23 March 2009, 19:38 | #1 |
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Retro Gamer #62 - Amiga special
An 8 page spread on the history of the Amiga....
It ain't laminated so my copy is stuck together after one read |
23 March 2009, 20:24 | #2 |
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Just got mine and it looks cool - sat on the loo and opened it 10 mins ago
they must have been listening to us |
23 March 2009, 22:05 | #3 |
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Hey guys,
Thanks for starting this "Retro Gamer subscribers' early announcement thread" for all us non-subscribers. Looks like I'll be buying it again this month, then! Keep up the good work, prowler PS. It's good to see that it's not 'Off Topic' this month! |
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Got mine through the post today but only opened it a few minutes ago - haven't read it properly yet but it looks like a very interesting feature, and indeed some good articles in general.
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23 March 2009, 23:18 | #6 |
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Cool so when can us mortals expect to see it in smiths
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23 March 2009, 23:34 | #7 |
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Thursday I think but don't quote me on that.
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Quote from Retro Gamer, issue 61, page 110:
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24 March 2009, 00:17 | #9 |
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Another must have copy for me, looks like I'll be getting a subscription at this rate!
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24 March 2009, 00:26 | #10 |
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thats like 2 days a way .....................
spose i can wait cheers for the info, know what I`m buying and reading at the weekend |
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well worth it Cosmi! some fantastic retr0-ribbits in this issue, with a company profile on DMA design, Definitive write up on Metal Slug, the Sega Megadrive Celebration, Amiga Special, retr0-reviews on Saboteur, and sooooo much more.... its almost enought to make your head explode..... errr.... kinda like Paul_s.... |
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24 March 2009, 05:34 | #12 |
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How large (in pages) is this magazine? The subscription cost to Oz is 80GBP for 13 issues. That's about $AU15 per mag even at a reduced subscriber's rate. I wouldn't know where to get a single copy if I wanted to just see it.
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24 March 2009, 07:50 | #13 |
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It's 116 pages.
Oh and for all those people who buy it on occasion and don't subscribe (in the UK at least), I don't know whether they still do, but they used to run an offer where if you subscribe you get three issues for £1, which is what finally persuaded me to take out a subscription. That was about September/October last year so I really have no idea if this offer is still running. |
24 March 2009, 10:56 | #14 |
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It's great to see an 8 page article on the Amiga, it really is. Big hugs to RG for doing it!
However... I don't want to be a whinger, or a pedant... But. The article is good, but misleading in some places, and wrong in others. Of the top of my head: The author's lack of understanding of the A1000 kickstart is quite "special". Apparently, it needs to be installed after purchase: true I suppose, but I suspect the author has never used one... Or heard the special little tinkle when it's alive Jay Miner's dog is Mitch, apparently. Most famous dog related to the Amiga, and the name is wrong. No mention of Joe Pillow, which I think is a fantastic story of the prototype amiga and would explain why that name is on the inside of the 1000 cover. The 1500 being "better" than the 2000, because you can add a hard disk? There's one boxout saying "did you know..." that the A1000 UK launch was delayed due to the ROM being rewritten because of the easter egg messages in there (the 'we made the amiga, Commodore 'ked it up' one). I've never seen that particular rumour before, but it doesn't make any sense. Yep, those are the same messages that are in 1.3... It's a good article, but a little fact checking wouldn't have gone amiss, as there's plenty of knowledge in this community and others that could have been drawn upon. But it is great to see a new article on the Amiga, and it is a difficult task to fit 28 years history into 8 pages, but I was hoping for revelations and not of the "did you know why the 1000 was delayed" type! Difficult after all this time, admittedly... but thank you to RG for publishing it! I'm just hard to please |
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Jeez the A1000 is one of the best computers ever made full stop, whether you're a Commodore fanatic or not you should get basic things like that right and it just shows me what a waste of money this magazine still is. I could probably write a more interesting feature on the early history of how the Amiga came to be 1/10 FAIL please try harder or pay someone who knows about the Amiga inside out to write about it Retrogamer ta. |
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24 March 2009, 13:12 | #16 |
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I didn't want to start a whingefest, as it could rapidly appear that our community is a bunch of grumpy old gits . Let's try to keep it positive.
I am going to write a letter pointing out a couple of corrections: i'll post it here before I send it if people like? |
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I think I have first 20 or first issues of RetroGamer and I loved it back then. Bought an issue last month (it was from two months ago) and the magazine is not even remotely as good as it used to be A shame... it was just stuff you read on the internet anyway, for me it had almost no added value ... it might be just that issue though...
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24 March 2009, 15:20 | #19 |
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@chiark
Hidden easter egg - famous story, I already heard it before but could not remember which version it was for v1.2 or v1.3. I read about it years and years ago or so on a web page that no longer exists. Much of those old stories no longer exist on the internets (most now are just rehashes and copies of existing webpages). http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news...y-part-5.ars/3 If you read ars technica and commodore: on the edge as well as amigahistory.co.uk you will get an excellent overview of the history. Unfortunately it's only 3 sources (i.e. they themselves may contain mistakes). Old archived newsgroup messages also contain some gems. |
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Ah, thanks for the link.
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The Amiga 1000 didn't have a ROM chip! Which sorta shoots this story down. It was certainly there in my Amiga 500 with 1.2 Reading the ars story again, it's fairly obvious where the main research for the article in RG was done! Last edited by chiark; 24 March 2009 at 15:35. |
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