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| News: |
| The Fastest Amiga Ever? |
Amiga Active reveals a new mystery Amiga
68k emulator that operates faster than the real thing. |
| Psion Refocuses |
Psion announces it is to abandon the consumer market
and refocus on industrial and enterprise markets |
| Return to World of Amiga |
South-East user groups band together for new Amiga show |
| Kick more Soft |
Kicksoft launches new web site |
| Blittersoft Deals |
Blittersoft announces new deals on the Prometheus PCI
busboard when purchased with a Voodoo3 card |
| Payback goes PPC... and 3D |
James Daniels reveals new PPC version of game and all-new
3D support. |
| Merlancia show first signs of industry |
Merlancia release details of their ambitious next generation
hardware. |
| Metrowerks |
Metrowerks to bring Codewarrior to intent |
| New Matrox card finally revealed |
Matrox, Amiga's strategic partner for graphic card support,
have finally released full details of their new card, the Matrox G550 |
| Analogic get Apollo |
Analogic Computers acquire the rights to manufacture
the range of Apollo A1200 accelerators. |
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Editorial:
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| Calm before the storm? |
David Stroud reflects upon the products that appeared
just hours before the magazine went to press. |
| Maturity and Innovation |
Fleecy Moss, Amiga CTO, discusses the need for early
adopters and mass market appeal |
| Opening the way for content |
Francis Charig, Tao Group chairman, discusses the importance
of the OCPA (Open Contents Platform Association) for the industry. |
| Rants and Raves: |
| Bill & Fleecy's Excellent Adventure |
Amiga Inc. have, it seems, finally got somewhere. New
Amigas with a new OS are due in a matter of week. "What next?"
asks Andrew Korn. |
| Choose Installation Mode... |
Neil Bothwick dreams of the day when installing software
is as easy - and as quick - as making a cup of tea. |
| Features: |
| Sleeping with the Enemy |
Five-page article on integrating the PC with your existing
Amiga |
| Here's looking at Moovid |
Five-page article on current digital video formats,
with a look at QuickTime, AVI and codecs, MPEG, and open source. |
| NextGen |
Amiga Active investigates the futuristic brushed metal
world of Merlancia Industries |
| Modulate, Demodulate |
A roundup of the latest external modems - featuring
the Power, Dynalink, Creatix, and Hayes models. |
| Commercial Break |
Amiga Active interviews Archer Maclean and takes a look
at his past glories |
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Reviews:
All review scores are marked out of four
'AmiYinYangs'.
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| Prometheus PCI |
Son of lapetus, said to have stolen fire from Olympus and to have
bestowed it on mortals... or just another PCI busboard for the Amiga |
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| YAM 2.3 |
A review of the first open source update of 'Yet Another Mailer' |
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| Tutorials: |
| Foreign Invasion! |
Steve Folberg wrestles with text files from other platforms
- with the latest releases of Doc Databases and Next... |
| Getting to know Photogenics (Part 2) |
This month's installment examines foreground, texture,
and various rubthrough options. |
| OS3.9 Masterclass (part 4) |
In the final part of this series, Amiga Active takes
a look at 3rd party utilities, the benefits of PowerPC, and the advanced
VINCEd command line interface. |
| Regulars: |
| Active Media* |
The Art of Digital Audio (book), Designing web audio
(book), FoxGlove.com, TinHat.com, Aminet 43 CD, GRC - Denial of Service |
| Active Shareware |
An online dictionary, a text editor and a help system
give a decidedly textual theme to this month's pick of Amiga shareware. |
| Interactive - Letters to the Editor |
Words of wisdom from our thankful, idle, bikini-wearing,
worried, disappointed, and paranoid readers. |
| Ask the Guru |
The Guru's Amiga works perfectly. He doesn't need help,
so is therefore able to assist others in need of assistance. |
| Active Online |
Neil Bothwick takes an indepth look at STFax. |
| Debriefing** |
Amiga Active interviews Chris Page, author of Explorer
2260, and asks him why things have gone quiet. |
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* Active Media - A rag-tag collection of web sites, CD-ROMs, book, DVDs,
and other media.
