                               AH YEAH!

 This  is  the ST NEWS final compendium,  THE  greatest  collection  of 
(sometimes  only  vaguely related) Atari ST oriented articles  ever  to 
appear  on  any medium on Earth.  It is gigantic,  it is  huge,  it  is 
brilliant.

 First  note:  Since  this is more or less the final  issue,  the  Last 
Statement or the Definitive Deed,  we have cast aside every last bit of 
modesty left in our beings. We are truly amazing, alltogether brilliant 
and superbly perfect. So be it.

 But  let me get on with fulfilling the purpose of this README.  It  is 
ment to inform you, dear reader of the contents of these diskettes, how 
you can copy them and giving special messages to Gard,  the  Malevolent 
Mutantic Microbe, but that is a whole different story alltogether.

 The  two  diskettes you have now,  contain exactly  1959283  bytes  of 
classic  ST NEWS articles that we have created so blissfully  over  the 
last  couple  of years.  Amongst them are the two Quests  (England  and 
Norway) plus ALL Cronos Warchild stories that Richard has written, plus 
numerous  other truly fantastic articles.  Since all  this  information 
could never, ever fit on one disk, we have decided to put it on no less 
than TWO double-sided diskettes. Yes, two double sided diskettes filled 
with enough fun to keep you busy for a few months I figure.

 So  how  can you copy this enormously interesting piece  of  high-tech 
journalism?
 Well, the disks are unprotected and standard-format, so you might even 
succeed in copying them with the ST's desktop.  But I can tell you that 
any  decent  copy-program can do a far better and faster  job.  Disk  1 
contains the ST NEWS program (extremely skillfully programmed by Stefan 
Posthuma),  the  PROGRAMS folder and some articles (most of which  have 
been expertly written by Richard Karsmakers).  Disk 2 contains articles 
only and is asked for by ST NEWS when the time is there.
 The  utterly exiting bootsectors have again been programmed by  Stefan 
and  virus  killers and likewise programs will scream  hell  and  blood 
about them because they are executable.  Never mind,  if you boot  from 
the disk and a substantially grotesque ST NEWS message is displayed, it 
means that the disk is OK, and certainly virus-free.

 Rests  me to say that as allways,  ST NEWS is Public  Domain,  meaning 
Free,  meaning that everybody can and MUST copy it. We will ask nothing 
of you.  No money,  no digital watches,  no nothing. You could however, 
when you have finished being dumbfounded by the incredible vastness  of 
this issue,  write to us.  Tell us about your Live.  Tell us about  the 
feelings you had when reading the Oh Yeah article. Tell us about It.

 Second note: The Oh Yeah article contains a lot of notes.

 Yes,  before I forget.  Once again,  we have included a Hidden Article 
Quest  in  this  issue.  This  time no password,  or  not  a  few  easy 
questions. No way.
 This  time we have included a full-blown Quest with over 30  multiple-
choice questions.  Questions about Live, Questions about Sex, Questions 
about  ST  NEWS,  Questions about Bongs.  If you  complete  this  Quest 
successfully,  you will be presented with the Hidden Article. This time 
featuring  a  load  of crap  about  Ethics,  Science,  (Napalm)  Death, 
Norwegians,  Vulgar Poems and the most horrible songtext we could find, 
plus a nice surprise at the end.
 But no more about this. Find it yourself!

 Yes,  I  think the time has come now.  At the horizon of  this  superb 
Readme  dawns  a  message.  It slowly comes nearer until  it  is  fully 
readable in all its splendour:

                        SPECIAL MESSAGE TO GARD

 Never before have I received a letter with such an insane envelope.  I 
guess you must be the first to really create a CE,  a Crazy Envelope. I 
think the Dutch Postal Service must have wondered what was inside.  And 
again,  you picture (this time topless,  meaning Gard with his  cranium 
removed  by  means  of  a scissor...sounds more  terrible  than  it  is 
actually)  has pulled us through the dark times of ST NEWS bombing  out 
on us.  Fortunately,  this didn't happen that much,  since there aren't 
any demos in this issue (sorry folks,  didn't have time) and no picture 
or other things that require special machine code or stuff. Again, your 
Tiny  Being is forever engraved in our brain coils.  Our  gratitude  is 
Enormous and may the Big Stork never come to collect you!

                             DEATH TO YOU

 Death to you,  brainless scum that dared to break into my car at March 
12th, 1990. May you die slowly and painfully, may the vultures rip your 
flesh while you are in an agonizing death-struggle.  May the  cassettes 
you  stole  turn  out get stuck in your cassette player  and  may  your 
eardrums be eternally damaged by the heavy-metal contained on them.
 May you be gnawed away by a creeping disease, may you be cast into the 
deepest  pits  of Hell where Lucifer himself comes to  you  and  feasts 
on  your rotting corpse.  May your soul haunt forever through the  dark 
desolate  underworld.  May all your children be run over by trains  and 
may your girlfriend be raped by a dozen skinheads.  May your parents be 
chopped  to  pieces by a escaped lunatic and may all your  friends  die 
horribly in car and plane crashes.  How did you dare to force the  lock 
on my car and damage the door?  Why did you think my radio was in there 
while  it  was  safely in my room?  Did you really  think  those  tapes 
contained anything interesting?
 I hope one day to meet you,  and then I will run you over with my  car 
so many times that they'll need to scrape the remains off the road. May 
all the pets you have get rabies and bite your family.  May your  house 
collapse  on you and your grandparents get heart attacks.
 Death to you!

 Sorry 'bout this folks,  but I couldn't resist spilling my guts when I 
thought  about  my poor car being molested by a  couple  of  brain-dead 
morons. I hope they get caught sometime and get thrown in jail.

 Well, no more talking, you have some ST NEWS reading to do.

     Stefan Posthuma
     ex-editor of ST NEWS
