Antic Software

Original submissions were later added, as well as public domain collections, with all software provided on self-documented disk.

The magazine insert changed names several times, eventually being branded as The Catalog.

Antic assistant editor Gigi Bisson wrote in the May 1986 issue that, "[Antic Software] kept the magazine afloat during the lean year," referring to the period following Atari, Inc.'s financial collapse.

[1] When the Atari Program Exchange (APX) was shut down by Atari CEO James J. Morgan in 1984, Gary Yost convinced Antic magazine's publisher, James Capparell, to create Antic Software.

Yost contacted many of the programmers from APX to re-publish their works with Antic.