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Emulation
Five page review special on Amiga Forever 2.0, Siamese System 2.0, Fusion 3.1 and Shapeshifter 3.9.

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NEWS ITEMS

They think it's all over!
Alive Mediasoft set to publish Samba World Cup.

Football 365
New Football365 and Amiga client launched.

AFB is Go
Amiga Format Bulletin mailing list launched.

Photogenics NG
Paul Nolan prepares new release of Photogenics.

Toronto show
Report from Canada's premier Amiga show.

AmigaSoc UK: It's Official
AmigaSoc UK become the official User Group Network (UGN) representatives for the UK.

FEATURES

Waiting for the great leap forward
David Taylor reveals the likely direction that the next AmigaOS will take. Four page article on the Linux & BeOS operating systems.

PIC Programming
Nick Veitch presents a DIY article on connecting a standard AT keyboard.

REVIEWS
 

SCREENPLAY Previews Reviews Wheels of Fire - 45% Virtual Karting 2 - 62% Beambender - 83% Powder - 23% Foundation - 79%

SERIOUSLY AMIGA Reviews Power Flyer - 98% Scene Archives CD-ROM Volume 5-6 - 81% Backgrounds Unlimited 2 - 94% Yet Another Mailer 2 - 95% VDC200 Digicam - 87% Jaz 2 Drive - 92% Scan Magic Flicker Fixer - 89% Cross Dos 7 - 90% A1200 DIY case (long-term reader review) - Unrated

CREATIVE (TUTORIALS)

Amiga Icons (Chapter 3)
Ash Thomas explains the finer points of drop shadows, cylinders, text and eight-colour techniques.

Amiga Graphics (Chapter 4)
Nick Veitch takes a look at graphic viewers.

C for yourself (Chapter 5)
John Kennedy explains how to draw in an Intuition window.

Under the Bonnet (Chapter 5)
Simon Goodwin explains SCSI.

REGULARS

• Previews
• Reader Games
• GameBusters & Helping Hands
• PD Select

COMMENTS

A good issue marred only by the fact that Simon Goodwin referred to me as 'Gareth Hunt'.