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May 1991
Conlen
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FROM OUR EDITOR, JOHN NAGY
This new magazine is a Journalist's dream-I'm
composing the news pages on Saturday, April 6,
1991
.
This
afternoon,
they'll be laid out. Monday, to
the printer. Thursday, 30,000 copies of
AtBriUser
magazine
will enter
the distribution channels
.
I can
actually talk about
news
and have it still be
new
when
it
is
readl
That's a feature that's been
lacking
in Atari
magazines,
and one I am proud to be able
to use
to everyone's
advantage In
AtBriUser.
You'll
find super
up-to-date news both in this column and
in the
Alert
bo
xes
above each
department's column
throughout
the
magaZine.
NEXT MONTH
See
Whal Happened
al CeBil!
The
Future of the ST
computer was revealed in
Germany
in March. The ST
Notebook and STPad
computers
show a new direction
for Atari...
1 0
News4lUtUj
High
Resolution
4
We'll begin
our
listings of other magazines
·that
cov~r
Atad
.
Ea¢hrnonthYou'lIs!3e~surnrn~ryof
Editor-in-Chief
John Nagy welcomes you
to
AtariUser...
Read this!
News
&
Comment
CEPS bombshell. New faces.
New
prices. New
tactics.
New games.
Reviews
wh~t
is available
;
wh~t isf~aturEldlntheoth~t
mags
that month, and how to
subscrib~to
them .
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Hard Drivin'
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•
How
much faster
is faster? Speedin' it up
TT •
Really,
it's coming
MIDI. What
are
those
holes
for anyway?
BBIT
• The state of things
PORTFOLIO. The
practical Portfolio primer
LYNX. Why less Lynx is better
&
more games
SOFTWARE
IDEAS.
It's
cooler
when it's free!
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Resource
Complete USA User Group guide
The Back
Page
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Ad
Index,
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Products,
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Atari User
•
May
1991
3
High
ReSolutio8
T VIEWPOINTS AND RESPONSES FROM OUR ATARI COMMUNITY
ffiu~ITUser
Publisher
Edltor-In-Chlef
Assistant Editor
Coordinating Editor
Staff Writers
Steven W. Lesh
John Nagy
John King Tarpinian
Gantry L. Gappmayer
Clinton Smith, Ron Kovacs,
Ron Berinstein, Norm Weinress, Brian Celano,
Chuck Steinman, B.J. Gleason, P
.
Kevin Horn
Art Direction
Electronic Imaging
Steven W
.
Lesh
Visual Design Group,
Covina CA
Advertising Director
Offices
P
.
Kevin Horn
113 W
.
College st.
Welcome
to
AtariUser!
You're
holding a
rare
commodity
in
today's world:
an Atari
specific
monthly magazine. In fact,
AtariU ser
may be
the
U.S.
's
only
monthly
commercial Atari
magazine-format publication!
We
used
to be
ST Journal,
the widely praised but
relatively
low-production ST
specific
glossy
magazine.
Steven
Lesh of Quill
Publishing and I had been
kicking around
the
concept
of doing
a
free computer magazine for
quite
a while.
Then
Journal
got caught
in the money trap. Despite
ST Journal's
popularity (where it could be
found), we
could'nt
afford to print more than 10,000
copies with
the
ad revenues we were earning-and couldn't
raise more revenues without increas-
ing circulation.
While our acceptance and
quality increased
with
each issue, the recessionary
times
kept
advertising sales in check.
ST Journal
finally
began to succumb to
the
same
pressures
that put
ST-LOG/ANALOG
out
of
business and made
STart
go
bi-monthly.
Enter
AtariUser.
Since
we
found that we
couldn't make enough
money to support
ourselves by
producing and selling
ST Journal-we're
giving
it away! By a series of trade-offs
of production numbers
against
printing and binding methods, ad rates, and distribution
schemes,
we're becoming the
largest circulation Atari magazine in
the USA-and providing
afree
prod-
uct. Every
month!
