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JANUARY 1984
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PRI E R 1166
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J k r i g of Atari
Con,,outer Art
* Atari Screen Dump
• 'Snowbird' Game
• Atari Computers
8 Epson Printers
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ATARI—Official Home Computer of the 1984 Olympics O x 9
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Have You Read The Reviews
On Our New AtariWriter?
NUMBER 11
SAISLOG
•Lute37—.-
ATARI has a hit on their hanas•
'MAO*
One special feature: you can correct as you
write, instantly, without switching back and
forth between Create and Edit modes.
You can move entire paragraphs.
Search and replace. Even restore text you've
Try it, be your own critic. Use new
AtariWriter for all your family
just deleted, with our memory buffer.
You can change format instantly, and
correspondence, school papers, commit-
preview on-screen at full printer width.
tee reports, mailings.
Our advanced ROM-based cartridge Print extra copies for your records.
As ANTIC Magazine concluded,
technology means you can use it on any
new Atari Writer is "clearly
ATARI Home Computer (even 16K). It
also lets you choose between cassette and superior on price and
performance to
disk storage systems.
Text Wizard
Easy to learn and to use. "Yet," says
and the
ANALOG Magazine, "as your uses for
word processing grow, (you'll employ) its ATARI Word
ProcessoE"
more advanced features."
Menu driven, with helpful prompts. A t Atari dealers.
Atari's New
Word Processor.
ATARI® HOME COMPUTERS
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WATCH OUT ATARI
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• I T H IT'S FLEET OF THE MOST ADVANCED
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DOCK YOUR FAVORITE PRINTER DIRECTLY TO
OUR DRIVE'S BUILT-IN PARALLEL PRINTER
INTERFACE. THERE'S NO NEED TO BUY AN EX-
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THE CO MMA ND CONTROL PANEL FEATURES
READ, WRITE AND DENSITY INDICATORS, A TRACK
COUNTER TO LOCATE EVERY BITOF YOUR DATA
AND A TOUCH-SENSITIVE SWITCH TO PROTECTIT.
WARP SPEED OF UP TO 18 TIMES FASTER THAN
ANY OTHER ATARI DRIVE IS ACHIEVED WITH OUR
_ O P T I O N A L TURBO-CHARGEDSOFTWARE.
AWESOME POWER — DESTROY A PLANET
OR LEARN HOW ONE IS CREATED. BALANCE
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LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE OR CREATE ONE.
TRAK'S fl oppy and hard disk drive systems for
the Apple and IBM-PC are av ailable at many
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IT'S MAGNIFICENTLY SIMPLE! — JUST PLUG IT
IN AND LIFT-OFF!
• Atari is a registered trademark of Atari, Inc.
TRAK GIVES YOU THE MOST STORAGE FOR
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COSTS LESS THAN $500
SEE YOUR DEALER NOW FOR A TEST FLIGHT, OR
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COMMODORE 64
COLECOVISION
HOW TO
GET 013ERFOUT OF
W I Z SYSTEM.
If you'vebeen wanting to play Q*bert, but haven'tbeenable to find it available
for your homesystem, your timehascome.Becausenowyoucankeep ' AiV4 ,
things hopping with anyof these popularhomevideoandcomputer formats.
1 Get going to your nearest vicleo store andget Q*bert
today. And while you're there, check out Parker
: Ac
Brothers' POPEYE®,FROGGER," TUTANKHAW
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andSUPER COBRA': All the great Arcade Action ®
games,A Rin allE R1 home formats. B R O T H E R S
M P now K the,great
ColecoVision is atrademark of Coleco Industries, Inc. © 1983Parker Brothers,Beverly,MA 01915.Intellivision isatrademark of Mattel, Inc.Commodore VIC20andCommodore 64aretrademarks ofCommodoreBusiness Machines,
Inc.Texas Instntments 99/4A isatrademark ofTexas Instruments, Inc. Atari,lo Atari Video Computer System, A tar i 400/800/600XL' and Atari 5200' VideoGameSystem aretrademarks of Atari, Inc. *1983 Mylstar Electronics, Inc.
FEATURES
POCKET CA L E NDA RS by Bill Lukeroth
Use y o u r p r in t e r t o ke e p a p p o in t m e n t s
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A T A R I R e s o u r c e JAN U AR Y 1 9 8 4 VOL U M E 2 , NUMBER 1 0
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THE BLOSSOMING OF COMPUTER ART by Charles Bennett
Create i t w it h y o u r At a r i a n d a p r in t e r
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HAS YOUR ROBOT HUGGED YOU TODAY? by Evan Rosen
Creating m o t io n in BASI C
RUNNING NECK AND NEC by Larry Steiner
H o w t o u se t h e NEC 8 0 2 3 p r in t e r
ROTATING FONTS by Sol Guber
page 1 4
Prin t in g w it h d if f e re n t f o n t s o n t h e NEC
DOING THE DIP-SWITCH DOODLE by Robert DeWitt
Prin t e r co n t r o l b e g in s h e re
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PRINTER SURVEY by Robert DeWitt
Nin e p rin t e rs co m p a re d
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DISK LABEL PRINTER by Richard Kushner
Ep so n / Gra f t ra x Plu s p a cks t h e m in
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RO M FUN b y David Duberman
Su rve y o f r e ce n t ca rt rid g e g a m e s
ATARI A N D EPSON b y Douglas MacKay
A m a t t e r o f co n t ro l
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WORDIFIND by Matthew Ratcliff
A p u zzle f o r yo u r p r in t e r
SCREEN D U MP by Jerry White and Fernando Herrera
SDUMP yo u r g ra p h ics scre e n t o p r in t e r
TYPER'S TOOL B OX by Steven Bobulsky
[RETURN] t o p a ra d ise
A CABLE FOR YOUR PRINTER by Robert DeWitt
page 3 4
The C e n t ro n ics co n n e ct io n
DEPARTMENTS
STARTING LINE
TO IOBC OR NOT TO IOBC by Mark Grice
EDUCATION
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ODD MAN AT PLAY by John and Ma ry Harrison
TRIVIA QUESTION QUIZ by George Stone
ATARI TAPES by Paul Waxman
IN THE PUBLIC D OM AI N
SNOWBIRD by John Weber
TAPE TOPICS
CALLING ALL TAPES by James Luczak
ASSEMBLY L AN GU AGE
PAGE FLIPPING by Dave Plotkin
FORTH FACTORY
TRACING NUMBERS by Clayton Houston
I / O BOAR D
HELP!
MICROSCREENS
NEW PRODUCTS
PUBLIC D OM AI N SOFTWARE
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PRODUCT REVIEWS
LISTING CONVENTI ONS
SHOPPER'S GUIDE
ADVERTISERS LIST

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