Shervin.Shahrebani.Of.250/744@f744.n250.z1.FidoNet.Org (Shervin Shahrebani Of 250/744) (04/05/91)
I just bought the March/April issue of Atari Explorer and it is great. Some refreshing news! I would highly recommend this issue. There is a review of the newest Quartet sampler/sequencer program, Portfolio Management, Lynx Games, DTP using Pagestream, A guide to fonts, review of FSM/GDOS (new GDOS from Atari!), Font Designer, coverage of Atari at Comdex and CES shows, a hands on review of the Mega STE and a great interview with Greg Pratt, Atari U.S.'s General Manager! In the interview, he mentions that "one third-party developer is expected to announce an Ethernet card that will fit in the VME slot on the machines". He also said: "Besides Unix, we're also developing significant enhancements of our existing technologies to keep abreast of current developments in competing markets. For example, we've received good reports on the design chips that will control our new high-density 1.44 MB floppy drives, and expect shortly to announce a range of upgrade products and optio ns based on this technology. We're also moving swiftly towards being able to supply state-of-the-art 14" and 19" monitors for use with DTP, CAD, and other graphics-based applications." I just thought this was an interesting bit of info I would pass along. S.S.