Gametraders Retro Live Magazine

[Dizrythmia]

Hey all,


The good people at Gametraders asked me to edit their retro magazine, which I have done with a modicum of success... I'm just too critical of my own work I suppose...


Anyway, it's full of Gamer Diaries from past issues of the main magazine that are chock full of Amstrad content!


Check it out here: Gametraders Retro Live Magazine Issue 1 by Gametraders - Publishing - issuu

[TFM]

That's to hard to read, can you upload an PDF version?

[Skunkfish]

Are those your gamer diaries? That made great reading, thanks...

[Dizrythmia]

Yep, they're my diaries


Gametraders have also upped it to this site. I'm not sure if that will work better for some people:


Retro Live Magazine - Issue 1

[Gryzor]

Indeed they're great. Can I ask if these are available as text anywhere? I'd like to read them on my Kindle...

[Dizrythmia]

Not yet. When I've completed my run of them I'm going to expand on them (a lot) & look at some form of e-book.

[Gryzor]

That'd be cool!

[mr_lou]

Not yet. When I've completed my run of them I'm going to expand on them (a lot) & look at some form of e-book.

8-bit Memoirs issue #2!!!! 

[Dizrythmia]

See, I hesitate to use that title as I'm about to get into the 16 & 32-bit eras over the coming issues

[mr_lou]

See, I hesitate to use that title as I'm about to get into the 16 & 32-bit eras over the coming issues

Yes well, I've also been asked why I call it "8-bit Memoirs" when I'm including stories about the Amiga, which has a 32-bit bus.
To me, it was all in the 8-bit era. Although the chipset of certain machines might have been 16 bit or 32 bit, the games on those platforms still used 8-bit music or 8-bit graphics.
For example, all the music I composed in Protracker on my Amiga was still 8-bit. So don't dismiss the title because of the chipsets.

It's true though that "8-bit Memoirs" shouldn't contain stories about X-Box One or Playstation 3. That's too far ahead and thus way off the target-group of readers. But as long as the majority of the content is about the 8-bit machines, I see absolutely no problem also including a few stories about the machines that followed. 

But it sounds a bit like you intend to write a whole lot more than me. So maybe you do need to split up your stories into "8-bit Memoirs", "16-bit Memoirs" and "32-bit Memoirs".