rap@dana.UUCP (Rob Peck) (01/19/88)
In article <2172@gryphon.CTS.COM>, jyouells@pnet02.cts.com (John Youells) writes: > - has anyone seen Transactor for the > Amiga yet? At the Amy Expo, CompuSave was selling copies of the Amiga Transactor. All in all, it is the kind of magazine that I woulda wanted to be reading all along the way. (Disclaimer - I do indeed have one of my articles in it, but discounting that fact, I felt that which was sandwiching my stuff was overall of a good quality.) It somehow reminded me of the early days of Kilobaud Microcomputing wherein even though you might not have the particular computer (or in this case, the language about which the item is written) the article itself remains interesting generically. The magazine is mostly meat and little vegetation (few ads) and is about 80 pages long (I remember the quote about the 100 pages of editorial material and only 80 pages to put it in - forgot to count - left it home.) The "CUTE" aspect of the formatting is that each page has a title bar and front/back gadgets. At the bottom of the page is a scroll box that contains a little square that shows the page number, and on each page, from 1 to (80?), the page number box is moved slightly more to the right, so that the last page number on the last page is shoved over to the right hand edge. Somebody else hadda point this out to me --- I was so impressed with the technical quality that I didnt notice the cute. There are a lot of recognizeable names in the first issue - hope they can continue to attract a quality bunch. Names such as Perry K, (me - 8^)), Matt Dillon, Larry Phillips and Steve Ahlstrom (sysops from C$erve), aha, found my photocopy of the cover at least... Bryce Nesbitt, Jim Butterfield, Vic Wagner, Rico Mariani, Scott Ballantyne, Andy Finkel, J.C.Bat, John Toebes, Betty Clay, Don Curtis, and edited by Nick Sullivan (sysop of Commodore's Programming forum on CServe) among others. Hope I did not forget anyone! (cover page did not mention the editor's contributions). Yes, I read it all, and enjoyed it all. Good job folks!! The issue is dated April 1988 and according to Transactor will be in their distribution network RSN. They brought 200 copies "cross the border" for Amy Expo and all have been snapped up thusfar. If they don't "give" me a subscription, I am even planning on paying for it. Aaarrrgghhh, cash outlay - ah well, its worth it. Rob Peck ...ihnp4!hplabs!dana!rap
peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (01/30/88)
Well, I just picked up the latest copy of Amiga Transactor. Looks great. I might just subscribe to this one (even at $70/6 issues). A few things, though... * I had been under the impression that it was going to come in a plastic bag with the disks included, as well as naked. For extra bucks, of course. I'm disappointed that it wasn't... that's what you really need to pull in those newsstand sales. Of course the salesman I spoke to could have been suffering from a recto- cranial inversion. Such things have been known to happen. But this guy at least tries to keep up with the real world. * The fake amiga title bars are just plain ugly. Well, Amiga title bars are a bit of an esthetic disaster in the first place, but at least they could have pixelised them to make them look better. The scroll bar for the page number was a nice touch. A bit of pixelisation would have helped there, too. The title on each page could be the title of the section. Maybe someone could do a "current directory title bar hack" for the Amiga Transactor :->. * The title on the contents is "Transactor for the Amiga/The Magazine for Amiga Programmers". A much nicer title (sort of remaniscent of Dr Dobbs new look). How about it? On to the meat... * AbsExecBase and Amiga Dispatches (perhaps it could be called PutMsg for max cuteness?)