Amiga Active Issue 5
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On sale date: Thursday, January 27th 2000

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  • Amiga Buyout! - Extensive coverage of the latest Amiga buyout, including in-depth analysis of the Amiga's future, opinion from the industry (and ourselves) and a look at the two operating systems battling for our hearts and minds. A must-read!

  • Reviews... Palmtops - Psion, Palm and compatibles, and how to integrate them with your Amiga. Power Flyer 4000 - A4000 owners finally get the chance to join the Power Flyer brigade. Image Engineer and Visual Engineering - a partnership made in heaven? Mpeg Encoders - a trio of choices for creating mpeg audio on the Amiga put to the test. Dream Screens - another trio, this time of highly-desirable monitors to get the most from your Amiga. Shareware - none of the latest freely-available software escapes our gaze. Correct us if we're wrong. Quake Flood! - PowerPC Quake on your Amiga, the legal way. Black Viper - motorbike mayhem?

  • Features... Dream Screens - the technology behind monitors explained in order to help you get the most from your Amiga's graphics capability. Art of Games - deconstructing fun, because computer games are art, or at least, they could be. We're serious!

  • Games previewed... Hyperion Software is all you need to know. There's a whole bundle of games on their way to the Amiga courtesy of this software house, including Shogo: MAD, Freespace: The Great War, Worms: Armageddon, Heretic II... and more (see the news pages)!

  • Masterclasses... Fonts - we all use them, so we should all know about them. We tell you why and show you how to understand your true character.

  • Plus... The much-anticipated return of the Active Gallery, Elaborating on e-mail in Online, Amiga Active's buyout views in Rants & Raves, Your letters, our replies in InterActive and our answers to your problems courtesy of the Guru.

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