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Commodore Power/Play

Volume 5, issue 4 (September, 1986)

Table of Contents
 
Features 
Amiga Buyer's Guide65
Color Printing With The Amiga70
A wide selection of color printers, plotters, and software is now available.
Michael Meyers
AmigaDOS: An Efficient Control System76
Why should Amiga users concern themselves with AmigaDOS, the computer's Disk Operating System? Why bother with typewritten commands and syntax errors when it is much easier to push a mouse across a desk, poin to an application and click a button?
Ervin Bobo
Graphics Excellence on the Amiga114
An in-depth look at three graphics programs for the Amiga from Aegis Development, Inc.
Louis R. Wallace
More Than Star Wars - Part 1: The Road to Eidolon122
In this rare look behind the doors of the Lucasfilm Games Division, four programmes talk about fractal theory and how they use it to create exotic graphic effects.
John Jermaine
Map Hater's Guide To Adventure Games120
Shay Addams
 
Departments 
Letters4
News10
Software Reviews
Brataccas18
Ervin Bobo
Psi 5 Trading Company20
Mark Cotone
Super Boulder Dash22
Mark Cotone
AcroJet26
Scott May
Artic Fox28
Ervin Bobo
Superman30
Mark Cotone
Quizam33
Rick Teverbaugh
Racter34
Ervin Bobo
MECC Home Software Library36
Jack Emberly
Vorpal44
Gary V. Fields
Pocket Filer45
Gary V. Fields
Gato49
Jeffrey Hersk
Crossword Magic50
Christine Adamec
MIDI Magic52
Howard Millman
Tips & Tricks
Hints for Fun and Utility54
Louis F. Sander
Jiffies
Construct an Absolute Joystick58
Digital joysticks - the kind generally available commercially - feed only direction information to the 64. An absolute joystick, however, also knows how far the joystick was pushed.
Charles J. Nicol
Screen Banner60
This useful program scrolls a message banner smoothly across the computer's screen, while other programs run unaffected.
Ian Adam
The Mad Poet for VIC and Commodore 6463
What, after all is a poem? Nothing more an idea embedded in a complexly ordered array of words.
William Barton
Hardware Reviews
Amiga 1300 Genlock126
Matthew Leeds
Silicon Walley Insider
Amiga Expansion Chassis and More128
Matthew Leeds
Technical Tips
Disk Master '86 for 1571, 1541, 1540, 4040 and 8050 disk drives130
Disk Master lets you easily catalog over 100 disk directories onto a master directory on a single disk.
Robert W. Baker
64 Users Only
Strings Attached138
Matthew Oldham
Cursor Byter140
Ian Adam
Muzic Maker142
Mark Jordan
PreBASE148
Michael Leidel
3D Sprite Scrolling152
David Stephens
128 Users Only
Escape Sequences158
Ian Adam
Saving & Loading the Graphic Bit Map161
Morton Kevelson
User Groups163
How to Enter Programs166
Magazine Entry Programs for C64 and 128168
Advertisers' Index176



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