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- From: Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: CU Amiga Magazine new CD covermount
- Date: 05 Feb 96 11:56:01 GMT
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- Salutations Zoltan for on the 03 Feb 96, verilly did you scribe;
-
- ZH> I guess I'd like to see lots of program demos, ideally ones that can
- ZH> run right off the CD, without first having to be LHA/DMSed onto
- ZH> floppies. Maybe don't do a ton of textures or 3D objects- there are
-
- Yep. My prime consideration for demos etc are that they run straight off the
- CD. No need to tell us that hard drive space is valuable. :-)
-
- As for 3D objects, well they'd be rather handy for our CD as we did
- covermount Imagine...
-
- ZH> already a bunch of those out, how about lots of MOD/Sample stuff and
- ZH> lots of cool demos (the kind of thing a dealer could have running on an
- ZH> Amiga in a shop to sell Amigas, who's owners would buy CU Amiga... :)
-
- Let's have it all! 650MB isn't easy to fill up even if you try. (without
- obvious shovelware crap).
-
- ZH> Anyways, I'm looking forward to it, for some reason, we only got the
- ZH> regular issues (no CU) over here in Canada, so I hope this doesn't
- ZH> happen again- you guys do a great magazine, keep it up.
-
- Distribution should be better. Sales of the CD issue are now legendary so
- retailers should be keen. :-)
-
- Sadly, Stefan Ossowsku of GTI, who kindly gave us the Aminet CD for the
- November issue, informed me that they hardly saw any change in sales due to
- the publicity. A tragic shame.
-
- ZH> BTW: Any chanced of CU doing a regular BlitzBasic tutorial for
- ZH> semi-advanced programmers? Its a great language, but the manual isn't
- ZH> so great, and the mailing-list can only help so much.
-
- I quite like Blitz Basic but Format grabbed the exclusive cover mount demo
- of it so I guess they'll be doing a tutorial. I have a secret weapon coming
- soon. A pet project that should be really cool. Stay tuned.
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