The Amiga User International (AUI) Articles These articles, originally posted on USENET, were published by Amiga User International without my name (to my surprise!). They appeared in the April and May 1992 issues, in a column called "The Fat Lady Sings." When I contacted AUI, the editor was very apologetic about the mistake, and we cleared up the matter in a friendly way. The story is told in the August/September 1992 issue, page 121. An observant reader, Jean-Pierre Riviere, recognized my work and wrote a letter to the editor. Bud Vennos responded: "... Jean-Pierre, you are quite right. The author of the Blazemonger episode in The Fat Lady was indeed Daniel Barrett. And thereby hangs a tale. The article was presented to us anonymously and we attempted to find the author by putting out a message on the net. We had no reply so as we thought it very funny and worth running in the magazine, we decided to print it and hope the writer would get in touch. If you noticed, the Fat Lady was said to have a collaborator -- a Mr Anon whom we asked to contact us. "Daniel did and we are glad to have had the opportunity to get know a very witty writer and one who is very knowledgeable in things Amiga. We hope he will be writing again for us in the future, though probably not as a Fat Lady again! In the old days when the Amiga community was much smaller we would possibly have known who wrote it anyway. However, the Amiga dimension is so much bigger these days...." The "Fat Lady Sings" column unfortunately typeset my articles in a very strange manner, filled with typographical errors and strange asterisks. Here, I present the articles in their original form.


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