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FEATURES
Antic's Third Annual Awards for
Outstanding Service to the Atari
CoTnmunity^page 41
MAY 1988, VOL. 7, NO. 1
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SUPER SORTERS: PART II by Kevin Peck
Mixed Numbers Sorting Routine
I/O TICKET FROM POLAND TO USA by Tadeusz Menert The most unusual story Antic has ever published 41 THIRD ANNUAL ANTIC AWARDS by Gregg Pearlman Outstanding Atarian Achievements of 1987-88
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As this Antic issue went to press, it was announced that ICD is taking over the complete OSS product line, including MAC/65, ACTION!, BASIC XE and ST F^^ sonal Pascal. For ordering and support, contact ICD/OSS at 1220 Rock Street, Rockford, IL 61101. (815) 968-2228.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT
Is there a prognim for the ST that lets you create questions with multiple selection of answers and give you a score at the end of the test, along with a printout of ques- tions and answers? Also, where can I ob- tain a new ST mouse?
Larry Doss
Chicago, IL
Pursuit of the Graf STrivial (Antic, Sep- tember 1987), written in GFA BASIC, does exactly that. If you don't have GFA or don't want to type in the listing you can order the disk from Antic's Disk Desk. Also, you should be able to purchase a new mouse for your ST from Atari Corp. at 1196 Borregas Avenue, Sun- nyvale, CA 94086. (408) 745-2000.— ANTIC ED
I/O OR 1/0?
Fm a retired data processing manager and I never have let my programmers use the letters I, O, S or Z as variable names. Tm sure you can see the similarities between those letters and 1,0,5 and 2. 1 even steer clear of Q, U and V— Q looks like 0, and U and V look alike.
Avoiding those variable names would make type-in listings much more likely to work the first time.
Jerome Fraenkel Franklin Square, NY
LIGHTSPEED RELOCATES
Here's the new address for the makers of Lightspeed C (New Products, December 1987). Clearstar Softechnologies (Division of Omegasoft), P.O. Box l40, HarreUs, NC 28444. (919) 532-2359.
XMM801 SOFTWARE
Regarding William TiUey 's XMM801 Woes letter (February 1988), Starfleet Software has three XMM801 utility disks available for $10 each. These utilities enable the Atari XMM801 to print screen dumps in five different sizes, print near letter qual- ity, mix NLQ text with graphics on the same page, plus much more. Starfleet is at 1037 W. Leafland Avenue, Decatur IL, 62522. (217) 423-6820.
Terry Ortman Starfleet Software
REAL SIERPINSKI AUTHOR
The Sierpinski Curves program reprinted from Page 6 Magazine in your February 1988 issue was originally written by me for the July 1984 Creative Computing. The programs are identical, right down to the variables and line numbers. I would ap- preciate a note in Antic that I am the author
David Ahl Publisher, Atari Explorer
Antic sincerely regrets this Transatlan- tic foulup. Page 6 credits for this short fractals program in their May/fune 1987 issue simply stated that the "nice little demo. . .was sent in some time ago bjf Alan Sharpe on behalf of the Brighton Users Group."— kHl\C ED
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I work for a leading child mental health center and one of our biggest problems is room-scheduling for appointments. We decided to use an Atari 130XE to make diis easier. Because the scheduling office is a high-turnover, low-computer-literacy place, one of the significant features of our system, written in Advan BASIC, is that it's user-friendly. No training time is required. I should point out that we selected Ad- van BASIC because of a good review in Antic Oune 1987). It's an excellent prod- uct, and customer support has been ex- cellent, too.
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INDUS AID
Please tell Victor Decarlo Jr. (Indus Com- patibility, February 1987) to disconnect and reconnect the I/O cables between his disk drive and computer several times to improve the contacts and make sure they're firmly in place. This often- neglected precaution fixed my own prob- lem with Flight Simulator II on my Indus drive after a couple of infuriating months of troubleshooting.
Richard Barkley Eugene, OR
ALL I NEED
My little Atari 800 has run a large real es- tate company in Daly City, California, for over two years, fulfilling all data process- ing needs — reports, word processing, mailing labels, etc. The original invest- ment, excluding the printer, cost about $600. It's a sad situation for anyone to spend more than $400 (plus the printer cost) to get into computing. Atari is the one computer that more than fulfills this need.
John Mohr Daly City, CA
CANT HOOK UP
Your article Laptop-to-Atari Connection influenced me to buy a Tandy 200 laptop to use at work. My intention was to trans- fer files to my Atari for storage. However, I haven't been able to get them to com- municate. IVe tried every combination of modems, cables, hookups and software I could think of. Can you help?
Michael Lettini Mercer Island, WA
Go into the built-in communications pro- gram on your Tandy and make sure it's set up (parity baud rate, stop bit, etc.) the same way as the terminal program you're using on the Atari. And make sure your Atari program can transfer ASCII files — if it can transfer only ATASCII files, you're using the tvrong program.— kH\\C ED
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PRAaiCAL PATCH
Bibliography Master (Antic, November 1987) is a terrific program — a victory over those pedantic little rules that drive most of us crazy.
However, the program prints a line space between each printed line, and that presents a problem. Most form books and pedagogues require that each entry in a bibliography be single-spaced and that a blank line be used only (if at all) to sepa- rate the individual references.
The program can be changed easily to double-space only between reference sources (which looks nice) by inserting or revising the following lines:
681 DBSP = FO
691 IF DBSP^Fl THEN ? #F3:LIN = LIN + F1
1040 ? #F3:LIN = L1N + F1;DBSP = F1
If you just want single-spaced printouts, forget about lines 681 and 691 and revise line 1040 as follows:
1040 ? #F3:L1N = LIN + F1
Now, if someone would convert Bib- liography Master into a program to for- mat end notes, we'd have most of the mad- dening technicalities of writing academic papers just about licked.
Dwight Collin Pittsford, NY
FAMILY ANTIC
Thanks for the programs in the Januar}^ 1988 issue of Antic. My kids enjoyed Ras- silon's Triple-Header and have been print- ing BASIC Biorhythms charts for their schoolmates. Mighty Mailer and Antic Su- perCopy are both good programs, but I'd like to send special thanks to Rich Moore for the SSlJo)istick Commanden (You can add Kampfgruppe to the list of games the "daring method" works with.) Robert Smith Reedsport, OR
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Sounds like a job for Antic Classified Ads.~kH\\Q ED
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My brother bought a 1040STM in Ger- many and was told that he couldn't read the single-sided disks from my 520ST be- cause of the new double-sided drives. This isn't right, is it? Also, is there a program for the ST that would help me learn French?
Gerd Knaak
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Double-sided drives can read single- or double-sided disks. If your brother wants
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Tomahawk (D) $21
DAVIDSON
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Spell It (D) $32
Word Attack (D) $32
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Star Fleet 1 ST $35
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Champ. Wrestling ST $14
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Guild of Thieves ST $29
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PR Connection $59
Rambo XL $29
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with Sparta DOS $49
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Zork Trilogy ST $33
INTRACQRP
Bumper Sticker Maker ST .$39
Business Card Maker ST . .$39
Gold runner ST $25
International Soccer ST . .$25
Karate Kid 2 ST $25
Slaygon ST $25
Space Shuttle 2 ST $25
Tanglewood ST $25
Time Bandit ST $25
MICROLEAGUE
Baseball (D) $26
Baseball 2 ST $39
Box Score Stats (D) $16
General Manager (D) or ST . $19 1987 Team Data (D) or ST $14
WWF Wrestling ST $33
MICROPROSE
F15 Strike Eagle (D) $23
F15 Strike Eagle ST $25
Silent Service (D) $23
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ST Wars $25
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All About America ST $39
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IWaik Williams Raises
C Pngrammiiig Tb A New Levd
New source level debugger, csd, cuts development time in half!
Now, on top of the ^
world's best C compiler, Mark Williams brings you csd, the world's only source level debugger for the Atari ST!
With csd, you actually debug in C. Forget about trying to find bugs in cliuiky assembler and struggling with long dumps, csd gives you the interactive advan- tages of an interpreter plus the speed of a compiler An indispensable companion for Mark Williams C.
