APX ATARI® Program Exchange Product Catalog Fall Edition 1983 Price $2.00 Consumer- written programs for ATARI Home Computers Printed in the U.S.A. r A ••sir 04 Vssu« io' 33 in Cam" store or r*w ^^^^ The ATARI Resource ANTIC is an independent monthly publication for ATARI owners and users. ATARI® is a registered trademark of Atari, Inc. ATADi ^ °VERVIEW UPGRADE V °UR 400 APX Product Catalog Fall 1983 Table of Contents Order Forms Centerfold Index of programs 2 Order information 3 Current APX Hits 4-7 APX Fall Contest winners 8 9 Home Management programs 10-15 Personal Development programs 17-20 Learning programs 21-44 Entertainment programs 46-59 Systems/Telecommunications programs 60-71 Publications 72 Hardware 72 ALL ABOUT APX From the Editor 24 What is APX? 34 Contest Rules 34 Request form for a Program Submission Packet Centerfoldj On the Cover: The city map of GETAWAY!, the APX game of cops and robbers, covers 35 screens. Now a four-color GETAWAY! map measur- ing approximately 2 feet by 3 feet is available to guide you back to your hideout. The price is $4.00; order number is APX-90012. Shown here is a section of the poster, the creation of the designer of the APX catalog, Jim M'Guinness. On the back cover is the first APX advertisement to appear in magazines across die nation, also for GETAWAY! Contest deadlines: October 1 marks the deadline for all program sub- missions to the APX winter contest. Entries submitted by that date will be eligible for the 1983 grand prize — $25,000 in cash! And if the submission relates in some way to an approved Olympic sport, the programmer and a guest of his or her choice is also eligi- ble to win an all-expense-paid trip for two to the 1984 Summer Olympic games in Los Angeles! Peripheral Contest: Here's a contest for everyone. If you Ve never sub- mitted a program to APX before, or if you're a bestselling APX author, you have a chance at some nifty prizes, in- cluding an annual best-of-all prize of $5,000 in cash, in our new Quarterly ATARI Peripheral Contest. See the in side back cover of this issue for de- tails. Program availability: Programs are available at the prices listed in this catalog starting September 26, 1983. Director: Fred Thorlin Administrative assistant: Donna Bennett Product review Jack Perron, manager. John Cardozo, Mike Downie, Gene Plagge, Karen Stagnaro, Shirley Stas Publications Theo Przybyszewski, manager. Joanne Bahnsen, Christopher Caen, Merle Metcalfe Sales and manufacturing Al Thomas, manager. Kyla Andini, Dana Bushnell, Skip Cramer, Stephen Janes, Mike Long, Man Lorenzen, Teresa Lorenzen, Terry Manica, Steve O'Sullivan. Ernest Solorio Designer: Jim M'Guinness INDEX Home Management AtariWriter Printer Drivers 10 Atspeller 1 1 Bowler's Database 13 Calculator 13 Color Alignment Generator 10 Data Base/Report System 13 Data Management system 24 Diskette Mailing List 14 Enhancements to GRAPI 1 IT 14 Family Vehicle Expense 14 Financial Asset Management System 14 Home Inventory 1 1 Home Loan Analysis 1 2 Hydraulic Program 20 Isopleth Map-making Package 20 Real Estate Cash Flow Analysis 15 Stock Management 1 5 Strategic Financial Ratio Analysis 12 Text Formatter 20 Typit IS Personal Development Advanced Musicsystem 17 Astrology 17 Banner Generator 20 Blackjack Tutor 19 Drawit 18 Fingerspelling 19 Going to the Dogs 20 Jukebox #1 17 Keyboard Organ 20 Personal Fitness Program 19 Piano Tuner 18 Player Piano 19 Video Kaleidoscope 20 Learning Advanced Fingerspelling 22 Algicalc 1 41 Atlas of Canada 33 Calculus Demon 1 41 Circuit Lab 29 Counter 27 Cubbyholes 26 Earth Science 32 Easygrader 39 Elementary Biology 32 Escape to Equatus 42 Excalibur 21 Flags of Europe 39 Frogmaster 33 Geography 32 Hickory Dickory 33 fit) Different 40 Instructional Computing Demonstration 33 Letterman 27 Magic Melody Box 40 Mapware 44 The Market Place 32 Math Mission 42 Math*UFO 42 Mathematic-Tac-Toe 42 Metric and Problem Solving 32 Midas Touch 40 Monkey Up a Tree 25 Morsecode Master 28 Music I — Terms & Notations 33 Music II — Rhythm & Pitch 33 Music III — Scales & Chords 33 Musical Computer — The Music Tutor 40 Musical Pilot 22 Mv Spelling Easel 28 Number Blast 29 Polycalc 1 41 Prefixes 32 Presidents of the United States 30 Punctuation Put-on 43 Puzzler 23 Ringmaster 23 Spelling Genie 30 Starware 44 Teasers by Tobbs 26 Text Analyst 33 Three R Math Classroom Kii 41 Three R Math Home System 42 Typo Attack 25 Video Math Flash Cards 42 Word Search Generator 39 Wordgo 43 Wordmaker 39 Entertainment Air-Raid! 59 Attank! 50 Avalanche 59 The Bean Machine 51 Blackjack Casino 59 Block Buster 57 Bootleg 54 Can t Quit 55 Caterpiggle 55 Checker King 58 Cribbage 59 Dandy 49 Diggerbonk 58 I h >\\ nhill 51 Ennumereight 53 Galahad and the Holy Grail 56 Game Show 59 Getaway! 