Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
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Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Just got an envelope in today's mail offering _Amiga Plus_ magazine from Antic Publishing. This will be a bimonthly magazine plus disk with the first issue dated April/May. Contents of the first issue - - "Happy Guy" animation on disk plus article on how it was made - Comparison review of all Amiga word processing software packages - Games: Kamikaze Chess, Mastermind - "Mighty Macro Library" - Getting started in Amiga desktop video - Photo Laboratory tutorial - "Make-it-yourself Datebook" - Color-cycling special effects From the look of the flyer, _Ami+_ will be slick but will still have some substance. Looks like it will avoid the "son of C-64" flavor of other spinoff magazines. (Antic is active in Atari ST publishing and software.) They promise 100 pages plus a disk per issue. Price: $39.95/year (6 issues) Has anybody heard hard news about this magazine? Is the original _Antic_ good? Does _Amiga Plus_ look worth a subscription?
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2138.1 | So That's What Their Talking About! | ECAVAX::STOUGHTON | Mon Jan 23 1989 14:52 | 2 | |
I had heard that Antic was coming out. Sounds like its worth checking out. | |||||
2138.2 | Where is it? | SHARE::DOYLE | Tue Jan 24 1989 16:39 | 2 | |
So, whats the address? | |||||
2138.3 | ex | LEVERS::PLOUFF | Wes Plouff | Tue Jan 24 1989 17:05 | 4 |
Antic Publishing, Inc. 544 Second St. San Francisco, Calif. 94107 | |||||
2138.4 | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Tue Jan 24 1989 20:39 | 21 | |
re: was Antic any good? I got the same thing in the mail. I was hoping it would be a "son of Atari 400/800" magazine but without all that ST stuff cluttering it up :-) In the 8-bit atari world, ANTIC and A.N.A.L.O.G. were/are the leading magazines in the US. It will be interesting to see if they can do an original disk magazine, without resorting to stuffing it with PD programs. I'm a bit hesitant to send off for a disk subscription for a magazine that has only been announced but not yet shipped. On the other hand, I was glad to see that they didn't pick a particular language to publish programs in. And the articles did look interesting. And if they brought over any of the old 8-bit programmers, they might be able to teach the Amiga a thing or two about dual playfields and custom display lists. -Dave |