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Antic Software was the name of the software company associated with ''Antic'', a magazine for the Atari 8-bit computers. The catalog of software was bound into issues of ''Antic'', and products were sold via mail order. By 1986 it was branded ''The Catalog''. 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. The APX software was rebranded in mid-1984 as ''APX Classics from Antic''. In addition to select APX programs, original submissions were added as well as public domain collections. All software was provided on self-documented disk. When the Atari ST was released, ''The Catalog'' became a mixture of Atari 8-bit and Atari ST software. The catalog helped save ''Antic'' during the home computer-market's collapse. Gary Yost went on to form The Yost Group which created and licensed a number of products to Autodesk, Inc. (Autodesk Animator, Autodesk Animator Pro, Autodesk 3D Studio, and Autodesk 3DS MAX). ==Notable products== *Tom Hudson's ''CAD-3D'' modeling system and related add-ons (Atari ST). ''CAD-3D'' was a precursor to ''3D Studio MAX''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first1=Martin )〕 *The sequels to ''Caverns of Mars'': ''Phobos'' and ''Mars Mission II'' (Atari 8-bit). *''RAMbrandt'' image editor (Atari 8-bit). *The ''Colourspace'' light synthesizer from Jeff Minter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antic Software」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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