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Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 13:37:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 7 13:37:38 1984
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Organization: AT&T Consumer Products - Montgomery Illinois
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December 1984 ANTIC magazine TOC
page article
11 COMMUNICATIONS: So You Want To Start A Bulletin Board?
A short article on starting your own bulletin board and
some problems associated with it.
12 EDUCATION: Tips On Buying Educational Software For Your Children
What to look for in educational software.
17 INFO BITS
A superbly simple file program. It provides an easy way to
save and retrieve notes and references to short items that
catch your interest. Requires disk drive.
19 WORD STORAGE SPACE SAVER
A programming technique for storage and retrieval of words
and sentences in string data without wasting memory space.
26 BIFFDROP (Game of the Month)
A challenging and imaginative action-adventure game from
Antic's star game designer, J.D. Casten.
31 BUYER'S GUIDE
A guide to over 125 products, both hardware and software,
for the ATARI.
51 SOFTWARE LIBRARY
All the programs for the articles in the magazine are
located here.
66 THE TOOLBOX: WINDOWS PART 2
The conclusion of a two-part series that shows you how to
create on-screen text windows in Atari programs--in all
graphics modes.
68 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE: ALL ABOUT I/O
An important tutorial for both assembly language and BASIC.
74 PRODUCT REVIEWS
SOFTWARE:
GYRUSS (Parker Brothers)
SPELUNKER (Broderbund)
FROGGER II (Atari)
BEACH-HEAD (Access Software)
FOOTBALL (Atari)
KEYSTONE KAPERS (Activision)
PUZZLE PANIC (EPYX, Inc)
SUPER MAILER PLUS (Royal Software) Utility
MUSIC CONSTRUCTION SET (Electronic Arts)
THE MASK OF THE SUN (Broderbund)
ONE ON ONE (Electronic Arts)
90 BANNERTIZER
Create horizontal or vertical banners with your 80 column
printer--in letters up to 10 inches wide.
COMMENTS:
There is an advertizement for a company in Chicago called
Skyline Marketing Corp. that is advertizing the AMDEK AMDC-I disk
drive for $349 and the AMDC-II for $449. They are also listing
reconditioned AMDEK Color I and Color I plus for $199. They carry
a 30 day repair or replacement warranty.
In general, only an average issue.
Kit Kimes
AT&T Consumer Products
Montgomery Works
Montgomery, Il. 60538-0305
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