''Ahoy!'' was a

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published between January 1984 and January 1989 in the US, covering on all Commodore color computers, primarily

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and

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History

The first issue of ''Ahoy!'' was published in January 1984. The magazine was published monthly by Ion International and was headquartered in New York City. It published many games in

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and machine language, occasionally also printing assembly language source code. ''Ahoy!'' published a

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program called ''Flankspeed'' for entering machine language listings. ''Ahoy!'s AmigaUser'' was a related but separate publication dedicated to the Amiga. It was spun off from a series of columns in ''Ahoy!'' with the same title, and the first two issues were published instead of the parent magazine in May and August 1988.

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Gallery of covers and downloadable archive of disks
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