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Sea Stalker 28.95
Infidel 31.95
Sorcerer 31.95
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Witness 2895
GLENTOP
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MARK of UNICORN (520ST)
HEX 29 95
MINCE 129 95
PC/lnlerComm 99 95
FTL GAMES
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ULTIIVIA II 39.95
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VolksmoOem L5
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ATARI
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Codewriter Filewriter Reportwriter Menuwriter Home Integrator Small Bus Inventory Salesman Expenses Aces Rec/Pay Retail Invoice Final Legacy Adventure Writer Star Voyager
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21 75 24.75 24 75 20 75 20 75 1875 20 75 18 75
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The Print Shop 28 95
Graphics Library 18 95
Graphics Library II 19 50
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FEBRUARY 1986, VOLUME 4, NUMBER 10
Ultimate Printer
Fantasy Factory
Degas Art Competition
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ATARI 'TOONS WINNERS by Gigi Bisson |
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PRINTER PICKS by Eric Clausen |
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ULTIMATE DOT-MATRIX PRINTER by Patrick Bass |
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RADIO SHACK COLOR PRINTER MEETS ATARI by Stan and Suzi Subecl< |
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BUILD A TWO-HEADED PRINTER CABLE by Hans Hsu |
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T-SHIRT CONSTRUCTION SET by Charles Jackson ypmn software |
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BASIC ON/OFF SWITCHER by Ian Chadwick ype-in software |
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DOS 2.5 FOR AXLON RAMDISK by Patrick Dell'Era tvpf-in softwarf |
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PRINT SOFTWARE GALLERY by Charles Adamson |
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EDITORIAL
ANTIC ONLINE.
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PROPUCTrVITY, PLEASE
As the microcomputer age matures (and as young microcomputer enthusiasts ma- ture), Ataris are being used more often to increase personal productivity. Yet Antic, a great magazine overall, is very sparse in coverage of personal productivity soft- ware. This is critical for users like ine who live in other countries and depend on ad- vertising and magazine reviews to guide our mail order purchasing decisions. We'd be grateful if you would produce more reviews of word processors, spreadsheets and the like.
Kirk Darling Philippine Islands Until recently, there ivas not very much soious Atari applications software to re- view. Fortunately that is now changing. You'll find a wealth of ways to put your Atari to work next month (March, 1985), in Antic's Personal Productivity issue. — ANTIC ED
CROSSED STARS
In the review of the Star SG-10 printer in the July, 1985 Antic, Charles Jackson says that the SG-10 works with Print Shop soft- ware. I tried, and it didn't work. The people at Broderbund advised me that Print Shop is not compatible with either the SG-10 or the SD-10.
Kenneth M. Cox Fayetteville, AR Star Micronics told Antic that the printers ARE compatible— Just configure Print Shop for a Gemini lOX and make sure your printer is in STAR mode (DIP switch 2-2 is UP). Antic successfidly used Print Shop with tnany Star Micronics printers to test the Graphic Shop program.
-ANTIC ED
AUTOBOOT
How can 1 implement AUTORUN.SYS so that a BASIC program will run automati- cally when 1 boot the disk?
Greg Pearson Windsor, CO Wu'll find everything you need to know about AUTORUN. SYS in the Lazy Loader sidebar on page 35 of the May, 1985 Anttc-AH\\C ED
MORE CHROMA
Regarding Antic's December, 1985 I/O board: There is a solution for the lack of chroma output on the 800XL. The chroma output is at the emitter of Q5 . You need to purchase a 200 ohm resistor and solder one side at the juncton of R67 and R68. The other side goes to pin 5 on the monitor connector. You wiU have to ex- tend the 200 ohm resistor by means of an insulated wire. The Chicagoland Atari Users Group gets credit for this solution. Johnny Borden Oak Lawn, IL
R67
/WW
R68
200Q RESISTOR
TO PIN 5 ON MONITOR ' CONNECTOR
LUCKY STRIKE
This is for Chris PuzzeUe, the unlucky guy who wrote to I/O (December, 1985) that he can't find a replacement for his 800 that got struck by lightning. Computer Mail Or- der (see their advertisement in Antic) is selling Atari 800 computers for a mere $69. 95. But I strongly suggest that you buy a 130XE instead. With that 128K of RAM and SpartaDOS by ICD, you can configure 64k of extra memory as a 507-sector RAMdisk. You can also configure a second 59-sector RAMdisk to operate under Atari BASIC. I have found RAMdisks invaluable when developing assembly language pro- grams where 1 may work with as many as six different .INCLUDE files at once. Also, the 130XE keyboard rivals that of the old 800.
Matthew Ratcliff Ferguson, MO Matthew Ratcliff is the author of Antic's Revision C Converter and Atari 'Toons. Several other readers also suggested retailers who offer the Atari 800.
-ANTIC ED
continued on page 8
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MOONLIGHT RIGHTS
The Antic Catalog is a great way to get otherwise impossible-to-fmd software, but now I'm worried about changes. Before the catalog, Graphic Shop would have been listed as part of the magazine instead of being sold for 819. 95 in the catalog.
Ray Hill Before the Antic Catalog, an independent Atari programmer did not have an out- let to sell utility software that ivas too complex for publication as a magazine listing. Graphic Shop was co-tvritten by staff programmer Charles fackson (on his own time) and freelancer Darryl May. Jackson should have the same right as any other programmer to moonlight and earn extra money. During the Atari mar- ket's leanest times, the Antic Catalog saved an entire body of fine third-party software from becoming unavailable. — ANTIC ED
GERMAN ATARIAN
In 1983 I bouglit a 600XL. In 1984 1 visited the U.S. and first saw Antic. I became a sub- scriber as soon as possible and I must tell you I didn't regret it. Your magazine is su- perb. I would love to get in contact with Atari users in the USA, but how? I'm espe- cially interested in contacts from New Jer- sey, as I will be there next year for about four weeks. I promise to answer every sin- gle letter I get.
Michael Schutz Fritz-Kalle-Str. 26 6200 Wiesbaden West Germany
POLAND PLEA
I am the owner of the modern computer, Atari 600XL. But I have great difficulty finding books or magazines about Atari computers in Poland. Thank you in ad- vance for any help your readers can give me.
Bogdan Borowczyk 66-400 Gorzow Wlkp UL. los. Gdynskich 8117 Poland
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STRIPE STRIPPER
Is it true that you must put your disk drive at least three feet away from your TV set? What if you have a monitor? I've seen it closer in photographs— right next to the computer. It would be a lot easier to use if it wasn't so far away!
Andrew Diller Chevy Chase, MD
Television sets and monitors put out static magnetic discharge — sorne more than others. This coidd possibly cause disk data loss. But personally, we've never run into the problem. However, if you pressed a disk right up against the mon- itor, you could lose data. Give your arms a break and try moving your disk drive closer As long as it's not actually touch- ing the TV set, your data should be /we, -ANTIC ED
AUTO DELETE
Here is a short program I use to automati- cally delete lines in programs. LIST the program to disk or cassette, then ENTER the program and type GOTO 32700. Fol- low the prompts to delete lines. Be sure to remove this line deletion routine before you SAVE your main program,
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DRAPER PASCAL
Draper Software, of 30'' Forest Grove, Ricluirdson, TX 75080, would like An- tic readers to know that Draper Pascal is still on the market.— AHJ\C ED
I noted with interest Bob Whipple's letter in the October, 1985 Antic with a fix for Print Shop's striped printouts on his BMC BX-80 printer Print Shop software was also causing this problem on my CP-80 printer I tried the Mannesmann Talley Spirit 80 setup as he suggested and it worked for me too. Once again. Antic I/O Board saves the day.
Bruce Young Ryukyu ACE Okinawa, Japan
WHIZ KID
I bought my son David an Atari 400 for his fifth birthday and this year got him an 800XL (he just turned six). Every night, instead of wanting to read children's books, he reads Antic, which he begs me to buy each month. He even got mad at me once because I didn't know what RAMtop meant. He also wrote this sim- ple program:
8 REM JOYSTICK TEST
9 REM BY DAUID NOOR
10 IF STICKCe)=15 AND S TRIGC8108 THEN ? "NOTH ING"
20 IF STICKt03<>15 THEN
? "JOYSTICK" 30 IF STRIGC03=e THEM ?
"TRIGGER" 40 GOTO le
Children's software is too easy for him, but everything else is too difficult. And now my son is begging me to learn ma- chine language, which 1 know nothing about! I don't know where to turn, as I don't think there are any resources to teach machine language to a child.
His Mother, Jackie Noor Corvalis, OR
Luckily, Oregon has some very progres- sive computer education programs. You might try contacting Maigaret Moore, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Math Education at Oregon State Univer- sity in Corvalis, or Jack Turner, Computer Coordinator at the Eugene School Dis- trict, for advice.— AUJ\C ED
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MYSTERY PRODUCT
ST HELP
Reading Antic's June, 1985 article about Atari MIDI connections reminded me of an amazing product I saw last year at a computer show in San Francisco.
Unfortunately I don't remember the name, but the product included a key- board, a light pen, microphone, interface box and software. You would hear a sound through the microphone (like a musical instrument or spoken voice) and a wave pattern would show up on the screen. When you traced over the screen pattern with the light pen, the keyboard would be programmed with that sound. At the time, the vendor said it was not available on the Atari because they could not get enough data from Atari Corp.
Is this produa available on the Atari yet? And if it is, will it work with the Casio CZ-101 synthesizer? Do you think that by using a microphone through your home stereo, with the line fed into the Atari DIN jack, a software program for the Atari Uglit pen and the MidiTrack II could do the same things?
