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From: nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaWorld is weak. Try a European Amiga Magazine
Message-ID: <1990Jun11.052112.24796@cbnewsm.att.com>
Date: 11 Jun 90 05:21:12 GMT
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In article <7434@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> kuan@iris.ucdavis.edu (Frank [Who me?] Kuan) writes:
>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
[ ... ]

Interesting note:  I once heard the results of a survey where readers of 
computer magazines rated ads as one of the top "good things" in the magazines.
This was several years back, in reference to some enormously thick issue of
Byte.

[ ... ]
>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."
[ ... ]
"Biff shows you 53 ways to guarantee your program will break on every machine
except your own!

Seriously, do you view the above list as "good things"?  Interesting timing,
what with all the multitasking game discussions going on now.  Show *me*
articles on how to get the most out of the machine without tossing the OS.
Show me how to take advantage of everything the machine has to offer.
Show me how to make sure my programs will be internationally compatible.

Hmm, sounds like Amiga Transactor.  :-(

                                      - Neil

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