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Volume I

Number 11

April 1989

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COVER FEATURE

Managing Editor

Derek Meakin

Group Editor

Alan McLachlan

DUNGEON

MASTER!

Dave Eriksson's exhaustive review

and play guide to the best adventure

to come between man and mouse.

Don't parse up this opportunity.

BIG SCREEN

HERO

The Moniterm display uses chips

Amiga. It shows the way ahead with

a large desktop and Workbench 1.4

LATEST

NEws

The A590 makes its British debut

along with Commodore's Unix and

Transputer computers. Hot games

news, with Telecomsoft leading.

Editor

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Assistant Editor

Jeff Walker

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Production Editor

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The Amiga runs rings around some

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MOVIES

Ray tracing for raw beginners, Sam

Littlewood looks at modelling in three

dimensions. No you don't have to get

undressed — well if you must.

MAKING

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41 BUDDING

BUROCARE

Mike Cowley visits the team which

makes the business world pay some

attention to the computer it usually

sees as just a games machine.

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READER

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Help shape the future direction of this

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Telly addicts step this way. Four of

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Heros of the Lance wins an award

and heads up a bumper crop of

games from the seductive Teenage

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HINT

PARADE

Max "The Hacks" Tennant provides

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pokes for Pacmania loving folks.

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PROGRAMMING

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BASIC

SERIES

Jeff Walker discovers that INSIR is

one of the most powerful commands

in the string slicers library. lust the

thing you need for building a parser.

ASSEMBLER

TUTOR

Alright me old fruit; its time to look

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home•grown machine code programs

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ANIMATION

'teenage Queen

• Phantom Fighter

• Purpil Saturn Day

• Titan

• The Munsters

• Track Suit Manager

• Billiards Simulator

• Return of the fedi

• 4th Inches

POSTBAG

PROSE

More power to your processor. Did

Commodore drop a clanger protecting

the BBC emulator? Fixing programs

which don't like extra ram and more.

ZOETROPE SHOWS

THE WAY

We are going to be hearing a good

deal about animation software in the

next few months. Phil South looks at

one of the leading contenders.

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