Amtix

Amtix was a British magazine about the Amstrad CPC (and Amstrad PCW), published from November 1985 (issue #1) to April 1987 (issue #18). There was also a free promotional issue #0 (October 1985).

It had a column (by Sean Masterson in issues #1–#14, by Rob Steel in issues #15–#18) about Amstrad CPC adventure games, mainly text adventures (IF).

Issues of the Adventure column

These links are from the Internet Archive. Reviews or other articles about purely graphic adventures aren't mentioned in this list.

1985

• 0 (October): p9.
  • "Beginning the exploration", a presentation of the Adventure column.
• 1 (November): pp86-95.
  • Reviews of Red Moon, Ashkeron, Robin of Sherwood, and Gremlins.
  • Preview of Graphic Adventure Creator.
  • Reviews of the books Writing Adventure Games on the Amstrad and Exploring Adventures on the Amstrad CPC 464.
• 2 (December): pp62-70.
  • Reviews of The Never Ending Story, Graphic Adventure Creator, North Sea Bullion Adventure, and Genesis.

1986

• 3 (January): pp97-101.
  • Reviews of Terrormolinos, The Worm in Paradise, Mindshadow, Ice Station Zero, Quann Tulla, and Faerie.
• 4 (February): pp53-60.
  • Reviews of Souls of Darkon, Seas of Blood, and Runes of Zendos.
  • Article about Infocom, with reviews of Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Deadline, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
• 5 (March): pp61-69.
  • Reviews of Lord of the Rings, Planetfall, and Seastalker.
  • Review of the book Adventure Games for the Amstrad CPC 464.
  • Hints for Faerie, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ice Station Zero, Quann Tulla, and Zork I.
  • Map of Zork I.
• 6 (April): pp81-83.
  • Reviews of Al-Strad and The Hollow.
  • Hints for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Red Moon.
• 7 (May): pp58-68.
  • Reviews of The Lost Phirious Part 1: The Casiopia, The Beer Hunter, The Ring of Darkness, Microman, The Mural, and Galaxias.
  • Hints for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Never Ending Story, Mordon's Quest, Fantasia Diamond, Return to Eden, and Red Moon.
  • Map of Mindshadow.
• 8 (June): pp65-71.
  • Reviews of Redhawk and Runestone.
  • A letter about the adventure fanzine Glamdring.
  • Hints for Bored of the Rings, Mindshadow, and Lords of Time.
  • Walkthrough for Message from Andromeda.
  • Map of Runestone.
• 9 (July): pp60-67.
  • Reviews of The Price of Magik, Seabase Delta, and Robin of Sherlock.
  • Hints for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Heroes of Karn, Robin of Sherwood, The Hobbit, Emerald Isle, Warlord, and The Forest at World's End.
  • Walkthrough for The Never Ending Story.
  • Map of Red Moon.
• 10 (August): pp62-73.
  • Reviews of Blackstar, Acheton, Wrath of Olympus, Nocturne, Qor, The Lost Phirious Part 2: The Planets, Hunchback: The Adventure, Theseus, Escape from Khoshima, and The Guardian.
  • A letter about the Adventure Probe fanzine.
  • Hints for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Red Moon.
  • Walkthrough for The Forest at World's End.
  • Maps of Gremlins and The Forest at World's End.
• 11 (September): pp80-83.
  • Reviews of The Boggit, Treasure Tunnels, The Experience, Nythyhel, and The Hobbit.
  • Hints for The Forest at World's End.
  • Mention of the fanzine Goblins Cavern.
• 12 (October): pp33-38.
  • Review of Jewels of Darkness.
• 13 (November): pp65-72.
  • Reviews of Rebel Planet and After Shock.
  • A letter about the Adventure Probe and Adventure Contact fanzines.
  • Hints for Seabase Delta and Lord of the Rings.
• 14 (December): pp51-58.
  • Reviews of The Snow Queen, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Darklord, Royal Rose, Crime Time, Kingdom, Colditz Escape, Miami Mice, and Flook One.
  • Previews of The Colour of Magic and Bugsy.
  • Hints for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Seabase Delta.

1987

• 15 (January): pp34-35.
  • Reviews of Bugsy and The Archers.
• 16 (February): pp39-45.
  • Reviews of Dracula, Kentilla, Twice Shy, Kwah!, and The Pawn.
  • Walkthroughs for The Boggit and Zork I (part one).
  • Hints for The Very Big Cave Adventure, Lord of the Rings, and Terrormolinos.
• 17 (March): pp39-45.
  • Reviews of Silicon Dreams, Winter Wonderland, The Legend Of Apache Gold, Dodgy Geezers, and Escape from Khoshima.
  • Walkthroughs for Dracula, Zork I (part two), and Robin of Sherwood.
  • Hints for Spy Trek.
• 18 (April): pp48-51.
  • Reviews of The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, The Pawn, and Imagination.
  • Walkthroughs for Lord of the Rings (part two), Enchanter, The Beer Hunter, and Bugsy.

Other IF content

1986

• 5 (March):
  • p. 70: Lord of the Rings competition.
• 7 (May):
  • pp. 84-86: Four minds forever voyaging (part one) - an interview with Dave Lebling and Steve Meretzky from Infocom.
• 8 (June):
  • pp. 88-90: Four minds forever voyaging (part two) - an interview with Stu Galley and Carl Genatossio from Infocom.
  • p. 86: Redhawk competition.
• 9 (July):
  • p. 52: The Very Big Cave Adventure competition.
• 10 (August):
  • pp. 54-56: Splinters of Magik - interview with Level 9.
  • p. 45: The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings competition.
  • p. 61: Jewels of Darkness competition.
• 12 (October):
  • p. 63: article about the fanzine Orcsbane.
• 13 (November):
  • pp. 34-35: 'Finding four in Swanmore' - interview with Fergus McNeill and Judith Child from Delta 4.
  • p. 92: Bugsy competition.
• 14 (December):
  • p. 59: Level 9 competition.
  • p. 70: Leather Goddesses of Phobos competition.

1987

• 15 (January):
  • p. 40: Incentive Software competition.
• 17 (March):
  • p. 50, in The Rainbird File, an article about Rainbird: short interviews with Mike Austin of Level 9 and Anita Sinclair of Magnetic Scrolls.
• 18 (April):
  • p. 53: article about the fanzines Adventure Contact, Adventure Probe, and Orcsbane.

Links

• Amtix at CPCWiki, including scanned issues.
• Amtix at Wikipedia.
• Amtix scans at the Internet Archive.