"Why doesn't the 'brightness' control improve the intellect of
TV programming?"
THE FIFTH AND LAST OF
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE DISK MAGAZINE ROUNDUPS!
Part 1: "AAUSAC" to "Dream Forge"
by Richard Karsmakers
In ST NEWS Volume 7 Issue 2 the first version of this disk
magazine roundup appeared, and about one year later (in ST NEWS
Volume 8 Issue 2) I did a revised version. In Volume 9 Issue 2
you could find the re-revised version and in Volume 10 Issue 2
there was a re-re-revised edition. This fifth occurrence is the
final revision to be released through ST NEWS; after all, this is
the last issue. Updated versions of this roundup might find their
way onto other disk magazines and/or onto specific WWW pages.
This revision contains 158 entries, of which 50 are references
to on-line efforts.
I have refrained from trying to include all online magazines
(like the hundreds of different Net Digests, to name but one
common class of examples), and instead only included the ones
that may be of interest to general Atari TOS users and fiction
afficionados.
Thanks need to go to Dave Mooney and John Weller of "STEN" (even
though they r.i.p.) for the original idea back in '91 or '92
somewhere, and a lot of other people (mainly disk magazine
editors, Paul "ST Applications" Glover, James "He's Got The
Power" Matthews and e-zine list compiler John Labovitz) whom I
can't possibly all start mentioning here. Cheers to all you guys!
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Status: Mentions whether the magazine is Public Domain,
shareware, commercial or whatever else is possible.
User interface: Does the mag have a user interface of its own?
If so, what's it like (very briefly)?
Latest known issue: The latest (or last) known issue of the
magazine. This particular information is limited to my own
knowledge and it therefore not infallible at all!
Address: The address (standard mail address and/or email) where
the editorial staff may be contacted. If the magazine is dead
this is considered irrelevant.
Health: Is the magazine still being released or has it, let's
euphemize, passed away already? Interestingly, there are also a
few in-between possibilities.
Language: What language is (or which languages are) used in the
magazine?
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AAUSAC
A disk mag by the Association of Atari Users in Schools And
Colleges. It is put together by a chap called Terry Freedman, and
its aim is to bring together teachers and lecturers who use the
Atari in their work.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Yes. An old version of the Newsdisk shell.
Latest know issue: Number 1.
Address: 45 Douglas Road, Goodmayes, Essex, England.
Health: Alive?
Language: English.
Access Magazine
This magazine gives access to a behind the scenes glimpse of
people and place you've always wondered about, while revealing
all they can discover about the world of entertainment (and they
claim to be rather good at this). They provide you with up-to-
date info on everything from the supernatural to the art of
cooking. It's said to be very diverse, but no hands-on experience
here. It's bi-monthly, and its editor is Shirley Bragg. It
started early 1994.
Status: Public Domain, on-line.
User interface: None.
Latest known issue: Not known.
Address: Email access@ambassador.com.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
ACUSG
A disk magazine that came from a London Atari ST user group. At
least 2 issues are known to have come out, but they probably
ceased existing after Volume 1 Issue 2. Articles were tiny
(displayed in dialog boxes, for crying out loud), and accent was
put on programs that could be run from the shell. The last known
issue (i.e. Volume 1 Issue 2) was released in June 1987.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Yes. A custom one that was, let's face it, bad.
Latest known issue: Not certain; probably Volume 1 Issue 2.
Address: Not relevant.
Health: Dead.
Language: English.
Afternoon Magazine
This is an international World Wide Web magazine of art, poetry,
fiction, plays, reviews, essays and film. The editors are Stephen
Williamson and William Timberman. It is only accessible, of
course, for those with access to the World Wide Web via Internet.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Well...yeah, "Netscape" or somethun'.
Latest known issue: Not known.
Address: http://motley-focus.com/~timber/afternoon.html.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
Amateur Computerist, The
A sortof regular computer magazine, covering all sorts of
different computer-related subjects. Starting with Volume 4
numbers 2/3, it's become available in electronic form instead of
the usual paper-only one. It's an American magazine edited by
Ronda Hauben and is mostly devoted to Internet-related subjects.
