GamePro (December 1991)

GamePro (December 1991)

Back when video game print magazines still existed, GamePro was one of the most popular. From the late 1980s until they ended, while there were others, GamePro and EGM really dominated, at least in North America. The December 1991 issue of GamePro includes:

• Letter from the GamePros - An editorial on the upcoming 16-bit holiday battle.


• The Mail - Letters from readers on technical capabilities of the Genesis vs. the Super NES, hooking a Super NES to a computer monitor, the Game Genie, renting games, and more.


• Cutting Edge - Updates on the state of the art in gaming, including a sequel to the PC Engine, upcoming CD-ROM systems, a new version of the PC Engine GT that has external CD-ROM, TV, and controller ports, the new Phillips CD-I, and more.


• Pro Reviews
• Nintendo - Reviews of The Simpsons: Bart vs. The World (featured on the cover), Mega Man 4, Batman: Return of the Joker, Wizardry II, Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?, Dragon Warrior III, Tiny Toon Adventure, Uncharted Waters, The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy and the Miracle Piano System. Almost all of these are excellent games.
• Genesis - Reviews of Rolling Thunder 2, Battlemaster, Pit-Fighter (pretty awful game on any system), Chuck Rock, Fatal Rewind, and Quackshot.
• Super NES - Reviews of U.N. Squadron (one of the earliest horizontal shooters for the SNES), Final Fight, Lemmings, Super Adventure Island, and Smash TV (one of my favorites though it is hard).
• TurboGrafx-16 - Reviews of Cadash, Champions Forever Boxing, Andre Panza's Kick Boxing, and It Came From the Desert.
• Master System - A review of Sonic the Hedgehog (an excellent 8-bit translation)


_{Table of Contents from the December 1991 issue of GamePro}
• Special Feature: So, You Want To Buy a 16-Bit System... - A comparison of the major 16-bit systems going into the holiday season including the Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16 and the newly released Super Nintendo.


• Special Feature: GamePro's Video Football Playoffs - A comparison of some of the available football games including John Madden Football '92 (Genesis), Joe Montana II Sports Talk Football (Genesis), Mike Ditka Power Football (Genesis), John Madden Football (SNES), Tecmo Super Bowl (NES), Tecmo Bowl (Game Boy), Joe Montana Football (Game Gear), and NFL Football (Lynx).


• Overseas ProSpects - A brief look at new games released in Japan including Spriggan (PC-Engine CD-ROM) and Valis IV (PC-Engine CD-ROM).


• S.W.A.T. (Secret Weapons and Tactics) - Tips, tricks, passwords and more for Maniac Mansion (NES), Turrican (Genesis), Bonk's Revenge (TurboGrafx-16), Little Ninja Brothers (NES), John Madden Football (Genesis), Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis), Devil's Crush (TurboGrafx-16), Moonwalker (Genesis), Bases Loaded II (NES), Super Mario Brothers (NES), Power Ball (Genesis), Fantasia (Genesis), Gradius III (Super NES), SCAT (NES), Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (NES), Batman (Genesis), Hunt for Red October (Game Boy, NES), and more.


• Ask the Pros - Readers ask and get answers about difficult gaming situations in Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (NES), Skate or Die 2 (NES), Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis), Spider-Man (Genesis), Bonk's Revenge (TurboGrafx-16), Operation C (Game Boy), Shinobi (Game Gear), and more.

_{Back cover of the December 1991 issue of GamePro}

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Byte (June 1981)

Byte (June 1981)

Byte, subtitled 'The Small Systems Journal', initially covered 'small systems'. Generally small business computer and what could be considered home computers though I think they started before that term really existed. The original IBM PC was first introduced in 1981 though I believe that was after this issue was published. The June 1981 issue of Byte includes:

Features

• Logo for Personal Computers - A preview of two upcoming implementations of the Logo language for personal computers, including TI Logo for the TI-99/4 and Apple Logo for the Apple II. Logo was developed by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT.


• Build a Low-Cost Speech Synthesizer Interface - Instructions for building a speech synthesizer. These seemed to be all the rage in the early to mid 1980s.


• Mathematical Modeling: A BASIC Program to Simulate Real-World Systems - Simulating systems by solving a system of differential equations. This article includes lots of math along with some code.


• A Computer-Based Laboratory - This article focuses on creating accurate digital timers.


• CP/M: A Family of 8- and 16-bit Operating Systems - CP/M was the closest thing to a standard operating system that existed for personal computers before the IBM PC and DOS came along. DOS was largely based on CP/M.


