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ATARI
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The ATARI" Resource

NOVEMBER 1985

VOLUME 4, NUMBER 7

NEW COMMUN

Ian Chadwick Maps 130XE >^
Shortwave Radio Atari /
Universal Graphics Fiiemakf^
TYPO 11 With Everything
ST Hookup For IBM Disks

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INSIDE: 8 T/pe-ln Programs

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SAVE := PRINTERS

SG-10

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AXIOM

GP550AT (Atari) 222

GP550CD C-64 222

GP700AT (Atari) 439

GP700AP (Apple) 439

ELITE5CD (C-64) 229

C. ITOH

8510AP+ 299

1550P 437

1550BP 437

1550EP 437

1550BCD 469

F10-40 859

FlO-55 1039

75CX)AP 204

7500AR 244

TOSHIBA

PI 340
P351

557
1286

CARDCO

32K BUFFER. .(C-64) 59

CORONA

LP300 Laser Printer 2686

200361 Toner Cartridge 89

EPSON

FX85 (New) 333

U<80 212

FX185 (New) 464

LX90 (New) 226

SQ2000 (New) 1555

JX80 467

Homewriter 10 193

CR-20-Alari 153

CR-220-C-64 153

DX-10 (New) 207

DX-20 (New) 297

HS-80 (New) 288

LQ1500P 976

LQ1500S 1039

RX-lOO 356

FX-100-1- CALL

CITIZEN

MSP-10 287

MSP-15 447

IV1SP-2C 447

MSP-25 563

Sheelfdr (10/20) 189

Srieelfdr (15/25) 199

OKIDATA

Okimate 10 CALL

Okimate 20 CALL

182 214

192 348

193 563

92P 349

93P 56b

84P 645

92 Imagewriter 349

'IBM versions also

BROTHER

HR-15XL-P 359

HR-15XL-S 359

HR-35P 839

HR-35S 839

2024L-P 949

M1009-P 189

MONITORS

JUKI

Juki 6100 347

RS232 Serial Board 55

6100 Tractor 119

6100 Siieel Feeder 209

Juki 6300 757

LEGEND

880 196

1080 222

1380 262

1385 296

DIGITAL DEVICES

16K BUFFER 75

32K BUFFER 89

64K BUFFER 125

DIABLO

D25 549

630API 1599

630EGS 1759

D801F 2395

P32CQ1 699

P38 1749

C150 . . .999

1091 $233.00

PANASONIC

1091 233

1090 183

1092 373

1093 426

3151 Letter 426

4K Buffer 65

SILVER REED

EXP400 249

EXP500 295

EXP550 399

EXP770 749

STAR MICRONICS

SG-10 212

SG-15 373

SD-10 336

SD-15 442

SR-10 483

SR-15 583

Powertype 303

SB-10. CALL

SG-10C-64 (NEW) CALL

TAXAN

115 12 ■ Green Composile CALL

116 12' Amber Composite CALl

121 12" Greer TTL 135

122 12' Amber TTL 145

220 14" Color Composite 259

410 12" RGB Hi Res IBM 329

420 12" RGB Super Hi IBM 405

440 12" RGB Ultra Hi Res 555

lilt Stand 35

SAKATA

SG1000 12" Green 99

SA1000 12" Amber . 109

SG1500 12 Green TTL 119

SA1500 12' Amber TTL 129

SClOO 13" Color Comp 209

SC200 13" RGB 389

STSI Tilt Stand 29

PANASONIC

DT 1300 RG1 composite 247

NEC

JB-1260 Green 95

JB-1201 Green 135

JC 1215 Color 235

JC 1216 RGB 375

JC1460 Color 265

JB-1205 Amber 139

PRINCETON GRAPHICS

t^AX-12 Amber 185

HX-12 RGB 465

SR-12 RGB 595

AMDEK

300 Green 118

300 Amber 128

310 Amber IBM 155

Color 300 Audio 234

Color 500 Composite 369

Color 600 397

Color 700 495

Color 710 569

X-TRON

Comcolor I ComposiiL" Green. 177

ZENITH

ZVM 122A Amber 75

ZVM 123G Green 75

ZVM 124 Amber IBI^ 129

ZVM 131 Color 275

ZVM 133 RGB 389

ZVM 135 Composite 449

7VM 136 Hi Res Color 589

TEKNIKA

MJ-10 Composite 179

MJ-22 RGB 255

MODEMS

DRIVES

INTERFACING

DISKETTES

HAYES

SMARTMODEM 300 133

SMARTMODEM 1200 377

SMARTMODEM 1200B....347

SMARTMODEM 2400 598

MICROMODEM HE 135

ANCHOR

Volksmodem 55

Volksmodem 12 186

Mark 12 229

MICROBITS

MPPIOOE (ATARI) 75

AXIOM

AT846 (Atari) 65

ATARI

850 Interface 109

DIGITAL DEVICES

AoeFace XLP (Atari) 49

U-Print A (Atari) 54

U-CALL RS232 (A(ari) 37

CARDCO

C/7AT (Atari) 49

SKC (Box 10)

(Oly) 10 100 500
5V4 ■ SSDD 13 75 12 99 11 99
5','." DSDD .15 75 14 99 14 25

ELEPHANT (Box 10)

5Vj" SSSD 1350 1299 1 1 99

5',i ■ SSDD 14 99 1399 12.99

SVi" DSDD 1699 1599 14 99
Premium SSDD .1595 1495 .1395
Premium DSDD . 17 95 16 95 15 95

MAXELL (Box 10)

5"-" MD-1 16 75 15 75 14 75
5V.- MD-2 22 99 21 99 20.99

INDUS
Atari

199

ATARI SOFTWARE

ATARI

800XL CALL

130XE (NEW) CALL

520ST (NEViO CALL

1050 Drive 165

1010 Recorder 42

1020 Printer 55

1025 Printer 159

1027 Printer 179

850 Interface 109

ATARI SOFTWARE (NEW)

Codewriter 35.75

Filewriter 20.75

Reportwriter 20,75

Menuwriter 20. 75

Home Integrator 19.75

Small Bus. Inventory 11.75

Salesman Expenses 11.75

Aces Rec/Pay 11.75

Retail Invoice 11.75

Final Legacy 15.75

Adventure Writer 18.75

Star Voyager 11.75

MICROPROSE (Atari)

Kennedy Approach 21.75

Crusade in Europe 24.75

Decision in Desert 24.75

Solo Flight 20.75

Nato Commander 20.75

Spilt i re Ace 1 8.75

F-15 Strike Eagle 20.75

Hellcat Ace 18.75

SUB LOGIC (Atari)

Flight Simulator II.... 32. 75

Night Mission Pinball 20.75

BRODERBUND (Atari)

The Print Shop 28.95

Graphics Library 18.95

Graphics Library II 19.50

Bank St. Writer 42.75

Whistler's Brother 18.95

Spelunker 18.95

Stealth 18.95

Serpent's Star 24.95

Mask of the Sun 24.95

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NOVEMBER 1985, VOLUME 4, NUMBER 7

XE's extra 64K

Prepare to joust

FEATURES

TYPO II DOUBLE FEATURE by Jack Powell and Andy Barton 26

Everything you wanted in a program proofreader type-in software

130XE MEMORY MANAGEMENT by lan chadwick 28

How to use the XE's extra 64K . irc-ini software

RAPID GRAPHICS CONVERTER by Charles Jackson 33
Now . . . universal picture file compatibility type-in SOFi^/yARg

RADIO ATARI CALLING by GIsI Blsson 36
28 Ham satellites, slow scan video, repeater stations, and more . . .

RADIO MODEMS AND SOFTWARE by bin Marquardt 38
RTTY on your Atari

MORSE CODE RECEIVER by Charles Jackson and Steve Stuntz 41
Atari dots and dashes, 70 words per minute type-in software

KYAN PASCAL REVIEW by Ray Cole

True Pascal for Atari, at last

ST SECTION

ST USES IBM DISK FILES by David Smal
Connect a 5 1/4-inch disk drive

ST SOUND by Patrick Bass

Hearing the Ay-3-8910 chip

type-in software

C.O.L.R* OBJECT EDITOR bycisi Bisson

First ST software in Antic Arcade Catalog

SOFTWARE L

TYPE-IN LISTINGS SECTION

R A R y

DEPARTMENTS

GAME OF THE MONTH

VAMPIRE RATS bylomZarbock

READER'S FIRST ST PROGRAM by Fred Hatfield 22

Logo spirals, PEEK command type-in software

Duelins vampires .

M A Halloween special

TYPE-IN SOFTWARE

M ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE

1 FAST MOVES by Patrick Dell 'Era
P Speedy cursor and keyboard repeats

TYPE-IN SOFTWARE

P I/O BOARD 8

ADVFRTISFR'S LIST
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DISKIO 2.5?

Ever since you printed "DISKIO" (Antic,
January 1985), I've been using it on all my
disks and loving it. However, now I'm con-
verting all my disks to DOS 2.5 and
DISKIO is not compatible. I'd hate to give
it up. Is there some way to remedy this
situation?

Brian PatroUa
Marshfield, MA

16m Vb in luck. We asked the author about
this and Dr. Oppenheim told us that al-
though he was now too busy to adapt the
program himself (he's a nuclear medicine
physician) he would send us the source
code. We then contacted Patrick Dell 'Era,
author of the assembly language updates
Fader II (Antic, May 1985) and Picture
Show (Antic, April 1985), as well as this
issue's Fast Moves. Patrick accepted the
challenge and we expect to see his all-new
DISKIO in next month's Antic— AH1\C ED

GRAPHICS ADDITION

When I use Graphics Mode 11 + 32, there
are a number of unwanted streaks and dots
near the bottom of the screen. Other
graphics modes have similar streaks. How
can they be eliminated without losing
whatever the +32 is intended to retain?
Nelson E. Sommer
Orchard Park, NY

Each time you make a regular
GRAPHICS call from BASIC, your screen
RAM is cleared so you can start with a
fresh slate. If you add 32 to your call, you
tell the computer not to clear the screen
buffer. As a result, anything that was
previously on the screen remains there.
The streaks and dots you see are probably
leftover Graphics characters. Of course,
they're no longer readable because you 're
now in a mode with higher resolution.
If you want to experiment with this, try
filling a Graphics 2 screen with letters.
Now type GRAPHICS 1 + 32, and you'll
see your letters shrunk down to Graphics
1 size. (Above them will be the original
Graphics 2 display list.) Now, type
GRAPHICS 3 + 32 and the letters become

a screen of colored dots. Finally, type
GRAPHICS 2 + ^2 to get right back where
you started.— AHT\C ED

SHORTEST GAME

We came across this I/O submission
behind a desk, while cleaning out a work
station in the editorial department. Dated
March 10, 1984, it's from John Pershing
and Kevin O'Neil, of Falls Church, Ver-
mont. They've probably forgotten all
about it by now. Well, we're going to
publish Minefield anyway — because it's
the shortest code we've ever seen for a
game. -ANTIC ED

10 REM MINEFIELD

20 REM BY PER5ING AND O

■ NEILL

30 REM ANTIC PUBLISHING

40 ? >•«■•:? :? :? :POKE

752, 1

50 ? ■' In MINEFIELD

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nxo a Minefield ";

60 ? "and nu5t escap

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but your object is to

set to the right edse."

de
ni
on

65 ? "You May fire a
olen laser that will
stroy one pixel of a
ne.Be thriftyfor you
ly have 5 shots."
70 ? "Best of luck!"
SO ? :? "Press START

begin."
90 IF PEEKt53279) <> 6
EN 90
100 C=60

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1100 FOR BOK=l TO 65:C0
LOR 2

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5:B=INTC70»HNDte)+lJ
1120 PLOT A,B:DRAUT0 A+
5,B:DRAUT0 A + 5 , B * 5 : D R A M
TO A,B+5:DRAMTO A.B
1138 NEKT BOX
1200 N=40:COLOR 1
1210 FOR K=0 TO 158:POK
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1220 PLOT K , N

1230 IF

N N=N-1

1235 IF STICKCO

N N=N+1

1240 LOCATE K+1
F POO=2 THEN 20

1241 IF H=79 TH

1242 IF N=0 THE

1243 IF STRIGtO
0<=4 THEN 3000
1250 NEKT X
1260 ? "YOU FIN
: C = C + 20 : R = R + 1
1270 ? "PRESS F
ON" : O=0

1273 ? "YOU FIN
R ; " ROUND CS) "
1275 SOUND 0,0,
1280 IF STRIGte

1280
1290 GOTO 1000
2000 FOR 1=29 T
UND , I , 8 , 10 : NE
2010 ? "YOU COM
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2020 GOTO 1270
3000 G=X
3010 COLOR l:PL
3015 SOUND 1, G ,
3020 LOCATE G+1

K0=2 THEN 3050
3030 G=G+1 : IF G
N 3050

3040 GOTO 3010
3050 COLOR 0:PL
:DRAUT0 G+1,N
3055 SOUND 1,0,
3060 0=0+1 : G=0 :
GOTO 1250

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I have some good news for Atari users who
(like myself) work overseas. The newest
generation of Japanese television sets (JVC,
Sharp, Sanyo, Sony, etc.) sold in Europe
and the Middle East are Multi-System.
They can be used anywhere in the world
with any TV signal— PAL or NTSC— and
any voltage.

I have had no problems with my JVC
7-System TV which I bought in the Middle
East. I used it for one year in Saudi Arabia
with an Atari 800XL I bought in Holland.
Then I brought the JVC back to the U.S.
where I have been using it with my new
Atari 130XE.

Virgil Cooper
Duncan, OK

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COLOR PRINTERS

I need help and recommendations from
you and your readers. I want to buy a col-
or printer for my school to use in our art
classes to dump pictures created with the
KoalaPad. Is there a printer you would
recommend? What software would be
best to use with this?

William Brooks
Princeton, MA

Our last review of a color printer, the
Okimate, was in the April, 1985 issue. In
our next issue we are reviewing the Radio
Shack Color Ink Jet Printer. Color
graphics dump software is not exactly
plentiful for the Atari, and you should
check the availability of this software
carefully before purchasing any color
printer.— Am\C ED

MODEMS OVERSEAS

Can I use my modem here in West Ger-
many to call up a stateside BBS?
Karl Stephens
West Germany

I am planning to buy a modem. As direct
connect modems are not used here in
Switzerland, I will have to buy a 300 baud
acoustic modem. Is it possible to become
a member of CompuServe's SIG* Atari.
Can I log onto all those numbers you
printed in your February 1985 issue (200 +
Atari BBS List)?

Eric Lewis

Bern, Switzerland

We get many letters like these from our
overseas readers. Telecommunications
between overseas and stateside bulletin
boards is only limited by the clarity of
your phone signal. If you have an
acoustic modem, you're more likely to
pick up outside noise.

But the U.S./Europe connection is easy
now because individual telephone com-
panies throughout Europe have agreed
on a standard for digital communica-
tion lines. It's called the "X.25 Network."

A high quality 1200 baud data line can
be accessed from most major cities simply
by dialing a local number From there
you need only hook into Tymnet or
Telenet, and then into the information
service you wish to access.

The only difficulty is that you must
have a account with the local PTT (Postal,
Telephone and Telegraph) organization
in the country from where you are call-
ing. These are government owned, except
for the one in the U.K. And they can be
troublesome to deal with. You may have
to wait some time to get the service you
want, and you may find yourself paying
quite high first-time contiection fees.
Patience is the best approach.— AHT\C ED

SHORT STORM

Here's a thunderstorm to sync with video
or fdm. Would you please print it for your
sound-effect buffs?

Alphonso Carioti
Fort Lauderdale, FL

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I would like to be able to use the picture
file created by my Atari Touch Tablet to
print the picture on paper. However, I have
been unable to decipher the format of the
picture file. I'd sure appreciate some help.
Robert A. Tims
Jonesboro, AR

Instead of deciphering your Atari Artist
picture file, try Charles Jackson's new
Rapid Graphics Converter in this issue.
And convert your pictures to Micro-
Painter format Noiv, you can use Kwik
Dump by Jerry Allen (Antic, March 1985)
to print your pictures to paper— AH\\C ED

MORE IN STORE

I applaud your editorial campaign urging
software companies to produce Atari ver-
sions of their popular products. There is,
however, an additional problem. Retail
outlets refuse to carry a diverse line of Atari
software. Toys R' Us, K-Mart and Walden-
books (to name a few) carry a good selec-
tion for other computers, but only a
minimal selection for the Atari — if they
have anything at all. This seems to be as
much of a problem as the refusal of
developers to develop for the Atari.

Dr. William F. Smith
Bay City MI

SOUTHERN ADDRESS

The wrong address was printed for South-
ern Supply Company in the Antic,
September 1985 list of mail-order sources
of the Atari 1020 Color Plotter. The cor-
rect address is 1879 Ruffner Road, Bir-
mingham, AL 35210 and they also have
Atari 850 Interfaces for sale.— ANTIC ED

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November1985

antic online

Type GO ANTIC when you log onto
CompuServe in October. Featured
this month on ANTIC ONLINE you'll
find a sneak preview of the 1985
ANTIC BUYERS GUIDE, the com-
plete annual roundup of best products
available for Atari computers.

Also featured on ANTIC ONLINE in
October is an overview of how to use
the new Pro-Burner EPROM cartridge
burner, or how to make your own
EPROM burner.

And don't forget that a complete
Antic Arcade Catalog customer ser-
vice system is now available on
ANTIC ONLINE. Follow the Antic
Central Menu Prompts to upload your
queries for quick email response.

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 charge for accessing ANTIC
ONLINE.

Now ANTIC ONLINE (and SIG *
Atari) are also available on the Delphi
service at a saving of !?6 per hour for
1200 baud access. Phone (800) 544-
4005 for information about signing
up with Delphi. Massachusetts
residents phone (617) 491-3393.

ONLINE NUMBERS

There have been some changes in
addresses and phone numbers of
commercial online services since
Antic printed Getting Connected on
page 17 of the August, 1985 issue.

BRS After Dark has a new toll-
free number, (800) 227-5277. Write
for BRS information to 1200 Route
7, Latham, NY 12110.

PLATO'S new toll-free number is
(800) 328-7104. The mailing address
is P.O. Box 1305, McLean, VA 22102.
Current rate is $7.75 per hour for
either 300 baud or 1200 baud.

RCA Globcom would like Antic
readers to know that it is an email
and database service which can be
accessed worldwide by using an
Atari to emulate a telex terminal. We
will cover this service in a future
issue. Meanwhile you can contact
RCA Globcom by phoning (800)
526-3969 or writing 201 Centennial
Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854.

MPP LIVES ON AS SUPRA

by GIGI BISSON, Antic Assistant Editor

Microbits Peripheral Products (MPP),
of Albany, Oregon was purchased by
Supra Corp. — which is run by Alan
Ackerman and John Wiley, the
22-year-old founders of MPP.

Legally, MPP went out of business.
Supra bought the Microbits name
from the bank that shut down MPP
at the end of May and was threaten-
ing to liquidate the company's assets.

However, the MPP product line and
even the brand name will live on as
a Supra subsidiary. Microbits had been
the top independent manufacturer of
plug-in modems, printer buffers and
memory expanders for Atari
computers.

WARRANTY CHANGES

Supra will continue to honor the
90-day warranty for all MPP products

sold after July 1, 1985, the date when
MPP was purchased by Supra Corp.
But Ackerman says that for MPP prod-
ucts sold earlier, "Some formerly free
warranty work wiU now have a handl-
ing charge." Warranty repair charges
vary according to the product's retail
price and range from $15 to $35.

It will also be harder for users to get
through to the customer service
department. "Be patient," Ackerman
says, "There aren't as many phone
lines as before."

The new Supra customer service
phone number is (312) 967-9081. New
product orders may be placed at (312)
967-9075. The company has moved
to smaller quarters at 1133 Commer-
cial Way, Albany, OR 97321.

Ackerman and Wiley paint MPP as
yet another victim of the computer

shakeout. "It's been a tough time for
some third-party Atari manufacturers,
Ackerman says. "No stores were
ordering anything for the old Atari
computers. They're all waiting for the
52OST to come out."

Supra still plans to release the new
MPP products that were under
development this spring. Orders are
currently being taken for the MPP
1200A plug-in 1200 baud modem and
the MicroNet resource sharing net-
work that will enable up to eight
Ataris to share printers and disk drives.

September shipping was antici-
pated for the MicroPort expansion
port. Supra says the announced
10-megabyte $800 hard disk is still on
the way, although delayed. Supra
offers a 20% discount for users group
purchases. Q

ANTIC, The Atari Resource

Arvtic /T Sectiorv

November 1985

Corvrvcct a 5M-ir\cK disk drive

by DAVID SMALL

You can read and write IBM PC disks
on your Atari ST— if you connect a
40-track, 5 1/4-inch disk drive to your
3 1/4-inch disk drive.

That's right, you could generate a
data or text file at home on your ST,
take the disk to work and use it
directly with an IBM PC.

Are you a commercial ST program-
mer doing your development work
on the IBM? (That's the approved
method.) With this hookup, you
could move files directly into the ST
from an IBM disk. It's a lot faster than
fooling around with the serial bus and
KERMIT.

Or. . . if you don't need IBM file
compatibility for your ST, you can
connect a double-sided, 80-track, 5
1/4-inch drive and store 720K on a
single disk.

This will save you money because
5 1/4-inch disks and drives are
cheaper than 3 1/2-inch disks and
drives. Atari is currently charging ST
owners $199 for a single sided (SS)
drive and $349 for a double sided
(DS) drive.

Shopping carefully, you can pick up
industry-standard 5 1/2-inch drives
for under $150, complete with case
and power supply.

But can you use the disk drive from
your 8-bit Atari? Not if the drive is an

Figure 1: A 40-pin clamp-on connector creates a
"tap" v/hen attached to the 34-pin standard
ribbon cable within the ST drive.

ANTIC, The Atari Resource

'Then I plugged the two
DB-40S together . . .
and I had my signals.
Quick and easy."

Figure 2

810, 1050, or an Atari workalike si
as an Indus, Astra, or Rana. Howev(
ATR8000 and Percom drives will
work because they are "industry stan-
dard" drives that communicate via a
standard 34-pin interlace connector.
Most drives for the 8-bit Ataris don't
use this connector, therefore the ST
will not be able to work with them.

THE WARNING

Before actually telling you how to
hook up a 5 1/4-inch drive to your ST,
we must caution you this is no proj-
ect for electronics beginners.

While most of the work is
mechanical (clamping connectors
together, etc.) there is some soldering
required. You also need to be familiar
with the circuitry of whatever 5
1/4-inch you are using. And debug-
ging your new system can be a
frustrating experience.

Not only that, if you open up your
ST drive as explained in this article,
you'll violate the warranty. Probably
you also will not be able to get the
drive casing back on unless you cut

a slot in it for the added ribbon cable.
'Nuff said, let's plunge ahead.

WHICH DRIVE?

The 5 1/4-inch drive you add can be
either 40-track (for IBM compatibil-
ity) or 80-track (for more memory
and greater ST compatibility). You can
also choose between either a single-
sided or a double-sided 5 1/4-inch
drive.

I recommend a double-sided drive.
There's no good reason to go through
the trouble of giving your ST a single-
sided 5 1/4-inch drive — unless you
have already have one sitting on a
shelf and are low on money. Anyway,
IBM disks are usually double-sided.

Incidentally, ST hardware is set up
to handle only two drives. Atari
owners are used to a maximum of
four drives, but there is just no way
to run more than two drives on the
ST.

RIBBONS AND PINS

The standard disk drive connection
is either a 34-pin connector in a
male/female arrangement, or an edge
connector with two rows of 17 pins.
In the world of standard disk drives,
it is most standard to see a 34-pin rib-
bon cable with edge connectors
clamped onto either end.

Of the 34 pins in the standard in-
dustry connector, only about 14 are
really used. The Atari ST brings these
14 wires out in a short, thick cable
that plugs from the ST into the first
disk drive's IN connector. This cable
uses a non-standard 14-pin DIN con-
nector, but it carries industry standard
signals.

Our goal is to get those signals to
a standard 34-pin connector and thus
to a standard disk drive.

Why did Atari choose a strange
l4-pin connector? Probably two
reasons. First, it's been my experience
that ribbon cable connectors don't
handle abuse well. They fail in a
frustrating, intermittent manner —
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November 1985

which spells expense for Atari.
Second, ribbon cables make wonder-
ful broadcasting antennas, and the ST
had to pass tough FCC tests. The pres-
ent DlN-connector cables are tough
and easily shielded.

Now, theoretically we could put a
34-pin edge connector on one end of
a ribbon cable, a l4-pin DIN connec-
tor on the other end, and we'd have
our disk drive cable. However, in prac-
tice I couldn't find a l4-pin DIN
connector

I tried hard. I checked the local
Riidio Shacks, electronic supply dis-
tributors, and so on. No one had even
heard of a 14-pin DIN connector
Looks like another first for Atari. Right
now, the only way I can think of to
get this connector would be to order
one from Atari . . . and they don't sell
the cable as a spare part. Maybe later.

INSIDE THE DRIVE

Therefore, the method I needed to use
was to tap directly into the signals in-
side the 3 1/2-inch ST drive. As we
already warned you, this voids your
warranty and will probably require
' you to cut a slot in the drive casing
for the new ribbon cable.

If you open up the drive (use a
phillips-head screwdriver and a little
patience), you'll find that the l4-pin
DIN connector expands to (Surprise!)
an industry-standard 34-pin ribbon
cable.

Of course, it does this inside the
shielding to prevent radio noise from
leaking out. A small circuit board has
the two 14 -pin connectors (IN and
OUT) mounted on it, and it connects
to the 34-pin ribbon cable inside the
drive.

I put a "tap" from the 34-pin rib-
bon cable inside the drive to the
34-pin ribbon cable running to my
remote 5 1/4-inch disk drive. (See
Figure 1.) I then used a DB-40, 40-pin
male and female clamp-on connector
to clamp one side to the ST ribbon
cable and the other side to the remote
drive's cable. Then I plugged the two
DB-40s together. . .and I had my
signals. Quick and easy. (See Figure 2.)

You don't have to use a DB-40. Any
clamp-on connector that covers the
first 34 pins will work fine.

KINKY WIRING

And now, we have our disk lines . . .
well, not quite. Atari does something
kinky with the drive B select signal.
It's on pin 6 of the DIN connector,
when coming from the ST. But inside
drive A it is switched from the IN con-
nector pin 6, to the OUT connector
pin 5, where it becomes the drive
select for drive B.

This means Atari ST drives always
listen on pin 5 for select, and the daisy
chain scheme gives the proper drive
the correct signal. Thus, the two con-
nectors on the back of the ST drive
are not interchangeable, like other
Atari drives. Plug your ST into the
OUT connector and the drive won't
work, period.

Therefore we have to jumper from
pin 6 of the DIN connector (drive B
select) to pin 12 of the ribbon cable
(drive B select) to get this signal across.
Otherwise it doesn't show up on the
34-pin cable otherwise. This is easy

the drive, it "pulls down" this signal
to zero (LOW). When the computer
is finished with the drive, it releases
the signal and the drive "pulls up" the
signal to its original five volts. If two
drives are hooked up, only one of
them may contain pull up circuitry
because the computer can only pull
down five volts.

Pull-up circuitry is usually con-
tained in a chip in the drive. And now
you are at the point where you must
know enough about your 5 1/4-inch
drive to figure out where that chip is.

