Do any staff from CU-Amiga browse these pages?

[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!

[motorollin]

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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moto

[motorollin]

bilko9070 wrote:
Im sure Tony would not mind!!

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

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moto

[jj]

As far as I know ben vost moved to france to work for a 3d magazine.  I was lucky enough to meet him just before he did as he was giving away loads of free amiga stuff. Pretty cool guy, shared a beer and had a chat about the good old amiga days.

I know this is off-topic, but when I read the thread's subject, I could not help but utter an involuntary thought...

"CU_Amiga has a staff?"...  

(CU_Amiga the moron, not CU-Amiga, the magazine)

[motorollin]

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

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moto

[chiark]

I wasn't staff, but I used to write for them free-lance during my student days.  Those'd be the days when Dan Slingsby was in charge and, latterly, Andy Leaning.

I wrote a round-up of 3D renderers, reviews of accelerators and a couple of other bits.

I also wrote freelance for Amiga Computing, a magazine I'd enjoyed and respected for ages.  

As a student, being paid 10p a word was a fortune: 80 quid a page.  It seriously helped my student life, and coupled with the income from writing the driver for the tabby graphics tablet, and a part-time job at First Computer Centre, it kept me out of debt at university.

I guess I owe my debt-free start to life to the Amiga one way or another.  Wow!  

Cheers,
Nick.

[bilko9070]

CU_Amiga the moron??   :-?

[motorollin]

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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moto

[motorollin]

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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moto

[Zero]

@JJ
I remember meeting Ben Vost once at a South West Amiga Users Group meeting, he was indeed a cool guy.

[chiark]

Did you write lots of articles with words like "of", "in" and "to" in them,

Don't forget "a".  "a" is a classic word.

As an aside, CU Amiga never got used to me using "filenote" to provide captions for graphics.  Amiga Computing did...

Ahh, nostalgia.  

I shall try to resurrect the articles I wrote

[motorollin]

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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moto

[chiark]

"Nik Lines"...  No "C" made the name more cool, y'see.

I think I started in 1993 and finished in 1995.  A short but brilliant career, resulting from me sending things in from First Computer Centre to CU Amiga and them just saying, "look, can you write?"

Some of the stuff I wrote could have done with a bit more editing with reflection, but in my defence I was young and needed the money.

[motorollin]

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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moto

[r6stu]

CU was also my fav. At current I have almost 250 Amiga Mags,

including most CU Amiga issues (Every issues of the final year) over 200 cover floppies and 30 or so CU Amiga CDroms (Including the much metioned cd 6 with the virus included and the issue when they gave MAcOS7 and Mac Roms away  :roll: )

Lots of Amiga shopper and AUI and a few Amiga format.

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