Computing
Home Shopper Calendar Printer Home Inventory Electroids HippoVision Video Digitizer 139-95 Creates digitized Degas and NEOchrome-compatible picture files using any standard composite video input e.g. color or b amp w camera, VCR, TV', etc . Fast software updates the ST's screen 10 times per second, while the hardware frame-grabber snaps pictures in 1 60 of a second. Animation mode allows automatic sequential frame digitization. Black and white high contrast mode or up to 16 grey levels with...
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Taking Stock
Before making these decisions or actually distributing any funds to the schools for computer purchases, Glassman first needed to find out exactly what equipment already existed in the schools and how it was being used. He soon learned that 14 of the 25 schools had some equipment on hand, but that only one school had nearly enough 20 computers. Moreover, as he had feared, each school had a different approach to computer instruction. Some schools were stressing programming. and were not exposing...
A Locked Door A Dead Man
First of the INTERLOCK.- Mystery Series from Iiifocom First of the INTERLOCK.- Mystery Series from Iiifocom The packaging for DEADLINE is as unique as the highly sophisticated prose mystery game itself. DEADLINE comes packaged in an actual dossier containing critical evidence on the crime. The dossier includes such genuine clues as a lab report, fingerprints, physical evidence collected near the victim's body, interviews with possible suspects, an 8X10 glossy photo of the scene of the crime, as...
Columns And Departments
6 The Editor's Notes Mansfield 10 Readers' Feedback The Editors and Readers of COMPUTE 95 INSIGHT ST Exploring the ST Bill Wilkinson 96 AmigaView New Amiga Software Charles Brannon 97 Telecomputing Today Online Etiquette Arlan R. Levltan 98 The World Inside the Computer Training for Tomorrow's Jobs Fred D'lgnazlo 99 Computers and Society Computer Efhics David D. Thornburg 100 The Beginner's Page String Comparisons Tom R. Halfhill 101 INSIGHT Atari Avoiding Disk Errors Bill Wilkinson 102...
Sargon Iii Writes Chess History
In a tournament sanctioned by the U.S. Chess Federation, Sargon ill beat a master rated 2209- That makes Sargon III the only microcomputer program ever to defeat a player at that level. Sargon III has no trouble wiping Chessmaster 2000 off the globe. Someday, maybe a chess playing program will be able to beat Sargon III. Until then, which chess program do you want to own the world champion or the runner-up Note The test was ran on two Apple li computers. Each program played once as white and...
Ohm Iui Eu
Latest version uses expanded memory of XE 19.95 Assembly language -Customize to your tastes -Learn the secrets of 80 columns programming OmniVriter 80 by C. David Young IMfilglBII CDY Consulting 214 235-2146 03 16 86 If you have never done 30 column word processing, you may not know what you are missing, but believe me, once you try it, you will never go back to 40 columns You too can enjoy professional quality word processing on your ATARI 8 bit computer by installing an OMNIVIEW 80 columns...
The Club Sandwich Percentage
This is in response to your Editor's Note in the April 1987 issue of family computing. A reader survey showed 49 percent of your readers have a home office. Of those, 60 percent run a home business and 40 percent do job-related work at home. I represent the club-sandwich percentage. I use moments, half-days, and available evenings to manage my personal financial records and estate records, do correspondence, and prepare a billing statement for a local water association. In addition, I do a...
Top 100
To celebrate the turning of the century as far as AA is concerned we're taking a look back over the eight years of the mag's reign, to sort out for you the 100 essential items that every self-respecting CPC owner should have in their collection. Clur Hodgson is your host. C Exolon 21st Century Gorgeous 93 per cent scoring stonker which, coincidental . i appearing on next month's cover tape. i Nodes of Yesod Odin . Spacemen v silver suits roam the planet's surface. Prehistoric 2 Titus ....
