Amtix! magazine was, as its subtitle stated, a "monthly software review for the Amstrad computers". Published by Newsfield Publications Ltd in the mid eighties.

Lifetime

Amtix! ran from November 1985 to April 1987 and produced 18 issues in total. A special issue (Issue zero) was given away with Zzap!64

Zzap!64

Zzap!64 was a computer games magazine covering games on the Commodore International series of computers, especially the Commodore 64 . It was published in the UK by Newsfield Publications Ltd and later by Europress Impact....

and CRASH

CRASH (magazine)

Crash was a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was published from 1984 to 1991 by Newsfield Publications Ltd until their liquidation, and then until 1992 by Europress.-Development:...

, two of Newsfield's other publications.

After issue 18, the title was merged with Computing With The Amstrad magazine and the Amtix! logo appeared in CWTA's games review section.

Cover Art

Like sister publications, Zzap!64 and Crash, Amtix! had very distinctive, comic-style cover art, drawn by Oliver Frey

Oli Frey

Oliver "Oli" Frey is a magazine illustrator and artist who worked on comic strips in the 1970s and 1980s.- Biography :Frey was born in Zurich, Switzerland on 30 June 1948. He grew up fluent in Italian and German...

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See also

• Video game journalism
• Magazine
  Magazine
  Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
  
  
• Video game
• Computer
  Computer
  A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
  
  
• Computing
  Computing
  Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...
  
  

External links

• http://www.cpcgamereviews.com/amtix/index.html A list of every game that has been reviewed and/or previewed in AMTIX!
• Amtix! covers Scans of Amtix! front covers