48 Gridiron Glory 57 Impact 59 lOO Roadway 46 Kangaroo 48 Melt-Down 2 59 Memory Match 59 Microsailing 56 Moon Marauder 47 Outlaw/1 lowitzer 52 Phobos 49 Quarxon 52 Salmon Run 50 Saratoga 47 747 Landing Simulator 58 Seven Card Stud 54 Smasher 53 Snark Hunt 59 Space War 46 Terry 58 Yahiman 57 Systems/Telecommunications ATARI Pascal Language System 70 ATARI Program-Text Editor 69 BASIC Program Compressor 71 BASIC/XA 62 Cartoonist 60 Chameleon CRT Terminal Emulator 69 Deep Blue C Compiler 64 Deep Blue Secrets 64 Disk Fixer/Load 'n Go 63 Diskette Librarian 64 Diskmenu 71 Dunion s Debugging Tool 66 Eastern Front Scenario Editor 61 Eastern Front Scenarios 42/43/44 61 Extended fig-FORTH 66 Extended WSFN 68 FORTH Turtle Graphics Plus 67 run-FORTH 67 GTIA Demonstration Diskette 71 Hex-a-Bug 65 Insomnia 70 Instedit (ATARI BASIC version) 65 Instedit (Microsoft BASIC version) 65 Keypad Controller 63 Mantis 68 Mapmaker 24 Mathlib 60 Microsoft BASIC Cross-reference Utility 71 Music Player 71 Player Generator 71 Screen Dump LJtiliry 63 Source Code for Eastern Front 62 Speed-O-Disk 71 Supersort 63 T: A Text Display Device 69 Utility Diskette II 71 Publications De Re ATARI 72 APX Product Catalog, spring 1983 edition 72 APX Product Catalog, summer 1983 edition 72 APX Product Catalog, fall 1983 edition 72 Hardware 48K RAM Expansion Kit 72 DE-9S controller plug 72 5 -pin DIN connector 72 13-pin I/O plug 72 13-pin I/O socket 72 DA-1 5P 850 printer plug 72 DE-9P 850 serial plug 72 1 Indicates trademark of The Soft Warehouse 2 Indicates trademark of Stephen Romejko Ordering Information APX products only. The ATARI Program Exchange handles orders only for the items described in this catalog. For all standard ATARI Home Computer prod- ucts, including any software, hardware, or documenta- tion mentioned in this catalog, see your local ATARI Computer retailer. $10 minimum order, plus shipping and handling charge. We'll fill orders of $10.00 or more Please add $2. SO to your order to cover shipping and handling. Mail Orders. To order bj mail, fill out an order form and mail it, together with your payment, to the ATARI Program Exchange, P.O. 3705, Santa Clara, CA 95055. Phone Orders, for Easter service, phone in credit card orders, using our toll-free number, 800/538-1862 (or 800/672-1850 for calls within California). You can also call us at 408/72^-5603. Telephone hours are Mon- day through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST. Payment by check, money order, VISA, or Master- Card. Your payment must accompany all mail orders. Enclose a check or money order, or charge your order to your VISA or MasterCard account. Include the $2.50 shipping and handling charge in your payment. Cali- fornia residents need to add 6.5% sales tax to the mer- chandise total, exclusive of shipping and handling. No C.O.D. or purchase orders. We regret thai we cannot accept orders paid by C.O.D. or by a purchase order. Foreign orders. At present, we can handle orders only from the United States. Contact your ATARI sup- plier for more information. Delivery to P.O. Box numbers. We normally ship your order by United Parcel Service (I PS) Because I PS doesn't deliver to P.O. Box numbers, please use a street address on your order form. Alternate shipping method. Please indicate an alter nate method of shipment if TPS doesn't deliver to your area. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY ON APX COMPUTER PROGRAMS. Mom APX Computer Programs haw been written by people not employed by Atari. The pro- grams we select for APX offer something of value that we want to make available to ATARI 1 lome Computer owners. In order to economically offer these programs to the widest number of people. APX Computer Pro- grams are not rigorously tested by Atari and are sold on an as is basis without warrant) of any kind. Any statements concerning the capabilities or utility of APX Computer Programs are not to be construed as express or implied warranties. Atari shall have no liability or responsibility to the ori- ginal consumer purchaser or any other person or en- tit\ with respect to any claim, loss, liability, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by APX Computer Programs. This disclaimer includes, but is not limited to. any interruption of services, loss of business or anticipator}' profits, and/or incidental or consequential damages resulting from the purchase, use, or operation of APX Computer Programs. Some states do not allow the limitation or exclusion of implied warranties or of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations or exclusions con- cerning APX Computer Programs may not apply to you. LIMITED WARRANTY ON MEDIA AND HARDWARE ACCESSORIES. Atari, Inc. ( Atari ) warrants to the original consumer purchaser that the media on which APX Computer Programs are recorded and any hard- ware accessories sold by APX shall be free from defects in material or workmanship for a period of thirty (30) days from the date of purchase. If you discover such a defect within the 30-day period, call APX for a return authorization number, and then return the product to APX along with pnxjf of purchase date. We will repair or replace the product at our option. If you