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AMIGA SCENE
Gong for the
best game
THE search is on to find the
best Amiga game in Europe.
It is part of a prestigious
new series of awards linked
to the European Computer
Trade Show to he held at
London's Business Design
Centre from April 1 to 3
next year.
National competitions
will be arranged with the
winners of each going
through to the final at ECTS
90. Negotiations are under-
way with key industry
organisations in France*
Germany* Spain* Italy*
Scandinavia and through-
out the UK to coordinate
the awards on the lines of
the Eurovision Song
Contest. The 23 award cate-
gories will be broken down
into leisure, small business,
trade and media sections.
Judging will be by an inde-
pendent panel of computer
journalists from various
countries.
“What makes these award
not only different but more
important than any other is
the fact that they are
European”, said Michael
Me a kin, joint managing
director of the Europess
Group and chairman of the
Now clip art’s on the move
WHY restrict yourself? Or
so asks Robin Bilson of
RGB Studios. Real Things
is a new program which
helps you learn how liv-
ing things move.
When you are taught to
draw you learn how to
look at things, to see how
they reflect light and cast
awards steering committee.
“As such, they will bring
all the elements that make
up the leisure and small
business sectors of the com-
puter trade within the EC
that much closer together so
that we will all be ready to
shadows. When you are
taught to animate you
learn how movement
works. A horse's tail rises
as the rump falls.
While most of us are
taught to draw in school*
with varying degrees of
success* most young ani-
mators are held back. The
take full advantage of 1992.
"We see the European
Computer Trade Awards as
a natural extension to the
European Computer Trade
Show and are convinced
they will achieve a similar
status from year one 11 .
Commodore marketing being restructured
Does this headline sound
familiar? We used it last
September when Jeff Earl
joined Commodore. Well
in a bid to save money
Amiga Computing can
re-use the words. Because
the Earl has been dis-
robed. . or perhaps he was
Just un suited.
Officially he has left to
'pursue his own inter-
ests", In practice he has
got the sa,. ouch! erm. in
practice he left Lo pursue
his own interests.
Commodore, the com-
pany famous for having
more doors marked ’exit"
than marked ’welcome",
does not yet ask new
recruits to sign the visi-
tors book, But it is still
left with a substantially
feffEarl
bigger marketing depart-
men than it had last year.
The remaining staff are
more than capable of
ensuring that this year's
multi-million pound
advertising campaign
swings smoothly into
action.
For the second time we
will see the Amiga on
television and extensive
press advertising. There
will also be new machines
in the PC (yawn) range,
including a super-fast
80386 machine known as
the PC 50.
The 486 range, along
with all other manufactur-
ers' 486 machines, is like-
ly to be hit badly by
damage (he Intel 80486
plant suffered during the
Californian earthquake.
This can only bode well
for the 69 000— based
Amiga, because Motorola
makes lots of chips in
nice safe places like
Scotland.
expense and physical
problems of using stop
frame film cameras are
prohibitive.
The Amiga and Deleuxe
Paint III solve this. You
can learn to animate with
any 1 meg Amiga, But you
still need lessons.
Real Things is a collec-
tion of animated clip art.
Designed for use either
with the 12 page user
guide or in a classroom ,g2
Real Things shows you
how to put together con-
vincing Animbmshes and
achieve realistic effects.
There are several discs
dealing with different
topics* each with expertly
produced artwork. The
pictures we have seen
have a strong oil painting
feel, unlike any other
Amiga art. It is a little
strange to see a painting
move.
More details from
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Links cover
the country
SINCE the new MicroLink
communications service
was launched, 124 extra
telephone access points
have been opened in vari-
ous parts of the UK from
Dunfermline in Scotland
covering the Edinburgh area
down to Plymouth.
This brings the total to
280 compared with the 63
which were previously
available over British
Telecom’s PSS network
which MicroLink sub-
scribers used before they
switched from Telecom
Gold to the independent
Istel-Inet network on
October 1.
This means that almost
100 per cent of the UK pop-
ulation can now access
MicroLink for the price of a
local phone call. Before the
changeover, in addition to
having to make longer dis-
tance calls, they also had to
December 1S8S AMIGA COMPLUlNG 7
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■ AMIGA SCENE ■
Assembler for the professional
DEVFAC Developer, a pro-
Fessional version of
HiSoft's assembly language
development system has
now been launched for the
Amiga,
Offering more power
and new options, it is
aimed at professional
users .
Main improvements
over the ordinary Devpac
Amiga version involve the
handling of multiple file-
types, a new linker and the
provision of dual debug-
ging
The assembler itself has
been extended to allow the
creation of multiple output
file types independent of
host machine, A new link-
er also allows this type of
cross-development and the
program can now generate
absolute files and
Motorola S-records.
The 6801 0/20/30/881/
882/851 instruction sets
are also supported, to-
gether with numerous new
options for power users.
Despite this increase in
power, the assembler is
actually faster than the
original* thanks to new
parsing techniques.
Using additional hard- *
ware available for the
Amiga, Devpac Developer
allows dual machine
development, One machine
can be used to edit„ assem-
ble and link, then it can
transmit the code to the
other machine for execu-
tion.
In addition a special
remote debugger, ostensi-
bly similar to its MonAm
predecessors, allows com-
plete remote machine con-
trol, placing no special
requirements on the
remote machine.
This gives games pro-
grammers who tend to
wipe out native debuggers
their first chance to use
w x hat is a powerful diag-
nostic tool.
At least 1Mb of ram is
needed on the develop-
ment machine to use
Devpac Developer. Price
from £199,
pay a PSS surcharge of 3p a
minute.
"More than a hundred of
the new access points sup-
port MNP error correction”,
said MicroLink chairman
Derek Meakin, "This is part
of our plan to blanket the
country with high-speed
links offering fast access
coupled with the last word
in trouble-free data trans-
mission 1 '.
A bundled
500 for
education
COMMODORE has just
launched a new Amiga bun-
dle aimed at the education
market.
Its Class of the '90s pack
includes an Amiga 500 key-
board with 3. Sin internal
drive, mouse, 512k ram and
Midi interface, a range of
resource software and sup-
port materials for £573.
Software in the pack is
Deluxe Paint II* Superbase
Personal, Maxiplan,
Publisher's Choice, Dr.T's
Midi Recording Studio*
Amiga Logo and Com-
modore's BBC emulator
with a selection of BBC pro-
grams. Also included are
10 blank discs* a mouse
mat, disc wallet* education
file with more than 10 0
pages of advice* guidance
and worksheets relating to
the national curriculum*
product reviews, education
news, feature articles, list of
Don't call me Music X junior
THERE is only one thing
wrong with the best music
program in the world:
Music-X is professionally
priced, But a cheaper ver-
sion is in the pipeline.
Amiga Computing
spoke to author David
Joiner and asked what
would be omitted from
Music-X Junior. "Well, for
start that's not what it's
called. We don't know
what it will be called* but
I will not allow the word
junior in any of my prod-
ucts”* he said.
However the marketing
department may overrule
the programmer's deci-
sion. What matters is how
much has been taken out.
"What will be omitted
is the event editor, librari-
an* protocol editor, ; patch
editor* Midi time code,
smpte and some recording
options. The sequencer
and bar editor are
unchanged, filters are
somewhat abbreviated,
Amiga samples the same,
users in education and
information on public
domain software.
The pack is available
from Commodore education
dealers who provide local
support backed by
Commodore's technical sup-
port services and an
enhanced seven day repair
facility.
An additional offer is a
free Amiga 500 to all pur-
and slightly reduced
keymap editor' 1 * David
told us. We look forward
to seeing it.
Microillusions has a
real hit on its hands*
Music-X looks set to help
the Amiga steal the ST's
crown as the machine to
use for controlling musi-
cal instuments.
The cost reduced pro-
gram, whatever it is
called, should be avail-
able very soon for less
than £100. For more
details call Microillusions
UK on 0480 498497.
chasers of 20 packs. "The
bundle gives teachers and
pupils a chance to work
with exciting software on a
machine capable of han-
dling all their different
requirements", said a
Commodore spokesman,
"For example, music
teachers can now take their
pupils into another world
with MrT’s Midi Recording
Studio where they can
recreate, using the modern
methods of today's record-
ing studios, music they hear
on the radio every day,
"We see bundles also
helping those children who
have certain learning diffi-
culties and cannot keep up
with the rest of the class.
We recently completed a
primary project with a num-
ber of schools throughout
the UK and Richard Adams*
a teacher at Hoi way
Community Junior School,
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VII Amiga Arcade
FASHION is fickle, and the arcade
industry is as footloose as any*
other. Keeping up with the trends
is hard work for the likes of
Domark, the company which pro-
duces the official Atari coin-op
conversions,
Mimicking the heavy duty cus-
tom hardware in the newest arcade
simulators is tough. Hard Drivin' is
the toughest. Juergen Friedrich is
Domark's saviour. He is the man
who has produced the stunning
conversion. And he did it in C.
juergen is something of a C fan.
His first programming experience
was iu Basic and assembler on a
Tandy TRS-flO and then on an Atari
8 DO, the real precursor to the
Amiga. He switched to C when he
started programming professionally
on an Apple il,
This led to producing some
graphics routines for a CAD pack-
age. Away From the computer,
juergen is something of an arcade
addict. He got to be very good at
Star Wars, but hated pouring
money into the coin-op. So he
wrote his own version for the
newly launched Apple Mac. And
very good it was too.
After touting Star Wars around
software houses for a bit he was
approached by Domark, which had
already won a fierce battle against
other companies for the rights to
produce a home computer version.
juergen Friedrich: 7 don't like driving very much" Juergen dived into his C source
Abridged too for
and produced the excellent ST and
Amiga versions, recently re-
released in the Star Wars lYilogy.
Today they look a little simplistic,
but there are new challenges, and
Hard Drivin 1 is the greatest.
Starting with the ST version
Juergen wrote the game in TUrbo C
with machine code subroutines.
For the Amiga version be has used
Onslaught programmer Chris
Hinsley: " D you warm silly
pose or a serious arte"
THE land of Gargore is a very
dodgy place, full of bloodthirsty
troops, wizards and various forms
of the not quite dead.
In Hewson's Onslaught you play
the role of a fanatic, a single man
with the strength of an army whose
sole aim is to rid the land of your
enemies and capture their flag.
In an interesting cross between
role-playing and arcade action you
must best the foe in a wide range of
combat (tom pitch battles to mind
combat.
Joystick power alone will not be
enough to give you victory - you'll
have to use your brain to prevent
the enemy from out-manoeuvring
you.
Different tribes inhabit each of
the 10 kingdoms which add up to
give a total of 2,560 locations, rep-
resented on a large scale campaign
map. There is even a option to cre-
ate your own kingdoms.
Created by Chris Hinsley and
Nigel Brown john of Custodian
fame, Onslaught should be Fighting
its way on to the shelves round
about now.
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Aztec C. Most games writers sneer
at programmers who don’t use
machine code. But jueigen believes
there would be no advantage.
"it Is not necessary to do every-
thing in assembler", he explains,
''because only a very small percent-
age of the code is used at any one
time. A lot of it might be in 6 but
while the action part of the game is
running the computer spends 90
per cent of its lime in the assem-
bler subroutines,
'Tve got a frame rate of 10 to 15
frames per second. I don't think
any speed improvement from re-
writing the whole game in assem-
bler would be noticeable".
And he is probably right. The
early demo looks great, but it will
lake a proper review to determine
whether he has captured the true
driving feel of the arcade original.
Pretty
Marvellous
SPiDER sense is tingling, Could it
be that old arch -villain Dr Doom,
or is it perhaps that Em pine, is due
to release what it claims to be the
first interactive arcade comicbook
adventure. We think Coktel Vision
and Asterix might have something
to say about that.
Dr Doom’s Revenge will feature
two of the best known Marvel
superheroes, 'Captain America and
the amazing Spi derma n. locked in
combat with the evil Dr Doom,
who has cooked up some new
schemes lo dominate the world,
Spidey and Cap are the last
chance we have to save the world
for democracy as they battle
through more than 30 arcade
sequences, dodging the assembled
might of the underworld, including
such famous names as Electro,
Rhino and the Hob Goblin, before
they come mask to mask with old
Tin Nose,
The graphics will be looking to
resemble the style of the comic-
books as closely as possible.
An actual Marvel comic book
will be included in the pack which
illustrates the plot leading up to
the action in the game.
Not only a great looking game
but also a probable collector's item,
the everlovin' Dr Doom's Revenge
will cost £24.99.
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THE aim of Far West, the new cow-
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money as possible,
Create your own cowboy, buy
whatever you need - guns, beer,
food, equipment - and then choose
how to play the game.. Trek into
the wilderness by train or horse to
hunt bears or build yourself a gold
mine. If you have a gun, robbing a
bank becomes a possibility,
EAS says you can let your imagi-
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re-hashed version of Stag.
Mafia mayhem
WILD STREETS is the new game
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by the Mafia. Which wasn't very
intelligent of him.
It is your task to gel him out of
this mess, but in accepting the mis-
sion you declare all-out war on the
Mafia. Which wasn't very intelli-
gent of you. Every thug in town is
on your tracks, Your only ally is a
magnificent black panther which
watches your every move through
the 30 levels of the game. -When
things get too hot., he will spring
into action to protect you. Nice
pussy.
Your task is set, the streets of
Long Island are waiting.
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Grabbed by the Gauls
The heroes battle again
to
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ASTEHJX (he Gaul is 30 years old,
To celebrate, French games house
CoJctel Vision is releasing a cartoon
adventure, Asterix and the
Enchanted Slone.
Panoramic Ihe druid has been
accidentally hit on the head and
knocked out by the Enchanted
Slone. He has now lost his memory
and Ihe formula for Ihe magic
potion,
Now, we've asked around every-
where [well, almost everywhere)
but nobody can remember this
Panuramix guy. Winesanspirix,
Vitalstatisix, Localpolitix,
Forinpolitix, Getafix, Obelix,
Geriatrix, Doublehelix, Chief
Whoscmoralsareiastix,
Fulliauiomatix... names we all
know and love. Bui Panoramix?
Who he?
Anyway, playing the part of the
macha Gaul himself you musl find
the ingredients and mix them to
cure the unknown druid. With £0
possible combinations, this will
not be easy.
You will be able to move freely
in the forest between Gallic village
and Roman encampment. But
beware because the forest will be
riddled with traps and various
tests. Things, like wild boars, toxic
fumes and, of course, the Romans.
With 30 screens to explore and
out mid November, Asterix and the
Enchanted Stone looks like one to
see you through the after-Christmas
doldrums.
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HEROES of the Lance was arguably
the most popular role- playing
game ever. So what could be more
natural than a sequel?
In typical Empire Strikes Back
style, the heroes are waylaid on
their triumphant return from the
previous mission and captured bv
the bad guys. Their escape is taken
for granted.
You join the action in Dragons of
Flame, a now hostile homeland
swarming with refugees from the
big fight against the Queen of
Darkness.
The only hope for civilization
now is that you obtain the fabled
Wyrmslayer and free the slaves in
order to turn the tide of war.
Trying to improve on the formu-
la of Heroes, US Gold has added
non- player characters (NPCs), set a
time limit and bunged in even
more monsters and magic for good
measure. With the backing of TSR,
the biggest name in role-playing, it
can't have gone too far wrong.
Think you’re up to the chal-
lenge? Dragons of Flame is out
now, price £24.99,
Budget games
are here!
MASTERTRQN1C, the company
which created budget software back
in 1984, is to hit the 16 bit market
with a new range of £4,99 priced
games.
The first Amiga releases on the
new 16 Blitz label will mainly be
back catalogue classics like Little
Computer People, Sorcery Plus and
Roadwars, but new titles are
promised, among them Speedboat
Assassins, which looks like a Live
and Let Die clone, and the intruig-
tngiy named Kelly X.
Full bike and board
GREMLIN GRAPHICS is pretty
excited about Skidz, its new skate-
board cum BMX bike game. Coded
in Germany, Skidz was first written
on the ST and then ported over.
But the programmers soon realised
they could so much more on the
Amiga. So they did.
Skidz now uses up every square
centimetre of your monitor. Re-
written to make the best use of a
full PAL overscan screen, it puts
the, erm, other version to shame.
The gameplay is a simple but
addictive race around the isometric
streets doing tricks and avoiding
obstacles, animals and pedestrians.
The early version shown to
Amiga Arcade was fast and furi-
ous. Check it out around mid
November.
Skidz uses a PAL overscan screen on the Amiga
December JffflS AMIGA COMPUTING 17
PLAYING IT IS EASY-MASTERING IT WILL TAKE TIME- A LOT OF TIME
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■ AMIGA ARCADE ■
It’s a funny old game
KICK OFF has bean a constant
presence in the Amiga Gallup top
ten since last August. Anco has
decided to capitalise on this suc-
cess by releasing a strategy based
fnl tow-up. Flayer Manager.
The game will feature more than
1,000 players in a four divison
league, each player being au indi-
vidual with a unique combination
of 11 attributes and skills.
A modified version of Kick Off
taking full account of managerial
decisions will be used to put them
to the lest As Ihe manager you will
be ahle to choose either to play in
your selected position or control
the player nearest to the bali.
Alternatively you can relegate
yourself to the dugout and study
the match in depth.
When to hang up your boots for
good lo concentrate on a manageri-
al career will be the most difficult
and painful decision of your life.
'Player Manager attempts to
bring the everyday life of a soccer
boss, his talents as a manager and a
player, into sharp focus", Anco
boss Anil Gupta told Amiga
Arcade. Price £19.95, release date
mid November,
Slidin' the back out
Selecting your car, circuit and driver
Setting up team tactics
ZZKJ was the man for the job, It is
doubtful that anyone else could
convert an arcade game as mind-
mimbmgly taxing as Power Drift,
This stems from his training as a
chip designer and love of a dial’
lenge,
Zareh (that's what the first 2
stands for) doesn't like easy pro-
gramming jobs. 1 get bored," he
told Am/ga Arcade. "Because I
understand how r the silicon works,
I can program at the lowest level,,
although this can cause some prob-
lems. I found a bug in the blitter
that no Dne I've spoken lo knows
about 1 '.
It is these qualities, and the
excellent Super Hang-On conver-
sion, which led Activision to call
on him again.
Before starling to write the code,
ZZKJ played the game again and
again until he got really good at it
and knew the subtleties of the
Armless fun for all
ELECTRONIC ARTS has launched
three more Amiga products on its
Software Classics label, all of them
strategy games,
Fusion, which looks more like a
shoot-’em-up, was written by
Bulldog, the team which produced
Populous.
Starfleet, which was previously
unreleased on the Amiga, is a bit
like Elite with a groat 3D landing
scene, It's really heavy on strategy
- for instance, you have lo choose
what life-forms you want all your
crew to he.
The last of the trio. Empire,
needs no introduction. It has been
hailed as a true strategy classic by
almost every games magazine in
the world.
In the shops now at £9.99 each,
For the Amiga, fusion, Staifleet and Empire
make it on to the Software Classics label
gameplay by heart. Then be set
about satisfying the sometimes
opposing objectives of playability
and accuracy.
"Limited memory was the main
problem, there are five courses, 12
drivers and 27 circuits. Squeezing
that lot in meant something had to
go. Thai something was rotation,
because tilting the screen took
three times the number of sprites
and didn't have much effect on the
gameplay”.
There are a couple of touches
only the Amiga makes possible.
The score and extended time text
use hardware sprites, ZZKf's spe-
cial technique which uses sprites
instead of solids to emulate a 3D
vector world benefits from the
power in the Amiga Blitter.
The sky doesn't use the cop-
perlist because the arcade version
only has two sky colours. Driver
characteristics have been faithfully
replicated - the woman is the
fastest of the 12 drivers,
The result is exciting, driveable
and an accurate representation of
what happens in the arcade.
Practise with this at home and you
will be able to impress the girls at
the seafront
Over The Edge
IN last month's issue in the review
of The Edge’s new game Winter's
Tail some personal remarks were
made directed at Dr Tim Ungddl,
We accept that these remarks
were totally uncalled for and inso-
far as they might have been read to
be a slight on Dt Langdell's charac-
ter or on The Edge's reasons for
licensing the Garfield character, we
unreservedly apologise to Dr
Larigdel! and all at The Edge for
these remarks.
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STORMLORD
There's a killer on the road
S OMETHING terrible has hap- '
pened in Fairyland. I mean to
say. eviJ queens, incessant thunder'
storms and various species of itin-
erant thugs and no-goods is one
thing - a man can learn to live with
that - but locking up all the cute
nymph-like fairies in outsize bub-
bles is another bowl of washing up
completely
Your mission, and Mr Storm- ;
lord s, is to rescue said nymphettes I
and ultimately engage the wicked
queen in battle for the party leader-
ship.
You gel a seemingly generous
nine attempts at regeneration
should you fall foul of the local
flora and fauna, but you must also
take into account the fact that
Storm lord is a bit of a fairy himself
- he is easily driven down the
dusty way to death when con-
fronted by anything more danger-
ous than a blade of grass.
1 don't know, in the old days a
hero would be knee-deep in gore
wilh savage steel whipping the gul- |
let out of everything that drew !
breath, and here wo are with a j
bearded old pansy flicking little |
bits of pixie dust around the place. I
without much effect i might add.
Caution is definitely recom-
mended.
Rather than wail for a break in I
the weather you'd belter get going,
because you only have a day to
save the universe.
By way of public transport, the
fairy folk have enlisted a giant I
eagle which can be picked up at I
any convenient terminus, it may be E
a bit rough and ready, but it's a ! |
damn sight more reliable than BR.
! must say, Fairyland isn't
exactly what I expected. It seems to
be exclusively populated by irate f 1
dragons, poisonous caterpillars,
silly old men with wands, murder-
ous goblins, carnivorous plants and
some strange lifeform which baffles |
any effort at biological definition.
Sounds a bit Like Format's office. I
All of them are,, of course,
deadly and only some can. be dis-
patched wilh liberal sprinklings of
pixie power
Gameplay will test you to super-
human levels of cunningness and
dexterity as you balance on a daisy I
petal preparing to leap over a
sticky, tricky vfinus plant or run
the gauntlet of the dragon woods in
DAY C
T IMES change very quickly.
Less than a year ago, if we h d
seen a game with digitised graphics
and sound, we would have thought
it darn hip. Now it seems that a
game without digitised effects is
out of the ordinary
By this argument, Day of the
Pharaoh is pretty mundane.
