This episode features Antic Magazine #015, Volume 2, Number 9, from December 1983.

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This episode features Creative Process, released in 1986 by Antic. It was developed by Dave Thorson.

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Front cover of the packaging:

Rear cover of the packaging:

Advertisement from the Antic’s The Catalog March 1988:

Booting

Menu

• Animated menu. Notice the ! marks in the program title box. They rotate around until they collide, then the screen changes color, new characters take their place, and the process continues.

Usage

• Loading…
• Loading data…
• Empty outline
• Context help.
• Disk and Printer function menu.
• Editing an outline item.
• Context help for edit.
• Notes for item.
• Adding a level.
• Outline with sub items.
• More sub items.
• Really starting to detail the list…
• Pretty much complete.
• Making a data disk.
• Are you sure?
• OK, you asked for it. Building new data file disk.
• Its done.
• Disk contents.
• Configuring the Ram Disk drive number.
• Saving…
• Printing (to screen)…
• Print to Screen (List Only).
• Print to Screen (List and Text).
• List to printer.
• Printing…

Createive Process to Word Processor

• Converting TO a Word Processor file.
• Converted file viewed in AtariWriter.
• Converted file viewed in PaperClip.

Word Processor to Creative Process

• Converting FROM a Word Processor file.

Error Handling

Help

• Booting help with choice of output to screen or printer.
• Selecting continuous feed or paging.
• Help output to screen.

• Atari DOS 2.5 on board.
• Directory of program disk.
• Contents of READ.ME
• Program info file.
• Empty list data file.

Output of Help file:

Output of List Outline:

Output of List Outline with Text:

Output of Text:

The manuals are available on AtariMania.

This episode features Creative Process, released in 1986 by Antic. It was developed by Dave Thorson.

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This episode features Antic Magazine #014, Volume 2, Number 8, from November 1983.

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Screenshots from the “Starting Line” department article titled “Sound Demo”:

Screenshots from the “Here’s Looking At You S.A.M.!” feature article:

• Speaking in high quality without screen blanking.

Screenshots from the “Sound Beyond Sound” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Simple Synthesizer” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Pick A Chord” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Random Music” feature article:

• White
• Brown
• 1/F
• Bing composed melody entered into Atari Music Composer.
• Bing composed melody.

Screenshots from the “Logo/Pilot” department article titled “Sweet Toots”:

Screenshots from the “In The Public Domain” department article presenting the BASIC game “Air Raid 2000”:

Screenshots from the “Kids Korner” department article presenting a BASIC game written by 12 year old Greg Burdett:

Coverdisk (unofficial) screenshot:

This episode features Antic Magazine #014, Volume 2, Number 8, from November 1983.

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This episode features B/Graph, released in 1983 by Inhome Software as version 1.0, then later in 1984 by Batteries Included as version 1.1, and again in 1986 as version 1.1.1. It was developed by Michael Reichman and Robert Wilson.

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Box front as released by Batteries Included:

Box back as released by Batteries Included:

Advertisement from Inhome Softare:

Advertisement from Batteries Included from ANALOG December 1984:

Advertisement for multiple titles from Batteries Included from Antic December 1986:

Sleeve cover for Antic’s B/Graph Enhancement Disk:

Advertisement from Antic for the enhancement disk in Antic’s The Catalog March 1988:

Advertisement for Inhome Software’s B Key 400 from Antic February 1983:

Advertisement from the Winter 1983 APX catalog:

Advertisement from the Spring 1983 APX catalog:

Advertisement from the Fall 1983 APX catalog:

Booting

Inhome 1.0 Version:

Batteries Included 1.1 Version:

0 – Mini-DOS

• Loading…
• Mini-DOS menu.
• Format
• Directory

1 – Reset Printer Type

2 – Graphing

• Graphing menu.
• Entering graph parameters
• Entering data
• Selecting graph type
• 3D Bars
• 2D Bars (no border)
• 2D Bars (with border)
• Changing color
• Changing intensity
• Bar chart grid enabled (note artifacting for additional color)
• Bar chart grid lines enabled (note artifacting for additional color)
• Line chart (note artificting for additional color)
• Point chart (note artifacting for additional color)
• 3D Bar chart with grid lines with less than 20 data points (note spacing and artifacting for additional color)
• Refactoring the graph
• Save before exiting?

3 – Pie Charts

• Pie chart menu.
• Entering chart attributes.
• Entering chart data.
• Pie chart (note artifacting for additional color)
• Changing color.
• Save image?
• Saving image
• Save the chart data?

4 – Graph Imaging/Labeling

• Imaging / Labeling menu
• Retrieve image
• Creating a Slide Show
• Displaying a slide show
• Optional dump of screen images

5 – File Manipulation

• File Manipulation menu
• Conversion choice
• Entering the ASCII file to convert.
• Entering the output DIF file.

6 – Statistical Analysis

• Statistical Analysis menu.

