Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?

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Nick Veitch was AF. It's funny how my mag reading changed as I got older. When I was younger and just playing games on my A500 I loved AP. I was too young to understand many of the jokes but I still enjoyed looking at the screenshots of all the cool new games and playing the coverdisk games  :-)

Then when AP died I moved on to AF for a while, which up until that point I only ever read when AP was out of stock at my local newsagent. I never really liked AF up to that point, but by the time AP died I had my A1200 and was starting to become more productive with my Amiga instead of just gaming. By this stage I appreciated the more "serious" reviews in AF.

The last Amiga mag I ever read, and the only one I ever subscribed to, was CU. This was overall my favourite Amiga mag ever. The magazine content was always great and the cover CDs were amazing. I built up quite a collection of magazines and CUCDs, all gone now unfortunately :-(

I liked the way CU called it a day while the mag was still great, unlike AP who held on to the bitter end. It was admirable of them to keep going as long as they could, but seeing the mag reduced to a stapled pamphlet was painful  :cry:

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AUI never did it for me. It was almost as dull as Amiga Shopper :roll:

I too was often swayed by the content of the coverdisk. AP had some great ones in their day, as did AF and CU. Nothing will ever beat the feeling when you walk in to the newsagent and see a fantastic full game sellotaped to the front of AP  :-)

I just spent some time looking at auctions for old copies of CU on eBay. Almost brought a tear to my eye seeing the covers and floppies again.

Good times  :cry:

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I like Linux Format. It does actually remind me very much of the Amiga mags in their hayday. It's nice to know some of the old crew are still involved in the Amiga.

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nomore wrote:
This reminds me of how good the old Amiga community was. How many magazines do people read and they actually know the names/faces of the editors and writers.

I recognised the cheeky picture of Tony Horgan on cu-amiga.co.uk. I like that picture :evilgrin:

nomore wrote:
Does anyone remember Amiga Pro magazine?... that was a really good techy mag... like AUI but it was a lot more interesting.

I've never heard of it?

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bilko9070 wrote:
If anyone wants some copies of CUCD`s pm me and would be glad to help sort something out!  Or if there is a lot of intrest, mabye could make a torrent of em.

I'm not sure that would be legal...

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Fair enough. Just make sure you're not distributing copyrighted material, like CU's own content or commercial giveaways (which are still protected by copyright).

Plus, most of the PD content of the CUCDs is probably available on Aminet anyway.

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I was thinking of getting hold of some actually, but the only ones I could fine on eBay were floppies.

Ahhhhh, thumbing through a fresh mag looking at all the exciting new games and hardware while you wait for the coverdisk to boot up. Those were the days.

I vote we launch a new mag with 2 DD floppies sellotaped to the front in little  cellophane envelopes, and a box printed on the cover underneath the disks saying "No disks? Ask your newsagent"  :-)

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bilko9070 wrote:
Im sure Tony would not mind!!

That's the one. Very cheeky. He's cute :-P  :-)

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Maybe that's what the OP meant!  :lol:

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chiark wrote:
As a student, being paid 10p a word was a fortune

Did you write lots of articles with words like "of", "in" and "to" in them, to fit as many as possible in your column? And try to avoid works like "anthropomorphism" and "hypocondriac"?  :lol:

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bilko9070 wrote:
CU_Amiga the moron??   :-?

From what I gather he is a troll who has been banned from amiga.org. Don't worry, they're not deriding CU the mag :-)

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What name were you writing under (if you don't mind revealing your mild mannered alter ego :-) )

Would be interesting to see if I can remember the name!

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Hmmm no I don't remember the name, but I don't think I was reading CU then. I was a bit later on.

I always wanted to write for an Amiga mag. I was too young at the time though!

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r6stu wrote:
If anyone requires any articales or info from any mag let me know and ill scan it in.

Yes please, can you scan that article by Nik Lines with 2187 instances of the word "a" please?  :-)

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Sorry, should I have added tags to my previous post? :-P

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