Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    
    Their are at least half a dozen Amiga magazine titles at Software Etc.
    I'll check tonight to see what the different titles are (I work there
    occassionally).  If you have any questions about the magazines or 
    even the software, there is a knowledgeable Amiga fanatic that works
    there on Wednesday and Thursday nights (Tim).
    
    BTW:  Does anyone have a listing of stores which carry Amigas in the
          Mass/N.H. area?  I've only seen Amigas at the Memory Location.
    
    Jeff C.
    DTN 275-2369
    PENUTS::JCANHA

I like Computes Amiga Resource. I bought two copies with disks and am 
impressed with the quality so far. If they can keep it up, I'll probably 
subscribe. They have had articles by Bob Peck and Jim Butterfield which
certainly gives credibility. 

I also like INFO, which does have C=64 & 128 stuff. At first I was annoyed
at paying for 8-bit stuff, but the authors are clearly committed to the Amiga.
In fact they are doing the Amiga a service by converting all those millions
of C=64 owners to the Amiga. INFO is opinionated and oriented towards home
use. There are lots of game reviews, and the productivity software reviews 
assume you are a home user/programmer without an expense account. They also 
produce the mag entirely on the Amiga.

In the last issue one of the editorials suggested that there are too many
mags for the number of users and that there will be a fall out. They had
a humorous/scathing list of which mags should live and why...

Dave

    I like Amigo Times for a disk based mag.The articles are good,and
    the stuff on disk always contains something usefull.At 8.95 with
    disk a real buy.I Also picked up Computes Amiga Resource and liked
    it.I had no use for the disk based mag put out by Antic.For text
    based mags I like Amazing computing.System Eyes in nashua NH has
    a good selection of mags.
    							bill
    ps. I remember when you could not find a mag now I can't afford
    them all.I see more disk based mags for thr amiga than any other
    computer.

No kidding, there are so many disk based magazines for Amiga now. And looking
at their contents, lot's of the stuff hasen't even shown up on our network!

If I can figure out how to get ZOO to save a whole disk with directories
intact, I'll upload the 3 or 4 disks I have from Amiga Plus and Amiga Resource
and Amigo Times.

zoo a\\ amigo16.zoo df0:  doesn't seem to work (a option doesn't like //)

I guess I need to specify an input file list to ZOO, but now how do I get
a nice clean listing of all files on a floppy with directory pathnames attached?

list LFORMAT doesn't cut it! DIR's not even close... I don't want to hand
edit all those files!


John

�I guess I need to specify an input file list to ZOO, but now how do I get
�a nice clean listing of all files on a floppy with directory pathnames attached?

    LS will do that for you ! see norse::amiga:[upload]ls*.zoo
    
    						Alan T.

    
    Whoa there, John... I'd read the fine print first.  Not all of the
    software on disk-based magazines is freely distrubutable.
    
    Ed.
    

Ed is right. I found a number of good things on mag disks that I would have
uploaded if they didn't have copyright notices all over them. They usually have
a selection of pd stuff that we already have from usenet or by way of the 
PLINKers, and some stuff I haven't seen that is copyrighted and not PD. 
Dave

Good point. I'll make sure whatever I put up is safe.

I seem to remember Amiga Times saying spread the disk around. The others
may not be so liberal.

Thanks for the warning!

John

    
    I just checked Software Etc. and they had 11 different Amiga magazines:
    
    	Amazing Amiga
    	Amiga Sentry
    	Amiga Transacter
    	Amiga User International
    	Amiga World
    	Antic's Amiga Plus
    	Commodore Computing International
    	Commodore Magazine
    	Info for Amiga
    
    	Amiga Jump Disk (Disk based)
    	The AMnews      (Disk based)
    
    
    -Jeff C.

    It's been a while since anyone's touched this note, but since my copy
    of Compute showed up in my mailbox today, I figured I'd ask what others
    think. For those who don't know, Compute!, Compute's Amiga Resource and
    their other mags were bought out over the summer (same company that
    produces Penthouse?) Amiga Resource is now bundled together with all
    the other pc articles in the same issue (though they say that the
    subscription issues only contain the Amiga section & the generic pc
    section, leaving out all the Mac & C64/128 specific stuff).

    Their word processor review was watered down, the number of articles
    that contained actual code (which I like to read through) totalled 1,
    and in general the quality is just not the same. They do insist that
    the amount of Amiga info will be more in its (now) monthly format than
    in the previous bi-monthly format. I'm disappointed, but will continuing
    receiving it til the subscription runs out. Amiga Resource was one of
    the better Amiga mags.

    Comments?

    -Dom

    
    I agree completely.  I think that Amiga Resource _was_ one of the
    better mags, but in it's present format, is history.  I will not be
    resubscribing.
    
    Is the Amiga market really big enough to support more than one or two
    magazine formats anyway?  AmigaWorld is needed to make things look
    professional, and Amazing carries enough technical info to keep hackers
    happy.  
    
    Ed.

    I am also disappointed by the change - the new magazine was exactly
    what I expected it to be. My attitude is to ignore the whole thing
    and let it go away - I will not be re-subscribing either.

  >  Is the Amiga market really big enough to support more than one or two
  >  magazine formats anyway?  AmigaWorld is needed to make things look
  >  professional, and Amazing carries enough technical info to keep hackers
  >  happy.  
   
Add .INFO for  home use/hacking/games with a gonzo twist, and you 
have three mags with three perspectives. I liked Amiga Resource 
too but understand the market shake down.

Anyone know if Antic's Amiga+ will continue?  I don't know where it fits into 
the picture.  

Dave