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If It's happening, ifs here Four pages packed
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Beginner's Guide: CLI

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Public Domain

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Five years to the month after Pretext version I was
launched Arnor are pleased to present version 5, on enormous leap
forward in both ease of use and performance.

Protext 5.0 introduces a completely integrated system of pull dawn menus
and dialogue boxes. The menus ore among the many operations that may now
be carried out with either the mouse or the keyboard. Pretext really dues give
you the best of hath worlds.

Protext S.Q handles printer fonts flexibly and accurntefy. You can moke full use
of any number of proportional printer (oats, mix them freely witlwi any line,
centre them in headers, use automatically formatted footnotes. And Pretext
correctly formats your text as you type it, no matter bow many (out changes
you use, showing you line and page breaks exactly ns they will he printed.

Pretext 5.0 is still the fastest ward processor around. Even though we have
made all these major improvements we have token great care to ensure thal
text editing is as fast os ever. The menus work smoothly and quickly even
with high resolution displays. Hut of course, you can use Pretext's efficient set
of commands and keys just as before and 5.0 remains compatible with all
earlier versions from 1.0 onwards.

Pretext 5.0 is a worthy successor to version 4, which was described os "the
best ward processor at any price", "the best text processor on the Amiga"
and "the most powerful word processor on the Atari 5T" (Alfl, ST/ Amiga
Format, ST User}.

Pretext 5.0 heralds a new ero of multi-lingua! European software, in time tor
199? ond the opening up of Eastern Europe. Pretext may be *$ed in at least
27 dHf erenl languages and has 1 0
different notional keyboard
built in

The Features

,Y New fast & m if te use puff down
menu system with dialogue boxes and

alerts; fils seledor; mm dragging \n sel
blocks. Menus eomplemni existing
commends ond keyboard shortcut, do
not replace them. Menus moy be used
with mouse or key hoard. Amiga version
follows Inluilian guidelines,

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.V Enhanced printing capabilities supports multiple proportional Fouls; mixing of
different font sues on the some line; proportional Formatting whilst editing; side
margin, headers ond footers independent of mo in text font. Jobs, decimal tabs and
centre labs. Extensive range of printer drivers supplied.

'( Multiple f ile editing - up to 36 files may be open; spill screen editing.

,Y Graphics mode support on K allows use in virtually any text or graphics mode
including 1 32 column or 75 line VGA modes; user defined characters ond on-screen
bold, italics and underlining now on all versions; use of 1 3 different accents on any
character.

> Ennguoge support includes Albanian, Basque, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English,
Esperanto, Estonian, Flemish, Finnish, French, Gentian, Hungarian, Irish, Italian. Latin,
fithuaninn, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Setbotrootion, Slovak, Spanish,
Slovene. Swedish, Welsh. (Note: some printers da not support all languages).

'( Index ond contents generation. Indexer lakes marked words or phrases; contents
entries automatically taken from titles wropped in control cades; many options for style
of contents output,

-Y Spelling checker features completely new 110,000+ word Collins dictionary with very
fast phonetic lookup. Anagrams and find word pattern. Foreign language dictionaries
(German, Swedish available now, others la follow).

'f Many other enhancements including multi- line footnotes and endnotes; automatic
timed save; add column or row of Figures; indent lobs; find ward at cursor; 10 column
mode support; sentence operations; inter- paragraph spate; much improved expression
evaluator; self incrementing variables; Ramon numerals; newspaper-style column
printing; file sorting utility with special options for names and addresses; revised mamrel
plus new tutorial guide.

7r And don't forget Pretext still includes background printing; box manipulation;
macro recording; exec files; headers and footers; Find and replace; moil merging;
undelete; file conversion utility; configuration program; aula reformatting; on screen
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Amiga -
Computer
of the year?

WHAT’S

new

TOP computer publications. In both
Greece and Italy have named the
Amigo 500 as their choice for
Home Computer or me Year in the
European Computer Leisure
Awards 1991. They have also
chosen Amiga Vision os
Multimedia Package of the Year.

Now In their second year, the
awards are being run In conjunc-
tion with the European Computer
Trade Show to be held at London's
Business Design Centre from April
14 to 16,

This year, Amiga Computing Is
one of the official UK sponsors of
the awards and we have now
made our nominations in the
Amiga categories. Nominated for
Best Art Package is Disney
Software's Animation Studio; Best
Music Package. Gojlt's Sequencer
One, Best Home Education
Package, Fun School 3; Best Home
Productivity Package, Pretext 6

STAFF Sergeant Waugh, or 5B
Battery. 12 AD Regiment. Royal
Artillery. Is a happy man.

He's written ta us from the Cuff
where, among other things of
course, he's apparently man-
aged to continue a relationship
with his trusty Amiga.

In a letter dated March 12,
written m Kuwait, he expresses his
thanks to Page One Public
Domain who recently sent some
clip art disks to him m the Gulf of
his request, "after reading the
review in your mag".

Sounds like Amiga Computing
has been getting through to the
GiJf, tool

All This, and a successful con-

from Arnof; and Most Innovative
Peripheral. Newtek's Video Toaster.

Our nominations will Join those
from top magazines in nine
European counifies to go forward
for the final Judging at the
European Computer Trade Show
with a guttering presentation night
at London's top night spot The
Hippodrome on April 14.

Budget trio
launched

THRfE titles are to receive the bud-
get treatment on Digital Inte-
gration's Action Sixteen label.
Previously issued at full pries.
Shermon M4. Kult and North &
South win each sell fat £7.99.

Sherman M4 is Lorlcfel's tank
simulation featuring Wold War II
battles, authentic tanks and
weaponry and Kult Is Infogrames

elusion to the war tot the Allies

SSgt Waugh (we havon"i dis-
covered his first name yet - we'd
like him to get in touch with more
Information about the Amiga s
precise role in the GulD odds:
'The disks are very good and
great value for money, and I
would recommend them to any-
one Who requires cip art."

Take a bow. Public Domain.

Icon-driven adventure which chal-
lenges players to solve puzzles In
The Five Ordeah-

Also a former Infogrames hit,
North St. South Is set in the
American Civil War featuring
battles on a variety of different
levels and scenarios. Action
Sixteen are on 0276 66-3959.

Perfectly satisfied

WHILE 1990 sow the recession start
to bite for many companies,
WordPerfect report that their total
UK sales last year were 73 per cent
up On T989.

The WordPerfect Corporation
achieved safes of $452 million far
1990 - an Increase of 61 per cent
on I9S9. Since 1979 r sales have
now passed the one billion dollar
mark.

’Alio ’Alio - French
buy Palace

PALACE Software has gone conti-
nental, Paris-based Leisure
Holding , which Owns French
games publisher Titus, has bough*

ihe entire entertainment software
division of the Palace film and
video organisation for an undis-
closed sum,

Na Immediate changes are
planned at Palace Software,
which publishes titles such as
Dragon's Breath and international
3D Tennis.

There are no plans for G merger
with Titus, best known In Britain for
games like Crazy Cars.

Palace Group managing direc-
tor Chris Craib says the software
division needed more specific
direetton than could be given by
Palace, which ts concentrating on
the expansion of the movie and
TV production areas.

CDTV set to break
the sound barrier

AMIGA Computing has hod con-
firmation from Commodore UK
that their long awaited multi*
media system, CDTV. will be offi-
cially launched at the end of
April.

CDTV has been victim of
numerous prepunch delays and ^

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Amiga helps Gulf effort?

Amiga Computing 7

Numonte* Oiaohlct Table!

WHAT’S

industry speculation. It would now
appear that Commodore are
ready to bring their fledging multi-
media product to tire imarket

The price point has been a
matter of Intense speculation aver
the lost six months, All CBM r s tight-
lipped public relations company
were prepared to concede was
that the unit would weigh in wtth a
sub- £600 tag, Other Industry
sources have hinted at £399 as a
probable price.

Commodore spokesman
Andrew Ball also confirmed that a
CDTV externa! drive for the A500
will be available soon. The unit,
referred to internally at CBM os the
A69LL is expected to be avgMable
at the end of May.

The most recent demonstration
of the CDTV's capability was on
the BBC's Tomorrow's World
science programme last month.

A new sound encoding tech-
nique developed by Roland,
called RSS (Roland Sound Stage)
was used during the mix-down of
the Xenon II “Megablasr sound-
track, performed by Bomb the
Bass.

Both Roland and Commodore
claim that RS5 gives the impression
of aural three dimensionality. RSS
places Individual tracks of sound
around the kstenet making sounds
appear wider.

The major strength of the system
is that It does not require any addi-
tional hardware to be purchased.
Two standard Hi-Fi speakers are
sufficient,

Making movies
Amiga style

TURNING on Amiga into the ulti-
mate movie making machine is
the aim of Kattash Ambwani. presi
dent of Toronto-based software
developers Gold Disk, with the old
of their multimedia sequencer
MedlaShow.

Aimed specifically at Amiga 5QQ
owners bsnrfr on creating presenta-
tions and desktop video produc-
tions. MedlaShow allows them to
combine animations, graphics.

music and sound effects. It also
runs on 1000, 2000 or 3000
machines and needs at least 1 Mb
of ram .

"The easy-to-use timeline Inter-
face and Our patented multitask-
ing engine makes creating tong
running presentations and movies
a reality for every level of Amiga
user/ said Ambwani.

Needing no additional hard-
ware. MedloShow supports files
from most paint, 3-D rendering,
animation and music programs
and sound digitisers. It is Work-
bench 2.0 compatibte.

As Amigo Computing went to
press UK distributors H6 Marketing
(0753 686000) sold delivery was
Imminent but the price had not
been fixed. Gold Disk have
■announced a launch price of
SI 29.95.

Lamont lament

THOSE of you who managed to
wrench yourselves away from
Important things- like working and
playing on your Amiga to listen to
the Budget news on March 19 will
know that the dreaded VAT has
been increased from 15 to 1 7.5 per
cent from April 1. As you! appreci-
ate. this Is entirely due to circum-
stances beyond our control.

Unfortunately. It was too late for
either advertisers or ourselves to
take account of the change in this
Issue of Am^cr Computing.

Gallery takes
a break

THOSE looking for striking artistic
creations from The Amiga will
undoubtedly notice rhat our
Gallery feature is missing from this
esue of Amiga Computing,

The good news for AC* art
appreciation society is that Gallery
is taking a one-month break only. It
will return in the June Issue m all Its
cofourftjl, bit-mopped glory.

A tablet for
the mice

GRAPHICS input specialists TDS-
Numonics {0254 676921) have
launched a new low-budget addi-
tion to their GfaphicMastar series
of digitiser tablets aimed at Amiga
users.

Claimed to be for better than a
mouse. !1 offers lQOOppi resolution,
absolute accuracy to 0,025 cm
and an output rate Of 160 pps
making it ideal for DTP, CAD/CAM ,
3-D modelling and paint software.

GraphlcMaster costs £1 B5 for a 12 11
x 12" active Surface and £290 for
12" x 18".

It has a choice of four button
puck or pen stylus with two swtfch-
es for £75 but comes with Amiga
softwar e driver and cabling free.

Operational features include
user definable origin, metric/
Imperial units, non-volatile memo-
ry. tablet surface menu for set-up
and automatic pen tilt correction.

CURRENTLY doing his olt to bright-
en up the often serious Image of
computing Is Adolfo Giannlni,.
managing director of Goniriver
(Europe).

'Serious computing does not
mean that computing has to be
boring" . he damns.

’At Contriver we hove recenlly
redesigned our packaging in o
way which emphasises the fun
aspect of computing, using a
mouse of the furry four-togged
kind pushing a computer mouse
round a desk,

"We are also carrying this
Image of fun computing through
to our advertisements",

And Amiga people who fancy
walking round with PtUg In. Switch
On and Boot Up emblazoned on
their chests can taka advantage
of another new move from
Contriver (0273 602622)

The company are offering a
free Tee shirt printed with this logo
to customers who buy their Five In
One or Multi DPI mce

Incidentally. Contrivers' Five In
One Mouse missed the deadline
to take Its place wilh the rest in
the rodent roundup in the March
Issue, bur nevertheless It's well
worth a look.

The Contriver Is a cute crea-
ture that stands up well against
the apposition for both styling
and smoothness, the excellent
ergonomic design making it a
pleasure to use for long periods. If
you've ever had to hover aver

Wrfh very low power consumption,
it is run through the RS232 inter-
face.

Beastly good news

WHEN the people of Portsmouth
go for q dip in the TowiVs new
Pyramid Leisure Pool they con now
enjoy live and recorded broad-
casts, advertisements and public
announcements on a huge video

the buttons of some other
rodents you'll know what □ pain
trying to avoid accidental clicks
con be.

The resolution is easily on a par
with the best of the rest. The gen-
eral feel Is impressive with the
only real moan concerning Ihe
rather bulky multiple connection
which might be useful If you're
mad enough to Own on ST, but it
you don't, It Just gets In the way.

Adolfo plays for laughs

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How may tractors for your Amiga?

WHAT'S

it wall affectionately known as The
Beast, The little beauty which con-
trols the beast behind the scenes Is
on Amiga 500 running umeLlte
software from Future Software
Systems (0628 243 1 8).

The Picbloc wall was installed by
Electrosonlc and is controlled
either by direct input from the
Amiga 1 g keyboard or by an opera-
tor generated schedule.

Through UmeLlte staff can
decide the time, the frequency
and length and even the dale
when messages or announce-
ments will appear, then leave
things to the Amiga fitted with a
hard disk drive.

Beating up the
opposition

CLAIMING to have produced the
ultimate compilation. Virgin
Games (071- 727 @070) say their
new ottering Fists of Fury includes
the cream of the beat-’em-ups.
For £24,99, customers get Ninja
Warriors, Double Dragon II - The
Revenge, Shinobi and Dynamite
Dux.

X’dusive new
games weekly

INTERACTIVE Publishing, the people
behind some of Britain’s biggest
computer magazines including
Amiga Computing . are on the
verge of launching □ new weekly
Ittte designed to cater exclusively
for games enthusiasts.

Gomes-X Is set to be the biggest
ever computer entertainment
publication launch in the UK. Over
a quarter of a mlllon copies of the
preview issue are being distribut-
ed. The news-stand launch is
backed up with a massive promo-
tional campaign which Includes
extensive TV advertising and wide
distribution of the preview issue.

The publishers claim Games-X is
a new concept in computer mag-
azines, combining ‘lifestyles' fea-
tures with the mast in-depth
games coverage available.

Take a look of the preview issue

COMMODORE are making
Inroads into the growing market
of Eastern Europe, and playing a
leading role in this drive Is
American Gregory Koler. the
product marketing manager of
Commodore Electronics.

His efforts are recognised as
one of the the main reasons for
the company's sales increase gf
25 per cent last year.

Outlihlng his successful brand
of marketing expertise dlreclly
related to good customer ser-
vice, Koler gave an insight Into
Eastern Europe at the Computer
Arena conference held In
Marbelia

The going is not always easy,
with lock of cash hampering the
developing Eastern bSoc and
leading to such bizarre sugges-
tions as bartering tractors for
computers, but Koler J s experi-
ence is winning through.

He’s a high flier, or so part of his
career would suggest, since he

bundled with Amiga Computing
and make up your own mind. The
first Games-X proper lifts the streets
on 26 Aprtf 199b

Screen Gems gets
1 meg boost

COMMODORE UK are heading off
the recession by adding yet more
value to their top selling Amigo
"Screen Gems" bundle.

For the first time, the company Is
selling the A 500 with one
megabyte of memory whilst retain-
ing the otttactrv© £399 price point,
The extra half meg is supplied In

Gregory Kotor - high flier

spent 10 years leading the mar-
keting and cabin services pro-
grammes Tot Qcnfas Airways in
Australia.

Based at the Swiss headquar-
ters of Commodore International,
he Is now responsible for interna-
tional marketing programs In all

the form of Commodore's A5Q1
trap-door ram expansion which
normally retails at £99

The offer commenced on May
W and runs untf the end of June.
When asked about the prospect
of a 1 meg Amiga becoming the
standard entry level machine.
Commodore spokesman Andrew
Ball was reserved, pointing out that
the unexpanded A5QG would still
be on sale through the life of the
promotion.

The Screen Gems package
comprises an A50D, modulator.
Shadow of the Beast II, Days of
Thunder. Nlgrhtbreed. Back to the
Future II and Deluxe Point II

the countries not covered by
marketing subsidiaries - Finland.
Turkey. Greece, Malta, Eastern
Europe. Middle East, The Gulf.
Africa. Pakistan and India,

"We work closely wtth our mar-
keting partners to ensure that not
only is the most up-to-date prod-
uct always available, but that
there Is an Infrashubture of ancil-
lary services such os servicing,
education and software sup-
port \ he said.

*The continued success of
Commodore In Sts worldwide
locations is due to the close rela-
tionship of both companies
ensuring that market needs ore
understood and met by bath our-
selves Gl>d our distributors".

Waving a
24-pin lure

IN a move aimed at luring nine pin
printer users onto 24 pin machines,
Citizen (0895 72621) have cut the
price cf their entry level 124D 24
pin printer by 1 1 per cent. An 80
column model Offering speeds of
120 cps In draft and 40 cps in letter
quality. It now costs £?49,

Mice and Scanners

FANDAAL Marketing (0234 855666)
are now offering Amiga owners a
new mouse and handheld scan-
ner.

The DAATAscon Pro Is a
Mitsubishi scanner running on
DAATAscon software offering
105mm scanning width, 10CI, 200,
300 and 400 dpi resolution and
choice of either black and white
or three dither patterns represent-
ing 64 grey scales.

Other features include contrast
cental,, red-time scanning display,
zoom and pixel perfect editing,
crop, resize, rotate, flip and Invert
images and full printer support,

A Clipboard facility allows
selectable cut, copy and paste
and the scanner also supports the
IFF file format. Price. £1 89.99.

The DAATAmouse can be used
With both me Amiga and Atari ST,
being converted belween the two

Amiga Computing 1 1

WHAT’S

*. machines by a slider switch
beneath the mouse. Offering 280
dpi, It features two mJcroswItched
buttons with a claimed lifetime of
one milon cycles end an anti-stat-
ic lightweight boll which can be
removed for cleaning. Price.
£39.99.

High quality from
portable printer

TH£ new MT73D/735 portable print-
er from MannesmanmTally uses
thermal technology to print what
is claimed to be high quality text

Mann#fiTWn To*y - portable printing

end graphics at a resolution of 300
*300 dpi.

It host MB RAM as standard and
features H-P LaserJet and DeskJet,
IBM Preprints# X24 and Epson L Q
950 emulations. Fonts are Corpora.
Maths. Swfes and Timor.

Prtnclng may vary, but os an
example, Action Computer
Supplies of Wembley are retallng It
at £684.

Pricey Prestel

BRITISH teiscom has dramatically
restructured charges for Its view-
data information service. Prestel.

The first increase In tariffs since
1968 Is a significant one. In a letter
to oil Prestel subscribers BT point
out that inflation has risen 20 per
cent since the last Prestel price
increase.

Res identic I off-peak time
charges cue being increased some
10 times higher than Inflation with
a 200 pet cent Increase tram l p a
minute to 3p a minute. BT claim
i his Increase Is to bring charges
more in Sne with costs.

The standing charge for Prestel
also increases, to £2C o quarter.

The revamped pricing Is sign If F
cantty better news for members of
the Micronet closed user group.
The quarterly charge increases to
£30 a quarter but off-peak time
charges are scrapped.

In effect BT have provided two
different pricing packages far iheir
viewdata service.

Subscribers can opt to pay £20
a quarter and £1 .60 an hour in off
peak time charges for access to
Prestel only, Alternatively a
Micronet subscription at £30 a
quarter win provide greater access
to the system, with the added
benefit of no off-peak charges.

Kevin Smith. Micronet marketing
manager commented "Qur more
canny users will notice how
favourably the casts compare
against rival services, once usage
goes past one hour a month*

The message Is simple. If you are
a Prestel subscriber who currently
pays more than £10 a month In
time charges, upgrade to
Mlcronot and avoid being caught
by a rather expensive British
Telecom April fool's Jake.

Share a printer

A NEW device from Micro Control
Systems (0602 391201) allows four
computets to share the some print-
er, The Simple -4- Switch is available
In both serial and parallel versions
and con be used either outomatl-
callv or manually.

Based on the MCS Simplex-
Switch, It enters automatic mode
when first turned on, When data
comes from a computer tt locks on
and passes It to the prlnte*.

If other users try to print while
the device is busy their data Is
frozen until the printer becomes
available.

Slmple-4-S witch works with all
kinds of printers and plotters. Price,
£129,

Billiards AD 3,000

PLAVING normal billiards can be
hard enough but Imagine the
complexity of futuristic billiards or
an elghtssldeci table, Amiga own-
ers won't have to use theft imagi-
nation. tor leng thanks to French
games house Infogrames C07 1-738
6199)

Due scon Is Billiards 3D. a simula-
tion which Includes American
pool. French pool and Fantasy
Billiards on an octagonal table.

If that Isn't enough, there are
lwo different sets of rules far each
game and they dll Come in either
2D or 3D. For one Of two players.

Billiards 3D re-creates the a I mo-
sphere of a billiard hall in which
one player can vie with any of five
computer opponents wiling to bet
thousands of dollar^ on one game.

Games can be saved and
resumed and the mouse-con-
trolled program allows a ful range
of weil simulated trick shots. Written
for Jnfogrames by Spirit Bonanza,
Billiards 3D will be available for
Amiga 500, 1000 and 2000 and will
cost £24.99

programme, the game has been
simplified for television and Is
voice- activated by young viewers
who ring In. Frist p layers off the TV
version were presenters Andy
Crane and Steve Johnson and the
series will last for nine weeks.

When Magic Pockets Is
launched by Renegade <071-481
92)4) It will feature music from Ihe
walking eyelashes herself - Betty
Boo

Mighty Mo joins
Motormouth

RENEGADE have now taken to
the small screen, Magic Pockets,
the Bitmap Brothers' offering due
ta be launched this summer,
is being used for the phone-in
game section of popular Saturday
morning TV programme Motor-
mouth.

With The Bitmap Kid, quickly
rechristened Mighty Mo for the

One more round

ACCOLADE {071-736 1376) have
released thefr latest Jack Nlcklaus
accessory disc, Called Great
Courses of the US Open ft Includes
the challenges of Pebble Beach.
Oakmont Country Club and
Bafluwol Golf Club.

Compatible with bath Jock
Nlcklaus' Greatest 13 Holes of
Major Championship Golf and
Jack Nlcklaus' Unlimited Golf and
Course Design, Price £1 1 ,99.

Masterly touch in chess programming

WHEN you have ranked as an
International Master in the com-
petitive world of chess and you
also have an interest In comput-
ing, an obvious outlet is to write
chess programs.

Chris Whittington has both
these attributes and has put
them to good use through his
company CP Software and Its
publishing subsidiary Oxford
Softworiks <099382 3463).

With 20 chess programs under
his belt, Chris achieved his great-
est success to date when his lat-
est offering recently took the title
World Personal Computer Blitz
Chess Champion.

Running on an enhanced
Amiga, the program Chess
Champion 217&X claimed Its
Impressive victory at the World
M lerocom pu ter Chess

Championship held In Lyon,
France.

Running alongside the World
Championships for human chess
players featuring top Russian
stars, the computer programs
played off against each other,
the only human Involvement
being to transmit each move
between the different machines.

Blitz chess is played In the
usual way except that all the
moves have to be completed in
10 minutes, so allowing many
games to be played In a short
space of time.

"Blitz chess is particularly chal-

lenging as moves have to be
mode very quickly indeed" , said
Chris. "Accuracy of calculation,
chess knowledge and speed are
all of prime importance and this
resun rs a great measure of the
program's performance "

in his years of competitive
chess Chris reached a level only
surpassed by the International
Grcnd Master grading, but gave
up competitions 20 years ago.

“If you wont to be really good
ot chess you have to play it an
the time.' he sold. "1 stopped
ploying because It was faking up
too much time when I hod other
things to do".

He started CP Software eight
years ago and has progressively
enhanced his programs.

*1 used to be able to beat
them, but It doesn't work like that
any longer.' he said. "The com-
puter thinks further ahead.
Through the program. It conies
out relatively slmpFe ©valuations
many hundreds of thousands of
times and quite complex con-
cepts emerge. 1

Chess Champion 2175 for the
Amiga costs £29.95.

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Review

■ 1 doesn’t take long, when
U using o PsrOn Organiser, to
I realise just how quickly the
DataPocks can flS up. leaving one
desperate for more storage spoce,
in !he early days pleas for help
brought ihe Psion Comms-Link
package fa conned the pocket
maestro to a PC, bul Phere has pre-
viously been no eosy way out for
the Amiga owner.

Look no further for the answer.
You will tlnd a program on this mon-
!h s Amiga Computing coverdisk
colled Psion Link which will enable
you to transfer files to and from ihe
Amiga and Organiser with ease
Unfortunately, the Psion Comrns-
Llnk is still required to provide ihe
hardware connection and the
Psion communications software as
well as the conversion of Psion's
non-standard serial oufput to stan-
dard RS232 signals

This shouldn't be too much of a
problem, because if you're serious
about connecting your Organiser
to i fie outside world, the Cqmms-
Unk is an essential buy In any case.

Parlez-vous Amiga?

Why use o Special program? you
might fhink that with a Comms-Link
pack it would be easy to transfer
files to the Amiga with the help of a
standard com ms program, but
you'd be wrong.

