@Lx}5 _$% l0$)$$Hȱ$ UhL" `e$$%`$%`  R@W!( L(1   Y I`  d  Ld M * @  $ % CC$$)%1 Udߥ$9%: !0 S$% DD˙`  }J)Lr ɛ************************************ THE ADVERTS! ************************************The YORKY 256k }plug-in memory upgrade.-----------------------------------Yes it's available once again, but in limited quantities.The Y}orky simply plugs into the PBI on the back of your 800XL (or internally upgraded to 64k, 600XL) to give you 256k of RAMBO XL }compatible bank switched memory. NO soldering is required and you don't have to open up your machine.It comes complete with} a printed manual and a disk full of software designed to make use of the extra memory.Price 50pounds + 2pounds p&p.For e }nquiries and orders please write to:-RICHARD GORE, 79 SPROTBROUGH ROAD, SPROTBROUGH, DONCASTER, DN5 8BWor telephone me (R }ichard) on (0302) 784642 any weekend between 7pm Friday and 4pm Sunday.NB. I can only guarantee this upgrade to work on PAL } (UK) systems with a 240V a.c. @ 50Hz power supply.----------------------------------- **** PARALLEL CONNECTION **** }Are you interested in building your own interface for the 600/800 XL parallel port or 65/130 XE enhanced cartridge port, to d }rive parallel printer directly, interconnect two machines or whatever? I have PCBs, connecters, components, details and help }on offer and would welcome any enquiries. Just ring or write and I am sure we can reach agreement to mutual advantage. Te}lephone: Dave Richardson on: (0778) 424450 (evenings) or write to: 16 The Green, Thurlby, Bourne, Lin}cs. PE10 0HB----------------------------------- Dean Garraghty Software For Atari XL/XE software!* Public Doma}in. We currently stock 166 disks (mostly double sided) of the very best public domain. Prices range from 1.25pounds to 2pound}s per disk depending on how many you are ordering.* Commercial Software Publishing. We currently publish our own Digi-Studi}o digitized sounds and music system at the new low price of just 6.95pounds (including 2 disks, 44 page manual, and P&P). We }also sell most PPP products in the UK including: the QUICK programming language at the new price of 12.95pounds, the Screen A}ided Management 80col. desktop system at 12.95pounds, the Quick Ed character set editor (with mouse and touch tablet support)} for just 4.95pounds, and three games: Rubber Ball, Minesweeper, and Glaggs It for 4.95 each, or all 3 for 12.50. All are in }our catalogue.* News-Disk. We publish an on-disk newsletter called the News-Disk. A back issues pack of issues 1-12 costs j}ust 5.95. A subscription costs 5pounds for 4 issues.* Used software/hardware. We also buy and sell used hardware and softwa}re. We also exchange your old hardware and software for P.D. from our library. Give us a ring if you have something to sell.}Contact us at:D.G.S., 62 Thomson Ave, Balby, Doncaster, DN4 0NU, ENGLAND.Or phone: (0302) 855026International: +44-302-}855-026Email: djg0@aber.ac.ukIf you want our latest 20 page printed catalogue, then just send an A5 sized stamped addresse}d envelope to the address above!We also ship to any country! We can currently take payment by British cheque and Postal Ord}er, as well as International Money Order, cash in UK pounds, and cash in US$. If you are in the US then send US$5 in cash to }the address above to receive the latest catalogue.All prices are for the UK only. A back issues pack to the US is US$22. A }subscription is US$20. PD prices are subject to a 10% shipping charge for foreign countries (minimum 2.50pounds).Digi-Studi }o is available directly in the US for $15 from:Lance Tatman, 844 Kern Street, Richmond, CA 94805, USA.-------------------!}----------------A NOTE ABOUT ADVERTS:---------------------Private individuals wishing to sell old hardware or software ("}originals ONLY) or wishing to place a wanted advert, may do so free of charge. Just write out your advert and send it to me a#}t the usual address. Please try to keep them short, as I don't like typing!Companies or profit-making enterprises may also $}advertise for a small fee. This is as follows: 1 full screen for 10 pounds, 1/2 a screen for 5 pounds. Follow the same proced%}ure as given above. You may also send your advert on disk, saved as a standard ASCII file in DOS 2.x format. Your disk will b&}e returned.The News-Disk now has a far greater distribution than before. Now is the time to advertise!!t. 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A utility for Turbotape users%(%(  All about the Internet1(1(&  A review of the Yorky 256K upgra,}de(  A demo!((  A game!!((((  The editorial (INTRO.DOC)+(+( נӠԠҠŠ-} "F:B2y,@" A ` +% D:MENU.BAS D:INTRO.BAS+(+( נӠԠҠŠTThe Atari 8-bit News-Disk Issue 13----------------------------------Editorial by Dean Garraghty.Welcome to issue 13 of t!