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Zmag/A\zine HOT Atari News
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and Reviews
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Xx Zmag/A\zine Hot Atari News and Reviews
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March 4, 1986 Issue
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If you are not reading this with
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QCOL80.OBJ and the new ZREAD v 1.4
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you are really missing a treat!
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This is the most fun ZMAG issue
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yet, thanks to CLINTON Z. SMITH.
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Xx New Zreader v 1.4 by Clinton Smith
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Zreader
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Well here it is.The new ZREAD program is here.Here are some of
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its new features.Make sure that your zmag files end with the txt
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extender or the program won't load them.Just rename them with the txt
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extender and they will load fine.
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You don't have to type ZZZ after every 22 lines and the
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file doesn't need a return at the end of a line.
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You can go back a page at a time to reread things and then
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go forward again or you can return to the index to read a new issue
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There is a scrolling head- line banner to highlight
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important news.To use this feature in your own article,have an
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uppercase X followed by a lowercase x,then type your message (It can be
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up to 60 characters long.)followed by a return.If you read this doc.
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file on ZREAD14 the following will demonstrate the feature
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XxREEVE KEYPAD HANDLER IS HERE
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If you have the QCOL80.OBJ program,you can use
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zread14 with 80 columns.
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1.Turn on your computer
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2.From Basic go to the DOS menu
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3.Load QCOL80.OBJ with the load binary option
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4.Return to cartridge (select B)
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5.Load ZREAD14.BAS
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6.(Change line 170 to-FOR T=1 TO 700-)
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7.Run the program
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If you have any comments
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please leave me a message on windy
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city for me.
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Clinton.z.Smith
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Chicago,Il
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FROM: CHUCK SCHWARK
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TO: ALL
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SUBJ: Xx CL.A.U.G. HOT-LINE
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HotLine
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CL.A.U.G. NOW HAS A 24-HOUR INFO
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HOT-LINE! THIS INFORMATION LINE
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HAS BEEN SET UP TO HANDLE ANY AND
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ALL QUESTIONS REGARDING ALL MODELS
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OF ATARI PERSONAL COMPUTERS AND
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PERIPHERALS. JUST LEAVE YOUR NAME
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AND NUMBER AND THE 'RIGHT' PERSON
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WILL RETURN YOUR CALL.
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________________^^^_^^^^___________
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**** (312) 848-0333 *****
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___________________________________
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OUT-OF-STATE CALLS WILL ONLY BE
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RETURNED COLLECT. IF ALL YOU WANT
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IS INFORMATION ABOUT THE GROUP,
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LEAVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS AND OUR
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INFO PACK WILL BE SENT TO YOU.
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ZZZ
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Xx >> Windy City BBS Command List
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Windy City Commands
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Windy City is using the new BBCS from Scott Brause, and there is
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much more to be seen on this already top notch, superresponsive
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board. Give the board a call and start exploring with this new set
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of commands:
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Atari ......... Atari news and info
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Boards ........ Access message
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boards
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Chat .......... Chat with the sysop
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Down/Upload ... Program transfer
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Goodbye ....... Log off the BBCS
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Hang up ....... Quick disconnect
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Information ... System information
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List .......... Bulletin board list
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System ........ Time at this
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location
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Time .......... Your local time
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Utilities ..... User utilities
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View .......... Show survey results
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Zing .......... Take a survey
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Windy City Atari BBCS 312-775-2970
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Let's hear it for the RYTINAs !
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Xx SCAT PLEXUS COMMAND SUMMARY
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Scat Plexus Commands
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The bold departure from normal BBS formats may have you confused at
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SCAT. Be sure you send these commands to your printer, and keep
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them in front of you when you log on at this progressive BBS. Post
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your short messages and comments in the ZMAG conference, for inclusion
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in this magazine.
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>
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SCAT PLEXUS COMMANDS:
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>
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? - This listing
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Bye - Log off the system
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Chat - chat with SYSOP
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Date - Show current time & date
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Do - Execute a Do batch file
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Enter - Enter a message in
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conference
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Fortune - Spin the Wheel of
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Fortune
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Help - Help on all topics
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Identify - This node (BBS)
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Ids - List all caller log ids
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Join - Join a conference
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Mail - Read & send E-mail
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News - Current news bulletin
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Nodes - Other Plexus systems
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Others - Other local BBS systems
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Profile - Your user profile
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Read - Read selected
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conferences
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Welcome - Reprint welcome message
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For more information on a command, type
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HELP <topic>
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Hurray to John Semenek for sticking out his neck again! ....Bruce z.
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Xx Atari Beginners Sig Formed
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Beginners SIG
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This letter appeared in the most recent SCAT newsletter:
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We are new SCAT members and looking for help with our 800XL.
