AH YEAH! This is the ST NEWS final compendium, THE greatest collection of (sometimes only vaguely related) Atari ST oriented articles ever to appear on any medium on Earth. It is gigantic, it is huge, it is brilliant. First note: Since this is more or less the final issue, the Last Statement or the Definitive Deed, we have cast aside every last bit of modesty left in our beings. We are truly amazing, alltogether brilliant and superbly perfect. So be it. But let me get on with fulfilling the purpose of this README. It is ment to inform you, dear reader of the contents of these diskettes, how you can copy them and giving special messages to Gard, the Malevolent Mutantic Microbe, but that is a whole different story alltogether. The two diskettes you have now, contain exactly 1959283 bytes of classic ST NEWS articles that we have created so blissfully over the last couple of years. Amongst them are the two Quests (England and Norway) plus ALL Cronos Warchild stories that Richard has written, plus numerous other truly fantastic articles. Since all this information could never, ever fit on one disk, we have decided to put it on no less than TWO double-sided diskettes. Yes, two double sided diskettes filled with enough fun to keep you busy for a few months I figure. So how can you copy this enormously interesting piece of high-tech journalism? Well, the disks are unprotected and standard-format, so you might even succeed in copying them with the ST's desktop. But I can tell you that any decent copy-program can do a far better and faster job. Disk 1 contains the ST NEWS program (extremely skillfully programmed by Stefan Posthuma), the PROGRAMS folder and some articles (most of which have been expertly written by Richard Karsmakers). Disk 2 contains articles only and is asked for by ST NEWS when the time is there. The utterly exiting bootsectors have again been programmed by Stefan and virus killers and likewise programs will scream hell and blood about them because they are executable. Never mind, if you boot from the disk and a substantially grotesque ST NEWS message is displayed, it means that the disk is OK, and certainly virus-free. Rests me to say that as allways, ST NEWS is Public Domain, meaning Free, meaning that everybody can and MUST copy it. We will ask nothing of you. No money, no digital watches, no nothing. You could however, when you have finished being dumbfounded by the incredible vastness of this issue, write to us. Tell us about your Live. Tell us about the feelings you had when reading the Oh Yeah article. Tell us about It. Second note: The Oh Yeah article contains a lot of notes. Yes, before I forget. Once again, we have included a Hidden Article Quest in this issue. This time no password, or not a few easy questions. No way. This time we have included a full-blown Quest with over 30 multiple- choice questions. Questions about Live, Questions about Sex, Questions about ST NEWS, Questions about Bongs. If you complete this Quest successfully, you will be presented with the Hidden Article. This time featuring a load of crap about Ethics, Science, (Napalm) Death, Norwegians, Vulgar Poems and the most horrible songtext we could find, plus a nice surprise at the end. But no more about this. Find it yourself! Yes, I think the time has come now. At the horizon of this superb Readme dawns a message. It slowly comes nearer until it is fully readable in all its splendour: SPECIAL MESSAGE TO GARD Never before have I received a letter with such an insane envelope. I guess you must be the first to really create a CE, a Crazy Envelope. I think the Dutch Postal Service must have wondered what was inside. And again, you picture (this time topless, meaning Gard with his cranium removed by means of a scissor...sounds more terrible than it is actually) has pulled us through the dark times of ST NEWS bombing out on us. Fortunately, this didn't happen that much, since there aren't any demos in this issue (sorry folks, didn't have time) and no picture or other things that require special machine code or stuff. Again, your Tiny Being is forever engraved in our brain coils. Our gratitude is Enormous and may the Big Stork never come to collect you! DEATH TO YOU Death to you, brainless scum that dared to break into my car at March 12th, 1990. May you die slowly and painfully, may the vultures rip your flesh while you are in an agonizing death-struggle. May the cassettes you stole turn out get stuck in your cassette player and may your eardrums be eternally damaged by the heavy-metal contained on them. May you be gnawed away by a creeping disease, may you be cast into the deepest pits of Hell where Lucifer himself comes to you and feasts on your rotting corpse. May your soul haunt forever through the dark desolate underworld. May all your children be run over by trains and may your girlfriend be raped by a dozen skinheads. May your parents be chopped to pieces by a escaped lunatic and may all your friends die horribly in car and plane crashes. How did you dare to force the lock on my car and damage the door? Why did you think my radio was in there while it was safely in my room? Did you really think those tapes contained anything interesting? I hope one day to meet you, and then I will run you over with my car so many times that they'll need to scrape the remains off the road. May all the pets you have get rabies and bite your family. May your house collapse on you and your grandparents get heart attacks. Death to you! Sorry 'bout this folks, but I couldn't resist spilling my guts when I thought about my poor car being molested by a couple of brain-dead morons. I hope they get caught sometime and get thrown in jail. Well, no more talking, you have some ST NEWS reading to do. Stefan Posthuma ex-editor of ST NEWS