Amiga diskmags - any still produced?

[dandelion]

One of my favourite Amiga activities of old was reading diskmags. I always enjoyed The Word (NFA), Grapevine and the like.

Are there any Amiga diskmags still being produced? I know we have blogs on the internet which serve a similar function, but there was something magical about that mix of music, art and the random mixture of articles.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Um, google much?

www.amigafuture.de/

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=amiga+future

Comes out every month.  Includes a CD full of goodies.  Well worth the price.

[klx300r]

+1 for Amiga Future! been a long time subscriber and it's just great to get a n ew Amiga mag and CD in the mail every month:)

[cgutjahr]

And don't forget the New York Times!

[UberFreak]

Diskmags were done by sceners, for free.
I wouldn't put Amiga Future in the same category...

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Diskmags were done by sceners, for free.

LOL.  It's a magazine.  It comes with a disk.  Sorry if my definition is a little more literal than some folks.  :laughing::laughing:

[lionstorm]

there is still the commodore mag but it is web based !

[dandelion]

Oh man...there's a big difference between a traditional magazine and a diskmag.

Guess that answers my question.

[AmigaOldskooler]

Hi Dandelion,

I'm in a demo group (Void) and we released a diskmag/chart in December. Please have a look:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=68672

The focus is on the charts, but there are a few articles as well. There will be more content in the coming issues. You can get the mag for Amiga and AmigaOS 4.

Spaceballs are releasing their Irregular Review mag also.. last issue was in October 2016:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=68393

Hope this was of help.

[AmigaBruno]

How can I unarchive this? I downloaded it under Linux, then installed something called jlha, but this is what happened...

jlha vs7ßami.lha
 PERMSSN    UID  GID      SIZE  RATIO     STAMP           NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------ ------------ --------------
LHa: Warning: Checksum error (LHarc file?)
LHa: Fatal error: Unkonwn header (lha file?)

How big is this file? Can't you just post it as an ADF file or two?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

How can I unarchive this?

WinRAR on a PC can open Amiga .lha archives just by clicking on them.  I'm sure there must be something similar for Linux.

A quick google search shows this one: http://www.e7z.org/open-lzh-lha.htm

this one: http://freecode.com/projects/lhaforunix

and this one: https://fileinfo.com/software/igor_pavlov/7-zip

Can't you just post it as an ADF file or two?

Because ADF is a terrible, horrible file format that needs to go DIAF.  :laughing:

[cgutjahr]

How can I unarchive this?

"this" being Versus #7? There's a free reimplementation of LhA for Linux, it's called lhasa. Just check if your distribution has a package with that name (Debian does). It extracts vs7-ami.lha just fine.

There's also a (not completely free) port of LhA, some distributions are still carrying that one. I never heard of 'jlha', i.e. the one you are using.

This archive contains just a single executable, not a disk image btw. - as is to be expected with lha archives containing Amiga stuff.

Because ADF is a terrible, horrible file format that needs to go DIAF.

Thank god you're en expert on everything, not just Google and diskmags.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Thank god you're en expert on everything, not just Google and diskmags.

Thank god you're not an expert at snark or trolling.  :roflmao:

But since you're back, did you ever have a response to this guy's thread?

[RobertB]

there is still the commodore mag but it is web based !

If you are talking about the Commodore Free, yes, that's a web-based magazine.  If you are talking about Reset magazine, that is web-based with paper issues distributed, too.  Reset also comes with an extra-cost, optional 5 1/4 inch floppy disk.

Commodore Free from England and Reset from Australia,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
June 10-11 Pacific Commodore Expo NW -
http://www.portcommodore.com/pacommex

[clebin]

LOL.  It's a magazine.  It comes with a disk.  Sorry if my definition is a little more literal than some folks.  :laughing::laughing:

I thought the established definition was a magazine *on* a disk, not with a disk. STAMpede/rAMpage for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_magazine