WEST OF SCOTLAND ATARI USER GROUP (Affiliated to The Association of Atari User groups) Issue number TWO, March 1996 WeST of Scotland ATARI User Group Our aim is to provide support for, and to foster communication between, Atari Computer owners in the West of Scotland, to provide timely information about Atari news, products, vendors, and service, and to find solitary Atari computer owners and encourage them to join the group. EDITORIAL First of all I would like to thank many people who have helped get the WSAUG off the ground including:- Andrew Wright (editor Atari World); Karen Levell (Editor ST Format); Paul Glover (Editor ST Applications); Harry Sideras (UKAAUG); Colin Fisher McCallum (Co Founder Falcon FacTT File and Sysop 42BBS) and of course Danny Ferguson (Owner of The Railway Inn). I would also like to thank all those that attended the first night and made me a very satisfied (and relieved man). SUBSCRIPTIONS We have decided that the subscription for membership up until the AGM in September will be œ5. Hopefully this and the sales of the PD stuff and simms will support the cost of the newsletter. For this subscription you will get a printed newsletter approximately every 4 weeks up until the AGM. The situation will be reappraised at that time. Could everybody who wishes to subscribe to the newsletter please forward a cheque or postal order, payable to The West of Scotland Atari User Group along with the attached membership form (if you haven't already done one), to Sandy Thomson, 41 Mayfield Crescent, Howwood, PA9 1BL Your membership number is on the label whether you have filled out a form or not (J denotes junior member). Hon denotes honorary member (ie Harry Sideras). THIS MONTH In this months newsletter we have a report on the inaugural meeting of the Group along with several other (hopefully) interesting items. Atari Merge with JTS Very recent news about the recent merger of Atari with a disk Drive manufacturer (?) Falcon FacTT File and 42BBS An article by Colin Fisher-McCallum one of the founders of the FFF and the sysop of the Bulletin Board 42 BBS (Editors note. 42BBS now has a local area called WSAUG. Any member with access to comms is welcome to log on to 42BBS and join us there for any discussions relating to WSAUG) The Atari A - Z A description by Mark S. Baines, well known and respected Atari author, who just happens to live in of his own book. I have this book and will bring it with me the Group nights. I would recommend it to everyone who uses an Atari. If you do decide to order a copy from Mark, please let him know you read about it here. Ed's Jukebox The first in a series of articles by Ed McGlone about using Atari's for music Upgrades Sandy has done a piece on some of the easiest and best upgrades that can transform your machine. C-Lab Falcons There is a short piece on C-Lab Falcons. NEWSLETTERS My intention is to send out a copy of this newsletter to everybody who has either written to me, or completed a membership form. From issue #3 only people who have completed a form will get a copy. SOFTWARE PIRACY "The WeST of Scotland Atari User Group does not condone software piracy and will not allow the group meetings be used to copy commercial software." Alasdair Goold INAUGURAL MEETING WeST of Scotland Atari User Group - Inaugural meeting Tuesday 20th February 1996 Railway Inn Main Street, Howwood, These are not minutes as such, but a report on the `goings on' at the first meeting. The rough head count was 27. The ages ranged from 13 to 60+. There were also at least 5/6 others who wanted to come but couldn't make it. Mike MacDonald who was going. We had a meeting based on the following Agenda 1. Welcome/Introduction Alasdair blethered for a while about why he had set the thing up and how, although he had organised it so far, it was not his User Group, it was *our* User Group. 2. Format/Location/Dates of meetings There was general agreement about the format of the meetings as set out in the newsletter. The location also received general agreement. It is accepted that it is difficult for Public Transport, but hopefully people can car share and help each other out. Again there was general agreement about the proposed dates of the meetings. 3. Newsletter (Frequency, articles etc) Most people agreed that a paper format was best. It will therefore continue to be done in Papyrus format and mailed out to members. Alasdair emphasized the need for input from the membership if we wanted the newsletter to continue. He stated his intention to put in Atari news from the 'net so that it reaches our offline members before it appears in AW, STF etc. The importance of not infringing any copyright was discussed and emphasised. 4. Finance Different ideas were discussed to finance stationery. As we are getting the premises for œ0ukp this is the only expense ATM We have decided on the following ways to raise money. i) A 6 month subscription (level to be set, but probably about œ5) from all adult members. A suggestion was made, and agreed on unanimously, that those in full time education (ie school age members , rather than college, university etc) will not have to pay for their newsletters. As most of these people have an adult coming to the club anyway, it is not a problem as we'll only be sending one newsletter to each address. ii) At the club we will fill a disk for you with PD for œ0.25 ukp iii) Donated old Atari mags and disks were being sold at the night for œ0.25 ukp iv) We have a supply of donated 256k simms to upgrade any 520STE's to 1mb for a œ5ukp. We raised œ12.25 at the 1st night. We are scrapping the idea of SAE's, we think the other methods should cover all the expense including envelopes stamps etc. All other correspondence should include an SAE though. 