The earliest I remember were computer magazines a neighbour used to give me in the early 80s, but I forget the title. they were really thick computer magazines that used to cover all home computers and had a review of my first computer, the Amstrad CPC464 in one of them.

I then bought a few copies of Amstrad Action and Amstrad Computer User with the code listings to type in. I spent my summer holidays typing in the code from one of them for a full paint package. It was a huge program to enter, and to my surprise it worked. The issue was with 64kb of ram you could only draw a couple of things before it ran out.

Then news of the new 16bit computers started to appear. I became really interested in the Atari ST and was buying One magazine as well as ST/Amiga Format.

At school we were using Acorn Archimedes computers and I was learning programming so I subscribed to Acorn User which had a lot of code listings and coding tutorials. Plus lots of articles about the UK computer industry.

With the ST I mainly stuck with the ST/Amiga Format, then ST Format. With a few copies of ST Action and The One. I then realised the Amiga was far better than the ST and started saving for one. I bought a few copies of the US Amiga World magazine that features the launch of the CDTV and the A570 CD expandion. Really wanted those but never bought either inn the end.

For the Amiga Cu Amiga was always my favourite magazine, closely followed by AUi. I actually used to subscribe to both of these plus Amiga Format and Amiga Computing. Mainly because they all came with cover disks so you got a load is software and demos every month.

I then remember Edge magazine launching. I still have the first issue, along with many of the other early issues. Such a great high quality publication.

In the PC era I bought a few copies of various Magazines including PC Format, but my favourites ended up being PC Gamer and PC Pro. I subscribed to both for many years, and I still subscribe to PC Pro.wife

These days with the app Readily you no longer need to subscribe to individual magazines. One monthly sub and you have access to turn all including their back catalogues. I've been using this for a long time now to read PC Gamer, Retro Gamer, Edge and leads of others. Well worth a look.
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