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Volume 2
Number 9
February 1989
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AMIGA ARCADE

HOTTEST

ACTION

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spotlight, Not a review of an
unfinished game! Nebulus II,
Slarfligbt and Kolor previews.

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MACHINE CODE

W\ I I REVENGE OF THE
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Or music out of the machine, There
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You and yam Amiga can make beautiful musk together

4 AMIGA COMPl T7JVG February' ! - m}

■CONTENTS!

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More action for The Hghlm, hints
for Ail Points Bulletin, Fernandez
Will Die with help, and Cave Runner
infinite lives, as Max fights back.

SOFTUAR

ARGASM TAKES
ON DEVPAC V2.0

Devpac, so long the top (not for
programmers now has a new rival lo
worry about. Need it? The battle lines
are clearly drawn.

LETTERS

He's the dude who's sometimes rude,
Hes the cool who knows (lie rule.
He's the host who opens the post-
He's the getter of your letter.

• Quart/. It'll knock your clocks off

• Hole in one. Enough to fill the Albert Hall

• LIS Gold got it right on Outrun second lap

• You can pull a bird with the Eye of Homs

• l ake on aliens in Xenophobe. "And win

• Clown ‘o Mania for those who juggle balls

• Michael Jackson in Moonwalker fantasy

• Pictionary draws a blank scorecard

• Plus, Lancaster. Star
Command. Dragonscape,

• Roller Coaster Humbler.
Hally Cross Challenge,

• Dragon Spirit, Magic
Marble, Slayer, Kelly X.

• Speedboat Assassins,
Mind bender. Switchblade,

§ Shulflepuck Cafe, Tuubin,
Manic Mansion. Kccf

the Thief, and Chostbusters

Enter the
Onslaught,
violence with
intellect
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AMIGA SCENE

One meg A500 on the cards?

COMMODORE often makes running
changes to the design of the Amiga.
This gives them flexibility in the
choice of suppliers and gives room for
making savings on cost or improve-
ments.

The latest version of the A500 circuit
hoard indicates we may soon see the
A50O with a megabyte of ram as stan-
dard. By using the same type of high
capacity ram chips used in the A590
new A500s have fewer chips and sock-
ets on the board to add more to bring
the capacity up to 1 meg.

The upgrade will have to be fitted by
an approved dealer to maintain the

Eight shows
in a month!

THE globe-trotting Amiga
lover could have spent the
whole of November going to
shows. Commodore's star
popped up at AmiExpo ‘69
in Cologne, Comdex in Las
Vegas, The Computer
Shopper Show at Alexandra
Palace, the Commodore
Christmas Show at the
Hammersmith Novotel.
Computer Graphics ‘89
again at Ally Pally, the
Scottish Computer Show.
The Italian Enigma Show
and the Dec User Show.

Most exciting of these
was the Cologne (Kdln to
the Germans) show, organ-
ised hy the American com-
panies responsible fur the
successful US shows.

With more Amigas than
any other country the
German event was bound to
be a success, hut no one
could have guessed quite
how successful.

More than 11,000 people
arrived on the first day, tak-

warranty but it should be a cheaper
way to upgrade than fitting an A501
type expansion in the trapdoor.

As standard, the machine will work
with an A5U1 and this is probably still
the best expansion method, since the
new Amigas do not have a battery
backed up clock. It is not possible to
use both kinds of upgrade.

The new board Amigas feature the
Enhanced Chip Set version of the
Agnus chip. Its sister - Denise - is still
in prototype form. The ECS Agnus,
known variously as Fang2, Fatter
Agnus, Obese Agnus and American
Tourist, offers a US style 400 line dis-

mettittry.. Sony's optical disc drive
ing everyone there a bit by
surprise and totally filling
the hall, which was sudden-
ly looking a bit small. AI
certain points during Ihe
day I he guards had to stop
people from entering as a
safety precaution, Next day
the attendance figure was
up to 20,000

The only people not
complaining about the
cramped conditions were
the box-shifters - one
German dealer managed to
sell over thirty 68030

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boards in the first day.
Deulschemarks were flow-
ing as the faithful bought
anything on offer.

Commodore didn't have
much new to offer, as spec-
ulation of an early glimpse
at the A 3 000 proved
unfounded.

The show had an overall
professional bias, with busi-
ness slightly outnumbering
the games stands. Most
exhibitors were German,
Scandinavian ur from the
Slates. Disappointingly
there was hardly any British
representation.

Hopefully next lime
round the organisers will
have a larger venue and
more UK companies will
realise that Germany is in
the same continent.

Those commentators who
expected to see the Amiga
3000 launched at Comdex
were as disappointed as
they were 111 informed. The

play which fills the screen and one
meg of chip ram.

Obviously you need the extra 512k to
use this feature, so a standard A 5 00 is
set to give only half a meg of chip
memory. Your dealer can change this
by cutting a track and fitting the chips,
The ECS Agnus and sockets on the
board both point to Commodore selling
a lmeg machine.

The only thing preventing this from
happening is the price of the chips.
Steve Franklin, MD of Commodore UK,
said that this will happen when
Commodore can produce the machine
and still sell it for £399.

5.4 version of Unix vvhich
will be sold with the A30G0
has not been finished yet. It
will then have to be ported
to the Amiga and tested.

Commodore did launch a
range of new products. The
A2630 card has four meg of
ram, a 66030 and a 68682
maths co-processor. .Since
the 6603(1 has the memory
management circuitry nec-
essary for Unix on the chip
there is nu need for a 66551
and Commodore's press
release was wrong in claim-
ing the card has one.

The current A2620 is sold
in I he US bundled with an
Amiga in the guise of an
A2S0D. Since this is just a
marketing stratagem it is
unlikely we'll see the new
board in the A2500/3D
which was launched at the
show.

We will see the card,
although when and at what
price is yet to be deter-
mined. if other cards arc a
guide we'll see £l-Sl. And
at $2,195 that is on a bit
more than Atari's nearest
rival, the TT.

Direct Digital Distribution
(0708 754704] used the
Computer Shopper show to
debut its optical disc drive
and interface for the Amiga
500. This uses a combina-
tion of lasers and magnets
to read, write and magneti-
cally erase optical discs.
Each disc holds 650
megabytes and they are

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interchangeable. The speed
compares with a slow hard
drive hut has the advantage
that the discs are remove-
able. The unit is made by
Sony and uses what looks
like 5,25 inch compact discs
in a plastic case. Each disc
costs £360 and the drive
£4,000.

Also launched at the
show were a new' multi-port
card and the A2091 hard
disc controller which uses
l he same chip as I he A590
and lias room for 2 meg of
ram. At S399 without the
memory or drive this seems
expensive .but is likely to
be discounted when it
arrives in the near future.

The Amiga Centre
Scotland
1031-557
4242) was at
Computer
Graphics R9
with its new
32 bit frame
buffer. This
looks great,
but the
human eye
can't resolve
more than the
16 million
colours that a
24 bit card
gives. The
Other eight
bits are used
for informa-
tion which
can be hooked into video
mixer.

Reaction at the show has
lead to the decision that the
card will be gen lockable
and low priced. Thai means
less than £i .ooo,

The Novotel may have
witnessed the first show
Commodore has run itself
but little changed - the
same faces manning the
same stands, albeit with
some welcome additions.

Selling lQU.UUU copies of
any program will make a
software house like you and
that is exactly how many
Batman packs Commodore
expected to shift at
Christmas. Good news not
only for Amiga owners but
also for Electronic Arts
which has Deluxe Paint II
and Interceptor in the pack,
and Ocean which will see
the boost to sales benefit
Batman and New Zealand
Story.

Both companies were at
the show “to support
Commodore 1 ', Ocean doing
some great half-price deals
on latest releases as well as
giving out posters and stick-
ers.

This was principally a
chance to buy Christmas
resents, so you wouldn’t
ave expected many new
products. One exception
was Trip-a-tron, Jeff
Minter’s first soiree into
Amigadom. The light syn-
thesiser. which makes your
mind take off when you put
a CD on, has been lung
awaited by Minter maniacs
and sold well even on the
pleasantly uncrowded first
day. See the full review in
this issue.

Bytes and Pieces was

doing some great deals on
big hard drives and showed
an early version of
AmigaDos 1.4. This had the
new boot-up sequence but
none of the fabby 3d icons.

The very fastest hard disc
interface is HardFrame from
Microbiotics in Texas. UK
sales are handled by Oasis,
busy answering every ques-
tion possible thanks to the
presence of the designers
and marketing people over
from the US. It isn’t the
cheapest and only works on
an Amiga 20rG. but it is the
best.

The best selling item on
the first day scorned to be a
£l.U9 pack of three paper
aeroplanes from the
Hamleys stand. Mjndscape
and Mirrorsuft seemed to
have mastered the art of get-
ting them to loop the loop.

The Christmas spirit of
giving was represented by a

balloon race in aid of
Capita] Radio’s Help-A-
London-Child - a chance to
win an A50CI, or a trip in a
hot air balloon. Despite the
fetching Biggies outfit
Caroline from Commodore
said she didn’t fancy a trip
in a wicker basket.

Commodore pul on a
good show with Amigas,
Music-X, midi instruments
and some great sax playing.

But most of all the show
was about bargain hunting.
The prices of half meg ram
expansions and second disc
drives tumbled. The going
rate for 5 12k with a clock
was £65. Disc drives could
be bought for the same sum.
Printers were savagely dis-
counted. If fact the only

thing which seems
over-priced was the foud at
the bar. No, little changed at
Commodore’s first a 11-
Commodore show.

Fun for the
kinder, too

DATABASE Software [OG25
659333) has produced a
German version of its top
selling Amiga educational
package Fun School 2.
Cross format sales currently
stand at 66,000 and Fun
School is expected to top
the 100,000 mark by the
Spring, according to market-
ing director Chris Payne.

Fun School 2 comes in
three age defined sections
for children under six; six
to eight; eight and over, it
was designed by teachers to
combine entertainment with
a wide range of early learn-
ing skills.

Bonus buy

ELECTRICIAN Michael
Graham (24) from Dover-by-
Cockermouth, Cumbria won
himself a £ 5 0 0 video
recorder when he bought
the 500,000th copy of Mini
Office, the small business
package from Database
Software (0625 676666).

"1 couldn't be more
pleased both with Mini
Office and the unexpected
bonus that went with it", he
said.

Law lore
goes online

RECENT Department of
Industry statistics show that
the need to
comply
with
employ-
ment law
costs the
average
company
more than
£5,000 a
year.
Where
health and
safety laws
are con-
cerned this
can he as
much as
£13,500.
The best
way to
avoid these high costs is to
get good advice on the rele-
vant legislation and that is
now available to computer
users through the
MicroLink communications
sendee (0527 26515).

This new facility has been
launched by MicroLink in
conjunction with profes-
sional consultant Premier
Employment Services
which gives specialist
advice on personnel and
health and safety law 24
hours a day, 365 days a
year.

"Making such a service
available to subscribers
minimises the risk for man-
agement”. said MicroLink's
head of marketing. Martin
Turner, “Instead of going
through the lengthy legal
process, subscribers to
MicroLink can now consult
their computer ”, The
charge is £3 for each
inquiry.

Disc or discount

REGULAR readers may think we’ve made a
tiny mistake this month and missed the disc
off the cover. We haven’t. Made a mistake
that is. We have left the disc off. but it is
deliberate.

After a lot of discussions with readers,
and the results of the survey in the disc
pages, we decided that a magazine should
he a means of education and entertainment,
not just a source of cheap software. So we
have reverted to the proven formula of
doing what we are good at and not pretend-
ing to be a software house.

With the disc we successfully avoided the

approach of charging a software house for a
demo, half- filling the cracks with the first
PD program which came to hand and then
hiking the price. We like to think we gave
you a genuinely useful disc which you
would keep, rather than one you would for-
mat after half an hour.

Without the disc we have been able to
bring the price of the magazine down to
£1.95, We are also able to devote time to
things like the free booklet on this month’s
cover. More people, especially risers new to
the Amiga, will be able to enjoy the benefits
of the best Amiga magazine.

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Arcana smashes back with style REVIEWED

Botor - 32 colours, eight-wav scrolling. 50 frames a second

MAX TAYLOR is dearly a resilient
man. His company, Arcana
Software, hasn't released a game
for over a year, thanks mainly to
the aborted Mars Cops project. But
with a new sales and PR deal with
Active Sales and Marketing, it
looks like 1990 is going to be the
year that Arcana at last gets hack to
producing high quality software.

Seeing the new year in with a
bang is Roinr, a strategy shoot-’em-
up coded by Danish programming
team Systematic*. Written on the
Amiga with eight-way scrolling in
32 colours. Rotor has gamepiay
which is a mixture of Thrust and
Gidu with a dash of Cosmic Pirate,

"it runs at SCI frames per sec-
ond, " said Max Taylor.

“We don’t believe it,'' said
Amiga Arcade.

“Nor did I," said Max Taylor,
"Until i saw it”

And neither did we until we

STARFLJGHT from Electronic Arts
is a big game. It'll come as no sur-
prise tD you to learn, then, that
Starflight is a fantasy role-playing
game.

The year is 4619 and your mis-
sion is lu find colon isable worlds,
gather minerals, ancient artefacts
and learn I he secrets of alien races.

Not exactly an original storyline,
but what Starflight lacks in plot it
makes up for in size - 270 star sys-
tems and 890 planets, each with
almost two million locations, it ail
adds up lo over onc-and-a- half bil-
lion locations to be explored
throughout the galaxy.

Along the way you'll encounter
giant gas planels, ice planets, lava
planets, rock, worlds and ocean
worlds.

Navigation is aided hy a detailed
starmap. and nu matter what planet
you orbit, vital statistics flash on
the screen to inform you what lies
ahead - atmosphere, mass of plant,
hydrosphere, Lithosphere, lempera-
ture and global weather.

Your starship is well endowed
with lasers, missiles, shields and
armour, but you have been warned
only to use violence as a lasl resort,
Communication is the key to the
game.

If it's not in ihe shops now, it
should be very soon, priced £24,99,

saw the demo Max sent us. The
colours are all there, the scrolling
is all there, and it s smooth -
smooth enough for us not to argue
about the 50 frames per second
claim.

NEB ULUS was very pretty on 1(5
hit, hul it was an B hit game at
heart and it showed. ]| was not a
Hewson success. Now the original
programmer is collaborating with
German programming team
infernal Ryle Systems to produce

was built to be used, which has
caused great problems with the ST
conversion. Because of this the
game won't be ready for review
until after ihis issue goes to press -
there'll be no reviews of demos in
this magazine!

the sequel, N'ebulus 11.

Togo returns in his adventure
through Nor, travelling from island
to island, climbing, leaping and
jumping up and dnwn the 16
revolving towers. Expect to see him
late spring.

93% Ninja Warriors
90% North & South
89% Onslaught
89% Shufftepuck Cafe
87% Maniac Mansion
82% Quam
81% Hole in One
81% Mindbender
79% Switchhlade
77% Clown-o-mania
77% Motmwalker
72% Dragnnscape
72% Star’ Command
71% Eye of Horus
7(1% Turbo Outrun
70% Xenophobe
69% Keef the Thief
69% Magic Marble
68% Chostbusters IT
63% Rally Cross Challenge
62% Tonbin’

61% Roller Coaster Rum bier
58% Speedboat Assassins
53% Lancaster
49% Dragon Spirit
32% Stayer
23% Kelly X
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AMIGA COMPUTING fatiuary 1990 15

■ AMIGA ARCADE ■

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TAfcfft's no lime for naval cart tertrpJd-
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The game

EHMM

The E'CQP study fur cockpit design Ays teen used ns I An bash for the control pnnpl in b-29. Thb uies
selectable displays called up on ^nwlt V/Jf Options pnrhirfr n siato-of^ihe-aif mov ing mop, ji'civigufinii
and weapons information ti/rd no Mfushimed v/dH'Scuu rtidur "bettiUs* it (oaks pretty".

KEEPING up with technology
makes the flight-si m writer's life a
herd one. So why bother? F-29
RetaLiaior is a flight into fantasy. It
puts vou in control of one of the
next generation of jet fighters,
armed with futuristic weapons.

[f vou find working out which
button in push to close the canopy
hard work, you have no chance
when it comes to completing 99
missions. For this reason F-29 con-
centrates on the action instead of
trying to accurately mimic Ihe
pitch, yaw, rate of climb and roll
rates that an out-and-out simulator
like Sub Logic's jet replicates.

Still, F-29 is no simple
Afterburner - if it moves shoot it -
-

Iff AMIGA COMPUTING January 1 SS0

■ AMIGA ARCADE ■

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OCEAN has found the right people
to write the program. Phil Alison,
Russell Payne and Martin Wright
wrote Amiga and ST Falcon for
.Spectrum Holobyte. Anyone who
has anything to do with the promo-
tion of Falcon may have given the
Impression that the program was
written in the US of A, but
Runcorn is a more accurate loca-
tion.

The team has some other games

pending. Russell and Martin wrote
Flight dF the Intruder, which will
be out soon from Spectrum
Holobyte. Phil - the lead program-
mer - has many 6 bit titles to his
credit and a couple of 16 bit things,
including Road Wars and Mayday
Squad,

Being local means that the pro-
grammers can pop into Manchester
to visit Ocean, a significant help
with a project of this complexity.

The plane

SET in the future, F-29 Relaliator uses two planes
which are still in development, designed not to be the
next generation of fighter aircraft but the one after
that. They are the Lockheed F-22, which is still so
secret no one outside the Pentagon (or the Kremlin)
has seen a photo of it, and the Grumman X-29. The X
stands for experimental. In service the name will be
changed to F-29. Hence the name of the game.

The F-29 Is tomorrow's fighter, It has swept forward
wings, which give better rates of turn and roll charac-
teristics than normal wings. The controls are fly-by-
wire, which means a computer looks after little
problems like stalls. The X-29 has illy bitty wings at
the front called canards which make a stall less likely.

All fascinating stuff to plane buffs, To the rest of us
it means that the thing should feel like a cross
between Interceptor and Falcon, and it should turn
better and be easier Id fly. It does and it Is.

arcade game. The program is some-
ihing of a departure for Ocean.
King of s bit software, it has
realised that the Amiga demands a
more mature approach, with more
sophisticated software.

You are taking part in a war.
There are fronts which show where
opposing forces are dug in. The
three scenarios, including Dne sea-
based one, are based on maps of
real places.

The actual data came from
Cheyenne Mountain in the
American Mid- West and has rivers
which skimander and roads which
join towns. This gels away from the
artificial feel of rider-straight roads
and pyramid mountains which dug

earlier games. The missions reflect
the multi-role capabilities of the
aircraft, escorting carriers, saving
your installations from attack and
taking out the odd enemy missile
installation. Calling it a SAM-7
might imply xenophobia and tak-
ing sides which would result in the
game being banned in the peace
loving country of Germany.

As with Falcon you can choose a
rank, which affects the amount of
skill von need to play the game.
There are lots of options, so a Zulu
alert acts as a quick set-up.

For advanced missions you'll
have to choose the right weapon
for the job, in keeping with the
theme of the game, they are a futur-

istic lot from the Pentagon shop-
ping list of the future and include
the Hack winder - a sidewinder
which you launch rearwards a!
pursuers. Dogfights arc fun, and
you have a machine gun for those
dose at hand manoeuvres.

The feel of Jiving has been cap-
tured with graphic stipple effects
which make the plane and land-
scape more realistic than the slab
of colour style of F/A-tfi
Interceptor, The drawing speed of
3fiH polygons per second allows a
screen refresh rate of up to 12
frames per second.

Controls vary from a very -easy-
to-fly mouse option in a more real-
istic keyboard selection Making

any plane, let alone a fundamen-
tally unstable fast jet, fly straight
and* level is a skill which takes
years to master. Ocean has made
things a good deal easier with
heavy damping on the roll and by
giving the plane a natural tendency
tn fly upright. In the mouse-mode
it won't even loop the loop.

This allows you to concentrate
Oil the problem in hand - fighting
the war, and winning.

Ocean certainly has a stiff battle
on its hands with Activision's
Bomber, Digital Integration's F-ltiL
Combat Pilot and Electronic Art s
forthcoming F-t 17a Aggressor all
lined up to fight it out. Ocean
clearly has the game to do the job.

AMIGA COMPUTING January 1980 J7

\ TT\ TT * T*TA TlTlTrVTin

H OW many ninjas have you
ever seen? No, really. [
mean. I always considered Tooting
to be fairly mdli -racial but 1 don’t
think I've over seen a ninja wash-
ing bis smalls in ihe launderette or
having a quick pastie and chips in
The Dolphin.

The point being that seeing as
they seem In represent the ultimate
in covert ope rat inns as witnessed
by the plethora of ninja games* you
never see them about.

Maybe that's because they're so
gond at sneaking around or some-

He’s called in the National Guard!

thing, but even (hey must have to
nip down the Spar for a pack of
fags every now and than, surely 7

Anyway this is all irrelevant.

The sheet-garbed assassin of
drug barons' nightmares is hack,
and this time he hasn't brought
anything with him at a]] apart from
a couple of sharp knives and a few
shuriken,

The evil Dangler, notorious dic-
tator, gangland chief, pop group
[no, not really) and fat old Sun
reader has succeeded in becoming
president. He now has the army

and police at his control. The rebel
heroes have constructed two
robotic ninja assassins to track him
down to his mansion and deliver
rough justice.

