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                     ^2TECHNICAL FRED'S HELPLINE.

 ^6Paul  Townsend  and  the rest of the gang at Technical Fred Software
^6are  willing to help with programming problems relating to Workbench,
                            ^6Cli and Amos.

  ^7If you are stuck, give them a ring on

                       ^40 6 1   7 0 3 7 8 4 2 .
 
 ^6If  no  human  is available, leave a message on the answer phone and
                          ^6try again later!

 ^7The best time to phone is after seven in the evening when Paul will
                  ^7be available to give you advice.

            ^2Use this service, but please do NOT abuse it!


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^1 You  may  just  have noticed that Technical Fred Software pop up all
^1over the place in Totally Amos!

^1 They  sent  us a file along with their programs which introduces the
^1members  one  by  one, we thought that we would include it for you to
^1read.

^3 Over to you Paul!

^4 These  programs  were  written  by  Paul  Townsend Of Technical Fred
^4Software for Totally Amos, the best disk mag since a sliced comedy TV
^4programme written by Carla Lane !

^4 If you can improve on any of these programs, why not send them in to
^4Totally Amos at the usual address, but please don't forget to mention
^4where the original program came from.

^4If  you  have any comments about anything you see on this disk (sorry
^4Europress I mean disc !) then why not send them to Totally Amos.

^4Written a good program ?, why not send it in ? 

^7 Greets  go  out to Len & Anne Tucker, Sandra (One of these days I'll
^7be  able  to see my floor !  and get past page 23) Sharkey, Aaron (Go
^7buy  Tome,  CText,  Join  the  Club, don't use strings in procedures,
^7don't  use  procedures  at all ............) Fothergill, Dicon Peeke,
^7Peter Hickman, Dave (Diggi Paint) Bentley, Richard Vanner and all the
^7hard  working  team at Europress, The Technical Fred Kylie Fan Club &
^7Jean  Michel  Jarre  Haters Club (current membership:  2 and a half),
^7Hacktrick  Cracking Crew, Curos and Stavros, and anybody we forgot to
^7mention

^6 Finally a rundown of all the people in Technical Fred Software along
^6with some of the projects, we are involved in.

^5 Technical  Fred  Software  started  off  in about 1988 with just two
^5people , Myself (Paul Townsend) and Martin Heston, we had the idea of
^5producing Software when we were at school, we tried and failed on the
^5Sinclair  Spectrum,  we  have  since  played about with CPC 464's and
^5other  8  bit  machines, then we got in to the Amiga, then along came
^5Amos,  and  thanks  to  this we are now able to start to produce some
^5real  software (Look out for a BIG commercial release soon !  it's on
^5it's  way  but  we  cann't  disclose  what  yet  because of copyright
^5reasons, one thing I will say that it is being written in 100 % AMOS,
^5watch this space for more information soon !)

^2Name :  ^1Paul Townsend (Member of the JMJ Haters Club who prefer Kylie
^1Minogue)

^2 D.O.B :  ^118/12/71

^2Occupation: ^1Programmer (Not a very good one but still a programmer!)

^2Interests : ^1Computers, Programming, Electronics, Pop concerts
            ^1(So far seen Pet Shop Boys - Blackpool, OMD - Birmingham
             ^1NEC, and Kylie - Manchester Apollo.

^2Current Projects :

^11: The big commercial release coming shortly.

^12.  AMTrans, This is an Amos program that accepts a word or phrase in
^1English  of  French  and  converts  it  to  the other language, has a
^1vocabulary of approx 10,000 words and phrases

^13.   An Arena Accounts Stock control extension, anybody out there who
^1is  using Arena Accounts and have any ideas of what they want to see,
^1please contact me (Paul Townsend) at Technical Fred Software (address
^1given later)

^14.   A tutorial on how to use Amal in Amos, at the request of Totally
^1Amos,  hopefully  this  should  be  ready for the next issue, fingers
^1crossed !)

^15.   Keeping  all you readers of Totally Amos happy with all sorts of
^1contributions  to  the  magazine  (How  am I doing so far, please let
^1Myself or Len Tucker at Totally Amos have your comments!  good or bad
^1this  is  supposed  to be your magazine, if you don't like something,
^1say so, if you do, then why not say so !)

^2Name : ^1Martin Heston

^2D.O.B : ^119/06/72

^2Occupation: ^1Graphics Artist, Game Design & Programmer

^2Interests : ^1Music, (Jean Michel Jarre, Queen, Pet shop Boys),Driving

^2Current Projects :

^11: The big commercial release  coming  shortly.(All the artwork, and
  ^1 there's a lot of it)

^4The  next  person  to  join us was Andrew, I have known him for about
^4seven  years now, and so has been involved in Technical Fred Software
^4since  it was formed. 

