Amiga Magazines

[dandelion]

I've got over 100 UK Amiga magazines back at the family home, decaying slowly in the garage. It's been my plan for a while to scan these all in. What I really want to do is scan in the complete set of each magazine, collect the accompanying cover disks, and release it to the world via torrent or whatever. Future Publishing, ex publishers of Amiga Format, Amiga Shopper would probably go crazy if you stuck these on a website, but I figure via torrent or P2P there's not much they can do to stop it. My philosophy is this, by releasing such material into the public domain, it will benefit A LOT more people than it would harm.

[odin]

sicky wrote:
@Starke

I happily oblige in this instance, as it is only one website I need to give.
http://www.magazines.ch/

Apart from the fact that it doesn't even mention Total Amiga which is the ONLY printed English Amiga magazine!

No wonder, that list was last updated on 2 december 1999. Even so, that list contains also mags that were already dead on the time of compilation of that list.

[JimS]

sicky wrote:
You can bet your bottom doller that if you published them they would all appear out of the woodwork with lawyers in tow!

Yeah, that's unfortunately true. It's sad though, since a lot of the publishers of the old Atari magazines have allowed their magazines to be posted on the web.

[adolescent]

I get Total Amiga, and Amiga Future.  Both are good magazines.  

The TA interview with Marcin Kwiatkowski was especially humorous.  :lol:

[alenppc]

dandelion wrote:
I've got over 100 UK Amiga magazines back at the family home, decaying slowly in the garage. It's been my plan for a while to scan these all in. What I really want to do is scan in the complete set of each magazine, collect the accompanying cover disks, and release it to the world via torrent or whatever. Future Publishing, ex publishers of Amiga Format, Amiga Shopper would probably go crazy if you stuck these on a website, but I figure via torrent or P2P there's not much they can do to stop it. My philosophy is this, by releasing such material into the public domain, it will benefit A LOT more people than it would harm.

I agree 100% there, but obtaining permission *might* not be that difficult. After all, publishers like Future and such have already given permission for publication of mags dedicated to 8-bit machines (C64 and ZX Spectrum alike) so I think it probably shouldn't be too difficult to get it if you ask nicely enough. I mean it would be worth a try if nothing else...

I'm already paying out of my pocket for the whole AM hosting, and I've got lots of spare space and bandwidth. I wouldn't mind hosting another mag, but it would HAVE to be legal otherwise I would be in trouble.

[Starke]

by odin on 2007/2/10 5:08:24

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No wonder, that list was last updated on 2 december 1999. Eve

Actual?
22nd January 2004. This page is old...really old, I think I uploaded the wrong version I have moved this site on a different server several times, now it is safe again ! And I still want to update it, so stay tuned !

Cheers 8-)  8-)

[odin]

Yes, I saw that, but the list itself is still last updated in 99, and even 2004 is old hat by now =)

This page is old...really old, I think I uploaded the wrong version

[motrucker]

Starke wrote:
ODIN:

I happily oblige in this instance, as it is only one website I need to give.

http://www.magazines.ch/

Cheers.

It tells you whats still running, whats not and to what period it did run, etc, etc.

Cheers again 8-)  8-)

Ah..... Now I see why you are so wrong. That site lists several magazines as still being published in the U.S. - only thing wrong is that is these magazine died YEARS ago!
I will very likely use these Amigas I have until either the computers, or I die. But lets be realistic about what is.

[Starke]

2004, would be roughly a bit over two years old

that means, anything lving that is two years old, is old??

OK

I see we have interesting lot of people here.

Also, even if its dead in America, its not dead everywhere.

There are atleast 8 magazines still circling, surely thats not bad, considereing the power of the internet has also led to many of the magazines dying, whether it be Amiga, or other companies that now strive on the net.

Cheers 8-)  8-)

[adolescent]

Starke wrote:

There are atleast 8 magazines still circling, surely thats not bad, considereing the power of the internet has also led to many of the magazines dying, whether it be Amiga, or other companies that now strive on the net.

Which 8?  

[sicky]

@dolescent

Which 8?

Same thing entered my mind, there is our very own Total Amiga which is English and distributed throughout the world (21 countries), Amiga Future (Germany), Bitplane (Italy) and I believe a French magazine (sorry can't remember it's name), can't think of any others but not saying they don't exist just don't know of them personally!

[Starke]

@Sicky:

I should be recieving my Total Amiga magazines this week.

Man, Im itching to get reading!

LOL!

Cheers!! 8-)  8-)