Basically, all is not well in
Ancient Egypt, whose inhabitants
could never fathom how they'd
earned the "Ancient” title, The old
Pharaoh died many years ago, bul
all his heirs suddenly vanished, to
be replaced by real bad ‘uns faith-
ful to Seth, the god of the desert,
who, incidentally, is no relation to
Gateau, the god of the dessert.
You are bul a young fellah -
Egyptian for peasant, believe it or
not - who, unbeknown to every-
24 AMIGA COMPUTING December 1939
fcwig s Crass tub# station on ti quiet day.
Ever hod that feeling there's a blue wizard behind you?
the height of the egg-laying season,
There is an overwhelmingly
puzzley rather than gamesy fee] to
Slormlord - time limits are tight
and many routes lead to
inescapable and infuriating dead
ends - (hose pixel 'precision jump-
ing skills you have nurtured over
the years will Dome in very handy.
The most brain-pummelingly
amazing, brilliant and wonderful
thing about this game is the sound.
Nut only the terrific music, but also
the awesomely staggering sound
effects, which are so crisp and pre-
cise you'll believe someone has
sneaked a CD in the back of your
monitor All this is not at the
expense of the graphics, which
could also he described with a long
list of superlatives.
Good use of colour breathes life
into Fairyland, especially some of
the statues, which you may feel
compelled to go past a® often as
possible, nudge-nudge, wink- wink,
know what I mean,
Stunning background animation
combined with sound effects build
up a very palpable atmosphere
which is hard not to respond to,
Hewson and RaffeeUe Gecco are
once again showing the form that
won them the adoration of millions
on the Cfi4, Fairies really do give
you better value for money,
Mild Green
Slumlord
£19.99
Human
Sound
Graphics
Gameplay
Value
Overall - 94%
OF THE PHAROAH
Seems like a lifetime
one, including yourself, is actually
the son of the old king and rightful
heir to the throne.
Amon-Re, sun god and sworn
enemy of the evil Seth, grants you
a ship and a Fairly large sum of
money in order that you should
regain the throne that is rightfully
yours. You can only do this by
trading and general rat-racing. As
luck would have it, Egypt isn't a
particularly stable place - there's
nearly always good money for the
right goods in the right place.
Yup, it's like trading in Elite,
except more complex and not so
much fun, Also. Elite hasn’t got the
rather unconvincing digitised
graphics and really, really irksome
tunes (hat Pharaoh has. But there
you go.
As you navigate your way
around the waterways always look
the same. It's a case of Dodge the
I Rocks in the most mediocre fash-
ion. Sometimes, if you're really
lucky, your ship is'set upon by
I Phoenician pirates, which you
I must beat off with a paddle.
This hit is like some deranged
Game St Watch because there Is vir-
1 tually no animation and the digi-
tised E&ks! and Wahs! of the pirates
are hilarious.
Once in port you can gamble at
the camel races. Rather than being
a competition to see who can
; smoke an acrid ciggy the quickest,
this is a standard Daley Thompson
type effort. Its also deathly dull,
For a bit more excitement you
j can declare war on the peasants,
who are revolting in both senses.
For a little more rapid social
advancement you could always
take yourself a wife from the gen-
j try, hut don't expect the dowry to
be small. In this department your
otherwise shrewd and cripplingly
expensive business advisors aren't
• of any use,
i This is a complex game, one that
l will take a long time to get very far.
Unfortunately, (he initial stages are
so stunningly ennuie inducing that
! it would be a truly Herculean
I [sorry - don’t know any Egyptian
heroes) task, maybe even requiring
| the patience of job as well, to get
anywhere useful.
Even though there was a valiant
I struggle, this reviewer succumbed
to the background boredom. Mavbe
if you were a chronic insomniac,
I enjoyed a long term challenge,
1 didn't mind rather badly edited
Dtiv of thv Pharaoh
£ ‘
Rainbow Arts
digitised sound and graphics with
a dash of ropey translation to bool,
and who also had two drives to
make the gameplay less awful, you
might be able to put up with this
game.
But as I'm not, and I don't think
you are either, wild horses couldn't
I get m to recommend it to you, to
j end rather neatly on a badly mixed
| metaphor,
Stewart C, Russell
Lumber 19tM AMIGA COMPUTING 25
GAMES
A merican Football h low in
my list of favourite sports.
The sight of several hundred! men
dressed up in ridiculous costumes
has always, in my opinion, been a
good argument against colonial
independence.
The manual goes on at great
length about the various game
options, but never goes so far as to
actually explain the rules of the
game, Things seemed bleak, end
the prospect of watching Channel A
on Sundays seemed my only
means of finishing the review.
However, by a great stroke of luck
some friends popped in and
demanded to see a game. As Fate
would have it, Gridiron! happened
to be in the drive. Several hours
later I still couldn't separate them
tom the computer, as phrases such
as 'Turnaround on Downs" and
''First Down!" reverberated off the
walls,
Much to my horror i found
myself slowly being drawn into the
game. The rules started to make a
cragy kind of sense. I started saying
“Ghhhr and "Ahhh!" when things
became close,
Initial impressions were of total
disbelief. Was this really an Amiga
I was using? An Amiga with a cus-
tom co-processor and the best
graphics available this side of a
Rise chip? Yes it was, And what's
more, an Amiga running a sports
simulation from the people who
brought us the incredible Wayne
GRIDIRON!
It's the Orangeblobs v the Blackblobs
Slopped on (hit? Ifl yd hoe, l si Down and 1 0
Gretzky Hockey.
Rut forget blitters and sprites
this time, Gridiron! shows you just
what you need lo see - 22 blobs
masquerading as players moving
around a pilch kicking the living
daylights oul of one another.
Sound is another matter.
Throughout the game the digitised
roar of the crowd rises and falls as
the action hots up. When the
Touchdown picture appears and
your player bounces the hall off the
Kick L-l
Erase Coimands D
Pvi t Menu D
Making up your own plays - fie/iehe, this'll confuse them
turf, the spectators go totally wild.
The umpire's whistle signals any
interruption to play, and an
announcer gives the latest game
news over the PA system. Very
atmospheric.
For the benefit of those who,
like me, are new to the game, here's
a brief run-down of the rules 1 have
grasped so far:
1. A team consists of dozens of
players, up to 1 1 are on the pilch at
a time. Some of them have silly
names.
2. Each member of a team can
attack anv member of the other
team, with some minor exceptions,
even if the referee is looking,
3. Each team has four attempts
to gel the ball moved 10 yards up
the pitch towards the opposition's
goal line. If they don't manage this,
the ball is given to the other team,
who have a go instead .
4. Points are awarded if the ball
is successfully transported or
caught across the goal line,
5. There are four quarters, each
of 15 minutes. Thus a game can
last two hours.
And you thought the rules of
cricket were strange?
Grid Iron 1 can be played with a
friend or against the computer. The
two-player option is more fun, bul
really needs two mice to play prop-
erly, IF you only have one mouse
and a joystick, you will have to
keep swapping over with your
opponent. Very annoying. There is
an advertisement in the back of the
manual offering to sell you an extra
mouse. Very tacky.
Each of the computer players
plays the game independently,
with his own direction, speed and
momentum. You select from a pre-
defined series of team movements
at the start of a play, and each
player gets on with it. LaLcr you
can create and save your own
movement patterns.
If you are interested in
American Football, or oven if you
only enjoy simulations end sports
in general. Gridiron! demands a
look. You too could soon be shout-
ing "Hup! Hup!" and not know
why.
John Kennedy
(aid Iron!
£24-MI
Brihsuda JhofawAs
Overall - 78%
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S O I walked into the Blarney
and Shamrock pub and
ordered a drink. And as I was stood
there I noticed a pig in a very small
cage behind the bar, trying to get
out. So I says to the Irish barman,
"What's the pig for?' 1 And he says,
J, Ah, well, you see, the last cus-
turner complained we had no pork,
scratching^."
Who was I to argue?
Strangely enough, when I got
home I found they had sent me a
game with pigs in it to review. It’s a
small world, I thought as I started
downing the bottle of brandy
required for reviewing mindless
arcade con versions.
All, fm a duck, Quack quack, as
they say In dockland. And here are
my friends, Pin the duck and Lucy
- a piece of curvy fluff if ever there
was.
Oh no, here comes Achacha the
Great, who, besides sounding like a
Latin American dance, has
whisked fnot stirred] away Lucy to
do all sorts of horrible things. I
mushl wescue her. meflnks drunk-
en ly. so off I set.
There are six levels with two
bonus levels of Dynamite Dux, a
Sega coin-op converted by
Activision. This isn’t many when
you get credits to continue games
with, and even I in my uncoordi-
nated condition managed to stagger
through to level four on only the
third attempt.
It's a sideways scrolling saga,
right to left, though there are sec-
tions where it pays to go up and
down ramps, which introduces
diagonal scrolling. Very smooth it
is too. but unfortunately it s also
very slow. So slow it has a detri-
mental effect on the gamepiay,
Bin the duck, for that is thee,
sets forth on a very strange journey
through a rather hazard filled
town. Chomping mouths dance
along the pavement like Chinese
firecrackers, while Zehedee-like
creatures on springs hop around
like demented one-legged
grasshoppers,
A marker shows how far through
the level you’ve managed to get.
Expect something nasty at the half
way point as well as at the end.
Bin is armed initially with only
his fist, hut alas this is one boxer
who doesn’t dance like a butterfly
ftju better win this or the ref will make you finger Uckin ' good
Oh no, it's
moose's hwcf
and sting like a hee. He dances like
a bricklayer,
There are three types of punch -
regular puw, hold the fire button
down and twirl the arm for big boy
PQW, and hold that fuqe button
down until the sun goes supernova
for mega FOWWWWM3
As you stop moving when the
arm starts twilling, Bin has proba-
bly bin biffed by this time. Ho-
hum, search out the extra weapons.
The most crude extra weapon is
the armament of your average
rioter, a supply of rocks. For the
nasties further on you're more
likely to need the exploding bombs
with faces, which have a wonder-
ful explosion, the flamethrower or
the rocket launcher.
The homing missile rocket
launcher is almost as good as it
gets. The big problem is that every
time a sprite runs into you - which
is quite hard to judge as there is no
depth to any of them, yet there is
depth to the playing area - you
drop any weapon being carried,
If something like the snake hap-
pens to be treading all over your
feathers, as soon as you recover
you are hit again without any
chance to pick the weapon back up
again. It can be very irritating.
The animation and the graphics
of the characters, duck and the bad
guys are all very good, hut the
mediocre backgrounds detract
slightly. The music is very jolly
and arcadish. but can grate - at
least there are different tunes, My
favourite is the Bongo special on
the jungle level, which is pretty
good.
The problem with Dynamite
Dux, which scores well in the
graphics and sound department, is
that it can be irritating in some
places, and too slow in others, That
apart, it's a reasonably good con-
version.
Now, if you 'll excuse me I'm off
in search of those pork scratching®
to round off the brandy,
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Graphic
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Overall - 71%
DYNAMITE DUX
This could go eider way
■ GAMES
STRIDER
More of the same
W ITH a metallic chi tig and a
sampled yell of "PawE”, an
animated figure runs across a land-
scape, chopping in half anything
that gets in its way. Kill everything
that moves and don't worry why.
Controlling this figure is quite
exceptionally frustrating. She -
yes, it's a girlie - seems to have an
incredible urge to jump 20ft in the
air, doing so regularly if you don't
point your joystick in exactly the
right direction.
Making a game challenging to
prolong interest is all very well,
but if thing get impossible no one
will want to play it in the first
place. We all know that getting the
balance right is tricky, but Stride?
is close to the edge.
Technically, what wo have here
is a long way from being state-of-
the art. The playing area is a small
rectangle way up the screen; the
scrolling is almost awful.
Diagonal movement has been
achieved by first moving the screen
horizontally and then vertically in
quick succession, with the result
that the figure flashes between
these two positions as it runs - the
sign of a straight ST port caught
red-handed. Which is a pity
because the landscapes are all very
well drawn and change sufficiently
between levels to add that feeling
of exp loration.
After the initial frustration of
getting acquainted with the con-
trols, you can start to appreciate
the game.
Strider reminds me very much
of R-iype - you battle your way
through several groups of baddies,
picking up extra weapons until you
meet the bigger -than- average bad-
die who lives at the end of the
screen. In lime honoured tradition,
this btggeHhan-average baddie
needs more-t ban -usual hits to die.
Once vou have done this, unless
there is an even nastier bigger-
than-average baddie to dispatch,
you can move on to the next level.
Sometimes the baddie is just a
large sprite, sometimes it's a
bouncing laser beam. Always it
only needs a bit of dodging and
extra shooting. Not what you might
call intellectually stimulating, but
fun in a nihilistic kind of way.
In between each level you are
given words of encouragement
from your enemies, along the lines
of "This is it, you're going to die".
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These are accompanied by some
Polaroid Instamatic photographs
taken with a camera one of the pro-
grammers must have got for his
birthday.
A simple and annoying tune
bleeps its merry way throughout,
accompanied by the aforemen-
tioned metallic clang and guttural
cry as you wave your sward
around in a threatening manner
The speech at the start of the
game which says "You dare to fight
me?" soon has you shouting hack
some suitable responses. Come
hack the AY6910, all may be for-
given.
Enough. Strider has plenty of
puzzles to keep you playing, all of
which are of the H re member what
to do hare 1 ' variety. If it had some
decent programming, it would
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RED LIGHTNING
Apocalypse Now?
U NTHINKABLE though it way
seem, it has happened- What-
ever caused it, whether by mistake
or murderous intent, is now irrele-
vant as men and tanks line up
either side of the great divide, wait-
ing to pull the curtain on Armaged-
don, Whatever happened to the
postwar dream?
What happened to all the nukes?
Did the Green Parly finally get
their way and have them all
destroyed? Did we shell out all that
money to discover that Trident
didn't work after all? None of these
questions an? answered in Red
lightning.
As the commander of either the
Nato or Warsaw Pact forces it is
your job In respectively save the
world for democracy or save the
world from democracy, with the
help of your logistic talents, your
(running mind and, of course, a few
hundred thousand fool soldiers,
vehicles and planes, all armed to
the teeth with death-dealing
weaponrv. I know whose side I'm
on.
As the informed reader will
realise, it will all develop into a
battle of superior equipment versus
superior forces. For some reason
SSI assumes that the Sovs have ini-
tiated the aggression and that all
the nice Mato blokes were at home
with their wives and families when
it started, so all three scenarios
have Ihe Pact at full mobilisation
with the good old allies in various
stages of disorganisation.
Battle takes place on an impres-
sively large 54 x 54 hexagonal map
covering Western Europe from
Brussels to Gdansk and as far south
as Munich, although some of it is
sea, and naval battles aren't han-
dled in this simulation. The dis-
play is colourful easy to read and
quite pretty
Players lake it in turns to move
and assign orders in their units,
each turn lasting 12 hours of game
time. Nato forces always move last
because of their more effective
communication network, which
can give ihem a distinct advantage
as they can step out of trouble
when they see it coming.
Air combat is directed by one of
the menu options. Weather condi-
I tions are taken into consideration
A RGGH! What have we here?
A defection from the Code
Masters naming department? An
update of one of the oldest
scrollers of all time? A tutorial on
cooking eggs? A game about motor-
bike scrambling?
The latter is nearly correct.
Super Scramble Simulator is really
motorbike scrambling with one
player. As everyone knows - or at
least should know - that scram-
bling is a massed-start race, the
game would be better called Super
Trials Simulator.
Great attention to detail has
been applied to this game, so much
so that all of the actual game data
lives on the second disc, with all
the intros and tunes on disc one.
Instead of being purely two-
dimensional SSS dabbles with the
other in a split screen display. The
majority of the screen is the side on
display, where ihe actual tricky
bits are done, while a tiny strip
underneath shows the overhead
position.
This is only of use where narrow
obstacles do not take up 'the full
width of the course; unfortunately
that's the lime you need your eyes
glued to the mein display.
And as Gremlin has been incred-
ibly lazy, the screen is 22 per cent
smaller than it should be, so each
display is depress! ugly weeny.
The game is fairly standard stuff,
much the same as KikStart gave us
all those years ego on the CB4. As
in real trials, making mistakes
(falling off) costs time, and the time
limit is short enough as it is.
At least we're not left mystified
by why our homunculus has just
made like a projectile - 5SS dis-
penses with the animation and
prints up exactly why your time
limit has been shorn of seven sec-
nnds.
What really annoys is that the
SSS bike doesn't quite behave like
Up tw go... must he those soya beam l had for lunch
real life. You land on the back
wheel, time loss. Land on the front
wheel, no time loss. Back in the
real world you usually lose first
steering, then control, followed by
balance and several ounces of
flesh, by landing front first. Ouch,
The graphical detail almost mer-
its description in graphic detail.
The scoreboard has a collection of
bystanders who have a large reper-
toire of moves, each subtle and
easy to miss,
the background hoardings have
Ernie Hey. look at all those people down there - they look like flirts.
Eric: They are ants - sw Jiavsn 't taken o ff yet. fMotecambe and
Nothing in life is so exhileraUnp. as (a he shot of without resuit. (W. Churchill!
GAMES
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pa from
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of it is
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mre last
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toration
and the full range of modem com-
bat aircraft is supported,
Other special operation features
include deployment of parachute
regiments, special forces and tacti-
cal battlefield missiles. Concurrent
campaigns, which you do not con-
trol but can influence, run in Nor-
way, Iceland and the sea around
Europe.
The different levels and 'realism
toggles" 1 provide the scope for a
variety of game types from the
purely strategic to real in-depth
unit management, A wonderfully
concise and yet informative man-
ual tells you everything you could
ever want to know - except where
Mr Benn lived - and even supplies
some of the formulae the combat
algorithms am based on,
The whole war experience is
driven by mouse with the aid of
pull-down menus. Some annoying
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0 vent 11 - 92%
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features exist, like the inability to
change your mind about troop
movements, but I suppose if I com-
plain SSI will only say that it adds
to the realism of the simulation.
The computer is a worthy adver-
sary and doesn't rely on cheating to
bolster its overall strategy. It can
occasionally got a bit thrown if you
attempt something impossible or
unusual, like a massive airlift of
troops miles behind enemy lines to
cut off supply routes, but it recog-
nises and deals effectively with all
the big plays,
With such a range of skill levels
and great playability, Red Light-
ning is suitable fur both novices
and hardened warmongers. SSI has
set the standard for strategy games
on the Amiga.
Lucinda Orr
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose if. (G. Orwell}
tel Jiter-
a strong gfeen feel to them, which
tune - or at least a good 'un - and
. detail.
is strange for a sport where one
then a variable pilch rasp for the
Elion of
rider can cause more erosion that
engine note, SSS, tune-wise, is
s reper-
20 adrenalin- crazed mountain bik-
phenomenal, but rasp wise, tends
:le and
ers ever could.
towards vanilla.
it’s strange, but virtually every
Assuming for the moment that
have
racing game has a phenomenal
all the preceding criticism hadn't
Stiprr Snwnhlv SinmitUn
riiUin
Gnwliti
happened, there's still one serious
fault. It's infuriating. You think -that
you've got the hang, of a sequence
of moves, and you're really begin-
ning to have some industrial-grade
fun. when a liny slip of the stick
loses you time and confidence.
Overall - 63%
This we don’t need. We could
always weigh this against the intel-
ligent decision to read both discs
simultaneously with a two drive
systems. OK, so why do we have to
stare at a blank screen while the
data loads? Your guess is as good
as mine.
SSS impresses the senses -
there's no doubt about that. But it's
either too badly planned or is too
difficult to get into. The gameplay's
stiffer than an uprated monoshock,
which is a pity, because with a lit-
tle more freedom, S5S would have
been good,
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TIME TRAVELLER: FUTURE WARS
W HAT is the secret identity
of this superhero? [5 it Ed.
the high flying executive? No. Is it
Armilage, the brilliant washbasin?
No. Is it Joe, the mild mannered
window-cleaner? Could be.
Life as a window cleaner isn't
much fun. Tired of cleaning in the
sunshine or staying home to watch
the rain? So what are you going to
do about it? Well, for a start you
could do something about Ed, your
fascist boss on secondment from
the Wafften SS.
You jusi weren't cut out for fol-
lowing orders, Stand up to him -
or better still run away, get away,
far away. But where to?
Without giving too much away,
it is fairly obvious from the title
that there is going to be some sort
of time travel involved - plus some
trouble perhaps at a lesser known
publishing house - so mapping
may involve donning the pointy
ears and taking a correspond ance
course in noil-euclidian geometry,
Thus you embark on a journey
which will pit you against, aliens,
spear well ding guards, savage
chickens, mechanical monsters,
swamps and the inevitable mad
monks who will beat you to death
as soon as pray for you. Better
remember to take a packed lunch.
If you think a Wimp adenture is
one where you must find a cure for
your acne or rescue your pet ham-
ster from the top of the wardrobe,
then check this out.
All actions are performed with
the mouse. Position the pointer
anywhere in the play area, click
the button and your character will
move towards it, Not only that, but
It does it intelligently, avoiding
obstacles where it can.
The mouse can also select
op I ions from a set of text gadgets
for the manipulation of objects. For
example, if you choose Examine
you will get a roving crosshair
which will identify any objects it
passes over. Further information is
given by pressing the left button.
Be sure to examine everything very
thoroughly - some objects are
very small indeed.
In a similar way you can take,
use or operate any object on the
screen or any of the objects in your
inventory which pop up as text
gadgets whenever relevant.
Graphically the game is wonder-
ful, as you might expect from the
same French programming team
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Overall - 93%
He digs deepest who deepest digs
Looks like a photocopier, hut it's wally d time morhine
that brought you Bio Challenge.
The play area varies in size, adding
variety and creating some very nice
effects, especially the screens
which have been edged in with sil-
houettes in the foreground. All that
and animation too.
From a puzzle point of view,
Future Wars is lough, A few of the
objects are pixeUsized and
microdot precision is needed to
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To gel past the wolf you'll have to test its mettle
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face.
Speed is also a factor - one
problem requires you to plot out
your route well in advance if you
are to deliver the goods on time,
and even then you've only got
about a 5Q per cent chance.
if you have a death wish, you
have a choice of around a couple of
hundred ways to die, all of them
quick but not always painless,
[Well, some of them brought tears
to my eyes.) With about 100 loca-
tions, a quick sum will tell you that
you are in constant danger.
