EDITORIAL DBA Mini-MAG Edition 14 ½ (The 'We hijacked Maggie Edition')

Beghinnen can ick,
volherden will'ick
volbringhen sal ick

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From the editor's messy desk
by Slimer

This old editorial has been hastily rewritten for publication in Maggie.

- God, there are so many!
Yes, I know.

- Where are they all coming from?
I've read somewhere that they're attracted to fruit and wine and once
they're inside your house they multiply rapidly.

- Thank god for the fly-trap. I count at least 10 of em on the lid ...
What if fruit-flies grew brains and took over the world? Hmm, but bigger
brains means more weight and more weight, bigger wings.They wouldn't fit
the fly trap any more.

- Huh, what?  What are you on about?
Forget it, just a thought.

- You're weird!  Shouldn't you pay some attention to your readers?
Ah, yes readers ...

Hello and welcome back everybody! :-P

You can stop rubbing your eyes now, it really is a brand, spanking new
issue of DBA diskmag albeit in mini-mag format. An idea that I nicked
from CiH . It's sort of a Magnetic Interlude thing.

Magnetic Interlude was the short-lived union of three disk mags (i.e.
ST-News, Maggie and DBA) back in the day. For this occasion I'm single
handedly resurrecting MI for STNICCC 2015. So everybody pull out your
lighters and sing Kumbaya.

How's the spouse, kid(s) and pet(s)? How is work? I see you've gained a few
pounds and lost some hair :P  Don't worry I won't judge. Now get something to
drink, kick off your slippers and relax. Oh and put away that lighter before
you burn down the house.

I dusted off my old Falcon some time ago and found an unpublished edition of
DBA disk magazine called 'the Symposium edition' sitting on the hard drive. I
had totally forgotten about it. It felt like I was looking at a brand new
issue. Inside there were unpublished articles, several from my own hand and
even a Megaman comic strip! So evidentially we had already started on a new
DBA disk magazine issue back in 1996.

I pondered what to do with the rediscovered shell and content. Technically the
shell could be re-used, but the graphics were out of date. It's a bit silly to
publish an issue of DBA disk mag in 2015 containing graphics for Symposium 96.
Maybe we could do a new one? Unfortunately Bonus doesn't have the source code
any more to create a new shell. Also free time is an issue. Creating a new
issue takes lot of effort and besides there is no real 'market' for it any
more.

So as a last resort I decided to share the content via Maggie (if CiH allows
it of course) If CiH has done his thing, you can find several old and never
stuff in here somewhere.

- Now I see only 5 on the lid, the other 5 must have gone in.
What?

- There are 5 less!
Stop interrupting me, I'm writing and simultaneously debugging a Windows memory
dump.

- Oh sorry, thought you wanted me to keep you apprised of the fruit-fly
situation?
The debugger says it's the USB driver that is causing the BSODs on my notebook.
- OK, I see you don't have attention for me … :(

- Want something to drink?
No.

- Are you still writing for that silly magazine? Thought you quit that years
ago?
Hmm, It's -sort of an- one time nostalgia thing. I really shouldn't be doing
this. Can you please leave me be so I can finish this crappy article?

- OK OK,  you don't have to be so fidgety. Can you at least turn the noise
down a bit.
What's wrong with Alice in Chains?

- So, no drink?
No..

Oh, you wondered about the saying at the beginning of this article? It's in
old Dutch. Roughly it translates to: I can begin, I will persevere, I shall
accomplish. So, there! I found it fitting for this issue. No more Confucius
like in the previous issues besides I've lost the book. :)

- Dinners ready, you coming?
In a minute.

- You should clean up that desk, it's a mess.
So is your cooking...

- What did you say?
Never mind, lets eat.


Slimer.

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