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u Amiga Future Magazine
1st English Issue
http://www.amigafuture.de
Magazine 4.50 Euro, 6 month subscrip-
tion 34 Euro Magazine & CD 7.50 Euro 6
month subscription 51.90 Euro
With the sad demise of the rather
excellent total Amiga magazine
http://www.totalamiga.org/ as detailed
in an earlier issue of C= Free
magazine.
I really had no other option but to
continue my subscription to Amiga
Future, well I could have asked for my
subscription payments back I suppose
(Amiga Future took over any outstanding
issue subscriptions from Total Amiga)
Amiga Future has been available for
some time reaching issue number 67 but
only as a German language magazine, the
magazine now has a English version.
The edition I am looking at now is the
1st ever English edition of the
magazine, as everyone is aware English
people are lazy & only ever learn one
language (English) so they have to get
other people to do the work for them
Issue number 1 looks very professional
with a clean layout & is very well
produced. The issue lists some 19
Co-editors as well as the main editor,
3 Text correction writers & 13 trans
lators. Slightly more than C= free then
as there is just me; of course more
staff writers are welcome as indeed are
contributors!
Unfortunately it is very obvious when
reading the magazine that the issue was
created in German & then translated
into English. The text is readable, but
the Grammar is sometimes incorrectly
formatted having the effect that the
reader sometimes has to have a double
take on the paragraph to understand the
writer's comments.
I understand from various emails &
groups that this issue was rather rush-
ed, mainly due to the demise of the
English language Total Amiga magazine &
lets be honest its only at issue 1 in
English.
The magazine is still readable & a
superb effort from the contributors, (I
don't want anyone to think I am comp-
laining here I know my English writing
skills lack a little something)
The magazine cover & back are in
glorious full colour; but the inside is
sadly monochrome, obviously this is a
cost problem as producing a full colour
version would have the effect of
raising the Magazines cover price to a
point where most users would object to
its purchase.
My issue came with a CD ROM containing
shareware & full versions of software;
obviously the magazine is cheaper if
purchased without a CD ROM.
In issue 1 we have the usual subjects
covered, News, Party reviews, Cheats,
Readers letters & reviews, previews,
Hardware & a workshop section. The
magazine features ads from Amiga world,
Amigakit, Amiga future itself & Acube l
The first edition is some 52 pages in
length with around 7 of these taken by
advertisements; even so it's a fairly
weighty read. The magazine has a good
mix of features & detailed explanations
& very clear photos or drawings where
applicable, there is even a section
about Amiga Modding & putting an Amiga
600 into a DVD player casing.
So to summarise The English translation
needs checking, maybe by an English
reader, the magazine is a good mix of
features & well written, profes-
sionally produced & is well worth the
price
Magazine History In 1998, , ICP Verlag
rename its Spin-off Amiga Plus
Sonderheft into "Amiga Future". The
magazine was published by ICP, but
completely created by APC&TCP, a
former user group which had turned
into a software publisher over the
years.
In January 2000, ICP left the Amiga
market & sold the publications to Falke
Verlag. In 2000, Falke sold the title
to APC&TCP, who now publishes the
magazine. Main Article taken from
Total Amiga http://www.totalamiga.org
original interview was conducted by
Magnus Johnson reprinted with
Permission article is copyright to
TOTAL AMIGA MAGAZINE