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ZXF11 now available!

woodcock88woodcock88
edited May 2007 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
To celebrate 25 years of Spectrum computing, ZXF magazine has returned with a special celebratory issue!

Before I give you the link, a couple of points:

1) Since Martijn's away this week I'm hosting the file myself; in anticipation of high demand I've used quite high compression to reduce file size. It's actually turned out a lot better than I thought it would, but I might well upload a higher resolution version to WoS next week.

2) This edition of ZXF will become available as a printed version (high resolution, of course) to buy from www.lulu.com. I'll be uploading this to lulu over the next day or so, but I'll want to see a copy of it myself before letting anyone buy it (and will let you all know when this is possible). Because the printed version will be using a card cover, the inside cover is intentionally left blank.

Download ZXF11 for free here: http://zxf.magazine.googlepages.com/ZXF11lo.pdf

That's it! Enjoy! I'm off to a nice dark place now for a lie down.

Colin
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  • beanzbeanz
    edited April 2007
    Cheers bigears.
  • ZX BeccyZX Beccy
    edited April 2007
    Just flicked through Issue 11

    Bloody Fantastic!!! Never fails to deliver!!!

    Can't wait to buy my hard copy! :)
  • michaelfmichaelf
    edited April 2007
    just had a quick flick through - looks like a good read (as usual), with plenty of games reviews to boot!

    Any plans of a ZXF12 ...?
  • spectbeginnerspectbeginner
    edited April 2007
    woodcock88 wrote: »
    To celebrate 25 years of Spectrum computing, ZXF magazine has returned with a special celebratory issue!

    Before I give you the link, a couple of points:

    1) Since Martijn's away this week I'm hosting the file myself; in anticipation of high demand I've used quite high compression to reduce file size. It's actually turned out a lot better than I thought it would, but I might well upload a higher resolution version to WoS next week.

    2) This edition of ZXF will become available as a printed version (high resolution, of course) to buy from www.lulu.com. I'll be uploading this to lulu over the next day or so, but I'll want to see a copy of it myself before letting anyone buy it (and will let you all know when this is possible). Because the printed version will be using a card cover, the inside cover is intentionally left blank.

    Download ZXF11 for free here: http://zxf.magazine.googlepages.com/ZXF11lo.pdf

    That's it! Enjoy! I'm off to a nice dark place now for a lie down.

    Colin

    woodcock88 how much is this magazine,hardcopywise,seen some of the pdf version and it looks great    :D
  • DarenDaren
    edited April 2007
    Excellent stuff!
  • NickHNickH
    edited April 2007
    A wonderful issue, and no denying that it's up to the minute, either!

    My ego is also suitably fattened...
  • Code MonkeyCode Monkey
    edited April 2007
    Top banana! This is what it's all about!

    Great stuff.
  • ShuggyShuggy
    edited April 2007
    Top drawer. Splendid stuff.
  • woodcock88woodcock88
    edited April 2007
    spectbeginner wrote: »

    woodcock88 how much is this magazine,hardcopywise,seen some of the pdf version and it looks great    :D

    I'll post the cost tommorrow, once I've uploaded the file to lulu. It's likely to be a little steep, but the good news for Brits is the exchange rate's very favourable et the moment (the cost will be in dollars).

    Thanks for all the nice comments guys :)

    C.
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited April 2007
    Acrobat reader wrote:
    There was an error opening the document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired.
    :???:

    I'm going to wait for the next pdf link. I'm sure it will be a good read!
  • beanzbeanz
    edited April 2007
    zxbruno wrote: »
    :???:

    I'm going to wait for the next pdf link. I'm sure it will be a good read!

    I got it downloaded, pm me your email address and ill send it over if you like.
  • GeoffGeoff
    edited April 2007
    A great read and just one mistake on Page 9. The BBC was correct in that the 16K machine could be upgraded with a 32K RAM Pack. Sinclair Research never made them but others, most notably Cheetah, did.

    ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/hardware-adverts/Cheetah32kRamPack.jpg

    I bought one boxed from Ebay which is decidedly odd as I don't have a 16K machine. I must photograph it. It looks like the one in the BBC video.

    Tut, tut. :-)
  • SkarpoSkarpo
    edited April 2007
    It be broke :-(


    (same error as above)
  • Tom-CatTom-Cat
    edited April 2007
    Wow. This be the best one yet. It reminds me of the old Crash mags by design. REALLY well done ! It is being printed on the colour laser here at the office as we speak. A shame there is no HQ version though :( oh well...

