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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