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Tempus-Word NG, more choice
Shiuming Lai, 11 April 2004

After a great deal of hard work by DDP Translations, a fresh challenger to Papyrus X is available for English-speaking users. From its roots as a lean, mean and super-fast text cruncher, Tempus has matured into a richly featured office suite but still with an emphasis on speed. Peter West of DDP told us:

    Tempus-Word NG is very flexible in the use of fonts and applying font effects, creation and selection of paragraph styles, has very useful self-updating index and table of contents generation functions and can handle both bitmap and some vector graphics for incorporation in documents. Various primitives are available for generating various kinds of lines and common shapes and graphics may have borders assigned to them for text flow-around or effect.

    Virtually every function can be called by keyboard shortcuts as well as by clicking. The shortcuts are so numerous that they have had to use multiple keypresses after the modifier keys for some functions. A very useful on-line help is provided - both for the shortcuts and bubble-help for every button and field in dialogs and the edit window. People used to other text and document processors should learn the most common commands where they differ from what they are used to, but a handy print-out guide is provided.

    There are also two manuals - a Starter and a more comprehensive Reference, both thanks to DDP Translations who not only translated but also improved the originals (which have been fed into the German!).

As with Papyrus, versions are available for both TOS and Windows (but not yet for Mac). We'll bring you a full review as soon as we can get our hands on a copy.

[Screen-shot: Tempus-Word]

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Dutch retro gaming and computer fair
Ron van Schaik, 10 April 2004

[Image: Dutch retro day poster]

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More goodies for Jaguar fans
Lars Hannig, 09 April 2004

[Image: Ocean Depths case artwork]I'm happy to announce another Starcat Developments release. Actually this should have been finished months ago already, but I just didn't find the time to finish it earlier. It's called Ocean Depths and it's a collection of three parts. The first part is a relaxing slide show similar to the popular Nuon program, "Ambient Monsters". The second part is an early playable demo of Eerievale, based on the version shown at E-JagFest 2003, just slightly improved. And the third part is a small game on its own. It's called JagMIND and I'm sure most people know the original board game, Mastermind, this game is based on the same idea.

Ocean Depths comes in a DVD case similar to the Painter release by Sinister Developments and of course also with a great-looking CD-R label like it was already done with the Euro JagFest 2001 CD. Ocean Depths is of course fully encrypted and runs on any PAL/NTSC Jaguar CD unit. It's the first game to make use of the Starcat Developments Mouse Adaptor (originally created by Matthias Domin), which can be purchased at the Starcat Developments Homepage.

[Screen-shot: Under the ocean]

[Screen-shot: Eerievale]

[Screen-shot: JaguarMIND]

To celebrate this release Starcat Developments offers a limited edition bundle which consists of Ocean Depths, Mouse Adaptor and suitable Mouse for the bargain price of only 45 Euros including shipping worldwide (or 40 Euros including shipping in Germany). If you want one of these be sure to hurry, because once they are gone, they are gone.

By the way, now it's also possible for people who do not have PayPal to send money orders.

Check it out on the official Starcat Developments home page.

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Retrovision 4, a weekend of nostalgia
Shiuming Lai, 09 April 2004

The month of June will be a busy one indeed. Our friends at Retrovision are rushing around the clock to prepare the next major instalment the highly successful golden oldie gaming party. This year, Retrovision is attending and supporting JagFest UK 2004, which is the weekend before RV4 itself!

[Image: Retrovision 4 poster]

The venue will be moving away from Oxford down to the south coast, in (hopefully) sunny Somerset.

Head organizer Mark Rayson is a great supporter of MyAtari, too. As well as attending the pre-JagFest curry night this month, he'll be promoting MyAtari at RV4. What are you waiting for? Order those tickets now, we'll see you there!

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Platariada 2004
Petr Liebl, 01 April 2004

Meeting of Atari users in Czech Republic in Ceske Budejovice should take place this year on 18-20 June 2004.

 

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