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July 1990

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of your city, how many Ines hove you said 'Tut me in charge for

a day and I'll make this wretched thing work !"

Now, with Sim City, take the destiny of the world's greatest cities in hand.

Or take charge of a new evolving and growing city. Become both mayor

and city planner of a dynamic real-time simulation.

What you

should know

about the game

of the year.

time. Every decision instantly inﬂuences the life of your town,

In a spud mode, you can even cause tornadoes, ﬂoods, ﬁres and other

disasters at your whim. Save San Francisco from the great earthquake of

1906. Or save Tokyo of pollution and from his famous B-movie monster,

Sim City is an all-absorbing unique game which contains 8 pre-deﬁned sce-

narios : esg San Francisco, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro._ With it's exceptional

depth of play, its still simple to play with icons and graphics, without tent

commands.

Build houses, streets, factories, airports, a stadium, or even nuclear power

plants. Orgonise urban transport, hire police, ﬁremen, bulldoze entire

neighbourhoods

Rais e and collect taxes, balance your budget, manipulate property values.

Sim City is alive. It's loaded with animation and detailed sound effects.

Build roads, cars appears. Lay tracks, trains go. Build an airport, planes ﬂy.

Neighbourhoods go upper-class. Areas deteriorate into slums. Small indus-

tries grow into huge factories. Everything is managed and animated in real

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Des ign and build the city of your dreams. Sim City gives you the keys. The

rest is up to you.

INTOWORED Volume ll Issue 20 : 'People playing Sim City are completely plugged

into the world they create, disappearing for hours,"

NEW YORK TIMES "the model is very sophisticated, yet understandable And just

as Important, it's fun, too."

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Managing Editor

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Rev iews Editor

Nic Witch

ROUND-UP

Amiga voted computer of the year,

APL updated, a new 24

NEWS

Tec hnic al Editor

John Kennedy

bit

framestore, Amiga game sales top

arch-rival's...and much more.

Production Editor

Peter Glover

Art Editor

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LETTERS

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Or your printing device,

There's no time to waste,

He's the ace on the case.

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The shape of things to come? It's taken its time, but the new Amiga is here, now.

We have a hands-on soviets' of the machine everyone is talking about

COVER STORY

68 A DREAM

PORTFOLIO

PROGRAMMING

Weird. Very weird. These and other

comments will spring to mind as

you visit the gallery of Pierre

Iolivet's imagination.

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THE CODE

CLINIC

Rev ealed at last: The secrets of the

bootblock explained by coding

genius JoNon. Plus a look at the

ofﬁcial programming manuals.

NLACnot

MicroLink:

COME TRUE

It's here! The new A3000 has ﬁnally

been unveiled. The team were at the

launch and managed to get their

hands on one for a detailed review.

interactive

publishing

Chairman

Derek Meakin

Managing D ire ct o r

Hugh Go lin e r

Commercial D ire ct o r

Dav id Hirst

compurrioN

REVI EW

SHORTIES

BOOK

REVIEWS

GAME

FREEZERS

Suddenly Amiga "freezer" cartridges

are all the rage. We passed our

collection on to the cool lolvon

Ralph for an expert opinion.

Am ig a C o m p u t in g w e lco m e s a rt icle s f o r p u b .

lica tio n . M a t e ria l sh o u ld b e t yp e d or co m -

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addressed e n ve lo p e , o t h e rw ise t h e re t u rn o f

material ca n n o t b e g u a ra n t e e d . C o n t rib u t io n s

can only b e a cce p t e d for p u b lica t io n by

Interactive Pu b lish in g L t d o n a n a ll-rig h t s

basis

@1 9 9 0 I n t e ra ct ive Pu b lish in g L t d . N o m a t e -

rial m a y b e re p ro d u ce d in w h o le o r in p a rt

without w rit t e n p e rm issio n . While e ve ry'

care is t a ke n , t h e p u b lish e rs ca n n o t b e h e ld

le g a lly re sp o n sib le f o r a n y e rro rs in a rt icle s.

listin g s o r a d ve rt ise m e n t s.

