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Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Part Five in the Fractals Series Productivity: Wordperfect Macros ^ WOA: Pulsar's Power PC BOARD FOR THE A500 Volume 5 No. 6 June 1990 US $3.95 Canada $4.95 Your Original AMIGA* Monthly Resource Programming: Object-Oriented Programming in C++ * Amiga Turtle Graphics APL: Primitive Functions Convergence:Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Part Five In The Fractals Series Productivity: WordPerfect Macros ^ . Reviews: DigiMate ill ™ PageStream 1.8 Hardware Project: 1 RAM Expansion For Your A500 PLUS! CBM'S Multimedia Launch Of The A3000 Workbench 2.0‘s Display Modes 07447074710906 CONTENTS INSIDE STORIES Cherryware 39 by Julie Petersen Extend your vocabulary with computerisms that define products and describe characterstics associated with their use. World of Amiga, New York 47 Commodore, over 40 other Amiga vendors, and more than 15,000 Amiga users gather for a special two-day event. Commodore's Launch 81 CBM defines multimedia as it presents the Amiga 3000. Workbench 2.0 87 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMDisplay a la mode. PROGRAMMING Amiga Turtle Graphics 57 by Dylan McNamee Computer graphics and programming Convergence 41 with a LOGO-like by Paul Castonguay graphics system. Part Five of th e Fractal series. Pulsar's POWER PC BOARD makes your Amiga 500 PC-compatible. Read about this and other newly C++ 51 released Am iga products in our by Scott B. Steinman, O.D., Ph.D. article, World of Amiga, New York An introduction to object-oriented HARDWARE show coverage, page 47. Amiga programming. Rapid Fire Joystick 21 APL and the Amiga 69 by John lovine by Henry T. Upper!, EdD Build a rapid fire joystick circuit for game Primitive functions and their playing on the Amiga. execution. The AM 512 3 5 ALL j j P by James Bentley LISTINGS Upgrade your A500 to a 1 ON megabyte machine. DISK TUTORIALS AND REVIEWS PageStream 1.8 14 Snapshot 23 by John Steiner by Brad Andrews Putting SofRogik's desktop publishing A look at Broderbund's Typhoon package to work Thompson, Accolade's Day of the Viper, and more. 18; WordPerfect Macros 18; fyp by Mike Hubbartt Create time-saving Snapshot- m acros in W ordPerfect. Virgin Mastertronic Commodore President takes on another Harry Copperman Mail Order Macros 20 Parker Brothers speaks a t World o f by Armando Cardenas gam e, Risk. A m iga, New York. Address envelopes using WordPerfectHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM macros. BugBytes 29 DEPARTMENTS DigiMate III 31 by John Steiner by Frank Me Mahon A new VirusX upgrade, some bugs Animation comes to DigiPaint. with WordPerfect, and still no answer from Intuitive Technologies. Editorial 4 Pipe Dream 88 by Miguel Mulet PD Serendipity 74 Letters 6 As a plumber, your job is to control the by Aimee B. Abren excess "flooz" being produced by the Highlights include virus checkers, an Acme Chemicals Co. encoder program, and a 200-page Index of Advertisers 80 C M anual. Battle Squadron 88 Roomers 76 Public Domain by Tony Preston by The Bandito Software 93 Your mission is to eliminate all Barraxian The rumors are getting hotter as the life forms and rescue your comrades. days get longer. The Com m and Line 78 by Rich Falconburg Another look at a public domain COLUMNS shell program . COVER PHOTO by New Products 8 Ernest P. Viveiros. Sr. The gam e of Harmony, T.F.M.X. C Notes by the C Group 82 Soundtool, and the Amiga TouchDriver by Stephen Kemp system. Linked lists & doubly linked lists in C. m i i G A KNOWLEDGE Amazing Computing For The Commodore AMIGA'' ADMINISTRATION P u b lis h e r: Joyce Hicks Assistant Publisher: Robert J. Hicks MACHINE Circulation Manager: Doris Gamble Asst. 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