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Atari Computing
Atari Shows
Both shows are open from 10am to 5pm
Being a wheelchair user myself, I like this idea of Mike's...
Disabled people will be allowed in 30 minutes early to give them a little
time to look round before the room becomes too busy [It will be busy!]
Admission is £3.00 for adults and £1 for children under 12 years when accompanied by an adult.
Alphabeticalist of exhibitors - B=Birmingham L=London
Goodman International's own news is that they hope to have some new specials at the show. These include a new Tony Greenwood game and a new release from the Reservoir Gods.
Video Supreme 2 Plus is available now at £24.95. Upgrades to version 2 will cost £5. Both will be available at the show.
Finally as well as his proposed bimonthly Atari News Update magazine, send an SAE to register your interest, Goodmans will be starting a Secondhand Software Sourcing Scheme. This will help you to find that game or application that you have been looking out for, or indeed, help you to sell your collection. More details of this will be published later.
Goodman International 16 Conrad Close Meir Hay Longton Stoke-on-Trent ST3 1SW Phone 01782 335650 Fax 01782 316132 Email fdl8@dial.pipex.com
Croft Soft Software Croft Soft Software is pleased to announce the release in September of their latest Atari game. Mole Mayhem is a platform game based around the adventures of a mole!
The game will feature:
The game is still very much in development, and many new features are to be added. A demo version should be available soon.
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Mole Mayhem will be compatible with both the STE and Falcon.
Also due for release in 1996 is Software House ST, a strategy game based around the running of a major software company. The game should be available before the end of the year.
The Atari Authors Association is finally beginning to take off, look out for the latest information in the N.ST.PDREVIEWS echo on NeST, or write, with SAE, for more information.
Issue 4 of the Croft Soft HTML News Letter is due for release any day now. It will contain all of the latest information with regards to the Atari market aswell as our regular features such as the Top Ten and User Profile. It also contains the Atari Authors Association update and news and the latest in regards to Croft Soft's releases.
Croft Soft Software, The Croft, Hope Rd, Nibley, Nr Yate, Bristol, BS17 5JH Tel: 01454-313352 Email: cpolonowski@fffnet.demon.co.uk
CyberSTrider
CyberSTrider PO Box 78 Manchester M21 8SJ Email: denesh@cyberstrider.org And new web pages on www.cyberstrider.org
Floppyshop
Floppyshop, PO Box 273, Aberdeen, AB15 8GJ General Office/Technical Queries Tel/Fax: (01224) 586208 Credit Card Orders Only Tel/Fax: (01224) 312756
With immediate effect Floppyshop have cut their prices on all PD and Shareware disks. With over 3200 ST/STe disks and more than 700 Falcon disks, all at just £1.50 each plus P&P, there has never been a better time to order up all the latest releases. P&P charges are per order (regardless of size of order) currently amount to £1.25 UK, £2.25 Europe and 15% of order value (minimum P&P charge £3.00) rest of world.
With over nine years' service to the Atari owning community, we have perhaps the largest collection of PD and Shareware in the world. It's all quality stuff too, we don't accept any old rubbish! Our catalogues detail every program on the disk (we don't do one liners!) giving descriptions which are second to none. All orders are despatched the same day and we are pleased to accept payment by cheque, PO or credit card. To get a free copy of the catalogue send a blank disk for the Falcon catalogue or two blank disks for the ST catalogue. If you don't have the necessary blank(s) just send us £1 and we'll supply.
Floppyshop are currently running a number of special deals on our top selling commercial products for a limited period. Savings of up to 50% are being offered on some products, so order early while they are still on special offer! Here's a list of what's available.
EZ-Art Professional - The leading paint package for the Atari ST/STe. It offers an easy to use icon driven interface with a vast array of drawing tools and block manipulation facilities. Supports the use of up to 10 workscreens, makes use of the STE's extended palette (even on an STFM!), allows multiple fonts and has lots of special FX. Complete with a fully illustrated 60 page manual. It even runs on a 520! On special offer for just just £10 (normally £19.95) plus P&P (£1 UK, £2 Europe, £3 rest of world).
