Amiga Resource Center

Welcome to the third installment of The Amiga Resource Center. In this issue, we bring you word of a couple of new Amiga print magazines. In addition, we begin our coverage of the huge multitude of Amiga-oriented websites that are just waiting for you to visit. Our space in this issue is limited, so please don't panic if you do not see your favorite Amiga news site or online magazine covered here. But please DO click on this link resourcecenter@amiga.com and send us the URL of your favorite Amiga news sites and online magazines for inclusion in future issues of Amiga World.

PRINT MAGAZINES

Magazine Name: Amiga.Topcool
Editors: Daniel Orth, Friedbert Baer
Country Published: Austria
How often published: 4 times a year
Format: black/white, Amiga only
Coverdisk: No
Language: German
Website: http://amiga.topcool.de
Time published: First issue in July 2000
Subscription price: 20 Dm/year
Distribution: worldwide
Comments: This is the new German Amiga magazine for only 5 DM.
Amiga World comments: Our German readers should also check out the amiga.topcool website, which is crammed with an enormous collection of up-to-date news articles and information, including exclusive interviews with Fleecy and Petro.

Magazine name: THE NEW AMIGANS

Publisher: Bill Griffin
Country published: USA
How often published: Monthly
Format: Black and white (expanding to color in the future)
Coverdisk: No
Language: English
Website: not up yet (will release info when initial website is up)
Email contact: wd8izh@beanstalk.net
Time published: 3 months
Subscriptions price: $24.95 (US), $34.95 (Canada and Mexico), $44.95 (rest of world). Send US funds or Visa/MC (along with full mailing address) to: G&G Publishing Enterprises, P.O. Box 447, Edwardsburg, MI 49112-0447, USA Or, Email your Visa or MC subscriptions to us. US customers can also use paypal.com and order with Visa or MC using the above Email address as the "Pay To" section (again including their mailing address).
Comments: We are currently holding a contest to come up with a logo for our magazine (co-sponsored by Easy Upgrades). The winner will be announced on the last day of the AmiWest show in California. The winner will receive an A1200 as a prize.
Amiga World comments: North American Amiga users haven't had a native print magazine since the closure of Amazing Computing. Amiga wishes Bill well in his efforts to fill this void.

WEB-BASED AMIGA NEWS SITES & ONLINE MAGAZINES

Anyone anxious to write an obituary for the Amiga platform should surf the head-spinning number of News, Magazine and "Portal" type webpages dedicated to our favorite machine! Amiga World salutes the multi-national group of dedicated and enterprising webmasters who keep these sites rolling. Visit these sites often, email their Webmasters with positive comments, and make those hit-counters spin.

News Site Name: Amiga Impact
URL: http://www.amigaimpact.com
Editor : Stephane Campan, Nicso Entertainment SARL
Country of origin: France
Language : French (and English via handy Translator.go.com link!)
Site philosophy: Amiga Impact provides a daily news-service and a lot of useful services (Forum, Classified Ads, Mailing lists, etc.) to the French-speaking Amiga Community.
Time published: Since January 1999
How often updated: Daily
Email: info@amigaimpact.com
Special features: news, product reviews and discussions, events, discussion forums, and more.
Amiga World comments: This is a very professional looking, well laid-out and well-designed site. Beautiful to behold, with valuable resources (such as original product reviews and discussion forums) for French users.

News Site Name: Amiga-news.de
URL: http://www.amiga-news.de
Editor(s): Petra Struck and a huge team of translators and technical helpers (19 people, and all work for free).
Country of origin: Germany
Language(s): Basic language is German with the following translations: English, Danish, Vlaams, Polish and French
Site philosophy: Bringing the latest AMIGA news to our readers
Time published: 2 years (in august 2000)
How often updated: Daily
Special features: We offer the following services: Amiga Link Directory (ALD) in German and English with rating system, Free Amiga Jobs in German and English, Bulletin-Board in German and English (uses helping users), Amiga News Forum, (where the community can submit news online). Amiga-news.de is also reachable via WAP; handy Newsticker via email (mailing list, currently only in German, but soon in English, too). Amiga-news.de is also published on Aminet-CD. Really nice cartoons ;-) Also workshops, reviews and tips-&-tricks area.
Amiga World comments: A huge effort on the part of many people, and it shows. Since the closing down of the old Amiga Web Directory, The Amiga Link Directory being compiled by amiga-news.de is especially useful! Check it out, and add links!

News Site Name: AMIGART
URL: http://www.amigart.com
Editor(s): Sinan Gürkan, Dündar Ünsal, Güvenç Kaplan, Çaðhan Demirci Country of origin: Turkey:
Language(s): English, Turkish
Site philosophy: The Show Must Go On... :-)
Time published: Since 1997
How often updated: Everyday or every 2 days
Special features: 1. AMIHOO! : Our search engine and Amiga websites database 2. Amiga Linux Pages (Linux APUS Support Pages) 3. Amster (Mp3 Search Client For Amiga) homepage: (www.amigart.com/amster) 4. WinUAE Turkey: The Turkish Mirror of WinUAE (www.amigart.com/winuae) 5. Amiga Postcard: Send Amiga postcards to Your Friends 6. GameArt (Amiga Games Page): (www.amigart.com/gameart) 7. Amiga Sensible World Of Soccer Network: (www.amigart.com/swos) 8. Amigart Forum (Online forum for Turkish speaking Amiga users).
Amiga World comments: a good looking and very up-to-date site with clean design, a solid Links section and a number of unique services. Try the Amiga postcard service, it's fun! :-)

News Site Name: Amiga Network News URL: http://www.ann.lu
Editor(s): Christian Kemp
Country of origin: Luxembourg
Language(s): English
Site philosophy: Present the latest Amiga news and rumors and let visitors comment on them.
Time published: Since December 28, 1996
How often updated: News added daily, many comments are posted every hour. Special features or services: Ability to add comments to news items. Online polls & the ability to comment on them. "Unmoderated" news section, open posting for anyone. Visitor can configure different "views" of the site: just see articles on news/files/websites/MOTD's/rants, etc. Convenient links to older articles. Ability to subscribe to a Notify list that mails reminders when ANN is updated. "Suggest this article/page" forms to spread the word...
Amiga World comments: Another essential Amiga news site. The unmoderated posting section means that news (and rumors) often appear on ANN before they appear anywhere else!

Online Magazine Name: Amiga aktuell (International)
URL: http://www.aakt.de
Editor: Carsten Schroeder
Email contact: aakt@gmx.de and aaktint@gmx.de
Country of origin: Germany
Language(s): German and English
Magazine philosophy: The All-in-one Amiga magazine - 100% made with Amiga! We cover all aspects of the Amiga!
Time published: More than four years
How often published: Monthly
Special features or services: Our magazine is published monthly in English and a German edition. We provide the latest news, comments, product reviews, tutorials, a big games section, a dealer list, software charts, a competition, etc. AMIGA aktuell (International) is distributed e.g. via the Aminet, but we also offer a free subscription via e-mail.
Amiga World comments: You can read the English or German version online, or download an archive of the HTML files (including older issues) for offline reading. This is a "real" magazine, with reviews, opinion pieces and even contests with actual prizes, that just happens to be distributed online (and free at that). Highly recommended.