punch Drunks, and it (MASM). MASM was created to write But how much of the Stooges can makes good use ofa split screen. Hai massive programs-the MS-DOS oper­ actually be captured on disk? Quite a Poloi's famous pie fight at a society lun­ ating system, for example- and is bit. Cinemaware has taken the time and cheon puts you right in the midst of fly­ amazingly full-featured and powerful. trouble to put together a game that ing meringue. The gurney race from But few c,!" us need MASM's power or looks li ke the Stooges, sounds like the Men in Black-the very first film the its complexity. Stooges-thanks to digitization of mu­ Stooges made for Columbia-might While A86 is ideal for beginners. sic, sound effects, and actual dialogue make you forget other racing games. it's by no means a limited assembler. It from Three Stooges films-and most The slapping sequence (" Look at the has full macro capabilities compatible important.feels like the Stooges. ground!") comes from all the shorts. with MASM-in fact, it can assemble This Stooge-esque sensibility ("Oh, The oyster stew is just as aggressive many source files written for MASM a wise guy huh?") nows from the mo­ here as it was in Dutiful but Dumb. with few or no changes in the code. It ment the game is booted. In fact , the Animation is superb throughout: can produce .COM files directly with­ opening credits deliver not only the The boys move realistically past well­ out using LINK and EXE2BIN, or, al­ nostalgic atmosphere of a Stooges short, rendered backdrops, with pratfalls, ternatively it can produce .OBJ files complete with theme song, but also an pokes, and punches reminiscent of the that are linkable with the linker on your unexpected yuk or two. real thing. The game is stunning on the DOS disk. It even assembles 80286 pro­ In true Three Stooges fashion , the Amiga, and the IBM version contains tected-mode mnemonics. setup follows immediately after the some of the smoothest animation ever A86 is blazingly fast because it's a credits. Plot in this interactive "movie" seen on that machine. one-pass assembler, and because it's is about the same as plot in one of the As the historical documentation written in assembly language itself It three-some's short films: There's an ob­ notes, sound-effects man Joe Henrie assembles a source file in a fraction of jective that Larry, Moe, and Curly must was in essence the fourth Stooge. the time required by MASM. A86's doc­ achieve. (Doink! Twink! Crunch!} Sound effects umentation which includes both tuto­ Part of the Stooges' success was and music play a large part in the game rial and reference sections, comes on that they were such nice guys, always as well. The sound track includes the disk, so you have to print it your­ out to help the underdog. Here, it's an "Three Blind Mice," and the ''Alphabet self D86, an interactive debugger, is orphanage under threat of foreclosure Song" which, although the lyrics are 66 CO MPU T E ! El REVIEWS

The Graphics mouse button from tool palettes at the top and bottom of the screen. Experi­ • Studio enced Amiga users will find it discon­ certing at first to make menu choices Joining the recent spate of new paint with the left button. Nor are there any programs is The Graphics Studio, from drawing operations that use the right Accolade, an inexpensive, entry-level button, as in most other paint pro­ paint program that gives good value for grams. In the drawing area, the right the price. While not providing the latest button is used solely to hide and show and most advanced paint program fea­ the menu bar and palettes. Also, Graph­ tures (stenciling, perspective, dithering, ics Studio doesn't multitask, as well­ and the like), Graphics Studio offers behaved Amiga productivity software most of the standard drawing and should. It takes over the entire machine Nyukl Nyukl Nyukl The Three Stooges painting tools, including freehand and so that you can't run other programs at turns you into Curly (and Moe and Larry). straight lines; outlined and filled the same time. And it has some of the shapes; custom brushes; text, magnify, sluggish feel of IIGS graphics software; unfortunately not included in the docu­ and grid tools; extensive color palette requester boxes take a Jong time to ap­ mentation, went something like, " B - A controls; a pattern menu; cut-and-paste pear, and drawing thick patterned lines (bay), B - E (bee), B - I (bicky, bye), operations; and a spare page (called the is slow. The version I tested contained B - 0 (bo), bicky-bye-bo, B - U (boo), Clipboard). Tools and options are one unusual bug-the pattern-edit re­ bicky-bye-bo-boo." Sing along with the available with an easy-to-learn, point­ quester box sometimes left a ghost im­ Stooges! and-click interface that mixes Amiga age on my picture after I closed the box. There's Three Stooges dialogue, conventions