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''Amiga Format'' was a British computer magazine for Amiga computers, published by Future plc. The magazine lasted 136 issues from 1989 to 2000. The magazine was formed when, in the wake of selling ''ACE'' to EMAP, Future split the dual-format title ''ST/Amiga Format'' into two separate publications (the other being ''ST Format''). At the height of its success the magazines sold over 170,000 copies per month, topping 200,000 with its most successful ever issue. ==History== ''Amiga Format'' can be thought of the "mother" or "big sister" magazine of ''Amiga Power'', which it both predated and outlived. Whereas ''Amiga Power'' was strictly games-only, ''Amiga Format'' covered all aspects of Amiga computers, both hardware and software, both application and gaming uses. A further spin-off was ''Amiga Shopper'', which dealt purely with the hardware and "serious" software side of the Amiga scene. The magazine was published on a monthly basis〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.magazines.ch/amigamagsuk.html )〕 and offered various multi-issue tutorials on different application software, such as C programming or LightWave graphics rendering. The last tutorial was cut short in the middle because of the cancellation of the magazine. ''Amiga Format'' pioneered the concept of putting complete application software on a magazine coverdisk as a response to a moratorium on complete games titles being cover-mounted. The magazine's most infamous moment was in issue 36, July 1992. The coverdisk featured a demo of Paint Pot 2, an art package for children. Page 7 of the magazine described how to use this package, however an oversight resulted in the placeholder heading "Type some shit in here please" appearing on the page,〔http://amr.abime.net/issue_192_pages〕 leading to a sheepish apology in the following issue. ''Amiga Format'' was the second-to-last regularly issued print magazine about the Amiga in the United Kingdom. The last was ''Amiga Active'', which ran for 26 issues from October 1999, although ''Amiga Format'' was the only such magazine after CU Amiga Magazine's closure in October 1998 until the launch of ''Amiga Active''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amiga Format」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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