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Gareth Knight
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THE WORLD'S BIGGEST-SELLING AMIGA MAGAZINE
Amiga Format Logo AF97
Issue No: 97 Month: May 1997
Release Date: ? Price: £4.50 (2 disks) £5.50 (CD-ROM)
Editor: Nick Veitch Page Count: 116

AF MAIN FEATURE

Get Connected
Ben Vost explains how to get your Amiga onto the world wide web.

AF COVER DISK/CD

The AF coverdisk became increasingly unimportant after the launch of the CD edition.
Serious Disk
Scala 1.1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Games Disk
Witness
Blasted
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

AFCD 
Headquarters
Racer
BattleDuel
Capital Punishment patch
F1 Licenseware
Personal Paint patches
AnimatED
MBlank
TurboPrint 5 demo
... and much. much more!
Scene Storm
Music disks
Demos
Mags
Intros
Module
Source code
ASCII Scene
Ami-Express
Slideshows
... and much. much more!

AF NEWS ITEMS

Amiga to get mad cow disease
The drawn-out legal battle is over... again. Gateway 2000 are declared the winners.

New Amigas from Direct?
Direct software announce Power Amiga clone.

Netconnect finally launched
Active software launch NetConnect CD-ROM.

LH Publishing showing its support for Amiga products
LH Publishing expand their product range with the addition of DiskSalv 4 & PageStream 3.

Amiga Format's Top 10 reasons to... use MUI
Easier to use, prettier interface design, customised design....

AF FEATURE

The Future looks Bright
Results of the reader survey. 99.5% are male, 84% own an A1200, the average AF reader is 28, 46% (the largest percentage) claim to be students.

20:20 Vision
Ben Vost takes a look at the latest monitors. Features the Viewsonic PT775, Microvitec GPM1701 (M1764), & Viewsonic 17GA. 

AF REVIEWS
 
SCREENPLAY
Previews
Wasted Dreams
Castle Kingdoms
Alien Presence: Dawn of the Sixth Sense
Myst

Re-releases
Fifa Soccer - 85%
Theme Park - 90%
Road Rash - 82%
Desert Strike - 88%
Wing Commander - 81%
PGA Golf - 80%

SERIOUSLY AMIGA
Reviews
Imagine 5 -78%
PageStream 3.2 - 92%
Web Explosion - 80%
MakeCD 2.1 - 94%
SX-32 Pro - 95%
RDG-Salv - 90%
Directory Opus 5.5 - 95%

CD-ROM round-up
Utilities Experience - 92%
Sounds Terrific - 86%
Aminet Set 4 - 95%
Geek Gadget - 78%

AF AF CREATIVE (TUTORIALS)

PPaint (Chapter 1)
In the first part of this tutorial Nick Veitch introduces some basic image processing techniques.

Music X (Chapter 5)
Darren Irvine explains how to playback 'live' music and use Notator-X

Real 3D v2 (Chapter 10)
Graeme Sandiford creates a butterfly, complete with soft flapping wings.

Cinema4D 2 (Chapter 3)
John Kennedy discovers the more advanced Boolean and Polygon tools.

Advanced ARexx Coding
Paul Overaa takes a look at hash processes in ARexx.

AF REGULARS

Month in View
Amiga Format News
ScreenPlay
  • Previews
  • Readers Games (on Ice)
  • GameBusters
  • PD Select
AF Serious
Workbench
Amiga.net
Amiga Format web site
Amiga Format Special Offers
Amiga Format book offers
Back Issues
Mailbag & The Gallery
Amiga Format CoverCD
Amiga Format Coverdisks
Next Month

AFCOMMENTS
The CD edition featured two CDs.

 

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