FEATURES
FEATURES
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Product Preview: The Tandon PAC 286
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Product Preview: The Tandon PAC 286
An advance look at Tandon's AT-class computer and its unique disk subsystem and memory management unit.
[author : Jonathan Erickson, G. Michael Vose, and Charles Weston]
p.95
Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Build a Gray-Scale Video Digitizer
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Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Build a Gray-Scale Video Digitizer
Image Wise is a complete digital video system.
[author : Steve Ciarcia]
p.108
Programming Project: Pull-Down Menus in C
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Programming Project: Pull-Down Menus in C
Add a user-friendly menu system to almost any IBM PC application.
[author : James L. Pinson]
p.113
Build BERT, the Basic Educational Robot Trainer, Part 2
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Build BERT, the Basic Educational Robot Trainer, Part 2
A guide to troubleshooting and programming your robot.
[author : Karl Brown]
p.125
An Adventure Authoring System
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An Adventure Authoring System
A tour of AdvSys, a tool for writing text adventure games.
[author : David Betz]
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Interactive Fiction as Literature
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Interactive Fiction as Literature
Adventure games have a literary heritage.
[author : Mary Ann Buckles]
THEME: Desktop Publishing
THEME: Desktop Publishing
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The Desktop-Publishing Phenomenon
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The Desktop-Publishing Phenomenon
Personal printing has come a long way in a short time.
[author : John W. Seybold]
Choosing the best desktop-publishing program for your needs.
[author : Thorn Holmes]
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Designing a Raster-Image Processor
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Designing a Raster-Image Processor
The road from screen display to hard copy is circuitous.
[author : Jon Barrett and Kirk Reistroffer]
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Programming in PostScript
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Programming in PostScript
Techniques and applications in vision research, plus a survey of PostScript hardware and software.
[author : Denis G. Pelli]
REVIEWS
REVIEWS
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Reviewer's Notebook
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Reviewer's Notebook
[author : Cathryn Baskin]
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High-Speed Internal Modems
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High-Speed Internal Modems
An evaluation of 10 units for IBM PC compatibles.
[author : Stephen Satchell]
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Compaq's New Carryon
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Compaq's New Carryon
This machine combines performance with portability.
[author : John Unger]
An attractive restyling of the Commodore 64.
[author : Alastair J. W. Mayer]
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SCSI Hard Disk Drives for the Macintosh
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SCSI Hard Disk Drives for the Macintosh
A look at 10 external 20-megabyte units.
[author : Chris Crawford and Eva White]
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BASIC Compilers for the Macintosh
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BASIC Compilers for the Macintosh
True BASIC 1.0, ZBASIC 3.01, and PCMacBasic 1.65.
[author : Scott L. Norman]
This file manager has a natural-language interface and a word processor.
[author : Phillip Robinson]
A word processor that runs on many different computers.
[author : George R. Allen]
Readers respond to previous reviews.
KERNEL
KERNEL
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Computing at Chaos Manor: Bye-Bye Big Kat
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Computing at Chaos Manor: Bye-Bye Big Kat
Big Kat leaves Chaos Manor, and Zelda moves in.
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
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According to Webster: Publish and/or Perish
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According to Webster: Publish and/or Perish
A visit to the Mac World Exposition and a look at desktop publishing.
[author : Bruce Webster]
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Applications Only: Mostly Mac
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Applications Only: Mostly Mac
Ezra looks at Macintosh programs and receives feedback from Acta's author.
[author : Ezra Shapiro]
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Mathematical Recreations: Around and Around
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Mathematical Recreations: Around and Around
Exploring the family of curves known as cycloids using computer graphics.
[author : Robert T. Kurosaka]
LISTINGS
LISTINGS
From BYTEnet (617) 861-9764
From BYTEnet (617) 861-9764
On Disk see card after 324
On Disk see card after 324
In Print see card after 324
In Print see card after 324
DEPARTMENTS
DEPARTMENTS
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Editorial: All or Nothing in Local Mass Storage
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Editorial: All or Nothing in Local Mass Storage
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Circuit Cellar Feedback
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Circuit Cellar Feedback
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BOMB and Coming Up in BYTE
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BOMB and Coming Up in BYTE
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Editorial Index by company
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Editorial Index by company
BEST OF BIX
BEST OF BIX
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IBM PC and Compatibles
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IBM PC and Compatibles