Re: Remember InCider/A+

[Lockar <lockar@nospam.com>]

   It's funny that I just read your message.  I am currently digging up
all my old magiznes and I have tons of A+ A+/Insider mags...   Thinking
about selling them if there is a market for them...

     -Lockar


In article <20030920031157.28373.00001215@mb-m03.aol.com>, Supertimer
<supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

> I really miss that magazine.  The fun of the IIGS
> hardware I have largely rediscovered working
> with PC hardware.  But I have yet to find a PC
> magazine as good as either InCider or A+
> were.
> 
> Those magazines were with us even as Apple
> was neglecting the II series to death.  They
> were a forum for users to vent their frustration
> and also a source of information linking the
> Apple II developers, software companies, and
> hobbyists with the users.  Each issue was a
> gem.
> 
> Several times in the history of InCider and A+,
> they thought the end was near.  Several times
> they included Mac coverage.  A+ had Mac
> coverage in 1985.  Then in 1986, the IIGS was
> released.  The Apple II community thought
> maybe, just maybe Apple came to its senses.
> A+ kicked out the Mac and became a II only
> magazine again.
> 
> But the signs were all there a year after the
> IIGS' release despite it doing quite well sales
> wise.  Slowly, InCider and A+ shrunk.  They
> then merged.  Still they were a great source
> of information.  Towards the end, Mac
> coverage re-appeared but it was really the
> Apple II diehards who still supported what
> was left of the magazine.
> 
> When InCider/A+ ceased publication, there
> were many II publications that mocked it.  But
> no Apple II publication has ever really replaced
> it.  No offense to GS+ Magazine, II Alive,
> Shareware Solutions II, or JuicedGS.  All were
> (in some cases are currently) great publications.
> But the hole left by the loss of InCider/A+ was
> never really filled.
> 
> InCider/A+ made it past 100 issues.  Some
> magazines never make it that far.
> 
> It is safe to say that after the demise of InCider/
> A+, the Apple II market never recovered.  Even
> compared to PC publications, the feel of that
> magazine cannot be matched.
> 
> I stopped reading Maximum PC, for example.
> Maximum PC reads like it is written by some
> frat kids who know about computers.  The
> PC info is good, but the writing style gets
> tiring.  The closest comparison in the Apple II
> world was GS Plus Magazine.  But GS Plus
> included a disk of ORIGINAL software which
> made up for the journalistic shortcomings.
> Maximum PC only comes with a CD-ROM of
> freely downloadable demos.
> 
> InCider/A+, we solute you!