Anyone familiar with the early FLUX knows that it exhibited many eerie similarities to the World Wide Web of today. It was a hyperlinked document, available online, displaying both text and graphics in a fully interactive environment, offering many ways end users could self-publish in the format themselves, as well as contact channels for many, many other resources external to the magazine and its publisher-- a description remarkably like that of a well done web site today!
Note that not all items below have been ported to the web, as of 3-23-02. Also refer to this page for an explanation of various author pseudonyms which may be found in older texts linked below. This index is presented mostly as a historical or archival document. For instance, the various subscription benefit descriptions below do not pertain to the modern web edition of the magazine as of the time of this writing (3-24-02). Lastly, the screen-captured graphics you see in many of these old items display HyperCard stack button images which are non-functional on the web.
Welcome to the FLUX Index!
ISSUE TITLE CONVENTIONS: First is given the Macintosh HyperCard 2.1 file name, then
the Adobe Acrobat 2.1 version title, and its attendant DOS filename.
FILE VERSION CONVENTIONS: The Mac version number is usually included in the filename,
except for very minor version changes, which may only be mentioned in the second
card of the HyperCard stack, or accompanying Read Me text file.
The universal Digest issue version number will not usually be present in the DOS filename
(those darn tiny filename rules!), but displayed in the footer of every page of the
document (in tiny, tiny letters) instead.
The Art of FLUX is a look at miscellaneous graphics from the original black and white magazine.
***FLUX Spring 93 v1.3******jrm&aFLUX Digest #1***FXDG#1.pdf
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*The Second Coming*
First came the birth control pill. Can a death control pill be next? What will
happen to society if an easy, painless suicide pill becomes widely available everywhere?
This indepth article by S.C. Summers provides a comprehensive look at what could
happen, why, when, and how.
*The ICBM Salvage Project*
One trillion dollars of the money of both U.S. and U.S.S.R. citizens was spent
over forty years to construct the world's two largest arsenals of nuclear weapons.
Now that trillion dollar investment is being squandered in senseless destruction,
when it could instead be recycled through the civilian economies of both nations to bring new
wealth, prosperity, and security to all. The Salvage Project explains how we might
better use these missile arsenals, rather than melting them down into ink pens as
suggested by the Bush Administration.
*Rock'n Bowl*
Cities in space on the cheap? Sure! But this method's not for the timid.
*X-Cape*
X-Cape is a maze game wherein you must depend on your pattern recognition and general
gaming abilities to escape. You're in the game because it's your only hope of cutting
short your prison sentence for accidentally breaking into a restricted military intelligence database online (it was an accident because you thought you were electronically
robbing a bank at the time).
*What is Vendorware?*
An introduction to a new generation of software that may finally allow personal
computers to realize their full potential in liberating and empowering the individual
user.
*Final Frontiers Z-ST Personal VTOL*
Fantasy transportation.
*Primary Distributor Listing*
This option "brands" your own custom copy of FLUX with your organization's name
and contact information near the front of the magazine for advertising purposes (FLUX
distributors may sell or give away FLUX without payment or any further obligation
to J.R. Mooneyham & Associates than these two restrictions: One, a distributor must not
modify the magazine in a way unauthorized by us, and Two, a distributor must not
misrepresent the magazine to others).
*Personal Editions*
This option allows virtually anyone to go further than "branding" a copy of FLUX
for distribution, to actually install their own editorial material into the magazine,
for possible presentation to millions. Personal Edition authors may then sell or
give away copies of their customized issue of FLUX as they wish, without further payment
or obligation to J.R. Mooneyham & Associates over those mentioned above.
This makes Personal Editions a fast and easy way to create your own custom, polished
products for sale or giveaway to other Mac users. And there's no limit to the number
of different Personal Editions a single author may obtain!
*FLUX Unclassified Promotional Objects (FLUX UPOs)*
Available ONLY to current FLUX subscribers, these are FREE 45 word unclassified
ads in every issue of FLUX! (Words over 45 are $ 1.00 each)
***FLUX Summer 93************************************
This issue doesn't exist, due to a six month break between the first and second
issues, as previously announced in the Premiere Spring 93 issue. FLUX did not begin
its present quarterly publication schedule until the second issue (Fall 93).