At firs! you may be wondering
why you have been transferred to
the land of cinemascope because
there are large tracts of black space
above and below the play area.

Ail. but ibis is in fact a cunning
ploy, If you ever ventured into one
of those devil's armpits called
arcades you will have noticed that
Ninja runs on three screens to give

a panoramic view.

In order to simulate ail three
screens properly, the programmers,
Random Access, had to fiddle
about and res hoot in wide-screen
format. So Ihcro you arc. They're
not that cunning though or they
would've flogged off some of the
space for advertising.

The strategy is not too difficult
Id follow - just kill everything.

Guys wander on, have a go at
you Bnd either die or wander off
again. You may also encounter
rabid dogs, tanks and flying squir-
rels not to mention other patrons of
the arts martial, It may seem a bit
tame, but it is fun, very difficult
and very, very absorbing.

Cunningness part two: You will
be playing for some while and then
notice something. Or, more Like it.
not notice something, because
Ninja hasn't stopped to load any-
thing in yet. Well, actually il has
and il hasn't. Jt has loaded some-
thing in - it just didn't bother stop-
ping. Ten million cunning points
awarded.

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graphics and nice animated

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lenging later on.

If 1 was stripped, bound and
gagged until I could sum it up in
one word, I would say
"Mmmmph”, Failing that I think
’'Compulsive"' is the mot juste.

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D O you think you're pretty
smart, do you? Smart enough
to out-wizard McDuffin, the great-
est mage in the Western Kingdoms?
He's been having a little bit of diffi-
culty with his experiments at trans-
mitting spells over lung distances.

As every student of life knows,
there ere three types of matter:
reading matter, doesn't matter and
old grey matter. Unfortunately it is
in the department of the latter that
the old wizard is deficient - he
needs someone to help direct his
spell casting activities.

Spell-casting over long distances
can be a bit tricky, as we all know.
No sooner have you conjured an
impressive maelstrom of magic to
defeat a rival at a neighbouring cas-
tle, than it runs intu some itinerant
gnome twixt A and B and spends
its force.

Now, it is widely held that
spells travel in a straight line,

The unbearable lightness of spell casting

rather like a beam of light. The
corullory to this is that a beam of
spelt can bo redirected hy means of
mirrors and so forth. This is what
the old wizard is set to lest.

Selling up an elaborate array of
mirror-bearing gnomes and
assorted household objects. he
aspires to achieve mastery oT
remote spell- casting- The softly
spoken magic spell must pick up
all the magic ingredients, located
in effervescing magic cauldrons,
before making its magic way to the
magic door, Direction of the beam
is controlled by making the gnomes
change the angle of their mirrors,

Some obstructions are In be
negotiated, like the polarisers
which allow spells to pass through
at one angle only, whereas some
are to be completely avoided, like
the odd bomb lying around the
place. It is also to be appreciated
that feedback is highly undesirable

Tilts Ivtiy... No, lhat way.., Enn..

because the old duffer-c urn-wizard
is prone to overheating.

Other things to watch out fur are
walls of ice. amoefaas, prisms and
evil gnomes who have an appetite
for cauldrons. Extra fuel can be

picked up - old McDuffin cant
keep churning it out forever with-
out assistance.

The puzzles get progressively
harder, up to level 50, after which
point you are expected to design

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Overall - 77%

hi EPPQ is a complete clown.
O He is. Honest. Short, big feet,
silly hat. Yup he's a down all right.
And what is it that clowns do best?
Well, they sort of clown about
don't they? Apparenlly not.
Obviously downing isn't quite
as vocational as it once was. One
day Beppo comes across a map
detailing where he mav find trea-
sures beyond belief, Exactly what
this sort of sensitive document is

doing lying about in the path of
insignificant clowns is not taken
very far down the avenues and cul-
de-sacs of rigorous investigation.

Anyway, the upshot of all this is
that our little friend packs his
trunk, says goodbye to the circus
and trumps off to explore the 70
levels of wealth and woe that make
up the game.

Crystals are to he collected to
move on to the next level. Various

other items litter the playfield
including acid baths, transporter
devices, energy boxes, razor blades
and several species of small nasty

creatures which will try to kill you.

Each stage is a sort of split level
version of Pac-man, with the plat-
forms connected up and down by

File blue squares
round liie edge an* acid
baths, ideal for weekend paddfc.m

The only
way is
dawn

ladders or funnels, occasionally
bending round on themselves like
one of those perspective-based
optical illusions.

The wonderful graphics really
help to build up this effect, espe-
cially the parallax scroll of the grid
in the background, which gives a
vivid sense of the platform being
suspended in space.

Jumps may be collected,
enabling Beppo to leap over

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your own- They vary in style from
being mad dashes against time la
the sort of Soglcat enigma thai
could perplex even a reviewer.

The more cunning of you will
have already noticed that this is in
fart the sequel to Defiektor. dressed
up with a hit nf Pratchett.
Graphically it is a lot more cate
and friendly, with some nice ani-
mated touches, though with a game
such m this, frills mean very little
when the old cqgs of cognition are
revolving. The puzzle is all. In that
respect Mindbender excels.

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assailants or just to conned with
parts of the platform that are oilier*
wise inaccessible. Razors are
bandy for blowing away the
massed hordes of anti-down
watch creatures that Beppo will
encounter.

Fleetness of foot lor joystick) is
just as important as a highly devel-
oped degree of cunning in the fight
to stay out of trouble. Most prob-
lems are easily solved by Beppo's
superior font-power, though a mind
as sharp as the editor's wit is a
slight ad vantage in later levels.

Sound wise, the tune plods along
doing nothing really spectacular
nor having much lo add, but il is
competent and not so irritating as
to warrant silencing it.

Although the game is based on a
very simple idea it still manages lo
be enjoyable and rewarding to play.

Clown-o-mania is not difficult or
taxing until about a third of the
way through. That still leaves over
40 levels of wall coded and pleas-
ant entertainment. A bargain by
anyone's standards.

Green

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Pebmary 19911 AMIGA COMPUTING 23

If this guy's a rmliaa. why is hr. so mil armed?

E ARTH is little mare than a dis-
lant mem Dry to the brave pio-
neers of outer space. Now. at the
distant edge of the galaxy, things
are moving along nicely for the
descendants, 0: at least they were,
Bands of wandering space
pirates threaten to destroy all trade
links, The threat of invasion by a
race of highly developed insertoids
looms ever nearer. And who are the
robot pilots sometimes glimpsed at
the outer reaches of your territory?

For some time now Star
Command has been cluing its best in
keep on top of the situation. They've
started drafting their troops at ait
early age, putting them through
training and gi ving them starships in
the hope of regaining control hefnre
things get out of hand.

You control eight Such truops.
It's your business to decide exactly
what training they should undergo
and in which areas - like astro-
gunning, medical and heavy arms -
they should specialise.

There are four basic classes -
pilot, soldier, marine and esper
[psychic warrior). Each of these is
further divided into 1.1 ranks rang-
ing from private to grand admiral.

Once you have assembled and
trained vour squad you must equip

them ready for comhat. A huge
array of items is available - fid per-
sonal weapons, including nuclear
grenades, flame throwers and laser
rifles, 16 types of armour, four vari-
eties of gun sighting equipment,
plus numerous others

There is an equally wide choice
of starships and accessories. You
can’t afford most of these in the
early stages,

So, equipped and eager, it's off
to HQ Id get your first mission,
which will undoubtedly be fairly
straightforward. Mine was to find
and capture five freight ships. It
look me two minutes.

Mission in hand, you Launch
into space, where you are presented
by a star map divided into 1,024
sectors each containing one or more
star systems, which in tum might
contain numerous planets. This
provides a vast playing area. There
are no silly planet names, and the
whole galaxy is important during
the course of the different missions.

Some missions require you to
operate on a galactic level, finding
pirates in space, that sort of thing.
Others require you to go down to a
planet’s surface, perhaps for an
espionage mission.

Combat plays a major pari.

Lost m spues, not a good piece to be

There are two levels of this in Star
Command - man to man and ship
to ship, Man to man offers greater
scope for weapon selection and use
of terrain- It is the more enjoyable
of the two.

Should you complete your mis-
sion successfully, all surviving
squad members will receive a
salary according to their rank. This
can be used to buy more equip-
ment, or maybe a clone for when
things get really nasty. Mow you
can accept a new mission, or just
go pirate hunting to honsl your
finances.

The game is totally keyboard
controlled, which is a shame. And
messages sometimes flash by too
quickly to be read, which is a pain.
The graphics are extremely poor,
even for a role-playing game and
the sound effects would have been
better left out.

Sometimes humourous, some-
times frustrating, always thor-
oughly absorbing, Star Command is
based heavily on the famous
traveller role-playing game, Il com-
bines the best of both RPG and
strategy and is sure to please fans
of both.

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Overall - 72%

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going by the name of The Water
Margin. I/you don't, it doesn't mai-
ler - actually, even if vou do it
doesn't matter - all I wish tu allude
lo is a section of monologue which
used Id appear at the beginning of
the show, and which went some-
thing like this:

"Do not despise (he snake because
he has no horns, for who may say
he will not turn info a dragon. So
may one /usf man become on
army.,, ”

There in essence you have the
plot of Onslaught. No, nothing to
do with snakes and dragons, but
the bit about one man becoming an
army. For in the land of Cargore
there is a mean son of a tank whose
strength is as of 10 and whose
ambitions include travelling the
world and meeting people, shortly
before he cuts them up into little
pieces and stamps on them.

This land is no sceptred isle of

of you ar
think it t>
advance j
tier you i
upon wav
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And they are all out to get you

kings. It is streurn with the count-
less dead (and undead) of a thou-
sand sieges, The only way lo bring
peace and harmony to ihe blighted
soil is to kill everyone. Ho hum -
what must be done must, I sup-
pose, he done.

Strategy is the first element of
the game. Upon first embarking to

his duty the player is confronted
by a Ifi x 16 grid of the land. He
may then elect to invade territories
neighbouring his own. The indige-
nous troops come in several
flavours, from bog-standard hill-
men with dubs through boar-riders
lo kamika7.ee monks. There are 14
types of tribe in all, each with their

own peculiar characteristics and
preferred strategies.

Enough of all this strategy prat-
tle though, all you have to do is fol-
low the worms to the field of
dishonour and wade in gore.
Destroying everything that comes
your way is not always the best
policy. Vou can kill 50 to the right

Yoa're a one men army, it’s kill or he killed

Oh no! Not the boiling oil

24 AMIGA COMPUTING Fabmary t990

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of you and SO tu the toft and not
think it tao many, but unless you
advance pronto on the enemy han-
. ct'i you will be awash with wave
upon wave of demented avengers.

Once the enemy standard has
1 been captured, it's off to ky siege
to their castle. This is much the
same as before but with a nicer
harkdrop, Finally we come to mind
control This is where you take on
a thing with lots of arms throwing
. stuff at you. Easily the most forget-
| table part of the game.

If the enemy should capture
your banner first, you must go back
a stage until either you have won
or one side is vanquished.
Talismans picked up in combat can
be used to flit across the less acces-
' sible terrain in order to broaden the
range of combat. Occasional cru-
sades and plagues may result in
less of territory, but these things
usually pass.

The land may bo edited to your
| own design, to make it easier i sug-
i gsst. Of course, this means that you
can also save your currenl charac-
■ ter -up to 10 on the disc,

Throughout are strewn Hcwson-
class graphics and sound building
up an atmosphere for diabolical

( devastation. Gameplay is fast and
addictive but very tough. If you
should manage to conquer the land
j at one sitting I would be very sur-
! prised,

Another Hewson game with
ingrained excellence.

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TOOBIN’

Mucking about on the river

fled water?
Must be
die Nile

That looks
painful

W E'RE obviously not in the
UK here, since one of the
things that menaces ynur tooher in
this coin-op conversion (can’t say
tuber 'cos that's a potato) is an alli-
gator.

Mind you. as you float: noncha-
lantly downstream you do get
attacked by munching skulls and
sea snakes, so it could he just about
anywhere, And for Biff and Jet, the
supercool tube dudes, this is too
uncool to be real,

Some forward-thinking dude has
left some six packs floating on the
river. These make great ammuni-
tion for heading off the various
critters that are bent on spoiling
your day.

Fishermen and aiigun fiends on
the bank also respond to the old
Budweiser treatment, but your
ammo is strictly limited to what
you can pick out of the water,

Your tube is a bit like AmigaDos
- it needs to be patched from time
to lime. These patches are, in
effect, the number of lives you
have,

There are a few other useful
objects floating about. There are
bonus beach balls and Ireasure
chests, and once in a blue moon
you might happen upon a patch or
two. Unfortunately there are far
more rocks and branches in the
water than there are bonuses, so
you've got to be really careful with
the steering.

For extra points you could try
going through some gates for a
bonus of up to 1.0EH3 points. If you
bounce off a gate, the bonus halves

and the gate widens far you to try
again. These, you might think, are
just a slight interlude in the game.

Actually, if you are fagging
behind and the big bad alligator is
on your tail, negotiating a gate is
the only way Df shaking him.

'boobin' has been promised as a
conversion for a very long time.
This reviewer thinks it hasn't been
worth the wait. Sure, there are
some bits that aren't completely
dreadful - every game has some
good bits - but the whole isn’t par-
ticularly great,

The tide does have a good exam-
ple of colour cycling in a fairly
neat waterfall, but the rest of the
graphics are small and slow mov-
ing. Even though the screen is
nearly full height, it's nowhere
near wide enough, and the
scrolling is dead slow and stop.

It's got a nice tune, hut then
these days what hasn't? The stereo
effect has been used well, with a
great steel band sound throughout:

it's certainly the only lively thing
about the game.

The twin player option also suf-
fers from the screen moving al the
rate of the slowest player, at which
rate the game gets naff PDQ.

The whole thing smells badly of
a rush job. The original arcade
game has plenty of potential for
conversion, which the program-
mers have completely failed to take
advantage of.

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It’s only a bit of fun

ORTH 1 SOUTH, said the
manual. Aha. [ thought.
Refined ladies with swirling
dresses and cleavages that you
could drive a steam engine down?
Rakish young gentlemen and army
officers attired with mud stained
trenchcoats? Horse and traps racing
through burning cities? Passionate
embraces? Scandalous gossip?

Unfortunately, North & South is
nothing like an American TV mini'
series starring |ane Seymour (pity).
Instead, it's based on a French
comic book series called Lbs
Thniques Blues, but only vaguely.
The influence of the bonks stops at
using the characters to set the skill
level for the arcade sequences.

When a mad bugler and a neigh'
ing horse gallop on screen issuing a
wild discnrdanl tune, you knoiv
that this isn't quite an SSI waigame
that's coming up.

Moving around a very simple
map of the USA - you can play
against a friend, which is enor-
mous fun. or the computer - you
must direct your forces in an
attempt to rid the country of the
apposing army.

As a secondary objective it is
necessary to capture land to bring
in tax revenues, which can be used
to buy new troops end secure
territories through which the rail-
road runs,

If you. lurk around until the
opposing army's train is about to
set (iff, you can intercept it bv sev-
ering its route. This leads into one

The fold of battle - make sure nulaftre is off*

of the arcade sections - a frantic
race along the roof of a moving
train, reminiscent of Harrison Ford
tn The Last Crusade.

With enemy soldiers popping up
and a timer rapidly decreasing, you
must make it to the engine, stop
the train and capture the gold. The
scrolling is incredibly fast, your
character very responsive and the
animation distinctly dodgy, Still, it
all fits in with the general pace of
the game.

The second arcade section,
where you try to capture a fort, is
exactly the same but has vou racing
along the battlements towards the
fort's flag,

War breaks out when the armies
meet. The men line up on one of
three types of battlefield, often

Aftem. Ur/ess who chose the wrung language oplioii?

The Union launches its first moan sfiof

punctuated by a river or chasm that
necessitates trying to cross a nar-
row bridge while being shelled.

Jf you're playing the computer
you'll notice that you are at a slight
disadvantage here. You control
each element of your army one at a
time. The computer, of course, can
have the cavalry charging with
sabres slashing, the foot sloggers
marching and firing, plus the
artillery rolling around all at the
same time, turning your side of the
battlefield into ihe Somme.

True, you can set the cavalry off
and then switch control to another
unit, but you can't have two units
firing and slashing at once. It
makes playing the computer very
difficult. The trick is to eliminate
the other side's artillery first,
which then gives you an almost
unbeatable advantage. If this hap-
pens to you. start retreating, Fast,

Come the end of the war. each
side is rewarded with a well ani-
mated picture of the boys marching

home in victory nr a field full of
corpses, one of which grins at you.
North & South is unlike any
wargame or simulation that you
have ever played. The graphics are
cartoons and there are numerous
engaging touches that add flavour.
Best of all, the sound effects and
music are Fabulous - demented
bugling, explosions, horses neigh-
ing, and charges, victory and catas-
trophe areal! perfectly accompied.

Duncan Evans

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MQQTH criminal Wacko
Jacko has found yet another
way to be seen in public without
having to leave his oxygen tent,
Moonwalker has been a book, a
film, a T-shirt, a cuddly toy, a type

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of dance and now my Emerald Isle
homeland has produced a twin
disc game.

There are four stages, two
viewed from above and two from
the side. Each stage is preceded by
a good animated sequence and
accompanied by short repeating
sections of sampled M] music. A
bit like the video really.

The first stage reminds me of my
long standing all-time favourite
game. Kally-X. jacko walks around
the detailed landscape in a small
scrolling window trying to collect
parts of his rabbit suit, avoiding the
over-zeaious attentions of numer-
ous fans.

The next stage adds a motorbike
and the occasional flattened pedes-

trian. Don't stop until you get
enough green shiny orbs. Then you
can transform into a car and jump
Over a roadblock.

Game three, and jacko is dad in
white suit, armed with a vicious
line in automatic firearms.
Sideways scrolling displays the
interior of a gaming club where
there ain't no sunshine when
you're gone.

Making sure the baddies have
been blown off the wall is the only
way to beat it. When you use all
the ammo, more has got to be there
when you need it, or its bad news
all round.

The final stage is the real
thriller. Our heroic plasticised

young thing transforms yet again,
this time into a robot with which
you don't wanna be starting some-
thing. You have to convince some
nasty kidnapper about the way
your young girlfriend makes you
feel or she's out of your life and it’s
farewell, my summer love, for ever.

You will certainly spend mors
than one day of your life playing
this game. The stages are suffi-
ciently different to provide interest
and sufficiently tough to make it
last. The graphics and animations
provide the grab factor and if you
are a lacksoo fan the sampled
music will come as an added
bonus.

[nhn Kennedy

Leva! 3 - not quite as easy as ABC

By fair means or foul

HE you one of those people
whose idea of day out with
the lads is to go to Blackpool,
spend half the day in half the pubs
in town, eat three portions of
chicken vindaloo at the takeaway
and then go on the roller coaster
for a bit of a laugh?

Weil now you can relive those
fun-filled days with Roller Coaster
Humbler. You get all of the excite-
ment with none of the mess down
the neck of the mate in front,

Rumhler is rather like a
drunken nightmare version Df the
seaside ride. It features obstacles,
flying saucers, targets and lots and
lots of shooting.

The basic premise of this 3D
fiilfld-polygcm ride is that you have

to whizz, around the roller coaster
track shooting all the objects and
obstacles without running out of
bullets or causing the car an excess
of damage. There is a minumum
speed, which increases with every
run round the track,

Fun for a couple
of rides, bat
after u while it
begins to look
the same

Speed also increases after you
heave up the hills and race down
the slopes. This builds up to quite
an exhilarating rate of knots, but
can be pegged hack down to that
minimum by using the spacebar
as a brake - a good idea as you

certainly don't have time to shoot
everything at the fastest speeds.

In the air you can spot flying
things and can blow them away
for more points. Equally, any poor
unfortunate driving around on the
ground as you pass is fair game For
annihilation.

An extra dimension is added if
there is a second player. Another
gunsight is provided and he gets
to shoot at the same tilings you are
shooting at, i would have liked to
have seen a split display and play-
ers chasing each other around, but
then you can't have everything.

Something you do gel is a sort
of free blast. Using all the 3D rou-
tines. Tynesoft has patched in a
kind of Stargiider 2 variant
wherein you fly around aimlessly

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Y OU aren't often given the
opportunity to play "the
other side" in games with a Middle
East flavour, but in Speedboat
Assassin you, too, cati be that fer-
vent Iranian revolutionary.

Yes indeed, capitalist pigs
around the world require killing as
they revel in their decadent har-
bours, protected by the warships
and mines of Satan himself,

1, revolutionary brother
Mohammed Evans, have been
charged to destroy the imperialist
forces of evil and fight to my last
breath for the Islamic Revolution.
My gunship has dropped me into
the harbour of New York, home of
ihe nnholiesi pigs of all, 3 wee!
destroy them.

Hayeee! But what is this? Those
sons of Satan have laid mines
across the entrance to the harbour,
With God on my side, surely I can
navigate my way through the wind-
ing channel, deadly mines hover-
ing on either side.

BOOQQMMMM! Urk,..
...Cough splutter. Quick,
Eshmael. speedboat number two.

Ha! It seems 1 must go at the
pace of a snail to avoid their
deadly dutches. And here I am in
the open, and ready to teach the
Yankee pigs a lesson. But what is

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shooting other aircraft. Fine as a
demo, hut this hardly qualifies as a
game.

