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mags.faq - some infos about diskmags for pc-scene rookies - (c) 1998 adok^hugi

                              v1.3 - 1998-06-27


[ o0. table of content ]

                            b a s i c   t h i n g s

   [ o1. what is a diskmag? ]
   [ o2. what is _not_ a diskmag? ]
   [ o3. what is the difference between diskmags and newsletters? ]
   [ o4. what is the connection between diskmags and the so-called scene? ]
   __________________________________________________________________________

   t y p e s   a n d   c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s   o f   d i s k m a g s

   [ o5. what are the characteristics of a typical demoscene mag? ]
   [ o6. what are the characteristics of a demo/music newsletter? ]
   [ o7. what are the characteristics of a german diskmagscene mag? ]
   [ o8. what are the characteristics of a typical ansi-scene mag? ]
   [ o9. what are the characteristics of a typical swiss scene mag? ]
   __________________________________________________________________________

                   t h e   d i s k m a g s   o f   t o d a y

   [ oA. how often are diskmags/newsletters released? ]
   [ oB. how big are diskmags/newsletters? ]
   [ oC. what are the requirements for reading diskmags/newsletters? ]
   [ oD. how much do diskmags cost? ]
   [ oE. where can i get diskmags? ]
   [ oF. some well-known diskmags and newsletters ]
   [ 10. what is the e-mag network? ]
   __________________________________________________________________________

                          g e t t i n g   a c t i v e

   [ 11. can i myself participate in diskmags? and why should i do that? ]
   [ 12. how can i support / participate in diskmags? ]
   [ 13. what do i have to do if i want to release a mag of my own? ]
   __________________________________________________________________________

                           g e n e r a l   s t u f f

   [ 14. disclaimer ]
   [ 15. how to contact me? ]
   [ 16. changes since v1.0 ]
   [ 17. greetings ]
   __________________________________________________________________________


[ o1. what is a diskmag? ]

diskmags  are electronic magazines that can  be read using a computer. usually
they  come  along with a graphical interface,  which is, beside the content of
the mag, important for the style and reputation of a mag.


[ o2. what is _not_ a diskmag? ]

no diskmags are:

a)  pure  software-collections  like the croco  disk,  where  the text-size is
smaller than the amount of bonus-programs

b) 'magazines' that mainly consist of advertisements

c)  html-based  mags are usually online-mags  but  not diskmags as they aren't
spread  via  disk but via the web.  the  only exception are online versions of
_real_ diskmags.

moreover, diskmags _must not_ be commercial.


[ o3. what is the difference between diskmags and newsletters? ]

if  not  specified in the publication  itself,  i call publications without an
interface  newsletters and publications with  an interface diskmags. there are
some  newsletters with interfaces as well (e.g. demonews, coders/fx bbs news),
but  mostly  those interfaces aren't required  for viewing the publication and
therefore  aren't attached to every issue. moreover, they often don't have the
typical  features  of diskmag interfaces like  running in graphic modes, sound
support etc.


[ o4. what is the connection between diskmags and the so-called scene? ]

most  diskmags are made by scene people and therefore relate to one or several
special  scenes.  for example, imphobia relates  to the demoscene, pain to the
swiss  scene and so on. to gain more  information about the term scene and the
several  computer scenes, download the demoscene starter kit 2.1 (available at
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/demos/info/demonews/other/dssk21.zip),  take a look at
http://www.hornet.org/ha/pages/pcdemos/  or  -  if  you  know  german  -  read
'de-coder' in hugi #5 (http://privat.schlund.de/hugi/).


[ o5. what are the characteristics of a typical demoscene mag? ]

a typical demoscene mag is based on the following sections:

-  adverts:  sceners  can advertise for  their  productions  (such as demos or
diskmags),  bbses, homepages etc. many mailswappers  use this section in order
to get new contacts.

-  articles:  the  most important  section  in  imphobia-style demoscene mags.
articles  in demoscene mags are  often discussions about scene-related topics,
but  there  are also articles about tech  issues (coding, gfx, music) and misc
topics outside the scene.

-  charts: sceners vote for the best  demos, groups, coders etc. charts are so
popular  that  even so-called chartsmags exist,  which have the aim to provide
reliable  charts for the scene by trying to  get votes from as many sceners as
possible. an example of this type of diskmag is shine.

