ERRATA
December 1993 AC
With all the technical detail of the video hardware articles in our December issue it was probably inevitable that a few bloopers would sneak in. Fortunately none are catastrophic and are readily obvious to anyone who attempted the hardware hacks. Here's the list of corrections sent in by readers so far:
Page 9, Step 3. Change "R53" to "R52".
Page 23, Step 4. Change "R205" to "R204".
Page 23, Step 5. Change "Q3" to "Q2".
Atari Classics expresses its thanks to readers who brought the errors to our attention. We'll be glad to report any additional errors that turn up.
Also, beginning in the Fall of 1993 AC ceased accepting delivery of Certified or Registered Mail items. The Post Office doesn't deliver these items to AC's Editorial Offices since they require a signature and no one is there to sign. They must be retrieved during normal business hours at a different station than AC uses for outgoing mail, which causes your Managing Editor to be late for work and yelled at. There is never any reason to send AC mail items which must be signed for. A notice which should have appeared in the December '93 Subscription Form about this was omitted by our publisher. AC regrets any inconvenience.
October 1993 AC
There were several changes that should have been made to our Vendor List in the October AC (pages 27-28), but which for various reasons never made it. The publishing arm of BaPAUG in England faded into history during the summer of 1993; AC received the news of the demise of 8:16 magazine from Colin Hunt after the October issue was already in press. We understand the Bournemouth and Poole usergroup is still around although no longer publishing 8:16. Also, we failed to include the major British vendor Micro-Discount (265 Chester Road, Streetly, West Midlands, B74 3EA ENGLAND; phone: 021-353-5730). Micro-Discount's 32-page catalog is chock-full of hardware and software items, including a few goodies not seen in North America. Finally, indications are that San Jose Computer is no longer a viable source of Atari 8-bit items, and BellCom closed out its 8-bit PD operations on February 1, 1994. We urge readers to make the appropriate changes in their copies of the magazine.
Our apologies to readers who attempted to type in Tom Andrews' CYCLOIDS listing on pages 18-20. Somewhere in the process of transmission and DTP, lines 250, 330, 350, 430, 580, 620, 630, and 670 containing ATASCII characters got translated to standard ASCII values in the printed listing. There is no problem with the program as it appeared on our October Software Disk, just the printed listing. The errant code is correctly reproduced on the rear cover.
Code for Errata:
250 OOPS=WON:PRINT "INVALID INPUT
":FOR
DELAY=WON TO 100:NEXT DELAY:RETURN 330 POKE 710.HUE:POKE 709.LUM:PRINT
:POSITION 16,5:PRINT "CYCLOIDS" 350 CIO=ADR("hhh
LV
")430 ?
:? "COMMANDS:
RETURN-CONTINUE"580 ? "SAVE DRAWING":? :? "Device: Filename?":? "
ABORTS "::INPUT FN$:IF FNS="" THEN
430 620 ? "
OOPS NUMBER
";PEEK(195):CLOSE #WON:FOR DELAY=WON TO 300:NEXT DELAY:GOTO 430630 ? "LOAD DRAWING":? :? "Device:FilenaNe?":? "
ABORTS ";:INPUT FN$:IF
FN$="" THEN 430670 ? "
l. HYPOCYCLOID
(BASE
OUTSIDE)":? "2. EPICYCLOID (BASE INSIDE)";