• The UNIX Operating System and the XENIX Standard Operating System - UNIX was the other operating system standard but at the time, this was for larger systems. Xenix was essentially Microsoft's implementation with enhancements.

_{Table of Contents from the June 1981 issue of Byte}

Reviews

• RAMCRAM Memory Module for the Atari - A 32K RAM expansion module for the Atari 400 for $320 (that's the equivalent of roughly $1100 today).


• Information Unlimited: The Dialog Information Retrieval Service - An online service accessible via modem and terminal software that offered millions of references and abstracts for searching.


• Four Word Processors for the Apple II - Reviews of Super-Text II, Write-On! I and II, Datacope Scribe, and EasyWriter and EasyWriter Professional.

Nucleus

• Editorial - Commentary on 16-bit computers and user friendliness.


• Letters - Letters from readers about OSI, Adventure and The Colossal Cave, GOTO vs. FOR...NEXT, CMOS, Panasonic and Quasar handheld computers, and much more.


• Technical Forums - LISP vs. FORTRAN, Interrupts, Votrax voice synthesizer vocabulary, and more.


• Education Forum - An approach for using microcomputers in education.


• Programming Quickie: Z80 Table Lookup - Machine language table lookup on the Z80.


• BYTELINES - Outstanding growth for Tandy sales, first computers with built-in Winchester-disk drives (hard drives), Tandy sues competitors, IBM to build Josephson computer, warranties for TRS-80 computers, and more.

_{Back cover of the June 1981 issue of Byte}

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Vintage Photos - Oestreicher (1309-1312)

See the previous post in this series here.

I had the opportunity to pick up a huge batch of slides a while back. These pictures span from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s. These came to me second hand but the original source was a combination of estate sales and Goodwill. There are many thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here for posterity.

Getting your pictures processed as slides used to be pretty common but it was a phenomenon I missed out on. However, my Grandfather had a few dozen slides from the late 1950s that I acquired after he died. That along with having some negatives I wanted to scan is what prompted me to buy a flatbed scanner that could handle slides and negatives, an Epson V600. It can scan up to four slides at a time with various post-processing options and does a decent enough job.

This set continues a large batch of slides that originally came from an estate sale and appear to have belonged to a locally well known photographer (or perhaps a friend or family member) from the Spokane Washington area and later Northern Idaho named Leo Oestreicher. He was known for his portrait and landscape photography and especially for post cards. His career started in the 1930s and he died in 1990. These slides contain a lot of landscape and portrait photos but also a lot of photos from day to day life and various vacations around the world. Here's an article on him from 1997 which is the only info I have found on him: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jan/04/photos-of-a-lifetime-museum-acquisition-of-leo/

Many of these slides had the date they were processed stamped or printed on them. I've found that in cases where I could verify the date, that this date has typically been the same month the photos were taken. In other words, I expect that in MOST cases these photos were taken relatively near the processing date.

Click the link below to also see versions processed with color restoration and Digital ICE which is a hardware based dust and scratch remover, a feature of the Epson V600 scanner I am using. There are also versions processed with the simpler dust removal option along with color restoration.

All of the photos in this set are unlabeled and undated but are likely from the late 1950s or early 1960s. All of these are versions of the images processed with color correction and Digital ICE. Without that they consisted of barely discernible shades of red. The first appears to be a shot of some banyan trees, probably taken in Florida or elsewhere in the Southeast part of the U.S. The second was definitely taken elsewhere, probably the Pacific Northwest or Alaska and shows a mountain with fog rolling off of it. The third shows a bunch of boxes in what looks like the middle of nowhere. Maybe bees? There is a guy sitting on them in the background. This also looks like it was taken in Florida or elsewhere in the Southeast U.S. The last was the easiest to identify as the building has a clear name in the picture. The Eielson Memorial Building. This is part of The University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

A more recent photo of the Eielson Building:

The entire collection that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here.

PC Magazine (August 7, 1984)

PC Magazine (August 7, 1984)

Cover Stories

• Framework: An Outline for Thought - A windowing software package that provides outlining functions.


• Symphony: A Community of Information - An integrated software package from Lotus that provides spreadsheet, telecommunications, word processing and more.

Features

• The Sharp PC-5000 - A "lap-size" portable computer. For about $2000 you get a DOS compatible machine with 128KB of RAM and an 8-line 80-column display. Options include 3.5" disk drives, 5.25" disk drives, built-in printer, 128K bubble memory cartridge, 64K RAM cartridges and more.