    TC
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited April 2007
    beanz wrote: »
    I got it downloaded, pm me your email address and ill send it over if you like.

    I finally got it, but thanks. :) Very nice!
  • PopoCopPopoCop
    edited April 2007
    It's great to read NEW issue of ZXF. Good work!
    ZX Spectrum +2 & PicoDiv SD,
    Timex 2048 & divIDE 57c
  • woodcock88woodcock88
    edited April 2007
    Geoff wrote: »
    A great read and just one mistake on Page 9. The BBC was correct in that the 16K machine could be upgraded with a 32K RAM Pack. Sinclair Research never made them but others, most notably Cheetah, did.

    ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/hardware-adverts/Cheetah32kRamPack.jpg

    I bought one boxed from Ebay which is decidedly odd as I don't have a 16K machine. I must photograph it. It looks like the one in the BBC video.

    Tut, tut. :-)


    Oops. Now who looks silly; should have guessed Auntie was right all along.

    Ho hum. Erratum for issue 12, methinks.

    C.
  • sweevosweevo
    edited April 2007
    A top notch read. Thanks for all your hard work!
  • NickHNickH
    edited April 2007
    woodcock88 wrote: »
    Ho hum. Erratum for issue 12, methinks.

    There's going to be a ZXF12?

    Soon?

    Please? :)
  • SkarpoSkarpo
    edited April 2007
    I'm still not able to successfully DL the PDF :-(

    Yesterday it would only go up to about 450k then it automatically cut off.
    Today it barely went over 300k ... :-(

    I'm able to DL from other places just fine ... is there some sort of a dial-up discrimination going on here?

    Skarpo
    :-(
  • woodcock88woodcock88
    edited April 2007
    You want me to email it to you?
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited April 2007
    Skarpo, try this:

    http://zxspectrum.zidev.com/zx/zxf/ZXF11lo.pdf
  • SkarpoSkarpo
    edited April 2007
    woodcock88 wrote: »
    You want me to email it to you?

    Thanks woodcock but I got it from the link below.
    zxbruno wrote: »
    Skarpo, try this:

    http://zxspectrum.zidev.com/zx/zxf/ZXF11lo.pdf

    Thanks zxbruno! It DLed just fine in under 10 minutes ... yay!

    Had a quick read through and I'm impressed ... I like the retro (Crash) style!
    Congrats Woodcock!

    Yum, yum!

    Skarpo -Exclamation marks ... what else is there to be said? (!)
    [noparse]*<|:-)![/noparse]
  • HonoredShadowHonoredShadow
    edited April 2007
    Thanks for the mag. Printed it out and i love it. Best one I've read so far. bravo!
  • woodcock88woodcock88
    edited April 2007
    Just copied all the text into WP to do a word count, just out of interst. It turns out there's over 18,000 words crammed into those 24 pages :o

    That must be why my head hurts today.

    C.
  • GeoffGeoff
    edited April 2007
    woodcock88 wrote: »
    Ho hum. Erratum for issue 12, methinks.
    C.

    You've started on Issue 12 already.
    Excellent News!
  • NickHNickH
    edited April 2007
    Geoff wrote: »
    You've started on Issue 12 already.
    Excellent News!

    Yep, that comment was legally binding - we're not letting Colin off this one ;)
  • woodcock88woodcock88
    edited April 2007
    NickH wrote: »
    Yep, that comment was legally binding - we're not letting Colin off this one ;)

    Darn it, my lawyer told me to be more careful :)

    By the way, it's looking like the printed version will cost around ?5 plus ?1.85 p&p, if anyone's interested. I've ordered my copy and will let you know what the quality's like when it arrives. If it's ok I'll make the mag public and post the link here.
  • andrew_rollingsandrew_rollings
    edited April 2007
    woodcock88 wrote: »
    Darn it, my lawyer told me to be more careful :)

    By the way, it's looking like the printed version will cost around ?5 plus ?1.85 p&p, if anyone's interested. I've ordered my copy and will let you know what the quality's like when it arrives. If it's ok I'll make the mag public and post the link here.

    Count me in.
  • sweevosweevo
    edited April 2007
    woodcock88 wrote: »
    Darn it, my lawyer told me to be more careful :)

    By the way, it's looking like the printed version will cost around ?5 plus ?1.85 p&p, if anyone's interested. I've ordered my copy and will let you know what the quality's like when it arrives. If it's ok I'll make the mag public and post the link here.

    Yes please.
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