***FLUX Fall 93 v1.0******jrm&aFLUX Digest #2***FXDG#2.pdf
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*The Rest of Our Lives; What It'll Be Like*
Aimed at thirty-something adults who can reasonably expect to live roughly 50 more
years, this article lists events and developments those folks are very likely to
see and experience over their span. The article offers Bad News, Mixed News, and
Good News about the next 50 years. Certain investment implications are included as well.
*Shadow Scan*
An excerpt from the Vaporware proposals received by Apple Computer in 1990, Shadow
Scan outlines the design and construction of a portable 3-D object scanner, suitable
for both CAD and general modeling purposes on the Macintosh.
*Limits*
A look at the ultimate limits on humanity, beyond which even our most fantastic
breakthroughs in technology cannot take us.
*Playing God*
What would it really be like to be a God? Why not use the most powerful virtual
reality machine available to us today to find out? S.C. Summers did just that, and
may surprise you with what he learned.
*No Work. All Play. All The Time.*
What the ultimate computer game might be like.
*Windward Flow Home*
*Plateaus of Violence*
*The Rise of the Small*
*Cincinnati Breaks*
A cigarette substitute both smokers and non-smokers could love.
*Something Different*
A FLUX variation on the "Kick Me" sign generation after generation of adolescents
love to apply to both friend and foe.
*Virtual Reality's Introverting Effect*
Virtual Reality could bring many traditional sci fi dreams of humanity conquering
the stars to a crashing end.
*ReEntry*
A new and extremely dangerous sport we could see the greatest risk-takers among us attempting
any time now.
*Fountain of Youth Water Purifier*
*The AutoDyne*
*Primary Distributor Listing*
*Personal Editions*
*FLUX Unclassified Promotional Objects (FLUX UPOs)*
***FLUX Winter 94 v1.0******jrm&aFLUX Digest #3***FXDG#3.pdf
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* Cave Art Volume One* (Entire issue).
Cave Art Volume One is a collection of black and white crystalline images based
on the single Mac graphic tool of rounded boxes.
*Primary Distributor Listing*
*Personal Editions*
*FLUX Unclassified Promotional Objects (FLUX UPOs)*
***FLUX Spring 94 v1.0*****jrm&aFLUX Digest #4***FXDG#4.pdf
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*Project Fledgling*
A concept for a Vertical Takeoff Or Landing craft safe and economical enough to
replace many automobiles for commuting within the next few years. And it could be
assembled in your back yard from a kit!
*To Whom It May Concern*
An offering of suggestions for how mankind might fend off or otherwise survive
a malevolent invasion of technologically superior aliens, if all conventional means
failed us.
*Virtual Studios*
How to become a Speilberg imposter on a shoe-string, with a little help from your
friends.
*Low Cost, High Flexibility Housing*
A way to use off-the-shelf technologies to obtain a high tech, comfortable and
secure home at a cost and with flexibilities traditional housing can't match.
*The Pursuit of Happiness V.V.*
This is an invitation to contribute to a compilation of all the adult recreational
and entertainment choices available in the world today- and those that may appear
in the very near future.
*Introduction to the FLUX ACT Stack*
The ACT stack is a part of the FLUX Super Stack application. ACT makes it easy
to send suggestions (or complaints!) to the President, Congress, news organizations
of TV and print media, Apple and selected developers, and others.
*Introduction to FLUX Comic Tools*
FLUX Comic Tools consist of a Page palette for instantly creating various panel
layouts for comic illustration, and a Balloons palette for adding interactive dialogue
and narrative buttons to same.
*Primary Distributor Listing*
*Personal Editions*
*FLUX Unclassified Promotional Objects (FLUX UPOs)*
***FLUX Summer 94 v1.0******jrm&aFLUX Digest #5***FXDG#5.pdf
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*HyperSavvy HOT v1.0*
An EXTRA accompanying the Summer 94 issue to subscribers, HyperSavvy v1.0 is brimming
with intermediate to advanced level scripting tricks and techniques for the serious
HyperCard developer.
*Do You Believe in Magic?* (Introduction to the FLUX Magic palette)
The FLUX Magic palette allows HyperCard Player 2.1 users to author and script in
HyperCard without buying any additional software.
