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ISSUE I

VOLUME

NUMBER

APRIL 15. 1994

From the Editor

Editorial

On The Horizon

News, newproducts, services, sources, rumors, opinion

Just Asking

The Commodore Worldstafflooksforsolutions to users'problems

The Connection

Findout what's happening with otherpublicationsandvendors

Foreign Exchange

General Manager

CharlesR. Christiansen

Editor

Doug Cotton

Technical Editor

Mark Fellows

Advertising Sales

CharlesA. ChrisHanson

Graphic Arts

Mark Douglas

What's up overseas

User Group Connection

A listofUserGroups we'veheardfrom recently

Top Tips

Tim Walsh supplies his top ten do'sanddon'ts

Just For Starters

Understanding how to talktoyourcomputer

Printers & Interfaces

Which onesare rightforyou?

In Review

See how QWKRR 128stacks up in the worldofQWKMail

On The Cover

Star's new 2480Rainbow 24-pinprinter.

CoverartbyMark Douglas.

Graphic Interpretation

GEOSMorphing with Maurice Randall'sgeoMorph

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From The Editor...

Strangeas itmayseem tobe writing this, here Iam. Afterall, who couldhave

imaginedafewyears ago that CMDwouldput it's efforts intoproducing a magazine

forthe Commodore 64 and 128market. We'dalways taken itforgrantedthatRUNand

Compute'sGazette wouldbe with usforaslong as there wasa viable market. While a

lotofthe earliermagazinesfellby the wayside, that wasduemore to naturalfallout

than anything else.

WhenRUNthrew in the towel, wewere a bitsuprised. Itseemedveryprematurefor

them to leaveatthattime. While we hadn'talways likedthe contentofRUN, itdidkeep

themarketconnected, andsuppliedvendors with aplace to advertise. Compute's

Gazettedidtoo, though wefelttoa lesserdegreeeversince theywereboughtand

mergedinto themulti-editions. Theirconstantproblems with subscriptionproblems

didn'thelp either, andtheybecamesomewhatnotoriousforit. Sad, becauseIcan recall

starting out in myearlydayswith Compute!, anditgaveme endlesshoursofpleasure.

With the announcementthatCompute's Gazette wouldconvertto a disk-based

publication, weknewsomething hadtobe done. The upstartdieHardhasdone well,

andwe're gladthat they have. Butthemarketcan certainlyhandle more than one

paper-basedpublication, andmanyarefearfid todeal with upstarts. We couldonly

conclude thai CMDneededtoput it'snameandknowledge intoa newpublication—the

oneyou're now reading.

Strangeasitmayseemforustofindourselves in themagazinebusiness, it'sa role

which we take seriously. Wehope toprovide users with the kindofinfonnation that

they want, andin a timelymanner. Sadly, thisfirst issue isarrivinga couple ofweeks

laterthan we hadhoped; butbeing ourfirstissue, we'vehadafewhurdles to clear,

anda lotofthings to learn. Wefullyexpectforthcoming issues to remain on a stable

schedule, witha newone arriving inyourhands everysixto seven weeks.

There's a lot inside this issue, but expecteven more infuture issues. You'llnotice that

we'veoptedfora lot ofregularcolumns anda single mainfeaturearticle. We may

expandon thefeaturessomewhatoverthenextfewissues, but we won't be cuttingback

on columns to do it. Wefeet that the regularcolumns do more la bring users constant

information on theirfavoritesubject, andwehopeyou'IIagree. Ourreviewsection will

alsogrow, with morepagesdevotedto it beginning next issue.

BeforeIclose, Ihave to extend the thanksfrom ourstaffforthestrong subscription

supportwe've receivedearly on. We're hopefid that we'Hbeable to meetyour

expectations. Wlietherwedo ornot ispartly up to you, though, soplease take the time

to write usandlet usknowhow we're doing.

Doug Cotton

Commodore WorldEditor

Commodore World

April 15, 1994

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