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- Z*NET: ATARI ONLINE MAGAZINE
- ----------------------------
-
- December 18, 1992 Issue #23 Volume 7, Number 23
-
- Copyright (c)1992, Syndicate Publishing Company
-
- ~ Publisher/Editor..........................Ron Kovacs
- ~ Senior Editor..............................John Nagy
- ~ Assistant Editor...........................Ed Krimen
- ~ Writer............................Michael R. Burkley
- ~ Writer.....................................Bob Smith
- ~ Z*Net News Service NZ.....................Jon Clarke
-
- $ GEnie Address..................................Z-NET
- $ CompuServe Address........................75300,1642
- $ Delphi Address..................................ZNET
- $ Internet/Usenet Address................status.gen.nz
- $ America Online Address......................ZNET1991
- $ AtariNet Address...........................51:1/13.0
-
- * Z*Net: News Service FNET 593 AtariNet 51:1/13 (908) 968-8148
- * Z*Net: Golden Gate FNET 706 AtariNet 51:1/9 (510) 373-6792
- * Z*Net: S. Pacific FNET 693 New Zealand
-
- **--CONTENTS--**
-
- ### The Editors Desk...........................Ron Kovacs
- ### Z*Net Newswire.............................Ron Kovacs
- ### The Year In Review 1992 - Part Two.........Ron Kovacs
- ### Kodak Conference Highlights................Ron Kovacs
- ### Perusing GEnie..............................Ed Krimen
- ### Perusing The Internet.......................Ed Krimen
- ### IAAD Membership Listing.................D.A. Brumleve
- ### AtariNet Update......................................
- ### Customer Report............................Don Harris
- ### The Unabashed Atariophile..........Michael R. Burkley
- ### Software Versions..................AtariUser Magazine
- ### CDROM/Multimedia Title Hardware Vendors Listing......
-
-
- ###### THE EDITORS DESK
- ###### By Ron Kovacs
- ###### ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- The entire staff of Z*Net wishes your family a very pleasent and Happy
- Christmas.
-
- There are some editorial comments at the beginning of a few articles
- contained in this edition.
-
-
-
- ###### Z*NET NEWSWIRE
- ###### Latest Industry Update
- ###### ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- ATARI RESPONDS TO ABCO COMPLAINTS
- Z*Net contacted Atari Corporation for their reaction to Don Harris's
- article. According to Bob Brodie, Director of Communications, he
- contacted Atari's legal department regarding ABCO, and this is the
- statement that was made concerning ABCO Computer Consultants. "It has
- come to our attention that ABCO Computer Consultants is conducting their
- business in a fashion that displeases some of their customers. STReport
- International Online Magazine and ABCO Computer Consultants are both
- operated by Ralph F. Mariano. Customers may wish to take this into
- account when reading STReport International Online Magazine, or deciding
- to do business with ABCO Computer Consultants. ABCO Computer
- Consultants is not an authorized Atari dealer." We were not able to
- contact Mr. Mariano on this issue. (Editor Note: The Harris article
- referenced in this news story appear in this edition of Z*Net)
-
-
- MAGAZINE REPORTS FTC PREPARING ACTION AGAINST MICROSOFT
- Business Week magazine, in its Dec. 28 issue, said FTC investigators
- were preparing recommendations to the agency on how to proceed against
- Microsoft, including splitting the company, erecting a "Chinese wall"
- between divisions or altering the way its software is sold to computer
- makers. Investigators are focused on the aggressive tactics Microsoft
- has used to win its 95 percent share of the market in operating systems
- for personal computers running on Intel Corp. micrprocessors. In a 250
- page report delivered to FTC commissioners in early December, the
- findings were that Microsoft maintained its hold on the market with
- overly aggressive licensing arrangements, the magazine said. Reports
- have emerged in other trade publications, such as InfoWorld, that rivals
- have claimed Microsoft cut special deals with large customers who agreed
- to buy both operating sytem software and applications software.
- Allegations have also been reported that Microsoft dumped software at
- prices designed to drive others out of the market. Microsoft offers
- discounts to makers of personal computers that agree to pay for a copy
- of DOS software for every personal computer they sell.
-
-
- DMC UPDATES CUSTOMERS
- In an open letter to registered customers of DMC Publishing, Nathan
- Potechin, President announced that a few mistakes were made in
- communicating to some of their customers in Australia. Due to the
- long holiday period coming, mailouts and further information will not be
- available until January 4, 1992. Potechin when on to state in his
- release, "I am pleased to announce that I will extend the terms of all
- the promotions enclosed in our customer mailout. As of right now, the
- 40% promotional discount on all original typesetter fonts from AGFA
- Compugraphic, Linotype and URW, the ridiculous clearout prices on VIP,
- Masterplan and STAcounts, the dynamite sale prices on the Calamus Font
- Editor, Outline Art, Calamus 1.09N, the Clip Art, the User 2 Users disks
- etc. is hereby officially extended to January 31, 1993. Please accept
- this extension as a token of our appreciation to you all, our Registered
- customers and allow me to take this opportunity to wish you all the very
- best through this holiday season and a very Happy New Year."
-
-
- STRAIGHT FAX CHANGES
- As of December 16, 1992, Joppa Software Development will no longer be
- marketing the STraight FAX! FAX Communication Software for the Atari ST,
- STe, TT/030 and Falcon030 computers. All marketing rights and
- distribution will be handled by the developer of the software under the
- company name of NewSTar Technology Management, which is owned by the
- developer of the STraight FAX! For more information contact: NewSTar
- Technology Management, P.O. Box 0122, Columbia, Maryland 21045-0122.
-
-
- FALCON GETS BLUE RIBBON AWARD
- The December 1992 edition of EQ, The Recording and Sound Magazine
- awarded the Atari Falcon030 a Blue Ribbon award in their Second Annual
- Awards. The awards are out together during the AES show. EQ editors
- and contributors walked the floor of the event in search of new
- equipment. The AES show took place in San Fransisco. The "New Contender
- Award" when to Atari. Worth noting, Atari was the only computer to win
- an award in the group of equalizers, harmonizers, rate converters and
- digital recorders. Z*Net will provide more information on AES in future
- editions so stay tuned!
-
-
- PHOTO CD NEWS FROM KODAK
- NEW PIW ACCESSORIES PREPARE PHOTOFINISHERS FOR HOLIDAY
- Photofinishers and other users of Kodak Photo CD Imaging workstations
- (PIWs) can improve the processing of Photo CD orders with a series of
- PIW accessories and upgrades available now - just in time for the
- holiday rush - from Eastman Kodak Company. The PIW improvements will
- dramatically boost PIW productivity, expand printing options and make it
- easier to clean dust or dirt off film before scanning images onto Photo
- CD discs. "This holiday season promises a big increase in Photo CD
- orders, not just because of the usual surge in picture-taking during the
- holidays, but because many people will purchase Photo CD players as
- gifts," said Michael P. Morley, Kodak vice president and regional
- business manager, U.S. and Canada. The pictures can then be viewed on
- TV using a Photo CD player, or can be input to a computer using a CD-ROM
- XA drive. The disc also functions as a "digital negative" and can be
- used to make photographic-quality thermal prints. Customers interested
- in more information about PIWs and accessories may call the Kodak
- Information Center at 1-800-242-2424, ext. 40.
-
-
-
- ###### Z*NET NEWS YEAR IN REVIEW - PART TWO
- ###### By Ron Kovacs
- ###### ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- Last week we began the regular Z*Net tradition of looking back at the
- year in review. As stated before, I am covering what we COVERED in
- Z*Net and Atari Explorer issues in 1992. There will be other articles
- from our regulars and a few guests in the next few weeks. Last week we
- covered December 1991 thru January 1992, this week we take you through
- February into May.
-
- **--FEBRUARY 1992--**
-
- John King Tarpinian reschedules the annual Glendale Atari Faire one
- week earlier than originally announced. The reason for the change was
- to distance the WAACE Atarifest for vendors and developers.
-
- General Videotex (Owners of Delphi) announce that they have purchased
- BIX, the online service developed by BYTE magazine.
-
- Bill Rehbock states, "The packaging is finally all done, the last
- revison of the disks is going to the duplicator and product should be
- showing up on shelves shortly. (Finally! :-)" What he was talking about
- was the new GDOS - FSM.
-
- Atari places a full two-page ad in Discover magazine. The first page
- shows a souped up ST midi machine and the second page reveals the Atari
- Portfolio PC.
-
- SST, the new accelerator board from Gadgets-By-Small begins shipping in
- quantity in four configurations. Dave Small states, "If you see a box
- with an SR-71A Blackbird on the cover at the dealer, that's the SST."
- The MegaTalk board is said to be shipping shortly.
-
- Atari releases their new version of Hard Drive Utilities Ver 5. Right
- on the heels of ICD's release of 5.4.5.
-
- Atari MGR, a network transparent window system originally written for
- Unix is released. MGR requires 1 meg of memory and the MiNT
- multitasking system version 0.6 or better.
-
- Atari Advantage Magazine offers free advertising.
-
- Apple Computer asks for $4.37 billion as damages from Microsoft for the
- alleged infringement of Apple copyrights on parts of the screen display
- for its Macintosh computer.
-
- Radio Shack celebrates its 15th year in the computer business.
-
- San Francisco's law mandating the safe use of video display terminals
- in the work place was struck down by a judge.
-
- Lexicor announces the first full step of Phase-4 Software development is
- completed, paving the way for Rosetta, Chronos, Prism-Render and Prism
- Paint and also the 24bit Leonardo board is said to be nearly ready.
- Atari provided several advanced Atari computers for two new programmer
- -Authors working on some very high speed graphics.
-
- Atari announces their support of the CD-I standard.
-
- Scott Gershin, owner of Hollywood's SOUNDELUX post-production sound
- studio, was nominated for an Oscar for his work in sound on the "JFK"
- movie. Scott did his work using Atari equipment for control of digital
- audio, using Hybrid Arts ADAP and other sound tools.
-
- The Toronto Atari Fair takes place with Bob Brodie in attendance. Also
- on hand is the ST-Book. Brodie refuses to discuss new products under
- development, ie: The Falcon.
-
- The Eastside Atari Users Group, under special agreement with Atari
- Corp., began selling Atari Lapel Pins during the year.
-
- The shareware PD scene gets three start-up/boot programs in one week,
- SuperBoot with Version 7.4, MouseBoot from Germany and STinit with
- version 3.4 from the UK.
-
- Software Development Systems (SDS) introduces the Newdesk Icon Editor
- CPX.
-
- GEnie's ST RT Bulletin Board consolidates all of the online magazines
- into one category.
-
- The Atari Base USA BBS returns with new BBS software and joins the FNET
- network. Operating and receiving calls at (408) 745-2196.
-
- Atari contacts the Boston Computer Society and askes for a later date to
- appear to debut the latest new products. Atari's intention was to have
- product available for sale shortly after the event. Sources at Atari
- stated ,"In the past we have been guilty of showing vaporware. The
- rescheduling of this event reflects our new committment to only show new
- products when they are close to production."
-
- Atari hires seven new executives; Tony Serra, General Manger of Atari
- Australia, Scott MacDonald, Atari Australia controller, Gary Weiner,
- Corporate Vice-President of marketing and sales, new Atari Vice-
- President of quality assurance, Maxie R Smith, Lutz Lange, Sales Manager
- for Atari Germany, Dieter Pruess, Finance Manager for Atari Germany, and
- Richard Maunday, Controller for Atari UK.
-
- Atari signs seven million dollar advertising contract for the Lynx with
- Hal Rinney & Partners. Plans called for a new nationwide campaign to
- begin in April 1992.
-
- Atari France, UK and Italy begin publishing periodicals aimed at
- distributors and customers. These are slick, glossy full color issues
- running up to 100 pages. Contents include news about Atari developments
- in software and hardware, music applications and video games.
-
- Apple unveils The Apple Exchange Program, a trade-in program designed to
- help customers upgrade their computer equipment. The program was
- targeted to business and institutional customers.
-
- IBM introduces the industry's fastest 386SX, powered by IBM's 386SLC
- microprocessor.
-
- Codehead announces in a message on GEnie that Atari has no plans for
- releasing TOS 2.07. And in another message, Charles Johnson states,
- "Sorry to hear that Turbo ST seems to have a problem with TOS 2.06,
- guys. The spanking new, heavily modified and debugged version of Quick
- ST won't have any problems with 2.06, of course, and the release date is
- probably not too far off now."
-
- Michtron resurrects in Delaware with new President Jim Dorsman.
-
- FSMGDOS rumors still circulate. Bug fixes with printer drivers are
- repaired and problems with packaging persist, while interested Atari
- users wait for the latest word.
-
- An article in Electronic Engineering Times states that a Motorola
- executive said that they have dropped plans for a 68050, but are
- planning on a major change in a new chip and will call it the 68060.
-
- Computer Chronicles NAMM coverage is aired in late February with
- disappointing coverage of Atari at the event. Less than 3 minutes of
- air time are given to Atari. There was a very breif mention of the new
- Atari Music Division and peaks at some third-party products. The focus
- of this episode was MIDI and covered a number of platforms.
-
- DragonWare Software announces the Stacy Internal battery kit.
-
- Compuserve hosts a special 24-hour conference in the Atari Portfolio
- Forum. This was a non-stop conference in which prizes were given away
- like subscriptions to Atari Explorer, programs, and gift certificates.
-
-
-
- **--MARCH 1992--**
-
- The Huntsville Atari Users Group participates with Ralph Rodriquez of
- Atari Corporation in the IEEE Computer Fair. Rodriquez showed off
- Atari UNIX at the event which was attended by over 20,000 people.
-
- LA Computing Magazine, with 1,500,000 subscribers contains a center
- dual page full color advertisement by Atari Corporation. The ad offers
- a Desktop Publishing bundle for $2999.00.
-
- ICD opens a Roundtable on GEnie which is hosted by Doug Wheeler.
-
- The Michelangelo virus struck around the world though it did not appear
- to be the data disaster that some had predicted.
-
- Intersect Software states on CompuServe that all future Atari machines
- and currently designed models (Mega STE and TT) will have industry
- standard SCSI ports. ASCI is being phased out as non-professional,
- according to Atari.
-
- The CompuServe Atari Forums celebrate their 10th anniversary. To
- celebrate the occassion, CompuServe magazine runs an article about the
- forums and in it Ron Luks states in response to what's ahead for Atari?
- "No one knows for sure, but since the days when Atari was on the cutting
- edge as a low-cost, high-powered graphics computer, there was a dearth
- of new products for several years. Now, significant products are being
- released. As they are available, Atari's loyal band on CompuServe will
- be ready."
-
- Dave Small reports the status of the MegaTalk board and states, "I'm
- re-testing some MegaTalk software that I'm a teensy concerned about to
- make sure it can ship. The boards are ready; the PAL's have been
- swapped. I need to polish up some documentation. We planned on having
- it OUT long ago ... except the PAL thing and the CMOS SCSI chip thing
- and this thing and that thing made its time frame interfere with the
- SST, and the SST had to get priority."
-
- John Townsend states on GEnie, "Atari started to offer a 1 year warranty
- on it's computer products in November 1, 1991. The GE Service Agreement
- is currently in the implementation stages. Once the program is
- completely up and running, we will provide our dealers and end-users
- with all of the information on how to use this program."
-
- D.A. Brumleve announces a major upgrade to Kidpublisher Professional,
- and announces Multiplay, a new math exploration, discovery and practice
- program.
-
- The Supreme Court declined to let the government institute a ban on
- material it considers "indecent" from television and radio broadcasts.
-
- Atari's warehouse personnel locate a number of Stacy Laptop computers
- and Atari makes them available to dealers for a limited time while
- supplies last.
-
- Apple announces a new Apple Macintosh LC II which integrates the color
- text and graphics, sound input, and optional Apple II software available
- on the original LC. With virtual memory and the 16MHz Motorola 68030.
-
-
-
- **--APRIL 1992--**
-
- Goodman's Music held a two-day MIDI show and sale at Hollywood's Beverly
- Garland Hotel. Atari's Mike Groh attended the event that included
- significant support for Atari computers.
-
- Gribnif Software announces that their imported graphics card "Crazy
- Dots" will have a reduced retail price. The new Crazy Dots 15 will do
- 32,768 colors or gray scales and the same resolutions.
