Laurens wrote:
>Every MSXer who is now still active knows if they don't support other that
>MSX will vanish very soon. I think that even if you guys (FD, XSW) made a
>totally-shit magazine, it would still be bought (as long as the price isn't
>too high ofcourse).
I think you're being a little
Hey Laurens,
>You should stimulate this instead of trample it in the dust.
>It will be very good for the MSX scene.
Is it forbidden nowadays to write your own opinion ? Let him be. Let every
side of this project get some attention.
Rieks
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Hi,
>It's not just the MCCx name. Sure it has some influence, but it's also the
>best opportunity yet for an MSX webzine.
How do you know ? Just because the former semi-professional magazine is one
of the factors behind it ? They were proficient in creating a magazine, but
that doesn't give a
Hi,
>What makes me sick is that if (for instance) the FutureDisk (I could
>also name XSW) asks for articles, nobody reacts. If MCCsomething asks
>for articles people rush off and start writing all sorts of interesting
>things. If the things you have to say are of interest to ANYONE, then
>for pie
Hi,
>But this can only be done if we have _articles_ to publish! IF we recieve
>articles, we can make this true and we have then full support of Frank
>Druijff, Wammes Witkop and some other former members of MCCM-team. If we
>don't get articles, we will not do this and the entire project will
> > MCCW is still a continuation of MCCM! Sort of. This is just something
> Frank
> > wants. Don't make that big deal out of it.
>
> Well then please don't talk about NOT having a deadline and NOT publishing
> the articles in one go.
> Pwah.
Why? Because that was not done with MCCM? Well, it HAD
[About _underline_, *bold* and /italics/]
> YUCK! Rule number one: NEVER use underlined! It's an artifact
> of typewriters that couldn't write in italics.
Wrong. Rule number one is: _*/NEVER!/*_ (*grin*) use explicit text
formatting.
> You could also use TeX-style: Hi, I want a certain
At 20:35 22/11/99 +0100, you wrote:
>> So what? The example was clear, wasn't it! So now you leared one LaTeX
>> command, and now you can make clear that a certain part of your sentence
>needs
>> to be emphasized. But if I were you, I'd try to learn some more about
>LaTeX,
>> because it teaches yo
] > This is also an abbreviation, actually, it's an acronym. And 'pc' is more
] > peecee and scsi is more scusi. So, they are becoming some kind of
] acronyms.
]
] Well I think it's stupid.
I agree here with Frank. Acronyms and abreviations that have become so common
like pc, scsi and basic shou
] > to be emphasized. But if I were you, I'd try to learn some more about
] LaTeX,
] > because it teaches you a lot about layout, typography and more of these
] things.
]
] Sorry, ain't got Linux and I don't think I will get it in the near future
] either (my father doesn't want it).
So??? LaTeX
> > Well I think it's stupid.
> >
> > And MCCW is not MCCM so it's not about being consequent. And besides, if
> > something stinks, why not change it? Nothing wrong 'bout that...
>
> MCCW is still a continuation of MCCM! Sort of. This is just something
Frank
> wants. Don't make that big deal out
> Well I think it's stupid.
>
> And MCCW is not MCCM so it's not about being consequent. And besides, if
> something stinks, why not change it? Nothing wrong 'bout that...
MCCW is still a continuation of MCCM! Sort of. This is just something Frank
wants. Don't make that big deal out of it.
> >
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Laurens Holst wrote:
> > > underlining **will** do (while waving my hand).
> >
> > No, it won't.
>
> No, underlining **will** do! (while waving with my hand again).
No, it won't. And stop waving with that hand like you're some kind of jedi
or something.
> > > ps. I bet no
> > underlining **will** do (while waving my hand).
>
> No, it won't.
No, underlining **will** do! (while waving with my hand again).
> > ps. I bet no-one understands my wave-hand joke... *sigh*...
>
> :P
Okay one smart (?) person here.
~Grauw
--
>
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Laurens Holst wrote:
> underlining **will** do (while waving my hand).
No, it won't.
> ps. I bet no-one understands my wave-hand joke... *sigh*...
:P
Bye,
shevek
ps: I don't really have an opinion about the discussed topics, so I don't
reply to it... sorry
/***U
> This is also an abbreviation, actually, it's an acronym. And 'pc' is more
> peecee and scsi is more scusi. So, they are becoming some kind of
acronyms.
Well I think it's stupid.
