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Now is it me,
or does Christmas arrive sooner each year? I
should have seen it coming if I were honest
as two weeks ago (almost on cue) my seasonal
attack of the flu arrived knocking me for six.
I have since managed to thankfully shake off
my cold in time to enjoy Christmas. I have now
begun the next phase of the festive season which
involves waking up with a hangover following
a night of partying. But hey, win some... lose
some :-)
So what will
you be expecting to find under your Christmas
tree this year? Will it be a Jaguar or Falcon
as depicted on this month's cover by reader
Clint Thompson? Or will it be a more traditional
gift like socks? Don't chance your luck... why
not write an e-mail to him this year from the
comfort of your Atari at http://www.emailsantaclaus.com
If this is the
first you've heard of Christmas this year, you're
probably sweating by now! However don't worry,
as at the time of writing you've got at least
another four days, but to make sure and find
out how long it is until Christmas Day, visit
http://www.santaclausonline.com
![[Image: Snowmen]](images/snowmen.gif)
My Christmas
wish list:
- Marble Madness
coin-op machine.
- Atari Lynx.
- Fast and
feature-packed web browser (Highwire is
coming close).
- CD of great
Atari game tunes.
- Atari (Infogrames)
to start using the proper Atari logo!
Wishing you a
happy and safe Christmas
Matthew Bacon,
Editor
matt@myatari.net
Season's greetings
Welcome
to the latest, or should that be most delayed,
issue of MyAtari. At the time of writing I'm
hoping we can make it in time for Christmas
day, there is simply so much to do on the magazine.
I've been distracted by, or spent time dreaming
up new, Atari projects and events. Find out
in this issue where a lot of my time went, and
what cool stuff we can expect to see soon. To all
those kind souls who've sent us articles, thanks for your
patience as we work as fast as we can to produce
them.
My Christmas
wish list is:
- Willie's
Adventures for my Falcon.
- CyberTech
S-Video card for my 2600.
- A Lynx for
me, too. I never had one of my own.
- An XE Game
System with Barnyard Blaster.
- More hours
in the day to play with all this cool stuff!
Great memories
This month's cover picture
celebrates ten years of the Jaguar and Falcon,
each in their own way highly desirable machines, which
many of us wanted to see under our Christmas
trees. The Jaguar's tenth anniversary was celebrated
in Germany at Euro-JagFest, a report of which
you can read this issue. As an interesting side note, it's the
first Christmas cover we've had that isn't a
3D render. I quite like it, I've always had
this vision of portraying Atari stuff under a tree, I just
got beaten to it!
I didn't get
my first Falcon until five years into the life
of the machine, while the Jaguar came even later.
That's just unthinkable in the PC world.
Back in the
land of STE
After what seemed like an
eternity, I finally got round to fixing my two
STEs' very poorly floppy disk drives. How they
got into that state is a story for another time,
though I'll mention to anyone thinking of cleaning
the heads the hard way, don't even
think of removing the upper head assembly for
better access, just bend your cotton bud so
it can reach underneath. Otherwise you'll have
a very tough time putting it all back with the
correct alignment. I was lucky to have a second
STE, with exactly the same Epson SMD-380 drive,
and I had to pop the lid on that one anyway
to do the same job, and I just aligned the first
drive visually and by using a set of test disks.
All seems fine now. Amid the delicate
tweaking, a friend who supports PC systems for
a living telephoned to chat. He was totally
surprised and bemused when I explained exactly
what I was doing. Once again, that's just unthinkable
in the PC world.
Merry mosh, everyone!
Shiuming Lai,
Features and Technical Editor
shiuming@myatari.net
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