Once you have been round the
circuit a few times, enjoyed the
sensation of blowing things up, felt
mildly ill at all the heaving, there
really isn't anything else to do.
Though quite pretty and mildly
impressive from a technical point
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depth as a puddle.

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four towers destroyed and now 1
escape to bring further glory to the
revolution,

But what is this approaching?
God protect your servant
Mohammed, a fat Yankee battle-
ship is blocking the exit! Ail its
guns is firing. Oh no, and there
were another three capitalist har-

this? Ishmael. you fool I There are
no weapons on this speedboat!

Quickly, bring the helicopter
and drop them down to me.

Fah, with all this delay the
Americans have spotted me and
are sending their own speedboats
and warship to intercept me. But I.
Mohammed Evans, is more than

their equal lo the task. Take that,
imperial running dog tower. Take
tha..„

BQOOOMMMM! Urk...

...Cough splutter. Those
accursed Yankees are as treacher-
ous as sin, Ishmael. the third
speedboat.

Yaaeeyv! That is more like it. All

hours to destroy as well.

BQOOOMMMM! Urk...

...Cough splutter, Ishmael,
kindly be telephoning Virgin
Mastertronic that its simulation of
revolutionary revenge is far too
hard. The detection of the sprites
also sucks like a camel.

Duncan Evans

xrrxxxi

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Graphics

Gameplav

Value

Overall - 23%

A spokesperson for Virgin
Maslertronic assures me that the
company could indeed make
money with only a £4.99 price tag.

This only w'orks if the overheads
are as law as possible. Low over-
heads mean very cheap end
shoddy packaging and as little time
as possible spent knocking up the
program.

I imagine the profit margin on
Kelly X will bo hitting the maxi-
mum because the packaging is
indeed cheap and nasty. The pro-
gram, which looks like it took all ol
two weeks to write, is equally
cheap and nasty.

Kelly X - which, by the by ’“as
the pre-release name for Xenon, -
is a 3D space battle. Fly through
space using your Elite-style radar

with 10 range settings, shooting
government ships and canisters of
toxic waste. Aw, an ecologically
sound game as well. Avoid being
shot since it depletes your shield.
Use hyperspace to gat out of tricky
situations. And that’s the game,
Kelly X would he pretty damn
horing if it worked to perfection.
Since it doesn't, it makes it one of
the worst pieces of software I've
seen.

Complete tat. Not worth keeping
even if someone gave it to you.

Duncan Evans

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S PRINT has boon through
almost as many variations in
the arcades as on the home micro
scene. The bird’s eye view of a
Grand Prix started out in single
player, black and white, then
added up to four players simulta-
neously, and lastly, in Super
Sprint, was resurrected as a full
colour, mass Drive-in.

Rally Cross Challenge is another
Super Sprint done, and looks like
a beautifully animated L.S. Lowry
portrait.

Up to four players can race a)
once, using thal rare beast the
Special Joystick Adaptor,
Otherwise it's a case of fighting for
space on the keyboard.

If you can’t find three other peo-
ple, the computer will provide
some. The anti-sexism group.
Oasis, will be pleased to nule that
several women drivers are taking
part. Then again, perhaps they
won't be - the first one is called
Sexy Legs. The male racing drivers
have equally silly names, like Rev
Emup and T.Killem. No comment.

/Ire you sure (firs is the iray to Coomfce Abber'f

Although there are adjustments
you can make to fine tune the cars,
1 miss the little presents Super
Sprint left on the track to race for.
Collisions between cars are also a
lei down - they merely hoot their
horns at one another, [n fact, at the
start of a race they all sneak round
the track' in a tight pack, looking
like a group of Killer Cars from a
Monty Python sketch.

In an attempt to maximise the
potential of the 6B000 processor,

"humorous” little sprites pop on to
the screen, on holiday from IK+ no
doubt. Heaven knows what will
happen when we have the 68040 to
play with.

Night racing is worth seeing
though - the headlights effect is
very clever Indeed.

Sounds are so-so, conspicuously
lacking in the Tedious little Jingle
department. Tedious is better than
none at all.

The graphics, on the other hand,

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are lovely.

Vet something is missing, That
something which makes a game a
success and one you will want to
play for more than five minutes,
With Rally Cross Challenge it's not
hard to put your finger on that
something - it’s the way the tars
are controlled.

Until a better standard comes
along, wo are stuck with the eight
position switched joystick. No
amount of different acceleration
and deceleration options will make
up for the fact that it's too darn
awkward to play.

|nhn Kennedy

TURBO OUTRUN

Rev it up and start again

Turbo Out Huh

Utt.UD

Sojju 1 \ t initi

F ollowing on the heels of

Outrun, or more probably
overtaking it in the outside lane,
femes the sequel, now with added
turbo boost.

The first problem is with the
plot, which seems very compli-
cated. As far as it goes the underly-
ing premise seems to be this; You
have to drive your F4[) [which is a
Ferrari, not a jet) very quickly
indeed from one end of the USA to
the other along a giant six-lane
motorway.

On the way you must avoid hit-
ting things and press the fire but-
ton every sd often to employ
extra-sopor solid rocket booster
things probably left over from the
last Columbia, erm, Atlantis
launch.

There is something else to do
with some girlie and another car
which you have to stay ahead of or
she runs off with the driver. Maybe
she likes to fed the power of his
engine. To be quite honest it would
be a bit of a relief if she did. If she

Spinning isri 'f
always fatal, i it's
possible to pull
yourself out of if

weren't so ugly she might pul you
off your steering,

It would all make more sense if
you were trying to outrun the tune,
which is pretty pa inful .

Tarmac stretches ahead you to
the far horizons. If all goes to plan
you should be having breakfast in
Los Angeles - alt macrobiotic stuff,
of course. Bui first you must brave
the mind-numbing terror ofgrii on
the road, negotiate the snowbound
interstates and wind your way
along a freeway which seems to
have been designed by an inebri-
ated nomad with no sense of direc-
tion,

The race is split up intD four
stages, where remaining time is
converted into an un leasable num-

ber of points and super hi- power
add- ons are added on by teams of
trained adder-Dnners. The choice is
between extra grip tyres, an even
bigger engine or an even better
turbo, I can't say J could tell the
difference. In be honest.

This is also the point at which
the girlie usually decides Id run off
with the other bloke. Bah. women
- who needs 'em!

Another puzzling thing is the
way, just after engaging interstellar
overdrive and reclining back in
your acceleration couch, the odd
black-and-white cop car strolls
past.

The animation is a bis jerky, hut
you won't notice it when you're
going Mach 5 through Chicago,

Overall - 70%

Otherwise I he graphics are accept-
able, though not entirely stunning.

All the hazards and layouts Df
(he 16 stages have been carefully
transferred from the arcade
machine. This is not a great recom-
mendation since the original
wasn't very. Original, that is.

Interestingly the processed rain
forest accompanying the game
suggests that the turbo be used
sparingly, when in actual fact it
seems a physical impossibility to
finish most levels without at least
one stab at the fire-button,

Although certainly better than
Outrun the first, and reasonably
well converted from the arcade,
Turbo Outrun does nothing to lift it
above the crowd of good racing
games around at the moment,

Green

February 1990 A MICA COMPUTING 31

GAMES

Overall - 68%

Level two features a beautifully animated Libert} -

32 AM Id A COMPUTING February 1990

The swinging controls on level one wf/i
some getting used to

OLY cow,.. Oops, sorry -
wrong hype. Ahern, When
there's something weird in your
outside toilet, who you going to
call? Nut a plumber anyway,
Suffice to say the present day
equivalents of Peter Cushing, the
Ghostbustcrs, are back.

As you enter the world of the
Ghostbuslers vou will be treated to
a wonderfully animated display of
cunning Amiganess. Then, of
course, it asks you to swap discs.
Oh well.

This time large amounts of slime
are forming an underground torrent
and converging on the downtown
museum. There is also the small
matter of Dana Barret's (you
remember her, played by Sigourney
Tm having a baby" Weaver) little
sprog being snatched.

The first level of the game con-
cerns Ray collecting a sample of
the slime by abseiling down a
haunted sewer. Swinging from left
to right enables Ray to collect extra
weapons, bits of the scoop with
which to scoop up the slime at the
bottom, and the odd bottle of dutch
courage,

Floating down through the
clouds of steam, ghostly hands
come rushing up to meet Ray as he
tries to collect the slime.

TJrs tori, and most difficult level - beat Viga and rescue the hoby

Some uncharitable ghosts in the
shape of oulsized fingers attempt lo
sever your cable as you descend.
Altogether an unpleasant experi-
ence, especially from the game play
point of view - the whole level is
too difficult.

In contrast, level two is incredi-
bly easy. It is possible lo gel
through the whole thing by firing
just a few shots, Ydu control the
giant Statue of Liberty, hot-footing
it down to the museum and pro-
tecting gangs of mindless helpers.
Nice animation of Miss Liberty.

Various squadrons of flying
ghosts and denizens of the nether-

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worlds attack in formation, but
they're nothing to worry about.

Lastly the action moves lo the
museum, where all you have to do
is rescue the ungrateful sprog from
the altar. You cannot just write off
this final scene however, because
there are still two fearsome haddies
to overcome.

The first of these is jonosz. He
will terribly resist your efforts to
snatch the sprog by firing at you.
Unfortunately the entire range of
death-dealing weaponry possessed
by our heroes is not sufficient to
give him cause for concern.
Likewise Vigo, who emerges from
the picture eventually.

The opening sequence and the
fillers between level feature excel-
lent animation, digitised stills and
good samples and arranged sounds,
Animation and well defined graph-
ics are equally brilliant throughout
the game, though the disc swap-
ping gets a bit of a pain.

While Ghostbusters II is
undoubtedly an audio-visual feast,
there is little game in it that is fun
to play. Rather like a Peter
Greenaway film, we arc treated to a
high degree of polish and art with
very little underlying substance.

Green

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I suppose a ham sandwich is out of (he question?

T AKE one remote and mysteri-
ous old mansion, Include a
kidnapped heroine and naive
group of rescuers. For good mea-
sure, add a mad professor, a homi-
cidal nurse and a teenage
commando with a hamster fetish.
Put it all together and wliat have
you got, apart from material for a
dozen tacky honor films?

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Maniac Mansion.

Although this is essentially an
adventure, Lucasfilm has managed
to dispense with all that tedious
typing, and has successfully cre-
ated an animated game that is fun
to play and enjoyable to watch. It
uses a virtually identical control

system to its predecessor, Zak
McKraken.

Initially, you play the pari of
Dave, whose girlfriend Sandy has
been kidnapped by Fred the mad
prof.

You placed an advert on the
school notice board asking for vol-
unteers to assist you in your rescue
bid. Before you stand seven appli-
cants, each of whom has different
abilities in areas ranging from surf-
boarding 10 physics.

Having selected l wo people to
join you, it's off to the mansion,
where the game proper can begin.

Your group starts on the road
just outside the house. A sign sets
the lone of the game: "WARNING!

Trespassers will be horribly muti-
lated!'' ignoring this message, you
quickly encounter the first problem
- how do you get in? The solution
is as logical as it is a cliche. Once
inside, the puzzles become some-
what more obscure.

There seem to be SO many
objects available, but never the
ones that you want. Unravelling
the intricate web of the plot is a
time-consuming but enjoyable pro-
cess,

At various times during play the
game will be interrupted by brief
flashes from other parts of the
house. These show what is cur-
rently happening to Sandy, who
despite her bravery is due to have

her brains sucked out.

Each of the three heroes can. be
controlled individually, and while
they will he needed to work solo
for much of the time, there are
occasions when cooperation is the
onlv solution.

■r

Lucasfilm says that the game can
he completed wtith any combina-
tion of characters, but the plot will
bo modified according to the selec-
tions you make. Thus you may
play many entirely different games
before truly completing Maniac
Mansion.

I can't help but draw compar-
isons between Maniac Mansion
and the cult musical, The Rocky
Horror Show'. They both have a
very offbeat sense of humour.
There are numerous other similari-
ties, all of which serve to enhance
the intriguing story line, recreating
a Sixties horror atmosphere.

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Overall - 89 %

Q POTTJNG a sales rap out on
LJ the road is easy - he's the guv
in the red Orion with a jacket hang-
ing up In the back. In the future
it'll he easier; just look for the
jacket.

Things have laken a downturn
in your life, On the way to closing
the biggest sale you've ever negoti-
ated, your new (possibly red] Nash
Sombrero decides to play up, forc-
ing you to take the nearest exit. Too
bad it had to be the one for Wrong
Side of Town (Central],

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left after the dregs of humanity and
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a phene way over in the far corner,
but those people won't let you by
until you've proved your worth at
the Shufflepuck table.

Shuffle puck’s like Air Hockey,
that ancient arcade attraction that
looked like a cross between a
snooker table and a steam Iron-
Each player has a
and the aim is to
get the puck
past the

looks like out ad
sales leant ore on
the binge again

opposing player. In this version a
point is marked by smashing the
glass screen in front of the oppos-
ing player
To get through to the
phone you've gat to beat all
eight of the local
players. ITiey
range fn
the

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initially good but increasingly
tipsy Lexan Smy the- Worthington
to the reigning champion
and hard man, Biff Raunch.
They have their nwn
style and weak-
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I! take a
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sWefJy os she
ypf another
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but he sure ploys a
mean gome of
shuffiepuck

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Is it a bird, is it a plane.,,?

P ICTIONARY was a nice game.

I say was, because it used la
be played by people, and the real
fyn was in how you worked for
and against those people. It was a
sort of drawing game with rules,
where guessing the word hidden in
the picture the other player had
drawn would move you around the
hoard, fust the Lind of thing to play
with a group oF Friends.

To make it different from the
board game, (he computer version
uses the gimmick of the Amiga
drawing the pictures. It also looks
after the board and rolling (he dice
for you. But it sadly misses the
mark when it comes to the guess-
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If the Amiga is drawing one of
its pictures, off it goes into a rather
tacky black and white sketchpad
program where every line or fill
makes an absurd squeak, parp or
pop. It’s irritating the first time
through, [1 gets more irritating the
more you play ft.

So. the Amiga scribbles away a
picture, and once you guess the
word you hit the spacebar. Then

I wish J wish... I wish l wtri playing

tha hoard gpme instead

you have to hit Return to say that
you really want to make a guess.
Then it finishes the drawing and
tolls you what the word was and
asks if someone got it right.

If it's a picture where anyone
can guess, it has to ask you who
actually got it right. It then makes
you click the mouse on the
Continue button and then makes
you dick (he mouse on the Next
Word icon. This bit is just to make
you feel busy, because there is no
reason to it, Whal it actually does
is make you Feel irritated having to

repeat this monotonous process.

If you want to draw your own
pictures you have lo play as teams.
And even then the game has plastic
cards with words on ihem which
you are supposed to use to slop
you cheating. More tedium.

I tried the game with a couple of
friends, but all the computer suc-
ceeds in doing is killing an? real
game interest. The graphics don't
help much, being tacky in the
extreme with had colour choices
and a singularly static board, most
of which can he put down to it
being released across 8 and 18 hit
machines and catering to the low-

Overall - 32%

est common denominator
Piet ionarv is an unsatisfactory
attempt at computerising a game,
both from the technical and game-
player puinls of view. There are loo
many gimmicks, There is even an
option to save your black and
white rough sketches as IFF
images. As if the Amiga was short
on art packages!

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QUARTZ

Better than clockwork

C RYST ALLOGRAPH V is a hin
suhject. No, really it is
Packed with useful and everyday
concepts such as Burgers Vectors
and Peiefls-Nkbarro Stresses, li 's
nvetting reading for insomniacs.

This gem of a subject [wit, or
what!] doesn't exactly spring to
mind as the plot for a particularly
mindless shoot-'em-up. but
Firebird has tried.

What has happened is some-
where, somehow, a crystal lattice
has come over all unstable. This
has been deemed a Bad Thing, so a
suitable bozo has been Found [viz.
you), plonked in a small space
fighter and shrunk down to be
small enough to fit into (he crystal.

To gel a rough idea of the
required size, think of the weeny
side of very, very tiny, and then
some. Even now. yoti're still oul by
a couple of hundred angstroms,
which are nothing lo do with what
a depressed artificially intelligent

Splitting the n trefoils

system might have, A rogue
nucleus is causing all the trouble.

It's big enough - relatively, of
course - to cause you real prob-
lems with your standard issue
weapon, so you must stroll about
l he nucleus, blasting open quarks
(o capture the valuable neutrinos
inside.

Now a neutrino is an incredibly
small and fast thing. Travelling
through the Earth doesn't cause a
neutrino to even blink. But thafs
only in real life. Once you've
caught enough of them in Quartz

you can use them io synthesise
new and more destructive
weapons.

The nucleus does its level best
to get rid oF you with an ur biting
electron cloud. The more you shout
the nucleus, the faster it spins.
Unlit it splits

Once the nucleus is destroyed,
you fly off via an enormous change
of scale, through a meteor storm to
the next crystal.

Quartz has been pnt together by
Paul Shirley, he who wrote the 6
bit classics Spindizzy (clever) and
Mission Genocide (violent!. All his
games have some feature that's
neat

The new thing in Quartz is a
multi-level scroll, with shadows
between and above levels, and a
parallax star Field behind ft all The
actual play area is small „ and the
screen is shorter than it has any
right to he, but the effect is gener-
ally quite neat

The tune is palatable too, if you

haven't bed too much of electropop
already. There is but one problem.
This type of game, though fun and
well presented, can't really justify 1
its £25 price point; especially since
some companies are trying In
release hearable games For a fiver.

Quartz is certainly good. The kil-
ties level is strongly re mini scoot of
Simstar, while the meteor storm bit
tastes of every scroller you've ever
played, so ft isn’t exactly original
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mer effort lo produce a simulation
that is as close to the real thing as
the machine allows. This cao pro-
duce some spectacular results. But
for those who think that golf is
about as much fun as Antarctic
nude jogging, there's not a lot to
recommend it,

The second is to take the basic
idea - hitting a small hall towards
a slightly larger hole - and just
have fun with it. This is what Hole-
ln-Onc Miniature Golf does.

It should take anyone with half a
brain and one finger about 10 sec-
onds lo get to grips with the
mechanics of Hule-In-One. The
playing screen is a view of the
green from above. There’s a small
white rectangle where your ball is
placed with an initial click on the
mouse, and a small black hole into
which that ball has to be propelled.

Once the ball has heen placed,
moving the mouse away draws a
line. The length of the line shows
the strength with which you'll hit
the hall, its direction Indicates
where the ball will go. Press the
mouse button and the ball flies off
hopefully to end in the hole.

From such a simple basis,
Digitek contrives to give a game
with as much skill, subtlety and
frustration as anything with a plot
10 yards long.

Far starters, the holes can have
bumps and dips, like a normal golf
course, represented by different
shades of green. Some care has
been taken to gel the normal laws
Df physics right. With skill and
judgment the ball can bounce and
curve as 11 would in real life.
Practice or a lucky shot can get the
hole-in-one, where a digitised
crowd sighs in an impressively
impressed way,

Half-way through the tutorial
course you gel the impression that
Digitek is admirably perverse.
Slowly, features are added - sand,
water, moving barriers - that make
the shots more tricky and the hole-
in-one less likely.

Fails of each screen get hidden
under bridges, or connected via
teleport pads that move your ball
instantaneously from one place to
the next.

The skill with which each new
obstacle is introduced in ihe tuto-
rial is finely judged. Towards the
end, each new hole generates a
feeling of "But that’s impossible!'’,

HnWn-Qm?
£24 M'?
Digitek

Overall - 81 %

followed by the pleasurable sensa-
tion of spotting a shot that might
just work.

There are lots of courses, each
with a theme illustrated by pic-
tures and the appropriate

OK. Now far a quick swipe around Milton Keynes...

fiendishly testing gadgets littering
the holes. The game comes with
two course discs - the simple ones
are merely designed to be tricky,
the complex ones start to fiddle
with the laws of gravity, logic and

eventually your sanity. But each
new torture is solvable.

This, combined with the very
simple user interface, makes Hole-
In-One a paragon of addiction.

Rupert Goodwins

S O, after another swift telling
off, Keef was pushed out of
the town to survive the perils of the
jungle. Realising that he was new
to this civilisation, he studied some
of his many notes strewn through-
out his clolhing. and remembered
the history of the Tri-City and Tel
Mercon.

Many centuries ago, a man with-
out power or influence rose to
become Emperor Nobody knows
quite how. Telloc was his name.

Telloc was more egotistical than
Duncan Evans, loved himself more
than Green, and showed it by plas-
tering bis name on all and sundry.
A city was built called Tel Mercon.

After a prophet predicted his
future, Telloc bad a fortress built and
named it Te! Hande, He locked him-
self away for many years and forgot
about the welfare of his people.

Tel Mercon began to look
strangely like the streets of London,
with peasants begging on the road-

side, living in dark corners and
alleys. The rich staved wealthy and
the poor grew poorer.

Enough was enough, Grouping
together, the street bound and
homeless revolted. They lay siege
on Telloc’s fortress, while the man
himself was locked inside chanting
spells he believed would save him
from the prophet's prediction, But
a single word out of place caused
Telloc lo disappear in a puff of
sickly smelling green smoke.

The city rose from the gutter and
was renamed Same Mercon, The
Jewelled City.

Releasing the notes from his
grasp, Keef looked around this
foreboding place. Survive he must,
because at Least one elder from his
old town had 5U gold pieces riding
on him.

Keef The Thief is another game
in the long line of point and click
adventures.

