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— MASSIVE sales of video games and consoles have been predicted by Atari for the Christmas market. The prediction has been made following a huge increasein sales ofvideo consoles and games in the American market last year. Figures just released show that the company’s turnover was up by 39 per cent with profits of $13.5 million on sales of $70 million in just three months. The American success is expected to be mir-
rored here this Christmas ‘now that Atari’s video games machines are to be sold in all the High Street multiples. ”For the past three years if parents with children aged 10 and under wanted a video games machine then they had to buy an expensivecomputer to do the job”, said an Atari spokesman. “With the 2600 video console retailing at £49.99 parents have an inexpensive way of buying a games machine and getting their
children used to the using a computer”.
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The two other machines which will also be on sale in the multiples are the new
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catalogue for the machines is already speeding towards the 100 mark.
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European titles through ShareData’s 22,000 outlets in North America. Database Software is part of the Database Group, the UK’s leading publisher of computer magazines including Atari User. As a software house, it first sprang to prominence in Britain in October, 1984, with the release of Mini Office an Atari 8 bit favourite. —
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truly international company", “and in ShareData believe we have found the perfect answer. “Now the search is on to find the hottest software properties in Europe and Britain to sell in America. ”It is a huge market with an insatiable thirst for good software", said Michael Meakin. ”We intend to satisfy that demand with the help of the wealth of excellent software authors over here". he said,
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you’ve had your disc drive for more than a few months, you will know all about the joys of weeding. You load up Dos, read the directory to see if there are any old files you can get rid lF
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to find a file whose name you can’t quite remember. It lets you read the disc directory without leaving Basic, so you can do all the searching and checking in relative comfort. There are simpler ways of reading disc directories from Basic — OPEN, GET and PUT, or XlO, can be made to do the job. But these involve writing extra lines of Basic, which could get mixed up with the program you’re checking, and will in any case be lost when you load anything new.
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head of the Guild, the Master Thief, beckons you to jump ashore and begin
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Yourfirst step is to get out of the boat and on to the jetty. And because the parser seems a bit unhappy with this opening, leaving the boat isn’t as straight-
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picture accompanying the
text but also to have a look at the three graves you'll find there. Bet you didn't know that this is where they ended up! And speaking of pictures, the 29 scene-setting illustrations built into the game are well up to Pawn standard. One or two are a little on the predictable side and add little to the atmosphere, but most are good and some
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bargain. The game needs a minimum of 64k to run it. much preferred Guild of Thieves to The Pawn. For one thing it is much more logical, for another it hangs together in atmosphere and I
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HOW many times have you be wanted to Daley
Thompson when he steps up to receive his gold
medal? Here is your chance. The first screen presents you with two men racing
downatrack,an unimpressive piece of music and a message scrolling down the screen telling you that it's not the winning that’s important but the taking part. would prefer a little gold medal to make me feel I
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displayed as a digital clock. made a 88 metre throw and thejavelin moved a very short distance and the clock whizzed up far too I
fast.