I
agreed to
become the editor
and
Steve will provide his outstanding
management,
layout
and
art
direction. Also from
ST
Journal
are
Kevin
Horn heading up
ad-
vertising and marketing,
John
King
Tarpinian
as assistant editor,
Gantry Gappmayer
controlling
media traffic
and
distribution, and a number
of contributors from
the old
Journal
staff.
(You may
have
noticed the
$1 price
on the cover-and
some
of
you
may have had to pay
it.
Sorry, but
some
major
bookstores and
businesses
simply can't
and
won't cope with a
totally
free
magazine.
Rather
than give
up
the substantial potential circulation, we allow
them to charge meagerly,
if
they must.
AtariUser
covers
the
entire
Atari
computer
product lineup, including the TT, STe, ST,
MEGA, MEGA/STe, Portfolio,
Lynx, and
even
the out-of-production Atari 8-bit series of com-
puters.
And as Atari
's
product
family
grows in
the
coming
months, so
will we.
We'll focus on
the
facts that will make
life
easier for
Atari users.
Every
month
we'll
try to
cut
to the meat
of
what's
happening,
what's available,
what
it can
do
for you, and
how to
get it.
And we'll do
it
fast,
with
less-much less-than two weeks between
final edits
and distribution. We're main-
taining close
alliances with other
magazines and news
agencies
to be sure our information is
as
current
as possible. We're exchanging
material with the
Z*Net International Atari News Ser-
vice,
Germany's
PD Journal,
and
several other
foreign magazines. Our departments regularly
include
all
Atari product
lines, plus
special focuses
on DTP,
communications, graphics,
MIDI
applications,
new
software and
game reviews, top PD and
shareware
software, user group news,
emulation, hardware hacking, and even classified ads. And I'll be keeping
you current
with
Atari News and
Notes,
the
column
I've done for years in
Computer Shopper
magazine.
You'll
find two
specific constructs
recurring throughout
our
pages:
• The
Alert
Box.
This will be at the top of each department's
column
with quick news and facts
about
the subject
in general.
You'll be able to keep up
with
developments in each department
with a glance.
.
• The
Resource.
Each
month
we'll feature
a
Save
this
Page
resource for one or more of our
departments,
giving a comprehensive
listing of
available
products, dealers, user groups, BBS's,
etc. Starting next issue, we'll be continuing the expanded
advertiser,
product,
and
people indexes
that
were famous in
ST Journal.
We'll even
do
something
unheard of
since Kris Kringle suggested
Macy's in
Miracle on
34th Street-that
is,
we'll
recommend you to the
other
Atari publications, let you know what
each of them feature in their
current
issue, and how to
subscribe!
We want to make it easier to
be
an
Atari user.
Our
concept
and
goal
is
to
be
your standard
monthly reference for
all
Atari
interests
...
at a
price Atari Users can truly say is
Power Without
the
Price-Free!
Let us
know
how you think
we're doing!
John Nagy, Editor-in-Chief,
AtariUser Magazine
4
AtariUser •
May 1991
Covina, CA 91723.
818.332.0372 FAX.332.2869
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Quill's Magazine for Atari Owners, AtariUser, is
an independent publication not affiliated with Atari
Corp. in any way. Atari
,
ST, TT, Portfolio, Lynx, and
many other names mentioned here within are
trademarks of Atari
Corp. Other names are
trademarks of their respective company
.
Entire
contents copyright ©1 991 by Quill Publishing Co.
Opinions
expressed
here within are not necessarily
those of Quill Publishing Co
.
nor this publication.
Every effort is made to assure the accuracy of the
information presented here within; however, no
person or company associated with this publication
assumes any responsibilites for damages due to
errors, misuse, or om missions. In other words
...
it
ain't our fault.
_
We reserve all rights
.
Reproduction by any
means in whole or part without written permission
from the publishers is prohibited
.
_
Annual subscription rates are $21
.30
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.30
US first
class.
Postmaster: Send
address changes to AtariUser, 113 W. College St.,
Covina, CA 91723. This publication in no way
advocates the unlawful use of any product or service
advertised here within
.
_
We'd like to
hear from
youl
Send your
subscriptions, comments
,
suggestions, complaints
and submissions to AtariUser at 113 W
.
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