Since the ST drive A contains all the
pull-up termination circuitry we
need, we must remove any termina-
tion packs from the remote drive. In
the case of my Tandon TM- 100-2
drive 1 also needed to deal with the
select line termination, since it doesn't
go through the resistor pack. I had to
clip out resistor Rl4 from my Tandon
to get rid of the added termination.

Special Note: The ST monitor
throws out a great deal of magnetism.

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blue jumper v/ire is soldered from pin 6 of the DIN connector to pin 12
of the ribbon connector.

to do on the bottom of the 3 1/2-inch
drive's DIN connector board. (See
Figure 3.)

Now we need to set the remote
drive as drive B. Sometimes it's called
drive 1 or drive 2, depending on
whether the manufacturer begins
numbering drives at or 1.

Time out for a little theory. When
a drive is idle, a five-volt signal (mean-
ing HIGH) exists on the BUSY line.
When the computer wants to access

If you don't keep your drive at least
one foot from the monitor, the disk's
heads will pick up the monitor's
signals and confuse the read data.
You'll immediately notice data errors
if you get your drive too close to the
monitor This is a good reason to use
a fairly long ribbon cable (3 feet or so)
{We haven't noticed this problem on
our in-house development machine.
Perhaps 5 1/4-inch drives are more
vulnerable to magnetism. —ANTIC ed.)

ANTIC, The Atari Resource

ALL DONE

All right, let's assume you have added
an 80-track drive. Put the disk in,
close the door and turn on the
system. Click on drive B, select FOR-
MAT, and format the disk either
single-sided or double-sided.

From then on, treat the 80-track
drive as an Atari ST drive. Note: 80
track drives have traditionally been
persnickety, which is why 40-track
drives remain popular. Keep a sharp
eye on the drive's alignment. It takes
very little misalignment to make a
disk that only one 80-track drive in
the whole world can read.

If you've added a 40-track drive,
you may use it as an ST drive in only
a limited fashion. You can't use FOR-
MAT or a track copy, because they'll
try to force the drive past its 40th
track.

IBM ST

On the other hand, you can put an
IBM PC disk in that 40-track drive,
and click on the B icon. It'll pull up
the disk's directory into folders and
"text only" files.

You'll notice on the top of the win-
dow an PC-DOS type of "pathname"
consisting of multiple (if needed)
folders and a file name. GEM simply
turns the concept of pathnames into
folder icons and moves you through
the path by your actions of selecting,
opening, or closing a folder.

Of course, you can't run IBM pro-
grams because these are written in
IBM assembly language, which the ST
cannot understand. However, you can
freely copy and use text files and the
data within them. Furthermore, if you
write from the ST to the PC disk,
you'll find that an IBM has no trouble

reading what you wrote.

It is a strange feeling for me to see
that Atari has chosen IBM disk com-
patability (On rumor claims this par-
ticular disk format is used by IBM's
yet-to-be-seen PC II computer, which
uses 3 1/2-inch disks). For so many
years, the Atari system was utterly
incompatible with anything else. Now
the ST is PC data-compatible. Smart
move. It is also very pleasant to be able
to transfer data so quickly and easily.

David Small, a professional pro-
grammer and longtime Antic con-
tributor, is currently developing ST
software for Batteries Included. He
and his wife Sandy are co-authors of
"Guidebook For Winning Adven-
turers," reviewed in the September,
1985 Antic

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Hearirvg tKe AY- 3 - 8910 cKip

by PATRICK BASS, Antic ST Program Editor

Atari 8-bit computers make music using a chip called
POKEY, and control is limited to choosing pitch and
volume. Fancy music can be played, but only at great cost
in processing time. The Atari 520ST uses a newer sound
chip, the AY-3-8910, made by General Instrument Corp.
This chip has been used in many Apple II add-on music
boards, and it has also been selected for all Japanese com-
puters using the MSX standard.

The AY-3-8910 can play music through as many as three
voices at the same time. Each voice has 4,096 different
pitches and full control over the ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sus-
tain, Release) envelope.

The chip produces sound by dividing an incoming
Master clock frequency by 16, and then by the number
stored in the voice's frequency register Every time the
number counts down to zero, that voice's sound output
line is toggled, in effect creating an output square wave.
A square wave creates a tone similar to a woodwind or
reed instrument.

THE REGISTERS

The AY-3-8910 has 16 separate registers, numbered
JSOO-SOF. Each register is eight bits wide, but some registers
do not use all their assigned bits. These registers are shown
in the diagram in Figure 1.

In the left column you can see the register number, the
middle column shows the register function names, and
the right-hand column maps the bit-assignment for each
register, numbered from 7 to 0. The last two registers, $0E
and $0¥, are input/output ports and have no bearing on
the operation of the AY-3-8910 in making sound.

Registers $00 through $05 control the frequency (pitch)
of each voice. The six registers are paired off for each of
the three voices. Bits 0-7 of the note are in the first register
of each pair, and bits 8-11 can be found in bits 0-3 of
the second register. The remaining four bits are not used.
Thus, each of the three paired note registers form a 12-bit
number whose value ranges from zero to 4095.

Given a master clock frequency of 2 megahertz divid-
ed by 16, or 125 Khz, and setting no bits for highest fre-

quency, we get a highest note of 12 5 Khz divided by zero,
or 125,000 cycles per second. If we set all the bits in the
frequency register, the lowest note is 125Kliz divided by
4095, or roughly 30 cycles per second.

We can output either pure tones or "noise." The ran-
dom noise is also produced through a square wave. The
period (width) of this square-shaped pulse of sound af-
fects its tone, and is controlled by register S06. Five bits
of resolution offer a range of 0-31. In effect, this control
acts just like the treble/bass tone control on your stereo.
Low numbers stored in this register will "brighten" the
noise and high numbers will "mute" the noise.

Register $07 has multiple functions. Looking at the
register from the right, bits 0-2 control if voices A, B and
C play pure tones. These are needed for music. The bar
above TONE means, "This function is active when the bit
is a zero, or LO." No bar shows that a one, or HI, is needed.
Bits 3-5 control if noise is played through A, B or C. This
would be used for explosions, jet planes, etc.

Bits 6 and 7 have nothing to do with sound. They con-
trol if the two I/O ports located in registers $0E and $0F
are input or output ports. Since register $07 controls your
floppy I/O, be sure and save its state before you alter it,
or you will surely lose contact with your disk drives.

Registers $08, $09, and $0A have split functions. First,
bits 0-3 control the volume of the voice chosen. Four
bits of resolution give us a range of 0-15- Zero is off, and
15 is loudest. However, if bit 4, the "M" bit in the diagram,
is set to a 1 then the lower four bits are ignored, and
volume information is taken from Registers $0B, $0C and
$0D, which enables effects such as wah-wah and vibrato.

ADSR ENVELOPE

Registers SOB and $0C control how long each stage of the
ADSR envelope lasts. These two full registers give 16 bits
of resolution, or a range of 0-65535. The incoming master
clock frequency here is first divided by 256, then this result
is divided by the l6-bit number in registers $0B and $0C.
The result is how long each stage of your desired ADSR
envelope lasts."Attack" is how quickly the sound rises from

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silence to its greatest volume." Decay" is the time required
for the sound level to fall to a constant level, called the
"Sustain," where it continues to play until falling off to
silence, or "Release."

Register SOD allows the programmer to select which
section of the ADSR envelope is operating. The upper four
bits are unused, but the lower four bits are set to select
one of 10 available waveforms. (See Figure 2.) For example,
at the bottom of the chart, when all four bits are set, the
resulting waveform will start at silence, rise to its greatest
volume, then end suddenly and stay silent. The waveform
above that (bit pattern 1110) causes the volume of the
sound to rise and fall in a repeating pattern.

As previously mentioned, registers $0E and SOF are I/O
Ports A and B and have nothing to do with sound output.
They connect to RS232, floppy, DMA, and parallel ports.

SOUND DEMO

This month's Sound Demonstration program demon-
strates how to read and write values to the AY-3-8910.
The program is written in the C language. Last month's
issue of Antic introduced the fundamentals of C program-
ming for the Atari ST computers.
The ST Sound program tracks the mouse as it is moved

around the desktop, and the mouse's X and Y position
values are used as notes for Voices A and B respectively.
Current results are then printed to the screen with special
GEM VDI graphics text calls. The [LEFT-SHIFT] key raises
the volume, and the [ALTERNATE] key lowers it. Pressing
the left mouse button will exit the program.

PROGRAM TAKE-APART

Since this program is quite similar to the GEM Color
Cascade program presented last month, we can skim over
the declaration and opening of a workstation. At the top
we see a block of #include files, which have pre-written
definitions in them. Next, a long line of int's, which here
act just like initializing a variable in BASIC. Since int's are
l6-bit values and the AY-3-8910 registers are eight bits wide
we define our notes, note_lo and note_hi, as char's,
or 8-bit values.

. We have one function defined in this program, niain( ).
The instructions that follow down through
yres = l_out[1]; say, "Initialize the application (program),
get the 'handle,' or ID number, of this window, initialize
an input array called l_intin, open a workstation, and
get the width and height of this window (xres, yres)."
The graf_niouse( ) (graphics mouse) call changes the

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Figure 1

Ay-3-8910 REGISTERS

BIT

SOO

CHANNEL A
FREQUENCY

8 BIT FINE TUNE A

SOI

COARSE TUNE A

$02

CHANNEL B
FREQUENCY

8 BIT FINE TUNE B

$03

COARSE TUNE B

$04

CHANNEL C
FREQUENCY

8 BIT FINE TUNE C

$05

COARSE TUNE C

$06

NOISE PERIOD

5 BIT PERIOD CONTROL

$07

VOICE

IN/OUT

NOISE

TONE

ENABLE

lOB

lOA

$08

CHANNEL A VOLUME

$09

CHANNEL B VOLUME

$0A

CHANNEL C VOLUME

$0B

ENVELOPE
PERIOD

8 BIT FINE TUNE E

$0C

8 BIT COARSE TUNE E

SOD

ENVELOPE SHAPE/CYCLE

CONTINUE

ATTACK

ALTERNATE

HOLD

SOE

I/O PORT A

8 BIT PARALLEL PORT A

SOF

I/O PORT B

8 BIT PARALLEL PORT B

November 1985

mouse form into a pointing finger, which is one of seven
pre-defined mouse forms stored inside the computer.

Next come new text functions. The function
vst_effects( ) (VDI-Set Text Effects) determines how the
letters will be displayed. Choices such as normal, thicken-
ed, skewed (italics) and outlined are available. Notice we
have defined four types in our variable declarations. The
first vst_effects( ) call says, "hi window 'handle,' use
skewed characters."

Right after that call, on the same line, is a vst_color( )
call (VDI-Set Text Color) which selects the color the text
will be printed in. The call vst_color(handle, BLUE)
says, "In window 'handle,' draw the needed text in color
'BLUE'." BLUE represents a value previously defined in the
#mcluded file "obdefs.h".

On the next line is the GEM call to print a text string
to the screen: v_gtext( ) (VDI Graphic Text). The call
requires that we tell it which window number to write
to, the X,Y co-ordinates where the text will start, and the
string itself or its address. So, combining the two lines
of instructions above, we wind up printing skewed blue
text to cursor position 10, 20.

The next four pairs of lines print the rest of our text
in various shapes and colors. We now come to the first
call we make to the AY-3-8910 itself.

SOUND CHIP CALL

The GEM call Giaccess( ) (General Instruments Access)
takes the form: result = Giaccess (value, register). To
write to a register, add 128 to the register number, other-
wise the register will be read and a number returned.

When writing, the amount to write is supplied by our
program in value and when reading, the registers' value
is returned in result. These first two calls access registers
$08 and $09, setting voices A and B at an initial volume
of eight, or about halfway. Press the [LEFT-SHIFT] key to
raise the volume, and press the [ALTERNATE] key to lower
the volume. Press the left mouse button to exit.

On the next line we save the number in the port con-
trol register in port_state, so later when we exit we don't
lose touch with the disks. The next line is a Giaccess( )
call that accesses register $07 and turns on voices A and
B so they use pure tones. We use the decimal number 60
here because 60 is the decimal value of the binary bit pat-
tern (00 111 100) used to activate voices A and B.

For bits 0, 1 and 2, bit 2 is voice C. We do not use it,
so we set that bit to a one. Bits 1 and are voices B and
A, respectively. They are active so we place a zero in their
bits. We do not want random noise (bits 3, 4 and 5) in
any voice so we set each voice bit to a one. Remember,
a bar above means the function is active when LO. The
upper two bits, 6 and 7, which control the direction of
each I/O port, are not used in our program and are thus
relegated to zero.

Next we enter a DO . . .WHILE loop. In effect, we DO
make noise WHILE not told to stop by pressing the left
mouse button. The first GEM call and a block of four IF
statements questions the keyboard and determines if the
[LEFT-SHIFT] or [ALTERNATE] keys are pressed. If so, it

adjusts the volume.

The next two Giaccess( ) calls update the current
volume. Now we call vq_niouse( ) (VDI Question Mouse)
which answers whether the mouse button was pressed
and locates where the mouse is.

X,Y VOICES

The next line sets x_note to a value proportional to both
the mouse X-coordinate on the screen, and to the range
of values the frequency counter can take. We take this value
in x_note and bitwise break it into an 8-bit LO byte and
a 4-bit HI nibble which are put in note_lo and note_hi.
Then we call Giaccess( ) to turn on voice A with the
results.

The next block of code does the same for voice B and
the Y-coordinate.

The following three blocks of lines print to the screen
the values we are using for the frequencies and volume.
The variable numberl is a floating-point variable. It is
needed for the line below, which converts a floating-point
number to an ASCII string. The call ftoa( ) (float-to-ASCII)
reads; "ftoa( number to print, buffer to build number in,
number of digits to right of decimal point)." The GEM
calls vst_effects( ), vst_color( ) and v_gtext( ) then set
the text style and color, and print out the number

The line that ends the loop tests the value we picked
up in the vq_mouse( ) call. If m_state is any value greater
than zero, the button has been pressed.

To clean up, we make two Giaccess( ) calls. One shuts
off the voices by turning the volume all the way down.
The second restores the I/O Ports to the way we found
them when we walked in. We then perform a standard
GEM exit. rji

Fi3ure 2

Control Bits
B3 B2 B1 BO

Selected Waveform Shape

0-Off
1-On
X-Not Used

\NhsN\hsNN\K

/
4.

Envelope Period (duration of one cycle)

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by GIGI BISSON

It's as if you buy a state-of-the-art
Ferrari, but you need to re-invent the
wheel before you can drive.

And then you need to re-invent the
tire.

And then you need to teach your-
self how to drive all over again . . .

When you're programming for a
machine as raw and unexplored as the
Atari 520ST, you can't just plug it in
and go — you must start from scratch.

It's a challenge that The Rugby
Circle eagerly accepted. Rugby Circle
of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan is the
software development partnership of
Robert Lech, 23 and Troy Dahlman,
19. When they began to adapt a
classic arcade videogame to the Atari
ST computer, they didn't just have to
re-invent the wheel. They had to re-
invent the tool kit — in this case, the
C.O.L.R. Object Editor.

Joust birds are created in Edit Mode of C.O.L.R. Object Editor. Images may be moved to Murai
Screen or saved as source code byte array. The actuai-size image appears in the upper left

BUZZARD BAIT

The Rugby Circle company is named
for the street where both partners
used to live. Dahlman and Lech
wanted to be "first on the block" to
own an ST. After diligent letter-
writing, they persuaded Atari to in-
clude them among the first 20 soft-
ware developers allowed the privilege
of buying a pre-production ST for
$4,500.

"We figured we were buying time,"
Troy says. Little did they know how
badly they would need that early
start.

They plugged in their ST. It blinked
to life. Somewhere, deep inside the

machine were all sorts of treasures — a
palette of 512 colors, little birds, sym-
phonies. . .best-selling software
waiting to be written. The ST blinked
again.

"We took it apart and everything,"
Bob says. "It looks awfully nice." But
they had no software, no graphics
tools. Nothing. Their sleek gray plastic
desk-top Ferrari was all gassed up
with no place to go.

The partners now had a $6,000
hardware investment to recoup. (They
bought a second pre-production ST
after Atari lowered the price.) They
decided to write a game that would
showcase the ST's 16 onscreen colors

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Clint's steely gaze is multiplied in Mural Mode. Note the flipped
window.

Preliminary Joust screen with birds was created in Edit Mode, then
moved panel-by-panel, to Mural Screen.

and high-resolution graphics.

For their first ST project, they chose
Joust. They had previously adapted
it to the Radio Shack Color Computer
as "Buzzard Bait." (Joust, the last game
generated during Atari's late, great ar-
cade game boom, greeted players
with "Prepare to joust, buzzard bait! ")

It was hardly a bird-brained idea.
After all, these guys are professionals
who have been in the business for five
years now. (Troy started when he was
14 years old.) They wrote "Mastering
the SAT" for CBS Software and other
lucrative educational programs for
Radio Shack.

ARCADE R&D

Source code for Joust was non-
existent, and it took a nationwide
telephone search to track down one
of the original Joust bird artists. She
offered hints on how the graphics
were designed — for a price.

Finally, they decided their only
resource was the Joust arcade game
itself. They entered the exploding,
dinging madness of a video arcade.
Carrying a camera and a cumbersome
screen-shot attachment, they tried to
take action photos of dueling knights
mounted on ostrich-like birds. But
that wasn't the hard part.

"We had enough trouble just try-
ing to find an arcade that still had
Joust," Troy recalls with a laugh. For-
tunately, they found a surviving game
shrouded in an inconspicuous arcade
corner One partner dropped quarters

while the other took pictures. Perhaps
they looked like shameless video
addicts desperate for clues to master
the game.

Meanwhile, back on Rugby Circle,
Bob had to teach himself the C pro-
gramming language. Then the part-
ners were faced with the eternal ques-
tion: "Which came first, the buzzard
or the egg?" Troy wanted to create
tiny jousters on a computer that was
capable of fine graphic resolution, but
had no existing graphics tools. So he
needed a sprite editor to create a
bouncing bird on a machine that
doesn't have sprites. . .

SURPRISE SUCCESS

In the dark ages of computing, before
programmers could even start writing
programs they had to write develop-
ment software — a text editor — -just to
write the program with. This pro-
gramming tool eventually became the
commercial word processors of today.

The Rugby Circle C.O.L.R. Object
Editor is the same sort of first-
generation product. It's a program-
ming utility, invented by programmers
who needed an in-house game devel-
opment tool.

Rugby Circle decided to send their
screens of birds and landscapes to
Antic ST Research & Development,
just to show us what they were doing.

Nice birds, we said. But we began
drooling over the graphics editor. We
knew that ST users would need a
graphics utility tool right away and

here it w^as. Antic immediately con-
tacted Bob and Troy and C.O.L.R.
became the very first ST product in
the Antic Arcade Catalog.

"We never dreamed the graphics
editor could be a commercial product
at all," Troy says. The game wasn't
even finished, and they already had
a product — the first commercially
available programmers' tool for the
ST

PSEUDO SPRITES

Instead of traditional sprites, the ST
uses a specialized command known
as a bit block transfer (BitBlt, or
Biting). The C.O.L.R. editor generates
source code that helps design these
bit blocks or "software sprites'^— the
closest thing to Player/Missiles that the
ST has. Yet, with the ST's incredible
68000 microprocessor speed. Player/
Missiles are unecessary. ST developers
have reported up to 80 sprites zipp-
ing around the screen simultaneously.

The C.O.L.R. editor is a no-
nonsense, cursor-based sketching pro-
gram that uses the GEM interface to
automate a cumbersome process. It
generates bit-mapped pictures and
converts them to disk data files in
usable byte-array format.

No cute little paint buckets and
pencils here. A palette is set with 16
of the ST's 512 possible colors. The
colors are picked up with the mouse
and transferred to the image. Four ad-
ditional l6-color palettes can be set
continued on page 24

November 1985

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by FRED HATFIELD

When I sat down to read the Wednes-
day paper, I spotted the long-awaited
ad— Atari 520ST In Stock! There it
was. I'd spent the previous six months
tracldng tlie fortunes of Atari distribu-
tion through PR announcements in
industry pubHcations and occasional
mentions in the staid Wall Street Jour-
nal. Jack Tramiel had supposedly sent
520ST's to Europe and Canada, but it
was hard to believe that I would
finally see the fabled "Jackintosh" in
reality.

I lost little time getting on the ex-
pressway and driving to a suburban
computer store that I'd never been to
before. A young salesman greeted me
as I entered and ushered me to a table
where the 520ST was resting com-
fortably with a (gasp) dark video
screen.

"Where's the display?" I asked
anxiously.

"Bad news," was the reply. "The
power supply was damaged in ship-
ping, so we can't demonstrate it."

Disappointedly, I glanced through
the technical manual. The intriguing
illustrations of high-resolution
displays only whetted my appetite
some more.

"When will the power supply be
replaced?" I demanded. "How soon
can I see it in operation?"

"The rep is on the way, but he has
a couple of other stops to make first,"
said the salesman. "And I'm not sure
if he'll have a replacement power
supply with him."

I could see that I would only frus-
trate myself further by hanging
around. So I left my card and made
the salesman swear to phone me as
soon as the ST demonsrator was
operational.

But I phoned the store the next day,
too impatient to wait. The salesman
assured me they would have the
demonstrator running within a few
days. Swell.

I was idly scanning the classifieds
when another advertisement jumped
out at me—We Have The 520ST.
This computer store was completely
on the opposite side of town and I
had enough sense to call first before
jumping into my car.

Yes, they had a number of 520STs
in stock and a working demonstrator.
After an excited drive, there it was —
sitting on a desk with a color display.

The young lady on duty had not
been briefed on how to operate the
machine. But she didn't object to let-
ting me sit down at the keyboard and
start fooling around.

As I groped with the mouse,
another customer and his son showed
up to watch. From their comments
and suggestions, I realized they had
somehow gotten a pretty good idea
how to operate the GEM graphic
desktop.

So I gave up my seat and asked
where they got their advance infor-
mation. It turned out they'd read step-
by-step instructions on how to
navigate the desktop in the August,

1985 issue of a magazine called Antic.

Careful questioning of the saleslady
revealed that she had that particular
issue on hand. I immediately acquired
that valuable publication. And while
I was at it, I figured 1 might as well
go for another SI, 000 and I bought
a 520ST color system on the spot.

They threw in a box of 3 1/2-inch
disks. I rushed home with my pur-
chases, unpacked everything, con-
nected all the cables and powered up.
A gorgeous display of Atari fuji sym-
bols and all the colors of the rainbow
flashed across the screen.

Soon a bell rang, telling me to move
the mouse and place the screen cur-
sor on an OK box. I responded and
saw the select light illuminate on the
disk drive. The disk was being ac-
cessed for information. I could hear
the head stepping from track to track
and the cursor changed to a . . .
bumblebee!

Sudddenly I was faced with a
strange display on the screen. HOR-
RORS! These were not the neat icons
and colors I'd seen at the computer
store. I repeated the operation in dif-
ferent sequences, but the results were
always the same.

I had to drag myself away for a
business appointment. When I got
home, I tried again. No better luck.
It was now after five, but I dubiously
tried phoning the store anyway. . .

continued on page 24

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The owner was there. I explained
the stopping point and he said,
"Come right out, we'll replace it im-
mediately." He remained open to
allow me time to drive across town
again. When I arrived, he replaced the
system, hooked up my new 520ST
and exercised it thoroughly.

As a bonus, the September issue of
Antic had just arrived with more
great information about the ST. That
alone would have been worth driv-
ing across town for.

Once again I rushed home with all
my new loot. Excitedly I connected
the cables and carefully turned on the
machine. It worked! It was beautiful!
Hooray!

WHAT I LEARNED

Despite some predictable minor
faults, the user manual is excellent.
This is so important for an anxiously
awaited machine like the ST. I still
remember the first Trash-80s coming
with a skimpy two or three pages of
documentation until the operating
manual arrived by mail.

I had expected that with a single
disk drive, making backup disks might
follow the much-critici2ed Macintosh
pattern of excessive disk changes. I
was pleasantly surprised to find that
the display dynamically indicates
loading sectors into memory and
writing sectors to the new disk. Only
two disk swaps! I loved it!

My system came with TOS and
Logo disks. BASIC was promised for
later. I had trouble getting a program
to execute by double-clicking the
mouse. This impasse was overcome
when I discovered I actually needed
to click the File drop-down menu
twice — once to open the disk direc-
tory and once to open the selected
file.

You quickly run up against the
limits of the supplied software — an
operating system with nothing to
operate on and a Logo "sourcebook"
that's not enough to get a beginner
started programming in this language.
However, with some probing and the
primitive examples in the booklet, I
managed to come up with some
minor programs that allowed me to

see how the Control Panel and
Graphics settings actually work.

As I became more familiar with the
drop-down menus and how they
affected the display, I became more
adventurous. After all, that's what's
exciting about computers, isn't it?

SAMPLE PROGRAMS

The following Logo program draws a
spiral pattern in the display area. Try
changing the graphics settings for
various background colors and line
textures.

TO SPIRAL : ANGLE : LENGTH

IF C : LENGTH > 108 J [STOP]

CFORMARD : LENGTH]

RIGHT : ANGLE

SPIRAL : ANGLE : LENGTH * 3

END

The system will follow your END
entry with: SPIRAL defined

To execute, enter at the ?-.
SPIRAL123 3

You should get an interesting spiral
pattern in the graphics area. Due to
the limited stack size, you will get a
dialogue block indicating that you
have overrun the stack. But pressing
the [RETURN] key displays the
pattern.

ST PEEK

I always like to be able see what's in
memory locations of a computer I
thought there must be a way to get the
equivalent of a PEEK function. There
is a way — the primitive .EXAMINE
will do it, although the display is
limited to memory locations between
$800 and $77FFR Try the following:

TO DUMP : START : STOP

IF C :START > = :STOP ) ESTOP]

[MAKE "START : START + 1]

TYPE -EXAMINE : START TYPE [-]

DUMP : START : STOP

END

To use, enter DUMP followed by a
start address and end the address as
shown below: DUMP 491000 491010

That's it for now. I just hope you're
having as much fun with your ST as
I am with mine.

Fred Hatfield is a computer systems
consultant from New Orleans and
his ham radio station isKSVDU. This
article arrived arrived at Antic less
than a week after the September issue
started appearing on newsstands.

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OBJECT EDfTOR

continued from pase 20

in memory and called up by pressing
a function key.

C.O.L.R. gives you a full-screen 320
X 200 picture space. You can grab any
80 X 40 chunk of the image with the
editing drag box and blow it up in "fat
bits" on an Edit Screen that fills 90%
of the display. Now the fat bits are
easily manipulated with the mouse —
or with the cursor keys for even finer
detail.

Simultaneously, a postage-stamp
sized window of the actual bit-
mapped sprite is always displayed in
the upper left corner of the screen.
X,Y coordinates are also constantly on
display, helping you keep track of
objects as you invert, twist, or copy
them.

C.O.L.R. provides a storage buffer
for 20 Edit Screens. The C.O.L.R. byte
arrays can later be manipulated from
assembly language, Forth and BASIC
as well as C.

This program produces graphic
images so detailed that you have to
squint to see the dots. The resolution
is as good as a digitized photograph —
certainly on par with a coin-operated
arcade game.

