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Volume 1
Number 3
August 1988
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A Database Publication
CKOMPUTING
AMIGAAD VICE
All your programming
problems resolved,
plus games hints and
serious solutions
AMIGA2000
Flickerfixer for
clearer screens
68020 for
super speed
AMIGA
GAMES
O Leathernecks
O Buggy Boy
• Garrison II
• Scrabble
O Star Ray
• Aaargh!
and more
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excellence,
AMIGAONLINE
Which of the dialup
databases should
your modem listen to?
Is this the first real
Amiga wordprocessor?
AMIGACODE
Utilities to aid your
programming: F-Basic
and PowerWindows
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LATEST
NEWS
Amiga art to star at the Edinburgh
International Festival, Thriving Amiga
community in Norway. Plus all the
Amiga gossip from around the world.
YOURSELF
Registers and DMA channels:
Christopher Humphries takes a
second look at making merry music
with the Amiga sound hardware.
Editor
Simon Rockman
Production Editor
Peter Glover
Art Editors
Mark Nolan
Doug Steele
ADVENTURES
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Editorial Assistant:
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MOMENTS
Exclusive review of Alternative
Reality, outstanding value in
Mindshadow, and the puzzling
wizardry of Time and Magik.
SPEEDING BASIC
Rupert Good wins tests a new Basic
compiler. It makes his code run m
faster but is it really worth leaving
comparative safety of an interpreter?
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•CONTENTS•
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68020
BOARD
For E5.000 your Amiga 2000 could
run up to four times as fast. lez San
investigates the American brain
transplant method and approves.
VIDEOSCAPE
We examine the first of the Amiga
solid animation programs. It won its
author Allen Hastings — global
fame. What was all the fuss about?
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AEGIS
HARDWARE
INTO THE SILICON
UNDERWORLD
The Amiga's heart beats at 7.14MHz.
But there are many more interesting
electronic organs hidden under its
skin — as Rupert Goodwins found out.
GUIDE TO CU
Using wildcards can reduce the effort
needed to copy files. You'll find that
pattern matching really has nothing
to do with paisley and stripes.
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A PLAIN MAN'S
Magi cal Moments Page 12
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AMIGA
ARCADE
From Scrabble to Buggy Boy and
Aaarghl Stretch everything from your
vocabulary to your reactions with a
selection of the latest and the best.
FLILIERFIXER
Good for the eyes, a board which
cures the annoying interlace flicker
on the Amiga 2000 with a steady
640 by 400 pixel screen display.
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Fl i der fixer Page 59
GAME
KILLER
Max The Hacks" touts a flaming
joystick and gets to higher levels in
Barbarian and Black Lamp — with
just a little help from his friends.
POSTBAG
Send us a postcard or drop us a line,
either snail mail or down the wires.
and we'll share your computing
experiences with all our readers,
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FROM OUR
ADVI •
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
If your source code objects, or you
want to upgrade your system and
don't know what to buy. this is the
column to solve your problems.
VERSION 1
We evaluate a tool for machine code
and C programmers which takes the
tedious effort out of designing and
coding Intuition requestors.
1. POWERWINDOWS
,4 plain man 's guide to al Page 57
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