Mark Harman Antioch, CA
Sorry, Antic would need at least the name of this product before we could try to find an ansiver for you. Maybe an- other reader has this information. -ANTIC ED Wfk
Okay, we make mistakes in the ST Section too. In the December, 1985 review of 4xFORTH we compared our October, 1985 Sieve of Eratosthenes test of 38 se- conds for Digital Research C with a one- pass time of 1.1 seconds for 4xFORTH. Unfortunately, the C benchmark was for 10 passes, so the equivalent 4xFORTH time is actually 11 seconds. That's still very good.
68000 SUM
Also in the December, 1985 issue, In- troducing 520ST Assembl}' Language states, "the sum of the first N even natural numbers — or 2 + 4 + . . . + N." This should be 2 + 4+ . . .+2N.
LOGO jypo
Finally, there is a typo on page 61 of ST Logo Exploration (December, 1985). The exiimple, T'inPE :HCR should read, TYPE :HCHR. and line 2 of that example should read, MAKE "HCHR PIECE :A+ :A+1 :A+ :A + 2 :HEX1.
We'd like to thank eagle-eyed Bill Wilkinson of Optimized Systems Software for spotting every single one of the above errors.
MORE FORTH
Mike Starling, from the Dragon Group also spotted the 4xFORTH error. (Probably be- cause he wrote the language.) With the Level 2 Accelerator, Mike tells us, 4xFORTH can accomplish 10 passes in high level execution in 38 seconds.
There have also been a number of up- dates to 4xFORTH that resolve most prob- lems mentioned in our review. If you own the package, please remember to send your registration card to 4xFORTH. As Mike says, "It's tough to provide good sup- port if we don't have your address."
NEW TOS
Of course it had to happen. Antic had no sooner published a "definitive" outline of TOS Qanuary, 1986) when we received a new TOS version from Atari. It's a bit smaller (198,126 bytes), but otherwise seems pretty much the same as the pre\'i- ous TOS.
Well, almost. . . You may recall we wrote last month about Desk Accessories needing the filename, DESKl.ACC. It now seems that desk accesories may have any filename as long as the extender is .ACC.
One other obvious change: The ther- monuclear bombs generated by a system crash now are roimd, black anarchist bombs with fuses.
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TOP 10 PRINTERS FOR ATARI
ANTIC ONLINE users poll results
Which printers are most widely used by Atari owners? How good do Atari owners think their printers are? Antic now has much fuller answers to these questions — after analyzing the 1,034 responses in our biggest-ever Compu- Serve ANTIC ONLINE poll. As a re- sult, we plan to publish even more programs compatible with the top- rated printers. And here are the high- lights of what we learned:
Nearly 120 different printer models were named in the survey. However, the bulk of these printers only got a handful of votes — often merely one or two responses apiece. In contrast, the Top Ten printers accounted for 68.7 percent of the total vote.
MOST WIDELY OWNED:
1. Gemini lOX 11.9%
2. Star SG-10 8.6%
3. ProWriter 7.1%
4. Epson RX-80 7.0%
5. Epson FX-80 6.5%
6. Epson MX-80 6.2%
7. Panasonic KX 5-9%
8. Two-Way Tie
Okimate 10 5.8%
Atari 1027 5.8%
9. Atiiri 1025 4.1%
Star Micronics provided the two most widely owned printers, the no- longer-made Gemini lOX and its wor- thy successor, the new Star SG-10.
Antic has consistently recommended these full-featured dot-matrix printers as best buys. In particular, the near letter-quality mode of the S299 SG- 10 (Antic, July 1985) rivals many daisy-wheel printers.
A number of the most widely sold printers during the past few years have now been replaced by newer models. The poll reflected this, with several re- cently discontinued units scoring high on the popularity list.
Eight of the Top Ten printers were versatile dot-matrix units, moderately priced in the $250-8550 range. Rounding out Top Ten were an inex- pensive letter-quality printer, the Atari 1027 (S199), and a low-cost color printer, the Okimate 10 (S235).
In third place was the durable C. Itoh ProWriter ($549 for latest SEP-i- version, reviewed in this issue). If the survey's C. Itoh votes which didn't specify any model were added, the ProWriter would have risen to second place.
Epson was clearly the most popu- lar manufacturer of Atari-compatible printers, with three models in the Top Ten. The inexpensive RX-80 ($299) ranked higher than the costlier but more feature-laden Epson FX-80 and MX-80.
Overall, Atari users seem to be very satisfied with their printers. Even most of the less-widely-used printers
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In this survey, ANTIC ONLINE readers were asked to name the printer they owned, and then to rate it in six categories — text quality, speed, graphics quality (if applicable), ease of use, reliability and \'aliic for price.
The 10 most popular printers are ranked here b\' their a^'erage rate in all six categories of quality. The rat- ings were made on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 the highest. Antic Program Editor Charles Jackson wrote a pro- gram that automatically tallied the scores.
Only at the lower end of the Top Ten do we find average ratings of less
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than 4. The Okimate 10 is primarily a color graphics printer and was rated only 3 for both text and speed. The old Atari 1027 and 1025 printers were designed to sell for very low prices in their day, so naturally they run slower and offer less features than costlier printers.
This survey was done online in or- der to take advantage of the speed of interactive telecommunications and collect a substantial number of responses as quickly as possible. Therefore, the poll only reflects Atari users who own modems, subscribe to CompuServe, and log onto ANTIC ONLINE and SIG*Atari.
However, these telecommunicators are among the most committed and well-informed members of the Atari community. They know what they're tiilking about when it comes to com- puter products — and they don't mince words when they judge some- thing to be substandard. Antic be- lieves it's well worth taking notice of the informed opinions polled here.
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James Capparell Publisher
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For the latest on-the-spot Atari bulle- tins, direct from the Consumer Elec- tronics Show in Las Vegas, type GO ANTIC when you log onto Compu- Serve in January. Lots of powerful new Atari computer hardware and soft- ware is expected to be unveiled at the winter CES.
WUN CHAIRMAN
An Atari users group officer, Joe Waters, has been named temporary chairman of the Worldwide Users Network (WUN). Waters is president of NOVATARI, the Northern Virginia Atari users group, and also edits the ambitious Current Notes publication of Washington Area ACE.
Chosen as temporary vice- chairman of WUN was Fnink Nagle, president of Silicon Valley's BAAUG. The voting came during an online meeting of the WUN Board of Direc- tors. A transcript of this meeting can be found in the WUN section of ANTIC ONLINE.
From now on, WUN policies will be set by users groups themselves. Antic and other corporations serving the needs of the Atari community will continue to provide organizational support.
PRO ST HELPLINE
520ST software developers are find- ing invaluable help in Professional GEM Helpline, Tim Oren's twice- monthly ANTIC ONLINE column.
Every two weeks, Oren's column demonstrates advanced ST GEM programming techniques.
Oren is a former member of the GEM (Graphics Environment Man- ager) programming team at Digital Research, Inc. He designed and imple- mented the GEM Resource Construc- tion Set and other parts of the GEM Programmer's Toolkit. Now at Acti- venture, Oren is designing CD ROM user interfaces for the ST.
SIGNING UP
If you're not a CompuServe subscriber yet, see your local computer dealer or phone (800) 848-8199 for informa- tion about signing up. Ohio residents phone (614) 457-0802. There is no extra chaige for accessing ANTIC ON- LINE or SIG* Atari.
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ATARITOONS CONTEST WINNERS
he winning entry in Antic's Atari 'Toons Contest didn't use any fancy graphics such as re- defined character sets or mul- tiple colors, but every time the Antic staff booted up Brian Hastings' "Class," we got a hearty, non-stop, 60- second laugh.
"Class" depicted a teacher's vain at- tempts to cope with a roomful of un- ruly students. Antic bestowed the Grand Prize on this Atari 'Toon be- cause it used slapstick comedy, facial expressions and humorous punch- lines like a full-fledged animated car- toon. (We also liked the way the teacher's eyebrows rolled around when he got mad.)
Winning animator Hastings is from Durham, NC. He has owned his AtJiri for three years and likes to design games. Brian will now be logging onto his favorite bulletin boards at 1200 baud with his prize, an Anchor Signalman Express modem.
Before Player/Missiles or bit-map- ping, there was a graphics technicjue known as "cursor art'^— essentially a process of moving text and sets around the screen. Antic's cursor art contest was announced in the August 1985 issue. All entries had to be created with with Matthew Ratcliffs
Atari 'Toons program from that issue and could run no longer than one minute.
...AND RUNNERS-UP
Five runner-up winners will each re- ceive a copy of HomePak. This in- tegrated software package from Bat- teries Included contains HomeTerm, one of the best telecommunications programs for the Atari.
"Help!" by Alan Kirk of Salem, OR, was a very close second-place winner. Using redefined character sets, Kirk created a detailed and highly artistic forest scene with lots of effective vio- let and green coloring. A smoothly moving human figure struggled to climb up a mountainous Atari fuji symbol. Just when all seemed lost, an airplane with an Antic banner flew by to drop a rescue rope via parachute.
"Wizard" was another close runner-up. A whimsical green wizard chanted silly magic spells and tossed sparkling fairy-dust that gradually formed into letters spelling out the word — you guessed it — Antic. Thirteen-year-old Edward Lim of Dia- mond Bar, CA, has owned an 800 for four years. He also crammed a game and four microscreens onto his 'Toons entry disk!
"Fireworks" was an itwentive simu- lation of a pyrotechnical display. Albert Baggetta, a 40-year-old high school English teacher from Agawam, MA, managed to create the sparkling fireworks show without using rede- fined characters.
We appreciated the comically realistic Karate moves in "Martial Arts, " by Peter Ritchie of Chesterfield, MO. Peter is 16 and has owned an Atari for 2 1/2 years now.
"Model Car Show" by Dennis Ben- nett, 35, of Torrance, CA displayed some beautifully detailed animated graphics. Dennis created his own character sets with Instedit from the Antic Catalog.
