This episode features CalcMagic, originally released in 1985 by Antic Software. This is a spreadsheet. It was developed by Metamorphosis Development and programmed by Dave Middleton.
Podcast: Download
Supplement Scans
Ad from Antic Software catalog in 1988:
CalcMagic in Action
Booting
Booting on non XL/XE machine:
Booting on machine with less than 64K:
Boot screen:
Booting the documentation side of the disk:
Working
New spreadsheet:
Popup menu on XL (Note free space of 17745):
Popup menu on XE (Note free space of 30137):
Cell extents on XL (Z-254):
Cell extents on XE (BL-254):
Goto cell:
Working with ranges:
Copying:
Formatting:
Clearing (blanking):
Worksheet Commands menu:
Saving (notice replace prompt):
Saving (new file):
Global Format:
Global Formatting – Column Width:
Delete Row:
Insert Row:
Load sheet:
Setting color:
Clearing entire sheet:
Printer Setup menu:
Formatting Cell:
Cell width change:
Splitting the view:
Recalculation menu:
Disk Commands menu:
Load a DIF file (like an export from VisiCalc or SynCalc):
Format disk:
Same spreadsheet from above as created with VisiCalc (DIF used to load it):
Printing
The dataset entered is a listing of all Inverse ATASCII episodes including the season, episode, title, and length in time.
License documentation:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/s6e05-prt-0-doc.pdf
Entire output of documentation:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/s6e05-prt-0-doc-full.pdf
Show Links:
- AtariMania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-calc-magic_30580.html
- Inverse ATASCII S2E08 Synapse SynCalc: https://inverseatascii.info/2016/02/23/s2e08-synapse-software-syncalc/
- Inverse ATASCII S1E08 VisiCorp VisiCalc: https://inverseatascii.info/2015/01/13/s1e8-visicalc/
Intro music is an excerpt from a chip tune by Wizwars named 8 Bit Raceway. It is used under Creative Common license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States.
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