• CP/M and DOS: At Home in the Kaypro 4 Plus 88 - Kaypro's latest portable Z-80 based computer. This one featured a co-processor board with an additional 256K that could be used to run DOS programs. All for $2500.

• Project: Database, Part 5 - The 5th in a seven part series on database packages. This part covers Formula II, Manager Version 4.0, Dataease, The Sensible Solution, probase, Metafile Version 7.0, and Pro-Matic.


• Inventory Management for Retailers - A look at GPS's Inventory Management with Point of sale Invoicing system.


• NewWord: A WordStar Double at Less than Half the Price - NewWord is a word processor that basically functioned as a WordStar clone. It's big advantage was price at "only" $249.

_{Table of Contents from the August 7th, 1984 issue of PC Magazine}

Pro Columns

• Micro-Biology - A programs that functions as a database designed to keep track of patient specimens and results.


• Trainerless Training: Drifting Off Course - A interactive PC training course from Cdex that isn't very interactive.
• The PC Remedy for a Hospital's Ills - A case study of a Texas health-care center transitioned to an in-house computer system.


• Micro Insurance - A look at various types of computer insurance that are available.

_{Table of Contents from the August 7th, 1984 issue of PC Magazine (continued)}

Departments

• PC News - Compaq's new PC compatible machine, IBM cuts prices, Canon introduces PC compatible machine, Atari discusses 1090XL expansion system, and much more.


• A Satisfying Way to Deal with Bugs - Convincing manufacturers to fix buggy programs.


• A Modest Proposal on Compatibility - Using an install program and customized screen drivers to improve software compatibility.


• PC Arcade: Hardhats and Bows - Reviews of Hard Hat Mack and Ms. Pac-Man.

_{Back cover of the August 7th, 1984 issue of PC Magazine}

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Byte (June 1986)

Byte (June 1986)

Though it gradually became more PC-centric over the years, Byte covered many systems. For whatever reason, it seemed to fade away sooner than some other PC specific magazines. Too bad as this was perhaps the best computer magazine. The August 1986 issue includes:

Features

• Similarity Mapping - A program written in Microsoft BASIC 2.0 for the Macintosh that implements a technique called multidimensional scaling to do things like create maps based on distances.


• Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Parallel Interfacing - Part two of a tutorial on parallel interfacing. This part discusses various parallel adapters and uses for them.


• The Definicon 68020 Co-processor - The second and final article in a series which discusses the DSI-020 co-processor board (featuring a 68020 CPU) for IBM XTs/ATs/compatibles. This part focuses on software available for the board.

_{Table of Contents from the August 1986 issue of Byte}

Theme: Object-Oriented Languages

• Elements of Object-Oriented Programming - A discussion of the features that a language must have to be considered object-oriented.


• A Small Taste of SmallTalk - SmallTalk is an object-oriented language that was briefly popular. It had been around for quite some time by this point but it seemed to reach peak popularity during the second half of the 1980s.


• Objects, Icons, and Software-ICs - Using object-oriented languages to create icon based user interfaces.


• Object-Oriented Languages for the Macintosh - An overview of object-oriented languages available for the Macintosh including SmallTalk, Object Pascal, Neon, ExperCommonLISP, Objective-C, Object Assembler, and Object Logo.


• MacApp: An Application Framework - A framework designed to make software development on the Macintosh easier by implementing most of the Macintosh user-interface standard.

Reviews

• The NCR PC6 - A PC compatible featuring an 8088-2 processor that can run at 4.77 MHz or 8 MHz, 256K to 512K of RAM, two floppy drives or a single floppy drive and 10-megabyte hard drive and optionally a tape backup. Prices range from $2390 to $3690.


• The Sperry PC/IT - An IBM PC AT clone featuring an 80286 CPU with configurable speeds (though the 7.16-MHz 0 wait state option would seem to be the best), a 44.6 megabyte hard drive, a 1.2MB floppy drive, a 360K floppy drive and 512K of RAM for $6044.


• DeSmet C Development Package for the Macintosh - A low-cost ($150) C compiler for the Macintosh.


• TOPSI 2.0 - An implementation of the OPS5 production system language (for creating rule-based expert systems) written in Turbo Pascal for MS-DOS computers.


• Let's C and CSD - An inexpensive ($75) C development package and debugger for XT class machines.