this had been slowed down and the javelin allowed to hang in the air If
Iongerthe event would have had more atmosphere. The graphics are reasonable but with poor sound, though the animation is quite well done. You can
choose which event you wantto play and not have to follow a set order of events and this is a saving grace. The pole vault is let down by poor animation but as a budget game the good points far exceed the bad. The major drawback is the fact that it is one of those
where you have to rattle thejoystick from left to right in a mad fashion to get the little man to run his socks off. So if you don’t mind the risk of ruining your joystick you’re all right to buy this one. games
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found out about Universal Hero in the blurb was that it's an arcade adventure. But there are no clues and instructions are minimal. Still, some people like to go into their adventures blind. Our hero has a pretty everyday sort of chore to carry out, by Superhero standards anyway—to save the planet from imminent destruction. The culprit is an out of control space freighter which must be repaired to ALL
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supply or kill you outright. Your powers of logic and deduction will get you through otherwise impassable barriers. The game is nicely with presented, good graphics and movement. Use of sound is minimal, which is at least preferable
to
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thought the game was immensely playable and
addictive. On reaching a control computer within the caves under the planet surface, and having in my possess-
ion all the items necessary to work it, I logged on and was asked to identify
myself. At this point my keyboard locked up and I could do nothing but reset the machine and restart the game. This happened every time and meant that I could not progress further. I mentioned this to Mastertronic, who said that they ,
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Triple trouble Program: Survivors Price: £2.99 Supplier: Atlantis, 285tation Road, London 5525 5AG. Tel: 07-777 8642
MAZE games are usually complicated enough when
you have to concentrate on moving one person around. Here YOu have the unfortunate problem of having to
manoeuvre three droids, each With its OW” ability. Togetheryou must rescue almost 1000 survivors scattered around seven levels in a hibernation dome damaged in a nuclear war. This is achieved by teleporting them to safety once you
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find them. Your three droids have their own characteristics: The number one droid looks “ke two rows of teeth on a
pole and is used to eat the earth to reach the survivors.
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opportunity to escape by undergoing a series of physical trials, pushing you to the limits of your agility and stamina. that the Aztec It appears race has, over the centuries, developed running and jumping abilities that make Daley Thompson look like a seven stone wimp—and you are going to need to coordito nate those abilities
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The graphics are quite nice but the sound effects are sadly lacking, the scrolling is quite well done and
adequate for the job at hand. If
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there
is something are shown a treasure map and must pick one of several crosses. With luck, you may ?nd treasure, otherwise, it's sailing time once more. By now your adrenalin and grey matter will have decided they won’t be neeeded on this voyage and have gone down to the pub. You may be tempted to join them, for there's not much more to this game. Should you land at a port on the coast you are given an opportunity, in a very simp|istic way, to buy or sell food and goods, hire men, acquire cannonballs, make repairs and bribe the port officer (in return for a hint). And really there is very little more to it than that. The game plays exceedingly slowly and is unredeemed by graphics (they are not bad but there are so few scenes), sound (crude) or If
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THE Panasonic KX-P1081 is a bidirectional dot matrix printer that is friction or tractor feed and has a switch to choose between standard, NLQ (near letter quality) or condensed
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printers not all combinations of styles are available, but all the important ones such as NLO italics are. If the character you want is not available you can easny define your oWn. If you've ever defined a character on a micro you should have no probIem. The horizontal and vertical lines in tables can easily be created using underline to draw across and by redefining ! (character 33) using the codes 27,121,33,0,0,0,0,255,0,0,0,0 to give upright bars. The NLO feature can be implemented using the switch on the left hand side of the printer or by sending control codes. it is slower than draft because the printer outputs part of the letters, moves the paper slightly and then goes over them again to give four times the dot density. The last line of Figure III showsa line oftext interrupted during the second pass of the print head. .
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million characters to be printed. The manual is well written and far easier to understand than many l have seen. One of the appendices gives a summary of the features available,the code required to get them (in the form, for example, ESC+S+0) and a page reference. That page translates this to 27,83,n where n=0,48,178,176. A little confusing and all the options for n don’t help, but far more helpful than the more usual form that the Escape
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functions automatically and can be toggled off and on. A handy position marker will jump you directly to any of the five user-defined points in your
document. Background and text colours can be altered to suit individual tastes and even the cursor can be changed. The cut and paste buffer will hold up to 800 characters, which is one screen (40 columnsx20 lines). Cut, copy and move functions are all operated from the icons seen at the bottom of the screen. The limitations of the text buffer can be offset by the ability to modify text within the buffer itself without harming the text in the document. Dual windows can make a large document easier to edit plus two separate documents can be displayed in this fashion. The text buffer luckily supports both windows thus enabling the transfer of text. Searching through your document is quite easy but this function will only
read text downwards, so cursor pos— ition has to be at the top of the text you need to search. Working through the icon menu again, the search facility will not only work in replace mode but also in delete — you can replace a word with one of your choice or
alternately delete the word. Wildcards are allowed throughout
both uppercase and lowercase selected without defining. Global replace/delete or manual confirmation are as standard. Your margins can be altered at any time, both indents and outdents are allowed along with justification of lines. Line spacing and page size follow the same easy structure. In fact most of the commands are embedded directly into the text document. Headers and footers can be blocked and can
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picture file in between your text. Other picture formats such as Typesettericons and B/Graph can also be used. This feature is configured for Epson and compatibles only, but'a
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for the majority of printers available. The XL/XE has a facility to insert international characters into a document and custom fonts can easily be loaded as the default text, although the standard Atari text is usually easiest to read. I’ve only scratched the surface of what the First XLEnt Word Processor can do. As an avid user of Batteries lncluded’s Paperclip, I'm impressed with the huge range of facilities available. Standards like these are hard to come by in 8 bit word processing. Whether you’re writing ashort note to your granny or a full length review for Atari User, First XLEnt Word Processor will accommodate itself around your nimble fingers.
