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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: danbeaver on June 09, 2014, 04:49:20 AM
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I vote for Amazing Computing and the Bandido.
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I'd agree with the Bandito as best column, but have to pick something else as best magazine. It was often a bit amateurish, in it's production at least. I'm not sure which one I'd pick... doesn't matter I guess, since I read most of them. ;-)
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Yeah, but Amigaworld could not go for two pages without an ad. And there were a lot more amateur than AC.
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Don't really have a favourite column but my favourite magazine was amiga format
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Amigaworld was always the big one over here - we didn't see AF all that much on this side of the pond, at least in my area.
When I think of the hours I spent as a teenager, thumbing through Amiga rags with a Sharpie marker circling all the goodies I wanted to buy I have to chuckle. I did end up with most of them at one time or another, but the one I could never get ahold of was a Bomac tower. Always had pipe dreams of running a 7 line BBS off a cranked up A2000 in a Bomac, but had to settle for a '060/RTG A4000 in the end with a 4091 and ADSG serial card.
Was just something about those Bomac towers that just oozed sheer mil spec brutality that I loved.
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Since I can actually buy this magazine today..
I say Amiga Future :hat:
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I really liked .info and their Rumors column. I always thought that AC had a strange format. It was also done on Macs.
Amiga World was good as well.
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Amiga Shopper...despite the name excellent technical information on new products and software.
TrevorD
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I really liked Info until they stopped 8 bit coverage. There was a store in a nearby town that carried the British mags and my favorite was also Amiga Shopper. But I must admit I liked AF's cover CD. AmigaActive was also good but I never discovered it until it had ceased publishing.
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Amiga comput, think the other one was amiga zzzzaapp or something like that which also had commodore 64 stuff.... bunch of others but can't remember their names now.
Plus the cover disks/discs always had crap you didn't want. Most stuff can be had elsewhere ;-)
Loved reading some of the articles on games and new hardware though. Was looking at Amiga Future as that appears to be the only mag one can buy now.
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... my favourite magazine was amiga format
Likewise but my favourite columnist was Tony Horgan of CU Amiga, especially when he got into audio, which was rather often.
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Yeah, but Amigaworld could not go for two pages without an ad. And there were a lot more amateur than AC.
Ads are what pays for the magazine. With no ads, you're gonna have to pay a lot more for the 'zine. They're also a good indicator of the market's health. Reading those mags now, the ads are almost as much fun as the content. ;-)
There were a lot of mags more amateurish than AC, sure, but they didn't last as long.
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Was just something about those Bomac towers that just oozed sheer mil spec brutality that I loved.
Back when I worked at an Amiga shop, I installed a 2000 into a Bomac tower for a customer.... that thing was built like a tank.
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CU Amiga for me.
Then Amiga Format.
Then probably AUI due their fantastic coverdisks.
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Best Amiga magazine: Amiga Future
Best columns: Classic Reflections and the Workshops
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Amazing Computing always printed a great quote in their back issues section:
"Great magazines don't just happen, they are built one issue at a time."
Not sure if they came up with that or if it's originally from somewhere else, but I love the sentiment of it. A stack of ACs (or almost any other Amiga mag) is a tremendous source of technical information and history.
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Amiga Power
Natch
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Zzap... that's the one, http://amr.abime.net/issues_27 :-)
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Had to think a bit about this one...Depends on the era..
Best Magazine in the 1990's - Amiga Format. It's the magazine I bought more than any other and always checked first when deciding which mag to buy each month. CU Amiga a close second. Both mags ran good tutorials and guides.
Special mention to Commodore and Amiga review, a local Australian magazine which ran from the 80's to 1996 - it couldn't compete with AF and CU for content, but made up for it with Australian relevant Amiga content. I kept going back to the last issue until a few years ago because it had the mountlist configs needed for zip drive mounting...which I could never remember.
Best Magazine in the 2000's - Total Amiga. After Amiga Format folded, AmigaActive was interesting, but Total Amiga was by enthusiasts and for enthusiasts, and covered what we wanted to read and learn about.
Best Magazine in the 2010's - Amiga Future. The English version covering NextGen Amiga developments, exclusive interviews, game and application reviews, where are they now features and interesting tutorials too. Keep up the good work!
To be honest I didn't pay much attention to regular columns so I can't comment on those...I did enjoy the "oh dear" columns in the first few issues of Amiga Power - that was a one of a kind magazine - always biting the hand that feeds it to provide honest reviews.
Catcha,
Epsilon
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This thread has brought back many fond memories - like remembering how excited I was when Amiga Format first came with a cover CD instead of the usual cover floppy! That and Amiga Shopper were my regular purchases.
But does anyone remember JAM (Just Amiga Monthly)? It proudly described itself as "the world's most black-and-white Amiga magazine", if I remember correctly. The editor was a guy called Jeff, I think, and the magazine specialised in DTP.
'Clubbed' was also a great magazine in its day - its changed its name to Total Amiga before merging with Amiga Future.
My favourite column these days is Trevor Dickinson's Classic Reflections column in AF - and I'm not just saying that because of the change in site ownership!