We'd like to thank all of the future Walt Disneys, Ralph Bakshis and Chuck Jones' who enthusiastically responded to the Atari 'Toons contest. (One perturbed entrant wrote, "Who the heck is Chuck Jones, anyway?" Trivia buffs can note that Jones created some of Warner Brothers' strangest cartoon characters, such as the Tas- manian Devil). Antic Disk subscribers will find all the winning entries as this month's disk bonus. We also plan to upload all six winning 'Toons onto CompuServe SIG* Atari.
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New Epson, C Itoh, Okidata models reviewed
by ERIC CLAUSEN
PSON DX-10
Photography by Mary Rhomberg Lavery
Epson's first true letter-quality print- er is targeted for the low end of the market at $299. But don't let the price fool you — Epson has come up with a fine product here.
The DX-10 is capable of all the ba- sic functions you'll need from a daisy- wheel printer. Boldface, underlining, subscript and superscript are all sup- ported. In addition, by simple DIP switch selection, both 10 and 12 cpi (characters per inch) are supported without changing print wheels. Other type-styles such as italics require changing the print wheel, which is a simple pop-in process. Ribbon instal- lation is also simple, just snap in a new cartridge.
As of this writing, single-sheet fric- tion feed is standard. A tractor option for pinhole paper is planned, but not yet available. As with most third-party printers for the Atari, a Centronics parallel interface is required.
(For extensive details about printer interfacing, see Antic, March 1985, page 33 and August 1985, page 16. Also, you'll find in-depth explana- tions of standard printer terminol- ogy' on pages 23-25 of the March 1985 Antic-hHwa ED)
Print quality is excellent, as you can see in the accompanying sample. Ep- son rates the DX-lO's speed at 10 cps (characters per second). In testing this printer myself, I found the claim to be quite accurate. In the 10 cpi mode, the printer performed at 9 cps, includ- ing linefeeds. In the 12 cpi mode, the printer tested out at 9.6 cps.
DX-10 text sample
This is an example of print quality and a test of printing speed
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For this review, I tested the speed of the printers under "real world" conditions — including line feeds and carriage returns that many manufac- turers omit from their own rating tests. For each of the printers in this review, I timed the same text file from DOS 2.
Certainly the DX-10 is no speed de- mon, but when you consider all the fine features of this letter-quality printer for only $299, its slow output seems a relatively small trade-off It seems as if letter quality for the masses has finally arrived!
And as with many other electronic products, you may soon find this printer discounted at various outlets. If you are thinking of adding a letter quality printer to your system, do yourself a favor and give the DX-10 serious consideration.
Epson's entry in the portable inkjet printer market is its new HS-80 Let- terjet printer for $449- Inkjet tech- nology has quickly come a long way. It's remarkable that an inkjet unit this small is available at such a low price. {/n this issue, see the article about the Radio Shack Color Printer for a full explanation of inkjet technology.— ANTIC ED.)
The HS-80 measures only 3.14 inches high, 13.5 inches wide and 4.72 inches deep. It is battery powered and weighs a mere 4.18 pounds. You could very easily carry the HS-80 between home and office in your briefcase. This would be ideal if you need a printer on the road, or if you need printers at two locations but only can budget enough for one printer.
Not only is the small size of the HS- 80 ideal for transportation, it occupies very little desk space and is veryi quiet.
However, with any highly special- ized printer you can expect some trade-offs. The main trade-offs in the HS-80 involve print quality and speed. This printer is on the slow side, I clocked it at 16.5 cps in correspon- dence mode and 4() cps in draft mode. And all inkjet printers presently need special paper with a smooth, glossy surface for best results.
I personally did not think that HS- 80 print quality was much better than mediocre. For text, most standard dot- matrix printers seem to offer better- looking print. See the HS-80 text sam- ples with this article and judge for yourself. However, as with most of Epson printers, graphics are a high point. The HS-80 was able to produce some very nice graphics dumps from B/GRAPH.
HS-80 text sample draft mode
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The HS-80 is a normal Centronics parallel printer — you'll need an inter- face. It can be set up in minutes. Ink- jet printers require an ink reservoir which can be messy to handle. Not the HS-80. Filling the ink reservoir has been simplified by special ink "syringes" that mate directly with a port under a cover on the front panel.
DIP switches are easily accessible on the back panel. A variety of printer functions can be manipulated through
these switches. This is a battery- powered printer, but an AC adapter is included for recharging. Epson claims you can expect about 300 battery recharges before replacement.
A call to Epson America did not help me determine which other model would be the HS-80 's closest relative for software compatibility. It appears that it is relatively close to the LQ-1500 and the FX-80 printers, and you might want to try using these drivers from your particular software package. Unfortunately, this impor- tant topic was not covered in the otherwise excellent documentation.
This printer definitely has its place. If portability is important to you, the HS-80 is a good value for your dollar
This fast, solid dot-matrix printer is engineered for years of heavy use. C. Itoh has added a near letter quality (NLQ) mode to the already long list of features of their earlier 8510 model. At $549, this is not an entry-level model, and perhaps it would be best suited for an academic or business set- ting. Even so, the 8510 SEP-i- could continued on pase 17
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easil)' function as )'our first dot-matrLx if you need a printer that's built like a taniv.
Virtually everything you will ever need to do with a dot matrix printer is possible with the 8510. Aside from a 9 wire print head, the basic features include: full ASCII character set with true descenders, foreign language character sets, expandable 2K buffer, subscript, superscript, underlining, graphics, cpi modes of 5, 8.25, 10 and 16.5, double-strike, near letter qual- ity, 180 cps (manufacturers rating), friction and tractor feed — an impres- sive list to be sure.
In my own test for speed, I counted the 8510 at a fairh- zippy 102 cps in draft mode (including line feeds). I clocked the NLQ mode at 21 cps. The 851()s NLQ mode allows double- width characters and underlining. This printer achie\'es its NLQ mode b)' printing each line twice, with a slight offset for the second pass — for a com- bined matrix of 14 x 18. A print sam- ple of both the NLQ and draft modes can be seen below.
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The 8510 does everything well — as it should for S549. The printer has a 10-inch carriage, and both friction and tractor feeds are standard. Again, an interface is required to operate this printer with your Atari. The 8510 has a normal Centronics parallel input on the rear jianel. Set-up is eas)' and the documentation is quite thorough.
If you want almost everything in a dot-matrix printer and don't mind paying a bit more, the C. Itoh 8510 SEP -I- may be just for you.
Okidata has scored a solid hit with its latest entr\', the model 193 dot-matrix printer This is a fast, wide-carriage (15 inch) relati\e of the older Okidata model 93.
Before I o\erflow with praise for this fine printer, I should make the point that at S699, the 193 was spe- cifically designed for hea\')'-dut)- busi- ness applications. Therefore, if you're a casual printer user, the 193 may not be for you.
The Okidata 193 is ver)' easy to set up in a few minutes — even for the most inexperienced user. The documentation is nothing short of great, virtualh' exery aspect of the printer is coxered in complete detail, in literate English. The styling of the printer is sleek and ultra-modern. It would blend perfectly into any high- tech decor The Oki 193 :ilso features a standard Centronics parallel inter- face and 8K memor)' buffer
Be}'ond the basics, some of the fea- tures of the 193 are quite unusual. L'sers can program 19 functions from the front panel, without DIP s^\'itches. This is a great convenience, no more hunting for sometimes v\'ell- hidden switches and laboriously figuring out what they do. You sim- ph and easily step through a Menu Se- lect Mode and configure your printer for any conceivable task. These user modifications remain in the printer's memor}', even after it's turned off.
Some of these front-panel features include: lines per inch, charactere per inch, emphasized and double-width, correspondence mode (same as NLQ), auto line feeds, foreign language fonts, proportional spacing. You may mix man)' of these \'arious modes to really customize your printed output. Okidata's printer speed claims are much closer to reality than many other manufacturers'. Their draft mode rating was given as 160 cps, while I clocked it at 114 cps. However, they rated the 193's correspondence
mode speed at onh' 33 cps, but I found it to be a faster 36 cps.
The 193 also features dot-addres- sable graphics which allow highly detailed screen dumps — using proper software — at up to 3,916 dots per line resolution. The Oki 193 will also ac- cept downloaded fonts and print them in correspondence mcjde. If \'Ou need a printer for ver)' heavy word ]-)rocessing output, or )-ou frequently ]5rint out large spreadsheets ()'ou can get 233 characters per line in 17 cpi mode), the 193 is well worth its S699 price.
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EPSON DX-1 0 ($299) EPSON HS-80 ($449) Epson America, Inc. 2780 Lomita Boulevard Torrance, CA 90505 (213)539-9140
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OKIDATA 193 ($699)
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MOVIT 916, "Peppy" Peppy is a tiny but vivacious robot, equipped with a two- way sensor which responds to both obstacles and sound. When the sensor located in front comes into contact with a wall or other obstacle or hears a loud noise, such as a hand clap, it will automatically turn to the left. (Sensor/control PC board ready assembled.) $23.50
MOVIT 918, Memocon Crawler This robot runs as per the program you input by means of the key board. The key board has 5 different switches, forward, to the right, to the left, pause, sounds a buzzer and lights up (beams). This robot employs a sequence function static RAM 256X4 bit memory. $69.95 (Apple II interface is extra, part #MC-AP, $37.50)
MOVIT 912, Avoider Avoider is a robot with an excellent brain that moves continuously avoiding any obstacles in its path. $39.95
MOVIT 935, Circular Super-H/lechatronics remote controlled robot with a hand- size 1-channel control box. This model's two large wheels roll the robot smoothly and silently in any direction. All movements are perfectly controlled by the remote control box. $64.95
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by PATRICK BASS, Antic ST Program Editor
^ %# m ith a suggested retail % jf # price of $749, the 24-
^^\W pin dot-matrix Star SB- y y 10 is the top-of-the-line printer from Suir Micronics. Antic has been waiting eagerly for this printer since we saw it in action at the Con- sumer Electronics Show. Starting with this issue, our SB-10 will be typeset- ting the magazine's program listings.
