------------------ANYONE MAY SELL OR GIVE AWAY FLUX-------------------
Anyone may sell or give away copies of FLUX with our blessing, as long as they do not alter the magazine in a way unauthorized by us, or misrepresent the magazine to others. Those who choose to sell the magazine may keep any and all proceeds, without payment or obligation to J.R. Mooneyham & Associates. This makes FLUX an ideal product for computer savvy charity organizations and budding entrepreneurs. FLUX users may also elect to create their own Personal Editions of the magazine, (customized with the user's own creative efforts).
This README UPDATE accompanies v1.3 or later of FLUX Spring 93. Many improvements have been made to the magazine, including a new "FLUX" Menu and floating on-screen Navigational Palette.
The primary navigational interface for earlier versions of the magazine consisted of a diamond shaped collection of buttons usually located in the lower right corner of the FLUX screen. Often this navigational diamond would change in location by only a few pixels from card to card, causing users to accidentally click the wrong button on occasion. This original flawed button arrangement has been replaced with a single smaller button, that does nothing more than call up the new navigational palette for the user, which remains fixed in whatever position the user places it in during a session.
This new floating palette is now the main interface for magazine navigation. The tiny new corner button is not the only way of bringing the palette on-screen if it is absent (Users may make the palette disappear by clicking a close box in its top bar). A new "FLUX" Menu has been added as well, which offers a command for displaying the palette. Finally, the palette automatically appears everytime the magazine is opened, in the lower right hand corner of the stack screen.
The "Find" and "Find Again..." functions have been enabled in the unclassified ads section ( earlier versions lacked these since they had no unclassified ads to search ).
More explanatory dialog boxes have been added for the convenience and peace of mind of users ( Previously when FLUX automatically compacted upon quitting, it offered no explanation at all of the sudden disk activity to users. Now it does. ).
The word and thought balloon buttons in the comic art entry screen have been greatly improved to save time and trouble for contributors. A "Clear Screen" button has also been added.
The overall efficiency of the program itself has been increased in several ways, not the least of which is the speed of the word counter in the unclassified ads entry forms- it's been increased by at least 1000%.
A couple of bugs in the X-Cape game have been corrected, as well as a more convenient escape route provided for players under the new FLUX Menu.
Several bugs were fixed and other improvements made to the Submission Stack inside the magazine (FLUX is actually two programs in one: a disk magazine for readers and game players, and a Submission Stack for potential contributors). This latest version of the Submission Stack is v1.1. One of the changes to the Sub Stack is an "X" marking the best cards for contributors to reproduce (copy and paste) in the stack, in order to retain full navigational access to the added cards via the navigation palette and menus.
The Personal Edition space at the front of the magazine, and the Booster Code offer in the unclassifieds, are also new (and significant) additions to this latest version of the Premiere issue.
Let us know if you uncover any other problems, or have further suggestions for improvements.
WHAT IS FLUX?---------------------------------------------------------
NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT AND DESCRIPTION FOR FLUX MAGAZINE
( This text is provided for the convenience of distributors and similar groups who may wish to copy and paste this description into a catalog or other listing. )
FLUX
A quarterly shareware magazine exploring the future with ideas and imagery from the entire Universe of Macintosh Users. Premiere issue offers radical new ideas in space and software development, as well as an interactive game. Free or low cost copies may be available from networks or local BBSes/ User Groups. Four issue subscription with free personal ad space, and a multitude of other benefits available for $ 49.50. 2 MB RAM, hard drive, and HyperCard 2.1 required. J. R. Mooneyham and Associates, 135 Lincoln Ave, Newport, TN 37821, 615- 623- 0854.
HARD CORE FLUX--------------------------------------------------------
A major element of FLUX is the potential for user participation. Contributors may see the publication of their articles, graphics, and even games or other programming in future issues.
To help pave the way for this, FLUX may be converted into a Submission Stack, which is essentially a copy of the magazine emptied of its normal editorial content in order to accept material from contributors. The Submission Stack offers users access to the basic format of the magazine, within which they may frame their own efforts.
Materials published in the floppy-based editions of FLUX automatically become eligible for republication later in Special Editions of the magazine, likely to be published on CD-ROM. Authors of material published in Special Editions will enjoy a share in the profits from sales of these CD-ROMs, according to a formula based on the size of their contribution relative to others involved, and feedback from end-users comparing all the items in the collection as to their entertainment and/ or utility value.
Another place editorial content from FLUX magazine will appear is in the FLUX Digest- a non-interactive, universal document accessible to both Mac and Windows PC users, slated to appear no sooner than six to twelve months later than the HyperCard based magazine issue from which each Digest document will be derived. What the Digest will lack in interactivity should be more than made up for by its potentially enormous circulation; by 1997 we expect the existence of the Digest to make FLUX accessible to as many as 200 million computer users world-wide. Such broad distribution should make FLUX contributors known the world over for their ideas and imagery.
FLUX DIRECT subscribers enjoy a multitude of benefits, details of which are listed in the magazine itself. Not the least of these benefits is the ability to propose new offers for the magazine to present to its users. In other words, users can sometimes modify the basic relationship between FLUX and themselves to be more profitable or flexible for both. All that's required is a good idea which sufficiently benefits both parties, and is practical to implement.
Two prime examples of how FLUX opportunities for users may be expanded upon are FLUX Personal Editions and FLUX Booster Codes.
FLUX PERSONAL EDITIONS------------------------------------------------
FLUX Personal Editions offer a "second chance" for publication to contributors whose material may not have been accepted for the general edition of the magazine. A Personal Edition is a custom version of FLUX containing an individual contributor's work, which the contributor may give away to friends and family, or sell, as he or she sees fit.
[ Personal Editions are not limited to contributors whose material has been turned down for more general publication. P.E.s may also be obtained by authors who wish to take their material straight to the public without first competing with others for the privilege of a spot in the general edition. ]
What other magazine offers you such an alternative for seeing your material in national publication?
FLUX Booster Codes are a cooperative arrangement between FLUX and its subscribers. Essentially, Booster Codes allow subscribers to earn money by significantly boosting the circulation of the magazine. The way it works is this: Subscribers may purchase a uniquely coded copy of the magazine for their own distribution efforts. The embedded code is displayed in any orders received here at FLUX Central, and a running total kept of all the coded responses. When the total reaches 500 the coded subscriber gets a $ 500 check from us (or $ 1.00 per order received displaying their code). The subscriber will continue to receive payment at this rate bi-annually (twice a year), up to a possible grand total of $ 10, 000 ( any and all taxes involved are solely the responsibility of payment recipients ).
Details about both Personal Editions and Booster Codes may be found inside the magazine.
