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six programs on this disk will only be of
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and Control Panel which offers a simple
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AmiWatch keeps track of when your
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Amiga Computing
OCTOBER 1995
Premier league
Programmed by: David King
Available from: Fl Licenceware
Disk No. F1-092 (E3.89)
This is a football game with a difference:
it's actually a card game. After
you've selected a Premiership football
team to guide through a 42-game season,
18 cards are dealt out. You and
the computer ihen take turns at selecting
cards which signify match events
taking place; fouls, free kicks, penalties,
substitutions and goals. One of
the cards also brings the halt to an
end.
What stops everything being totally
Configuring OnLine •o-kle te r is
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listed, indicating they are on the net at
that time, you can click a button to talk
to them. Finally. GUIF is basically a
graphical front-end to the AmiTCP Finger
command.
However, while Comms' fans are the
target of the sixth program too, its appeal
is slightly broader. Online-o-meter tells
you the cost of a phone call. It can either
be used by simply clicking on the call start
and end buttons, or from comms software
using ARexx. It calculates the exact cost
of each call, taking into account factors
such as differing charge zones, minimum
charges and time and cost rounding. It is
supplied with Brrtish charge details for BT.
Mercury, and Nynex, so getting the whole
thing set up takes lust a couple of minutes,
Since this is also a useful program
for anybody who happens to have a telephone
near their Amiga, I'd recommend
getting hold of this disk even if you aren't
an Internet addict.
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Programmed by: Various
Available from: KEW.11 Software
Disk No. U1142
It's all very well, this computerised deski.
top lark, but doesn't everyone occasion
Ily miss things like notepads, addre
books and so on? Not any more. becau
to the rescue in its very best underpan
outside-trousers superhero manner is
collection of six assorted utilities.
Let's start with the least impressive p
grams. TolleUhr is a resizable vect
clock, with the option to twiddle the ra
horrific default colours and suchlike,
Slightly more useful is Megallote, a multi'
page notepad which would be a good de4
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Programmed by: David Worswick
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Available from PD Libraries
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PD platformer but it was worth the wa
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home here with plenty of taxing levels
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