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HARD DRIVES

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515

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IN-FOCUS

In.Focusl new video tutorial LightWave takes a different

stance to the others we've seen. Find out why

M1438s _ED

Ami ga Technologies replacement for the 1942

has arrived, but is it any good? We investigate

IVIM EXPERIENCE

Optonica's new CD authoring system come

in two versions. We look at Junior ﬁrst

SYSTEM NEWS 76

Andy Maddock brings you all that is weird and

wonderful on the Amiga games scene

DRACO UPDATE

Paul Austin takes a gander at the latest developments

with this Amiga compatible machine

BLITZ BASIC 2-1 _ED

XTREME RACING 78

Guildhall bring you c race-'em-up for all

budding boy racers out there

GLOOM DELUXE 80

Guns at the ready. Check out this latest update

to this pink and sweet game for girls

SUPER TENNIS CHAMPS 82

Short skirts white plimsols and sports bras.

Now we've got your attention turn to our

review of this latest tennis pm

Bl i tz Basic has just got better than ever and Neil

Mohr is on hand to tell us just how much better it is

WORD WORTH _Et]

Nei l Mohr takes a ﬁrst look at this

world-beating word processor

lEEWOLE 2 8 4

Take part in an all action helicopter shoot

fest with Binary Asylum's latest

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FUN-ZS.

DATASTORE 2 1:33

Di gi ta's popular databse hits a new version

this month and we probe its new features

LILLJ

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BOOK REVIEWS

Thr ee new books from the Bruce Smith

Books stable get the once over

_ELI BLIZZARD 1260 _In

Phase 5's fastest ever Al200 accelerator is here and

raring to go. Neil Mohr tells us just how fast it is

EXILE 8 6

Arcade adventure antics from Aucﬂogenk

System put it under the spotlight

SLANITILT 8 8

Featured on our coverdisk this month, Rinse°

Lido gets a full review, covering all

aspects of promenade tomfoolery

SOCCER STARS '96 90

He's football crazy, football mad. He certainly

is - he's Andy Maddock and he likes footy

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 94

Blood guts, gore deluxe in this

forthcoming beat-'em-up

PENGUINS 9 6

Not of the chocolate sort but in fact the

stars of this latest puzzler

EATURES rim

SHOW REPORT

ACTING ME PART _En

The Amiga plays a large part behind the scenes at one

of the UK's largest TV companies - Granada Televsion

Jason

Compton

reports on

the World of

Ami ga show

in Canada

Ezi

WEB DESIGN

Nei l Mohr looks at creating Web pages

on the Amiga, for the Amiga

BEGINNER'S GUIDE

Steve White continues to help the less experienced

with the third part of his tutorial series

READER SURVEY _MI

It's time to tell us what you think of the magazine.

Fi l l in the form and you might win our great prize

PINBALL PRELUDE 98

Pinball galore so get your nippers at the ready

with this offering from Efﬁgy

AMIGA COMPUTING

MARCH 1996

OVER

STORY

HE COVERDISKS

NEMAC IV DEMO

THE IRISH _EU

CONV -

CTI

Get ready for a blasting frenzy with this exclusive

Amiga Computing cover disk demo of the latest

Doom clone. Take control of a walking armoury

and blast those evil robots to hell

UTILITIES UNLIMITED

Ben Vost takes a trip to Belfast to

visit two proponents of the Amiga

hard at work

Another incredible collection of useful utilities.

Including:

SysSpeed, XPKantana, MonEd, lha-Gui, MultiCX

2.41, MUI MCX Prefs, ETrashcan, Screen Keys,

lconify Gadget, UrouHack, XPK Datatype, Move,

Eyes, BioDay and Loves

LETTERS

Ezra Surf starts ploughing through the positive

mail we received after our redesign

EGULARS

COMMENT

Steve White gives his views

on the piracy situation

NEWS

Roving reporter Tina Hackett presents all the news that's

ﬁt to print,. we interrupt these contents for a newsﬂash

11:1 ACAS

Cot a problem? ACAS can sort it

out with ease and efﬁciency

PUBLIC SECTOR

Dave Cusick, PD reviewer extraordinaire, looks

at all that's good and great in shareware

SUBSCRIPTIONS

MIGA GUIDE IF

For details of Amiga

Computing's "ption

offers tu

103

113

Frank Nord continues his

absolute beginners series

on Workbench's menus

Phil South starts a tutorial

on using Amos to create

multimedia presentations

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105

115

Paul Overaa advises an

uses for Amiga DOS's

segment loading routines

Paul Overaa gives us the

run down options for

Amiga-based sequencers

•oginnars

Start Kora

itmr Piro

wa•rs

utur

investigation

107

117

Paul Overaa shows how

to get the best out of the

Global tracing facility

Using camera angles and

lighting to create an

effective animation

109

118

Phil South looks at the

last 17 months of the Net

and how it has changed

Paul Austin runs through

how to get the best

from Metaform

demo

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119

Gary Whiteley looks at

/ standards in TV and how

they affect production

Frank Nord continues the

theme with a section on

creating colour-poor ads

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AMIGA COMPUTING

MARCH 1996

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