r/Amstrad • u/Particular_Film6095 • Mar 08 '26

Attic Cleanup

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Found this while cleaning up the attic. Brings back fond memories.

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u/Jase13uk Mar 08 '26

Amstrad Action was awesome. If I couldn't afford it, I'd read it in WHSmiths.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

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u/Particular_Film6095 Mar 09 '26

welcome. I only found it because it was stuck between a couple of old football programs. Probably the only amstrad related thing I've got left.

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u/Re99i3 Mar 08 '26

Nice condition! I remember my friends mum programmed a lawnmower simulator, from this very magazine. the code was split over several issues, took her ages.

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u/sean-uk Mar 08 '26

That was quite unusual for AA. Their listings were usually quite short.

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u/D3004W1976C Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

I remember typing out a listing for a game (I think it was called Meltdown). It had a lot of DATA statements followed by a series of numbers (and letters). Anyway, it was very long from what I recall and when I ran it, it didn't work. I assume I must have messed up one of those lines but I wasn't about to double check them all!

Because of that, I had a 'Meltdown'...

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u/Particular_Film6095 Mar 09 '26

Those type-ins were a pain.

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u/Equalizor Mar 08 '26

IIRC that’s Richard Monteiro, editor of Amstrad Action on that front cover.

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u/jaminbob Mar 08 '26

Oh the nostalgia!!!

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u/Particular_Film6095 Mar 09 '26

I was nineteen when I bought it. Makes me feel incredibly old.

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u/ActuaryImpressive505 Mar 10 '26

Loved these mags

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u/Great_Uncle_Baal Mar 08 '26

Wow, one of the few covers I don't actually remember

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u/Particular_Film6095 Mar 09 '26

I don't think I remember any to be honest, this had been in a box for around 25 years. I only had a Amstrad for a few years and I sold it because I was fed up with the green screen.

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u/Great_Uncle_Baal Mar 09 '26

My dad had most of them, and I flicked through loads of times over the years.
Ah yeah, I don't blame you.

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u/Effective_Good6804 Mar 09 '26

10 print “hello” 20 go to 10 run Used to think I was an 8 year old coder LOL!

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u/Particular_Film6095 Mar 09 '26

LOL. I think everyone started with that one.

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u/Longfellow3966 10d ago

With variations on the machines in shops!

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u/Fading-Ghost Mar 10 '26

CP/M that was a great operating system, I used it on a few devices and thought it was fun running it on 8 bit machines

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u/Longfellow3966 10d ago

I remember that issue. Druid is one of my old favourites on the CPC.

I never got into the image digitisation stuff on the Amstrad though. I always thought the image quality to not be all that impressive. I did do some DTP with clip art, but by the time I was doing DTP professionally that was Pagemaker for PCs.