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Mark Wherry asks the question - Will AI ever surpass our own? "The term artificial intelligence was coined in 1956 by John McCarthy of MIT. ..."
Robert Coare gives us some hints and tips on getting the best from Frontier Elite II. "I am your chief instructor Lieutenant Robert Coare and I will be guiding you through all aspects of life in todays galaxy."
David J. Williams starts a new series of articles to help you to get the best Music In MIDI. "I hope to show you over the next few issues how to write in your own songs using the knowledge of written music and it’s rules that you will acquire here."
Adam Foster continues his of POV raytracing tutorials "In this tutorial, I will demonstrate the basics of a very powerful part of POV-Ray, the Construtive Solid Geometry (CSG), and how to use the supplied textures and colours."
Keith Turner-Cairns brings us up to scratch on scoring. "Producing scores is really a state of mind! Ok, there are some rules, but the purpose of the score is to get a player to play what you want."
Alasdair Goold, chairman of Scotland’s TOS/Atari Group - STAG, takes his place on the roll of honour of those asked to discuss their favourite accessories. Kobold and Freedom
In this, the first joint ap/Atari Computing feature article, Kev Beardsworth and Joe Connor take a close look at the most popular replacement desktops. "Unlike some system enhancements it’s easy to replace the Desktop."
Martyn Tidd takes an in-depth look at multitasking on the Atari. "It’s a bit like a hard drive, once you have it you wonder how you ever managed to do without it."
Domhnall Dods looks at the what’s changes since Papyrus 3. "Papyrus 4 has to be one of the most eagerly awaited upgrades on the Atari scene since MagiC 4."
Colin Fisher-McAllum takes a pre release look at the new screen enhancer for the Falcon from Black Scorpion Software. "Those of you who have seen APEX Media will know that nobody can squeeze and tease the best performance from the Falcon chips..."
Kev Beardsworth boosts his knowledge using this new package from System Solutions. "Encyclopedia’s on Cd Rom are very popular on the PC but for Atari’s there are - as far as I know - none."
Ken Clayton plays Destruction Immenient and lives! "The creatures themselves come in the guises of Spiders, Bats, Zombies, and Rock monsters that look like gingerbread men."
Colin Fisher-McAllum concludes his look at this excellent image processing/retouching package from Floppyshop. "All in all, Positive Image is a very powerful tool that anyone who needs to process and touch up images ..."
Domhnall Dods makes a ’flying’ visit to Colin‘s home. "The SyQuest EZFlyer 230 is in shape, size and looks, very like the Iomega Zip, but a little sturdier in construction."