SPACE Newsletter - September 1986

September 1986

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2223593 Bob Rhode .... Edi tor Bruce Baug .. . Presid ent 774-62 26 82 489-39 rer Treasu .. . . Siede Bob Jim Schulz . . . VicePres 5375442 7576 484ry Secreta . . .. Floyd Bob Frank Baug ... Disk Lib . 774-62 26 Jim Siede . . .. Paper/ Educat ional Librar ian 4893982 SPACE/TAIG Bullet in Board . . . 522-268 7 by the St . Paul Publish ed iasts (SPACE) Enthus Atari Comput er with n~ zation organi an indepe ndent Atari with tion affilia busine ss is sion Permis Incorp orated. zation organi r simila any to granted exchan ges SPACE which with al in materi t reprin to tters newsle We do, howeve r, this newsle tter . ask that credit be to the author s and to SPACE . Opinio ns expres sed are those of the article author s and do not necess arily reflec t the of SPACE, club office rs, views member s, or Atari Inc .

In th is issue:

ATARIWRITER+ BUGS

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S . P A. C. E. BYLAWS

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PARADIGM

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Disk Notes: vt lOO by Chuck Purcel l

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SYTES FRGM TH~ ?RES Ftraly a ~eet1ng 1s ca~ing up ~here there are things to rio anc sor.etning to listen to ana ~cpefully to learn abo~t . Sordy L3nds~an will give a talk on 8-bit word processors. More about that later. First things first! - Things To lkl Acopy of the SPACE BYLAWS will be available at the ~eetinq. They can be a~ended at any ~eeting, but the tine to do it is our November meeting at Election iiie. They also serve as ari e~ample of ~hat an 8-bit Nord processor can do. The Byla~s state that any cha.1ges ~ust oe submitted in wr1tting at the prev1cus regular ,eetrng ind printed in the newsletter before :cey are vrted en - sa - READ THE~ - suc~it them. we will print a~j cr;ng~s 1~ the October Newsletter and VOTE 1n Nove;ber. The Bylaws also call for a Nominating Com~1ttee cf two ~e~bers ta be ELECTED in Septe~ber. Don 't stay away frat this ieeting - if you are on the Co;mittee, you could keep your naIDe out of the election by finding enough people to run for office! ~noagh SA Il)I T~(; ~eetin~ Gordy Landsman will give a tal~ on ~crd processor;. This ~ill be a general talk on what word processors can do - not what this or that one does do. When the talk is over we will have at least 3 :a~puters set up Nith different word processors on eac~ - T~e person at the computer will de~o what h1s ~ord ~rocessar does - You :an ask questions. All ward processors do not do ev~rything. Tnis Nay you can talk to a person ~ho knows what his ward processor does and ask questions □n a specific ~ord processor. Gordy nas used many word processors, but tike all of us he doesn't use all of them every day - ~ost will do everything, out certain one's do so~ethings easy and faster than others - Cote and ask questions,

The Pres

Reprinted f r om M.A.C.E SEPT 1986 WHOOPS!!

So you accidently gave two files the same name on the same disk? Every time you try to change the name of one both names change? Well MACE is here to help! Type this in and you will be able to change one name at a time:

POKE 3118,0

x=(6047) <RETURN>

Wel1, I dcn't oeiieYe 1:1 oein~ nverl~ sutP::e, so ...

~~n

about same subm1ss1ons t~ the;□~? vG~R su~~issions ~ake trading with other ~roups pcssi~ie, we need pr~gra~s fro1 you••• how ~any of you read this? Just checking. This 1onth, with school starting and all that, there a~e a few educational ga1es on this O.C.~. This ~ontn (arumroll please) ~e'll nave the sequel to the Print Shop graphics dlsks ~i 'i ~2. Yes, Print Shop Sraphics ,g

~ill be at the meeting . NoH, h~re are the progra~s en the Se~teo~er 1986 O,D1M, I.FORTRESS - Nave jcyst1:1 tne correct ~a, ·a d!strcy i?praaching alien~. 21JUPFAST - 3asic cade for ~e::ar (GO ! !rt !.DUPFAST.CG~ - ~;~~i ne :a~;~age, s~c~:r ~~j1er1 4.CDMPAR£ - Corip~res :~c tex~ Tiles anc cr~3tes a tnird listing differences. 5,FOOTBALL - A strategy ga~e cf +aot~:ll +or t~c. 6.C □DETUTR - A ,arse ~ode tutor. •an a:tu1l tutor n:t same as ~ORSE on pr~vijUS DOMi 7.FLAGS - Aquiz 1n f!a;s of the ~or!d. 8.~ANG~AN - A class1: ;;me cf wcrJ ~ues;i nq,

