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Features |
| 88 | Word Processing: An In-Depth Look | Dan Robinson | After months of testing ever word processor he could find for the Models I and III, reviewer Robinson has put together an opus on word crunching. But before you get into the nitty gritty of Robinson's research, read his opening thoughts on the subject. |
| 92 | Model I/III Word Processing - CP/M | Dan Robinson | Robinson begins his words processing discussion with the esteemed Worstar. But before you can use it, you've got to take a trip to the hardware store. |
| 96 | Model I/III Word Processing - Deluxe Versions | Dan Robinson | next, our peripatheic reviewer explains what thtills await you when you buy a word processor with all the frills. |
| 112 | Model I/III Word Processing - Under $50 | Dan Robinson | Word processing is even for those of us still waiting for Michael Anthony - the millionaire's messnger - to appear on our doorstep. And Robinson shows us the way with a guide to the low-end WP market. |
| 116 | Model I/III Word Processing - Spelling Checkers | Dan Robinson | In this final Robinson installment, Dan takes a look at the software replacing what he's found to be the most reliable spelling-checker to date: WIFE/CMD. |
| 152 | The Colorful Computer - Part II | Franklyn D. Miller | Learn graphics technique by putting a Playboy bunny on your CRT. |
| 164 | Three Model II Word Processors | Paul Grupp | Since good word processors produce comparable results, they must be compared in the highly subjective arena of interaction and user friendliness. |
| 168 | Printer Color Art | Francis Kalinowski | Take a deep breath, then prepare to have it taken away once you learn how to bring out the Rembrandt in you with an Epson MX-80 and a colored ribbon kluge. |
Articles |
| 124 | Sling Some Hash | Ken Knecht | Store and receive items in an unsorted list. |
| 126 | Printing Perfection | John T. Phillipp | Customize SuperScript for your Epson MX-80. |
| 139 | Moby Dick Touch-Typing Tutor | Michael Brown | If you don't type fast enough, Ishmael's Nantucket sleuighride ends abuptly in the belly of the Great White Whale. |
| 140 | Basic Word Processing | Louis J. Crutons, Jr. | With a little manipulation, you will find your Color Computer has a word processor buiold into its ROM. |
| 186 | Cheaper Upgrade | Richard Tucker | Save more than $75 by installing Extended Color Basic yourself. |
| 190 | Graftrax 80 | Thomas McNamee | How to install it and some tricks for your bag once it's installed. |
| 198 | Pascal Goes Color | Scott L. Norman | Computerware and Dynasoft combine to bring this language to the 16K Color Computer. |
| 204 | Screenplay | Warren Merkey | Use POKE to write and draw on your CRT. |
| 222 | Inside Scripsit: Part I | Craig Lindley | Rooting around in Asembly can be very difficult if yo udon't know the territory first. |
| 230 | Joystick Paintbrush | Gerald Sprouse | How to draw with your Color Computer. |
| 234 | Compiler Comparisons | Ken Knecht | Radio Shack vs. Microsoft Basic, which compiler is for you? |
| 238 | Conversion | Frank Osborne | Bob Boothe's Level II graphics for the Color Computer. |
| 242 | Homebrew Data Base Management: Part II | Karl Townsend | Add subroutines for purging, selecting and restoring files. |
| 252 | LDOS 5.1 | Charles P. Knight | More DOS for your money. |
| 256 | Recover | David Gobel | All is not lost when your 80 exits Scripsit without your permission. |
| 260 | Technology Destiny: Part IV | Gary Dillio | This author shows you don't have to be a Girl Scout to be a smart cookie. |
| 268 | Bit Smitten: Part II | Jay Childsey | After reading Part I of this series - For the Novice - the title no longer suits you. So we changed it. In this installment, learn about data degradation. |
| 270 | Order Form | Albert J. Wright | Author Wright found existing order forms just didn't fit the bill his needs demanded, so now he has his 80 make the forms. |
| 276 | The Game of Sin | Stephen Radin | Sometimes, even triangles outside Bermuda should be avoided. |
| 282 | PCLEAR 0 | John Heusinkveld | Maximize memory by reserving zero pages for graphics in Extended Color Basic. |
| 286 | Screen Veil | Mike Keller | Cure reading-over-the-shoulder syndrome with a cloak, not a dagger. |
| 288 | Juicing Pin 18 | Barry N. Gorodetzer | A Black Box mod for an Epson and Model I. |
| 290 | JKL Minus Blanks | Richard M. Straw | Get rid of an annoying habit when screen dumping with NEWDOS. |
| 292 | Only Macro-Mon Knows | Richard C. McGarvey | They call it The Shador. It has almost every feature a machine-language programmer would want. |
Departments |
| 8 | Remarks | Wayne Green | While the Japanese are attracting teenagers to technical careers through ham and computer clubs, our kids are spending their time on drugs, disco, and driving. It's putting us at a terrible disadvantage. |
| 16 | Proof Notes | | All is not well with Tandy's flagship micro, the Model 16. |
| 20 | Input | | A call for Comamnder Color graphics in Basic and more articles for the novice, some advice for horse bettors and a cry to take the smut out of 80 Micro. |
| 30 | Debug | | How to connect the plotter in "Digital Doodles" and a correction for "Video Snow Shovel." |
| 34 | Aid | | Readers looking for Model II programs, an IBM-Color Computer interface and POKE conversions for Tanktics. |
| 40 | 80 Accountant | Michael Tannenbaum | Trade-offs between dedicated and non-dedicated word processors; comments on the Model 16; the Model II and CP/M; and a new oil and gas accounting system. |
| 44 | Soft Bits | Roger Fuller | Offset pointers in a string array by a fixed amount. |
| 48 | Kitchen Table Software | David Busch | Our intrepid KTI observer reviews the toast of Sri Lanka's new line of generic software. |
| 50 | Commander 80 | Jake Commander | The trademark nonsense seeems to be everywhere you look in the software business. We'll soon see more documentation devoted to credits than to the operation of the software. |
| 56 | Calendar |
| 58 | Reviews | | Super Color Writer, machine-language modules for the novice, Radio Shack's Color Computer disk system, Penetrator, Color Berserk, EPS-80 word processor, Snapp Spooler, and SFINKS 3.0. |
| 300 | News | | Whither DOS for the Model 16? New computer crime insurance. Motorola 68000 seminar. Wait ahead for TRS-80 wanters of TK!Solver. Computer lingo. Video games mean cash at U. W. Va. |
| 325 | Feedback Loop | | Satisfying the IRS, proportional spacing, digitizers, joining computer clubs, LPRINT problem, and machine-language manuals for the Color Computer. |
| 330 | Fun House | | A new column for kids and the child in us all. |
| 339 | Index to Adverisers |
| 342 | Copernica Mathematica | Bruce Douglass | Differential equations. |
| 352 | Notes from Beneath the Keyboard | Paul Wiener | More on competitive tree searches. |
| 364 | Money DOS | J. M. Keynes | Are there any takers to J.M.'s $50,000 bet his commodities system will not fail? |
| 376 | Medical Opinions | Philip R. Mills, M.D. | A look at some patient billing programs. |
| 381 | Reload 80 | Art Huston | POKEing machine-language subroutines into memory. |
| 384 | New Products | | PMC's Electric Typing Fingers, KWIKIT cassette storage system, green phosphor CRT, ARMDisk/525 Winchester, Surge Protector, Screen Kleen, chemical dealers software, VisiGraph, church donations program, Color Forth, Supertax, Regilean Bloodworm, and the King James Bible on disk. |