Keef begins in the jungle dose
lo the city of Same Mercon, where

Tv get it) the treasury you must tickie She. princess 's fancy

Overall - 89%

ho can talk to many people and
steal from many huuses. But Same
Mercon has a great police force
which patrols most streets and has
an incredible knack for catching
low-lifes like you.

The objective of the game is to
break into the city's treasury and
steal a most valuable ancient arte-
fact. But the treasure is periodi-
cally moved around a maze -
pinching it is not as easy as it at
first seems,

There are a few busty women in
the game, all of them quite tempt-
ing for a young thief like yourself.

I had no luck chatting them up.
But then I'm ugly.

The game is certainly a chal-
lenge, especially creeping into-
empty houses and walking out with
the buoty without getting caught. I
still haven’t got the hang of combat
and rarely survive an attack.

I enjoyed Keef The Thief, but
can see that my days as a tea-leaf
are numbered.

Andrew Banner

February 1990 AMIGA COMPUTING 41

■ GAMES

E LGIN sat in his agent's office.

She wasn't a very good agent.
Most of the scripts on her desk
ended with the main player getting
killed.

"Besides,'' she told Elgin in an
Annabel Giles cut-glass accent,
"there aren'L very many parts for
marbles in modern computer
games. They are passe",

He wouldn't have minded, hut
ever since he put on the boot pol-
ish for a roll-on part in Marble
Madness as one of the evil spheres
which try to knock you off, he had
been nut of work.

Elgin felt rejected and rolled out
of the office knocking over the
remains of a flower pot which had
been hacked to death by some
Ninjas earlier that day.

Oul in the street he met Busier, a
friend who worked as an explosion
sprite in shoot- 'em-ups. Buster was
on his way la audition at the
fledgeling Sphinx software house.

A roll on part

"Tag along", he said,

The Sphinx office smelt of
reformed pirates, people who
didn’l shy away from composing
unbelievably dull electropup
durges on dodgey copies of
Sound tracker. Buster went into the
office to he cast in Thvrid. which
Sphinx billed as Come Save Thyras
- beat The Guardians of the
Elements.

Lying on the coffee table undor-
neaih a copy of Play sprite
Magazine, Elgin found a dog-eared
script. Magic Marble. The plot
looked thin. Something about a
marble called Marvin travelling
across three lands made of small
tiles to save the planet Marble Blue.
Yuk, thought Elgin. And he was
right.

But the action sounded Dk. Lots
of stunts, transforming into a man,
walking on the thin ice, bouncing
off minor type devices, lurning hot
to melt the ice. becoming inde-

structible or suddenly being able lo
fly.

The maze scenes sounded
tedious, hut jumping ramps was
dead exciting. Perhaps Elgin could
get a job as a stand-in stuntmarble.

Not exactly a high budget pro-

duction, but good at combining the
skills of learning a map and some
adroit movements to get through
the three acts. Well crafted so that
the skills picked up in the first act
are necessary to get anywhere in
the second.

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name conjures up a cheap he
Chinese hell brew, the kind of elec- ro
trie soup which is bought with l dr;
multiples of "the price of a cup of
tea' 1 . Nothing could be further from > he
the truth. sit

It's about Dragons, end we're not su
talking about the only computer in ss.
the world with a processor so slow of
that you can hear every tick. No, ot
we're talking napalm breath here. de

The first thing you notice about
Dragon Spirit is thal it’s in the start- a I
dard Tengen Atrocious Plastic Box, m

the one that kills all known instruc- gr
lions dead. Y

The second thing you notice is Sc

that the loader makes the drive
sound like an elephant after a night ds

on the beans, th

Disc protection is a necessary i fc

evil, but when it tries to bend I di

Amy's drive in the noisiest way { it
possible, the evil surely is unncces- a;

sary.

Basically, some dumb princess y

has got kidnapped by some lowlife, rr

and it's Nerdhrain’s job to do the tf

fetching. d

The local quark has convinced

Dragon , the uictftevaJ equivalent of an F- 1 ft

42 AMIGA COMPinWG fvbrtutn

■ GAMES m

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£24.95

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Graphite

Gameplay

Value

Overall - 69%

Bright the Steel} 1 burst out of the
Boss's office in a cloud of cigar
smoke, shouting: "I'm not working
for you if you insist on having
some metallic tart on the high
score screen’ 1 .

He did a double backflip lo
make the point, not realising that
this doesn’t look very impressive
when you are spherical.

"Don’t worry", boomed a voice
from the dark. “We’ll find another
marble to play the lead. Take your
O.fl per cent carbon and stick it
where the election gun don’1
shine,”

This was his chance. Elgin
walked into the office,.,

Simon Rothman

he very
a cheap
of dec-
hi with
a cup of
her from

re 're not
j niter in
so slow
ick. No,

you that you’re a dragon. “Here,"
he says. “Eat these dubious mush-
rooms. Incidentally, you're a
dragon now",

So off you fly to kick some
heads Well, give them a thorough
singeing at least. And while the
subject of heads is still within its
sell -bv date, you start off with three
rtf them, each capable of biatting
nut air-to-air and air-to-ground

. here,

:e about
he stall-
itic Bos,
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destruction,

As you flap your dismal way
along the narrow river valley -
made all the narrower by the pro-
grammers - you realise that it’s
YABS - Yet Another Boring
Scroller.

Where a scroll would be
described as smooth on the other
thing, in Amiga terms this one is
found wanting in the rapidity
department. It’s way loo slow. Anil
it gets even slower as more things
appear.

Everything that could cause a
young dragon harm wobbles in a
most alarming way, and indeed
this is the only reliable method of
determining hostile intent.

The automatic rapid fire is use-

ful, considering the game would be
impossible without it. Unfortu-
nately it sounds exactly like a very
slow marine diesel engine and
soon begins to grate,

Later moments of the game
include exploding phoenixes and
the brilliant ruse of recolouring the
alligators used in the first level to
look like fire salamanders,

In playability trials belween
Dragon Spirit and a dead crab. 9
out of 10 game players preferred
the Latter. The two dear advantages
of dead crabs are that they're edible
and they don’t try to dismember
the disc drive.

Stewart C. Russell

PfTigrJfl .S/hril
£19,199

Jkwnd

Graphics

Gameplay

Value

Overall - 49%

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On a suicide ride

It's Denim's No it's not. if? fl-7Vpe. No its not, rl’s...

I T starts well. Like all Hewson
games, Slayer has a short,
inconsequential plot, which owes
more to the Cliche School of
Popular Prose than to any amount
of imagination.

] mean, it lakes a fairly wild
blurt of imagination to think that
some contiguous luminous phos-
phor dots portray the elegant form
of a craft capable of flying the vast
distances between stars, visiting
interesting planets and knocking
the Reginald Maudling out of them
on arrival, It does, believe me.

Whinge numero uno: The load-
ing screen, rather than depicting
the heroic although not altogether
sane descent of a space fighter into
some enemy ground station, looks
for all the world like a early sixties
jet fighter attempting to lance a
boil.

Another fairly major downer is
the huge great grey advert for
FAST. Now I happen tD like FAST,
hut this load of text is just crying
out for some oik of a cracker lo put
in a pseudo-witticism about how
they think that FAST aren't that
great,

Right, now for the game. Take
Scramble, multiply by Zynaps and
divide by Denaris, and you have
Slayer, give or take several orders
of magnitude.

Basically, it's a fly along the tun-
nel shooting the assorted colours of
18th-19th century British politi-
cians out of anything you should
happen upon. At the end of the
level there is a big thing that will
huff and will puff and will make
you implode somewhat messily.
Not merely is the scenery
deadly, it gels very close together at

times. It’s much closer together
than it should by rights be, said he
engaging Incensed Reviewer Tone
(which is nothing to do with
Spiritual Sky Sandalwood) because
we’re being short changed by 56
lines again! That makes me so
angry I could eat what’s left of the
ozone layer and still manage a cou-
ple of tins of beans for afters.

Many games have been
described as addictive; Slaver is
contagious. It should be locked up
as far away from anything remotely
computerised and left there to die.

The sound is nothing special,
the graphics arc equally zero-rated
and the game play is elsewhere {in
a negative sense).

If you're into awesome gross ed-
out pestilence. Slayer could just be
your mainest groove thing, And if
the rest of you are thinking that the
earlier reference to British politi-
cians of a bygone age was purely
because we reviewers get paid
mostly by the word, you could not
be further from the truth.

It was, in fact, an ingenious
descriptive link. Yes. Slayer, is the
Pitts.

Stewart C, Russell

.S/oyer
£!9M
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( Jvttrsi I) - :i2%

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XENOPHOBE

Two heads is better than one

Oh no, I'm gfmno get eo/en alive!

T HE earth, which we all know
and love and waste vast quan-
tities of paper on talking about try-
ing to save, is in a bit of a mess.
And it's not realty its fault either,
because external forces am causing
the problem,

First it was the Martian virus,
then it was the satellites vanishing,
and now mast of the orbiting space
stations have gone quiet.

From some preliminary scan-
ning it seems that the Xenos have
taken over al! the bases, killing the
crews.

These Xenos are repulsive. Mol
merely are they less than pretty,
but they'll do anything in their
power to get rid of anyone who is
trying to gel rid of them. A mot lev

Get ouWo my way or you' re wallpaper

crew of mercenaries, old soldiers
and psychopaths has been formed
to remove the menace, but onlv
two members of the team can he on
a base at any one time.

This means that two players can
play simultaneously, each using
half of a split screen.

There are five types of Xenos, all
of them less than pleasant, all of
them the same traditional shade of
green. They each cause a health
drain to your character, but most of
them can be got rid of with one sort
of weapon or an Other-

Different weapons and useful
items are scattered about on the
floor. Some am needed to get past
security systems, which have gone
a little doolally with the alien inva-

sion. There isn't any real variety in
a game like Xenophobe,

Every mission looks roughly the
same and there aren't any inter-
ludes where you might be able to
have a slight rest or gain extra
bonus points.

Basically, from start to finish it
is one of the most frantic blasting
games ever to appear in the
arcades. There is never any time to
think what you're doing and even-
tually the whale thing becomes
automatic. There isn't the time to
get bored - there's too much Ld do
- but the competitive and coopera-
tive element in two-player mode is
frequently the only thing that
keeps a game going.

Xenophobe does try, however,

There’s something kind of cute
about the Xenos. The whole thing
seems to have the menace of a
marauding gerbil.

Animation is simple, but
smooth. There's a carlo on y air In
the game. But everything's a hit
small. Not merely is there a fairlv
large and admittedly well done
Xenophoba banner at the tup of the
screen, but the bottom bit of the
screen isn't used at all, so each
player is stuck with a long strip
about BO pixels high.

In a one- pi aver game the lower
strip is blank, so only about a third
of the screen is used. Mind you,
the graphics are too well done for
this to be YASTP.

The tunes are good. MicroStyle
includes a tape of the real arcade
machine's sound, and they're
pretty close.

What does worry me, though, is
the statement that Xcnophobe
embodies all that is best in
MicroStyle games. If this is true,
we could be Looking for some quite
gifted Ordinariness.

Fairly good, but cigar wise it's
out of the running,

Stewart C, Russell

Mi\ roSl\ It 1

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on the bus, and I'd just got to the
section where it said there is a loud
bang and a flash and you find your-
self transported to the magical land
of Tiivania, when, what do you
know, there was a loud hang and a
flash,

[ looked eagerly out of the win-
dow, strapping on my mighty cod-
piece, shiny mithrii armour and
trusty nine-engraven quartersiaff.

Where was the mysterious land
of magic and heretical conquest? To
my disappointment E saw that the
bus had blown a tyre, the mithrii
was really my sandwiches
wrapped in bacofoii and the rune-
engraved quarterstafJ was the walk-
ing stick of the old geezer sat next
to me,

I got off the bus in complete dis-
gust, reading the rest of the instruc-
tions and muttering, 'Who writes
this rubbish? 1

[ mean,, the next section went on
about how you mounted this
dragon called Garvan, who appar-
ently didn't complain at all, and
went off in search of the eight arte-
facts of Tuvan ia, How ridiculous, 1
thought, looking around me,

How many dragons do you see
in Amos Grove? 1 mean, you can go
for days without seeing a human,
never mind a dragon,

By the Lime E got home I'd
sussed out that you were supposed
to fly around on this dragon's hack,
collecting artefacts one at a time
and depositing them on top of an
associated icon. Da this with all.
eight and you were magically
transported to the next dimension,
there being four dimensions in ail.
Comp fete them all and the lend is
saved and you can re- format your
disc or sell it to Dodgy Darren
down the market,

Hmmm, despite initial scepti-
cism, I was ready to experience the
world of Dragons cape, ] was ready
to mount that dragon, to collect
artefacts and torch any one that put
his ugly face anywhere near my
dragon's snout,

I connected the alcohol drip, sat
in the specially moulded chair, slid
the disc into the drive, and bel-
lowed, “Hit me!" My brother
promptly thwacked me across the
pate with a meat tenderer.

And there I was, floating along
on a dragon torching any sucker

(lotting in the spirit

that got fresh, while figuring duI
which object went with what.

The shining mithrii armour was
there again, but hang on a minute. I
thought we were supposed to be
scouring a medieval landscape, a
fantasy land.

What's the first dimension? A
printed circuit hoard, with radios,
batteries, satellite dishes and
bombs as the artefacts and match-
ing icons, Erm, erm, something
isn't quite right here.

Still it's not that hard as long as
you keep refreshing your dragon
spirit by running over the P icon
that floats around.

Aha, the next dimension is more
like it. Invisible traps that stop the
dragon in its tracks, ugly alien type
things, proper artefacts, and a nice
blasted wasteland for scenery.

If the first dimension was very
straightforward, just time consum-
ing. this one was downright
unfriendly. There ware people and
monsters and strange blue things
shooting at me.

And umph!, who pul that force
field there, just as a horde of blob-

bos were swarming. Aaaarrgghh

Later I regained consciousness,
the drip hanging loosely by the
chair, contents exhausted. Was it
all a figment of my computer? I
checked the ha cofoil and deemed
that it was. But it was a reasonably
satisfying experience I thought.
Maybe. I’ll try it again.

Duncan Evans

IlragonScnpp
£24 jy
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Theatre Europe he built on?

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day and whether barrage balloons
are present nr not.

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one of three pilots, watch the flight
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Messages flash on screen. You are
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marked on them painting to the
barrage balloons leave you in no
doubt as to in which direction your
bullets would be best fired.

After many ambushes you
switch to a view of your target from
above and get the chance to drop
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ishes without a trace.

You then struggle back home,
avoiding more ambushes, if you are
hit, the plane slides gracefully to
the ground, bursts into flames and
your pilot records are displayed
with "File closed".

Graphics are of variable quality.
On the menu and introductory
screens they are very detailed. On
some of the take-off and landing
screens - especially the view from
above of the sight to be bombed -
the graphics are solid and
extremely blocky.

In one case you are whisked
from a hires view of the plane
with propellers spinning into lo-
res where there are no propellers to
be seen.

The combat screens are a mix-
ture of detailed control panel and

jfe*

Mother uml they dmp the bomb?

Those three planes top left are pur lives. You can shoot them down if you wont

A/1 together now; Who do you think yon ore kidding Mr Hif/er...

Lancaster

£24,95

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Value

Overall - 53%

blocky view with some of the
graphics looking like products of a
modelling package. Enemy planes
trail smoke and spiral realistically
before plunging to earth. Complete
chaos is simulated well.

The sound effects are poor. The
voice is very bard to make out.
Other effects are nothing special.

Despite these reservations, the
hackneyed subject matter and the
mistakes. Lancaster is a pretty good
example of its type.

Based on the missions of the
famous bomber plane, it is in the
usual Amiga Epic format - combat
scenes linked via much groaning
from the disc drive with pretty
graphics and animation, colourful
maps, menus and fanfares.

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authors are honest enough to point
out where the simulation departs
from complete historical accuracy.

Alaslair Scott

February 1390 A MFC A COMPUTING St

Fiji 1 ) (/ip other one, it's got bells on

coloured keys will grant access to
locked chambers bv way of the
lifts, driven by a mysterious and
ancient power source.

The enormity of my task over-
whelms me, Even an immortal one
as myself is temporarily stunned as
the size of my mission is revealed.
How many more chambers have
been encased in this giant sand-
stone sarcophagus? How many
eons will it take to fully explore
this dark, stone underworld?

But now my memory plays
tricks on me. Is this a previous
reincarnation? Have i been called
Roland in the Caves in an earlier
life? No, the memory passes and
fades into oblivion as the haunting
music engulfs me,..

fohn Kennedy

I a r Of t torus
£24,m

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Gameplav

Value

Overall - 7 1%

EYE OF HORUS

Discover the secret of the pyramid

S didn't know you had dandruff. I don't I use...

B EHOLD! The Tomb of the
Unknown King reaches up,
yes, lowering up even on to the
heavens. The tomb stands silhouet-
ted against the selling sun, flanked
only by palm trees belli in homage.

You can almost hear the waver-
ing strains of Wish You Were Hera
drifting across the mighty, turgid
Nile, swollen with the tears of the
damned.

I, Horus, son of Osiris the King
of Life, bid you welcome and trust
you can aid me in my quest. Many
thousands of souls are crying out
in torment, awaiting release from,
their underground prison. The evil
god Set, embodiment of darkness
and general bad egg, hath scattered
the dead King's body unlo the far
corners of the huge lamb.

I am bound to gather (hem unto
themselves and make them whole
once more. When 1 have achieved
this task. Osiris will grant me great
strength and that dog-breath Set
will be banished to eternity, for-
ever.

Having a godly aspect, 1 can
assume the form of a hawk In fly
between the chambers of the tomb
in search of the dismembered
parts, But curse that snake-loving
Set! He hath cast a spell upon the
hieroglyphs that bedeck the walls
of the chambers. They swarm
around in the form of many small
animated sprites, sapping my life
force and inconveniencing me
something terrible.

Thank mother Isis for the many
amulets scattered around the tomb,
frequent as the morning dew, The
magic contained in these charms
will help me greatly, providing
great strength and mysterious com-
panions. The many rainbow

Hiro today, gone tomorrow

E VIL lizard things are swarm-
ing all over the place. There's
only one way In stop them and
there is only one man for the job.
Hiro.

Collect the 16 pieces of the
ancient fi rah lade and you can be a
real hiro, sorry hero. Avenge the
death of the other Bladeknights
and save the undercitv from
Havok's reign of liavok. Might as
well, there donT seem to be many
pubs ahout.

The whole game is done in the
style of those terrible new Japanese
cartoons that you rnighl catch a
glimpse of if you wake up too early
on a Saturday morning. You know
I he sort of thing, with robots ihat
turn from Cappucinno makers into
ICBM's in the flash of a screen
refresh.

in the tradition of the
Bladeknights, Hiro has had bits of
his body chopped off and replaced
with velly reriabie cybernetics.

Exploring the undercity where
the required blade bits are to be
found is made harder by the fact
that the screen only displays places
already visited. This means many
passages hove to he actively
searched for behind the boxes and
tuhes that litter the underground
alleyways, which lends itself more
to an adventuring feel than arcade
blasting action,

The only real arcade elements
are the bipod alligator things that
have to be despatched incessantly.

Despite having cybernetic limbs,
Hiro hasn't got much in the way of

,S stiff hh hu/e
LT9.il 11

(irem/in (Itvpbics

Overall - 79%

arms. He starts of with bare fists
and feet, which are effective only
against the hedgehogs and minor
bcasties on the first level.

You will need to pick up some
more advanced weaponry, widely
available by punching open certain
rocks or by taking a quick sortie I
behind the packing crates. Various
devices will bo uncovered which J
may look painful, but they suit
Hiro fine.

The philosophy is never to take
anything at face value. That might
not be a solid brick wall over there. I
That might not be a vicious alien
advancing to savage you - he might j
want to throw fireballs at you first.

Graphics are smooth and well I
animated, 1 hough not overly imagi-
native, The shadow effects in the
lower digestive tracts of the earth
are nice, as are the occasionally ,
flickering lights.

Addictive, if not state of the art, if
and enough puzzledom to last a
good while.

Green

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O NCE upon a time there was the
typewriter, Press the buttons
and the letters appeared on paper.

Most word processors are like that.

Even with the addition of spelling
checkers and other magic, they are
still typewriters under the skin.

Lately, with the advent of desktop
publishing, graphics have become part
of some word processors. But there's
been little to stretch the parts of the
Amiga that other computers cannot
reach.

Pen Pal is an attempt to change ail
that. It's an Amiga-only word
processor, but instead of conforming
to the word processing rules it takes
the features and potential of the
machine to provide one of the most
innovative and well thought out user
interfaces to be found on any program
on any computer.

As well as normal word processing
functions, it also crams in simple
drawing, graphics and database
features. There's a lot to it.

Starting it up gives little indication
of the depth of the program. At first it
looks like any of umpteen packages -
tools down the left hand side, menus
along the top, scroll bars surrounding
3 large, blank area where your text
will shortly appear. Nothing
spectacular, except that it uses a PAL
screen.

It's when you move the mouse
around that things start to pop. As your
strangely bent pointer glides over tools
or areas, a box appears giving the name
of the option beneath. A few minutes
playing with tho first window proves
that Pen Pal uses Intuition - fronl-to-
back and resizing hehave exactly as
they should. Any remotely experienced
Amiga owner will feel at home.

