AmigaComputing_013_Jun_1989.pdf

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June 1989

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The snapr ed things to come Page 23

4 AMIGA COMPUTING June 1989

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GAMES REVIEWS

HINTS

HARDWARE

GAME

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Are you i loser in the Last Duel? Do

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Cranking up the Amiga clockspeed

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• Tiger Road breaks new ground in unoriginality.

• Emanuelle seen through the keyhole.

• Gauntlet II suffers the ST blues.

• An incredible sphere taken to the shrink.

• Delleddlor lights up the Amiga.

• Space Harrier — worth the wait.

• DNA Warrior is genetically unsound,

• I Ludicrus hacks away in the arena.

MOVIES

Different rendering packages will

produce varying results, even with

the same basic data. Glass is a

particularly difﬁcult substance,

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81 ASSEMBLY

TUTOR

Rupert Goodwins looks at musical

machine code and ﬁnds that a register

is absolutely nothing to do with the

pedals on his local church organ.

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Is Germany really the second most

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MnP 1989 AMIGA COMPLMNG 5

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