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Friday, July 23, 2021

Amiga Format (May 1997)

Amiga Format (May 1997)

Amiga Format was one of the more popular Amiga specific magazines. It was published in the U.K. but it was common to see it on U.S. shelves as well. The May 1997 issue includes:

News

  • Gateway to the Future! - The Amiga has, officially, been sold. Find out all the exclusive details...
  • New Amigas! - Direct Software reveal plans for a new 'Power Amiga'.
  • More Candy... - Win three months worth of free downloads from Digital Candy's BBS.

Seriously Amiga

  • Imagine - Features aplenty, but is it usable? Find out with Graeme Sandiford
  • Pagestream 3.2 - Finally ready for commercial release - but just how good is it?
  • Web Explosion - Design your own imaginative web pages with the help of these two CDs.
  • MakeCD 2.1 - CD burning made easy!
  • SX-32 Pro - pat McDonald soups up his CD32
  • RDB-SALV - You won't need it very often but it's a real life-saver!
  • Long Term Review - This month Ben Vost and Nick Donnelly take a long term look at DOpus 5.5.
  • CD-ROM Round-Up Nick Veitch looks at the latest CD-ROMs.

Reader Surevey

  • Revealed! - The results of our huge reader survey plus the winner of top Amiga goodies.

Creative

  • PPaint - Join Nick in our new tutorial.
  • Music-X - The concluding part - "Live" playback and Notator-X.
  • Read 3D 2 - Graeme Sandiford masters the morphing tools and creates some softly flapping wings.
  • Cinema4D 2 - The Boolean and Polygon tools.
  • Advanced AREXX - Paul Overaa concludes his look at hashing.

Regulars

  • PD Select - A selection of games, a demo of Pretium and some useful utilities.
  • Workbench - A new-look Workbench this month. Don't miss it!
  • Amiga.net - MUD, MUD, glorious MUD.
  • Subscriptions - Dont' miss out on the benefits of being a subscriber.
  • Mailbag & Gallery - Browse through the Gallery pics and read our plea for help!

Cover Story

  • Get Connected - Now is the time to get on the Internet and Ben Vost shows you how.

Screen Test

  • Ben Vost rounds-up three great monitors ideal for use with your Amiga.
  • Previews - There's plenty of new games to look forward to over the next few months...

Screenplay

  • Myst - The best-selling PC and Mac game is coming to the Amiga.
  • Electronic Explosion - Andy Smith looks at some re-releases from Electronic Arts.
  • Reader Games - The good, the bad and the really, really ugly.
  • Gamebusters - Hints and tips plus the complete solution to Elvira.

Coverdisks

  • Scala v1.1 - The Amiga's most famous multimedia program - brought to you with this issue absolutely FREE!
  • Blasted - Shoot down the enemy goblins in Blasted, Plus: more shoot-em-up action in Witness - an up-to-date Defender clone.
...and more!

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