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Gareth Knight
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THE WORLDWIDE MAGAZINE FOR ALL AMIGA USERS
Amiga Format Logo AF112
Issue No: 112 Month: July 1998
Release Date: Friday June 12th Price: £5.99 (CD-ROM), £4.50 (2 Disks)
Editor: Nick Veitch Page Count: 108

AF MAIN FEATURE

The World of Amiga Show Report
Five page report from the World of Amiga show at the Hammersmith Novotel.

AF COVER DISK/CD

Serious Disk
ScalOS
Browser
GuruLog
HomeBank
ModePro
My Format
URB

Games Disk
F1 GP Editor
Poing 6

 

 

 

Cover CD
Latest WOA News
Golem Intro
Kids Stuff
DrawStudio Lite
Shapeshifter 3.9
Virus Checker II 1.5
... and much, much more!

AF NEWS ITEMS

Amiga Inc. reveal future
At a specially arranged press conference held on the 15th of May, Jeff Schindler, Amiga Inc.'s CEO, answered the prayers of every Amigan when he revealed that his company were committed to the long term evolution and development of the Amiga platform.

PPC developers bury hatchets
Haage & Partner and Phase 5 announce plans to create PPC-based "bridge" system.

New games news
Quake, Virtual Karting 2 and Genetic Species revealed at WoA show.

AAA Awards
Holger Kruse win AAA Award 1998.

Sing the Amiga's praises
Opera to be ported to the Amiga courtesy of Tim Corringham of RamJam Consultants.

AF FEATURES

PIC Programming
In a five-page feature Nick Veitch introduces PIC programming.

Is it your cup of tea? Java.
Short feature on Java highlighting several attempts to deliver a virtual machine to the Amiga.

AF REVIEWS
 

SCREENPLAY
Previews


Reviews
Quake: Malice - 91%
Genetic Species - 89%
Time of Reckoning - 80%


 

SERIOUSLY AMIGA
Previews
Directory Opus Magellan

Reviews
Epic Encyclopedia 1998 - 90%
Pagestream 3.3 - 95%
MasterISO v2 - 96%
Micronik A1500 - 91%
Eyetech 20x CD-ROM - 94%
Power 24x - 93%
Diavolo Pro (long-term reader review) - 95%

AF CREATIVE (TUTORIALS)

Amiga Icons (Chapter 2)
Ash Thomas explains the first steps to drawing your own icons.

Amiga Graphics (Chapter 3)
Nick Veitch takes a look at structured graphics and viewers.

C for yourself (Chapter 4)
John Kennedy explains how to open an AmigaDOS window in C.

Under the Bonnet (Chapter 4)
Simon Goodwin takes a look at the finer points of DMA, IDE, ATAPI, and the Amiga software to handle them.

AF REGULARS

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  • PD Select
Seriously Amiga
Shop Watch
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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AFCOMMENTS

Issue 112 featured seven failed projects - Opera, Amiga Inc's new hardware platform and 5 Java virtual machines. Oh dear.

 

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