Not a real computer magazine in general, despite its name.
Status: Public Domain, on-line.
User interface: None.
Latest known issue: Volume 5 Issue 3/4 (summer/fall 1993).
Address: Email au329@cleveland.freenet.edu.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
Amazine
A disk magazine that used to be made by the demo coders Mad
Vision (who seem to be French, Belgian and English). User
interface used to consist of a menu where you could type the
number of the article you want to read. Later issues had a mouse-
driven menu. Quality of English varies considerably depending on
who authored a particular article. Loads of humour (BBS and
internet-sourced material). Strictly Underground and probably
fairly illegal. One of its earliest issues was reportedly sent to
F.A.S.T. (the Federation Against Software Theft) by MicroMart.
Very odd. In January 1993 Mad Vision left the ST scene and the
magazine was supposed to be taken over by the Hemoroids, but
wasn't (they are now on Amiga).
Status: Public domain.
User interface: Yes. A custom one.
Latest known issue: Issue 4.
Address: Not important.
Health: Dead.
Language: English.
Armadillo Culture
An ASCII Internet magazine, described as "the excremeditation of
a hyperactive Armadillo's opinions, and other stuff." Sounds
really interesting, not? It contains stuff about music, books,
stories, the works. The lyout is a bit chaotic, which is a bit of
a bummer because that's the only thing aesthetic an on-line
magazine can offer.
Status: Public domain, on-line.
User interface: No.
Latest known issue: Issue 6.
Address: 2857 Foxmill Rd.. Herndon, VA 22071, USA. Email
sokay@mitre.org.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
Atari Digest
These are messages and discussions taken off UseNet and
consequently edited. It is primarily focused on American
interests, and a treat for the technically interested. If you
have a look at their 'latest issue', below, you will see it's a
number that suffices to let you know how long they've been going
on and at what approximate frequency it appears.
Status: Public Domain, on-line.
User interface: No.
Latest known issue: Last documented one is 206. Probably more.
Address: Not known.
Health: Probably still alive.
Language: English.
Atari Dream Machines
A magazine dedicated solely to Jaguar and Falcon. Editors are
Timo Gietschel and Gilbert Koch, who fill it with interesting
facts, though all in German. A text displayer is supplied, too,
which enables you to check the magazine (which is one huge text
file). The text displayer uses interlace on RGB, which kindof
sucks. Contents make up for it, though.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Just a basic text displayer.
Latest known issue: Issue 6 (March 17th 1996).
Address: Not known.
Health: Alive.
Language: German.
Atari Explorer Online
When, early 1992, a magazine called "Z-Net" (Cf.) started
working together closely with the regular paper magazine "Atari
Explorer", this on-line magazine was founded. Most of the "Z-Net"
staff went to work for this mag afterwards. Around New Year
1992/1993 Ron Kovacs resumed publication of his "Z-Net". "Atari
Explorer On-Line" went on with a new editor, Travis Guy.
This magazine, incidentally, was often referred to just as
'AEO'. It was sortof released twice per month (though it had been
a bit slow during its last year or two) and contained lots of hot
inside information as far as Atari was concerned. They also did
special extra dedication issues. Sometimes they got very big with
lots of information and renditions of entire Genie Roundtable
Convention stuff. Quite incredible.
When you had a subscription to AEO, you automatically got the
Atari Programmer's Journal, a somewhat more technical compendium
sort of thing that was released once every few months or so. This
also included UUencoded source material at times. Additionally
you also got special Jaguar-related issues, "AEO News" issues and
occasional occurrences of special "CES" issues.
One of the last Atari magazine strongholds, "AEO" ceased to be
in spring of 1996.
Status: Public Domain, on-line.
User interface: No.
Latest known issue: Volume 4 Issue 9 (January 1st 1996); the
Atari Programmer's Journal latest incarnation is issue 4 (March
31st 1994); the Jaguar Edition latest issue is #3 (May 20th
1995); the latest AEO News issue is #4 (June 18th 1994). The
latest "CES" issue is "Summer CES 1994".
