| Welcome to the Amiga Magazine Rack! |
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The Amiga Magazine Rack was launched in early 2007 after more than 2 years of development. The website you see today grew from 3 independent coverdisk and review indexes independently compiled by members of the Hall of Light team.
The site has close ties with the Hall of Light games database, with extensive cross-linking between the two sites. As a result, the current focus of the Amiga Magazine Rack is games, although application/hardware reviews and serious articles will be indexed in the fullness of time.
The Amiga Magazine Rack is backed by a large review database which is linked to tens of thousands of scanned pages.
The team wishes to thank RCK for making all of this possible - without his offer to host the site the project would not have come into existence.
If you wish to contribute to the project read the information below or contact one of the team members. |
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17 April 2012 - All editorial content from The One issue 2 now online!
All editorial content from The One issue 2 are now available for your viewing pleasure. By issue 2, the Amiga had an equal number of reviews to the Atari ST with 13 each.
Some classic Amiga games were reviewed, including Speedball with 90%, Nebulus gaining 88% and Rocket Ranger with 86%. On the poor games front, Albedo was the joint worst Amiga game with Offshore Warrior (both scoring 41%) but the Atari ST stinker Game Over 2 received the lowest rating of all, gaining a mere 33%.
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16 April 2012 - All editorial content from The One issue 1 now online!
All editorial content from The One issue 1 are now available for your viewing pleasure. Back in October 1988, the Atari ST had a lot more releases than the mighty Amiga, and only 5 Amiga games were reviewed.
The Amiga game Starglider 2 received the equal highest score this issue with 89%, jointly shared with the game Federation of Free Traders on the ST. Within a few months, major bugs were found in the game, and FOFT was given harsh reviews in other magazines.
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15 January 2012 - Full scans of Amiga Power issue 50 (June 1995) now online!
Thanks to Cody Jarrett, complete scans from Amiga Power issue 50 (June 1995) are now available for your viewing pleasure.
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03 October 2011 - Amiga Computing Volume 3 No 1 (June 1990) now online thanks to Silkworm!
Silkworm has kindly scanned an additional 29 pages of Amiga Computing Volume 3 No 1 (June 1990) for the Amiga Magazine Rack, including all the reviews, coverdisk pages and an article about the A3001 accelerator.
The highest reviewed games this issue were Might and Magic 2 with 94% and Infestation with 90%.
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19 June 2011 - Review content from Zero issue 11 now online
All reviews, previews, cheats and coverdisks pages from Zero issue 11 (September 1990) are now available for viewing.
This issue includes previews of Saint Dragon and Swiv from Storm, and an in-depth look at RoboCop 2 from Special FX.
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| Your Help Needed! |
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We appreciate any help to complete the database. If you have any cover scans, page scans, disk images or have indexed reviews for magazines we do not have listed, please get in touch with us! You will be credited for your work!
If you would like to help us by indexing magazines, feel free to download the following templates:
If you wish to contribute scans, please read the frequently asked questions section!
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| Mort's Magazine Requests |
Mort is willing to scan even more magazines for the Amiga Magazine Rack, but is missing several issues. Can you help him out by selling, lending or donating magazines from his request list? |
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| Did You Know? |
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The great Amiga games swindle?
Since computer magazines began, people had been writing in complaining about the high cost of games and the huge profits being made by publishers. Amiga Format decided to publish a feature including a cost breakdown of games in AF57 (March 1994) on pages 24-27. The figures were supplied by Richard Hennerley, MD of Daze Marketing based on a £25.99 game:
£3.87 VAT
£7.74 Retailer
£4.43 Distributor
£9.95 Publisher
Publisher figure breakdown:
£0.80 Disks (2 at 40p each)
£0.41 Box (including wrap)
£0.35 Manual
£0.90 Marketing
£0.25 Reproduction
£1.99 Royalty
£5.25 Gross Profit
The gross profit has to pay development costs, overheads, salaries, rents, taxes and help pay for games that flop!
Click for more trivia |
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| Random Magazine |
Amiga Format 6 (Jan 1990)
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| Stunt Car Racer |
93% |
| Sim City |
92% |
| Keef the Thief |
89% |
| The Ninja Warriors |
88% |
| Rock 'n' Roll |
86% |
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| Contact us |
| If you have comments, ideas, bug reports or would like to contribute to the site, you may contact us on the English Amiga Board forums. |
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