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Amiga Power
''Amiga Power'' (''AP'') was a monthly magazine about Amiga video games. It was published in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing and ran for 65 issues, from May 1991 to September 1996. History The first issue of ''Amiga Power'' was published in May 1991 after Future Publishing decided, in response to feedback from readers of its magazine '' Amiga Format'', to launch two further magazines with narrowed interests, the other being '' Amiga Shopper''. Whereas the latter would focus on the "serious" side of Amiga computers involving programming and productivity, ''Amiga Power'' would be wholly tailored to the gaming audience. Joining the magazine were Matt Bielby and Gary Penn, previously editors of '' Your Sinclair'' and '' The One'', respectively, with Bielby being its first editor and Penn as a consultant. Early in the magazine's history, from its inception, ''Amiga Power'' supplied copies of each issue with a coverdisk containing a full game, distributed to the reader f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Bielby
Matt Bielby is a magazine editor based in the UK. He is best known for launching and editing many successful titles in assorted markets during the 1990s, mostly on the subjects of computer and video games, and film and television. These include ''.net (magazine), .net'', ''Amiga Power'', ''Super Play'' and ''PC Gamer''. Biography Early life Bielby was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, in 1965, and spent most of his early life in Bradford, West Yorks, where he attended Bradford Grammar School. Career Developing an interest in journalism, and magazines in particular, he was film editor of the University of Nottingham student newspaper, Impact, before getting a job at Emap in London in February 1988, as staff writer on ''Computer and Video Games'' magazine. By the end of 1988 he was deputy editor of ''Your Sinclair'' magazine at Dennis Publishing, also in London, and became editor in early 1989. In 1990 Bielby moved to Bath, when ''Your Sinclair'' was bought by Bath-based Fut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kick Off (series)
The ''Kick Off'' franchise is a series of football simulation video games created by Dino Dini. ''Kick Off'' was published by Anil Gupta's publishing house Anco Software for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. First released in 1989, ''Kick Off'' was well-received and won awards. After the release of ''Kick Off'' several sequels were released. ''Player Manager'' was released in 1990. The game was the first game to combine a management environment (including tactics, league play, transfers, and detailed player attributes) with a football game engine (based on that of ''Kick Off''). '' Kick Off 2'' was released in 1990 as a sequel to ''Kick Off''. The game introduced a number of new features as well as several small alterations. In 1992, Dino Dini left Anco and signed a contract for Virgin Games, which released '' Goal!'' in 1993. Anco released several further editions of the ''Kick Off'' series between 1994 and 1997, but these games had little in common with ''Kick Off'' and ''Kick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The One Amiga
''The One'' is a discontinued video game magazine in the United Kingdom which covers 16-bit home gaming during the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was first published by EMAP in October 1988 and started with computer games for the Atari ST, Amiga, and IBM PC compatible markets. Like many similar magazines, it contains sections of news, game reviews, previews, tips, help guides, columnist writings, readers' letters, and cover-mounted disks of game demos. The magazine was sometimes criticised for including "filler" content such as articles on Arnold Schwarzenegger with the justification that an upcoming film had a computer game tie-in. History In 1988 the 16-bit computer scene was beginning to emerge. With Commodore's Amiga and Atari's ST starting to gain more and more coverage in the multi format titles, EMAP decided it was time for a dedicated magazine aimed at the user of these 16-bit computers. ''The One for 16-Bit Games'' was launched and covered the Atari ST, Amiga, and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deluxe Paint
Deluxe Paint, often referred to as ''DPaint'', is a bitmap graphics editor created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts and published for the then-new Amiga 1000 in November 1985. A series of updated versions followed, some of which were ported to other platforms. An MS-DOS release with support for the 8-bit color, 256 color video graphics array, VGA standard became popular for creating pixel graphics in video games in the 1990s. Author Dan Silva previously worked on the ''Cut & Paste'' word processor (1984), also from Electronic Arts. History Deluxe Paint began as an in-house art development tool called Prism. As author Dan Silva added features to Prism, it was developed as a showcase product to coincide with the Amiga's debut in 1985. Upon release, it was quickly embraced by the Amiga community and became the de facto graphics (and later animation) editor for the platform. Amiga manufacturer Commodore International later commissioned EA to create version 4.5 AGA to bundle wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floppy Disk
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk. The three most popular (and commercially available) floppy disks are the 8-inch, 5¼-inch, and 3½-inch floppy disks. Floppy disks store digital data which can be read and written when the disk is inserted into a floppy disk drive (FDD) connected to or inside a computer or other device. The first floppy disks, invented and made by IBM in 1971, had a disk diameter of . Subsequently, the 5¼-inch (133.35 mm) and then the 3½-inch (88.9 mm) became a ubiquitous form of data storage and transfer into the first years of the 21st century. 3½-inch floppy disks can still be used with an external USB floppy disk drive. USB drives for 5¼-inch, 8-inch, and other-size floppy disks are rare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kangaroo Court
