chuckie@pro-odyssey.cts.com (Chuck Schul) (02/14/91)
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Welcome to the Huh Newsletter Issue #2 Feb 15 1991
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(c)1991 Dizzy Publications........................
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Publisher/editor:Chuckie Schul
Contributors:Chuck Schul,Ed Krimen.
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Serving the mental Atari consumer all across the globe!
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Note:Please feel free to pass this out to all but keep the (c)on it!
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Disclaimer:Opninions expressed in this publication do not necessarily
represent those of HUH newsletter but of the individual authors.
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Editors cage:
Well it's here already Issue #2! And I am still making it all by my
lonesome. .Maybe someone will help soon.So far since my last writings to you
all I have Been saddened by some events of a personal nature.But I will not
let
it get us down.I keep hearing of more people jumping ship to other computer
platforms even overseas! That is upsetting but I still see alot happening
inall
the Trade magazines Atari wise.This month a look into the Lynx and a couple of
reviews on some good ol software.Seems like Atari Corp likes to push the lynx
Portfoilio lines alot,It seems to me by this that they are not to sureabout
There computer lines.No ads on ST's only lynx on tv I have seen,portfolio ads
In magazines like newsweek.Maybe they will wake up one day.One bright
spotthough they(Atari)seemed to have donated to the troops in Saudi Lynx's for
them to use in there rec centers.And allowing them to purchase them direct.
that should kill the boardem down there?!Till next time America...
Chuckie
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Atari News:By Chuck Schul
Atari Corp-
They Released a new color monitor(colour for your brits out there) the
SC1435 with 2 stereo speakers and will take advantage of the STE's 8 bit
digital; stereo.
Goldleaf Publishing-
They are offering a trade in on other wordproccessors,for $75 and your
master disk of either microsoft write,first word plus,word up,or wordwriter
ST you will get wordflair II package. Contact them at 415-461-5703
Readysoft Inc.-
They have released Dragon's lair II :Time warp.Call 416-731-4175 for more
details.
8 Bit Cave:By Chuck Schul
Well still no one to help write this section but I have read of some new
products that will help out some of you 8 bit people:
1-Diamond paint:
Neat paint program that allows you to cut and save pieces of your
pics.Requires the diamond cart(which is a operating system like the ST)
Contact Reeve Software 312-393-2317.Price 79.95
2-Express:
A telecomminication program on a cart for the 8 bit to take of advantage
of the XEP80 card.Price 69.95
Contact Orion micro Systems 804-794-9437.
3-Daisy Dot III:
For $25 bucks you can get letter quality printing from your 9 pin using
this program which is shareware.Creates letter quality print in several type
of fonts styles even if your printer does not support letter quality fonts.
Contact Roy Goldman,2440 s.jasmine st. denver Co 80222 req 48k dos 2.5 or
Sparta dos.$25 dollars.
Thats all I got for now,see ya next time.
ST Hovel: By Chuck Schul
Being new to the St world is not easy.Trying to understand your old and new-
Ways and limits are hard.Since most magazines and software boxes not all I
see
Don't have memory requiements on the box.I always got to ask the dealer or
mailorder guys(who are lost at times,I wonder if i am talking to myself at -
times)400k disk which are not protected can be trannsfered to 800k.But the
protected ones I can't put two on a disk.I have heard of programs which do
this.But I have yet to track it down.Anybody know anynames spit it out now!
I wish these things would be clearer,I guess some people don't care.
Public Domain Of the Month:
Megablit-
Great paint program that runs on all Graphic modes 512k on up.Compatble with
deagas format so easy to use you might never use anything else.
Atari BBS List:
Solano Station BBS-707-446-4158
A nice friendly bbs,good stock of stuff.
Oddessey BBS-707-437-4734
A good well rounded board with programs for all computer types.
Starlink BBS-707-437-3468
Large Atari bbs,with files for other types also.Good online games.
Reviews:By Ed Krimen.
CS-ID: #78.atari/atari.st.net@pro-odyssey, 7195 chars
Date: 3 Feb 91 06:29:24 GMT
From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
Subject: MegaSTe info
Here's some info on the MegaSTe from Gregory (carter@garfield.cs.wisc.edu).