-  interviews: sceners interview other sceners  about their scene lives, their
opinions  of  the latest trends in the  demoscene,  what they do in their real
lives and so on. interviews are usually held either via snailmail, email, irc,
or mouth-to-mouth on parties.

-  message  area:  a place where  sceners  can write eachother short messages.
however,  these messages are public and can  be read by everyone. this section
of  demoscene  mags  was mainly used  by  mailswappers  who were accustomed to
waiting  a long time for replies. it  has been losing its importance since the
internet  started to become popular among the scene and many mailswappers gave
up their activities.

-  news:  news  about the scene, often  sorted  by groups. this section mainly
deals  with topics like who joined/left  which group, who released which demo,
who  won  which  prize  at  which party  etc.  sometimes  the  news section is
accompanied  by rumours, which are, in  contrast to the news, mostly fictious.
their job is to entertain the demoscene-interested reader.

-  party  announcements:  organizers of  demoscene  parties can announce their
events.

-  party reports: sceners who attended a  party talk about what happened there
in detail.

-  party  results: official or inofficial  textfiles from the party organizers
that contain lists who reached which place in the several compos.

-  reviews:  sceners describe the latest  or  their favourite demos, diskmags,
utilities etc. and rate them.

the  interface  of  a typical demoscene diskmag  runs  in  a graphic mode. the
oldest  mags, e.g. imphobia #1-#5, run in mode  13h or mode x (a resolution of
320x200  pixels with 256 colors), the later  ones either, like autark, in mode
12h  (640x480x16) or, like scenial, in super vga (640x480x256 or even better).
most diskmags are handled by mouse and optionally keyboard. however, some mags
have only keyboard-support.

the  layout  of  the interface often looks  like  the following: the screen is
split  into three parts. the part on the  top of the page contains the name of
the  mag  and its logo. the central part  is  where the article menu resp. the
articles  are  displayed,  and  the part at  the  bottom  of the page contains
buttons and/or a status bar which shows how much of the current article you've
read  so far. the reader can navigate through the mag by clicking on the names
of  the  articles he wants to read. if  you move the mouse to the left (right)
edge  of the screen the previous (next) page of the article will be displayed.
the origin of this layout is imphobia #6. many demoscene diskmags have adopted
it since then.

three examples of demoscene mags: imphobia, scenial, shine.


[ o6. what are the characteristics of a demo/music newsletter? ]

in  contrast  to a diskmag, a  newsletter is a single pure-ascii-textfile that
usually  neither contains an interface nor a file_id.diz-description nor bonus
files.  therefore  the layout is limited  to ascii-'graphics' (like this faq).
most  times  the  newsletters don't even  use  dos'  extended ascii characters
because they are supposed to be able to be viewed on every operating system.

nomen  est omen, newsletters are specialized in news. they often focus on very
few  topics.  for instance older issues of  demonews dealt only with the files
which  had  recently been uploaded to the  hornet  archive. these aspects - no
interface,  only  a  few  topics  - and  the  fact  that  the text-amount of a
newsletter  issue isn't big cause that newsletters are released more often and
on a more regular basis than real diskmags.

three examples of demo/music newsletters: demonews, traxweekly, bjorn lynne.


[ o7. what are the characteristics of a german diskmagscene mag? ]

the  mags of the old german diskmagscene  are not so similar to eachother than
e.g.  the demoscene mags, as every mag deals with different topics - the scene
is  only one of many topics. but a few sections can be found in almost each of
these mags:

-  artikel  (articles): longer texts that  deal  with different topics. mostly
these  articles  are supposed to inform the  reader  or to start a discussion,
which is held in the laber-rubrik then.

-  charts:  take  a look at what  i've  written  about the charts in demoscene
diskmags. pure chartmags don't exist in this scene.

-  laber-rubrik: can be compared with the  message areas of demoscene mags. in
contrast  to a message area, however, the laber-rubrik contains short articles
and  discussions as well. older issues of platinum are just a big laber-rubrik
without any real articles.

