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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #44 from previous page: December 20, 2005, 11:44:15 AM »
The best thing about CU and AF was that they inspired hope and kept the Amiga afloat.  Really, without them, I don't think the market would have lasted as long as it did.  Aside from the the re-introduction of Amigas by Escom, hardly anything the parent company(ies) ever did helped very much.  Just the opposite.  In the face of every parent company broken promise/misstep, there was always CU or AF to fall back to.  Here's to a job well done mates  :pint:
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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #45 on: April 19, 2007, 04:09:43 PM »
Funny the stuff you find when doing random Googles...

Thanks for the kind words all.

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« Reply #46 on: April 19, 2007, 04:19:34 PM »
Welcome Tony
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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #47 on: April 19, 2007, 04:23:03 PM »
Wow!

Welcome Tony  :-o
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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #48 on: April 19, 2007, 04:25:49 PM »
Holy justifiable thread resurrection! Welcome.
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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #49 on: April 19, 2007, 05:02:41 PM »
incredible isnt it !
I've just reciprocated that and googled you !

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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #50 on: April 19, 2007, 05:11:40 PM »
Wow, hi Tony :-) Got a full copy of Putty Squad? :-P

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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #51 on: April 19, 2007, 06:12:30 PM »
if they're still around they're a bunch of die-hards and crackpots!
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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #52 on: April 19, 2007, 06:59:22 PM »
LOL! Very cool. CU Amiga was by far my favourite Amiga mag. I remember buying my first issue early in 1991, about a month or two before I got my first Amiga (an A500). I used to read it to death from cover to cover. The content was fantastic, the coverdisks were fabulous and it had that quirky humour only British magazines seem to have down so well. I remember grabbing each month's issue at the newsstand, and racing home on my bicycle as fast as I could where I would lock myself up in my room and read it immediately. It was pretty expensive here in the Netherlands (almost twice the UK price IIRC), but it was worth every guilder. All the coverdisk freebies and tutorials really did make me get the most out of my humble little Amiga and spark my interest in graphics, music and programming which I still have to this day. It was such a cool time. Looking at the mags and cover disks still manages to bring a nostalgic tear to my eye.  :-D

About a year ago I embarked on a frantic eBay bidding spree and managed to nearly compete the whole run including the cover disk floppies. Good times!

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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #53 on: April 19, 2007, 07:55:55 PM »
AndrewKorn and 'Beginner'... :roll: I'm a 'Technoid' :-P

Well CU was the best Amiga magazine ever and well worth the price, although it did cost the earth here in Portugal... around  10€ back in the days, I think the last number was for about 15€... healthy days they were... :-D


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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #54 on: April 19, 2007, 07:58:18 PM »
Quote

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I actually think that my very English speaking habits (using british slang) is due to the fact that I'd been reading AF and CU WAY too much, while I was still learning the language. :-D

Funny you say that because it worked for me very much the same way...:-)


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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #55 on: April 19, 2007, 08:25:00 PM »
CU Amiga was the only Amiga mag I bought regularly.  I used to but the others now and again if I needed a fix and had read every word in CU amiga.  Was easily the best Amiga mag by a country mile.

To be fair AF was a good mag too and to be fair the only PC mag I read is PCF and it its of very much the same ilk.
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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #56 on: April 20, 2007, 10:20:53 AM »
Bizarrely, every six months or so I get a yearning and go on a download trawl for emulators. Failing that, hit the car boot sales and buy it all over again.

I have to say, CU was the most fun place I ever worked. The team there was a real team, and I look back very fondly on the Kick Off tournaments that would run long into the night.

Happy days...

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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #57 on: April 20, 2007, 10:23:28 AM »
Putty Squad! Man, how good THAT game was!

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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #58 on: April 20, 2007, 10:27:11 AM »
Did you ever get a full copy for review?

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Re: Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?
« Reply #59 on: April 20, 2007, 10:30:02 AM »
To be honest, we rarely ever got full complete games for review. Remember, we were writing the reviews anything up to 8 weeks before the mag would hit the newsstand, and publishers wanted to be sure that reviews would hit slightly before actual game release. So we would get lots of gold releases, sometimes with minor little niggles.

I honestly couldn't say if I had a full version of Putty Squad, but I sure remember the game itself.

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