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= A GREAT MORNING/AFTERNOON/EVENING/NIGHT TO YOU! =======================
On the disk in your disk drive you will find "ST NEWS" Volume 10 Issue
1. It has taken quite a while to finish it, due to a wide variety of
circumstances both private and academic, but it's ready. Suffice, for
now, to tell you that it was finished on June 17th 1995, and that it's
the 39th issue in total and the 12th since "ST NEWS" went undead.
Below you will find some more details concerning this issue (like how to
copy it and what's in it).
Have fun reading,
Richard Karsmakers
a.k.a. Cronos
of the Amazing Cracking Conspiracy (ACC)
of the Quartermass Experiment (QX)
(Editor)
= WHAT'S IN IT, HEX? ====================================================
Yes, indeed, what may be found here? Below you will find a summary of
some of the most important bits, the CAPITALIZED parts of which PD
library owners are invited to use in their catalogues.
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INTERVIEWS WITH DREAM THEATER, ABADDON OF VENOM, SEPTIC FLESH AND MORE!
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Once more we have pained ourselves considerably to find interesting
people to interview...
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SECRETS OF "GENEVA"!
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Mr Al Fasoldt, rather famous person on more than just a few Atari users'
circles, some time ago write this unmissable "Secrets of Geneva" article.
We got kind permission to use it here...
=========================================================================
ADVENTURE SOLUTIONS: "ARTHUR, THE QUEST FOR EXCALIBUR", "HUGO II -
WHODUNIT", "INGRID'S BACK", "MARTIAN MEMORANDUM" AND MORE!
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Why wait for multiple (or 'stranger') aeons until another magazine
chucks out the odd tip on your favourite adventure that you've been stuck
on ever since the week after you bought it? "ST NEWS" has offered
solutions to over *100* ST and PC adventures. You need look no
further; check out the "Adventure Solutions Index". If your favourite
adventure's not in there then there's quite a chance it's not actually an
adventure.
By now, Math might actually have grown a beard. Haven't heard from him
in a while...
=========================================================================
LITERARY BIT: "THE BLOODLESS COUP"!
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Our #1 fiction contributor, Mr Roy Stead, has given us the sole
permission to feature his first complete novel, "The Bloodless Coup". The
bulk of this issue's "fiction" segment (as well as that of the next three
"ST NEWS" issues) will be taken up by that piece of work...
=========================================================================
REVIEWS: "FREEDOM" (ALTERNATIVE ITEM SELECTOR), "ALIEN LOVE SECRETS"
(EP), "RAINBOW II MULTIMEDIA" (DRAWING PROGRAM INCLUDING MORE), "THE
ANGEL AND THE DARK RIVER" (CD), "LLAMAZAP" (GAME), P.J. HARVEY (CONCERT)
AND MORE!
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The various contributors to "ST NEWS" don't just use their computers...
no, they also read books and listen to various bits of digital sound.
Sometimes, indeed, they leave their dark attics to go out and mingle
among other mortals to see concerts and films and the like. So some
opinions may be found here as well...
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AN EVEN MORE COMPLETE FALCON SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITY LIST!
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Now you can see for yourself what old and recent stuff doesn't work on
the Falcon and, vastly more important, what *does*. It is probably the
most complete list of its kind, and trustworthy too; much of this stuff
is from my own experience...
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INTERESTING PROGRAMS TO BOOT!
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As usual you get some extra bits of software. This time, for example,
you'll get a program to boost the resolution of your Falcon, a nice
resident MOD player, a great version of a genetic "Monopoly" (though not
called by the name, of course), an excellent shoot-'em-up called "Plutos"
and even more...
=========================================================================
= NOTES ABOUT COPYING ===================================================
I will be brief. Just like the 38 prior issues, "ST NEWS" is about as
Public Domain as you can get. Spread it, copy it, sell it (as CHEAP as
possible please), I don't mind. It is important that as many people as
possible get this issue, so give it to a friend for his/her birthday! In
case you're the owner of a Public Domain library, you are much encouraged
to include it in that. I need NO royalties. This is NO licenseware. You
can keep whatever profit you make yourself. I just hope it isn't too much
- no need to rip off honest readers, is there?
The disk format is:
Tracks : 0-79
Sectors per track : 11 (that's hyper-formatted)
Number of sides : 2 (would have done 3 if only it were possible)
You can copy it with just about any modern disk copier (though Martin
Backschat's "FastCopy" would be a most excellent choice (free plug
there)). And anyway, it's not *how* you copy it that's important, as long
as you *do* copy it, possible in the *largest* numbers!
Be wise and steer clear of expensive PD libraries. And please send a
donation now and again if you've enjoyed our efforts. I have received one
donation (hi Marinos!) in the last three years or something.
= NOTES ABOUT COMPATIBILITY =============================================
Atari (MEGA) ST(E): "ST NEWS" runs on all systems, including those with
512 Kb memory (though 1 Mb minimum would be nice, and
better). Graphic cards are not supported. Please use
medium or high resolution only.
Atari TT : "ST NEWS" has been tested on a TT and works when
launched from either ST medium or ST high resolution.
Atari Falcon 030 : "ST NEWS" runs smoothly from any 80-column VGA/RGB/TV
resolution with the exception of "VGA with double
line on and 2 colours" or "TV/RGB non-interlaced with
2 colours" (in which cases it will bomb). Any 40-
column resolution (including ST low resolution
compatibility mode) will cause all GEM and VDI draw
commands to be limited to the left half of the
screen. Also, the file selector needed to specify an
ASCII/WP file to be written is usually coloured
wrongly and drawn partly off the screen due to GEM
not being properly re-initialised. Any suggestions on
how to fix these problems?
Keeping [ALTERNATE] pressed during booting on a
Falcon with VGA monitor connected will cause the
program to use ST high resolution mode instead of ST
medium (among other things, this slows down the
scroller).
"ST NEWS" hasn't yet been tested on a Falcon with
SM124/5 monochrome monitor. If you can test this,
please let me know the result. Should work, though.
GEMulator : "ST NEWS" works with it, as long as you have the
music turned off.
MultiTOS / Geneva : "ST NEWS" will not work with any multi-tasking OS, as
it uses no GEM at all. Please disable it.
Warp 9 : Exiting "ST NEWS" may freeze the system with "Warp 9"
active. This can be fixed by adding the line
"ST_NEWS.PRG s0 b0 j0" (turn screen accelerator,
mouse block and mouse jump off) in the "WARP.DAT"
automatic configuration file.
BlowUp 030 : Exiting "ST NEWS" will cause a return to a distorted
screen. This is likely to happen with other extended
screen resolution drivers, including "ScreenBlaster".
Please disable them. Does anyone know a solution?
I've heard it may be a bug in "BlowUp" though...
Disk drives : There are a few (very few) disk drives that can't
handle 11 sectors per track. I am very sorry, but I
would use a smaller format if I could. There's too
much stuff I want to put in "ST NEWS" but not quite
enough simply to increase the frequency of its
appearance, and I *never* want to start using TWO
disks. Maybe, one day when everybody has HD drives, I
will switch to HD disks.
That's it. No use reading any further.
S T N E W S
*THE* ATARI ST/STE/TT/FALCON MULTI MEDIA DISK MAGAZINE
BECAUSE THERE JUST ISN'T ENOUGH TROUBLE IN THE WORLD
THE END OF THE "ST NEWS" VOLUME 10 ISSUE 1 TEXT FILE