Update:
Issue 1 still available, get yours for £3 at
http://www.cpcfanzine.com if you missed the Kickstarter.
You can also pre-order Issue 2 or get a four-issue subscription.
Original Post:
Good evening,
So, after debating it internally for well over 20 years and getting close at various points during that time I've decided to launch an Amstrad CPC fanzine.
It will be (imaginatively) titled 'Colour Personal Computing' and the first issue will be out in September (and quarterly thereafter), consisting of at the very least 32 black & white A5 pages but more likely to be 40+.
You can expect it to be packed full of CPC related content; featuring the latest news, reviews of the latest games and applications, interviews with CPC developers, hands-on reports of hardware releases, lots of humour and much, much more.
Why Kickstarter?
Well, I wasn't sure how much demand there would be and wanted to fund a decent print run if possible. The other option would have been to take pre-orders via Paypal or something similar but that didn't seem to offer the same promotional opportunities and I think people would be less likely to send money via an unknown site. The target is a meagre £200, which at £3 a copy should be around 67 copies or so... The more money that gets raised, the bigger and better the fanzine should be, a lot of the content is already written although I'll be holding some stuff back for future issues.
I hope that by raising the profile a little I can try to bring some lapsed CPC users back to the fold and also try to raise the CPC's profile as a viable Retrogaming platform.
You can find the Project's Kickstarter campaign page here:
Colour Personal Computing - The Amstrad CPC Fanzine by James Ford —Thanks for your time,
James.