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© 1997-2006
Gareth Knight
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THE WORLD'S BIGGEST-SELLING AMIGA MAGAZINE
Amiga Format Logo AF104
Issue No: 104 Month: December 1997
Release Date: Wednesday October 29th Price: £5.99 (CD-ROM), £4.50 (2 Disks)
Editor: Nick Veitch Page Count: 116

AF MAIN FEATURE

Smile Please
Five-page feature on digital cameras and the Amiga.

AF COVER DISK/CD

Serious Disk
DB3.5
AMIFIG 2.8
AKCC
Albin MUI
DiskMaster 2
Make Path
Fast Blitter
MemSpeed 2
WinSpeed
 

 

Games Disk
Assimilation
Bubble
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Cover CD
Final Odyssey demo
Uropa 2 demo
DICE C development package
Hidden Truth demo
AHI
Superview NG demo
Virus Z
Studio Update
NewIcons v4
Trauma Zero
TCPDL
Zoomer
Arq

AF NEWS ITEMS

Developers go nuts over kernel
The PPC cooperation between Haage & Partner & Phase 5 ends in bitter rivalry over their respective PPC kernels. The launch of Haage & Partner's WarpOS split the market, forcing developer to choose between H&P and the original Phase5 PowerUP kernel. The effects of this announcement is still felt within the Classic Amiga PPC market.

Gateway rumours abound
Persistant rumours suggest that Amiga Inc. are busy making plans.

Become an ICPUGer for only a tenner
The Independent Computer Products User Group (ICPUG), founded in 1978, offers membership for only £10.

New C++ Compiler
Hisoft announce the completion of their C/C++ compiler.

Cloanto to launch Amiga emulator
The first announcement that Cloanto would release an official Amiga emulator package called Amiga Forever.

Vulcan shrink to expand
Vulcan announce that they will no longer be selling their titles direct, concentrating their efforts upon game development.

Crack Amiga RC5 team moves up
Amiga team jumps from 149th to 10th place in just one month.

New games company set up
Ed Collins, Chris Page, & George Hornmoen set up 'World Foundry' games company, announcing the development of Explorer 2260 and Maim & Mangle.

AF FEATURE

DICE up your Life
The popular shareware C-compiler becomes shareware. John Kennedy introduces the basics

Emulators (Part 13)
Simon Goodwin discusses NES emulation on the Amiga.

Fusion
Simon Goodwin puts Fusion 68k head to head with Shapeshifter in the 7-page feature.

AF REVIEWS
 
SCREENPLAY
Previews
Pinball Brain Damage
Nemeses
Skimmers
Phoenix
Pulsator
Full price Reviews
Cygnus 8 - 55%
Master Axe - 40%
Re-releases
Dune 2 - 94%
Cannon Fodder 2 - 82%
SERIOUSLY AMIGA
Reviews
Fusion - 80%
Storm C Pro 3.0 - 81%
StormWizard v2 - 50%
Dynamode 56k modem - 90%
 
 
 
 

 

AF CREATIVE (TUTORIALS)

DrawStudio (Chapter 1)
Larry Hickmott demonstrates text effects in DrawStudio.

Magic User Interface (Chapter 2)
Dr. Karl Bellve reveals how to create simple MUI programs.

NetBSD (Chapter 2)
Chris Livermore demonstrates the wide range of applications available for BSD.

Beginners Guide (Chapter 6)
Robert Polding discusses printers

DOpus 5.5 (Chapter 6)
Ben Vost interviews Greg Perry and demonstrates more Internet tricks for DOpus.

AF REGULARS

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ScreenPlay
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  • Work in Progress
  • Reader Games
  • GameBusters & Helping Hands
  • PD Select
Seriously Amiga
Workbench & A Quick Guide to...
Amiga.net
Creative (tutorials)
MailBag & Sabrina Online
The Gallery
Readers Ads
Amiga Format CoverCD
Amiga Format CoverDisk
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