The Grim Reaper issue 09 May 1993¢---------------------------------¢¢Hello again all and welcome to issue 09 of TGR. Sorry about this being released halfway through May but like I've said in the TGR Info, TGR will only be released when it is complete! I will not fill up the disk with sub-standard PD or text files stolen from elsewhere. That is not TGR policy and never will be!¢ Did any of you see Stuart Murray's remarks in Futura 6? I must pick Stuart up on a number of points that he made.¢ Calling me a hypocrite was just silly as I was condemning the fact that the disks were being sold as PD NOT THE ACTUAL COPYING OF THE DISKS!¢ Also Stuart claims "Both myself and the contact [who he received 'Barkonid' and 'Phantastic Journey' from] believed these disks to be in the public domain."¢ Hmmm. Rather strange that seeing as it was this exact contact who had them passed on to me for de-protecting. The contact wanted the disks to have the protection removed so that he could copy them and send them out to his contacts. I agreed to remove the protection because the games were not available in Britian and probably never would be. I know the name of the person who sent Stuart the disks but I don't think he should be dragged into the quagmire that Stuart Murray (or 'Slippery Stu' - He'll blame it on you, as he's been affectionately called here at TGR HQ) has created for himself.¢ Also (there's more?) I would like to know how Stuart knows about games like 'Trix', 'Miecze Valdgira' and 'Kult'. All of which have been mentioned in the pages of Futura and have yet to be released commercially in Britain. Could 'Halo Stu' have pirated these titles? NO! Surely not!¢ I'm extremely sorry that it has come to this stage but Stu's attitude of "It couldn't be my fault" is totally out of order. Admit it Mr.Murray - you made a MAJOR boob in allowing the disks into your PD Library.¢ Of course whoever is reading this may not have gotten a copy of Futura 6 yet. If not then send off for it or get it from your local PD library and my rantings may make a little sense!¢ Actually, funnily enough, the only main bit of news in the Atari circle is that Futura is going to become a subscription only disk-mag (though how Stuart plans to protect the disk is beyond me). I wonder if Page 6 will now take the same attitude towards Futura as they do News-Disk? Totally ignoring it because the PD Library the editor runs is a major threat to theirs? Time will tell, I suppose.¢ OK! Any contributions please? Bought a new game? How about writing a review? Got a good idea for an article - how about writing it and sending it? And what about a 'Your Page' - they are not hard to do! Please think about contributing something to TGR else the waits between each issue will get longer! I can't offer you anything financially because I don't make a penny from TGR and I don't wish too. I enjoy doing TGR and, with more contributors, will continue doing so. Please do think about it.¢ I think you should all know that I am writing this whilst in terrible pain, having just got released from hospital yesterday (though rumours that I'm about to change my name to 'Jewish John' are completely unfounded). The minute I was well enough to think straight, my first thought was 'The Grim Reaper'. If I can fight through the pain barrier for TGR then surely you can write something for it! Do you feel pretty bad now?¢ My many thanx to Ken, Alan and Spite for submitting something for this issue of TGR. It's appreciated guys!¢ TGR 10 will hopefully be double sided. Richard Gore put forward the idea of doing a double sided issue as a Christmas special but I rejected it because I didn't have the support. I still haven't the support but I'm hoping that may change.¢¢Thank you for copying this issue of TGR. Please help it on its way by sending it to all your contacts.¢¢John E. (TEBSF)¢*¢Updates¢-------¢¢A few updates for programs and articles.¢¢EDOS (TGR 04)¢¢I never did get a reply from EDOS or Byte Back and Alternative.¢¢US BOOTER! (TGR 05)¢¢This enables warp speed on Happy/Lazer drives and there's no need to copy the disk with ULTRASPEED SKEW ON to enable warp speed. Also, Spite informs me that if you load this before loading 'The Last Guardian' you are entered into the cheat mode. Anyone know what the legal cheat is?¢¢TWO FONTZ (TGR 05)¢¢Major mix up with this one. For a start RAMPTOP isn't lowered and thus the fonts aren't protected and this can cause corruption with a large program. Also when fixing the 'bug' I found out I'd reserved too much space for the fonts anyway! If you are going to use this program then I suggest the following amendments. If, though, your program uses less than 28k then chances are you will not need to make any of these changes.¢¢Modify line 0 so it reads¢¢ POKE 106,PEEK(106)-8¢¢Add this BEFORE the GRAPHICS 0¢¢Modify line 32751 to read¢¢ A=PEEK(106)¢¢this is simply remove the '-16'.¢¢Modify line 32754 to read¢¢ A=A+4¢¢originally it said '+8'.¢¢and modify line 32765 to read¢¢ POKE 756,PEEK(1798)-4¢¢which was originally '-8'.¢¢Now everything should work fine!¢