_{Table of contents from the August 1986 issue of Byte (continued)}

Kernel

• Computing at Chaos Manor: Off We Go - United States Air Force Academy starts requiring students to purchase a Zenith 248 PC which will be equipped with AutoCAD for free, a look at the West Coast Computer Faire (including Atari ST coverage), and more.


• According to Webster: Going to the Faire - A report from the 11th Annual west Coast Computer Faire. Highlights include Lightspeed C for the Macintosh, MacCartrige (ROMs to turn your Atari ST into a Mac), Sound Scape for the Amiga, Aztec C for the Amiga, plus interviews with Atari and Commodore personnel and more.


• BYTE Japan: Fujitsu Processor Upgrade - Fujitsu releases an 80286 expansion board for its FM-16b PC for $500. This enables it to run Xenix which would be available separately.

Best of Bix

• Amiga - Discussions related to chaining programs in C, copying files via script, using an IBM 5.25" disk drive, and more.


• Atari ST - Discussions related to reading PC format disks, implementing a selector box, and more.


• IBM PC and Compatibles - Discussions related to DOS 3.1 and disk formatting, MS-DOs load addresses, and more.

Columns

• Editorial - Improvements to source code listings and hardware improvements to the system hosting BIX (replacing three 68000 CPUs with four 68020 CPUs (for a total of twelve 68000s and four 68020s) and increasing RAM from 4 MB to 8 MB. The system services 6000 users.


• Microbytes - Screen cover to prevent electronic eavesdropping, NAND gates for storage devices based on biological materials, XT card for the Apple II planned, Engineers at Stanford design "MIPS-X" chip, and more.


• Letters - Letters from readers about the Amiga and Atari ST, the difficulty and expense of using modems in other countries, CRT radiation, Modula 2, and more.


• What's New - A brief look at new products including VCN Concord (integrated graphics package for the PC), The Data General/One model 2 (portable computer), graphics chips from Intel and TI, Smalltalk/V, Sherill-Lubinski's Object Oriented Graphical Modeling System, a math coprocessor for the Amiga, the VAXstation II/RC from DEC, Smalltalk-80, the ProAPP 10 and ProApp 20 hard drives for the Macintosh and Apple II, VersaCAD 3D, Sony's ProMavica still-frame video recorder, Imaginet networking for the IBM and Atari ST, public domain software collection on CD-ROM, SyQuest SQ1500 removable hard disk subsystem, and much more.

_{Back cover of the August 1986 issue of Byte}

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Maximum PC (January 2004)

Maximum PC (January 2004)

Maximum PC, known as 'boot' in its earliest days, was my favorite PC specific magazine. It was also still around until a few years ago. The January 2004 issue includes:

Regulars

• In/Out - Letters from readers about using an AMD64-FX CPU with an Opteron motherboard dual-GPU cards, motherboard recommendations, the nForce3 chipset, the remaining life for EIDE drives, upgrading a Pentium 4 machine, and more.


• Quick Start - A look at a few pocket sized PCs including one by oqo that includes a 1 GHz Transmetta Crusoe CPU and 256 MB of RAM, a look at some new games including Madden 2004, Knights of the Old Republic, and Deus Ex, and more.


• Head2Head - Comparing online music services iTunes, MusicMatch, Rhapsody, and Napster.


• WatchDog - Poor OS X performance on G3s, Belkin router spam, and more.

_{Table of Contents from the January 2004 issue of Maximum PC}

Reviews

• HyperSonic Sonic Boom desktop PC - This PC features a yellow case, 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition overclocked to 3.37 GHz, 1GB of DDR400, an ATI Radeon 9800 XT), two Western Digital WD360 10,000rpm SATA drives, and more for $3,384.


• Hewlett-Packard Pavilion ZD7000 laptop - This laptop features a Pentium 4C @ 3.2GHz, 1GB DDR333 dual channel RAM, nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 video, 40GB hard drive and more for $2700.


• ATI 4600 64Bit desktop PC - This PC features a Chieftec case, 430 watt power supply, an AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 CPU @ 2.2GHz, 1GB registered DDR333 RAM, 256MB nVidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra video card, two 36GB Western Digital Raptor drives, and more for $3650.


• PNY Verto GeForce FX 5950 Ultra video card - nVidia's new top of the line card gets a positive review here.


• Serial ATA Drives - Several Serial ATA hard drives are reviewed including the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 250GB, Western Digital Caviar SE WD250JD, Hitachi Desktar 7K250 (the highest scoring in this review round-up), Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, and Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 16 300GB (the largest drive in this review round-up).

