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- = A GREAT MORNING/AFTERNOON/EVENING/NIGHT TO YOU! =======================
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- Good day and a sincerely warm welcome to "ST NEWS" Volume 9 Issue 2, the
- second 1994 issue, the tenth Undead One and the 37th in total. This warm
- welcome is probably quite literal, after all it's summer and I've been as
- insane so as to finish this issue in it. Most likely you will have waited
- until after the summer before you read this, but there might still be
- some warmth around anyway.
- I think "ST NEWS" is once more filled with jolly nice things, some of
- them interesting to all and some interesting to a select few. But an
- overall interesting issue nonetheless. If you disagree, you're welcome to
- start some sort of polemic conversation with me (or, better, write
- some really interesting articles yourself)!
- Below you will find some more details concerning this issue (like how to
- copy it and what's in it).
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- Have fun reading,
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- Richard Karsmakers
- a.k.a. Cronos
- of the Amazing Cracking Conspiracy (ACC)
- of the Quartermass Experiment (QX)
- (Editor)
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- = WHAT'S IN IT, HECK? ===================================================
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- Yes, indeed, what may be found here? Below you will find a summary of
- some of the most important bits, the CAPITALIZED parts of which PD
- library owners are invited to use in their catalogues.
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- INTERVIEWS WITH THE CREME OF HUMANITY - YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, SIETSE
- "SLIMER" POSTMA, SLEAZY P. MARTINI OF GWAR, STUART COATES, NAPALM DEATH,
- ANNE "DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN" MCCAFFREY, OBITUARY, DAN "NEODESK" WILGA,
- ENTOMBED, AND MANY MORE!
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- When I finished the previous "ST NEWS" I was afraid it might never be
- possible to beat that issue's interview section. Well, I was wrong. And I
- pray to god (whom I believe most zealously doesn't exist) the next issue
- will be even better.
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- A TOTALLY REVISED AND UTTERLY EXTENDED DISK MAGAZINE ROUNDUP!
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- This has been bombarded to a pseudo-regular column, which will be
- featured approximately annually. Compared to its previous occurrence it
- has yet again been enhanced significantly, now offering well over *100*
- disk-based publications mentioned.
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- THE BIGGEST CHEAT-YOUR-GROIN-OFF CHEAT CODE & PASSWORDS LISTING EVER!
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- Containing more cheat codes and passwords than ever before assembled in
- any publication. Apart from literally hundreds of regular cheat codes you
- will find lots of Lynx ones and even some for the Jag.
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- ADVENTURE SOLUTIONS: "THE COLONEL'S BEQUEST", "SEX VIXENS FROM OUTER
- SPACE", "DREAMZONE", "BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE" AND MORE!
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- Why wait for multiple (or 'stranger') aeons until another magazine
- chucks out the odd tip on your favourite adventure that you've been stuck
- on ever since the week after you bought it? "ST NEWS" has offered
- solutions to almost *all* ST adventures and quite an enormous lot of PC
- ones as well. You need look no further; check out the "Adventure
- Solutions Index". If your favourite adventure's not in there then there's
- quite a chance it's not actually an adventure.
- By now, Math might actually have grown a beard. Haven't heard from him
- in a while.
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- A PERSONAL AND IN-DEPTH INVOLVED EYE-WITNESS REPORT TO THE HALF-CENTURY
- "D-DAY" ANNIVERSARY BY FRENCH 2ND LIEUTENANT KLAUS BERG!
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- REPORTS FROM SOME OF EUROPE'S BIGGEST FESTIVALS!
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- Including Dynamo Open Air, Pinkpop, Waldrock and Roskilde!
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- LITERARY BITS!
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- Including the not-very-long-awaited "Oh Yeah" part 3 - "The Third
- Encounter of a Close Kind". And more that's probably a lot better, such
- as "North" and "Legacy of the Howling".
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- REVIEWS OF THE ATARI JAGUAR (GAMES CONSOLE), "ST HANDBOOK" (RAG),
- "SLEEPWALKER" (STE GAME), "IMAGECOPY 3" (UTILITY), CASPIAN SOFTWARE'S
- "ROCK 'N ROLL CLAMS" (GAME), "TEMPEST 2000" (JAGUAR GAME) AND MORE!