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Analog Staff
Editors Publishers MICHAEL DES CHENES LEE H. PAPPAS Contributing Editors TONY MESSINA DR. GARY ROSE MARCIA ROSE Technical Division CHARLES BACHAND TOM HUDSON CRAIG PATCHETT Advertising Manager MICHAEL DES CHENES Typography HENDRICKX amp LARRIVEE CO., Inc. Production Distribution LORELL PRESS, INC. Contributors BOB CURTIN WILLIAM HOUGH MICHAEL A. IVINS ALY KAHN RICHARD KALAGHER THOMAS KRISCHAN ANDREW LIEBERMAN ISTVAN MOHOS BRIAN MORIARTY CARL PATTERSON STEVEN POGATCH MARC ROSSEN LARRY SEFTOR...
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Presenting Technology That Lets You Program Your Own Destiny
Electronics and computer equipment can be state-of-the-art today. And ready for the garbage can tomorrow. Demand for technology is changing that fast. And the people who can stay on top of it can write their own ticket in this world. We can put you to work with technology that you may not read about in magazines for years. We can teach you how to make sense of the most intimidating circuitry in existence anywhere. If you attend college, we'll pick up 75 of your tuition. You can even earn an...
Thomson O
1986 Thomson Consumer Products Corporation 5731 W. Slauson Avenue, Suite J ft. Culver City, CA 90230 Thomson is a trademark of Thomson S.A. Apple is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Commodore is a registered trademark of Commodate Electronics Limited. Atari is a trademark of Atari, Inc. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp. Founder Editor in Chlel Senior Editor Managing Editor Executive Editor Jomes A. Coselia Robert C. Lock Richard Mansfield...
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Tour The Orchestra Pit
1 Dual JK Positive-Edge Flip Flop 3 Octal Bus Transceiver Noninverting 11 Quad Two-Input Positive OR Gate Take a look at the inner workings of two of these electronic orchestras. The card pictured on top is the Ad Lib synthesizer card the card pictured at the bottom is the Game Blaster. We've labeled the major components so that you can see the principal players.
St Copy Deep Scan Burst Nibbler
Copy even highly protected programs in under 60 seconds Copy MS DOS protected programs with equal ease Works with one drive or two'Copy Between 5.25 and 3.5 drives'Multiple copy option allows many backups from one original 'Copy 1 or 2 sides up to 85 tracks Special format parameters for non standard formats 'Unique INFO ANALYSER displays vital disc parameters including sector distribution, dispersion, interleave, etc 'Easy to use Icon driven program takes the mystery out of Disc backup - ONLY...
Poke 53281 Poke 53285 Poke 53286
The eight sprite color locations correspond to the eight different sprites. For more information on programming with sprites, see the 64 Programmer's Reference Guide, Programming Graphics section. I have an Atari 400 computer and an Atari 410 cassette recorder. I'm planning to buy an Atari 800XL computer, and I was wondering if the cassette recorder would work on the Atari 800XL computer. As long as your recorder is still working fine with your 400, there should be no problem using it with an...
Professional Draw 10
At 495, Professional Draw costs less than many of the other programs reviewed here, and although it does not have all of the combined features of the applications in CorelDRAW , overall it is at least as good as that program. Gold Disk is a strong company and makes great software. Professional Draw is no exception. The program installs easily and lets you decide which files to load, including files for CorelDRAW 2.xx WFN fonts, TrueType fonts, Professional Draw proprietary fonts, or the 150...
Micro Mechanic
Computerize car maintenance to imp rove auto performance, economy and resale value. I am writing in response to your article in the January 1985 issue of COMPUTE on the subject of MSX. My letter is actually based on my own applications with a recently purchased Mattel Aquarius system, and my frustrations in obtaining support, literature, and peace of mind in my attempt to decipher this elementary unit. ran your test program on my Aquarius thank you for listing it in plain vanilla , and was...
Of Upgrades
Of all the great add-ons for the 464 Plus the most popular are the 64K RAM pack and the disk drive. They're also the most expensive or are they In the first part of a new series, PHIL CRAVEN tells you how to cut the cost of add-ons. 10.72, you can save yourself at least 30 in the process It isn't widely known, but the main circuit boards of the 464 Plus and the 6128 Plus are identical, having identical circuit tracks and identical holes for the various components. The difference between the two...
