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CU Amiga September 1997 issue contents

News & Features
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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