_{Cover of the November 1988 issue of Ahoy's AmigaUser}

While there were a few Amiga specific magazines published in the U.S., it seems like most of them came and went pretty quickly. Ahoy!'s AmigaUser is an example of that. This was a spin-off of Ahoy! which was originally a Commodore 8-bit magazine. However, there were only a handful of issues of AmigaUser. The November 1988 issue includes:

Departments

• View from the Bridge - An announcement about AmigaUser going monthly.


• Scuttlebutt - News about AmigaExpo, Commodore's net income increasing 6x year over year, the Viking 1 19" high-resolution monochrome monitor for the Amiga, Supra's FD-10 10MB 3.5" disk drive, Star Micronics' NX-1000 Rainbow dot matrix printer, World of Commodore, the Ergostick joystick from Wico, and more.


• Entertainment Software Section - A look at movie and TV licenses such as T.V. Sports Football, The Three Stooges, and Shogun among others. Plus reviews of Defcon 5, Superstar Ice Hockey, Bard's Tale II, Empire, and Joe Blade.


• Reviews - Reviews of Bus Expander (add expansion slots to your Amiga 1000), Zing/Spell (a spell checker for most word processors), AC/BASIC v. 1.3 (a BASIC compiler), Access-64 (a software/hardware package that allows the Amiga to use Commodore 64 devices including disk drives and printers), and CygnusEd Professional (a programmer's text editor).

_{Table of Contents from the November 1988 issue of Ahoy's AmigaUser}

Columns

• Exec File - Tips for choosing the right software plus brief reviews of Marauder II, Deluxe Help, CLImate, and more.


• Amiga Toolbox - Short routines for creating custom pant brushes, generating a BASIC listing of DATA statements from a BOB or sprite file, and more.

Features

• Hard Driving on your Amiga - A look at two SCSI controllers for the Amiga; the OverDrive from Pacific Peripherals and the SupraDrive interface card.


• ABM - A type-in game for the Amiga that is somewhat like Missile Command.

_{Back cover of the November 1988 issue of Ahoy's AmigaUser}

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