| THE WORLD'S BIGGEST-SELLING AMIGA
MAGAZINE 
| Issue No: 97 | Month: May 1997 |  
| Release Date: ? | Price: £4.50 (2 disks) £5.50 (CD-ROM) |  
| Editor: Nick Veitch | Page Count: 116 |  
Get Connected MAIN FEATUREBen Vost explains how to get your Amiga onto the world wide web.
 
The AF coverdisk became increasingly unimportant
after the launch of the CD edition. COVER DISK/CD
| Serious Disk Scala 1.1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   | Games Disk Witness
 Blasted
 
 
 
 
 
 
   | AFCD Headquarters
 Racer
 BattleDuel
 Capital Punishment patch
 F1 Licenseware
 Personal Paint patches
 AnimatED
 MBlank
 TurboPrint 5 demo
 ... and much. much more!
 | Scene Storm Music disks
 Demos
 Mags
 Intros
 Module
 Source code
 ASCII Scene
 Ami-Express
 Slideshows
 ... and much. much more!
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Amiga to get mad cow disease NEWS ITEMSThe drawn-out legal battle is over... again. Gateway 2000 are declared
the winners.
 New Amigas from Direct?
Direct software announce Power Amiga clone.
 Netconnect finally launched
Active software launch NetConnect CD-ROM.
 LH Publishing showing its support for Amiga products
LH Publishing expand their product range with the addition of DiskSalv
4 & PageStream 3.
 Amiga Format's Top 10 reasons to... use MUI
Easier to use, prettier interface design, customised design....
 
The Future looks Bright FEATUREResults of the reader survey. 99.5% are male, 84% own an A1200, the
average AF reader is 28, 46% (the largest percentage) claim to be students.
 20:20 Vision
Ben Vost takes a look at the latest monitors. Features the Viewsonic
PT775, Microvitec GPM1701 (M1764), & Viewsonic 17GA.
  REVIEWS 
 
| SCREENPLAY Previews
 Wasted Dreams
 Castle Kingdoms
 Alien Presence: Dawn of the Sixth Sense
 Myst
 Re-releases
Fifa Soccer - 85%
 Theme Park - 90%
 Road Rash - 82%
 Desert Strike - 88%
 Wing Commander - 81%
 PGA Golf - 80%
 | SERIOUSLY AMIGA Reviews
 Imagine 5 -78%
 PageStream 3.2 - 92%
 Web Explosion - 80%
 MakeCD 2.1 - 94%
 SX-32 Pro - 95%
 RDG-Salv - 90%
 Directory Opus 5.5 - 95%
 CD-ROM round-up
Utilities Experience - 92%
 Sounds Terrific - 86%
 Aminet Set 4 - 95%
 Geek Gadget - 78%
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PPaint (Chapter 1) AF CREATIVE
(TUTORIALS)In the first part of this tutorial Nick Veitch introduces some basic
image processing techniques.
 Music X (Chapter 5)
Darren Irvine explains how to playback 'live' music and use Notator-X
 Real 3D v2 (Chapter 10)
Graeme Sandiford creates a butterfly, complete with soft flapping wings.
 Cinema4D 2 (Chapter 3)
John Kennedy discovers the more advanced Boolean and Polygon tools.
 Advanced ARexx Coding
Paul Overaa takes a look at hash processes in ARexx.
 
Month in View REGULARSAmiga Format News
 ScreenPlay
 
AF Serious
Previews
Readers Games (on Ice)
GameBusters
PD Select Workbench
 Amiga.net
 Amiga Format web site
 Amiga Format Special Offers
 Amiga Format book offers
 Back Issues
 Mailbag & The Gallery
 Amiga Format CoverCD
 Amiga Format Coverdisks
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  COMMENTS The CD edition featured two CDs.
 
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