Family Roots II - The leading genealogy package for Atari computers. Currently in use by hundreds of Atari users worldwide. Features a nice easy to use graphical interface where you create individuals by placing blocks on a grid and link them up with each other using a few simple mouse clicks. Includes easy access to each individual's database record and a powerful search facility. Supports printout of both the individual database entries and the graphical tree structure. Incredible value for money at just £15 (normally £24.95) plus P&P (£1 UK, £2 Europe, £3 rest of world).
Easy Stitch - Allows you to design your own cross stitch patterns. These can be created from scratch or existing graphics may be imported. Easy Stitch allows you to generate patterns of any size up to a maximum of 10 feet by 8 feet! Using a grid, the pattern is designed on screen. Areas can be easily copied, rotated, reduced or enlarged. You can even edit individual stitches! Can you resist this one at the silly price of just £10 (normal price £19.95) plus P&P (£1 UK, £2 Europe, £3 rest of world)?
DegasArt 3 - Three disk graphics tutorial which helps you get the best out of Degas Elite. Includes many 'tricks of the trade' which can be equally well applied to EZ-Art Professional, Deluxe Paint, Cyber Paint, Crack Art, Flair Paint and indeed any other graphics package on the ST. Very highly acclaimed in several publications over the years. Now available at just £5 + P&P (£1 UK, £1.50 Europe, £2 rest of world). No that's not a misprint! Just £5 + P&P for the (3 disk set) best art tutor ever written!
Positive Image - Yes it's finally here! THE image processing and retouching package for
Atari computers. Retouch 24-bit True Colour graphics on an ordinary ST
without loss of image quality. Print out your masterpiece to almost any
printer (including colour). HiSoft
We were hoping to bring you news of Papyrus
4. Unfortunately, work on the English translation has been stopped
while HiSoft concentrate on their Video CD Decoder, the SMD-100. The
decoder will cost £199.95 but as of now there are no plans to
produce an Atari version of the software it will require. Hopefully work will
continue on the translation of Papyrus 4 soon.
HiSoft - 01515 718181 Email - hisoft@support.co.uk
Kandinsky
Musical Competition TORINO 16th July 1996 - Emmesoft, the most important Italian source for Atari products (located in Torino-ITALY), announces the third edition of the Italian Fair for the Atari market, called Atari Days.
This Fair, which has been held for the very first time in December 1994, takes as example similar events periodically held in Germany, France, England, Sweden and USA; Atari Days is the right place to show and demonstrate all latest products and releases for Atari and Atari compatible computers.
The first two editions have had a good success, while this new edition will benefit of all suggestions from distributors and developers to improve Atari Days.
First Edition of the Musical Contest "MUSICA CON ATARI"
Since Atari computers are still strongly used in the musical field,
during Atari Days there will be the Musical Contest "Musica con
Atari", with over 3 millions Lit. (2.000 $) of prizes. This Musical
Contest is reserved to every musician (even outside Italy), hobbyst or
professional. "Musica con Atari" is sponsored by the most important
companies in the Atari market. Between them are:
Charlie Lab Steinberg Emagic C-LAB
Between the prizes awarded are a MIDI Digitar Midi-guitar, software Cubase Audio, Notator Logic sequencer.
For more detailed information and/or to receive the announcement of competition in English (the deadline to send the floppy disks with MIDIFile in General MIDI standard is 31th October 1996) please contact: Manuela Esterni - phone +39 337 226379 fax +39 11 4374311 e-mail: atarimag@mbox.vol.it
The awarding of prizes of the musicians winners of "Musica con Atari" will be during Atari Days. N.B.: International winners are not obliged to be phisically present during the awarding of prizes.
Reserved AREAS FOR EXHIBITORS
In Atari Days people will find booths for demonstrations of new products
and latest releases. The major distributors and developers in the
Italian Atari market, together with distributors and international
developers, the Italian magazine "Atari Magazine" and the french
magazine ST MAG will exhibit during the Fair.
