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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: bm07 on February 21, 2010, 06:22:51 PM
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This is probably a stupid question, but is anyone interested in selling their Amiga Transactor collection? :-)
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I never heard of that magazine until I inherited a bunch of Amiga stuff a few years back. Was it both a paper mag that was accompanied by a disk? BTW: Where are you located??
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It was print, not sure about disk but I would guess that it did. I've seen a few attempts at online archives:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080626200946/http://au.geocities.com/redskulldc/transactor/transactor.html
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It didn't have a cover disk, as far as I can tell. AC's Tech, and AmigaWorld's Tech Journal came with cover *floppies", but Transactor didn't. I have some issues scanned, and I don't see any ADF files in there... I could have been cheap in those days. ;-)
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Yeah, I just looked through some of my Transactor issues and cover disks - didn't see any for Transactor. Have a few of each from AX's Resource, The Tool Chest and a couple more obscure ones.
Transactor is a hardcore mag. Lots of tech info there, not many ads (which they prided themselves for) and C64/C128 content too. Overall though, not a mag I would have been into back in the day or now for that matter. lol The formatting is kinda strange... I don't mind text after text, but the paragraphs are broken up funny, not enough headlines, etc. lol I'd imagine these mags are pretty rare as most people prolly ended up chucking 'em.
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I recall Transactor as a publication of the Toronto Pet Users Group. Jim Butterfield was very much involved with that group and published articles with them. TPUG is still in operation: http://www.tpug.ca. I worked for them at the SF Commodore show in '86, great folks and they did much to advance Commodore computing in North America.
They sell a CD with a 1100 adf and d64 files of the entire TPUG library. I don't see anything regarding the magazine...
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The Transactor was no the TPUG Magazine, it was seperate. It was a very Technical Magazine and started with the C64. The Amiga version of the Magazine was called Amiga Transactor. At one time I had most of the Transactor and Amiga Transactor issues but discarded them when I last moved.
I believe the Magazine was Published in Canada (Specifically Toronto,Ont.) and had limited distribution in the US.
Shaf
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Hi bm07, et al.
It was print, not sure about disk but I would guess that it did. I've seen a few attempts at online archives:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080626200946/http://au.geocities.com/redskulldc/transactor/transactor.html
Sorry, that Transactor page of mine disappeared when geocities died late last year...
I sent my (fairly voluminous) magazine collection, which included a number of old Transactor issues, to James in Canberra.
Think he is on here, not sure of the user name though.
He maintains a page at: http://amigan.1emu.net/
No idea if he has got around to scanning them yet..
Cheers,
Red
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I see these guys http://amr.abime.net/ don't have any Transactor either, but they seem to focus on UK and games magazines. Anybody have 14GB of free hosting space & bandwidth. ;-)
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@Shaf
I did some research last night and found a Transactor, about '86 where they became the house publication for TPUG. Yes, they were seperate but I became aware of them when they were with TPUG.
There is a vast library of Transactor issues out there....Google is your friend. I saw one site which also included the disk for each issue.
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I've been downloading Commodore based magazines from Usenet on alt.binaries.emulators.cbm. They have been very nicely scanned into PDFs.
The list is pretty amazing. I believe Transactor has been posted as well.
You might want to take a look.
I converted the PDFs I wanted to JPGs and put them on my iPod Touch. I can browse through Compute!, Compute's Gazette, and .Info now when I'm waiting somewhere.
Good Luck!
-P
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@Shaf
I did some research last night and found a Transactor, about '86 where they became the house publication for TPUG. Yes, they were seperate but I became aware of them when they were with TPUG.
There is a vast library of Transactor issues out there....Google is your friend. I saw one site which also included the disk for each issue.
I've seen vast amounts of Transactor, but not any archives of Amiga Transactor...
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Some scans of the Transactor (including the hard to find Volume 1 put out by Commodore) can be found at http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/transmag.html
Have a look at the rest of Peter Schepper's site as well.
For a short time TPUG provided an insert which was bound into the Transactor and these copies were mailed to TPUG members. This didn't last too long because of the cost.
At http://www.tpug.ca under 'Archives' you can see reference to these issues and a couple are available for downloading.
You can also read about the library CD referred to by an earlier poster.
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Some scans of the Transactor (including the hard to find Volume 1 put out by Commodore) can be found at http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/transmag.html
Nope, wrong Transactor magazine; the Amiga Transactor had articles like "Interrupts: The untold story by Carl Sassenrath". I have quite a few somewhere, but I never could find out how many were published so I could tell which issues I did not have. Anyone know?
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It first published in April, 1988, as bimonthly. It went monthly in January 89, The last issue I have, well, had, was October 1989.
These are the dates I had.