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already come to this conclusion and the drive is now being packed with SpartaDos probably the most powerfuI available for the 8 bit Atari. The interface is capable of deciding if the hard disc is ready for use, and if not it will boot from floppy disc two (so don’t forget to alterthe drive select switch at the back of your 1050). Once SpartaDos has loaded you should run the format program provided. This will format, partition and zero the drive ready for use. Formatting will probably already be familiar to you, but partitioning may be a new concept. Since the hard disc can contain such a large amount of information it is split up into smaller, more manageable, units which the computer can treat as different drives. Thus a small partition of 180k is set up as drive one (and will be booted from each time you power up the system), while the rest of the space is allocated equally between two fictitious drives num—
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surface. The access speed is also very much greater than an ordinary floppy, with data being read and written many times faster than the serial drives are able. Because a hard disc requires a
far greatertrack reading accuracy than a floppy, the disc itself is sealed inside an airtight box to avoid contamination from the dust and moisture in the air.
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all business comis to use a hard but until now such a thing disc unit has been difficult to get for an 8 bit The answer,
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bered 3 and 4. Files may be accessed by using D1 :, D3: and D4: reSpectiver. D2: refers to the real floppy disc drive you first booted from. After each of these partitions has been zeroed you may write your Dos files to the fake drive one and you’re ready to go. At this point it's best to re-boot the system from scratch to check you’ve done everything correctly. The com-
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example of the LMS with Program II. This listing inverts a Graphics 0 screen, so when you run it everything goes upside down. Try LISTing the program to test the effects. Again this is all due to the LMS function. The new display list this time creates LMS addresses that start from the base of the screen and work backwards, creating a reversed memory format. The program also changes the character mode register to display upside down characters. A useless program you might say, but this idea can be used to invert a Mode 8 screen, and this brings us on to Program I”. Again the display list is re-designed for a backward memory format, but in this mode the picture on screen becomes flipped over. Notice how the program switches between
Program and run it. You will find that the top line of your screen has been re-displayed many times. This is achieved by making a new display list that keeps repeatingthe LMS on every line, with the same address for the I
screen data. What use is it, hear you ask. Well imagine a game with split screens — player one at the top part and player two at the bottom. These screens could scroll around memory independent of each other giving a wider scope for game design. Many programmers have used this technique in games, and an excellent example can I
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sections and not all at the same time from Basic. This means that it can be used for storage space and you can then retrieve the information when you require it. This allows very fast access to data, and we’ll show you how in a future issue
of Atari
programming and gives you 38k block for variable
metersweg, The Nether-
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workspace.
Q The Font lV chip fitted to Atari 1029 printers is a 16k rom that allows the inclusion of three new Character sets as We” as retaining the original Atari character set. But it will not make your Atari 1029 work
This comes on a cartridge and can be obtained from
several suppliers including OSS (Optomised System Software) for around £70. We have not seen any software that will print | grétésgicalhotatign Atari 0 printer, uttofan any our readers can help please write in to Mailbag.
