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© 1997-2006
Gareth Knight
All Rights reserved

  
THE WORLD'S BIGGEST-SELLING AMIGA MAGAZINE
Amiga Format Logo AF99
Issue No: 99 Month: July 1997
Release Date: ? Price: £5.50 (CD-ROM)
Editor: Nick Veitch Page Count: 116

AF MAIN FEATURE

Tower Power
Six-page feature on building a custom tower for your A1200.

AF COVER DISK/COVERCD

In a move that was criticised by CU Amiga, AF featured two CDs of Amiga software on the cover.
Serious Disk
Pretium demo - home accounts
AmigaLoad
Visage
DropView
VersionWB
BlitzKick
AREXX Tutorial
Boum
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 Games Disk
Rush Hour
Wormtris
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 CoverCD #1
BrainKiller demo
BoulderDash
Pairs
Soliton
Zero Gravity
Omega
SWOS Ed
Encyclopedia of the Paranormal demo
iBrowse patches
Knack MUI
Speak Freely 6.1b
IDE-Fix
XTruder
STFax
EZPager
... and much. much more!		 Cover CD #2 (Phase 1)
Clipart
Images
Fonts
Utilities
Parnet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

AF NEWS ITEMS

Gateway break their silence
World of Amiga 1997 Report - what a show!
Phase 5 announce extended plans for their PowerUP PPC boards
ClickBOOM & PXL Computers announce support for PowerPC
The Bradford Column
Aminet 18 at #1 in GTI Charts (April 1997)

AF FEATURE

Console Emulation (part 10)
Simon Goodwin tests the fast-advancing range of Amiga game console emulators (Nintendo Gameboy, Atari 2600, Game Gear, & Master System.

Game On!
In the second part of the Game On! feature, Ben Vost unveils the new generation of Amiga games that will be gracing your computer soon...

AF REVIEWS
 
SCREENPLAY
Previews
  • Cygnus-9
Reviews
Testament - 92%
Squibbly Shibbly - 20%
 
 
 
 

 

 SERIOUSLY AMIGA
Reviews
DOpus Magellan - 92%
Final Writer '97 - 90%
Artec A6000c Viewstation scanner - 92%
Apollo 4060 - 90%
Power CD-ROM - 92%
ProTel - 60%
Wordworth 6 - 89%

CD-ROM Round-up
Card Games - 56%
Imagine PD 3D - 66%
Aminet 18 - 90%
AGA Toolkit '97 - 82%

AF AF CREATIVE (TUTORIALS)

Monthly tutorials section for the latest applications and former cover disks.

Beginners Guide (Chapter 1)
Robert Polding goes back to basics, kicking off with an introduction to Workbench.

DOpus 5.5 (Chapter 1)
Ben Vost introduces a new way of working with your Amiga.

Personal Paint (Chapter 3)
Nick Veitch plays around with brushes, and produces some very disturbing results.

Cinema4D 2 (Chapter 5)
John Kennedy shows off the emboss, fractal. sun, text, ground, and sky features.

Advanced ARexx Coding: Counter-Espinage for Beginners! (Part 2)
Paul Overaa concludes his introduction to cryptology.

AF REGULARS

Month in View
Amiga Format News & Net Corner
ScreenPlay
  • Previews
  • Readers Games
  • GameBusters & Helping Hand
  • PD Select
Seriously Amiga
CD-ROM Round-Up
Workbench
Amiga.net
Back Issues
Subscriptions & Special Offers
Market Place (adverts)
Creative
Mailbag
The Gallery
Amiga Format CoverCD
Amiga Format Coverdisks
Next Month

AFCOMMENTS
A fascinating issue that signalled new hope in the Amiga market. The inclusion of two CDs is a feature that no other magazine has been able to mimic since. However, it has to be said that the CU Amiga guide to custom towers was better than AF's.

 

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