Bulletin 1000

Eardley House, 182/184 Campden Hill Road, London, W8

"Hi, my name is Jeremy and I'd like to welcome you to the first issue of Bulletin 1000 Video Magazine which we're bringing to you from the Video Cafe here in the heart of London's West End. Over the coming months we will be bringing you details and indeed showing you advertisements featuring highlights of some of the best software from the leading software houses. In addition we'll be running competitions which could get your face here on this very screen and win you some great prizes such as software, monitors, computers, joysticks, and lots lots more. Including the chance to be a video disc jockey for the evening here at London's Video Care but more of that later."

Amiga Point of View issue 5

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People are still making fanzines. This is fantastic news. Just recently I've been enjoying issue five of APoV, AMIGA POINT OF VIEW printed barely 14 years after issue four. It's got reviews, articles, a great cover, pretty much everything you'd expect, and it's a great read. There are features on Amiga 8-bit emulators, games which never existed, and an interview with the Magnetic Fields team which I have bookmarked in case my plans for a trip to Llandudno ever achieve fruition.

You can buy APoV issue five here. $2.50 for a PDF version but UK readers also have the chance to order a print version. Go ahead and buy a copy. It gets my seal of approval.

Follow them on Twitter @APoVAmiga.

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Grandslam Entertainment

Grandslam House, 56 Leslie Park Road, Croydon, CR0

Grandslam Entertainment was born in 1987, renamed from Argus Press Software, which had been spun off from Argus Specialist Publications, which was itself the hobby magazine division of Argus Press, which was itself a publishing company owned by BET PLC. Until 1985, BET PLC had been known as British Electric Traction and they were an absolutely enormous conglomerate who owned absolutely everything from Wembley Stadium to waste disposal specialists Biffa. They were big. And big was out of fashion in 1985. So BET PLC began divesting itself of its share of laundry companies and television companies and crane companies, and slimmed itself down. Until, in 1996, BET PLC was taken over by Rentokill and that's the end of their story.