See you at the ~eet1ng

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AUGUST MEETING MINUTES by Larry Vanden Plas The last SPACE meeting was held Vice-pr esident Friday, August 8, 1986. in Bruce meeting the ran Jim Schulz that reported He absence. Haug's Print The ship. receiver in was Cardco 48K only needs out, is n Companio Shop and upgrades Print Shop to support color and save designs for future use. New Alladdin magazine is availabl e which binds in three double sided It comes out every other month, disks. has magazine coulmns on disk and It is $79.95 per year. running demos. XLent Software has brought out a Print Beachhea d II and Shop Interfac e. Electron ic Arts Silent Butler are out. has reduced the price of all software Broderbu nd has an offer to $19.95. (till October 31, 1986): Buy any Broderbu nd product and choose one from Add $4. 95 for the list for free. The next Atari . handling and shipping User er. Septemb in due is Explorer cassette away giving is Friendly programs free with a purchase . Wizard's Work - the 20MG Hard Disk for the ST is in; they are 4 months behind on back order. Treasure r Bob Siede reported that He is we had $1400 in the bank. sending $150 to TAIG for operatio n of We had the bulletin board system(B BS). new The not paid since last March. monitor has been ordered and was due. It will be here next month. MAST is in the black, even after buying the 520ST. See ST disks have been reduced to $ 6. MAST The ter. the report in the newslet meeeting is held the week after SPACE. The Disk of the Month contains Morse code, Shooting Star, a two player crash and a program to label audio cassette s. The newlette r had the best month Six more ads and they yet for ads. would pay for the newslet ter. There is a new SPACE/TAIG BBS. Under More informa tion next month. Offers and Deals, Walden Book at

AtariWr iter Plus Bugs This is an article by Bill Dippert which I got off of It explains USENET from work. a page break bug which he found in AtariWr iter Plus. J·im I have had several eMail convers ations with Neil Harris on this, but I would like to get some support from ~ther users of Atariwr iter Plus. The problem that I have been experien cing, which I think is a fatal bug, is that on multipag e documen ts AW+ does not correctl y execute the page This is either a soft break. page break or controlE hard Instead of page break. breaking the text and placing it on the next page, it recycles it and inserts it at the top of the page (inserti ng it with the correct text for I think that it that area). might be related to Land R margins, but I have hac it happen with the default margins, as well as when I have modified the margins. Neil and Atari Corp. were told of this problem by myself aboui six months ago but I have not heard what they have found out. I suspect that Atari is too busy designin g new products (particu larly 16 bit ST line) It to foolwith this problem. is resolvab le, by insertin g multiple ControlE and C/R commands you can force a norma But this is a pai1 page break. and should not be needed -- I do not remembe r ever having th, problem with the origina l AW cartridg e program.

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1986

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Maplewood Mall had Sargon II for $5. Montgomer y Ward at the Midway was selling new 800XL's for $100. Question: How do you protect a modem from lighting? Answer: Be sure it is disconnec ted when it is lighting. Wizard's Work reported that they get more repair work during the storm season than during the whole rest of The new 7800 game system for the year. It also plays 2600 $80 is out. Pole Position II comes cartridges . It Cartridges are $19. 95. with it. the than better has super graphics 800. Phil Seifert from Wizard's Work it is demoed Star Raiders II, $25. and machines all on runs disk, on just Print Shop Companion has a warp drive. offers color and a nicer editor than You must have the original Print Shop. Print Shop to run it. He also demoed Super Boulderda sh from First Star Software. How to watch for traps and get to the next screen were explained . It is good enough to be an arcade game and is. Joe Danko demoed a public domain word processing program for the 256K XL It was down or QXL called Text Pro. on Speed based loaded from Compuserv , sets up Script, uses macro commands, screen help has to RAM disks(2 & 8), with all printer and editor commands. Compuserv has 15 to 20 files to work Joe plans to have a new with the QXL. He plans next meeting. the at version to put them together and sell them for Joe also has a special program $5-6. that allows a lot of flexibilit y in setting up and changing RAM disks. This is planned for next month's DOM. Larry Vanden Plas demoed Computer Gourmet which is a recipe data base. The program adjusts recipes for number of servings, finds recipes by category and ingredien t, prints out ingredien t lists and total recipes, and comes with User Friendly has the over 90 recipes. program. The meeting adjoured at 8:45 PM.

