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            O o o o o h   L o o k   a t   t h i s ! !

We  have the mighty Matt Smith to thank for this humongous ASCII logo  thing.. 
He's actually done a load more to take us up to issue 30 as well, which puts a 
fairly heavy obligation on us to carry on at least to that time!!

Time - 19.30 hours...

Date - 27th May 1997...

Music - Mega Apocalypse, Rob Hubbard, FlaySID player...

Maggie 23 - Finished at last!!

State of Mind - Don't ask!

This is the final waffle bit that we chuck on the end of the issue,  otherwise 
known as the readme.doc, but why? Well it's a crowded issue with more articles 
than ever,  and hang on,  we've done this already.. There were some other last 
minute topics of note to bring into this text instead, let's have a go at some 
of these instead..

Falcon intro..  There is one,  by the actions of chaos and uncertainty, and it 
is there largely by accident.. I shall explain..

We  were promised an intro by the Polish group Shadows,  latterly  responsible 
for their second prize effort at Siliconvention, and also reviewed inside this 
issue..  A  preview  of some animation routines was sent,  and it looked quite 
promising..   Shadows  decided  to  hang  ten  on  the  intro,  as  they  were 
concentrating  on  their  main  demo  code,  which  was  fair  enough..  Their 
Siliconvention  demo  runs  with a strange interference pattern  at  the  very 
beginning.. We suspect this is something going wrong, and it seems to be their 
animation  routines set into the wrong video mode..  A last minute dusting-off 
of the preview shows that this fits in neatly into the front end of things  at 
Maggie  GHQ,  and  is  just right for setting the mood for the  rest  of  this 
issue..

So,  this  is  the  first time that most people will have seen  the  animation 
routines at the beginning of the 'IT' demo running correctly (RGB only, mind!) 
We  hope  that Shadows aren't offended by our use of their preview,  which  is 
very nice and works flawlessly and silently in here, and apologise if you are, 
this was a last minute decision on our part, and we didn't have time to get in 
touch..  We also look forward to seeing your future productions soon, and hope 
you enjoy this issue of Maggie..

Therefore,  last  minute  credits fly to Shadows for their  accidental  Falcon 
intro,  possibly titled 'The bit that should have been at the beginning of the 
'IT' Demo but wasn't!'

Eezi-PC  Maggie seems to have had more of an effect than we bargained  for  as 
well..

At  Dave  H's get-together,  a lot of Jagdoom Deathmatch was played,  very hot 
chilli con carne eaten with pungent bodily gases exhaled shortly afterwards by 
certain people too.. Steve Moore (mad assembly coder, writes for ST+ magazine, 
speaks  like  he  is understudying for Werner Von Braun) made  my  weekend  by 
telling me that his brother was seriously contemplating getting a PC,  then he 
read 'Eezi-PC Maggie' and decided not to! - RESULT!!!

Oh,  and  I've  got  a modem as well,  which was very cheap (14400  baud)  and 
lacking a serial cable, but I should be online fairly soon..

Expect  loads of smug self-satisified IRC #Atari and Internet  in-jokes  which 
irritate  the  hell  out of off-liners??  We should have  a  semi-regular  IRC 
presence  either through our own online resources,  or on someone else's phone 
bill, such as the Wessex Atari Group (WAG)

Finally,  some  last  minute news and views scooped from the simmering pot  of 
speculation and innuendo that is the wonderful world of Atari.. Time will tell 
if any, or indeed all of these, come to pass?

A big demo party is to be held in Warsaw shortly?

Some kind of re-emergence of EKO has been mooted?

A  sequel  to the Bugs from Outer Space demo may be seen at the  Nordic  Atari 
Show and released shortly afterwards?

Bonus  and Fun wish to continue with the Magnetic Interlude diskmag  alliance, 
which would presume they are doing further issues of Fun Magazine? 

Okay, time to go now!!

 CiH, until the next time..