-
- The popular and powerful point-of-sale and inventory control system for
- the Atari ST, Sales-Pro was updated by Hi-Tech Advisors to Version 6.10.
-
- Chris Latham, author of the Universal Item Selector and the Universal
- Network (marketed by A & D Software) forms a new company and announces
- that he will offer no further support of the earlier products. Latham's
- new company PowerPoint Software, releases PowerNet.
-
- Atari still remains closed mouthed about its new Falcon. Rumour has it
- that Atari has approached third party developers for the MS-DOS
- emulation add-ons.
-
- A new network for those BBS's that choose to support the Atari platform
- of home computers is announced. The name of this new network is
- AtariNet and can be accessed by any BBS that uses any Fido compatible
- mailer/msg tosser.
-
- Over 100 people attended GLENCON 2, a "technical conference" featuring
- Charles Johnson and John Eidsvoog, better known as the CodeHeads of
- CodeHead Technologies. The event is opened by an hour talk and question
- session by Atari's Bob Brodie. Four out of five questions for Bob were
- asking for details that Bob couldn't give--yet. WARP-9 was the other
- hot topic. CodeHead took over QuickST as of January 1, 1992, and has a
- completely re-done package that is so different, it has a new name. The
- balance of the conference featured an overview of line of CodeHead
- products, including HotWire, MaxiFile, MultiDesk Deluxe, CodeKeys,
- Lookit/Popit, Cherry Fonts, and the new graphics powerhouses MegaPaint,
- Genus, and Avant Vector.
-
- Collosal Cave gets packed onto a ROMCard for the Portfolio!
-
- Atari begins releasing several new ROMcards for the Portfolio. The
- first one is Portfolio Chess, The Instant Speller, and a Limited Edition
- "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" Card, in conjunction with release of the
- movie on videotape.
-
- The 1992 Atari Canadian Exposition, or ACE '92, is held and a success.
- Sales were brisk, and 3000-3500 people attended the convention. Also
- held was a talent show, dealer and developer meetings, a gala banquet
- and many seminars, but the "meat" of the show was the exhibitors; many
- dealers and developers were there. Atari's new 68030 machines were
- demonstrated only to developers, not to the general public. Bill
- Rehbock demonstrates MultiTOS. There was a setup of Lynxes, 1040STes,
- Mega STes, TTs and STBooks on display. There was also an "Atari museum"
- featuring old Atari hardware from the 2600 to the 800 to the XE Game
- System.
-
- Atari delays the release of their 1991 fourth quarter financial reports
- for several days past the March 31 deadline imposed by the Securities
- and Exchange Commission, then announced a poor quarter performance with
- a $4.4 million loss. Atari President Sam Tramiel said, "The company has
- restructured its overhead and is focusing on the improvement of its
- balance sheet and the development of new products."
-
- Lone Wolf introduces a line of professional stage lighting and audio
- control system including MicroTap (which gives communications network
- capability of MediaLink), MidiTap and FiberLink (for show control
- equipment that do not integrate MediaLink), and the Virtual Stage
- (software/hardware to put all serial and MIDI control in a graphic
- window on Atari, MAC, or PC computers.
-
- Accolade announces that a preliminary injunction which was requested by
- Sega went into effect. The injunction bars Accolade from further
- development, manufacture or sale of any Sega compatible products.
-
- Police crack a nationwide electronic network of young computer criminals
- who have made fraudulent credit card purchases and broken into
- confidential credit rating files.
-
- Gribnif Software announces the availability of Application Systems
- Heidelberg's Pure C in the North American Atari market.
-
- Atari and Rovac announce the merger of Z*Net Online Magazine and Atari
- Explorer to form Atari Explorer Online Magazine. The new online takes
- the place of the popular Z*Net magazine and goes to a bi-weekly format.
- The publisher is John Jainschigg and Ron Kovacs is the editor.
-
-
-
- **--MAY 1992--**
-
- The premier edition of Atari Explorer Online Magazine debuts.
-
- Attornies representing Atari and Nintendo present closing arguments in
- the landmark Atari vs. Nintendo case, which revolves around allegations
- that Nintendo attempted, through unfair means, to monopolize the US
- video games market. Sources at Atari expect a quick decision on the
- trial, now in its 3rd month.
-
- Tengen, subsidiary of Atari Games Corp., announce that it will be the
- exclusive U.S. distributor of Domark entertainment software titles for
- play on the Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear video game systems.
-
- The US government lifts restrictions on high-technology exports to
- former Warsaw Pact countries.
-
- Atari confirms that final release to production had been granted for the
- Atari version of the Lynx videogame card Batman Returns.
-
- A large library of color animations of the important processes of cell
- and molecular biology is released for distribution by Bio-Animate
- Productions, of London, Ontario, Canada.
-
- Fair Dinkum announces the release of The Cryptographer, the latest
- addition to their line of word-puzzle and educational software.
-
- I-Köen Design announces the release of a 20-page quick reference guide
- for PageStream 2.
-
- Dr. T's Music Software announces a new Audio/Video production kit for
- the ST. The combined package includes the Omega sequencer, Hitman cue-
- sheet production tools, and the Phantom SMPTE synchonizer.
-
- Atari releases a new software application for the Portfolio, Hyperlist.
- Hyperlist provides the opportunity to create extensive lists, then
- attach "child" lists to each item in the "parent" list. On paper, the
- data flow resembles an organizational or flow chart.
-
- After the release of a single AEO issue, John Jainschigg resigns as the
- publisher. Bob Brodie comments in Issue #2, "This edition marks a
- significant change from our initial plans. Atari has long planned to
- bring Atari Explorer back to Sunnyvale from the east coast. We've
- always believed that having the staff in house would be more cost
- effective, as well as make access to the latest technology easier for
- our journalists. The time for this move has come. With the transition
- to the West Coast comes other changes as well. Publisher John
- Jainschigg has decided to stay in New York, and will put out one more
- issue of the print version of Atari Explorer. We had hoped to be able
- to convince John that California is a great place to be, but he loves
- New York."
-
- CodeHead Technologies announces exclusive representation in the US and
- Canada of Calligrapher, developed in Great Britain by Working Title.
-
- European press reports that Sack, the German developers of AT-Speed were
- working with Atari to develop DOS emulations as original equipment.
-
- FSMGDOS is still delayed, John Townsend reports via GEnie, "There are a
- number of issues that have to be settled before we can release a version
- of FSMGDOS to the retail channel. Atari is not "bored" with the
- product, we aren't waiting for applications to appear that use it, nor
- is FSMGDOS broken under MultiTOS. I am not at liberty to discuss the
- issues at hand. But, please allow me to say that we are working on
- solving those issues and our first concern is with regard to our
- customers. We want to make sure that everything is complete and in
- order before shipping the product."
-
- Atari Product Manager in the UK, Bob Katz, states, "The decision to
- produce STE-only games came from the top. Sam Tramiel, boss of Atari
- US, wanted to produce STE-only games in a move to increase programmers
- awareness of the hardware potential of the machine. Atari has acquired
- the rights to several major coin-op games for conversion for use on the
- STE only, taking full advantage of the machines custom hardware."
-
- ST Format Magazine reported that a cut-down version of FSM GDOS will be
- available for release in the UK in June and MultiTOS is still under
- development and is not likely to be available until late in 1992.
-
- Atari still insists that the Falcon030 is due for release in late autumn
- 1992 and MultiTOS is unlikely to be included on ROM as part of the
- operating system.
-
- Director of Atari Service Ted Maciejewski and Don Mandell, Vice
- President of US Sales and Marketing are dismissed. Art Morgan replaces
- Maciejewski. James Grunke, Director of International Music Markets
- takes over Mandell's duties.
-
- FontGDOS gets released via Atari Explorer Online Magazine. Along with
- FontGDOS, CPX files for use with XCONTROL, and accessories for those
- that prefer to use the standard .ACC files. The entire package goes out
- exclusively on GEnie for downloading and appear later on the other pay
- services.
-
- Atari dealers start receiving Ajax upgrades after a period of
- unavailability. Problems with the TOS 3.06 with 1.44 meg floppy disk
- drives and the Ajax controller have been resolved by a dealer-performed
- modification of the power supply and wire shielding on TT machines.
-
- Lexicor becomes a Silicon Graphics Iris independent vendor under the
- Iris partners program. This means that Lexicor is licensed to port it's
- Phase-4 software products to the Silicon graphics platform.
-
- Hybrid Arts is acquired by Audio FX, a growing high-tech conglomerate in
- San Jose, CA. The Hybrid Arts line of Atari hardware and software
- continue uninterrupted.
-
- SDS Software releases software drivers that will enable Atari ST and TT
- owners to use the Logitech digitizing video camera with their computers.
-
- Atari announces that Lynx systems and software sales are in line with
- projections to double the 1991 volume and by the end of 1992 there will
- be over 80 total games available.
-
- Atari announces that it will ship 24 Lynx titles during the summer
- season, followed by an additional crop of 15 titles for fall and winter
- release.
-
- Lexicor announces that MonaLisa will be their 24-bit graphics
- application. Prism Paint is not being upgraded into a 24-bit
- application because the author walked out on them and refused to finish
- version 1.5 of Prism Paint.
-
- 40 Falcons reach Germany and are distributed among developers.
-
-
-
- ###### KODAK IN CONFERENCE
- ###### Highlights captured from the CIS CDROM Forum
- ###### ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- (2-6,P. McAfee [Kodak]) A request. Please no private conversations,
- except for Steve and the Kodak folks online tonight. Paul Wisotzke and
- Joel White, of the Kodak Information Center, are online.
-
- Let's get started.
-
- (2-9,Steve (Moderator)) I'm Steve Luper and I'm the Sysop of the CD-ROM
- Forum. Rich Bowers is logged on but is sitting here with me so he isn't
- ignoring you. We are very happy to welcome Paul McAfee and his cohorts
- with Kodak.
-
- Paul McAfee, how about giving us a brief introduction of yourself.
-
- (2-6,KODAK - McAfee) I am public relations manager for Photo CD. Scott
- Brownstein will be at my side in a moment. I'll let Paul Wisotzke take
- this.
-
- (2-62,KIC PGS KODAK) Specifications for CD ROM Drives are available from
- the manufacturers.
-
- (2-6,KODAK - McAfee) Scott just arrived. Current drives can support
- either 150 or 300 Kbytes per second.
-
- (2-62,KIC PGS KODAK) We test only for Photo CD compatability.
-
- (2-58,Tom Lichtenberger) Hi Paul, glad to meet you<g>. I'd like to know
- what CD Roms are recognized/blessed by Kodak as being Multi-session
- compatible? I understand the list is very very short right now, can you
- list the CD ROM's that are?
-
- (2-10,Joel White Kodak) The current drive list is available by mail and
- will be posted in library 7 of this forum.
-
- (2-6,KODAK - McAfee) Tom, Joel Wisotzke will post the list in CD-ROM
- Forum. You also can call KIC at 800-242-2424, ext. 53. The list
- changes virtually daily (grows).
-
- (2-37,Todd Copilevitz) Thanks. I want to use the photo cd with
- photoshop for desktop publishing. What kind of resolution can I get
- from the CD, and will the plug-in module for photoshop handle pulling
- files off the CD? The other question is regarding color balancing. How
- much will I have to do for a color printer such as the CLC 500?
-
- (2-10,Joel White Kodak) We will be releasing a Photo Shop plug-in in a
- few weeks. The plug-in will access images directly into PhotoShop.
-
- (2-27,Eric S. Michelson) What size images are scanned currently into
- CD's, what are my options?
-
- (2-6,KODAK - McAfee) Each image is available at all five resolutions,
- from 128 x 192 to 2048 x 3072, all 24 bit color.
-
- (2-8,Bob Cox) Will Kodak release to Desk Top Developers the format info,
- of the file PLAYLIST.PCD on the protofolio CD? We want to develop a
- play program for PC's in windows.
-
- (2-6,KODAK - McAfee) From Scott ... The format is available from
- Philips. You need to ask Philips for the Photo CD specification. That
- information is in the Photo CD spec.
-
- (2-39,Dan CCC) We need to know what "average" file sizes are so that we
- can archive stock images and then combine or manipulate them in
- Photoshop.
-
- (2-6,KODAK - McAfee) The 2048 x 3027 is 18 MB in 24 bit color.
-
- (2-39,Dan CCC) What is the smallest?
-
- (2-6,KODAK - McAfee) The smallest is 128 x 192 x 24 bit = about 64K
-
- (2-21,Bruce Rubadeux) What is the EK position, as of today, for a SDK
- and LIC. availability for writing PCD. Also address Philips CDD521 vs.
- EK equpt.
-
- (2-6,KODAK - McAfee) We currently do not have a license or SDK for
- writing PCD. The PHilips CDD521 and Kodak PCD 200 writers are made on
- the same assembly line. However, there are differences in warranty and
- service and software (drivers) are totally different.
-
- (2-48,Scott Torroll) My question is on the availability of the access
- software, where and when?
-
- (2-62,KIC PGS KODAK) Access should be available thru many software
- dealers. As well as directly from Kodak.
-
- (2-6,KODAK - McAfee) Access is available now from Kodak for $39.95, and
- from stores.
-
- (2-7,Richard More) Will I notice a difference between ASA 100 film and
- ASA 1000 film? Second can I use both slides and negatives?
-
- (2-6,KODAK - McAfee) Yes, you will see a difference. Yes you can use
- both slides and negs, color and b&w.
-
- (2-23,Ron Kovacs - ZNet) What is Kodak's impression of the Atari Falcon
- 030?
-
- (2-6,KODAK - McAfee) Scott hasn't seen it, but if it is Photo CD capable
- it must be good.
-
- (2-26,Steve Ranck) I work for a CD-ROM driver developer and we're
- having trouble getting one of our SCSI drivers working with a photo CD
- compatible CD-ROM drive. What do you suggest we do?
-
- (2-6,KODAK - McAfee) KIC can help you work out compatibility issues.
- Call 800-242-2424 extension 53.
-
- (2-33,Bob Ledbetter) Hi, I understand Kodak has been working with Atari
- and the new Falcon030. Can you brief us as to what, specifically is
- being done in the advertising area.
-
- (2-6,KODAK - McAfee) I am not aware of any co-advertising with Atari at
- this time.
-
-
-
- ###### PERUSING GENIE
- ###### Compiled by Ed Krimen
- ###### ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- 1024x768 GRAPHICS CARDS: $299!
- ------------------------------
- -=> In the "Hardware" category (4)
- -=> from the "Dover Research Corp. (AlberTT and ISAC)" topic (28)
-
- Message 196 Thu Dec 10, 1992
- J.ALLEN27 [FAST TECH] at 02:58 EST
-
- Good news for folks, Jay has a supply of both ISAC boards for the MegaST
- _and_ AlberTT boards for the MegaSTE/TT and both are on sale for $299!!!
-
- Yes, just $299, and you too can enjoy hi-res color graphics!!! Just give
- Dover Research a call, or Fast Technology if you wish.
- ----------
- Message 198 Sun Dec 13, 1992
- J.GNIEWKOWSK [GE-Lamp ST] at 03:00 EST
-
- I am interested in the AlberTT video board for my Mega STe. The $299
- price tag sounds terrific, and I have a few questions:
-
- o What is the resolution for 16 colors (800x600)?
- o If I were to look in "Computer Shopper", what type of monitor would I
- be looking for?
- o How does NewDesk handle the increased screen size and palette? Does
- it think it's working in a extremely large Lo Rez environment? (i.e.
- will I have a "Hi Rez" screen with a 16 colors?)
-
- I guess with my last question, I've seen the Moniterm monitor at work
- and would I have the same size/resoloution with 16 colors available?
-
- o How does software handle the larger screen size?
-
- Thanks,
- John E. Gniewkowski
- GenieLamp ST Editor
- ----------
- Message 199 Sun Dec 13, 1992
- REALM [Joey] at 05:01 EST
-
- John, the AlberTT is 1024x768 and looks just like ST Low to the
- computer. Most real programs work with it right off. I know Calamus SL
- and DynaCADD support it. Most anything that runs in a window seems to
- work. Prism Paint works. You need a monitor that will handle the 1024x
- 768 at 50mhz (Trying to remember for sure but I think it's 50?). Don't
- forget to get one that will handle the other resolutions as well. My
- cousin has a 17" and it's just about right, I wouldn't go any smaller
- unless it's a money problem then you might get away with 16". The Icons
- get really tiny but your picture look sharper.:-)
-
- For $299, it's much better then the Moniterm which is 1280x960 in mono.