Reserved AREAS FOR WORKSHOPS
During Atari Days ther will be Workshops about graphics, MIDI,
Multimedia, MIDI etc...
What's new during Atari Days *
Why should I attend/visit Atari Days?
It's the only one Fair of its kind in Italy!!
For more information:
Atari Days Manuela Esterni Tel. +39 337 226379 FAX +39 11 4374311 e-mail: atarimag@mbox.vol.it
* These are only some of the products confirmed at press time All names are registered trademarks and belong to the respective holders.
STAG They will actively seek ways in which to promote STAG and bring it to the widest possible audience both in Scotland and elsewhere. Meetings are to be organised on a regional basis but the newsletter will be produce and funded centrally, with a single subscription for all members.
Alasdair Goold, Chairman, feels that the various on-line
activities give them access to many Atari Users via their www site...
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/magicka/homepage.htm...as well as a local discussion area on 42BBS (01256-895106) and the atari.user.gps conference on CiX.
For information send an SAE to:
Alasdair Goold RoisBheinn Overton Crescent Johnstone Strathclyde PA5 8JB or Email agoold@cix.compulink.co.uk
System Solutions
If you've ever wanted a truly professional sample editing package for your Falcon then WaveMaster is for you. A superb GEM program, with an intuitive, yet powerful interface. It offers a range of features just not found in the majority of sampling packages including direct-to-disk sampling and editing, fade in/out, volume adjust, normalise, cut/paste, reverse, etc. It handles the following sample formats: AIF, WAV, AVR.
WaveMaster runs as a standalone program or as a desktop accessory - as the latter it will happily co-exist with Cubase Audio (or AudioTracker), being available *at the same time* with no need to continuously quit-and-run to swap between the two.
WaveMaster is available now for £129, inc. VAT.
The device comes as a 1U high 19" rack-mount, with front-mounted LEDs to show which ports are currently being used. Installing is as simple as plugging in the appropriate leads.
The Digital Patch Bay costs £295 inc. VAT and is available now.
Despite all the power PhotoLine is easy to use thanks to the use of a totally amodal, modern GEM interface. The GEM coding also allows PhotoLine to work on any Atari computer, using any graphics set-up. Indeed, as is usual on professional image editors, it is possible to work on and save a 24-bit picture in any other mode, including monochrome. Using NVDI 3 (or greater) it is also possible to use vector font technology to add text to the image.
One of the sheer delights of this product is the attention to detail of all the drawing functions. Paint brushes can be designed, *all* functions have an intensity setting, all relevant functions enable you to work on single (or multiple) RGB (or CMYK) planes of the image, colours can be picked up and dragged from one colour box to another, etc.
Bit-map functions include paint-brush, clone, finger, erase, stamp, fill, gradient, etc. whereas the vector tools include all the standards like straight-line, Bezier curves, move to front/back, etc. Naturally there are powerful cut/paste/copy tools which can work on the image or on the mask. Selecting areas is performed with the rectangular, circle or lasso tool (or adopted from a mask, using the magic-wand tool - see below). It is even possible to add or subtract to/from selections - this is *real* power at work!
The mask itself is also catered for by the magic-wand tool, a powerful beast on it's own - a description of which could fill up a paragraph or two alone here! Suffice to say that it is totally configurable, including the tolerance and feathering. Again you can easily add or subtract to/from current mask selections - which can also be saved to disk and loaded in a later session.
You can work on as many images at the same time as memory allows, uniquely (we think) on the Atari you can drag-and-drop selections - even irregular selections - from one image to another. Pictures may be treated as RGB, CMYK, greyscale, monochrome or vector. Loading formats are too numerous to mention (but include all the standards, inc. PhotoCD Pro), you can save to TIFF, JPEG, IMG, CVG and GEM formats.
There are filters, special tools, rotation, scale, distortion, picture projection in 3D space. It can print or plot to NVDI/GDOS printer/plotter drivers and it can use GDPS drivers to scan images directly into the program. This is one product full of so many features that it's impossible to even scratch the surface in this article.
