WACCI
The CPC's longest-running fanzine and user group, WACCI was based in Britain and it catered mostly for serious users.
Its acronym has never been satisfactorily explained although the official WACCI explanation was that it stood for World Amstrad Computer Club International.
However, Jeff Walker, who was the original founder, said he always thought the name would be good for a magazine and that he used it without any intention of it being an acronym at all.
As well as a (more or less) regular paper-based magazine, WACCI also provided a PD library (of mostly CP/M software) and it also had a 'homebrew' library.
Some of the CPC's best writers, such as Auntie John, were contributors to early WACCIs and one of Amstrad Action's finest journalists, Richard Fairhurst, was its final editor.
The decline in serious use of the CPC inevitably led to a petering out of the publication and the last issue - number 140 - was published in the Summer of 2003.
A spin-off disczine, EuroWACCI, existed for six issues.
WACCI editors
- Jeff Walker
- Steve Williams
- Clive Bellaby
- Paul Dwerryhouse
- Philip DiRichleau
- John Bowley
- Dave Stitson
- Richard Fairhurst
Issues
(Maybe these links should just appear below the relevant cover below.)
The first three issues had printed and disc/tape versions. Here are the disc images:
- October 1986 (issue 1)
- November 1986 (issue 2)
- December 1986 (issue 3)
- Images. Side B of issue 3 (unsure whether it was originally supplied with the magazine)
The following PDFs were scanned for CPWiki (only in 200x200 format, when file size seemed important):
- September/October 1994 (Issue 82)
- November 1994 (Issue 83)
- December 1994 (Issue 84)
- January 1995 (Issue 85)
- February 1995 (Issue 86)
- March 1995 (Issue 87)
- August 1996 (Issue 103)
- September 1996 (Issue 104)
- October 1996 (Issue 105)
- December 1996 (Issue 107)
HTML versions on archive.org:
PDFs on archive.org:
The following issues are available in PDF format on the acpc.me website:
- 26, 28, 30, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 61, 89, 90, 95, 97, 100, 101, 102, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117 (partial), 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 139, 140 (also the following as listed above: 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 103, 104, 105, 107)
Covers
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WACCI issue 4
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WACCI issue 5
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WACCI issue 6
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WACCI issue 7
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WACCI issue 8
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WACCI issue 9
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WACCI issue 10 (July 1987) -
WACCI issue 11
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WACCI issue 12
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WACCI issue 13
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WACCI issue 14
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WACCI issue 15
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WACCI issue 16 (January 1988) -
WACCI issue 17
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WACCI issue 18
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WACCI issue 19
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WACCI issue 20 (May 1988) -
WACCI issue 21
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WACCI issue 22
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WACCI issue 23
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WACCI issue 24
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WACCI issue 25
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WACCI issue 26
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WACCI issue 27 (December 1988) -
WACCI issue 28 (January 1989) -
WACCI issue 29 (February 1989) -
WACCI issue 30
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WACCI issue 31 (April 1989) -
WACCI issue 32 (May 1989) -
WACCI issue 33 (July 1989) -
WACCI issue 34 (August 1989) -
WACCI issue 35 (September 1989) -
WACCI issue 36 (October 1989) -
WACCI issue 37 (November 1989) -
WACCI issue 38 (December 1989) -
WACCI issue 39 (January 1990) -
WACCI issue 40 (February 1990) -
WACCI issue 41 (March 1990) -
WACCI issue 42 (April 1990) -
WACCI issue 43 (May 1990) -
WACCI issue 44 (June 1990) -
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WACCI issue 50 (January 1992) -
WACCI issue 51 (February 1992) -
WACCI issue 52 (March 1992) -
WACCI issue 53 (April 1992) -
WACCI issue 54 (May 1992) -
WACCI issue 55 (Jun 1992) -
WACCI issue 56 (July 1992) -
WACCI issue 57 (August 1992) -
WACCI issue 58 (September 1992) -
WACCI issue 59 (October 1992) -
WACCI issue 60 (November 1992) -
WACCI issue 61 (December 1992) -
WACCI issue 62 (January 1993) -
WACCI issue 63 (February 1993) -
WACCI issue 64 (March 1993) -
WACCI issue 65 (April 1993) -
WACCI issue 66 (May 1993) -
WACCI issue 67 (June 1993) -
WACCI issue 68 (July 1993) -
WACCI issue 69 (August 1993) -
WACCI issue 70 (September 1993) -
WACCI issue 71 (October 1993) -
WACCI issue 72 (November 1993) -
WACCI issue 73 (December 1993) -
WACCI issue 74 (January 1994) -
WACCI issue 75 (February 1994) -
WACCI issue 76 (March 1994) -
WACCI issue 77 (April 1994) -
WACCI issue 78 (May 1994) -
WACCI issue 79 (June 1994) -
WACCI issue 80 (July 1994) -
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WACCI issue 85 (January 1995) -
WACCI issue 86 (February 1995) -
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WACCI issue 88 (April 1995) -
WACCI issue 89 (May 1995) -
WACCI issue 90 (June 1995) -
WACCI issue 91 (July 1995) -
WACCI issue 092 (August/September 1995) -
WACCI issue 093 (October 1995) -
WACCI issue 094 (November 1995) -
WACCI issue 095 (December 1995) -
WACCI issue 096 (January 1996) -
WACCI issue 097 (February 1996) -
WACCI issue 098 (March 1996) -
WACCI issue 099 (April 1996) -
WACCI issue 100 (May 1996) -
WACCI issue 101 (June 1996) -
WACCI issue 102 (July 1996) -
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WACCI issue 108 (January 1996) -
WACCI issue 109 (February 1996) -
WACCI issue 110 (March 1997) -
WACCI issue 111 (April 1997) -
WACCI issue 112 (May 1997) -
WACCI issue 113 (Junee 1997) -
WACCI issue 114 (Julyy 1997) -
WACCI issue 115 (August/September 1997) -
WACCI issue 116 (October 1997) -
WACCI issue 117 (November/December 1998) -
WACCI issue 118 (January 1998) -
WACCI issue 119 (February 1998) -
WACCI issue 120 (March/April 1998) -
WACCI issue 121 (May 1998) -
WACCI issue 122 (June 1998) -
WACCI issue 123 (July/August 1998) -
WACCI issue 124 (September 1998) -
WACCI issue 125 (October 1998) -
WACCI issue 126 (November/December 1998) -
WACCI issue 127 (January 1999) -
WACCI issue 128 (February/April 1999) -
WACCI issue 129 (May 1999) -
WACCI issue 130 (July 1999) -
WACCI issue 131 (August/September 1999) -
WACCI issue 132 (July 2000) -
WACCI issue 133 (August 2000) -
WACCI issue 134 (October 2000) -
WACCI issue 135 (January 2001) -
WACCI issue 136 (July/August 2001) -
WACCI issue 137 (September/October 2001) -
WACCI issue 138 (January/February 2002) -
WACCI issue 139 (Spring 2003) -
WACCI issue 140 (Summer 2003)
