Stuart Campbell

Amiga Format hated AP more or less from birth, in the same way a dull, grubby swamp rock hates a comet.

The feeling was entirely mutual, and being forced to include "From The Makers Of Amiga Format" on our cover was a source of deep resentment and embarrassment for the AP team until issue 11, when we refused point blank to do it any more.

This, however, didn't stop AF from continually attacking AP in house ads which we were, of course, forced to run in our own magazine (a bizarre reversal of Future's usually inalterable mutual-support policy), and were never permitted to tangibly retaliate against.

This partly explains the otherwise-odd lack of staff movement between the two sister mags that you would normally expect to take place in a publishing company. Only Steve McGill ever made the trip from AP to AF, and look what happened to him.

We hated them, and they hated us. But then we were great and they were shit, so how else could it ever have been?