Table of Contents|   | 
| Features |   | 
| Amiga Buyer's Guide | 65 | 
| Color Printing With The Amiga | 70 | 
| A wide selection of color printers, plotters, and software is now available. |  
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| Michael Meyers | 
| AmigaDOS: An Efficient Control System | 76 | 
| Why should Amiga users concern themselves with AmigaDOS, the computer's Disk Operating System? Why bother with typewritten commands and syntax errors when it is much easier to push a mouse across a desk, poin to an application and click a button? |  
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| Ervin Bobo | 
| Graphics Excellence on the Amiga | 114 | 
| An in-depth look at three graphics programs for the Amiga from Aegis Development, Inc. |  
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| Louis R. Wallace | 
| More Than Star Wars - Part 1: The Road to Eidolon | 122 | 
| In this rare look behind the doors of the Lucasfilm Games Division, four programmes talk about fractal theory and how they use it to create exotic graphic effects. |  
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| John Jermaine | 
| Map Hater's Guide To Adventure Games | 120 | 
| Shay Addams | 
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| Departments |   | 
| Letters | 4 | 
| News | 10 | 
| Software Reviews |  | 
| Brataccas | 18 | 
| Ervin Bobo | 
| Psi 5 Trading Company | 20 | 
| Mark Cotone | 
| Super Boulder Dash | 22 | 
| Mark Cotone | 
| AcroJet | 26 | 
| Scott May | 
| Artic Fox | 28 | 
| Ervin Bobo | 
| Superman | 30 | 
| Mark Cotone | 
| Quizam | 33 | 
| Rick Teverbaugh | 
| Racter | 34 | 
| Ervin Bobo | 
| MECC Home Software Library | 36 | 
| Jack Emberly | 
| Vorpal | 44 | 
| Gary V. Fields | 
| Pocket Filer | 45 | 
| Gary V. Fields | 
| Gato | 49 | 
| Jeffrey Hersk | 
| Crossword Magic | 50 | 
| Christine Adamec | 
| MIDI Magic | 52 | 
| Howard Millman | 
| Tips & Tricks |  | 
| Hints for Fun and Utility | 54 | 
| Louis F. Sander | 
| Jiffies |  | 
| Construct an Absolute Joystick | 58 | 
| Digital joysticks - the kind generally available commercially - feed only direction information to the 64. An absolute joystick, however, also knows how far the joystick was pushed. |  
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| Charles J. Nicol | 
| Screen Banner | 60 | 
| This useful program scrolls a message banner smoothly across the computer's screen, while other programs run unaffected. |  
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| Ian Adam | 
| The Mad Poet for VIC and Commodore 64 | 63 | 
| What, after all is a poem? Nothing more an idea embedded in a complexly ordered array of words. |  
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| William Barton | 
| Hardware Reviews |  | 
| Amiga 1300 Genlock | 126 | 
| Matthew Leeds | 
| Silicon Walley Insider |  | 
| Amiga Expansion Chassis and More | 128 | 
| Matthew Leeds | 
| Technical Tips |  | 
| Disk Master '86 for 1571, 1541, 1540, 4040 and 8050 disk drives | 130 | 
| Disk Master lets you easily catalog over 100 disk directories onto a master directory on a single disk. |  
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| Robert W. Baker | 
| 64 Users Only |  | 
| Strings Attached | 138 | 
| Matthew Oldham | 
| Cursor Byter | 140 | 
| Ian Adam | 
| Muzic Maker | 142 | 
| Mark Jordan | 
| PreBASE | 148 | 
| Michael Leidel | 
| 3D Sprite Scrolling | 152 | 
| David Stephens | 
| 128 Users Only |  | 
| Escape Sequences | 158 | 
| Ian Adam | 
| Saving & Loading the Graphic Bit Map | 161 | 
| Morton Kevelson | 
| User Groups | 163 | 
| How to Enter Programs | 166 | 
| Magazine Entry Programs for C64 and 128 | 168 | 
| Advertisers' Index | 176 |