SPACE Newsletter - March 1993

March 1993

I ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ printing qualit y to the meeting would attract attention as well, We all Greetings to need to band toall! Firstthebad gether· to help news. For the first others who may not time in at least some things know two years, I am that may seem going to have to pretty standard to miss a SPACE those of us who me e t i n g • have been around Unfortunately, Winthe ATARI block for ter Quarter Finals Week at the a few years, University of As you al 1 know., Minnesota just hapthe lackluster pens to begin on the Monday following the attendance still continues to irk me, I SPACE meeting, On that day, I have a Calam planning a membership drive of culus test that will determine 40% of my gargantuan proportions and am hoping that grade for the quarter, I will be cooped the club will get behind me on this one, up somewhere on campus studying for the I have brought them up before, but it event, and I am afraid I will not be able seemed that we were doing okay, I think to get away, I leave the SPACE meeting in the time has come to actively pursue Sherm's capable hands and know he will do beefing up our ranks, I am thankful for a fine job until I am able to return in new members that are showing up like April ■ Those of you who are in college or Willey Rora and others that I see at the have graduated will understand my posimeetings, ~Je need mor·e people, P,s should tionIf you haven't gone to college, go without saying, if you know ANYONE with please TRY to understand my position. an ATARI, please tell them about the club, I have received some more phone calls Leave their address with Mike Schmidt and that our "Cr·ash Crew" can handle in r·ewe can send them a sample newsletter, gards to questions about ATARI computers, EVERYONE READING THIS is part of the If you signed up, be sure you talk to "SPACE rec:r·ui ting c: ommi ttee." As has been Sherm at the next meeting, EVERYONE my personal policy, I am willing to reward should be on the lookout for hardware and those of you who bring in new members with software that we ask a club can recycle software and disks out of my collection, and get to people who can use it, I have Who will be first to break my stoc k? had three phone calls this month for prinIt seems that there is more bad news ters, As you all know, these are SCARCE than good this month. In reality, that items, If you have an XDM-121, XMM-801 or isn't true, There seems to be a resureven a 1027 sitting around, bring it to gence of ATARI software that will begin the meeting and sell it if you are not filtering into our reach fairly soon, And using it, It would also be nice to hear of course the best news of all is that from people who have had good luck with SPACE is getting close to yet another birprinters that are not necessarily "ATARI thday! brand," If you are using an Epson or some I don't want to wear Ollt my "call to other printer and are having good luck arms" technique of writing this column, with it, why not write a newsletter artibut every month and every day I reflect on cle about it? Be sure and tell us HOW it the club, I realize that it needs to be, is wired to your system (be it 850 or othI wish we could meet twice a month or even erwise) and what more, there is so kind of programs much we could do, you ar·e using on We have an it, Perhaps SPACE incredible base on Meeting is br·i n,;ring a samr., 1 e which to work, we strong document March 1 .-. ..::.. .,, a demonhave str·ating software lib r·ar·y , its ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■

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both tor rental and purchase, a great BBS, an inexpensive meeting place, a solid officer corp and a small but dedicated membership that continues to amaze me with each passing meeting. Let's not lose it now! I think we still have yet to reach our maximum potential. SPACE needs you now more than ever• Are you on the rocket or off ? If we leave you behind, well, Mike's got those postcards ready. Take care all! I wish you the best and will look forward to seeing you in April• Your Pr·esl.dent, Nathan Block

Groundhog Party At Sherm's Well Feb ruary 7, I and Shortcakes we re invited up to Sherm Erickson's house in Ham Lake, Mn. (God's Country). I think we were invited up there to see the gro undhog come up from his sleeping hole and see if he could see his shadow. Which would mean Spring was soon approaching if he could see bis shadow. Well anyway besides us, there was Mike and Earline Fitzpatrick and some friends of Sherm, that were at this event. We were treated to lots of delicious food like hot dogs, hamburgers, beans, She r m was the official BBq'er• He slaved away outside cooking food on the grillIt was very cold outside, but Sherm grilled food outside until everybody was well fed. w~ watched a good movie, talked, went down to Sherm's computer station and did some computering. It would of been nice to sit outside and watch Sherm manning the grill, but it was too cold, so we stayed in the ho use and had a good time. Oh, about the groundhog, we never saw him stick his head out of the gr·om,d. It was ~•r·obably to cold outside to do that. Can't wait till ne xt Groundhog Party in 1994. Mike Weist

