Source: Amtix – Issue Number 1 – November 1985
Amtix was a relatively short-lived magazine published in the U.K. dedicated to Amstrad computers, mostly covering gaming. Most from North America probably aren’t familiar with Amstrad computers but they were quite popular in the U.K. in the 1980s and early 1990s. Issue number 1 from November 1985 includes:
Top Games for November
- Highway Encounter – Vortex and Panayi challenge you to a fight on a long-long road.
- Dragontorc – Hewson’s mammoth graphical adventure is set to hit the top of the charts.
- Starion – Can you take on the challenge of saving time itself from alien ravages in this exciting new arcade puzzler?
- Sorcery Plus – The sequel proves to be better than the original in Virgin’s latest arcade/adventure.
- Red Moon – Sean Masterson discovers that seeking crystals isn’t easy when it comes to Level 9’s latest adventure.
Amtix! Competitions
- Starion – Melbourne House have 50 copies of their exciting new mind-twister up for grabs.Can you make it?
- Macadam Bumper – How much of a pinball wizard are you? There’s lots of unusual prizes at stake in this one.
- World Cup Soccer – A chance to meet Ray Clemence and a copy of McMillan’s newest football game in this competition – 50 to go!
- EEE Dakka Boom! – US Gold want 30 lucky winners to get an RS232 interface and some copies of their new shoot em up release, RAID
- Daft As Design Design – Are you as loony as these madcap programmer? You are? Good, then you could win a fabulous mystery prize – really you could.
November Specials
- The Complete Guide – Robin Candy catches up on a lot of games software in this first part to the complete Amstrad games software guide
- Previews – We take a look at two forthcoming releases, Doctor Who from Micro-Power, and Scooby Dooby Do from Elite
- Charge of the Lightpen Brigade – Franco Frey wonders whether the brave cause of the lightpen is hopeless because mice have been nibbling at them…
The Main Headings
- Editorial – The AMTIX! team says hello, a few useful bits about the mag, and On The Spot – your letter (well it will get bigger).
- News – Some astounding ideas from DK’tronics, plus other events and non-events.
- Amtips – Robin Candy kicks off his regular column to help you if you’re stuck and otherwise to cheat if you’re not. Plus maps for Dun Darach, Pyjamarama, Everyone’s a Wally and The Lords of Midnight.
- Amtech – Apart form lightpens, we’re also looking at CP/M, tape to disk utilities, a new word processor, Zedis and the Super Power’s DISCPOWER among other bits and pieces.
- From The Grotto – In keeping with the publishing tradition of suggesting that adventure columns are written by wizards, dwarves, fat-bellied jovial landlords from such charming residences as caves, castles and ancient inns…Meet Sean Masterson, our resident leprechaun in his wee grotto. He’s checking out a few adventures for you and looking at an amazing new Graphics Adventure utility.
- Strategy – And if that weren’t enough, he likes wargames et al…
- The Terminal Man – The first episode of our full colour comic strip.
…and more!