NOTE FROM JR: This marked the earliest appearance of the Magic palette, which has
since then been improved upon enormously. So always use the latest available FLUX
issue/Super Stack to try it out, to experience it at its best!
*The LOLA Blues*
Tips for telecommunicating users suffering from a Lack Of Local Access on how to
become on-line commandos, not only surviving but prospering in the face of stiff
long distance charges.
*HyperCard Headstart, Part One *
A series of articles aimed at helping beginning scripters get off to a fast start
in working with HyperCard (These articles are supplements to HyperSavvy).
*Vocal Video Tapes*
A great way to get around the labeling curse of modern video tapes.
*The FLUX ACT Stack*
*FLUX Comic Tools*
*Primary Distributor Listing*
*Personal Editions*
*FLUX Unclassified Promotional Objects (FLUX UPOs)*
***FLUX Fall 94 v1.0******jrm&aFLUX Digest #6***FXDG#6.pdf
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*Pathfinder HC v1.0*
An EXTRA accompanying the Fall 94 issue to subscribers, Pathfinder HC v1.0 is a
distillation/ integration of the I Ching, Tao of Power, and Art of War. The program
responds to user queries with an intelligence based on these three Chinese classics.
*HyperCard Headstart, Part Two *
The second (and juiciest!) part of the series so far, this issue covers the essentials
of scripting in HyperCard.
3-24-02 UPDATE: Somehow HyperCard Headstart, Part Three never got indexed properly in this document, so that now I'm unsure where it belongs. For that reason I'm just inserting it below. END UPDATE.
*HyperCard Headstart, Part Three *
*Champion of Destiny*
Champion explores the possible practical aspects of a multi-faceted Superverse-
or how and why you just might be able to realize your wildest dreams, after all.
*Great Finds*
This issue showcases the Millennial Project, a fascinating new proposal for how
mankind could conquer the universe and turn a tidy profit at the same time.
*Our Next Universe*
It'll be wildly different from this one!
*The unfortunate way the world versus Japan trade problem will finally be resolved.*
*Real World Macking*
Hands-on reviews of, and life with, various products and services related to the
Mac...
*ZOOM VFX v.32bis Fax Modem (14.4 modem) and FAXstf software*
*America On-Line net membership and client software*
*BitJugglers Underware Screensaver*
*Aladdin Stuffit Deluxe and Space Saver (compression software)*
*John Norstad's Disinfectant (virus killer)*
*Central Point MacTools (disk utilities)*
*MaxAppleZoom (expanding the screen size on older color Macs)*
*AMUG BBS-in-a-Box CD-ROM (one Gigabyte plus shareware collection)*
* Microtek ScanMaker IIg full page scanner (gray-scale scanner)*
*MODE 32*
*The Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet*
*The FLUX Magic Palette*
*The FLUX ACT Stack*
*FLUX Comic Tools*
*Primary Distributor Listing*
*Personal Editions*
*FLUX Unclassified Promotional Objects (FLUX UPOs)*
***FLUX Winter 95 v1.0.3*****jrm&aFLUX Digest #7***FXDG#7.pdf
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*Vaporware v2.0*
An EXTRA accompanying the Winter 95 issue to subscribers, the massive Vaporware
book-on-disk documents in profusely illustrated detail a wealth of new product proposals
received by Apple Computer in 1990, which may or may not be heavily influencing the
present course of the company. Judge for yourself by finding out the whole story here!
Oh, and by the way, Vaporware is accompanied with an empty template version of the
book-on-disk so that end users may easily create their own books or manuals, too.
*FLUX LaunchPad v1.0*
An EXTRA accompanying the Winter 95 issue to subscribers, LaunchPad greatly expands
the power of the FLUX Super Stack for HyperCard Player users, by allowing them to
convert their Workspace inside a Super Stack to a separate stack, independent of
FLUX.
