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Saturday, May 8, 2021

Atari ST Compacted Disk (CD) Scrollers [680] The Radical Bandits CD #13

 


Here is Radical Bandits CD #13, I guess he missed the memo from mom about poking an eye out.....

Disk Contents - 

Alot of Stuff!

Scroll Text Transcription - 

HEY !   YOU ARE NOW WITNESSING THE RADICAL BANDITS MENU NUMBER THIRTEEN                       THIS IS A TWO DISK MENU AND CONTAINS  WORD PERFECT AND THE NEW VERSION OF NEOCHROME   THERE ARE ALSO SOME FIXES INCLUDED                 THERE ARE DOCS FOR SOME EARLIER MENUS INCLUDED TOO      THIS MENU IS BROUGHT TO YOU ONCE AGAIN BY  THE RUDE DUDE  OBVIOUSLY!                      THIS INTRO WAS CODED BY MMM AND HAS A REALLY COOL SCROLLER  THE PICTURE WAS ORIGINALY BY THE DODGY DUO AND IMPROVED  !  BY ME                      WORD PERFECT IS THE BEST WORD PROCESSOR THAT I HAVE SEEN SO FAR ON THE ST BY A MILE....IT WAS ORIGINALY ON THREE DS DISKS                   THE ONLY BAD POINT ABOUT WORD PERFECT IS THAT THERE IS NO FACILITY FOR CLIP ART, BUT I SUPPOSE NO ONE REALLY USES THAT                             RIGHT, BEFORE YOU START COMPLAINING, LET ME SAY THAT THE DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS ARE NOT PACKED    THIS IS BECAUSE WHEN I ORIGINALY PACKED THEM , THEY WERE ONLY REDUCED TO 97 PERCENT OF THEIR ORIGINAL SIZES !!    THE DICTIONARY IS ABOUT 290 K LONG AND THE THESAURUS IS 360 K LONG , WHICH MEANS THAT THE SPACE SAVED WOULD HAVE BEEN NOT MORE THAN 20 K , SO IT WAS NOT WORTH IT , ALSO WHEN PACKED , THE DISK ACCESS TIME WAS GREATLY INCREASED , WHICH WAS TOO ANNOYING................SO , IF YOU WISH TO PACK THOSE TWO FILES ON DISK B , THEN YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO TRY IT YOUR SELF.......             THE FIXES FOR THE EARLIER MENUS ARE VERY EASY TO INSTALL , AND THERE ARE SOME INSTRUCTIONS TOO                       THE DOCS ON THIS DISK ARE MAINLY FOR THE LAST MENU , BUT THERE ARE SOME DOCS FOR NEOCHROME TOO                    CREDITS FOR THIS MENU..........CODING BY  MMM             MUSIC BY COUNT ZERO             GRAFIX PARTLY BY QUASAR  AND ORIGINALY BY THE DODGY DUO               UPLOADING , SPREADING  BY DEREK M.D.             MONOCHROME DETECTOR BY  SIMON O.            MENU PUT TOGETHER , SCROLLER , PACKING ETC ETC  BY    T H E  R U D E  D U D E                           IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY NOTICED , MOST OF THE PROGRAMS ON OUR MENUS RUN ON ONE MEG MACHINES ONLY.....AND THEY ARE ALL COMPATIBLE WITH MONOCHROME MONITORS WHERE THE PROGRAMS ALLOW.....          SO , TO GET THE BEST OUT OF OUR MENUS , YOU SHOULD IDEALLY HAVE TWO DISK DRIVES AND AT LEAST ONE MEG OF MEMORY......              NOW LETS HIT THOSE GROOVY GREETINGS !!..............GREETINGS GO TO              THE REST OF THE  RADICAL BANDITS.....QUASAR , BLOOD ANGEL , DEREK M.D.               THE MEDWAY BOYS  ESP. ZIPPY               JOBIL               AUTOMATION  ESP. THE BALD EAGLE AND VAPOUR               THE BAD BREW CREW  ESP. ANDY               REMEREZ               SIMON O.               THE WIZARD               AWESOME  ESP. RUTHLESS AND THE EDIT MAN               THE SYNDICATE               HOTLINE  ESP. MIKE               AND TO OUR SUPPLIERS  MAC AND CASEY JONES           ALSO HI TO ANYONE I KNOW BUT FORGOT                         I HEAR THAT A NEW GROUP IS BEING FORMED CALLED  GENESIS INC.   WELL GOOD LUCK TO THEM , BECAUSE THERE ARE LOADS OF GROUPS AROUND AT THE MOMENT , AND THEY WILL NEED TO DO SOMETHING SPECIAL TO GET ATTENTION STRAIGHT AWAY !........................WE ARE STILL AFTER AN ARTIST , SO IF YOU ARE GOOD WITH PICTURES OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS , THEN GET IN TOUCH WITH US IMMEDIATELY !                         OKAY , THIS DISK WAS RELEASED ON  TUESDAY THE 30TH OF JULY 1991           IT TOOK ME A FEW DAYS TO GET WORD PERFECT DOWN TO ONE AND A HALF DISKS SIZE   AND I AM GETTING QUITE TIRED , SO I WILL HAVE TO LEAVE YOU HERE FOLKS AND SAY GOOD NIGHT          SO TILL ANOTHER RADICAL BANDITS MENU FULL OF SCRUMTIOUS UTILITIES AND BUSINESS SOFTWARE , THIS IS  THE RUDE DUDE SIGNING OFF AND DEPARTING FOR A WELL EARNED REST...............SEE YA !


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