ship an APX product for in-warranty service, we surest you package it securely with the problem indicated in writ- ing and insure it for value, as Atari assumes no liability for loss or damage incurred during shipment. This warranty shall not apply if the APX product has been damaged by accident, unreasonable use. use with any non-ATARl products, unauthorized service, or by other causes unrelated to defective materials or work- manship. Any applicable implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, are also limited to thirty (30) days from the date of purchase. Consequential or incidental damages result- ing from a breach of am applicable express or implied warranties are hereby excluded. The provisions of the foregoing warrants are valid in the l .S. only. This warranty gives you specific legal rights and you may also have other rights which vary from state to state. Some states do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, and. or do not allow the exclusion of incidental or consequential dam- ages, so the above limitations and exclusions may not apply to you. No cancellations, returns, refunds, or credits. \\ i keep our costs down, we accept no cancellations and no returns, except for defective media or for goods damaged in shipment. >X e give no refunds or credits Goods damaged in shipment. If your order arri\es damaged, please call one of our toll-free numbers with in seven days after receiving your order. Have your packing slip at hand and ask for a return authorization number. Do not return a program to APX without this number. Right to make changes. W e reserve the right to make price and availability changes in the products described in the APX catalog at any time and without notice. Current ARY Hit* GETAWAY! by Mark Reid Find the loot and slash it before the law nabs you! Your getaway car races across a city that covers 35 screens See page 48. TERMINAL ADN-3A BACK = XI RUB OUT LEFT MARGIN ZERO LINE LENGTH 86 CURSOR FREE FTP UPLOAD — > F D : CTR . DOC. FILE TYPE TEHT R: DEUICE 1 BAUD RATE 386 PARITY NONE DUPLE K FULL FLOW CONTROL ECHO USE OPTION « SELECT, =AUE. RESTORE, QUIT, PRESS START TO GO ON CHAMELEON CRT TERMINAL EMULATOR by John Howard Palevich G>nvert your computer to a Glass TTY. ADM-3. or VT-52 terminal. Features include 80 column. 24-cliaracter line display and previous page col- umn buffer See page 69. -SCORE : « SPELLING GENIE by Dale Disharoon Four spelling games filled with magic and whimsy also offer excellent practice in spelling and word recognition. See page 30. TYPO ATTACK by David Buehler T\pe the right character and destroy the T\pos — a great way to practice your touch typing! Nine levels of skill See page COUNTER* & & & & & £3* ^* COUNTER by Al Casper An introduction to numbers m four languages. Captivates younger children with color, sound and action. See page 2 T . VIDEO MATH FLASH CARDS by Richard S. W aller Timed math drills provide no stress practice, the c hance to retry problems missed earlier, and a ranking up to Math Wiz! See page 42 EXTENDED fig-FORTH REV. 2 EXTENDED fig-FORTH by Patrick Mullarky Full implementation of the increasingly popular programming language with more definitions (for advanced programmers). A good develop ment tool for applications that require high speed and low memory consumption. See page 66. 1X2 - *7 : -5 1X2 NUMBER BLAST by Richard Wiitala Practice solving addition and multiplication problems by "blasting" to the answer more quickly than your opponent See page 29. DEEP BLUE C COMPILER by John H. Palevich C — more powerful than liASIC less error- prone than assembly language, transportable. This compiler helps you create large programs with G, See page 64. Current APX Hit* SEVEN CARD STUD by Monty Webb Play poker against five opponents, each having four programmable playing traits. An instant all- night poker game! See page 54. INSTEDIT by Sheldon Leemon The best character set editor we've ever seen. INSTEDIT can help you make maximum use of the advanced graphics capabilities of your ATARI Home Computer. There's also a Microsoft BASIC version. See page 65. DOWNHILL by Mark Reid Time to hit the powder! Pick a slope, select your speed, and race against the clock to get to the bottom of the slope without hitting a tree or missing a gate. Thrills without chills, and no broken bones! See page 51. SALMON RUN by Bill Williams Help Sam the Salmon reach his lady love! You guide him upstream, leaping up waterfalls, steer- ing clear of bears, fishermen, and seagulls in a race against time. See page 50. 