*FLUX ScanPad 512x342 v1.0*
An EXTRA accompanying the Winter 95 issue to subscribers, ScanPad is primarily
a utility for FLUX Super Stack users, but doesn't require FLUX or a Super Stack to
function; any Mac user with access to a scanner may find it highly useful. Among
other things, FLUX Super Stacks offer users a Page palette that generates different page layouts
for the creation of comics-on-disk. Where does the ScanPad fit in to all this? The
ScanPad contains the same page blanks as a Super Stack. Users choose which panel
layouts they want, then print them. Next they sketch their artwork onto the pages, and
scan them back into their Mac with a scanner. The resulting images fit exactly into
the comics workspace within a FLUX Super Stack, thus expediting the copy and paste
process. Everyone knows how difficult it is to create freehand sketches of substantial number
or complexity on the average computer system. The ScanPad allows you to sketch your
designs naturally with pen and paper, then input them to your machine in a digital
format.
*FLUX Index v1.0*
Yes, you guessed it. This EXTRA was a previous version of the Index you're now
reading! V1.0 only covered FLUX from Spring 93 through Fall 94, however, spurring
an update some nine months later.
*Wagon Train to the Stars*
How our unborn children may lead the way to the stars.
*Productivity in Software Development*
The astounding inefficiencies in the later stages of present day computer programming.
*Motivation in Software Development*
The problem of maintaining morale while writing code.
*Real World Macking*
Hands-on reviews of, and life with, various products and services related to the
Mac...
*ALERTS! HyperCard 2.1 to 2.2 compatibility bug, WriteNow Export bug, and bad Mac
floppies*
*The Complete HyperCard 2.2 Handbook*
*digitalNation BBS*
*ToolKit*
*Inkjet Re-Inking Kit*
*Apple StyleWriter II*
*MacProPlus keyboard*
*Apple Color StyleWriter Pro*
* UPDATES: MaxAppleZOOM, FAXstf, Underware, and flaky hard drives*
*The FLUX Magic Palette*
*Primary Distributor Listing*
*Personal Editions*
*FLUX Unclassified Promotional Objects (FLUX UPOs)*
*THE BEST SUPER STACK YET, NOW WITH OPEN, UNPROTECTED SCRIPTS!*
The best and most powerful version of the FLUX Super Stack yet made its debut this
issue: v3.5. This latest version boasted substantial improvements over previous releases,
and worked far more reliably and transparently with the FLUX LaunchPad than earlier Super Stacks. Even better, we left v3.5 unprotected and set to userlevel 5, so
that users could finally inspect the largest collection of state-of-the-art HyperTalk
scripts in all HyperDom at their leisure.
For those who are unfamiliar with FLUX Super Stacks (or who'd like to know what
they offer normal people as opposed to HyperCard freaks), Super Stacks give HyperCard
Player v2.1 and up users authoring and scripting powers ***WITHOUT*** the HyperCard
Development Kit from Apple (Player comes with all new Macs sold), as well as contains
the Comic Tools and ACT stack described elsewhere in this Index.
***FLUX Spring 95 v1.0.2******jrm&aFLUX Digest #8***FXDG#8.pdf
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*Hair Club for Macs (100 Tips for Improving the Performance, Reliability, Security,
and Convenience of Your Old Mac)*
There's almost a whole book's worth of info here! Including topics like:
**Squeezing out more disk space
**Upping the speed of your machine
**Tricks of the trade
**Programming, development, authoring, and scripting
**Common problems and how to solve them
**Expansions and upgrades for especially old and slow Macs
**Serial port conservation and expansion
**Extreme expansions
**Which of the newer secondhand Macs are the best buys?
*[THIS ITEM DELETED DUE TO CHANGING LAWS IN US CIRCA 2002]*
[THIS ITEM DELETED DUE TO CHANGING LAWS IN US CIRCA 2002]
*The Top Ten Free (or almost free) Stacks for HyperCard Developers*
*The Top Seven Most Popular FLUX Issues or EXTRAs on AOL to date*
*From One AOL User's Case File: the Case of the Generation Gap (in System Software)*
*Real World Macking*
Hands-on reviews of, and/or life with, various products and services related to
the Mac...
