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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Will there be a Jan 1990 ANALOG Magazine?
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Date: 6 Dec 89 20:35:05 GMT
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I just got my December 1989 issue of ANALOG Magazine. I have a subscription
good thru July 1990 of ST LOG which was transferred to ANALOG with the November
1989 issue. The October 1989 issue of ST LOG was the final issue. Does
anyone know, has any been contacted, if ANALOG will be published next year?

The final issue of ST LOG was very clear that it was merging into ANALOG,
so the publishers knew well in advance. When other ST magazines have stopped
publication ( died :-( ) the last issue clearly said that it was the last
issue. But, there is nothing in the Dec 1989 issue of ANALOG to indicate that
is the final issue. In fact, there are 2 subscription forms in it for NEW
subscribers??

I wonder if I will get a free subscription to Hustler (same publisher :-) )?

Anyway, while I hate to see an Atari magazine fold, I just plain don't like
the December issue. It has a bunch of pages about new electronic gadgets for
Christmas. While this article is nice, it is just filler in an Atari magazine.
This article should have been in PopularScience or Consumers Reports or
something like that. I didn't buy an Atari magazine to read about a new 
Sony WATCHMAN color tv!

Also, I don't care for the way 8bit and ST articles are mixed together. I would
prefer that the 8bit be in a ripoff insert in the middle of the mag. Than I
could discard the 8bit section and keep the ST mag intact.

I will miss Clayton Walthum's CManShip column. I hope that he is picked up
by STart, but I doubt it. I will miss Ian's Quest and a few other columns.
All in all, I preferred ST LOG to STart and that's why I subscribed (sigh)
to ST LOG instead of STart.

If ANALOG indeed is dead, it is a sad day for us all!!

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