Reply 40 of 434, by AppleSauce
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I dunno I guess you could do a retro pc magazine , but have it just cover an assortment of stuff , primarily have it based around hardware cause that's kinda the main selling point of pcs , the myriad of choices.
You could also have a lot more content if you don't just focus on gaming but business machines , kinda like computer chronicles did, maybe have pages with old ads in them featuring upper end business machines people drooled over back in the day but also budget consumer machines or ram cards.
You could do an article on matrox and their cards from the 80s to the 00s , then another on the simens nixdorf pcs , 3DFX , Packard Bell , Leading Edge , Forte Technologies , segate, IBM , Compaq , even obscure oddware.
Likewise for software could do ID software , raven , the Lotus 123 guys , people that made various CAD programs etc.
Maybe you could have someone go out and do some research and some phone calls and actually find the provenance of all those generic Taiwanese 486 cases and what companies actually stamped them out and what their stories were , could be pretty something pretty compelling.
It would probably be a ton of work to chase up hardware and software developers from back then though.
So in a nutshell condense computer chronicles and LGR into a magazine with a 80s and 90s aesthetic and maybe it will sell , probably not as well as something like amiga addict but it might have a fighting chance.