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Players also have the opportunity to
improve their score with bonus rounds
following each completed plane.
Mind-Roll is available for the
Commodore 64/128, the Amiga, and
the IBM PC and compatibles. The sug
gested retail price is $29.95.
Epyx, 600 Galveston Dr., P.O. Box
8020, Redwood City, CA 94063
Circle Reader Service Number 208.
Keyball or Trackboard?
Octave Systems has combined a key
board and a trackball in KeyTrak,
which was designed to save desk space
and increase the efficiency of computer
users.
The trackball is compatible with
both Microsoft and Mouse Systems se
rial mouse drivers. It has a serial port
and a X-shaped cable that plugs into the
keyboard port; plus, it can switch be
tween XT- and AT-class computers.
Three mouse buttons are located above
the trackball, and the primary button is
duplicated on the left-hand side of the
keyboard.
KeyTrak has a suggested retail
price of$ 189.
Octave Systems, 1715 Dell Ave.,
Campbell, CA 95008
Circle Reader Service Number 209.
KeyTrak combines a trackball with a
keyboard.
Start Off Right
Curtis Manufacturing has introduced
The Computer Starter Kit, five com
puter accessories designed to protect
computers, save valuable desktop
space, and provide greater user com
fort. The kit contains a disk file, a Cur
tis Clip copy holder, universal printer
legs, a computer-cleaning kit, and a
surge protector.
The kit can contain either a 3lh- or
a 5%-inch cleaning kit that rids disk
drives of dust and debris and a disk file
that holds up to fifty 5'A- or forty 3Viinch
disks. The Curtis Clip attaches di
rectly to the monitor and swings out of
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the way when not in use. Any desktop
printer can be elevated with the kit's
printer legs, and the Safe-Bloc Surge
Protector, with hot-to-neutral protec
tion, features six multipurpose outlets
and mounts directly into any duplex
wall outlet.
The Computer Starter Kit carries a
suggested retail price of $59.95.
Curtis Manufacturing, 30 Fitzger
ald Dr., Jajfrey, NH 03452
Circle Reader Service Number 210.
The Computer Starter Kit combines five
computer accessories into one package.
In Stereo
Give your Commodore 64 or 128 sixvoice
stereo music capabilities with the
SID Symphony Stereo Cartridge from
Dr. Evil Laboratories. The cartridge lets
you play Sidplayer songs, both standard
and enhanced, including ones available
in the public domain, such as Mark A.
Dickenson's Stereo Player version 10.0.
You can also create your own stereo
Sidplayer songs with COMPUTED
Music System for the Commodore 128
and 64: The Enhanced Sidplayer, writ
ten by Craig Chamberlain and available
from COMPUTE! Books.
The SID Symphony Stereo Car
tridge requires no assembly; however,
you will need two RCA male-to-male
cables to connect the outputs of the
computer and cartridge to a stereo sys
tem. The cartridge is powered by a re
placeable 9-volt alkaline battery.
The suggested retail price for the
SID Symphony Cartridge is $34.95.
Dr. Evil Laboratories, P. O. Box
190, St. Paul, IN 47272
Circle Reader Service Number 211.
Portable Fax and Data
Touchbase Systems has released the
WorldPort 2496 Portable Fax/Data
Modem. The small battery-powered
modem combines a 9600-bits-persecond
(bps) Group III facsimile mo
dem with a full-featured 2400-bps data
modem. Designed for use with IBM
PC-compatible portable and laptop
computers, the external unit can also be
used with desktop computers.
Features include two standard
RJ11 telephone jacks and an interface
for acoustic-coupler operation, which
allows the unit to be used in phone
booths, hotel rooms, and with non-
U.S. phone jacks.
The unit can automatically detect
and route an incoming fax or data call.
Proprietary PC software allows unat
tended background operation for send
ing or receiving fax transmissions and
sending group broadcasts; it integrates
full data-communications features for
the data-modem section.
Data-modem features include AT
command-set compatibility, autodial/
auto-answer/auto-rate select. Bell and
CCITT compatibility, a speaker, and
LED indicators.
The WorldPort 2496 has a suggest
ed retail price of $699.
Touchbase Systems, 160 Laurel
Ave., Northport, NY 11768
Circle Reader Service Number 212.
The WorldPort 2496 Portable Fax/Data
Modem combines fax and data.
Label It
A program for creating and customizing
mailing labels for the IBM PC and com
patibles is now available from POP
Computer Products. Labels! can store
as many as 4000 names and addresses
and features a Lookup Engine that al
lows for quick recall if the user remem
bers only a few characters such as part
of a name or street address.
Users can type labels in any for
mat, with or without fields. Up to ten
different address and label formats can
be kept in memory. The program can
also import and export ASCII text files.
The Grabber feature lets you enter
an address once and then have the data
available later for printing an envelope.
The address is stored until it's time to
print, but the feature isn't a traditional
memory-resident program: The Grab-