And MCCW is not MCCM so it's not about being consequent. And besides, if
something stinks, why not change it? Nothin
> I do not agree with the things stated above.
> PC is PC. pc is bullshit, it is seen nowhere else.
> same goes for SCSI.
There's no point in disagreeing. It is simply like this: MCCM chose a standard
for doing things like this, so now we will conform to that standard. Once you
chose it, you ha
> No, we've never asked YOU to write for FD, but I remember Koen asked for
> help some time age. It was before I joined the FD, so I guess it was on
FD30
> or something like that.
Excuse me but I haven't got every issue of FD.
And when I am talking about asking for writers, I mean something more
> True, but I meant guidelines that make it easier for us to do the layout.
Also
> some other 'rules', like writing 'pc' instead of 'PC', 'scsi' instead of
> 'SCSI' (abbreviations that are so common that people don't think of them
as an
> abbreviation anymore and abbreviations that are pronounced
> > but if he really can't write English, for heaven's sake, let
> > him write in Dutch! For quality and lot-of-work reasons: don't write in
> > English if it's extremely bad!
>
> The author doesn't necessarily have to be the one who writes the English
> translation. I would be willing to translat
> > By the way, please make a seperate section (which can be found quite
easily)
> > to submit texts. And, also very important, when you recieve an article,
>
> WOuldn't it be handier just to mention an e-mail address where people can
send
> their articles to?
Yes, that's what I meant. But it wil
You should stimulate this instead of trample it in the dust.
It will be very good for the MSX scene.
~Grauw
Mari van den Broek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Hopefully I'm now stepping on some feet (to get some really good
> reactions)...
>
> Several people from different groups have asked for help seve
Jeroen Smael wrote:
> This makes me sick!
> What makes me sick is that if (for instance) the FutureDisk (I could
> also name XSW) asks for articles, nobody reacts. If MCCsomething asks
> for articles people rush off and start writing all sorts of interesting
> things. If the things you have to sa
> > Please make the articles available in English.
> > There are two advantages:
> > 1. There will be more readers.
> > 2. There will be more people who write articles.
> >(Sure you can translate English articles to Dutch, but I think people
> >are more eager to write for a magazine they c
> > So, if you have any articles, in Dutch or English (we don't
> > know yet if we will publish the articles in English or translate them to
> > Dutch, or maybe translate them to both Dutch and English), send them to
> > me!
>
> Please make the articles available in English.
> There are two advant
> Hello,
>
> Hopefully I'm now stepping on some feet (to get some really good
> reactions)...
We expected something like this! :-)
> Several people from different groups have asked for help several times...
> nobody reacts to that. Now several of these groups are quitting is MC&CM
> thinking of
> Please make the articles available in English.
> There are two advantages:
> 1. There will be more readers.
> 2. There will be more people who write articles.
>(Sure you can translate English articles to Dutch, but I think people
>are more eager to write for a magazine they can actually
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jeroen Smael wrote:
> What makes me sick is that if (for instance) the FutureDisk (I could
> also name XSW) asks for articles, nobody reacts. If MCCsomething asks
> for articles people rush off and start writing all sorts of interesting
> things.
It's not just the MCCx name.
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> > If I may do a suggestion for the "art gallery", allow PC GFX too, like
> > msx-art (by using raytracing/3dsmax or whatever) by making the MSX-logo.
> > Only a few MSX'ers are gifted with drawing talents, yes, unfortunately only
> > a few..
> > So
Hello,
Hopefully I'm now stepping on some feet (to get some really good
reactions)...
Several people from different groups have asked for help several times...
nobody reacts to that. Now several of these groups are quitting is MC&CM
thinking of comming back with a magazine on the web? Who's idea
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> So, if you have any articles, in Dutch or English (we don't
> know yet if we will publish the articles in English or translate them to
> Dutch, or maybe translate them to both Dutch and English), send them to
> me!
Please make the articles availabl
> >>> there is news now! We want to continue/restart MCCM on the Web, for
> >>> now called MCCW: MSX Computer & Club magazine on the Web!
>
> in general: I don't hope we get to read articles like:
> * basic course #1
> * review of nemesis 2
> * pascal course #1
> * C course #1
> * using the PRINT
>>> there is news now! We want to continue/restart MCCM on the Web, for
>>> now called MCCW: MSX Computer & Club magazine on the Web!
in general: I don't hope we get to read articles like:
* basic course #1
* review of nemesis 2
* pascal course #1
* C course #1
* using the PRINT commando
* everyt
Hi,
Hold it a bit Barney, what you write here isn't really important yet.
