Hi MSX users,
The call MSX crew are thinking in the possibility of creating this new issue in English language.
We did it in the past for a special number (last Bussum fair), but the new one would be completely new, not a mix of older numbers.
We would like to know if the efforts to create such number in English are appreciated outside Spain. We know that a paper magazine is not cheap since printing is not and sending via mail does not help. We could think of studying different ways of doing it (like printing it in different countries). We also like to do it as Hnostar or MCCM did in the past (using offset), but it depends on the number of issues printed. Actually we do it as "digital printing" and you can see the results on older numbers. Until now, price was 6 euro excluding shipping costs, and most of the issued had 60 or more DIN A4 pages.
We also know that most of MSX information is available on internet, so a "news" magazine has no interest. Because of that we try to add contents which can't be found there, as "game guides & maps", "howtos", "game previews", "technical articles", etc. And, in fact, call MSX was born because other paper publications died in Spain and we still enjoy reading paper magazines, since it is part of MSX world from the beginning.
Unfortunately (or not, it depends how you see it), call MSX members cannot complete every number directly, so other MSXers from Spain (or The Netherlands, Argentina, Japan...) have helped us to do it. So, collaboration is always welcome.
Well, after all this information, we would appreciate your reactions to this post to help us to see if making this magazine in English is needed or not for the MSX community... outside Spain.
Saeba.
) this would open the door for japanese subscribers and then the magazine can act as a informationchannel to inform japan about european msx activities.
Anyway, we will do our best if we finally decide to do it in English.