NIGHTMARE PRAISE

Rugby Circle's words of praise for the
ST might give nightmares to Atari ex-
ecutives who are working hard to
shake off Atari's "just a you-know-
what machine" image.

"I always wanted a computer that
could match the quality of arcade
graphics and sound, and had a
Motorola 68000 chip," says Troy, who
until now programmed on the Radio
Shack Color Computer The ST is his
dream machine in living color.

"It's not work — ^it's fun coming
home to an ST every night," says Bob,
who doesn't get to bring flapping
birds to life during his day job as a
systems programmer at Birmingham
Data Systems.

"A lot of people look down their
noses at game programmers," he says.
"Well, games are just as difficult to
write."

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best ideas contributed by Antic
readers. Both BASIC programs will
run on all Atari 8-bit computers of
any memory size, with disk or cas-
sette. Antic still recommends that
newcomers to TYPO II start by typ-
ing in and using the simpler original
program in this issue's Software
Library.

I: Super duper
TYPO II per

by JACK POWELL

f you are new to Antic, TYPO II
is a program that finds the exact
lines where you made mistakes
while typing in BASIC listings
from the magazine. You'll see it in
each issue, along with instructions, on
the third page of the monthly Soft-
ware Library section.

When Antic was preparing to
premiere TYPO II in the January,
1985 issue, we spent a great deal of
time making the program as simple
as possible for beginners. Evidently
we succeeded, because Antic now
gets a lot less letters from readers hav-

ing trouble t}'ping in the printed
programs.

At the same time. Antic has en-
couraged adsanced programmers to
customize TYPO II for their own
needs.

Turbo TYPO II (lune, 1985) made
the program a lot speedier with David
McLaughlin's machine language
string. In the May, 1985 I/O Board,
Patrick Dell'Era added the conve-
nience of automatic line numbering
and inverse video TYPO II codes for
easier reading. In the April, 1985 I/O
Board, Ted Solomon added a sub-
routine that makes TYPO II delete
itself

And now, we've put the whole
shebang together into one customized
listing called Super Duper TYPO II
'Per(S.D.T.2.R)

HOW IT WORKS

There are some special Atari
characters in S.D.T.2.P., so type it in
carefully and be sure you SAVE a copy
before you RUN it. You can't check
it with TYPO II. But you can check
it with itself — after )'ou type it in.
Again, if this is your first time with
TYPO II, we recommend you get
some pnictice with the shorter, easier
version in this issue's Software Library.
Except for being faster, S.D.T.2.P.
works pretty much the same as the
original TYPO II. Just type GOTO

32()()(), then answer the prompt b>'
typing in a program line and pressing
[RETURN] . The line will reappear at
the bottom of the screen with the
two-letter TYPO II code — in inverse
video — at the left of the line number.

As with TYPO II, you may press
[REITIRN] to bring the line back into
the editing area, and you may bring
up an}' line by typing an asterisk [ *]
followed by the line number But
unlike TYPO II, you can also auto-
matically step through the lines
you've typed in.

Let's say you want to check
S.D.T.2.P itself. At the prompt, type
* 32000 to bring line 32000 into the
edit area. Press [RETURN] to generate
the code for that line. And now, press
the plus key [4-] followed by
[RETURN]. The next program line
will automatically appear in the edit
window, disappear, then reappear
below with its code. Continue to press
[ + ] to go through the entire listing.

ERASER HEAD

You've finished typing in your pro-
gram, and you want to SAVE it
without S.D.T.2.R Just type ERASE
and S.D.T.2.R will erase itself from
memory, leaving only the program
you typed in. Alternatively, if you've
already pressed [BREAK], you can
type GOTO 32250 and accomplish
the same thing. Listins on page 58

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II: TYPO II code
generator

by ANDY BARTON

t's nice to have the Hne-by-line
checkup codes of TYPO II. But
it's not always so nice when you
need to look up at the screen after
each line and check the code.

Especially when you're a fairly ex-
perienced programmer, there's a
temptation to assume you got the easy
lines right and to continue typing
ahead without glancing up. Or per-
haps your late-night blurry vision may
misread an incorrect code. And then
when the program crashes, you're
stuck with TYPO II's tedious " *line
no." option to recheck all the codes.
So for those who like the old way
better, here is TYPO II Code Genera-
tor It works much like the original
TYPO program. It calculates and
prints out all the TYPO II codes and

matching line numbers for any pro-
gram you have LISTed to disk or
cassette.

USING THE PROGRAM

Type in TYPO II Code Generator,
check it with TYPO II (or S.D.T.2.R)
and SAVE it on disk or cassette. Note:
BS in line 55 is the same as Bl in
S.D.T.2.R

When you RUN the program, it will
prompt you to "Choose a file
[D:filename]." Type in the device (D:)
and filename of a LISTed BASIC pro-
gram (cassette users, type C:). Then
press [RETURN].

Newcomers: a LISTed program is
created by using the BASIC command
LIST instead of SA'VE when storing a
program on disk or cassette. The form
is: LIST "D:FILENAME" (or LIST
"C:").

The filename you give TYPO II
Code Generator can be a complete
BASIC program or just a portion of
one. You may wish to check just a few
lines. No problem.

If you're not sure of the file's name,
or if you typed an incorrect name,
disk owners will be presented with a
file directory after pressing
[RETURN].

OUTPUT CHOICE

TYPO II Code Generator will now
give you a choice of four output
devices: Screen, Printer, Disk, or
Cassette.

If you choose [S], the codes and
line numbers will scroll across your
screen. Press [CONTROL] [1] to stop
the scroll and [CONTROL] [l] again
to continue.

Choose [P] to send the codes
directly to your printer

The [D] choice will write the codes
to a disk file much as they look on the
screen. You will be prompted for a
device and filename. If you don't give
your file an extender, TYPO II CODE
GENERATOR will supply it with TYR

If you select [C] to send your codes
to a cassette tape, be sure your
machine is set to RECORD.

Listing on page 58

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computer and intermediate programming knowledge.

If we were stranded on a desert island with nothing but
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^^k tari has released a computer with 128K RAM,
^^^^ but it may not be exactly what you expected,
^^^^^k True, it has 128K RAM available. But's it's not
m ^ entirely available as one large block. Instead,

it's switched in and out in I6K blocks by setting and reset-
ting bits in PORTB (54017— $D301).

Machine language programmers will have no difficulty
in bank selecting the extended area fast enough to make
it seem that a larger selection of RAM is available — ^Atari's
own DOS 2.5 RAMdisk program does this. BASIC pro-
grammers will have to be content with shunting about in
16K blocks.

MEMORY MANAGEMENT

Briefly you can tell either the CPU or the ANTIC chip
that a block is available for that chip's use. The CPU can
use it for data and variable storage, altered character sets,
P/M graphic assemblies, machine language routines and
the like. ANTIC uses the banks for graphic screens and
display lists. Most BASIC commands— like PRINT and
LIST— -work in the main bank area and don't write to the
extended bank unless you tell the CPU to use an extended
bank at the same time ANTIC is using it. (See Figure 1.)
On the other hand, BASIC'S clear screen command used
in the extended bank will crash the program quite effec-
tively. It disables the screen and keyboard, making it
necessary to press [RESET] to recover.

continued on pase 30
Figure 1

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ogical address
space

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42191-$BFFF

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( . r-

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RAM

BANK 1
$4000-$7FFF

1 6384- $4000

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This happens because the command clears screen
memory to RAMTOP, but gets confused by the bank
switching. It clears the extended bank area and then the
main bank which follows, erasing the display list and
screen in higher RAM as well.

To avoid this, move RAMTOP (location 106) down (for
example; POKE 106, 128) while ANTIC accesses the ex-
tended bank area, then POKE it back up for the original
main bank display. Now if you [BREAK] your program
while an extended bank is displayed, [SHIFT] [CLEAR] wiU
only clear the main bank area to 32768. The upper bank
area, which was the original screen display, remains intact.

The extended bank has four separate 16K blocks (See
Figure 1) which can each be accessed through the main
addresses 16384 to 32767 (»4000— )!«7FFF). No matter
what the address of the extended bank, you still read and
write (PEEK and POKE) to this range, not to the address
of the bank itself.

Imagine the extended bank as a collection of four iden-
tical ranges, each one individually accessible. The only
way to use all four as one large block is by a machine
language routine which rapidly selects the proper block,
so it seems to be using one lai^er section. This is best done
in vertical blank interrupts.

FREDDIE

Access to any bank is through PORTB. Previously this was
the controller for the two additional joystick ports on the
Atari 400/800 computers. Now it is the memory manager
on the XL and XE models. Bits 2 and 3 select the bank
to be accessed, bits 4 and 5 select the processor. (See Figure
2.) Both processors can access the same area at the same
time if you set the bits correctly. The memory manage-
ment chip is called 'Treddie."

Fisure 2
PORTB BIT SELECTION:

Figure 3
PORTB MEMORY ASSIGNMENT PORTB BANK ASSIGNMENT

RAM select^^
1=on

unused -'
ANTIC select

CPU select
0=extended 1=main

"Cos ROM enable
O=off

<- BASIC enable
0=on

Bank selection bits

The key to access is POKEing PORTB with 129, plus the
mode times 16, plus the bank times 4. (See Figure 3) 129
turns off the self-test ROM, and turns on BASIC and ROM.
253 (SFD) is the default value. Machine language program-
mers obviously don't need BASIC, so add 131 ($83) to the
formula instead of 129. The sixth bit isn't used in the
130XE, but it may be used in future Ataris. So you can also
use 193 or 195 instead of 129, with the same results.

BIT;

6502
uses

ANTIC
uses

MODE
No.

1
1

Extd
Main
Extd
Main

Extd
Extd
Main
Main

1
2
3

BIT:

ADDRESS:

BANK
No.

1
1

$0000-S3FFF
$4000-$7FFF
$8000-$BFFF
$COOO-$FFFF

1
2
3

POKE 54017,1 29+(MODE*16)+(BANK*4)

PROGRAM EXAMPLE

Listing 1 demonstrates the extra memory by filling a por-
tion of each extended bank with a value corresponding
to the bank number— to 3- Main bank 1 (16384 to 32767)
is represented by number 4. Type in Listing 1, check it
with TYPO II and SAVE a copy before you RUN it.

When you press a console key, the program jumps to
a subroutine which POKES the new address of the screen
into the display list (DL + 4, DL + 5) and the screen pointers
into RAM (88, 89). Then it POKEs the corresponding bank
and mode number into PORTB, telling ANTIC to get the
screen display from that bank.

The fUl roudne is slow, but it's not meant to demonstrate
speed. Once you've filled the banks, you can usually type
GOTO 140 to display the memory again after any
modifications. [RESET] doesn't clear the extended banks.

Key:

[START]

[SELECT]

[OPTION]

[START] [SELECT]

[START] [OPTION]

[START] [SELECT] [OPTION]

Bank:

Extended

Extended 1

Extended 2

Extended 3

Main 1

Main 2 (Original screen)

The last key selection returns you to the original screen
and display list seen when you boot BASIC.

If you press [BREAK] while any of the extended banks
are displayed, the system appears to hang. It's not really
locked up. Carefully type POKE 54017,253 and you'll get
control back.

The problem comes when BASIC passes control back
to the screen editor, which is processing in the main bank
while you're displaying a block of extended memory. You
have to tell both CPU and ANTIC to use that bank in order
to use [BREAK] properly. Of course, [BREAK] works prop-
erly when any of the main banks are displayed.

Tr)' changing Hne 1020 to POKE 54017, 193— this selects
both processors to access the bank. Now add 1025 LIST
100,200 and type GOTO 160. The zero in an extended
bank can use BASIC screen and graphic commands. If you
press [BREAK] when this screen is displayed, it displays
properly.

CAUTION!

There are several precautions to take!

First, fill all of the banks before you fill the main sec-

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tion or use it for programming or data. If you are using
the CPU (POKEs) to fill the banks while the display routine
routes ANTIC to the extended area for the display, you
could end up over-writing your own program space.

Try to avoid large strings as well. It's best to load the
extended banks with a simple routine first, then fill the
main bank with your strings and program.

For example, delete line 1025 and restore line 1020 to
its original state. Now, add these lines to your program:

152 GOSUB Bsee
8580 DXM AS (10800]
8600 flStl] ="ft" : ASC9999J
8788 RETURN

ftS :flSC2J=AS

Now, when you press [START] [OPTION], instead of
seeing main bank 1 filled with 4's, you see Atari Fuji sym-
bols. You're looking into the heart of AS!

If the DIM statement appears before the banks are filled,
the program generates illogical error messages. (Try adding
this code between lines 10 and 20 instead). This is an
example of the CPU using one bank of main memory
while ANTIC uses a bank of extended memory, both at
the same address. This limits your program somewhat.
It might mean you have to write a two-part program, the
first part being a loader for the extended bank.

Notice the program fills the banks with internal codes
rather than ATASCIl (see Mapping The Atari, page 180).
This is because the bank area becomes the screen display,
bypassing the ATASCII to internal translation routine. In
order to display "A" instead of the graphic symbol, change
A$(1)='A" to A$(l) = "!".

You can use other graphics modes besides GRAPHICS
in your displays. Try adding to the original program:

4525 GRAPHICS 20 : COLOR 1 : DRAUTO 20.28

4526 ORAUTO 48.48:DRAUTO 20.20
5000 GOTO 5888

However, to display the other screens properly, add a
GRAPHICS into the first line of each subroutine, since
doing this sets up a GRAPHICS 4 + l6 display list that won't
display anything in the other banks. Another method is
to move the entire display list with an associated screen
up into the extended area and simply point to the display
list instead of the screen memory.

BANK ON THE FUTURE

There are many avenues of exploration open to program-
mers using the new memory bank. "Vbu could write an
adventure game with all the rooms entirely in memory,
or a scrolling graphics game. You could use the space to
store BBS bulletins and sign-on messages.

Since you don't have to use the banks linearly, you could
make the main display area the "center" of a game, while
"north" would move into one bank — say 3 — ^west into 2,
east into 1 and south into — all controlled by joystick
input. You could use the space to store classic openings

in a chess game, use it as a disk I/O buffer or as a print
spooler.

As a RAMdisk, it means fast overlay programs that used
to be unbearably slow on the old drives. A RAMdisk can
also be used to hold graphic screens for games. The
possibilities are limitless. . .

RAMDISK

Atari DOS 2.5 creates RAMdisk *8 on the 130XE. Since
the RAMdisk occupies all of the extended bank, you'll have
to choose between it and your own programming. You
can't have both without problems. With the RAMdisk,
DOS 2.5 sets the extended bank as D8: and copies
MEM.SAV and DUP.SYS to it. You can use it as a very fast
64K drive with 499 sectors. When you type DOS from
BASIC, it jumps to DURSYS in the RAM area rather than
loading from DL. You can delete MEM.SAV if you don't
need it.

Do you want to use DOS 2.5 and extended memory
programming? From BASIC, POKE 5439, ASC("1"). This
tells DOS to search for DURSYS on drive 1. POKE 1802
with the number of drives in your system. Each bit
represents a drive from 1 to 8, so POKE with the total
of their binary equivalents. If you have two drives, POKE
1802,3 — the value of bits 1 and 2 added together.

Now, type DOS and, from the menu, delete the file
RAMDISK.SYS. Then write DOS files back to the disk. This
disk will now boot with extended RAM but without a
RAMdisk.

ADDENDUM

Devices or programs which load the 400/800 Operating
System into the 130XE RAM (such as FIX XL or XL BOSS)
can also access the additional 64K and use the RAMdisk!
Listing 1 works equally well on my 130XE unadorned or
using my XL BOSS to switch in the older 400/800 OS.
Of course, once you run it, you wipe out DUP. SYS in the
extended memory and eliminate the RAMdisk. So you
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supercharged version of
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> which I wrote for the Sep-
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picture files created with the 10 most
popular commercial graphics pro-
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fewer compatibility hassles than ever
before.

The program works with pictures
created on the following software:

Micro Illustrator (all versions)
Micropainter (Datasoft)
Fun With Art (Epyx)
Paint (Atari or Reston)
Visualizer (Maximus)
Moviemaker (Reston)

Graphics Master (Datasoft)
Atarigraphics (Atari)
Graphics Machine (ESI)

Note that Micro Illustrator is the
software that's provided (under
various names) with a wide variety of
graphics products including:
KoalaPad, KoalaPen, Atari Touch
Tablet, Chalk Board Power Pad and
Tech-Sketch Light Pen.

Now you can mix and match the
best features of virtually all Atari
graphics software in a single picture.

For example, you could tape a
photo over your video screen and
trace it with a light pen program.
Then you could fill in color patterns
from your touch tablet software. And
you could even animate the scene
with MovieMaker!

TYPING IT IN

Type in Listing 1, checking it with
TYPO II, and SAVE a copy to disk
before you RUN it. If you have prob-
lems with lines 630, 900-960 and
1220-1250, 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
these special lines. Now, type NEW,
LOAD listing 1, then ENTER

"D:LINES.LST" and SAVE the com-
pleted program.

USING RAPID GRAPHICS

After the title screen, you'll see a
menu of available conversions. Find
the name of the program that you
used to create your Source picture,
and type in its corresponding number
If you need a disk directory, type a
zero.

Type in the filename of your Source
picture using the "D: filename" for-
mat. To see a directory at this point,
type [RETURN] without the filename.

Now type in the menu number and
create a different filename for your
Destination picture. The conversion
begins when you press [START].

EASY ILLUSTRATOR

You don't need to press the [INSERT]
or [CLEAR] keys when converting
Micro Illustrator pictures — as is re-
quired with many "old-fashioned"
converters. The Rapid Graphics Con-
verter accepts a compressed Micro
Illustrator picture as is.

Micro Illustrator files created by the
converter are not compressed —
they're always 63 disk sectors long.
However, you can still take advantage

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November 1985

of Micro Illustrator's complex
machine language compression
routines and store many more pic-
tures on your disk. Simply run your
Micro Illustrator program, load your
converted 63-sector picture and re-
save it under the same filename.

HIDDEN PAINT FILES

In some versions of Paint software,
picture files cannot be accessed by
DOS 2 and BASIC.

If your Paint picture files are stored
this way, you can load and save them
with the converter's Paint (Reston) op-
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After selecting 5, you can look at
a Paint disk directory by typing
[RETURN] at the filename prompt.
The converter automatically adjusts
its disk directory routines to fit your
picture file category.

ANIMATION

You can animate your favorite micro-
screens with the converter and Movie-
Maker Just convert that favorite
screen into a MovieMaker Back-
ground file. Then load it into the
MovieMaker program.

MovieMaker lets you change pieces
of your background screen into
shapes which can be animated and

used in your Movie files. For more
details, see the Easy Graphics Con-
verter article (Antic, September
1984).

Certain graphics products require
special filenames, and the converter
will not create pictures with illegal
filenames.

For example, all Paint picture file-
names must have a .PIC extender All
Graphics Machine picture filenames
need .SCR extenders. MovieMaker
background files must have .BKG ex-
tenders. If you forget to type in one
of these special extenders, the con-
verter will remind you to include a
legal filename.

RESOLUTION SOLUTION

The converter works with pictures
drawn in Graphics Modes 7, 8 and 15.
Since the pixel size and number of
colors available differ among various
modes, pictures drawn in one mode
may look slightly different when
translated into other modes. (See
Figure I.)

When picture files are converted
from mode 8 (a two color mode) to
a mode with more colors, such as
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colors. You should also remember

that you'll be sacrificing some of the
finer details of your high resolution
microscreens when converting them
to lower resolution.

Finally, feel free to experiment with
the converter If your favorite draw-
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main menu, try converting your files
with one of the available options. The
length of a picture file may help you
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Picture files which are 62 disk sec-
tors long might be loaded as Micro-
Painter, Graphics Master or Graphics
Machine files. Try the Fun With Art
option with picture files slightly
longer than 62 sectors.

Micro Illustrator files vary in length
from one sector to 63 sectors.

Picture files which are about 31 sec-
tors long might be loaded as Visualizer
or Paint (Atari) files.

Programmers wishing to modify
the converter should examine the
special Break-disable routine in lines
40-70. When you RUN the program
normally, the [BREAK] key is dis-
abled. However, if you press the
[SELECT] key while typing RUN
[RETURN], the [BREAK] key will be
enabled, allowing you to halt and
examine the program at any point.

Listins on page 59

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Figure 1

Graphics Mode 8 (ANTIC mode F)

One foresround color, one backsround color.
Screen measures 320 columns by 192 rows.
Software: Graphics Master, Graphics Machine.

Graphics Mode 7 (ANTIC mode D)

Three foreground colors, one background color.
Screen measures 160 columns by 96 rows.
Software: Paint, MovieMaker, Visualizer.

Graphics Mode 15 (ANTIC mode E)

Three foreground colors, one background color.
Screen measures 160 columns by 192 rows.
Software: Micro-Painter, Micro Illustrator, Fun With Art,
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I isten to Jack McKirken for a while,

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Hook up a short wave radio to your
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■ , ^'odeany-faster, just' five words per
minute. And a Technician licensee
gets many more privileges.

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a license, contact a local ham radio
store. There's also likely to be at least
one ham in your local computer users
group. If not, contact the American
Radio Relay League. (See address at
end of article.)

REACHING OUT

Disaster aid has traditionally been
very big with hams. During the
massive forest fires in California this
summer, hams used portable stations
to assist firefighters in the field, allow-
ing communication between fire
crews who couldn't see each other
through the thick smoke.

When power and phone lines are
knocked out during a widespread
emergency, many battery-operated
stations stay on the air and transmit
important messages. Through it all,
independent, computer-operated
repeater stations would keep the com-
munications network going.

Packet communication networks,
the hams' version of LANs (Local Area
Networks) exist on the east and west
coast and will eventually extend
across the US according to Grokett.

These packet networks are made
up of "repeater stations" that receive
a transmission and re -transmit it at

, ;ljigher'power.';Thi^'can dratpa'tieally
'iticfea'se th^. riange of iless-expehsi've:''
h to radios,"- .'■■.•■ ■.'•.',;■ :.'.■'■: ' " .

' \.JRepeater:staitj6ns.arie'^usuaUy com-'
puter';Cohtr611ed.i Most of them afe'
volunteer projects bf haih radio

■, organiXa'tlons:-. But u-sually ;any

/.licensed amateur is allowed, to use the
repeater. , ■ . , • / ', •,,; .'

Grbkett's JAtE group and other
•him; organizations have Subsidized
'.seven bsCARs (Orbitiiig Satellite;* C»r-

•' rying Ahiateur Radio) owe'r this years.
.AMSAT*, aii'a'mateur s^eHite constriac-
tioh group,"builds them, and the space
.shuttle launches them. Anyone with .
a hai^ radio and a computer can use
the satellites to communicate around
the world.

Hams with computers can even
listen in on NASA conversations on
the space shuttle. The computer helps
a radio antenna stay precisely focused
on the shuttle as it zips through the
athmosphere at 17,000 miles per
hour

SLOW SCAN

The next wave in ham computing is
slow scan television. This lets com-
puters send and receive color video
pictures over the airwaves. Red, blue
and green separations are made of
each image (as in a photo negative)
and each is sent individually over the
airwaves, then reassembled by the
computer into a complete picture.

Slow scan lives up to its name,
however, at a sluggish eight seconds
per picture transmission. (Regular
television transmission speed is 30
pictures per second.) The final image
has about half the resolution of
regular television.

The slow scan technique was used
to send the first photographs of space
back from the Pioneer — in fact an
amateur radio enthusiast developed
the technique for NASA back in 1958.

Hams have always been involved
with experimental uses of radio, and
the computer is bringing new levels

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« torecievea'nd Send messages- even* if ■..
• 'they're norhome'much the samb way- .'j.
. as a timer turns your lights qn while '
you're on vacation. ,

And sometimes the computer is just
used as a computer When hams have
contests to see how many countries
and people they can reach in a given
weekend, computers are used to sort
out the mountains of resulting paper-
work and compile statistics.

The computer is also used to set up
parabolic bases that enable hams to
pick up commercial satellite TV
transmissions in their back yards.

About the only thing hams don't do
with computers is play games — unless
you consider the on-air radio chess
network.

"The big thing about ham is it has
always been and always will be
amateur," says Grokett, who, when
not operating his computer radio net-
work works for AT&T. "It's not allow-
ed to become a profit-making thing,"
he says.

FOR MORE HELP

If you're interested in getting started
in ham computing, here are some
places to consult for more
information:

American Radio Relay League

This 66-year-old, 100,000-member,
worldwide organization is the
premier resource for anyone in-
terested in getting involved with

continued on page 46

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I have been using my Atari 800 as a
radio teletype (RTTY) terminal
for well over two years with very
good results. RTTY is the ham
(amateur) radio equivalent of telecom-
munications networking.

My home is about 50 miles north-
east of San Francisco. Several times a
week I broadcast back and forth with
Larry Johnson (WB6SVS) an Atari ham
who lives just south of SF. The farthest
I've ever reached directly with my
Atari radio system was San Jose, a
distance of over 100 miles. And of
course there are no phone bills for
RTTY. . .

RADIO MODEMS

Once you own a well-shielded Atari
and a ham radio, your most impor-
tant piece of equipment is an inter-
face, a sort of "radio modem."

Radio signals are converted by your
receiver into audio signals (tones) and
fed by cable into the radio modem.
The modem translates these tones
into data signals that your Atari can
understand, and sends it over another
cable into the computer From there,
the data can be displayed on the
monitor, sent to a printer, or saved to
a disk or cassette. When you transmit,
your keyboard input goes by cable to
the interface and is translated into
audio tones for the radio.

MEET KANTRONICS

Antic invited me to review some re-
cent Atari-compatible radio interfaces
and software from Kantronics, a Kan-
sas manufacturer that also publishes
a 16-yearly newsletter, "Computers
and Amateur Radio." Kantronics is at
1202 E. 23rd Street, Lawrence, KS
66044. (913) 842-7745.

The Kantronics Interface II
comes with adequate documentation,
plus all the cable and connectors you
will ever need. It's easy enough to
hook up to your Atari and radio, pro-
vided that:

1. You can solder well enough to at-
tach the plugs to the cables — or buy
the Kiuitronics software that comes
with completed cables.

2. You can understand the meaning
of radio jargon such as PTT (Push to
Talk).

Like all the other radio modems
discussed here, the Interface II re-
quires you to connect a small power
supply (that's not included). You can
buy an unassembled power pack kit
for about $10.

The Interface II performed flaw-
lessly. Its most unusual feature is a pair
of switch-selectable input channels.
This option lets you choose between
VHF and HF wavelengths by flipping
a single switch. The Interface II can

be tuned with a built-in set of LEDs;
or you can plug in an oscilloscope
unit.

ADVANCED HAMS ONLY

The Kantronics UTU ($199.95)
seemed to be as reliable as the Inter-
face II. But it requires an RS-232 serial
port — which means you can only use
this model with an Atari if you have
the 850 Interface Module (See Antic,
August 1985, page 16.)

-The UTU (Universal Terminal Unit)
has a built-in ROM that must be ac-
cessed with a BASIC program which
you'll have to write yourself. The
manual offers only a sample program
written in IBM BASIC. This is not an
interface you can just plug in, it will
require some experimentation.

