Hmmm, thought about this some time ago, but now I've done it. I already did many Amiga game reviews, but in german. This is my first review done in english.
Hope you understand and btw. ... if you find any spelling or grammar mistakes : you can keep them :laugh:
Anyway, have fun ...
Looks like we have a writer for that new Amstrad CPC Diskmag that's coming out in 2020! ;)
.....or did I just dream there was a new Amstrad CPC Diskmag coming out in 2020?....
Funny enough, before turning the review into a PDF I had something in mind ... 8)
That's awesome!
What made you stop going in that direction?
I've hoped and wished for a CPC diskmag for at least a decade.
I finally ended up creating 8-bit Memoirs myself, which is a diskmag-like eBook with a lot of stories about the CPC.
But it doesn't run on a CPC due to a ton of included audio and video.
I still think we need a running CPC diskmag somehow, but few people seems to be interested enough to actually do something about it.
There's also some division in the community nowadays, which is what usually happens when a community grows. So it's impossible to make a diskmag everyone will like. It all depends on who makes it.
But I keep dreaming. :)
Quote from: mr_lou on 20:13, 26 December 19
That's awesome!
What made you stop going in that direction?
Who said that I have stopped ;D ?
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I've hoped and wished for a CPC diskmag for at least a decade.
I finally ended up creating 8-bit Memoirs myself, which is a diskmag-like eBook with a lot of stories about the CPC.
But it doesn't run on a CPC due to a ton of included audio and video.
I still think we need a running CPC diskmag somehow, but few people seems to be interested enough to actually do something about it.
There's also some division in the community nowadays, which is what usually happens when a community grows. So it's impossible to make a diskmag everyone will like. It all depends on who makes it.
But I keep dreaming. :)
That is my intention ... the problem was : one review doesn't fill a complete diskmag ... And I'm not very good at coding as you see in the mockup above, it´s all just basic (and I mean BASIC) stuff I can do. Also there is so little time. Got a full time job here and a family and so on ... So I cannot do this on my own. Maybe I´ll do a poll here in the near future but I have to be sure, i can do this on a regular base. No one needs a one-time-only-diskmag ...
Quote from: SkulleateR on 20:56, 26 December 19That is my intention ... the problem was : one review doesn't fill a complete diskmag ... And I'm not very good at coding as you see in the mockup above, it´s all just basic (and I mean BASIC) stuff I can do.
You should take a look at CPCtelera. It's a framework that lets you code in C and compile to the CPC. It includes a ton of useful functions.
Doing it in BASIC also has its charm, and although you're of course limited compared to machine code, you can do quite a lot with BASIC.
Quote from: SkulleateR on 20:56, 26 December 19Also there is so little time. Got a full time job here and a family and so on ... So I cannot do this on my own.
That is the problem most of us here has. Fulltime job and family. Which of course is nice, but yea, it's not like in the good old days where most of the sparetime was spent being creative with the CPC. :)
Quote from: SkulleateR on 20:56, 26 December 19Maybe I´ll do a poll here in the near future but I have to be sure, i can do this on a regular base. No one needs a one-time-only-diskmag ...
I think I already made a poll like that years ago.
If you do a search on the forum for the word "diskmag" and by "mr_lou", then you'll find a trace of repeated attempts by that guy getting someone interested in making such a diskmag. :)
But of course, the forum has gotten quite a lot of new members since then. Maybe times has changed.
But yes, if it's all up to one person alone, then it'll be years between each issue. (8-bit Memoirs took me 5 years to create, because I couldn't get anyone else interested in participating, so I ended up doing everything myself).
We need several writers, who knows how to write, and can make interesting content. And then of course graphics artists, musicians and a coder.
I can help with content and music. Those are small enough parts of such a project that I can justify making time for it. :)
My favorite previous Amstrad CPC diskmag was the Ovation series by Dirty Minds.
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=7689
I absolutely love that design: 2 columns MODE 1 and font with a shadow. (This can be done in BASIC too).
While other CPC diskmags were also great, they just don't have that particular design.
Quote from: mr_lou on 07:59, 27 December 19
You should take a look at CPCtelera. It's a framework that lets you code in C and compile to the CPC. It includes a ton of useful functions.
Doing it in BASIC also has its charm, and although you're of course limited compared to machine code, you can do quite a lot with BASIC.
There's the problem again, I'm not a coder, so I have absolutely no knowledge of C.
If I get into learning C I could also learn ASM ... but then again there is the time issue. Maybe I just do something in basic, let's see what 2020 brings ;)
I'm quite sure @eliot (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=184) started with the code for a 4th issue of Digital Press. Maybe more than 20 years later it's time to fill it with content. :-) I always loved diskmags, but I think in the times of web forums like this one, they are quite obsolete? No?
Quote from: SkulleateR on 19:04, 27 December 19
There's the problem again, I'm not a coder, so I have absolutely no knowledge of C.
If I get into learning C I could also learn ASM ... but then again there is the time issue. Maybe I just do something in basic, let's see what 2020 brings ;)
C and CPCtelera is worth looking into if you'd love to code for the CPC. You don't have to learn ASM.
Quote from: villain on 19:33, 27 December 19
I'm quite sure @eliot (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=184) started with the code for a 4th issue of Digital Press. Maybe more than 20 years later it's time to fill it with content. :-) I always loved diskmags, but I think in the times of web forums like this one, they are quite obsolete? No?
The topic of diskmags has been discussed many times. It is always the same arguments each side makes.
One side says "We have web now so we don't need diskmags" and other saide says "web will never be able to replace the cosiness of diskmags".
I'm on that latter side of things.
I want diskmags to be offline, have relaxing background music, bright text on a dark background, easy to preserve historically.