Amazing Computing’s Tech Amiga – Volume 1, Number 4

Source: Amazing Computing’s Tech Amiga – Volume 1, Number 4

AC’s Tech for the Commodore Amiga was a technically oriented magazine dedicated to the Commodore Amiga. Every issue would be full of various hardware and software projects in addition to news and other more typical coverage of the Amiga. I can’t find a date on it but this issue would be from late 1991 or early 1992 and includes:

Features

State of the Amiga Development Denver DevCon Address – This is the keynote address by Jeff Scherb at Denver DevCon ’91. Jeff Scherb was the vice president of CATS which stood for Commodore Amiga Technical Support or Commodore Application and Techincal Support depending on the time period. It paints a rosy picture of the success of current and upcoming products including the CDTV, Amiga 3000T, Amiga 500 and others. Commodore would be bankrupt less than 3 years later.

GPIO – Low-Cost Sequence Control – Do it yourself hardware and some software scripts for a General Purpose Interface for NewTek’s Video Toaster.

Programming with the ARexxDB Records Manager – A tutorial for the ARexxDB Records Manager, a database back end meant to interface with ARexx, Amiga’s scripting language.

The Development of a Ray Tracer – Part I – The first of a two part series on developing a ray tracing package for the Amiga.

The Varafire Solution – Build Your Own Variable Rapid-Fire Joystick – A detailed guide for building a joystick with rapid fire capability for the Amiga, including a complete parts list and diagrams.

Programming the Amiga’s GUI in C – Part III – The third part in a continuing series on programming for the Amiga’s GUI. This part covers creating graphics and much more.

Using Interrupts for Animating Pointers – Another programming guide, this one for creating animated mouse pointers.

STOX – An ARexx-based System for Maintaining Stock Prices – Creating an ARexx script to retrieve stock prices online (via GEnie) and add the to a spreadsheet.

Language Extensions – Strings of Type StringS – Using a new data type with the C programming language on the Amiga.

Departments

Letters – Letters from readers about programming and compilers on the Amiga and sorting.

Source and Executables ON DISK! – AC’s Tech for the Amiga came with a 3.5″ floppy disk that contained the source code of various projects included in the magazine plus other tools.