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--- BY JAMES L. MATHEWS ---
Hello and welcome one and all to the section known by many names. To me, it
is known as CHIT CHAT. To decent coders it is known as CRAP-TALK. To Tom,
Dick and Harry it's known as GENERAL BURBLE and to John Major it's known as
WHY ISN'T IT TAXED? but whatever you like to call it, it's here once again
so sit back with a nice cuppa and enjoy.
Well, this month certainly has seen some problems. For a start, my computer
is acting unlike a computer should do. A computer should do what you tell
it to but not my humble STE. The keyboard is acting in a stupid manner,
mainly when it comes to the spacebar. You see, although it is acting
slightly better at the moment, usually, the spacebar either doesn't make a
space or it makes two which makes the typing of articles and letters a very
slow, tedious and frustrating task. My brilliant sound-quality Yamaha
sound-chip is also playing up by not always working - Sometimes I can turn
on the computer with a demo or something loading only to be shocked by not
being greeted by one of those lovely chip-tunes. My internal disk drive is
also playing up in quite an interesting way. Not always reading the full
directory, telling me there isn't a disk in the drive when there is...These
are just a couple of the problems that my drive has been giving me. There
is also a problem with the mouse-port...Could it be to do with the strange
positioning of the bloody things? No, of course not! My mouse movements
are no longer being read at all and occasionally the mouse pointer starts
going mental and going all over the place on its own (and no it's NOT a
virus). Sigh. Well, at the time of writing, my computer has been like this
for 3 weeks. My STE is still on guarantee so leaping with joy I phoned up
the number that was supposed to get me free home service within four days.
Well, I'm still waiting because apparently they are waiting for some parts
to come through from Commodore (!) although personally I think that they
are just mucking me about until my guarantee runs out as it is only a
matter of days. So, is this all down to me mistreating my STE? No! Since
I got hold of the new STE I have had nothing but problems. Oh well, I just
hope I can get it sorted out soon.
Let's change the subject but let's stay on grim subjects as I'm feeling
quite cynical at the moment...
You may have heard on this news recently about a SALLY ferry on its way to
France being stranded after its engine caught fire and the whole of the
crew and passengers were put at risk. Well, I travelled on that exact same
ferry (the SALLY STAR) on the exact same time-table to and from exactly
the same destinations just two days before the event happened and the
thing is that we very nearly cancelled the short day-trip until 2 days
later which would have meant that I too would have been involved in the
incident. Well at first I thanked my lucky stars but then I realised that
talking to stars was some kind of sign of madness.
On a more computer-related topic, you may be happy to hear that the P.D.L.
run by myself, James, is going commercial. The P.D.L. at present is a
swapping service but there has been so much interest and support with the
project that it has blown right out of scale and is taking up too much of
my time so I have decided to go into business with the P.D.L. I am almost
100% sure that it will all go ahead. I'm going to get a few 100 more
disks of P.D. first, sort out my catalogue and then get advertising in the
glossies and so on. I'm not sure about pricing or anything yet but
I'll probably have a special offer for the first month or so. One thing I
do know though is that I can offer an excellent service with full back-up
help with ALL customers. No stupid pre-recorded help lines, no half-wits
on the phones, I'll be there taking calls and sharing all my knowledge
with anyone that needs it. Although I will be charging for disks I intend
to keep the library as a SERVICE and not as a business that puts the bread
on the table. Providing I at least cover costs of advertising I will
continue to run. There will be full one-to-one customer care and everyone
who orders from me will be treated like a friend. Anyone that gets POWER
directly from me knows that I fully interact and don't just chuck a disk in
an envelope...That's how POWER P.D. is now and that's how POWER P.D. is
going to be. We will more than likely be stocking I.D.S. commercial
software, we may be having our own commercial software label with already
one title in production (if you're interested, get in touch with examples
of your work and info about what you would like to produce) and we will
be stocking the ST HANDBOOK, blank disks and hopefully lots of other stuff
so that we can offer you full choice in top-quality goods. I do hope
that you will check us out when we're up and running commercially and please
remember to spread the word. If I can get this P.D.L. to work out well
you will see me making sure that a lot more life is brought into the ST
scene - More shows, production of software and so on. I can make it a
reality providing you all support me. I would appreciate comments, ideas
and suggestions on this.
Okay, well I think that's your lot for this issue. If you feel that
YOU could have a nice little chat with us then please feel free to write a
little chit chat and save it to disk (in ASCII or FIRST WORD format) for
publication in POWER. Right, I'm off. I'll chat some more with you all
later. Nice talking to you.