Amiga Format

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Amiga Format
ISSN
0957-4867

Amiga Format was a British

EMAP, Future split the dual-format title ST/Amiga Format into two separate publications (the other being ST Format). In 1991, the magazine was selling 135,000 copies a month.[1]

History

A cover disk featuring game and animation demos.

Amiga Format can be thought of the "mother" or "big sister" magazine of

Amiga Shopper
, which dealt purely with the hardware and "serious" software side of the Amiga scene.

The magazine was published on a monthly basis

LightWave
graphics rendering. The last tutorial was cut short in the middle because of the cancellation of the magazine.

Amiga Format pioneered the concept of putting complete application software on a magazine coverdisk as a response to a moratorium on complete games titles being cover-mounted.

Amiga Format was the second-to-last regularly issued print magazine about the Amiga in the United Kingdom. The last was

CU Amiga Magazine
's closure in October 1998 until the launch of Amiga Active.

Regular features

Reader Games

A notable regular feature in the later stage of the magazine (introduced by then-editor

AMOS BASIC or Blitz BASIC
.

In one issue a competition was run to find the best game developed by a reader using a previously covermounted version of Blitz BASIC. A game called Total Wormage was entered by

Andy Davidson
.

Although Total Wormage was disqualified as it was not submitted with working source code, Acid Software introduced Andy Davidson to

Worms
.

Emulators

While the continuing uncertainty about the Amiga platform's future slowed software development, there was an increase in the interest surrounding emulation software. Longtime contributor Simon Goodwin contributed one of the longest running series to the magazine, which broke down emulators by target platform and went through the mechanics of getting them working

Just the FAQs

Introduced in issue 129 and continuing until the final issue, Just the FAQs consisted of a single page each month containing an interview with a prominent figure in the Amiga community, with the exception of the January 2000 issue (published in December 1999), which instead explained the limited effects the Year 2000 problem would have on the Amiga.[3]

Interviews were conducted with Chris Wiles (

managing director of Active Technologies), Neil Bothwick (founder of the Wirenet ISP), Alan Redhouse (of Eyetech), Wolf Dietrich (head of Phase 5 Digital Products), Andrew Elia (of AmigaSoc), and Ben Hermans (of Hyperion Entertainment).[4][5][6][7][8][9] In the final issue, a special interview was conducted with Eric Schwartz's cartoon character Sabrina.[10]

Backstage

Backstage was a four-page

special offers
for subscribers.

References

  1. Newspapers.com
    .
  2. ^ "AMIGA Magazines from the UK". Amiga Magazines List. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  3. ^ Olaf Barthel, "Just the FAQs", Amiga Format, January 2000 (issue 132), 86
  4. ^ Chris Wiles, "Just the FAQs", Amiga Format, November 1999 (issue 129), 92
  5. ^ Neil Bothwick, "Just the FAQs", Amiga Format, December 1999 (issue 130), 92
  6. ^ Alan Redhouse, "Just the FAQs", Amiga Format, Christmas 1999 (issue 131), 86
  7. ^ Wolf Dietrich, "Just the FAQs", Amiga Format, February 2000 (issue 133), 86
  8. ^ Andrew Elia, "Just the FAQs", Amiga Format, March 2000 (issue 134), 78
  9. ^ Ben Hermans, "Just the FAQs", Amiga Format, April 2000 (issue 135), 78
  10. ^ Eric Schwartz, "Just the FAQs", Amiga Format, May 2000 (issue 136), 78

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