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Back In Time
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http://www.emuclassics.com/backintime
http://www.emulnews.com/backintime (mirror)

** BAKINTIM.GIF here **

These pages, put together by Mike Stulir, include coverage of all 
things Atari. It's a giant reference site covering everything from 
arcade machines/games through all the 8 and 16 bit machines, all 
the emulators to prototypes, including photos and sketches, which 
were never released.

The site is well organised and although some of the pages are 
graphics intensive you're warned in advance and the pictures are 
well worth waiting for - there was some hardware in there I'd 
never seen or heard of before.

The highlight of the site is Mike's Back In Time Radio Webcasts 
which feature news, reviews, and interviews. The guest on the 
first episode was Donald A. Thomas Jr. who discussed his days as 
the Marketing Director at Atari Corporation, the Tramiel family, 
the current state of classic gaming and computing, and his current 
responsibilities at VM Labs on the Nuon project.

The second episode featured classic gaming and emulation chitchat 
with John Hardie, the co-promoter of the Classic Gaming Expo '99 
which will take place in Las Vegas on August 14th and 15th 1999.
John and Mike discussed ROMs, the IDSA, John's new book deal for 
Atari, classic gaming, and all of the details for the CGE.

To listen to the webcasts you need to be able to handle Real 
Audio. There is an Atari utility capable of converting Real Audio 
to RAW format programmed by Petr Stehlik and it's available from 
the Joy Software home pages at:

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http://www.stehlik.cyberstrider.org/soft.htm
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Alternatively you'll need a PC or Mac, and a copy of the Real 
Audio player which is a free download from Real Networks - there's 
a link on the Back In Time web site.

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Jo Even Skarstein
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http://www-atari.nvg.ntnu.no/

** JO_EVEN.GIF here **

One of the best things about the Atari scene is the dedication of 
people like Jo and his friends who push the envelope to the limits 
and share their results with other enthusiasts.

There's a hardware modifications page which includes:
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* Falcon Afterburner/030 switch
* Falcon DSP accelerator
* Falcon FPU accelerator
* Automatic Nova/Videl switch
* Falcon bus accelerator, designed by Peter Green, the guy behind 
BSS's Nemesis!
* Audio modification, a modified modification from the Cubase 
Audio manual.
* Yamaha DB50XG soundcard for Falcon/ST/TT/etc
* SCSI parity generator. If you have a SCSI-adapter that doesn't 
support parity this will fix it.
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There's an N.AES support page with links to all the relevant 
companies and projects which anyone interested in N.AES and MiNT 
will surely have in their Hotlist already. Jo also has various 
software projects under development unsurprisingly aimed at N.AES 
and MiNT enthusiasts. Taskbar was one program I was aware of - 
it's installed on my Milan and works much like the Windows 
taskbar. Other programs available for download include:

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* V-Desk, adds virtual desktops to N.AES which take virtually no 
CPU time and co-operates with SMU (Start Me Up!).
* Connexion, a GEM front end for pppd which works with N.AES, 
Geneva, oAESis or MultiTOS and displays a small GEM window which 
makes it possible to connect and disconnect with the click of a 
button and, while on-line, it displays a clock showing how long 
you've been on-line.
* Mime2AV, used with Metamail, it passes file to the AV-server and 
lets it decide what program should display the file.
* ToggleNVDI, for Nova+NVDI users - it automatically 
enables/disables NVDI's screen-drivers, depending whether NovaVDI 
is running or not.
** /UL **

Joe Connor

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Site News

** HOMALOGO.GIF here **

The Homa Systems House website has recently been updated with new 
product upgrades and releases including Scan X Pro. Check out:

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http://www.magma.ca/~nima
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** JAGFESTG.GIF here **

The tentative date and location for this gaming event is June 18 
in Rochester, MN, USA. For more details check out the web page via 
the jagfest.atari.org link at:

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http://homepage2.rconnect.com/forhan/jagfest.html
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The organisers may consider opening the event to include Atari 
computer support if they can attract some Atari 8-bit/ST groups to 
the show.
If you plan to attend please do send Carl an "Attendee" email.

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Carl Forhan
Songbird Productions
Email: forhan@millcomm.com
http://homepage2.rconnect.com/forhan/games.html
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FLEXTRAX v0.5 released

The first beta release of the new soundtracker for Atari Falcon030 
has recently been announced by Daniel Hedberg/New Beat.
There's support for the MOD file format (up to eight channels) 
along with it's own file format which is an extended version of 
the standard MOD file format with support for effects such as 
reverb and delay. The replay routine used in FlexTrax was first 
developed for the Willie's Adventures platform game. Both VGA and 
RGB monitors are supported. You can download the beta from:

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http://newbeat.atari.org/
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