5. Any other business There was a bit of discussion about members bringing their hardware. On Tuesday Alasdair brought his Falcon set up. Sandy brought 3 complete set ups (Falcon, MSTE and STFM). In future we are only going to bring one system each. The room can comfortably accommodate 4 or 5 set ups. Basically we then just went over what we had already discussed to confirm some decisions. Alasdair then emphasized that although this had been a semi/very formal meeting the whole idea of the club was to have fun, and that future meets should give everybody a lot more time actually on the machines. There was a great interest in 2nd hand hardware. It was agreed that a general open invitation was being made to any of the staff of any of the magazines that could con the expenses out of their editors [g]. We also had a show of hands about who takes what mag. There was about 6 or 7 STF readers, the same for STA (none of whom are going to renew their subs, they don't like the disk mag format), and I would say 18-20 AW readers. There were 2 or 3 who didn't get any of the mags. 6. Formation of the steering committee Alasdair suggested, and it was agreed, that we form a 3 man steering committee. This will last until the meeting on 3rd September. We will have our 1st AGM then and take stock of how things are going. If all is going well, we will then elect a full committee for a 12 month period. A question was asked about what the committee was actually going to do. Alasdair/s answer was that the formation of the committee was primarily about accountability for the money being received 7. Election of committee The following were elected to the committee in the following positions Chairman - Alasdair Goold Treasurer - Sandy Thomson Minutes Secretary - Andy Wilson Alasdair asked if there were any other volunteers from the floor, but there were none at this time. No doubt something has been missed out. The discussion went on for the best part of an hour and a half. I think that everyone agreed that it was very promising start to The WeST of Scotland Atari User Group. AG/AW FUTURE 1996 MEETINGS Meetings will take place within the upstairs lounge of The Railway Inn, Main Street, Howwood. The doors will be open from 7pm and each meeting will start at 7:30pm. The proposed dates for the meetings to be held in 1996 are as follows. 1996 MEETING 19 MARCH 16 APRIL 14 MAY 11 JUNE 9 JULY 6 AUGUST 3 SEPTEMBER - AGM 1 OCTOBER 29 OCTOBER 26 NOVEMBER 24 DECEMBER -NO MEETING All dates are provisional at the moment and will depend on both the response to the groups as a whole, and the continued suitability and availability of the Railway Inn. AG ATARI NEWS From The San Francisco Chronicle, FEBRUARY 14, 1996 Atari, the video game pioneer whose health has been failing for several years, yesterday announced a merger that could either save it or put it out of its misery. The Sunnyvale-based company said it has agreed to acquire JTS, a San Jose maker of computer disk drives, for about $ 80 million in stock. However, Atari will become a division of the merged company, which will take the JTS name and be run by JTS officers. Jugi Tandon, founder and chairman of JTS, will serve as chairman of the new company, and JTS President and Chief Executive Tom Mitchell will hold those posts. Jack Tramiel, chairman of Atari since 1984, will be relegated to a seat on the JTS board, but his family holds 43 percent of Atari's stock and may end up with the largest stake in the merged company. The deal provides JTS with needed capital in its bid to become a major supplier of disk drives for desktop and portable personal computers. Founded in 1994, the company expects to ship 2 million drives this year, according to Mitchell. ''Atari has a lot of excess cash, and we're a growing company and we need cash,'' Mitchell said in explaining why his JTS went for the merger. Atari has some $ 50 million on hand. The merger could give Atari some breathing room in its battle to survive the heated video game wars against Nintendo, Sega and Sony. But Mitchell said JTS intends to focus on the disk drive business, and it was unclear how long the company will support Atari and its Jaguar video game system, which has failed to establish a major foothold in the market. Atari will continue to sell Jaguar consoles and games that run on it at least until current inventories are exhausted. At that point, company officials say a decision will be made whether to stay in the business Analysts said Mitchell, a production expert, may be able to cut costs enough to keep Jaguar in the market. ''The thinking is that there is lots of confusion in the market,'' said analyst Lee Isgur of Jefferies & Co. ''With a low-cost strategy, they can keep in the business this year and then see