Suggestions for past magazines for Amiga users

jman · 11 April 2024, 00:26

Hi,

I'm looking into downloading a few number of Amiga magazines dating from the early Nineties until the demise of Commodore.
I'm interested in magazine geared to "normal" users and professional users, with tips and technical articles about how to use AmigaOS or programming. I would exclude magazines focusing on videogames. Magazines in English/German are both fine.

I know there are a ton out there so I'm asking if anyone has some recommendations to have a starting point.

thanks

offog · 11 April 2024, 01:42

In the UK, Amiga Shopper was a "serious" magazine. Amiga Format, Amiga Computing, Amiga User International and CU Amiga all covered both applications and games. All of these can be found on archive.org.

You will also find the odd article in music magazines like Future Music - see muzines.co.uk.

fgh · 11 April 2024, 03:07

https://commodore.bombjack.org/amiga...-magazines.htm

TCD · 11 April 2024, 04:29

You can also find quite a few Amiga centered or related magazines on the file server:
https://ftp2.grandis.nu/turran/FTP/TOSEC-PIX/
https://ftp2.grandis.nu/turran/FTP/C...ans/Magazines/

giantclam · 11 April 2024, 04:56

....and don't forget diskmags/diskazines... https://ftp2.grandis.nu/turran/FTP/Collection/Diskmag/

jman · 11 April 2024, 10:00

wow!
Folks, thanks for the suggestions

pixie · 11 April 2024, 11:00

That's an amazing resource! So fund memories!

fxgogo · 12 April 2024, 01:22

Amiga World was something special

alexh · 12 April 2024, 09:06

http://amr.abime.net

xaind · 12 April 2024, 11:14

I'm not sure about issues from the early Nineties as I stopped getting it in the late 80's, but maybe check out Compute! Magazine. The entire collection is available on the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine

In the 80's it had type-in listings of programs in Amiga Basic which I assume you're probably not interested in, but there were also articles about using the Amiga and programming topics, as well as general interest articles.

Issue 66, for example, has an article explaining various Amiga graphics concepts including a fairly detailed explanation of how bit-planes work.

Issue 91, for another example, has the first in a series of articles about using Workbench and the CLI.

jman · 22 April 2024, 13:44

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions!

damiraga · 22 April 2024, 18:23

And not to forget some US based Amiga magazines such as Amazing Computing, Info, and Amiga World. They were quite good back in the day.

11 April 2024, 00:26	#1
jman Registered User Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: . Posts: 351	Suggestions for past magazines for Amiga users Hi, I'm looking into downloading a few number of Amiga magazines dating from the early Nineties until the demise of Commodore. I'm interested in magazine geared to "normal" users and professional users, with tips and technical articles about how to use AmigaOS or programming. I would exclude magazines focusing on videogames. Magazines in English/German are both fine. I know there are a ton out there so I'm asking if anyone has some recommendations to have a starting point. thanks

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11 April 2024, 01:42	#2
offog Registered User Join Date: Aug 2023 Location: Scotland Posts: 25	In the UK, Amiga Shopper was a "serious" magazine. Amiga Format, Amiga Computing, Amiga User International and CU Amiga all covered both applications and games. All of these can be found on archive.org. You will also find the odd article in music magazines like Future Music - see muzines.co.uk.

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fgh Registered User Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Norway Posts: 819	https://commodore.bombjack.org/amiga...-magazines.htm

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TCD HOL/FTP busy bee Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Germany Age: 46 Posts: 31,598	You can also find quite a few Amiga centered or related magazines on the file server: https://ftp2.grandis.nu/turran/FTP/TOSEC-PIX/ https://ftp2.grandis.nu/turran/FTP/C...ans/Magazines/

11 April 2024, 04:56	#5
giantclam Registered User Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: australia Posts: 486	....and don't forget diskmags/diskazines... https://ftp2.grandis.nu/turran/FTP/Collection/Diskmag/

11 April 2024, 10:00	#6
jman Registered User Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: . Posts: 351	wow! Folks, thanks for the suggestions

11 April 2024, 11:00	#7
pixie Registered User Join Date: May 2020 Location: Figueira da Foz Posts: 361	That's an amazing resource! So fund memories!

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fxgogo Also known as GarethQ Join Date: May 2019 Location: Twickenham / U.K. Posts: 718	Amiga World was something special

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alexh Thalion Webshrine Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford Posts: 14,354	http://amr.abime.net

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xaind Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Sydney / Australia Posts: 113	I'm not sure about issues from the early Nineties as I stopped getting it in the late 80's, but maybe check out Compute! Magazine. The entire collection is available on the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine In the 80's it had type-in listings of programs in Amiga Basic which I assume you're probably not interested in, but there were also articles about using the Amiga and programming topics, as well as general interest articles. Issue 66, for example, has an article explaining various Amiga graphics concepts including a fairly detailed explanation of how bit-planes work. Issue 91, for another example, has the first in a series of articles about using Workbench and the CLI.

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22 April 2024, 18:23	#12
damiraga Registered User Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina Posts: 52	And not to forget some US based Amiga magazines such as Amazing Computing, Info, and Amiga World. They were quite good back in the day.