Welcome to the ____ / ___) *StarShip* 5-MINUTE Weekend Newscast / (_ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ / ___) / (__ very weekend the *StarShip* on GEnie presents a new 5-MINUTE Weekend (_____) Newscast in Communications Room 10 in the Real-Time Conference Area. Featuring late-breaking stories from the Amiga community, these dynamic, scrolling newscasts cycle every 5 minutes, so you can stop by between 6PM and 3AM Eastern time on Friday, or 3PM and 3AM Eastern time on Saturday or Sunday and learn everything that happened during the preceding week. Industry news, product announcements, upgrades, rumors, special *StarShip* activities, trade show reports, GEnie usage tips, humor, recommended files to download... ... the works -- and it ONLY takes 5 minutes! Each 5-MINUTE Weekend Newscast is available on *StarShip* Menu #10 during the following week. Periodically, newscasts are combined and made available for downloading from the *StarShip* Library. ____________________________________________________________ // \ || -*- IMPORTANT! -*- | || | || As long as individual stories are kept intact and credit | || is given, this material may be reproduced in ALL or PART | || on a privately owned BBS or in a user group newsletter. | || See wording for proper credit at the end of this Newscast. | \\____________________________________________________________/ || | || | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks to Denny Atkin, Editor, COMPUTE's Amiga Resource, for his generous input. Here we go!... DateLine: February 5, 1993 This 5-MINUTE Newscast presents the following stories: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Commodore U.S. Announces Significant Price Reductions 2. Creative Focus Ships New Amiga DeskJet Printer Driver 3. MicroMiga Announces New Amiga Publication 4. Next Week's *StarShip* Amiga Conferences 5. MicroBotics 12 A'Clock Realtime Clock/Calendar Expansion for A1200 6. MicroBotics' MBX 1200z and the A1200 -- A Winning Combo! 7. Soft-Logik HotLinks Developers Kit & Font/Clip Art Sale *StarShip* NEWS *Flash* 1st of 7 Stories Commodore U.S. Announces Significant Price Reductions ____ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ / ___) West Chester, PA --- February 1, 1993 / / / (__ (_____)ommodore Business Machines, Inc. today announced it has significantly reduced the U.S. Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) on several of its Amiga (R) series multimedia computers and peripherals. The substantial price reductions of up to 45% will affect the popular Amiga 2000, the powerful Amiga 3000T workstation series and the CD-ROM based, interactive CDTV (R) player. "In today's competitive environment affordability is a key factor when computer buying decisions are being made. While Commodore has long been recognized as a price performance leader, these pricing moves will keep us forefront in the minds of decision makers," said Geoffrey Stilley, vice president of sales. "The new lower prices of the Amiga 2000 and 3000 series machines, combined with their powerful features and flexibility, will strengthen Commodore's position within the demanding multimedia marketplace." The attached page lists the products affected by the price reductions. The original MSRP and new MSRP have been included for each product. Commodore Business Machines, Inc., based in West Chester, PA, is Commodore's U.S. subsidiary. The company manufactures and markets a complete line of Amiga computers and peripherals for the business, education, government and consumer markets. The company's worldwide installed user base of Amiga computers is nearly four million. Commodore (R) and CDTV (R) are trademarks of Commodore Electronics Limited. Amiga (R) and AmigaDOS are trademarks of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Motorola (R) is a trademark of Motorola Inc. MS-DOS (R) is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Commodore Price Reductions Original New Product MSRP MSRP A2000 with 1084S Monitor $1539 $1299 Includes Motorola 68000 microprocessor, 1MB RAM, RGB video port and color RGB/composite monitor A3000-25/50 $2729 $1499 Includes Motorola 25MHz 68030 microprocessor, 68882 math co-processor, 2MB RAM, 50MB hard drive, SCSI interface, 15.75 and 31.5 KHz video ports. A3000-25/100 $3379 $1799 Includes Motorola 25MHz 68030 microprocessor, 68882 math co-processor, 5MB RAM, 100MB hard