Again this month ne~s i1 th2 S ili: ~Jrid is sii!, I waald lik~ to than~ iil of the ~embers #no came to the August m2et1ng and tne first and last Jiffi S:haiz run SP4CE meeting. Now you ail know why I don't run for president or run the MAST meeting by myself. I tfoul d al so like to thank all !tho decoed software at the last meet~ng. If nothing else, it proves that software is still coming out for XL/XE computers. But one thing I would like t □ mention defore I digress: I was a little surprised at tne last meeting that very few people had heard of either ~ULE or Bculderdash. 5oth r-~LE

and Boulderdash, n □ w Super Bou~1er1asr, are must-buys if you Qijn an XL/XE camputEr. Maybe we stcu~d je dem □ ing SG~~ oi tn? classics whicj are still avaiiatle, now quite chaap. Also same of the new punlic do~ain softijare that is stGrting tc surface is of coHercial quality, as Joe Da~ko jemonstrated at last mcntn·s meeting. ihis is another cheap source of good XL/IE software. Atari Explor!ry t~e nor-magazine from Atari ••• Last reports inGicate that Atari was a little surprised that it coul1n't ~et a magazine out one month after niring t~o new editors. The word is tnat the next issue will be ship?ed the first ~eek in September to all subscnbers an1 api)ear on store shelves soon there after. I will believe ,ihen I see it. If I get it, it ilill be in plain view at next manthrs m~eting. Secondly and finally this mcntn, I have received a couple of cam~laint; from 3?ACE members that newsletter nas startea to shift mere and mare to tne ST side a+ Atari. I admit that this is t~~e and I as somewhat ta biame for this. As [ search far 3T files, also download the h.fXE arti:les ;,.nicn ~-cu see each m,Jnth. This month tr,ere is sa,11e inforl!'iation about a oug in Atariwriter Pl;.ts and so1e possible ~ays araunc it. To heip the cause ever; mere, starti~g in November 1 wi i l start a second review cohmn for the XL/IE computers, lao~irg at my favorite pra9rams of t □day and classi~s from the past. If you want ;ore 8 bit ne~s you will have ta write i: yourself. Right noN it is all bein; written ty Brue~, Fran~ ana me. That's it far this ~or.th. Lntil the SPACE ~eeting, hdppy co1puting.

SPACE

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BYLAWS S.P.A.C.E. COMPUTER ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

ARTICLE

NAME

CLUB

The name of this club shall be the St. Paul Atari Computer <SPACE>, an independent computer user group.

Enthusiasts

ARTICLE llOBJECT The object of this club shall be to bring together those with a convnon interest to enhance their knowledge of computer technology by sharing hardware, software, and maintenance information collectively obtained in the field of ATARI computers. ARTICLE

1ll

MEMBERSHIP Section 1.

The membership of this club shall not be limited.

Section 2. Any computer owner shall be eligible payment of the annual dues for the first year.

to membership

upon

Section 3. The annual dues shall be 14 dollars, payable on the anniversary month of a member's joining date. The treasurer shall notify members two months in arrears, and those whose dues are not paid in one month shall be automatically dropped from membership and forfeit all benefits incurred. In lieu of services rendered, elected officers shall not be required to pay club dues during their term in office. ARTICLE IV OFFICERS Section 1. The officers of the club shall be a president, a vice-president, a secretary, and a treasurer. These officers shall perform -the duties prescribed by these by-laws and by the parliamentary authority adopted by the club. Section 2. At the regular meeting held on the second Friday in September, a nominating convnittee of two members shall be elected by the club. It shall be the duty of this committee to nominate candidates for the offices to be filled at the annual meeting in November. The nominating committee shall report at the regular meeting in October. Before the election at the annual meeting in November, additional nominations from the floor shall be permitted. Section 3. The officers shall be elected by ballot to serve for one year, or until their successors are elected, and their term of office shall begin at the close of the annual meeting at which they are elected.

