24 February 2009, 03:59 | #21 |
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As it is late and I still aint sleepy I thought I might share a small Amiga Action memory with you.
As I (The Boggit) worked out of the office as a freelance journalist I started to get frustrated that I wasn't receiving any of the best games to write about in the Boggits Domain column so I rang the editor and complained that I wanted more "stuff". Imagine my delight when a few days later the post delivered a huge Teachest to my house. I ripped off the paper and emptied the contents onto the floor. Instead of Amiga games, the guys in the office had filled the chest with everything they could find on the desks in the office. I had old coffee mugs, cold toast, telephone directories and the contents of their wastepaper baskets. At first I was livid with anger, then I burst out laughing at such a great trick that had been played on me. The bastards! |
26 February 2009, 02:07 | #22 |
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How was the toast?
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27 February 2009, 21:27 | #23 |
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28 February 2009, 10:57 | #24 |
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translation: troll = atari st user.
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01 March 2009, 04:37 | #25 |
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Troll certainly does NOT equal Atari ST User!
I made my living out of insulting Atari Users. However I will reveal another secret. I was the writer of the adventure column of the Atari User magazine called Dungeons and Disk Drives. I was also the writer of the adventure column of the BBC Micro User magazine called Beebug. Oh, I was a busy boy. I also was the creator of three text adventure games sold through the Acorn User Magazine. The games were called Vampire Castle, Flints Gold and Hacker 2000. I will admit that all three games were crap, but it was my first attempt at software writing. Boggit |
04 March 2009, 09:38 | #26 |
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Vampyra, eh? Was that Amiga Computing IIRC? I was an avid Amiga Computing reader, and wrote around 10 articles for them on techie things... Ahh, good times.
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03 June 2009, 01:44 | #27 |
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Hello, the Boggit.
You may not remember me, but I'm Peter Silk - you knew my family and once I came round and you showed me the beginning of Monkey Island 1 and 2 and I've been a fan of the games ever since. I've always remembered that. Thanks! |
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HA!, I remember Vampyra like it was yesterday :P... good looking girl in that picture Never really thought about stuff like that, whether it was a girl or guy who wrote the text.... I just liked it was a girl picture representing that part of the magazine . Still got them somewhere |
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03 June 2009, 18:11 | #29 |
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Well this is a surprise!
Read one of your later columns a couple of days ago when I obtained an obscure issue of Amiga Action off eBay for intention of passing to AMR. It's been documented a couple of times (most memorably in AP2 (1, 2)) that in the last AA from Dec 1996, your column became one huge rant against the mag, the staff, the publisher and the company and it somehow got through the proof-readers (if there were any to begin with) and into the shops. A shame I didn't get to read it back then, and I bet not many others got to either! EDIT: Okay disregard that, seemed I both got confused and refrained from reading all the posts in this thread. Silly me. Last edited by MethodGit; 03 June 2009 at 18:14. Reason: I bloody suck. |
04 February 2013, 23:51 | #30 |
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Does anyone have a scan of that final Boggit? I would love to finally see it after hearing about it for so long.
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Hell, I remember you too...
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04 September 2019, 17:38 | #32 | |
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https://archive.org/details/AmigaAct...tIssue/page/n1 Boggit's Domain (or rather "Son of Boggit" as I think it was known then) seems to be a feature long since jettisoned by the magazine, but the "instructions" on how to play the cover disk does indeed include a very revealing and enjoyable expose on the state of the magazine. I wonder if this is what was being referenced in AP2? Edit: Ah no. It was issue 85, the beginning of Son of Boggit went a bit mad... https://twitter.com/ashens/status/1164610329495650304 Last edited by JohnnyWalker; 04 September 2019 at 17:49. |
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09 October 2023, 22:10 | #33 |
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Resurrecting (not re-incarnating) this old thread. I guess you may have long gone, but I have about 20 of the articles that could be scanned if you're ever interested.
Turns out my Mum kept a lot of them, being a bit of a fanatic Dungeon Master, and Bane of the Cosmic Forge player, she offered up written help via newsletters etc. under the pseudonym Queequeg for BoTCF (I have the old letters). She wrote to Boggit's column, but I couldn't find the specific article. Unfortunately she passed away a couple of months ago, but have lots of happy memories of Amiga Gaming with her, and tons of old Amiga stuff to go through now. "How do you get a one-armed Atari user down from a tree? - Wave at him". |
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