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  • Amiga Format (May 1997)

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    Source: Amiga Format – Issue Number 97 – May 1997



    Amiga Format was one of the more popular Amiga specific magazines. It was published in the U.K. but it was common to see it on U.S. shelves as well. The May 1997 issue includes:

    News

    • Gateway to the Future! – The Amiga has, officially, been sold. Find out all the exclusive details…
    • New Amigas! – Direct Software reveal plans for a new ‘Power Amiga’.
    • More Candy… – Win three months worth of free downloads from Digital Candy’s BBS.

    Seriously Amiga

    • Imagine – Features aplenty, but is it usable? Find out with Graeme Sandiford
    • Pagestream 3.2 – Finally ready for commercial release – but just how good is it?
    • Web Explosion – Design your own imaginative web pages with the help of these two CDs.
    • MakeCD 2.1 – CD burning made easy!
    • SX-32 Pro – pat McDonald soups up his CD32
    • RDB-SALV – You won’t need it very often but it’s a real life-saver!
    • Long Term Review – This month Ben Vost and Nick Donnelly take a long term look at DOpus 5.5.
    • CD-ROM Round-Up Nick Veitch looks at the latest CD-ROMs.

    Reader Surevey

    • Revealed! – The results of our huge reader survey plus the winner of top Amiga goodies.

    Creative

    • PPaint – Join Nick in our new tutorial.
    • Music-X – The concluding part – “Live” playback and Notator-X.
    • Read 3D 2 – Graeme Sandiford masters the morphing tools and creates some softly flapping wings.
    • Cinema4D 2 – The Boolean and Polygon tools.
    • Advanced AREXX – Paul Overaa concludes his look at hashing.

    Regulars

    • PD Select – A selection of games, a demo of Pretium and some useful utilities.
    • Workbench – A new-look Workbench this month. Don’t miss it!
    • Amiga.net – MUD, MUD, glorious MUD.
    • Subscriptions – Dont’ miss out on the benefits of being a subscriber.
    • Mailbag & Gallery – Browse through the Gallery pics and read our plea for help!

    Cover Story

    • Get Connected – Now is the time to get on the Internet and Ben Vost shows you how.

    Screen Test

    • Ben Vost rounds-up three great monitors ideal for use with your Amiga.
    • Previews – There’s plenty of new games to look forward to over the next few months…

    Screenplay

    • Myst – The best-selling PC and Mac game is coming to the Amiga.
    • Electronic Explosion – Andy Smith looks at some re-releases from Electronic Arts.
    • Reader Games – The good, the bad and the really, really ugly.
    • Gamebusters – Hints and tips plus the complete solution to Elvira.

    Coverdisks

    • Scala v1.1 – The Amiga’s most famous multimedia program – brought to you with this issue absolutely FREE!
    • Blasted – Shoot down the enemy goblins in Blasted, Plus: more shoot-em-up action in Witness – an up-to-date Defender clone.

    …and more!


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  • The One Amiga (May 1993)

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    Source: The One Amiga – Issue Number 56 – May 1993


    The One Amiga is an Amiga gaming magazine that was published in the U.K. However, at various times it also covered various other systems under slightly different names (including just “The One”). The May 1993 issue includes:

    • Boot Sector – Disks, disks, disks, disks, marching up and down again.
    • News – I say, isn’t that the Lands O’ Lore from Westwood ‘Eye of the Beholder’ Studios? And – goodness! – if Commodore haven’t had record sales this years! Etc, Etc…
    • Win A Bike! – Interplay are so ecstatic about all the good word of mouth The Lost Vikings is getting because of the demo, they’ve decided to hold a compo!
    • Letter – Hey! Don’t bottle up your feelings about the Amiga games market – come here and let them all out!
    • Media Madness! – Just why have the telly, radio and newspaper people leapt onto the computer games bandwagon? What do they do differently to us at The One? All is revealed…
    • Alien Breed 2 – Something’s movin’! It’s gettin’ closer! Teh signal’s strong now… For the first time ANYWHERE, Team 17 talk about Alien Breed 2 and give you a glimpse of what it’ll look like.
    • The Forg That Roared – We’ve spent a day out with Peter Molyneux and his cronies at the Bullfrog offices down in Guildford and just look what we brought back with us…
    • Win A Day Out! – Grandslam are offering one reader and their family the chance to visit a top nature park – FREE!
    • Work In Progress – Ding! Ding! This stop for Bullfrog’s Syndicate, Team 17’s Overdrive, MicroProse’s F-117A, Krisalis’s Soccer Kids and – ooh! – loads more!
    • The Show Must Go On (And On) – Gary Penn has a wander around this year’s European Computer trade Show in Islington.
    • Reviews – My goodness! Absolutely stacks of reviews for you this month.
    • Cheapos! – This is the section that Norman Lamont always reads first, as it tells you about all those excellent budget games out now.
    • Win A Board! – Well, it’s a boardgame, actually. Monopoly to be precise, in this super Supervision compo!
    • Kill Zone – Body Blows, Chaos Engine, KGB, Bill’s Tomato Game and tons more. You’ll have to read it to believe it!
    • PD Zone – FREE software! How can you possibly resist it?
    • Recommended – Don’t make a rash purchasing decision which you’ll regret for the rest of your natural life – read this.
    • Beavers – Grandslam’s cutesy platformer is here at last. Just how eager for it will you be?

    …and more!


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  • Amiga Format (October 1989)

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    Source: Amiga Format – Issue Number 3 – October 1989



    There were a number of * Format magazines dedicated to various computers published in the U.K. Amiga Format is obviously the one that was dedicated to the Amiga. The October 1989 issue includes:

    Regulars

    • News
    • Previews
    • Graphics
    • Music
    • PD Update
    • Workbench
    • Game Busters
    • Letters
    • Guru

    Reviews

    • Music X
    • Rombo Vidi Amiga
    • Digi Paint 3

    Specials

    • Education
    • Fitting Kickstart
    • Adventures
    • Desktop Publishing

    Games

    • Format Gold
      • F16 Combat Pilot
      • Strider
      • Waterloo
      • Xenon II
    • Reviewed
      • Alien Legion
      • Astaroth
      • Dominator
      • Fiendish Freddy
      • Gemini Wing
      • Jack Nicklaus Golf
      • Oil Imperium
      • Robocop
      • Skate of the Art

    Disk Extra

    • Xenon II, Megablast – Probably the best shoot-em-up in the world, and this month’s playable demo
    • Access! – excellent and beautifully-presented communications package
    • Demo Corner – chillin’ music demo created especially for Amiga Format
    • DPaint Clip Art – for use in conjunction with our DPaint tutorial
    • Workbench Hacks – two more fun hacks
    • Popdir – Workbench directory utility

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