¢ATARI 8-BIT NEWS¢by Stuart J. Murray¢¢¢* It's show time again! All Micro Show 7 (AMS7) is to be held again at the Bingley Hall in Stafford, England. The date to note in your diary is Saturday 13th November.¢¢ The good news is that there will be a NOSAUG stand at the show! Yes, we'll be making the 1000 mile round-trip to offer Futura and NOSAUG PD disks and cassettes to the British Atari 8-Bit community. Hopefully, there will also be a few bargains on offer! I'm looking forward to meeting Futura subscribers. If you're going to the show please let me know.¢¢ I'll be sending off the payment to Sharward Services at the end of September. Look out for further details in Futura issue 9.¢¢¢¢* Dean Garraghty is importing Power Per Post (PPP) products from Germany. The programming language 'Quick' is available for 12.95 including P&P. The Quick Ed Character Editor is 4.95. Screen Aided Management (another SAM!) is an 80col desktop priced at 12.95. Finally, three PPP games are also available: Minesweeper, Glaggs It! and the excellent Rubber Ball for 4.95 each or 12.50 for all three.¢¢ There will soon be a Quick Support Disk featuring source code and tutorials translated from Quick magazine. The price will be 4.95.¢¢ In a recent letter, Dean has informed me that sales of his PPP products, "can only be described as pathetic!" He goes on to say,¢¢ "The German publishers are not happy, and are reluctant to spend time translating new products because sales of existing ones are so poor."¢¢ This is very disappointing and reflects the current state of the British economy! I'd love to order a copy of SAM but have to save my cash at the moment in order to fund the stand and trip to AMS7. Other 8-Bit users have similar financial commitments! Anyway, let's hope that sales increase soon. Dean can be contacted at: DGS, 62 Thomson Avenue, Balby, Doncaster, DN4 0NU.¢¢¢¢* Look out for another new column by yours truly in the next issue of Page 6 New Atari User. Send 2.50 pounds to: Page 6, P.O.Box 54, Stafford ST16 1DR.¢¢¢¢* The release date for Brundles will be the last week in August. Derek Fern (021-353-5730) is currently accepting advance orders and promises not to bank any cheques until the product is ready for despatch. The price is a whopping 15 pounds plus 75p P&P! It'll be interesting to see how much the game is selling for in Germany.¢¢¢¢* Peter Mattock (0375-374280) has recently informed me that he has a number of disk drives for sale. The prices (including P&P) are as follows:¢¢Atari 810 with Archiver - 50 pounds.¢Atari 1050 - 70 pounds.¢Atari 1050 with Tripler Board (1050, US Doubler & Happy) - 80 pounds.¢¢ When you consider that Derek Fern is currently selling standard 1050's for 100 pounds, these prices are exceptional value for money. Peter also offers a short-term guarantee on all his drives to make sure they arrive in full working order.¢¢ He also mentioned in the passing that he repairs XE keyboards for only 10 pounds. Although he could not guarantee a successful repair, he did state that his success rate has been very high.¢¢ Well done Peter! True support for 8-Bit users! If you have any hardware problems just give Peter a call and mention my name.¢¢¢¢* The Atari Classic Programmer's Club (ACPC) is an exciting new project run by David Davies from Gwynedd. Services offered include design evaluation, graphics/sound production, de-bugging and software publishing. Members also have access to the ACPC Helpline; an information service for 8-Bit programmers. UK membership to ACPC is only 3.50 for six months, 6.00 for twelve months or 12.00 for lifetime. Also included in this price is a regular newsletter containing news, reviews and lots of programming tips. The Intro Newsletter is out now and is very good (26 pages).¢¢ ACPC also plan to commercially release new Atari 8-Bit software on disk and cassette! Menu Print Elite will be the first release (November 1993). It is described as "the complete Atari 8-Bit disk cataloguing system". The price will be 9.95 (disk only).¢¢ We at NOSAUG would like to wish David the very best of luck with the ACPC project. Well done David - the Atari 8-Bit is indeed alive and kicking!¢¢ Why not show ACPC some support and send 3.50 for a six-month membership? Send to: ACPC, Pen-Tyddyn, Capel Coch, LLangefni, Anglesey, Gwynedd LL77 7UR (payable to D.W.Davies).¢¢¢¢That's all the news for now!¢¢¢Stu.¢
