A little piece of Blitz history

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I was digging through my old Blitz archives - I have got the first 5 Blitz User Magazines (BUM) - I remember they seemed to just stop coming. Apparantly, there were 10 of them - according to this:

Introduction: Blitz User Magazine and Blitz User International

Blitz User Magazine (BUM) was the official way of distributing new versions of the Blitz package, or new libraries, and generally keeping the Blitz users around the world informed of what was going on. However, only 10 were ever made (many people not getting all of them) so you can not get them any more. They also came with example code but as these BUMs were copyrighted by Acid you can not get them anywhere now, although some of the example code may be on websites.

Blitz User International was an attempt to replace BUM (once it collapsed) and although a few issues were produced, it also folded due to lack of interest. Some of the issues can be found on the Ultimate Blitz Basic CD.

I found my old 'Skidmarks' (the game) beta docs too while searching my stuff.

Also, hows about this little find:

http://www.david-mcminn.co.uk/blitz-2000/

http://www.david-mcminn.co.uk/blitz-2000/archives/documents/index.html

The download links on this site appear to be active - so pay it a visit.

puki

In fact, the webring itself seems to be active - there's a fair amount to download - hows about this for a bit of Christmas Blitz:

http://www.sludgefeast.utvinternet.com/snowman/throwthesnowman.html

Rook Zimbabwe

Large!

Grey Alien

puki, did you mkae Skidmarks then?

Jim Brown

Apparantly, there were 10 of them

* Blitz User Magazine - Issues 6 to 10
* Blitz User International - Issues 4 to 8
I don't think BUMs 6 to 10 were printed in booklet format like the first 5 though.
Simon posted PDF versions of issues 1 to 5 some time ago here. It would be nice to have a read through these again.
Any links?

Tri|Ga|De

And heres a site for the Amiga Blitz
Amiga Blitz

Grey Alien

I used to love BB2, was my favourite language for years.

LuCiFeR[SD]

puki, did you mkae Skidmarks then?

Simon Armstrong AKA Skidracer was the man with many skidmarks :)

(tu) ENAY

Puki makes skidmarks, in his pants! fnar fnar.

Grey Alien

#10

yeah I thought something funny was going on there.

puki

#11

I probably should have said: 'I found my old beta docs for 'Skidmarks' (the game) too while searching my stuff'.

Didn't want anyone to think I wrote it - jeez, I was too good to write that.

:)

Grey Alien

#12

confusion cleared up, Puki is god of code, all hail ;-)

GrahamK

#13

He he,
Talk about taking me back ;)

Clicky!

puki

#14

"Graham Kennedy" - isn't he the guy doing Cobra? I think he is.

GrahamK

#15

"Graham Kennedy" - isn't he the guy doing Cobra? I think he is.

Aye... Tis me ;)
I've been around a while ;)