RetroGames

Sometimes when I browse the magazine rack at Barnes & Noble, I run across a British publication named RetroGames. Well, its all about the early machines that were produced in the late 70's early 80's. You know, from Apple II's to the ZX Spectrum, including some of the games published for those systems.
Browsing thorugh this magazine sort of bring tears to my eyes, as I owned some of the machines talked about, plus some of the games, but had to get rid of them, because they were taking uup too much space in our home, and my parents thought they were a big time waster as well.
I think I've said this before, but I'll recap.
A brief history of my computer career.

I started coputing on the Sinclair ZX81, back before Sir Clive sold his company to Timex, before it became the TS1000. then I moved on to the Commodore 64, the 128, wanted an Amiga, and an Atari ST, but never had the money to buy them, then moved on the the IBM world. There I started out with a no-name Maxar 88T, yeah, a mail-order thingy, from there, moved on to a Tandy 1000TL, (still have that one, and plan to keep it), then a Compaq (forget the model number). I bought that one to get into windows, also met another programmer by this time, and the two of us wanted to do a program together (Voltaire). I wanted to keep pace with him. (I was still doing QuickBASIC, learning C++, while he was a C++ pro.)
I had to give away my Compaq as a bargaining peice for a repair job that I couldn't complete. After that, I bought a HP Slimline, which I still currently use, plus two laptops, an Averatec 3500, and a Hewlett packard.
My main reason for posting this post is to see if anyone would still buy one of thses machiines for nostagia sakes, as i know i would.

he sold to Amstrad (in 86?) not timex, timex were licenced to make it for the states and iir the had a scottish plant that made the speccy for the uk market
it was more of case of "well make it for you as long as we can make it for ourselves too"
and without such an agreement they might never have been able to do the massive cost cutting price warfare that all 8bits did

the publication is more than likely Retro Gamer, not retro games, i had been buying it since issue 1 till its publisher collapsed, i didnt know about the relaunch till it was in the 3rd or 4th issue and always forgot to order back issues and ive missed that many here and there that i stopped buying it (without the CD it was just the oppinions of the journalists and tbh i could get those anywhere on the net)
might stick the mags on ebay



I know some emus dont have te same feel as using the original, hell a pc qwerty vs a speccy no contest, but trying to remember where things were for basic etc ...

if they remade consoles with old teck and new id be interested in some things, but not the old ways an SD/usb stick full of .z80 or whatever instead of tape on an otherwise authentic spec speccy
those joystick atari 2600's and c64's lack (well in the c64's case) all the bits that make them 'them'
but after remembering xpadder i will dig out my 360 usb pad and map it out to aslp so i can play icicle works and not break my brain with the heritic anti keys (qaop man myself)

Yes, Retro Gamer is an ace mag! I live in the US and it's really hard to come by, but I've managed to get most of the issues since #8. I cry if I miss one. Every year I'm thinking rather seriously of subscribing, but then always decide not to for one reason or the other.

Oh yes, my fave magazine.

I only buy 2 mags, Retro Gamer and PC Powerplay (an Australian PC gaming mag).
I can't get by without either, but if I had to choose one, RG would win hands down.
At the risk of sounding silly, it takes me back to the old days.
I look forward to it every month, and indeed have every issue.

I started back in 1985 with an Amstrad CPC464, and then moved on to an Amiga around 1989 or 1990... I don't remember for sure. Ah... those were the days.

Na, I still have my c128 but never switch it on. It's a waste of time and space when you can just fire up an emulator and load any game you like.

I tend to live in the past as well when it comes to computers. I bought a zx spectrum about 5 years ago to replace the one I used to have, and still fire it up from time to time. I have also a nearly complete collection of Crash magazines which I still read for inspirations when I'm looking at making a new remake.

Retro Gamer is a good mag as well, and worth the subscription.

Thanks, guys. its nice to know that I'm not alone in this.