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actively seek The president and vice-pres ident shall Section 4. editor, disk r newslette : positions the following volunteer s to fill software l educationa and paper , librarian and tape of the month be shall s volunteer These or. coordinat librarian, and bulletin board rendered, services For p. membershi club of the subject to approval these volunteer s shall not be required to pay club dues during their term of office.

ARTICLE V MEETINGS the club shall be held on the The regular meetings of Section 1. ordered by the club or the otherwise unless month each of Friday second executive board. Section 2. The regular meeting on the second Friday in November shall be Known as the annual meeting and shall be for the purpose of electing officers, receiving reports of officers and committee s, and for any dther business that may arise. Section 3. Special meetings can be called by the president or by the executive board and shall be called upon the written request of ten members of the club. The purpose of the meeting shall be stated in the call. Except in cases of emergency , at least three days notice shall be given. Section 4.

Fifteen members of the club constitute s a quorum.

Section 5. meetings.

All regular and special meetings of the club shall be

open

ARTICLE VI THE EXECUTIVE BOARD Section 1. board.

The

officers of

the club shall

constitute the

executive

the Section 2. The executive board shall have general supervisio n of and hour the fix meetings, business its between club the of affairs the meetings, make recommend ations to the club, and shall place of perform such other duties as are specified in the bylaws. The board shall be subject to the orders of the club, and none of its acts shall conflict with action taken by the club.

ARTICLE VI I Cot1'1ITTEES Such other committee s, standing or special, shall be appointed by the president as the club or the executive board shall from time to time deem necessary to carry on the worK of the club. The president shall be an exofficio member of all committee s except the nominating committee .

ARTICLE· VI I I PARLIAMENTARY AUTHORITY

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The rules contained in the current edition of Robert's rules of order cases to which they are govern the club in all newly revised shall applicable and in which they are not inconsistent with the bylaws and special rules of order the club may adopt.

ARTICLE~ AMENOHENT OF BYLAWS These bylaws can be amended at any regular ·meeting of the club by two-thirds vote, provided that the amenanent has been submitted in writing at the previous regular meeting and printed in the newsletter. News from the Co-Chair By Jim Schulz First off this month, you will probably notice a lack of some iv ncr1al calu•~s this ~ontn. Reason: it's disk reorganization tiae. You asked fer it and you got it. For the next two mcntns, I \'Iii l be doing a iow volu11e so that ! can reorganize our 50-plus ais~ library. But will the columns come back???? That 1s pretty much up to you. No one seems to read them so 111aybe they iijOn 't Ile illissed. This is your club. I ha11e patterned the club the way I think a ST user group shoulti be. ~her. Bob and 1 asked last month for your input, you wanted disk iist1ngs. r will work to provide them. But a user group Ls more tnan disk of the month. It's new information, demos and exchan•~ing of proble11s and answers. Stop! 1 Jim. You heard this ance already at a meeting. If you would like to help, call Bob or r.e. ~e ire almost always willing ta talk. Right now, I reali y think we need some demos each month. If you have a ~rcgra~ you really enjoy, talk to Bob or me anci demo it. I am of:9n too busy tc demo programs, even though I usually oring aoc~t two new pro;rams to de10 each month. But, starting this ~:nth, J will demo the disk of the month. After working with these prcgra~s for about a month I get to know them pretty well. Era ct MAST participation lecture numoer 12.

Now on to the rumors ••• Rumor has it that VIP will release the GEi'! version of the VIP spreadsheet within the next six weeks. This rumor came from someone who cal led VIP tc a·;k, We have heard this beiore, but in this month's ST Applications there is an ad for 'JIP SEN version discounted at $174,9'5, so it aignt be ~icse at hand. Rumor also has it that Atari will release a new 2 MES ,mhine by Chrishas Hith the blitter chip as standard eqt!i~ment.

~o• t~ t~e facts .••

The hard disks have finally arrived. Yes. ~tari ·s 20 "byte hard disks and Supra's 30 Nbyte hard disks are' nci'i i:i town. In fact, I a~ editir.g this file off cf my own hard disk. Expett more informatiJn in the future. One note before •e leave hard disk: If you own a Logikhron Clock Card, te f:rewarnec. I have heard from a number of sources, including ~tari themselves, that this clock cartridge eats disks. Gne d1sk ~t Atari lost two of three hard disk subsectior.s at one :ime. ~y clock cartridge is now sitting en my shelf. Software r1xes sre in the offing. Stay tuned.

