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 (https://issuu.com/gametraders/docs/retro_gt_magazine_version_1)
That's to hard to read, can you upload an PDF version?
Are those your gamer diaries? That made great reading, thanks...
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 (https://www.yumpu.com/document/view/55906821/retro-live-magazine-issue-1)
Indeed they're great. Can I ask if these are available as text anywhere? I'd like to read them on my Kindle...
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.
That'd be cool!
Quote from: Dizrythmia on 13:31, 07 September 16
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!!!! 8)
See, I hesitate to use that title as I'm about to get into the 16 & 32-bit eras over the coming issues :)
Quote from: Dizrythmia on 07:13, 08 September 16
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". ;)