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StarBound wrote:
Is the last issue going to be printed on gold leaf paper?

Only if you pay for the paper SB

So if it's an ordinary magazine one only pays for the ink, not the paper?

Hmmm... interesting...

KillerByte wrote:

Readers who want to reminisce are invited to share their fondest memories of PCFormat on forums.pcformat.co.za.

when last did that happen ?

would prefer a fresh start... permits amnesty and revitalisation without corporate concerns...

Who wants amnesty? We put so much rubbish out here that no one has the constitution to read it all. No fear dear puppy - your posts are safe

Nice to have seen so many old names - even if it was just for a post or two

Kinda like family.

They only came for the funeral...

Bwahahahahhahaha at least they came.

Stuart wrote:is sidebar.co.za available?

Damn you to hell Stu!!!

This name has actually grown on me and I now think it has potential...

you like chicken?

Nope - but I do like sidebars.

Stuart wrote:Or perhaps we should stick to the classics . . .

I suppose a **** is appropriate...

edit.. was worth a shot.

Hopefully if it does move - those **** will be a thing of the past Surely we are grown up enough to handle the odd rooster or two

Cover for the last episode should be one of those models like in the old PCF holding a Voodoo card in the one hand and a geforce titan z in the other hand, on a titanfall backdrop with a headline text "a titan has fallen". That way its wrong on 3 levels (4 maybe)

StarBound wrote:Cover for the last episode should be one of those models like in the old PCF holding a Voodoo card in the one hand and a geforce titan z in the other hand, on a titanfall backdrop with a headline text "a titan has fallen". That way its wrong on 3 levels (4 maybe)

If earlier editors were correct, having a cover model on this edition would so skyrocket sales that they would reinstate the magazine without further discussion.

MY bestie started buying the magazine again once the irrelevant, carbon-based hardware display unit was removed from the cover.

Some of those covers didn't match the hardware or software talked about. It's not about the size of the silicon, it's how you use it.

Or where you use it?

Think I just stale mated that argument.

I go away for business for two months and this is what happens...

wizardofid wrote:I go away for business for two months and this is what happens...

Don't forget to vote in the sidebar thread .

Mmmm Chicken...

Anakha56 wrote:

wizardofid wrote:I go away for business for two months and this is what happens...

Don't forget to vote in the sidebar thread .

Mmmm Chicken...

What is it with the chicken perversion :p BTW already did, didn't have time to Cluck with the hens, roosters and trouble...

I have no idea where the whole chicken thing started, but at least we don't have the egg argument .

I must say these polls have been very interesting .

sturat no doubt I don't remember you being perverted

Considering the poll in the sidebar thread, vleisbook groupie without rusty pup would be like star trek without borg, neither one would know fun if they assimilated an amusement park

The chicken came from the sidebar debate. When everyone was complaining that the sidebar disappeared, some n00b suggested to iRon that he make use of the autocorrect feature so that every time someone typed "sidebar" it automatically changed to "you like chicken?" Fun times.

Ah ha some noob=sturat

I realise this thread has moved a bit off topic, but thought I'd like to reply to it any way. I'm Adam Oxford, and I work for a South African website called http://www.htxt.co.za. In a former life - between the years of 2004 and 2006, if memory serves - I was the editor of PC Format UK.

The South African edition of the mag has always been special for me - apart from the fact that it was easily the best produced of all our licensees (and we had many at the time) you guys (the readers) were also the only ones that ever used to contact the UK mag. Indeed, as Google started to take over as the tech help resource of choice for those of us with bandwidth, there were months when Ask Luis was filled almost purely with South African questions. I don't think the mag brand commanded such loyalty among readers outside of its main base in the UK.

Indeed, to paraphrase the old razor advert, I liked the mag so much I married the editor. I think a few people on here will indeed remember Tamsin Mackay. And then, some years later, I moved here. So you can literally say it changed my life.

All of which is a long way round of saying that this is really sad news. Even though I'm kinda-sorta comepeting with PCF these days, it'll be missed.

Indeed the mag will be missed but unless your Coke a Cola, if you dont change then your doomed. The Windows XP tweak issue comes to mind as the one I use to consult the most to get my XP running the way I wanted it to. The other take away would be that PCF scored Deus Ex 96 or 98 way way back in 2000 or 2001.

Sadly with everything connected as it is and information (and missinformation) being so wide spread its hard to keep a magazine around that covers topics up to 2 months old and when changes are made as fast as 3 days before a lauch (**** you EA for titan fall) it proves a problem especially when your front cover is that topic and already printed.

Man I miss Tamsin, she was fun on the forum and as the PCF Editor she was exceptionally good. Ah the memories...

Thanks for your post. It is interesting to get some idea how the mag was running.