A ne~ ST magazine debuted this mc~th, Comput2: ·s ST. Far a first issue, it was a ve~y 9aad eifart. The pr1gram 1uality was a little dis~pp01nti~g out the article quality exce2dea ~Y expectations tafter their ~a~thly Co~put@! ~r:i:lesl. It will probably succeed, b~t I think it ~i!I ~ave t □ aeliver ~ore than 80 pages anti a disk for $12. 95. Early reports from tie:1lers say that the magazine 1s selling weli. Finally, it is time for the software picks of the month. This month I will also pick the losers. This ffianth has been slow, and untii about three days ago I ~as Just going to forget it. Well ••. I have found two programs worth 1enti □ ning. This month's first program is Phantasie by 551. Tn1s is a multiple character D&D type game ala Ultima. The grap~ics aren't as good as Ultima, nor is there Ult1ma music, but it is a very addicting ga~e. I have put Cards~~ tne shelf tnis week and have became obsessed with this ga~e. ~~:efully, one cf these days ! will get lucky; then, lih □ f:n:,ws •••• This month's second program is MT C-Shel: ;ram Bec~e•ueyer Tools. Yes, UNIX fans, tr.is is it. Atrte ~ultitasting shell with all of the atilities, even a pass~ard file and the crcntab file. Can you imagine having to login to your o~n ST? I haven't seen it, but Chuc~ Purcell gave me a qu~ck r~view Hhen his arrived this week en t~o single-sideo disks. ies, might have it instaliation is required. I have ardered mine; by the ST meeting. Now for this month's losers •.• Boo: 1 I Hissi '. 1 Leser nu~ □ er one is frca an ad in this month's C □ ~putei ST. This pragrai, fraa Megasoft is X-rated graphics for Printraaster. Need I say more? Loser number two, from Batteries l7cluded, is IS-tTaH. This communication program was reportedly released full cf bugs, and only after laud complaints fr □i !SiTalk owners did B.!. adiit it. They ha·.ie said that ail registered owners will get the next bug-free version free. If yGu own !StTalk, send ii your warranty card. If you ton't, wait. They ~ay get it right the second ti;~e.

~eil 1 that's it for this icnth. ~e ~ill see you at the ~AST Se~teiber meeting far ~~re~~ the hottest ne~s. ru~ars, de~os, puclic domain software and a iljrole lat m~re •.•

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1986

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Paradig~

paradigm (par' a dim} n. 1. a model or pattern 2. grammar: a

decl ensi ;Jn This is an article written by Nr. Hal W. Hardenbergh, the author of "DTACK", a newsletter devoted to the si11ple 68000 systems. This article was donated by Brooks Butler. Thank you for your donation. Jim The Old Paradigm Paradigm is a rather unlovely CI beg your pardon! -ed.] word wnich is commonly used in technical writings when the auth,Jr 11a,its ta obscure the fact that there are no facts in his •riti~gs. Psycologists and psychiatrists are especially fond of the ffOrd. In i9SO the paradigm ~f a CP/M personal computer was keyboard, Z-80 with 64K RAM, 24~80 text display and a ho fioppy disks, each holding 256 to 512 KBytes. Naturally, all of tne DOSs of the day featured sequential files, for the simple reason that only a little bit of the data on those disks could oe loaded into RAM at a ti~e. in Jan. '84 Apple introduced an "Insanely Sreat Computer' •ni:h attempted to bust that paradigam because there was prav1s1cn far anly one floppy disk in that insane, er, insanely great computer. I had a conversation with an editor of an Appie-related publication in which I asserted that the first tni;1g people .,ere going to do ,1as buy an add-on floppy drive for the MAC. Yau see I the eari y Wimp-MAC had only 128K RAM and the disk held a lot more thAn that. So to copy a floppy disk one incurred serious wear and tear on the old Nrist as one SWAP SWAP SWAP 5wfiPPED' Anybody who had one of those one-disk wimo-MAcs· did a lat of disk swapping~ The problem still existed wt1en a slightly less nimpy MC was introduced with 512K RAN and a single BOOK floppy. I believed and still do that Steve Joos had to be a (deleted! idiot not to build space for two floppies into MAC's case. Heck, everyoody knows that the paradigm of a serious floppy-based computer has two floppy drives. Isn't that right? The New Paradigm The $2500 MAC Plus and the $1000 1040 ST each come with a megabyte standard. Each comes with space for a single floppy drive. Isn't that just terrible? Uh, wel 1, actually, no. TL~es have changed; the old paradigms slink into the graveyard, to be replaced by new ones. Here is your new paradigm: if your floppy holds near!y a ,;ega~yte and you have mere RAN than the capacity of that floppy you do not need a second floppy. Not fo:- a personal computer,

that is. Why? Very simpie. A utility c-~ri ae ;.ritten which :an copy a floppy disk using a ~ingle step. Read the ald disk into RAM. Write to the new disk. Done.

