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--- BY GARY SIMMONS ---
Well another CHIT CHAT and again I have no idea what I am going to waffle
on about. This could break all records for being the shortest, most boring
or the most nonsensical (or all three) CHIT CHAT ever. Usually I seem to
have a few bits of gossip or news that I can tell you about but try as I
might, nothing good is coming to me as I sit here plonking away at the
keyboard. It could be that it is 7:20 am and I am feeling like shit because
I would rather be asleep in bed. What am I doing banging away on the old
Atari this early on a Sunday (yup! its really 7:20 Sunday) you ask. Well
like it or not I am going to tell you and while I am at it I may as well
tell you a little bit about myself...
Family: I am married to a perfect woman called Rita who puts up with all
my strange ways and humour (she actually likes my jokes) and is the only
person who can see through me when I start pretending I know all about a
subject and start to lecture my friends. I'm sorry if that sounds a bit
vague but you have to know me to understand. I have two daughters, Kelly
and Vikki who must have at least a million friends each and every one of
them take turns to phone them up at least twice a day. This means our phone
is in constant use and we have to douse it in cold water every 90 minutes
otherwise it gets so hot the plastic melts and it sticks to your ear. Kelly
is the oldest and the most like Rita. She is organised, sensible and very
hardworking. Vikki is the youngest, and most like me, she is unorganised,
leaves keys, books, money and anything else on buses, in McDonalds and
anywhere else she can. She also has my sense of humour and does stupid
things.
Hobbies: I like fishing and messing about with my Atari.
Work : I work for the Woolwich in the property services. I leave my
house at 7:45am and get home anytime between 7 to 8 in the evening Monday
to Friday and on Saturday I leave for work 8:30am and get home at 4:30pm. I
don't get paid enough but at least it's a job, it doesn't leave much time
for other stuff so that is my excuse for not learning to program.
Ok, I'm fed up with doing me so let me tell you about why I am here instead
of being in bed. Remember Vikki? - she's the nutty one. Last night she
decided she was going to go on a paper round with her mate. She had to get
up at 6am and meet them at 6:30am. No big deal you may think, but you don't
know Vikki! When she is not at school she can easily sleep until noon and
still be tired all day. When I asked her why she wanted to go on a paper
round she said, "'coz it will be a laugh!". The only way to get her up at
that time in the morning is to plug her tongue into the mains and throw a
rat under the quilt. That is why I had to get up at 5:55am on Sunday to
wake her up. I couldn't go back to sleep so that is why I ended up on my
Atari feeling like shit.
One last thing about this little episode, since I have been doing this
Vikki has come back and immediately jumped back into bed and is now fast
asleep.
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I went to the Atari show in London a few weeks ago and met James for the
first time. The show was good - James was awful. Nah!, not really, only
joking James. It is the second Atari show that I have been to and I
prefered it to the first one, there seemed to be more there and I got to
talk to more people (not hard really as I didn't speak to anyone at the
first one). Warpzone were conspicuous by there absence but PDL's were
represented by Goodmans, Merlin and Riverdene although I am not sure that
Riverdene were actually selling PD at the show as it seemed all they were
advertising was their commercial stuff and hardware. Caspian Software were
showing a preview of thier new game (the name escapes me at the moment) but
it looks totally amazing. The usual mix of hardware and software companies
were also fairly well represented with plenty of Atari's and a few Falcon's
scattered around to mess about with. The thing that amazed me was that
there were plenty of Jaguars advertised and on sale but none were out for
playing on. Vic Wright of ST Handbook got one out at the end of the show
but by then most people had left. It made me wonder if they had not put one
out earlier in case everyone just congregated around the Jaguar and not
bothered with the rest of the stalls.
I am not going to go on about the show too much as I expect James will give
a good run down of what was there and I am going to do an article about it
anyway. Read it if you can because I might just give you all the dirt on
our glorious leader and editor.
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My bit of news is that I intend starting a PD library called ASCIILUM PDL.
The name is a play on words linking ASCII and Asylum. The reason I have
explained this is that someone - who shall remain nameless - didn't get it
and I had to explain it to them. One of the reasons I decided on ASCIILUM
is that I should be in a bloody asylum to start up a PDL when most of them
are now going bust. In the past I have offered cheap disks, swapping PD and
to be a contact and have had a pretty lousy response so come on you
Atarians let's have a bit of support with this one.I won't promise next day
delivery and I won't promise a help line (you probably know more than me
anyway) but I will try to give the best that I can. The catalogue won't be
ready until about a week after the release of POWER so you may have to wait
a couple of days for the catalogue if you want one. Just send a blank disk
and I will pay for return postage.
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Computer Porn. We have all heard of it but has anyone actually seen it? I
don't mean the slideshows of semi naked ladies that are no worse than what
you see in the Sun newspaper, but the real hardcore stuff. I hadn't until
recently but I now know what all the fuss is about. Yes it is a shame that
this is readily available to people who shouldn't be seeing it and yes, it
is going to be bloody hard to control it, and yes it is going to be
immpossible to stop it. So is there an answer? I've thought about it 'coz I
wanted to do an article about it but for the first time it has left me
without an idea and completely speechless (or should that be wordless?).The
only thing I can come up with is that if one of these disks comes into your
possession DON'T spread it - not even to friends - as you cannot be sure
that they will not spread it to others. Those who want computer porn will
find it anyway. If some comes into your possession and you don't want it
blank it straight away, don't keep it just to show a mate - you might get
tempted to pass it on. In other words, self-regulation is the only true way
to control the situation and that is a pretty lame way to do it. Perhaps we
should all stop talking about it - so I will shut up.
So what did I do with the one I saw? - now that would be telling - self
regulation remember!
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Atari Update is a new disk mag by a guy called David Pettifer that I have
been mentioning off and on for a few months now and the first issue has
finally hit the streets. I think David has a small crew helping him but I
am not too sure about that. It has lots of reviews and all the stuff you
expect from a diskmag and I think it is quite well done. Please invest in a
stamp and a disk and write to David and he will send you a copy. There has
been a lot of effort put into the mag and a few requests for a copy would
really be appreciated. I wish I had put this at the start of my CHIT CHAT
as I seem to have rambled on quite a bit and there may not be many of you
left reading this. Those that have got this far please ask him for a copy
and tell him I sent you THANKS. (ATARI UPDATE #1 can be obtained from POWER
P.D. on disk PWR 368 - POWER).
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That's it folks - I'm done, see you next month.