New Products
SYNCALC TEMPLATES
(software)
Synapse & Broderbund
17 Paul Drive
San Rafael, CA 94903
(415) 479-1170
$19.95, 48K disk
Users of SynCalc, the well-known spreadsheet program, can now save hours of time in creating applications. Twenty-two common applications are included on the disk, ranging from a checking account register to cost analysis of buying versus renting a home. The disk also illustrates the basic techniques of modifying the templates for specific applications.
COLONIAL CONQUEST,
PANZER GRENADIER
(software)
strategic Simulations, Inc.
883 Stierlin Road, Bldg. A-200
Mountain View, CA 94043
(415) 964-1353
$39.95 each, 48K disk
Up to six people can play Colonial Conquest, a strategy game about the struggle for world dominance between Germany, France, England, Japan, Russia and the United States 100 years ago. Roger Damon's Panter Grenadier is a WWII strategy depicting the platoon/company warfare between the Germans and the Russians on the Eastem front.
TYPESETTER
(software)
XLent Software
P.O. Box 5228
Springfield, VA 22150
(703) 644-8881
$34.95, 48K disk
A graphics program with a difference, Typesetter gives you total graphics freedom in preparing any page. It allows you to mix type styles, width and height; to print forward, reverse, up, down and overlays. It comes in two versions on the Atari disk, one fo the larger memory of the 130XE and the other for the remaining 8-bit Atari models.
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HALLEY PROJECT
(software)
Mindscape
3444 Dundee Road
Northbrook, IL 60062
(312) 480-7667
$44.95, 48K disk
Complete a series of navigational tests and qualify for the top secret Halley Project by learning about the solar system in this real-time simulation from Tom Snyder Productions.
ASSEMBLER & LINKER
(software)
Six Forks Software
11009 Harness Circle
Raleigh, NC 27614
(919) 847-2740
$39, 48K disk
Programming tools that create source code to develop assembly language programs. Requires printer, word processor, knowledge of 6502 machine language and Atari internal architecture. Includes software, 70-page manual, 17-source sample program.
THE SOURCE
(online service)
1616 Anderson Road
McLean, VA 22102
(703) 734-7500
The source now has speedy 2400 baud service online. Prime time weekdays 7 am to 6 pm will be 46 cents a minute. Non-prime usage is 20 cents a minute.
COPYMATE 2.1
(software)
10843 Venice Circle
Tampa, FL 33615
$5, 48K disk
This is a double density version of the disk copier that quickly backs up your software.
C.E.A. HOME CONTROL
(home control system)
Computer Engineering Applications
P.O. Box 4878
Las Vegas, NV 89127
$89.95, 48K disk
Keep burglars away with your Atari. Complete home security system includes joystick port interface to turn four devices on/off, power control module, heater/ac temperature controller, reprogrammable BASIC software.
PLAN AHEAD
(software)
Advanced Financial Planning
20922 Paseo Olma
El Toro, CA 92630
$29.95, $49.95, $59.95, 48K disk
Purchase only the modules you require--Retirement Planning, Life Insurance Planning and College Funding financial software. All account for the effects of inflation and produce printed statements and itemizations.
HARD BYTE SECURITY
(home security system)
Hard Byte
P.O. Box 605
Warren, MI 48092
(313) 739-2098
$99.95
32K disk, 16K cartridge
Plug this into your joystick port and tum your computer into an alarm system. Includes software, three window sensors, 30 feet of glass foil, door sensor, switch box, security panel.
PRINT SHOP GRAPHICS LIBRARY II
(software)
Broderbund
17 Paul Drive
San Rafael, CA 34903
(415) 479-1170
$24.95, 48K disk, printer
Even more designs, symbols and pictures for the popular Print Shop graphics printing program. Categories are jobs, hobbies, peoplel places, travel, health.
BRIMSTONE
(software)
Synapse & Broderbund
17 Paul Drive
San Rafael, CA 349031
(415) 479-1170
$35.95
48K disk, (requires 2 drives)
An electronic medieval interactive text adventure. This latest "electronic novel" takes the knights of the round table on a quest into hell.
ELITE PERSONAL ACCOUNTANT
(software)
Elite Software
14897 Interurban Ave. South
Seattle, WA 98168
(206) 246-5122
$48.95, 48K disk, BASIC
Financial record keeper and checkbook balancer for personal financial management.
MICROLEAGUE BASEBALL
(software)
Datamost
20660 Nordhoff Street
Chatsworth, CA 91311
(818) 709-1202
$39.95, 48K disk
You are the manager in this action-packed recreation of baseball. You select a team from either the American League or the National league, and then pit it against the others. Actual players in the game perform just as they do in real life.
WRITE FILE,
HOME OFFICE, TEAM MATE
(software)
Tri Micro
1010 North Batavia Street
Orange, CA 92667
(714) 771-4038
$29.95, 48K disk
The Write File is an integrated word processor and database manager. Your Home Office is the same integrated word processor with a spreadsheet. Team Mate ($49.95) combines both of these along with a business graphics System.
COMPUTEREYES
(video digitizer)
Digital Vision, Inc.
14 Oak Street, Suite 21
Needham, MA 02132
(617) 444-9040
$129.95, 48K disk
Video digitizing comes to the Atari with this slow-scan acquisition system. Plugs into your joystick port to captufe and digitize black and white images from sources such as videocamera, videotape recorder, videodisk, or just plain TV. Saves disk files compatible with KoalaPad. Inciudes interface module and software on disk. For $399.95, the complete system includes a b&w videocamera.
MONDAY MORNING MANAGER
(software)
TK Computer Products
P.O. Box 9617
Downers Grove, IL 60515
(800) 422-4912
$34.90 48K disk
Manage any of 36 major league baseball teams and trade among more than 680 real-life players. All statistics built-in.
ON-TRACK RACING
(software)
Gamestar
1302 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 963-3487
$24.95, 48K disk
Take on Mario or Pamelli (Mario Sandunni or Pamelli Pothole). You see the whole track on Le Mans, Monaco, Daytona and other famous speedways.
HACKER,
DESIGNERS PENCIL,
PASTFINDER
(software)
Activision
2350 Bayshore Frontage Road
Mountain View, CA 94043
(415) 960-0410
$24.95 each
Hacker (48K disk) is a simulation of the online hacking experience and tests your ability to work your way into a mystery system. Designers Pencil (16K cartridge) is a powerful but easy-to-use joystick graphics tool. Pastfinder (16K cartridge) is a graphic adventure game that takes you on a joumey beyond the moons of Altair.
TRUE GRID DIGITIZERS
(graphics digitizers)
Houston Instruments
8500 Cameron Road
Austin, TX 78753
(800) 531-5205
$495, 48K disk
Priced from $445 to $975, these graphics input digitizing tablets feature a resolution of .005 inch, a built-in RS-232C interface and choice of stylus, one button cursor or four button cursor.
HALLEY HUNTER
(software)
Capestyle Software
Box 531, RFD #1
Mashpee, MA 02649
(617) 477-2448
$14.95, 32K disk
You won't have any trouble finding Halley's Comet during its 1985-6 visit. Input your location and time of observation. The program returns coordinates, predicted brightness, where on the horizon to look and how high up.
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