1986 12.05 1988

Vol.12 n°5 may 1987

Vol.12 n°5 may 1987

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p.2 Contents

p.2 Contents

FEATURES

FEATURES

p.85 Product Preview: The Tandon PAC 286

p.85 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

p.95 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

p.108 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

p.113 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

p.125 An Adventure Authoring System

A tour of AdvSys, a tool for writing text adventure games.

[author : David Betz]

p.135 Interactive Fiction as Literature

p.135 Interactive Fiction as Literature

Adventure games have a literary heritage.

[author : Mary Ann Buckles]

THEME: Desktop Publishing

THEME: Desktop Publishing

p.147 Introduction

p.147 Introduction

p.149 The Desktop-Publishing Phenomenon

p.149 The Desktop-Publishing Phenomenon

Personal printing has come a long way in a short time.

[author : John W. Seybold]

p.159 Make My Page!

p.159 Make My Page!

Choosing the best desktop-publishing program for your needs.

[author : Thorn Holmes]

p.171 Designing a Raster-Image Processor

p.171 Designing a Raster-Image Processor

The road from screen display to hard copy is circuitous.

[author : Jon Barrett and Kirk Reistroffer]

p.185 Programming in PostScript

p.185 Programming in PostScript

Techniques and applications in vision research, plus a survey of PostScript hardware and software.

[author : Denis G. Pelli]

REVIEWS

REVIEWS

p.207 Reviewer's Notebook

p.207 Reviewer's Notebook

[author : Cathryn Baskin]

p.209 High-Speed Internal Modems

p.209 High-Speed Internal Modems

An evaluation of 10 units for IBM PC compatibles.

[author : Stephen Satchell]

p.221 Compaq's New Carryon

p.221 Compaq's New Carryon

This machine combines performance with portability.

[author : John Unger]

p.229 The Commodore 64C

p.229 The Commodore 64C

An attractive restyling of the Commodore 64.

[author : Alastair J. W. Mayer]

p.237 SCSI Hard Disk Drives for the Macintosh

p.237 SCSI Hard Disk Drives for the Macintosh

A look at 10 external 20-megabyte units.

[author : Chris Crawford and Eva White]

p.241 BASIC Compilers for the Macintosh

p.241 BASIC Compilers for the Macintosh

True BASIC 1.0, ZBASIC 3.01, and PCMacBasic 1.65.

[author : Scott L. Norman]

p.249 Q&A 2.0

p.249 Q&A 2.0

This file manager has a natural-language interface and a word processor.

[author : Phillip Robinson]

p.251 Lyrix

p.251 Lyrix

A word processor that runs on many different computers.

[author : George R. Allen]

p.254 Review Feedback

p.254 Review Feedback

Readers respond to previous reviews.

KERNEL

KERNEL

p.261 Computing at Chaos Manor: Bye-Bye Big Kat

p.261 Computing at Chaos Manor: Bye-Bye Big Kat

Big Kat leaves Chaos Manor, and Zelda moves in.

[author : Jerry Pournelle]

p.279 According to Webster: Publish and/or Perish

p.279 According to Webster: Publish and/or Perish

A visit to the Mac World Exposition and a look at desktop publishing.

[author : Bruce Webster]

p.293 Applications Only: Mostly Mac

p.293 Applications Only: Mostly Mac

Ezra looks at Macintosh programs and receives feedback from Acta's author.

[author : Ezra Shapiro]

p.307 Mathematical Recreations: Around and Around

p.307 Mathematical Recreations: Around and Around

Exploring the family of curves known as cycloids using computer graphics.

[author : Robert T. Kurosaka]

LISTINGS

LISTINGS

p.256 From BIX

p.256 From BIX

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

p.6 Editorial: All or Nothing in Local Mass Storage

p.6 Editorial: All or Nothing in Local Mass Storage

p.9 Microbytes

p.9 Microbytes

p.16 Letters

p.16 Letters

p.29 What's New

p.29 What's New

p.49 Events and Clubs

p.49 Events and Clubs

p.52 Ask BYTE

p.52 Ask BYTE

p.58 Circuit Cellar Feedback

p.58 Circuit Cellar Feedback

p.67 Book Reviews

p.67 Book Reviews

p.317 Chaos Manor Mail

p.317 Chaos Manor Mail

p.390 BOMB and Coming Up in BYTE

p.390 BOMB and Coming Up in BYTE

p.391 Editorial Index by company

p.391 Editorial Index by company

p.393 Reader-Service

p.393 Reader-Service

BEST OF BIX

BEST OF BIX

p.325 Amiga

p.325 Amiga

p.328 Atari

p.328 Atari

p.334 IBM PC and Compatibles

p.334 IBM PC and Compatibles

p.340 Macintosh

p.340 Macintosh