** Intro to AC8 /339 words **

** JOE1.GIF here **

Happy New Year!

Sorry we're late - but we're delighted to be here after a 
combination of body blows.

Whack! The ACG was advised it could no longer continue trading as 
a club. After lively debate and careful consideration we 
unanimously voted to close the ACG and allow myself and Mike 
Kerslake to set up a company to continue producing Atari 
Computing. The company is called Renegade Publishing Limited and 
from your perspective nothing changes until you renew your 
subscription. All existing subscriptions will be honoured along 
with the money back guarantee. Renewals will be handled as new 
subscriptions with Renegade Publishing Limited.

Kapow! Our Art editor, Darryl Godsmark, recently completed his 
studies and found a full time job which sadly means he doesn't 
have time to layout the magazine. We'd like to take this 
opportunity to wish Darryl all the best for the future.

Ouch! Steve Llewellyn is so busy with Image Applications he has 
decided to discontinue the Calamus User pages.

We searched the cloud for a silver lining but all we could find 
was some soggy old copies of Atari World - but they did give us 
the idea to resuscitate the CyberStrider Files, originally 
compiled by digital surfer, Denesh Bhabuta - so we did, welcome 
back Danny.

Speaking of Atari World (RIP) Vic Lennard once said "We could 
produce the magazine using Atari software if we go quarterly 
instead of monthly". We're going to try to prove Vic wrong because 
this issue, for the first time ever, has been produced almost 
entirely using Atari software so now all we have to do is get the 
next issue out on time, easy huh?

For page layout we used Papyrus and DA's Layout, with That's Write 
and Everest for text creation and Imagecopy to take care of the 
graphics. We've had to make some layout changes, primarily to 
accommodate the software we're using, but we couldn't resist the 
urge to make a few changes and we're looking forward to hearing 
your views...

Joe Connor