BEEBUG now available

Two posts in a few days? Yes please. Two Acorn magazines in a row? Go on then.

It’s time for BEEBUG, a wonderful newsletter/magazine for the BBC Micro and family. Lots of technical detail for the serious Beeb user; it’s the kind of magazine I would have loved back in the day, if only I didn’t have a Spectrum and was born into money. The only time I got to play around with a BBC was when it was our turn with the computer-on-a-trolley in primary school … BBC B with 5.25″ disk drive and a chunky power switch … Microvitec CUB monitor … that game where you had to get the fox, chicken and grain across the river … *sniffle* …

So for those with a predilection for red function keys and excellent BASIC, grab the goodness here, and SHIFT-BREAK into seed mode when you’re done.

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Electron User now available

Yes, an update at last, and I’m as surprised as you. But with Christmas looming, a couple of weeks of unclaimed annual leave and an aversion to the sounds of presents being wrapped means I’ve got no excuse not to try and catch up with the backlog of magazines to be crunched.

So here’s the first of hopefully a few releases: the wonderful Electron User. A tidy 3.2Gb across 82 issues of 80’s goodness, perfect for those whose parents couldn’t afford a BBC Micro but were told the Elk was “just as good”. Grab it
here and seed like a seed-y thing.

ST Format now available

Here’s another Future Publishing “Format” title, this time ST Format. I was never an ST user – I didn’t have the right shape fingers for the function keys – but had many a robust discussion with some Atari aficionados back in the glory days of the ST v Amiga wars, when things like blitter chips and multitasking mattered.

You know the drill – download the torrent here and seed from now unto eternity. I’ll try and squeeze out another bundle before the end of the year, but no promises!

Commodore Power/Play now available

Ahoy there retro lovers/data hoarders (or, if you’re like me, both). Apologies for the long silence, but you should all know by now that doesn’t mean that I’ve disappeared – just that far less interesting things are taking up my time. But I’ve got a few days annual leave to burn up before the end of the year, so let’s get some of the backlog sorted out.

Just to get things rolling (and to help me refamiliarise myself on how to compile a torrent file without buggering it up) we have “Commodore Power/Play”, published in the good ole US of A by CBM themselves. Grab it here.

I should have another bundle or two to get out there in the next few days, so keep coming back for more. And just in case you’re wondering, yes – Amiga Power is still on the cards, as is New Computer Express, both thanks to the generosity of some truly exceptional people. I’m working on it, honest.

Sinclair Programs now available

I’ve had this one hanging around for ages, but for some reason (probably incompetence) it never got uploaded. But here it is now: to be honest, a magazine that’s mainly type-ins isn’t exactly the best “fit” for OCR’ing, but it’s only 700Mb.

Grab it here, and relive those many frustrating afternoons tapping in a thousand lines of mis-printed BASIC, in the pursuit of a substandard Space Invaders clone with “machine code sound”.

Personal Computer News now available

Ah, the weekly computer magazine – we shall never see your like again. Here’s Personal Computer News, a sister title to the monthly Personal Computer Games. It disappeared in early 1985, at the same time as PCG, so we can only assume that someone at VNU decided those computer thingys were just a fad after all.

Get it, and a whole lot more beside, at the usual page.

Now, a plea: does anyone out there have Amiga Power issue 51, either physically or scanned? It’s the only one I’m missing, and it’s the one mag that everyone asks for. We’ve got Amiga Format and Amiga Shopper, so AP would complete the Future-Publishing-Amiga-magazines set. Please mail me if you can help!

Amiga World now available

At last, the first update of 2016. Amiga World was a US mag, devoted to the Miggy in the country that gave birth to the wonder machine but never really took it to it’s heart. It’s got that peculiar American look, with yards of white space in the editorial pages, as opposed to the UK cram-as-much-as-you-can approach.

Grab all 6-and-a-bit gigabytes of it here, and let’s all agree not to leave it so long next time.