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- EEZI-PC Maggie
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-
- *Important thing to note first!*
-
- In spite of appearances to the
- contrary, this special edition of
- Maggie will happily run on any ST
- based hardware. It won't run that
- well on any Intel based computer, nor
- is it meant to, unless some damn good
- ST'ish emulation comes along.
-
- People reading this should be
- expecting to revel in the dire
- misfortune of those benighted Intel
- users from the safety of their ST,
- and not joining in with them!
-
- Yes, it runs on Falcon, subject to
- the normal 'ST Resolution only' type
- terms and conditions.
-
- For a change, lower end users get the
- best of the deal for this special
- issue. Firstly, you get a stunningly
- 'real' simulation of a typical PC
- desktop environment (DOS V.4, I
- believe) if you autoboot. Also with
- certain DESKTOP.INF values cunningly
- juggled about by us beforehand, you
- can run the Eezi_PC.EXE file straight
- off without any problems.
-
- Contrast this happy situation with
- those smug, hard drive owning high-
- end gits who have to fiddle about
- unecessarily to turn Eezi_PC.EXE back
- into a more amenable Eezi_PC.PRG to
- run. This is quite a good simulation
- of how many real PC programs behave,
- especially on expensive higher end
- systems, where you have to tinker
- endlessly to get it to do anything at
- all. Art is clearly parodying life in
- a rather weak fashion here!
-
- If you really want to experience the
- whole maschochistic tedium trip of
- the life of a typical PC owner, why
- not fiddle around with your
- DESKTOP.INF file instead, so you
- think you've got a 'Sys Config'
- headache all of your very own! The
- DOS afflicted will nod in sympathy,
- but more sensible people are sure to
- laugh at you instead.
-
- *Coming soon!* Eezi-PC Maggie DOS
- memory segmenter for those hilarious
- 640K bottleneck antics!
-
- Oh, and you won't half look a tit
- trying to read this forty column text
- on a super hi-res monitor!
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- A different type of Maggie?
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- Eezi-PC Maggie is a one-off special
- issue kind of thing, made with the
- dedicated PC-hater in mind. Inside,
- you will get a mixture of back-issue
- material slagging off the dreaded
- klone box, going right back to issue
- ten, along with a little bit of
- internet material, and some new and
- specially written spoof material for
- this issue.
-
- I think the 'suits' would call these
- "Bullet Points" or something. Anyway,
- some of the things you will find in
- this issue.
-
- *The Atari 'Looputer' revisited, and
- not a Motorola based system after
- all! (With exclusive picture.)
-
- *Meet the new look Maggie Team!
-
- *Demos and games we sort of made up!
-
- *Usefully Spacefilling Art Gallery!
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- *At least one pro-PC viewpoint!
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- *Intel Trek revisited!
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- *Our revenge on crap Boxshifters!
-
- *Authentic 'Windows' style general
- protection error emulation!
-
- *More?
-
- *Yes, there is, go and have a look!
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- Atari Computing Note!
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- Issue three is now out, and the
- Maggie pages go from strength to
- strength. However, a small degree of
- confusion on the part of Felice goes
- to prove that history is not so much
- the 'Propaganda of the Winner', more
- likely the outpourings of those who
- do not know what their right hand is
- up to when it comes to fine detail.
-
- The Maggie 5th Birthday Party report
- was nicely recycled from Mike Noyces
- account, however, the screenshot
- featured two Symposium visitors, Kev
- 'Taff' Davies, and Neil 'Arnel'
- Hyphen-Jones. *Neither* of these
- people were at the Maggie Party!!
-
- One wonders if this Stalinist
- reinvention will eventually catch on
- as the hallowed truth!!
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- To end with............
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- Eezi-PC Maggie, a little peek through
- the blast doors into Computer Hell!!
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- Goodnight and sleep well!
-
- CiH 20th/Feb/1997..
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