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FRONT END
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CPC ENTERTAINMENT
GROOPS! 6 AMSCENE 52 REACTION 12 AA: HISTORY IN THE 14 MAKING News from the CPC scene.
It’s not quite Columns and it’s not quite Tetris.
AA tribute special edition of feedback.
An in-depth look at the history of the longest running and best selling CPC magazine, from its origins up to its closure, with interviews from some of the main players.
SERIOUS SIDE
50 FRES FIGHTER II It’s not quite Street Fighter II.
CPC USESlHARDWARE
42 CPC ON YOUR PC SYMBOS/FUTUREOS 46 82 FROM CPC TO PC Round up of the many CPC emulators.
A look at the new face of the CPC with our feature on CPC graphical user interface operating systems.
A look at creating your own CDT, DSK files.
l Editor / Art Editor Neil Reive l Deputy Editor Ali Halabi l Production Editor John Duff l Games Editor Andy Sharp l Deputy Games Editor Adam “Arnold” Johnstone Special thanks Chris Anderson, Peter Connor, Bob Wade, and Trevor Gilham for bringing us AA in the first place. Chris (again), Rod Lawton, Steve Carey, Ollie Alderton, Dave Golder, Adam Waring, Stuart Whyte, Eliot, Nicholas Campbell, Richard Wilson for the interviews, Badbeard for the pokes, and Anthony Gallacher for the helpful advice. Thanks for getting involved. Thank you, sirs. Extra Thanks CPC websites, emulators, games programmers, graphics artists, sound artists, who have been featured in this issue, without whom AA118 just wouldn't have been. (C) AA TRIBUTE TEAM, 2008 Amstrad Action tribute magazine is an independent publication. The company producing it - AA Tribute Team - has no connection with Amstrad plc or Future Publishing Ltd. We have taken great care to ensure that what we have published is accurate, but cannot be liable for any mistakes or misprints. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without our explicit written permission.
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RETRO ACTION Some Some of of the the most most famous famous games games from from the the late late 1980s 1980s are are revived revived in in our our retro retro reviews. reviews.