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Announcement   Announcement : Total Amiga Magazine to Cease Publication
   posted by rhino on 7-Apr-2007 14:30:31 (5674 reads)
South Essex Amiga Link regrets to announce that our popular print Amiga magazine, Total Amiga, is to cease publication. Issue 26, which has just been completed, will be the final issue of the magazine and is due to be published on 23rd April 2007. The closure has come about because our editor and publisher, Robert Williams, has decided to step down after over eight years working on the magazine.



Total Amiga has built up a large and supportive readership so we want to ensure our subscribers continue to receive a quality Amiga magazine in English. To this end, SEAL have come to an agreement with the German magazine Amiga Future that they will fulfill outstanding Total Amiga subscriptions. To do this Amiga Future will launch a new English edition of their magazine in July 2007.

Amiga Future English will be a translated version of the current German Amiga Future. The magazine will be similar in format to Total Amiga with an A4 size, about 52 pages and colour covers. While Total Amiga is published approximately quarterly, Amiga Future English will be published six times a year at the same time as the German edition. For further information please visit the Amiga Future English web site. Amiga Future are looking for additional translators to help with the production of the English edition, if you might be able to help please get in touch with them via their web site.

The transfer of subscriptions to Amiga Future will happen automatically; existing Total Amiga subscribers do not need to take any action.

We have enjoyed producing Total Amiga over the years and thank everyone who has contributed to the magazine in any way for their help. We would also like to thank everyone who has purchased or subscribed to Total Amiga for their support. If you are currently a subscriber, rest assured that we will do our utmost to ensure a smooth transition to Amiga Future. If you have any questions, we have added many questions and answers about the closure to our web site or feel free contact us (contact details are on the Total Amiga web site http://www.totalamiga.org).
    

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rhino 
Re: Total Amiga Magazine to Cease Publication
Posted on 7-Apr-2007 22:05:50
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@Rob

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Do you plan to spend more time on your other Amiga projects.


I hope to. I'm certainly not expecting to leave the Amiga scene, and this should mean I have more time for other projects.

BTW, if you're thinking of AmiPodder, I do have a new version in beta (it has been for some time). If all goes to plan that should be out in the next month.

Robert


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giga 
Re: Total Amiga Magazine to Cease Publication
Posted on 7-Apr-2007 22:56:00
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Truely sad news, really enjoyed Total Amiga - been a subscriber ever since the last edition of Clubbed.

@Rhino and TA team
Thank-you soooooo much for your hard work over the years, for making my train journies more interesting and for publishing some of my articles. TA was truely a great piece of work and I appreciate all the time you've put into this.

@All
Kudos to the lads I think, they found a way to honor existing subscriptions so it ain't all doom and gloom.

Spose I'd better read 25 and 26 even slower...


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AndreasM 
Re: Total Amiga Magazine to Cease Publication
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Hello

>I hope Amiga Future will continue with the Canadian printing of the North American issues.

No. The Mag are printing in the same company here what print the german version.

We have a contract with the german post office that we can send the Amiga Future worldwide for the same price as in europe.

btw. we search more translaters for the mag.

any more question? ask :)


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Re: Total Amiga Magazine to Cease Publication
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@rhino

Have you considered working with Alinea computer. According to their jobs page it looks like they want someone with your experience.

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Moxee 
Re: Total Amiga Magazine to Cease Publication
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@ AndreasM

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I hope Amiga Future will continue with the Canadian printing of the North American issues.


No. The Mag are printing in the same company here what print the german version.

We have a contract with the german post office that we can send the Amiga Future worldwide for the same price as in europe.


That is good news for the people outside of Europe.

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amygdala 
Re: Total Amiga Magazine to Cease Publication
Posted on 8-Apr-2007 3:05:27
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Robert,

This leaves me feeling sad.

Thank you for the dedication. Along with this website, Total Amiga has been my primary source for Amiga news. I am similarly sad that Rogue isn't participating with his characteristic flair and candor in forum discussions anymore. Call me paranoid; but there is a creeping feeling that various Amiga information channels are dissolving for some reason.

