ANTIC (MAGAZINE)

'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''.

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One feature of ANTIC magazine 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.

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

External links

★ Antic Magazine – At the Classic Computer Magazine Archive