About The Cover
The castle courtyard scene on the cover is just one of a multitude of animated medieval scenes from the first of a new genre of computer games, the interactive movie. Defender of the Crown, a Cinemaware title from Mindscape, lets you participate in jousts, raid the castles of rivals, visit Robin Hood, and rescue fair damsels in distress, all to the accompaniment of excellent sound and what are arguably the best graphics ever produced on a personal computer. Judge for yourself from the cover photo. The Cinemaware series invokes the Mical gaming system, named for our newest regular contributor, RJ Mical, whose main claim to fame is authorship of the Intuition operating system that lies at the heart of every Amiga. In his first column for INFO, RJ tells the real story behind the creation of everyone's favorite personal computer.
As the cover proclaims, this is a special games issue, and the Games Galleries have been expanded to fourteen pages for this issue. If that's not enough games to hold you, then turn to the centerfold and check out INFO Mania, INFO's first free computer game! (We finally figured out a way to totally eliminate the typing.) Lest you think this issue is all fun and games, don't miss Ted's look at spreadsheets, Don's C64/C128 hard disk roundup, and Peggy's C64/C128 MIDI, and Amiga music features. Thanks for reading!
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