how are we doing?
Barbara,
I'm not a subscriber. I do occasionally buy AW after a quick scan when I
see something interesting in it, but, lately, not a great deal has caught
my interest.
I'll just shoot you some of my opinons instead of a structured response
to your message.
AW seems to cater too much to the brand new Amiga owner. While ignoring
that segment entirely is not wise I do believe you should address more
content towards the knowlegable old hand. I don't wish to see another
'Discovering Workbench 2.04!'. I do wish to see articles on some of the
less well documented features, but not repeated in every edition.
One of AW's weak points seems to be reviews. Several have been downright
incorrect on important facts and a great many are either a litany of
superlatives or complaint from the author's personal point of view. There's
very little real information in them. Not all, mind you- some are indeed
very informative to possible customer and might even contain some nice tips
for someone who already owns the product.
With the reported demise of AW Tech, (I don't subscribe but do buy every
issue) AW should take over some of the [soon to be] sorely missed functions
of that magazine. I don't mean it should turn into a developers only
publication, but that it should address itself to informing the person
that's learned that there's more to the machine than WB. I'm of the
opinion that the publication should be aimed more at the poweruser of the
machine, with information for those who have some specialized uses for the
Amiga. Keeping informed the people who inhabit that vertical market you've
mentioned should not be _the_ primary goal, IMO, but treated as a very
important one. The primary productive uses of the machine, such as Video,
DTP, MIDI, and, yes- even Games, should be addressed but not at the expense
of _educating_ the reader as to what is out there for the machine and how
he can best decide what to buy and how to use it. Or even telling him
about something he's never even thought about before.
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