> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Jeff Hellige wrote:
>
> > At 06:49 PM 12/21/00 +0100, you wrote:
> > >True, Toad pulled out a few years ago.
> >
> > What ever became of Toad's inventory of stuff when they dropped it?
> > Did they continue selling it until it was gone or did they somehow
> > get rid of it all in a fairly small length of time? I remember a
> > buddy of mine going in there during one of our trips to the store
> > and buying a couple of hundred dollars worth of Lynx cartridges.
> > They had a pretty decent selection onhand. I generally got my TOS
> > upgrades from them.
>
> IIRC, they had clearance sales until some years ago, but I suppose
> some of the other Atari traders bought remaining supplies. I hope it
> didn't go the same way as the Apple Lisa, at least.
>
A guy in New England bought their remaining stock after a
clearance sale. He sold thru the newsgroup for a while. Don't know
if he is still doing it.
> > >Best are indeed still in the business. Err, isn't there some US
> > >shop called "Homa", too? Of course, there's the shady System
> > >Solutions of the UK, as well as Keychange Music. And a range of
> > >retailers in Germany, of course.
> >
> > I remember hearing about System Solutions but the other's don't
> > ring a bell. I guess since Toad wasn't more than 1-1/2 hours drive
> > from where we lived and my buddy and I made frequent road trips up
> > to the store, there wasn't much need to look much further for Atari
> > stuff. The copule of times I did, I generally went with Best.
>
Homa is a company based in Ottawa,Ontario. He sells some of the
German programs. I think one of them is "Pixel Graphics" .
There's also an outfit in Seattle(?) which sells mainly 8-bit Atari
stuff but also some ST. Can't recall the name but he advertises
regularly in Atari 8-bit and unlike Best provides a free catalogue.
The Best catalogue tho is well worth the price. Around $10 IIRC.
> System solutions are the English importers of the MagiC OS and
> publishers of some hardware, such as rumoured PPC accelerators and PCI
> buses.
>
>
There's also an inventive guy in New Zealand, Mario Becroft, who
makes various adapters such as one that allows you to use your
ST with an SVGA monitor.
http://gem.win.co.nz/
ciao larry
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