SWOS Edit

"Edit your SWOS teams!"

Appeared in: AP58 (and, by popular box office response, AP59)

Oops. David The Disk Bod (on secondment from Amiga Format to observe AP in our natural habitat and learn vital mag proficiences like ekeing out a budget and killing people with a blow of his wrist) had a bit of space left over on AP58's second disk, so, displaying fine initiative, quietly bunged on the SWOS Team Editor, a prog he'd deduced by keen alertness that you, our pretty readers, would coo over.

The single Topkapi-sparrow-y scruff in his plan was that SWOS Edit turned out to be a hideously complex command-driven prog that required (aieee!) copies of disks, (hnargh!) prepared blanks, (yagargalahnf!) Workbench and lots of clicking and typing. This left AP fielding an entire month's worth of bewildered lip-wobbling from overexcited, tangle-knucked readers until we could add the vitally important instructions, which even with comprehensive distillation and heavy editing came to a quarter of a page of the True Stories section.

No lasting harm was committed by David's shrapnel excellence and we all laughed about it later over tea, though for the sake of form we did add 15 people to the list of people he had to eliminate with his new jabbing-wrist technique before we'd tick his box and notarise his chit.