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Software Selectable) and Completely FINANCIAL CALCULATOR $29.00 Compatible with ATARI DOS Or OSA+DOS OUR STORIES LACKBecause Infocom's inter­ IMAGINATION.dinarily developed personalities) and interactive story is roughly active fictionis designed original, logical, often hilarious puz­ the length of a short novel in to run on your imagination. zles. Communication is car­ content, but because you're That's precisely why ried on in the same way as it actively engaged in the plot, there's nothing more interesting, is in a novel-in prose. And your adventure can last forweeks challenging or interactive than an interaction is easy-you type and months. Infocom disk-but only afteryou've in full English sentences. Find out what it's like to put it in your ,. -·- But there is this key difference get inside a story. Get one ; computer. • between our tales and conventional fromInfocom. Because with Once it's in, ' · novels: lnfocom's lnfocom' s interactive fiction, you experience _ interactive fictionis there's room foryou on every disk. something akin to waking up inside a active, never pas­ novel. You findyourself at the center sive. The course of of an exciting plot that continually events is shaped by what youC1 choose lnPDCDlft For rour: Apple ti. 1',lacintosh,Atari. Commodore 64. CP/M s·; challenges you with surprising twists, to do. And you enjoy enormous free- DECmate. DEC Rainbow, DEC RT·ll. UP 150& 110. IBM PC' unique char- dom in your choice of actions & PCjr."K1\\'l'RO II. MS-DOS 2.0: NEC APC, NEC l'C-8000. ·-=��· Osborne. Tl Profeuional. Tl 99141\. Tandy 2000. TRS-80Color a:,acters (many -you have hundreds, even Computer. TRS-80 Models I & m. 'Use the IB1\1PC 1·ersion for your Compaq and the 1',I5-DOS2.0 -. "' of whom pos- thousands of alternativesat 1·ersion for your Wang, 1'.lindset. Data Gencr.ilS)·stem 10. GRiD sess extraor- every step. In fact, an Infocom andmanyothers. FOR ALL BEST SELLERS FROM ATARI COMPUTERS THE PROGRAMMERS WORKSHOP TWO DRIVES FOR DESK SET $39.00 DESK SET is a perpetual calendar, an appointment THE PRICE OF ONE calendar and also a card file. The perpetual calendar is a calendar of every month, past, present or future. •THEe) The appointment calendar allows up to 15 entries to ASTRA • ... be made each day. The card file is a mail list program which holds up to 200 addresses. The printing format 1620 • ... of card file includes continuous lists, labels or en­ velopes. Files can be printed; all the files from one file number to another; by zip code; by state or by MORE DISK DRIVE FOR YOUR MONEY ... selected files. DESK SET is an easy way to organize In fact, with the ASTRA 1620, you get two superb Disk your life. 40K Drives for the price of one. The ASTRA 1620 is Single or Double Density (software selectable) and completely FINANCIAL CALCULATOR $29.00 compatible with ATARI DOS or OSA+DOS. When used as Double Density, the ASTRA 1620 has the same capacity as Four ATARI 810® Disk Drives. The program answers virtually any questions con­ * Satisfaction Guaranteed * cerning the cost of money, loans, and interest earned on savings, loans and investments. Plus, this pro­ INCLUDED: at no extra charge gram will give a complete interest earned table and One Copy of Home Writer and One Copy of Smart DOS. amortization table. This program is a must for anyone serious about money. 32K. The HOME WRITER is an easy to use word proces­ sor which includes a carefully selected group of func­ tions that are at your disposal immediately. The func­ tions are as follows: SAVE, LOAD, REVIEW, PRINT­ Forecast future events based on past information. OUT, or EDIT. All the popular editting features avail­ able on the ATARI Home Computer in direct prog­ Forecast profits, costs, sales trends, prices, test ramming mode are also available with HOME WRIT­ scores, virtually anything. Edit, save on disk and test ER. You may also search for phrases or strings, load off of either disk or cassette, and number pages auto­ various elements to determine the outcome. matically. Unlike other small word processing pro­ FORECASTER is a powerful "what if" program - a grams, HOME WRITER does not wrap-around when at the end of a line. Right and left margin justification must for business. 24K is available for any type parallel printer. 48K. FILING SYSTEM $39.00 STAT PLUS $29.00 FILING SYSTEM allows the user to configure any type of data file imaginable. Examples are recipe STAT PLUS is the most powerful statistic tool we cards, mail lists, reminders for birthdays, check-ups, have seen. Run sample space, mean, variance and etc ... , complete inventories (home and business), personnel files, customer call-ups, price list, and standard deviation. Do probabilities using binomial, much, much more. You may retrieve data using any poisson or normal distribution. Also, do students' field or combination of fields. Files also may be I-test, Mann-Whitney U test and Chi Square. Do saved, sorted, and printed in a preset format that you configure. Uses either a single or a double density linear regressions; may use 1-12 independent vari­ disk drive. Three preconfigured files are included - a ables. Interact a sample from one module to