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From: GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig)
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Subject: Re: Has AmigoTimes gone under?
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Date: 16 Mar 90 16:44:02 GMT
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     Harv's account of Amigo Times stirs up some memories.  Not fond
 memories, but potent ones.  I worked for a small-time disk based magazine
 for the Commodore 64.  It couldn't have had half of Amigo Times circulation.
 It was arguably the best disk magazine for the platforms they ran on
 (C64, Mac, IBM, and Apple II).  We didn't have an Amiga version, which
 was good because AM News made us look like dirt, but they're not around
 to talk about it either.

     People who were familiar with the company, and our called us the best.
 Everybody thought we'd survive.  I was the assistant editor for most of my
 one and a half years, and editor for the last few months.

     I won't mince words.  Due to pig-headed management, we went chapter 11.
 That was about the same time I took on editor status.  We were having a little
 trouble paying our contributors.  Actually, we wern't.  We simply didn't have
 the cash.  The editors threatened to walk if they weren't paid.  Checks got
 written DAMN quick.  We all had a strong concern for our writers.

     I left a few months later.  The magazine miraculously lied on another
 year.  September 1988, they went belly-up.  They stranded around 35 thousand
 subscribers (for all four magazines) and stiffed our programmers and writers
 (hi, R'ykandar.)

     I know how you feel, Harv and others, but the blame probably doesn't
 rest on the editor.  It's a shame the mag went down.

     Our company, and probably Amigo Times, went on the assumption that things
 would get better, and didn't think about who else would get stepped on
 if they went belly-up.  That's not their concern.  Business is business.
 Yell at management (I did).

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