... pretty good. Meaty. Less filler. * Access (cute title? IDCMP?) Good. I'm not too interested in the particular programs covered, but I can see their place. * The ViewPort. I really want to flame Larry Phillips to death. A total attack on 'C'. Perhaps he should have stopped typing after his fit of moderation was over. * Perry's article was amusing, if a little low in substance. He could have repeated "Hacking on the Amiga cannot be done from an IBM PC." a few more times, though. * Matt Dillon's article in accessing DOS via packets is going into my library. * The next article is on the SCA virus. A little out of date. * Then we come to another "Hacker Reminiscence". If they were going to take something out to cut 100 pages down to 80, they could have saved 4 pages here. * "Hex 13 common amiga arrors and how to avoid them." A lot has been mentioned before, but it doesn't hurt to mention most of these again. And again... * "Porting from UNIX to the Amiga." Good, but one thing you should always do is try to make software that runs in the CLI window if started from the CLI, and in its own window if started from the workbench. Besides, don't we have enough calculators with fake buttons already? I ought to stick an RPN calculator in my clock... * Bob Peck's article on memory allocations and lists looks good. Haven't read it yet, but it skims well. * "In the beginning was CAOS." If this article doesn't make you want to fly your workbench at half mast, you have no poetry in your soul. * "A programmer's Tour of arp.library." I'll have to take another look at arp.library. One thing I noticed is that you still can't set up a template like: "DELETE ...,ALL/S,Q=QUIET/S:", with the ellipses standing for an indeterminate number of arguments. * Didn't read the machine language article. If I wanted to program in machine language I'd have stuck with an Atari ST. * I'll get around to the font article. Later. Promise. * "Warrior Cycles". I want to scream. This sort of program has been on my to-do list for months (though I was gonna make it more like CROBOTS). I guess I should think about adding a "Warrior Cycles" port to "Tracers". * Reviews... I'll look at Power Windows again. Promise. Yeh. I definitely want to subscribe. Maybe after the next issue comes out, if they keep up the quality. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.
pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) (02/17/88)
Thanks to all who posted followups to my followup to someone's question about when to expect their copies of Amiga Transactor to show up. Most of the followups said, in effect, "just got mine. Be patient." Well, they were right. I just got mine. Lots of good articles. If you haven't got yours yet, be patient. I'm sorry if my posting caused an avalanche of followups. I never imagined so many would respond. Thank you all. But I think the topic's exhausted now (as are we all). -- -Peter Schachte pds@quintus.uucp ...!sun!quintus!pds
11TSTARK@GALLUA.BITNET (Timothy Stark) (12/05/88)
[Hey, line eater, you have sentenced death penalty for line murder. --jury] Hello Amiga users: I have subscribed to Amiga Transactor since June 1988. I did not received any issues since June 1988. A few weeks ago, you said that they start to sell Amiga Transactor issue #3 and sent to subscribers but I still did not received that. Should I sent proof of my check and letter to Amiga Transactor for subscription problems? Please reply me asap. Thanks! -- Tim Stark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Don't send your mail through UUNET site because it is a black hole. Use UCBVAX or RELAY.CS.NET gateway to send mail to gallux.gallaudet.edu. Thank! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Timothy Stark | Bitnet: 11tstark@gallua.bitnet Gallaudet University | Internet: 11tstark@gallux.gallaudet.edu P.O. Box 1453 | "Gallaudet University is the only university for Washington, DC 20002 | the deaf in the world." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
will@fredonia.UUCP (James A. Will) (12/06/88)
While at WOC Toronto this weekend I visited the Transactor booth and
signed up for a 1 year subscription to the now monthly Transactor.
I came home with Volume 1, Issue 3 AND Volume 1, Issue 4.
