This episode features Antic Magazine #011, Volume 2, Number 5, from August 1983.

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This episode features SpeedCalc, released in 1986 by Compute! Publishing. It was developed by Charles Brannon & Kevin Martin.

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First page of the article presenting the program from Compute! March 1986:

Booting

• Nasty colors, perhaps chosen and set by someone other than the authors.
• Showing available memory at boot.

Editing

• Much better color combination set.
• Saving the spreadsheet.
• Setting number of decimal places.
• Copying a block of cells.
• Turning auto cell recalc on.
• Forcing a cell recalculation now.
• Defining a cell formula.
• There is a rounding error here. I couldnt reproduce the same result as with the same values in several other spreadsheets.
• Printing
• Setting cell width.
• Loading a file.
• Disk directory from within SpeedCalc.
• Ruh-roh. Error.

The instructions are included with the published article. See it for full details. Here is a capture of the keyboard shortcuts:

Partial printout of budget spreadsheet:

This episode features SpeedCalc, released in 1986 by Compute! Publishing. It was developed by Charles Brannon & Kevin Martin.

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This episode features Antic Magazine #010, Volume 2, Number 4, from July 1983.

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The ET Game for Atari Computers section of the “Inside Article” department article:

Screenshots from the “Education” department article titled Shoot Em Up Math:

Screenshots from the “In The Public Domain” department article featuring the game Stunt Clown:

Screenshots from the “Systems Guide” department article presenting “List Assister”:

Printer output from the “Systems Guide” department article presenting “List Assister”:

Screenshots from the “Assembly Language” department article titled “Hokey Pokey Interrupts”:

Coverdisk screenshots:

This episode features Antic Magazine #010, Volume 2, Number 4, from July 1983.

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This episode features File-Fax, released in 1982 by tmq Software (TradeMark of Quality). It was developed by Omniware.

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Print ad from Analog July/August 1983:

Booting

• Boot splash.
• Main menu.

Run Application

• Select it and load up the disks!
• Application menu
• Data entry help
• Data entry
• Writing the new record to disk
• Got some data entered!
• Changing a record starts with a search
• Is this the one to change?
• Change record search navigation help.
• Displaying record.
• Querying
• Wildcards galore!
• Match found
• Running a report. Report menu.
• Special sort needed?
• Where to send the report?
• Displaying report to screen.
• No reports defined properly caught!
• Starting a report to query by range.
• Enter lower bound of query.
• Enter upper bound of query.
• Where to send the report?
• To the screen!

Define System Characteristics

• Selecting the application.
• Setting the details for the applications behaviour. Custom for each application.

Catalog A Disk

• Wrong disk!

Print An Application

• Cant print it until its defined!

Disk Copy

Create An Application

• Give it a name.
• Application screen editor. Clean slate.
• Editor help.
• Defined application screen.
• Setting field attributes.
• Field attribute help.
• Attributes on a numeric.
• Application summary before creation. Over 7K records for 4 disk drives! Wow!
• Make sure all disks are inserted before continuing.

Create A Report

• Creating a new report.
• Report designer.
• Selecting field to place on report.
• Starting to come together.
• Adding some totals.
• Help!
• Modifying a report. Much like creating, except the initial screen.

Files

Relocated VTOC, whats on the disk?

There is a link in links section to a copy on the Internet Archive.

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This episode features File-Fax, released in 1982 by tmq Software (TradeMark of Quality). It was developed by Omniware.

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This episode features Antic Magazine #009, Volume 2, Number 3, from June 1983.

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The Dancin’ Man program presented in the “Starting Line” feature:

Output from the “Up and Down” article:

Program output from the “Start Interrupting” article:

Screenshots from the game “Lone Eagle’s Revenge” presented in the “In The Public Domain” article:

• Start
• Game play
• Stats

Output from the program presented in the “Education” article:

This episode features Antic Magazine #009, Volume 2, Number 3, from June 1983.

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This episode features Career Counselor, released in 1982 by MMG Micro Software. It was developed by RLM Micro Systems, and programmed by Melvin Lebowitz.

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Print ad from Antic November 1983:

Booting

• Animated boot splash!
• Context sensative help!

Main Menu

• Complete the items in any order, then List when done.
• Context sensative help.

Interest/Skills Completion

• Careers Left decreases as you refine you your skills and interests.
• Help
• Help
• Help
• Help
• Help
• Help
• Help
• Help
• All are poverty level in 2023+.
• Help
• Help

List Career Matches

• WIth tight interest and skills criteria.
• With loosened skills and interests criteria.
• Help

Dictionary Job Lookup

• Good news!

Error

• You need BASIC!

Files

Atari DOS 2.0s is supplied, without DUP.SYS so you cant access the DOS interface.

I could not locate a copy.

Output for matching careers with highly restrictive interests and skills criteria:

Output for matching careers with looser interests and skills criteria:

Output for matching careers with no interest or skills criteria:

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