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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
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Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
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2138.0. "New _Amiga Plus_ Magazine (plus diskette)" by LEVERS::PLOUFF (Wes Plouff) Fri Jan 20 1989 18:18

    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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2138.1So That's What Their Talking About!ECAVAX::STOUGHTONMon Jan 23 1989 17:522
    I had heard that Antic was coming out. Sounds like its worth checking
    out.
2138.2Where is it?SHARE::DOYLETue Jan 24 1989 19:392
    	So, whats the address?
    
2138.3exLEVERS::PLOUFFWes PlouffTue Jan 24 1989 20:054
    Antic Publishing, Inc.
    544 Second St.
    San Francisco, Calif. 94107
    
2138.4BAGELS::BRANNONDave BrannonTue Jan 24 1989 23:3921
    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