Amazing Computing Magazines (All 158 Issues now 100% scanned)

[Ball000]

I imaged the floppies that I got with the magazines. Most were still sealed in the magazines.
 
I have Vol 1 (1-5) and Vol 2 (1 & 2). I will try and get those online tomorrow evening.

I Just got them! Thank you very much!

[vidarh]

Yay. I just got the whole 23 DVD set of the 8-bit mags.... If you don't see me around for a year or so, you know who to blame..

[jsixis]

very cool, I admire all the work you did

[Haephrati]

Hi,

Rashumon was probably the first and only multilingual graphic word processor for the Amiga.

I have written a post about how it was developed back in 1989.

For several years there is a Wikipedia page about Rashumon.

There is now a debate whether to keep or delete this article.
If you have an opinion about that matter, Please express it in this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rashumon

If you have more reliable sources such as magazine reviews, etc. please send them to me.

[Haephrati]

Yay. I just got the whole 23 DVD set of the 8-bit mags.... If you don't see me around for a year or so, you know who to blame..

Thanks to you I was able to locate articles such as this one

[Haephrati]

Hi,

Rashumon was probably the first and only multilingual graphic word processor for the Amiga. It was used mainly by people who needed to use multiple languages. There is a working version at Aminet, and even though it was a commercial product, I recently published that I will give the source code to anyone who will be interesting in working on a new version.

I have written a post about how it was developed back in 1989 in my blog here.

For several years there is a Wikipedia page about Rashumon.

There is now a debate whether to keep or delete this article.
I was asked (and did my best) to locate reliable sources about that product. I scanned and downloaded articles and news items from Amiga World, Amazing Computing, Amiga User International (UK) and even found articles published in Denmark, Germany, Israel, Italy and the UK. I placed the scans here.

If you have an opinion about that matter, Please express it in this page.
(Apparently new Wikipedia members can't vote)

If you have more reliable sources such as magazine reviews, etc. please send them to me.

Thanks,

Michael Haephrati
haephrati@gmail.com

[midway]

Excellent job mate !:drink:

[Haephrati]

Thanks.

Excellent job mate !:drink:

[_ThEcRoW]

AWESOME job. Keeping it in my bookmarks. An authentic goldmine!

[TheMagicM]

Do you take payments other than via Paypal?

[midway]

Just ordered the amiga dvds! Dont want to imagine how much time it would have taken to dl these...:insane:

[JimDrew]

Man... those magazines brings back some memories... of the tens of thousands of dollars I spent on full page advertising!

[AmigaBruno]

Future Publishing are very aggressive about their IP appearing for download/sale on the internet so you will have a long wait

To be fair to them, as they explained it to me, the issue is not that they don't want to allow the various Format or other Future owned Amiga related publication issues to be made available but the freelance contributions in ST or Amiga Format to which they only had permission to produce once...in the actual magazine at the time of printing, therefore they don't have the authority to allow someone else's copyrighted works to be distributed in any form and so will never give their blessing for such projects.

I had considered doing AF but the situation with Future is not a big incentive to be honest....especially not the ham fisted charge matrix ebay now applies to people who want to sell magazines on ebay with their ridiculous min postal charge fees enforced, making acquiring the missing issues quite laborious and expensive.

(nobody can sell bulk lots of mags like in the past now as the max postal charge is something stupid like 2 bucks and their fees are so pathetic selling them one by one isn't worth the effort for most I guess...idiot ebay lol)

How come other Amiga magazines published by companies other than Future Publishing are available then? Is it because the companies who published them have gone bust, or for some other reason? I've never heard this excuse about freelance contributors before!

[JimDrew]

Copyrights last life of the author plus 75 years, so just because the magazine is out of business does not mean that the copyrights are not enforceable.  If the magazines had one time run agreements with individuals, then the owners of the magazine can not release that info to the public without permission of the copyright holder.  It's as simple as that.   Some people seem to think that vintage computer software and magazines should be freely available.  That will never (legally) be the case.