The Grim Reaper issue 08 March 1993¢-----------------------------------¢¢Greetinx all and welcome to issue 08 of¢TGR. Firstly (before I forget) Stuart¢Murray, editor of FUTURA, was a bit¢naffed at the bit I put in the last¢editorial and the games that weren't¢PD. He sent me quite a long letter¢(much too long to reproduce in TGR)¢telling me I should have sent for¢further information before criticising¢FUTURA in my editorial. Maybe this is¢true but at the time of writing all¢the info I required was in the PD file¢in FUTURA. Also, nowhere in the file¢did it quote that the listing was a¢preliminary one only. Maybe the titles¢I mentioned are the only two non-PD¢titles entered in the library but I¢honestly didn't intend for my comment¢to lead people into thinking that most¢of the PD library from FUTURA is made¢up of commercial titles.¢ Even if I did make a mistake I don't¢think Mr.Murray had the right to call¢me incompetent for giving my opinion on¢a matter. Surely that is what an¢editorial is for! I didn't intend for¢my comment to sound like 'destructive¢criticism' so I apologise if it came¢out that way. I also apologise for¢making it sound like Mr.Murray upped¢the price of FUTURA for his own¢financial gain. I read my editorial¢again and must admit it could be taken¢this way, so again I apologise.¢ To whoever is reading this I advise¢you to get hold of a copy of FUTURA 6¢which Stuart tells me will clarify¢the whole matter. You may make more¢sense of it all then!¢ Anyway, onto a REALLY serious matter!¢Namely some contributions please! I am¢very disappointed with this issue of¢TGR because there just aren't enough¢doc files in it! I like to try and get¢the right mixture of programs and docs¢but it just hasn't been possible in¢this issue because nobody has submitted¢anything. If you've got an idea for an¢article then do it and send it!¢ Thanx to all the people who saw the ad¢in Page 6 and wrote to me for recent¢issues of TGR. Special thanx to Alan¢who actually wrote back saying he¢enjoyed them! It's a pity he decided to¢send an article he wrote to Dean¢Garraghty because "his need seemed the¢greatest". I'm not sure about that but¢thanx for the kind words.¢ I see that Excel is to cease after¢issue 26. This is a pity but it has¢been on the cards for some time. In the¢early days you could always find a gem¢of a program among the crud (usually¢written by Robert himself) but recently¢Robert has been busy with 'Lizard' from¢Tiger Developments and 'The Page 6 10th¢Anniversary Demo' so he hasn't had much¢time to write any programs for Excel¢it seems.¢ I hope you are all doing your bit and¢supporting the new software releases¢from Derek Fern. At the moment I have¢bought only 'Operation Blood' and 'Mega¢Mag 5' but this is all I can afford so¢I have done my bit for the moment.¢Please do try and support Derek and his¢postage charges (sorry it just slipped¢in!) and more new software will be¢imported!¢¢John E. (TEBSF)¢¢P.S. There is space on this disk for a¢saved position in 'MacPhee's Fortune'.¢