Hardware ev!llves 11ith astonishing swiftness. All that hardware is totally useless without software. Software, especially operating systems, evolves with glacial slowness. So, while bath APPLE and ATAr!I are making bSOOO-tiased systems which are useful with a single floppy, all the oper¾ting systems are still based an puliing a little piece of data into local RAM at a time. The QS thinks the year 1s still !980, 1hen floppies held 8 tim~s ~ore dat; than total avail~bla RA~. Hav2 you ever watched a persJnal :cmputer runni~g an ISAM-TYPE[~TA b~sed pragra•? The flop~y gri~:s and g·indi a~a int2r~i~atlv grinds a~ay, HoJrs later - ~a~y Mour; lat2r - tne prJgra~ 1s fiiisned. abvicusly 1 the way to ru~ a p~r;Jn;l data base orogram tcday is to laid t~e entire flocpy intc RRM and let your 65000 1 with its huge linear a,jd,ess space, ac::ess the data quickly. Naturally, this tech~ique is ~navai'.able to tee MS-~[5 folks fer a number □ f reasons, but tnen the PC 1s 1981 haraNare. But the ;ave not new paradigm i5 so ver~ neirf that :TIDS! fc,2ks caught an yet, eve~ i~ the 1C40 er MACT ~arid.

I Ain't Guess1ng 1 How do [ know that a single flcppv is usuable aver the iang ter~? Si~ple. · I have been ~sing ane cc1sistantly for over six ~onths now, even thoLlgh a second drive 1s phy;icilly present en my desk. There re~lly is a ~e~ para □ igrn!

Ribbon Reinker by Larry Vanden Plas We now have ribbon reinkers for spool to spool, long rectangular Epson (MX,FX) or compatible ribbons and most Place the popular small cartridges. ribbon(s) in a plastic bag marked with your name, phone number and printere Ribbons turned in at one SPACE meeting Note if you will be returned the next. are in a hurry and I will do what I can The cost is to hurry it back to you. only $1 per ribbon for members. Non-members may have their ribbons reinked for $I.SO. Prepay when you turn in the ribbons.

I CoHputers /

1040 ST Monochrome Color

Comrex ·

999. 95 1199.95

520 ST Monochrome Color 130 XE 65 XE

CALL CALL 149.95 99.95

Nodens MultiTech 1200 329.95 Avatex 1200 119.95 Atari XM301 59.95 Atari 1030 49.95

)1"ATARI

Monitors

Printers

149.95

BMC (amber) BMC (green)

79.00 70.00

Atari SM124 Atari SC1224

199.95 399.95

Drives .

EPSON Homewriter LX-80 FX-80 FX-85 LX-86 RX-100 FX-286 LQ-800 LQ-1000 STAR NX-10

Atari 1050 Indus GT

179.95 189.95

ATARI

Atari SF354 Atari SF 314 Supra 20 meg

199.95 299.95 799.95

XMM801 SMM804 NEC PC-PR103A

249.00 249.00 249.00 449.00 299.00 259.00 589.00 589.00 795.00 279.00 229.00 219.00 175.00

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786-8181 AUTHORIZED SALES AND SERVICE

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User Friendly s Anniversary Sale Sept. 131 1!186 1

It's been one year since we took over the store. Cone and join the celebration. All software in stock 15 to 40Y. off list price. Daily s~ecials 9-8 thru 9-12, see the Minneapolis Star daily for details. User Group discounts not applicable

