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© 1997-2006
Gareth Knight
All Rights reserved

 
THE COMPLETE PACKAGE FOR ATARI ST AND COMMODORE AMIGA OWNERS
Amiga Format Logo Issue 1
Issue No: 1 Month: July 1988
Release Date: June 1988 Price: £2.50
Editor: Ben Taylor & Simon Williams Page Count: 100

AF MAIN FEATURE

ST or Amiga? The Choice is Yours
Richard Monteiro wades through the waffle to highlight the similarities and differences between the two micros.

AF COVER DISK (DUAL-FORMAT)

ST/Amiga Format used a unique dual format filing system that could be read by Amiga and ST. To run the software, the user was required to copy all data to a blank formatted disk.
 
Atari ST
Oids demo (Mirrosoft)
Virus Killer
RAM Disk
Game Pokes
Monoware
Invaders
Disk Formatter
Art Goodies
Desktop Accessories
Amiga
Interceptor demo (Electronic Arts)
VirusX
Othello
Drunken Mouse
 
 

 

AF NEWS ITEMS

Game prices to drop?
Amiga price cut
Laptop ST looks definite
Impending launch of Workbench 1.3

AF FEATURE

Transputers do it in parallel
3-page feature on the impending launch of the ST and Amiga transputer.

Fair crack of the WP
Word processor round-up

Over the Rainbow
Graphics software reviews covering Spectrum 512 (ST) and Photon Paint (Amiga).

Back to Basics
Basic software round-up

AF TUTORIALS

Learn to program on the ST and Amiga
A round-up of the books available that teach programming.

AF REGULARS

News
Screen Play
Gamebuster
Letters
Gold Dust (rumours section)
Disk Extra
Desktop (tips and technical guide for the ST)
Workbench  (tips and technical guide for the Amiga)
Escape Sequence (last page)

AFCOMMENTS
The magazine that started it all. The issue was equally balanced with coverage for both systems. Even at this stage the Amiga was favoured by the editorial staff, who described it as a more versatile machine.

 

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