- Your trade off will be in the price of a large screen color monitor. If
- your going to use it a lot, don't skimp, get a monitor that will handle
- the res. You might ask Jim about the Toshiba it's a really nice unit
- and works with all the res's! Basically all you do is plug the card in
- and put 1 program in your Autofolder.
-
- Hope that helps!
- ----------
- Jay Craswell Jim Allen
- Dover Research Corp. Fast Technology
- 321 W. 4th Street P.O. Box 578
- Jordan, MN 55352 Andover, MA 01810
- 612-492-3913 508 475 3810
- GEnie: J.ALLEN27
- ======================================
-
-
- FALCON IS A WINNER!
- -------------------
- -=> In the "Atari Corporation Online" category (14)
- -=> from the "Atari Falcon 030 Computer" topic (20)
-
- Message 85 Wed Dec 09, 1992
- C.FLUEGEL [Curt] at 00:52 EST
-
- Well, I was talking to the keyboardist for Prince and the NPG today (his
- name escapes me, either Kirk or Morris) about Paisley Parks setup and
- his home personal studio. He currently uses his MPC-60 to sequence and
- is going to add a computer sequencer soon. Paisley uses all Macs to
- date, but he said he heard about this new computer from Atari that
- everyone is real excited about. He didn't read it in magazines. Word
- is spreading and people are getting excited. Understandably, the
- majority here aren't into music, but it IS a multimedia machine. And it
- is already being more than excepted; it won a blue ribbon from EQ
- magazine.
-
- Get hyped already!! The Falcon is a winner!
-
- Curt... I still want one!! (and a 100 to sell)
-
- P.S. EQ had an advertisment card saying you can get more Falcon info.
- Is this true? If there is a glossy (I still have one for the STBook)
- who do I contact to get some for Guitar Center?
- ======================================
-
-
- DID SOMEONE SAY TURBO030 DEAL?
- ------------------------------
- -=> In the "ISD Product Support" category (16)
- -=> from the "Calamus S/SL" topic (20)
-
- Message 203 Mon Dec 07, 1992
- J.ALLEN27 [FAST TECH] at 22:48 EST
-
- There is indeed a deal on TURBO030 boards for CalamusSL users, the board
- is 50Mhz, has TOS 2.06, has 4 Megs of 32-bit burst-mode TT-type RAM,
- expandable to 40 Megabytes max, comes with free installation in the US
- (or in Canada when I'm up there), a high-power 7 Amp replacement power
- supply, a general tuneup to the Mega (new 74AS373 chips, etc.), and has
- two options:
-
- A 50Mhz 68882 coprocessor for use with Dynacadd
-
- A Virtual memory driver which allows up to 128 Megabytes of "TT" ram to
- be simulated, and runs considerably peppier than the VM built into
- Calamus SL.
-
- The board runs 2-3 TIMES faster than the fastest TT configuration, and
- has a price of $1,495, with the VM and FPU add-ons $149.00 and $299.00
- respectively.
-
- Delivery is within two weeks of order. Units are basically built to
- order. Installations can be done overnight, for fast turn around, and
- free loaner units are available to keep you up and running while we
- operate on your Mega.
-
- The Turbo030 is compatible with virtually all the video boards available
- for the MegaST, and a few that aren't...yet ;-) Moniterm, ISAC,
- CrazyDots, Resolution, Matrix C32, C110, and M110 boards are all
- supported.
-
- Additional memory sizes...8, 16 (w/32 chips), 16 (w/8 chips), 32 (w/16
- chips), and 40 Megabytes are all available. Prices are available upon
- request.
-
- We stand ready to serve your acceleration needs. Any customer of DMC
- can be a customer of Fast Technology's. We'll jump through hoops, we'll
- even EAT FIRE, whatever the customer requires!
-
- Thank you- Jim Allen, Fast Technology.
- ----------
- Message 209 Wed Dec 09, 1992
- J.ALLEN27 [FAST TECH] at 01:48 EST
-
- The installation in any ST computer of an accelerator involves
- unsoldering the 68000 chip, and soldering in a socket. The accelerator
- is then plugged into the socket. There are some updates for the
- motherboard, basically to bring it up to snuff with the final releases
- Atari was manufacturing; they were learning as time went on. It doesn't
- matter whether it's a T25 or a Turbo030, etc., they all require the same
- amount of effort.
-
- The little brother of the Turbo030 is the TinyTurbo030 which is
- basically a Turbo030 without any 32bit TT-RAM onboard. It gives
- performance nearly equal to a TT and is available in either 40Mhz or
- 50Mhz versions. The 50Mhz version is required in order to use our
- Virtual Memory option.
-
- The Tiny030 has two versions: one for ST computers, all of them; and one
- for STE computers, both of them. The STE version is a plug-in, unless
- you are unlucky enough to own an STE without a socketed 68000, in which
- case we'll put a socket in for you, then plug the board in. ;-)
-
- The prices are: $599 for 40Mhz, $699 for 50Mhz, $149 for Virtual Memory.
- These units will be available in a couple of weeks, we've been working
- on them for a while now.
-
- So you can go FAST and REALLY VERY FAST. Whatever your needs are, we
- have a solution.
- ======================================
-
-
- ATARI ON THE TRAVEL CHANNEL
- ---------------------------
- -=> In the "Lynx - The Game Machine" category (36)
- -=> from the "General Lynx Info and Discussion" topic (5)
-
- Message 83 Sun Dec 13, 1992
- M.POCHE [Mick] at 14:21 EST
-
- Last night, while flipping channels on the TV, I happened to stop on the
- Travel Channel, and they were doing a story on ways to kill time in
- airports while waiting to board the plane. The first thing they showed
- was the Lynx, although one of the original ones. They showed a guy
- playing Blue Lightning, then showed some of the other games available
- (California Games, Klax, and Slime World).
-
- The next thing mentioned was the Portfolio, and showed the same guy
- doing some spreadsheet work, showed the RAM cards, and some other things
- on it.
-
- The only other thing shown was the Turbo Express, but it didn't get as
- much time as the Lynx, and there was no sign of the Game Boy or Game
- Gear!
-
- It was a pleasant surprise to see something with the Atari logo on it on
- TV, and I hope to see more.
- ======================================
-
-
- SOLID AS A ROCK
- ---------------
- -=> In the "Atari TT" category (28)
- -=> from the "Atari's TT" topic (2)
-
- Message 90 Mon Dec 07, 1992
- D.HARRIS8 at 05:53 EST
-
- I've been looking at buying a TT but I've been told that "A LOT" of TT's
- being sold have defective memory boards in them. Has anyone else heard
- or experienced this? Should I save my money?
- ----------
- Message 91 Mon Dec 07, 1992
- B.GOCKLEY [Brian G.] at 10:46 EST
-
- Hi Don, I've installed almost 50 boards, and only one was bad. That's
- 2%, which is pretty good.
- ----------
- Message 92 Mon Dec 07, 1992
- A.FASOLDT [Al Fasoldt] at 19:53 EST
-
- Don, TT's are solid. I have had no problems at all with mine. They are
- made by Sanyo for Atari.
- ----------
- Message 93 Mon Dec 07, 1992
- S.WINICK at 20:37 EST
-
- Don, Does the person who is telling you this fable actually have any
- personal experience with a "lot" of TT's? Why not check with actual
- owners and dealers who are using the product? We sell a lot of TT030's
- -- it's our best selling Atari computer product!! If they didn't work,
- they wouldn't sell -- and _I_ wouldn't sell them!
-
- Not only do I sell them, I actually USE them myself, at Computer STudio,
- personally, and in my Architectural practice as well. The TT030 forms
- the basis for my DTP and CADD workstations, as well as handling all
- other business tasks.
-
- Like any quality dealer, we always test our TT030 equipment after
- installation of all dealer-installed options (things like those RAM
- boards you mentioned) before delivery to the customer. If there were
- "A LOT" of TT's being sold with defective memory boards in them, I think
- I would know about it, as would the other dealers who actually sell the
- product.
- ======================================
-
-
- YOU KNOW WHEN IT'S TIME TO CLEAN UP WHEN...
- -------------------------------------------
- (Home Office/Small Business)
- -=> In the "Consumer Affairs, Personal Business" category (10)
- -=> from the "Space related jobs and subjects" topic (18)
-
- Category 10, Topic 18
- Message 2 Tue Dec 15, 1992
- J.ATTARD [Janet(sysop)] at 09:47 EST
-
- When you have to follow the cables to find your keyboard.
- ----------
- Message 3 Tue Dec 15, 1992
- LADY.LUCK [Nadine] at 18:47 EST
-
- You know it's time to clean up when.....your mouse has =real= fur on
- it. :)
- ----------
- Message 4 Tue Dec 15, 1992
- DAVIDTURNER at 21:26 EST
-
- ...you have to feel of all 57 Dr. Pepper cans on your desk so you can
- tell which one you were drinking! :)
- ======================================
-
-
- ###### PERUSING THE INTERNET
- ###### Compiled by Ed Krimen
- ###### ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- FALCONS IN GERMANY
- ------------------
- -=> In comp.sys.atari.st
- -=> From: Peter_Missel@k.maus.de (Peter Missel)
- -=> Date: 3 Dec 92 11:09:00 GMT
-
- Hi everybody!
-
- Falcon 030 demo sets have been given to Atari dealers for about one
- month now, including microphone, stereo speakers, 128 MB MO-drive, and
- (of course) a 4/65 meg Falcon.
-
- Obviously, a considerable number of new dealers, as well as some
- warehouse chains that had taken Atari out of their program a few years
- ago, have signed dealer contracts for the Falcon line of products.
-
- "Small quantities", whatever this may mean, are promised to be shipped
- this year; full mass availability is planned for February/March 1993.
- (As said in a dealers' mail from Atari Germany.)
- ======================================
-
-
- WHAT ABOUT THE SO-CALLED JAGUAR?
- --------------------------------
- -=> In rec.games.video
- -=> From: rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung)
- -=> Date: 6 Dec 92 17:58:03 GMT
-
- DISCLAIMER: The following is pure personal speculation, gleamed from
- news and tidbits heard in muted whispers in various places. There is no
- officiality about any of this, but it's fun to conjecture.
-
- In article <92341.013723TMK114@psuvm.psu.edu> <TMK114@psuvm.psu.edu>
- writes:
-
- >If the Jaguar/Lynx adaptor story has become an official rumor, then the
- Jaguar must be a real system. Does my logic hold? Is Atari really
- going to release the Jaguar sometime this decade? (After all, we know
- that 'next year' is Ataris peak for 'once we finish the prototype and
- investigate marketing such a system')
-
-
- I think there's a near-certain probability that the Jaguar exists, and
- will be released in early 1993.
-
- To wit:
-
- * "Atari is working on a Jaguar/32-bit machine" rumors have been
- floating around for the _longest_ time now, especially in the video-game
- magazines. If there was no validity to these rumors, Atari could easily
- fire off a letter to those selfsame magazines, telling them that there
- is no such beast, and would they stop focusing on imaginary machines and
- promote the Lynx instead. B-)
-
- * People HAVE seen the Jaguar. Sam Tramiel made a brief reference to
- development kits sent to people already (re: GEnie/Atari Corp.
- conference after the 1992 Winter COMDEX), for instance. There have also
- been brief side-references to Jaguar sightings, such as the following
- from EGM, in an article about the Super NES Super FX chip:
-
- "The Nintendo chip will allow the Super NES to really take on Atari's
- Jaguar system, which is also based on RISC technology (although insiders
- who have seen both hint that the Atari hardware still surpasses
- Nintendo's software upgrade)."
-
- Most of the support for a Jaguar existence comes from #1, above. Atari
- has never DENIED the existence of a next-generation video-game system,
- and has had plenty of opportunities to do so. Reason #2 above promotes
- Atari's claim from being pure vaporware; if other people have seen
- prototypes of a Jaguar, they must exist in some form, right?
-
- >My stock of info about the Jaguar is very sketchy, and amazingly
- apocryphal, so I'd appreciate anything more concrete. Note that in
- this case, recent rumors count as 'more concrete.'
-
- It's been sketchy because nobody has spoken much about it. I think
- Atari got tired of taking flak for releasing specs for future machines,
- then getting trashed by the public when the product doesn't get
- delivered ASAP. Their current strategy is to wait until the product is
- almost ready to roll, THEN trump it up. There's some advantages to this
- -- look at the now-delayed Super NES CD player.
- ======================================
-
-
- NEXT DEVELOPERS PORTING SOFTWARE TO THE FALCON
- ----------------------------------------------
- -=> In comp.sys.atari.st
- -=> From: oyakea@warren1b.its.rpi.edu (Amalaye Oyake)
- -=> Date: 26 Nov 92 23:51:41 GMT
-
- To quell the rumours and myths going round here something fresh out of
- my mail box:
-
- *MAIL STARTS HERE *
-
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 92 23:55:36 EST
- From: H46CC%CUNYVM.BITNET@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU
- Subject: Re: is it true-ATARI SUPPORT ?
- To: oyakea@rpi.edu
-
- (sorry, don't know how to quote previous articles, but...)
-
- It's true about NeXT developers on the Falcon. At Comdex, two NeXT
- developers were showing their products for the Falcon.
-
- One was a voice-mail system (the company's name I don't remember and
- can't find in the Winter 92 NeXT Software and Peripherals Catalog).
-
- The other was Singular Solutions' A/D64x sound recording system (page
- 55 of that catalog).
-
- Besides these developers, Kodak also signed a contract with Atari for
- the development of their PhotoCD system on the Falcon, bringing the
- power of multi-session PhotoCDs to the home (the software package is
- about $2-300, and the Falcon can accept about any CD-ROM drive
- available).
-
- The reason that people are choosing to develop on the Falcon (coming
- from such a nice env as NeXTstep) is that the Falcon is the only other
- system on the market with as fully-integrated a DSP as the NeXT (with a
- faster DSP to boot at 32mhz compared to the NeXT's 25mhz) and is the
- lowest priced system with DSP of any system (DSP boards on an Intel
- machine run about $3-500 alone and the aren't full-functioning/fully-
- integrated DSP's).
-
- So, programmers wanting to use DSP and do so on a machine that should
- sell in relatively large quantities, would at least look at a Falcon.
- (And GEM/MultiTOS is a MUCH nicer and better Multitasking OS to work in
- compared to DOS/Windows (can't say OS/2 since I haven't used/programmed
- on it yet)!!!) Jarius Jenkins
-
- * MAIL ENDS HERE *
-
- Apparently some next developers like the Falcon.
-
- On the other hand, the guys on Amiga advocacy group have a discussion
- who needs a DSP? They also call the 56001 DSP a cheap gimmick and claim
- one only needs a DSP board for their A1200 or A4000. True, but at least
- there is a consistent DSP implementation across the Falcon line,
- something which no Amiga has. And as seen, people apparently like this.
-
- January is less than six weeks away so all Falcon lovers may soon have
- their wish.
- ======================================
-
-
- ATARI 2600 MANUALS: PERFECT EXAMPLES
- ------------------------------------
- -=> In comp.sys.atari.8bit
- -=> From: AKH104@psuvm.psu.edu (Karll the Ghoul)
- -=> Date: 5 Dec 92 21:41:09 GMT
-
- Just a little thing I would like to share with everyone here:
-
- There is a nice, complex computer science course here at Penn-State for
- designing educational software for Xwindows and other systems, as well
- as other neato stuff for use in the real world at other universities.
-
- And well, heh, as odd things go, part of the course is learning to
- design user manuals. The instructor went through hundreds of Atari 2600
- manuals learning how they did it since he always thought they were so
- simple!
-
- It became the outline for the class, and as such, the manuals for the
- programs they developed are very nice and easy to understand and have
- turned some heads! Those who thought it was the dumbest thing one could
- do are very impressed that the format works. =)
-
- PS: We have this AMIGA graphics design lab here. Hmm, I wonder if
- Atari wouldn't consider approaching PSU with a FALCON lab. =)
- ======================================
-
-
- THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!