/}he News-Disk! Hopefully, you will have seen our new opening screen. I did promise some changes!OK, LOADS of things to menti!0}on in this editorial, so I hope you have a nice mug of something hot to keep you going while you read this!First of all, yo!1}u may be interested to know (I hope!) that I have now gone full-time into supporting the Atari 8-bit. After 5 years of suppor!2}ting the Atari in my spare time while at college and university, I have now decided to start a new business called DGS to sup!3}port the Atari. This is a HUGE risk on my part so I hope you will not desert me now! I need more support than ever!OK, you !4}will need to know what DGS (Dean Garraghty Software) will actually do. Well, you already know! That's because it is just a mo!5}re formal continuation of what I've been doing for years! I will continue selling PD, producing the News-Disk, selling commer!6}cial software, and buying/selling/exchanging used hardware and software. I will also be on the look-out for more new commerci!7}al software to sell in the UK. You should all have your free copy of the DGS catalogue. If you didn't receive it then please !8}let me know and I'll send you one. This contains details of all the stuff I will be selling. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep buying!9} from me so that I can keep supporting the Atari for years to come!! All cheques, etc. should now be made out to D.G.S. I loo!:}k forward to your continuing support!Price decreases! I am pleased to announce two major price decreases! Digi-Studio has b!;}een reduced from 13pounds down to just 6.95! This will get you all the same stuff but for a lot less. Also, I am pleased to a!<}nnounce that in agreement with PPP, we have been able to reduce the price of QUICK down from 16pounds to just 12.95 including!=} P&P. Also, the three games are now 4.95 each, or 12.50 for all three. I also have a new product from PPP. The Quick Ed chara!>}cter editor is a new character set editor, but has joystick, ST mouse, and touch tablet support! It has all the usual sorts o!?}f features, as well as the ability to edit 2 sets at the same time. It's all icon controlled, so there's no typing to do! The!@} price is 4.95, and that gets you the disk, manual, and a special touch tablet template to allow you to use the touch tablet !A}to edit sets without the need to keep your eye on the TV screen!Price increase (urg!). After 2 years of keeping the News-Di!B}sk at 4 pounds for 4 issues, I have been forced to raise the price to 5 pounds for 4 issues due to rising costs. Sorry! I hop!C}e this extra pound won't scare you all away! It's still cheap even at that! All subscribers whose subscriptions are still run!D}ning will not be liable for this extra cost until their next subscription becomes due. Also, there are rumours going through !E}the industry at the moment about extra import duties on blank disks from the Far East. This is likely to make the cost of bla!F}nk disks rocket. If and when this happens, the cost PD disks and the News-Disk may have to rise even further. I will try and !G}absorb some of the costs, but some will have to be passed on to you. More news when I have it.If your subscription number e!H}nds in /13 then it's your re-subscription time again! Please re-subscribe! I need your support more than ever now!New struc!I}turing of the News-Disk. As you may know, some people get the News-Disk on disk direct from me on a subscription basis, and o!J}thers get it by downloading it from various BBS systems. But, the News-Disk is NOT public domain. This causes problems here, !K}so this is what I have decided to do. From this issue, I will be producing two versions of the News-Disk. One will be a "Subs!L}cription" version for paying subscribers, and the other will be a "Download" version for people either getting the disk from !M}on-line sources, or people getting copies of these. Which version you have is displayed on the opening screen of the disk. If!N} you have a "Subscription" version and you pay for the News-Disk via subscription then you have no more to pay. If you have t!O}he "Subscription" version and do not pay a subscription then you have an ILLEGAL copy, and you should notify me immediately. !P}If you have the "Download" version then you must pay a small fee to help us keep the News-Disk going. It isn't fair that one !Q}group of people should pay for it, and another group get it for free! The fee is very small! If you are in the US, then just !R}send US$3 in cash to us. It costs 50cents to mail a letter from the US to the UK. You will get a letter of thanks in return! !S}If you are in another country, then you may like to send us some hot PD instead! If you are in the UK, then send us 1pound (o!T}r some hot PD!).Adverts. There are two commercial adverts on this issue. One is for the Yorky 256K upgrade, and the other i!U}s from Dave Richardson (the developer of the Turbo Tape system). Check out the ADVERTS.DOC file for details!Side 2 is diffe!V}rent! Now that the PD and commercial software catalogues are available for free in printed form, there is no need to repeat i!W}t all on side 2 of the News-Disk. Side 2 will now be used to give a list of used software and hardware for sale, as well as d!X}etails of special clearance offers, and other special offers. Eventually, I would like to take the News-Disk to double sided,!Y} but with the lack of articles currently coming in, it would be impossible at the moment. I need articles! And here's an ince!Z}ntive: 5 free PD disks for the article of the issue, and 3 free PD disks for all other articles I use (as long as they are of![} a decent size), and a free PD disk for all other smaller articles. Come on folks!!My degree. You may be interested to know!