Reviewers have been raving about the IBM version of C5C? for years:
"csd is close to the ideal debugging environment . . a definite aid to learning C and an indispensable toolfor pro- gram development!' ,„.,,. ^ „^ ^.^^ ^ ^ -Wilham G. Wong, BYTE
''This is a powerful and sophisticated debugger built on a well-designed, 'serious' compiler!'
-Jonathan Sachs, Micro/Systems Journal
FEATURES
Mark Williams C For the Atari ST
• New! Resource Editor includes compiler/
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decompiler for direct access to resource text • New! Peephole optimization-faster com- pile times and faster code
• Full access to AESA/DI libraries with complete documentation and examples
• Source and object code for RAM disk cuts compile time in half
• Integrated edit/compile cycle: editor automatically points to errors.
• MicroEMACS full-screen editor with commented source code
• Full K & R plus ANSI extensions
• Microshell Command Processor, a powerful UNIX style shell
• Complete symbolic debugger and assembler
• Powerful utilities: make, linker, archiver, egrep, sort, diff and more
• Over 600 pages of documentation with more than 100 sample programs
New! cyrfC SOURCE DEBUGGER:
• Cuts development time in half!
• Debug in C source code not assembler
• Provides separate source, evalua- tion, program and history windows
• Ability to set trace points and monitor variables
• Can interactively evaluate any C expression
• Can execute any C function in your program
• Trace back function
• On-line help screens
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'Introductory price-good through May 31, 1988
WE'VE UPPED COMPILER PERFORMANCE, TOO!
Our new Resource Editor
makes creating window driven interfaces with icons, alerts, pull down menus and dialogue boxes a snap. And its exclusive compiler/decompiler lets you directly access resoiu-ces, making changes quick and easy while simplifying project management. Unparalleled compiler speed, fast, compact code, / complete utilities and outstanding documentation have made Mark WiUiams C the preferred compiler for the Atari ST Reviewers enthusiastically agree:
''Mark Williams C may be the best implementation ofC on the Atari ST to date, . , not only for the experienced, profes- sional developer, but also for the weekend programmer" -George MiUer, COMPUTERS Atari ST Disk and Magazine
",., the all-around best choice for serious software development on the ST"
-Douglas Weir, Analog Computing
COUNT ON M UPSTANDING REPUTATION.
Mark WiUiams has been producing and improving quahiy programming tools since 1976. A good reason why the Mark Wilhams C compiler is the one chosen by Atari. And just one more reason you should choose Mark Wilhams, too.
SPECIAL UPDATE OFFER AVAILABLE NOW!
If you already own Mark Wilhams C, a special update offer is available for version 3 .0 and csd by calling Mark Wilhams. If not, there's never been a better time to ask yoin: Atari dealer about Mark WiUiams C and csd. Or you can order by calhng 1-800-MWC-1700.
(In Illmois, 1-312-472-6659)
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(utility program) Michael Holloway 3308 Rucker Avenue Paducah, KY 42001 (502) 442-2121 48K disk
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Mapper ($14.95) lets you display and print more than 20 predrawn or- thographic or cylindrical projections on Epson-compatible printers in four sizes and inverse. A reference file gives pertinent data for all parts of the world. Quik-Pics ($9-95) is a collec- tion of Graphics 9 pictures digitized with Computereyes.
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(programming utilities) Stardust Software P.O. Box 33192 Indianapolis, IN 46203 (317) 788-7403 $34.99
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QuickCode, the Programmer's Library is a collection of macros for the MAC/65 assembly language cartridge from Optimized Systems Software. These powerful routines should make your programming a lot easier and more effective.
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The National Bulletin Board News- letter is a listing of all known BBS's in the United States. Currently bimonthly, it soon is planned to go monthly. The
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STAR NX-IOOO ^^^^^m
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The Star NX-1000 Multi-Font printer ($289) has 12 -characters-per-inch print speeds of 144 characters per second (cps) in draft and 36 cps in Near Letter Quality (NLQ). It has a parallel inter- face, four internal fonts, a 4K buffer and a paper-parking feature that lets you use single-sheet paper without removing tractor-feed paper.
DAISY-DOT II I
(printing software) Roy Goldman 2440 S. Jasmine Denver, CO 80222 $10, 48K disk
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If your 8-bit system includes an printer that's compatible with Epson or Gemini, Daisy-Dot II greatly im- proves its printing capability with a simulated Near Letter Quality printing system. The $10 price includes a Daisy-Dot-compatible version of Bill- board (reviewed in Antic, February 1988). However, the Daisy Dot II pro- gram and documentation are in the public domain and are available online.
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The most popular DOS in Australia, SuperDOS is an easy-to-use, powerful replacement for DOS 2.5 and uses less disk space. It works with all Atari 8-bit computers and can store deleted files and patch damaged ones. SuperDOS supports Atari 1050 and 810 disk drives as well as double-density drives, and even with only one drive it's easy to copy between densities. SuperDOS supports XE-compatible RAMdisks up to 320K and Axlon-compatible RAM- disks up to 288K.
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PrintPower creates personalized greeting cards, invitations, banners, signs, posters, stationery, letterhead and more. An onscreen template lets you visualize the work as you create it. Other features include a line-by-line text editor, seven variations of six fonts, horizontal and vertical formats, 40 border designs, 60 graphic designs with free-form positioning, and full compatibility with Hi Tech's Award- Ware (reviewed in Antic, December 1987).
Return the favor. When you call a manufacturer or supplier about a product you've seen advertised or otherwise mentioned in ANTIC, please tell them so. This will help us to con- tinue to bring you the latest informa- tion about products that will make your Atari computer an even more valuable investment in the future. —ANTIC ED
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The West Coast Computer Faire
announces the first Computer Matchmaking Service.
X ou won't have to depend on fate at the 13th West Coast Computer Faire to find the products and services that are the perfect match for your needs.
We start you out on your path to high- tech bliss with Vertical Market Matching. We bring in the companies selling quality computers, software, peripherals, and add- ons— companies that meet the needs of peo- ple involved in specific business segments such as finance, medicine, manufacturing, law, education, engineering, and construction.
And our Product Matching makes it easy for you to find the software, add-ons and upgrades for the Commodore Amiga, Apple 11 or Macintosh, IBM PC/MS-DOS, IBM PS/2, Atari, Lotus and more, that will keep you happily gazing into your current system's eyes. Plus, we counsel you on the latest techniques and insights in our outstanding Conference sessions.
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Antic Spooler
Keep on computing while you print!
Antic Spooler is a sKort machine language printer buffer that allows you to continue using your computer for other tasks while printing lengthy program listings. The BASIC program which cre- ates Antic Spooler works on all 8-bit Atari com- puters of any memory size, with disk drive*
^^1 ^ y^^^ computer tired of waiting for your printer I to finisli?" You Ve seen ads for printer buffers (also I called printer spoolers). These devices — ^which can be either hardware or software — temporarily store data sent to the printer by your computer program and send that data to the printer, one line at a time.
As your program sends more data to the printer, the buffer intercepts it and stores it until the first task has been completed. For many applications, printer buffers really do save time because the printer and the computer can work simultaneously
Antic Spooler creates an 8K buffer in the memory of your 8-bit Atari. Text sent to the printer is intercepted by Antic Spooler, which returns control to your computer as soon as the characters have been stored in RAM. Antic Spooler then sends characters continuously from RAM to the printer while your main program keeps on running.
ANTIC SPOOLER CHALLENGE
The MAC/65 source code for Antic Spooler, SPOOLER.M65, is 118 sectors long and can be found on this month's Antic Disk. Assembly language programmers should not find it hard to enhance Antic Spooler. This magazine would be interested in publishing the best patches or add-ons to Antic Spooler.
For example, you might want to enlai^e the buffer to 16K or so, modify it to use the RAM under the operating system, or create a 64K buffer using the extended mem- ory in the 130XE and upgraded XL computers.
As written, Antic Spooler is useful mainly for making printouts of your own program listings while you con- tinue to compute. Maybe you could even find ways to make Antic Spooler work with some disk-based commer- cial word processing software. (As is, the spooler should already work with commercial cartridge software such as the original version of Atariwriter)
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GEHING STARTED
Since Antic Spooler is a machine language program and cannot be typed-in and SAVEd, we'll use a simple BASIC "helper" program that will automatically recreate Antic Spooler and store it to a disk file.
