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VOLUME 4, NUMBER 4
APRIL 1988
CONT E NT S
FE.\Tl'RES
THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS
By
Pl!
gy
Herrington
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Put
yo
ur
Amig
a
··on
lin
e"
a
nd
shar e
in th
e
wealth of use
ful
serv
ices
ava
ilable
to
you
fro m
info rma
tion
ne
tworks
an
d
b
ull
et
in
board s
a
cro ss
the
co
u
n
try.
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30
3
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CAN
WE TALK?
By
Guy
Wright and Bob Ryan
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To
help
get
yo
u
o
n
line.
AW
editor
s
re
vie w
a
nd
co
mpar
e six of
th
e
le
ad
ing
communi catio
n
s
p
ackages
for
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e Am iga an
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er
some
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started
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JUST FIDDLING A.ROUND: PROPORTIONAL GADGETS
IN
C
By Jim Fiore
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A C
progr
a
m
m
ing
tut
o
ria
l
for
th
e
in
veterate
"
tweaker
"
to
help
you
progr
am your o
wn
Inw
ition proport
io n
al gadg e
ts.
THE GREAT PRETENDER
By Timothy Trimboli
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Seuin g
up
a
virtu al
MS-DOS
di
sk
on
your
Amiga 2000
's
h
ard di
sk
will
le
t
you
run
IBM
PC
software mo
re
effectively
o
n
yo
u
r A2088 Bridge
bo
ard
system .
Although
we
have been
able to "telecommu-
nicate
"
(I.e., use telephone
s)
for over
100
years,
the very
recent
advent of personal
computers
has produc
ed
radical changes
In
the way tel
ecommunlc atlons
affect
our
!Ives.
You can
now talk not
Just
to
another Individ-
ual
but to all of
Wall
Street
,
access entire
encyclopedlas
,
"telecommute
"
to the work-
place, carry on
si
multaneou
s "conve
rsa-
tions"
with
dozens of people
,
go shopping
3000
mlle
s
away
...
Thi
s
month
we
show
Amiga
users how
to get
"o
n llne
"
to this
amazing
world
of information-on-demand.
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FROM
HERE
TO
HERE
AGAIN
:
RECURSION
IN
BASIC
By Donald
R.
Hom
er,
Ph.D
.
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Whi
le
d
ogs who ch ase
their
tai
ls
ma
y
no t be
bri
ght
,
BASIC ro
uti
ne
s
th
a
t
ca
ll
th
emse
lves
can
of
ten
b
e
a
use
fu
l
pro
gram
min
g
to
o
l.
COLl \I:'\S
ZEITGEIST
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Firing off a few
ro
und
s
to
the foo t.
o
ur
e
ditor deli
vers so
me
curmudgeonl y
q
u
ip
s
ab
o
ut
telecommuni
cat
io
n
s and shows
him
se
lf
to
be th
e
Ben
edi
ct
Arn
o
ld o
f
th
e
BBS move
me n
t.
BASIC BY THE N
UMBERS
By Bob Rya n
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The auth or
o
f
our
seri es
on
progr
ammi
ng
)'Ou
r
Amiga with Am
iga
Bas
ic
rev
iews last mo nth
's
pr
ogra
mm ing
"
ho
mewo
rk"
a
nd
adm
its
it
was a stiff
assig
n
ment
.
INFO
.PHil.E
By Bill
Catchings
and Mark
L.
Van
Name
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Ou
r
column
ists
turn
sleuth
s
to
sea
rch
th
e CU
fo
r
'
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isk
That Was
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'
t"
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REPARrEE
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it.
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repo
rt
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bro
ught
ba
ck
lot
s o
f n
ews,
n
ew
produ
cts a
nd
ru
morcd
de
velopm e
nts
from the
rece
nt
Comp
u
te
r
Electr on
ics
Show
(CES)
in
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Vegas a
nd
Ami EXPO
Los
Ange
les.
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D'OEUVRES
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Hint
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and
techni
que s
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comp
lime
nts
o
f
yo
ur
fellow re
ad ers.
REVTE,vs
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intj
et Prim
er
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KindWor
d
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and Tex
tPro
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Syn th
ia
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Fas tFon ts
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Ho tLicks
I
T
im
e
Lo rd
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An alytic Art.
Gam
es: Alien
Fires
I
Fire Power
/
Im
o
th
e
Eagle's
est.
WHAT
'S
NEW
?
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A
slew
o
f
n
ew
produ
cts
. that
's what.
HELP KEY
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"Whi zzer"
Wa
llace
will
with
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weigh ty
worr
ies
with wil)'
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'isdom
(?)
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COVER
ILWS
TRAT
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BY AR.
IE
LEVIN
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