with those native to the too. Having Moe Howard's voice com­ Apple IIGS, for which this program was ing from a computer was entertaining first written. in and of itself having his voice part of Pictures can be drawn on an 81/2 X a delightful game for the whole famil y 11 inch page in the Amiga's lo-res (320 was an experience I wouldn't have X 200 pixels) and hi-res (640 X 200 missed. While the dialogue is excellent pixels) screen modes. The current ver­ on the Amiga, 64, and 128 it leaves sion of Graphics Studio doesn't access something to be desired on IBM com­ the lo-res interlace (320 X 400), hi-res patibles, although the Tandy three­ interlace (640 X 400), HAM (hold-and­ voice machine does a good job of modify), or overscan screen modes. A letting the Stooges talk. Show Page option lets you see a small­ Naturally, this much game, graph­ scale image of the entire page on the ics, sound, and music is disk-intensive, screen. Pictures are saved in the stand­ ard IFF graphic file format, so you can wit h swapping and accessing slowing Computer painting is made simple with things down somewhat. On the other load yo ur Graphics Studio pictures into Graphics Studio. hand ("How many fingers?"), I found Amiga wo rd processors, desktop video the action and humor well worth the and desktop publishing software, and Some basic aspects of the program wait. other paint programs. need more polish. During cut-and-paste The Three Stooges are naturals for Some nice features that don't ap­ operations, you select a cut tool and de­ software entertainment, and their arriv­ pear on other Amiga paint programs fine the area you want to cut by draw­ al is one of the high points of the sea­ are a rounded-rectangle drawing tool; ing a box around it on the screen. You son. Cinemaware has done well by the automatic concentric rectangles and cir­ can then drag the cut area anywhere sainted Larry, Moe, and Curly, and all cles; a tool for drawing visible grids; in­ else on the screen and stamp down a of their fans, delivering a game that re­ stant drop shadows cast at any angle copy. One of the commonest uses for creates the Stooges as well as paying and distance; an Apple-style scroll bar cut-and-paste is to stamp down multi­ homage to them. What more can be for moving around on the page; and ple copies of the cut area-for example, said but, "Ruff! Ruff! Whoo! Whoo! versatile color cycli ng that lets you cycle to create a rose bush from a single Whoo!" through 32 full-color palettes at selecta­ painting ofa rose. To facilitate this, - Keith Ferrell ble speeds (especially useful for animat­ most paint programs keep the cut area ing). Included with Graphics Studio is a in memory so that yo u can paste down slide-show program that will show your multiple copies with just a click of the pictures in any sequence you define, mouse. With Graphics Studio, however, using a simple script language detailed you can only paste down one copy at a The Three Stooges in Graphics Studio's adequate but unin­ time; to make multiple copies, yo u first For ... dexed manual. have to choose the L (Last Copy) op­ Amiga-$49.95 Commodore 64/128-$34.95 Due to its origins as an Apple IIGS tion from the cut-and-paste menu each IBM PC and compatible with CGA or program, Graphics Studio doesn't al­ time. Another minor annoyance is the EGA-$49.95 ways fo llow the Amiga interface. For behavior of the pointer. It doesn't change From ... example, the program contains two shape to indicate which tool yo u are Cinemaware kinds of menus: a menu bar that is op­ using, and it disappears for seconds at a 4165 Thousand Oaks Blvd. erated with the right mouse button in time while some operations are taking Westlake Village. CA 91362 (805)495-6515 the standard Amiga manner, and icon place, leaving you to wonder whether menus that are operated with the left the program has locked up. Friendly S E P T E M B E R 1 9 8 8 67 II REVIEWS COMPUTE! Publications software shoul d display a wristwatch or outlaws and other characters will join Back Issues/ other time-related cursor to let you you r party. You can have six characters know the computer is working. in your pany, which is more manage­ Disk Orders Overall, Graphics Studio rates a able than the eight required to complete mixed review. It is inexpensive, simple Ultima IV Individual back copies of maga­ to use, and contains fea tures that other The game assumes yo u've already attained Avatar status. An Avatar is zines and disks are available by Amiga paint programs don't. But it is someone who has earned a high status mail only while quantities last. slow, doesn't fully use the Amiga inter­ face, and has some annoying design by embodyi ng the vinues required in Please clip or photocopy, and flaws. Still, if you are in the market for a Viti ma I V. The same eight virtues you mail completed coupon and low-cost paint program, you should mastered in Viti ma I V must be adhered to here. but there are also Shards of check to: take a good look at Graphics Studio. - Steven An:ovin Cowardice, Falsehood, and other unvir­ tuous qualities to round up. You're al­ COMPUTE! lowed to use an Avatar from that game. Single-Copy Sales It's not necessary to have played Ulti­ P.O. 