Type in Listing 1, SPOOLMAK.BAS, check it with TYPO II and SAVE a copy before you RUN it. Listing 1 will cre- ate Antic Spooler, and store it to a disk file called SPOOLER.OBJ. Antic Disk users will find a copy of SPOOLER.OBJ on this month's disk.
Copy SPOOLER.OBJ to another disk and rename it as AUTORUN.SYS. Make sure this disk also has the DOS.SYS and DURSYS files, too. Now reboot your Atari with this disk. The AUTORUN.SYS file will install the spooler into low memory. Ifeur free memory will be reduced by about 8K.
Let's test the spooler LOAD any BASIC program, type LIST *'P:" and Antic Spooler will capture text and begin printing it. After the program has been LISTed, BASIC'S "READY" prompt will appear.
The VBI routine first checks to see if the printer is busy. In this routine, PUT CHAR takes priority over printing, which means that the spooler would rather store charac- ters in its buffer than print them.
When the printer is free, the priority flag is turned off (set to zero), and the spooler will try to print a character
The priority flag is turned on by PUT CHAR whenever a character is stored in the buffer, waiting to be printed.
If the priority flag was off, the VBI routine checks the result of its last attempt to print a character. If there was some problem and that character was not printed, it is re-sent until the character is printed.
If, on the other hand, the character was printed suc- cessfully. Antic Spooler searches the buffer for the next character If it finds one, Antic Spooler puts it into the resident print handler buffer and decrements the charac- ter counter
When the resident buffer becomes full, it's printed us- ing the standard SIO vector (the same vector normally used by your printer).
HOW IT WORKS
Multi-tasking? No, not really Antic Spooler modifies the resident 'T:" printer handler, specifically the PUT CHAR routine. Whenever you execute a statement that PRINTs to the printer (LPRINT, LIST "P:", PRINT #), the new P: handler will store text in the spooler and increment the character counter Then every 1/60 of a second, during the Vertical Blank Interrupt, control passes to the VBI part of Antic Spooler
WARNINGS & DONTS
Since Antic Spooler sends characters to the printer through the SIO vector, it's not affected by OPEN and CLOSE statements, or by the LPRINT and LIST "P:" com- mands. This means it will work with software that never executes a CLOSE command, which is why it works with commercial cartridge software like the original version of AtariWriter
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seeHingiy inpenotrable darkness, ro the east lies a region of scrub and southward is a wood.
PHAMTASIE II
SSI has released an exciting 8-bit Atari version of Phaatasie II, the sec- ond entry in their premier adventure series. And while 8-bit owners will miss out on the ST version's brilliant graphics, at least now all Atarians can go another round with the evil Nikademus.
Phantasie lovers can rejoice at the prospect of sending up to six adven- turers to the island of Ferronrah, over which the Dark Lord Nikademus has cast a cloud of evil. Vetenins can trans- fer their old characters, although by doing so they forfeit most of their ac- cumulated wealth and power New- comers (and those who have lost faith in their current warriors) create characters by selecting race and occu- pation and then watching as the com- puter randomly generates values for attributes such as intelligence, strength and wisdom.
As you search the island for an en- chanted orb, your party will encoun- ter a variety of creatures, most of which will have to be dispatched by force. Castles and dungeons hold treasures and dangers beyond your wildest dreams, and most players can count on hours of play before this game is completed.
As you grow in power you will wield stronger and stronger spells, defeating enemies of ever-increasing strength. But Phantasie II is a game of
brains as well as brawn, so success also depends on the intelligence of you and your character
\bu can use either the keyboard or the joystick to keep the action mov- ing, using ST-like menus. The graphic displays are well designed and help keep even the newcomer right on top of the action. A generous manual completely and concisely explains the game, adding plenty of tables and charts for quick and easy reference. All in all, Phantasie II is a fine addi- tion to anyone's software library and a must for all adventurers. Its practi- cally transparent user interface allows you to concentrate on playing the game — on living the adventure — and isn't that really what it's all about?— STEVE PANAK
$39.95, 48K disk. Strategic Simulations Inc., 1046 N. Rengstorff Avenue, Moun- tain View, CA 94043. (415) 964-1353.
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GUILD OF THIEVES
The 8-bit Atari version of Guild of Thieves, sequel to the popular game The Pawn, is a sophisticated graphic adventure that had me fully involved.
The Pawn transported you to the land of Kerovnia. You return to Kerov- nia in The Guild of Thieves as an ap- prentice to a master thief. \bu are told to steal all the treasures in the area while being watched and judged closely.
The Pawn and Guild of Thieves are not directly connected, except that they are both set in Kerovnia and share small details. The monetary sys- tem is based on the ferg and Farthing- ton's Ale is the local drink. As in The Pawn, commands are entered in full sentences. These include phrases such
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The game can be saved at different points and reloaded. This you want. A helpful feature of the command edi- tor is the ability to take back a move by pressing the escape key. The graphics can be scrolled up or down by pressing [SELECT] or [STVRT].
The outstanding graphics of The Pawn are matched by those in Guild of Thieves, High-resolution pictures transport you into a medieval world of thieves, castles and treasure. The only complaint I have about the Atari XE/XL version is that most of the detailed graphics had only shades of one or two colors.
The annoying copy protection scheme makes you enter a specific word from "What Bui^ar?" when re- loading a saved game. The game also accesses the disk frequently, espe- cially for the graphics. Fortunately you can speed things up by turning the graphics off. And if you liked The Pawn, you are sure to love this su- perior sequel.-JOHN MANOR ■
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To conserve memory for your main program, Antic Spooler relocates itself to the lowest memory location pos- sible. The program pushes your Atari to its limit. The com- puter wasn't designed to do two things at once, so pro- grams won't always be as fast as you'd expect. There may even be moments when the screen freezes briefly while Antic Spooler sends text to the printer or frees buffer space for incoming characters. And since printing affects the sound registers, programs that use sound will be affected.
You should also keep the following cautions in mind: If you try to LOAD a large BASIC program over the Antic Spooler or its buffer, your computer may lock up. Antic has successfully tested Antic Spooler with BASIC programs as large as the 94-sector WYSIWYG Cassette Jackets (November 1987).
You can't turn BASIC on or off while Antic Spooler is printing, but you can do so afterwards.
Finally, you shouldn't use the DOS command because the DUP.SYS file might load right over Antic Spooler If you enter DOS, Antic Spooler will abort its printing, reset all modified memory pointers and exit to DOS. When you return to BASIC, Antic Spooler will be unavailable. ■
Glenn Smith is a Mesa College senior at Grand Junction, Colorado and has been programming for Jive years. This is his first publication in Antic.
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Choosing Your Modem
strategy for online beginners
Your first significant investment before going online with your Atari will be a modem, the small box of electronic circuitry that actually interconnects your computer and the phone system.
You don't necessarily need to buy modem software when first getting started online. Usually you can acquire a good public domain terminal (or modem) program such as AMODEM 7.2 for the 8-bit Atari. And ST owners can start by using the VT52 terminal emulator desk accessory that comes with their computers. Then after getting a bit of online experience, you'll have a better idea of what fea- tures you want to pay for in commercial modem software.
ATARI'S OWN MODEMS
Over the years, Atari Corp. has produced a series of widely used 300-baud modems that plug direaly into the 8-bit Atari's non-standard SIO serial bus. You can still find either new or used XM301s, some older 1030 models, or
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even a few ancient 835s. These are all "direct connect" modems, which means they plug directly into a modular phone jack.
Most standard modems require the computer to have an RS-232 serial interface. The Atari ST models have this RS-232 port built in. To connect RS-232 peripherals to your 8-bit Atari you will need the ICD P:R: Connection or the discontinued Atari 850 interface.
The Atari XM301 modem comes with good communi- cations software, complete with XMODEM file transfer protocol. Keith Ledbetter, one of the best-known names among Atari modem enthusiasts, has written a 1030/ XM301 version of his Express! terminal software. His latest revision is 3-0, available free from most bulletin boards. It is *'share-ware" which you download, use, and send the author some money if you like his efforts.
AMODEM Plus, version 7.3, is the most recent version of this long-established public domain terminal- program for the 8-bit Atari. Many different authors have made re- visions to support the 1030/83 5/XM301 modems and these can be found on lots of Atari BBS libraries.
