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- The first ASCII magazine on Amiga!
- Issue #1 Release date March 1995
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- - Da Asciimagazine of Amigascene! - Issue #1 March 1995
- Main-editor: dA pRESS! staff
- Contributors: dominator/corrosion
- Snake&Delboy/Prestige
- For suggestions, informations, help, advs, donations etc.:
- dA pRESS!
- nightfall c.p.102
- I-34100 Trieste
- Italy
- # Editorial #
- Just some days after the foundation of "Da Press" we decided to write down
- these bytes of texts trying to explain our plans. "Da Press" is nothing
- else than a bunch of editors who want to have their work "protected" and
- better known by the masses: so they decided to organize themselves just to
- set some basic laws of behaviour that should be respected by every
- scene-editor who wants to belong to the organization. This sort of "code
- of respectability" is included in the foundation's manifesto which is still
- under work. It will draw a figure of editor which will be a source of
- inspiration for everyone of us, a pattern which will be our professional
- deontology. But that's not all. We want to build up for the Amiga scene a
- sort of information's agency such as ANSA, TASS and so on are in our real
- life, trying to release periodically bulletins full of interesting and
- scene related news. Try to think how nice could be the possibility to have
- every one or two weeks a list of all the main events happened all around
- the scene, just a couple of words about every fact; not real articles as
- there are plenty of good diskmagazines that already do this kind of job,
- but just some fast and clear lines. We perfectly know our plans are huge:
- that's why we ask the HELP OF EVERY FAST SWAPPER AND TRADER. Yes, when you
- send stuff to a journalist of "Da press" don't forget to include the latest
- news you're in possess of, or even become YOU a correspondent for "Da
- Press", reaching fame and glory!. You have to be fast and faithful, so
- everything you write has to be THE TRUTH, but if you believe you're cut for
- this job, then join us. Just some days ago we had a dream, now that dream
- is coming true: ladies and gentlemen, "Da Press!" is born.
- # News #
- * dA pRESS!
- -dA pRESS is born
- -Articles written by members of dA pRESS! are or were present in all the
- top magazines of the last years' scene!
- # The call of the East #
- We had the luck of getting an issue of an Asciimagazine from Yugoslavia.
- dA pRESS! (from now dp!) is always looking for news and scene related
- stuff from countries which obviously have a lot of problems in spreading
- their productions. We did not ask the permission due to the difficulties
- mentioned above but we strongly believe that CORROSION guys (the group of
- the main-editors) won't be angry if we publish some parts of their zine:
- "yugoslav coders or what ?" is the title, then it starts: " Since me and
- some of my friends got really pissed of yugoslav coders, i finally decided
- to type in a few straight words about them, hoping to force them change a
- bit. so... to say coder, it should mean to produce, actually, to CODE,
- but this sick country produced special subgroup of coders who aren't just
- lazy, like most coders are, but also totally unmotivated. that leads us to
- conclusion that our coders are not 100% guilty for not being productive.
- but the guilt still remains their. here are some of usual situations in
- which our coders get into and how they act.
- situation 1 (bullshit artist): coder sees some new routines from brand new
- demos from the top of the charts. he repeatedly give comments like 'bah,
- this is easy' or 'i've already done this but its gone with my HD crach...
- only my grandma saw it...'. who cares? the first and the best gets it
- all! if you wanna get famous, code best and be first. what else to say...
- i'm tired of listening that kind of bullshit! act now and show your power
- if you have it. keeping your knowledge for yourself won't help it grow!
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- situation 2 (lazy to the bone): graphician, musician or organizer of group
- decide that it's about time for some kind of release, let's say, just a
- stupid intro. coder agrees and gets to business. two days later, designer
- dials coder, asking him how the project is developing and gets answer like
- 'i've just started, it will be finished in 4 days'. 4 days later mystic
- coder answers to the same question something like this: 'oh, i've got this
- brand new game, i've reached seventh level, it has many... intro?... oh
- yeah... well... erm... u see, this game really is something... ok, ok,
- i'll do it soon...' and finally, intro is finished, after two months of
- coders work and three years shorter lifetime of designer. why losing
- precious time this way? i am not against games or any other way of fun,
- but what's the point in spending two months of groups active lifetime for
- releasing just some minor production?
- i'm sure you get my point in this matter. coders have plenty of reasons
- not to have motivation, but if we stay forever just looking world
- productions passing by, we'll never become part of it. the scene grow
- creates motivation for work. when we understand that we will finally move
- on! you, coders, are the most important in the whole scene biz, so, wake
- up and help all of us to make our dreams come true!" Nice article indeed!
- But I guess Italian scene's not so far from these problems...
- # Amor vincit omnia #
- Well also if this is the title of our main-editor's personal corner in
- Abnormalia we want to introduce here a nice request which would make so
- happy Castagna, Mengacci & co. (this is just for Italians I think)
- together with all soap opera watchers (The bold and the beautiful rulez!)
- and Harmony collection readers... Anyway at least read it!
- Hi!
- This is Darkman/Ram Jam writing to you this time with a strange kind of
- letter.
- Usually when someone contacts another swapper is for swapping....this time
- I need help from you and if you want from your friends/contacts! About 5
- months ago I falled in love with a girl, she's for me the only one in the
- world...I think also you are ever falled in love with a girl that you think
- is the most beatiful one...
- Well, I often speak with her but she never let me show my love for
- her...she always says "you are crazy!" and I usually reply "Yes, I'm crazy
- for you..or maybe because I'm loving a girl that will never love
- me!!"...and she "let time passes...you are too much sure of yourself!!"
- Well..now to show her MY GREAT LOVE I ask help to you....Just send a
- postcard to my address (not her one because her father can make me unhappy
- to do this) and please write these sentences:
- LIVIA, PIERPAOLO TI AMA!
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- this sound like this: LIVIA, PIERPAOLO LOVES YOU!
- If you want add a translation of the italian sentences in your own
- language. I'll be very grateful to you...I think help for love is very
- important.......
- Also, please add this letter to your standard letter and SPREAD IT AS MUCH
- AS POSSIBLE!
- I hope to get about 3000 postcards if you will help me!
- Always thank you for making it possible: AMIGA RULEZ FOREVER!
- Signed
- Darkman of Ram Jam
- My address:
- Pierpaolo Galassi
- Via Annunziata n.134
- 81017 S. Angelo D'alife (CASERTA)
- ITALY
- ALSO FOR SWAPPING!
- Any further comment will be published by THe RiPPeR/dp! in his corner in
- Abnormalia together with his own one.
- # Swapping addresses #
- We still did not receive any request of swapping. As we perfectly know
- that if something we'll pop over our mailboxes that will be some tons of
- advertisements we have to suggest our dear customers we accept adverts ONLY
- 76 chars long! Why so long? Rumors told me the reason is still TOP
- SECRET, it's up to you to find why.
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