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For those of you who are curious about the new and rather hard to
find Mega STe in the US, here are some performance figures:
Quick Index 1.8
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Tos 1.0 Tos 1.4 Tos 1.6
Cpu Memory 165% ---- -----
Reg 205% ---- -----
Divide 204% ---- -----
Shifts 208% 207% -----
Dma 64K Read 5680% ----- -----
Gemdos Files 1583% 1607% -----
Disk RPM 2408 ----- -----
TOS text 121%/536%(Turbo) 386%(Turbo) 342%(Turbo)
string 118%/1911%(Turbo) 1288%(Turbo) 1181%(Turbo)
scroll 181%/195%(Turbo) 140%(Turbo) 110%(Turbo)
GEM Dialog 209%/460%(Turbo) 437%(Turbo) 276%(Turbo)
The MEGA STe is really an awesome machine. Its very fast, Atari has mightily
improved the hard disk controller, I get three times the thruput than
on my old SH204, and the drive itself that came with it is a 157N, a very
nice 50 megabyte hard drive.
Through the VME slot on the back, I popped out the card, and looked inside
too see SIMM's, a nice 90 WATT power supply, and a vacant 68881 socket.
I noticed too, that the, (cannoy confirm have to rip the whole machine
a part which I may do this weekend), but the floppy drive looks like
a 1.4 megabyte drive, sony mechanism. The floppy drive controller
chip is socketed so even though its a WD 1772, it may be easily removed
in the future for a better flopyy controller.
I am a US developer, so I got mine under the wire, ONE LEFT. In fact, there
were only 10 MACHINE shipped to thr US, by developer request. The rest
went to the European and Canadian community. You cannot not NOBODY CAN
get one in the US. If some guy tries to con you, wait till around
April/May, when they should be made available in the US.
The Spectre GCR works very nice with this machine. You get hard disk
performance of something between a IIfx and IIsi. 600-700 kiloBYTES per
second. 33ms access time.
Kitty Corner:These are the only known Lynx games to date:
1-electrocop 2-blue lightning 3- chips challenge 4-zarlor mercenary
5-klax 6-xenophobe 7-slime world 8-paperboy
9-roadblaster 10-ms pac man 11-guantlet 12-gates of zndocan
13-robo squash 14-rampage
coming soon:shanghi
Last Notes-
Well it is sad to hear that ST Jornal has stopped publication
temporarly of there magazine.I keep on hearing these magazines stopping
and restarting it seems like a trend hopefully for the good.Now Huh will be
published monthly due to lack of help .If I get help we will go bi-weekly.We
will also publish an extra issue with late breaking news as warranted.Until
next time I hope to hear from you all soon.
Chukie
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Atari Computers power without the price SM (c) 1991 Atari Corp.
If you want a mac Buy specture GCR !!!!!!!!!
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ARPA: crash!pro-odyssey!chuckie@nosc.milekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (02/15/91)
- Publisher/editor:Chuckie Schul
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- Contributors:Chuck Schul,Ed Krimen. Reviews:By Ed Krimen.
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- From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
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- Subject: MegaSTe info
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- Here's some info on the MegaSTe from Gregory (carter@garfield.cs.wisc.edu).
Gregory Carter should get the full credit for this MegaSTe info, not
me; I just posted it, not gathered it! I don't think my name should
even be in the by-line.
Also, I see that a message of mine was posted in ZNET9105. Am I at
least entitled to be notified of this before it gets distributed?
Guess not. If I let my fingers do the talking as much as I do on
this net, I suppose it's up for grabs without the need for a
confirmation from the author that it's all right to print it. It's
just kind of surprising to see one of my messages in a worldwide
on-line magazine and I didn't even know about it before it was
distributed.
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Ed Krimen ...............................................
||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico
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/ | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 FIDONET: 1:119/4.0Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com (02/16/91)
Ed Krimen writes: >Also, I see that a message of mine was posted in ZNET9105. Am I at >least entitled to be notified of this before it gets distributed? >Guess not. If I let my fingers do the talking as much as I do on >this net, I suppose it's up for grabs without the need for a >confirmation from the author that it's all right to print it. It's >just kind of surprising to see one of my messages in a worldwide >on-line magazine and I didn't even know about it before it was >distributed. Both Z*NET and ST Reports extract and reprint messages from UseNet, GEnie and CompuServe all the time without giving credits or asking permissions. Many times the messages, for example messages from Atari's Bob Brodie answering questions on CIS, are extracted without even using "quote marks", giving the impression they are original material written by the "magazine's" "staff writers". All with no concern for copyrights... interesting form of "journalism"... BobR