I can't help but wonder if these decisions to retreat by Amigans much higher in the Amiga food chain than I am (yourself included) are due to some knowledge about the current Amiga situation that is particularly disheartening, something that has driven them to close up shop or to at least detach signifigantly from the community. Have you learned something about the principals (Amiga Inc., Hyperion, Eyetech, etc.) that caused you to throw up your hands and call it quits? Or perhaps it's just that the long Amiga winter we are all enduring is finally and inexorably wearing people down. Of course, maybe it's simply that you have other goals and other dreams to pursue.

Was there no one willing or interested to take the helm at Total Amiga? Did you recruit for a replacement? Or did you not want to see the publication morph into something else under someone else's direction? I am confident Amiga Future will be a great alternative source of information. But how long until it too closes its doors and shutters its windows? And will we ever really know why? It is so hard to fight the pessimism these days. I guess all of that would change if we could purchase non pre-release hardware with Amiga OS4 Final installed on it.

Anyway, I really enjoyed Total Amiga. Ironically, I would have paid more for it (as I suspect would others) if I had ever ben asked to do so. But apparently money was not the issue.

Thank you for all you did. and I'm glad to hear you will still be working on Amiga related projects.

Sincerely,

Dan Newsome (Noose)

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hyph-n 
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Posted on 8-Apr-2007 8:24:49
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as a contributor to Total Amiga & the current chairman of SEAL, I really would like to thank everyone for their heart-felt comments.

Total Amiga was the reason I got back into the Amiga Scene, joined SEAL, dusted off my Amiga 4000, then brought an AmigaOne.

I would personally and publicly like to thank Robert (& Mick) for producing such an inspiring magazine during such difficult times.

As Robert has said, this doesn't mean that we are exiting the Amiga Scene, you ain't that lucky!

Once again, thank you.

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Glames 
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Thanks for your hard work, Robert and all writers.

Reading TA was a real pleasure.

I like its huge number of pages, its design, and articles content (always interesting).

Hope that you will come back stronger after a few months.

Glames

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Just to say thanks for the great mag and all the hard work you all put in for so many years - real dedication!

Looking forward to Amiga Future.

@all (UK at least) Don`t forget there is still a weekly Amiga column in Mico Mart mag. written by Sven Harvey and its quite an Amiga friendly mag even though its mostly PC (what isn`t?). They print pictures of reader`s dives and Windows crashing in public places and if I remember one week a photo of a reader`s cat!

Total Amiga you`ll be sorely missed!

All the best for the future.

Andy.

PS I don`t work for Micro Mart - just a fan.

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This IS a sad day for Amiga indeed as it gets dealt yet another blow.

I very much looked forward to and enjoyed every issue of TA and will be sad to see it go, but in all honesty, seeing as I was preparing to move on after Q1 07 came and went without any news regarding any progress between Hyperion and Amiga Inc. or news of a HW license having been granted to some HW manufacturer, I was debating whether I should renew my subscription or not and was most likely not going to, but certainly not meant in any way as a comment on the fine magazine that TA has become over the years.

Many thanks go out to the editor, all of the staff members and all of those that contributed fine articles over the years, for helping to keep some level of excitement and some sense of cohesiveness in this otherwise fractured and ever dwindling community.

Cheers!


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Very sad to hear, but understandable.

Thank you very much for such a great magazine. You've kept that Amiga Flame burning throughout the years.

All the best,
Bean.


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@amygdala
Try reading the FAQ on the Total Amiga web site - it answers most of your questions.


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I've enjoyed TA and wish it were continuing, although no surprise to see that isn't. Thanks to all who have been involved, and I hope to see your work continue, perhaps in Amiga Future..


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A very sad day indeed.

To all the TA team - thanks for producing such a great mag, and thanks again for the arrangement you've made with Amiga Future. I've been subscribing to both for a while, now, and I've always enjoyed reading them. It's good to see an English copy coming out.

Question - any chance of another Archive CD of these last few issues?


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Question - any chance of another Archive CD of these last few issues?

I will ask Robert if he would be interested in doing an archive CD for issues 21 to 26, we are still in total (pun) control of all back issues and the archive CD's.


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I hope to. I'm certainly not expecting to leave the Amiga scene, and this should mean I have more time for other projects.


You did an outstanding job and we hate to see you go!!!

I for one will get your cd of back issues & wish you well in your future projects.


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