October 8, 1980

Paul E. Slezak
1818 S. 59th Ave.
CICERO, IL. 60650

Dear Mr. Fabris;

Don't stop now, here's my $12.50 for next year. The Arcadian is the best mail I 
get!! Hope it's around for a long time.

In order to insure it's longevity, I thought I'd add some input. First, I'd 
like to tell you about the program I wrote & enclosed. As labeled, it's a Horse 
Race program. It took me about 50 hours to create. I was debating on whether to 
have it published or put up for sale, but since it is my first attempt (not at 
programming- I'm a programmer/analyst) and the Arcadian has given me so much, I 
thought I owe it at least one program. However, I would ask one favor. If 
possible, I would like the program rated. I believe the rating would help me in 
making other programs better. If there's no room to publish the rating, or you 
don't want to, I'd appreciate you mailing a copy to me. Thank you in advance.

I remember in an issue awhile back, you asked for some input as to what the 
subscribers would like to see in the Arcadian. At that time I was fairly new to 
the Arcadian, and to the Bally. However, since I was able to use a few of the 
Bally tricks in my program and since a lot of the things in the Arcadian were 
interesting, I decided that I now know what I would like to see in the 
Arcadian. Let me also explain that I'm the biggest electronic games freak in 
the world, so that's my upper-most priority. I also like creating the games, or 
re-writing them to improve them or make them harder

So here's the list in PRIORITY order!

1) What's going to happen to the Arcade!! I'm quite concerned about Bally 
getting rid of it. If possible, please publish the name & address of the 
company which took it over. I'd like to write to them. I lost the enclosure 
from the last Arcadian.

2) Games - I'd like to see more about machine language and how to use it 
without the Blue Ram. Speaking of which, I would like to know if anyone has 
been successful at tearing apart any of the cartridges. If I can make the 
Baseball & Football games better, I sure would find a way to save enough money 
to buy the Blue Ram faster. I used to think that Bally had the most 
sophisticated games around, until Mattel came out with the Intellivision. If 
it's possible to get their cartridges through the Blue Ram that would be great! 
What I really would like to see is if one of our geniuses (I mean that) could 
get the Arcade to accept not only the cartridges, but the controllers (or 
similar). If the machines were compatible maybe we could increase our force.

3) Voice - I would like to know if anyone is experimenting with getting the 
Bally to 'talk'. The Mattel Baseball game actually says 'yer out'.

4) TV Tuning - By this, I mean a color bar generator to align the colors of the 
TV. I'm no electrician, but I do know how to adjust the color on my TV.
Sorry about the book, but I really tried to shorten it. That's why some of it 
may not follow too closely. By the way,

*** THANKS FOR THE ARCADIAN ***.

Paul E. Slezak

P.S. for some reason I did not get pages 37-46 (Volume 2 No. 5) could I please 
(pretty please) get a copy sent to me.

THANKS

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