New Products
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notices or the performance of the products listed.
PR CONNECTOR
ICD
1220 Rock Street
Rockford, IL 61101
(415) 968-2228
$79.99
Thinking of buying a Hayes compatible modem that plugs directly into your computer? Now you have an alternative to the elusive Atari 850 Interface. The ICD PR Connector has one parallel port and two serial ports, just like the 850. It's compatible with any terminal program that uses a standard Autorun.sys autoboot file or DOS 2, and comes with three terminal programs on disk; AMODEM 7.2; RSCOPE, a version of TSCOPE; and the popular 850 Express. A making it compatible with Batteries Included Hometerm is also included. Uses standard 850 cables, additional cables are available for $15 each, or ICD will custom build one for $30.
800XE PLUS
(memory upgrade)
Triple C Computers
6807 226th Avenue N.E.
Stacy, MN 55079
(612) 462-4435
$45
This kit supplies all hardware and signal decoding to upgrade an 800XL to 256K memory. It is compatible with the 130XE RAMdisk and the SpartaDOS Construction Set. Soldering is required and you must provide your own 256K chips. Triple C will install the kit in your 800XL for an extra $30.
INSYST!
(business software)
SoSoft
2513 #E Sylvester Road
Albany, GA 31707
(912) 888-0821
$79.95, 48K disk
InSyst! is an inventory system for small businesses. Written in ACTION! for speed, it features 12-character item numbers, 24-character descriptions, use of minimum fields to compute suggested orders, multiple costs on purchases, sales history; bin location and a vendor code field.
MECH BRIGADE
(entertainment software)
Strategic Simulations Inc.
1046 N. Rengstorff Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
(415) 964-1353
$59.95, 48K disk
In this "sister game" to Kampfgruppe, Soviet and NATO forces fight modem tactical warfare in a time period spanning the 1980s and 1990s. Four scenarios, each in a different area of West Germany, and over 40 armored vehicles are provided.
RAMJET 256K
(Printer buffer)
Omnitronix Inc.
P.O. Box 43
Mereer Island, WA 98040
(206) 236-2983
$269
The fast Ramjet 256K Print Buffer comes in versions for either standard parallel or RS-232 serial printers. It has a pause button for using single sheets of paper.
VOICE MASTER DEMO DISK
(software)
Covox Inc.
675-D Conger Street
Eugene, OR 97402
(503) 342-1271
$5, 16K disk
This new Covox disk contains programs and digitaily-encoded speech vocabularies demonstrating the audio capabilities of the $89.95 Voice Master Speech and Music Processor for all Atari 8-bit computers. Included on the disk are a talking calculator and talking keyboard.
SCENERY DESKS 1-6
(For Flight Simulator II)
SubLogic Corporation
713 Edgebrook Dnve
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 359-8482
$19.95, 48K disk
Each of these scenery disks covers a region of the Western half of the U.S. and expands the potential flying environment of Sublogic's best-selling Flight Simulator II software. The six-disk set costs $99.95.
TINKERTUNE
(software)
Minerva Research Limited
35 Olympia Avenue
Victoria, BC
Canada V8V 2N3
(604) 385-3711
$29.95, 48K disk
Tinkertune turns your computer into a three-octave mini-organ with a choice of nine different scales, four wave envelopes and percussion sound. The live performance feature plays a single note or a Full chorus at the touch of a key or joystick.
HOME ROBOTICS WORKSHOPS
(robot kits)
Multibotics Inc.
#A 2561 South 1560 West
Woodscross, UT 84087
(801) 298-9077
$59.95-$199.95
Build robots to interface with your computer. These workshops provide projects and experiments showing how computers interact with the real world. The master module allows your computer to function as a variable-speed motor controller.
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