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But many of the ani­ Issue Magazine facts needed to complete the game are OJantity (Month/Year) or Disk Name Price· hidden there. By chatting with people in Brit­ tania, you can learn the exact location Ultima V: of these items before entering the Un­ derworld. As in Viti ma I V. yo u may en­ Warriors of gage townspeople in conversation by Destiny typing single words that often elicit • clues. Sometimes they'll send yo u to Return to Britannia and ex plore a new find a character in another pan of town underworld in Ultima V: Warriors of or across the ocean. Sailboats, horses, Destiny as yo u search for the missing and Moon Gates for teleportation are Lord British. agai n the main transponation modes. Unlike previous installments in There aren't as many people to talk to the Ultima series, Ultima V doesn't in­ as there were in Ulti111a I V. and they don't have as much to say, probably be­ SUBTOTAL: troduce an entirely new fantasy wo rld. 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graphics eliminates the blocky stair­ case-look of rivers and oceans where they meet the edge ofland. The runic letters that appear in all the Ultimas have an even more impor­ tant role in this adventure because yo u must learn to read them to understand the frequent signs at crossroads and other locations. The lavish documenta­ tion provides an easy-to-follow transla­ tion. When you read a sign, its picture and runic message appear in the text display. But the biggest change brings day Characters can cast spells during combat EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE and night to the world ofUltima. As in Ult/ma V. time passes light wanes and visibility Make Leaming Come Alive! It's fun and often-<:opied game system, so those un­ exciting when you use this Commodore decreases. More significantly, the intro­ familiar with the prior games will find Logo Educational Software. 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While all program activities rein­ come familiar with the vocabulary used Read 'n Roll force reading-comprehension skills, one in the passages. If players choose Strike in particular deserves special mention. 'n Spare after they've read the passages, A new reading program bowls a strike It's an arcadelike game called Strike 'n they can test their knowledge of the on skills improvement and doesn't Spare. Students try to define words dur­ words. Instructors can use the program spare the fun , either. ing a bowling match. For correct an­ editor to customize onscreen sentences. Read 'n Roll combines entenain­ swers players can control an animated Strike 'n Spare teaches vocabulary and ment with drill and practice in basic bowler-hence the name Read 'n Roll. spelling without being overly pedantic. reading skills. It offers 320 reading pas­ The four other activities work dif­ sages for children in grades 3-6, di vided ferently from Strike 'n Spare. Students according to grade le vel. Each level has ,--. read passages and then answer multi­ 80 stories. There is also a program edi­ ple-choice questions about what they've tor to help teachers create original ~· · I just read. Correct choices are rewarded exercises. ,~ with a colorful, animated graphic (a girl The more children read, the more whizzing by on a skateboard, a single­ their comprehension skills develop. v \ engine airplane zipping upward, a When they work through passages in bright orange car or a red fire engine Read 'n Roll they get practice in one of zooming along, a rolling bowling ball, five reading-enrichment areas: identify­ and more). Unfortunately, with a digi­ ing the main idea, recalling specific de­ ~ tal RGB monitor on an Apple Ile, you tails, remembering a sequence of get only a dull gray monochrome, and events, reading betwee n the lines, and the graphics are difficult to see. Com­ building a vocabulary. Passages focus Read 'n Roll uses bowling as a setting for posite monitors, however, offer color on one comprehension skill at a time reading-improvement drills. graphics. There's no problem with an so teachers can better assess each stu­ analog RGB monitor on an Apple IlGS. dent's strengths and weaknesses. Since The game is a lot of fun . It uses Each animated graphic is accom­ each acti vity concentrates on building a words from one or all of the other activ­ panied by an encouraging message such single skill, it's not necessary to follow ities and operates at each student's as "You're flying high," " Moving right the menu options in any panicular reading level. If the game is played pri­ along," or "Awesome job." There's also order. or to the other activities, children be- some audio reinforcement. Much to the