if there is an opportunity for the future.'' Atari, which has about 30 employees in its Sunnyvale headquarters, also operates a unit called Atari Interactive, created early this year to develop games for PCs and other video game systems. The company, which pioneered the video game business in the early 1970s with such games as Pong and Pac-Man under founder Nolan Bushnell, foundered in the late 1980s amid technological strides by Japanese competitors. By the time the Jaguar was introduced in late 1993, Nintendo and Sega were too far ahead to catch. In the third quarter of 1995 -- the latest for which it has reported results -- Atari lost $ 13.5 million on sales of just $ 4.1 million. It has posted losses in two of the last three years, and its annual revenues have dropped from a peak of $ 452 million in 1987 to just $ 38 million last year. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Atari will issue 40 million new shares of common stock to JTS shareholders. Following the merger, Atari shareholders would hold some 60 percent of the new company's outstanding shares. Time Warner is Atari's second-biggest shareholder with some 12 percent of the outstanding stock. To help finance the deal, Atari is giving JTS a $ 25 million bridge loan. If the merger collapses, the loan could be converted to JTS preferred stock. TIMELINE FOR ATARI 1972 -- Founded by Silicon Valley pioneer Nolan Bushnell. He got the ball rolling with two of the most successful early arcade games, Pong and Pac-Man. 1975 -- Some 150,000 home versions of Pong are sold. 1976 -- Atari sold to Warner Communications for $ 28 million. 1978 -- Bushnell leaves Atari to create Chuck E. Cheese pizza parlours. 1980 -- Fueled by the success of its home video system, Atari posts sales of $ 415 million. 1980 -- Atari introduces its first personal computer, which proves to be a money loser. 1983 -- The video game business stalls, leaving Atari $ 533 million in the red. 1984 -- Warner sells Atari to Jack Tramiel, who had been chief executive of Commodore, Atari's rival in the early home computer market. 1986 -- Persistence pays off as low-cost PCs help Atari rebound with a profit of $ 25 million. 1992 -- Atari loses a lawsuit in which it accused Nintendo of monopolizing the video game market. 1993 -- The company reorganizes, stripping away its overseas operations. Revenues drop from a peak of $ 452 million in 1988 to just $ 28.8 million. Late in the year, Atari introduces Jaguar, a video game system that boasts better peformance than Nintendo and Sega systems but costs twice as much. 1994 -- Sega invests $ 40 million in Atari and gets access to the company's patent portfolio. 01/96-- Atari Interactive, a new division, is created to develop games for PCs and other platforms. 02/96-- Atari announces it will merge with JTS, a maker of computer disk drives. BYLINE: David Einstein, Chronicle Staff Writer FALCON FACT FILE/42 BBS The Falcon FacTT File was first launched in Dec 1993 by Colin Fisher-McCallum, along with Kev Beardsworth, and Roger Derry. Originally a user group for Falcon owners, the FFF was set up to encourage user to help user. Things either move on or stagnate, the FFF cannot be accused of standing still. First we produced a listing of members and their set ups using Roger's NameNet Address Manager. It wasn't long before Hints & Tips were being sent in by members, these were added to the listing. Kev and Colin started writing reviews of the new soft/hardware they bought and published them in the listing. Again the adventurous members sent in their articles for inclusion. NameNet coped well but the text content was by now getting very heavy and we wanted to include screenshots... We now use CAB the HTML-Browser! As we share a common CPU, the Motorolla 68030, owners of TTs and PAKs were invited to join us. A Falcon FacTT File message echo was opened on NeST and the distribution of the monthly listings joined the 20th century and is now hatched into the Network as an encrypted archive to protect members personal data. The echo proved popular and to spread it wider was gated with FanFilesrs. Having been bitten by the comms bug our own BBS has been opened, 42BBS is the home of the Falcon FacTT File and offers personal InterNet addresses, closed message and file areas to members as well as the usual Networked echoes. Running on a Falcon, 24 hours a day at speeds up to 28,800 on +44 (0)1256-895106, 42BBS is open to all, but FFF members have the bonus of extra online time and download limits. If you are thinking of buying a new Word Processor, find a member who has the one you are interested in and give them a call to ask what they think of it. Or if you have just bought a printer and having trouble setting it up, look for a member with the same set-up and call for advice. In this way you will soon build up a group of contacts with similar soft/hardware and general computing interests. The completed and signed membership form (if under 18 years signed by a parent or guardian and noted as such) must be received by us, with a High Density disk and return postage (or International Postage Coupons). The FFF Membership Listing is distributed each month. The file itself is a NameNet Address Manager data listing of all members plus