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Soft-Logik would like to congratulate
Gold Disk on adding features to Pro Page
3.0. Of course, it still doesn’t compare to
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Congratulations, Gold Disk, on adding improved typographic precision
and an Undo option to Professional Page 3.0. Of course, PageStream has had
Undo since version 1.0 and its type scaling is still 12.5 times more precise.
The five new AGFA Compugraphic fonts included in ProPage 3.0 bring your
total to 7, still short of the 10 we give our users.
Were sure ProPage users will appreciate the new ProWrite and Excel-
lence text import filters; PageStream users have been enjoying them for years.
And the tiling feature youVe added in 3.0 will allow your users to make those
banners and posters PageStream users have been pasting on walls everywhere.
The most impressive feature in 3.0 has to be the links to ProDraw and
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Our HotLinks is a standard protocol which any company can support. Of
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HotLinks automatic data transfer, real-time multiple edition updating, and
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Cool Programs for a Hot Computer
Soft-Logik Publishing is proud to announce HotLinks Editions. Hot-
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tags. HotLinks is the new Amiga standard for data exchange.
Multitasking is Cool, but: HotLinks is Hot
HotLinks takes Amiga multitasking into the future. An open standard
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data between applications in real-time. Imagine having all copies of your cor-
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PRODUCTION of Britain's best-selling 16-
home computer, the A500, has ended,
and last models have already been sold
to the trade.
Commodore confirmed to Amiga Computing that
A500 production has stopped at the giant's main man-
ufacturing plant. The neater A600 will be the replace-
ment entry-level machine.
"We are switching emphasis on to the A600 for
some very good reasons - probably for the right rea-
sons," commented Commodore's Andrew Ball.
"But the A500 will be supported in some shape or
form and the A570 drive will be released for the com-
puter soon."
Don Carter from trade distributor ZCL said: "The
A500P is now effectively a discontinued product,
although there will be pockets of stock at retail level
for the next few weeks.
"Our Calculus Stores will be focusing very strongly
on the A600 with the new technology and an astonish-
ing range of peripherals that I am regrettably not
allowed to comment on.
"Everything Commodore produce from now on will be
downwardly compatible with the A60O's SMT [surface
mount technology and none of it will work on the A500."
Carter concluded: "The A500P now looks very much
yesterday's product."
A2200 planned for autumn launch
The A600, on which the forthcoming A2200 Is based
THE machine once rumoured to be in the
pipeline and code-named the Amiga
Classic will be launched later this year as
the A2200, Amiga Computing can exclu-
sively reveal.
On information received from sources
close to Commodore, we can reveal that
the machine, which will be available in
two models, is based on the 68020 pro-
cessor and utilises A600-style technology.
The desktop model will appear in a
slimmer-than-A3000 casing with built in
Commodore A2091 40Mb hard drive. A
second super slimline model will use the
same internal IDE hard drive as the A600-
HD, but will have a separate keyboard
and a monitor will be supplied as part of
the package.
Super slimline A2200s are unlikely to
be very expandable, though both models
will feature 2Mb chip RAM.
Desktop A2200 models will also be
based on the A600 motherboard, which
means that there will be an internal IDE
interface as well as the A2091, but this is
expected not to be used by Commodore
on this model.
As with the A600, surface mount tech-
nology and on-site warranties will be the
order of the day. When asked to com-
ment on the new Amigas, Commodore's
Andrew Ball would neither confirm nor
deny the story, stating only that "the
Amiga will continue to improve".
He also refused to speculate on a possi-
ble launch date for the machine, though
we think it unlikely to be any later than
autumn this year. It is too early to say
what price the new Amiga will sell at, and
though the slimline model with monitor
and internal IDE hard drive could sneak in
under the £1,000 mark, the desktop
model with A2091 40Mb drive is unlikely
to be cheap.
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THERE S something promised for
every Amiga user at the forthcom-
ing 6th International Computer
Show, sponsored for the first time
by Europress Publications.
More than 180 firms will pack
into the show halls and many have
promised to unveil new Amiga soft
ware and hardware for the first
time.
But unlike many computer shows
it won't be just a shopping event.
Amiga Computing and its sister mag-
azines have pulled all the stops out
to ensure every visitor is enter-
tained.
Experts
An advice centre will offer free
five minuLe sessions on buying a
new computer, software or
upgrades and a clinic manned by
Amiga experts will give sound
advice on your problems.
And for the less serious visitors
there will be a special Gamer
Challenge. They can compete
against another driver in Gremlin's
top racing game Lotus Turbo
Challenge 2,
Fifty copies of the game are
being given away to high scorers
and the top driver at the end of the
three day event will be sent a fan
tastic package of games worth over
£500 - courtesy of the best games
section in your favourite Amiga
magazine.
All this and more will be happen-
ing at the Wembley Exhibition
Centre, London from |u!y 10 to 12,
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New CVP graphics card
IN A move seemingly aimed at Progressive Peripherals' Rembrandt graph-
ics board, GVP have announced their own high end graphics card in the
shape of the Enhanced Graphics System EGS1 1 0/24.
Designed as a high-speed graphics display and rendering card,
the 24-bit system utilises its own hardware to enable line redraws at up to
three million pixels per second and blockwrites at up to 576Mb per
second.
To allow such high speed transfers, the board is equipped with 25ns
VRAM which can be accessed across the 32 bit address bus used on GVP's
combo accelerators.
Software is supplied in the form of a number of library modules similar
to the Sage standard libraries, and a Workbench driver which enables
many programs, among them PageStream, to run directly on the board
with no further software.
Depending on the quality of monitor used, GVP claim a screen resolu-
tion of up to 1,600 x 1,280 and 80Hz scan rates, giving an ultra smooth
display in 24-bit colour. Applications running in 256 colours will have
access to a 3,200 x 2,560 screen size, though these will have to be specially
written for the board.
There is no UK release date as yet, but suggested US prices are 52,699
for the 4Mb VRAM option, and $3,399 for the 8Mb version. Contact Silica
Systems on 081 309 1111 for more details.
The C -Force range Is now available for A! 500/ 2000 owners
G-Force 040 branches out
GREAT Valley Products (GVP) have just announced that their hitherto A3000-only G-
Force 68040 accelerator will soon be released in an A2000 combo configuration.
The card will be available in 25MHz and super-fast 33MHz models, and both will
be supplied with 4Mb RAM expandable to 16Mb. In addition, a SCSI hard drive con-
troller will be built in to the board for fast data transfer and DMA access to the on-
board RAM.
In a new departure for GVP, there will also be serial and parallel ports mounted on
the card and accessible through the Zorro through slot at the rear of the
A1 500/2000. With the addition of these ports, the G-Force 040 combo becomes the
first GVP Single Board Computer (SBC).
For details of UK price and availability, contact Silica Systems on 081-309 1111.
A570 launch
delayed
THE long-awaited Commodore CD-
ROM drive still has no official
launch date. Despite earlier hopes
that it would be available by the
end of May, Commodore now
expect the A570 to be released no
earlier than "around about June".
When asked the reason for the
latest delay, a Commodore
spokesperson said: "This is a very
important product for us and CD-
ROM entertainment systems in
general, so we want to make sure it
is absolutely right first time."
A570s on show at the European
Computer Trade Show in April were
running a variety of educational
software, but had no DMA through
port. Commodore still cannot con-
firm whether or not the unit will
have such a feature when launched.
Midi makes
It big
WESTMINSTER Exhibitions have
confirmed that attendance at the
recent Midi Music Show, held at
the Novotel Hammersmith between
24-26 April, was up by 50 per cent
on last year's total.
In all, more than 12,000 musi-
cians and computer music buffs
crowded the hall to see the 120
exhibitors, over 70 per cent of
whom, according to Westminster's
Tim Collins, have already re-booked
for next year. He is, he claims,
"over the moon".
New Amigas, new chips, say Commodore US
IN response to criticism in the press and on bulletin boards that
they are not as committed to the Amiga as they should be,
Commodore's central office in the US have given unprecedented
hints at their future plans for the range.
Bill Sydnes, Vice President (Engineering) recently went on
record to shore up the confidence of developers and journalists
in the Amiga's future. He said that "the majority of Commodore
revenue comes from the Amiga and most of our research and
development is devoted to enhancing the Amiga range."
On the subject of future new machines (see our A2200 story),
Mr Sydnes said: "We have plans to release a number of new
Amigas later this year." He also emphasised the intense R+D work
which is going on into the CDTV/CD-ROM side of the Amiga.
His most interesting comments, however, relate to the possi-
bility of an entirely new chip set appearing soon. Commodore,
he claims, are "continuing the R+D effort to improve the Amiga
chip set" and are considering the possibility of bringing new
technology to the Amiga in an effort to boost research and
development in third-party manufacturers. This, as he later
stated, would mean Commodore establishing new standards,
presumably for graphics, sound, and so on, a move which could
mean the implementation of the prototype "AA" chip set.
This advanced chip set (pronounced "double-A") - shown to
developers at last year's Milan developers' conference - supports,
among other things, 256,000 colour HAM from a 24-bit palette
in any resolution up to Super hi-res (1,280 x 1,024) and dual
playfields in any resolution,
It also supports a "4x" 32-bit system offering four times the
normal data transfer rate to and from the screen, lo-res scrolling
in increments of a quarter of a pixel, vastly improved sprites, and
the mixing of video modes, allowing hi-res 32-pixel-wide sprites
on a lo-res screen.
Sources close to Commodore hinted that the AA chip set
might make its debut in the A2200 later this year, and that all
new technology should be downwardly compatible with the
existing Amiga chip set. Watch this space.
Power Up saves you £1,000
OWNERS of A1 500/2000 machines
will soon be enjoying
Commodore's new marketing
thrust to boost sales of the A3000.
In a "Power Up" deal similar to
that offered to A500 upgraders
two years ago, the Calculus chain
of dealers will cut between £800
and £1,000 from the price of an
A3000 when your old
A1500/A2000 is part-exchanged.
The resulting price of an
A3000/25 system will still be a
painful £2,199 (excl VAT), but the move is hoped to bring the luxury Amiga
closer to many medium level serious users.
All A3000s included in the Power Up scheme will feature an extra 4Mb fast
RAM, Scala, DPaint4, and AmigaVision multimedia authoring system.
Contact Calculus on 0543 251275 for your local dealer.
Trade In deals can at last
make the A 3000 affordable
New products
from First Choice
FIRST Choice Computers of Leeds have
released a range of new British made
products for the Amiga. Included in the
complete range are a keyboard-switch-
able ROM sharer, a stereo sampler, drive
booster to power extra floppies, and Midi
interface.
The ROM switcher is the first not to
require a hardware switch, so users won't
have to drill holes in their A500 casing,
and there is also a Scart/VCR switch box
for those who want to use their monitor
as a TV in conjunction with a domestic
video player.
Prices of the new Phoenix peripherals
range from £16.99 to £49.99 and First
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Flicker Free Video
gets boost
ICD's Flicker Free Video card (AdFFV) could soon be outperforming all
other Amiga flicker fixers thanks to the release of the Flicker Free
Video Preferences program.
The program will enabfe AdFFV users to take advantage of vertical
scan rates up to 100.2Hz (given a suitable monitor), but can also be
used by owners of Fatter Agnus-equipped Amigas who don't have
multisync monitors or flicker fixers.
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Other features include the ability to adjust Workbench overscan to
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Workbench 1.2 and upwards. The program is available to registered
AdFFV users for SI 5, or $29,95 to other Amiga owners by contacting
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Third parties
dominate show
The April World of Commodore/Amiga
show was held at Pier 88 at the New York
City Passenger Ship Terminal.
The terminal being used as an exhibi-
tion hall was sandwiched between the
retired aircraft carrier USS Intrepid and the
Queen Elizabeth 2, which was in port
picking up passengers.
Unfortunately, many attendees felt the
view of the neighbouring ships was more
interesting than the Commodore booth.
According to a Commodore marketing
executive, the company decided not to
introduce any new products at the show
in order not to distract from the third-
party exhibitors. If this was really their
goal, they succeeded remarkably.
Although most US users are well-aware
of the recent European hardware releases
such as the A600HD and 386SX
Bridgeboard, Commodore would only
issue a "no comment" about the new
hardware developments.
The only products on display were
Amiga 500s, 3000s, 3000Ts, and CDTV
units.
Off the mark
Not that the US Amiga market is anx-
iously awaiting the Amiga 600 anyway,
with a 25MHz 386SX-based PC clone -
complete with Super VGA monitor and
hard drive - selling here for about the
equivalent of £575, users in the States
want more performance from their
Amigas than a pokey 7.14MHz 68000
chip can supply.
The general perception here is that
Commodore needs to introduce a fast,
inexpensive Amiga with a better graphics
chip set before the year is out if they want
to remain in the US market.
Mr Gould's recent comments about not
perceiving a need for a 68020 processor
in an A500-level machine, combined with
Commodore's lack of announcements at
the World of Commodore show, haven't
done much to boost the hopes of worried
Amigans here. As of this writing, we still
don't even have the ASOOPIus available
here!
GVP Steal
the show
There was life outside the Commodore
booth, however. By far the busiest - and
most exciting - booth of the show was
GVP's. With no fewer than ten new prod-
uct introductions, GVP proved to be the
leader in US Amiga development.
The show-stealer was the EGS-1 10/24
Enhanced Graphics System for the
A2000. This high-performance 24-bit
graphics card offers fully-programmable
pixel rates, allowing it to display virtually
any horizontal and vertical resolution,
from standard NTSC, PAL, and Secam res-
olutions all the way up to 1,600 x 1,280
in full 24-bit colour.
There's even a special 256-colour,
12.5MHz mode that allows 3,200 x 2,560
pixels! The board plugs directly into a
GVP 68030 or 68040 Combo accelerator
for the 2000, and uses high speed VRAM
(Video RAM) chips in conjunction with
the Combo's microprocessor for speedy
graphics updates.
The neatest aspect of the EGS board,
though, is the included EGS Workbench
driver. This program patches the Amiga's
Workbench libraries to allow most pro-
grams to open on the EGS board's
screen.
At the show they demonstrated
Workbench 2.04 and PageStream run-
ning in 256 colours at 1,024 x 768 reso-
lution. And the screen updates at this
resolution were faster than a normal four-
The control panels for C VP's Mirage
Whats New
colour Workbench screen!
All this power comes at a steep price,
though. You'll need a GVP Combo accel-
erator (a representative at the show
hinted that a version of the EGS board for
the 3000 may be release at a later date),
and the 4Mb version of the board costs
$2,699. The 8Mb version sells for $3,399.
Still, how much is
too much for the
ultimate graphics
adaptor?
The other hit of
the show was the
new Mirage
image process-
ing/retouching
software devel-
oped by upstart
Nova Design, to
be marketed by
GVP.
I've been work-
ing with a beta of
the program for a
few days now,
and I'm ven
impressed. In the same class of software
as ASDG's Art Department Professional
and Black Belt Systems' ImageMaster,
Mirage combines powerful image pro-
cessing tools, true-colour painting, full
animation support, and a fantastic user
interface to set a new standard in profes-
sional image tools.
Unlike other programs. Mirage doesn't
force you to add tons of RAM to
your Amiga to process large images - it
can use your hard drive as fast virtual
memory. You can now work on huge
images with only 3Mb of RAM in your
Amiga.
Mirage will directly display its images
in regular and ECS Amiga modes, and on
the DCTV, HAM-E, IV-24, DMI Resolver,
Firecracker 24, and even the Video
Toaster.
Bezier curvers
You can draw Bezier curves, and the
program has a full undo capability. The
program can load and save just about
every popular format, including IFF,
ANIM, JPEG, GIF, Rendition, Sculpt, TIFF,
Targa, and PCX, and other modules can
be added later.
It will include a number of unique
image-processing functions, including
one that can make digitised images look
just like oil paintings. If a function is miss-
ing, you can add it using ARexx or C, as
Mirage includes information on how to
create your own add-on modules. Priced
at $249, Mirage sets a new standard for
features and ease of use.
Amiga 500 owners will be dazzled by
the A530 Turbo. The device looks unas-
sumingly like a stock GVP Series II HD8+
hard drive interface. However, along
with the high-performance SCSI interface
and mini-slot for a GVP PC emulator, the
A530 Turbo also includes a 40MHz
68EC030 accelerator that outruns an
Amiga 3000.
The board includes sockets for up to
8Mb of fast 32-bit RAM, and room for a
68882 math co-processor. Prices in the US
start at $999 with no RAM and a 52Mb
Quantum hard drive.
GVP were also showing the G-Force
040 Combo ($2,499), a 25 or 33MHz
68040 board for the Amiga 2000 that
includes SCSI, serial and parallel ports,
and PhonePak ($449), an incredible
new board for the 2000 and 3000 that
does voice-mail, fax send and receive, and
the unique new "FaxMail" messages -
faxes with digitised voice description
attached.
On display too were the PC/286 mod-
ule, which is essentially an ATonce-Plus
board miniaturised to fit in the expansion
slot in a GVP A500 hard drive interface;
two video interface board for the IV-24
that add composite, S-VHS, and compo-
nent video in-out; and the I/O Extender
($299) - an A2000/3000 board with a
parallel port and two Midi-capable serial
ports.
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A top typographical trio go head to head in AC's battle of the DTP giants
The Amiga is more than a match for the best that the IBMs and Apples of this woricl
can come up with as regards the power and complexity of its DTP packages.
With the universal PostScript standard becoming the norm for Amiga DTP output,
no-one with an interest in publishing - from flyers to books - can afford to ignore the
Commodore machine.
Here the AC team look at the three ma diet-leading products, talk to a prominent
print bureau, and open the (id on the world of Amiga DTP.
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ProPage 3.0
If you're well versed in the ever-changing
world of Amiga DTP you may already be
aware that ProPage - or Professional Page
as the authors would have us call it - has
only recently had a revision
from v2.0 to v2.1.
In truth this minor
upgrade was no more than
a bug fix prior to the major
X release of v3.0. After an
jj agonising wait the new
version has finally arrived,
but was it worth the wait?
After a brief glance at the
improved features list it
appears to have been
exactly that. In the past the
battle between PageStream
and ProPage was nothing
short of vicious with knees
in the groin, thumbs in the
eyes, and generally no
holds barred, as each pack-
age desperately vied for
the top spot.
Although this is still the
case as far as sales are con-
cerned, there's been a sub-
tle change in direction that
means that the two giants
are perhaps starting to
heading in slightly different
directions.
Although others may dis-
agree, I feel that there's
been a slight shift in gen-
eral approach to DTP, with
PageStream going for a
more artistic approach, if
slightly more complex,
while the new ProPage has made impres-
sive moves towards automation, and gen-
eral simplification of the subject.
Of the big three, it's fair to say ProPage
is by far the easiest to master for the
novice or occasional user. This doesn't
mean pros won't be able to apply its
potential effectively.
In fact, if speed is the key factor rather
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than inspired and ever-changing layouts,
neither of the other packages can match
ProPage. If you're happy to employ uni-
form - and dare I say - slightly less than
inspired layouts, it's perfect.
The main reason behind the new
change of tack is the program's compre-
hensive ARexx support, which given its
330-odd commands, offers complete con-
trol of ProPage via ARexx. If the word
Near instant page creation , courtesy of
the program's excellent genie options
ARexx sends as shiver down your spine,
don't despair.
The program uses what it calls "genies"
- ARexx scripts in disguise - which are
directly accessible from ProPage at the
click of a button. When
you boot ProPage 3.0,
you'll find that what used
to be the Mop tool has
been replaced by an
Aladdin's lamp button,
clicking on which brings up
the "genie" requester.
There are over 50 func-
tion "genies" already
defined, ranging from the
simple AllCaps and similar
text effects, to box
attribute control and even
an ADPro "hotlink" which
enables bitmap tweaking in
ADPro and automatic
re-importation.
kh As ARexx is being used by
jpJ more and more programs, the
SB. "genie" feature makes ProPage 3.0
a much more powerful tool, and
gives the ARexx-conversant user
the opportunity to write macros for
virtually every situation.
My one complaint concerning
"genies" is the lack of an auto-
record function. When you click on
the Define button, ProPage simply
loads up its accompanying Article
Editor and expects you to write
your own macro. If an auto
"genie" generation option had
been added, ProPage 3.0 would almost be
a "must" rather than a maybe.
As it stands, any would-be serious user
would be well advised to burn a little mid-
night oil on the ARexx manual to properly
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Yet more friendly assistance thanks to the ProPage tutorial video
that comes as part of the package. Shame It s designed for v2. 1
exploit the option, or alternatively wait for
"genie" updates or possible PD releases.
Other improvements include a font
conversion utility which will convert
Adobe Type 1 PostScript fonts to the
Compugraphic fonts which Gold Disk
seem determined to stick with.
FontManager works well, and the con-
verted fonts are of perfectly good quality.
Nevertheless, it can be a bit slow if
you're converting a complete set of
PostScript fonts across to your
Compugraphic drawer.
Having said that, its inclusion gives
ProPage access to the hundreds of avail-
able Adobe Type 1 fonts. As typefaces are
the lifeblood of DTP, its inclusion has
come as a welcome, and near essential
addition. If you don't have access to a font
collection, don't despair - Gold Disk have
included a selection of nine fonts as stan-
dard to get you started.
Another new feature is the addition of
an irregular text flow option. Using this,
text can be made to flow round the out-
line of any structured drawing rather than
its box, as was previously the case.
Unfortunately, although Gold Disk have
at last seen the light, the application of
the new option is less than perfect.
Text can flow around the left or right of
an object, but not both, so it's still impos-
sible to have a circular hole in your text
unless it is at the juncture of two columns
and you create an ellipse either side of the
gutter.
The direct Hotlink to ProDraw 3.0 -
due for release later this year - is probably
the last major change from v2.1, and is
easily the most attractive to users who
employ a lot of clip art or their own struc-
mm
Instant assistance thanks to ProPage s online Hyperbook help
file which makes the learning curve as painless as possible
tured art within their documents. The
user need only click on the box containing
the ProDraw clip, select the ProDraw
option, and ProDraw is loaded with the
clip ready to edited.
In combination with ProDraw 3.0's new
Fountain Fill option, which will allow full
page gradients, the hotlink adds a great
deal of functionality to ProPage, saving a
lot of time and hassle if you often employ
structured art.
On the graphics front, ProPage is pretty
impressive with a good selection of impor-
tation options which of course include
ProDraw and Aegis Draw for structured
art, plus encapsulated PostScript and
bitmap graphics which includes 24-bit
images.
With the new auto-tiling print option, a
long-needed Undo feature, text filters for
most American (not British) wordproces-
sors, plus a few tweaks to the colour sepa-
ration process, ProPage has come a long
way in the trip from v2.1 to v3.0.
There are still areas in need of improve-
ment, but in general, Gold Disk have done
a fine job in boosting the package. My
main bone of contention concerning the
latest version is program's insistence on
sticking with the irritating need for boxes
with everything.
No matter how small the amount of
text or minuscule the graphic, a box is
required prior to importation, unlike
PageStream which
happily imports text
directly into prede-
fined columns or
adds graphics directly
onto the page.
Another minor
inconvenience is the
inability to define text
as an object and then
resize by simply drag-
ging its box,
although having said
that text can be
resized relatively sim-
ply by highlighting
the text and redefin-
ing the point size, or alternatively employ-
ing the program's impressive style tagging
talents to resize to a predefined size or
style.
Last on the moan list comes the inabil-
ity to define zoom, although five prede-
fined degrees of zoom are available as
standard. On the plus side, this minor
point is more than made up for by the
excellent option to specify interruptible
refresh, an option which soon become
indispensable.
