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From: dylan@june.cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Subject: "Classic" articles from the greats--post on the net?
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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 91 23:39:04 GMT


The two Classic Amiga programmers journals have been out of business,
and presumably out of print, for more than two years now.  (I'm
speaking of Transactor and Amigan Apprentice and Journeyman.)  So many
articles in those old magazines will presumably be lost for all time...

Some of the frequent authors whose works have been especially useful 
to me are Betty Clay, William Hawes, and John Toebes, who wrote many
columns for both magazines, on topics ranging from font formats to
esoteric assembly language tricks, to general C language programming
tips.

It seems that a few of the authors of those articles are here on the
net, or could reach Usenet somehow.  So, what is the possibility that 
these articles could be reprinted electronically, and perhaps even
be collected onto a Fish Disk or two?

This would be a great service to the Amiga community, both to programmers,
who would be able to get up to speed more easily, and to users, who would
presumably benefit from whatever benefitted programmers.

Comments, discussions, proposals?

dylan
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dylan mcnamee             / "I stood there on the sidewalk, Roy Rogers       
dylan@cs.washington.edu \/lunchpail in my hand.  Then I heard sweet children's 
     Qua!                voices...and I began to understand." Randy Newman