Departments: Dream Street

Dream Street: Products We'd Like To See

   (Still some good opportunities for hackers, programmers, developers, and entrepreneurs.)
   New protocols for BobTerm: KERMIT, ZMODEM, and ANIS.
   A 24-pin Epson driver for Daisy Dot III with correct aspect ratio.
   A serial (SIO) buffer for slow printers like the 1027 and 1025.
   A PAL programmer.
   An adapter to convert composite video to TTL video (MDA, CGA or VGA).
   A really good VT-100 emulator for BobTerm.
   An 8-bit version of the ST program Aladdin for GEnie users.
   A high quality electronic schematic drawing program with a 24-pin driver.
   A utility for converting Print Shop fonts to Print Power format (see Note below).
   A 256K upgrade for the 600XL (perhaps utilizing 44256 DRAMs).
   A drawing utility for Print Power.
   An IDE hard drive interface.
   A patch to AtariWriter+ & -80 to use more than 128K if available, in 16K blocks.
   Note: Don Burgess wrote in to say No Frills Software (800 East 23rd St., Kearney NE 68847, phone 308-234-6250) published a program called "The Converter" in 1987 that performs this task. We don't know if No Frills is still in business.

   Got an idea for a product? Send it in! If we think it looks good, we'll add it to this list!