However, the UTU might be the
best choice for hams interested in
writing their own software, par-
ticularly since the built-in ROM allows
you to access this device in BASIC.
Thus the need for packaged software
is eliminated.

MORE MODEMS

Antic also sent me the RM 1000 by

Macrotronics, which is a fantastic
piece of hardware. Unfortunately,
when I tried to phone some questions
to the Turlock, CA manufacturer, I

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business.

Still, if you ever find an RM 1000
for sale someplace you ought to con-
sider it. It features two LED bar-graphs
for tuning both Morse code and radio
transmissions, and it excels at rejec-
ting background noise. List price used
to be $239, with 32K disk software
for S59 or cartridge for S99.

I should mention that my own per-
sonal radio modem is the MFJ
RTTY/CW Computer Interface,
Model MFJ-1224. ($9995). I have
been using this LED-tuned unit for
some time and am completely
satisfied. I was also pleased to find
that it works fine with all the Kan-
tronics software 1 was testing.

Documentation for my MFJ was a
scant few pages, but it was adequate
to get me hooked up and running
without too much trouble. MFJ Enter-
prises can be reached at P.O. Box 494,
Missisippi State, MS 39762. (601)
323-5869.

SOFTWARE

Just as you need special software to
use your Atari with a telecommunica-
tions modem, you also need software
for your ham radio modem.

Kantronics has three software car-
tridges that work with any 8-bit Atari.
Each package includes a completed

cable for connecting the computer
and the modem, so you won't need
to do any soldering.

Hamsoft ($49.95) is the no-frills
package. However, current revision
AH 2.2 is much improved over the
ancient version I have been using in
my shack. This software doesn't work
with a disk drive. But you can load
from cassette as many as 10 frequently
used messages (such as your call sign),
and then "autodial" them with a
single keystroke.

The program is menu-oriented and
very easy to use. Morse code can be
copied at up to 99 words per minute,
and all standard RTTY speeds are
supported.

AMTOR

Hamsoft/AMTOR ($79.95) adds to
the basic package the capability to use
AMTOR. This is a recent ham mode
that contains an error checking pro-
tocol resembling XMODEM, but it is
only allowed on the high frequency
(HF) bands. If you will regularly be us-
ing your rig on HF bands, then you
probably would like this feature.

AMTOR can't be used by a VHF nut
like me. 1 work exclusively in the
"two-meter band" which covers the
frequencies from I44 to 148 mega-
hertz (MHz). This is a band of frequen-
cies somewhat above the standard FM

broadcast stations, which use 88 to
108 MHz. One MHz is one million
cycles-per-second.

ULTIMATE HAMWARE

Hamtext ($99.95) is the no-holds-
barred version of Kantronics software.
I'm so spoiled by testing it for this
review that it's hard for me to return
it to Antic for shipment back to the
manufacturer

The main advantage of Hamtext is
that it can handle a disk drive. And
it also includes more options than
Hamsoft.

Hams can establish their own size
limitations on the transmission buf-
fer Message ports (liuffers) use only
the amount of memory that the mes-
sages actually occupy. This frees the
remainder of memory for use as a
holding buffer The buffer can be
edited, saved to printer or disk, or
viewed onscreen. The operator is
thereby free from needing to monitor
constiuitly. I have no hesitation in
recommending Hamtext software to
anyone who can live without
AMTOR.

Bill Marquardt commutes firom Fair-
field, California to San Francisco for
his job with the U.S. Postal Service.
He is a member of ABACUS, the San
Francisco Atari users group. WM

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Morse Code Receiver translates Morse
code into ASCII values which your
Atari displays as letters or numbers.
The BASIC listing creates an assem-
bly language program. The assembly
language source code is also pro-
vided, but you don't need to type it
in. This program works with all 8-bit
Atari computers, disk or cassette.
You'll also need to build a simple,
inexpensive interface described in the
article.

"Can I interface my Atari 800 with
a shortwave transceiver? I know
Morse code can be generated, but can
it be received and translated back to
ASCII!' What type of interface is
needed, and what are the costs of
such equipment!'"

Bill Keaton
Amherst, Ohio

Connect your Atari to a short-
wave radio?
Of course!
A few dollars for parts, a
few hours of soldering and program-
ming, and your Atari can translate
Morse code as quickly as 70 words per
minute.

The program can also be used for
code practice without the interface.
Send code with a joystick, or by con-
necting a Morse code key to the
joystick port. You will hear the Morse
dots-and-dashes beeping and see let-
ters displayed on the screen as you
operate the joystick or key.

MORSE SOFTWARE

The program coverts Morse code at
any speed between 5 and 70 words
per minute, and it automatically ad-
justs to any speed changes.

The decoded messages are shown
on the screen in inverse video. The
message scrolls upward as it fills the
screen, and a word wrap routine
prevents words from being split at the
end of a line.

Listing 1, CODEWRITBAS, is a
BASIC program which creates the
machine language object file called
CODEWRIT.EXE. Type in Listing 1,
checking it with TYPO II, and SAVE
a backup copy to disk or cassette
before you RUN it. Antic Disk
subscribers use the L command in
DOS to load CODEWRIT.EXE from
the monthly disk.

The CODEWRIT.EXE file can be
copied to another disk and renamed
AUTORUN.SYS, so that it starts

automatically when you insert the
disk.

Listing 2, CODEWRIT,M65, is the
corresponding assembly language
MAC/65 source code. You do not need
to type in Listing 2 to use the Morse
Code Receiver program.

MORSE HARDWARE

You can build the Atari/Radio inter-
face for under S15. The complete
parts list appears at the end of this
article.

Assemble the circuit as it appears
in Figure 1. Note that a 33K-Ohm
resistor is connected in series with a
lOK-Ohm resistor to duplicate a 43K-
Olim resistor (which was unavailable).

USING THE PROGRAM

To test the program, plug a joystick
into Port 1. Quickly pull back on the
stick and release it three times. Your
monitor should beep three times, and
a letter S should appear on your
screen.

If you're teaching yourself Morse
code, you can continue using the
joystick as a Morse code key. Or you
can connect a real key to the joystick
port as shown in Figure 2.

continued on next pase

November 1985

Figure 1

RADIO INTERFACE CIRCUIT

AUDIO
INPUT

P1— D-Subminiature Female 9 pin plus Radio Shack 276-1538
U1— Quad Operational Amplifier LM-324 Radio Shack 276-1711
D1— Green LED Radio Shack 276-022
J1— Earphone Jack

Now you're ready to receive some
code. Boot the Morse Code Receiver
program. Make sure the interface cir-
cuit is connected to joystick port 1.

Find a strong broadcast signal with
little background noise. Plug your in-
terface circuit into your radio's ear-
phone jack. Carefully adjust the inter-
face's potentiometer so that the LED
blinks on and off in time with the
code. In a moment, your Atari will
display the decoded message, one let-
ter at a time.

From time to time, the program
may misinterpret one or two
characters. This occurs because the
program is adjusting its timing loop
and does not yet have enough infor-
mation to distinguish dots from
dashes.

PROGRAM ANALYSIS

The timing loop (lines 1820-1970 in
Listing 2) is controlled with display
list interrupts. This loop checks the
status of pin **2 of the joystick port.
When the computer is receiving a
signal (either a dot or a dash), this pin
is grounded. Otherwise the pin is
open.

The timing loop checks the status
of this pin 120 times per second, and
stores the number of interrupts occur-
ring between each status change. This
value is stored in the timing buffer.
Each time the status of pin *2
changes, the number of intervening
interrupts is stored in the next

memory location of the timing buffer
This process continues untU all 256
bytes of the timing buffer are used.
Then the buffer is cleared and used
again.

The CW character loop (lines
2000-2070 in Listing 2) determines
if the timing buffer contains useful
timing information. If this is so, the
routine uses the timing information
to begin reconstructing the proper
Morse code character

The program observes the follow-
ing conventions when handling
Morse code timing information:

1. A dot is represented by 0.

2. A dash is represented by 1.

3 . A Morse code word is read from
right to left.

4. The last 1 encountered when
reading from right to left indicates the
end of the character

The routine will continue reading
and decoding timing information un-

til it encounters a character space.
Then, the program looks up the ASCII
equivalent of the decoded character,
prints it to the screen and returns for
more code.

For example, the letter A (a dot
followed by a dash) sent at 18 words
per minute causes the computer to
store the numbers 8, 24, 24, 36 in the
timing buffer.

Then the CW character loop con-
verts those four numbers into one
Morse character and finds its cor-
responding ASCII character to display
on the screen.

Remember that the program needs
a fairly clear signal to operate prop-
erly. However, I've managed to copy
signals sent from locations all over the
world.

PARTS LIST

D-9 Female Joystick Connector.

Radio Shack #276-1538 or

equivalent.

continued on page 46

Figure 2

CW HAND KEY CONNECTION

MORSE CODE HAND KEY

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Einally there is a Pascal for
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Kyan Pascal is the language for you.

Pascal was developed by Professor
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FEATURES

Kyan Pascal supports all of the
features that make Pascal great —
global and local procedures, pointers

for linked lists and binary trees, two-
dimensional arrays, arrays of records,
variant records, recursion, etc., etc.
In short, it has all the features you
would expect from any Standard
Pascal on any other computer. And
Kyan Software has done Pascal for the
Atari at only S69.95!

COMPILER

The Kyan Pascal compiler is reason-
ably fast and effective. Unlike UCSD
Pascal, Kyan Pascal text files are com-
piled direcdy into assembly language.
The compiler, in addition to locating
errors, produces a complete assembly
language listing which you can send
to the screen and/or the printer. But
unfortunately, there is no way to save
this listing to disk for fine tuning.

The assembly language listing is
next assembled to produce the object
code file which can be run from DOS
without Kyan Pascal. (Though you
will need to append the library files
or at least put them on the same disk.)

The resulting object file has a very
rapid run-time. Ten iterations of the
Eratosthenes Prime Niunber Sieve (see
"First ST Performance Test," Antic,
October 1985) ran in about 120
seconds with the screen on. With the
screen off, the same program ran in
just 80 seconds.

Compare this to the eight and a half
minutes it took UCSD Pascal on the
Apple He, or the eight minutes and 55
seconds it took Atari BASIC to com-
plete the task.

The biggest drawback of the com-
piler is the 35 seconds it takes to load.
If you have a 130XE, you can put the
compiler in the RAMdisk and save
yourself the half-minute load time.
But even at 35 seconds, the resulting
speedy object code is well worth the
wait!

EDITOR

The Kyan Pascal editor commands are
hardly mnemonic and do not take ad-
vantage of the familiar Atari screen
editor However, programmers famil-
iar with Wordstar or Turbo Pascal will
be right at home. Also, you quickly ad-
just to the lack of mnemonics because
the layout is fairly logical.

Deletions may take getting used to.
[SHIFT] [DELETE] wipes out a single
character the way you would expect
[CONTROL] [DELETE] to work. To
delete a line, you have to use [CON-
TROL] [Y].

A "search and replace" feature is in-
cluded in the editor, but unfortunately
there is no "copy block" command.
Also, the tab key does nothing at all,
and there is no substitute!

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• procedure, function, or main, program
body. It is also possible— though
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formation between the ML routines
and the Pascal programs, procedures,
and functions.

OPERATING SYSTEM

Ideally, an operating system should be
so easy to use that you don't notice
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To load the program compiler, the
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have to reload the compiler!

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You cannot get a disk directory
without going to DOS. And if you try
to reload the editor after running a
program that uses graphics, the com-
puter locks up. Hopefully these
glitches will be smoothed out in later
releases.

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■ Kyan Pascal allows' the use of bp'fH
opitals and lowercase letters for nam-
ing variables br writing the program
itself. It does not,' however, perriiit

^underscores. Thus; Variable Name is •
' okay, but Variable_Narne is not . !-
Most of the important data types-
for variables are supptorted, including
- integer, real, char, and Boolean. In ad-
dition, Kyan Pascal allows user- '
;definecj subrange and enumerated

' ifpes-. :,,, • y- .. '^ ■'.,_ \ ^•'; '.,/;

■ ^ The type, double ' precision is not
a:required part of any Pascal and is left
out of Kyan Pascal. It is not needed
anyway, since this implementation
yields an amazing 13 digits of accur-
acy with regular type real variables!

UCSD Pascal programmers may at
first lament the loss of the predefined
data type string, since the only way
to simulate string variables in Kyan
Pascal is by setting up an array of
characters. However, a small library of
string routines comes with the lan-
guage and can be included in your
programs.

One problem with Kyan strings is
the relational operators, "<" and ">."
These work only on the first letter of
each of the compared strings. For
example, suppose Word= ANTIC and
FirstWord= ATARI', then the line:

If Word < FirstWord then
FirstWord := Word;

will not set FirstWord equal to ANTIC
as we would like. This tends to make
sorting tasks a bit more difficult than
they should be.

Assignment statements are a little
inconvenient too, since all of the
character array elements must be
filled. For example, given the follow-
ing declarations:

Type String: array[1..15] of char;
Var Magazine: String;

the assignment statement Magazine: =
'Antic' will not work. You must use

I .JWagazihe: = 'Antic : ' so that there • :•;;
■are exactly 1 5 characters between the ■,
' quotes. . A readln adds the trailing . ,.
blanks automatically, and you cari
•truncate them in a writeln by in-
cluding the function LENGTH in yoiir. '■
'program and using the length as a
'field specification. Thus: . ' ' •']

■ '■wnteln(Magazine' ? ■ ■. " ,'

'■' . LEN.GTH(Magazine)); ,, .■;. / , ' V.' ' ■

W'ill print out all characters up to but
not including the first blank. I had to '
call the company to find this out, '...
though; It's not explained anywhere- j-
in the manual. . ' '

DOCUMENTATION:

Documentation is, unfortunately,
pretty poor. The spiral-bound instruc-
tion manual contains many errors, not
all of which are typos. And the most
serious are those of omission, such as
the above-mentioned LENGTH
function.

I also disagree with the included
sample programs which, I feel, set bad
examples for programmers new to
Pascal. The programs don't make use
of procedures as much as they should,
the commenting is weak, and the in-
denting format is inconsistent.

Of course, the manual does not
claim to be a Pascal instruction book
and users unfamiliar with the lan-
guage should definitely purchase a
separate book (I recommend PASCAL.-
An Introduction To The Art And
Science Of Prograjnming by Walter
J. Savitch. Benjamin/Cummings Pub-
lishing Company, Inc., 1984.)

EXTENSIONS

Kyan Pascal includes a few extensions
to the standard. The ASSIGN pro-
cedure permits a crude sort of PEEK
and POKE, and PRON and PROFF
will redirect writeln output to the
printer instead of the screen.

continued on next page

November 1985

With the command "*i", you can
include procedures from one program
into another With tlie command "*a"
you can insert an assembly language
routine. Provisions have been made
to allow chaining programs together
and passing variable values between
chained programs.

GRAPHICS BONUS

Version 1.1 contains a library of
graphics routines for the Atari. There
are six files which simulate the BASIC
commands GRAPHICS, PLOT,
DRAWTO, SETCOLOR, POSITION,
and LOCATE.

Though the language is fast, it's not
quite fast enough to produce arcade
quality games. But if you've been
writing your games in BASIC you'll
find Kyan Pascal to be significantly
faster— and easier to use.

Unfortunately, there are no
dedicated commands for Player/
Missile graphics and no equivalent to
the BASIC SOUND statement. And
you'll have to write assembly language
routines to create these functions in
Pascal.

BOTTOM LINE

Kyan Pascal is exactly what it claims
to be — a good, solid, fast version of
Standard Pascal. And there lies the
disappointment. With just a few ad-
ditions, it could have been so much
more.

Its deficiencies lie mostly in the
lack of extensions to the Standard. In
general, Kyan Pascal is terrific as long
as you don't particularly care about
writing programs that make use of
features that are unique to the Atari.

Nevertheless, Kyan Pascal plus a
good book makes a painless way to
introduce yourself to Pascal program-
ming. If you are taking a class in I^scal
and want to do some work at home,
Kyan Pascal is a must. If you use Pascal
at the office and want to write pro-
grams at home on your Atari, again,
Kyan Pascal is the package for you.

Nearly everything that BASIC does
without assembly language can be
done faster and more easily with Kyan
Pascal. At this price, its worth look-
ing into.

This package is available from Kyan
Software, 1850 Union Street, *I83,
San Francisco, CA 94123, (415)
775-2923, on 64K disk, (XL/XE
models only) for S69.95.

(Note: At this writing, Kyan Pascal
was only available for XE and XL
computers. According to the
manufacturer, the 400/800 version
will be available within two to three
months. If you oivn an older
machine, he sure and contact Kyan
before ordering.— hHl\c. ED)

Ray Cole is a junior at UCSD,
majoring in Engineering. He's been
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Codewriter 39

Filewriter 21

Repodwriter 21

Menuwrifer 21

Home Integrator 20

Small Business Inventory 12

Salesman's Expenses 12

Accounts Rec./Pay 12

Retail Invoice 12

Final Legacy 15

Adventure Writer 18

Star Voyager 12

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Homepak 35

B/Graph 48

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Printshop Graphics Library

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Mask of the Sun 27

Championship Lode Runner ... 24

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Archon II (D) 24

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Seven Cities of Gold 24

EPYX

Summer Games 27

Ballbla2er(D) 27

Rescue on Fractalus (D) 27

INFOCOM

Cut Throats (D) 23

Deadline (D) 29

Enchanter (D) 23

Hitchhiker's Guide to

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Sea Stalker (D) 23

Starcross(D) 29

Suspect (D) 27

Suspended (D) 29

Wishbringer 23

Witness (D) 23

Zorkl(D) 23

Zorkllor 111(D) 27

Invlsicules Hint Books 7

DATASOFT

Alternate Reality 27

Elevator Action 20

Pole Position II 20

Goonies 20

Zorro 20

LJK

Dataperfect 38

Letterperfect 38

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Baseball 27

Team/Player Disk 14

Manager's Disk 14

MICROPROSE

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Solo Flight (D) 23

Kennedy Approach 23

Decision in the Desert 27

Crusade in Europe 27

Gunship:Heiicopter Sim 23

Silent Service: Sub sim 23

OSS

Action (RO 49

Action Tool Kit(D) 19

Basic XL(R) 38

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Basic XE 49

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Ultima II 39

SSI

Computer Quarterback 27

Kampfgruppe 39

Objective Jursk 27

Italian Commander 27

Computer Ambush 39

Rails West 27

Colonial Conquest 27

Panzer Grenadier 27

Gemstone Warrior 23

SUBLOGIC

Jet Simulator Call

Flight Simulator II 36

SYNAPSE

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Syn-File-I- 34

Syn-Calc 34

Syn-Trend 27

Syn-Comm 27

Syn- Stock 27

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by TOM 2ARBOCK

In honor of the Halloween season.
Antic presents one of the strangest
arcade games we have ever pub-
lished, foin the Vampire Rats as they
stalk each other (and any innnocent
passers-by) in the midnight barn-
yard. The program for this two-
player BASIC game works on all
Atari computers of any memory size,
with disk or cassette.

This barnyard isn't big enough for
Count Ratula and Yampirodent. So
they are fighting a duel to the death.
Only one mighty Vampire Rat can sur-
vive to become . . .Transylvania's King
for a Day!

To enlist in this supernatural free-
for-all, type in Listing 1. Check it with
TYPO II and SAVE a copy before you
RUN it. After the Grade-B horror
movie title screen appears, press the
joystick button to start the game.

DUELING VAMPIRES

Pushing the joystick forward makes
your vampire advance. Moving the
stick to the right or left pivots the
vampire like an early videogame tank.
To turn and move simultaneously,
hold down the joystick button as you
manipulate the stick. The ominous
sound effects for each action are
definitely worthy of a cheapo
monster movie.

Vampire Rats cannot move back-
wards. Pulling back on the joystick
causes the rat to jump forward. A
jumping rat moves faster and can leap
over obstacles — but each jump costs
the rat some extra "blood energy."

Blood enei^ levels for both rats are
displayed with red bars at the oppo-
site sides of the screen. Vampire Rats
slowly lose blood as time passes —
unless they can replenish their supply
from some of the randomly appear-
ing victims — or from each other.

When blood level becomes danger-
ously low, the rat darkens in warning.
Zero blood level loses the game.

VAMPIRE ATTACK

Vampire Rats cannot move onto a spot
that is already occupied, but that
doesn't make them any less danger-
ous. In order to drain an opponent or
victim, Vampire Rats must simply be:

(1) Right next to them.

(2) Pointed forward at them.
Draining is automatic and does not

require pressing the joystick button.
Each successful attack is accompanied
by a sizzling zap sound.

Good luck, Children of the Night.
Don't bump into any garlic wreaths.

Tom Zarbock is a business adminis-
tration major from San Juan
Capistrano, in Southern California.

Listing on page 65

November 1985

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Beach Head (D) $21

ACTIVISION

Decathalon(R) $17

Gary Kitchen's

Gamemaker(D) Call

Ghostbusters(D) $19

Great American Cross
Country Roarl Race(D) .$19

Hacker (D) $19

Master of the Lamps(D) .$19

Music Studio{D) $19

Mindshadow(D) $19

Space Shultie(D) $17

ARTWORX

Bridge4.0{0) $16

Compubridge(D) $16

French (D) $19

German (D) $19

Ghostchaser(D) $16

Monkeymath(D) $16

Spanish (D) $19

Strip Poker (D) $21

Femaie Data Disk 1 or2 .$16

Ivlale DataDisk $16

AVALON HILL

Combat Chess (D) Call

Computer Stocks

& Bonds (D) $19

Computer Title Bout (D). $21

Gulf Strike (D) $21

Jupiter Mission 1999(D) $33

Legionnaire (D) $21

Maxwell Manor(D) $19

Panzer Jagd(D) $21

Quest of the

Space Beagle (D) . . . . $23

T.A.C. (D) $26

Telenguard(D) $21

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B-Graph(D) $47

HomePak(D) $33

Paperclip (D) $39

BIG FIVE
Bounty Bob(R) . ,
BRODERBUND
BankSt.Writer(D)
Championship
Loderunner (D) ,

Karateka(D) Call

Loderunner (D) $23

Mask of the Sun (D) . . .$25
Operation Whirlwind(D) . $25

Print Shop(D) $29

Print Shop Graphics

Library #1 (D) $17

Print Shop Graphics

Library #2 (D) $17

PS Paper Refill $14

Spelunker(D) $19

Stealth (U) $19

Whistler's Brother(D) . .$19
CBS

Addition/Subl.lD) $16

Astro Grover(R) $19

Big Bird's Funhouse(R). $19
Big Bird's Spc

Delivery (R) $17

Decimals: Add/Subt.(D) $16

Home Accountant(D) . . . $44
CREATIVE

Trolls&Tribulations(D).$19
DATAMOST

Aztec Challenge (D) $16

MyChessll(D) $19

DATASOFT

Alternate Reality (D). . . $26

Bruce Lee (D) $19

Conan Barbarian (D) .... $19

Dallas Quest (D) $19

Elevator Action (D) $19

Letter Wizard w/Spell

Checker (D) $39

Mr. Do(D) $16

PacMan(D) $16

Pole Position 2(D) $19

The Goonies $19

Zorro(D) $19

DAVIDSON

Math Blaster (D) $33

Word Attack (D) $33

DESIGNWARE

Creature Creator (D) $25

S29

$33

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Dr. Seuss Puzzler (D)
Ernie's Magic Shapes (R)
Fractions: Add/Subt.(D|
Fractions: Mult./Div(D|
Linear Equations (D) . .

PItstop 11(D) $25

Puzzle Panic (D) $19

Rescue on Fractalus(D) $25
Summer Games (D) ....$25

Temple Apshai(D) $19

The Eidolon (D) $26

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FIRST STAR

Spy vs. Spy (D) $19

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Dance Fantasy (R) $16

Linking Logic (R) $16

Logic Levels (R) $16

Memory Manor{R) $16

SeaSpeller(R) $16

FUTUREHOUSE
Light Pen w/

Peripheral Vision(D| .$39
GAMESTAR

Baseball(D) $19

Football (D) $19

Letter Perfect (D) $39

Spell Perfect (D) $29

LEARNING COMPANY

Bumble Games (D) $25

Colorasaurus{D) $19

Magic Spells (D) $23

Reader Rabbit (D) $23

Word Spinner (D) $23

MISC.

