Remember when reading magazines made time-travellers of us all?

Why were Amiga magazine publishers (and magazine publishers in general) incapable of printing the current/correct publication date on their issues? I explore the contentious controversy with a bit of help from a bemused former Amiga Action reader.

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Kid Gloves killed the video game star?

Had gaming magazines throughout the nineties continued to publish full commercial software releases via their covermounted floppy disks, would the phenomenon have had a detrimental impact on the industry? I join Amiga Power and ELSPA spokesman, Roger Bennett, in deliberating over the pros and cons of the notoriously polemic argument.

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Xeroxmorphs in Dittoland - Alien Bash II

There's no avoiding the elephant in the room - Alien Bash II is a freebie, PD rendition of The Chaos Engine. Lock, stock, kit and caboodle... or whatever the phrase is. If it hadn't been given away for nuffink via an Amiga Format cover disk, I suspect the Bitmap Brothers might have sued for plagiarism damages. That minor quibble aside, it looks great, and plays exceptionally well for an amateur hobbyist project.

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Amiga's dumbest criminals

Amiga Format interviews a self-confessed, bragging pirate who does little to conceal his identity.

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Amigo Scour - the ultimate Amiga magazine!

Obviously far superior to any of the individual Amiga magazines of the '80s and '90s, my handy scrapbook compendiums swipe the most intriguing news snippets from each, while investigating if anything ever came of the promises and often over-optimistic projections.

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