-  selbstvorstellungen  (self-introductions): readers  introduce themselves to
the public.

some mags, especially the later ones (cream & hugi), contain sections that are
known  from  demoscene  diskmags as well,  e.g.  news, interviews, reviews and
party stuff.

it's  hard  to  describe a typical interface  of  a diskmag of this scene. the
mags'  interfaces  have  very few things in  common.  most  of them are in vga
(640x480x16,  sometimes combined with 320x200x256  or 320x400x256). only cream
and later issues of suicide and hugi use svga modes. another common thing: all
interfaces  except  hugi #9 and later issues are  split into a menu and a text
viewer part.

three examples of german diskmagscene mags: cream, hugi, blackmail.


[ o8. what are the characteristics of a typical ansi-scene mag? ]

the diskmags of the ansi-scene have some things in common with artpacks. first
a  major  part  of the mags deals  with  new ansi-art-releases. in contrast to
demoscene  mags, those new art releases are not only reviewed but can often be
found  in  the  mag  itself,  which  presumes  an  interface  that can process
ansi-control-codes.  these  interfaces  are based  on  the  textmode (80x25 or
80x50)  as this is the best mode for viewing ansi-gfx, but they use customized
fonts.

three examples of ansi-scene mags: b-lister, pc/x magazine, unreal.


[ o9. what are the characteristics of a typical swiss scene mag? ]

swiss  mags are mags with usually ansi-styled  interfaces that deal with a mix
of  demo,  art  and underground scene. they  are  focussed  on the swiss scene
although  some  later  issues  of pain  try  to  become  international. common
sections:

- adverts: people and bbses can put small advertisements into the mags.

- charts: the charts are restricted to switzerland.

- comics: a special feature of older trip!-issues. they are in ansi-gfx.

- interviews: one scener asks, the other scener answers.

- news: scene news, usually not sorted by groups.

-  polls: people who fill out the charts-votesheet are asked some more or less
serious questions about actual trends in the scene.

three examples of swiss scene mags: pain, trip!, trip 2 hell.


[ oA. how often are diskmags/newsletters released? ]

this point strongly differs from mag to mag. in general, diskmags are released
less often than newsletters. newsletters are often released on a semi-regular,
short basis that can be between a couple of days and monthly, whereas diskmags
are released in irregular intervals most times. the time between two issues of
a diskmag can be a month but a year as well.

some examples:

newsletters/diskmags  on  a  semi-regular basis:  traxweekly  - weekly, pain -
monthly, hugi - usually every two months.

a  diskmag  on  an extremely irregular  basis  is  imphobia, which was usually
released  every 2 to 8 months. imphobia #12, however, was released in july'96,
and issue #13 has still not been released!


[ oB. how big are diskmags/newsletters? ]

it's  hard to give a general answer to this question. i personally distinguish
three textsize-classes:

  0..300 kbyte - newsletters, small diskmags - e.g. demonews, pain, suicide
300..800 kbyte - medium diskmags             - e.g. shine, hugi, blackmail
800.. oo kbyte - big diskmags                - e.g. imphobia, cream, budyn

assume  that  3  kbyte text are about  one  printed din-a4 page. therefore 300
kbyte  text  are  about 100 din-a4 pages and  800  kbyte about 270. if you pay
attention   to  the  fact  that  neither   these  printed  pages  contain  any
illustrations nor a big font-size is used, you'll realize that even small mags
are pretty huge.

attention:  everything  i've written about in  the  previous paragraphs is the
_text_-size.  the text-size of a mag gives an impression of the content of the
mag,  but  it  doesn't have anything to  do  with the disk-space the whole mag
takes.  so if you see a zipped diskmag with a huge file-size, don't believe at
once  that  the text-size has to be big,  too. the text-size is usually only a
small  percentage  of the total size of  a mag. background-tunes take the most
space,  followed  by graphics and executable  files  like interfaces and bonus
programs.  (of  course this is uninteresting  if  we talk about newsletters as
they usually don't have any interface.)

the zipped file-size of most diskmags is smaller than or equal to the capacity
of  3.5"-hd-disks (1,44 mbyte). recently, however, diskmags have been released
the  zipped  file-size  of  which is bigger  than  one  disk. reasons for this
development are that portable media with bigger disk-spaces like zip-disks are
becoming  increasingly  commonplace,  and that  spreading  via the internet is
becoming  more  and  more  important whereas  swapping  is  slowly  losing its
importance. one major advantage of this development: the diskmag makers aren't
restricted in their creativity any more.