By using 24 wires in the printhead, instead of eight or nine wires like stan- dard dot-matrix printers, the Star SB- 10 can produce a print quality nine times denser than before. The result is a typeface that looks, to the naked eye, exactly like letter-quality daisy wheel printing.
In addition to true letter-quality, the Star SB-10 prints text in pica, elite, condensed, proportional, expanded, emphasized and double-strike faces. If you like, you can mix and match print styles on a single page. And nat- urally the printer also does a top- notch job on graphics.
The SB-10 has a standard Cen- tronics parallel connector. An op- tional 128K character buffer will be offered later. Two banks of DIP
switches are inside the front cover. The first bank controls the default power-up configuration, while the second offers a choice of eight inter- national character sets.
For a speed test, we created a docu- ment of 6 paragraphs with 10 lines of 70 characters each. That's 4200 let- ters per document. The SB-10 printed
a draft copy in 55 seconds, and a let- ter quality copy in 1:54. This trans- lates to 77 draft characters per second, and 37 cps in letter quality. 'While not a speed demon, the SB-10 is a reasona- ble combination of both daisy wheel and dot-matrix printer speeds.
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February 1986
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Coming In March
PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY
Word Processing
Home Control
Personal Finance
Business Applications
10-Megabyte
Hard Disk
Storage
Build a
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BASIC For New Atari Owners
Star did a fairly good job with their SB- 10 documentation — they included examples of commands wherever practical. However, a two-page index for a 146-page manual seems a bit small.
Antic has printed about 2,000 pages on the SB-10 without failure. Both continuous or single sheets of paper can be used, and the tractor feeder is built-in. You may not have an easy time finding replacement T464 ribbon cartridges for this printer However, a few phone calls to specialty computer stores revealed that the more commonplace Toshiba 1350 cartridge can safely be sub- stituted.
Any more cjuibbles? Well, the Star SB-10 is not exactly what we'd call a quiet printer. But we learned to en- joy hearing the sounds it makes as it produces those clean, smooth Atari special characters you'll see in this month's Antic listings.
We had to write a 24-pin font edi- tor and graphics dump program for
8-bit Atari computers before we could create a new 24-pin character font for the Atari character set — without jag- ged diagonal lines. We could have produced any typefont we needed, but we believed it was important to keep the flavor of the characters that show up on the Atari screen.
The increased resolution of the SB- 10 printouts also enabled us to clar- ify many of the special characters that have been giving trouble to Antic readers. On this month's Typing Spe- cial Atari Characters page, notice how much clearer the sample characters look. So no more getting a [CON- TROL] [S] cross mixed up with a plus sign, eh? Notice also how each character's curves are now curvy and all the diagonal lines now diag properly.
STAR SB-10
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C014795 $8.50
C014806 $9.50
C010745 $10.00
CO1075O $9.50
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800 Mam Board $24.50
400 Mam Board $20 00
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610 Data Separator Board
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810 Hear Power Board $25 00
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800XL/600XL, 1 30XE
Power Supply $25.00
SAMS Service Manual
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800 OK Board Set $65.00
810 Board Set $99.50
600 46K Board Set $79.50
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050 Cuilom Inlerlice $79.50
Replacemem 810 Drive Mech $70.00
SOFTWARE
Basic Cartridge $1 5,00
Editor/Assembler $1 5,00
Q* Ben Cartridge $12,50
Popeye Cartridge $12,50
Kindercomp Cart $10.00
Buck Rogers Cart $7.50
Jumbo Jet Pilot $10.00
Crosslire Cart $5.00
Ctiicken Carlridge $5.00
Picnic Paranoia Cart $7,50
Ciown & Balloons disk or cart $5,00
Stratos disk $1 0,00
Mr. Cool cartridge $7.50
The Factory disk $5,00
Frogger cassette $5,00
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Astra "Big D" offers the advantages of
two drives and true double-density in one low-priced unit. All Big D's are now supplied with the latest version of "T0PD05". This D.0.5. takes full advant- age of the Big D "QUAD" density capabilities.
Any serious business application demands such a unit. Its improved circuitry, rotary doors and direct drive motors provide for a more reliable, quieter operation.
Software programs such as word processing, data base management, spread sheet analysis and mailing lists are made more powerful, and, at the same time, easier to use if you have two disk drives.
And it's compatible with Atari's new ^E Series as well as the original and inter- mediate computers, 400, 800, 600^;L, 800^;L and 1200^;L
Find out more about Astra's "Big D" reliable performance and heavy load carrying capacity by contacting your nearest dealer or distributor. Call (714) 549-2141.
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Best color printing under $1,000?
by STAN and SUZI SUBECK
This article reviews tlje Radio Sliaclz Color Inkjet Printer and describes how to use it with the Atari. Included is a program that prints standard Micro-Painter graphics files as color screen dumps in Graphics Mode 7.5. This BASIC program works on all 8- bit Atari computers of any memory size, with disk or cassette.
o you want the best multi- color printing available for the Atari — as well as highly readable corre- spondence-quality text? We're afraid you 11 have to think about spending $699 on a Radio Shack CGP-220 Color Graphics Printer.
Sure, S699 is a lot of money. But the Subeck family is glad we convinced ourselves the CGP-220 is a bargain and we have thoroughly enjoyed owning ours. Canon, the actual manufacturer, markets the identical printer under its own label for $199. Canon also produces it for Quadram, who markets it as "IBM compatible" for S899. Anyway, until recently you couldn't come close to this level of color printing without spending several thousand dollars.
{If you ivoidd like to compare the CGP-220 to its nearest competitors, please refer to the March, 1985 An- tic article, New Color Printers, ivbich reviews the S208 Okimate 10 and the $599SeikosIm GP-700A. These print- ers cost a lot less than the Radio Shack entry and predictably they de- liver a lot less, although the Oki is a good value at its current price when used with RAMbrandt software, $19.95 from the Antic Catalog.— ANTIC ED)
As )'ou can see from the sample il- lustrations on these pages, this color printer delivers genuinel)- beautiful screen dumps. Our daughter Lisa made big bucks selling her classmates book covers imprinted with the names of rock groups like Duran Duran and Wham for 25 cents apiece.
THE PROGRAM
Stan wrote a simple BASIC printer driver that accompanies this story. The program prints standard Micro- Painter graphics files as Graphics Mode 7.5 color screen dumps.
The CGP-220 Screen Dump is writ- ten in BASIC. When run, it will gener- ate the necessar)' machine code to speed up the print-out time. Type in
Listing 1, check it with TYPO II and SAVE a copy before )'Ou RUN it.
COLOR INK JET
The CGP-220 is an ink jet printer like the Hewlett-Packard Thinkjet that An- tic reviewed in the March 1985 Printer Issue. However, this Riidio Shack printer uses four ink colors to reproduce as mam' as 25 colors in a single graphics dump.
As usual, since the CGl'-220 is a third-party product, it does require a (Centronics parallel printer interface. The Atari 850, the MPP MicroPrint and the ATR-8()00 all seemed to work ciuite well.
Ink jets work by actually squirting a small quantity of ink from a reser- voir through a tiny hole onto the page. (A special high-absorbenc)' paper is recommended.) The actual image de- pends on the timing and distance be- tween squirts. Just like dot matrix printers, ink jets can reproduce text and graphics.
The CGP-220 uses two ink car- tridges— black and tri-color — that ^^'ill each print as many as 4 million characters. The cartridges arc easily replaced from the front of the printer. The tri-color cartridge costs S14.95 and contains the primary colors —
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Radio Shack CGP-220 printout of a microscreen by Bernard Taylor of Roseville, California. Antic Disk subscribers will find this microscreen as a bonus file titled KEYS.MIC.
cyan, yellow and magenta. Mixtures of these colors produce red, green, blue, yellow, magenta and violet. The S9.95 black cartridge can be used for borders between colors or for corre- spondence quality text.
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The text sample printed here is in straight draft mode. The CGP-220 also has an enhanced density mode that creates darker letters. Standard text characters are formed as a 5 x 7 dot matrix, through seven passes of the single ink-jet nozzle. (Antic clocked the text printing speed of the CGP- 220 at a rather sloiu 26 characters per secottd.—AHl\Q. ED) The printer's slowness is partially compensated for by its incredible silence. You could hear a whispered conversation while this machine is operating.
The text mode supports the stan- dard ASCII character set, CHRS(32) to CHRS(127), as well as a 64-character European set, CHRS(l60) to CHRS (223). Characters may be printed in either standard size or double width.
COLOR MODES
In the first of the two graphics modes, known as the bit image mode, 640 columns of seven dots each may be printed across a page. Any of the seven dots is printable, and each column can be in one color. Because this mode is essentially the same as that which is used by the Epson, currently available screen dumps require no more than minor conversions to produce clear, single color prints.
The second graphics mode is the Color Scan. This mode affords greater flexibility in color mixing. Printing is based on horizontal rows of eight dots, in which each dot may be a dif- ferent color By using the proper shad- ing, virtually any color may be produced. High resolution screen dumps are possible in this mode, by using RGB mixing in a manner simi- lar to that which is used by television monitors.
The CGP-220 accepts paper either in rolls or single sheets. Despite the lack of a tractor feed, there is no prob-
lem with paper slippage. The paper roll is conveniently top-mounted under a hinged dust cover. The printer supports line feeds of 1/6-inch and 1/8-inch. It can also tab to any of 360 dot positions on a line.
The accompanying manual is 50 pages of straightforward technical in- formation that's accurate and easily understood. The CGP-220 supports only 14 different control codes, so a complicated instruction manual is not necessary. However, don't expect to find any specific Atari information in- cluded.
