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MAGGIE ISSUE 3.0
Release Date: Tomorrow (19.11.90)
Here it finally is, the 3rd issue of this great disk magazine. I
bet that there are many people out there who doubted that there
would ever be a 3rd issue.
Well, I have to admit that three months is rather a long
break for a magazine, but therefore it comes on two disks which
should cover for the time in between ! The reason why this issue
is so late is that I have been very busy answering letters,
programming on a little game, running the PD library and coding a
new menu for issue 4 of disk maggie !
First of all I would like to answer a question which I am
being asked in every second letter which is: " How can I receive
Maggie regularly ?". To answer this question I have to explain a
few things. Producing a magazine of this size takes a lot of
time, and sometimes I simply have not got it. Therefore it it
might take longer from one isse to the next. Furthermore I do not
know how many issue I will continue to produce, so, you can't
order 5 issues in advance ! The only thing you can do is, always
send us 2.70 after an issue has been released and we will send
you the following one as soon as it is finished, but keep in mind
that it might take some time ! In case the magazine becomes
unexpectedly 2 disks, like this issue, we will ask you to send us
another additional 2. I hope you understand our problem,
thanks a lot. A summary of the text above: You can only order one
issue in advance ! In case you can only lay your hands on notes,
simply forget about the money and send us 12 international reply
coupons (this only applies for people who do not live within NOT
SO GREAT BRITAIN.)
Secondly I would like to say something about the hidden
article. Some of the questions (especially the first one) ARE
MEANT AS A JOKE !!!!! We hope that you will take it this way and
not hold a grudge against us !!!! Thanks for your understanding!
For some technical information on this issue I should tell
you that it contains about 600K of unpacked articles (which is
definitely a lot to read for you!). We also have an enormous
amount of little demos and previews for the first time in this
magazine! I will try to keep this up as long as you people
reading this should send us your little demo previews or these
small utilities you code from time to time ! The disk also
contains variosu quite useful utilities as described in the
magazine ! At this point I would LIKE TO SAY A MEGA BIG THANKS TO
ALL THE PEOPLE WHO CODED THINGS AND THEN SEND THEM TO US !
This magazine also does contain its first ever paid for
advert, the PD advert on the main menu. For such an advert you
only have to pay 50 and we can assure you that it will spread
definitely as far as an advert in ST Format would spread. We are
even sure, that it would spread quite a lot further than ST
Format because we know of registered readers in Germany, Russia,
Holland, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Israel, France,
England, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Australia, Canada and even the
USA. As this magazine is public domain, it can be copied from
friend to friend and this way it will travel all around the
world, not to forget all around Britain !!! REMEMBER AN ADVERT IS
ONLY 50, WHICH IS EXTREMELY CHEAP COMPARED TO ST FORMAT OR ANY
OTHER MAGAZINE !
I would also like to point out that we are THE FIRST
COMPUTER MAGAZINE EVER TO HAVE AN ARTICLE ON A COMPUTER SHOOW IN
RSSIA WRITTEN BY A RUSSIAN ATARI ST ONWER ! This issue also
contains many more articles by people from all over the world,
from Holland, from France, from Germany and of course from
England. We have probably received some articles from other
places which I just forgot to mention now, sorry guys !
As I have already said in the last issue, I am still looking
for people to write regular articles for maggie ! It would be
great if some more people would declare themselves willing to do
so !
I think that this is all the official things that need to be
said for now!
Yours
the Editorial Team and Managing Director of this World Wide
Distributed Magazine
MICHAEL SCHUESSLER
P.S.: The Editorial Team of Maggie currently consists of 2 steady
participating Editors, these are:
Michael Schuessler & Chris Holland
The text following now basically is here to fill the disk
to its limit !
Currently I am watching the film TOUGH GUYS, the film is pretty
god ! By the looks of it, this disk will have some spare kb left
on it !
I might type a few more things tomorrow !
On the disk there are still 10 K spare, I doubt that I will type
that much now as I have only two hours before I have to leave for
my proficiency exam in central London ! Anyway, back to computer
talk.
I had quite a lot of criticism for this magazine here, quite
a lot of the people complained about the bullshit in this
magazine. My answer to that is that I will continue writing what
I have written so far, as I am doing this magazine purely for fun
and nothing else, if people complain about articles, well, do a
better one and send it to us !
We also had quite some criticism concerning the text
displayer, yes, I agree, it is very very slow, but please keep
in mind that it is coded in GFA Basic and I personally am not
that good at coding machine code. If somebody out there wants to
code us a new displayer, please do it, we would be extremely
happy about that ! The only thing I can say about that is, that I
will do my best to speed it up in GFA BAsic as good as possible,
although I do not see much chance in that !
I would like to thank the people who send us their pictures
which we couldn't use in the end, not because they were not good
enough, but because the lack of space on this disk ! I hope that
you will continue sending them in for us to have a look at !
Thanks!
I would also like to thank the people who send us all their
articles, which I happily included ! Thanks a lot guys and please
keep up the good work !
Furthermore I would like to say a mega thank you to the
people who coded some of the intro screens like Fallen Angels,
Fingerbobs and whoever did something ! Thanks guys !
I have started a new section in this issue which is called
PREVIEWS. Under this sections I would like to feature preview
screens from forthcoming demos, especially mega demos. This would
make the public more anxious to receive your demo !
I am still desperately looking for people over in the States or
in Canada or Australia to write some articles, as many people
here in Europe want to know what is happening on the other side
of the globe ! If anybody out there would be so kind and reply to
my plea it would be greatly appreciated !
I have just been working on a dew text displayer routine for
maggie. This routine is slightly faster than the routine before,
let's see if we can speed it up for the 4th issue !
An apology goes to the people who send us the money and still had
to waiting such a long time for maggie ! We will try to release
the next maggie in time ! Thanks for your understanding !
I have just checked the length of the documenty which currently
is about 9K, which leaves about another 4 k on the disk. As it is
rather late now, I'd better stop and start copying this magazine.
Oh, by the way, I played on my first gig yesterday, it was near
our school, oh, you would not believe how funny that was ! I was
completely pissed out of my brains, but I could still play well
enough to remeber the chords for the ruthem guitare. But NOW,
just about one day after a started drinking I still have a
flimming headache. TOUGH ! This is really now the end of this
read me file on maggie ! Have fun reading maggie !!!!
So long until the next issue
Michael Schuessler
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