[ oC. what are the requirements for reading diskmags/newsletters? ]

in  general,  newsletters  can be read on  every  computer  system as they are
ascii-text-only publications without an interface. they usually don't even use
extended, system-specific ascii-characters.

the  situation  of diskmags is different.  as i'm talking about pc-diskmags in
this faq, you need an ibm-compatible pc in any case. diskmags usually run in a
graphic-mode. so you need to have at least a standard-vga-card. later diskmags
require a vesa-compatible super-vga-card. this type of graphic-card is used in
every  computer of today anyway. sometimes, however, there are situations when
your graphic-card doesn't support some special feature. then you have to use a
vesa-driver  like univbe (shareware, available at www.scitechsoft.com). if you
want  to  hear  music,  you need  a  soundcard.  most  diskmags support gravis
ultrasound, soundblaster and compatible cards. furthermore, having a mouse can
be  useful  although most diskmags support keyboard,  too.  and you need up to
five megs of free harddisk-space after uncompressing a mag. almost every pc of
today has these components. so viewing a mag should not be any trouble.


[ oD. how much do diskmags cost? ]

this  answer's simple: nothing! diskmags can be freely spread. just download a
mag  via the internet or a bbs near you  or ask a friend of yours resp. one of
your  swapping  contax  if he/she can give you  a  mag. (if you don't have any
swapping  contax,  read  dentoe's swapping.faq  to  get information about this
topic.)

diskmags  _have_  to be uncommercial.  (commercial  electronic magazines might
exist  as well, but they are not  true diskmags.) the creators of diskmags are
people like you and me, usually pupils or students, who do everything just for
the fun of it and don't intend to make any profit.

therefore  diskmags  are  strongly dependent  on  their  readers' support. for
further information read "how can i support / participate in diskmags?".


[ oE. where can i get diskmags? ]

most  pc  demoscene diskmags that are written  in english can be downloaded at
the   hornet  archive:  ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/demos/incoming/mags/  for  the
latest magazines or ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/demos/mags/ for older ones. if you
want to get newsletters, simply replace 'mags' with 'info'.

unfortunately,  the  hornet archive accepts  only diskmags that are completely
written  in  english;  at  least the majority  of  the  articles  has to be in
english. if you want to get diskmags in other languages, you'll have to search
for them. in order to make it easier for you, i've collected some addresses of
ftp and www servers where you might find not only english diskmags:

ftp://ftp.beit-eli.gov.il/incoming/ten ....... the e-mag network official ftp
ftp://crimson.umgdy.gov.pl/scene_pl/ ......... polish mags
ftp://french-demo.ml.org/PC/mags/ ............ demoscene mags
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msdos/magazines/ ...... misc
ftp://ftp.ls-net.com/pub/demos/diskmags/ ..... swiss mags
ftp://ftp.mystique.sk/pub/scene/ ............. slovak mags
ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/mags/ ................ demoscene mags
ftp://ftp.ta.jcu.cz/pub/vyhen/ ............... czech mags (vyhen)
ftp://ftp.vein.hu/pc/diskmag/ ................ hungarian mags
ftp://skynet.stack.nl/pub/demos/insight/ ..... dutch mags (insight)
http://home.pages.de/~adok/ .................. news section containing
                                               links to the latest mags
http://overflow.concepts.nl/ ................. demoscene mags
http://privat.schlund.de/hugi/ ............... german mags (hugi)
http://rzaix340.rz.uni-leipzig.de/~wir91dsh/ . german mags (cream/hotmag/mico)
http://www.hoaxarts.org/crystal/special.html . links to mags & coding-stuff
http://www.iponet.es/~dardo/diskmag.html ..... spanish / south-american mags

diskmag reviews can be found at: http://www.scene-central.com


[ oF. some well-known diskmags and newsletters ]

