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<h2 id="reception">Reception</h2> <p><i><a href="/facts/Ahoy!/2YXlD9s7">Ahoy!</a></i> warned "don't expect more than you pay for", stating that while HomeText was "quite nice" and HomeTerm was "wonderful," HomeFile was "very disappointing. Anyone who needs to use the <a href="/facts/Database/VYcpkevb">database</a> for even a mildly sophisticated operation will be frustrated and confused ... a total mess".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>In a review of the HomeTerm portion of the package, Ron Luks wrote in a 1984 review for <i><a href="/facts/ANALOG_Computing/Iv24wDGy">ANALOG Computing</a></i>, "A superb terminal program is rare indeed, but in my collection of over two dozen Atari terminal programs, I have two or three that meet the "superb" criteria. Only one, however, can be the best. Hometerm is, quite simply, the best."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>In a 1986 <i><a href="/facts/Page_6/aw9EbWex">Page 6</a></i> review, the author had technical problems using HomeTerm in the UK.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> He called HomeFind, "elegant, friendly and very easy to use," and wrote that HomeText, "might even tempt me away from my trusty old <a href="/facts/AtariWriter/ujCFUlF5">Atariwriter</a>." </p> <h2 id="legacy">Legacy</h2> <p>With Sparky Starks, Wetmore co-authored a similarly styled Atari 8-bit application called HomeCard. It was advertised as an "electronic filing box" and "intelligent <a href="/facts/Rolodex/CAzAKEd4">Rolodex</a>." HomeCard was published by <a href="/facts/Antic_Software/AfyXMM3t">Antic Software</a> in 1985,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> not Batteries Included. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"News & Products: New Products From Batteries Included". Compute! (74): 117. July 1986. <a href="https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue74/news_and_products.php" target="_blank">https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue74/news_and_products.php</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Chadwick, Ian (1985). "Author's Preface To The Revised Edition". Mapping the Atari. Greensboro, North Carolina: Compute! Publications, Inc. pp. v–vi. ISBN 0-87455-004-1. <a href="0-87455-004-1" target="_blank">0-87455-004-1</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Schleimer, Rachel (April 1985). "HomePak". Ahoy!. pp. 82–83. Retrieved 27 June 2014. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/Ahoy_Issue_16_1985-04_Ion_International_US#page/n81/mode/2upwwt" target="_blank">https://archive.org/stream/Ahoy_Issue_16_1985-04_Ion_International_US#page/n81/mode/2upwwt</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Luks, Ron (December 1984). "HOMETERM". ANALOG Computing (25). <a href="http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/an25/hometerm.htm" target="_blank">http://www.cyberroach.com/analog/an25/hometerm.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Davison, John S. (September 1986). "Review: Homepak". Page 6 (23). <a href="http://page6.org/archive/issue_23/page_32.htm" target="_blank">http://page6.org/archive/issue_23/page_32.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"HomeCard advertisement". Antic. 4 (3): 26. July 1985. <a href="https://archive.org/details/1985-07-anticmagazine/page/n25" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/1985-07-anticmagazine/page/n25</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>