The abundance of routes to a
swift demise and the policy of
keeping the player in the dark not
only breeds paranoia but also helps
to keep the game alive as you
progress through it, striking the
happy balance between frustration
and boredom. You honestly don't
know what's going to happen next
Future Wars and the Cinema-
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such as the Sierra On-line series -
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the one, you 1 )! need to recruit other
characters, but unlike Dungeon
this isn't quite straightfor-
ward - people can be dumped from
your party arid others hired at any
stage.
Recruiting someone demon-
strates the communications side of
the game. Down the left side of the
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characters, are various menus.
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fancy take you,
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acting with other characters you
can ask their name, reveal yours,
and inquire about artifacts-, legends
and rumours. You’ll need to, so
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floundering eventually.
The last of the communications
options lets you praise and admon-
ish members of your own party and
shout to attract attention.
Operating a party in Bloodwych
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everyone is fairly autonomous. If
you praise a character of yours too
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and more independently.
This could mean that as you
approach a shopkeeper to buy
something, Butch the Barbarian
will suddenly leap forward and
chop him to bits. The counterpoint
to this is that if you hen peck them
too much they will never do any-
thing independently that is useful.
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and agility, and belongs to a char-
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adventurer - and a magic class,
which are based on suits of cards,
each representing a different aspect
of magic.
You get magic points according
to your character class which
increase on gaining a new level.
Learning spells from a different
branch is hardest for a warrior and
easiest for a mage.
The magic system is interesting,
and totally unlike Dungeon
Master's in that all the spells am
contained in a big spell book, the
pages of which flop over quite
nicely.
There’s room in each party
member's backpack Tor items such
as keys, gold, food and waterskins
because, just like in Dungeon
Master, you need to unlock doors,
eat and drink.
Unlike DM, the gold can be used
for buying weapons and informa-
tion at the various shops and for
the best fantasy games
have plots written by failed
novelists, Bloodwych is no excep-
tion. This is a story of the Lord of
Entropy, Zendick, and his quest to
make life miserable for everyone
except his friends,
It's sort of forerunner Ld the Tory
Party, with you playing the equiva-
lent of Neil K innock, the brave but
witless adventurer out to stop the
land from being subjugated for all
eternity, including the weekends.
The objective is to storm the
towers of Bloodwych and capture
crystals from four of them before
tracking on to the fifth for a final
encounter with Zendick. Easy
enough for experienced dungeon
masters because, let’s face it.
Bloodwych is heavily derivative of
the FTL game.
You start off by selecting one
character from a selection of
mugshots, if you go for the full
game. There is the option to start
off with four pre-selected heroes,
but you will probably want to pick
your own.
Supposing that you only have
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Overall - 81 %
bribing travellers you may meet in
the towers, This alt adds to the
enjoyment and makes up for the
small graphics.
Sound is pretty much a forgotten
quantity, giving an almost library
like feel to the game. I keep expect'
ing the monsters to sav Hush every
lime ] scream Banzai £i and attack
them,
Bloodwych is obviously
inspired by Dungeon Master, but it
fails to emulate the 3D interaction
and falls short of the standard of
graphics and sound expected on
the Amiga.
What really makes it is the two
player simultaneously option. This
lets you both have a party of four,
who can help or hinder each other.
You can actually watch another
party turn and advance down a
corridor.
Best of all you can trade items,
so il you both go off exploring in
different directions, you can ren-
dezvous later and swap goodies,
Duncan Evans
T HERE'S many a game that
relies too heavily on audio-
visual presentation and way too lit-
tle on actually being fun to play.
There's also many a game thal gets
stuffed to the back of the software
drawer quickly, Turbo's neither,
Many phrases describe the
game, most of them end with vio-
lent and begin with words such as
outrageously, senselessly and gra-
tuitously. How else couid you
describe a race game where the
major aim is la destroy anything
else that moves, using only
grenades* missiles and hub spikes?
Cute It ain't.
And when vou realise thal each
player gets less than half a 200-
line screen to themselves, certain
doubts arise about the quality of
the production.
The excuse lor a scenario is sot
in the uncomfortably near future.
Eor no adequately explained rea-
son, the populace have decided
that commuting is dull and every
other vehicle and pedestrian is fair
game. Some unknown character
has strewn the road with bolt-on
goodies, all designed to get your-
self noticed.
Missiles and grenades fire for-
wards, the only differences being
speed and range. Oil causes any-
thing behind you to lose control,
while hub spikes knock out the
competition at the sides.
Closet kamikazes are also
catered for with the turbo wheels,
which allow extreme speed at the
expense of any control whatsoever.
The police aren't happy about
all this unrest and will try to stop
you whenever they can. Certain
enterprising pedestrians lob
grenades, but with a shriek, a splat
and a splash of gore they are gone.
All the other vehicles are either
obstructive, offensive, or all three,
Like most of suburban America,
there's a level crossing every few
miles, Hitting trains hurts, but they
can be missiied.
Turbo is a traditional top- view
scroller, much in the spirit of Spy
Hunter. It can be played against the
clock* which is enormous but
short-duration fun. against another
player, which is enormously enor-
mous fun, or over a comma link,
which is critically unreliable
according to the publishers.
The graphics work, the sound is
TURBO
Kill for credit
suitably grotesque and the whole
thing is presented with Ihe
panache oF a dead stoat, But it's
such manic fun to play that that all
goes out the window.
If I had to describe Turbo as
glibly as possible, I'd go about il
thus: Audio- Visual ladedness is
the disease, Turbo's the cure.
Stewart C, Russell
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Nirttilthtsions
Overall - 73%
Pigi might fly. but thi$ one ' s on a hike
December im# AMIGA COMPUTING
Finding die correct riiyfiftm to hold a position is the secret to the rings
U S Gold's timing is immacu-
late - not merely is the sum-
mer well and truly over, but these
Games are set at the 1988 Seoul
Olympics. So we are doubly out of
date.
The delay can be almost wholly
attributed to US Gold not being
over keen the original Epyx PC ver-
sion, and commissioning The Code
Monkeys to do the Amiga and ST
versions. It was the right decision.
After a rather neat opening
sequence it's time to choose the
players and their countries. Each
country is denoted by its flag and a
short burst of national
anthem, which is, again, rather
nicely done.
There are eight events in total -
two more than the usual six - and
in competition any number of them
can he played in any order, There's
a good practice mode where any of
the sports can be played singly,
useful for learning up fin event to
thrash the competition next time
around.
First on the list is target archery,
and jolly playable it is too.
Separate scenes allow you to
choose the draw length and the
aim, which leads up to the release
of the arrow.
Six arrows have to be shot in 90
seconds, which is a hit of a rush.
Hit the target and you are rewarded
with a white rabbit running across
Wow, is
flow Z, setrl 1 5 here I come . . ,
the screen - miss high or low and,..
No, I won't spoil the surprise For
you.
Anyway, the whole thing is
completely unauthenlic because
they've got the draw length all
wrong. 1 know this because I'm a
target archer, albeit a mediocre one.
Next off is velodrome cycling.
This is done in a very swish filled-
polygon track- The event is the
exciting lOQQm Sprint, Only the
last 200 metres are timed, the rest
being an exercise in tactics.
The idea is to let your opponent
act as a windbreak until the last
moment, when you scoot out for
your final sprint,
The tactics are captured well,
but the actual riders are too small
to give any impression of the type
of real-life acceleration that is
needed - so explosive that bicycles
have snapped under the strain, It's
still my favourite event, though.
Springboard diving is good fam-
ily entertainment, but perhaps a lit-
tle too confusing to be anything
else. Even with the initial run-up
and jump timed correctly, a similar
sequence of joystick moves pro-
duced either 1 per cent or 90 per
cent of the top score, Your guess is
as good as mine as to how this
works out But it’s good for a laugh,
with animated crowd and judges,
plus something nasty that appears
if you take loo long,
Hammer throwing is straightfor-
ward. All this little beauty requires
is the correct swing and the correct
release timing, both of which are
easier said than done.
There are a few ways of getting
it wrong - release on the back-
swing for example, which makes a
hole in the fence, and release at the
side, which makes a hole in the
monitor. There are more. Actually
scoring points is far less interest-
ing.
The 4fl0m hurdles is run over
40 AM to A COMPUTING December 1980
GAMES
v, is that the time already?
another filled polygon track, solid
vector being officially old hat. The
actual race is another “Daley
Thomson'^ got shares in the joy-
stick. company so he doesn't mind
if you break it" type game.
What is really nice is the tune,
with a groovy james Taylor style
organ break - james Taylor as in
the eponymous Quartet, not as in
B0F, Although running is easiest
using the keys, a new keyboard for
the A 500 is a tad more expensive
than a new Konix, so I'm sticking
with the latter.
Most athletics games make the
Pole Vault the difficult bit. The
Games is an exception - it is very
difficult, maybe even extraordinar-
ily so. There are many variables to
get exactly right, but I guess that’s
the way it has to go until someone
thinks of a better way of presenting
it. The vault can be made, but it
takes a Long time trying. Again, as
in almost all the events, there are
some laughs to be had along the
way when things go wrong,
Making up the eight are the two
gymnasium events - the rings and
the asymmetric parallel bars.
The ringp need fast and accurate
movement between set positions,
and then a hold in each position
for two seconds. Like the diving,
until you've become very experi-
enced at the controls a random set
of joystick moves can give as good
results as following the script.
If you Fail in any way, the liule
man - whose animation, like most
of the competitors in most of the
events, amounts to hundreds of
frames - dismounts, and starts cry-
ing, Awwt
You then have the honour, or the
ignominy, of being photographed
for the back page of a digitally pla-
giarised tabloid.
The asymmetric parallel bars -
Epyx calls them Uneven, which is
shorter and easier to spoil - has
your female competitor doing a set
series of moves, egged on by her
companion on the sidelines.
Again, random moves can prove
fruitful, but then again they can
result in the Back Splat Fall, which
earns no points and is somewhat
painful looking. Again, the tabloids
are there to record your success or
failure.
After all is finished there is a
neat medal ceremony followed by a
small closing ceremony, complete
with flypast. And that's about it.
Polished, very well presented,
some good events, some bearable
ones, and plenty of scope for com-
petition.
Niggle the first: Although the
graphics are good, only the top ZOO
lines are used - three marks
deducted for that. I'm afraid.
Niggle the second: The game
loader spends at least half of its
time seemingly not doing anything,
with the drive motor off. It's almost
certainly de-compressing data, but
it does make you yawn now and
then.
Niggle the third: Even though
The Games comes on two discs, it
w r on't use the second drive. OK, so
the code fills a 512k machine com-
pletely meaning that a second
drive - which needs about 20 k -
can't be used, but why can't it
auto-deteet a disc change? We’re
talking 'Insert disk into A: and
press button" here. What a pain?
Niggle the last: The usual caveat
about additional hardware should
be heeded - The Gaines caused my
elderly modem to get confused and
hang the telephones for several
hours. Not funny,
Niggles notwithstanding, The
Code Monkeys have done a very
creditable job - you’d be very hard
pressed not to find something
you'd enjoy here. Out what a
shame we didn't have boxing.
Remember the Korean team?
Missed out on a serious piss-taking
opportunity there.
Stewart C. Russell
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Overall - S)2%
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December litm AMIGA COMPUTING 41
Bates? Steba? Beats?
The walfman nears the end of level arte
but the transformation sequences,
which were by far the best parts of
the original arcade version, are
sadly missing from this otherwise
fairly faithful conversion.
Also your bloke and hia fellow
G ARY Gygax adds a few moiJ
gold pieces to his secrsK
hoard by allowing the D&D naraJ
to be used on Hiiisfar, a new role**
playing game from SSI. To wbatl
extent this partnership goes ii|
uncertain, but seemingly only in
the level of having Advance!
Dungeons & Dragons scrawled all
over the place - on the box, on
the loading screen, on the hint
booklet.,. er, not that I needed to
read it of course,
Before you go anywhere in
Hiiisfar you must select a charac*
ter. This may be of the rall-yoiiF
own variety or from the obligator?
selection of ones-made-earlior.
If you bought Pool of Radiance
or Curse of the Azure Bonds, then
you can import your character from
there, tax free.
Loading in characters - hah! -
that's a different experience, [f
there is one thing more annoying:
then 17 levels of requesters asking
yon if yon are really absolutely
sure, certain and positive that yen
want to overwrite the character in
memory; then it is the total lack of
comes with the ability to hurl fife-
balls, whizz about at the speed of
the blitter and beat everybody up
fairly easily without even (lying.
Everybody, that is. except for
one. Some baldy old bloke with a
face only the front of a very large
truck could love will intervene,
trying to do bis dirtiest to stop you.
He seems to have some sort of
static electricity problem ‘cos large
sparks fly from his fingertips
whenever you get dose. Eventually
he will turn into a targe monster
which keeps throwing his bead at
you, ft's all right, he has a few to
spare, And that's only the first
level, I want d anger money,
Progress further into the pas-
sageways of the earth and meet
even more terrible monsters who
defy gradation on any meaningful
scab of horribleness. If I ever see
those eyes again...
Fear not, though, for later you
have the power to turn into a fear-
some dragon and some sort of blue
teddy bear with terribly bad breath
- well the beasties don't like it
anyw r av, and 1 can't blame them.
If there’s anything worse than a
hall of blue Ruff in your belly but-
ton it's a giant ball of blue fluff
breathing all over you.
Antient Greece is looking pretty
good. Live at Pompeii, the only
thing missing is the constant
swarm of insects. The animal ion at
the beginning and of the end -of*
level beasties is quite impressive.
Eye-eye'eye-eye-eye^ye like you vemy much
W HEW you are dead you
might think that at long last
you'll get some time to yourself.
Take in a few movies, hang about
with vour dead buddies, do a spot
of haunting perhaps, and get a
chance to find out what really
swell guys worms are after all. But
no. For these are the pinky blue
skies of ancient Greece and. here
old heroes never die, they just hang
around and wait to gel resurrected.
Sure enough, some old geezer
pops up eventually and asks you to
rescue his daughter. So it's time to
shuffle back on this mortal coil, but
probably not for too long,
Here ranged against you are
wolves, skeletons, large blue mon-
sters anti some more skeletons
which are even more upset than
the first bunch.
Oh, and 1 forgot the funny flying
gargoyle things that try to whip
your wig off. Why the wolves don ‘I
run off with all those bones beats
the hell out of me.
If you cripple enough white
wolves and collect the glowing
gl oh ey things, nothing much
changes - a hit like getting the
ECS I suppose. However, if you
collect three of them, then for some
jolly good reason you will trans-
form into a werewolf yourself.
This new hirsute physique
42 AMIGA COMPUTING December 1984
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£24,99
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HILLSFAR
The bitterest hill is hard to take
Green
Oh in?: 1 Me KYAG time again
combatants sometimes look a bit
murky - perhaps because of the
choice of colours. Their a ni mat ion
isn't up to quite the same standard,
either.
it's a good job Activision has
inducted those nice graphics for
the intermission because it seems
about a day's wail What can it be
doing alt that time? Playing a
sneaky game on its own? I thought
part of the idee of re-writing the
disc format was to make it a hit
faster.
To say the game play is agressive
would be to commit criminal
understatement. Al later levels you
will know what a small white plas-
tic sphere feels like at the
Olympics. If you don't get vour
enhancer potion quick, it's party
time for all the worms again. It is
easy to speculate that with such a
long period between the release of
the arcade machine and this Amiga
conversion that someone could
have done a better job of the graph'
ics. Nevertheless, it is sufficiently
playable and challenging to war-
rant investigation.
any sort of warning whatsoever.
Anyway, then you ride into the
much fabled metropolis of Hillsfar,
Well, maybe they didn’t have much
to fable about in those days.
Travelling the highway is itself
an adventure, Watch out for all the
obstructions in the road - trees,
puddles, bales of hay,.. Added !o
that, the occasional crazed lunatic
takes a pot shot at you from the
trees. Who said raving paranoia
was a disadvantage? If vou don't
believe in predestiny then you are
going to be very upset by (his
game.
There are four character classes
- fighter, thief, cleric and magic
user. Each has three quests avail-
able to him. always the same and
always in the same order. Of
course, what you do in your time
off is up to you.
You can become horrendously
wealthy by offering to clean out
various persons' chests while they
are not about. You can also become
horrendously dead J cos if they
catch you in the backstreets trying
to pick door Jocks they’re going to
send you home to mother in a card-
board box.
The city includes a cemetery, an
arena, a shooting range, various
pubs - you can't get a decent pint;
of Guinness in any of them - and
a fair sized sewer system. What
you do is totally up to you.
There are other locations outside
the city if you want to brave the
equestrian challenge again, but
they are only really worth visiting
if you have to go there as part of a
quest.
Otherwise you may as well have
robbed somewhere closer to home,
since once you break in, most
places are the same - a ma^e with
diesis of booty lying about,
Sounds are generally GK but can
be a bit si rained at times, so they fit
in excellently with the gameplay.
To be truthful, it is probably a very
accurate simulation of life in a
primitive environment, it certainly
captures the timeless tedium and
pointless ness of it all,
The modus openutdi of thievery
has just reverted From touch
screens and modems in high rise
city offices to the more noble Jock-
picks and large swords in dank
dungeons, but the quality of life is
fust the same,
Some of the little sequences you
stumble upon, like the arena for
example, are quite entertaining and
graphically effective, but there is
not too much to keep the interest
above critical boredom level
Lucinda Or
Hiilsfar
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Overall - 72 %
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Jeff Walker presents...
THE DISC
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C
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2.0
I KNOW what you're thinking -
you hate Andrew Lloyd
Webber. That's why this is a proper
chess game, You know, horsey to
king prawn... in fad, this is the
best PD chess program to date.
Those that know their Karpovs
from their carpets may also know
that the Prussians once used a vari-
ant of the game of chess to train
their commanders. They called it
BlEtzspiel and played it on two
boards. The opponents were in dif-
ferent rooms, each of them able to
see only his own pieces, A spotty
oik would run between them tak-
ing pieces off when necessary.
The idea behind Blitzspiei was
to teach military strategy. At this
point in the story I think it’s only
fair to point out that throughout
history the Prussian army got
whacked by almost everyone.
This game isn't quite so tough,
± rm
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Nodrs/fte i 4| Noitr Til
Hy mw is: Met
Try *UJ
Sigh. If oriyit wo$ PAL,.
but it still whipped me pretty good
with only a five second response
time. There are no skill levels but
play can be made harder by giving
the computer longer to think.
Everything about Chess 2,0 says
“Amiga” and ''friendly”, Nice
requesters, the ability to change
things, load and save positions, ask
for a hint... Lovely stuff. Even the
doc is a riveting read. And it's Ime
PD, Freeware, as (hey say.
Mr Kaufman, we salute you. It's
decent blokes like you that make
the Amiga world a nicer place to
muck about in.
CHESS 2.0 is freeware. It may be
distributed free of charge pro-
vided that no extra restrictions
are placed on it No payment is
required for using this program,
but you should feel yourself obli-
gated to send in bug reports.
If you enjoy the program drop
the author a line because he'd he
glad to hear your comments and
suggestions for future enhance-
ments: Alfred HM Kaufmann,
124 Silversprings Rise N.W. r
Calgary, Alberta , Canada T3B
3Z6.
S OME letters have come in
asking about the file viewer
I've been using on the cover disc. A
few of you noticed the change from
View to QView and wondered why
t don't use More from the
Workbench disc.
The reason is simple. I wanted
something smaller. For what it
does, More is extraordinarily large,
almost Ilk in fact, View is smaller
and it does the job, hut it has a
worrying 'feature” whereby the
Support you
IF you find QView useful, the
author will be your friend for life if
you send him $10 . Responding in
this positive fashion will ensure the
scroll arrows at top and bottom
right come out as random blobs
when a hard drive is plugged in.
Then I happened across release
vl.l of QView. It was no contest. In
3372 unpacked bytes, author
Lyman Epp has managed to shoe-
horn 18 keyboard control options
for moving around a document, a
hex display mode and an Ascii
search routine.
Check out QView.Doc for all the
details.
shareware
release of more quality programs
for your Amiga. Post your dollars
to: tyman R Epp, 10072 Wirt Plaza
15; Omaha , Nebraska 68134 , USA,
December 1989 AMIGA COMPLETING 49
Workbench
1.3.2
Y OUR Christmas present tom
ns and Commodore is some-
thing that money can't buy - the
official Workbench 1.3.2 upgrade.
Lots of those annoying little 4 fea-
tures' 1 in 1.3 have been fixed, and
lots nf those begged-for enhance-
ments have been made, resulting in
20 replacement files,
This is going to be your last
upgrade before 1.4 next century.
Did I say century? Sorry, I meant
year. It just seems like century.
Anyway, make the most of it, is the
point I'm trying to make.
Don't forget to have a gander at
the ReadBuforeUsing file. It's a very
serious licence agreement and you
should compose yourself before
reading it.
Banging your head against the
wall will probably put you in the
correct frame of mind.
I wouldn'l for a moment dream
□f taking the mickey out of such
legalise statements as “you may
not decompile, reverse engineer,
disassemble Dr otherwise reduce
the software to a human perceiv-
ahle form, 1 " No siree. You won’t
catch me pointing out that it would
he impossible to reduce it to a
human ;mpercdva5ie form because
if you did it wouldn't be any use
because wouldn’t be able to per-
ceive it.
Nor would 1 suggest that “The
licence is effective until termi-
nated'' is just another way of say-
ing “"Till death us do part”, so don't
read the thing aloud with a priest
in the room or you may end up
married to your monitor. [Go away.
Green, No I won't be your Best
Man.)
There's also a list of countries
that you are not allowed to send
the upgrade to. Poor old Hungary
and Poland - make themselves
democracies and they still can't
owm Amigas.
1! anyone ever translates that
document into English, be sure to
send me a copy. Iu the meantime,
eari drink, be merry and don’t
worry about it.
Utilities
CMi)’ Works with device
names that have odd number
of characters. Query /uncriorr *
added so works with printer
drivers /hat query the printer
ClDckPtr; Switched over to /he jj
European version with the 24
hour option.
