_ _ | \ / | | \/ | i s c ..... =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= A few issues considered briefly.. Yet another check or delay before you get to grips with the ASCII- tastic main feature below. This time, I raise a few miscellaneous points of interest briefly. Tools for the Job! -------------------- _.------.______________ // ./'*'' // ./ ' /\ ' \____/ Not too much of a mystery there. // ./ ' \_\ /____\ As I opted for a combination of // ./ ' ' \ o_| | the good old Falcon '030, and --// ./ .: /_ ...| the ever-popular 'Everest' text __/__/ \\||___/ editor. Apart from this bit which \\ _| |_. reverted back to the old Maggie \:|[ ] / file creation favourite, 1st Word. : || | Also reluctantly remembering to mention that the dreaded PeeCee text editor 'Notepad', got in at the very early stages. Mostly, this was done at home, as it is kind of hard to disguise something like this as "work", whilst you are at work! To put the 'zine together, the usual suspects, such as Devpac 3, and the final version of the ST Maggie shell, somewhat amended for layout, came together in an unholy cackling conspiracy! Such non-ASCII graphical material that appeared had something to do with the premier Image processing software 'Smurf', a big hand to Therapy Seriouz Software. And someone tell them how to spell "Serious" properly! Yes, we 'Borrowed' some stuff! (But not much..) -------------------------------------------------- And we made changes to it whilst we were about things, which means we can go a *little* distance to claiming things as our own? o o \ / ___O __ \ / \ / \ :-'""'-: :--'""'--: O .-' ____ `-. .-' ____ -. ( (_()_) ) (,. ((_[]_)) ,) `-. ^^ .-' \_. --*- ._/ `._==_.' \,_____,/ __)(___ ____) (____ Joan Stark "Cyclops" What became "Havuck"! Alien.. just a little more disreputable! .-""""-. .^----^. / \ / \ /_ _\ /_ ~ _ \ // \ / \\ //-\ /-\ \ |\__\ /__/| |\__\ /__/ | \ || / |\ /| \ / ||\ /|| \ __ / |||\ .__. /||| '.__.' \| '.__.' |/ | | | | | | | | Joan Stark version of My amended version which "Grey" Alien.. became 'Greyy'! But all the other characters were my own unique creation, including Wevl and the Sweedish Meatballs, which were criminally underused, in my opinion.. /\ . . [/\] \//\ \ /\\ =Weeeek!= /_\/_\ /\ ' \\// )) | \ \ ,, ,, | ' /\ / OO ,, oO ,, / \ \ |/ /\ \ OO \ OO _\ /_ / _\ \_ _- __\ _- -_/ I've mentioned the Boogaloo bunch already, and Jody knows about this, and gave his permission gladly, although the gladness might suddenly drain away from his heart, when he realises what I'm actually *doing* to these poor innocent ASCII creatures! . \/\ __, "He died so other ASCII people \/\-\__. could squiggle free from fear!" / ' All-righty then?? I knew you'd understand! . .--. "Blue-Moo-ooon!" / / ' . . | | . \ \ . '--' + We definitely robbed this from somewhere and used it a bit around the place! * .--. . . /\_' \ + . . :! '| /! . + . \ / / . . . '--' . And managed to turn it into this piss-poor planetoid as well! The thrilling final explosion which is shown off in chapter 11, started life as someone else's "hazy sunrise". With a bit of extra work, it turned out to be eminently suitable for its new purpose! _ And with that, /-\ we're gone! / \ \ \ / / | \ / \ _ \_|||_/ | \ | . ::: |_/ /\ /\ |) | _. :( ':') | \ \//--\|\ . . ( `-' : `. . : ( ' ) /_`( ` . ) ' (/ . ' ) ' ) And this jet plume from the escaping royal shuttle, which creeps in at the bottom of the picture, was 'adapted' for use here too, being somewhat more leaning rightwards at an angle and posing as the after- product of a missile launch, originally. But apart from that, just about all the rest of the stuff was drawn by myself, all the characters, their facial expressions, wall-textures, spacecraft, droid armies, gunfights, are mine, all mine! Hahaha! Winding up Things in a Windy sort of Way! ------------------------------------------- Is there going to be a future to this ASCII lark?? There may be, no definite plans yet, but one strong preliminary idea along the lines of "Adventures of the Starship ImPOnance", which would be more of a Star Trek parody, and using the minor characters more. It would be interesting to see how a crew with Wevl, Greyy, Havuck, Jonnyboy, and Greebo would interact.. There isn't anything definite, and I'm going to put my feet up for a bit, as I've spent the last year working to one deadline or another. I've produced an extra-special 10th anniversary edition of the Atari Sceners favourite diskzine, Maggie, I've done a shedload of stuff for two issues of the Alive! diskmag, some Polski guys want to make use of my (alleged) writing skills, and I've done this as a pure 'hobby' project too! Time for a little rest!? One last little thing.. When you get to the 'Main Feature', click from top to bottom as you read through, as that is how the chapters of the story go. Logical really. Okay, Now I'm really done here! CiH - April 7th 2001. All Rights Reserved, well feel free to spread about, but don't forget to mention I did it, if you do want to reuse stuff. Apart from the graphics which I 'borrowed', of course, which belong to their respective owners. i