The amount of effort you put into shooting and editing is amazing. Would be too much work for me to do it like that for a hobby project. You definitely deserve much more subscribers, this is one of my favourite shows in TH-cam.
Fantastic episode Paul. Love the way you thoroughly research for each video. In 50 years from now your videos will still be here giving a fantastic insight into a part of history that few may be here to recall. A real archival treasure trove.
Totally agree, I wish if he also makes multiple back-ups of the entire work, repeated, of the same material. We know of many people who do this, they back up their work on multiple drives with exact copies of their work or projects, so they don't risk losing any, if one external drive get damaged, they have others. It is like an insurance policy. Some label it as protocol. Multiple hard drives just to be on the safe side. His work is amazing and very very important, unique and one of a kind.. :^)
Brilliant episode :) I'm an avid 8/16-bit magazine collector (I have complete collections of C+VG, YS, SU, Crash, etc!) and it was great to see them covered here. I've always loved magazines and it's a real shame they don't really exist any more. The web may have taken their place, but the printed page is such a great thing too :)
Another 20 excellent episodes down. Loving all the format tweaks. This episode's extended feature was a real treat too. I'm hoping you've got one about the covertape wars somewhere waiting for me. I'm off to episode 41 now so I can find it as fast as possible.
Thank you thank you thank! Thank you very much sir, for this WONDERFUL episode. Tremendous effort, highly appreciated. What a wonderful show honestly..
Wow, what an episode, thank you so much Paul, for these incredible video's that you have created, your video's remind me of the days when a new issue of Sinclair User & Crash had been released in the newsagents, couldn't wait to read them, or in your case, watch them..........THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely superb episode, I recall some of those mags and covers going through my hands, oh the memories, running into Smiths at the train station each month to buy the latest editions before getting on the train home from work, then being so engrossed nearly forgetting to get off, thank you for bringing back the memories Paul, great work once again :)
Fascinating episode, the chart was a great way of presenting it. I do look back at some of the mags from time to time, but I do get very nostalgic for the good old days. Shame we can't go back...
Wow, after all these years, I do remember the covers you showed of Your Computer! Of course, I also fondly remember YS and Crash, which were the only British Sinclair magazines to be sold in this Commodore and MSX-biased country (Netherlands). Having said that, most of the magazines mentioned in the video weren't available here either. (okay, I also remember ACE and Games Machine because of the love for the Commodore Amiga here) I also bought PC Mag, the US publication in the beginning of the PC era. I should have saved a copy with the first colour laptop (a NEC) on the cover.
Hey Paul, that was an amazing feature, thanks sooooo much. You know, the editor of Personal Computer Games not only went on to be the editor of Zzap!64 having borrowed Bob Wade to help with reviews, but then formed Future Publishing. Now he is the curator of T.E.D....quite a career you could say!
Thanks, that was great, very interesting to see how things developed . I had a ZX80, then a spectrum 48k, after those I moved onto the Amstrad PC1512 and stayed on PCs every since.
Wow - that was a blast from the past. Loving your work, accidently watched one of your videos about 2 weeks ago and now working through your "back catalogue". Great stuff - well done and keep up the good work. Many thanks, Bruce.
Great episode! Whilst I did miss the normal features here, I certainly enjoyed seeing the overview of how the publications changed over the Spectrum's life time. Especially with how many multi-format publications made it out there, and how long & short the various runs were.
hellfire64 To be honest it could have easily made the 60 minute mark, and part of me wishes I had done more. But time is limited, so 30 minutes is the best I could do.
This was a really good show, thank you! I think here in Iceland we mainly got SU, Your Sinclair and Crash for the Spectrum, at least I only seem to remember those. It was such a nice exciting feeling sitting down with a brand new magazine in hand, I often miss it.
Sigurður Finnsson Thanks. Yes, reading magazines on a tablet just isn't the same and I think some modern magazines don't have charisma or personality like the old ones.
Nice one Paul. I latched onto your show from Geoff's channel, and have spent the last week or two watching everything the two of you have published here on TH-cam, in roughly date order. This was a lovely feature and an excellent end to this series of the show. I've still got about a year to catch up on by the look of it, so I'll be back after tea! Keep up the good work...please :-)
Can't believe I chucked all my YS magazines ... I must have been completely hatstand. Paul your videos are great I'll get my nostalgia from TSS instead.
***** Certainly were. And it's all there in print. Great to flick through the mags, but by the end I was ready to throw in the towel. More on that in a future Spectrum Show Magazine.
