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All the addresses and phone numbers in this section
are in Britain unless otherwise stated; to phone Britain from
overseas, dial your international code, followed by 44, then the
number listed below, without the initial 0.
- The Your Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years:
see the Essential Sites section.
- Alchemist News
is a tape-based Spectrum magazine; past issues can be found on NVG.
- Classix,
by Alex Waddington,
was previously a paper magazine, but has now moved to an on-line format.
Crashed
is a paper-based SAM and Speccy magazine, edited by Dave Fountain. The
cost is £1.50, or £6 for 5 issues. Send cash or uncrossed
postal orders (note they don't accept cheques!) to:
Crashed Fanzine
11 Camel Road
London, E16 2DE.
- The CRASH Online Edition
by Matthew Wilson has a fair amount of Crash available.
- Barry Plewa's Emulate!
has games, technical stuff, reviews, chart listings, and much
more. The plain text version is available from
Demon
(though not the last issue by the looks of things) or NVG.
No new issues for a long time, but Barry popped up on
comp.sys.sinclair in December 1999 asking about interest in a new
issue.
- Format magazine is another paper magazine. For details,
write to:
Format Publications
34 Bourton Road
Gloucester
GL4 0LE,
or phone (01452) 412572.
- Hacker's Hangout is a paper magazine, concentrating on the
Speccy hacking going on today: £1.50 for one issue, or £4
for three. Apparently comes out every two months with 25 pages in each
issue. The address for orders (cheques preferred) is:
29 Dent Drive
Eastmoor Estate
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF1 4JG;
for more details, e-mail the author, Andy Ryals.
- J Alapalap is apparently a
new Speccy related mag, but I couldn't see too much Speccy related
stuff there. Maybe this is because I can't read Hungarian, though...
- There's a fair chunk of the famous Jetman cartoon strip
available at Jedi's Wonderful World of Jetman.
- The Nonowt Home Page
has eZine X, a large collection of hints, reviews, etc from SU, YS and
Crash, as well as the covers of the first 48 issues of Crash.
- Keith Ainsworth has some Speccy-related stuff on the Retrogamer Fanzine Homepage.
- The Spectrum Oracle on Trumpton (SPOT*ON)
is a Jim Grimwood's great big index of which magazine issues contained
which features, etc.
- Andy Kavanagh's Spectrum Worship
has Your Sinclair's 'hilarious' "Kindly Leave The Stage", as well as
an introduction to emulation scene, and the alt.binaries.comp.sinclair FAQ.
- Stewart Edgar has put up Stuart Campbell's Top 100 Spectrum Games of All Time
(from YS) up on the Web.
- Steve Broad has put up Crash's Unclear User
spoof on-line.
- Your Sinclair
- parts of some of the later issues up on the web courtesy of
Simon Cooke, YS's tech tips editor for those issues.
- Stuart Campbell has put some
of his contributions to Your Sinclair
onto his Web site.
- Unsatisfactory Software have created Your Sinclair: A Celebration, which is a collection of
articles and pictures from that magazine. The graphics have now been converted
to .GIF files, so hopefully we can all see them now!
- Jim Grimwood's Your Spectrum Unofficial Archive
is, well, an unofficial archive of the Your Spectrum magazine.
- Jonathan Nash has put YS2
on-line.
- YS3 is hopefully
going to be a montly on-line Speccy magazine; only one issue produced
so far, which didn't have too much outstanding in it.
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