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Welcome to the February issue of MyAtari. Following on from last month's
request for category nominations for our forthcoming 2005 Awards, here are
some of your suggestions...
- Best Atari supporting company
- Best Atari magazine
- Best Atari web site
- Best game release
- Best programmer
- Best commercial software
release
- Best non-commercial software
release
- Best hardware upgrade
- Outstanding
contribution to the Atari community
- Best reader desktop
- Best new
game
- Favourite game of all time
A big thank
you to everyone who took the time to submit their suggestions. However, due
to a problem with our newsletter script (which is now fixed), many of you
did not receive the announcement for the previous issue. We have therefore
decided to give you until the the next issue to submit further category
ideas/suggestions via 2005awards@myatari.net, so please do
so!
Next issue we will draw up a final shortlist of categories so that
nominations be officially recieved... things are heating up... will AtariAge
retain its "Best Atari supporting company" award or will previous winner
"Best Electronics" win the title back? Will Highwire retain "Best
Non-commercial software release"? Only you can decide!
Until
next month,

Matthew Bacon,
Editor matt@myatari.net
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I'm
writing this at Cheshunt Computer Club member
Mark Branson's house, where there is a
barbeque in progress. The weather is excellent,
the food is very good including some home-made
potato salad that appears to contain nothing
else but in fact tastes very interesting, I
correctly guessed three out of the four mystery
ingredients. Best of all there is chilli flavour
tomato ketchup, which is still sealed as nobody
has dared try it, presumably!
I've
got something else on my agenda besides food
and drink, though. This is the perfect opportunity
to attack Mark's CT60 tower and finally sort
out the perennial problem of a 120 mm rear exhaust
fan that is not only disconnected but mounted
facing the wrong way. If it were to be connected,
it would be blowing air into the case,
not out, following the ATX standard's aerodynamic
and thermal management recommendations.
After I managed to get through the jungle of
excess cable inside I removed the original fan
and installed a new one with high quality dual
ball bearings, low rotation speed (for quietness)
and blue LED lighting. Everyone needs one of
these!
![[Photo: CT60 on kitchen table]](images/fan01.jpg)
![[Photo: Fan fitted and working!]](images/fan02.jpg)
![[Photo: Fan rear view]](images/fan03.jpg)
Staying
on the theme of food, we've got our very late
fourth birthday report at last, let's hope the
fifth this year is even bigger! Suggestions
for a party place are welcome - as long
as they are in the UK and in London! Please
contact us with your ideas (will it be
curry this year?), and we look
forward to seeing you. Readers abroad, please
have a party for us in your home country as
well and share with us by an e-mail or perhaps
a short photo diary. I think this year we should
have some mini game championships.
Issue
52 Yes, we can now do it... We have
enough cover pictures for a deck of MyAtari
playing cards! Besides that, this issue sees
Edward Baiz giving a detailed review of Diamond
Edge, the once very popular commercial English
language hard disk defragmentation utility for
16/32 systems. It has now been given a new lease
of life by Anodyne Software, fixing bugs and
implementing long-overdue features, you'll be
impressed, I'm sure.

Shiuming Lai,
Features and Technical Editor shiuming@myatari.net
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