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Specifically, we would appreciate a SIG for Atari basic. Is eveyone too
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busy with the ST? We refer to the Scat Newsletter of February 86 and
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an excellent article by Jim Roberts - -An 8 bit machine is only dead if
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you kill it. And I think there is a lot of life left in it!-
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At this time, Atari basic is killing us. Can anybody help?
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Looking forward to a new SIG.
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The Hirshfelds
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Dan and Eileen Hirschfeld have decided to do something about their
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own letter, and will be heading up the beginners SIG at SCAT, which
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will include explorations of BASIC.
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If you have any questions you would like answered as part of the SIG,
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direct messages to ZMAG at your favorite BBS, to the ZMAG message
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base at SCAT, or mail your questions to SCAT BEGINNERS SIG
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c/o The Hirschfelds
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8702 N. Osceola
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Niles IL 60648
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These questions will be answered in special ZMAG issues, and used as a
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basis for setting the SIG agenda.....FIRE AWAY!
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.....................Bruce z.
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Xx Atari Sources
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Where to BUY
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The listing below is posted on the comprehensive CENTARI BBS Sysoped
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by Tim Siml, Alan Reeve, and Steve Maney:
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Atari Equipment and Repair
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Companys
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S=Software
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H=Hardware
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M=Mail order
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R=Repairs
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Software Plus
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731 W. Dundee Rd. (op K-Mart)
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Wheeling IL 60090
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520-1717
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Ask for Jeff Williams
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or leave message at Remote Atari BBS 587-1349
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S-H-R
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Family Software
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Willowood Center
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2103-C Bloomingdale Road
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Glendale Heights, Ill. 60139
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(312)351-3730
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S-H
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Coz Enterprises
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P.O. Box 47083
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Chicago, Ill. 60647
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(312)235-9629
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Jaf-Data Systems
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2217 W. 109th St.
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Chicago IL 60643
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312-238-4348
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S-H-M
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Reeve Software
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29W150 Old Farm Lane
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Warrenville, Ill. 60555
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(312)393-2317
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Mars Merchandising
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15W615 Diversey
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Elmhurst, Ill. 60126
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(312)530-0988
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Computer Direct
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22292 N. Pepper Road
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Barrington, Ill. 60010
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(312)382-5050
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Complete Computing Corporation
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890 East Roosevelt Road
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Lombard ,Ill. 60148
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(312)620-0808
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S-H-R
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Ron's TV Appliance
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132 W. Liberty Drive
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Wheaton, Ill. 60187
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(312)668-4490
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Powder Horn Sport Shop
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805 Cedar Ave.
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St. Charles, Ill.
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(312)584-6836
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Digital World
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711 Army Trail Road
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Addison, Ill.
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(312)543-9000
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Ken's Adult Toy Shop
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333 N. Addison
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Addinson, Ill.
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(312)834-8550
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Pacific Stereo
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4411 Fox Valley Center Drive
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Aurora, Ill.
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(312)898-9400
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Pacific Stereo
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19W549 E. Roosevelt Road
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Lombard, Ill.
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(312)629-7100
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CSA LTD.
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Conveniently available by leaving a message and your phone # on CLAUG II BBS
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WINDY CITY ATARI
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Conveniently available by leaving a message and your phone # on WINDY CITY BBS
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S,H
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Rich Andrews
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Repairs and memory upgrades.
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815-485-0108
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Equipment may be transfered at CLAUG meetings...please make prior
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arrangements before carting your equipment to the meeting.
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This list is not complete. Please
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help us with any information you
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may have by leaving a message.
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More help from Centari:
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Xx What's an extender?
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Disk File Name EXTENDERS
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.BAS Basic file
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.LIS File -listed- to disk
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.OBJ Objective language file
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.BIN Binary file
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.AMS Advanced Music System
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.MUS Music file
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.SYS System file
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.DAT Data file
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.DOC Documentation file
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.SRC Source code file
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.TXT Text file
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.ASM Assembly language file
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.BAK Backup file
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.TMP Temporary file
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.GAM Game file
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.UTL Utility file
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.EXE Execute file
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.MES Message file
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.FNT Font file
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.DEM Demo file
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.PIC Picture file
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.KOL Koala pad picture file
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.ACT Action language file
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.CUT Communications utility
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.DUT Disk utility
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>
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MESSAGES
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>
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IF YOU WANT TO READ ONLY THE LATEST MESSAGES AND THE LAST MESSAGE IS
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#45, THEN HIT -46-- AND THE MESSAGES WILL BE DISPLAYED TO YOU
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IN REVERSE ORDER. HIT -<CONTROL>X- TO EXIT.
