Andreas Magerl

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Andreas Magerl (born February 23, 1971 in Übersee ) is a German author and publisher . He became known primarily as the publisher and editor-in-chief of the computer game magazine Amiga Future .

Career

Magerl was born in 1971 in Übersee am Chiemsee in Bavaria . After graduating from school, he trained as a retail salesman. This was followed by further training as a branch manager at Rewe , where he worked until 1992. During his time as branch manager, Magerl founded the APC & TCP computer club . The Amiga and Commodore 64 Club was one of the largest and most active German computer clubs at that time. A few years later the C64 area in the club was dissolved and it was converted into a pure Amiga computer club with more than 600 members worldwide. However, Andreas Magerl quickly realized that you also need a commercial representative for the computer club, for example in order to be able to market members' software products in a meaningful way. In addition, the in-house club magazine NoCover became too big to be able to distribute it privately.

APC & TCP

In 1992 the APC & TCP distribution was founded by Andreas Magerl. "APC & TCP" stands for "Amiga Personal Computer & Teamwork Computer Club Programming". APC & TCP became known through software titles such as Roadshow, CygnusED, DigiBooster, Flyin High, 1990 and Marblelous as well as through merchandising articles such as the Amiga Family Poster, but also through cooperation with trade magazines, trade fairs and the like. In the meantime over 200 products around the Amiga have been published by APC & TCP. In May 2017 the publisher celebrated its 25th anniversary.

In the late 1990s, Magerl realized that a printed magazine , software publishing, and computer club were taking too much time. The Internet age had also picked up speed and a national computer club was no longer as attractive to users as it used to be. So the APC & TCP Computer Club was finally dissolved in 2001. The club magazine NoCover suffered the same fate in 2004. The disk magazine was discontinued after 125 issues .

Amiga Future

In 1997 Andreas Magerl founded the printed Amiga magazine Amiga Future . The first edition appeared in January 1998 and since then a new edition has appeared every two months. Since 2007 the Amiga Future has been published in two languages ​​(German / English). In January 2018 the Amiga Future celebrated its 20th anniversary. Many articles by Magerl can be found in Amiga Future, but he has long since withdrawn from active editorial work and is mainly responsible for the organization and marketing of the print magazine.

Freelance journalist

Andreas Magerl worked as a freelance journalist for the print magazines AmigaPlus, Amiga Games , Amiga-Magazin , Amiga Special, Amiga Future and NoCover. At Amiga Games he took care of the entire user area. Among other things, the helpline was also part of his area of ​​responsibility. At Amiga magazine Magerl was responsible for a large part of the games area. He also temporarily created the Amiga Magazine's public domain floppy disk series. The cover CDs and special CDs of many Amiga magazines such as AmigaPlus, Amiga Games and Amiga Special were also created by him.

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personal data
SURNAME Magerl, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Übersee (Chiemgau)