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line entered in a program. By comparing each line's checksum with that printed in the magazine, the reader could be sure they typed the BASIC source correctly before entering the next line of code.
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NASA programmer Jim Capparell was an early Atari 8-bit computer owner. He quit his job on 15 January 1982 to found a magazine covering the 8-bit systems.
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agreed to purchase advertising in the new publication, and Capparell's staff distributed the first issue of 30 pages at the March 1982
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By Christmas 1983 the magazine was 148 pages, but in 1984 Antic saw advertising sales drop by 50% in 90 days. The
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also used a two-letter checksum code for their type-in programs they offered and was interoperable with
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was published in April 1982. While it began as a bimonthly magazine, within a year it had gone monthly.
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after it folded, and original titles. It helped the company avoid bankruptcy, and in 1985 it started
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The Antic Software catalog was bound into issues of the magazine and included former APX titles.
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magazine for the computer. The daughter magazine would outlive its parent by about a year. When
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was June–July 1990. All told, 88 issues and a "Best of" book were published.
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Antic started selling games and application software under the name
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Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
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also served Atari 8-bit owners with type-in programs.
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February 1987 cover
ISSN
0745-2527
magazine
Atari 8-bit computers
Atari ST
ANTIC
CTIA or GTIA
type-in programs
Atari BASIC
STart
Atari ST
ANALOG Computing
COMPUTE!
Family Computing
Antic Software
On-Line Systems
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