ANTIC VOL. 8, NO. 1 / MAY 1989 / PAGE 2
For the 1989 Antic Awards, this magazine is proud to honor two of the energetic, imaginative companies that continue to lead the way in creating breakthrough products for the 8-bit Atari.
ICD
The March 1989 Antic cover featured ICD's SpartaDOS X slugging it out with Atari's own DOS-XE for the new 8-bit operating system championship. Despite many impressive strengths in the "official" Atari entry, our review concluded that third-party ICD's SpartaDOS X is the "ultimate" operating system for power users and hard disk owners.
SpartaDOS X ($79,95) comes on a 64K piggyback cartridge that's compatible with the Atari 800 as well as the XL/XE models. The Antic review also described SpartaDOS X as "the most advanced product released for the 8-bit Atari since ICD's own Multi I/O interface" --which won ICD an Antic Award in 1987.
1220 Rock Street, Rockford, IL 61101, (815) 968-2228.
INNOVATIVE CONCEPTS
Innovative Concepts' Easy-Scan image scanner shared the Antic October 1988 Cover with ICD's 8-bit/ST FA-ST hard disk. Easy-Scan ($79.95) uses a pair of fiber-optic light pipes to copy images from paper into your Atari's memory with a surprisingly accurate 256-level gray scale.
Innovative Concepts has established a solid reputation as a small company with an extensive line of 8-bit memory upgrades and related hardware enhancements. On the same day that these awards were being prepared, a box arrived at Antic with Innovative Concepts' three latest products--RAMdrive + XE-GM2, a 192K memory upgrade for the Atari XE Game System; RAM-Aid, a coldstart device for Ataris with at least 128K; and the XF35 Kit which converts the Atari XF551 disk drive to a 3.5inch drive with 720K capacity.
31172 Shawn Drive, Warren, MI 48093. (313) 293-0730.