another, Mailing List, a Price List, and a Household Inventory. edit, rank and print out. 24K min. 24K minimum. Now in double density. THE PROGRAMMERS WORKSHOP DISK FIX KIT $29.00 5230 Clark Ave., Suite 19 It takes more than a speed adjustment to properly set Lakewood, CA 90712 up an Atari® 810 Disk Drive. Do it Right - Test Disk, Cleaner, Tools, Special Oil, Swabs and complete in­ (213) 920-8809 structions. VISA/MasterCard, check or money order accepted. If charge, please include expiration date of card. Ship­ TO ORDER: ping and Handling software $1.50, disk drive, $10.00. California residents add sales tax. Phone or mall. ® ATARI is a registered trademark of Warner Communications rnru�rntl rnfi tlfb� IB[J]ffirnHiCBHiffi�D� Scott Lamb's Interactive Space Fantasy Adventure The sequel to JUPITER MISSION 1999 ® When the government agents knocked on your door early one morning (at the beginning of JUPITER MISSION 1999) and rudely whisked you away in the starship Space Beagle, you had na idea of what was to follow. As the lone sur­ vivor of Jupiter Mission and the Earth's savior from an impending alien invasion, you unwittingly thought the worst was behind you. SLIM CHANCE! A mysterious beam has cast you into the nether reaches of space; cold, lifeless, forbidding. Space Bottle Display You long for the amenities of Mother Earth, which you had always taken for granted ... until now! THE QUEST OF THE SPACE BEAGLE: THREE ADVENTURES IN ONE! • Befriended by the Faunians, a peaceful race being invaded by the evil Gentuzians, they have decided that YOU must launch a pre-emptive strike against the Gentuzian homeworld. You must command 10 Faunian robot fighters against the Gentuzian battle fleet which outnumbers you four to one! It won't be easy; you'll need the right tactics and all the skill and patience you can muster. • Assuming you are successful and conquer the Gentuzians, they will want The Labyrinths ol Kamerro you to become their Emperor. The only thing you want is to repair the Space Beagle and get back home. But they are insistent creatures; refuse the crown, and you can forget leaving. Reluctantly you accept and, to prove your claim, they drop you into the Labyrinth of Kamerra! Find your way out, and they'll let you go home as Emperor of Gentuza. No problem, you think, until you soon realize that Kamerra is a cruel maze deficient of adequate food and oxygen, yet aplenty with dangerous pits and "Ardillian Whipstingers." • SHOOTTHE STARS! Fortunately, you are able to save your game in progress every step of the way in QUEST OF THE SPACE BEAGLE. Your greatest challenge is about to begin. As you settle into the com­ mander's chair of the Space Beagle, you set your sights for home! But which Hyperwarp Temparol way? Before you spans 200,000,000 light years of Superclusters.On board is an Imbalance Sensor Grid authentic matrix computer calibrated to simulate the actual dimensions of the universe.You must identity the one Supercluster containing Sol, and hyperwarp from one end of space to another. Once you lock into the right Supercluster, you must find the Milky Way Galaxy, your assurance that Mother Earth is within reach, and home sweet home! �� . ...--- _� --...�- - -- THE QUEST OF THE SPACE BEAGLE is ready to run on your Atari®Home Computer .... --- " -- with 48K memory, one disk drive and joystick. S35.00 �- - -:;-r - - ...:: .::::.:."ll-I:� " Ilk Galactlc Starmap Display Ill To�:���f�!!1E�,���IG��Tc�!:any 4517 HARFORD ROAD, BALTIMORE, MD21214, 301-254-9200 ATARI ART PRINTOUTS by Josepha Haveman 26 Modern art on a dot matrix printer DRAWING FUN by Elrhea M. Bigham 29 Sketch in nine colors FREE SOF1WARE ANTIC'S MODE 3 by Karl Wiegers 32 A special character mode FREESOFTWARE COMPUTER GRAPHICS PRODUCT SURVEY by David Duberman 37 Unlocking the art inside you PRICE'S COLOR PICTURE PAINTER by Philip Price 48 128 colors in every picture FREE SOFTWARE EASY GRAPHIC CONVERTER by Charles Jackson 57 Mix and match graphics from four popular products FREE SOFTWARE FADER: A CLASSY VIDEO "S LIDE SHOW" by Joseph Grande 98 Featuring dot-by-dot "dissolves" between pictures FREESOFTWARE DEPARTMENTS STARTING OUT FREl SOFTWARE UNLOCKING THE 56 GRAPHICS MODES by Paul Chabot 13 EDUCATION FREl SOF1WARE TELLING TIME IN PILOT by Richard Seltzer 16 COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING NEWS by Michael Ciraolo 21 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE FREESOFTWARE ROTATE YOUR PLAYER by La rry Parker 64 COPYMATE by Mike Palmer 87 TOOLBOX FREE SOFTWARE CUS TOMIZING BASIC KEY FUNCTIONS by Mike Fleischmann 66 GAME OF THE MONTH fREESOF1WARE OLYMPIC DASH by Jeffrey Stanton 70 1/0 BOARD _______ 6 MICROSCREENS_ _____ 78 HELP!__ _______10 LISTING CONVENTIONS__ _ 85 ANTIC'S SOFTWARE LIBRARY__ 56 ADVERTISER'S LIST _____ 94 NEW PRODUCTS___ ___ 54 SHOPPER'S GUIDE _____ 95 PRODUCT REVIEWS__ ___ 76 i/o board Publisher James Capparell HANDLING YOUR RS-232 A VOTE FOR BASIC XL Editorial Department Nat Friedland, Editor Robert DeWitt, Managing Editor I have a serial RS·232 printer connected to The members of the Westmoreland Atari David Duberman, Technical Editor Jack Powell, Listings Editor the Atari 850 interface box.
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