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At http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=4346 I wrote on 2003-08-04:

Wouldn't it be a good idea if editors of non-English-language diskmags unite and have a couple of articles from their mags translated to English? All of these articles could be released as one diskmag. In this way the international scene would be made aware of your mags.

it would be a good idea if all diskmags would become websites and abandon the outdated diskmag-format

i haven't read a diskmag in 8 or 9 years, so yes.
put them up in a website.

Bartman, would that be websites releasing decent-sized identifiable issues, with lots of different articles to suit most tastes, sort of like a diskmag does now, or are you talking about just another news-site which updates frequently, but in such small quantities at a time, that no-one really notices?

A lot of diskmags run a website with online versions of their issues in any case, but I still have a certain nostalgic feeling for the old custom shell format.

The good thing about diskmags, though, is the fact that they have the tendency of staying alive, instead of websites. If Imphobia was a website, could we still read it?

What I forgot to add, was that there is still a place for diskmags, if they do a decent enough job!

Please keep a "disk version" of your diskmags, that's what still makes them interesting and different from news/demoscene websites.

Online-"mags" are no diskmags. PAiN is a diskmag. And yes, PAiN still exists ;-)

It would be a good idea if game developers wouldn't develope for special platforms but create all their games in Flash instead so that people can play them using a browser. ;-)

Non-english language diskmagazines? Such as...?

what about a multiplatform diskmag that does liveupdating for the articles (fixes, new related articles or even whole issues), has downloadable themes (e.g. with every release of an issue), downloadable soundtracks etc? it's 2006 you know :P

someone should just make a big website, with all of the diskmag articles online and in a searchable database, that would be really nice.

i mean, there are lots of websites archiving old game magazine articles and such, so...

This gentleman said once: "Diskmags should be made on disks !"

now which mag we are talking about? everyone can guess twice.

adok, seriously, just get lost!

- a non-fellow diskmag editor.

Diskmag editors worldwide, come to Function!

gargaj respect +1

Adok no problem if your polish is better than mine english - send me e-mail and have a fun ;).

monk! \o/

Websites suck

hugi sucks

There are loads of diskmags in languages other than English. From among the ones listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_magazines, at least the following diskmags are not in English language or contain a substantial number of articles that are in a language different than English:

7zone (IBM-PC)
Autark (IBM-PC)
Bad News (IBM-PC)
Batsch (IBM-PC)
Becanne (IBM-PC)
Blackmail (IBM-PC)
Budyn (IBM-PC)
Ceibe (IBM-PC)
CLI (IBM-PC)
CooleR (IBM-PC)
Cream (IBM-PC)
Death (IBM-PC)
Defcon (IBM-PC)
Digital Chat (IBM-PC)
Digital Talk (Commodore 64)
Dragon (IBM-PC)
Evil (IBM-PC)
Fatum (IBM-PC)
Flash (IBM-PC)
Genetic Dreams (Commodore 64, IBM-PC)
Hacker (IBM-PC)
Harm (Hellraiser's Alternative Russian Magazine (IBM-PC)
HotMag (IBM-PC)
Hugi (IBM PC)
Hugi.GER (IBM-PC)
Image (IBM-PC)
Incube (IBM-PC)
Lano (IBM-PC)
Legend (IBM-PC)
Lookain Fanz (IBM-PC)
M*A*R*S (IBM-PC)
MicroCode (IBM-PC)
Platinum (IBM-PC)
Savage (IBM-PC)
Schwugi (IBM-PC)
Sinner (IBM-PC)
Skyline (IBM-PC)
Slonecznik (IBM-PC)
Smok (IBM-PC)
Smurffi (IBM-PC)
Subkult (IBM-PC)
Suicide (IBM-PC)
Syntax Error (IBM-PC)
TAP.MAG (IBM-PC)
The Voice (IBM-PC)
Total Disaster (IBM-PC)
Undercover Magascene (Atari ST)
v.O.L.V.o (IBM-PC)
WildMag (IBM-PC)
Wrotki (IBM-PC)
X-Ray (IBM-PC)
Yonga (IBM-PC)
Zeitenwanderer (IBM-PC)

So there are plenty of articles which people who don't speak the respective language have no chance to read.

Good ideas... Well, liveupdating would only make sense if the reader used the diskmag often, which isn't the case. Downloadable themes - WildMag (www.wildmag.de) offers such a thing. This feature was also planned for the Panorama engine, but to my knowledge it's not fully implemented yet. Downloadable music - you can use external music with Panorama. So you can download any tune and play it while reading a Panorama-driven diskmag.

As Tomaes has recently written in another thread (dunno which), he and someone else (namely mados) have had this idea, but they've abandoned it for some reason. However, I think that this idea might be worth implementing. At least it would be good to collect useful articles (e.g. coding tutorials) and put them to a central place which features a search function. We did that with the coding articles from Hugi #11 to #27. But other diskmags have published useful coding tuts, too.