One of the great questions that everyone asks in life is what would have happened if an event had not come to pass. What would our present be like? To be more specific, what would CU Amiga have evolved into if it had been allowed to continue until the launch of the new machine. Ironically the CU staff provided a vision of a future that would never happen in the penultimate issue of CU Amiga, with the CU2000 feature. This was a crystal ball view of how the future could turn out, reviewing the next generation Gateway A2-1000.

As the hypothetical cover shows, the CU team foresaw a time when Amiga magazines produced DVD-ROM editions, fully supported by OS4. However, the future may have held a lot more for CU Amiga causing it to evolve once again. With the establishment of a new mass consumer Amiga and the association of Commodore with rebadged PCs, the CU title of the magazine would have become obsolete. The final shackles of the magazines 15 year history may have finally been shaken off. The name change would be as dramatic as the one that saw the rebirth of Vic Computing as Commodore User. Given that there is already a publication called 'Amiga Magazine' it would not be a simple case of chopping the offending part off. One option available would be to rename the magazine 'Amiga User'. Although comparisons to Amiga User International would be expected, the name remains true to the magazines history. Alternatively, CU Amiga may have been morphed into Amiga Active, given Andrew Korn's involvement in both magazines. Recent discussion indicates that Amigactive will be the spiritual descendent of CU Amiga. Perhaps if events had not happened as they did, September 1999 would have seen the launch date of a new EMAP publication, Amigactive, incorporating CU Amiga Magazine. Back to CU Index
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