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Xx 1030 BBS by Mark Lupescu
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1030 BBS
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For those that have 1030 modems, and want a ring detector and a bbs
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for it. You can get all that for $74.95, from Duplication
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Technologies Inc. (Formerly Gardner Computing) This system has 25
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functions including U/l and D/l and user Passwords, it comes with a
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double sided disk, full documents, plus a fully assembled and tested
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ring detector. This can be used with any atari computer except
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520st, of course, you need 1 disk drive, printer (optional), 835 or
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1030 modem, and the ring dector. For more information look in ANTIC
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magazine. 2 pages after page 20.
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Mark
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ANTIC PUBLISHING INC.,COPYRIGHT
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1986. REPRINTED BY PERMISSION.
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Xx ANTIC ONLINE NEWS FEBRUARY ROUND-UP
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Antic Online by GIGI
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BY GIGI BISSON, ANTIC ASSISTANT EDITOR
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Xx ELECTRONIC ARTS PLANS TO RELEASE 8-BIT SOFTWARE
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Electronic Arts software company president Trip Hawkins has written
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the last letter he will ever need to send to Antic Magazine.
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-The response of your readers to Antic editorials is growing,- wrote
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Hawkins. -We have received quite a few letters.- Quite a few indeed.
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In a letter-writing campaign initiated over nine months ago with
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a May, 1985 Antic editorial, not only Antic readers but the entire
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Atari community begged EA and other major software publishers to
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release more software for the 8-bit Atari computers.
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EA promises to release Adventure Construction Set, Heart of Africa,
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Mail Order Monsters, Marble Madness, Racing Destruction Set,
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Skyfox, Software Golden Oldies (Software Country), and Ultima IV
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(Origin Systems) for the Atari XL/XE 8-bit line of computers in
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1986.
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-We hope to see at retail the kind of response we have seen in
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our mailbox!- Hawkins says in conclusion.
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Xx PERCOM REPAIRS
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Percom FIX
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Percom Data Corp or Dallas, Texas has awarded STS Computers of
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Falls, Church, VA a nationwide contract to repair all Percom
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floppy disk drives, including those for Atari computers. STS has also
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developed a new operating system ROM.
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STS engineers are soliciting comment from users concerning
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firmware bugs in hopes of improving the drives. Schematics are
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available for $5. Contact: STS Computers, 1073 W. Broad St., Falls
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Church, VA 22046. (703) 237-0558.
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Xx TRAKED DOWN
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TRAK Fix
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Ever since the manufacturer went out of business, Trak disk drive
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owners have been unable to track down repairs. Integrated Computer
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Resources of Chicago will repair and upgrade Trak drives and supply
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printer cables for the AT-D2 drive to utilize the built-in 4K printer
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buffer. Write to: Integrated Computer Resources, Inc., 247 N.
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Neltnor Blvd., Suite G1F, West Chicago, Illinois, 60185. (312)
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231-6104. (This helpful information came to us online from
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J. Kosiorek, 70717,3675.)
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Xx BRODERBUND STILL GROWING
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Broderbund Grows
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The media broadly proclaimed that 1985 was a -dismal- year for
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the personal computer industry. Broderbund Software proved
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otherwise. Bolstered by several top selling home productivity and
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educational packages, spearheaded by the phenomenonal bestseller,
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Print Shop, Broderbund doubled their sales to $20 million during
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1985.
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The December issue of Inc. magazine ranked Broderbund as the
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13th fastest-growing privately held compay in the United States.
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Microcomputer software distributors First Software and Softsel
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International also experienced rapid growth during 1985.
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Xx ATARI VS. THE WORLD
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Atari Sued
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Atari Corp. has been sued again. This time for $55.2 million by an
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(unnamed) Japanese printer maker that claims Atari reneged on a contract to buy 500,000 printers.
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Xx ST DESKTOP PUBLISHING
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DeskTop Publishing for ATARI
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Will the ST become a challenger to the Macintosh in the hot desktop
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publishing market? According to the United Kingdom Atari magazine,
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Page 6, a new software package, Fleet Street Editor, could change
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the face of society newsletters and small publications. This full
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design and layout system from Mirrorsoft is capable of driving a
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phototypesetter. Expected UK debut is next month. Meanwhile,
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stateside computer market analysts are calling desktop publishing -the
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hula hoop of 1986.-
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Xx THE YUPPIE ST
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Yuppie ST
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-Atari's now computer serious threat to the Macintosh. Will the
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Amiga survive?- You'll find this headline in Newsweek magazine, but
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it's not on a news story. It's an advertisment.
