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- SYNDICATE ZMAGAZINE
- Issue #143
- Tuesday, February 7, 1989
- Copyright 1989, SPC
- =========================================================================
- CompuServe: 71777,2140 GEnie: ZMAGAZINE Source: BDG793
- =========================================================================
- This Week:
-
- <*> Editors Desk............Ron Kovacs <*> Nintendo Sues Atari Games.....
- <*> Dataque Conference........Ctsy CIS <*> Atari Magazines.......L. Estep
- <*> MicroMiser........................ <*> Call Blocking.........J. Cross
- <*> Online Services <CIS>............. <*> Jan Uploads <GEnie>...........
-
- =========================================================================
- <*> EDITORS DESK by Ron Kovacs
-
- A new release date has been put into effect with this issue. We made this
- decision based upon the Survey results received to date. We appreciate
- your responses!!
-
- Despite recent rumors I have heard, let me tell you that any information
- you might have heard or seen about Z*NET is not official until we release
- the information. We expect to release official information on or before
- February 28th. Stay tuned for details here!!!
-
- This week is ST*ZMAGAZINE:
-
- - Atari releases monitor stand - Falcon and Piracy Comment
- - Spectre 128 Update - Public Domain Shelf
- - Hard Drive Back-up Software - Michtron Update
- - Tech Tips - Mouse Accelerator
- - Pagestream Offer - Turbo-ST Offer
- and much more.....
-
- Thanks for reading!
-
-
- ##############################
- <*> DATAQUE CONFERENCE 2/15
-
- The Atari Forums will be sponsoring a national online teleconference on
- Wednesday, February 15th, at 8:00 PM EST EST. Our guest speaker will be
- Chuck Steinman of DataQue, makers of the TURBO-816 Atari 8-Bit
- enhancement.
-
- The DataQue Conference is going to be held in CompuServe's Electronic
- Convention Center(tm). The Electronic Convention Center(tm) was designed
- specifically for special conferences of this nature and can have as many
- as 300 people participating simultaneously without causing the slightest
- speed decrease. In addition, the Electronic Convention Center(tm) offers
- the capability of holding a more structured conference, making it possible
- for you to ask your questions and be answered by Chuck Steinman without
- any interruptions. Top performance is absolutely guaranteed! Lastly, the
- Electronic Convention Center(tm) offers additional conveniences (discussed
- later in this text) that will make your participation in this conference
- amazingly easy. If you've participated in other national conferences of
- this type before and have been underwhelmed at the way it was conducted
- and the performance of the service during 'heavy' usage, this conference
- is your opportunity to experience the communication power of a
- professional-quality global information network.
-
- ACCESSING THE CONVENTION CENTER
-
- As mentioned above, the DataQue conference will be held in CompuServe's
- Electronic Convention Center(tm) -- NOT the conference area of this Atari
- Forum. To access the Convention Center, type GO CONVENTION at any
- CompuServe command prompt.
-
- When you type GO CONVENTION, CompuServe will display the following menu:
-
- Electronic Convention Center(tm)
-
- INFORMATION/RESERVATIONS
- 1 Instructions
- 2 List Conferences/Make Reservations
- 3 Review/Cancel Reservations
- 4 Conference Etiquette
-
- Enter choice !
-
- Choice 1 allows you to view the complete instruction guide for using the
- Convention Center. Choice 2 and Choice 3 allow you to list upcoming
- special conferences and any advance "reservations" (NOT NECESSARY FOR
- THIS CONFERENCE!) you might have made. Lastly, choice 4 provides some
- information on the etiquette followed by participants in an electronic
- conference.
-
- On Wednesday, February 15th at 7:30 (a half hour before the DataQue
- conference is scheduled to begin), the Convention Center menu will appear
- as shown above with the addition of menu choice 5 which will allow you to
- enter the DataQue conference. An example of how the Convention Center
- menu will appear from 7:30 through the end of the conference on February
- 15th appears below:
-
- Electronic Convention Center(tm)
-
- INFORMATION/RESERVATIONS
- 1 Instructions
- 2 List Conferences/Make Reservations
- 3 Review/Cancel Reservations
- 4 Conference Etiquette
-
- JOIN CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS
- 5 ATARI 8-bit/TURBO-816
-
- Enter choice !
-
- All you will need to do is select choice 5 in order to join the
- conference.
