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August 1989

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August 1989

A MEGABYTE OF SUPER SOFTWARE

GREAT D EM OS! GR EAT M I M ES!

• T ra in e d Assa ssin : h a ve yo u S Model U n ive rse : C re a t e yo u r

the skill to su-vive t h e t e st ? ve ry o w n solar syst e m .

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in your w a n d e rin g sp a ce sh ip ? m o re co rru p t disc p ro b le m s.

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NEWS

Hot news from the US on Kickstart

version 1.4. the Amiga 3000 and new

add-ons. Plessey to build a mini-

Amiga. Plus full show report.

LATEST

Assistant Editor

Jeff Walker

Production Editor

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AMI GA ARCA I )E

14 FUTURE

Art Editors

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Doug Steele

News Editor

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FORECASTS

The latest gossip from the top

software houses. Jeff Walker gets the

inside info from Coktel Vision.

Hews on. Ntirrorsoft and friends.

Advertisement Manager

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A MEGABYTE

GRE A T DEMOS!

GRE A T UTILITIE S !

• T ra in e d Assassin: H a ve yo u • M o d e l U n ive rse : C re a t e your

• the skill to su rvive the t e st ? ve ry o w n solar syst e m .

Raider: C a n yo u defy gravity • D isk

CheckeriDiskSaly:

Det ails of the two playable demos

squeezed onto the best cover disc you

have ever seen. Plus how to use the

great PD utilities which will save you

from disc disaster blues. Instructions

on how you can earn up to ELMO by

contributing with the ﬁrst ever all

Amiga give-away. Don't just dream

load up the disc and give it some

stick.

in y our wander ing s pac es hip? m or e c or r upt dis c pr oblem s .

To load: Switch on and insert disc

Full instructions a re in the August issue o f Am ig a C o m p u t in g

4 AM I (;A C OM PU T I N G Au g u st 1 9 8 9

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ART

HARDWARE

PRODRAW NEEDS

PATIENCE

If you are not happy with the hard

copy from your art program then

some software from Gold Disk will

cure the low resolution blues.

SPEED UP

BOARD

The animate-turbo board uses the

advanced 68020 processor. so how

come it can make your Amiga run

slower? John Kennedy explains.

NAFFWARE

FEATURE

77 SPOTTING

DI SASTER

The golden turkey of the month.

Software which is so bad ills funny.

DJ Walker-Morgan is the unlucky

naffware reviewer who gives it 7%.

WORD PROCESSING

THE VIRUS

How do you know if you've got one?

Can they survive switching off? If you

want to prevent an infected boot

block check the guide to safe saving.

Trained Assassin

Page 30

HARDWARE

AMIGABASIC

THE MODEL

UNI VERSE

It has taken Pioneer 10 over 17 years

to explore the solar system. You and

your Amiga can do it in an evening

wit h Alastair Scott's help.

HARD DRIVE

Super quick, it auto-boots under

Kickstart 1.2 and stores twice as

muc h as the Commodore unit. No

wonder Jeff Walker bought his.

IDEAL 40 MEG

R-TYPe

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GAME

KILLER

Suffering from joystick jitters? Do you

spend more time looking at the

loading screen than zapping the

sprites? Dr Tennant has the cure.

barrier with Zork Zero.

• Squared-eyed Ocean runs the

Gauntlet, a TV terror.

• Take Elite, remove the good bits

and call it STAG

• Balance of Power. Would Bush

press the red button?

• Ferrari FlOs add 200mph

glamour to Crazy Cars

• Vindicators ST authentically

reproduced by Domark.

• Take a walk on the Dark Side.

More Freescape 3D fun.

• Demonware puts some evil

colours behind centipede.

• Tom and Jerry may be cute but

they fail at gameplay.

• Trained Assassin — why it was

chosen for the disc.

• Joe Barbara plays 3D pool — join

the cue to play.

• Welcome to the Powerdrome.

Top speed racing action.

• R-Type may not be the best but

sets the standard.

• On the Rampage with a monster

hit from Activision.

• Infocom cracks the graphics

COMPETMON

LETTERS

WI N SIX

HARD DRIVES

Ideal Hardware are really nice people.

so nice they have given us six 40 meg

hard discs to give to you. Prizes

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YOUR RIGHT

TO WRITE

Re-inv ent ing shareware, your views

on games and some regular help for

curing problems if you have one of

the 1.041,000 Amigas in the world.

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