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HAVE read the advertisement in Atari User for Font IV from Datel Electronics, , I
and was wondering/f/fltted it to my 7029printer wou/dit then allow me to use Print-
Basrc XE You COUid buy
which allows you a full 64k block of memory to use for
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shop with it? lalso haveaproblem with the amount ofnoise that my
when using sewing machine oil, but it only helps forashort while. 1050 disc drive makes in use. I have tried
HOW can i stop this, as
User.
if is
veryannoylng when loading savmg programs? Marcel Lammerse, Land-
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p eases that the people who wrote the Atari OS were put in separate rooms and not allowed to talk to each other. How else can all the
different numbering SYStems within the 03 be explained? Keep Up the good work supporting the Atari 31761 thanks for giving us nongames players so much to read this time. P Boulter, -
Tyneside.
machine oil on your drive to reduce the noise is all right, bUt YOU have to be very
careful when-applying lt-
Groanlng disc drive _
witr'rlt1 ei ea 0 using sewing Priéttshofp.
especrally if 0“
gets 0" the head.
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YOUf df'Ve makes ls net actually a fault and if you can pUt UP it it’s best With to around 90 DOka he? lnS'de your diSC dfiVe'
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update MY Atari 800XL computer
has a Revision 8 Basic and!
cartridge with the C 3.33” ’” it Hews!” Is It possible to remove the Revision 0 chip from the cartridge and replace the chip in my computer with it, have
Basically it replaces the
need to deSOIder YOUI’ Basic rom from the computer and
take
your
cartridge
to
pieces.
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I TypED in Kevin Milford’s Dump 75 program from the July 1987issue ofAtari User and find that pictures from the Paint Artist pro ram are com p ressed into mg top ha” of the screen as they load and 3,9 then printed in this
way Is this correct?
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Deeining Gillingham Kent . The dump 15 utilit ié designed to be used “Vim files created by the Atari TouchTabletand Micropainter programs Unfortunately Paint files are in a format that the program doesn’t interpret correctly, and so can’t be printed with this program.
a
and if "Of COU/d YOU please
explain why? H G Angel. "arrogate: North VOkahife0 Providing that your 03" tridge has a 24 pin 3k 1'th —
have "0 prob— lem swapping it With your Old Revision B chip. Atari also issued this cartridge With tWO 4k roms and ifthis is the case you will not be able to replace the Basic YOU
cartridge.
.
if 't comes contact With 'h areas Of the drive other than am" that Games the the drive head you can cause "
damage
plugged in the computer it will disable your old Revision B Basic and replace it With the Revision C on the
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blues TypED in the Mission X ”sting fmm theAugust1987 issue of Atari User and found that when I ran the
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program it came up with enter levell1—3). [typed in [eve/1 pressed Return and the screen went blue in the top right corner and then simply did nothing else
What is the problem? Is Turn to Page 46 > October 7987 Atari User 45
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printer you must go to the printer setup section of MIN Office and set printer code 7 to the fonowing codes: 27, 23, 8, 27, 24. Then whenever you require the pound sign in your text Simply type Control + 71029
4 From Page 45 . . . there a fault With the listing in the Kevin magazine?_— Wl?'alWallace,‘ U_Pt0t_1, ‘n the ._ The “3th maga-
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323 tlistaitz/rbictnzrdi Zguen’g: as you typed it in. Check your program very carefully,
welcome
letter? t e usmg
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for ,
success
a word processor system on an Atari Wlth only a discldrlve, as I have not got a printer? I am a chef and have a large selection of recrpes and menu sets that I WOUId I'ke to keep a record Of' I have a varied selection of databases but none seem adequate for the iobEventually I would also like to add a casting system to WOW OUt multiple recipe ingredients and was wondering what/would head to
IS ’t possible to run _
do this task.
