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From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Has AmigoTimes gone under?
Keywords: bankrupcy
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Date: 23 Mar 90 08:28:47 GMT
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In article <[26055e4e:3301.2]comp.sys.amiga;1@wcbcs> akcs.clemon@wcbcs (Craig Lemon) writes:
>>AmigoTimes has merged with INFO. Let's hope INFO doesn't pull the quality
>>of the mag down.  BTW: My picture was to be in next issue of A-Times!!!
>
>
>Will they still come out as two separate mags or will all of the AmigoTimes
>staff simply be writing for INFO now?  When I heard about the merger I heard
>that everything would stay normal and no issues would be delayed but that it
>would be simply a change of ownership.
>--                            _
> Craig Lemon              // |_|               
> Kitchener, Ontario     \X/  | |  M  I  G  A   
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> Amiga 2000 -- 2400 bps -- AmigaUUCP 1.03D     
> ..!watmath!xenitec!wcbcs!lemsys!clemon        
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>           ^^ Not Reliable Yet                 


Today I spoke with Mark R. Brown, Senior Editor of INFO magazine. 
The merger with AmigoTimes is OFF, repeat, cancelled.  

INFO magazine is dropping all 8-bit Commodore coverage and will in
all likelihood be renamed "Amiga.info magazine"  They expect the
next issue (which should have come out the second week of March) to
begin shipping in approximately one month to six weeks from now, or,
rougly at the end of April 1990.  From then on the intention is for
INFO (or Amiga.info) to be a monthly publication. 

What the current status is of Sama software, publisher of AmigoTimes,
I do not know.  Their telephones are disconnected.  Messages I have
had passed to Eyo Sama have not been returned.  But the merger/deal
with INFO is no longer going to happen.

INFO magazine's offices are functional and their phone number(s) are
listed in their magazine on the masthead page.  I'm just a freelance
writer for them and have no more information than the above.  I was
given permission to post this information about the merger cancellation
by Mr. Brown.

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