Midwinter Madness '93 Midwinter Madness this year was held at Bla i ne Sports Cente r in Blaine, Mn on ·saturday Feb ruary 13 1 1993I, Mike Schmidt, Larry Sertl at ten , and Glen Kirsc henman volunteered t o mann the Space booth this

year, but other Space members showed up to help out. These people were Sherm Erickson and Mike cable. We also had a young fellow from Scandia named Tom Stellach helping out behind the booth. He plans to become a Space member as soon as he can fill out the membership application and mail it in along with membership dues. It seems every year this event gets more bigger and funnier• It is fun to roam around the flea market par t looking for bargains• Sherm Erickson got a hard drive, mouse, computer board, and some software. Mike Schmidt got a hard drive and a computer board. Al Montgomery got a 800 Atari computer with a pr inter interface fo r a good pr-ice. 10m Ste i lach ol1r young helper at the boot h got some Ham Radio equipment and a modem for his Atari computer . Mi ke Cable got some things tor his Atari system. I got a 1200 Baud modem. Lots of people stopped by the Space booth with questions and some came by asking if we were interested in buying Atari equipment they have for sale and some asked where Atari equipment could be purchased. One person was asking about where he could find a 850 interface tor his Atari system. We gave them the club's president's no. So our president might be busy with lots of phone calls. Saw lots of club members at the show . They stopped by the booth to say hiI am sure they found some bargains . If club members have n ever experienced a event like this, they will have to. Had a fun time talking with everybody behind the booth, can't wait till ne~t show. See you at the ne xt Space meeting i n March. Mike Weist

SPACE DISK LIBRARY SPACE Disk Librarians: Joe Danko* Glen Kirschenmann This article is a compendium of all the HELP-DOC files from the DOM's of all of 1992, and Jan through Mar 1993. *************************************** JANUARY, 1992 Disk of the Month SIDE 1: EMPIRE.COM -- Star Wars g~me based on the f i lm The Empire St r ikes Bac k Use a joystick to control your flyP r to attac k the invading Empirial Walkers attacking

■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ your base If your flyers are damaged you will bail out safely to the surface and be able to continue the fight afoot The game is machine language and runs without a BASIC cartridge or BASIC turned off. JOY-COM, JOYINI ■ COM, JOY-LST, JOY-DOC This machine language driver will allow the use of a joystick to move the curso r with a variety of programs, notably the TEXTPRO word processor I have not tried it with anything else Included are two versions for use with SPARTDOS and other OOS's, the source code and a documentation f i 1 e. TAX1991-SC A federal income ta x spreadsheet for use exclusively with SYNCALC We hope to have versions for other spreadsheet programs in February . WILDDEMO-COM A machine language demo that is just a little weird. ATARIBBS ■ DOC -- A te>:t tile that i s a compilation of all known ATARI electronic Bulliten Board Systems(BBS). ATARI8SO ■ DOC P. te >:t file that is a compilation of all known sources of produ ct s supporting the ATARI 8-bi t system. AT1025-CNF, AT1025-DRV, AT1025-MAC FONTNAME, FONT-MAC, READ.ME, INTERNAT ■ FNT, NUl'IBER-MAC, NUMBER-HLP, ATHELP.SCR -- This complex of files is intended to be used with the TEXTPRO version 4-56F as a printer driver for users of the ATARI 1025 dot-matrix printer It could be used as a prototype for a driver for other printers. SIDE 2:

This side of the DOM for January is a sort of demo of a combination of software in the SPACE library The two featured are the TEXTPRO version 4-56F word processing system and MYDOS 4.53 Both are final upgrades to definitive versions released in the last year or two and work well togethe r MYDOS is a good alternative to users who want more power than is available with ATARI DOS 2°0/2°5 and who don't want to or can't use SPARTADOS A big reason not to use SD is TURBOBASIC Or, if you have 400 or 800 system, MYDOS can be used where the disk version of SPARTADOS cannot If you have an AXLON RAMPOWER or the 800+ 288K memory upgrade, MYOOS will run a ramdis k . DOS.SYS, DUP.SYS MYDOS 4-53/4 version with 4 digit file size di sp lays The release disk has another version, MYDOS 4°53/3 with 3 digit file size displays As an alternate to AUTORUN.SYS, MYOOS 4.53

