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The WeST of Scotland Issue 05
WEST OF SCOTLAND ATARI USER GROUP
(Affiliated to The Association of Atari User groups)
Issue number FIVE, June 1996
IN THIS MONTHS ISSUE....
New WWW Page
The WeST of Scotland Atari User Group now has its very own WWW pages
thanks to former Atarian Bob Paton. Bob has contributed the WWW space
as well as the design in these pages which will be constantly updated.
Full details are in the first of an occasional series of articles by
Bob.
ED's JUKEBOX
Takes a break this month due to the page count, and the fact that Ed
had done an article for the last 3 months straight. Don't worry, he'll
be back next month.
ATARI News
Some news about the Medusa and Hades machines. And the return of
Gribnif
SPECTRE
An article on the Spectre GCR Mac emulator. I have to be honest at
this point and apologise to the author, because I can't remember who
asked me about this, and the disk I received it on had nothing to
identify who it was from. I'll credit you in the next issue if you
make yourself known to me again.
FEEDBACK
I would be interested to hear from all members about their thoughts on
the changing Format of the newsletter. To be honest I am experimenting
a little with the layout, so please get back to me with your thoughts.
The WSAUG MPVGC
(est 1996)
Well should we ? Read the piece and let me know what you think of the
idea.
TOS User Group
News of another Scottish User Group by Paul Walsh
Portfolio User Group
There is also a piece on an Atar Portfolio owners club by Paul Finch
ATARI WORLD
There is still no news about the future of the magazine. I think by
now that it would be reasonably safe to assume that the mag is now
dead. There was some talk of a rescue package, and a sort of readers
buyout, but there has been no word for weeks now. If there any word
then you'll here it as soon as I do.
LOGO COMPETITION
We now have a logo that Bob Paton has produced for use on the WeST of
Scotland Atari User Group WWW page. It is in full colour and the word
ATARI is in the same colours as on the Falcon Badge.
Do you think you can do any better ? Do you like the new style logo on
the front cover ? Do you think there should be a different logo every
month ? Why not submit your designs and ideas. (Remember to put your
name somewhere). As a prize I have a boxed copy of the game CAESAR to
the best design or idea. Result will be announced err, later [g].
I'm also looking for other suitable clipart pictures for use in either
the WWW page or to illustrate the newsletter. I have also just ordered
a CD-ROM full of clipart, so with luck we'll have lots on the future.
I might even do a review of it for the next newsletter.See you all on
the 11th June
Al Goold
WSAUG goes Online
As of Sunday 19th May 1996 the WSAUG went online at the following url
:-
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/magicka/
I apologise to all of the experts out there as the pages are pretty
basic but I am in the process of learning HTML and the pages will
hopefully progress with me as my own knowledge increases. But what I
would like is for those who do go online to contact me via email
through the pages, or at any of the club nights and to supply the
details of their favourite sites . I will try and compile a members
top 5 ( or even top 10 if there's enough response ) .
Bobs Internet thingy
"What is the Internet ?" - The history lesson .
Basically there is no real answer to this as the "internet" or as it
has been labelled "The Information Superhighway" is not any one thing
. The Internet can be thought of as a physical collection of routers
and circuits, as a set of shared resources, or even as an attitude
about the interconnecting and intercommunication between computers
and their users .
Lost you yet ? If you ever figure out what that lot meant, please let
me know.
Today's Internet is a global resource connecting millions of users
that began as an experiment over 30 years ago by , amongst others ,
the U.S. Military and various educational establishments in the UK
and the US . Although the prime force behind it all was the military
who were looking for a means of maintaining contact should there have
been a nuclear war. Eternal optimists that they were, however what
they came up with was a series of computers linked into the national
phone lines with the freedom to choose whatever route the machines
considered most effective themselves
World Wide Web
For a start the WWW (or web) is NOT the internet merely a part of the
whole system although given the amount of hype in the press and
television about the so called "information superhighway" and the
constant confusion in the media who often refer to the web when they
are in actual fact referring to another part of the net ..... the
mistake is a common one .
Basically the world wide web ..... { referred to as "the web" or "www"
} is the public face of the net , the pretty graphics face . Many
businesses now see the advantage of maintaining a presence on the web
or of sponsoring well established and busy web sites
Q But surely the web is only for PC's and Macs
A Wrong ........ With Cab and Stik the Atari computers are equally
capable of browsing the web
Q What else do I need ?
