Letters to the Editor: Feedback from Mönchengladbach

Letters to the Editor

Hello L.C.D.,

Unfortunately, I am only just getting around to answering your letter. I received issues 1–3 and 5 of the magazine. But I must disappoint you: you unfortunately didn't give me issue #4.

Regarding your request for contributions: gladly — and I already use Tasword II anyway. But right now, I'm still busy with another project, so I unfortunately lack the time to do something here as well. (To be honest, I haven't even managed to look into the disks yet.)

As soon as my project is finished, you will of course be notified, and then I can work on something else.

How about a game review/description? I'm thinking of older titles that I personally like, but which newcomers might not be familiar with (e.g., my big favourite Bruce Lee).

Also, I wanted to ask something: after your first letter arrived, I wanted to give you a quick call to confirm receipt, but I didn't have your phone number. Would you mind letting me have the number?

How are things going with members at the moment? Have any new ones joined from Austria?

Have you ever advertised your club in Computer Flohmarkt? To my knowledge, it's also published in Austria.

How long has the club actually been around? I only found out through the SUC that it exists and that the magazine comes on disk, which is why I got interested.

That's all for today, and best regards to Austria from:

Peter Rennefeld,
D-41179 Mönchengladbach

Hello Peter,

I only received your letter recently because our postal service is on strike, causing delivery times to increase drastically; I hope that gets sorted out soon. Now to your letter:

I am very pleased that those few lines in SUC-SESSION and SPC INFO gave so many people food for thought. Why I only gained five new readers at the meeting, however, remains a mystery. Maybe people just need someone to be physically present?

As for the club, I briefly placed an ad in CF at the very beginning, and I will do so again in one of the next issues. But to get hold of CF, you have to go to a larger newsagent (for example, a railway station tobacconist/kiosk). That's why I haven't been in that magazine for a long time, but back in the day, there was plenty of stuff from me under the handle "Tiger's Claw".

ASC has existed since October 1995, when I started with the paper zine SCENE+, which eventually led to the disk-based SCENE+. The idea of founding a Spectrum club came to me much earlier. Since the Cologne meeting, no new members from Austria have joined yet, but plenty have from every other corner of this planet.

No, of course I don't mind sharing my telephone number. Why would I mind, when the number has already been published in the Bulletin and in the SCENE editorial for several issues anyway?

(0043-1) 272 34 63

Almost all articles are welcome, including descriptions of older games. I also enjoy playing Bruce Lee, even though it is far too easy. By now, I can make it through eight levels without losing a single life. I have other favourites too: Nether Earth, Scorpions, Zulu Wars, and plenty of others.

Well, that's it for now, otherwise I'll never get this issue finished.

— L.C.D.

(Apart from that, no notable complaints, death threats, extortion letters, letter bombs, or parcel bombs arrived — business as usual. The postal service is on strike, and I'm not getting any interesting letters...)