-
-
- ##############################
- <*> MICROMISER
-
- To the Atari Community:
-
- I am not generally in the habit of posting messages on this bulletin
- board, however I feel it is my present duty to inform and warn the Atari
- community about a particular company. I recently purchased a copy of
- Turboword from MicroMiser Software Incorporated, the same company that
- sells Turbobase, as advertised in Analog, Antic and Atari Explorer
- magazines. As this is the only word processing program presently
- available to work with the XEP80 eighty column adaptor, I was very pleased
- to discover that it was available (Atari Corporation has yet to ship
- AtariWriter-80). Nevertheless, I was very displeased at the quality of
- the product once I received it in the mail. The following is the exact
- text of the letter I wrote to MicroMiser describing what I beleived were
- the major problems with their program. Included after that is their
- response to my letter which, although rather amusing at first, is the most
- insulting drivel I have ever read.
-
- Hence, I thought you should be aware of this company's practices in case
- you were considering purchasing one of their products.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- January 6, 1989
-
- Micromiser Software
- 1635-A Holden Ave.,
- Orlando, Florida 32809, USA
-
- To whom it may concern:
-
- I received my copy of Turboword two days ago and have spent a number of
- hours familiarising myself with its various functions. I am sorry to say
- that I am genuinely unimpressed with this product. To begin with, its
- most serious lack is that it is impossible to adjust line spacing either
- from the main menu or within the editor. Surely you must realize that any
- student using a word processor requires double spacing. I am presently in
- my tenth year of university, and every paper that I have ever written was
- required to be double spaced; some even required changing the spacing
- within the body of the text (eg., single spacing for passages quoted
- directly from a published text).
-
- Hence, this program is completely useless for most students, including
- myself.
-
- Next on my list of complaints is the fact that the program is replete
- with a number of uncorrected bugs. For example, when using the "Enter
- Address" function of the main menu I always get an "error 168 at line 255"
- message while the program is saving my address. Then when I use the "G"
- function my address is poorly centered on the screen and requires
- adjustment of the spacing so that it looks acceptable. I have yet to try
- the envelope functions, but I cringe at the thought of the insect-like
- creatures that await me.
-
- The file functions of the program are also totally inadequate. It is
- impossible to save a file under another name than the one with which it
- was loaded. As a result, the user cannot make changes to a file and still
- have the original on disk unaltered. This is a serious limitation if you
- like to revise your work a number of times without destroying the last
- version you worked on.
-
- Another problem with the program is the fact that the main menu is written
- in BASIC. When memory is at a premium, as it is in the Atari 8-bits,
- having BASIC in RAM takes up a large chunk of it that can be put to better
- use for much needed program functions and more text.
-
- The spelling ckecker also does not function properly. It states in the
- manual that it is supposed to copy the "SPELLCHK.TXT" file to the original
- file after a spelling check. It does not do so. Needless to say, this is
- very annoying and defeats the purpose of the spelling checker.
-
- Finally, the method of entering printer codes into the file is non-
- intuitive. Control-letter sequences to end and begin a section (of
- underlining for example) would be much more natural than using the inverse
- characters. Furthermore, I personally believe that having the control
- sequence insert a space is counterproductive to good word processing. If,
- for example, I wished to underline only part of a word this is impossible
- unless I redefine the printer codes and use some weird punctuation
- sequence that I would never remember.
-
- The high price of $49.00 (US) that I paid for it is criminal considering
- the poor quality of the product. I also find your request for another
- $5.00 for your "trip to the post office" to be outrageous and I
- categorically refuse to pay it. Where I come from, it is illegal to
- charge someone extra for something unless the charge is clearly stated in
- advance. In your advertisements there is no mention of postage and
- handling charges whatsoever, hence I find it highly objectionable that you
- sent me an invoice for an extra $5.00; especially since the postage only
- cost YOU $1.20! On the envelope you wrote the value of the contents to be
- $10.00. Personally, I cannot say that this program is worth one cent more
- than that.
-
- Neverthelless, if you are able to send me a version with all the
- aforementioned bugs corrected (especially the double spacing) then I will
- consider paying you the amount you requested.
-
- Sincerely yours,
- K. Gilbert
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- Star Date 125.4729
-
- K. Gilbert
- Montreal, Quebec Canada
-
- Earth
- Attention Kay,
-
- We respond to your recent transmission.