A The basics are :-
1) Computer ( seems a little obvious but I have been asked by a
non computer owning friend how to link his phone to the web)
2) Phone
3) Modem The MINIMUM I would recommend is a 14,400 or
V34bis modem .
Unfortunately to really take advantage of the faster 28,800 modems
some of the Atari machines require an addition to the
serial socket on the back . But for some fun watch the confusion in
the sales assistants faces in the likes of Dixons when
you tell them you want to connect it to an Atari .
4) Comms software ...... Stik and CAB
5) A service provider .... This is a company which provides the
links which allow you to access the internet. When selecting a service
provider there are a few things you should bear in mind :-
a) Cost ...... costs do vary from one company to another
b) local pop (point of presence) .... or in other words a local phone
number which your modem connects to....... a MUST
c) Time allocated before charges , some providers give 5 ,some up to
10 hours, so called free use per month of the account before
they start charging you above the minimum charge quoted in (a) above .
Always check the small print
6) Although not strictly necessary , a valid passport is always
handy when that first telephone bill arrives :-)
What's in it for you ?
A very difficult question to answer as everyone takes something
different from their online experiences. The easiest way to give a
comparison is to ask someone who enjoys reading but who has been
limited to a small number of books what free access to a whole library
would mean to them . The internet is that big and it certainly brings
home the idea of a global village . A recent scavenge for information
had me jumping from The University of Lancaster to The University of
New South Wales in Australia . I certainly got everything I was
looking for on that occasion and paid brief visits to a number of
sites I intend to return to .
One problem which has been highlighted, particularly by the media is
the availablity of pornographic material . It would be stupid to deny
its existence but access is not as freely available as is made out
and may need some supervision of kids . In the PC world some of the
bigger providers have tried censoring some of the material available ,
Compuserve did this in Germany and met with a worldwide outcry. One of
the other big online services AOL which recently started up in Britain
thought they had a better answer and provided a sort of Online Nanny
service which refused to allow access to any areas which contained the
more colourful phrases used in Anglo Saxon English . Unfortunately
this appears to have lead to problems for anyone living in Scunthorpe
trying to log on .
Bob Paton
rpaton@cix.compulink.co.uk
100444.303@compuserve.com
ATARI NEWS
MEDUSA & HADES
TOAD COMPUTERS ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE OF HADES AND MEDUSA!!
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This is basically a slight reworking of a press release from Toad, so
WSAUG takes no responsibility for the accuracy of the description.
Medusa Computer Systems of Switzerland was one of the first companies
to produce an Atari "Clone." Their Medusa-T40 was the first
Atari-compatible computer to use a Motorola 68040 processor. The new
Medusa T-60 and Hades computers are the first Atari-compatible
computers to use the new Motorola
68060 processors.
Toad Computers is the official North American distributor for the
Hades and Medusa. Packed with features and faster than any other Atari
machine out there, the Hades and Medusa are a dream for hackers and
hobbyists -- and for anyone who wants to take advantage of some
serious processing speed!
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:: HADES: It's hellishly fast!
======================================
Hades is packed with standard features, including:
MOTHERBOARD FEATURES
- 4 PC/Mac Compatible PCI Slots
- 2 PC Compatible ISA Slots
- 1 TT Compatible VME Slot
- 1 Enhanced IDE Port (Up to 2 Devices)
- 1 SCSI (TT Compatible - Up to 7 Devices)
- 1 Floppy Port (DD 720K, HD 1.44MB, ED 2.88MB)
- Modem 1 Port (25 pin, 19200 bps)
- Modem 2 Port (9 pin, 250000 bps)
- Localtalk Port (8 pin, 250000 bps)
- Printer Port (25 pin, ST/TT/Falcon Compatible)
- Midi IN and OUT Ports
- TOS 3.06 (Slightly Modified)
- PC Keyboard Port (Use any PC keyboard!)
- Mouse and Joystick (Atari Compatible)
INCLUDED IN THE BASIC HADES SYSTEM
FROM TOAD COMPUTERS
- MC68040 32/64MHz Processor
- 1.44MB Floppy Drive
- PC Keyboard
- Beetle Mouse (choice of colour)
- Full Size PC Tower Case
- 1.3GB Enhanced IDE 3.5" 9ms Hard Disk
- PCI 1MB DRAM ET4000 Graphics Card (up to
1280 x 1024)
- NVDI 4 for ET4000 Graphics Cards
- Hard Disk Driver Software
- 4MB RAM
All you need is the Basic Hades System and a
standard VGA monitor and you have a blazingly fast
Atari-compatible computer that can run rings around
most anything out there.
