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- News report
Amiga clones to hit China, Amiga CD games make it back into shops, new
tower prices are revealed and all the latest news from the USA.
- DIY sound card - Project XG
Problem: you want a sound card but there isn't a decent one that fits your
Amiga, your requirements and your budget. Solution: CU Amiga DIY research
labs have unveiled a monster 18-bit sound card compatible with all Amigas,
featuring full General MIDI and XG compliance, on-board realtie Digital
Signal Procesors and a pass-through/mixer for your existing Amiga
audio! The best part is, all this will set you back just a little over £100!
- New Faces of Amiga Gaming
Good things are happening on the Amiga games scene. New faces are appearing
with some impressive games, while a network of distributors and publishers
is forming to get these gems to the masses. After a year or two of making
do with substandard entertainment, it looks like Amiga Gamers are
finally getting what they deserve; everything from flight sim to adventure
games via Formula 1 arcade thrills. CU Amiga takes a look at the major
players in this promising phoenix-like scene.
- Amiga: The Next Generation
It's time to re-evaluate the Amiga'#s future. It's a tough world out there
and a next generation Amiga will have to be almost t perfectly targeted,
designed, marketed and priced if it's to succeed as it should.
We take a realistic look a what needs to stay, what has to go and how it
can steal a march on the current computing 'alternatives'. For members of
the soundbite culture, we've also included our own list of 20 Ways to Save
the Amiga, not all serious.
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| Coverdisks and CD-ROM
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- Vista Pro 3.0, MakePath and Geomorph
The full professional Vista package is here, complete with companion
software MakePath and GeoMorph for spectacular animated landscape renders.
- Workbench Games Collection
With not a lot space left over on our floppy issue after Vista, we managed
to still cram in a large collection of Workbench games for those quick
breaks from the productivity of Workbench.
- Super CD-ROM 14
The best CDs just keep getting better. Far too much to list but look out
for a special monster Wildfire section, the usual Web sites on CD, support
software for Project XG including the most massive collection of GM and XG
MIDI files ever to appear on a CUCD. All in addition to the goodies that are on
the floppy disks.
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| Games & Entertainment
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- Sixth Sense Investigations preview
- Sword preview
- On Escapee preview
- H-Bomber preview
- Championship Manager 2 preview
- Forgotten Forever preview
- Nemac IV Director's Cut review
- Flying High review
- Tips Central
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| Tech Scene - Reviews
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- Art Effect 2
Haage and Partner's latest version of their Photoshop look-a-like appears.
Jason Compton asks if it's worth the considerable price hike.
- Siamese & A1200 Ethernet preview
Previewing a new version of the Siamese RTG software that runs via a
standard TCP/IP connection. Accordingly we take a sneak peak at an A1200
PCMCIA Ethernet adapter and see how it all shapes up.
- Micronik hardware special
- Graphic's tablets
Two graphic's tablets, the DigiPen 303 and 606, get the critical eye
from Andrew Korn, CU's resident art guru.
- Genlocks
Two new Genlocks arrive from the German Micronik stable.
Amiga video professional, Carol Harmond, reviews both the
composite and S-Video versions.
- Amiga A1200 Towers head-to-head
- Infinitiv A1200
Micronik's clip together A1200 tower case gets a thorough test out on a
variety of Zorro cards. Is the all Micronik solution the better product?
- Amigo A1200
Intrinsic Computer System's own A1200 tower case based on the Micronik
busboard but with a metallic case. Is British best?
- Art Studio 2.5
This newcomer to the image processing/cataloguing genre comes highly
recommended by the German press. Does CU Amiga agree?
- STFax
Italian shareware Fax software hits the scene. Supporting Class 1 and CLass
2 fax modems, GPFax now has serious competition.
- PD Utilities
Serious shareware applications and utilities examined in detail.
- PD Scene
Serious shareware applications and utilities examined in detail.
- CD-ROM Scene
All the latest Amiga CD-ROMs on the market.
- Art Gallery
Readers art, some of which can be seen on this site .
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| Workshop regulars
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- Imagine 4.0 tutorial
- Amiga C programming tutorial
- Surf's Up - 'Comms' news
- Wired Word - 'Comms' tutorial
- Surf of the Month
- Desktop Publishing tutorial
- Q+A
- FAQ
- Backchat
- Points of View
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