-
- The program TURBOWORD was designed for Earth-use only. It is not
- recommended for inhabitants of the outer planets.
-
- Regarding the disputed five credits, do not REPEAT do not initiate second
- request. Our advice is to return to Neptune immediately where it is
- unlikely you will be found. In fact, we doubt anyone would look.
-
- Concerning the update to the above mentioned product which includes the
- features you seek, we wish you all the luck in the universe. Perhaps you
- can contact a pirate on Triton appropriate to your genre to assist in
- locating same.
-
- Please do not approach the council again on this matter. The elders are
- busy with constructive enterprise and will disavow any further contact.
-
- The Galactic Council to assist in locating same.
- [EOF]
-
-
- RESPONSE FOLLOWS
-
- Dear Tim,
-
- About the letter TURBOW.TXT. He sent us a check for the price of the
- program and we sent it and billed the shipping to save him another 20
- days. Some thanks. We're criminal for charging shipping to a foreign
- country because we didn't advertise same in the US? Glad he's not from
- China! In Canada they'd throw us in jail for that? We never advertised
- double spacing but we're supposed to rewrite the program to collect the
- $5 he owes us. We're guilty of writing in BASIC, never mind the 12K of
- ASSEMBLER that took four months. Our printer codes may be "non-intuitive"
- to a ten year university student, but they're "intuitive" enough to the
- rest of us high-school drop-outs. Our high price of $49 is criminal.
- Never mind there are only 500 potential customers with XEP80s according to
- our distributor. Sorry for wanting more than $2/hr. We wrote $10 on the
- package to save him some duty (why we have to go to the post office).
- Some thanks.
-
- We're about to send 200 FREE update disks with Turboword+ which corrects
- all problems and doubles features. Who else does this? I just had to buy
- GFA 3.0 to fix the bugs in 2.0. But we're not sending any to Neptune as
- long as I run this company. Also, about half of his problems were HIS
- problems, not ours.
-
- The reason this is the only negative thing you've heard is most likely
- because there are few aliens using our software, and because we offer the
- best support in the Atari world--when people ask for it in any normal way.
- All it takes is to realize that there are other human beings at the end of
- the letter or phone who have feelings too. I'm sure we'd get along fine,
- as I do with 99.9% of customers. I just finished Turboword+ and I'm very
- proud of it, though it probably doesn't have "All features of Paperclip"
- as one customer requested on his warranty. I think you would be very
- happy with it. Now I start on a compatible file manager which I'm sure
- will be done by the time AW+ comes out.
-
- Nice to make your aquaintance! It's rare that we developers get the
- opportunity to tell our side. Thanks for giving me the opportunity, and
- thanks to our alien friend for forcing it. By the way he is no reflection
- on Canadians--they are generally very knowledgeable, have good manners,
- and pay the $5 shipping without a hassle.
-
- Steve at Micromiser
-
- P.S. One time a programmer called and swore at me for not writing
- Turbobase in color! Gee, Dbase on an Atari8 ain't good enough?!? Well
- this is sure an interesting business. (I love it!) I'll write a book
- some day! S.B.
-
-
- ##############################
- <*> NINTENDO SUES ATARI
-
- Ctsy CompuServe ATARIARTS SIG
-
- #: 5680 S8/Hot Topics 03-Feb-89 14:35:58
- Sb: #Nintendo Sues Atari...
- Fm: SYSOP*Mike Schoenbach 76703,4363
- To: All
-
- Online Today OLT-255
-
- NINTENDO SUES ATARI GAMES, TENGEN
- (Feb. 3)
- Continuing the video game feud, Nintendo of America now has sued Atari
- Games Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Tengen Inc., alleging patent
- infringement.
-
- This follows a $250 million lawsuit filed earlier this week against
- Nintendo Co. Ltd. by Atari Corp. (which is not related to Atari Games).
- That action accused the Japanese video giant of monopolizing the market
- with restrictions on its licensed game developers.
-
- As noted earlier, all these parties have been in federal court earlier.
- In December, Atari Games filed a $100 million suit against Nintendo,
- alleging unfair competition. Then last month Nintendo sued Atari Games,
- saying the firm was making and selling unauthorized video-game cartridges.
