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If you think MegaDisc is a good thing, please buy it
What is Commodore up to now?
For more details of this on-going saga, check out MegaBites this issue.
Whatever happens to Commodore, there is still going to be an Amiga market
out there, and I at Megadisc, as well as numerous other dealers and
suppliers, will continue to serve that market, necessarily to keep making a
living of course, but also because we feel an obligation to customers who
have supported us for such a long time. It seems that many people have
become resigned to the incompetence of the upper echelons of Amiga
mismanagement, and know that the machine itself will continue for quite a
while in some form or other. Indeed, the second-hand market in Amigas is
very lively, and it's hard to even get a used A4000/3000/2000 if you want
one, as people snap them up pretty quickly. This indicates to me that when
the Amiga is finally in competent hands, there will still be a substantial
market out there ready to snap up the new Amigas. If you look at Babylon
5 and keep in mind that most of the computer graphics are done on the Amiga
you know that it can't just sink out of sight. So keep those orders coming!
Let's keep the Amiga lively until the renaissance and beyond!
I was recently in England and it was obvious that the market is very
lively there - lots of Amiga mags, games, and trading. They don't think in
terms of disappearance of the machine there as we are occasionally tempted
to do here - and we only do so because the Australian market has been
so seriously mismanaged and neglected. It is not necessarily so in the
rest of the world, where only just now are the shortages of machines
becoming serious.
Special Note
Thanks to all our contributors for their always appreciated input of
all kinds - we're all grateful to you sharing your knowledge and expertise
and experience with us. Please keep it up. We all need your on-going
support to keep the Amiga scene strong and healthy - certainly the seller
or creditors of Commodore-Amiga are not to be relied on, it's up to us.
Lots of new software available!
In spite of the determined stuffing-up of the Amiga creditors, there is
still a lot of software being produced for the Amiga, particularly in
the Public domain and licenceware areas - check out our PD and Licenceware
sections on this issue for a bunch of excellent stuff.
Fish Rom No.7 is now available ($55), ie the December issue, of which the
contents will be in the next Megadisc. And of course, there is the Gold
Fish ROM package with all the Fish 1-1000 disks on two ROMs ($65).
$59 price for 6 issues & $35 for 3 issues
Yes, super value at rock-bottom prices! as they say in the ads. This is
as low as a subscription can go, in the spirit of us supporting you so that
you'll do likewise in return, so why not make the most of it? That's for a
6-issue sub, and you get a choice of 4 free PD disks, or our Hints_&_Tips
disk as a freebie.
Back issues now $8 only
There's a lot of useful information on the back issues so why not check
out the listings of contents on the catalogue-disk (send your disk in for
updating) and find out the wealth of things you can do with your Amiga.
Finding that obscure program or product
We'll find it for you! Let us know what you're after and we'll track it
down from local or overseas sources.
Rush Software - More titles of no-frills educational software
Licenceware - low-cost high-quality software
Don't forget these excellent disks - you won't get software like this
anywhere else.
FACT SECTION
Megadisc was produced on an Amiga A3000 with a Seagate Hard disk
and ASDG's Dual Serial Board & Syquest, and a couple of older Amigas
using a 8-Megabyte Ram expansion board from Phoenix
MicroTechnologies, 3.5" and 5.25" disk drives by Paul Chatfield,
Acudat disk-drives, Maestro Modem, AST TurboLaser and Epson 500.
Software used included "Professional Text Engine" by Zirkonics,
TxEd, SuperBase Professional by Precision Software, PowerPacker 4.0,
Deluxe Paint of course, and a great many excellent public domain
utilities by numerous talented authors, including local talent such
as Nic Wilson, Jon Potter and others.
Thanks also to sub-editors Andrew Wong and Steve Bolton for their
various useful contributions to the process of putting Megadisc
together, including the proof-reading, a big job which they have
both done with speed and accuracy. Leigh Murray has also been a big
help in various ways over the last two years.
DISCLAIMER
All Megadiscs are produced with as much care as possible and with
the aim of spreading useful information through the Amiga community
at low cost. All contents of Megadisc are checked thoroughly, but
we hold no responsibility for use of programs or implementation of
advice or modifications contained in Megadisc, which are the
responsibility of the user. (This legalese can be countered by the
fact that to date there has been no report of any mishap from use of
Megadisc - on the contrary, all the feedback has been very
supportive and positive, and thanks to all you users for that.)
What's more, Megadisc is totally independent - and we don't take
any ads so we can stay that way. Nor are we connected with
Commodore except as third-party producers.
COPYRIGHT
Commodore, Amiga and Commodore-Amiga are trademarks of Commodore
Business Machines.
Note that Megadisc is not public domain, nor is any part of it
unless expressly stated. If you want to use anything from a
Megadisc for either commercial or non-commercial use, both copyright
laws and courtesy require that you call and ask permission, and
having got it, mention the source of the piece where it's used.
Megadisc may not be copied except for the back-up purposes of a
particular buyer of the disk. Giving a copy of Megadisc to anyone
is illegal, and constitutes theft.
DUD DISKS
Should anyone receive a disk from us at any time which does not
perform as it should, please send it straight back and it will be
immediately replaced - there are always a few dud disks in every
bunch, which you'll recognise by "Read/Write Errors" or the disk
icon showing as "DFx:BAD" or "DFx:NDOS". Sometimes a disk may
appear to be bad, but isn't - the round metal hub in the middle of
the disk can sometimes get jammed against the edge of the plastic
surround. Simply work it loose with your fingernail and you'll
often find it'll come good. And finally, some disks work fine on
some drives but not others - try it on more than one drive.
Tim Strachan
(Editor)
December '94
Internet address: (megadisc@kralizec.zeta.org.au)