LSD's Grapevine issue one: june 1991- issue twenty-one: april 1995
disk n. round flat or apparently flat plate or surface or part; similar object used to store computer data etc.
magazine n. periodical publication containing contributions by various writers

Take a disk, put a lot of textfiles on it, and essentially you have a diskmag, not a good diskmag, but one of sorts. Amiga users were blessed with a fairly substantial choice of diskmag, not all of them were good, but equally not all of them were bad. Grapevine however, was nothing short of brilliant. From the early issues, it showed promise, as the infant that it was, to grow into something that would give many Amiga users and sceners great pleasure in reading.

Grapevine was created by the UK division of the group LSD. At first, Grapevine was purely based on providing scene news, who was doing what, with whom, new demos, those kinds of things, which was good, but this was just the beginning, because with each new edition of Grapevine, there was something different, something better about it than the last issue, by issue 8, the interface had become something of a work of art, it was easy to use, and looked good. The interface wasn't the only thing to change, instead of focusing on just scene news, Grapevine had gained many varied topics of discussion, people were submitting articles on every subject imaginable, be it Amiga news, Gaming, Television, Humor, Poetry, Sci-Fi, Short Stories, Controversial discussions, and many more. In fact, to sit down and read the whole mag from start to finish would take hours, if not days or weeks even. I still find articles that I haven't read before, and even the ones I have read are enjoyable to read again, like a favorite book or paper-based magazine.

The quality of the articles in Grapevine were always good, some were excellent, but never were they bad. The amount of work involved must have kept the LSD folks working long into the night, and it shows. Grapevine drips class, and its not only the LSD team that deserve a hearty slap on the back, what about the people who contributed articles? Without submissions, the magazine wouldn't have survived to reach double figures, but thanks to the people of the Amiga scene, the articles were varied and plentiful. And the music, can't forget the music, strangely the music instead of breaking your concentration, it would add a quality whilst you read, it added to the experience, really good! Anyone involved with Grapevine's production gets a beer from me, that's for sure.

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From caterpillar to butterfly, the Grapevine metamorphosis

Grapevine Issue 1, ahh the memories.

Grapevine Issue 3, wait... something's changed but I cant quite place it.

Grapevine Issue 5, daddy's got a new pair of shoes.

Grapevine Issue 8, starting to look familiar.

Grapevine Issue 14, in a cheeky revealing summer outfit.

Grapevine Issue 21, lookin' sharp son, lookin' sharp.