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Contents

News

The latest news of the ever changing world of Atari 8 bit.

Dos Modiﬁ cation

Obtain fast Dos access with this Basic utility.

Five Liners

More of the prize-winning mini programs sent in by readers.

Autorun 1 3

Advice on adding that professional touch to your Basic ﬁles.

Reviews 1 7

A look at the latest software: Astro-Droid, Gauntlet and more._

Managing Editor.

Derek Meakin

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Peter Davidson

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Peter Glover

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Heather Sheldrick

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Christopher Payne

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Andre Willey

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Tony Nowell

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John Snowden

Nora Lawton

Game of the Month

Play Bounder, an exciting and novel shoot

up game.

Palette 2 9

A collection of colourful masterpieces created by our readers.

Rouloc

Our new adventurer gives you help on those long quests.

Map

A stunning centre-page spread map of The Pawn.

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Part ﬁve of our series on the Atari's input/output facilities.

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Making Music

An in depth look at the latest digitised sounds.

Character Editor

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The ﬁnal routines to complete your custom character editor:

Computing in Action

This program will help you sort out your tax problems.

Artshow

A program to display AtariArtist pictures from Basic.

Mailbag

Lots more of your letters, plus useful technical tips.

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News

Support new

machine, software

houses urged

BRITISH software houses

have a great opportunity to

make money worldwide if

they weigh in with support

for the new games machine,

Atari boss Jack Tramiel is

asserting.

He told journalists and

dealers at the recent Atari

Computer Show that he had

just raised $75 million of

long-term backing in Europe.

This meant ﬁ nances were

in order and the product

range was right. "We are

ready to go", he said.

"We need your support but

on the other hand we are

spending S10 million pro-

moting Atari in the US this

year. We hope you •software

people will ﬁnd a home there;

if you try we will support you

with everything we can.

"If we all work together we

are going to make it big".

With S200 million in the

bank and "all petrol tanks

full" Atari was ready to take

on the world, he boasted.

"Everything is being plug-

ged in; we are going to be a

major force".

The Atari chairman said he

could smell success in the air

in Britain now that Bob

Gleadow was in charge. "He

has made all the difference".

Until Gleadow's arrival,

Atari UK was losing money.

This year it was expected to

break even and next move

into proﬁtability.

Gleadow revealed he

would expect to turn over E30

million this year. The least he

could expect next year was

E50 million, he said.

The )(E. Atari's nek,• games machine

Big sales

expected

HIGH on the list of new

hardware at the Atari Corn-

outer Show was the new

games machine console.

Still without a ﬁ rm release

date, the cartridge-based

machine will cost E89,95.

It will be expandable to run

all existing Atari 8 bit soft-

ware on cassette. The joy-

stick, data recorder and light

gun come with a keyboard for

about E40. This produces a

full 64k computer system for

E129.95.

Atari chairman Jack

Tramiel said at the launch

that more than 400 pieces of

software were available for

the machine even before it

was launched.

Because of the promotional

effort Atari was putting into

the machine around the

world — particularly in the US

— it was going to be a big

seller, he promised.

Bob Gleadow • He made all

the difference", said Jack

Tramiel

Toast of

the show

Earnings soar

ATARI Corporation earned

more than four times as

much in the ﬁrst quarter of

this year as it did in the

same period last year.

Income was $9.3 million

compared with $1.8 mil-

lion in the ﬁ rst three

months of 1986 — a 412 per

cent rise.

Worldwide sales in the

quarter were nearly

double those for the

period in 1986.

Cash registers rang up a

total of $65.1 million

compared with $44.8 mil-

lion last year — an increase

of 45 per cent.

During the period Atari

opened new sales ofﬁces

in Spain and Sweden, and

appointed a new general

manager to concentrate

on improving US sales.

Atari has completed a

$75 million Euro-dollar

bond issue. The company

says the proceeds will be

used to expand its busi-

ness through capital

expenditures and acqui-

sitions in the computer

ﬁeld and related areas and

for general corporate pur-

poses.

SOFTWARE houses showed

their commitment to car-

tridge games for the new 8 bit

machines at the show.

The public responded, too.

They crowded into the

Novotel on the Friday to make

it the best ﬁrst day ever, 1,000

up on previous opening

sessions.

So many people had

wanted to exhibit that organ-

isers, Database, had booked

more space. The 70 or so

exhibitors reported an

excellent response from an

informed public.

Software publishers gave a

universal thumbs up to the

new games machine pledg-

ing lots of support for it and

a staggering variety of new

software was unveiled with

every sort of utility and game

on offer.

8 BIT CHESS

ARRIVES

COLOSSUS 4 Chess has been

released for the Atari 8 hit.

CDS Software (0302 21134)

says this is the ﬁrst 3D chess

game for the machine and

claims it is the strongest pro-

gram of its kind,

It features a backtrack facil-

ity, problem solving mode

and handicapping.

The 8 bit version requires

48k of ram and costs E9.95 on

cassette and E14.95 on disc.

New mission for Floyd

AT last there is a sequel to Planetfall, featuring one of

interactive ﬁction's favourite characters, Floyd the lovable

robot. American publisher Infocom has released the Atari

XL/XE version of Stationfall in which you are enlisted in the

Stellar Patrol and sent on a mission with the playful Floyd.

June 1987 Atari User 5

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