Address: No longer relevant.
Health: Dead.
Language: English.
Atarimagasinet
This is a bi-monthly "ST Guide" hyper text disk magazine aimed
primarily at the approximately 200 users of the "Atari Users of
Norway". The first issue was released in December 1993, after
which it appeared four times in paper. A year of pause then
ensued due to editorial health problems. In spring of 1995 it
arose again, now as a disk magazine. It is done by Stein Arne
Jensen.
Status: Public domain.
User interface: None. You have to use "ST Guide".
Latest known issue: Issue 04/95, October 20th 1995 (the fourth
on-disk issue).
Address: Atari Users of Norway, c/o Stein Arne Jensen,N-3630
Radberg, Norway.
Health: Alive.
Language: Norwegian.
AtariPHILE
A new magazine in the Atari world, and this time an HTML-based
one on the World Wide Web. The first issue was released in early
spring 1996. The editor is Jon Nott, the man of the famous Falcon
Fact File and, indeed, "Skynet Times" (Cf.).
Status: Public domain, Web site.
User interface: Well, doesn't really apply, does it?
Latest known issue: Issue 1.
Address: http://www.walusoft.co.uk/fff/home.html (which is where
the magazine itself is located). Jon can be reached at email
address skynet@fffnet.demon.co.uk.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
Atari Power Entertainment Online
This is a monthly online addition to the "Atari Power
Entertainment" magazine. It's about Lynx and Jaguars, and I
believe the first issue was released in April 1994.
Status: Public Domain, on-line.
User interface: No.
Latest known issue: Issue 3 (July 1994).
Address: APE Newsletter, 2104 North Kostner, Chicago, IL 60639,
USA (send a letter here and you'll get a free ish of the actual
magazine with an added subscription form). The email address is
c.smith89@genie.geis.com.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
Atari Star
A disk magazine about which nothing was known for a long time
except that it was supposed to have released its first issue on
March 30th 1994 and that it contained sections on computer-
related and non-computer-related stuff, interviews with authors
and more. In fact, however, it is thought that no maiden issue
ever appeared before it died in utero.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: None.
Latest known issue: None.
Address: Not relevant.
Health: Never born, allegedly.
Language: Had it properly started, it would have been English.
Atari United!
Or "AU!". A special preliminary issue was released through
STeve's Software at the Glendale Atari Show in the US in
September. It offered news, reviews, press releases, program
demos, public domain software and any other information that
might be of interest to owners of Atari TOS computers. It had a
custom interface written by Bry Edewaard and Scott Ettinger.
Compatible with any ST/TT/Falcon, using any 80-column resolution.
Managing editor was Gordie Meyer. It explicitly permitted user
groups to republish its material provided credits were given.
Articles were extensive and well-written, and bonus archives
containing ZIP archives filled with goodies were also to be found
on the disks. All articles were in one file that is loaded on
startup.
Status: Commercial (4 issues per year, US$ 4,95 a piece or US$
16,00 a year).
User interface: Yes, a custom one that's quite smooth and
entirely GEM-driven.
Latest known issue: Issue 2 (Winter 1994).
Address: P.O. Box 1982, Ames, IA 50010-1982. Might no longer be
valid.
Health: Alive, though comatose in expectance of Atari to enter
the computer industry again... Might, actually, be quite dead.
Language: English.
Atari Update
Another latecomer to the world of ST disk magazines, and perhaps
a slightly superfluous one. Articles seem uninspired and don't
cover a lot of new ground. The editor is called David Pettifer.
It is said that it merged with another magazine (which one?)
after issue 1.
Status: Public Domain (originally intended as shareware).
User interface: Yes, the "NEWSDISK" shell.
Latest known issue: Issue 1 (August 1994).
Address: Dynamic Publications, 22 Brook Road, Shanklin, Isle of
Wight, PO37 7LU, England.
Health: Alive? Merged with another? Dead?
Language: English.
Atari Yamaha User (A.Y.U.)
