Why waiting for an OS4 magazine?

In the past, I heard a few people saying that it would be great to have an AmigaOS 4 magazine. It is true that our system is not covered much on the printed magazines these days, not even on guide magazines. The ones that spare a few pages to have content for AmigaOS 4 are the Amiga Future and the Boing, as much as I know.

But I would like to ask why should we wait of having a magazine that covers AmigaOS 4 more, and don't we use the tools we have right now available in our hands.

Anyone who would like to cover topics about Software/Hardware and write an article can do it in IntuitionBase (https://intuitionbase.com/), where we have already seen a few excellent examples from sailor. As I am the maintaner of that website, you just need to ask me for an account there, with the ability to write your content.

If you do not want to do it in IntuitionBase, there is the Articles section (https://www.amigans.net/modules/publisher/) here, in amigans.net. You can freely share your article here, which is available for everyone to use. You can even write something for the AmigaOS 3 here, as this is included in the website interests.

Both of the websites are AmigaOS 4 oriented and accessing them is free of charge for everyone. Both of them give credit to whom wrote the article, as your nickname is visible as the author. Writing your articles in any of them, you express your interests and passion for the OS we adore, and you help the website to get more traction (although 85% will be from AI bots). IntuitionBase has a more modern environment to upload images and write your text, but amigans.net articles section is equally easy to contribute to.

So, should we wait for the magazines to turn their head more to our systems, or it is already possible to share our passion with the community?

@George
Printed magazine is something totally different: any articles in the internet can be lost and die even in webarchive, someone newer will know where they was and at all. Some just not in internet much still.

While real magazine which you hold in hands, it's something which feels "real", the thing you can put on table , and after 10 years again feel the color of the printed paper. Real magazine always was something more quality, where many pplz spend their time on proofreading, design, actuall planning, introductions, and all that. It just totally different things than just articles on sites.

Even diskmags of the past is more interesting than just articels, because of the engines / shells programmed specially for, while still not real thing.

I love how AmigaFuture done, wish we have just specific AmigaFuture for only Amigaos4. There a lot of everything happens which can feel easy 50 color 1 time per 3-4 or at least 6 months.

There's also WhatIFF? Amiga Guide Magazine that releases an edition every 3-4 months and anyone can contribute.

@328gts
Probably as many others lately focused on classic amigas only and only in electronic form ?

Amiga Addict would surely accept contributions on OS4 topics - if they had enough they could even do a OS4 corner monthly feature

@kas1e

Yes I agree printed form is ideal but it's nice to read AMIGA related articles on your AMIGA too
Also printed magazines cost money and that automatically excludes people from seeing content

@NinjaCyborg
When i talk year or two ago with one who doing AmigaAddict, i was told that yes, all accepted, all fine, but in end, i for test just buy few issues , and they was fully, totally old retro-retro os3 stuff. Even news, which is a lot happens in amigaos4, morphos and aros, wasn't mention at all, only and only os3. And that no problems, just it cleary show where interest of magazine are.

Even writing one single article to it about os4, when all others is about some Briliance app or SuperFrog which million times were covered everywhere, not of big interest.

The only real print magazine which at least have something about amigaos4 and morphos and which is active, is AmigaFuture, but those also lately shift to os3 mostly.

There was some nice Poland magazine covering only NG, called AmigaNG but i do not remember if it was printed or not (and in Poland anyway, so not that international)

@kas1e

Ah well the question to ask is:
- are they interested mostly in servicing their retail audience?
- or are they willing to take any Amiga-ish related content?
- does the content reflect the contributions offered? would they expand the content coverage if they had wider variety of contributions?

Recent issue had an article on internet apps on Amiga, but it was very poor, could have been written in 2005 and wouldn't have been any different. So their standard is very low and if I were them at least I'd welcome better quality contributions.

@walkero

People have a wonderful quality that they may prefer something, rather irrationally, over something else that is way more practical, accessible, or cheaper. Take our PPC Amigas, for example: they are awkwardly under-featured, hard to get, and obscenely expensive, yet we stick to them despite having loads of alternatives. They give us some experience or feelings we wouldn't trade off.

Printed magazines are similar in a way. Almost anything they contain could be published on the web more quickly, more cheaply, and made instantly available to a much larger audience. Yet there is still something about picking up an actual magazine, leafing through its pages, looking at the layout and illustrations as they were meant to appear, and perhaps putting it on a shelf afterwards. It turns reading into a small physical ritual rather than just another piece of content passing through a screen. The web is unquestionably more practical, but practicality isn't always what makes something enjoyable.

So I guess when people are asking for a print magazine, they're pursuing the kind of enjoyment we've always had with mags. It's not that they don't know you can read stuff elsewhere.