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ot notes and reorganize at wil l. Mold •Word-processed assignments always look and refine sentences for the perfect ef­ good when completed. Once students see fect. Replace weak words. Juggle para­ how well their work can look they begin to 0 J I graphs. Correct, improve, and enhance until take greater pride in themselves and their Shakespeare blushes. writing. And when th e writi ng process is all fin­ •Word processing turns the usually tedious is hed, computer print looks crisp and neat process of rewriting into a pleasant (and ef­ and clean, while pens produce a scrawl of fic ient) experience. messy goo. Such benefits can hardly go •Better-wri tten work means greater success. Put a Word unseen. In school, that translates into higher Questions ofliterary talent aside. quill grades. In business. it may mean landing a Processor in pens and their modern-day counterparts better job or earning a promotion. don't stand a chance agai nst today's power­ •Perhaps most important of all: Computers the Hands of a ful word processors. No other applications make writing fun! Reluctant writers fre­ software has achieved such uni versal accep­ quentl y change their attitude when they tance in business. When was the last time learn how easy it is to produce '"publish­ Child and you saw a traditional typewriter in the press­ able" material. room of your local newspaper? Or at yo ur School success hinges on the ability to Watch Writing lawyer's office? produce understandable and legible written But wo rd processing software can do work. Few skills can claim greater im por­ Soar to New much more than assist in the office. For tance from kindergarten to graduate school. thousands of Americans, it could radically Those who cannot write face constant frus­ Heights change li ves. Word processing holds great tration and failure. promise for those who struggle with writing­ That need not happen. Excellent word related learning difficulties. processing software is avail able fo r every Various sources estimate th is group to personal computer. If you don't already be anywhere from I 0 to 30 perce nt of the have the softwa re look for something that population. Do yo u know a child who reads includes a built-in spelling checker or one several grades below the expected level. in that is compatible wi th a stand-alone check­ spite of diligent efforts to improve? Or er. The best programs accommodate chil­ someone who si mply cannot spell ? Do letter dren and adults alike-nothing too simple, reversals crop up regularly in yo ur child's nothing too complicated. Space prevents a work-saw for was, b ford? listing of recommendations here, but good If not, here ends th.is column. If so, advice is available in COMPUTE! magazine please consider the following personal obser­ software reviews. from knowledgeable vations based on several years of watchi ng frie nds. and from appropriate school students struggle with these very real and personnel. debilitating problems. Nothing scienti fic, One more thing: Don't rely on local mind yo u-just a few thoughts and musings. schools in this matter. Some teachers still • People who fa il to recognize spelling errors distrust technology, and those teachers who in their own handwriting oft en spot and recognize its benefits may nevertheless find correct them when they sec their work on a access to the lab limited. screen. Perhaps this happens because on­ Word processing is computer-intensive. screen letters are more clearly recognizable. It requires several hours of wri ting and re­ Regardless of the reason, spelling improves visi ng to produce each essay. Unfortunately when students compose on computers. most school districts have too few machines • Spelling checkers further refine processed to handle th is demand. If yo u want the job text. Though some teachers have opposed done, at least for now. you II have to do it the use of such software in the past. a re­ you rself. cent study at the Uni versity of Oregon Will it work for yo ur famil y? Maybe. found that the use of spelling checkers has Maybe not. Anyone who works with people no negative effect on spelling performance. knows the difficulty of predicting human be­ • Although grammar checkers are still quite havior. Ifit does work, though, it could primitive, they do assist with homonym er­ change so meone's life. El rors of the 100. to. and two va ri ety. Many even offer advice on punctuation, cliche David Stanton can be contacted via CompuServe avoidance, and other typical wri ting (72407,102) or by mail at P.O. Box 494, Bolivar, problems. New York 14715.