hints, tips, questions and answers. Our reviews/news are in HTML format and published bimonthly. The version of NameNet supplied is Shareware, members may register at special rates. CAB [HTML-Browser] is also supplied. The Data Protection Registrar informs us that there is no legal problem of the FFF listing being made available on line if it is encoded and only members are given the encryption code. A member would have to call Kev or Colin for the latest code once they have downloaded the file. Upgrades via post or Email would be accepted. Members without modems may still contact others by phone or post. FFF membership is free. Therefore, without return postage and a disk [if required] we will not be able to respond. All we ask members to do is, if joining or upgrading by post, always supply return postage and, if you have some new PD/Shareware (or the fruits of your own programming!) that would be of interest to other members, put it on the disk. May the FFForce be with you! Colin Fisher-McAllum The Falcon FacTT File Email: colinfm@cix.compulink.co.uk 11 Pound Meadow, Whitchurch, Hants. RG28 7LG, UK. CF-M ED's JUKEBOX This is the first of a series of (hopefully) monthly articles concentrating on the musical side of the Atari range of computers. I bought my first ST in 1988. At that time I was working full time as a musician and had come across Macintosh and Atari computers in some recording studios. I wanted to start using the computer as a tool for composition and recording and at that time, the Atari ST was the most sensible choice. It was much more reasonably priced than the Mackintosh, had a very similar operating system and came with the all important MIDI sockets as standard. It also had a large ( and growing ) number of music programs available for it. The availability of software and the competitive price of the hardware made the ST the music computer of choice in Europe and countless numbers of hit records have been made using ST's ever since. So how does it work? Well, many of the sounds you hear in today's recordings are not real instruments but electronic representations of them created by synthesizers. Ever since The Beatles recorded Sergeant Pepper's, it has been the norm to use so called multi-track tape recorders when recording popular music. The tape recorder, instead of having two tracks like a domestic cassette deck ( left and right ) has 4,8,16 or even 24 separate tracks. The recording process usually involves each part - drums, bass, guitars, piano, voices etc. being recorded one at a time whilst listening to those parts which have already been recorded. This gives the artist a great degree of flexibility and control during the build up of a song or piece of music and indeed allows one person to play all of the instruments one at a time - popularly pioneered by Mike Oldfield in his famous "Tubular Bells" . Since many of the parts in a song were already being generated electronically, it seemed logical to use a computer to control the synthesizers directly. The parts could be played by the musician into a computer which would record exactly what notes were played, when they were played, how hard the keys were hit etc. The computer passed this information straight out to the synthesizers so that the musician could hear what he was playing but all of that information was retained in the computer's memory and could be saved to a disk. This means that the performance could be re-created by the computer at any time and crucially, with the right software, could be edited in many different ways. This could be to correct mistakes, to play the music back in different keys or simply to modify the original performance in line with how the musician felt the piece should go. The MIDI standard allows for the information for 16 different instruments to be sent down the one cable simultaneously so you can imagine the impact this had on the way we write and record music. With an ST supplying most of the backing tracks, song arrangements could be easily modified adjusted and honed right up to the time when the final master recordings had to be made. Parts could be changed by the record's producer even when the people who had played the parts were no longer in the studio. Entire backing tracks could be programmed and recorded and perfected by musicians at home before any expensive time was wasted in the recording studios. Even to this day, most recording studios have a ST available for use by their clients. Musicians who are not computer buffs like their ST's because they are simple to use and extremely reliable. The two most popular music packages in the world - Cubase and Notator - were first developed on the ST and although more new sales now go to the PC or Mac platforms, the sheer number of packages that have been sold over the past 8 - 10 years means that probably over half the number of people using a computer for music still are doing so on a ST. So, what do you need to get started? Well, an ST. A half meg machine will be able to run some smaller music packages but one meg or more is recommended for the more powerful software. Any MIDI keyboard. Most electronic keyboards sold over the past few years will come with some sort of MIDI interface. The sockets are five pin DIN type