Disk Maggie 12 by Maggie Team
ISSUE 12
Definitely the Last Word....
Hi diddly dee, it's 11.23!!!!
(13/9/93) The closing stages of 'Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy'
on Radio 4, half-way up a Welsh Hillside surrounded by assorted
Atari 'Computery' bits and piles of disks and oh, we're on the
end music for 'Hitch-Hikers' already....
A little explanationette?? I am presently staying at the residence
of one 'Pele very-helpful-with-the-falcon-version-of-maggie-with-
odd-cats!!! Still he has been extremely helpful in compiling and
Falcon-fixing this issue, so I won't complain... Thanx mate!!!
His house is very fascinating, it takes the theme of 'Country
Cottage' almost to it's logical extension of being made out of
sweets and chocolate as per the old Grimm Fairy tale... It is also
at the end of a very twisty and steep gravel track, which my car
had great fun with.. It got stuck halfway down, persistently
refusing to work today...
It follows my first greetings are wholeheartedly reserved for GESA
ASSISTANCE/AVON ROADRESCUE for the amazingly quick response time
to my call, and the rapid (two minutes, thirty seconds approx) to
get the car going again... The problem was due to 'dampness' -
more like 24 solid hours of torrential rain whilst it was parked
on an exposed hillside.. Who can blame a perfectly innocent car
for lying down and refusing to get up again under the
circumstances eh!!!!
Believe it or not, I am also on holiday this week, so I don't know
why the palm-frond waving beautiful maidens on a tropical beach
have not arrived, the wrong slip of a delivery note and there you
are I suppose...
A word on this issue.... This was brought to you with extensive
Lemmings assistance....
Major thanks in connection with this to Pele, (See above) and K-
Klass who did the most excellent main menu picture...
Other thanks to the usual people, who are the Maggie Team,
including Felice, Dave and Mark at the Local club, DW Stables, and
everyone else who contributed in whatever way..
~~~~LOCAL NEWS~~~~
'Ding Dong the Amiga Club is Dead!!!!'
Wellingboro', Dateline Friday 10th September.... At a particularly
packed and successful Atari club, it is announced that a new PC
club is to fill the vacant slot left by the recently departed
Amiga club... Only the Amiga club haven't been told yet!!! (Tee
Hee!)
~~~~Falcon~~~~
There is more Falcon stuff than ever before in this issue, some of
it kindly donated by the Falcon Owners Group, (F.O.G.) especially
details of where to find them and how to join up... The majority
of interesting stuff on this disk is also Falcon only, which is
unfortunate for a lot of ST owners... Sorry about that folks, but
I cannot put thin air on to a disk, which is what has been
forthcoming for the ST lately... If people are still out there,
then the moral is... Get in touch and let us know about it..
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pele here .... this issue is just about ready to be released.
Chris is listening to 50Khz modules on the Falcon through a pair
of earphones and consequently he is shouting at me (not realising
the volume of his own voice!). I must admit that K-Klass's picture
looks damn fine - even in mono! I've got Maggie running fine on
the Falcon, although you don't get to hear the Big Alec tune.
Still, as most of the articles are catered towards Falcon owners,
it is desirable that it does run on this machine! I don't know
what I'm supposed to write in this little read_me type file - I'm
no Richard Karsmakers (as you may have gathered by reading this
far). Let's have a go
It is dark. It is night. It is the middle of the night and I have
drunk 4,000 cans of coke and ate 5 billion slices of Pizza in the
writing of this sentence.
There, sounding like a true coder already! Now I've just got to
start calling non-coders lamers just to antagonise Andy Hutchinson
(ex) of ST Format (known as 'Hutch' to his friends). Thank god for
Paula 'Abdul' Richards (or whatever her name is). Speaking of the
legendary magazine, where the hell is it? We are steaming through
the month of September without its release. Chris and I took a
trip around the local villages and towns today and there wasn't a
decent ST mag in sight. In fact, there weren't any ST mags about -
just Super NES and Megadrive rubbish.
Another exciting thing happen on this outing - it rained (quite
heavily actually). British life - you can't beat it.
Chris has decided to play the 'blood money' and 'sanxion' modules
on my Falcon. Quite why, I'm not sure but I'm sure there is a
perfectly rational explanation. Chris has just informed me that
there isn't. 'It sounds horrible' is the comment I'm getting (and
it does even five feet from the speaker.) "ARE THIS CRAP
HEADPHONES OR WOT?" Bellows Chris waking up the neighbourhood -
again not realising the volume of his voice.
The word 'padding' springs to mind.
Are nights dark these days? Or is that just something people tell
me in pubs....I can't be sure...
Sanxion 50khz style is being played now .... it's still not as
good as Mad Max's version in the Big Demo (those were the days).
Sanxion fades slowly into the distance .... what juicy module will
be dredged up next? (I dread to think). Oh dear....it's 'Last
Ninja'. Help. Bring back the YM2149f, all is forgiven! Don't US
Gold have great musicians? Have you heard the fabulous tune in
'Legends of Valour' - it must have taken them hours to compose and
is just bursting with melody. Also it makes the game falcon
incompatible, but that is a small price to pay for such an aural
delight.
Chris is now listening to tune that I am sick to death of (I used
it in one of my Falcon intros...). Now the Falcon is attempting to
emulate 'Depeche Mode' (and succeeding!)
Oh dear .... Red Dream ... aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh (anyone who
attended the Lemmings 'in the middle of nowhere party' will
sympathise with these statements).
Chris has threatened to dig out some of his own modules .... time
for a sharp exit ....
~~~The Long Watches of the Night episode xiv~~~
Back again and really stuck for something to say that will fill up
the last 20-odd K or so on the disk... The really contrived
attempts to generate a 'party atmosphere' by the last writer Pele
have not helped, and now everything is shutting down into a
longfaced sort of silence.. The champion sellotape wielder himself
looks like he is getting ready for bed (*Pardon!*)... So it only
remains for me to say..
LOOK OUT FOR THE BIG END OF YEAR ISSUE 13, (At the end of this
year....)
Can I be bothered with the so-so-predictable "Joke" file-ending
which goes on for another six months... I THINK NOT!!!!
(C) CIH/PELE 1.05pm.... 14/9/93... Yes we do write a bit slowly
but who cares......
THE END.... YES IT IS.....
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