Editorial

Since the last issue, the weather has been so good (for a change)
that it's been hard to stay indoors and switch on the computer. So I
wasn't surprised that I didn't have many reviews sent in during the
last two months. I always put out a little plea for reviews, but
this time it's getting desperate as I have very few in hand.
SynTax still has about 70 regular readers, a slight drop over 
the last year, but there's a point at which it isn't viable,
financially or time-wise, to keep the mag going. I think it will be
shortage of reviews that will be the final nail in its coffin.
Solutions, hints and articles aren't too much of a problem. The net
is a good source if there's any gaps. But reviews have to come from
the readers otherwise SynTax loses one of its main features.  So,
please try to send reviews in of games you've played. They don't
have to be long, though they can be if a game really moves you. I
know it's more interesting to just finish a game and go on to the
next, but it doesn't take very long to put your impressions down on
paper. And it really would help me when I put the mag together.

I decided to get a DVD drive and Voodoo card early in September but
from talking to the technical chaps at PC World, they made me think
that I should upgrade the motherboard and chip before buying any
other new hardware. Alex and I don't believe them so I'm going to
go ahead and soon I should have everything up and running (touch 
wood). In the mean time the highlight of my adventuring month 
was finding the demo of Traffic Giant, previewed this issue. 
Since writing the piece, the game was released and it came today 
from ComputerMate via the Net. So look out for a review next issue.

I think that's about all I have room for. I'm hoping that by next
issue I'll be able to show you a demo of the proposed HTML version
of SynTax, and the web site should finally be up and running. Too
little time ...
                                         See you in November!
                                                   Sue



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