AmigaComputing016-Sep89.pdf

Volume 2

Number 4

September 1989

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COMPUTING

A MEGABYTE OF SUPER SOFTWARE

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wordprooessor I Day by Day You need never

• &wee: A Drogrammer's forget a Birthday,

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• Horns Accounts: Are you your desktoP rodent,

To load: Switch on and insert disc

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A NI IG A SCENE

Alatraging Editor

Derek Meakin

Editor

Simon Buckman

LATEST

NEWS

Commodore regroups for a marketing

attack. TeX discovers graphics. The

Amiga goes back to school. Clip art

for DTP and Superback save discs.

Assistant Editor

Jeff Walker

Production Editor

Peter Clover

1 THE VERY LATEST

ANIIG ARCADE

Art Editors

Mark Nolan

Doug Steele

•'ews Editor

Don Lewis

GAMES NEWS

Is there life on Mars? Gemini Wing

poses double trouble. Virgin signs

Monty Python. Imageworks enters the

machine and EA adds to Populous.

Advertisement Manager

John Snowden

Epson's 24 pin beauty Page 70

Advertising Sales

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RELIGION

MACHINE CODE

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HEAD TO

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Dave "Beebulator" Parkinson argue

about the "right" war to program and

the merits of trashing AmigaDos.

GOOD ENOUGH

TO EAT

lobo Kennedy looks to see what is on

the menu and ﬁnds that it is whatever

you want it to be with some clever

code and the right data format.

COPPER LISTS

EXPLAINED

jolyon Ralph teaches you some of the

secrets used by demo programmers to

do things only the Amiga makes

possible. This month: The Copper.

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ECONTENTSIE

VIDEO

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74 MAGICAL MUSICAL

GAMES REVIEWS

I CAME, I SAW

CAPTURED

The fastest video frame grabber also

serves as a genlock. putting it at the

top of every video buff s wish list. But

at E600 it needs to be good.

TOUR

Dean Friedman. chart-lopping rock

musician, is an expert on using (he

Amiga to make super sounds. He

checks ow the best software,

1:\ 1 o NI

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UNDER THE

WORKBENCH

Henning Sorensen explains what a

device is. why you need a Mountlist

and why a pipe makes AmigaDos a

very special operating system.

POWER'S 100 MEG

HARI) DISC

Adding a Quantum to your life can

make a very big difference. Simon

Rockman looks at the best hard drive

available for the Amiga.

F16 Combat Pilot Page 16

The lasfest dnve to town Page 76

HINTS

COVER STOR

GAME

KILLER

More magical mayhem from the

happiest game hacker with lips on

Populous. Lords of the Rising Sun

and Forgotten Worlds.

OUT OF AMAX

Rupert Goodwins knows about Macs

but loves his A500. Thanks to

Readysoft he can now have the best

of both computing worlds. (Jr can he?

64 TAKING A BYTE

Wayne Gretzkv Hockey Page Oi

I ‘RDWARE.

LETTERs

• Honda RVF: Trackside triumph

• Is Skweek a Communist plot?

• Get lost with African Raiders

• Two-player turmoil with Xybots

• Need you be scared of Phobia?

• Savage sounds the angry part.

• Mining rocks in Millenium 2.2

• SDI: A coin-op for Reagan's era

• Time Scanner ﬂips for I meg

PRETTIEST

PRINTER

The Epson 11)-000 is the strong silent

type. With a 24 pill face it is also very

good looking. Introduce it to your

computer for colourful results.

YOUR RIGHT

TO WRITE

Spotting the info bug, sorting out

Citizen's colour quandry, what to buy

on a trip to the US and the tell tale

sign of a dead Amiga,

• F-I6 Combat Pilot scores a hit

• Wayne Gretzky is the coolest

• F017 takes space trading further

• Beat Pmst in Grand Prix Circuit

September 1989 AMIGA COMPIITL

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