Fancy Writer (D) $23

Gorf(R) $9

Microleague Baseball (0) .$26
Omnitrend Universe . . . Call
Personal Accountant (D) $25

Popeye(R) $9

Q-Bert(R) $9

Wizard of Wor(R) $9

MICROPROSE
Aero Jet: Advanced

Flight Simulator(D) . .Call

Air Rescue 1 (D) $21

Crusade in Europe (D) ..$25
Decision in the Desert (D) $25
F-15 Strike Eagle (D). . , .$23

Basic XL Tool Kit(D) . . .$21

DOS XL (D) $21

MAC 66 (R) $49

MAC 65 Tool Kit (D) ....$21
Wriler's Tool.w/

Spell Checker (R) ... .$44
ORIGIN

Ultima III (D) $39

PROFESSIONAL
SOFTWARE

Fleet System 2(D) $49

Trivia Fever (D) $21

SCARBOROUGH

Mastertype(D) $21

Net Worth (D) $44

SIERRA ON LINE

Dark Crystal (D) $25

Frogger(D) $12

Homev»ord(D) $33

Oil's Well (D) $12

Ultima 1(D) $23

Ultima 11(D) $39

Ulysses (D) $21

Wizard & Princess(D) ... $19

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Match Wits(D) $19

Mult./Division(D) $16

Quadratic Equations (D) $16
Sesame St. Letter

Go Round (R) $19

Timebound(R) $16

Webster Word Game (D) $19

CONTINENTAL

Book of Adv. Games .,$14

Crypto Cube (D) $25

Math Maze(D) $25

Spellicopter(D) $25

ELECTRONIC ARTS

Archon(D) $17

Archon II (D| $23

Cut & Paste (D| $19

Financial Cookbook (D) , $29
Hard Hat Mack(D) . . $17

Movie Maker (D) Call

Murder on the

Zinderneuf (D) $19

Music Const. Set (D) ...$17

One-on-One(D) $25

Pinball Construction

Set (D) $17

Realm o(

Impossibility (D) $17

Seven Cities of Gold (D) . $25
EPYX

Ballblazer(D) $25

DragonridersPern(D) ..$19
Gateway Apshai (R) . . .$19

Jumpman{D} $16

Jumpman Jr. (R) $16

KoronisRift(D) $26

PItstop (R) $16

On Track Racing (D) . . .$17

HAYDEN

Great Maine Race (D) ..$19

Sargon 11(D) $16

Sargon lll(D) $33

HBJ

Computer SAT (Dl $49

INFOCOM

Deadline (D) $29

Enchanter (D) . , $23

Infidel (D) $26

Hitchhiker's Guide

to the Galaxy (D) $23

Planelfall(D) $23

Seastalker(D) $23

Sorcerer (D) $26

Starcross(D) $29

Suspect (D) $26

Suspended (D) $29

Wishbringer(D) $23

Witness(D) $23

Zorkl(D) $23

Zorkllor MI(D) $26

* All titles in stock tor

520 ST— Call for prices

LJK

DataPerlect(D) $39

Gun Ship: The Helicopter

Simulation (D) Call

Kennedy Approach (D) . $23
Mig Alley Ace (D) , , , $23
NatoCommander(D) . , $23
Silent Sen/ice: The Submarine

Simulation (D) Call

Solo Flight (D) S21

MINDSCAPE

Bank St. Music Writer (D) . $26
Crossword Magic(D) , . $33
Halley Project —

A Mission m Our

Solar System (D) , $26
Tink's Adventure(D). . .$19
Tink'sSubt Fair(D) . . . $19
Tonk in the Land of

Buddy Bols(D) $19

Tuk Goes to Town (D), $19
MUSE

Beyond Wollenstein (D) . $23
Castle Wollenstein(D). .$19
OSS

Action (R) $49

Action Tool Kit (D) $21

Basic XE(R) $49

Basic XL (R) $39

SPINNAKER

Adventure Creator(R) . $17

Aerobics (D) $23

Alphabet Zoo (R) $17

Delta Drawing (R) $17

Facemaker(R) $17

Fraction Fever (R) $17

Kids on Keys (R) $17

Kindercomp(R) $17

Math Busters (D) $19

Rock'N Rhythm (D) . . , .$19
Snooper Troops

1 or2(D) $19

Story Machine (R) $17

Trains(D) $19

SPRINGBOARD

Early Games (D) $23

Fraction Factory (D) . . . .$19

Make AMatch(D) $19

Music Maestro (D) $23

Piece o( Cake Math (D) . . $23

SSI

Battalion Commander (D) . $26

Battle Normandy (D) ...$26

Breakthrough in the

Ardennes (D) $39

Broadsides (D) $26

Carrier Force (D) $39

Colonial Conquest(D) ..$26

Combat Leader (D) $26

Computer Ambush (D) . . $39
Computer Baseball(D) . .$26

Computer QB(D) $26

Cosmic Balance (D) $26

Cosmic Balance 11(D). . .$26

Eagles(D) $26

Epidemic (D) $23

50 Mission Crush (D) . . .$26

Field of Fire (D) $26

Fortress (D) $23

Galactic Adventures (D) . $39
Gemstone Warrior (D) ..$23
Imperium Galactum(D) .$26

Kampfgruppe (D) $39

Knights of Desert(D) . . $26
Objective Kursk (D) ... $26
Operation Market

Garden (D) $33

Questron(D) $33

Panzer Grenadier (D) ,..$26

Rails West (D) $26

Relorger '88(D) $39

Six-Gun Shootout (D) ... $26

Tigers in Snow (D) $26

War In Russia (D) $49

SUBLOGIC

Flight Simulator 11(D). . ,$33

Night Mission Pinball (D) , $21

SYNAPSE

Alley Cat (D) $16

Blue Max 2001(D) $19

Essex (D) $26

Lode Runner's

Rescue (D) $19

Mindwheel(D) $26

Quasimodo(D) $16

Syn-Calc(D) $35

SynCalc Templates (D) $16

Syn.Chron(D) $26

Syn.Comm(D) $26

Syn.File(D) $35

Syn-Slock(D) $26

TIMEW^ORKS

Data Manager (D) $16

Electronic Checkbook (D) , $16

Money Manager (D) ....$16

TRONIX

S.A.M.(D) $39

ACCESSORIES
Alien Group Voice

Box Call

Ape Face Printer

Interlace $47

Astra Disk Drive Call

Bonus Disks Cheap

CompuServe Starter

Kit(5hrs.) $19

Digital Devices

U-Print A $57

Digital Devices A16

Printer Inteface

w(16KBufler $79

Disk Case (Holds 50) . . $9

Disk Drive Cleaner $9

Dows Jones News

Retrieval Membership

Kit(5hrs,) $19

Dust Covers Call

Full Stroke Replacement

Keyboard lor AT400 . $39
Indus GT Disk Drive Cheap
MPPIOOOE Microbits

Modem Cheap

Sakata 13 " Color

Monitor $179

Wico Bat Handle $19

WicoBoss $12

Wico Three Way $23

Wico Trackball $29

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MMmWCtYpe-in listing section includes every full-length program
from this issue. Listings are easier to type and proofread, easy to
remove and save in a binder if you wish.

► ATAMUDOTS AND DASHES, 70 WORDS PER MINUTE

MORSE CODE RECEIVER 54

► HOW TO USE THE XE*S EXTRA 64K

130XE MEMORY MANAGEMENT 57

► EVERYTHING YOU WANTED IN A PROGRAM PROOFREADER

TYPO II DOUBLE FEATURE 58

► NOW . . . UNIVERSAL PICTURE FILE COMPATIBILITY

RAPID GRAPHICS CONVERTER 59

► ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE

FAST MOVES 62

► GAIUE OF THE MONTH

VAMPIRE RATS 65

► HEARING THE AY-3-8910 CHIP

ST SOUND 67

TYPING SPECIAL AIARI CHARACTERS 52

HOW TO USE TYPO II 53 ERROR FILE 53

DISK SUBSCRIBERS: You can use all these programs immediately.
Just follow the instructions in the accompanying magazine articles.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means,
electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Antic program listings are typeset on the Star's SG-10 printer— from Star Micronics, Inc., 200 Park Avenue, New York,
NY 10166.

NOVEMBER 1985 ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY * 51

TYPING SPECIAL
ATARI CHARACTERS

Antic printed program listings leave a small space between each Atari Special Character for easier reading. Im-
mediately below you will see the way Antic prints all the standard Atari letters and numbers, in upper and lower
case, in normal and inverse video.

ABCDEFGHIJKLHNOPQRSTUVUKYZ

{HimBQSsamQscaaiQimBQmmgiDQDEgcEaiaB

abcdefshi jkl Mnop<irs-tUMWxyz

EJoaciBGrnaianQinirtrisracHiiasQmracnnQ

0123456789 QQBBDSSBE0E3

The Atari Special Characters and the keys you must type in order to get them are shown in the two boxes below.
(Squares are drawn around the normal video characters so you can see their positions more accurately, these squares
will not appear in listings.)

NORMAL VrOEO |

FOR

TYPE

FOR TYPE

THIS

THIS THIS

CTRL

m CTRL T

CTRL

a CTRL U

CTRL

C CTRL V

ffl

CTRL

H CTRL W

CTRL

H CTRL X

CTRL

E CTRL Y

CTRL

H CTRL Z

CTRL

E ESC ESC

CTRL

SI ESC CTRL -

CTRL

ffl ESC CTRL =

CTRL

B ESC CTRL +

CTRL

a ESC CTRL *

CTRL

IS CTRL .

CTRL

« CTRL ;

CTRL

1 SHIFT =

CTRL

S ESC

CTRL

SHIFT

CTRL

CLEAR

H-

CTRL

IS ESC DELETE

CTRL

E ESC TAB

INVERSE VIDEO ]

FOR

TYPE

FOR

TYPE

THIS

.kCTRL

ACTRL Y

ACTRL

ACTRL Z

A CTRL

□

ESC

ACTRL

SHIFT

□

A CTRL

DELETE

ACTRL

ESC

A CTRL

SHIFT

A CTRL

INSERT

A CTRL

□

ESC

A CTRL

CTRL

A CTRL

TAB

A CTRL

ESC

ACTRL

SHIFT

A CTRL

TAB

ACTRL

□

ACTRL .

ACTRL

□

ACTRL ;

ACTRL

A SHI FT =

ACTRL

□

ESC CTRL 2

ACTRL

□

ESC

□

ACTRL

CTRL

ACTRL

DELETE

ACTRL

□

ESC

ACTRL

CTRL

ACTRL

INSERT

ACTRL

AXOienever the CONTROL key (CTRL on the 400/800) or SHIFT key is used, hold it down whUe you press the
next key. Whenever the ESC key is pressed, release it before you type the next key.

Turn on inverse video by pressing the Reverse Video Mode Key Qi . Tlirn it off by pressing it a second time.
(On the 400/800, use the Atari Logo Key^ instead.) Note: In the printed listings, inverse characters will be slightly
smaller than the normal ones.

Among the most common program typing mistakes are switching certain capital letters with their lower-case
counterparts — you need to look especially carefully at P, X, O and (zero).

Some of Atari Special Characters are not easy to tell apart from standard alpha-numeric characters. Usually the
Special Characters will be thicker than the alpha-numerics. Compare the two sets of characters below:

52 * ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY

SPECIAL

STANDARD

-^ "S* CTRL F

/ ra 1

"^ "^ CTRLG

\ ">!' SHIFT +

- " CTRL N

- B SHIFT -

- = CTRLR

- H ~

■•■ " CTRL S

+ a +

NOVEMBER 1985

HOW TO USE TYPO II

TYPO II is the improved automatic proofreading program for Antic's type-in BASIC listings: It finds the exact
line where you made a program typing mistake.

Type in TYPO II and SAVE a copy to disk or cassette. Now type GOTO 32000. When you see the instruction on
the screen, type in a single program line without the two-letter TYPO II code at left of the line number. Press
[RETURN].

Your line will reappear at the bottom of the screen with a two-letter TYPO II code on the left. If this code is not
exactly the same as the line code printed in the magazine, you mistyped something in that line.

To call back any line previously typed, type an asterisk [*] followed (without in-between spaces) by the line number,
then press [RETURN]. When the complete line appears at the top of the screen, press [RETURN] again. This is also
the way you use TYPO II to proofread itself.

To LIST your program, press [BREAK] and type LIST. To return to TYPO II, type GOTO 32000.

To remove TYPO II from your program, type LIST "D:FILENAME",0,31999 [RETURN] (Cassette owners LIST "C:).
Type NEW, then ENTER "D:FILENAME" [RETURN] (Cassette— ENTER "C-.). Your program is now in memory without
TYPO II and you can SAVE or LIST it to disk or cassette.

Owners of the BASIC XL cartridge from O.S.S. type SET 5,0 and SET 12,0 before using TYPO II.

Don't type the /^
TYPO II Codes! \

:s.

32888

32818

32828
5E M3

32838

32848

32858
in a 1

32868
S:IF 1
IGOTO

32878
ESt2.l
GOTO

32888

32898

32188

32118

Don't type the,
TVPO II Codes!

REM TVPO XI BY ANDY BARTON

REM VER. 1.8 FOR ANTIC MAGAZINE

CLR :DIM lines tl28I : close n2 : CLO

OPEN n2.4.8,"E":OPEN t*3.5.8."E"

? "n": position 11-1:? "CEIII9HMB"

TRAP 32848: position 2,3:? "TUPe
progran line"

POSITION 1.4:? " •■: INPUT <«2;LINE
LINES="" THEN POSITION 2, 4: LIST B

32868

IF LIMES CI -1J="«" THEN B = VAL CLIN
LENCLINESIl J : POSITION 2.4: LIST B:
32868

POSITION 2.18:? "COMT"

B=UALtLINESl : POSITION 1.3:? " ";

POKE 842. 13: STOP

POKE 842.12

ET 32128 ? "•?■•: POSITION 11.1:?

••:POSITION 2,15:LIST B
CE 32138 C=a:ANS=C
OR 32148 POSITION 2. 16: INPUT n3; LIMES: IF

LIMES="" THEN ? "LINE ";B;" DELETED":G

OTO 32858
WV 32158 FOR D=l TO LEN CLIMESI : C=C^1 : ANS=

ANS-»CC«ASCCLINESC0.011) :NEKT D
UJ 32168 C0DE = INTCANS.^676J
JU 32178 CODE=ANS-CCODE»676J
EH 32188 HCODE=IMT CCODE/261
BH 32198 LCODE=CODE-CHCODEM261*65
HB 32288 HC0DE = HC0DE«^6S
IE 32218 POSITION 8.16:? CHRS CHCODEl : CHRS

CLCODEI
VG 32228 POSITION 2.13:? "If CODE does no

t: natch press ■iinmrTy and edit: line a

boue.":GOTO 328S8

/ ERROR FILE

ATARI TOONS

August 1985

The 22nd character in
Ihie 1090 of listing 2 is
an A. Also, to load non-
standard character sets,
change NUMBER=1024
hi Ihie 1140 to:
NUMBER= 2050, and
change line 1150 to:
1150 GOTO 1170.

GUESS THAT SONG

July 1985

The September, 1985
HELP! section contains
an easier-reading listing
of some of the tougher
data lines in Guess That
Song.

STAR VENTURE

July 1985

Change line 380 to:

380 IF PEEKt53279
}=6 THEN SOUND 0.
0,0.0:GOTO 80

MUSICIAN

June 1985
Change line 790 to:

798 IF A=54 THEN
POSITION 4,22:? «
6;"son3 cleared":
GOTO 818

And if you're having
tempo problems,
remove line 1720 and
add the following:

1715 IF ft=14 THEN
TEHPO=-0 . 25 : GOTO
1700

1720 REM REHOVE T

HIS LINE

MANEUVER

AprU 1985

If you get hearts on the
title screen, LIST the
program to disk or cas-
sette, type NEW, then
ENTER and SAVE it.

FONT MAKER
FOR SG-IO

March 1985

The July 1985 issue of
ANTIC contains a listing
which, when merged
with FONT MAKER,

makes that program
work on the Star SG-10.
See the HELP section
of that issue for
instructions.

CUSTOM PRINT

March 1985

Custom Print has prob-
lems printing certain
characters using re-
defined characters.
Change line 5 to:

5 CS=PEEKC106)-8:
POKE 106.CS-l:GRfl
PHICS 0:DIIi CST5C
20J :CSTS=""

NOVEMBER 1985

ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY * 53

Atari dots and dashes, 70 words per minute

MORSE CODE RECEIVER

Article on page 41

LISTING 1

Don't type the,
TYPO II Codes!

i-Cx

«Z

la RE

28 RE
38 RE
48 DI

42 FM

«! : OP

44 FN

58 TR

68 ?

IWE" :

188 P

tand

118 R

C = l

128 A

138 F

2. 255

148 L

wn . . .

158 A

1 : NEK

168 I

Tape ,

172 ?

xo d i

174 I

188 C

186 ?

198 ?

288 C

218

1888

1818

69856

88221

1828

38168

88216

1838

32169

14124

1848

41239

13813

1858

28224

19283

1868

52896

88814

1878

12138

16888

1888

68888

13816

18 98

84252

16988

1188

85169

12812

1118

29896

83289

1128

M CODEURITER III

M BY STEVE STUNTZ

M FNSC28J.TEMPSt2ej-ARSt93J :CASS=

S="D:C0DEMRIT.EHE":TRAP 44:CL0SE
EN t»l . 4 . 8. "D :*••«»•■: CLOSE «tl:GOTO 5

S = "C : •■ : CASS = 128

AP 168

: ? "^creating the MORSE CODE RECE

? "nachine lanauase progra«."

OSITION 2.4:? "Mork 1 n g . . . p 1 ease s

by"

ESTORE :READ LN:LM=LN:DIM ASCLN):

RS="":READ ARS

OR K=l TO LENCARS) STEP 3 : POKE 75

M=LM-1 :
T-"; INT
S CC , CJ =
T H : GOT
F CASS=

press

: ? "Pr

sk . ■•

F PEEKC

LOSE <*1

: ? "Mr

*>1 ; as;
LOSE «1
RAPHICS
DATA 85
DATA 25
1418822
1169881
DATA 88
8121451
9129141
DATA 22
8641412
1132141
DATA 14
1321412
3178173
DATA 19
8862888
9288885
DATA 16
1722411
8241132
DATA 14
1648851
8148888
DATA 21
1488812
2886832
DATA 17
1282471
8133884
DATA 17
8381628
8896832
DATA 89
1691251
3129169
DATA 21

POSITION 18.18:? "CCountdo

CLM/IBJ ; "J "

CHRStUALCARStK.K*2)J) :C=C*

O 128

128 THEN ? :? :? "Prepare

[RETURN] ■": GOTO 188

ess [START] to uritre file

532791 <>6 THEN 174
:OPEN »! , 8 . CASS, FNS
iting to •■; FNS

8 : ? ■•
2

525588
111698
141888
213318
881688
881882
813214
381321
234132
123613
481321
224138
214181
171648
168881
818988
321928
896164
481519
928392
211168
887622
188961
128128
222513
291412
169882
322613
868321
855129
683225
628868
888133
184188

isojcianciaiaQi

8128
8114
2111
8173
2814
1692
1229
6981
1412
2141
6988
1331
4212
8419
1482
1228
8128
8851
2839
8824
8471
5128
6888
2382
1192
2613
1338
1133
2812
8322
8128
3212
8771
2285

251128

188021

73848

849882

518816

55141

132169

514123

35132

237132

214123

79169

832131

282328

41132

872189

888883

92834

248811

589628

48881

168881

814822

25131

838288

116588

85896

884173

816983

26128

832226

812889

73888

233132

8328381291
1169868141

1331811691
9863141888

8321412311
2132169888

1412381321
3132173223

1298761221
8811164085

8882288721
284512916a

1691688328
1882288813

1488882111
5131185185

2388961658
5141227131

2271311338
1162886832

1288328131
6872152872

2888838768

89129832189129184168184864
17828523813224888582418588

HK 1138 DATA 14 517 88962382281
32198128873882141233132172
14517889683219812917323713

EM 1148 DATA 2 818 812 888272382
38169881877234132141234132
83216 912987616812983223312

QK 1158 DATA 8 9 617 3 2 351322818
35132172229132177178285232
87619412982411823613289617

LM 1168 DATA 2 2 913 2 2 3 6 2 2 813 2 2
28132288815172228132177178
88516988887622912916988114

ML 1178 DATA 2571328961722291
32132144824832821138832851
13817222913217717828523113

FT 1188 DATA 14 48888321761281
38896162886832128128832168
23613223823513217323513228

All 1198 DATA 8 8 81768188241182
32876828138169888141235132
22513828523613224881323222

DI 1288 DATA 8912488838768531
75138138873128832812138896
22481624882623823813217222

YZ 1218 DATA 1321771788241892
32169888189248132141248132
11913889682411824813211823

PS 1228 DATA 132824118 2481321
39132141238132824118239132
23113282411823913217323913

AF 1238 DATA 14 12 3 213 2 8 2 4 1182
32824189231132141231132169
14124813214123813289683283

ZN 1248 DATA 86 71111881811191
14832873873873832832832832
83288388486988686983288388

RU 1258 DATA 885878884 8988322
88888888888888888888888888
88888888888824413885913188

AR 1268 DATA 8 8 88888888888888
88888888254888888888888888
83484211518418684186386286

CD 1278 DATA 85684 883283 38358
55849255876888886817821889
88483881381888788581582282

MZ 1288 DATA 818 8888838128248
24882225882888128

172228132177

321732331328

228132169888

291328328811

281881288886

872488212382

132144884856

488162322362

285238132248

321771782852

248129243138

691688328121

128896856118

361322382351

896162848189

381698638768

174238132232

391321412391

876118138832

182391321732

173239132141

391321732391

888141239132

141851161811

832832866889

281318888888

888888888888

888888189189

398478718852

882828811816

148258298192

LISTING 2

18 ;CODEURITER III
28 ;BV STEWE STUNTZ

38 ; CC ] 1985 ,
48 :

58 » =

55 START
68 MEM =
78 WTBASE =
88 SETUBU =
98 PACTL =
8188 PORTA =
8118 AUDCl =

ANTIC PUBLISHING

S888e

SBB

SE488

SE45C

SD382

SD388

SD281

54 * ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY

NOVEMBER 1985

0128

S02FC

0138

CDTMAl

= 50226

aite

ROUCRS

= SS4

eisB

COLCHS

= 555

eibe

UDSLST

= 50288

0178

NMIEN =

S040E

0188

SDL5TL

= 58238

8185

ATRACT

= 54D

8198

MEMINT

= SB4

0288

MEMRK =

SB2

0210

JSR

HEADl

0220

LOA

t»538

0230

STA

PACTL

02-»0

L.DA

M501

0250

STA

PORTA

0260

LOA

»53C

0278

STA

PACTL

8288

LDA

WS81

0290

STA

PORTA

0300

LDA

SDLSTL

8310

STA

MEMINT

0320

LDA

SDLSTL^l

0330

STA

MEMINT +1

8348

LDA

nS82

8358

LDV

»12

0368

STA

(MEMINTl - V

0370

LDV

M28

0380

STA

CMEMINT) , V

0390

LDA

<>RKLOOPS2S5

0400

STA

WDSLST

0418

LDA

aRKLOOP/256

0428

STA

WDSLST+1

8438

LDA

M5FF

0440

STA

POINTRI

0450

STA

POINTRO

0460

LDA

M528

0470

STA

CMSPC

0480

LDA

nS40

0490

STA

CMMAH

0500

LDA

M50F

0510

STA

CUAVG

0520

LDA

nSOO

0530

STA

I23K37

0540

STA

HILO

0550

STA

NBITS

0560

STA

RHCU

0570

STA

lAMREDI

0580

STA

CTAVG

0590

STA

CWTDT

0600

STA

CMTOT*!

0610

LDA

««2

0620

STA

PREUHILO

0630

LDA

MRK

0640

STA

MEMRK

0650

LDA

MRM + 1

0660

STA

MEMRK^^l

0670

LDA

«»SCO

0680

STA

NMIEN

0690

;

0700

: SEARCH

FOR KEYBOARD

8710

LPl JSR

RKCH

0720

JMP

LPl

8738

;

0740

: DEVICE HANDLER

0750

GOVEC CPK t«6

0768

BNE

GOWl

O770

LDV

ROUCRS

0780

CPV

M23

O790

BNE

GOWl

O8O0

LDV

COLCRS

0810

CPV

t»39

0820

BNE

GOWl

0830

LDV

«tl

0840

STV

I23K37

0850

GOWl TAV

0860

LDA

WTBASE*!. K

0870

PHA

0880

LDA

WTBASE. K

8890

PHA

0908

TVA

CHARACTER

0910 RTS

0920 :

8930 ; SCROLL

0940 SCROLL LDV I23K37

0950 CPV al

0960 BNE SCROLl

0970 JSR HEAD3

0980 LDV no

0990 STY I23H37

1000 SCROLl RTS

1010 ;

1020 ; RH WORD MRAP

1038 RXURA LDV COLCRS

1040 CPV n34

1050 BCC RKUR9

1060 CPV n39

1070 BEQ RMUR9

1880 RMURl LDA nSAO

1090 JSR RKPNT

1100 LDV COLCRS

1110 CPV W39

1120 BNE RKURl

1130 RKUR9 RTS

1140 ;

IISO :SET PINl AND SOUND

1160 ONOFF CMP U502

1170 ""■" "^^

1180

1190

1200

1218

1220

BNE OFF

LDV 0508

STV PORTA

LDV n52F

STV AUDCl

*^t« JMP ONOFl

1230 OFF LDV «S01

1240 STV PORTA

1250 LDV OSO0

1260 STV AUDCl

1270 ONOFl RTS

1280 :

1290 :HEflDING

1300 HEAD LDV aSOO

1310 STV CQPVI

1320 CRl LDA COPVR.V

1330 LDK a6

1340 JSR GOUEC

1350 IMC COPYI

1360 LDV COPVI

1370 CPV n38

1380 BNE CRl

1390 RTS

1400 :

1410 ;SET CURSOR AT B.

1420 HEADOO LDA ROUCRS

1430 STA ROM

1440 LDA COLCRS

1450 STA COL

1460 LDA aSOO

1470 STA ROUCRS

1480 LDA 0502

1498 STA COLCRS

1500 RTS
1510

SET PINl LOM
TURN SOUND ON

SET PINl HIGH
TURN SOUND OFF

0. O

1510 :

1520 :SET CURSOR AT ORIGINAL POSITION

1530 HEADORG LDA ROU

1540

isse

1560
1570
1S80
1590
1600
1610
1620
1630
1640

STA ROUCRS

LDA COL

STA COLCRS

LDA a51E

LDK n6

JSR GOWEC

LDA nSlF

LDK ae

JSR GOVEC
BTS

1650 :kevboard heading

1660 HEADl JSR HEADCLR
4K7a JSR HEAD

1670
1680
1690

RTS

continued on next page

NOVEMBER 1985

ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY • 5S

1700 :CHAHGE SPEED HEADING

1710 HEADS JSR HEAD0e

1720 JSR HEAD

1730 JSR HEADORG

1740 RTS

1750 ;

1760 ;

1770 HEADCLR LDA n$7D

1780 LDK t*6

1790 JSR GOWEC

1800 RTS

1818 :

1820 ; RK INTERRUPT LOOP

1830 RMLOOP = <*

1840 PHA

1850 TVA

1860 PHA

1870 JSR CUCOUNT

1872 LDA >S0

1874 STA ATRACT

1880 LDA PORTA

1890 AND «*502

1900 CHP PREVHILO

1910 SHE RIl

1920 JMP RI2

1930 RIl JSR CHANGE

1940 RI2 PLA

1950 TAV

1960 PLA

1970 RTI

1988 ;

1990 : RK CU COUNT BY 1

2000 CUCOUNT LDV POINTRI

2010 LDA CHEMRKl.V

2020 CMP CMMAK

2030 BEO RCl

2040 CLC

2050 ADC nSOl

2060 STA CMEMRKl.V

2070 RCl RTS

2080 ;

2090 : DETECT CU CHANGE

2100 CHANGE INC POINTRI

2110 LDA PREVHILO

2120 JSR ONOFF

2130 EOR nS02

2140 STA PREVHILO

2150 LDV POINTRI

2160 LDA no

2170 STA CMEMRKJ , V

2180 RTS

2190 ;

2200 :

2210 : RK CHARACTER FROM PIN 2

2220 RKCH JSR READY

2230 LDA lAMREDI

2240 CMP tsl

2250 BNE RK02

2260 INC POINTRO

2270 JSR COUNTAVG

2280 LDA ttl

2290 EOR HILD

2300 STA HILO

2310 CMP nl

2320 BNE RMOl

2330 JSR SHIFT

2340 JMP RKe2

2350 RK01 JSR FINDCH

2360 RK02 RTS

2370 ;

2380 : SHIFT ROR BUILD NBITS

2390 SHIFT LDA NBITS

2400 CMP ««7

2410 BEO SHIFT9

2420 INC NBITS

2430 LDV POINTRO

2440 LDA CMEMRKl.Y

2450 CMP CUAVG

2460 BCC SHIFTl

2470 SEC ;DASH

56 * ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY

2480 JMP SHIFT2

2490 SHIFTl CLC

2500 SHIFT2 ROR RKCU

2510 SHIFT9 RTS

2520 ;

2530

; DOT

READY TO READ COUNT

2540 READY LDK POINTRO

2550 CPH POINTRI

2560 BEQ READYl

2570 INK

2580 CPK POINTRI

2590 BNE READV2

2600 LDV POINTRI

2610 LDA CMEMRKI.V

2620 CMP CUMAK

2630 BEO READY2

2640 READYl LDA tto

2650 JMP READV3

2660 READY2 LDA ttl

2670 READV3 STA lAMREDI

2680 RTS

2690 :

2700 ; FIND CM CHARACTER

2710 FINDCH LDV POINTRO

2720 LDA (MEMRKJ.V

2730 CMP CUAVG

2740 BCC FIND09

2750 JSR FINISHCH

2760 JSR LOOKASCI

2770 LDV POINTRO

2780 LDA CMEMRKI.V

2790 CMP CUSPC

28O0 BCC FIND89

2810 JSR RKURA

2820 LDA ttSAB

2830 JSR RKPNT

2840 FIND09 RTS

2850 :

