| 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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| News |
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28 April 2009 - Huge Amiga Joker Update
Amiga Joker:
10/92, 11/92, 01/93, 02/93, 03/93, 04/93, 05/93, 06-07/93, 08-09/93, 10/93, 12/93
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02 March 2009 - 3 full issues of Amiga Joker online
Thanks to our new contributor logix, we are proud to present 3 full issues of Amiga Joker for your viewing pleasure. All 128 pages from May 1992, June/July 1992, and August/September 1992 are now online! We hope to bring more in the near future!
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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? |
The great cover-mounted game controversy
Amiga Power was launched in mid 1991 with the promise that each issue would come with a complete cover-mounted commercial game. In the months leading up to this several other magazines also included full priced games on their covers.
The games industry saw this as a threat to their businesses and launched an all-out assault claiming that the practice had destroyed the 8-bit market, and that the covermounting of full price games would decimate the industry.
Amiga Power, having made bold promises prior to their release was forced to back down and this caused a lot of their readers to write in complaining. They responded by printing an interview with ELSPA fleshing out the controversy. (see below)
Full price games soon disappeared from all Amiga magazines, but were quickly replaced by regular appearances of full version applications on most of the major magazines.
Ultimately the jury is out whether these covermounted games would have harmed (or indeed helped) the industry. Full version games started appearing on magazines during the Amiga's twilight years, without any major objection from the industry.
Click for more trivia |
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| Random Magazine |
Amiga Format 75 (Sep 1995)
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| Game |
Score |
| Gloom |
91% |
| Super Street Fighter 2 |
88% |
| Ishar Trilogy |
82% |
| Base Jumpers |
79% |
| Campaign 2 |
79% |
| Turbo Trax |
79% |
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| Contact us |
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