The older Atari modems are inexpensive — $50 or less— and save you the cost of a special interface if you don't already own a P:R: Connection or 850. But at a speed of 300 baud they are slow by today's standards. And their non-standard SIO connection means that they can be used only on the 8-bit Atari.
NEW ATARI SX212
Atari's newest online product is the SX212 modem (S99.95), which swiftly sold out its entire first shipment last Christmas. At 1200 baud, the SX212 is four times faster than the older Atari modems. This speed can save you a lot of online time costs when you transfer files over a long-distance BBS connection or a time-charge system such as CompuServe.
The SX212 has both SIO and RS232 interfaces, so it can connect directly to the 8-bit Atari or the ST Or you can use a P:R: Connection or 850 to hook it up to the 8-bit.
The SX212 is Hayes compatible when it operates via
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PATRIOT 2400E MODEM
As modem prices continue to drop, combination 300/ 1200/2400 baud modems are fast becoming widely af- fordable. My Patriot 2400E is such a new model that my serial number is in the low 200s. The Patriot 2400E is a "Made in the USA* external smart modem made by Anchor, It comes with an external power supply, phone cord and input/output connector, owner's manual, two- year limited warranty, and subscription packages for CompuServe, The Source and GEnie worth up to 175. Owners of 8-bit Ataris will need an interface like ICD's P:R: Connection or the old Atari 850 to use the Patriot 2400E. However, ST owners can simply connect this modem to their RS-232 ports.
The Patriot 2400E utili2es the standard AT command set, which includes commands for controlling the inter- nal *'S" registers. You can modify operating parameters and store desired conditions in resident non-volatile mem- ory, allowing automatic reconfiguration whenever you turn on the modem.
The modem circuitry is housed in an attractive tan and brown case with a speaker, volume control and a full com- plement of status lights. The speaker can be controlled with either the AT command or an external knob. The top panel reveals a set of DIP switches for making the modem work with your particular terminal program. I didn't have to change any DIP switches, but I did change one S register to make the modem work correctly with 850 Express!,
The modem supports U,S. and U.K. pulse dial timing, pulse and tone dial (even mixed pulse and tone), pause, wait for dial tone, wait for quiet answer, flash hook, stored number dialing, auto-answer, and autodial. Also included are English and numeric result codes that tell you what the modem is doing, and an Escape mode that lets you reconfigure the modem while online with another computer.
The 4l-page owner's manual is comprehensive and thorough, and it includes a handy command reference sheet. The well-documented self-test operations make it easy to troubleshoot any problems. The only thing the manual lacks is a customer service phone number.
With prices that compete with the 1200 baud modems, plus many standard features, I highly recommend the Patriot 2400E,~GLENN SMITH
$189. Anchor Automation, Inc., 20675 Bahama Street, Chats- worth, CA 91311. (818) 998-6100.
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the RS-232 interface. Hayes commands are the standard by which ail modems are measured. You'd be hard-pressed to find a better Atari 8-bit online package than the SX212 modem with RS-232 interface and Keith Ledbetter's 850 Express!, version 3-0.
The only problem with the SX212 is that 8-bit owners who don't want to buy an RS-232 connector won't have any commercial software available until Atari comes out with its promised add-on package featuring a new SX212 version of Ledbetter's Express! software. Til be reviewing this entire SX212 Express! system for Antic as soon as it becomes available.
ST owners will find that the Hayes compatible SX212 works very nicely with Flash (from The Catalog), Inter- link, ST Term, ST Talk, or any other terminal software that supports Hayes compatible modems.
AVATEX, ANCHOR, SUPRA
Avatex makes a popular line of low-priced 1200 baud standard modems. If you come across a good deal on an Avatex, take careful note of the model name. The Avatex 1200 is a good general-purpose unit, but the 1200hc is preferable because the "he" stands for fully Hayes com- patible. The basic Avatex 1200 model requires you to switch manually between 300 and 1200 baud, which is not acceptable for running a BBS.
I've been using an Anchor Mark XII for nearly 3 years without any problems. It is extremely reliable and quite Hayes compatible. My only complaint about this unit is that it doesn't have a built-in speaker. I like to use a modem speaker to listen to the sound of telephone signal tones. The current crop of Anchor modems, including their new Lightning 2400 baud series, all have speakers.
Supra, formerly MPP, has been a longtime producer of modems for the Atari. If you run across an older MPP modem that connects to the 8-bit Atari via the joystick port, 1 have heard a fair number of complaints about these discontinued models. {We were quite happy with the old MPP we used at Antic for several years. —ANTIC ED) But the newer Supra 1200 and 2400 baud modems are quite good and come at good prices.
2400-BAUD SPEEDSTERS
If you truly have "the need for speed" online, shop for a good 2400 baud modem. Prices are coming down to the $200 range. But I suggest avoiding mail order house brands because you don't know what you're getting and the quality can be uneven. I bought such a modem and it decided to hang up the phone every time my air condi- tioner kicked on. I didn't get my refund until after several months and about six long-distance phone calls.
Good, low cost ''brand names" you can generally trust are US Robotics, Everex, Avatex, Supra and Anchor. If you come across a bargain brand you're not familiar with, find someone who owns one and has first-hand experience with it. ■
Game of the Month
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By BOB AYIK
Perfected Pong
New challenges from an old favorite
This shoit machine-language update of the very first Atari video game is jammed v\^ith powerful user-controlled enhancements. The BASIC transla- tion of Perfected Pong works on all 8-bit Atari computers with at least 32K memory, disk or cassette. Atari paddles are required.
If you got your early exposure to electronic games on the Atari 2600 Video Cartridge System, you undoubt- edly have played a lot of Pong — the simplified ping- pong simulation where you move a paddle cursor to keep a ball bouncing against the edge of the video display. Not only w^as Pong the first home video game, it has been in- cluded free with many of the millions of 2600s sold since 1977. Well, it's time to dust off your old Atari paddle set (or compatible) and take on some brand-new Pong chal- lenges.
I began writing Perfected Pong after playing the classic game with 8-year-old Laura. We were playing at slow speed and she was killing me. But she wasn't having fun. She kept claiming that I was letting her win.
Now Laura beams as she wins, because Perfected Pong has six different skill levels that can be set independently for each player. Every skill level has a different starting and maximum ball speed.
Perfected Pong also has 20 different angles of ball re- bound, which gives you a lot of subtlety in controlling
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how the ball spins off your paddle.
You can master Perfected Pong in practice mode, where one or two players volley without any scorekeeping and the ball bounces right back into play after "falling off the end of the screen. Just tap any key and the ball will slow down to its beginning speed for that level.
There are also some nice new audio-visual touches. Players can select any of 16 possible color combinations for the screen. I used l6-bit sound channeling to create the familiar click of the baD hitting the boundaries. There is also a new twangy sound for the ball hitting the paddles.
When a point is tallied, the score pulsates as it changes. And while waiting for a serve, a pulsation also marks the paddle of the player who is to serve next.
Perfected Pong is a short (about 3.5K) update of Pong. It's written in fast, smooth MAC/65 assembly language.
GEHING STARTED
PONG is a machine language program which would be difficult to type in original form. Listing 1, MAKEPONG.BAS, is an easy-to-type BASIC program that creates this machine language program for you.
Type in Listing 1, check it with TYPO II and SAVE a copy before you RUN it. When RUN, Listing 1 creates the machine language game for you, and writes it to a disk file called PONG.EXE. Antic Disk Owners will find PONG.EXE on this month's disk.
There are two ways to start the PONG program. Method 1: Type DOS, after making sure you're using DOS 2 or DOS 2.5. When the DOS menu appears, type L [RETURN] then type PONG.EXE [RETURN].
Method 2 will give you automatic loading: Format a blank disk, using DOS 2 or DOS 2.5. Next, type H [RE- TURN] to WRITE DOS FILES TO DISK. Now use DOS option C to copy PONG.EXE to this disk. Finally rename PONG.EXE to AUTORUN.SYS.
By now, you should have three files on your disk: DOS.SYS, DUPSYS and AUTORUN.SYS. To play Pong, re- move all cartridges from your computer, put this disk into drive 1, (XL/XE owners should hold down the [OPTION] key) and turn on your Atari. PONG will automatically load and begin.
