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The premiere issue of Antic’s Amiga Plus from April/May 1989
Amiga Plus was a short-lived magazines dedicated to the Commodore Amiga by the publishers of Antic. The premiere issue from May 1989 includes:
Features
- Happy Guy – Classic ’30s “rubber hose” cartoon style recreated on Amiga. Step-by-step with Hollywood’s top Amiga animator.
- A-Max Arrives – Amiga gets Macintosh compatibility for under $200. Exclusive interview with creator of the Amiga’s Mac emulator.
- Super Bowl Amiga Show – Animating Miami Stadium’s 40-foot Jumbotron scoreboard. Half-time video extravaganza, Amiga style.
Departments
- Masthead, Editorial
- Alert Box – Amiga news from Winter CES
- Guru Busters – Answering Amiga users’ technical questions
- View From a Brit – European Amiga news column
- How To Use The Amiga Plus Disk
- New Amiga Products
- Advertisers Index
- Reader Art Gallery – You’re invited to send your best pictures
Arts
- Fine Art of Color Cycling – Amiga’s easiest animation effects
- New Amiga MIDI Software – Dr. T’s Copyist Professional, MIDI Magic
- Amiga Desktop Video – Starter kit for the ultimate computer graphics
Productivity
- VIVA – Do-it-yourself interactive video breakthrough
- 1988 Federal Income Tax Spreadsheet – Plan/IT (MaxiPlan) template for IRS 1040 taxpayers
- Commodore’s 68020 Super Accelerator Board – Run your Amiga 2000 five times faster
- Cracking The Amiga Shell – Powerful new features in CLI’s replacement
- Amiga World Word Processors – Textcraft Plus, Scribble, ProWrite, Word Perfect, Kindwords, TextPro, BeckerText, Excellence!
- Postscript – Affordable PostScript Capability
Programming
- HISoft DevPac Amiga – Fastest Amiga assembler yet!
- Lattice C++ – Object-oriented programming power for Amiga
- Amiga System Programmers Guide – Abacus reference book sets a standard
- Intuition Plus – Gallery of high-powered C programming routines
- Introducing Exec I/O – Assembly language tips you won’t find in the manual
Entertainment
- Kamikaze Chess – Lose your pieces to win the game
- Tetris – Glasnost in a computer game – or diabolic commie plot?
- Games Galaxy – Dragon’s Lair, Aussie Joker Poker, Starglider II, Hybris, Tetra Quest, Hole-in-One Miniature Golf
- BASIC MasterMind – Slick, colorful version of classic game
…and more!
