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Xl PAINT

Andy Maddock gest to grips with a new

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Photogenics 2

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NEWS 80

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just because it's so fantastic!

Valhalla 82

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Tower special

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5 84

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EATURES

Kick off '96 86

Anco returns after theexcellentPlayerManager

to grace our screens with an arcade football

game

Web page design ES Monitor roundup ED

Dan Winfield takes over this tutorial and shows

Tina Hackett and Andy Maddocktake a look

you howto put your pages onto the Net

atsome ofthe big screens on offer

Granada compo EH

A chance to win family tickets to Granada Studios

Tour and visit the new attractions on offer

Simon the sorcerer 88

Afterour firstpart ofthe solution, the response

to print the secondpart was so overwhelming

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Harry's balloons

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the Fortress of Eve game, as reviewed in System

Database

Paul Overaa puts the finishing touches

to his C programming series

Arexx beginners.

The third part of Paul Overaa's beginner's guide looks

at creating an ARexx macro

Amiga Computing

SEPTEMBER 1996

OVER

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STORY

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Computing's Web site with this special

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be online

Tool time

As usual we delve into the depths

of Aminet to bring you:

Xtruder 2.6; ReqTools; pictureMenu;

ModePro; UpDateCopy; NoNewlcons;

MIS; Font Datatype; AppTool;

Hexamines;

EGULARS

Gareth Lofthouse and

Tina Hackettshowyou

howto preventthat

system meltdown with

a fewprotection ideas

News _Q Acas

Tina Hackett brings you all the latest information from

the Amiga world, including the final takeover

UncleACASwants you to siton his lap. He'll helpyou with

yourproblem and send you onyourwaywith a fixed Amiga

Letters.

Those letters keep flooding in to complain

about and praise the Amiga world

_G3 Public sector

Diddy Dave Cusick is a big man in the world of PD

- people send stuffto him from all over the world

MICA GUIDE

Subscriptions

For details ofAmiga

Computing's subscription

■ Neil Mohr gives a few

helpful tips on how to

create more memory

Phil South gives us part

four of his tutorial on

planning an Amos project

Paul Overaa offers some

sound advice to a con

fused music user

In preparation for the next

fewmonth, Paul Overaa

looksatvariableinstructions

Steve White continues

with multimedia by looking

at Web page design

Howto deallocate externally

. acquired resources as

described by Paul Overaa

Paul Austin adds the final

touches to his spaceship

creation

Jason Jordache helps out a

fewtroubled users ofthe

NComm terminal program

Steve White shows you

how to create BOOTit in

part two of his Blitz guide

Amiga Computing

SEPTEMBER 1996

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