New Products
New Products notices are compiled by the Antic staff from
information provided the products' manufacturers. Antic welcomes such submissions,
but assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of these notices or the
performance of the products listed.
NEWS STATION
(desktop publishing)
Reeve Software
29W150 Old Farm Lane
Warrenvile, IL 60555
(312) 393-2317
Required printer: Epson, Gemini, or
ProWriter
$29.95, 48K disk
Design newsletters, brochures and poster combining graphics and text.
Mix Print Shop icons, fonts, picture files, and text files created with
any word processor. What you see on screen is what you get on the printer-to
scale.
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RAMBO II
(entertainment software)
Mindscape Inc.
3444 Dundee Road
Northbrook, IL 60062
(312) 480-7667
$9.95, 48K disk
Each title in the new Thunder Mountain line from Mindscape costs $9.95-
"the software industry's equivalent to the paperback book," according to
company president Roger Buoy The Thunder Mountain line kicks off with Rambo:
First Blood Part II, an action graphics game.
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HOLLYWOOD HIJINX
(entertainment software)
Infocom Inc.
125 CambridgePark Drive
Cambridge, MA 02140
(617) 492-6000
$34.95, 48K disk
Dead Uncle Buddy Burbank, the Hollywood mogul, and Aunt Hildegarde have
left you their entire estate-with one stipulation. You get the lot only
if you can find 10 treasures hidden throughout their lavish Malibu home.
Hollywood Hijinx is a tribute to B-movies and is loaded with memorabilia
from Uncle Buddy's films, which include A Corpse Line and Vampire
Penguins of the North. The package includes a lucky palm tree swizzle-stick.
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TAC5 JOYSTICK,
PRINT N STACK
(peripherals)
Suncom Inc.
260 Holbrook Drive
Wheeling, IL 60090
(312) 459-8000
The Tac5 ($16.99) joystick utilizes a sophisticated "MicroSwitch
Array" technology, enhancing the Atari controller's level of responsiveness,
user feedback and reliability. Suncom also offers three widths (12 to 18
inches) of Print N Stac, a paper tray and printer stand combination,
at $18.99, $19.99 and $21.99. Paper is collected and folded neatly as it
comes out of the printer.
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MAIL ORDER MONSTERS
(entertainment software)
Electronic Arts
1820 Gateway Drive
San Mateo, CA 94404
(415) 571-7171
$14.95, 48K disk
Pit your ferocious garden fern with hypnoto-poison claws and laser-spitting
wheels against a horrible mega-squid with deflector fangs and napalm nostrils
in Mail Order Monsters. Merge 12 different body types, 20 body enhancements,
15 weapons and six defenses to create invincible "Morphs" for many evenings
of entertaining mayhem. Three levels of play let you enter battle and win
Psychons, the currency necessary to add photon phalanges to your electric
acid-spewing amoeboids.
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MIDWEST COMPUTER
CAMP
9392 Lafayette Road
Indianapolis, IN 46278
(317) 297-2700
$750-2 weeks
Housed on a lavish estate, Midwest Computer Camp is the largest
full-time, year-round residential computer education camp in the country.
Campers spend six hours daily on computer activities and there is a counselor
for every four campers. Full camping activities are available and the sessions
and open to boys and girls, ages 8 to 18.
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INSYST!, VERSION 3.0
(business software)
SoSoft
2513 #E Sylvester Road
Albany, GA 31705
(912) 888-0821
$79.95, requires 130XE
This upgrade of InSyst! version 2.23 uses the extra memory of
the 130XE to increase to over 4,000 items the business inventory maintained.
This is an increase of about 250% over the previous version (which is also
included on the double-sided disk). InSyst! 3.0 supports four disk drives
and runs faster than version 2.23, since no overlays are used. Version
2.0 was reviewed in the November, 1986 Antic.
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