drive, SCSI interface, 15.75 and 31.5 KHz video ports. A3000T-25/100 new configuration $1859 Tower configuration. Includes Motorola 25MHz 68030 microprocessor, 68882 math co-processor, 5MB RAM, 100MB hard drive, SCSI interface, 15.75 and 31.5 KHz video ports A3000T-25/200 $4499 $1999 Tower configuration. Includes Motorola 25MHz 68030 microprocessor, 68882 math co-processor, 5MB RAM, 200MB hard drive, SCSI interface, 15.75 and 31.5 KHz video ports A3000T-040/200 $5998 $2875 Tower configuration. Includes 25MHz Motorola MC68040 microprocessor, 5MB RAM, 200MB hard drive, SCSI interface, 15.75 and 31.5KHz video ports A2630/4 Processor Board $1799 $1299 Motorola 25MHz 68030 microprocessor with 68882 math co-processor, memory management unit and 4MB of 32-bit RAM A2386SX-25 Bridgeboard $ 959 $ 649 25MHz 80386SX co-processor board with 1MB RAM, and MS-DOS CDTV Player $ 999 $ 599 Includes Motorola 68000 microprocessor, 1MB RAM, 2K non-volatile RAM reserved for system, 512K ROM, and 540MB CD-ROM drive Note: All Amiga 2000 and 3000 series computers come standard with one 3.5 inch floppy drive, mouse, keyboard, two mouse ports, serial and parallel ports and AmigaDOS (TM). -*- *StarShip* NEWS *Flash* 2nd of 7 Stories Creative Focus Ships New Amiga DeskJet Printer Driver ______ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (__ __) Chenango Bridge, NY -- February 1993 / / / / (_/he Creative Focus Super_DJC2 printer driver is for all Amiga computers and for all Hewett-Packard DeskJets, including the new 550C. It provides better control over printing tasks than software costing many times more. While the intuitive side of your brain is admiring the pictures [Note: great color pirnt-outs shown on the flyer], here are some numbers for the analytic side: o 4 selectable lightness/darkness levels o 4 types of black (three composites plus true black) o 3 shingling options (to control ink bleeding) o 2 depletion choices (or reducing the amount of ink) For text output you get 14 powerful extended commands for just about everything: character set, pitch, point, typeface and softfont selection; control over lines per inch, linewrap, textscale and print direction; 8 different text color options; relative and absolute row and column cursor positioning; and tabsize determination. Want to get at those internal fonts? Super_DJC2 provides Preferences and Printer access to all the typefaces: Courier, Letter Gothic, CG Times and Univers. Choose between letter, legal, A4 and envelope paper sizes, and stack envelopes with the new 550C. For help with specific software packages, you can turn off performation skip, suppress unwanted pagefeeds, disable the driver's color correction, or select typefaces and character sets via font numbers. Super_DJC2 works with all Amigas, and is compatible with AmigaDOS releases 1.3 through 3.0. And it's for all DeskJets: even with the Original and the new Portable your grayscale images will be exceptional and your text control unsurpassed. One more number: Super_DJC2 is available from Creative Focus for $50.00. However, until April 15, 1993, it will be available at a special introductory price of $35.00, which is a 30% discount. Super_DJC owers can upgrade for $15.00; owners of DJHelper, Super_DJ and Super_DJ V2.0 can upgrade for $25.00. You must enclose your original disk and include shipping handling of $2.00 within the US, elsewhere $4.00. Send cash, check or money order, and allow 2-3 weeks for delivery. Creative Focus products available for the Amiga: Product Description Price --------------------------------------------------- 085 Super_DJC2 color driver $35.00 (To April 15, 1993) 093 DJHelper DeskJet utility $50.00 103 DJFonts Vol. 1 softfonts $25.00 104 DJFonts Vol. II softfonts $25.00 113 SilverClips hi-res IFF $30.00 114 Them Cats feline IFF $15.00 For more information contact Creative Focus at Box 580, Chenango Bridge, New York 13745-0580. -*- *StarShip* NEWS *Flash* 3rd of 7 Stories MicroMiga Announces New Amiga Publication _ _ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ / \/ \ Spring Valley, CA -- February 1993 / \ / /\ /\ \ (_/ \/ \_)icroMiga, known best as a mail order vendor specializing in the Amiga line of personal computers since 1988 is announcing today we will start publishing a new Amiga specific magazine. The first issue is scheduled for May of this year and subsequent issues will be released