and you will probably need a keyboard which has both in and out sockets. Yamaha PSS series keyboards and most Casios fall into this category. Two MIDI leads - one from the keyboard into the computer and one from the computer back into the keyboard. Music sequencing software. This varies from freeware or shareware like Accompanist or Alchemie Jr up to packages like Cubase / Notator which cost several hundred pounds. The choice is yours. So if you've ever felt like writing some music but didn't think you could, get your ST out and make some noise! Next Month: Digital Audio recording and the death of the tape recorder! EMcG UPGRADES After you've had your Atari ST for a while, you begin to realise that there are some programs or games your machine won't look at. The main reason will probably be LACK OF MEMORY. I bought my first 520 STFM in March 1991 (found the receipt the other day) and , after using a 16K Spectrum, felt that I had more than enough memory to last for years. Well, we all know about that, don't we?? So your first upgrade will probably be to 1, 2, or 4meg. If you've got a STFM, then it's off to the shop with your pride and joy. If you've got a 520STE however, its a different ball game (See Alasdair for HIS special offer.) Once you have adequate memory, you might be considering how to improve your machine further and if your monitor and printer are O.K., then you should consider a HARD DRIVE. Today's hard drive prices are FAR LOWER than last year A 170meg Mini-S would have cost about œ300 last year; it now costs about the same for a 540 meg. As you will see at the club nights, the MSTe has an internal 540meg Quantum h/d. When I bought it, it came with a 105meg installed It was fairly easy to change the units physically (Yep he told me to do it for him AG), but getting the jumpers correct was another matter. (If I remember right, we took them all off) IN OR OUT ? Once the decision is made to buy a hard drive, the next decision is probably more difficult. Internal or external??? If you have a standard STE or STFM, the decision is made for you, as there is no room inside the casing for a H/D. If however you have a MST, MSTe , TT , or FALCON, then there is space set aside for this purpose. As the Atari Falcon uses an internal 2 «" IDE drive, we'll leave that subject for another day. SO, Internal or External ? INTERNAL PROs Bare drive is cheaper, tidier leaves ACSI port for use INTERNAL CONs Bad news if it breaks not portable between machines EXTERNAL PROs Portable easy to send for repair EXTERNAL CONs Slower more expensive, untidy, esp if several in use (Sorry,Alasdair) So, If you've got more than one Atari, get an external. However, if you're short of desk-space,get an internal. (If that is your choice, there's a little place in Govan..............) All the above does not take into account the tower casings and Desk-toppers which are now readily available, but as I've never even SEEN one in the flesh, so to speak, I can't comment. ANYBODY OUT THERE GOT ONE TO SHOW US ????? ST C-LAB FALCONS Most of what follows is sourced from Toad Computers in the US. I have no idea as to availability of C-Lab machines, or just how "sleek" the Mk X actually is. C-Lab Falcon MK-X. For those of you who don't know, MK-X is the latest in the line of Falcon computers from C-Lab, and it's expandible -- in a sleek new desktop case, with room for disk drives, expansion boards and more. WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THE C-LAB HARDWARE? The C-Lab Falcon machines use the SAME motherboard as the Atari Falcon030. They have made a few component replacements to clean up audio circuitry and fix CPU timing problems. On MK-II machines, they feature an internal SCSI bus made possible by an adapter board that piggybacks onto the chips & port that make the external SCSI port possible. There is no difference between an Atari Falcon and a C-Lab Falcon motherboard -- the difference is in the components used and, in the case of the MK-II, the extra SCSI daughterboard. Even the Falcon MK-X uses the same motherboard as the Atari Falcon030, so you can use all standard expansions & RAM boards in the MK-X. Owners of all Falcon machines (Atari Falcon030, C-Lab Falcon MK-I, C-Lab Falcon MK-II) may upgrade to MK-X by sending their computer to Toad. Computers for modification and fitting into the new case. C-Lab has not released a price on this upgrade yet, but Toad Computers expect it to be in the neighbourhood of (US)$300. The upgrade would include not only the new case, but also the audio and CPU modifications that are included in the C-Lab design. C-Lab are still developing a main stream TOS based machine and are actively advertising it in UK mags. There must be a market for them. I wish them every success AG HINTS and TIPS Calligrapher's alter ego You were asking for contributions to the next newsletter so here is a little tip to start things off which some people might find useful Are you one of the many people who got Calligrapher on an ST Review cover disk about a couple of years back? Maybe you thought it was quite a nice programme and perhaps even, like me, actually got the full version and manual through the upgrade offer. Then perhaps, you eventually started to get tired of the slow screen