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Amiga Power – Issue Number 0 – May 1991
Amiga Power is an Amiga gaming magazine that was published in the U.K. by the publishers of Amiga Format. It had a pretty good run lasting from 1991 to 1996. This is Issue 0 which has a May 1991 cover date. This seems to have been more of a preview issue. For some reason, Issue Number 1 also had the same cover date. Contents of Issue 0 is pretty limited but includes:
- Amiga Power’s All-Time Top 100 Games – Seems a little odd to start of a new magazine with a greatest games list but that’s what Amiga Power did, at least in their preview issue. The top 10 in order include Rainbow Islands, Lemmings, Speedball 2, Sim City, Virus, Populous, Kick Off 2, Falcon, Indianapolis 500, and Stunt Car Racer.
- The 100 Greatest Games Wallchart – This is a pull-out poster featuring the top 100 games with a screenshot of each.
- Bombuzal: Get It Free! – Info on this classic puzzle game for the Amiga that advertised here as being included free with issue number 1.
- Outrageous Claims – Subscription info and claims they are makind that include Amiga Power having more game reviews than any other magazine, Amiga Power only reviewing finished games, and more.
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Ahoy!’s AmigaUser (November 1988)
While there were a few Amiga specific magazines published in the U.S., it seems like most of them came and went pretty quickly. Ahoy!’s AmigaUser is an example of that. This was a spin-off of Ahoy! which was originally a Commodore 8-bit magazine. However, there were only a handful of issues of AmigaUser. The November 1988 issue includes:
Departments
- View from the Bridge – An announcement about AmigaUser going monthly.
- Scuttlebutt – News about AmigaExpo, Commodore’s net income increasing 6x year over year, the Viking 1 19″ high-resolution monochrome monitor for the Amiga, Supra’s FD-10 10MB 3.5″ disk drive, Star Micronics’ NX-1000 Rainbow dot matrix printer, World of Commodore, the Ergostick joystick from Wico, and more.
- Entertainment Software Section – A look at movie and TV licenses such as T.V. Sports Football, The Three Stooges, and Shogun among others. Plus reviews of Defcon 5, Superstar Ice Hockey, Bard’s Tale II, Empire, and Joe Blade.
- Reviews – Reviews of Bus Expander (add expansion slots to your Amiga 1000), Zing/Spell (a spell checker for most word processors), AC/BASIC v. 1.3 (a BASIC compiler), Access-64 (a software/hardware package that allows the Amiga to use Commodore 64 devices including disk drives and printers), and CygnusEd Professional (a programmer’s text editor).
- Art Gallery – Reader submitted art made with the Amiga.
- Flotsam – Letters from readers about 1MB chip RAM upgradeability for the Amiga 1000, advertising for Amiga products, and more.
Columns
- Exec File – Tips for choosing the right software plus brief reviews of Marauder II, Deluxe Help, CLImate, and more.
- Amiga Toolbox – Short routines for creating custom pant brushes, generating a BASIC listing of DATA statements from a BOB or sprite file, and more.
- Eye on CLI – How to get to the Amiga CLI and a guide to creating batch files.
Features
- Hard Driving on your Amiga – A look at two SCSI controllers for the Amiga; the OverDrive from Pacific Peripherals and the SupraDrive interface card.
- ABM – A type-in game for the Amiga that is somewhat like Missile Command.
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