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How It All Began
How It All Began


                    ~~~~ HOW IT ALL BEGAN ~~~~
                    ==========================


This is the whole story on how 'POWER' came about:

It all  started in 1988 - The year I got my ST.  Before that I had

had  an  Atari  800  XL and before that I had  that  beauty  of  a

machine,  The Atari 400 with a massive 16k.  Yes I was down to the

serious  stuff.   No  ZX81's for me (ALthough I now  have  a  ZX81

emulator!).   The  Atari  400 was given to me by my uncle  and  it

didn't even have a tape deck.  It just took cartridges.  As far as

I  was concerned back then was that a computer was playing  Pacman

with.  Well then after about 4 years, I got bored of Pacman and we

moved  on to technology so advanced that our next computer had  an

even  bigger 64k AND it had a tape deck!!!   Well you can  imagine

how  over the moon I was but it was now about 1986 and  technology

was starting to move much faster.   On December 25th, 1988, I woke

up to a brand new,  gleaming ST with 512k.   It was like nothing I

had ever had.   I was about 9 then and untill I was about 12, that

ST  did  nothing  except load the games that came  free  with  the

package.  I thought this was all brilliant untill I discovered....

'The World Of P.D."  Games for only £1.50; could it be true?!  Yes

it could.  I ordered so much P.D. that in the end I had to order a

strange  device known as 'A disk box'.   I then saw an  intresting

utility  in my P.D.  catalouge and seeing as it was only  £1.50  I

thought I would give it a try.  So I ordered it.   It was  alright

and  after that I started to find out how much the ST was  capable

of and I decided that I would try and use it to it's full  extent.



The  first  thing I did was start using  the  Word  Processor,   I

filled  up my disk with files and had to make another copy of  1st

Word therefore learning how to copy and format a disk.   I started

learning very fast and enjoyed every second of it.  Within about a

year I was programming games of my own in Stos Basic.   Although I

enjoyed writing my games with names such as,  "Attack of the  over

ripe  banana!" I still felt I wanted to be more involved  with  my

computer.  I started buying computer magazines because of this and

with the free disks and imfo to help me get even more involved  in

computing I felt quite happy.


Then my baby brother was born!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Why oh why, I do not know but since the age of about 3 minutes and

24  seconds  he had got himself into the habit of  ripping  up  my

magazines  and  eating  them (ALIVE!).   I  wouldn't  even  notice

because I hadn't had time untill a few days after purchase and  by

then my magazine was lucky to be in less than 3 million peices.  I

would have found out more about computers by treading in a load of

dog  sh*t,  purely by accident got 3 kilograms of it into a  tooth

paste  tube  and  then  brushing my teeth with  it  (what  a  nice

thought!).

In other words buying magazines just wasn't worth it anymore!

Then  I saw a load of Disk magazines reveiwed.   Could  this  mean

that there was actually a magazine on a disk?   It seemed so,  and

after a while I ordered a few.  After a few editions of a few disk

mags I made a few decisions (few!).   Those descisions were that I



wanted  to  write a disk magazine;  so I ordered a  disk  magazine

construction kit sort of thing straight away and I am afraid  this

is how it ended up.

So that was how 'POWER' was born.   Hopefully 'POWER' will grow up

like  my  baby brother and will eat all paper based  magazines  as

they are just not needed anymore!

On  a more serious note,  I really hope you enjoy reading  'POWER'

and  I hope I get enough feedback to be able to bring  out  future

issues.   My address is on the title screen and at the end of this

article.

Here  is  some  imfo on me so you know just who  is  writing  this

rubbish.

I  am  a thirteen year old boy who is basically pennyless  and  is

quite bored with life even though I haven't really seen much of it

yet.  I want to get to know as many people as possible and that is

one  of the reasons why I wanted to start writing disk mags  -  So

that  I could get to know new people from their letters so  please

get in touch.   I don't have a paper round and I don't get  pocket

money so I am never out putting papers through peoples doors and I

am  never down at the shop buying sweets with my pocket  money  so

writing  this  gives me something to do on a Saturday  and  Sunday

when  I have done all my homework (I had to say the bit about  the

homework incase my mum reads this!).

Basically  I'm  a bored young boy looking for a  few  friends  (no

matter what age) and something that I can really get into which  I

am hoping is this disk magazine!



If you want to get in touch with me,  whether it's just for a chat

or if you have any questions or queries then send your letters to:



                              POWER

                         3 SALISBURY ROAD

                            MAIDSTONE

                               KENT

                             ENGLAND

                             ME14 2TY




Also if you have any P.D.  that you would like to share with me if

you  send enough return postage then I will use your P.D.  on  any

future Disk mags of mine,  maybe review them and fully credit  you

in the mag.   I will also return your disk with as much of my P.D.

that I can cram on to it.



THANKS  FOR  LISTENING AND PLEASE DO GET IN TOUCH  OTHERWISE  THIS

                   DISK MAG WILL DIE VERY FAST!