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************ Topic 32 Fri Feb 18, 1994 C.LAWSON [Golden Bear] at 23:06 EST Sub: Commodore World CMD's new Commodore magazine 127 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 1 Fri Feb 18, 1994 C.LAWSON [Golden Bear] at 23:14 EST Doug, When will CMD start publication of Commodore World? I just got a new catalog from CMD with a subscription offer. It sounds great :) We need something since TC128, RUN, Gazette, and others have left us. CAL ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 2 Sat Feb 19, 1994 C128.JBEE at 00:49 EST TC-128/64 has not left anyone that did not want to be left. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 3 Sat Feb 19, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 05:05 EST The first issue of Commodore World is scheduled for release the first week of April. For those who haven't heard about it, it will be published 8 times/year, with an annual subscription rate of $29.95. With the first issue we're shooting for around 44 pages, though this may vary a bit. We've signed several regular writers including a few that most of you should already be familiar with; Steve Vander Ark will head up the GEOS column, Tim Walsh will appear initially in our Tips column, Gene Barker of Madman Software heads up a BASIC programming column. Mark Fellows and I will both have regular columns as well. You can also expect to see some other familiar names from time to time, such as Jeff Jones, Jim Oldfield, and others. Commodore World expects to be a well-rounded publication with regular columns for most every level of user, from beginners to experts. And while we will feature some in-depth information on CMD products from time to time, this is not the main thrust of the publication. And I'd like to point out that neither Compute Gazette nor TC have left the market; Gazette has changed to disk format, joining LoadStar and CEE-64 Alive in that category; TC-128/64 has not been published on a very regular basis, even when Loren Lovehaug was running it, but it is still around and has announced a more aggressive publishing schedule. We at CMD hope to see these and all the other Commodore publications continue to flourish. As users, we all need as much information and support as we can get, and it's important to note that different publications provide varying insight, features, and information. In years previous, the 64/128 market has supported a lot of different publications at the same time, and we believe that a lot of users subscribed to more than one at a time. We hope to see that trend continue. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 4 Sat Feb 19, 1994 R.KING53 [Ron] at 19:24 EST This is GREAT news! Thanks CMD for continuing to support the Commodore 8 bitters! ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 5 Sun Feb 20, 1994 J.STEPHENSO1 [Jimbo] at 02:14 EST So should I send the check today or wait a month or two? I am always excited to see new Commodore magazines, and it seems that we are starting to gain back some ground after a dark season (was that metaphore mixed enough?). The only problem I see is ... April? I don't wanna wait! Yours with increasing jitters... Jimbo ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 6 Sun Feb 20, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 09:41 EST I would say that if you have decided to subscribe, get the subscription in right away. It helps us to plan better when people subscribe sooner. Checks and Money Orders will naturally have to be cashed right away to avoid letting them get 'stale', but anyone ordering via credit card (Visa or MC) will not get charged until a week or so prior the first issue publication. For the time being, checks and money orders can be made out to Creative Micro Designs, Inc., and we'll transfer the funds to Commodore World. Commodore World will, however, soon be incorporated separately to avoid any mixing of funds as well as to provide a clear distinction between CMD as a supplier and Commodore World as a magazine. Sorry we couldn't schedule to begin sooner than April, but I'm sure you know that there's a lot of work involved in lining up articles, advertisers, and columnists, plus a lot of things that have to be set up for policies, layouts, contracts, author guidelines, etc. And even after the first issue is ready, it takes about three weeks to get everything printed and ready to ship. It's a big job that takes a lot of preparation, and we wouldn't want the quality of the first issue to suffer because we rushed it. :) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 7 Mon Feb 21, 1994 J.STEPHENSO1 [Jimbo] at 01:18 EST I understand perfectly. Perfection shouldn't be rushed :) And the check really will be in the mail Tuesday! (I just can't wait!!!) Jimbo ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 8 Tue Mar 01, 1994 H.STEVENS5 [HaroldOH] at 21:58 EST Doug, if you guys need an editor or another writer, just give me a buzz. Since I am a journalist by trade, I would be glad to help out in launching your publication. --Harold ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 9 Wed Mar 02, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 06:22 EST Thanks Harold. Think we've got the editing handled for now, but we're always interested in writers. Drop me some email with your address, and I'll get a copy of our Author's Guideline off to you. :) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 10 Thu Mar 03, 1994 PIXELS at 03:00 EST Got'a download this message chain. I'll be writing for your Author's Guidelines also. Thanks in advance. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 11 Sat Mar 05, 1994 F.MCCOWAN at 02:15 EST CMD-please list your address to send checks to. Also please present the cost, publication dates etc. Since I will be interested in advertising in the pub, it would help to list ad cut-off dates etc. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 12 Sat Mar 05, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 21:53 EST If you're interested in advertising, then you should get in touch with us directly. All the info you're asking about is included in our advertising package which can be forwarded to you once you have contacted us. The advertising is being handled by Charles A. Christianson, and you can reach him at 413-525-0023, M-F, 10 AM - 5 PM EST. There is a special going on if you book advertising for the first four issues, and Charles can give you details on that when you contact him... but time is indeed short now for getting in on that, so I'd try to contact him right away if you're truly interested. And just so everyone is up to date: For those of you who have not yet heard, Creative Micro Designs will soon begin publishing a new paper magazine aimed at all Commodore 64 and 128 users. Commodore World magazine will debut in April, with following issues coming approximately every six weeks (8 issues per year). Subscriptions are available through Creative Micro Designs, Inc., P.O. Box 646, East Longmeadow MA 01028-0646. Price is $29.95 for U.S. subscriptions (addresses outside of the U.S. may contact CMD for price). Credit card orders may be placed through 1-800-638-3263. Commodore World will contain a long list of regular columns and departments, plus feature articles, reviews, advertising, and more. Each issue will come packed in a glossy cover with approximately 44 to 52 pages. Here's a brief rundown of the regular columns and departments you can expect to see: BEGINNINGS A word (more likely quite a few words) from our Editor. THE IN BOX A forum for our readers to sound off. ON THE HORIZON News from the world of computing, new products, upgrades, and product sources are all collected here to keep you informed and up to date. PROBLEM SOLVER The Commodore World staff provides answers to our users' questions. CARRIER DETECT Online network and BBS news and information. TOP TIPS Tips from our staff and readers will make using your system easier and more enjoyable. Tim Walsh will launch this feature in the first issue with a few of his own gems, collected over the years. THE CONNECTION Coverage and information about Commodore User Groups. Plus, news and information direct from product vendors and publishers of other Commodore-related products and magazines. FOR STARTERS First steps and tips for beginners come from an elementary school teacher who has been teaching Commodore computers to his students. BASIC INSTINCTS Gene Barker of Madman Software takes BASIC programmers step by step through writing a game program. ADVANCED TECHNIQUES Doug Cotton and Mark Fellows of CMD, as well as other guest writers, lend their skills to a number of programming topics. PERIPHERAL VISION A close look at using and programming peripheral devices such as printers, disk drives, hard drives, RAM expanders, modems, and more. GRAPHIC IMPRESSIONS GEOS veteran Steve Vander Ark lends his impressions of everything under the GEOS sun. GEOPROGRAMIST Maurice Randall shows how programming under GEOS need not be difficult, and brings important GEOS programming tips to light. PLUS: Features, Reviews, advertising, and everything else we can pack in! IMPORTANT NOTICE: Time is short to get in on the first issue. If you have not yet placed your subscription order, NOW IS THE TIME! ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 13 Sun Apr 17, 1994 H.STEVENS5 [HaroldOH] at 22:26 EDT Doug, I have noticed that CMD did not do a good job in marketing the new magazine. for instance, you could have used your customer list and sent out advertising to let them know about the new magazine. Right now, it seems that the only way current Commodore users are going to find out about the magazine is by word of mouth. I'll be spreading the word to other BBS systems that I'm on to get the word out. However, it would have been nice to have received something in the mail (you know, like new catalogs). BTW, where's the writer's guidelines that I asked for? --Harold ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 14 Mon Apr 18, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 00:22 EDT Harold, I've been harping about the same thing to some degree; but being on the inside, I understand can understand why a bit more. You see, right now we own something close to 200,000 names/addresses. A little math will show you that mailing all these names would cost us close to $40,000 for postage alone, let alone what printing costs would be on top of that. Granted, it might prove to be money well spent... but with several other irons in the fire, there's only so much funding to go around. We opted to to do several things at once to try to reach as many users as we could without breaking the bank. This included advertising in dieHard and The Loadstar Newsletter; posts in the Commodore Conferences on Fidonet, comp.sys.cbm on Internet, as well as messages here and other networks we frequent; and through mailings of our current catalog (of which we've mailed about 9,000 in the last two months). A