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:: MEDUSA: Three buses, up to 100 MIPS -- how can
you go wrong?
======================================
Medusa gives you incredible flexibility and
performance. Features include:
MOTHERBOARD FEATURES
- 6x main-bus, 32bit data, 32bit address, 32Mhz
(85MB/sec)
- 4x ST-bus, 16bit data, 24 address, 8Mhz (4MB/sec)
- 2x RAM-bus, for more than 128MB main memory
- Up to 128MB, with card max. 4GB - ROM
0.5-2MB, 32Bit data, 100ns
ST I/O DAUGHTERBOARD FEATURES - Printer
Port (centronics-parallel) - Modem 1 Port (RS232C)
up to 115,200 baud - MIDI In and Out - ISA-bus
16-bit (internal) for graphic card - IDE (intern) for
ATA-harddrive (max. 2) - ST-Sound (Yamaha
YM2149A Chip) - DMA (ACSI) - Serial 1 Port
(RS232C), as on TT030 - ST/TT-keyboard connection
- Floppy-bus (internal) for DD, HD, or ED Drives -
Battery Supported Clock
INCLUDED IN THE BASIC MEDUSA SYSTEM
FROM TOAD COMPUTERS
- 1.44MB Floppy Drive
- Mega STE Keyboard
- Beetle Mouse (choice of colour)
- Full Size PC Tower Case
- 1.3GB Enhanced IDE 3.5" 9ms Hard Disk
- PCI 1MB DRAM ET4000 Graphics Card (up to
1280 x 1024)
- NVDI 4 for ET4000 Graphics Cards
- Hard Disk Driver Software
- 4MB RAM
OPTIONAL COMPONENTS
- SCSI card (TT compatible), 4MB/sec -
VME-bus-card with ROM-port
- Cartridge Port Card
Because of Medusa's unique 3-tiered bus design, it
can run faster than Hades (or any other machine out
there). Software that's compatible with the TT030
generally works on the Medusa (and the Hades, too).
For more information on the new Hades, visit the
Medusa Computer system's Homepage at
http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~caschwan/medusa.html. Other
Medusa/Hades information will also be available at
http://www.toad.net.
GRIBNIF
TITLE: Gribnif in the UK
PRESS RELEASE
May 15 1996
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UK Distribution of Gribnif Products
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Titan Designs are pleased to announce that they have successfully
negotiated with Dan Wilga of Gribnif Software whereby we will be
distributing virtually all of their products into the UK - six major
products with three support utilities!
Brian Stanton has agreed to handle any technical enquiries through CiX
topic(s) which will be situated within our own TITAN titan.bss
conference. In addition, personal mail can be addressed directly to
Brian at bstanton@cix.compulink.co.uk and he will now be co-modding
our Cix conference with Martyn Dryden.
For all sales and general enquiries, please contact Titan Designs.
Users without a modem or e-mail support can forward technical
enquiries to Titan Designs directly.
The following products will be available, with all prices quoted in UK
pounds and including VAT and carriage.
GENEVA v1.04 - 59.95 Fast, fully featured and reliable multitasking
OS for any Atari ST/TT/Falcon. Absolutely magic!
GENEVA Utilities Disk - 12.95
NEODESK 4 (v4.05) - 59.95 The latest incarnation of the most popular
replacement Desktop for the Atari computer. An ease to use!
NEODESK 4 Icons - 7.95
NEODESK CLI v2.1 - 24.95
GENEVA/NEODESK 4 Bundle Price - 99.00 (saves
nearly 21.00!)
STENO v2.12 - 24.95 Superb text editor that operates as a Desk
ACCessory - ideal for operation from within virtually any program and
an ideal working partner for STalker.
STALKER 3 (v3.05) - 39.95 Excellent Communications program.
Background Z-modem transfer amongst many other great features.
CONVECTOR PRO v1.00J - 79.00 Fast and easy to use autotracing
program. A perfect support program
for Arabesque Pro and DTP programs.
ARABESQUE PRO v2.15 - 99.00
The best all-round vector and bitmap editing/creation program for the
Atari range.
TITAN & BLACK SCORPION WEB SITES Coming soon on a monitor near you!
Watch this space! Full product details on just about anything computer
related, downloadable demo files, snazzy graphics, worldwide
distribution details and, more importantly, fully compatible with CAB!
