Well, this is a collision of desirables! My favourite computer, my favourite game on it, and the best retro computing magazine around! Turrican is (finally!) the cover star on Amiga Addict 35. The new edition of the magazine explores the story of Turrican and the struggles Factor 5 faced whileRead More →
I’ve just picked up the latest Amiga Addict magazine, and was astonished to find it had a whole feature on French publishers. I have a strange relationship with the French* (who doesn’t?) My uncle was a Francophile, which I found odd, but I’ve been strangely fascinated with Minitel since theRead More →
A new edition of Amiga Addict is out this week, boasting a huge feature on Scala. The video titling/slideshow authoring multimedia software package is still going 35 years later. It built its reputation thanks to the video capabilities of the Amiga, and is now a popular commercial display solution. TheRead More →
New documentary The Commodore Amiga 500 Story features is the new edition of AA. My favourite print magazine Amiga Addict is back on newsstands this week, with a feature on upcoming documentary The Commodore Amiga 500 Story and a retrospective on Wolfchild. Amiga Addict chats to Gracious Films Ltd toRead More →
The latest issue of Amiga Addict is released in the New Year, and its main feature is a look at Aminet. Aminet is the world’s largest archive of Amiga-related software and files, which started out hosted on university FTP sites. Also available on CD-ROM and on the web, as ofRead More →
Amiga Addict 25 is a double landmark issue. Not only is it availabe in time for Christmas 2023, it also mark’s the publication’s quarter century of editions! That’s not bad going. Furthermore, this issue has a special “cover disk” courtesy of Amiga Bill. Subscribers will receive a 3/5-inch floppy diskRead More →
September 1993 saw the release of the CD32, an Amiga with a CD-ROM drive and a few under-used hardware improvements. Very similar to the Amiga 1200, the CD32 outsold SEGA’s Mega-CD ahead of Christmas 1993, but failed long-term thanks to the collapse of Commodore. As such, it remains a desirableRead More →
The early history of 3D rendering software Lightwave is explored in Amiga Addict issue 23, out this week. My son was teasing me about my continued interest in the Amiga a day or two ago, but was briefly stopped in his tracks by this bombshell: affordable CGI was not possibleRead More →
Magnetic Fields (developers of the Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge and Super Cars series) are the primary feature of the latest issue of Amiga Addict, out now. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge is a particular favourite of mine. Way back in the 1990s, my best friend at school and myself both hadRead More →
The unmissable Amiga magazine for is available to preorder now. Quite simply my favourite magazine in the world is back for another issue on June 1st, with a collection of reviews, features, and interviews. After two years, the Amiga centric magazine also brings you its first readers survey. There’s alsoRead More →
