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Summary of this edition:
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Foreword

Internal
   o Newsroom & help
   o Summons
   o Distribution
   o Legal information

Competition
   o Results of the last competition
   o Introduction of the new prizes
   o Summons to innovative programmers and AMIGA firms
   o The new prize questions
   o Online competition

FD charts (by Markus Castro Y Castro)
   o FD charts edition 12/00
   o FD charts online participation

Forum
   o Contribution for discussions: Sales prices of iFusion (by Andreas Volkmann)
   o Questions concerning the use of Amiga sound formats with Windows
   o Looking for terminal program for A500 on diskette
   o Amiga 600 with difficulties on startup

Workshops / background reports / book introductions
   o Supply for external units like active speakers, samplers etc. (by N.
Savour)

Test reports
   o Little helpers for everyday Amiga usage (by Christian Aichinger)
   o CD-ROM test: »The Kickstart Archives« (by Uwe Pannecke)

Games section (by Andreas Falkenhahn)
   o Expressions of thanks
   o Summons
   o Foreword
   o Games news from all over the world
   o Preview: Payback
   o New PD games in Aminet: Foreword
   o New PD games in Aminet: Tests
   o Release list
   o Bookmarks
   o Emulator news
   o Final words

News about AmigaNG
   o New Executive Update from AMIGA's president Bill McEwen
   o Edition 4 of Amiga World released - the most important news
   o Reflections: »CLASSIC or ONE« (by Stefan Czinczoll)
   o In a nutshell (by Oliver Tacke)
   o AmigaNG Software/Overview

Amiga PowerPC
   o In a nutshell (by Oliver Tacke)
   o New listed PowerPC software (by Stefan Funke)
   o PowerPC software overview

The Heckler (by Ralf Driesner)

Various Amiga news
   o AmigaSDK for Windows and Bubble Heroes available
   o Amiga Forever 4.0 available
   o News from Haage & Partner
   o News from Amiga Arena
   o In a nutshell (by Oliver Tacke)

Final thoughts

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