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The MUCH STOS GIGAZINE
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A Review By Tony Greenwood
24:12:93 ( Christmas eve and still working on STOSSER )
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First of all i have to say that i was more than a little surprised to find
another STOS Diskzine appear. If not a little peeved as well, I mean it's
hard enough to get feedback for one diskzine without having to compete
with another. But for you the reader it can only be a good thing, so i am
going to tell you all about this Gigazine without comparing it to STOSSER
( If i can ! )
After viewing everything in the zine i have come to the conclusion that it
is a one off. There is no mention of any future issues. The whole thing
seems to have been put together by one person, David Haylett,
(Black Eagle) who is sixteen years old and seems to be aiming more towards
the demo coder. But dont be put off by that last comment as it's not just
for demo coder's.
There are 42 readable files on disk, allthough a large chunk of these are
taken up by either reviews or humour. I personally found the most
interesting articles in the GENERAL RUBBISH section, and it wasn't general
rubbish!. I especially like the AMOS, COMMERCIAL STOS, and STOS SOURCE
articles, the latter was not about the source given away on the disk but
about STOS Source from P.D.L.'s.
The actual shell was simple and easy to use, the intro was i think the
author will agree. A little plain, allthough i did like the bit at the
end of the scroller. The text displayer again was simple and easy to use,
but no printer options !.
The source given away on the disk, well the actual source was good. But
the quantity was poor, there are 11 items in the source folder but some of
the source needs two files. Therefore there was only eight different
peices of usable source, there is over 100,000 Bytes free on the disk and
surely this could have been filled with something.
After reading the above comments you will probably come to the conclusion
that i dont think much of the zine. Well you would be wrong, I liked it,
it was informative and the few routines were useful, actually i learnt
quite a few things from some of the articles and i am sure you will. A lot
of time and effort has gone into this disk, some of the articles are dated
as far back as May up to the present. So the Much Stos Gigazine has been
in the pipeline for quite some time.
My honest verdict is a definate BUY IT!. I guarantee that you will find
something to your advantage in it. Let's face it, there's only your STOS
manual and STOSSER diskzine for all you Stossers to read and gain valuable
information from. Therefore anything STOS related must be a good buy, I
liked it, So will you !.
Tony