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- UNBELIEVABLY HOT NEWS ABOUT FORTHCOMING MUSIC AND FILMS!
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- AN EVEN MORE COMPLETE FALCON SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITY LIST!
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- Now you can see for yourself what old and recent stuff doesn't work on
- the Falcon and, vastly more important, what *does*. It is probably the
- most complete list of its kind, and trustworthy too; much of this stuff
- is from my own experience.
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- = NOTES ABOUT COPYING ===================================================
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- I will be brief. Just like the 36 prior issues, "ST NEWS" is about as
- Public Domain as you can get. Spread it, copy it, sell it (as CHEAP as
- possible please), I don't mind. It is important that as many people as
- possible get this issue, so give it to a friend for his/her birthday! In
- case you're the owner of a Public Domain library, you are much encouraged
- to include it in that. I need NO royalties. This is NO licenseware. You
- can keep whatever profit you make yourself.
- The disk format is:
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- Tracks : 0-80 (that's one extra)
- Sectors per track : 11 (that's hyper-formatted)
- Number of sides : 2 (would have done 3 if only it were possible)
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- You can copy it with just about any modern disk copier (though Martin
- Backschat's "FastCopy" would be a most excellent choice (free plug
- there)). And anyway, it's not *how* you copy it that's important, as long
- as you *do* copy it, possible in the *largest* numbers!
- Be wise and steer clear of expensive PD libraries. And please send a
- donation now and again if you've enjoyed our efforts. I have received one
- donation (hi Marinos!) in the last three years or something.
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- = NOTES ABOUT COMPATIBILITY =============================================
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- Atari (MEGA) ST(E): "ST NEWS" runs on all systems, including those with
- 512 Kb memory (though 1 Mb minimum would be nice, and
- better). Graphic cards are not supported. Please use
- medium or high resolution only.
- Atari TT : "ST NEWS" has been tested on a TT and works when
- launched from either ST medium or ST high resolution.
- Atari Falcon 030 : "ST NEWS" runs smoothly from any 80-column VGA/RGB/TV
- resolution with the exception of "VGA with double
- line on and 2 colours" or "TV/RGB non-interlaced with
- 2 colours" (in which cases it will bomb). Any 40-
- column resolution (including ST low resolution
- compatibility mode) will cause all GEM and VDI draw
- commands to be limited to the left half of the
- screen. Also, the file selector needed to specify an
- ASCII/WP file to be written is usually coloured
- wrongly and drawn partly off the screen due to GEM
- not being properly re-initialised. Any suggestions on
- how to fix these problems?
- Keeping [ALTERNATE] pressed during booting on a
- Falcon with VGA monitor connected will cause the
- program to use ST high resolution mode instead of ST
- medium (among other things, this slows down the
- scroller).
- "ST NEWS" hasn't yet been tested on a Falcon with
- SM124/5 monochrome monitor. If you can test this,
- please let me know the result.
- GEMulator : "ST NEWS" works with it, as long as you have the
- music turned off.
- MultiTOS : "ST NEWS" will not work with MultiTOS. Please disable
- it.
- Warp 9 : Exiting "ST NEWS" may freeze the system with "Warp 9"
- active. This can be fixed by adding the line
- "ST_NEWS.PRG s0 b0 j0" (turn screen accelerator,
- mouse block and mouse jump off) in the "WARP.DAT"
- automatic configuration file.
- BlowUp 030 : Exiting "ST NEWS" will cause a return to a distorted
- screen. This is likely to happen with most extended
- screen resolution drivers, including "ScreenBlaster".
- Please disable them. Does anyone know a solution?
- Disk drives : There are a few (very few) disk drives that can't
- handle 11 sectors per track. I am very sorry, but I
- would use a smaller format if I could. There's too
- much stuff I want to put in "ST NEWS" but not quite
- enough simply to increase the frequency of its
- appearance, and I *never* want to start using TWO
- disks. Maybe, one day when everybody has HD drives, I
- will switch to HD disks.
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- (UNLIKE "MAGGIE", NO LATEST NEWS SNIPPETS TO BE FOUND HERE <GRIN>)
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