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 |