i) What made you decide to start an Arc P.D. Library?
We didn't decide to start an Arc PD library as such, rather the opportunity arose for us to take over The DataStream from John Nicolas and Chris Dawson. Andy and I had discussed starting a library earlier but had never been that
serious about it.
ii) What are your veiws on the Arc scene at the moment?
The Arc scene started off fairly promising - numerous demo groups such as
BIA, ARMageddon, Arc Angels etc. but many of them have moved on to commercialprojects, leaving a new 'inexperienced' group of coders who are still
'learning' their trade. On the utilities side of things, the Arc seems to be flourishing - Translator and PackDIR (John Kortiknt) to Supergram from
William Tunstall-Pedoe and the soon to be released Quantum Tracker
(supposedly superior to Digital Symphony)
iii) Why did you decide on using !Maggpie insted of a Homegrown program for
your Disc-Catalogue?
We decided to use Magpie as it allowed us to produce a better looking
catalogue with pictures and sound, and to produce a much more organised
catalogue. First of all we had to organise the 500 discs of PD software