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Dears, nice day, please send me only one a printed issue of your computer magazine if available to my mail address.

Atif M Ali, Sudan

Shiuming Lai replies
This is not possible, because MyAtari has never been printed. The good news is that it's free, and you can read it every month on the internet.

I recently downloaded a atari game called "deer hunter 2004".and I am looking for a "How to play guide book". Is this possible? The game appears to be quite interesting to play but it requires some understanding to manuever through it. Please reply.

Paul

Shiuming Lai replies
That's got to be one of the most unusual computer simulations I've seen in a while! The demo gives basic rules and a keyboard control listing if you go to the settings screen (press [Esc] during a game), but other than buying the full game, I think some knowledge or interest in deer hunting is required rather than any advice we could offer. Love the music, by the way!

Atari ST Magic Boy question
Hi, I was wondering if you could answer a question about Magic Boy on the ST for me. I have a 1040 STe with TOS 2.06, and I have been looking for an original of Magic Boy since about 1994. I finally found one boxed like new, it took me 10 years to find! Now I put the mint looking original disk in my drive to test it and it doesn't even boot, it just grinds as if I had put a damaged disk inside and after a delay says "disk may be damaged"! I just happened to do a web search and found an article you apparently wrote and you actually mentioned a similar problem with the same game. I was wondering, when it happened to you did it not boot at all whatsoever like mine, or did it start to load and crash? I'm actually going to buy a 1040ST second hand soon and hopefully it will work on that. Anyway I am just curious if you get a chance let me know, thanks!

SaTcom2

PS not many people have ST Magic Boy, I even e-mailed some of the people who designed the ST version and none of them even had it!

Shiuming Lai replies
Yes, I get the exact same symptoms. The Chaos Engine also has this behaviour. TOS 2.06 is your problem. Do you have that fitted as your only OS, or do you have a switcher to revert back to the previous one? I hope you get it sorted soon, Magic Boy is a great little game!

MyAtari magazine - M@ilbox, May 2004