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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

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]

[Photo: Fan fitted and working!]

[Photo: Fan rear view]

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

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

 

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