DejaVoodooDoll Many thanks for your kind words. I think the wonderful element of computing, especially in the early days, was the sheer variety on offer. So many computers, so many games, so many magazines and so many opinions. It is important to cover as many aspects as possible. Sadly time is against us, and even though I would like to do things on the Amiga and ZX81, I just don't have the physical time. I hope someone else will pick up the torch for those.
I read Sinclair User, You Sinclair and Crash. Even in the Netherlands they were sold in nearly every bookstore and newsagent. Combine that with all the other format specific, and Dutch and German magazines, the choice we had was absolutely amazing. In a way some things haven't changed. You can still find Retro Gamer pretty easily in Dutch shops, for example.
custardo I think it's a pity there isn't the same choice of hardware now - just PC or console (with games that look identical). Much better back then, so much variety.
Great episode, really enjoyed seeing Crash and YS, they were both a huge part of my childhood. Crash was a fantastic magazine and Oli Frey's covers were and still are amazing. Both magazines went downhill content wise towards the end. Good times all the same.
And here I was thinking Your Sinclair outlived Sinclair User. Guess I got proven wrong here. Still, I subscribed to both and loved it how they called each other names, each getting sillier and sillier as time went on..... Ah, the good old days ;-) Edit: Oh, and what an awesome Feature.
I quite like the idea of having a feature length, erm, feature every now and then. It's quite refreshing and shakes things up! How did you get your scans by the way? World of Spectrum's magazine archive is completely screwed up at the moment!
Paul Jenkinson WOS seems to be going down hill in general as of late. Did they even ever put up those type-in games you submitted? Have you checked Archive . org as well? they're slowly building a collection of gaming mags, they also do Spanish, French and German ones too!
***** WOS has had no archive updates for over a year now, so none of the type-ins are there. I think they are working to get things back to 100% soon. I really hope so.
Paul Jenkinson They need to turn it into something more wiki bases, so users can add and edit information instantly. But it's a shame as it was by far the best spectrum resource site on the internet.
That was a great episode, thanks for making the decision to go with it as a full-length feature, it was definitely the right choice! I have fond memories of most of these magazines and still have a good few of them to re-(re-)read occasionally. I always liked "Your Computer" as they had a good mix of multi-format type-ins and so it was a great way to see the different ways each platform did their thing. For some reason it wasn't so easy to get here in Ireland though and I was lucky if I could get catch maybe a few issues of it throughout a given year. Let's not forget that it also serialised the well-known 1K Chess type-in which (IMO) hasn't really been bettered since, even by the recent bootchess. TBH, I think regular cover tapes were the beginning of the end as paying writers for serious content was traded off against bunging a cover tape with a few game demos. I've always contended (to anyone who would listen) that it was this which heralded the downfall of the full-price game market too - More often than not the demos very quickly revealed the limitations of the software.
Your Sinclair was essential reading when I was a kid, and I loved the jokey tone and running gags. They were shooting for the irreverent tone of Smash Hits (the ed bit was pinched from SH iirc - Ed) and more or less pulled that off. Not childish at all in my view, though often silly.
Everyone welcome here. The 64 had some great features that I envy. Hardware scrolling and sound to name but two. Not to mention a standard disk drive. If only they could all be brought together into one glorious machine... maybe the Spectrum Next? Who knows.
yeah man, full feature full feature! Personally, I am much more likely to watch a 10min+ 20min+ feature on a solid topic, than flighty 6min reviewing bundles. You rock it as you like Paul, all great!
With the eventual birth of the internet and its wealth of 'At you fingertips' information the paper mags were just about done. We have many things now that would do well with a mag perhaps like Singleboad computers that shout back to the single person / indie game development ( As you mention mobile, Its all Arm you know! ), now with RiscV and FPGA I think the same could be said for emulation as having something 99% accurate etc etc is better than any Emulator like MAME and friends. Also worth a mention is Arduino and the many clones out there that make the electronics hacking arena more accessable to the masses.
The change in Crash wasn't gradual. I remember being wowed by a 1989 issue, a nice big magazine with varied content. Interviews, wargames, PBEM, all sorts. I decided to start buying it regularly. The next issue (65) was the "New Crash", a 32 page pamphlet with a covertape.
Nice episode. Thanks for your hard work. Binged 40 now, hoping to binge another 59 episodes before you get to 100 so I can watch it ‘live’ :) Btw I always thought Tzer was pronounced just as it’s written, not ‘teezer’. Isn’t there an apostrophe in it?
good review of the mags.... I was always a big CRASH reader, but at the end of its life when the mag was paper thin, it got a bit pointless in my opinion.. I agree with you 100% about the childish humour in YS and sinclair User, I hated that and to me spoilt the magazine, but the free tape made it worth while!!!