> A webpage means:
> * goodlooking GFX
There won't be that much graphics. Compare it to the magazine and the current
site. This is not so important and a lot of work! (And it makes it slow!) Main
thing is: the articles
>What makes me sick is that if (for instance) the FutureDisk (I could
>also name XSW) asks for articles, nobody reacts. If MCCsomething asks
>for articles people rush off and start writing all sorts of interesting
>things. If the things you have to say are of interest to ANYONE, then
>for pietsake
I think the language must be English.
In the Internet we have a lot MSX-pepole out of the
Netherlands.
Gretz Peter
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Pear Software wrote:
>
> Finally, there's something GOOD coming up.
> I'll take a look, and (who knows?) maybe I'll write something.
Unfortunately, maybe's are not good enough. We need real articles!
> You could also put musics (stereo/moonsound) on it, (That's onething I've
> always missed in
> It will be English, right?
That is not decided yet.
Most important is that we at least get 3 good articles before the end of this
month. If you're better in Dutch, write it in Dutch. Otherwise English... ;-)
Anway, you have to hurry up writing articles. And please so something totally
diffe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hello out there!
>>
>> After almost two years of silence after the 'death' of MCCM (MSX
>> Computer & Club Magazine, the last 'official' Dutch MSX Magazine),
>> there is news now! We want to continue/restart MCCM on the Web, for
>> now called MCCW: MSX Computer & Club m
> > This is awesome.
> > Expect some article(s) from me!
>
> Well, hurry up then, if we don't have at least 3 useable articles at the
end
> of this month, the whole thing will be called off.
ok.
It will be English, right?
> > Because you can't use that in Linux, can't ya? :)
>
> No, because ev
> > After almost two years of silence after the 'death' of MCCM (MSX
> > Computer & Club Magazine, the last 'official' Dutch MSX Magazine), there
> > is news now! We want to continue/restart MCCM on the Web, for now called
> > MCCW: MSX Computer & Club magazine on the Web!
>
> This is awesome.
>
> Hello out there!
>
> After almost two years of silence after the 'death' of MCCM (MSX
> Computer & Club Magazine, the last 'official' Dutch MSX Magazine), there
> is news now! We want to continue/restart MCCM on the Web, for now called
> MCCW: MSX Computer & Club magazine on the Web!
This is
Hello out there!
After almost two years of silence after the 'death' of MCCM (MSX
Computer & Club Magazine, the last 'official' Dutch MSX Magazine), there
is news now! We want to continue/restart MCCM on the Web, for now called
MCCW: MSX Computer & Club magazine on the Web!
Yes, it's cool!
But
>in general: I don't hope we get to read articles like:
>* basic course #1
>* review of nemesis 2
>* pascal course #1
>* C course #1
>* using the PRINT commando
>* everything about SET SCREEN
>* another review of H.E.R.O.
>* boring letters of people complaining about negative reviews of their
~Grauw wrote:
>I don't write for FutureDisk because nobody ever asked me to do so and
>besides I don't really like the style of writing of some articles (although
>that doesn't mean I don't like the magazine, and the FD sold at the fair
>was
>superb! Not so negative-only anymore!).
No, we've n
> The author doesn't necessarily have to be the one who writes the English
> translation. I would be willing to translate a few articles from Dutch
> to English. Not too many articles, but if more people offer their
services,
> one or two translations per person would be enough.
Since I don't thi
> > So, English is ok, but Dutch is too.
>
> So, if I would send my article in English only, you won't complain?
Absolutely not. I'd be glad to have at least one article! None recieved yet...
> > If an author wants that his articles are read by more people, he can
> > write in English,
>
> I
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> Ok, but it's a lot of work to translate articles.
It's less work than writing...
> So, English is ok, but Dutch is too.
So, if I would send my article in English only, you won't complain?
> If an author wants that his articles are read by more p
> Another option: English is required (translated by a third if nessacary (for
> example because the writer can't write English)), and foreign language is
> also possible.
No, we want only English or Dutch, because that's the only language we can
check. We need to, to maintain quality. If the wr
> By the way, please make a seperate section (which can be found quite easily)
> to submit texts. And, also very important, when you recieve an article,
WOuldn't it be handier just to mention an e-mail address where people can send
their articles to?
> confirm that you have recieved it.
Ofcour
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