RADIO SHACK CGP-220 Tandy Corporation 1700 One Tandy Center Fort Worth, TX 76102 (817)390-3300 $699
This is Stan Subeck's first published program in Antic. However, Suzi ' 'Call Me Modem " Subeck is a famil- iar name to readers of this maga- zine.
Listing on page 89
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Color Monitor Sale
* Composite • RGB • Sound
Home Computers VCRs Modular TV Tuners Video Games
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True color reproduction is achieved by a Zenith designed state-of-the-art integrated circuit chip that processes the composite video signal. A custom Zenith analog RGB direct drive gain control integrated circuit allov/s user- preference for the adjustment of picture drive and black level. Zenith's unique "Green Screen Only" feature eliminates all other colors so that monochromatic text material may be easily displayed in green on the block face screen.
Constant Intensity Character Definition Quality
Quality circuitry design generates crisp lines, pure colors, and sharp character definition for easy-to- read displays. DC-coupling permits the video display to retain its color balance from a single dot to a full screen of data. Even when room lighting changes, a "special light sensor" automatically adjusts the display brightness.
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ZVM131-Accessibleby Many Popular Systems
TheZVM 131 is designed to interface with most personal computers, VCRs, video discs, video games and modular TV tuners that have either composite video or RGB direct drive outputs.
Compatibility Chart
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C128, Aplus 3000 (Specify)
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The ZVM 131 Sound Of Quality
The output sound level is externally regulated by a user-adjustment volume control. Use the Zenith quality sound system to monitor the modern audio capabilities of the computer generation.
Easy-To-Reach Front Access Controls
ZVM lai's 13" diagonal display screen can exhibit impressive graphics and intensely clear copy. Easy- to-reach front access user controls (picture, black level, color level, tint, sharpness, audio volume, background noise control) make display adjustment simple and fast. An LED power on indicator notifies the user when the monitor is operable.
Multiple Monitors On A Single Computer
The composite video "loop-thru" feature permits a single composite video source to drive several monitors at the same time. This allows easy display possibilities for multiple viewers in business and educational applications. No more crowding around a single terminal. Everyone enjoys a clear, unobstructed view of important data.
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CREATE A TWO-HEADED PRINTER CABLE
Double your printing ease, double your fun
Are you a two-printer owner? Con- nect both printers to your Atari and switch between them effortlessly with this homemade cable. As written, the design requires an Atari 850 inter- face But t/ji' more adventuroi-is should be able to adapt this principle for other set-ups. You will also need some soldering skill and a few bucks worth of parts.
The following article assumes knowl- edge of hardware. We have taken ev- ery step to ensure that the informa- tion contained herein is correct, but Antic cannot take responsibility for, nor give assistance on, readers' hard- ware projects —ANTIC ED.
I recently added a second printer to my Atari system, giving me both daisy-wheel and dot-matrix cap- ability. But since the Atari 850 interface provides only one parallel port, I found myself in a tangle of interface cables, constantly uplugging one printer and plugging in the other 1 quickly grew tired of all this and decided to invent a better way.
I found that with a double-pole, double-throw (DPDT) switch and a little soldering, I could convert my two printer cables into one double- headed cable. Each of the heads plugs continued on next page
by HANS HSU
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into a printer and the tail plugs into the 850's parallel printer port. A switch at the neck selects the printer for output. Now, when I want to change printers, all I do is flip a switch.
SOME THEORY
While all parallel printer ports have ten or more lines, only two are con- trol lines which are significant to our project: STROBE and BUSY.
The STROBE line is used by the computer to tell the printer there is valid data on the line worth grabbing. Without the STROBE line, you could send data to the printer forever and nothing would get printed. The BUSY line is used by the printer to tell the computer it's ready to receive data.
NOTE: Pinout locations for Cen- tronics plugs vary between different printers. Check your printer manual carefully.
Now, we use the DPDT switch to send these two control signals only to the printer we've selected. So
although both printers receive the data, only one gets the control signals and only one prints the data.
MAKE A CABLE
In all, you will need one D15 plug to connect with the 850, two Centronics standard plugs for the printers, one DPDT switch, and enough ribbon cable to reach everything. You might also need a 1.5-inch by .5-inch piece of perforated particle board and a plastic 35mm film canister Since I already had two printer cables, I did not have to start from scratch. I cut my two cables in half and kept the two Centronics plug ends and one of the Atari plug ends.
Solder the data lines of the three cables together Solder the STROBE and BUSY lines to the DPDT switch. See Figure 1. Mount the DPDT switch on the .5-inch side of the perforated vector board, and make sure the toggle of the switch protrudes past the .5-inch edge.
Now cut a vertical slit in the film cannister, just wide enough for all
three ribbon cables, and insert the vector board with the ribbons trailing out from the slit. Cut a small hole in the canister lid for the protruding toggle-switch and slip the lid back onto the canister. See Figure 2.
Assuming you have made all the right connections, you should now be the proud owner of a two-headed printer cable. To test it, connect the cable to both printers and your 850. Make sure both printers are online, then print something. One of the printers should respond. Now flip the switch to send something to the other printer Note the position of the switch and mark it accordingly.
Hans Hsu sent in this article from England where he recently received an M.A. in Computer Science from Cambridge University. He designed JaneCalc for Arktronics Software and was a development engineer for Hewlett-Packard.
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TERING THE 1020 PLOTTER
Tutorial with demonstration programs
by KRIS CRUZ
learn hoiv to use the graphics power of the inexpensive Atari 1020 Color Plotter This tutorial article provides a complete explanation of the 1020 commands plus four short demon- stration listings The BASIC pro- grams ivork on all Atari computers of any memory size, with disk or cassette.
he Atari 1020 Color Plotter is a very useful and inexpensive printing tool. It lends itself to a wide variety of applications from geometry and physics diagrams to home finance graphs or even just high tech doodling! {See the October, 1985 Antic for more information about the 1020, including where it can be obtained.— AHVC ed)
There are two general modes of operation — text and graphics, hi the text mode you have a choice of 20, 40 or 80 column text in four differ- ent colors. You can also have the text rotated 90, 180, 270 or 360 degrees. This feature can be used to produce bright and colorful banners.
In the graphics mode you can use X,Y coordinates to plot graphs. You can also speciiS' where you would like the axis drawn for your graph. Basi- cally, if you are familiar with plotting and drawing on the screen, then you
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should have little trouble using the 1020 graphics mode. Figure 1 sum- marizes the text and graphics commands. The commands are not difficult to
use. But they must be sent in a man- ner which the plotter can understand. First, you must OPEN a channel to the 1020. Type: OPEN *2,8,0,"P:".
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_,.,_^^ _ ,^^^,put to ^^artn^'inann^r^l any 'e. You itj^how automati- cally in the 40 column text mode. Any text you send out through a PRINT *2 statement will be printed in 4() columns. Next type: PRINT #2;"[ESC] [ESC] [CONTROL] P". Now every- thing is printed 20 columns wide.
For 80 column text, type; PRINT *2; [ESC] [ESC] [CTRL] S. To print different colors, press the color but- ton between printings or type: PRINT *2; [ESCJ [ESC] [CONTROL] G [RETURN]. And then type: PRINT *'2;"C(any * 0-3)" [RETURN] PRINT *2;'A". Notice how the pen barrel is rotated to change pens. Numbers for the different pen colors are shown below:
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There are nine commands within the graphics mode. OPEN a channel to the plotter and type: PRINT *2;"[ESC] [ESC] [CONTROL] G". This sets the plotter in the graphics mode.
The DRAW command is much like DRAWTO in BASIC. But with the plotter, X can be from 0 to 480 and Y can be from -999 to 999. The line is drawn from the current position to X,Y. Type: PRINT #2;"D450,0". This draws a black line across the paper and stops.
To have the pen barrel return to its HOME position, type: PIUNT *'2;"H".
If you want dotted lines, type: PRINT *2;"L(any value 1-15)". Then type: PRINT *2;"D450,-I0".
To plot points, you must be able to lift the pen from the paper while Hig it. This requires the MOVE ^mand. Type: PRINT *2;"M200, 00". The paper moves up and the moves to the center. However, no rawn. Now add 1 to either the f Y and DRAW. Type: PRINT *2; 200,-201". This is how points can lotted. But usually the pen is left to show the shape of the func- tion being plotted.
DEMO PROGRAMS
For demonstrations of fundamental plotter patterns, type in Listings 1-4, checking each line with TYPO II. SAVE a copy of each listing before you RUN it.
Listing 1 shows how the functions of SIN, COS and TAN look when plotted. You will notice in lines 15, 30 and 50 that an asterisk [ * ] can be used to send more than one com- mand in a single PRINT statement.
Listing 2 dniws two groups of con-
PRINT 'N DRAW Terrific Software 17 St. Mary's Court Brookline, MA 02146 (617)232-9686 $14.95, 48K disk
Print 'n Draw is a new commercial utility for the Atari 1020 Color Plot- ter. It is easy to use, yet sophisticat- ed and offers many practical tieatures at a reasonable price. (For more about available 1020 software, see the September, 1985 Antic.)
The program creates a variety of banners, pie charts and text styles directly from the main menu, providing all necessary prompts. In addition, 26 sample picture files are included, many of them cjuite de- tailed. Graphics Magician picture files can also be dumped to the plot- ter via Print 'n Draw.
This software is recommended for ages 8 to adult. But play-testing with a 6-year-old revealed that even younger children may find the pack- age to be a fascinating drawing tool.
centric circles which cross each other. Listing 3 draws spiraling triangles. It does this by changing the radius and the points where it connects the triangle.
Listing 4 draws two squares and connects each of the corners with a line. It can easily be modified to do the same for other shapes, Ijy chang- ing the step and the data represent- ing which points to connect.