*Macs for Dummies (the book)*
*Bottomline Distribution's 30 pin, 120 ns one MB RAM SIMMs*
*Bottomline Distribution's 72 pin, 60 ns 16 MB RAM SIMM*
*APS 730 Q SR2000 external hard drive*
*Iomega 100 MB ZIP Drive and Disks*
*the Apple Performa 637 CD*
*The FLUX Magic Palette*
*The FLUX ACT Stack*
*FLUX Comic Tools*
*Primary Distributor Listing*
*Personal Editions*
*FLUX Unclassified Promotional Objects (FLUX UPOs)*
*THE BEST SUPER STACK YET, NOW WITH OPEN, UNPROTECTED SCRIPTS! (v3.5)*
***FLUX Summer 95 v1.0*******jrm&aFLUX Digest #9***FXDG#9.pdf
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*The Devil's Workshop*
An EXTRA accompanying FLUX magazine to subscribers, Workshop is the FLUX version
of what a [THIS ITEM DELETED DUE TO CHANGING LAWS IN US CIRCA 2002] stack should be. This means it not only strips passwords and resets
userLevels to 5, but also may be used to scan certain aspects of a stack's access
characteristics (without opening the stack), OR, create a complete catalog of all a stack's
scripts as well. But this still isn't all; Workshop points out invisible objects
in a stack for you, and allows you to edit line by line or wholesale by object any
script inside a stack (no matter how it's protected). Workshop's technology also defeats
ALL script-based protection measures, no matter WHO the expert was that created them--
before Workshop came along such script tricks could be used to keep you out of a
stack even after you'd broken a password and reset userLevels.
*The Macs of 1997 (Part One)*
A look ahead at many of the exciting changes that could be coming to the Mac platform
in the near future and beyond.
*Computing's Holy War*
This piece by famed computer journalist Cary Lu outlines the current advantages
and disadvantages of both the Mac and Windows/PC platforms, circa 1995. If you're
looking for debate ammo to use in the trenches at home or work, this is one armory
you won't want to miss!
*Normal Luck*
What if luck is distributed among the human population the same way many other
attributes of nature and human characteristics are? That is, what if luck is distributed
among us according to the so called normal curve of distribution in probability and
statistical science? What would be the implications for society? Better yet, what might
it mean to you personally? Find out here!
*My Name is Legion*
The term 'super power' may not be relevant in any military sense for very much
longer. Learn here why the United States' past role as 'world policeman' is doomed
to evaporate in coming decades-- and the reason will have nothing to do with budget
deficits.
*The Top Ten FLUX Downloads From America Online*
Our running scorecard for readers to inform them of what FLUX issues or EXTRAs
are being deemed the best by AOL members to date.
*FLUX Index v1.1*
A previous version of the index you're now reading
*The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog*
A review of the latest offering in the Whole Earth Catalog series from those strange
folks in Sausalito California.
*The FLUX Bookshelf: Macintosh Books, hardcopy and soft*
If you're wondering if there's a book about a particular facet of Mac computing,
this is where to look. Your search will also be aided by "Find..." and "Find Next"
buttons dedicated to this section of the magazine. The Bookshelf is updated each
issue, in an effort to provide you with the best, most comprehensive list of Mac books in
the world.
*Real World Macking*
Hands-on reviews of, and/or life with, various products and services related to
the Mac...
*Optimizing Your Disk (a MacTools 3.0 UPDATE)*
*Iomega ZIP Drive UPDATE*
*Apple's System 7.5*
*Conflict Catcher 3*
*ClickBook 1.2*
*The FLUX Magic Palette*
*The FLUX ACT Stack*
*FLUX Comic Tools*
*Primary Distributor Listing*
*Personal Editions*
*FLUX Unclassified Promotional Objects (FLUX UPOs)*
*THE BEST SUPER STACK YET, NOW WITH OPEN, UNPROTECTED SCRIPTS! (v3.5.4)*
***FLUX Fall 95 v1.0.1*******jrm&aFLUX Digest #10***FXDG#10.pdf
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*The Macs of 1997 (Part Two)*
Even more news about what the future could hold for the Macintosh platform.
*Spellbinding: the Making of Magic, Part One*
A detailed explanation of the internal workings of the Magic palette in a FLUX
Super Stack.
*Methusula's End*
Life and death are more bizarre than you ever suspected.
