Disk

Ron Stirling

Ron Stirling

Disk magazine, ran to 5 issues.

ZAT / Phoenix Software Systems

David Ledbury / Various

A short lived disk based spin off of ZAT.

The magazine was created due to various material which had been submitted to ZAT, which was unsuitable for a paper-based magazine.

After the first issue, discussions between Alan Miles and David Ledbury resulted in the creation of the SAM Newsdisk … the second issue of the magazine was created before the launch of the Newsdisk, and was a double issue to use up the additional material.

Public magazine took the name over, to rename their magazine to SAM Public Quarterly

Persona

Blitz magazine was a replacement for SAM Prime (from Phoenix Software Systems) and was launched when the rights to the Phoenix titles had been obtained by Malcolm Mackenzie.

It was originally edited by Steven Pick, although from issue 2 onwards, it was edited by David Ledbury.

Steven Pick

Steven Pick

Note: Not to be confused with the Samdisk Disk Utility or LERM’s SamDisk

Disc based magazine.

Dave Whitmore & Phil Glover

Dave Whitmore Phil Glover Gareth Pitchford David Munden and Nigel Kettlewell

Phil Glover

The Sam Coupé Adventure Club (SCAC) run by Dave Whitmore (Technical Editor) and Phil Glover (Main editorial, reviews, articles, and artwork).

Other contributions were from Gareth Pitchford (Main reviews & other contributions), David Munden (various contributions & Sam Adventure System column) and Nigel Kettlewell (various contributions).

From Dave Whitmore’s Sam Adventure Club Homepage:

In the summer of 1991 Phil Glover contacted me after reading a letter that had been published in SAM Supplement. Phil described himself at the time as a ‘keen adventurer’, whereas if I’d been asked I would have probably said that I was an ‘adventure hacker’.

Before the SAM Coupé came along my ex wife Sue had got heavily into text adventures on the ZX Spectrum; picking up various titles from computer fairs, or buying direct from places like Zenobi Software. I wasn’t so much interested myself, but I allowed myself to be persuaded to buy a Plus D floppy disk drive interface and a 3.5 inch DSDD drive from an advertiser in the Speccy mags - MGT. At around the same time, Simon Goodwin broke the news about MGTs upcoming new super 8-bit machine SAM in the ZX Crash magazine

KAPSA club

Štěpán Vávra

A disk magazine from the Czech Republic.

In 1994, they released a compilation “The Best Of Kapsa” specifically for the Engish market, which was distributed by Sam PD.

Shane Smith

Disk magazine, containing technical articles about digital electronics and low-level assembly programming.

Relion Software

Graham Burtenshaw

Brian McConnell

Holding Page

Fred Publishing

Fred disc magazine was owned and run during the 1990’s by Colin MacDonald and is the finest disc-based magazine ever to come out of Monifieth in Scotland.

Fred ran for 82 mostly monthly issues and it’s success spawned the production of FRED Publishing that managed to secure the most famous licence of all for Lemmings.

Colin has kindly permitted the distribution of All Fred Issues 1-82 as well as the special “Best of’s” for Fred, SamCo and ZAT.

Notable issues:

SamCo

One of the ways in which SamCo kept in touch with their customers, was to launch a disk magazine. This contained demos of upcoming software, specially written articles, reviews, news and editorials.

Unfortunately, the information and demos didn’t translate into product sales. “We gave too much away” was a later comment, referring to the entire first level of Plasmoid (later called Dyzonium) and six levels of Batz 'n Balls which were included.

The NewsDisk was a creation of David Ledbury and Alan Miles.