A/SO CCU/d
you or any Of
your readers please tell me if there is an astrology data pragram suitable for the 800XL and disc drive
John Upton, system? Brighton, East Sussex. Q It is possible for you to enter your recipes into a word processor and store them. The printer is only required when you decide to make a hard copy of a file. As to adding a costing system, you will find that a spreadsheet package is ideal for this purpose. An
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ideal package for you to use for both your word processing and for a spreadsheet is Mini Office ll, which includes other programs such as a database that maybe of use to you. Unfortunately we do not know of an astrology pro— gram for the 8 bit Ataris, but ifany ofour readers know of one please then just drop us a line.
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Speedlng Fast Mover AFTER typing in the Five Liner program Fast Mover from the September 7987 issue Of Atari User / WES very disappointed to ?nd it did not work properly Are there any errors in the ”St“ ing? -— Ruth James, Heaton Chapel, Stockport. 0 Sorry, there is an error in line 20, The eleventh
number
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46 Atari User October 1987
Modbag .
between line 4000 and line 4990, so check these lines
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experiehces on would like er an zutbtlps a out w saw attootthan to pass users. you would like to see in future issues. The write address_to to is:
especially any DATA statements, and you should find your error. It appears to be happening while the computer is setting up the playfield, and this takes place
especially. You can use the Get it Right! checksum to help you and full details of how to use it are in the August 1986 issue of Atari User.
0
Doubler
dif?culty I OWN an Atari 1050 disc drive withaUS Doublerchip installed and it was working
perfectly. Then I
attempted to load
Dumplng .
p|ctures ,
OWN an Atari 800XL.dlsc system With 1029 printer tablet With and, touch ,
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Graphic Art Department from Databyte and it simply wouldn’t load and no error appeared. All my other software loads all right, so could you please help me. — Sarah Keates, Rhode Saint Genese, Belgium. 0 The error may be caused by the protection on the disc. Some forms of protec— tion on discs time the disc access and if this time is not the usual one the program will not load. Because your doubler chip increases the speed of your drive it will return the wrong time and prevent the messages
load.
AtanArt/st software. Is there any software that Will allow "76 to dump my tOUCh tablet PiCtheS to my 7029 printer? CCU/d you also tell me lflt
pQSSib/e to attach the Map/"7 DIYmodem kittomy Atari using an Atari 350 interface and Mihi Office ”- is
Peter Knight, AshtonUnder-Lyne,Lancashire. . In the JUN 1987 issue Of Atari User YOU Wt” find a listing called Dump 15 that takes your AtariArtist pictures and dumps them to either an Epson-compatible or Atari 1029 printer. The Maplin D-l-Y modem kit will work on your com-
puter USiNQ an Atari 850 interface bOX and the Mini Of?ce communications software. Unfortunatelythis modem is only 300 baud, so you could run up quite a sizeable telephone bill when you use it. Also it is not BT approved, so its connection to public telecommunication systems is prohibited. ||
Short of £
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or
a
two
AFTER buying Mini Of?ce II I wrote a document and within it I used the pound sign.
When it came to printing the article the pound sign came out on preview mode but when I printed it out on my 1029 printer it came up with a # where my pound
should have been. Apart from this I ?nd Mini Office II a superb piece of software, so can you please help me? Neil Doherty, sign
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Bamsley, South Yorkshire. 0 To be able to print the pound sign on your Atari
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MlSS|ng
level RECENTLY bought The “Vi/79 Daylights after reading your ferew in the AUQUSt issue Of Atari USER When / loaded the game! was disappointed to ?nd no title page, and that there were only seven levels to /
Domark’s
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This intrigued
me
very much as you mentioned a title page and eight levels. Could you please explain why my game is different to your review copy? — Ste-
phen Buxton, Normanby, Cleveland: . We revrewed an advance COPY sent bVP°mafk and 't contalned a title and screen level 6- Unfortunately '” the
of the game release copy the “tie screen and level S'x were removed due to memory problems.
