Amtix

Amtix (stylized as A^M_TIX!) is a magazine that originally reviewed Amstrad CPC computer software in the mid-1980s, published monthly by Newsfield Publications Ltd.

Amtix

Issue 1, November 1985
Categories	Computer magazine
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	November 1985
Final issue Number	April 1987 18
Company	Newsfield Publications Ltd
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
ISSN	0952-3022

Unlike Zzap!64 and CRASH (its more successful sister publications from Newsfield), the original version of Amtix! was relatively short-lived. It ran for 18 issues in total between November 1985 and April 1987, plus a special preview issue (Issue zero) which was given away with Zzap!64 and CRASH.

After issue 18, Amtix! was sold to Database Publications who merged the Amtix! games sections into their own Computing With the Amstrad magazine.^[1]

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

In September 2021 the magazine was relaunched as a quarterly A5 publication by Fusion Retro Books under the title AMTIXCPC Micro Action. Twelve issues of AMTIX were subsequently published before the title closed again.

References

1. "The End of the Road for Amtix!". Amtix! (18). Newsfield Publications Ltd. April 1987. Retrieved 13 February 2015. After nearly eighteen months of hard reviewing, the AMTIX team is disbanding [..] This is the last issue of AMTIX! [..] Newsfield are passing the title on to Database Publications, who plan to incorporate the best features of AMTIX! in their magazine, COMPUTING WITH THE AMSTRAD.

External links

• A list of every game that has been reviewed and/or previewed in AMTIX! Archived 27 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine
• Amtix! covers Scans of Amtix! front covers
• Archived Amtix magazines on the Internet Archive