A bi-monthly specialist disk magazine for users of MIDI, filled
with relevant MIDI information and software reviews. It's put
together by a guy called Graeme and it's supposed to be really
excellent. Doesn't have an own user interface, though - you have
to read the articles from the desktop of using a text file
viewer.
Status: Licenceware (£2.50).
User interface: None.
Latest known issue: Issue 4.
Address: Unknown.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
Athene
I have never seen this on-line magazine. For sake of
completeness I have included it here. Until its 'death' in March
1991 it seemed to focus primarily on fiction, and seemed to be
quite like "Quanta" (Cf.). It was a monthly publication, edited
by Jim McCabe. After its death it seems to have gone into
"InterText" (Cf.).
Status: Public Domain, on-line.
User interface: No.
Latest known issue: March 1991, the seventh issue.
Address: Not relevant.
Health: Dead.
Language: English.
ATOS
A German hyper-text kind of disk magazine, of which the name
stands for "About TOS". It can be installed as an accessory. No
hands-on experience.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Yes, a hypertext one.
Latest known issue: 2/95.
Address: Not known.
Health: Alive.
Language: German.
Auto-Mation
A British (?) disk magazine that started late 1993. Initial
impression have been quoted by a PD library to be "very good and
worth a look anyway". No hands-on experience.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Not known.
Latest known issue: Volume 1 Issue 1.
Address: Not known.
Health: Probably alive.
Language: Probably English.
Bad Subjects
A magazine (quote) "intended to promote radical thinking and
public education about the political implications of everyday
life. We offer a forum for rethinking American 'progressive' or
'leftist' politics. We invite you to join us and participate in
all aspects of Bad Subjects." Topics you could have found in
there were "Beverly Hills 90210", poetry slams, popular music and
the culture of addiction.
Wowee!
Status: Public Domain, on-line.
User interface: No.
Latest known issue: Not known.
Address: Not known.
Health: Probably dead.
Language: English.
Big Night Out Magazine, the
An English magazine, colour only, edited by Paul Bramwell of The
Corruption Software Group. It contains lots of short articles.
Cute music, nice demos.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Yes. A custom one.
Latest known issue: Number 2.
Address: 28 Woodlands, Seaham, Co. Durham, SR7 0EP, England.
Health: Alive?
Language: English.
Bite
This is supposed to be the follow-up - or reincarnation if you
will - of "ST Enthusiasts Newsletter" (Cf.), edited by Jake
"Caledonia" Bain. It uses the same shell and the contents are in
the same approximate vein, though with more of an accent on stuff
taken from the Internet and less featurings of editorial
writings. It's stocked solely by Caledonia PD Library, and they
produce it too.
Status: Public Domain? Their PD disks cost £2.50.
User interface: Yes, the "STEN" one (Cf.).
Latest known issue: Issue 1.
Address: 250 Oldtown Road, Hilton, Inverness, Scotland, IV2 4PT,
UK.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
Bits and Bytes Online
An electronic (online) magazine for text-based life forms,
published at irregular intervals, but 2 or 3 times per month
approximately. The editor is Jay Machado.
Status: Public Domain, online.
User interface: No.
Latest known issue: Not known.
Address: 1529 Dogwood Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003, USA, email
jaymachado@delphi.com.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
BOMBA
A Hungarian disk magazine, now deceased, about which little is
known otherwise than that two of the people who now do "COMA"
(Cf.) used to be in its editorial staff in 1992.
Status: Presumably Public Domain.
User interface: It probably had one.
Latest known issue: I guess they made one at least.
Address: Not known.
Health: One of the few certain things - it's dead.
Language: Hungarian and/or English?
Central Atari Information Network (CAIN) Newsletter
Not a whole not is known about this one. It is the newsletter of
the Cleveland Free-Net Atari Special Interest Group. Has the
latest news of all Atari stuff, including Lynx and 8-bit.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: No. It's on-line.
Latest known issue: Volume 2 Issue 4 (April 1995).
Address: Not known.
Health: Alive.
Language: American.
