Talk:Amiga Power

Additional links
This section has been partly compiled from talk pages and moved here.

'''Hurrah! Someone''' who knows useful contemporary information about AP!

--Spottedowl 10:09, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

'''Egad! Thank''' you, yes, here are some other links to Amiga Power but on the Interweb.

Dave Green and Tim Norris have homepages. Bootleg Amiga Power by Adam Keyte and AP4 by Ben Hall are both tributes while my old site An Archive Of An Excellent Magazine and Amiga Power are archives and Cody printed issue 64's top 100 here.

More? My little tribute on H2G2, Garath Knight's here, John Burns' less complimentary one here and the legendary Matt "Flossie" Sullivan's here.

Additionally, Matthew Squires and Paul Mellerick have sadly passed away.

--Tom Camfield 09:11, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hmm, it's just occurred to me that I should have used your talk page rather than your user page. Tsk, eh?

Thanks for those links. Stuff on AP seems somewhat sparse (or perhaps, as AP would want, SINISTERLY ABSENT), but it's always nice to come across it.

I wrote pretty much the entire Wikipedia article on AP, which I'm quite proud of even though it has been rightfully accused being too dry. I tried to write it in a very neutral, encyclopaedic manner, y'see. I recall someone in alt.fan.amiga-power trying to start a drive to improve it, but nothing seems to have come of that yet.

Shame to hear about those deaths. You don't think it can happen to a Mighty Being, do you? (Well, unless your magazine gets cancelled, thus causing you all to be brutally slain in the final issue, or something.)

--Spottedowl 11:54, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

We probably should be discussing AP in the AP discussion room, so other AP fans can gawp at our science. I may drop this over to there, or, I may be too lazy.

I added my links because of the alt.fan call and the knowledge that people just don't know what's out there. The links I uncovered take an awfully long time to find trawling through Google, using various staff members names and forms of AP, Amiga Power and amigapower. Not everyone will have the patience to do that.

AP stuff is sparse because J Nash and S Campbell made AP2, which covers almost everthing you'd ever want to know about AP in a much funnier way than any AP fan ever could. Therefore eliminating all need to make millions of smaller, poorer tributes to the Mighty. Which is great but also sad.

There are a few places where we can fill in the gaps, however. The foremost is the archive business, which, PeanutUK may be covering in the New Year with a 12 issue archive launch. Huzzah! Except, I'm not quite sure what the attitude of AP writers are, since Tim Norris was very much against it in 1999.

--Tom Camfield 06:33, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Oh Man this takes me back I remember scurrying over to my Tescos and buying the mag, staring at nothing but the front cover while it was on the till, then getting back home and ripping the coverdisks off, the selotape ripping the cover and then opening the little plastic baggies as fast as i could before ramming them into my Amiga 500. Good Times

You know there was stuff after the front cover, right? Spottedowl 16:00, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

More Additional Links
A little something about Amiga Power here, including reviews.

Purple Sensi has a few Amiga Power reviews for Sensible Software games.

Cam's Coala review is splashed across the middle of this page.

Reader Millington delivered to your door, sometimes without his permission: The GuardianThe Mail On SundayMore Mail On Sunday

--Tom Camfield 06:37, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

It's a Skull
Valhalla In The Style Of... A Crap Dance Mix.

--Tom Camfield 06:37, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * The website where the MOD and MP3 files are supposed to be no longer exists. I have the MOD file on an old AP coverdisk and all that, but it's too much of a hassle to dig out my A4000. Does anyone have the MP3 file? 17:09, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Neil West, Rich Pelley & Gary Penn
Neil West's travel journal found.

Rich Pelley sighted, working for Loaded, at a GLC gig in April 2004. Also seen in NME, FHM and Nuts. Currently appears to be eating for science.

Gary Penn now writes a regular column for Edge, and may still be working for digital toy company Denki.

--Tom Camfield 08:13, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

F-Max
I remain convinced that F-Max is supposed to taste like fish. Both the original advertisements and the AP2 page about them give a very strong impression of that. Unless someone can give me a direct explanation to the contrary, I'm sticking with it. J I P | Talk 21:01, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Unless anyone can provide reliable references, I've removed most of that section as WP:Original research. Marasmusine (talk) 07:28, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Added a link to the fairly complete AMR
The Amiga Magazine Rack has information about many of the Amiga magazines and is somewhat complete for AP. Huzah! 87.112.161.11 (talk) 14:06, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Advertisement?
How can this article "read like an advertisement" when the magazine was disestablished a quarter of a century ago? J I P &#124; Talk 13:30, 13 May 2021 (UTC)