The first " real " public release of EDIF was version 2 0 0, which was approved in March 1988 as the standard ANSI / EIA-548-1988.

The IRIX name was first used around the time of release 3. 0 of the operating system for SGI's IRIS 4D series of workstations and servers, in 1988.

With business at Cold Chillin ' booming, Marl put out the first full-length release under his own name in 1988 ( he'd previously recorded the single " DJ Cuttin '" in 1985 with the alias NYC Cutter ).

In late 1988 it was ported to C, which enabled it to spread rapidly to many Unix platforms upon its release in 1989.

* Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days ( Travel 1988 ; Programme release 1989 ): travelling as closely as possible the path described in the famous Jules Verne story without using aircraft.

The first release as Irresistible Force was the single, " I Want To " ( 1988 ), but success came with the first album, Flying High, released in 1992 on Rising High Records.

Object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces became more common after the 1988 release of the NeXTcube and NeXTSTEP, when other companies started to emulate NeXT's object-oriented system.

The group released the album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in 1988, which performed better in the charts than their previous release, and included the hit single " Don't Believe the Hype " in addition to " Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos ".

The next milestone was the release of Pro / ENGINEER in 1988, which heralded greater usage of feature-based modeling methods and parametric linking of the parameters of features.

A preview release of NeXTSTEP ( version 0. 8 ) was shown at the launch of the NeXT Computer on October 12, 1988.

In 1988 the Atari Demo scene gathered further momentum with the release of the B. I. G.

Since the band split, its members have sanctioned the release of a live album ( Rank, 1988 ), four greatest-hits collections ( Best ...

* Mysterious, a 1988 release by Shizuka Kudō

The last version of QuickBASIC was version 4. 5 ( 1988 ), although development of the Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System ( PDS ) continued until its last release of version 7. 1 in October 1990.

Following the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, the industry began recovering, with annual sales exceeding $ 2. 3 billion by 1988, with 70 % of the market dominated by Nintendo.

On August 2, 1988, the plaintiff and defendants announced a settlement of the lawsuit, which included a Confidential Cross-License Agreement under which SEA licensed PKWARE for all the ARC-compatible programs published by PKWARE during the period beginning with the first release of PKXARC in late 1985 through July 31, 1988, in return for an undisclosed payment.

1988 also saw the release of the drama Evil Angels ( released outside of Australia and New Zealand as A Cry in the Dark ) about the Lindy Chamberlain saga, in which a baby was taken by a dingo at Ayers Rock and her mother was accused of having murdered the child.

John Lennon complained to EMI Australia at a meeting about the changes, but the cover remained the same until the album's release on compact disc in 1988.

In 1988, consequently, an alternative release was developed to serve as Super Mario Bros. 2 for western players ( and later released in Japan as Super Mario USA ); this version would play a key role in shaping Luigi's current appearance.

A single called " Death Comes To Town " was due to be released by FON in early 1988, but this relationship disintegrated and the release was cancelled.

October 1988 saw the release of Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Kent Nagano.

Mosley was fired in 1988 due to his erratic behavior during sessions and at shows, notably the release party for the album Introduce Yourself during which he fell asleep on stage.

Continuing the tradition ( and following a brief stint in David Lee Roth's band from 1986 to 1988 ), Vai went on to release a number of highly acclaimed solo albums.

In 1988 the British artist and friend of Weizenbaum Brian Reffin Smith created and showed at the exhibition ' Salamandre ', in the Musée du Berry, Bourges, France, two art-oriented ELIZA-style programs written in BASIC, one called ' Critic ' and the other ' Artist ', running on two separate Amiga 1000 computers.

* Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World ( 1988 ; Apple II, Amiga, DOS, Commodore 64, Mac, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( Europe only ), SNES ( Japan-only, different from the European version ), MSX, PC-Engine CD )

* Bombuzal ( C64 / Amiga / Atari ST, 1988 ; PC, 1989 ; SNES, 1990 )-Minter designed one level

* Trip-a-Tron ( Amiga / Atari ST, 1988 )

* Carrier Command, a 1988 simulator game for Amiga and many other platforms

A major proportion of games developed from 1985 to 1988 were written specifically for ST, then converted to the Amiga.

By 1988, an increasing number of games were developed specifically for the Amiga.

The format was co-developed by Apple Computer in 1988 based on Electronic Arts ' Interchange File Format ( IFF, widely used on Amiga systems ) and is most commonly used on Apple Macintosh computer systems.

* F / A-18 Interceptor, a 1988 Amiga game by Electronic Arts

The Vim editor started as " Vi IMitation " on the Amiga in 1988, but was later relabeled " Vi IMproved " and ported to many other platforms.

The game was released in 1988 for the Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64.

Treasure Island Dizzy is a computer puzzle game published in 1988 by Codemasters for the Amstrad, Commodore 64, Spectrum, DOS, NES, Amiga and Atari ST.

Speedball was released in November 1988 for the Atari ST and ported to the Amiga, PC ( DOS ), Commodore 64 and the Sega Master System ; it was also for the NES as KlashBall.

When the compilation album Alphaville Amiga Compilation was assembled for release in East Germany in 1988, the song " Summer in Berlin " was submitted for inclusion, but rejected " for political reasons.

* Sidewinder ( Mastertronic video game ), a 1988 video game for the Amiga

In 1988, the game was ported to the Sega Master System, MSX, Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and Famicom / Nintendo Entertainment System ( published by Tengen ).

It was released by Sega for the arcades in 1987 and for the Sega Master System in 1988 ; Activision released the game for the Amiga, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and Atari ST in 1989.

* Commodore Amiga ( 1988, ported by Probe ( US GOLD ))

* Rockford ( 1988 – Arcade, Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Arcade, Spectrum, Amstrad, C64 )-Rockford was originally a licensed arcade game produced by Arcadia Systems, and later converted to various home computer formats

From 1988 to 1993, Sawyer worked on DOS conversions of Amiga games and was involved in many projects, including Virus, Conqueror, Campaign, Birds of Prey, Dino Dini's Goal and Frontier: Elite II.

The ANIM IFF format was developed in 1988 at Sparta Inc., a firm based in California, originally for the production of animated video sequences on the Amiga computer, and was used for the first time in AEGIS Videoscape and Video Titler programs for the Amiga line of computers.

* Exile ( 1988 video game ), a space-based computer game for the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and CD32