CIP ST
This was the magazine of a German user group, done by editor
Ulrich Veigel. The last documented issue that got out was issue
4, of May 1988. The program has an own shell which consisted of a
large program in which all articles were integrated. Article
loading times, thus, were nonexistent. Loading the program took
quite long, though (it would, wouldn't it?).
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Yes. A custom one.
Latest known issue: Number 4.
Address: Not relevant.
Health: Dead.
Language: German.
COMA (COmputer MAgazine)
Like "BOMBA" (Cf.), a Hungarian disk magazine. It's not clear
whether it's ST or Falcon or possible even multi-format
(including Amiga and PC). The first issue was released in
September 1992, and it's made by at least two of the original
"BOMBA" people (which folded).
Status: Probably Public Domain.
User interface: Probably has one.
Latest known issue: Volume 3 Issue 2 (7th issue in total).
Address: Unknown.
Health: Alive.
Language: Hungarian and/or English?
Core
A literary internet magazine that concentrates on featuring
quality short fiction, poetry and essays. It started in August
1991 and it usually doesn't exceed a size of about 30 Kb. It's
editor is Rita Marie Rouvalis.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: None.
Latest known issue: Volume 2 Issue 4 (April 1993). Due to busy-
ness Rita hasn't done much lately, but she'll get back to it
she says.
Address: Email rita@etext.org.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
Crash
A description of this magazine goes like "A guide to traveling
through the underground. Alternative travel stories, hints and
tips". And that's all that is known, except for the fact that the
editors are John Labovitz, Miles Poindexter and Nigel French.
Status: Public Domain, online.
User interface: No.
Latest known issue: Not known.
Address: 519 Castro #7, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA, email
johnl@netcom.com.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
CSC
Nothing known about this, except for the fact that at least one
issue was made and that it's in French.
And that it actually exists, of course. Or maybe existed.
Cultural Debris
A smallish electronic magazine, each time containing about 5
essays (totalling to about 10 pages). The genre is "social
satire", and it is attemped to be more or less on a monthly
basis.
Status: Public Domain, on-line.
User interface: No.
Latest known issue: Volume 2 Issue 4 - "Venus and Mars" (June
1995).
Address: Email dahven@usa1.com. A WWW page can be found at
http://www.cyberzine.com
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
Cyberspace Vanguard
This online magazine carries news and views of the Science
Fiction and Fantasy universe. Its editor is T.J. Goldstein, and
the first, preview, issue was released in December 1992. The
first real issue was Volume 1 Issue 1. It features reviews,
articles, columns, interviews, news, etc., and is spread through
at least 23 countries on six continents. It used to be published
approximately bimonthly, but the editor would eventually like to
do it on a monthly basis provided enough people help with it. As
it is, however, as of the summer of 1994 it's only released
really small issues and complaining about lack of support.
Personally, I think this is one helluva brilliant magazine. I
have never seen so much hot news and stuff (also about future
films and books in general) in one go. No true fantasy/science
fiction fan should be without this. If he/she has email, that is.
A true shame that, of late, only small and specific issues have
come out.
Status: Public Domain, on-line.
User interface: No.
Latest known issue: Volume 3 Issue 1 (June 9th 1995).
Address: Email cn577@cleveland.freenet.edu.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
Daily Error
Probably abortive attempt at a great magazine, said to be French
and the replacement of another magazine (name unknown). It looked
too much like I demo, is claimed.
Their pre-issue/demo was released around 1991.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Very custom, yes.
Latest known issue: The demo.
Address: Irrelevant.
Health: Dead. Actually they never lived.
Language: English.
DargonZine
This is yet another on-line magazine. Its editor is Dafydd
Cyhoeddwr (I'm not sure whether this name should be taken
seriously though, though I think this is considered a fairly
standard name in Welsh). Focuses primarily on fiction. It does
stories written for the Dargon Project, a shared-world anthology
similar to (and inspired by) Robert Asprin's Thieves' World
anthologies, created by Ornoth "Orny" David A. Liscomb in his
now retired magazine, "FSFNet" (Cf.). The Dargon Project centers
around a medieval-style duchy called Dargon in the far reaches of
the Kingdom of Baranur on the world named Makdiar, and as
such contains stories with a fantasy fiction and sword'n'sorcery
flavour. It surely sounds very inspired. The magazine seems quite
prolific at times, what with 1990, for example, seeing 11 issues.
