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u Welcome to www.rgcd.co.uk,
the online home of the RGCD discmag!
RCCD is a new downloadable CD ROM based
magazine containing the very latest
retro reviews, features & developer
interviews, providing it readers with
an essential one-stop resource for all
their retro gaming needs. RGCD's main
focus is on new releases for 8/16-Bit
computer platforms, but also dedicates
a good percentage of reviews & feature
space to retro look-&-feel PC-based
remakes & independent games, so if
that's what you're into then you are in
the right place.
The RGCD project is the brainchild of
James Monkman (a long term reader of
Imagine Publishing's 'Retro Gamer' &
16bit Atari fanatic) & it was created
with the long-term goal of becoming a
community run discmag.
Starting initially with a team of 3
people, the plan is to create
sufficient interest amongst members of
the retro-gaming community & to
actively recruit new members so that
future issues of the magazine are
released regularly & without the work
being left to one person.
Hopefully, RGCD will eventually have a
team member dedicated to each of the
8/16-Bit machines that are still being
actively supported & developed for by
their respective 'scenes', but as our
manpower is currently limited, we are
unable to cover every machine out there
in each issue.
However, our main aim is for quality
content over quantity, so you can rest
assured that if a release is featured
in the magazine then it's probably
worth playing.
In each issue of RGCD you'll not only
find reviews of all the latest retro
releases, but there'll also be direct
links (to files on disc) of each game,
emulator or tool reviewed irrespective
of platform.
Also, as it's a CD based magazine we've
also made the effort to create easily
printable, full scale jewel-case art-
work so that you can keep each issue in
its own CD case along with the rest of
your retro paraphernalia & memorabilia.
Please note that at www.rgcd.co.uk you
can preview each issue of the magazine
(essentially just the featured game
review & a list of the other content),
but in order to actually read the rest
of the articles & reviews you need to
download the full-fat .ISO image &
either burn it to disc or mount it on a
virtual drive.
There is also a cut-down 'lite' version
(excluding all games & emulators) is
also provided as a downloadable .ZIP
archive for those of you with limited
internet access or slow download
speeds. Also, because the magazine (&
website) uses javascript to display the
game screenshots in a funky little
window-box-thing (click on the small
images to see what I mean), please do
not panic if Internet Explorer flashes
up with warnings about 'active content'
& so-on.
RGCD is 100% spyware free & all files
are virus checked before uploading.
The RGCD Team
James Monkman Founder of RGCD &
currently the magazines main
contributor,
James has a near obsessive passion for
retro gaming, especially with regard to
collecting & playing new games for old
& unsupported machines.
Officially a 'hater' of next-gen
consoles, James likes to pretend that
it's still 1992 & prefers his computers
to have 16-Bits (or less).
If you feel so obliged, you can become
one of his 'friends' by clicking here:
www.myspace.com/heavystylus.
Dudley British- videogame & motorsport
expert Dudley is well respected by at
least 3 people for his honest &
occasionally completely fictional
writing.
He runs the combined sarcasm & blog
site Ask Duds & is a contributor to
Retro Fusion where he runs the regular
audience participation feature 'Let's
All Play'. By day he works in develop-
ment for a medium size software company
where he attempts to change the
universe through innovative accountancy
solutions.
Dudley lives in London with a flatmate,
about 50 games machines & several
broken pieces of electronics which
"might come in handy". While he is the
Walrus, he has not spoken to the Egg
man in several years.
Ruari O'Toole is an avid gamer who
found himself caught between both sides
of the Amiga vs Atari wars of the
eighties & nineties. He is an obsessive
scourer of car boot sales & junk shops,
& misses the days when chunky polygons
& parallax scrolling blew peoples'
minds.
SirClive SirClive is a retro gaming
collector with a particular fondness
for the C=16, VIC-20 & the ZX Spectrum.
He can be found regularly at the Retro
Gamer forum & also runs the Weekend
Gamer VIC-20 Archive.
He is a support member of Team Weekend
Gamer, contributing to WGTV, a down-
loadable gaming TV show.
Both the VIC-20 archive & WGTV show can
be found at
www.weekend-gamer.co.uk.
T.M.R. T.M.R. (aka Jason Kelk) has been
playing, designing & programming games
for 8 & 16Bit hardware for over 22
years, almost all for his own enter-
tainment, & writing about them for the
last 11. In short, he's a bit of a
show-off, really. When he finds time in
his busy schedule (mostly filled with
self-aware sarcasm) he pretends to
manage & edit Oldschool-Gaming.com (a
reviews site dedicated to recent games
released on classic hardware) & is a
member of multi-platform 8-bit game &
demo development team Cosine.
Travis Fahs hails from the US,
presently residing in the New York
area. This means he never knew the joy
of arguing over a dozen different home
computer standards with his friends,
but he made up for it by bickering
about everything else gaming-related.
Travis may not live in the past, but
he at least keeps a summer home there.
A lover of losers, he can't help but
gravitate to the systems time has
forgotten. As a freelance gaming
journalist, he feels a sense of
obligation to know his gaming history
as well as he can. Plus he's just a
sucker for all things 2D.
Elliot Taylor Without Elliot, none of
this would have been possible. Elliot
Taylor is the technical wiz behind the
mechanics of RGCD & is solely respons-
ible for all the ASP/XHTML code &
design of both the RGCD website & the
discmag itself.
Although originally a hardcore Atarian,
Elliot now spends the majority of his
time creating bespoke business software
& web-based solutions. More details can
be found on his website at
www.ejtstudios.com.
Ethan Worley Ethan has been creating
digital art for about 8 years & drawing
since before he was even conceived. He
is currently trying to teach himself
animation, guitar, & actionscript but
is quite an unfocused pupil. He is also
in a volunteer fire brigade & plays
basketball poorly. In his free time he
enjoys sleeping & looking for food. He
thinks typing in 3rd person is strange.
RGCD Needs you In order for RGCD to
reach it's ultimate goal of becoming a
community run, regularly released &
extensive retro project we need a much
larger development team. If you are
interested in submitting reviews or any
other related articles for use in RGCD
then please get in touch via the form
on the Contact page.