_{Cover of the September 1989 issue of Info}

Info was a magazine for Commodore computer owners. The unique thing about it was that it was also produced using Commodore computers, the Commodore 64 in the early days and later on the Amiga. By 1989, focus had definitely shifted to the Amiga but it was still covering the Commodore 64. The September 1989 issue includes:

Features

Video Boot Camp - A guide to using the Amiga as a video workstation. Includes discussions of Deluxe Paint, external video adapters, genlock devices, digitizers, and more.

Video Hardware Roundup - A look at tons of video hardware for the Amiga including video encoders (C-View, ENC-1, A520 Video Adaptor, etc.), Genlocks (Minigen, Progen, Amigen, Supergen, Scanlock, etc.), video digitizers (Perfect Vision, Framegrabber, Live!, Digiview Gold 3.0, etc.), and more.

Interview: Gail Wellington - An interview with Commodore's General Manager of Software & Product Support.
Building a Super Amiga - The Amiga, through software and add-on hardware, could be configured to run IBM PC or Macintosh software as well as Amiga software. There was also a version of Unix created for it. This article goes through customizing an Amiga to be able to do all of this and more. The configuration presented here includes an Amiga 2000 with a 100 MB SCSI hard card, a 68030 upgrade card with 8MB of RAM (total 9MB system ram), Commodore's A2286 Bridgeboard, and more.

_{Table of Contents from the September 1989 issue of Info}

Departments

INFOtorial - News on a couple of Amiga related publications ceasing operations including Commodore Magazine and Robo City News.

Reader Mail - Mail from readers including one letter from Electronics Boutique about their decision to no longer sell hardware though they mention still selling software for the Amiga, Commodore 64, Apple II, Macintosh and PC compatibles.

News & Views - King James Bible now available on disk for the Amiga; Commodore has a new president; Commodore sponsors Library of Congress exhibit; rumors of Hewlett Packard buying Commodore; and more.

New Products - A look at recent releases including a new package from Broderbund called The Family Software Library (includes Bank Street Writer, Type!, and Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?), the Lattice Communications Library for the Amiga, The Accountant for the Amiga, Argus AniMagic animation software for the Amiga, and more.
Magazine Index - A look at what's been in recent Commodore related magazines including Amiga World, Amazing Computing, The Amiga Sentry, Amiga User International, Byte, Commodore Magazine, Compute!'s Gazette, Computer Shopper, Run, Amiga Transactor, Transactor, AmigaTimes, Amnows, Jumpdisk and Amiga Resource.

Games for Amiga - Reviews of new games for the Amiga including Dragon's Lair II (preview), Archipelagos, Deja Vu II: Lost In Las Vegas, Fright Night, Jack Nicklaus, Gunship, Arthur, Time and Magik, Kingdoms of England, The Last Inca, Fast Break, Vegas Gambler, Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom, Titan, Battle Squadron (preview), Robot Reader: The Three Bears, Dinosaurs are Forever, and Uncle D's Con Sound Tration.

Games for C64 - Reviews of new games for the Commodore 64 including Risk, Menace, Qix, Total Eclipse, Destroyer Escort, Axe of Rage, Baal, Hostage, Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, Project Firestart, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, and Navy Seal.

Public Domain - A look at recent public domain software including three GEOS Utilities (Blue Pencil 1.0, Switcher 1.3, and Printmate), Tic Tock Toe (Tic Tac Toe game with time limits), Flip-Flop (a board game reminiscent of checkers), Authenticalc II (calculator), and much more.

Reviews

Hometown, U.S.A. - Software for the Commodore 64 for creating paper toys.

3D Options - Software for the Amiga that converts IFF bitmapped images into structured drawings.

Anti-Virus - Prevents bootblock and worm infections on the Amiga.

V.I.P. - Virus Infection Protection protects the Amiga from viruses by keeping a copy of the bootblock.

Toshiba 321SLC - A high-end $899 24-pin color dot-matrix printer.

Viking I - A 19-inch high-resolution (up to 1008x800) monochrome monitor for the Amiga.

A-Max - A Macintosh emulator for the Amiga.

ETC.

Show Reports - Reports from Amiga Festival in San Francisco, World of Commodore Los Angeles, CES Chicago, and Amiga Devcon.

BRYCE - A regular comic strip featured in Info.

_{Back cover of the September 1989 issue of Info}

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Info (September 1989)

Features

Departments

Reviews

ETC.