The high occurrence of spurious
characters you get os a result of a
straight transfer makes this exercise
barely worthwhile, so a program to
iron out the bugs soon becomes
more than welcome

If such □ program is to be worth
the effort pul into coding it, howev-
er. If must da more than just arJow
foe tile transfer and conversion. For
this reason, PsIonLink will perform
several extra functions.

tl will, for Instance, directly read
and edit files, and oytomatFcally
convert a Psion Data File into what
is known as an ASCII-delimited file
on the Amiga. These are perfect
for direct importation Into
Sgper&aso or any other Amiga
database

The major problem with PtfonUr*
was the inclusion of protocols, most
notably Psion's own protocol for
which there Is. no □ variable docu-
mentation i decided to pursue this
and to Include the same three pro-
tocols used in the Comma- Link's
own software - none, X-Modem,
and Psion. The ‘none" pit is easy -

Dave Westwood finds his Amiga can
speek in tongues to a Psion Organiser,
and with a straight face, too

Tower of
Babel

whor comes through the serial port
is what you gef in your Tile. X
Modem and PsIonLink, however,
are a bit trickier.

The X- Modem protocol works Py
splitting the file to be sent into a
series of 328 byte blocks. It numbers
these consecutively and transmits
them along with a checksum (a
special number derived from
adding all the bytes
together], which
Ihe

receiving machine uses to check
whether the data has arrived
inloct. If it has been corrupted, Ihe
transmitting machine is Informed
and fresh attempts are made to
successfully transmit the data until
it anivesin an uncorrupted state.

The Psion protocol was the fool
toughie. As mentioned, ihere Is no
published data on its structure,
ancf Psion were Initially reluc-
font to furnish the relevanl
details . This is a most Impor-
tant aspect of
the pro

gram, however., and I persevered
until thoy were kind enough to give
me what I needed. After all. with a
third party already producing the
equivalent ST program, there's no
reason why the same facility
shouldn't be available gn the
Amiga.

The Psion protocol allows for sev
eral extremely useful extra features.
You can, for example, transfer
accidentally deleted files from the
Organiser's DaioPacks lo a now
host, and con transfer password
protected Notepads without first
having to de-protect Them.

More usefully, it allows the trans-
fer of OPL object code to and from
the Amiga, so thor Organiser pro-
grams con be developed In the
much larger and friendlier environ-
ment of th© Amiga.

For programmers looking to
develop software for ihe Organiser,
the advantages offered by not
having to ruin one's eyesight and
patience squinting at the drmmu
five Psion screen cannot be under-
estimated. The chance to use a
decent Amiga text editor when
coding is aiso o great boon.

For those not Interested in pro-
gramming. She link allows for fhe
saving of invaluable data to floppy
disk fot future use, and relieves the
burden on over-populated
DafaPocks.

Shareware

Unfortunately, I speni so much time
trying to scrounge ihe protocol
detaits out of Psion and sweated so
long and herd when actually pro-
gramming PsionLink. the pro
gram on your May
coverdisk is a
demo version only.
The full version.
Including Psion pro-
tocol and my own rite
editor. Is available if
you get In touch at the
address included in the
drsk readme .comms file.
On a final note, I am
currently working on q
developer program which
should moke it possible for
users lo write, test, debug,
and compile OPL programs on
the Amiga, then bundle them
as a complete Data Pack fhat
will auto-boat itself into the
Organiser's fop level menu.

Look out for more about this in
future issues of Amiga Cofrtputing.

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Animation

P ossibly the greatest contri-
bution to Western civilise
tlon to come from across
the Atlantic - that's one way of
describing the cartoon Industry,
especially If you r re a QBK (Great
Big Kid) like most of the Amiga
Computing staff

Ani matron is now beginning to
hit the micro market with a
vengeance, so It Is fortunate for
those of us with a love at moving
pictures that the Amiga is eminent-
ly well qualified as a machine on
which to produce home-grown
cartoons

The Amy's abilities in this
deportment seem at lost to
be on the verge of profes-
sional recognition, with a
variety of commercial
on I motion studios
either exploring the
possibilities offered
by the Amiga, or
already using It in
the production
chori.

Or these,
the name
Cosgrove
Hall Productions
stands head and shoulders
above the rest

Cosgirove Hall hove been mak-
ing cartoons since 1976, when
Mark Hal! and Brian Cosgrove set
up shop with six staff In a convert-
ed warehouse, Since then, anima-
tions such 05 Wind fn The WMows
and The &FG have helped them
win four SAHA awards and on
EWMV. and the company has
grown to 1 30 people, filling out a
plush custom studro building just
south of Manchester

Meanwhile. Cosgrove Hall's
bread and butter productions,
Dongermouse and Count Duckuia

have been delighting children and
GBKs far the best part at o
decode. Against a background of
almost total U.5. domination,
Cosgrove Hail and □ handful of
other studios have produced car-
toons of a distinctly British flavour,
offering □ refreshing riposte to the
sort of one-way nonsatta
which has seen “Masts
Mega- Blasters' clones
dominate out tellies.

Cost-efficient

Enough of the banner waving,
what about the Amiga?
Cosgrove Hall are one
OF the first
British stu-
dios to look
seriously at
the use of
computers not
only for the
control of com -
eras but far the
production of
graphics end the
development of
characters q%
well.

In their search for
a cost-efflclenl system
offering quality animation
at a decent price they olighied,
not surprisingly, on the Amiga, and
It was this decision which sent us
scurrying up the M6 to See haw
they were using our favourite
machine.

We spoke to Phil Atack, the man
with the job of assessing the
Amigo s potential, and asked him
whet he thought 'W ere looking
into using the Amigo for line test-
ing/ he told m, hurriedly pushing
F29 RetoHator under a pile of
papers, “but we're having difficulty

with the image resolution / Line to life, Normally, a line test would
testing is the animator's jargon for Involve a series of drawings done
rough sketch., and Is the first step In manually then filmed one at a time
the process of bringing characters until the animators had a sample

Tune in
to 'toons

Amiga

Computing's
big kiddies,

Stevie Kennedy and
Paul Austin, take a
look at animated
Agnuses.

1 8 Ami g* Computing

Animation

pencil-sketched cartoon on video.
This Is a time-consuming proce-
dure, and difficult to experiment
with.

Lining them up

Using an Amigo, however. line
testers such as Phil can produce a
full line test without recourse to
video, changing os many aspects
at It os- they please before passing
it on to the animators for I he paint
rob.

At this Stage the Amigo falls
short of requirements, p We find that
computer graphics can't achieve
the resolution we get with ink and
acetate', said Phil, This isn't a slight
on the Amiga, however, os no
othef micro fits the bill either.

At the moment. Phil Is using an
Amiga 2000 with hard drive and
arvtb memory, along w#h Chroma-
Colour software and a digitiser
linked tg o high quality stUl frame
video camera, The set-up isn't
cheap, and would burn a large
hole in £30,000, but it is far mare

attractively priced than anything
previously
available to
the profes-
siona I
Armed with
this array of
desirable
equipment.
Phil was hard
at work on
Cosgrove
Hairs newest
cartoon,
Victor and
Hugo, when
we arrived.

"It's something i
knocked up the other day to test
the software p bit/ he said The

sequence showed Hugo smoothly
animated ror a fragment of
speech, and amply demonstrated
the advantage of the pencil over
the mouse.. "Using a mouse is a bit

of a nightmare/ we were told,
'especially if you have to do
dozens of cells."

Drawing on-screen, however,
needn't be carried out with with a

cheese-chaser, and Phil admitted
to never having tried a graphics
labiet for sketching. The addition of
a tablet could quite easily dispense
altogether with the video camera
at the line Jesting stage, leaving
the line tester to sketch straight
onto the Amiga.

Disney does it

We asked Phil for his opinions on
the newly released Wall Disney
Animation Studio (FAS) and his eyes
lit up. The general reaction was
that although not up to the jab of
creating professional cartoons, TAS
Is a much cheaper tool, Ideal for
the animator experimenting at
home or foe training Pegnners. 'We
need the four level animation and
digitiser options from ChfOmo-
Colour" he affirmed, 'buf the

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Disney package looks great Tor
developing an idea or for the ama-
teur who wonts to produce hfcs or
her own stuff.'

Cor, chief!

We were more than a lithe reluc-
tant to terminate our day out at
Cosgrove HoH r and refused to
leave without an armful or sou-
venirs and a posed photo wtth Igor
and Duokula himself. After a!L the
Amigo Is at heart a fun machine,
and to see It put to good use by
the company which has brought
so much enjoyment through Its car-
tooni was o most welcome treat.

If our Amy is capable of service
at the professional level and with
such an Illustrious crew of anima-
tors. then there's surely some hope
for those of us at the mere amateur
level who 11 be diving with glee into
The AninrKton Studio.

Paper to pixel

In the world of computer anima-
tion there are two distinct routes
employed to create the moving
pictures we all know and love. Your
approach to the subject is usually
determined by youf background;
whether it lies either In the hand
draw approach of the llustratar or
the digital trickery of the artistic
techno-junkie.

The average Amiga enthusiast
will no doubt be more at home
with the conventional Amiga envi-
ronment of the point package,
with imagery being provided from
the somewhat less than subtle
touch at the various processing
tools employed, not least of which
Is the rather dinky Amiga mouse.

The second approach Is a more
traditional one combining the
hard-earned skills of the conven-
tional Illustrator along with the pro-

Early attempts

Watt Disney Isn't the first company lo attempt a ded-
icated low-end Amiga animation package - it's just
the latest and most successful. There have been sev-
eral previous offerings, including Antic Software's
Zoetrope package,

this suffered originally from being low-res NTSC
only, and utilising Its own picture format, but was a
hint of what we might expect from the Amiga.

Since we reviewed Zoetrope In the April IQ&9
issue, there has been a dearth of animation pack-
ages with the notable exception of DPoint |E|.

Programs such as Anlmagic and Fontaviaon have
tried lo raise an eyebrow, but none have been suffi-
ciently feature- packed to become a mainstream
iwal for the aH-conquering DPalnt in.

What has been missing from nearly all previous
animation programs has been an approach which

Count Puckula comes gradually S® I H«

cessing power of the computer, tf s
this approach which Chroma-
Colour's Softoons Is designed to
exploit, combining the two talents
with the aid or video digitising
The biggest complaint from free
hand artists when confronted with
computerisation Is the prospect of
using a mouse. This is □ deflate non

I onw® uaTvr:

starter with mast animators. As a
result an alternative method is
required and it's here that the digi-
tiser carries Into its own, importing
hand drawn cels direct from the

Exposure wheels ccn be loaded
In o form which any pro will feel
comiorlable with

Cbrama-Coloiif $ tflgifti* option shows its professional Fpuch

follows along similar lines to that taken by the profes-
sional animator Zoetrope was slutted with special
effects, such os fades, wipes and shatters, which you
could apply to your graphics, but none of These
were of any particular use.

Clever though they may be, such effects are real-
ly only useful if your animation e designed for a pro-
fessional presentation rather than a cartoon.
Zoetrope was too crude for the former and unsuit-
able far the Eattef

Zoetropo was ondi remains an excellent program
in a technical sense, especially when you remember
Its age. However, it Is also the best example of go
early Amiga package which, white being dreamily
put together, was dismally deficient In Us apprecia-
tion of Just which market If wos supposed to be
aimed at.

paper fo the line-tester for editing,
composition and of course play-
back.

It's fair to soy Softoons is the
answer to an animator's needs
rather than that of the Amiga
enthusiast hoping to dabble In a
touch of the Dfeneys. As a result of
me specialised approached and
the consequent limit for potential
sales the Softoons system is not for
the financially faint hearted with a
starting price of £630 for the soft-
ware alone.

If you were to go the whole hog
and invest In the complete system
of cameras, rostrum stands and
monitors It would add up to just
under £3 r DQ0. As I said, It's not
aimed at the amateur.

The system comes in two distinct
formats, either an A5Q0 version
which is designed to suit the needs
of an animator working from home,
or the more advanced and expen-
sive Amiga 2000-bosed system
designed specifically for studio use.

The principle difference between
the two systems is the number of
available levels of animation. The
A500 version only manages one
level similar to that of IAS, whereas
the studio version is capable of up
to f olx level combinations.

This basically means that ail the
elements of the animation pro-
duced on the A5Q0 system must be
drawn and shot onto a single cel,
the studio alternative being capa-
ble of combining Tour individual
drawings onto the same exposure
sheet to form the finished cel, Each
element joins with the rest but still
retains Its Individuality for editing
pupo&es.

To be realistic, the price OF the

Chroma-CoKHjf h
more flexible in uM r rf
more difficult

Amiga Computing 2 1

Animation

stucfio version complete wtlh all the
hardware is strictly for the pros, As □
result I'll be concentrating on the
slightly more affordable A5CC ver-
sion which might still be within the
reach of the affluent enthusiast.

The do's and don'ts

Perhaps a more accurate heading
might read whaf you Can do, and
what you can? With the Softoons
system you can import block and
white line tests, compile sequences
and adfush improve., and generally
test out your creations prior to
spending heaps of cash on the
phenomenally expensive process
of creating Tull cotgu animations

Softoons In effect is an anlma-
tlon utility rather than a stand-
alone package like TAS.

The Idea is to speed up the pro-
cess for a pro. As a result there 's no
paint package available, no inter-
nal editing and no colours.
Soft-cons talents are devoted pure-
ly to digitising and running hand
drawn Images, and this as you
might expect it does well, but cer-
tointy not cheaply,

Flip through

The standard set-up will support up
to 200 individual drawings within
the machine. Considering the
frame rate on certain animations
this is not exactly Impressive, but
with the addition of some extra
memory things would become a lit-
tle more acceptable.

The number of drawings
shouldn't be confused with the
number of frames used. If r s quite
common for an animation to use
the some drawing on several
frames depending on the effects
required.

Once you've cap-
tured a drawing
with the digitiser n
can be played
instantly or cycled
with the other
frames in the
sequence This
can be done at any
rale between t and
99 frames per sec-
ond.

The frame rate
can be
adjust-

commercial marker, but if you're a
real enthusiast who needs to digi-
tise his handy work It's the only
dedlcafed equipment around.

Cheap alternative

ff like me your bottom lip will stil be
trembling at the prospect of
spending all your hard earned
cash on Softoons. dry your eyes.
There is an alternative method to
gel your freehand skills into the
Amiga, and as a result your cnlms -
look out for our review of graphics
tablets soon

Waft Disney
Animation Studio

We tried and we tried and we
tried, but we found nothing that
comes dose to The Animation
Studio in the home animation mar-
ket, Chroma-Colour Is an expensive
alternative for the professional mar-
ket, but for cartoon-loving Joseph
Public harbouring a secret desire to
bring Tom & Jerry to life on the
Amiga. There's no real choice.

Disney, as you might expect, has
written TAS entirely from the vlew-
polnJ of an animator. From start ta
finish, emphasis is placed solely on
producing cartoons, such that
although not of professional stan-
dards. IAS engenders a profession-
al feel which carries beginner

The DPaint contribution

Dan Silva's DPaint program, especially in its third
incarnation, has been an© of the prime movers In the
world of Amiga animation for several years, and
there are many who owe It o debt of gratitude.

DPaint III established the now accepted AMIM for-
mat and spread The gospel at Amiga movies to the
wider audience through myriad PD demos and, in a
very Important way, Poosled the success of the
Amiga os a whole.

its animated brushes were a revolution in Amigo
graphics techniques which are only now being
incorporated Into
other packages such
as Spectracoiar.
Animations thus creat-
ed could be saved In IFF
or ANIM format and played
back using Electronic Arts'
Play routine.

Since then, the prolifera-
tion of stand alone PD
AMIM player programs
hos allowed amateur ani-
mators to
pass thslr pro-

grams around freely, and although sound isn't
catered far. programs, such os Movie will put anlms
through their paces at a very respectable frame
rate.

The major drawback when animating with DPaint
Is lhal It was designed primarily as a paint program
Animation *s possible, but If Is obviously an added
extra rother lhan the program's raison d'etre. For this
reason, DPaint loses out bodty when compared to
The Animation Studio, but that's not surprising.

For those who want a paint package first, and a
dabble in animation as o bit of fun on the side,
DPaint b still □ very attractive buy. and should contin-
ue to provide animations for the ever expanding
public domain derno libraries,

The ori(jirKII lint
□nimalion
Showing Ihe
onton* He lm Affect.
In use. ttl* ability
ta see hi* tost
fhree cel? I? an
invaluable aid
la even duff
animators like us

ed as the animation runs a helpful
feature when composing a
sequence. When you're happy
with your creations they can be
saved to disk or copied direct to
video

IT you're slightly nervous aboui

Tfrft Anal animation,
complete with
background, ihows
how the wh<N* «n
be greater than the
tuffl Of the parts

using the system don't worry. Those
thoughtful folks at Chroma -Colour
will tend a helping hand at □ daily
training rate of only £250 per day.
it's obvious from the frightening
price list that both Chroma -Cotour
systems are aimed firmly at the

CWinlning the frisk ef
before importing hie
background Is G
simple matter of
Click ing on the
COtoUtS to be
masked oil. Here,
the dog's body
colours along wilh
Ihe black ol II?
Outline have been
Included

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REPAIRS

Animation

The Dema-fteel is o good
example of the overqN
quaffly Of Ihs Disney
pncKhJd, this tKttfltofTt
Donald Deck dnNnoHoni
w« pul rogelhef by Waff
DiifWy drfisis specially fgr
Th* Animation Studio
and a as good an
□dvedisemenf 04 you
can pet tor it* pat+ntfcal

tures designed to make animating
as easy as possible,

Knows his onions

There Is a variable zoom option,
and a group of cel manipulation
devices for copying cel 5 to and
from a buffer,, cuffing ifiem out or
Inserting them anywhere In the
sequence.

By for the most specific options,
however, and those which set
Pencil Test apart, ore the three at
the bottom of the toolbox gadget
bar

The two arrow gadgets ore used
to flip back and forth through the
sequence of cefe at the dick of a
mouse button. They are useful
when the user wants to travel
through o relatively small number
of cels, but they really come into
their own when they make It possi-
ble to see the 'onion skm' effect at
Its best,

'Onion skin' is a term and an
effect dating from the earnest days
of animation when cels were
drawn on a series of semi-transpar-
ent layers of paper,

By 'looking through' these layers,
the anffnator could discern the dim
outlines of the previous three eds
or so, end thus achieve Q much
better appreciation of how the
movement was developing,

The Animation Studio sim-
ulates this effect so

Real Things

Representing one of the few commercial attempts to spread the anima-
tion word, RGB Studios' Real Things series IS aimed at providing the
beginner with the tools he or she needs fa begin producing original
work.

The series consists off three packages, Birds, Horses, and Humans, oil of
wtwch contain a diskfut of DPaint arums
and a manual, The latter sets out to dis-
pense advice on ail aspects of anim
brushes, including their creafton, devel-
opment, and editing, and goes an to
give hints on backgrounds and so forth.

Each disk contains a large number at
good quality animation sequences
which the beginner can use In anima-
tions or os a guide to the techniques of,
for example, making a horse run wtthout
making it look Nke a table having a fit

None of this Is pafficulorty radical
or new; the DPgint manual pro-
vides a simitar guide to using amm
brushes, and the anh ^
motions themselves

are relative-
ly simple.

What is unique about the Real Things series Is that It is the
only sustained attempt To attract beginners To Amiga ani-
mation we've seen since DPoInfs remarkable potential
was first realised.

if you're desperate to the point of Financial profligacy.
Rear Things at £20 a throw is one way to butfd up an instant
animation library. If, on the other hand, you don’t fet set-
ling Fire to tenners among your hobbies, try the public
domain when looking far animated inspiration, Real Things
is good bul not that good,

along with it rather than leaving
them stranded.

The main dsk contains two pro-
grams, Pencil Test and Ink # Paint,
The first of these is the line tester
and it is here that any animation
begins its life.

The user progresses from rough
sketch to finished line-art anima-
tion, then loads the whole thing
into Ink & Paint for the application
of colour. The overwhelming

And I bet you thought walking was easy*

impression during oil this is TAS's
extreme ease of use.

Let's face It - how many of us
can draw? Not US. Disney, howev-
er, doesn't simply leave the begin-
ner to get on with it.

To take os much of the pain as
passible out of cartoon production,
there is a library of sample anima-
tions on the program disk and a
second disk packed to the gunnels
with clips from actual Disney ani-
mations,

The library animations can be
used in the user's own productions
and loaded Into ink & Paint for
colouring. The Morgue disk
contain Big the Disney clips, howev-

er, Is protected by copyright and
the animations cannot be tam-
pered with.

If you want to create Britain's
answer to Mickey Mouse you're
going to have to put in a certain
amount of work!

The Pencil Test part of the pack-
age will be Tomiior to anyone who
has used DPaint, os if sports very
similar menus and oil the usual
drawing gadgets.

Circles, boxes ond elipses. fined
or unfilled,, are all Ihere, as are
the more advanced brush and
airbrush facilities. This isn't Just
an ordinary drawing program,
however, ond fr has several tea

Amiga Computing 2 5

Animation

that the beginner con ftp forward
without losing sight of the preced-
ing three cels, all of which are visi-
ble as progressively fainter grey
outlines. The effect Is simple but
invaluable, and alone Is facility
enough to place The Animation
Studio high on my shopping list.

The bottom left hand gadget is
a simple player which Nips through
the existing sequence cel by cel in
a loop to make testing the anima-
tion as easy as possible.

It simply doubles up Tor ah
option available via a pull-down
menu, but its Inclusion on the tool-
box bar Is an Indication of the
thought which hos been put into
this packages design.

Decent exposure

The last gadget, on the bottom
right hand corner, takes the user to
what the pros call the 'exposure
sheet'.

This section of the program simu-
lates the real life exposure sheet
you will find at the heart of all car-
toon productions.

It Is used to keep track of tim-
ings, frame rates and events such
as music, speech, and Special
effects. The exposure sheet Is not
an optional extra - if you're serious
about putting decent cartoons
together you must use this tech-
nique.

Disney 's exposure sheet is one of
the trickier pom of the program. To
use It proparly, the user has to mas-
ter a dozen or so commands and
their syntax These allow .5MUS
(Sonix) format music scores to be
ployed, paused, faded out, and
generally mucked about with.

Unfortunately, flexibility sS limited
by the Insistence on Soni* generat-
ed music scores, but this Is partly
offset by the acceptance of any
IFF sample as o special effect

Product Information

Walt Disney's Animation Studio is

a product of the Walt Disney
Company
Available: Mow
Supplier: Entertainment

international (0268)
541126
Price: £99.95

Saftoont Personal Une-Tester and
Chromo-Colour Animation Une^

Tester are products ot the
Chroma-Colour company.
Available: Mow
Supplier: Chitif rho-Cokxj

Animation Supplies &
Equipment Ltd (OBI)
675 8422

Price : From £630 for soft-

ware alone to £4.000
for software. A2QQ0.
camera . fights, and
rostrum equipment

(l$FX>. Musical: scores and samples,
once decided upon, can be
tweaked In a number of ways. The
syntax of the ISFX command allows
the user to choose sample play-
back speeds, which channel il wiH
play through, whether or not It will

be In stereo, and the number of
frnes it wil loop.

The ISCORE command can be
used to fade a tune out and set Its
tempo, and peripheral commands
such as ITEMPO, 1VOLUME, and
INOTE offer occasional control of
any sounds or scores presently
being played. Altogether, the
exposure shoot Is an indespensabla
part of the animation process, and
The Animation Studio would have
been incomplete without It.

Ink blots

Once rhe pencil animation b com-
plete and the user Is satisfied that
the exposure sheet is arranged cor-
rectly. the data is stored an dsk for
later importation to the second
part of the mo In program. Ink Sc
Point, for the fin al touches.

This Is the weakest chink in
Disney's armour, because it’s not
really a paint progiam of ail. There
are up to 32 colours available,
more With dithering, but the onty
painting facilities available are a
couple of fill and line-drawing
options for touching up any "leaks'
which threaten to let a colour spill
out of Its allotted area.

The idea is that the animation Is

Penfold comes to fife on pdpei Hi tTifc *orly ortftf * chofncler sheer

already complete and merely
requires colouring. but If would
have been nice to hove hod o few
more options even at this late
stage.

That grumble aside, the Ink &
Point program does everything
required of it with irtle fuss. Its best
reafure is the abtfity to use a 'friskef
so that backgrounds can be slot-
ted in behind the animation with-
out overwriting any of your hard
sweat and tears.

Frlskets work by specifying which

colours cannot be overwritten, so
all you need do h pull down the
frisket option, click on the colours
you've used in your animation,
then import your IFF background
behind the relevant cek-

You con load different back-
grounds for different cals, so there's
no reason for bland backdrops.
The major problem with the back-
grounds is that Miey con only be
static - there's no multi-level ani-
mation such OS that found on the
more expansive Chroma-Colour
configurations.

This reinforces the dp pQ rent
Disney ethos that demands oil ani-
mation details be finalised before
Ink ft Paint Is used, but there's no
great difficulty in this

If the user plans ahead using a
storyboard and organises the ani-
mation before starting, the finished
product will be bettor thought out
and more efficiently reached.
Disney's emphasis on ihelf own
methods and the insistence on a
structured approach are in the last
analysis a help rather than a hin-
drance to the beginner.

Conclusion

Amiga animation is an the up and
up - there's no doubt about that.
With the wide availability of DPaint
animations, and the appearance
at a new low-end dedicated pack-
age In the shape of Walt Disney's
Animation Studio, the home mar-
kef caJd be said to be buoyant.

In the professional sector, too,
the Amiga is establishing Itself as on
excellent machine far llne-testers
and animators alike.

The Chroma-Colour software,
though expensive, has proved Its
ability to meet ihe demands af an
expanding user base, and should
continue to bring the Amiga much
deserved credit in this new sector

With success apparent in both
areas, the Amiga can only contlrv
ue to improve Its standing as the
only home micro which Is bath
grecit fun and a truly serious buy.

