ANTIC (magazine)

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ANTIC was the name of a home computer magazine devoted to the Atari 8-bit computer line (Atari 400/800 and compatibles). Its ISSN is 0113-1141. It took its name from the ANTIC chip which produced the Atari line's graphics. The first issue was published in April of 1982 as bimonthly magazine. Within a year it had gone monthly. The last issue was in June/July of 1990. All told, 88 issues were published.

A "Best of" book was also published.

Its main rival in the United States was ANALOG Computing, another long-lived magazine devoted to the Atari 8-bit line. A lesser rival was the short lived Hi-Res Magazine.

In 1986, ANTIC spun off STart Magazine, a sister publication aimed at the Atari ST line in; the daughter magazine would outlive its parent by about a year. When ANTIC ended, it continued as a section of STart.

[edit] Typo

ANTIC magazine's most useful feature was a program called TYPO (Type Your Program Once). This was a program that generated a code for each Atari BASIC line entered in a program. By comparing this code with the code in the magazine, the reader could check if they typed in the BASIC source correctly. TYPO was later succeeded by TYPO II, a smaller, faster program.

Versions of TYPO were also published and used (with permission) by Page 6 magazine.

[edit] See also

• ANTIC Software – The software company founded by ANTIC.
• Atari User – A British Atari magazine
• Page 6 – One of the longest running Atari magazines
• A.N.A.L.O.G. – another popular Atari magazine

[edit] External links

• Antic Magazine – At the Classic Computer Magazine Archive