As mentioned earlier, perhaps the
biggest attraction of the program to the
new user has to be the friendly "genie"
system which even allows creation of
entire documents from predefined formats
which come as standard with the
software.
These vary from business reports to full
page ads and twin fold brochures, to
name a few. All the potential user need do
is fill in the gaps with assorted text and
graphics while the program automatically
adds all the details and page positions.
As a result, a document can be started
and sent to print in a matter of minutes,
but as I mentioned earlier the use of
"genies" does tend to create rather uni-
form and slightly uninspired output,
which is compounded slightly by the pro-
gram's tendency for rather angular
layouts.
In general, ProPage is ideal for the
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beginner and expandable enough for the
expert. Also, its interact hotlinked design
with additional programs such as Adpro
and its own Article Editor make it a very
impressive DTP workstation.
If you're looking for a friendly introduc-
tion to DTP that will grow with your expe-
rience, ProPage is ideal.
Paul Austin
Saxon Publisher
Although it falls a little short of being a
dream for serious DTP enthusiasts, Saxon
Publisher has a wealth of features which
make it worth a good look before making
up your mind which package to go for.
But be warned - Saxon is not a cheap
option.
The emphasis truly has to be on the
word "serious", not only because of what
you can achieve with this package, but
also because of its relatively high cost, the
hardware you need to run it properly, and
the output devices it can drive. It now also
comes complete with Saxon Script
Professional Interpreter, giving acess to
the wonderful world of PostScript output.
When I reviewed vl.1 of this package
just over a year ago, my conclusions were
that it would see far more business than
home use, that it was bound to improve
with subsequent versions, and that more
fonts, printer drivers and the odd cosmetic
improvement would help.
In fact, version 1.1 was never released
in the UK, so 1.2, which has just become
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available, is actually Saxon's debut achievement so far.
comprises a sidebar con-
taining, among other
things, selection gadgets
for four operating modes -
cursor, paragraph, drawing
and text. Those other
things include type style
icons (bold, italic and so
on), screen position gadget
(for moving around your
page when you've magni-
fied your view and parts of
it are therefore hidden),
and rectangular and
freeform box drawing
tools.
The sidebar also holds a
list box which displays file-
names of stories and pic-
tures (if you've imported
some, that is) to be
inserted in your document,
or typestyle names if you're
in paragraph mode, some
extremely useful vertical
justification gadgets, two
tools for deleting boxes or
their contents, a box-mov-
ing gadget and a graphic-
fitting gadget.
In paragraph mode, you
also see style transfer gad-
gets, another very useful
feature which allows you to
impose the style of a high-
lighted paragraph onto an
entire section of text appearing either
before or after it.
4 <«> ^ In drawing mode, your
line, rectangle, ellipse, circle
and other basic artist's tools
are displayed in the sidebar.
In some of the modes,
Saxon disables some of its
facilities - for instance, in text
mode, on-screen colours,
internally created structured
drawings, drop shadows and
outlines will not be shown, to
speed up screen refreshes.
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The addition of a fully independent
PostScript interpreter, the ability to use a
whole host of Adobe and Compugraphic
fonts, a monitor calibration utility to
ensure accurate on-screen colours, and -
most significant - a dramatic increase in
the screen refresh rate and general speed
of the package, shows it is moving in the
right direction.
However, I would still like to see some
improvements in the way Saxon Publisher
operates.
First, though, a potted description of
this very hot contender for the title Most
Polished Amiga DTP Package of the
Moment.
The view of your publishing world
Important though the sidebar is, you
could hardly get by without altering type
specifications, being able to set your pref-
erences, import text and graphics and
perform the other operations vital to a
decent document. For these, click the
right mouse button in the time-honoured
Amiga way, and a menu bar which for the
most part is fairly self-explanatory will
appear.
Selecting a sub-menu will, as likely as
not, cause a requester to appear. Be
warned that many of the details in the
requesters are quite tiny, and a hit every
time, especially with an accelerated
mouse, is not guaranteed.
Also, I don't very much like the method
of choosing typefaces - clicking on one of
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Saxon rotates the contents of a box rather than the box frame , which can cause problems
the letters of the alphabet will, if you're
lucky, bring up the name of a font begin-
ning with your selected letter in a field
above.
But there's nothing under some letters,
while others, quite naturally, have more
than one font associated with them, so
you have to make another selection. It's a
simple view, but I'm convinced the best
way to choose a font is from a list of fonts!
The basic idea is to import the text and
graphics you want to go into your docu-
ment (a variety of file formats is catered
for in each case), draw the boxes they are
to go into on your page(s) and place the
files and graphics into the boxes simply by
pointing and clicking on boxes and items
in your list.
You then format your text using default
or custom tags from your other list,
adding colour and, if you like, tilting
graphics and/or text to taste. You can also
add a headline or two, and some picture
captions if you wish.
Easy, isn't it? Well, it does take a couple
of tutorials (in the manual. I'm afraid, not
interactive ones on disk) to get the hang
of it.
Drawbacks
So what about those other operational
drawbacks hinted at earlier? Let's take
rotation of boxes (the bounded areas
whose size the user specifies, and which
hold the text and graphics of your docu-
ments). The problem with Saxon's box
rotation is that it doesn't exist.
Fair enough, you can click on Alter
Active in the Box menu and specify any
angle you like in the requester that comes
up, but after you've OKed it, you find that
only the angle of your box's content is re-
aligned at the new angle. What you get is
sloping text within the existing para-
meters.
With graphics, the result is different -
you are apt to lose the corners of you
piccy as the picture's margins move with
it, while the box maintains its position.
I searched in vain for a way of rotating
the box and its contents together. On re-
reading the manual (which incidentally
has not changed from the one which
came with vl .1 last year, although there is
a supplement to it detailing changes) I
found the following:
It sounds almost reasonable until you
try to reshape your box by grabbing its
handles with you pointer. If you want a
square box to have a 30-degree tilt, but
wish to keep the corners of your box at 90
degrees, for instance, maintaining those
corners will severely test your patience.
Re-aligning a complex polygon could
have you reaching for the Valium.
Although it is quite possible to achieve
complex, even dazzling results with Saxon
and a liberal amount of patience, today's
professional market will want it to be
quicker and easier.
The home enthusiast who invests in this
package might, on the other hand, be
willing to forgo the ease of use the pros
have come to expect after the likes of
Aldus PageMaker and Quark XPress - but
only in return for an inexpensive package
which operates on low-spec hardware.
And there's another problem. Although
you can get away with two floppy drives,
and the manual states the program func-
tions properly with any standard Amiga
display, you really need a hard disk and to
be in hi-res to do justice to Saxon.
Hi-res on the Amiga means you get
that annoying flicker problem, so a high
persistence monitor is really the order of
the Saxon day.
To complete the moans section before
moving on to the positive side, it appears
that Saxon lacks one of the most funda-
PageStream Is the only current DTP package to employ completely Irregular text runaround
"If you do lose a portion of your image,
you can easily reshape your box or alter-
natively move the graphic in such a way
that it becomes fully visible again.
"If your box contains text, you will
notice that the program will still respect
the specified margins (of both the text
block and the bounding box) in determin-
ing text flow. Depending on the effect
that you are trying to achieve, you may
reset the box margins or alternatively
reshape your boxes..."
mental requirements of those who make
errors (and who doesn't?) - an Undo facil-
ity.
Also - and I accept this is a general crit-
icism of the way most programs work on
the Amiga - can Saxon please do some-
thing about the file requesters?
Why, oh why can't we have fields in
requesters which are editable by high-
lighting and then typing to replace what
is already there, rather than being
restricted to delete keys and Amiga-X to
clear out the original contents? Such a
simple improvement could save so much
time. So much for the downside. What are
the truly positive aspects of Saxon?
It's robust. Apart from a few annoying
niggles, it's built for the job of serious
DTP. It handles colour - both on-screen
and as output - extremely well, and has
plenty of features like textures - including
fades, radials and stone bricks - drop
shadows, kerning, vertical justification,
box layering and easily controllable text
runarounds.
With its additional font facilities and
PostScript interpreter, it is seems Saxon
will make the professional grade. What it
needs now are a few improvements like
easy box rotation, and customised
requesters which make it easier to select
options.
Saxon's cost and hardware demands
will put it out of reach of many home
users, but if you're keen and can afford it,
it's certainly one to go for, especially if
you're a perfectionist when it comes to
the finished job.
Richard Williams
PageStream 2.2
In its earliest incarnations, SoftLogik's
PageStream suffered by comparison to
ProPage because of its quirky user inter-
face and its various glitches and idiosyn-
crasies, such as the non-interlaced screen's
refusal to recompute the vertical ruler to
its proper size.
With the latest version, however,
PageStream has sorted itself out and is
now much smoother in use. To the begin-
ner, PageStream 2.2 now offers a much
less painful introduction to DTP.
Its redesigned user interface is logical,
consistent, and about as standard as
Amiga programs get, utilising fairly univer-
sal key combinations for most actions.
This means that when you hold down
Right-Amiga-A to select all of the current
text, you don't get a style tags requester
as you do in ProPage.
Its "frameless" approach means you
don't have to define a box before import-
ing a graphic file and makes possible the
direct typing of headlines and so on.
Anything typed directly onto the page
becomes a text object once it's been cre-
ated, of course, but for beginners who just
want to get up and running PageStream is
friendly enough to enable a flyer or leaflet
to be completed within a couple of hours
of opening the box, almost without look-
ing at the manual.
The user's smooth introduction to
PageStream is helped immensely by its
thorough implementation of Workbench
2.0-style requesters. This has been done
so well that even when faced with an
entirely new requester, the user should
feel familiar enough with the interface to
get to grips with it quite quickly.
Menus are well thought out - most of
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PageStream is capable of creating very complex routines, though speed suffers at this level of detail
the options are where you'd expect them
to be - and the floating toolbox is pre-
sented in clear and understandable icons.
In fact, the overall impression when
using PageStream for the first time or, as
in our case, after a long holiday from it, is
of a program which does its best to be
accommodating rather than <
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Page layout under PageStream 2?
aided by the more open-ended frameles:
approach and by several powerful fea-
tures, not the least of which is the master
page option.
By defining a master page, the user can
set out page numbers, folios, margins,
and guides for one page and have this
repeated across every page in the docu-
ment. With double-sided documents, a
right and left master page can be created
and the template applied automatically to
odd and even numbered pages, releasing
the user from the jtfassie of loading tem-
plate^
The only limitations to working with
master pages are that any feature based
on a master page can only be modified
naster.
means, forWample, that text
Columns should not be defined on the
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dow from which areas
of the graphic can be
cut, pasted, and
copied to the main
document window.
This is very useful
when using clip art as
there are often several
clips in one large file.
So much for the
chuck-it-on-the-page
functions. When it
comes to fine tuning,
PageStream is no
slacker either. Point
sizes for typefaces are
scalable in steps of
one hundredth of a
point, the nine mea-
suring systems include
pica, didot, metric
points, and ciceros,
and colour is control-
lable through HSV,
CMYK, HLS, or RGB
values, though most
professional users will
settle for CMYK.
Page layout can be
enhanced with the
usual design features,
such as boxes, ellipses, Bezier curves, and
so on, and there are twelve text styles to
choose from, including reverse (making
WOBs a doddle), outline, strike through,
shadow, backslant, and even mirror.
In addition, any page element can be
rotated, slanted, and twisted using the
excellent rotate requester to produce
pseudo-perspective effects.
Text runaround, unique to PageStream,
can be set to run around both sides of an
irregularly shaped object (something even
Quark Xpress can't do), and though this
isn't always a useful feature for profes-
sional productions, its inclusion is an indi-
cator of the quality and completeness of
the PageStream package. There's virtually
nothing you can think of that PageStream
won't at least take a stab at.
Printing, especially to PostScript print-
ers, has been greatly improved with v2.2.
Tiling, scaling, thumbnails, mirror, nega-
tive, and a full set of crops and registration
marks are all available
through the print
requester, and the
Configure Printer option
will allow close control
of downloadable fonts
to make the most of
your Amiga's and
printer's memory.
This most important
feature of DTP, as well
implemented as it now
is, nicely rounds off a
fully-featured and pow-
erful package.
The main problem
with PageStream is
speed. Even on an
A3000, screen update
can be painfully slow
when working close in
on un-greeked text, and
there's no feature to
turn off screen refreshes
such as that offered by
ProPage.
In addition, the bleed
area around your docu- CL61SS
ment is not properly
pressed into service as a
paste board.
PageStream will allow
the user to put page ele-
ments in the bleed area
when in full page view
mode, but once zoomed in will not dis-
play anything which is off the page, mak-
ing full use of the paste board impossible.
Stevie Kennedy
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Jmport as an bBJect or a picture window.
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he or site can place and drag the graphic
to the required size and location on-screen
before releasing the mouse button to load
the file.
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your new Amiga. Bub, wth eveiy Amiga from
Silica we will give you 16 nights FREE holiday
hotel accommodation for you and your family
to enjoy a braaik at home or abroad.
16 NIGHTS HOLIDAY
HOTEL ACCOMMODATION
Every Amiga 500 and 600 Irani Silica cornea
supplied with a Iree 72 pti^a ootou? brochure
aecomiTwdaMn vouchers. These evflide 2 peqpte to
Slay up fa II lE*ii! ot 16 mgfiLs m any of 250 ixileLs
with jecommodaBofi FHEE. All y->y have io pay for
are your meals (pnces are isipdn Ihe-brcchuro).
WORTH
NEARLY
INC VAT & DELIVERY REF: AMC 0550
CARTOON CLASSICS
64 PAGE COLOUR CATALOGUE
YOURS FREE! WHEN YOU COMPLETE &
RETURN THE COUPON BELOW
, . ^
D Commodore AMIGA
• 1Mb AMIGA 500 PLUS £399.99
• BUILT-IN 1Mb DRIVE FREE
• A520 TELEVISION MODULATOR FREE
• THE SIMPSONS - BART v SPACE MUTANTS £24.99
• CAPTAIN PLANET AND THE PLANETEERS £25.99
• LEMMINGS - £25.99
• DELUXE PAINT III £79.99
PLUS! - FREE FROM SILICA
• PHOTON PAINT V2.0 _ £89.95
• ARCADE ACTION GAMES PACK £219.78
• GFA BASIC INTERPRETER V3.5 £50-00
TOTAL PACK VALUE:
LESS PACK SAVING:
SILICA PRICE:
PLUS!
16 NIGHTS FREE HOLIDAY
HOTEL ACCOMMODATION
The A6Q0 marks the new era ol Amiga computers. More compact than the A500, the
A600 has a built m I Mb drive, TV Modulator, internal IDE hard drive interface to easily
add a hard drive ins de the Amiga, Smart card slot to accommodate ROM. RAM or
game cards, easier to access mouse joystick ports (on the side) and modified
expansion slot underneath for additional RAM and battery backed clock.
‘ 1Mb AMIGA 600 (No Hard Disk)
DELUXE PAINT 111 (0Mb HD version only)
MYSTERY’ GAME (0Mb HD version only)
1 YEAR HOME SERVICE WARRANTY
£399.99
£79.99
VARIABLE
PLUS! - FREE FROM SILICA
• PHOTON PAINT V2.0 —
• ARCADE ACTION GAMES PACK
• GFA BASIC INTERPRETER V3 5
PLUS ! TOTAL PACK VALUE:
16 NIGHTS FREE HOLIDAY LESS PA CK SAVING:
ACCOMMODATION SILICA PRICE
£89.95
£219.78
£50.00
f MG HARD DUSK H,
£399
iOMb HARD DISK HH AML .i: ^ 1
£ 499 ]
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Commodore has released their new CDTV drives for the Amiga 500 and 600
computers. Simply plug the drive onto your Amiga and you have the power to:
• USE THE SUCCESSFUL HANGE OF CDTV SOFTWARE. A vast array ol
titles are available now and more are being released all the time. With the
CD's ability to retrieve 540Mb of data (over 610 Amiga floppy disks!), it is
the ideal media (or software based around entertainment, music,
education, reference and much more!
• PLAY NORMAL AUDIO CDs. The high quality CD Player (8 x over
sampling) outputs sound quality that is equal to the best top end CD player
available today. The CDTV drive gives you the ability to program the CD
Player on-screen to select random play, pre-set play order and much more.
• PLAY AND SEE CD+G CDs. Not only do you get high quality audio but
CD+G (Compact Disk + Graphics) produces graphics on screen while the
track is playing. These graphics are usually based on the theme of the
track or can be the lyrics of the song.
£299 £349 £299
REF. CCD tore REF: CCD 0583 REF CCP »T7
ALL PRICES INCLUDE VAT - DELIVERY IS FREE OF CHARGE IN THE UK MAINLAND
I SILICA SYSTEMS OFFER YOU I
• FREE OVERNIGHT DELIVERY: On all hardware orders shipped in the UK mainland,
• TECHNICAL SUPPORT HELPLINE: Team of technical experts at your service.
• PRICE MATCH : We normally match competitors on a >l Same product - Same price" basis.
• ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS: Proven track record in professional computer sales.
• BUSINESS + EDUCATION + GOVERNMENT: Volume discounts available 081-308 0888.
• SHOWROOMS: Demonstration and training facilities at our London & Sidcup branches.
• THE FULL STOCK RANGE: All of your requirements from one supplier.
• FREE CATALOGUES: Will be mailed to you with offers and software/peripheral details.
• PAYMENT: By cash, cheque and all major credit cards.
Before you decide when to buy your new Amiga computer, we suggest you think very carefully about
WHERE you buy it. Consider what it will be like a few months after buying your Amiga, when you may
require additional peripherals or software, or help and advice with your new purchase. And, will the
company you buy from contact you wilh details of new products? At Silica Systems we ensure that you
will have nothing to worry about. We have been established for over 12 years and, with our unrivalled
experience and expertise, we can now claim to meet our customers' requirements with an
understanding which is second to none. But don't just take our word for it. Complete and return the
coupon now for our latest Free literature and begin to experience the “Silica Systems Service”.
MAIL ORDER HOTLINE
081-309 1111
SILICA
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Mon-Sat 9,3Gam-6.00pm Late Night: Thursday until 8pm Extension: 3914
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Desktop Publishing
Jargon buster
Backslant
Baseline
Baseline shift
CHp art
CMYK
Crop
Crop marks
(EPS)
C reeking
Guides
Cutter
Halftone
Jaggies
Kerning
Leading
Mechanical separation
Point
Routing
Serif
Standoff
Tags
Text runaround
Wysiwyg
The opposite of italics. Backslanted characters will lean to the left rather than the right.
The invisible line on which a line of text sits.
The distance of text from the baseline. Positive baseline shift gives you superscript text, and negative
shift gives you subscript.
Any pre-drawn graphic imported for use in a DTP document. These can be IFF bitmaps, vector draw-
ings, or PostScript files.
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black), A combination of these four colours will give any colour you
like on paper See the box-out on printing for a further explanation.
To cut a graphic or printed page to a certain size.
Hairlines printed along with your document to show the printers where to cut
the finished page to size.
Any bitmap or vector drawing image which has been defined and saved in the PostScript printing
language.
This is used to speed up screen refreshes by representing text as a block of filled space or a
series of backslash marks.
Similar to the grid, but used mostly for margins and so on, guides are horizontal and vertical fines
which are used by DTP operators for aligning page elements. Some packages will allow "snap to
guides" to keep everything aligned perfectly. Like the grid, they will not appear on the printed page.
The space between columns of text on a page.
An image which is represented by different sized black dots to differentiate between lighL and dark
shades. Halftones are used mostly by newspapers and other mono publications.
The effect created by bitmap fonts and graphics, where the pixels show up the ragged edges of the
image. Some outline fonts use bitmap screen representations which look slightly jaggie on-screen but
which will appear perfectly smooth when printed.
The process of varying the amount of tracking between two character (such as AV) so that they Tit
tightly together, thus improving the final look of the document.
Pronounced "leddlng", this is the amount of space between any two baselines in a body of text.
Leading can be expressed in different ways depending on the measuring system you use.
For example, 12 point text with 14 point leading will have a two-point gap between the top of the
tallest letter and the next line up.
Also called "spot colour". Most DTP packages allow the user to use mechanical separation for colours,
such as fluorescent orange, which can't be separated into CMYK values. This is an expensive opera-
tion as it involves the production of an extra printing film for each spot colour.
Ditto, A point is 1/72 of an Inch and is written Ipt. This is by far the most popular measuring system
currently in use.
The path through which text will flow across a number of columns. Most packages will allow this to
be set automatically when columns are created, then adjusted by breaking the link between columns
and creating new ones. In this way, text can be made to skip columns or entire pages.
A category of font which has "serifs" or small fancy bits at the end of straight lines on every letter
(such as T and E). The opposite is "sans serif", fonts which look more modern and clinical. The text
you are now reading is in a sans serif font.
The amount of space left around a graphic when text is flown around it.
Style tags are shortcuts used to apply a text style, size, font, and many other attributes to a selection
of text. The better DTP packages will usually allow the definition of a range of style tags, one each for
headlines, captions and so on, which frees the user from the need to select all the text attributes each
time a style is required. A collection of style tags is known as a style sheet.
The process of forcing text to follow the outline of a box or other page element rather than just filling
a column. The better packages will allow text to follow Irregular outlines such as circles or drawings.
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Amiga Computing July 1992
3GVP
GREAT
VALLEY
PRODUCTS
QUALITY AMIGA PERIPHERALS
WITH A 2 YEAR WARRANTY
Silica Systems are pleased to present the GVP
range of peripherals. GVP are the world’s largest
third party manufacturer of peripherals for the
Amiga range and have a reputation for high
specification, quality products. The company
was founded only four years ago by a man who
understands the Amiga - Commodore’s ex-Vice
President of Technology. He, along with a team
of Amiga experts including other ex-Commodore
staff, understand the add-on requirements of
Amiga owners better than anyone. Not only do
GVP provide peripherals that Amiga owners
want, they also offer peace of mind, with a 2
year warranty on the products they manufacture.
So, if you are looking for the very best in Amiga
peripherals, look no further than GVP.
A530 ACCELERATOR
40MHz 68030EC
prcccG3c
Hi*speed SCSi
interface with 52, 120
or 240Mb hard drive
1Mb Populated,
Accommodates up to
maximum 8Mb of
32-bit wide RAM
Optional 68882 Maths
Co-Processor
Optional PC-AT
emulation
■,*— ■
FDfi THE
i
500
ACCELERATOR + HD + RAM UPGRADE
Plugging a GVP A530 Accelerator onto your A500 or A500 Plus will
boost its speed from 7.14MHz to a blislering 40MHz. The A530 win
be available with either 52, 120 or 240Mb hard drive and can be>
upgraded to include an additional maths Co-Processor, 8Mb of 32-bit
wide FAST RAM and much more through GVP’s unique “mini-slor.
40MHz* 1Mb RAM/52Mb HD Ref: HAR 0962 £749
40MHz-1Mb 120Mb HD Ref: HAR 0974 £899
40MHz-1Mb RAM/240Mb HD Ret: har rase £1099
NEWI OPTIONAL PLUG-IN
16MHz PC286 EMULATOR
* 1 6 MHz 80286 processor
* 287 Maths Co-Processor socket
* 51 2K of PC RAM plus the use of Amiga RAM
* Supports Hercules, CGA, EGA/VGA (mono-
chrome) and T3100 video modes
* Runs MS-DOS (3.2 and upwards) plus
thousands of other PC programs
This powerful 286 emulator module simply plugs
into the “mini-slot” of the GVP HD8+ or A530
(without invalidating the warranty). The emulator
has full access to the Amiga’s
resources and allows you to run
PC and Amiga programs at the
same time, giving you two
computers in one.
