ABBUC Magazin Nr. 1

Magazine number: 1
Date: approx. 1985 (first issue of the "Atari Bit Byter" club magazine; no date on the disk)
Disk images: ABBUC_Magazin_001A.ATR, ABBUC_Magazin_001B.ATR (both sides contain identical contents; Atari DOS 2.0S, BASIC-only disk)

Programs

File	Description
`MENU.BAS` / `START.BAS` / `AUTORUN.BAS`	Selection menu ("Auswahl-Menue fuer Magazin Nr. 1") with free-sector counter; loads the other programs.
`CPOKER.BAS`	Card game "Poker" for 1-4 players with an optional time penalty and a points table (straight flush 1000 ... pair 20).
`ASCCODE.BAS`	Small utility that converts a character to its ATASCII code and vice versa.
`MUSBOX.BAS`	"Music Box Dancer" - plays the melody and animates graphics.
`PINGZEI.BAS`	"Ping-Pong" drawing toy: draw walls with the joystick, erase with the trigger, bounce a ball.
`WELTRAU.BAS`	"Weltraum" - a short space animation with an embedded machine-language routine.
`KALENDER.BAS`	Calendar generator with printer routine (c/o Wolfgang Burger, Herten).
`UMWANDLU.BAS`	Unit converter between metric and U.S. units (inches/feet/yards/acres, spoons/cups/pints/gallons, cm/m/km, kg/pounds ...).

INFO.BAS (BASIC "text" program, club info, no named author): Introduces the user group, which has about 20 members from different cities. The club wants to exchange experience and tips, the magazine is to appear quarterly on disk; monthly fee is 5 DM including the disk. States that no pirate copies are sold and that membership in the W.U.N. (Worldwide User Network) has been applied for in the USA. Looks for members abroad (one in the USA so far) and lists planned interest areas (games, utilities ...).