@f@2 AMOSZINE READERS LETTERS ======================== @3 From: Allan McCullen, Liverpool. @1 With regards to Amoszine ; I read it from file to file and found my way around it very easily. The information given was both clearly set out and informative. I especially enjoyed perusing through the source code section. The only areas that were possibly open to criticism were the title picture, which I found hard to see-although I did recognise "Elvira" ; the tune which I personally found to be on the harsh side and the flash that occurred everytime the music looped back to the beginning. Although I liked the screen wipe would it not look better to hold the title picture over until all the initialising had been done - just a thought! On the whole I enjoyed reading Amoszine, the so called faults are only my personal preferences, so please don't take them to heart. Allan also called later with a fix for the Brainshave source on issue 1. If you remember the control method didn't work that well in Amos 1.3 but seemed to be fine in Amos Pro. First of all OPEN ALL PROCS Now put a rem at the beginning of each of the following lines lines > 286,287,292,293,295,296,299,300 Nice one Allan. @3 * Hope the tune and title pic are more to your liking this time Allan. Belinda (who drew the pic) says it was Vampyra from C.U Amiga adventure help-line, and turn the brightness/contrast of your monitor/T.V up! I have implemented your hold the picture idea (Why didn't I think of it before?) Steve. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @2 From: Steve Pullinger, E.Sussex @1 Come on! In Amoszine #1 News you said that Amiga Shopper is only worth buying for the Amos column. This is blatantly untrue, it makes a damn fine mousemat. Anyway, thanks for sending me Amoszine #1, it's the best read I've had in ages (especially the bit about Impact). I'd given up on most of the paper mags except for Amiga Shopper and it's a nice change to read articles where I don't have to spend £500 on hardware to make use of the information. Best bit of the mag has got to be "In the making", I'm looking forward to more. I've included some source code and stuff. Articles I have planned for the mag: Articles on structured program design and creating 3D maze graphics. Every silver lining has a cloud: There is an improvement that could be made to the mag: the spelling. What you need is a proof-reader with a top-notch spell-checker who'd do the job for free. Well what do you know? I'd like to offer my services for this time consuming job totally free of charge (after all I'd be getting a sneak preview!). and.. Filemaster needs powerpacker library V35+ to decrunch, but the version on the mag was V33.1! Bye for now Steve Pullinger @3 *A real mouse mat would be cheaper, wouldn't it? Thanks for the proof reading offer, I agree, some articles were badly spelt. You are now our official proof reader. So any spelling errors are now down to Steve folks! thanks. Thanks also for your articles and support. Looking forward to reading the above mentioned ones. Steve. @1 From: Steve Rennocks (Amivision Software) After looking at Amoszine issue 1, I am most impressed and would like to help with it in anyway I can, time permitting. The section on marketing your own game was very interesting, and I look forward to part 4, selling the products by yourself and getting good advertising deals from magazines. Just one thing I would like to add to your detailed "Marketing your game" article is that of copyright. Before people send off disks to companies they should always make a copy of the disk and post it to themselves without opening the package upon it's return, the postmark provides the date of copyright and is acceptable as legal evidence in court should the company try to rip you off. Steve Rennocks. @2 Thanks for the compliments Steve. Yes you are totally correct, I should have mentioned the importance of posting your disk to yourself first. Thanks for pointing it out. If you were really worried about being ripped off it would also be advisable to leave another copy of your package with your solicitor as further proof. Looking at it from a legal angle you are then protected by the copyright laws of this country, but as you would expect with our current justice system, being in the right doesn't mean much, unless of course you have a lot of money to spend on court actions. If you are poor like most of us are, then a legal aid solicitor will be your defence against a probable corporate lawyer who in reality will make mince meat of you within minutes. You could end up paying court costs, the Softco or both if you lose. It's not fair, but it's life. But as suggested you should still copyright your product as the chance of an out of court settlement would do nicely, don't cha think? @3 Steve Bye. @1 This letters page could get to be good, how about starting off some debate that gets the old blood boiling? Any offers?