£249
152Mb HARP DRIVE
FOR THE
AMIGA
500
INCLUDES MANY UNIQUE FEATURES
NOT FOUND IN ANY OTHER
AMIGA DRIVES
/"/
• 52/120/24DMb LIGHTNING QUICK HARD DRIVES
ffcrw Staie-OMhe-Arf i ■ infernal SCSI Quanitim hard drives, wdft a i ,1CDX pet ■second
11 tins) transfer rate making this iim fastest hard drive available for the Aoi-ga
• LEADING EDGE TECHNOLOGY
KigtfHetfc Custom VLSI, Fsaasl ROM chips and DMA dB-sign, ensure that no
(rfhtr Amiga hard dbrt will out pBffonn line GVP H08+.
• 8Mb RAM SOCKETS - UNPOPULATED
Inside every drive there are sotfcera to expand the Amiga's RAM by 8M&
• USES EASY-TO-FIT 1Mb/4Mb SIMMs
Memory upgrades. Please order 3832 at £3&96 per Mb (2Mb lumps <*nfy) up
lo 4Mb To upgrade !□ BMb. please Wdur 2 3849 at 0*9.35 po/ 4Mb SIMM
• CUT-OF SWITCH FOR GAMES
Features a special games switch eq 'cul off The dr.-ve tor games than won't work
with a hard drsit Most other drives reutnra unbbtrmg from iim Amiga
• ‘MINI SLOT" EXPANSION
This unique nlM has been bw'lt-m ’4 anew -.p- — r.r *r tz -. r -,/ jiing
any risky pass-through. ienniiqu«s 5 se PC288 cffluiatQf active
• EXTERNAL SCSI PORT
Add up Ed 6 external SCSI devices, as CD- RDM tape streamers, additional hard drives, removable media,
scannera. etc
• DEDICATED PSU + FAN
Flowing Commodore's strong recommendairnns the GVP HD0+ is supplied with its own enema! power sujkply and cooling fan
• FULLY COMPATIBLE
Fully compatible mill ad Amiga SEWs fine. PLUS) aim wsnns of Kictstart
• FREE 2 YEAR WARRANTY
WHAT THE PRESS SAY
'Superb build, exce//enf aesfheffes and blinding speed
make fh/s tfie besf A 500 hard drive ' ... - Amiga shopper
' GVP claims this is the fastest hard drive in the world and
none of our tests coo Id prove that wrong.' - AMIGA shopper
' Overall : Untouchable. THE choice ' - amiga shopper
'Still the best hard drive ' ... 92% - amiga format
120Mb
£499
240Mb
£799
Avriahto SSE
REF HAR G9<£
GVP HD8+ 52Mb HD
£379
ALL PRICES INCLUDE VAT RgL HAR 0652
ALL PRICES INCLUDE VAT - DELIVERY IS FREE OF CHARGE IN THE UK MAINLAND
FOR ALL AIMS AMIGA 1500 + 2000 + 3000 PRODUCTS
t
%
%
SOUND SAMPLER
• 8-bit stereo sampler
• Plugs into parallel port
9 MIDI support for song input
9 Extensive editing features
9 Works with all Amigas
A ow-cost sound and muse solution for the
sst -preSessona! and auto r;phv.st It
( s of a snail, q . y - : t stereo
sound sampler that connects -i(o the parallel
pod on any Amga 500, 1500, 2000 or 3000
computer. Combined with oi a ol the fastest,
most powerful and easy-to-use sound and
must “lifng programs available. Includes 4-
tiacx Mura&racXer file compatible sequencer.
.35 £59.95.
G-FORCE 30-25/40/50
• 68030E C/68030E C/68030 processor
• 25/40/SOMHz clock speeds
• 68882 Maths co-processor
• Expands to 1 3/16/1 6Mb 32-bit RAM
• 32-bit SCSI a.'tik.otter on board
These las! ^030/680 30EC accelerators with
memory up^jde and SCSI interface board
o- ■ r ur. c . g speed and performance
wlhout 'he L, :jh p"ce. Each board cor es
complete wdh a 68882 maths co-pracessc ■ srd
FLAM upgrade as slji jjrd. Hard D i* Mount Kfl
available, to mourn f Hard Live on any G-
Force 030 Board, GVA 4251 , £39.95
25MHx/lMb u^nno £599
40MHz/4Mb £999
k 50MHz/4Mb
IMPACT II HC8
• Factory installed Hard Drives
9 52, 120, 240 & 420Mb options
9 On-board 8Mb memory sockets
9 Add up to 6 additional SCSI
devices
9 Easy to install SIMMS
These are H* of the HDB+ hard
drae. bul for the 1 500 and 200C models. Not
pnSy me they some of the fastest hard drives
avs- ibie, egl Ihey also incorporate an
unpopulated- 8W> RAM expanjwn beard.
52Mb RttHARi&i £299
120Mb r*i har lisa £449
240Mb h*i KAR i**-j £699
420Mb n*t har iso £ 1 299
IMPACT VISION 24
9 768 x 580 PAL Resolution
9 Supports composite video ,
S-VHS and RGB signals
9 Broadcast quality genlock
9 Now with RGB splitter
Th,s is ihe very latest 24-i4 Professional Video
Adapior It features 1 6 mrftion coteura on screen
at once, built-in gt-Mock. tinker Bp- Irame
buffer, frame grabber and dxjrta! ktyfr. Impact
Vffiic-n 24 comes supp .ed with Ca qa-i-IV24 30
modeili ~ and rendering software, Scala IV24
video filling software, pbs Macro Paint 24-bil
paint package. A15Q0.20M} ru-guires additional
adaptor, GVA 5224. £49.95
7024 £1699
RAM 8
• Up 10 8Mb ol FAST RAM
9 Upgrade In 2Mb increments
9 Supports industry standard
RAM chips
9 Diagnostic software included
9 Fully auto-configuring
A SKTuta and convene M 6Mb HAM iKparaxjft
board lor the Amiga 1500 and 2000. USOQ
industry standard HAM diips. tiia RAM-8 oilers
an easy way lo upgrade jw 1500 or 2000 in
2ML inoemefils. ihfl RAM B « fully a-Jto-
configunnp and is suppi*J wm peaaHJf-rrwrt
d ; agi«5bc soriwaiB. 6Mb oonfiguraBon suppwMd
lor bndgeboard owners
RAM 2800 £99
RAM 2802: « £169
SYQUEST 44/88Mb
• 44 or 88Mb removable media
• 20ms access time
• Can be supplied wilh or without
GVP HC8 Controller
• External case available for A500 or
A3000 users
GVP are now offering Syquet 1 dnves with dr
without the.r HC8 onnlrnter They are avaiat>a
in 44 and 88Mb L.iparrUes and liavo a ;
access t me. Each enve comes con-ntete wim
one removafcte cartridge. 3..; iesi iiv.-i-r o .e
complete storage fiexiMily. offiKing a cpuck and
easy way lo add extra storage to ydut sv stum
44Mb (B»r» DtIvb) --W £449
44Mb ( + hcb) -w Humb £549
88Mb (Bai* DriM) 5m MBWIB £599
88Mb (*HCO) OMiwriieai £699^
( SILICA SYSTEMS OFFER YOU I
• FREE OVERNIGHT DELIVERY: On all hardware orders shipped in the UK mainland.
• TECHNICAL SUPPORT HELPLINE: Team of technical experts at your service.
• PRICE MATCH: We normally match competitors on a “Same product - Same price” basis,
• ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS: Proven track record in professional computer sales.
• BUSINESS + EDUCATION + GOVERNMENT: Volume discounts available for large orders.
• SHOWROOMS: Demonstration and training facilities at our London & Sidcup branches.
• THE FULL STOCK RANGE: All of your requirements Irom one supplier.
• FREE CATALOGUES: Will be mailed to you with offers and software/peripheral details.
• PAYMENT: By cash, cheque and all major credit cards.
Before you decide when to buy your new Amiga products, we suggest you think very carefully about
WHERE you buy them. Consider what it will be like a few months alter you have made your purchase,
when you may require additional peripherals or software, or help and advice. And, will the company you
buy from contact you with details of new products? At Silica Systems, we ensure that you will have
nothing to worry about. We have been established for over 1 2 years and, with our unrivalled experience
and expertise, we can now claim to meet our customers' requirements with an understanding which is
second to none. But don’t just take our word for it. Complete and return the coupon now for our latest
Free literature and begin to experience the “Silica Systems Service".
MAIL ORDER HOTLINE
081-309 1111
SILICA
SYSTEMS
MAIL ORDER:
Order Lines Open:
LONDON SHOP:
Opening Hours:
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Mon-Sat 9.00am-6.00pm No late Night Opening Fax No: 0 61-306 0608
LONDON SHOP:
Opening Hours:
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Mon-Sat 9.30am-6.00pm No late Night Opening Fax No: 071- 323 4737
SIDCUP SHOP:
Opening Hours:
Mon-Sat 9.30am-6.00pm
Selfridges ( 1 st Floor), Oxford Street, London, W1A 1AB Tel: 071-629 1234
m-6.00pm Lat e Night: Thursday until 8pm Extension: 3914
1-4 The Mews, Hatherley Rd, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 4DX Tel: 081-302 8811
Mon-Sat 9.Q0am-5.30pm Late Night: Friday until 7pm Fax No: 081-309 0017
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PLEASE SEND INFORMATION ON THE GVP RANGE
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AMIGA 500 1.3
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ALONE WITH MONITOR
51 2K 279.00 478.00
1MB 299.00 498.00
AMIGA 3000
25MHZ, 1 COMB HO, 4MB East RAM, 2MB chip RAM
• SCALA • Deluxe Paint IV • Amigavisian
ALONE 3289.00
WITH PHILIPS 7CM 3279 3539.00
AMIGA 600
1 MB. WB 2.04, 3.5 FD + Smut Curd Inter foce, with
• 12 month m-sHe warranty
A600 + DELUXE PAINT III + GAME £364.95
A600 20MB HD (larger available} £459.95
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STARTER PACK I
MAX VALUE /RRP
• 1 0 Blank Discs + 80 (cpodty lockable disc box 26.98
• Mouse Mat 4.99
• Virus Killer Disk 4.99
• D Paint III or Home Accounts 79.99
TOTAL VALUE 116.95
WITH MIGA/COTV 17.99
SEPARATELY 24.99
STARTER RACK II
MAX VALUE /RRP
• Astra ! 0 games puck or 0.5MB RAM exp f 1 .3] 229.78
• G.FJL Bask 50.00
• Photon Point II or Back lo the Future II {1.3} 89.95
• Holiday Accommodation*
TOTAL VALUE 369,73
WITH AMIGA/CDTV 19.99
SEPARATELY 39.99
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Callers welcome for advice ond demonstration ot our 1 600+ sq
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Next day delivery for most orders received by 5 pm; express 7
om-9 om and Saturday services available
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by caged, insured, lop name courier service
100% pre-despatch testing on Amigas
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Extended warranty available on many products
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AMIGA 500 PUIS
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updated Agnus & Denise chips far better screen resolution to
1280x512, Kickstor! & Workbench 2.04, expandable ro 2MB CHIP
memory & battery dock
ALONE WITH MONITOR
1MB 309.00 509.00
2MB 349.00 549.00
Zydec external drive with on/off & daisy chain port ADD 48.00
Also with Kickstart 13 + ROM Sharer for witching between 1 .3/2.04
ta eliminate compatibility problems ADD 47.99
CARTOON CLASSICS
GAMES PACK EXTRA
(1MB REQUIRED)
V ALUI/RRP
Cartoon Classics Gomes: Lemmings 25.99
The Simpsons 24.99
Coptoin Planet 25.99
Deluxe Paint III with animation 79.99
3 Disc Home Pack including Word Processor,
Spreadsheet, Dotobose or PD Games compilation 9.99
TOTALVALUE 161.96
WITH AMIGA/CDTV 15.99
SEPARATELY 29.99
1 500 PACK EXTRA
(CAN BE USER WITH A500
1MB AND A500*)
VALUE /RRP
Hie Works Pl atinum, word processor, spreadsheet,
database 169.95
Deluxe Painl III with animation 79.99
Gel the most out of your Amiga book 9.95
Hobbyle 50 Programme PD Greats Pock II 39.95
EITHER OR
SimOty • Puiznic
Populous • Toki
Their Finest Hour • Digital Nome Accounts
Baitfochess • 01
MicToswikh Turbo Joystick
TOTAL VALUE
WITH AMIGA/CDTV
SEPARATELY
24.99
24.99
29.99
29.99
9.99
418.79
49J9
69.99
SPECIAL: Also with Cartoon Classics Games ADD 1 2.99
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New including Kickstart & Workbench 2.04.
Hard disc configuration inc. the high performance GVP II controller card,
EXPAWDABLf TO 8MB Fast reliable 52MB +1 20MB Quantum Drives ore used.
ALONE WITH 8833 WITH 7CM + FFIXIR
Dual Drive 495.00 695.00
DD+GYP+20MB HD 699.00 899.00
DD+GYP+52MB HD 765.00 969.00
DD+GYP+120MB HD 908.00 1112.00
Per exlra 2MB filled to GYP
Also with Kickslart 1.3 + ROM Sharer
859.00
1065.00
1129.00
1272.00
ADD 60.00
ADD 47.99
CDTV
The ultimate CD interactive multi media machine with an Amiga inside!
Hutchirrsons Encyclopaedia CD
CDTV with CD ROM drive
Lemmings CD
Disc Caddy
• Welcome CD + tutorial
• Remote control unit
AS ABOVE 439.99
ALSO: With keyboard and black matching disc drive to allow access to
whole range of Amiga disc based software 549.00
SPECIAL: Also with up to £90 worth of CD titles of your choice!
ADD 60.00
THE HOT LOT PACK
(1MB REQUIRED)
VALUE/RRP
• Cartoon Classics Gomes: Lemmings
25.99
The Simpsons
24.99
Captain Plane!
25.99
• Deluxe Paint ill with animation
79.99
• 1 0 GREAT individually packaged games, previous 269.82
RRPs up to 39,99 each, phone to choose from current list, or
leave if to us! Children s games available.
• 50 Programme Hobbyle PD Great Pocks II
39.99
• Dust Covers mouse mol
9.98
• 10 Blank Discs + 80 Capacity Disc Bax
26.98
• Micioswikh turbu joystick
9.99
TOTALVALUE
513.72
WITH AMIGA
59.99
SEPARATELY
79.99
SPECIAL: ALSO 1 0 extra great games
ADD 25.00
PROFESSIONAL FAMILY
MACK
(1MB REQUIlliD)
VALUE /RRP
• Cartoon Oassics Games: lemmings 25.99
The Simpsons 24,99
Captain Planet 25.99
• Deluxe Paint HI wflh mimatwi 79.99
• The Works Pfatinum Ward Processor, Spreadsheet
ond Database 169.99
• Their Pinesf Hour, Flight Simulator 29.99
OR Back la the Future and Postman Pal(l.3 only)
OR Digital Kama Accounts or Edd the Duck
• Virus Killer Disk 4.99
• 50 Programme Habbyte PD Greats Puck II 39.99
• Hobbyle Infant, Junior {specify] or Secondary
Educational Pack 19.99
• 1 0 Blank Discs + 80 Capacity lockable disc box 26.98
• Mouse Mai + Dusl Coyer 9.98
• Turbo Micrttwiirh Joystick 9.99
TOTAL VALUE 468.86
WTTH AMIGA/CDTV 79.99
SEPARATELY 91.99
SPECIAL Alsu with Star LC 200 9 PIN
Co lour Printer and Starter Pack ADD 1 85.00
Also with Citizen 224+24 Pin
Colour Printer and Starter Pack ADD 245 .00
COMMODORE PREMIER DEALER • STAR GOLD DEALER • CDTV CENTRE •
FAMOUS FIVE PACK
7-13 YEARS VA uj [/Rgp
• Join Enid Blyton's Famous Rve to solve the mystery of Treosure
Island in this educational interactive adventure 24.99
• ADI - choose from any entertaining National Curriculum
Moths or English course from Fun School publishers,
OR ony Fun School 25.99
• Target moths, suite of 4 fun programmes aimed at specific
Notional Curriculum targets OR Maths Adventure:
This adventure through time allows pupils to revise and
check their progress In Nationol Curriculum maths 25.99
• Sim Gly - Educational game sword winner and Populous
OR Elf - travel as Cornelius the Elf and Puzznic - addictive
puzzle game 49.98
• Hobh Junior or Secondary Educationol PD Pack, featuring
up to 1 2 "Learn while you play" games 1 9.99
• Hobbyte 50 programme PD Greats II Pack 39.99
• Microswitch Turbo Joystick 9.99
TOTAL VALUE 196.92
WITH AMIGA/CDTY 59*99
SEPARATELY 79.99
SPECIAL Also with 10 great individually packaged games
RRPs up to £39.99, phone to choose from current list, or
leave it to us! Children's gomes ovoiloble
VALUE £269.82
ADD £34.99
GOLDILOCKS PACK
5-1 1 YEARS
MAX VALUE /l!RP
• The Three Bears: A colourful educational and entertain mg
adventure loosely based on the traditional story .(Improves
reading skills and develops imaginative and logit at
thought] 22.95
• Money Matters - Tour graphically brilliant and educationally
sound games with coins keyboard overlay, lop reviews 24.99
• Postman Pat (1.3 only], OR Edd the Duck [7+ years! OR
Matched PaiFS OR Minky L s Scary School 1 4.99
• Hobbyte Infant or Junior ( specify ) Educational Pack,
lecturing op to 1 2 "Learn while you play" games 1 9.99
• Hobbyte 30 Easy Children's Games, 10 pack disc
inducting Train Sal and other lop entertaining PD titles 1 9.99
• 10 Blank Disc 6.99
• Micraswik h Turbo Joystick 9.99
• Deluxe Paint Il/Photon Paint II or Elf or Punait 89.99
• Mouse mat 4.99
TOTAL VALUE 214.87
WITH AMIGA/CDTY 49,99
SEPARATELY 69.99
ACCESSORIES
Blitz virvs protector + backup device for any external drive 23.99
A520 Modulator 26.99
A50CI Deluxe control centre 44.99
Competition Pro Joystick 11.95
CDTV Keyboard 44.95
FLOPPY DRIVES
Zydec 3.5 external drive, dofeychnm + on/aft 48.95
Cumuna CAX 354 3.5 external drive, beige 52.99
CD1V external 3.5 drive, black, 59.99
PC 88013! with anti dick f Blitz back up ond virus protector 67.95
PC 880 B as above, Cyclone compatible 78.99
PC8B0B with Blitz + X Copy 98.99
Dual drive as PC BBOB 115.95
MOt«TORS/rVS/ACCESSORCS
CBM 1085SDI monitor + leads 216.99
Philips 8B33 MK II monitor and leads 2 1 6.99
CBM 1 960 High res monitor + Mway Bkker fixer for 1 500/20QO 549.99
U\ + swivel stand for Philips 8833 1 2.99
Philips 7CM3279 Hi-res SVGA ,28dp for 3000 inc. tilt & swivel 259.99
As above, plus flicker fixer for k\ 500/2000 369.99
HARD DRIVES
A500 GVP 530 52 MB HD +68030 1 MB exp. to 8MB 694.99
UOO GVP 530 120 MB HD +58030 1MB tip. lo 8MB 844.45
5500 GVP 530 240 MB HD +68030 1MB exp. to 0MB 1038.95
A5MMBHD 269.99
A5O0 GVP!! 52MB HD, exp to 6MB 339.99
A50D GVPil 1 20MB HD. exp to SMB 468.99
A1 500/2000 GVP II controller, exp to 8MB + Qinnrum 52MB HD 264.99
A1 500/2000 GVP II tonl., exp to B MB + Quantum 1 20 MB HD 406.99
Per extra 2MB filled to above 62.99
ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
RACK 3-9 YEARS
VaUK/RRP
• Fun School 2, under 6 years, 6-B years or 8+ years T 9.99
• Fun School 3 or 4, specify ucwfer 5 years, 5 to 7 years or
7+ years.
- 1 2 stunning U K educational gomes with beautiful
pictures, exciting animation and music that helps to develop
number, ward and ether skills, Up lo 6 skill levels.
Conform la National Curriculum requirements. 24.99
• Postman Pot { 1.3 only], OR Edd the Duck (7+ years] OR
Matched Pairs OR Blinky ' $ Scary School 1 4,99
• Hobbyte infant ar Junior [specify] Educational Pack,
featuring up to 12 “'Learn while you play" pomes 1 9.99
• Hobby le 30 Easy Children ^ 1 s Gomes , 1 0 pack disc
intluairw Train Set and other lop entertaining PD titles 1 9.99
• 10 Blank Dhcs 6.99
• Joystick 9+99
• Deluxe Paint Il/Photon Point If or Elf or Puzzmi 89.99
TOTAL VALUE 206.92
WITH AMIGA /CDTV 49.99
SEPARATELY 69.9*
SPECIAL: With Cartoon Classics Games and D point tit +
animation instead of Opsin! Il/Photon Paint II (1MB req.)
VALUE SO.Gu
ADD 14.99
AMOS
PROGRAMMER'S PACK
(1MB RfO.)
VAIUI/RRP
• EASY AMOS - complete, simplest possible, fun-to-use beginners
programming course. Leam to write professional looking
orcade games, educational, etc. software in weeks, not yeors.
Complete with graphics, sound, animation and more.
Upgrodeable to Amos. 34.99
• Cortoon Classics Games: OR
Lemmings Elf 25.99
Captain Planet Puzznik 25,99
The Simpsons Digito Home Accounts 24.99
• 50 Programme Hobbyte PD Greats Pack 39,99
• 20 Blank Discs + 80 Capacity LockobleDisc Box 33.97
• Mouse Mai + Dus! Cover 9-98
• 'Get the Most out of Your Amigo' book 9.95
• Microswitch Turbo Joystick 9.99
TOTAL VALUE 215.84
WITH AMIGA/ CDTV 59.99
SEPARATELY 79.99
As above, but with:
• Amos the Creator instead of Easy Amos
WITH AMIGA/CDTV 69,99
SEPARATELY 89.99
NOTE: Ew both above packs, u second Happy or hard drive ond a
prints fur faring are rsawifneoded, but rot essential
SCANNERS
ftoksha 400 dpi 32 greyscale 4 Datascan software 87.99
Power Hand. Scanner, 400dpi, 64 greyscale, Powerscan software 97.99
Power Cdour Hand Scanner 235.95
Sharp JJN 00 A6 Scanner + scanlah software, supports
4096 tols, op to 10 bit 595.95
Sharp jX-300 A4 Scanner + s/w, up lo 24 bit POA
EXPANSION
A50O 51 2K RAM exp + clock ,,21.99 CBM ASOlexp... 29.00
1 MB exp for A600 ,_„.POA A50Q + 1 MB upgrade .43.99
1 .5 MB exp for A5Q0 74.99 K51.3 ROM Sharer 47.99
GYP AS00 duel .-see Hard Drives
TRAMPY'S OR
THOMAS’S PACK
2-9 YEARS
AT LEAST 57 EDUCAIIOHAUFUH FILLED GAMES!
MAX VALUE /RRP
The Shoe People - 6 colourful and entertaining gomes 29.99
featuring Trampy and friends to encourage early number
reading and pre-reading skills. Wllh Shoe People music
OR Thomas the Tank Engine's fun with Words - 6 separate eosy
to use learning programmes with animation and sound.
Shapes and Colours Bobby the Clown entertains and
toys dawn the foundation lor maths ond writing in 6
colourful animated games. 9.99
Fun School 2, 3 or 4 ■ the ‘Fun School" suite have won
just about every award going, 5 or 6 wonderful
animated games. " 24.99
OR Picture Book: 4 colourful and amusing games from
ex Tun School' design manager will delight young children.
