I remember that well. I used to hit the magazine racks at several bookstores on a regular basis, just to get the latest issues of the various computer magazines available. Naturally, I got all the
Commodore mags, but also some general computing ones, as well (Byte, Microcomputing, Kilobaud, Interface Age, et al). I was in heaven.

It's still heaven when you can find them digitalized as one archive.
I preserved many as complete periodic from issue 1 to last. Sometimes browse through and I always discover something interesting, if not genuinely brilliant!

I also like newer magazines that come with that rebooted retro vibe. They are always much better curated than anything online in the same matter.

Generally most of the paper that survives today in such niche categories is either super cool as it must be premium, or toilet paper used for advertising and commercial trend settings only.

It's easy to spot the second and I really enjoy all I can find to read outside web much better again... than the web!

-h1

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hollowone wrote to Mortar M. <=-

I remember that well. I used to hit the magazine racks at several bookstores on a regular basis, just to get the latest issues of the various computer magazines available. Naturally, I got all the
Commodore mags, but also some general computing ones, as well (Byte, Microcomputing, Kilobaud, Interface Age, et al). I was in heaven.

I remember buying the 'newspaper' Computer Shopper. :-) Lots
of interesting advertisements too!

It's still heaven when you can find them digitalized as one archive.
I preserved many as complete periodic from issue 1 to last. Sometimes browse through and I always discover something interesting, if not genuinely brilliant!

I also like newer magazines that come with that rebooted retro vibe.
They are always much better curated than anything online in the same matter.

Haven't seen anything NEW in forever... Have an example or three
you can share?




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Haven't seen anything NEW in forever... Have an example or three
you can share?

Sure,

In UK there is a tone of that:
- Retro Gamer
- ZZAP 64 (new but the same title as old C64 mag)
- Crash (new but the same title as old ZX mag)
- ZZAP Amiga
- ZNEXT Magazine
- Fusion
- Amiga Addict
- Pixel Addict

there is even one about Evercade that I never tried albeit having the hand-held. That's a great commercial success in Europe regarding retro handheld with carts you can buy and keep collecting as well.

-h1

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|11j|09> |10I remember buying the 'newspaper' Computer Shopper. :-) Lots|07 |11j|09> |10of interesting advertisements too!|07
I remember advertising my bbs in there.


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Re: Re: The Joy of Mags
By: jimmylogan to hollowone on Sat Oct 04 2025 16:20:16

Haven't seen anything NEW in forever... Have an example or three
you can share?

computegazette.com
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On Monday, October 6th Mortar M. was heard saying...

Haven't seen anything NEW in forever... Have an example or three >

you can share?

computegazette.com

Here is a sample article on BBSing in Vol 1 Issue 3 of Compute!'s gazette,

https://www.jeffquast.com/bbs_article.pdf



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Re: Re: The Joy of Mags
By: jimmylogan to hollowone on Sat Oct 04 2025 04:20 pm

Haven't seen anything NEW in forever... Have an example or three
you can share?

It depends on what you are interested about. I think FUSION has lot of ZX Spectrum content, ZZAP! has Amiga content, and Retro Gamer has lots of retrospective content regarding retro games anr retro platoforms. Retro Gamer is a bit too commercial, the others feel like they try to be magazines like those back in the day.

And yes, there is a lot of work done on retro technology by new people, they actually have stuff to write about.


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On 09 Oct 2025, dingo said the following...

Here is a sample article on BBSing in Vol 1 Issue 3 of Compute!'s
gazette,

Good readin' :-)

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I just picked up the latest issue. I haven't had a chance to read it all yet being 100 pages but I like it! Being an Atari person, I appreciate the wider topics than just being a C64 endevour.

The only thing I really wanted to mention was that I find it odd that the subscription model doesn't get any monthly discount vs buying month to month.

I would have bought the yearly subscription if it had even a small discount.


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Utopian Galt wrote to Jimmylogan <=-

BY: jimmylogan (21:1/137)

|11j|09> |10I remember buying the 'newspaper' Computer Shopper. :-) Lots|07
|11j|09> |10of interesting advertisements too!|07

I remember advertising my bbs in there.

At the time I bought it, I was either not dialing into BBS's yet,
or I was only hitting local ones. :-)



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Mortar M. wrote to jimmylogan <=-

Re: Re: The Joy of Mags
By: jimmylogan to hollowone on Sat Oct 04 2025 16:20:16

Haven't seen anything NEW in forever... Have an example or three
you can share?

computegazette.com

Nice! Cool looking stuff!



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Arelor wrote to jimmylogan <=-

Re: Re: The Joy of Mags
By: jimmylogan to hollowone on Sat Oct 04 2025 04:20 pm

Haven't seen anything NEW in forever... Have an example or three
you can share?

It depends on what you are interested about. I think FUSION has lot of
ZX Spectrum content, ZZAP! has Amiga content, and Retro Gamer has lots
of retrospective content regarding retro games anr retro platoforms.
Retro Gamer is a bit too commercial, the others feel like they try to
be magazines like those back in the day.

And yes, there is a lot of work done on retro technology by new people, they actually have stuff to write about.

Nothing in particular - just feeling nostalgic sometimes :-)



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jimmylogan wrote to Utopian Galt <=-

At the time I bought it, I was either not dialing into BBS's yet,
or I was only hitting local ones. :-)

I remember looking at $2500 386 desktops and dreaming what it would be
like to have something that powerful. :)



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|11pF|09> |10I remember looking at $2500 386 desktops and dreaming what it would be|07
|11pF|09> |10like to have something that powerful. :)|07
I remember my father helping to get me a low end 486 when I was a senior in high school. 486-100 AMD.


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Re: Re: The Joy of Mags
By: poindexter FORTRAN to jimmylogan on Sat Nov 01 2025 08:42 am

I remember looking at $2500 386 desktops and dreaming what it would be like to have something that powerful. :)

:) PCs have gotten so much cheaper since then. And I seem to recall RAM being about $100 or so per megabyte in the early 90s(?) - which seems hard to believe now.

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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to jimmylogan <=-

jimmylogan wrote to Utopian Galt <=-

At the time I bought it, I was either not dialing into BBS's yet,
or I was only hitting local ones. :-)

I remember looking at $2500 386 desktops and dreaming what it would be like to have something that powerful. :)

YES!!! Same here!


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Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

:) PCs have gotten so much cheaper since then. And I seem to recall
RAM being about $100 or so per megabyte in the early 90s(?) - which
seems hard to believe now.

I remember PC "swap meets" back in the late '80s, they seemed mostly run
by PC shops that were selling off used equipment. I bought 2 MB of DIP
RAM for my motherboard, don't remember how much it was but I was poor,
couldn't have been too expensive.

Then, work tossed out a couple of PCs that ended up the back of my car -
one of them had an 8mb AST "aboveboard" with a socketed UART serial
port, parallel port and memory. What to do with all that memory?



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Re: Re: The Joy of Mags
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Mon Nov 03 2025 06:57:43

I remember PC "swap meets" back in the late '80s, they seemed mostly run
by PC shops that were selling off used equipment.

They're still around, though not as many and not as big from what I've seen on social media. There were a couple monthly SMs in my area I frequented. Didn't always buy stuff, I just liked to see what kind of goodies people would bring.
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