-[name/creator or group/language/type/topic/number of issues released so far]-
AnotherMAG        - TPF          - e/n - diskmag    - everything         -*  1
Autark            - N-Factor     - e/g - diskmag    - demoscene/politics -   1
Bad News          - Pulse        - p/e - diskmag    - demoscene          -   4
Blackmail         - Knockout     - g   - diskmag    - everything         -  12
Budyn             - Budyn        - p/e - diskmag    - demoscene          -*  2
Cream             - Obnoxious    - g   - diskmag    - everything         -*  4
Daskmig           - Inferiors    - e   - diskmag    - demoscene          -r  8
DefCoN            - K!Prod       - f/e - diskmag    - demoscene/computers-*  2
DemoNews          - Hornet       - e   - newsletter - demoscene          - 150
Hoax              - Epical       - e   - diskmag    - demoscene          -r  6
HotMag            - HotMag       - g   - diskmag    - politics/nonsense  -   6
Hugi              - Hugi Crew    - g/e - diskmag    - everything         -* 10
Imphobia          - Imphobia     - e   - diskmag    - demoscene          -  12
Insight           - Insight      - e/d - diskmag    - demoscene/coding   -*  2
Luna              - Moon Hunters - e   - diskmag    - israeli scene      -   1
MicroCode         - MicroCode    - g   - diskmag    - coding             -   6
New World Order   - Weird Magic  - e   - diskmag    - demoscene          -   8
Pain              - Pain         - e   - diskmag    - swiss scene        -* 31
Parrot            - Crypton      - e   - diskmag    - demoscene          -   3
Platinum          - Solar Design - g   - diskmag    - everything         -  20
Pulse             - Extreme      - e   - diskmag    - demoscene          -r  4
Restless          - xtatic/Hornet- e   - diskmag    - demoscene          -*  2
Scenial           - Beans        - e   - diskmag    - demoscene/nonsense -*  4
Skyline           - Skyline      - g   - diskmag    - everything         -  12
Swiss Technoguide - Wire Maniacs - e   - diskmag    - swiss music        -*  8
Suicide           - Suicide      - g   - diskmag    - computers          -  13
TraxWeekly        - Hornet       - e   - newsletter - music              -*119
Trip              - Crux         - e   - diskmag    - swiss scene        -*  8
    (d==dutch, g==german, e==english, f==french, n==norwegian, p==polish)

*  indicates living diskmags, r indicates going-to-be-revived diskmags


[ 10. what is the e-mag network? ]

the  e-mag network was founded by programmer/universe  in may 1998. its aim is
to  link  diskmags  from  all over the  world  together,  build  up an article
exchange base and later merge the member diskmags into one big mag. more infos
can be found in the e-mag network information file.


[ 11. can i myself participate in diskmags? and why should i do that? ]

yes, of course! as mentioned above, diskmags _live_ on their readers' support.
so  99% of the diskmags do not only have nothing against their readers' desire
to get active, but they even appreciate it!


[ 12. how can i support / participate in diskmags? ]

the  number  of  possibilities  how you  can  support  or  even participate in
diskmags  is  very high. furthermore, _everyone_  is  able to support mags, no
matter whether he is talented in some discipline, no matter whether he's got a
lot  of  time,  no matter where he comes  from,  no matter whether he wants to
focus on a certain mag or to try to provide as many mags as possible!

here are some of the manifold possibilities of supporting diskmags.

                  t h i n g s   e v e r y o n e   c a n   d o

-  swapping/spreading: in order to become known among the people, mags need to
get spread as much as possible.

a  swapper is a person who sends the latest freeware / public domain programs,
scene-stuff,  diskmags  and a personal letter  to his contax (abbreviation for
contacts)  via snailmail. within their reply the swapper's contax on the other
hand  send him the stuff they have got recently and a personal letter - and so
on.  the goal of swapping is to make  friends with your contax and to get new,
interesting  stuff.  in  former  days  swapping was  a  not  so  fast but very
efficient  way to have good stuff - among other things diskmags - being spread
and  becoming popular among the scene. nowadays quite a few people still swap.
it's  very  easy to become a swapper yourself,  and  it can be great fun! just
take  a  look into the advert section  of the latest demoscene mag and contact
the  people  who are looking for contax.  at  the beginning you probably won't
have  much interesting and new stuff. but -  why not swap the diskmag in which
you found your new contax' addresses? with the time you'll get lots of new and
good  diskmags and other scene-stuff that looking for stuff to send won't be a
great problem anymore.

however,  swapping has gradually lost its  importance. spreading via bbses and
the  internet  has become commoner and  commoner. the advantage to swapping is
that  you have to upload your stuff to a bbs/site only once, then everyone who
logs  in  the  bbs/site  can  download  it.  nowadays  spreading  diskmags via
online-media  is even easier than swapping as nearly everyone has a modem. you
might  ask why you should make so much effort to upload a diskmag if you don't
get  anything in return. after all, almost no ftp-server and - nowadays - only
few bbses have a download ratio. (download ratio means that you have to upload
a  certain  amount  of stuff before  you  are permitted to download anything.)
well,  that's correct. but you have to  keep in your mind: if everyone thought
this  way,  all bbses and ftp-servers would  be  empty. therefore you ought to
contribute to keep this mechanism alive!