SPACE Disk Not ■ a By Ji ■ Schulz and Chuck

SEPTEMBER~

1986

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Thi• is another new coluan which includ• not ■• on previou ■ disk of th ■ ■ anth, dacu••ntation on disk of th ■ ■ onth, new u• ■• far pro;r••• found an th ■ disk of th ■ ■ onth, and •Y personal favarit ■• of ap ■ cial proor••• on9 v••• th• disk of th ■ aanth. This ■ onth• J will f ■ •tur ■ docu ■■ nt•tion for th ■ YTlOO ■■ulatar fro• At•r~ •nd autobaot direction ■ written by Chuck Purcell. Chuck has hacked hi• way throuih thia pro~r•• and found a lot •or ■ u■■ f~l than I ari9lnally ■ xp ■ct ■ d. Th ■ YT100 ■■ ulator i ■ fully functional and 1 ■ found an th ■ Jun ■ •3 disk of th ■ ■ onth. Chuck al ■ o ■entlon ■ d to•• that h ■ think ■ that h ■ ha ■ only cracked half of th ■ f••~ur ■• of th ■ VT100 ■•ulator. So here ia Chuck"• deacriptlan,

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•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Now 4ar Chuck•• •utaboot disk So tnat is the VT100 ••ulator docu•antation. Ba hara •oatn 1• Chuck ••••• dacuaentation whlch he ha• updated. HOW TD CREATE AN AUTO SOOT DlSK 1> Copy your T08 SYSTE" diek to a blank for ■ atted di ■ k (or defin ■ any 9ivan disk •• your autoboot disk with TD8 in RD">• CCh ■ ck your 5209T own ■ r• •anual for Na ■■ the fold ■ r AUTO. 2> Creat• a 4oldar. instruction ■ on ha. to cr ■ate a folder.) 3) Copy the pro1ra• or pro9ra ■• that you want ta auto-oat into the AUTO folder When you boot th• (th ■ f1rst proqr•• ■nter ■ d ts th ■ fir ■ t to •• ■cuta, etc.>. dl•k• th ■ syst ■■ will auto ■ atically run any proor••• in th ■ AUTO folder with th• tf th ■ AUTO fald ■ r h•• ear• then l pro9ra• with a .PR& ••tender '.PR&". extend•r, th• ey•t•• will run th ■ flr•t written pra1r••• When you ••it that pragraa the syet•• will run the next proorae with a .PRG extender •uto ■ atically. NOTE, lo•• pro9ra•• ■ ay have trouble runnin~ in th• AUTO fold ■ r. Sa ■• proer••• ••Y nat run at all. Others ••Y run but not correctly. Still ath ■ r• ••Y run but will cau•• th ■ n ■ xt proer•• In th ■ folder ta fall. Th• only thine you can da ie to exp ■ ri ■■nt to••• Nhich proer••• will run in the AUTO foldar. .JI" LUCZAK

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•onth and next aonth 9 I will b• takin9 • br ■ ak fro• ••• ■ iv• n ■w dtsk of the aonth e ■ n ■ ratian. I •• in th• proc••• of r ■ organLzin9 and docu• ■nt1ng th ■ disk library to •ak ■ it ■ a•i•r to aaintain and •••i•r to find the proor•• which you ■ 1Qht want. Th ■ dacua ■ ntation prac ■■ s Mill b ■ slaw, but in tha n ■ Mt d•y o~ two l will be yplD&ding su•••rl•• of all of th ■ disks, or;aniz ■ d by ■ onth, ta Hlndtool• 889. tf any othe~ 88B would also like th••• listing ■, 9iva • • • c a l l and twill upload th•• there also. 888• with th••• listings will also g ■ t an 8TWrtt ■ r far ■ atted aY ■■ ary of each disk aftd • disk library provr•• with ■ ultlpl• data b•••• with each ftl ■ dacu■ented. ~ Don·t ••P•ct the la ■~ t•a befar ■ the n••t •••tin9. Th• ■ u•••rv, when •v•ila-1 ■, •ill be availa~l• at the ■eetift9. The disk-based ■ u•••rv will be sold for $3.00 to d•fray the cast af th ■ disk and capyin• •nd will be upd•t•d ■ anthly with a one-•onth la9. tf all ea•• wall, th••• Nill both b~ available by th ■ Nove ■ b•~ ••■ ting. 1 hap ■ this •111 ••ti•fy you need far ■or ■ DON inforaation in th ■ near t ■r• and in the future. Picture and ausic disks will ba pl•c•d on hald far two •onths •lsa. If t find l will try to pr•p•r• at l•••t two n ■w picture disks. Far ■ usic di•k•, t n••d your help. Th• current plan is put about 10 aang ■ p ■ r disk •ith a pictMr ■ per ■ on9 like th ■ Christ••• ■ u•ic Thi ■