10 GO 8 10 TOO©3 WMOT M TT ME BOX"? TEASERS BY TOBBS by Thomas C. O'Brien and Sunburst Communications Tobbs is an imp! Fill his boxes with correct an- swers to math problems. He's glad when you're right, bill he shakes his head firmly when you're wrong. Adults are challenged and charmed too. See page 26 ATARI PASCAL LANG! AGE SYSTEM ATARI PASCAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM ISO PASCAL with many enhancements tailored to the needs of advanced PASCAL programmers. See page 70. MAGIC MELODY BOX by W. Wes Horlacher You've always wanted to write a song, right? But you can t read music, right? Well, now you can be Cole Porter! Create a four-voice harmonized song in just two steps. You design the melody line, the program does the rest. See page 40. QUARXON by Scott Ludwig The enemy is attacking — defend the droids! Quarxon's strange atmosphere makes direct fighting difficult: your own laser fire could be- come your downfall! See page 52. KEYBOARD ORGAN by Alan Griesemer and Stephen Bradshaw Turn your ATARI Home Computer into a simple organ! V ibrato and attack features can modify the sound. Record and play back your music, even play both parts of a duet! See page 20. 5 APX Fall Contest Wii 1ST PRIZE Home Management COLOR ALIGNMENT GENERATOR by Don Lee Use your computer to correct your TVs picture. Clear instructions and on-screen patterns and graphs guide you through the process step by step. See page 10. Consumer ION ROADWAY by Jim Summers You alone must master the joystick control of the I-Car: gain points by spinning out, navigate past dangerous robot cars, and never miss a chance to refuel! See page 46. 2ND PRIZE NOT AWARDED THIS QUARTER SARATOGA by Paul Wehner The year is 1777. You command the American forces: destroy the Redcoats by year end and retain control of Albany, Philadelphia, West Point, and Fort Ticonderoga. Eight scenarios! Games in progress can be saved. See page 47. 3RD PRIZE NOT AWARDED THIS QUARTER MOON MARAUDER by Stephen Romejko Destroy the alien bases on the rrux)n and save the Earth! You control the altitude and direction of your ship. See page 47. 8 APX Fall Contest Winners 1ST PRIZE Learning n salami; PUZZLER by Paul Lewandowski Your child can work as many as 20 different brightly colored puzzles! Use the joystick to place the pieces — no penalty for mistakes, and a record of tries is kept to mark improvement. See page 23. Systems/Telecommunications CARTOONIST by Bryan Talbot Use your ATARI Home Computer to create charac- ters and put them into action. Programmers can add animated sequences to programs, and children can discover the world of animation. See page 60. 2ND PRIZE RINGMASTER by Gregor Novak Elephants, camels and a show-off monkey teach multiplication tables under the big top! You set the level of difficulty. Bright colors and lively music make learning fun. See page 23. by Frank Paris MATHLIB is a whole library of math functions de- signed to expand your DEEP BLUE C COMPILER in- to the area of floating point calculations. Recom- mended for programmers familiar with DEEP BLUE C. See page 60. 3RD PRIZE NOT AWARDED THIS QUARTER MUSICAL PILOT by Charlie Kulas Pilot your plane through the notes of a song. Each note is a balloon that pops when your plane flies through it. Helps children learn relationship be- tween sounds and notes, but first of all, it's fun! See page 22. Home Management ATARIWRITER™ PRINTER DRIVERS Recommended for owners of AtariWriter™ and printers other than the ATARI 825™ and ATARI 1025™ Written in machine language Adapt the AtariWriter™ Word Processor for use with several printers Everyone's impressed with the new AtariWriter™ Word Pro- cessor because it's so versatile and easy to use. But until now, unless you had an ATARI 825 or ATARI 1025 printer, it was hard to use this powerful word processing system. With this printer driver program, you can adapt several other kinds of printers to AtariWriter m . It's easy to prepare your diskettes. You just copy a file, using DOS, from the printer driver diskette onto your text diskette, renaming it AUTORIJN.SYS, and from then on, you can use that text diskette with your printer. Each time you load your text diskette into computer memory, the printer driver routine loads along with it. There's less computer memory available to you, but the manual shows you how to deal with large text files. You can use AtariWriter™ Printer Drivers with the following brands and model numbers of printers: ATARI 1020™ and ATARI 1027 EPSON EX-80, MX-80 and MX 100 EPSON MX-80 GRAFTRAX and MX- 100 GRAFTRAX EPSON MX-80 FT III and MX-100 FT III GEMINI- 10 NEC-8023A PROWRITER-8510 The manual shows you how to adapt the word processor's special functions to each individual printer. REVIEW COMMENTS If you own a printer other than the ATARI 825 or ATARI 1025, this set of drivers makes it easy to use the fine AtariWriter™ word processor. However, it doesn't always allow access to special printer features, such as subscripts and superscripts REQUIRES AtariWriter™ Word Processor cartridge Diskette! s) containing text files Printer (listed above) ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. COLOR ALIGNMENT GENERATOR by Don Lee Recommended for ages 17 and up Written in BASIC Use your computer to correct your TVs picture How many times on yoOf TV have your green Martians been off-blue, your orange sunsets a pale shade of pink? The color alignment is sometimes