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Bang magazine by Specialist Retail Press. Just read about this in a letter in the Rrap Issue 20. They were accusing Julian of being a software pirate. Would be very interesting to see the original article.

I can't find any info or scans of the magazine via Google.

Don't suppose you've scanned this Mort? :)

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Em, seems he did have some issues, but no sign of them in the Zzuperstore. Are they available as a freebie on another disk Mort?

http://www.zzap64.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopi ... light=bang

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Found some! x-)

ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sincl ... ines/Bang/

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In the same issue, Lloyd also mentioned that Zzap! was going to be called "Bang". I had thought that this was a bit of a myth / misunderstanding.

'Gosh Wowery' letter
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Instead of doing an edit3, I reply to my own message instead :)

Found the offending article.

Bang Issue 5 Page 4

Seems a bit silly. If Julian was pirating those review copies, he'd hardy put his name on the things!
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Iain wrote: In the same issue, Lloyd also mentioned that Zzap! was going to be called "Bang". I had thought that this was a bit of a myth / misunderstanding.

'Gosh Wowery' letter
Ka-bang!64 would have been sort of snappy sounding, wouldn't it?

IIRC Roger/Lloyd said something about the name of the mag in the editorial and the footers of the DEF Tribute. I'll check it out later.
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Well Bang would certainly have been better than "Wallop", which was meant to be the choice for the third magazine, bit of a turd name alright :)
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