SLIME ISSUE 2          50                MULTI   !
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SLIME                                     LAYOUT:
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PUBLISHER: PIRATES                        decades.  Check out the little picture
ISSUE: 	   # 2                            for  panel  layout.   The  colours and
                                          pattern  on the panel are dull and you
                                          can  barley  see what's written on the
LOADING:                                  panel!!   And  to crown everything the
The  loading  was ok and took about 40    background is black!
seconds.   The  page  loading speed is
varying  from 2-6 seconds.  It depends    SLIME uses the normal PICA (11 points)
on  how  many  pages  the  article  is    font   that  is  found  in  many  word
consisting  of.  This routine could be    processors  today.   And they only use
much   faster   since   there  are  no    one  text  colour.  Many articles were
graphics in the articles!                 also  written in a way which makes you
                                          wonder if the monitor is broken.

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Is something wrong with my eyes or was    just simply write 035 or 150!!!
the   editor   not   thinking  of  the
readers!!!
                                          ARTICLES:
The  menu  consists  of  a  panel with    The  articles  are  written  more like
arrows,  preferences(?), exit and some    scroll-texts then like an article.  It
fast  clicking-gadgets  to the charts,    seems  like  the  editors have written
adverts, news and so on(maybe the only    down  an  article but not checked them
good thing with the layout!).             for  spelling  and  grammar  mistakes.
                                          Just  ride  on!  Not in a professional
No  I almost forgot that SLIME has one    way  as  ZINE, HACK-MAG and many other
good function.  And that is the "GOTO"    magazines.
function.  You don't need to write '.'
or  use  ENTER  to jump to a page over    The  Slime  editors also uses a lot of
hundred.   If you want to go to a page    slang  words  and expressions and that

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is no good way to write an interesting    look  at the "LAST WORD" where Pirates
article.                                  wants   the  readers  to  write  their
                                          opinion.   Is  it  then  right  to  be
I  also  found  some articles with the    called "LAST WORD"?
worst  fault  you can do as an editor.
To  write  with BLOCK CAPITALS!  Noone    SLIME   definitively   needs   a   big
reads these articles!                     improvement on this front if they want
                                          to keep up with the competitors.
Another  thing  that  struck me is the
lack of feedback from the first issue.    USER FRIENDLINESS:
Many   articles   lack   contents  and    The    control   panel   was   ok   to
instead  Pirates  urges the writers to    use(disregarded   from  the  colours).
write  articles  for  this  and  that.    But the pointer was slow!
There don't seem to be any inspiration
nor hard working editors!  Just have a    + for the fast gadget function to  the

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  charts, adverts etc.                    OVERALL:
- for  the poor preferences  function.    Sometimes I understand people who says
  No printer and other functions. Only    "Oh no, another disk-magazine"!  SLIME
  on/off functions.                       goes  under  that  title.  It's a pure
                                          example of some hackers who just makes
KEYBOARD FUNCTIONS:                       a  magazine  to  become  famous.   You
Easy  to  choose articels with arrows.    think I am not being fair?!?

+ for good "GOTO" function.               Well then, take a closer look at SLIME
                                          and  judge for yourself.  If the SLIME
Also   a   plus   for   the  side-line    staff  wants  to  make a GOOD magazine
scrolling of pages!                       they've got to start from zero!