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    Since this is the first issue of Stranger Aeons, and not being blessed    
with the powers of Mystic Meg, I can't print any of your letters yet. So send 
em in.                                                                        
                                                                              
    Ideally, try to keep your letters under 250 lines long, 78 chars wide,    
unless you're sending in a neat tutorial. Oh, and keep it graphic related. I  
don't want anything on the unending saga of the Amiga's Future (or lack of it)
                                                                              
    So why have I taken the retrograde step of coding the magazine in AMOS    
PRO? Surly the sensible thing would be to do everything in HTML so that MAC   
and PC users could read it too. The sad fact is that I never really intended  
to release the Magazine on the Public Domain. It was just a task I set myself 
in order to improve my AMOS skills. The end result turned out better than I   
had anticipated. Now with the Amiga Scene in such a poor state (still FAR     
better than the PC scene) I felt that it was about time I put something back  
into to my Amiga after the many years of joy its given me. Also, not having   
access to the internet was a factor in the lack of a HTML version.            
                                                                              
    BTW, if you look in the !Extra Stuff! drawer you'll find 2 programs to    
convert MicroDesign 2 images to the IFF format. (MicroDesign is a very simple 
DTP program for the Amstrad PCW.) I've included the source code for the       
program in Amos and Blitz Basic. I wrote both programs because I wanted to    
make use of the handscanner on my old PCW.                                    
                                                                              
    Not having any information on the MicroDesign format, the converted images
are not perfect. As you will see when you use them, the start of an image does
not begin at the left hand side of the screen. This is no real problem when   
you use the Roll function in ImageFX but it is all rather inconvenient. If    
you've worked out what the solution to the problem is, then please send it    
on. If you know how to write datatypes, why not write one for the MDA and SCR 
formats?                                                                      
                                                                              
    Although you can print from the magazine, it's probably better to print   
these docs. from a wordprocessor. All these texts can be found in the TXT     
drawer on this disk in powerpacker format.