Which Amiga magazine did you buy?

[Gryfon]

Hi sorry to hear you were homeless hope you are sorted now all the best to you:)

Hi there,

That's very kind of you!  Yes I'm certainly OK now, happily mortgaged up to the hilt and married ;P.  I left home at 15 and it was a tough time for a while.  A lot of my things like magazines and old computers (my beloved Atari 800XL!) were left behind and thrown out before I could arrange to find somewhere to store them.

These days I love just messing about with anything Amiga - WinUAE mostly, but I also dabble with other OS's (I have an Intel Mac Mini too) and also AROS stuff from time to time.  In my loft, and probably no longer working (I haven't checked for maybe 7 years!) is an A1200 with Blizzard 1230 IV running at 30MHz and SCSI extender with an old Mac external CD-ROM 8x speed....blimey that was the BUSINESS when I bought it!

The magazines were great, for me, because of the mix between AREXX / programming / fun features / games reviews / cover discs-content to play with.  PC Format and more modern PC magazines just don't seem to have the same decent balance.  I followed Linux Format for a while, when Amiga Format ended.  It was interesting to see Nick Vietch and some of the other journos move over and make a go of it, and it still feels a little "Amiga"ry in terms of layout and style.

But it's no replacement for the originals.

[ajlwalker]

I bought Amiga Format the most.  Only missed the first 3 issues if I recall.  Still have virtually a complete set with all coverdisks and CDs.

I also bought the US magazine Amiga World for about two years until it folded.

I bought Amiga User International until it stopped also.

I then bought AmigaActive until it converted into a digital media magazine (I think that only lasted one issue).

Periodically if I liked the coverdisk, I bought Amiga Computing, Amiga Shopper, Amiga Power, The One, various others who's names I forget.

Oh, and I bought every issue of CD32 gamer despite not having a CD32!  (I planned to get one but never did)

I still have every one of these magazines, and occasionally pick one out to read.  They should bring happy memories, but sadly I feel a great sense of mourning sometimes.

[lsmart]

does anyone buy the amiga future?

I am currently a subscriber of Amiga Future, but I wasn´t two years ago. I liked Amiga Magazin (and their "Hermann der User"-Comic) but I also loved Amiga Welt and Kickstart. AmigaDos and later Amiga Spezial were nice additions. I dumped a lot of my old magazines during my Non-Amiga-Years (1995-2008)*... hmm, I should shorten this to NAY in the future. :lol:

I re-bought some of them later. The late 80s / eraly 90s were a great time and worth remembering.

Oh, and do you remember PowerPlay? The guys are having a podcast now: "Spieleveteranen"

[AmigaNG]

I remember when I fist got my Amiga each month a tired a different mag, Amiga Format first, then CU Amiga, Amiga Shopper and then Amiga Power, in the end I picked Amiga Format as i think it did have the perfect balance of covering all areas of Amiga. I subscribe from I think around issue 80 up till the end, very sad when it did go. I also got every issue of Amiga Active as I was really looking forward to the AmigaMCC, but as we know that never happened. So when Amiga Active finally ended, I was very sad not having a monthly mag, I think its a big reason I stop following the Amiga scene as much in around 2003 to 2009, I recently subscribe to Amiga Future as it was the least I could do after winning their mouse mat in the Amigaworld competitions and the fact i wanted more news on the new AmigaONE i'm surprised by how good it is, wish i got them a lot earlier.

One good thing however is when I went to get my second hand Amiga Power Tower in 99 the guy who sold it to me had nearly
 every single issue of Cu amiga and loads of Amiga shopper, CD32 Gamer, all the early Amiga Format mags up to around issue 40, even the ST/Amiga format mags all in great condition! He actually said the reason he gave up on the Amiga dream was because of the closer of CU Amiga, so gave them all to me.(the car was weighed down that day!)  I kind of knew what he meant when Amiga Active closed.

[motorollin]

He actually said the reason he gave up on the Amiga dream was because of the closer of CU Amiga

I felt exactly the same the day CU died. It really was at that exact moment that I realised the Amiga wasn't coming back :cry:

[rvo_nl]

...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.

you mean like:
 
http://amr.abime.net/
http://www.magazines.ch/index.html
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/magazines.html
 
or even
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Amiga_magazines

whoops, missed the other links already mentioned in this thread. sorry.

out of all the magazines I've read my all-time favorite was probably CU Amiga, especially in its glory days. The One and Amiga Power were a lot of fun, too, and I couldnt resist reading Amiga Format either. Last mags I bought were Amiga Active and a few issues of Amiga Future. Oh I almost forgot about the Dutch 'Amiga Magazine'.

[A1260]

CU Amiga!... that was the best...

[Vlabguy1]

mmm.. I bought them all...

Rich
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Just out of interest which Amiga magazine did you buy, and why? I bought CU Amiga which was excellent. Bought Format a few times but not as good as CU Amiga in my opinion.