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TREASURE
You can participate in a real online treasure
hunt on QLink. Treasure is an actual quest for
a real 24k gold horse with a key in its belly
that will open a safe deposit box containing
half a million dollars. The horse is buried
somewhere in the continental U.S. on public
property, and that's all you know to start with.
You can order a set of clues online, and then
participate in a message base that has been set
up for the exchange of information. (I'm going
to help you by sharing my clues?) It won't be a
piece of cake: the internationally renouned
puzzlemaker Dr. Crypton was responsible for
creating this treasure hunt.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
At the Amiga Developer's Conference, Sublogic
was showing three Amigas running Flight
Simulator II, hooked together via the serial
port and using the multiple planes option. The
screens of each computer showed all three
planes in the air. You can hook up any two
computers (including Atari STs, IBM PCs, etc.)
running the latest off-the-shelf version of FSII
and see the other plane out your window.
With a special "host" utility (available through
SubLogic) you can hook up several.
COMPUTER ART
If you've ever wanted to own some really
fine computer art, CompuServe is giving you
the opportunity to do so. Wayne Schmidt, the
Quintessential Commodore Computer Artist
who is responsible for the Middle Earth picture
on the Doodle! disk, the Pen & Candle picture
that Inkwell likes to show off with the
Flexidraw lightpen, and the Pola Negri portrait
that did so well in Commodore Micro
computing's last graphics contest, has made
available his entire art collection for
downloading on the Commodore Art & Music
SIG on CIS. The Wayne Schmidt Collection
fills five disks in compressed format, so it
won't be cheap to download, especially at 300
baud, but this is a rare opportunity for you
computer art lovers out there to own a
collection of Wayne Schmidts. Our local
CompuServe connection is so bad here in Iowa
City that I'm still trying to download my copy
successfully, but if you have better luck in
your area, you'll want to get at least one disk
from this collection.
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TRUTH IN ADVERTISING
We forgot to say anything about it at the
time, but in thumbing thru a stack of back
issues of AmigaWorld we rediscovered what has
to be the most misleading cover blurb ever
printed by a computer magazine. On the cover
of the May/June '86 AmigaWorld, in bold
white letters, the issue promises A Free Word
Processor! A close inspection of the contents
reveals that the article associated with the title
is not a type-in wordprocessing program, but a
short tutorial on how to use the screen editor
included on every Amiga WorkBench disk!
This is a little late, perhaps, but: For Shame,
AmigaWorld!
POWER WITHOUT THE PRICE
Chapter Thirty-Two: The incredible sound
effects on the Atari ST version of StarGIider
were reportedly created by digitizing the
sounds on an Amiga and then porting them
over to the ST and creating a driver routine to
play them back with the ST's much-less-capable
sound chips. I don't make this stuff up, folks,
I just report it.
R.I.P. MICRO FORGE
We got their hard drive reviewed last issue
just in time to see The Micro Forge succomb to
the ups and downs of the business world,
including the fact that they offered only
passable products at high prices. Some of their
stuff is showing up on the closcout market, but
I'd advise you to be extremely cautious about
buying something as complicated as a hard
drive from a vendor who is out of business.
No word yet on whether anyone will pick up
The Micro Forge's products.