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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.mag
Subject: Re: Open Mouth.  Insert Foot.  BYTE.
Summary: One word worth a thousand pictures ?
Message-ID: <12494@gryphon.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 89 06:31:09 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <6050@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>In article <14857@cup.portal.com> Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com writes:
>>> Of course BYTE cancelled their computer graphics photo layout because of
>>  too many Amiga entries.  BYTE is a PC magazine.  (R. Sexton)
>
>	As it turns out, this was NOT the reason.  In fact, they put one
>of the entries for that on the cover instead.  The entry was created on
>an Amiga.  So please, don't cry wolf too much, it doesn't help the Amiga
>community to get a reputation for that (it already has too much of it now).
>
>	Oh, and don't forget they replaced the pictures with a comparison of
>the Amiga's, Mac's, and (something elses) graphics capabilities.  The type
>of article I do want to see in byte.  I haven't seen the article, but having
>Amiga in the comparison (and having a comparison at all) is a step forward.

Well I don't really acre what they claim their reasons were. If they'd
said ``we're having a computer graphics art layout which we will later
cancel'' I for one would not have felt too much like sending something in.

AmigaWorld used to have a ``gallery'' for the first few issues. It
was probablythe best thing about Amiga world. They havnt done it
for a while, and AW hasnt been worth reading for a while.

I can understand that a comparison of Amiga's vs whatever in is probably 
good for C= sales, but c'mon, out of 300+ pages, of mostly PC junk
advertising, they couldnt spare 4 pages in which they could have
put 8 (albeit small) pictures per side, which could have given
us 64 of the pictures.

Or they could have published a few (4 ? 7?) of the pictures with
the article.

How many pictures DID they get made on other machines anyway ?

Perhaps it wasnt cancelled because there were too many Amiga
pictures.

Perhaps it was cancelled because there were no pictures
made on other computers.

>	If you write Byte, don't say "put more amiga articles in".  Say
>"more technical articles, less reviews."  If they have more technical articles,
>more amiga articles will come, I'm quite sure.  It's the damn PC reviews that
>are/were crowding out everything else.

How bout less techie stuff ane more pictures ? How bout a monthly
gallery column ?

-- 
               Lotus Super Seven Series III.  Too fast to race.
   BYTE computer graphics photo layout cancelled.  Too many Amiga entries.
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