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Objectives
At the end of this chapter, you will be able to Design circuits that use open-collector gates and decoders to drive low-voltage and low-current devices. Describe the use of open-collector decoders for memory expansion decoding. Describe the different types of peripheral drivers and transistor arrays currently available. Design high-current lamp-driver circuits. Discuss surge currents in lamp-driver circuits. Design driver circuits that use transistor arrays. Design addressable latch-driver...
By Ann Sabatini Blask
Homework reports are as common to every schoolchild's experience as class pictures or proms. They are usually not as happily anticipated, however. Children often find them time consuming, difficult to organize, and worse, tedious to edit and recopy. Using the computer to help out with the task can allay much of the tedium and can actually assist in emphasizing the learning, rather than the mechanical aspect of the project. The computer can fill a variety of roles as a storage center for notes,...
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Outside the U.S.A. call 717-327-9575 Telex 5106017898 Educational, Governmental and Corporate Organizations call toll-free 1-800-221-4283 CMO. 477 East Third Street, Dept. A206, Williamsport, PA 17701 ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED. POLICY Add 3 minimum S7.00 shipping and handling. Larger shipments may require additional charges. Persona and company checks require 3 weeks to clear. For faster delivery use your credit card or send cashier's check or bank money order. Pennsylvania residents add...
Test Drive An Elephant
You bought a computer to cultivate your kids'minds. Make sure it's bearing fruit, not growing vegetables. Introducing a whole crop of Learning Adventure games from Spinnaker. When it comes to cultivating adventurous young minds, the computer's potential is endless. Unfortunately, the search for software that makes the most of that potential has been endless, too. That is, until Spinnaker created the Learning Adventure Series. A unique collection of games that reward curiosity with You're in...
Impossaball
Welcome to the most frustrating f game in computing history. Adam P. who thinks patience is what you call a crowd of people in a doctor's surgery, has broken three of our best joysticks playing it. Barely an hour goes by without a scream of I didn't mean to do that and a crashing noise as the Konix hits the wall. gt And if you're going to San Francisco mako sure you pack a toothbrush and some sweets. are ust there to get in your way and annoy you. What you get here is the first stage The...
Computerbased Learning
Professionally designed instruction in specific academic skills for ages 4 through adult. Introduction to Counting presents young children with the concepts of numbers, addition, subtraction, shape weight, height, and measurement. Apple, Atari disk 39.95. Atari tape S29.95. Arithmetic Skills teaches basic number skills. High resolution graphics, animation, and sound effects make counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division interesting. Apple S49.95. Fractions builds and...
Susan Semancik
The final testing was about to begin. This would ultimately determine the success of our months of work in preparing the package of programs using the Manual Alphabet Tutorial on the PET computer See COMPUTE Issue 3 . Who could better judge the usefulness and effectiveness of a computerized signing program than the coordinators and students involved in a summer session to teach handicapped honor high school students from all over the country about marine biology Members of the Delmarva Computer...
Amstrad Actiomp
every month. K comes out overy third Thursday of the month and is produced by those wondorful people at Future Publishing. 1 984 - the year Frankie Goes to Hollywood spent three months at number one, George Orwell's prophecy didn't come true and Amstrad launched a very long computer. AA longest-running editor. Rod Lawton, April 11th 1984 - something happened that was to change the world lor ever. Allegedly. Alan Sugar launched the CPC464. It was a vision of the future. The world had never seen...
Arithmetic And Logical Operations
Most arithmetic and logical operations addition, subtraction, AND, OR, EXCLUSIVE OR, and comparison can be performed only between the accumulator and an 8-bit register, a byte of immediate data, or a byte of data in memory addressed through register pair HL or via indexing. Note that arithmetic and logical instructions do not allow direct addressing. If a result is produced comparison does not produce any , it replaces the operand in the accumulator. 1. Logically OR the accumulator with...