2860 : PRINT RECEIVED DATA

2870 RKPNT LDK tt6

2880 JSR GOVEC

2890 JSR SCROLL

2900 RKPNl RTS

2910 :

2920 ; FINISH RKC2 CHARACTER

2930 FINISHCH SEC

2940 ROR RKCU

2950 INC NBITS

2960 FINISHl LDA NBITS

2970 CMP tt8

2980 BCS FINISH9

2990 CLC

3000 ROR RKCU

3010 INC NBITS

3020 JMP FINISHl

3030 FINISH9 LDA t*0

3040 STA NBITS

3050 RTS

3060 :

3070 : LOOKUP AND PRINT CHARACTER

3080 LOOKASCI LDK t*40

3890 LOOKl LDA CUCHA.K

3100 CMP RKCU

3110 BEQ LOOK3

3120 INK

3130 CPK tt91

3140 BEQ L00K2

3150 JMP LOOKl

3160 L00K2 LDA tt63

3170 JMP LO0K4

3180 L00K3 TKA

3190 L0OK4 EOR tt$80

3200 JSR RKPNT

3210 RTS

3220 ;

3230 : COUNT FOR AVERAGE

3240 COUNTAVG LDK CTAVG

3250 INK

3260 CPK nl6

3270 BEQ COUNTAl

NOVEMBER 1985

3288
3298
338B
3318
3328
3338
3348
3358
3368
3378
3388
3398
3488
3418
3428
3438
3448
3458
3468
3478
3488
3498
3588
3518
3528
3538
3548
3558
3568
3578
3588
3598
3688
3618
3628
3638
3648
3658
3668
3678
3688
3698
3788
3718
3728

INC CTAVG

LDV POINTRO

LDA f HEHRKl . V

CLC

ADC CUTOT

STft CMTOT

LDA ts8

ADC CUTOT+1

STA CMT0T*1

JMP C0UNTA2

COUNTAl JSR CALCAVG

C0UNTA2 RTS

: CALCU
CALCAVG
ROR
ROR
CLC
ROR
ROR
LDA
STA
CLC
ROR
LDA
STA
CLC
ROR
LDA
STA
CLC
ROR
LDA
CLC
ADC
STA
LDA
STA
STft
STA
RTS

LATE AVERAGE
CLC

CHTOT*l
CUTOT

CUT0T*1
CUTOT
CUTOT
CUMAK

CUTOT
CUTOT
CUSPC

CUTOT
CUTOT
CUAVG

CUTOT
CUTOT

CUSPC

CUTOT

CUT0T*1

CTAUG

: ROM DATA
COPVH

- BVTE

STEW
3738
3748
3768
3768
3778
3788
3798
3888
3818
3828
3838
3848
3858
3868
3878
3888
3898
3988
3918
3928
3938
3948
3958
3968
3978
3988
3998
4888
4818
4828
4838
4848
4858
4868
4878
4888
4898
4188
4118
4128
4122
4124
4138

E STUNTZ ••
MRK .UORD
CUCHA

- BVTE
-BVTE

- BVTE

- BVTE
. BVTE
. BVTE
. BVTE

- BVTE

- BVTE
. BVTE
. BVTE

- BVTE
. BVTE
. BVTE
. BVTE

••= C

HEMRHl

8,8,
8.8,
8.8,
8,8,
SFE ,
588,
$60,
S6A.
$38.
S47,
$88,
$14 .
512 ,
$8A,
519 ,
UCHA*

8 . e . e .
8,8,0,

8,8,8,8;
8,8,8,8,
588

588, 588 ,
56D , 522 ,
529, S3F ,
528, 521 ,
555. SFF ,
586. 511,
588,518.
587 , 585 .
588 , 583 ,
SID. 513
58188

8 . 8
8 . 8
8 . 8
8 . 8

588 . 588. 588
52A. 573 . 568
S3E . 53C ,
523 . 527 ,
531 . SFF . 54C
515 . 589 . 582
584 . SIE . SeD
58F , 516 , SIB
SBC . 518 . S8E

538
S2F

PMD = »
:«=S18e8
COPVI •»- "♦I
ROU »= »*1
COL »= o+l
ME MR HI = M

•»= »*5818e
POINTRI »= ••♦l
POINTRO ••= »*1
CUMAK ••= ••♦I
CUSPC •»= »*±
CUAVG ••= »♦!
PREVHILO <•= •»♦!
MILO <•= «•♦!
NBITS »= »»*1
RKCU *»= ***i.
lAMREDI ••= »*1
CTAVG »= *»*1
CUTOT ••= ♦•*2
I23K37 «= *»♦!
RKIHDK «•= »»*1

*»= 582E8

.UORD START

. END

END OF BOOT FILE

COffewriter III

how to use the XE's extra 64K

130XE MEMORY
MANAGEMENT

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AT 2 REM 138KE MEMORV MANAGEMENT

AI 4 REM BV IAN CHADUICK

FG 6 REM Cd 1985. ANTIC PUBLISHING

ZC 18 ? ■••«■•

OU 15 PRINT ■•13eKE EKTENDED BANK DEMONSTR

ATIOH"
GV 16 PRINT "BV IAN CHADUICK" : PRIN T
GE 28 POKE 54817, 253 : REM DEFAULT VALUE
NZ 38 START=16384 : REM FIRST BVTE OF ACCES

S UINDOU
RE 48 L00P=8:G0SUB 5888
TI 58 DL=PEEKC56e] *PEEKC561)»256: REM STAR

T OF DISPLAY LIST
TJ 68 SCl=PEEKfDL+4J : SC2=PEEKCDL*5J : HEM S

NOVEMBER 1985

HO
ML

MR
AD

TART OF SCREEN RAM

78 SC3=PEEKC881 : SC4=PEEKt891 : REM SCREE

N POINTERS IN RAM

138 ? "PRESS A CONSOLE KEV"

135 POKE 53279. 8:REM CLEAR CONSOLE KEY

148 IF PEEKC53279> =7 THEN 14a:REM TEST

FOR CONSOLE KEV
145 POKE 186.128:REM LOUER RAMTOP
158 IF PEEKC53279I =6 THEN GOSUB 1888:R
EM START

168 IF PEEKt53279} =5 THEN GOSUB 2888:R
EH SELECT

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ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY * 57

165 IF PEEK t53279J =2

EH START a OPTION

178 IF PEEKC532791 =3

EM OPTION

180 IF PEEKCS3279J =4

EH START « SELECT

185 IF PEEKCS3279J =8

EH ALL THREE

190 GOTO 148

999 REM START PRESSE

ANK e

1880 POKE DL'»4,8:P0K

1818 POKE 88.e:P0KE

1828 POKE 54817,289

1838 RETURN

1999 REM SELECT PRES

BANK 1
2888 POKE DL*4.8:P0K
2818 POKE 88.8:P0KE
2828 POKE 54817,213
2838 RETURN
2499 REM OPTION » ST
MAIN BANK 1
2588 POKE DL«'4.8:P0K
2518 POKE 88.8:P0KE
2528 POKE 54817.253
2538 RETURN
2999 REM OPTION PRES

BANK 2
3888 POKE DL«^4.8:P0K
3818 POKE 88.8:P0KE
3828 POKE 54817,217
3838 RETURN

THEN GOSUB 2588:R

THEN GOSUB 3888:R

THEN GOSUB 4888:R

THEN GOSUB 4588:R

D: SHOU EMTENDED B

E DL*5,64
89, 64

SED: SHOU EXTENDED

E DL*5,64
89, 64

ART pressed: SHOU

E DL«5.64
89, 64

SED: SHOU EXTENDED

E DL«^5.64
89. 64

3999

REM

EXTENDED 1

4888

POKE

4818

POKE

4828

POKE

4838

RETUI

4499

REM 1

MTOP

AND

4588

POKE

L*5, SC2

4518

POKE

4528

POKE

4538

RETUI

4999

REM !

A VALUE

5888

FOR 1

5885

? "F

5818

POKE

5828

GOSUI

5838

NEKT

5835

GOSUI

5848

RETU

6888

FOR

6818

POKE

6828

RETU

6499

REM

6588

POKE

6585

FOR

6518

POKE

6515

POKE

6528

RETU

START » SELECT PRESSED: SHOU
BANK 3

DL'»4,8:P0KE DL*5,64

88 . 8 :POKE 89 . 64

54817. 221
RN

ALL THREE PRESSED: RESTORE RA
SHOU ORIGINAL SCREEN AREA

186.168:P0KE DL*4 , SCI : POKE D

8B,SC3:P0KE 89,SC4

54817 , 253
RN
FILL A SCREEN EQUIVALENT UITH

L00P=8 TO 3

ILLING EKTENDED BANK "rLOOP

54817, 225*L0 0pw4
B 6888:IF L00P>3 THEN 5848

LOOP
B 6588
RN
N=START TO START*993

N, 17«L00P-1 : NEKT H
RN
MAIN BANK FILL

54817,253:7 "FILLING MAIM Bfl

N=START TO START+993

N, 28 : NEXT N

186, 128
RN

TYPO II
DOUBLE FEATURE

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TYPO II Codes!

S'^

32888 REM SUPER TVPOII

32818 REM BY BARTON, DELL'ERA, MCLAUGH CE

LIN a SOLOHON OR

32815 REM (cl 1985. ANTIC PUBLISHING

32828 CLR :DIM LINES ( 128) , BS C 75} : CLOSE

><2:CL0SE «<3 PH

32825 BS^-at-nOhhnCEhnahhniDavaDXaiU/'Hll/'H*

msis.*" uj

32838 OPEN tt2 , 4 , 8 , "E" : OPEN 113, 5, 8. "E" JU
32848 ? "K": POSITION 11,1:? "aaEBmaaOH" EH

BH
32848 : POSITION 2,3:? "TWPe HB
an 1 i ne" FY

TION 1,4:? " '■:INPUT «*2;LINE
= •••• THEN POSITION 2.4:LIST B VG
8

INE$="ERASE" THEN 32258
INES II, 1) =••«»■• THEN B^VALCLIN LD
INES) ) I : POSITION 2,4:LIST B:

INES tl, IJ =•■♦•• THEN POSITION CH

GOTO 32238 YE
TION 2,18:? "CONT"

L CLINES) : POSITION 1,3:7 " ": NK

842, 13 : STOP

842,12 LH

":posiTiON 11,1:? "■oacuiiaaraB

58 * ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY

32858

TRAP

1 n a 1

F»rosr

32868

POST

S : IF 1

LINES

:G0T0

3286

32865

IF L

32878

IF L

E$(2.l

LEN (L

GOTO

32868

32875

IF L

2,5:?

II II ;

32888

POSI

32898

B = VA

32188

POKE

32118

POKE

32128

7 "n

••:POSITION 2,15:LIST B

32138 C=8:AHS=C

32148 POSITION 2,16:INPUT

LINES="" THEN 7 "LINE ";B

OTO 32858

32158 ANS=USR CADR CBS) , ADR

IMES)) : ANS=PEEKC1789) «256

5S36MPEEKC1791)

32168 CODE=INT CANS/6761

32178 CODE=ANS- CC0DEM67e)

32188 HCODE=INT CCODE/26)

32198 LCODE=CODE- CHC00EM2

32288 HC0DE = HC0DE'>'65

32218 POSITION 8.16:? CHR

CHRS CLC0DE«128)

32228 POSITION 2,13:? "I*

t natch press adHOODQIDB an

boue.":GOTO 32858

32238 B = B«^1 : POSITION 2.4:

ON 2,5:INPUT >t3,LINE$:IF

32238
3Z248 GOTO 32888
32258 ? "H":? :FOR ZZ=328
TEP 18:? ZZ:NEXT ZZ : ? 328
32268 ? "CLR:P0KE 842,12
ON 2,8:P0KE 842,13:ST0P
32278 ? "•%":? :FOR ZZ=321
TEP 18:? ZZ:NEXT ZZ : ? 328

n3: LINES : IF
" DELETED":G

CLINES) , LEN CL
»PEEKC1798) ♦6

6)*65

S CHCODE«128) ;

CODE does no
d ed it 1 i ne a

LIST B:POSITI
LINES="" THEN

88 TO 32148 S
15:? 32825
CONT"; : POSITI

58 TO 32280 S
65:? 32875

NOVEMBER 1985

PU 32280 ? "CLRcPOKE 842 , 1 2 : COMT "
ON 2,a:P0KE 842.13:END

; POSITI

LISTING 2

SM 18 HEM Typo II CODE GENERATOR

PY 28 REM BY ANDY BARTON

KO 38 REM CCl 1985, ANTIC MAGAZINE

QU 58 CLR :DIM L INE S CI 281 , OU T S t 1 281 , F ILES

C151 , KS C191 . AS C171
VP 55 DIM BS C?5] : BS = "E]l-nC3hhniXhnCih>>nBa*Ha.^

OM B8 ? •••«••:? :? "TYPOII CODE GENERATOR"
NO 88 ? :? "Choose a file: CDn:fiIenane O

R C:] ":? :? :INPUT FILES
CZ 98 TRAP 388:CL0SE n2:0PEN «»2 . 4 , 8 , FILES

RV 188 TRAP 3ee:INPUT >s2:LINES

SF lie A = A5C CLIMES CI. 11 1 : IF A<48 OR A>57
THEN 368

UJ 128 TRAP 48880:? :? "CHOOSE OUTPUT DEW
ICE:":? "Hcreen EJrinter laisk Has
sette":? :? :? " ";:INPUT OUTS

UF 138 IF OUTS="S" THEN OUT S = "E" : G O T O 198

PN
MG

OZ
MM

MN
PZ

MB
CS

148 IF
1 e nan
N 178
158 IF
8

168 GO
178 FO
"." TH
188 NE
198 TR
: TRAP
O U T S C 1
288 GO
218 TR
228 IF
S = LINE
238 C =
SI . LEN
C17981
248 CO
258 CO

OUTS="D" THEM ?
e] " ; : INPUT OUTS :

:? "GIWE I
IF OUTSO"

Dn : f i
" THE

OUTS<>"P" AND OUTS<>"C'

THEN 12

TO 1
R >< =
EN 1
KT K
AP 4
4888
281 =
TO 2
AP 3
LIM
SCI.
8 : AN
CLIN
+ 655
DE = I
DE = A

1 TO LENCOUTSl:IF 0UTSCK.H1=

: O

8 :

lUTS CLEN COUT
: CLOSE M3 : O
IF OUTS="C"
OUTS C21 =0

SI *11 =" . TY
PEN t>3 . 8. 8
THEN OUTS
UTS : ? »»3 ; O

p»

, OUTS

— 11 l( ;

UTS

28
48
ES
LE
S =
ES
36
NT
NS

INPUT ««2 : L
CLEN CLINESl
N CLINESl -11
C : ANS = USR CA
1 1 : ANS=PEEK
•»PEEKC1791]
CAMS/'6761
CC0DE»6761

INES : TRAP
1=" " THEN

48888
LINE

DR CBS] , ADR
C1789] *256

CLINE
••PEEK

C J

260 HCODE=IMT CCODE/261

278 LCODE=CODE- CHC0DE«261 +65

288 HCODE=HCODE+65

298 OUTS=CHRS CHCODEl : OU T S C 2 . 2 1 = C HR S C L C

ODEl:OUTSC3.31=" "

388 FOR K=l TO LEN CL I NE SI : I F LIMESCX.X

1=" " THEM 328

318MEHTK

328 OUTS C41 =LINES CI . K-11

338 ? n3;OUTS:GOT0 210

348 IF PEEK C1951 <> 136 THEM ? :? "ERROR

" ; PEEK C1951 : END
358 ? :? "^^.v FINISHED '^'"^":EHD
368 ? :? FILES;" is not a BASIC progra
M"

378 ? "in LIST * orna t . " : GOT O 398
388 OUTS = FILES : RTS = 398 : GOTO 468
398 0UTS="D1 :».»": TRAP 4ee:IF FILESCl.
2J>"D1" AND FILES CI . 21 <"DS" THEM OUTSC
2. 21 =FILES C2, 21

488 TRAP 448:? :CLOSE nl:OPEM nl . 6 . 8 . O
UTS:? :? 0UTSC1,21;" DIRECTORY":?
418 INPUT ««1,AS:IF AS C5 , 8 1 = " F REE" THEM

? :G0T0 88
428 KS = ASC3.111 :KSC181=ASC11.171 :KSC17
1=" ":IF ASCII, lllO" " THEM KSC9,91

438 ? HS;:G0T0 418

448 RTS=88:G0T0 468

458 RTS=128

468 ? : A=PEEKC1951 : IF A=13e THEN ? OUT

S;" DOES MOT EXIST":? "TYPE ' QQIB f i 1 e na

«e" : Z=l

478 IF A=138 THEN ? OUTS;" DOES NOT RE

SPOND" : Z=l

488 IF A=168 THEN ? "DRIVE NUMBER ERRO

R" : Z=l

498 IF A=162 THEM ? "THIS DISK IS FULL

USE ANOTHER 0NE":Z=1
588 IF A=165 THEN ? OUTS;" IS AN INVAL
ID FILE NAME":Z=1

518 IF A=167 THEN ? OUTS;" IS LOCKED":
Z=l

528 IF A=169 THEN ? "THE DISK DIRECTOR
Y IF FULL. USE ANOTHER DISKE

TTE":Z=1

538 IF A=178 THEM? "FILE NOT FOUMD":Z
= 1

548 IF ZOl THEN ? "ERROR- ";A
558 Z=8:? :GOTO RTS

now . . . universal picture file compatibility

RAPID GRAPHICS
CONVERTER

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^C^

SR 18 REM RAPID GRAPHICS CONVERTER. LISTI

NG 1

KZ 28 REM BY CHARLES JACKSON

FU 38 REM CC] 1985, ANTIC PUBLISHING

LA 48 POKE 65. a : BRK=1 : IF PEEK C532 791 =5 TH

EN BRK=8

TK 58 GOTO 88

RX 68 POKE 752.1:IF BRK THEN POKE 16.112:

POKE 53774,112

ZH 78 RETURN

NOVEMBER 1985

SZ 88 GRAPHICS 2 : GOSUB. 68 : POKE 752.1:P0KE
718.112:P0KE 712.112:P0KE 788.28:P0KE
789. 12

ZM 98 POSITION 5.2:? t»6 ; "RAPID" : FOR H = l T

258:NEKT X

BK 92 POSITION 5.4:? «t6 ; "GR A P H I C S " : F OR H =

1 TO 25a:NEXT X

UZ 94 POSITION 5,6:? »6 ; "CONVERTER" : FOR K
=1 TO 2Se:NEXT X

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ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY • 59

180 ? :? " BW Charles Jackson":

FOR H=l TO 25e:NEKT K

IBS ? :? ■■ tcj 1985. Antic Publishi

n9"; : GOSUB 68

118 Din INS C151 . OUTS C151 . MPS C7684] , HIS

f 7968] . AS C5)

128 MIStlJ="»":HISt7968J=liIS:MISt2J=MI

S:liPS = MIS:lO = 848: AS = ••♦♦♦•»" : MAH = 18

138 AD=ADRCHPS] : ADHX= I NT C ADX256 ) :ADLO=

AD-ADHIM256

148 FOR K=l TO 588:NEKT M:FLG=8

158 TRAP 158:GRAPHIC5 8:P0KE 718.26:P0

KE 789.2:G0SUB 580:? :? "Type of 50URC

E *i le"; : INPUT SRC

168 SETCOLOR 2 . SRC . 18 : F LG=SRC=5

IF SRC=0 THEN GOSUB 448:G0T0 150

IF SROMAK OR SRC<0 THEN 150

? :? "Fi lenane": : INPUT IN$:GOSUB 6

IF LENCINS)<2 THEN GOSUB 44e:G0T0

170

188

190

288

198

218 TRAP 218:G0SUB 588

KE 789,0:? :? "T«pe of

e"; : INPUT DEST

220 SETCOLOR Z . D E S T . 10 : G O SU B

ST = 5

DEST=8 THEN GOSUB 448:G0T0 218
DEST>MAK OR 0EST<8 THEN 218
? "Fi lenane": : INPUT OUTS
LENC0UTS]<2 THEN GOSUB 448:G0T0

POKE 710,10Z:P0
DESTINATION fil

68 :FLG=DE

IF
IF

238
248
250 ?
268 IF

258
278 IF

NOT CDEST=7 AND OUT S C L EN C O U T S 1
-3, LEN COUTSJ J <> " . BKG"J THEN 290
280 ? :? "Neeas . BKG extender! ! !":FOR
K = l TO 150:NEKT >{:G0T0 258

290 IF NOT CC0EST=4 OH DEST=5J AND OU
T$CLENt0UTS)-3.LEN(0UTS)) <>".PIC") THE
N 310

388 ? :? "Needs .PIC extender! !!":FOH
M^l TO 1S8:NEKT H:G0T0 258

318 IF NOT tDEST=10 AND O U T S C LEN (OU T S
J -3. LEN COUTSJ ] <>" . SCR"J THEN 330
320 ? :? "Needs -SCR e jc t ende r ! ! ! " : FOR
K=l TO lSe:NEXT K:GOTO 258

338 GRAPHICS 8:G0SUB 68:? :? "Insert s
ource disk, press ■BaEKHDH"
348 IF PEEK(53279J <>6 THEN 340
358 IF SHC=5 THEN POKE 4226,48:P0KE 42
29,2:REM RESTON

368 TRAP 158:CL0SE nliOPEN *tl,4,8,INS:
CLOSE <«l:TRAP 48888

378 ON SRC GOSUB 18 4 8,838.1898,1868.18
58. 1388, 1588. 1848, 1728, 1848
388 IF SRC=18 THEN MPS C 7681 , 7684 J ="»^5

398 GRAPHICS 8:
KE 789, 12 : ? : ?
on disk, press

GOSUB 68:P0KE
: ? : f "Insert

■BDi^sQaa"

718. 66 : PO
destinati

488 IF PEEKC53279) <>6 THEN 488

418 FeR K=14 TO 8 STEP -l:POKE 712. K:N

EXT M:G0SUB 60:TRAP 40088

428 ON DEST GOSUB 798,638,1288.2800.19

90, 1310, 1600. 1690. 1770. 2110

430 RUN

4 40 ? "« ■^CSJBtBHaDHHnr " : ?

450 REM DISK DIRECTORY

455 IF FLG THEN POKE 4226.4e:P0KE 4229

.2:REM RESTON

460 CLOSE nl:OPEN wl . 6 . . "D :»-*»": F L =

INPUT ttl.INS

IF INS(2.2J<>" " THEN 520

? " "; INS(2, 13J ;

IF FL THEN ?

FL= NOT FLiGOTO 470

478
488
498
588
518
528
538
548
M" :

CLOSE nl
POKE 764.255:?
> "or RETURN for

? :? "Press any kc
another director!*'

TS 558 OPEN «1 , 4 , 8 , "K : " : GE T ««l,FL:CLOSE
60 -k ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY

O J

568 IF FL=155 THEN 448

578 POKE 764,255:POKE 4 22 6 , 1 8 5 : POKE 42

29. 1 :RETURN

588 GOSUB 68:? "«"." CIJ Mi c r opa i n t er "

:? ,"t2J Micro 1 1 1 us t r a t or/Koa 1 a"

598 ? ,"(3J Fun With Art":? ."C4J Pain

t CAtaril"

688 ? ,"CSJ paint tRestonJ":? ,"C6J tfi

suaiizer"

618 ? ,"C7J MOM i enaker " : ? ,"t8J Graphi

cs Master":? ,"t9J At ar i sr aph i c s" : ? ,"

♦C10J Graphics Machine"

620 RETURN

630 MIS = "UCa[a»-i'l- !_♦ tvH"

640 REM MP TO MI COMPRESSED

658 IF MPS (7681 , 7684J ="»♦♦♦" THEN MPS(

7681, 7684) ="»^5. "

668 MIS(18,18J=MPS(7681,7681J :MIS(14,1

6)=MPS(7682.7684J:MIS(17,17J="'"

678 MIS (19, 28J ="M*"

688 RESTORE 7ee:F0R K=21 TO 28:READ ft

698 MIS (X, K) =CHRS (A) : NEMT K

708 DATA 8,8,155,155,155.155.162,255

718 FOR C0UNT=1 TO 68

728 A=C0UMT»128-99:B=C0UHT«127-126

730 MIS (A. A'»1261 =MPS (B. B->'126) :MIS(A*12

7,A*127)=CHRS(Z55J

748 NEKT COUNT

758 MIS (7788, 7788) =CHR$ (188)

768 MIS (7789) =MP$ (7621, 7688)

770 OPEN nl , 8 . 8, OUTS : ? nl.-MIS;

788 CLOSE nl:RETURN

790 CLOSE nl:OPEN nl, 8, 8, OUTS

888 REM KEEP AN MP FILE

818 ? nl: MPS :: CLOSE nl

828 RETURN

830 DIM MAIN$(342)

848 REM LOAD AN MI PICTURE

858 RESTORE 890

860 FOR A=1536 TO 1556

878 READ B:P0KE ft,B

888 NEKT A

898 DATA 16 2,16,169.1.157.72.3,169,8,1

57, 73. 3, 32,86, 228,48, 1. 96. 184. 104, 96

908 MAINS ="hai4'aNElB-'aGaaD-' avDE-' a hDH-' a^DI

-■avan •y'EanoNra~Q— ra*ii'-ra<i3n-»-Ein"

918 MAiNS(55)=" Eacann-^BOEacBHQ \aa vyBacaHia id

□ vyQQSHd naa ^y'WSmB loa •ry'Bi'iamai l-^BQQ^non"

928 MAINS (115) ^"aaKnDnBsvnBnQ ♦ytgrra^va*

938 MAINS (175) = "/'EaoriH-^E/CiiaauaaaiiiaiaautiH
Qtrraa v/'eacana->-B4-[iBaucaBQC!iac3au[jaQar3"

948 MAINS (228) =CHRS (155)

958 MAiNS(229)="»a isinr3Rn]OEaaHwRn-^E]p eana

a«eE)nEiGi3a*caDGi<^a Hiam-^-^a hesnBnciai'TinnDeQn

Ha"

960 MftINS(291)= "B-^K rCID-^Q ( eE]ac}a*aaec3aE]ra

csraBH— HHNi ♦ra-^o f e naaa » e HaBHcsrantas"

978 POKE 88.ADL0:P0KE 89,ADH1

988 OPEN ttl . 4 , . INS : POKE 559.8

990 A=USR (AOR (MAINS) )

1888 MPS(?681.7681)=CHRS(PEEK(712))

1818 FOR M=e TO 2 : MP S C K ♦ / 6 8 2 , K ♦ 7682 ) = C

HRS (PE£K(?e8^K) ) : NEKT K

1828 CLOSE nl:bRAPHICS a:POKE 559.34

GOSUB 68:RETURN

CLOSE nl : OPEN nl. 4.0. INS

REM GLI A MP/GM FILE

POKE I0*2,7:P0KE I O * 4 . ADLO : POKE I
ADHI:PaKE I0*8,4:POKE I O -» 9 , 3 8

1038

1048

1858

1068

0*5 ,

1870

1080

1098

1100

iiie

JMK = USR (ADR ("hhhSLVG}") .16) :CLOSE

RETURN

IO=848:OPEN nl,4.8.IN$

REM FUA to MP

AO=ADR(MI$) : ADHI=INT (AD/2561 :AOLO

NOVEMBER 1985

GG
TI
NA
VG
AK
CK
BC
GC

OQ
KD

= AD-ADHI**256

1128 POKE I0*2.7:P0KE 10*4 . AOLO : POKE I

0*5. ADHI

1138 POKE I0«^8. 24 : POKE IO + 9.31

1148 N = USR t ADR t"hhli!2LVE]"I . 161

1158 CLOSE tt±

1168 MP$ tl> 48a8)=MI$ C263. 43421

1178 HP* 14881. 768 8J=MISC4359-7958J

1188 HP$ C7681. 76841 =ni$ C3. 6)

1198 RETURN

12 88 HI$ = "»" : HIS 111 ="♦••: MIS 179681 =liIS :

niSC21 =HIS

1218 REM nP XO FUA

1228 HIS C1.6S1="IJU»W5. PPPM»P

DH 1238 HIS C66. 1321 =■

AU
VH
NC
HU
GP

UQ
TN
HN

ZY
JH
ZA

OP
CV

PQ
YK

ZK
TU

GU
UQ

LB
BI
HZ
CE

NZ
MT

TU
VY

HD
PO
BK
MJ
LO

NU
CB
KD
LZ

.H»»-

HQ 1248 HIS(133.2881

1258 HI
■■I* lh!2h

S €281, 2621 ="_.

