THE WORLD'S BIGGEST-SELLING AMIGA
MAGAZINE
| Issue No: 95 |
Month: March 1997 |
| Release Date: ? |
Price: £4.50 (2 disks) £5.50 (CD-ROM) |
| Editor: Nick Veitch |
Page Count: 116 |
MAIN FEATURE
Power Up!
Fifty essential utilities that will boost the performance of your Amiga
(5-page article).
COVER DISK/CD
Serious Disk
TurboCalc 2.1
AssignZ+
DiskSqueeze
Newmenu
TolleUhr
Arexx website
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Games Disk
Tiny Troops demo
Mini Arcanoid
Poing 4
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CoverCD (AFCD11)
DrawStudio demo
EMC CDs demo
Lightwave 5 patches
ACDPlay
ZJTools
AMOS code
PicConvert
Alien Breed 3D 2 source code
Burnout demo
Blockout
... and much, much more!! |
NEWS ITEMS
Time Gentlement Please!
The end may be in sight. After seven months since the demise of Escom,
and through the protracted Viscorp affair, it seems that the Amiga Technologies
buyout saga may finally be drawing to a close. Quikpak remain confident
that they will purchase the company.
Sassenrath blows his top
Carl Sassenrath, author of the Amiga EXEC and CDXL spooling media format,
announces a new cross-platform OS called Lava. (Lava later became known
as Rebol and is available for several operating systems.)
FEATURE
Emulators Part 7
In the seventh part of the popular feature, Simon Goodwin explores
Sinclair Spectrum emulators.
REVIEWS
SCREENPLAY
Reviews
Jet Pilot - 65%
Burnout - 40%
Minskies Furballs - 80%
Tiny Troops - 88%
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AF SERIOUS
Reviews
Lightwave 5 - 58%
Media Magic - 87%
Siamese System - 93%
Prima Atom - 90%
Indigo Power Adaptor - 80%
Exploring Lightwave 3D - 45%
External IOmega Zip 100 (long-term review) - 93%
CD-ROM round-up
3D Images - 65%
Meeting Pearls - 80%
Computer Safari - the complete collection - 85%
In to the net - 90%
The Learning Curve - 65% |
CREATIVE
(TUTORIALS)
Cinema 4D (Chapter 1)
In the first part of this tutorial, John Kennedy describes basic view
and object manipulation.
Music-X (Chaper 3)
Darren Irbin looks at cross fading effects and the swing processor.
Real 3D 2 Tutorial (Chapter 8)
Graeme Sandiford explores Real 3D's animation tools.
Advanced ARexx Coding: Web Spinning the ARexx way (Part 2)
Paul Overaa creates an automatic web site using ARexx.
Drawing a wage (Part 3)
Jason Jordache provides more tips on how to succeed in the games industry.
REGULARS
The month in View
Amiga Format News
The Bradford Column
The Smith Column
ScreenPlay
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Previews
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Charts
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Readers Games
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Games Check
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GameBusters
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PD Select
Seriously Amiga
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Intro Page
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CD-ROM Round-up
Workbench
Amiga.net
Mailbag
Market Place
Amiga Format book offers
AF Subscriptions
Amiga Format CoverDisk
Amiga Format CoverDisk Extra
Next month
COMMENTS
The back cover featured the £50 Gallery winner for the first and
only time. The Gallery was a monthly art page aimed at encouraging Amiga
artists to send their work into the magazine. The cartoon figure was created
by Patrice Mille using Image 3.0 & Photogenics 1.2 on his A1200.
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