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Atari ST/E and Falcon News
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This is the section in Atari Update where we give you the
latest news for the Atari ST/E and Falcon 030.
* GASTEINER TRADE-IN *
If you have a working 20, 40 or 50Mb hard disk drive for
your computer then you can trade it in to Gasteiner to
knock £150 off of the new 525Mb hard drive. This will put
the price of the new mini design hard drive from £649 down
to £499 including the Link SCSI host adaptor. Call Gasteier
on 081-345-6000 for more details.
* TOS 5 WAS NEVER TO BE *
Remember rumours of a TOS 5 last year? Well, that's all they
were. Rumours. TOS 5 has never been under development, and
probably never will. The latest version of TOS is v4.92 and
there are no more developments being made on TOS. If the
Jaguar takes off and Atari develop a Jaguar computer, it
looks doubtful that it will use TOS technology.
* THE HAWK AND THE FALCON *
A new rack system has been released for the Falcon 030
called the Hawk. It is designed to make computers more
"acceptable" to musicians by taking the Falcon out of its ST
style case and putting it into a 19 inch rack unit. For more
information on the Hawk (like the name!), please call
Digital Village on 081 440 3440.
* BOB BRODIE RESIGNS *
Bob Brodie, Director of Communicaions at Atari, handed in
his resignation on the 3rd of June, 1994. He has left
Atari to work as Director of Technical Support for GS
Corporation, who are developing the NeXT step operating
system. Apparently, the reason Mr. Brodie accepted GS Corp's
offer, was because they were offering him a larger salary
and the chance to work from home. Atari have no plans to
fill Mr. Brodie's now open position.
* COMIC PUBLISHED ON AN STE *
The first ever STE publication has been launched. Rogue's
Warriors is a comic that has been published completely on an
Atari STE. Rogue's Warrior has been written by ST Format's
Darren Smithson, who has written several DTP tutorials for
the magazine. The comic costs £1.60 and you have to be over
fifteen to read it. Call Mr. Smithson on 0734 868271 for
more details.
* PIRATED CDS - WE MUST STOP THEM! *
Compact Discs ROMs are already being pirated, thanks to the
drop in price of CD writing systems. Pirates are selling CD-
ROMs packed with software like Lemmings and Protext, and
they must be stopped. ELSPA say that if these pirates are
not stopped, the CD market will see a huge decline. CD-ROMs
may die altogether. And just as CDs were being released on
the ST. So, if you have any information, get in touch with
us, or ring ELSPA direct on 0386 833810. All correspondance
to us or ELSPA will be kept completely confidential. You
don't even have to give us your name.
* ST FORMAT'S FUTURE IS UNKNOWN *
According to certain sources, ST Format may not continue to
be published after this year. The reason is obvious: their
readership has declined pretty rapidly over the last two
years. But, if STF goes, then what will happen to ST Review
and ST User? They only have readerships of 17,00 and 19,00
respectively. Surely, if the glossy mags die, so will the
ST. Don't worry, though; we'll still be here to support
you!!
* SILICA LIST NOW REACHES TWENTY! *
Silica Systems list of retail stores has now reached twenty.
Shops, dedicated to Atari software and hardware are now in
the following towns: Bristol, Chelmsford, Croydon, Glasgow,
Guildford, Hull, Ipswich, London (three stores), Luton,
Manchester, Plymouth, Sheffield, Sidcup, Southampton and
Southend. Silica's headquarters still remains in Sidcup and
can be contacted on 081-309-1111. This number should also be
used for technical enquiries and as an order line.
* FAMILY ROOTS TWO NOW AVAILABLE *
Remember Family Roots? Well, Family Roots Two is now
available. Priced at £29.95 from Floppyshop, it is a
complete re-write of the original with loads more features.
For more details, please call Floppyshop on (0224) 312756.
* JAGUAR EMULATION ON PCS *
Atari have teamed up with Sigma to produce a Jaguar emulator
card for the PC. This card will allow existing PC owners to
play Jaguar games on cartridge and CD-ROM, without buying a
Jaguar console. The price of this card is not yet know, but
it is expected to increase the user base in the USA by
10,000,000!!! Let's hope it takes off before rivals
Nintendo, Sony and Sega get their machines out....
* SOMEWHERE, OVER THE RAINBOW.... *
Another dedicated Falcon art package is now available and a
demo version has been released on the coverdisk of ST
Review. Rainbow, as it is called, boasts a built-in photo
studio, multiple palettes, Tabby support and up to eighty
drawing tools all in one package. The best thing about it is
that it only costs £29.95 from JCA Europe. Give them a call
on 0734 452416 for more details on this woner-program.
* COMMODORE GO TO SILICON HEAVEN *
You know Commodore? The people that make the Amiga? Well, if
you don't already know, they announced they were going into
liquidation on 29th April 1994 leaving their UK and Europe
departments in the lurch. These companies (which are so-
called "profitable parts") are to be put up for sale. One
company that is interested is Samsung and it has since
immerged that they have 50% shares in Commodore. See the
article in this issue for more details.
* PD ON CD! *
Two CD-ROM discs have just been released, both filled to the
brim with PD and Shareware software for use with the ST and
Falcon. They have been compiled by Bernd Lohrum and contain
every sort of PD you can think of. Being distributed by
System Solutions, the discs cost £29.95 each which is
brilliant value for money. Dial 081-693-1919 for more
information.
* SHOOTING STARS *
Star have just brought down the prices of several of their
printers on the market. The majority of machines have been
brought down by £50, while others have had as much as £50
knocked off of them. Star printers should be available from
most good computer retailers.
* FIRST COMPUTER'S BBS *
The Leeds First Computer centre have just started up their
own BBS. It is to provide technical support, news and the
company's catalogue on it. PD and Shareware will also be
available on it for downloading. If you own a modem, dial
0532 637988. The First Computer Centre can be telephoned on
0532 319444.
* NEW PRICE FOR LYNX *
The Atari handheld console, the Lynx, has now been brought
down to £49.99. This also includes a game, but we are not
yet ssage will dissappear and the screen
will be redrawn and control returned to the active program/desktop.
If the disk in A: is write-protected you will get this message:
Disk is Write-Protected, Try once more ?
If you still want to KILL and IMMUNIZE the disk you should REMOVE
the WRITE-PROTECT tab and press Y for YES, if you have changed your
mind and want to KEEP the DISK as it is just press N for NO.
All disks immunized by Protect6 are auto-booting and readable on
MS-DOS and PC-DOS systemes (IBM's) and contain an info-text.
Link-viruses
""""""""""""
This is a very nasty kind of virus that contaminates program files
and spreads like fire on harddisks. Protect6 hooks on to the OS-
routines and gives an alert if a program tries to modify another
program (this is the way all known link-viruses spread):
Program is trying to modify FILENAME.PRG
Any key to modify file, Reset to Abort !
Call ABK-BBS +47 2 132659, 1200-9600 BPS
FILENAME.PRG is replaced by the name of the program that will be
modified. If this is OK just press ANY KEY (some programs store
their configuration data this way), BUT if the program currently
running is NOT supposed to MODIFY the indicated file you should
write down the name of the program running and