Table of Contents
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Features | |
Amiga Buyer's Guide | 65 |
Color Printing With The Amiga |
| 70 |
A wide selection of color printers, plotters, and software is now available. |
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Michael Meyers |
AmigaDOS: An Efficient Control System |
| 76 |
Why should Amiga users concern themselves with AmigaDOS, the computer's Disk Operating System? Why bother with typewritten commands and syntax errors when it is much easier to push a mouse across a desk, poin to an application and click a button? |
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Ervin Bobo |
Graphics Excellence on the Amiga | 114 |
An in-depth look at three graphics programs for the Amiga from Aegis Development, Inc. |
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Louis R. Wallace |
More Than Star Wars - Part 1: The Road to Eidolon | 122 |
In this rare look behind the doors of the Lucasfilm Games Division, four programmes talk about fractal theory and how they use it to create exotic graphic effects. |
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John Jermaine |
Map Hater's Guide To Adventure Games | 120 |
Shay Addams |
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Departments | |
Letters | 4 |
News | 10 |
Software Reviews | |
| 18 |
Ervin Bobo |
| 20 |
Mark Cotone |
| 22 |
Mark Cotone |
| 26 |
Scott May |
| 28 |
Ervin Bobo |
| 30 |
Mark Cotone |
| 33 |
Rick Teverbaugh |
| 34 |
Ervin Bobo |
MECC Home Software Library |
| 36 |
Jack Emberly |
| 44 |
Gary V. Fields |
| 45 |
Gary V. Fields |
| 49 |
Jeffrey Hersk |
| 50 |
Christine Adamec |
| 52 |
Howard Millman |
Tips & Tricks | |
Hints for Fun and Utility |
| 54 |
Louis F. Sander |
Jiffies | |
Construct an Absolute Joystick |
| 58 |
Digital joysticks - the kind generally available commercially - feed only direction information to the 64. An absolute joystick, however, also knows how far the joystick was pushed. |
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Charles J. Nicol |
| 60 |
This useful program scrolls a message banner smoothly across the computer's screen, while other programs run unaffected. |
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Ian Adam |
The Mad Poet for VIC and Commodore 64 |
| 63 |
What, after all is a poem? Nothing more an idea embedded in a complexly ordered array of words. |
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William Barton |
Hardware Reviews | |
| 126 |
Matthew Leeds |
Silicon Walley Insider | |
Amiga Expansion Chassis and More |
| 128 |
Matthew Leeds |
Technical Tips | |
Disk Master '86 for 1571, 1541, 1540, 4040 and 8050 disk drives |
| 130 |
Disk Master lets you easily catalog over 100 disk directories onto a master directory on a single disk. |
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Robert W. Baker |
64 Users Only | |
| 138 |
Matthew Oldham |
| 140 |
Ian Adam |
| 142 |
Mark Jordan |
| 148 |
Michael Leidel |
| 152 |
David Stephens |
128 Users Only | |
| 158 |
Ian Adam |
Saving & Loading the Graphic Bit Map |
| 161 |
Morton Kevelson |
User Groups | 163 |
How to Enter Programs | 166 |
Magazine Entry Programs for C64 and 128 | 168 |
Advertisers' Index | 176 |