will automatically load files endi ng in ( -ARx) where x=0-9 in order from Oto 9. RB6D-ARO MYDOS requires no ramdisk driver but this program will automatically intialize and load the ramdisk The ramdisk MUST be D4: DUP SYS will be loaded with MEM-SAV and an attempt will be made to copy any files from a subdirectory called D:RAMDISK if it exists. JOY-AR1 This is the joystick driver from SIDE 1 that will load second. How to use SIDE 2 of the DOM: If you can run a ram disk (XL/XE or AXLON), the ram disk will load, joys tick handler will load and the MYDOS DUP menu appears OPTION is pressed on an XL/XE or your 400/800 has no BASIC inse rted If BASIC is availab le READY will appea r and you must keyin "DOS " to get the DUP menl\ Keyin "L"At the prompt, keyin TPX456.COM to load TEXTPRO If expand ed memory is available, TEXPRO 4-56 may be confi gured to use some of the extra memory as 2 additional text buffers with the "contr·ol-select-B" key in Switch al ter·nate banks with "control-B". The sof tware library will be moving towards exclusive use of MYDOS and I am calling on the PROGRAMMING SIG to assist in modifications to existing software and/or MYDOS to assist in this effort The source code is available for MYDOS version 4-50 and we can attempt to acquire the updates that appear in the version 4-53/4 that is used on thi s disk Associated with these fine programs, the library has supporting disks: TEXTPRO 4-xx DOCUMENTATION DISK TEXTPRO 4-56F RELE ASE DISK MYDOS 4.53 RELEASE DISK MYDOS 4,50 SOURCE FILES (MAC-65 ) Soon to be released will be a disks with collections of support file s and applications fo r TE XTPRO and MYDOS ■ 0

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SPACE Disk Libr·ar-y News: Febr·uar-y, 1992

DOM Side 1: INSEARCH ■ BAS -- A low-resolution graphic adventure type of game that requires a joystick to navigate a maze looking for valuable objects and avoiding the PURPLE MEANIE Writ ten in ATARI BASIC. WARGAMES ■ BAS A global nuclear war simulation. Now so r t of out of date, you can pit the u.s. against the former USSR and t r ade nuclear st rikes . Wr itte n i n ATARI BASIC, re quire s a joystick .

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ALL of side 2 is anotherquirky demo fr-om Holland, probably by the same group of bright young hackers who gave us THE BIG DEMO, This one is called THE EXPO and requires an XL or XE and a 1050 disk drive or other device that can read ATARI Dual-Density(Density-and-a-half) disks, Insert the disk, hold down OPTION and BOOT,

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Read this text file for information concerning a valuable machi ne language programming technique that i~ not for· the casual orr·ookie ML pr·ogr-ammer-, BULLET,BAS, FAIREST-BAS -- These are two BASIC music programs, QUEST,BAS Play this joystick driven BASIC semi-graphic adventure game, ELECTRIC-BAS -- Use a joystick with this BASIC game to steerthrough a maze and not touch the walls, RLINK ■ BAS This little text file contains information about a little know but cheap ATARI modem interface,

DOM Side 2: MYMENU tiles,

MMCUSTOM-BAS -- This batch of files is a menu system exclusively forloading Binary Load tiles Included is a BASIC program for customizing the appearance and operation of the menu s The source code for the program is even provided The main program is MYMENU,COM which may be loaded with or without BASIC enahlcd and MYMENUROM,COM which is a bit smallerwith a fixed font, KINETIC and ENGINE tiles: This C derived program is a simulation of the action of gas pa r ticles when heated, EZREAD2-COM: -- A file readerincluded foryour convenience in reading the disk documentation ,

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SPACE Disk of the Month - Apr-il, 1992 SIDE 1: CURSOR.BAS -- BASIC program tor· designing

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BASIC routines forbit-oriented logic manipulations, BGMV05,* Backgammon in C by SPP.CE memberMark Vallevand, This is his thi rd orso version The program requires no BASIC and a joystick , AIMCLUBS, AIMPAESS Two te xt files concerning Atari Inter-face Magazine,

Elementary Chemist ry tutorial and quiz written in BASIC, DOM SIDE 2: PANTHEON Universal graphics display program written in BASIC,

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SPACE DISK LIBRARY HELP,, ••• MAY, 1992 DISK OF THE MONTH, ••• ,.,MAY, 1992 The entire disk is devoted to an excellent miniature golf game with such a large numberof hole combinations that all games are di ffer·ent.

