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DEAR STEN....
Dear Dave,
I recently received some Sewer Software docs for games tips and
cheats. One of the docs might be useful for your mag, but I'm not sure
about the legality of using someone els's text.
I have had a few multisynch monitors and it has always been a problem
trying to find out the specifications needed. The Atari helpline could'nt
(would'nt?) tell me all I needed to know. Another associated problem is
trying to get a lead made up for a monitor without getting told "Send in
the pin out diagram and we'll make it up for you."
Perhaps if your readers with a multisynch wrote in to let you know
what model they have, the pin outs and their rating of it with a brief
comment, a datafile could be compiled of what is available for the ST. It
is not uncommon to answer an advert from a PC user and be told that it
will not operate on an ST when you enquire about the specs. I'll start
the ball rolling by listing my own. Sorry I don't have the pin outs.
PRINCETON 16" SVGA
0.31 dot pitch. Built in overscan. Female 15 pin VGA connector socket
from monitor out needed. Rating: Good.
INTERQUAD MAGICSYNCH 14" SVGA
0.28 dot pitch. 25 pin D male connector needed. Rating: Fair.
TULIP 14" MULTISYNCH VGA
0.31 dot pitch. 9 pin D male connector. Rating: Good.
The following monitors should work, but I would like information on them.
Microvitec VGA+ 1240M E120-Flexiscan 9060M
MF 5015A Idek Microvitec Autoscan 1440
Microvitec EUM 1242 Kaga Taxan 770+
Moving on to another topic, could we have a section of the disc for help
and tips for applications. I would like to know the Protext equivalent of
First Word + where every space is replaced by Control 6 to be able to
reformat.
Well done to Rab Gilmour and friends of Outlaw PD for offering his PD
collection. I have already sent him all I have. If we all participate,
this could be the start of something big.
I like the mag. Looking forward to issue 13.
Best wishes,
Alan
Hi Alan,
thanks for the multisync article. I have a feeling we have used it
before, but I'm going to use it again and would welcome any comments from
readers who have connected their STs to multisyncs.
The hint's and tips section is always on. It is just that people don't
seem to ask any questions... maybe STEN readers are particularly well
informed?
As you will have read elsewhere, most of the Free PD libraries have ceased
trading. This just leaves Rab Gilmour who does seem genuinely intent on
continuing alone.
DAVE
~~~ooOoo~~~
Dear Dave,
While looking through the menu for STEN #12 I noticed an article
entitled "Shareware - dose it work". As I am rather taken up with the
Shareware issue at this time, I read the article in the expectation of
obtaining another persons opinion on the subject.
After reading through the article, by Rab Gilmour, I have to say
that I was a bit disappointed. Not, I hasten to add, in the article
itself. It is because of the fact that I am still no wiser as to what
hardly anybody else thinks of the subject of Shareware.
Rab's article tended to concentrate on a few specific instances.
Whereas my interest, at the moment, is centered on discovering what other
people have to say on the whole subject of Shareware itself.
This interest began with the replies I received from people who
had produced items of Shareware that I had registered with. This, along
with reading what people were saying in magazines, helped me in forming my
own ideas.
At about this time, August 92, an article on Shareware appeared
in PDP magazine. "Well," I thaught "it's time to give the world the
benefit of my opinion." Unfortunately I was too late to have it printed in
the following issue. It wasn't until Christmas 92 that it appeared. And as
PDP, like STEN, is by-monthly, I have not yet had any response.
I should say that I had intended to write to STEN at the same
time. But due to a number of problems that came up at this point, my
attentions were kept away from my ST for over two months. Which also
explains why I am only now reading STEN #12.
As life is now back to normal, more or less, I would like to try
and pick up the subject again. For this reason I have included with this
letter a copy of my original article. You don't have a policy against
printing items that have already appeared in other magazines do you? I'm
only doing this in an attempt to reach as large a number of people as
possible.
Although I have added some head and footnotes, the article
itself is unchanged. I have done this so that, hopefully, I can generate a
level of responce from the article in STEN that will match, hopefully
again, the responce from the article in PDP. Anyway, here's hoping.
Yours (in hope),
Dave Hobday.
Hi Dave,
I've used your article which gives a nice counterpoint to Jake's
article on shareware from a producers position.
DAVE
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