Issue 4

Issue 14 of Sam Revival magazine is out now. Read on for pricing and ordering details…

Colin Piggot writes:

This is the first issue of Sam Revival to feature spot colour throughout the magazine to add life to screenshots and photographs, and kicking off issue is the regular news section to give a lowdown on what’s happening in the Sam scene, and this issue features all the latest news of the development of the Mayhem Accelerator - the prototype of which is now speeding up the Sam to 20MHz - there’s plenty of photos of the interface during the development and benchmarks too. The Sam Scene Roundup news section looks at several computer shows that have taken place in Europe which had a Sam present, and general news and websites from the Sam Scene.

Feature articles in this issue include an interview conducted by Frode Tennebø with Dr Andy Wright, the chap who wrote the ROM for the Sam Coupe.
The ‘Coupe Correspondence’ letters page features several readers letters and includes a look at the Sam version of the classic game ‘Elite’, networking Sams together and the possibilities of new emulators for the Sam with the speed of the Mayhem.

The coverdisk with this issue features the classic Sam adventure game ‘Days of Sorcery’ by Nigel Kettlewell.

Issue 3

August 1990

From Colin MacDonald:

In case it helps, I’ll certainly not complain about anything I still hold
copyright to going up - although all the Fred magazines are already up,
there were some other mags I got in the end (Enceladus, SCPDU, Outlet), and
of course, all the commercial software - although I should point out that
certainly the copyright to the code of those will have reverted to
programmers long ago, but design, art, audio and other rights to most of the
titles probably still rest with me.

Issue 2

July 1990

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:

Issue 1

June 1990