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SPACE DOM HELP - June 1992 DOM SIDE 1:

All the programs on Side 1 will need BASIC plugged in or turned on and most require a joyst ick, CIRCSQ,BAS A fast fractal generato r , DOMINOES.BAS -- A t yp ical Dominoes game, EUCHRE-BAS -- Play the popularcar-ct game against yourcomputer, You will have t o find out how to play Euchre~ the program has no tutorial. HEXAPAWN ■ BAS A simple combinatio n of checkers and TIC-TAC-TOE, MONSTER.BAS A fun version of concentration, SPELLBEE ■ BAS -- The program f la shes a word on the screen and you try to spell it correctly, STF:ATEGY, BAS St r ategy Strike : I have not figured out how to play this , Goo d Luck 1 BOMBER,BAS, BOMBER2-BAS, BOMBER.DOC A game of dropping bombs on rocks Try to remove the rocks below to find the escape tunnel Press the button to drop a bomb When yo u have discovered the escape tunnel, pull the joystick down as you pass overit to descend, Caution If you don't time this right, you will er-ash into the rocks,

DOM SIDE 2: Two of the Side 2 programs ar-e machine language The MENU will tu rn off BASIC o r the cartridge will have to be removed Bet h games use a joys t ick The third file is a SYNCALC spreadsheet temp l ate,

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An excellent game that requires both reflexes and strategy It slightly resembles Defender, IMAGBALL.COM -- A pin.ball game simulation, PROBID,SC P.. SYNCALC spreadsheet template that requires any version of SYNCALC to be used It is designed to assist in cost anal ysis of video produ ction .bids, ****************************************** SPACE Disk Of The Month - July, 1992 DOM Side 1: SPACE _DOM 000 JUL _92SIDE1 000 xxxxxxxxxxx 000 * DOS SYS 037 DUP SYS 042 AUTORUN SYS 001 * * MENU 026 FINANCE BAS 067 * OU IZZER BAS 111 REACTOR BAS 069 CHECKEF:SCOM 131 INVASIONCOM 025 GAME1 002 DOM Side 2: SPACE _DOM 000 JUL _92SIDE2 000 xxxxxxxxxxx 000 DOS SYS 037 * SYS 042 * AUTOF:UN SYS OOl * DUP 026 GOLDMINE 25~1 * MENU GOLDMINED02 049 GOLDMINEDOC OB3 TITLE GM 010 GOLDMINETXT 033 ***************************************** SPACE DOM HELP August 1992 DOM Side 1 : Both Side 1 programs ar~ machine language The BASIC cartridge must .be removed or the MENU program will turn off internal BASIC, MANDEL,COM An e >: cellent Mandlebrot fractal generator written .by Douglas Skrecky Includes full docs and the ability to save and load your f r actal creations, THINK.COM -- Think is a Tetr·is clone f rom Douglas Skrecky Very playable (and addictive) A MUST HAVE fo r Tetris fans Supports skill level settings to make the game easier or harder to play Joystick required Action! source code included! DOM Side 2: Side 2 has no DOS and will not boot, Bo ot side 1 and flip the disk Both of the EASY programs require BASIC, EASYFIND.BAS A menu driven inde >:ing system similar to a card catalog found in a library It was originally designed to index Atari magazines, but it can .be used for nearly any reference purpo se EasyFind can search for and select only those records that contain phrases you enter, and you can output selected records to screen, disk or printer, EASYSTOR.BAS -- A menu driven program tor entering and modifying EasyFind index r ecords With Ea syStor, new re cords can be easily created or added to existing

indexes and old records can be modified or deleted, ************************************** SPACE Disk of the Month September, 1992 DOM SIDE 1: P.,NARCHY PIC 061 AUTOF:UN BAS 018 AUTORUN SYS 142 BOLD FNT 008 PF:ESENTSPIC 061 TITLE BAS 109 TITLE PIC 061 DOS SYS 039 DOM SIDE 2: BACKGRND 030 DEAD 061 DEAD BAS 029 GAME BAS 225 HOUSE 061 INTRO BAS 026 *************************************** SPACE DISK OF THE MONTH - October, 1992 DOM Side 1: EASYFIND Compiled TURBOBASIC version Boot with Basic At the MENU select CTBRUN ,COM, the TURBOBAS IC runtime interpreter fo r compiled TB files The EASYFIND program is compiled as AUTORUN,CTB s o that the runtime program will automatically load it as soon as it is active To read the EASYFIND,DOC file select it from the MENU or use the DOS DUP menu and copy it to a printer . ROSEDEMO,DOC Orde r form if to use if you like the game and want to order the complete version, DOM Side 2: ROSEDEMO -- A dire ct ory of side 2 will show no tiles Jus t boot it up and play This is a game like TETRIS but with a real difference Requires a joystick See Side 1 for the DOC file, ****************************************** SPACE Disk of the Month* November 1992 DOM Side 1: All of Side 1 is oc cupied with a big Graphics Demo, VIDEO LOVELETTER, DOM Side 2: TVJAJI,ARS, TVJAJI,RUN, TVJAJI,BAS TVJAJI is a kinky combination of BREAKOUT and PONG BASIC is required an d the game is intended for 2 players You can RUN TVJAJI,BAS, RUN TVJAJI,RUN to get the SHAREWARE message or put the TVJAJI tiles on a disk with DOS ,SYS and renamed as follows: TVJAJI.ARS as AUTORUN,SYS, TVJAJI,RUN as AUTORUN,BAS and TVJAJI,BAS. REFRMAT2,COM, AUTORUN-CTB, REFRMAT2 ■ DOC -REFORMAT rev,2 : This program is compiled TURBOBAS IC AUTORUN,CTB is the actual REFRMAT2 TURBOBASI C compile d Program renamed to RUN automati cal ly when REFRMAT2 , COM , the TURBOBASI C RUNTIME interpreter for compiled TURBOBASIC 1s e xecuted REFRMAT2 i s intended to be used