NEMESIS - LATEST NEWS from BLACK SCORPION SOFTWARE!!!
Nemesis has certainly raised a lot of interest in the Falcon
community. Falcon owners will therefore be pleased to note that
Nemesis is already at pre-production level and we expect to be
shipping the first production run sometime in June.
We are also evaluating the possibility of including an option to raise
the performance even further by offering a 60MHz option! If this
proves to be reliable, then performance will be raised even further to
a 30MHzBus/CPU and 60MHz DSP/FPU. The 60MHz option (if proven to be
reliable) will be offered as an optional upgrade to Nemesis.
Titan Designs/Black Scorpion Software
6 Witherford Way Selly Oak Birmingham B29 4AX Tel: 0121-693 6669 Fax:
0121-414 1630 e-mail: 100345.2350@compuserve.com
SPECTRE
A month or two back, I saw an ad. in ST Applications (the last copy I
subscribed to -- so now with the demise of Atari World, I rely mainly
on WSAUG for news) for the Spectre Mac emulator at a very low price so
I thought why not have a wee look and see what it can do. I had never
had any interest in PC emulators as they only really run DOS
programmes and anyway require interior plumbing which I'm not too keen
on unless it's just a memory upgrade.
The Mac emulator, however, is just a box including Mac ROMS which
plugs into the cartridge port which links into the external floppy
port by cable. You can fit or remove it in seconds. This box emulates
the Mac Plus which is the oldest of the Macs still widely supported
today which usually uses System 6 in some guise or other.
To install, you'll need to create a partition on your Hard Drive and
shunt any occupying Atari software elsewhere. This is straightforward
with the Spectre software provided. Then you have to install the Mac
operating system software. If you buy this second hand (the only way
to get it as support stopped a while ago from Gadgets by Small inc.),
it'll probably be supplied with the cartridge along with some software
if you're lucky as I was. Installation is a piece of cake and it's a
remarkable sight the first time you see the Spectre programme slowly
dissolving away to give way to a Mac desktop.
The real question of course not whether it looks nice but whether it
can run software. It has a built in advantage over the PC Emulators in
making use of the 68000 Motorola processor which is the same as used
in Macs up to the Mac Classic which replaced the Plus.
I had expected some problems but have so far not found a single
programme which refuses to work. That includes testing the likes of
Microsoft Word and Excel; in fact Word 5 is supposed to be
incompatible with System 6.0.5 but I have got it to run! Speed is
somewhat slower than an Atari (at any rate using NVDI) but probably
faster than a real Mac using the same processor -- and you have a
bigger screen than the Plus or Classic. In theory, Spectre, just like
a real Mac Plus should also be compatible with System 7, (though you
can forget about virtual memory) which would bring more of the latest
programmes within reach but we have to be realistic here -- we are
running a mono system so we can forget about the latest true colour
multimedia CD ROMS! As with all emulators, many games and some other
programmes which make specific hardware calls will not work when the
specific hardware doesn't exist.
Most Mac programmes though use the Toolbox which is like the GEM
libraries so should run without a hitch. Of course the Mac keyboard is
also a bit different from the Atari and this was the only thing I had
a little difficulty in setting up the correct UK correspondencies --
this required a careful look at the readme and a little experimenting
but now most things work fine including even the "help" and "undo"
keys which don't even exist on the Mac are matched to the normal
keyboard shortcuts.
There is one tricky area though and that is the question of printing.
Macs are funny, they print from the serial port and have their own
special printer codes. As you are not likely to have a Mac printer
kicking around, you won't find the drivers supplied with the operating
system much use. I thought that drivers for the most common printer
types would be found in PD libraries or on the Web -- that
unfortunately does not appear to be the case. I have one or two
sources to try still but in the meantime, if anyone out there has any
ideas, let me know please!
I suppose I have a soft spot for Macs as I had my first computer
course on them. For those who don't know them, they are very easy to
use, doing most operating system tasks for you automatically and
having built-in multi-tasking and long filenames. The desktop is very
similar to GEM with, say, TOS 2. One oddity is though that there is
no floppy eject button -- you have to drag the floppy to the
wastebasket so of course you have to make sure Spectre is aware of
what's going on when you do eject a disk.