80 COMPUTE processor and a graphics package. ··we've taken a lot of cus­ tomer feedback and put that into improving our package," Lee Lievano said. Lievano is vice president of marketing at Berkeley Softworks. "We've taken input from a variety of sources," he said. Those sources include custom­ er response and suggestions, comments in user-group publi­ cations, and in-house develop­ ment by product engineers. Besides the new features, GEOS 2.0 sports new possibili­ ti es for old fri ends. The new deskTop adds the 1581, a 31/i­ inch disk dri ve, to its list of supported storage devices. The graphics interface supports two disk drives and a RAM Expan­ for game publishers. According sion Unit. You can perform to some sources, Nintendo has will grow up to become per­ GEOS Turns Two file operations on more than authorized production, on the sonal computer buyers, and one file at a time, and you can average, ofonly 25 percent of carry their thirst for games G EOS 2.0, the newly announced retrieve the last file you tossed the number of cartridges re­ with them to the more power­ ve rsion for the Commodore 64, in the wastebasket. quested by publishers. ome ful machines. In other words, features new tools and in­ geoWritc flexes new mus­ publishers are ge11ing a far though sales of the intendo creased capabilities, said Berke­ cles: individual paragraph for­ higher percentage of requested system, and others like it, may ley oftworks president Brian matting, four text-alignment production levels, while others dent the rise in personal com­ Dougherty at the June Com­ choices, decimal tabs, search are getting next to nothing. puter entertainment software, puter Electronics Show. and replace, and full-page pre­ Millions of dollars of potential it's only a temporary problem. The upgrade should view are only some of the en­ sales arc going 10 be lost. The pragmatists, on the other please seasoned GEOS users hancements. Using the new Everyone involved in the hand, simply wan t to make because of the new features: a Paint Drivers, you can create current game-system craze is money whi le there's money 10 keeping at least one eye on the be made, either by investing sales curves. With figures from directly in the cartridge busi­ the last game system go-round ness, as Activision has done, in front of th em, some publish­ or by licensing successful ers (a nd probably intcndo as games to others. as Epyx has we ll ) arc wondering when the done with its popular Califor­ bo11om will fall out. When sys­ nia Games (licensed to Milton tem penetration reaches satu­ Bradley). ration level, the theory goes. Still others believe that th ings will start to unravel. the way to beat intendo is t intendo had a big yea r in market high-quality games o 1987: will 1988 be th e top of disk-a medium that doesn't the wave, with everything else rely on RAM chips. Tai to, the simply downhill? Some pub­ Japanese arcade-machine gi­ lishers believe 1988 will see the ant. is one such believer. It's Christmas of Nintendo, its bringing a half-dozen of its high-water mark. Others think top-night arcade games to that the pent-up demand for di k-depcndcnt computers games due to the RAM short­ such as the Commodore 64. age will postpone the inevita­ the IBM PC, the Commodore spelling checker. mail merge. a columns and borders and in­ ble until 1989. Amiga, and the Atari ST, file converter, a laser-printer clude graphics wi th text. The effect on personal before it takes them to the Nin­ driver, and more power for The upgrade 10 geoPaint computers and personal com­ tendo. One Taito source said older tools. People who arc adds more control over graph­ puter entertainment-software the company wanted Nintendo new to the Commodore 64 wi ll ics creation. For example, you publishers? Again, mixed an­ to .. si t up and take notice" of appreciate the completeness of can stretch and scale photo swers. The optimists believe games going first to personal the package-besides the oper­ scraps, use transparent paint­ that game-system purchasers computers. - Gregg Kei::er ating system, you get a word brushes to create overlay ef-

