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Issue No: 1 Price: £4.95
Publication Date: Thursday September 30, 1999 Page Count: 76
Month: October 1999 Editor: Andrew Korn
Issue 1

Highlights
Jim Collas Leaves Amiga!
But what are McEwen and Moss up to?

Photogenics 4.2
Back-to-back with ImageFX 4.

T-Zer0 and Wasted Dreams
Reviewed inside.

Back for the Future!
Where the Amiga is, how it got there and where it's going.

Linux on trial
The right choice for the next Amiga?

Also inside...
News:
Seconds out... round two! BoXeR Boxer Amiga clone from Access Innovations Ltd. on target for a release in the next few months
Jim beams out... Jim Collas resigns as president of Amiga Development LLC.
Innovative Graphics German-based Innovative announce FXPaint.
Stop Press Bill McEwen & Fleecy Moss rumoured to be doing... something.
Oh yes... OS3.5 is here! The first official OS upgrade in more than five years is now available.
G3 & G4 are coming... New accelerator cards using the Motorola G3 & G4 due to be launched by Phase 5 and Met@box.
The Worms returns! Hyperion announce the final installment of Team 17's Worms to be ported to Amiga.
Amiga patents appear The first patents of the Gateway Amiga era appear.

Editorial:

We must be mad! Andrew Korn introduces the publishers and writers of Amiga Active.
Rants and Raves:
What's in a name? Andrew Korn analyses the importance of the Amiga brand.
Features:
Back for the Future, Part One: History Lessons & Mystery Chips Six page feature on the Gateway period, covering its initial purchase, digital TV, Jim Collas, the QNX announcement, XML, concept designs, the Amiga MCC, AmigaObjects and Linux.
Top Gear Wireless keyboards, Geek clothing, wheel mice, Candy Factory Pro and Aminet Set 8 reviewed in the predecessor to the 'Active Media' regular.
Say goodbye to 880k. Iomega solutions Four page feature and review of Iomega products, providing installation and filesystem guide.
All about Graphics cards Three page feature on the BlizzardVisionPPC, scandoublers and CyberGraphX 4.1
Active Gamer: 3D games graphics Two page eye candy of WipeOut 2097, Heretic 2 and more.
An insight into ISDN The world of ISDN is now open to everyone. Neil Bothwick dissects the technology.

Reviews & Previews:
All reviews are rated out of 10

Photogenics 4 Paul Nolan's award winning art package gets the Amiga Active review treatment. 9/10
ImageFX 4 Nova Design's ImageFX in version inflation shocker! 9/10
100MB Zip drive The original 100MB SCSI or IDE drive 5/10
250MB Zip drive The updated Zip drive stores 250MB on each cartridge 7/10
2GB JAZ drive SCSI/IDE external storage 8/10
Amiga Forever 3 Turn your PC into an Amiga. 9/10
Voyager 3/IBrowse 2 Back-2-Back review A comparison of the latest version of Voyager & IBrowse web browsers. 9/10
Professional File System (PFS) 3 New version of PFS provides increased access speed and repair utilities 9/10
T-Zero Side-on shoot-em-up in ClickBOOM's R-Type wannabe 9/10
Superfrog re-review Epic Marketing release Team 17's classic platformer. Unrated
Eat the Whistle Another challenger to the Sensible Soccer throne. Unrated
Wasted Dreams Digital Dreams Entertainment's new think 'em up. 8/10
Regulars:
On Trial Linux on trial - Chris Green presides over Amiga's decision to choose Linux as an OS kernel.
Active Shareware Simon Archer examines ToolsDaemon, KingCon, MagicMenu, NewIcons and Powersnap. Plus a comparison of MultiCX and MCP.
Interactive - Letters to the Editor An introduction to the magazines' rating system and review policy.
Active Gallery Amiga Active takes a look at Total Image.
Ask the Guru In the first issue The Guru answers questions on Multiview scrolling problems, networking, Linux and more.
Active Online Neil Bothwick examines PGP and catches up on the latest web sites.
Cool Sites Amiga Active online, The Register, Czech Amiga News, Amazon and South Park.
RetroActive Jason Compton examines Commodore's convergence device, the Amiga CDTV.

Comments:

During the early issues there was less distinction between features and reviews. This had advantages and disadvantages - reviews were diverse in their coverage of related products, but it could be confusing for a reader attempting to navigate the magazine.

Issue 1 used a particularly nasty type of glue that made extracting the CD rather difficult. My copy remains sticky after two years attaching itself to anything or anyone in the vicinity.

* Active Media - A rag-tag collection of web sites, CD-ROMs, book, DVDs, and other media.

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