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The UK is currently
experiencing one of its fiercest heatwaves in
recorded history, with the worst
yet to come, making it uncomfortable
to be working with computers even at night,
as there's hardly any breeze to move the
stale air. That means
systems at MyAtari HQ are spending a lot of
time off-line (internal temperatures 16 degrees
C. higher than normal), because even if they can
work in these conditions, I can't, and I don't
want to risk anything blowing up! Hence the
delayed launch of this issue.
CT60s are finally
shipping, after a monumental wait including
a short
debugging period assisted by the registered
developers. This new
piece of hardware is surely one of the most
significant developments to hit the scene in
its time, even
if the current user base stands at a "mere"
150.
No mainstream business would spend so
long developing a product for such a small group
purely on economic grounds, but here we have
the result of some quite ambitious design objectives,
which sweeps all before it and defies its
low cost. Meanwhile, Nature's Super VIDEL graphics
card appears to be making rapid progress, and
Rodolphe Czuba has quashed rumours that his
PCI/AGP adapter has been canned. Like CT60,
a certain level of interest must be committed
first. Things have never looked better for Falcon hardware
fanatics.
This month we
have a new team member. Edward Baiz, from the
USA, is a long-time
Atari user, he has written for various
Atari magazines including some detailed articles
in MyAtari. I look forward to more great
articles from Edward and I know you will, too.
Other interesting
stuff includes a report of the Austin Gaming
Expo from Del. Looks like it was far more commercial
than JagFest UK, with even more visitors and
things to buy. I enjoy events both large and
small, I wish I could have been at AGE with
the whole MyAtari crew, and of course, our readers.
Maybe if one day we're feeling crazy enough
we might try to get involved with organizing
something similar even if not quite on such
a grand scale.
Jos van de Gruiter
from the Netherlands is currently taking his
holidays, using the opportunity to visit and
exclusively interview some well-known developers
from the Dutch scene, read the first of these
articles this issue.
Finally a quick
word about our mirror site: Lately, the main
MyAtari web site at http://www.myatari.net
has regularly exceeded its upstream bandwidth
quota. What this means is it has reached the
monthly limit for the amount of data allowed
to be served from the server, and an error page
is displayed instead of the site. Whenever the
main site cannot be accessed, remember we have
a mirror site at http://www.myatari.org
(thanks again, Elliot Swanton, who, incidentally,
has just taken delivery of a sparkling new CT60!)
so please use that, then you won't miss out.
We keep a close eye on both servers and if the
main one ever becomes inaccessible we make sure
the mirror is as up to date as possible. Generally
speaking, they're both updated within an hour
of each other anyway.

Shiuming Lai,
Features and Technical Editor shiuming@myatari.net
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