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U N C L E MEL'S T R I V I A Q U I Z 1) What software houses can you unscramble from these table guests? WE NOSH, SLIM C CRED EATER, NEAT VILE RAT, OH RENEE BUM SOUL 2) What bottled instruction is common to Alice In Wonderland and Dragon s Lair? 3) What effect did the first Russian Sputnik have on certain high-tech homes in the Fifties? 4) What does ESPA stand for? a) English Society of
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• VECTOR G R A P H I C S T G M exposes the myths and reality of using vector graphics. We talk to the people w h o program t h e m and the people w h o buy the g a m e s which use them. Starglider 2. Carrier C o m m a n d . Voyager and Bomber all use the impressive graphics-creating technique — have vector graphics p u s h e d the 16-bits to their limits?
• A S T A R O T H , THE BEING TGM talks to Hewson about the programming, production and
publication of their latest 16-bit shocker. Astaroth What does your sliver of silicon g o through before it reaches your local software
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Plus... 8-bit supremo Rat C e c c o talks about the 16-bit market and
why he's moving in to make a killing...
This issue of T G M w a s almost entirely designed and c o m p o s e d o n a computer screen. O n s o m e pages even the four-colour photographs were electronically scanned, altered, colour separated, placed on the page and output from a Macintosh II — we believe this is the first time this has happened anywhere — and it happened first in T G M ! Next month, we tell you exactly how T G M is pushing the frontiers of electronic publishing to the very outer limits of possibility, and soon how it could also be happening o n your ST or your Amiga. P L U S : more and more g a m e s reviews. Back Bytes and comps... TGM 020 is on sale from June 22 — don't miss it!
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