Compucade; whereforart thou?

Ian Rawlings

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Feb 10, 2001, 5:24:52 AM2/10/01

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Does anyone here remember WALKING down to St. Marys Street in So'ton
(not driving, they'd have your car faster than you could blink!) and
going into Compucade near the back of So'ton Institute of Higher
Education? Playing Midi Maze on Atari STs? If so can anyone tell me
what happened to Compucade, which was far ahead of its time IMHO..

Geoff Holister

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Feb 10, 2001, 11:05:46 AM2/10/01

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"Ian Rawlings" <ia...@tarcus.org.uk> wrote in message
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Yes! Compucade really was spot on, wasn't it? I don't know what actually
happened to them, only that one day I went to go in for a couple of hours
and it was a junk shop... just what St Marys St needed, another junk shop.

I do recall the last time I went in there the prices had gone up quite
dramatically, I can only guess it they couldn't quite make ends meet

Geoff.

pete...@live.co.uk

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Dec 30, 2015, 6:43:53 AM12/30/15

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Hi Ian, my name is Pete (Peewee!) I used to work there and I remember you. Compucade was an amazing place to work as a teenager and it was so sad to see it's demise. Unfortunately since both Richard (Dick) Hazelton and one of his son's, Simon have passed away. It was way ahead of it's time. R.I.P. Dick, Simon and compucade.

matthew...@gmx.com

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Aug 6, 2017, 9:23:21 AM8/6/17

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On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 11:43:53 AM UTC, pete...@live.co.uk wrote:
> Hi Ian, my name is Pete (Peewee!) I used to work there and I remember you. Compucade was an amazing place to work as a teenager and it was so sad to see it's demise. Unfortunately since both Richard (Dick) Hazelton and one of his son's, Simon have passed away. It was way ahead of it's time. R.I.P. Dick, Simon and compucade.

Hi Peewee I remember you (you'd have been about 13/14. We were Simon's friends from the Portsmouth Branch (Matt/Simon/Kieron) we came over to S'ton a few times to play midimaze and go to the casino with Simon and his dad. I lost touch after I went to the US, back now, and am very sorry to here they both died. We used to be in Compucade (Southsea) 24/7 and had great times. Any further details/stories of what happened after Southsea closed would be really interesting. Thanks Matthew Langton.

anthon...@gmail.com

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Nov 8, 2018, 10:09:52 AM11/8/18

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Was just reminiscing about Compucade. Me and friends used to spend a lot of time there playing the Amigas and Atari STs. We loved the Midi Maze league nights. That game was so ahead of its time. I do remember a guy called Pete working there. Happy times!

trip35...@gmail.com

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Mar 10, 2019, 3:14:38 PM3/10/19

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My friend and I took the no.18 bus from North Baddesley and walked to Compucade from town many times! I still remember playing many Amiga and ST gems long before I'd saved enough paper round money to upgrade from my C64!

I saw someone called Compucade a kind of proto-internet cafe, and in a way it was! Networked gaming (populous via serial link!), MTV in the background, that menu of games... good times indeed!

I just thought of it since getting into modern-day emulation with retropie on raspberry pi, so much fun! Thanks to all involved and best wishes :)