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YOU'VE ALWAYS HAD

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Amiga's 4,096colors give

your business graphics a

visible advantage.

Amiga's4 channelsofstereo

giveyoua sound acVanroge

Learning on Amiga is highei

education

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ALOTOFCOMPETITION.

UNFAIRADVANTAGE.

Nobodyeversaid itwasgoing to be

easy. But itjustgot easier. Now, there's

Amiga.'" The firstand onlycomputer

to giveyou a creativeedge.

Amiga makesyou look better,

sound better: workfasterand more

productively. Itcan be your number

cruncher, filing system, audio-visual

department, graphic designer, print

shop and faithfulworkhorse.

You can't buya personal computer

atany price that has all ofAmiga's

features. Norcanyou find one that's

easierto use.Amiga lets you point at

symbols instead oflearning compli

cated commands.

Amiga isfriendly but it'sa power

house, too. It has twice the memoryof

Macintosh™ orIBM® PC. Itcosts less

than eitherofthem and can do every

thing theycan do, better, because

Amiga is more creative.

Noother personal computergives

you over4,000 colors, stereo sound

and incredible dimension. Imagine

theadvantageofpreparing business

presentationswith colorgraphics

and sophisticated animation right on

your computer.

Need to make creative useofyour

time?Amiga can doas manyas four

or fivethingsat once in separatewin

dowson.thescreen. Notjust display

them. Workon them. No other per

sonal computer can.

Amiga will print the cover memo

whileyou'reworking on a spread

sheet.And there's probablyenough

power leftoverto receive a phone

message ora stock quote overa

modem at the sametime.

Amiga is IBM-compatible, too.A

simple pieceofsoftware teaches

Amiga to emulate the IBM operating

system, soyou can run most IBM pro

grams. You'll have instantaccess to

the largest libraryofbusinesssoft

ware in theworld, including favorites

like Lotus-41,2,3 and dBase®

And sinceAmiga is the lastcom

puteryou'll want to buy, itwas only

fairto make itendlesslyexpandable

and adaptable. You can plug in print

ers [almostany kind),joysticks, your

video recorder, video camera,

modems, musical keyboards, draw

ing pads, extra diskdrives.You can

even expand the memory to a whop

ping 8 megabytes.

Amiga will talk toyou, read back

whatyou write, answeryourphone

and compose music like a profes

sional synthesizer Itcan add new

creativity toyourlife and bring new

life to everything you create.

SeeanAuthorized Amiga Dealer

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AMIGA GIVESYOUACREATIVE EDGE.

If you like the fast action of "F-15 Strike Eagle",

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THEHELICOPTER SIMULA

Clear the pad and get ready to experience the

thrill and excitement of low level, high speed

helicopter flight in (0

a variety of realistic

combat missions

with GUNSHIP.

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puts you in the cock

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and gives you the

sophisticated Integrated

Helmet Targeting System

(IHTS), gun tracking modes,

air-to-air missiles, and mul

tiple navigation systems

needed to accomplish

your chalienging Search

and Destroy, Rescue,

and Covert missions!

GUNSHIP's revolutionary 3-Dimensional

graphics and outstanding joystick fly- j^ ing system allows you to

realisticallyexperiencethe world of & modern helicoptercombat,

and rivals the simulations used to train real Army GUNSHIP pilots.

So get ready to test your skill, cunning, and flying ability with

GUNSHIP, the latest in an ever growing line of exciting real-life

simulations from MicroProse.

GUNSHIP is now available for

Commodore 64/128 computers for a

suggested retail of$34.95.

Coming soon for the Apple II

family, IBM PC/PC Jr.. Atari ST,

and Amiga. Call or write for

specific machine availability,

and for MC/VISA orders.

Experience the reality of these other

great simulations from MicroProse-

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Exciting Worlfl Wnr I

Submarine Action

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VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2. ISSUE 20 (OIUEMS

Al'RIUMAY 1986

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FEATURES

DEPARTMENTS

PREVIEW: DELUXE

VIDEO

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LETTERS

This brand new"video proces

sor" for the Amiga from Elec

tronic Ails can be used to cre

ate customized home videos,

business presentations, anl-

moted commercials ond any

thing else you can think of that

lends itself to animation,

by Matltraw Leeds

I'll — iii^iii —mi m

NEWS FROM THE FRONT

SOFTWARE REVIEWS

Treasure Island & Wizard Of OZ reviewed by Kelley Essoe 24

MaeblUS reviewed t>y ShayAddams 26

ApSOft-64 reviewed byWoli Lounsbery 28

Carriers at War reviewed ■• ssiken 30

Star Trek reviewed by MarkCototie 34

Game Maker reviewed oyErvmBoto 36

Color Me & SHOW Director reviewed by Pom Horowitz 38

Kermifs Electronic Story Maker reviewed byja* Embeny 40

ADVENTURE ROAD

X'PRESS: YOUR DIRECT LINE TO THE WORLD 70

Now you can subscribe toan Information sen/icethat puts you in directtouch with

national and International news wires, up-to-lhe-mlnute stock information, ond

much more. It's transmitted at 9600 baud, but requires no modem or telephone-

just a flatfee of about S19.95 o month and a cableTV line. DyDiane LeBrtd

The Most Interactive Game EverDyShoyAddams

COMPUTER WIZARD

AMIGAUPDATE:

USING GRAPH!-

CRAFT

DlSk Drives Demystified by Louis F. Sander

JIFFIES

Probably the most-owned

Amiga package out there right

now, Graph/craft is the ideal

paint program for budding

computer artists who tote their

fun seriously. !.,■ louis r Wallace.

Assignment Sheet by DW. Sampson

1,2,3 Disk Directory by Daniel R Wirtslead

GAME PROGRAMS

Joggers Dy Steven Propet

Pachyderm Panic byBuckemidress

64 USERS ONLY

Memgraph by" Harold Droid

56 Sprites byJonotbon Roddo

Disk Utility by :cr>en Rodda

128 USERS ONLY

BUG BUSTERS

Theycoll il "ploytesting," but!en hoursinfrontofa computerscreeneverydayfor

sixweeks doesn'tsound much Itfce ploy. A behind-the-scenes look otthese "play-

test pilots" ofihe computer gome Industry, bysunyAddams

128 Character Editor byJohn J. Konier

PROGRAMMER'S TIPS

102

RETURN Stripper by Stephen Leven

Reset Switches by Stoplran Loven

D.B.'S Cheapsheet: , Dennis Bloomtield

On the Move by IonAdam

COMPUTER SCIENTIST

105

107

109

110

USER GROUPS

118

HOW TO ENTER PROGRAMS INPOWER/PLAY 123

The Bubble Sort by issoc MoiiR

JOYSTICK LUNATIC

112

MAGAZINE ENTRY PROGRAM

125

ADVERTISERS' INDEX

128

The Strange Case ol John Q. Public t^sieve Finkei 115

COMMODORE POWER/PLAY 3

Law Of the West reviewed byErvinBoDo

Lode Runnel's Rescue reviewed by Ervin nooo

Percy Mason reviewed DyGory Fields

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