Kangaroo court is an informal pejorative term for a court that ignores recognized standards of law or justice, carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides, and is typically convened ad hoc. A kangaroo court may ignore due process and come to a predetermined conclusion. The term is also used for a court held by a legitimate judicial authority, but which intentionally or structurally disregards the court's legal or ethical obligations (compare show trial). Etymology The term is known to have been used in the United States in 1841: an article in The Times-Picayune, ''The Daily Picayune'', New Orleans quotes the ''Concordia Intelligencer'' reporting several Lynching in the United States, lynchings "upon various charges instituted by the Kangaroo court", asking "Don't comprehend: What is a Kangaroo court?" The term is not attested to have been used in Australia, native land of the kangaroo, or elsewhere before then. Some sources suggest that the te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Stokes
Doris May Fisher Stokes (6 January 1920 – 8 May 1987), born Doris Sutton, was a British spiritualist, professional medium, and author. Her public performances, television appearances, and memoirs made her a household name in Britain. While some believed her to possess psychic abilities, investigations published after her death demonstrated that she used fraudulent techniques including cold reading, hot reading, and planting accomplices in her audience. Early life Stokes was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England in January 1920. In her memoirs she claimed that she started seeing spirits and hearing disembodied voices in childhood, and that she developed these abilities further once she joined a local spiritualist church after her son died in infancy. She was recognized as a practising clairaudient medium by the Spiritualists' National Union in 1949. During a crisis of confidence in 1962, she gave up her work as a medium and retrained as a psychiatric nurse, but had to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allegory
As a List of narrative techniques, literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a wikt:narrative, narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance. Authors have used allegory throughout history in all forms of art to illustrate or convey complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible or striking to its viewers, readers, or listeners. Writers and speakers typically use allegories to convey (semi-) hidden or complex meanings through symbolism (arts), symbolic figures, actions, imagery, or events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey. Many allegories use personification of abstract concepts. Etymology First attested in English in 1382, the word ''allegory'' comes from Latin ''allegoria'', the latinisation (literature), latinisation of the Greek language, Greek ἀλληγορία (''allegoría''), "veiled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenplay
A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show (also known as a '' teleplay''), or video game by screenwriters (cf. ''stage play''). Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A screenplay is a form of narration in which the movements, actions, expressions and dialogue of the characters are described in a certain format. Visual or cinematographic cues may be given, as well as scene descriptions and scene changes. History In the early silent era, before the turn of the 20th century, "scripts" for films in the United States were usually a synopsis of a film of around one paragraph and sometimes as short as one sentence.Andrew Kenneth Gay"History of scripting and the screenplay"at Screenplayology: An Online Center for Screenplay Studies. Retrieved 15 December 2021. Shortly thereafter, as films grew in length and complexity, film scenarios (also called "treatments" or "synopses"Steven Maras. ''Screenwri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About
''Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About'' is a novel by English writer Mil Millington. The work began as a website that Millington made about his arguments with his German girlfriend, Margret. Millington also adapted this theme to a column in ''The Guardian''. Plot Pel lives with his German girlfriend Ursula and their two children, and works in the IT department of a university library (or "Learning Centre"). The story begins with Pel receiving an odd call from his boss, TSR, who quizzes him about extradition treaties; within a week he has vanished without a trace, and Pel is promoted to TSR's former position, "Computer Team Administration, Software Acquisition and Training Manager" (though, in addition to his own job). The story follows both Pel's home and work lives; at home, there are the arguments with Ursula over the search for a new home, after the latest burglary of their current home; defrosting the fridge during the moving preparations; Ursula terrifying the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mil Millington
Robert "Mil" Millington is a British author of humorous books. History Millington first came to public prominence as a writer when he created a web-site entitled "Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About", describing arguments and misunderstandings between Millington and his German girlfriend Margret, mother of his two sons. The site was initially hosted on Wolverhampton University's web servers, but Millington was required to move it to privately owned servers when concerns arose about the site's content which included a "sex survey" about women with hairy armpits. Due to the site's popularity, Millington was offered a publishing deal, and wrote a novel with the same title as his web-site, but with new content, published in 2002. He has published four subsequent novels with humorous content: and his works have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Finnish, Hebrew, Spanish, and Serbo-Croat. Bibliography WebpageThings My Girlfriend and I Have Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kieron Gillen
Kieron Michael Gillen (; born 30 September 1975) is a British comic book writer and former video game and music journalist. In comics, Gillen is known for his creator-owned series such as '' Once & Future'' (2019–2022), '' Die'' (2018–2021), '' Phonogram'' (2006–2016), and '' The Wicked + The Divine'' (2014–2019), the latter two co-created with artist Jamie McKelvie and published by Image. He is also known for numerous Marvel Comics projects, such as '' Journey into Mystery'', '' Uncanny X-Men'', and '' Young Avengers'' in the early 2010s and ''Star Wars'' comics in the mid-to-late 2010s including '' Darth Vader'', ''Star Wars'', and co-creation of the character Doctor Aphra who starred in her own ongoing spin-off comic series '' Star Wars: Doctor Aphra'' of which Gillen wrote the first 19 issues. He returned to the X-Men in the 2020s with multiple series during the Krakoan Age for the '' Destiny of X'', '' Sins of Sinister'' and '' Fall of X'' storylines. Gillen ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