PhotoLine comes on 3 double-sided floppy disks, which include one disk for ST computers, one for TT's (inc. all with a minimum of 68030 CPU and FPU chips) and one containing a range of utility files. It includes a ring-bound 50 page manual. The program is available now from System Solutions for £169 inc. VAT.
However, there has always been a problem with multimedia CDs - those which require a special program to access the information. Inevitably these CD-ROMs are written with either the IBM PC or Apple Mac in mind. They just won't work on Atari computers - until now!
System Solutions have teamed up with Homa Systems House in Canada to bring out Atari drivers for a range of multimedia titles. The flagship in their range is the driver disk for the Infopedia 2.0 CD-ROM. This stunning CD was released in December 1995 and has been rated by many PC magazines as the best multi-media encyclopaedia available! It includes the complete 29 volume Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopaedia, with almost 27000 entries and 8000 photos and sound clips. In addition it includes the Hammond's World Atlas and the 1995 World Almanac and Book of Facts.
The software driver for the Atari gives you access to all of these information resources, enables you to view the photographs (even on monochrome screens) and hear the sound clips (on STe's or better). Everything is wrapped up in a modern GEM interface (with a 3D look on systems with 16 colours or more) which works flawlessly on any Atari computer and under multi-tasking operating systems.
You have access to every Encyclopaedia entry almost instantaneously (it's faster than the PC version!), hypertext linking of articles and powerful search features including 'narrow down' (just type the first few letters of an entry and it'll pop-up). Photos and sound clips are linked to the correct entries, which in turn are linked to over 10,000 timelines.
All-in-all the Infopedia 2.0, along with the CD Master is by far and
away the best educational and research tool available to Atari owners
ever. It may even be the reason that makes you decide to buy a CD-ROM
Drive! The entire package, Atari CD Master and the Infopedia 2.0 costs
a very reasonable £49.95 inc. VAT. Also, get in touch with System
Solutions about special bundle deals on CD-ROM drives, including their
amazing cartridge port CD-ROM connector!
Watch for the Infopedia review in AtariPhile #4
So, not one to shirk taking the bull by the horns - or the mouse by the tail - they decided to do something about it. As no-one was making mice to their specifications, they took their specs. and had a company make some mice for them.
The System Solutions Atari Mouse is now with us. A totally standard mouse, it feels light and responsive to the touch and enables precise, fluid control of the mouse pointer on the screen. It offers a resolution of 280 DPI, a mouse lead of 1.5m and is badged with the System Solutions logo. The price is £14.95 inc. VAT and it's available right now.
Call for information:
0181 693 3355 ssolutions@cix.compulink.co.uk http://www.ssolutions.com
TITAN Designs
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/TITANWEB/...of any organisation or group of individuals who directly support the Atari by publishing magazines or acting as user groups, whether it be a commercial or voluntary venture. The following are groups we are prepared to support;
We are *NOT* prepared to support companies who only resell goods, in any form whatsoever. Titan Designs reserve the right to remove mention of any company from their Web site, without prior consultation.
If you are interested (hey, it's free advertising!!!), just forward any text, logos (GIF or JPEG), Web site URL, etc. and they'll be inserted at the next available opportunity. Alternatively you may like to provide an html document, however some editing may be inevitable if space becomes a premium, so keep the details brief, please! We also reserve the right to exclude or modify any material for whatever reason, but this should not alter the context of the message you submit.
This information would, naturally, include a link to your own site, but this will not preclude you from submitting brief details of your operation.
If you have any queries contact David Encill (for Titan Designs or Black Scorpion Software) on:
100345.2350@compuserve.com Tel: +44 (0)121-693 6669 Fax: +44 (0)121-414 1630 6 Witherford Way Selly Oak Birmingham B29 4AX U.K.
That was the end of the official Titan press release, however AtariPhile can announce that 42BBS [01256-895106] will soon be opening a Titan Designs support area where information and demos of their products can be downloaded.
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