Released just after New Years in 1996 Wave was originally a coded magazine put out by the German group The Council. Eventually after issue five Wave went independent. Though that didn't do anything to help their cause because simply put Wave just wasn't all that good.<p></p>Wave was originally released on a monthly basis but eventually the time span  inbetween issues grew. Personly though I think the main reason why Wave was never too successful was simply that it was too quirky for most peoples tastes. After issue twelve Wave went from a DOS to Win32 code base before eventually dying after issue thirteen. The Win32 coding isn't too bad I might add, though at times it does feel like you are reading a badly designed webpage rather then an electronic magazine.