Format Publications published ''Format magazine'', a newsletter for
ZX Spectrum
The ZX Spectrum () is an 8-bit computing, 8-bit home computer that was developed by Sinclair Research. It was released in the United Kingdom on 23 April 1982, and became Britain's best-selling microcomputer.
Referred to during development as t ...
and
SAM Coupé users.
Run by Bob Brenchley, it sprang from the ashes of INDUG, originally the ''Independent DISCiPLE User Group'' but later renamed to the ''Independent User Group'' to reflect a move towards a less specialist audience. INDUG was set up as a user group for owners of the
Miles Gordon Technology {{unreferenced, date=August 2012
Miles Gordon Technology, known as MGT, was a small British company, initially specialising in high-quality add-ons for the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was founded in June 1986 in Cambridge, England by Alan Miles ...
DISCiPLE and later
PlusD
The +D (or Plus D) was a floppy disk and computer printer, printer Electrical connector, interface for the ZX Spectrum home computer, developed as a successor to Miles Gordon Technology's earlier product, the DISCiPLE. It was designed to be smaller ...
floppy disk
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, or a diskette) is an obsolescent 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 w ...
interfaces for the ZX Spectrum computer. In its later years it expanded to cover MGT's
SAM Coupé enhanced Spectrum-compatible
microcomputer
A microcomputer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer having a central processing unit (CPU) made out of a microprocessor. The computer also includes memory and input/output (I/O) circuitry together mounted on a printed circuit board (PC ...
and later still to home microcomputing in general - especially 8-bit machines.
External links
INDUG entry on "Speccy Usergroups" page the actual magazine
ZX Spectrum
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