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  • Amiga Force (Christmas 1993)

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    Source: Amiga Force – Issue Number 13 – Christmas 1993

    Amiga Force is an Amiga gaming magazine that was published in the U.K. in the early 1990s. Sadly. it only lasted 16 issues as it folded when the publisher went bankrupt in 1994. The Christmas 1993 issue includes:

    • Christmas Goodies – The latest Amiga related news and new releases, including Combat Classics 2, Pinball Special Edition (including Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies), an update disk for Championship Manager ’94, Skeleton Crew for the CD-32, a new Amiga 1200 bundle, KTM Motorcross, and much more.
    • Just Around the Corner – Previews of upcoming Amiga games, including Dennis (Ocean), Stardust (Bloodhouse), Magic Boy (Empire Software), Scrabble (Supervision), and Mean Arenas (Ice).
    • Mortal Kombat Playtest
    • Force Nine Mail – Letters from readers with topics such as programming platform games, Sega CD vs. CD-32, late reviews, adventure help, the worst Amiga games, expensive and difficult games, the CD-32 vs. the Amiga 1200, Commodore 64 games, cheat codes, and more.

    • Frontier – Elite 2 – A detailed review of the sequel to one of the most famous space flight sims ever.
    • CD32 Special – A guide to the CD-32, including the games that are (or will soon be) available such as Battlestorm, Diggers, Sin City, Fantasies Pinball CD, Mother Lode, Morph, Cow Wars, and more.
    • Rich Pickings – Reviews of the latest releases for the Amiga, including Renegade, Uridium 2, Prime Mover, Wonder Dog, Sim Life, Cyberpunks, Liverpool, Dogfight, Space Hulk, Turrican 3, Bob’s Bad Day, and Micro Machines.
    • Budget Bargains – Older re-releases and new budget games are reviewed here, including Night Shift, Robin Hood, Links, and Knights of the Sky.
    • Tips Section – Tips and tricks for tons of games including Aquaventura, Atomic Robokid, Bane of the Cosmic Forge, Blues Brothers, Brides of Dracula, Cabal, Civilization, Crime Does Not Pay, Deep Core, Deuteros, Dojo Dan, Dungeon Master, Dyna Blaster, F16 Combat Pilot, Fast Lane, Federation of Free Traders, Humans II, Oscar, Parasol Stars, PGA Tour Golf, Player Manager, and Robocod A1200.

    • Lemmings Lifeline – A detailed look and hints for various levels of Lemmings.
    • Cut-Out ‘N Cheat – Various cheat cards designed to be cut out. They look like 3.5″ disks. Cheat cards in this issue include Atomic Robokid, Cabal, Aqua Ventura, Brides of Dracula, Deuteros, The Blues Brothers, Crime Does Not Pay, Bane of the Cosmic Forge, Dungeon Master, Dojo Dan, Federation of Free Traders, Robocod A1200, Fast Lane, Player Manager, PGA Tour Golf, F16 Combat Pilot, Dyna Blaster, Parasol Stars, and Civilization.
    • Next Month – Next month’s issue will include coverage of Mean Business, Dennis the Menace, a Players’ Guide to Frontier and more.

    …and more!


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  • ST Amiga Format (November 1988)

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    Source: ST Amiga Format – Issue Number 6 – November 1988

    While both the Amiga and Atari ST would go on to have their own “Format” magazines in the U.K., they started off together with “ST Amiga Format” that covered both machines. The November 1988 issue includes:

    Departments

    • News – The 1988 Personal Computer Show; Commodore releases video editing kit for the Amiga 5t00; Sinclair Professional PC200 specs; Atari cuts price of Atari 520ST; HiSoft BASIC compiler coming soon for the Amiga; Sculpt 4D Professional ray-tracing package, Forms in Flight 2 and Fantavision animation packages coming soon; Lords of the Rising Sun (Amiga & ST), Pioneer Plague (Amiga), Damocles (ST & Amiga), Afterburner (ST & Amiga), Rocket Ranger (Amiga), Dragon Slayer (Amiga & ST), Falcon (Amiga & ST), and Pacmania (Amiga & ST) all coming soon.
    • Pixel Punchers – An overview of the hardware and software now available or coming soon to assist with creating graphics and animation.
    • ST Blitter Boost – Two ways to add blitter capabilities to the Atari ST, including soldering on a new chip.
    • Amiga MIDI Interface – A tutorial for building your own MIDI interface for the Amiga.
    • Gold Dust – Atari releases details of new TOS version; 80286 AT-bridge board for the Amiga nears release; and more.
    • Disk Extra – The cover disk this month includes two full games (Spooks for the Atari ST and Amoeboids for the Amiga), in addition to a variety of utilities and other stuff.
    • Special Offers – Special deals on a variety of software for the Amiga and Atari ST.
    • ST PD – The best in recent public domain software for the Atari ST including FSEL (a more friendly file selector), Format 11 (a disk formatting utility), Disckmech (disk analyzer, archiver and editor), Super Boot 2.0 (customize the boot-up process), and more.
    • Letters – Letters this month include topics such as benchmark scores, Patchbox 32, using Amiga disk drives with a bridgeboard, software piracy, BASIC on the Atari ST, and more.

    Games

    • Screen Play – Reviews of the latest Amiga and Atari ST games including Menace (Psygnosis), Fusion (Electronic Arts), P.O.W. (U.S. Action), Powerplay (Arcan), Luxor (Software Horizons), Stargoose (Logotron), Elite (Firebird), Veteran (Software Horizons), Operation Neptune (Infogrames), Super Hang-On (Mediagenic), and Netherworld (Hewson).
    • Game Busters – Tips and tricks for Street Fighter (Amiga), Slap Fight (Atari ST), Virus (Atari ST), Ikari Warriors (Atari ST), Warhawk (Atari ST), Backlash (Atari ST), Trailblazer (Atari ST), Wizball (Amiga), Pandora (ST and Amiga), and Giana Sisters (Amiga).

