¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ Editor's Message¢¢ Welcome to another Ol' Hackers¢ Newsletter disk. All of the programs¢ on this disk have come from 1989¢ issues of A.N.A.L.O.G Magazine.¢¢ On Side 1, the program that runs from¢ the spacebar is TXCRUNCH.BAS. It¢ will remind you of several well-known¢ games. It's also a game that should¢ play rather intuitively. You will¢ also see UNIVERT.BAS, a unit¢ converter. I tried this one only¢ briefly, and I know that it can¢ convert from English to English,¢ metric to metric AND English to¢ metric and metric to English units.¢ You will see SNOWPLOW.OBJ on this¢ side of the disk. If you copy¢ SNOWPLOW. OBJ to another disk, be¢ sure you also copy over SNOW.PT1¢ through SNOW.PT5. SNOWPLOW.OBJ is a¢ very interesting game. You will be¢ driving a snowplow and trying to¢ avoid obvious obstacles, but you will¢ also, at times, be driving blind.¢ When you are blind, some interesting¢ other features will make their¢ presence known. CLOWN.OBJ is another¢ enjoyable game. Please read all of¢ the text articles accessible from the¢ menu on this side of the disk. There¢ have been changes in the meeting¢ dates and the e-mail addresses of our¢ members. TOM ANDREWS has contributed¢ an article that's superb, too.¢¢ On Side 2, the program that runs from¢ the spacebar is SKYRISER.BAS.¢ Although this is a two-player game,¢ it can be played by one quite¢ successfully. It's quite¢ challenging. Also on Side 2, look¢ for MANDELBT.BAS. This program¢ creates fractal images and is one of¢ the best I've seen. The files, MAN1,¢ MAN2 and MAN3 are examples and can be¢ loaded from the program.¢¢ There have been many reviews of the¢ World of Atari '98 show. Five of¢ them are on this side as WOA98.ARC.¢ You will have to unArc them, so I've¢ also included UNARC.COM, but please¢ be sure to unArc them to a separate¢ disk! I've compressed those articles¢ because the emphasis in all of them¢ is on video games, not on computing.¢ Otherwise, I would have made them¢ text files to read from the menu.¢ Note that several of them are¢ copyrighted and must be reprinted in¢ their entirety. Also note that they¢ were all originally HTML documents on¢ Web sites and that I had to take out¢ the HTML formatting and substitute¢ some of the special symbols so that¢ 8-bit Atarians could print them out¢ without problems. They are straight¢ ASCII files once they are unArc'd.¢¢ Please read the text articles from¢ the menu on this side, too. There's¢ at least one new feature to explore.¢¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢¢
