Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!haven!udel!burdvax!raf From: raf@PRC.Unisys.COM (Ralph A. Foy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AmigoTimes Message-ID: <11939@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Date: 6 Nov 89 03:21:21 GMT References: <3052@lab.udel.EDU> Sender: news@PRC.Unisys.COM Lines: 57 From article <3052@lab.udel.EDU>, by C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh): > In article <32268@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>, mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan > Mitchell) writes: >>I also like AmigoTimes. I think it looks better than ANY other Amiga mgazine. >>However, I don't buy it. Why? $9.95 is too much to pay for a magazine. > Speaking of AmigoTimes, does anyone else agree that they need some > editors who maybe know a little more about English sentence > structure/grammar? This is going to sound harsher than I mean for it > to, but there are serious structural errors in every AmigoTimes > article in each issue I have purchased. [...] > Has anyone else been bothered by this small flaw in AmigoTimes > articles? For a magazine trying to be taken seriously while boasting > that it is produced on Amigas, I would think they could try a little > harder in the editing department. I had the chance to meet and chat with the Circulation Editor and Circulation Manager for Amiga Times at the World of Commodore shin-dig a while ago here in PA. The poop is that this is a family production--if I got it right, the brother is an artistic techie type who fell in love with the Amiga and decided to put together a magazine. So he, his wife, and two sisters, along with friends and eventually a staff put the thing together. I guess between my admiration for the drive to get such a thing going, the dedication I perceive from the family, plus the spell placed upon me by the two incredibly attractive sisters, I am rather forgiving about the editing problems. The one problem which I am not so forgiving about is the ReadAll(v0.1) program distributed on the AmigoTimes program disk. It is a great idea (a file display window with a scroll bar to move back and forth in the document) but tragically flawed in that it guru's about 90% of the time if I click on the scroll bar. I am less-than-patiently waiting for v0.2. True, the programs on the disk are not original, and sometimes not very useful, but I appreciate the enthusiasm shown for the machine (ah, if only Commodore believed in it as much as they do) and the focus on the not-(just-)a-game-machine approach--in fact, it focuses mostly on the artistic uses of the machine (graphics, DTP, video, and music)--a very admirable approach. What I liked most about the most recent issue, 1.8, was that on the cover they show an Amiga screen with what appears to be the actual Professional Page document they used for their Music-X review, along with snipits and proof-pages for other articles in the issue. I was impressed! raf ----- Ralph A Foy Unisys Corporation/Paoli Research Center #include