4 All Cosgrove Hof I characters,
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Y fears ago a couple of
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modem with very low speeds and
even lower reliability,

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modem speed and features.

Which modem you need
depends very much on whal you
want to achieve. The occasional
call to cr local BBS service won't
wa rrani a super speedy modem
On the other hand the cost sav-
ing offered by high data transfer
rates will be welcome if you at e a
frequent caller to the US.

Euro Link

The EuroUnk modem is a perfect
Illustration of how comms hard-
ware has become more afford-
able of late. Your hard earned £264
delivers a unit which allows conrv
municoflon at a respectable 2400
baud

Like each of the modems
featured in this overview it is entire-
ly software controlled, this means
that rather than pressing buttons
on the front panel fo configure the
ur^t.. all tweaking is done over the
keyboard via a software com-
mand set

The EuroLink is fully Hoyes com-
potlbte. this Is a teal boon for any-
one wanting to dabble in comms
wit haul learning the detailed ins
and outs of modem control before
going online.

Popular public domain pack-
ages for the Amiga Including
NComm. JRCamm and Supertax*
come pre-configured for u$e with
Hayes, compatible decks.

Plug in and go is the order of the
day. The modem also includes

Going online is getting cheaper. Eddie
McKendrick gets up to speed with a
range of modems for all pockets

Modem

operan

some useful help screens for those
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In an effort to provide an all
round package, Euro Link have
bundled o free subscription to
CompuServe into the price. This is
a truly massive information system
of American origin. Qn It you will
find messages news and over
30,000 public domain programs.

Having said all that,
CompuServe is not the most user
friendly of places and although
your membership ts free, the usage
charges soon mount up.
CompuServe is far too extensive to
do justice to in rhe article and we
will be covering the service in Its
own right at a later date.

As well as getting cheapen
modems have got smaller and sim-

pler to use over the years. At
glance the EuroUnk is nothing more
than a slimline piastre brick with six
light? an the front and no switches
to play with. At second glance It is
much the some. Gone ore the
days of twiddling dials, setting DIP
switches and pressing buttons to
get online

The function of each light on the
EuroUnk is clearly indicated by
diagonal labels on The front panel.
This commonsense approach to
labelling is most unusual, the bulk
of modem manufacturers usually
insist on using confusing two letter
abbreviations rather than plain
English.

The EuroUnk has indicators for
power, connecting, responding.

EuroUnk Modem

Price;

£263.35

Manufacturer:

EuroUnk

Telephone:

0625 078880

Fat:

Very good vaSue
Hayes Compatible

Against

No power switch

verdict:

The Eurolink is on ideal modem for anyone wanting to
dabble with comma without having to re-mortgage
th&r Amiga.

transmitting, receiving and auto
answer mode Rear panel pon s are
provided for power, lelephone and
serial connections.

The only notable omission is that
of o power switch. Removing the
power lead Is the only way to* give

EuroUrcfc

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30 Am iga Computing

Comms

your £uf©LJnk a good night s sleep
otter mqny hctJd hours of cgnvms-

ing over the wires.

Hi-Tec EC2400

If irie EuroLifik modem con be con-
sidered ideal few the beginner, the
Hi-fec EC2400 deluxe is welt suited
to people wanting to upgrade
from aged manual modems.

Like the EuroLink, It is a 2400
baud Hayes compatible unit. The
Hl-Tec normally weighs in at £399
but It s cunentiy on offer to Amigo
Computing readers at £299.

What you get tor your extra out-
lay is □ slightly more robust cose,
more lights and the MNP error cor-
rection ana dd)a compression sys-
tems.

let 5 tackle each of these areas
In turn. The chassis is a very robust

Hi-Tec EC2400 Deluxe

Ssw (£29? on special offer)
Manufacturer HI-Tbc Modems Ltd

Telephone:

For

Against:

VfeKlict:

0733 897333

MNP protocote

Front mounted power switch

Unattractive styling

The H 1-Tec EC 24D0 deluxe should be q serious con-
tend** for your often Nan it you are looking to upgrade
from on existing slower modem. The provision of MNP is
a real bonus, biff only if the services you want to use
support rt.

plastic design which is only ler
down by a flimsy front panel and
two inexcusably tacky go-foster
stripes down the side. The unit
Sports a positively psychedelic col-
lection of 11 lights giving Informa-
tion on everything from the current
connection status to active speed
Cosmetics aside, the most
important additional feature of the
EC 2400 is ihe provision of the two
MNP systems. MNP is o three letter
acronym for Microcom Networking
Protocol. The HI- Tec comes with
two different types of MNP,

MNP Level A is an error correc-
tor! protocol designed to ensure
sofe transport of data even If
phonelines are bad. MNP Level 5
an the other hand is a doia com-
pression protocol. This is used to
speed up data transmission from
point to point.

With MNP 5 It is possible to
achieve a data transfer rate
Increase of almost 100 per cent,
meaning fhat the EC 2400 has a
maximum throughput of 4800
baud. MNP is only of any relevance
to you If the services you cali sup-
port it. Prestel for example does not
although most other commercial
services da.

One major plus, where the EC
wins hands down over the othsF
modems on test. Is the provision of
a power switch on the front panel
it is reassuring to have a means
of hard reset within easy reach,
ideal for situations where the
modem is semi enclosed and the
back panel Is tricky to get fo. The
Hl-Tec doesn't crash, but some-
times a power-off is the easiest way
to reset a Irne otter a failed con-
nection.

The EC 2400 does not look as
mass-produced as the other decks
reviewed within these pages, The
user guide in particular, although
extremely informative, iacks the

level of presentarron offered by the
other three contenders. Don’t get
me wrong, Ihe EC 2400 is a positive
Volkswagen build-quality wise. Hl-
T ec’s design boys just need to
apply a little more m the way of
cosmetic surgery before It will look
os sexy as the others in its class.

Hayes 9600 +Quad

Just as Hoover have made o name
far themselves In vocuum cleaners,
Hayes hove been at the leoding
edge with modems since the
emergence of the technology.

With that sort of introduction, you
would be justified In thinking that
the Hayes Smartmodern 9600+
Quad might be something special.
Depending on what you want to
do with comms, you couid be right
As the name suggests ihe Hayes
is a 9600 baud modem. WeH it is, as
long as you are talking to another
compatible 9600 baud modem
Otherwise the +Quod tagged 1 on
to the end of ihe nome is of more
significance to you.

Quad relgtes to the ability to
transmit and receive data using
four universally recognised CCIT
modulation standards. Vou will be
(ess lhan surprised to know that the
highest speed available with these

is 2400 baud (V 22 bis), The others
ore 300 (V 21). 1200 (V 22) and
127S (V 23) respectively.

Hayes are a key player in the
corporate comms sector, in prac-
tice. finding another 9600 baud
modem at the end of □ resrdentlal-
ly run bulletin beard could prove to
be a little on the tricky side.

This means that to ail Intent and
purpose you have to assume that
the bulk of your coils will achieve
2400 baud connections. With the
provision of MNP the data through-
put is Increased to a respectable
4800 baud.

The story doesn’t stop there. By
use of special protocols it is
possible to achieve a nippy data
transfer rote of 19,200 baud. This
relies on another Hoyes modem
being at the other end of the link.

All or these additional features
Invariably mean increased com-
plexity m configuration, The Hayes
goes some way to resqMng poten-
tial setup heartache by incorporoi-
Ing intelligent feature negotiation
software,

Theoretically the Smartmodern
will automatically establish the
highesf speed of connection possi-
b(e, The practice Is not entirely silky
smooth, but configuration Is signifi-
cantly easier rhan It would be with-
out the artificial Intelligence,

The most string attribute of the
Hoyes Js its construction. In com-
plete contrast to the other plastic
units, it Jives in a smart robust metal
box. The usual compliment of sta-
tus lights is provided, as Is a power
switch on the back panel. There Is
no question that if build quality ts
Important to you. this is your ideal
modern.

In line with Its distinctly corporate
price tog of £1,149, the Hayes 9600
provides a wide range of facilities
geared to the more serious comms
buff. The most notable of these is

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There Isn't q great deal to sell It to
home hackers though

The other large market for high
end modems Is bulletin board
sysops. Hayes are now promoting
their entire range to this Influential
bunch by offering a more than
generous 50 per cent discount.

To quality for this saving , the bul-
letin board concerned must carry
□ promotional message for Hayes
modems, ihe sysop scheme should
go some way to getting more units

online. Any sysops interested should
conlact the company at the num-
ber below.

Miracom Courier

We wrap up our look at modems
with the Miracom Courier HST DS
This deck combines mast of the
features found in the Hayes with
one very important additional fea-
ture, HST - on acronym for High
Speed Technology. Using the

Miracom Courier HST

X25 PAD. The letters PAD stand for
Packet Assembler/ Disassembler

Using PAD it is possible to have
virtual father than physical con-
nections. This means that with a
single modem you can be lirtoed to
mote than one online service.

in simple terms a PAD link works
by taking the information from
each virtual connection estab-
llshed Cthe packets) and assem-
bling them into a single data
stream for transmission. This stream
is disassembled at each end of the
link.

PAD has very specific applica-
tions and most residential users
hove difficulty finding o justification
far connecting to one online son
vice never mind several simul-
raneousty.

Hayes modems are not cheap. I
don't think It Is 1 00 per cent fair to
say that all you are paying for is the
name, nor is it fair to- say you gel
who! you poy for In terms of fea-
tures genuinely usetU to the home
user.

The V-Series Smarfmodem 9600
+Quod has a very specific appeal
to corporate communicators.

Price: £1,148.05

Manufacturer: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc.

Telephone- OS I 848 1S5B

For: 9600 baud

PAD

Excellent build quality

£1,144.25

Miracom Technology Ltd
0473 233BB8

HS! protocol
Dual Standard
User friendly

No telephone through-port

If you Intend to take comms seriously and money is no
object, this Is the modem for you BBS Sysops should
leap ot the chance to pick up one of these units at
50% discount, ft will be a very long time befc* e a bet-
ter price/perfarmance package comes along

Miracom if is possible to achieve a
data transfer rate of 14.4k. There
□re qifte □ few HSTs doing sterling
service ot the tent end of numer-
ous bulletin boards up and down
the country.

HST Is a proprietory protocol
designed by Miracom s American
parent company US Robotics
Each of the other modems we
have looked at use the elderly
CCITT V standards for data transfer.

Talking of the V standards brings
me to the other acronym In the
Mifocom's wordy tine. DS Inttcates
that the Courier ts a dual standard
modem.

This represents a best of both
worlds scenario where the HST p*o-

Agoinst: Expensive

Requires some configuration

Vbrcflct: Ihe Hayes 9600 +Quad Is an excellent modem for seri-

ous comms users. 1 would be inclined to say that It
was overtoil for domestic users and the Miracom HST
DS modem reviewed next is a more reaisfic propor-
tion for Sysops If PAD and reliability are important to
you ihen Hayes is ihe natural choice.

Prtcsi

Manufacturer:

Telephone:

For:

Against:

Verdict:

Hayes 9600 +Quad

toed is supported side by side with
the widely accepted slower V stqn
dards.

If first impressions lost, I hove
beer sold on the Courier. Despite
the unit's Immense sophistication,
getting online wos just a simple
matter at plugging in a couple of
cobles and clicking on my
JRComm Icon.

Miracom must be commended
for The user friendliness of the entire
Courier package. The manual is
dear, concise and easy fo follow.
The built-in help screens and com-
mand summaries are convenient
to access. The level of user support
even extends as far as printing a
complete command summary on
the base of the A4 sized unit. There
Is no excuse For not having the
information you need close to
hand If you are the proud owner of
□ Courier.

On the face of It the Miracom
does everything Thai the Hayes
does and more for around the
same price. The only feature the
Hayes can boast over the Miracom
Is PAD. The won't be □ great loss far
most users.

This Is an Ideai modem for
bulletin board sysops. The automat -
ic support of both widely used
communications standards CV and
HST) means thoi the Courier is
happy to answer the phone and
folk to a wider range of modems
than any other in its class.

Miracom offer a Sysop price
scheme similar to the Hayes one.
making these excellent modems
available at virtually give-away
prices to established bulletin boards.

The only niggling curiosity is that
Miracom have not seen fit to pro-
vide o telephone socket on the
back of the Courier This means
that if you wish to share a line for
voice and data the purchase of a
socket doubler Is a pi e-iequisi&e.

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forms for instrument voices Of spe-
cial effects.

• SampleED allows- you to edit an
already existing sample.

9 SompleUst is a new way far MED
to organise samples.

Sample List

This feature is a boon for people
with huge sample libraries The
Sample List Is a text
file In which you sef
out the drives one
directories in whlch^
samples are to be
found and lists the sam J
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Ifia all-new Sample Edio* uTters MED V 3 .G 0 U»tt mor* musical muscle than ever

MED all you hove to do Is die k on
the SMPUSI gadget to go to a
screen with the directories and
samples immediately available for
selection.

There's no more messing about
in MED r s tiny file window for one
sample in a list of hundreds!

Synthsoufid

this feature allows you to design
and create waveforms for use
within your awn tunes,. then save
them to disk. The waveforms can
us© the whole rive octave range
and can be made up of 64 Individ-
ual sections, each wrth tts own type
of wave.

To access this function go into
the IN5TR panel and dick on Ihe
SYNTH gadget

you should now be faced with a
screen mostly taken up by two
panels on which the synthsounds
are created.

Between the two are can-
irols for adding and

mixing waveforms together, ond
below you will see controls to
select wavetype and drawing
methods, along with more
editing controls.

The pre-set wavetypes are
handy for standard sounds
and os a starting point for
the editing process.

Users can choose
from sine,
saw, and
triangle
wavetypes, then

go Into the panels and edit them
by hand using the freehand or line
drawing tools.

Cut, paste, copy, and other
editing features are also available,
along with the more advanced
TRANSFORM, which will smooth
ana wavetype into another.

With practice,

Sythsounds should allow you
to add your own sounds to a
song. The main advantage
of sythsounds, however Is
that the sounds themselves

34 Amiga Computing

IMED v3.00 AMIGA

How to use The Disk

First of all you must make o back-
up copy of the eoverdlsk, To do
this, boot-up with your copy of
Workbench, then double click an
the Workbench disk. Icon, foil-
lowed by Ihe Shell or CU Icon,
Now type;

HSKW FI01 If It; U DFO;

or, It you have an extra disk drive,
put a blank, formatted disk in
DPI: and type:

K mm F10H I'FO; u DM:

Follow the on-screen prompts
until the copying procedure has
ended. ihen put your original disk
away in a safe place. Now switch
off the machine and watt for 30
seconds before re-bootlng with
the copy, Walt until the
CoverDiskl? lean appears, dou-
ble Click on it and away you go,
That's all you need do to make
a straight copy of The entire dtek.
However, you may also warn to
to copy ihdfvidual programs from

your copy of the coverd<sk to a
separate disk, In this case ensure
that you fully understand which
related files need to go with It.

For example, all at the docu-
ment fibs on the disk require that
the text editor PPmore is In the
current disks C: directory. There-
fore, If you copy the docs to a
new disk you will also have to
copy PPmare to the new C direc-
tory before you can read them,

Some of the smaller docs win
not have been crunched, so tor
ihese you need only change the
tool types on the Icon's Info
screen to reflect whichever text
editor you do have on the new
disk.

As a general rule, yau should
carefully read the documentor*
tion for any program yau copy
from disk to disk..

This can save a great deal or
messing about and can help you
Ovoid all these Infuriating a nor
messages!

□re very small In memory
terms compared to their sam-
pled cousins.

Sample Editor

With the Inclusion of this feature
MED has became something
more than Just One of the better
Soundfracker clones The sample

hits V3": a e~i?rL 3 - »

editor transforms MED into a pro-
gram rivalling commercial prod-
ucts like the

Audlomcster/engineer
packages - and all for a
couple of quid.

MED can now control
sampling from within
itself using the sample

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The Graphics Ripper

Autfw: Edradf

Last month's coverdtek brought
you Hunter for ripping samples
cut of memory. Now wo offer The
Graphics Ripper to do the same
K>b an your favourite plccies.
demos, or games backdrops.

Although not as easy to use as
Hunter, TGI? is not too dFfficult to
get to grips with. It works an a
similar basis as Hunter In that It
relbss on the Amiga not to wipe
memory after a warm restart.

Although same commercial
games will do this fo prevent
hocking and precisely the sort of
graphics grabbing TQR Is
designed tor., most leave enough
around In memory to rip out,

You're not doing anything Ille-
gal if you rip graphics from PD
demos, and if you grab screens
front commercial games simply
to look at and mess about with
on your own, there"* na hafm
done. Just don't try to make
money out of It!

To begin ripping, boot up with
your favourite demo or game
and wait till you' re sure the best
graphics are In memory, then re-
boot. It would be best to transfer
TGR to a bare bootable disk -
you can make one of these with
Auto-Script - for this putpose as
you ensure that memory Is dss-
surbed as ittle as possible by the
re-boat.

Once TGR Is up and running.,
you wilt find a selection of search
controls relating to memory posi-
tion. bitpfane manipulation, and
colour control

The Ins and outs of these can

be found in the comprehensive
on-disk documentation, but tor
fast results, just click on the FIND
button at the bottom of the
screen and move the mouse to
scroll through graphics memory-

if all ts well yau should at least
be able to spot some Workbench
graphics. Including Icons and
scroll bar*. You should come
across the graphics you're Inter-
ested in If you persevere -
remember that the PL 1 to PL6
controls relate to the six btfplanes
and ore expressed in hexgdecF
maL

For owners of 51 2K Amigos , this
means the area of concern is up
to memory location $80000. For
owners of machines with 1Mb
chip RAM. such as A20ODs and
converted A5QQs. this Is location
S10DOGQ. Don't bother to search
beyond these locations - graph-
ics memory won't be found In
the areas not directly accessed
by the custom chips,

When you find the graphics
you want TGR wifi save them to
disk as IFF flies - but beware of
screen freezes, if the mouse
seems fa freeze while saving, the
program has run into a problem
such as □ wnte-pfotected or full
disk.

Ta release the mouse pointer
press the Sett Amiga key and 0 at
the same time. This e one of the
program's quirks, but one you'll
have to live with It if you want to
rip graphics without resorting to
the expense of a commercial
cartridge gadget.

Amlfji Computing 3 5

©Cite* and the two important
functions MONITOR and DIGI-
TIZE.

With a sampler up and run-
ning MONITOR will display fh@ r
real-time signal In the editors!
main panel. To begin sampling,
click on DIGITIZE then on the left
mouse button. The sample
buffer will now start to fill up.

To stop sampling, click on me fight
mouse button or if you like just wait
until the 131 D 17 byte sample
buffer is full.

Once the sample Is In
memory if will be displayed
on the sample editor screen
ready to be messed about
with, and MED now offers
several editing options for
that very purpose Vau can zoom

and out, change the volume, add
echo, define loops, and alter sam-
ple rates.

in addition the sample can be
moved up and down on octave at
a click, or transposed tc another
rote, and thrown In and out of
buffers with ease. When satisfied
with your now mangled sample It
can be saved in either RAW or IFF

The plethora oi options ermines thai TANx nas long term op pea I

Amiga-Tanx

Aufftogr: Gary jfcberti

We guarantee this game will hook
you faster than Jack Charlton with
a trawl net! Amlga-fanx Is a two
player tank shoat-lt-out which we
Just couldn't stop playing, its
excellent sound and graphics pro-
vide Instant appeal, while the
deceptively simple gameplay la
sure to keep you ploying for hours.

The game Is. so colourful It takes
up about 400k of chip RAM, &o if
you own a standard A50G be sure
to run It with as few windows open
as possible.

If you have problems, and the
game runs out of memory, the
best solution is to Interrupt your
startup- sequence using CTRL-D
and then type:

£$ gaH(-oMh?-ic<nth e turn?-
Uns <riturn>

problem with this approach is that
once you quit out you will have to
LOADWE5 or type EXECUT1 S:START’
UP-SEQUENGE to access the rest
of the disk in the usual way.

When loading has stopped you
will see on options screen from
which you control the game's
complexity and thus Its difficulty
level. The options open to you
control wind, gravity, landscape
type., and shot effectors.

The relevance to your shat of
wind and gravity are obvious - I
defy you to hit the target with
bath an random! - and different
landscape types such os moun-
tains make It easier to hide from
Incoming shells.

The truly difficult options, how-
ever are the shot affectors - push-
ers, pullers, end blowers.

Pushers and pullers are trampo-
line-type objects sporting bounc-
ing arrow* and they litter the
landscape when the option is
turned an.

Depending on the direction of
the arrow, they will either pull the
shot down towards them or push it
higher in the air, making ranging
on a tank which has one of these
ciose by a bit of a nightmare
They can cause Infuriating last
minute deflections which will turn
a certain hit into a clear miss
Blowers are almost os difficult to
cope with. They look like =irtle

windmills and cause lateral
deflections by applying a puff of
wind to any shot which strays too
close.

When all the effectors ore
selected achieving a hit on target
can be extremely difficult, and
when random wind and gravity
are selected things become even
more uncertain.

As Amiga -To nx is- a two-ploy er
game - there's no one-player
option - It soon develops into a
highly entertaining battleships style
shoot-out, with bath players des-
perately attempting to hit the
other first.

Parallax scrolling, sampled
sound, and 50 frames-per-second
action combine In this excellent
coverdisk submission to deliver a
gome you won't be abte to leave
alone. Enjoy I

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AMIGA

QSVX format for Safer
use Everything In
this section smacks
of Audiamaster on
which It was apparently modelled.
Indeed, M ED is now so good that
you need never leave the pro-
gram, You can sample In MED. edil
fhe samples, and finally compose
your masterpiece.

Conclusion

MED 3.00 te the best music program
available In PD for the Amiga - it's
as simple os that The new features
are excellent, and substantially
add to the program's appeal.

Unfortunately constraints of
space meant we could not bring
you all the MED 3-00 hies. We had
to leave out the programmer s
notes, demos, and most of the
samples on the new disk, so fcf you
want these and the all Important
source code gel in touch with Ray
at Amlganuts United PD on [0703

Don’t forget that although the
author. Teijo Kinnunen, has
refrained from making MED share-
ware or going commerce, he is still
not averse to receiving the odd
fiver In the post. You’ll find his
address in the documentation on
the dtek.

* h'l M E3 e ■ H=r m m I*#n u n en

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Landscape

Author: Steve Goddard

The SynlTiSounds section ks ideal lor trfrollfig memory cgnckous icyrtdi of your own

If you J re a gardener as well as an
Amiga user you will find this highly
original utility very usetel. Even If
you don't have q garden, and
the mere thought of using q rake
brings you out in cold sweats, you
can't fqH to appreciate the rare
nature of this particular program.

Landscape is a garden gener-
ator which allows a prospective
shovol-wielder to pddn the layout
of his or her corner of beautiful
Britain before cutting a single sod

This Is one of the mast navel
uses we’ve seen an Amiga put to
far same time, and it's a neat
and Interesting utility for even
non-gardeners.

The program foods to a block
screen with Just a menu bar at
ihe top, By accessing the first

From plan view \d pLeLtdo ID
Simulated garden, Landscape
makes designing toiy

menu and selecting NEW. the
second menu's garden building
options become available.

From here you simply point
and click with Ihe mouse until the
garden boundary, lawn, path,
and areas of earth are set out.
then go on to odd plants.

The list of plants ovallabte Isn't
huge and merely offers general
types, but as the program aims to
give Just a guide to how the gar-
den wlfl appear this isn't realty q
drawback.

It Is important at this stage to
bear In mind the garden's dimen-
sions as chosen at the start of the
procedure, if you try putting a
medium sized fir in a small garden
there won’t be much room left
for a washing line missis?

When the design process is fin-
ished the garden Is drown from
whatever viewpoint you select.
This can fake quite some time, os
everything Is mathematically cal-
culated to look as close to real
life os possible.

However, ff you’re prepared to
go away and have a quick
cuppa, the results on screen
when you get back can be
extremely pleasing. The drawing
algorithms hove obviously been
carefully worked out.

The finished garden can now
be saved to disk as an IFF Ale and
touched up in DPaint if you like.
There are only two amissions
which damage the program
water and stone. We would have
liked to have seen a pond /cas-
cade design feature and a way
of Incorporating walls Into the
garden, but these are the only
major moans^

Try Landscape and see it you
could be the next Capability
Brown!

001/025 12/11

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on the process so many of
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Mow the
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soys;

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Airfhor: Nfco Francois

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majority of readers we suspect
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It rs □ compact and easy to
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PPType uses Workbench pref-
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You won't be able to use It
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problem - Just copy the PPType
drawer to your Workbench disk
□nd use ft from there.

The program can accept your
Own tap setting, and will print
headers containing the file name
□and page number. As we said. It
looks m Workbench prefe for print-
er type and page length and
width, so you have more or less
total control aver the way the rile
prints out.

This control is carried out either
through GLJ parameters or by set-
ting the tool types of the Icon an
the file to be printed.

Tool types such a&
HEADER=QN, which enables
printing of NI0 headers, allow
users to create a standard Docs
Icon with PPType tool types
already set.

Once this has been done,
you need only copy and re-
name this Icon, attaching it to
whatever doc file is required far
printing

The most flexible way of using
PPType 15 still through CU or Shell.
You'll find Nice's documentation
brief but concise and useful.

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PART 3

Stevie Kennedy
finds he has
batches in his
belfry

I ' f you'Ve followed this series
up to now you should be rea-
sonably comfortable with
AmigoDOS as an operating system,
bul may not have realised its true
potential.

