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- *** ShareWorld 5 Status Report ***
-
- This is the current status of SW #5 on Tuesday, 30th May, 1995.
-
- RELEASE DATE: 1st week in July and holding...
-
- EDITOR'S REPORT: I've written 1 article, started the Diary, started
- Feedback, started Not The Editorial, done the research for a new column
- and even thought up an idea for yet another column. No articles have
- yet been compiled but issue five does exist with all its indexes and
- standard stuff such as Submissions and so on in place.
-
- SUBMISSIONS IN SO FAR (not counting what I've admitted to doing
- above)...
-
- * Chapter three of Deus Ex Machina of course.
- * 1 short story.
- * 7 new pictures. (As apposed to the million or so old ones lying
- around that will probably not get used.)
- * 7 modules! It's true I tell you!!!
- * 1 letter to the editor.
- * 5 completed questionnaires.
- * 3 new adverts. (As apposed to any that may be carried over from the
- last issue.)
- * 4 limericks.
- * 15 articles - albeit 9 of them recycled from other mags.
-
- A reasonable start I guess. Also, here's some of the questions I'm
- thinking of putting in a "Readers' Survey" that'll be in SW5. If
- there's any questions you'd like added to this list then please send
- them in quick. DON'T ANSWER THESE NOW!!!
-
- QUESTIONS FOR PROPOSED READERS' SURVEY...
- (Note. The results will be published in issue 6 and nobody's names will
- be given. All the filled in forms will be destroyed when issue 6 is
- released with the only data being retained being that which is given in
- issue 6, such as 70% of readers have A1200s, all have contributed to
- Grapevine (but always deny it) and so on.)
-
- * How did you first come into contact with ShareWorld?
- * How many diskmags have you contributed to and which ones were they?
- * Name any current diskmags you think are worth reading. (If they're
- not PD or freely distributable, state their price and how and where to
- obtain them.)
- * Name any current computer (or related) papermags you think are worth
- reading.
- * Name all the shareware you have registered to, if any.
- * If you have registered to shareware, give a general rating overall (0
- bad, 5 good) for the quality of the software, the service you received
- and its value for money.
- * How many computers have you owned - and give the make and type of
- each.
- * How long have you had an Amiga - if you have one.
- * Describe all your current computers and their specs, giving their
- name and type (including Workbench/Windows versions, DOS versions
- etc.), age, amount of ram, number of floppy drives, hard-drive sizes,
- monitor-types (say TV if it's a TV), and any other hardware for them
- you have - and their makes and specs. (Give a rating too - 0 bad, 5
- good.) Suggestions... Printers, Joysticks, Modems, Image Scanners,
- Cartridges (Action Replay etc.), Genlocks, Sound Samplers, CD-ROM
- Drives, Video Digitizers, mouse mats etc.
- * Does your Amiga have an internal clock? If yes, have you set it's
- date and time?
- * If you own a modem, which electronic services do you have a mail-box
- with, if any. (Internet, etc.)
- * How do you usually make contact with other Amiga users? Through club
- meetings, via a modem, via the post, through work, through school,
- other ways. Select more than one of those if applicable.
- * Do you normally seek out other Amiga users, or do they find you? Or
- do you avoid them like the plague?
- * How long have you been using computers?
- * How many pseudonyms have you - counting your real name?
- * Do you belong to a computer club (or three)? If so, approximately how
- many members does it have and how often does it meet?
- * Do you belong to a "scene" group (or three)? If so, give its/their
- name/s.
- * Do you belong to a PD group (or three)? If so, give its/their name/s.
- * Which, if any, Amiga public domain libraries would you recommend as
- giving a good service?
- * What do you think is a sensible price for a near-commercial quality
- shareware application. Say a word-processor able to use all standard
- Amiga fonts and include clip-art amongst its text?
- * What do you think is a sensible price for a near-commercial quality
- shareware game. Say of SimCity or Monkey Island standard?
- * What type of software do you feel is missing from Amiga PD or
- shareware, if any?
- * If you have produced Amiga shareware, give the number of
- registrations you've received for your most popular release. (0!) (1-5)
- (6-20) (21-50) (51-100) (101-300) (301-1000) (1001-5000) (5000+) State
- also if it was an application, utility, game or whatever. Oh go on -
- don't be shy! I won't tell and it'll be out of date by tomorrow anyway,
- won't it?
- * How, if at all, have you contributed to the Amiga public domain.
- Examples... Written software, written articles or stories for diskmags,
- made music, produced art, produced a diskmag etc.
- * What decade were you born in? (State if early or late ie: early 70s,
- late 50s.)
- * State gender. (ie: Male, Female, Other.)
- * Is there a type of computer available at the moment which you don't
- own but which you'd like? If so, name it.
- * Where do you mostly obtain public domain software from. (Suggestions:
- PD libraries, friends, postal swappers, clubs, via modem, magazine
- coverdisks, other sources.)
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