These videos are bloody fantastic lol.... watched all episodes up to this 40th episode in one day.... today
Congratulations, Paul - SO MUCH WORK into this! Wow. Bravo.
The amount of effort you put into shooting and editing is amazing. Would be too much work for me to do it like that for a hobby project. You definitely deserve much more subscribers, this is one of my favourite shows in TH-cam.
VectrexRoli Thanks for your kind comments, and continued support.
True!
Fantastic episode Paul. Love the way you thoroughly research for each video. In 50 years from now your videos will still be here giving a fantastic insight into a part of history that few may be here to recall. A real archival treasure trove.
Totally agree, I wish if he also makes multiple back-ups of the entire work, repeated, of the same material. We know of many people who do this, they back up their work on multiple drives with exact copies of their work or projects, so they don't risk losing any, if one external drive get damaged, they have others. It is like an insurance policy. Some label it as protocol. Multiple hard drives just to be on the safe side.
His work is amazing and very very important, unique and one of a kind.. :^)
Brilliant episode :) I'm an avid 8/16-bit magazine collector (I have complete collections of C+VG, YS, SU, Crash, etc!) and it was great to see them covered here. I've always loved magazines and it's a real shame they don't really exist any more. The web may have taken their place, but the printed page is such a great thing too :)
Another 20 excellent episodes down. Loving all the format tweaks. This episode's extended feature was a real treat too. I'm hoping you've got one about the covertape wars somewhere waiting for me. I'm off to episode 41 now so I can find it as fast as possible.
Terrific episode Paul the best I watched so far. You've outdone yourself this time.
Absolutely brilliant episode! the amount of research you do coupled with your memories makes it a pleasure to watch
Very true.
I often like to look through my old copies of computer magazines (and drooling over all the different peripherals)! Great vid as usual.
Thank you thank you thank! Thank you very much sir, for this WONDERFUL episode.
Tremendous effort, highly appreciated.
What a wonderful show honestly..
Wow, what an episode, thank you so much Paul, for these incredible video's that you have created, your video's remind me of the days when a new issue of Sinclair User & Crash had been released in the newsagents, couldn't wait to read them, or in your case, watch them..........THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul Pollington Thanks. Glad you like them.
Absolutely superb episode, I recall some of those mags and covers going through my hands, oh the memories, running into Smiths at the train station each month to buy the latest editions before getting on the train home from work, then being so engrossed nearly forgetting to get off, thank you for bringing back the memories Paul, great work once again :)
Chris Shaw Cheers. fond memories indeed.
Fascinating episode, the chart was a great way of presenting it. I do look back at some of the mags from time to time, but I do get very nostalgic for the good old days. Shame we can't go back...
Dolphination Indeed. I would have bought so much and kept it in storage for now :-)
Wow, after all these years, I do remember the covers you showed of Your Computer!
Of course, I also fondly remember YS and Crash, which were the only British Sinclair magazines to be sold in this Commodore and MSX-biased country (Netherlands). Having said that, most of the magazines mentioned in the video weren't available here either.
(okay, I also remember ACE and Games Machine because of the love for the Commodore Amiga here)
I also bought PC Mag, the US publication in the beginning of the PC era. I should have saved a copy with the first colour laptop (a NEC) on the cover.
Brilliant episode. Need to watch this again.
Hey Paul, that was an amazing feature, thanks sooooo much. You know, the editor of Personal Computer Games not only went on to be the editor of Zzap!64 having borrowed Bob Wade to help with reviews, but then formed Future Publishing. Now he is the curator of T.E.D....quite a career you could say!
theretrogamesnews Interesting. Didn't know that. Cheers
Thanks, that was great, very interesting to see how things developed .
I had a ZX80, then a spectrum 48k, after those I moved onto the Amstrad PC1512 and stayed on PCs every since.
Gary Watson Thanks. There are a few things in there I was quite surprised by.
Wow - that was a blast from the past. Loving your work, accidently watched one of your videos about 2 weeks ago and now working through your "back catalogue". Great stuff - well done and keep up the good work. Many thanks, Bruce.
Cheers. Thanks for watching. Lots more planned.
What fantastic production values you have going on here. This is incredible. Seeing more Spectrum love makes me a happy Decepticon.
High 5's sir!
MegatronsFury Right back at ya.
Great episode!
