This episode features Antic Magazine #020, Volume 3, Number 2, from May 1984.

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Screenshots from the “Education” department article titled “Alphabet Music”:

Screenshots from the “Scroll Your Way To The Top” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Use BASIC To Animate” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Color Fine Tuner” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Toolbox” department article titled “BASIC – A Variable Approach”:

Screenshots from the “Game Of The Month” feature article titled “Escape From Epsilon”:

Screenshots from the “I/O Board” mood program submission from Clark and Mahler Morris titled “FreakOut”:

This episode features Antic Magazine #020, Volume 3, Number 2, from May 1984.

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This episode features Personal Finance System, originally released in 1981 by Dynacomp.

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This episode features Antic Magazine #019, Volume 3, Number 1, from April 1984.

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Screenshots from the “Education” department article titled “Math Wizard”:

Screenshots from the “Education” department article titled “Light Pen Doodle”:

Screenshots from the “Logo / Pilot” department article titled “Safe Place and Large Text”:

Screenshots from the “Creative Programming with Player/Missile Graphics” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Matchbox Tic-Tac-Toe” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Atari Controls Your Environment” feature article:

• Controller program.
• Phone dialer.

Screenshots from the “Memory Window” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Wheels Within Wheels” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Electronic Birthday Card” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Game Of The Month” department article:

Screenshots from the Bonus Game:

This episode features Antic Magazine #019, Volume 3, Number 1, from April 1984.

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This episode features PLATO and PLATOTerm.

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Image of a CDC 1604 on which early PLATO systems ran:

Image of a PLATO IV terminal:

Ad from 1983:

Ad:

Atari 8 Bit PLATOTerm v1.0 (Irata Online):

• Dialing

Atari 8 Bit PLATOTerm v1.5 (Irata Online):

FujiNet enabled.

• w/ Mouse (Joystick)

Atari 8 Bit PLATOTerm v1.3 (Irata Online):

• w/ mouse (Joystick)
• w/ mouse (ST Mouse)
• Dialing
• Login
• Menu
• Bulletins (from Main Menu option)
• Author Mode
• Author Mode help
• Editor help
• Courseware Subjects
• Index of the subject
• Extended information of the subject
• Viewing the subject
• < End of joke subject screenshots >
• An education course.
• < End of education screenshots >
• Games
• < End of games screenshots >
• Notes Menu
• Using the Talk feature
• 6 channels available
• 5 users per channel
• Using Personal Notes
• Some Fun Stuff
• BASIC Language Simulator
• DO READ the instructions.
• Program editor
• Cheesy sample program.
• Test execution of cheesy program.
• Saving the cheesy program.
• Running the Rose program.
• Accessing built in terminal HELP. Note that Return maps to NEXT.

Macintosh (Modern)

• Connecting to CYBIS.
• Connecting to Irata Online.
• Help
• Main Menu
• Game title screens can be full of color.
• Sea Battle as played on Mac for comparison against Atari 8 bit (previous section above).
• Courseware catalog.
• Subject index.
• Obligatory research.
• Mac Help

Files from the Atari PLATOTerm 1.0 disk:

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This episode features PLATO and PLATOTerm.

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This episode features Antic Magazine #018, Volume 2, Number 12, from March 1984.

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Screenshots from the “Starting Line” department article titled “Cinderella Story”:

Screenshots from the “Education” department article titled “Flash Count”:

Screenshots from Part 2 titled “Merging Traffic” of the “Logo / Pilot” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Disk Read” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Poker Solitaire” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Game Of The Month” feature article. Part 1 is titled “Centurian”:

Screenshots from the “Game Of The Month” feature article. Part 2 is titled “Escape Maze”:

Screenshots from the “GTIA Rainbow” feature article (which didnt work properly – it should be color):

Screenshot of the unofficial cover disk:

This episode features Antic Magazine #018, Volume 2, Number 12, from March 1984.

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This episode features SmartTerminal, released in 1983 by Microbits Peripheral Products (MPP), then later by Supra Corporation after the company was reformed.

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Scan of the cartridge:

Ad from Antic June 1983:

Ad from Antic October 1983:

Ad from Antic December 1983:

Ad from Antic February 1985:

Ad from Antic May 1986:

Booting

• Version 6.1 in 38 columns (default).
• Version 6.1 in 40 columns.
• Version 6.1 in 40 columns and custom color.
• Version 8.4 in 40 columns with custom color.
• Version 6.1 in 64 columns.

Terminal Usage

• Disk Functions menu.
• Directory output.
• Modem to Disk Direct function (Capture).
• Saving a receive buffer.
• Deleting receive buffers.
• Modem to printer direct.
• Load buffer from device.
• Dial/Answer Functions menu.
• Terminal mode.
• Customizing the baud rate. Reliable up to ~450 baud (on 300 baud modems) if phone line and connection is good.

• Version 6.1 disk files. Note M80.MPP which is an 80 column driver I couldnt get to work.
• Version 6.1 Dialing Directory dump.
• Version 8.4 disk files. Again, could not get 80 column driver to work.
• Version 8.4 dialing directory dump.

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