Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?

[bilko9070]

Just thought id see.
Would be cool to speak to someone from that great long lost mag!
Was my fav miggy mag ever!  :-)

[odin]

I think the former head-honcho is still around, Nick Veitch was it? Or was he an AF person?

[motorollin]

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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moto

[jmbattle]

Yes, my reading habbits were rather similar.  I believe the first Amiga mag I read was AmigaPower after a family member brought one for me when I caught the flu.

From there, I progressed onto AmigaAction, although still enjoyed AmigaPower and occasionally AmigaFormat and TheOne.  At this point, the contents of the front coverdisk (and whether it came with one or two disks...) largely dictated my magazine buying habbits.

However, this eventually changed as I gradually became more interested in utilities and public domain (oh man, public domain!); for this CU-Amiga, Amiga Computing and AUI provided my staple miggy diet.

Gosh, to think of the hours I would spent sitting on the toilet reading Amiga magazines from cover to cover - those were the days!

James

[motorollin]

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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moto

[Argus]

Nick Veitch of Amiga Format fame is now the editor of (you guessed it)...Linux Format!  Check it out, it's the same kind of cheeky British humor that made those magazines so much fun.  Tony Horgan of CUAmiga/Amiga Format is still around (he recently posted some articles on his computer writing days).  Richard Drummond or CU/AF when last I heard lives in the Midwest and is working on LinuxUAE and AOS4 stuff.  Don't know whatever happened to Ben Vost (Nick's successor); but I suspect he's still around.  Simon Goodwin is also still around, afaik.

[motorollin]

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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moto

[nomore]

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 used to but CU and AF every issue. Ben Vost edited the 3D World magazine for a while after AF closed.

It's amazing how the magazine editors were sort of like celebrities... I don't know of many other places that would happen... apart from maybe people like Scott Kelby... and the new Podcasting crowd (Kevin Rose etc.)

Does anyone remember Amiga Pro magazine?... that was a really good techy mag... like AUI but it was a lot more interesting. I have 100's of Amiga mags in my attic...

...hmm maybe it's time to get them out.

[bilko9070]

Well, Im gonna have to have a look for those articles of Tony`s!  I may well have to look at Linux format too!

I still have all of my of CUCD`s and mags which i treasure to this day!  Still get a mag out now and then to help decide what to go hunting for on the net next!

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.

[motorollin]

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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moto

[bilko9070]

@ Nomore

I think you hit the nail on the head there!  Indeed, the CU staff always wrote as if they were on your level and every mag had a feeling of `community` of sorts!

MicroMart in the UK is a PC mag i read these days and almost has a CU like feel to it with all there tutorials and stuff and even has a monthly Amiga section!

[motorollin]

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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moto

[bilko9070]

@ motorolin

The best features of the CUCD`s was all the readers contributions and scene games and demos etc so most of the content on them was in the public domain.

Im sure Tony would not mind!!

[motorollin]

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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moto

[bilko9070]

I have seen CUCD`s on ebay and ebid as well so you could keep an eye out if you want the real deal!