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==================================================================
REVIEWING STUFF THE ST FORMAT WAY
OR
CAN YOU SPEAK IN FISHY ACCENTS?
==================================================================
BY C.I.H. OF MAGGIE
==================================================================
Hi there James, this is Chris who is vaguely associated with the
planet Earth and all of its kind speaking. This little bit of
text before the main article can be left in, or taken out before
it goes into the next issue of 'Power', it is your decision as
editor to make. Anyway, I thought I would make sure I was totally
clear that this is not a 'Maggie reject' article offloaded on to
you, but was written as a humourous stab at those zany wackoids at
ST 'Doormat'. It was originally intended for Maggie, but thinking
a bit more, I decided it would be more suited to 'Power' as the
issues raised directly concern certain people involved with
'Power'.
I am thinking especially of Deano and Silly Software, and I hope
he manages to get a bit of a laugh out of reading this, and that
Trenton Webb really means what he says about 'Doormat's PD
reviewing policy. Remember guys, we're on your case!
Maggie at the present time (mid-August) is making good progress,
and even allowing for the many interruptions and lost weekends
that will soil my communications with this keyboard, we should be
out shortly after 'Power' issue twenty, first week in September or
thereabouts.
Prententious Guff-o-Gram ends... CIH.
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REVIEWING STUFF THE ST FORMAT WAY
OR
CAN YOU SPEAK IN FISHY ACCENTS
==================================================================
Agent X of the ST-Format team speaks out, more secrets
compromised, more juicy tales spilled.
Do you care about what you do, what the users think, are you a
real keen man on the scene? Well we don't want you here at ST-
Format. We're not that type of publication.
ST Format is the Gulag of Future Publishing, their Minister for
Northern Ireland where the bad boys are sent for a period of time
to learn the error of their ways. Staff are frequently humiliated
and made to dress up in pyjama-prison clothing at work, so of
course, these bitter wretches take out their hatred of humankind
on you, dear readers!
That is where the weird stuff comes from, it is the sound of a man
running on the last remnants of his wellbeing and sanity. So now
you know.
Did you know that Future Publishing operates an 'internal market'
for words and phrases commonly used in reviews.. With the decline
in the ST market, words such as 'Great', 'Fantastic', 'The best
game ever launched', and 'Kill your granny to get at her life
savings under the bed to buy this game' have all been put out to
tender by PC Format. This is why over 80% of the reviews in ST-
Format contain the word 'crap' now. Nothing else is available, as
even the lukewarm enthusiasm and faint praise has been taken by
Amiga Format.
Be safe, be snide, if grovelling to a programmers angry letter
after you gave them 3% in your review, agree with everything they
say, but publish a picture that suggests they really are
plagiarising mugs after all. Most readers won't bother to look
too closely at the letter after they have seen and appreciated our
little 'joke'!
ST Format closing down at Christmas, such utter nonsense! We will
live forever, WE'RE STILL HERE, WE'RE STILL HE-- KLUNK!!
(The End)
But on to more serious stuff, for example...
Reviewing stuff the ST Format way, right, dead easy this one.
Just take a load of stuff from a PD library in Kent who is claimed
to be 'large' and 'up-to-date', but is strangely six months or
more behind because they have a fondness for shitting on their
suppliers, so no-one with any sense goes near them anymore. (He's
talking about 16\32 P.D.L. obviously...Not POWER P.D.! Obvious I
know but it had to be said! - POWER).
Next, select 'the random fifty'..
General rules:-
Demo's are 'crap', picture viewers are 'oh no' and a silly
comment afterwards, try not to say anything meaningful
that may endear people to a particular product. Off you go.
(**** Star rated review system, the more, the better..)
1. Farty-pants GIF viewer, - Whoopee, another picture displayer,
time to spraypaint the goldfish again. **
2. Limp Mines, - Move the dot on the board, God, so am I.. *
3. Rackety Trax MOD. player, - You're making me do this as a
punishment, aren't you Mr. Bastard Editor. ***
4. Speed of Mud picture displayer, - Another one, I'd rather be a
baggage handler at Lockerbie..
5. Dots 'N' Bobs Demo,- Ok in an ok-ish sort of way, but only for
30 seconds. ***
6. Lasers and Humans, - Hmmm, could be on to something here.
Probably attempted suicide if I can just eat the skin off my hand
with my teeth and then bleed to death. ****
7. Gargleflax disk utilities, - Time to gild the lily (what?) **
8. Time and Effort Megademo, - It uses DSP coding, so they say,
but I don't understand it, so I don't like it. *
9. Ultimate Volkswagen Killer, - Nice little utility to install in
the petrol tank of your most hated enemy. ****
10. Party Nasties Megademo, - More wibbly lines, tedious sub-
literate scrolltexts and a crap disjointed 'techno-rave'
soundtrack (Er actually, it is a rather nice truecolour slideshow
- ED). ***
11. UninspiredTris, - Another Falcon variation of a well-worn
game. **
12. Dot on screen demo - Exactly what it says, a dot on a screen.
brilliant! *****
13. GIFsex Picview, - Picture viewer that only works with XXX
rated material, - polyp!!!
14. Sie Wurden Gefunden filesearcher, - UGGGHH!!!
15. Retarded v2.52, - ST emulation for Falcon, some more tuna
steaks needed here. ****
16. Monothing - Anti-truecolour mode for Germans but very hi-res
instead. Flibble wibble poo! **
17. Boing, boing!
18. LET'S KICK OUT THOSE JAMS AND PARTY!
19. Unhand that poor defenceless maiden you evil scoundrel!
20. I cannot tell a lie, the piano did it Sir!
21. Not going to play any more, can't take any more of this.
22. How can we waste the other two pages pointlessly? I know,
let's sing a song..
23. ST Format Office explodes shortly after two disjointed chords
of 'When I ruled the World' By Harry Secombe.
Emergency hypnotherapy is choppered in via air-ambulance for the
thousands of traumatised readers who have simply had enough. Smug
and triumphant PD reviewer gets his ticket back to Amiga Format.
All concerned breathe a huge sigh of relief.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(Article dedicated to Deano of Silly Software, who after all, told
Floormat where to get off, rectally insert their magazine, gild
their lily etc.. Well done mate!)
(C) Someone almost and not unlike CIH, Aug '94.