- ---------------------
- -=> In comp.sys.atari.st
- -=> From: mppi76@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Harald Schoenfeld)
- -=> Date: 14 Dec 92 08:56:59 GMT
- -=> Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
-
- I can't believe it! My FALCON was delivered on friday!
-
- So at least the "small" developers in Germany get their FALCONs now.
- Some hundred are to be delivered since last week.
-
- BTW: They were flown from Taiwan to Germany. :-)
-
- The first hard disk recording program was written in about 1 or 2 hours
- and works perfectly with 50kHz 16Bit stereo. So forget all the PC
- SoundCards (with 25kHz that are only 6kHz in reality - as revealed by
- the German magazin ct last week. :-) )
-
- More to be reported soon...
- ======================================
-
-
- 3200 DUTCH UNITS SOLD
- ---------------------
- -=> In comp.sys.atari.st
- -=> From: qsi@contrast.wlink.nl (Peter Kocourek)
- -=> Date: 9 Dec 92 03:05:36 GMT
-
- From: Erlend Nagel
-
- Hmmmm, are there really that few Atari users left?
-
- Not so!
-
- This weekend I read the Dutch Atari sales figures. They sold 3200
- units, which is the same as the same quarter last year (yes, 3200 in
- just one quarter (the 3rd, so not even with Xmas)), and about as much as
- Apple has sold. Keep in mind that these were just the Personal Computer
- sales, so 1040STE, Mega STE, and TT, not the Lynx.
-
- This is very good when considering that the market in the Netherlands is
- pretty rotten at the moment. I think this is because Atari does not
- have that many competitors in the home market, except for those people
- that are willing to settle for a DOS machine which is not very suited
- for home use.
- ======================================
-
-
- PIRACY KILLING ST DEVELOPERS
- ----------------------------
- -=> In comp.sys.atari.st
- -=> From: boblu@tekgen.bv.tek.com (Robert Luneski)
- -=> Date: 15 Dec 92 21:15:26 GMT
-
- In article <BzB7yM.9u0@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
- >Software piracy is decidedly a grey area. Tom is far too poor
-
- Bull. There is nothing "grey" about software piracy. Piracy is a
- euphamism for theft. If you use software that you have not legally
- obtained a license for use, then you have stolen it. Period. Nothing
- grey about it!
-
- >I have seen this scenario play out many times. It's illegal, yes.
- >But as bad as stealing 6 TVs? Get serious.
-
- You tell that to my son when I can't buy him shoes because software
- sales are down, and then I get calls for product support from three
- times the number of users than can be accounted for by legal sales.
- You would be surprised how many unique stories people come up with for
- why they don't know there registration number AND never sent in their
- card AND can't find their manual AND lost their orginal disk.
-
- It happens, it's real, it's illegal, and it is killing ST developers.
-
- Bob Luneski
- ======================================
-
-
- WHEN HAPPENS WHEN YOU RELEASE
- A MACHINE THAT'S NOT READY
- -----------------------------
- -=> In comp.sys.atari.st
- -=> From: FRACYON@dirac.physics.jmu.edu (Ali Fracyon)
- -=> Date: 15 Dec 92 16:27:22 GMT
- -=> Organization: JMU Physics Dept.
-
- leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk writes:
-
- > Apparently CBM's answer to the Falcon, the A1200 is now available in
- the UK. The most likely release date for the Falcon would seem to be
- February.
-
- And don't forget the A4000s with their fans being put in backwards.
-
- ..wait a minute, I own an Amiga, I should be defending them...
-
- All good companies do it. My friend just bought a HP that has the place
- of its '(' ')' and '{' '}' and maybe '[' ']' keys switched.
-
- C= has always had problems with missing chips or loose chips in their
- computers. The official explanation was that their was a bump outside
- of one of their main warehouses and truck drivers that drove too fast
- over this bump knocked the chips out. See, it can be explained.
- Really.
-
- Ali Fracyon
- Temperstorm, June '92, Compute's AmigaResource
- The Fly, October '92, Compute's AmigaResource
- ======================================
-
-
-
- ###### IAAD MEMBER LISTING
- ###### As of December 15, 1992
- ###### ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- The IAAD is an organization of third-party hardware and software
- developers supporting the Atari ST family of computers. Unique in the
- industry, the IAAD works to provide its membership with help in
- marketing, packaging, technical matters, and other issues of interest to
- third-party commercial developers. This listing has been prepared to
- familiarize the public with our members and some of their products. We
- hope you will find it useful.
-
- Each entry has the following format (when applicable):
-
- Member Name
- GEnie Address
- Company Name
- Mailing Address
- Phone(s)
- Product Names
-
- The listing is provided below in ASCII format. An additional file is
- available in CardFile format. Please note that the product listing is
- not comprehensive nor detailed, and new products are continually
- released. Please feel free to contact individual members for
- information about their listed products. For more information about the
- IAAD, contact any Board Member.
-
- IAAD Board Members:
-
- D.A. Brumleve, President
- James C Allen
- Nathan Potechin
- Nevin Shalit
- Chet Walters
-
- Member Listing:
-
- James C Allen
- J.ALLEN27
- FAST Technology
- 14 Lovejoy Road
- Andover MA 01810 USA
- 508 475 3810 (fax)
- 508 475 3810
- Turbo25/TinyTurbo030/Turbo030/TurboRAM
-
-
- David Beckemeyer
- D.BECKEMEYER
- Beckemeyer Development Tools
- P.O. Box 21575
- Oakland CA 94620 USA
- 510 530 0451(fax) 510 530 9637
- Hard Disk Sentry/Hard Disk Toolkit/SCSI Tape Kit
-
- Robert M Birmingham
- R.BIRMINGHA4
- 13630 SW 101 Lane
- Miami FL 33186-2814 USA
- 305 385 1942
-
- Dorothy A Brumleve
- D.A.BRUMLEVE
- D.A. Brumleve
- P.O. Box 4195
- Urbana IL 61801-8820 USA
- 217 367 9084(fax) 217 337 1937
- Kidpublisher Professional/Super Kidgrid/Kidpainter/Multiplay/Telegram/
- Creative Discovery Packet/Learning Games Packet
-
- John Cole, Lee Seiler
- J.COLE18, LEXICOR
- Lexicor
- 415 453 0271
-
- Phil Comeau
- P.COMEAU1
- Wintertree Software Inc.
- 43 Rueter Street
- Nepean ON K2J 3Z9 Canada
- 613 596 1575(fax Attn) 613 825 6721
- The GramSlam Grammar and Style Checker/Grammar Expert/Spelling Sentry
-
- Brad Cox
- BAREFOOT
- Barefoot Software
- 19865 Covellow Street
- Canoga Park CA 91306 USA
- 818 727 0632(fax) 818 727 7143
- SMPTETrack/EditTrack/GenEdit/EZ Score+/Hybriswitch
-
- Manfred Doewich
- CYBERCUBE
- Cybercube Research Ltd.
- 126 Grenadier Crescent
- Thornhill ON L4J 7V7 Canada
- 416 886 3261(fax) 416 882 0294
- CyReL SUNRISE M16-1280 True Color High Resolution Graphics Card/
- CyReL SERENADE M16-1280 True Color High Resolution Graphics Card/
- CyReL VidiMix8 Desktop Video Module/CyReL Serial Mouse Manager/
- CyRel Palette Master
-
- Paul Dube
- P.DUBE
- Elan Software
- 550 Boul. Charest Est P.O. Box 30232
- Quebec G1K 8Y2 Canada
- 418 683 9189(fax) 418 692 0565
- Solutions
-
- John Eidsvoog, Charles Johnson
- J.EIDSVOOG1, CODEHEAD
- CodeHead Technologies
- P.O. Box 74090
- Los Angeles CA 90004 USA
- 213 386 5789(fax) 213 386 5735
- G+Plus/MultiDesk Deluxe/HotWire/CodeKeys/CodeHead Utilities/Warp 9/
- Calligrapher/MaxiFile/Lookit & Popit/MIDIMax/MIDI Spy/Avant Vector/
- MegaPaint/Cherry Fonts/Genus Font Editor/TOS Extension Card
-
- Robert Engberson
- COMPO
- Compo
- 104 Esplanade Avenue Suite 121
- Pacifica CA 94044 USA
- 415 355 0869(fax) 415 355 0862
- That's Write/Write On/C-Font/CompoScript/That's Address/Musicom/
- PC Speed/AT Speed/AT Speed C16
-
- Lauren Flanagan-Sellers
- WORDFLAIR
- Goldleaf Publishing Inc.
- 700 Larkspur Landing Circle Suite 199
- Larkspur CA 94939 USA
- 415 257 3515
- WordFlair II
-
- Rick Flashman, Dan Wilga
- GRIBNIF
- Gribnif Software
- P.O. Box 779
- Northampton MA 01061 USA
- 413 247 5622(fax) 413 247 5620
- NeoDesk 3/NeoDesk CLI/STalker 3/STeno/XBoot/CardFile 4/Convector
- Professional/Arabesque Professional/XBoot III/Crazy Dots 8/Crazy Dots 15
-
- David Fletcher
- DITEK
- Ditek International
- 2800 John Street Unit 15
- Markham ON L3R 0E2 Canada
- 416 479 1882(fax) 416 479 1990
- DynaCADD
-
- George Geczy, David Thompson
- JMGSOFT, D.THOMPSON66
- JMG Software International, Inc.
- 892 Upper James Street
- Hamilton ON L9C 3A5 Canada
- 416 575 0283(fax) 416 575 3201
- HyperLINK
-
- Tyson T Gill
- T.GILL7
- GT Software
- 12114 Kirton Avenue
- Cleveland OH 44135-3612 USA
- 216 252 4272
- CardFile (distr. by Gribnif)
-
- Tom Harker, Doug Wheeler, Hans-Peter Labude
- ICDINC, DOUG.W, ICD.GMBH
- ICD, Inc.
- 1220 Rock Street
- Rockford IL 61101 USA
- 815 968 6888(fax) 815 968 2228
- The Link/AdSCSI Micro ST/AdSCSI ST/AdSCSI Plus ST/AdSpeed ST/AdSpeed STe
- FA-ST Hard Drive Kit/FA-ST Tape Backup/Cleanup ST/ICD Professional Hard
- Drive Utilities/ICD Tape Backup Software/Advantage Micro ST/Advantage ST
- Advantage Plus ST/STHA/Personal Pascal
-
- Doug Harrison
- D.S.HARRISON
- P.O. Box 66236
- Baton Rouge LA 70806-6236 USA
- Opus (shareware)/Lookit & Popit (distr. by CodeHead)
-
- Craig Harvey
- C.HARVEY
- Clear Thinking
- P.O. Box 715
- Ann Arbor MI 48105 USA
- 313 971 6035(bbs) 313 971 8671
- EdHak/Metapsychology Primer
-
- Harlan Hugh
- H.HUGH
- Power Thought Software
- 116 Sumach Street
- Toronto ON M5A 3J9 Canada
- 416 594 9355(fax) 416 594 9355
- INVISION Elite (distr. by DMC)
-
- John 'Hutch' Hutchinson
- FAIR-DINKUM
- Fair Dinkum Technologies
- P.O. Box 2
- Los Alamos NM 87544 USA
- 505 662 7236
- CrossWord Creator II/Word Search Creator/Cryptographer/InfoDisk/
- Cyberdrome: The Hoverjet Simulator/Puzzle Pack
-
- Gene Kane
- GENEXRX
- Xerox Corp
- 101 Continental Blvd. M/S ESC1-257
- El Segundo CA 90245 USA
- 310 333 2707
- Printer Drivers For Xerox Printers
-
- Deron Kazmaier
- DERON.K
- Soft-Logik Publishing
- P.O. Box 510589
- St. Louis MO 63151-0589 USA
- 314 894 8608 or 800 892 8608
- PageStream/ImageClub Clip Art/ImageClub Fonts/Business Forms
-
- Alex Kiernan, David Link, Dave Nutkins
- HISOFT
- HiSoft
- The Old School
- Greenfield Bedford MK45 5DE England
- +44 525 713716(fax) +44 525 718181
- Devpac 3/HiSoft BASIC 2/Lattice C/HighSpeed Pascal/FTL Modula-2/WERCS
- Harlekin 2/HiSoft C/ProFlight/K-Spread/K-Comm/K-Word/K-Data (HiSoft
- products distr. by Oregon Research Associates)
-
- Gregory J Kopchak
- GREG
- It's All Relative
- 2233 Keevan Lane
- Florisant MO 63031 USA
- 314 831 9482
- It's All Relative/BookMaker/Forecaster3/AbbreviatorST/PhotoCD Conversion
-
- Bob Luneski
- ORA.TECH
- Oregon Research Associates
- 16200 S.W. Pacific Highway Suite 162
- Tigard OR 97224 USA
- 503 624 2940(fax) 503 620 4919
- Diamond Back II/Diamond Edge/Knife ST/Ultimate Virus Killer/DevPacST 3
- DevPacTT/HiSoft BASIC 2/Lattice C 5.5/HiSoft C/HighSpeed Pascal/FTL
- Modula-2/Tempus 2/WERCS/Harlekin 2/True Paint/ProFlight
-
- Henry Murphy, Carl Stanford
- H.MURPHY, C.STANFORD
- MS Design
- 611 West Illinois Street
- Urbana IL 61801 USA
- 217 351 6412(fax) 217 384 8469
- FontPak 1 & 2/Wheeler Quick Art CD-ROM/Wheeler Quick Art Image Disks
-
- Tom Nielsen
- ESTEEM
- eSTeem, inc.
- 72 Shades Crest Road
- Hoover AL 35226-1014 USA
- 205 987 9208
- eSTeem PILOT
-
- Mark T O'Bryan
- M.OBRYAN1
- Paradigm Software Products
- 1369 Concord Place Suite 3-B
- Kalamazoo MI 49009-2201 USA
- 616 372 5972
- Omni-Banker ST
-
- W. David Parks
- W.PARKS3
- Dr. Bobware / Wizworks!
- P.O. Box 45
- Girard OH 44420 USA
- 216 539 5623
- ScanLite/MVG: MultiViewer Graphica/MVG Modules Disks 1, 2, & 3
-
- William Penner
- BPENNER
- Medical Designs Software
- 3235 Wright Avenue
- Bremerton WA 98310 USA
- 206 479 2157(bbs) 206 373 4840
- ECTStat/IOLCALC/MultiWriter/SERIALFX
-
- Mario Perdue
- M.PERDUE
- M.P. Graphics Systems
- P.O. Box 501289
- Indianapolis IN 46250-6289 USA
- 317 335 3775
- Noids-II
-
- Nathan Potechin
- POTECHIN
- DMC Publishing
- 2800 John Street Unit 10
- Markham ON L3R 0E2 Canada
- 416 479 1882(fax) 416 479 1880
- Calamus 1.09N/Calamus SL & modules/Calamus Font Editor/The Guide to
- Calamus Desktop Publishing/Outline Art/INVISION Elite
-
- Roger Richards
- R.RICHARDS2
- Synergy Resources
- 754 N. Bolten Avenue
- Indianapolis IN 46219 USA
- 317 231 4158(fax) 317 356 6946
- GEMvelope!/SynthView DW-8000/SynthView K1
-
- George Richardson
- G.RICHARDSO1
- Merlin Group, Inc.
- 96 Hoyt Street
- Kearny NJ 07032-3311 USA
- 201 998 0932(fax) 201 998 4441
-
- Chris Roberts
- DRAGONWARE
- DragonWare Software Inc.
- P.O. Box 1719
- Havre MT 59501-1719 USA
- 406 265 7300
- G Man/Satellite Locator ST/Smoke Art/Dragon Battery/Battery.ACC/Omikron
- Basic/FreeWay/DBRS ST/D_Graph ST
-
- Eric Rosenquist
- E.ROSENQUIST
- Strata Software
- 94 Rowe Drive
- Kanata ON K2L 3Y9 Canada
- 613 591 1922(fax) 613 591 1922
- STalker & STeno (distr. by Gribnif)
-
- Nevin Shalit
- NEVIN-S
- Step Ahead Software, Inc.
- 496-A Hudson Street Suite F39
- New York City NY 10014 USA
- 212 627 5830
- TrackerST/Tracker For Windows
-
- David M Small
- DAVESMALL
- Gadgets by Small, Inc.