A^yh&Shal- HBBHOah

■_ai Ea»»*»»»»»»<»''<»

1268 HI
1278 MI
1288 HI
1298 HI
1388 OP
: : CLOSE
1318 RE
1328 HI
1338 HI
"»" : HIS
1348 CM
1358 FO
1368 HI
:CMT=CN
1378 OP
; : CLOSE
1388 RE
1398 AD
=AD-ADH
1488 OP
1418 PO
0*5, ADH
1428 U=

S C263, 434
S (4359, 79
S 17959, 79
S (3. 61 =HP
EN <*1.8.e

ttl : RETUR
H HP TO V
S = "»"
S CI, 31 =HP
C5, 51 =HPS
T = 7

R 1=1 TO
S (CNT, CNT
T+48 : NEKT
EN al. 8, 8

nl : RETUR
H WIS TO
=ADR (HIS)
I«*256
EN m, 4, 8
KE 10*2,7
I:POKE 10
USR (ADRC

21 =HP
581 =H
681 =••
S (768
, OUTS
N
IS

S (768
(7681

S (1, 48881

PS (4881 , 76881

1, 76841

:? »»l; HIS (1, 79681

2, 76841 : HIS (4,41
, 76811

iTEP 2

= HPS (I»4e-39, I»»481

166 51
♦391 :

I
,OUTS:? t»i; HIS (1 , 33261
N

HP
: AOHI=

INT (ADx'2561 : ADLO

. INS
: POKE
*8. 25
hhhQL

10*4, ADLO : POKE I
4:P0KE 10*9,12
VB"1 , 161 : CLOSE *tl

1438

1448

7681

1458

1468

1478

39J

1488

1498

1588

1518

= AD-

1528

1538

+ 5 .
1548
«»1

1558
1568

1 :HP
1578
1588
1598
1688
1618
IS

1628
1638
1648
1658

CNT = 7
HPS (7682,
1 =MIS C4, 41
FOR 1=8 T
HPS (I«»48*

76841 =HIS (1. 31 :HPS(7681,

O 198 STEP 2

l.I»4 8*481= HIS (CNT, CNT*3

HPS(I<»48*41,I»»48*881=HISCCNT.CMT*
8:NEMT I

CNT=CMT*4«

RETURN

REM HH TO

AD = A0R(HIS1 : ADHI = INT (AD/'2561 : ADLO
ADHIM256

CLOSE wl : I

POKE 10*2.
ADHI : POKE

JNK = USR cm

: OPEN <*1. 4, 8, INS
:.7:P0KE 10*4 , ADLO-.POKE I
I0*8,16:P0KE 10*9,15
IDR ("hlihCiLVE]"l ,161 .'CLOSE

FOR K=l T
NN = 2«»K-1 :
S (NN*48, NN
NEKT M

HPS (7681, 76 841 =MI$C3841, 38441
RETURN
REH HP TO
HIS Cll =••♦

O 3848 STEP 48

MPSCNN,NN*39I=HISCK,H*39

♦791=HISCK,K*391

HH
■:HISC38561=HIS:HISC21=H

FOR H=41
NN = K/'2-19
HIS CNN, NN
NEKT K

TO 7688 STEP 168

*791=HPS(H,K*791

1668

1678

; : CL

1688

1698

1788

1718

1728

1738

1748

IS (2

1758

1768

1778

1788

ISCl

1798

1888

1818

1828

1838

1848

1858

1868

1878

= AD-

1888

1898

0*5,

1988

«tl

1918

1928

HIS =

1938

1948

1 : HP

1958

1968

1978

1988

1998

2888

2818

2828

2838

2848

2858

2868

2878

penH

2888

: : CL

2898

2180

2118

2128

HI S( 38 41, 38441 =HPS (7681, 76841

OPEN nl, 8, 8,0UTS : ? «tl : HIS C 1 , 38561
OSE nl

RETURN

REH HP TO GH

CLOSE nl:OPEN ttl,8,8,0UTS

7 t«l; MPS; ■■♦";: CLOSE nl:RETURH

REM AG TO HP

GOSUB 1848

HIS=" ":HIS(l.ll=nPS(7684,76841 :H
,41= MPS (7681, 76831

HPS (7681, 76841= HIS

RETURN

REH HP TO AG

HI$ = HIS(4. 41 =nP$ (7681, 7681) :H

,31=HPS(7682,76841

HPS (7681, 76841= MIS

CLOSE tsl:OPEN <tl.8,8.0UTS

7 »»i;mps;

MPSC11="»":MPS(76841=HPS:HPS(2)=H

? **l: HPS: MPS (1 , 5841 ;: CLOSE »»1

RETURN

POKE 4226,48:P0KE 4229,2:REM REST

REH PAINT TO HP

AD=ADR(HIS] : ADHI=INT (AD^2561 : ADLO
ADHI»256

CLOSE nl:OPEN «tl.4,e,INS

POKE IO*2,7:P0KE 10*4 , ADLO : POKE I
ADHI:POKE I 0*8 , 14 4 : POKE IO*9,12

JNK=USR(ADR ("h»>haL WE]"1 ,161 :CL0SE

AS=HIS (1, 41

HP S(l, 32881= MI S(17, 3216): MI S = ■■♦■•:
MPS (1. 32881

FOR X=l TO 3288 STEP 48

NN=2*K-1:MP$(NN,NH*391=HIS(K,H*39
S(NN*48,NN*791=HIS(H,X*391

NEXT K

HP S (7681, 76841 =AS (1,41

POKE 4226, 185 : POKE 4229,1

RETURN

POKE 4226,48:P0KE 4229,2:REH REST

REH HP TO PAINT
HIS(11="»":MIS(3216)=MIS:HIS(2)=H

AS=HPS (7 681 , 7 684)

FOR K=41 TO 6281 STEP 168

NN = X/'2-19 . 5

HIS(NN,NN*791=HPS(K,K*791

NEXT X

MPS = MIS:HIS = AS:HIS(6,161="t»l(D(3(
•• : HIS (171 =HPS

OPEN nl, 8, 8, OUTS :? »1 : HIS (1 , 32161
OSE nl

POKE 4226, 185:P0KE 4229,1

RETURN

CLOSE >«l:OPEN »1, 8, 8, OUTS

? nl; HPS (1, 76881 ;: CLOSE nl:RETURN

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LT 18 REM FASTMOVES. LISTING 1

08 28 REM BY PATRICK DELL'ERA UP 148

FU 38 REM Ccl 1985. ANTIC PUBLISHING IM 158
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OD 88 CURSOR = 752 : 0FF = 1 : K0L0RO = 708 : K0L0R2=: BZ 160

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TG 188 POKE UIND0USIZE.4

? "nput a fornatted DOS 2 or 2.5 d

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? "Press leiatSdjai when uou are ready.

NOVEMBER 1985

GOSUB 360

TRAP 27e:0PEN al , 4 . 8 , "D : AUTORUN ■ S Y

LOSE «»l:POKE 719,66

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SYS"

? "file. press IBD^Oai if vou want

7 "write over it.";:GOSUB 36e:POKE
. 146

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CLOSE nliOPEN nl . 8 , B . "D : AU T ORUN . S Y

RESTORE

FOR K=l TO 249:READ A:POKE 788. A:S

e.A,8.8:PUT nl,A:NEHT X
CLOSE «1

? "K*>Thc deed is done!"
FOR »=1 TO 5ee:NEKT K
N = USR €58487)
END

IF PEEKC53279J <>6 THEH 368
RETURN

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GK 428 DATA 2.141.252.2.169.15.141.124
OU 438 DATA 29,133,77,184.178.184,64-184
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EQUATES

RUNAD = 5e2E8
MEHLO = 982E7

DOSVEC = S8A

DOSINI

VVBLKD
SETWBV
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58C

98224
SE45C
S8288

;Auto run addr
; Lower 1 1 nl t of
; free neMor y
: Addr Junped to
; When DOS called
:Inltialization
; addr for DOS
;dlwd vbi uctr
; set vb 1
:Keyboard uctr

0220
0238
0248
0250
0260
0270
0280
0290
0300
0310
0328
0330
0340
0350
8380
0390
0420
0430
0440
8458
8468
8478
8488
0498
8588
8518
8528
8538
8548
8558
8568
8578
8588
8598
8688
8618
8628
8638
8648
0650
8660
8678
8688
8698
8788
8718
8728
8738
8748
8758
8768
8778
8788
8798
8888
8818
8820
0830
8848
8858
8868
8878
8888
8898
8988
0910
0920
0930
0940
0950
0960
0970
0980
0990
1000
1010
1020
1838
1040
1050

SKSTAT = SD28P
KBCODE = $D289
CH = $02FC

CHI = $02F2

ATTRACT = S4D
SRTIMR = S022B

UP = $8E

DOUN = 58F

LEFT = 586

RIGHT = S87

DUMMY = »FF

ADDR = SFFFF

51D7C

^Keyboard status
; Pokey r 3str
iCurrent key —

KBCODE Shadow
; pr eu i ous key
;Atct node flas
;Auto-Repeat tnr
IHardware codes

for key

pressed

: Mar i ab I e byte
^variable word

; End of resident

DBOUNCE

FASTFLG

TABLE

. BY

FAST . MO
THA
PHA

LDA
LDX

SEARCH
DEM
STK

BUI
CMP
BNE
STA
STA
LDA
STA
STA
PLA
TAK
PLA
HTI

NONE

PLA
TAK

VKEYBD .
JMP

.BYTE 1
.BYTE SFF

TE UP. DOUN. LEFT, RIGHT
VES

KBCODE
n4

FASTFLG

NONE

TABLE. X

CHI

o$8F

DBOUNCE

ATTRACT

;0S h

saw

; Get

; Then

; TAB

nat

as a 1 ready
ed r eg A •
also save K
key pressed

search
LE for a
c h

. k

i n

o f

d a

eep

i s

tro

ate
pr
pr
ou
r .

r ac
go

dex i nto

tab I e . . .

natc h?

1 oak i ng
a c ur sor
1 . so

c ur rent
ew i ous
essed •
r del ay

reset
t node

back

SAVE =
ADDR

NO n
1 et
1

; Addr
; fie
; to
; OS •

ate hes so
OS have li

1 s nod i -
d by INIT
point to
s hand 1 er

The addr for REINIT is stored
in DOSINI. SYSTEM RESET will
cone through here and then
through INIT2 to re-establish
Fast Moves .

REINIT

JSR ADDR

; Address i s

c hanged to
; DOSINI vector
; by INIT

;After returning fron the
;00S initialization, we have to
; re-est ab 1 i sh the vectors in
:DOSINI. and DOSVEC. In this way
; we nake Fast Moves "persistent".

INIT2

LDA
STA
LDA
STA
LDA

NOVEMBER 1985

*t <REINIT

DOSINI

n >REINIT

DOSINI-^l

n <CALL.DOS continued on next page

ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY • 65

STA DOSWEC

LDA n >CALL.DOS

STft D0SUEC«^1

: nowe lo nen up to crearr safe
:place for Fast Moves.

ISBa

lasa

1898

1188

1118

1128

1138

1148

1158

1168

1178 :

1188 ;lnsert Fast Moves into the

1198 ;lceyboard service routines.

1838 ;to see 1*

LDA n <FINIS

STA MEMLO

LDA n >FINIS

STA MEML0«1

1288
1218
1Z28
1238
1248
1258
1268
1278
1288
1298
1388
1318
1328
1338
1348
1358
1368
1378
13B8
1398
1488
1418
1428
1438
1448
1458
1468
1478
1488
1498
1588
1518
1528
1538
1548
1558
1568
1578
1588
1598
1688
1681
1618
1628
1638
1648
1658
1668
1678
1688
1685
1698
1788
1785
1718
1728
1738
1748
1758
1768
1778
1788
1798
1888
1818
1828

LDA n <FAST. MOVES

5TA VKEVBD

LDA n >FAST.MOVES

STA WKEVBD*1

;lnstall our vertical blank
:routine tbe safe waw. through
;the OS routine for settins
;vertical blank routines!

LDA t»7

LDK n >VBLANK

LDY n <VBLANK

JMP SETUBV

;Anw call to DOS will vector
; throush here.

CALL ■ DOS

:Fisrt, replace the OS keyboard
; rout i ne .

LDA XDUMMY ;This value is

; is set by IMIT
VKEVBD. L = »-l

STA VKEVBD

LDA ODUMMV :So is this one!
VKEVBD. H = »-l

STA VKEVBD«1

;Then. rr-establish the original
;vertical blank routine.

LDA n7

LDK VBLANK.1«2

LDV VBLAMK-l*!

JSR SETVBV

; Then DOS initialization and
; start addresses.

DOSREINI

DOSl = •♦♦I

LDA ODUMMV ; Dunny values

STA DOSINI ; are changed by

D0S2 = «»*1

LDA ODUMMV : IMIT to

STA DDSINIi-l : restore

D053 = "♦I

LDA ODUMMV ; DOSIMI and

STA DOSVEC ; DOSVEC

D0S4 = »*1

LDA ODUMMV :

STA DOSVEC*l

: Now we can 90 safely to DOS.

DO -DOS . V

JMP ADDR

; Addr changed by
: INIT to show
; DOSVEC

;vertical Blank Interrupts
;vector through here. He check

1848
1858

1868

: down .

key is being held
then we deternine

if it IS a cursor control

If so,

then we

take it repeat

1878 :nore <iuickly than OS does.

1888 :

1898 VBLAMK

LOA DBOUNCE :Debounce logic

BED VBLAMK.3

DEC DBOUNCE

BNE VBLANK.l

LDA FASTFLG

BMI VBLANK.l

LDA SKSTAT

AND 04

BNE VBLANK.l

LDA 06

CMP SRTIMR

BCS VBLANK-

STA SRTIMR
VBLANK. 2

DEC SRTIMR
VBLANK. 1

JMP ADDR

1988

1918

1928

1938

1948

1958

1968

1978 :

1988 VBLANK. 3

1998

2888

2818

2828

2838

2848

2858

2868

2878

2888

2898

2188

2118

2128

2138

2148

2158

2168

2178

2188

2198

2288

2218

2228

2238

2248

2258

2268

2278

2288

2298

2388

2318

2328

2338

2348

2358

2368

2378

2388

2398

2488

2418

2428

2438

2448

2458

2468

2478

2488

2490

2588

2518

2528

2538

2 548

2558

2568

2578

2588

2598

2688

2618

2628

2638

i n use?
; NO , nake

; Ves,

subtr ac t 1

f ron t i Mier
If DB0UNCEO8,
all done

;E<1uals SFF i f
; not cursor ctl

: B i t 3 is on i f
key is still
; he 1 d down

; I f t i Mer has

; already been

; set with 6
CFast Moves ■
; speedl , br anc h

;Else, set tiner

; subtr act 1

;Addr is changed
to OS ' s VBI
routine by IMIT

FINIS narks the end of pro-
tected nenory .

FINIS

DOS Junps here after auto load-
loading Fast Moves, several
addresses within Fast Moves arc
Modified. This routine is not
protected as it is needed only
one e .

INIT

LDA DOSVEC ;Save DOS vector

STA D0.D0S.V«^1

STA D0S3

LDA D0SVEC«1

STA DO.DOS.V*Z

STA D0S4

save DOS initi
; alization
vec tor

LDA DOSINI

STA REINIT*1

STA DOSl

LDA DOSIMI*!

STA HEINIT+2

STA D0S2

LDA VKEVBD :Save keyboard

STA VKEVBD-SAVE ; handler

STA VKEVBD. L ; vector

LDA VKEVBD*!

STA VKEVBD . SAVE*!

STA VKEVBD.H

LDA VVBLKD ;Save VBI

STA VBLANK.l*! ; routine'

LDA VVBLKD*! ; vector

STA VBLAMK. 1*2

JMP I MIT 2
: A u t o r u n

'= RUNAD
UORD IMIT

;Continue initi-
; alization

END

64 -k ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRAMY

NOVEMBER 1985

same of the month

mMPIRE RATS

Article on pase 49

LISTING 1

Don't type the
TYPO II Codes!

KM 1 REM VAMPIRE RATS!

PC 2 REM BV TOn ZARBOCK

FF 5 REM tcj 198S, ANTIC PUBLISHING

GK 18 GOTO zzeee
Ai seae rem actions

UG 5818 51=STICK te) : S2=STICK CIJ : F1=AF CFl*

l*FtSlJJ :F2=AFCF2*1*FCS2)J
IC 5828 REM PLVR 1 NEM FACING?
AP 5838 IF Sl>12 THEN SB49
KV 5848 COLOR ie+Fl:PLOT HI. VI
CC 5845 IF STRIG(a}=B THEM Sl=14
JY 5849 REM PLVR 1 MOVES OR JMPS?
AF 5858 IF S1014 AND S1013 THEN 5874
GM 5855 U=l:IF Sl=13 THEN U=2
JS 5868 TRAP 5874:L0CATE K 1 ♦ S t 8 . F 1 ) »U . V 1 ♦

S tl . F1J*»U, K
CF 5865 IF K032 THEN 5874
PK 5878 COLOR 32:PL0T K 1 . V 1 : K 1 = X 1 ♦ S t O . F 1 J

»U : V1=V1+S CI , F1J"U : COLOR ie+Fl:PL0T Kl

,Yl:POKE 53761, 18 : POKE 53761.8
ED 5872 Bl = Bl-2*» tSl = 133
IM 5874 REM PLVR 1 BITES? « UHO?
VB 5888 LOCATE Kl ♦ S 1 8 , F 1*> . VI + S C 1 , F 1 J , K
CA 5885 IF K>183 AND K<187 THEN Vl=ia:COL

OR 32:PL0T Kl + S 1 8 , F 1 J , V 1 ♦ S 1 1 . F 1 J : B 1 = B 1

♦5
KK 5898 IF K>41 AND K<58 THEN B2=B2-2:B1=

B1»2:P0KE 788 , 1 5 6 : SOUND 2,18.4.15
KV 5199 REM PLVR 2 NEU FACING?
ZM 5288 IF S2>12 THEN 5219
CS 5218 COLOR 42*F2:PL0T K2.Y2
DM 5215 IF STRIGCl)=a THEN S2=14
KI 5219 REM PLVR 2 MOVES OR JMPS?
IH 5228 IF 52013 AND S2014 THEM 5259
GV 5225 U=l:IF S2=13 THEM U=2
RJ 5238 TRAP 5259:L0CATE K2 + S C 8 . F2 J »U . Y2 *

SC1.F2J»U.K
FS 5248 IF K<>32 THEN 5259
VP 5258 COLOR 32:PL0T K 2 . Y2 : K 2 = K2 + S C , F 2 J

»»U:V2 = V2 + SC1.F2J«U:C0L0R 42 + F2: PLOT K2

.V2:P0KE 53761 . 18 : POKE 53761,8
FI 5252 B2=B2-2»tS2=13J
JT 5259 HEM PLVR 2 BITES? « WHO?
BQ 5278 LOCATE K 2 ♦ S C 8 , F 2 1 . V 2 ♦ S t 1 . F 2 ) . K
QJ 5288 IF K>183 AND K<187 THEM V1=1B:C0L

OR 32:PL0T K 2 * S C 8 . F 2 J . V 2 ♦ S f 1 . F 2 J : B 2 = B 2

♦5
VJ 5298 IF K>9 AMD K<18 THEN B1=B1-2:B2=B

2*2:P0KE 789 , 206 : SOUND 3,16.4,15
CU 5358 REM UPDATE BLOOD LEVEL
HZ 5398 REM PLAVER 1
FZ 5488 IF Bl>8 THEM COLOR 168:PL0T 0.B1P

:B1P=B1P-1:B1=B1-B
MZ 5485 IF Bl<e THEN COLOR 41:PL0T 0,B1P:

B1P=B1P*1:B1=B1*8
AL 5486 IF BlP<a THEN BlP=e:Bl=8
DB 5487 IF B1P>18 THEM F=2:GOTO 9000
JV 5418 COLOR 168 + IN T t B 1 ♦ . 5 1 : PLO T 0.B1P
JN 5449 REM PLAVER 2
NU 5478 IF B2>B THEN COLOR 168:PL0T 19, BZ

P:B2P=B2P-l:B2=B2-8
BQ 5488 IF B2<8 THEN COLOR 4l:PLaT 19,B2P

:B2P=B2P*l:B2=B2*8
CZ 5482 IF B2P<8 THEM B2P=8:B2=8
DA 5484 IF B2P>ie THEN F=1:GOTO 9008
UF 5498 COLOR 168*B2:PL0T 19,B2P
FG 5588 Bl = Bl-8 . 1 : B2 = B2-e - 1
ZS 5899 REM RANDOM VICTIMS

NOVEMBER 1985

HU 9288 IF STRIGC8) AND STRIGCl) THEM 928

D V

F J

5988

5918

J ♦!! :

5928

POKE

5948

5958

EN VI

5968

5988

88-8**

6888

9888

9805

2,8.
KE 78
9838
9848
= K2 : V
9858
9868
RESTO
9888
9890
OR K =
9188
288 , 1
8,188
9270
9275

IF PE

I = IMT

LOCAT

COLOR

77. 8

REM S

SOUND

= 8

SOUND

POKE

CB1P>

GOTO

REM G

SOUND

8 , 8 : S

9. 200

COLOR

J = 10 :

= V2

FOR I

COLOR

RE 91

READ

SOUND

1 TO

DATA

40.10

.17 7.

SOUND

POSIT

: POKE

EKC53778)>9 THEN 5948
C16MRMD t8) '»2) : J = IMT (180RND C8
E I.J,D:IF D032 THEM 5918
INT C3«RMD (8) ) ■•'184 : PLOT I.J:

OUMOS
1 , 8, 8, VI : Vl = Vl-2 : IF Vl<8 TH

2 , 8 , 8 , 8 : SOUND 3.8.8.0
788 . 1S0-6»CB2P> 8J : POKE 789.2
8):P0KE 53768.197
5888
AME ENDS

8 . 8. a . 8 : SOUND 1 . 8 . 8 . 8 : SOUND
OUMD 3.8,8.8:P0KE 7e8.158:P0

32:PL0T K1.V1:PL0T H2,V2
K=Kl:V=Vl:IF F=2 THEM J=42:K

=1 TO 15:F0R K=8 TO 7
J*K:PLOT K.Y:NEKT K:NEKT I:

I,J:IF I=-l THEM 9278
8. I, 10 , 8 : SOUND 1,1*1, 18, 8:F

J/4:NEKT K:G0T0 9888

237,188.177,188.148.188,117.

8,117.200.148.180.117.200.14

300, 177, 588, -1 , -1
, O , , : SOUND 1.0,0,0

ION 1,0:? s<6; "nsiaQasHacanEiBQigH

712,0:POKE 711,6:P0KE 718,4

9285
9298
2288
2218
2219
2228

I
2228
8,8,
2221
2222
2223
2224
2225

I
2226
2388
2588
2588
KC15
2581
2. PE
E 75
2588
KCS7
2512
D D :
2515
6

2516
2517
2517
2517

B1P=8 : B2P=0

GOTO 25888
8 REM INITIALIZE
8 DIM F C151 , S CI . 71 , AF C9J
8 RESTORE 22285
8 FOR 1=8 TO 15:READ D : F C I ] =D : MEKT

8,8,0,8,8,1,1,1,8,-1,-1,-1.

5 DATA

8, 8

FOR 1=0 TO l:FOH J=8 TO 7

a READ D : S CI, J) =D : NEKT J:NEKT

a DATA 8,1,1,1,8,-1,-1,-1

8 DATA -1,-1,8,1,1,1,8,-1

FOR 1=8 TO 9:READ O : AF C I ) = D : NEKT

8 DATA 7,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

8 GOTO 27888

8 REM CUSTOM CHARACTER SET

5 IF PEEKClS36)<>e THEN CHBASE=PEE

36)o256:G0T0 25158

CHBASE= CPEEK C742) -41 W256 : POKE 74
EKC742J-S:P0KE 1536, CHBASE/ 256 :POK
6. CHBASE/256

8 FOR 1 = 8 TO 511:P0KE C HB A SE -» I . PE E

344<^I):MEKT 1:REM MOVE ROM SET

8 FOR I=CHBASE*8 TO C H B ASE * 2 1 6 : R E A

POKE I . D : MEKT I

8 GRAPHICS 2*16:P0KE 756 . C HB ASE/'25

8 REM CUSTOM CHARACTER DATA

8 DATA 8,8,8,8,8,0,8,126

1 DATA 8.8,8,8,0,0,126.126

2 DATA 8,8,8,8,8,126,126,126

continued on next page
ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY • 65

RS 25173 DATA ■.0.0,8.126.126.126.126

BH 25174 DATA 0.0.0.126.126.126.126.126

RV 25175 DATA 0.0.126.126.126.126.126.126

PR 25176 DATA 0.126.126.126.126.126.126.1

UH 25177 DATA 126.126.126.126,126.126.126

. 126

ZK 25178 DATA 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0

MV 25180 DATA 40.56.40.146.124.56.124.130

UG 25190 DATA 4.40.37.154.120.118.48.8

OK 25200 DATA 136 . 80 . 119 . 122 . 119 . 80 . 136 .

NO
ZK
GR
RF
VG
QR
RG
DM
MS
DB
BD
BH

UU
LG

TE
KS
EJ

2521

2522

2523

2524

2525

2528

2529

2530

2531

2532

2533

2534

2535

2536

2537

2600

26O0

10.2

= 8

2601

DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA

8. 48
65. 6
16. 1
0. 17
32. 2
O. 12
O. 25
O. 25
74. 7
74. 2
74. 7
108.

