In addition to reviews and tutorials, ANALOG printed multiple programs in each issue for users to type in.

ANALOG also sold commercial games, two books of type-in software, and access to a custom bulletin-board system.

The program listings were covered under the magazine's copyright protections, and users were granted the right to type them into their computer for personal use, so long as they were not sold or copied.

[3] ANALOG was co-launched by Lee H. Pappas and Michael DesChesnes who met at a Star Trek convention in 1978.

[2][4] Following the Atari ST announcement in early 1985, ANALOG expanded its scope to include the new computer line.

[5] With its 10th issue, in January 1987 ST-Log became a separate magazine and ANALOG returned to being fully devoted to the Atari 8-bit computers.

In the April 1988 issues of ST-Log and ANALOG Computing, Pappas announced that both magazines were under new ownership and the offices moved from Worcester, Massachusetts to North Hollywood, California.

[17] It contains a summary of Atari BASIC commands, player/missile memory layout, hardware register and operating system addresses, ATASCII characters, graphics modes, and other information.