DLH now has Amiga World magazines online

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mirroring this on bit torrent might be a useful idea.

This is pretty rad though. Goes all the way back to 85. Was this a UK mag?

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reading through the first issue made me slightly awestruck. Its hard to fathom just what a scifi monster the Amiga was in 1985

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Some fun observations after reading through 85, 86 and 87:

One of the first magazines expecting CD ROM's to be standard in a year or two (took what? 8 or 10 years before that happened)

Computer hardware was ungodly expensive in those days.

A 20 MB hard drive provides "limitless storage"

Holy crap 8 megs of RAM was expensive.

The amiga had a TON of business app's... database, word processors, spreadsheets, sound, graphics etc very quickly, but games were a bit slow in coming.

Lots of options for coders/programmers too.

Never thought about it but with kickstart in ROM, the 500 was actually a more powerful machine than the 1000 (512 kb of RAM).

Lots of angry people when the 2000 came out.

A time where magazines would talk about coding.



EDIT: Was poking around the site, and it looks like you have scans of other mags too, like Amazing Computing but no download links. Are these not up yet?

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I will start posting the Amazing Computing Issues very shortly.
 
Busy week coming up for me.  Final acceptance testing on the system I just installed.  Lots of people coming in from out of town. I will have to see how things go...  It's been almost 2 months since I have been home.
 
Enjoy
 
David

No rush mate. You've done an amazing job so far.

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Continuing my read (a lot of skimming, really) I am at August 1988.

There's been talk so far about 020 and even an 030 board (at 2000+ dollars, yikes) but seems not a ton of utility for them. The magazine has talked about the 020 a bit but it didn't seem to be a big deal, unlike the RAM race.

Mention just popped up of an upcoming A2500 and a few wish lists for what a 3000 might look like.