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<i>"Nothing new, nothing varied, nothing which it would not be enough to look at once."<br>Pliny, Letters IX</i>
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 Though written for quite another purpose, those words seem to ring true when applied to the state of Acorn disc based magazines at the moment. With one or two exceptions notable by their semi-brilliance, most seem to fill up their discs with a combination of indistinguishable music and images which seem very nice at first, until you realise that it is these same images which, by taking up most of the disc space, prevent anything which has any resemblance to a magazine (ie. text as well as fancy graphics) from being present.
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 I would like to think that this magazine is different from the run-of-the-mill garbage that seems to be synonomous with disc based magazinery for most of the people who produce the things. I have based this issue broadly around the theme of Space, with some <a href="Novels/STNovels">Star Trek novels</a>, <a href="FactSheets/FSIndex">NASA fact sheets</a> and 'thumbnail' images of the planets (used to illustrate the fact sheets), with an <a href="HTTutor">HTML tutorial</a> and some Internet-related articles thrown in for good measure, along with all the usual <a href="Editorial/EDIndex">editorials</a> and <a href="Reviews/RVIndex">reviews</a>.  I would like to think that they will be of some use in either entertaining (in the case of the novels) or informing (in the case of the fact sheets, Fractal information and tutorial) Aliquid Novi's readership. If, however, you think there's something we could do better or you'd like to contribute to the next issue (which will include, among other things, Fractal-related information, images and BASIC programs, as well as a Java tutorial), do write to us.
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  Thanks go to Geoff Crossland, for a number of the articles and reviews, DoggySoft for the !Webite HTML reader around which Aliquid Novi's desktop interface is based, NASA, for the fact sheets, all the companies who gave us software for review, the authors of the Star Trek novels, the unknown author of the articles on ARM code, as well as all the other people who have contributed in various ways to this magazine.
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 That's all for now - enjoy this issue of Aliquid Novi.
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<u><i>Edmund Richardson, Editor</i></u>
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<b>Contact address:</b><br><i>
Edmund Richardson<br>
20 Byron Place<br>
Bristol<br>
BS8 1JT<br></i>
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My <a href="http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masdr/edmund/homepage.html">web site</a> is also now open, and may soon contain the online versions of this and future issues of Aliquid Novi.
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