From the Atari Editor's Desk              "Saying it like it is!"
Happy New Year! Is it 1998 already? I hope that everyone had a
terrific holiday season. These past couple of weeks have been
extremely hectic here; I'd imagine it was similar for you. Even though
I like this time of the year, I'm glad that it's all behind us.  It's
time to reflect on the past year and move forward - hopefully to
improve for the coming months.
What's coming in the months ahead for the Atari section of STReport?
A very good question! Now if I only knew where to go to find an
equally good answer! The simple truth is that I don't know what this
year holds for this section. I _do_ know that the likelihood of some
sort of resurgence for the Atari platform, resulting in a bigger and
more informative content for this magazine, is barely negligible. Top
all of that off with my personal responsibilities which requires a
great deal of time - there's little room for improvement no matter how
much I want to achieve that goal. The desire exists but the resources
do not.
But, we will continue to be a part of the Atari scene for the
foreseeable future.
The one thing I did want to mention is sort of old news, but new, is
that Don Thomas (y'know, that former customer service guy at Atari and
then all- around Atari spokesman now at Sony) has finally "published"
the book that he's been working on for a number of years. No, it's
not available in hardcover or soft. However, it has been converted
into HTML and available to read on the web. If you're interested in a
lot of Atari history and behind-the-scenes anecdotal information, you
should check out these web pages. Point your Internet browser to:
http://www.l4software.com/icwhen
Don continues to add a number of items to this compilation - the
latest being an ongoing set of "virtual" trading cards depicting
pictures of Atari products over the years. This work is a terrific
read for Atari fans - past, present, and future. I highly recommend
that you check it out. Here's the initial notification that Don sent
out announcing that the page was open to the public:
"Thanks to all of you encouraging me to write some additional
articles. After making some changes on my system, I temporarily lost
the ability to broadcast messages from my NetMailer software. Today,
Alpha Software finally gave me advise I can use and I appear to be up
and running again.
The biggest news is that you might wish to visit:
    http://www.l4software.com/icwhen
The site is self explanatory. L4 Software has agreed to assist me in
converting the pages of a long term project I have had into html and
host those pages on their site. Feel free to link it if you wish. We
hope to enhance the site with more and more information, implement
lots of pictures and provide feedback mechanisms.
Also, please note a change to my primary e-mail address (established
so I could broadcast e-mails again). The new address is shown below.
Please feel free to update your databases with this new information.
Best wishes for a great holiday and thanks for helping to keep classic
computers and gaming alive!"
--Don Thomas
  datj@jps.net
  datj@compuserve.com
Until next time...
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