quarterly. This new magazine titled "Amiga Explorer" will focus on the Amiga marketplace, spending most of its pages on what's available and new to the Amiga community. It will have indepth reviews of software and hardware, columns on how best to use your Amiga and the software you purchase. Several technical articles covering C programming and ARexx are also planned. We will also be spending a great deal of time "Exploring" the online community including commercial online services, BBS's and Shareware/Public Domain Software. Included in every issue will be several "Spotlight" articles where we will do in depth reviews of Shareware software, interviews with the developers and also spotlight different BBS's around the country. Just like every other magazine, we will have the usual reviews of all the popular hardware and software plus the usual new products listings. What will be different is our commitment to the shareware and telecomputing public. In the weeks to come we will release an outline of the planned articles for 1993 and into 1994. In this outline we will discuss in great detail the direction we plan to take Amiga Explorer and we hope you will take the time in the next few weeks to contact us with your ideas, suggestions or submissions. Amiga Explorer will be your magazine, it will be completely designed from the ground up based on your input. If you want something or don't like something let us know. We will be available to you via several online systems including Internet/Usenet. Our columns and reviews will be written by people like yourself, people you know, people you correspond with right here on the net. In other words, people who know what the Amiga is all about. The first issue will be available to all those who ask free of charge, simply write us at the address below to request your free issue. Future issues will be available for only the cost of mailing, or ask your local dealer to carry it free of charge. Much help is needed in the development of Amiga Explorer. If you are interested in helping out, please contact us at the address below. MicroMiga will no longer be doing any mail order sales, instead focusing all available resources on the publication. For more information contact John Ferguson, MicroMiga General Manager Editor Amiga Explorer at P.O. Box 1898, Spring Valley, CA 91979-1898, telephone 619/670-3151 or fax 619/670-9732. -*- *StarShip* NEWS *Flash* 4th of 7 Stories __________________________________________________________________________ | | | *StarShip* Amiga Conferences | | ____ _ | | / ___) / ) | | / (_ ____ / /_ ___ __ __ ____ ___ __ __ | | / ___)/ ___)/ _ )/ __)/ / / // _ ) / __)/ / / / | | / / / __) / (/ // / / (_/ // (/ / / / / (_/ / | | (_/ (____)(____/(_/ (_____((_____)(_/ (___ / | | ___/ / | | (____/ | | | | Except where noted, Conferences begin at 10PM Eastern Time in the Amiga | | Conference Rooms at Page 555;2. Amiga Programmers meet Wednesday nights | | at Pro/Am on Page 670. Amiga/GEnie HelpDesk EVERY Night at 9PM Eastern. | |__________________________________________________________________________| | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Humpday |Thursday | Friday | Saturday | | Help@9EST| Help@9EST|Help@9EST| Help@9EST|Help@9EST| Help@9EST| Help@9EST| |__________|__________|_________|__________|_________|__________|__________| | 7 | 8 | 9 |\ | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |5-MIN News| | _| | | | New |5-MIN News| | 3PM-3AM | DeskTop | (_) | AmiGames |vv-Video!|*StarShip*|9:Hardware| | -*- |Publishing| Mad | ------ | with | 5-MINUTE | Clinic | |10PM: | Night | Music |Programing| Yury & | Newscast |10: Amiga | | Graphics | | Night |at Pro/Am | Guests | 6PM-3AM |PartyNight| |__________|__________|_________|__________|_________|__________|__________| HelpDesk *EVERY* NIGHT @ 9PM Eastern Time! Got a problem? If you have questions about learning to use your Amiga, the *StarShip* or GEnie, we have answers! Stop by Conference Room 4 ANY EVENING from 9 to 10 EST for live, on-the-spot help. -*- *StarShip* NEWS *Flash* 5th of 7 Stories MicroBotics 12 A'Clock Realtime Clock/Calendar Expansion for the New Amiga 1200 ______ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (__ __) Richardson, Texas -- January 1993 / / / / (_/he Amiga 1200 computer is just about the perfect Amiga -- except for one thing: It really needs a clock. Now you can easily and inexpensively have one by installing the MicroBotics 12 A'Clock board internally on the clock-header connector on the 1200 motherboard. The 12 A'Clock is a simple-to-use peripheral that can automatically set your Amiga's system time and date upon startup. 