Decade - June 1988
By Mathew R. Ignash. - Last
updated on May 16, 1998.
- PLEASE E-MAIL ME IF YOU LIKE
MY PAGE -
The latest news on the Amiga computer, ten years
ago!
Amiga magazines:
Amazing Computing Volume 3 Number 6,
June 1988
Published by PiM Publications. 130 color
pages. Cover price is $3.95. Cover stories include ''Amiga Programming:
Capitol Gains'' and ''1988 Developers Conference''. The cover picture is a
picture of the White House with a Boing Ball dome, flying an Commodore logo
flag.. Inside includes a list of dealers that sell Amazing Computing. A
section in the back indexes Fred Fish disks from 1-138. Ads in the magazine
include Lattice, Newtek, New Horizons Software, Lamplighter Software Inc.,
Aegis, California Access, Actionware Corp, Telecom Software, Invision,
A-Squared Distributors, Microbiotics, The Other Guys and Megatronics all
putting in full page ads. Among the top stories inside are a report that
over 600,000 Amiga's have been sold so far, and over 1,100 pieces of
software are available. It also includes an Amiga product guide to
software inside.
Stories from other sources:
Compute
Newsbytes News Network
The Sprite
The State
The Status Register
Credit: I wish to give all credit where credit is due. First the
issue of Amazing Computing was made available to me by Gordon Proudler who
sent me a whole box of old issues. Thank you Gordo!
The info from the Status Register is from their on-line index at the CUCUG
web site. The bit from The State
is thanks to the Newslibrary archive web site. The
Newsbytes releases are from Newsbytes web site. The info from the Sprite
was supplied by the MCUG. The story from Compute was gotten from the
Macomb County Library.
Or view the October 1987 page.
Or go the Honorable Mention page
for all the good news printed about the Amiga in non-Amiga press since
1984.