off, and you're left with a poor ex- cuse for a color TV. Now with this program you can use your computer to correct this color deficiency without having to surrender your TV to the repairman. The program guides you through the process step by step in the manual. On the screen, it displays a set of color and black and white patterns and graphs, while the manual describes how to use them to perfect your TV reproduction. Using several easily recognizable controls, you can quickly correct any problem in the color quality or alignment An electrician or electronics student can use the included NTSC American standard color bars and patterns. No matter what your elec- trical proficiency, this program can help you achieve better TV reception. REVIEW COMMENTS This program, with an easy-to-follow manual, lets the user ad- just his or her TV at home, or tell if it needs to be taken into the shop for adjustment. REQUIRES ATARI BASIC Language Cartridge ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Cassette 2iK $19.95 APX-10222 Diskette 32K $19.95 APX-20222 For credit card orders, use these toll-free numbers: 800/672-1850 (California) or 800/538-1862 (elsewhere in Continental U.S.A.) Or phone direct: 408/727-5603. Diskette 24K $24.95 APX-20223 Home Management HOME INVENTORY by RLM Micro Systems Recommended for ages IS and up Written in BASIC and machine language Protect your property by recording vital information YouVe devoted time, effort, and money to acquiring your possessions, and you've insured your valuables against loss or damage. But, have you recorded the information required by your insurance company for reimbursement? For each item, HOME INVENTORY lets you keep track of a name, type, de scription, serial number, date purchased, and purchase price. You can store information for up to 1200 items on a single diskette, and you can use as many diskettes as necessary tp record all your possessions. HOME INVENTORY is very easy to use. Color-coded screens and simple messages guide you through entering the in formation for each item, for locating selected items, and for printing complete or condensed inventory lists of all or selected items. You can also erase or revise information for items at a later date. Then, after you record all your vsd uables, you can store a copy of the diskette containing your records in another location, such as a bank safety deposit box or a friend's home. No one wants (0 Lue loss or destruction of property, but with HOME INVENTORY, if disaster strikes, at least you're prepared with the information needed to get restitution from your insurance company The authors invite questions and comments by mail and tele- phone. REVIEW COMMENTS This program is easy to understand and use The color-coded screens help you keep track of where you are. and numerous messages ensure you don't accidentally lose information. REQUIRES ATARI BASIC Language Cartridge Diskette(s) tor storing records ATSPELLER, Rev. 2 by R. Stanley Kistler Recommended for ages 12 and up Written in machine language Check your documents for correct spelling How can you look a word up in the dictionary if you can t spell it? At last there s an answer to the perplexing problem of English spelling ATSPELLER takes any diskette text file pro- duced by such word pr< lessors as T*PIT. the ATARI Word Processor, or any other word prcxessor that creates ATARI DOS-compatible files, and checks it against a dictionary file of more than 30,000 words. If that s not enough, you can create your own dictionary file with even more words. You can have the questionable words highlighted on your TV screen or printed on paper. You can edit as you go along, replacing the incorrect word or leaving it as it is. Finally, if you have too many errors. ATSPEU.HR can write a new file for you. AT- SPELLER takes the drudgery out of proofreading, and gives you confidence that your documents aren't marred by spell- ing and typing ern Mrs REVIEW COMMENTS This is a first for Atari. The author worked on and tested ATSPELLER for more than a year before submitting it to APX. Rev. 2 can be used with only one disk drive, and it has ex- panded dictionary capabilities. REQUIRES Diskette! s) containing text files OPTIONAL ATARI printer or equivalent printer A second Atari 810 or 10S0 Disk Drive ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Diskette 48K $39.95 APX-20191 OPTIONAL ATARI printer or equivalent printer ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Diskette 32K 124.95 APX-20214 Home Management MOMf LOAN ONflLYSI i COIMZ toy Jim sk.nn^r t» if. s •nt • an in Years ;o •nt six . 44 »t Payiwnt. 