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@^@f03@t6@sf,2@cLETTERS TO THE EDITORS
@f00@t7Welcome to the letters page!.@t5 This
the place where you can air your
opinion on any topic you like. You
can offer your critisism or praise on
any part of @tcStolen Data@t5, is there
anything you dont like or would love
to see more in the magazine?. We also
want letters on any other aspect of
the scene, so take a pen, and write!
The following letter was recieved just
after the release of the last issue of
@tcStolen Data@t5 was released last October.
Though the letter is quite old I felt
that it offered a valuble opinion, I
have not included the whole letter,
but taken key extracts from it. The
whole letter was several sheets long!
@^
@teHi Judge Drokk!,@t5
This is @taMcDeal/D-TECT@t5
writing. I've read your article
called "A Fistful of Diskmags" some
days ago and decided to send you the
latest @tbHACK-MAG@t5, and some comments
about your article. So lets start.....
First some comments on your @tbHACK-MAG@t5
review..
@t6(1)@t5. You wrote "A rather lazily drawn
picture leads" you to the magazine
itself". I think in this case you
arn't wrong. Spider had only the main
object of the title picture ready, so
he had to draw a background in a few
minutes. But nevertheless I think the
picture isn't bad is it? By the way,
@#@^@t5
what about the titlepicture of the
latest issue (The Terminator). Don't
tell me that you think that its lazily
draw too, it's a hell of a picture in
my opinion, and I want to make one
point clear, Spider doesn't use any
scanners or digitizers, all pictures
are hand drawn! Thats one reason I
think he's much better than many of
the artists in the Eurocharts! Nearly
all of them digitize the whole stuff
and retouch the picture, thats realy
lame!
@t6(2)@t5. Under 'Contents' you wrote "A
whopping great 230 pages of articles
in this outsized issue, there didn't
seem to be any flow between this and
the previous issues though", Ok, now
you have the sixth issue of Hack-Mag
in your hand, is this flow big enough
@^
...@te278@t5 pages!
Some Comments about 'Fistful of
Diskmags' in general..
@t61.@t5 Look at the right hand border,
Check the width of your article, some
pages were too wide!
@t62.@t5 What about a rating for the GFX or
music of the mags? Or The intro?
@t63.@t5 Check your English (should be no
prob' 'coz you're English). There
were many easy mistakes in the
article, read it before you release
it?
@t64.@t5 Please write@tb "HACK-MAG"@t5 with the '@tc-@t5'
and in capital letters. That's not
@#@^@t5
because we think we are something
special, but because thats the correct
way to spell it.
5. As your rating goes from 0-100 I
think it's realy lame to give @tcZine@t5 and
@t7I.C.E@t5 the same amount of points! The
scale is so prescise that you should
make a decision which mag is better.
The're mustn't be two mags with the
same rating!
Some things you should improve in
'@tcStolen Data@t5':-
(1). Please keep the 'Table of
Contents' in the memory because it's
really not comfortable for the user to
wait while the Amiga is loading.
Think about it! (Look at the other
@^
mags, they have it in memory!)
(2). Check the right border (as
above).
(3). Go on making funny articles like
'Interesting Facts'!
Yours faithfuly,
@tb Mc-Deal, D-TECT@t5
@t6JUDGE DROKK@t5:- Thanks for your lengthy
letter and well chosen words! I think
the best way to answer your points is
to take each separetly. Well, I'm
glad you agreed with me about the
picture by @tbSpidey@t5, I just gave my
opinion of what was a pretty poor
picture. 'The Terminator' however was
much better, but do you think it is
@#@k378,030,05@^@t5
fair to accuse "nearly all" artists in
the Eurocharts of digitizing? The
occasional overflow of text on the
right hand border was caused by the
font, not all letters were of equall
size, so a 78 column text file was
sometimes prone to overflow. Why
can't I give @teI.C.E@t5 and @teZine@t5 the same
overall points? It's my opinion and
my reviewing system, so if I like
those two editions of those mags
equally, why can't I rate them
equally? Look in your games reviewing
mags, you will see many games with the
same percentage, are you going to tell
all those game magazines that there
can't be two games as good as each
other?
My English should be good because I'm
English? Who told you this fairy tale?
I thought It was quite common
@^
knowledge that I am infact
Double-Dutch (He He!). @t6JUDGE DROKK
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