^2Name :  ^1Andrew Loheide (The half member of the Kylie Fan Club)

^2D.O.B: ^105/11/71

^2Occupation:  ^1Data Entry, Brew Boy, Virus Checking (Checking about 900
^1disks we have in our collection is no fun, it takes ages)

^2Interests :  ^1Football (Liverpool supporter !)  Fast Food, (And yes he
            ^1was the one who was on  Countdown a couple  of years ago)
            ^1Likes Watching  Coronation Street (Boring Person, Oh well
            ^1I suppose it's  better than  Neighbours !) 60's Music (Or
            ^1anything else written before he was born!)

^2Current  Projects:   ^1No specific projects, he helps out with any data
^1entry  needed  for  any  projects  as  necessary, i.e, typing out the
^110,000 phrases needed for the French Program, also good at making the
^1coffee !

^4The  next  person  to  join us was Peter Winnard, joined us in May of
^41989.

^2Name:^1 Peter Winnard

^2D.O.B : ^113/04/72.

^2Occupation :^1 Programmer, Audio Sampling Engineer

^2Interests  :   ^1Music  (Jean-Michel Jarre) (Definitely not a member of
            ^1the Kylie Fan Club) Electronics, Computers

^2Current Projects

^11: The big commercial release coming shortly.

^4In May 1990, Peter then introduced another member to us

^2Name : ^1Darren Eckersley

^2D.O.B : ^112/06/70

^1Occupation :^1 Programmer   

^2Interests  : ^1Music, Computers.
 
^2Current Projects:

^11. The big commercial release coming shortly.

^12. The Arena Accounts Extension (Of course it's written in Amos !)

^4And  last  but  not  least we have Alison,who started to get involved
^4with Technical Fred Software in about June of 1991.

^2Name:  ^1Alison Kinsey (The other member of the Kylie Fan Club!)

^2D.O.B.:^1 06/11/73

^2Occupation:  ^1Language Consultant

^2Interests: ^1Music, Theatre, Going  out  (She didn't say where  though,
          ^1could  be  anywhere  !), Working with children (Is that why
          ^1you get on so well with the rest of the employees at TFS?),
          ^1Travel,  Driving (Give us a ring if you are planning to use
          ^1you car today, we'll let you know which roads to keep clear
          ^1of !, (oops, Sorry Alison, didn't mean that really), Alison
          ^1also  says she likes school work and wants to be a teacher.
          ^1(and  I thought Teachers were for drinking (That's Teachers
          ^1Scotch Whiskey for the slow ones among you !)

^2Current Projects:

^11.  AMTrans, This is an Amos program that accepts a word or phrase in
^1English  of  French  and  converts  it  to  the other language, has a
^1vocabulary  of  approx  10,000  words  and  phrases,  Alison has been
^1involved  in  the checking of the data that Andrew has typed in, also
^1to  try to make me understand the rules of French that I need to know
^1to   write   the   program,   (Keep  trying  Alison,  it'll  sink  in
^1eventually!,)

^4Right  that's  enough  about us, all of the above people in Technical
^4Fred Software can be contacted at the address given later.  (If you
^4want to know what this ugly  bunch  look like, then get TOTALLY AMOS
^4Issue 1, Available from Len at Totally Amos).

^2Contact Addresses:

^7T O T A L L Y   A M O S  - see everywhere else!

^6T E C H N I C A L   F R E D   S O F T W A R E 

                              ^2Dept TA
                        ^2C/O 117 Hilton Lane
                              ^2Walkden
                              ^2Worsley
                            ^2Manchester
                              ^2M28 5TB

                   ^6Tel. and Fax: (061) 703 7842

^4(24  Hours,  automatically switching answerphone and Fax Machine when
^4we are not available to take calls personally)

^5 If  you  get  the  answerphone and you want to leave a message, just
^5start  speaking  when  you hear the tone.  If you want to send a fax,
^5just  send  it  in  the  normal  way,  and  our fax machine will sort
^5everything out !  (What a clever little gadget!)

^2Ok, that's it from me, See you in the next issue of TOTALLY AMOS.

^2Have fun out there, be good, (or if you can't be good, be Careful !!)


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   ^4O D Y S S E Y   S O F T W A R E   Presents:

 
                     ^4P R O G R A M   P A R L O U R  # 1

 ^5" Mmmm, Program Parlour.  Whats this? ", I hear you ask.

^5 Well,  every  now  and again, ODYSSEY SOFTWARE, will release an AMOS
^5programs  disk,  containing  games, demos, utilities, and UN-FINISHED
^5PROGRAMS  for  other  people  to  complete.   When  I get sent a disk
^5containing  someone`s  completed  version of the program, it`s put on
^5the  next  disk,  and  they  get  a free copy of the new disk ( And a
^5mention, e.t.c ).  I hope this sort of routine works.

^6 If you would like more details of Odyssey Software's disk, drop a
^6line and an SAE to Ben Ashley and Leo Coombes at:-
 
^2                         Odyssey Software
^2                         c/o Ben Ashley
^2                         331 London Road
^2                         Stoneygate
^2                         Leicester
^2                         LE2 3NE

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