1989 It P4VMOt. I • f i-»«8 r»t» 6.1ft 90000 HOME LOAN ANALYSIS by Jim Skinner Recommended for adults Written in BASIC Evaluate loan alternatives You're ready to buy a house, but you don't know the appropriate price range. You want your payments to be no more than $750 per month, and you want to finance the loan for 30 years to buy as large a house as possible. If the current interest rate is 14.5 percent, what's the maximum purchase price you can afford? You want to make improvements to your house that will cost $5,000. You can borrow the money at 16 percent for five or ten years. Which time period would be better? HOME LOAN ANALYSIS can help you answer these and other kinds of questions related to loans that use an amortization schedule, including mortgages and most automobile loans. You need enter only some combination of interest rate, orig- inal purchase price, down payment, balloon payment, and number of years for the loan. HOME LOAN ANALYSIS can then calculate monthly payments, maximum purchase price, appreciation rates, resale values, and amortization schedules. By changing one item, such as interest rate, you can quickly see its effect on the other figures. And you can display the analyses on your TV screen or print them. Can you afford a home improvement loan? Should you refinance your first mortgage or take out a second mortgage? What is the effect of various balloon payments on your regular monthly pay- ment? What will your home be worth ten years from now? With HOME LOAN ANALYSIS, getting the answers to these questions makes evaluating all your options a snap. The author invites written questions and comments. REVIEW COMMENTS This program is easy to use, informative, and well designed It will calculate a schedule for specific years. The manual clearly presents many useful examples. REQUIRES ATARI BASIC Language Cartridge OPTIONAL ATARI printer or equivalent printer ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Cassette 16K $24.95 APX- 10207 Diskette 24K $24.95 APX-20207 STRATEGIC FINANCIAL RATIO ANALYSIS by Richard K. Lindgren Recommended for investors and students Written in BASIC Evaluate a firm's performance and management strategies Investors use financial ratio analysis to assess the perform- ance of a company. You supply information from published financial statements, such as annual reports. STRATEGIC FINANCIAL RATIO ANALYSIS computes ratios that measure a firm's profitability, liquidity, and use of debt. You can also use the program to inteq->ret a management's business strategies, noi always ev ident from looking at num- bers alone. STRATEGIC FINANCIAL RATIO ANALYSIS can help uncover these strategies by presenting a set of key ratios in a format that demonstrates how each factor contributes to the company's success or failure. You can also use the program for "what if' analyses to evaluate the impact of a possible business decision on future performance. The program guides you through entering the necessary data, which you can save for future use. Because you can work with two sets of information at a time, you can compare in- formation on two different companies or information for two different time periods for one company. You can request as many as 30 different ratios for these two sets, and display or print them in a special format that illustrates their strategic relationships. For quick recall, the program also contains a glossary of all the ratios. With STRATEGIC FINANCIAL RATIO ANALYSIS, you'll spend less time computing and organizing your results than you do now, and you'll have more useful information at your disposal. The author invites written questions and comments. REVIEW COMMENTS This program is easy to use and it's good at helping you avoid making mistakes. The user manual is clear and thor- ough. REQUIRES ATARI BASIC Language Cartridge OPTIONAL ATARI printer or equivalent printer DLskette(s) for storing data ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Diskette 32K $24.95 APX-20217 12 Home Management DATA BASE/REPORT SYSTEM by James W. Burley Recommended for experienced data base users Written in BASIC and machine language If you've ever used a data base manager on a large computer system, you'll appreciate the features of DATA BASE/REPORT SYSTEM. This general purpose system creates and maintains records having a maximum length of 255 characters. You can store about 1300 records having a five-character key on a sy s- tem with 40K of memory. You use the program to create a file; add, update, and re- move records; sort the file; and print reports. Other pro- grams redefine files by adding fields, modifying field sizes, or changing old field headings. The report writer lets you mod- ify the order in which fields print, sum up numeric fields, and find your records using optional keys. REQUIRES ATARI BASIC Language Cartridge DOS 2 -formatted diskette(s) for data OPTIONAL ATARI 825 80-Column Printer or Epson printer ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Diskette 40K $24.95 APX-20134 CALCULATOR Recommended for ages 15 and up Written in machine language Now you can use the best qualities of a calculator on your ATARI Home Computer. CALCULATOR contains 145 functions, from simple arithmetic to programming commands that let you write your own programs. You can also work complex conversions and watch the stack and