8 pa ct rum somare I WAS wondering if there is any device produced that will allow me to use 5,930 trum software like Barry McGuigan's boxing, Match “the Day 0’ ”MOW/V 0” my Atari 800XL and 1010 tape recorder. — Scott Gallacher, Astley, Leicester. 0 There are no devices available to allow you to use Spectrum software on the Atari, but with the superb software available for the Atari why would you need
one?
Keeping
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SOME time ago, you were offering Dos 2.5 to your readers. Can you still supply it? Als could ou lease tell me ifoit is po§siblzato print out touch tablet picture ?les on to the Atari 1020 printer plotter and if so how? Can the 1020 also be used to imitate a normal printer such as the Atari 1027 letter
qualityprinter?—RBawden, Forest Gate, London. 0 Unfortunately we have no more supplies of Dos 2.5 discs, but this does not mean you can no longer obtain one. Various advertisements in Atari User still
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[ALWAYS read the mailbag section of Atari User and wonder if you can help me with a problem [have with the Atari tape system. Why do the games take so long to load when other computer systems load so fast? And is it possible to speed the loading time of my games up? — Andrew Blair, Balornock, Glasgow. O The Atari tape system works via the serial port located at the rear of your XL/XE computer or on the side of the old 400/800 computers. Unfortunately, the system used for that.Atar| have loading/savmg files on the
a slow baud rate (600). it is possible to alter this, and theoretically the input baud can range from 318 to 1407 baud. To be able to load a program atahigher baud rate it must first be saved using the new baud rate, so you could save your own programs or listings from Atari User at a higher speed, but to resave commercial software that is already at the
tape uses
,
slow rate yourself at a higher speed would infringe copyright. Although it is not easy to
alter the baud rate It is posbecause this rate is controlled by a routine
Slbie
called the SIG and this can be altered via software. The OS uses it to account
for different drive motor speeds or stretched tapes, and once a true baud rate iS calculated then the hardware is adjusted to suit the load status. Once the workings of this routine are known it is possible to alter the 05 par-
ameters that control the input of the serial port and increase the loading speed. However it is not possible how this is done to_ e)_(plain Within the confines of the letters page due to the complexrty of the software requxred.
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offer Dos 2.5 for £2. Your 1020 plotter will dump your touch tablet picture files, and in the January 1986 issue of Atari User we
published a dump program for this printer, it was a little slow, but did the job. The 1020 can print your listings and work from but Within your programs, t expect u to able 5109 b? t.° letter as 't imitate, quality 0 ‘t' jUSt isn t capable
smudged
T 3 h'rt I
lHAVE a problem with my
UNDERSTAND friend that it is
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obtain
on
a
disc
or —
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to
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which enables designs to be
as
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Kevin
Campbell, Livingston. 0 Send your pictures US
printer. Ever since lacquired a new ribbon it has been leaving marks on the paper
printed on Tshirts. My pnn-
IHAVE just createdapicture using the Technicolour Dream art program and was wondering how I get it printed in the Palette page Of Atari User. DO / send it in
photograph?
a
in to on a data disc or tape,
05806 4278-
paper
rl'bb 0“ l
Fletu res for Palette
.
you will have no problems With it- You obtain one can from MGA MleOSYSIEWTS
stating clearly which utility YOU USEd to draw them, your fun name and address and a note saying it is your work and ov‘vnd mm us printing yzu t em.dogiv’t e will assess them and consider them for publication.
ter IS an Epson FX-80, so Wll/ the ribbon ?t it? l have spent some time looking through various magazines but can find no reference to it anywhere. Can you please tell me the phone number of the com— panywhich sells the ribbon? — Andrew Godsall, Manchester. QThe ribbon is designed to work on Epson printers so
Where
the head has been .
mlofvlirig. eave th e pnn t er f or a day or so a large spot of ink on the appears
underneath
paper the printer
head.
have checked With the manual and the position of the head is correct. Any help .
I
would
be
gratefully
Andrew Smith, Chorleywood, l-lerts. 0 On most printer heads there is a shield to prevent the ribbon touching the received.
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