-  voting: if the diskmag you want to  support contains a charts section or if
it  is even a chartsmag, it'll be a  great help for the diskmag editors if you
fill  out and submit the votesheet. however,  think a bit before voting and be
careful.

          i f   y o u   w a n t   t o   g e t   m o r e   a c t i v e

-  news:  you  have contact to a  famous  demogroup  or heard some interesting
rumours?  don't  hesitate to tell the  editors of your preferred diskmag about
them! a news-text doesn't have to be big, but freshness is important.

-  articles and other texts: the main  component of most diskmags. if you want
to  write an article, choose a topic that fits to the character of the diskmag
and that you know about lots of things. take part in discussions and start new
ones. you should write in an as detailled and interesting way as possible, but
you've got enough freedom to develop your very own writing style. good article
writers will become famous all over the scene!

                       c l o s e   c o o p e r a t i o n

-  tunes:  if you are talented at  tracking, you'll be warmly welcomed by most
diskmag-staffs. send in your tunes, and if they are good enough and don't take
too  much  disk-space, they'll probably be used  in one of the next issues. if
you  plan to make tracked music for  a certain diskmag regularly, you can join
the diskmag-staff as a musician.

- graphics: every diskmag with a graphical interface needs background graphics
(gfx).  if  you  are  really  talented at  pixeling  and  do  not  just create
pseudo-graphics  using  cliparts  or  scanned material,  why  don't  you ask a
diskmag-staff  if they want you to draw  the graphics for their next issue? if
you  plan  to make graphics for a  certain diskmag regularly, you can join the
diskmag-staff as a graphician.

-  coding:  some diskmag-staff is in need of  an intro for their next issue, a
new interface or some bug-fixing but isn't able to find a nice coder who could
take over this work? if you have enough knowledge in coding (programming), you
might  be  able to help them! you usually  have  to know c, assembler and some
basic  things about graphics, mouse/keyboard control, how to produce nice demo
effects  etc.  if you plan to do  some  programming jobs for a certain diskmag
regularly, you can join the diskmag-staff as a coder.

- editing: before an article is published in a diskmag, it's a long way to go.
the editor's job is to correct grammatical mistakes in the articles. sometimes
he  even  has  to re-write some passages.  furthermore,  he  has to format the
articles so that they fit the layout of the diskmags. an editor's work is hard
but  necessary. otherwise the quality of a diskmag would be much lower. on the
other hand, diskmag-editors are in a powerful and highly responsible position.
the  main  editors of diskmags often do  organizing tasks as well and can form
the  mags  as  they  want to. if you  want  to  become  an editor of a certain
diskmag, you have to join the diskmag-staff.


[ 13. what do i have to do if i want to release a mag of my own? ]

whoa, what a question! i think i could write a text-file about this topic that
is  three times as big as this faq. ;)  in general, it's better not to start a
diskmag  of your own at once. at first you should participate in some existing
mag(s),  watch the scene, gain lots of  experience, and then if you think that
you  are  capable of doing all these things  a main-editor of a diskmag has to
do... - try!


[ 14. disclaimer ]

this  text file is freeware, which means that  it can be spread freely as long
as you don't modify it. copyright 1998 by adok^hugi a.k.a claus-dieter volko.


[ 15. how to contact me? ]

feel free to contact me if you have any questions, suggestions or just want to
talk.

e-mail .......... hugi@netway.at
homepage ........ http://home.pages.de/~adok/
ircnet .......... Adok^Hugi
snailmail ....... Claus-Dieter Volko, Hungereckstr. 60/2, A-1230 Wien, Austria

mags.faq on www . http://home.pages.de/~mags.faq/


[ 16. changes since v1.0 ]

version 1.3 (1998-06-27)

- added "what is the e-mag network?"
- added ftp://ftp.beit-eli.gov.il/incoming/ten
- updated greetings list
- updated url of pc demos explained
- changed my e-mail address

version 1.2 (1998-06-09)

