wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ray Wilmott) (03/13/88)
++++++++++++++ Seems to me I read a post here back around the middle of January explaining that Analog had been bought out by a bigger company and that we could expect a March issue to be out by the middle or end of February. It's now the middle of March. Anybody hear anything recently about Analog's L-O-N-G absence, and when, if ever, I can expect a new issue to arrive in my mailbox??? -Ray wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu
john1233@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Thomas M Johnson) (03/15/88)
In article <Mar.12.15.39.14.1988.28108@topaz.rutgers.edu> wilmott@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ray Wilmott) writes: > >Seems to me I read a post here back around the middle of January >explaining that Analog had been bought out by a bigger company and >that we could expect a March issue to be out by the middle or end >of February. It's now the middle of March. Anybody hear anything >recently about Analog's L-O-N-G absence, and when, if ever, I can >expect a new issue to arrive in my mailbox??? > > -Ray ANALOG is back. I just looked in my mail box and here it is! On page 4 is a editoral by Lee Pappas and it just repeats the things he said in the interview that was posted to this group. It starts off with: "Hey, long time, no see." The editorial never mentions who bought ANALOG just say "under new ownership." But on the bottom of page 1: "ANALOG Computing is published monthly by L.F.P. Inc." It is 96 pages long and is now printed on a glossy paper. But it still isn't bound, just the usual ANALOG staple. It features a Action! game, a machine language game (they are printing the source code for machine language games again) and a few BASIC programs. They are still running the video games section for Atari, Sega and Nintendo. There is a article by Matthew Ratcliff called "Then and now" and it is only about the 8-bits. History is given and the future is guessed at. For those who don't know, Matt is a EXPERT on the 8-bits. So ANALOG is back, everyone should be getting their issues soon. Tom Johnson john1233@csd4.milw.wisc.edu
njd@ihlpm.ATT.COM (DiMasi) (03/15/88)
> > Seems to me I read a post here back around the middle of January > explaining that Analog had been bought out by a bigger company and > that we could expect a March issue to be out by the middle or end > of February. It's now the middle of March. Anybody hear anything > recently about Analog's L-O-N-G absence, and when, if ever, I can > expect a new issue to arrive in my mailbox??? ---------------------------- I have good news! ANALOG is mailing the April issues! How do I know? I just received mine this past Saturday (3/12)! Yes, ANALOG has been bought by a bigger company, L.F.P. Inc, which (I guess many people know now) is, I have read on Delphi, owned by Larry Flynt of Hustler fame ("infame?"). The content looks to be about the same, although the mag. seems to have shrunk a bit; there seem to be at least one fewer regular columns. But given the problems that the ANALOG staff has had, I'm willing to give them a while to get things back to normal. To me at least, it looks very much the same. There seems to be the usual complement of type-in programs, including part 2 (the compiler) of "The Wizard" text- adventure construction package. Also, there is the 1st in a series of 3 articles (in the "Bits and Pieces" series of h/w articles) about connecting one 8-bit to another, to use as a printer buffer (I guess old 8-bits are cheaper than printer buffers?), but it's a very general look at Atari SIO etc. The arrival of this "long-awaited" issue made my day! Nick DiMasi Uni'q Digital Technologies (Fox Valley Software subsidiary; ^ working as a contractor at AT&T Bell Labs in Naperville, IL) ( | this is an accent mark, supposed to replace the dot over the 'i')
Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com (11/21/89)
>As I pointed out in a previous note, you are quite wrong. Analog >and ST-LOG are merging into a bigger, better Analog Computing. I have >the October 1989 issue to prove it. Unfortunately, this info is far behind the times.. ANALOG magazine is no more... another skeleton in Atari Corp's closet.. Talk to Lee Pappas, the Publisher, or Clay Walnum, the Editor, or any of the former contributors like Tom Hudson, or Maurice Molyneaux or Charles F. Johnson, or Matt Ratcliff, or even me... You can't publish a magazine in a vaccuum... BobR