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RELIGION ON TELEVISION urday October 121996 Star-Telegram I Section Page 5 COMP 4 NG COMP urday October 121996 NC Star-Telegram I Section Page 5 REPLAY Getting wired to stay online Resorting to RETRO I rive gin jo831 1 414 151011ill EMI Ir 1 jr Pvistrilz21 Il spg MN 1111 0 C3111ilmgnimiC) Namco was one of the industry's early spearheaders so they probably figure they deserve a slice of the retrogaming action too They went back and found all their cool games and squeezed 'em into a similar Play Station package Namco Museum Vol 1 ($50 all ages) features Pole Position Galaga Rally New Rally Star Destroyer Bosconian Toy Pop and the timeless Pac-Man each with its own museumlike intro and explanation If you haven't heard of half these games don't sweat it You're not missing anything Pac-Man is as addictingly fun as it ever was and it's interesting to see (but not necessarily play) Pole Position one of the first racers that actually looked like a racer But the rest of these games weren't all that great to begin with and re-releasing them seems pointless The same can be said of Sega Genesis' utterly useless Arcade Classics ($45 all ages) featuring both original and "updated" versions of Centipede Missile Command and Ultra Pong Missile CYBER ADS By MALCOM MAYHEW STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER Here we are in the age of 32-bit 64-bit and PC-gaming the age of fantastic graphics breakneck speed and unimaginable realism and what's the newest game on the shelf? Pac-Man Even though technology's doors are wide open the videogame industry like the music and movie industry often runs out of ideas And in hopes of not wasting or losing a cent the game industry often resorts to the past recycling a sure-shot instead of inventing a chance-taker a game that will someday command the respect of classics such as Pac-Man The industry has an excuse for all this gravedigging: There's a "retrogaming" kick going on and apparently there's no end in sight Nintendo started the trend a year or so ago by releasing old Atari 2600 and arcade games such as Asteroids Missile Command and Galaga for its hand-held Game Boy system They did OK not excellent but obviously well enough to send Williams back into its vaults to pull out a six-in-one-retrogame pack for the PlayStation Williams Arcade Classics ($50 all ages) Now this thing isn't bad You've got Defender Defender II (otherwise known as Stargate) Joust Sinistar Bubbles and Robotron all of which made a big splash in the '80s and in some way or another set a precedent for games to come With the exception of the lameoid Bubbles these are hard challenging fun games ones that hu a lot more going for them in yesteryear than half of the new games do today Particularly mind-blowing is Robotron in which players control a tiny man who must zoom around a single-screen room saving family members and shooting berserk robots before they close in on him Robotron was designed to suck quarters and mess with your mind you either went broke or insane and its home-system counterpart is just as frustratingly fun Just who can send junk E-mail to whom and when? By JOHN MORAN THE HARTFORD COURANT You've probably never heard of a company called Cyber Promotions Inc But you may have heard from them Cyber Promotions is in the business of sending bulk E-rnail messages advertising various products and services And it sends them out by the thousands Among the recipients are subscribers to America Online the world's largest commercial online service And a lot of them would just as soon not get this junk E-mail So in September AOL responded to subscriber complaints by blocking all E-mail coming in from Philadelphia-based Cyber Promotions Two days later Cyber Promotions obtained an injunction from a federal judge that allowed the mailings to continue Then on Sept 20 a federal appeals court lifted the ban on blocking E-mail But in an odd twist America Online also announced it had no plans to reinstitute the E-mail blockade And that's where it sits presumably until the case goes to trial sometime in November Meanwhile attorneys tracing the evolution of cyber-taw say the case could set a significant precedent concerning online advertising bulk Pushing Zealand missionary (rerun) Odyssey 2 am: Teresa de Jesus Based on the life of St Teresa of Avila who established the reformed Carmelite convents and monasteries (Subtitled rerun) (Part 3 of 8) EVVTN Wednesday 10 pm: Heroes of the Heart A boy with cerebral palsy overcomes challenges as he prepares for his bar mitzvah (rerun) Odyssey 12 am: Family Theatre Eleven-year-old Ellen and 77- year-old Lilith are hired to care for each other for the summer (rerun) Odyssey 2 am: Teresa de Jesus Based on the life of St Teresa of Avila who established the reformed Carmelite convents and monasteries (Subtitled rerun) (Part 4 of 8) EWTN Thursday 7 pm: Edith Stein Profile of the Jewish convert Edith Stein who was persecuted and died in a Nazi concentration camp EWTN 9 pm: Mysteries of the Bible Archaeological evidence provides new insight into the Philistine culture epitomized by the ruthless warrior Goliath (rerun) ALVE Repeats at 1 am 2 am: Teresa de Jesus Based on the life of St Teresa of Avila who established the reformed Carmelite convents and monasteries (Subtitled rerun) (Part 5 of 8) EWTN Friday Noon: Pillar of Fire In Palestine 27000 Jews volunteer for the British army With the invasion of Russia Germany embarks on the "final solution" (rerun) (Part 5 of 7) The History Channel Repeats at 5 pm MMIMMI resume touring next month He and his wife Cristina have three children ages 6 to 10 Aguirre's path to Christianity was circuitous "I was dabbling in mysticism