- 40 West Littleton Blvd. #210-211
- Littleton CO 80120 USA
- 303 791 0253(fax) 303 791 6098
- Spectre GCR
-
- Josh Snyder
- J.SNYDER7
- Cali-Co. Superior Software
- P.O. Box 9873
- Madison WI 53715 USA
- 608 255 6523
- Mah-Jong Solitaire
-
- Gene F Sothan
- EFS
- Sothan Software / IB Computers
- 9395 North Wall
- Portland OR 97203 USA
- 503 286 8816
- IB Harddisk Backup
-
- John Trautschold
- J.TRAUTSCHOL
- Missionware Software
- 354 N. Winston Drive
- Palatine IL 60067-4132 USA
- 708 359 9565
- lottODDS/Printer Initializer/Flash II
-
- Melinda Turcsanyi
- M.TURCSANYI
- MUSICODE Software
- 5575 Baltimore Drive Suite 105-127
- La Mesa CA 91942 USA
- 619 469 7194
-
- Clayton Walnum
- C.WALNUM1
- Taylor Ridge Books
- P.O. Box 78
- Manchester CT 06045 USA
- 203 643 9673
- C-manship Complete/ST Assembly Language Workshop/GFA Basic Toolkit/
- VDI Quick Reference/AES Quick Reference/TRB Shareware Companion
-
- Chet Walters
- C.WALTERS1
- WizWorks!
- P.O. Box 45
- Girard OH 44420 USA
- 216 539 5623
- Image Cat/Mug Shot!/Coalesce Image Merger/Ma Hubbard's Cupboard/Mug Shot
- Data
-
- Sterling K Webb
- S.WEBB7
- SKWare One
- P.O. Box 277
- Bunker Hill IL 62014 USA
- 618 462 2171 (evenings)
- Seurat/ColorScan/Auto*Art/PS-2GDOS
-
- Norm Weinress
- N.WEINRESS
- Weinress Consulting
- 3236 Velma Drive
- Los Angeles CA 90068 USA
- 213 876 7704
- D.E.K.A.
-
- Steve Whitney
- S.WHITNEY
- 655 South Fair Oaks Avenue I-103
- Sunnyvale CA 94086 USA
- 815 968 6888
-
- James D Yegerlehner
- J.YEGERLEHNE
- Apprentice Software
- 22205 Swan Road
- South Lyon MI 48178 USA
- 313 437 0526
- Neural-network Construction Set
-
-
-
- ###### ATARINET
- ###### Network Overview - Updated December 15, 1992
- ###### ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- So, you've heard about AtariNet. This is a network for any BBS that
- supports the Atari platform of home computer. There are already several
- bulletin board systems worldwide participating and more are joining. A
- listing of the current BBS's that are participating and the echos that
- are available follow:
-
- Zone 51 AtariNet Headquarters
- Region 100
- Host 1 - Twilight Zone, Longwood FL, Bill Scull
- 1-407-831-1613
-
- 4 - Steal Your Face, Brick NJ, Ed Lynch 1-908-920-7981
- 6 - MySTery BBS, Goose Creek, SC, David Blanchard 1-803-556-9730
- 8 - Alien BBS, Burlington NC, Mark Cline 1-919-229-4334
- 9 - Z*Net Golden Gate, Sunnyvale CA, Bob Brodie 1-510-373-6792
- 10 - Atari Base, Sunnyvale CA, Robert Brodie 1-408-745-2196
- 13 - Z*Net News Service, Middlesex NJ, Ron Kovacs 1-908-968-8148
- 14 - Information Overload, Riverdale GA, Ed June 1-404-471-1549
- 15 - Flightline BBS, Minneapolis MN, Craig Peterson 1-612-544-5118
-
- Host 4 - Hologram Inc, Old Bridge NJ, Dean Lodzinski
- 1-908-727-1914
-
- 3 - Assasins Grove, Oshawa Canada, Jeff Mitchell 1-416-571-6965
- 4 - Aces High BBS, Matawan NJ, Richard Guadagno 1-908-290-1133
- 5 - StormShadow, Pasadena MD, Robert Lovelace 1-410-437-0243
-
- Host 102 - Sunfox's Realm, Raleigh NC, Erik Williams 1-919-867-1844
-
- Region 200 - AtariNet Headquarters II
-
- Host 2 - AtariNet Nevada, Las Vegas NV, Terry May
- 1-702-435-0786
-
- 4 - Sports Line BBS, Henderson NV, Nick Hard 1-702-565-5271
- 5 - Left Over Hippies, Toronto Canada, Lesley Dylan 1-416-466-8931
- 10 - STarship, Lake Charles LA, Rich Tietjens 1-318-474-9432
- 11 - The Choice BBS, Las Vegas NV, Mark Woolworth 1-702-253-6527
- 12 - Thunder Hold, American Fork UT, Todd Harrington 1-801-756-2901
- 13 - Conqueror Connection, Fort Hood TX, John Curtis 1-817-539-1469
-
- Host 201 - The DarkSTar BBS, Salt Lake City UT, Randy Rodrock
- 1-801-269-8780
-
- 5 - Acme BBS, Salt Lake City UT, Eric Nikolaisen 1-801-272-4243
-
- Host 202 - The Wylie Connection, Wylie TX, Wes Newell
- 1-214-442-6612
-
- 7 - Aaron's Beard, Dallas TX, Troy Wade 1-214-557-2642
- 13 - The Wylie Connection, Wylie TX, Wes Newell 1-214-442-6612
- 20 - Outland Station, Ft Worth TX, John Stiborek 1-817-329-1125
- 21 - Psychlo Empire, Irving TX, Mark Corona 1-214-251-1175
-
- Host 203 - AtariNet Midwest, Indianapolis IN, Bill Jones
- 1-317-356-5519
-
- 1 - The Zoo BBS, Indianapolis IN, Bill Jones 1-317-356-5519
- 2 - The Music Station, Webb City MO, Chris Richards 1-417-673-4926
- 3 - The Maligned ST, Urbandale IA, Mike O'Malley 1-515-253-9530
- 4 - The Crawly Crypt, Joplin MO, Jim Collins 1-417-624-1887
- 5 - BLAST BBS, Bloomington IN, Steve Johnson 1-812-332-0573
-
- Region 300 - AtariNet Headquarters_III
- Host 3 - The Space Station, Canyon Country CA, Tony Castorino
- 1-805-252-0450
-
- 3 - Atari ST Connection, Fresno CA, Brian Watters 1-209-436-8156
- 4 - Autoboss Atari Elite, Bunola PA, John Graham 1-412-384-5608
- 5 - The Yakima Atari ST BBS, Yakima WA, Pat Moffitt 1-509-965-2345
- 6 - FIDOdoor Support BBS, Vandenberg AFB, Bryan Hall 1-805-734-4742
- 7 - cyberSecT BBS, Cheney WA, Chuck Aude 1-509-235-4875
- 9 - The Mosh Bit, Vancouver WA, Mark Wallaert 1-206-574-1531
- 10 - Target Range, Paramount CA, Alan Dietrich 1-310-634-8993
- 11 - Sanctuary From The Law, Inyokern CA, Sean Price 1-619-377-3611
- 12 - MASATEK, Torrance CA, Valeriano Meneses 1-310-518-9524
- 13 - The Mind Keep, Citrus Heights CA, Jeff Fehlman 1-916-723-1657
- 14 - Callahan's Place, Ashford WA, Brian Lane 1-206-569-2911
- 15 - ST-Keep, Citrus Heights CA, Andrew Studer 1-916-729-2968
- 16 - H.B. SMOG, Huntington Beach CA, Jim Thingwold 1-714-969-5486
- 17 - Acey BBS, Yakima WA, Dick Grable 1-509-966-8555
-
- Region 400 - AtariNet Headquarters IV
- Host 5 - The Brewery, Ajax ON Canada, Don Liscombe
- 1-416-683-3089
-
- 3 - Rather Digital, Sudbury ON Canada, Steve Barnes 1-705-560-3115
-
- Region 500 - AtariNet UK
- Host 6 - AtariNet NW England, Stockport Cheshire UK, Daron Brewood
- 44-61-429-9803
-
- 2 - STun NeST Central, Stockport Cheshire UK 44-61-429-9803
- 3 - DigiBBS, Nykobing F Denmark, Flemming Nielsen 45-54-858385
-
- Region 600 - AtariNet Headquarters VI
- Host 501 - AtariNet Germany, Koeln Germany, Frank Brodmuehler
- 49-221-248285
-
- 8 - Apolonia, Essen, Peter Kaszanics 49-201-237509
-
- Hub 100 - Hub AC, Aachen, Benedikt Heinen 49-241-408593
- 101 - Firemark BBS, Aachen, Benedikt Heinen 49-241-408593
- 102 - Dao-Lin-H'ay, Luegde, Joerg Spilker 49-5281-79372
- 103 - AtariNET, Milano Italy, Magic.Alex Badalic 39-382-488-515
-
- Region 700 - AtariNet Headquarters VII
- Host 701 - Peace Counter Computers, Fort ST John BC Canada
- 1-604-785-9512
-
- Region 800 - AtariNet Headquarters VIII
- Host 801 - Znet South Pacific, Wellington New Zealand, Chris Thorpe
- 64-4-4762853
-
-
- ||| AtariNet EchoList -- 31-Oct-92 |||
- / | \ Compiled by Terry May @ 51:2/0 / | \
-
- -> The following echo is _required_ for ALL AtariNet sysops.
- -> ONLY AtariNet sysops may have access to this echo.
-
- Echo Name Description Moderator
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- A_SYSOP AtariNet SysOps 51:1/0 - Bill Scull
-
- -> The following echoes are _required_ for AtariNet moderators
- -> and hosts, but may be picked up by ANY AtariNet sysop.
- -> ONLY AtariNet sysops may have access to this echo.
-
- Echo Name Description Moderator
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- A_ECHO AtariNet echoes discussion 51:2/0 - Terry May
- A_TEST AtariNet test echo 51:1/0 - Bill Scull
-
- -> The following echoes are available to all interested AtariNet sysops.
- -> These echoes can and should be accessible to all users and points.
-
- Echo Name Description Moderator
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- A_4SALE Atari products for sale/wanted 51:1/11 - E Williams
- A_ATARI Atari general discussion 51:2/4 - Nick Hard
- A_BBS_ADS Atari supported BBSes 51:2/0 - Terry May
- A_BBS_DOORS Atari BBS doors (externals) 51:1/6 - D Blanchard
- A_COMMERCIAL_ADS Atari Commercial Ads 51:1/11 - E Williams
- A_DTP Atari DeskTop Publishing 51:1/11 - E Williams
- A_EXPLORER Atari Explorer Magazine 51:1/13 - Ron Kovacs
- A_FIDODOOR FIDOdoor Support 51:3/6 - Bryan Hall
- A_GENERAL General discussion 51:2/4 - Nick Hard
- A_GRAPHICS Atari graphics 51:2/0 - Terry May
- A_PROGRAMMING Atari programming 51:5/0 - D Liscombe
- A_SOUND Atari sound/music 51:2/0 - Terry May
- A_TECH Atari hardware tech talk 51:202/0 - Wes Newell
- A_BINKLEY BinkleyTerm ST support [ Gated from Zone 1 ]
- A_FIDO_ST FidoNet ST discussion [ Gated from Zone 90 ]
- A_IOS_HELP IOSmail Support [ Gated from Zone 1 ]
-
-
-
- ###### CUSTOMER REPORT
- ###### The Continuing Saga of Caveat Emptor
- ###### ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- [Editors Note: In running the following article, we did a lot of
- talking and checking with our attorney. But the facts are basically
- presented here in a somewhat humorous tone after a failed purchase.
-
- I do NOT want this to be taken as a firing of the rockets into a full
- magazine war as it is NOT the intention here. There is a legit problem
- that needs attention and addressing. There are no winners here.
-
- Some may take this as another attempt by Z*Net to throw darts at
- STReport. However, if this story was about Gribnif, Codehead, or even
- Zephyer you know it would have appeared. What we are dealing with in
- this article in NOT STReport, but a mail order distributor selling
- hardware and a customer having a problem getting product paid for.
-
- As with ALL material published here, we allow editorial space for
- response and encourage ABCO to do so. We also hope that this matter is
- addressed quickly and responsibly.
-
- - Ron Kovacs
-
-
- The Introduction...
-
- Hi. My name is Don. Some of you know me as Laser's Edge Graphic
- Design. A sampling of my work has been on GEnie and on a few local
- bulletin boards. I'm the one who gratefully received an honorable
- mention in the '92 Outline Art Contest with "Flowers of the Mind" (I
- like to tell people I was "one of the winners" in an international art
- contest). I've been using and supporting Atari and its computers ever
- since the 1040ST first came out. It was my first computer and I bought
- it for music sequencing and, yes (sigh), for games. I later bought a
- Mega 4 ST with a 20mb hard drive and Atari Laser Printer to begin
- typesetting and desktop publishing, and also kept the 1040 for the kids
- to use (and, yes (sigh), for games). I love the Atari computers. I
- believe in Atari so much, that I have talked most of my family into
- buying Ataris (Ataries?) when they were ready to go computer hunting.
- My mother even started doing DTP so she could publish a newsletter where
- she works. Even though she prefers Pagestream, whereas I am a devoted
- Calamus disciple, I don't hold it against her. She does use an Atari.
-
- The Ecstasy...
-
- My mother decided she needed a hard drive and a faster computer to do
- her DTP more efficiently. I most heartily agreed. Working off of
- floppy drives is extremely inefficient, but it works. Once you start
- working every day on it, though, a hard drive can save hours in disk
- access time alone and CPU speed is especially important when you start
- handling complex graphics. Anyway, Mom told me she wanted a new Mega 4
- STe with a hard drive like she had seen in ST Informer, and asked if I
- knew where to get one. She knew there was no Atari store in town, but I
- told her that I had been buying my laser printer cartridges from a guy
- who works out of the back room of his house, and who I thought was an
- Atari dealer. So, I told her I would ask about pricing and, if the
- price was right, get her one. She asked me if I wanted one, also!
-
- "MOM! Do I WANT one? Of COURSE I want one!" I nonchalantly exclaimed.
-
- "Well then, get one for yourself, too!"
-
- WOW! I had really been wanting a new TT (giggle), but my finance
- department said no. And, of course, I wasn't about to turn down a new
- STe if it was offered. So, with Mom's blank check in hand, I scurried
- over to the local Laser Printer Cartridge Supplier and Almost- But-Not-
- Quite Atari Dealer. I managed to keep the drool from running down my
- lip and into my beard as I casually told him I wanted TWO, count 'em,
- TWO, not ONE but TWO brand spanking new never-been-used-before fresh-out
- -of-the-box Mega 4 STe's.
-
- We talked pricing, features, goodies, all the normal computer stuff, and
- wrote up an order for those TWO brand spanking new, never-been-used-
- before, etc., STe's. He told me it would probably take a week to ten
- days to get them in.
-
- "Great", I said. I was already anticipating the increase in speed I
- would experience while watching screen redraws in Outline Art (and the
- great sound of the games), not to mention the increase in hard drive
- space over my trusty 20 megger.
-
- Then my local Laser Printer Cartridge Supplier and Almost-But-Not-Quite
- Atari Dealer, whom I'll call Ralph, which could be but isn't necessarily
- his real name, asked if I would rather have a TT (giggle) if he could
- get it for the same price.
-
- "RALPH! Do I WANT one? Of COURSE I want one!" I nonchalantly exclaimed.
-
- Ralph told me that the STe was a discontinued computer (I was later told
- that the TT [giggle] was also discontinued) and that I would be much
- better off with a TT (gig... well, you get the point). And besides
- that, he said, the prices have come WAY down on the TT's.
-
- "What about compatibility problems with my music software, Notator."
-
- "Oh, there should be no problem. It'll run great."
-
- The price wasn't exactly the same, but for the extra three hundred
- dollars (each) it seemed worth it. So, we wrote up another order, this
- time for TWO, count 'em, TWO, not ONE but TWO brand spanking new, etc.,
- etc., TT's, with two megabytes of TT Ram, four megabytes of ST Ram (I
- had to run my Atari laser printer), a 50 megabyte internal Hard Drive
- and a 15 inch (I think) Magnavox color monitor. He told me it would
- probably take two to three weeks to get them in.