The first thing you'll see when you play Perfected Pong is a flashy title screen that lists the keys to press for select- ing game options. You can quit a game anytime and re- turn to the title screen by pressing [CONTROL] [Q]. When you complete a game, press either paddle button to start a new game at the current settings, or press any key to return to the title screen. ■
Bob Ayik of Maple Shade, New Jersey is an attorney practicing in the Philadelphia area. Perfected Pong is his first publica- tion in Antic.
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Recall is a flashy new 8-bit Atari BASIC version of the classic televison game, Concentration. (An ST Concentration game appeared in last month's Antic.) This fast, smooth BASIC program runs on Atari 8-bit computers v^ith minimum 48K mem- ory, disk or cassette.
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ow has your memory been lately?" 'Ah. . . ah. . . I forget." "You might try playing Recall on your 8-bit Atari. . ."
Pit your memory against a human or computer oppo- nent with Recall, a colorful new 8-bit BASIC adaptation of TV's classic Concentration game The Recall game board consists of 30 numbered positions with an object hidden behind each one. A player chooses two numbers, expos- ing both object icons. If there is a matching pair, two characters of a hidden message replace the objects. You have earned a point and can take another turn. If you fail to make a match, it's your opponent's turn.
As Antic explained in last month's GFA BASIC Con- centration for ST computers, the game is won when the complete message is guessed correctly, or fully displayed after the final successful pairing. You make a guess at the beginning of a turn by pressing [CONTROL] [G] and if you're right, you get all the remaining points.
USING THE PROGRAM
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To merge the two programs, disk users LOAD '*D:RE- CALL.BAS" and then ENTER "D: LINES. EST". Cassette users: CLOAD Listing 1, then insert the separate cassette used for Listing 2 and ENTER **C:". Remember to SAVE the completed program before you RUN it.
Plug a joystick into port 1. In a two-player game, plug another one into port 2. When the game starts, press [SE- LECT] to choose between a one-player or two-player game. Press [START] to begin playing. In a one-player game, your computer opponent has an infallible mem- ory, so watch out. But just to even the odds a little, your Atari makes the first move.
Recall comes with 10 messages starting at line 1900. These are randomly selected by the computer You can change these or add to the list. Just make sure that the line numbers start at 1900 and are 10 apart. Also, change the variable I in line 1850 to reflect the number of state- ments you have. All messages must have fewer than 31 letters and you should avoid punctuation marks.
Now let's see. Was the boat under number 12, or was it 17? Or was the ring under 17 and the boat under 27?B
Barry Kolbe is a high school math teacher in Madison, Wis- consin and enjoys solving all kinds of puzzles He co-wrote Antic Spelling Checker, the October 1987 Super Disk Bonus.
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Super Sorters
Part II: Mixed Numbers Sorting Routine
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By KEVIN PECK
hy won't all your ASCII text sort routines work with numbers m strings? The prob- lem is that normal sort routines look at data one character at a time. As soon as the routine finds two unequal characters, it thinks it's done searching and decides whether or not to swap the two data ele- ments, depending on the sort order This is fine for text, but simply does not work with numbers.
Let's look at an example using a char- acter-by-character sort on the names SMITH and JONES. The computer finds that the ASCII value of S is greater than J. Thus Smith is greater than Jones — so the two last names must be swapped. This works as expected. We don't care about the rest of the text field. We know a swap is necessary after examining just the first character in each data element.
With the numbers 24 and I56, if we go character by character, the computer will first decide that since 1 is less than 2, then I56 must be less than 24. Oops! We need another sorting method that looks at the whole number first before sort- ing character by character.
My Mixed Numbers sort routine first determines the signs of the two numbers. If they're not equal — one is positive and one is negative — then we don't even have to look at the rest of the number.
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This concludes a two-part series of powerful sorting routines for intermediate programmers,
which began with Multikey Sort in the April 1988 issue. Mixed Numbers is a machine language routine
that sorts strings containing mixed numeric data types^positive numbers, negative numbers and
floating decimal point numbers. Also included is a general-purpose substring finder routine
that does multikey sorts within the Mixed Number sorter. This BASIC program works
on all 8-bit Atari computers of any memory size, with disk or cassette.
We can decide right away if we need to swap them. If the signs of the two numbers are equal, then we move to the next test.
The second test involves finding the lengths of the two numbers. We'll examine each number, character by char- acter, until we find a decimal point or a space. We do this because 1.2345 is less than 45, although 1.2345 has more digits. Using this method, L2345 has a length of 1, and 45 has a length of 2. If the two lengths are unequal, then we can decide right now whether or not to swap them. Otherwise, we must go to the third step.
Our third step goes back to looking at the two num- bers on a character-by-character basis. This only works for numbers of equal lengths — the only kind we'll have if we make it this deep into the testing. But what if they're the same length before the decimal point but have a dif- ferent number of digits after?
According to part two of the test, the numbers 34.567 and 34.5 both have a length of 2. The character-by- character comparison will take care of problem with the digits after the decimal point.
The computer will find the first four characters of each number to be equal. When it gets to the fifth character it will find a 6 in the first number and a space for the sec- ond. According to the computer's internal table, the value of a space is less than the value of any number so the com- puter will correctly decide that 34.5 is less than 34.567.
The only problem with this three-prong numeric sort arises when you have two negative numbers. Wliile 45 is greater than 38, -45 is less than -38. Mixed Numbers checks to see if it's sorting two negative numbers, and if so, it reverses its swap decision.
GEHING STARTED
Type in Listing 1, NUMSORTDEM, check it with TYPO II and SAVE a copy before you RUN it. If you have trouble typing in the special characters in lines 2010-2100, don't type them in. Listing 2 will create them for you. Type List- ing 2, checking it with TYPO II, and SAVE a copy to disk.
When RUN, Listing 2 creates these hard-to-type lines, and stores them in a file called LINES. LST.
To merge the two programs, disk users LOAD "D: NUM- SORTDEM" and then ENTER "D:LINES.LST. " Cassette users: CLOAD Listing 1, then insert the separate cassette used for Listing 2 and ENTER "C:".
Finally, remember to SAVE the completed program be- fore you RUN it. You should also keep a copy of LINES.LST, the machine language sort routines, for use in your own BASIC programs.
HOW TO USE THEM
Here is the proper format for using this routine in your .own BASIC programs:
A = USR(ADR(SN$), FIRST, LAST, FIELDLEN, OFF- SET, RECLEN, ORDER)
And here is an explanation of each part of the statement:
A: A USR call may return one value to }^our BASIC pro- gram. That value is sent here. BASIC demands that all USR calls be written this way, even if no value is returned.
ADR(SN$): Address of the string containing the sort routine. This string appears in lines 2030-2100 of the demo program.
FIRST: Memory address where we wiU start the sort. It wiU always be greater than or equal to the address or the string containing the sorted data.
LAST: Address where the sort ends. It must be greater than FIRST, or the computer will lock up.
FIELDLEN: Length of the numeric field we'U be sort- ing on. The data string must be put in fixed-length record format. This means that extra characters in the numeric field must be padded with spaces for the routine to work properly.
OFFSET: Amount of character spaces into the record where the numeric field starts.
RECLEN: Length of each record within the data string.
ORDER: Sort order. Use 0 for an ascending sort, or 1 (or any non-zero value) for a descending sort.
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DEMO
The demo program uses string DS$ set up as shown below:
Figure 1
Last First
Name Name Income Tax Owed
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Record Length = 28
Line 1070 in your completed demo program enters the subroutine to set up the two machine language strings.
Lines 1120-1200 read the sample data from lines 1590- 1780 into one big string, padding any missing characters with spaces.
Then the string is printed as is, using the routine start- ing at line 1470. The bottom of the screen will tell you that you are now viewing the raw, unsorted data. Press the [SPACEBAR] to continue.
Now we'll actually sort some data. First we'll do an ascending sort by income. This is done in line 1230: ADR(SN$) is the address of the machine language string, ADR(DS$) is the address of our data string, and ADR(DS$) + LEN(DS$) is the ending address of the string in memory.
The income field length is 8. And 13 is the 'bffset" from the start of the record to the sort field. The offset is ob- tained by adding the lengths of all fields before the field you're manipulating — as explained last month in Super- Sorts: Part I.
Both last name (length = 7) and first name (length = 6) appear before income. Since the sum is 13, the offset of income is 13. Figure 1 gives us the record length. Fi- nally, let's do an ascending sort, giving ORDER a value of 0.