Text appears in 11 point Topaz, the
default font we're all used to.
Everything oil screen reflects exactly
what will appear in the final
document - the infamous wysiwig -
and selecting a new font or a new style
produces precisely the expected effect,
Font selection is particularly clever in
that it allows you to choose ihe size
first and then the font to fit,

Pen Pal can import, and
subsequently print, any IFF picture,
including HAM ones. It handles them
in the usual manner of letting you
draw a hox into which pictures can be
placed. It’s happy to let you force the
graphic to fit the space, or just do a
best fit without distorting the
proportions of the picture.

I was impressed by the way

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Rupert Goodwins wants
to be a paperback
writer and wonders if
Pen Pal is all he needs

anything I wanted to do just fell to
hand without my having to go off and
look up whether it was possible.

Pictures are displayed in eight
colours. Pen Pal makes an attempt to
map others, but with HAM stuff it
merely show's a black blob. Graphics
can be grouped together, locked into
place and have text flowed around
them.

Whatever mishandling the picture
suffers, Pen Pal stores the original
internally and uses the resolution and
palette it knows about to give the best
possible results on printing.

With the Forms Fill In option you
can use the drawing tools to create a
form, and the computer will then
refuse to let you type in text anywhere
but in the permitted fields.

The graphics tools arrayed down the
screen are simple. Line drawing and

box creation, with some fill options,
will produce most of the layout tricks
you’ll see in professional publications,
If you want more than that, draw
whatever it is in your favourite paint
program and import it. Things created
with the Pen Pal facilities can be
resized, moved around and adjusted
ad infinitum.

The spcil checker has some 100.000
words - all of them American.
Although it works well enough, I got
confused by the options. I told it to
start spell checking from the top of the
document but it started from the
current position of the cursor and
worked its way up.

And the program doesn't
understand ram discs. It always thinks
that the ram disc is completely full
and can’t accept any more.

But the help system is a real winner.
Its got lots of text on most features,
arranged so that it’s as easy to browse
through by clicking on entries as it is

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then the
font to fit

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to find a given feature.

The text is a model of clear, concise,
relevant information. It is not
necessary to refer to the manual for 90
per cent of queries. Given that Pen Pai
isn’t copy protected, this is a
courageous move, and one that f
warmly appreciated.

To save space on the master disc the
printer drivers are held on the second
disc and a small program is provided
to copy just the one you want, Painful,
since you have to type the name of the
driver exactly, and printer drivers tend
to be more incomprehensible than a
Polish street map.

That done. Pen Pal itself knows how
to read the installed driver and uses
that data to set up various things
inside itself to do with graphics
printing et al. It will either print full
wysiwig or use the printer’s own fonts
to speed up pure text output. When
doing Amiga fonts it takes about four
seconds per line of text on my 80 cps
Epson-compatible dot matrix printer.

I immediately felt at home with this
program. Other things worked well -
hard drive installation on an A590
was easy and the various hotkeys are
well chosen.

There are downsides. One is speed.

Data basics

P EN PAL'S database is interest-
ing. It is really a list manager
rather than a full-blown database. It
accepts information in various
formats, can sort It. merge it with your
text, print it out in label format, add
up figures - all of the things that a
computer really ought to be able to do.

Defining a database takes place in a
standard Amiga requester with lots of
fields to chose from. Data can be text,
numbers, currency (Pen Pal helpfully
supplies a dollar sign), dates, times...
there are even picture and sound
types.

These are there partially to
maintain compatibility with an earlier
database written by the same people
and partially because future Pen Pals
will be able to display pictures in the

database. Neither Field type does
anything at the moment.

The definition process creates a list
of fields into which you can type your
data. Once you’ve entered it, you can
order everything alphabetically, by
date, or by any other field.

This done, you can create what Pen
Pal calls a View, This is a particular
set of things you'd like doing to the
database - sort in a certain way,
prepare the data in columns - and
you can have more than one View per
database, so you can display or use
the data in various different ways
with minimum effort once you've set
up the details.

It's simple and vary fast. A 100 item
database can be searched or ordered
in a couple of seconds.

In common with many wysiwig
editors, Pen Pal can be diabolically
slow when doing largo, on-screen text
operations. Three seconds to paste a
30 word chunk into a 200 word
paragraph.

The worst problem I encountered
was while testing its large document
capabilities. 1 tried to feed it a 30,000
word Ascii file, some 1 70k. After 10
minutes of flashing its very pretty
Please Wait icon at me, it died.

Now, I wouldn't have minded had it
taken one look at the document and
told me to go away and find
something smaller. I wouldn't have
minded as much if it had chuntered
away for a while and then said “Burp
- I’m full” and let me recover. But on a
multi-tasking machine it's not the
done thing to gracelessly collapse.

Because I lend to write plain text,
and lots of it, it’s not going to be my
personal favourite word processor,
mostly because of its lack of speed.

I'd recommend it, though, to anyone
who wants a fully-featured Amiga
word processor to write small to
medium documents, do simple
newsletters or just the normal,
domestic writing that the Amiga
should excel at. Pen Pal makes all
these things fun. It's nearest rival is
Kind Words which although half the
price doesn't have the database
features, nor the ability to use HAM
pictures or standard Amiga fonts.

KURORT CARD

Pen Pal

Brown-Wagh/Data Liberation
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£129.95

minium

EASE OF USE.,,,

Correct use of Amiga menus and
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SPEED

Wysiwyg needs processor power, and
even helped by the blitter, mixing fonts
with colour graphics is slow. Printing
speed and quality are helped by using
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VALUE

For a database and wp this isn 't too
steep, but £130 less discounts is a lot to
shell out in one go.

OVERALL

78%,

A good product, which is well written
and deserves to do well, hut will
probably suffer because of the price.

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W ELCOME my son, we leu mo
to the Trip-a-Tron, It is with
this name, thal seems tu pay homage
to a hippie's favourite pastime and an
obscure early synth favoured by
certain psychedelic groups, that
cultural guru to the enlightened, |eff
Minter. has deemed to bless his latest
venture into light synthesisers.

It all started on the humble 64 with
Psychedelia, which returned in cut
down form in Battalyx, his concept
compendium. Then, in a fit of
madness perhaps, he transferred his
attention to various shades of Atari
and produced Colourspace. Driven on
by little voices in his head, or perhaps
his ashtray, he has finally produced
Trip-a-Tron for the Amiga.

The less hip and with it of you may
he wondering what all this light
synthesis is about, Well, without
getting too uncord and heavy, it is just
like a music synth except instead of
sonics you will he painting real-time
swirling universes of pixels which
expand and metaniorphosise and
decay throughout a multi-verse like a
million bright ambassadors of
morning. Got it? Good.

Now that that's settled, the show
must go on. The first thing it is
advisable to do when corning into
possession of Trip is to make a really
strong cup of tea, pull up heanhag and
study the manual very carefully, ThU
is actually quite a pleasant experience,
since it is entertaining and informative
al the same time, simultaneously even.

T HIS cunning little volume
comes in the form of an
all rac live filofax style bundle, the only
regret being that it doesn't have an
afghan cover. Many questions relating
to possible stumbling points are
answered early on like why it is called
a light- synth and not a light-ukulele.
Tricky one that.

Dudes who recall earlier versions
will he pleased to learn that you don't
have to get ton far into it just to have a
good time - just load up the demo
files and have a play with the mouse.
Pressing a button does something and
moving the mouse does other things

for

light

relief

Nic Veitch floats down
through the clouds to
spill a saucerful of

sequences

and everything is green and
submarine. This is fine, but a new
world unfolds for people who take
their freak-out weirdo stuff seriously,
The Foundation llama,,, sorry, stone

for all this is the language KML [yes
the name does have a strange sound to
it). KML is a cunning piece of mental
engineering that allows you to
program in your own effects.

It is, obviously, specially written for
this sort of application and has many
advanced brain-disintegrating features
and commands. Up to eight programs
may be run simultaneously by
pressing corresponding (and
programmable) keys during the
performance phase.

The program can integrate anti run
effects and graphics designed with the
other modules in the package, so in
effect you can create a whole show
which runs itself at the touch of a
button,

T HE programming environment
is not state of the art wimp stuff,
but is quite friendly and simple and
displayed in a very legible font, which
is the most important thing. Lino-entry
syntax checking should remove most
potential bugs.

A sequencer module allows you to
pre-program effects to occur at exact
instances in a defined sequence. This
supports both real-time recording and

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editing functions* allowing highly
complicated combination of effects to
be produced. You pick the place and
then chose the time and it does its
thing in Its own way.

Starfields a la Star Trek, are
available with controls for adjusting
everything from trace length to
angular velocity. Set the controls for
the heart of the sun!

The silly scope is the realm of
waveforms, both default and user
defined. They are used to control the
laser-like effects you will see roaming
around the demo.

It is hard to categorise something
like Trip and therefore hard to
measure it against anything
meaningfully. It is out front in a field
of which it is the sole inhabitant.

You don't have to spend hours
pouring over the manual, you can
certainly have as much fun with it as
you would with Colourspace by just
using the default settings and ignoring
KML, but just as musicians love Midi
and programmable synths, light artists
will find more scope for expression
with a programmable light synth.

In entertainment terms it is certainly
worth more than its weight in tropical
plant cuttings. It is nice to see that
computers which rose out oT what was
basically hippy technology in the
sixties have now got hack to grass
roots and repaid their debt to those
attuned to a higher level of sensation.

Finally, it is hard to write About a
Llamusofl product without letting the
last word he something awesome.

VSffQ is a ( fairly ) normal sort of
picture squirming manipulation
t hingy . It takes standard IFF files
and also uses its own run length
encoded format. Various cunning
effects tike de-res, rotation, filtering
and many.many more are available
bat it can take a while.

Thoughtfully a graphic is included
to tell you approximately how long
the process is going to take by way of
giving you little messages like "Go
make some tea " or "Go to the

boozer " or as in the case of something
adventurous / fried recently. "HIP".

Finished frames are once again
called by a KML macro. Since
everything interacts in this way there
is a nice feel of building something
solid from the bottom up. The other
colossal advantage of this is that it is
not necessary' fo become intimately
famiiiar with each module before
producing something brain damaging,
you can take it at your own mellow
pace.

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D EMO writers have a very bad
reputation among ''real"
programmers. They are accused of
being OS destroyers, illegal coders and
of perpetrating the worst of all
possible Cl inics, lumping into the rom.
This bad press is mainly due to the
antics of obscure German coders and
crackers — hackers is the wrong term
to descrihe these people because they
don't break into large computer
systems, their only interest is in
writing demos and, for some of them,
removing protection from games and
spreading these “cracks".

Typically these crackers write a
demo using the K-Seka assembler -
because it is the most similar to the
assemblers they used on the Q14. They
will put In enough code so that it
looks like it works and then bung it in
the post next morning to ail their
friends.

There is nothing wrong in
programming like this if you are just
writing a demo for you and your
friends. In most cases the authors of
these demos do not expect them to
end up in public domain libraries or
reach the general public.

The problems begin when these
coders find lhai after writing a few
demos it is quite easy lo write a game.
But do they make sure that it works
properly on all Amigas? No.

It therefore seems an obvious thing
for all coders to stick lo the rules,
especially new coders.

N OWADAYS the problem lies not
in whether to obey the rules or
not, but what the rules exactly are, If
you take Commodore's words on the
subject you might think that everything
you do has to be done by using libraries
and devices, not touching anything low
level like the custom chips,

Of course, Commodore does not
mean this. What the boffins there
point out Is that as the Amiga is a
multi-tasking machine, if you don’t
access it via the operating system the
Amiga will not be able lo cope with
handling all the differeni tasks -
trying to lake over the screen, trying to
read Ihe keyboard at the same time,
trying to use any other aspect of the
Amiga's input or output.

In this respect using the operating
system is the only way to program the
Amiga. But that is only if multi-
tasking is necessary for your program.
If you try to make a game multi-task

you will soon gel rather annoyed
when it slows down or stops each
time you put a disc in the drive or
move the mouse.

Commodore built two library

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functions for people who do not need
to multi-task - ForbidO and Permit!).
Fmrliid turns off multi-tasking, so any
other tasks running are suspended,
giving your program 100 per cent of

; Written with Pevpac vZ.14.

; Put into chip seiory.

; No cm sensitivity, optimiie on

; Set e nee base.

; Turn off multi -Tasking.

; Open graphics Library,

; Store screen address in copper list.
; That's pee ell zero elL,

;‘Siie of one b 1 tp La ne .

; Second bitplane (pee ell one ell).

; Set op topper List,

; Store workbench copper Hit.
1 Use our copper list.

; Enable Level 3 interrupt.

; Store old level 3 Interrupt,
; Use our interrupt.

Test for Left nouse button.
Halt if not pressed.

Else return to workbench.
Disable copper interrupt.
Copper List.

; CLose graphics Library,

; Execbasc,

; PenitO - restart luLti-tastlng

* All ve have to do nou in our main program is vsit for the nouse button

* to exit, AH the interesting stuff is done by the interrupt ve set up.

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the Amiga to play with. Permit!) turns
multi-tasking bank on again for when
you exit yuur demo back to CLL
Once you have turned off multi-
tasking it is perfectly safe to “hit the

hardware”, assuming yuu do this in an
orderly fashion and clear everything
up before returning to AmigaDos.

Whatever you are writing, a demo or
a game, you have to follow a standard

set of instructions to kill the system,
set up your screen and everything else
yotir demo needs. I have wTitten a file
nailed RASE.S [Listing 1) which 1 use
for the basis of ail my productions.

It starts by opening the graphics
library Although 1 do not use any
graphics library functions in the
program, I need the address of t he
library to tell me where the
workbench copper list is stored.

I then have to create my copper list.
The main problem with my copper list
is that l do not know where my
bitplanes are going to be in memory
hecause AmigaDos will load this file
into whatever chip memory it can find.

Some less -experienced coders think
that they can take a piece of memory,
say at $70000, clear that and use it for
their screen, regardless of whatever
else may be there at the time. While
that will work most of the time on a
512k Kickstart 1.2 Amiga, it will
generally fall down on any other
system If you have anything else in
memory before running, it probably
won't be there much longer.

Obviously this is not a very good
idea, although I still keep corning
across people who do it.

What 1 do is to put zero into the
hitplane addresses in the copper list -
$c(J to Sefi in the example listing -
work out the addresses of where my
bitplanes are, and stick it into the
copper list, MOVE.L #screen,dO gets
the screen address, and then it is
transferred into the relevant places in
the copper list a word at a time.

W TTH this method, nut only

are you guaranteed not to rub
over something that is already in
memory, but it will work regardless of
where it is in chip memory,

The easiest and cleanest way of
setting up a copper list is to put your
list address into the Workbench
copper list address pointer - part of
the graphics, library structure. First
you must save the current value of this
pointer so it can be restored on exit,
Gne odd command you may notice
in my copper list is $9c.$801G. This
generates a level 3 copper interrupt.
What is a level 3 copper interrupt, I
hear you ask? Well, it's funny you
should ask because that’s what I'm
going to talk about next.

Anyone who has programmed
inferior processors to the 68000 series

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jumpers

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; Exit routine.

new: >ove*.l sO-d?/aD-a 6 ,-( sp) ; Save alt registers.

and . v 4JTQ,Sdf fOle ; Cheek if it is capper interrupt,

beq.s aut ; If net, skip this c ode.

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* This interrupt cade is celled ante every 50th second (an PH *aehines)

* until the Left button is pressed end the interrupts are disabled.

addq *1,toL0
subq #2, coll

; Change the foreground.
; Change the background.

out; save*. I Up)+,dQ-d7/aD-s6 ; Restart registers,

* The following JSS instruction (*4if9) is altered by the beginning of

* the progra*, This sort of self-aodifying cade is frowned upon by “real"

* coders, but it doesn't ha L f work a lot easier than any other nethod.

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coll

dc .v

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; Call copper interrupt.

dc .w

Sf f ff ,Stf fe

; End capper.

gfxlib:

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screen;

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; Screen full of tines.

deb.b

10240,0

; Screen blank.

end

; End of listing.

yubrvun- t99a AMIGA <X)MPITi\G Hi

PROGRAMMING ■

- like the 6502, Z80 or R03Hfi - will
surely have come across interrupt!* at
one time or another. Basically, an
interrupt stops the execution of
whatever the processor is doing at the
time and makes it go and run another
routine before returning to carry on
with what it was up to in the first
place.

What this means in practical terms
is that the main program can just sit
and wait for the left mouse button to
be pressed while the interrupts go off
and do all the clever work.

T HE nice thing about interrupts
is that they are called at regular
time intervals, in this case every' 50th
of a second, This means you can write
a routine which moves a series of
sprites, for example, around (he screen
by one position. As the routine is
called every Sfllh of a second it gives
the illusion of smooth movement.

You will find these interrupts
referred to as "exceptions" in a lot of
literature because Motorola decided to
be different to the rest of the universe,
which calls these things interrupts. As
interrupts are interrupts whatever type
of processor you are using, I will
continue to call them interrupts. There
is no need for companies to add to the
list of computer jargon unnecessarily
In Listing I you can sec how to set
up the simplest type of interrupt, the
level 3 copper one.

The Amiga system uses level 3
interrupts for all sorts of things. They
are generated when a new disc is
inserted, for example. Therefore we
must be careful not to trash this
interrupt and allow the system to
carry on its necessary interrupts after
our program has finished.

This system interrupt routine is at a
fixed routine in ram. I could tell you
where this is, but as it changes from
version to version of Kickstart, we will
have to work out where it is instead.
As it happens, it is very easy to find

out w'here this routine is - you just
read the contents of Sfic in memory. To
set your own interrupt routine you
have to write the address of your
routine into Sfic and enable level 3
copper interrupts.

This is done by moving $8010 into
SdffOUa (INTENA). From then on, any
write of $8010 to SdffOOc [INTREQj.
the interrupt request register, will
cause the CPU to jump to the interrupt
routine pointed to at address Stic, The
copper move S9c,$8010 creates the
desired effect.

O UR interrupt routine begins

with a MGVKM instruction that
saves all the registers on the stack. It
has interrupted the 68000 at an
unknown point in our main program.
OK. our main program is only two
lines long this time, but it is a good
idea to get into good habits and save
all the registers at the beginning of an

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interrupt. The next three lines deter-
mine whether the interrupt has been
generated by our copper list or not,

well.

If it is not a copper interrupt, then
the interrupt is passed on to the
original interrupt handler routine in
rom. This is done by a direct jump at
the end of the interrupt ruutine.
However, this interrupt address is
calculated by the program and will ho
correct fur whatever version of
Kickstarl you may care to use.

changing the foreground and
background colours by -2 and 1
respectively every 50th of a second,
hence the colourful effect.

After our lines of interrupt code we
jump into the level 3 ruutine in rom.
just in case the rom routine does
anything important, i don't think it

does in Kickstart 1.2 or 1.3, but it
doesn’t do any harm lu jump in
anyway, and it may be necessary for
future Kickstarts.

Now we move hack to the main
code and, assuming you have got
bored of the Jeff Minter style colour
changes and have squashed your
mouse button, the program carefully
shuts down ami rebuilds .Amiga Dos
for you,

F IRST we put our old level 3
interrupt address - the rom
address we read from $6c earlier -
back into She. For good measure we
then disable cupper interrupts, as we
like to return things to the way we
found them,

Next we put our old copper list
address hack into the Workbench
copper list pointer. This re-enables the
good old C LI screen. We close the
graphics library wo opened earlier and
re-enable multi-tasking with a
Permit!), Now we are ready to return

to CLI, The last thing to do is clear do
- MGVEQ tfU.dQ is faster way to do il
than CLR LdO,

When a program exits to CLI, the
value in d0 is returned as the error
code. It is a good way to pass
parameters back to the CLI, but we
don’t particularly want an error code
with our demos.

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AmigaDns, If you find that it doesn’t
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• NEXT MONTH: Some special
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because level 3 interrupts can be
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it really feels like it, and it will never
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ft's hardly surprising then, that a
variety of other Basics have sprung up;
compiled ones like HiSoft Basic
Compiler and interpreted ones like
GFA-Basic, which now has a separate
compiler. But they aren'l cheap, so
what the world in general has been
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Anyone who has
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will know that it has
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should have had all along,

The waiting is now over. HiSoft, in
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Extend is a disc-based library like
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purpose.

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library functions and routines from
Basic is that they need oodles of code
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variable types are different, one tiny
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the uncompressed data would be.

There’s also LoadIFF, which quickly
loads your image on to a screen that
you specify. It is here that Extend
shows its transatlantic origins - if you
don't have a PAL screen open fur a
256 line PAL image, Extend creates a
very crushed 256 line NTSC interlaced

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Change tho mouse pointer to the word Halt.

Change a window title.

Roll a series Of gadgets,
check for a submenu selection,

Clear out a string gad get 's contents.

De-al locate all memory allocated for all gadgets.

Assign a hotkey sequence to a menu item.

Display Fmnd credits.

Return the disk s dace free and useable.

Execute any val id AnnqaDos command.

Check to see if a file exists.

Returns the stie of a file.

Set the current window with the desired font.

De-al locate all wemary allocated with the Memory conmand.
Set the drawing attributes for all gadget borders.

Put a gadget on the Basic window.

Set the text attributes for all gadgets.

Display a flit requester and prewpt for mouse input.
Activate a String gadget for string input.

Retwm contents Of a stHng gadget.

Loads and displays a standard IFF screen.

Change the highlighting attribute for a menu.

