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Display : PAL& This scene mag's been going a long&time and unfortunately it's starting&to look it's age. The interface works&well but it looks very old fashioned&and bland. There's very little clip&art used in the articles and the use&of text colours in some of them is&nearly unreadable on the monitor, let&alone on a TV. Using very dark purples&and blues on black is not a good idea.&Good music though with three tunes on
offer.& So the magazine has to stand or&fall on the quality of it's articles.&These are a mixed bag with some good&general interest ones such as an&article on Japanese Artworks and&another titled "The Paradiso Dante Has&Given Us" which is a reply to a&previous article called "The Inferno&Dante Has Given Us". Arguments over&The Divine Comedy in a scene mag? Well
it is Italian.& There's also a few poems and a&music column but this is mostly a&scene mag with the usual reviews,&interviews, news, charts and&advertisements. Despite the piracy&implicit in the magazine's title the&only mention you will find of it is in&the charts where of the fourteen§ions one is for the best cracking&group and another for best cracker. In&the coding section of the magazine&where you might expect to find ways to&break software protection we get&"About Ram", "Ellipse Drawing&Methods", "Pascal" and "Proportional&Writer". Hardly top secret. From this&mag and all the other scene magazines&I've read lately I get the feeling&that getting pirated stuff is nowhere&near the top of the list of reasons&for being in the scene now, if it ever&was. Assuming that what they write&about is what's important to them then&demos, music, friendship and the&groups are what matters with piracy&just being part of the wallpaper and&taken for granted. If it was stamped&out tomorrow I'm sure the scene would continue.& Interviewed in the mag is Hornet of&Alcatraz, the coder behind Odyssey.&(Hornet was the guy's name - you&listening Anonymous? I know, if it&multi-tasked you would have looked it&up.) He assures us that there was no&pre-calculated vectors used in Odyssey&for those who worry about these&things. There won't be an Odyssey II
though I'm sorry to report.& There's also an article titled War!&- "Year! Another war is going to&start! Let's just hope it will last&long and give us happy hours of fun&and laughs!..." This is not the wars&you see on the TV I'm happy to report&but just some glee at an Italian scene&war breaking out between a couple of&guys. Personally I don't see much fun&in watching slanging matches. There's&one just started between the editors&of Sledgehammer and Grapevine&magazines which I'll comment on next&issue. (They both were meant to be&reviewed this issue but I've run out&of time or space or both.) Rivalry's&one thing, denigration's quite another
and it can only be destructive.& No address given for getting a&subscription as to get it from the&source you have to submit articles.!Search around if you want a copy.& A very so-so magazine. There's no&editorial style discernable at all&which considering it's taken many&months to get out seems odd. Perhaps&Zenith's heading for the Nadir? Great
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