Amiga Format

The magazine's coverage extended to hardware, software, as well as video games. It is known to have provided each issue with a cover disk containing an assortment of demos and usually free-of-charge software and games, popularising the concept among its rival magazines. At its peak, in the first half of 1992, the magazine's circulation averaged 161,256 copies per issue. The magazine would encourage the user to back up, in other words, duplicate the magazine cover disks in case there was a problem with the master disk later on, for example, disk errors. The magazine cover disk is bootable and loaded exactly like commercial software on the Amiga, although there were some disks that required the user to load Workbench to access them or a specific program. ==History==

ST/Amiga Format was a monthly magazine that covered the Amiga and Atari ST operating systems, created and published in July 1988 by Future Publishing founder Chris Anderson. The two operating systems were seen as rivals, and because of growing competition between them, in the wake of Future's sale of the video game magazine ACE to EMAP, it was decided to split the magazine into Amiga Format and ST Format in July 1989. As a result, the former dual-format title lasted only 13 issues, and the first issue of Amiga Format was published in August that year. 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. Each issue of Amiga Format was provided with a cover disk containing an assortment of application software, public-domain (i.e. free of charge) games, and new game demos—a practice pioneered by Future Publishing with copies available from some UK newsagents. ==Staff==

Marcus Dyson, whom the magazine hired in 1990 as an art assistant, became editor in 1993 before departing the magazine the following year for Team17. Another writer to become editor was prolific Steve Jarratt. Contributors included Nick Walkland, previously a staff writer for the adventure games magazine Confidential and later part of the television programme Games World, and Richard Burton and David Crookes, both of whom who would later write for Retro Gamer. Other writers included Andy Nuttall and James Leach, both of whom also wrote for other video game magazines before entering Bullfrog Productions. ==References==