Jeeez i remember Dimension-X and Retina Burn - probably have the AF disk at my mum's house somewhere! Crikey, isn't it a small world?
I was part of Pure Amiga - the mailing list lives on as a Yahoo Group but none of the three of us who originally started it up remain active in there and the website is long gone. Originally it was a pair of us, myself and a mate Phil who lived locally, started it when we were bored - we were joined by Russ after we mentioned it on IRC one night (this is how far we're going back - it was Telnet IRC!) and the three of us started doing reviews, news articles etc. Webspace was donated to us by a company who later asked us for the £3.5k we'd racked up in fees! We didn't make any cash but i've still got boxes of 'review copy' software sent to us, we used to do the rounds at the World of Amiga shows with some flash business cards.
One threatened lawsuit, several redesigns and a few knackered amiga mainboards later we called it a day...
Started here in 1997... web.archive.org/web/19970416032335/http://www.pureamiga.co.uk/index.html
sadly no copies of the later pages remain on the wayback machine but the coding for those first ones makes me cringe.. look how none of the images line up! i did it all by hand in Ed
Was also Amiga co-sysop of the Fonty Towers BBS in Nottingham, although i just wandered off from there when i discovered the internet proper... wonder what happened to the bbs?
Aaaaah. Tidying up last night and i found my Amiga Rom Kernel Reference Manuals - they're on Amazon for a tenner if anyone is interested!
I was part of Pure Amiga - the mailing list lives on as a Yahoo Group but none of the three of us who originally started it up remain active in there and the website is long gone. Originally it was a pair of us, myself and a mate Phil who lived locally, started it when we were bored - we were joined by Russ after we mentioned it on IRC one night (this is how far we're going back - it was Telnet IRC!) and the three of us started doing reviews, news articles etc. Webspace was donated to us by a company who later asked us for the £3.5k we'd racked up in fees! We didn't make any cash but i've still got boxes of 'review copy' software sent to us, we used to do the rounds at the World of Amiga shows with some flash business cards.
One threatened lawsuit, several redesigns and a few knackered amiga mainboards later we called it a day...
Started here in 1997... web.archive.org/web/19970416032335/http://www.pureamiga.co.uk/index.html
sadly no copies of the later pages remain on the wayback machine but the coding for those first ones makes me cringe.. look how none of the images line up! i did it all by hand in Ed
Was also Amiga co-sysop of the Fonty Towers BBS in Nottingham, although i just wandered off from there when i discovered the internet proper... wonder what happened to the bbs?
Aaaaah. Tidying up last night and i found my Amiga Rom Kernel Reference Manuals - they're on Amazon for a tenner if anyone is interested!