As you can see, there is much you can do with the Atari 1020 Plotter. Until recently, such features cost up- wards of $2,000, but now Atari users can get the same kind of high tech plotting for under S50. And even if you aren't interested in making graph- ics or charts in four colors, for much less than the cost of a dot-matrix printer you could purchase a 1020 simply to list your programs.
Airman First Class Kristofer Cruz is currently stationed in Texas.
Listing on page 100
Reviewed by ERIC CLAUSEN
I personally found myself (age 29) enjoying the program as well!
Print 'n Draw is written in BASIC and is well error-trapped. The own- er's manual, while quite friendh' and useful, is not really needed because the program is so easy to use.
It should be understood that Print 'n Draw is not capable of the sophisticated graphics produced by some of the more expensive and complex plotting programs available for Atari. The intent of this program is to provide instant access to the basic functions of the 1020 plotter with a minimum of fuss.
Print 'n Draw is highly recom- mended for all 1020 owners, partic- ularly those with children, who want a simple but effective plotter program. Q
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by GIGI BISSON, Antic Assistant Editor
It looks more like a nursery school than the office of the president of a successful educational software develop- ment company.
Joyce Hakansson is surrounded by wind-up toys, posters of mythical horned gods, Kermit the Frog puppets and a stuffed model of the Ducks Ahoy duck. She looks around the room, smiles broadly, and says, "I suppose I never grew up. . ."
Maybe that childlike quality is the secret to the success of Joyce Hakansson Associates, the developer of best sell- ing educational software such as Ducks Ahoy and the Ses- ame Street programs for publishers like Spinnaker, CBS Software and Milton Bradley.
"I know kids, I'm able to put myself in their place, " she says in a soft, almost childlike voice. She has a quality of enthusiasm and wide-eyed wonder that is rare in tiie com- puter industry. When she speaks of possibilities, it's hard to listen without being swept away to a world of flying bananas and dancing bathtubs where computers make it possible for anything to happen.
Hakansson's Berkeley, CA office is within rumor dis- tance of the Silicon Valley, but far away in spirit. It's not part of a low-slung, prefabricated industrial park. Instead it occupies a fanciful, candy-colored, gingerbread-style Victorian house that could have been transplanted from
Disneyland's French Quarter Who knows, that may be intentional — she says Disneyland is enchanted and her fa- vorite place on earth.
This successful business is a long way from Hakansson's first encounter with computers as a housewife in 1973. Her children were having trouble with mathematics in school. So Hakansson approached the principal and asked if she could start a computer math lab.
She recalls that the principal said, "Sure, lady, do what you want. But we don't have any money." Like many school computer labs, it was financed with bake sales. Eventually the school got some timesharing on the com- puters at the Lawrence Hall of Science.
In 1979 she went to work for the Children's Television Workshop and started their software division. Later, she created her own little Disneyland — the Computer Gallery at Sesame Place, a roomftil of computers at a Sesame Street theme park in Langhorn, Pennsylvania.
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THE JOYCE-TEAM
Hakansson is the antithesis of the programmer who does everything from code to graphics. The Joyce Hakansson Associates are just that — associates. Everyone constantly refers to "the team." Group photos of the team adorn the office walls. It's sort of a socialistic approach to program- ming. Nobody takes credit, least of all, Joyce.
She insists she doesn't have much to do with the soft- ware. She knows how to program, but says she's not a programmer She can't draw. So what does she rfo?
"Oh, I have the easy job," she says. "I just sit back here and have fun."
Meanwhile, a talented crew of artists, musicians, edu- cators, programmers and writers buzz around the office. Not surprisingly, most of them are young. Suprisingly, most of them are women.
"Ideas are cheap," Hakansson says. But talented people aren't. She hires people with no experience at all in com- puters. That's because you can always teach someone about computers, but you can't teach them how to be crea- tive. She says, "I look after them and respect them, and in turn they help me implement an idea that lives in my head."
Above her desk is a bright poster that proclaims: Creativity — the human resource. Here, it's the only re- source. Neckties are scorned. Craziness is encouraged. The atmosphere produces things like this goof)' joke in the Ducks Ahoy users manual: Who comes out at night, wears black, drinks blood and quacks? Quackula.
Cartoonist Bud Luckey demonstrates a vocabulary' game he helped design. Gonzo from Sesame Street is a chick- enphile with a rather kinky obsession with eggs. So it's full of bad egg puns, like "eggceptional" and "eggcellent."
Today, they're working on a yet-untitled game for Acti- vision that teaches the principles of electricity. And they are finishing up Passport to Paris and Passport to Lon- don, two complex adventure gaines that teach everything from history to foreign language and customs.
Here's the team approach at work. Ruth Young, the ani- mator, is trying to demonstrate Passport to London, but doesn't know how to play it. So she calls over Bud, the artist. He can't really figure it out either The program- mer is summoned, but he just wrote the code. Nobody can play the game, they surmise, because the writers ha- ven't written the manual yet.
GAMEBUSTERS
Three or four times a week, busloads of kids come in from day care centers and stream into the big Victorian house to play with Joyce Hakansson Associates software. They call the kids "Gamebusters."
If a program isn't finished yet, they make a storyboard or picture of it and ask kids what they think. The kids
believe they're on a field trip. They have no idea that they're playing a major role — for free — as software con- sultants. Meanwhile, a full-time employee with a PhD in child development writes a report on how kids relate to the programs.
If there are any public relations people or marketing gurus around, they're nowhere in sight. JHA has the lux- ury of not needing to worry about publicity or sales — that's all left up to the software publishers like Activision and CBS.
COMPUTER FEAR
If there is a force driving Joyce Hakansson, it's a crusade to conquer computer fear "That's why I started my busi- ness. If kids find computers friendly at an early age, they won't have to go through what I did."
She was terrified of math as a child. "It was something that boys did," she recalls. Later in life, she felt cheated.
"All of us in the industry are going to have to take care of computer fear If we want people to be responsive to our products, we're going to have to think seriously about that problem," she says. "Unless that starts to happen, we'll be a lonely few."
Drill and practice programs are boring, she believes. Kids will do them in school only because there's a teacher forcing them to use it.
Things are different at home. Home computer educa- tion software has to compete for kids' attention against TV, videogames, the radio and their friends. "So it has to be even more entertaining," she says. And it also has to be easy. "They're not going to spend a lot of time read- ing manuals."
GENTLE GAMES
But something else sets apart the Hakansson games. In Ducks Ahoy, a game for pre-school children, cute little ducks are picked up in gondolas and paddled around canals in Venice. They have to watch out for hippos — but unlucky ducks don't get gobbled up, shot or eaten. The hippos just dump the boats into the water
In Passport to London, there is an exciting, James Bond kind of danger element, but there are no guns or weapons.
All of this is intentional, in fact, there are non-violent standards that games must adhere to in order to receive Hakansson's approval.
"When you play any game, even in an arcade, you are learning something. Even if it's no more than eye-hand coordination, even if it's subconscious. When you have a game that rewards violence, you're teaching kids that aggressive behavior is the way to win." As an example of this kind of agression-teaching game, she cites typing tutorials which fire off letters like little missiles.
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"Sometimes I wonder — are we teaching math and pat- tern association, or are we training future missile con- trollers?" she says. She thinks the most important thing you can teach a child is not how to fight — but how to cooperate.
All this may be the influence of the neighborhood — the office is a stone's throw from the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley campus where her husband is a profes- sor The town has a roots of anti-war activism and femi- nism that began in the '60s. Her stand, however, is not political, but personal.
COMPUTER FEMINISM
As one of the few female executives in the software in- dustry, Hakansson clearly understands the power she has for influencing and changing the role of women in com- puting.
"First, it's not uncommon for women to fear math," she says. "Secondly, they're generally not machine oriented. If the the garbage disposal breaks down, most women aren't going to tear it apart," she says. "Research has shown that the only machine women usually will tinker with is a sewing machine."
For women, computers are a limited resource. There are one or two computers in a classroom — if you're lucky. "A child has to be aggressive to get to them, and boys tend to be more pushy about it." she says. "Women use the majority of computers in the office. There's a lot of power there, but they don't realize it yet."
"Violent games also dramatically turn off girls from computing, we've found," Hakansson says, with the child- like wonder in her voice being replaced by concern. "It's too close to reality for them."
But with a computer, you can create some of your own reality. "It's like theater," she says, as the magic returns to her voice. "The computer is a little world you can en- ter." This is her Disneyland under glass, a stage where kids can do more than sit in the audience — they interact and become part of the show.
"A child's first access to everything is through play," she says. "The whole idea of educational game software is to demonstrate that computers, reading and learning are all fun."
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MULTI-COLORED PLAYERS
How the pros enhance moving images
by PATRICK BASS, Antic ST Program Editor
Heiv's an advanced, professional method for creating as many as four multiple-colored players. This tutorial article is designed for advanced assembly language programmers. Included is a short demonstration pro- gram written in MAC/65, which shcjuld be easy to adapt for the Atari Assembler Editor
By the time you get to be an intermediate Atari program- mer, you are probably aware that one of the most power- ful features of Atari computers is Player/Missile graphics for moving pictures around. All Atari 8-bit computer models have four 8-dot-wide "players" each with their own 2-dot-wide "missile".
These can be moved around the screen without dis- rupting the background "playfield " using a completely electronic means that closely mimics the "chroma-key" process which movie studios use to "paste" a small part of one picture into a larger picture.
But one of the bigger stumbling blocks in this process is the fact that each Player/Missile combination can be assigned only one color at a time. You may choose to have a "multi-colored player" only if you design two or more players to overlap, and set a special bit in the GTIA chip. The trouble here is that the overlapping section of the players cannot be assigned a color of its own, and two or more players are used where one should be enough.
