Ye oldie computer mags: C&VG, ZZAP! 64,PCG etc

Scruff

/quick post, quite busy
Still got all my ancient computer mags that i bought form when i had a spectrum 128k, then a C64 and an Amiga.
Don't have any of the really really early editions of the first few, was too young

anywho, found this nice site dedicated to a good few of the auld mags:

http://www.old-computer-mags.co.uk/

ah the memories

ozpass

I used to get 'Your Sinclair', 'Sinclair User' and 'Acorn User'.

I must have had about 5 years worth of each when I chucked them out. (Note to self: am an absolute idiot)

Congoose

I think I still have some copies of "Your Sinclair" at home. I remember thinking programming in BASIC was the coolest thing ever!
Looking at those old magazines makes me want to bring the old speccy 48k out of retirement!

ozpass

Looking at those old magazines makes me want to bring the old speccy 48k out of retirement!

Do it! Their shoddy early silicon wont last forever!

Grand_Izer

Ah Zzap!64 I had only been purchasing Zzap!64 for about a year before they renamed the magazine to "Commodore Force". It still seems like a daft title to me and it was a tad too similar to the other c64 magazine at that time, Commodore Format (boo).

http://www.zzap64.co.uk/

ps. Lloyd Mangram 4ever!

Raskolnikov

Originally posted by Grand_Izer
Ah Zzap!64 I had only been purchasing Zzap!64 for about a year before they renamed the magazine to "Commodore Force". It still seems like a daft title to me and it was a tad too similar to the other c64 magazine at that time, Commodore Format (boo).

http://www.zzap64.co.uk/

ps. Lloyd Mangram 4ever!

The Commodore Force mag wasn't a patch on Format, they were still publishing Commodore Format long after the Commodore was dead, just shows how big it's popularity base was.

Dempsey

Amstrad Action

hamster

Yes! Zzap!64. I collected those by the bucket back then. I guess it was July '86 until July '90. I got an Amiga just a day before the Gulf War broke out. I started with Amiga Format then and in May '93 I moved onto PC Format. Now I just use the Web.

But Zzap! had old style class. Hand drawn "Thing on a Spring" (and what was that other character? Rockford?) on every 2nd page. Lloyd Mangram was great for the letters! Ollie did great Zzap covers unlike PC Format fixation on putting women on the cover month after month. Still do don't they? :rolleyes:

Manach

I have a bunch of amiga magazines in storage somewhere, God nows why and also some Amstrad Actions, which I kept for tribal purposes, It was a better machine that the sinclair and the C64

Karl Hungus

I got a LOAD of old Amiga magazines if anyone want to buy them off me.

Gordon

Wow, I wish I'd had known about the Acorn mags or BBC mags (they the same thing?). Maybe I was too late or too early :notsure: Only place I had contact with the computer on the outside world was at the games shop. Otherwise I didnt delve that much inside it (bar the create a rectangle and fill with blue colour -section-)

Sorry to digress.

Pigman II

Yeah Zzap was the best computer mag ever IMHO. I seem to remeber it having a very deliberate 'student union rag mag' look to it which I found very appealing and the reviewers usually had a good sense of humour in their articles. Cover artwork was usually great too.