Libs
version.library: Version num-
ber changed.
info. library: No longer improp-
i er/y combines too/ types -
Devs
t serial, device: JV □ longer
crushes on mismatched baud
rate, Refuses to open unavail-
able units. Lower overhead.
prinler.device; Support for
: multi-pass printers fixed
System
Formal, IVonks with large hard
drives (uses Bu/MemTypeJ, /uhihi/
§ logic fixed. Secondary results are
properly set. Better error messages.
I On/y opens icon .library if it needs
icon. library, JVoFFS keyword
removed (was not usejiiij.
NewLook
IF you're staring at the CDQD5
window knowing that something
looks different but can't quite
decide what, then take a look at
the gadgets.
The Close gadget has become a
circle, the front and back gadgets
have become arrows, the two
bold horizontal lines along the
drag bar have turned into a stip-
ple pattern, and the Size gadget
has changed into a diagonal dou-
blfrarrow.
This is the result of running
NewLook, a Workbench hack by
David Junod,
Things are going I o look differ-
enl again when Workbench 1,4
arrives, but until then you can
use NewLook and its sister,
NewArrows, to prepare you for
the shock.
Best thing to do with NewLook
is copy it into your C: directory
and run it from your Startup-
Sequence. NewArrows you'll
have to double click on.
A change is as good as a ml
they say. So why am 1 falling
asleep on the drive home?
□iskeopy: Uses fast mem oir in a
single drive copy if chip ram is
P SYGNOSIS' slogan is ' Games
People Play”. But you can't
play Shadow of the Beast because
it's too flippuT difficult. Which is
why 1 threw the thing at Max the
Hacks and demanded invulnerabil-
ity. Max passed it on to justin, who
took it to pieces, put it back
together again and came up with
the Beast Infinite Energy Hack,
It's almost perfect- Big JG was
hacking to a deadline and there
was one beaslie he couldn't neu-
tralise in time - the big grey one at
the end of the first stage. To get
past him you'll have to pick up a
weapon by punching the blue
dragon's ball, You'll find him way
to the left of the teleport, Don't bo
L
Pipe-Handler: Names are now
case indlfjferenf.
Speak-Handler: No longer
loses 10k when unknown
pocket received. OPTs are now
case indifferent.
FaslFileSystem: No longer fails
if /he boot block of a disc con-
tains a zero in the first long
word. Whenever a file not in
the root was altered, the dote
stamp of /he roof block would
be offered This has been fixed:
the last modified date is now
altered instead. Due to a calcu-
lation error when writing auf
/he hifmap the disc would
always validate on restart if it
was greater than 308 meg. This
has been fixed. New limit is
2.5 gigabytes. Tested to 600
megabytes.
Aux-Handler: Sefs /he flags to
0 on open of the serial.device.
«Tj
how
unavaf/ah/e. Singh? disk copy an a
I meg chip ram machine works.
Verify by default: noverify option
added. Only opens icon library if it
needs icon library. If Diskcopy fash
the failure cylinder is left showing
on the screen. Secondary results
are properly set. Better error mes*; Setl
sages. Afuhi keyword allows nwld sure
pie copies of single disk. bek
FaslMemFirst: Tes/s for chip mem-\ boa
NoF
cifk
pub
scared of him, the hack will prot&(
you horn his bad breath,
To use the hack, follow the oaj
screen instructions that appeal
when you double click on tfrs!
Beast i"con. After you insert thaj
Shadow of the Beast game disci
four error requesters will appear in]
this order: Disc is unreadable, Dis
structure corrupt, Not a DOS dis<
Not a DOS disc. Click Cancel ead
time and then Fire your joystick,
■ That's it. Go explorej
Necrophilia, Or was it Necropoli '
Something like that
El? DISC J COVER DISC J C
longer
known
ger fails
'iscco n-
"SJ long
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he d&fe
f would
'a fixed;
n now
a endu-
ing ouf
wo uld
Qrt if it
eg. This
ta is
to GOO
flags to
'evict.
r copy on a
ine works,
rify option
abmry if it
tfcopy fails
m results
error tnes-
Ws miffti-
chip mom-
Set Patch; Alert coda fixed to
work w if It J meg chip ram
machines . TrackDisk GetUnit
patch added. DOS Executed
patched that uses Run from the
resident list. UserState patch
forGSQiO.
Load WR: Now closes
icon. library.
Eval: (J added; aiso parses
strings in a more relaxed mam
rer.
DiskBodor: Incorrect error
message (out of memory)
changed. Uses 8ufMemT\ l pe so
works with large hard drives.
SelClock: Reset option /toiv
skips clock validity check.
Mount: Baud and Control
mountlist keywords added for
multi- serial use. Full option
added to startup to create han-
dler entries with full environ-
ment support.
ary properly. It worked fine before;
however, it was incorrect.
NoFastMerm C/longed to also spe-
cific divert calls on fast memory to
public memory.
SetMap: Kludge added to make
strre that, under Kickstart v34 and
fteiow, a keymap never spans a 64k
boundary.
SSP»
COPYING files from one disc to
another con be a real pain if you * re
new to the Amiga.. It can be espe-
cially difficult if you're new and
you've only got the one disc drive.
Like my next door neighbour,
Norman.
1 promised Norman Fd write a
script file which would automate
the process, And I did. And I
called it Gimme! 32. (Well we all
have to be called something.)
Doable click on its icon to start the
upgrade. Subtitles for the hard of
thinking follow:
1, Woke a backup copy of your
Workbench 1.3 boot disc - the one
yon normally use to start your
j4migrj vp.
2. Make a backup of this month's
cover disc , referred to from now on
as CDQ05.
3, Put your original CD005 and
Workbench 1,3 boot disc well oof
of harm's way so there is no
chance of you picking them up by
mistake, Another universe is a
good example of well out of harm's
way.
4. Remove all discs from all drives,
and snitch your Amiga off.
H^arl 30 seconds and snitch your
Amigo on,
& Write protect the backup copy of
CD005 and insert it into DFO:.
7, Click the left mouse button when
the Mini-Intro appears.
8. Men fire disc icon grinds on to
V
Double clicking on the Gimtnel32 icon will start the upgrade process rolling
the Workbench type EndCU into
the AmigaDOS window (important
for 512k machines l) and double
click on CD005.
9, Double click on the Workbench
i. 3.2 icon.
Iftp Laugh at the bug cartoon. (Go
on, it took me more than four
hours to do,)
11. Take a deep breath and double
click on the Gimme 132 icon.
12. The script file will open a big
window and say hello. Click the
left mouse buffon after you have
said hello back,
14, { Because Fm superstitious.)
The drive will whirr a lot. The
script file is now copying all the
relevant files into RAM: and
reporting its progress in orange let-
ters. This process will take a Me
white.
15. The letters will torn white and
you will be invited to swap discs.
Make sure you wait until the disc
access light is oat before removing
CDG05, and moke sure you wait
until the disc access light is out
before clicking to continue after
inserting the backup of your
Workbench 1.3 boot disc.
10. TAe drive will whirr a lot again.
Everything is being copied from
RAM: into the correct directories
on the 1.3 boot disc. This process
will take a little while.
U. A requester will appear inviting
you to replace CDG05 in DFO;, Da
so. (Erm, remove the 1.3 boot disc
first ,1
Ifl. All the files in RAM: w|R be
deleted, the big window will disap-
pear r and you VI ine bade where you
started.
19, Get a disc label, write
Workbench 1,3.2 on it and stick if
on the boot disc.
20, Double click on the ReadMe
icon.
21, Read,
vill protect
aw the on
it appear
ck on the
insert the
?me disc,
I appear in
table, Disc
D05 disCi
Intel each
jystick.
explore
etropotis?
nils guy can 7 hurt you now; but you 'll
still need □ ivpapon to get. past him
The Right
Button Demo
W IMBLEDON is best known
for its tennis. But for how
much longer? For if you wander
into the local Comet warehouse in
that part of South West Loudon
and look at the Amiga display,
you'll see the Amiga Computing
ZoweeJ Demo from the September
cover disc up and running.
"It’s so impressive", said the guy
who phoned from Comet, "we
think it's just perfect for showing
our customers what this machine is
capable of.
There's praise for you, Jolyou's
gone up a hat size.
This month's demo isn't the nor-
mal sort but an example Jolvon put
together of how to implement colli-
sion detection, the subject of his
latest machine code article. The
music is once again by Kevin
"Savage" Collier. It started out life
as the music for Australian Carnes,
but was turned down because "it
wasn’t Australian enough". \ guess
what it needed was a dijeridu.
Hook up the hifi and enjoy. HI
leaveyou to find out why it's
called The Right- Button Demo for
yourselves.
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IF you use this Shareware prod-
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tered VDO: owner, send 5 10 to:
ASDG Incorporated , 925 Stewart
Street, Madison, Wl53?13 t USA.
Being a registered owner
means you will feel better know-
WinSize
POSITIVE feedback has ted me to
think harder about the presenta-
tion of the cover disc. Many read-
ers have written to say wbat a
good idea it is to leave the CL!
window open and include a few
useful commands in the C direc-
tory,
With this in mind I dug out a
program I picked up years ago
which lets me resize and re-
in# that you helped defray the
recoverable ram disc's develop-
ment costs. ASDG will answer
technical questions from regis-
tered users only , and wr/f dis-
tribute' new product news to
same :
position the AmigaDos window
from the Startup- Sequence,
When you boot the cover disc,
it's WinSize that picks up the
window, makes it smaller and
moves it down to the bottom of
the screen. The line in the
Start up -Sequence which does
this is:
krinsiz^ninsize 0 ?10 4411 44
When you double click on CDOQ5
yuo’ll see the method behind my
madness. Like it? Lei me know.
K enneth thornton wrote
me a begging letter. Is it pos-
sible to offer your cover disc menu
display to your readership on a
future disc, he asked. No sooner
asked for than got, Ken.
Select (aka Dneishe Start) is
that program. And it isn’t ours, it's
- you guessed it -shareware,
The program has a couple of
idiosyncracies { Otherwise known
as bugs - Ed) which I'd better tell
you about.
Firstly, it won t work with the
1,3 release of Execute, which is
worrying. But it seems to run per-
fectly well with the Workbench
1.2 Execute command. You'll find
that on the cover disc in the C
directory.
The second problem is that you
can't use boot sequences with
spaces in their filenames. No, not
even with quotes around them. So:
select "This Baot“ “Tint Buot*
will not give the desired result.
What you’ll end up with is four
menu selections to choose from:
This and Boot and That and Boot,
You have to use hyphens or under-
scores if you want to separate
words. Like so:
select "THi-famt" "TlwtJBoof
It also refuses to load and run
some commands correctly. It's trial
and error time. I’m afraid. The
only one I’ve found is EndCLl. I
don’t use that in my cover disc
boot sequences any more, so l
don't care. You may have to find a
work-around.
December AMIGA COMPLYING 53
U ISKDGCTOR doesn’t work
miracles, even though it
claims to, It is such a cack-handed
pregram to use that I was deter-
mined to put Dave Haynie’s vastly
superior DiskSalv on to the first
cover disc.
From the letters and phone calls
I've had, it seems DiskSalv's only
slightly less confusing than
DiskDoctor to those of you who are
new to the CLI.
So here's a Workbench alterna-
tive. FixDisk by Werner Gunther,
Jeffs three golden rules apply here:
1] Read the documentation thor-
oughly
2} Only work on a back-up of your
corrupted disc, and
3) Don't rush, take it one step at a
lima.
Don't come crying to me if
FixDisk makes an even worse mess
of your only - albeit corrupted -
VDO:
I RECKON I'm asking for trouble
putting this on the cover disc.
The author, Perry Kivolowitz of
ASDG Incorporated, isn't over the
moon about the idea either. We
share the same concern. Phone
calls. And letters.
You see, VDO: does something
very clever. It gives you a recover-
able ram disc, like RAD:, only this
baby is dynamic like RAM:, which
means it only takes up as much
memory as it needs.
If you copy lots of files to VDO;
it'll reserve however much memory
it needs to store that total amount
of data, If you then delete some
files, VDO: will free the memory
those files was stored in.
Wonderful stuff. Totally trans-
parent to the user. But there's a
mag. And it’s a biggie.
Perry doesn't guarantee that
VDO: will work in memory mapped
in at SclOOO. All 512k ram expan-
sions map themselves in at that
address, What this means in end-
user terms is that VDO: won't work
with a 1 meg Amiga - that is. one
with only a 512k ram pack
installed. It'll work on a vanilla
512k machine, and it'll work if
you’ve expanded to 1.5 meg or
more.
So now you know. But the bloke
you gave a copy of the cover disc to
doesn't. So phone him up and tell
him before he reaches for his
FixDisk
This of one hell
of a powerful
program. Bead
the doefile
thoroughly
before you start
playing with it
Dneishe
Start
copy of whatever. You should fol-
low rule number two even if you
Hard drive owners will be disap-
pointed to leum that FixDisk won't
work with the FastFileSystem
(FF5), It will, however, work on
SFS partitions up to 4063 blocks -
that's just under 2 meg. But, let's
face it, using disc repair programs
on hard drives is a desperate mea-
sure. I strongly advise caution. As
the doefile says right at the top:
Use this program at your own risk.
COVER DISC V COVER Dl
COVER DISC J COVER DISC
Reader contributions
FIREWORKS
by Fuzzz & Euphmo
WHEN the programmers at
Argonaut Software were develop-
ing their new assembler, ArgAsm,
they needed a program lo lest il on.
Fireworks was that program, It's a
bit late for November the fifth, but
it's small and it's cute and the com-
mented. totally OS -legal source
code is there for you to see how the
professionals do it.
See if you can spot the three
kinds of fireworks - rockets, roman
candles and red green -blue traffic
lights {which doesn't make sense
F unt of Argonaut; "Mecmwi
lo the fcoiKsf Never?*
when you first read it, hut will if
you think about it].
Not a lot more to be said. Double
click on its icon to start, click the
left mouse button to finish.
by Mark Everingham
M1M-INTRO I
by Marcus Lynn
WHEN Marcus Lynn first came to
the Amiga from the ST he spenl a
lot of money on books so he could
learn how to write good demos
and all sorts of mega things, But
now he Finds that half the books
he bought have never been used,
M I could have saved a lot of
time, money and sheer hell", he
says,, "if 1 could have had access
to some source to see how more
experienced programmers pro-
Now that 19 -year-old Marcus
has become more experienced he
wants to share his knowledge
with beginners and try to help
them break through some of the
early barriers. And who am I to
slop him?
Mini-Intro is the program that
auto-runs when you boot this
month's cover disc, If you want ta
see it again later, you can double
click on its icon.
The source code is well com-
mented and simple to follow as
long as you know the basics of
08000 machine code. One of the
easiest things to do is change the
scrolling message, which begins
on line 351 and starts with the
word Welcome,
Insert as many more DC.B state-
ments between TXT: and CCHAR:
as you like, making sure your text
is enclosed by single quotes.
Marcus uses Devpac 2 to assemble
bis code, hut it should be fairly
compatible with most Amiga
assemblers.
And before I get a letter from
the Formal reader asking' if it will
assemble with the limited version
of Devpac he got free, l don't
know, Suck it and see,
SLIDING puzzles have been a
favourite of mine ever since I got
my first one out of a jamboree
Bag. Remember them? Neither do
I - 1 {ahem] pinched it off my big
brother who said he was “keeping
it for posterity". Well, the Flying
Saucer was soft, but the Love
Heart [Touch Me) went down a
treat.
Anyway, back to the little plas-
tic sliding puzzle, which was,
according to bruv, the next best
thing lo a green dinosaur. And it
was a real devil to play because
the first puzzle you had to work
out was how to make the tiles
slide. Stiff, or what!
So you can imagine my plea-
sure when 16-year-old Mark
Everi ogham from Bristol sent in
his Amiga Workbench version.
Compiled with Aztec C (v3.6a) -
and the source code is (here for
you to study - Puzzle is Mark's
interpretation of the classic
Macintosh desktop toy. It’s only
the third program he has ever
written an the Amiga. Cheques in
the post.
ft ’s not really as complicated as this,
hut wouldn't ilbefun if it nw*
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THE GAME OF I, IFF
by Philip Gibbs
WHAT is Life? Who am I? Who
are you? Where are you? Where
am I? What does the J stand for
in the Perrier advert? Who writes
this rubbish?
A cellular automata is what
Life is, a model which imitates
the performance of cells. At any
given time, a cell is either alive
or dead. At each time-step a cell
may die, be r^-bom or stay as it
is, according to the number of
living cells surrounding it,
more or less and it will die. A
dead cell will be re-born only if
il is surrounded by exactly three
living cells.
John Conway is the guy lo
Ufe. don't talk lo me!- abotrl life .
AS i
pul
my
inti
hot
HANDS up everyone who cad
resist Workbench toys. You knoi
those small programs you play wil l
while you're waiting for AmigaDc col
to format a disc. Come on , own up, on
One, two, throe, four. Five, six .
thirty-seven thousand, six-hundra
and fifty -eight, thirty-seven then
sand, six-hundred and... Phei
that's enough of that.
Well this program will give yo
a quick game of Noughts an
Crosses. It doesn't know any strati
gies, it doesn't learn from it
mistakes, but it's got cule X and (
graphics and il knows the rules (
the game - it's amazing how tm
times it can catch you out. Doesn
calch me out, of course.
Programmer Richard Wildnuu
who is 17. is at college il
Nottingham studying a two yea
0 >
gre
Nil
of
tta
be
to
lo
If two or three of the eight I
cells surrounding a living cell are [
alive, it will continue to live, any I
54 AMIGA COMPUTING December 1980
i who can't
. You know.
Ju play with
if AmigaDos
m,own up.,*
five, six ...
six-hundred
seven thou-
nd... Phew.
rill give you
■lights and
v m slrate-
■n from its
ate X and 0
the rules of
l how many
out. Doesn't
A Wild man,
college in
a iwo year
computer course. “This was my
first attempt to use the Amiga's
graphics library functions”, he
bravely admits, adding, “Those ref-
erence manuals are not too easy to
get through!”
When Richard isn't using the
college's computers he is at home
on his expanded, double-drive
A5QG. Tva been interested in com'
paters", he says, “since a teacher at
my junior school brought a ZX81
into class to show us. Wow! I was
hooked,"
You may not get hooked on
0X0, but it beats counting the
grease stains on the wallpaper.
Nice one. Rich - keep L em coming.
1 tet it ivm, hones! I did
LIFE
$
n 3? Who
a? Where
stand for
ilro writes
a is what
i Imitates
Is. At any
ther alive
step a cell
stay as it
iUmber of
jit.
the eight
eg ceil are
o live, any
ill die. A
o only if
idly three
re guy to
blame for all this. It was his inveri-
ticn, Long time ago now. He’s a
mathematician. At least he was.
Probably still is, Philip Gibbs is a
software engineer. He wrote Ibis
Amiga version of Life. You may
remember him as the author of the
Workbench Mandelbrot program
on the October cover disc.
A discussion of the ins and outs
of The Game of Life b way beyond
this piece.. People write whole
hooks on the subject. My advice is
lo trot down your local library and
look up Comvay, John and
Not knowing what the hell is
going on doesn't stop yon playing
with it though. My favourite game
is to choose Clear and Fast from
(he Screen menu followed by Soup
from the Border menu. Than 1 sit
hack and watch what develops.
Fascinating stuff. If it all gets a bit
stagnant, I press the left mouse but-
ton and plant a random colony.
Great stuff!
WE are always looking for original con-
tributions for the Amiga Computing
cover disc. If you think something you
have written or drawn is good enough
to share with everybody else who reads
the magazine, send it along and w T e will
have a look.
If we like what we see, it could earn
you up to £1 ,000,
Please let us know which files, if any,
your submission needs from the
Workbench disc. If it is clickable, feel
free to design an original icon. But don't
make it too big. And please use the
standard Workbench colours.
Bear in mind that a program which
does not run on a 512k machine would
have to be exceptionally good to make it
on to the disc.
Remember that Amigo Computing
will only buy your work on an all rights
basis. We are not prepared to buy the
rights to programs which are already in
the public domain or have been spread
by any other means.
Please enclose this coupon, or a pho-
tocopy of it, with your submission.
Include a File on the disc with full doc-
umentation „ your name, address, phone
number and a few details about you and
your kit, A mugshot would be nice, but
isn't essential.
Don't forget to duplicate on the disc
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NOTE: Wc will accept submissions up to 500k in total length, including
documentation. But the shorter your submission, the better chance it
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include all the source code, but do not count this in the size of the submis-
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Write a brief description of your submission below. If it consists more than
one file, describe what each file is for. Attach an extra sheet of paper to
this form if necessary:
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Timed to hit the start of the peak pre-
Christmas buying season, it is the result of a
I brave but well researched decision by organis-
ers Database Exhibitions and is sponsored by
Computer Shopper magazine.
Computer Shopper Show incorporates and
replaces three established Database events,
the Atari Christmas Show* the Electron &
BBC Micro User Show and the Amstrad
Christmas Show. It will retain all the
machine-specific attractions of these popular
and successful exhibitions, add more besides
and serve up the resulting feast as one huge
festive offering.
Something for everyone is the aim ot the
show which will open on November 24 and
run until November 26. With over 200 stands,
it has been supported by exhibitors from all
[ major sectors of the popular market and is
expected to attract more than 30,000 visitors.
"We knew the concept of an all-format event
in the run up to Christmas was what people
had been waiting for but even we have been
surprised at just how great the actual demand
I has been”, said head of Database Exhibitions,
Michael Meakin. "The response from
exhibitors and potential visitors has been far
greater than we expected ",
“For those three days in November the
Computer Shopper Show will transform
Alexandra Palace into the number one
Christmas computer gift hypermarket this
country has ever seen”.
The importance of timing for the Computer
Shopper Show was underlined by sales direc-
tor for Database Exhibitions Mike Malone.
'Positioned right at the start of the peak
buying period, timing of this show has been a
key factor”, he said. ”tt has appealed to both
exhibitors and visitors alike. As our promo-
tional campaign has got underway, space at
the show has become hot property with the
computer trade realising it is a must for thefr
Christmas marketing plans.
“Similarly, the small business community
and the computer buying public has realised
that this will be ultimate venue for buying
computer products. We are convinced that we
have achieved what we set out to do - to turn
the Computer Shopper Show into the world's
largest pre-Christmas computer shopping
opportunity".
When visitors enter the Great Halt they will
bo treated to a vast selection of goods from
excellent hardware through the whole range of
add-ons and peripherals to cut price games.