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JS&A, a nationwide mail order marketer that pitches
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high-technology product. Their full-page ads claim -the ST will
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open up a major fight in the personal computer market,- and then
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proceed to make a detailed comparison of the Macintosh to the
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ST.
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In a bold approach, the Northbrook, IL company invites
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owners to -put the ST next to your Mac or Amiga or even IBM,- after a
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small down payment, for a 30-day trial basis. The components are
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sold separately. The ST computer and mouse for $299, disk drive
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$199, and monochrome monitor $199.
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Xx NEW PRODUCTS
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What's New
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Epyx Software will release Winter Games, Rogue (originally a
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mainframe adventure game popular on college campuses) and Temple of
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Apshai Trilogy for the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga in March.
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Paul Henckel, of Quickview Systems of Los Altos, CA and the
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author of -The Elements of Friendly Software Design,- (Warner Books,
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1985) has finished Zoomracks for the ST and IBM PC family. It uses
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-racks- rather than files to display information in a compact
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way onscreen. Visualize this as a stack of time cards. All of the
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cards are visible at once, with most of one card hidden behind the
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next card, and only one or two lines of information about each
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card visible. Antic saw this one at our office and the review is
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underway.
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Xx ATARIS HELP BILK THE BANK?
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Atari Con
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How did Richard Mamarella get $22 million in bank loans from a
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New Jersey bank? According to a recent Wall Street Journal account,
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Mamarella bribed a junior bank officer with $30,000 and two Atari
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sets,- to approve the fraudulent loans. After pleading guilty to
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bank fraud and extortion charges, Mamarella is serving a nine-year
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prison term.
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Xx AMIGA HAS TOS, TOO
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AmigaTOS
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What's in a name? Metacomco, the British company that developed
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LISP and Metapascal for the ST also developed the operating system for
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the Amiga PC. The name of a multitasking OS at the core of the
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Amiga OS -- TRIPOS.
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Xx DRI
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Digitalis
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Batteries Included may have a difficulty shipping Atari ST GEM
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applications by their original April deadline. Like other
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programmers and developers, BI is anxiously waiting for Digital
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Research of Monterey, CA to finish up the GEM 68K developer's kit.
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Industry analysts say delays in shipment of final versions of the
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kit is a serious problem for ST software developers.
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Research and development seems to be continuing at the Monterey,
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CA-based developer of the GEM operating system for Atari and IBM.
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DRI has placed ads in the Silicon Valley-Area San Jose Mercury News
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searching for graphics development Software Engineers. -Become
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involved with the team responsible or developing this leading
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technology of the future -- right now!
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Responsibilities include exploratory development and
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prototyping of new products, writing graphics applications in C
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for the GEM environment, and implementation of new device
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drivers.-
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Xx RUMOR HUMOR
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HO HO HEH HEH
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This satirical product announcement by Albert Lew of
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ABACUS, was found recently in the San Francisco-area users group's
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newsletter:
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-Did you hear about the new $10 EPROM burner coming from Atari?
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Stick some 128K EPROMS in the blue plastic slots, and pop into the
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toaster oven. The docs recommend that you think hard about what you
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want burned, (Commodore, Apple,
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and IBM are suggested topics) and pray. If you are agnostic, you are
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requested to send more money to Atari until you get reasonable
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results.-
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Xx XANTH, NOT XEVIOUS
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Oops
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XANTH Computer Systems,the Seattle, WA dealer inadvertently
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responsible for one of Atari Corp's most successful marketing ploys,
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the famous 8-bit Boink!, 130XE Fuji Boink! and the parrot and waterfall
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ST public domain demo disks -- was incorrectly identified as XEVIOUS
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Computer Systems in Antic Online's Consumer Electronic show coverage.
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Last page !
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Antic Online is a service of Antic magazine, posted in the section of
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Compuserve reached by logging on with GO ANTIC.
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Downloaded by
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Bruce -Z- Kennedy Atari Zmag/A\zine
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A printed version of the above is covered in the most recent issue of
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SCAT magazine, the newsletter of the Suburban Chicago Atarians
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Xx Be ready for some more big news based on the Hanover Show
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/Computer Faire in mid-March.
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Xx NewsRoom next for the ST called FLEET STREET Editor?
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Your contributions, reviews of downloads, articles, AND QUESTIONS
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FROM NEWUSERS will be received with enthusiasm by Zmagazine. Just post
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as a ZMAG text file upload, or as a 14 line message in your BBS message
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base. ZMAG, your Atari electronic magazine for finding out where to
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look, where to get, and where to fix your Atari software, hardware.
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Xx All the best and hottest news and reviews from your favorite BBS....
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and Compuserve.
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Xx see you next week !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Chicago Zmag/A\zine March 4, 1986
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Bruce Kennedy
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