To do this, you ‘ll have to begin
to think of it os a crude program-
ming language, and when you use
scrlpl or batch Tiles this is exactly
what It becomes.

The startup-sequence, which we
dissected last month. Is the first

0 ■ cancels all effects
3 = itoHdsed text
7 = inverted text
31 = text colour \ (white)

33 = text colour 3 (orange)

41 e background colour 1 (white)

43 = background colour 3 {orange)

script file mast users encounter and
If you mastered the knack of play-
ing around with and editing it by
fallowing last month's column, you
should find little difficulty here.

Startup-sequences are typically
simple scripts executed one com-
mand at a time from start to finish,
so they usually don't contain any
of the more advanced options
open to script file writers.

Well now lake o more in depth
look at the sort of trickery one coo

4 = underline turned on
30 ■ text colour 0 (blue)

32 = text colour 2 (black)

40 = background colour 0 (blue)
42 = background colour 2 (black)

Indulge in when using script files
and examine some of the more
complex tasks they can perform,

Pointer power

The script rile we'll use as an exam-
ple. Auto-Script, is listed here and Is
present on your coverdisk com-
plete with Its own icon. If you dick
once on this icon and use the
Workbench INFO option, you will
see that Its default tool type Is set
to ICQMX

This is me routine which, tf coiled
as □ default tool type, opens a CU
wrndow and runs the script file, thus
turning it into a crude program
executable from Workbench.

tf you choose to write o script Tile
of your own. It should be simple
enough to copy and rename the
fc:on for use with your new script.

The AmigoDOS commands high-
lighted mis month are the IF ... ELSE
... ENDIF group. ASK, LAB. and SKIP.
By examining Auto-Script and fiol-
lowing what it does, you should be
able to use these commands in
your own script files with Itrne has-
sle.

The IF . ENDIF command is one
of the most Important commands
you might use In a script file, it is the

most cowman way of testing fot
conditions, variables, and program
parameters, and as such e one of
me essential bunding blocks of any
script. It has the syntax;

IF [Condition!

Clcttwil)

ELSE

HctitnJ}

This construction will be familiar
to BASIC programmers, but may
confuse beginner When encoun-
tered in a script file, the IF com-
mand looks to see if the condition
IS satisfied If SO. the Action 1 series
of commands Is carried out, then
execution skips to ENDIF.

If the condition Is NOT satisfied,
the ELSE command forces execu-
tion Of the ACtiOn2 sequence
Instead. The ELSE part Is optional,
but its use renders the whole a lot
more flexible With no ELSE state-
ment, the execution of the script
file would simply jump to the first
command offer ENDIF

The first line of the script con-
cerns variables and/or command
parameters. The .key varl line sirrv
pty tells the Amiga that there is one
program parameter called varl
which will be passed to It. Normally.
If this isn’t done in the EXECUTE

Amiga Computing 43

For example, if you type ECHO ' , e[lrn i e[3m , e[4m*e[32mAmiga
Com putm g'eiQrrf you will ge* 'Amiga Compufing r In bold, under-
lined, black italics, and text will be switched back to normal.

Fancy text effects

Vou J ll notice from using Auto-Script that it uses text effects other than
the standard type and colour. These special effects are accessible
through commands within ECHO statements in the farm 'efnm where
n is one of the following numbers:

1 - bold text

BEGINNERS

Iguide

PART 3

What does it do?

Auto-Script will give you the option to format a disk In dM : then will cre-
ate an auto-booting system d*sk in that drive complete with and
KDVIH running from the startup-sequence. It will only wo rk If you have an
external drive as ITs not worthwhile, given the limitations Imposed by Q
single drive system, to write a script to do the same Job for dfO;

You must run Auto-Script from a system disk containing an the files
expected to be copied across. Specifically, you must ensure that
Simpte&tart is In your S: directory, and KDV1II and SIZE m your C: directory.

command using the form EXECUTE
<scriptname> < parameters the
command In question assumes a
null entry.

Auto-Script doesn't utilise true
variables - we'll cover those next
month - but It does require certain
values to be passed to it In answer
to ASK commands. This command
has the syntax

ASK "string*"

It halts operation of a script file,
prints the siring, and polls the key*
board until a key is pressed. IT ASK
detects the Y key. It returns o WARM
- retumcode value 5 - and carries
on. Any other key results in a zero
returncode and the resumption of
the script file.

Please note that though It
makes no difference to the opera-
tion of Auto-Script when you EXE-
CUTE It from CLI, when you try to
run a script from Workbench using
tCONX you must have the .key line
ai the start of the script or it goes
bananas when It reaches the first
A5K command.

fry removing the line and run-
ning the script from its icon to see
what I mean. With the line In place.
Auto-Script will halt obediently at
the ASK command and await a
keyboard entry,

Used this way in conjunction
with the IF ... ENDlF sequence and

the conditions WARN and NOT
warn, the ASK command can
carry cut simple question and
answer operations and redirect

program operation accordingly .

Auto-Scripts main sequence
contains an ASK command lead-
ing into an IF ... ElSE ... ENDlF

Conditions for the IF ... ENDlF command

Condition

Description

EXISTS <filenome>

Satisfied if the file exists

FAIL

Satisfied if the returned error code is >20

ERROR

Satisfied if the returned error code is > 10

WARN

Satisfied if the returned enor code Is >5

NOT

Satisfied if condition not satisfied (Think
about it)

«> EQ <y>

Satisfied If x - y

Plus the fdowlng
above:

operators available only under Workbench 1.3 and

VAL

Forces testing of condition os a number
rafher than q string

oo GT <y>

Satisfied If x is greater man y

«> GE <y>

Satisfied If x is greater than or equal to y

<*> LT <y>

Satisfied if X is less than y

Satisfied If x is Jess than or equal to y

Listing of Auto-Script

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44 Amiga Computing

sequence which itself contains a
nested ASK command with Its own
IF WARN... ENDlF test,

Nesting, ror those unfamiliar with
the term. Is ihe practice of using
loops within (oops or routines within
routines, and Is orten essential if
more complex tasks are to be car-
tied out.

This can make it more difficult to
follow □ program's operation when
you have to match an IF fa the
correct ENDlF, but ir you want to
use AmigaDOS script files you’ll Just
have to live with if,

Initial confusion would be an
understandable reaction far the
first timers faced with such com-
mands and techniques They are,
after all, more akin to program-
ming than to the basic use of an
operating system.

However, if you carefully trace
the operation of Auto-Script as the
questions are asked and
answered, and reflow the way the
script branches in response, you
should quickly become familiar
with their possible uses.

The box-ouf contains a list of the
conditions, you can test using me IF
command.

The LAB and SKIP commands
are used in a GOTO type way. In
Auto-Script the lost line Is LAB end.
and If you answer no to the ques-
tion "Do you want to continue?^
the script will print a quit message
then cany out the line SKIP end.

The effect Is just to skip all the
lines up to the one containing the
label end, denoted by the LAB
command.

If you are using Workbench 1,3
or later, you can also SKIP back-
wards using the optional BACK
command. This gives scripters the
opportunity to write much more
flexible script files by allowing for
simple loops.

It would be relatively easy to
alter Auto-Script so that it asked
you how many system disks you
wished to create, then loop round
until this number had been created
before quitting out. Primitive, per-
haps, but effective enough.

Next month

We'll go an to look at variables,
Including environment variables,
and how to use "hem in script
riles to realise the full potential of
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simple enough - just touch one
and if changes - but it's important
to note the order in which the
gems change.

They change colour In a fixed
crder - Red is a virgin stone, but It
can then drop down to green,
blue, pink and finally gold. If you
click on q gcrid gem. It disappears
altogether, causing any stones
above it to drop down to fill in the
space reft by ihe stone's absence
Sounds, simple so far. but things
aren't quite that easy. For starters,
when you click on a stone. It actu-
ally skips one colour Cif it was red, it
would skip green to become
blue). Also, any stones that are
directly above, below or to the
side of the stone will be changed
by one colour (red becomes
green etc). Sapphire so good?

Things are complicated still fur-
ther by the fact that you've only
got a certain amount of time to
Hgure out each screen Most con
be solved with little more than a
couple of strategically placed
mouse clicks, but same require lots

yp el

Graphics

of thought Once
you've complet-
ed a level. It's
onto the next -
and there are 26
of ihem in total!

Gem'X has a very cute
Japanew-llke presentation, which
extends to bath its graphics,
music and even its sound
effects. Your compan-
ion throughout the
game Is a sweet
little Japanese girt
with an even
sweeter voice.

When you make a
right move she will con-
gratulate you with □
cheery comment, but ir
you mess things up she J s
been known to weep!

Gem r X may seem rather
dull at first, but some great
graphics and sound raise It
above the usual run of the mill
puzzle game. It's highly
playable, looks great and even
sounds great - whoi more could
you possibly want?

Victoria H. Bailey

If you thought puzzle games
are duPf, then think again -
6tm'3( is one of the best
looking games you J rc likely
to find..

Gamepiay

Puzzle games should be sim-
ple to get into, but difficult
enough to keep you inter-
ested. Gem'X balances this
equation perfectly.

Sound

A s re at tune and some
equally great sampled sound
effects come together to
make Gem'X an audio extrav-
aganza.

Publisher: Digital Distribution Price: £24.99

5/one me! It’s a real gem

GEM'X

Amiga Computing 51

A rnlriy simple level It lit. No!e It® bk>ckef In on Ihe left - fire job Is to step his buddies failing ol the edge

li eyefyttilfig goes wrong, men ptets itie 'NUKE' button

M other Nature has came
up with some pretty
strange ways of keep-
ing population levels stable,
but none are so strongs as that of
the Lemming, a small vote- like
rodent which Inhabits sub-ora ric
regions of Scandinavia and North
America.

When the population level of
Lemmings become too great,
these cute little critters make the
ultimate sacrifice for thesr race -
they throw themselves off the
nearest csffl

Taking a tip or two from nature.
Psygnasls have adopt-
ed the obscure life
story of the
Lemming and
turned It Into a
multi-screen
sp I c
which
sees
you frying
to halt the mass
genocide of a
race of dungacee-

IP you leef like being o bif 04 □ sodisf, you can even lead the Lemmings lo Itieir dealh!

clad., green-haired creatures Vour
brief Is simple - using your trusty
mouse, you must guide the
Lemmings to safety with a minimal
number of totalities on route.

Each level starts with □ trapdoor

creaking open and a cry of Let's
Go! ' The Lemmings then pour forth
to their evenfrual doom. Our
heroes file along
the ground until
they encounter
□n obstacle On
which case
they turn around
and walk back in the
opposite direction) or die hgm-
bly.

Every Lemming sfarts
Its life as a walker but
- with yaur divine
Intervention - they can
be- assigned vdTious skills which will

allow them to collectively con-
struct a safe passage 10 the east of
each level.

By selecting one of the skills tram
a strip of icons which run along
the base or the screen and
then clicking on a
Lemming, you can
endow It with the
skills of a climber, a floater,
a digger, a blocker
and even a suicidal
bomber.

Each level
requires you to
save a minimum
number of lemmings

52 Amiga Computing

Cumber - m ii>* name suggests, \he
Climber kcon endows q lamming wiffi
the skills of a climbei he can now
climb over jusl abou! any obslacle

BOMBER -This suicidal
Lemming is no coward - he
con be useful tor blowing away
sections of Ift# scenery

BUILDER - mis constructive
teltow will build bridges
over any hales which
slard in his way

BASH E R - The basher is a
destructive fellow. His role
in Kf* fi lo bosh a tunnel
through on obtidCli.

PAWS - A programmer's
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FLOATER - A f loafer Lemming is
equipped with on umbrella
Which allow j him lo fall horn a
green height without being hurt

BLOCKER - a blocker
wilt halt the How of
lemmings in o
particular direction

MINER - Same DIGGER - Once again, NUKE - Oh frol Double Click on

oi Hi* basher, Ihe Digger it very similar this ieom end every Lemming

but digs *o the Basher, but he digs explodes tgfclng most or lh*

diagonally straight dowh scenery wHh them!

Graphics

Small but detailed,
lemmings' graphics are very
cute and definitely up to the
usual Ptygnasis standards, In
particular, animation is tap
notch.

Sound

The decidedly silly tunes
that accompany each level
are brilliantly matched to the
overall humour of the game-
sound effects are also great,
especially the sampled
speech.

Gam ep lay

usuQdy Involves o large number of
Lemming deaths, but It can be
great fun.

lemmings Is absolutely brill ignt
Psygnosls have managed to
produce a game that is not
only totally original., but also fea-
tures the kind of addictive game*
ploy that will keep you coming
bock for more time and time
□gain.

If you only ever Intend buying
one gome for your Amiga,, then It's
got to be Lemmings. Put simply,
Lemmings is an absolure Amigo
classic.

Jason Hoiborn

totally anginal and totally
addictive, you're unlikely to
tire Of Lemmings for a very
tong lime. iAch screen has
Its own password which cam
be entered to allow you to
skip the levels you've
already completed.

oefore you can proceed to the
next. If you fall y ou'll have to try
agon.

If, on the other
hand, you find
that things aren't
going too well -
large numbers of
Lemmings are trapped, for
example - then you can
end it qli by ’nuking'
every Lemming
that is left olive.

The poor little rel-
ic ws jtop what they are
doing, hold their heads In pain and
then with a last desperate cry of

'Oh Mol' , they explode In a shower

Ql afraid

The majority of the time
you'll be trying
to save the
Lemmings an
your own, but
Psygnosls hove
built In a 2 player option
which adds an exclt'
Ing new twist to the
game.

This time, the
object is to save
more Lemmings than your oppo-
nent, by guiding them away from
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Graphics

LHtl* hot changed since the
original BomhjacK was
re leafed ill those years ago.
The graphics are still tiny
and the background's rather
duJl r but they ttklf work well.

Sound

Apart from a fairly decent
theme tune, Mighty Bomb-
jack possesses little in the
way of sound effects- There
are the occasional spot
effects, bui even these are
far from awe-inspiring.

Gameplay

There's nothing like a
damned good platform game
now and then, and Mighty
Boiribjack fits the bill nicely
thank you. Just like its pre-
decessor, It's very addictive -
once you pick up your joy-
stick, you won't want to pul
it down again.

ock in the days when the
Arriba was a mere twin-
kle In Commodore's eye.
Elite released a conversion of a
fairly run of the mill arcade game
called Bombfack.

No one expected It to do partic-
ularly well, but we were all proved
wrong when It positively soared up
through the charts, earning Elite a
few few pounds in the
cess.

Wen, the good news is
that Elite hove

wheeled or Bombjack j
out of the deep freeze,
set him on thaw and '

I he result Is Mighty
Bombjack, a multi-screen
platform affair that is as fresh
ever Ok, It does nothing to pro-
mote originality, but who cores
anyway!

The plot goes something like the.
Qr>ce won a time Cl iove an origi-
nal intro) there was o goodly king
colled Pamera who was a just soft
of fellow He had managed to
maintain peace within he kingdom
for many years, so ir was inevitable
lhat someone would eventually try
and muck fr all up That someone
was Beelzebut o wicked demon if
ever there was one.

Beelzebut decided that it was

Most pam#s start taarly easily, bul Mlphly BomblacK drop* you right in at Hi* -deep
Grtd. Take it Irom ffl* - Jfll lake you 0 fair old lime |usl to 9*t oil ttin screen.

to conquer old Seelzebut.
Unfartunotely, things didn't go too
well. Indeed., only one brother sur-
vived the confrontation - Jack.
Licking his wounds., he vowed to
return to defeat Beelzebut.
Eventually he does - but he'll need
your guidance to do It.

Vbu must guide Jack through 16
levels of plaffatm action, ootecting
bombs and bonuses as you go,
whilst avoiding the baddies that
hove been senr oul to get you.

Ok, we've seen Jt all before, but
Mighty Bombjack still manages to
deliver the same addictive qualities
fhal made the original such a hit,

Peler Bircher

place, so
decided fa
agalnsi the king to bring about his
downfall

Upon hearing of his wicked
plans, the brothers Mighty set forth

rrrr

iri

Scr&afl 2 It aehjtiily EDmewhcri #atl*r than screen 1 - Jut! drop down os fail OS possible

Alt on your Jack Jones against a wicked demon

MIGHTY BOMBJACK

Publisher: Elite Price: £24.99

Amiga Computing 55

the more you will become deter-
mined to beat It.

The controls ore great and.
apart from a deathly dull menu
screen, Pop Up is an addictive little
number. Definitely one for your
software collection.

David Johnson

Where s rti« bloomin' exit? Coiled Ihe key and tt win oppea<

W hat a load of BALLS!

No. ! r m not referring
to the game itself, but
its hero - yet another flippin’ ball! I
ask you, why are game program-
mers so preoccupied with boils'?
Nope, don't answer that , , .

Pop Up is a fun little cross
between Bambjack and Audio-
genic^ Helter Skelter And, tike
those great games, it's guaran-
teed to literally BOWL you overt
In this wildly addictive arcade
puzzler, you must guide a Htflo
bouncing ball through screen after
screen of arcade action.

Vou'H be taken through five time
zones, starting at the very begin-
ning of time Itself and then on
through to the present day and
the future.

Each screen consists of a num-
ber of platforms which you must
bounce around, collecting arti-
facts as you go.

These Increase your score, but
the object you're really after e the
exit key - once collected, an exit
will appear which wlfl allow you to
progress to the next screen As

progress to the next scteen. As
ever, there are obstacles to dodge
and traps to avoid, but our little
rubber fliend Is not without help.
No slreee, far tools are dotted
around the screen which will

help him overcame his little prob-
lems.

These Include water drops
which douse burning platforms,
Keys which allow passage through
certain walls and hammers that do
the same Job as the keys, but in a
slightly more direct way (who
needs a skeleton key when you’ve
got a 251b sledgehammer^

Sounds easy doesn’t it? But,
take it from me, things get harder.,,
much harder Later In the game
you’ll encounter bouncy platforms,
sticky platforms, angled platforms -
in fact, just about any type of plat-
form you can think at, all of which
are designed exclusively to hinder
your progress.

The more you play this gome.

Guaranteed to bowl you over !

POPUP

Publisher: Inlogrames Price: £ 19.99

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Vw're In tt in prehistoric age
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looking prehistoric goldish
appear. . orggghhM

Graphics

Clean, well defined and
colourful, but not loo adven-
turous. Nevertheless, Pop
Up'i graphics work well.

Sound

doing. Being. Being. What
else do you expect from a
bouncy ball game? Apart
from a few appropriate spot
effects, there's very little
worth mentioning - there
Isn't even a tune!!

Gameplay

Great. The controls are easy
to master and work well. The
puniei arc enough to make
you bawl but you are sure to
have a ball.

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F eatfiers fly as duck battles against duck! But it's quacking good fun

DUCK TALES

Publisher: Disney Software Price: £24.99

Graphics

You'd be right lo expect
something pretty special
from Disney, and this latest
release certainly isn't going
to disappoint- AM the graph-
ics are big and well define d r
making them almost indistin-
guishable from their big
screen counterparts. Anima-
tion Is a little bit on the
slow side.

T hey say money doesn't
buy happiness, but per-
haps someone should tell
that to Scrooge McDuck and his
cousin, Flint he art e^orngald,
They're the Stars of a quacking
(sorry) new game from those mas-
ters of animation, Dtsney.

To old Scrooge and hrs equally
tight cousin Flinthearf, money is
everything. Put simply, they're the
kind of characters who would sell
their grandmothers if they thought
an easy profit could be made.

And to prove how financially
asfute they really are, a challenge
has been set - whoever collects

Relaxing rhe McDuck way

McDuck
the outs

chap on the inside

With the aid of his nephews
Huey. Dewey and Louie, old
McDuck must grab his Indiana
Jones hat and whip and go in
search of treasure. He 1 It find himself
last in a network of caves, swinging
from: vines In the Amaion jungle
and cllmb&ng mountains In search
of treasure.

Each of these little
excursions tgkes the
farm of a separate sub
game which has to be
completed If McDuck Is to
add to his already
bulging coffers.

Unfortunately,
these are continuous-
ly repeated through-
out the game, so the
attraction soon pales. Things are
made even worse by the number
of dbk accesses that ate necessary
to ploy the game - you can often

the most money In under 30 days
wins the coveted title of ’Duck Of
The Year 1 in that illustrious publica-
tion, Dime Magazine

So the scene is set. Duck against
Duck in a battle where everything
goes (for the right price, that
Is). You ploy the port of old

- a bad
wuiilde. but

more time waiting for a section to
bad than actually playing if I

Although Duck Tales is undoubt-
edly aimed at a fairly young audi
ence. It has the makings of □ great
gome. Unfortunately, it's Just far too
repetitive to be worth mote than o
passing glance. It's a shame that
Ihe programmers didn't spend as
much time on the gameplay as
they did on the graphicsl ir they
had, then Duck Tales would have
been q stunning piece of software.

Dill Richards

Sound

Sonit pretty decent tunes
accompany play, but what
really makes the game shine
are the numerous speech
samples and effects that
really give it that furs Disney
feel.

Gameplay

Duck Tales reminds me of
some of the very early
Clncmawarc fames - they
had great graphics, superb
sound, but gameplay was
practically nonexistent,
Unfortunately, Duck Tales
shares this problem. Sure, It
looks good, but the game-
play is simply too repetitive
lo make It the kind of game
you'll come back to.

FIVE ON A
TREASURE ISLAND

Enid Blyton's much loved characters come alive in this faithful version
of the bestselling book. Using the "Worldscape" adventure system
you can play any of the children as they solve the mystery of
the Treasure Island. Featuring a powerful text parser and many
graphical locations, this is a game for the young
and the young -at-heart

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S tand by all you would be
Captain Kirks , there's
Klingons on the starboard
bow. Do no! Irel, II Isn't another Star
Trek game - which is good
because I dunno think I could
take any more captain/

No. This Is Sior Control - tto con-
tinuing struggle against go® and
evil in □ futuristic battle where oil is
at stoke and only you with your
army of various space vehicles
con save the known universe from
o cruel, evil empire, Wait a minute
. . . haven't I heard that story
somewhere before?

Never mind. Strap your plasma
bolt shooter to your waist, put your
genuine Imitation leather hover
boats on and tilt your space hel-
mets ’cos this Is gonna be one hel-
luva duel.

Star Control Is the Idlest ottering

Fancy yourself as a Saviour of the Universe. . . ?

STAR CONTROL

Publisher; Accolade Price: £24.99

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Choose your ship one* Ihen W* (Jl to bettiel

Graphics I Sound I Gameplay J

Although the graphite art Nothing worth writing home Great, The control! are well

generally mill, they xip about, but If* functional laid out and easy to master,

■round the icrten without a enough. However, each ship The gamcplay I* far from

judder in tight. On the hat It* own victory tune, original, but who c ires when

whole, presentation is good. I which is quite a nice touch. I if-* to addictive?

from those old reliable Accolade
boys and it's good . . . very good
It'S also big so it's for one meg
Amlgas only i nn afraid.

Wz set in the distant future wllh
two regions of seven space ships
locked in deadly cambol. The
Alliance - fighters lor truth, Justice
and liberty far all - and the evil
Hierarchy, the scourge of the unb
verse Boo „ . „ Hiss , * +

Gomeplay-wise, Star Control
reminds me of an old arcade
game I used (a play in my wild
and reckless youth, called Space
Battle. In lhaf game, Iwo space
ships fiew around the screen blast-
ing each other and avoiding a
plane! slap bang Ifc l he centre,
bounds pretty simple I know, but
Accolade's offering goes a lol fur-
ther than this archaic game -
there's a certain amount of strate-
gy in mere too.

The game offers o few dilfereni
scenarios just to stop if getting bor-
ing. For starters, you con practice
□t a one-to-one level with any of
the ships Sn offer. This Is highly
recommended as each ship has
different characteristics including
speed, weaponry and shields plus
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but Player I tend s oui
fighters dhe rod blobs!) to
intercept player 2.

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At Iasi. Ihe two- ships meet in a
bkrody dottle which will seo only one
survivor, Player 2 scores a dk*cr fill,
but ihe batte's not over yet

Cannons a blQlliV, player 1 returns fire

ships has a special move or hick
up its sleeve.

Once you think I hoi you'll be
more than just loser fodder for
some slime dribbling alien, then it s
lime to move on to Meeie. This
oplian culs out all l hot technical
strategy stuff (that comes later)
end puls you head to head wilh

your opposing fleel as you Ifghl to
the death across a space field.

Oh, and be careful not to crash
Into the planets which have a
gravitational pull - Ihls could leave
you a sitting duck.

If Ihe taclical side of your nature
Is lusting far more, you can move
on to the full game options. There

are nine different scenarios in aFl,
and even an option to create your
own,, but they all work around the
same principle.

A moving star mop with you at
Ihe bottom and your opponent at
Ihe lop is laid out and each of the
armies' ships move from plane! Ic
planet, colanlsfng and fortifying

mem as they go. Movemenl Is lim-
ited to the planets immediately
surrounding the one you are on
and not all pionets lead where you
think. Its a bil like trying to read a
British Rail timelable at first, but
you'll soon gel the hang of itl
Once you've sussed out all the
different options, you'll find Star
Control la be a source of many
hours of computer entertainment.
ITs obvious that a lot of though!
has gone Into Star Control, making
this a game wajfh checking out.

Craig Keevney

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THE POWER

Publisher: Digital Distribution Price: £24,

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Graphics

Deliberately smalL but quite
colourful. The fame could
have benefited from a bit of
animation here and there!,
just to make it visually more
inle res ting.