Line 1240 displays the new sorted information, tells you the current format and waits for you to press the [SPACE- BAR] again.
Line 1250 sorts the data string again, but by tax owed this time — in descending order. The 8 in line 1230 is changed to a 7, so the length of the sort field is now 7 characters. The offset is changed from 13 to 21. The new format is printed to the screen in line 1260.
SORTING TECHNIQUES
I've found that I usually sort the database by a normal string field and then sort numeric data within smaller sec- tions. For example, let's use a database containing all of our programs, the language they're written in, and their length in bytes so we know how much memory we need for each.
Let's sort them by language first: BASIC, ACTION!, Logo, etc. Then let's sort the programs by memory length within each language. My Multikey sort routine won't work be- cause of the numeric memory length field. We need the starting and ending address of each language within the
main data string so we can properly sort the memory length.
The second machine language subroutine is stored in FS$ . It finds the first and last occurrence of a field within your data string, then it returns the actual address of these items, which lets you pass the values to the numeric sort routine — which requires a little more work to use it properly.
This is the format of the routine:
START=USR(ADR(FS$), ADR(D$), ADR(FLD$), LENFIELD, OFFSET, LENRECORD, RECCNT)
LAST= PEEK(2 05) + 256* PEEK(206)
I used the variable START instead of A = USR(. . .) be- cause the routine is passing information back to us this time. In this case, it's returning the address of the first ele- ment in the sort.
Note that START will equal zero (0) if the field string is not found within the main data string. Be sure to check START for a 0 value before calling the sorting routine. Otherwise, if START is equal to 0, the computer will at- tempt to sort Page 0 memory and lock up.
You should also check to see if START+ RECORD LENGTH is equal to LAST. If so, then only one record con- taining the given field string was found. And sorting one field will get you nowhere The second line retrieves the second bit of information supplied by the routine.
Here are the variables:
ADR(FS$): Address of the machine language routine.
ADR(D$): Starting address of the data to be searched.
ADR(FLD$): Address of the string containing the field information we're looking for
LENFIELD: Length of the field we're looking for This should be set to LEN(FLD$) for the routine to work properly.
OFFSET: Number of character spaces into the record where the field starts.
LENRECORD: Length of each record within the data string.
RECCNT: record count^ — the number of records to search within the main data string. To search the whole data string, this will be set to LEN(D$)/LENRECORD. You could sort a subset of the main data string by passing a value between 2 and the actual record count.
The demo program uses the String Find routine in line 1560. We'll use a data string with a fixed record length, using two fields: field one is the programming language and field two is the memory length in bytes:
Figure 2
Program Language 8 Length in Bytes 3
RECORD LENGTH 11
The routine is called several times, starting in line 1370. We must first tell the routine what language to look for by storing the language name in 1$ before calling the rou-
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I don't know how many Antic readers will remember my letter published in the April, 1986 I/O Board under the title "Poland Teacher." It was a request for readers to send any Atari-related materials for use with my students at the University of Krakow. I explained that few Poles had Atari computers and that software was even scarcer than the small quantities of basic food products reaching this dis- tant and quite different country — where money cannot be exchanged for any Western currency.
Within weeks after publishing my message, I was al- most drowning in the wave of letters, magazines and disks. Dozens of people who never met me were suddenly offer- ing to pay the subscription fees to various computer maga- zines so that I could receive them directly in Poland.
It is said that extensive users of impersonalized com- puters are deprived of warm feelings. On the contrary these supposedly heartless computer monsters actually appeared to be much more friendly and understanding than others who never touch a computer keyboard. It seems that the popularity of personal computers creates a network of friendly users willing to share their concepts and knowledge no matter where they live or what they do.
In June 1986, two months after my letter appeared in Antic, I was forced to leave Poland due to various politi- cal reasons. I had to leave behind my Atari, along with almost all my belongings. With my wife and our four-year- old son, Mike, I landed in West Germany
It seemed quite natural to try to get to an English- speaking country. I was, after all, an English teacher. The United States was our choice. However, according to cur-
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Tadeusz andjolanta Menert with their five-year- old son Michal.
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rent immigration laws, being a political refugee isn't enough for admittance to the USA. Sponsors are needed who will help a refugee settle down succesfully.
With no relatives in America and only a few pen-pal Atarians, it seemed almost impossible for us. Besides, deprived of my 800XL and disk drive I could no longer count on writing interesting letters, full of computer news and gossip, to the States.
Although I never openly asked any of my friends for help in getting across the Atlantic, they offered such help on their own! By September 1986, we already had our sponsor, Marlin. But there were still long months of wait- ing while our paperwork was processed by the American immigration authorities.
Having quite a lot of time at my disposal, I looked around to see how well the Atari was doing in West Ger- many, since I had read so many positive things about the growing Atarian population there. However, it was hard to find a single active users group. It was somewhat sad to see that other computers had so many active users groups holding regular meetings, advertising in local papers, organizing computer shows. And I found only one or two Atari-specific magazines — they were exclusively for the ST.
In August 1987 we finally received the long-awaited let- ter saying that we would be allowed to come and live in
the United States of America. Less than a month later, we landed happily in Colorado, heartily welcomed by people we had never seen before in our lives. When they decided to help us the year before, the only thing they knew about us was that we needed help. Thanks to them, we were able to start our new life on the American soil.
But some thanks also must go to that litde magic box called a computer. I am often asked how it happened that we ended our long journey in Colorado. Before giving any more detailed answer, I always reply "Thanks to Atari!" and I watch the confused looks.
When you are starting life over again from the very be- ginning, there are many important things to take care of. But although it will definitely be some time before we can afford to buy a computer, I know what make I will choose when the time comes. I owe you too much, Atari, to trade you for something else!
P.S. 1 would like to assure everyone who sent Atari materials to Poland in answer to my 1986 I/O letter that it is still being used by my friends living there. This has been a great support to those needing helpful informa- tion that would otherwise be unavailable in Poland. Thank you once again. ■
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tine. We must call the routine once for each language be- fore displaying the data again.
Line 1420 sorts on the Length In Bytes of each program. Notice that the parameters are passed from the String Find routine when we call the sort this time. We don't want to sort the entire data string here, but rather a subsection — only programs written in BASIC.
SUBSEaiON SORTS
To sort each program language subsection of the data string, we'd use these same lines over again for each pos- sible value of program language. We only have to change the value of FLD$ each time — the rest of the lines remain the same. But this is cumbersome if there are several pos- sibilities for the key sort field.
While using a database program, you might want to ex- amine a subsection of the database. Using the program language database example again, let's say you want to see aH Logo programs, with their memory length in bytes. If you've sorted the string by program language using the Multikey Sort routine, then a quick caU to the String Find routine will supply the addresses necessary to display the requested information. Here's another example;
200 FLDI = "LOGO"
210 FIRST=USR(ADR(FS$), ADR(D$), ADR(FL$), LEN(FLD^), 0, 15, LEN(D$)/15)
220 IF FIRST=0 THEN PRINT '^No matching data found.":GOTO 300
230 FOR 1 = FIRST-ADR(D$) + 1 TO LAST-ADR(D$) STEP 11
240 PRINT D$(I,I-flO):NEXT I
250 REM Program continues here
These program lines would display all Logo programs and their memory lengths.
You could also use the String Find routine to make sure that you haven't entered any duplicate data. Some data- base applications don't let you duplicate certain fields. If you enter "Paper Clips" while in the Add Category func- tion of an inventory database, the program must check to see if that category already exists. If so, then the pro- gram must tell you so and instruct you to enter the Adjust Inventory mode to add the newly purchased paper clips to the database.
To test for duplication, enter the new field data and use that data as the FLD$ parameter for the String Find rou- tine. If START= 0 after calling the routine, then the pro- gram can add the new information to the list. Otherwise the program should warn the user of the duplication and let you exit from the Add Category routine. ■
Kevin Fleck wrote the Word Sc^chtr puzzle solver (Antic, March 1987) as well as Super Sorter: Part I (April 1988). He is a com- puter science major from Salina, Kansas.
