Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!voder!pyramid!unify!csusac!ucdavis!iris!kuan From: kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu (Frank [Who me?] Kuan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: AmigaWorld is weak. Try a European Amiga Magazine Message-ID: <7434@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 7 Jun 90 16:34:51 GMT References: <2545@zipeecs.umich.edu> Sender: usenet@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu (Frank [Who me?] Kuan) Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lines: 72 The only reason I ever pick up an Amigaworld is to look at the ads and occasionally browse through one of those rare interesting articles. The editor is unprofessional. The articles are shallow and useless. There are 100 times as many ads as articles. The main focus of the article is to get a cute title. For example, in last months issue, they had an article about the new custom ships called "Chip's Ahoy." I went down to a specialty newsstand, and saw Amiga User International. It's an Amiga Magazine made in the U.K, and the size of each page is about 15 percent longer (They make PAL paper there too?). I used to think America was the center of the world, but apparently as far as the Amiga goes, we're second rate. Not only are the articles, ads, and game reviews a lot more interesting and plentiful, but I noticed from all the prices that Amigas and peripherals were much more expensive in England! Think about it. The Amiga is more expensive in Europe, yet it probably the most popular computer (next to the c64). While over here, most people still don't know what an Amiga is, and all the Amiga magazines are pathetic. The last time I heard, American kids were rated the lowest in math compared to the other powerful nations. It shows. In Amiga world, your typical article might be: "The CLI. Don't be afraid of it!" - ok boys and girls. You all knows how to use da workbench. The cli is kind'a like that, but a little more powerful. "Using Basic to make windows and screens" - Basic is still probably the most powerful language around, and this month we'll show you why. "Amiga world reviews yet another word processor!" - Yes, we have another eagerly anticipated review of ANOTHER word processor this month. "Featuring: An interview with Chris Crawford!" - Why this man is so successfull "Amiga world reivews Rob Peck's newest book!" In Amiga User International, these are the sort of articles that I came across: "Dr. Blitter shows you how to create minterms" - Here is an easy way to expand minterms to use in Blits instead of going through Karnaugh Maps and Quinne-Mcluskey methods. "Giulio Zicchi gives more Quick and dirty tricks" - This month, we show you by example how to do dual play fields (article contains 3 pages of assembly). "Smiddy reviews Argasm" - Argasm assembles 250,000 lines a minute, which is about 10 times as DevPacII. But it doesn't have a debugger... So which is better? Find out this month. "Featuring: An interview with the Bitmap Bros." - Why are these guys successful? "This month's book review: Fun things to do with 68000 Assembly" The scary thing is, Amiga User International may not even be the best Eurapean publication. I'd be willing to bet there's probably some German Amiga Magazine with articles like: "Dieter Sprock shows you how to kill Intuition and write your own OS" "Jurgen shows you megacoders how to speed floppy 10 times!"{ "Friederic talks about the virtues of writing code in hex." "America, home of the inept. Helmut explains why stupid Americans buy IBM's instead of Amigas and program in high level language." Does anyone know if other European Amiga mags exist here in America? Are there any charitable souls out there in der motherland who would be kind enough to mail me some Amiga mags if I pay shipping?