Get a block of Allocated system memory.

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screen, which looks awful. Ah well,
we can't have everything.

Serious headbangcrs can use Ihe
ViewHAM command to have a look at
HAM images. Unfortunately Extend
lets you look, but not touch - HAM is
too complicated for Basic to keep track
of. This isn't strictly true; HAM from
Basic has been done, but the routine is
huge, very slow and suffers from
colour handing problems, so it's not
viable.

There are a few other functions for
fonts, external commands, file
handling, memory allocation, and
even a routine to produce a "Wait"
mouse pointer. Setting up the library
for use is very simple, all the work is
done by one command to initialise the
current window.

Extend is as forgiving as it can be,
given AmigaDos's somewhat
capricious nature, but if it says in the
manual that a function called
incorrectly will cause a crash, you’d
better believe it.

Some routines must be slowed
down with the PTIME command to
allow AmigaBasic to catch up.
Thankfully most of these are not speed
critical, so the extra second or so
won’t be noticed.

Easy Gadgets

Souped-up menus

A MIGABASIC, despite being a
bit of a dog, does handle
menus fairly wall. Extend goes much
further - it allows subitems on menu
items, and hotkey shortcuts, like
Right-Amiga-Q for Quit for instance.

On top of this you can define
exactly how you want menu items
coloured and highlighted. Most
powerfully of all, you can set up
mutually exclusive items. This is
useful, say, if your program has a
load option and you want to disable
the save option while the data is

loading. Now If you need anything
more complex, you’ve outgrown
anything AmigaBasic could ever do.

Extend gives you submenus and hotkeys,
a major omission from AmigaBasic

The manual is good, written in that
weary but snappy style which gets a
hit old after a while, it does the job
though, and it's packed with
examples, which are also present on
the disc - one example for every
command.

What, for me, makes Extend so good
is that you can use it in your programs
and then distribute them without any
complications. The downfall of Basic

extenders for many of the B hit
machines was caused by their non-
distributable status, but Extend has
none of these problems - HiSoft and
SunSmile have made Extend. library
and Extend. bmap freely distributable.

And because you can use Extend
with the HiSoft Basic Compiler, you
can now write good code in Basic and
hold your head high.

HE real giveaway that a program
X uses Basic is that there is a
complete lack of gadgets, or at least ,
proper Intuition ones. Here, SunSmile

gives as good a reason as any to use
the word plethora in describing its
options. Both boolean and string
gadgets are supported. The former
allow program options to be activated,

the latter allow for the input of text.
You can make them as big, small,
dull or garish as you like — just as
long as you remember to remove
them all before the program is exited.

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- End b 1 a a gadget .

- protect a Basic string.

- Pass so** Urn.

- Put a string Into a String gadget's buffer.

- attempts- to refresh th* currant output window.

- Remove a gadget from a Basic window.

- Alter the taut colours of requester text*

- Prompt the user with a r equestar.

- Save the current scraeo In standard IFF format.

- Sets the highlighting for gadgets.

- set tsjft attributes (Italics, bold, etc, 1

- Set the position of a submenu.

- Pease* E*t*nd 1 ■portent Info about the Basic window.

- Altar th* te*t colours of the custom itrlng requestar.
Set the details for requester text and position.
Determine the Status of A String gadget.

- set colour attributes for all submenus.

- ASSlgri 9 submenu to a menu ktem,

- Switch a select gadget to th* Off position.

- switch a select gadget to the On gwraltlOfl.

~ Returns the current Extend version number .

- Load and display a H*H screen.

- Walts until a abaci fled gadget 11 not active.

- Scroll who la or part of A bitmap.

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February 1990 AMIGA COMPUTING Oft

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Spit and polish

P ROGRAMS often have to ask the
user Yes or No questions, such
as whether it's OK to format the hard
drive or not. This is where requesters
come in.

With Extend it's just as easy to
produce a pretty Jittle system
requester as it is to use an unprelty
“INPUT Y/N ,r statement. They both do
the same job, but the requester looks
far bettor and is resistant to
turnipheads trying to input garbage.

IF the program processes any
amount of data you'll want to ask the
user for a filename in the nicest
possible way, Unfortunately, the
Extend file requester is really quite an
appalling kludge. Instead of using the
standard ARP tile requester, which
most of us (including HiSoft) know
and love, SunSmile has gone for its
own rather feeble offering.

It doesn't even have a scroll bar or a
device selection list, so if you’re
looking for a file from a hard drive you
have to edit the string gadget and then

System requesters wilt give your Basic
programs that professional look

click on the down arrow repeatedly to
find the file you want.

It refuses to be put on a lo-res screen
(the ARP one can be coaxed to do this)
even though it is narrow enough to do
so. it also doesn't update the directory
list at every access - this can
sometimes be good, iF you've got a
very full disc, or can sometimes be a
pain, if you want to access a file
you’ve just written.

SunSmile could do itself a great
service by replacing the Extend file
requester with something better. It's
better than nothing, but it’s not good
enough.

REPORT OAKIJ

Extend

HiSoft 0525 71BI81
£19-515

EASE OF USE ...
Straightforward, hut not for the
complete novice. Could da with a
better file requester.

SPEED .

Very r fast, especially when: IFF is
involved . Some functions have to hv
slowed down or AmiguBasic misses
them .

VALUE

Superb value. Lais of useful features at
a low price. Phs you can freely
distribute your programs written with
its use.

OVERALL 93 %

Extend makes Basic a viable
proposition. Comprehensive, fast and
cheap — every AmigaBasic programmer
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ago with Music-X from
Mi crul II its ions. Instead of an average-
to-good sequencing package, wo aro
treated to a superlative sequencer,
plus a whole host of utilities which
integrate perfectly to provide a
complete music editing workstation.

Music-X makes full use of the
Amiga’s multi-tasking environment to
provide four packages in one - a
Sequencer, a Midi Filter, a Sampler
Playback and Editing system plus a
Patch Editor and Librarian,

The Sequencer mimics a cassette

recorder, using conventional Flay.
Fast-Forward. Rewind and Record
controls. Assuming you have a Midi
interface and keyboard connected, to
begin recording you just hit Record
and start playing - a metronome signal
can be routed through the Amiga's
sound channels to keep you in time.
There's no need to frdt if you don’t
have any music hardware — you can
use the internal Amiga sound
channels.

Once you have finished laying
down your first track you can slip into
the editor page to correct any errors

that may have crept in. Here you have
a choice - the Bar Editor or the Event
Editor.

The former is a graphical
masterpiece that displays all the Midi
information, not just notes, in a
colour-coded grid form. A musical
keyboard up the left hand side of the
screen shows which note is which and
the horizontal axis is labelled in time
units.

The whole screen scrolls from right
to left displaying the next section
under scrutiny. Altering a note is a
move-ihe-monse-and-olick affair,
cutting and pasting large sections is
just as simple. From Ibis editor,
transposing notes and altering
individual Midi channels can be
easily done.

The quantise module is also
accessible from hero, although it
operates in a slightly different way

ex machina

So you wanna be a rock star? fohn

74 AMIGA COMPUTING February 199Q

from that on other sequencers. A
quantiser will tidy up any slight
variations in timing end duration that
you may have inadvertent l v
introduced while entering your tune.

The MusioX quantiser operates on
notes that have already been stored’ in
memory, instead of the more usual
quant ise-while-y oe-play system used
on other packages. The Musie-X

Splitting the keyboard - piny the drums
a! one end, and the cello at the other.

system is better because it allows little
variations to be introduced to stop the
music sounding totally on time, hence
losing all vestiges of sounding human.
The Event Editor differs from the
Bar Editor in that it displays the
recorded sequence in memory as a
long list of Midi information, or
events. As a result it looks very
complicated, but is perfect for

Yesterday

MIDI, or Musical instrument Digital
Interface, is one of the greatest success
stories of modern electronics. Back in
the old days, some manufacturers
realised that a standard protocol for
inter-connecting musical instruments
was needed to replace the rather
haphazard "CV and Cate" analogue
system they were using.

After lots of meetings and expensive
lunches, tile Midi standard was finally
decided upon, Soon all the new
keyboards and electronic drum kits
started having funny little 5 -pin DIN
sockets on the hack.

The Midi interface was a true digital
system - a fast serial interface like the
RS222 we all know and love. And it
was going to change modern music
dramatically,

Midi could send details of notes to
be played, their volumes, which
voices to use and, in fact, anything
that could be represented digitally.
Since all the new synthesisers were
digital by design, this meant nearly
everything that could be played by
hand could be represented by a string

Irish rock band Meanwhile In
Czechoslovakia. They used an ST until
Musir-X came along

of serial data.

The similarity between Midi and a
normal computer serial interface was
soon exploited by computer
enthusiasts in a wav in which the
early Midi designers had not even
dreamed of.

Now that computers can generate
and control Midi signals the pop
charts will never be 1 he same again.

correcting mistooks with absolute
accuracy.

As well as being able to map any
output channel on to any other from
the Sequencer screen, Music-X allows
complete redefinition of incoming
Midi signals.

Producing key hoard splits whereby
different parts of the keyboard can
send information on different Midi
channels is only the start. All Midi

events can be split between channels,
allowing almost total control of a
music system from a single keyboard.

This provides even the simplest
Midi keyboard with capabilities
usually only found on considerably
more expensive models.

A total of 1 G 1FE or Sonix samples
can he loaded and re-tuned from the
sample Playback screen. Their volume
envelopes can also be edited using a

cute graphical system. The sound
channels of the Amiga will provide up
to four different sounds at once,
although the sample to be played can
be changed between the 16 in memory
at any time.

The use of internal samples means
that it is possible for the user with no
external hardware to compose and
play tunes, although the range of

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We can work it out

MIDI works by assigning each
instrument a channel number
between 0 and 15 - or sometimes 1
and 16 - rather like an address in
computer memory terms. When the
instrument recognises its ciannel
request it pays special attention and
gels ready to play a note or do
whatever the Midi signal asks.

Sometimes a synthesiser can
respond to more than one channel at
once, allowing it to play several
tracks totally independently using
different voices.

Hello, goodbye

THERE are three types of Midi socket
- the IN, the OUT and the THRU. The
IN receives incoming Midi signals, the
OUT sends them out and the THRU
echoes any incoming signals received
at the IN socket,

Thus a keyboard needs at least an
OUT socket and a sound module
needs an IN socket. In practice most
equipment has at least one of each to
allow information to bo passed both
ways.

If you have a largo number of
keyboards, modules and drum

machines you can arrange them
daisychain fashion, where the IN of
one unit is connected to the OUT Df
the other, and so on until the ring is
complete. This tends to bo frowned
upon because each link in the chain
delays the signals a little.

Alternatively you could drive each
unit with a direct IN/OUT signal and
use l he THRU to carry the signal to
units such as Drum machines which
don't need to send any information
back.

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sampled sounds supplied is, to say the
least, small. Of course, the wonderful
IFF standard means that lots of PD
sounds are out there just waiting for
you to use them.

All programmable synthesisers can
hold several voices internally. This is
fine until the hatteries run out on the
keyboard or you run out of room to
store your latest sound-patch.

The Librarian page allows you to
download ail the voice data, save it on
disc and re-load it at a later date. This
is nothing new, but being able to do it
from within a sequencer package is a
large step forward.

From this part of Music-X is also
possible to edit the sounds by means
of a Patch Editor. As each synthesiser
creates and stores its sounds
differently, supplying an editor Tor
each keyboard is impossible.

Editors for specific machines will he
available in the future at ridiculously
low prices, but in the meantime a
horrible hex dump is available for you
to experiment with.

Midi timing can be internal,
external or taken from the television
and cinema industry standard SMFTE
signal by moans of some optional
hardware. The internal clock is the
system most users will use. With a
resolution of 1/192, or a quarter note,
it's unlikely that a more accurate clock
will be needed.

Documentation takes the form of a
well written 460-page epic which
takes you by the hand through all the
facilities and yet works well as a
reference guide.

A utilities disc is provided to help
install Music* X on your hard drive,
should you be lucky enough to own
one. Also on this disc are programs to
convert Music-X files to a standard

Midi file format and to convert Smus
files lo Music-X format. All that is
missing is a stand alone program to
play Midi hies.

Add-on modules are promised
which will extend yet further Music-
X's many capabilities. One of the first
available should a proper music
printing module to provide a top rate
hardcopy of your carefully edited
music. What about a module to add an
automatic Stock- A it ken- Waterman
facility? Should only take about 5k„.

With so many facilities available
from within the one program, Midi
musicians have never had it so good.
The use of the Amiga sound channels
means that even if you don't have any
Midi hardware you will still be able to
produce music of superb quality.

Music-X is the ultimate sound
package. If you are in the least hit
interested in music on the Amiga, you
must buy it.

With a little help from my friends

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The Casio CZlOUt). the Amiga and Music-X - all you need to annoy the neighbours

GNCE you get bored with the samples
supplied with Music-X, or want to
expand on the number of sounds you
can play at once, you will need to
acquire some extra musical hardware,

First you will need a Midi interface
- Music-X does not come with one.
Interfaces are available from many
sources for around £30,

All these interfaces are practically
identical, they only provide a connec-
tion between the Midi signals ami the
Amiga's serial port by means of an
□pto- isolator. Get the cheapest one
you can, or if you are feeling adventur-
ous, build your own.

If you buy, make sure the one you
choose has at least one Midi IN, one
Midi THRU and as many Midi OUTs
as possible.

Mine is a D1Y job that cost less than
a tenner to build and sports an IN, a
THRU and three OUTs.

There is now a whole range of Midi
instruments available starting from
about £100. The now classic Casio
CZlOl can be picked up for between
£lQ0-£200 secondhand. It has four or
eight channels of sound, which you
can edit freely to produce all sorts of
weird effects. The CZlUtK) is identical
except it has a full-size keyboard
instead of the little fiddly one on the
101 .

There are also lots of small

keyboards available in the £100-£30G
range that uffer a collection of pre-set
sounds and a built- in drum kit.

Some of these keyboards sound very
nice and may provide a good starting
point for your introduction to Midi.
Have a play with them next time you
are in Boots and see what you think.
Never worry if you can’t play a tune -
with Music-X you will be able lo edit

the notes with the mouse until you get
it right.

For those more used to wind
instruments, you can get a Midi
saxaphone from Casio. Casio even
produces a Midi guitar, so the old
excuse that goes “But 1 can’t play a
keyboard 1 ' doesn't wash any more.

AM/Gd COMPUTING February 1990 7 7

Laying down a
drum truck with
the Music-X
sequencer

Come together

WHEN the Midi standard took off.
sequencers to exploit it were soon
available. A sequencer stores notes
and drum patterns, not as sound but
as the Midi signals needed to trigger
them. Once the Midi signals are

stored in memory they can be
manipulated in all sorts of ways.

Early sequencers were small boxes
that consisted of little more than
record and playback buttons. With
the introduction of computers it is

now possible to store, display and
edit the individual Midi signals
using the sort of Cut and Paste
techniques used in word processing
or graphics packages.

Getting better

AFTER using a small keyboard you
may get bitten by the bug and wanl
to upgrade to a slightly more
sophisticated system. Since with a
Midi system you really only need
one keyboard - the “mother"
keyboard - why waste money on
buying another synthesiser?

Using this line of thinking,
manufacturers have started to release
modules which contain nothing
more than some sound electronics,
some Midi IN/OUT signals and a
multi-channel audio signal to
connect to your tape recorder or
amplifier

One of the cheapest is the new
Cheetah system called the MSBOO. It
retails at around £200. The one I
heard at the PC Show last October
certainly gave a sound that I would
like to experiment with.

Cheetah also produces various other
modules and drum machines, as
well as a complete range of mother

Let it be

THE ST used to be the computer to
interface with Midi equipment,
thanks to its Midi IN and OUT
sockets. This was rather a good
marketing ploy by Atari, but the
tables are turning.

Anyone using Midi at all seriously
will need a Midi THRU and more
than one Midi OUT, making an
external interface on an ST just as
necessary as on the Amiga,

The Amiga starts to score heavily
with its built-in sound capability. It
has a sampler system as an integral
part of its design - no uprated
Spectrum ch ips here. This means you
have an extra four channels of sound
straight away.

Where the Amiga wins hands down
is with its multi-tasking operating
system. Flipping from one utility to
another is child’s play and totally
impossible on a lesser machine.

With Music-X and a Midi interface,
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Resistance of each target

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Second Floor, North House, 78-84 Ongnr
Road. Brentwood, Essex. CM15 9BG.

MATT BURT says: Here's one fur
Cave Runner which was on the
Am/go Computing Cover disc last
November, Gel lo level two, which is
easy enough, then type SUB B BOYS
including the spaces. The screen will
flash blue then Fl gives nine lives, F2
sets the tinier to 99 - useful for level D
and F:t exits the current level and
starts the next.

RICHARD HEATH says:

It’s simple, just get on to
the high score table and
type Green Crystal. Press
Fl a few times to keep
your lives topped up,

If you can t be bothered

to go through the long,

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F8 to skip them one by

one.

Write Lo Max

GAME KILLER is always on the
lookout for hot tips, so if you have
found a cheat mode, bug or written a
poke then drop it ill the post - on
disc if it is a long listing. If your
work is used I’ll send you a game
draw at random from the goodie box
and a Konix joystick.

To speed up getting the prize to
you please cut out, photocopy or
copy this form. It will be used as the
address label to send out your parcel
so please write neatly, May all your
bugs be simple ones.

I have supplied tips /pokes/ cheats for

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Joloyon Ralph ,
hacker extraordinaire ,
adjudicates in a battle
between a young
upstart an d an
established friend

Argasm

U NTIL recently there has only
been one assembler worth
using on the Amiga - HiSoft Devpac.
There have been other assemblers.

The Metacomco one is now out of
date and terribly slow and difficult to
use and Kuma's K-Seka, favourite of
the European demo writers, is more of
a monitor with a little assembler

thrown in. Now there is a new
challenger: ArgAsm from Argonaut
Software.

I've never thought that assemblers
are slaw. Indeed the reason I started
programming in assembler in the first
place was because after a couple of
weeks of coding in C I got bored of
waiting for compilers and linkers and

all the other disc-spinning, time-
wasting progletts to finish, only to
tell me I’d left off a squiggly bracket
from the end of line six.

What I needed was a language
where J could make changes to my
program and see the results almost
instantly, I was, of course, used to
Basic, where all one has to do is type

Polished performer

RKIHIRT CARD

Devpac

HiSnft 0525 718181
£30.95

DEVPAC V2.14 consists of a blue and
white plastic ring- binder containing a
154 page manual, the two unprotected
program discs and a pocket B8000
reference guide.

Initially l thought this 68000 guide
was a cheap gimmick, but looking
through it 1 found that it contains ell
the useful pages from the Motorola
68000 programmers reference manual,
a book 1 needn’t have bought now. It
won't teach you machine code, but it's
an invaluable guide for any
programmer.

The Devpac manual is
comprehensive, covering setting up
your system to run (he assembler, an
introduction to the editor, assembler
and debugger, plus a good set of
appendices covering everything from

AmigaDas error codes to a
bibliography. It is well presented and
easy to follow.

The first program disc is a slightly
cut-down workbench, containing the
assembler, debugger and editor, all in
the C directory, along with the include
files and some example programs.

The examples are fairly simple and
unimaginitive, but are a good
introduction to using the Devpac
assembler and editor.

The second disc contains various
alternative include files and the Arp
includes (Amigados Replacement
Project), allowing you to use Arp
requesters in your programs. Most of
the time you will only need the first
disc, leaving your external drive free
for your source disc.

FASF OF USE.

Assemble to Memory and Jump So Error
options help a lot aitd MonaiftS is
without doubt the best machine code
man stor/debuggtr on the Amiga.

SPEED

Fast enough for most. Experienced
coders may have to twiddle their
thumbs or juggle for a few moments

VALUE.

The excellent manual, 68000 pocket
book and powerful monitor/ debugger
make this the best value Amiga
assembler on the market.

OVERALL

84 n i>

Them is always roam for improvement ,
A faster upgrade is promised But
probably won't reach Argasm' s speed.

- J

84 AMIGA COMPUTING Fubmaty >‘JW

■

■ REVIEW ■

Devpac

■ in the program and run the thing.
V Devpac did the business. I typed
V iii my code, assembled it, and it
■ was there, ready to run, in about 30
F seconds.

HiSofl has since released an
upgrade, Devpac 2. This is faster and
has more options than the version I
first used. It can now assemble

di rectly to memory instead of only to a
disc file, which means you can
assemble code and test it without
having to leave the editor.

Jez San of Argonaut Software was
one of Devpac’s greatest fans, lie user!
it to write, among other things, the ST
and Amiga versions of Stargliders l
and 2, But Devpac was not fast enough

for jez, so he wrote his own assembler
called ArgAsm 6B0GU. It claims to be
the fastest Amiga assembler, being
able to assemble your code before
you've even finished typing it. Well,
almost.

Since ArgAsm is designed to out-
perform Devpac it is not surprising
that it is compatible with the Hisoft
assembler, even down to
understanding Devpac’s ST directives.
What is surprising is that it is also
compatible with Metacomco and Cape
assemblers.

Total compatibility with three
things which are not compatible with
each other is, of course, impossible.
Common sense is the usual solution to
this problem. And this means Argasm
does not suffer some of Devpac and

Fast and furious

ARGASM GfiOGG comes in a yellow
and black, plastic ring- binder. The
manual is shorter than the Devpac one
at 69 pages - not always a bad thing,
but this time it is. It doesn't go into
nearly as much detail as the Devpac
manual and gives me the impression
that it was written in a hurry.