Deluxe Paint Il/Photon Paint II of Elf or Puzznic
Hobbyte Infant Educational PD Pack, containing 10
fun while you leom games
1 .3 TO PLUS UPGRADE
Chip fitting and board upgrade available, by
our qualified engineers or DIY kit ...POA
89.99
19.99
tun white you leam games
• Hobbyte 30 Easy Children's Gomes Pock 1 9.99
• lOfllonkOfsa Oisc Box, Joystick Mouse Mat 26.96
TOTAL VALUE 221.90
WITH AMIGA/CDTV 49.99
SEPARATELY 69.99
SPECIAL: With Cartoon Classics Games and Dpaint III +
animation instead of Dpaint Il/Photon Paint II (1MB req.)
VALUE 80.00
ADD 14.99
ARTISTS PACK
H VAIUE/RRP H
• Deluxe Paint III with onimotion (upgrodeable to DP IV)
79.99
H • Power 400dpi scanner with Powerscan professional s/w
99.99
H • 10 disc Hobbyte PD Graphics Pack inc. clip art + utilities
39.99 ■
I • Cartoon (lossics Games: OR
Lemmings Elf
25.99 1
Captain Planet Puzznik
25.99
H The Simpsons Digita Home Accounts
24.99 ■
• 50 Programme Hobbyte PD Greats Pack
39.99
I • 20 8lonk Discs -t- 80 Capacity LockobleDisc Box
33.97
1 • Mouse Mat + Dust Cover
9.98
1 • 'Get the Most out of Your Amigo' book
9.95 ■
1 • Microswitch Turbo Joystick
9.99 ■
TOTAL VALUE
400.82
■ WITH AMIGA/CDTV
1 39.99 ■
■ SEPARATELY
169.99 ■
■ DTP PACK
■ ALL AS ARTIST'S PACK
400.82 1
PLUS: PAGESETTER 11
99.99 I
TOTAL VALUE
499.81 |
WITH AMIGA/CDTV
189.99 1
■ SEPARATELY
219.99 1
■ OR: PRO PAGE 3
269.99
TOTAL VALUE
670.81
■ WITH AMIGA/CDTV
239.99
■ SEPARATELY
279.99 J
ALONE
ALONE
Citizen 120+D 112.95
Star LC20 24.95
Star LC2O0 col 172.95
GfoenSwifly J 78.95
Star LC 24-20 178.95
Star LC 24-200 ..216.95
Star 1C 24-200 cot 256.95
Glizen 124D... 176.95
Clizun 224 211.95
PRINTERS
WITH
STARTER
PACK
o. Gtizen 224+col’ 236.95
cb Gllzen Swift 24a 246.95
- Glizen Swift 24ecd\ 266.95
^ Star XB 24/200' 376.95
Star XB 24/250.., 456.95
HPDeskjet 346.95
o HP Deskiel <ol 576.95
Q HP Painliel 526.95
BJlOe Bubblejet port.. 226.95
WITH
STARTER
PACK
STARTER PACK: 500 Sheets A4 or continuous paper, Amiga to
printer lead & Universal Printer Stand • with new driver
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The best trade-in allowance, extra far peripherals and
accessaries. Trade in your old machine for a brand new 4600/
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AT Once 1 78.99 GVP 40/4 far 1 500 .945.99
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I miga Computing July 1992
THE GENLOCK PEOPLE
Do you want to overlay computer
graphics or titles onto your videos? If
so, you will need a Genlock.
Rendale Genlocks are built to a very
high standard, and are used widely
in the professional environment.
62 Tenter Road,
Moulton Park
Business Centre,
Northampton,
NN3 1AX,
England.
Tel: (0604) 790466
Fax: (0604) 647403
RENDALE
8802
£ 139 -
The Rendale range of Amiga Genlocks begins with the 8802. This is a
Genlock, which, when attached to an Amiga computer and a suitable video
system, will allow you to mix video and computer graphics. It offers all the
functions that you need, such as:
* RGB feed through, allowing for a preview monitor.
* High quality output video, which in default mode provides video with overlaid
computer graphics.
*
RENDALE
8802 FMC
£178-
lt can be supplied with a device which will allow you to fade between
computer graphics and the video source, and also a mode control unit so that
you can move between Amiga only, video only, background mode and
foreground modes 1 & 2.
RENDALE
SUPER-8802
£499-
The Rendale Super-8802 is a development of the basic 8802 unit, it performs
the same functions, but has the added capability of also working with Super-
VHS signals. The unit will allow the user to cross fade between the Amiga
and video signal. In addition, some basic wipe patterns are provided, and
also a fade to black option. Mode control is also provided via hardware.
NEW!
8802 FMC Unit
RENDALE
This is a brand new piece of kit which will improve the capabilities of the
popular Rendale 8802 Genlock. This unit allows you to cross fade between
the Amiga and video signals, so that you can gently fade computer titles in
and out. Also, the ability to switch between the various modes offered by the
8802 is provided. The required mode is selected by a push switch, giving
smooth, flicker free transformations.
FMC
£45-fitted
£42-loose
The FMC unit does need to be soldered into the 8802, we can do this at our
factory if required.
8802
UPGRADES
£ 42 -
£ 400 -
UPGRADES PATHS
Rendale Genlocks are designed to be flexible, and the ability of your Genlock
to grow with your system was deemed to be of paramount importance in our
design process.
As a consequence, existing 8802 users can follow one of two upgrade paths.
The fade and mode control unit (FMC unit) can be purchased independently,
and fitted either by yourself or our engineer. Basic soldering skills are
essential for self-installation. Or, for only £3.00, our engineer will fit it for you.
The other upgrade path is the move from a purely composite 8802 to the
Super-8802. This can also be done simply, although we do have to perform
the upgrade work at our factory. We would only require your unit for around
two days.
PRICES INCLUDE VAT AND DELIVERY. ACCESS AND MASTERCARD ACCEPTED.
28
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Amiga Computing
presents an exclusive
demonstration of the
latest Amiga DTP package
Publisher 1.2
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was worth your while buying an
expensive DTP package when your
wordprocessor would suffice, then been
put off for good by the cost of finding out,
now's your chance to peek into the world
of one of the Amiga's most advanced appli-
cation areas. Thanks to Amiga Computing , it
won't cost you a penny.
The Saxon Publisher demo on your
CoverDisk is identical to the full program
with the exception that it will not save or
print your work, so it forms an excellent
introduction to the DTP world.
Version 1 .2 of the program is the most
recent release in the DTP war, and is
packed with the sort of advanced features
you would expect from a program costing
£250.
Booting up
Start the demo by booting your
CoverDisk, going into the Saxon Publisher
drawer and clicking on the Version 1.2
icon, or selecting Saxon Demo from the
Shortcut menus.
When the program has loaded, it will
begin a rolling demo of Saxon's features,
which you can halt by pressing the Escape
key to return control of the program to the
user.
It would be best to do so at once, as the
demo is more suited to NTSC (Saxon
Publisher is an American program) than
PAL Amigas, and so doesn't work particu-
larly well on European machines. As soon
as Escape is pressed, the cursor will halt and
you can begin to explore the package.
Our first job is to add a page to our doc-
ument, so go to the Page menu and select
Add. A requester will pop up in which you
can choose the size of page to work on
and define its background texture, but for
our purposes simply clicking on OK to
choose the default A4 size will do.
Your page, which for now is completely
blank, will appear on-screen
ready to be filled. At this
point, we'll import the two
elements which will go to
make up the simple demo
page, so hold down the
right mouse button and
select Graphic/Import IFF
from the External menu.
When the file requester
appears, click on Drives,
then CoverDisk33, then
SaxonPublisheM .20, then
DemoFiles - phewl
You should see two files,
one called AC. iff, the other
called DemoText.wp.
Double click on the AC. iff
file and after a bit of disk
accessing its name will be
tagged in the files list you
should see halfway down
the toolbox on the left-hand
side of the screen. To import
the text file, use the Import
Text/Word Perfect option on
the External menu.
To save time when the file
requester pops up again,
click on the History gadget
and Saxon will display the
directories you've recently
used. The only one listed will be the
DemoFiles directory, so click on this to go
straight in, then double click on the
DemoTextwp file. Again, this will be listed
on the left of the screen.
Now to get these files on the page.
Every "element" in Saxon documents is
framed in a box in an attempt to make the
structure of a page as easy as possible to
control. Unlike most other DTP packages,
however, Saxon will create any shape of
box you please. For now, we'll stick to sim-
ple square ones.
Click on the box tool (top left tool below
the files list) and a set of crosshairs will
appear on-screen. Position these where you
would like the box to start, click the mouse,
move the crosshairs to where the box will
end, and click gain to draw the box. Now
repeat this operation to create a second
box.
We need to resize these boxes so that
the top one is about a third of the page
high and just over half as wide, and the
bottom one two-thirds of a page in height
and almost as wide. Do this by clicking on
the small sizing boxes along the edges of
the active box.
The active box is the one you last cre-
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ated or clicked on, so click on the top box
and resize it, then click on the bottom box
and do likewise. Once you have them at an
acceptable size, click again on the top box
to make it active and dick on AC.iff in the
files list. This will automatically import the
graphic to the box.
You won't be able to see it at first, so
select Graphics/Display Page from the
Preferences menu and the screen will be
redrawn. Once the IFF is visible, you can
resize your box to fit it to the actual size of
the image.
Now click on the lower box to make it
active and the on DemoText.wp in the files
list. The text will be imported in the default
12-point Times-Roman font and will not fill
the box.
To change the type style, click on the
text tool at the extreme top right of the
toolbox (the one which looks like a page of
text), then choose Alter Current from the
Type Style menu.
A large requester will appear from which
you can control the attributes of the text
contained in the currently active box.
You will find a selector at the top for
font type and size, but as the demo only
has room for one font (Times-Roman) you
can only choose to change the size. Do this
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now by clicking on the box containing the
number 1 8, which will tell the program that
our text is to be displayed as 18-point
Times-Roman.
Click on OK to return to the document
and notice the difference. Our demo text is
much larger and should more than fill the
box. Now dick on the pointer tool (top left)
and resize our box to make sure all the text
is displayed in it - you can to go back to the
previous requester and change type size to
1 5 point or so, but this isn't necessary.
If you are now happy with the text, our
page should look fairly full, but the IFF will
look a bit smaller than it should be. To
change this, click on the top box to make it
active, then select Alter Active from the Box
menu.
Another large requester should appear
using which it is possible to slant, rotate,
and resize our box.
Look for now at the scale selectors
towards the bottom of the requester. The
available scale factors go from half to twice
original size, but the string gadgets give you
much closer control over scaling.
Click in these and type 1 .5 for both X
and Y scaling, then click OK. When the page
redraws, our AC logo will be rather larger
and probably won't fit in our box.
To reveal the rest of the image, drag out
the box edges until all the IFF is showing.
You should now have a reasonably tidy
page, but as we have designed it more or
less freehand, it won't be as accurately set
out as it could be.
Laying out
To help in the layout of a page, Saxon
offers several standard DTP features. The first
of which you should use is the Grid option.
Co to the Preferences menu and select
Imposed Grid/Temporary Show. The page
should be overlaid with a grid of small dots.
These dots indicate where the imaginary
grid lines intersect each other, and they are
the points to which the corners of boxes can
be made to adhere in an technique usually
called "snap to grid".
The default Saxon setting is that Snap to
Grid is on, but even so you may not have
lined up your boxes properly.
To try this out, with the grid points still
showing, click on the box you want to
move, then on the move tool, which is in
the extreme lower left corner on the tool-
box. The familiar set of crosshairs will appear
on-screen, but this time they will be carrying
a ghosted outline of your box. Now that the
grid is visible it should be easy to place it
exactly so that it lines up with the other box.
Notice that when you click to position
your box, the grid disappears. This is
because with all those points on-screen the
update would slow down too much, so they
are only displayed when needed.
The next page layout aid is the column
guides feature. If you wanted to place our
demo text, or any other text for that matter,
in two or more columns, you'd need some
sort of guide to keep your columns the same
width and with the same gap between them
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Saxon Publisher is currently being shipped with a free copy of the powerful
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(the gutter). To do this, select the Column
Guides/Create option from the Page menu.
When the requester appears asking you
how many columns you want, type 3 and
click OK. A set of crosshairs similar to those
used to create boxes will appear, but you
must use these in a different way.
Position the crosshairs somewhere in the
top left-hand corner of the page, then
move to the bottom right of the page.
When you click in the lower corner, hold
down the mouse button and drag the
crosshairs back across to the left.
As you go, you will see the box outline
split into three, with an equal sized gutter
between them. Click once more to set the
column guides once you are happy with
them.
Now you have to put boxes round the
column outlines so that text can be flowed
into them. To do this, it is best to switch off
the grid or redefine it so that the points
match the corners of the column outlines,
so choose Imposed Grid/Define and either
click the Off gadget or experiment with the
grid setting until it matches the columns.
Now go back to the page and use the
box tool to create boxes over the outlines
you should already have made. You'll have
to judge this as best you can, but with
practice, especially once you've sussed out
your grid settings, the process is a lot eas-
ier. Text routing, the process of forcing
text to flow from one column or box to
the nest, is easily accomplished in Saxon
Publisher.
As long as you have two or more boxes
defined, flowing the text in is a simple
matter of clicking on the first box, then
on the file name in the file list, then
repeating the process for the remaining
boxes.
Bare essentials
You have now had a quick guided tour
of the bare essentials of DTP work with
Saxon Publisher 1.2. The next step is to
create your own page from scratch, and
experiment with every feature of the
requesters and menus we've used so far.
Try rotating the image we put in the
top box, or using a larger text size and
putting a headline on the page - try any-
thing in fact.
The whole point of electronic DTP is
that it not only makes life easier and
quicker for the layout artist, it also makes
experimentation a lot easier and offers a
lot of flexibility to the eager twiddler.
If this brief intro has whetted your
appetite at all, check out our DTP feature
in this issue or take advantage of the
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The Pro-gen AMIGA Genlock allows you to mix your Amiga display with any PAL video
signal whether it is from a VCR, Laserdisk player or a Camcorder. In fact any item of
video equipment which outputs a PAL composite video signal.Combined with the Amiga
computer the Pro-Gen gives you the facilities of a special effects & video titling suite.
Take your own films & give them a professional look by OVERLAYING TITLES or by
SUPER IMPOSING YOUR OWN GRAPHICS created in packages like Photon Paint 2.0
or Deluxe Paint. Pro-Gen is supplied with micro illusions superb Photon Paint 2.0 package.
FREE Photon Paint 2.0 Software
A powerful Lo-and-Hi resolution hold and modify (HAM) paint program, with overscan
(NTSC/PAL) and special effects for your Amiga Computer including ail the following...
Contour Mapping: drapes a brush over a 3D 'landscape'. Pixel intensity values decide
the peaks and valleys, while a specially developed ray-tracing algorithm maps the image
precisely. Surface Mapping: around 3D objects, both geometric and free hand drawn.
Luminance: sets the light source and intensity. Shadowing: automatically with control of
size and offset. Brush Control: twist, tilt, resize, flip, rotate, bend, adjustable transparency
stretch etc etc. PLUS LOTS MORE! A great program allowing use of 4096 colours. Choice
of horiz /vert page print, negatives, anti-aliasing, dithered print, adjustable brihgtness etc.
How it works: | — | | STOP PRESS
PRD-GEN .NON INCLUDES A VERY
VERSATILE MULTI COMPONENT VIDEO
TO GENLOCK CONNECTING CABLE K T
THIS ALLOWS PRO-GEN TO BE USED
STRAIGHTAWAY WITH MOST POPULAR
VIDEO EQUIPMENT, WTH0UT THE NEED
TO HUNT DOWN T>£ CORRECT COW-
ECTBfi CABLES. THIS WT CAN ALSO 36
USED TO CONfCCT IN OTHER WAYS
eg. VCR TO VCR*.
AWT TO START YOU OFF RIGHT FROM
THE MOMENT YOU OPEN THE BOX!!!
IN CAMERA
TO
(SSKffi* ONLY £99.95
Mode Switch-box for Genlocks
Features Include
-Compatible With The Pro-Gen And Rendaie 8802
-Supplied With Genlock Extender Cable Worth £9.95
-Switch-box Switches Between Foreground, Back-
ground, Video And Computer Modes.
£29.95
AMIGA DRIVES & MEMORY
v Features Include
> Long connecting cable
rt 1Mb, (880K Formatted) Capacil
Enable/Disable Switch,
> Throughport
.'i Access Light
> Compatible with Amiga500/1 000
1500/2000/3000 and CDTV
NOW SUPPLIED WITH A F PEE
IS' Disk Head tl«rwr to maintain
your ruMr drive In Hp-top condition.
£ 57.95
£zz' l g' ,hi »
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U Capacities of 52 to420Mb
> Connects to sidecar bus on L/H
side of A500/A500 Plus
> Autoboots with Kickstart 1 .3/2.0,
boot enable/disabie switch
Sockets for up to 8 Mb of RAM
5 SCSI Port allows up to 7 other
devices to be connected
j Supplied with easv to use software
Jr 2 Year Warranty > Dedicated PSU
> Mini slot for future expansion
y PC-AT Emulator planned to be
available fbt 1992
I GVP AMIGA A500 HARD DRIVES | I ( GVP AMIGA 1 500/2000 HARD DRIVES i
RAM
CAPACITY
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CAPACITY
SIZE
52Mb.
120Mb.
240Mb.
0Mb.
£349.95
£519.95
£729.95
0Mb.
,£289.95
£409.95 £639.95 £1169.95
2Mb.
£419.95
£589.95
£799.95
2Mb.
£359.95
£479.95 £709.95 £1239.95
4Mb.
£489.95
£659.95
£869.95
4Mb.
£429.95
£549.95 £779.95 £1309.95
8Mb.
£629.95
£799.95
£999.95
8Mb.
£559.95:
£679.95 £899.95 £1429.95
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(EDUCATION SOFTWARE
DON'T JUST PLAY GAMES WHEN YOU 1
CAN LEARN WITH YOUR AMIGA TOOf
I MICRO MATHS - 24 easy to use programs for GCSE ('O' level) £18 95 1
revision or self tuition
MEGA MATHS • A 9 level step by step tuition course. For mature
beginners, ‘A 1 Level studies & Micro Maths users
MICRO FRENCH - GCSE French tuition or revision course. Covers £ 1 8,95
both spoken & widen French
MICRO ENGLISH - Complete self-tuition programe to GCSE level. £1 8 ,95
PRIMARY MATHS - Ages 3 to 12, Complete 24 Prog. Course. £18.95
SPELL BOOK - Ages 4 to 6, Developed with the help of a Primary £1 7.95
School Head Teacher to aid spelling skills.
HOMEBASE - Home storage prog., ideal for those household lists, £19.95 3
childrens educational projects, student notes etc. Easy to use 'Push Button*
controls and a extensive reference manual.
COMPENDIUM SIX PACK- 6 Great Educational Progs, for children [29.95
aged 4-1 2years of age. Each is designed to keep your childs interest whilst
they learn. KIDS TYPE - Large characters & colurful graphics helps creation
of stories. WEATHER WATCHER - Collect & analyse data using graphs etc.
even animate your own weather map! CALENDAR QUIZ - Quiz based learning
of time related events. WORDS AND NUMBERS - Put words & scentences in
the correct order or group numbers. GAME, SET & MATCH - Early learning of
shapes colours, numbers, coins, sequences and including a 'reaction timer*.
WHAT IS IT? WHERE IS ITT ■ Learn names & locations of British counties
HARWOODS AMIGA
1Mb PRO-PAM PLUS
ADD MORE POWER TO YOUR AMIGA 500 PLUS
WITH A FULL 1Mb. MEMORY UPGRADE!!!
. 1 Mb. RAM expansion for the Amiga 500 Plus
> Gives a total of 2Mb. of RAM
.V Easily fitted without any dismantling in
the trapdoor expansion slot underneath
Amiga. DOESN'T invalidate your warranty!
A Low power consumption A 2 Yr Guarantee!
A GREAT NEW OFFER FROM HARWOODS
**■ £44.95
0.5 Mb PRO-RAM
Compatible with Amiga A500 and 500 Plus
Gives A500 a total of 1Mb Memory + Clock j
■ Gives 500 Plus a total of 1 .5Mb Memory
AMIGA SOFTWARE
Pen Pal
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Music • The ultimate software for professional MIDI sequencing. The software includes a config-
urable librarian and a synthesiser patch editor. All you need to recreate a song can be recalled from
one performance file including sequences. MIDI routing, sync setup, keyboard maps & synthesiser
or drum machine patch libraries. NEW LOW PRICES - £49.95 or Just £89.95 w+tti midi-interface!
MIDI INTERFACE {5 Port] : In, Out, Through plus 2 swtlchable thru. out. Inc. 2 cables.
AMOS: AMOS allows you to access the power of the Amiga with ease. 500 different commands
make AMOS a sophisticated development language. The AMOS animation language allows you to
create complex animation sequences. 300 page manual and over 80 example programs
Amos Add a n Mod u ! e s (BOTH require Amos prog.) fiTTHIWiifWd J11 Af m W .1 -M
Amos Compiler £29,95 Amos 3D £34.95 I *r
Super Base 4: Most powerful database available for the Amiga.Combines the ease of use of Super-
Base 2 with a versatile programming language so that you can tailor your data to your own specific
needs for club/business/library records etc. £229,95
Lattice C: An ideal tool for the C programmer whether experienced or a novice. The best way to
create applications for the Amiga.Fully supports Motorola chipset. Nearly 300 functions optimised
to help the user write the tightest possible code. Includes screen editor. Most Amiga C books are
based around lattice. (Requires either 2 floppy drives OR a hard disk drive) £1 99.95
Deluxe Paint IV Latest version of the Amigas first, and still the best, paint and animation package,
now including HAM mode. (1 Mb. minimum memory or more recommended) £79.95
,m Tbs Complete olo jr Solution; Vidi with RGB Splitter, Frame Grabber & Digitiser. Grabs
moving colour video into 16 grey scale frames (up to 16 frames in 1Mb. Amiga) and digitises from
still colour video source in up to 4096 colours in less than 1 second! Requires home VCR or video
camera for grabbing. Requires video camera or VCR with perfect pause for digitising. Now comes
with Photon Paint 2.0 ABSOLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE!!! £149.95
STEREO M ASTE R High quality "stereo" sampler (best for sampling instruments etc.) £39.95
THE ABOVE (S JUST A SMALL SAMPLE FROM OUR EXTENSIVE RANGE OF THOUSANDS OF SERIOUS , EDUCATION AND RECREATION
TITLES.WE CANT LIST THEM ALL HERE SO PLEASE CALL US IF YOU CAN'T SEE THE PROGRAM YOU REQUIRE, ITS PROBABLY IN STOCK!
V.1.3
WORD PROCESSOR/DATABASE
With Pen Pal you can mix text, 4096
colour graphics & data in ways no other
w/p can! "It's handling of graphics is
unsurpassed: Pen Pal is the only word
processor 1 tested that will
automatically wrap
text round graphics.. ,
Amiga World,
July '90
£79.95
FEN PAL complete
WITH 51 2K Amiga
RAM Expansion
onh^mSS!
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All our packs contain the new
Amiga A 500 Fins.
( 1,3 Amigas may still be a callable
to special order, please enquire.)
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RINTERS
All printers in our range include a standard Centronics/Parallei Port
for direct connection to Amiga, PC's, Atari ST's, Archimedes etc.
f a connection cable to Y&UR computer
plus a Quality Dust Cover with ALL Dot Matrix Printers F R f E
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GORDON HARWOOD PRINTER STARTER PACK
ALL our Doi. Matrix Primers are supplied complete vrfth...