TAKrNG OVER
However, it is possible to take over the responsibility of coloring the players ourselves — instead of leaving it to the GTIA chip. Then we can design individual Player/Missiles with as many as 256 colors in them, in any order
This article is now going to describe techniques that go beyond the Atari's normal performance envelope. So please be forewarned that from here on, I am assuming that the reader is a seasoned 8-bit Atari machine language programmer
A while back, I needed to animate four human figures running across the screen simultaneously. I had to use Player/Missile graphics for the figures, but the players wouldn't look very human if they were each a single color from head to toe.
Interestingly, I got my answer from talking to people who were programming the Atari 2600 Video Cartridge System. You see, the 2600 game machine doesn't have fancy smart chips inside it that know how to draw a TV picture — like the ANTIC or GTIA chips inside Atari computers.
The programmers had to tell the 2600, scan-line by scan- line, what to draw and what to color Thinking along these lines, I figured that if I told the Atari 8-bit to stuff Player/Missile colors scan-line by scan-line, I might be able to get line-by-line coloring for m)' players.
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THE SOLUTION
Basically, my routine worked out like this. I chose a sec- tion of the screen that the players never ventured out of. For this example, let's say the players never get higher than scan-line 32 (S20) and never get lower than scan-line 182 (SB6). We need to take over player coloring control from the computer between scan line 32 and scan line 182. In the Display List for that screen, insert a Display List Inter- rupt on the scan-line you want to start coloring on. In our example, it's scan-line 32.
When the interrupt (an NMI) happens, you will enter your interrupt routine just as the scan-line is ending. Now for the next 150 scan-lines, perform a WSYNC— stuff player color cycle. The WSYNC will sync you to the start of each scan-line in turn.
When released from WSYNC, increment a scan-line counter. Using the value of the counter as an index into a table of colors, pick up the indexed player color for the new scan-line and stuff the new color into the player color hardware register— NOT the shadow location. When you have reached the scan-line to stop coloring on (in our case, line 182), clean up our mess and return from the interrupt.
Notice that this loop will, quite literally, slave the 6502 processor to the TV scan rate for a short period, and dur- ing this time it will not allow any processing of game code to go on. Keep in mind how quickly the computer oper- ates, as compared to how fast the TV is drawing its picture.
However, since the WSYNC will release the processor after the scan-line beam has started its travel from (our) left to right we have time for only three or four LDAs and STAs before the scan-line becomes visible from within the HBLANK interval. Our current demonstration does more work than can be hidden. So a LDA . . . STA process shows up in the Hambuig;er, whose shape and colors get updated on the left side of the visible screen.
SUBROUTINE THEORY
Player color for each scan-line is in a map that matches the player shape exactly. Since a player shape maps out as a vertical strip of horizontal bytes, if a player shape is ten scan-lines high, then the player color shape should be ten scan-lines high. When the player shape moves one scan-line up or down, move the player color shape one scan-line up or down. In this way, the player's colors will follow the player's shape. The DLI loop transfers the entire player shape strip and color strip from the starting scan- line to the ending scan-line during each displayed frame. As long as the shape and color strip are synchronized, the player remains properly colored.
With this in mind, let's examine the demonstradon pro- gram. Type in Listing 1 and SAVE a copy before you RUN
it. The program is written in 6502 assembly language using the MAC/65 assembler-editor from Optimized Systems Software.
This program will design and bounce four multi-colored players around a video screen. Each player has a different shape and 14 to 16 separate colors. Note that most of the program is just preparation for the main coloring routine. The section that you would include to color your own players is only one subroutine long.
PROGRAM TAKE-APART
Lines 100-2280 contain label definitions and equates. Also in this section are the Display List and portions of reserved memory.
Lines 2300-2640 define two useful macros, a "Load Word" macro and a macro to force the program counter onto the next higher even-page boundary.
Lines 2670-2830 contain the entire section of main run- time code. Notice the short loop in which the section winds up waiting. This would be the area where normal game processing takes place.
Lines 2850-3130 contain the main work of the color- ing routine. This code is called from a DLI. You would include a section very much like this one in your own multi-colored player program.
Lines 3160-3560 are called from Vertical Blank. They detour each player to its proper movement routine.
Lines 3590-3810 contain the Vertical Blank Routine. This decides a new direction, moves the player's position there and moves the player image and color.
Lines 3840-4350 contain initialization code. This does things like setting the playfield and initially drawing the players.
Lines 4380-4640 contain each player's color image.
Lines 4670-5260 decide the source and destination of each player image, and then move the images.
Lines 529O-63OO try to move the player in one of four directions. If that direction is not available, the image posi- tion is moved back and the direction flag is toggled.
So here's a small package that proves Atari 8-bit com- puters can have multi-colored Player/Missiles. The con- cepts here may be a bit advanced. But after all, the capability is already there in the Atari. All you need to do is use it.
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by CHARLES JACKSON, Antic Program Editor
Customize T-shirts with your Atari — using your favorite tnicroscreens created with touch tablet or Micro- Painter This short BASIC program ivorks on Atari 8-bit computers with 32K memory and disk. However, see article for special hardware re- quirements.
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Or, you can sit back and create your own with your Atari.
The T-Shirt Construction Set con- verts your favorite KoalaPad, Micro- Painter or ComputerEyes micro- screens into picture files which you can print out and iron onto your T-shirt.
T-shirt iron-ons are always mirror images of the picture you'll finally get, so you'll have to flip your picture be- fore you print it. The T-Shirt Con- struction Set is a short BASIC program that loads your favorite microscreen and flips it into a mirror image of the original. The program saves this mir- ror image as a 62-sector picture file. Now you boot your favorite printer utility and print the picture.
TRANSFER RIBBONS
You'll also need a heat transfer ribbon for your printer These ribbons use a waxy ink designed to melt off your paper onto your T-shirt, leaving a per- manent design.
Heat transfer ribbons are made for most dot-matrix printers — including Epson, Gemini, Star, Okidata, C. Itoh, Prowriter, NEC etc., and are available in many colors. You can buy these rib- bons at many computer stores, or you can order them from the manufac- turers listed at the end of this article.
Some manufacturers also sell heat transfer pens which you can use for adding more colors to your iron-ons.
Just color the paper transfer before you iron it onto your T-shirt.
THE PROGRAM
Type in Listing 1, SOFTWEAR.BAS, check it with TYPO II and SAVE a copy to disk before you RUN it. If you have problems with some of the tougher lines (75, 80, 110, 120 and 5070-5130), don't bother to type them in. Listing 2 will create them for you. "When RUN, Listing 2 creates a file called LINES. LST which contains those special lines. Type NE"W and then LOAD Listing 1. Next ENTER
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"DiLINES.LST" and SAVE the com- pleted program.
The program can manipulate pic- ture files created in either Graphics Mode 7"/2 (ANTIC mode E) or Graphics Mode 8 (ANTIC mode F). When RUN, the program will ask you to select the graphics mode in which your microscreen was drawn.
Microscreens created with Micro- Painter, Micro Illustrator (on KoalaPad, Atari Touch Tablet, etc.) and Computereyes (Low Contrast and High Contrast modes) use Graphics Mode 7 V2 . Microscreens created with Graphic Master and Computereyes (4- levcl, 8-level and Normal Capture modes) use Graphics Mode 8.
If you're still not sure which mode to use, try both and use the image which looks best. You can also use Rapid Graphics Converter from the November, 1985 Antic to transfer your pictures into a compatible format.
Once the program has created and saved a mirror image of your micro- screen, you're ready to turn it into an
iron-on transfer Load your printer with heat transfer ribbon and boot your favorite printer utility. (Jerry vUlen's Kwik Dump program from the March, 1985 Antic, will produce ac- ceptable results on most printers.)
Be sure to print your picture on plain, white computer paper
IRONING-ON
Ironing on ^our completed picture can be safe and easy when you ob- serve a few simple guidelines.
Most heat-transfer ribbons work best with T-shirts containing at least 25% polyester. 100% cotton T-shirts do not work well because the ink will wash out.
Set your iron to its lowest tempera- ture and let it warm up. Next, select a suitable T-shirt and spread it out on an ironing board or similar surface. Place a piece of aluminum foil inside the shirt to prevent the ink from bleeding through.
Position the iron-on transfer on your T-shirt (inked side down) and pin it in place. Press your heated iron on
one section of the transfer and wait a few seconds. Next, lift the iron from the paper and press it against another section of your transfer Try not to move the iron when it is pressed against the paper
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by KEN GREINER
Would you believe an archery duel for two players, set in a futuristic nine-level arena that features teleporte)s, power stars and invisi- ble walls? Warrior 3000 provides an interesting blend of fast action and tactical-planning challenges. This BASIC program works on all 8-hit Atari computers with at least 32K memory, disk or cassette.
It's about one thousand years in the future and the folks on Warrior 3000 planet tend to get a bit nostalgic about the good old days of single combat. The most popular battle sport they've evolved is the Warrior 3000 Arena — where pairs of brave combatants duel it out in quaintly high-tech archery.
The weapons are energy bows that shoot energy arrows. There are walls and obstacles to hide behind, some of which can be blown up by the energy arrows. The famed Orange-Disk teleporters can instantly whisk cor- nered combatants out of arrow range.
Hey, it's an exciting life being a War- rior 3000 professional bowman. There are big bucks to be made in the arena — prizes, endorsements, ban- quet appearances. All you need to do is destroy your opponent in a nine- round competition.
BATTLE RULES
Start your Warrior 3000 career by typ- ing in Listing 1, WARRIOR.BAS. Check it with TYPO II and SAVE a copy before you RUN it. Press [ST\RT] to begin the action. Move your fighter with the joystick and fire your energy arrow by pressing the button.
Futuristic actlon/stratesy challenge
Player one always starts out at the upper left of the screen and displays the remaining amount of fighters and arrows on the left side of the arena. Player two starts at the lower right and has a display on the right side.