memory displays. Once CALCULATOR automatically loads into memory, you can choose five categories: conversions, fundamental functions, algebraic and trigonometric functions, statistical functions, and financial functions. After you've finished your calcula- tions, you can print your results. Other commands let you store and retrieve programs as well as data. The stack and memory displays share the center of the screen. Along the bottom of the screen is a space for your entries. You can store these entries in memory. A scroll area above the prompt line displays your last seven entries. REQUIRES No required accessories. OPTIONAL An ATARI printer or equivalent printer ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Diskette 24K $29.95 APX-20130 BOWLER'S DATABASE, REV. 2 by Jerry White Recommended for bowlers Written in BASIC BOWLER S DATABASE is a friendly program for keeping track of your bowling scores. You enter your weekly scores for your first, second and third games, using a separate diskette or cassette for each bowler. You can request summary and detailed reports. The summary report contains your highest, lowest, and average scores bowled in the first, second, and third games, your highest, lowest, and average three-game series, and overall average. The detailed report lists all game and individual series totals by week. BOWLER'S DATABASE gives you detailed records of your bowling performance, making comparisons from one season to the next, or from one league to another. Revision 2 lets you store scores greater than 255, and contains a display change. REQUIRES ATARI BASIC Language Cartridge Additional diskettes for storing data OPTIONAL ATARI printer or equivalent printer ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Cassette 16K $17.95 APX-10091 Diskette 24K $17.95 APX-20091 Home Management DISKETTE MAILING LIST by William Bartlett Recommended for ages 16 and up Written in BASIC and machine language ENHANCEMENTS TO GRAPH IT* by Howard D. Siebenrock Recommended for ages 12 and up Written in BASIC DISKETTE MAILING LIST can handle lists having as many as 127 units of information (fields), with each unit as large as 120 characters. The number of records a file can contain is limited only by available diskette space, not memory. You select program functions from menus. First you define the kinds of information you want to include in the records for a file, and then you add the records themselves. You can revise, add, and remove records as needed. You can sort and re-sort your records by any combination of fields. And you can print your records according to your specifications. Each record prints on one line, and you can also create custom- tailored mailing labels accommodating single and multilabel forms. REQUIRES ATARI BASIC Language Cartridge OPTIONAL ATARI 825 80-Column Printer or equivalent ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Diskette 16K $24.95 APX-20112 FAMILY VEHICLE EXPENSE by Jerry Falkenhan Recommended for ages 18 and up Written in BASIC With FAMILY VEHICLE EXPENSE, you can keep track of six vehicles in nine expense categories, using your ow n blank diskettes to store data on. The program uses a series of menus to review, enter, change, or delete information on one or all of your cars in any month. It lets you record twelve fuel entries per vehicle per month, and if you enter your odometer readings for at least two fill ups, the program calculates your cost per mile and miles per gallon for each vehicle for each month. You can use the print option at any time to create copies of your entries or to obtain summary reports. REQUIRES ATARI BASIC Language Cartridge DOS 2-formatted diskette(s) for storing data OPTIONAL ATARI printer or equivalent printer ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. If you own the ATARI GRAPH IT program, you know you can create your own pie graphs, bar charts, and different plots on your TV' screen, and you can use your Joy stick Controller to find values of specific points on the plots. ENHANCEMENTS increases the usefulness of GRAPH IT. With ENHANCEMENTS you can save your work on diskette or cassette and later re- display it. The program also lets you select degrees or ra- dians for plotting trigonometric functions, and the function you use displays below the plot. Incorporating these features into GRAPH IT is simple. From then on, you use these enhanced GRAPH IT programs as you would the original versions, except that you now have addi- tional features readily available. REQUIRES ATARI BASIC Language Cartridge ATARI 410 or 1010 Program Recorder GRAPH IT (CX4109) OPTIONAL One ATARI Joystick Controller ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Diskette 32K $17.95 APX-20(P4 Indicates trademark of Atari. Inc. FINANCIAL ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM by Robert A. Waldman Recommended for ages 16 and up Written in BASIC The FINANCIAL ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM helps you evaluate the