12 A'Clock Specifications Target System: Amiga 1200 Personal Computer. Installation: Internal to Amiga 1200; resides on the 40-pin clock header connector on the motherborad. User or dealer installable. Does not interfere with installation of other peripherals on the 150-pin edge card. Compatibility: Designed for general compatibility with all Amiga system software including AmigaDOS system 3.0 and later versions. Uses the AmigaDOS Date and SetClock commands transparently. No additional software required. Realtime Clock Calendar Hardware: An Epson RTC 72421B clock/calendar backed by a long lasting, user replacable lithium battery cell (CR 2032) is supported. Applications: Provides date and time for file date stamping and "alarm" functions. Very useful in a hard-disk environment to insure proper date and time setting. Power Consumption: 10 microamps (standby). Effectively, "no power" is used. Product Availability: Worldwide distribution via Amiga dealers and distributors. USA Suggested Retail Price: $34.95 with clock and lithium battery. Actual selling price determined by dealer. -*- *StarShip* NEWS *Flash* 6th of 7 Stories MicroBotics' MBX 1200z and the A1200 -- A Winning Combo! ____ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ / ___) Richardson, Texas -- January 1993 / / / (__ (_____)ommodore's most recent introduction, the hot, new Amiga 1200, can be made even hotter by adding the easy-to-install MBX 1200z floating point/FastRAM expansion product from MicroBotics, Inc. You definitely want to have an MBX 1200z installed on any Amiga 1200 since the perceived performance increase is DRAMATIC. The Word on The Amiga 1200 This machine, recently introduced at World of Commodore shows and COMDEX, is what we've all been waiting for in the Amiga market: A Clear Winner! With its advanced AGA chipset, 14MHz EC020 processor, and advanced system software (AmigaDOS 3.0) it will surely be a marketplace winner. The A1200 may resemble the A600 externally, but under its skin, the A1200 is far superior in performance and capability. Best of all, from our point of view, the A1200 is seriously expandable. In about the same location as the A501 "bay" on an A500, the A1200 has a 150-pin, 32-bit wide expansion bus running at full processor speed. This expansion port is MUCH better than that on the A500 or A600. It is also a much better expansion port than the PCMCIA slot (common to both the A600 and A1200). The Word on Our MBX 1200z Installed on the 150-pin expansion port, the MBX 1200z makes the very nice A1200 a true "power user" machine, strong enough for ray-tracing, morphing, desktop publishing, animation and heavy-duty game playing/flight simulator use. MBX 1200z's 68881 Math Coprocessor fantastically improves floating point calculations and its 32-bit wide memory capability greatly enhances general operations. With an MBX 1200z installed, the already fast A1200 can have its basic speed almost DOUBLED! And system speed for floating point math increases by a factor of SIXTEEN! The Word on PCMCIA RAM vs. MBX 1200z RAM The word on PCMCIA memory is "Big Loser!" It runs at LESS THAN ONE-FOURTH the speed of MBX 1200z RAM! Amazing but true, PCMCIA memory is dog-slow compared to the rocket of MBX-style FastRAM. Why? o MBX 1200z RAM is twice as wide (32-bit wide vs. 16-bits wide for PCMCIA). o MBX 1200z RAM does memory transfers at NINETEEN MEGABYTES per second! PCMCIA can only manage 3.56 megabytes per second. You definitely do NOT want to cripple your system with PCMCIA memory (see the table of benchmarks below). In addition to speed, MBX 1200z can provide a RAM space TWICE the size of PCMCIA (a full eight megabytes rather than just four). And, MBX 1200z is cheaper per megabyte! It can use exactly the same SIMM module as used in the new Amiga 4000 introduced earlier in 1992. You'll also be glad to hear that the SIMM module on MBX 1200z is easily installed or upgraded; we have used super-high quality, easy-to-manage metal-latched SIMM connectors. No more broken plastic latches or hard to insert SIMMs. The Last Word The Amiga 1200 has been shipped in Europe and Canada and is now available in the