-
- "Fine," I said, and wrote out the check for the full purchase amount in
- advance, up front, 100% down with no long term financing options. I was
- elated. That was Wednesday, September 23rd.
-
- The Waiting...
-
- I called to check on the progress every week to ten days.
-
- "Be patient," I was told. I'm not going to settle for (Unpostable Word
- = UPW)!
-
- "What?" my inquiring mind wanted to know. Does that mean that a lot of
- the TT's out there are (UPW)... well, not quite right? I was glad I was
- going to get a good one, or two. I continued to call every week to ten
- days.
-
- "Don't worry, I'll keep in touch. I'll let you know when it comes in,"
- I was assured by my Local Laser Printer Cartridge Supplier and Almost
- etc., etc., etc.
-
- Three weeks passed. My mom wanted to know where her computer was. I
- called Ralph.
-
- "I placed the order Friday, and the good news is we got it in before the
- price increase. We're in good shape! Don't worry, I'm treating you
- right," I was told.
-
- October 22nd. Four weeks. Mom wanted her computer. I called Ralph
- again.
-
- "We've got one ordered and I'm looking for the other one," Ralph said.
- "I'm not settling for no (UPW)!" There it was again. I was beginning
- to feel sorry for all those poor Atari users out there who did settle
- for (UPW)..er, something that wasn't quite right. But why STILL looking
- for another one? Are they that hard to find? Is Atari out of business?
- Did I buy a pig-in-a-poke, or what? I should have told him to forget
- it, but I didn't. He had my (mom's) money. I decided to call a bona
- fide Atari dealer just to ask a few questions, so, on October 23rd, I
- gave Sheldon Winick, of Computer Studio in Asheville, NC, a call.
-
- "Computer Studio. May I help you?"
-
- "Good morning, is Sheldon in?" I asked. I wanted to talk to the boss,
- the big man, the top guy, the head cheese. I've learned if you ask for
- him by his first name the person who answered the phone usually thinks
- you're a personal friend, so they put you through faster.
-
- "This is he." So much for the personal friend stuff.
-
- "Mr. Winick, this is Don Harris in Jacksonville, Florida. I don't know
- if you remember meeting me over at Ralph's (which could be but isn't
- necessarily his real name) several months ago. Laser's Edge Graphic
- Design?"
-
- "Yes, Don, what can I do for you?"
-
- I began to tell Sheldon the story of ordering the TT's, and asked him if
- he sold them and, if so, how much trouble he was having in getting them.
-
- "Oh, we sell them all the time. No trouble getting them at all."
-
- I asked if he knew why Ralph might be having a hard time getting them.
- I was told Ralph isn't an Atari Dealer, so that might explain it.
-
- The Agony...
-
- I had read some messages in the MIDI RTC on GEnie about Notator not
- running on a TT, so I asked about compatibility problems with Notator.
- He said he didn't think Notator supported the big screen monochrome or
- color monitor, but that other MIDI packages had no trouble. I felt dark
- clouds moving overhead, but figured I could keep my Mega 4 for Notator
- until it supported the TT.
-
- I asked about pricing. Computer Studio's prices were higher than what
- Ralph wrote my order for, but that was for a different configuration
- with more RAM. In fact, according to Sheldon, they don't even sell TT's
- in the configuration that I was supposed to be buying. Gloom and Doom,
- those two sisters of despair, began to stir a large, boiling cauldron in
- the nether regions of my brain.
-
- November 3rd, six weeks. Mom wants her money or her computer. I called
- Ralph.
-
- "It's being shipped UPS Brown Label. Be here in a few days. I'm still
- looking for another one." I didn't tell him mom wanted her money back.
- I knew she would be glad she waited when she got her new TT (giggle).
-
- November 12th, seven weeks. Mom's mad. Her 1040 ST broke down and she
- can't do her newsletter. I called Ralph.
-
- "It'll be here next Tuesday. They shipped it UPS Brown Label and it
- takes about a week. Don't worry, I'm taking care of you. I'll let you
- know. I'll keep in touch... etc., etc."
-
- "That'll be good if it does, but now my mom's ST is not working and she
- can't work on her newsletter," I informed him. I told him what it was
- doing.
-
- "Ah, (UPW). Sounds like the power supply. Just bring it in and I'll
- fix it."
-
- Right.
-
- I managed to get mom's ST running. Seems it was the power supply on the
- external floppy drive, so I gave her mine.
-
- Next Tuesday, November 17th, arrived. I called Ralph. I spoke briefly
- and courteously to his answering machine. "Ralph, this is Don Harris.
- Please call me at ###- ####."
-
- Ralph called. "Don Harris, please."
-
- "Speaking."
-
- "Don, here's where we are. I have gone through six TT's already,
- and..."
-
- "What do you mean 'gone through six TT's' ?"
-
- "Oh, they weren't the configuration, or the price, especially, that
- we're looking for."
-
- "Well, I've talked to several dealers (NOTE: I lied. I only talked to
- Sheldon) and they said they haven't had any problem getting TT's."
-
- "Sure, but did you ask them the price? They can get them, but you're
- talking long dollars here."
-
- "That's true, they were a little more. But, here's where I am with it.
- My mom wants her money back."
-
- "That's impossible at this point. I've got too many irons in the fire,
- too much going towards it. Besides, I should have one if not both of
- them within ten days." I thought I heard the faint refrain of an old
- familiar song playing in the background.
-
- "Well, it's like this. My mom is mad, and I don't blame her. We gave
- you almost four thousand dollars ($4,000!!!) over two months ago, and
- haven't seen anything for it."
-
- "That's nothing (NOTHING?!). A custom deal like this can often go six
- to eight weeks. I've had it take as long as three months before."
-
- "But you didn't tell me that. You said two to three weeks."
-
- "Well that's something you just never know."
-
- We talked for a few more minutes with the gist of the conversation being
- that I would take delivery of the first TT if it came in, but I
- cancelled the order on the other one. He said he could not return our
- money until he actually got the units in and then resold them, but that
- we would have the whole thing resolved one way or the other within ten
- days. Advertisements for various and sundry Atari products that were
- announced as coming out "Real Soon Now", but never arrived, began
- scrolling across my memory monitor. I decided to do nothing but wait a
- while longer. Besides, it would all be resolved... uh, real soon now.
-
- More Waiting...
-
- November 24th, one week past next Tuesday. If you're confused, that
- means that last Tuesday was the next Tuesday that was cited earlier as
- the delivery date. So now it's one week later. Okay? Good. Now,
- where was I? Oh, yea. I have spoken to several people about this
- situation. I have, of course, been advised to hire a lawyer (you know
- what's black and white and looks good on a lawyer? A Pit Bull! hahaha..
- Do you know what you... well, never mind.) and sue the guy; call the
- Better Business Bureau, etc. One friend said he could call his Uncle
- Louie in Chicago and he'd guarantee I'd get double my money back. But,
- that didn't sound like a very Christian thing to do. I might have to do
- something (something spelled L-E-G-A-L) in time, but I wanted to give
- Ralph a chance to come through. I refused to believe that he was
- purposely trying to take me (and Mom). I always try to believe the best
- about people until they give me reason to think differently. I figured
- I'd give him the ten days. Now, was that ten calendar days, or ten
- business days?
-
- December 1st, another week past next Tuesday, which means it's been ten
- weeks since I ordered and paid for our computers. Still with me? Okay.
- It has now been two weeks since the latest promise of delivery, unless
- of course you subtract the Thanksgiving holidays, which means it has
- been twelve days, unless you only want to count business days, in which
- case it would be eight days. So, I'm waiting until Thursday. That
- would be at least ten days any way you want to count them. If I haven't
- heard from Ralph, which could be but isn't necessarily his real name,
- I'm going to call him to see if he has my computer or my money, which I
- know he won't because if he did he would call me. Right? I decided it
- was time to call my attorney to see what action should be contemplated,
- just in case Ralph didn't come through (I was still holding out hope he
- would). I had to wait for him to get back to me (isn't that just like a
- lawyer?), but in the meantime, his secretary told me to go ahead and
- call the Better Business Bureau to see if they had received any
- complaints against Ralph and his business. So, I called.
-
- The Bad News...
-
- Bingo! The man I talked to said Ralph and his company have an
- "unsatisfactory" rating with the Better Business Bureau because of not
- responding to customer complaints. I asked him if that was just one
- complaint, or many. He said he didn't know, they just had the
- unsatisfactory rating down for that reason. It would be interesting to
- see what my attorney had to say. (Actually, I have a pretty good
- attorney. When he told me he has no respect for lawyers, I knew he was
- alright.) Wednesday, December 2nd. I talked to my attorney and
- explained the story. He said we could, of course, sue him (I wonder if
- lawyers name their daughters "Sue") to get our money back, plus court
- costs and attorney fees.
-
- He asked me if I thought Ralph, which could be but still isn't
- necessarily his real name, had in mind to take our money and never come
- through with the product at all, in other words, to defraud us. "Well,
- I don't think so," I said. "Or maybe I should say 'I don't want to
- think so.' " "Because if that's what it was, and we can show fraudulent
- intent, we can recover triple damages from him, assuming he has
- something to recover, that is." He said that, because it was a special
- order, if the computers came in and they were right, we would be
- expected to accept them.
-
- That was fine with me. We just wanted our computers. He also said he
- didn't understand why Ralph could not give us our money back. If he
- hadn't actually bought our equipment yet, then he should still have our
- money, unless he used it for something else. We talked for a few more
- minutes and decided I should pull together some of the pertinent
- information to see which way to go. I got the informatin on the check
- and the date it was deposited in Ralph's account (September 24th, the
- very next day). I called Ralph, but his machine answered, so I just
- hung up. I figured if anything had come in (i.e., a computer or two) I
- would have gotten a call.
-
- Still More Waiting...
-
- Thursday, December 3rd. No phone call telling me the computers had
- miraculously arrived by UPS... which causes me to wonder. Didn't Ralph
- say that one was "on the way" by UPS Brown Label? Why, yes, I believe
- he did. That's it. It must be UPS' fault! Either that, or it was one
- of the ones that he got in with a bad memory board and he sent it back.
- Didn't even let me look at it or touch it first. I called Ralph after I
- got home from work and left a message on his answering machine. He
- didn't return my call.
-
- Friday, December 4th. Another call to Ralph. Another brief but
- courteous message on his answering machine. About 15 minutes later, he
- returned my call.
-
- "I've gotten two more TT's in and I've rejected them both. I can't
- believe how many bad memory boards these things have in them. No wonder
- Atari is in trouble. But, I have another TT ordered from Washington.
- It's been fully tested and it's a good one. I've also got two monitors
- on the way, one Magnavox and one CTX, so you should have one of your
- computers by next Wednesday (is this the same song?). I can't wait to
- get you in one 'cause I know it's gonna blow your socks off. I'll call
- you Monday or Tuesday and keep you up on the latest."
-
- If the TT's are truly having memory problems, then Ralph may really be
- doing me right by making sure I get a good one and most, if not all, of
- my fears may turn out to be unjustified. If not, and these are just all
- excuses for non-delivery, then... well, we'll just have to wait and see
- about then.
-
- The Thickening Plot...
-
- On Monday, December 7th (Happy Pearl Harbor Day), I called DMC
- Publishing (formerly ISD) to upgrade my Calamus 1.09n to Calamus S
- (Yaaaayyy!). I asked if Nathan was in so I could say "HI", but he had
- just stepped out to lunch. About five minutes later, Nathan called me.
- Bright and early that morning I had been on GEnie trying to find out
- about the bad TT memory boards and had sent E-mail to Sheldon Winick
- asking him about the situation (I copied it to Nathan, which is how he
- knew about it).
-
- He basically told me that Sheldon's reply to my inquiry, which he agreed
- with, was that Ralph is not an Atari dealer, Atari will not sell him any
- equipment and the TT's are NOT having memory board problems. He also
- told me about two new posts in the Mail Order RTC about Ralph that I
- might be interested in reading. That night I got on GEnie again to read
- the Mail Order posts. It seems three other people had been having
- problems getting satisfaction from ABCO (which could be but isn't
- necessarily... well, you know). One of them, Joey Sherman, had been
- trying for almost two years to get something done. I sent the three
- E-mail requesting details of their dealings with Ralph and ABCO,
- indicating that the information may be needed to bring suit against him,
- if it came to that.
-
- Tuesday, December 8th. Ralph called me. No, he didn't have my computer
- or my money, so don't get your hopes up. He had been on GEnie, read my
- posts inquiring about the TT memory board problems and wanted to explain
- everything to me. He said that nobody is going to put what really
- happens on a public board such as GEnie, I guess because nobody wants
- anybody else to know how bad a shape Atari is really in (?). He went on
- to explain the history of the TT and how the early ones were 16
- megahertz machines, not 32. He said the motherboards have been
- redesigned numerous times and that is the source of the problems. He
- assured me that he was looking out for my best interests; that he was
- only trying to get me a good machine. I honestly appreciated that.
- Ralph is nothing if not convincing. He is a salesman.
-
- Then I asked Ralph about the complaints against him in the Mail Order
- RTC. He explained them away. They have either been taken care of or
- else they were just misunderstandings. I asked about the TT not being
- sold for residential use. He said that laser printers are in the same
- boat, and there wouldn't be any problem because they weren't going to
- interfere with the neighbors' TV, which is the bottom line. Ralph said
- my computer would be ready by the end of the week if not tomorrow,
- Wednesday, December 9th. More music. I reminded him of cancelling the
- second computer. He remembered. He said he'd have one ready and cut me
- a check for the second one by Friday (December 11th). I quietly
- wondered if I should request a cashier's check.
-
- Friday, December 11th. The big day. The day Ralph said would be the
- finalization of this whole fiasco. I have been on GEnie several more
- times, and gotten several more letters about this situation. The
- consensus seems to be that there are plenty of TT030's available and
- they are not having memory problems. I also found out that, because
- Ralph is not an authorized Atari dealer, Atari will not sell him any
- TT's. That means that if he comes up with one, he will have bought it
- from someone else (not Atari), so it will be considered USED.
- Furthermore, according to the warranty, if anything goes wrong with it,
- I have to take it back to the authorized Atari dealer I bought it from,
- except that I won't have bought it from an authorized Atari dealer.
- Sounds like problems waiting to happen. To really put the icing on the
- cake, the TT030's are not available in the configuration I ordered
- (4meg ST RAM/2meg TT RAM). So, is there any way possible that Ralph can
- deliver what he ordered for me?
-
- I called Ralph and left another brief but courteous message on his
- machine. I waited but he did not return my call. I tried again several
- hours later. He answered the phone.
-
- "Ralph, this is Don."
-
- "Hello, stranger. Haven't seen UPS yet today."
-
- "But we're going to get this finished today one way or another, right?
-
- "Either today or after the first of the week."
-
- I couldn't believe he said that. "Well, I need it to be finished by
- Monday." I was planning on seeing my attorney Monday.
-
- "Or what?"
-
- I started to tell him about the impending suit, but flagged. "I'm going
- out of town next week, and I need to get this over with. It looks like
- I might need the money to get some transmission work done on my car."
- That was true, I didn't lie.
-
- "Vacation, eh? Where you going?"
-
- I gave a brief outline of my vacation, then said, "So anyway, I need to
- get it over with by Monday." I wanted to reiterate that Monday was the
- deadline.
-
- "Well, I'll do what I can."
-
- Strangely enough, I didn't think anything would be any different Monday.
- But, I still could not bring myself to be unkind or threatening, or even
- to tell him about the suit. I figured a letter from my attorney would
- be more convincing than I could be.
-
- The Moral...
-
- This was not meant to be an indictment of Ralph, which could be but
- isn't necessarily his real name, nor his business, which could be but
- isn't necessarily ABCO computers. If anything, it's more an indictment
- of my consumer savvy, because first of all, I should never have agreed
- to pay the full price in advance. I guess I have to consider the
- prospect that if it had been my four thousand dollars, I probably would
- have been a little more discerning. Aside from that, any business of
- good repute should have a good enough record with its suppliers, or
- failing that, to have enough cash surplus to be able to get merchandise
- without having to make the customer pay full price up front. I've been
- doing graphic design and typesetting for several years now and none of
- the printers I do business with hesitate to let me take the merchandise
- and wait for their money until I get mine from my client. That's just
- good business. If a store wants you to pay full price up front on
- promise of delivery, you should probably check out another source.