_{Table of Contents from the January 2004 issue of Maximum PC (continued)}

Features

• Hardcore Hardware - A look at hardware and technologies that will appear in PCs in 2004. These include Serial ATA 2.0, Intel's Prescott Pentium 4 CPU, AMD's Newcastle, DDR2 memory, BTX, dual layer DVD burners, 802.11n, nVidia NV40 based video cards, ATI R420 based video cards, and more.


• Meet the Mach L - An overdesigned PC featuring an 3.2 GHz Pentium 4, 2GB of PC4200 RAM, Raid 0 array of four 18GB 15,000rpm SCSHI drives, Radeon 9800 XT video card, Asetek's Vapochill Case, and more.


• The Softies - Maximum PC's 2nd annual software awards featuring the 10 best applications and utilities of 2003. These include Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP, DVD X Copy Platinum, Cakewalk Project 5 Soft Synth Workstation, JBuilder, Adobe InDesign 2.0, POPFile, Spybot Search and Destroy, iTunes, Trillian Pro 2.0, and Mozilla Firebird.

_{Back cover of the January 2004 issue of Maximum PC}

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PC World (May 2001)

PC World (May 2001)

PC World was one of the main PC magazines throughout much of the 1980s, all of the 1990s, and into the 2000s. Like most magazines, especially computer related ones, this one died off as the Internet matured. The May 2001 issue includes:

Top of the News

• Notebooks Reach 1 Gigahertz - A look at some of the first laptops on the market to feature a 1 GHz processor. Thse include the Toshiba Tecra 8200, Dell Inspiron 8000, Gateway Solo 9500, and Hewlett Packard OmniBook 6000. They all feature 128MB of RAM and hard drives in the 32GB range. Prices range from around $3000 to around $4500. I wouldn't buy a laptop until prices came down significantly in the Pentium M era, however, I was a fan of Gateway so the Solo may have been my choice here. However, the Dell would have tempted me as it offers a little more bang for the buck.


• Record More, Pay Less - Less is relative here. Recordable DVD drives were still relatively new. The newly released and "cheap" Pioneer DVR-A03 would only set you back $1000 and discs were $10 each.


• Great Xpectations: Next Windows - A preview of Windows XP. The version examined here is Beta version 2. While Windows 2000 and Windows ME were being put on new computers, most people were using Windows 98SE at this time.


• A Lovelier Linux - A look at Linux kernel 2.4 and new distributions using it including SuSE Linux 7.1.

New Products

• New Products - New products previewed here include the Dell OptiPlex GX1505SD which is a small form factor business oriented PC with a Pentium III-933, Easy CD cReator 5, the Digital Relay CRX10U-A2 portable CD burner, GoToMyPC, PCAnywhere 10, Photoshop Elements, Kodak MC3 digital camera and mp3 player, the Apple PowerBook G4 featuring a 500 MHz G4 processor and 256MB of SDRAM for $3499, DriveWorks (hard drive utility), and more.

Here's How

• Windows Tips - Customizing system properties plus viewing your desktop files in a folder.


• Answer Line - Transferring old drivers to a new computer, removing uninstalled app information from the registry, networking two PCs without a hub, getting a list of file associations and more.


• Internet Tips - Finding the source of attacks reported by Zone Alarm, synchronizing bookmarks, disabling Encompass, branding Internet Explorer, and more.

_{Table of Contents from the May 2001 issue of PC World}

Top 100

• Top 10 Power PCs - Coming in at the top spot this month is the Gateway Professional S 1500 featuring a 1.5 GHz Pentium 4, 128MB of RDRAM, a 40GB hard drive, and an ATI Radeon SDR graphics card. I still want a Gateway machine with this case to add to my collection. It was the last one by them I liked.


• Top 10 Value PCs - At the top of this list is the Dell Dimension 4100 featuring a Pentium III-1000, 128MB of SDRAM and a 20GB hard drive, and an ATI Radeon card with 32MB. Second placye features a Gateway E-3400XL Deluxe with a Pentium III-933, 128MB of SDRAM, a 40 GB hard drive, and an ATI Rage Fury Pro graphics card with 16MB. There are also machines with Athlon and Duron processors in this list. This was probably not long after I built my first PC which was Duron based.