•••••••••••••••• to "format" text to fit any page width To RUN REFRMAT2,COM This is the TURBOBASI C runtime interpreter This will automatically RUN any program named AUTORUN,CTB, which is the actual REFRMAT2,CTB compiled TURBOBASIC code, ****************************************** SPACE Disk of the Month* December 1992 DOM Side 1: The following 2 program sets are the work of Jim Johnson who was an extremely active SPACE member and tech guru, He has been living in Houghton, Michigan for about 2 years, LOAN,BAS,LOAN,LST,LOAN,AWP Loan calculator written in BASIC, BFAR,BAS, BFAR,DOC -- This BASIC program scans a machine language code fil e and determines the binary load addresses and the size of the file, LSRCHESS ■ BAS Laser Chess is program from COMPUTE' GENIE has been given access to all of the old Compute! programs tor free distribution, FINCAL,BAS, FINCAL1 ,DOC Mul ti-pur·pose financial calculator, SLIDE,DOC -- is the documentation tile tor the program SLIDE on side2, DOM Side 2: SLIDE is a basic program that displays a variety of Atari graphics files. The program looks tor a file called SLIDE,CTL which can contain a list of commands to define the way the picture files will be displayed, The program has a powerful sort of scripting language that allows the graphics images to be manipulated with great flexibility. Included with SLIDE are a selection of Atari Graphics, Just hold down OPTION and load and SLIDE will start to load, ****************************************** SPACE DISK OF THE MONTH* January 1993 DOM Side 1: DETOKEN,BAS This BASIC utility will read MAC65 SAVE'd tokenized machine language source files and convert them to text source code for use with other assemblers, ARCADECL ,COM A machine language game written by SPACE member Tim Gearin, Shoot the Alien Invaders , Watch out, they shoot back and you are working against the clock, A joystick is requ ired, JOYPORT1 ,DOC,JOYPORT2,DOC,JOYPORT3,DOC Three text files that explain how to use the ATARI joystick ports as bi-di r ectional data paths to the outside wor l d,

