Amiga Format Issue 135 (April 2000)

  • Issue: AF135
  • Date: April 2000
  • Price (UK): £5.99
  • Cover media: One CD (AFCD51) or two floppy disks (Disk 135a and Disk 135b)
  • Pages: 84
  • Spine text: None
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1CoverAF135 cover featuring image from Heretic II with the text ‘Exclusive! Heretic II First Review Of The Stunning PPC Game!’
2AdvertisementAdvertisement for Eyetech Group Ltd
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5ContentsDetails of the contents of AF135
6Sad day for phase5News item on phase5’s application for insolvency and its impact on DCE’s products using designs licensed from phase5
7Month in view…Editor Ben Vost discusses bad news in the Amiga market and complaints about the expense of PCs
3D for Picasso?News item on Village Tronic’s reinstated plans for the ParaGlide card for the Picasso IV
World’s First For Amiga!April Fools’ Day news item on a revolutionary new processor board using materials from volcanoes
MultiUser2 goes open sourceNews item on the open-sourcing of Wez Furlong’s and Richard Smith’s UNIX-style security layer MultiUser2
8Repulse SoundcardNews item on AlienDesign’s Repulse Zorro 2 soundcard
AAA awardsNews item on the AAA Awards and a form to make nominations
9Open Amiga updateNews item on the latest developments in the Amiga Research Operating System project, and AROS’s partnership with the Open Amiga Foundation
100 Issues ago — AF35 June 1992Summary of the contents of Amiga Format Issue 35 (June 1992)
10Euro newsNews item on the latest developments in the European Amiga market, including Activ Logic’s Storm MP3 MPEG audio decoder and Centek’s Phenix 68060 motherboard
Product News…News item on new releases of FreeCiv, SimpleFind, Scalos, TUP, STRICQ, Lame, Frodo, Warp 3D, Aminet CD35, FastATA1200, EIDE99, FastATA4000, and CyberGFX
Squirrel changes handsNews item on HiSOFT’s sale of the rights to manufacture the Classic Squirrel and Surf Squirrel PCMCIA SCSI cards and Whippet PCMCIA serial card to Analogic Computers
11AdvertisementAdvertisement for Analogic Computers (UK) Ltd
12SubscriptionsInformation on subscribing to Amiga Format
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14Tao The Way Forward?Feature by Richard Drummond on Amiga Inc’s new partner Tao Group and their real-time networked operating system Elate RTOS
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18The whole truth about user groupsFeature by Andrew Elia on Amiga user groups and their importance to the future of the Amiga
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22PreviewsPreviews of upcoming games, including adventure game Phantasmagoria, arcade game Powerball, strategy game Homeland, and compilation Amiga Classix 2, and news on Digitial Dreams’s latest products Code Name Hell Squad and Wasted Dreams 2
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24Heretic IIReview by Paul Cavanagh of Raven Software’s and Hyperion’s 3D shoot-em-up Heretic II
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28Reader GamesReviews by Paul Cavanagh of readers’ games, including Eric Park’s shoot-em-up No Escape and racing game Country Racers, Colin Butterworth’s strategy game T34, and Gareth Griffths’ shoot-em-up Shout Out 200
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30Gamebusters!Cheats and hints for games Blockhead 2, OnEscapee, Cybercon III, Deluxe Galaga, Deluxe Pacman, and Star Trek 25th Anniversary
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32BlizKick v1.22 beta 3Review by Richard Drummond of Harry “Piru” Sintonen’s freeware Kickstart remapper and patcher BlizKick
NListTreeReview by Richard Drummond of Carsten Scholling’s polymorphware MUI ListTree class replacement NListTree
33AWNPipe 2.34Review by Richard Drummond of William Parker’s childware pipe device AWNPipe
Charon v1.0Review by Richard Drummond of Andrija Antonijevic’s shareware download manager Charon
34Run44Review by Richard Drummond of Harry “Piru” Sintonen’s freeware run replacement Run44
CreateOutlineReview by Richard Drummond of Stephan Rupprecht’s freeware outlined font generator CreateOutline
35AdvertisementAdvertisement for Power Computing Ltd
36X-SurfReview by Simon Goodwin of Individual Computer’s Ethernet, IDE, and clock port adaptor X-Surf
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38Emulation Update 2000Feature by Simon Goodwin on emulation software for the Amiga, covering emulators A4, Flamingo, CP4, CBSpeccy, Spectrum 128, ASp, X128, Electrostatic, AmiGenerator, GBE, VGB, SNes9x, TrueReality, DarcNES, Handy, SavagePPC, Basilisk, and UAE
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40Stonkin’ toonsReviews by Tony Horgan of Amiga-produced music albums, including compilations Back In Time II and Immortal, Zaranyzerak’s Modulized, and Jogeir Liljedahl’s The Wanderer
41AdvertisementsAdvertisements for Future Gamer and FORE-MATT Home Computing
42HP Deskjet 610CReview by Richard Drummond of Hewlett Packard’s 610C inkjet printer
43Epson 1160Review by Ben Vost of Epson’s Stylus 1160 A3 inkjet printer
44WorkbenchAnswers to readers’ technical questions
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48Amiga.netFeature by Dave Cusick on Amiga internet software
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50The complete beginner’s guide to— 3D basicsFeature by Ben Vost on the basic principles of 3D graphics, including software, modelling, rendering, textures, lighting and animation
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54Practical JavaScriptTutorial by Neil Bothwick on JavaScript web browser compatibility issues
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56Just ImagineTutorial by Andy Kinsella on 3D modelling in Imagine
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58Program PerfectionTutorial by Richard Drummond on using datatypes in programs
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60Banging the MetalTutorial by Simon Goodwin on using the Copper and Blitter co-processors to program each other
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62MailBagReaders’ letters
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66The GalleryReaders’ artwork, including Roy Burton’s Easteregg, Richard Armitage’s Fantasy and Parts, Bill Brown’s OS3.5 Man, John Cooper’s Ra Final and Ra Step By Step, Nick Rowe’s Exit Only, Chris Spicer’s Bad Business, and Paul Smith’s Snookertable 2
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68AFCD 51Details of the contents of the cover CD AFCD51, including image editor Personal Paint, strategy game Foundation The Director’s Cut, datatypes collection AKDatatypes, hardfiles for emulators Fusion and PCx, and reader Jody Tierney’s scripts and utilities
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72Serious DiskDetails of the contents of the serious cover disk Disk 135a, including bank account manager AmiCheck, MUI system requester animator MRQ, icon information replacement RAWBInfo, WBStartup improvement WBStartup+, Matrix-style screensaver MatrixBL, and Workbench internal settings editor TweakWB
73Games DiskDetails of the contents of the games cover disk Disk 135b, including card games DawnVideoPoker and Patience, puzzle game Solohalma, strategy game Starbase, and arcade game Wolf
74Reader AdsReaders’ classified advertisements
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77Amiga User GroupsFeature by Chris Livermore on the Lonix Linux User Group
78Just the FAQsInterview with Ben Hermans of Hyperion Software
79afbReaders’ posts to the Amiga Format mailing list
80AdvertisementsAdvertisements for Abel Gratis, Select Software, Second Hand Amiga Centre, Gold Crest PD, and Classic Amiga
Back issuesInformation on obtaining back issues of Amiga Format
81Next IssuePreview of next month’s Amiga Format, with expected content including a review of the BoXeR
82AdvertisementAdvertisement for Power Computing Ltd
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