{"id":23041,"date":"2019-07-22T09:31:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=23041"},"modified":"2019-07-29T14:39:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:39:56","slug":"analog-computing-april-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/07\/22\/analog-computing-april-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALOG Computing (April 1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/epnt.ebay.com\/static\/epn-smart-tools.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FANALOG_Computing%2Fanalog_1987-04&amp;twg_show=Analog+Computing+53+1987-04+Telecommunications-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Analog-Computing-53-1987-04-Telecommunications-001-1.jpg\" alt=\"analog-computing-53-1987-04-telecommunications-001\" width=\"2438\" height=\"3307\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"raindrops-press-this\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FANALOG_Computing%2Fanalog_1987-04&amp;twg_show=Analog+Computing+53+1987-04+Telecommunications-001.jpg\">ANALOG Computing &#8211; Issue number 53 &#8211; April 1987<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>ANALOG Computing was probably the most successful magazine dedicated to Atari 8-bit computers. If you watch closely, you can see at least one issue lying around in Ready Player One which I just watched the other day. By 1987 the last generation of Atari 8-bits (the XE series) had already been around a couple years and ANALOG was also giving some coverage to the Atari ST. The April 1987 issue  of ANALOG Computing includes:<\/p>\n<p>Features<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Music during the Musical Blank Interrupt<\/b> &#8211; Part 3 in our series details what&#8217;s involved in accomplishing music during the VBI.<\/li>\n<li><b>Background Printer<\/b> -= A device handler which lets your printer do its thing while you are doing yours.<\/li>\n<li><b>Floyd the Droid Goes Blastin&#8217;<\/b> &#8211; Wipe out the mutants just for kicks in this new machine-language game.<\/li>\n<li><b>HardCopy and CheckWriter<\/b> &#8211; Adding these two programs to MicroCheck (from issue 27) lets you prepare multiple copies and print checks.<\/li>\n<li><b>Multicopy<\/b> &#8211; A versatile utility for copying files, made even easier by keyboard or joystick use.<\/li>\n<li><b>Bits &amp; Pieces<\/b> &#8211; The BSR home controller is just an article away from your Atari.<\/li>\n<li><b>Modems and the Atari 8-bit<\/b> &#8211; An introduction to the universe of telecommunications BBSs and networks.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Baud Warrior<\/b> &#8211; Advice for the experienced modem user.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reviews<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Lightspeed C<\/b> &#8211; A detailed look at this structured language.<\/li>\n<li><b>Soundwave 1 and Soundwave 8<\/b> &#8211; Two sequencers for the ST &#8211; do they live up to their claims?<\/li>\n<li><b>The Learning Phone<\/b> &#8211; Check out the Atari Plato cartridge.<\/li>\n<li><b>Screens<\/b> &#8211; Tricky screen formats are yours with this inexpensive, useful utility.<\/li>\n<li><b>The New Technology Coloring Book<\/b> &#8211; Hi-tech coloring for children.<\/li>\n<li><b>Nite Lite<\/b> &#8211; A close examination of one of the popular BBSs for the 8-bit and the Atari ST, too.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Atari ST User&#8217;s Guide<\/b> &#8211; How worthy is the new ST Logo guide?<\/li>\n<li><b>Blazing Paddles<\/b> &#8211; Is this recently introduced art program an 8-bit DEGAS?<\/li>\n<li><b>Carina BBS<\/b> &#8211; Our BBS expert checks out this feature-packed program.<\/li>\n<li><b>Panak strikes!<\/b> &#8211; Flight Simulator II Scenery Disks, Mail Order Monsters, Moonmist, and Rommel Battles for Tobruk are examined.<\/li>\n<li><b>Video Vegas<\/b> &#8211; Slots, Keno, Blackjack and Draw Poker in one package&#8230;how do they stack up?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Columns<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Editorial<\/li>\n<li>Reader comment<\/li>\n<li>M\/L Editor<\/li>\n<li>Scheduled Atari Fairs<\/li>\n<li>ST notes<\/li>\n<li>Atari Users&#8217; Groups<\/li>\n<li>The End User<\/li>\n<li>Database Delphi<\/li>\n<li>Index to Advertisers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<ins class=\"epn-placement\" data-config-id=\"5d1b84373b11ab5f8b750af2\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: ANALOG Computing &#8211; Issue number 53 &#8211; April 1987 ANALOG Computing was probably the most successful magazine dedicated to Atari 8-bit computers. If you watch closely, you can see at least one issue lying around in Ready Player One which I just watched the other day. By 1987 the last generation of Atari 8-bits (the XE series) had already been around a couple years and ANALOG was also giving some coverage to the Atari ST. The April 1987 issue of ANALOG Computing includes: Features Music during the Musical Blank Interrupt &#8211; Part 3 in our series details what&#8217;s involved in accomplishing music during the VBI. Background Printer -= A device handler which lets your printer do its thing while you are doing yours. Floyd the Droid Goes Blastin&#8217; &#8211; Wipe out the mutants just for kicks in this new machine-language game. HardCopy and CheckWriter &#8211; Adding these two programs to MicroCheck (from issue 27) lets you prepare multiple copies and print checks. Multicopy &#8211; A versatile utility for copying files, made even easier by keyboard or joystick use. Bits &amp; Pieces &#8211; The BSR home controller is just an article away from your Atari. Modems and the Atari 8-bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,4],"tags":[225,227,233,234,236,238,2362],"class_list":["post-23041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atari-8-bit","category-computer-arcana","tag-atari","tag-atari-130xe","tag-atari-600xl","tag-atari-65xe","tag-atari-8-bit","tag-atari-800xl","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}