You will be showing your age when...

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Socoder -> Off Topic -> You will be showing your age when...
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 11:13
steve_ancell	You will be showing your age when you can say you remember this. View on YouTube
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 11:17
Jayenkai	Nope! I'm not that old!!
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 11:34
steve_ancell	Someone on the App Game Kit facebook group just posted this. (Linkage) I did think you may have been a bit too young Jay, I was only about 9 years old when it was published. There were only 52 issues.
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 11:38
Dabz	I was an Amstrad Action man myself... Only computer magazine I have ever religiously bought (And the none computer one would be Viz) Would occasionally pick up random computer magazines with my pocket money though, cannot remember the names of them mind! Dabz -=-=- Intel Core i5 6400 2.7GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB), 8Gig DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, Windows 10 64bit
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 11:43
steve_ancell	I also used to get Amstrad Action but was never happy with just the one magazine, so I used to buy Amstrad Computer User alongside that too.
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 11:45
Jayenkai	"Computing With The Amstrad CPC", for a while, but yeah, Amstrad Action, too! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 12:26
steve_ancell	Among the Amstrad crowd in my school, if you didn't buy Amstrad Action it was considered as blasphemy.
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 12:42
rockford	Yep I remember Input. It was a Marshall Cavendish partwork, that annoyingly ignored the CPC. During the 8bit days I bought AA, ACU and Amtix. Used to love reading my mate's ZZAP64, which spawned Amtix. I especially loved the little Thing (On a Spring) and Rockford doodles/cartoons in the borders (in ZZAP64, that is). I also bought Your Computer and C&VG. There was a weekly computing mag that had listings in too which came out every Friday; can't remember it's name now though. It was a good little mag. Computing Weekly maybe? Later on (16bit era) I bought "The One" for Amiga, Amiga Format/Amiga Power depending on their coverdiscs. ACE and several others I forget now were also regulars. Then the 16bit consoles arrived so I bought Mean Machines and pretty much all the Sega Mags. I still buy Edge, GamesTM and RetroGamer but stopped buying other mags when the Dreamcast died.
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 12:56
Jayenkai	Hmmm.. Retro Gamer.. .. Have I been in it since last March? I stopped buying it when I went into hospital. Should probably subscribe.!! It was handy grabbing it at work, each month. :/ -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 12:59
rockford	I haven't noticed you in any recent issues Jay - I'm pretty sure I would have done and would have posted here. i often post on RR about peeps I know and their stuff being in EDGE or RG.
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 14:28
steve_ancell	Now I'm going to sound a right air-head, I don't remember Amtix.
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 15:36
Jayenkai	Was searching for a picture of some old-skool basic (@Greenie186 needed a Header pic!) and stumbled across this!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 16:16
steve_ancell	I remember having a Locomotive Basic to machine code compiler, although I don't remember what it was called, it came with a load of other stuff when I bought the computer second hand from a friend. The compiler I had came on a 3 inch disk.
Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 16:19
steve_ancell	Come to think of it, mine ran on a CPC464 so it couldn't have been the Blitz one that you posted above as it states that the compiler only runs on a CPC6128. \|edit\| The one I had seemed pretty quick, I tried it out on a few of those games on the Cascade 50 cassette but the speed rendered most games on that cassette unplayable \|edit\|
Thu, 28 Feb 2013, 03:13
rockford	I had Laser Basic and Laser Compiler on the CPC, both of which were pretty good. I remember the manual was made out of blue paper - it stated at the front that it couldn't be photocopied. Wrong!
Thu, 28 Feb 2013, 03:44
waroffice	My earliest memories of programming where on a Sharpe M(Something-i-cant-remember), was a keyboard tape deck and monitor all in one. Then it was on to Amiga Basic or something on the Atari ST, G Basic or something!
Thu, 28 Feb 2013, 04:10
steve_ancell	rockford I had Laser Basic and Laser Compiler on the CPC, both of which were pretty good. Come to think of it, that might be the same one I had, I definitely know it wasn't Blitz though. What I do know is that it compiled standard Amstrad/Locomotive BASIC into machine code.
Thu, 28 Feb 2013, 04:34
rockford	AFAIK Laser Compiler only compiled Laser Basic programs, but it may well have done standard Locomotive Basic too. It was a loooooooong time ago and I've slept a couple of times since then.
Thu, 28 Feb 2013, 15:41
steve_ancell	rockford It was a loooooooong time ago and I've slept a couple of times since then. Same here, unless time travel becomes reality, I will never be able to confirm exactly what mine was called. Maybe if I google "Amstrad Basic Compiler", I might find some way of jogging my memory.