Sound

If you're into popular music,
then you'll love The Power's
theme tune which Is a very
well done adaptation of
Snap s chart storming single,
'The Power. Unfortunate ly,
sound effects aren 1 ! quite up
to the same standard.

Gameplay

The Power's simplicity is per-
haps its downfall ■ there's
just not enough variety in
there to keep you interest-
ed, Personally^ l r d rather
watch paint dry.

...And net* H is in oil Hs glory - facile mode. Now where did l put my glasses-

H ove you got the power?
If you didn't take up the
Government's
PowerGen shore orrer then you
con ill hove some power if you
buy Digital Distribution & latest
offering.

Originally written by Demon-
ware In Germany. Ihe Power Is a
puzzle game with □ difference -
put simply, you'll be puzzled why
you ever bough? it I Only kidding, Ft
isn't TH AT bad.

Vou control Max, a lovesick, bur
smiling blob with a few wisps of
hair and some feet poking out of
his bottom

The aim of rue game seems sim-

ple enough - you must guide Max
through fifty teveis of puzzling
arcade action until he Is finally
reunited with the love of his life.

Mini (who,
like Max,
is also a
b k*b).

Each
level is
complet-
ed by col-
lecting lave
hearts that are
scattered around
the ploy area, Once
you've collected them
□IL a quick peck on Mini's Y
cheek will send you on to the
next leveL

Unfortunately, the floors of each
level are rather slippery; so once
Max starts to move, he can only
stop by colliding with another
object (a bit like my car. realty).

To make things a little easier
however, many of fhe levels fea-
ture "helping stones' ihat can be
strategically positioned to help

Max collect all the hearts. These
helping stones come In three
flavours - Red, Green and Blue.
Problem Is though, you have to be
cafeful when moving two togeth-
er, because certain combinations
will cause the stones to be
destroyed

□nee you've completed all 50
screens, there's a built-in level edi-
tor which will let you produce you
own screens These can be saved
out onto standard AmlgaDOS for-
mat disks, so there's no reason why
you shouldn't be able
to Swap screens
with your Mends.

The Power Is
quite a fun little
game, but it
doesn't quite have
that certain some-
thing mat would make
it special. As It is, you'd
probably have more fun
watching PowerGen shares
crash.

Jason Holbwn

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Scalai pr«»nFallon manager its o \Of la use

O ver The last few months
we hove looked at a
couple of video titling
systems designed to allow DTV
buffs to overlay professional titles
and captions onto their epic pro
ductians

It would be easy to plgsorvhqle
Scala Into the same basket as
packages like Broadcast Titter and
The Big Alternative Scroller. both
reviewed in our January 91 issue.

Scab will function quite happily
as a tiling program but the degree
at sophistication offered makes it
clear that this package Is destined
for much more,

Scold Isn’t just an inexpensive
character generator - If one of
those is what you ate after see our
look of Home Titler an Page 69 of
this issue.

Scoio hc*s the rather grand remit
of oemg □ presentation system.
Before diving Into the mechanics of
the package rt makes sense to look
at practical applications for It.

You are more likely to see the
output of Scala 4n a board room or
shoppjng centre than an edit suite.
Presentation systems merge graph-
ics with text to produce pleasant
looking information displays. These
Wstems convey anything from flight
□iwo&s at airports to the latest profit
and loss statistics for a multi-nation-
al company

Visual impact

The Scab pockage allows presen-
tations to be formed from three
components; backgrounds, text
and symbols. These elements
come together to form, "pages' of
Information.

Complete display sequences
are built up by using Scab‘s beau-
tifully simple presentation manager
to wipe between these pages.

What the presentation manager
front end actually does is create a
script fife containing events written
<n Scala s proprietory display lan-
guage, snapplly titled 'Visual". In
Visual, everything is broken down
into ’ events'. An event can for
instance be o picture, an anima-
tion or on IFF background,

Within each event it Is possible
to apply text, objects, colours and
interactive “buttons". Events are
totally independent of each other.
It is possible to jump fa a defined
event directly from any point in □
Visual script, This flerabitrfy is neces-
sary to make Interactive applica-
tions practical.

Installing the system is □ doddle,
although ft should be pointed out
that the more modestly endowed
Amsgas could run into trouble. In
order to use the package to Its full
potential a hard disk is required.

The manual cites this as recom-
mended rather than essential but
bearing In mind the entire pack-
age comes on no fewer than nine
floppies St should be taken as a
very strong recommenckatlQn.

Scale extensively utilises the
Amiga s High -Res graphics made,
so stacks of memory Is also
prerequisite. Two megabytes of
ram Is enough to keep Scala
happy, although It wouldn’t com-
plain if more was thrown at it

Scale's backgrounds are high
resolution IFF fifes. The package is
supplied with a varied collection of
excellent quality Images.

Everything fiom artistic abstracts
to cloud and seascapes are pro-
vided on five disks cram packed
with art-library material .

If even after browsing through
the supplied images you can't find
something that fits your application
It Is possible to generate you* own
backgrounds, The standard range

Supplied with Scala can also be
tweaked, dropping In bar charts
and graphs where required for
example.

Scala uses standard Amiga
fonts, although those supplied are
significantly better than the by now
Immortal Topaz. Seventeen font

families are bundled with the sys-
tem. A wide range of authentic
adaptations of popular display
faces are provided including
Futuro r Gill, Garamond and
Helvetica.

If you are particularly desperate
to utilise a font that doesn’t cramp

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takes priority over backgrounds, an
animated page will only com-
mence after all text has been
wiped onto It.

After o page has been com-
ptetely displayed. Scala is ready to
move on to the next' In the
sequence. There is a wide variety
of options available for page
changes. Transitions can either be
Immediate or after a delay defined
In seconds. They con be straight-
forward cuts or one of a range of
wipes.

By and large Scala handies
page changes with a stunning
degree of proficiency- Even In on
Amigo strapped for memory, the
system links complex animation
sequences together with ease The

your style It Is Just a simple if tedious
matter of digging out a PD font
editor, or dare I suggest even
Commodores' FED Armed with
such a tool anyone has the poten-
tial to be a fully fledged Scalo font
foundry.

As well as fonts, the package Is
geared up to handle "Plctograms",
These are graphic symbols rather
than characters Standard sym-
bols supplied with the orf-llbrary
Include arrows, disabled logos, to*-
let ondi utility symbols. This gives
some due to the typical applica-
tions of the package.

I couid not argue if you insisted
that a pictogram of □ gents toilet
symbol is not a great deal at use
far the overage wedding video. It
is however useful in public places
like shopping and leisure centres.
The next time you are directed to a
convenience by □ monitor. If could
well be Scala at the heart of the
machine

Again, If you can't find a pic-
togram that takes your fancy it Is a
straightforward job to create your
own. providing you have the time
and a decent art package.

External input

Scalo has no built in provision for
creating plctograms or back-
grounds. Instead it relies on Import-
ing IFF formal Tiles.

Backgrounds can be any stan-
dard IFF screen and plctograms
usually start their life off os Deluxe
Point brushes. As well as static
backgrounds. Scala will also cope
happily with DPaint nil animations

A requirement for Deluxe Point III
popped up time and rime again
during o cursory test dnve at the
package It would be fair to soy
that in order to take full advantage
of Scala. DPaint is □ virtual necessl-

tv.

W r s not only tns Qropnlc element
at your presentations that can be
Imported into
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word processor capable of saving
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When Scala imports text It will
flow it onto os many pages as the
current font size dictates. The word
wrap and margin options ensure
that Imported text is handled sensi-
bly rather than Just Splatted ad-hoc
onto the screen.

Pulling it together

When constructing a presentation
with Scalo, the system associates
specific text and backgrounds with
each page of the script.

Text can either be simply super-
imposed over the background or
wiped on using a wide range of
predefined effects. These include
fades mixes moves and wipes

The wipes work on a line by line
basis rather than on the entire
page of text. This
approach offers o gteat
deal of flexibility but be
warned, if a complex
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each line., even the
fastest transition
speed will produce
o snail-paced pre-
sentation.

As previously
discussed, back-
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either be IFF files
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A Isa availably
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L21

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IV UPGRADE

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£32.95

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512K

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Review

S o yoi/ve got on Amga SCO
and you want to use it for

word processing? That's

hardly a revolutionary concept In
electronic applications, e It?

It's not q $ if you're into 3D ray
tracing or some other memoTy-
hungry application. Nothing sim-
pler. right?

Er - wrong, I’m afraid, if you are
the proud owner of on unexpend-
ed Amiga 500. or even if you have
a fufll meg of RAM, you've proba-
bly noticed the scarcity of decent
packages tor the wordsmith look-
ing ro knock out purple prose In the
less then £1 CO price bracket,

The only widely available
options are Protest and Kindwords,

4 A welcome
addition to the
low end of the
wo rdprocessor
market ^

and both are found wanting when
faced with beginners on a budget.

Pretext is more expensive than
you might find comfortable, and
Isn't the ideal easy-learnor pro-
gram.

Kind words, on the other hand, is
abysmally slow and only just about
works on a machine with less than
the full megabyte. Indeed, the only
way to use the latter and remain
sane is to fit your Amrga with 2Mb
RAM and an 030 cord!

For quite o while, then, there has
existed o potentially lucrative gap
in the Wofdproces&ing market
which only Arnor, by releasing
Protext 5 and creating itie condi-
tions tor price cuts on Pro-text 4 3,
has come close to exploiting.

Companies in the U.S, however,
appear to have grown wise to this
and QuickWnte Is the first quality
low-end wordprocessang package
to hit our shores as a result

Pedigree, chum!

The program has an obvious
parentage , coming os it does from
the same New Horizons stable as
the worthy ProWrite package, and
if you've ever used Excellence,
which we reviewed a couple of

■flHiriflfritg 1.1 - ft Itil Hw BwiitM IffftMrr, I*e

months ago, an even more appar-
ent rote model

The program Is an attempt to fit
a fully specified wordprocesar
complete with spell - chec ker n ot
only info 5T2K but onto □ single
floppy as well. The happy child of
such a wedding of compactness
ond usability . if it worked, would be
a program with immense appeal
1 q the ASQQ owner, So does it work?

Oh loading, QulckWme has me
Immediate visual appeal of the
American wordprocessors already
mentioned, and certainly looks
more professional than the rather
chunky Kind Words. The screen
opens as a hi-res window which
can bo pushed to the background

to run along wrth Workbench and
documents open into their own re-
sizable windows

In this way multiple document
editing is possible, but os the pro-
gram is designed for systems with
limited memory this otherwise desit-
able function has a limited use in
QulckWrite.

If you're one of those people
who is drawn to rhe 1st of 'Features"
normally found on the back of the
packaging, you'll initially be
impressed by QuickVytifre. However,
there's not □ great deal there that
you can't find in most other WP's,

Quick Write is up to the usual
spec, but ft doesn't break any new
ground. What rt does break Is the

The spell checker is adequate, but often shows Us limited vocabulary

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sented by better bul more expen
sive programs such as Pretext 5*
and the Inferior but generally
cheaper KlndWords.

Spell it out

The spelling checker Is the pack-
age's most impressive feature. Not
only Is It actually an the same disk
as the main program, but it con-
tains a usable 50,000 wards and
con be added to os the user's
requirements dictate.

KlndWords scores over
Quick Write by recognising 90,000
words, but to use rt on lengthy doc-
uments you need more than 512K.
and to describe It as sluggish would
be an understatement.

the QuickWnte dictionary,, while
smaller is considerably foster, and
con be speeded up even more If
loaded Into RAM, Using it thus will
lake up a full 12QK. so there may
not be enough space If your docu-
ment Is lengthy or your Amiga Is
unexpended.

The disk, however, contains a
RAMStarl program which will open
the GAM disk it it hasn’t appealed
during start-up. and transferring ihe
dictionary to It Is o Simple matter of
dragging Its Icon to the RAM disk
window.

The spell-checker searches
through the text from start to finish
rather than utilising the more Intellh
gent approach taken by Pretexts
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scons and then sorb the whole text
Into alpha be Meal order before
checking It through, and can be
very smooth In operation.

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merhod is less complex, but seems
to be slower in checking, and cer-
tainly takes longer when changing
or looking up a word

Another minor point fcs that the

relatively smaH size of the main dic-
tionary means its suggestions, for
misspelt words fall far short of
Thesaurus standards, in fact, it will
often fail to find an alternative for
words you could be forgiven rot
thinking are fairly common.

On the whole, though, it Is fast
and simple enough to do the job.
In time, the user dictionary would
no doubt fill up to the pomt where
the main dictionary's shortfalllngs
would he mostly offset, and only
those with large vocabularies or

more up-market packages, but
with the addition of the AREXX
multi -task communications lan-
guage, Quick write can define ten
macros.

This addition should not be
understated - macros ore more
thon Just d gimmick and can cut
out a great deal of tedious typing,

For instance. Macro 1 might be
defined ta reformat on entire para-
graph. indent it, and fully justify It at
the stroke of a key. Many users will
find similarly routine operations
which can be rendered fess painful
in this way, lending Quick Write a
much more professional touch

Unfortunately, it Is only the more
ambitious user who will take
ad vantage of the macros, as their
use requires a bit of thought. In
contrast with some low-end pro-
grams, where defining a macro is
simply a case of starting the
‘recorder’ and carrying out the
sequence qf keystrokes you desire
to be defined, Quick Write uses its
own macro language' .

This Is more powerful end flexible
than the simple recorder method.

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limiting lo start with.

For those not In the know, macro
Is the term for a keypress (such as a
function key) or combination of
keypresses which has been pre-
defined lo stand for a sequence of
other commands and actions.

The facility to use macros has
hitherto been available only to

but Is much more difficult to use
and, even though well document-
ed by the manual. Is likely to scare
oft more than a few beginners.

No Wordproces5or can be
judged solely by Its on-screen abill
ties. They are, after all, intended to
produce hand copy at the end of
the day. end GuiekWrite manages
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or, Unlike KindWords, which can
rapidly run short of memory, and
frequently crashes If a problem
occurs during printing, QuIckWrlte
copes well with large printing tasks.

The moll merge facility is con-
trolled by only four simple rules to
define haw a merge list should
look.

if allows the user to choose
which records (such as Individual
addresses) ore merged, so that tet-
ters may be sent to one portion of
o long list, rather than the whole lot
os demanded by Kind Words’ s mail
merge.

Files with a smile

File handling is earned oul by way
of o Moc-ish file requestor, which
most Amigo users will find painfully
slow.

To jump from one drive ta the
next when searching for a file, one
has to dick on a "drives" gadget to
go through them one at a time.

On a hard drive- based Mac,
with Its uncluttered desk lop. this is
fine, but on an Amiga sporting only
floppies It can cause unnecessary
rises in blood pressure. I would
have welcomed an ARP file
requestor ar even o standard
AmigoDOS one. which shows you
haw bad QuIckWrlte ’s can get.

The saving grace In this depart-
meni Is the option to save directly
In Professional Page as well as stan-
dard GUckWrite and ASCII format

For users of Qold Disk's DTP
package, the ability to import text
files with no extraneous control
codes or annoying carriage returns
is a positive boon, and will greatly
enhance QuickWrlte's appeal lo
Thai particular market .

Conclusion

On the whole, QuickWriie is a wel-
come addition to the cheaper end
of the Ward processor market At
first glance. It Is more expensive
than KlndWords and is missing a
thesaurus and the ability to Import
graphics files.

On further investigation, however,
one con quickly discern a powerful,
tightly coded, and memory-con-
scious package which should be
Ideal for those with limited memory
or workng with only one drive

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Review

T he Amigo has long been
the ugly sister in the eyes of
serous DTP people, the
Mac being their choice. Recently,
however, the credibility gap
between the two machines has
been closed considerably by Pro
Page, Page Stream. Page Setter
and now APPta

The Amiga boasts o whole
range of under exploited publish-
ing assets such os Its Incredible
value for money and the amazing-
ly efficient file formats. Not to mei>

tlon seme of the best graphic abili-
ties In the business, regardless of
price.

The reason for the Amiga's lack
of publishing success falls firmly at
the feet of image processing, qt
perhaps more accurately Image
conversion. And this is where ADPto
comes Into Its own,

If yoi_i J v# ever tried to convert
Amiga graphics to the Moc you'll
be familiar with the problems
Involved. Bui now mere Is an alter-
native - to produce the entire pub-

lication on the Amiga. This has
already been done with the Amigo
Times, ond Is still employed by for-
mer AC editor Jeff Walker to turn
out the monochrome Amiga mag
JAM.

Cost effective

With the addition of ADPro to the
Amiga's DTP stable, the field of
semi-professional and indeed pro-
fessional publishing is wide open far
the Infinitely more cost effective

and flexible Amigo. OK It sounds
good, but what exactly can It do?
in short, ADPro is a collection of
image processing tools which join
forces to create and manipulate
high quality Images. The various
elements ore combined under a
very smooth and stylish front end
which makes complex image con-
versions as simple as clicking on an
Icon.

Perhaps the most common use
for ADPro's assets will be its format
conversion facilities. In order to
swap an Image from one format to
the another ADPro uses external
programs to load and save
Images

As o result ADPro can be
extended to read or write new or
alternative formats by simply
adding additional modules.

if you ore an artistic soul ADPro
rendering abilities might bo more
to your taste. The program can
load up any Image data and then
render the results in any Amiga
video format.

ASDG's rendering techniques
have already made many a fan In
the animation world and if you are
after high qualify quickly It's a god-
send.

While we're on the subject of
rendering and ray tracing. ADPro's
abilities also stretch fa rendering
and enhancing images created
with ray tracing software.

Why render Images with ADPro
rather than the software on which
It was created? Quite simply,
ADPro will render 24 bit planes bet-
ter and faster than ihe parent pro-
grams themselves?

Perhaps the hottest property In
Amiga graphics has to be the
Imminent release of 24-bit colour.
The Amlgan art world Is waiting
with sweaty palms for the release
of the Harlequin frame buffer from

Hie opening sc hew n Pi ADPro ond I he key IP the Alodin's cave Of features

ADPro can put the CO tour back into anyone's- artwork

Amiga Computing 79

Review

The Amigo Centre Scotland and Its
rivol, the MosSerboard Vfil from G2
Systems.

Both these products seem
destined for success, and as a
result the need for external soft-
ware support whether It be render-
ing or conversion win soon become
big business. ADPro has no prob-
lems handling 24 bft planes or the
power It will unleash onto the print-
ed poge, not to mention the world
ofDTV.

If you've ever had dealings with
commercial publishing you'll be
familiar with the need for colour
separations, which as the name
suggests is the process by which
the various colour elements of an
image are divided ready for a
CO four print run.

ADPro can be used as the
source of such separations In both
12 or 24 bit planes, The subsequent
print quality of Images processed In
this way are excellent and easily
on a par wtih the Mac equivalent.

If your print requirements aie
slightly more unusual the software
can still cater for your needs. Say
you needed to render Images for
heat transfer on to materials such
as cotton, ADPro can provide a
suitable stencil.

If your dress sense Is slightly mote
extravagant you could use the
package's separation skills to pro-
duce films for three or four colour
silk screening,

TAD or ADPro

The Art Department, or TAD as it's
more commonly known, is the pre-
decessor to ADPro and is still readily
available from most suppliers. Both
products are targeted at roughly
the same area of the market, with
each varying in abilfies and price.

TAD Is described os ASDG's entry
level processing system, while

ADPro Is considered to be the pro-
fessionals’ or power alternative, If
your needs and finances are fairly
■mlted It might wen be worth look-
ing at TAD which retails at around
£70 as opposed to £199,95 for
ADPro.

Perhaps one of the most impres-
sive new features has to be run-
time loadable Saver modules, This
slightly mind-boggling mouthful
basically means that ADPro can be
used for generalised format con-
version.

This new ability also allows you to
use It as □ general purpose front
end for all manner of input and
output, as well os a display tool for
the output of scanners, frame
buffers ana so on,

Many of the Image processing
functions built Into TAD have been
re -worked, and are now run-time
loadable. These modules are
known as operators, and due to
the run-time design ASDG con
release additional operators as the
need appears. This should hopeful-
ly negate the need for future
expensive upgrades.

Another asset which TAD did not
offer Is true colour composition. This
allows you to actually edit 24 bit
plane images even if you don't
have a 24 bit display board or

paint program,

ARexx is very wen supported by
ADPro, so If you're into botch, bulk,
or network applications your
dreams may well be answered by
ADPro's skills in automated image
processing.

Last but not least in the list of
added attractions is the option to
choose between standard Armlgo
palette or the enhanced palette
mode which yields higher quality
images if you want to display your
wares on IBM compatible VGA
and SuperVGA displays as well as
the Commodore Hi-Res Graphics
Adopter,

ADPio is, In effect, an umbrella
under which several elements
combine to perform there various
skills. The external components of
the system fall under three main
headings Loaders, Severs and
Operators.

Loaders

Loader Is a generic term for pro-
grams which read and Interpret
source image data from a wide
variety of file for mots accessed
from disk. But their talents do not
stop there. They con read or gener-
ate data from various sources
other than disk.

If. for example, you were using □
digitiser a loader could be written
which would allow ADPro to load
dlata direct from the digitiser itseff

Savers

Severs as the name suggests, do
exactly that, and are used os Q
destination for image data. They're
generally used to encode raw or
rendered images into the tile for-
mat you require.

Like Loaders. Savers also have
their hidden talents, tor example if
You're working with a frame buffer

you could write a Saver which
would save the raw or rendered
Image data direct to the frame
buffer. As a result the transferred
data could be displayed direct
from the buffer Itself.

Operators

Lastly we have Ope rotors , the
workhorses of the system which are
used for oil kinds of general pro-
cessing functions. Flexibility Is their
real strength, as they con input
and output both raw and ren-
dered image data as well as
manipulate data within the pro-
gram.

ADPro Is firmly In the software for
the specialist brocket, os the name
and price tag Suggests, but If you
have problems with pictures this
package will almost certainly solve
them It's a must for all would be
press borons.

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As you may have guessed,
there is a price to be paid for all
the power of ADPto - rts memo-
ry requirements are frightening.

A good example Is the Image
printed with this article On
screen It measures 640 by 64Q
pixels and is 24 bits deep. In
order ro load this Image from
disk you would need at least
four megabytes of contiguous
fast memory.

The image wars composed
within ADPro Itself, Rye separate
images were used to create the
finished product, The stars are a
1 bit-plane Image made in
Deluxe Paint.

The earth is a 24 bit scan with
the landscape being a 24 bit
image created with Vlsfr a. Ben
Franklin is another 24 bit Image
scanned with o Sharp JX-300
The company nqme is made up
of a three btf-ptan® Deluxe Paint
creation using Kara Fonts.

Almost everv formal conver-
sion is possible. GIF, IFF, PCX,
Sculpt. Postscript, the list goes
an and on, As well as the excel-
lent Internal features, g great
Job has been done on the from
end and as a result the software
Is a dream to use. even for g
novtce.

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H ere we cne again, yet
another cotectton o f the
best In the business. At
lost the Amiganuts,’ domination
has been eroded slightly by some
excellent submissions from their
competition, As a result you won't
hove to suffer my monthly moan
about o lack of disks, so fist's see
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Trace on the cheap

Anyone wanting to try their hand
at ray tracing will soon find It often
tequlres itie loss of an aim, a leg,
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So If your finances are slightly
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This complete ray tracer sup-
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It also has special case code to
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Vteflton 2.0 Includes thm source
code written In C. The whole thing
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whole range of utilities added to
the package perform various
weird and wonderful tricks of the
trace.

Dump to IFF will convert the row
24 bit data from the ray tracer files

Into Hl-res HAM Images. The colour
palette used far the first Image can
then be used with the others.

This is particularly useful for ani-
mations as the entire series of
frames can be forced to use the
same colour palette.

Dump2r&56 can convert the raw
24 bit output tiles of the ray tracer
Into three separate dump files for
red, green and blue. This might
seem rather paintless to most peo-
ple. but if you're into serious DTP

the ability to separate colour Is
really useful.

Sculpt2DKB, the next of fhe
extras, will convert a Sculpt*
Animate 3D scene file Into
DKBTrace format. Ai the moment
smoothed triangles ore not sup-
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directly converted concerns fhe
polygons, colours and textures,

Light sources r viewpoints, other
aspects are Ignored but once the
conversion Is complete you can

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As you can see from the screen
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They're not perhaps the quality or
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this Is a very impressive package
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A beginner would be well
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the simplest of subjects and takes
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in order to squash all the good-
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you're really Interested In serious
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MVK V2.0

Is your machine sneezing, shiver-
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Sfrepsils? If so it's sure to be suffer-
ing form the curse of modern
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Fortunately for every idiot with a
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Stefan Ossowskl Is a fine exam-
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MVK is capable of spotting up
to 105 viruses, an impressive figure
and considerably mare than
many of its counterparts. If will

detect both the file and boot
biock varieties and happily put
them to rue sword, whether they
be on a floppy or hard drive.

The software does have one
drawback, or advantage de-
pending on your point of view. It
will not run as a background task
like Kill Do Virus or Zerovlrus Its
competitors. Both of these sit an
the menu bar and automatically
check memory and disks as they
are Inserted.

The advantage of background
checking is that nothing should slip
through the net, as both KDVI1I
and Zerovlrus can be run from the
startup-sequence and remain
active constantly.

The disadvantages arise if you

According to the docs Wonder-
Sound Is an addictive harmonic
Instrument design tool which
allows you to create new sounds
by manipulating envelopes. har-
manic strengths and phase
angles. These can then be save
for use with other music utilities.

I wasn't convinced with claims
of instant addiction Trial and error
with a large helping of patient
experimentation would bo o
more accurate description.

