Editorial

I can already tell that Issue 63 of SynTax is going to be a bit
late - it's November 13th today and I still have quite a bit to do
to it. One of the perils of being self-employed is that sometimes
you have to spread yourself very thinly among the different facets
of your work. For me, that includes SynTax, the DTP, writing for
ComputerActive and organising mailing lists for people. It takes
some juggling to get everything done but it's better than being
bored!

Around the time the last issue went out, I had to replace my laser
printer, and last week my DeskJet died so I had to go back to PC
World and buy a new one. I've also recently bought a CD-Writer so
it's been an expensive time. I must say, though, that I'm very
pleased with all my purchases. I'm planning some CD collections of
shareware to be sold through SynTax and the first advert is in
this issue. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time and
now I've got the technology to do it!

It hasn't been 'all work and no play' though. Having finished
Mission Critical and Rollercoaster Tycoon, I have started
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon and Caesar III, both of which I can
thoroughly recommend though CCS can be hard to get hold of.  The
follow-up to C3 is on its way - Pharaoh - and is more of the same
in an Egyptian setting and there's also an add-on to RCT but I
haven't succumbed - yet. There's a brief preview of Pharaoh in 
this issue from a demo sent to me by Zenobi Software. I just heard
from them, too, that they have two more emulator CDs out at œ5.99
each, one for the Nintendo 64 and one for the Neo-Geo. Contact
them at the usual address which is in this issue.

It isn't long until Christmas, and I hope that you will all have a
very good time over both the Christmas and Millennium holidays. My
best wishes to you all and your families for the year 2000 and
beyond.

                                                     Sue

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