Amiga Future

[Ghost]

Its well intended but I mostly by computer magazines for game news, previews and reviews, not technical facts.
And face it, barely anyone develops games these days anymore for Amigas, even those well intended teams who appeared last year haven't updated their sites in months.

[demusse]

I buy the mag one at the time. Back in the day i used to buy CU and became a subsciber, same with Amiga Format an Amiga Active. Each time after a few months the mags got cancelled...and all i got was a refund, some issues of Linux Format and Digital...

So i'm a bit hesitant to subscribe again!

About the mag... it's ok but if you remember the glossy and abundant lay-out of the old mags you will be disappointed though...


If they cancel the english version of Amiga Future i will buy the german issue... we belgians are polyglots

There are plenty of sites still dedicated to the wonderfull Amiga so i won't miss a mag to much, i guess.

[Harrison]

I never subscribed to any of the Amiga magazines. Instead buying them from the news agents each month. It was nice to be in the shop and look through the many Amiga publications that existed at the time and pick a couple to buy. It was quite an expensive hobby even from the magazine side of things for me as each month I would normally buy Amiga Format, Cu Amiga, Amiga Computing and AUi. With AUi and Cu Amiga being my 2 favourites. And quite often I would end up buying others as well such as Amiga Action, Amiga Power, Edge, Games Master... and many more.

[Phantom]

Just to clarify something. Amiga Future is doing well, even in sales, even in English version (not what Andreas wanted though, but not entirely so bad as it looks), so there's no reason to afraid of cutting the English version of the magazine for the time being.

It's really good to subscribe to the only english printed Amiga magazine nowadays, it will help everybody to move forward and see a better and more colorful(?) magazine in the future (that's hard to achieve, but you never know).

I don't want to hear it's expensive; yes it's expensive compared to other magazines, but I've seen people spending a lot of euros purchasing 15yrs-old hardware for their Amiga computers, so 60 euros for an annual subscription to the only Amiga printed magazine isn't so bad, innit?

And yes, Graham reviews are really nice, you HAVE to read them in every issue.

[Graham Humphrey]

Thanks for the comments Phantom (and no I didn't pay him for it)

I've got two more reviews coming up but sadly I appeared to have just missed the deadline for the next issue (due to being unwell I didn't get them done when I intended to) so I won't be in the next issue at all which is a little frustrating.

[Harrison]

Just to clarify something. Amiga Future is doing well, even in sales, even in English version (not what Andreas wanted though, but not entirely so bad as it looks), so there's no reason to afraid of cutting the English version of the magazine for the time being.

That is good to know. I've only been going on the email conversations I've had with Andreas over the last couple of years about the magazine, and his personal worries that the English version's circulation was falling and it might not be cost effective to continue it.

So Phantom, what is your involvement with the magazine?

[Phantom]

I actually write reviews Dave, mostly game reviews. 2-3 reviews in every issue.

[Harrison]

Oh, nice. I didn't know that. How long have you been involved?

I've never had chance to get my hands on a copy of the magazine, but keep meaning to try to. Never have enough money spare for a subscription each time I consider it.

[Graham Humphrey]

I actually write reviews Dave, mostly game reviews. 2-3 reviews in every issue.

Cool! What reviews did you write for the current issue? There is no hiding place

[Phantom]

It's really good to subscribe to the only english printed Amiga magazine nowadays, it will help everybody to move forward and see a better and more colorful(?) magazine in the future (that's hard to achieve, but you never know).

Actually I don't tend to quote myself, but it happened! Amiga Future will be published in full color from the new year, that means #94 - January/February 2012 issue.

I believe that many new subscribers will take place with this one.