PleasanTrees Programming continues to supply ZX/TS software and will introduce new 2068 titles. They are closing out the last copies of “Graphics A to Z,” see classifieds, this issue. You can get it later, but photocopied & 50% more costly.
Our report from Canada proved sadly true: Gladstone’s Toronto store sold copied software that Games To Learn By owns exclusive rights to manufacture, but which were not purchased from GTLB. SYNTAX holds physical evidence to back these allegations. See our front-page news story on software in baggies.
SYNTAX is delivering late again and serving customers badly. According to publisher Kirt Olson, “We don’t know when things will get back on schedule. It’s hard to be normal in a market as troubled as this. Nobody else has survived and it’s only the infinite compassion of our loyal readers that gives us hope.”
BASIC newsletter is back with an all-games issue. Restructured as a 6-Issue per year publication, the price is now $12.95/yr. Those who subscribed for 12 issues will get them all, but over an extended time
KOPAK CREATIONS took $45 from a MI resident and does not answer his letters. The phone is disconnected. Looks like Robert Schiller of KOPAK is out of business.