200 Sheets of Continuous Printer Paper
100 Useful Seif Adhesive Continuous Labels
Amiga Printer Drivers Disk
CITIZEN 120D+ 9 PIN MONO * Up to 120/25 cps ■
_J Very reliable low cost printer with interchangable interfaces for
Centronics/RS232/serial type (C64 etc.) Full 2 Year manufacturers warranty
NEW FASTER STAR LC20 9 PIN MONO - Up to 1 SOtifl l cpi
Replacement for our most popular Mono Dot-Matrix at a super low price
_j Multiple font options easily accessible j Simultaneous, continuous and single
from front pane! sheet stationery
CJ Excellent paper handling facilities Q 240 x 240 dpi Graphics
STAR LC2G0 9 PIN COLOUR PRINTER - 155/40 cp*
This is the erne in our packs!
j 80 Column Dot Matrix
_1 240 dpi -9 Pin COLOUR
□ 16K Buffer, 8 Resident Fonts
_j Push/pull tractor & rear/bottom feeds
•U Reverse paper feeds
CITIZEN SWIFT 9 PIN COLOUR - 1GQ/40cps
New super high spec 9P;n colour pnfter
Cl 8K Buffer 4 Fonts Q 240 x 240 dpi Colour Graphics
_j Push and pull tractor built-in _j test text quality in our 9Pin range
□ Feed for labels/multi part stationery “I 2 Year Citizen warranty
1 J Micro paper feed. Max. paper width 1 1 T
_i Supplied with colour & mono ribbons
D Paper park with auto single sheet loading
_) Programmable from front panel.
_1 12 month warranty
STAR $J48 INKJET PRINTER
New super high quality ink je r printer
d 64 Nozzle ink jet
CJ Emulates Epson LQ and IBM
Proprinter for foil compatibility
q Complete with AC adaptor
Large 28K Buffer
360 x 360 dpi near laser print quality
Optional Ni-Cad battery for mains free
operation
STAR LC24/20Q 24 PIN MONO - 220/55 cps
Mono version or LG24/200 Colour, same spec except for a smaller 7K buffer
220/55 cps
STAR LC24/200 24 PIN COLOUR -
Colour version of the LC24-2GG Mono.
□ 80 Column Dot Matrix
_l 360 dpi - 24 Pin MONO
_j 30K Buffer (expandable)
_J 10 Resident Fonts
_j Front Panel Pitch Selection
_l Push/pull tractor & rear/bottom feeds
LI Reverse paper feed
_ j Paper park with auto single sheet loading
_l Micro paper feed, Max. paper width 1 1 1
J Supplied with mono ribbon
d Faster than the old LC24-10
d Extra font cartridges available
d Program from front pane), No DIP switches
j 12 month warranty
NEW 24 Pin CITIZEN 224 COLOUR - 150/53 epa
Brand New, lowest cost colour 24 Pin printer, anywhere!
_j 80 Column Dot Matrix with 4 Fonts d Push & pull tractor feeds
d 360 dpi - 24 Pin COLOUR □ Compete paper parking facilities,
□ 8K Buffer expandable to 32K u Supplied with mono & colour ribbons
LI Easy to use front panel controls □ Full 2 Year Citizen Warranty
NEW 24 Pin CITIZEN SWIFT 24E COLOUR - 18OAB0 Cp* -
Brand New, superb specification colour 24 Pin printer.
Q 80 Column Dot Matrix with 7 Fonts □ Push/pull & bottom tractor feeds
_j 360 dpi - 24 Pin COLOUR j Complete paper parking facilities.
LJ 8K Buffer expandable to 32K d Supplied with mono & colour nbbons
_j Easy to use LCD panel controls d Full 2 Year Citizen Warranty
NEW FASTER STAR XB 24 PIN COLOUR
RANGE XB24-2GO & XB24-250 - 275/BO cps
These NEW top of the range Stars replace the XB24/10 &
XB24/15, & offer the best possible quality dot matrix printing
£399.95
24-200 Colour
■1- 14IIJM. M
d Exceptional print quality
j 4 x 48Pin super letter quality fonts
d 14 x 24Pin near letter quality fonts
d Buffer 29K(XB24/200) & 76K (XB 24/250)
d 360 x 360 dpi Colour Graphics
d 1 2mths on-site warranty (UK Mainland)
HEWLETT PACKARD PAINTJET COLOUR A4 INKJET — £579,95
Our best quality full colour printer at a realistic price :
id Parallel/Centronics or Serial RS232 l/F (specify with order, MAC option available)
LJ For presentation graphtes/DTP, CAD and technical/scientific applications
□ A full page of colour graphics in 4 minutes (typical)
LJ Non impact printing, d Will print transparencies
J virtually silent, 43doa d 1 2 Months on-site warranty (UK Mainland)
5TARSCRlPT-4pprn POSTSCRIPT COMPATIBLE LASER
A4 Laser Printer, will connect to PC, Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh etc.
£1099.95
JJ300 DPI, 2Mb. Upgradable to 5Mb,
d Emulations inc: HP Series II, Epson
EX800, IBM Proprirrter & Diablo 630
d Complete with ‘Stamcripf (Stats
postscript language emulation)
□ Serial and Parallel Interfaces
-1 12month on she warranty (UK Mainland)
d 49 quality fonts built-in
J Appletalk for connection to Macintosh
□ Every desktop publishers dream
SEE OUR UST OF ACCESSORIES FOR BOTH STAR
AND CITIZEN PRINTERS, ALL AT COMPETITIVE PRICES!
AH the characters Per Second speeds quoted above are Dreft/LQ at lOcpI
PRINTER ACCESSORIES
Cilizen 120 D+ Sheei Feeder
Citizen 1 200^ Parallel Interface £49 95
Citizen 12 QD+ CBM C64 Serial Interface £49 95
Citizen 1 24D 32K Buffer El 3.95
Citizen 124D SemhAuto SheetFeeder £39.95
Citizen 1 24D Automatic Sheet Feeder £79.95
Citizen 1 24D Printer Stand £24.95
Citizen Swift 9 Semi-Auto SheetFeeder £ 39 96
Citizen Swift 9 Automatic Sheet Feeder r 79 95
Citizen Swift 9 Printer Stand £24 95
Citizen Swift 9X Printer Stand £34.95
Citizen Swift 9X Automatic Sheet Feeder £1 39.95
Citizen Swrft 24 32K Printer Buffer
Citizen Swift 24 Semi-Auto Sheet Feeder £ 39 95
Citizen Swift 24 Automatic Sheet Feeder £ 7 9 95
Citizen Swift 24 Printer Stand £ 24 95
Citizen Swift 24X Auto Sheet Feeder E 1 39.95
Citizen Swift 24X Printer Stand £34.95
HEWLETT PACKARD PAINTJET
PRINTER ACCESSORIES:
Hewlett Packard PaintJet
Black Ink cartridge £25 95
Colour tnk Cartridge
Single Sheei Printer Paper 1 1 95
2-Fold Printer Paper £ 15,95
t Paper:
leets rs 2 95
STAR PRINTER ACCESSORIES:
Star LC-20 Mom Printer
Automatic SheetFeeder
£74.95
Star LC24-10 Mono Printer
32K Buffer £67.95
£67.95
Automatic SheetFeeder
£74.95
StarLC-200 Colour Printer
Automatic SheetFeeder
£74.95
Star LC 24-200 Mono/Colour Printers
32K Printer Buffer
£34.95
Automatic SheetFeeder
£74.95
Star SJ48 Printer
Automatic Sheet Feeder
CM 95
Nl-Cad Battery
£39.95
Star XB 24-200 Colour Printer
Pull Tractor
£34.95
Font Cartridges -
Styles To Be Announced
£29.95
128K Centronics Printer Buffer
£89.95
Automatic SheetFeeder
£114.95
Dual Bin SheetFeeder
£429,95
Star XB 24-250 Colour Printer
Pull Tractor
£34.95
Font Cartridges -
Styles To Be Announced
£29.95
128K Centronics Printer Buffer
£89.95
Automate Sheei Feeder
£174.95
Dual Bin SheetFeeder
£469.95
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CITIZEN 1200+
BLACK ONLY
£4.95
£24.95
N/A
M/A
CITIZEN 124
BLACK ONLY
£4.95
£24.95
N/A
M/A
CITIZEN SWIFT 9
BLACKJC CLOUR
£4.95
£24,95
£16.95
£99.95
SWIFT 24/2A&224
BLACK/COLOUR
£4.95
£24.95
£16,95
£99.95
STAR LClOmv
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£4.50* ,Y
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£6.90*
£36.50*
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£6,95 ZX9
£36.95 ZX9
£12.95zx9cl
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£8.95 Z24
£49.95 Z24
£14.95 X24CL
£74.95 xa^CL
STAR XB RANGE
BLACftCOLOUR
£8.95 Z24
£49.95 Z24
£14.95 X24CL
£74,95 xsjcl
STAR SJ48 INK
CARTRIDGE
BLACK ONLY
A lac compatible with Apple Sty lewd ter
and Cannon BJ1QE Subblejei
E15.95ea,
BOOK SHOP
WE ALWAYS CARRY UmE STOCKS OF WE FULL RANGE Of
ABACUS & OTHER BOOKS^Phona us tor details!
AMIGA FOR BEGINNERS - VOL. 1 ABACUS BOOKS, £1 2 . 95
From u ipackka your Amiga to creating your own icons, mcLides first use of
basic and extras disk. NEW revised version covering workbench 1 .3 and 2
AMIGA BASIC INSIDE AND OUT - VOL 2 ABACUS BOOKS, £1 9 95
Definitive step by step guide to programming Amiga’s in basic.
AMIGA MACHINE LANGUAGE ■ VOL 4 ABACUS BOOKS, £14,95
Practical guide to learning 68000 assembler language.
AMIGA DOS INSIDE AND OUT - VOL 8 ABACUS BOOKS, £24. 95
Guide to Amiga DOS & CU. NEW Edition inc. WB 2.0 (includes Free Help D»s«
AMIGA HARDWARE REFERENCE MANUAL-Addison Wesley, £21.95
Written by technical experts at Commodore Amiga Inc, USA... the people who
designed your Amiga. Hardware level machine code programming at advancer
level. New revision now also deludes Kickstart 2.
AMIGA, BEST OF TRICKS t TIPS Vol. 17, £32,95
A complete set of tricks and tips that enable you to do MORE
■with your Amiga and as simply as possible. (Induces Free Disk)
GETTING THE MOST FROM YOUR AMIGA [without disks], £9, 95
From Future Publishing, the producers of Arf/ja Format Magazine
and fatty updated tor 1992 OR...
available with 2 HELP DISKS INCLUDED £1195
ALFRETON
Town Centre
PHILIPS CM8833/II
Stereo High Resolution
Colour Monitor
The ever popular 14-meh Philips CM 8833 MML Its versatility means you ratt only
get excellent colour graphics & text performance wrffi a wide range of personal
computers, but wti&n connected to a VCR r you got an amazing 600 pixel TV
picture. With the 8B33 MklE, Harwoods give you the complete set up, to get you
going straight away „ Monitor, RGB picture and Stereo Audio Cables,
Tailored dust cover, and a yi 12 Months on site service warranty,
a RG B 'AD. TTL, Composite, Video & stereo audio inputs ACan be used as a TV
with VCR or Tuner A Also as a Video Camera display monitor .'Retractable stand
a Twin Stereo Speaker A Headphone Jack
Socket A FTffi£lead tw your compiler AFREE
12 Month on site service warranty. CO^O flC
THE MOST VERSATILE STEREO £,£49-93
COLOUR MONITOR AVAILABLE
CBM 1084S STEREO COLOUR MONITOR.!
Commodore's Own Stereo High Resolution Cotour Monitor wilh...
ARGB/Airm, Composite, Video/Audio Inputs ACan be used as TV
with VCR or tuner. ATwin Speakers lor
stereo output A Supplied with cables for COfiG QC
A50O. CGA PC,\Cl6-64-l2B. WUJ.W
Its important to remember that most TV Monitors, are still first end foremost televisions, meaning that their average 400 pixel tube display
50% lower resolution lhan a monitor) cannot be guaranteed to display 80 column text dearly without risking eye strain, if choosing a Television
Monitor ensure it has the latest 2000 character tube capability t meaning it can handle the Arntgas 9 80 characters, by 25 line output dearly.
NEW!!! PHILIPS 15" FASTEXT TELETEXT REMOTE CONTROL 60 CHANNEL MONITOR TV.
BRAND NEW
SUPERB DEFINITION PHILIPS MONITOR TV. IDEAL FOR AMIGA OR CDTV USERS, GIVING FOR THE FIRST TIME TRUE MONITOR
QUALITY FROM A FULL FEATURE TELETEXT TV AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE!!!, JUST LOOK AT THE FEATURES,,, A Direct Scart
Connector tor Amiga, CDTV, VCR OR SATELLITE RECEIVER A RGEAD, Composite Video & audio inputs '. FULL TELETEXT FACILITIES
(FOR THIS FACILITY EXTERNAL AERIAL SHOULD BE USED) A Headphone Jack Socket VFULL TWO YEAR
GUARANTEE .V2000 CHARACTER HIGH DEFINITION F$T TUBE A SUPPLIED WITH LOOP AERIAL AREMOTE
CONTROL AFREE lead ICK YOUR computer [tF YOU WOULD UKE THE MONITOR TV IN OUR PACKS 2, 3. AND £259 95 1
POWERPRO, AT NO EXTRA COST, TO REPLACE THE 8833/11 SIMPLY ADVISE US AT THE TIME OF ORDERING) L_'l \
t O FREE GAMES WITH YOUR TV OR MONITOR WHEN PURCHASED SEPARATELY fie. These games are already
included within Harwoods Amiga Packs 2, 3. & Powerpro,..see details on pages 1 & 2 of this advertisement!!!)
AMIGA ACCESSORIES
ONITORS & MONITOR TV's
Harwoods stock a complete range of both Monitors & Monitor TV's
to give you your perfect solution to the type of display to buy.
Please pay us a visit where our full range of advertised products, at
the SAME COMPETITIVE PRICES, & MORE, is on sale, ALL UNDER
ONE ROOF', In pleasant surroundings at our purpose built showroom
(See note below map). There's plenty of FREE parking close by.
9M0 until 5MQ Monday to Saturday
9.00 untit 1MQ Wednesday. Closed on Sundays
KCS POWERBOARD IBM PC EMULATOR A Allows you to run many popular IBM PC compatible software — £2 1 9.95
titles on your Amiga or Amiga A5GO Plus A Hercules, CGA & Monochrome Video Support. £ Supports Both 3.5 Inch & 5.25 Inch Diskettes
-V Fits Into ASOi RAM Stot, 8008 XT Processor, ACtocWCeJendar Included, A Acts As 512K RAM Exp. When In Amiga Mode, a indudes
MS-DOS 4.01, Shell & GW-BASEC, DOS-Help , & On-Beard Memory A Supports A590 Hard Drive, Mouse Driver Software Included.
WHEN ORDERING PLEASE SPECIFY WHETHER YOUR AMIGA IS A 1 ,3 OH PLUS VERSION.
— — El 89.95
£99.95
KCS POWERBOARD AS ABOVE BUT WITHOUT: MS-DOS 4.01, GW-Basic, Shell,
POWER MONO SCANNER COMPLETE WITH POWER SCAN SOFTWARE
1 QOdpi TO 400dpi. Supports up lo 64 grey shades. Throughport for printer etc.
Supplied with Power Scan software, allows toll screen Image editing,
SUPRARAM RX 500 (2Mb, to 8Mb, RAM Expansion)
The RAM expansion giving massive memory WITHOUT dismantling
your Amiga, llrus avoiding Ihe possibility of invalidating your warranty.
Easily connects to sidecar with bus f pas54hrough' for HD's elc.
2Mb. RAM Version £199.95 4Mb. RAM Version £323.95
8Mb. RAM Version £549.95
NAKSHA MICROSWITCHED MOUSE £24.95
HIGH QUALITY OPTICAL MOUSE £32,95
COMPETITION PRO JOYSTICK 5000 Black £7.95
ZIPSTICK JOYSTICK £12.95
COMPETITION PRO STAR JOYSTICK £14.95
The ONLY joystick to obtain a 1 00% rating from a magazine review!
3.5" DISK HEAD CLEANER £2.99
BLANK DISKS with labels
10 Genuine SONY 3.5’ branded Only £9.95 10 Unbranded with library case 3. 5' certified
50 Genuine SONY 3.5' branded Only £39,95 200 Unbranded 3.5 1 certified
MIRACLE PIANO TEACHING SYSTEM - Music Keyboard to connect to your Amiga —
Miracle is the first Piano to teach you how to play it. Whether you want help finding Middle C, or
want to learn how to play Mozart, Miracles stunning Amiga Software and Midi Keyboard turns
learning into FUN. Study Classical, Rock and even Jazz.
d 128 Built in Sounds ~i Full sized Touch Sensitive keyboard keys rj Stereo Sound
□ Get even more from your Amiga “l Miracle even gives you a recording studio
;1 Versions for other computers available too, please ask for details
POSSO STORAGE BOXES £19.95 MANY MANY MORE ACCESSOR JESTOO
Only £7.95
Only £84.95
£299.95
1 50 piece stackable 3.5* disk storage boxes
BANX STORAGE BOXES
80 piece lockable 3.5' disk storage boxes
£11.95
It its i
1 • You will be grvfri our Exclusive Technical Support Phone Number lo
call should you require any help or advice on any aspect el ihe system you have purchased.
items proving faulty with-n 30 days ol purchase are replaced with
NEW UNITS uniless otherwise stated. For the utfiute guarantee penod, warranty service will be
completely FREE OF CHARGE
/ 1 1 . . . i Any computer, monitor Of pooler requiring warranty service can be
collected from your home FREE OF CHARGE during Ihe guarantee period (UK Mainland only)
and a FAST turnaround is GUARANTEED by our OWN ENGINEERS!
i ' 1 ■ 1 . , All computers are tested pnor "o despatch, and all items are
supplied with mains plug and leads a$ required just conned l# arid use straight away
Ait listed prices are what YOU PA Y. and there are NO HIDDEN EXTRAS.
VAT and postage are included, and prices are correct at time of going to
press (Pack details may vary from time fc time). Offers are subject to
availability and to being the latest advertised packs and prices , Our offers
are NO T supplied on a trial basis , E&QE.
laitored to soil your needs. Written details on req uest.
Gordon Harwood Computers oiler labilities to purchase using our budget account scheme,
APR 36,8% {Variable}. Available lo most adulis of etghleen years of over, subject to status.
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Software compatibility
just about all software which is compatible with the A500 Plus will run on the
A600, The only programs which will have difficulty will be those which depend or
the numeric keypad, which is non existent on the new machine.
Some games - mostly flight sims - will suffer because of this, and the odd DTf
or spreadsheet package user will find certain keyboard shortcuts are no fonges
available, but on the whole the problem is not a major one.
One other potential problem is that the combination of Kickstart 2.04 and i
hard drive will result in the usable memory on boot-up being restricted to arounc
700k. This means that games which require 1Mb on ASOO's will not load from thi
hard drive unless a RAM expansion has been fitted.
T he Amiga family has grown
somewhat over the past couple
of years, seeing the introduction
of a disguised A2000 in the shape of the
A1500, the high-end powerhorse A3000,
and finally the A500 Plus at the end of last
year.
All have extended or improved the
Amiga product range in a clear and logical
fashion which pundits and punters alike
have been able to come to terms with.
The latest Amiga, however, has arrived
amid a great deal of confusion, leading to
a lot of market speculation on the
machine's role and position in the family.
The problem is that the A600 could be
any one of three machines. It is either a
replacement for the A500/A500 Plus, a
straightforward addition to the range, or
the first in a new line of Amigas.
The first possibility has been thoroughly
trashed by Commodore, who vehemently
deny rumours that the A500 is living on
borrowed time. As long as one believes
what Commodore say, then, the A600
cannot be viewed as a replacement for the
most popular Amiga of all.
Sultry
machine shines on its own merits. It is the
smallest, most compact and undoubtably
the cutest Amiga ever released, and in its
20Mb hard drive version could cause a
revolution at the lower end of the Amiga
market.
The existing paths to hard drive own-
ership are strewn with the burned-out
shells of wallets gasping at the sponta-
neous combustion of wads of tenners. In
short, hard drives are more expensive
than they need be, and this has restricted
the Amiga's use as a low-cost serious tool.
With the imminent release of the
A600-HD, that situation is set to change.
Prospective owners now have the choice
of going straight to a hard drive machine
for £499, and more likely significantly less
as the retailers begin to slash RRPs, mak-
ing the equivalent A500 Plus setup redun-
dant - it would set you back over £600.
The A600's external appearance has
often been compared to the Commodore
64, though it is in fact more akin to the
old Oric Atmos.
The numeric keypad has gone, result-
ing in dimensions of 34 x 24cm as
opposed to the A500's 47 x 34cm, and
the machine has an attractive wedge-like
look to it. In fact, once the design started
to sink in, I was reduced to walking up to
the A600 at regular intervals for a quick
cuddle. It's just toooo cute.
Inside, Commodore have really rung
the changes. Every chip save the Kickstart
chip is mounted directly onto the mother-
board, following Commodore's avowed
intention to use surface mount technol-
ogy (SMT) on all Amigas, and most com-
ponents have been shrunk in size.
The result is a clean compact layout
with little room for expansion but even
less for breakdowns.
Commodore are so confident in the
reliability of SMT design that every A6(
will be shipped with on-site maintenani
thrown in. This means that if a machir
dies for some reason, the user need on
call the Commodore national repair ce
tre to have an engineer dispatched on
mercy mission.
The response time stipulated t
Commodore is four days, a great de
faster than present repair times.
Serious faults will still result in tf
return of an Amiga to base for radic
surgery, but the old problems of ke
board lock-up and floppy drive faifu
should be fixable in your own front roor
r e irjeyorK
Stevie Kennedy
takes a long,
simpering look at
Commodore's
newest and tidiesl
Amiga, the A6Q0
Markings on the motherboard clearly show the
A600‘s origin os the A 300 - as reported
a f i
Treated as a straight addition to the
range, the A600 assumes a decidedly
cuckoo-ish air. It is incompatible with the
vast majority of third-party peripherals,
offers no more memory or basic power
than an A500 Plus, and sells for the same
amount.
However, as the 20Mb hard drive ver-
sion will be price cut by most retailers to
around £470, the A600-HD offers far
greater value for money than an equiva-
lent A500 system, so how can it fit in
when it undercuts the existing mainstay
of Amiga sales?
The third option - a new line of
Amigas, heralded by the arrival of the
A600 - is the one which causes
Commodore employees to become suspi-
ciously cagey. See this month's news col-
umn for an Amiga Computing exclusive on
the next Amigas on the launch pad.
Putting aside the market view of the
A600, it has to be admitted that the
Hardware
Hardware compatibility
From the pre-launch information we've been supplying over the past couple of
months, most of our readers will be aware that the A600 has a completely redesigned
trapdoor slot and no DMA port.
This raises the spectre of hardware incompatibility and, unlike in the case of the
A500 Plus software scare, I can only confirm your worst fears.
No existing Amiga trapdoor peripheral will be compatible with the A600 unless
some sort of adaptor can be devised, and as there is no DMA port (the large slot you
find on the ASOO's left hand-side), no existing slot-in hard drive or digitiser will work
either.
Happily, this should be less of a problem than it would have been on the A500 as
the new machine accepts internal hard drives and has a 4Mb capacity memory card
slot on its left-hand side.
Any attempt to accelerate the A600, however, seems doomed to failure. Surface
technology means that the usual piggy-back style A500 accelerator cards will not fit,
and neither will any other piggy backer, such as Avideo or the ICD flicker fixer, both of
which fit in the old Denise socket.
