Amiga Format Issue 132 (January 2000)

  • Issue: AF132
  • Date: January 2000
  • Price (UK): £5.99
  • Cover media: One CD (AFCD48) or two floppy disks (Disk 132a and Disk 132b)
  • Pages: 92
  • Spine text: None
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1CoverAF132 cover featuring a cartoon of an Amiga and various futuristic technology with the text ‘Welcome To The Future’
2AdvertisementAdvertisement for Epic Marketing
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4AdvertisementAdvertisement for Analogic Computers (UK) Ltd
5ContentsDetails of the contents of AF132
6Microsoft, the future & the AmigaNews item on the US Department Of Justice finding that Microsoft holds a monopoly in computer operating systems
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Month in view…Editor Ben Vost discusses software piracy in the Amiga market
Scalos rebirthNews item on Satanic Dreams Software’s plans for Scalos after obtaining the source code from creator Stefan Sommerfeld
8The Millennium Amiga PollNews item on a survey of Amiga users conducted by software developers Eyelight
Transmeta to reveal allNews item on Transmeta’s new Crusoe microprocessor
G3 is here!News item on Met@box’s new G3-based PPC card AmiJoe
100 Issues ago — AF32 March 1992Summary of the contents of Amiga Format Issue 32 (March 1992)
9Product News…News item on new releases of fxPaint, AmTelnet, PFS3, AmiDog Movie Player, Catweasel’s Multidisk device, Picasso96, and CyberGraphX
FusionPPC delayed?News item on delays to Blittersofy’s Apple Mac emulator FusionPPC
eGroups and ONElist mergeNews item on the merger of mailing list companies eGroups and ONElist
Vital HorganOpinion column by Tony Horgan on upgrading to AmigaOS 3.5
10Amiga Goes To The MoviesNews item on a new film from Mark Forbes produced entirely on Amigas
Simon 2 For Amiga!News item on Epic Marketing’s imminent release of Simon The Sorceror 2
Millennium* disclaimerNote on the usage of the term ‘millennium’ throughout this issue
11AdvertisementAdvertisement for Netscape Online
12Subscriptions and back issuesInformation on subscribing to and obtaining back issues of Amiga Format
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14Köln Home Electronics World 1999Feature by Ben Vost on the annual Köln (Cologne) computer show
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20Network to AnywhereFeature by Simon Goodwin on networking Amigas, including reviews of Eyetech’s CNet PCMCIA package and Power Computing’s Ethernet adaptor
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26Welcome To The FutureFeature by Ben Vost and Richard Drummond on the future of computing and how it will affect the Amiga
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30AdvertisementAdvertisement for Eyetech Group Ltd
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32PreviewsPreviews of upcoming games, including adventure game Codename Hellquad, strategy game Exodus The Last War, and 3D shoot-em-up Lambda, and news of Hyperion acquiring the licence to port 3D shoot-em-up FreeSpace to the Amiga
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34Wipeout 2097Review by Paul Cavanagh of 3D racing game Wipeout 2097
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36Gamebusters!Cheats and hints for games Wasted Dreams, Frontier Elite 2, and Enemy
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38TView 1.1.8Review by Richard Drummond of Fredrik Söderberg’s shareware television listings browser TView
Scalos-ECM v1.0Review by Richard Drummond of Mike Carter’s freeware Scalos execute command replacement Scalos-ECM
39MetaView 2.8Review by Richard Drummond of Henk Jonas’s shareware vector image viewer and converter MetaView
GNUPlotReview by Richard Drummond of the GNU Project’s freeware graph plotter GNUPlot
40MUISearchReview by Richard Drummond of Emmanuel Dausse’s shareware file searching utility MUISearch
XADMaster v3.1Review by Richard Drummond of Dirk Stoecker’s shareware file archiving library collection XADMaster
OS3.5 Round UpReview by Richard Drummond of various public domain enhancements for AmigaOS 3.5
41AdvertisementsAdvertisements for Image Setters and FORE-MATT Home Computing
42GoldED 6Review by Richard Drummond of Alive Mediasoft’s text editor GoldED 6
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44Power Flyer 4000Preview by Simon Goodwin of Power Computing’s Power Flyer 4000 IDE adaptor
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46Ami-AtlasReview by Kevin Fairhurst of Epic Marketing’s map browser and route finder Ami-Atlas
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48Philips 109BReview by Ben Vost of Philips’s 109B monitor
49Developer CD V2.1Review by Richard Drummond of Haage & Partner’s AmigaOS 3.5 development kit Developer CD V2.1
50WorkbenchAnswers to readers’ technical questions
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54Amiga.netFeature by Dave Cusick on search engines
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56The complete beginners guide to… DrivesFeature by Richard Drummond on hard disk drives
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60Practical JavaScriptTutorial by Neil Bothwick on form data validation using JavaScript
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62Useful ARexxTutorial by Nick Veitch on generating HTML using ARexx scripts
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64Program PerfectionTutorial by Richard Drummond on creating graphical user interfaces for programs
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66Synth StudiesTutorial by Tony Horgan on interesting features of various audio software
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68Banging the MetalTutorial by Simon Goodwin on programming the memory management unit present in some Amigas
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70MailBagReaders’ letters
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74MailBag Special DeliveryReaders’ letters on the subject of AmigaOS 3.5
75The GalleryReaders’ artwork, including Ogy’s It Came…, George Davidson’s Bryan and Cindy, and Roger Håseth’s collection of images
76AFCD 48Details of the contents of the cover CD AFCD48, including adventure game demo Wasted Dreams, communications package demo STFax4, screensaver CyberMagic, e-mail spellchecker ISpell YAM, strategy game Exodus, image processor demo Image Engineer, and reader Øyvin Thuv’s music
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80Serious DiskDetails of the contents of the serious cover disk Disk 132a, including reminder utility DRemind, file manager EcoDisk, image viewer and resizer PicScale, file loader Zoom, and MPEG audio player Prayer
81Games DiskDetails of the contents of the games cover disk Disk 132b, including arcade game compilation MrE, arcade game Sharks, and puzzle games SameGame, TinyTainer Mines and TinyTainer Mastermind
82Reader AdsReaders’ classified advertisements
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85Amiga User GroupsFeature by Chris Livermore on new Amiga User Groups
86Just the FAQsFeature by Olaf Barthel on Year 2000 issues and the Amiga
87afbReaders’ posts to the Amiga Format mailing list
88AdvertisementsAdvertisements for Abel Gratis, Select Software, Gold Crest PD, PPS Ltd, Amiga Bureau, Second Hand Amiga Centre, Classic Amiga, and Epic Marketing
89Next IssuePreview of next month’s Amiga Format, with expected content including reviews of the Power Flyer 4000, Unix Compendium, Heretic II, SuperView, and PSX Port
90AdvertisementAdvertisement for Power Computing Ltd
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92AdvertisementAdvertisement for Plexus Media
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