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Volume I
Number 11
April 1989
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MOVIES
Ray tracing for raw beginners, Sam
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BUDDING
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Mike Cowley visits the team which
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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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ANIMATION
'teenage Queen
• Phantom Fighter
• Purpil Saturn Day
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• Track Suit Manager
• Billiards Simulator
• Return of the fedi
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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.
Jo
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