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ANTIC, The Atari Resource
The Ever-Changing
Atari Marketplace
Six Antic Years
By NAT FRIEDLAND, Antic Editor
WELCOME, XE-GS OWNERS
Atari Corp. sold 100,000 XE Game Systems in the U.S. last Christmas — every unit that they manufactured last year And of course the XE Game System is just a cosmeti- cally redesigned 800XL/65XE 8-bit computer
True, the XE Game System is being marketed as a de- vice for playing entertainment software cartridges with- out needing a disk drive. But it seems very likely that af- ter a few months with challenging "games" like the Flight Simulator 11 cartridge included with the XE Game Sys- tem, many new owners will become full-fledged Atari users by adding the advanced new Atari XF551 drive ($199.95) which is now available.
Thousands of XE Game System owners probably will soon want to explore more of the outstanding capabili- ties of the 8-bit Atari. They might first try large-scale graphic adventure game disks that need saving between play sessions. From there, it's an easy step to using paint programs, word processors, databases, speech products — and the many fine programs available from users groups, online and on Antic Disks.
Meanwhile, the first big batch of Atari entertainment car- tridges for the XE Game System is being shipped (and will be reviewed in the next issue of Antic). These cartridges can be used on any Atari 8-bit computer The 12 impres-
sive titles feature classic software that has either neverhccn available for the 8-bit Atari or has long been unavailable — Battle Zone, Blue Max, David's Midnight Magic, One-on- One Basketball, etc. Naturally, Antic will review all new Atari cartridges as soon as they become available.
CONSTANT CHANGE
Considering that Atari personal computers have always been a comparatively specialized segment of the overall computer market, Antic has certainly seen many dramatic Atari changes during our first six years of publication. When publisher James Cappareil put out our first issue in AprO 1982, an Atari 800 with I6K memory and a bulky 810 disk drive cost $1,679-95.
Then as now. Antic had no doubts that the Atari was technologically the best 8-bit computer ever made. But it took an adventurous and individualistic computer user to recognize this. The old Atari, Inc. owned by Warner Cormnunications never marketed their great computers effectively At first the company was too busy making un- precedented amounts of money on video cartridge systems—peaking at $2 billion sales in 1982, the year of Pac Man. Then when the bottom dropped out of the video game market in 1983, shell-shocked executives were too
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Cover and two inside pages from the first issue of Antic, April 1982.
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busy trying to halt a 1450 million loss!
A totally unexpected bombshell hit the Atari world in July 1984 as Warner sold the company for $240 million to Jack Tramiel, the man who built Commodore Com- puters (especially the Commodore 64) into Atari's victori- ous arch-rival in the marketplace. The feisty, aggressive Tramiel swiftly finished restructuring the company into a lean-and-mean competitor, changing its name to the Atari Corp.
In an astonishing six months, the new Atari Corp. premiered the groundbreaking 520ST computer at the January 1985 Consumer Electronics Show, and then brought it to market by June. Without question, this was a unique, even heroic, feat that won Atari renewed world- wide credibility. In November 1986, Atari Corp. went pub- lic with a sold-out $50.6 million stock issue. And the price of Atari shares more than doubled before falling back as a result of the October 1987 stock market slump.
ATARI COMMUNITY '88
Antic Magazine is proud to have completed six years of service to the worldwide Atari community. The unique loyalty of Atari-using Antic readers enabled Antic Pub- lishing Inc. to grow from classic "kitchen tiible" begin- nings to a 54-employee company occupying an entire three-floor San Francisco building.
The success of Antic Magazine is what made it possi- ble for us to bring Atarians these other important services:
• ANTIC ONLINE, our pioneering three-year-old electronic publication on CompuServe that provides the fastest Atari news, software and graphics files for down- loading, and a vast archive of reviews and articles.
• ANTIC SOFTWARE, probably the leading suppUer of high-quality programming for all models of Atari com- puters, featuring 8-bit software like RAMbrandt and ST products like CAD-3D and the Cyber series.
• START, the first all-ST magazine — which jumps from four to eight yearly issues in 1988.
LET'S WORK TOGETHER
In 1988 as always, Antic isn't content just to point out whatever problems are facing the Atari community. We're here to work with Atarians and do what we can to make things better for everybody.
First of all, since Antic is presendy the only Atari maga- zine that can be counted on to come out every month with product news for all models, we are committing to an all-out effort to publish every product review in the first available issue — without any holdover reviews if at all possible. In fact, we already started doing this in the January 1988 issue, shortening reviews when necessary in order to cover every 8-bit and ST produa without delay.
Also, next month we will start a major new 8-bit pro- gramming contest that goes beyond the highly successful Practical Applications Contest (November 1987). Com- plete rules and prizes will be explained in the June 1988 Antic. But don't worry if you already made a sale to Antic
this year, all programs accepted for publication during 1988 will automatically be considered for the contest.
The editors of Antic believe most Atari users would agree that the biggest problem facing Atarians today is the difficulty of finding software and other products for our computers. Product unavailability is especially severe for the 8-bit Atari, but the ST situation could use considera- ble improvement too.
Unfortunately, this problem is too big for Antic to fix by itself. But if enough users are willing to become just a bit more involved, we think that genuine progress could be made! After all, a pre-release copy of Springboard's new 8-bit Atari version of Newsroom just arrived at Antic — a product that would never have been created if it wasn't for the hundreds of readers who responded to Antic's 1987 write-in campaign.
If you'd like to find more Atari products at convenient dealers, here are few simple things you can do: TELL your nearby software dealer that you want to buy products for your Atari there. JOIN your local users group. SUPPORT Atari software publishers by buying the programs you want— DON'T trade illegal copies with your friends!
And if you want Antic to continue coming out every month with the best coverage supporting your Atari computer^please give this magazine the support it needs from you! SUBSCRIBE— that's the most important thing you can do to keep Antic at its best for you! Also, submit good articles, programs, reviews and tips. Don't be shy about it. Remember, Antic has always been written primarily by its readers. Right now, we can use more reviewers with all kinds of special backgrounds— from ST sysops to 8-bit hardware upgraders. So write to Antic and tell us about your areas of expertise.
WRITE TO UNCLE JACK
Now let's get together for a special project that could make more Atarian products available in your area soon! Antic is asking you to write a letter this month to Jack Tramiel, Chairman of Atari Corp. Tell him these two things:
1. Give Jack the addresses and phone numbers of the computer stores in your area that you would like to see carrying Atari products.
2. Tell Jack what it would take for Atari to get you to buy more of their products.
Please be courteous and realistic in your letters. "Cut 1040ST prices to $99, you *+&©#%" is not the kind of communication that will convince people about the correctness of your viewpoint. Whenever possible, send your letter as a printout— to demonstrate that you are a serious user who has invested in a computer, a printer and word processing software. You should write to Mr. Jack Tramiel at: Atari Corp., 1196 Borregas Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086.
And, as in our previous successful write-in campaigns, please be sure to send a copy of your letter to Antic Write- in, 544 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. That way we can learn from your suggestions too, and perhaps pass around the store list to other third-party Atari developers.B
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ANTIC, The Atari Resource
Third Annual
Outstanding A t a r i a n Achievements of 19 8 7-88
This issue's Third Annual Antic Awards show there is a wide spec- trum of large and small com- panies, individuals and clubs providing outstanding support for the Atari Community. This year, Antic is pleased to honor some 18 Outstanding Atar- ian Achievements, more than ever before. As we decided in 1987, no winners are eligible for an award in two consecutive years. There are many other deserving Atari contributors whom we expect to honor in future anniversary is- sues. With the help of loyal, dedi- cated Atari users, Antic Magazine
looks forward to meeting the
ever-changing needs of the Atari
Community for many more
years to come.
Outstanding
Products
BBS
Users Group
Services
Professional Programmer
Antic Contributor
By GREGG PEARLMAN, Antic Assistant Editor
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James Vierson-Verry
Outstanding Antic Contributor
Having appeared in every Antic but two since March, 1987, Jim Pierson- Perry is undoubtedly our most prolific Contributing Writer these days— as well as the most versatile contributor. A research chemist for Dupont, Jim writes programs and reviews products on both the 8-bit and ST com- puters. His expertise includes music and MIDI software, scientific and financial applications and adventure games. Jim's Designer Labels program (April, 1987) made it possible to put Print Shop icons on sdck-on labels and was just about the most popular Antic program last year.
