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- @t6@f02 SCENE-ERY
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- @t4@f00Issue reviewed - #03
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- Produced by - VLSI (Very Large
- Scale Integration)
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- @t6PRESENTATATION AND DESIGN@t5
- Lets get the good points over with
- first, firtly this magazine has a
- pleasent menu system. Its the sort I
- like best. Your able to use your
- mouse to control a pointer which, when
- pointed at the contents operates a
- menu bar. Ahhh gorgeous. Hmm, well
- thats the good points over with. Lets
- go back to the begining. Scene-ery is
- fronted by a logo that looks like it
- was drawn in 1978, by those standards
- its still pretty bad. Its probably
- unfair to criticise these points in
- such a way, but it has to be said.
- @^
- The graphics make Cracker Journal's
- titlepicture look like a Golem
- masterpeice! They really are poor, you
- think someone would tell the artist (I
- use the term loosly) that he couldn't
- draw, and stop the poor fellow from
- wasting his time. Scene-ery shows
- more promise, as I mentioned at the
- begining of this review, when your get
- to the magazine itself. The menu is
- pleasent and easy to use. Ok, you
- select your article, it loads a little
- slowly, and appears!.. Glurk! The
- only people who are going to be able
- to read this text are the colour
- blind! Perhaps the editors are colour
- blind? Towards the bottom of the
- @#@^@t5
- screen are the control icons, and
- article information. When you want to
- move to the next page of an article it
- actualy has to load each screen,which
- makes reading the magazine
- a great chore. The icons are pretty
- awful too, minimalstic detail and
- tastless colours make them totaly
- unattractive. @t7 21/100
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- @t6CONTENT@t5
- The magazine offers a little more in
- the way of content than it does in the
- presentation department I'm happy to
- say, but not too much. The only
- compliment I can give the contents is
- "It could be worse!", the presentation
- on the other hand could not. I think
- that the makers of Scene-ery don't
- really care what they put in the
- magazine. Either that or they just
- @^
- can't attract any better writers. The
- promlem a bad looking magazine faces
- is that it attracts bad articles.
- There are some really great article
- writers in the scene today, and they
- are not likley to be tempted to write
- for a magazine that appears to be for
- delinquents only. There just dosen't
- seem to be an intelegent link holding
- the magazine together. Articles about
- anything are thrown in anywhere. You
- can imagine the editors sat one day, a
- letter arives "Oooh! an article!
- Arn't we lucky!, I dont understand it
- too well, but our readers will! Shove
- it in!!" @t7 58/100
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- @t6OVERALL@t5
- This magazine takes the "B" out of
- banal. It offers nothing new and
- presents itself poorly. @t7 37/100
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