Old mags v new mags

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 9:47 am 0

Blimey. I bow down before your astonishing research aceness, Elizian.

Good tips, too. It's nice to know they helped someone, Chris.

DM · Post by DM » Wed Feb 19, 2003 1:13 pm 0

Your Computer - first computer mag I bought, just before I got a ZX-81. It was new world.

Computer and Video Games - from Issue1

Personal Computer World - Seemed a lot more serious than the rest and bigger.

The Micro User - BBC mag

ST Fomat

pap · Post by **pap** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 1:57 pm 0

Warning! Some of this post features a disgusting plug for my own shit.

I've long lamented the lack of humorous writing in today's magazines - I was a huge fan of Duncan McDonald. IMO, PC Zone was the last place you could find genuinely amusing reviews, but it was much much cooler when it wasn't trying to be cool.

I landed a writing gig on my own, penning reviews for a website. After a sound arse-kicking following some fairly formulaic copy, I decided to approach reviews in a slightly different manner ( or a very similar manner, depending on your heritage ).

To be honest, I feel like I'm playing the Sweet Child 'O Mine solo to a bunch of Westlife fans. In fairness, the Editor is very keen on getting more stuff like this onto the site, but reactions from the general readership are well, non-existent.

Anyway, check out my reviews. I'd be interested to see what an informed audience actually thinks.

randomdude · Post by **randomdude** » Sat Aug 02, 2003 6:38 am 0

Commodore Format anyone?

aaah the lust of playing the powerpack games sooo much...

'Another month, another llamasoft game on the powerpack'. Should I be proud or ashamed that I can quote it?

I remember....*nostalges*

is that a word?

Dr. M · Post by **Dr. M** » Sat Aug 02, 2003 7:21 am 0

First computer magazine I ever bought was Commodore User in 1983

Followed closely by C&VG.

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Sat Aug 02, 2003 9:08 am 0

randomdude wrote:Commodore Format anyone?

aaah the lust of playing the powerpack games sooo much...

The quality of the PowerPacks was decidedly up'n'down though, wasn't it? One month you'd have 2 top-flite games & a couple of groovy demos, the next month it'd be a collection of bad SEUCK games & BASIC adventures...

randomdude · Post by **randomdude** » Sat Aug 02, 2003 5:01 pm 0

mmm, OK yeah I'll agree there. I suddenly remembered last night a powerpack with, erm, a train simulator on it. Wich wasn't fun, unless you were a train enthusiast, which im not! 'type the following 20 commands to start your train' ...

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 1:01 am 0

randomdude wrote:mmm, OK yeah I'll agree there. I suddenly remembered last night a powerpack with, erm, a train simulator on it. Wich wasn't fun, unless you were a train enthusiast, which im not! 'type the following 20 commands to start your train' ...

Southern Belle, wasn't it?

randomdude · Post by **randomdude** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 1:58 am 0

Hehe! Yup it was. No longer do I feel alone in playing 'those old crappy games'. I also seem to remember that on that powerpack they printed the order of the programs on it wrongly. Now why do I rememeber that?! and not the important stuff like phone numbers/gf bday/gf anniverary/etc!?!

Bah. Bloody brain widget. Wish Jeff could code an in-brain VLM...might put it to good use.

*waits for drug referances*

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 2:18 am 0

I can only recall one tape that had the tracks out-of-listed-order... but I can remember every bloody tape loader they used (since I had to transfer everything to disk

)

randomdude · Post by **randomdude** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 4:25 pm 0

ooooooooooooooooo you had a disk drive!

such things werent bestowed upobn me at that age. I got one about 5-8 years after getting the 64 and it didnt work

ah well.. datasette for me!

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 12:04 am 0

It wasn't just a disk drive... it was a DolphinDOS disk drive!

randomdude · Post by **randomdude** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 2:06 am 0

Oooooooooooooooooooooo! *sounds impressed*

..erm, whats a dolphinDOS disk drive

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 2:23 am 0

Maaaaaaaate, DolphinDOS was a kernel ROM for your C64, plus a daughter-card for the 1541 that plugged into the user port. Net result: 25 times faster loading

First thing I loaded was a 202 block hack of Dropzone. Took 5 seconds

randomdude · Post by **randomdude** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 5:56 pm 0

wow, way cool!

I was only young/a wimp when I had my 64. I never even got to open him until years later

I really wanted an action replay, wich might've got me into the low level stuff, but I never got one

Oh well. And I still havent learnt ASM properly, or C at all. lol. BASIC! woo BASIC. kinda.