"Nothing screws up a good story like an eyewitness."
ALL ST NEWS ISSUES AND THEIR VITAL STATISTICS
by Richard Karsmakers
I am a data nut. I know it, and realising that you know you
have a problem might just be the first step on my way to a cure,
or at least that's what They usually say. Fact is, however, that
I set about hacking and doing all kinds of stuff to old ST NEWS
issues to come up with this article filled with trivial
information. Hacking, yes, because quite a few of these issues
happily refuse to work on the Falcon, even when using "Backward"
or anything of that ilk.
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Volume and Issue number
| Articles on disk, in bytes (p = articles were compressed)
| | Number of articles in that issue
| | | Unpacked articles, size in bytes
| | | | Issue Release date
| | | | | KBytes written
| | | | | per week
| | | | | | (top #)
- 1986 ----------------------------------------------------------
1.1 34,896 7 N.A. 26-07-1986 N.A.
1.2 39,817 9 N.A. 09-08-1986 20 (30)
1.3 56,638 11 N.A. 16-08-1986 56 (12)
1.4 152,458 19 N.A. 08-09-1986 50 (18)
1.5 214,510 24 N.A. 05-10-1986 54 (14)
1.6 217,891 29 N.A. 15-11-1986 36 (25)
- 1987 ----------------------------------------------------------
2.1 260,060 42 N.A. 03-01-1987 43 (23)
2.2 258,558 35 N.A. 28-02-1987 86 (3)
2.3 258,203 32 N.A. 11-04-1987 43 (23)
2.4 260,318 33 N.A. 13-06-1987 29 (27)
2.5 251,616 p 44 ± 314,000 u 25-07-1987 52 (16)
2.6 245,171 p 41 ± 312,000 u 12-09-1987 46 (21)
2.7 283,321 p 39 ± 354,000 u 31-10-1987 59 (10)
2.8 253,031 p 39 ± 316,000 u 19-12-1987 45 (22)
- 1988 ----------------------------------------------------------
3.1 287,322 p 40 ± 380,000 u 16-02-1988 48 (20)
3.2 285,510 p 38 ± 356,000 u 06-04-1988 51 (17)
3.3 237,734 p 35 301,525 u 16-05-1988 60 (9)
3.4 313,266 p 36 389,595 u 09-07-1988 49 (19)
3.5 298,859 p 37 369,355 u 16-10-1988 28 (28)
3.6 283,133 p 32 350,407 u 13-11-1988 88 (1)
3.7 265,921 p 32 316,606 u 24-12-1988 53 (15)
- 1989 ----------------------------------------------------------
4.1 296,683 p 33 ± 370,000 u 18-02-1989 53 (15)
4.2 306,669 p 34 ± 383,000 u 01-04-1989 64 (6)
4.3 300,073 p 36 ± 405,000 u 20-05-1989 58 (11)
4.4 404,163 p 30 ± 645,000 u 12-08-1989 54 (14)
- 1990 ----------------------------------------------------------
5.1 489,364 p 56 ± 780,000 u 11-02-1990 30 (26)
- Alive -> Undead -----------------------------------------------
5.2 386,756 p 42 ± 618,000 u 24-11-1990 17 (31)
- 1991 ----------------------------------------------------------
6.1 263,012 p 32 ± 500,000 u 20-04-1991 23 (29)
6.2 535,562 p 41 ± 1,030,000 u 18-08-1991 61 (8)
- 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------
7.1 634,750 p 74 ± 1,300,000 u 11-01-1992 62 (7)
7.2 544,216 p 67 ± 1,200,000 u 09-05-1992 71 (4)
7.3 519,183 p 63 ± 1,000,000 u 15-11-1992 38 (24)
- 1993 ----------------------------------------------------------
8.1 582,181 p 77 ± 1,000,000 u 15-05-1993 38 (24)
8.2 572,805 p 69 ± 1,200,000 u 23-10-1993 55 (13)
- 1994 ----------------------------------------------------------
9.1 531,882 p 71 ± 1,022,000 u 11-03-1994 52 (16)
9.2 768,648 p 85 1,568,507 u 23-07-1994 87 (2)
9.3 554,877 p 73 1,155,627 u 17-12-1994 68 (5)
- 1995 ----------------------------------------------------------
10.1 605,004 p 71 1,260,014 u 17-06-1995 49 (19)
10.2 672,853 p 72 1,379,597 u 25-11-1995 60 (9)
- 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------
11.1&2 1162,695 p 100 2,387,381 u 26-07-1996 68 (5)
- Total ---------------------------------------------------------
14,889,609 1780 ± 24,700,000 u 47
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Disclaimer
The text of the articles is identical to the originals like they appeared
in old ST NEWS issues. Please take into consideration that the author(s)
was (were) a lot younger and less responsible back then. So bad jokes,
bad English, youthful arrogance, insults, bravura, over-crediting and
tastelessness should be taken with at least a grain of salt. Any contact
and/or payment information, as well as deadlines/release dates of any
kind should be regarded as outdated. Due to the fact that these pages are
not actually contained in an Atari executable here, references to scroll
texts, featured demo screens and hidden articles may also be irrelevant.