8-BIT ANNUAL magazine now live on kickstarter

[cpc4eva]

John K and myself have put together a new 8BIT publication which is now live on kickstarter



https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/8bitmagazine/8-bit-annual-2018-for-8-bit-computers-and-consoles

It will be 200 plus pages of 8bit content covering Amstrad CPC, MSX, Spectrum and C64.

What will be the CPC content ??

please see below:



CPC content


Hardware
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- DDi3 USB Floppy Drive Emulator & 512kb Memory Expansion.
Written by: Carlos PineApple Linares



WIP’s 
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SUPER MARIO BROS - test scroll engine
SUDOPLUS
The Shadows of Sergoth
ROBBIE STRIKES BACK  (released!)
Space Moves 2 - no screens as yet as not a lot of work progressed.
Golden Tail - Kitsune’s Curse
Galactic Tomb -ESP Soft
Street Fighter 2 - exclusive interview
Babaliba
Ninjajar - the lost levels
Jarlac



REVIEWS
===========
Chibi Akumas Episode 2
THE LOST TREASURE OF CUAUTHEMOC
Fresh Fruit and Vegetables
XALK - deluxe
Combat Pilot
Finding Red
Pentomino
4 LOST CPC GAMES = Frogger, Acolyte, Ninja Grannies and Unpredictaball,
Turn Quest
Try To Run Away
All 29 games form CPC retrodev reviewed with help from Jesus Delmas


Interviews
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Symbos / Prodatron interview
Jose Javier Garcia Aranda - 8BP for the CPC
Keith Sear
The Shadows of Sergoth - amazing interview and pictures
Mojon Twins
Shinning - bad arnold demo and Pentonimo


2016 games reviews
===================

Outlaws
Hire Hare
Imperial Mahjong

Blast from the past section - 1985
==============================

Yie Ar Kung Fu
Way of The Exploding Fist
Frank Bruno’s Boxing

[mr_lou]

So by "annual" I'm assuming it'll be one magazine per year? And the first one will be about all the stuff that took place in 2018? That could be a nice Christmas present every year.


Due to my love for diskmags - and as a musician, I wanna make a suggestion here early in the project:

Books can contain text and images, so text authors and graphics artists are always included plenty in projects like this - but musicians are always left out for obvious reasons: You can't include music in a book.
Except you can! PDF files can in fact contain audio.

My suggestion is that you add an audio player in the PDF version to play various audio formats of the old computers, composed by various musicians on the different platforms.
The player could be an SWF file that plays formats like AY, YM, SID and so forth. (FLV and F4V isn't supported (anymore), but SWF should still be).

That way the PDF (almost) becomes a diskmag'ish thing. And adding music doesn't require a whole lot of space either, because these audio formats takes up very little space already.
You could also include MODs and XM files in the playlist.

I would be happy to contribute with some of my tracks.

 

[Gryzor]

What's that? A yearly book that will cover the CPC, too?


Step 1: go to KS
Step 2: BACKED


To do:
-read the KS description
-read the rest of this thread

[keith56]

Sounds like a great project!

I've backed this - I look forward to seeing it!

[ervin]

Backed! I really hope this funding campaign succeeds!

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[keith56]

I see this is now 98% funded... just a couple more people needed for it to be fully funded!

[Gryzor]

Yesss! Let's push it a bit more...

[keith56]

I see the Kickstarter has passed 100%!

Congrats guys!

[Gryzor]

Yes indeed! What could be the stretch goals though? A coverdisk perhaps?

[Lazy Dude]

The kickstarter info looks like there is a well organised team on the case. Hmm... think I might just have a punt at this.
 

[cpc4eva]

only 9 days left of the 8-bit annual kickstarter.  Click on the link below to get yours before the closing date.  John has been working away putting pages together some samples below of how it is looking with reviews of games for Amstrad CPC, c64 and MSX
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/8bitmagazine/8-bit-annual-2018-for-8-bit-computers-and-consoles

[Gryzor]

Really satisfying to see it reached such a height

[cpc4eva]

The 8-BIT ANNUAL kickstarter closed earlier today.

Just want to say thank you to all the people who supported us.

[keith56]

Great news! Congratulations on a successful kickstarter!

[Dominoid]

Is this different content to the magazines or is it a best of compilation?