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| News: |
| Seconds out... round two! BoXeR |
Boxer Amiga clone from Access Innovations Ltd.
on target for a release in the next few months |
| Jim beams out... |
Jim Collas resigns as president of Amiga Development LLC. |
| Innovative Graphics |
German-based Innovative announce FXPaint. |
| Stop Press |
Bill McEwen & Fleecy Moss rumoured to be doing... something. |
| Oh yes... OS3.5 is here! |
The first official OS upgrade in more than five years is now
available. |
| G3 & G4 are coming... |
New accelerator cards using the Motorola G3 & G4 due to
be launched by Phase 5 and Met@box. |
| The Worms returns! |
Hyperion announce the final installment of Team 17's Worms
to be ported to Amiga. |
| Amiga patents appear |
The first patents of the Gateway Amiga era appear. |
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Editorial:
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| We must be mad! |
Andrew Korn introduces the publishers and writers of Amiga
Active. |
| Rants and Raves: |
| What's in a name? |
Andrew Korn analyses the importance of the Amiga brand. |
| Features: |
| Back for the Future, Part One: History Lessons &
Mystery Chips |
Six page feature on the Gateway period, covering its initial
purchase, digital TV, Jim Collas, the QNX announcement, XML, concept designs,
the Amiga MCC, AmigaObjects and Linux. |
| Top Gear |
Wireless keyboards, Geek clothing, wheel mice, Candy Factory
Pro and Aminet Set 8 reviewed in the predecessor to the 'Active Media' regular. |
| Say goodbye to 880k. Iomega solutions |
Four page feature and review of Iomega products, providing
installation and filesystem guide. |
| All about Graphics cards |
Three page feature on the BlizzardVisionPPC, scandoublers
and CyberGraphX 4.1 |
| Active Gamer: 3D games graphics |
Two page eye candy of WipeOut 2097, Heretic 2 and more. |
| An insight into ISDN |
The world of ISDN is now open to everyone. Neil Bothwick dissects
the technology. |
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Reviews & Previews:
All reviews are rated out of 10
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| Photogenics 4 |
Paul Nolan's award winning art package gets the Amiga Active review treatment. |
9/10 |
| ImageFX 4 |
Nova Design's ImageFX in version inflation shocker! |
9/10 |
| 100MB Zip drive |
The original 100MB SCSI or IDE drive |
5/10 |
| 250MB Zip drive |
The updated Zip drive stores 250MB on each cartridge |
7/10 |
| 2GB JAZ drive |
SCSI/IDE external storage |
8/10 |
| Amiga Forever 3 |
Turn your PC into an Amiga. |
9/10 |
| Voyager 3/IBrowse 2 Back-2-Back review |
A comparison of the latest version of Voyager & IBrowse web browsers. |
9/10 |
| Professional File System (PFS) 3 |
New version of PFS provides increased access speed and repair utilities |
9/10 |
| T-Zero |
Side-on shoot-em-up in ClickBOOM's R-Type wannabe |
9/10 |
| Superfrog re-review |
Epic Marketing release Team 17's classic platformer. |
Unrated |
| Eat the Whistle |
Another challenger to the Sensible Soccer throne. |
Unrated |
| Wasted Dreams |
Digital Dreams Entertainment's new think 'em up. |
8/10 |
| Regulars: |
| On Trial |
Linux on trial - Chris Green presides over Amiga's decision
to choose Linux as an OS kernel. |
| Active Shareware |
Simon Archer examines ToolsDaemon, KingCon, MagicMenu, NewIcons
and Powersnap. Plus a comparison of MultiCX and MCP. |
| Interactive - Letters to the Editor |
An introduction to the magazines' rating system and review
policy. |
| Active Gallery |
Amiga Active takes a look at Total Image. |
| Ask the Guru |
In the first issue The Guru answers questions on Multiview
scrolling problems, networking, Linux and more. |
| Active Online |
Neil Bothwick examines PGP and catches up on the latest web
sites. |
| Cool Sites |
Amiga Active online, The Register, Czech Amiga News, Amazon
and South Park. |
| RetroActive |
Jason Compton examines Commodore's convergence device, the
Amiga CDTV. |
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Comments:
During the early issues there was less distinction between features
and reviews. This had advantages and disadvantages - reviews were
diverse in their coverage of related products, but it could be confusing
for a reader attempting to navigate the magazine.
Issue 1 used a particularly nasty type of glue that made extracting
the CD rather difficult. My copy remains sticky after two years
attaching itself to anything or anyone in the vicinity.
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* Active Media - A rag-tag collection of web sites, CD-ROMs, book, DVDs, and other
media.