USA as well. MBX 1200z is shipping now, and it's selling as fast as it ships. Early supplies are limited so order now. MBX 1200z is the FIRST A1200-specific expansion product available from anyone! Be sure to get it now! AIBB V.5.0 Benchmark comparison of the Amiga 1200 in three configurations: Test Type ChipRAM PCMCIA MBX 1200z --------------------------------------------------------- WritePixel 1.00 0.63 2.15 Sieve 1.00 0.98 1.21 Dhrystone 1.00 0.73 1.85 Sort 1.00 1.08 1.44 Matrix 1.00 0.80 1.60 IMath 1.00 0.79 1.24 Memtest 1.00 1.00 1.31 TGTest 1.00 0.79 1.17 AVERAGE 1.00 0.85 1.50 Savage 1.00 0.62 55.24 FMath 1.00 0.58 6.02 FMatrix 1.00 0.64 1.61 BeachBall 1.00 0.64 10.36 SWhetstone 1.00 0.61 16.48 DWhetstone 1.00 0.61 17.49 FTrace 1.00 0.62 28.37 CPLXtest 1.00 0.63 2.15 AVERAGE FP 1.00 0.62 17.22 OVERALL AVERAGE 1.00 0.73 9.36 Bottom half of table shows floating-point-intensive benchmarks. For more information on the MBX 1200z contact your Authorized Amiga dealer or MicroBotics, Inc. at 1251 American Parkway, Richardson, TX 75081, telephone 214/437-5330. -*- *StarShip* Amiga *Flash* 7th of 7 Stories ____ Soft-Logik HotLinks Developers Kit & Font/Clip Art Sale / ___) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ( (__ St. Louis, MO -- January 1993 \__ \ ___) ) (____/oft-Logik announces that the second edition of our HotLinks developer kit is available now. This devkit is actually usable, readable, and provides useful information. (As compared to the previous devkit which probably scared most people when they first received it.) The new devkit discusses why you would want to implement HotLinks, the HotLinks system (non-technical discussion), implementation issues (subscriber, publisher and publisher/subscriber applications, linking options, etc.) and a lot more. The technical side of the kit is now easy to use since it presented in the same format as Commodore documentation. Developers kits are available on request, by sending GE Mail to Soft-Logik Development SL-TECH or by phone at 314/894-8608. We will post an updated version of the online kit, but it's not ready yet. In any case, the printed kit is preferable. There is no charge, obligation or non-disclosure for the devkit. You can add HotLinks to any program (PD, shareware, or commercial) without charge. Font and Clip Art BlowOut ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is your chance to buy professional quality fonts and clip art at never before heard-of prices! Soft-Logik is discontinuing the Typeface and Graphic Libraries, and is blowing out its inventory! This is a one-time offer and it will not be repeated. This offer expires April 4, 1993, so order today! Call 1-800-829-8608 (314-894-8608, fax 314-894-3280). Why buy Soft-Logik Graphic Library clip art? The Soft-Logik Graphic Library is the only professional quality structured drawing collection for the Amiga. With over 3000 illustrations, you can be sure of finding what you need. Because the illustrations are structured drawings, you can resize them without creating jaggies. You can import and edit them with PageStream, Art Expression and Professional Page 4 and then print them on any type of printer! Why buy Soft-Logik Typeface Library fonts? The Soft-Logik Typeface Library is the largest collection of professional outline fonts for the Amiga. These fonts work great with PageStream and Art Expression, and can be converted for use with many other Amiga programs. Pricing FONTS WAS NOW! $12.50 $10 Individual Fonts: Buy an entire family at once. $99 $40 Starter Fonts (8) $99 $40 Newsletter Fonts (8) $199 $65 Classic Fonts (16) A great value! $199 $65 Designer Fonts (16) A great value! $312 $80 Best-Selling Fonts (25) Our 25 most popular fonts! $3999 $650# All 600+ Fonts! Get them all!! (on drive) CLIP ART WAS NOW! $99 $40 per individual Volume! $99 $30 per individual Volume, when you buy two or more! $799 $250# All 21 Volumes! 3197 illustrations!!! (on drive) $2079 $450 All 21 Volumes! 