Quite irregular, it started in 1988.
Early 1995 a "Best of" compilation was released: "Best of
FSFNet" on January 18th, "Best of DargonZine" on March 4th.
Status: Public Domain, on-line.
User interface: No.
Latest known issue: Volume 9 Issue 5 (August 10th 1996).
Address: Email dargon@shore.net.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
DBA Magazine
A widespread, very popular Dutch disk magazine with a user
interface akin "Maggie" (the new version). "DBA" had this kind of
menu before "Maggie", they claim. Custom music, nice menu, smooth
working, multiple musical pieces, good graphics, intuitive, OK.
They write in English but one of the submenus is devoted to Dutch
stuff which makes it stand out among the others. They tried doing
monochrome versions back in the ST days, but they remained
colour-only until they became Falcon-only. "DBA" released the
first issue around October 1991. Issue 4 is a compilation of
stuff that appeared in issue 1, 2, 3 and 5 (yes, strange
chronology but true nonetheless). Their recent issues - up to
issue 9 - have taken up two disks. Issue 9 was the first attempt
at Falcon compatibility and as of Issue 10 it's Falcon only (and
supplied on a HD disk). Issue 12 was, massive, supplied on two HD
disks. It was a Magnetic Interlude co-operation with "Maggie"
(Cf.) and "ST News" (Cf.). Issue 13 was a compilation of the best
bits of issues 9 through 12.
The only thing not totally perfect about "DBA" is that perhaps
many of its articles are a bit bland and the English tends to
have its own biorhythm where general good quality is concerned.
They have different fonts but don't support text styles. Issue 11
is a transformation preview kind of thing to a potentially
totally renewed shell.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: A smooth and nice-looking custom one.
Latest known issue: Issue 14 (November 1995).
Address: Postbus 506, 9200 AM, Drachten, the Netherlands. Email
spostma@cybercomm.nl.
Health: Alive.
Language: English, with one column in Dutch.
Digital Disk Magazine
Multi-format (ST/Amiga/PC) magazine, proclaimed non-elitist (you
don't have to be in a demo crew), offering coverage of topics
such as Network News, Digital Art, 68000 tutorial, Software
Reviews and, yes, short stories. All different formats have a
core of the same articles with added platform-specific stuff. It
also offers PD programs and music modules. It is distributed as
"Magic Shadow Archiver" file, and its editor is Steve Hill. The
first issue was released August 1993. As of issue 4 it's
subscription only, which will set you back £8 for 4 issues or £20
for 12.
Status: Public Domain before Issue 4, sortof commercial after
that.
User interface: A GEM interface, not too brilliant and very
slow.
Latest known issue: Christmas 1993. Other source claims "issue
5" (I am not sure which is the latest).
Address: 85 Ceres Road, Plumstead, London, SE18 1HL, England.
Email sh1aoy2@greenwich.ac.uk.
Health: Alive?
Language: English.
Digital Games Digest
A modem magazine that concentrates on games reviews for all
formats (including PC, ST, Amiga, handheld, consoles, etc.). Its
editor is Dave Taylor.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: None.
Latest known issue: Unknown.
Address: Email taylor@limbo.intuitive.com.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
Discbox
A disk mag that took a 'new' approach to the concept, by showing
the articles as "Degas" pictures through a slideshow program.
Articles were extremely brief, and about 40-50 pics (i.e. screen
pages) appeared in one issue. Lots of the screens were dedicated
to ads for the people who put it out, which are the Prophecy P.D.
Library folks. Colour only.
Status: Commercial.
User interface: No. Well, maybe 'yes' - a slideshow program.
Latest known issue: Not known.
Address: Not relevant.
Health: Dead.
Language: English.
Disk Magazin
A short-lived initiative by Timo Schmidt, who after that became
one of the staff writers of "Maggie" (Cf.) for a while. "Disk
Magazine" was published in German, and had a user interface that
was, certainly by today's standards, very clumsy to work with.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Yes, a custom one.
