 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (June 2023) |
 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 |
Amtix (stylized as AMTIX!) is a magazine that originally reviewed Amstrad CPC computer software in the mid-1980s, published monthly by Newsfield Publications Ltd.
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.
- ^ "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.