Saxonia Issue 02 Part 019

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· 5 years ago

  

Comment to Darkhawk's review of Saxonia issue 1 
By Rumrunner/VOID 
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Seeing the review of Saxonia 1 by Darkhawk in DISC 14, there are some 
things that needs to be straightened out. 

First, there are no need to cycle through all articles using the 
arrowkeys, use can type the articlenumber you want on the numeric keypad 
and load with the enter key. The helpscreen brough up by pressing the 
deletekey clearly states so. 

Next, Saxonia isn't my first released work. My first released work was 
an intro called Saxonia Advert, I released this to tell people that the 
mag was soon coming. I also released an intro to say Marry Christmas just 
before christmas 2002. These are perhaps not good spread, as I didn't 
release them on any party and such productions seems to get little 
attention nowadays, a strange phenomena when you think about it, 
considering the fact that there are few releases to come all over now. 

Except from this, I agree with most written in the review, taken into 
account Zerox's correction regarding credits. Since I left out the credits 
of issue one, you can find them in this issue. 

I'm also very happy to hear that Darkhawk regarded me as enthusiastic in 
my work. I agree with him fully that there are too few enthusiastic 
people left in the scene. This might come with age, we all know that the 
average scener is older now than in the beginning of the nineties. Some 
of this relates to the fact that the older ones among us remember the 
Amiga from the time when it was [2 the[0  machine to have, this goes 
without saying. I also think that we can blame all of the new stuff 
coming on pc. All the games and even complete movies spread before the 
official release of that particular film doesn't encourage young people 
to use their imagination. Just take a look at an average adventure game 
like Zak McCracken and compare it to some never one. The younger member 
of the genre is most likely to be of the "find the hidden playbutton and 
press it" type. So far, we might notice this more on Amiga than those 
involved on the pc platform, but believe me, groups will have problems 
getting younger members in just a few years. 

Just like I use to, I have sprung off the main-topic here, but that 
doesn't matter, I think it had to be said, and I would also like to thank 
Darkhawk for reviewing the mag. I take what he wrote for positive 
criticism and encouragement to continue working for the Amigascene. 
Hopefully there will be some articles from him in this issue of Saxonia, 
I will try to remind him of the deadline a day or so before, hehe.