- Of this latest suit, Nintendo said Atari Games and Tengen's making and
- selling home video cartridges for play on the Nintendo Entertainment
- System infringes on a US Patent No. 4,799,635. That patent "covers a novel
- system designed to prevent the use of unauthorized computer software on
- hardware systems," Nintendo said in a statement.
-
- Nintendo said its system places separate "security chips" in both computer
- hardware and external memory software. These dedicated processors run
- authenticating programs and compare results.
-
- "If the results agree, the software is 'authorized' and the game begins,"
- the statement said. "The Tengen-manufactured cartridges employ this system
- and thereby infringe Nintendo's patent."
-
- The action late yesterday was filed in US District Court in San Francisco
- as an amended complaint to the January suit. --Charles Bowen
-
-
- ##############################
- <*> ATARI MAGAZINES
- by Lawrence Estep
-
- (Editor Note: This article covers the availability of back-issues of Atari
- related publications.)
-
- Updated: 2/1/89
-
- ANTIC
-
- Issues available
- ----------------
- July 1983-February 1989 disks and magazines (Excluding September 1984
- magazine)
-
- Antic disks :$5.95 each
- Antic magazines:$4.00 each
- 6-month back packs only $20.00 each
-
- Disks Catalog Disks Catalog
- ----- ------- ----- -------
- July-December 1983 DBP8302 January-June 1984 DBP8401
- January-June 1985 DBP8501 July-December 1985 DBP8502
- January-June 1986 DBP8601 July-December 1986 DBP8602
- January-June 1987 DBP8701 July-December 1987 DBP8702
- January-June 1988 DBP8801 July-December 1988 DBP8802
-
- Magazines Catalog Magazines Catalog
- --------- ------- --------- -------
- July-December 1983 MBP8302 January-June 1984 MBP8401
- January-June 1985 MBP8501 July-December 1985 MBP8502
- January-June 1986 MBP8601 July-December 1986 MBP8602
- January-June 1987 MBP8701 July-December 1987 MBP8702
- January-June 1988 MBP8801 July-December 1988 MBP8802
-
- Call 1-800-234-7001 (Visa/MC orders) or send your check or money order
- to: Antic Publishing
- Back issues
- 544 Second Street
- San Francisco,CA 94107
-
- Please indicate by product code which issues you would like. California
- residents add 6 1/2% sales tax. Also,include the following S&H charges:
- $1.00 per magazine, $3.00 for 1-10 disks, $6.00 for 10+ disks
-
- ATARI EXPLORER
-
- Issues available
- ----------------
- Fall 1981 Winter 1981/82 Spring 1983
- Summer 1983 Winter 1986 Sep/Oct 1986
- Nov/Dec 1986 Jan/Feb 1987 Spring 1987
- Summer 1987 Sep/Oct 1987 Nov/Dec 1987
- Jan/Feb 1988 Mar/Apr 1988 May/Jun 1988
- Jul/Aug 1988 Sep/Oct 1988 Nov/Dec 1988
- Jan/Feb 1989
-
- Price:$2.95 each or 6 issues for $15. S&H $:$.69 book rate postage per
- issue Address: Atari Explorer back issues
- 7 Hilltop Road
- Mendham,NJ 07945
-
- CURRENT NOTES
-
- Issues available
- ----------------
- 1985 - July to December ($1)
- 1986 - February,April to December ($1.50)
- 1987 - February to December ($2.00)
- 1988 - February to December ($2.50)
-
- Send to: Current Notes
- Back Issues
- 122 N. Johnson Rd.
- Sterling,VA 22170
-
- FAMILY & HOME OFFICE COMPUTING
-
- Issues available
- ----------------
- Single monthly issues from 9/83 (Premiere issue) to current issue
-
- Send check or money order for $4.25 each to:
- Family & Home Office Computing
- Back issues
- P.O. Box 717,Cooper Station
- New York,NY 10276-0717
-
- ONLINE TODAY
-
- Back issues from 1983-1989 are available for ordering online on CompuServe
- (GO ORDER) for $2.50.,or call 1-800-848-8119 for more information.
-
- START
-
- Magazines Disks
- STart #3 Winter '86 SMS1286 SDS1286
- STart #4 Spring '87 Sold Out SDS0387
- STart #5 Summer '87 SMS0687 SDS0687
- STart #6 Fall '87 SMS0987 SDS0987
- STart #7 Winter '87 SMS1287 SDS1287
-
- Magazines:$4.00 each
- Disks:$10.95 each
-
- Use same mailing address and S&H charges as for Antic magazine.
