AC’s Tech Amiga, Volume 1, Number 4

AC’s Tech for the Commodore Amiga was a technically oriented magazine for the Commodore Amiga. It was a spinoff of Amazing Computing, a more typical consumer oriented magazine for the Amiga. Volume 1, Number 4 includes:

State of Amiga Development Denver DevCon Address

– CATS Vice President, Jeff Scherb, shares his Keynote address with AC TECH readers.

GPIO – Low Cost Sequence Control – Take control of your Amiga with this Video Toaster-inspired General Purpose interface. Ken’s combination of a simple controller circuit – which you can build! – and a little software magic provides for precise automatic or manual control.

Programming with the ARexxDB Records Manager – Learn to use this powerful new ARexx-based database engine by creating a phonebook/autodialer for use with the popular shareware telecommunications program, VLT.

The Development of a Ray Tracer – Part I – The first of a two-part series featuring the theory and application design of a full-featured implementation of an open-ended ray-tracing package.

The Varafire Solution – Build Your Own Variable Rapid-Fire Joystick – Give your favorite joystick new power with this simple, yet detailed step-by-step tutorial.

Programming the Amiga’s GUI in C – Part III – Paul continues his popular tutorial series with handles, structuring display modules, an introduction to programming graphic images, and much more!

Using Interrupts for Animating Pointers – Jeff demonstrates a better way to animate pointers as well as the proper use of two types of interrupts.

STOX – An ARExx-based System for Maintaining Stock Prices – Stay on top of the market with The Advantage spreadsheet, the BaudBandit telecommunications program, the GEnie Information Service, and ARexx to tie it all together.