Compute!’s Amiga Resource (Summer 1989)

Source: Compute!’s Amiga Resource – Volume 1, Number 2 – Summer 1989

Compute! was among the best multi-format computer magazines of the 1980s. Compute!’s Gazette was an equally great magazine dedicated to the Commodore 64. Compute! had a number of other machine specific spin-offs but none of them ever did as well or lasted particularly long though there was nothing really wrong with the quality. Compute!’s Amiga Resource is one of these spin-offs that happens to be dedicated to the Amiga. The Summer 1989 issue includes:

Features

The Ultimate Amiga – Build the perfect system for any job.
Multitasking Miner – A conversation with the father of the Amiga.
Amiga Zapshots – Using Canon’s hot new video technology.
Expanding the 500 – Who says the 500 can’t be as powerful as the 2000?

Buyer’s Guides

Video Hardware and Software – Doing what the Amiga does best.
Telecommunications Software – The doorway into the Amiga community.
Music Products – Hardware and software that lets you play and compose.
Laser Printers – High-quality output for a high-quality computer.
Strategy Games – Joystick not required.

Departments

The Window – Meet our staff.
Readers Feedback – Commodore in education and Bridgeboards for the 500.
Trends – News, new products, and rumors.
Ask Rob Peck – Gadgets: rolling your own.
CLI Clips – Making a custom CLI disk.
Programmer’s Page – Adding color to the Workbench.
Spotlight on Digi-View – Using NewTek’s popular video digitizer.
Best of the Boards – The flexible shareware editor – Uedit.
User Group Update – Where the Amiga community gets together.
Amiga Art Gallery – Computer art on display.

Columns

Abstractions – Life and times of a Dragon’s Lair junkie.
Just for Fun – Human vs. Human, computer referees.
Taking Sides – WYSIWYG: Useless of Useful?

Reviews

Distant Armies
Fantavision
Falcon
Universal Military Simulator
Mini-Reviews – Amiga Resource looks at programming tools and animators, fighting and flight simulators, programs that nag, and more.