'''The Amstrad User (TAU)''' was published in Australia by Strategy Publications, with the first issue coming out in February 1985(@ $3.00 per issue).
To start with , it soley covered the Amstrad CPC range, but as more computers were introduced by Amstrad, it expanded to cover them all.
Eventually it would cover the CPC, PCW and PC range of Amstrad computers.
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.