Source: Compute!’s Amiga Resource – Volume 1, Issue 4 – October 1989
Compute! was a multi-format computer magazine popular in the 1980s and early 1990s. There were a number of spinoffs that were specific to a particular computer type, most of them short-lived. Compute!’s Amiga Resource is one of those. The October 1989 issue includes:
Features
- Lively Arts
- Creating beautiful art may be easier than you think
- From composing to playing – the Amiga does it all
- Amiga BASICs – Will the fastest BASIC please stand up?
- 1989 Guide to Amiga User Groups – Amiga enthusiasts from around the world
Departments
- The Window – Lifestyles of the weird and maniacal
- Readers Feedback – Harsh reviews, piracy, and more
- Ask Rob Pack – Playing digitized sounds
- Spotlight on DeluxePaint – Becoming an artistic power user
- CLI Clips – Teaching an old dog new tricks
- Trends – News, new products, and rumors
- Programmer’s Page – Customizing an eight-color Workbench
- Best of the Boards – VirusX: The virus exterminator
- Art Gallery – Computer art on display
Columns
- Just for Fun – To live and die in L.A.
- Abstractions – Unsolved mysteries
- Taking Sides – AmigaDOS 1.4 – too much, too soon?
Reviews
- PageStream
- Populous
- A-Max
- Mini-Reviews – Amiga Resource looks at compilers, digitizers, shoot-’em-ups, 3-D modeling programs, software that schedules your life, and more
On Disk
- Rejection
- Mosaic
- Macro Keys
- Snap!Plus
- PlaySample
- SYSCHECK
…and more!