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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: dandelion on February 16, 2017, 05:32:43 PM
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One of my favourite Amiga activities of old was reading diskmags. I always enjoyed The Word (NFA), Grapevine and the like.
Are there any Amiga diskmags still being produced? I know we have blogs on the internet which serve a similar function, but there was something magical about that mix of music, art and the random mixture of articles.
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Um, google much?
www.amigafuture.de/ (http://www.amigafuture.de/)
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=amiga+future
Comes out every month. Includes a CD full of goodies. Well worth the price. :)
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+1 for Amiga Future! been a long time subscriber and it's just great to get a n ew Amiga mag and CD in the mail every month:)
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And don't forget the New York Times!
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Diskmags were done by sceners, for free.
I wouldn't put Amiga Future in the same category...
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Diskmags were done by sceners, for free.
LOL. It's a magazine. It comes with a disk. Sorry if my definition is a little more literal than some folks. :laughing::laughing:
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there is still the commodore mag but it is web based !
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Oh man...there's a big difference between a traditional magazine and a diskmag.
Guess that answers my question.
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Hi Dandelion,
I'm in a demo group (Void) and we released a diskmag/chart in December. Please have a look:
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=68672 (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=68672)
The focus is on the charts, but there are a few articles as well. There will be more content in the coming issues. You can get the mag for Amiga and AmigaOS 4. :)
Spaceballs are releasing their Irregular Review mag also.. last issue was in October 2016:
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=68393 (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=68393)
Hope this was of help. :)
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How can I unarchive this? I downloaded it under Linux, then installed something called jlha, but this is what happened...
jlha vs7ßami.lha
PERMSSN UID GID SIZE RATIO STAMP NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------ ------------ --------------
LHa: Warning: Checksum error (LHarc file?)
LHa: Fatal error: Unkonwn header (lha file?)
How big is this file? Can't you just post it as an ADF file or two?
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How can I unarchive this?
WinRAR on a PC can open Amiga .lha archives just by clicking on them. I'm sure there must be something similar for Linux.
A quick google search shows this one: http://www.e7z.org/open-lzh-lha.htm
this one: http://freecode.com/projects/lhaforunix
and this one: https://fileinfo.com/software/igor_pavlov/7-zip
Can't you just post it as an ADF file or two?
Because ADF is a terrible, horrible file format that needs to go DIAF. :laughing:
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How can I unarchive this?
"this" being Versus #7? There's a free reimplementation of LhA for Linux, it's called lhasa. Just check if your distribution has a package with that name (Debian does). It extracts vs7-ami.lha just fine.
There's also a (not completely free) port of LhA, some distributions are still carrying that one. I never heard of 'jlha', i.e. the one you are using.
This archive contains just a single executable, not a disk image btw. - as is to be expected with lha archives containing Amiga stuff.
Because ADF is a terrible, horrible file format that needs to go DIAF.
Thank god you're en expert on everything, not just Google and diskmags.
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Thank god you're en expert on everything, not just Google and diskmags.
Thank god you're not an expert at snark or trolling. :roflmao:
But since you're back, did you ever have a response to this guy's thread (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71847&page=2)?
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there is still the commodore mag but it is web based !
If you are talking about the Commodore Free, yes, that's a web-based magazine. If you are talking about Reset magazine, that is web-based with paper issues distributed, too. Reset also comes with an extra-cost, optional 5 1/4 inch floppy disk.
Commodore Free from England and Reset from Australia,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
June 10-11 Pacific Commodore Expo NW -
http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex
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LOL. It's a magazine. It comes with a disk. Sorry if my definition is a little more literal than some folks. :laughing::laughing:
I thought the established definition was a magazine *on* a disk, not with a disk. STAMpede/rAMpage for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_magazine
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Thank god you're not an expert at snark or trolling. :roflmao:
But since you're back, did you ever have a response to this guy's thread (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71847&page=2)?
Did you make that purchase from the CafePress shop? :)
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I'd be into reading an Amiga mag so it is tempting to subscribe. Though I don't need a CD or paper and prefer iPad/tablet reading. Any current ones publish this way?