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A WORD FROM DADDY WOODENTOP
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Hello, it's the wooden headed one here. How many spotted my deliberate
mistakes in the last issue? Yes, I forget to include the addresses for
both BATH BBS and STUNN. Without further ado here they are:
BATH BBS STUNN
43 Midford Road 10 Tilly Close
Combe Down Stadiscombe
Bath PLYMOUTH
AVON PL9 9DD
BA2 5RW
And for the record, Graham Sivill drew the screen for issue two and
Michael McLaughlin did the one for issue three with the help of Raymond
Mortimers digitised pics and a lot of hinderence from me.
How many people noticed that I had forgotten to put the German-English
translator on the disc last time? How many of you cared enough to tell me?
OK Tom, put your hand down and thanks! It's on side two, only it's a
different one with an upgradable dictionary this time. Also icluded is the
lastest (bug free?) version of NEOCHROME, v 2.07 and a SPECTRUM 512
picture viewer and a couple of digitised screens from Raymond Mortimer.
As for the other programs. Well, I've held STEN back a little to include
Dave Cowlings report on the Computer Shopper Show. I'm preparing
everything else beforehand to let me finish and distribute STEN as soon as
possible after it arrives. I'll include some goodies to allow you to play
with a new feature included in the shell.
OK, one of the first things that you should have noticed about the
newsletter shell are the new text-scroll boxes and the slightly faster
scrolling, the scrolling can also be controlled by the arrow keys, and
some of the functions can be selected via the keyboard. At the last minute
I have included a facility to run external programs from the shell and to
return to the shell when finished. It is not yet foolproof as some
programs in folders cannot find their resource files, screens etc and
programs which use drop down menus themselves corrupt the STEN one on
return. The shell is now almost bug-free and as long as you don't do
anything daft, like trying to scroll when there is no text loaded, things
should go OK. I'll get as many bugs ironed out and new features added as
possible for next time. I've included a very preliminary manual which may
be of some use.
I'd like to welcome another new guy to the STEN team. He is Steve Murgan,
Setve is a very keen flight sim enthusiast and has submitted quite a few
articles on the subject. You can find out a bit more about him in this
issues, WHO THE HELL...... If Steve can help you in any way don't hesitate
to drop him a line, and remember to include a SAE. The same goes for any
of the other team members.
Right, it's soap-box time. By now you will know that June sees the last
edition of the Floppyshop Newsletter, but how many of you also know that
STUFFED is going to fold after issue 10? It would seem that Marc Young has
gotten himself a job with ST User as technical editor. We at STEN wish him
all the best and are sure that he will do well.
Being absolutely serious for a minute. I really do hope that Marc can
(will be allowed to) raise the standards of User as it would seem that
there is very little left now for the ST owner who wants to do more that
play games. Forget about ST WORLD, it's gone now. What we should be doing
is supporting whats left that's worth supporting. For me, thats ST
Applications, the GFA Users magazine and yes, even STEN.
It's getting late now and I want STEN ready for copying and posting
tommorrow (15/5/91) so I'll wind this, final, article up. Hope you enjoy
STEN, will contribute if you can and at least drop me a line if you can't.
As always, STEN is free if you send me a disc (with some PD on?) and a SAE
DAVE MOONEY