Not only is it short, but it seems to
miss out several features of the
assembler all together - the Assemble
to Binary File function, for example.
Hopefully a fut ure release of the
software will contain a completely
new one.

The program comes on two
unprotected discs. The first contains
the assembler. Arg, and the editor,
ArgEd. You do not get a debugger with
ArgAsm. The manual recommends the

best debugger to use is Monam2, the
one supplied with HiSoft’s Devpac 2,
As this is not available separately from
Devpac, you would have to buy both
assembler packages to use ArgAsm
with its recommended monitor

The first ArgAsm disc boots up into
an Amiga shell, better than Devpac
which drops you out into a CL1.

The second disc contains the
include files and some example source
files, which are a little more
interesting than the HiSoft offerings.

Putting the include files on the
second disc is a pain if you only have
two drives, because you will
presumably have to have the
assembler In dfO: and the disc with the
includes in dfl;, leaving no drive free
to store your source files.

ArgAsm 69000
Argonaut 01-906 3744
£59.95

EASEOFl/SF.,,,

Newcomers to assembler may have
trouble because of lack of a good
men itor/debugger.

SPEED..

Can 7 be beaten for speed. Assembling
is exceptionally quick. This is the
reason the program was written.

VALUE

No monitor/debugger means you " II
have to shell out again P even if it s only
fora shareware one. HiSoft will sell
you Monam for £39-95-

OVERALL

87 %

ArgAsm has been designed to beat
Devpac, With the time and effort
Argonaut has put in it would have been
surprising if it had failed.

February 1990 AMIGA COMF1 TING SS

REVIEW

TH1B

Capo's nasty idiosyncrasies.

There is no ST version of Argasm,
although one programmer has offered
to do the conversion for free just to got
the speed. This is a real bonus, it
moans the program has been designed
without being fettered by conversion
considerations, and with the Amiga in
mind,

The Argonaut program has better
support of the AmigaDos
link file formats in that it
allows expressions
containing external
references within brackets.

Copper instructions are
built in - again the kind of
feature you wouldn't
expect unless the program
was produced by
Amigaphiles,

Commercial realities
mean that programmers do
have to cater Tor the ST,
and Argasm has an option to produce
raw binary files suitable for porting
down.

On loading the two programs the
first thing I noticed is that they look
almost identical. They also share most
of the same function and control keys,
which makes converting to ArgAsm a
lot easier for Devpae users like myself,

ArgAsm's editor, ArgEd, is
definitely the smarter of the two. You
can split the window into two
separate ones, horizontal ly or
vertically, and subdivide each of these
windows into two more, 1 spent quite

even smaller windows before I
remembered that I was meant to be
reviewing the package.

Having one window displaying the
end of your source and another
displaying the beginning is useful. It
saves having to jump around your
source code all the time. This is made
especially useful by the ability to cut
and paste between window's,
ArgAsm’s editor is Faster than the
Devpae one because it uses the blitter

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the (sard flH In both

a while dividing windows up into

For text handling. However, a similar
speed can be approached with Devpae
editor by running FastFonts (FF),
which comes with Workbench 1.3, or
RlitzFonts, which was on the January
cover disc.

fez doesn’t like waiting, so Arg's
search and replace is significantly
faster, there is an expression evaluator
to save digging under papers for a
programmer’s calculator and the save
function can remember all the
windows and settings so that getting
going when you start up is as quick
and automatic as possible.

On Devpae the sleepy bubbles
pointer has been replaced by a little

vbjtcl codf typ*
Cist dcptr-danci

Ctbu9 infer iut ion

Buirut ta
Error apt ions
List options

hourglass. Argonaut definitely has
tongue in corporate cheek with its
animated equivalent.

The main selling point uf ArgAsm is
its speed. II claims to be five to 15
times faster than Devpae 2. As 1 never
take anybody's word for anything, 1
did my own tests on the two
assemblers.

The first thing to note about these
tests is that ArgAsm has no Assemble
to Memory option, In Devpae 2 you
can assemble a file to memory and test
it, still within the assembler. The
nearest you get to this in ArgAsm is
assembling to a ram file.

IF you only have a 1 meg machine
you will soon find that yon haven't got
enough memory to assemble. If you do
have enough memory to save it to ram,
you then have to switch to a shell
window and run the program from
there to test it.

Both of the test files 1 used could
not assemble to a ram file on a 1 meg
Amiga. Both assembled to memory
easily in Devpae 2.

Because there is no Assemble to
Memory option in ArgAsm, and there
is not enough ram in a 1 meg Amiga to
assemble anything much over 3flf)k as
source and object to a ram file, the
only way to lest your programs in
ArgAsm on a two drive, 1 meg Amiga
is to assemble to floppy. This can take
longer with ArgAsm than assembling
to memory on Devpae 2.

ArgAsm is fast, although 1 don't
ihinl Argonaut is being entirely
reasonable about the performance

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speed up the execution of your code

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option oa the assemble screen to edit
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of future Argonaut games like Hawk,
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WHAT a fab magazine you have. I
am studying HND computing and
need to know if there is a version
of Pascal for the Amiga which will
enable me to run any Turbo Pascal
programs [PC1512) if l conned a
5.25in drive.

Tom Davidson,

London SW17.

No worries, first to read the IBM
format discs you need a 5.25 fit
drive. £90.95 from Club 68000 (01-
977 9596). You'd need some soft-
mine to read the daft 360k format.
Club 68000 can furnish you wf/fi
Ibis for £39.95.

Lastly you'll need a Turbo
Pascal type compiler , Getting hold
of the Metacomco one can be
tough ' cos they don't answer the
phones. HiSoft is working on a
suitable program, expect it some-
time around March. Call HiSoft on
0525 718181.

Telly addict

COULD you give me info on a high
quality 16in TV with a Start con*
nector? ft needs to support all
Amiga modes, like a monitor to
show 4,096 colours and 60
columns. Less importantly stereo
sound (not nicam), remote control
and Teletext.

I need a TV/ monitor in one due
to lack of space. Is it passible to
connect a modulator to a B2(]D0,
and finally what is the official
Commodore retail price for a base
02000 ?

Dave Thomson,
B roughly Ferry, Dundee,

it’s impossible to keep track of the
latest models of televisions. These
days they nearly all have Scart
inputs. Separate sound channels
are rarer, and you are probably
better off running a couple of leads
to vour hi-fi or using n sound
booster like the one in fast mouth’s
project.

Tes, you can use a modulator
with a 2000, although the quality
wrfl suffer. The official price is
£1489.25, digging through the ads
in this mag you should find one for
under £800. Because of some of the

Surfs up. An' dis Surf is Ezra Surf. It's my job to sort your scribblin’s and come up with an
answer to any grief (he Amiga gives ya. So if you’ve got something to say, say it to me. I'm a
first name kintla guy. so please don't hide behind initials, It's tuo

- suit- Best Idlers will he sent prizes of up to -lilt) su gel a

copy of Pretext into vour drive pronto. Drop me a line
at Ezra Surf's Postbox fESFL Amiga Computing,
Second Floor, North House, 7B-B4 Ongar Road,
Brentwood, Essex. CM in ««{;.

cheap monitor bandies you might
be better off getting an A2G60.
Commodore or Philips monitor
and the Micro text adaptor. This
costs £143.75 and lets you use the
monitor as a TV as well as giving
you teletext.

Fixing a hole

HELP! please, please help me, Let
me explain my problem. Before
gelling an Amiga 1 was a dedicated
PC user. My friend bought an
Amiga. Two months later I had
one.

I play keyboards and already
know that Midi exists. 1 looked

into upgrading my PC for use with
my keyboard. This turned out loo
expensive.

Then along came the Amiga
A 5 60, a Casio CZ250S Midi -com-
patible keyboard and a Midi inter*
face with all the necessary leads.

The problem is software. So
many different packages, different
prices. What do I buy? I need a pro-
gram with which to input keyboard
parts, preferably without having to
enter in the information note by
note.

Oh yes. and it needs to speak
English, not Mandarin Chinese,
Obviously the lower the price the
better. The reason I am writing to
Amiga Computing Is because of the

Empty article

I ,AM WRITING ro complain about
the Build a hetter Basic article writ-
ten by John Kennedy in the
October issue of Amiga Computing.
The whole of the first page was
devoted to a juvenile piece of rub-
bish of no relevance whatsoever to
programming.

!f Amigo Computing an not fill
its pages writh "carefully
researched and finely crafted

Instructional prose" then I suggest
that they be left blank.

A Stevenson,
M id dleshu rough, Cleveland.

Can'/ please everyone. One man's
juvenile piece of rubbish is
another's party manifesto , Because
/ know- if wifi make you happy I
am sending you some Wank pieces
of paper.

article Smash and Grab in
October's magazine. At least your
magazine doesn't just review
games.

Tim Thompson,
W'ibsev. Bradford.

Though/ you were going to break
Out into song there. Music-X ran-
no/ be beaten. One day there will
be a cheaper version but you ran
go grey waiting for the next ver-
sion, of everything. Take the
plunge. Shop around for the best
price. Dote! does a nifty Midi inter-
face for £34.95. Give them a call on
0782 744707.

Raised hackles

YOUR C-lighl review in the
October issue is the worst review
I’ve read, The writer seems like he
has just finished two years of using
his Amiga solely as a word proces-
sor. He talks of CLight as if it was
the only ray tracing package avail-
able for the Amiga.

A reasonable review' would give
a comparison with other 3D paint
packages, and not with supercom-
puters.

It's totally untrue that this is the
most that can be achieved with the
hardware, as the reviewer thinks.
Turbo Silver, for example, is not
only faster but allows you to deter-
mine how much light will be
reflected and its colour, and how
much light will pass through an
object, its colour and the bending
of light when it passes through,
and more.

Scupll 3D is a bit (aster already,
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Starting trouble

make it several times faster, C-
Light's originality is in its user
interface. Apart from that, a list of
options available with the program
would have been helpful, Does the
640*256 resolution allows for ray
tracing using dithering?

So please let someone who
knows his business review soft-
ware packages. No more wrong
statements, like "as fast as you can
gel considering the hardware".
Those kind of packages always beg
for comparative reviews,

Eva! Teler,
Jerusalem, Israel

Tie magazine has several ray trac-
ing experts, yet the editor made the
very wise, I think (crawl, crawl t can
] have a pay rise} decision to give
C-Light to someone who both
understood the techie side of ray
tracing and hadn't been spoiled by
playing with more expensive pro-
grams,

C-Lrght doesn't look too hot if
you have used Sculpt-Animate 4D,
but lien 5cuJp( is eighl limes tie
price. It is aimed □£ someone who
just wants fo tinier and far that
reason it svos mn'ewed by the right
person ♦

Bargain binder

AFTER reading issue 6 volume 2 I
could not help to notice that you
quoted to your Finnish friend
£4,95 for the binders. Yet on the
order form in the same Issue it is
priced at £5,95. Is it cheaper in
Europe than it is in the United
Kingdom?

M ) Taylor,
Pontefract. W Yorks.

Yes, that urns a special price for
Kalle Saariaho because he doesn't
pick holes when I make a silly mis -
ftrJcc. Besides, that wos before I
started, it was the editor's fault.

Animatics antics

HELLO, I’m new to computing. I
want tn he able to assemble a story -
hoard and 3D animatics in memory
and then download into a domestic
VCR for a showreel.

Here are my problems so far:
Memory and compatibility. The
Commodore A 5 90 looks tempting
with expandability to 2 meg.
However, would this memory clash
with future expansion in the slot

THE Amiga was a giant leap into
the unknown for me. Unfortunately
I haven't come on very far. 1 can
bad all my discs, play games, 1
have read the manual but it gets
really confusing. I’ve done a dir of
just about every disc I own, why E
couldn't say, it just looks good on
the screen]

What I need is a bonk or disc
tutorial that takes it a step at a time
fnr someone who can only turn on
the machine and load a disc. I want

under the Amiga?

Would I have any syncing errors
if I spread a sequence hetween
them before editing downloading?
Since I've heard certain hard discs
have access times equalling ram
speeds should I buy a larger hard
disc (bigger than 20MB] and not
worry too much about large ram
expansion?

Finally have you heard of a
domestic video which will enable
me to accurately edit and sync my
animatics with sound? Any help
would be bib! ical in its proportion,
may your seed to fruitful etc...

Simon Bunn,
Worthing, West Sussex,

You are talking serious money
when dealing with editing video.
And a domestic system probably
won't he men enough for the job.
No, not even one of the flash new
S-VHS ones. Put your hank man-
ager an danger money

Animation needs ram. There are
no problems with using the half
meg in tern a f expansion with an

Beware bandits
which byte

FOLLOWING your letter page
section in the September issue,
i feel that I must write in to
warn Roger Fenton and any
other readers who have bought
Wizball.

Mr Fenton complained that
after completing a level the
computer locked up and! you
replied that this was because
the game was an ST port. I suf-
fered from an identical prob-
lem.

Then I got a copy of Virus X.

My Wizball disc was infected
with the Byte Bandit virus,
which causes the screen to
turn black and the system to
crash at various times -
exactly the bugs that Mr
Fenton described.

to he able la program and do graph-
ics and everything, hut don't know
where to start.

t followed one of your features
to leach you how to use say trans-
lates and I thought it was great
when my Amiga spoke fo me.

The other thing is when the
manual talk about the Say speech
synthesiser it says you have a
choice of voices, but even when I
change the pitch it sounds exactly
the same.

Amiga connected to on A590 and 2
meg. I do it oil the time and would
recommend this route. The A59Q
hard drive is a bit slow and small.
took at replacing the mechanism
within the drive.

Video hods ate wise to sync
problems and have a protocol
called SMFI'E which can handle it.
You are lucky in /hat there is a
good dealer not far from you who
understands these probfems,
Contact DigiPro on 0703 703030.

Born in the USA

SOME couple months ago [ bought
an American Amiga A500 second
hand, Silkworm won't work. When
I inserted the disc into drive, the
drive spins, the screen goes red
and the disc whirrs continuausly.

When I tried to access it from
Workbench the disc claimed to be
unreadable, I have sent the disc
back twice with no joy, and I know
the software works on other
Amigas,

I have been assured by many

Don’t ask me how the virus
got there. I got the game with
the tester pack when I bought
my Amiga, and I saw the cello-
phane wrapping taken oft the
pack, so It could not he
because the shop had used it
for demonstration purposes Or
anything.

On a lighter note, after read-
ing your section on buying
discs. I get mine from a place
called Midland Microsoft which
are only £6. 99 for 10. They also
have a brand number on the
hack, and of the 20 I have
bought, none have been faulty.
Remember, death to all virus
writers. Lave the Jolyon Ralph
Machine code tutorials. Keep
up the great mag!

Jonathan Heron,
Gosforth,
Newcastle Upon Tyne

This could be me, so w r hat are
the correct pitch and speed for
speech variations? Thanks for your
help.

Pennie Jones ,
RAF Bruggen BFPQ.

The Amiga for Beginners, from
Abacus for £12.95 is a good place
to start. The Computer Store has it
in stock. Call on 021-779 04 5 A,

people that there is no difference
between British and American
machines, but there seems no other
explanation as to why Silkworm
docs not load. Please can you help?
is there a chip that needs replac-
ing? Surely it can't be serious, as
all other commercial software
works with no problems.

Tony Corvesor,
Kettering, North ants.

Many people are wrong. There are
substantial differences between US
Amigas and those used in the old
world. The principal difference is
that European (PALI Amigas can
display 256 tines in the non-inter-
laced mode while American
(NTSC) Amigas can only show 200
lines. This means some programs
will fall off the bottom.

Your local Commodore service
centre can fix all this by changing
some of the chips and crystals to
translate a machine.

Sometimes a company only has
the rights to sell a game in one
country. To stop you calling
America and ordering games you
aren 't supposed to he able to get
here on your Visa card the software
houses " fix " the game so that it
wifi only work on certain natronaf-
(ties of machine.

This may well mean that you'll
have [rouble with British software.

Overrated?

XENON 11 deserves high praise
indeed, but I do fee! that 1011 per
cent is aver ihe top. A score of 100
per cent must surely signify * 1 perfec-
tion, and a game which one will be
playing forever.

Although the game is quite
amazing. 1 am sure that you will
agree that the mark is unrealistic.
So in future can you tell Jeff
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ried away, and give more realistic
scores.

David FairweatheT.

Blackburn. Lancashire.

OK, Jeff wants to know if you
have problems with the 3 0,000
holes? His latest rating is for your
letter. He gives it minus several
mt/fton. // if makes you feel any
better o couple of continental mags
gave Xenon U 100 per cent as well.

Name that tune

DO YOU know if there are any PD
discs containing an assembler
source of a Aegis Sonix (SMUS)
play routine? If you know about
any could you please print which
one in your mag and could you
please also explain how SMUS
files are stored? Thanks for an
excellent mag.

Joel Harden,
Norway.

While there seem to be quite a
few PD players for Sonix tunes -
the program even comes wrtfr one -
none of which include source.
Since Aegis has gone into liquida-
tion and disappeared down a plug-
hole I can 't think of anyone to call ,

Box o’ tricks

AT the moment [ have an A&00
with memory expansion which I
bought in Germany. The problem is
1 want to upgrade to a 62000. I've
been hearing rumours about a kit
on sale in Germany which allows
yon to transform the A5Q0 into a
fully operational B200Q and worn
dared if in all your wealth of
knowledge and experience [creep
creep) you knew any thing about it.

Dave Turnbull.

Newbury, Berks.

Vbriotis expansion boxes are
available; Bytes and Pieces sell the
AX-S which takes Amiga 2000 and
PC cards , For more details call
them on 0253 734218. However as
a rule the liming signals on the
expansion boxes aren't as reliable
as those on a proper 2000, so some
card manufacturers, Macrobiotics
for one, aren't keen on them.

You really are best off getting a
2000 if you need to use add-ons.

Where in the world

t HAVE noticed that there is a
hug in the Kickstarl rums.
Occasionally the computer
hoots up with the CLI screen in
the NTSC screen mode, net
allowing the display or mouse
pointer go past line 200 and
forcing you to reset.

AH one has to do is to copy
the program called reset from
the c directory of the October
disc of Amiga Computing to
your Workbench disc and
change the startup sequence to
run it. Then if you boot up your
Amiga one day and it has not

hooted up in PAL your Amiga
wilt reset itself.

t think many Amiga owners
are sick of commercial games
coming nut in the American
NTSC screen format in England
and Europe. We are stuck with
a horrible black hand at the
bottom ol the screen 56 pixels
deep.

There have been documented
methods ol telling whether a
machine is PAL or NTSC since it
does not take all that much
extra effort to program a piece
ol software that utilises the
PAL Amigas.

Anyway, there is no excuses

for software houses when the
Kickstart 1.4 operating system
comes out for Amigas, since it
will have built-in software to
detect whether a machine is
NTSC or PAl.

Mr W M Liu.

Maiden, Surrey.

Quite agree. Although even
when 1.4 does appear there
are stiff going to be a milt ion
Amigas out there with 12 and
1.3. so this won t be a reliable
way of telling where your
Amiga is. P'raps they ought to
fit them with homing beacons.

Pathetic printer

[ RECENTLY bought an NEC
PC60Z3 printer. However none of
the printer drivers on Workbench
1.3 will work, I have tried to cus-
tomise my own with a PD printer
driver generator but was unsuc-
cess ful because of the very techni-
cal nature of the program and lack
of data on the printer.

i wonder if anyone can help
with details of where I could
obtain a driver?

Garry Cegman,
Norwich. Norfolk.

Give up. NEC was distinctly
unhelpful. Companies which
haven t heard of the Amiga i can
sorta handle. NEC not knowing if
an 8823 is a printer or a portable
computer 1 cannot. The call did
yield the information that the 8023
is a bit of an odd-bail and not com-
patible with anything decen t.

From A to B

WHAT is the difference between
the Amiga A20GU and the Amiga
B20D07 Can you gel an Amiga 2000
with the ECS? I have seen an
advert for the B20Q0 which has 1
meg of chip ram. Will most soft-
ware on the Amiga 500 run on the
Amiga B2000?

Chris Denman,
Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey.

All 2000 s ore A2QQ0s l hu t some are
more equal thon others.
Commodore changed the design of
the original (revision A} board (to
revision B J and some dudes call

these B2GQBs.

ECS is a two chip set . The first ,
Ajjmjs, gives 1 meg of chip ram.
The second , Denise , gives new
screen modes when used wrlft the
(still) forthcoming 1,4 version of
AmigaDos. So you can't get
ECS yet

The situation wouldn't be so
confused if a sawdust-for-bralns
columnist in a weekly magazine
hadn't got it all wrong « A few
games don't s can the keyboard
properly. This means they don't
work on A2Q00s hut the problem is
quite rare.

Pondering Protext

READING the November article
about printing from. Prolext we
could not understand a word. Tor
instance >OC - whal is it? Where
do you pul it? How do you put il?
We arc no good a l programming
and do nol understand much that
is written in your articles, so please
think of those less fortunate and
explain things step by step in easy
to follow instuctions.

Also could wo have more short
listings to type in demonstrating
the Amiga's potential. We have
found in the past that copying list-
ings helps us to understand Basic
programming much more easily.