Whilst I did miss the normal features here, I certainly enjoyed seeing the overview of how the publications changed over the Spectrum's life time. Especially with how many multi-format publications made it out there, and how long & short the various runs were.
hellfire64 To be honest it could have easily made the 60 minute mark, and part of me wishes I had done more. But time is limited, so 30 minutes is the best I could do.
I used to have every issue of Your Spectrum and Your Sinclair. Gave them all away years ago.
great feature, so much information, i feel the urge to shop for some originals!!! thank you very much, Paul!
Shamil Randuev You'll end up with a room smelling of musty paper if you do !
This was a really good show, thank you! I think here in Iceland we mainly got SU, Your Sinclair and Crash for the Spectrum, at least I only seem to remember those. It was such a nice exciting feeling sitting down with a brand new magazine in hand, I often miss it.
Sigurður Finnsson Thanks. Yes, reading magazines on a tablet just isn't the same and I think some modern magazines don't have charisma or personality like the old ones.
Well done Paul, must have taken you ages to do the research for this show! Look forward to series five.
As always, well researched and well put together. Looking forward to the next series :)
***** No pressure then!
Excellent, as usual. Many thanks!
A fantastic and interesting Feature edition. Thanks!
CartoonsKick Cheers. Glad you enjoyed it.
Nice one Paul. I latched onto your show from Geoff's channel, and have spent the last week or two watching everything the two of you have published here on TH-cam, in roughly date order. This was a lovely feature and an excellent end to this series of the show. I've still got about a year to catch up on by the look of it, so I'll be back after tea! Keep up the good work...please :-)
Thanks for watching. You deserve medal for your stamina :-)
Can't believe I chucked all my YS magazines ... I must have been completely hatstand. Paul your videos are great I'll get my nostalgia from TSS instead.
Thoroughly enjoyed that episode. Very informative regarding the various magazines and their content,. outlook and lifespan.
Love the episode. Those were the good old days.....
***** Certainly were. And it's all there in print. Great to flick through the mags, but by the end I was ready to throw in the towel. More on that in a future Spectrum Show Magazine.
Looking forward to and reading a computer magazine was a huge part of the hobby back then. Nowadays of course there's the internet for everything.
Great series! Enjoyed it quite a bit.
A top episode Paul! It's brought back a lot of memories, well done mate.
Dean Swain Thanks mate. I think all the effort was worth it in the end!
DejaVoodooDoll Many thanks for your kind words. I think the wonderful element of computing, especially in the early days, was the sheer variety on offer. So many computers, so many games, so many magazines and so many opinions. It is important to cover as many aspects as possible. Sadly time is against us, and even though I would like to do things on the Amiga and ZX81, I just don't have the physical time. I hope someone else will pick up the torch for those.
great look back at a great time in my life. i only wish as a kid i kept all my magazines as id love to flick through them now
Andy Smallbone Same here. I lost over half my collection during a house move - still gutted. Still have a lot, but not as many as went in the skip :-(
Great episode, very informative.
Interesting to see the legendary Tony Takoushi writing for Big K prior to his move over to C&VG.
I read Sinclair User, You Sinclair and Crash. Even in the Netherlands they were sold in nearly every bookstore and newsagent. Combine that with all the other format specific, and Dutch and German magazines, the choice we had was absolutely amazing. In a way some things haven't changed. You can still find Retro Gamer pretty easily in Dutch shops, for example.
custardo I think it's a pity there isn't the same choice of hardware now - just PC or console (with games that look identical). Much better back then, so much variety.
Sinclair Projects looks interesting...off to investigate further.
Brilliant episode!
What a fantastic episode
Great episode, really enjoyed seeing Crash and YS, they were both a huge part of my childhood. Crash was a fantastic magazine and Oli Frey's covers were and still are amazing. Both magazines went downhill content wise towards the end. Good times all the same.
Simon Jones May favs were Your Computer, ZX Computing (before the change) and Crash. Still good reading.
A fantastic feature.
Really enjoyed this episode =)
And here I was thinking Your Sinclair outlived Sinclair User. Guess I got proven wrong here.
Still, I subscribed to both and loved it how they called each other names, each getting sillier and sillier as time went on.....
Ah, the good old days ;-)
Edit: Oh, and what an awesome Feature.
Fantastic Paul!
Great feature. Thanks.
I quite like the idea of having a feature length, erm, feature every now and then. It's quite refreshing and shakes things up!
How did you get your scans by the way? World of Spectrum's magazine archive is completely screwed up at the moment!
***** Some scans I did from my own collection, some from a DVD set I have. Yes, WOS being offline is causing me no end of problems!