If you think that thousands of copies of Spectre were sold a few years
ago because, even at a cost of 300, it was still by far the cheapest
way of getting a Mac, then it may well be worth picking up if you see
one going cheap like I did. Although of course there are some
excellent Atari programmes around such as this Papyrus I'm using for
this letter, it can't be denied that the range of Mac stuff is far
wider, even excluding the multimedia CD ROMS etc which of course won't
run with Spectre. And you can still show off to your sceptical friends
that you can run industry standard software on an Atari!
WSAUG Microprose Virtual Golf Club
OK, Should we start a club within a club ?
There are no demos as such planned for the 11th June meeting, but, a
number of people have expressed a desire for a head-to-head Microprose
Golf Competition. So we're going to try and have a game at the next
meeting. This isn't necessarily going to be very well organised, but
if you are interested in joining in, then bring the game and your
Data disk. We'd be better with extra copies of the game there rather
than too few. I'll try to make sure that there at least 2 systems
there that the game can be played on.
There's no prizes for this one, but hopefully we'll all have a good
time. Oh aye, and bring your proper data disk, with your REAL handicap
on it. Cheats will be.............
Depending on the response on 11th June it might be worthwhile having a
go at this regularly [g]. Should we just have friendlies, or should we
do something more formal ? The obvious to "go formal" way is a
"ladder" idea. I dunno, let me know what you think !!
NEWS FROM OTHER ATARI GROUPS/CLUBS
TOS User Group
Statement Of Intentions
The idea for the TOS User Group came about many months ago. At the
time, I did not have a modem (or indeed a hard drive or printer) and
my only contact with the rest of the Atari using community was through
reading magazines such as Atari ST User and ST Review. As you will no
doubt be aware, both of these magazines and their successor, Atari
World, are now defunct. My original idea revolved around a kind of
off-line bulletin board with a disk & postal service. This plan
involved message areas, file areas and postal services such as
printing and scanning for members. At the time though, I did not feel
that I had a good enough set-up to run the venture.
Late last year, despite the troubles of Atari and various related
third parties, I decided to start improving my set-up. I added a hard
drive (a modest 105Mb) and a second hand SM124 (high resolution
monitor). The idea for TUG resurfaced and I set about creating a
diskzine and propositions for a postal linked user group. (The reason
for the postal link is my job - I work funny hours and most days)
Earlier this year, I officially founded the group and registered with
the UK Association of Atari User Groups. My hope was that Atari World
magazine would publish my letters about the group and that this would
generate some enquiries. Of course AW issue 12 (the one that would
have my letters if they were published) has not yet appeared (and may
never L) so I have not yet had any response other than some invaluable
setting up assistance from Harry Sideras at the UKAAUG and Alasdair
Goold of the WeST of Scotland Atari User Group. I have (eventually -
that's another long story of back-orders and stock problems...) got a
modem and now feel a bit more "out of the dark" as I involve myself
with 42BBS and Penske (great Atari bulletin boards). I have posted
the test issue of TUG Magazine and some more information to these and
other BBSs. I am now waiting....
So you may be wondering what I'm actually getting at? There are a few
components of TUG that I want to implement, here are the main ones:
The Magazine
By no means the main part of the group, I want it to be more than just
another diskzine, but none the less an important communication medium.
I had initially envisaged posting a disk each month to members but
since I started getting hooked on comms, the idea has evolved
somewhat. I now want to get in touch with at least one modem user
from as many user groups as possible. The magazine will be
distributed free of charge over the TOS friendly BBSs and the cost to
members will be minimised. The membership fee can probably be minimal
too. If the user services are offered by other users then I don't
need to be involved in administration and consequently don't incur any
postage etc. costs. I would like to offer a competition for members
though and this will obviously cost money - unless a vendor or
software author was to offer the prize? If you would like the
competition to stay let me know and let me know what prizes you would
like to see.
The other possible cost inducer is my grandiose plan for a TUG
Convention - more details later - but this could be financed on a
pay-as-you-attend basis? Again this is a point for debate. I am still
willing to offer the magazine on disk, by post, but for a fee to cover
costs.
The contents of the magazine depend on what you want to read about and
WRITE about. The magazine is in ST-Guide hypertext format but I do
not mind if you submit articles in ASCII, RTF or ST-Guide SOURCE
format. I will compile the magazine on a monthly basis but all
members can receive a more frequent contact if they have a lot of
'mail' or have replies from other members. If you want to write
regularly or just once or occasionally then get in touch.
As you may have realised the magazine (beyond the test issue) is not
circulated yet but rest assured, as soon as there is a response there
will be a regular magazine.
