Australian Commodore and Amiga Review - Australia's Magazine

Updated 2 January 2024

Internet Archive claims that ACAR was longest-running Amiga magazine in Australia, published from 1983 to 1996. Who am we to argue about this? To be honest, we barely remember the covers, except for the 1989 Annual Edition which had a distinctive high gloss cover and was at the news stands for a while. We note from reading through the articles about the dawn of the dial-up internet services. This was an intense period of transition from BBSs to internet services.

Personal Experiences

There have be a few Australian computer magazines published through the years. Possibly the most independent of them all was the Australian Commodore and Amiga Review. I believe that the magazine started as the Australian Commodore Review and then it extended the masthead as the Commodore Amiga became popular. The magazine was published out of Kensington in Sydney. The magazine must have been a big deal for the editor and this looks like a small pubilshing unit here. Honestly, I bought more of the UK magazines, like Amiga Format, in the day but ACAR was always just there waiting to to be picked up and read. And yes, the covers have always looked like they were desktop published.

Sample Selection from the archives

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