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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.
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Dutch retro gaming and
computer fair Ron
van Schaik, 10 April 2004
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More goodies for
Jaguar fans Lars
Hannig, 09 April 2004
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.
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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!
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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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