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feels. and constrain shapes 10 "We're going 10 continue According 10 David Morse, perfectly proportioned circles to improve the existing prod­ CEO ofEpyx, the new financ­ or squares. uct line. That's where we'll be ing will go to the new division For people who already concentrating," Lievano said. si nce the entertainment-soft­ own the old version of GEOS, - Heidi E. H. Aycock ware side of the company is the upgrade costs $29.95, in­ self-funding. cluding shipping and handling. The financing is com-· and can be obtained from Epyx Gets the ing from both current Berkeley Softworks, 21 SO Shat­ Gold, Heads for and new investors, tuck Avenue. Berkeley, Cali­ and is nearly fornia 94694; (415) 644-0883. Hardware double the $4.3 The retail price ofGEOS2.0 is Epyx, one of the country's million brought $59.95. leading entertainment-soft­ in when the Another announcement ware publishers, is pulling in company sought publicized the new, lower price $8 million in new financing its initial round on geoP11blish. Berkeley from several venture-capital of venture capital Softworks' desktop publishing groups in an effort to make it­ in 1979. Although Morse consumer-clectron.ics division package. The price will come self a $100 million/ year com­ would not specify exact fig­ is working on an as-yet-undis­ down from $69.95 to $49.9 5. pany by 1990. ures, he did say that the new fi. closed hardware product. Ear­ Lievano said Berkeley Best known for sports and nancing was buying control of lier this year it was thought Softworks had been working action games aimed at teen­ less than 30 percent ofEpyx. that the unveiling would hap­ hard to reach more home com­ agers, an entertainment catego­ What will the money be pen late this summer. but puter users with GEOS and as­ ry personified by its popular used for? One thing is cer­ that's been pushed back to sociated products. For the California Games. Epyx last tain-Epyx is staying with January 1989 at th e earliest. future, the company will de­ year launched a consumer­ what it knows best. Morse "A lot of the $8 million is velop its product line to make electronics division by an­ claimed that his company going into that [hardware it more useful for both experi­ nouncing three VCR games "reall y understands entertain­ product] ... "Morse said. enced users and novices. and two audiocassette games. ment for teenagers and young And that was all he would say. adults." and said that he Taking a $27 million "doesn't sec a lot of potential (Epyx's income in 1987) com­ HIGHLAND DISKETTES for productivity software." pany to$ I 00 million in just Manufactured by 3M Part of the money will un­ over two years would seem de­ lo meet your needs ... doubtedly be used to market pendent on hardware, not sim­ the existing VCR games­ ply computer software and VCR California Games. VCR VCR games. But if hardware it Economical dlakene backed by 3M's reputallon lor quallly and rellablllly. Golf, and VCR Play Acrion is. what is that hardware? Polished media sur1ace lor consistent read/wrhe performance. Foorba/1-and the audiocas­ Epyx's considerable tal­ Precision punched center hole lor perfect medla-10-head alignment. sel!e games-Head-on Base­ ents lie in the area offast­ ~a ball and Head-011 Foorbal/. A paced games for young people. '""5-1/4"'"· ,DlaketlH... ,...... ,...... ",.. ,.. "· - ~ $4 million ad campaign is That's the same group which Save 35% off List Price scheduled for print in maga­ makes up the huge audience (10/Box) Mln. 100 dllka. Olacot.nl al 300 chka zines such as Sports Illustrated for dedicated game systems SSD0... 47oard and a polyalhylono and ESPN. A current cam­ lndudes rldouablt putic bag for 1dded film llnlng provide txctllent prot ection paign is airing on MTV. that some claim Amiga ver­ pr0tlle1ion. For UH In the most demandtng from bending, dust, 11atic and mol1l.Jr1. Morse said that the VCR sions of arcade-machine games H°'dl L4" to IVM cbkattes and can ba uUld maYlng 1l... Uon1 r-\-n look better on the Amiga than For ono 5.:15" dlkotto ~ wtt'I 1 poatll mater mactine. Adhesive ltned game market is potentially nap tor HCtllent dowre and a perfor11ed huge-$100 million a year. "I they do on th e arcade box. (In strip tor easy opering. a supplemental note, Epyx re­ Order No. 1·991. 10+88. Order No 1·9ea. 10.ea. would expect we would be the 00297 $1.75 $1 .20 12329 .ISC .65C leading player in that market a cently hired Ri chard Rice, for­ merly with Commodore­ Plus Shi Ing a Han Ing year from now." he said at the June Consumer Electronics Amiga. where he implemented Coll For FAE£ Calalog Cluali1y COfT!lUlk "'Wlios Show. production of the Amiga 1000 For•vi Jnql.JMs lrMNd P\H .. Mention ArN. 1(::94 in Japan.) MirimlXTl O.dllr: S50.00. No SIXcharga lor VISA/MC. COO : (add'I $4 .00) payment wilh cash, But Morse and Epyx obvi­ cor'lftad ched<, money ordat. Ml Ro9danl5 add 4% tax . Sci'<>ol Purchase Ortlofs Wolcomo. ously have their eyes set on What ifEypx puts the two PritH l<.tljoct lo ch'"9". more than just VCR games. together? A 16-bit, dedicated Morse. who cofoundcd Amiga game system as powerful and in 1982 and sold it to Commo­ graphically advanced as the Amiga running hot teenage Precision Data Products™ ffi dore two years later. has expe­ games. 