** AC5 news pages / 1727 words ** Full of IDEas! The Upgrade Shop (TUS), developers of innovative hardware for the ST, have just developed an IDE interface for the ST. IDE drives are generally cheaper than the SCSI variety (the common type used with STs). This is an exciting development as it means money spent on hard drives can go even further! TUS are offering (all prices include the interface but exclude the standard rate for fitting): 64Mb drive for £99, 160Mb for £124, 320Mb for £149 and 720Mb for £184 All drives are internal and fit inside a standard ST case. They also offer an enormous 3.5Gb external cased version for £299. ** BC on ** Post: The Upgrade Shop, Unit F6, Venture House, Cross Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 7PG Tel: +44 (0)1625 503448 ** BC off ** Titanic offers The APEX series of art and animation software has been revised and updated. APEX Media and Intro v2.3 both now support 640x480 TrueColor display on a VGA monitor, which can be achieved using Titan/BSS's Nemesis system accelerator. Both APEX Media and Intro are supplied with the same 248 page manual and master disks. The following prices include VAT but carriage costs extra so please do get in touch before placing orders. APEX Media v2.3 has been reduced to £79.95 - a saving of nearly £20 - UK carriage is free. APEX Intro v2.3 has been reduced to £29.95 with free UK carriage. Upgrades between versions costs just the difference between the two programs and includes postage - so APEX Intro can be upgraded to APEX Media for £50. Titan are also offering a "Power Pack bundle" for £89.95 comprising: ** BL ** * APEX Intro (£29.95) * Nemesis system accelerator (£59.95) * Videlity screen enhancer (£14.95) ** end ** Second thoughts ** THOUGHT.GIF here ** The Thought! Ideas Processor has also been reduced from £79.95 £49.95. Thought! is a unique program which at this reduced price should attract the attention it deserves. Includes comprehensive 186 page manual and master disks. Falcon rescue Titan are currently looking for second hand Falcons to refurbish and sell back into the market to keep the maximum number of Falcon machines in circulation so if you have a spare Falcon you know who to call. Hard drive adapters If you want to replace a 2.5" drive with a 3.5" drive mechanism Titan can provide an adapter for which plugs into the Falcon to allow 3.5" drives to be connected! The adapters are best suited for recased machines, but it is possible to fit a 3.5" device into a standard Falcon case, by cutting away some of the top metal shielding - instructions are included. Each adapter costs £9.95, plus £1.00 carriage in the UK. Titan also stock a range of 3.5" IDE and SCSI hard drives. ** BC on ** Titan Designs/Black Scorpion Software Tel: +44 (0)121 693 6669 Fax: +44 (0)121 414 1630 Email: 100345.2350@compuserve.com URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/TITANWEB/ 6 Witherford Way, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 4AX, England ** BC off ** Calamus SL Plug In Power! Computer Direct have acquired English language distribution and translation rights for over 50 Plug In Power Modules for Calamus SL. The first English releases, originally programmed in German by Adequate Systems GmbH are available now: ** BL ** * CDK to True Adobe Postscript Level 2 output driver. Ideal to output documents most bureau services can handle. * Eddie 2 text editor - this reliable alternative to PK Write which offers many enhanced features. ** end ** Over the next few months Computer Direct will be working hard on a range of modules and drivers including: ** BL ** * Paint, Merge and Filters modules. These allow you to apply effects normally associated with high end image editing packages within Calamus documents! * Fine Data is cunning module which displays low quality images on-screen then swaps these for the original high quality images at print time making the best use of available system resources. * A Calamus NVDI printer driver, which allows you to print via NVDI, is the ideal solution for MagiCMac/PC users! * Helplines is a complete set of snaps and guides designed to take the hassle out of creating complex templates. * A driver to use the Wacom EZ Pad pressure sensitive tablet. * From inversmedia, Calipso is a module which enables Calamus to import and edit Adobe Postscript Level 1 data! Both EPS and PS files can be imported. For example, EPS art from Adobe Illustrator can be opened and edited within Calamus. PS files created from Quark Express or Adobe PageMaker etc. can be opened, viewed and edited right within Calamus SL! ** end ** DIY TT Clone! Now you can build your own super fast DirecT40 or DirecT60 Atari TT Clones from kits. At the heart of every DirecT40 or DirecT60 is a custom motherboard. This system is designed to conform to the worldwide ATX Form Factor standard which means you can use any standard PC case. A minimum kit includes a motherboard with a pre-installed, tested and burned in CPU along with all necessary cabling. You can select from a 64MHz MC68040 or the ultimate Motorola CPU - a 120 MIPS 60MHz MC68060! Add your choice of standard PC compatible components including PC keyboard, floppy drive, EIDE or SCSI hard drive, 72 pin memory SIMMS and an ISA or PCI graphics card and plug in any Atari mouse and away you go - Plug and Play, not Plug