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Keywords : Fonts, UK, Europe, STE

Re : <9001150805.AA1590@ucbvax.Berkely.EDU> on 24-pin font editors

You need Fontkit Plus, which allows you to edit GDOS fonts, downloadable
printer fonts and .RSC free images. It covers a huge range of printers, and
this includes the NEC P6, _all_ Epsons and compats. and a few more esoteric
printers.

It is an excellent font editor - easily the best font ed. for the ST (excluding
the Calamus font ed.) It really does have too many features to mention here. It
is published in the UK by an ST user group, for the princely sum of 15.95 pounds
stirling, from

The ST Club,
49 Stoney Street
Nottingham, United Kingdom
NG1 1LX

disclaimer : I have no connection with the writer of Fontkit Plus, nor with the
             ST Club - it's just a damn good program.


Re : <9001122253.AA25532@ukcbvax.Berkley.EDU> Home of the ST

If there is a true home of the ST, then it must be Germany. The wealth of
products available and the esteem in which the machine is held is incredible.
In the UK, we have similar problems getting all those products released. For
example, a friend of mine in the ST business has tried extremely hard to get
Turbo C/ST released over here. He would have done all the manual translation,
layout, publicity etc. himself, but Borland/Heimsoeth in Germany say that
Borland UK have Turbo C/ST and they can't do anything about it. Borland UK
do not want to be associated in any way with the ST, to the point of
paranoia. It would be funny if it weren't such a crime.

As far as machines _actually shipping_ goes, the current status is

520STEs are arriving in volume. This was something of a surprise for the
dealers, who ordered ordinary 520STFMs and got STEs instead! I have yet to
see a 1040STE, but that doesn't mean there aren't any.

The TT _IS NOT SHIPPING IN VOLUME_, contrary to reports I read in this
newsgroup. I don't know of any developers who have machines.

TOS 1.4 is not shipping either. Every time you ask Atari UK about this
(assuming you can find anyone who knows) you get a different answer. A lot
of people are _very, very_ annoyed about the delay.


The magazine ST World will be running a series on programming the STE soon
(probably starting in the April edition). I covered STE DMA sound in my
"Programmer's Clinic" column for the March edition. You can get ST World
in the USA and CANADA, as well as most of Europe. Similarly, I had someone
cover the correct generation of GEM Metafiles in the current (February)
edition. I will cover more on the STE hardware in later issues.

I have good Atari technical documentation for the STE. I cannot see any reason
for not posting it to this group, if anyone is interested.

As of 3/2/90, Gollner Publishing (which produces ST World) has been merged
with the Database group of magazines, forming a new company, Interactive
Publishing. This now means that Interactive Publishing owns ST World, ST Action,
Atari ST User, Amiga Action and Amiga Computing. I do not think the new company
will continue to run five magazines when it can get away with two.

Therefore, I do not think that ST World will survive for long (the owners of
the Database group, Europress, own Interactive Publishing).


Re : HiSoft WERCS

The version I have is 1.12, dated March 1989, and it works for me


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