Editorial

Welcome to the penultimate issue of SynTax. I can't believe
there's only one more issue to go.

Thanks to everyone who's been asking about my move. Well, I'm
still at Invicta Parade but have my fingers crossed that
everything will go through in the next two weeks. I only have
until the end of the month or the guy I'm buying from loses his
deposit and mortgage on a property in Spain. I'm at the stage now
where some problem crops up each day and has to be solved.  You
wouldn't believe how many mistakes there are on forms etc.

I'll be keeping the same phone number and having mail redirected
for a year after I move so you'll still be able to contact me.

The last two months have been very stressful and hectic. I've
had about half my stuff packed for over a month. But I'm not
packing anything else until I get a date and KNOW it's going to
happen.

I decided to get ahead of myself with SynTax so it didn't get
caught up with the move which is why this issue is pretty much on
time unlike the last few.

As with previous issues, I've been playing a lot of demos to be
able to review them. Arcanum and Heaven and Hell were this
issue's favourites. Two quite different games, one RPG, one 'god'
game. I also downloaded Zkul, a PC conversion of a QL game I'd
fancied playing years ago when it was first released. Despite its
age I found it very enjoyable - a text adventure in classic style 
- though you can't get very far into the demo version which is 
time limited. RWAP Adventures have converted others of their 
QL games, the Prawn and West. I might look at one of these in the 
last issue.

I had an interesting email recently from Jon Cutts who wrote
Haunted House many years ago when he was 12 years old. He'd found
the SynTax site (as so many do - shame none of the visitors ever
took out a sub, the mag might have continued!) because Tom Lorimer
and James Judge had both reviewed his game. The back issues are
temporarily offline while I work out what to do with the
adventure side of the SynTax site and he asked if I'd send him the
relevant files. I don't know how happy he'll be as neither review
was complimentary (JJ's was positively scathing), though both were
well written and very amusing - unless maybe you're the author!
Bev also named his game as number 2 in her bottom 10 adventures.

Well, I think that's it for this time. Next issue I'll make the
final SynTax Contributor of the Year award. I'll also be offering
the full set of issues 1-90 on CD on a special CD. See you then.

                                                  Best wishes
                                                          Sue





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