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by Chris Jochumson and Mark Pelczarski Now anyone can put profes- sional graphics into their own programs, The Graphics Magi- cian contains machine language animation routines that use the same techniques as most of the popular Apple arcade games. Three animation editors let you design your figures, their paths, . and assemble animation with up to 32 independent objects. Aes Also included is a hi-res Picture/object builder that lets you store hundreds of 100-color pictures on a single disk and recall them quickly from your own programs. These exact routines are being used in the new graphic adventure games from Scott Adams’ Adventure International. Plus, a new shape editor greatly ex- tends the capabilities of Apple shape tables with multicolors and angles that are preserved on scaling, All design of graphics is done through menu- driven editors; to use in your programs, just attach our machine language routines. Extensive documentation makes this package easy to use for the beginning programmer, yet flexible enough for the most advanced. MCS oN _ Adda New Dimension Bie oper ~ to your Apple! ee | wth THE SPACE TABLET a 3-D Graphics Tablet This incredible new device pro- duced by Micro Control Systems, Inc. functions as a standard graphics tablet in two dimensions, until you decide to expand to real-world 3-dimensional input. Now you can trace 3-D objects, either real or imaginary, then view and modify them in 3-D perspective with your Apple computer. The 16"x13” tablet comes with a customized version of The Complete Graphics System, specifically designed to accept input from three dimen- sions. In addition, the Space Tablet includes machine language soft- ware that allows you to design your own programs using 3-D in- put. This unique hardware/software package also comes at a very pal- atable price ~ half the cost of most standard graphics tablets. See your Penguin Software dealer today! The Complete Graphics System IL paddle/joystick version $69.95 Apple Tablet or Hi-Pad version $119.95 Additional Fonts and Character Sets for The Complete Graphics System (50 fonts on two disks) $19.95 The Graphics Magician paddleljoystick version $59.95 Special Effects paddle/joystick version $39.95 Apple Tablet or Hi-Pad version $69.95. ‘The Space Tablet, with custom version of - _ The Complete Graphi em $395 All Products Now on Non-Protected Disk All products require an Apple II with Applesoft, 48K, and a disk drive il 830 4th Avenue sce yourdeiler,orconactn, PENGUIN 2 25am ~ VISA and MASTERCARD accepted. Laced by Mark Pelczarski II This improved version of the already pop- ular Complete Graphics System is a com- plete and easy to use 2<dimensional and 3- dimensional graphics design package for the non-programmer. Create color screen images with lines, circles, el- lipses, automatic 108-color filling, and “paintbrushes”. Use high-resolution text anywhere on the screen in dozens of colors. Create and edit shape tables, and shrink pictures for multiple dis- plays. Amazing 3-D routines let you draw the parts of 3-D objects on the screen, then assemble, rotate, and edit them visually in true 3-D perspective. All the software is easy to use, even for the novice. Programmers can use the graphics, and even our machine language routines, in their own soft- ware. This one package gives you more than most other graphics software packages combined. Find out why The Complete Graphics System is top rated in Apple graphics. Development of a 3-D image using: ‘The Complete Graphics System, by Mark Pelczarski Like nothing else on the market, this unique soft package allows you to escape the “coloring book’ ¢ proach to computer graphics, giving you a palette of Ii colors and 96 different brushes for creating or enhanei color computer images. Also included is a magnify mode that lets you magnify images 2 or 4 times and them point-by-point, a “picture packer” that lets you store images in. fraction of the space normally taken, and a set of tricks that allow you to reverse colors, perform mirror images, and move parts of screen images around and to other pictures. Special Effects is great as a stand- alone package -- or the perfect complement to The Complete Graphics System. for your Convenience software 612) 232-1984 Apple Nisa trademark of Apple MAY 1982 SOFTALK @® 227 advertently omitted from the Top Thirty list last month. Had it been properly credited with fourteenth, all pro- grams from fourteen down would have dropped one place. Significant shake-up occurred in the bottom half of the list, with eleven programs being dropped from the list and ten new ones taking their places. New to the Top Thirty are Time Zone, Jawbreaker, and Crossfire from On-Line Sys- tems, Swashbuckler from Datamost, and Mastertype from Lightning Software. Regaining the Top Thirty were Flight Simulator from SubLogic, PFS: Report, BPI Accounts Re- ceivable, and Raster Blaster. Most of the respondents in this month’s poll had had the opportunity to see SubLogic’s new pinball entry, Night Mis- sion, and all reported heavy April sales that should find that ... Home 10 MonthMonth 3 1. Home Accountant, Bob Schoenburg, Larry Grodin, and Steve Pollack, Continental Software 2. Tax Preparer, James Howard, Howard Software 3. Personal Finance Manager, Jeffrey Gold, Special Delivery Software, Apple Computer . Mastertype, Bruce Zweig, Lightning Software . Typing Tutor, Image Producers, Microsoft . Tax Manager, TASO, Micro Lab . Data Capture 4.0, David Hughes and Goerge McClelland, Southeastern Software . ASCH Express, Bill Blue, Southwestern Data Systems . Home Money Minder, Bob Schoenburg and Steve Pollack, Continental Software Tax Beater, Jack and Carol Lennard, DataMost ‘Month Month . Utility City, Bert Kersey, Beagle Bros . DOS Boss, Bert Kersey and Jack Cassidy, Beagle Bros . DOS Tool Kit, Apple Computer . DOS 3.3, Apple Computer . Zoom Grafix, Dav Holle, Phoenix Software . Locksmith 4.0, Omega Microware Program Line Editor, Neil Konzen, Synergistic Software Bag of Tricks, Don Worth and Pieter Lechner, Quality Software TASC, James M. Peak and Michael T. Howard, Microsoft — LISA 2.5, Randy Hyde, On-Line Systems 2. 5B noo Cane Pd ne m my | eNO ARE [asecmrs . a | program bounding into the top ten. Other new programs that seemed to be doing well in April were Eliminator from Adventure International and Microwave from Cavalier. There were few changes in the specialized entertain- ment listings, but one of them may be significant. Sirius Software released their first hi-res adventure, Kabul Spy, and placed fourth in the Adventure Five. Another interest- ing fact of the Adventure list was the prominence of Time Zone, On-Line’s ultimate hi-res adventure at eight disks and a $99.95 price. That it led all adventure games and nudged into the Top Thirty ratifies Roberta and Ken Williams’s de- cision to go for a magnum opus. Hi-Res Computer Golf regained a position on the Strate- By Five list, but Castle Wolfenstein remains the dominant program. The resurgence of Flight Simulator sales pushed it back to second with Robot War dropping to fourth and Sargon II dropping to fifth. The continuing popularity of Automated Simulations’s Apshai series manifested itself in the Fantasy Five list