The main revision to earlier
releases Is that all processed
sound Is passed through a low-
pass filter, which lessens the high
pitch distortion or aliasing which
plagued Wondersound In the
past

The sounds created are rather
basic and reminiscent of those
produced with processing soft-
ware on the Commodore 64. But
If you're a patient soul with an
urge to create new sounds
WonderSound could be for you.

regularly use disks with custom
boot blocks or software which
otters vectors. If you do, you'll soon
become thoroughly sick of can-
celling the alert warnings which
are activated every time you
Insert a non-standard disk, even
though you know it to be harm-
less.

in their defence both KDVIH and
Zerovirus both can be taught to
recognise new boot blocks, so It e
possible to subdue iheir enthusi-
asm when checking regularly used
disks which you know to be safe.

Writ* MVK it's best to check any
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you can be sure they're safe, and
once protected they won't

requre any further attention. If you
need to leave disks writable a
background virus killer might be a
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Posh pointers

Any programme* with o passion
for pointers could take a look of
Fred Fish 446 and its collection of
normal and sleeping mouse point
ers which you can combine with
yo-ur own creations. As well as
pointers there's a whole range of
e*tra goodies available. so check
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Both disks, along with rest of the
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PD playtime

The award for best disk for this
month has to go to number 903 in
the Amlganuts United collection
rt's a compilation of four eKcelenf
games bundled on to one disk.

Compilations ore something or
a rarity In recent Amlganuts release
es with much of their latest
licenceware firmly of the one cSsk,

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one some format, However, 903
comes os a re fresh In Q chon go
□nd is excefeni value for money.
JEOPARD: First of the fob four
Involves a favourite subject with
many o game designer - world
domination, the action takes
place on a large mop of the world
spread across the screen in glori-
ously flickering H*- res.

Jeopard is the name, and donrv
inatlon's the game, with two to
eight players taking part. Each
battles against the next to con-
quer each others territories and
finally rule the world, The outcome
is deter mined by a combination of
clever planning and an element
of luck provided by the roll of the
dice.

This is very similar to the well
established board game Risk,
which has long been available Jn
the High Street, and more recently
as a commercial release on the
Amiga, amongst ethers.

Gomeplay Is in generally very
Impressive, The only real problem
lies with the screen forma?. IT you
don't ownf a flicker fixture the Infa-
mous Hl-res flicker can be a real
strain on the eyes.

MIGA MIND: this is the Amiga ver-
sion of another smash hit,
Mastermind. It is a popular subject
in the PD and as a result several
versions are available. This Is per-
haps not the prettiest one, never-
theless it ploys perfectly and Is
useful as a Workbench toy.

Mlgo Mind is basically o logic
game In which you pit your wits
against the computer and tts hid-
den code.

You must attempt to decipher

5okoSyty, a simple buT splendidly addictive logic qhaP*r*flG.

the code before your limited
opportunities run out and your
Amiga once again reminds you
who’s the boss.

PIPELINE: If you're more of an
arcade Ton* the graphics and
game p4ay of Pipefine will be more
to your taste, being not too dlsslmi-
lor to Pipo Mania. Even so the
undercurrent of logic still flows
through to Pipeline, and If you are
addicted to Tttrfe and Wettrls you'll
certainty love Pipeline.

The Idea Is to create a rout® by
which the oil can flaw from A to B,
On the left of the screen ore five
pieces of a pipeline. You can con-
trol the cursor position with a Joy-
stick, and as you press the fir®

IFF2ANSI

A sJigtiltly Ittckwfng version qJ ft* romlSar bMd {jam# nsk

button the piece on the bottom of
the pi® gf five Is praced In the cur-
rent cursor-position. The four
remaining pieces fall one position
and a new (random) piece will
appear at the fop.

After a whlie block gold starts to
flow, so you've got to get the pipe
in place pretty quickly even on
the early levels. Bonus points are
awarded for complex connec-
tions which all add paints towards
the ultimate goal or entering the

high score table in which you can
be immortalised forever, as your
name is written to disk.

SOKOSKY: This Is perhaps my
favourite offering on the disk.
Sokasky Is an ingenious puzzle
game which involves a logical
challenge combined with very
attractive graphics

The Idea Is to move numerous
rubies around the playrng area
until they cover predetermined
points on the board This may

This is one of the utils, and as the
name suggests will turn any two
colour Fow-res IFF preture 4nto
ANSI text which con then be dfcS‘
played on any ANSI compatible
terminal.

This could be very handy for

demos or perhaps disk introduc
tons. ASDG’S TAD or Art Dept Pro
are perfect for Converting virtual-
ly any picture into a low-res one
bltpiane two color image which
can then be fed to IFF2ANSI for
conversion.

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creations

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DEMOS

DKS97 VtfSIiiJeshDw

M0S2 Betty Boo

G006 Collosus

OOP Acid Demo

D09B Walker Demol [1Mb)

MOOGDepeche Mode

G006 Eatmme

DOW Adsm$ Family

DD99 Walker Demo 2 }1MD|

MD33DMDbMu5ie2

G663 Elec'ric Tram Set

D1W Annie Jones Slifleshow

D131 World Vshp Cartoon

MOOSDMob Music 4 (? Disks)

ED61 Entmphy

DO ll fosewipfi.Joile! humoui

MIME 5 L Get Up

GOBS Escape From Jovi

LI015 H-jLbidin (2 Disks}

UTILITIES

MIDI Feel The Rbylflm

G009 Flaschbire

D 1 73 B udbrain 2 (The Sequed }

UD63 Amigaaer lAstrimomy)

MOi? Games Must Creator

GD51 franbe Freddie

DC20 CehiSuomaA'ictoiy |1 Mb:

UB53 Aril-Virus

MOlSGenesis

G012 Gravatlack

Dial] CckfimarVSmurf Animal ons

U0U3 APDL 26 I'M L’ 1 Cuttectmn)

M096 j'odvi & in ) he Heart

GDJ7 Holy Grail

D1 16 Cnonics Me^ienwhflre

DOM Rank n

M093lnon Madei

GD52 Jeopard (1Mb)

D171 Desert Island Slideshow

0071 BiorhytHms(IMb)

MCWJKimWiMe

GOES Learn and Play 1

Df 57 Dragons Dir?

0005 EMblOCk Cnamp on

Ml 00 London Beat

G067 Learn and Ptjry 2

DD34 Education ot Cool Cougar

0054 Business Card Maker

M99? Madonna Vogue 14 DskSet 1

G059 Masadhon Mmp

D03a Elvira

0073 C-LiglM itMb)

Excellent)

G055 Mayhem

D1B5 Elvira Activities Disk

0007 C Manual (3 Disks}

Ml 03 Megabyte M>*es [New}

G01 7 Mega Games (2 Disksi

Dl32 Enterprise Leaving Dock

0060 Champions Total Utilities

M01S Miami Vice Remix

G022 PD Chess

DISC Fillet the Fish

0033 Copiers Disk

MDB4 No Brain No P»n 12 Disks)

G065 Quamaster

DOS? Fractal Flighl 11 Mb}

UM9 Countecn Art Collector (3 Disks)

MO^Pet Shop Boys 2

G06D Snakap 1

0166 Franum farlasv SMesbow

U012 Dope Inlno Maker

Mf07Pm Shop Boys Suburbia

G364 Star Trek (US) (2 Dftks)

D036 fri*nni Horror

U056 OTP Clip Art (2 Disks)

MQB1 Powerpaa 4 (1Mb)

Gf»6 The Turn

D17D Girls ot Sport Illustrated

UD42 Education 1: German

MO&PowerpaekSjlMh)

G053 Treasure Run

D17? Indy 500 Game Demo

UD44 Edtcalisi 3: Wealher, 'Climate

MH34 Sam Fo* Sound Disk

G041 Ttek T; -via

WOO Iraq 'is USA

U045 Education 4 Evolution

M054Somx House 1

G062 Wet Beaver

0132 Japan Cutiure Slideshow

U051 Fuiure Composer

M055S<inix House 2

GDE3 Wbrdseaidi

DIH7 Jarre Docklands Demo

U072 Genealogy (iMb)

MlOJSydnev VfltmgbloKl iBass X)

GD30 Wraitned 0n&. . . ftuiz game

DM8 Juggler Ammatiwi

U013 Gurubuslr

M027TKbnotronic Remix

DI28 Kylie Demo (2 Disks}

UOOt Home Business Pack (3 Disks

M03t The Wall -Pink Floyd

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D175 Kylie: LncsrmcliDn

W'j'dprrcussar. Spreadsheet,

M032Wa* tins Way

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Games Galore 3

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DO 55 Madonna
DIM Madonna [2 Disks i

J062 Iconnuna
D0 14 Inlrompler

Games Galore 4

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0146 Madonna 2

U015 Jazzbencti

G001 All New Star Trek Game (2 Disks)

Gamas Galore 5

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DIM Madonna Cartoon Animation

U027 May nans UMrty Disk (2 Disks}

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0065 Newtek Oeeni? Reel I? Disksi
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D07t Popeye meets Ihe Beacn Boys
LH174 Piobfi Sequence
□□75 Puggs in Space
D1 33 Refl Devil Conpila'icn B (1 Mb)
D17B Red Sector Megadenia i? Disks i
D137 Roller Dean Slitfeshow
DM3 Safe Sex Demo
D130 Sam fa*

D1 77 Spate Bubbles
Dt63 Space Chase (1 Mb}

D12 1 Ster Trek Animations ( Agallran 1 7}
DOSS Stir Ire* Animjiions
01 >2 Eteaimy ? (lMtjj
0174 Technobaii Game Demo (New)
0092 lee fijn.MMai

L"50 Wessydo:

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J019 Pagesetie-r Clip An
J 0255 rdV 1 .S

U070 Slideshow ConstnicliBii Kir

UtS2 Speed beech

UD64 Star Chart (Aslranomy)

UDM T-Bag 31

UQ26 TV Grata (? Disks}

U061 Workbench Fun!

D201 ta Recall

MUSIC

M093B Channel Soirndtracker
MD61 &M Slate Remixes
MWSAnpltier Day in Paradise
M053 Bal Dance Remixes (1 Mb longer
Wteioni}

M002Baldsnce Remix
MOCt Beal masters Club Min

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per it yA
tems yc
well a*
also a*
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club k
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quo

Fractals are by far the rnasf
beautiful creations ever to
emerge from the Amiga, and If
you "re interestad in a combina-
tion of pure logic and stunning
graphics It s an Intriguing subject .

if you want to know more
there's a fractal-mad American
just waiting ta lend a helping
hand. Mr Cade Roux is a fractal
Fanatic and as a result of his
obsession he has been and still Is
compiling o muHI-dUt senes deal-
ing with all aspects of fractals
and their creation.

The disks contain the finest
examples of fractal images com-
plied from Cade's huge collec-
tion. There's also practical help
from various utilities thrown In
together with advice and reviews
of products used in the fractal
field

The Amiga fractal exchange is
the tttle of Code's obsession. The
disks are produced in magazine
formal, three disks being bundled
for each Issue.

The first two Issues are avails
able now and the third should be
available soon. If you're interest-
ed In anything to do with fractals
I'd say Cade's disks are a must.
The collection Is available from
Amiganuts United at the usual
address.

Finally fractals

sound simple but believe me it P s
not. Voull soon find ft 's easy to end
up In a very tricky position.

Amiga C Club

IF you're an old C dog or just a
land lover thinking of taking me
plunge, o hewing hand could be
just what you need when the C
turns rough, And th© Amiga C Oub
can come to the aid of those lost
overboard.

A non© profit making organisa-
tion devoted to helping and pro-
moting the language worldwide,
ACC has only been in existence for
about a year but nevertheless
boasts members in ^5 countries.

Once you're p registered mem-
ber it win try to help solve any prob-
lems you have concerning C. As
well os practteal help, software is
also available to speed your devel-
opment,

The main learning tool of the
club is the Amiga C Manual which
is widely available in the public
domain. It consists of four disks full
of hints, tips and routlnes-

There are chapters concerning
almost every aspect of the lan-
guage. and all the examples are

If you are In the market for more
straightforward arcade action
Seventeen &«! has ihe answer with
one of the latest additions to the
Games Galore scries.

Volume 5. like the rest in the
series. Is bulging writi software In
this case nine separate programs
□re squeezed on to the disk, some
old favourites like Pac^man and
Monopoly as well os an excellent
Star Trek trivia qurz. A must for any
Trekle who knows his Tribbles.

As usual there's on excellent
selection an offer and if you're
lucky Volume 6 should be avail-
able by the time you read this arti-
cle- so li might be worth inquiring
with Seventeen Bit when you
order.

0 in.'-'' I 1 1 • '■ V

The next generation

If you're a modern day Irekie you'll probably be more
familiar with Captain Pickard than Captain Kirk. If so
1 here's a new IrMo release Tor fans ol She next genera-
tion. * k

An initial two-desk sel Js, ihe-slorUng point for a
planned series which can be found" on Fish Disks 4Q4
and 405. They contain' over .SOD questions based on; the
first series with more than 50 audio/ video clues. * /

ThRMMii oorSialn ihe garne njpOule and, pah I of
- tl\s Trivff *0qtabase . You must hdve both disks -os '405
ebnfcpis Ik© rad ol the Trivia Database and the required ^
1 pfcfffer p*oqram_Tdt the quiz. Disks available trcfnil ■
"oner others" * * * * » -

already compiled, so you can start
expertmenftng immediately.

The manual Is kept up to dale
by the members themselves, with
tha constant addition of new ele-
ments and revisions at the old.

Registered owners automatically
receive new versions at cost, plus
access tc video and sound sam-
pling by simply sending in cfcks and
tapes which are then processed

and returned free of charge

If you are senoudy Into C it might
be money very we* spent. The reg-
istration fee Is £20 which should be
included with your details to:

Amiga C Chi) (ACC)

Anders Gjertn
Tutevagen 22
181 41 Lkfngo
Sweden

Well that's II for this month. As
usual, if Ihera s anything you want
to see, moon or rave about, drop
me o line:

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Expansion

H ome computer technol-
ogy has advanced In
leaps and bounds since
good old Uncle Clive Sinclair
unleashed his ZX6D onto the UK
computer scene back in 1979
In the space of little more than
twelve years, home computers
have developed to such an extent
that the computers we haw today
bear only a passing resemblance
to me computers of yesteryear.

Just thinking about ft brings the
memories flooding back. Back
then, 16k was thought fo be a
heck of a lot of memory - Indeed, I
can remember a time when peo-
ple used to doubt If you actually
needed that much memory on
a home computer I Then of
course there was. colour - IT
your computer could display
more than the standard
green on black, then It was
looked upon as a p jetty
advanced piece of kit* As
for sound, the odd digital
bleep was about as
sophisticated as things
got.

Thankfully, those
days are long gone.

Now we're playing
with a computer that
has thousands of
colours and the
kind of sound
capabilities
Shat would have
put a synthesiser to shame
Just a few years back Even on the
base machine. Jt offers almost ten
times the amount of RAM available
on the most famous 3-blt of them
all. the evergreen Commodore
CM.

Despite ad this extra power, the
Amiga es Still held back In Its basic
incarnation, Fact is. a angle floppy
disk and 512k of memory just isn't
enough unless you're happy to
play the odd gome (you'll even
find that some games won't work
under this very basic sped.

Radical changes

Th© key to getting the most from
your Amigo Is to expand K - that Is.
to odd extra bits and pieces that
will increase your machined capo-
biliues. you're probably already
aware of such things as RAM
expansions, external floppy drives
and hard drives, but there's so
much more to expansion than
these fairly limited pieces of equip-

ment There's a vast range of more
obscure devices that you can plug
Into your Amiga io push its power
further than you'd previously ever
thought possible * how does net
working grab you?

Then of course there's such
things qs touch sensitive screens.
24- bit graphics cards, light pens,
tope streamers, video processors
and a whale host of other won-
drous devices. Never has a single
computer off ered such a wide vari-
ety of expansion possibilities!

You 'If be surprised what a differ-
ence a little bit of expansion
hardware con
make to
youi system.
Even If you
add just a half
meg RAM
expansion and a
second floppy,
you'll find your
Amiga to be a
much faster and
smoother computer
to work with.

When you start
adding things like hard
drives and processor
accelerators, the defer-
ence Is astounding! Even
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expansion will totatty trans-
form your Amigo - Just ask
anyone who has already
token the plunge!

In this and next month's
Issue of Amiga Computing we are
provic&ng you with what we think is
the mast comprehensive guide to
expanding your Amigo ever writ-
ten. This isn't a buyer's guide, so
don't expect to find details of
every hard drive and every RAM
expansion avaiable for the Amiga.

Instead, we'll be highlighting the
kind of options available fa you
<and perhaps wel point you In the
right direction when If comes to
making the right buying decision)
it's then up to you to find the
appropriate equipment - a quick
scan through the ads within Amiga
Computing win usually be all that Is
needed.

Flexible friend

Choosing what hardware to buy is
entirely up to you. but there ore a
couple of extra bits and pieces that
q basic Amiga 500 te crying out for,
so these ate a good place to start.

If you play alof of games, then an

Expand

and deliver

Thinking about expanding your Amiga?
If so, then let Jason Holborn detail the
options available

external floppy disk drive should be
your first purchase - quite a few
more recent games come on two,
sometimes even three diskettes, sc
you can save yourself a lot of the
hassles. associated with constant
diskswopping with on outlay of Irffle
mare than £50.

\f you use your Amiga seriously,
then on extra drive will prove to be
an absolute must, especially If
you're a CU hacker. AmlgaDOS is
totally transformed by the addition
of qn extra drive - Indeed, it J s
almost friendly! (OK, perhaps I
shouldn’t go quite that for),

Once you've strapped on an
external drive, your next purchase
should undoubtedly be a ram
expansion.

Most A50G users go for a half
meg upgrade, bui rs worth gong
for a larger board rust far the extra
room It creates - you may rhink a
megabyte sounds like a lot of
memory, but you'd be surprised
how quickly the Amiga will use It

up I A half meg ram card can be
picked up for as little as £35 these
days, so there's no excuse for not
taking the plunge.

The vast majority af games don’t
Feally need the extra ram, but
more and more developers are
producing games that do take
advantage of expansion memory.

This usually takes the form af a
few extra sampled effects, better
music and perhaps even a few
extra game options. Some games
actually require at least a
megabyte to run {Dungeon Master,
for example), and It seems certain
that many more win be released in
The future.

Screen scene

Once you've got these two basic
add-ons, your Amiga w!H be a far
more useable system, but that's no
reason to stop there. A worthwhile
upgrade for anyone who uses their
Amigo for anything other than
games is a
colour monitor.
Commodore's
own 1034 pro-
vides a pretty
docent display,
but it is rather
expensive for
what it has To
offer. The Amiga
boasts both ana-
log and digital
RGB output, so
there's a very
gogd chance

Amiga Computing 97

Expansion

just about any CO* out monitor can
ba wired up {aWtiough It's best to
get -a qualified electrician to do
the neccessary wortO.

Mousey matters

The Amiga Is very heavily mouse-
bosed. but that doesn't mean that
you have to stick with the mouse
supplied wtth your computer. There
are □ fair number ot alternatives
available that will da exactly the
same job without the
problems assocl
ated with
Commodore s
rodent (clogging
toners etc}.

indeed, some are
actually a much bet-
ter bet than a mouse
because they have been
specifically designed with a
particular application
mind.

One such application that
has earned more than Us fair
share of attention is that of Amiga
graphics. As a result, Amiga artists
are positively spoilt for choice
when it comes to choosing an
alternative input device, iy far the
most popular is the touch tablet,
which is basically a flat,
pressure sensi-
tive pad.

Most touch
tablets also come
complete with some kind
of pen or stylus, which is used to
‘draw’ ante the pad. What's so
great about these tablets Is that
you can ptqce a piece of paper
on tap of the pad and literally
trace artwork directly Into your
Amiga.

Another alternative ls the Fight
pen. which is a device which
allows you to draw by pressing the
pen directly against your monitor
screen.

This has the advantage of being
closer to the conventional pen and
paper than any other device, but
they tend to be rather low resolu-
tion. Whilst they’re great fat the
kids, they'll far tram ideal If you're
after high precision equipment.

Another disadvantage of the
mouse is the amount of free space
that it requires on your desktop. A
belter bet is perhaps the trackball,
which is basically and upside-down
mouse. Like the mouse, the tracker-
bail uses □ roWerball but. unlike the
mouse,- you move the ban directly

with your fingers. Apart from the
obvious benefits for gaming
(Marble Madness Is great with a
trac kef bail!}, these are ideal far
mU 5 ic*ang use their Amigos live.

Moving still further away from
the mouse is the Touch Screen, o
device which Is still very much In its
infancy on the Amigo. You've
probably seen them used an 'point
of sales systems - Instead of hav-
ing to click on gadgets with the
mouse, you simply press your finger
against the screen to select trig
gadget your require.

these are perhaps
rather too specialist at the
moment, but they'll
prove to be on all-
important weapon In
the Amiga’s multi-
media arsenal,
Finally, a
company ri the
States nave just
released a bar
code reading system For
the Amiga which allows you to
assign different AmlgaDOS com-
mands ro barcodes.

You con create yaui own bar-
codes using the bundled software
and then dump them out onto
paper. It's far from being
an alternative
to the
mouse,
but just think
what a pose it would
be to operate your Amiga in
this fashion I

Sound advice

If you’re Interested in all things
musical, then there's a heollhy
selection of associated gadgets
and widgets rhof will fuel your inter-
est. First among these Is the sound
sampler which will allow you to
' digitise' a sound from Just about
any audio source (CO players,
walkmans etc) and then edit It on
you* Amiga.

At the moment, all Amiga sound
samplers are 9-brt devices, but sev-
eral companies have announced
their Intention to produce studio*
quality 1 6-blt samplers which will
moke the Amiga a viable qFfema-
tlve to dedicated samplers such as
those produced by industry heavy-
weights Akal and Roland.

Samplers can be dk>t of fun. but
they afeo have o serious use. If you
enjoy Tinkering with, music pack-
ages such as SoLnd Tracker, Deluxe

Visual delights

Whether you're into DTP, animation or just art tor art's sake, a video
digitiser is a worth while investment, A video digitiser Is a great way of
obtaining quality artwork without having to mess around with D Paint.
Even far the more talented user? amongst you. a video digitiser will
allow you to get the artwork you need- In □ fraction of the time it
would take rf you tried knocking it up yourself.

Amiga video digitisers basically come in two flavours - realtime
colour and not &o realtime colour (sorry) With o realtime colour digi-
tiser.. you can grab colour images directly from o composite video
source. These are undoubtedly the Ideal choice, but you, can
expect fa pay through the nose for such a device.

A more affordable solution is a digitiser like Combo's ViDI Amiga
Although it will grab images in realtime, they are mono only. If you
wish to grab in cotou from a pre-recorded video source, you'll need
to Invest In a RGB splitter, a clever little device that spirts a composite
video signal into Its red. green and blue components. Unfortunately,
the source tape has to be paused during digitising, which can cause
problems if your pause facility produces anything short of a rock
steady cfepiay.

for grabbing in colour from a live' video source, cheaper digitis-
ers use a system of red, green and blue coloured perspex fitters that
must be held Inf rent of your video camera. D&gIView made this
rather quirky method of digitising famous, but H can be a real pain in
the butt unless you've gat a top quality mono video camera and
goad lighting.

Scanners are also a great way at obtaining artwork, Until quite
recently, they tended to be mono oniy. but it's now possible fo pick
up q full colour scanner for just £600 (the Sharp JX-100). this very
clever device is used extensively on Amigo Computing to grab
many at the images within these pages, so therms no greater rec-
ommendation than that!

faster unit. To make things really
burn, most processor accelerators
also provide space for a maths co-
processor. a dedicated number-
crunching chip that can outrun
even the fastest processor.

Mast processor accelerators are
based around etther the Motorola
6B020 or the ’030 processors with
either the 6BB81 or 66BB2 maths co-
processors, although some cheap-
er processor accelerators use a
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Memory loss

i recently purchased an A5Q2 512Kb RAM
expansion board at the 16-brt show in
January It has a battery backed up clock
and a .switch, but I cannot get nr to work. The
extra memory seems noi to want tg be used.
Can you heip?

M Arthur, Leighton Buzzard

Try booting with the switch in both positions,
and if you si IN don't get the extra memory,
give the board a good shove,

H's often the cose that a new Amiga's trap-
door Interface con be extremely stiff, and
many people are nervous of applying too
much brute force to their expansion boards.
Make sure the board is pushed in os much as
possible.

It the Amiga persists in thinking it's a holt
meg machine, return the board to the retailer
or manufacturer for replacement.

Tony revisited

Vour response to Tony Williams, a Confused
Upgraded in the March inter active Rescue
column, stated that an Amiga 2000 hard disk
always requires a small AmigaDQS partition to
mount the Fast Fite SystemCFS).

This is just not the case i suggest you run
Fixdisk 1 .2 as supplied on your own coverdisk
on g A2CG 1-40 and you will see the following
info displayed

M\ handler ; itSLdcmt [FF£]

The confusion perhaps arises from the fact
that Commodore’s original A9QQQ hard drive
controller didn't auto-boot, requiring a floppy
tg start the boat and then mount it.

the Improved A2CTO/A. however. WILL
auto-boot under Kickstart 1 .3.

As both the A209G and A2Q9Q/A were avail-
able before the Introduction of FFS, they
required the Amiga tg boot into □ standard
AmigaDQS file system partition before mounts
ing q FFS partition.

In response to the FFS. third party manufac-
turers began to Introduce SCSI controllers
which would auto-boot and auto-mount
directly into a FFS partition

These controllers did not require a standard
AmigaDQS partition to be mounted first, and
allowed aW disk space io be formatted under
FFS.

