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Issue No: 11 Price: £5.95
Publication Date: Thursday July 27, 2000 Page Count: 68
Month: August 2000 Editor: Andrew Korn
Issue 11

Highlights
Happy Birthday Amiga!
Celebrating a decade and a half of the world's greatest computer.

EZTower Z4
Eyetech's Z4 tower solution deconstructed.

ArtEffect 4
Haage & Partner's graphics package reviewed.

Who are DCE?
Chances are you own something they made.

Junk E-mail!
...and how best to deal with it.

Also inside...
News:
Dev Box Frenzy Power Computing, Eyetech, and Computer City launch their own Amiga development systems.
Digital Images reach Deadlock Digital Images announces space combat game, DeadLock.
Amiga Show in California Attendees at the AmiWest 2000 show on 29th-30th July 2000.
Voyager Revamped Voyager web browser to get new layout engine.
New Amiga ISP Blittersoft launch new Amiga dedicated ISP.
TechEd Report - Microsoft to compete with Tao Report on the TechEd 2000 show in Amsterdam.
Dead or Alive? Alive Media Soft announce they are ceasing all retail operations.
Elate gets another physics engine Tao Group and MathEngine PLC enter into a strategic agreement.
Last gasp for modems The ITU reveals an upgrade to the v90 56k standard.

Editorial:

Come full circle Andrew Korn reflects upon the parallels between the original Amiga and its current situation.
Rants and Raves:
Strange Attractors: The Amiverse, Systems Theory, and Scenarios of possible futures. Roger B. Wyatt takes a futuristic look at the new Amiverse.
Addicted to E David Stroud fires a warning shot across the bows of hyphenated techno-jargon.
Features:
Who are DCE? Amiga Active interviews hardware manufacturer DCE.
15 years of Amiga July 23rd marks the fifteenth anniversary of the launch of the Amiga. Amiga Active takes a look back at a decade and a half of the world's greatest computer.
Active Gamer: Eye-Play Amiga Active interviews Alan Redhouse.

Previews:

Payback Time! Work in Progress (Part 2) & Preview James Daniels discusses the technicalities of Payback's 3D engine  
Imagine Work in progress of the long-running Amiga 3D rendering software  

Reviews:

All review scores are marked out of four 'AmiYinYangs'.

AmigaWriter The Amiga's newest word processor gets an update. 1.5 out of 4
Audio Evolution Latest music package for recording, mixing, and editing sounds. 4 out of 4
Eyetech EZTower Z4 Eyetech's latest custom A1200 tower case 4 out of 4
ArtEffect v4 Haage & Partner's flagship graphics package gets another update. 3 out of 4
YAM 2.1 It's "yet another" new release of the Amiga's favourite mailer 3 out of 4
Ultimate XTReme Racing Retro racing in this Mario Kart clone 2 out of 4
Tutorials:
ArtEffect Tutorial Brief tutorial for v2.6 of the popular Amiga art package.
Programming in C (Part 2) In-depth look at improving code through the use of structures.
Regulars:
Active Media* The Invisible Computer book, Workbench Addons CD, The Amigan web site, CamCentral.com, VideoCD.com
Active Shareware This issue we check out some updated Internet applications and a new version of a popular puzzler.
Interactive - Letters to the Editor More letters from the masses.
Ask the Guru Arguing IDE devices, upgrades, missing software, and dodgy emulation are all meditated on heavily this month.
Active Online Neil Bothwick takes a look at spam
RetroActive Andrew Korn remembers the first time that he saw the Amiga.
Comments:
Jason Compton ends his tenure of the Retroactive column.

* Active Media - A rag-tag collection of web sites, CD-ROMs, book, DVDs, and other media.


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