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- Welcome to Issue 5 of CHANNEL Z
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- The FIRST A1200 specific Disk Magazine !
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- THE BEST JUST GOT BETTER
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- NOTE TO PD COMPANIES.
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- If you are stocking ANY issues of Channel Z, please could you drop
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- me a line just to say who you are, and where you are!
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- It's just so that I can find out which area's of the World Channel Z
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- has reached. If you have already wrote, you don't have to get in touch,
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- I already know you're out there. Those who DO write back will also be
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- included in a future "Where's Channel Z Available" Section.
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- Well, a new issue, and a slightly new format! The results of our vote
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- from Issue 3 was a resounding call for us to use the picture menu
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- format! So we have! The slight difference I am sure you have noticed,
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- is the new graphics etc! Hope you like it!
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- We are also going to be concentrating on anything and everything to
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- do with the A1200 scene, rather than the AMIGA scene in general!
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- So, here goes with an all new issue..........
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- First of all, some hot news!!!!!
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- Issue 5 of CHANNEL Z coincides with the launch of our new
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- CZWN A1200 USERS GROUP ! ! ! ! !
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- Joining the user group has many benefits including.............
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- Discounts on ALL CZWN PD (£1 per disk)!
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- Discounts of 20% OFF all AMIGA SOFTWARE !
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- and a percentage OFF ALL AMIGA HARDWARE !
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- at :->
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- ELM Computing
- 46 Cookson Street
- Blackpool
- Lancashire
- FY1 4ED
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- We are also planning to have a little "get together" about once a Month,
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- (Watch this space for more details)
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- Plus a Quarterly News Letter with a disk of PD + competitions etc.
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- All this (and possibly more) and its only £4 to join!
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- So, What are you waiting for, Join what is going to be the HOTTEST A1200
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- user group in the UNIVERSE !!!!!!!
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- For more information (or to join)
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- Contact us at
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- Mr.D Busby
- CZWN
- 3 EDELSTON ROAD
- BLACKPOOL
- LANCASHIRE
- FY1 3HN
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- (Please make cheques / Postal Orders out to D BUSBY)
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- I have included a Membership Form in this Issue that can be printed out
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- by clicking on the "P" in the Fullview program! If you don't have a
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- printer, just write the details down that you are asked for in the form.
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- (Name,Address,Age,Machine and Add ons etc.)
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- Or why not give us a ring (between 9.30am and 7.30pm) on our NEW
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- 'phone Number :-> *** 0374 687292 ***
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- You can also ring if you need advice on ANY aspect of the A1200,
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- Which Upgrade to buy, which Software, ANYTHING!!!
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- Now a few greets and thanx....
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- Thanx to..
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- AUI - for the exellent CD32 Magazine disk! ! !
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- PAUL (NBS) - For that exellent demo (You know the one !!)
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- Mark (Bro's) - For the slideshow (Wicked!)
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- Greets to..
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- Shane Paul Darren Kevin Dean Andy
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- Shaun Iain Mark Graham
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- Right, I must admit to something,
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- I have been so peeved off with Commodore saying that they are bringing
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- out a CD drive for the A1200, and then saying that they aren't bringing one
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- out that I went out and bought a new CD32.
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- If anybody is thinking about buying a CD32, I suggest that you DO!
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- I have been playing LIBERATION on it for 25 hours a day, and the game is
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- exellent with the added speech and CD music!
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- Has anyone out there bought LIBERATION for the A1200?
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- Could you get it to install on the Harddrive? I certainly couldn't get it
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- to run from my Harddrive !?! (This was one of the reasons I bought a CD32,
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- just so I could play LIBERATION ! !)
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- The other reason was so I could keep you up to date on EVERYTHING "AGA" !
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- JUST BEFORE CHANNEL Z WAS RELEASED, IT HAS COME TO OUR ATTENTION THAT
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- COMMODORE **ARE** GOING TO RELEASE A CD ADD ON FOR THE A1200!!!!!
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- THE UNIT WILL **NOT** SUPPORT THE FMV FORMAT THOUGH BUT WILL MOST
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- LIKELY RETAIL FOR AROUND £200 - £250 SO ITS GOOD NEWS FOR ALL YOU LOT
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- OUT THERE THAT HAVE WAITED AND WAITED FOR ONE TO COME OUT !!
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- IT ALSO LOOKS LIKE COMMODORE ARE GOING TO GIVE US WHAT WE WANT AT LAST!
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- (See the Commodore feature!)
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- Exciting news on the A1200 PD front, I have just finished putting together
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- one of, if not THE biggest collection of AGA Public Domain Software in the
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- Universe!