A NOCHAF<OE,DOC game written in BASIC, Help Matilda out-·fo >: her husband as she tries to get enough cr·e,ji t car·ds to go shopping, Read the DOC file, F:equi r·es a joysti.ck, TITLECARD,BAS, TITLECARD,DOC A BASIC utility to design title screens or use with your programs . DOM Side 2: DSKLAB22,COM,DSKLAB22,DOC,DRIVER22,COM This side of the disk is a set of programs to design, load and print disk labels DRIVER22,COM is a utility to modify DSKLAB22,COM to drive different printers The default is EPSON, DSKLAB22 will process and locate PRINTSHOP icons on your labels and it w11T read and sort up to 100 disk directory entries This software is SHAREWARE We added the 8 PRINTSHOP icons with *-PSF filenames converted to DOS format for demonstration purposes, The SPACE library has many disks of PRINTSHOP icons and utility programs*************************************** SPACE DISK OF THE MONTH* February 1993 The February, 1993 DOM consists entirel y of the COMPUTE! 1986 #2 program diskDOM Side 1: * SP.O.CE __DOM 000 FEB_':(:'.,SIDE 1 000 COMPUTE2_86 000 * DOS SYS 037 * DUP SYS 042 * AUTORUN SYS 001 CONTENTS OOf: MENU 01.2 DMAf<ER 01 '1 MN 047 PICTUF.:E Of,2 TE >:TDUMP 00::: PASS\,JOF.:D1 044 PASSWORD2 008 TUGA\,JAF.: P.PF.: 020 UNIFY P.PF.: 014 MIAMI ICE 072 INSIGHT JUN 00'1 SIDEWAYSJUN 00'1 CUSTOM MP.Y 019 DEBUT M,ll,Y 044 HICKORY MAY 032 COLOR OBJ 001 FONTLOAD 006 056 MLX PROOFREADEF.: 008 FONT OBJ 021 MLSTF.:INGSEP 016 RAMDISf< SEP 023 06'1 FREE SECTOF$ DOM SIDE 2: * SPACE __DOM 000 * FEB_93DIDE2 000 * COMPUTE3_86 000 * DOS SYS 037 * DUP SYS 042 * AUTORUN SYS 001 MENU 001 CONTENTS 008 MN 047 INSIGHTlAUG 007 INSIGHT2AUG 008 INSIGHT3AUG 007 LOGICAL AUG 006 TIGHTROPAUG 074 PROOFREADER 008 SPDCALC ENH 011 HEXWAR JUL l. 21 INSIGHT1JUL 005 INSIGHT2JUL 007 PEEf<POKEJUL 026 SOUND1 JUL l.29 50UND2 JUL 019 SOUND3 JUL 046 I NSIGHTBOOT 004 BEEHIVE SEP 052 J LISTER SEP 033

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March 1993 HELP Docs. DOM Sicte 1: MACKOL --- A new version of MACKOL thcit automatically relocates to LOMEM (including Spar-taDOS X) MACKOL sets custom screen colors, left margin, and keyboard speed (XL/XE) for the MAC/65 cartridge Works with AtariDOS, MYDOS, Sparta 3.2, and Spar-taDOS XSour-ce and docs included. M0D1050 Displays a schematic fo r modifying your 1050 disk drive to include a write protect switch and light Accompanying te xt article by Paul Alha r t appears in an upcoming issue of AIM. UUE Utilit i es f or uuencoding and uudecod i ng of programs / files available on Internet, These utils allow you to tur n uuencoded files back into usable binary files, If you' r e on the Inte r net, you NEED these utilities.

APACVW24 Version 2,4 of J.DPotter's excellent GIF decoding/v iewing program fo r the Atari 8-bit, APACVIEW Adds support for GIFs created on a Macintosh, as well as wide format GIFs and more SharewareBOl'IBER Drop your bombs on the rocks below to find the escape route to the ne xt level in this fun game written in BASIC Joystick required, NPACODES -- BASIC pr·ogr-am that takes a phone number's area code as input and tells you where in the US (and some foreign countries ) that area code applies For each area code, a few major cities serviced by that code are also listed Great for long distance BBS callers, KINGGAME -- Basic card game. KINGGAME HELP DOCS Hell'.• for the KINGGAME. The game is similar to several common types of solitaire The object is to build on the dealt car ds with cards from you r be in descending hand The cards must order, black on red or red on black Only a King can fill an empty pile space King in you hand may be played to one of the 4 K spaces When appropriate, one of the piles can be moved to complete another pile You use a joystick to play against the computerThe first player to exhaust their car·ds wins. DOM Side 2: EMPIRE-DCM - - A s trategy 1-1a r· game written by Larry anct Kevin Scott 8CJ ot wit h BAS I C enabled,

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Saint Paul Atari Computer Enthusiasts (SPACE)

Published by the Saint Paul Atari Computer Enthusiast~ (SPACE), an independent organization wilh no business affilio.tion with ATARI Corporo.tion. Permission is granted to any similflr organization with which SPACE exchange~ newsletters to reprint meteriai from this newsletter. We do however ask that credit be given to the authors and to SPACE. Opinions expressed are those of the authors 1rnd do not ne.c-essarily r efl~c-l the views of SPACE. the club officers, club members or ATARI Corporation .

meets on the second Friday of each month at 7:30 PM

in the Falcon Heights Community Cent.er al 2077 West Larpenteur Ave. Doors open at 7 :00 PM.

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Fa.lcon Heights Community Cer:iler

2077 W. Larpenteur Ave.

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North

Larpenteur Avenue

U of M

St. Paul Campus

S.P.A.C.E. P.O. Box 120016 I

New Brighton, MN

55112

SPAC_:E BBS

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BBS Phone: (612)-427-4317

Sysop: Mike Fitzpatrick Co-sysop: Sherm Erickson

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