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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

3564.0. "Another rag polished" by MQOFS::DESROSIERS (Lets procrastinate....tomorrow) Thu Mar 08 1990 16:50

    After waiting for my next Amigo times to come for a couple of months, I
    called today, and got the "no service" message.  I guess they have gone
    under, that's sad because it WAS one of the good Amiga specific
    magazines.
    
    Jean

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3564.1	INFO Times?	STAR::ROBINSON		`Thu Mar 08 1990 16:18`	5
	The rumor I read suggested a possible merger of INFO and Amigo Times. We will see, I guess. They both are/were created entirely on the Amiga, but their headquarters must be some 1000 miles apart! Anybody want to call INFO in Iowa? Dave
3564.2		LEDS::ACCIARDI	Larger than life, and twice as ugly	`Thu Mar 08 1990 20:16`	4
	Amigo Times and INFO are merging.
3564.3	The Great Magazine Shakedown!	SHARE::DOYLE		`Fri Mar 09 1990 08:38`	16
	Wow, I was sorting through my old magazines and realized quite a few have bit the dust. Let's see.... Amigo Times Amiga Sentry Ahoy's Amiga User Ami Transactor? AX is supposed to be having problems too.... I haven't seen AMNews in a while... Anybody know of any others? Ed
3564.4		MQOFS::DESROSIERS	Lets procrastinate....tomorrow	`Fri Mar 09 1990 10:57`	5
	Well if they ARE merging, it would be nice if they told the subscribers! Jean
3564.5	They may still be alive	MQOFS::DESROSIERS	Lets procrastinate....tomorrow	`Thu Jun 21 1990 12:02`	6
	I just saw issue 1.10 at a dealer a few days ago, still no service at the number given. I will try to see if they will honor pre-disappearance subscriptions. Jean
3564.6	INFO lives	STAR::ROBINSON		`Thu Jun 21 1990 12:47`	22
	I just bought a copy of INFO (July issue). No Amigo Times merger here. This is the last issue with C=64,128 material and they confirm a move to 11 issues/year. I still like the humor and candid reviews in INFO. And I like the "home" user focus rather than "power" user focus the other magazines often get into. They are promising a new technical section with ex-Transactor editors Chris Zamara and Nick Sullivan, and other articles by a lot of the same people who seem to write for the other mags: Shay Addams, Oran Sands, Denny Atkins, John Foust, Peggy Harrington, Brad Shenck & Arlan Levitan. And, now that Compute! has been bought out by Penthouse, the Amiga magazine shuffle may continue. Dave
3564.7	A Compute! centerfold?	DECWET::DAVIS	Lucid dreaming	`Thu Jun 21 1990 12:54`	4
	Do you think Compute! will now have a centerfold? A re-touched photo of the insides of an A3000? A disk drive seeking to the inner guard band? Compute! letters detailing the ecstasy of a "power user" rendering on a 50Mhz 68030?
3564.8	:-)	STAR::ROBINSON		`Thu Jun 21 1990 13:12`	11
	I think the letters to the editor may take a new twist: "The other day when I was using my Amiga something beyond my wildest dreams... . . . Now THAT was a day I'll never forget" ;-)