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- Written by Gears
-
- HOW TO GET A MAG NOTICED
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- There are SO many disk mags available now that it's unbelievable. In
- this heaving mass of magnetic data, you need to find way of getting your
- disk-mag noticed. Here are just a few (well, 40 actually) ways of making
- YOUR disk mag the large water-melon in the fruit basket of life :-
-
- 1: Include an article which mentions sex (yes, I know we've done that!)
-
- 2: Include an article which includes sex and animals.
-
- 3: Include an article which mentions sex, animals and drugs.
-
- 4: Include an article which mentions sex, animals, drugs and anything
- rubber.
-
- 5: Copy someone elses idea for an article (ARE YOU GETTING THIS SAREK
- OF NERVE AXIS ?!!!)
-
- 6: Make sure that your mag only uses 2 % of the disk, then claim that it
- is the worlds smallest magazine.
-
- 7: Show a picture exposing La Toya and Michael Jackson to be one and the
- same person.
-
- 8: Claim to be Jesus Christ.
-
- 9: Start publishing articles on how to make explosive devices.
-
- 10: Tell everyone that your disk is infected with a virus which can kill
- small animals.
-
- 11: Tell everyone that you are going to stop releasing the mag.
-
- 12: After stopping, create a sudden re-programmed version of the mag.
- (Shite ! We've just done that !)
-
- 13: Include music/pictures/articles which are liked by your favourite
- reviewer.
-
- 14: Say that there is a pornographic picture hidden somewhere in the
- magazine.
-
- 15: Change your name to that of another group and then claim that you
- are the real group.
-
- 16: Be a racist and pretend you know how to speak another language.
-
- 17: Claim that you slept with Princess Diana.
-
- 18: Claim that you slept with Prince Charles.
-
- 19: Claim that you've slept with Prince William.
-
- 20: Claim that you've slept with Maria Whittaker.
-
- 21: Tell everyone that you are an alien and you've already produced
- several other disks with secret messages about your world.
-
- 22: Say that your next mag will be on 25 disks because it's so friggin`
- big.
-
- 23: Pay an Amiga Format reviewer a large amount of cash, and ensure
- that he sleeps with any girl he wants.
-
- 24: Say that, by reading your magazine, readers will be healed instantly
- by the Lord Pot Noodle. The readers would then levitate 2 metres
- off the floor and fart a lot.
-
- 25: Say that you can get a free bomb with your magazine, provided you
- prove that you are David Icke.
-
- 26: Say that your magazine contains a secret message to a well-known
- terrorist organisation. (This will attract attention from the
- Government aswell as readers !)
-
- 45: Forget how tu cownt and spel.
-
- 27: Claim that your magazine / group is so good that you can put an
- entire movie onto one disk.
-
- 28: Claim that your magazine has an option which will automatically
- dial Defence Headquaters in Washington and activate a nuclear
- missile.
-
- 29: Claim that your magazine has an option which will automatically
- dial John Major and say, "Wibble woah... wibble wibble woah...
- wibble.....woah..... Wibble, wibble, wibble". John will think
- it's some sort of secret code, and will launch a nuclear attack on
- Bilston.
-
- 30: Claim that your magazine will automatically take control of all
- mobile communication networks, then dial all mobile phones in the
- world and say, "Flash bastards".
-
- 31: Say that your magazine has a special piece of code which will
- melt your Amiga if you eject the magazine from the drive.
-
- 32: Produce a mag where the graphics or text takes up to an hour to
- appear on the screen. This will get all the reviewer mad enough
- to write a long review.
-
- 33: Name your magazine "The Bible - Part 2"
-
- 34: Name your magazine "I AM ADOLF HITLER"
-
- 35: Store your magazine on a piece of toast, which can only be copied
- with another toaster.
-
- 36: Buy the space on the front cover of the Sun Newspaper, and have it
- say "BUY OUR MAG !" (A bit expensive this one)
-
- 37: Display all GFX, menu's and text BACKWARDS so that readers have to
- use a mirror to read it.
-
- 38: Do everything upside down, so that readers have to stand on their
- heads to read the mag. This will cause massive blood flow to the
- head, and readers will go all dizzy when they've finished reading.
- When readers recover they will claim the mag to be some sort of
- drug.
-
- 39: Include a Benetton advert.
-
- 40: Claim that your mag was produced with a Speccy 48k and ported to
- an Amiga
-
- Okay ! There you go ! If you have any more, hit that REPLY button
- and send ZAM back to us ! Hmm... Our competitors are probably planning
- to do number 14 right now. It would encourage the reader to look at
- every page of the mag I suppose !
-
- Gears 94