Bargains galore will make it a must for the
Christmas buyer and the sheer volume of
stands will give visitors a unique opportunity
to compare the prices and merits of exhibitors
from throughout the UK * an impossible exer-
cise in normal circumstances.
Not only will Computer Shopper be the ulti-
mate marketplace, it is also designed to be fun
- a real festive start to the Christmas run-up.
Typifying this concept, a circus theme will
run throughout the three days and has been
the basis of the high-profile promotional cam-
paign, A robotic Father Christmas, wire walk-
ers, stilt walkers, a strong man, clowns and
even a baby elephant will be there to add to
the atmosphere and help make Computer
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ing. It s a dieam that many may have
had but for eleven lucky people it
will become a reality at the Computer
Shopper Show,
They will be winners of the various
trolley competitions which have been
running throughout the computer
press and their reward will be that
star in the competition prize firma-
ment - the chance to complete a trol-
ley dash,
Outside show hours the 11 lucky
winners will be given a trolley, a time
limit and some restrictions on what
they can take then set loose in the
Great Hall at Alexandra Palace.
Before them will be the largest single
collection of computer goodies to be
seen in the run up to Christmas and
free aisles to get round as many
stands as possible.
A large percentage of exhibitors
have agreed to take part in the com-
petition and’ allow their stands to be
visited, giving winners a chance to
fill their Christmas stockings.
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MANY new product launches combined with
firm favourites and a wide range of bargains
will greet Amiga owners who visit Computer
Shopper Show.
Choosing the show to launch a number of
new packages is Digita International (stand
Bla)> Top of its Amiga list is System 3 an easy
to use integrated suite of programs developed
as the Hrst step towards computerisation for
the small business. System 3 includes cash-
flow controller, invoicings statements and
stock control for £49.95.
Also for the Amiga is Digital Cashbook
Controller. Billed as the complete accounting
solution For the small business, it costs £49.95.
Stage 1 is a suite of business programs costing
£49.94.
For release at the show will be Multigen, a
new genlock for the Amiga which comes com-
plete with its own processor, memory and
power supply for approximately £250, And
also on sale will be Home Accounts, designed
as a complete home accounting package for a
price of £29,95.
A range of games for the Amiga will be on
offer from A & 5 Distribution (stand K1B).
"We'll be taking everything but the kitchen
sink", said Alf Payne, who will also be offer-
ing joysticks on his stand,
Among the general supplies on offer from
Al Computer Supplies [stands E2, L2 and L4)
will bo a wide range of computer furniture ,
mice, software and discs,
Admincure (stand A10J will be offering a
range of computers, printers and accessories.
Among its stock of shareware discs and public
domain software, Advantage (stand El 2) will
be hoping to feature Amiga games, education
and business software programs. It will round
off its stock with a selection of books and lan-
guages.
One of the top names in the Amiga world,
Amor (stands D3 and D5] will be using
Computer Shopper Show to demonstrate its
new database, ProData, Features include mul-
tiple indexes for accessing data, multiple seg-
ment indexes, a powerful filtering feature,
comprehensive printing options, easy to use
layout design and password protection for a
price of £80, The Protext range of software
will also be on sale.
Star’s range of printers will figure strongly
on the Athene Computers stands (C3 and C5)
where Amiga hardware will be on sale along
with over SOD discs df public domain soft-
ware.
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in price from £30 to £GDU and will includ
A.M. A S., its stereo sampler with built-in mid
interface for the Amiga.
B Bytes Computer Systems [stand M14] has
several new launches planned for the shoi
including its Amiga card index file Supercan
at £24.95.
Claiming to have produced a new conceji
in disc labelling, BlackStuff will be lettin
show visitors into its secret on stand F3. It
Polly Erasable Label kits are totally wip
clean.
As files are deleted and overwritten, tin
Polly label can be updated accordingly making
scribbles and illegibile alterations a thing o
the past.
For £13,74 the kits are packed in a desktop
canister which contains 50 everlasing labels,
the solvent and erasure pen. Fast drying fim
line marker pen, cotton wipes and circutai
colour-coding labels to help disc classifies
tion.
AmLen (stand C8) will be selling hard disa
for the Amiga together with various upgrades
and a selection of second hand hardware cov-
ering all formats.
Bath Computer Shack (stands C2 and C4J
will he featuring its cordless mouse for the
Amiga plus a selection of other peripheral
and hardware and Bowthorp EMP (stand J6]
will be offering Us comprehensive range oi
sui^ge protection devices.
Calisto [stands MB and M10) will have a
range of Amiga software on sale at discounl!
prices and a selection of printers will b«
offered by Ca spell Computer Services [standi
A3) along with its Ribbon Refresh package
which allows up to 30 printer ribbons to be re-
sprayed.
Club 6000 (stand Lie] is a mail order house;
specialising in discounted software for the
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Hardware Services [stand J7].
A wide range of good games for the Amiga
a! attractive prices will bo on offer by
Computer Communications [stand L6] and
Computer Express [stand Al) will bo soiling a
range of 16 bit computers together with soft-
ware and peripherals.
A number of now titles will be on sale by
Computer Manuals (stands Sll and M2]
which will also be offering damaged books at
knockdown prices. Computer Store (stand
LI3) will be catering for Amiga users with a
range of blank discs, disc boxes, joysticks and
disc drives.
Discount prices will be offered by Conceita
Micro Systems (stand Jll) which will feature a
range of Desk jet printers and well known
discs. From Dabs Press (stand K12) there will
be a selection of new books in the Dabhand
Guide series..
Diamond Computers (stand S25) will have a
full range of hardware, software and peripher-
als for the Amiga, The keen competition for
business which is one of the watchwords of
Computer Shopper Show was underlined by
Mike Brown from Diamond who would offer
nn further information for fear of letting the
opposition know what he will be selling,
A selection of discs, disc storage boxes and
Panasonic printers will feature on the
Mediaware stand (S5)* Dowling Computers
(stand S17] will be offering Amigas,
peripherals and a range of games and business
software.
Star and Panasonic printers, discs, disc
boxes and Amigas will be sold by Ealing
Computers (stand Bib),
Equinox Business Systems [stand K3) will
bo offering its recently -launched small busi-
ness accounts package SBA Plus, Written and
developed by Equinox, the SBA Plus package
is the next up-grade from SBA Xtra aimed at
the maturing small business.
It features flexible invoicing with a product
table or free format mode, an invoicing link
with sales ledger and stock control, integrated
puchasing links with bought ledger and stock
control, complete sales ledger, multi-period
VAT, library charts and accounts and the abili-
ty to act for more than one company. SBA Plus
costs £199.95.
A new range of discs which feature software
protection built into the shell will feature
strongly on the stand of Escroe (A8). Escroe
specialists in volume sales of discs ranging
from 2.8in to 8in.
Evesham Micros (H16,17 and 18) will be
concentrating mainly on hardware Including
external disc drives for the Amiga. In addition
to stocking Amiga machines, it will also be
selling memory and internal disc drive
upgrades.
A wide range of discs will be the speciality
of First Stop Computer Supplies (stand F7),
Launched earlier this year, the European
version of the SupraModem 2400zi internal
Amiga 20 00 modem will be featured by
Frontier Software on stand H10, The oasy-to-
install half card supports asynchronous opera-
tion at 2400, 1200 and 300 baud and is 100 per
cent Hayes compatible retailing at £169.95
"The 24()()zi is unique in the Amiga market
and has sold exceptionally well in the USA.
We believe at our price, it is unbeatable for a
modem of its specification ', said Frontier's
marketing manager Martin Walsh.
On the First Media stand (L18) visitors will
he treated to what is billed as the largest col-
lection of storage boxes in the country. Stands,
copy holders and replacement mice for a wide
range of computers will also be on sale at very
competitive prices, said FM boss john Taylor.
HSV Computer Services (stand S9) will be
offering a range of discs, ribbons and acces-
sories and Hewson Consultants (stands M7
and M9) will he displaying its wide range of
games software.
A selection of software including many top
games will be on offer from In Store Marketing
(stand MIS) and Kador [stand M4) will have
its range of seaFn’type protective keyboard
covers, together with the Keytops series of
stick-on labels for converting keyboards to
other languages. The company will also be
giving details of its courses on re-charging
laser cartridges.
Kempston Data (stands H2 and H3] will
offer the Kempston mouse at a price of £49,95
and the Kempston disc drive for the Amiga
costing £89.95.
From Kuma Computers (stand M6] will
come K-Comm 2, the Amiga to Psion link. It
combines flexible bulletin board requirements,
simple terminal emulation and viewdata fea-
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Computer Shopper Show.
Fifty feet long, it will be suspended in the
Palm Court at Alexandra Palace to be filled by
teams of children collecting cash around the
show.
Recipient of the proceeds, expected to be in
excess of £20,000, will be Childline, the
helpline for children in need. It is hoped that
leading light of Childline Esther Rantzen will
appear at the show and the stocking is being
put forward for a mention in the Guinness
Book of Records.
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A special section for businessmen
A SPECIALIST feature of the
Computer Shopper Show has been
designed to attract a minimum of
5.0QQ buyers from small businesses,
many of them looking to purchase
micros for the first time.
The Small Business Advisory
Centre is a new concept developed
jointly by Database Exhibitions and
Computer Shopper magazine.
It will be supported by Apricot
Computers which has agreed to link
up with leading UK business software
houses to present a non-stop display
of the benefits of networking to small
companies.
The Department of Trade and
Industry will send along experts from
its enterprise initiative scheme to
offer advice and a leading firm of
accountants will be there to give
financial pointers.
“We are going to offer the small
businessman the most comprehen-
sive source of information ever pro-
vided at a computing event", said
sales director of Database
Exhibitions Mike Malone. “We are
firmly convinced that no previous
computer show has ever adequately
addressed this area of advice for
small businesses. Computer Shopper
will fill that gap".
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Kuma is also extending its Better English at
a Better Price promotion on K-Roget until
December 31. K-Roget is a computerised ver-
sion of Longmans Pocket Roget's Thesaurus
and allows users to select the most appropri-
ate word from a database of over 150,000
words and phrases. The special offer reduces
its price from £49.95 to £29*95.
Thingi Computer Supplies (stands Mil and
Ml 3) will debut Thingi, Thingi 2 at the
Computer Shopper Show. The new document
holder is a much enhanced version of Thingi
2, injection moulded with a special gravity
clip allowing documents to be positioned, li
costs £8,01 .
On the Llama soft stand (M17), the compa-
ny’s best-selling ST package TripaTron will
make its debut for the Amiga. Incorporating
stunning graphics which, respond in lime to
music, it costs £34.95
A range of software, peripherals, disc boxes
and joysticks tn cover all formats will be avail-
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by MD Office Supplies (stands A2 and S15]
Main Media (stand B2) will be selling discs
disc boxes and accessories.
Database Publications (stands B6, B8 am
BlO) will have current editions of its five cons
puter titles on sale, including Ami#
Computing, plus back copies for readers to fi!
in their collectons with issues they may have
missed.
Mandarin Software {stand )18) will he usi
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Amos, its games creation package for tht
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scheduled for release in January.
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environment offering great flexibility andjatfe#
making best use of the Amiga’s unique set oM^terj
hardware chips, it will cost £49,95,
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and uninterruplable power supply systems!
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sories from Manor Court Supplies (stand GlBi
and Megaland [stand S7) will be doing good:
deals on Commodore computers.
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a range of expansion boards for the Amiga an
stands B7 and B9 and another offer of bargain 1
prices will coma from Micro Supplies with its I
wide range of both software and hardware I
products on stands A5 and A7
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ety of peripherals and software will be ther
attraction from Micro Anvika (stand Si]
On offer from Modem Marketing (stand AU)|
will be its new EC24t)0 modem which was)
launched earlier this year. The package covers
all four speeds currently used worldwide!
including V22bis, and is fully Hayes compati|
ble at a price of £279.
Discs for all machines will be among tlief
GMD products on stand Ml 8; a selection oil
discs, storage boxes and mouse mats will bn
available from Quantum Computers (stand Ld!
and Reflex Magnetics will he selling a wide"
range of discs on stand M5.
VI Dl, the Video Image Digital Interface whtchl
allows pictures to he grabbed from video, willl
be on sale for the Amiga from Rombo|
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What is the truth behind software theft? Peter Bivetts investigates
7V AMIGA COMPUTING December 1989
R IGHT now, this minute, there is
someone dropping a disc in the
post, or transferring a file by modem.
Commonplace events among common-
place people. But these people are
different. The disc contains illegally
copied programs being sent to someone
who has not paid for them. The files
they are transferring are not theirs to
upload.
They are the crackers.
Is their existence detrimental (o (he
computer industry? Liston carefully as
massed ranks of programmers leap as
one to their feet and shout “Yes". They
can sit down now. They have a vested
interest. Listen again, and hear the
crackers and the recipients of their
copied software say "No". They too
have an interest in this.
Let's step back and look at the issues.
First, the two forms of piracy. Two
forms you say? Yes. counterfeit and
cracking. Counterfeit is rife in many
industries, duplicating anything from
perfume to plastic pearls. Ripping off
packaging and designer labels to pass it
off as the real thing. No one can
condone this. It hurts everyone.
You buy Zappow2000, the fantastic
new game, When you get home its
packaging is not as good as it should be,
but you play the game anyway. Your
money has gone into the pockets of a
criminal who made that fake. If you buy
a word processing program and need
support from the authors you T ll he
distressed to find that had you bought a
fake the authors won’t help.
So, counterfeit is wrong. But what of
cracking? It doesn't do anyone much
good, What crackers do is take
programs and remove their protection
so they are easily copied- Then
programs are swapped between
cracking groups, who compete to get
the newest games out first.
Very little serious software circulates
this way, mainly because the crackers
tend to be kiddie shoot-'em-uppers who
wouldn’t know a good word processor if
it leapt into their disc drive and typed
the works of Shakespeare without the
monkeys being in the room.
What do get around are beta test
versions of games* mega-trained ones
that have been modified to make them
easier to play, or crunched versions of
games on release. The crunched
software tends to come with a number
of ether crunched games on one disc,
all squeezed on so that the crackers can
impress fellow groups with their
cleverness.
And all these cracked discs carry the
■ COVER STORY ■
modem irritation of computing - the
demo. In the good old days (1986),
demos showed off what the machine
could do. Joe Public was well
impressed. But cracker demos tend to
be all the same. Pretty coloured screen
- look, he can use the copper - pretty
scrolly picture - er... and the blitter -
electropop music which goes on and
on, and daft scrolling text, of the “Hi
from Smegman of the Smegs and here
is our latest disc so ya boo sucks to
the noztiils of' type. Pretty for 30
seconds, useless thereafter. And
usually as Amiga friendly as lack
TVamiel with a machine gun.
C RACKERS who write demos
always go and beat metal with
astounding regularity, with no care if it's
upwards downwards or standing still
compatible. They all seem to use two
drive, one meg, ASGOs, and it’s tough
luck if you don't because these demos
will break if you have anything else.
The demo reaches new levels of
tedium with the mega-demo. Whole
discs of demos, each one doing
something more mind numbing than
the one before. The crackers think
you'll be impressed by 64,000 bobs on
the screen. I'm not, and most people
aren't. 64,000 bobs in a game would
be a different matter, but your average
cracker is too dumb to think of
writing anything as complicated as a
game.
As for the infantile groups
themselves, they're like a cross
between train spotters and D’n'D
freaks, all trapped in their very silly
world of swapping discs and writing
demos. They seem to live in the
postal version of cyberspace,
oblivious of the world outside.
All pretty negative stuff, IPs a pity
really, because in that vast array of
computer freaks there are occasional
►
This has been a journey into sound, Amiga-stereo sound
SOUNDTRACKER treats music as
numbers, not blobs on a staff. It
divides up music into four tracks —
one for each Amiga voice - of 64
events. Each event can be either
empty, or signal a change to the
sound playing on that track. You can
have as many patterns as required
and change their tempo, repeat or
loop them to form music.
Initially this appears to need a lot
of effort, but after you have the hang
of the basic controls, Soundtracker
works like a smart sequencer.
The latest version is v2.4. It has the
ability to play 32 samples, known as
presets in SoundtTackerese*
previously the limit was 16 samples.
There is a preset-editor with which
you can manage your library of
presets. This can be used as a
separate utility. There are print
options and lots of little useful
goodies like a filter switch and a bug
fix to make it friendlief to hard discs.
Because it is no longer a
commercial program, Soundtracker
hasn't been properly tested. It's got a
lot of bugs in all the new parts of
code. Version 2.4 is a master of
confusing its screens with
multicoloured garbage and then
crashing. It's not OS legal, so won’t
multi-task, and still has disc names
Soundtmck&r - the jPOC version
for the preset library hardwired in.
This is all very much in the style of
the development of cracked
Soundtracker, and it is a frequently
voiced wish when Amigaphiles
gather that the people who work on
it should do a new commercial
version.
But recently Soundtracker clones
have started appearing, like Linel-
Tracker, Pro-TVacker, Sidmon and
Seq, aU looking superficially like
Soundtracker but often with major
improvements internally to the
code, and externally to the user
interface,
Hopefully someone will write the
definitive clone, Real Soon Now
and then everyone can get down to
exploiting the Amiga sound system
the way Soundtracker users can.
December 19B9 AMIGA COMPUTING 71
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glimmers of goodness. Like
Soundtracker.
Let me tell you the story of
Soundtracker. Once upon a time, a
German person wrote a rather average
music editor called Soundtracker, It
wasn't a masterpiece of code, but it
was particularly liked by some
German crackers who managed to get
their hands on the source.
And they sat down and worked on
it, tweaking and adding, changing and
improving it. It's now the most
popular Amiga program you can’t buy.
Dozens of games out there have
Soundtracker soundtracks, in its most
recent incarnation it's a quite good
music program, and almost all the
demo writers use it.
Programming wise, it still is a mess.
The cracker s code is leaping off into
rom, fiddling with structures and
generally abusing the operating
system. To crackers, that doesn't
matter, but to the rest of the world,
kicking your hard disc controller into
space is at least an irritation.
Some crackers and the original
author are getting together to release a
Bob Hay of FAST - 01-240 6750
new commercial version, properly
finished and hopefully OS legal. But
crackers are snobs, and don’t like
muddying their hands with
commercial software writing.
Well, most don’t, some have made
the leap into commercial software and
the programs (no names, no pack
Pirate-proof computers
COMMERCIAL programmers would
like to see each computer built with a
unique serial number in the rom.
Modern mass production techniques
make this economically possible,
although it does mean using more
expensive chips I When you buy a
program it could use this code to
decrypt the disc in a way which
meant that it would only run on your
machine.
It is an idea which has been
proposed for the Amiga 3000, but that
is a 16Mhz, 68030 Unix workstation.
There won't be many kiddies in the
playground with one of those,
But many people buy a computer
because they know they can pirate
software from friends. So it is not in
the hardware manufacturer's interest
to produce a pirate-proof computer.
Some crackers even argue that
because piracy helps sell hardware
there are more customers for
software in the future. In the end it's
all down to conscience.
drill) are quite good. But the rest of
the energy of other crackers just goes
to waste in a macho fantasy.
The macho id breeds strange ideas
into these folks. Like "C is for wimps, |
real men use 68000 1 ' and "Amiga
operating system, yes that's the thing
you kick out of memory first 11 and
“Copper lists are for hacking and
appending”. All of which makes no
real sense to anyone who spends five
minutes with anything but the
hardware reference manual and the
odd Abacus book.
You aren’t going to stop crackers,
try as you might. You can help by not
taking the software, or at least buying
games you like when you see them on
a cracker's disc. Telling the crackers
their acts are illegal is a waste of
breath. All you can really do is try and
talk them into doing intelligent things
with their Amigas,
Say to your local cracker; "So what?
Any idiot can trash the machine and
do pretty demos. Getting rid of
protection is very clever but you
aren't actually making anything 1 . Are
you listening crackers out there?
Real programming is a lot more fun.
Writing programs that do things. It’s
why I and a whole lot of other people
like the Amiga. Sit down and write a
game, it's a whole lot more fun than
writing a two- bit demo that will be in
the "For formatting” pile at the end of
the day.
Meanwhile, software developers,
you might as well ignore these folks,
because quite honestly no matter how
clever a protection you put on your
discs, crackers will get through it. It's
not that they are smart, just persistent.
No protection scheme can survive
constant bombardment.
Programmers, get back to producing
great software for the Amiga. Help
organisations like FAST - the
Federation Against Software theft -
chase after the criminals. And please,
stop putting those daft protection
schemes on discs which just make life
difficult for the legitimate user.
Nobody comes out well from this
look at the world of piracy, The
crackers are so disorganised and so
macho motivated that you'll never
stop any more than 10 per cent of
them even if you try really, really
hard.
And the crackers themselves have
yet to realise that they are engaged in
one of the rqost futile and dumb
pursuits known to man, called
achieving nothing.
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The word is PROTEXT...
Now available - Version 4.2 of Amor’s acclaimed word processor
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explains: "The graphics package is
not terribly good - but we always
envisaged people using Neo or Degas
(two ST art packages} and (hen
importing images into ThJespin. The
internal package is really just for
touching up and changing the
colours".
This may account for the rather far-
out artistic style on the sample
adventure included on the disc,
which 1 had previously assumed to be
attributed to an intimate knowledge of
controlled substances, and 1 don't
mean Apple roms,
W ANT to hear a success story?
Well, once upon a time there
was a man with a computer and a son.
Both were very good at drawing. The
man decided to get them both
together, so he wrote a program.
He looked at the program and the
program was good — but it could be
better. So he developed mouse
handling routines, drawing
conditions, links and variable
definitions. The man took his
adventure writing utility - for such it
had become - to Microdeal, which
signed it up. And he lived happily
ever after.
Now Microdeal hopes it can do the
same, Talespin, incorrectly called an
adventure game on the disc label , is a
utility designed to help you make
your own adventures, although
MicrodeaL adds somewhat reservedly
that it is useful as a teaching aid or for
business presentations as well.
Programs created with Talespin are
icon driven. This is a bit of a
misnomer, because the icons are
actually part of a picture. As far as the
user is concerned though, he or she is
just clicking on an area of the picture
and not an isolated icon.
This effect is achieved by defining
Nic Veitch enters the
world of Microdeal’s
interactive program
creator and lives
to spin the tale
dike the
> British
rouse to
always
each part of the picture separately and
then overlaying them all, rather like
the way an animation ce'l is built up.