updates and so so print quality and thought about getting something else (like Papyrus) Don't forget though that Calligrapher can also print using the inbuilt fonts in the printer (unlike Papyrus)-- using the text only mode also makes for much faster screen updates. The problem with this is that, unless you can understand how to type in lots of obscure printer codes, you will finish up with just ASCII. I tried a few printer codes and then the next time I ran the programme, they had disappeared. What happens is that they are saved automatically in a file called CAL.OPT when you exit the programme, unless you are running from floppy in which case nothing will happen if the floppy is write protected which is what happened to me until I got a hard drive. But now I can get bold, italics, superscript etc as well as foreign characters. For documents such as letters where you want the fast printing of printer inbuilt fonts, this programme has far more to offer than First Word plus for instance as the text functions are still available. But what about all those control codes, you ask. I have installed the codes for Epson LQ which should work with everything that can use Epson codes including the Canon BJ series and most dot matrix printers. To make life easier, I am enclosing my CAL.OPT file so anyone will be able to get a copy of it at the next meeting if you want to try it out Another little quirk of Calligrapher is that if you try to set up a RAM disk as drive P which is the letter I usually use, it won't pick it up for some reason. But you can use a RAM disk with Calligrapher (which is always the best thing to do if you have the memory but not a hard drive) just by using an earlier letter for the ram disk (G or H or something). Very strange! David Owen FORUM Subject: Atari User Group of Scotland Hi Al, Finally I've managed to get in contact with Fraser Blacklaws at the above user group. His new address and phone number were hiding away in ST Format's PD Library section (of all things). To confirm, it is: Atari User Group (Scotland) 50 Jones Green Knightsbridge West Livingstone EH54 8QB Tel: 01506 432521 His group doesn't hold meetings, but it does provide a PD Library (1000+ disks - 7 years standing) and a newsletter of second hand sales (no articles). Fraser also does hardware repairs and stuff like that, so it seems like there's no crossover between what you're doing and what he's providing. Harry Sideras HARDWARE UPGRADES If you have, or know of someone with a 520 STE we have a supply of simms chips to upgrade these to 1 megabyte machines. We will have these at the meetings so if you bring the machine with you we will supply and fit them there and then for you. For this service we will charge œ5 per upgrade. The half meg upgrades are chips that have come from machines that have been upgraded already and have therefore been obtained free of charge. The funds raised for the club would be used toward stationary costs etc. IMPORTANT Please remember that if any machine is opened to be upgraded it is done at the owners own risk, and that it would invalidate any warranty still existing. FOR SALE & WANTED I've got copies of both Hisoft Basic 1 and 2.1 to get rid of. The former is a copy of the cover disk and is offered together with the original Hisoft manual. Anyone offering a fiver can have it -- if you are really hard up I might even give it away! The 2.1 is the latest version including nearly 800 pages of manuals. It's brand new and still wrapped. I would appreciate about œ20 for this For anyone who is keen to learn Basic, this is a good package. I'd be happy to get together with anyone buying the programme if you are a beginner and pass on my limited knowledge. Conversely if there's anyone out there who's already proficient, I could be the student instead! As I'm upgrading to NVDI 4, I expect my copy of Speedo 4 to be available for sale shortly. This is ideal for Papyrus, Timeworks 2.04, Atari Works etc. Most modern software can use it. If you have a Hard Disk (recommended) and 2 meg of RAM, you should have this. A mere œ15 will secure it. For further details contact David on 0141-6321915 STE/FALCON Software for Sale: I'm looking for offers for the following software, which is all in perfect condition :- Cyber Paint, Rainbow, Dogfight, Caesar, Bloodwych, Flight of the Intruder, Dragons of Flame, Falcon (STE version) and both mission disks: Op Counterstrike & Op Firefight, Cumana external floppy drive. œ35. BOOKS: Atari ST Machine Language, (Abacus Software), ST Disk Drives Inside & Out (Abacus Software). Tel: Alasdair on 01505 328254. FOR SALE : STe 4 meg Upgrade TOS 1.62 + Cumana ext DD + boxed games œ250o.v.n.o. also STFM 4 meg Upgrade TOS 1.2 - 2.06 switchable + Atari SF 314 ext DD + boxed games œ200o.v.n.o. Tel. Sandy on 01505 703813 WANTED; Microvitec Multisync 1438 14" monitor or similar, Tel. Sandy on 01505 703813 CREDITS This Newsletter was prepared on a Falcon030 using Papyrus Gold with N.V.D.I. and printed at 300 dpi on a Hewlett Packard Deskjet 500C. The headings are in Swiss 721 12pt text and the body text is in Times New Roman 10 pt. Contributors: Alasdair Goold, Sandy Thomson, Ed McGlone, Colin Fisher - McCallum, David Owen Mark S Baines, David Einstein. (½ WSAUG, 1996)