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- »CL8:»BIG:The death of ALL diskmags »SML:(almost!)
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- »CL7: by Curt Cool
-
- »CL5:*»CL4: History learns us that when the
- delay between an issue of a diskmag
- gets bigger, there are few issues left
- before the main-editor quits his job.
-
- »CL5:*»CL4: History learns us that a magazine of
- which every issue requires a lot of
- work, about 10 issues will be released
-
- »CL5:(Fishwave & Magic in Seenpoint #6, in
- a truely objective article with the
- headline "DO WE WANT ROM?)
-
-
- »CL3:*»CL2: History tells us that most mag
- editors actually hates competition.
-
- »CL3:*»CL2: History tells us that most mag
- editors do their best to confirm the
- death of other diskmags with little or
- no solid information at all.
-
- »CL3:(Curt Cool in TOE #31)
-
- »CL0:Now we at the »CL1:Eurochart» are proud to
- annouce that »CL1:SHOWTIME IS FINALLY DEAD».
- Yes, you see, after the brilliant #6
- »CL1:Kaos Master» wanted new code, but
- unfortunately he wanted that code to
- be a bit good, namely ham8 graphics &
- design, 3 modules AND the gallery
- section in one exe-file of about 800
- kb. But as »CL1:Modem» is a really bad
- coder, he wasn't able to code that,
- and this made him really angry at Kaos
- Master, and he told him to (this is
- his exact words, you see, we have
- wired their phones to spot their
- weakness): »CL9:"fuck off or code it
- yourself"». This sudden strike of
- temper from the otherwise quiet Modem
- made »CL1:Kaos Master» very, very depressed,
- and even though some unsuspecting ex.
- »CL1:Ram Jam» coders said that they would
- gladly code a new »CL1:Showtime» for him,
- not knowing the miracles he expected
- them to perform (or perhaps they
- wanted to cheer him up), he decided
- to quit the diskmagscene, and let
- Showtime die forever.
-
- »CL8: RAGE IS ALSO DEAD.
-
- »CL4:Yes, it's true. As »CL5:Napoleon» was
- hanging out at the local bar in
- »CL5:Besancon», »CL5:France», he noticed that some
- guys were looking at him in a kind of
- strange way. He was getting rather
- drunk at the time, and some of his
- friends were already leaving
- homewards, but he and a friend had
- decided to stay for one final drink.
- Suddenly one of the guys, who had been
- looking at him for a while, perhaps
- wondering what a small spectacled guy
- like Napo was doing at a rough place
- like that. So the guy asked him if
- said "»CL5:YouDirtyMotherfuckingFatFaggot
- SonOfABitch»" to him, and being quite
- provocative, also when drunk, thus
- living up to his famous namebrother,
- he said "»CL5:Erm, What??»". The big guy
- repeated his question, and »CL5:Napo»
- courageously answered "»CL5:Hey, I think
- I'm about to leave for home, you can
- have my beer»". But no, it was too
- late, he was already in the fight.
- Luckily he had his friend with him,
- and his friend just happens to have
- the black belt in karate, so the big
- guy was hurt very badly. Now, this was
- not so bad in itself, but in the
- morning, when the adventures of the
- night began to dawn for Napo's
- intoxicated brain, there was a heavy
- knock on his door. And outside the
- door, »CL5:two policemen» were standing,
- going to arrest »CL5:Napo» for violence
- against a functioning member of the
- police. And as we all know, French
- police have a lot of power, so
- »CL5:Napoleon» is now in jail for more years
- than he can count himself.
- I guess, to rewrite an old saying,
- »CL5:"One man going jail, another mans
- gold"». Okay, perhaps this sounds
- crappy, but it's still the truth.
-
- »CL0:Now, this takes out the life of our
- two main competitors, but I read
- somewhere that »CL1:Generation» and
- »CL1:Seenpoint» are actually dying too. So
- what do we have left?? Some »CL9:strange»
- mags like »CL1:Insomnia», »CL1:Pressure»,
- »CL1:Deadlock», »CL1:No Sense», »CL1:The Jungle»? If
- they're not dead that is.
-
- »CL8:Latest right-after-deadline-news:»
-
- »CL0:We at the »CL1:Eurochart» staff have just
- seen an announcement from »CL1:Magic», which
- was spread on the net and the boards
- in a 120k textfile. The essence of
- that textfile is that »CL1:Magic/Nah-Kolor»
- is going to start a new diskmag called
- »CL1:"Magic"», a name he is very proud to
- have made up, since, as he puts it
- himself, »CL1:it makes the reader think of
- him and all the wonderful things he
- have done for the scene through all
- those years». The rest of the textfile
- is about »CL1:Magic» and what a »CL1:great guy» he
- is, how many »CL1:girls» he can take home to
- bed in one night, and what a good
- group »CL1:Nah-Kolor» is.
-
- »CL4:We at the »CL5:Eurochart» staff expect the
- »CL5:"Magic"» to last for the usual amount
- of issues, and you can guess how many
- that is.
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