DiskMag-Pack 2004 PC Diskmag Collection on CD
DiskMags from T to Z
TANKARD
Language: Polish.
Issues: The second issue appeared in July 1997, fourth in February 1999.
Publisher: The group Grinders with Dee Kay, Dj. Regal and many others.
Interface: The interface of the magazine is well programmed. The individual pages are alternatively cross faded or rolled to the side. Even the character font is selectable.
Contents: Anything approximately related to the Polish scene, parties, diskmags and programming. In addition, sport, humor, fantasy and games.
[ diskmags/tankard ]
TAP.MAG
Language: German.
Issues: The first issue appeared in February 2000, the fifth in March 2001.
Publisher: Tomaes/TAP
Interface: The first issues are very small. However they supports music, graphics and some effects. Issue 4 uses a new graphic interface for windows with many specialities never seen before. Alternatively some issues can be read as a HTML document.
Contents: Short stories, lyrics, interviews, reports, tutorials and much humor.
[ diskmags/tapmag |
www.tap-home.de ]
THC-MAGAZINE
Language: English and German.
Issues: Altogether four issues appeared between February 1996 and May 1997.
Publisher: The Hacker's Choice
Interface: The magazine is viewed in simple text mode. No music, no mouse, but more information.
Contents: Computer security, hacking, phreaking and telecom.
[ diskmags/thcmag |
diskmags/thcmag/thcmag3/index.htm ]
THE MAG
Language: English.
Issues: From September 1995 to September 1997 twelve issues appeared.
Publisher: Spellcaster
Interface: Each "The Mag" consists of one well formatted text file and many source codes and sample programs.
Contents: Everything about programming, from general papers to special topics for Pascal, assembler or C.
[ diskmags/themag |
http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~dgan/spell/mag/themag.html ]
THE PRODUCT
Language: English.
Issues: In July 1992 and September 1996 two issues where released.
Publisher: ACiD Productions with Force Ten, RaD Man, Mr Kite and many others.
Interface: As an ANSI magazine issue 1 is presented in text mode. Issue 2 uses simple but good VGA graphics.
Contents: Typical ACiD related themes: ANSI, graphics and graphics programming, background information and some more.
[ diskmags/product ]
TOTAL DISASTER
Language: Polish and English.
Issues: Between March 1998 and November 1999 six issues and a small intro appeared.
Publisher: The group Tatanka with Misha, Graff, HeY and others.
Interface: This outstandingly arranged interface is not sparse of effects. Beside music and many pictures an animation always runs in the background.
Contents: Polish and international scene, art and much more besides.
TOTEM
Language: English.
Issues: A single issue was published which appeared in July 1999.
Publisher: The group Just For Fun with Cleaner, Exocet, Bat and Benji.
Interface: According to a good intro one sees a magazine which is noticeable particularly by its colorfulness and large font.
Contents: Totem is a pure charts magazine which contains also things beside the normal Top 10 like the worst party or the best food.
[ diskmags/totem |
www.j-f-f.net/release.html ]
TRAX WEEKLY
Language: English.
Issues: Beginning in March 1995 new issues appeared regularly. The last on this CD is dated February 1998.
Publisher: Psibelius and many others.
Interface: As with most newsletters which are sent away by email, Trax Weekly consists exclusively of text files.
Contents: Music, computers, and everything in between.
[ diskmags/traxweek |
www.hornet.org/cgi-bin/ha_search.cgi?opt_s=traxweekly ]
TRIP
Language: English.
Issues: The first issue appeared in March 1997, the current number eleven in April 1999. There was never an issue with the number 8.
Publisher: For the first seven issues Jobe, Ramirez and Genoz were responsible. The numbers nine to eleven were released by Sweeper, Iquito and Genoz. In the future Gardner from the group of Anakata gets this position.
Interface: In the course of the time several interfaces were use, from typical ansi up to underpainted SuperVGA graphics with music.
Contents: News, tests and advertisements for mailboxes, reports, humor, music and naturally the Swiss scene.
[ diskmags/trip ]
TRIP 2 HELL
Language: English and German.
Issues: In the year 1994 a completely German PSD special report and two regular issues appeared.
Publisher: The Fireskull Crew with Zarek, Jazz, Thorax and others.
Interface: The Trip 2 Hell is presented in high quality text mode, with ansi graphics and gentle scrolling worth seeing.
Contents: Interviews, reports, news, charts and jokes.
TUHBZINE
Language: English and Dutch.
Issues: The sixth issue appeared in June 1999.
Publisher: The group TUHB with GrefTek and The Watcher.
