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Issue No: 21 Price: £5.95
Publication Date: Thursday May 31st, 2001 Page Count: 68
Month: June 2001 Editor: David Stroud
Issue 21

Highlights
Groovy Software!
An overly-elaborate and exotic run-down of the top ten commercial Amiga titles of all time, as voted by you.

Stars in your eyes?
Digital Almamac 3 reviewed. Bearded prime-time television presenters not mentioned.

Quasi-Futuristic
NextGen Watch goes on the beat with the boys in blue.

Fire the "Laser"
A bluffers guide to the future.

Also inside...
News:
AmigaOne & AmigaOS 4.0 AmigaOne and AmigaOS 4.0 on course for an August 2001 launch.
SiN too deep Hyperion Entertainment announces delays to the release of PC port, SiN.
Tao release new intent Tao Group announces the availability of intent 1.1 for home and mobile connected devices
PDA market looking rosier for Amiga The latest news on Sharp and Psion
SDL comes to Amiga Gabriele Greco ports the cross-platform multimedia layer, SDL to Amiga
Photogenics in your pocket Paul Nolan announces PocketPC port of his Photogenics art package.
PowerPC to beat 2GHz IBM publish new roadmap
USB Collaboration An attempt to unify USB development on the Amiga
Matrox shuffle their chips Matrox due to launch their next generation 3D hardware based upon the G800 chipset.
Sharp chips in for future PDA Sharp announces details of a new System-on-Chip (SOC) design aimed at colour handheld computers, web appliances, and smart phones.
Party On! Dutch-based Computer and Amiga Scene magazine announce jointly-sponsored Amiga show

Editorial:

Groovy, Baby! David Stroud gets in the summer mood with a groovy issue
Zealots vs. The World Fleecy Moss, Amiga CTO, takes a shot at Amiga zealots
Come Together Francis Charig, Tao Group chairman, emphasises the importance of standards, brand, and unique product design.
Rants and Raves:
Advertising in the Fifth Era Larry Bolch argues a minimum-cost approach to digital devices
Service with a snarl Andrew Korn describes his recent trouble with online buying. Amiga users' have got it easy.
Features:
Now that's what I call software! Shagadelic! It’s the Amiga Active Top Ten commercial Amiga titles of all time, baby!
A Bluffer's Guide to the Future AHI? Ami2D? AmiRTA? Amiga Active explain the latest buzzwords to come from Amiga Inc.
Coming Attractions Previews of the latest Amiga games to be released in 2002
NextGen Watch Amiga Active take a look at Symbol Technologies

Reviews:

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

Digital Alamanac 3 Gaze at distant planets with the latest version of Achim Stegemann's space odyssey 4 out of 4
SBase4 Professional A three page review of the relational database SBase 4 3 out of 4
Land of Genesis Clearwater Interactive's latest shoot-'em-up is reviewed 3 out of 4
Tutorials:
OS 3.9 Masterclass (Part 2) From an ugly duckling to a beautiful swan of an operating system. Transform your Amiga's OS with the help of Amiga Active's 5 page tutorial.
Building a GUI In this month's tutorial, Neil Bothwicks explains how to create a friendly GUI for your ARexx scripts.
Regulars:
Active Media* Reviews of Digital Character Animation 2 (book), Doctor Who: Rememberance of the Daleks DVD, Hollywood Science TV series, Easter Eggs.com, BoingWorld.com, and AnyBrowser.com
Shareware Get some ghostly help with printing, browse the web without images, smooth your fonts and manage your memory...
Interactive - Letters to the Editor Thoughts on St. Louis, the G-Rex, drivers for PCI cards and the comeback of the CD32.
Ask the Guru The holder of all knowledge, or just a cartoon brain that's escaped its jar and stolen Dennis Taylor's glasses?
Active Online Neil Bothwick takes a look at Cascading Style Sheets
Debriefing** Amiga Active interviews Zool, the computer game character!?
Comments:
* Active Media - A rag-tag collection of web sites, CD-ROMs, book, DVDs, and other media.
** Debriefing - Interviews with some of the best-known names of the Amiga market, past and present.
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