seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) (10/01/90)
How many of you Amigans out there are familiar with "VERBUM, JOURNAL OF PERSONAL COMPUTER AESTETICS?" It's a quarterly magazine that goes for $7 US, and covers such topics as DTP, DTV, multimedia, computer graphics, etc, etc. The magazine is *very* slick and professional looking. While it does cover everything from the Mac to clones, Amigas and NeXTs, it is **VERY** heavily Mac-oriented. Apart from there being several typos and errors in the magazine (along the lines of your average A.X. Magazine) I have only a few gripes about it: they mention the Mandala system more than TWICE in issue 4.2, but fail on all accounts to state that it is an AMIGA-BASED SYSTEM!!! Yet they mention the Mac at every chance they can with other products. They also blast CDTV when comparing it to CD-I...just how much better (and more expensive) is CD-I than CDTV??? From what I understand, CD-I can show full-motion-video in only 1/3 to 1/4 of the screen. CDTV can show half of the screen with video (or full screen video from an external source with the genlock option!) There is supposed to be FIFTY titles ready for when CD-I ships sometime next year. CDTV will be available in the next couple of months with ONE HUNDRED titles or more at its intro. I also didn't like their attitude towards the A3000 as a mass-market type box. Other than that, I'll probubly keep getting it as it comes out...but this is the first issue I've gotten ahold of (we just got a Book-Stop, yey!!!), what are some other impressions of the mag? Sean >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> .SIG v2.0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< UUCP: ...!crash!pnet01!pro-party!seanc | B^) VISION GRAPHICS B^) ARPA: !crash!pnet01!pro-party!seanc@nosc.mil | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ INET: seanc@pro-party.cts.com | Dual A3000 based, custom Help keep the | computer graphics, RealWorld: Sean Cunningham competition // | animation, presentation, Voice: (512) 994-1602 under \X/ | simulation, accident- | scene re-creation, and ...better life through creative computing... | recreation...(whew!) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
rnm@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Marsanyi) (10/16/90)
My impression of the Verbum issue I got was that it was pretty, but not particularly useful or informative. Only one part of one article was new and interesting to me, and the thing cost US$7 (newstand price). Not im- pressed.