• Top 15 Notebook PCs - In this list, the IBM Thinkpad A21p gets the top spot for power notebook, the Gateway Solo 5300 gets the top spot for midrange notebook, and the Dell Inspiron 3800 gets the top spot for budget notebook.


• Top 15 Home PCs - Top Power System = Dell Dimension 8100, Top Midrange System = Dell Dimension 4100/1GHz, Top Budget System = Dell Dimension L866r. Gateway gets the second and third spots in the Power System category with the Gateway Select 1200 and Gateway Performance 1500.


• Top 10 Color Laser Printers - Coming in at the top spot is the Minolta-QMS Magicolor 2200 GN for a mere $1895.

Departments

• Up Front - An editorial on the dangers of the Internet.


• Letters - Letters from readers about wireless services for PDAs, video downloads, tax software, price matching, and more.


• Consumer Watch - Some ISPs are getting too aggressive with their spam filtering.


• Web Savvy - Tips for searching the web and when using search engines other than Google is useful.

_{Back cover of the May 2001 issue of PC World}

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Info (September 1990)

Info (September 1990)

At this point in time, this magazine was actually titled ".info for Amiga Users". In the past it had covered both Commodore 8-bit machines like the Commodore 64 and the Amiga but by late 1990 it was focused on the Amiga. Info was notable for being entirely produced on Commodore machines. The September 1990 issue includes:

Features

• Computer Magic - Photography with the Amiga. The art of digitizing photos and adding digital effects.


• Interview - An interview with Laurence Gartel, an artist known for his computer artwork and how he enjoys working with the Amiga more than million dollar systems.


• Multiplayer Games on GEnie - GEnie was an early online pre-Internet service similar to CompuServe, Delphi, and others. This article looks at some of the multiplayer games that can be played via GEnie as well as some of the specialized Amiga front ends for the service.

The Amiga Pro

• Brush Mapping in Turbo Silver - A guide to using the 3D renderer of Turbo Silver.


• .info Preview: Power PC Board - A preview of an expansion board that plugs into the memory expansion slot of the Amiga 500 and provides both memory expansion and an IBM PC clone featuring a NEC V3 CPU @ 8.0 MHz and 1 MB of RAM. It allows your computer to boot in Amiga mode and use the expansion RAM or to put in PC mode which basically transforms your Amiga into a PC.


• .info Review: PageStream 1.8 - A review of this desktop publishing program for the Amiga from Soft-Logik.

_{Table of Contents from the September 1990 issue of Info}

Departments

• Editor's Page - Thoughts on the new CDTV.


• Reader Mail - Readers write in about Info's new monthly format, dropping 8-bit coverage, playing PC games on the Amiga using a bridgeboard, and more.


• New Products - A brief look at new products including The Art Department (image manipulation), Saxon Publisher (page layout software), Professional Draw 2.0, TSSNet (ethernet networking), TV*Show Version 2 (allows you to combine animation and sound into a presentation), Tiger Cub (music), Digital Landscape (wireframe landscape generator using real data), and much more.


• News & Views - New products from Commodore including the A2065 Ethernet Adaptor, A2060 ARcnet Adaptor, AS220 Amiga Client for Novell Netware, TCP/IP and NFS software for the Amiga, educational Amiga 3000 bundles, and more; Broderbund celebrates 10th Anniversary; Compute! merges titles; and more.

Cyberplay

• Adventure Road - This column was formerly published in Commodore Magazine and features adventure games. This month there is discussion of Starflight on the C64, Amiga and MS-DOS.


• 17 New Diversions - Reviews of a bunch of games including Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess (Data East), Tunnels of Armageddon (California Dreams/EA), Aquanaut Miles Computing/EA), Day of the Viper (Accolade), The Game of Harmony (Accolade), ChronoQuest II (Psygnosis), Infestation (Psygnosis), TV Sports Basketball (Cinemaware), Jugsaw Puzzlemania (Artworx), Courtroom (FairBrother & SoeparMann), Pipe Dream (Lucasfilm), Breach 2 (Omitrend), Iron Lord (UBISoft/EA), Leisure Suit Larry III (Sierra On-Line), Hoyle's Book of Games (Sierra On-Line), Hero's Tale I (Sierra On-Line), and Manhunter 2: San Francisco (Sierra On-Line).
• Player Tips - Tips and tricks for Drakkhen, Infestation, Batman, Sim City, Indiana Jones, Space Ace, Forgotten Worlds, and Chop N' Drop.

_{Back cover of the September 1990 issue of Info}

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