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WHY ME?
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by Simon Plumbe
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Every magazine or fanzine goes through a lot of problems before it is finally
launched. However, it seems as if THE FINAL FRONTIER has had more than it's
fair share of them!
Work began on issue one in October 1990 (!) and the mag was originally
scheduled for a May 1991 release, but I had no where near enough material to
fill a disk. On top of that, the animation I was waiting for didn't arrive
until the middle of July!
Music caused a few headaches as well. I had two musicians working away,
trying as hard as they could to convert a selection of tunes from the films
and THE NEXT GENERATION. However, BOTH of them came to me in mid-May saying
that the tunes were impossible to convert! Aaaarrrgh!
Then I had a read/write error on the disk I keep the files on that I'm
working on meaning that, even after I had used disk doctor, I had lost
several files. Luckily, I had made a back up a week earlier, but I had also
made a LOT of changes!
Then the same thing happened again in mid-August and I lost the disk
containing the Richard Arnold article (all 90K of it) plus four other
directories totalling over 350K! Luckily I was able to salvage all of it
apart from one directory which contained the charts, the trivia and the
screw-ups. I had an old back up, but I'd literally re-written all of them
since!
Also the original transcript of the talks by Richard Arnold was lost! This
was the file the article was based on and it was over 160K!! Basically, that
meant that if I wanted to add any more material, I would have had to type it
up from tape again!!
To top it all off, I found that both my working disks, plus the two disks I
save the finished files to AND my Workbench disk were infected with a virus!
Things couldn't get worse... or could they? The answer is yes! With four
weeks to go, the coder suddenly went on holiday for a week before starting on
the intro! He was also designing the menu screens and he hadn't really
started on them either! To make things worse, when he came back we only had a
few days before I went off for a week to another convention! So that left us
with just a couple of weeks to get everything finished and put together!
As well as all that, I couldn't get hold of the artist who created the title
screen for a few weeks meaning that essential changes couldn't be made! (The
orignal version of the title screen had a July 1991 date on it - obviously
I couldn't use that!)
Now you can begin to understand why it's taken a year to create this mag!
My advice is if you want to create a fanzine or disk mag is forget it! The
stress and agony is unbearable!