[Transactor8804]
[Transactor8806]
[Transactor8812]
[Transactor8901]
[Transactor8902]
[Transactor8903]
[Transactor8904]
[Transactor8905]
[Transactor8906]
[Transactor8907]
[Transactor8908]
[Transactor8909]
[Transactor8910]
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Hi bm07, et al.
Sorry, that Transactor page of mine disappeared when geocities died late last year...
I sent my (fairly voluminous) magazine collection, which included a number of old Transactor issues, to James in Canberra.
Think he is on here, not sure of the user name though.
He maintains a page at: http://amigan.1emu.net/
No idea if he has got around to scanning them yet..
Cheers,
Red
He is James Jacobs calles himself Minuous in Amiga.org
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The information posted by JimS agrees with the Amiga Transactors I have - ie: April 88 to Oct 89.
It ran concurrently with the Transactor (original ) which itself ended in August 89.
Although the original Transactor was primarily 8 bit, prior to Aprill 88 it did carry an Amiga section.
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There were a lot of Amiga magazines that came and went quickly back in those Elder Days. I used to have about 10 of those plastic milk crates full of them.
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The Transactor was no the TPUG Magazine, it was seperate. It was a very Technical Magazine and started with the C64. The Amiga version of the Magazine was called Amiga Transactor. At one time I had most of the Transactor and Amiga Transactor issues but discarded them when I last moved.
Shaf
Discarded them!?!
I hope no other members here throw away their Amiga magazines without first offering to give them to a new home. I have a fairly large Amiga magazine collection, but only a few Amiga Transactor mags and would have gladly paid for the postage to add to my collection. Specially for Amiga magazines that have more technical or programming info.:confused:
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It first published in April, 1988, as bimonthly. It went monthly in January 89, The last issue I have, well, had, was October 1989.
Thanks! I had a charter subscription to AmigaWorld's Tech Journal, so I'm pretty sure I have all of those :)
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I have seven of AmigaWorld's Tech Journal scanned. They're the only one of the US magazine publishers that still exist.
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Amiga Transactor was published in Toronto. It was also widely available in the US. There were UK an Italian editions.
I used to write a column for Amiga Transactor. At one point I thought seriously about buying the magazine -- I'd arranged financing and was looking for editors and printers. But, I let reality prevail when, against my wishes, I realized that the Amiga would not survive. Transactor went away and soon after the Amiga did.
The editors of Amiga Transactor, Nick Sullivan and Chris Zamara, moved their software company, AHA!, to Vancouver after Transactor folded. No idea what they are up to today.
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If anyone get any hold of Amiga Transactor in PDF I would want em ;)
It would fit good into my collection of Amiga Magazines.
I only currently have:
YOUR COMMODORE Magazine.
Commodore User/ CU Amiga 64 / CU Amiga.
The One' Amiga magazine.
TOP SECRET and Secret Service (Tho it's not only amiga and in polish).
INFO=64.
Commodore Magazine.
Your Commodore!
Amiga Power Magazine.
Amiga Force Magazine.
The Guide to Computer Living (quite funny this one).
MicroMania.
If anyone want anything I have just let me know and ill open a FTP :)
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I used to write a column for Amiga Transactor. At one point I thought seriously about buying the magazine -- I'd arranged financing and was looking for editors and printers. But, I let reality prevail when, against my wishes, I realized that the Amiga would not survive.
Hi Steve... I used to be a member of the old Compuserve Amiga forums. Atari too for that matter. ;-)
-Jim
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Hey Jim ... those were the good old days!
Steve
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Hi to Steve and all the old Transactor for the Amiga fans, I was the publisher for the magazine in the UK and covered Europe/Scandanavia from the first issue and carried on with it for a year after it was taken over and closed down by a rival publishing company.
I still have loads of Amiga hardware and software in the loft (scared to get in there in case it collapses) and all the issues of the magazine "Transactor for the Amiga".
Anyone who wamts to get in touch is welcome.
Dave
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Here's a site that has them..
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/amiga/magazines/amiga_transactor.htm
Chris :laughing:
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Here's a site that has them..
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/amiga/magazines/amiga_transactor.htm
Chris :laughing:
Great! Now I can start unloading my milk crates of Amiga mags and re-cyclying them - pdf's take much less volume than paper.
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Great! Now I can start unloading my milk crates of Amiga mags and re-cyclying them - pdf's take much less volume than paper.
See if DLH can use the one's you have..
Chris :lol:
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No idea if he has got around to scanning them yet..
Yes, finally...They are at http://amigan.1emu.net/aw/#amigadocs
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http://http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/amiga/magazines/amiga-transactor/amiga-transactor.htm
All 13 issues have been scanned and available for 6 years or so now.
I just last week obtained a stack of Amiga Transactor disks to archive.
12 disks, and it looks like 7 different originals, 2 copies and 3 dupe originals.
DLH
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All 13 issues have been scanned and available for 6 years or so now.
Those are the North American edition. The ones I have uploaded are the Australian and UK editions.