TGR Updates¢-----------¢¢I came across the idea of updating early editions of TGR about a month ago. I suggested the idea to Alias Maximus and asked what he thought. He said it'd be a good idea and I agreed with him. It will be a bit sad to lose the virginal, unsoiled freshness of the original TGR's but overall, I think it's worth it. It'll also stop me cringing whenever anyone requests a copy of an early TGR!¢ I wanted to update issues 01-09 and add the following to each issue.¢¢1) Use the new doc displayer that outputs to printer in 80 columns and allows you to change the screen colour.¢2) The main menu can have the original Atari font re-instated by simply pressing SELECT.¢3) Machine code files load directly from the main menu.¢4) Spelling mistakes and punctuation errors will hopefully be eradicated.¢¢At the time of writing I have updated TGR 01-05 and it's take me a VERY long time. For example, I constantly worked at updating TGR 01 and 02 over two days. One day I worked on them from 6pm-2am (I even missed Coronation Street!) and the next day (same, actually) I started at 10am and finished at 4pm (this was the day issue 64 of 'New Atari User' arrived). You may think this is a long time on simple updates but I suppose (cue conceited Scottish accent) I'm a bit of a perfectionist!¢ Apart from the above, each issue has also has other extra's:¢¢TGR 01: Now in enhanced density and has the games 'Battle Star' and 'Think + Work' added.¢TGR 02: No longer writes to the disk when accessing the extra files. The game 'Cecil II' has also been added.¢TGR 03: The extra files are immediately accessible by holding OPTION whilst booting (as norm). Thus, 'Discomm 3' has been replaced with 'Xagon'.¢TGR 04: The game 'Laser Duell' has been added.¢TGR 05: No additions!¢¢This is where it gets difficult because TGR's following 05 are usually full up and the new doc displayer uses 11 sectors more than the old one. I don't know where I'll find the free sectors!¢¢To recognise an updating TGR is simple. Boot the BASIC menu and if the message 'TGR xx - ver II' appears then you have an updated menu. Also, space permitting, there will be an UPDATE doc on the disk.¢¢I desperately hope you think it's been worthwhile doing the TGR updates. Hopefully this commitment of mine will prove that, with your help, TGR is here to stay and will continue supporting the Atari 8-bit as long as people want it too.¢¢John E. (TEBSF)¢
