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- From: teler@cs.huji.ac.il (Eyal Teler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
- Subject: MINI-REVIEW: Amiga Computing, issue 71, March 1994
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: 2 Mar 1994 16:30:10 GMT
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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- Keywords: magazine, issue, coverdisk, commercial
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- PRODUCT NAME
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- Amiga Computing, issue 71, March 1994
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- BRIEF DESCRIPTION
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- This review contains a list of articles and coverdisk programs
- available with this issue of AC. Three of the coverdisk programs are
- reviewed in separate reviews.
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- AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION
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- Name of publisher: Europress Enterprise Ltd.
- Address: Europa House
- Adlington Park
- Macclesfield SK10 4NP
- UK
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- Editorial E-mail: amigacomputing@cix.compulink.co.uk
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- LIST PRICE
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- #3.25 (British Pounds)
- Overseas price #3.50 ($10 in the US, to my knowledge)
- Hfl 15.95
-
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- REVIEW
-
- This is a description of Amiga Computing issue 71, March 1994.
-
- This review includes a list of the articles in this issue, and is
- followed by initial reviews of the programs on the coverdisk. It is intended
- to help you decide if you want to buy this issue, and should be especially
- useful for those non-British readers (like myself) who need to order it from
- their newsagents.
-
- This issue is 164 pages long, and includes one coverdisk.
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- COVERDISK PROGRAMS
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- JcGraph - Graph program. Create 2D and 3D graphs from ASCII data files.
- FastJPEG - Fast JPEG viewer.
- DocDump 3.6 - Prints several pages on one physical page using small print.
- Icon Editor v4 - 16-colour icon editor, requiring Workbench 2.04 or higher.
- SuperDuper 3.0 - Disk copier, requiring Workbench 2.04 or higher.
- DataTypes - PCX, BMP, Windows icons, MacPaint.
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- Three of these programs -- JcGraph, FastJPEG, and DocDump -- are
- reviewed separately in the comp.sys.amiga.reviews archives.
-
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- CONTENTS OF MAGAZINE
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- News (highlights):
- Warp transputer board
- Picture of famous anti-Sega ad board
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- Features:
- Computer porn - includes examples ;-) (some censured)
- Babylon 5 - an interview with Ron Thrnton of Foundation Imaging
- Amiga video walls in football (soccer) stadiums
- Monitors - how they work, survey - 1940/42 vs 1084st vs Microvitec
- 1440
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- Reviews:
- Vidi Amiga 24 RT
- Emplant - Mac emulation (v3.7?) review, Apple II emulation preview
- Humanoid - human objects for Lightwave and Imagine
- Canon BJC-600 bubblejet colour printer
- A2A font conversion
- MA36 MIDI analyser
- Panasonic KX-P2123 dot matrix colour printer
- Upper Disk Tools
- Ink refills
- AGA VideoMaster
- Amiga A1200 Beginner's Pack (Book, video + PD disks)
- Updates - ImageFX 1.50, Clarity 16
- Oldies: DCTV, Caligari 24, Understanding Imagine 2 (book)
- Digitisers: VideoMaster/AGA, Vidi 12/24 RT, VLabY/C & VLab
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- Games reviews:
- Star Trek
- Jurassic Park
- Fantastic Dizzy
- Cool Spot
- Pirates Gold (CD32)
- Skidmarks
- F1
- The Labyrinth of Time (CD32)
- Tornado
- Campaign II
- CD32 Shorts: Arabian Nights, Alfred Chicken, John Barnes European Football
- Cheaps: Kings Quest 1, Cruise for a Corpse
- Cheat/walkthrough: The Addams Family
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- Tutorials (most are ongoing):
- AmigaGuide
- Beginners - installing software
- ARexx - ARexx libraries, especially RexxARPLib
- Video - general problems in a video production
- AMOS - requesters
- Publishing - colour publishing
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- VENDOR SUPPORT
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- Free replacement for faulty coverdisk. I tried this once - it takes
- some time, but you do get a working replacement disk.
-
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- CONCLUSION
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- A nice issue, with an average coverdisk containing no commercial
- programs.
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- COPYRIGHT NOTICE
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- Copyright 1994 Eyal Teler. All rights reserved.
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