Pictures can be drawn with the en
suite art package or standard IFF files
may be imported. At least thafs what
the manual says. The IFF files in
question are only allowed to be 320 x
200, 16 colours - the NTSC standard
favoured by the colonials. If you try
loading anything else, it won t crop it
- it won't take it at all,
This would not be the end of the
world — nor indeed the end of the
program - if it were not for the fact
that the graphics package included is
so primitive. Perhaps I am asking too
much, but using an art package
without a brush cutting option and
associated tools sends me straight for
an Aeroflot sick bag. [They are the
biggest.)
As John Symes of Microdeal
X HE sound side of things is a
little better* but this may be due
to the fact that all it has to do is
import samples and tag them on to
the pictures. You can copy sounds
which have been tagged on to other
pictures or projects as well, but this is
accompanied by a bad bout of disc
swapping and menu clicking.
Sound can be replayed at a number
of different frequencies, useful for
trying to make out that you have more
samples than you actually do.
If you want nice effects on your
eot layout
ops
; you type
th foreign
Character
Ripping yarns
b printing
own work then you will have to buy
your own sampler and software. There
are no facilities for editing sounds at
all in Talespin. Presumably Microdeal
reckons you need a sampler to import
your own sound, and if you have a
sampler then you probably already got
some decent software to drive it. Fair
enough, i suppose.
A demo mode can be set up to cycle
through the screens and perform
actions in a predetermined order.
While this is not so useful for an
adventure, it could be very handy if
you want to create business
demonstrations.
Menus are not the usual pull-down
type, but are large speech balloon
things which invert text on the option
chosen, TYue Amigans will be ill at
Drawing conditions decide which graphics appear and at whui time
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■ REVIEWS
Child's play to link pictures and sound to produce a story
Decisions >
decisions . . . but
there'lt be
hundreds more
like this be fore
the adventure
is over
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developing
programming
starts here
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P ICTURES and sound can be
easily strung together in
Talespin to make a story. This is
achieved by using the program’s
variables, which are not quite true
variables but are more like flags with
a discrete number of values.
Choices are made by clicking on an
area of the screen or highlighting an
area of text with the mouse. These
actions can then be interpreted to
change the screen, play noises,
change variables and so on.
For example, in an adventure story
say you want to be able to go to a
location and pick up a disc. First of
all create the graphic for the disc and
import it into Talespin. Then from
the main menu choose Add Picture
To Page,
After specifying the page, go to
Variable Definitions, define a variable
- let’s call it flag - and give it two
possible values; 0 or 1.
Set the entry condition for that
page to zero. This means that when
the program first enters that page, it
will assign the variable flag to be
have the value of zero. Add a
drawing condition to the disc picture
to prevent it being drawn when flag
becomes 1.
Now add the condition to the
drawing that it sets flag to 1. This
means that when the drawing is
clicked, the value of flag will change
to l* the drawing condition will no
longer be met, and it will be
removed.
Follow that? It’s a lot easier
following the menus because they are
4
ease in this unfamiliar environment.
The pointer has mutated into a
great clumsy ornate arrowhead and
the "busy" alternative has turned
from the reassuring sleepy cloud lo a
strangely familiar looking bumble
bee. Hmmm.
There is a modest online help
feature, which is not context sensitive
and only useful to the absolute
beginner. Nevertheless, brownie
points are awarded for its inclusion.
All the menu options are fairly easy
to understand, so you shouldn't need
to have one limb in the manual all the
time.
Ah, the manual, I knew I had
in plain English. The above set of
operations will put your image on the
page. When it is clicked it will
disappear, as though it has been
picked up.
From this example it is easy to see
haw this simple method of using
forgotten something, Well, it's quite
easy to really. It is well written, but so
much of the program is intuitive and
easy to use that there isn’t a lot of
point in looking at it more than once.
I leaked at it about seven times in
order to see if 1 was maybe missing
something - but no, that's all he
wrote, to corrupt the yankee
vernacular.
The cunning idea of writing one
largo menu in easy to understand
language has pul an end to Ihe
manual being a creative requisite far
decoding the options. It is quite
possible to use this software without
ever having seen the manual at all,
Talespin is being deliberately mis-
marketed. It was originally written for
variables as flags can produce some
seemingly complex interactive
systems, Sound effects* text and
further screens can be added as
options in just the same way as the
variable was changed. It really is easy
enough for a child to use.
children to use* and it shows. All the
features, right down to the menus and
the shape of the pointers, have been
designed with children in mind. That
is not to say that it is inferior or non-
professional, merely that it was
designed for a different objective -
one which it is much more able to
accomplish.
John Symes himself used it to help
his son learn to count, a task which it
can perform admirably. With its
completely icon-driven system* the
kind of environment used by most
education packages, it is very suitable
for children to learn from. All the
elements of early education are
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■ REVIEWS ■
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And pst use your
campus
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about
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SPEED 1 1 I U J I I I I
Hampered oniy by simplistically
structured menus , buf it was designed
that way for a reason.
VALUE J I
Depends on what you want it for. Add
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uch Ooes « cost
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Thumps up for education, thumbs
down for serious adventuring.
present - pictures, sounds and
interaction.
With the negative stigma which has
attached itself to educational software
in the UK, it is easy to understand
Micro deal's reticence to bill it as
such. Talespin does have the ability
to create quite complex adventures.
but not of the same style as those
currently popular in this country.
The whole system is geared towards
a multiple choice type of
construction, In adventure terms this
means the kind of thing that appears
in the game books very popular with
younger adventurers.
The case for the prosecution rests,
in its defence, Talespin proves that
You 'll need
a good art
you don't have to spend lots of money
on A2OO0S and video discs to be able
to write interactive teaching
programs. In this respect, it almost
shines.
Talespin
Microdeal 0726 65422
£29,95
Talespin 's
graphics editor
is next to
useless
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■ PRINTERS ■
Printer l. A person or business
engaged in in printing. 2, a machine
or device that prints , 3. Computer
technology - an output device for
printing results on paper.
F AR be it from me to criticise the
Collins English Dictionary, and
while I certainly wouldn't disagree
with the ahove definition, I think
there’s a case for adding 4 , Citizen
12Q-D, the best selling 9-pin printer in
Europe .
If you ask most owners of lesser
machines than the Amiga what printer
they have, the odds are that they will
have a Citizen 120-D, a printer that
combines respectable 9 pin
performance with a very low price.
Amiga owners, being somewhat
more discerning, need something a
little belter, and Citizen may just have
come to the rescue of those people
who broke their piggy bank buying the
Amiga in the first place.
The Citizen Swift 24 is, as its name
might suggest, a low cost, speedy 24
pin printer, which Citizen naturally
hopes will do for the 24-pin market,
what the 120-D did for the 9-pin.
Consume it alive.
For £389 (not including VATj you
are paying for a chunky, yet stylish
looking printer, 41cm in width, 32cm
in depth and 13cm in height, a
dimension to which the addition of
the single sheet feeder adds to
considerably. It's a small footprint for
a 24 pin printer - they normally give
the impression that the foot consisted
of several elephants.
As well as a standard tractor feed,
which is easily removed, there is the
single sheet feeder as mentioned,
which is notable for its sturdiness.
Single sheet feeders are normally
terribly wobbly and sloppy, but this
one has some backbone. Usefully, it
also has notches and symbols to mark
the maximum paper width, and also
where to set the guiders for A4 paper.
No more printing and guessing.
One thing 1 wasn't too hot about
was the hinged smoked plastic part of
the cover. When closed it keeps the
noise level down to less than 55db
normally or under 52db in the slower
quiet mode. But it forces the
outcoming paper out at a sharp angle,
risking the paper being re- fed and
mined.
It's simple enough to correct, you
fust have the top at a 30 degree angle,
but there is more noise.
The small light which glows when
the paper runs out has its function
duplicated by a warning on the eight
character, two line liquid crystal
display. Dropping a sheet into the
feeder while off-line results in the
paper being sucked in.
The parallel interface comes as
standard, but there is the option of
installing a serial interface. More
useful options include a colour kit
and font cards. The lid on the serial
interface and font card area doesn't
have a fixed hinge, so once opened
comes off in your hand. Don't panic,
it's equally easy to refit.
There are menus covering
emulation, font, copy mode, line
spacing (G or 8 LPI), normal or colour
ribbon and character set (which
ranges incredibly from the obvious
UK and USA, to Denmark, Sweden,
Italy, japan, Latin America, legal,
France and others).
Beside macro 1 there are a further
three macros available for less
obvious computer-printer
configurations. All macros can be
defined to match your computer
setup.
Once redefined, you can save your
macro permanently into the printer's
eprom (electronically eraseable
programmable rom), which will not
only survive a power off, but when
No more broken fingernails
INSTEAD of the nightmare world of
DIP switches, the Swift 24 is armed
with an eight key control pad and an
LCD. When you switch cm the printer
it loads macro 1, a predefined choice
from the menus covering all aspects
of the printers capabilities.
the printer is next switched on will
automatically load as the chosen
macro.
You should note that although the
manual states that you can redefine
certain selections without having to
save the entire macro into memory,
they will reset to their original
selections unless you actually have
saved the macro.
There are three types of printer
emulation predefined in the macros,
Epson LQ850, IBM Frnprinter X24
and NEC P6+,
A couple of the other external
features are a paper adjuster which
can accommodate paper from 0.06 to
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to swallow? Duncan
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0.1mm in thickness, and the large
plastic switch to go from fanfold to
single sheets of paper,
Peering into the guts of the machine
reveals a print head with a large
sink on top, which works very
since the printer wasn’t
particularly warm after !’
left it on for most of the
day. Power consumption
is a reasonable 90 watts.
For quality printing
there are four NLQ fonts
and one draft. These use
360 dots per inch for NLQ
and graphic modes, and 120
DPI for the draft mode.
The fonts which arc built in are
quite nice except for the horrible sans
serif face, and include Courier, Times
Roman, Prestige, Helvetica and draft.
Of course there's the option of plug in
font cards from Citizen, or software
driven fonts from your Amiga.
The print head itself has a life
expectancy of 200 million dots (it
must have been dull counting them)
while the rest of the moving internals
will see you through 4,500 hours.
That might not sound a lot but if you
used the printer for say 22 hours a
week (which is seriously heavy usage)
then the poor Swift would only fall
December 1989 AMIGA COMPUTING 37
PRINTERS ■
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over after about four years.
One feature that helps keep that
speed up is the printer buffer, which
can store 8k nf data. A really nice
feature is that the LCD tells you what
percentage of the buffer is full of data,
so you can see roughly how long a
document is going to take to print.
The output is pretty good, but not
Lip smacki ngly amazing, which Is to he
expected since this is a budget 24 pin
printer.
So that's the printer for you t and a
delight it is to use as welL But what's
the documentation like? The dreaded
printer manual?
Thankfully since this one comes
from Citizen Europe, as opposed to
Citizen Land of the Rising Sun, it's in
English, readable, helpful and
informative.
Starting with how to unpack,
assemble and set up for your first
print run, the manual takes you
through an excellent section on
getting the printer to work with
various computers, to a full and frank
expose of how to program and control
the printer yourself. Not a section for
beginners. And remember that if you
want to send funny commands from
AmigaBasic you'll need to open a file
to the printer, A simple LPRINT filters
out clever codes.
Really swift?
SFEEDW1SE manufacturers make
great claims for the printer that all
defy reality. If the designers think
that 53 characters per second in NLQ
mode {at lOcpi, or 64 CPS at IZcpi] is
fast then I wouldn't like to see a
printer they thought was slow.
For just chucking out reams of data
the speed rises to a respectable 160
CPS at lOcpi, and almost 0 pin
speeds wish 192 CPS at 12cpi. But if
you wanted fast and cheap output
then you wouldn't l>uy this printer
The speed for decent quality
output is disappointing. All of which
makes the title Swift 24 something of
a misnomer. Stride 24 or maybe even
Hasty 24 would have been more
accurate. Doesn't sound as good? Oh
well, that's marketing for you.
With a two year guarantee from
Citizen, a set of decent quality
typefaces built in supplemented with
the option to add more, reasonably
sprite ly printing speed, a clear and
useful manual, you have all the
ingredients for a nice printer. Size is
just the icing on the cake.
REPORT CARD
Citizen Swift 24
Citizen. Europe 0B95 72fi21
£389 lex VAT)
EASE OFUSE ...
Goad, sensible replacement for DIP
switches. Meaningful LCD messages.
SOFTWARE
Supported fry a wide variety of the
Preferences printer drivers
SPEED .
Fails to live up to the Swift name but
still satisfactory.
VALUE..
The best buy in 24 pin printers.
OVERALL 80
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* 1 FREE Game, ST Tutorial and METACDMCO Basic worth C2S 00
* All Leads, Manuals PLUS MOUSE and FREE Mans Pkigl
* Free mouse mat worth £4.95
1040 STFM Super Pack
£439.00
* Includes t megabyte keyboard PLUS £450 worth of Software.
Comprising 21 games and Organiser Business Software. Also includes
Me taco m co BASIC, Mouse Pad, alt Leads, Manuals and Mouse.
1040 STFM Business Pack
£439.00
Buelnet* Pack Include*;
* Atari 1040 STFM Keyboard with 1 meg memory and 1 meg built-in disk
drive plus TV modulator
* £385 worth of Business Software including MICROSOFT WRITE word
processor (El 50), SUFERBASE PERSONAL Database (EGO) and VtP
PROFESSIONAL Lotus 123 Spreadsheet done (Ci50}, Metacomco Basic
(£25)
* All leads, manuals and mouse.
MEGA 1 Business Pack
£529.00
FuLurei:
*■ Separate Keyboard and System Unit
* All the Software included with 1040 STFM Business Pack
* Bitter chip installed tor iaster graphics
Inc SMl 24 Mono Monitor ,,..£620.00
ACCESSORIES
Q ulckshot H Turbo Joystick £ .9.95 Branded Me
Competl lion Pro 5000 Joystick , „ . £ 1 3.95 Box of 1 0
Competition Pfo- with Autofine £14.95 Mamorax D
Konlx Speedking Joystick £11 ,95 For 40 3,5' l
Red M ouse Mat with Amiga logo,. £5.95 Amiga 1 f2 K
Plain blue Mouse Mat . £4.95 Control Can
Branded Me mo rex 35* D5 00 Disks
Box of 10... £13.95
Mamorex Disk Box
For 40 3,5' Disks . .£8 95
Amiga 1/2 Msg Expansion £1 19.95
Control Caniis Atari or Amiga £39.95
Contriver Amiga and ST Mousa with FREE Holder and Mouse Pad £30.95
Star LC24-10 24 pin ind. lead ^Umiga..., £259,00
Star LC10 including interface lead for ST/Amiga.. ....E1G9.G0
Star LC10 colour including interface lead for ST/Amiga .,£219,00
Citizen 120D Including interface lead tor ST/Amiga £159.00
SEIKOSHA 80 COLUMN PRINTERS - AMAZING PRICES
Seicosha 9 pin NLQ including interface lead for 5Tf Amiga £139.00
Seikosha 24 pin LG including interface lead for ST/Amiga £239,00
Amiga A500 BAT Gamas Pack
£399.00
Inc. VAT and Next Day Delivery
BAT Garrfei Pick Include*:
A Amiga A5005 12 K'Xey board with Built-in 1 Megabyte disk drive
A Free TV modulator worth £24,99 allowing you to use the Amiga with a
normal TV
* DELUXE PAINT II and PHOTON PAINT Graphic Packages
WORTH over £1001
* FREE, only just released BATMAN-THE MOVIE games software,
* NEW ZEALAND STORY arcade games software.
* FI 6-INTERCEPTOR - amazing 3D flight stimulator software .
* A further £230 worth of Games Software. Including BUGGY BOY.
MERCENARY, BARBARIAN, WIZBALL A six more games
* FREE MOUSE MAT worth £4.95.
* Amiga BASIC, Amiga EXTRAS 1.3, Workbench l .3 PLUS the Amiga Step
by Step Tutorial
* AN leads, manuals PLUS MOUSE and mains plug!
Amiga A500 Business A Games Pack
£479.00
* Includes Amiga A5O0 and TV modulator PLUS BATMAN: THE MOVIE. FIS
INTERCEPTOR, NEW ZE ALAND STORY and in addition a comprehensive
suite of business programs Including: KIND WORDS II. Word Processor
(featuring Spellchecker and Thesaurus), HOME ACCOUNTS by Digits
International and SUPERBASE PERSONAL database software
AMIGA I MEG BAT GAME PACK
£529.00
1 Meg Bat Games Pack include a:
A Fitted 1 Megabyte Memory Expansion + Real Time Clock Card
* Everything listed for the A500 Bat Game Pack
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2 Batman: The Movie (Ocean) ...£15.75
3 Shadow OF The Beast (Psygnosis) £21.95
4 It Came From The Desert (Image Works] ,,£19.45
5 Blade Warrior [Image Works)....** **,.*,..**£16.45
6 Tha Untouchables (Ocean) £16.45
7 Cabal (Ocean) £14.95
B Slryx (Psy elapse)....,... *...*******************.**„**„**,***,,£ 12.75
9 Swords Of Twilight (Electronic Arts) , £16.45
10 Dynamic Debugger (Image Works) *****************,.**,,**, ....£16.45
11 Interphase [Image Works) **..**,**„.*** .£16.45
12 Operation Thunderbolt (Ocean) .,***************,,**„**„** £15*75
13 The Lost Patrol (Ocean) *>,,*,„**.,**..„ £16.45
14 Ooze (Dragon ware) £16.45
15 Fiendish Freddie's Big Top 'O Fun (Mindscape) ,...£16.45
16 Beoch Volley (Psygnosis) ..£15.75
17 Populous; Promised Lands (Electronic Arts) „,*,„*, £6.45
18 Gemini Wing (Virgin) £12.75
19 Future Wars (Del pnine/Pd ace) .***********.*,* £15.75
20 Power Drift (Activision] £16.45
21 Gridiron (Belhesda) £16.45
22 Triad II (Psydapse) £15.75
23 The New Zealand Story (Ocean) ,,.,**********,,*.,. £15.75
24 Ghastbuslers II (Activision) *,..**, ,******,******„,*,„„ 16 . 45
25 Infestation [Psygnosis] *.„.***,*******,***,,*.,*„.,*.„„. £16.45
26 Iron Tracker (Inlagrames) .*.„**.**** ....£12.75
27 A P B. (Tengen) ..* £12.75
28 Barbarian II (Psygno***) **,** * £15,75
29 Dragon Spirit [Domarkj ****** *..*. £12.75
30 Action Fighter (Firebird) ,,...*.*...£15.75
31 Ivanhoe (Ocean) <******»*.„**..* ...£15.75
32 Demon's Tomb (Melbourne House] **„**„**.***£12<75
33 Never Mind (Psydapse] ,, <*£13.45
34 Bad Company (Logotron)**. ... .*<..*<..**,***,**.***.. .,,,.£16.45
35 Highway Patrol (Intogrames) ****,<*,.*.<.£15,75
36 Silkworm (Virgin) * ...,,,.£12.75
37 Stridor (US Gold) £16.75
38 Xenophobe (Micro Style) „*.*,**.**£ 16,45
39 Matrix Marauders (Psydopse) ,...,.....,.*.,...,.£13,45
40 Laser Squad (Blade) * .**<<**<**********..,****£13,45
41 Shufflepack Cafe (Domark] £1 3.45
42 Knighlforce (Titus) £16.45
43 Super League Soccer [Impressions] *<*£16,45
44 Horse Racing (Mindscape) .<.***.... £16.45
45 Chicago 90 (In Fogrames) *..**..**,.*„,****£ I 3.45
46 Life & Death [Mindscape] £16.45
47 Kees The Thief (Electronic Arts) ...,,,**<**<***********<***.***......„.. £16.45
48 Neuroma near (Electronic Arts/Interplay) ..............£16,45
49 Risk [Leisure Genius) *...£13.45
50 Super Quintet (Infogrames) ,.£15.75
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2 Commodore A59Q CMOS RAM Chips xl [128k) £13.45
3 Commodore A590 CMOS RAM Chips *4 (512k/0.5MB) ....£49.45
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6 Commodore A590 CMOS RAM Chips xl6 (204Bk/2MB) .£199.45
7 External Floppy Disk Drive *********** ..........£74.45
8 Cordless Mouse .... £ 1 17,45
9 Commodore A501 5 12k/0. 5MB RAM Expansion .*,.£98,45
10 Minigen ...£99.45
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6 Donkey Kong
7 Snoopy Tennis
8 Super Mario Bras
9 Plane & Tank
10 Jet Fighter
11 Gold Cliff
1 2 Climber
1 3 Highway
14 Air Combat
15 Balloon Fight
16 Soccer
17 Volcano
1 8 Space Fighter
1 9 Konkay Kong Junior
20 Space Warrior
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Slur FR-1 0 Professional Spin 3O0r?6cps« 31K buffer, 1 B NLQ fonts.
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Citizen I20D budget Spin 10* 120cpS — E139 -™
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Omega Projects MIDI Interlace, including 30* serial eabte £29,95
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A500 Dust Cover £4.95
ITT CP322S 16,5" FST TV/Mdnltor inc. renVcontrol &. cable .... £229.00
Philips CM&633 14-cdour monitor, suds tor Amiga 500 £229,00
GFA BASIC Version 3 £49.00
Home Accounts £l & 95
Kind Words Version 2 £37.35
Superbase Personal £59-00
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business community that the Amiga's
custom chips were built to work out
with great accuracy whether or not
your tri-nucleon pulse meson beam
has just knocked out another invading
hoard of alien mutants,
Custom hardware is the key to
allowing the Amiga to multi-task,
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working efficiently.
The Amiga's custom chips contain
special circuitry to detect collisions
between objects on the screen. These
objects can be either sprites or
playfields. The Amiga has eight
sprites — four in overscan mode - and
either one playfield containing up to
six bitplanes or two playfields in dual
playfield mode containing up to three
bitplanes each.
If you have set up a display
consisting of several playfields and
sprites you have to teil the system in
which order you want to display them
- whether you want the sprites in
front of the playfield, behind the
playfield or in between two in dual
playfield mode.
