Byte vol.12 №5 May 1987

FEATURES
Product Preview: The Tandon PAC 286………………………….. 85
by Jonathan Erickson, G. Michael Vose,
and Charles Weston
An advance look at Tandon’s AT-class computer and its unique disk subsystem and memory management unit.
PAC 286
Ciarcia’s Circuit Cellar: Build a Gray-Scale Video Digitizer……………..95
by Steve Ciarcia
Image Wise is a complete digital video system.
Programming Project: Pull-Down Menus in C…………………………108
by James L. Pinson
Add a user-friendly menu system to almost any IBM PC application.
Build BERT, the Basic Educational Robot Trainer, Part 2…….113
by Karl Brown
A guide to troubleshooting and programming your robot.
An Adventure Authoring System…………………125
by David Betz
A tour of AdvSys, a tool for writing text adventure games.
Interactive Fiction as Literature……………..135
by Mary Ann Buckles
Adventure games have a literary heritage.
THEME: Desktop Publishing
Introduction………………………………..147
The Desktop-Publishing Phenomenon……………..149
by John W. Seybold
Personal printing has come a long way in a short time.
Make My Page!……………………………….159
by Thom Holmes
Choosing the best desktop-publishing program for your needs.
Designing a Raster-Image Processor…………….171
by Jon Barrett and Kirk Reistroffer
The road from screen display to hard copy is circuitous.
Programming in PostScript…………………….185
by Denis G. Pelli
Techniques and applications in vision research, plus a survey of PostScript hardware and software.
REVIEWS
Reviewer’s Notebook………………………….207
by Cathryn Baskin
High-Speed Internal Modems……………………209
by Stephen Satchell
An evaluation of 10 units for IBM PC compatibles.
Compaq’s New Carryon…………………………221
by John Unger
This machine combines performance with portability.
The Commodore 64C……………………………229
by Alastair J. W. Mayer
An attractive restyling of the Commodore 64.
SCSI Hard Disk Drives for the Macintosh………..237
by Chris Crawford and Eva White
BASIC Compilers for the Macintosh……………241
by Scott L Norman True BASIC 1.0, ZBASIC 3.01, and PCMacBasic 1.65.
Q&A 2.0………………………………… 249
by Phillip Robinson This file manager has a natural-language interface and a word processor.
Lyrix…………………………………….251
by George R. Allen A word processor that runs on many different computers.
Review Feedback……………………………254
Readers respond to previous reviews.
KERNEL
Computing at Chaos Manor: Bye-Bye Big Kat……………………………261
by Jerry Pournelle
Big Kat leaves Chaos Manor, and Zelda moves in.
According to Webster:
Publish and/or Perish………………………279
by Bruce Webster
A visit to the Mac World Exposition and a look at desktop publishing.
Applications Only: Mostly Mac……………….293
by Ezra Shapiro Ezra looks at Macintosh programs and receives feedback from Aeta’s author.
Mathematical Recreations: Around and Around………………………….307
by Robert T. Kurosaka Exploring the family of curves known as cycloids using computer graphics.
LISTINGS
From BIX………………………………….256
From BYTEnet…………………….(617) 861-9764
On Disk………………………..see card after 324
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In Print……………………….see card after 324