Am ig a C o m p u t in g is a n in d e p e n d e n t p u b li-

cation a n d C o m m o d o re Bu sin e ss M a ch in e s

(UK) L id is n o t re sp o n sid b le for a n y of t h e

articles in this issu e or for a n y of t h e o p in -

ions expressed.

News t ra d e d ist rib u t io n : C o m a g M a g a zin e

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expansion system in the world.

Assuming you win, you can upgrade

your A500 for the price of a stamp.

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A three letter abbreviation special

wills books on DTV and DIP. Two

more contenders for the Amiga

version of the Booker Prize.

GAMES

AMIGA

ARCADE

The headlines: Anco get promoted to

the ﬁrst division with Player

Manager but Mastertronic's Protector

faces relegation.

Ray tracing needn't

be expensive, as

Stewart C Russell

discovers

4 AM I GA C OM PU T I N G Ally 1990

• CONTENTS

REVI EW

ARENA

ACCOUNTS

It's a mans life in accountancy.

Expert rabbit tamer Alex Aird takes

a break to give this Amiga package a

thorough workout.

THE

DISK

NCOMM

The latest version of the excellent

comms package from Norway which

threatens to overtake old favourites

like IRComm and Access!

PUBLIC DOMAIN

MADE

Amazingly fast line-drawn graphic

experience. You'll ﬁnd it excellent

accompaniment to your favourite

Floy d tracks.

BUDGET

RAY TRACING

If you thought you only got what

you paid for, then Stewart C. Russell

has a surprise in store. Cheap three-

dimensional modelling is here.

• N C o n o l: Fug ve rsio n ca n e s No n t e g ia n

pookage.Features Zro d ie rn t 'a rVe rs

at a H o g mode,

• PSh o w : Now yo u or Ve it I F F t ie s

orsich

MwM

• T h e Cede Viin v yo u r o w l b o o t

edo f ris m a t 's so u rce -o o d a . .6 3 c*

• Pro t e ct -0 4 4 1

PPSHOW

If you save disk space by

PowerPacking your IFF ﬁles, you

can now view and print them

wit hout de-crunching ﬁrst.

com fort o t t h is u se r-f rie rd y t ro n ' e n d

• MrabiziaL _ rM o t ile t AnlesBje rn 'd a sst • Th io

)e a w e co -m o o d y So za irt ie ckn e -

ven a d it a b le le ve ls!

• ..io t So ro m N ct s: M iSt t ra ll Howe °vie s

issu e o f Am ig a C o m p u tin g

• h t sd m in o n e lsw o zm a

• I GJe : Skim ; e xa rrp le s a ju st Ola f yo u

cal d o w it h a d a ce n b o e -d t a w ilo ro o t n e

All I n st ru ct io n s a re In t h e Ju ly

DTP

MI NI B LAST

Excellent multi-tasking scramble-

type game which plays in a

work benc h window. Anders Bjerin

delivers the goods again.

PROTECT-O-MAGIC

At last you can alter all those ﬁle

ﬂags easily from the comfort of a

user-friendly front end.

MUSI CBOX

Another "Name That Tune"

competition in this month's music

slot. Convince us you know what

you're talking about and win the

complete collection.

SERIES

In the ﬁrst of a three part guide to

desktop publishing, Nic Veitch

covers layout and design concepts.

Phew! What a scorcher.

99 NEW

apiniblast V1.00 by Anders Bjerin'

HOT SUMMER NIGHTS

A good excuse to hook up your Amy

to the Hi-Fi and annoy the

neighbours — an original Howie

Dav is composition.

SHORTIES

103

A500 PSU

LIGHTGUN

Rev iewed — a replacement power

supply with added Oomph, and the

heavy artillery moves in with an

Amiga compatible lightgun.

t for i day(s) on 3 line(s)

22 23:55:22 1990

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