Amiga Action was merged into Amiga Computing from issue 107, which was the Christmas 96 one. It replaced AC's System games section. Wanted: More Infos about this mag. |
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I think only about 2-4 issues were made. |
It came with a CD for CD32 that had both game-previews as well as easy-startable multimedia-demos, anims and pd-software. Alone the CD was worth the price for it, and I guess without these CDs the CD32 would have had only half the software it has now. The CD32 Gamer was what kept the CD32 alive, but unfortunately without new games for CD32 there could be no CD32 gamer. |
Just as I wanted to write "this mag is here to stay" IDG announced the last issue... |
Amiga Format had to change its style from being a 70%-gamer magazine to 90% non-gamer. Most articles were written for beginners and gamers, today it's different and it has to compete with other British Amiga-mags that want the serious Amiga-user. Comes with a CD every month (or a coverdisk, but you usually find the CD edition at newsstands). Amiga Format was the first to start the "commercial-program-on-coverdisk" fight. Nice layout and lots of screenshots. When Amiga Format dies, the Amiga in Endland is dead. That says all about the importance of this mag. |
It's really a low-cost low-quality mag, but I guess it had its readers. |
It is a good mag for games, nice layout, lots of screenshots and an interesting coverdisk. |
Amiga Shopper was low cost and has interesting articles. But as most other British Amiga-mags changed their style to appeal to advanced users / non-gamers, too, Amiga Shopper had big competition. It started off with no cover disk but had one later, which seems to be standard in England. It got smaller and smaller and... |
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Comes with one or two coverdisks which always have great programs on them, mostly pd and shareware. A great mag for Amiga-freaks. It's produced and layouted on the Amiga ! |
While Amiga Format have more subscribers, CU win on news stand buyers by quite a big margin. They have a ABC circulation of about 30000, and it is very, very stable. They have a CD edition EVERY month, and over 50% of the CUs made come with this CD. Up here, it is very hard to still get the disk edition. The CD is awesome. Compared to same period last year, the mag is a bit thicker, I belive. 5 pages or so. Not thinner, anyway. I think it is about 110 pages + CD for £5.99 now. They have a excellent reputation. Many, many game previews each month. Still concentrating on serious articles though. Interesting reader surveys all the time. They have a mailing list. |
WANTED: Cover of JAM |
JAM was a rather good, subscription only magazine called Just Amiga Monthly. It ran to 58 editions (mostly monthly) and was produced by Jeff Walker with contributions from the readers. It was a magazine that dealt exclusively with the serious side of the Amiga and did not cover any games. It was billed as "The Worlds most Black And White Amiga Magazine" It was produced entirely on an Amiga, using normal Amiga programs. It was printed commercially and in my opinion one of the very best Amiga magazines ever produced. It folded when Jeff no longer had the time to carry on. It was taken over by Larry Hickmot and incorporated into EM another subscription only magazine, this time concentrating on desktop publishing. Jam was the first magazine in the UK to run regular items about AMINET and review programs from the archive. It issued the final edition in December 1995. |
Here a description of the contents of ISSUE 3 (December 1988) of The One Price: £1.50 (pound sterling). An EMAP publication, 116 pages, glossy, professional look. Pagenumbers in the middle of the edge of the page, predominantly games contents. Atari, Amiga, PC contents. Reviewed games were mostly common to both Atari and Amiga, sometimes PC.
Reviews: 1943 (Capcom); Artura (Gremlin); Batman (Ocean); CrystalHammer (Axxiom); Falcon (Mirrorsoft/Spectrum HoloByte); Fish!
(Rainbird); Flying Shark (Firebird); Garfield (The Edge); Hellfire Attack (Martech); Joan of Arc (US Gold); Operation Wolf (Ocean);
Phantom Fighter (Martech); Powerdrome (Electronic Arts); Powerstyx (Axxiom); Return of the Jedi (Domark); Sorcery Plus (Virgin); Trivial Pursuit: a new beginning (Domark); Turbo Cup (Loriciels).
Playguide: Speedball, Operation Wolf, Falcon; (4 pages each)
Advertisers: 17 bit software; Again Again; Baudville; Best Byte; Castle; Clik; Datel; Electric Dreams; Electronic Arts; Euromax;
Evesham; Gremlin; Hammersoft; Holmesoft; Infogrames; Main Event; Megasave; Mirrorsoft; Ocean; Palace; Postronix; Rainbird; Rainbow
Arts; Shekana; Software Circus; Softsellers; System 3; Titus; Trybridge; US Gold; Worldwide.
The top 10 Amiga Games in December 1988, according to The One: 1 (new) Battle Chess (Electronic Arts/ Interplay), 2 (2) Interceptor (Electronic Arts), 3 (1) Menace (Psygnosis/Psyclapse)
4 (new) Rocket Ranger (Mirrorsoft/Cinemaware), 5 (6) Ferrari Formula 1 (Electronic Arts) ,6 (10) Starray (Logotron), 7 (new) Daley Ths Olympic Challenge (Ocean), 8 (7) Firepower (Activision/MicroIllusions)
,9 (3) Chrono Quest (Psygnosis), 10 (4) POW (Actionware). Additional infos provided by Bernard Child. Thanks ! There was a magazine in the UK Called THE ONE. I never had a copy as it was a games oriented magazine. I believe it started covering C64 games and re-opened covering Amiga, but I am not sure about that. |
From issue Feb/March 89 (UK): Price: Pound Sterling 1.50, Argus Press Group, Cover produced with Design 3D. Overall: Semi-glossy, a fair amount of Ads (sometimes every second page), importance on programming, and a variety of games. Something for everybody. |