Latest known issue: Not known.
Address: Not relevant.
Health: Dead.
Language: German.
Disk Magazin
Apparently there is a second disk magazine of this name, this
time produced by none other than The CareBears (TCB). Haven't
seen it myself, but it's said to be bland and not much worth
reading. Even considering the status of TCB it was disappointing.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Yes, a custom one.
Latest known issue: Issue 1.
Health: Dead.
Language: English and another language (Swedish?).
Disk Space
Though still suffering from the odd bug in its fresh user
interface, "Disk Space" is a promising disk magazine that we're
likely to hear more of in the future. Its editor is Jason
Reucassel, who has nothing against publishing lots of fiction in
his mag - good idea!
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Yes. A custom one.
Latest known issue: Issue 2. This is quite old by now, actually.
Address: 10 Stewarts Way, Marlow Bottom, Marlow, Bucks SL7 3QL,
England.
Health: Alive?
Language: English.
Disk Times
A Finnish disk magazine, but thank God (in whom I don't believe)
it was written in English. It used to be produced by the
Universal Coders (UNC), but they either seemed to have renamed
into Armada or these new guys had taken over. Lots of humour and
stuff, good soundtracks (they use tracker music). Some people
found it a bit childish, though.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Yes. A custom one like a large rotating drum.
Latest known issue: Volume 1 Issue 5.
Address: Unknown.
Health: Dead.
Language: English.
Dizzy Diskzine
This is not so much a regular disk magazine as a sort of disk-
based (non-official) Dizzy Games helpline. The 'magazine' is
updated once every couple of months and includes all cheats and
solutions to the Dizzy games ("Treasure Island Dizzy" and the
other Dizzy Codemasters games). They're done by Chris M. Banham.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: None. Just text files.
Latest known issue: Not applicable. Latest 'version' unknown.
Address: 36 Chestnut Avenue, Euxton, Lancs PR7 6BS, England.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
DNT Paper
"DNT Paper" is a high-quality French disk magazine. It started
off in July 1991 with a user interface that was quite slow and
had a lot to improve upon. At that time it was published by Flips
(Philippe Henrotte) and Pips of DNT Crew. The user interface
started improving as of issue 3. Then, with issue 4, the magazine
proclaimed its death. Issue 5 followed, however, and several
issues after that as well. As of issue 7 it also works on the
Falcon, at which time the editorial staff changed and Nullos
(Sylvain Langlade) took over. It works only in colour
resolutions.
Status: Public Domain.
User interface: Yes, a custom one.
Latest known issue: Issue 7 (April 1994).
Address: 62 bis, Rue de l'Oradon, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand,
France.
Health: Alive, sortof undead.
Language: French and English.
Dream Forge
This is the successor to "Random Access Humour" by Dave Bealer
(Cf.) and Rick Arnold's "Rune's Rag". It's a monthly email
magazine that started with two free demo editions in January and
February 1995. As of the March 1995, it's commercial. Via regular
mail (on DOS disks) an annual subscription costs US$ 24, via
Internet it costs US$ 12.
Status: Commercial; first two issues Public Domain.
User interface: None.
Latest known issue: Volume 1 Issue Issue 4 (April 1995).
Address: Dream Forge, Inc., 6400 Baltimore National Pike, #201,
Baltimore, MD 21228, email addresses dbealer@dreamforge.com or
rarnold@dreamforge.com.
Health: Alive.
Language: English.
Disclaimer
The text of the articles is identical to the originals like they appeared
in old ST NEWS issues. Please take into consideration that the author(s)
was (were) a lot younger and less responsible back then. So bad jokes,
bad English, youthful arrogance, insults, bravura, over-crediting and
tastelessness should be taken with at least a grain of salt. Any contact
and/or payment information, as well as deadlines/release dates of any
kind should be regarded as outdated. Due to the fact that these pages are
not actually contained in an Atari executable here, references to scroll
texts, featured demo screens and hidden articles may also be irrelevant.