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| FEATURES | |
| Report from the Winter Consumer Electronics Show: The Fireworks Continue | 18 |
A resyrgent Commodore, an aggressive Atari, and a raft of inexpensive PC compatibles were among the highlights in the personal computer section of this year's Winter Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas.
From the show emerged new Amiga computers, more powerful Atari STs, continuing innovations for Commodore 64 and 128, more Atari II news, and enough new twists to kick off 1987 with a bang. |
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| Selby Bateman, Tom R. Halfhill |
| SpeedScipt 80: The 80-Column Machine Language Word Processor for Apple II | 41 |
| COMPUTE! is proud to present SpeedScript 80, an 80-column word processor for Apple IIe, IIc, and IIgs computers. Based on SpeedScript 3.0, which was first published in the June 1985 issue of COMPUTE! magazine, SpeedScript 80 is an impressive word processing application that's easy to learn, and just as easy to use. If you already have and use SpeedScript, you can save yourself retyping time by following the easy instructions which show you how to modify SpeedScript for 80 columns. SpeedScript 80 runs on any Apple IIc and IIgs, and on IIe computers with an 80-column card. DOS 3.3 and ProDOS versions are included. |
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| Charles Brannon, Kevin Martin, Bill Rodrick |
| Menu Planner | 60 |
| For those who like to plan ahead, there's an easy-to-use BASIC program that lets you plan dinner menus for an entire week in advance. Versions are included for the Commodore 64, IBM PC/PC jr, Apple II series, Atari ST, Amiga, and Atari 400, 800 , XL, and XE. A disk drive is requred. A printer is optional. The IBM PC/PCjr version requires BASICA for the PC or Cartridge BASIC for the PCjr. |
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| W. M. Shockley |
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| REVIEWS | |
| Tass Times in Tonetown | 64 |
| Ervin Bobo |
| Airheart for the Apple II | 65 |
| James V. Trunzo |
| Lance Haffner Games | 66 |
| James V. Trunzo |
| Instant Music for the Amiga | 67 |
| Neil Randall |
| The SoundMouse | 68 |
| Rhett Anderson |
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| COLUMNS AND PREVIEWS | |
| The Editor's Notes | 4 |
| Richard Mansfield |
| Readers' Feedback | 8 |
| Computer Laryngitis, Keyboard Polling In ST BASIC, Deleting Apple Documents, Timing In Compiled Commodore BASIC, Autostarting IBM BASIC Programs, IBM PC/PCjr Hidden Files, Missing MAKEDIR, IBM PrtSc Revisited, 2 Times 8 Is Not 16, Null String Blues |
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| The Beginner's Page: Odds and Ends | 69 |
| C. Regena |
| Computers and Society: A Meeting with an Ex-Pirate | 70 |
| David D. Thornburg |
| The World Inside the Computer: The COMPUTEREYES/2 Digitizer | 72 |
| Fred D'Ignazio |
| Microscope | 73 |
| Sheldon Leemon |
| ST Outlook: Atari Does It Again | 74 |
| Philip I. Nelson |
| IBM Personal Computing: Low-Priced Speed and Space | 75 |
| Donald B. Trivette |
| AmigaView: The New Amigas | 76 |
| Sheldon Leemon |
| Telecomputing Today: April Antics | 77 |
| Arlan R. Levitan |
| INSIGHT: Atari - Retry, Retry, Retry Again | 78 |
| Bill Wilkinson |
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| THE JOURNAL | |
| Simple Banners for IBM PC/PCjr | 80 |
| With just a few modifications, a screen graphics program for the IBM PC/PCjr can be used to print paper banners. A dot-matrix printer is required. You must also have BASIC for the IBM PC or cartridge BASIC for the PCjr. |
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| Vic Neupauer |
| Easy BASIC Autoboot | 81 |
| This utility for eight-bit Atari computers lets you run any Atari BASIC program automatically when you boot up the system. For Atari DOS versions 2.0 and higher. |
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| Ron Goodman |
| HyperScan: A Full-Featured Mandelbrot Graphics Program | 82 |
| This sophisticated, full-featured Commodore 64 program lets you explore the facinating Mandelbrot set - a mathematical object which forms the basis of some stunning graphic designs. A disk drive is required to sae and reload graphics screens. If you wish to print out graphics screens, you must have a Commodore-compatible printer capable of printing bitmapped graphics. |
