Re: SoftdiskGS #82

[gareth@vcn.bc.ca (Gareth Jones)]

Charles T. 'Dr. Tom' Turley (cturley@grin.net) wrote re the last issue of 
SoftDisk GS:

: 
: Now, who's game for developing a freeware monthly 'Diskazine' to replace 
: it. Say a monthly archived 800k disk or two, each month, uploaded to 
: Ground and our other A2 ftp sites around the world - with a format and 
: style sort of like SDGS used to present their issues with?  
: 
Since SoftDisk GS was not freeware, a freeware monthly disk subscription
would not be a direct replacement of this unique resource. The fact that
they paid well inspired many people to write programs or articles that
would not otherwise be written.

: You can never replace SDGS, it was unique.  But, you never know what 
: might result with a little bit of unity, talents, efforts, concerns and 
: labors-of-love to try to file the gap left with the departure of SDGS 
: from the IIGS world. 

True enough. And Apple Blossom Publishing's new 2-disk quarterly
subscription "Hyper Quarterly" is planned to ship its first issue this
month. It is a commercial effort (i.e. it pays) and it is dedicated to
HyperCard GS, which means that a wider variety of people can create
publishable material - stacks, clip art, sounds, etc.

This effort has _already_ had the effect of dragging me back to working
with HCGS on a regular basis, having new ideas and trying them out, having
fun, making art, sharing thoughts - all those things on which the future
of Apple II computing depends. The more people who share this rebirth of
activity, the better off we are.

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editor: Apples B.C. News   | Burnaby, B.C.          |  create badly than
co-editor: Hyper Quarterly | CANADA                 |  to appreciate
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