postcard mailing was also planned, but time simply hasn't permitted us to follow this up. This latter aspect is the part I've been harping about myself, though I have to admit that it probably makes more sense to spend a few more cents per customer and just send full catalogs - but this does slow things down a bit since we can only budget so much at a time for these mailings. Anyway, considering this, we have at worst case reached 9,000 users (assuming that there is a 100% cross-over between all the methods we've employed), though I suspect that ISN'T the case and that we've probably reached at least a couple of thousand over that figure. Part of the reason I assume we've reached more is due to the way the mailing has been conducted. While we're fairly sure there is a large cross between our standard mailing list and the users we've reached through dieHard, Loadstar, and online services, about one- half of the catalogs we've mailed in the last two months have been to a list of old RUN subscribers (we got the rights to a one-time mailing of this specific list when we bought out Techmedia a few months back). Based on the number of new customers this has brought , we've been able to determine that this method of mailing has been effective; and from the comments we've been hearing, a LOT of these users have been 'disconnected' from the market since RUN closed shop. So while I do wish we were reaching more of our own customer base with direct mailings right now, I'm still rather satisfied that we're reaching a lot of users as quickly as we can. We're not stopping these efforts at this point; so we'll continue to mail a mixture of our own customers and other lists we've obtained. Eventually, we should be able to work our way through pretty much every name we have; it will simply take more than a couple of months to do so. About the Author Guidelines. Pretty much my fault there. This was nearly complete when I posted around that anyone wanting to submit should request the Guidelines. Sadly, I was unable to finish them before I had to start work in earnest on getting Issue 1 together. And dueto a Syquest crash, I lost the work I'd done on them (along with a lot of other stuff which put us behind schedule on Issue 1). Now that the first issue is done, I'm finishing some preliminary work for Issue 2, and have to polish up the documentation for SmartMouse. Most of this will be done by the end of this week, and I'll be able to get back to putting together the Guidelines. I haven't lost track of those who've requested them, btw, so you will be getting them as soon as I can finish them up. Long post? Nah, I'm getting used to writing a lot. :) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 15 Mon Apr 18, 1994 B.MASSE at 21:38 EDT I remeber the first time a ordered a catalogue from CMd. I sent them a check for $1.00 to cover the postage and such and Charlie Senior sent it back uncashed along with a note letting me know that the $ wasn't needed. Now if everybody sent a dollar then..... oh.. oh.. I hear the topic police coming... ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 16 Thu Apr 21, 1994 F.OGLE [Color BBS] at 21:56 EDT I posted the text from the ad CMD sent me on my bbs, asked users to buffer it and spread it around - I suggest if you do local bbs'ing that you do the same. It takes only a moment or two, and you might help "re-connect" someone :) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 17 Wed Apr 27, 1994 C.OGLE2 [V128_B.Stick] at 06:15 EDT Hi, Doug.. I've jumped into this topic a bit late. Is it still possible to get the first issue if I subscribe now, or will I be started on the second one? Thanks... Scott ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 18 Wed Apr 27, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 20:44 EDT Definately too late to get Issue #1 as part of a subscription, but it is available as a back issue. We only printed about 1500 extra copies, and these are going pretty quick... so I'd suggest getting it while you can if you want it. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 19 Sun May 01, 1994 MRABOY at 14:58 EDT Just received the new magazine and it's very impressive. CMD, you did it The excitment is very impressive. Congratulations! Mike :) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 20 Mon May 02, 1994 D.TUOMI [Doctor] at 03:09 EDT And what happens if you've subscribed, but haven't yet received your issue of Commodore World? Doc. -I subscribed months ago and should have received the first issue. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 21 Tue May 03, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 01:38 EDT It can take up to three weeks after mailing to reach you, and the issues just shipped a little over a week ago. I wouldn't worry yet. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 22 Wed May 04, 1994 J.SERAFINO at 20:23 EDT Doug, I enjoyed issue #1 of CW immensely. How about doing an article on MIDI? For the average user, MIDI can breathe new life into six voice sid files. Some of the classical tunes sound fantastic played thru a sampled grand. But a decent MIDI setup can be had pretty inexpensively. ---JS ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 23 Thu May 05, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 02:03 EDT John, We do have a feature for that subject planned for a later issue. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 24 Sat May 07, 1994 D.TUOMI [Doctor] at 05:40 EDT I got my issue of Commodore World. Really great issue. Brings back memories of the good old days, I actually have 3 Commodore magaizines coming to my house again (dieHard, Twin Cities, CW). Doc. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 25 Sat May 07, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 08:45 EDT Heh, now if we can just keep the postman from bringing them all on the same day.... :) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 26 Sat May 07, 1994 H.STEVENS5 [HaroldOH] at 11:59 EDT Doug, in reply to your Lo-o-o-ong post [ :) ], I can certainly understand the problem of reaching out now that you have told me about it. I was ssurprised to see that you guys had 200,000 on your mailing list, in fact I was startled to even see 9,000. Wow, that means there are that many people out there who are still using their commies and I'm glad to see that . This information gives me some hope of launching a newsletter for C-64 use Thanks for the reply. And BTW, I am spreading the word about Commodore World on every BBS network that I'm on that supports C-64/128. --Harold ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 27 Sat May 07, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 18:05 EDT Harold, Thanks, and glad you can see the problems involved in trying to reach everyone quickly - just can't happen with a company of our size. We'll continue to do regular mailings though, in hopes of eventually getting through the list. :) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 28 Sun May 08, 1994 R.KING53 [Ron] at 00:19 EDT I also subscribe to and really ENJOY all 3 magazines!! ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 29 Sun May 08, 1994 C.LAWSON at 15:13 EDT Doug, I got my issue of Commodore World last week and have already read it cover to cover twice. I think it's going be be a great mag. The reviews and articles were excellent. Since I'm a CMD user (RAMLink and SwiftLink) it's great to see articles covering these subjects. I hope that you will cover CMD's product line in depth with hints and advanced uses for them. I would especially like articles along the line of the old Transactor magazines. Short routines and programs that I can adapt to use in my own programs. Keep up the good work, Charles Lawson aka [GOLDEN BEAR] ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 30 Sun May 08, 1994 R.KING53 [Ron] at 22:29 EDT I like the column about what's happening over in Europe and Australia! ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 31 Sun May 15, 1994 I.MCKINNEY [TheBigMac] at 05:06 EDT At long last, I do believe us people out west are finally getting our Commodore World magazines. I got mine today and leafed through it and was VERY, VERY impressed. And I haven't even read it yet! Once again, Kudos goes to the people at CMD. You will have my support for as long as my Commodore is alive. I know that most of the 8-Bitters left are getting on in years, (Heck, in my user's group I am the 2nd youngest at 29) I am doing my best to let some of the younger guys know that the C=64/128 world is still active, productive, entertaining, as well as affordable. With CMD coming up with new products and excellent support, It is helping us revitalize a dying group. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 32 Sat May 28, 1994 D.TUOMI [Doctor] at 05:50 EDT Have you begun to ship the 2nd issue of Commodore World yet? Doc. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 33 Sat May 28, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 10:18 EDT No, issue 2 is still a couple of weeks away. Believe the schedule calls for shipping it around June 8th. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 34 Sun May 29, 1994 MIKE.DUNCAN [Scratch] at 07:07 EDT Doug, The premier issue of Commodore World was very nice. Just wondering. Will future issues contain articles on programming the CMD peripherals in ML? Maybe show tips for making calls to built-in routines? ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 35 Sun May 29, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 23:45 EDT Hmmm... yes and no. We'll no doubt have some ML programming articles that will deal with disk access, and it's likely that some attention will be paid to performing CMD DOS functions in these articles. But I wouldn't expect to see anything regarding calling routines that aren't already documented in our manuals. Most of the 'internal' routines in our various DOS implementations are subject to change locations from one version to the next. Even a lot of the system variable locations aren't carved in stone. This gives us flexibility in making DOS upgrades and bug fixes; something Commodore found it nearly impossible to do with their drives due to the way so much software had been written to call DOS routines directly. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 36 Tue May 31, 1994 J.BARBER9 [Dan Barber] at 22:19 EDT I orderd a back issue of #1 and I just got it today. And I LIKE it! :) I beleve that you will be getting a subscription check in the mail preaty soon. :) Dan ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 37 Thu Jun 02, 1994 D.TUOMI [Doctor] at 05:29 EDT Don't you have a jump table or something in your drives, Doug? I would think that assuming you do that one could call the routines through that. Doc. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 38 Thu Jun 02, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 22:45 EDT There are some small jump tables, though only the jump table in the FD has ever been documented. We do plan an article in C= World at some point to document the others. But it seems me that doing so is pretty much an exercise in providing documentation for the sake of doing so; I've written utilities to do just about anything on our equipment, and have never even touched the jump tables. Again, there's almost nothing that can't be done with straight job queue programming. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 39 Mon Jun 06, 1994 A.DUMA at 02:09 EDT Hi. Your new Mag sounds great! How do I get subcription and cost to Canada. Please leave email. Thanx ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 40 Mon Jun 06, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 23:06 EDT Canadian subscription rate is $35.95 (that's in US dollars and funds), and you can subscribe by calling 1-800-638-3263 with a Visa or MC. Or send a bank check (money order) for that amount in US funds to: Commodore World Subscriptions c/o Creative Micro Designs, Inc. P.O. Box 646 East Longmeadow, MA 01028-0646 USA ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 41 Wed Jul 06, 1994 H.STEVENS5 [HaroldOH] at 21:42 EDT Doug, I still haven't got my first copy of Commodore World yet and it has been over a month since I sent in my check for the magazine. I'll even settle for Issue #2, just as long as I get one. BTW - Where's the writer's guide that I asked for a couple of months ago? --Harold ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 42 Wed Jul 06, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 21:56 EDT Harold: If you only sent in around a month ago, then you would have missed issue 1. Issue 2 shipped last week, and most people should get it this week; I can't be sure just when, since this is our first time dealing with 2nd class mail. The Author's Guidelines are pretty close to done; I do have a couple of things to polish up in them, but I'll try to drop you the current version via Email tomorrow. I'd do it now, but I don't have a copy of that file here at home. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 43 Sat Jul 09, 1994 C.OGLE2 [V128_B.Stick] at 04:36 EDT Doug... I'd like an Email of the Author Guidelines whenever they are available, too, if you get a chance :) Thanks ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 44 Sat Jul 09, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 13:35 EDT Okay. Now if I could just convince GEnie to open GEmail back up...(sigh) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 45 Sat Jul 09, 1994 H.STEVENS5 [HaroldOH] at 16:47 EDT Doug, just to let you know that I did get my copy of Issue 2 yesterday and I must say that I am really impressed. I had to keep looking at the cover to remind myself that I wasn't reading the old Gazette or RUN. :) However, when I leafed through your magazine at first I felt like I was reading the old Commodore Magazine that I used to read when I first started computing. As a professional editor, I have to say you guys did an excellent job in layout, graphics and writing. This magazine gets four out of four stars from me. --Harold ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 46 Sun Jul 10, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 00:05 EDT Thanks Harold. Considering the source, I take that as a real compliment. I'm willing to bet that we'll continue to try improving on it, though. We are pretty happy with the content we've been able to get thus far, and we have a lot of outside writers to thank for this. I'm just glad we've been able to attract knowledgable and talented authors and columnists early on. Really happy to hear you got your issue and that it is living up to expectation. ;) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 47 Mon Jul 11, 1994 I.MCKINNEY [TheBigMac] at 02:02 EDT I just got Issue #2 Saturday and on a scale of 1 to 10 I give it a 12! Keep going the way you're going, Doug. You won't get any complaints from me. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 48 Mon Jul 11, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 23:22 EDT Thanks! :) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 49 Mon Jul 11, 1994 D.TUOMI [Doctor] at 23:37 EDT I haven't gotten mine yet, but hopefully it will show soon. West coast always seems to be the last to get stuff. Doc. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 50 Tue Jul 12, 1994 M.RANDALL2 [Maurice] at 23:29 EDT Gee... Nice cover! ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 51 Wed Jul 13, 1994 D.TUOMI [Doctor] at 00:34 EDT Got it today. I read the thing from cover to cover. I was REAL upset to discover the SCSI article was a "To Be Continued." Makes me itch for the next issue. Doc. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 52 Wed Jul 13, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 06:52 EDT Sorry, Doc, but it really going to take at least 3 issues to cover the subject. The last installment will have a.... hmmm.... guess I shouldn't announce that quite yet. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 53 Wed Jul 13, 1994 C128-QT.PIE at 09:34 EDT Nice car Maurice! ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 54 Sun Jul 31, 1994 P.KELLER5 [Knight Rider] at 23:51 EDT I haven't received issue #2 of Commodore World yet. Should I contact you here or call CMD? ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 55 Mon Aug 01, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 23:04 EDT Best to call the office, but ifyou live in Washington State, then your issue is on the way. We had a problem with a mis-placed mail-bag for WA. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 56 Tue Aug 02, 1994 S.EYRSE [steve] at 01:42 EDT MI-PLACED MAILG for "Wa.".. It might have gotten hung up in the fires on the East part of the state..(take them when you can get them doug".. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 57 Tue Aug 02, 1994 P.KELLER5 [Knight Rider] at 09:30 EDT This always happens, I send a message about not receiving issue 2 on Sunday, and on Monday I get the issue! I am from Washington State, Tacoma to be exact and got the letter enclosed explaining the problem. All is well now!! :) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 58 Wed Aug 03, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 22:59 EDT Glad you got it, and again, sorry for the delay. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 59 Mon Sep 19, 1994 I.MCKINNEY [TheBigMac] at 00:56 EDT I just received issue #3 of "World" and as usual, Doug and the other professionals at CMD did not disappoint. Keep up the first class look of the magazine. I have read it from cover to cover several times already and find it hard to put down. I even go back and read the back issues from time to time. Great job guys. In the issue was an article about building a digitizer board for use with the DigiMaster program. An individual in my user's group was wondering if there was such a piece of hardware or software to convert 64 digitized programs to Amiga format? ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 60 Mon Sep 19, 1994 P.KELLER5 [Knight Rider] at 04:05 EDT Another great job dudes on Commodore World issue #3! No problems with the mail this time! :) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 61 Mon Sep 19, 1994 D.TUOMI [Doctor] at 04:12 EDT I like the new issue of Commodore World. I hope it lasts. Doc. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 62 Mon Sep 19, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 22:40 EDT Thanks for the compliments, folks. We're still learning, and I think it shows; we feel each issue brings us a little closer to where we want to be, yet teaches us a little more about how to get there. Of course, the biggest problem we have right now is that you folks can read them WAY FASTER than we can produce them. :) I.MCKINNEY: Digimaster contains a utility to convert Amiga IFF sound files to the Digimaster file standard, but it doesn't have a converter to go the other way at this point in time. I'm not aware of any converters for any of the various C64/128 digitized sound formats that will do this, but I'll keep an eye out for one; I'll also mention this to the author of Digimaster. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 63 Tue Sep 20, 1994 M.RANDALL2 [Maurice] at 00:58 EDT In the Amiga section (m555;3) you can download files #20779 and #13414. File 20779 is PlaySID V2.2 and is an upgraded version of the one in file 13414. However, I believe that the earlier version contains a larger collection of music files. PlaySID will play 64 SID music on an Amiga, however AmigaDOS V2.04 or greater is required. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 64 Sat Nov 26, 1994 R.TAHSLER [C128.Russ] at 17:31 EST Just received my Issue #4 of CW, great info on modems. I can't wait for the next issue, just image a whole issue dedicated to....GEOS! Have any idea when it should go out in the mail? ;) Anxiously Waiting, Russ Tahsler (C128.Russ) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 65 Sat Nov 26, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 17:45 EST I'd guess that issue 5 should ship in about 3 weeks. I'm wrapping up on it now, and it should head to the printer around the middle of this week. And thanks for the kudos on #4. ;) ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 66 Tue Nov 29, 1994 H.STEVENS5 [HaroldOH] at 21:08 EST Doug, I have a suggestion for your editorial column. Could you refrain from using italic type? Particularly when you are using it at 9 or 10 point type size. It is generally hard on the eyes (particularly when you are tired and it is late and your eyes are about to fall out of your head) and it is generally recommended that italics be used sparingly. Perhaps, a better type to use (to set your editorial apart from the rest of the general copy) would be a sans serif type like Helvetica or Avant Garde. --Harold ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 67 Wed Nov 30, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 23:20 EST Normally that column should be in 12 pt., but I got long-winded. I'll have a look at a suitable replacement for that font, though I prefer to stick with a serif font. I may just drop the italics altogether - it certainly isn't so important that it should supercede readability. Thanks for the suggestion. ------------ Category 12, Topic 32 Message 68 Fri Dec 02, 1994 R.TAHSLER [C128.Russ] at 17:38 EST Doug, I have a idea for Commodore World that you might be interested in. How about a fast reply card for the advertisers, similar to the old Compute! Gazette did when it had it's magazine issue. Inside the magazine would be a post card with assorted numbers on it, and the ads inside the magazine would each be issued a number. For example, if I wanted further info on Fun Graphics Machine, I would circle the ad's number on the post card and mail it to Commodore World and then in a week or so that supplier would send me a product brouchure. Most of my purchases are determined by the info and support I receive ~