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| Kenneth W. Shepard |
| Disk COMpacker for IBM PC/PCjr | 88 |
| Are you running out of room on your IBM PC/PCjr disks? Are your disk directories cluttered with a multitude of small COM programs? This utility conserves dik space and simplifies the directory structure of a disk by packing several COM programs into a single file. It also works with PC compatibles. |
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| Ronald Dorchester |
| Amiga System Fonts | 91 |
| This short program illustrates how to select different system fonts and text styles under program control in Amiga BASIC. |
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| Daniel L. Stockton |
| Structured BASIC 64 | 92 |
| This unusual Commodore 64 utility should interest anyone who wants to learn about structured programming techniques. It introduces several new commands and programming features to Commodore 64 BASIC. |
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| Scott Kell |
| Merge 128 | 96 |
| This Commodore 128 utility allows you to merge two programs into a single file - and resolves any linenumber conflicts in a unique way. |
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| Jefferey D. Partch |
| Apple's Built-In Music Program | 98 |
| Put music into your Applesoft programs the easy way: Apple's own built-in music subroutine features 50 preset pitches, a choice of five timbres (tone colors), and a wide range of note durations - and you can use it from DOS 3.3 or ProDOS. |
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| Mike Miyake |
| North of the Border | 100 |
| Graphics can't appear outside the screen border on Commodore 64 - or can they? This intriguing demonstration shows you how to display text and other shapes in a screen area that's normally blank. |
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| Jim Butterfield |
| IFF Translator for Amiga BASIC | 104 |
| This program translates IFF image files from programs such as Deluxe Paint into files which can be used in your own Amiga BASIC programs. It works only in conjunction with a drawing program that creates IFF-format image files. |
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| Michael Barron |
| Magazine Indexer | 106 |
| This program is a must for anyone who reads computer magazines regularly. It indexes articles by date, computer, and subject category. With the sophiticated search capabilities of "Magazine Indexer," you can easily locate groups of related articles as well as individual articles. Versions are included for the IBM PC and PCjr, the Apple II series (DOS 3.3 or ProDOS), and Atari ST. |
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| Marc B. Sugiyama |
| COMPUTE!'s Author's Guide | 16 |
| CAPUTE! Modifications or Corrections to Previous Articles | 80 |
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| News & Products | 118 |
| Robotic Workshop for Apple, New Software from Classic Image, Amiga Drawing Pad, Talking Software For Youngsters, Create Your Own Awards, Talk To Your Computer, Maxell Disks, New Abacus Software Products, Commodore 128 Monochrome Monitor, Word Processing On Your Amiga, New Atari ST Version of GATO, Galactic War Games, Migraph Annouces New ST Products, New Fantasy Role-Playing Game, Dot-Matrix Printer For Amiga and ST, Popular Baseball Simulation Available For Macintosh |
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| COMPUTE!'s Guide to Typing in Programs | 122 |
| MLX: Machine Language Entry Program for Commodore 64 and 128 | 125 |
| "MLX" is a labor-saving utility that allows almost fail-safe entry of machine language programs. Included are versions for the Commodore 64 and 128. |
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| Ottis R. Cowper |
| MLX: Machine Language Entry Program for Apple | 129 |
| To make it easier to enter machine language programs into your computer without typos, COMPUTE! is introducing its "MLX" entry program for the Apple II series. It's our best MLX yet. IT runs on the II, II+, IIe, and IIc, and with either DOS 3.3 or ProDOS. |
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| Tim Victor |
| Advertisers Index | 132 |
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