This is the magazine for the more serious users of the Amiga, with a much more hardware and productivity software focus than the other mags, but sometimes this was where to get some of the best applications going, so there were some times I decided to purchase this one
Ambush
AmiCipher
C address book + ASPaint
GUI-Guru
Rend24
ReSource
Tools Daemon
Virus Checker v6.33
Well this issue had a really good front page article about a potential that Microsoft might actually make Word for the Amiga, however, they also reviewed Final Writer and Wordworth 3, both of which were big well-known Amiga Word Processors which were very feature packed, and the general consensus was, do we even need Microsoft Word? (remember, this was from a time when Windows PCs were not exclusively the only platform people were using)
Other than that, the Coverdisk had some interesting things on it
The utilities on the disk were pretty good - there was an update to Virus Checker, Ambush was a decent utility to open a program on a different screen. Tools Daemon seemed like a good idea, but I struggled to get it working on my single drive WB 2.04 machine.
Yeah, it gave me some stuff to play with
Not a bad mag, and definitely what I was looking for at that time - I wanted to discover more about the Amiga, not just the gaming side, and this scratched that itch.
I'm sure I had some other Shoppers before this, but I'm unable to find them online anyway (well, images of them) so there's some missing, but this one was a good one for me, it grabbed my interest
Well, contents wise, a lot of the reviews were geared towards CD-ROMs and Hard Disks, high-end monitors - all hardware for people with higher-end Amigas than me (I only had an unexpanded 500+ remember) but, the stuff I was interested in was on the disks.
I was really interested in coding, specifically BASIC - now, I might have already had AMOS Pro by this point (or did I get that next month on Amiga Format?) but I always liked the idea of creating apps that ran under Workbench and used the Amigas GUI, which is something HiSoft BASIC can do, but after using it for a while, I found it wasn't quite what I was after, but I did still spend a lot of time experimenting with and playing around with it, so it's still good and still what I was after
The F1's Introduction To Workbench was a great addition too, featuring a really good AmigaGuide like documentation system for how to use the Amiga's Workbench .......... but get this, it had the older V34 version of AmigaGuide on the disk, so it'd run on my A500+ ........... I'd finally acquired AmigaGuide and could read them darn AmigaGuide files that I hadn't got any way of opening before hand.
You have to remember, this was long before I ever had internet, so a lot of software I acquired was courtesy of coverdisks, even if I was just ripping background system or support files from the disks themselves.
The mag itself was targetted at higher end users than me, but, I did enjoy reading about all the kick ass Amiga hardware out there, but the disks were decent too, so that was a good addition for me.
Those coverdisks were packed with awesomeness this issue, and the mag wasn't bad
Virus killer: We give you all the software and advice you need
Amiga pick 'n' mix: Find out why multimedia on the Amiga is the key to its success
IntOS complete package. Plus much more - see back cover. Over 5Mb!
Win! Five copies of Wordworth 5!
So quite a lot to get in to
Well, I was after IntOS as I'd got in to AMOS coding by this point, and a preview issue of AMOSzine was a really good additions too.
The Virus Protection stuff was also a cool addition, but I don't remember what else was here, I'm sure I still have these disks so will need to refamiliarise myself and have another look at them.
I had more magazines and disks than these from AS, but Shopper isn't that well documented online and I struggled to find a lot of information here, but, Amiga Shopper always provided me with some awesome coverdisks and some great reviews of hardware and software.