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No 57
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EDITORIAL 25/2/92
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Inside Info No 57 has a swag of articles by ACE members. Contributions
from the membership for this issue outstriped previous efforts since I took
up the editorship (No 34). This editor was 'almost' too overwhelmed by the
bounty of members' contributions to plead for more (emphasis on 'almost').
Co-Editor, Phillip White is especially laudworthy, he supplied the title
screens and wrote several articles. See his review of John Hutchinson's
Crossword Creator.
To ACE members, Gary Spiteri, John Nielson, Swavek Jabrzemski, and Warwick
Cuneo who also contributed to this issue, much bonhommie is also due.
Bill Young favours us with further samples of his drawing technique - see
ARTSHOW. By the way Bill, I would like to disassociate myself from the
content of I.I. No 56's editorial, to which, you take exception in your
letter, (see ACE MAILBOX) - 'cause Phil writ it !
Phil's criticisms of Atari Australia, though harsh, have some validity.
Atari recently announced it had sold 2.5 million ST computers (world wide).
I doubt sales in Australia, would constitute a significant proportion of
this figure.
Of Mice and Men
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It seems only a few years ago that Bill Gates, the head honcho of IBM
said "real computers don't use windows, icons and menus".
IBM was not then ready for a user friendly interface (Windows) due to the
limitations imposed by IBM system archictecture, prior to their adoption
of '286 and '386 CPU's. Personally I find the Windows implementation on
these 'new generation' IBM's clunky and unlovely, and there is no plethora
of variations to suit individual requirements, as exists on our ST(e)s -
NeoDesk, KAOSDesK, Mint, GoGo, etc.
The TT, (supposedly no more than an 'interim' or 'stopgap' offering) is
unable to compete price-wise with '386, '486 boxes. Now there are rumours,
of a new competatively priced machine, to win back Atari market share.
Speculation, as to the nature of this microchip saviour (see Atari News),
ranges from a souped up, low cost 68030 based machine, to a 68040
RISC based machine, with 64 bit bus. An announcement from Atari Corp,
is expected within a few months.
ST/ST(e)/TT PROGRAMMERS
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The Infodisk program can run programs from within the magazine,
providing they are less than 32K. How about sending in a few of those
little gems for publication in Inside Info. Sharing is caring! Any
languages welcome.
ADVERTISERS
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ASCII text files or DEGAS/ELITE picture files can appear automatically
at bootup as well as within the main program. *Note ASCII text files
to appear at bootup are limited to 23 lines per screen.
Acceptable formats - ASCII, First Word (+), ST WRITER.
Pic format - Degas or Elite.
Inside Info, relies for its survival, on members' input..(plea=MORE).
Greg Smith
SUBMISSIONS
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Address submissions : ST EDITOR
GPO BOX 4514
SYDNEY 2001
NSW AUSTRALIA
Or leave mail to Greg Smith or Phillip White on ACE BBS.
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