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- >POSITION 20,1900
- >SIDE Left
- >STYLE Heading
- Editorial
- >STYLE Sub
- Other Magazines:
- >STYLE Body
- Well I think it's about time for us, the best disk based magazine for the Acorn to
- talk about the other magazines. First up is that dormant mouse called
- New dawn. When it started it was the premier magazine but somehow It
- seems to have been forgotten by it's authors and has not got past the third
- edition! The magazine was at this point still in-the-making and so it's full
- potential was never realised. The articles were evidently written by a select
- few but had the magazine been continued this was likely to change and the
- authorship would have become broad, to reflect it's possible readership, given
- that the magazine was in many P.D. libraries.
- The NewDawn 4 shell looks good following - as this magazine does - The double
- page spread of text philosophy. The shell was written by one of our
- 'freelancers' and is, I must admit much the same as this but without some of the
- added features. Incidentally, It was this that spurred us on to setup this
- magazine which is already attracting considerable interest.
-
- Next is Lunchtime. there's not really much to be said here.
- The best part of the magazine in the intro sequence, which it has to be said was
- decidedly boring. The layout of the magazine itself if appalling the, buttons
- which control the page are completely ambiguous and look like something you
- would find on the wreckage of sad and sunken old warship. The articles don't
- help the sinking ship, they, like the overall aesthetic effect of the magazine are
- deadly dull and un-informative.
- If this is the best the authors can do, they may as well give up now!
-
- >STYLE Sub
- The information superhighway - ?
- >STYLE Body
- Well, that ends my relaxing hurl of insults, now to the future! Does anyone know
- what the 'Information superhighway' is? well, I hope so because it has become
- the latest buzzword in the media with countless references to it even on the never
- changing radio 4 - Yes they still have the infamous Archers what seems to be
- every day! Well. Acorn have decided to dip their toe into this field in as big a
- way as they can, and, as I'm sure you'll know they have setup an offshoot
- company namely Online media to delve into the depths of the superhighway.
- Incidentally, RiscPC's are finally being seen on telly in the shape of the
- wondrously old and repetitive Blue Peter! Yes, it's true, those outlandish
- and damn it interesting (!) presenters are now clicking the buttons on the
- mouse the world's best computer, The RiscPC for thousands of sleeping
- children to watch and admire!
- Online media or Om if you're daring, are now attempting to take on the world in
- the race to provide a home-shopping and banking service or whatever is
- demanded, before everyone else. The danger here of course is that one of the
- more sizeable computer companies will step in and swallow the market as they
- did with operating systems such as windows. (The competition will be good for
- us, the consumers anyway) I hope the information superhighway takes off in the
- way it didn't with the advent of bulletin boards and that Om are at the fore!
- Bye
- >POSITION 1300,1900
- >SIDE Right
- >STYLE Heading
- Co-editorial (!)
- >STYLE Body
- Since there are now vast amounts of people working on Tyrant and that Zeus is
- having hell trying to organise the code for the reader and be the editor I have
- been promoted to co-editor meaning I am entitled to co-editorial. Sorry to
- disappoint you but that means there are no more of those silly comments of mine
- to end articles as I can say everything I want now. (More moaning then -Ed).
-
- Thank you for the huge response to Tyrant I. Zeus was receiving somewhere
- between six and seven letters a day at first but now only a couple trickle
- through each week. Keep sending them to Zeus's address but if you get a
- response from me don't be surprised. I am now in charge of replying to mail
- but Zeus will respond to e-mail on Arcade as usual.
-
- As co-editor I would like to thank many people for making a second magazine
- possible. We now have a good ARM coder in the form of Chris Hubble and we
- still have three excellent tracks from various places.
- We would love to include more but we're pushing the boat out with just three
- because of the amount of text that's floating around.
-
- I must take this opportunity to criticise Acorn. (Surprise -Ed). They really should
- have made RISC OS 3.5 available for existing machines. The watchdog is a
- superb idea and why should we have to wait so long for !NewLook to load
- when all the new icons could be in ROM. I am waiting for an upgrade to
- existing machines or a good reason for why it is not currently available.
-
- The RISC PC really is nothing special (Rollocks - Ed.). It is just a nice looking
- machine bringing in a few industry standards and some of the ideas from BBC
- days (More Rollocks - Ed.). I would have preferred to see something
- revolutionary using the new ARM processor technology. In my view it was a
- wait for nothing special.
-
- I am currently compiling an education section so if you are a teacher in a school
- which uses Acorns, PCs and think they are better than Acorns or vice versa
- please contact Zeus and he will pass the information onto me.
-
- The news section is still looking bare, probably because all the news is in the
- Acorn World '94 topic but we still need many more contacts in the Acorn scene.
-
- Has anybody got any games to contribute that they have written. We do need
- some help with games as I am sure you can see.
- Bye!