I'm trying to recreate the missing wonder of my childhood. I know it won't work, but fuck that negative shit, I want to try. To do that, I decided I'd try to search for "retro" PC magazines (time period around 1998-2005). I found some scans of my favorite one (I'm italinoob, yeah).Do you anons have good memories about magazines from that time? Doesn't have to be only vidya, could be generic PC and software too. Bonus points if they're archived somewhere online.I checked out Linux Journal so far (yeah, the one ran by that lunduke guy or whatever)... yeah, that one's shit.
I don't remember any Italian magazines (apart from some pornographic ones I bought while on a school trip to Sicily), but I used to buy every issue of PC Zone in England. Noted anti-AI campaigner Ed Zitron used to write for them, as did Charlie Brooker. However, my all-time favourite review of theirs was this one.
>>109590039Doesn't have to be italian, I just talked about it because it was my favorite. English is perfectly fine. No russian though, saw a gorgeous looking few but I can't read that one.
>>109589952Unironically just watch people talk about topics on youtube. It's the natural evolution of guys in a suit writing about games.Anything that ever made it into news stands is commercial slop. Only mainstream games, and only good words for them because otherwise no more free software/games for the magazine's publisher. Unless it was something that was cool and hip to hate, like EA and random noname software houses.Nothing controversial covered, nothing out of the mainstream covered, only the same word salad for the most mainstream games, over and over and over and over and over.t. bought magazines for the free games because no internet
Old Screenfun issues are an amazing time capsule for me
Yes, even in the 90s, I was a macfag. I looked forward to this shit every month, especially the CD full of shareware.
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a cover disc could upgrade your pc to the best os ever,a modern Unix-like system that made Win98 look like the slowest crap ever
>>109590281Fucking flashback to trying to install a 2CD Mandrake Linux 6 on my Pentium MMX 200MHz, 2GB HDD, 32MB RAM.No, I didn't even have a Windows CD to roll back to.I didn't even know I couldn't use a PC without an OS.I was one step away from "bricking" (read: would've cost money to get someone to fix) the family PC. Good thing the installer bailed out before the partition drive step.
>>109589952PC Mag maybe? They've been around for a lot of time.
>pc magazines too normie-y>linux magazines too alt-yWhat the fuck did straight white male nerds read back then? Don't tell me it was only books. There had to be something else.
>>109590321are you going to add drakwizard
>>109590932MOOOOOODS
>>109589952Mio negroI still have a few of those.What I wouldn't give to go back.
>>109591062Fuuuck.TGM was probably the most expensive, but it had the better games.I also spent my entire childhood on Computer Idea, even before we had a pc. Didn't have CD but was very cheap.
>>109591134What do kids have nowadays that can compare?Everything seems so immediate and disposable. I can't see them experiencing anything close to this.
>>109590880Not all magazines are equal, some had in depth testing while others were just ad slop
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>>109590151What are you even talking about it's not the same at all. Are you a zoomer or something? Only way you can be this retarded.
>>109590321trying a different os for the first time is really weird. i remember it a bit as well, if you've only used one os there will be many things you thought were just how computers worked that were always actually just how that os worked.even simple things like drive letters, both dos and windows used them, and even many bioses had boot order selection that lists the options like A/B/C/D which just reinforces that drive letters are just part of how they work, rather than something the OS made up.
currently
build your own video terminal
>>109591062I see over a dozen classic titles across 3 random magazines.
>>109594072I remember I wanted to give a game to some of my friends in elementary school.So I copied the exe on floppy disks and gave them around.That's it.Of course it didn't work, but I don't remember if we ever found out why.
>>109594690nothing like copying the desktop shortcuts of your favourite games to a floppy, opening them from the floppy to make sure they work, then they magically don't work when you visit your mate after school :(
>>1095945144 KByte's of RAM? in this economy?
i didn't get a lot of technology magazines, and really only tended to get them from the discs they came with.i got several of Internet Magazine (NZ) in the late '90s-early '00s. can't find any pictures of the magazine itself (only the UK version)
>>109589952The C/C++ Users Journal
The ads were pretty strange often.
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