and Pray! DirecT40 kits start from $1799 Canadian excluding tax (approximately £799, $1299 US, subject to exchange rate fluctuations). Canadian residents add 7% GST. ** BC on ** Tel: +403 496 2488 Fax: +403 496 2489 Email: info@compdirect.com URL: http://compdirect.com Computer Direct, 10338-59 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T6H 1E6, Canada ** BC off ** UK distribution for the Calamus products should be available in the UK from Image Applications: ** BC on ** Tel: +44 (0)1304 369364 Fax: +44 (0)1304 369364 E-mail: caluser@cix.co.uk Unit 3, Wellesley House, Walmer Castle Road, Deal, Kent, CT14 7NG, UK ** BC off ** Noboxe 48 MIDI port kit Noboxe 48 is a serial modem MIDI port expander which provides three extra MIDI ports. Features include: ** bulleted list ** * Three extra MIDI ports for your Atari ST making a total of 64 MIDI channels available - which works out at less than 82p per channel. * Supplied with MROS driver for Steinberg Cubase and simulates Export for Emagic/CLAB Notator/Creator. * Available in bare kit form, which requires soldering - ideal for building into PC or rack cases, or boxed in a case of your choice. * Noboxe is powered from any 5-9V supply such as a 9V PP3 battery or via the joystick port. ** end list ** Noboxe is NOT Falcon compatible. Payment by credit card or cheque accepted, prices as follows: ** bulleted list ** * DIY kit: £39.00 * Assembled: £49.00 * P&P: £2.00 * "Get you working" service for kit builders: £15 * Joystick power option £3 ** end list ** ** BC on ** Manufacturer: Intrinsic Technology Ltd, PO Box 907, London SE27 9NZ, England Tel: +44 (0)181 761 0178 Fax: +44 (0)181 761 0178 Email: phud@cix.co.uk URL: http://members.aol.com/padworld/index.htm ** BC off ** US AtariFest The oldest AtariFest in the United States will take place in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, in its usual slot of the last Saturday in July on July 26th 1997. It's called the Mid-Indiana MIST AtariFest IX and is organised, for the ninth year in succession, by three user groups: Atari ST Computers In Indianapolis (ASCII), Bloomington Atari ST users (BL.A.ST) and Purdue Atari User Group (PAUG). This year's location is the Post Road Community Center, 1313 Post Road, in the south eastern quarter of the city about halfway between Interstate Highway 70 and Interstate Highway 74. Table prices this year cost only $20 for vendors and $5 for individuals. Admission costs $1 in exchange for which you might even get some free soft drinks and crisps. For more information contact: ** BC on ** Charlie Sears Email: csears@ideanet.doe.state.in.us Tel: +317 535 4829 ** BC off ** WebSpace now Wen.Suite ** WENSUITE.GIF here ** WebSpace, the web browser under development by Oxo Concepts has now been renamed to Wen.Suite and includes PPP link, a TCP/IP stack which supports PPP adding on-line browsing capability for the first time. A demo v1.70 is available for download from their webpages which allows unlimited text based browsing. Currently Wen.Suite doesn't support frames or image maps and is still working towards full HTML 3.2 compliance. OXO claims Wen.Suite is between two and five times faster than its competition! Currently no UK distributor has been announced. ** BC on ** Tel: +41 22 796 95 38 Email:oxo@imaginet.fr URL: http://www.oxo.ch OXO Concept, 5, Rue des Varennes, 89160, Lezinnes, France ** BC off ** Croft Soft ** ATIMES.GIF here ** The Atari Times disk magazine is one year old. To celebrate Croft Soft released Atari Times 9 on 16th May 1997. It's their biggest ever issue and includes contributions from Matthias Jaap, Richard Spowart, Ashley Seabrook, Robert Goldsmith and others. ** BC on ** Tel: +44 (0)1454 313352 Email: polonowski@zetnet.co.uk URL: http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/polonowski/ SAE and disk to: Atari Times, c/o Colin Polonowski, The Croft, Hope Rd, Nibley, Nr Yate, Bristol, BS17 5JH, England ** BC off ** Snippets CyberSTrider on the move CyberSTrider's contact points for queries, registrations and orders has changed with immediate effect. Anything addressed to the old address will still be forwarded for several months so no need to panic if you've just posted a registration. ** BC on ** Post: CyberSTrider, PO Box 2023, Wickford SS12 9RX, UK Email: dbhabuta@cix.compulink.co.uk denesh@cyberstrider.org URL: http://www.cyberstrider.org ** BC off ** Atari Computing on TV! Thanks to Domhnall Dods Atari Computing got a brief moment of free prime time TV advertising on the Scottish Television "Scotland Today" programme. Domhnall was being interviewed about telecoms services and left a copy of Atari Computing prominently displayed while the cameras were on. He was then asked to give a WWW demo and you can guess which page he showed the cameras. ZFC website Edith Pro creators, ZFC Software, have a new website address: ** BC on ** URL: http://www.zfc.nl/ ** BC off ** Virus sighted! ** Scan of Bird of Prey CD cover - you have it from AC4 here ** ** Can you send a copy of this image to me please ** In AC#3 Richard Karsmakers article warned us to look out for a new virus spread via the CARPDIEM.ZIP file. The Bird of Prey CD-ROM contains a copy of this virus in the directory TOAD\NEWSTUFF\ so if you own a copy of this CD please be careful not to infect your disks or spread it to other users.