Issue 49: Nov 2004
Features
- | Foreword
- | Tip of the day
- | Atari QuickTime
- | E-JagFest 2004: A
- | E-JagFest 2004: B
- | Classic Computing 2004, Germany
M@ilbox
| M@ilbox A question about the most recent cover W hat's the name of the truetype (.ttf) font used to create the logo of myatari.net on the cover of the mag and the web site? Cduncan872 Matthew Bacon replies The myatari.net logo uses the .ttf family called Sharnay. When it came to design the logo for myatari.net over four years ago, we wanted to create one that could be easily re-created yet modern and original. I understand that the Sharnay family of TTF can be puchased from http://fonts.ontheweb.com/fonts/sharnay__1.html. Hope this helps! Back issues will be... back Why canīt I download backissues any more? From "Issue 42 - April 2004" there is not a download link any more. Peter Eriksson, Finland Shiuming Lai replies This is all due to a lot of headaches with losing web domains and lack of time to check the back issues before archiving them. The magazine takes a lot more work than you might imagine, but we're slowly catching up and as soon as the back issues are ready for download again we'll post a notice on the forum. Then we can get on with checking the most recent issues so we can archive them. More about domains I read about your problems with domain names. I thought you might be interested that neither http://www.myatari.org.uk nor http://www.myatari.net.uk are registered to anyone - go to the Nominet whois page: http://www.nominet.org.uk/whois.html I'm sure you know that the .uk domains need only cost a couple of quid a year, it might be an idea to get these domains as a precaution for the future. I always enjoy the on-line mag, even if the Atari has become something of a nostalgic museum piece now. I still use my STE, one of the first, for some MIDI dabbling, but not for much else for a number of years now. My Atari ownership actually goes back further than this. In the second half of the eighties I was very enthusiastic about the STE, and would not have believed that Microsoft would have become what it has, because of the way that PC users were struggling with DOS and crude early versions of Windows at the time. I also remember that my boxed version of MS Write for the ST never worked properly, and I was always incredulous that a company that couldn't get a word processor to work on the ST became such a monolith. But I also felt that the Atari world was let down very badly by Jack Tramiel. Currently I'm toying with the idea of dumping Windows on my PC and moving over to Linux and open-source software, though I'm not under-estimating the upheaval this would be. Open Office and Star Office also look very tempting. I'm sure that open-source is the way of the future. I don't want to tell Grandma how to suck eggs, but if you want any help/advice on getting these domains, just ask. Stephen Kingdom, UK Shiuming Lai replies Thanks for the suggestions, Stephen. We have considered registering multiple domains before, but at the end of the day it's more administration and overhead that we don't need (I used to work for a company that registered an inordinate number of domains for its clients, I think 15 was the record, and it was far more trouble than it was worth), on top of keeping the magazine in production. Most people know the main domain by now and we aim to protect it fiercely!
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