ST New Products
IT'S MAC TONIGHT
Use Macintosh software on your ST with help from Data Pacific's long-awaited
three-program package, Magic Sac Professional. Magic Sac Plus is
what lets your ST run Mac software; Translator One lets your ST drives
read and write to Mac disks and convert between ST, Mac and IBM PC formats.
The Magic Epson Printer driver lets you print with all Epson and Epson-compatible
9-pin and 24-pin printers.
$449.95. Data Pacific, Inc., 609 E. Speer Blvd., Denver, CO 80203. (303) 733-8158. FINAL.
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PRINT IN UNISON
Create customized signs, banners, stationery, calendars and greeting
cards with the flexible PrintMaster Plus. Each design option-text,
graphics and layout- can be addressed repeatedly, in any order, before
the final printout. You can also preview your work at each step of the
design process. You'll have over 100 graphics to choose from, and over
280 more are readily available. PrintMaster Plus has a built-in graphics
editor and 10 fonts-all but two of which allow upper and lowercase lettering.
$39.95. Unison World, 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 902, Berkeley, CA 94704. (415) 848-6670. FINAL.
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HASTA BE A TWIST
Pinball Wizard, an action-oriented pinball simulation and building
set, takes full advantages of the ST's color and sound capabilities and
features detailed graphics, lights and sounds that give you the feel of
playing actual pinball. This one-to-four-player game has four different
simulations, complete with backboard, flippers, tilt sensors, etc. Difficulty
levels can be adjusted for each table. The parts and paint menu contains
targets, flippers, bumpers, spinners and discs, and you can install a stroboscope,
which makes the ball disappear intermittently.
$34.95. Accolade, 20813 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014. (408) 446-5757. PRESS.
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CACHE ON HAND
The Discache hard and floppy disk-caching system stores frequently
accessed sectors in RAM so you can access them more quickly. Flexible and
easy to use, the GEM-based Discache caches single-sector and multiple-sector
reads. It runs on any ST, including the Mega.
$34.95. Amgem, Inc., P.O. Box 1338, Bethesda, MD 20817. (301) 762-8870. PRESS.
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MARVIN SOUNDWAVE
The Marvin Transientenrekorder is a digital oscilloscope that
gives you 15 channels, 20 milliseconds per 8-bit sample with one channel,
complete GEM interface, 20 mHz bandwidth, 277L and analog inputs, and the
capacity for 16,000 samples per channel.
Marvin AG, Fries-Str. 23, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland. 01/302 2113. PRESS.
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TERRORPODS
Terrorpods features a Nationality Selection Screen-enabling
you to play this strategy-arcade game in one of several languages, including
American English and British English. The fully scrolling 3-D playfield
will keep you on your toes as you head toward the asteroid Colian to discover
the secret of the Empire's ultimate fighting machine-the Terrorpod.
About $44. Psygnosis, Ltd. U.S. Distribution: Computer Software Services, 2150 Executive Drive, Addison, IL 60101. (312) 620-4444. PRESS.
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SENTRY
In The Sentry, a dynamic environment of some 10,000 unique landscapes
and the press of time conspire to make your life miserable. You, as a lone
robot, fight the Sentry and her Landgazers while you attempt a coup d'etat-which
will never come off if you're not careful to avoid her energy-absorbing
stares. The Sentry comes with an illustrated booklet, a key guide and a
pin-on button.
$44.95. Firebird, 71 N. Franklin Turnpike, Waldwick, NJ 07463. (201) 444-5700. PRESS.
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ST VEGAS
Play the slots, keno, blackjack and a draw poker machine in Video
Vegas. They look, feel and play like their Las Vegas counterparts,
and blackjack includes a card counting feature.
$34.95. Baudville, 5380 52nd Street, Grand Rapids, Ml 49508. (616) 957-3036. PRESS.
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SPRITES
ST Sprite Factory consists of four programs: the arcade game
programming utility for sprite-based games that can have more than 500
screens; a game mapmaking program; a joystick program that lets you create
a sequence of movement, frame by frame; and a demonstration of fine and
coarse scrolling. OSS Pascal source code is included for the first three
programs, and a collision detection tutorial is included as well.
$39.95. Future Software Systems, 21125 Chatsworth Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311. (818) 341-8681. FINAL.
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MU-SCRIPT I
MU-Script I, a slightly scaled-down version of MU-Script II,
has a 16-track sequencer, MIDI event editor and multi-staff notation. Quantizing,
autopunching and individual event editing are all at your disposal, and
individual tracks can be as-signed to any MIDI channel and scaled to any
of 16 volume levels for multi-synthesizer or multi-tymbral setups. A single
track can be split into treble and bass tracks.
$99.95. Quiet Lion, P.O. Box 219, Sun Valley, CA 91353. (818) 765-6224. PRESS.
