Ymgve at 17:11, 31 August 2007

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Welcome strangers to another glimpse into the weird
and not so wonderful mind of MAD/PAdUA, in another
enthralling episode of MAD ON...

This months topics include FTP sites, phoning the UK,
SHOUT magazine and more!!!

===FTP power===

Last year, when I started University life, I gained
access to FTP and WWW (even though the BASTARDS at
Huddersfield University put up several obsticles in
my way). With a little (a lot of) help from Antitrack
and Anonym, I became an addict!

Now, I regularly transfer stuff for when I next go
home (and it convert from PC to C64).

One BIG BIG problem is that someone uploads an old
demo, I think it is new, and therefore spend ages
downloading and converting for NOTHING!

Please, uploaders, spare some consideration and put
a release date in the title!!!

There are a few FTP sites I use, the best for new
stuff are definitely SCS+TRC' site and Playboy/F4CG
site. The FUNET and PADUA+LOWER LEVEL+DYTEC sites
have a good range of older stuff, and loads of such
transfer utilities.

I'll include ALL the decent C64 related sites next
month (my list is slightly inaccurate).

If anyone has a site, and wants to be included,
E-Mail me on c9405616(e)pegasus.hud.ac.uk with some
details. (The (e) should be replaced by an 'at' symbol)

===phONEday===

Here in the U.K., after the 16th April, 1995, most area
codes have been altered. When dialling the U.K., you
must include a 1 before the area code. Anyone who
rang my house before dialled:

(dialling code) 44 *** ******

Now, you must include the 1...

(dialling code) 44 1*** ******

(I won't put my phone number in, because

a. I don't live with my parents anymore,<br/>
b. My new home has no phone (yet).<br/>
c. I wouldn't want weird people ringing me up (weirder than the ones that ring me now...)

Get the picture???

Just to make it slightly more difficult, Telecom have
changed (completely) the dialling codes for five
cities or towns (Leeds, Sheffield, and I forget the
rest - your operator will advise you...).

===SHOUT or WHISPER?===

Recently, another magazine burst onto the scene.
A very promising collaboration from EQUINOXE and
FAIRLIGHT, SHOUT magazine was born. I liked FLT's
mag Reformation (nice outfit), and I really liked EQX's
mag Ingenious Brain (great outfit).

I expected something really excellent, but sadly, I
am disappointed. I was going to review it this issue,
along with Alpha Flight's 'Pulse-beating' RELAX mag,
but I decided against that for this issue (for reasons
you don't need to know).

My version of SHOUT crashed badly (disk error), so
I cannot review a half working magazine...
Anyway, back to SHOUT. For some reason, it looks
quite similar to IB, except for worse graphics (the
ones I saw anyway where well below both groups
previous magazines).

The point for this article isn't to slag a rival mag off
to the rest of the scene, so anyone in EQX or FLT -
I'm not slagging you off! BUT, when two very decent
mags join together, I'd like to have seen an outfit
that reflected both mags, and not just rename IB,
stick a load of poor graphics in, and increase the
editorial list...

Both EQX and FLT may be thinking I'm just being a
bastard to their new baby, but come on! Think DESIGN
think OUTFIT! The text is there, now just show it off!

I know it is hard to design an outfit for a magazine,
revolutionary designs such as Shock's proportional
fonts have set a standard (will Skyhigh set a new
standard for proportional upscrolling??? Haha!).

Right! Your time is up!

I'm going to have to move my C64 to my new home, all
this running between Uni, my parents house and my
new home is getting stressful!!!

Next month, expect another MAD ON... with the usual
UK news, contemplation, condemnation and whatever
I feel like writing really...

MAD/PAdUA is away...

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Ymgve at 17:11, 31 August 2007