*UPDATE! The Top Ten Free (or almost free) Stacks/Resources for HyperCard Developers*
*From One AOL User's Case File: Encounter With HyperTalk Pitfall # 32457*
*FLUX email digest*
*Hi-tech Ethics*
*Politics: 2000*
*The Top Ten FLUX Downloads From America Online*
Our running scorecard for readers to inform them of what FLUX issues or EXTRAs
are being deemed the best by AOL members to date.
*FLUX Newz & Viewz*
A new department in FLUX in which we hope to bring you the latest, most interesting
developments from the worlds of science, business, aerospace, and technology, as
well as provide informed perspectives on today's and tomorrow's socio-economic-technologic events and trends.
*FLUX Index v1.2*
*The FLUX Bookshelf: Macintosh Books, hardcopy and soft*
*FLUX Leads*
A concise listing of lesser known, maybe hard to find, Mac-related product and
service providers by phone, fax, and modem numbers, for your convenience and information.
*Real World Macking*
Hands-on reviews of, and/or life with, various products and services related to
the Mac...
*Iomega ZIP: UPDATE*
Trouble in ZIP Land?
*EDUCORP Shareware v10.0 CD ROM (3 disk set)*
*The FLUX Magic Palette*
*The FLUX ACT Stack*
*FLUX Comic Tools*
*Primary Distributor Listing*
*Personal Editions*
*FLUX Unclassified Promotional Objects (FLUX UPOs)*
*THE BEST SUPER STACK YET, NOW WITH OPEN, UNPROTECTED SCRIPTS! (v3.5.5)*
***FLUX Winter 96 v1.0******jrm&aFLUX Digest #11***FXDG#11.pdf
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*The Macs of 1997 (Part Three): Can the Mac Survive?*
Even more news about what the future could hold for the Macintosh platform.
*Spellbinding: the Making of Magic, Part Two*
A detailed explanation of the internal workings of the Magic palette in a FLUX
Super Stack.
*Our Ultimate Corporeal Forms*
If you think teenagers look bizzarre now, you ain't seen nuthin' yet!
*Next Generation Watch: the Best Hopes for a True Successor to the Macintosh, circa
1996*
*Whatever Happened to Steve Jobs?*
*The Midnight 2000 Massacre: Will You be a Victim?*
*SpiderMac's Enemies Line up to Take Him On*
*FLUX Newz & Viewz*
...the latest, most interesting developments from the worlds of science, business,
aerospace, and technology, as well as providing informed perspectives on today's
and tomorrow's socio-economic-technologic events and trends.
*FLUX Leads*
A concise listing of lesser known, maybe hard to find, Mac-related product and
service providers by phone, fax, and modem numbers, for your convenience and information.
*Real World Macking*
Hands-on reviews of, and/or life with, various products and services related to
the Mac...
*Power Computing's PowerWave 604/132 Mac compatible*
*The FLUX BMW (Basic Mac Workstation)*
*Adding an FPU to a Performa 460*
*The MacALLY ADB Mouse*
*Performance Hit Alert: Too Many Fonts*
*Performance Hit Alert: Microsoft Software*
*The WWW and the Internet*
*The Mac Shareware Review*
*The FLUX Magic Palette*
*The FLUX ACT Stack*
*FLUX Comic Tools*
*Primary Distributor Listing*
*Personal Editions*
*FLUX Unclassified Promotional Objects (FLUX UPOs)*
*THE BEST SUPER STACK YET, NOW WITH OPEN, UNPROTECTED SCRIPTS! (v3.5.6)*
IN REGARDS TO THE ACCURACY OF THIS INDEX:
This index is only accurate for the particular versions of the back issues/EXTRAs
listed. Later updates of the issues/EXTRAs listed here may change significantly in
content (all issues/EXTRAs are destined to be updated at some point, in order to
make software improvements contained in later issues retroactive to all, as well as effect
other changes to the magazine and its related software).
It should also be noted that the more interactive elements such as authoring and
scripting and use of the ACT stack, among other things, are available only in the
Macintosh/HyperCard version of FLUX, and not the universal FLUX Digest edition.
This index also does not attempt to list the myriad elements possible among Personal
Editions of FLUX-- only the contents of the general editions of each issue are seen
here. Therefore it is entirely possible that each and every individual copy of FLUX
you encounter online may be quite different from every other copy-- even where all
are copies of the same particular issue!
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