Interface: The very technically arranged interface of the magazine is worth seeing but not really excellent.
Contents: Very much scene based with interviews, parties and programming, books, films, manga and more.
[ diskmags/tuhbzine |
www.tuhb.org ]
UNDERGROUND EXPERTS UNITED
Language: English.
Issues: The issues on these CD appeared between 1990 and November 1993.
Publisher: The Chief, The GNN and others.
Interface: As a typical newsletter this magazine contains no special interface.
Contents: Music, films, weapons and anarchy. Even anything that is somehow underground.
[ diskmags/undergro ]
WAVE
Language: English.
Issues: The 13 issues appeared between January 1996 and February 1998.
Publisher: RaVe, chung Lee, BlackMagic and others.
Interface: Except for a title graphic the magazine operates in the text mode. It is livened up by ansi diagrams and good music. The last two issues are presented in a HTML like Windows program.
Contents: General articles, literature, interviews and some ansi graphics.
[ diskmags/wave ]
WILBY
Language: English.
Issues: Since October 1999 Wilby appeared monthly, the sixth issue in April 2000.
Publisher: Spock and the group Wild Bits.
Interface: Wilby is the only known 4 kilobyte and thus the smallest diskmag of all times. The only one page long articles are showed on a nice fractal. Understandably, it is without music.
Contents: Typical topics of the scene eg. news, reports, tips to programming and charts are presented in compact form.
[ diskmags/wilby |
http://kiss.to/spock ]
WILDMAG
Language: German.
Issues: The first issue appeared in January, the fifth in November 2001.
Publisher: The magazin was founded by Magic van Lam, but before the first issue was released, mados became main editor.
Interface: The Update programmed the easy to use, skin-based and open-source user interface. All issues are combined in one directory.
Contents: All about the German demoscene and many other topics like short stories, reviews and reports.
Hints: The user interface requires DirectX. You can also read the data files with any HTML browser.
[ diskmags/wildmag |
diskmags/wildmag/wildmag5/issue05/index.htm |
www.wildmag.de ]
WOEZINE
Language: English.
Issues: Between September 1997 until December 1998 ten issues appeared. Two years later a comeback issue was released.
Publisher: Pogue, D3m0n, Dreadnought, Elmer Fudd and many others.
Interface: The well arranged and nicely animated interface operates as a typical ansi magazine does in the text mode.
Contents: Ansi, music, mailboxes and the remaining scene.
Hints: Use TPPatch to get the magazine working on faster computers.
[ diskmags/woezine |
www.thuglife.org/woezine ]
WORLD CHARTS
Language: English.
Issues: In May 1993 a single issue appeared.
Publisher: The popular Future Crew with Gore, Psi, Purple Motion, Pixel and others.
Interface: At its time very professional graphics with only 16 colours, fast effects and good music.
Contents: Computer scene, parties, software tests and tips, interviews, news about the Future Crew as well as very extensive charts.
WORLD CHARTS
Language: English.
Issues: The Amiga magazine World Charts died in 1993. In summer 2002 it was reborn and should be released more often now.
Publisher: The groups The Silents, Scoopex und Hoodlum.
Interface: The stylish interface needs at least a 700 MHz CPU and a 3D aceerator graphics card.
Contents: Charts for any kind of demo scene stuff on any system. Also a few party reports and articles are included.
[ diskmags/wcharts |
www.theworldcharts.de ]
WROTKI
Language: Polish.
Issues: From September 1994 until April 1998 six issues appeared.
Publisher: The group ByteLanD with Behemot, Cobretti and others.
Interface: The graphic interface was often changed. It is however in each issue worth seeing and well readable.
Contents: The Polish and international scene, parties, programming, internet and very many other topics both computer and non-computer related.
[ diskmags/wrotki ]
YAHOO
Language: English.
Issues: Between June 1994 and April 1995 five issues and a xmas special appeared.
Publisher: Addict, Trap, Lemming, ...
Interface: The operation of the magazine is logical and fast in all issues. The interface is graphically perfect and the texts are well readable.
Contents: News, charts, graphic demos and reviews as well as many other topics from the scene.
[ diskmags/yahoo ]
ZIGZAG
Language: Hungarian.
Issues: From February 1993 until May 1996 seven issues appeared.
Publisher: The group Nosasoft with John Zero, The Trooper and others.
Interface: The interface of the magazine consists of many rendered graphics which are different in each issue.
Contents: Computers and technique, humor, music and the scene. The texts are complemented by pictures and small games.
[ diskmags/zigzag ]
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