Saxonia Issue 03 Part 023

Published in

· 5 years ago

  

UPdate on the Cows'n Snakefights mag 
By Rumrunner/VOID 
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I told in the review of Cows'n Snakefights 5 that I had not seen this mag 
before. I decided to download the previous issue and take a look at them, 
in order to get the "common feeling" of the mag, if you understand that 
expression. So I wandered to 2 nls.mine.nu0  and got the four previuos 
issues. 

It came apparent that this mag has all the time from the start been 
something special. The layout I told that I liked has been there since 
issue one, the scrolling articlenames seems to be new though. 

Also it came clear to me that this mag focuses mostly on partyreports and 
interviews, and I think the makers have done a fine job in interviewing some 
interesting people, like for instance Booger/Factor in issue one. I'm not 
sure whether Booger/Factor is the same one as Booger/UPrough now, but 
certainly there are people who knows this, so they can tell me if they 
want to. I think that the idea of focusing on just some kinds of articles 
works very well in this mag, the articles seem to be overall well thought 
out. 

The mag has, like most others improved alot through the issues. There were 
some points for instance in issue one that I never could get used to. The 
mag exited when you pressed right mousebutton, something that's easy to 
accidentally touch when you reach out for the mouse. Also, the font used 
has improved, from one that was a little unpleasant to the one used in 
issue five, which I like and it even reminds me of fonts used in demos back 
in the late eighties. That's ofcourse how I think it should be, hehe. 

For the sake of the first issues of the mag, it seems like Nukleus managed 
to release it quite often, I think I counted a couple of months between two 
of the issues. This is an advantage of a small mag, you can release it 
often. I know only two mags that have had more or less steady releases with 
a short inbetween-time, one of them being Grapevine from LSD, and the other 
one being Eurochart, when the production still belonged to Crusaders. The 
Eurochart was not a mag as we know it back then, but as it got more and more 
mag-alike I think it's allright to consider it in this aspect. 

I would recommend everybody to download all of the issues of the mag if 
they you don't have them already.