CASA ::

Hello,

For the IFWiki, I've started creating pages about old magazines with adventure (mostly IF) columns, with links to scans of these columns on sites like World of Spectrum or CPCWiki: see this page about Amtix, for instance.

I know these magazines had such columns:
* ACE
* Amstrad Action
* Amstrad Computer User a.k.a. CPC Attack!
* Amtix
* Computer & Video Games
* Computer Choice
* Computer Gamer
* Computing Today
* Computing with the Amstrad
* CRASH
* Home Computing Weekly
* Micro Adventurer (actually, most of this magazine is about adventure games)
* Personal Computer Games
* Popular Computing Weekly
* Sinclair User
* Your Computer
* Your Spectrum a.k.a. Your Sinclair
* ZZAP! 64
* (In Spanish) Micro Hobby

Do you know of any other magazines with adventure columns?


I also intend to make similar pages about text adventure fanzines:
* Adventure Contact a.k.a. Adventure Coder (by Pat Winstanley and others)
* Adventure Probe (by Sandra Sharkey and others)
* Adventure Workshop (by Cristopher Hester)
* From Beyond (by Tim Kemp, for the Spectrum)
* Glamdring (by John Manifold)
* Goblins Cavern (by Tim Gurney)
* Orcsbane (by Nick Walkland)
* Red Herring (by Marion Taylor)
* SynTAX (by Sue Medley)

Do you know of any other text adventure fanzines?


Another question: would it be possible to make scans of these fanzines available online? Currently, at least as far as I know, only SynTAX and a few fanzines in Spanish I didn't list here are available...


And one last question: there was a video about the second Adventure Probe Convention (1991). Does anybody still have it? If the answer is yes: would it be possible to make it available for free on the Internet?

Welcome! It's nice to see a genuine new poster rather than dealing with a spammer for a change.


I have a few old magazines hidden away, I will have to check them to see which had adventure columns though off the top of my head I know that "Dragon User" had an adventure column - early columns were written by Mike Gerrard, later columns by his brother Peter.

Also, are you restricting yourself to 8-bit computer magazines, or will you also cover 16-bit computer magazines?


You will need to get in contact with the people above and ask them if they have any plans to put the content online, and if they have no such plans then whether-or-not you may host scans of their fanzines.

Alastair

Thank you for your reply!


I will also cover 16-bit computer magazines, but only when there's content about "traditional" text (or text-and-graphics) adventures, not just icons or point'n'click.

I'd also like to say welcome - and to applaud your mission. Sounds like a very useful tool

I don't see Commodore User on the list - Keith Campbell used to write the "Into the Valley" column in that one.

Electron User had the Pendragon column.
BBC Micro User had a column by the Mad Hatter.

I will certainly have a look at this request for the video...

I do have a copy myself at home.

Have a look at www.adventureconvention.co.uk

Ever thought of attending the convention -its still running...

Doreen Bardon
Adventure Convention Organiser