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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer T. H.)
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Subject: Re: A+/Incider/Macintosh
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Date: 24 Nov 90 23:42:36 GMT
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In <9011212231.AA28912@apple.com> MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU writes:

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>On Mon, 19 Nov 90 20:32:31 GMT Kevin Mergen said:
>>
>>Does anyone remember A+ by itself??  Does anyone now have a subscription to
>>Incider/A+???  Who thinks that A+ was a far better magazine than the magazine
>>that swallowed A+ up?  :)   Just curious...

>I remember (wasn't very long ago).

Yeah, me too.  I even have some old issues lying around, when they still
covered the Mac.

>  I liked A+ better, mainly because of the
>looks of the pages.  All the articles were bordered with a thin line, unlike
>incider, which, for some uknown reason, really bothered me.

I liked A+'s printing style better too.  It was much easier for me to read
than inCider's font.  The only real interesting issue of inCider I got was
when they had that program BasicPaint which could do GS graphics through
AppleSoft.  Wasn't written very well though, and used the mouse through
BASIC, which was very fast not.  I rewrote the thing completely and put
together what I called BasicPaint II, which could use 256 colors/screen,
and have 4 screens loaded at once, ran on the then-minimum system of 256K,
and didn't give a shit about what GS/OS wanted.  (Even used /RAM (s3,d2)
for the program... once loaded, you can remove the 5.25" disk.)  Perhaps I
could upload that sometime...

>  Another reason
>I like A+ better is because of the Graphics Gallory they had each month.
>Readers could send in their own artwork and have it published.  I had a whole
>disk of stuff I was about to send in, then the next magazine I got in the mail
>was INCIDER! :(  No Graphics Gallory.

I thought they were going to try to keep with the Graphics Gallery, but
never did.  ("No.  Try not.  Do.  Or do not.  There is no try." -- Yoda)

>  Then the magazine started to shrink
>untile I finally decided to let it go.  Then I got involved with GS+ (Much
>better than the original A+, SERIOUSLY!).

Perhaps I should look into that one.  I still subscribe to inCider (can
you believe that they defend that spelling so much that reader's letters
are edited so that it is always "inCider", EVEN WHEN IT STARTS A
SENTENCE) but I am thinking about changing.  However I still get a bit of
a chuckle every time I open the newest issue to the page that has the Mac
LC motherboard printed on one side, and the 7 slots of a //e on the other
with the heading "This is the most important part of any computer."  Nice
AE ad... I'll let my subscription die out by itself.

I did send in a quick little program to inCider, a way to use /RAM to
automatically position the aux part of a DHR screen, but they didn't print
it.  It was a graphics program ala my "The Screen Editor" for HGR, but
they wanted to print it as a quickie hint, and I get nothing.  Nope.
Sorry.

>>| Kevin J. Mergen   aka `The Beggar' |/    \ /  BitNet : 96964188@uwplatt    \

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>  Michael J. Quinn
>  University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
>  BITNET--   mquinn@utcvm
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