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- From: epang@fraser.sfu.ca (Eugene Pang)
- Subject: Re: Do you agree with AC TECH's assessment?
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 23:21:48 GMT
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- barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
- > Jeff Gamble's editorial in the latest AC TECH, Volume 2 number 4,
- >begins:
-
- > "This magazine was originally created for the high end user
- > and developer. So far, it has been successful in reaching
- > its intended audience."
-
- >I don't know what "reaching" means; but to me, the implication is that
- >AC TECH is a suitable technical Amiga magazine.
-
- I suppose it depends on the meaning of high end user and developer.
-
- The alternate implication is that the magazine is no longer targetted at the
- high end user and developer (which is certainly a narrow market judging by
- the termination of AmigaWorld Tech and the earlier demise of Amiga Transactor),
- and that its intended audience is now a less techy, more mass-appeal technical
- magazine, featuring (but not limited to) programming and hardware articles.
-
- > Do you agree that AC TECH is publishing material that is interesting
- >to "high end users and developers?" I don't. I've written to Gamble about
- >this but never received a response.
-
- I do agree that it's much less technical that I'd like. And the occassional
- digressions they take (like the Quarterback review mentioned) aren't
- particularly welcome. I could also do without the full source code
- printouts and CLI tricks/commands.
-
- What kind of material appeals to high end users and developers? Is it
- Amiga specific? Is it already covered in the RKMs?
-