    Graphics

    • Cartoon Capers – How to draw cartoons or comics with the software of your choice. Some suggested software includes Neochrome, Spectrum 512, Art Studio, Art Director, GFA Artist, Quantum Paint, Cyber Paint, and Easy Draw 2 for the ST and Deluxe Paint II, DEluxe Photolab, Digi Paint, Photon Paint, and Express Paint for the Amiga.

    Reviews

    • Sprite Factory – A software package for designing sprites on the Atari ST.
    • Animation: Flipper – An animation program for the Amiga.
    • Robokit – Software and a hardware interface for controlling robots on the Atari ST.
    • Lights! Camera! Action! – A program for generating slide shows with special effects on the Amiga.
    • DTP Update – Reviews of Shakespeare 1.1 (Amiga) and Timeworks DTP (Atari ST) desktop publishing packages.

    Music

    • Sell Yourself! – How to make money with the MIDI music you create by making tapes, CDs, and more, including the tools you will need to accomplish this.

    Technophile

    • Amiga Tools – Reviews of CygnusEd (a program editor) and W-Shell (an enhancement to the Amiga CLI).
    • Learn BASIC – Part four of an extensive BASIC tutorial. This part covers arrays, data types, and more.
    • Desktop – Tips and tricks for the Atari ST, including booting from the B drive, using the file selector, altering the SCART connector, and more.
    • Workbench – Tips and tricks for the Amiga, including creating simple animations with Deluxe Paint, quick draft printing, a shortcut for getting a quick CLI window, creating different color prompts, and more.

    …and more!


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  • Amiga World (May/June 1986)

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    Source: Amiga World – Volume 2, Number 3 – May/June 1986


    Amiga World is really the only major Amiga magazine that I am aware of that was published in the U.S. There was also Commodore Magazine which covered both Commodore 8-bit computers and the Amiga until 1989 when it ceased being published. There were also a couple of other magazines that covered the Amiga in addition to other computers. But if you were really looking for an Amiga magazine, Amiga World was the only one you could count on finding at your local book store (and perhaps grocery store shelf if you were lucky).

    The May/June 1986 issue includes:

    Features

    • Window on AmigaDOS: Using the Command Line Interpreter – While the Amiga may have been known more for its GUI interface, it also had a powerful CLI. This is a tutorial on how to use it effectively.
    • Using the Amiga Editor – AmigaDOS includes a full-screen text editor that can also serve as a basic word processor. This article explains how to use it.
    • Computerizing a Small Business – Selecting and using the right computer for your small business.\
    • Artificial Intelligence: Expert Systems in the Business World – An article on the state of AI and Expert Systems in particular in 1986.
    • Amiga Basic: An Overview – A version of Microsoft BASIC came with most computers in the 1980s. The Amiga was no exception. Amiga BASIC is more advanced than older 8-bit BASIC versions and includes support for structured programming and more advanced graphics and sound capabilities.

    Articles

    • Business Graphics – The state of creating business graphics (graphs, charts, etc.) on the Amiga.
    • Basic and Before – A history of the BASIC language.
    • Creating Fill Patterns With Deluxe Paint – Defining fill patterns and using them to fill different shapes.
    • IFF: A New Standard – IFF, short for Interleaved File Format, is a standardized file format created by Electronic Arts on the Amiga to make it easier to move data between different computers.
    • Computer Graphics: New Tools and Techniques for Artists – Creating art on the Amiga with tools such as a video camera, digitizer and appropriate software.

    Columns

    • Avision – An overview of some of the third party add-ons that have been created for the Amiga, including memory expansions from 1MB to 8MB, 20MB hard drives, a 68020 based upgrade, MIDI interfaces, and more.
    • Zeitgeist – Responding to criticism of the Amiga and Amiga World.
    • Amiga Solutions – An article suggesting a realistic use of Amiga computers in schools.

    Departments

    • Repartee – Letters from readers on topics such as the Macintosh, converting from being a Tandy user, Andy Warhol, Amiga development, OS-9, Amiga vs. the Atari ST, and more.
    • Digital Canvas – Creating fractals from the Mandelbrot set on the Amiga.
    • Reviews
      • Online! and the Courier 2400 – A review of the U.S. Robotics Courier 2400BPS modem and the Online! terminal software.
      • The Okimate 20 – An inexpensive for the time color dot matrix printer.
      • One-on-One – The classic basketball game from Electronic Arts.
      • The Seven Cities of Gold – A graphical adventure set starting in 1492.
      • Borrowed Time – An illustrated text adventure from Activision in which you must solve your own murder.
      • Mindshadow – Another illustrated text adventure from Activision. In this one, you must figure out who you are.
      • Monkey Business – A Donkey Kong clone.
    • What’s New? – New this month for the Amiga: Turbo Amiga, a 68020 based upgrade; Aegis Images and Aegis Animator graphics programs; The Halley Project, Keyboard Cadet, Racter and other software from Mindscape; True BASIC Language System; A-Time clock/calendar module; BBS-PC, a Bulletin Board System for the Amiga; various 256K memory upgrades; and more.
    • Help Key – Questions answered about the Amiga’s 640×400 graphics mode, flickering on the Amiga, the 68020 chip, PC compatibility and more.

    …and more!


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