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From New Zealand there was NZ Amiga which grew into Amiga Downunder, the best and most professional Amiga mag in Australia and New Zealand. In my opinion it was the one of the best Amiga magazines in the English speaking world. It came to an end with the May 1996 quite mysteriously. It appears that with the collapse of Commodore in Australia, which occurred two months before the rest of the world, all the Australian Amiga companies suddenly suspended their advertising, leaving them without the funds :( Additional infos provided by Adam Smolarczyk I personally I think It's kinda crap. The layout, appearance, etc is great, but, my opinion is that the writing could have been better.The mag was produced entirely on Amigas. |
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The longerst running Amiga magazine in Australia (in fact after the demise of Amiga World, it was world's longest running Amiga magazine) was ACAR, or Australian Commodore and Amiga Review, which in its later issues became Australian Amiga Review, this magazine grew out of a magazine for the C=64 and other old Commodore machines way back in the mid-eighties. The last issue was January 1996 :( For a brief time the publishers of ACAR produced a Multimedia magazine after their dropping of ACAR which contained a small amount of Amiga info This mag folded in early 1997. Additional infos provided by Adam Smolarczyk Okay, now I can have a rant about my favourite (and the longest lasting) Australian Amiga magazine. Originally it started in 83 as the Australian Commodore Review. With the Christmas '87 issue (the first cover above) it had become the Australian Commodore and Amiga Review (ACAR). About ten of this issue's 60 or so pages were devoted to Amiga, the rest to the C64. Back then it was published by Saturday Magazine Pty Ltd, which I'm led to believe Gareth Powell had a hand in. Andrew Farrell was the editor, he then went on to purchase the magazine in July 1994 through his company, Storm Front Studios. The last of the four cover scans shows the last issue published of what had by that time become the Australian Amiga Review, with no C64 content whatsoever. This was volume 13, number 1, and appeared after a few months of no ACAR (it had mysteriously vanished for a while, with no explanation). Additional infos provided by Eric Knust. Thanks ! From March 95 Volume 12 No 3, Price $ 4.95, 98 pages. Cover created with Lightwave. Features: Datastore Database, Real 3D versus Lightwave comparison, Internet places and issues. Articles: Aura, A570 HD, Wordworth 3.1, CanDo 3.0, X-CAD 3000, Video Reviews, User Group Listing. Regulars: Editorial, Notepad, Media Watch, Letters, Help Line, Hot PD, Online, Amos, Blitz Basic, C64, Market Place, Reader Classifieds, Entertainment, Art Gallery, Demo Scene, Ad Index. There were 38 different firms advertising in this edition. Overall: At this time still a good solid professional-look magazine with glossy pages also inside the magazine. |
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This is a new Australian Amiga Magazine, called the Australian Amiga Gazette, it started in December 1996 and is a 40 page professionally printed black and White magazine...its not bad, probably better than ACAR was in itslater issues by far. Wanted: More infos about this mag. |
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OzAmiga was a magazine which only lasted some 10 to 12 issues, but it was never widely available. It finished some years back. It This was different from the other local magazines, as it had a coverdisk. Wanted: More infos about this mag. |
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The picture shows the first issue, from July 1990. This Australian magazine was aimed at serious users, with no mention of games. This was a Gareth Powell publication, produced on Amigas. (Last I saw Gareth's name, he was publishing/writing in an internet magazine.) I don't know when it stopped appearing, however I have a February/March 92 issue, that doesn't look like the last (no farewell messages or anything).