-
- ST Resource programs (From Antic)
-
- Issue Disk #
- Compendium #1 8/85-1/86 SB0101
- Compendium #2 2/86-5/86 SB0102
- Compendium #3 6/86-9/86 SB0103
- Compendium #4 10/86-2/87 SB0106
- Compendium #5 3/87-7/87 SB0107
-
- Compendium disks are $10.95 each.
-
- Use same mailing address and S&H charges as for Antic magazine.
-
- Next listing issued:03/01/89
- Copyright 1989 NEW Atari Scene! BBS
- The official BBS system of
- The Atari Exchange of Louisville,KY
- (502) 456-4292 SysOp:Rich Link
-
-
- ##############################
- <*> CALL BLOCKING (A REPORT)
- Reprinted by permission of the author.
- by Jerry Cross
-
- I'm going to do something I have never done before, write a serious
- article (gasp!). No jokes this time, because this is a serious issue and
- you should be very concerned with it.
-
- In the October issue of MAM you read about how a certain long distance
- telephone carrier in Iowa was practicing what is called call blocking. In
- review, this means this company, Teleconnect, Inc., is blocking calls made
- through their long distance system to other callers, without notifying
- either the person making the call or the person whose number is being
- blocked.
-
- As a employee of Michigan Bell, I was especially concerned with this
- practice. This practice is an obvious violation of your rights, and long
- distance companies have no right to tamper with telephone calls. Even
- though this practice appears to be limited to only calls made to certain
- bulletin board systems, what is stopping them from blocking calls to
- whoever they wish? Would you, as an honest business man, appreciate AT&T
- blocking calls to your lines because some dishonest person or phone hacker
- made some illegal calls to you? It could easily cost you a lot of
- business!
-
- Well, after I first read the article, sent to me by another concerned
- computer user, I felt I needed to do something. By an incredible
- coincidence, this same company (Teleconnect, Inc.) was just now setting up
- shop in the Michigan area, but was limiting their business only to
- business customers and was ignoring residence customers.
-
- Thus begins my quest! I immediately went to "The Mike Wallace 60 Minute
- School of Journalism," which I finished in only 48 minutes. (Sorry, I
- promised no jokes.) I learned the three steps of good investigative
- reporting. Gather evidence, interview witnesses and then pounce on the
- victim. So, after talking to some witnesses in Iowa, I discovered that
- one of Teleconnect's main defenses was that local phone companies would
- not work with them to identify the phone hackers.
-
- Well, this sounded strange to me, so I called both the Michigan Bell Staff
- Security people, plus a few co-workers I used to work with. MBT has a
- special office located in Southfield headed by Daryl Miller, a staff
- manager. MBT will supply the long distance carriers with information
- about calls made to certain numbers. Also, if necessary, MBT will help
- establish an entire case for the carrier against the suspect and even
- testify in court. So much for Teleconnect's excuses.
-
- My next call went to AT&T. Since they have long had an established long
- distance network to every central telephone office, toll fraud was not a
- major problem. However, there are still those who will attempt to discover
- someone's credit calling card number by using their computer to constantly
- dial codes until one is discovered. Both MBT and AT&T are ready and
- waiting for them, with the use of their own monitoring computers that can
- quickly discover when a series of incorrect credit cards are entered, and
- can locate the hacker within minutes. So, once again there is no need for
- AT&T to resort to call blocking. I wonder why Teleconnect does not have
- some sort of similar system set up to at least tell if someone is trying
- to discover an illegal credit number? I guess it's just cheaper to block
- calls, huh?
-
- My calls to both MCI and Sprint went unanswered, and calls to other
- carriers were usually transferred to other supervisors with the usual
- replies of "We don't discuss security matters" or "You will have to
- contact our Media Relations department," which was usually followed by
- "What magazine did you say you write for?"
-
- Next, thanks to a tip from another AT&T friend, I got in contact with the
- Telecommunications Fraud Association. This is, I think, a lobbying group
- located in Washington, District of Columbia, that is sponsored by the long
- distance carriers, and helps to advise legistrators on Telecommunications
- Fraud laws. Once again, though, I lacked the backing of a big-time
- magazine to get any type of reply. I even had to send them a sample of
- our magazine to prove it was for real!