The A2091 does not require any mount! 1st
entry or any details in the expansion drawer,
as under Kickstorl 1.3 an Automount Hag >s
stored On the first two cylinders of the hard
disk.

Gordon MacKinnon. Belfast

ff'S a Fair cop! Yes, Our reply lo Tony's letter
wasn't whof it should've been. You know how
il is - Friday afternoon, dog s just died, gas bill
pending, five oc six black coffees too many
Sigh.

AS for FixDisk. It has the annoying habit of
identifying dll hard drives with the (FFS) label. I
have a hard drive which Is entirety formatted
In the standard AmigaDQS filing system, and

FixDisk insists on colling it a FFS device. Bit of a
bug there, methinks.

Oh. and by the way - the problem wHh Ihe
recoverable RAM drive and RAD: on machines
with a Fatter Agnus and 1Mb of RAM is cured
when you use the 1 Mb RAM patch option.

Change Ihe SETPATCH In your startup-
sequence to SETPATCFhr and RRD; should work
as well OS before I'm Just off to Cleon the WC
with this toothbrush the Ed just gave me..

Not an A590 fan?

I would like to know of any hardware project
which I could use to disable my A59D hard
drive so that gny long sessions of gome paying
the drive isn't octrve Naturally it would be
handy If Ihe extra RAM was sflfl accessible.

With the dnve connected the Amiga wen t
power up if the drive transformer is switched
off, so the only option is to unplug the drive-
from the computer, thus adding wear and tear
to the edge connector.

The drive con be stopped from auto-boot-
ing by use of the rear DIP switch, but i would
like to have total silence.

T N Wells, Ipswich

On* way of silencing your A590 is 10 run it with
the cover off, thus allowing you lo disconnect
the fan while keeping the drive cool.

With the cover off, you could also com-
pletely disable the drive by disconnecting the
ribbon cable between it and the mother-
board.

This might sound dangerous, but we've had

II recommended os an option by someone
whose A590 has seldom been used fully

cosed, As you say elsewhere in Itie letter that
your warranty has expired, you wouldn't be
risking financial ruin by giving H a try

You might like to try putting a plastic guard
over the top of the open drive, leaving
enough airway to cool it while stopping hands
straying into it,

I had a quick look at garden -style wir#
mesh with thick plastic coating, which bends
easily info o strong fireguard'.

WHh this firmly glued to the A590, or hooked
under Ihe base, your drive Is il anything safer
than In its original piastre case - except lor Ihe
dreaded coffee menace, of course.

Another method of stopping an auto -boot
while retaining ail the extra RAM is to buy a
switchabie Kickstart 1.2/ 1,3 from Amiga Direct
on 0fll~&91 6704.

With Ihis you could start up in Kick start from
which your drive won't aula- boot, and still
have access to the extra 2Mb. You can
always MOUNT the drive afterwards If you
wanl tt or re-boot with Ihe Kickstart switched
to 1.3

A3000 inquiries

Plrase give me some answers on me A3000 as
extracting technical help tram Commodore
seems to be all but impossible. Here goes.,,

* Is It true that the Fast File System can be
used an floppies under Workbench 2.0?

* What do all the parameters for the CPU
command da?

* Kickstart 2.0 Is currently loaded inio Fast
RAM, occupyingO.SMb, but will apparently be
available on ROM at a iater date. With hicks
like fast 32-bit RAM and ROM shadowing.

Amiga Computing 101

Loan Ranger y Desperate Dan

would the TOM upgrade he faster or more effi-
cient?

* If Fast RAM Is expended to 4Mb, can the
existing 1Mb shipped with the machine de
moved across to Chip RAM?

# What's the difference between DIP and ZIP
chips, and what is Static Column Memory?

*■ Con bfidgeboofds such as the A206B
designed for the 62000 be fitted to the A3Q0Q?

•Robin Harley, Shareham -by-Sea

In answer to your questions ...

• Yes. the Fast File System WILL work with flop-
pies under Workbench 2.0, Ybm, yum.

# The CPU command has parameters to con-
trol the management of Ihe 63030’ s on-board
data and memory caches, the enabling of
burst mode, the copying of ROM based
Kickstaits Into Fast RAM, end a check on the
Floating Point Unit used.

To list them all here would lake up too much
space, so all I can do is recommend Mastering
AmlgaDOS 2, by Bruce Smith and Mark Smlddy,
which contains the besi guide to Workbench
2.0 I've seen so far. The publisher, Bruce Smith
Books, can be reached ot £0727/ 41243.

• The best performance is gamed by copying
Kick star! Into 32-bit memory, so you might as
well stick to hard drtve-bosed Kick start, which
also has the advantage ol being easier to
upgrade.

m Yes, you can move mat 1Mb over.
m ZIP stands for ZlgZag inline Packet. DIP
si ends far Dual inline Packet. Dip chips are the
traditional style RAM chips with pins on either
side- ZIP chips have all their pins on one edge
□nd stand up vertically, thus saving space on
the motherboard.

tl you closely examine our plccies of the
CSA Mego Midget Racer in last month's cover
story you'll see lhal Ihe Mega Memory board
on the right contains a row of ZIP chips looking
rather like a row of dominoes (except they
don't hove white spots and a row of dominoes
couldn't store 2Mb RAM*.

• As to the hridgeboards, theoretically yes,
although the 5.25" drive would have to be
mounted externally or replaced with an inter-
nal 3.5" drive

The A30QG has two AT -compatible bus slots
and should be OK with a bridgeboard. though
we havenT hied It ourselves.

Drive glutton

I have an A500 with A590 and extra 2Mb. A
few months o^o l bought a Fujitsu 66Mb hard
drive from Atthamero Systems and have had it
installed In my A590 casing. It's a nice fast drive
and has given ms no problems.

However, my old A59D mechanism <s now
not in use is It possible to connect this mtemal-
ly/exiernaty to my A5G0? I am a glutton for disk
space.

Peter Colls, Walsall

Glutton’s not the word! You mean you've filled
up the 56Mb already?

Seriously, though, you don't have too many
options open. As far as I know, there are no
Ihlfd party A590 cases available, so you might

I bought my Amiga in mid December and
have been delighted with tt. Unfortunately. I
have been operating with a portable television
until recently I was loaned a monitor. This is
where my dilemma started.

The monitor is o Commodore Ranger 15. seri-
al number 716470. part number 5500-15. It has
two Inputs, a V pin D-type connector labelled
RGB llL, and □ 15-pm labelled RGB Analog.

I wish to use the analog input, but have
been unable to find anyone who can supply
me with q ready made lead or give me the
wiring details for one. I'm desperately in need
□f some help.

Daniel Bums, Thundersley

The monitor In question Is a 15" mylhsync
designed for use with a flicker fixer or A2320
display enhancer card, and as such is not nor-
mally connected to a standard Amiga video
connector.

A232Q cards cost aboul £257 these days and
can be hod at this price from several ot our
advertisers. Try Calco Software on 031-546
7256. You should Find little trouble in finding a

have to beg Commodore for one. The power
supply is part number 312639 02 (25DV/74W),
and you'd hove to use o similarly rated unit if
you didn't buy Ihe CBM offering. With a power
supply you might try rigging up a cosing of
your own, but 1 wouldn't recommend It,

The best third-party option is perhaps the
A15GD unit With the A59D mounting kit and
DUC board you can re -box your A50G and
then mount your A590 infernally.

If you think Ihe extra storage would be worth
the prohibitive expense contact A 1500 Ltd on
□71-637 2231

Transplanting graphics

I would like to put the Amiga's brilliant graphics
on an Archimedes (A what? - Ed) to utilise
laser and InkJet printers at school.

I have been toi-d by my fT teacher that gl! I
neod do is change a disk to PC format and out-
put the IFF f Bes to that. The Archimedes, using □
PC emulator, will then be able to display them.

However, according to the PC Format docs
on the Extras 1 .2 disk, I need a 5.25" floppy
drive which I do not have. Is there a 3.5" disk
PC formatter available anywhere?

Andrew Skerry, Salisbury

tf you don't have o Commodore A 1020 5.25"
floppy, you can us# a PDPC program such os
Messy Dos. or go for something like CrossDos.
which is a commercial product.

Either will write fa the Amiga's own 3 5"
drives as if they were PC drives, and will format
3J" disks to PC format, which should b# use-
able with an Archimedes running its own PC
disk reading software.

CrossDos- is available from several of our
advertisers, including ARK on 0933 79496, and
MeisyDos is available from all decent
PDlibraries Just make sure your IT teacher has

suitable off-the-shelf lead for tints Connection.

LI you Insist on using the Ranger without a
flicker flxet - and this i$ a waste of a multisync
monitor - youTL hav# to make on# of your awn.

Fortunately the Ranger 15“, unlike its 21" big
brother, will sync all Ihe way down to the
1 5.6k Hi video output frequency obtained from
Ihe Amiga 23-pin video connector. Some
multi-sync monitors will only output ol frequen-
cies above 3QKHz.

You'll find the pin-ouls For the Ranger's 15-pin
socket on page IS of the monitor's manual,
and the pln-outs for the Amiga video socket on
page A-6 of the user's manual.

As far as we con see th# pin connections
from Amiga to monitor are 3 to 1,4 to 3, 5 to 5,

1 1 to 13 AMD 14, 12 to 15- Then 16 Up to and
including 20 should be Joined and go la 2. 4, 6,
and 7 on the Ranger.

Before you attempt this, ask yourself whether
fTi worth wasting a multisync monitor on a non-
interlaced standard Amiga oulpul

If there's any hope of keeping the thing on a
long term basis, nun out immediately and buy a
flicker fixer!

a utility which allows the Archimedes to read
and convert Amiga IFF hies to a format if can
display.

Breakdown

I am using an A5G0 with extra 512Kb memory
and a Pace Unnet Intel II igont Modem. I am
using Access software with the baud rate set
at 300, parity at 0, dala length 0 bits, stop bits
1 , and all other settings I have left at default
(although I have experimented with different
setting*).

i am trying to access various bulletin boards
whose numbers ! have obloined from your
mag over the months. About 60% of the time i
get NO CARRIER, but the other 40% I manage
to get a connection. However, all I seem to get
on screen Is garbage and seemingly randomly
generated characters.

It would be a great help if you could Itsf the
settings I wlil need an Access.

Ken WOOfflndln, Leeds.

You ore using 3-N-l defaults - the most com-
man - so sounds to m# as If you r# trying to
access at th# wrong speed. If you connect to
a BB at 1200 baud, and it tries to talk to you at
2400 baud, you'll gel what appears to be a
mixture of Greek ond Cyrfllc characters on (he
screen.

Try a bulletin board which supports the most
settings, then ploy around wllh your baud rate
until you get a clean connection. You might
also keep on eye on our comms column -
Eddie will be taking a close look at the first few
difficult steps into comms.

Our thanks to Jolyon Ralph. Alan Emerv. and
Commodore Technicc* Sjopcvt ter their help with
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you need to get started in DTV

SIGNAL PROCESSING The AVP-
MK3 boosts comprehensive RGB
colour correction facilities which
allow you to adjust the red,
green and blue content or the
incoming video signal simultane-
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You can also adjust the bright’

also fully iup ports overecanrur
which Is Jill-important for video

■work

ACTing up again!

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Catchiiy named the AVP-MK3.
ihe unit was ocfuatly designed with
Camcorder owners in mind.
However, as ACT like to point out,
it'll prove to be just as useful to
Amiga video enthusiasts. Here s
■what it has to offer;

COMP ATI eiLITY Whether you're
using two home VHS recorders or
the latest HI0 decks, the AVP-MK3 is
built with rhe Mure In mrnd. It is fully
compatible with VH3, VHSC, Bmrr
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If you're using S-VHS, S-VK5C gr
HIS, the AVP-MK3 allows you to
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definition settings, then edit on to a
standard VCR. therefore allowing
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your video setup. As a result,
there's no need to suffer loss of pic-
ture quality Just because your desti-
nation deck isn't of the same
format as your source.

A buttMn Composite + Y/C 1o
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obtain the maximum performance
from high resolution video formats
without having to fork out for a 5-
campatlble TV set simply by chan-
neling the output into any
RGB-compatible TV set. According
to ACT, most modern TV sets now
offer this feature.

spending a few pounds more on q
unit which will almost certainly pro-
duce higher quality results. Worth
checking out is Ihe Rendale 0002
which offers near broadcast quality
for around £260.

THE SOFTWARE Once again, the
software you choose depends
entirely upon your particular needs.
If you Just want to add titles to your
home videos of granny at the
beach, ail you: need Is a titling
package,

A good one Is the Big
Alternative Scroller, which Is avail-
able from Alternative Imoge on
0533 4 j 1C041 , For just £50 you get 20
high resolution fonts which can be
smoothly scrolled about the
screen, it's not in the same league
as the likes of Broadcast Titter 2. but
then It is considerably cheaper!

If I had to choose Just two pack-
ages for my desktop video work
they would undoubtedly have to
be EA's Deluxe Paint 3 and Duma's
TV Text Professional.

TV Text allows you to produce
stunning titles from standard Amiga
bitmapped fonts, while DPalnt Is
great for producing logos and
other artwork.

Not Only that, but |ft& powerful
animation faculties allow you to
produce all manner of flash effects
including spinning logos ond the
like OPoint

I 1 've had quite a few readers
contact me after reading the
cover feature on Desktop
Video In the January issue of
Amiga Computing

Although the article discussed
most of the options for getting into
desktop video, quite a few of you
still seemed unsure about the kind
of software ond hardware to go
for.

To help you sort rt all out, here's
o quick run down of what I consid-
er to be the minimum require-
ments.

WE GEN LOCK With so many now
available choosing a genlock Is
probably the most difficult buying
decision you're likely to encounter,

Which you pick depends enifrely
upon the video formats you hove
at you* disposal. If you have noth-
ing more than o couple of stan-
dard vhs decks there's little point
in paying out for a S*VHS compati-
ble genlock unless you Intend
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Slmllorfy, if you have access to
higher resolution video devices, o
standard composite genlock will
not take advantage of ihe higher
picture qualify these decks deliver.

The cheapest genlock available
is MlnIGen from ASAP, but i
wouldn't really recommend It to
anyone unless they are completely
poverty stricken. If you can afford
It. it's well worth

ness, contrast and colour satura-
tion tg rhe levels that you require.
To help you achieve the optimum
settings, the AVP has a video level
Indicator which changes colour
when rhese settings are achieved.

Obviously you' re not restricted
tc these settings, but they provide
0 useful method of achieving the
best possible results with o minimal
amount of knob-twiddling.

Extra controls Include Lumi-
nance and Chrominance inversion
Switches which produce a sort of
photographic negative image
effect. Alternatively, these settings
could be used to allow real photo-
graphic negatives to be recorded
to video tape In their true colours.

Just like their VE- 1 enhancer, the
AVP features sync pulse restoration
hardware which helps to reduce
The loss of quality associated with
video signals.

WIPES AMD FADES The AVP-MK3
employs ACT's own custom IWEC
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on any chosen wipe pattern, giv-
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ACT have built In 30 base wipe
patterns which are controlled from
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me AVP' s IWEC controls.

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A visual display of the sound out-
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With a little effort, Assembler programmers
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C Brigade - Margaret Stanger tells you how

T he story so far:

Lucky C programmers use
the Amiga Include' files
to interpret the system do+a struc-
tures. It may not be generally
known thar these goodies are also
ova liable to Assem bler program-
mers offer only o very little extra
hassle.

Mow read on

and the option T was used durtig
the assembly,

as .1 -fAtuibUr_HeAder$r den?
btint dua. d Ec drift Library
H libf a^i^a r lib M

Up and running

The easiest way fa open a screen te
to use the Intuition Library routine
OpenScreen, with a pointer lo a
Me wScreen structure (shall) which
contains some ot the values and
pointers for the screen.

iovf.l intuiliftnlMtijjG
j if _L¥flU prrS c run tub ) «ayi i . t

dOpCustoistrfen
be-Q abort

I used the same Hew Window
structure for each of the three wln-
dows.and changed the details
slightly once I had the address of
each Windowstructure.

Lta Th#NptHndPV,aU iotc.1

dO,na_Scrtfn(aD)

jtr ^L'i'CDprnii’indOilaA) itnA

dOjfhinrindeu

beq ifaert

The system flogs are set for most
of the system gadgets, and Intu-
ition takes care of their activities.

The \DC MP CLOSEW1NDOW flag
Is deactivated on the second
Imaginatively named window,, the
title is changed and the window is
slowty moved down.

The third window Is opened,
modified and moved in a similar

Window on the
world

a;$!gn INCLUDE:

Lati Sc e JJ *(L5:A uti b L *r_H ride r t

In theory

Before a Window is opened o
parameter block - or struc-
ture - named Hew
Window Is created for
It and stashed
away In mem-
ory*

The
variables
In a struc-
ture are
always in a
standard order, the offset of the
Block Pen (say) from the bass
Window address Is always the
same:

STRUCTURED) HtwNindOirJ

M&HD ny_Lt i t E

WARD flu Tflpldg?

m\> flbjldth

VC-RD flvjEight

BYTE nyjFUfLPtR

irtE ni,0tfl(fcPefl

ULCHS ny_l b:PPFUgs
L&RG r !¥_?lics
*PTR iiwJiritGlllflftt
APIR n^Chfiillirii
APTB

APT R fl*_Ser*an
APT R najHlHip
vm nirjinkidti
WORD rmJlinHciflfct

VO R D nu NjiUidil
VORD nirJiiHElflt
km nyjyp
LABEL nu SUE

There Is a disc tile available
with details of ail the intu-
- Itlan structures., together with
’ the numerical value of any
flags used.

This file. Intuition /intuition. L can
be included in the source code by
a statement at the beginning of
the code. There is o small fse called
exec/types. I that Is Included first to
interpret the structures In the other
include files. It tells us that a BYTE
Increases the offset by one byte,
and a WQflD by two bytes and so

INCLUDE "e iic/npM.r
INCLUDE ri fntuitiQR/ifltLMliftn.r

That would have been too easy.

In practice

Unfortunately my assembler used

Screen or HewScreen structures as I
was not referring to any of the
structure members I did need the
data itself* with the correct values
to open the screen.

Thatey Screen*

dt.M 0 ;iifUege
dc.y 0 pTftpEdff
dt.u IU jYidth
jDD height
dc.y ] ;lepli
dc.b 1 ; 3 ell i l Pen

dc.b 3 ;BIde LP en
dt . u D display ioIei
(SC.M iUsilRSCIEEH ;scr«n Lyp
dc.L E ;p1ntcr to cult DA font
structure

dc.L scrtuilille ;pcint cr ta

screen EiUf

dc.L D fftimt tp ttfttfl

gidjm

dc.L C ;poinltr tn c us leu hi trap

I needed the data for the
NewWsndow. and the data struc-
tures for window and NeWWIndow.
For the computer to interpret these
I had to explain the flogs to It

added to the poitv

The structure member
nw_BlockPen gives its offset from
the base address of the
NewWindow structure. The
colour Of the BlockPen -
I hate capital letters
in the middle of a
word! - could be
changed to 3 (say)
using Assembler's rela-
tive addressing:

TheitvH indoubt)
J3,nv_Ellflc!tPtfl(aD]

on an A5QQ dd not have enough-
workspace for the necessary
Include/lntuitlon fits, so I picked out
the Structures and Hags I needed
and added them to the source
cade.

I included 'exec/execr so Shat
the computer could moke sense of
the reference fa MP_5IGBIT In the
Window’s UserPort

INCLUDE -Mlt/tHt l,r
INCLUDE Uut HmA*

I did not need the details of the

h- 0DCJIF ftif used
CLGSEYIIDDy ip MQCDDZOC ;M-
Uinrlny f i sgi u&tft

u 1 nd QyiJ I IH4 tp IOC oi

HKDDY^AS tp SOCHI Z

riSIlDOVHPTH tp fODDt

YINDDYCLD5E tp SDODI

S’EEPSTijHT tp SOfllO

;Ki-Scfeen flig used
CUST ONSCREEN #p SD30F

Any structures or flags could be
defined In the source code or in
header flies as long as space per-
mits. There is room for creaftvltvl
The Include files directory was

way. These windows can ail be
dragged, steed and mode active.
The program only exits when the
first window Is closed with Its close
gadget.

The program uses a few of the
routines from the intuition library,
but many more ore available.

in the CODECUNSC cfirectary of
the March Amigo Comuting sup-
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This month Jason Holborn puts
Oigigram's flagship sequencer,
Studio 24, through its paces

I n the space of little more than
a year and a half the Amiga
sequencer marker has virtually
exploded, wtth no fewer than 15
different systems now generally
avgllable

Looking at products like Musie-X
and Master Tracks, it seems almost
inconceivable that the Amiga was
once considered as something of
a musical dodo.

Joining the ranks of such fine
products as Music-X is Studio 24. a
MIDI sequencing system from
French music software publishing
company Digigram.

They have been In the PI i for a
number of years now, but their
wares have been previously
unavailable to we UK musos. But
now. in the spirit of 1992 and all
that jazz, UK distribution has been
picked up by GFA Data Media, a
company probatory belter known
to Amiga users far Its superb
programming system GFA BASIC
As reported previously In AC.
GFA have taken, on the distribution
of a number of Digigram music
products- These include Track 24e
and Studio 24 - both of which are
sequencers - Big Band and a pow-
erful music scoring package calted
PraScore.

Big Band and ProScore were
unavailable at the time of going to
press, but you con expect □ full
review very soon.

As the name suggests, Siudro 24
Is a 24 track sequencer. It arrives In
a vocumn-moulded plastic case
With a Single program disk, manual
and a selection of quick reference
cards.

These unique cards alow you to

Editing Is particularly nice , QHfiough sotnewhaf ■nfl*jiibfc I

look up many of the program's
major features without the hassle of
flicking through g manual, which Is
certainty a good idea.

Key disk protection

Unlike most sequencers these days.
Studio 24 is copy protected. In true
Dr.T fashion, this takes the form at a
key disk system which requires the
original program disk fa be inserted
every rime (he program Is loaded,
even If you Install it an a hard disk! I
think such a system Is a real palm
but there you have It,

Once loaded, youl be greeted
by the first of Studio 24$ two
screens. It contains the now familiar
rape transport controls that run as
a strip of gadgets along the bot-
tom of the screen .

these are pretty bog standard -
Play. Record, Fast Forward, Rewind
and so on, but surprisingly there Is
no Pause button , which Is a strange
omission,

Above are the track controls

ihrr s-rrer® completely from
side of it|e screen to the other,
taco tra k has Its own set of three
gadgets which are used to eifri^r
mute s-.4o - which effectively
mutes ai other frocks - or selec it
sorrccci jng,

You ■\ on pick any one of the iir •
22 tracks for normal recording, but
tracks 2 end 24 have their own
special functions. Studio 24 culls
track 23 its Chard Track whlchj as
the suggests, is set aide

specified ty for chords,

When you record chords on to
ihis track | Studio 24 will recogn :;e
and display them complete with
’tie if correct name - C Sharp Ma or
or whatever. If you're not too hot
with cho ■dj, the chord track also
allows you to enter them with a sin-
gle mouse, elck.

Track 24 Is a Melody Track which
can contain only monophonic
sequences-. I con p t see any real
point In having It when any one of
the first 22 ccutel da the job equaly
well.

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Most of St udio 24 s opera lions
are pretty standard, but one fea-
ture that fs worth mentioning Is
sequence editing. 5tudjo 24 lb#s a
scare-based editor which displays
your sequences m the traditional
form of minims, crotchets and qua-
vers.

You can octet existing sequences
by moving back and forth through
the sequence usng the cursor keys.
You can add notes, delete them,
change the pitch and duration or
a selected note and even tie
notes.

Ai you con «e, Sfudto 2 * hen a wy GlM-Mke look

Sounds great so far, but for one

major problem - Studio 24 will only
allow you to edit a monophonic
line of notes, not chords. If your
sequence contains chords, the
extra notes that make them up are
split Into their own Individual sub-
tracks, or voices as Studio 24 calls
them Far from perfect. I'm sure
yOu p l agree

Song editing is even worse. Most
sequencers now use some form of
graphical arrangement system, but
you'll find no such luxuries within
Studio 24. No dree. instead It uses a
rather naff nan-graphical system
which Is not only difficult to use, bur
also rather Inflexible. As a result,
you may well wont to stick to the
conventional linear method of
song composition.

Notably missing from Studio 24 is
support far internal Amiga samples.
As we ail know., the Amiga can
produce some pretty stonking
sounds itself, so it J s not exactly
unreasonable to expect your
sequencer to support them. As it is,
you're restricted In your music mak-
ing to those sounds that can be
produced py your MIDI setup.

Sound investment?

Studio 24 definitely shows promise,
but It unfortunately fails to deliver
the kind of sequencing power and
ease of use you'd expect from a
product at this price.

It's gat a few nice features -
editing and Its unique chord track
Spring to mind - but in the end It
cannot hope to compete against
such industry hard hitters as Music-X
and Master Tracks Pro.

If Digigram sold Studio 24 at
something like £50 I could see it
doing well. Unfortunately, there are
just too many other sequencing
systems around that are both
cheaper and for more powerful. As
it Is, Studio 24 is overpriced and
underpowered.

This and the entire range of
Digigram Music software Is
available from GFA Dole Media
on 0734 794941. Other products
in Ihe range include Track 24,
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Hanging on to his sanity by a
thread, ourcomms guru Fast Eddie
hears echoes down the line

S peak to anyone who has
tried comma and not taken
to It. and they will tell you II
is expensive, time consuming and
boring,

They are right about the
expense, but there Is a certain
addictive attraction to the comms
habit.

