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From: koshy@abekrd.UUCP (Koshy Abraham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Transactor for the Amiga
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Date: 30 Oct 89 12:11:35 GMT
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warren@hpindda.HP.COM (Warren Burnett) writes:

>Does anyone know what has happened to Transactor for the Amiga?  Are they
>still publishing?  I have been to several different stores over the last 
>month looking for the new issue but have not been able to find it.  Did 
>they go out of business, or are they just having financial trouble like
>they did last year?  I hope that they are still around.  It would be a
>shame to loose such a good magazine.

Well I have been wanting to mail some info on this subject for some time now,
but haven't manged to get around to doing it (until now).

I received my latest copy of Transactor for the Amiga a couple of weeks ago.
This was published here in the U.K. and is independent of the Candian 
publication. However, it includes articles from a lot of the original
Transactor authors, and it has kept to being a technical/programmers magazine.


Following is a list of the articles in the current issue (i.e. vol 2, iss 3
Nov 1989) :

From The Kernel                 by Mike Todd
Dispatches                      by Don Curtis
Scripit                         by Steve Ahlstrom
Amiga Memory Allocation         by Eric Giguere
AmigaTeX                        by Eric Giguere
ROM Kernal Manual :
Include & Autodocs              by Peter Booth
PageStream                      by Peter Shepherd
Amiga Audio                     by David Wood
What are MFM and GCR ?          by Betty Clay
From C to Assembler ...and back by Peter Booth
Three Tips                      by R.J. Appleton, Bryce Nesbitt
                                and Luc Van Rompaey
The Bison/Yacc Parser Generator by Eric Giguere
Assembler Language, Part 4      by Jim Butterfield
Seth                            by Vic Wagner
Resident Libraries              by Eric Salter


For those interested in finding out more, here is the address :

Transactor (U.K.) Ltd.,
unit 2,
Langdale Grove,
Bingham,
Nottinghamshire
NG13 8SR
England U.K.

Tel : 0949-39380
Fax : 0949-39687


If you are going to be making a phone call to them then expect to hear from the
dreaded answerphone (unless you phone around 6 - 7 p.m. British time).


Note : I am in no way connected with Transactor (U.K.) Ltd., and the comments
given above are my own un-biased and independent views/observations. 

One of my articles is soon to appear in the above mentioned magazine and it 
was thought that my views would seen to be biased, hence the reason for not 
joining the earlier discussions on the subject.

I hope this will be of use to all who has been enquiring about this mag.

Koshy.

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