-
- I could see it was time to start enlisting help. I started calling the
- Michigan Public Service Commission, which is responsible for regulating
- the phone industry in Michigan. What a joke! After sending a few letters
- and making some phone calls, I didn't get anywhere with them.
-
- Time to bring out some bigger guns. I sent a letter to both Representative
- Kildie and Senator Riegle. Mr. Kildie sent me a nice rm letter thanking
- me for bring this important matter to his attention and promised he would
- shuffle it off to some underling. Things were looking bad now. But then
- I got a CALL from Mr. Riegle's office. After going over the whole thing
- again with one of their staff members, I was told they would look into it.
- About 2 weeks later, I got a letter saying that a complaint had been
- issued in my name with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Although this
- does show a little progress, I don't expect any quick answers from them
- either.
-
- OK, so now I was ready to confront Teleconnect. Armed with all sorts of
- conflicting testimony, I got hold of their media relations person and
- screamed "SO ARE YOU GUYS BLOCKING CALLS IN MICHIGAN, OR WHAT!?!"
-
- "No, we aren't" she said. Oops! I forgot lesson #1! I needed evidence.
- Darn, I don't have any. Now what do I do?
-
- That's where you readers come in. If you are using one of the long
- distance carriers, and for some reason can not get through to your number,
- first try using another long distance company such as AT&T. If you do get
- through, then you may have discovered a blocked call! If so, let me know!
- I will investigate it further and turn over this information to Mr.
- Riegle's office. I am also tracking down some other sources of help, but
- don't expect any more information for a while. But unless I can prove call
- blocking is indeed going on in Michigan, there is not much we can do
- through legal channels. So please let me know if you discover any blocked
- lines. Contact: Jerry Cross, C/O GAG, PO Box E, Flint, MI 48507.
-
-
- ##############################
- <*> ONLINE SERVICES
- ##############################
- Ctsy CompuServe Atari8
-
- DUAL TERMINALS WITH SAME PASSWORD ON COMPUSERVE
-
- Question: What if I use 2 different terminal programs to access CIS? Or
- even 2 different computers?!! Say, I want to use TSCOPE to view
- On-Line Graphics, but want to use DeTerm to do my DOWnloading
- and messaging? Or wanna use both my ST and XE??
-
- Answer: No problem. CIS can easily handle multiple 'parameter sets' for
- the same PPN (User ID number)
-
- This info is summarized from the Ubiquitous Charles Bowen's column in
- ONLINE TODAY (March issue). At least till it scrolls off, you can read
- the complete article by GO OLT-3500. (recommended!)
-
- The key is a trip into the PRO (PROgramming) area of CIS. When you type a
- PRO command (you can do so at any ! prompt. The polite way is to do this
- OUTSIDE of a forum.) you enter the Personal Programming area. It CAN look
- intimidating, 'cause all you see is an enigmatic 'OK' on the screen.
- (Shades of Moose-DOS) DON'T PANIC! If you know which commands to type,
- you can do amazing things in PRO...
-
- SAVE THE ALTERNATE
-
- Of course, you've already set your 'default' parameters, right? What you
- need to do is 'Save' an Alternate Set for access when you need it.
-
- To start, you need to connect using your 'alternate' program (or
- computer!) Connected? Type GO TERMINAL, and use the menu to change things
- as required.
-
- eg. if you normally use EXPRESS, but want to set up TSCOPE parameters,
- you'd boot up with TSCOPE, then change your terminal Type to VIDTEX.
-
- Or, maybe you use an XE at home but a PC at the office. In that case, you
- might want an alternate WIDTH of 80.
-
- When you've got things the way you want them in your Alternate Set, exit
- TERMINAL, and specify you want these settings set for THIS SESSION only,
- by hitting S.
-
- Now, type PRO. At the OK prompt type:
-
- TER DEF SECOND
-
- For 'SECOND' use whatever name (6 characters max) you want for the
- Alternate Set.
-
- USING THE ALTERNATE
-
- If you've followed the above, what you now have is <2> full 'terminal
- parameter' files stored on CIS. One is the Default, one is an Alternate.
- Logging on with the default, of course, is no problem. But how about if we
- want to use the Alternate?