So Real It Hurts
The way computer football should be. Other football games put you in the grandstands, looking down on the action. Now see what it's like from the player's perspective looking out of your helmet at an angry linebacker headed straight for you, and no blockers in sight. With GFL Championship Football, you've got the first football simulation that actually takes you down on the field, taking the hits and making the plays. And it's more than just a pretty picture you really get the feel of playing...
Timeworks Data Manager And Data Manager 2
Throw away your index cards and cluttered files. These menu-driven programs let you store and retrieve a wide variety of important lists, data, and information. X-SEARCH allows cross searching through any category to locate specific groups of items easily. Statistical analysis is also possible for any statistical data entered into the system There's more to every Timeworks Home Management System than you've ever seen before. Much more. We've only touched on the highlights So get yourself...
By Bernadette Grey
When Tom Morton decided in the spring of his junior year that he wanted to be an accountant, his parents helped him find a college with a strong accounting program and bought him plenty of pcncils with strong points. The day Linda Buskin announced at the dinner tabic her intentions to be a newspaper journalist, she and her family undertook an evaluation of journalism schools across the country. Neither family was troubled with its child's career choice math was Tom's best subject and Linda...
Deep Thought
Chalk one up for humans. In October, Garri Kasparov, the world's premier chess master, beat Deep Thought, the world's premier chess-playing computer program. In spite of this defeat, the silicon competitor boasts several prestigious victories over human grand masters. Jim Adams of the Association for Computing Machinery predicts that a computer will be the world champion within four years. Look out, Kasparov. Deep Thought was developed by a team of five Carnegie-Mellon University graduate...
A Monarch Avalon Inc Company
Dial 1-8q0-63s-9292 Ask for Operator C11. 4517 Harford Road Baltimore, MD 21214 ceptionally good editing capabilities for a machine of its class. The term program editor means something slightly different in the home computing world than in your mainframe experience. For eight-bit machines like the 64, editors are usually not discrete programs, but rather integrated with the language's interpreter or compiler. Because of the amount of memory available in eight-bit machines, their editors are...
Sd Mandeno Electronic Equipment Co
10 WOODHALL RD. EPSOM. AUCKLAND 3. 09 600-008. GRAMS' NUCLEONIC. TELEX NZ21779 LABAK MANDENO Argos Data Systems is offering an advanced one-day course to teach more complicated applications of Lotus 1 -2-3, including macro-programming, data handling and file combining. IF YOU'RE THINKING OF BUYING A COMPUTER FOR XMAS, BE CAREFULY0U DONT END UP WITH ATOY. Sanyo 550. For S1995, complete. You're buying a Professional PC 16-bit MS-DOS technology 128K expandable RAM and free software including...
November 1986
Personal Finances Home Office Word Processing Games Entertainment Home-School Connection Telecomputing This Breakthrough Just Broke Through. Again. Afhen the Leading Edge Model D'M Personal Computer was first introduced, it stunned the world by being the first and only IBM-compatible to come with more standard features than the IBM PC at about half the price. It's been over a year since then. We think it's time to stun the world again. Since the Model D already comes with dual-drives,...
Ibm Pc
Micro Learn is a registered trademark of MicroLab, Inc. THE COMPILER EDUCATION DIVISION OF MICROLAB, INC. Apple II amp lie, ISM PC, Atari 800 and Commodore 64 are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc., IBM Corp., Atari, Inc. and Commodore Electronics, Ltd. respectively. MicroLab, Inc., 2699 Skokie Valley Road, Highland Park, IL 60035 312 433-7550 There are people, I know, who rely solely upon themselves. I'm not one of them. All my life I've been hooked on other people. It's never been...
August 1988 Issue 63
East Coast Editor ARTHUR LEYENBERGER West Coast Editor CHARLES F. JOHNSON Contributing Editors LEE S. BRILLIANT, M.D., MICHAEL BANKS, FRANK COHEN, ANDY EDDY, MAURICE MOLYNEAUX, STEVE PANAK, CRAIG PATCHETT, MATTHEW JW. RATCLIFF, ROBIN SHERER, KARL E. WIEGERS Entertainment Editors ANDY EDDY, DAVID PLOTKIN Copy Editors ANNE DENBOK SARA BELLUM, PAT ROMERO Typographers KLARISSA CURTIS, JUDY VILLANUEVA, DAVID BUCHANAN Contributors COLIN FALLER, CAREY M. FURLONG, RON GOODMAN, BARRY KOLBE, ANDY A. LEE,...