Most people's first encounter
with communications tends to be
withdrawing money from the local
cash dispenser f q\jbs& we nave all
stood In the rain, waiting for the
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teachers, before gleefully advising
us- that we can't have any money
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Do not despair! Vou could well
find that directly connecting your
Amiga to the telephone network is
a much more efficient way to
empty your bank account

Message bases

So what is an offer? By and large,
the most common services around
the world are bulletin boards. These
are computers set up specifically
for other computers to call and
exchange Infbr motion.

Common topics to be found
online are confirm, programming,
scl-fL television, motoring, religion
and 'adult material'. I can't elabo-
rate on the latter, otherwise AC
would be on the top shelf next to
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy, but
you can use your imagination.

The information online is gener-
ally split Into two categories - mes-
sage bases and file areas.

A message base Is. in Simple
terms, a series of comments input
by users Of the board related to a
particular topic. For example a
base called Red Dwarf would be
the Ideal place to muse over how
much you preferred holly when she
was a man. or how badly treated
poor old Kryten is.

Depending on how advanced
the BBs software is, message bases
can be anything from a simple
series of sequential messages to a
complex web of sub-threads which
can be read or skipped at will.

It is possible to browse message

bases by following menu options
on screen. Input or messages is usu-
al V via a simple text editor buitr into
the board,

There are two different type* of
message bases on larger boards;
local ones and the net variety. The
trendy term for a message base e
echo, so if yog read someone talk-
ing about an Amiga echo they
mean a message area, not some
acoustic phenomenon or o local
newspaper serving the elderly
inhabitants of quaint seaside town
Amiga^on-Seornaas.

Lacal messages are exclusive to
the board you ore logged on to,
whereas net echoes go all over the
world. So if you proclaim your love
for Lister In a net echo, the comms
global village win be asking "What
the heck is Red Dwarf V In no
time.

Net echoes are transmitted

sages, Better equipped boards
often chef ‘the ability to comtStess
unread messages into a single
fcr you j q download before

air-gaif ’

Using special offline reader
wore, it is possible to decompre
read and reply to messages. Aher
keying in replies, tho offline reoctef
software Compresses them Into a
packet for uploading fhe next time
you logon. i_

When the board receives the
packet x rom you If unarchives alJ
your prepared messages and posts
them to ‘he relevant people and
echoes. T hte type of message reed-
ing is known as blinking, rt moke® a
great dept of sense, saving you
phone time and allowing other
callers to gef an to the board.

File Ar-xjs om libraries of com-
parer programs stared on fhe BBs
for its caller® to download and lun I

motto with BBs is most certainly
"give and take".

It s oil very well to phone a few
bulletin boards, read the messages
end download any files you fancy,
but sooner or later you will be
expected to contribute. Not finan-
cially. but with a little time and
effort.

Message bases aren't really
much goad without messages, so it
is up fo the board's callers to fill
them up. Similarly, File areas are
pretty pointless If they are devoid
of files. For this reason most boards
insist that you upload a file for
every few you download.

After sampling a few boards. It is
more than likely that you wll con-
sider starting one yourself. I have to
be honest and admit that I am by
ond large unimpressed with the
standard of most non-commercial
BBS funning In the UK.

The file areas tend to consist of a
selection of dog-eared PD and
shareware programs, while the
message bases are more often
than not just a total waste of time.

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worldwide via an elaborate series
of telephone cafe. Each night while
the world sleeps, automatic “ net-
ware J Is busy collecting and for-
warding messages to each board
in the network. Indeed seme of the
Inter net handshaking Is positively
masonic at times.

Netmaif is an exciting concept,
allowing communication with peo-
ple all aver the world for the cost of
a local col. fr ! s not In real time, but
Is still much faster than writing,
referred to as snail mail by those
with a passion for Jargon.

An Interesting point to remem-
ber ta that you don't always have
to be logged on fa □ board in
order to read and reply to mes-

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Again, fhese programs can be
about anything and everything.

Files are downloaded using pro-
tocols. These ate universal transfer
standards designed to allow reli-
able exchange of data between
two points.

A wide choice of protocols are
available. By far the most common
these days are Xmodem and
Zrnodem. The newer Ihe protocol,
the faster your data transfer will be.

The main thing to remember
about protocols is that they have
to march at each end of the Ink. It
is no good attempting ta initiate a
file transfer it your comms software,
or the board, doesn't support the
protocol you are trying to use. The

Smaller boards

There ore exceptions, of course. A
good large scale setup is london-
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the dedicated sysop of this excel-
lent muHHine service. That evasive
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Smaller, single line boards
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run, friendly board then gilve Steve
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With the possible exception of
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chance to use from ihe sysop side,
most Amiga BBS host software Is
dreadful That may seem o sweep-
ing generalisation, hut I have yet ta
see any package which offers the
level Of sophistication and ease of
use presented by Wildcat!

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NTSC machines 'cos they work
faster. That is simplifying things a
little, but the principle is sound,

If you are lucky enough to own
a Flicker Fixer or an A3QQQ the
Amiga could de-interlace the
screens and pass them to the mon-
itor in one go

Unfortunately you need a very
expensive multisync monitor to
cope with those sorts of speeds, so
you can se® that interfacing is a brt
of a compromise between resolu-
tion and quality (and migraines).

OK. to see what difference there
Is tg our display when competed to
a normal screen go to dliect
made and type:

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After flipping BOBs last month,

Peter Hickman gives SPRITES the same
treatment and looks at interlaced mode

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T he the CDTV version of Fun
School 3 (Under Ss only) Is
now complete and should
be available by the time you read
this.

I wrote it In AMOS, so If any of
you are lucky enough to pick up
one of the little beastles you can
see just how versatile this language
really is.

After all. If people ore using It to
wrfte multi-media applications now
what will they be doing in another
six months'*

While on the subject of educa-
tional software, Gary Symons, who
wrote the AMOS assembler, is cur-
rently working on □ secret project
tor Mandarin.

I don't know exactly what If win
turn out like, but the ST version Is
pretty good and could re-define
the standards for learning tools on
all micros.

I would have laved to being you
a preview of the compiler this
month, unfortunately Francois
Lionet is adding some extra fea-
tures so you will have to wait until
next time.

I hove been speaking to
Frangofes and ne says that when
programs are compiled th®y will
retain all of the miJIi-tasking capa-
bilities of AMOS. Sounds great,
huh?

Lastly on the news front, TOME
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plete. The final package will be
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manual has been written by me, so
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Seriously though, it is an exceF
lent product and deserves the sup-
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AMDS ones. You can find out more
about TOME by writing to the
A MOB club (the address came
with AMOS).

Now on with the programming
In the last issue we looked at flip-
ping BQBs. I hope you all saw and
understood what I was going on
about cos I'm gonna start off this
column with examples of flipping
SPRITES.

First we must load □ SPRITE bank
from the AMOS extras disk. SO stick
H in the drive and press escape to
go to direct mode.

Load:

" m 5 J IT B! U 3 p f [ U J0O n PiC E ( sn [ Pi . IB

OK. now let s clear the screen
and do some SPRITES. Flash off :

Curs Off : Clr 0 G«it Sprite Pilatti

Sprit* 1,200,1)0,1

There are two ways to flip this
image. The first is quite compftcat-
ed and involves using BOBs, so I
think we win skip that for ihe time
being.

The second method is to flip the
Image inside the bank using the
Paste Bob command.

To da this we must use the
Hrev/Vrev In the same way as we

saw ias r month, only we will Po-
tion she 3QB off the screen.

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Simple, Isn't it? And now we
have a reversed image which we
can move around if we wanted to,
and there Is no need to touch the
Paste Bob command ever again
(well not unless you wanted to flip
It once again)

Anyway, that's the SPRITES over
and done with.

Now how about taking a look
at the very latest version of AMOS
1 .23 specially Interlaced mode.

Fgr those of you who don't know
too many technical details about
ihe Amiga interlacing e a methoa
of doubling the amount of Infonr.a
lion which can be displayed verti-
CCrity on the screen.

There is a limit to the amount of
Information which can be shown
on a normal monitor because they
are octuafy too slow!

So to double the amount of stuff
that can be shown the Amiga
takes a single screen and passes
me information to the monitor In
two sweeps, each encompassing
every other line.

Bo for the first sweep lines L 3, 5,
7, ?, 10. 11, 13 etc. are shown, fol-
ia wed by lines 2, 4. 6, i, 10. 12. This
Is the reason you get a flicker when
In Interlaced mode - incidentally
the flicker ts almost non-existent on

Right, now that we hove a nor-
mal sized default screen let's conv
pare it to an interlaced one:

Scretn optn 0,320, 200, lft, UcedUiHrr*
CvWUT]NG l!

You wil see that I hove changed
the last parameter to
Laced+Lowres. which tells AMOS
that we want a lowres Interfaced
screen. You will also notice that tho
same number of vertical lines as
the first screen are being displayed
in half the space. Also check the
flicker.

Now one problem with this
mode is that when you set up a sin-
gle- Interlaced screen all other
screens which you may be display-
ing are automatically 'switched'
Into interlaced mode These are
not true Interlaced screens - they
just flicker for the hell of It!

You can display same excellent
qualify pictures In this mode, so do
make use of rt. But don't even think
about doing a game in interlaced.
It's just too slow.

Something which you might like
to dwell an Is that perhaps In the
future Francois Lionet will include o
facility to use some of the new
screen modes thought l|j by com-
parues such as Newtek, the people
who moke the fdbo digrtisors.

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Applied Research Kernal

Nik Williams

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Amor

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Original Media

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118

Page One

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Cafco

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Software Madness

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Beam up with Margaret
Stanger and take a
viewport into C

L ost month Cade Clinic con-
tained software to produce
Intuition windows and
screens, but it \$ possible to create
□ display Lsing some routines from
the graphics library known as
graphics primitives.

This system gives you more
freedom, more control, and a
little more hossie.lt
would be passible
to w rile wbple
book* or- i',«- sub-
ject of how the dis- H
play system works,
so I have tried to summarise it
as best I can. You will find all
the bits l missed out in the ROM
Kernal Manual- Libraries and
Devices.

The Amiga coprocessor - or
copper - produces rfs video dis-
plays on TV screens or monl-
tors using roster display

■ techniques 'he pic

" - j r -i* consists ct a
s^nes o' b ^oniui

9 lines stacked on tor -

of each other.

Changes can be made
to the display when the
beam is going from left to right as it
is fumed off on the flyback. When
the beam reaches the bottom
right hand corner of the screen ft
tries back to the top left hand cor-
net.

In □ multitasking environment
each program can have direct
control over the copper and ther-
fore over the whole display or
View.

the View can be divided Into
one or more viewports, each of
which Is the equivalent of on
Intuition screen. Each viewport has
its awn display resolutions, colours
and special features. Unlike
intuition screens they can all be diS 1
ployed at once.

Because of hardware limitations,
segments of differing deploy
modes are confined to horizontal
stripes that extend across the com-
plete width of the screen. Each
viewport completes a horizontal
segment, and they are separated
from each other by at least one
blank line.

Images are created by drawing
Into a computer memory area so

that the system can retrieve rhe
data for the display .The system
software allows you to define linear
memory as rectangular regions,
copied bltpianes

it is necessary to tell the system
the dimensions and loca-
tion of these bltp lanes-
This Is □ pain but there Is
the advan-
tage of keep-
ing several
displays In
memory at the
same time.

The colour of each pixel
Is rotated to the value of
one or more data bits In
memory. To create multicoloured
Images, the system must be told
how many bit are required per
pixel.

In my first VlewporKbiue), I have
used eight colours and three bit-
planes. and the system retrieves
gne data bft from each bltplane.

For each pixel data bits In the
same horizontal and vertical posi-
tion are combined by the system
to create a binary value which
determines the display color for
that pixel.

The system uses a structure
called a bitmap which con-
tains the height, width and
depth of the bltpianes and
where they ore In
memory.

The display Is
created from a set
of instructions in
the view structure,

wh*ch 15 -lifiolised using the co-
rr u'iJ In “View, and linked tg jjhe

* VA viT-w: art.

Each icwport Is inltaSlsed Ji'h
default vc Les. and Its own
elersare added later:

zuch Viewport needs n
ftosinfo fructure con-
' : : : pointer to the

t\ " rn ■" : j." vJth the bit-
p:anc "cormatlon. If
i "iv vewijort has dual ploy-

fields the
a pointer
which hg j
bitmap.

RaslhTo contains
la the netf RasJnfa
a pointer to the seoor i

viewport

position c

area. The Rastnfo sti

lire has Ihe offsets for the retath

the display to rhe ■

Height

Width

Modes:

how many video lines

■320 pixels in low res, 640 In high res.

pointer to the next Viewport

DUALPF for two separately controlled ployfields

PFBA the second playflefcJ takes, precedence

HIRES more precise horizontally (£40 ptoefe)

PACT Interfaced display mode HAM hold and

moeffy colours
SPRITES hardware sprites

VP-H/DE obscures the viewport

CdofMap has a pointer to the colour fable of up to 32 colours. Three
bltpianes would use colour registers 0-7, five bitplanes reg-
isters 0-31. Dual ployfields of three bltpianes each would
use registers O? for the ins\ playfleld and SMS for the sec-
ond.

Rasl nfo pointer to the Raslnfo structure

The picture in memory con I be
r ■ in the screen image
emoting j bitmap larger than

ple^e Oifture, In this example ti ■■
brplanes are the some size as ft e
viewports and the offsets are zero
Left to Itself the system will lise
default colours. There Is a con-;
mand GetColorMap which Will
allocate space for a colour map
Ond return □ pointer to it.

The eolourmap has a pointer to
the cctaJmap's cclourtcbie, ard
the dosi red colours can be copied
■ -to this data structure.

Each bitmap Is intfallaod
using In If Bit Map with, ftie
required
width, heigh r
and depth as
inputs. The com-
mand Alloc -
Raster Is used to

allocate each bitplano and the
returned pointers are linked to the
bitmap.

Now that oil the data structures
are complete the command
MakeVPort asks the system to
make a set of display instruc-
m Hons - Of copper list -
from the structures In
the Viewport. This has to
be done for eoch
Viewport.

The command MngCop
merges these copper lists into a
single instruction list. LoodVIew
turns on direct memory access
(DMA) and the display will be
shown on the screen. Any Nicker
can be reduced by waiting for the
beam to reach the top of the
frame,

Each area can hove its own set
of drawing instructions, or RostPort
structure. InttRastPort put® in default
values and when the RastPart has
been linked to Its bitmap it is possi-
ble to use the Graphics Library
drawing commands.

The listed program first saves the
address of the old view using ih#
gb-ActlV|ew offset from the graph-
icsbase. The view is vitalised and
three viewports produced.

The first viewport Is 48 lines high
with eight blue colours and three
bltpianes. The second Is 100 lines
high with dual red and grey play-
fields. The third viewport is 48 lines
high with 32 green colours and 5
bltpianes.

The drawing routines have been
used to produce a series of rectan-
gles on the screen. In the second
viewport the grey playfleld Is domi-
nant except for transparent areas
of colour zero.

There is a short delay before the
first eight colours Of eoch viewport
are cycled, and another delay
before the program releases the
allocated memory, replaces the
old View, and exits.

The support disc includes the
source and object code for this
program and a list of documented
routines from the graphics library.

• NEXT MONTH: Scroll routines
made routine.

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Money for nothing?

How, if you ore not allowed to self PD disks, da
the various PD companies survive? How can
they afford to advertise in your magazine and
send people glossy catalogues?

Aie olJ these things accounted for In the
‘expenses" proa, [fee the wages tor staff etc.?
Can anyone start a PD service at & there some
hind of Icence?

Finally why have you stopped putting in the
maria for gom&s that you review?

Keep up the goad work, your magazine is
97 per cent.

Paul, Cumbria

PD Libraries should not exist to moke o profit,
but if is reasonable to expect a small sur-
charge for any disks ordered, to cover
postage, duplication rime, administration and
the like.

As libraries get bigger they can make
economies, buying disks, envelopes and even
postage in bulk. This sometimes leads to a little
slush fund, which can be blown on extrava-
gances like wages and even the odd advert or
two.

You don’t need a licence to set up o PD
library 1 , lust a lot of time and energy to do It
properly.

We fold our games reviewers that they
could hove Hieir joysticks back ft they started
putting scores on again - seems to do (he trick.

Free for all

1 think that free software should be free.
Everyone talks about wonderful PD software
saying that it's free, but everywhere you look
someone is selling it for around £3 a dfck.

I think this is very wrong. To change this,
myself and a few Triencfc have decided to fun
a public domain club which will supply PD for
nothing
J Duncan, Kent

It"* a very nice Idea, something for nothing.
However, you will have significant expenses to
consider. Where, for example are you going to
find money for disks and postage?

PD software should be free, that doesn’t
mean that the media and handling Is. £3 p disk
Is a lad on the pricey side though, so shop
around.

Better still, cai a bulletin board and the only
cosl Involved could be a local phone call. If
you are serious about being a PD supplier,
maybe you should consider starting a board.

Limited edition

I was torn between upgrading my Amigo 500
Into an A 1500 expansion box with a hard disk
or exchanging my Amiga 500 for a
Commodore Amiga 1 500.

After talking at some length to a
Commodore represenrativs, I was told that the
A1 500 was a brand new machine, idealy suit-
ed for gomes and business use.

Qn arriving home and unpacking the sys-

Write to Ezra Surf, Amiga Computing, Europa House, Adlington Park,

tern, I find on the bock an A2000 label. It
would appear that all Commodore have done
is rebodge on Amiga 2000 and put in o sec-
ond disk drive.

They have colled it almost the same os an
expansion unit developed by a third party to
ensure confusion. Have they dohe this
because they could not think of casing an
AB00 In such a professional way?

I hove since returned my Amiga 1500/20PQ,
and purchased an A 1 500 limited expansion
system, with which I am very happy.

Lorraine Ferrer. Middlesex

You are correct In assarting that the Amiga
15DQ is a rebadged dual floppy 2000.
Commodore have never really claimed other-
wise.

The 1500 package Is Ideally suited for
games and business use. Ai £999 including
colour monitor, If is the bargain of the decade
so far.

The third party A 1500 allows you 1c separate
the Amiga keyboard and main processor box,
bui you don’t have the advantage of several
expansion slots and an up rated power supply
unit.

Most people are actually pleased to find
that they have bough! a 2000 in disguise You
though obviously feel you have been canned
by Commodore.

The A150G was a logical name for CBM to
choose for the package, It Is after all In-
between the 500 raid the 2000, and the A1OQ0

has been and gone, A 1500 sounds more like a
Commodore name to me than a third party
one.

I hope you and your A150Q limited expan-
sion have many happy hours together - tt, too,
is a worthwhile product In its own right.

Arresting reading

Tve Just been Info the shop which sails your
magazine As I was glancing through It I decid-
ed I wanted it. I searched through my pockets
and realised I didn’t hove enough money to
buy It, so I state It.

When I got home I put the disk Into my paid
for computer and ga speed Tremendous!
Incredible!

The mag and disk -are excellent value for
money. The trouble b my family won’t let me
on the computer. Now I'm wondering where I
can get £2.95 far the next Issue.

I shall have to stop the kids’ spending
money for my next issue. Keep up the good
work. And for obvious reasons please don’t
print my real name.

Bill Sykes, Bradford.

I assume you realise that it the barcode on the
front cover Isn't scanned by youc newsagent, a
rentier curious virus 1$ let loose on your system?

It systematically causes you to form an
addiction to the mogadne which Is so powerful
that you can t help but Subscribe.

Seriously though, Amigo Computing is not

Amiga Computing T 1 9

public domain! If you did steal us, please
don't try II again.

It Is only a matter of Hme before you get
caught and then It will be more than finding
£2.95 you will hove to worry about.

Play the game

I read with anger the letter by Chris Webb In
Issue 29 of Am^go Computing concerning his
views on the software industry,

Although everyone Is entitled to their own
opinion, I think Mr Webb was totally unfair In
his assessment that 99.9 per cent of Amiga
games are trash.

True, there is and always will be some rub-
bish on the market, but he has obviously not
experienced the delights of the classics like
Dungeon Master. Gettysburg and Power

Monger.

If he has played 99.9 per cent of all games
on the market he is either very lich of a soft-
ware pirate, Thererore, l can only assume he is
commenting on games he hos never seen
before, let alone ployed, and thus has no
decff idea of what he is talking about.

Stuart Hardy, Sheffield

You don't have to play a game to get an Idea
at whether you will like ft or not.

Some people simply detest games. For
these demenied creatures, even the mast
technically stunning release will fall ta raise
the slightest Hngle of emotion In their trigger
Finger.

Of Course nol all Amiga games are trash. If
■hey were people wouldn't be able to ten me
Amiga apart from that ST ttihgy.

Excellent review

i enjoyed your review of the wonderful
Excellence! wordprocessing program In the
March issue. Your praise of it wce well earned,
but one port of the review was misleading.

You criticise the lack of on overtype faculty,
which you soy Is missing from the program. In
fact this is not the case as by simply highlight-
ing me text that you wish to overtype and
then entering the new text, the program
replaces the old with the new.

It must be Just about the best wordproces-
sor available on the Amiga and readers
shouldn't be pm off by the price, there are
some very good mall order deals available.
The only trouble that I hove with It Is that I
spend time exploring its capabilities that I
should be using for witting

D M Fiekthouse, Liverpool

The process of highlighting a text block with
the mouse and then replacing It by typing In
new text isn’t strictly speaking an overtype
mode, For example, anyone who uses a
word-processor for long periods of time and
who requires speed above oil else, the use of
the mouse ts a no-no

When using Pratext, tor Instance. I configure
ft to Overwrite mode instead of insert, Thai
way If I moke a mistake In typing; which I
often do and which I usually notice as If*

Snail mail mouse

I am writing to you to tell my woeful story
about a Naksha mouse.

St all began when I ordered the little
chap ham a mall order company called
Mierosmort. This was. In about November.
1990.

By January this year I had not received
the product, nor any message from the
comparer so I wrote to them expressing my
annoyance, and asking them what had
happened,

I tried to contact them by telephone, but
all I got was their ansaphone. Finally, I wrote
them another letter. The resiit? Nothing.

Whar can l do apart tram rume with the
poor quality of the mouse that I got wtth my
Amiga 500 which I bought a year ago,
Yours feeling peeved, to put It mildly-

lain Chambers. Peterborough.

Your* Is just one of many mall order gripes 1
receive in the postbag every month.

Although we do our best to ensure that
each of our advertiser* is honeif. legal and
decent, we cannot really check out the ser-
vice offered on on Individual basis.

1 gave Mierosmort a quick ring to see
what the problem was with your order. They
laid me that your rodent started scurrying its
way to Peterborough the day before you
cofted.

Your original order from November Iasi
year apparently got a little lost in the pre-
Chdslmas stampede, for which they are
sorry.

You have every right to be a btt peeved,
but hopefully similar things won't happen
again. Hope you think fhe mouse was worth
the wait,

clone, I can type straight over the top o# It with-
out having to delete or resort to the mouse.

I’m glad you liked the review, and we did,
as you soy, conclude that Excellence 2.0 Is
one of the best on fhe market. As for the prtce^
we quote the ERF as it would be unfair to a
product to quote the cheapest price we could
find. Hope you continue to enjoy exploring you
wordprocessof $ power tend buying our mog -
Ed),

Fair shares all round

I know you regularly print such statements, but
l J d like to make a point about shareware.

Always pay far any shareware you end up
keeping and using. If you don't, the people
who write it will have to find some Other way to
make a flying and won't be able to update
their programs, or create new ores.

You may save a bit In the short term, but
you'll lose In the end and end up paying for
software you may never use because there
are no good shareware alternatives available,
The UK has a poor reputation far this. Come

on feiow Brits, let's show the Yanks that were
just as honest as they are.

Finally. I know that you manage to pack as
much quality Into your slimmer mag as your
biggest rival but my latest copy has pages 67
through 101 missing. Can you help?

Bill Dawson, Southampton.

I can't agree more on whol you ate saying
about shareware.

Yes we do print letter* like yours regularly,
but it is always worth reminding people to put
their money where their mouse I*.

I am sure most people Infend to cough up
for the software, but never quite gel around to
It. There is no excuse lor not going to the bank
and sorting out a money order tomorrow, so
do if people!

As for the mystery of the missing pages. I
wonder ff Bfl Sykes uses the same newsagent
os you?

Stealing an entire magazine 1* utterly
pedestrian compared to the style and nerve
required to make off with just the pages of
interesl

Consider the missing pages in the post. |
might even send a complete magazine.

Trajan Trauma?

1 recently purchased a copy of Arrifga
Computing issue 34. On the CoverDisk was a
program, caned 'Kill Da Virus'. I installed this
program on ail my bootable disks,

Since doing this I have had nothing but
trouble with □ vims called ‘Smiley Cancer"
which turns the mouse pointer Into a face and
has corrupted much of my public domain.

It seems to me that the only place this virus
could have come from Is your CoverDisk as I
have had no trouble at this kind before. I
would like to know if you hove received any
other complaint* of this nature.

I will not be buying your magazine again
until this matter is sorted out. If I do not hear
from you I win have to write to another maga-
zine.

Ian Simllan, Sheffield

The Amiga Computing CoverDisk was not the
source of (tie virus you are afflicted with.

Our erstwhile disk editor, Stevie Kennedy
assures me that the AC disks are so clean you
could eat your dinner Off them.

We ore not o virus carrier. Any allegation
that our magazine distributes these anti-social
beastles will, quite rightly, be taken very seri-
ously by our reoders.

II is Important to be sure of your facts before
initiating such grave rumours.

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