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From: dave@unislc.uucp (Dave Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga World / Amazing Computing Tech magazines
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.212357.13924@unislc.uucp>
Date: 3 Apr 91 21:23:57 GMT
References: <1991Mar30.025114.975@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Organization: unisys
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From article <1991Mar30.025114.975@maytag.waterloo.edu>, by giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere):
> In article <67906@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v125lqbx@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>>I'm not going to plunk down $16 per issue just the chance that it might 
>>be good (especially given that it's AW, whose technical expertise I don't
>>have the highest regard for.)
> 
> Hmm... well, I think the quality should be good, though I have yet to
> see the first issue myself.  I think that both magazines should make
> up for the vacuum left by the demise of the TransAmi...
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Very unfortunate, I always liked Transactor including the C64 version.

Surprise!  I have found the AW tech magazine to be a very good start,
at least as good as the AC tech magazine. (IMO)

The first issue of AW tech contains articles on:
the deep bitmap standard (24-bitplane bitmaps).
Menu style in 2.0.
How to get a list of devices and assigns from a program.
An explanation of FFS vs OLD FS (relating to floppies).
How to make shared libraries.

In addition to other stuff and some reviews (CygnusEd 2.11, Macro68,
Algebra, QPMA BASIC Programmers Toolkit, and FlexeLint 4.0)

The floppy contains DICE, a powerwindows demo, and source/executable for
the articles.

As long as both magazines maintain high quality standards I would like to
see both succeed.
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