.118. 1
2. 28. 6
2. 158.
lO. 23
0. 164.
7 . 68. 6
5. 34, 3
4. 34. 3
4,78.7
02. 46.
5, 122,
84 , 254

DATA 12,24.48.1
DATA 12.138.207

O DATA 0.69.213.2
O REM DRAM ARENA
5 POKE 708.158:PO
40:POKE 711.208:P

20. 154. 37.40.4
2. 73. 20, 28, 20
30, 89, 164, 20, 32
8,94, 238, 10, 17
89, 30, 110, 12, 16
8, 79, 124, 75,74
4, 255, 72, 255,
4 . 250, 30, 234, 74
4 . 122, 74 , 78 , 122
26, 250. 18. 254, 8
76. 79, 72, 127.
.68. 124. 126. 219. 2

13. 127. 63. 99. O

. 252. 254. 124, 40. 1

47. 127, 62, O, O

KE 7e9,2ee:P0KE 7
OKE 712,2:81=8:02

UTO 17,0:COLOR 148:PL0T 18,0:COLOR 149

IDRAUTO 18, lO
LK 26020 COLOR 150:PL0T 18,11:C0L0R 147:0

RAUTD 2,11
ZD 26030 COLOR 151:PL0T 1,11:C0L0R 149 : OR

AUTO 1,1
AU 26840 COLOR 8:PL0T 0,11:C0L0R 4S : PLOT

19. 11
UB 26850 COLOR 160:PL0T O.10:DRAUTO O.0:P

LOT 19.10:DRAMT0 19.0
SI 26060 Kl=5 : Yl=5 :K2=14 : Y2=5 : COLOR 10:PL

OT K1,V1:C0L0R 42:PL0T K2,Y2:G0T0 5000

O COLOR 146:PL0T 1,0:C0L0R 147:DRA

PA
DO
ML

HF
NM
XJ

MA
QM

MV
AU

2700

2701

, le :

2702

DRAU

2702

H" : I

HEN

2703

2704

2705

: DRA

2705

J = :

2705

H" : I

HEN

2706

2710

D 2,

2720

O RE

1 SO
SOUM
O FO
TO 1
5 PO
F N
2710
O CO
O NE
O FO
UTO

2 PO
K = 4»

5 CO

6 PO
F N
2710
NE
SO
0,0.
RE

M TI

APHI

UND

D 2,

R H =

9-K,

SITI

OT S

LOR

KT X

R V =

O, 11

KE 5

CKO

LOR

SXTI

OT 5

KT Y

UND

O : PO

TURN

TLE SCREEN

CS 2*16:P0KE 708,4e:T=5

O, 250, 10, 10 : SOUND 1,251,10

252. 10.10: K=4

1 TO 10:C0L0R 42:PL0T K.O:

ll:POKE 710. PEEKC5S770I

ON 3.5:? 1*6 : "QtsjcoincKi ■(araoKi

TRIG(O) OR NOT STRIGCl) T

0:PLOT K.0:DRAUT0 19-K.11

1 TO 10:COLOR 42:PL0T 19. Y
-Y:P0KE 710, PEEKC53770J
3768, K: J=J*1 : IF J=40 THEN
41 ♦6»CK<>6J
0:PLOT 19,V:DRAUT0 0,11-Y

ON 3,5:? >t6 : "ojuia.aiaimammiBusam

TRIGCO) OR NOT STRIGCll T

:G0T0 2702O

O, O. O, O : SOUND l,0,0,a:SOUN

KE 710,50:GOTO 25000

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LISTING 1

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^1^ bv Patrick Bass **/'

/^ CC3 1985 Antic publishing «/

ttinclude "portab.h*'

ttinciude ■•obdetfs.h"

(•include "define. h*>

ttinclude "geMdefs .h"

ttinclude ■■osbind.h"

int contrlC12], int:int2563, PtsinC256], intout £2561 , ptsout £2561 ,
l_int:inC2ei , l_PXsint2ei, 1— out £1081 ,
handle, xres, yres,

i, nx. My, loop, dunny, key_state, port_state,
K_note, y_note,

wri te_connand=l28, read_c onMand=8, wolune=8,
chana_lo=e, chana_hi=l,
chanb_lo=:2, chanb_hi=3,

chan_enabie=7> chana_woiune=8, chanb_volur«e=:9,
x_note_i ine=88, y_note_i ine = ie8, woiui<ie_l ine = i2e,
guest ion_colunn=15, answer_c ol ui«in=H5 . twel we_bi ts=4896,
hi_nask=exeF88, lo_Mask=8xe8FF, point i ng_#inger=3,
off=e# thick=l, skewed=4, under 1 ined=8;

Char note_lo, note. hi, buffer £881,

double n_state, nunberi, nunber2, nunber3;

extern double giaccessci;

nainci
<

appl_init C3 ;

handie=graf— handle c Xdunny, adunny, Adunny, adunny i;
graf_nouseC point ing_finger, 0xeL 1;

fore i=e; i<18; i_intin£ i++ i =i 3; i_int in E101 =2;

v_opnvwk C l—intin, ^handle, l_out) ;
xres=i_out £81 ; yres=i_out £11 ;

vst_effectsc handle, skewed ); wst_coiorC handle, BLUE );
M_gtextt handle, 18, 28, "Antic- The ATARI Resource." j;

Mst_effectst handle, thick l; wst_colorC handle, GREEN 1;
M_gtextt handle, 38, 48, "»Sound Mouse*" 3;

vst_effectsc handle, underlined ); wst— colore handle, MAGENTA 3;
M_gtextc handle, guest ion_coluwn, x_note_line, " Channel a: "3;

vst_effectsc handle, underlined 3; wst_coiort handle, LMAGENTA 3;
v_gtextc handle, guest ion_c 01 urin, y_note_iine, " Channel B: "3;

vst_effectsc handle, off 3; ust_colorC handle, YELLOU 3;
u_gtextt handle, guest ion_colunn, woiUMe_line, " voiune: "3;

Gi ace esse woiune, c hana_woluMe+wr i te—coMwand 3;
Gi ace esse voiune, chanb—woluwe+wr i te_coMnand 3;

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NOVEMBER 1985 ANTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY -k 67

por-t_s-ta-te=Gi ace esse por-t_state. chan_enable+read_coi<triand J;

GiaccessC 60- chan_enable+wr ite—conrianci j;

do
<

v«i_key_sC handle. ai<ey_sxate j;

if C key—State & K-CTRL 3

< wolune^--!- ; fort loop=8; loop<5ee; loop++ i: >
if C key—s-ta-te a K—LSHIFT 3

< wolune — ; fort loop=e; loop<5ee; 100P++ i: >

if C volune > 15 3 wolUMe=15;
if C volune < e 3 volune=e;

GiaccessC wolune, chana_volune-^wri te_connand 3;
GiaccessC Moiune, chani»_woluMe+wr i"te_coMMand 3;

u<i_MouseC handle, «M_state, anx, any 3;
x_no-te = C MX » C tweiMe_bi-ts / C xres+1 3 33;
no-te_hi = C X—note a hi_i<iask 3 >> 8;
noi:e_lo = C x—note a lo_i<iask3 ; — &
GiaccessC not:e_lo, chana_lo+wri te_coMMand 3;
GiaccessC note_hi, chana_hi+wri te_coi<iMand 3;

y_not:e = C wy « C -twelue_bits / C yres+l 333;
note—hi = C y— note a hi— nask 3 >> 8;
note_iD = C y— note a lo—wask 3;
GiaccessC note— lo, chanb— lo+wr i te_coMMand 3;
GiaccessC note_hi, chanb— hi+wr it e-COMWand 3;

nuMberi = x— note;

ftoac nuMberl, buffer, a 3; bufferC79] = 9;

wst— effectsc handle, underlined 3; wst_color Chandle, MAGEMTft 3;

u— 9textt handle, answer— colunn, x— note— line, buffer 3;

nuMber2 = y_note;

ftoac nupibera- buffer, 8 3; bufffert793 = 0;

MSt— colore handle, LMAGENTAi 3;

u— gtextc handle, answer— coiunn, y— note— line, buffer 3;

nunber3 = moiumc;

ftoac nuMbers, buffer, 3; buffer [793 = 0;

vst— effectsc handle, off 3; wst— colore handle, VELLOM 3;

w_gtextc handle, answer— colunn, wolune— line, buffer 3;
>
while C n_state == off 3;

GiaccessC off, chana— Molune+wr i te— connand 3;
GiaccessC off, chanb— uoiune+wr it e—connand 3;
GiaccessC port— state, chan_enabie+wr i te— connand 3;

w— clswwkt handle 3;
appl— exit C3 ;

68 * ASTIC SOFTWARE LIBRARY NOVEMBER 1985

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assembly lansuase^

FAST MOVES

Speedy cursor and
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by PATRICK DELL'ERA

learn bow to change the keyboard
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^Pr speed up the cursor on any Atari
\8-bit model. Disk drive required. The
^BASIC program creates ati AUTO-
IjRUN.SYS autoloading file .Source
icode is inchuled for your instruction,
but you don 't have to be an assembly
Jangage programmer to use Fast
Moves.

The Atari operating system lets you
repeat every key automatically by
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is how long you must hold the key
down before it begins to repeat,
which is also called "debounce."
Second is how quickly the key repeats
after it gets started, which is the
"repeat rate."

DEBOUNCE & RATE

Atari owners with XL or XE com-
puters can change either or both of
these variables. Location 729
(decimal) holds the debounce value.
Dividing that number by 60 tells you
how many seconds the debounce
value is. You can POKE any number
here to change the debounce.

The rate at which the key repeats
is held in location 730 (decimal). You

can also change this rate by POKEing
any number you want.

FAST MOVES

If you don't own an XE/XL series Atari
computer — or you'd like to change
only the cursor rate — try Fast Moves.
Unlike the XE/XL PEEKs and POKEs,
this program lets you speed up the
repeat rate for cursor movement only.
After all, how often do you type a
long string of any single character?
Fast Move's debounce is just long
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one space. However, continue hold-
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TYPrNG IT IN

Type in Listing 1, check it with TYPO
II and SAVE a copy. (Antic disk
subscribers will find this program
under the filename FASTMOVE.BAS.)
Place a formatted disk with DOS 2 or
DOS 2.5 into Drive 1.

Now RUN Fast Moves. It will create
an AUTORUN.SYS file on your disk.
If there already is such a file, Fast
Moves will let you know. If you
decide you don't want to replace your
existing file with the Fast Move auto-
loader, just put in another disk with

DOS 2 or DOS 2.5. Or, you could
press [BREAK] and go to DOS to
create the needed disk.

A few moments after you have RUN
Fast Moves, your computer will
reboot itself. This loads the AUTO-
RUN.SYS you've created. Now Fast
Moves is in control of your cursor
movement!

Fast Moves is "persistent," which
means that pressing [RESET] doesn't
harm it in any way. You'll still have
the quickest cursor in town! When-
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movement, just boot the disk with the
Fast Moves AUTORUN.SYS on it.

Listing 2 is a highly commented
MAC/65 assembly language source
code. It is presented here for your in-
formation and does not need be
typed in. Antic disk subscribers will
find it in LISTed form under the
filename FASTMOVE.M65.

Patrick Dell'Era is the machine
language whiz who wrote Antic's
Picture Show (April, 1985) and Fader
11 (May, 1985). Coming soon from
Patrick, the DOS 2.5 adaptation of
Dr. Bernard Oppenheim's popular
DISKIO (January, 1985).

Listins on page 62

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CROSS-COUNTRY
ROAD RACE

Activision, Inc.
P.O. Box 7287
Mountain View, CA 94039
(415) 960-0410
$24.95, 48K disk

Reviewed by Jack Powell

Okay, this game's terrific! And I'm not
even a big fan of Pole Position, which
has been considered the top Atari auto
racing game. I appreciate Pole Posi-
tion's driving simulation, but I get
bored with the scenery. It's a Uttie like
driving through the Midwest. How
many cornfields can you watch before
you start gobbling No-Doz and fidd-
ling with the CB dial?

The Great Cross-Country Road
Race is the Ferrari Dino of race
games. It's got variety, clever illusions,
and attention to detail. Designer Alex
DeMeo should be congratulated for
this tour de force.

You start off choosing your route
across the U.S. A map then appears
showing where you are and what city
you're headed for Road conditions
flash across the screen. Press [SX^^RT]
and you're off on the first leg of the
journey.

Now you're in a screen much like
Pole Position — a three-quarter
overhead view of your racer and tlie
road stretching to the horizon.
Similarities end there, however. You

have a four-shift vehicle which is
monitored by the dashboard tach-
ometer and the sound of the engine
whine. Rev it too high and you bum
out your engine.

This is a long trip, so you'd better
watch your gas gauge. There are gas
stations along the way, but if you run
out you must push your car to the
next pump.

The scenery on the horizon varies
depending on the part of the coun-
try and time of day. You might see
mountains or power lines or forests.
When night falls, your vision narrows
and the cars ahead are nothing but
glowing tail-lights. At times you're
driving through fog or snow. I
especially like the muffled sounds
while driving through the snow.

When you reach a city, it looms on
the horizon looking a little like its
namesake. Detroit, for example, has
a billboard with a car, and St. Louis
displays the famous Arch.

Refreshingly, there's none of the ar-
cade mentality, crash-and-bum-then-
resurrect cycle that other racing games
rely on. In G.C.C.R.R., your opponent
is time. If you run into another car,
you don't burst into flames. You
simply come to a stop at the side of
the road and lose valuable time.

The wealth of details — both
graphics and sound — all contribute
toward a full, believable environment.
You won't have any problem losing
yourself in this game. This is one of
the better releases of the year.

ANKH

Datamost

19821 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91324
(818) 709-1202
»19.95, 48K disk

Reviewed by Jack Powell

When I was a child, I bought a puzzle
box in Chinatown. It was lacquer-
shiny and inlaid with all sorts of

colorful, cryptic symbols And to
open it up, you had to find these hid-
den panels and slide them up, right,
down, and in just the right combina-
tion before the top slid back.

ANKH from Datamost is a little like
that Chinese puzzle box. It's called an
'Adventure in the MetaReal World"
but it's really more of a graphic puzzle
than an adventure.

You control a strange little four-
color blimp, described in the
documentation as your "other." The
objea is to explore all 64 rooms in the
game. And to do this, you have to
solve various puzzles by opening
doors and picking up objects. A large
part of the challenge is figuring out
just what the puzzles are.

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There are a few meanies to avoid
in some of rooms. You can shoot
them, or outrun them. They're really
not that dangerous, the main thing is
the puzzle factor.

And you must always watch your
Karma. It's the green line on the right
of the screen.

If this doesn't sound like your usual
computer game, you're right. It's dif-
ferent. In philosophical tone, it's a
little like Lifespan from the Antic
Arcade Catalog. Game play, however,
is closer to Sir Galahad and the
Holy GraU.

The documentation is purposely
vague. It really can't say much without
spoiling the game. A flyer was in-
cluded in the package, however,
which takes the player, step by step,
through the first few puzzles.

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Datamost probably added this after
their phone started ringing off the
hook.

The ambiguity can get pretty
frustrating. When the game begins,
you're presented with arrows point-
ing right and left, and the word
"CHOOSE." Choose "right" and you
begin what appears to be the main
game. Choose 'left', however, and you
end up playing around with what
seems to be a pointless character-
graphics screen. I've gone both direc-
tions and made it through 54 of the
64 rooms, but I still haven't figured
out what's going on in the "left" area.
It's mentioned nowhere in the docu-
mentation. Perhaps it's a meditation
room.

ANKH is not an action game.
There's plenty of time to sit in one
room and think about your next
move. Some solutions require coordi-
nation, but most require experimen-
tation and abstract reasoning.

If you like puzzles, this is your kind
of computer game. I like puzzles.

SIMAX VIDEO
SIGNMAKER

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S69.95, 48K disk

Reviewed by Brad Kershaw

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Simax makes it quick and easy to
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There's a choice of 128 Atari colors
— up to nine colors onscreen at one
time. The graphics editor uses Atari's
mode 10, permitting very nice effects
on a high-resolution 80 x 192 screen.

Animation effects are created by
swapping any of the nine screen
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MINDWHEEL

Synapse Software

(Distributed by Broderbund)

17 Paul Drive

San Rafael, CA 94903

(415) 479-1170

48K disk (2 drives required)

S39.95

Reviewed by Harvey Bernstein

When Synapse invited Antic for a
sneak preview of their forthcoming

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November 1985

product reviews

"electronic novel" adventure game
Mlndwheel a year ago, excitement
reigned supreme. Unfortunately the
finished product has turned out to be
a major letdown.

In all fairness, the plot of Mind-
wheel has potential. Civilization is
about to fall apart and it is up to you
to recover the Wheel of Wisdom —
the one object that can hold things
together. To do so, you have to travel
through the minds of four dead folk-
heroes: an assasinated rock star, a
poet, a fascist general, and a great
scientist.

Each mind is populated by its own
set of characters and puzzles. Some of
the puzzles are unique, requiring you
to do things like solve riddles or finish
poems, rather than the usual
manipulation of objects.

In spite of some good points,
however, I cannot recommend Mind-
wheel for several reasons. For one
thing, it is s-l-o-w. Constant disk ac-
cessing means that the text is updated
at a snail's pace. There is also no
prompt to tell you when the program
is through accessing the disk, so you
are never quite sure when to input
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If you try typing something in dur-
ing access (which you can do thanks
to a handy vertical blank interrupt),
odds are that letters will be dropped.
I wasted countless minutes re-entering
commands that were messed up
through no fault of my own.

However, my biggest complaints
about Mindwheel don't come from
operating bugs, but from bad writing
and sloppy game design. Mindwheel
goes overboard on purple prose,
apparently trying unsuccessfully to
imitate the famous Infocom style. The
Thug character (a punk Richard
Nixon) threatens to give you a ketchup
nose. A ketchup nose?!

Many events that should not repeat
themselves do. For example, you enter
a room and a character asks if you
have a book with you. You give the

book to the character and she writes
something down. No problem, except
that every time you enter the room
you must repeat the exact same se-
quence of events! This sort of thing
happens repeatedly.

But the worst offense is that Mind-
wheel is EASY! Characters are forever
handing you clues without being
asked. An experienced adventurer
will be able to finish the game in three
or four sessions. A novice might take
a week or two. Not much value for
your S40.

By the way, Mindwheel requires
two disk drives. Is it worth buying a
second drive for? Absolutely not! Is
it worth buying to play with a friend
who can bring over a second drive?
Perhaps, if you've never had any luck
with Infocom adventures, want to try
something simpler and have $40
burning a hole in your pocket. As for
me, I'll wait for Zork IV.

By the way, if you own a I3OXE
you should know that the program
makes use of the extra RAM, but takes
forever to load and doesn't seem to
speed up the game noticeably.

FINAL LEGACY

Atari Corp.
1196 Borregas Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94088
(408) 745-2000
29.95, I6K cartridge

Reviewed by Andre Persidsky

Even though nuclear war turned most
of the world into a Dead Zone 50
years ago, a group of "Patriarchs" (the
good guys) survives in frozen Ant-
arctica. There's just one problem. In-
tercepted radio communications
reveal that the automated missile sta-
tions of the "Warmongers" have
managed to complete their own pro-
gramming and are readying to attack.

In Final Legacy, a 1984 game just
now being released by Atari, you are
in command of the deadly new
Legacy battleship. You must sail into
the Dead Zone, destroy all enemy
missile sites, and protect your home
cities.

You begin each game with the
Navigation screen. It's a wide-ranging
map showing your eight cities and the
randomly distributed missile sites.
Two types of enemy ships are con-
stantly pursuing and attacking your
Legacy ship. To fight an enemy ship,
you switch to Torpedo mode. This
gives you a 360-degree scanner view
of your bow and the approaching
enemies.

An enemy missile site is destroyed
in the Sea-to-Land mode. Here you
have a window which displays mobile
missile launchers moving about. To
destroy them you press the fire but-
ton while they are directly centered
in your sights.

The enemy will send missiles
toward your cities as soon as you at-
tack one of their sites. A clock tells
you how much time you have before
the missiles destroy your city. To inter-
cept them you use the Sea-to-Air
mode where you have a satellite view
of the missiles.

I found this part of the game the
most challenging, especially on the
harder levels where the missiles move
faster and faster When all missile sites
have been destroyed you will gain
bonus points for your surviving cities
and then go on to the next round.

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Final Legacy offers six levels of play.
The higher a level, the more enemy
ships and missile sites you will en-
counter. The different graphics
screens are quite inventive and the
sound vi'arnings are effective. The
8-page manual is very good.

In some ways this game reminds
me of a more advanced Missile
Command. The new game's main
problem is that it lacks strategy and
tends to become a little repetitious.
But overall, Final Legacy is quite enter-
taining. It demands alertness and
quick responses, and is a worthy suc-
cessor to the great tradition of Atari
action games.

CHOPPER HUNT

Imagic

981 University Avenue

Los Gatos, CA 95030

(800) 654-7340

32K disk

$19.95

Reviewed by Jack Powell

I don't want to take much space
reviewing this throwback, but Antic
has a certain obligation to warn
readers against junk products. Chop-
per Hunt would make a very nice
public domain game and might have
been seriously considered as a profes-
sional program when the Atari 800
was just a twinkle in Nolan Bushnell's
eye.

You move a slow, blocky helicopter
back and forth across a crude, blocky
screen, bombing holes in the ground
so you can get to the flashing grey
squares. Meanwhile, a slow, blocky
enemy airplane flies back and forth
dropping slow, blocky "dirt balls". I
had to look twice to make sure my
BASIC cartridge was not in the
machine slowing down the action.

If you plunk down your hard-
earned money for this outdated ar-
cade game, you are helping prove that

Barnum was right to say, "There's a
sucker born every minute." The cir-
cus has come to town and you are in
the center ring wearing fiinny hair.

REFORGER '88

Strategic Simulations, Inc.
883 Stierlin Rd, Bldg. A-200
Mountain View, CA 94043
(415) 964-1200
$59.95, 48K disk

Reviewed by Dr. John F. Stanoch

Ever since the end of WWII, there has
been constant tension along the
border between East and West Ger-
many. It is here that the two super-
powers have deployed their most ad-
vanced war technology. SSI's new
Reforger '88 is an operational-level
game of NAFO defense against a com-
bined Soviet and East German thrust
through the Fulda Gap into the
American-defended sector of West
Germany.

To win, the Soviet player must gain
as many victory points as possible,
while the NATO player must hold
down the number of points given up.
Points are awarded to both players for
enemy unit destruction and posses-
sion of West German cities. However,
once a NATO city has been overrun,
the NATO player can not regain vic-
tory points for recapturing it. The
Soviet player receives a substantial
bonus for capturing the main U.S. Air-
base at Frankfurt. The NATO point
total is subtracted from the Soviet total
to arrive at the final score.

In the solitaire mode, the computer
ably controls Soviet forces. Units are
combined into combat groups that
can be combined or split apart at the
start of a turn. Orders are given and
then all movements and combat are
simultaneously executed.

To win, airpower must be suc-
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troops. Adequate anti-aircraft defense
is also necessary. Enemy combat

groups are displayed only if adjacent
to a friendly combat group or sighted
by friendly air recon missions. Many
times, my NATO forces were unpleas-
antly surprised to find a few Soviet
armor combat groups racing toward
Frankfurt, well behind what seemed
an adequate defense line!

I have one valuable suggestion.
Before you play, go out and buy a
good set of fine-point overhead pro-
jection markers. These will prove in-
dispensible for marking the position
of all units on the SSI plasticized
data/map card. It is next to impossible
to competently play Reforger '88
without an overview map in front of
you. Many times, since the screen
displays only a fraction of the entire
scrolling map, a player may forget
what one combat group was ordered
to do on one section of the map.

Although Reforger '88 is a compli-
cated game, its excitement is well
worth the effort. I recommend this
game to any advanced waigamer. But
keep a cold drink available, you will
probably work up a sweat playing it.

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Synapse & Broderbund

17 Paul Drive

San Rafael, CA 94903

(415) 479-1170

819.95, 48K disk

Users of SynCalc, the well-known
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COLONIAL CONQUEST, Wm^
PANZER GRENADIER

(software)

Strategic Simulations, Inc.

883 Stierlin Road, Bldg. A-200

Mountain View, CA 94043

(415) 964-1353

$39.95 each, 48K disk

Up to six people can play Colonial
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Eastern front.

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XLent Software
RO, Box 5228
Springfield, VA 22150
(703) 644-8881
S34.95, 48K disk

A graphics program with a difference,
Typesetter gives you total graphics
freedom in preparing any page. It
allows you to mLx type styles, width
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Mindscape

3444 Dundee Road

Northbrook, IL 60062

(312) 480-7667

$44.95, 48K disk

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11009 Harness Circle
Raleigh, NC 27614
(919) 847-2740
839, 48K disk

Programming tools that create source
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(software)

10843 Venice Circle
Tampa, FL 33615
85, 48K disk

This is a double density version of the
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(home control system)

Computer Engineering Applications

P.O. Box 4878

Las Vegas, NV 89127

$89.95, 48K disk

Keep burglars away with your Atari.
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includes joystick port interface to turn
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20922 Paseo Olma

El Toro, CA 92630

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Purchase only the modules you
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Hard Bjte

P.O. Box 605

Warren, MI 48092

(313) 739-2098

$9995

32K disk, 16K cartridge

Plug this into your joystick port and
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PRINT SHOP GRAPHICS ii^H
LIBRARYill

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Broderbund

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San Rafael, CA 94903

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November 1985

new products

BRIMSTONE

(software)

Synapse & Broderbund

17 Paul Drive

San Rafael, CA 94903

(415) 479-1170

S39.95

48K disk, (requires 2 drives)

An electronic medieval interactive text
adventure. This latest "electronic
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table on a quest into hell.

ELITE PERSONAL g^HlBi^
ACCOUNTANT

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Elite Software

14897 Interurban Ave. South

Seattle, WA 98168

(206) 246-5122

$48.95, 48K disk, BASIC

Financial record keeper and checkbook
balancer for personal financial
management.

MICROLEAGUE BASEBALL BHI

(software)

Datamost

20660 Nordhoff Street

Chatsworth, CA 91311

(818) 709-1202

$39.95, 48K disk

You are the manager in this action-
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HOME OFFICE, TEAM MATE

(software)

Tri Micro

1010 North Batavia Street

Orange, CA 92667

(714) 771-4038

S29.95, 48K disk

The Write File is an integrated word
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Home Office is the same integrated
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Team Mate (849.95) combines both of
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system.

COMPUTEREYES

(video digitizer)
Digital Vision, Inc.
14 Oak Street, Suite 2
Needham, MA 02192
(617) 444-9040
812995, 48K disk

Video digitizing comes to the Atari
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Plugs into your joystick port to capture
and digitize black and white images
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MONDAY MORNING ^^^^
MANAGER

(software)

TK Computer Products

RO. Box 9617

Downers Grove, IL 60515

(800) 422-4912

$34.90, 48K disk

Manage any of 36 major league
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ON-TRACK RACING B^^^

(software)

Gamestar

1302 State Street

Santa Barbara, CA 93101

(805) 963-3487

824.95, 48K disk

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HACKER,
DESIGNERS PENCIL,
PASTFINDER

(software)

Activision

2350 Bayshore Frontage Road

Mountain View, CA 94043

(415) 960-0410

$24.95 each

Hacker (48K disk) is a simulation of
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into a mystery system. Designers
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Pastflnder (l6K cartridge) is a graphic
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TRUE GRID DIGITIZERS ■■■i

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Houston Instruments
8500 Cameron Road
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(800) 531-5205
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(software)
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Box 531, RFD *1
Mashpee, MA 02649
(617) 477-2448
$14.95, 32K disk

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