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Re: Which Amiga magazine did you buy?
« on: December 21, 2010, 04:08:17 PM »
I subscribed to AmigaWorld (on and off, mostly on) all through the late 80's to mid 90's. Besides AmigaWorld, I'd purchase the random Info, Amiga Transactor or Amazing Computing from time to time. Really though, for my money, I really enjoyed AmigaWorld best. Still do. Amazing Computing, while there may be some great tech stuff here and there, was rather drab for an Amiga magazine. I liked the formatting (along with the color, ads and paper quality) of AmigaWorld much better.

In the early to mid 90's, some of our bookstores and video game boutiques were getting foreign Amiga mags. I remember Amiga Format and their cover disks real well. $10 or more a pop though, so pretty pricey. I remember thinking the foreign Amiga mags looked too "busy" and cartoonish for my tastes, but they were fun for what they were - the 11x14 behemoths! lol   I've only seen a mag or two from a few of the different foreign mags, so can't really comment any further, 'cept they seemed to be heavily centered on gaming. Was my impression anyway. I have drawers full of AF and CU coverdisks I got in on trade a while back. Should really see what they're all about one of these days. I've got disks from all these mags:

Amiga Format
Amiga CU
Amiga Magazine
Amiga Shopper

...it'd be nice if someone came up with a complete listing of all Amiga mags in publication and where they were from at one time. I'm curious to see all the British and European 'zines that were around. Any from Australia or New Zealand? Okay, I'll start with all the ones I'm aware of in North America:

Ahoy!
Amazing Computing
Amiga Resource (Compute!)
AmiExchange
AmigaWorld
Info
The Transactor
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Re: Which Amiga magazine did you buy?
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2010, 07:04:37 PM »
Quote from: JimS;600532
There is a list at the Amiga wiki.. here.. http://www.amigawiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Magazines
There were a lot of magazines that didn't last very long back in the Elder Days. I think the marketplace was overloaded.


Thanks JimS and Motorollin' - wow... almost forgot about Amiga Sentry, AmigoTimes, Antic's Amiga and Jumpdisk. I bought some of those disks too back in the day. $7-$10 they were, with coverdisks, but boy where they cool. Was a lot of fun checking out the various games and utilities back then. Back then, I thought the cost was a little prohibitive ($50-$70 for a mag subscription with coverdisks), but thinking about it today, there was a lot of value in 'em. AmigaWorld without any disks of course, was always around the $30-$35 a year range. Comparatively, mags were more expensive back then. Seems to me, the 1 or 2 I get today (Stereophile being one of them) only cost $10-$20 a year. Probably one of the reasons I value my old mags so much, besides the fact they're either Amiga, C=64 or vintage arcade/console mags  :)

Cool thread! I've always thought any kind of vintage/classic literature, mags with reviews, ads, programs, tips/tricks and videos are the perfect companions to our machines. Owning the machine w/ a smattering of software is not enough IMO. Mags and books totally complete the nostalgia and take you back to better times, if only for a short while.