Shit
Ive just remembered I left a box full of Your Sinclair, Spectrum User, Crash, Amiga Format, CU Amiga, Amiga User International and Amiga Power magazines in a load of boxes in my ex's. I told her to bin anything left that was mine.

Ah well bollocks to it.
(Miggyman, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 8:03, 13 replies)

I had a few letters published in Amiga Power
I met Stuart Campbell at Reading '94 & Marcus Dyson (editor of Amiga Format) visited my mates house and I went round to see him.

Weakest claims to fame ever?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 9:50, closed)

heheh
Nice claim to fame. I think i met a couple of the guys from CU Amiga at the WOA 98 show. Neil Bothwick was there, and I met Petro Tyschensko himself and had him sign the Amiga Anthem CD :) heheh. Oh and then my bro nicked his cue cards that he left on the stage from his speech.. Oh s**t I left them in that box too. grr.

Geeky and weak claim to fames ever.

Oh.. and I've met the Chuckle Brothers. They lived in the same town as me. So have some of that :)
(Miggyman, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 9:58, closed)

what were the chuckle brothers like?
weird I bet

my brother once made a tape of music from classic games on the Amiga

things like battle squadron and biomenace
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 10:13, closed)

I was quite young when i met them.
So I dont remember too well. But from what I could gather, they were really nice "normal" people :)

I once made a tape of favourite music from the ZX Spectrum (yup the bleeps and bangs) and made my aunty play it in the car when we were on long journeys :D Oh and if i rememeber rightly, I didnt have a line out from the spectrum to the cassette recorder, so just used a mic up to teh TV speaker to record it.. Excellent quality.
(Miggyman, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 10:50, closed)

Amiga Power...
I loved Amiga Power. Loved it.
(Sir Harrington Titsmith disgraced himself on, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 11:34, closed)

@Miggyman
I did that too with my Atari 8-bit computer. Went on holiday and made a tape with various bits of game-music. Also didn't use line out - just placed the tape recorder next to the TV speaker.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 11:55, closed)

Memories
I remember YS, great mag - even if half the staff reviewers were completely made up! Was notable for it's anarchic wit.

Amiga Format was a good magazine too, as was CU Amiga. I vividly remember playing Doom on my A1200 too...
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Wed 20 Aug 2008, 11:59, closed)

My dad
took the majority of screen shots for games in all the early ZX Spectrum magazines. Now THAT'S a crappy claim to fame.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 13:09, closed)

^How?
I always imagined they had some wacky hardware with a big red button which froze the game and dump the screenshot to a high quality printer thingy.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Wed 20 Aug 2008, 13:25, closed)

That's fucking spooky PJM
He worked with an electronics whizz who built a board which plugged into the expansion port on the back of the 48k if I remember rightly. I was six.

What I do remember is the BIG RED BUTTON you had to press to get the shot. The game would pause and the pic would dump out onto tape I think. Thus began my love affair with games. He used to get me in to play the games through and he'd take screenshots at various points.

Another bonus was that the games generally came direct from the authors via the publishers... the authors would give you infinite lives etc so cheats aplenty!
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 13:55, closed)

Ah, I see
I always felt cheated, the screenshots were lovely and clear, yet the display on my TV would bleed and wobble horribly making it extremely difficult to see Blue (or halfbright blue). I guessed that even state of the art camerawork would need to be substantially tidied up before it would be anything close to print quality.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Wed 20 Aug 2008, 14:04, closed)

!
Thats funny, about the big red button.

I posted a story in here about Spectrum User, ages ago.

I put an advert in saying "Sally Spectrum requires man with big joystick", something like that.
It was not only an odd thing to do given that i am a man, but also ill advised, as I put my family address and telephone number in the advert.

It came to a head when a burly undertaker came to the door asking my father if he could take out "sally spectrum", while I hid under the bed. God that was a frightening time.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Wed 20 Aug 2008, 16:22, closed)

I Would regard
meeting Stuart Campbell as pretty impressive actually! Alas, i threw out my Your Sinclair collection. Still have my Amiga Powers, much to the annoyance of the missus.
(egon spengler, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 14:06, closed)