-
- Easy... When you dial CIS and get the 'User ID:' prompt, type in your PPN
- (number), followed IMMEDIATELY by an asterisk and the name of your
- Alternate Set like so:
-
- User ID: 70717,720*SECOND
-
- replacing 'SECOND' with whatever name you chose previously.
-
- Have a 'space out' and forget the asterisk? You can EVEN change parameters
- after you've logged on! In this case, go to PRO and type TER IS SECOND (or
- whatever 'alternate' name you used.)
-
-
- ##############################
- <*> NEW FILES ON GENIE ATARI8
- Ctsy GEnie, Edited by R.Kovacs
-
- The following list, edited down from the original GEnie directory,
- contains all the NEW files uploaded to the Atari8 RT during January. We
- hope this list is of assistance.
-
- No. File Name Address Bytes Desc
- ----- ------------------------ ------------ ------ ----------------------
- 4108 ATARIWRITER80TURBO.DOC E.LAMBETH1 12600 TURBO BAS DOCS AWRTR80
- 4106 CBMMOUSE.ARC MARTY.A 2520 Tech info CBM 1351 mouse
- 4105 INFERNO.BAS J.BLOY 18900 Inferno, Jan. Analog
- 4104 STELLARARENA.OBJ J.BLOY 5040 Stellar Arena, Analog
- 4103 ZMAG142.ARC ZMAGAZINE 16380 Atari News, 1/30/89
- 4102 SOLITAIR.ARC P.IRWIN 41580 Klondike Solitaire
- 4101 READ11.ARC J.WARD8 2520 Text file reader
- 4100 MORSETUT.BAS J.HOLLAND4 8820 Morse Code Tutor
- 4099 CBMVT100.ARC MARTY.A 8820 Source code GREAT CBM
- 4098 SARCTXT.ARC MARTY.A 11340 Info about Super ARC
- 4097 RTIME8.ARC MARTY.A 6300 Info about ICD R-Time 8
- 4096 TURBO816.ARC MARTY.A 27720 Info about Turbo 816
- 4095 MYDOSTXT.ARC MARTY.A 12600 Info about MyDOS 4.5
- 4094 GOEINFO.ARC MARTY.A 25200 Info about GOE
- 4093 SDX1.ARC MARTY.A 20160 Messages re SpartaDOS X
- 4092 EXPLORER.ARC MARTY.A 13860 Atari Explorer Online!
- 4091 VIRTUSONICS.ARC MARTY.A 11340 Info about Virtusonics
- 4090 ANALOG.ARC MARTY.A 11340 Messages about Analog
- 4089 ALFCRTXT.ARC MARTY.A 11340 Info about AlfCrunch
- 4088 DD.ARC MARTY.A 15120 Info about Daisy-Dot
- 4087 SPARTA.ARC MARTY.A 6300 Support for SpartaDOS
- 4086 REEVE.ARC MARTY.A 18900 Info on Reeve Software
- 4085 ASKICD3.ARC MARTY.A 11340 More from the "Ask ICD"
- 4084 ASKRAT.ARC MARTY.A 25200 Ask the Rat topic
- 4083 ACTION.ARC MARTY.A 10080 Info from the BB
- 4082 HD800.ARC MARTY.A 6300 Hard Disks Atari 800
- 4081 INDUS.ARC MARTY.A 3780 Info on Indus SyncroMesh
- 4080 TIPS.ARC MARTY.A 10080 General GEnie Tips
- 4079 PRNTUSNG.BAS M.QUIGG 3780 Print Using for BASIC
- 4075 BLAKES71.ARC R.CARLSON 65520 Digitized Crew Blake's
- 4074 BLAKES72.ARC R.CARLSON 41580 Digitized GR9 pics
- 4072 THEWALL.ARC G.WARMUTH 36540 The Wall, Pink Floyd,
- 4070 CAMBODIA.BAS BILLMORRIS 13860 Basic Game from Germany
- 4069 VOICEMASTERJR.DCM S.LOUIS 56700 PLAYS VOICE MASTER JR
- 4068 CONTENTS70.TXT C.WALNUM 2520 ANALOG MARCH 89 CONTENTS
- 4067 GOERELEASE.TXT D.SULLIVAN4 7560 GOE January 1989 Press
- 4066 INDEXO.BAS T.FISK 3780 INDEXER/HIGH SPEED SORT
- 4065 TOP100.ARC MARTY.A 6300 The Latest Top 100 File
- 4064 XL512K.ALF D.SCHMIDT4 10080 A 512k RAMdisk for 800xl
- 4060 OKIANDCOVOXSALE.TXT C.MICHAUD 1260 TWO PERIPHERALS FOR SALE
- 4059 MASTERMIND.BAS L.KIRKPATRI1 8820 plays code maker/breaker
- 4058 LEARN6.ARC J.SHANAFELT 49140 Story with sound & anim
- 4057 FOXY.PIC B.VANDERMEER 2520 KOALA PIC (A REAL FOX).
