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© 1997-2006
Gareth Knight
All Rights reserved

 
THE WORLD'S BIGGEST-SELLING AMIGA MAGAZINE
Amiga Format Logo AF86 - Front CoverAF86 - Back
Issue No: 86 Month: July 1996
Release Date: ? Price: £4.50 (2 disks) £5.50 (CD-ROM)
Editor: Nick Veitch Page Count: 124

AF MAIN FEATURE

Join Us!
Seven-page feature on Amiga networking. Considers PC & Mac connectivity, Parnet, and TCP/IP.

AF COVER DISK

The AF coverdisk became increasingly unimportant after the launch of the CD edition.
Serious Disk
Octamed SoundStudio
Octomed 5 tutorial
MagnifiCAD
EdWordOro 5.5
IOP Editor
 

 

Games Disk
XP8 demo
Breed 96 v1.3
 
 
 
 

 

CoverCD
Octamed SoundStudio
CanDo
Over 20 licenceware titles
Super Foul Egg
FirstNet software
Shapeshifter
TopAVI
... and much. much more!

AF NEWS ITEMS

Viscorp unveil future at Toulouse
Viscorp announce the death of the Walker and their continued emphasis upon the set-top market. Carl Sassenrath's message to Amiga owners everywhere, reads "To all Amigans, We're Back! Better than Ever!"

Send in the Clones
Phase 5 announce new Amiga-clone (later known as the A/Box)

See the Light Again
Newtek announce the completion of the latest version of Lightwave (v5?)

Eagles landing
Blittersoft announce Eagle range of towered Amigas.

Rub the Lamp
Aladdin 4D bought by Nova Design

AF FEATURE

ATAPI Days are Here
Simon N. Goodwin looks at the latest hardware standard which allows the cheap attachment of  CD-ROM drives to the Amiga without an SCSI interface.

AF REVIEWS
 
SCREENPLAY
Previews
  • World of Formula One
  • Access Denied Mission Two
  • Kang-Fu
  • Tin Toy in the House of Fun Adventure
Reviews
Total Football - 90%
Primal Rage - 88%
Sensible World of Soccer Euro 95/96 - 96% (20% if you already have SWOS)
Access Denied - 15%
AF SERIOUS
Reviews
Vidi Amiga - 65%
DblScan 4000 - 87%
The Siamese System - 88%
GlidePoint - 60%
XiPaint 4 - 76%

CD-ROM Round-up
Arcade Classics Plus - 90%
1078 Weird Textures - 78%
Magic Workbench Enhancer 82%
Scene Storm - 90%
John Pasternak's Movie Making Series Vol. 1 - 50%
AGA Experience Volume 2 - 82%

AF AF CREATIVE (TUTORIALS)

Amiga.net Tutorial
Darren Irvine gets back to basics and looks at how to set-up AmiTCP.

Simultaneous Equations
A set of simultaneous equations with three, four, or a dozen unknowns, would you know how to solve them? Your Amiga could and Paul Overaa has written a utility which performs this task in ARexx.

Real 3D Tutorial (Part 10)
John Kennedy decorates and brightens up his 3D house.

Blitz Tutorial (part 5)
Creating a HTML browser in Blitz.

AF REGULARS

Month in View
Amiga Format News
The Bradford Column
ScreenPlay
  • Previews
  • Readers Games
  • GameBusters
  • PD Select
AF Serious
CD-ROM Round-Up
Workbench
Amiga.net
Amiga Format web site
Subscriptions
Amiga Format Special Offers
Back Issues
Mailbag & The Gallery
Amiga Format Coverdisks
Amiga Format CoverCD
Amiga Format Coverdisks Extra!
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