Which Amiga magazine did you buy?

[Homer]

Mainly Amiga Format here, with a few impulse buy CU Amiga.

I don't have the magazines any more, but what did I do with the CD's ? Time for a look in the loft [ Add to list of things to do this holiday !]

[save2600]

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.

[the_leander]

CU Amiga until it finished
Amiga Format until the same happened (tbh I never really rated it compared to CU, but it was at the time the only option)
Finally, every AmigaActive that ever got released until, as with CU, it went down the gurgler (cheers merlancia).

I also had a couple of Amiga Power iirc.

I passed them onto Rockape when I scrapped my Amiga gear.

Still got the July 1998 copy of CU however "Amiga drops the bombshell" with the big article on BeOS. I thought I still had the last ever edition as well, but it seems that one went. Pity.

[RMK305]

I was a subscriber to Amiga Format and Cu Amiga. I bought Amiga Action when I was younger for the games and coverdisk demos and the odd Amiga Force etc depending on what was in the issue.

I miss the mainstream Amiga Magazines. Back then, I never thought that they wouldn't be around forever.

[Fester]

Enjoyed Amiga World for a while.

[Cass]

"Pixel" an Amiga oriented greek magazine (for many years),  Amiga Shopper, Enigma Amiga Run (with CD included!) and lately Bitplane Magazine.
That's all I think..

[JimS]

I think the prices of those magazines has a lot to do with advertising and circulation... Look at say, Popular Science today compared to an electronics hobbyist magazine like Nuts & Volts or Elektor.

One thing we really need is a huge cross-reference index to all those Amiga magazines. I have a couple swiped off the web to AmigaWorld & Amazing, but that's about it. I should think about OCRing the contents pages of all those scanned issues out there on the TerraBook.

[Selles]

I have every issue of Amiga World and almost every issue of Amiga Format.  I also have many issues of CU Amiga magazine.

[Nostalgiac]

7 or 8 years of this
http://www.kultpower.de/images/mehr_mags/amigamagazin/amigamagazin_1987-03.jpg

by far THE best Amiga magazine (non-games) EVER.. sadly took them all to the skip around 1999 ... I still can hit myself for doing so... :/

TomUK

[stevieu]

CU Amiga was my first main magazine and monthly purchase

I also bought AF, and later Amiga Active...

I loved CU for its technical articles and styles of writing and generally everything about it! When Tony Horgan took over as editor, I really think the magazine was in its prime. It's just a shame the declining Amiga market wasn't

Steve

[Einstein]

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.

I have a few issues of each of these British mags (I'm not sure if any are American though..):

Amiga Power
Amiga Action
Amiga Format
CU Amiga
The One Amiga  (edit: just added, saw it mentioned and remembered)


Swedish mags:

Subscribed Datormagazin. Have about 1+ dozen issues of Svenska Hemdator Nytt (this wasn't amiga exclusive but I wonder if I didn't like this better than Datormagazin). Bought a first issue of Amiga Världen, and wondered why they canceled the mag after the first issue (never saw it again in the store). Years later noticed a small section in one of the last pages in the mag where it was written that the next issues will be subscription-only... :drink:

I just liked them all, for no other reason than the obvious.

[robo-ant]

There's a good list on AMR:

http://amr.abime.net/magazines

That's a cool site!  I should go through my stacks to see if I can find some stuff they don't have.  I think I still have AmigoTimes 1.1 and 1.10, for example, and some other issues of that mag that they are missing cover photos or stats for.

I never subscribed to any computer magazines, but the magazines I used to frequently pick up were Amiga World and Amazing Computing at first, then Amiga User International for a while after I first started finding it on the racks, then Amiga Format.

In post-Commodore days, one of the best mags was Amiga News (French), IMHO, but I only bought a few issues.  All of the imported mags were too expensive to buy on a regular basis.

[runequester]

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.

yeah, I've read a lot of Amiga format and amiga power online, but Ive been tempted to hunt down some stacks on ebay to have a proper amiga book shelf next to my girl

[whabang]

Datormagazin. B)

[runequester]

Are you sure you didn't just buy a different magazine by mistake? :razz:

--
moto

Wish it was so. They were trying to make themselves more of a "serious" computer magazine.

[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.