Services
TUG members will be encouraged to offer their services in any way they
can. This is of particular importance to those of you who have a
fancy set-up with useful peripherals that many users do not have
access to. I refer mainly to the scanner, laser printer/colour inkjet
etc owners among you. You could offer to utilise your equipment on
behalf of other members for which you could ask for a small fee to
cover postage, running costs etc.
If you can offer informational services such as help with a particular
application or programming language etc, then you can also include
this in your listing although any fees for this should be strictly
limited to the cost of posting disks or documents etc.
Commercial bodies are welcome to place advertisements but they will be
expected to make a contribution to the group, either money to the
group funds or products, services or discounts for members. Get in
touch with me to discuss this.
The standard services, available to all members for free, are:
Help and advice about using your TOS system (Desktops, AUTO
Folder,Accessories etc.)
Help when installing new hardware and software. Technical information
about TOS/GEM (please narrow the scope of your enquiries a bit at
least).
The magazine and it's related files on a monthly basis. Access to TUG
public mail/conference files from BBS's
Non-modem owners can request BBS message postings and e-mails
Please do not abuse the privilege of having my modem used on your
behalf - I want to keep costs low and consequently membership fees
low.
Software
I would like to offer shareware and public domain software with the
magazine and second-user software through the for sale section of the
Exchange. I am also interested in making deals with commercial and
shareware authors regarding distribution or demo advertising.
I had initially hoped to offer a PD&SW library but this may prove
impractical so I would like to recommend that you use one of the
libraries listed in the Directory. (My personal fave is Floppyshop)
The TUG Directory
This is the place where members, vendors, people and organisations of
importance to TOS users are listed. A copy can be ordered at any time
and the latest listings are in each issue of TUG Magazine. If your
organisation is not in here but should be, let me know. I will list
any TOS friendly organisation for free but that is as far as the free
advertising will go.
Membership
Membership will be on a quarterly basis. The fee for membership will
depend on your status as a TOS user. If you are an individual user ,
contacting TUG directly, then you will have to either collect your TUG
files ('mail', magazine, help etc.) from a BBS or by post on disk. If
you are a member of a UKAAUG listed user group then you can collect
your TUG files from an appointed member or organiser who will download
each members files by modem. If you are a BBS sysop who is willing to
offer a local area to TUG then you will obviously be given free
membership and access to TUG files for members use. If you represent
a non-commercial organisation NOT listed with the UKAAUG then you can
arrange to have a group membership with an appointed modem-owning file
collector. Finally, if you represent a commercial organisation then
you are welcome to place ads and post product/service information but
at the cost of donation(s) to the fund or products/services/discounts
to members.
Quarterly membership fees will initially be set as follows, this cost
includes all free membership services as well as update files sent up
to once weekly by disk or posted to the BBS of your choice:
N E W P O R T F O L I O C L U B (U. K)
Hello my name is Paul Finch, I thought you might be interested in the
news that I have started up a club for owners of the wonderful Atari
Portfolio pocket PC computer, my records show that you deal with Atari
computers, so you can be one of the first people to be told about this
club, and membership is FREE. There are approx 300 Portfolio users in
Europe alone. This club is, therefore, part of a much larger group.
Do you know of any other person/company that deals in Portfolio
hardware or software. If you do please let me know, so, I can tell all
the members of the my club.
I have contacts in U.S.A, Canada, Germany, and Czech Republic with
supplies of new items for the Portfolio, i.e. Memory cards,
Interfaces, floppy drives. Did you know, it is also possible to
backup your data on to a standard tape recorder, and upgrade your
existing Portfolio to work faster or have a larger internal memory,
even have the internal battery backup increased from 10 minutes up to
24 hours!
It is also possible to work your Portfolio as a fax machine or have a
individual copy of your Portfolio working program on your desktop P.C,
even a way to transfer data between an Atari S.T and your
Portfolio, yes this is all possible with software from me.
You will also be able to read on disk, in my CLUBNEWS about the
range of magazines, newsletters, old and new, yes there is a very
good newsletter currently being produced in the Czech Republic and
its in English. Also a copy of my club's HISTORY on disk.
If anyone would like to join this club, just send a
S.A.E to my address above.
Mr Paul H Finch.16 Cedars Road, MORDEN, Surrey. SM4 5AB. UK.