7 – Regression Analysis

• Regression Analysis menu.

8 – Correlation Analysis

• Correlation Analysis menu.

9 – Chi-Square Setup

• Chi Square Setup menu.

Transferring back to Main Menu

E – Enhancement Disk (Help)

E – Enhancement Disk (Booting)

• Selecting the printer type.
• Selecting a plotter.

E – Enhancement Disk (Functions)

• Menu
• Retrieving a file

E – Enhancement Disk (Plotter Functions)

• Plotter Function menu.
• Retreiving a file.

• Menu
• Exmaple picture (pretty much demonstrates everything)

• Disk 1
• Disk 2
• Data disk (for Inverse ATASCII).
• Hex dump of graph file.
• Hex dump of pie chart file.

Bar chart:

Line Chart:

Point Chart:

Pie Chart:

Standard Statistics (for Inverse ATASCII S1 episodes):

B/Graph Enhancement Disk Help (from the original author):

Plotter Bar Chart (from Enhancement Disk):

Plotter Graph Line Chart (from Enhancement Disk):

Plotter Graph Scatter Chart (from Enhancement Disk):

Plotter Pie Chart with legend in box(from Enhancement Disk):

Plotter Pie Chart without legend in box (from Enhancement Disk):

Plotter Triangle Chart (from Enhancement Disk):

The manuals are available on AtariMania.

This episode features B/Graph, released in 1983 by Inhome Software as version 1.0, then later in 1984 by Batteries Included as version 1.1, and again in 1986 as version 1.1.1. It was developed by Michael Reichman and Robert Wilson.

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This episode features Antic Magazine #013, Volume 2, Number 7, from October 1983.

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Screenshots from the “Starting Line” department article titled “Time Your Fire”:

Screenshots from the “Pilot Your Atari” feature article:

Screenshots from the “Arithmetrix” feature article:

Screenshots from the “In The Public Domain” department article which presents a game called “TRACK STAR”:

• Watch out for the obstacles

Screenshots from the “Education” department article titled “Alpha Run”:

• Run over the numbers in sequence avoidng the bumpers!
• Run over the letters in sequence avoiding the bumpers!

Screenshots from the “Kids Korner” department article:

Coverdisk (unofficial) screenshot:

Program output from Matt Gingerich’s letter in the I/O section:

This episode features Antic Magazine #013, Volume 2, Number 7, from October 1983.

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This episode features AtSpeller, released in 1982 by APX (Atari Program Exchange), and in 1983 specifically as a version for AtariWriter. It was developed by R. Stanley Kistler.

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Cover of the normal AtSpeller version released in 1982:

Cover of the normal AtariWriter specific AtSpeller version released in 1983:

Advertisement from the Winter 1983 APX catalog:

Advertisement from the Spring 1983 APX catalog:

Advertisement from the Fall 1983 APX catalog:

Booting

Normal Version:

• Deciding if you want a personal dictionary loaded.
• Booting with 2 disk drives.
• Booting and using a personal dictionary.

AtariWriter Version:

• AtariWriter cartridge is in control.
• Document loaded and ready to check.

Menu

Normal Version:

AtariWriter Version:

• Menu is accessed from AtariWriter main menu using the hidden A option.

Usage (Normal Version)

• Output to TV (Monitor)
• Output to Printer
• Correction (With Output File)
• Wihtout personal dictionary, ATASCII is not found.
• With personal dictionary, ATASCII is OK.
• Searching for word in dictionary to replace unknown word in text.
• Correcting a word
• Saving new words to a personal dictionary.
• All the new words or just some?
• Disk directory / Delete / Rename (tiny DOS)
• Search Dictionary
• What? How can an ATARI spell checker not include the word ATASCII?!?
• Successful search.
• Return To Atari DOS
• Sort Personal Dictionary
• Please wait… Please wait… Please wait…

Usage (AtariWriter Version)

• Using Correct Errors (Option C). Load the dictionary disk first.
• What to do with the word that is not found?
• Using the Dicitonary Search (Option D).
• Matched words displayed.
• Using Highlight Errors (option H).
• Using Load Personal Dictionary (Option L).
• Using Print Errors (Option P).

Comparison (AtariWriter Version to AtariWriter Plus Proofreader)

• AtariWriter Plus Proofreader menu.
• Highlighting words not found.
• Options for correcting a word.
• Summary of checking process.

• AtSpeller normal version – Program Disk
• AtSpeller normal version – Dictionary disk.
• AtSpeller AtariWriter version – Program disk.
• AtSpeller AtariWriter version – Dictionary disk. Note the dictionary file is smaller and the index is larger than the normal version.
• Custom dictionary file.
• Custom dictionary file contents.

Output of full document with all errors (words not found) underlined with asterisks (from normal version):

Output of just errors (words not found) underlined with asterisks (from normal version):

Output of just errors (words not found) (from AtariWriter version):

The manuals are available on AtariMania.