What is a diskmag?

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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 program on your computer.

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