Telephone:-
Home:(+44)0181-542-8350, Work:(+44)0171-219-4768
E-mail:finchp@parliament.uk
ATARI JAGUAR
Up to now I've put little in the newsletter about the Atari Jaguar.
Should I change this ? I have no idea if any of the Group members have
a Jaguar, if you have and you want something in here about it, then
get writing. If you're looking for a Jaguar, Fraser Blacklaws of The
Atari User Group (Scotland), has a couple of new ones at a reasonable
price. His details are in the for sale section.
FOR SALE / WANTED
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Fraser Blacklaws
Atari User Group (Scotland)
50 Jones Green, Livingston
EH54 8QB
has numerous items of software and hardware for sale
on behalf of his group. Send him an SAE and a note
of what you're looking for, and he'll try to help out.
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Some (well quite a lot) stuff from Danny Bhabuta
(AKA The CyberSTryder)Drop him a line to
dbhabuta@cix.compulink.co.uk or give me a shout.
BRAND NEW
First Ever Atari CD to be produced. Compiled by
Maxxon in Germany. I have only 1 left. Price: 15
Pounds. Cyber Control, Cyber Paint, Spectrum 512
7 Pounds each or 15 for the whole lot (plus postage of
course)
GENERAL
Easy Draw 2 15
Easy Draw 10
Archive Viper internal SCSI Tape Drive with 9 tapes
130
Box of 10 8" floppy disks 5
Dragons Breath (Game) 5
Outrun (Game) 3
Road Blasters (Game) 3
Master Sound 10
Replay 4 10
Quartet 10
Minix (mini-UNIX) OS 50
Multiprint 5
BMS-100 SCSI adaptor 35
Vortex AT-Once 386SX emulator 70
Supercharger PC Emulator 60
Power Computing external drive 35
1Mb TOS 1.62 STe (modified serial port) 125
(or as a 4Mbmachine ) 165
BOOKS
The Atari Compendium 12
Learning C on the Atari ST 6
All the above are subject to postage. Offers on the
above items are also welcome. All stuff in very good
condition.
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From: Paul Walsh Date: 05-04-96 17:42
Paul says: "My brother-in-law is seeking a *cheap*
computer... (around 50). So....
WANTED: ST preferably E, tight budget
so extras unimportant.
Call ANDY on 01259 723097
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From: Lez Rutherford
I have for sale the following:-
Falcon 030 32Mhz 4Meg, Mini S 540Meg hard drive
with SCSI1 to SCSI2 cable. Tabby Cat graphics pad
with software. Blow-Up 2 hard graphics enhanser
with software. "The Bug" microswitched joystick.
Half decent mouse NOT Atari's 8-) All in very good
condition. Will NOT split, has to go as one lot. 600 uk
Pounds or make me an offer, sensible ones please 8-)
contact me here (42BBS For Sale) or phone
0131-333-1930 (Edinbugh).
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From: Domhnall Dods
1x 520STFM (half meg, d/s d/d drive)
1 x star LC10 dot matrix printer
1 x Phillips RGB colour monitor plus cable
1 x Trust 14400 Fax Modem, boxed as new.
I'm looking for about 60 quid for the modem, the
others I'm open to offers
(If you're interested give me a shout and I'll put you in
touch with Domhnall - Al)
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SOFTWARE PIRACY
The WeST of Scotland Atari User Group does not condone software piracy
and will not allow the group meetings be used to copy commercial
software.
1996 MEETINGS
All meetings will take place within the upstairs lounge of The Railway
Inn, Main Street, Howwood. The doors will be open from 7pm . The
formal opening of each meeting will take place at 7:30pm. The propos
dates for the meetings to be held in 1996 are as follows.
All dates are provisional at the moment and will depend on both the
response to the groups as a whole, and the suitability of the Railway
Inn.
1996 MEETINGS
11 JUNE
9 JULY
6 AUGUST
3 SEPTEMBER - AGM
1 OCTOBER
29 OCTOBER
26 NOVEMBER
24 DECEMBER -NO MEETING
Refreshments
In addition to the normal Cold refreshments available at Group nights
up till now, coffee is now available as of the May meeting. The coffee
is on a self serve and donation basis and we have to give our thanks
once again to Danny at the Railway [g].
CREDITS
This Newsletter was prepared using Papyrus Gold with N.V.D.I.4 and
printed at 300 dpi on a Hewlett Packard Deskjet 500C.
Editor: Al Goold
(½ WSAUG, 1996)
