Cover Title Page Introduction Chapter One: Getting To Know Your Atari Atari's Marketing Vice President Profiles The Personal Computer Market Atari BASIC And PET Microsoft BASIC. A BASIC Comparison The Ouch In Atari BASIC Atari BASIC Part II Chapter Two: Beyond the Basics Inside Atari BASIC Atari BASIC Structure Input/Output On The Atari Why Machine Language? POKin' Around Printing To The Screen From Machine Language on The Atari Chapter Three: Graphics Made In The Shade: An Introduction To "Three-Dimensional" Graphics On The Atari Computers The Fluid Brush Color Wheel For The Atari Card Games In Graphics Modes 1 and 2 Ticker Tape Atari Messages Player/Missile Graphics With The Atari Personal Computer System The Basics Of Using POKE in Atari Graphics Designing Your Own Atari Graphics Modes Graphics Of Polar Functions Chapter Four: Programming Hints Reading The Atari Keyboard On The Fly Atari Sounds Tutorial Al Baker's Programming Hints for Atari/Apple Al Baker's Programming Hints: Apple And Atari Error Reporting System For The Atari Chapter Five: Applications Atari Tape Data Files: A Consumer Oriented Approach An Atari BASIC Tutorial: Monthly Bar Graph Program Chapter Six: Peripheral Information Adding A Voice Track To Atari Programs The Atari Disk Operating System Review Of The Atari 810 Disk System An Atari Tutorial: Atari Disk Menu What To Do If You Don't Have Joysticks Using The Atari Console Switches Atari Meets The Real World Appendix A Atari Memory Locations Index Software Archive

Robert Lock Michael S. Tomczyk Joretta Klepfer Glenn Fisher and Ron Jeffries John Victor Larry Isaacs W. A. Bell Larry Isaacs Jim Butterfield Charles Brannon Larry Isaacs David D. Thornburg Al Baker Neil Harris William D. Seivert Eric Martell and Chris Murdock Chris Crawford Charles G. Fortner Craig Patchett Henrique Veludo James L. Bruun Jerry White Al Baker Al Baker Len Lindsay Al Baker Jerry White John Victor Roger Beseke Ron Jeffries and Glenn Fisher Len Lindsay Steven Schulman James L. Brunn Richard Kushner Ronald Marcuse

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