Additional infos provided by Eric Knust. Thanks ! From March/April 1991: Volume 2 Number 1, A Gareth Powell Publication, desktop published using the Amiga Price : $ 5.95 (Australian), pages: 80, Front Cover Ray traced in Imagine colour separated using ProPage 2.0. Features: Scala, Pagestream vs Professional Page, Bars and Pipes Professional, Pixsound, Speaker Speak, Wordperfect to Postscript, TV-Show, Quarterback Tools, Post-Guru text, RecoveryRigging up for C, Comparison: Spreadsheets, CAN-DO, Imagine. Regulars: Click here first- What's New? Video Update, Video Tips, .metric clips (DTP news), Letters, Last word-future of CDTV. Ads : 10 firms with ads. Overall: Glossy Coverpages, little colour inside. Well-written articles with few pictures. informative, for the serious user, no games contents. My Comment: Too grey looking, not enough colours to bring justice to the Amiga's capabilities. |
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It's a very interesting magazine with over 100 pages, lots of ads and mention of a distribution company in Europe, although I've never seen it in Europe. This is really one of the most professionally looking Amiga-mags. |
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Amiga Japan is a magazine of the only Amiga connection in Japan, in an organization of membership system. (The first publication is 1986). It's published as a bulletin of "COMMODORE FAN CLUB" currently. |
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Amiga Advis started out in 1996, in black and white A5 format, but is now printed in B/W A4 format. It is a monthly magazine, but may be hard to get a hold of in the shops. It is designed on Amigas. Additional infos provided by (Alex ?) Emir Dzino. Thanks ! Amiga Advis sells between 500 and 1000 exs. a month, and it is maintained by some really cool guys in the spare-time, it is just in black/white and about 40 pages. It is for sale in most Danish stores, but all their articles are written with information from the internet - they do not have the capacity to interview people. |
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The magazine was born in 1987, when in Italy nobody listened the Amiga voice and few people believed in this wonderful machine. Enigma was the first Amiga magazine in Italy and the first edited with Amiga systems for a long time, but recently logistic reasons pushed us to use other systems. Enigma Amiga Run is sold in newsstands at 15.000 italian liras with CD-ROM included. We use to say that's Enigma it's every the first. The first magazine of the world with a cover-CDROM (trhee months before CU Amiga). The First Italian magazines on the Web (1994). The First magazine realized with a Mac emulation on a Amiga. Actually Enigma Amiga Run is sold in Italy (since 1987) and we will publish it in Spain too. We have a dream. We plan to make others version in English and German with the same CD-ROM. Stay tuned! We have recently moved our headquartes from Milan (Italy) to Valencia (Spain). The magazine is now called Enigma Amiga Life. |
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80 pages, 100% italian, 95 issues published (11 per year), rated as "he best Amiga Magazines" by Urban Müller and Wouter Van Oortmerrsen. Wanted: More infos about this mag ! |
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Although the Amiga market in The Netherlands was in a very bad shape long before 1997, this magazine managed to keep on the shelves of most newsstands. The publishing company still exists and publishes a Mac magazine these days, still hoping that eventually they will return with an Amiga magazine.
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Amiga Computer Studio is a Polish general-interest (games + serious stuff) Amiga magazine. I bought these two during a trip last Christmas to Poland, and they were a couple of months old then, so I don't know wether the mag is still in print or what. Infos provided by Wojciech Orlinski. Thanks ! This magazine now comes with cover CDs. And ACS is the only Amiga magazine in the world with a CoverCD containing Mac publicly available soft in a convenient filedisk (pseudopartition) format, suitable for unregistered Shapeshifter. So you can play on unreg Shapie demos of Duke Nukem, Warcraft 1 and 2, Civilization 2 etc. using ACS CoverCD! |
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Amiga Agora was made by Tu Amiga Ordinators (shop). I have three issues: #5 (Jun-96), #6 (Sept-96) and #7 (Dec-96); IMHO, I consider this publication a printed fanzine (65 pages).
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Amiga.Info was made by Info Technologies S.L. There is 21 issues (22 with #0) Now, Info Technologies have a Internet general magazine named En L@ RED.
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It's in Spanish so I can't tell you much about the contents. The issue I got focused on DTP. The ads are mostly from Amiga-companies from Spain which concentrate on the video market. My issue has 49 pages which is quite a lot for such a small Amiga-market. |
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Dator Magazin/Nya Dator Magazin (Amiga/C64, later also PC) |
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