A Quiz To Help You Decide
Will you derive enough benefits from home-banking to make it worth the money Ask yourself the following questions, and judge for yourself. Do you have the right computer and a modem Home banking services which require special software from the bank generally work with popular models from Apple. Atari. Commodore. IBM. and Tandy check with your bank for details . Unless you move a lot of money around, it's probably not worth buying computer equipment for home banking alone. Does it make sense to...
Commodore 64
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C128 Peeks 4 Pokes
Dozens ot programming quick-hitters, techniques on the operating system, slacks, zero page, pointers, and BASIC. 2-iOpp S16-95 Gel all the Inside into on BASIC 7.0. This exhaustive handbook is complete with tully commented BASIC 7.0 ROM listings. S24.9S Gel all the Inside into on BASIC 7.0. This exhaustive handbook is complete with tully commented BASIC 7.0 ROM listings. S24.9S the popular GEOS operating system and its applications. GEOS requires disk access numerous times, and the additional...
AcliVisiON
PET programs can be used on the 64 if you first load a program called a PET emulator into the 64. This program is available from Commodore. I own an Atari 1200XL computer. Can I use the paddle controllers from my Atari 2600 game machine in my own 1200XL programs Yes. All controllers used on the 2600 game system are compatible with the Atari computer line. As a matter of fact, the 2600 game controllers have become a de facto standard. Atari joysticks also work on the Commodore VIC-20 and 64,...
Get Organized
The first step, if you haven't done it already, is to complete your tax system by setting up electronic versions of all the forms you normally use in tax preparation. You can use Show us the face of Max the Master Robot. And you may win your own talking robot Team up with a friend to defeat Max and his robot raiders in Bannercatch. Only a handful of people have ever seen the face of the robot leader Max. Defeat Max and his demon robots and you'll join this elite group. And you and your teammate...
Or Single Density
The ASTRA 1620 can be either single or double density, depending on the software selected. One drive can be configured for single density and the other drive for double density, or any combination desired. The ASTRA 1620 is compatible with virtually any software available for ATARI Disk Drives. The ASTRA 1620 is smooth, quiet and fast. In Single Density mode, the ASTRA 1620 stores 88K bytes of programs or files. In Double Density, the ASTRA 1620 stores 176K bytes, simply twice as much. TWO...
Advanced Machine Language
Not covered elsewhere video controller, interrupts, timers, clocks, I O. real time, extended BASIC, more. 2t0pp 14.95 PRINTER BOOK C-64 VIC-20 Understand Commodore, Epson-compatbie printers and 1520 plotter. Padted utilities graphics dump 3D-plol commented MPS801 ROM listinos, more. 330pp 19.95 depih intro to oomputers in science. Topics chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy, electronics, others. 350pp S19.95 CASSETTE BOOK C-64 VIC-20 Comprehensive guide many sample programs. High speed...
Computer
64K RAM. 20K ROM standard includes operating systems and BASIC interpreter . Text characters. High resolution graphics . 320 x 200 pixels. M usic synthesizer produces 3 independent voices, each with a range of 9 octaves. Typewriter keyboard with 66 keys for upper and lower case letters, numerals, symbols, reverse characters. 2 cursor control keys. 4 function keys, programmable to 8. Input output ports for user, serial. ROM cartridge. 2 joystick paddles, video, cassette drive interface. 16...
Now Plato Courseware Makes Algebra Friendly
Algebra can be a fascinating learning experience with the help of PLATO educational courseware. PLATO helps bring out the best in your child and the best in your Apple II Plus or Apple He. A new series of PLATO lessons can help your kids feel comfortable and confident about Algebra. Practice problems change at random to challenge them,- examples of solutions guide them,- performance reports encourage them. If a mistake is made, PLATO shows kids the correct answer or how to correct it. So before...