The light at the end of the hardware tunnel seems to be the 40-pin trapdoor edge
connector, which is suspiciously well-endowed with connections to be a simple mem-
ory card slot.
If DMA access is possible through the trapdoor, and Commodore have not yet
released enough technical information for us to judge this, though it seems likely, you
can rest assured that third-party manufacturers will find a way to shove more and more
into even this supposedly unexpandable Amiga.
The new keyboard design should help
considerably in this respect, as it is now
built in to the upper casing and attached
to the motherboard via a much more
tenacious connector than of old.
The internal floppy could be a bit of a
problem, as it is secured with a single bolt
and tends to sit on its own ribbon cable
at a rakish angle. Given the cramped
wedge design, this is unavoidable, but I
would have liked to have seen a more
solid mounting for the component which
takes the most pounding at its owner's
hands.
Mounting
What astonished me most when I pried
the top off our A600 was the hard drive
mounting. The internal hard drives used
in all A600s (including the 40Mb version
we had supplied by Power Computing)
are extremely light, thanks to their origins
in the weight-conscious portables market,
and smaller than the average cigarette
packet.
They are, however, still hard drives,
and need to be mounted securely. At first
sight, the A600 mounting seems inade-
quate, as the hard drive sits on a saddle
supported only by four legs loosely
inserted through holes in the mother-
board and a protruding arm designed to
press against the inside of the upper cas-
ing.
In practice, however, the whole con-
coction is pretty safe, as after several min-
utes of thorough shaking it continued to
auto-boot without problem.
The rear of the machine is fairly stan-
dard. All main external device ports are
arranged in a similar fashion to the A500,
with the addition of an RF port from the
built-in TV modulator, and the mouse and
joystick ports have found their way (at
last) to a more sensible placing on the
right-hand side of the casing.
My only niggle is with the placing of
the video port, which is more centrally
located than it used to be. The narrow
casing means your A600 doesn't overlap
any monitor which may be sitting behind
it, so the monitor cable will have to run
below the monitor, unless you put a fairly
tight bend into it.
This aside, the layout is quite neat and
the more accessible mouse/joystick ports
are sure to be popular with those who
switch to the A600 from other Amigas.
The built-in modulator will delight any-
one who has struggled with the hideous
A520 modulator used on the A500.
The keyboard has the same typing
action as the A500 keyboard, and the
designers have been inspired enough to
keep the cursor cluster in its traditional
inverted "T" formation, unlike the dread-
ful Macintosh Classic keyboard, which
makes cursor control a nightmarish expe-
rience.
For the moment, most models floating
around are German imports with German
keyboards, but the British models should
be no different.
The machine's performance is identical
in most respects to the A500 Plus in terms
of speed, but the A600 begins to trounce
the A500 Plus when purchased in its hard
drive configuration.
A built-in IDE hard
drive interface coupled
with - at first - 20Mb
hard drive, gives the
first time user more
storage space and
functionality than any
other low-end Amiga
owner has ever
enjoyed.
Our review machine
was fitted with a 40Mb
IBM hard drive, a fairly
standard piece of
equipment which
should be pretty close
to Commodore's
20Mb version. In tests,
data transfer was rated
at about 443k per sec-
ond - a rather average
performance - but not
slow enough to restrict
serious use and still
vastly superior to any
floppy.
The A600-HD's most
pleasurable advantage
will be its capacity to
hold one's favourite wordprocessor,
database, spreadsheet, and a few games
(Microprose Golf would be my own first
installation task) in one compact little box
that can fit in a briefcase, schoolbag, or
rucksack.
The built-in TV modulator will mean
the only obstacle to completely luggable
Amiga computing will be the power sup-
ply. This has been retained in its ludicrous
"brick" casing, a decision I find remark-
able from a company whose TV ads will
purportedly concentrate on the A600's
portability.
Smaller
We can only hope that a third-party
manufacturer can produce a much
smaller, more transportable power sup-
ply.
Although launched in the middle of
the summer quiet period, the A600-HD is
likely to be a huge success with enthusi-
asts and should steal the bulk of the hob-
byist market this Christmas.
Pure games players may settle for the
A500 Plus, which could see even more
vicious price cutting as a result of the
A600 launch, but with sales of the new
machine hopefully stimulating software
houses to produce more hard drive-instal-
lable games, this could be a
shortsighted decision.
The A600 is a product of
Commodore-Amiga Inc.
Tel; 0628 770088
Price: 099 or £499 with 20Mb
internal hard drive
Launched: end of May
Supplier of test machine: Power
Computing (0234 843388)
compare
A non-standard 40- way
edge connector in the
trapdoor means partial
compatibility problems
for the A60C
The new Gayle
chip replaces Gary
and takes care or
the RAM slot
Joystick
and mouse
ports are
now easier
to get to
The new 4Mb
"credit card "
RAM slot ,
which should
see further
development
by Commodore
and third-
party
manufacturers
Hard drives are available from
20Mb to 120Mb storage , though
only third-party companies are
at present offering the higher
specifications
Positioning of
the video port
makes monitor
use a bit tricky
The built in TV
modulator makes
portable Amiga
computing a viable
proposition
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ROMBO PRODUCTS
NEW -TAKE 2
New animation package from Rombo.
MJC PRICE £59.95
VIDI COLOUR SOLUTION
Vidi colour package - including Vidi digitiser
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MJC PRICE £49.95
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For use with Vidichrome or Digiview.
(Includes PSU)
MJC PRICE £49.95
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SUPRARAM with 2Mb fitted £145.00
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Kind Words 2 (not A500 plus)
..£29.95
Pen Pal
WordWorth VI. 1 - Genuine UK version
..£54.95
..£74.95
COMPLETE COLOUR SOLUTION
Package includes Vidi Amiga, Vidichrome and the RGB
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MJC PRICE £139.95
PROTEXT -Version 5.5
Latest version of this best selling word processor for those
wanting serious processing power, includes new 110,000
word dictionary and Thesaurus. (1 meg).
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Protext V4.3 - new low price £39.95
Prodata VI .2 Amiga £64.95
NEW -ACTION REPLAY III
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£17.95
Stereo Master
£29.95
Techno Sound Turbo
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Fun School 2
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Fun School 2-8 programs per pack
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KOSMOS Answerback Junior Quiz
Includes 750 General Knowledge questions
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As above but for age 1 2+ £1 4.95
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DeluxePaint
IV
Electronic Arts -£89.95
DPaint is something of an institution, hav-
ing been around since the Amiga was
made, but it's not just that which makes it
good. As well as being easy to use, it's
also now more powerful than it's ever
been.
It slipped for a while when other pro-
grams had animation and it was paint
only. But DPaint came back with v3 which
was not only an animation program, but
one of the most powerful around.
The best thing about it was that it
could work like a conventional animator
would work, but it had advantages over
the standard pen and paper approach -
like the way you can draw something and
flip back and forth through the pages to
make sure it worked.
But it couldn't handle HAM, the most
colourful Amiga graphics mode, which
was a big minus as at least two other pro-
grams had HAM and one of those, a fore-
runner of Spectracolor, even had HAM
animation.
So when the program was upgraded to
the current revision, it had both HAM and
HAM animation, ensuring its future for
some time to come.
I've always used DPaint for single
graphics, and for that (no matter what
has come along since) nothing quite does
the trick like DPaint for actually creating
graphics, no matter what is used to move
those graphics around.
But since it's featured animation, it's
always been installed on hard disk. As well
as improving the speed and adding a
HAM mode. You still can't whack the
interface, even in its new 3D incarnation.
But the animation capability of the pro-
gram has increased a skipload.
In the past, certain lesser programs had
a "blueing" facility, meaning that you
could see the previous screen under the
current one. Alignment in animation pro-
grams is everything, as this is how you get
life into your animations.
The new DPaint has the facility to put
Animation
Ease of use
your "cells" on a lightbox. In reality, a
lightbox is a box with a translucent top
and lights inside. If you put a slide or a cell
on top of it you can see the detail and
colour much better, and if you put a num-
ber of cells together you can see through
them.
Anyway, you get the gist. DPaint has
this facility, whereby you select this mode
and a number of previous screens can be
seen "behind" the current screen.
This adds to the increase in speed, plus
the powerful graphics processing like
translucency, tinting and stencilling
(something that no other program does
well), and you've got the biggest and best
graphics origination and animation engine
available.
Like the Terminator, DPaint just keeps
going until it gets there.
I t's odd, isn't it? Many people who
bought an Amiga did so originally
because of a number of classic ani-
mated demos. That's not putting the
Amiga or the people who bought it
down, because let's face it, those demos
must have been damned good to make
someone part with several hundred quid
just to find out more.
It must have been quite frustrating for
those first buyers to discover that
although the Amiga was powerful
enough to show animations with great stereo sound, the way
these animations actually got into the machine in the first
place was actually far from simple.
The Ami did have one big plus - a standard for graphics
and animation, IFF ANIM and ILBM - but had few ways to
manipulate them.
But this was soon to change, and the people who wanted
so badly to create great animations could actually do so,
finally. Quality animation products began to emerge about
three to four years ago, and they've been growing in com-
plexity and powerful features right up to the present day.
Now anyone can produce the kind of animation which would
sell Amigas.
You can produce animation which is exactly like the car-
toons you see on TV, even produced in the same way in fact,
or you can create totally freeform computer art.
Hither way, you can make art on the Amiga which you
wouldn't be able to do in any other way.
Let's dip a toe into the world of Amiga animation, and see
movers
Amiga artist Phil South checks
out the best in Amiga 2D
animation programs, and asks
"is there life after DPaint?"
what colour it comes out. The animation programs for
Amiga have altered over the years, but some names stay
there all the time, with just a slightly bigger number on the
end each Lime.
Other programs transform themselves beyond recognf-
tion and then change their names, but It remains that some
of the major players in Amiga Animation have been there
since the Amiga was called Lorraine and only owned by a
handful of people in California.
The familiar
face of the
DPaint
animation
Interface
Disney
Animation
Studio
Disney Software - £79.95
Although something of a young upstart in
the animation stakes, Disney have a repu-
tation to keep up after all, so they tried
very hard to bring out something a little
different.
Although not as good a graphics pro-
gram as DPaint, it scores very highly in the
animation department, being the first such
program, before even DPaint even, to fea-
ture bluing. It called it onion skin, meaning
that - like the skin of an onion - it's trans-
parent. Although modelled on, and trying
very hard to be better than, DPaint in its
interface and layout, it had a few problems
in its way.
The program is actually three programs,
all run from a "supervisor program", so you
draw and pencil test in one program, fig-
ure you exposure sheet, then export to
another program to colour and sequence.
It's all a bit cumbersome, although this
doesn't detract from Animation Studio's
charm.
It has two primary functions, which are
different on the whole from the aims of a
more broadly-based program. One is to
teach animation, which it does very well.
Included in the program are a range of
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demonstration files contributed by Disney
animators. They take you through all the
things about animation that you really
need to know, like in-betweening (some-
times called "tweening"), squash and
stretch, arcs, paths of action, anticipation,
bipedal walking and running cycles, and
quadruped walking and running cycles.
The second use is to create animations
with a soundtrack, as the exposure sheet
allows you to synchronise a few sampled
sounds with your animations. This would
be good as a part of a demo, especially as
the program has the ability to save IFF
ANIM format.
Although Disney's Animation Studio
isn't a great all-rounder, it's good enough
at the things it does to warrant your
attention, especially if you're a complete
beginner and want to learn about anima-
tion in the most painless and interactive
way possible.
Ease of use
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Graphics handling
Spectracolor
Oxxi Aegis - £65.99
Although not under this name,
Spectracolor has been around a good long
time. The writers of the program,
Bazbosoft, are more famous for Photon
Paint and Photon Paint 2, a very good
HAM animation package of a few years
back.
Spectracolor takes all the things they did
for Photon Paint and expands them.
Although it can't handle normal modes
as well as HAM, it has learned a lot from
DPaint, and has obviously been listening to
users gripes over the years. One thing
they've kept which I think they ought to
have lost is the menus that fly up the
screen. Functional I guess, but very subtly
annoying.
In spite of the fact that a lot of programs
have come along which make use of similar
tools to Spectracolor's features, it's still the
original and best HAM animator. DPaint
has the edge on speed, and fits into a
smaller space in memory, but Spectracolor
has some very neat features,
I particularly like the wrap on objects
DPaint style tape deck controls, now making their mark on Plus Counts Animation systems
feature, which takes a brush and maps it to
one of seven predefined 3D shapes. But
you can also construct your own 3D surface
and wrap your brush on it.
Obviously you can animate your 3D
wrapped shapes too - making for realistic
flags etc, I guess - but this feature is fairly
limited in what it can do for you animation
in a 2D frame. Spectracolor is one of those
programs which looks brilliant on the sur-
face, and really packs in the features. But
like so many programs, all that's needed
from an animation program is not fluffy
dice, woofers, tweeters and slimline salad
dressing.
All you need is to animate, and anything
that doesn't speed you to that cause is
excess baggage.
Spectracolor has lots of features but it
could do with only having about half of
them, devoting the extra memory space for
buffers to speed up HAM redraw.
It's very slow and needs more leg room,
as the program and all its bits take up a lot
of room. It will run for painting in 512k
machines, but needs at least 1 Mb for ani-
mation - that's a bare minimum, and if you
intend doing any animation seriously, you'll
need upwards of 2Mb.
DPaint suffers from similar restrictions,
but then again DPaint has lower powered
resolution modes to fall back on.
Spectracolor is a very professional pro-
gram, although I wouldn't trade up and
use it myself.
Ease of use
•••#••0000
Graphics handling
•••HNOOO
Compatibility
••••••OOOO
Value for money
•••••00000
Overall
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Take 2
Rombo - £95
Now this is something new, and not just a
new program, but a new type of program
completely. Rather than being a muscular
graphics package, Take 2 is rather like the
best bits of Disney Animation Studio, but
with a few subtle twists.
The program is supposed to be used as
Jargon buster
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Anim
The IFF standard for animation, where a
series of pictures are stored together as
one file, compressed by only keeping note
of the differences between frames.
Cell
A single picture drawn for the purposes of
an animation on paper or dear plastic.
Digitiser
Device for taking the output of a video
camera and storing it as a picture file in a
computer.
Exposure sheet
List of shots for an animator to plan his
animation down to the last frame.
Flipper
Also called Page Flipper. A program which
takes a series of frames and flips through
them as an animation.
Key frame
The extremes of an animation, usually
drawn first, and then tweened to get the
in-between frames.
Line Test
A test of an animation where the pencil
sketches are animated using a video cam-
era and a stop frame video.
Ones, Twos and Threes
Each cell is shot once, twice or thrice to
alter the timing, or save film.
Peg Bar
A couple of pegs in the animator drawing
board and camera setup to ensure correct
registration of the cells.
RGB Splitter
A device to separate the red, green and
blue elements of a picture digitised from
a video source,
Tweening
The process of drawing - or computing -
the frames between key frames of an
animation.
VCR Controls
On-screen buttons in an animation pro-
gram which loosely correspond to the
controls on a VCR.
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a traditional animation suite, along with a
camera and digitiser. The frames are drawn
as cells or sheets of paper and registered on
a peg board, just like real animation. Each
frame is then "photographed" by the digi-
tiser and stored onto disk.
Once on disk, the animation can be
loaded into Take 2 for playback, but this
isn't just a simple animation player. You
can sequence the frames rather than
merely play them back in a long line.
It's more random access than linear,
meaning that you can build up a large ani-
mation from a very few frames, simply by
running through a few frames over and
over but in a number of different orders.
Say for example you have a sequence of
200 frames - possible if you have large
amounts of memory. The first sequence
could be the first 12 frames, with each
frame being displayed for 2 x 25ths of a
Contacts
second (simulating "twos"). The next series
of frames is the last 25, also on twos. After
that you can show the frames from 26 to
100 .
Then the frames from 1 to 25 again. And
again. Then the frames from 101 to 150.
And then back to frames 1 to 25 again.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to
figure out that this is a very good idea, and
has many professional applications. Line
testers are expensive, and the fact that you
can digitise and line test and re-sequence
from within the very same program makes
this a very competitively priced piece of kit.
Professional line testers can run into
thousands of pounds. But far from being
lofty pieces of kit which can only be used by
dedicated professionals, Take 2 has another
essential ingredient - it's fun.
But the addition of being able to use any
Amiga graphics mode, including HAM, and
the ability to load and use DPaint single pic-
tures and anims puts it into a class of its
own. A pro quality product which everyone
can use.
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Laindon North Trade Centre
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Ease of use
Graphics handling
Value for money
Fantavision
Broderbund - £49.95
Although not fitting into the usual 2D ani-
mation categories very readily, this oddity is
enough fun to warrant a mention at the
very least.
The process used to great effect in this
program, besides being able to use graphics
generated in another program, is the
tween ing effect it uses to animate between
different shapes. This is a unique effect, and
a great idea, which unfortunately finds no
real use outside of this program. But it is a
lot of fun to play around with it. I'd file this
one under "cute, but no lasting value".
Ease of use
••••••oooo
Graphics handling
••••oooooo
Compatibility
••••OOOOOO
Value for money
•••••ooooo
Overall
••••OOOOOO
DeluxeVideo III
Electronic Arts - £99.99
Although getting on in years, DVideo III is
still a valid contender for animation pro-
gram of 1992. You might experience prob-
lems getting hold of a copy - it's not seen
as a totally hot product on account of its
age - but do try, as it's still one of the most
flexible and complex animation systems
you can buy.
If you have large quantities of RAM, your
animations can be loaded from memory
and be as smooth as you like.
Like Take 2 it's not a graphics creation
engine but a graphics sequencer, like a
Midi sequencer. You take your raw materi-
als, the graphics, and move them around.
Unlike Take 2 however it's less tradition-
ally based, and doesn't really lend itself to
that style of animation. It is however very
impressive in what it can do in the way of
manipulation. It's a computer animation
system, not a traditional cell animation sys-
tem.
The most impressive part of the system
is the way in which it sequences anima-
tions and sounds together, where the
sequences aren't put together in scripts or
using frames like other programs.
The scripts are formed by placing
objects or icons on a time line, in much the
same way as a lot of multimedia programs
do today. In this respect it was way ahead
of its time, like so much of the original EA
software for the Amiga.
It's most remarkable for the length of
animations that it can produce, as it relies
on objects travelling across backgrounds,
rather than whole frames.
This means that - provided you have
enough room on the disk for your back-
grounds and objects - your animations
"videos", as they are called in the program,
can be as long as you like.
The diversity of uses makes this an
extraordinarily useful utility to add to your
graphics program, rather than a standalone
Ease of use
••••••••oo
Graphics handling
•••ooooooo
Comptability
••••••oooo
Value for money
••••••oooo
Overall
••••••OOOO
Conclusion
/. DeluxePaint IV
The all-time supremo, still top of the
heap after all these years.
2. Take 2
Newcomer, with superb sequencing
ability, and the bonus of online
digitising.
3. Disney Animation Studio
Great animation tutorials, and traditional
animation methods for the die hard.
4. DeluxeVideo III
Advanced sequencer and multimedia
program. More uses than a dead cat.
5 . Spectracolor
HAM animation program for those with
deep pockets for extra memory and
hard disks.
6 . Fantavision
Interesting curiosity, but no more
than that.
The reason that good old DPaint got
straight As is that It's always stayed on
top by constantly upgrading. When the
other programs on the market got more
sophisticated, DPaint always came back
for more.
It's interface was always the best and
easiest to use, due entirely to Dan Silva's
original program. Dan worked originally
for Xerox at the Palo Alto Research
Complex, where all the modern com-
puter interfaces were originated, and at
Lucasfilm.
So it r s fitting that DPaint should be
the easiest and most powerful program
in the history of Amiga. When Dan got
tired of upgrading DPaint, the task was
taken over by Lee Tar an, a Stanford A I
major who lives with her husband in
Palo Alto.
She did an awesome job of bringing
the old favourite into the 90s, Although
on occasions other programs have
offered features which DPaint didn't
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T utorial
The faces
• John Butler is a professional graphics artist working for Scope Picture produc-
tions in Glasgow, where he spends most of his time in front of a Quantel
Paintbox.
In his own time, john produces video animations using Imagine v2.Q, several of
which have enjoyed commercial TV success.
• Henri Bujko is a founder member of Alternative
Image, a leading professional Amiga graphics
production company, and has the envi
able job of producing renders, ani
matrons, and videotaped
animations using a beefy
Amiga and a copy
of Rea! 3D,
Life's
hard,
isn't it Henri?
Imagine 2.0
Tipster: John Butter
I magine2.0 is an incredibly powerful
program and inevitably with this
power comes a fairly awesome level
of complexity. I can't hope to simplify all
aspects of an animation system that
requires a 300-page manual, so I'll try to
cover two aspects of Imagine - the
Preferences page, which I consider essential
in order to enjoy and exploit Imagine fully,
and the morphing capabilities which set it
apart from the rest of the 3D pack.
The Preferences section is important aes-
thetically and functionally as, straight from
the box, Imagine2.0 is one ugly program.
The startup page, in particular, looks awful.
However one of Imagine's greatest
strengths is that so much of it can be tai-
lored to the individual's requirements.
To rid yourself of the startup screen, sim-
ply replace the Imagine. pic in the Imagine
directory with one of your own choosing.
All you have to ensure is that the picture is
in 1 6-colour, hi-res, interlaced 640 x 51 2
format and that it is named "imagine.pic" -
otherwise your program won't boot.
If disk space or startup time is at a pre-
mium, then simply choose a blank white
screen in this format. On actually entering
John's Interpretation
the program, you are pre-
sented with an eye-water-
ingly ill-chosen combination
of garish colours and drop-
shadow fonts that will have
you reaching for the aspirins
in no time.
Thankfully, the Prefs edi-
tor is there to save your sight
and you should make an
early stop there.
This editor allows you,
among many other options,
to configure your
workscreen colours to your
liking. Each option is determined by a hex-
adecimal number (this is a system where
the double digit numbers 10 to 15 are
replaced by the letters A to F) but if you
find this a little abstract to work with you
can change values by using the colour
swatch at the bottom of the screen.
As each screen colour is used for several
tasks, the trick is to find the right combina-
tions. The screens I use are a particularly
soothing selection of greys, white and
turquoise and while they may not suit
every user, I think
they provide a
pretty fair starting
From cube to
sphere ,
Imagine’s
morphing In
■1 action
point. Once you've changed these values,
make sure to get used to the new Select
and Pick mode colours in the various edi-
tors, as they can be a little disorientating at
first.
The next feature of Imagine's Prefs page
is its ability to set up the ten function keys
as hot keys and the creation of "user gad-
gets" which are Unix-style screen buttons.
These allow you to access menu com-
mands at a key
stroke or mouse
click. The best
way to build up
a work environ-
ment is to do so
gradually, as
you begin to
realise which
menu functions
you use fre-
quently.
These
will be the ones that will benefit most from
assignment to a user gadget or function
key. Make a note of the menu bar number,
the menu option number and the sub-
menu option number.
Thus for the Detail editor's
Transformation function you will see that
it is in the third menu bar, tenth menu
option, no submenu option. This trans-
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lates as 3a0 in the Preferences editor's hex
format.
Enter the Prefs page, click on the User
Gadgets button in the top right-hand cor-
ner, click on the "new" line and then enter
"trans" and the hex number 3A0 in the
slots provided.
Save the changes, re-enter the detail edi-
tor and, lo, a button will have appeared at
the bottom of the screen, embossed with
the legend "trans". Click on this and the
all-important Transformation requester will
appear.
