German Archimedes Group

Celebrating thirty years of GAG-News with ROUGOL

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 VinceH

With very few exceptions, magazines that centre on RISC OS have tended to come and go since the operating system first appeared1, and only a very small number have stayed the course and continue to be published today. One of those is the magazine published by the German Archimedes Group, GAG-News, which has been published every two months since April 1992 – making it one of the oldest RISC OS magazines still being published, and the oldest – and only – regularly published German language publication for the platform.

GAG-News DVD collection to commemorate it reaching 175

January 31, 2021February 4, 2021 VinceH

That’s 175 issues, not 175 years, obviously! In May of this year, the German Archimedes Group magazine GAG-News will have reached its 175th issue, having been published consistently every two months since April 1992. The magazine’s publisher, Herbert zur Nedden, notes that this probably makes it the only printed1 Acorn/RISC OS magazine to have managed such a long run with no breaks in its schedule.

News nybble: GAG-News reaches the ripe old age of 150

March 15, 2017 VinceH

Er… 150 issues, that is – it’s 25 years! GAG News, the magazine published by Herbert zur Nedden for the German Archimedes Group, has reached something of a milestone. Herbert has been in touch to let me know that he has just published issue 150. The magazine is published in printed form every two months, and it doesn’t take a maths genius (luckily for me) to work out that 150 issues is 300 months – which is twenty five years. Congratulations to Herbert and everyone else involved for that achievement,…

German magazine GAG-News CD 5 available

March 26, 2013March 26, 2013 VinceH

It’s GAG-News, not bad news! Back in September, when reporting that Drag ‘n Drop had ceased publication (again), I said: This leaves RISC OS with only one remaining magazine, Archive. Already the platform’s only remaining printed magazine… This was incorrect, a fact pointed out to me in the comments on that post. Not only is there another magazine still being published as well as Archive (and Drag ‘n Drop, which was subsequently resurrected by Christopher Dewhurst), but it’s a printed magazine to boot.