| From: | Anthony W. Prime |
| Date: | 2 Aug 2000 at 18:06:58 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Active 11 |
Hi Mike
> >> I'm still as disappointed as ever with the mag. It's on par
> with Clubbed,
> >> which is not a knock on the SEAL boys and girls, but a professional
> >> mag should outshine a fan produced mag anyday, sadly AA does not.
> >...because...?
> I get the impression the mag is written for people who are
> ignorant that there
> is a whole computing world beyond red and white balls.
Nope. Plenty of general interest magazines out there, only one Amiga
specific, so long may this slew continue.
> Not enough news. Sure not your fault not a lot is happening as yet. What
> little news there is I read online before it appears in print.
And for those readers not online? Also, as your are online, which magazines
that you read _do_ actually present news pages that are news to you?
> Rants & Raves : Bad idea imo. Skip three pages.
:/
> Who are DCE : Mildly interesting, but didn't hold my attention to
> the end of
> the interview.
> 15 years of amiga : done to death already. IMO, nothing can beat Edge
> magazine's article on the history of the Amiga. Skip six pages.
Thoroughly enjoyed that despite having read similar many times before.
> Amiga Writer : hmm, it sucks and gets 3 pages. Yet, PageStream
> ruled and got
> 2. Skip those three.
Surely it`s far more important to spend column inches covering a product
with flaws than fawning over something great as the less polished product is
likely to take more thought before buying?
> Audio Evolution : Looks good, I'll have to check it out. :)
> Eyetech EZTower Z4 : I already have my 1200 in a tower, it's very nice and
> does it's job very well. Skip two.
I Haven`t... yet :)
> Art Effect : doesn't interest me. TVPaint, PPaint, SuperView etc meet my
> needs. Skip.
> Art Effect Tutorials : bah. Sk..
> YAM2.1 : I already decided YAM sucks thanks. Guess? :)
> Imagaine : not interested. 3 easy ways to make a Boing ball, lame.
> Active media : haven't read.
> Shareware :
> Amtelnet is a rip off.
> TView, I don't watch TV that much.
> SimpleFTP, opus is fine thanks.
> Mah-Jong, great game. but nothing beats the ZX spectrum version. :)
> Programming in C : No thanks. DHTML and PHP do me.
> Active Gamer : not a bad interview, I do think Eyetech's "pay to download"
> idea is shot though. Who is going to pay to download a game when it's
> available for free on Back2Roots or <insert URL> ? Oh I know, the sheep.
> Payback: looks nice.
> Ultimate XTReme Racing : It's essentially 5 years old ffs.
> Letters + the guru : couldn't be bothered, hugely unimpressed with the mag
> thus far I can't bring myself to read anymore.
> Online : started reading, thought it was a bit of a repeat of the
> spam article
> in CU which I memorised. :)
> RetroActive: Hmmm, not up to jason's usual standards. Probably
> because Jason
> didn't write it. Ho hum.
> I find Clubbed much the same, but find it more acceptable because
> Clubbed is
> a fan production, and I only have one issue left of my current sub.
> Unlike those I have talked to who no longer buy AA, I tried to give some
> feedback re issue 10. I think it's important to have a mag on the
> shelves in
> news agents so people know there are still plenty of people to turn to for
> help (or something...).
Sorry feedback by definition needs to be constructive, not a list of "X
sucks because I`ve decided it does and I`m not interested in it anyway"
comments :/
Bye for now.
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