status of all your holdings by creating records for each asset and producing printed reports. Your assets can be of any type, and you can track as many as 99 different assets per file, creating as many files as you need. The system values your portfolio and prints three kinds of reports. One orders all your assets in a file alphabetically and lists each asset's yield, profit, and annual payout. This report also prints subtotals by asset types. The second report sorts all your assets into different lists: value, profit, payout, yield, and per- cent profit. The third tabulates all your dividends and interest paid on a year-to-date basis. You can also print data input forms to record information manually. Diskette 40K $24.95 APX-20128 REQUIRES ATARI BASIC Language Cartridge ATARI 825 80-Column Printer only ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Diskette 40K $2995 APX-20042 Home Management REAL ESTATE CASH FLOW ANALYSIS by Richard K. Lindgren Recommended for real estate investors Written in BASIC With REAL ESTATE CASH FLOW ANALYSIS, you can make de- cisions ahout real estate, but leave the number-crunching to your computer. The program consists of three sections that analyze the costs and benefits of income-producing property. The Data Editor guides you in compiling, documenting, and modifying rele- vant analysis data. The Cash Flow analysis section computes before-tax and after-tax cash flows, profitability measures, and projected net worth for an investment property. The Amor- tization section computes monthly payments, interest rates, principal amounts, and terms for self-amortized loans. You can print all the analyses. REQUIRES ATARI BASIC Language Cartridge OPTIONAL ATARI 825 80-Column Printer ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Diskette 32K $24.95 APX-20169 TYPIT by Charles E. Balthaser Recommended for any typist Written in assembly language TYPIT turns your computer into a typewriter, keeping the editing features of a word processor, but eliminating the complex code symbols. A page of text appears on the screen just the way it will on the printed page. Each line is as long on the screen as it's going to be on the page. There's no "wraparound.'' A signal sounds when you are at the end of a line. To help you visual- ize how each page is going to look, TYPIT displays a dotted Line every- 65 lines, to show the bottom of an 11-inch piece of paper. The seventeen editing commands are short and sim- ple. With a 48K system, you have room for about four pages. You can save on diskette anything you write with TYPIT. REQUIRES ATARI 825 80-column printer or equivalent printer OPTIONAL Diskette(s) for storing documents ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Diskette 24K $17.95 APX-20192 STOCK MANAGEMENT by Greg Thrush Recommended for ages 18 and up Written in BASIC With STOCK MANAGEMENT, you record the information from your trade confirmation receipts once. The program then takes care of all your record-keeping chores and per- forms analyses. A series of menus and prompts guides you through entering and updating information for these transactions: buy, sell, di- vidends, stock dividends, stock splits, and nontaxable distri- butions. For each transaction you record the stock, its symbol, the transaction type and date, the exchange, and the price/dividend, quantity, and commission. The program up- dates your file whenever you add information, and you can then print several kinds of reports: lists, current status includ- ing current value of each stock, summary of all transactions, and a capital gains summary in a given year. REQUIRES ATARI BASIC Language Cartridge OPTIONAL ATARI 825 80-Column Printer or Epson 80-Column Printer ORDER INFORMATION Media RAM Price Order No. Diskette 32K $24.95 APX-20147 ON SALE NOW! The A.N.A.L.O.G. Compendium contains the best ATARI programs from the first ten issues of A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing Magazine, including new material not previously published. It is packed with utilities, educational and business programs, including an updated version of Tony Messina's "Disk Tool." And, to top it off, The Compendium contains the best game programs ever published in any magazine, including Maniac, Stuntman and the A.N.A.L.O.G. favorite, Fill } Er Up! (All shown opposite page, top.) The A.N.A.L.O.G. Compendium is available at se- lected book and computer stores, or you can order it direct. Send a check or money order for $14.95 + $2 shipping and handling to: A.N.A.L.O.G. Compendium P.O. Box 615 Holmes, PA 19043 Or you can order by phone with MasterCard or VISA. Call toll free: 1-800-345-8112 (in PA, call 1-800- 662-2444). For orders outside the U.S., add an additional $5 air mail, $2 sur- face. SUPPLIES ARE LIMITED, SO ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY! Personal Development i> V N 0 0 MUSIC >V :» I'i-f A. PLAY 6. ENTER/ fc'DIT MU5IC C. ERASe 0. PLAY ME A5URE < 3 > C. ^AVE P. LOAO G. OI^K OIREC TORY H. TEMPO