Amiga Computing U.S. Edition (December 1995)

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Amiga Computing was originally a U.K. based magazine that was published in both the U.K. and the U.S. There were a total of 117 issues published from 1988 through 1997. The December 1995 issue of the U.S. Edition includes:

System: The essential guide to Amiga gaming

  • System On-Line - Despite the lack of reviews this month, System takes a look on the bright side with the forthcoming releases
  • Preview: Pole Position - Experience F1 racing from a new angle in Ascon's management offering
  • Competition - Win yourself a CD32 and copies of Gloom courtesy of Guildhall
  • Preview: Tracksuit Manager - Will Alternative's latest football management sim conquer Championship Manager 2?
  • Preview: Team - Football crazy, football mad. Andy Maddock checks out this new contender
  • Feature: New Wave Wonders - Tina Hackett meets the team behind Speris Legacy, Binary Emotions
  • Game Reviews
    • Fears

Reviews

  • Laser Guidance - Neil Mohr takes over our regular CD-ROM roundup hotseat
  • Falcon 040 - Neil Mohr checks out the world's first 68040 accelerator for the A1200
  • Killer Gizmo - Paul Austin looks at the Reno portable CD-ROM drive
  • Final Writer - Ben Vost picks up the newest release of this word processor cum DTP package
  • Flicker Fixer - 24-bit flicker fixing - now anyone can side-step the idiosyncrasies of AGA

Features

  • Commercial Amiga - Gareth Lofthouse makes two visits to professional organizations who are making use of the Amiga's capabilities
  • Playing for Money - Discover how to get your big break in the games industry, whether you know how to program or not
  • Hypernauts - Ben Vost has a sneak preview of Foundation Imaging's latest TV show, scheduled for launch this year
  • Piracy Report - Gareth Lofthouse goes behind the scenes at FAST
  • A4 Frenzy - Phil South rounds up five of the best dot matrix, inkjet and laser printers currently doing the rounds

The Coverdisks

  • Final Data - We give you the full version of this database manager plus an up-to-the-minute selection of the best of Aminet uploads including...ABackup v5, Virus Checker v7.17, AutoStart, NewMode, Reminder, BangerMenu and Colors.
  • MainActor - The full registered version of the most feature filled animation package for the Amiga. Also, the latest version of our favorite commodity MultiCX along with MultiCXPrefs and MiserPrint.

Regulars

  • News - The latest news as it happens, reported by Gareth Lofthouse
  • Comment - World Wide Lies. Gareth Lofthouse debunks the myth of the WWW
  • US News - All the up-to-date news from across the pond from Denny Atkin
  • Disk Offer - Upgrade to the latest version of Final Data as on our CoverDisk

Amiga Guide

  • Amiga Medical - Problem files and how to deal with them
  • Amiga 3D - IDG Media's flying log hits the spotlight with Paul Austin
  • 2D Amiga Art - Steve White shows how to create good backdrops
  • Assembler - Paul Overaa demonstrates how to identify characters of a file
  • Publishing - Bitmap clipart and how to get the most from it
  • Comms - Phil South presents readers with a bookmark list of Amiga-related sites
  • Video - Gary Whiteley examines the different sorts of fonts for video titling
  • ARexx - Paul Overaa gives us an ARexx-callable ASL file requester

Cover Story - It's Back - We cover the triumphant return of the world's favorite home computer in this six page special

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