¢FUTURA 8-BIT NEWS - ISSUE 9¢by Stuart J. Murray¢¢¢* I noticed in the latest issue of Atari Classics that ICD are looking for someone to buy out the rights to their infamous range of products (US Doubler, SpartaDOS, MAC-65, Action, etc.). Hopefully, we'll see the return of these amazing products soon!¢¢ If you're interested in negotiating a deal with ICD for the rights to one or more of their products, give Tom Harker a call on 815-968-2228, ext.320 (USA!). Perhaps ACPC or Micro Discount could negotiate a deal for the UK / Europe? How about it lads?¢¢¢* You've probably already read about a Spanish-language Atari magazine from Chile called STAK ATARI (it's been mentioned in recent issues of Page 6 and AC). Just in case you missed this info, here is the address...¢¢ REVISTA STAK ATARI,¢ Casilla 51552 STGO 1,¢ Correo Central,¢ Santiago de Chile,¢ CHILE.¢¢ Foreign subscriptions by Airmail are $50 (US) for the magazine only or $70 (US) for magazine and disk. STAK Atari does NOT accept cheques or credit cards! Send cash by Registered Airmail (preferably split into two or three letters).¢¢ The content of the magazine is supposedly about 60% 8-bit and sounds like a great source of 8-bit support for Spanish-speaking Atarians.¢¢ I might write to the editor, Rodrigo Gomez, to ask about the possibility of an English language version or a disk-only subscription (perhaps for $20). Watch this space!¢¢¢* Look out for lots of NEW software releases at AMS7 and after! Kemal Ezcam of KE-Soft (Germany) is set to release the long-awaited Lemmings-clone "Brundles" at the show! Other new titles to look out for include The Artefact, Bang Bank, Operation Blood (Light Gun Version), Miecze Valdgira II, Midnight, Special Forces and 8-Bit Tracker Replay. Oh boy, there goes my wallet!¢¢¢* Page 6 New Atari User issue 65 is due out on 30th November - remember to order your copy! Send 2.50 pounds to: Page 6, P.O. Box 54, Stafford, ST16 1DR, England. Six-issue subscriptions are only 15 pounds (mag) / 25 pounds (mag + disk). If you haven't ordered a copy for a while, I suggest you check out what you've been missing! It's worth the cover price alone just to read the columns by that strange space-travelling Scotsman!¢¢¢* Alex Pignato of OHAUG has written to thank me for the OHAUG article in Futura issue 8. Thanks Alex! However, he's a little worried that OHAUG will become swamped with new European Ol' Hackers (the current OHAUG membership is almost at an all-time high - the sign of a well-run user group!).¢¢ I suggest that everyone reading this news column should send away their OHAUG fees NOW! How does 100 new European Ol' Hackers sound Alex? (Alex: "Aghhhhhhh! Sheee cannae take much more of this captain!") Nah, only kidding! Don't worry guys!¢¢ For those of you interested in the Ol' Hackers, I suggest you take a look at the back-issues of the Ol' Hackers Newsletter in the NOSAUG PD Library. OHAUG have been kind enough to allow us permission to include these wonderful disks in our library. They each offer a huge amount of quality text and some good bonus programs too!¢¢ Also available from NOSAUG (we swap disks with OHAUG) are the excellent Turbo BASIC Programming Kit (by Ron Fetzer, author of the Turbo BASIC Flyer) and Disk Management System. Both of these disk sets received very favourable reviews in the USA (and Scotland!).¢¢ If you do still want to join OHAUG, I'm sure Alex and the membership will warmly welcome you into what has become probably the most influential Atari 8-bit user group in the USA! I've really enjoyed being a member over the last year or so - I only wish I could make it to one of the meetings in New York; perhaps next year when I buy my first private jet (grin). Please refer to OHAUG.DOC in the last issue of Futura for full details. OHAUG goes on!¢¢¢¢That's all of the news for issue 9!¢
