| THE WORLD'S BIGGEST-SELLING AMIGA
MAGAZINE 
| Issue No: 95 | Month: March 1997 |  
| Release Date: ? | Price: £4.50 (2 disks) £5.50 (CD-ROM) |  
| Editor: Nick Veitch | Page Count: 116 |  
Power Up! MAIN FEATUREFifty essential utilities that will boost the performance of your Amiga
(5-page article).
 
 COVER DISK/CD
| Serious Disk TurboCalc 2.1
 AssignZ+
 DiskSqueeze
 Newmenu
 TolleUhr
 Arexx website
 
 
   | Games Disk Tiny Troops demo
 Mini Arcanoid
 Poing 4
 
 
 
 
   | CoverCD (AFCD11) DrawStudio demo
 EMC CDs demo
 Lightwave 5 patches
 ACDPlay
 ZJTools
 AMOS code
 PicConvert
 Alien Breed 3D 2 source code
 Burnout demo
 Blockout
 ... and much, much more!!
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Time Gentlement Please! NEWS ITEMSThe end may be in sight. After seven months since the demise of Escom,
and through the protracted Viscorp affair, it seems that the Amiga Technologies
buyout saga may finally be drawing to a close. Quikpak remain confident
that they will purchase the company.
 Sassenrath blows his top
Carl Sassenrath, author of the Amiga EXEC and CDXL spooling media format,
announces a new cross-platform OS called Lava. (Lava later became known
as Rebol and is available for several operating systems.)
 
Emulators Part 7 FEATUREIn the seventh part of the popular feature, Simon Goodwin explores
Sinclair Spectrum emulators.
  REVIEWS 
 
| SCREENPLAY Reviews
 Jet Pilot - 65%
 Burnout - 40%
 Minskies Furballs - 80%
 Tiny Troops - 88%
 
 
   | AF SERIOUS Reviews
 Lightwave 5 - 58%
 Media Magic - 87%
 Siamese System - 93%
 Prima Atom - 90%
 Indigo Power Adaptor - 80%
 Exploring Lightwave 3D - 45%
 External IOmega Zip 100 (long-term review) - 93%
 CD-ROM round-up
3D Images - 65%
 Meeting Pearls - 80%
 Computer Safari - the complete collection - 85%
 In to the net - 90%
 The Learning Curve - 65%
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Cinema 4D (Chapter 1) CREATIVE
(TUTORIALS)In the first part of this tutorial, John Kennedy describes basic view
and object manipulation.
 Music-X (Chaper 3)
Darren Irbin looks at cross fading effects and the swing processor.
 Real 3D 2 Tutorial (Chapter 8)
Graeme Sandiford explores Real 3D's animation tools.
 Advanced ARexx Coding: Web Spinning the ARexx way (Part 2)
Paul Overaa creates an automatic web site using ARexx.
 Drawing a wage (Part 3)
Jason Jordache provides more tips on how to succeed in the games industry.
 
The month in View REGULARSAmiga Format News
 The Bradford Column
 The Smith Column
 ScreenPlay
 
Seriously Amiga
Previews
Charts
Readers Games
Games Check
GameBusters
PD Select 
Workbench
Intro Page
CD-ROM Round-up Amiga.net
 Mailbag
 Market Place
 Amiga Format book offers
 AF Subscriptions
 Amiga Format CoverDisk
 Amiga Format CoverDisk Extra
 Next month
 
The back cover featured the £50 Gallery winner for the first and
only time. The Gallery was a monthly art page aimed at encouraging Amiga
artists to send their work into the magazine. The cartoon figure was created
by Patrice Mille using Image 3.0 & Photogenics 1.2 on his A1200. COMMENTS
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