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The search for #205 ended in my mailbox last Friday (27th) - a respectable 29 days since the previous and so pretty much on time.

NorthWay wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:06 pm

The subscriber cover was a bit wtf...

And I just saw the retail cover which was ...can I swap please?

I'd like an OLED mod for my GBA...

Corona virus and US HQs setting standards for rest of world - now my local forum meeting gets cancelled with hotel bookings and travels already planned and paid.

One thing I have always wondered: Were coin-ops in Europe fitted with NTSC monitors and 110V converters? 220V PSUs? Wasn't it kind of a nuisance to sell them outside the US? Then the local distributors would have to have parts for it etc. How was it to sell through to various parts of the world? Did...

The subscriber cover was a bit wtf...

Some kindergarden kid glued a drawing to the front of #204 and put it in my mailbox today, a very timely 27 days since the previous.

I always thought it was extremely similar to Cosmic Avenger (or rather, the other way around), which I really liked on the ColecoVision (rented one a few times).

What did he do during then 16-bit era then?

#203 double-jumped into my mailbox yesterday (30th) - a very swift 21 days since the previous (and thereby cut the slack from last time).

And that was #202 across the finish line today (9th), arriving on a Thursday as common, though 5 weeks and 1 day after the previous...

Loki: I'm still reading the magazine, but the article described very clearly why it would either bomb or see another price entirely. With 192K combined, screenmodes eating more memory than the Amiga/ST and subsequently the pixel art doing too, I'd expect it to need at least twice the ram if not at l...

Did he do cabinet art too?
Did anyone ever think Q*Bert was not swearing? How did that pass the "family-friendly" bar?

Doing its best Father Christmas impression, #201 slid down the mailbox and was found by me today - a quick 26 days since the previous.

The Amiga had a much stronger demoscene where the musicians were big names. Jesper Kyd. Romeo Knight. And so many others I'm forgetting. They got much more memory available for their music and typically sounded that much better. They also didn't have to make something that would need to work togethe...