Richard Gray,
Norwich, Norfolk,

Go and make a good, hot, strong
cup of lea. H ,r hde the kettle is boil-
ing take another look at the
November article. OC stands for
Output Character. This sends □
number to the printer- It could pro-
duce a letter or make the printer go
into a special mode .

Try the example on page 98-

What happens? Small letters right.
Now sit down at yout Amiga, drink
your tea and wort through the arti-
cle sfowiy.

Virus victim?

WHEN I borrow software from ray
friend I load it up to see black lines
and dots come up on my monitor. I
looked it up on my virus killer.
Nothing came up and only some-
times it comes up with black lines
Could II be a virus? Whal is the
best virus killer i can get? If you
kill a virus from the memory can il
still be there? If I could not get rid
of it what would I have to do?

Alan Young
BFPO 114.

Hmmm. Sounds much more like a
hardware problem to me. I suspect
you have a sick Denise custom
chip. Do the lines took like those
on page 89 of the September issue?

If you are feeling brave, and the
machine is not under warranty.

►

New crew

1 have been reading your articles
and have progressed very far. I
have learnt so much from them
that I have almost finished my very
first Amiga demD. Our newly-
formed crew is called Meltdown
the members are: Coding - Club
2000 (me!}, Music - Arl’fY Image
and Codz. Grafix - Aft 1 tT Image
and H -Angel. Spreader - Bruno

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you could open it up and moke
sure all the chips are properly
sealed in their sockets by giving
them a gentle push. Otherwise take
you r Amiga to a computer doctor
w/io will moke it better for you.

Tired mouse

[N his letter in the November issue
V',S, Kirby's said that if you put a
lmm piece of card on the leaf con*
tacts in the mouse this will
improve the button's response.
This is all right for a while, but
eventually the paper wears down
and so the buttons become unre-
sponsive.

[an Wickham,
Cheshiml. Herts.

Fun for four

Corporal Elsdon had a query about
Gauntlet 2 last month and i have
the answer. [ have got Gauntlet 2
and E bought a four player adaptor
from Softsellers 10-473
257158/210605) for £5,95, All you
have to do is plug this into the par-
allel port and then you can play
with four players.

ferry Spencer,
Mill Hill, London.

Great, lhanks now /re and his
friends can rush around mazes,
killing monsters and shooting at
each other Which will make such
a change from his day job.

Tall order

I OWN a 1 msg 500 with a sucund
disc and shiny new Slar LC244D
printer. Please could you recom-
mend a good piece of DTP soft-
ware* for less than £35D, which
fulfils most of my requi rements .

ft must be used as a Wysiwyg
word processor and print out 24*
pin quality art and graphics in a
similar way to the Pretext signature
in the November issue. I need lo
print out results like Ehose
obtained from X-CAD Designer^
reviewed in the July issue with
fonts in all sizes and styles, making
the besi use of ihe 24 pins.

Brian Buckley,
Huddersfield. West Yorkshire.

Wow, you wont a lot olt? of a pro-
gram r Using any DTP program as a
Wysiwyg wordprocessor is going to

Happy memories

WELL this is the fourth issue of
Amiga Computing I've bought, Bnd
so far you seem to be maintaining a
high standard. Now, on to the seri-
ous stuff. I've already figured out
that the half meg provided with the
machine is woefully inadequate for
serious use, so 1 now face the
expense of a ram u pgrade.

Looking through the mag I
noticed Third Coast Technologies
advertising a 1.8 meg internal
board, and I've seen other compa-
nies with the same sort of thing.
However, before I splash out and
buy one, is it safe?

Can the A 5 00 provide enough

power for the extra ram without
overloading? Where would the
extra ram fit into the memory' map?
Is a battery backed up dock worth
the extra money? Will the new
super Agnus chip be able to recog-
nise one of these boards as chip
ram and use all or part of it for pro-
grams?

Cecil Banks,
Southampton, Hauls

Safe is nof quite the right term.
And it depends on your system.
Commodore soys an Amigo is OK
with an extra 512k and disc drive.
But means one of their massively

power hungry' floppies not the nice
efficient drives folks like Evesham
sell. So there /s a fair stack of
power left over.

You’ll need to find out what
chips the expansion you are inter-
ested 1 in uses hut / can't think that
there wd/ be any problem. It might
run a bit warm. A battery backed
up dock doesn't cast much and is
well worth having-

The super Agnus f American
Tourist or FANG2 as some cat! her j
can access J meg of chip ram but
you will need to cut some tracks on
the hoard. Use o sharp knife and
get a grown-up to he/p you.,

be painfully stow. And it isn't
really the right solution to the
prohlem.

Pagestream might do what you
wont but (he last version the
experts here sow fo w/ii/e ago
mind} was buggy and oh. so slow.

ProPage 1.3 has not yet come in
for review, but is reputed to have
top notch dot matrix printer sup-
port. Call the importers, HB
Marketing, on 0395 444433 and see
what they hove Jo say. It s the one
I'd go for.

Shame you want something
easy to use 'cos TeX gives the best
resu/fs - after six months learning
to use it.

Lost adventure

WHAT has happened io (he bril-
liant adventure section you had? It
was great and informative, but now
there isn't a trace of il in your mag-
azine. Is il possible to buy the discs
from back issues separately or
would I have to buy the magazine
as well?

Can you please advise me on
whether 1 should buy a second disc
drive or Commodore's 20 meg hard

drive? I would like both, bui at the
moment 1 can only alford one of
them. 1 already have a ram expan-
sion.

One East thing. What happened
lo the review of Beach Volley last
month? Il was listed among the
games that were reviewed but the
review did rmt appear in the maga-
zine.

Graham Hy,
Blackball, Edinburgh.

W ? e didn't get enough mat/ uhout
adventures. Perhaps if we get more
requests from people like you we
could start one up again. Discs
from the August to January issues
are available at £1.50 each from
Protoscan Ltd , Amiga Computing
Cover Disc. Barrel Road. St. Ives,
PE17 4LE.

A second floppy drive costs
about £70, a hard drive £400. They
arm's really comparable. If you
can afford it go for the hard drive.
Well done on spotting the Peach
Volley mistake. There wasn't room
to squeeze if in when we came to
put the magazine together, it shows
you read the mag very carefully.

Red letter day

YOUR disc should have solved my
problems as 1 do a lot of word pro-
cessing using only the CLI Ed facil-
ity. But I was disappointed to find
the Frotexl version on the
September's free disc would not
print out on my Slar IjCIO colour
printer.

1 have tried every printer selec-
tion possible, even altering the DIP
switched, but to no avail. Is this
because this version will not drive
this particular printer or because
my Amiga A500 has insufficient
memory to use the program?

If is has insufficient memory,
does this mean Ihe hill version of
Protext would also be unusable
without a memory upgrade?

Susan Kirkc.

Sunny side, Newcastle Upon Tyne,

The LC-10 coiour is quite capable
of producing black and white type.
Use the Epson driver and set the
switches to the Epson settings ond
all should be tickety boo. Amor
does supply a version of Protext
which works in 5 12k but for seri-
ous use you should get an extra
half meg.

Get knitted!

I'VE found a wonderful program
which 1 thought you might enjoy
(see enclosed package]. It is easy lo
use and produces beautiful results.
However, it is not fully Amiga
compatible, sc I have also sent

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AMIGA COMPUTING February 1990 101

Sharp eyed

I READ your excellent maga-
zine, the November issue, for
the first time the other day.
Your games reviews are very
good, but whatever happened
to the Beach Volley review?
Was it perhaps zapped by
aliens, or was it just left out to
encourage readers lo read Ihe

magazine from cover to cover?
If so, do we really need any
encouragement?

Terence McGrath.
Fairfield. Liverpool.

Nat bad, not at att bad. There
is nothing tor it. I’ll have to
send you a prize for observa-
tion.

Evesha

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Open chequebook, and repeat after me...

UNTIL recently I have had no
problem with my internal disc
drive. Approximately two months
ago 1 started to get requesters say-
ing that the disc in dfO: had a
read /write error.

When I used the CLI command
info there would be a number in
the errs column, The unusual thing
is, when 1 pul the same disc in dfl:
and type info, no number appears
in the errs column.

Do you have any idea what
could be causing the problems, as

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some pieces of hardware that you
might find useful Have fun and
enjoy yourself. (Oh by the way, 1
have assumed that you have
grasped the art of knitting from try-
ing uut a few of your own stitches
and patterns.) Lei me know how
you get on!

I have actually assumed that you
can't knit, but hope you now know
how I feel when I read articles such
as Through the Square Window,
AC Vol 1 No 9. Before buying my
Amiga I was totally computer illit-
erate, By now I have just about
learnt my alphabet and am having
a go at 2 and 3 letter words.

Please could you run a regular
spot for complete beginners, or at
least provide a glossary of terms
and abbreviations,

1 have found the process of
learning a very frustrating experi-
ence, the manual provided with
the A50U is good in places but just
doesn't work in others.

I am reluctant to buy books
which are expensive, without
being sure they are any good.
Libraries don't have any for the
Amiga, and: magazines such as
yours are written for people who
know what they are doing.
Software comes without instruc-
tions or with very poor ones - they
frequently assume you know how
to play the game. Please help the
beginners,

Anne Seotnev,
Loughborough, Leics.

TTranJb for the needles and wool.
No, l con 'f knit, but they made fine
improvised chopsticks for gobbling
so si . And they made your point
brilliantly. When you live and
breath Amigos aii day, every day. it
is often easy to forget that there are
new users.

And it is for you that we have
provided this month’s free booklet.

! hope you enjoy it..

the drive is so bad I cannot hoot up
sometimes.

Simon Colley,
Camber ley, Surrey.

I, too, have a similar problem. It is
the sign of a dying drive. And it is
a real downer. Shop around for
repair prices . Shield Computer
Services in Manchester seem pretty
reasonable guys at 55 quid flat
rate. Call them on 061*747 3185.

Little letter

THE Protext demo has turned out
to be one of the most useful pro-
grams I have. Although not one of
the friendliest ones around, it is
quite powerful. I've managed to
create a small but useable dictio-
nary, and I'm quite pleased.

The 2 k Is mil seems to have been
just as helpful. 1 use Protest solely
for writing letters to computer mag-
azines, and E usually tend to write
long stories instead of going
straight to the point. The 2k limit
doesn't let me do that (lucky for
you).

The only really annoying faults
are Protext's inability to cope with
file names containing spaces in its
catalogue mode, and that it doesn’t
work with a Workbench more than
640 pixel wide.

Eva) Teler,
Jerusalem. Israel

Ires, keeping your letters short is
great, it doesn’t help when you
send five in each envelope.

Serial sergeant

I’M the proud owner of an A500
(well my wife is). The problem
is I have a printer which I have
used with a Tandy. The printer
is a Tandy DWP-210 daisywheel
which worked perfectly with
the other system.

As the printer was very
expensive I would like to use it
on the Amiga, but cannot seem
to get it to wnrk. Could you
please assist me with this
problem? What cable connec-
tions?

Sgt B V Matthews,
HAF Gaton BFPO.

The printer is a straightforward
Centronics, so a PC printer
lead should work perfectly
well.

Good dealer

I write to sing the praises of one of
the companies that advertises in
Amigo Computing, At the
Commodore show ! bought a
Micromegs ram expansion. A cou-
ple of months later my son bought
a game that refused to work with
the expansion module in, so 1
removed it and afterwards could
not get Ihe computer to 4, see pl it.

When I rang MAST, the person I
spoke to was Mr Tony Thompson
who made it quite apparent that he
was committed to customer ser-
vice, Not only did he arrange for an
immediate replacemenl lo be sen I
(trusting me to return the faulty
unit], he actually s&nt several good-
ies and the latest specification
board with an external disabling
switch.

Graham Callaghan,
Christchurch, Dorset

High TeX price

.SOME of your readers might be
familiar with TeX, the mathemati-
cal typesetting package that is
available in the public domain for
the likes of the PC. Atari ST and so
on.

I am therefore wondering why
TeX only seems to be available Tor
Amiga owners if they are prepared
to spend £125? Is there a genuine
PD version of TeX that I don’t
know' about?

Seekers of high quality branded
discs could do worse than going
along to their local university’s
computer supplies. Edinburgh
University sells Sony discs lo non-
students for 65 p each.

Stephen ( Richards,
Barn Lon, Edinburgh

White the TeX compiler is PD
the fonts and printer drivers are
not. There is a version wit/nouf the
drivers - but with o screen pre-
viewer - on □ Fish disc.

The version The Text
Formatting Company (01-806
1 944 j sells represents a lot of addi-
tional work.

Watching the
defectives

THERE seems to be so many differ
enl types on the market, all offering
different features. Monitors I mean.
I understand that Commodore

has stopped making the stereo
1Q84S monitor and replaced it with
the old mono 1084. What is the dif-
ference between the Philips
CM8833 and CM 8832 models? Is
the CMB832 capable of accepting
stereo sound? Which monitor do
you recommend?

Well the answers to some of
those questions may seem blind-
ingly obvious to you. but to me
they pose a problem, and I'd value
your help with them.

Stuart Lawson.

Ulversloo, Cumbria.

The line about the 10545 being
stopped has a high BEL 1 suspect it
comes from a salesman with a lot
of old stock to shift. Whatever you
buy don't buy it from him. It isn't
true.

Philips makes the monitor in the
Commodore box so there isn 't
much to choose between the 8833
and 1084S , Buy whichever is
cheaper. BE!? Oh, Bovine
Excrement Index.

Michael Jackson
competition

THE answer to the Michael Jackson
Moon walker competition question
“Who is he and what is the name
of the film" is, of course, Jeff
Walker (is this the one from the
Walker demo?) NO???? What do
you mean - NO! MI Oh, you said
Moon-walker, Well, sorry about
this, but 1 just didn't know where
to write.

Couldn't you say ‘write your let-
ters to magazine to find an address
which looks right. And could you
please write the name of the prod-
uct you're reviewing on the con-
tents page. I often search for a
certain review through my maga-
zines, and it helps greatly if I can
see it on the contents page.

Eyai Teler,
Jerusalem, Israel

Hey, hong on a sec already, this is
your third letter this month Are
you making a bid for a take over? I
do put my address on the letters
page. You want l put your address
at the top? Eyal Telers Postbox
perhaps? Even though you got the
answer to the question wrong we
put your entry in the correct entries
box , and sneaking a look over Jeffs
shoulder at the winners list /
noticed that you were one of the
winners.

AMIGA COMPUTING February 1990 1 03

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Bugs or broken?

PLEASE could hetp me with two
problems. The first is that our
unexpanded Amiga A5QQ is
unreliable. We have sent it
away ter repair with only a
slight improvement. Please
could you tell me if the follow-
ing faults are normal.

• Workbench 1.2 can be
crashed by pulling files into
Ram disc.

• Pretext develops errors,
such as not enough memory to
sort files, disappearing menus,
and numerous Guru messages.
All these happen after you
incur a system (usually disc)
error,

• Amiga Basic also crashes
quite frequently.

There are a few other prnb-

terns, but these are the mosl
frequent and troublesome.
Have you any suggestions tor
the best course of action to
solve them.

The second point is thal I
need a good budget Eprom
blower and assembler for the
ZBO series. I hope to he able to
create software on the Amiga
to run in a separate Z80 sys-
tem. Any advice you canid give
would be much appreciated.

Sam Hugh.

Wrgan. Lancashire.

Only one of your faults is nor-
mal, AmigaBasic crashes if
asked to do aoything moder-
ately taxing The solution is to
call Bisoft on 0525 718181 and
order a copy of the Basic com-

piler. While you should upgrade
your Workbench 1.2 to 1.3 if
Only to get the excellent man-
ual - there is no reason why
1.2 should give you problems
and neither should Pro text, so
I'd advise you to take the
machine to a dealer who can
run some tests on it.

Most Eprom blowers accept
serial input, although I can't
find any details of an Amiga-
specific one. A friend has been
looking tor a 280 cross assem-
bler (or a while and the best
solution he has come up with is
to use the public domain CP/M
emulator and run a 280 assem-
bler under that.

Seventeen Bit Software oo
0924 366982 should be able to
furnish you with the emulator.

Compatibility

crisis

WHEN ] bough l a copy of War to
Middie Earth and I was most disap-
pointed to find that it wouldn't
load, It was my memory expansion
which was causing the problem. 1
bad believed that this problem
only existed in older games written
before expansions became popular.
Apparently not!

A further problem was caused
by my AS 90 hard disc which grabs
some memory on startup. This was
solved by disabling the autnbooi
rams.

Now Silkworm works perfectly
without all this bother, as do a
number of other games so the prob-
lem is not insoluble. How about
introducing a compatibility guide
as part of the usual ratings
roundup? This would enable those
of us with extra ram tu avoid buy-
ing such poorly written software
and would put pressure on soft-
ware houses to tackle this annoy-
ing problem.

On the serious software front,
how about a series of reviews com-
paring the best in various cate-
gories. No prizes for guessing
which word processor would win.
just how much are Arnor paying
you for all the publicity? Over the
top or what!

Mark Had lev.

Pul ford, York

Testing everything on all config-
urations of machine with different
rams, quantities of ram and
peripherals would take forever.
Commodore Technical offers soft-
ware houses a testing service, but
since this take s a day for each pro-
gram and we renew more (hair 20
programs a month if would not
give the people caged up in the
review room time to write or piny
the games. - although some other
mags don't seem to bother with
playing their review copies so
here is my guide to whaf works os
o rule:

Everything which should, works
on a von ilia A500 except
Timescarmer fond (hot is (he kinda
thing our guys spot j. Add an extra
drive and you may need to unplug
it for some programs. Add memory
and you may need to unplug it for
some very naughty gam es.

Club 68000 does on expansion
with a switch which is dead useful.
There are some programs which
will do the same thing.
KillFastMem on the October cover
disc is one.

The richer you gel the more
grief you gonna have. 'Tm true that
money can 't buy happiness. Hard
drives gobble ram and have auto-
bool roms again most programs
can handle this unless they expect
to sii in a specific area of memory.
Anything from America should he
kosher, stuff from Germany is sus-
pect.

Buy a 2000 and you really have
rich kid problems. The keyboard

liming is di//erenf, Now there is a
proper way to scan the keyboard
and “ the way which works on my
A am". Listen to what (he man says
and the program will work.

This is the second most com-
mon compatibility problem and as
so few people play games on
A2000s it isn ’t a mego worry.

So what wins the prize for being
the hardware mosl programs hate?
if is the add-on processor. The
6 8020 and 68030 have a little bit
of memory inside 'em called a
cache. This reads chunks of pro-
gram ready for the rest of the chip
to ran,

So if the chip changes the
chunk in proper memory after it
has been read the chip doesn't gel
io hear of it, and everything falls in
a heap.

This is called self-modifying
code. This is a no-no. Partly
because it causes problems and
partly because it is frighteningly
difficult to debug. Sometimes pro-
grammers want to write unread-
able code, particularly when
working on disc protection rou-
lines. Otherwise the crackers
wouldn 'f have a challenge. So (he
protectors use selfmodifying code.

This is really annoying because
it means that games which would
ran much better on a faster Amiga
won 't even load.

I like the idea of serious round-
ups, but then who am I to make
policy decisions? I pass it on io (he
powers fhat he.

Time warp

BROWSING through back numbers
I came across a couple of points
which may be of interest to you
and readers. In an article about a
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17 Bit Software

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Accolade

Alternative.,.-

,,.30

Amiga PD Library

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Amiga lex, . „ ... .. ... ... .....

103

Amiga Users Group

...108

Applied Research Kernel.,

,95

Ashcom

,.,109

Bvleback

Castle Software.,.

Club 68000

Compost

Computer Bookshop

J15

Computer Express

...49

Computefwise ,.114

Cumana ........ .a . ........... ,6

Database Educational Software ...ft 2

Data Liberal! on 56

Dataplex 95

Da tel Electronics ..10-13

Diamond Computers 66,67

Digicom 45

Digipro 27

Digita International 33

Evesham Micros....... 102

First Micro 36

Futureplace Computers 48

Hampshire Micro Computers ,...108

Harris Hi-Tek ,.,......,..,88

Hi-Soft 83

Homcbascd Business ...114

HSV Computer Services..... 62

lnfagrames «... 2

Jem Computers. .73

KLR Electronics.,.. 20

Mandarin Software 64

Manor Court Supplies...... 90

M E Office Supplies 104

Memory Expansion Systems... 35

Merlin Express ....46

Microsnips P«+ 11 + PP1 P" + " »+ I WM* Pi l.-Jl ■*«■■■■■#■ 99

Midland Microsoft 57

Ocean Software ,..,116

Overseas Media 3

Power Computing. 99

Ramsoft a H BBtBSB BB4 BSB-fl-VBWBf M+l-BIPi'!*! *■■*■■■■ 65

RGB Studios 79

Rise Time Electronics „,,,.70

Romh o 109

Sclec Software. 108

Shield Computer Services.. 114

Silica Shop ,..,..,91

Siren Software ,.,,.,92

S K Markeiuighiih

,,..,,.,40

Softmachine

Softscllers

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Softv i He PD

.,.72

Special Reserve

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Xenon Technology 98

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Amiga C far Advanced Programmers -
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work, deigning and programming user
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Amlge Graphics - Inside & Out

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Amigo BASIC or D- Learn graph iu
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Tricks & Tips -

hero is a large collection uf useful
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with your Amiga friendlier and
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AmigaBASlC - Inside & Gut -

i a THE definitive amp-dy step guide
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BASIC. Each BASIC command is
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