Letters

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First a query from
Julia Munday, Moulton - julia_munday@lineone.net

I would be interested to know if anyone you know has bought
Windows XP yet and how they're getting on with it. My boss at work
has just bought a new PC with it on and says it's OK, but whatever
he tries to do it keeps asking if he wants to connect to the
Internet which he finds a nuisance. I think it must be designed
for people with broadband Internet access who don't have to mess
about waiting ages for the modem to dial, connect, login with the
ISP etc. I would be interested to know if I could network in my 
existing 98SE PC with a new one running XP and keep the 98SE 
machine as the network portal, probably not, knowing my luck!

Opinion seems divided, some articles I've read don't have a good
word to say for it, others say it's OK on a new PC but a nightmare
to upgrade. It is supposed to be more stable, but to be honest
I've always found my 98SE to be more stable than the NT I use at
work so how stable is stable? I would be interested to know what
experiences real people have had with it.

@~Can you help Julia? If so, please email her. I'm quite happy
@~here with Me on one machine and a dual boot of 98 and 2000 on
@~the other. That seems to cover ALL my software. But can anyone
@~give an opinion on XP? Please write in and let us know.
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Secondly, a request for help from:
Richard Press, by email - rpress@lplsystems.com

I have been looking for a long time for one particular text 
adventure game: 

The game was titled "Hide, Hide, the cows outside". The title 
was taken from an old Abbot and Costello routine. The theme was 
a western cowboy adventure. I first saw the game in Softside, or 
one of those other magazines, in around 1982. I had a version 
typed into an Atari 400 and enjoyed it very much. The disk for 
that has long since perished. I would like very much to find 
this game for the PC.

@~Can anyone help? If so please contact Richard or myself.












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