ISSUE: 10Content
Features:
- 400 Upgrade (Keyed up and RAMing to go)
- Adventuring (How to participate in this great gaming genre)
- Unfazed by the Fazer (Using data buffers to speed up printing tasks)
- Conserve RAM (BASIC's USR function explained)
- Talk Is Cheap (Voice I/O for the Atari computer)
- Antic Pix Adventure (Seven adventure games reviewed!):
- Galahad and the Holy Grail
- Temple of Apshai
- Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress
- Suspended
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- Creepers
- Empire of the Overmind
Departments:
- I/O Board (Letter column)
- Help! (Corrections and reader-suggested fixes)
- Profiles: Scott Adams (Antic chats with the adventure-creating guru)
- Starting Line: I/O and You
- Inside Atari
- E.T. Game for Atari Computers
- XL Line Debuts
[*]Pilot Your Atari: Lines Away!
[*]Systems Guide: List Assister by Dana Noonan
[*]Dragonsmoke: Nice Dice
[*]Education: Shoot 'Em Up Math by Andrew Silberstein
[*]In the Public Domain: Stunt Clown by John Magdziarz
[*]Games Department:
- Star Raider Academy
- PacMan (5200)
- Dial-A-Game (The Atari 2600 modem-based game service goes live)
[*]Tape Topics: Ten Ten (Atari's new 1010 cassette recorder)
[*]FORTH Factory: Why Go FORTH?
[*]Assembly Language: Hokey POKEY Interrupts
[*]New Products (Hardware for the Atari)
[*]Microscreens (Reader-submitted screenshots of their computer-generated artwork)
[*]NEC Fix (Eliminate the squealing in NEC printers due to a simple design flaw)
[*]Product Reviews
- ATR8000 terminal
- Apprentice Robot Arm Kit
- Adventureland (48k disk)
- The Pharoah's Curse (16k cartridge)
- Mapping the Atari (book)
- Warlock's Revenge (48k disks)
- Happy 810 enhancement
- OMNIMON monitor
- Epson FX-80 printer
- B Key 400 keyboard
[*]Atari Clinic (Helping readers with their Atari-based problems)
[*]Computer Quiz (How much DO you know about your computer?)
[*]Looking at Books: Atari PILOT For Beginners
[*]Listing Conventions (How do you make those neat little icons show up in your programs? Use this handy table!)
Notable Stuff:
- The package for Infocom's Suspended has creepy-pasta written all over it...gaaah!
- Gee, an E.T. game for home computers. Just what we all wanted after the 2600 debacle, right?
- 20th Century Fox games is looking for a winning design for a new M*A*S*H* game. The winner's looking at a contract worth $25,000 (that's nearly $60k in today's dollars), and the runners-up are looking at driving away in new Jeeps, hooking up new TI-99/4A computers, or playing one of 4,000 give-away games.
- You think online gaming started with Xbox Live? Atari had that covered in 1983 with the GameLine service and Master Module modem. Now get off my lawn.
- Did you perhaps mean "The Pharaoh's Curse" there, game designers? Spelling counts. ^_^
- Despite the name, the Happy 810 Enhancement doesn't do anything dirty, it just speeds up your computer.
Features:
- 400 Upgrade (Keyed up and RAMing to go)
- Adventuring (How to participate in this great gaming genre)
- Unfazed by the Fazer (Using data buffers to speed up printing tasks)
- Conserve RAM (BASIC's USR function explained)
- Talk Is Cheap (Voice I/O for the Atari computer)
- Antic Pix Adventure (Seven adventure games reviewed!):
- Galahad and the Holy Grail
- Temple of Apshai
- Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress
- Suspended
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- Creepers
- Empire of the Overmind
- Galahad and the Holy Grail
Departments:
- I/O Board (Letter column)
- Help! (Corrections and reader-suggested fixes)
- Profiles: Scott Adams (Antic chats with the adventure-creating guru)
- Starting Line: I/O and You
- Inside Atari
- E.T. Game for Atari Computers
- XL Line Debuts
[*]Pilot Your Atari: Lines Away!
[*]Systems Guide: List Assister by Dana Noonan
[*]Dragonsmoke: Nice Dice
[*]Education: Shoot 'Em Up Math by Andrew Silberstein
[*]In the Public Domain: Stunt Clown by John Magdziarz
[*]Games Department:
- Star Raider Academy
- PacMan (5200)
- Dial-A-Game (The Atari 2600 modem-based game service goes live)
[*]Tape Topics: Ten Ten (Atari's new 1010 cassette recorder)
[*]FORTH Factory: Why Go FORTH?
[*]Assembly Language: Hokey POKEY Interrupts
[*]New Products (Hardware for the Atari)
[*]Microscreens (Reader-submitted screenshots of their computer-generated artwork)
[*]NEC Fix (Eliminate the squealing in NEC printers due to a simple design flaw)
[*]Product Reviews
- ATR8000 terminal
- Apprentice Robot Arm Kit
- Adventureland (48k disk)
- The Pharoah's Curse (16k cartridge)
- Mapping the Atari (book)
- Warlock's Revenge (48k disks)
- Happy 810 enhancement
- OMNIMON monitor
- Epson FX-80 printer
- B Key 400 keyboard
[*]Atari Clinic (Helping readers with their Atari-based problems)
[*]Computer Quiz (How much DO you know about your computer?)
[*]Looking at Books: Atari PILOT For Beginners
[*]Listing Conventions (How do you make those neat little icons show up in your programs? Use this handy table!)
- E.T. Game for Atari Computers
Notable Stuff:
- The package for Infocom's Suspended has creepy-pasta written all over it...gaaah!
- Gee, an E.T. game for home computers. Just what we all wanted after the 2600 debacle, right?
- 20th Century Fox games is looking for a winning design for a new M*A*S*H* game. The winner's looking at a contract worth $25,000 (that's nearly $60k in today's dollars), and the runners-up are looking at driving away in new Jeeps, hooking up new TI-99/4A computers, or playing one of 4,000 give-away games.
- You think online gaming started with Xbox Live? Atari had that covered in 1983 with the GameLine service and Master Module modem. Now get off my lawn.
- Did you perhaps mean "The Pharaoh's Curse" there, game designers? Spelling counts. ^_^
- Despite the name, the Happy 810 Enhancement doesn't do anything dirty, it just speeds up your computer.
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