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 The MaraMag |
Yes folks you'd better have cutting edge equipment with at least a 13 inch monitor that can display thousands of colors or you will be in heap big dudu. Welcome to a blast from the past. Back during the heady days of early Marathon when all we had to play Marathon on was a vacuum tubed computer the size of a house with a round buzzing CRT screen that wouldn't fill the face of a wristwatch. Those were tough times when REAL men played the game, REAL men with hairy chests and broken, bloody knuckles. Huge men, with muscles the size of Buicks and the temperament of a hammerhead shark. Yes, harken back with me into the days of yesteryear as we explore a manly man's magazine made by manly men for other manly men. If you are a girl, I suppose you can read this but shut up and sit in the back and don't interrupt us while we men folk bark like Klingons and shove iron pikes into each other's stinking guts. I had considered the MaraMag to be lost for the ages but the last editor to man the manly helm of the MaraMag, a man named Frost (Nik Manak, actually a manly 13 year old at the time with gigantic sack and "man" in his name) showed up at the Inside Mac Games Forums all growed up and after trading manly throat punches and a few head butts we got to talking about the old days and the MaraMag. It came up that he still had an archive of old MaraMags he inherited when he took the position of Editor. Frost only made me beg like a dog with cheese on it's nose and then wear lederhosen to a biker convention before he realized I really was serious about getting these damn MaraMags. Someday the pendulum will swing the other way Frost, and you will have an alien imbedded in your chest or sumptin and you'll be begging me to blow your brains out and and and... stuff, but I'll do it just to show you what manly man friends are supposed to be like. I won't make you walk through the mall with a potato stuck down the back of your pants, or make you lick the floor in the monkey house first. Right now this is only available in Mac Classic DocMaker format but I'll probably get around to making a HTML version of it for those of you unable to run Mac Classic. But now a new day is here, one in which those of you who missed it can have a taste of what it was like back then. For those of you who knew this happy thing called the MaraMag in the heady days of Marathon, here it is again for you to thumb through once again. Enjoy!
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| February 1995 | Volume One Issue One. Edited by Ben Chess. Files: Articles: |
| March 1995 | Volume One Issue Two. Edited by Ben Chess. Files: Articles: |
| June 1995 | Volume One Issue Three. Edited by Ben Chess. Files: Articles: |
| July 1995 | Volume One Issue Four. Edited by Ben Chess. Files: Articles: |
| August 1995 | Volume One Issue Five. Edited by Ben Chess. Files: Articles: |
| September 1995 | Volume One Issue 6. Edited by Ben Chess. Files: Articles: |
| October 1995 | Volume One Issue 7. Edited by Ben Chess. Files: Articles: |
| November 1995 | Volume One Issue 8. Edited by Ben Chess. Files: Articles: |
| December 1995 | Volume One Issue 9. Edited by Ben Chess. Files: Articles: |
| February 1996 | Volume Two Issue One. Edited by Ben Chess. Files: Articles: |
| March 1996 | Volume Two Issue Two. Edited by Ben Chess. Files: Articles: |
| April 1996 | Volume Two Issue Three. Edited by Ben Chess. Files: Articles: |
| May/June 1996 | Volume Two Issue Four. Edited by ??? - Note, this issue of the MaraMag has no resource fork which means that the DocMaker doc will not launch and there is no way to extract the text for you. The accompanying files in this release are still intact however. Files: Articles: |
| March/April 1997 | Volume Three Issue One. Edited by Nik Manak aka Frost. Files: Articles: |
| May/June 1997 | Volume Three Issue Two. Edited by Nik Manak aka Frost. Files: Articles: |
| July/August 1997 | Volume Three Issue Three. Edited by Nik Manak aka Frost. Files: Articles: |
| July/August 1997 | Volume Three Issue Pfhor. Edited by Nik Manak aka Frost. Files: Articles: |
| Bonus Interviews | As a final offering in the presentation of the MaraMag, I have some raw uncut footage of the IRC interviews that Frost conducted. If you've never been on IRC then you might like to take a look at what an IRC log looks like. Unlike the smooth, flowing and organized interviews that you read in the MaraMag, you will see the bumps, hiccups and outright stoppage that occurs on IRC. People start talking out of phase due to the constraints of typing, people come and go, lag causes huge gaps in the conversation and sometimes net splits occur then everybody has to wait until the servers shake hands again. notharaM . |
