Fanzine Fun — ZAT Magazine

FANZINE FUN!

Fed up of the lack of Speccymags? Then get a fanzine. Each issue I will be looking at the latest magazines to hit the Spectrum world. This month:

ZAT MAGAZINE

This month Darren Blackburn (Editor of ZAT) sent me a copy of his fanzine for the Spectrum & Sam Coupe; ZAT. To be honest I wasn't expecting such a good read. I have seen many fanzines over the years and only Enigma have come close to beating ZAT.

The magazine size is A5 (half A4 sheet of paper.) The front cover has a great picture of what can be best described as 'Saturday night at the Gravesend Satan club'. Content wise, the magazine is VERY well written. There is the usual Editorial, letters and features. As well as Chip Shop, a sort of Program Pitstop. Issue 19 featured 32 easy to read pages. The price of this publication is £1.50. In my opinion, it's worth every penny. It also covers public domain software and games reviews. You can clearly see the editor and writers put a lot of time and effort into ZAT and the end result is very good.

OVERALL: 9/10.

TO GET A COPY

For the latest issue of ZAT, send £1.50 to:

ZAT,
33 DAWLEY BANK,
DAWLEY,
TELFORD,
TF4 2LQ.

Make cheques payable to: 'DARREN BLACKBURN'

Next month: ALCHNEWS review.

BYE BYE YOUR SINCLAIR

Well, it's Monday 2nd of August (I write each issue about a month in advance in case you're wondering!) and I have just got the final issue of Your Sinclair. It was nice to look back over the years of YS, but at the same time 'sad' to know it was the last time I could go in W.H Smith and proudly pay for a Sinclair magazine. The final issue of Sinclair User was very poor, there was no farewells as such, apart from page 34. At least YS went out in style. Your Sinclair magazine and its writers will be greatly missed. The best of luck to all of the staff in their new jobs and thanks for all the hard work over the past 10 years. Gone but not forgotten.

By the way, did anyone else notice that the photo of Matt Biebly on P66 of YS looked just like an old picture glued over someone else's body....