Using the excellent Disk Magazine Creator software to design and build the zine meant that once we'd got to grips with the formatting syntax and a few design quirks here and there, creating pages for inclusion in the mag was fairly quick work. By far the most time consuming part was ensuring text was lined up correctly, or making sure paragraphs didn't span multiple pages. That required a lot of testing and re-editing.
Although the plan was to do as much of the work on real Amiga hardware as possible, due to our limited spare time this wasn't always possible. In the end we had an emulated expanded Amiga 1200 and 600 running simultaneously. The Amiga 1200 was used for the editing and mastering of each version of the disk image while the Amiga 600, with floppy drive set to accelerated, was used to test that everything worked and that text was displayed correctly.
Below are a few screenshots from early versions of the magazine. The full published version even has a magazine cover which you'll have to load the disk in for yourself to see.
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| ASCII art displayed while the issue loads |
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| One of the numerous index pages displaying links to the articles |
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| Disk image displayed once loading is complete |
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