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- Editorial
-
- Welcome to a very special PD issue of SynTax disk magazine. As you
- can see, it's an adventure-orientated disk magazine for the ST, PC
- and Amiga, covering all the different facets of adventure gaming -
- text and graphic adventures, RPGs, strategy and simulations etc.
- It contains reviews, solutions, hints, articles and a variety of
- information files. The magazine is produced bi-monthly, the first
- issue, written with STOS, was way back in July 1989 which it only
- covered the ST, and still costs the same as it did then - £3.50 an
- issue in the UK/Europe with reductions and special offers if you
- take out a year's subscription.
-
- Since 1989, the magazine has gone from strength to strength. A PC
- version was added some time ago, thanks to Graham Cluley, who got
- fed up with waiting for us to program it! An Amiga version was
- originally produced on an ST disk which ran using an emulator on
- the A500. With the advent of the A500+ and A600 as well as the
- higher machines, the emulator proved to be incompatible so a
- reader, Richard Hewison, wrote a true Amiga version using AMOS.
-
- The SynTax Disk Library was set up to encourage readers to send in
- contributions on disk, the idea being that, in exchange, he or she
- could pick any PD/Shareware disk from the library to replace the
- one sent in. There were just 8 PD and 2 licenceware disks in the
- first issue - now there are well over 750 over all formats. There
- is a further incentive to contributors in the form of prizes given
- to the top five contributors each year. More on that in the
- contributions section.
-
- Games that are covered range from the biggest selling blockbusters
- to the more obscure PD titles and the idea is that SynTax is a
- magazine for adventurers written by adventurers. The magazine is
- posted out all over the world, to locations as far apart as
- Singapore, Norway, Poland, Australia and the USA (no readers in
- Africa or South America ... yet!)
-
- In putting together this special issue, I have selected files from
- the first five years of the magazine, but concentrating on the
- last two years, and on the last few issues especially for the
- reviews. The information section mostly uses the latest files from
- the current issue. Each issue of the magazine contains almost 600K
- of text files divided into 5 sections - information, reviews,
- articles, solutions and maps, and hints and tips. Long solutions
- are serialised over several issues so I've included a few 'part
- one' files for you. Most of the maps are converted from paper to
- computer by Alex van Kaam in The Netherlands and use PC codes to
- show walls, doors etc.
-
- I hope you'll enjoy this selection. Please write to me for more
- information or an order form. Remember, the magazine is just £3.50
- an issue!
-
- Sue Medley, 9 Warwick Road, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6LJ
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- November 1994
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