Volume 1, Issue 3 contains:
-Breakpoint - third in a series on debugging by Victor A. Wagner
-Ray Tracing theory by Cathryn Graham
-Internationalizing your programs by John Toebes
-The ANSI standard for C by Eric Giguere
-A 68020/6881 board for the Amiga 1000! by Brad Fowles
-Ray Tracing with a 68020 system by Louis Markoya
-AmigaBasic 3-D plotting routines by Anthony Bryant
-BridgeBoard notes by Dan Schein
-PLUS Reviews; regular columns by Larry Phillips, Don Curtis and Steve
Ahlstrom; programming tips in bits; new products and more
Volume 2, Issue 4 contains:
-Calling the CLI form AmigaBASIC by Jim Butterfield
-What's changed in Fonts with 1.3 by Betty Clay
-The future of Amiga microcomputing by David Wood
-Creating run-time libraries by Steve Simpson
-Modula-2 programming techniques by Clark Williams
-Using TDI's M2AMIGA by Anthony Bryant
-Examples of shell programming by John Faichney
-Understanding C Declaration Syntax by Eric Giguere
-Review of WordPerfect Library by Jay Gross
-PLUS Reviews; regular columns by Larry Phillips, Don Curtis and Steve
Ahlstrom; programming tips in bits; new products and moreking@client2.dciem.dnd.ca (Stephen King) (12/06/88)
In article <8812050556.AA08141@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 11TSTARK@GALLUA.BITNET (Timothy Stark) writes: > ... Should I sent proof of my check and >letter to Amiga Transactor for subscription problems? Please reply >me asap. Thanks! At the risk of being part of a deluge of similar postings, here is my contribution: Fear not. TransAmi is in the mail. I got my copy a few days ago. Since I live in Toronto, where the mag is published, I have mine before most of North America. You will probably get yours before this news item ... -- {utzoo|mnetor}!dciem!zorac!dretor!king or king%dretor@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca Stephen J King =-= DCIEM Human Factors Division =-= (416) 635-2149
hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser) (12/20/88)
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >After reading all three i can safely say, Transactor IS the BEST Amiga >magazine bar none. Amiga Sentry is good, but seems to be always too Hey Marco... have you ever seen THE AMIGAN APPRENTICE AND JOURNEYMAN ? It might make you change your mind about "BEST." AA&J is in a "journal" format - stapled, 3-hole punched, no advertising, not sold on newsstands. I'd agree with your other comments. It seems to me that the "Roomers" column in Amazing is stirring up controversy... that translates into increased sales, so the Bandito is serving his purpose to AC, if not in one way, surely in another. :-) Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone. Plink: CBM*HARV UUCP: {ames!elroy, <backbone>}!gryphon!pnet02!hrlaser INET: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com <---open Push down while turning close tightly--->
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (12/20/88)
In article <9810@gryphon.COM> hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes: >papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >>After reading all three i can safely say, Transactor IS the BEST Amiga >>magazine bar none. Amiga Sentry is good, but seems to be always too > >Hey Marco... have you ever seen THE AMIGAN APPRENTICE AND JOURNEYMAN ? >It might make you change your mind about "BEST." AA&J is in a "journal" >format - stapled, 3-hole punched, no advertising, not sold on newsstands. Yes, I've heard of it, and have been told that it has great articles, BUT how do I get it? Also, is there any way to get past issues? >I'd agree with your other comments. It seems to me that the "Roomers" >column in Amazing is stirring up controversy... that translates into >increased sales, so the Bandito is serving his purpose to AC, if not in >one way, surely in another. :-) Yes, I, as many others, buy Amazing Computing, and the first thing I do is turn to Roomers. I don't deny that :-) On the other hand, the section has so many factual inaccuracies and plain lies that I understand why some developers are upset. I doubt AC will stop the section, on ground of "free press" and, as Harv points out, because they know now that THAT section just sells the magazine, as well as Geraldo Rivera's trash seems to sell well. We have free speech, and there should be space for anything, as long as there is somebody that wants to buy it [and one can always sue for libel, anyway]. -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
mikhe@mina.liu.se (Mike Henry) (12/22/88)
Getting tired of reading about my {harddrive,magazine,memory expansion,
startup-sequence,etc etc} is better than yours.
