Hello to you all, and welcome to the "ST NEWS" Volume 2 Compendium, published on Saturday, Januari 23rd, 1988 and, of course, dedicated to lovely Willeke. This Compendium offers the best articles that were published in all 8 Volume 2 (1987) issues - the best reviews of the best soft-and hardware, the best walkthrough stories, the hottest adventure solutions, the full courses published 'till now, the most stunning features and the nicest programs, packed together in a massive 90 articles. Also, all music ever included in any issue of "ST NEWS" is present, available through a seperate selection menu function and the function keys. The whole thing is comfortably menu-driven, designed to be easy to use and userfriendly. This issue is again dedicated to Willeke, but an eyewink needs to be given to one other girl that seemed to inspire me quite a lot in the latest stages of 1987 (and at this moment as well): Stephan Posthuma's very nice sister Melanie. But not only girls helped me to make one year of "ST NEWS" as succesfull as possible. I would also like to extend my most sincere thanks to a lot of people for their support and contributions throughout the previous year. They are.....Stefan Posthuma: Program codeing assistance and much other help as well as suggestions.....The Exceptions (TEX): Music programming and article writing.....STRIKE-a-LIGHT: Program codeing assistance and article writing.....Willeke: For over half a year of constant support, inspiration and mental assistance.....Ms. Sue Winslow (Telecom Software).....Ms. Mandy Brett and Ms. Tracey Jenkins (Microdeal).....Mr. Jonathan Ellis and Ms. Angela (Psygnosis).....Mr. Harry van Horen (Homesoft).....Commedia.....Navarone Industries.....Elektronikaland.....ST Club Eindhoven.....Fairlight Australia.....Mr. Jon Day (Kuma Computers).....Mr. Miles Rowland (Ocean/Imagine).....Mr. C. Janssen: For his Forth Course.....Mark van den Boer: For his MC 68000 Assembler Course.....Lucas "Crimson" van den Berg: For his amazing stories.....Mr. Ken "Ancient Atarian" Butler.., our oldest known reader: For the STatarian Love STories.....Stephan Englhart.....Claus Brod.....Adrie van der Weÿden (Mr. Arnold "Commando" Schwarzenegger).....Paul Kolenbrander.....Jos Schilders.....Frank Lemmen.....Math Claessens: For his absolutely mindstaggering adventure solutions due to his wife's cakes......Guus Surtel.....F.A.S.T.E.R......Mark Annetts ("ST World")....."68000'er".....Pat Bitton (Mirrorsoft).....Alexander Beller (Denise Team's "Pale Rider")....Ewe Håkansson.....Stephan Colombier (shame you bought a PC).....Guid Stumpe (Welcome as our new German distributor!).....Gerardo Greco.....Les Ellingham ("Page 6").....Ivo van Vlaenderen.....Norman Pearce.....and Jeremy White (W.A.C.E.). The following people need to be mentioned extra because they brought extra joy to my 1987 Xmas (when Willeke was at my place) by sending cards and nice comments: Mr. Ken Butler.......Math Claessens + family.....Melanie Posthuma (I thought I went bananas!).....All working at Homesoft (especially Harry and Annemiek).....Stefan Posthuma (Because of the regular tradition I thought it suitable to thank you for thy card).....Ms. Sue Winslow.....Eli Maas (S.A.G.).....Patrick Schroven.....and Hans Fousert. Then, there are some bands that tend to make music that I appreciate so much that they inspire me to some extend, too:.....Beasty Boys.....Boston.....Cacophony.....The Cult.....Deep Purple.....Destruction.....Exodus.....Iron Maiden.....Jean Michel Jarre.....Kreator.....Tony Macalpine.....Yngwie Malmsteen (Ough!).....Mercyful Fate.....Vinnie Moore.....Nasty Savage.....Possessed.....Queensrÿche.....Rainbow.....Rush.....Saga.....Sodom.....Saxon.....The Simple Minds.....Slayer.....The Sound.....Stryper.....Joey Tafolla.....Vangelis.....Van Halen.....and Venom. Very special thanks need to go to Peter Scheele and Peter Maris - for gettin' me into touch with the man upstairs... OK. You can read all about ordering back-issues and about "ST NEWS" in general in the articles contained in this special publication. Read all about the vintage issues, the gradual developments in "ST NEWS", love (!)....it's all in here! If you happen to think that "ST NEWS" might be worth establishing a "business relationship" with, please contact us at/send review material to the correspondence address: ST NEWS, Kievitstraat 50, NL-5702 LE Helmond, The Netherlands. "ST NEWS" does not only offer Europe's biggest PD service (through ST Club Eindhoven), but offers means to get in touch with ST users all over the globe! So start ordering back-issues at our disrtributors or your local PD library NOW - and introduce yourself to the active kind of computing....enjoy Stefan's humour....enjoy Lucas' brilliantly written novels....enjoy revolutionary set-up reviews....enjoy hints & tips (some offered by the best machine code freaks in Germany)....enjoy the splendid music....enjoy an access to over 400 disks of cheap PD software....enjoy the human interest as well as the personal visions to many a European computer show. There really is no reason not to order "ST NEWS" as soon as you possibly can. Where do you get that much for free (or at PD price)? So hop over to your nearest "ST NEWS" reader and get it!! While I am typing this scrolling message, Destruction's "Release from Agony" bursts my speakers and upsets my dad that is currently fetching his World War II souvenirs to make an end to the long history of my record player. He fights against the heavy virbrations of the air and is each time thrown back to the wall as he gets up and aims his bajonet at the Volume potentiometer in his last trials to stop the noise. After several more attempts, he gets my headphone and wears it so that the heavy music stays off his eardrums. Poor man.... Well, allow me to close down the remainder of this scrolling mesage by telling you some of the usual rabble: If you think "ST NEWS" is worth a donation from your side, please do not hesitate for a single second to draw your chequebook and make sure considerable amounts of money end up on my giro account number 5060326 t.n.v. Richard Karsmakers, Helmond, The Netherlands. All donations will be welcomed and appreciated so that I can finally get rid of my huge debt with the local telephone comopany. Normally, I consider it to be a piece of cake to write a scroling message (even when it is 8 Kb or longer), but I now have a great lack of inspiration to fill it. Shall I call Willeke to get some? Okay! Just wait a minute............beep beep.......beep beep.......beep beep.....Hello? (Everything that followed is censored)...........Yeah? Goodbye.... With some sadness in my mood, moistening in my eyes and something stuck in my throat, I put down the horn and close my eyes. The remnants of my inspirations were removed instead of refueled and I feel quite rotten. Luckily, Destruction is still tearing apart the walls of my room (the windows have gone earlier already, and it's beginning to feel slightly cold right now) and I bang my head a bit to get rid of my rotten feeling of emptyness and sweet grief. I am at the start of a new and promising year of "ST NEWS" productions and I should get rid of all none-too-nice feelings before I decide to go on. But the strange thing is that the sweet grievous feelings are not so bad at all - makes you feel a little bit more 'full' and sensitive on the edges. But listen to me now, pouring my heart out to all you out there, probably boring you to death. No! I must stop making a fool of myself by expressing feelings that only few people can fully understand (call it subtle oral exhibitionism - I don't really care). Lucky enough, memory is currently running out and that means that the end of this scrolling message is nearing. The end nears? Seems to remind me of an old Destruction Mini-album?! See? I am talking bull again. I'd better shut up real soon. Just remember one more thing....Who's till the nicest girl you can possibly find on earth?........You don't know?!..........OK, pal! Get that innocent not-knowing look off your face: It's Willeke (where did we hear that before?!)....