turning radio dials with your brain that kind of thing" he said "At 14 or 15 you're doing that because you're trying to find your identity And when you're doing that Christianity enters your field of vision" All those other spiritual roads "somehow all had something very positive to say about Jesus Christ" as a man a prophet or healer Aguirre said "And if you're listening to punk and they all say something good about Sid Vicious you're going to listen to the Sex Pistols So I checked out the Jesus Christ thing and it made sense to me" What doesn't make sense him is altering his appearance to conform to someone else's image of what he as a Christian should look like said Aguirre who recently traded dredlocks for blue locks "That Bible Belt mentality says a good Christian has a 40- hour-a-week job is conservative listens strictly to Christian radio stations" Aguirre said "But look at what Scripture has to say which is my manual" The band's name contains no hidden meanings Aguirre said Spy Glass Blue is merely the name of a color pilfered from a paint can he said With a memorable name an album and a tour behind them Tunnel! and Kelly said they are focusing on making good music "We're setting up the way for God to do whatever he wants to do with it" Tunnell said "It's all up to God" The album is available at CD Warehouse Living Vine bookstores and Sound Source in Grand Prairie The band can be contacted by calling (214) 283- 3133 or at Staff writer Karen Auge contributed to this report Cowtown apfd213) hrtml st-74m SAIIRDAY OCTOBER I is I CIO CALL 111-1544 ti Spoorod by tho City of Fort Worth Cowtown ItK N1- 1 jk9LyQ0 SAIIRDAY OCTOBER I is I CIO CALL 111-1544 I ii rd fis'c I ee "a Today 4:30 pm: Time to Build How Catholics in the former Eastern Bloc countries survived two generations of forced atheism and Marxist teachings (rerun) EWTN 6 pm: Mysteries of the Bible Controversy surrounds the actual cause of ancient Jericho's fallen walls (R) Tomorrow 4 pm: John Paul A Light for the Nations A profile of Pope John Paul II a religious leader who strives to promote 'peace and unity among the 'peoples of the world WFAAChannel 8 7 pm: The Wonders of God's Creation: Human Life The miracle of the human experience is explored including the body and mind EWTN Repeats at 9 pm Friday 2 am: Teresa de Jesus Based on the life of St Teresa of Avila who established the reformed Carmelite convents and monasteries (Subtitled rerun) (Part 1 of 8) RATIN Monday 7 pm: Pillars of Faith: The Catechism Explained A look at the "new" Catholic Catechism (Live) EWTN 2 am: Teresa de Jesus Based on the life of St Teresa of Avila who established the reformed Carmelite convents and monasteries (Subtitled rerun) (Part 2 of 8) EWTN Tuesday 9 pm: Vatican City: Art and Glory The Vatican is viewed from the perspectives of artists poets and architects (rerun) EWTN 9 pm: Unbroken Circle: Experiences in Faith The erosion of colonialism in Africa 'as seen through the life of a New IMMINIMIMMIN Band From Page 3 marketed in Christian bookstores or listened to just by Christians" he said Just because they aren't directly signing praises doesn't mean their music is not Christian Kelly said "Allen writes the songs and some pf the things we sing about apply to his life or his life before he was a Christian You pretty much have to be a sinner before you become a Christian" said Kelly who said he has been a Christian about for a year after drifting away from the Pentecostal faith he was raised in Audiences especially Christian audiences should understand that he said "You have to be accepting of a person's past and what's been done for them by Jesus Christ" Kelly said The lyrics on the group's first album released on their own label in June are spiritual but not preachy delving into the inner demons of daily life Particularly Come Patmos uses stream-of-consciousness lyrics to conjure images of rain and loneliness and longing for the return of Christ to his creation The title refers to the island of -Patmos where the book of Revelation was written Aguirre 32 was born in Southern California and has been involved with bands since he was 15 He made a name for himself in underground rock circles with his other band Scaterd Few from which he is taking a break There is no break from his other musical pursuits including work with Sacrosanct Productions which markets and produces everything from compact disc cover art to designing T-shirts His band which produces a sound Aguirre called "Edgy new wave postpunk psycho-Gothic Euronoise with a twist of pop" has performed a couple of times at Club DaDa in Dallas It will (i'or extended coverage of th crash of TWA Flight 800 see StarTextalet a service of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram wwwstartextmet) N-Ju 0 Command has been done to death and Ultra Pong is ultra- boring leaving Centipede Space Invaders in someone's garden as the only good game and that's not saying a whole lot Perhaps the best of the retmgaming bunch is Williams' Ms Pac-Man ($50 all ages) recentli released for the Super NES Of all the Pac-Man games the original Super Pac Pac Jr etc Ms was definitely the best 1 It's the cutest funniest fastest Pac game ever one part goofy humor one part ferocious fun and the SNES version perfectly captures its ragged glory It's the perfect game to close the book on retrogaming Too bad we're only on the first few chapters Williams Arcade Classics 12 (out of five stars) Namco Museum Vol 1 12 Arcade Classics Ms PaoMan Malcolm Mayhew writes about console video games for the Star-Telegram "I'm not sure there's a con-: stitutional right to have your message delivered" Kreider said "You have every right to express it but you don't have a right to send it to