Changes
To start with, it soley covered the Amstrad CPC 464, then the CPC 664 & CPC 6128. As other Amstrad computers were released the magazine covered them all. At its peak, the range the magazine covered was: CPC, PCW8256, PCW8512, PCW9512, PC1512, PC1640, PPC512, PPC640, PC2086, PC2286, PC2386, PC20, PC1286, PC1386, ALT286, ALT386SX, PC3086, PC3286 and PC386SX.
It was an independent publication, originally sourcing and writing all it's own articles and content from writers mostly within Australia. As this became more difficult with time, it set up agreements with Future Publishing and Database Publications to reprint content from their respective magazines - Amstrad Action, 8000 Plus and CPC Computing (formerly Computing with the Amstrad).
It had a fairly conventional layout and design and each issue included things like games reviews, type-ins, game cheats, an adventure section, hardware and letters to the editor. It generally separated CPC only content from PCW and PC content - however sometimes articles were published that were generally applicable to all of the Amstrad machines.
The magazine was also available on tape for Amstrad CPC users, and it included any type-ins that were in that issue plus bonus material. This was on a subscriber only basis and the tape was never directly sold with the magazine.
The magazine was widely available throughout Australia and New Zealand from 1985 through to the end of 1990. It was also available to the general oceania region - nearby countries such as New Caledonia, Brunei, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Kiribati, Malaysia, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Singapore, Tonga, Tokelau, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands - although on a more limited and not as timely basis.
It was a reasonable sized magazine. Early issues being around 32 pages, with the magazine peaking at 72 pages. Most issues though, were 64 pages including the 1991 re-brand/name changein 1991, detailed below.
It ran until September 1991 (9 issues in total) with Strategy Publications ceasing to produce the magazine around then due to obviously declining magazine sales and popularity of Amstrad machines. It is unknown if Strategy Publications completely ceased operations, changed their name or merged with another publisher.
'''Note on the scans:''' Only the relevant All contents, news, letters, and CPC relevant sections of these magazines has been scanned and uploaded (to cut down on the manual labour). So all advertising, Generally most PCW & /PC content is not included (& advertising has been skipped - unless some CPC content spills over)happens to be on the same page.
== Magazine Scans ==