3197 illustrations!!! (on floppy) # To qualify for the 'All 600+ Fonts' (on drive) or 'All 21 Volumes' (on drive) prices, you must send Syquest cartridges or a SCSI hard drive onto which we will copy your fonts and/or clip art. The clip art collection requires 120MB of space. The font collection requires 75MB of space. If you require floppies, the Graphic Library is also available on floppies for $450. The entire Font Library is not available on floppies except as individual families. Available Clip Art Volumes Volume 01 Miscellaneous Volume 12 Occasions Volume 02 Miscellaneous Volume 13 Lifestyles Volume 03 Miscellaneous Volume 14 Office & Education Volume 04 Cartoon People Volume 15 Universal Symbols Volume 05 Cartoon People Volume 16 Celebrity Caricatures Volume 06 Business & Industry Volume 17 Silhouettes Volume 07 World Maps Volume 18 Design Backgrounds Volume 08 Miscellaneous Volume 19 Fabulous Fifties Volume 09 Design Elements Volume 20 Business Cartoons Volume 10 Symbols & Headings Volume 21 Borders & Ornaments Volume 11 Food & Entertainment Fonts in Each Font Volume STARTER FONTS: CLASSIC FONTS: Cooper Black ITC Berkeley Book ITC Machine ITC Berkeley Book Italic ITC Souvenir Light ITC Berkeley Bold ITC Souvenir Light Italic ITC Berkeley Bold Italic ITC Stone Sans Medium ITC Caslon Book ITC Stone Sans Bold ITC Caslon Book Italic Surf Style Bold Castle Commercial Script NEWSLETTER FONTS: ITC Fenice Regular Brush Script ITC Fenice Regular Italic Comic Book Two ITC Fenice Regular Italic Lubalin Graph Futura Condensed Bold MiniPics Futura Cond XBold Olive Antique Futura Light Olive Antique Bold Futura Medium Stone Informal Medium Gentle Sans Stone Informal Medium Italic Gentle Sans Bold DESIGNER FONTS: BEST-SELLERS PACK: Arquitectura Aki Lines Ad Lib Allegro Banco Augustea Inline ITC Clearface Contour Bernhard Tango Corvinus Skyline Brush Script Eurostil Extended Bold Castle Fraktur Champagne Friz Quadrata Commercial Script Friz Quadrata Bold Drop Caps 1 Gentle Sans UltraBold Drop Caps 2 L&C Hairline Fraktur Murray Hill Gallia New Yorker Liberty Reporter Liberty Outline Uniform 49 Ultra Condensed MiniPics Mistral Murray Hill New Yorker New Yorker Engraved Park Avenue Scanning Sterling Thor Vivaldi OFFER EXPIRES APRIL 4, 1993! If you purchased anything from the Typeface Library or Graphic Library on or after January 1, 1993 at the regular prices, you can get extra product credit by calling Soft-Logik Sales. For details and more information contact Soft-Logik Publishing Corp. at 11131 S. Towne Square, Suite F, St. Louis, MO 63123 or call 314/894-8608. Soft-Logik has a RoundTable on GEnie as well. -*- Over a GIGABYTE of Amiga files in our Library! Catch your limit of Fred FISH Disks from the *StarFish* Library. If you are after a SINGLE PROGRAM on a Fish Disk, SEARCH for it before downloading the disk. Most are available separately! _______________________________________________________________ | | | | | Permission is hereby granted to quote ALL or PART of this | | Newscast on a privately owned BBS or in a user group news- | | letter (*) provided you include the following credit: | | | | Reprinted by Permission from the 5-MINUTE Weekend | | News Network, a *StarShip*(tm) Production on GEnie(R). | | * /\ / | |_________________________________________________ ___/ \___ _| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \ oo / ~ . \ \__/ / _ (*) We would like to know about it / \ if you do, and you can tell us \ /\ / *FREE* by leaving Feedback to / \/ \/ \ the SysOps on GEnie Page 555. *StarFish* Librarian ViewPort: The *StarShip* Online Magazine... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now in its Second Year of Publication!! Such a deal! The current issue -- February 1993 -- of ViewPort Online Magazine is now FREE from Menu Option 9 on the *StarShip* Amiga RoundTable on GEnie! Just open your capture buffer and type 9 when you are at page 555. You'll be amazed at the indepth Amiga coverage offered in every issue of the *StarShip* ViewPort. Take the February issue as an example. In it, you'll find reviews of ASDG's ADPro, Maxis' lasest simulation, A-Train, Pinball Fantasies, Denny Atkin's brand new book, and TWO hard drive back-up utility programs! You'll also find Jim Meyer's industry column Film at Eleven, another Running with ARexx installment, and learn all about HAM8 and PCMCIA. And grab the virtual coupon from Blue Ribbon SoundWorks for a FREE MusicWare Disk when you buy their new One-Stop Music Shop! Smart GEnie members get each issue of ViewPort as it's released so they never pay extra for it. If you missed one, back issues of ViewPort's first year of publication are available for quick downloading from the *StarShip* Library. Simply search on the keyword VIEWPORT for a list of editions from which you may select. -*-