HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO MEGADISC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One of the most gratifying aspects of editing Megadisc is getting the mail - in the run-up to No. 6 the quality of contributions has been very impressive, even by people who've never written a piece for publication in their lives. This does everyone good (not just me!) - everyone wins, contributors and users. It's very likely that you know things that many others don't, and they'd like to hear about it, if you manage to get it to Megadisc. If you get inspired and send us in a contribution which we use on a future Megadisc, whether it be a review, article, program, series of tips, graphics, animation or whatever, you'll be entitled to any 5 Public Domain disks mentioned in "PDLibrary", as well as a free copy of the Megadisc issue that your piece ends up in. So when you do, include a note saying which disks you'd like to have. Of particular interest are reviews of hardware and software, articles on anything of interest to users, and utilities/programs. Also most welcome would be in-depth reviews of the A500 and A2000, especially anything of a practical nature; information about printers and printer drivers (send in any drivers you have too); any bugs you've found in programs you use; how you've set up your system, and what you're doing with it, etc. Any current subscribers who send a contribution will have their subscription extended by one issue, as well as getting the usual 5 pd disks. It would also be much appreciated if you'd put your contribution on disk in the case of text as well, since it saves a lot of key-fingering. Even better, make it a straight ASCII file if you can - ie, use a text editor (like ED in the CLI) or save from your Word Processor as ASCII (if you can). And keep the width of the text to a maximum of 74, which is a good width for onscreen viewing. Documents from Notepad or a word processor are fine if you're not sure about ASCII. Likewise, anyone who sends in a letter or anything else (like printer drivers) on disk should mention which Public Domain disk they'd like to get back on their disk. Another way of getting information to Megadisc is to leave messages and articles, graphics, etc on CLUB AMIGA BBS (sysops: Ross Kellaway & Ken White; Tel: (02) 5216338). All you need is a modem and a Communications program (get one of our public domain progs) - try it, you'll like it! Don't worry if you don't hear from Megadisc for a while after you contribute something - we'll get back to you eventually, though you can always ring up and enquire about anything, anytime. So get inspired, and be digitally published! It could be the start of a scintillating career in the digital press. And don't forget, what you think is obvious may be mystifying to someone else - they may need to know what you know. ```````````````````` END (BEGINNING?) OF CONTRIBUTIONS ````````````````