This is done with by setting the
"video priorities” in the BPLCON2
hardware register [$dffl04),
Sprites have a fixed priority relative to
each other, If all eight sprites are set to
overlap, you will see that sprite 0
appears to be on top and sprite 7 at
the bottom — that is, it has the lowest
priority. You cannot change the
priority of the sprites relative to each
other.
Collision detection
the hardware way is
easy when Jolyon
Ralph shows how
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Qll - Sprit*! D to i *l»v* jnltyfltld, « *nd T b* Unw-
ind - *11 H>nt« »bw* playfltld.
Figure I: Playing priority
relative to the sprites
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1* - &prm 4/s coll inert with mjrlta 4/7
13 - Sprits 1/3 call la Ion with sprit* 4/7
12 - seri to 2/3 cotillion witft sent* 4/5
11 - Sent* o/l tollman with sent* 6/7
ID Sprits 6/1 collision with sprits 4/5
9 - sent* 0-/1 «ll man with sprit* m
6 - Even bitplanes with *prtt* 4/7
7 - Even bltplarwE with sprite */<5
6 - Even eitpiartes with sprite in
4 - Even bitplanes with sprit* 0/1
4 - EhM blip term to sprite 4/7
a — we bltplan** to sprit* 4/5
2 - Odd bitp-lanes to sprite ?/3
! - Wd bHplen** to Sprite 6/1
0 - Even bitplanes to odd bite lanes
BIT - CLJS.CGN COMPONENTS
15 - Enable sprite 7 In colli son tests
14 - Enable tprit* 5 In Poll Ison tests
13 Enable sprite 3 In calllgon tests
12 - fnebi* sprit* 1 m coll ison tests
11 - Enable hltplane 6 In collision tests
10 - Enable b1tplu*e 5 In collision tests
9 - En*bi* piteUft* 4 m cell man t**t»
a - Enable bitplane 3 In collision testa
7 - Enable bltplene 2 In Collision tests
6 - Enable bltplene t In collision test*
5 - Value to natch for bltplene 6
A - Value to natch for pltplan* 5
3 - Value to natch for bitplane A
2 - Value to natch for bitplane 3
1 - value to natch for bltplene 2
0 - Value to natch for bitplane 1
Figure IT; The format of the collection
(top) and control registers
In dual playfield mode, pluyflcld 1
will appear above playfield 2. This
can be reversed by setting bit fi of
BPLCON2,
The playfield priorities are then set
relative to the sprites. Each playfield
is allocated a number From 0 to 4 for
one of the five possible settings.
This value fsee Figure I) is put into
the corresponding bits of BPLCON2,
Bits 0 to 2. called PF1P0 to PF1P2, are
set for the First playfield and bits 3 to
5, PF2P0 to PF2P2. are set for the
second playfield.
For example, if you wanted a dual
playfield screen with sprites 0 and 1
on lop, then playfield 2, then sprites 2
and 2, then playfield 1 and Finally
sprites 4 to 7, you would set il up like
this; Playfield 2 above playfield 1, so
set bit 6. Sprites 0 and l above
playfield 2, so set PF2PQ-2 to 0U1.
Sprites 0, 1, 2 and 3 above playfield 1 ,
so set PFlPO-2 to 010.
Consequently the correct value to
set BPLCQN2 to would be - taking all
the bits from above to form a binary
number - %1 001 01(1, or 34a in hex.
However the playfield priority is
taken from bit six and can look a little
strange if, for example, in the above
example we set it so playfield 1
appears above playfield 2.
This would mean that sprites 2 and
3 would appear above playfield 1 but
below playfield 2, but playfield 1
would appear above playfield 2,
Think about it. Sounds strange? Not
as strange as it looks,
Once you have your priorities right
you can check for collisions between
the sprites and playfields. When the
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co- processors try to display a bit from
a sprite or a playfield and there is an
overlap with another sprite or
playfield a collision bit is recorded in
the collision register, CLXDAT. This is
a read-only register which is cleared
to zero each time it is read.
The make-up of the register is fairly
complex and is further complicated
by the control register CLXCON. The
format of these registers is explained
in Figure IL All collisions between
even numbered sprites and hitplanes
are registered. However, the odd
numbered sprites in the sprite pairs
are by default not registered in
collisions. For odd sprite collisions
you have to set the relevant bits in
CLXCON.
There are two bits for each bitplane
in CLXCON. One is to enable the
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example, you only wanted to test a
collision between sprites and bitplane
2 f you would only set bit 7 and enable
plane 2 in collision tests. This masks
out unwanted bitp lanes from the test.
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The music play routine in The
Right-Button Demo on this month's
cover disc uses this feature to detect
when the mouse pointer (a sprite) is
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program. As we can only detect one
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the three different colours of the
boxes. They appear the same colour
because they are defined to the same
colour value.
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collision with each box every third
frame, Obviously wit h more boxes we
would either have to use more colours
and test less frequently or use some
sort of coordinate testing system
which would tell us which box was
selected if the collision only told us
that a box had been clicked, but not
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is easy when
you have got
Max the Hacks
on your side
JOHN Warloimd
says: Here is the
complete set of
codes for Raider.
SHOT, DYKE*
HIGH, LINK,
PEAR, KILN, and
BAND. Now you
have no excuse
for not trying to
finish.
GRAHAME Stirling says: Punch all I
the guys at start* then punch the
motorbike. To avoid guys that sho>
duck and punch* When you have
gun, shoot up and right. When you
•to the end of the level, jump and Fl
to blow up the robot.
Level two is easy, on level three
shoot all the guys. Punch the wall ad
get ammo. Shoot two guys then the n
drum. Go slow, hit the first three gud
then the other three and then the last
three,
Jump down to get the food on youj
left. Hit the enemies then the wall
all the men, get the ammo and shoot
both baddies and motorbikes. Slow
down, when the guy is about to enta
the screen, shoot him.
Shoot once and hit two punks, the!
a bike. When the van comes, jump
and fire at the same time to blow it
with the guys behind.
When the two photo fit faces, or
later the heal prints, appear, pause
hitting Return, and wait until the t
has finished. Examine the faces for
differences and change them quick!)
by hitting fire, up and down, left am
right.
In the junkyard shoot both of the
guys who start above you. Get the
ammo on the ledge then jump on to
conveyor belt after the magnet. Then!
go under the other magnet by turning]
left to slow down.
jump on to the ground to go under
the crushers. Shoot the guy Wait for |
the three metal bars to fall, then hit
the guys and get the big gun. Shoot!
Go up the lift and get the food on
the left hand side, then carry on goil
right, shooting everyone, then turn t<
face your left and jump and fire to
blow up the digger.
When you have to save the hostag&l
ROBERT Delve says:
Save a league where you
are top. Load the league
when you invite your
friends round and
continue playing. You
o
only have one more
match to play, so if you
u
win you will win the
2
league.
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have your
en you get
anti fire
three
i wall and
ien the oil
hree guys
i the Iasi;
on your
wall Hit
d shoot
■ Slow
to enter
lks. then
jump
low it up
Gi or
tause by
the tune
95 for
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eft and
if the
the
on to
.Then
turning
under
ail for
n hit
hoot l
don
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him t o
9 to
□stage
Go up in the lift, collect ammo, up
in the lift and wait for three bars
which are falling to hit the wall. Jump
down to collect the gun. Take the lift
up, punch the wall, then shoot and
jump to complete level.
Shoot all the wall-mounted lasers
and guys. Get the gun, food, and
ammo. Jump three steps then fire to
kill. Baby food will give you more
power. Complete the level by jumping
and firing. Shoot all the lasers on
walls. Punch wall and collect gun.
Take lift up and wait until first beam
on the right stops. Go through as
quickly as possible.
Punch wall then shoot guy on the
right. Shoot daleks, then go up on the
lift shoot Lasers then run through
beams without stopping. Shoot daleks
and guys,
Punch wall, shoot lasers and get
food. Go up lift get ammo, punch
wall, shoot dalok, shoot lasers. Go up
lift, shoot dalek, get food, punch wall,
shoot lasers. Go up lift punch wall,
complete level by the usual way!
The last level is the same as level
six, but don’t shoot the President. If
this is too much for you, pause the
game at any time and type “BEST
KEPT SECRET” and action will reset.
You 11 start again with infinite energy.
ANDRE
Millington
from New
tames the golden swan. The lasso is
found in Grim wood where a witch
guards it. You can kill the witch
with a bow.
Use the wand to make your jobs
easier. It is found in the Mountain of
Frost just west of the circle of stones
in a cave.
The four golden statues are
scattered: The first in the Crystal
Palace on isle of sorcery. Just talk to
the lady in the middle, If you keep
on talking to her your luck start to
rise. The second statue is Found in
the SeHoId, For the third you need
the golden swan so you can rescue
the princess from the forbidden
fortress south of Marheim.
The King gives you a writ. You
musf give it to the lady in Marheim
which heals you when you talk to
her. She gives you the statue.
The fourth statue is found in the
great bog west of the golden
triangle.
I
shoot the kidnapper
in the arm quickly
and then go for the
head.
The factory is tough.
Shoot like hell in all
directions until you reach
a lift. Go over to the first
doorway then quickly move
right until three bars fall.
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W ORD processing is curiously
like driving a can There's
something to do, which is drivings or
writing, and there's the machine
you’re doing it with, l know it's just a
bunch of bits in formation, but after a
while the bits feel like a whole, And
that’s when it all starts to become
really enjoyable.
And thinking of Skodas, I had a lot
of crashes to start with. With the Amy,
of course. How about you? Yeah, I
thought so.
I started out running Protext over
the Workbench so 1 could do some of
those things you absolutely have to be
able to do all the time, like formatting
and relabelling discs. What a pain that
was- I’m using a 1 meg machine, but I
waltzed with the Guru all the time,
I was writing to a deadline, as well
as trying to cope with Real Life, so T
cast about for advice. Never be
ashamed to ask people who seem to
know what they’re doing. My friend
Alex says that he always runs
Frotext50G, even wilh a meg available,
and has no problems multi-tasking.
Well, OK.
1 prefer to stay inside Protext, I'm
not a programmer, I'm a user, and 1
like to type a few words in and change
the world, A bit like Hitler really.
If you boot Protext from the disc, as
opposed to double clicking on its icon
from Workbench, you have the
command line interface (CLI]
immediately underneath, and that's
how most of the guys in the know run
the program - including the brains
behind it, ArnoT boss Mark Tilley,
To do this you have to re-size the
windows. Click on the background
gadget and you get the CLI window.
Shrink it as short and wide as it will
go and drag it down to the bottom of
the screen. Then click back to Protext,
and re-size that window so that it lets
you see the CLI window at the bottom.
Remember, you can only re-size
Protext in Edit mode.
And that's it. If you want the CLI,
windows for both Protexl and the
CLI. After run ProtextSOO you enter
the window parameters with the
prefix -W, Top left comer is 0,0; the
window is full width, f>40, and 200
deep. You can see how this is tacked
on to the command.
You do the same lor the instruction
to run the full sized Protext.
The last line in the file sets up the
CLI window. Workbench 1.2 takes the
instruction Nen^CLI CON:, and 1.3
takes NewShell NEWCON:, and then
the window details, using the same
parameter system as for Pretext, but
with slashes Instead of commas for
separators. Finally you should give
the CLI window a name. And that’s it.
Deeply wonderful.
OK? Well.... no, not OK.
ihe word processor is
mightier than the
sword. Peter Ceresole
uses Protext to tame
the AmigaDos dragon
you click in its window; the same for
Protext,
But this is all boringly manual.
There has to be an automatic way —
and there is. It involves a lightweight
Sumo session with the Startup-
Sequence file, which is in Ihe S
directory of the Protext disc.
Figure I is a modified version of the
boot sequence supplied on the Protext
program disc.
The objective is to define the
H IRST, I believe that you need as
-L much screen space as you can
get when you’re using a word
processor, Giving any up to the CLi is
had. You could always work with the
full screen and then move the bottom
of the Protext window to reveal the
CLI, or click the back gadget, but re-
sizing or clicking any time you want
to do something feels inelegant.
There's another way. Typing a CLI
command on the Protext command
line preceded by an asterisk runs that
command invisibly. The basic
requirement is that you have the file
to run that command in the current
directory or the C; directory on the
Protext disc. So for instance, with
Relabel in the directory;
'RELABEL 6M: "Revitv FUei"
echo "Promt v4 program disk."
echo rt U> Arnor 190(,"
addbuffm dfO; 20
ae t pap gb
fiUat 15
If error
echo "Loading snail Protest..."
run prottxtSOO -¥0,0,640,200
else
setcleck opt toed
echo '‘Loading full Protest. . /'
run protest -HO, D , 640, ZOO
end f f
; The next line is far v 1.2
;nevrif eon rO/201 /640/55/ltySheL l
; This one is for v 1,3
newshell nttcanrB/ZGIWO/H/FlvSheU
at the Protext command line will
relabel the disc in the second drive to
“Review Files”, But there's a snagette.
If you type this:
RELABEL m: ,r Reviey Files
Figure P Pretext Startup-Sequence
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■ PROTEXT ■
nothing will happen at all. Can you
spot the crucial difference? If you
elide Pretext into the background you
can see the CLI telling you that there
was an improper argument to Relabel.
We left out the space that should be
between the colon and the opening
quote of the filename. No good at all.
You have to remember the syntax
for all the Amiga Dos commands you
want to use. Unlike Protext's built-in
commands — Copy for instance, which
prompts you in a friendly way - with
AmigaDos you just get a cold wind
from Bristol.
Is there any way, I thought as 1
breathed heavily over the manual, to
make this wretched thing friendlier?
Well, hold on to your eyeballs fans,
here it is - Friendly AmigaDos.
Y OU use mail merge. After all,
you’re paying for it. and I’ll bet
you don't use it for mail merging
much - no, neither do I - so it might
as well earn its keep. Mail merge can
be used to prompt for words, and it
can make pro-formed sentences out of
your input, so it should be ideal,
Here’s how.
Let’s start with re-labelling discs.
We’ll run this with an exec File, called
Rek which goes like this:
L relabel .eh
PS
Log on to DFO: and save it there.
Taping X EEL at the command line
will cause Relabel. mm to load, and
then be printed to the screen, which is
the mail merge way to run things.
This is Relabel. mm:
»DF r< E,
>AV "RELABEL drive : "drive
"RELABEL new Label: "label
>UF RAFhFtobti
>M fin
‘relabel IdrWel "dabeti"
>YF tiff
>tfC
>CF
>EX exec RAPLHobo
Again, save it to DFO:, This is how
it works: The first line opens a
datafile. Mail merge needs to grab a
file, but as we don’t have to road any
data I f ve made it grab Rel, which 1
know is there because I’ve |ust
executed it.
The second line prompts you for
the drive spec (DFO:, DFl: or
whatever) and assigns the answer the
the mail merge variable drive. The
third line asks you for the new name
of the disc, and assigns whatever
String you typo in to the variable
lahei
The fourth and Fifth lines prepare to
write a File to ram. I’ve called it Hobo
because the only requirement is that
there shouldn’t be another file with
the same name already there in case it
overwrites it.
Line six uses the drive and label
variables and makes them into the
proper AmigaDos command line.
Lines seven, eight and nine stop the
file-write and close the datafile.
Finally line 10 calls an Protext
command to execute RAM: Hobo,
which is the file containing the
command line wo want.
That's it - Friendly AmigaDos. And
they said it couldn’t be done.
O NCE you’ve done the first one,
you can do any number. All
you have to do is alter the prompt
lines and change the file names to,
say, FormatD for formatting discs, and
Bob’s your thingy. (And thanks to
Doug Thompson of Amor for his
help,)
So the FormatD file is:
L Forint, an
PS
which loads and prints to the screen
(runs) the Format, mm file of mail
merge commands:
►OF fariatd
>AV "FORMAT vhich drive i "d
HV "FORMAT disk ami t "n
"FORMAT options : "o
>MF RAN : Hobo
>Wf on
>MK Mornat drive 6 c& nane "(til" (o(
>MF off
>yc
>CF
>EI exec RAH: Hobo
The plain vanilla version with no
options formats the long way round:
it’s for discs that have never been
touched before. A quick format would
have Quick as the option, which
formats in seconds any disc that's
been formatted before.
The disc to be formatted has to be in
the drive before you start. If you're
doing this with one drive, you must
copy FormatD, FormaLmm, Rei,
Relabel, mm. Format and Relabel into
the ram disc at the start of the day, or
simply as you need them. Log on to
RAM: to run the process. If there’s
some problem, click on the back
gadget to see what obscure message
the GLI has sent you.
To run properly these tricks need an
empty File in Protext, so Swap to the
second file. If both Files are full and
you need to format a disc to save one
or both of them, you can either save
one of them to ram, clear it from
Protext and recover it later, or you can
merge one file on to the end of the
other temporarily.
At the end you’ll have Format, mm
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I-pC ELIEVE me, it works. I've just
used it. Between this para and
the one before lies more than an hour
of messing about. The system started
to crash kind of fuzzily — things didn't
quite go right - and when 1 reset the
system the Amy refused to read my
Protext work disc.
This is the second disc failure since
I've started to write these articles. I’m
not used to it. In five years of using
3 in discs on various Amstrads I’ve
never had one go down. I don’t fancy
these 3. bin floppies at all right now t
but because on the Amiga you're stuck
with them, the only thing to say is
hack up everything. That's the
important thing.
Anyway, at the end of the whole
grinding process, using DiskSalv from
the August cover disc and more help
from my friend Alex, I recovered all
the odd conflg and macro files I’d
built up, Then I re-formatted the bad
disc using FormatD, and it worked 1 .
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in my drawer.
I've learnt my lesson. Back-up.
Back-up, Back-up, This is Obvious
Advice country, but really necessary.
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and performance of the program has
nothing to do with fancy coding on
our part. It’s all in the user's approach.
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Isolating the address for envelopes
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Have you
done your
HAMwork?
In the red corner I give you
DigiPaint 3 and in the blue,
Photon Paint 2 .Your referee
is Martyn Oakley
W HATEVER the spotty oik in
the shop says, there is no
single art package for the Amiga.
You will need a standard one,
something like Sprite or Deluxe Paint I
111, and then you’ll need another for
those occasions when you want to play I
with HAM.
Art programs have come along leaps I
and bounds over the last few years,
from the first glimpse of King Tut on
DPaint, right np to the two newest,
DigiPaint 3 and Photon Paint 2 — both |
sequels to successful HAM packages
which use all 4,0 9 E colours to get
stunning Life-like pictures.
D IGIPAINT 3 has many new
features to help you get the best
results in the shortest time. Menus
have been made easy to use and there
are now 11 different painting modes.
Your pictures can be larger than the
screen, Super Bitmaps let you have
your canvas as big as 1024 x 1024
pixels, You can get around this
massive painting area by moving your
pointer to the edge of the screen -
NewTek’s auto-scrolling does the rest.
The menu bar is held within the
control panel, not where you expect it
to be on a title bar at the top of the
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■GRAPHICS ■
Altered images
screen. The control panel has been
well designed. It has been spaced out
into three sections - tools, text and
controls. You get a little icon of what
can be done with each gadget, which
will save you a lot of experimenting.
Making brushes is a breeze. Not
only can you cut square and freehand
brushes, but also any of the drawing
gadgets can be used to cut something
out. Ever tried cutting a freehand
circular brush?
Once you have grabbed your brush
you can lay it on top of your artwork,
fade it in with the background, warp
it, light it appropriately and still use it
to paint with,
The menu system for selecting
where your light source position will
be includes control over the type of
dither. Gone are the days of
airbrush I ng slight changes of colour,
taking hours. It can all be done with
the press of a button.
Tiling is another new feature. It
enables you to duplicate the brush,
making patterns and giving everything
an early 60s Top of the Pops look.
DigiPaint 3 has an unusual text
function, Letters are not typed on to
the picture, bui into a requester box.
This becomes a brush in the selected
font, which can be warped, rotated
and smoothed to get rid of all the
jagged edges on letters like O and S.
Text can also be made transparent or
multi-coloured, so you don't have to
go back and do it by hand,
P HOTON PAINT is the other
HAM art package to have had a
facelift. Animation is the major now
feature. You can now make HAM
pictures move, That is, if you have a
vast amount of memory. Which most
of us don’t. The anim demo supplied
will not work fully with 1 meg, but it
puts the point across. Lots of action
means lots of frames, and that
swallows ram.
The title bar at the top of the screen
has not changed since Photon Paint i f
but the menu bar has had a lot of new
features crammed into it. 1 much
prefer the layout in DigiPaint 3, but
once you have teamed the hot key
short cuts in Photon, the menu bar
will rarely be used.
Photon has a stencil (DigiPaint 3
doesn't). With it you can mask off the
part of the canvas you wish to keep,
and any of the colours within that
TRANSFER 24 is an extra program
on the second DigiPaint 3 disc. This
takes a HAM screen and turns it in
to a lo-res 32 colour picture. The
loading screen pops up to allow you
to select hi-res, interlace, horizontal
overscan and vertical overscan
before you load in your picture.
It produces a histogram that tells
you how much red+ green and blue
you have on your screen. This has
no relevance to drawing a good
picture, but is useful if you have
imported a digitised piccy from
DigiView and want to adjust the
tint
You can also fiddle with
brightness, contrast, saturation and
sharpness. If you have used
DigiView all the menus will look
familiar.
A common problem when pulling
together a screen from a number of
bits of clip art is that different
brushes need different palettes.
Lifting a damsel in distress from a
area will not be touched.
Cutting brushes is easy, with either
square or freehand cutting tools.
Brushes can be wrapped around
shapes, I liked this feature in the
original Photon Paint, and I'm glad to
see it was kept in Photon Paint 2.
Wrapping is something DigiPaint 3
can't do.
Contour has been added to the list
of shapes brushes can be wrapped
castle balcony and putting heT on a
sun-drenched beach all too often
results in giving her sea-green skin,
yellow lips and a dress which
dashes with her shoes.
Transfer 24 can play games with
the pallette. So if you have a 25
colour princess and a 20 colour
beach, you can use Transfer 24 to re-
map the beach into 12 colours and
the girl to 20 colours. By using a 32
colour mode there is room for
everything. After merging the two
you can touch up the result and
paint her lips red.