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This fusl 2-pa.w civmpller cunvcrtK your ritiishid HFA Hasie progrmns into ciimpuct, fitsttr-rtintuiii; ninchine! Iiin|}ua)jc nics, lliul iifHTutv «i(hmjt III); aid «r u ryntlme modole.
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Publishing Partner
Outstanding Product
SoftLogik's Publishing Partner desktop publishing program, is one of the most ambitious packages being marketed for the ST. It is GEM-based and easy to use, and putting DEGAS or NEOchrome pictures into your
text is no problem. To date, Publishing Partner is the most popular ST desktop publishing software around. It was written entirely in 68000 assembly language by
Deron Kazmaier, whose new Publislung Partner
Professional upgrade is due shortly with
even more powerful features.
Gfa basic
Outstanding Product
Quick, memory-efficient GFA BASIC is the best BASIC programming lan- guage available for the Atari ST. Its main drawback is that unlike ST BASIC, you don't get a free copy of GFA BASIC when you purchase your computer. But users have been able to overlook this inconvenience, since GFA BASIC costs just $79.95 and supports many GEM ftmctions by key- word. Most Antic ST programs are now written in GFA BASIC, a German import distributed in the U.S. by MichTron. GFA BASIC boasts a rapidly in- creasing number of support products, including a compOer for standalone
machine language code.
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Animation Station
Outstanding Product
Suncom's Animation Station,
reviewed in the November 1987 Antic, consists of a sturdy, well- designed graphics tablet and Baud- ville's DesignLab paint program. Suncom, best known in the Atari market for their joysticks, is doing a fine job filling the void left when the KoaiaPad and Atari Touch Tablet were no longer being made.
\irtuoso
Outstanding Product
Virtuoso Desktop Performance Studio (April,
1988) brings true desktop video to the 8-bit Atari XL
and XE. Virtuoso is a unique music/graphics interface
that enables experienced users to create impressive
animations with soundtracks — in real time. This is the kind of dramatically innovative software that gives the 8-bit Atari its best chance of staying via- ble. The brainchild of Joseph Lyons and Frank Schwartz, Virtuoso can be used for many other appli- cations. A marine navigational plotting adaptation has already been licensed.
Bom Tsikanovsky
Outstanding Professional Programmer
The ST has always had 512 colors, but until Spectrum 512, you could
use only 16 at a time. Boris Tsikanovsky has changed all that and then
some — Spectrum 512 uses "dithering" techniques to simulate not just 512
colors, but 24,389- In Spectrum 512 you can use DEGAS and NEOchrome
pictures or convert Amiga .IFF and CompuServe GIF files.
Two recent additions by Boris give Spectrum 512 even more flexibility.
Digispec lets you convert any Amiga picture — even a 4,096-color image.
Unispec turns Spectrum 512 into a desk accessory so, for example, you
can grab a chunk of your picture while in DEGAS and paste it
onto the current 512-color picture.
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TiurboBase
Outstanding Product
MicroMiser's TurboBase (Antic, December 1987) is a
high-powered business software package that rivals
the integrated applications available for IBM PC and
works on 8-bit Atari systems costing a fraction of the
PC price. Turbobase sets up customer directories,
dated records, inventory, invoices, payroll and more.
The program can take advantage of just about every
hardware enhancement available for the 8-bit Atari,
such as the 1Mb RAMdisk capability of ICD's
Multi I/O Board and SpartaDOS 3-2.
IPrintMaster Series
Outstanding Product
This continuing series of graphics/text page printing pro- grams from Unison World works like a highly advanced ST version of the 8-bit Atari's classic Print Shop software. But PrintMaster uses the ST's power to support much sharper graphic images and a much greater variety of printers. The series currently includes Print- Master and PrintMaster Plus, as well as Fonts & Borders and Print- Master Art Gallery I and 11.
QompidXalk
Outstanding BBS
Take six 48K Atari 800s, each with a modem and an 850 interface, link them all together via a 20Mb Corvus Hard Disk and Multiplexer. Now toss
in 25-year-old sysop Kris Meier and you have CompiiTalk of Ft. Worth, Texas, possibly the largest Atari bulletin board system operated by a private
individual. Meier said that before the article "Texas-Sized BBS" in the
August, 1987 issue of Antic, his BBS received around 100 calls a day. But
now that more Atari users know about it, that number has increased to
230— and 80% of Meier's callers read about CompuTalk in Antic.
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Pes School
Outstanding Service
At Patrick McShane's PCS School in Nampa, Idaho, students ranging from first grade through 12th use Atari computers to push to the limits of CAMLU — Computer Activated Motorized Lego Unit. Among the Atari- controlled Lego equipment they've developed are a plotter and a hoist that lifts upwards of 40 pounds with a 4-volt motor Since the publication of Maverick Atari School in the October 1987 Antic, McShane's enrollment has more than doubled, and students attend from all parts of the country. "We've even heard from people from behind the Iron Curtain," says McShane.
Claug
Outstanding Users Group
Since 1985, volunteers from CLAUG (ChicagoLand Atari Users Group) have been a mainstay in helping staff the Atari Corp. booth at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show each June in Chicago. In another CES innovation, CLAUG now holds a special dinner meet- ing, attended by a busload of Atari-world top execu- tives, which is the closest thing to an Annual Atari "Roast." CLAUG exemplifies the kind of creative dedi- cation that represents Atari users groups at their best.
\SD Spreadsheets
Outstanding Product
ANTIC AWAHDS
VIP Professional is the only
spreadsheet available for the Atari ST that is fully compatible with Lotus 1-2-3, the industry standard. VIP adds GEM'S smooth graphic interface to the power and flexibil- ity of 1-2-3 — it's command and file compatible. The simpler but still powerful Masterplan is a scaled- down version of VIP Professional, trading full Lotus compatibility for a friendlier user interface and a lower price.
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Thunder Mountain Software
ANTIC mmi
Outstanding Product
Thunder Mountain is Mindscape Software's "dis- count house' ^— a company dedicated to providing Atari 8-bit users with fine software for just $9.95 . Thunder Mountain has a full line of educational and entertainment titles as Songwriter, Mission in Our So- lar System, Run for the Money and Batty Builders. Many Thunder Mountain releases are reissues of suc- cessful older software that otherwise would be unavailable.
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IS/ltdwest Computer Camp
Outstanding Service
Housed on a magnificent old estate
in the woods north of Indiana- polis, Midwest Computer Camp is the largest full-time, year-round residential computer education camp in the U.S. Campers from age 8 to 18 spend six hours a day on computer activities, and there's a counselor for every four camp- ers. Just about every conceivable brand of personal computer is available, including plenty of Ataris.
^BMan
Outstanding Product
If you're an ST user who is ex- perienced with the industry stan- dard dBASE III database software, dBMan by Versasoft is the serious ST database system you're looking
for. dBMAN supports command
files, local and global memory variables, and permits flexible re- port creation. The software gives professional database designers the
flexibility and power needed to develop turnkey systems.
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Qardiac Arrest!
Outstanding Product
A 1988 episode of television's "St. Elsewhere" featured a computerized medical simulator that enabled doctors to practice emergency techniques before treating human patients. That's just what Cardiac Arrest! delivers — for both Atari 8-bit and ST computers. Our medically trained reviewer (May 1987) called Cardiac Arrest! "fas- cinating, useful and an invaluable study aid in Advanced Cardiac Life Sup- port." Cardiac Arrest! is produced by Mad Scientist Software, physician Bruce Ai^yle's small Utah company which exemplifies how individual Atari enthusiasts can successfully bring a fine commercial product to market.
Supra Corp.
Outstanding Product
Supra's fine product line of hard disks, modems and buffer/interfaces has long been in the forefront of hardware support for both Atari 8-bit and ST com- puters. Supra's ST hard disks come in a full range of
memory sizes, including 10Mb, 20Mb, 60Mb. And
Supra produces one of the very few hard disks made
for 8-bit Ataris. The new Hayes-compatible Supra-
Modem 2400 is another excellent product which
will be reviewed in next month's Antic.
firebird Software
Outstanding Product
Those hit games. The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves and Star Glider
all come from one place — Firebird Licensees, probably the most prolific Atari game marketer for the past year. Firebird's games
combine flashy graphics with flashy packaging — and not just for the ST. Many titles are now avail- able for the 8-bit Atari as well.
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