Hi there and a very warm welcome to all readers new and old. I do hope that as you browse through the magnetic pages of the The Crypt Magazine that you will find something that you will enjoy. I seem to remember Ian saying something similar, well that just goes to prove we really mean it.
Now onto the important news, The Crypt Magazine is about to take on some changes. Don't worry, these forthcoming changes will benefit YOU the reader. But in order for you to appreciate the changes you will need to know some background on how we at RIYAN Productions put the magazine together.
The Crypt Magazine is compiled using DMC, a disk based magazine creator but it does have the added advantage of also running from hard drive. We were just thinking the other week how many readers actually run The Crypt Magazine from floppy disk? Well I guess very few. If you happen to be reading this edition on line with a PC, or if you have down loaded this edition from our website, or from the Aminet, or from AACD then you will have already installed it to hard drive and the floppy disks are no use to you.
Now we appreciate that there may be a few readers out there that do require a set of floppy disks in order to obtain The Crypt Magazine but we can't imagine for one brief moment that they actually READ the magazine from the floppy disks? It would be far too slow for one and require numerous disk changes as well.
Our change of plan will be to compile The Crypt Magazine for hard drive and "on line" running only. This will allow us to give to YOU the reader, bigger and better music modules to listen to, larger and better graphics to view and almost an unlimited amount of text for you to read.
We will however, for those that still require them, continue to distribute The Crypt Magazine on floppy disks, but these will be designed for a hard drive installation only. Anyone wanting a set of these new install disks will need to make use of our new CRYPT DISKBACK SERVICE that is explained elsewhere in this publication. Please take the time to read this article as we don't want anyone to be left out of obtaining their copy of the magazine.
Finally, we hope that you enjoy this edition and support us with your comments and suggestions. You can post your comments to our website's guestbook or send us an email or even a good old fashioned letter. What ever method you use, we would love to hear from you. You may even wish to join our free and easy mailing list and take part in discussions along with other items as to what goes in the next edition of what is after all YOUR magazine.