M@ilbox
A question
about the most recent cover What's the name of the truetype (.ttf) font
used to create the logo of myatari.net on the cover of the mag and
the web site?
Cduncan872
Matthew
Bacon replies The myatari.net logo uses the .ttf family called
Sharnay. When it came to design the logo for myatari.net over four
years ago, we wanted to create one that could be easily re-created yet
modern and original.
I understand that the Sharnay family of
TTF can be puchased from http://fonts.ontheweb.com/fonts/sharnay__1.html.
Hope this helps!
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Back issues
will be... back Why canīt I download backissues
any more? From "Issue 42 - April 2004" there is not a download link
any more.
Peter
Eriksson, Finland
Shiuming
Lai replies This is all due to a
lot of headaches with losing web domains
and lack of time to check the back issues
before archiving them. The magazine takes
a lot more work than you might imagine,
but we're slowly catching up and as soon
as the back issues are ready for download
again we'll post a notice on the forum.
Then we can get on with checking the most
recent issues so we can archive them.
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More about domains I read about your problems with domain names. I
thought you might be interested that neither http://www.myatari.org.uk nor http://www.myatari.net.uk are registered to anyone
- go to the Nominet whois page: http://www.nominet.org.uk/whois.html
I'm sure you know that the .uk domains need only cost a couple of quid a year,
it might be an idea to get these domains as a precaution for the
future.
I always enjoy the on-line mag, even if the Atari
has become something of a nostalgic museum piece now. I still use my STE, one of
the first, for some MIDI dabbling, but not for much else for a number of years
now. My Atari ownership actually goes back further than this.
In the second half of the eighties I was very
enthusiastic about the STE, and would not have believed that Microsoft would
have become what it has, because of the way that PC users were struggling with
DOS and crude early versions of Windows at the time. I also remember that my
boxed version of MS Write for the ST never worked properly, and I was always
incredulous that a company that couldn't get a word processor to work on the
ST became such a monolith. But I also felt that the Atari world was let down
very badly by Jack Tramiel.
Currently I'm toying with the idea of dumping
Windows on my PC and moving over to Linux and open-source software, though I'm
not under-estimating the upheaval this would be. Open Office and Star Office
also look very tempting. I'm sure that open-source is the way of the
future.
I don't want to tell Grandma how to suck eggs, but
if you want any help/advice on getting these domains, just ask.
Stephen Kingdom,
UK
Shiuming
Lai replies Thanks for the suggestions,
Stephen. We have considered registering
multiple domains before, but at the end
of the day it's more administration and
overhead that we don't need (I used to work
for a company that registered an inordinate
number of domains for its clients, I think
15 was the record, and it was far more
trouble than it was worth), on top of keeping
the magazine in production. Most people
know the main domain by now and we aim to
protect it fiercely!
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