Disk Maggie 21 by Reservoir Gods [web] & Maggie Team
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S h o w t i m e S p e c i a l ! !
Saturday the 28th September 1996, although this final bit is being
written on the morning of Friday the 27th September 1996, confused??
..Good!
Where have the last three months gone? Since Maggie 20 was launched
onto an all-too-suspecting world on early July, an awful lot has
happened, some of it awful.. However, some of it very good too, with
the launch of this all-new issue 21 timed to coincide with the very
important and significant Autumn Atari Shows in Birmingham and London..
The organiser, Mike Goodman has been clever/foolish (delete one) enough
to give us stand space to show off Maggie and various other 'scene'
productions and likely previews.. I sort of had this idea of writing
this 'readme' on the morning of the Birmingham Show, but figured that
other time based considerations would probably get in the way, and hey,
why add another layer of things to worry about, eh!
This week, we have been finishing the issue, and the editorial contains
some more scribblings on the traumas of the previous week in getting
the issue together.. After that, it has been straightforwardish, as a
couple of obscure and probably, previously undiscovered bugs were found
in the Falcon shell code.. These were got around, but did you know for
example that a very short piece of text (less than a full page) will
crash the text displayer!
It was fun having Leon give instructions how to fix the loader over the
phone as well, and the last minute omission of Mike Noyce's articles,
due to a crap PC floppy drive preventing them being E-mailed over to us
was entirely to be expected.. Instead, we have the last minute
additions of the news of two new virus's (boo hiss!) Also a new
Netscape compatible Web Browser from Oxo Concept in France (hooray!)
We ended up *very* tight on space in the Falcon issue, about 22k left,
not including this docfile!! Where does the space go?? The ST version
has a little more room to play with though..
Finally, I've had to provide a little bit of on-phone sympathy to a
sobbing Dave Hollis ;-) as the initial batch of ST+ Issue 9
disintegrated on their disks.. We should see this tomorrow on the
Maggie stand as well, all being well :-)
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to this weekend, the first time,
we've been seen in public together since the Symposium visit..
Anyway, to close with, some technical points on the respective ST and
Falcon intros which precede the magazine..
Seeyawl next time!
CiH - 28th, er no 27th September..
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ST Intro notes..
This should work on any ST based machine and behave itself, it works so
far on STFM, STe, and Falcon.. At least one meg is desirable, although
Maggie itself will still run on half-meg machines (the last three
remaining ones in use, that is!!)
It will run from most screen resolutions on the Falcon, but the Maggie
shell is restricted to running from the three common ST screen modes,
low res, medium res, and hi-res mono.. Falcon owners wanting to see
this intro, please bear this in mind, and mono is not recommended
really for you if running on RGB interlace..
This intro is optimised for 8mhz 68000 machines, but does still run
slightly smoother on Falcons and the like?
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