Get the picture?? B^)
-Mike
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In article <14160@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >In article <9810@gryphon.COM> hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes: >>papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >>Hey Marco... have you ever seen THE AMIGAN APPRENTICE AND JOURNEYMAN ? >>It might make you change your mind about "BEST." AA&J is in a "journal" >>format - stapled, 3-hole punched, no advertising, not sold on newsstands. >Yes, I've heard of it, and have been told that it has great articles, >BUT how do I get it? Also, is there any way to get past issues? >-- Marco Papa 'Doc' The Amigan Apprentice and Journeyman is published 6 times a year out of Hatteras, NC. You can subscribe for $24 a year at: The Amigans Box 411 Hatteras, NC 27943 Back issues are available. At one time you could simply 'back start' your subscription to get the back issues. It is currently in the third year of publishing. |@|) John A. Toebes, VIII usenet:..mcnc!rti!sas!toebes |.| Coordinator of The Software Distillery === USnail: 235 Trillingham Ln, Cary NC 27513 BBS: (919)-471-6436
bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) (01/13/90)
Hello all - I just received a copy of the Amiga Transactor, Volume 3 number 1 in the mail today. It's a bit late, hoho, but at least something is happening... -- \\\\ Bruce Becker Toronto, Ont. w \66/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `/v/-e BitNet: BECKER@HUMBER.BITNET _< \_ "Head-slam me, Jesus, on the turnbuckle of life" - Godzibo
Outsider@cup.portal.com (carl f hoffman) (01/17/90)
> Hello all - > > I just received a copy of the Amiga Transactor, > Volume 3 number 1 in the mail today. > > It's a bit late, hoho, but at least something is > happening... > > -- > \\\\ Bruce Becker Toronto, Ont. > w \66/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu > `/v/-e BitNet: BECKER@HUMBER.BITNET > _< \_ "Head-slam me, Jesus, on the turnbuckle of life" - Godzibo Hey, check and tell us what Vol. 3 number 1 says Amiga Transactor's address and telephone number is.
fc@lexicon.com (Frank Cunningham) (01/17/90)
In article <26014@cup.portal.com> Outsider@cup.portal.com (carl f hoffman) writes: > > I just received a copy of the Amiga Transactor, > > Volume 3 number 1 in the mail today. > Hey, check and tell us what Vol. 3 number 1 says Amiga Transactor's > address and telephone number is. This was posted a while back by Kenneth Herron : "Well, I stayed out of this discussion until now, but this posting prompted me to check the Transactor I picked up in WaldenBooks while christmas shopping. I'd been assuming you all were talking about the _next_ issue, you see, but, upon examining the cover, darned if it wasn't Volume 3, issue 1, the ?october?'89? issue. Anyway, The box on the table of contents page lists: office number (416) 764-5273 (or 5274) fax number (416) 764-9262 Order line (800) 248-2719 x 911" These office numbers remain out of service this morning (18jan90). -- -Frank Cunningham smart: fc@lexicon.com phone: (617) 891-6790 dumb: {husc6,linus,harvard,bbn}!spdcc!lexicon!fc snail: Lexicon Inc. 100 Beaver St. Waltham MA 02174 Real Recording Engineers mix direct to stereo.
FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) (01/20/90)
I called Amiga Transactor all through November and December. Never got that promised return phone call. I am very sorry to see them go but it seems clear they are not in regular publication anymore. I bought my last issue from the newsstand and won't be subscribing until I see at least a year of continuous publication. I hope they pull another miracle like the last time. If issues keep showing up I will buy them. Amiga Transactor is (was) my favorite magazine. Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com
murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) (01/22/90)
In article <26141@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes: >I called Amiga Transactor all through November and December. Never >got that promised return phone call. I am very sorry to see them go >but it seems clear they are not in regular publication anymore. I Well, I finally received issue 3.1 in the mail on Saturday Jan. 20 1990. Maybe this means that the subscriber data base is finally fixed. I agree with Dana, if Amiga Transactor cannot succeed in publishing continuously for a year, I will let my subscription lapse. -- Bill Murphy murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu Enjoying my Amiga 2000, but holding out for a real computer: The Amiga 3000!!