Thank you to everyone who took the trouble to vote
in the Readers Poll from issue 19. Due to the astonishing number of
cards returned it has taken quite a few hours of work to come up
with the results but here they are at last, in fact a complete Top
Ten of the various articles and contributions from issues 13 to 18.
Interestingly, the pattern is very similar to
previous years with every single contribution receiving at least one
vote and with David Blease and Mark Hutchinson up in the top three
yet again. Anyway, to save further suspense, here are the Top Ten
contributions to PAGE 6 issues 13 to 18 as voted for by our readers.
1.
FIRST STEPS by Mark Hutchinson
2. TYPO 3 by Alec Benson
3. CASTLE MORGUE by David Blease
4.
Grand Prix II by Chris Darkes
5.
Display Lists Pt.1 by Steve Pedler
6. Atari Book of Books by Kevin Fleming
7. Software Reviews by Jim Short and others.
8.
Adventure Column by Garry Francis
9. The
Booster by Phil Davies
10.130XE
Review by Les Ellingham
First Steps was a clear winner all the way with
most votes going for the A-Z of BASIC which obviously helped a lot
of new owners and TYPO 3 just had to be up there for the untold
number of hours it must have salvaged from debugging sessions. There
were also quite a few surprises (at least to me!) especially the
review of the 130XE reaching the Top Ten. Equally surprising was the
fact that just five points outside the Ten was De Re Piracy which
surely goes to prove that most owners do care about the future of
Atari and it is only the minority that have caused all the problems
in the past. Equally surprising was that many of the the articles or
programs included as 'minority interest' received a fair number of
votes.
Anyway, on with this year. With the knowledge of
what you found most interesting last year we can hopefully produce
more good balanced issues. The top three authors in the poll have
received various goodies of their choice plus worldwide fame and
recognition! Why don't you see if you can get into that Top Ten next
time?
The winners of the draw associated with the
Survey and Poll have all received their prizes. Winner of the 1O5O
Disk Drive was D. G. Reed from Oxfordshire and the following people
each received a Ballblazer cassette. A. G. Seagrave of Croydon, D.
Rowlands of Lincoln, David Cheung from London, Mark Hemstock from
Heanor, J. Bowler from Brighton, Andrew Kemp from London, F. Maltby
of Mobberley and Harry Clark from Barking in Essex. Congratulations
to the winners and many thanks to all those who sent in cards.
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