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HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO MEGADISC
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One of the most gratifying aspects of editing Megadisc is getting
the mail - in the run-up to No. 6 the quality of contributions has
been very impressive, even by people who've never written a piece for
publication in their lives. This does everyone good (not just me!) -
everyone wins, contributors and users. It's very likely that you know
things that many others don't, and they'd like to hear about it, if you
manage to get it to Megadisc.
If you get inspired and send us in a contribution which we use on
a future Megadisc, whether it be a review, article, program, series
of tips, graphics, animation or whatever, you'll be entitled to
any 5 Public Domain disks mentioned in "PDLibrary", as well as
a free copy of the Megadisc issue that your piece ends up in. So
when you do, include a note saying which disks you'd like to have.
Of particular interest are reviews of hardware and software, articles
on anything of interest to users, and utilities/programs. Also most
welcome would be in-depth reviews of the A500 and A2000, especially
anything of a practical nature; information about printers and printer
drivers (send in any drivers you have too); any bugs you've found in
programs you use; how you've set up your system, and what you're doing
with it, etc. Any current subscribers who send a contribution will
have their subscription extended by one issue, as well as getting the
usual 5 pd disks.
It would also be much appreciated if you'd put your contribution
on disk in the case of text as well, since it saves a lot of
key-fingering. Even better, make it a straight ASCII file if you
can - ie, use a text editor (like ED in the CLI) or save from your
Word Processor as ASCII (if you can). And keep the width of the text to
a maximum of 74, which is a good width for onscreen viewing. Documents
from Notepad or a word processor are fine if you're not sure about
ASCII.
Likewise, anyone who sends in a letter or anything else (like printer
drivers) on disk should mention which Public Domain disk they'd like
to get back on their disk.
Another way of getting information to Megadisc is to leave messages
and articles, graphics, etc on CLUB AMIGA BBS (sysops: Ross Kellaway
& Ken White; Tel: (02) 5216338). All you need is a modem and a
Communications program (get one of our public domain progs) - try it,
you'll like it! Don't worry if you don't hear from Megadisc for a while
after you contribute something - we'll get back to you eventually,
though you can always ring up and enquire about anything, anytime.
So get inspired, and be digitally published! It could be the start
of a scintillating career in the digital press. And don't forget,
what you think is obvious may be mystifying to someone else - they
may need to know what you know.
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