- added defcon, restless to the list of well-known diskmags
- added ftp://crimson.umgdy.gov.pl/scene_pl/
- added http://home.pages.de/~mags.faq/
- updated information about several mags
- removed outdated greetings list

version 1.1 (1998-04-08)

- added anothermag, hoax, parrot and pulse to the list of well-known diskmags
- added http://www.iponet.es/~dardo/diskmag.html
- corrected information about insight
- re-wrote some passages

version 1.0 (1998-03-27)

first official release


[ 17. greetings ]

quick greetings go to (no order):

prog/unv            picard/hydrogen     maxx                cortex/index
darkness/imp        barog/tesko/nothing hotblack/klf        gnome
iustus/dazed        nop/wunderwerke     shock/xtatic        judge dredd/nologic
goblin/xtatic       e2-e4/obnoxious     lms                 zyrax/codex
misha/tat/def/not   halcyon             josh kropf          skal tura
fred/cdx/pain       gyr                 moses/pyo           dendrite
arrakis/k!prod      sudden impact/dark  juippi/dazed        poti/black maiden
civax/mnh           jibz                chess knight        hellfire/haujobb
xxx/hugi            fluff               pj/comic pirates    salami/e9^nothing
rodex/taat/cdx      samiel              sniper              redhound/scene.org
tim/vertigo         aquafresh/tesko/dol hades               rib/talent
sentinel/excess     cremax/nothing      valk/mode19         dominei/dolphin
nucleon/pyo         tomcat/abbadon      bj/desire           rokdazone/endzeit
mrz/astroidea       prizrak/rcd         e605/sdi/sr?        makke/comic pirates
blacky/nologic      coc/obnoxious       sengir/cyberpics    jabberwocky
chris gahan         corion              antony/pulse        karl abel
shine/black maiden  clef                mc/nologic          pain/chaos bites
cydo                dave                griesse             franky/riot
tryx/xography       doomsday            der adler           aod
rufusul             ram/zoro            teakilla            gnpmaster/cyberpics
melcom/hoax arts    mrmike/hugi         taskman/nkotn       sind/pdg/pwp/wamma
steff/sorrox        dunkelzahn          markos              viznut/pwp/ocsa
hitech/renegades    genoz/crux/excite   mirekcz/insect      fenrir/yuca
karma sutra         andox/tbz           liftoff             linqs/yuca
altair/odds ent.    bushy               trickser            mr. seq/hugi
poison/sublogic/inf druid/.dub          der komandar        dodger
tori                tatharina/ice       brewman/singul.     dvb/frc
martin krusche      vava/atomik         red13/solodesigns   frenzy
entropy/singularity bitbreaker/tnw      spellbreaker/xtn    smash/b/n/not/tesko
brainpower/dawn3    michael maier/oct   kombat/immortals    iopl
peter dobrovka/wayx dark crusher        submissive/ct$      dake/cdx
mad monkey/tnw      itchi/thp           fkl-virus/wayx      hornet/hydrogen
raven/tektonic      nitron/yuca         griffon26           dentoe/sdi
geza                the update/copro    myth/reality        bcherwurm
dreamdancer/role    mz                  cochrane/asgard     leidpen
terror kid/up       malcy               climax/amable       aurora/skyjumpteam
lynx                scorpik/pulse       cobalt/amable       dekadance
wotan               ms saigon/3some     c-storm             fog/obnoxious
norman/reservoir    tig2/ctl            zonic               trashey/quasars
oppfa/dss           garth/ctl           kritix              xcene/dance
sniffus/sukkaz      funnel              salice/kolor        pyromaniac/beyond
memon/m0ppi         balooooo/blocc      zippy/sdi           kb/purge/tom/sds
whizzter/woorlic    phoenix/hornet      grza                city hunter/cyb
lenin/woorlic       steffo/cryonics     avatar              guardian
tlogic2             mingo/mingus        jabbar              ctrl
maus64              mcbyte              lexus/measure       vector/datakrackers
bimba               rappid              surfing/ramjam      radar/citavia
hotwire             neuroquila          slit                photon 7
action/virtual illu delta9              flash/peon
fear/tbl            yamato              stynger/peon      good luck & long life
probe/tbl           frenetic/ct$        greatrix          tell me if i forgot ya