- Granted, the lack of Atari dealers makes that a little more difficult,
- but not impossible. I guess the Better Business Bureau could have
- steered me away if I had been smart enough to call them before handing
- over large sums of money. Then again, maybe all special orders, if this
- was one, are handled this way. I don't know.
-
- Secondly, I should have heeded the voices of warning. As B'rer Fox used
- to say, "You kin hide de fire, but what you gwine do wid de smoke?" I
- chose to ignore the criticisms and complaints I had heard against Ralph
- and his business, thinking that it was just his endearing personality
- that people didn't like. I thought that, though others had been burned,
- I would be a most notable exception and, as I raised one eyebrow and
- curled my lip into an almost- but-not-quite- noticeable sneer, I would
- be able to smile and say, "I haven't had any problems. It must have
- been you."
-
- Is it too much to hope that Ralph has learned anything from this Episode
- of Caveat Emptor? I can only hope he has. I hope he has learned to
- give a more realistic time frame to his customers, or to at least expose
- the possibility of delay when they order through him. A customer that
- has been told the goods he ordered and paid for will arrive in two or
- three weeks isn't going to be a happy customer when he's still waiting
- eight (or nine, or twelve) weeks later. One valid maxim of business is
- "A Happy Customer is a Repeat Customer." If that one is true, then it's
- logical that the obverse of that statement is also true. You don't stay
- in business by ignoring legitimate customer complaints. If the
- circumstances are beyond your control you bite the bullet and satisfy
- the customer! If you don't believe in doing business that way then you
- have no business being in business.
-
- Copyright 1992 D P Harris
-
-
-
- ###### THE UNABASHED ATARIOPHILE
- ###### By Michael R. Burkley
- ###### ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- It's nasty to be sick! I put an exclamation mark at the end of that
- last sentence, but I certainly don't feel it. For the past two days I
- have been alternating between the bed and the bathroom, happy with
- neither. It's a busy season for me (obviously!), and I don't have time
- to be sick, but that doesn't seem to make me well!
-
- Last week I said that I would either talk about the adventures of my
- hard drive or share with you a list of all the programs I downloaded
- (or just read the discriptions of) this week. I've decided to do the
- latter. So here goes...
-
- BACKUP is a hard drive backup program that comes in a form useable on
- any ST and one particularly adapted to take advantage of the TT. It
- supports the use of the Archive bit (so when you make a new backup you
- don't need to back up your WHOLE drive but only those parts that have
- changed). It compresses the file using LHARC (which you need to order
- separately--see UTILITYS category). This program can keep you safe from
- the terror of a hard drive crash. It also saves on the number of
- floppies you have to use through the compressing of the files. GEM
- based and fast. Color or mono. Docs included. SHAREWARE.
-
- Blizschnell by Erin Monaco was reviewed two or three columns back?
- This program is a hard drive defragmenter and more. The only thing I
- didn't like about this program was that you had to manually tell the
- program how to defragment your drive, but I mentioned that Erin was
- continuing to support this program with frequent updates. Guess what?
- Blitzschnell now supports auto-defragmentation in the registered
- version. If you haven't checked out version 1.45 of this program take
- a look!
-
- BORDERS1 is a series of eight .IMG drawings of various Christmas
- oriented scenes (secular) that you can use to frame a holiday message.
-
- DataBlaze v.2.00 by Sherry Mackiewicz Reulback (dated Dec. 11, 1992)
- is a mono-only program that takes full advantage of David Becker's
- "ZEST" interface. DataBlaze is a desk accessory that allows you to
- forget people's e-mail addresses. Simply put DataBlaze in the root
- directory on your boot disk, and call it from your favorite term
- program! DataBlaze even types in the address for you! The Search
- button helps you find who you're looking for. Simply enter a first or
- last name, or part of one, and Blaze will show all people who match.
-
- Diamond Edge, the comprehensive program from Oregon Reseach that will
- allow you to maintain and repair the data on your hard drive(s) has
- released two patch programs this week. The two patches will allow you
- to upgrade either your v.1.00 or v.1.01 of Diamond Edge to version
- 1.02.
-
- ESCAPE_D is a working demo of Escape by PAC (Programs from Atari
- Consumers). Escape is a 'crazy' text adventure and graphics game. You
- must escape from your parents' home (Why? You just were released from a
- mental institution and your parents are keeping you at home to help in
- your "cure."). Find clues located all over the property and try to
- escape. Digitized graphics and sounds. TOS 1.0--TT, one meg of RAM
- (at least), a DS drive and a color monitor required.
-
- FORUM36 is Forum 36 v.1.01 by Nathan W. Sienicki (dated Dec. 9, 1992).
- Forum36 is an advanced form of the popular tic-tac-toe game. It
- utilizes a 6 X 6 grid in which each opponent must attempt to match four
- of his/her pieces in a vertical or horizontal row to win. If you're a
- lonely bachelor(ette) or a latch key kid, you can select the single
- player option and match wits with the computer. Strategy in this
- version was purposely limited to allow a fighting chance for those
- under age eight. The game's control panel has many features like bonus
- play, one or two player selection, game status and win displays, and
- the ability to clear the game status. Gem Based. Nice interface. Low
- rez only. Docs included. This is a fun game.
-
- GemFast v.1.8 is a Public Domain GEM Bindings and Programming Library
- by Ian Lepore (dated Nov.3, 1992). This huge library (just over one
- meg uncompressed) is full of high-level functions, excellent and
- extensive documention, and much more. If you are a "C" programmer then
- this is for you. I am not, and I have no idea what this is all about!
- Maybe someday!
-
- HERSANTA is a MIDI file of a Bebop version of "Here Comes Santa Claus"!
- Merry Christmas people! HO!HO!HO!
-
- Studio Manager v.1.00 by Up All Night Software (dated Nov '92) is an ST
- based Invoice and Accounting package for music studio management.
- Created by studio musicians to make their task easier, this demo of the
- commercial product is intuitive, easy to learn, and quick. If you have
- a home or professional recording/midi studio this program is for you.
- It handles client invoice billing and accounts receivables. This demo
- is save and load disabled. Color or mono. Any ST(e).
-
- Jekyll v.1.38 by Vincent Partington (dated Nov. 22, 1992) is a full
- duplex file transfer protocol that allows your modem to send files both
- ways and what's more: you can even chat with the other side at the same
- time and the CPS rate won't drop noticably. It can even go up if you're
- sending uncompressed files because Jekyll will compress them before
- sending and decompress them automatically when receiving! This
- program is continuously being updated and being made better. It also
- comes with a small terminal shell called Hyde. In order to use it the
- BBS you are calling needs to support it. I would predict that any BBS
- that uses Jekyll will see a dramatic increase in the number of files
- uploaded, since it wouldn't take any more time to do so on the callers
- part. ST/STe/TT compatible with at least one meg of RAM. Color or
- mono. Docs included. SHAREWARE.
-
- MDEMO is M for the ST by Eric Ameres, David Zicarelli, Joel Chadabe,
- John Offenhartz, and Antony Widoff (dated 1987, but it was just
- uploaded this week!). This demo version (no save) of "M", an
- algorithmic composer for the ST allows you to do all sorts of things
- with your music (transpose, shift, create, etc.). Color or mono. STe
- compatible. Use with your MIDI keyboard. Numerous sample files, docs,
- tutorial, and ordering info included.
-
- MT32DEMO is a disabled demo of a MT-32 Controller in an .ACC format by
- David Barr. It is designed to allow you complete control over your
- Roland MT-32 synthesizer, even from within your favorite (GEM)
- sequencer. It also is a patch librarian, and allows you to take a
- "snapshot" of your MT-32 setup and save it to disk! No more time
- wasted trying to reconfigure the "mix" you spent so much time setting.
- You'll be able to restore any setup in seconds---even from within your
- sequencer! You'll also be able to access many otherwise inaccessable
- features of the MT-32, such as four different reverb types and
- individual tuning or transposing of parts! Color or mono. Docs
- included. STe compatible.
-
- PCSVIEW3 is the PhotoChrome Slideshow Utility by Douglas Little. This
- viewer will allow you to load in the fantastic .PCS pictures created by
- PhotoChrome 3 and display them on your STe. It will also load Degas
- Elite .PC1 and .TNY pictures (and the Ice-Packed versions of all
- three). This version will allow you to display from a hard drive
- instead of just drive A. Color only. ST/STe/TT compatible.
-
- PCS_PICS is three .PCS pictures converted from the GIF format to the
- new PhotoChrome standard. These pictures are fantastic! A glowing
- dragon, a transformed death mask of King Tut, and a mirror-finished
- robot viewing a TV show. This is only one file of the many .PCS
- pictures that were uploaded this week. PhotoChrome v.3 will run on any
- color ST/STe/TT and produces stunning pictures (though the .PCS files
- are only accessable when using an STe or better.
-
- SCHLBOOK is a 10pt and 12pt Century Schoolbook GDOS font for 300 dpi
- devices and mono 90 dpi monitor. The screen fonts are not optimized
- and rather ugly, but the printer fonts are very good looking. All
- accented and diacritical characters are present. It's good to see some
- GDOS fonts being produced again!
-
- SpaceWar: The Next Generation by Howard Jones (dated Nov. 1, 1992) is a
- modernised, colourful version of the classic (some say the first)
- computer game, SpaceWar! Spacewar is a space-combat simulation game in
- which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at
- each other and jumping through hyperspace to (hopefully!) avoid danger.
- It is also a fun two-player game. This version features a range of
- gadgets for the ships, not just hyperspace, variable gravity,
- lightsource shaded ships, a gravitating particle system, real
- inverse-square gravity (rather than some lesser non-newtonian gravity),
- sampled sound and a Duel mode. Excellent graphics. This game is going
- in my library. Color only, joystick controlled. Hard drive compatible
- (and it doesn't mess up your screen colors when you quit!). Any
- ST/STe.
-
- SPX_V17 is a picture viewer for .SPX pictures. .SPX stands for
- Spectrum Extended Picture Format. .SPX pictures are Spectrum 512
- Pictures that can be up to 10 screens high and they can also be 640
- pixels wide on an STe instead of the limited 320 Pixel width that the
- ST is.
-
- STalky v.0.8 by Paul Lefebvre (dated Dec. 14, 1992) is a desk accessory
- that gives STalker a type ahead buffer. The type ahead buffer is three
- lines and allows a total of 233 characters to be entered. ST/STe/TT
- compatible. Color or mono. Docs included.
-
- ST Sweep v. 2.0 by Bud Rasmussen (dated Dec. 5, 1992) is basically a
- directory/file manipulation program allowing access, to drives 'a' thru
- 'p', and any directory/file on these drives. The main options of STS
- are: Copy a file or copy all tagged files, Delete a file or delete all
- tagged files, Free space display on the current drive, Hex file
- display, Log to a new drive, Move a file or move all tagged files,
- Print a text file, Rename a file, Switch to a new directory, Tag a file
- or Tag all files, Untag a file or Untag all files, and View a text
- file. ST/STe/Mega STe compatible. Color or mono. Docs included.
-
- BLRUT19 is the B.L. Rasmussen's Utilities v.1.9 (dated Dec. 5, 1992).
- This is a series of 26 utilities that are usable on any ST (TOS
- 1.0-Mega STe) in any resolution. Copy, move, sort, display disk info.
- or compare disks and files, format disks, output data for the screen or
- to your printer, show free RAM, display key ASCII code values, a sector
- editor, and much much more. Docs included.
-
- TWKDEMO2 is a demo version of Tweak It! by Rich Hickey (dated 1988, but
- still supported as I know from talking with the author yesterday).
- Tweak It! is software that functions as a universal MIDI mixer and
- control panel. It provides a set of 16 'faders' for each of up to 17
- MIDI devices. These faders are user-definable. You can use them to
- transmit program changes, MIDI volume and other controller messages, as
- well as system exclusive messages for altering patch parameters. Some
- of the file functions have been disabled. Color or mono. ST/STe
- compatible. Extensive docs included.
-
- VWALKER is Vidi-Walker by Barry Summers is a vidi-digitized color .SEQ
- animation of the attack on one of those giant walker fighting machines
- from "The Empire Strikes Back. Created using the vidi digitizer and
- cyberpaint. The animation lasts about six seconds and is quite good.
- Use ANIMATE4.PRG to view.
-
- W9_374UP is the update patch for Warp 9. It will take your Warp 9
- v.3.73 and transform it to v.3.74. Thanks CodeHeads!
-
- W9_375UP is the update patch for Warp 9. It will take your Warp 9
- v.3.74 and transform it to v.3.75. Thanks AGAIN CodeHeads!
-
- ZNET9222 is the December 13, 1992 issue of Z*NET.
- (always read with avid attention!)
-
- Unfortunately, that's not all of the files I've downloaded this week.
- I've gotten 18 more! There's a lot out there. Grab your modem, log on
- and go for it!
-
- It's back to bed for me! Take care. May God bless.
-
- BIO: Michael lives in Niagara Falls, NY. He is a former Polyurethane
- Research Chemist and is presently the pastor of the Niagara Presbyterian
- Church.
-
-
-
- ###### SOFTWARE VERSIONS LISTING
- ###### Reprint Courtesy of AtariUser Magazine
- ###### ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- Use this list to see that you are using the newest release of these
- popular software packages for the ST/TT. Please help us (and you!) by
- forwarding corrections, additions, and updates to AtariUser, for NEXT
- time!
-
- 1st Card Logilex 1.2
- 1st Word ABC Solutions 3.2
- Arabesque Pro Gribnif 2.15
- Avant Vector CodeHead 1.2
- Calamus SL DMC 28.08.92
- Calamus DMC 1.09N*
- Calligrapher CodeHead 2.88/44
- CardFile 4 Gribnif 4.02
- Chronos Lexicor 1.3
- CodeHead Utilities CodeHead 4.0
- CodeKeys CodeHead 1.3
- Convector Pro Gribnif 1.00J
- Cubase Steinberg/Jones 3.015
- Cubeat Steinberg/Jones 2.0
- Crossword Crtr. II Fair Dinkum 1.07
- Cryptographer Fair Dinkum 1.01
- CyberDrome Fair Dinkum 1.01
- DB Man Versasoft 5.2
- DC Desktop Double Click 1.2H
- DC Data Diet Double Click 1.0A
- DC Shower Double Click 1.0E
- DC Utilities Double Click 2.0G
- Degas Elite Batteries Included 1.1*
- Diamond Edge Oregon Research 1.0
- Diamond Back II Oregon Research 2.5
- DynaCADD Ditek 2.04
- eSTeem PILOT eSTeem 2.0
- Flash II Missionware 2.01
- Fleet Street Pub. MichTron 3.0*
- G+Plus CodeHead 1.5
- G_MAN DragonWare 4.0
- Gemulater Branch Always 2.0
- Gemvelope Synergy Resources 2.9
- Genedit Barefoot (Hybrid Arts) 2.0
- Genus Font Editor CodeHead 1.85
- GFA BASIC GFA 3.6
- Glendale Show HACKS 6.0
- Hard Disk Accell. Beckemeyer Development 1.2
- Hard Disk Sentry Beckemeyer Development 1.3
- Hard Disk Toolkit Beckemeyer Development 3.20.1
- Highspeed Pascal Oregon Research 1.6
- HotWire CodeHead 3.0
- HyperLINK JMG Software 2.0
- ICD HD Boot ICD 6.0.4
- Interlink Intersect 1.85
- INVision Elite DMC 1.13
- Kidpainter D.A. Brumleve 2.3A
- Kidpublisher Pro D.A. Brumleve 6.4EB
- LDW Power II LDW 1.0
- LDW Power LDW 1.1*
- Lookit CodeHead 1.2
- lottODDS Missionware 1.1.0
- Mah-Jong Solitaire Cali-Co 3.0
- Mail-Pro High-Tech Advisers 4.11
- Master Drummer Zobozian 2.1
- MaxiFile III CodeHead 3.0
- MegaPaint Pro CodeHead 4.0*
- MIDIMax CodeHead 1.3
- Migraph OCR Migraph 1.1
- MTC Shell/VSH Beckemeyer Development 2.0
- MulltiDesk Deluxe CodeHead 3.4a
- Multiplay D.A. Brumleve 3.4B
- NeoChrome Atari 1.0
- NeoDesk 3 Gribnif 3.02
- Notator C-Lab/EMAGIC 3.01
- Omni-Banker (MIDI) Paradigm 1.6c
- PageStream SoftLogic 2.2
- Pha$ar Pacific Software 4.06*
- Pheonix 512 Lexicor 1.0
- PopIt CodeHead 1.1
- PowerDOS DragonWare 1.03
- PowerNet LAN DragonWare 1.07
- Prism Paint Lexicor 1.5b
- ProCopy Proco 1.8*
- Quick ST III Branch Always 3.4*
- QuickTools Branch Always 1.0*
- Rosetta Lexicor 1.0
- Sales-Pro High-Tech Advisers 6.2
- Satellite Locator DragonWare 1.0
- Seurat SKWare One 2.2
- Silhouette Maxwell CPU 1.37
- SMPTETrack Barefoot (Hybrid Arts) Platinum
- Spectre/GCR Gadgets by Small 3.0
- Spelling Sentry Wintertree Software 1.0
- ST TOS Atari 2.06
- Stalk the Market Quidnunc Software 2.0
- STalker 3 Gribnif 3.02
- STe TOS Atari 2.05
- STeno Gribnif 2.00
- Straight Fax Joppa 1.6
- Sudden View Sudden, Inc. 1.0
- Super Kidgrid D.A. Brumleve 1.6
- Superbase Pro Oxxi 3.0
- Telegram D.A. Brumleve 2.5
- TouchUp MiGraph 1.8
- Tracker/ST Step Ahead Software 3.04
- TT TOS Atari 3.06
- TurboST SoftTrek 1.8*
- UIS III Application and Design 3.3
- Ult. Virus Killer Oregon Research 5.5
- Warp 9 CodeHead 3.73
- Word Search Crtr. Fair Dinkum 1.05
- WordPerfect WordPerfect 4/91*
- WordUp NeoCept 3.0*
- WordWriter Timeworks 2.0*
- XBoot III Gribnif 3.00
-
- * Indicates that this is expected to be the final version to be
- supported.