\} that I have passed my degree in Computer Science gaining a grade II(ii) honours. Yippee!Now that I have finished Universit!]}y, I would like to thank a few people, and moan at some others! Big thanks should go to my fellow students for putting up wit!^}h me for 3 years! It couldn't have been easy guys! Thanks should also go to Pete at the WaunFawr post office for putting up w!_}ith my rather large volume of outgoing mail in my first year, all the porters at Cwrt Mawr for putting up with the rather lar!`}ge volume of incoming mail in my first year, Mike and Norwenna at the Penparcau post office, with special thanks to Norwenna !a}for getting everything mixed up (we're lucky any orders got to anyone over the last 2 years!), thanks to all the guys at the !b}local Spar supermarket for putting up with me several times a day as I went for more sticky buns and chocolate to keep me goi!c}ng, big thanks to my dentist for understanding that I don't really like long needles stuck in my gum at all, big thanks to my!d} Doctor and physiotherapist for helping to get rid of a back injury, and HUGE thanks to all those people who have bought thin!e}gs from me over the last 3 years. Keep buying!And now the moans. People who have made life miserable over the years. BRITIS!f}H RAIL for being total pains in the arse! Getting Atari gear back and forth has been a task not to be undertaken lightly! We'!g}re looking at 5 boxes and a few bags to be taken on the train! Not easy, and BR has not helped in the task. Over the three ye!q}B#ADVERTS DOCB'AUTORUN SYSBH)CIVILWARBASBqCOMP12 DOCBJxDOS SYSB*DUP SYSB)GAMING DOCBINTRO BASBR.INTRO DOCBMENU BASB{NET DOCB>OHMYDOT COMB WPRINTER BASBcRBREVIEWDOCB }TAPEWIZ DOCB TAPEWIZ OBJB4XR40 OBJ!YORKYREVDOCars I have been moaned at constantly for having too much luggage. I have had many a showdown with BR guards. One threatend to!r} throw my gear off the train (so I told him if he did, I'd throw HIM off the train!), one refused to allow the train to go un!s}til I moved my gear and sat down (so I said OK I've got plenty of time, and I just stood there!). BR are also good at messing!t} things up in a bad way. My favourite of all time was while I was waiting on Birmingham station for the Aberystwyth train. Tw!u}o minutes before departure the announcement "The Birmingham to Aberystwyth train will today depart from Wolverhampton" was ma!v}de. Well thanks guys. Mmmm.....two minutes to get from Birmingham to Wolverhampton - not easy! Another brilliant one while wa!w}iting for a similar train. "Due to engineering works, the Birmingham to Aberystwyth train will today terminate at Wellington !x}Telford West". Well, thanks guys that's nowhere near where I want to be! The plan was, it turned out, that I had to get off t!y}here, get a bus to Shrewsbury, and then on another train to Aberystwyth. Try doing that with 5 boxes, a back pack, 3 carrier !z}bags, and a suitecase. Dedication or what?! Here's the moral of the story: don't travel by rail unless you HAVE to!!Another!{} moan must go to Doncaster Education Authority for being totally stupid 2 years ago. They nearly cost me my degree because of!|} some STUPID red tape. The story is too long to quote here, but believe me it'd make you laugh!News just in.... The Europea!}}n Commission have approved a grant for my first year of trading as DGS. That means that the News-Disk is now part financed by!~} the EEC! Professional or what?! Thanks guys!Are you asleep yet? OK, that'll be all for this issue. Just a final word. Plea!}se support DGS as much as you can, send as many articles as possible, and keep subscribing to the News-Disk!!Here's what's !}on this issue:ADVERTS.DOC - the adverts!INTRO.DOC - this editorial!NET.DOC - all about the Internet and what it means f!}or the Atari.RBREVIEW.DOC - a review of the PPP game Rubber Ball.YORKYREV.DOC - a review of the Yorky 800XL 256K upgrade !}now available again.TAPEWIZ.DOC - the doc file for:TAPEWIZ.OBJ - a nice program for Turboload tape users.GAMING.DOC - t!}he start of a new series of games reviews by Richard Gore.COMP12.DOC - the answers and winners of the issue 12 competition.!}OHMYDOT.COM - a nice demo which will only work by binary loading it straight from DOS after booting without basic. Note: th!}is is a good demo, but is spoilt by some bad language on the scroll line.CIVILWAR.BAS - a nice simulation of the American C!}ivil war. Instructions are included in the program.Dean Garraghty, B.Sc.(Hons).27 July 1993.The News-Disk is published i!}n the UK by:D.G.S., 62 Thomson Ave, Balby, Doncaster, DN4 0NU, ENGLAND.Phone: (0302) 855026International: +44-302-855-02!}6E-Mail: djg0@aber.ac.ukhomson Ave, Balby, Doncaster, DN4 0NU, ENGLAND.Phone: (0302) 855026International: +44-302-855-02  ABCDMXYLOOBBA(BXr@@ @%} @ S."D:MENU.SYS LOAD*IT BY KARL STIEFVATERREVISED 10/24%}/85BY CLAYTON WALNUMCOPYRIGHT (C) 1985(BY ANALOG COMPUTING2 Ap<&&;@ ,;@,;@@%},FA +AR@A6-F:A`,%F:Aa,$AVPk0@70@Q0%}@@k0@ZG%@@d%@3%@@G%@&@Hd70%}@@70@@@nd6-6-% Ap,(}R(! ӭ ISS%}UE #13d-@@x1@1@@D:*.*2@27@<@,4 FA`%}&&7@<@,4SYSA06-%@( 2@27@<@,4 FA`&&7@%}<@,4SYSAE( A0K-@(->.-@@!K(USE