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                October 1984  (# 23) ANALOG Table of Contents
                         (Theme ????)

Page    Article

15      A NO-FRILLS ALTERNATE CURSOR
		Short BASIC/ML program to give you a bliking
		underline cursor, instead of the normal
		block cursor.  Has some limits, such as
		that it occupies page 6.
25      CLIMBER
		BASIC game (16K/24K cassette/disk).  Climb a
		"building" and jump over "munchkins".
29	MINI COMP
		A BASIC program to COMPILE (yes, COMPILE) a
		subset of BASIC to ML.  Accepts assignment,
		addition/subtraction, if-then, <, =, gosub,
		return, peek and poke statements.  Needs
		40K disk.
33      P/M CREATOR/ANIMATOR
		Very flexible Player-Missile editor in
		BASIC (16K/24K).  Also allows you to create
		players for animation and view them in succession.
39	FIRE BUG
		Another Hudson/Peacock ML game (from BASIC
		program.  Firebug has to tunnel
		underground to avoid a variety of atomically
		mutated baddies.  Supposed to have great
		action, scrolling, sound and graphics.  16K/24K.
56	ANOTHER BASIC BUG
		Yet another bug in ATARI BASIC.  Seems that the
		VAL function and GET statement together in a program
		can cause unwanted alterations in character strings.
57      GRAPHICS 8 CHARACTER GENERATOR
		BASIC subroutines (with assembly listings) that
		allow you to generate characters (Atari built-in
		or your own) on a graphics 8 screen.  This lets
		you do things like mix graphics and text, print
		at angles, double space, print backwards, etc.
65	DARK HORSE
		BASIC simulation of a presidential election campaign.
		16K/24K.
HARDWARE REVIEWS: Casadapter (SAR-AN) - "A grade of 9 on a scale of
					 1-10 IF the manual were
					 VASTLY improved."
		  ATR-8000 (Southwest Microcomputer Products) -
					"A truly innovative product"

SOFTWARE REVIEWS: Family Finances (Atari) - "A real value"
	          Top-Dos (Eclipse Software) - "GREAT"
		  Donkey Kong Jr. (Atari) - "Good Fun"
BOOK REVIEWS:	  Dr. C. Wacko's Miracle Guide to Designing and
		  Programming your own Atari Computer Arcade Games -
					    "Good, Introductory reference
					     Book"
PLUS: Editorial, Reader Comments, "Griffin's Lair", "Boot Camp",
      New Products columns.

	NOTE: "Ask Mr. Forth" is a new column that replaces
	      "Ask Sally Forth".
	NOTE: "BASIC Training" column kinda sorta takes over
	      where the "Our Games" column left off, in that
	      that they will develop a BASIC game...however,
	      readers will NOT design the game.

						Ben Weber pyuxmm!benw
							  desoto!benw
						AT&T Technologies
						Piscataway, NJ