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- By the time you read this, I will have put together our NEW A1200 ONLY
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- Public Domain Catalogue Disk! Which also includes some Great Utilities!
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- The catalogue disk is available for only £1.00 (inc P+P) cheques made payable
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- to Mr D.Busby, or is FREE if you order ANY of the PD that has been reveiwed
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- in this Issue!
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- (Please state that you are ordering from Issue 5 to qualify for the free
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- catalogue disk.)
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- Well, what do you know! I picked up CU AMIGA the other day (end of March)
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- and they had some shocking news!
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- NO RALLY FOR AMIGA! was their headline, refering to that exellent PC
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- game with those rather sexy looking graphics!
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- Erm, wait a minute, didn't CHANNEL Z tell you that in the March/April
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- Issue? which was released on the 1st March?
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- Remember where you here the HOTTEST news FIRST ! ! !
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- Three words spring to mind when talking about games,
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- T a c t i c a l F i g h t e r E x p e r i m e n t
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- or TFX to those who are drooling over it!
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- Well, its on its way (it should be with us in July!) On the A1200 it
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- will be HardDisk installable, but WON'T have as much detail as the PC
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- version. Although CD32 users will have the FULL PC version with ALL the
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- colours/shading and stuff! (Look out for a Full review soon, If
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- it comes out of course!!)
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- In the months of March/April, I visited a fair number of Computer Shows,
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- and some of the stuff that was on offer at some of them was, to say the
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- least a bit dodgy. I was a bit dissapointed to see things like Internal
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- 180Mb IDE Harddrives with the word "UNTESTED" on them, selling for £20.00.
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- I mean, who in their right mind would buy one, some poor teenager would
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- buy one with his last £20.00, only to get it home to find that it is
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- totally Knackered! I also saw Phillips Monitors (Not switched on of course)
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- being sold for as little as £75.00.
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- With a World shortage in monitors at the moment, I suspect that a few people
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- will have bought one, only to find that that too was knackered.
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- So come on Amiga users, AND sellers, we all have one thing in common -
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- Lets stop ripping each other off at these so called "Computer shows", all
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- they turn out to be are Junk sales.
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- Im not getting at ALL the companies though. Take Telescan Computers of
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- Blackpool, they had an exellent stand at some of the shows I visited,
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- and had some exellent Software on offer. They had a "table/stand"
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- whatever you want to call it! at the Norbreck Castle show in Blackpool,
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- with monitors showing the likes of Subliminal XTC!
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- I heard one PC owner telling his "mate" all about "How good these PCs
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- really are and how the graphics are cool". He soon left when I told him
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- it was an AMIGA displaying those "cool" graphics!!!!!
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- I attended the Winter Gardens show in Blackpool as a seller, rather than
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- a buyer, it was an experience in itself!
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- I was quite astounded in the amount of people that came up to us and said,
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- "Do you do that Channel Z Disk Mag?", and was amused at the reaction when
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- I said "Yes we do, I'm the Editor!" There was handshakes and congrat's
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- and everything!
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- So you can see that not ALL Amiga owners are out to rip you off.
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- The ones that are though are thoughtless people who just couldn't care how
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- the AMIGA goes. Take one chap that was selling BUG Joysticks for less than
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- £3.00, I asked him why they were so cheap, his reply was ----
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- "Cause their nicked mate!" Is this the right attitude? I think NOT.
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- Right, now i've got that off my chest.......
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- In this months Issue, we have some rather nice things for you.
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- There is some exellent music and some rather good utilities,
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- including the Exellent A1200 Diagnostics! Your Amiga will never be ill
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- again ! !
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- ***** SOMETIMES, A1200 DIAGNOSTICS WILL SAY THAT YOU HAVE A ROM *****
- ***** FAILURE AND THAT YOU ALSO HAVE A COLLISION FAILURE. *****
- ***** WHY IT DOES THIS, IM NOT CERTAIN. IT WORKS FINE FROM A *****
- ***** HARDDRIVE THOUGH ?!?!? *****
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- We are pround to include Reflections of Innocence, a picture that recently
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- won the Max Graphics Gallery Competition in a recent Issue of AMIGA FORMAT!
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- Also there is a new feature starting this Issue, I have invited AMIGA
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- Artist Paul Horton to have a say on things to do with the AMIGA.
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- I think you will find it quite interesting. Another new feature is our
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- Questions and Answer section which I mentioned a few issues back,
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- I have had so many letters asking weird and wonderful things that I have
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- decided to devote a whole section to it!
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- Also on the disks are the excellent Panta Rei Demo plus the latest
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- version of SYSINFO (3.22) VIRUS CHECKER (6.34) and KillAGA (2)
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- (Athough Virus Checker will most probably have been updated by the
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- time you read this!)
