Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!crash!hrlaser From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Software Antics vs Amigo Times Keywords: monkeybusiness Message-ID: <1499@crash.cts.com> Date: 14 Feb 90 15:35:56 GMT References: <90042.150500UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> <3057@d75.UUCP> <564@lexicon.com> Reply-To: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA Lines: 67 In article <564@lexicon.com> fc@lexicon.com (Frank Cunningham) writes: >In article <3057@d75.UUCP> robin@sabre.uucp (Robin D. Wilson/1000000) writes: >> In article <90042.150500UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes: >> >1. PHASAR 3.0 $40 >> I don't mean to rain on your parade, but Antic's Amiga magazine >> just gave this away on disk for $9.95 U.S. They also offer a deal >> to get the manuals for another $15. >> It seems as though the makers of PHA$AR 3.0 are getting ready to >> ship v. 4.0. > >Flame On-> this is one of the things that pisses me off about Antic's >Amiga+ ragazine. The stuff they put on the disk is often some useless, >but possibly cute, hack or else something with a commercial tie-in. The >tie-in this time is particularly blatant, since Antic is the publisher >of PHASAR. I have let my subscription die. I was planning to sub to >Amigo Times instead. Any further rumors about their future, Issue 1.10 ? >-- Amigo Times:: I was waiting for someone to ask about this magazine. I write for them (freelance) and have been published in every one of their issues since the first one. As you probably are aware, ATimes was supposed to be a monthly publication. However, over the course of two years (since the first issue came out) they've published a total of exactly NINE issues. Hardly what you'd call monthly. Issue 1.9 was the last one shipped and that was a few months ago. Issue 1.10, for which I wrote, but have never been paid, is, to the best of my personal knowledge, still sitting at the printer, where it's BEEN sitting for at LEAST a month, probably longer. The stuff I wrote for 1.10 was submitted to the editors in October '89. My best guess would be that Amigo Times is in the midst of financial difficulties and whether or not they survive and actually publish another issue is a mystery. I do know that it has been a very expensive magazine to produce what with the "color on (almost) every page." Eyo Sama, the owner, publisher, and head guy of Sama Software which puts out Amigo Times knows how to give his magazine a great look... he can write in the Postscript language and can make Professional Page sit up on its hind legs and yodel opera, so it really pisses me off to see the magazine floundering like this and it also pains me to say this (since I write for them) but at THIS point in time it probably wouldn't be a REAL good idea to send in a subscription check until they can prove they can actually deliver a monthly magazine on a timely basis. By all means, if you see #1.10 come out and sitting on a newsstand and you want it, buy it, but whether or not you'd actually get a complete fulfillment on a new subscription is anyone's guess. This leads to another new interesting rumor and that is that a certain unnamed Amiga/64 magazine published in the MidWest is planning to buy out not only AmigoTimes but another well-known Amiga oriented magazine of Canadian extraction and combine the best of both of them with its current magazine, that is, the graphics and layout beauty of ATimes plus the technical content of the "other one" along with the news and wit and "hard hitting" columns already existing in that Iowa-based publication.. or maybe they're not. However, it's NOT a rumor that INFO magazine is going to become a monthly with their June issue and is also dropping CBM 8-bit coverage completely. INFO, although a small organization, has published over 30 issues (bi-monthly) during the last few years and from all I've read and heard, they are quite healthy. Disclaimer: I write for both Amigo Times and INFO, for which I get money (usually) but I'm not an employee of either and don't own any "stock" in either.