Look What's New
AMIGAphile Volume 1 Number 1 (JUNE 1992)
Lucasfilms Games has released the sequel to it's popular pirate adventure Monkey Island. Monkey Island II promises to live up to the standards set by the first adventure.
Electronic Arts offers yet another update to its forerunning paint program. Deluxe Paint 4.1 offers full screen brush morphs and CompuGraphic scalable fonts.
With that Workbench 2.0 look, Micro-Systems Software brings us Excellence version 3.0. With a fresh new face-lift, this popular wordprocessor has many versatile and flexible options which differentiate it from its competitors. Type along spell checking, the ability to have any document read aloud using the Amigas built in speech processing, and all of the previously available options, keeps Excellence in the running with the other top Amiga word processors.
The Disk Company offers MaxiPlan 4.0. This new version of their spreadsheet and graphing program features 1.3 and 2.0 compatibility, logarithmic scales for line, bar, and XY charts, ARexx support, and 16-color mode.
Multiplayer 1.30 brings this general purpose multitasking music module player under GNU General Public Licence. It is now distributed with full source code. Multiplayer supports over 20 music module formats including ProTracker and MED.
There is talk of a new general musical notation file format called CMUS. Its development continues on the BIX conference amiga.dev/iff. CMUS - Common Musical Score: An IFF File format for interchanging musical data using Common Music Notation by Talin is a distributable document containing the current specifications.