The utility is really designed for
using pictures which have been
saved using DigiView in the 24 hit
(16 million colour) mode. Hence its
name. But it is a program which
most Amiga artists could have used
at some time or other,
Thming a 4,096 colour screen into
a four colour one for an icon may
not yield useful results, but it is a
mark of flexibility that it is possible.
around - Tube. Cone, Ball, Ellipse,
Free, and two kinds of Cube - so
now you can remould the brush,
adding perspective to your work. It
does it properly and doesn't skimp
around the edges. My favourite is
Free, which lets you make a random
shape to wrap you brush on - you
can cram yoiiT brush into a egg timer
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DigiPaint 3
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■ GRAPHICS M
The Photon Paint 2 gadgets panel. Everything else is done from the menus or hot-keys
with the greatest of ease.
Other new features include Shadow,
which throws a drop shadow under
wherever you are on the screen. A
problem with this is if you have a
shadow going to the bottom right of
where your pointer is and you start
drawing upwards, the shadow will
overwrite the colour you are working
with.
Everyone seems to want to jump on
the video titling wagon, and the
genlock option is Microlllusions'
ticket to ride.
It doesn’t do anything clever, it just
takes all the menus and cursor off
your canvas. So in conjunction with a
system like MiniGen you can lay
HAM images and animations on your
home vids.
HAM artwork cart look incredibly life like.
This is tut example from Photon Paint 2
B OTH packages come with demo
pictures showing what can be
achieved with them. Photon Paint 2
has a second disc full of HAM artwork
which you can load up and use in the
tutorials, DigiPaint 3 not only gives
you the pictures to view in the art
package, but a routine on the second
disc which does wipes and fades.
It's all in the book
should never be forgiven.
The manual that comes with
Photon Paint 2 presents you with
endless pages of text but no
diagrams or pictures to help put the
point across. The problem is
alleviated by explanations being
well worded, so it won’t be long
before you will have your first
masterpiece on the screen.
DOCUMENTATION can make or
break a program. The manual for
DigiPaint 3 is well laid out. with room
after each chapter for notes. A good
idea, hut I prefer to scribble
comments in the margin.
I don’t understand how anyone
can produce a manual which lacks
an index.
This is a crime for which NewTek
showing all the artwork on the disc.
But art is about freedom of expression
and control over your medium, and
nothing dries the creative juices faster
than haying to wait for a slow
program to update a HAM screen.
In a side-by-side comparative test
DigiPaint 3 was the faster all round,
especially on brush movement and
fills. The fact that ail the menus are
close to hand and easy to read also
makes DigiPaint 3 faster and a
pleasure to use.
If you are just starting out in HAM,
then for its speed, ease of use and very
good layout, DigiPaint 3 is the best
place to start. It's going to take a
Photon Paint 3 to beat it.
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Simple menus. Animation needs Lots of
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SPEED
HAM will always be slow, but In this
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greater accuracy.
Improvements over version 1 do not
merit the price of an upgrade
OVERALL 64%
Only worth buying for the animation,
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EASE OF USE...,
A doddle to doodle _ the user interface is
fun be with , Flexible brushes give great
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SPEED.
No need to wait for the paint to dry. Very
fast for HAM.
VALUE ..
Expensive „ but cheaper than the
alternative.
OVERALL 68%
it's been a long time coming, but ft's
easily the best buy in HAM paint
software.
112 AMIGA COMPUTING liecember 1969
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Detxmbe r 1969 AMIGA COMPUTING 07
Simon Rockman meets
the Cray twins -
Professor Ad Wiseman
and Eric Lugtigheid
M AD professors are supposed
to live in castle towers
surrounded by flasks of bubbling
liquid* By this definition Professor Ad
Wiseman is not mad. He lives in a
comfortable flat in a very select part of
Chelsea with his col league Eric
Lugtigheid. There are no flasks , just
three Amiga 2000s.
Who else but a madman would want
to interface an Amiga to a Cray? Not
only is it difficult to find one of these
water-cooled supercomputers, you
couldn't fit it in the front room. That is
Jis amiga Computing number 19m
Straightening out the graphics kinks
■ FEATURE ■
ESP1TE the heavy
computational side of the Cray
project the main aim is to provide
tools for students on art courses.
Sculpt is the best program on the
Amiga for designing shapes, but some
things are quite difficult to do,
Freehand drawing is one of them, It is
often easier to sketch an outline in 2D
and then convert it to a solid shape.
The obvious method of sketching on
paper seems a bit low- tech. Digi Works
is a program which can take an IFF
Fde and spot the edges of a shape. It
then turns the edges into vertices for a
3D shape, Eric wasn't happy with the
quality of the results. Some lines
which should be straight come out
with kinks, and it cannot transfer
colour information.
His solution was to write a program
which was more accurate. The two
scientists share the philosophy that
computer languages are just a method
for communicating with the computer
and that they should choose the
language which suits their purpose best.
For the edge detection program they
chose GFA Basic, Ad wrote a
procedure to load an IFF picture
which so impressed GFA it is new
included with the Basic interpreter.
Thfe result is so quick it is hard to
believe the software is written in
Basic. Given a complicated Deluxe
Paint screen to read, the edges were
spotted at least as quickly as
Digi Works and the accuracy was very
much better,
A magnify option is useful in
tidying up over-complicated areas
where vertices meet, But the most
powerful utility is a rotation option,
This can give a 2D shape perspective
before it is saved out in Sculpt format.
Each object is saved separately - not
as a scene, which makes the final
assembly more flexible.
Cray coupler . Eric Lugtigheid and
behind him, Professor Wiseman
if you can persuade the US
Department of Defense to let you part
with $5,000,000 for one.
Well according to Professor
Wiseman, lots of people. Mainly
universities and colleges who have a
lot of students and need cheap,
powerful graphic terminals. They f d
like super expensive terminals hut
can't afford to equip computer labs
with 30 personal Irises at £20,000
each. They can afford Ami gas,
And if anyone knows what the
educational establishments want Ad
does, In his native Holland he teaches
136 students at the Utrecht School of
Art. The school has 80 Amigas and at
least 90 of the students have an Amiga
at home. He sees the real benefit to
Commodore as being the role his
students play spreading the word, At
the end of each year they go out into
the world of industry and commerce
where they persuade employers to
buy Amigas. Eric and Ad are in
England on a six month project for the
Royal College of Art to produce
software to link the Amiga and a Cray
2 at the University of London
Computer Centre (ULCC), The main
thrust of this is to get the
supercomputer to do all the work
necessary in crunching numbers for
ray tracing.
While the three Amigas they have
can produce pretty good results
thanks to their 68020 processor cards,
it still takes somewhere between an
hour and a day to produce a screen.
The Cray can do it in seconds.
Unfortunately the Cray cannot run
Sculpt- Animate 4D t it uses a program
written in Utah called MovieBYU.
The obvious thing to do is forget
abcot Amigas and just use MovieBYU.
Obvious but stupid. When you are
using an Amiga the processor time is
free, you’ve paid for the whole
machine. When you are on-line to a
Cray every microsecond is shared
with other users and you have to pay.
It is far cheaper for students to
fiddle with designs on the Amiga and
then get the Cray to do the final high
quality work. It is also far easier.
MovieBYU has no graphical user
interface. Shapes are designed by
typing in numbers. A decent sphere
needs GOO points, each with three
coordinates. A fair bit of keyboard
bashing.
The student, who may well be on an
art - not a computing - course uses
an Amiga and designs shapes, trying
them out in low resolutions before
logging on to the Cray. Then Ad and
Eric's program translates the Scuplt
data file into MovieBYU format. The
student logs on to Cray and uploads
the file for the heavy calculation to
begin.
Seconds later the picture is
complete and ready for downloading,
but it is not a standard IFF Fde. The
picture will use 16 million colours
and needs around a megabyte of
screen memory. So some special
software converts this into an Amiga
HAM picture, which only needs 300k
and is quicker to download.
When the project is complete the
way will be open for ail universities
to interface cheaply with a Cray,
A hand from Commodore
M UCH of the work Eric and
Professor Wiseman have
done has only been made possible
with cooperation from Commodore:.
Jennifer Perry from the marketing
department arranged the loan of
three Amiga 2000s with A262Q
processor cards, hard discs and
multi -sync monitors.
These are used extensively both at
the flat and at the Royal College of
Art. Ad also uses his own machine,
which has a Commodore 2080
monitor. This looks like the standard
1084 but has a special long-
persistence screen. The effect is to
hold an image.
Rapid movement — such as
moving the mouse pointer or the
screen scrolling - results in the
whole object smearing. But it is idea!
for working in interlace mode
because it hides ail the flicker.
December 1939 AMIGA COMPUTING 119
Announcing PRODATA - the Arnor database
Software for the 1990s
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of £55, aval table only until 30fh
November 1969- The recommended
price will then become £79.95.
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1 REALLY am surprised to read that
you dare to caJI yourself “an inde-
pendent publication'! I am refer-
ring to advice given to Marcus
Barrett on Letters pages in the
August issue of your magazine.
If Commodore has to advertise
its A590 Hard Drive Plus then why
not do it in an inoffensive manner?
Please have some respect for your
readers]
Don't get me wrong, as a micro
owner with years of experience I
have never been as satisfied with
my machine as I am since I have
bought my Amiga, Personally J
don't think any micro on the mar-
ket at present (including all models
of Archimedes) comes dose to its
level of sophistication. But unfor-
tunately drive design and produc-
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absolutely useless at. Do you
remember the 5.25in drive for the
Commodore 64? Yes - the ones
with the speed of a Spectrum cas-
sette and reliability of the English
weather.
Similarly with second drives for
Amiga (3. 5 in floppy). I compared
my Triangle with my friend's
Commodore, Mine was 12 per cent
faster, 40 per cent smaller and
makes virtually no noise at all For
reasons unknown my drive is also
£40 cheaper.
Therefore, if you must name
only one supplier when advising
Hi, I m the new mail man. Man. It s my job to sort your scribbin’s and spill the
beans on the problems we all have when DFO: starts to whirr. So if you’ve got some-
thing to say, say it to me.
The best letters will he sent prizes of up to
£100, so get a copy of Pnotext into your drive
pronto. Drop me a line at Ezra Surfs Postbox
(ESP), Amiga Comptiling, Second Floor,
North House, 78-84 Gngar Road,
Brentwood, Essex, CM15 9BG.
your readers about hard drives,
why not suggest Amdrive (40mb at
£399), which is more advanced,
more reliable and without question
a much better buy? Pm convinced
that there is a purpose in the exis-
tence of Commodore drives, but as
yet I haven’t been able to discover
wha! it is. It would be nice if in
Wired
I HAVE built a connection lead for
my old 1541 disc drive to my
Amiga using the examples from
the manuals. Doesn't work though.
They are a six pin from the 1541 to
a 25 pin connector.
I have KindWords 2 and am
having trouble trying to print out a
letter with graphics. The printer I
am using is a Hewlett Packard
Paint jet, the graphics from Photon
Print and Deluxe Photolab
Paul Belts,
Penny com vquick, Plymouth.
Wow, It would be easier to ansiver
these questions if you had said
which manual, / can 7 find any-
thing about the 154J in
Introduction to the Amiga, I guess
you are trying to wire the drive up
as a second floppy. That is a no-
no. The 1541 is u drive with brains.
It uses a serial interface and a
whole load of circuitry to slow
everything down. No one said they
were good brains. So you 7 j used to
talk to the 1 541 using the serial
port. {And given how stupid it is, it
might help if you shout.}
The software to do this is called
Access 84. At the mo. if is only
available for the A 1 000, but an
A500 version is due oaf in January.
Who is Penny?
Kind Wards will not accept high
resolution or HAM pictures. You
need a better paint program, try
Deluxe Paint.
future you could remember that
there is more to being independent
that just calling yourself indepen-
dent. I think apologies are in order.
Adam Kusnierz,
Wembley, Middlesex.
While the editor isn't looking Til
admit that he is biased. He bought
an A 5 90 and thinks the sun. shines
out of its SCSI port- But he argues
convincingly that he chose it
because it is cheap, has the best
DMA chip and is expandable. But
then he buys the manufacturers
product because it is the one most
likely to be supported by third
party software
l object to the accusation that
Amiga Computing is biased in
favour of Commodore.
The Vortex Hard Drive received
a much better review than the
A590.
The Amdrive has not been
reviewed because ASAP was
unwilling to lend ejs one for review.
Chatting with technical bods
(and this is not a review) indicates
that the Amdrive hardware is
pretty damn good but is handi-
capped by slow software.
The best setup would he a
Commodore interface with a better
drive in the box. And the nearest
anyone comes to that is Power
Computing with the Turbo 3.
Secret drawer
YOUR free software doesn't work, I
bought Amiga Computing to use
Diskchecker but found that on
opening a window from
Workbench and typing in the rele-
vant command produces
“Unknown Command Disk-
checker", As the remainder of the
disc appears to run OK, is this a
fault or is there somethi ng that 1 do
not know?
I have some Lotus 1-2-3 5.2 5 in
discs intended for use on a Wang
PC with a Winchester drive. As f
have a Triangle Multi-Drive would
Lolus run an the Amiga using a
utility such as DOS to DOS?
Tim Goff,
St Leonards-an-Sea,
East Sussex.
Aw, simple. To keep things tidy
programs get put into drawers.
And the drawer which has
Diskc/recker in it is called
"Diskchecker". Origin a J huh? So
type cd diskchecker to get into the
drawer and then type diskchecker
to run the program,
just because you can read a disc
doesn't mean you can run a pro-
gram. I can put The Beach Boys
Greatest Hits into my C64 cassette
deck, hut even a high speed loader
won't cope with it, Dos to Dos will
read data , you could puli off files
and read them into a word proces-
sor . ; But you can t run Lotus.
Commodore used to have a pro-
gram called Transformer which
attempted this but failed. Amiga
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you want to?
' Online answers
PLEASE could you tell me where
lo hay a modem and how much it
would cost? And if possible could
you give me an address or phone
number. What colour printer
would be best to buy for about
£250? On Workbench 1,2. whore is
the disc doctor?
Jamie Lamb,
Leigh -on-$ea, Essex.
What kind of modem you need
depends on what you want to log
in to. The two best buys at the
DTP printer
QUESTION; Could you recom-
mend a printer for an 11-year-dd
boy who likes toying with Photon
Paint and would like to do DTP
quite soon. For that purpose could
you recommend a DTP pad that
allows graphics and is quite simple
to use, both of them quite cheap,
please,
1 have just upgraded from an
Acorn Electron and am completely
lost with Amiga Basic, The manual
just confuses me. My mum is inter-
ested for educational software for
ll and 13-year-old children (mv
brother and me) for the Amiga 500
or do we have to get a BBC emula-
tor?
Christopher Beeley,
Retford. Notts.
The Star LClD colour printer is
very popular among Amiga own-
ers. Not up to high quality DTP, but
if you are working to a tight budget
iVs highly recommended.
Publishers Choice is the cheap -
l P ro P eT &TP program,
although you could skimp a bit
and use Kind Words, which is a
word processor with some DTP
functions.
The Basic Commodore supplied
with the Amiga isn't much cop.
Nave a look at Hisoft Basic. There
jsn t much educational software.
Check out the articles in the July
and October issues on teaching
and Fun School 2.
moment are the Microlink
MuitiSpeed and the Amstrad
SM2400.
The Multispeed runs at up to
1200 bits per second full duplex \
which is compatible with mostbul-
letm boards and subscription ser-
vices.
It is available from Database
Direct on 051-357 2961 and costs
£t 79.95, Ask them for an IBM com*
patible cable.
The Amstrad costs £250 but is
often available for less, It works of
twice the speed, which means it
works with all the same systems as
the MicroLink modem but wilt also
work with the newer 2400 bits per
second systems.
/ tried a couple of dealers near
you but had no joy in finding any-
one who stocks modems . Y2 in
Watford stocks the Amstrad. This
is a good dealer and understands
modems and Amigos. Cal} on 0923
510161 and hassle Rod.
The Star LC-1Q colour seems to
be winning a bt of friends in the
Amiga world. It is o good cheap
mono printer but will splosh a bit
of colour around with the appro-
priate ribbon.
Ttw cheapest way to get one is
to visit one of the Christmas com-
puter shows - the Commodore
Show or Computer Shopper - or to
haggle in Tottenham Court Road.
Service? Wtrsraf?
Diskdoctor is on the main 1.2
disc, you need to click on the CU
kon and type Diskdoctor A better
program is DiskSalv, which was on
the August issue cover disc.
Count on me
I HAVE four questions for you,
1. 1 atn wondering if it s possible to
have digitised speech and samples
sounds on my workbench when it's
loading. If so what program can I
use?
3. I am trying to make my own
game using a package called
] Graphicraft. Is ii possible or will I
need another? If so which one will
be best for a beginner or can I use
Amiga Basic? ff so can you tell me
some commands?
Martin Breeze,
Nantwich, Cheshire.
Good grief, you've a ht to ham.
First, to ask four questions you
have to be able to count beyond
two. Thirdly the PD program PLAY
will produce a sound from an IFF
sound file. You'll need to create the
THIS is one of those pointless
letters. It’s about a murder! Yes
a murder Whns? Mine, well
not exactly mine. I had a
Colonel Hansford in the air
force in Falcon, I. well he, had
150 merit points I know its not
a lot but it takes some getting. *
Anyway one flight i left my
landing gear out too long and a
voice said H Warning Warning"
so f put my landing gear up
but the voice continued.
While looking for the fault I
was not concentrating and the
ground came up and hit me.
All that hard work lost. Ah!
well now I've got my mission
disc I’m satisfied.
Wayne Hansford,
Poole, Dorset.
sample with a digitiser and then
include PLAY and the sound fib in
the Startup-sequence on your
workbench.
Graphicraft is not man enough
for the job of writing a gome. The
simple wimps way of doing this is
to use Shoot-bm-up Construction
Kit.
This might teach you something
about game design , but you'd learn
zilch about programming. A better
roufe is to buy a copy of Hisoft
Basic and iearn something about
programming ,
Don't try to run before you con
walk.
Bunch of keys
CONGRATS on your excellent mag.
Now down to business; I am cur-
rently prototyping a spreadsheet
program in AmigaBasic and need i
to detect function and cursor arrow
key presses but have been unable
to find any documentation on this
subject.
The ROM Kernel Manual shows
I how to do this from C, but I've
been unable to get it working under
Basic.
The final version of my spread-
sheet will be written in a more
suitable language, probably C, but I
chose Basic for the prototype for
speed of development.
JP Winnard.
Stand ish, Lanes,
Thanks jP. The first thing to do
when writing any program in Bask
is chck once on the icon, drag it
over to the trashcan and delete the
godawful program. Then reach for
your Visa card with one hand, the
phone with the other and dial \
■ LETTERS
0525 7lSt8l to order a copy of
Hisoft Basic.
You can read all the keys, and
this even works with the standard
Microsoft Basic, by using the
IN KEYS command dm it men ted on
page 8-63 of the Basic manual.
Good luck with the C.
Born in the USA
OVER hero in the US we use a dif-
ferent video format, NTSC as
opposed to your PAL, My question
is this; Would a PAL monitor work
on an NTSC machine?
J have bough! several programs
in Europe, but they're always
longer [ban my monitor screen can
handle, Should 1 get a PAL monitor
or get a PAL computer and moni-
tor?
Chris Dacenza,
Fort Walton Beach.
Florida, USA,
To run a PAL set-up you would
need a European computer, moni-
tor and a power supply. Smart soft-
ware houses produce games for
both screen formats. It s not worth
the hassle of changing.
Warning
READERS should not buy the hoot
selector advertised in the
November issue. This device
enables you to boot from an exter- i
nal drive, as does A-Taol, a PD pro-
gram. Bui the software does not
cost £9,&9. A-Tool con also disable
extra memory, detect if a virus is
present, show and install disc boot-
blocks, disable the music filter
AND copy discs in under a minute.
It also displays the time and is
memory resident so all the features
remain after a reset. Your meg and
disc are far butter than all the oth-
ers f
Roy Weckes,
Sheerness, Kent.
Others? What others?
Clued up
READING the latest ish f just had
to write, Reference Amiga Letters
September. You said that there are
some Amiga goodies which are
unobtainable over here. Well you
can buy the 'Boing' 1 mouse here
for £79,95 from MAST, otherwise
known as George Thompson
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The Haitec 3D glasses can be got
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generating images to use with the
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)f Mccubliin,
Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh,
Well, the Ed wasn't too hot on
readers' Jeffers - which is why
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The truth!
I CONGRATULATE your magazine
on printing Steve Rackley’s letter
which was more than your main
rival publication would do when I
complained to them after I had
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1 never even received the cour-
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forthwith, Am/ga Computing is
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Desperately seeking
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AFTER reading your magazine I am
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help. 1 am having difficulty finding
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I need to be able to control 12 or
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(rack of order details, payments
made and balances for each one,
Previously I ran the dub on a
Spectrum 43k using two marvel-
lous programs called Finance
Manager and Masterfile,
Even though the Amiga is a far
more advanced computer than the
Spectrum, there don't appear to be
many good business program!. Can
you or any of your readers restore
my faith in the superb Amiga by
coming up with a decent accounts
package?
CB Martin,
Wordsley, West Midlands.
f cant vouch for quality because
m've only just had the programs
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accounts programs just out.
Cashbook Con trailer and Final
Accounts from Digita, on 0395
270273, costs £69.95. Smaii
Business Manager from Hi Tension,
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XY2ZT from ASAP, call 0274
260222, casts £149 95
Amor ; 0733 68909, has Prodata
£90 which is o neat looking
databose, and l suspect best suited
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will be reviewed soon.
Get it together
THE September 19S9 issue was the
first AC issue I've bought and I
instantly became a regular reader.
The assembly language program-
tiling article was very good,
especially as Ym trying to learn
assembly myself.
Anyway, you seem like sensible
blokes, if not slightly odd, so I've a
few questions Lhat I hope you will
answer.
Unlike a different mag that
edited one of my letters, leaving
me in the dark. OK here goes:
How do you edit graphic raw
data, such as the logo, of the demo
source code? Where is the actual
music data in the demo source?
OK, that’s the lot for now, I hope
you reply, as it'll be a great help.
Thanks for the mag, and the reply]
KarJ Bergin,
Co Wicklow, Eire,
jf've cut your letter down a bii
because the simple answer is - Bay
some books ", Computers Amiga
Machine Language Programming
Guide, £21,95 from The Computer
Store 021-770 0468. There was no
mask source suppiied with the
demo, buf you can add your own.
The tools to convert an IFF file fo
HAW data were on the September
cover disc.
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