•• have any ■pecial disks thi ■ ■ anth? Th• Crystal 8a11 clear ■ •1•in •nd ■ ha•• th••• di•k•• Bradley Forth 1.1 - Yes, the beet avail•bla public do••in ~arth has b ■■ n updat•d • Th ■ bu.,a fix •nd n ■ M ·Feature file an th ■ disk is 11006 ch•r•ct ■ r• lonq, with abo~t 50X far buQS and SOX far n ■• f ■ atur ■•• If l will li~t this fil• out for your ref ■ renca if you er ■ tnt ■r ■ st ■ d. Graphic Artist - This ie • tNO dlek d ■ •a of th ■ one ■ •399.95 pro9r••• no• •199.9S. This deao is pre~ty tapressivea

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All ~-•tur•• wark ■ NC ■-t far S•v ■• A ■elf-running deaa 1• supplied ·•1th an a ■pl ■ nuab ■ r a~ ftl•• ta sha• off the features of Graphic Artl•t• Th ■ •P••d and updat1n9 of the 9raphlc• is v ■ry good. araphic Artist i• now also b ■ ine adv ■ rtis ■ d •• a desktop publishtne progr•• Nith aultlpl ■ fonts. ST "tcraE ■ •c• Thi ■ is another of the version af NicroE•acs anh•nc ■ d far th ■ ST. Tht• prograa uses th• ST function k•Y• •nd th• ALT key to ; ■ t a t • nuaber of th ■ cryptic E ■ acs function ■• Th ■ on• T••tur ■ which this v•rsian of E••c ■ unique i ■ th•t Lt h•s an-line h•lpa Vay pr••• the HELP k•y and yo~ get • help • ■ nu. S ■ lact your option and yau v•t th ■ key co•••nds for that function. Thi• i• very h•ndy for people lik• •• •ho hate ta read ••nuals.

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ST. PAUL ATARI COMPUTER BROCE HAUG, PRESIDENT 1697 E. HOYT AVE. ST. PAUL, MN, 55106 (612)774 6226

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Nwsic Studio ausic pl£y ■r -hich ~l•v• ' ■ usic •ith no pictur••• N•Vb• an ■ of o"r ausic 9ur"• can take on thi• t••k• Oth•rwi••• ca•• Nav••b ■ r, •• will hav ■ the next two • ■ lf-runn1n9 auaic disks. Well, J •• don• ra•blino for this ■ onth. That is all of tn ■ disk of the •onth n ■•• far th1-s ,nanth. 1 hop• you •ind sa••thinQ h•r• thdt interest• yoy •nd ti~kl ■ s your f&ncy. A• of l••t month w ■ now hav ■ SZ(COMnt'-) di ■ k• of th• •onth after seven ■ onths. Far infor ■ atian on any of th• past d1 ■ ke, • • • • • a t t n • next •••~in9 or send• self-addressed .•t••P•d envelop• with 34 c:ent.• pa ■ "t•4• ~or th ■ sua ■aries •ll of the old diaks

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Far tho•• who don't know. NAST ha•• disk of th ■ ■ onth ~or which•• char9 ■ $6.00 9 which i ■ p•ck ■ d full of public da••in ■ o-ft••r• f-or th• ST. l ch ■ck all software proor••• •nd da~uaent th ■• i n • READ.NS f1l• in ••ch air ■ cto-y so yau are sur• you a•t so••thing t.hAt •orks. For those who cannot ••k• the meeting and ■ till would like th• DC", will Mail ~h•• to you within one •••k of th ■ •••t1n9 for th ■ st•nd•rd •6.00 plws •o.~o for pa•t•e• •nd handling -fo~ ••ch disk. Ny Addrwsw ia; 32•4 Welco ■■ Avenue North Crystal, ~N ~S422 Al ■ o, if 1 bl0N it And don't hav~ disk that ~OU want at th• ·••tinq. l will ■ ail it to ~ou fr•• •1th1n one N ■ ek of th ■ NAST •••tint~ That is it for Sept••b•r~ Sae you •t th• "AST •••tinQ •ith b•at sel ■ctian ofpyblic doaain softN•r• •rcw~d~

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