Seems you really earned yourself the Bruce icon
Wow!!
Seems you really earned yourself the Bruce icon
Seems you really earned yourself the Bruce icon
I've added the following:
AmigaWorld Tool Chest
I think I own every single issue ever sold (15), as well as two extra "Sampler disks" 1 & 2. Starting in 1989, I think AW shuttered their Disk Mag operations in 1992 but I could be wrong. In any case, AmigaWorld created six issues per year, two disks per issue. The production level of these disks - even just the drawer icon art - is sometimes stunning. The premiere issue actually came with 3 disks, and then there are also the two samplers. And the final year, 1992, seems to not have made it to a full volume of 6 issues. Not sure if they sent refunds to subscribers or what for not getting to the end of their promised run. IDG's AmigaWorld print publication lasted until April of 1995.
I've created ADFs of every disk and only seem to have found errors on one out of the entire stack. I'm still creating the pages for half of the issues and hope to get that done this weekend.
AMNews
I only have 1 issue from this disk magazine: Volume 1 Issue 3, which included 3 disks. I think this was very likely the most popular issue they ever produced and it was entirely due to the magazine's slip cover art. The issue I added to the archive is from March, 1988. I didn't have the artwork, but it is easily found online. These 3 disks are a total treasure trove to explore. I really want to find more of these, which I think were only published for about 2 years. But they are extremely high-quality curated disks. I just wish they were easier to find.
Best of Amiga
Three-disk disk magazine published bi-monthly that featured “editor picks” from the AmigaAnimation crew. I added 4 issues from March 1994 - May 1995. There are several volumes and issues of this disk magazine missing.
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After I finish the Tool Chest disks this weekend, I have a box of about 30 more loose disks to go. They include disks from Zipperware, Jumpdisk, Antic (might wait on those) and several random User Group disks from all across the country - from California to Florida - I want to preserve before flipping the switch this fall.
Once things go-live, I have an enormous collection of DevWare that I've been building for years. DevWare is not a Disk Magazine, but is more a hand-picked Public Domain collection similar to Fred Fish. What makes DevWare interesting (to me) is the disks are often "themed" and grouped and numbered accordingly. That will be a long project of archiving, but a very important one that will likely take me deep into 2025 to complete. Maybe I should do a small handful in the initial launch...
Speaking of Fred Fish...
I have (as do many others) every single Fred Fish file out there. I've always hated how they are preserved online and have told myself that I'd attempt to rectify that some day. Today, what most folks do is go to this site which lists every file's description in one massive text file and "Command/Control + F" your way through it to find things. It's not great. And you kind of need to know what you're looking for.
And while I have many of the disks in original physical form, I'd like to add them to the archive one at a time and expose and "unpack" all of their internals the same way I'm doing these other more rare publications. But that, frankly, might take years. Not sure I want to use up the latter half of my life doing that. But maybe the first 1-2 years of FF disks when the Amiga was still a magical marvel and new to the world.
AmigaWorld Tool Chest
I think I own every single issue ever sold (15), as well as two extra "Sampler disks" 1 & 2. Starting in 1989, I think AW shuttered their Disk Mag operations in 1992 but I could be wrong. In any case, AmigaWorld created six issues per year, two disks per issue. The production level of these disks - even just the drawer icon art - is sometimes stunning. The premiere issue actually came with 3 disks, and then there are also the two samplers. And the final year, 1992, seems to not have made it to a full volume of 6 issues. Not sure if they sent refunds to subscribers or what for not getting to the end of their promised run. IDG's AmigaWorld print publication lasted until April of 1995.
I've created ADFs of every disk and only seem to have found errors on one out of the entire stack. I'm still creating the pages for half of the issues and hope to get that done this weekend.
AMNews
I only have 1 issue from this disk magazine: Volume 1 Issue 3, which included 3 disks. I think this was very likely the most popular issue they ever produced and it was entirely due to the magazine's slip cover art. The issue I added to the archive is from March, 1988. I didn't have the artwork, but it is easily found online. These 3 disks are a total treasure trove to explore. I really want to find more of these, which I think were only published for about 2 years. But they are extremely high-quality curated disks. I just wish they were easier to find.
Best of Amiga
Three-disk disk magazine published bi-monthly that featured “editor picks” from the AmigaAnimation crew. I added 4 issues from March 1994 - May 1995. There are several volumes and issues of this disk magazine missing.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
After I finish the Tool Chest disks this weekend, I have a box of about 30 more loose disks to go. They include disks from Zipperware, Jumpdisk, Antic (might wait on those) and several random User Group disks from all across the country - from California to Florida - I want to preserve before flipping the switch this fall.
Once things go-live, I have an enormous collection of DevWare that I've been building for years. DevWare is not a Disk Magazine, but is more a hand-picked Public Domain collection similar to Fred Fish. What makes DevWare interesting (to me) is the disks are often "themed" and grouped and numbered accordingly. That will be a long project of archiving, but a very important one that will likely take me deep into 2025 to complete. Maybe I should do a small handful in the initial launch...
Speaking of Fred Fish...
I have (as do many others) every single Fred Fish file out there. I've always hated how they are preserved online and have told myself that I'd attempt to rectify that some day. Today, what most folks do is go to this site which lists every file's description in one massive text file and "Command/Control + F" your way through it to find things. It's not great. And you kind of need to know what you're looking for.
And while I have many of the disks in original physical form, I'd like to add them to the archive one at a time and expose and "unpack" all of their internals the same way I'm doing these other more rare publications. But that, frankly, might take years. Not sure I want to use up the latter half of my life doing that. But maybe the first 1-2 years of FF disks when the Amiga was still a magical marvel and new to the world.
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- The disk icon refers to the number of issues added, but each issue generally = 2-3 disks.
Update: I think I am missing the AmigaWorld Tool Chest Disk Sampler #1.
I have #2, and a second disk which isn't numbered at all. But the second disk was produced in the summer of 1992 - at a time I think the disk magazine staff had already been let go or were on the way out soon. Hm...
I have #2, and a second disk which isn't numbered at all. But the second disk was produced in the summer of 1992 - at a time I think the disk magazine staff had already been let go or were on the way out soon. Hm...