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con1in11ed from page 88 eight-bit titles has waned. Entertainment Rambo, Predator, Platoon, Robocop, and software for the IBM PC and its clones is Wrestlemania abounded. The ultra violence continuing on a roll, with more and more ti­ theme hit home as a PR flack proudly dem­ tles including high-quality EGA graphics as onstrated Sega's Uzi look-alike rapid-fire a display option. Software development for light pistol. You can bet that, by next Janu­ the Atari ST line is in the dumper with ary's CES, gruesome games with tie-ins to most software houses blaming poor sales on such horror flicks as Nightmare on Elm the current slowdown in ST sales and a Street, Friday the 13th, and Texas Chainsaw higher-than-normal amount of software pi­ Massacre will be on the screen. racy in the ST market. Developers are hot After a full day of this electronic may­ on new titles for the Amiga, but they've ex­ Videogame hem, I was pleasantly surprised by Intersel's pressed concern over well-organized cadres Gone Fishin'. a bass fishing simulation avail­ of Amiga crackers based in Europe. Violence Is able for the Amiga and Atari ST. The game With such a paucity of computers and captures a lot of the slow, laid-back quality software to graze, I went afield and hit the of leisurely casting for bigmouths. The only audio and video part of the show. High-end Everywhere. feature I found myself wishing for was a audio equipment manufacturers traditional­ two-player mode. Half the fun for most an­ ly take over the entire McCormick Center You Can Bet glers is sharing a boat and an afternoon of Hotel; the combined effect is said to simu­ conversation with a friend. If you're looking late a sustained 8.5 on the Richter scale. The We'll Soon See for a break from the latest twitch-and-shoot only thing more awesome than the sound of arcade hit, give Gone Fish in ' a try. Infinity system's IRS Series V loudspeakers Sports personalities endorsing products was its price. I can understand how they Gruesome are always fashionable at CES. Walter Pay­ came up with the product name. If you can ton, Andre the Giant, and King Kong afford the $45,000 the fRS probably is inter­ Games with Bundy were among the luminaries who pa­ ested in chatting with you for a while. tiently sat for hours signing reams of publ.ici­ Everyone who has used a camcorder Slasher-Flick ty photos for show goers who lined up. knows that real home videos are supposed Mediagenic (formerly Activision) host­ to be perpetually out of focus and jerky. It's Tie-ins. ed a breakfast with a live satellite hookup not enough that nearly every video camera that let the press quiz baseball great Pete sold today automatically keeps Uncle Fred Rose on the company's new Pete Rose Pen­ in focus. Now Panasonic has wiped out the nant Fever game. Autographed baseballs last vestige of amateur artiness with a cam­ (wh.ich one Mediagenicist claimed would be era featuring something called "electronic worth $150 as soon as Charlie Hustle made image stabilization," a consumer version of the Hall of Fame) were handed out as sou­ Hollywood's Steadicam. venirs. The best questions weren't about the The computer product drought contin­ game, though, but were about what Pete ued unabated throughout the week. I was thought of the wrist slap Bad Bill y Martin even suckered in by Integ's Junior Com­ got for tossing dirt on an umpire. puter, a math and spelling tutor for young Those who weren't athletically minded yuppies-in-training that looks just like Mom could chat with a pair of Reagan/Gorbachev and Dad's laptop. The widest-vertical-mar­ look-alikes plugging Spectrum Holobyte's ket computer-product award goes to the Terris, an addictive game imported from the Lottronic's Personal Computer, which Soviet Union. turned out to be a hand-held device with a While computer hardware manufactur­ one-button keyboard that picks up to six 2- ers were relatively scarce on the show floor, digit numbers at random. the software scene seemed decidedly healthy, I headed for the Gemini booth to check although considerably more low-key than out the latest in low-cost printers. Whoops! the salad days of 1985 and 1986. Alth ough I Wrong Gemini. These guys were hawking don't own a Commodore 64, I've got to ad­ the FlashFormer, an electronic device de­ mit that I'm impressed with both the num­ signed by noted electronics wizard Grand ber and quality of new titles for that Master Flash. The FlashFormer lets uncoor­ venerable machine. Today's programmers dinated boobs such as myself"rock, rap, and are pushing the 64's graphics and sound ca­ hip-hop ... with one hand tied behind your pabilities for all it's worth, and, according to back." I backed away warily, headed for my the software manufacturers I spoke to at the car and home, convinced that if these folks show, their 64 sales have remained brisk, decided to market an impact printer, not all even as the popularity of Atari and Apple of the pins would be firing. C!J

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