Best Amiga Magazine & Column

[danbeaver]

I vote for Amazing Computing and the Bandido.

[JimS]

I'd agree with the Bandito as best column, but have to pick something else as best magazine. It was often a bit amateurish, in it's production at least. I'm not sure which one I'd pick... doesn't matter I guess, since I read most of them. ;-)

[danbeaver]

Yeah, but Amigaworld could not go for two pages without an ad.  And there were a lot more amateur than AC.

[carvedeye]

Don't really have a favourite column but my favourite magazine was amiga format

[Duce]

Amigaworld was always the big one over here - we didn't see AF all that much on this side of the pond, at least in my area.

When I think of the hours I spent as a teenager, thumbing through Amiga rags with a Sharpie marker circling all the goodies I wanted to buy I have to chuckle.  I did end up with most of them at one time or another, but the one I could never get ahold of was a Bomac tower.  Always had pipe dreams of running a 7 line BBS off a cranked up A2000 in a Bomac, but had to settle for a '060/RTG A4000 in the end with a 4091 and ADSG serial card.

Was just something about those Bomac towers that just oozed sheer mil spec brutality that I loved.

[amoskodare]

Since I can actually buy this magazine today..

I say Amiga Future   :hat:

[Pentad]

I really liked .info and their Rumors column.  I always thought that AC had a strange format.  It was also done on Macs.

Amiga World was good as well.

[TrevorDick]

Amiga Shopper...despite the name excellent technical information on new products and software.

TrevorD

[dannyp1]

I really liked Info until they stopped 8 bit coverage.  There was a store in a nearby town that carried the British mags and my favorite was also Amiga Shopper.  But I must admit I liked AF's cover CD.  AmigaActive was also good but I never discovered it until it had ceased publishing.

[Lurch]

Amiga comput, think the other one was amiga zzzzaapp or something like that which also had commodore 64 stuff.... bunch of others but can't remember their names now.

Plus the cover disks/discs always had crap you didn't want. Most stuff can be had elsewhere ;-)

Loved reading some of the articles on games and new hardware though. Was looking at Amiga Future as that appears to be the only mag one can buy now.

[Wilse]

... my favourite magazine was amiga format

Likewise but my favourite columnist was Tony Horgan of CU Amiga, especially when he got into audio, which was rather often.

[JimS]

Yeah, but Amigaworld could not go for two pages without an ad.  And there were a lot more amateur than AC.

Ads are what pays for the magazine. With no ads, you're gonna have to pay a lot more for the 'zine. They're also a good indicator of the market's health. Reading those mags now, the ads are almost as much fun as the content. ;-)
There were a lot of mags more amateurish than AC, sure, but they didn't last as long.

[JimS]

Was just something about those Bomac towers that just oozed sheer mil spec brutality that I loved.

Back when I worked at an Amiga shop, I installed a 2000 into a Bomac tower for a customer.... that thing was built like a tank.

[paul1981]

CU Amiga for me.
Then Amiga Format.
Then probably AUI due their fantastic coverdisks.

[Controller]

Best Amiga magazine: Amiga Future
Best columns: Classic Reflections and the Workshops