Again, I suggest adding these slowly,
perhaps one or two a session, getting used
to them before adding more. Once you
have developed a comfortable set of func-
tion keys and user gadgets you will find
yourself flying round the program.
Once you have set up your screens and
so on you might wish to explore Imagine's
talent for "morphing". This is the trade-
mark of 3D graphics and when performed
smoothly it's a very impressive trick indeed.
Imagine, in common with every 3D pro-
gram, has plenty of ways of jerking your
animation around and thereby ruining the
effect. To help you round these obstacles,
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51
Tutorial
Morphing made easy
Rules
1 - Morphing objects must have the same structure. This
means that the two models you are morphing between must
be made up of the same number of objects with the same
number of points.
So a model made of two spheres of TOO points each couldn't
morph into a model made of two spheres, one an 80-point and
the other a 120-point one, but it could morph into a model
consisting of a lOOpoint cube and a 100-point tube.
2 - Brush maps cannot be morphed. Imagine has no way of
interpolating bitmap information so any morph between two
objects with different maps will result in an unpredictable jump
from one to another somewhere in your animation,
3 - On-off attributes do not morph. This refers to attributes
such as Phong Shading and Brightness. Like bitmaps, these will
also provide you with an unpleasant jerk from state to state in
your animation,
4 - Different textures cannot be morphed. Textures in Imagine
are algorithms which alter object surfaces but different ones
cannot, despite the manual's claims, morph smoothly,
5 - Work "backwards”. Always make the more complex model
first and then manipulate it in the detail editor into the simpler
one. A good example of this is an animation of a cube chang-
ing into a sphere - to fashion a sphere from a cube is not
impossible, but it is so laborious as to be practically so.
In Imagine'* Detail editor though, it is a simple process to
make a cube from a sphere using Drag Points mode and the
Snap to Grid function.
Tips
1 - To get around Rule 1, you can employ the "backwards"
method to transform between two dissimilar objects by
"sleight of hand". This done by creating a common,
simple shape from each model.
Thus you could make a 100-point letter A transform
into a 100-point cube and then substitute it in the mid-
dle of the animation for a 200-point cube (of the same
size and attributes) fashioned "backwards" from, say,
the letter Z.
One thing to be sure of is that the axis is the same size
and position in all the models.
2 - To morph brushmaps, prepare a 2D animation in
DPaint4, save the pictures in the format "name.0001"
etc and then index these in the Attributes section of the
detail editor.
3 - Take care to save attributes as you go along so that you
can recall materials for different objects and avoid the
"jumps" you can get with on-off attributes.
4 - To morph textures, crossfade between two sets, one
going from zero to significant values and the other
moving in the other direction. The in-text tutorial
demonstrates some techniques.
>
take a look at the box in which I have out-
lined some ground rules for morphing and
some tips to get around these rules if you
have to.
Armed with this information and a work-
ing knowledge of the manual, you should
be able to follow this demonstration tuto-
rial of some morphing techniques.
Enter the Project editor. Make new
Project "morphtest". Enter Detail editor.
Add a primitive polygonal sphere - accept
Imagine defaults throughout unless indi-
cated. Make it active (picked) and access
the Attributes requester. Colour it red and
save attributes as "sphere.attribute".
Exit Attributes and save model as
"sphere". Set grid size to 40. Enter Pick
Points mode, pick all points (Amiga-A) and
then access the Snap To grid option from
the functions menu.
Go back to Pick Object mode and enter
Attributes, change colour to yellow, save as
block.attribute. Exit Attributes and save
model as "blockl".
Clear the workspace and add a primi-
tive plane, values: 80, 80, 1, 1. Clicking
OK will provide you with an 80 x 80, 2-
polygon plane. Enter pick points and
select all, access the Transformation
requester and translate these points - 40
in the y direction.
Enter Object mode and access the Mold
(sic) requester (Amiga-E), choose the
Extrude option and extrude it for 80 units.
You now have an 80-unit cube. Enter
Attributes and load the block.attribute
you prepared earlier. Exit Attributes and
access transformations, click on the
Transform Axes Only button and set the
size to 50, 50, 50.
Save model as "block2". Enter Drag
Points mode and drag the top four points
to the centre of their plane to form a
pyramid.
Enter Point mode and reselect these
points and Snap To grid to perfect the
pyramid peak. Colour this pyramid green
and save as "pyramid".
Enter the Stage editor. Load the sphere
(make sure you can see it in Camera View
mode), save changes and enter the Action
editor. Set highest frame number to 25.
Go into Add mode and find the slot
marked "sphere". Click on the actor time-
line at frames 2 and 12, load the blockl"
object and enter 10 in the Transition
Frames slot. Click OK and then click twice
on frame 1 3, load "block2", click on frames
14 and 25, load "pyramid", transition
frames 8.
Save changes and enter the Stage edi-
tor. Add a light and drag it somewhere
behind the camera. Save changes and
make a wire frame test.
Hopefully you should see a sphere
change into a cube which changes into a
pyramid. To see the colour changes,
return to the Project editor and make an
animation.
While not the most exciting of projects,
this tutorial demonstrates the basics of suc-
cessful morphing in Imagine. The main
thing is for you to go on and experiment
with this technique!
Real 3D vl .4
Tipster: Henri Buiko
Because Real 3D seemed to offer only solid
modelling, many people felt daunted by
having to construct objects purely by bolt-
ing together primitives and using lathes.
Well the good news is that "freeform"
modelling is available in both the Beginners
and Turbo/Pro versions of the program.
It can seem a little daunting at first
because there are no primitives to access
and no direct way to build up vertices or
faces from scratch. But what there is adds
up to a powerful feature. In this particular
example I will show you how to make a
spiral hollow tube.
First set the grid to units of ten - this
helps to locate the centre point of the tri-
view more quickly (0, 0, 0) and makes
manipulation of objects more accurate and
intuitive.
From the Freeform menu option select
Create curve - Spiral, click in the bottom
left window (this represents the top view of
the scene) at zero co-ordinates, and pull
out a circle of a 1 00 units radius.
Accept the defaults in the requester and
a spiral curve will appear in the windows.
Next, make a loop by using the command
Create Curve - Circular Loop. Define the
object's centre point in the top left window
(the front view) at 0, 0, 0, just like the spiral
curve. Drag out a circle of ten units.
Next, make sure that Loop is selected in
the file hierarchy table and use the Move
command to place it at the bottom of the
spiral curve at the start of the line - do this
move in the top right window (side view).
By selecting Settings Display Autofocus
from the menu, the Loop object will be
automatically centred and sized in all win-
dows.
In the bottom left window, use the com-
mand Modify Hierarchy Rotate and select
>
Transparency
effects
Contrary to popular belief, transparent
objects casting images onto surfaces
are easy to produce and take relatively
little time to render.
Apply these settings to your
mapped image (again just a DPafnt
picture) and results similar to the pic-
ture shown can be achieved:
I Brilliancy - 100
Transparency -100
Speed of Light -100
Colour and Clip - highlighted
Both Gradient buttons - highlighted
Unshaded - highlighted
In this way, classic effects like stain-
glass windows can be produced easily.
The Unshaded option stops any shad-
ing being applied to the object or
shape.
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Transparency Is capable of producing stained glass window effects
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the centre of the loop as being 0, 0, -100.
This should be the case as soon as you click
in that window at the centre of the loop.
Rotate the loop 90 degrees by mouse
control, or on clicking the centre point
immediately press the colon/semicolon key
on your keyboard. This brings up a
requester which will already have 90
degrees as default.
Say OK to this and the loop will be
rotated accurately. By using the same key-
press with other actions such as sizing and
so on, the requester will allow you to type
in exact figures.
Now this is the crucial bit. Select from
the menu Freeform Build Orthogonal
Sweep. At this point press the asterisk key -
the one to the far right of the keyboard in
the numeric keypad.
A message on the menu bar will appear
saying "Select Object for Point Definition".
Assuming that Loop is still highlighted, click
on OK in the requester.
A message will appear in the menu bar
saying "Define Sweeping Curve" - again
press the asterisk key. This will bring up
another message in the menu bar, "Define
Sweeping Curve". Select Curve Object in
the hierarchy and click on OK.
The programme will then automatically
extrude the loop along the spiral path and
produce a hollow, perfect spiral tube. You
will notice that in the hierarchy table a new
object appears called mesh.
You can delete the loop object, as it's
not needed. Now the mesh can be made
smoother and more detailed by using the
Freeform Modify Remap option from the
menu. By doubling the figures in the
requester, a very smooth object can be pro-
duced automatically.
Unless you have an accelerator or lots of
memory, be careful with any kind of mesh
object as the Real3D program is optimised
for solid geometry (see "Reflectance" box).
The curve which is left can now be used as
a orbit or movement path down the tube.
Parallel curves can be used to make wavy
flags and - by using the
point editing tools -
reshaped or bent. Thus you
can use the morphing facil-
ity within the program to
create animations of rip-
pling flags.
Meshes can be made by
using the Freeform Build
Orthogonal Sweep, and
points pulled and shaped
with the variety of bending
options available.
An even quicker way to
produce Terrain is in
DPaint. Use the Airbrush
tool to spray an area in dif-
ferent shades of grey
(make sure the area is small
and use lo-res, 1 6 colours),
save this as a brush and use
the Pixel2 tool in Real.
Select the brush from the
menu and define the size
required.
The program will look at
colour values and the num-
ber of pixels and make a
Colour grading and clip mapping
Real has a very easy and fast method of producing
smooth colour grades, by using the Material
Requester.
Again, use DPaint to make a brush of two differ-
ent coloured pixels, or one pixel and a background
colour - lo-res is quite adequate, as only the colour
information is looked at. Make this into a material
in Real, and highlight both Gradient buttons.
By using different combinations of Mapping
and Tiling and applying the resultant texture to
your objects, very smooth colour gradations will
be produced which are fantastic in 24-bit.
This technique can, for instance, be used to
make a graded sky backdrop by mapping a spread
of two blues onto a rectangle or completely
around a large sphere.
Probably one of the most powerful and unusual
texture mapping methods Real offers is called Clip
Mapping. This takes the colour information or pic-
ture area and removes any of the object's surface
that the image is mapped onto that is not repre-
sented by the area of the image.
If you clip-mapped a small square image onto a
sphere, then all that you would see is the square
image in space, but with a curvature that is repre-
sentative of the curvature of the sphere.
Also, by specifying the No-Colour Zero parame-
ter, any part of the Image that has the background
colour will also be removed.
Take a picture of a weathercock. All the image
need consist of is a series of rectangles with
brushes of "text" produced in DPaint and clip-
mapped with No-Colour Zero selected.
This method is great to make seemingly com-
plex images that require little memory and are
generally quick to render. They also exhibit any
properties you define for your material like shini-
ness, specularity and even the shapes will cast
shadows.
The possibilities here are tremendous in that you
can make animations similar to the type you might
make in DPaint but with the true "3D -
Dimensionality" that Real offers. The only draw-
back is that 24-bit images will not clip-map with
No-Colour Zero.
Amiga Computing July 1992
Rendering
options
There is no need to always render your
images full screen size in order to
check characteristics, fust type rn
smaller units in the Width and Height
parameters.
For example, 320 x 256 could be
160 x 128 or even 80 x 64. Animations
can be rendered and saved in this size
far quicker and previewed faster
before committing yourself to the final
render. The same applies with render-
ing to a 24-bit graphics card.
When using anti-aliasing for stan-
dard Amiga modes, never use more
than four levels - level two is, in most
cases, quite adequate, and affects the
rendering time slightly.
Also, when rendering in 24-bit the
same applies - level four is quite fine,
and applying any more considerably
increases rendering time for little
image improvement.
Likewise with the recursion depth.
Level three is fine for most imaging,
maybe increasing to five or six if over-
lapping glass objects are used or a
more detailed reflective surface is
required.
Use anti-aliasing and recursion
depth with extreme caution, A
68030/68882 combination can he
made to look like a bog standard
68000 setup with indiscrete use of
these parameters.
Real 3D's Sweep and Exude functions In action
mesh that can look just like a mountain
range.
Careful use of this function is required if
you have a small amount of memory. The
Freeform Modify Remap/Smoothen
options allow you to produce mesh objects
that will be suitable to use by increasing or
decreasing the number of points and poly-
gons.
It is possible to make effective land
masses with meshes and texture mapping
and fly the observer around without exact-
ing large memory overheads.
Essentially, by using curves and loops,
almost any kind of organic
object can be created.
Reflectance
By making a large hollow sphere and
applying a texture to the surface, a
very convincing Environment Map can
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option to set the spheres attributes to
Scene and Hollow, and place a reflec-
tive object in the centre of the sphere.
The sphere's texture will only be
seen in the surface of the object and
nowhere else in the background.
A final point here, Real3D was
really optimised to handle its own
kind of solid modelling and the mesh
objects included due to demand.
Because of this. Real does not render
particularly fast when using mesh-
type objects or surfaces.
However, when v2 finally reaches
these shores (and this could be some-
time this year), the proper implemen-
tation of solid modelling and
mesh-type objects among other inno-
vations should promise a program
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Tutorial
Stevie Kennedy
sorts out printing
and printer drivers
Beginning to
get crowded In
there, Isn 't It?
The structure
of MyDisk
M you fpftw (he toKim through
you should end up uih an
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LOADWB
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COfFKi FOR
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PRINTERS
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SfcK, Dt VICES
PRINTER DEVICE
ICON LBftARV STARTUP-
SEQUENCE
SHE1L-
STARTUP
F irst of all an apology to anyone
feeling miffed or confused by the
last couple of columns. My first
mistake was to neglect to tell you about
icon. library, without which your auto-boot-
ing disks wouldn't auto-boot.
This was rectified last month but, sadly,
senility struck again and in telling you all to:
COPT Ll B£ ; ICON . LI BRA It T TO HTJUSILLIBS
I left out the all-important fact that there
was, as yet, no LIBS directory on MyDisk.
This just goes to prove that even someone
charged with putting CoverDisks together
and writing beginners' columns for over a
year can fall foul of the complexities of
AmigaDOS and make basic mistakes.
You should, of course, have typed the
command:
NAKEDIR PIYDISK : L IBS
before trying to copy icon. library to your
disk.
On with the show. This month we'll be
taking a look at the Workbench printer
device and how to set it up so that we can
send text files to the printer without having
to use a text editor or wordprocessor.
As usual, AmigaDOS's structure means
that there are several files you will need in
order to set up the device, so here's a list of
them:
• CTYPE
• DEVS;FRINTER.DEVICE
• DEVS: PARALLEL. DEVICE
• DEVS:SERIAL DEVICE
• D EVSiPRI NTE RS/OEN ERIC
• L:PORT-HANDLER
Type is just the C: command used to send a
file to the screen or printer, printer.device
controls all access to the printer, and paral-
lel. device and serial.device control the paral-
lel and serial ports at the rear of the Amiga
into one of which your printer will be
plugged.
Port-handler takes care of the interface
for the PRT:, PAR: and SER: devices, which is
what AmigaDOS calls the printer device,
parallel and serial ports.
The other file we've included in our list is
the printer driver, generic. As its name sug-
gests, this is a very simple printer driver
designed to work with more or less any
printer attached to your machine, and
should always be present for the
printer.device to work.
You can add as many custom printer
drivers as you like at a later date, but
generic should always be in there too.
So what's a printer driver? These small
programs are found in the printers subdirec-
tory of the DEVS: drawer and have con-
tained in their code all the information
necessary for AmigaDOS to recognise a spe-
cific printer and cater for its idiosyncrasies or
special features.
Individual printer drivers are available for
most popular printers and the correct driver
for your printer should always be copied to
the printers subdirectory.
As usual, the instructions in this column
will assume that you're working with a sin-
gle floppy Amiga, necessitating a lot of
copying to RAM: and disk swapping. The
steps taken to set up a printer.device are
identical whether you own Workbench 1 .3
or 2.04, so it doesn't matter whether or not
you're using a Plus model.
To begin, boot from Workbench and
open Shell. Now type the following com-
mands to chuck everything into RAM:
COPT COPT TO RAN:
copt a to mi mu mfts mti J
COPT HAKE DIR TO RAN:
COPT 0EV5 : PRIWT E (tS/taENER 1 C TO RAN:
COPT C;TTPE to m- r
COPT DEVS:PSMTEfiJEYlCE TO RAN:
COPT DEVSiPARALLEL, DEVICE TO RAN:
COPT &EV$:SERIAL.DEY1CE TO RAN:
COPT LjPOUT-HANDLER TO RAN:
Phew! Now CD RAM: and put MyDisk in
the internal drive. If you have a second
drive, just pop MyDisk in there, then every-
one should type the commands:
HAKBIR NTDISK :OEYS/PRINTERS
COPT GENERIC TO HmSKiDEVS/PRINTERS
COPT TYPE TO miSK:C
COPT PORT-HANDLER TO miSK:L
COPT PRINTER. DEVICE TO HMISK;&EV5
COPT PARALLEL DEVICE TO HYD ISK : SEVS
COPT SERIAL.DEVICE TO NYMSK:OEVS
You now have almost all the files necessary
to enable printing from MyDisk, and we
could test this by using the Type command.
If we did, however,
we would more than
likely fall foul of one of
the banes of beginners
with printers - the
printer driver nightmare.
Cast your mind back
a couple of columns
when we were first giv-
ing birth to MyDisk. The
first file we copied to
MyDisk:DEVS was called
system-configuration,
and it is this file which
contains the information
about which printer
driver is currently
selected. The printer
driver which was selected on your original
Workbench disk - from where we copied
system-configuration in the first place - is
the driver MyDisk, will look for when asked
to print something, and if it was anything
other than generic we'll have problems.
To check your printer driver, put
Workbench back in the internal drive and
open the Prefs drawer by double clicking on
it. Workbench 1 .3 owners should now dou-
ble click on the Preferences program and
then the Change Printer gadget.
Workbench 2.04 users (everyone with a
Plus model) will have to double dick on the
Printer icon.
For all users, the selected printer driver
will be the one which is highlighted, so
make a note of its name and quit out of
Preferences. Now open Shell again and -
let's say the selected driver was EpsonX -
type:
copt msimmwmm to
N m$K:QEV$/mHTERS
If your selected driver was other than
EpsonX, just substitute its name in place of
EpsonX in the above command line.
Once the copy is complete, MyDisk
should have the correct printer driver
installed and should be ready to do some
printing. It's time to boot from MyDisk to
test this, so insert it in the internal drive and
carry out a warm reboot (Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga).
If you followed the last two columns, and
survived my wee mistakes - which I almost
didn't! - then MyDisk should boot up with a
Shell ready to be opened and used. Once the
disk has booted, double dick on its icon to
reveal the Shell icon, then double click on
that.
If you have a printer attached, type the fol-
lowing command:
TYRE TO PRT: $: SHELL-STARTUP
and if you don't yet have a printer, just type:
TYPE S: SHELL-STARTUP
As long as the printer is online and has paper
in it, printer owners should see the shell-
startup (remember this from last month?)
printed on paper, and non-printer owners will
see it listed in the Shell window.
Congratulations! You have successfully
created an auto-booting disk and enabled
our first practical project. You have already
advanced much further into the Amiga's
>
This month's jargon
Console
This is the name given to the Amiga screen in which you
are issuing commands and receiving the output In other
words, the console can be thought of as another name
for the Shell window.
Escape codes
Used in printing to control printer effects, escape codes
are a bit of an anachronism, though still useful. In con-
junction with the Echo command, escape codes can pro-
duce text effects to brighten up anything from a fuil
letter to a simple disk intro as you'll find in the boot
sequence of every Amiga Computing CoverDisk.
Amiga Computing July 1 992
59
Tutorial
>
practical side than the vast majority of own-
ers, and there's a lot more to come.
To experiment further with the Type
command, try for a second time the com-
mand line we just typed in, adding the
word Hex at the end so that the line looks
like this:
Type TQ PRT: S: SHELL-STARTUP HEX
Notice the difference? The file is printed out,
but this time the text part has been
squeezed into a single column on the right
of the screen and the left hand two-thirds
are filled with numbers. This is a hexadeci-
mal (hex for short) listing of the file and
contains the Ascii codes for each letter or
character in the text.
This won't mean much to you at present,
but it is a good example of how much flexi-
bility you will find in the simplest AmigaDOS
operations if you delve a bit.
You can examine the hex contents of any
file on MyDisk by using the Type command
in this way, but unless you intend to
become a machine code programmer you'll
probably never have to do this.
One practical use of the Hex option is
when you suspect you have a virus but can't
be sure. If a file on your disk seems some-
what suspicious (it wasn't there before or
has a strange name such as "*") you can use
Type with the Hex option to carry out a very
crude test on the file's contents.
Certain viruses leave files on your disk
containing Ascii text within the code which
can be read using Type. If a file is troubling
you. Type it to the screen using the Hex
option and check for insolent or smug mes-
sages from the virus author inside the code.
Usually, you won't find them, but in the
case of new viruses which are undetectable
with existing virus checkers, it is this sort of
basic detective work which sometimes saves
the day.
A more common use for Type is its num-
bering ability. Suppose you have an exam-
ple Basic or C program on disk that you'd
like to get to grips with as you begin to
learn the language.
Most modern programming languages
don't use line numbers, so any listing you
printed out could be quite difficult to follow.
If used with the Number option, Type
will add a line number to every line in the
file, making life a lot easier. Try typing the
following command:
TYPE TO PUT: 5 : SHELL-STARTUP HUH6ER
The output you'll get will be identical to the
original listing of this file except that every
line is now numbered.
So much for Type. What if you want to
use a PD program for viewing and printing
text files? What if the file has been crunched
(compressed so that it uses less disk space)
so that when you try to Type it to the
printer you get a lot of garbage on paper?
In these cases, you need a program such
as MuchMore_PP (MMPP) which we use on
every CoverDisk to view and print text files.
All you have to do, assuming you have this
month's CoverDisk, is copy it to MyDisk
using the command:
COPY CUVER6IS03:C/NNPP TO HTDISKsC
and, after a couple of disk swaps, the 11k
program will be copied across to your disk.
Now, before we attempt to use MMPP, a
couple of things have to be added. This
program is really quite complex, as it will
load and de-crunch powerpacked
(crunched) files, so it needs to have access
to the powerpacker. library.
Luckily, this can be found on every
CoverDisk. Also, as it uses a file requester to
choose the file to be viewed, it needs to be
able to find arp. library, which contains the
file requester.
To copy these files from this month's
CoverDisk across to MyDisk, type the com-
mands:
COPY C0VERDISKJ3:LIBS/P0«ERPACRER*UflRARY TO
mi SK: LIBS
COPY C0YERDIS!O3:LlB$/AftP. LIBRARY TO
miSKlLIBS
If you have an external floppy, put the
CoverDisk in there to save disk swaps.
If you now want to view and then print a
document you would first type MMPP to
summon the file requester, then select your
file, scroll through it in MMPP, and finally
print it by holding down the Alt-Shift-0 (the
letter, not the number) combination.
Fine, you may be thinking, but what if I
want something other than a straightfor-
ward Ascii file listing? You'll have noticed
that using Type and MMPP in the way we
have, the text files as printed are fairly
bland. However, there are a couple of ways,
even using basic
Workbench commands,
that you can spruce up
a text file.
Let's reboot with our
Workbench disk and
take another look at the
Preferences program.
As before, Workbench
1.3 owners should dou-
ble click on the Prefs
drawer, then the Prefs
icon, and Workbench
2.04 users should open
the Prefs drawer and
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There are many files
sitting between your
keyboard and your
printer
double click on the Printer icon. In the
Preferences program it is possible to set the
length of the page your text will print on, the
left and right margins, pitch in characters per
inch (the higher the number the smaller the
characters will appear), spacing in lines per
inch (the lower the number the more space
there will be between lines), print quality
(draft or letter), and the paper type (single
sheet or continuous feed).