my mailbox" Kreitler noted that similar problems with commercial fax transmissions once prompted the Connecticut Legislature to ban unsolicited advertising faxes Now the issue may be replayed in cyberspace But the marketplace might be better equipped to resolve the problem of bulk E-mail advertising than anything government could come up with "This is an area where private decision-making is a much better solution Service providers can decide for themselves how to handle this kind of junk mail" said Eugene Volokh acting professor of law at the University of California Los Angeles I 1 'Play Pigskin Payday: pmmoicontestipigskinfindexhtm OCheck out the interactive Halloween section: halloween96indexium Get the latest on the Star-Telegram Mock Election: Log on to StarTextNet at Dear Dr Bombay: My wife wants us to get a second phone line for the computer so call-waiting won't keep knocking us offline but I don't want to rewire the house Dear Wired: Remember the good old days before all that antitrust legislation when the phone company would send out the big burly installer with the bulging tool belt the Himmosomi drooping Dickies and the vertical smile that gave you nightmares 4 4 I cofor years to 4 me? 14 Back then the ''1 telephone was a I' 1 mystical alien A 1 0t iel device far too complex for anyTECHNO TALK body but a highly with Dr Bombay rained techni- clan to touch Or so we thought You want the truth? (Yes you can handle the truth and stop doing those bad impressions You sound like Jerry Lewis) It only takes two wires to make a telephone work The phone wiring in your house almost certainly has four conductors which means you're already wired for a second line Just tell the phone company that you want the second line coming in on that second pair of conductors Now go someplace like Radio Shack and get a two-jack modular wall plate to replace the single-jack plate nearest your computer When you take it off look at the wires The red and the green ones are for the primary line the yellow and black for the secondary The connections on the wall plate are marked to show you what goes where Unless you're colorblind you can't hook them up incorrectly Oh and don't let Ma Bell talk you into call-waiting on the second line It sort of defeats the whole purpose And if you're too cheap to spring for the second line you can probably turn off call-waiting when your computer tises he phone Wherever you had to type in a phone number in your software add 70 (or 1170) first Depending on your modem you might need to type in a (wait for dial tone) or a couple of commas (a pause) next Then comes the phone number The whole thing might look like this: 1170w555-1212 Don't call that particular number though The information operators get really 'ticked off when they hear modems squealing in their ears and are liable to go on three-state crime sprees How would you feel knowing you were responsible for that? Noted computerologist Dr Emilio Bombay offers occasionally accurate advice about most things electronic lie can be reached on Internet at drbombayonstartextnet or via snail-mail at Star-Telegram Box 1870 Fort Worth 76101 Fax: 390-7257 BYTES Mac attack: If you've got Internet access help for your Mac is never too far avyay The Internet if nothing else is a bottomless well of information about computers There are more Web sites about the Mac than can be documented here But here's a description of three that many Web aficionados consider among the best The best place to start is Apple Computer itself It maintains an extensive library of technical help called the Apple Support and Information Web You'll find it at wwwinfoapplecom This site contains more than 50000 pieces of information about Macs The site's technical library has 12000 articles about problems common and not so common A big library like this is only as good as its search engine Few of us have the time to browse through 12000 articles especially when our Mac or some of its software is on the blink Luckily Apple's Tech Library has a powerful yet easy-to-use search engine You delineate your search through a series of pop-up menus Another invaluable trouble-shooting library is the Complete Conflict Compendium You'll find it at wwwquillservcomwwwc3c3html Many If not most problems that afflict Macs can be attributed to conflicts between your operating system and extensions Or conflicts between various extensions Extensions are miniprograms that add extra functions to your Mac Popular extensions Include Now Utilities Norton Utilities and One Click From wire reports td I 1 I I the envelope ings and your right to block access to your E-mailbox David Post an associate professor at Georgetown University Law Center said he believes the courts should affirm America Online's right to block mass E-mailings "I hope that America Online wins this one I think it's very important that they do" Post said "Private actors like America Online should be free within very broad limits to set policy on a wide range of issues regarding cyberspace policy including what constitutes junk E-mail" "I'm not sure there's a constitutional right to have your message delivered" Kreitler But wouldn't that be illegal censorship? No says Post Only the government is prohibited from censoring speech Private businesses and clubs can censor all they like Post said people who are dissatisfied with A0L's policies or decisions are free to choose from hundreds of other Internet-access providers who offer different rules on E-mail use So if they actually like getting unsolicited advertising by E-mail there are alternatives It's a simple matter of who has the right to the mailbox said John Kreitler chairman of the Connecticut Bar Association's computer law section.