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    Commodore: A Company on the Edge 2nd Edition Filled with first-hand accounts of ambition, greed, and inspired engineering, this history of the personal computer revolution takes readers inside the cutthroat world of Commodore. Before Apple, IBM, or Dell, Commodore was the first computer manufacturer to market its machines to the public, sellin...

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  • Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History Thumbnail

    Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History Vintage Games explores the most influential videogames of all time, including Super Mario Bros., Grand Theft Auto III, Doom, The Sims and many more. Drawing on interviews as well as the authors' own lifelong experience with videogames, the book discusses each game's development, predecessors, critic...

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  • A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Thumbnail

    A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Histories of technology usually go one of two ways. Some focus on the science; others emphasise personalities and culture at the expense of technological detail. But engineering professor-cum-Observer columnist John Naughton has written a book that does both. A Brief History of the Future weaves tog...

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  • The Ultimate History of Video Games Thumbnail

    The Ultimate History of Video Games Inside the Games You Grew Up with but Never Forgot. With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade. The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fana...

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  • The A-Z of Cool Computer Games Thumbnail

    The A-Z of Cool Computer Games Do you remember what it was like when computers were new? When they seemed mysterious and exciting? Did you ever pass a grotty C15 tape around the schoolyard, or make a shop assistant quietly seethe as you asked them to load 'Manic Miner' on the computer? If you have ever had a magical garning momen...

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Recent Reviews
Citadel
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Recent Messages
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Editorials
Zzap! Rrap
Reviews
The Terminal Man
Walker's Way
Birth of a Paradroid
Mental Procreation
The Making of Lemmings
Hack to the Future Globe icon
 All of the editorials from the magazine available
Zzap's letters page presented by Lloyd Mangram
Reviews of games which received gold medals
A comic strip which ran in Zzap's early issues
Diary of a Game - Citadel by Martin Walker
Diary of a Game - Paradroid by Andrew Braybrook
Diary of a Game - Morpheus by Andrew Braybrook
Diary of a Game - Lemmings by Alter Developments
Mel Croucher's humourous predictions to up the Year 2000
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Misc.
Full Contents
History of Zzap!
Detailed History
Trip to Ludlow
Staff
View all Covers
Zzap Bible
Rrap Message Board
Zzuperstore
Zzap 107 Misc.
Def Tribute to Zzap!64
Early Newfield Photos
 A list of all articles that are online (excl. editorials)
A summary of Zzap's past
A detailed history of Zzap
An article detailing my trip to Ludlow to find the old offices of Zzap!
Information on all the editorial staff over the years
Thumbnails of all the Zzap! covers on one page (N.B. Page over 1MB)
Online database containing ratings etc. of all games reviewed in Zzap!
The Rrap is back! Read/write messages relating to anything Zzap!
Get the various magazine scan DVDs in here
Download issue 107 and related articles
Download the magazine as published in Retro Gamer for Zzap’s 20th Birthday
A collection of early Newsfield related photos from Roger
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Credits etc.
Thanks to Philippe Lesire for scanning in most of the Walker's Diaries and also scanning in some covers, Charles Walkden for scanning a few things from issue 3, Alessandro for scanning in lots of stuff from the early issues, Stephen Stuttard for scanning in just about every issue! , Dimitris Kiminas for doing the editorials for 1990 to 1994, and putting the final touches to the staff table page and donating the text from early reviews, Mr. Zzapback for doing the Zzap, ZzapTest, ZzapRrap, ZzapBack logos and Barry Flowers (aka Sixteen Plus) for the Zzuperstore logo.
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16 Dec 2012
Have a Zzaptastic Christmas and New Year

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11 Jul 2012
Outage Last Night

There was an issue with the database on my host last night, which resulted in some data corruption so they had to restore the database with a backup from around 24 hours previously. ... more

04 Jun 2012
Rewritten Home Page

The home page of the site has been rewritten in PHP and the recent message functionality also redone for the new phpBB3 forum. You shouldn't notice much difference apart from the fancy jQuery book slider. ... more

30 Jan 2012
Upgrading to phpBB3

I've been reading the install docs for phpBB3 and it seems pretty straight forward to install and then convert over the old board to the new one and do a bit of .htaccess writing to redirect any links to threads in the old forum to the new one etc. ... more

07 Dec 2011
Server Upgrade on Tuesday 13th December

The web and database server of the website are getting upgraded on Tuesday 13th December so this will probably mean the site will be down. ... more

30 Sep 2011
Where have all the adverts gone?

You may have noticed the site is now advert free, although it's not by choice. The advert broker I have been with for 11 years have decided to deactivate my account (and many others) because we don't fit their profile any more. ... more

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