Which magazine?
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After uploading the above message, I went back and read the "which mag"
thread from the beginning and wanted to clarify something I just said. When I
call Compute a "lightweight" mag, I'm not just referring to their
concentration on beginners. That's fine. I'm really a beginner here, too.
But when I was a moderately functional C-64 user, they adopted the beginners
and dropped me. No big deal; I continued my mag subscription, waiting for
everyone to catch up.
It never happened. Instead, every 5 or 6 months, they regurgitated
beginners' info. Pretty much the same stuff every time, too. I got fed up
and dropped. I am leery of ever subscribing to Compute again, I'll waste 6
months of my subscription reading the first six months' worth of data.
Compute Books, however, is another matter. I got a copy of Advanced
AmigaBasic last week. If you don't mind AmigaBasic, and I don't, it is very
nice. I plan on looking carefully at all of their releases; I know they
won't all be good, but they will occasionally put out a good one!