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SIX FROM TDC
TDC Distributors have released the following games for the ST: Aliants:
The Desperate Battle for Earth, Stock Market, Time Blast,
KnickerBockers, Liberator and Mouse Trap. All games cost
between $14.95 and $29.95.
TDC Distributors, Inc., 3331 Bartlett Blvd., Orlando, FL 32811. (800) 289-8900, (305) 423-1987 in Florida. PRESS.
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DARK CASTLE
The superbly animated Dark Castle features more then 70 digitized
sound effects, including a hair-raising organ solo and the screams of the
Black Knight's prisoners. On your quest to find the Black Knight and clean
his clocks, you must fight your way through 14 increasingly difficult rooms.
Standing in your way are plague-infested rats, vicious bats and a fire-breathing
dragon, not to mention the dungeon s torturer and a diabolical wizard.
$39.95. Three Sixty Inc., 2105 5. Bascom Avenue, Suite 290, Campbell, CA 95008. (408) 879-9144. PRESS.
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QUIZPLUS
This mouse-driven quiz and tutorial program has the "plus" of displaying
DEGAS-format graphics during the quiz or tutorial. QuizPlus is designed
for the educator who uses the ST for student instruction. A few simple
QuizPlus commands turn a quiz into a colorful educational experience.
$29. Mad Scientist Software, 2063 North 820 West, Pleasant Grove, UT 84062. (801) 785-3028. PRESS.
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TAKE IT ALL OFF
Now there are two more female Data Disks for Strip Poker by
Artworx. Disk 4 features Dawn and Crystal, and Disk 5 has Cynthia and Janice.
Each disk was done by a different artist, providing variety in appearance,
personality and style of play. These disks require the Strip Poker master
disk.
$19.95 each. Artworx Software Company, Inc., 1844 Penfield Road, Penfield, NY 14526. (716) 385-6120; (800) 828-6573. PRESS.
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WHERE'S REALITY?
ARM+C and ARM+D are detailed city and dungeon maps for
Alternate Reality. (Antic review 11/87.) ARM+C ($4.95) points out
every guild, bank, casino, dungeon, secret wall, etc. Also included is
a list of 52 potions,.a two-year calendar and a journal log sheet. ARM
+ D ($5.95) shows all four levels of the dungeon and includes a journal
log sheet, as well as hints on game play The maps cost $10 together.
Mars Merchandising, 15W 615 Diversey, Elmhurst, IL 60126. (312) 530-0988. PRESS.
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CROSS-DEVELOP
Memocom's Universal Cross-Development Kit includes a table-driven
cross-assembler, source/text editor, communications software and MEMULATOR
II in-circuit EPROM emulator. The cross-assembler includes tables and sample
source programs for 20 different microprocessors. You can create; edit
and assemble source programs for almost any 4-, 8-or 16-bit microprocessor
or microcontroller.
$575. Memocom, 1920 Arbor Creek Drive, Carrollton, TX 75010. (214) 446-9906. PRESS.
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CATALOGGER & LOCATOR
Coin and stamp enthusiasts can use The Catalogger to find any
item in their collections, and The Locator lets them find items
in whatever type of collection or context they set up. Both programs feature
powerful search, sort and update routines, file boxes, pull-down menus
and built-in help screens. The programs' multikey search quickly finds
any item in a database of up to 1,500 items. Also included is a mini-spreadsheet.
$17.50 each. Rascom, 22128 Newkirk Avenue, Carson, CA 90745. PRESS.
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DIET RIGHT
This nutritional analysis program was written by two M.D.'s. Diet's
features include weight loss and daily caloric requirements, exercise caloric
expenditures, an expendable GEM-based menu planner and calorie counter,
ideal diet and body weight recommendations and complete documentation.
Co-developed by Ron Schaefer, author of BASIC Alert (Antic, March
1987).
$25. Schaefer Supergraphics, 1201 Wilder Avenue #1801, Honolulu, HI 96822. (808) 523-3353. PRESS.
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EASY SLEAZE
Life as we know it would lose considerable charm without polyester.
That's why there's Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards,
Sierra's 3-D animated adventure game. Gamble, drink yourself silly and
indulge in a ridiculous amount of "adult fun." The game's 50 fully-animated
scenes offer slot machines and blackjack-which are just like their Las
Vegas counterparts-as well as full facial views and expressions (which
demonstrate the importance of just the right kind of pickup lines).
$39.95. Sierra On-Line, Inc., P.O. Box 485, Coarsegold, CA 93614. (209) 683-6858. FINAL.
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New ST product notices are compiled from information provided by the products' manufacturers. Antic assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of these notices or the performance of the product. Each mention is followed by a code word indicating that, at press time, Antic had seen a FINAL marketable version, near-final BETA, earlier ALPHA, incomplete DEMO, or PRESS release.