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THE FINAL FRONTIER - CONTRIBUTIONS
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As with any magazine, be it on paper, disk or whatever, we need your
contributions to make it work. We need articles (for our regular series or
just one-off items) either on paper or on disk, artwork, music (conversions
of tunes from the films, original series or the Next Generation if possible,
but we will accept original music as well), animations (preferably as ANIM #5
files - we can crunch these), demos, games, utilities and anything else as
long as it is STAR TREK or STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION orientated.
If you send software, we would prefer it to be uncrunched (unless it is a
multi-load) as we can crunch them ourselves with PowerPacker Professional. We
would also prefer software in a CLI-runnable form. We can't accept software
that needs entire disks or uses special disk formats. This only causes us
problems when compiling the disks.
If you send art then please note that, at the moment, we can only accept art
on disk as we don't have access to a scanner. Also all art must be ORIGINAL -
we will not accept any digitised images from episodes or the films, whether
they are touched up or not. Please send the art to us as standard IFF, HAM or
executable files (do NOT crunch either of these).
If you send in animations, please make sure that, again, they are not
digitised (we have made a special exception for this issue ONLY) and that
they need no more than 1 MEG to run. Also, leave them in an uncrunched format
and make sure that the animation (with all it's player and sound files if
any) takes up a MAXIMUM of 750K. Any larger than this and we can't use it.
However, if the animation is really good, we may be interested as long as it
is a silent animation using the Anim #5 format as these can be crunched with
Powerpacker. However, they must be exceptionally good, as large anims will
need more than 1 MEG to decrunch properly!
If you send in demos then we ask that you include your REAL name in any text
and that there is NO swearing in the scrollers. If you do use foul language,
we will format the disk IMMEDIATELY. We would also prefer it if any music in
the demo is a conversion of a Trek tune. Finally we would be grateful if you
could make sure that the demo will run on a standard A500 and that there are
NO compatibility problems for 1.2 owners or owners of 1 Meg machines etc.
Again, we would prefer the demos uncrunched.
If there are any coders out there who want to create a demo, but you don't
know a musician, or you would rather use a TREK tune then let us know. We
are going to try and build up a library of spare tunes ready to send out to
coders etc. or to use on the disk.
As far as music is concerned we would rather you send the tunes to us as
modules (specify what version of what utility you use) along with the
appropriate source code (preferably for DEVPAC) so we can compile them. We
would rather have the tunes as modules as we can pass them on to programmers
or artists to join up with other work. However, if you insist on compiling
them, please make sure that they are FULLY multi-tasking and that they need
BOTH mice buttons to stop them. Also could you make sure that they will run
on a standard A500. If you do compile your music then please DON'T crunch
them! We would rather use PowerPacker Professional on them - it's more
efficient than any others! Finally could you leave 3 or 4 seconds free at the
end of the tune before starting it again - it just sounds better.
If you want to send in your articles on disk, we can also accept Atari ST and
PC formatted 3.5-inch disks as well as Amiga disks, as long as the files are
just ASCII files and you tell us EXACTLY what the files are called. Please
note that if you use Atari or PC disks then please limit the size of the
files to 300K per disk (this is because the emulation software we use can
only read single sided disks as it was written to read Atari disks - but it
just happens that ST's can read/write PC disks!). Again, as with all other
files, we don't want articles crunched - this will only cause problems if we
decided to link two or more articles together.
The type of article is entirely up to you - we'll use almost anything!
However we'd love to see reviews, fiction, character studies and anything
else! We'd also like to hear from you for our Reader's Letters - we want your
comments on this mag and on anything to do with TREK or the NEXT GENERATION.
Unfortunately, we can't return disks or articles as this is a non-profit
making mag and we can't afford it, and even if you included an SAE we
couldn't as we need to hold on to the material until it is used - we still
have several items that we couldn't fit into this edition. Sorry!
However, if we don't use you work then your disks/articles will be returned
as soon as possible. So if you don't get your work back within six weeks then
it is safe to assume that we're going to use it. Obviously, for overseas
readers, allow up to 8 weeks for your unused contributions to be returned.
When you send in software of any kind, please take note of the following
points:-
1. We will not accept anything that has been submitted to any magazine for
use on their cover-disks.
2. All software sent becomes the copyright of THE FINAL FRONTIER. We do this
to try to protect our contributors from being ripped off by P.D.
libraries. By keeping the copyright, we can act as a single author,
having the edge over an individual trying to stop libraries using their
stuff.
3. All contributions must be your own work - we can't accept P.D. titles for
copyright reasons.
4. All those whose contributions are used will receive a free copy of the
issue that their program appears in. Please note that we can't send out
free issues to those who send in letters or contributions to our Reader's
Chart, our Trivia section or to the Screw-Ups - Sorry! Note that if you
would like a personal response to reader's letters you must include a
SAE. We will publish as many of the letters we receive as possible each
issue.
5. When sending in letters for our letters section, please specify whether
you want us to withhold your name and/or address, otherwise we will
publish them in full. We give you this waring so that:
a) You can be held responsible for what you are saying!
b) Other TREK fans can get in touch with you (and probably will!).
6. When contributing, please tell us your FULL name so we can credit you
properly - this also covers ourselves incase anyone sends in copyrighted
material. Please specify if you don't want us to use your real name, but
for legal reasons we need to know it.
Sorry about all those, but it's better to find out now than later!
Send all contributions to:-
THE FINAL FRONTIER
c/o Simon Plumbe
14 Rousdon Grove
Great Barr
Birmingham
B43 5HN
ENGLAND