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- OK. I had to say this, I know that it has nothing whatsoever to do
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- about computers, but what the HELL Happened to MAN UNITED in the COCA
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- COLA CUP Final!
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- I know some of you out there will enjoy football as much as Computing,
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- so I thought I'd add this bit of text that was handed to me after the
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- Match...... by an Everton supporter.
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- TO ALL MANCHESTER UNITED FANS
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- Whilst congratulating you on your success, I would like to remind you that
- since you last won the title :->
- LIVERPOOL won it 11 times and the European Cup 4 times
- EVERTON were Champions 3 times.
- A spacecraft has landed on Mars.
- We have had 5 Prime Ministers.
- There has been a War in the Falklands and the Gulf.
- The Berlin Wall has come down.
- Communism has broken down in Russia.
- Elvis has died and been seen in Tesco's.
- So before you start gloating,
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- It's not winning the league but retaining it that matters........
- P.S. I've heard that Nelson Mandela is Cra**ing Himself. The last time
- Man UTD won the League, he went to jail for 25 years!
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- I found this to be quite amusing, even though I am a UNITED supporter,
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- and have been since I was about this big :-> ( )
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- / \ me! (age 1 day!)
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- I apologise to those of you that dont like Football, but this section
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- hasn't even taken up 1k on the disk, so I had to add it !!!!
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- Anyway back to Computers!
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- Lets have a look at the AMIGA Charts for April/May 1994
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- This chart is compiled from sales over Two Months at ONE shop.
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- 1. SkidMarks
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- 2. Cannon Fodder
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- 3. Beneath a Steel Sky
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- 4. Manchester United Premier League Champions (Excellent!)
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- 5. Premier Manager 2
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- 6. Frontier
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- 7. Mortal Kombat
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- 8. Alien Breed 2
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- 9. Brian the Lion
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- 10.Microcosm (CD32) (At last a CD title!)
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- Chart supplied by HMV
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- and a look at the A1200 charts for the same months.....
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- 1. Ryder Cup Golf
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- 2. Star Trek 25th Anniversary
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- 3. Simon the Sorcerer
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- 4. Brutal Sports Football
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- 5. Jurrasic Park
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- 6. Alien Breed 2
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- 7. Civilization
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- 8. Pinball Fantasies
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- 9. The Chaos Engine
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- 10.Trolls
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- Chart compiled by Gallup
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- While were looking at the charts, lets have a look at what was happening
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- in May/June last year.......
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- The software charts looked like this,
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- 1. Project X
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- 2. Formula One Grand Prix
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- 3. Space Crusade
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- 4. Black Crypt
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- 5. Special Forces
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- 6. ShadowLands
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- 7. Pinball Dreams
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- 8. A320 Airbus
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- 9. WWF Wrestlemania
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- 10.James Pond 2 - Robocod
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- Chart compiled by Gallup
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- In May last year,
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- The all new A600 was launched to an enthusiastic crowd at Wembley !
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- As we all now know, this was another of Commodores BIG mistakes !!!!!
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- Psygnosis and Microprose were committing themselves to the CDTV !?!
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- (Why?). Plus the whole country was going mad over the UKs first
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- Virtual Reality Film - The Lawnmower Man !!
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- In June,
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- The smartcard (PCMCIA) was being called the answer to Piracy with loads
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- of companies saying that they will bring games out on Cards. Hhmmmm!
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- New games for release were - Pacific Islands,Striker,Eye of the Beholder 2
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- and The Addams Family.
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- As always though, (with summer just around the corner) there wasn't much
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- happening on the Amiga Scene.
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- Well, what more can I say, not a lot really but,
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- Things aren't happening like they used to on the AMIGA scene, everything
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- seems to happen at a snales pace! (Just like this time last year!!)
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- We are all promised one thing, and then it doesn't happen for months
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- afterwords, just take a look at TFX to see what I am talking about,
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- we were promised it in April, then in May, then in June and now we have
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- to wait till July for it, I'll put a bet on with D.I.D who are producing
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- it that it doesn't come out until December!
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- Question of the Issue........
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- Will we see TFX before X-Mas ???
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- See you all next Issue...... Darren.
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- P.S. Its my Birthday on the 25th May !!!! (All presents gratefully
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- accepted!!)
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- P.P.S CONGRATULATIONS TO MANCHESTER UNITED FOR WINNING THE
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- 1993/1994 PREMIERSHIP TITLE
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- FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!
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- The final whistle has just been blown in the
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- Coventry "v" Blackburn game!
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- Blackburn needed to win to keep United on their toes, but
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- they lost the match 2-1 !!!!!!!!!!!
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