Paul Jenkinson
WOS seems to be going down hill in general as of late. Did they even ever put up those type-in games you submitted?
Have you checked Archive . org as well? they're slowly building a collection of gaming mags, they also do Spanish, French and German ones too!
***** WOS has had no archive updates for over a year now, so none of the type-ins are there. I think they are working to get things back to 100% soon. I really hope so.
Paul Jenkinson
They need to turn it into something more wiki bases, so users can add and edit information instantly.
But it's a shame as it was by far the best spectrum resource site on the internet.
That was a great episode, thanks for making the decision to go with it as a full-length feature, it was definitely the right choice! I have fond memories of most of these magazines and still have a good few of them to re-(re-)read occasionally.
I always liked "Your Computer" as they had a good mix of multi-format type-ins and so it was a great way to see the different ways each platform did their thing. For some reason it wasn't so easy to get here in Ireland though and I was lucky if I could get catch maybe a few issues of it throughout a given year. Let's not forget that it also serialised the well-known 1K Chess type-in which (IMO) hasn't really been bettered since, even by the recent bootchess.
TBH, I think regular cover tapes were the beginning of the end as paying writers for serious content was traded off against bunging a cover tape with a few game demos. I've always contended (to anyone who would listen) that it was this which heralded the downfall of the full-price game market too - More often than not the demos very quickly revealed the limitations of the software.
scorpioxdi Good point about the cover tapes - now all you need to do is write a nice feature about them and I can add it to the show ;-)
Ha ha! As long as I'm only doing the writing and you narrate it - You wouldn't want to lose subscribers!
scorpioxdi Deal.
Gulp... What have I done? I'll start researching tomorrow - No guarantees though!
Cool show! Definitely subscribing. Just a note: 'Automata' is pronounced 'Awe TOM ata' not 'Awe Tomato'
Your Sinclair was essential reading when I was a kid, and I loved the jokey tone and running gags. They were shooting for the irreverent tone of Smash Hits (the ed bit was pinched from SH iirc - Ed) and more or less pulled that off. Not childish at all in my view, though often silly.
Good episode, though!
More of a C64 fan but really enjoy your vids, top work.
Everyone welcome here. The 64 had some great features that I envy. Hardware scrolling and sound to name but two. Not to mention a standard disk drive. If only they could all be brought together into one glorious machine... maybe the Spectrum Next? Who knows.
I have a folder full of crash maps. Knight lore. ...alien 8.....alien my original magazine maps. Great days.
Just playing Space Disposal on my 'Upgraded' Spectrum PI :) Great game, very addictive (and frustrating).
Looking forward to the next season ;]
Haxxor Soniq Thanks. Next season already planned.
yeah man, full feature full feature!
Personally, I am much more likely to watch a 10min+ 20min+ feature on a solid topic, than flighty 6min reviewing bundles.
You rock it as you like Paul, all great!
With the eventual birth of the internet and its wealth of 'At you fingertips' information the paper mags were just about done. We have many things now that would do well with a mag perhaps like Singleboad computers that shout back to the single person / indie game development ( As you mention mobile, Its all Arm you know! ), now with RiscV and FPGA I think the same could be said for emulation as having something 99% accurate etc etc is better than any Emulator like MAME and friends. Also worth a mention is Arduino and the many clones out there that make the electronics hacking arena more accessable to the masses.
The change in Crash wasn't gradual. I remember being wowed by a 1989 issue, a nice big magazine with varied content. Interviews, wargames, PBEM, all sorts. I decided to start buying it regularly. The next issue (65) was the "New Crash", a 32 page pamphlet with a covertape.
I've got a copy of Sinclair Projects!! Dec82/Jan83. :)
Nice episode. Thanks for your hard work. Binged 40 now, hoping to binge another 59 episodes before you get to 100 so I can watch it ‘live’ :)
Btw I always thought Tzer was pronounced just as it’s written, not ‘teezer’. Isn’t there an apostrophe in it?
yeah new speccy video!!
good review of the mags.... I was always a big CRASH reader, but at the end of its life when the mag was paper thin, it got a bit pointless in my opinion.. I agree with you 100% about the childish humour in YS and sinclair User, I hated that and to me spoilt the magazine, but the free tape made it worth while!!!
Andy Sage Cheers. Yes, I was a bit annoyed when SU changed. The originals were terrific, but then it all went a bit pants!
Still got that Ant Attack poster!
Andrew Locke So have I. Just very annoyed they mixed up the newspaper thing!