- 4056 APACLOAD.ARC JDPOTTER 20160 full color graphics ldr
- 4055 EASYFINDFILEMAKER3.BAS ECHOP 10080 CREATE DAT FILES EASY
- 4054 CHECKBOOK.ALF C.K.TILLER 25200 FAST, VERY GOOD CHECKBK
- 4053 ATARITAB.DRV REEVE.SOFT 1260 Diamond GOS TT Drvr
- 4052 KOALA.DRV REEVE.SOFT 1260 Diamond GOS Koala Drvr
- 4051 JOYSTICK.DRV REEVE.SOFT 1260 Diamond GOS Joystick Drvr
- 4050 STMOUSE.DRV REEVE.SOFT 1260 Diamond GOS ST Mouse Drvr
- 4049 ZMAG140.ARC ZMAGAZINE 16380 Issue #140, January 16,
- 4048 CODEBUST.ARC AUGGIE 18900 HACKER'S DISASSEMBLER
- 4047 GRAFTERM.COM AUGGIE 17640 GRAPHICAL COMM PROGRAM
- 4046 FILEORGANIZER.ARC I.RODRIGUEZ 26460 utility helps you find
- 4045 OSSTODOS.BAS REEVE.SOFT 2520 SpartaDOS Run Address
- 4044 FONTCONV.BAS REEVE.SOFT 2520 Font Conversion utility
- 4043 DIABASIC.BAS REEVE.SOFT 2520 Prgm Diamond with Basic
- 4042 REEVERTC0189.ARC MARTY.A 8820 RTC about Diamond 01/12
- 4041 VOICEDOS.ARC E.LAMBETH1 17640 VOICE CONTROLLED DOS!
- 4039 BLACKCASTLE.BAS M.BUTLER1 23940 1-4 player quest to cas
- 4038 WRITING.ARC M.QUIGG 3780 Text file on quality sof
- 4037 GE_LIB3.ARC S.DAY3 32760 THE COMPLETE LIBRARY
- 4036 GE_LIB2.ARC S.DAY3 51660 COMPLETE LIBRARY PT. 2
- 4035 GE_LIB1.ARC S.DAY3 52920 FILE 1 OF 3 OF COMPLETE
- 4034 GE_LIB.TXT S.DAY3 1260 COMPLETE genie library
- 4032 ATARPOLY.BAS W.GROSS2 12600 same as monopoly
- 4031 READ.ARC J.WARD8 2520 SpartaDos 3.2 File Read
- 4030 ZMAG139.ARC ZMAGAZINE 20160 Issue #139, January 10,
- 4029 AMODEMBATCHTONE.ARC T.CHAPPELL 2520 autodisconnect/batch
- 4028 LIBNEW.HLP MARTY.A 7560 Help for NEW library
- 4027 SETTINGS.HLP MARTY.A 6300 Help to set GEnie
- 4026 UNARCBB.ARC MARTY.A 12600 Super ARC/UnARC discuss
- 4025 SDX.ARC MARTY.A 21420 Discussion about Sparta
- 4024 REEVESOFT1.ARC MARTY.A 45360 Chat with Reeve Soft
- 4023 ASKICD2.ARC MARTY.A 21420 Questions to ICD
- 4022 MATRAT.ARC MARTY.A 32760 Ask the Rat!
- 4021 LANGUAGE.ARC MARTY.A 7560 What language to use??
- 4020 RANA.ARC MARTY.A 5040 Help with Rana Drives
- 4018 EXPRESSNULL.COM J.WATTS3 3780
- 4016 BOWLING2.ARC R.MARCHESSAU 95760 BOWLING ASSISTANT
- 4015 MOVE.SRC CYCLONE 3780 M/L srce code mem move
- 4013 ZMAG138.ARC ZMAGAZINE 18900 Issue #138, January 3,
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