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A new fanzine / magazine idea - Anyone interested in contributing?
Simon_G:
--- Quote ---I think about the only way anybody is going to be able to help or give you a valid opinion is if you make a sample available so we can get an idea of what you are trying to do.
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Thought there might be a bit more interest in something like this, maybe I got it wrong?
I'll get a sample made up, and see if that gets peoples interest...
Thanks Howard for taking the time to reply, its much appreciated.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Simon_G on August 08, 2012, 05:08:22 pm ---Thought there might be a bit more interest in something like this, maybe I got it wrong?
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Some very dedicated people have bashed around ideas for retro gaming magazines, including those who put their money where their mouth is.
Retrogamers are a notoriously bad audience and even worse as authors (some few folks excluded ... tks saint, KS, Van, Gozer and even MM).
If you want to give back, then the wiki needs some tending to.
;)
cmoses:
I think there is interest but at the same time it is a huge undertaking. There is a lot of information out there ad you mentioned and there are many topics that could be further explored and written up. I think the issues are that anything printed would quickly become outdated. Everything in this hobby gets updated, operating systems, emulators, front ends, drivers for video cards, etc. Combine that with all the possible configurations and you can't write a guide for everyone. I think it would be a great thing and I think you would have interest, I think it's just a difficult undertaking. It would in my opinion have to digital, have to be inexpensive and be something your doing for the love of the hobby. There will always be new hobbyists out there and this is a hobby with a steep learning curve. People always look for an easier way to do things, so providing it would be a benefit.
Simon_G:
Again thanks for your input guys, its much appreciated.
--- Quote --- It would in my opinion have to digital, have to be inexpensive and be something your doing for the love of the hobby.
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I am ticking those boxes already
--- Quote --- There will always be new hobbyists out there and this is a hobby with a steep learning curve. People always look for an easier way to do things, so providing it would be a benefit.
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I am one of those people (not new to emulation but new to MAME) and would have appreciated some kind of "Newbies Guide" just covering the basics, but then again this would just be a small percentage of what i was intending on offering in the publication.
I vision it being a more rounded publication offering not only guides and help, but reviews, interviews, articles covering MAME and console emulation.
SavannahLion:
What is with the insistence on using outside image hosting services like tinypic and imgur or whatever? Saint has plenty of space here for just that kind of thing. It pisses me off to find some really great article hobbled because the outside host for the necessary files deleted the files or disappeared. Information survival is accomplished through duplication, not cross linking. :soapbox:
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