-
-
-
- ###### CDROM/MULTIMEDIA TITLE AND HARDWARE VENDORS
- ###### From Optical Publishing Association
- ###### ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- This list is provided as a public service only. OPA neither endorses
- nor guarantees the performance of these companies in any way.
-
-
- There have been requests for a list of vendors from whom CDROM
- publications are available. This list has been compiled in an effort to
- meet this need. If you have dealt with other dealers not on the list,
- please let me know and they will be included on the next iteration.
-
- These vendors focus on CDROM titles and some also hardware and related
- products. Many of the standard computer product mail-order houses (such
- as PC Warehouse and Mac Warehouse) are beginning to stock a limited
- inventory of CDROM products and they are worth a look as well. And
- increasing numbers (as many as 4000 outlets around North America) of
- computer and software stores, and other outlets, now carry CDROM
- products on their shelves, in addition to these mail order sources.
-
- VENDORS:
- Every effort has been made to assure the accuracy of this information,
- but mistakes are inevitable. If information listed here about your
- company is incorrect, incomplete or missing, please let me know ASAP.
- Also please include 800 phone numbers and your CompuServe address,
- AppleLink ID etc.
-
- Rich Bowers - OPA 71700,3404
- ---------------------------------
- CDROM Title Vendors
-
- BetaCorp Technologies Inc.
- 6770-40 Davand Dr.
- Mississauga ON L5T 2G3 Canada
- Contact: John Bechtel
- 416/564-2424 416/564-2432 (fax)
-
- Better Business Systems
- 7949 Woodley Ave.
- Van Nuys CA 91406
- 800/829-9991, 818/373-7250, 818/376-1581 (fax)
-
- Bureau of Electronic Publishing
- 141 New Road
- Parsippany NJ 07054
- Contact: Larry Schiller
- 800/828-4766, 201/808-2700, 201/808-2676 (fax)
- CompuServe 71261,3345
-
- CD-I (Philips hotline) (Basic CD-I info and nearby dealers)
- 800/532-6363
-
- CD Marketing Corporation
- 1200 Valley West Dr., Suite 120
- West Des Moines IA 50265
- 515/223-1230, 314/394-8685, 515/223-7749 (fax)
-
- CD ROM Inc.
- 1667 Cole Blvd., Suite 400
- Golden CO 80401
- Contact: Roger Hutchison
- 800/821-5245, 303/231-9373, 303/231-9581 (fax)
- CompuServe: 71174,2463
-
- The CD-ROM Source
- 5454 E. Fall Creek Pkwy.
- Indianapolis IN 46220
- 317/541-0222
-
- CD Xpress
- London England
- Conatct: Mushtaq Ahmed
- +44 (0)81 514 2741
- CompuServe: 100021,2631
-
- Compact Disk Products
- 272 Route 34
- Aberdeen NJ 07747
- 908/290-0048, 908/290-8087 (fax)
-
- Compton's NewMedia
- 722 Genevieve, Suite M
- Solana Beach CA 92075-9846
- 800/532-3766, 619/793-4813 (fax)
-
- Computability Consumer Electronics
- PO Box17882
- Milwaukee WI 53217
- 800/558-0003, 414/357-8181
-
- Computron Ltd.
- 7874 N. Lincoln Ave.
- Skokie IL 60077
- Contact: Frank Harris
- 708/982-5144 ext 2, 708/675-6286
- CompuServe: 76106,3221
-
- Consumer Products
- 6913 18th Avenue Suite 190
- Brooklyn, NY 11204
- 718-641-9493
-
- DAK Industries Inc.
- 8200 Remmet Ave.
- Canoga Park CA 91304
- 800/DAK-0800, 800/888-7808, 818/888-8220, 800/888-9818 (tech support),
- 800/888-6703 (TDD), 818/888-2837 (fax)
-
- EBSCO Electronic Information
- 447 Old Boston Road, Suite 11
- Topsfield MA 01983
- Contact: Tim Collins
- 508/887-6667
-
- EDUCORP Computer Services
- 7434 Trade St.
- San Diego CA 92121-2410
- 800/843-9497, 619/536-9999, 619/536-2345 (fax)
-
- Ellis Enterprises Inc.
- 4205 McAuley Blvd. #385
- Oklahoma City OK 73120
- 800/729-9500, 405/749-0273, 405/751-8096 (BBS), 405/751-5168 (fax)
-
- ERM Electronic Liquidators
- 37 Washington St.
- Melrose MA 02176
- Contact: Bob Simons
- 617/662-9363, 617/665-4856 (fax)
-
- Erwin Computers
- Cherry Hills NJ
- Contact: David Chen
- 609/751-6330, 609/751-1415 (fax)
-
- Euro - CD
- 13 Cite Voltaire
- 75011 Paris FRANCE
- Contact: Christian Delacourt
- +33 1 40 09 80 30, +33 1 43 67 00 38 (fax)
-
- GROUPWARE
- 7902 27th. St. W. #7A
- Tacoma WA 98466
- Contact: Ismail Arslangiray
- 800/373-0628 (Orders Only), 206/565-1735, 206/588-1588 (fax)
- CompuServe: 70274,423
-
- Highsmith Co., Inc.
- PO Box 800
- Fort Atkinson WI 53538-0800
- Contact Robert Cuellar
- 414/563-9571, 414/563-7395 (fax)
-
- Insight Software
- 1912 W. 4th St.
- Tempe AZ 85281
- 800/998-8037, 602/350-1155
-
- Light Years Ahead
- PO Box 561
- Wahroonga NSW 2076 Australia
- Contact: Ian Eastman
- +61 2 477-6666, +61 2 477-6655 (fax)
-
- Max Systems (Mr. CD-ROM)
- 123 S. Woodland St.
- Winter Garden FL 34787
- 800/444-MRCD, 407/877-3807, 407/877-3834 (fax)
-
- Maya Computer
- Waitfield VT 05673
- 802/496-6982, 802/496-8110 (fax)
-
- Micromedia Limited
- 158 Pearl St.
- Toronto ON M5H 1L3
- 416/593-5211, 416/593-1760 (fax)
-
- MPC Marketing Council
- (list of certified hardware products and CDROM titles)
- 202/452-1600
-
- The Multimedia Publishing Studio (IBM)
- 4111 Northside Parkway
- Atlanta GA 30327-2150
- 800/995-9999, 404/238-2102 (fax)
-
- New Media Source
- 3830 Valley Centre Dr., Suite 2153
- San Diego CA 92130
- 800/344-2621, 619/438-2330 (fax)
-
- PC CompNet
- 2060 Emery Ave., Suite 215
- La Habra CA 90631
- 800/524-3811, 310/947-9878, 310/947-1131 (fax)
-
- PC Info Systems
- PO Box 23591
- Columbus OH 43223
- 614/276-5736
-
- PCJ Computers
- 323 Tennessee Nursery Blvd.
- Cleveland TN 37311
- Contact: Douglas Carpenter
- 615/339-0235
-
- Pinnacle Micro
- 19 Technology
- Irvine CA 92718
- 800/366-3632, 714/727-3300
-
- Profit Press
- 2956 N. Campbell Ave.
- Tucson AZ 85719
- 800/843-7990
-
- Public Software Library (PSL)
- 5925 Kirby Dr., Suite 209
- Houston TX 77005
- Contact: Nelson Ford
- 800/242-4PSL, 713/524-6394, 713/524-6398 (fax)
- CompuServe: 71355,470
-
- QB Products
- 1260 Karl Ct.
- Wauconda IL 60084
- 708/487-3333
- Comment: Specializes in CDROM caddies
-
- ROM-BO
- 1300 Mohawk Blvd.
- Springfield OR 97477
- 800/533-DISK, 503/744-2656, 503/726-7413 (fax)
-
- Sole Source Systems
- 8248 #B Ronson Rd.
- San Diego CA 92111
- 619/467-0661, 619/467-0666 (BBS), 619/467-0665
-
- Super Computer Products
- 6415 Vineland Rd.
- Orlando FL 32819
- 407/352-1228
-
- Telemart
- 8804 N. 23rd Ave.
- Phoenix AZ 85021
- 800/821-2033, 602/944-3045
-
- TigerSoftware Inc.
- 800 Douglas Entrance, Penthouse
- Coral Gables FL 33134
- 800/955-1888, 305/529-3333, 305/444-5010 (fax)
-
- Todd Enterprises Inc.
- 224-49 67th Ave.
- Bayside NY 11364
- 718/343-1040, 718/343-9180 (fax)
-
- UNI-ROM
- 5694 Mission Center #449
- San Diego CA
- Contact: Mike Drummond
- 619/279-1139, 619/561-4253 (fax), 619/279-4774 (BBS)
- CompuServe: 72540,1444
-
- UPDATA Publications Inc.
- 1736 Westwood Blvd.
- Los Angeles CA 90024
- 800/882-2844, 310/474-5900, 213/474-4095
-
- UP FRONT Multimedia Inc.
- 13659 Victory Blvd., #123
- Van Nuys CA 91401
- 818/782-3683, 818/782-4411 (fax)
-
-
-
- ###### THE Z*NET COMPUTER CALENDAR 1992-1993
- ###### Schedule of Shows, Events and Online Conferences
- ###### ----------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- ### December 20, 1992
- Eugene, Oregon. Atari SWAP MEET planned at the GATEWAY MALL MEETING
- PLACE. The hours have not been finalized yet but tentively they will be
- 10am - 5pm. There may be a small admission fee this year (no more than
- $1.00) and there may be a table fee.
-
-
- ### December 24-25, 1992
- Christmas 1992! Spend time with your loved ones! Hope you bought an
- Atari product for your favorite person!
-
-
- ### December 31/January 1,1993
- New Years Eve, New Years Day! Happy New Year! Make those resolutions
- stick this time around!
-
-
- ### January 6-9, 1993
- MacWorld Expo in San Fransisco California, Sponsored by MacWorld
- Magazine. Titled San Fransisco '93 at the Moscone Center.
-
-
- ### January 12-14, 1993
- Networld '93 in Boston, Massachusettes
-
-
- ### January 7-10, 1993
- The Winter Consumer Electronics Show comes to Las Vegas, Nevada. CES is
- an electronic playground, with everything in the way of high tech toys
- for kids and adults. Game consoles and hand-held entertainment items
- like the Atari Lynx are big here, and Atari will attend with a hotel
- suite showroom. Contact Atari Corp for more information on seeing their
- display at 408-745-2000.
-
-
- ### January 15-18, 1993
- NAMM is the largest conclave of musicians each year. Held in Los
- Angeles at the Anaheim Convention Center, the variety of sights at the
- National Association of Music Merchandisers is wilder than at
- Disneyland, just next door. Atari was the first computer manufacturer
- to ever display at NAMM in 1987, and has become a standard at the shows.
- A trade show for music stores, distributors, and professionals of every
- strata, entertainers are seen everywhere at NAMM. Contact James Grunke
- at Atari Corp for more information at 408-745-2000.
-
-
- ### February 2-4, 1993
- ComNet '93 in Washington, DC.
-
-
- ### March 1993
- CeBIT, the world's largest computer show with 5,000 exhibitors in 20
- halls, is held annually in Hannover, Germany. Atari traditionally
- struts its newest wares there, usually before it's seen in the USA or
- anywhere else. In '93, the Atari 040 machines should be premiering, and
- this is the likely venue. Third party developers also use this show to
- introduce new hardware and software, so expect a wave of news from CeBIT
- every year. Atari Corp and the IAAD coordinate cross-oceanic contacts
- to promote worldwide marketing of Atari products, and this show is an
- annual touchstone of that effort. Contact Bill Rehbock at Atari Corp
- for information at 408-745-2000.
-
-
- ### March 13-14, 1993
- The Sacramento Atari Computer Exposition is to be sponsored by the
- Sacramento Atari ST Users Group (SST) at the Towe Ford Museum in
- Sacramento, California. This show replaces the earlier scheduled, then
- cancelled Northern California Atari Fest for the Bay Area, to have been
- held in December 1992. A major two day effort, the SAC show is being
- held in the special events area of the Towe Ford Museum, home of the
- worlds most complete antique Ford automobile collection. As an added
- bonus, admission to the museum is free when you attend the Expo. The
- museum is located at the intersection of Interstates 5 and 80, just 15
- minutes from the Sacramento Metropolitan Airport. Contact Nick Langdon
- (Vendor Coordinator) C/O SST, P.O. Box 214892, Sacramento, CA 95821-
- 0892, phone 916-723-6425, GEnie: M.WARNER8, ST-Keep BBS (SST) 916-729-
- 2968.
-
-
- ### March 20, 1993
- Philadelphia, PA area group PACS is holding their 16th annual Computer
- Festival from 9 AM til 4 PM. It will be a multi-computer show with
- Atari showings by the PACS Atari SIG's, NEAT, CDACC, and JACS clubs.
- The Fest is to be at the Drexel University Main Building, 32nd and
- Chestnut Streets in Pennsylvania. Contact for Atari display: Alice P.
- Christie, 207 Pontiac Street, Lester, PA 19029, 215-521-2569, or 215-
- 951-1255 for general info.
-
-
- ### March 21-24, 1993
- Interop Spring '93 in Washington DC.
-
-
- ### August 3-6, 1993
- MacWorld Expo at the Boston World Trade Center, Bayside Exposition
- Center and sponsored by MacWorld Magazine. This event is titled Boston
- '93.
-
-
- ### September 18-19, 1993
- The Glendale Show returns with the Southern California Atari Computer
- Faire, V.7.0, in suburban Los Angeles, California. This has been the
- year's largest domestic Atari event, year after year. Contact John King
- Tarpinian at the user group HACKS at 818-246-7286 for information.
-
-
- ### September 20-22, 1993
- The third MacWorld Expo, titled Canada '93 at the Metro Toronto
- Convention Centre, sponsored by MacWorld Magazine.
-
-
- ### September 21-23, 1993
- Unix Expo '93 in New York City, New York.
-
-
- If you have an event you would like to include on the Z*Net Calender,
- please send email vai GEnie to Z-NET, CompuServe 75300,1642, or via
- FNET to node 593 or AtariNet node 51:1/13.0
-
-
- # # #
- **--DELPHI SIGN-UP--** **--GENIE SIGN-UP--**
- ============================|============================
- To sign up for DELPHI call | To sign up for GENIE call
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