Anyone Remember Z*Mag?

[+Larry]

Mid-late 80's for Atari , IIRC.  These were posted at Compuserve, GENIE, etc.  Mostly news blurbs, but occasional reviews and how-to's.  Sort of an online User's Group newsletter.  These are posted in various places including archive.org. 

[Pab]

I remember it fondly. Used to download each issue to make it available on my BBS.

 

[zzip]

I think I used to download it on GEnie,  might still have some copies in my ST collection.

[+bf2k+]

I remember it well... even though I normally cannot remember what I did yesterday...

 

[adam242]

I had completely forgotten Z*Mag until you just reminded me.. having trouble finding it on archive.org...

 

edit: Nevermind, I found Z*Net.

Edited August 31, 2022 by adam242

[Atari_Ace]

Speaking of Z*Net (the newsletter insert), I'm wondering if more will turn up.

 

On archive.org, you can find many of them inside various issues of the JACG (Jersey Atari Computer Group) newsletter. A couple of individual issues were also posted, including the first issue (1989-03), as well as 1990-03 (which I suspect just got separated from a JACG newsletter).  You can fill in the gaps by going to Bombjack's Commodore archive and downloading the Puget Sound Atari News issues for 1989-1990, which include all the Z*Net's from 1989-06 to 1990-12.  You can also find a few issues inside the Saint Paul ACE newsletter at http://space.atari.org/ (the June, July and September 1989 issues).

 

The last issue I can find is Vol. III No. 5 May 1991, in the 1991-05 issue of JACG.  The 1991-04 issue of JACG has the Vol. III No. 3 March 1991 Z*Net, so I'm not sure if Vol. III No. 4 was ever produced.  Were there later Z*Net issues? There are no others in the available JACG issues from later 1991 (July, September, October, November), so it seems unlikely there could have been more than one or two more.

 

So what we have is all of Volume 1 and 2, and issues 1, 2, 3 and 5 of Volume 3.

 

Z*Net as a newsletter supplement was more focused on the ST, but there was a fair amount of 8-bit content.

[gozar]

I remember distributing this for people, I don't remember the specifics, but I did find this message:

http://www.verycomputer.com/10_6b8a79768902a153_1.htm

 

Too bad I don't really have anything from back in those days. :-(

[Mclaneinc]

The name rings a bell, but for us in the UK etc, things like this never made it here from the US. Some might turn up on a disk but no regular stuff..

[A8Watcher_808]

I used to read z*mag all the time and all those other online mags like ST Report and Atari Explorer. My dad would bring home rolls of paper so I would print up every issue so it would be easier to read.

I found an archive of all the issues of Z*Mag, Z*Net, ST Report, and Atari Explorer at https://www.atariarchives.org/cfn/06/08/index.php