What is a diskmag?

Diskmag is short for Diskette Magazine, a magazine or journal distributed on a floppy disk. Back in the 80s and 90s this really meant a floppy disk, nowadays it is a collection of files zipped up and meant to be read offline in contrary to web magazines or websites at all.

A diskmag most often comes with nice artwork to look, an intro or short demo, some nice musics, a nice menu to pick the articles you want to read and ofcourse lots of interesting articles and texts to reads.

The purpose is the same as in a paper magazine, to provide news, insights, stories and just plain information. The speciality of diskmags is their unique look'n'feel and the fact that you run the magazine as a program on your computer.

Some diskmags also provide their content on the web for online reading.

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