Each of the nine rounds takes place in a unique arena set-up. Don't waste all your arrows blowing up walls and obstacles. You get only 20 arrows at the beginning of a round, and after they're all shot off there's nothing you can do but hide.
If both fighters run out of arrows, a power star will appear at a random position somewhere in the arena. The first combatiint to touch the power star wins one extra arrow. Remember that you can never destroy your op- ponent or an obstacle at point-blank range.
Some arena layouts have openings in the side walls that lead into the Mystery Zone. You can fire an arrow out of the opening and it will immedi- ately reappear at the far side of the
arena — this is a good way to catch your opponent off-guard. Your player can also enter the opening and ins- tantly re-emerge behind the op- ponent.
Invisibility becomes a problem dur- ing later rounds. You'll hear a beep if you bump into an invisible wall, shooting the wall will make it appear. Invisible teleporters are also encoun- tered in late rounds. They transport a fighter to a random position, just like the regular teleporters (orange disks) — they're simply invisible.
Here's a tip from Grudnik the Great, former Warrior 3000 champ: Practice your diagonal shots. It'll be much harder for your opponent to ac- curately return your fire at an angle.
Ken Greiner is 16 and attends Paul v. Moore High School in West Mon- roe, NY. His non-Atari interests in- clude juggling, archery and fantasy role-playing games
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1 o disable the BASIC language built into Atari XL and XE com- puters, you must hold down the [OPTION] key during the first few seconds of a disk boot. This doesn't seem like a terribly difficult task. But sometimes I forget, or I'm too slow getting the key pressed down, or my touch is too light. What- ever. . . I end up in BASIC almost of- ten as not!
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SWITCHER PROGRAM
To return to BASIC properly, you need to load the BASIC RAM flag at 1016 ($03F8) with zero, the cartridge checksum register at 1003 ($03EB) with 82 ($52), and finally PORTB at 54017 (SD301) with 253 (SFD). PORTB is the memory management location which tells the operating sys- tem whether or not BASIC ROM is enabled.
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The nice thing about this method of enabling and disabling BASIC is that it requires no resident routines in memory and it's simple and easy to remember and understand.
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f you own an Atari XL or XE com- puter and use DOS 2.5, you may be getting tired of enduring the long wait for DUP.SYS to load in. The cure for this affliction is Instant- DOS. After you install this modifica- tion to DOS 2.5, simply type DOS from BASIC and the DUP.SYS menu is there. Instantly! With the MEM.SAV file included, your resident program is safe in memory when you return. The BASIC program is relatively short. Once Instant-DOS is installed, you can forget about it. Type the pro- gram carefully — particularly the data. And be sure you understand the fol- lowing instructions before you proceed!
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Type in Listing 1 and check it with TYPO II, then SAVE a copy or two. Don't RUN it yet!
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For LOADing MODIFY.OBJ, type [L] [RETURN], then type MODIFY .OBJ [RETURN]. After it has LOADed in, press [RETLJRN] again to get to the menu. You should see that the second line of the menu has been modified to read I-DOS in inverse letters.
We're almost there. Insert a blank disk and format it with DOS option [I]. When formatting is complete, write your new, modified Instant-DOS to the disk by typing [H] [RETURN], followed by the number of the drive containing the new disk. This disk now contains a working copy of Instant-DOS.
IMPORTANT: Turn off your com- puter and re-boot your system before proceeding. Because of the way
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Zorkll 31
Zork III 31
Cutthroats 28
Deadline 34
Enchanter 28
Hitchhiker's Guide 28
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Sorcerer 31
Suspect 31
Witness 28
Wishbnnger 28
Inlidel 31
Mind Forever 31
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Hippo Computer Almanac , , 23
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Hippo ST Disk Utilities . 33
Hippo ST Ramdisk 23
Hippospell 27
Hipposimple 33
Hippoart 27
Hippobackgammon 27
Hippo - Lock 79
Hippo Eprom Burner 109
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Mudpies 24
Bolt Spool 28
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Hippo *C' Compiler 54
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Lineguard Spike Suppressor 13
Disk Drive Cleaning Kit 9 MicroMale Paper
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Hacker 18
Master of Lamps 17
Great Amer, Road Race 17
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Printshop Graphics Library
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Karateka 20
Championship Lode Runner , 24
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M U LE (D) 17
Murder 17
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Archon 11(D) 24
Music Construction (D) 17
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Seven Cities of Gold 24
EPYX
Eidolon 28
Koronis Rift 28
Summer Games 27
Ballblazer (D) 27
Rescue on Fractalus (D) 27
INFOCOM
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Deadline (D) 29
Enchanter (D) 23
Hitchhiker's Guide to
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Sea Stalker (D) 23
Starcross (D) 29
Suspect (D) 27
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Zork I (D) 23
Zork II or III (D) 27
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Kennedy Approach 23
Decision in the Desert 27
Crusade in Europe 27
Silent Sen/ice: Sub sim 23
OSS
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Action Tool Kit (D) 19
Basic XL (R) 38
DOS XL (D) 19
Basic XE 49
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Ultima II 39
SSI
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Computer Ouartertiack 27
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Objective Jursk 27
Italian Commander 27
Computer Ambush 39
Rails West 27
Colonial Conquest 27
Panzer Grenadier 27
Gemstone Warrior 23
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Syn-Calc 34
Syn-Trend 27
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DOS 2.5 FOR AXLON RAMDISK
Enhanced disk density plus 128K
by PATRICK DELL'ERA
Nou', ou'ners oftheAxlon RAMdisk and the Atari 800 can take advan- tage of DOS 2.5 and its enhanced density storage. The following pro- gram will create a new RAMDISK. COM file conipaliJjIe with the A.xlon RAMdisk. Requires an Atari 800, A.x- lon 128K RAMdisk, DOS 2.5 and a 1050 disk drive
^L ^^ m hen Atari came out
Jk J^ m with tlie vastly im-
^^m^m proved, and fully com-
T ▼ patihle, DOS 2,5 that
supported enhanced disk density /j/?«
the Atari 130XE's RAMdisk, I found
myself "on the horns of a dilemma."
1 didn't want to give up my good
or Atari 800 with its Axlon 128K
RAMdisk board — e\'en though neither
of these classic products is still in
production. However, I did want to
be able to use enhanced density on my 1050 disk drive. Als(5, the 130XE's bank-selected memory is but 64 K, while the Axlon board provides 128K.
What to do? Buy a new computer? Give up that extra RAM? No way! A little programming here, a few fiddled bytes there. . .
I set to work and altered the origi- nal RAMDISK.COM so it will allow ATARI DOS 2.5 to handle the Axlon 128K RAMdisk board. (RAMDISK. COM is a file on the original DOS 2.5 disk which, when residing on your boot disk, will create the 130XE RAMdisk).
THE PROGRAM
Listing 1 is a BASIC program that will create a binary file called RAM- DISK.COM. Type it in with TYPO II and SAVE a copy before you RUN it.
Now, load Listing 1, place a disk with DOS 2.5 in drive I, and RUN the program. When finished, the new RAMDISK.COM should reside on your disk.
RAMDISKXOM
On boot-up, DOS 2.5 will look for a file named RAMDISK.COM. If found, it will load and run it before begin- ning its search for an AUTORUN.SYS file.
Our Axlon RAMDISK.COM checks to find the Axlon I28K RAM board. If found, it checks to see if the board has already been formatted. If not, Axlon RAMDISK.COM initializes DOS to indicate that D:8 is a RAMdisk, the RAMdisk is formatted, DURSYS is co- pied to it, and finally MEM.SAV is written to it.
You now have the same capabilities of the 130XE RAMdisk with one ex-
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ception: Instead of 412 sectors free (499 minus what DUP.SYS and MEM. SAV use), you have 710 sectors free! Going to DOS takes only seconds be- cause DUP.SYS is loaded from RAM- disk. When you return from DOS to the cartridge, any program listing will be just as you left it, thanks to the RAMdisk MEM.SAV.
WARNINGS AND CAVEATS
As with any modification, there are a few things to keep in mind:
Axlon RAMDISK.COM does change DOS 2.5 in memory. If you then write DOS to a disk, the changes will be written also. To remind you that you are using a modified DOS, the menu of DOS has been changed slightly. The top line is highlighted in inverse characters. The only problem with writing a modified DOS is that the modified version won't work on a I30XE with the original RAM- DISK.COM. There are no other prob- lems presently known.
If you find you need to create DOS on a new disk while you have Axlon RAMDISK.COM installed, simply use the copy function to copy DOS.SYS to the new disk. NOTE; You must use a different name than DOS.SYS for the destination. After the DOS.SYS file has been copied, you may then re- name it on the new disk to DOS.SYS without any problems.
If you inadvertently delete D8:DURSYS, you won't be able to go to DOS unless you first POKE 5439, ASC("1") — assembler users need to al- ter location S153F to S31— and then put a disk with DUP.SYS into drive 1. Unless MEM.SAV is already on the disk, you will lose any program in memory.
Whenever you go to DOS with D8;MEM.SAV active, DOS will create another MEM.SAV file of as many as 45 sectors. If RAMdisk 8 does not have 45 sectors free, no problem. There is extra space in the Axlon board that DOS can't normally use. MEM.SAV uses this memory for any overflow.
If you never call DOS, MEM.SAV will never take any sectors that DOS can address.
Should you inadvertently delete MEM.SAV, you can re-install MEM.SAV by simply saving a file to "D8:MEM. SAV". In BASIC, for example, SAVE "D8: MEM. SAV". Then you can again safely go to DOS without losing any- thing in memory.
With this new RAMDISK.COM, owners of the Axlon RamDisk board and the classic Atari 800 computer need not feel left out. With 710 disk sectors free, perhaps we can even feel a little smug!
Machine language maven Patrick DelVEra last appeared in Antic in December 1985 with the spectacular DISKIO Plus.
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