While these controls don't give you any-
where near as much control over the text as
a wordprocessor would, they at least make it
possible for the user to tweak his or her pref-
erences until they best suit their printer and
personal taste.
There are no controls for underline, italics,
and so on, but these too, you may be sur-
prised to learn, are available when you first
write your text.
On this page, you'll see a box containing a
list of the text effects available under
AmigaDOS. These are all turned on by first
pressing the Escape key then a few control
characters, and turned off after use using the
null code (see box).
To try these out, you can't actually use the
ED text editor supplied with Workbench
because whenever you press the Escape key
ED goes into extended mode and expects a
command to be issued.
To create a file containing Escape codes
for text effects, therefore, you'll have to use a
shareware text editor, such as QED from the
Amiga Computing Workstation and
GraphicStation disks, or type directly to the
printer using redirection.
Redirection takes place when the output
from a command is forced to a device other
than the default device, which is normally the
console (another name for the Shell win-
dow). For example, if you typed:
ECHO "hcElR KeUc!"
you'd see the word "Hello!" appear in bold
type in your Shell window. Remember! When
you see the word "Be", I mean you to press
the Escape key rather than type the word
out. Now try this:
ECHO >PHT: p Esc[lH Hello!"
Surprised? The word "Hello!" appears not in
your Shell window but on paper. The redirec-
tion arrow has forced the Amiga to send the
word, complete with the escape code for
bold type, to your printer where, as long as
the printer is online and fed with paper, it will
be printed. We'll be taking another, more in-
depth, look at redirection as the series con-
tinues, but for now owners of printers can
have fun printing stuff to paper from the
Shell window.
The rest of us can try this interesting
experiment. Type the commands:
ECHG >RAR:RYFILE "WHAT'S THIS DOING IN HERE?"
ED UAIbllTFILE
Next month we'll start to fill up the C:
directory with the most useful AmigaDOS
commands and take a long .y . y J
hard look at what they do. f ■
Text effects
The following is a list of all the text
effects available through the use of
escape codes, any of which can be
used for script fifes which appear In
the Shell window or for output
directed to the printer.
Please note that where you see the
word Esc, you should press the Escape
key on your keyboard rather than type
in the whole word.
Esc[0m
Turn off all effects
Be[1m
Bold text
Esc[2m
Make text colour 2
Esc[3m
Italicised texT
Esc[30m
Make text colour 0
Bc[31 m
Make text colour 1
Esc[32m
Make text colour 2
Esc[33m
Make text colour 3
Esc[4m
Underlined text
Esc[40m
Make background colour 0
Esc[41m
Make background colour 1
Esc[42m
Make background colour 2
Esc[43m
Make background colour 3
Esc[7m
Inverted text
Esc[8m
Make text invisible
Esc[nu
Make text window n
characters wide
Bc[nt
Make text window n lines
high
Bc[nx
Set left border of window to
n pixels
Esc[ny
Set distance to top of
window as n pixels
NB: Workbench 1.3 colours are: 0 - 1
blue, ]
black, 2 - white, 3 - orange. 1
Workbench Z04 colours are: 0 - grey,
1 - white, 2 - black, 3 - blue.
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f you read last month's GraphicStation
you should have the basics of
PrintStudio in hand. This month we'll
finish our look at this excellent utility with
an in-depth guide to getting your prose in
print.
The first task is to ensure that the files
you wish to print have been saved in the
Ascii file format. If you attempt to print files
which have been written and saved in a
wordprocessor, using its own proprietary
format, PrintStudio will print nothing more
than good, old-fashioned gobbledygook.
To employ PrintStudio the text to be
printed must be Ascii. All major processors
and text editors are capable of saving in
this format so there shouldn't be any diffi-
culty providing the necessary files for the
program.
As mentioned last month you can
employ the GraphicStation's own text edi-
tor - alias QED - which you'll find on pull-
downs within the main GraphicStation
screen. All the files created with the afore-
mentioned software are automatically
saved in the Ascii file format, so it's ideal,
and of course very convenient, being only
a couple of mouse clicks away.
Assuming you have the file in the neces-
sary format, it's time to activate the
GraphicStation's text icon and get down to
business. The first job is to load the file you
require. Thanks to a standard click select
requester, this literally couldn't be simpler.
Once loaded, a new interface displays
the imported text which can be scrolled
through via the slider at the top of the
screen - but it's the lower portion that
holds the real power...
Some of the options on offer are self
explanatory so we'll concentrate on the
slightly more mysterious options, starting
G
RAPHIC
with the Select box icon. Once activated yet
another control panel appears. From here
you can define the start and end point of a
specific section ready for printing.
There are several methods of selection,
the most direct being typing the relevant
line numbers directly into the Beg and End
requesters on the left of the control panel.
To see your selection simply click on
Show and the program will automatically
'update the display with your selection.
Alternatively, you can use the central col-
lection of icons to adjust and select line by
line. Using this option you must first select
the start line by using the arrow keys to
scroll the cursor through the available text.
Arrow icons
Once you've located the start line, the
next task is to click on the mark icon and
then once again employ the talents of the
arrow icons to expand you selection - in
either direction.
Once you've reached the last line in your
selection, simply click on the Show icon and
your selection will be complete. The screen
should update with your new box. Click
OK, and you'll be returned to the main
Text-Print screen.
If you now select Print, the final print
requester will appear.
As you'll see, this
requester allows you
to define the finishing
touches which anyone
who has employed
Workbench as a print-
Headilnes, times, dates
and optional line spacing
- all waiting at the touch
of a button
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TATION
This month we continue with the
final part of the PrintStudio story
ing environment will be famil-
iar with.
If you are unsure of exactly
what these options mean you'll
find a full description in your
Workbench manual.
On the lower section of the
requester you'll see the print
commands themselves. The
print option actually starts the
printing process but you also
have the option to write the
print file to disk.
Using this option it's possi-
ble to save various sections of text from
assorted files and then print these in the
desired order later via the CLI.
To print saved files from disk, first open a
Shell window and change the directory to
the one containing the files you wish to
print. Then list the contents using the Dir
command.
Now type in either of the commands
listed below, replacing the "{Filename}"
with that of the file you wish to print:
MflODQ5. I
COPY (FILENAAE) TO PRT:
TYPE TO PRT: {FILENAME)
A perfect opportunity to pick and choose with the Option box selection panel
Of course you could take the slightly easier
route and load the printed disk file directly
back into PrintStudio, reprinting from there.
For the time being, let's return to the
main Print Text menu and look at some of
the other options on offer. To do this simply
click on cancel and you'll be back where we
started. This time, select the Options icon to
reveal yet another requester.
Here you can add those essential extras
to finish stylising the file prior to printing. In
the first section of the requester you'll find
the headline and date options.
If you require a headline, simply type the
text into the requester and make sure you
click on the headline push button to activate
the option.
Next, select its print position, and finally
define if it is to appear once or on every
page of the printout. Lastly, click on the
word Headline itself to activate the headline
styling requester.
Next move to the Time and Date options
- again don't forget to activate the push
Add those essential finishing touches
before you go to print...
button beside the options. If you now click
on Date and Time, the requester will be
updated from the machine's internal clock. If
you require an alternative date simply type it
in manually.
If you do plan to use a time or date other
than the actual time, make sure you activate
the Buf option which instructs PrintStudio to
employ the time and date you have defined.
If the Act option is active the program will
default to the internal time and date defined
by the built-in clock.
The next set of options are again rather
self-explanatory, but if you click on Page
Number it will reveal yet another styling
requester in a similar vein to that of Headline,
but this time all the options refer to line spac-
ing between various elements within the
page layout. Armed with the above you
should now be able to take full advantage of
the power that PrintStudio has
to offer.
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With my little eye... Not a Euro Disney competition
Currently sweating away for the coveted title of "Busiest Software House In Basil-
don" are Empire. As we speak they've got three new releases tumbling dawn the
pipeline towards the dusty shelves of software-ville.
Guy Spy is the latest from the people responsible, if not downright guilty, for
C n Arc inH
JfJCIVC HLt Cl IIU
Dragons Lair. It
tells the tale of,
strangely enough,
a spy called Guy,
and from what
we've seen it actu-
ally looks a lot
more playable
than it's ill-fated
ancestors.
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c
No, I'm afraid it's not. although by the number of Euro Disney compos currently
doing the rounds, you'll probably wan a visit there just for existing. What we do
have, however, is a peep at the latest from Infog rames Disney licence.
The Rocketeer is the game of the film of the man with a sparkler up his bum.
Zoom around the place beating up Nazis and generally being rocket-like. It
promises some sizzling
animation and digi-
tised graphics, so it
should look a treat.
Oh, and if you're
interested, the film
should be in your local
video shop round
about now. Light the
touchpaper and stand
well hack.,.
Also waiting in the wings is the cutesy platform romperama. Cool Croc Twins. Play-
ing in a Mario platform-style, it sees Funk and Punk Croc trying to catch up
with their mutual girlfriend,
Crocette.
Quite how this randy
twosome think they can
get away with sharing a
girlfriend is beyond me.
Crocodiles, eh? Nice, crisp
cartoony graphics and
oodles of cool should be
ready even before you fin-
I ish this senten...
Name that toon
Following on from last
month s teeny peak at
Jim Power, Loririel have
unveiled yet another
new game. It's called
The Cartoons and
promises to be, gasp, a
bit like Lemmings,
You've got a little
bloke who wanders
about the place being a
bit dim and dying a lot.
You control a superhero
fella who has to keep his
wee pal alive by blocking holes, killing
nasties and generally looking out for his
mates best interests. Or if you like, you
can beat the little pillock up yourself.
To be honest, it's not that much like
Lemmings, but it is a really good fun
game. As the name suggests, it all looks
very cartoony and it should be ready for
us ungrateful Brits in September,
Hudson! We are leaving!
Yup, coming soon to a cinema near you
is the third instalment in the ongoing
battle between Warrant Officer Ellen
Ripley and numerous slimy monsters.
Alien 3 is currently being trailed in
cinemas up and down the country,
and also at the beginning of the rather
gnarly Aliens - Special Edition video.
Rumours have been buzzing around
for yonks about the film. It's cost too
much, say some. It's crap say others.
Whatever it's like, you'll be able to join
in the fun on your Amiga thanks to
those gorgeous fun-bundles at
Accolade.
We can't wait to get a peek at it, so
you're guaranteed to hear all about it
soon.
The prat with
the beard is
back
If our Cheat Mode on Knightmare a
few months ago has whet your whis-
tle, then dry it off and read on for
more enthralling news.
The all round smarty-pants
responsible for Knightmare (the
game, not the rather sad TV prog),
Tony Crowther, has put pen to paper
and come up with a complete hint
book.
It won't give you the answers
straight out, 'cos in true Knightmare
style everything's in riddles and cryp-
tic clues.
So if you're still floundering about
in the dark with a bucket on your
head, cough up a mere £5.99 at
your nearest (or indeed, furthest
away) software shop for a copy. Fail-
ing that, give Mindscape a tinkle on
0444 246333 to buy one with a
credit card.
What thoroughly nice people.
You! Love! Us!
Indeed you do! Thanks to everyone who took the time
to fill in and return the Gamer survey - it's nice to know
we're getting it right!
It seems that the majority of you think that Gamer
isn't big enough, and that the reviews should be just
the way they are. It also seems that most of you buy
the mag yourself, with ten per cent of you reading a
parent's copy.
You want us to review all types of games, and pretty
much everybody reads every single last juicy scrap of
Gamer. It seems that most of you are aged between 1 3
and 25, although we have readers as young as six-year-
old Greig Muir going right up to Mrs A Cruttenden, a
grandmother from Basingstoke (who said chivalry was
dead? We'd never give away a lady's age!).
A fair majority also suggested that Gamer's page size
could become the same as the rest of Amiga Comput-
ing, and we're looking into it right now.
The lucky winner of the Gamer Bundle of games 'n'
stuff is Alan Ben Lampard from Weymouth. Quite a few
of you pleaded poverty for the games, but none so elo-
quently as Alan. The bundle's on it's way.
Onword 2
The newsle hit, just over there lo the left.,.
Cheat Mode 14
Tactics and tips for the well ' ard 5pec^ Force's
The Source 20
A treat for all flight simfonSfaj Its we peep at Microprose's 817 Flying Fortress
Talking Shop 26
Why not have a Ijeliaous Penguin biscuit while you read the charts? Yummy
July 1991
INNER VISION
Willy Beamish
Sierra's troublesome tyke bottles corporate corruption
Black Crypt
Part one of our "Blimey, what a lot of RPGs this month" special
Ork
Leaping and shooting a-plenty with Psygnosis' cyborg turkey
Space Crusade .... 4
lt*s everything Hero Quest should've been,.. and morel
SUPERSKI 2 . jSI
The start of a sports sim revival? Could well he*.*
Castles ..i........
What a cryptic title f eh?
Indy Heat
Hamsun Ford gets hot under the collar. I think
Eye of the Beholder 2
"Blimey, what a lot of RPGs this month" part two
Legend Jw
Not another RPG? Blimey, what a lot of RPGs this month , eh?
Leisure Suit Larry 5
The s/eaziesf computer character ever oozes back onto our screens . Huzzahl
Covert Action
Not now Moneypenny, It's Mkroprose's intricate spy gome
The Manager ....
We asfc fhe question - Is Jimmy Hill the anti-Christ?
Oh no! It can't be!
Yes it is! It's another pointless Gamer compo. The game
up for the proverbial grabs this month is none other
than Electronic Arts' throbbingfy big hit, John Madden
American Football. Zoiks, eh?
And as usual, we're going to ask you to do some-
thing really trivial and stupid to win it [along with a ver-
itable plethora of other goodres).
Obviously, we've Eied the compo in to American
Football, and so you're going to have to dig out the A
to Z for this one. We want you to make up your own
American Football team, and it has to be from a real
town in Great Britain,
So you couid for instance have the Pratts Bottom
Bombers. Except you can't, 'cos that'd be a bit easy.
If you re | I
Go out, form the ream and win a trophy. But it's the
name that counts. All we ask rs that it's from a real
town. We will be checking, so no cheating.
The more bizarre and embarrassing the name, then
the better your chances of winning. Good luck, and
keep your defence around the endzone,
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my BEAMISH
DYNAMIX ■ £34.99 ■ Hard drive recommended ■ Mouse ■ Out now
K ids eh? What lovable little
tykes they are. As soon as
they can walk, they learn
the basic skills of writing on wallpaper
in crayon, spilling things just to see
what yoghurt looks like out of the pot,
helping themselves at the Woolies pic
'n' mix counter and saying "poo" just to
annoy Great Aunt Matilda.
Actually, now you think about it, kids
can be pretty unlovable most of the
time. And they get worse as they get
older.
Our Willy is one such tearaway. A
typical American pre-pubescent school-
room terrorist, he's addicted to Nintari
video games (now there's a subtle play
on words, eh?), eats pizza and, to be
brutally frank. I'd veny probably hate his
guts if I ever met him. And yet the
game is appealing in a perverse sort of
way.
You start the game in school. It's the
last day before the summer holidays,
sorry, summer vacation and Willy has
landed himself in detention. The long,
and really quite dull, intro' sequence
shows Willy's pet frog, Horny farf arf
arf), leaping about in assembly, or roll
call, or whatever the Americans call it.
He lands on the headmast... sorry.
principal's head and nicks his wig. So,
detention for Willy. Can you figure out
how to sneak home? If so then you get
to wander around your house, investi-
gating all the rooms and basically just
getting a feel for the place before din-
ner arrives, when you'll have to sit
through several hours of dialogue in
which you don't have any input.
This is one of Willy Beamish's biggest
problems. There are a lot of semi-anj-
mated scene setters in which you don't
do anything. You can't even hurry them
along, so you just have to put up with
them. In fact, it's best to save the game
after each one, so you won't have to
plough through it all again if you fail.
The whole game gives quite a good
impression of things just cruising along
as normal in Willy's life. You know, you
have meals with the family, you meet
your gang for pizza, and so on. Every
now and again the game will prod you
further along the story line, and you
move onto the next problem.
The main aim of the game is to get
Willy to the Nintari Championships, but
he's a bit strapped for cash and Dad's
lost his job. Cash can be raised by get-
ting Horny to win the frog jumping
contest. However, Horny is up against
Turbofrog and he'll need some extra
stimulus to get him into a winning
mood.
Along the way you'll have to solve
other little puzzles to continue along
the right track. For instance, can you
bluff your way out of a beating from
the local hard man? Can you figure out
how to get out of school in time to
intercept your report card? Also lurking
in the background is the mysterious
Tootsweet company, who are plotting
to do fiendish things in the town sewer
system. Quite how this will affect you
I've no idea, but the whole thing will
probably come together in some excit-
ing big finale-type thing.
Well, it's probably no surprise to find
out that Willy Beamish is by the self
same bloke who wrote the rather won-
derful Heart of China (Gamer Gold last
month, fact fans). This does indeed
promise great things, but to my dismay
things weren't quite as hot as I'd
hoped.
As I've already said, there are too
many instances where you just sit back
and watch static screens, and then
there are times where you seem to just
wander around waiting for inspiration.
At first glance it looks very interactive, a
game to rival Monkey Island even, but
closer scrutiny and repeated play
reveals that your responses are very
conditioned. Sometimes it may seem
The much fabled
Nintari
Championships,
but can Willy get
there?
Ber-limey! The school nurse was never like this when I was a nipper!
•Gamer ^
1992
The Beamish home. Not exactly poverty stricken are they?
that you've got
several options
open to you, but
they all push you in the same direction.
This may or may not bother you, but I
couldn't help but feel a bit cheated by it.
There's humour, as you'd expect, but
it's hard to tell just who it's aimed at.
Sometimes there are clever little satirical
digs at American society which will go
way over kids' heads, and next you're
being presented with a fart joke, which
will have kids in stitches at the exclusion
of us more refined adults.
On to technical things, and the
graphics are quite nice. The back-
grounds are often very detailed and
colourful, laden with objects that
you can examine, if not use.
The sprites are a bit stilted, as the
hard drive whirring away frantically to
itself proves, and a lot of the close-ups
look like DPaint pictures. A nice car-
toony feel, but a bit of a comedown
after the lush scenery of Heart of China.
Sound is, amazingly, absolutely
abysmal. There is a tune, but the hard
drive accessing interferes with it. So one
minute it's bouncing along quite hap-
pily and then it goes all slow and gar-
bled as another animation is loaded in.
This is Willy's room. In case you didn't guess
v i s i o m
©© 00 #
A pleasant cartoon feel, but at
times a bit rough around the
Whenever he's feeling low, Willy's dad nips up into the
attic to play with his train set. Sad...
It's just like when the batteries start to
wear down in your Walkman, y'know?
All in all, Willy Beamish isn't a bad lit-
tle game. It's just not as good as I so
desperately wanted it to be. It's a con-
fused little product, not quite sure what
it wants to be. For a start, it's too
expensive for kids. Some of the Ameri-
canisms will confound them, and the
twelve |count 'em, twelve!) disks that
need to be installed will bore them
rigid. As for adults, there's just not
enough interaction to warrant this kind
of money.
It's charming and cute for a while,
but once you've finished it - as you
undoubtedly will, as it gives you so
many prompts in the right direction -
there's no incentive to try another
route. Mainly because there is no other
route. A brilliant idea, but a slightly less
than brilliant game. Ho hum.
Daniel
This is where Willy and his n on-sexist, non-racist pals come to "hang out"
AUDIO
©0©0#
The tune is distorted horribly,
and there are about five FX in
the whole game.
PLAY A B I L I T V
0000#
For the first few goes you'll be
enthralled by the nostalgia of
it all.
ADDICTION
ooooo
Ultimately, trial and error will
get you through. Too
expensive for what there is.
July 1992 GmkR
If you go down to the dungeon today...
ELECTRONIC ARTS ■ £25.99
Mouse ■ Out now
O h good golly Miss Molly,
would you Adam and Eve
it? It's another one of
those damn role-playing games.
Now for me, Dungeon Master was
and still is one of the best RPGs of all
time, and because of the popularity of
that game several companies are trying
to cash in.
So these days you get loads of RPGs,
all trying to knock Dungeon Master off
its throne. It has to be said that today's
technology is tons better and it shows -
take a look at Eye of the Beholder 2 as
an example. Unfortunately poor old
Dungeon Master gets wiped off the
face off the earth.
So, it's no surprise that yet another
RPG is available for you to buy. Brace
yourselves, because here comes Black
Crypt. Electronic Arts' newie promises to
be the best RPG yet, but then again
promises are made to be broken, so we
shall see.
Unlike most RPGs, this hasn't got an
epic novel to go along with it, but it
does have a short story, and when I say
short I mean short, as in Ronnie Corbett
size. Well, I'll tell it anyway.
Years ago he was banished from the
world. Now the dark lord Estoroth is
back with a legion of Hell's unholiest
fiends. Their mission - blood revenge!
Your brave band must recover the
lost relics that alone can seal Estoroth
and his infernal terrors in the Black
Crypt [hence the title). So there you
have it, short story time over.
As usual you start the game with
four team members. These must be
selected at the beginning. You have a
Cor what a fantastic line up,
and doesn't Geoff Capes look well ard?
choice of fighters, druids, wizards and
milkmen. Well OK no milkmen, but I
had you going for a second there.
The whole game is played in dun-
geons - 1 2 of them to be precise. Each
member of your dungeon posse
already has several items upon his/her
person - one of these items is normally
a weapon.
Obviously fighters will have much
better weapons than, say, druids, but
then again don't choose all fighters
because who's going to mix the drugs
and do spells - or is it do the drugs and
mix spells? Sorry, I'm getting away from
the point here.
Black Crypt plays rather like Dun-
geon Master in the way that you move
about and the way that you fight.
I have to hold my hands up and
admit that I found it very hard. Not
hard to play, but hard to get anywhere.
The beasties are very nasty indeed.
They have this disagreeable habit of
creeping up behind you, and before
you know what's going on, you've lost
two of your brave adventurers.
Despite this annoying factor, I found
Black Crypt quite fun to play. I don't
know why - maybe because it is so well
presented. That's one of the best things
about Black Crypt - the graphics are
amazing, all drawn beautifully in 64
colours.
The animation is top notch - even
the doors are wonderfully animated.
Dan spent about ten minutes just open-
VISION
ooooo
Corr, well sexy, know what I
mean guv?
AUDI O
©©©••
Average intro tune, sound FX
arenl up to much, though.
OO0O#
Nice easy control system, but
it's not for the beginner,
©©©••
Fairly addictive, but difficulty
level might put you off.
85 %
we have here... Excuse me while I faint, thank you
Oh no, its the old
shield in the stone
wall trick. Well
don't think I'm
falling for that
one...
ing and closing a
door - he was
mesmerised.
It says on the
box that the
game's got digi-
tised sound effects, but all I heard were
a few grunts and the so.und of doors
opening and closing (thanks to Dan),
Maybe there are some fantastic sound
effects in the later levels.
Overall, Black Crypt is basically Dun-
geon Master with knobs on. The level
of difficulty might put a few of the less
experienced RPG fans off, but for the
conquerors of Dungeon Master and its
ilk, this is definitely the game for you.
The graphics make it instantly like-
able, and playability-wise you can't go
far wrong. It's not a classic, but it's
much better than some of the other
rubbish on the market.
I'm off back down the dungeons
now, not to play Black Crypt, but
because that's where Amiga Computing
put me when I'm not reviewing games.
I don't know why, but I don't
half fancy some fava beans and a nice
Chianti.
Jonathan
July 1992
PSYGNOSIS ■ £25.99 "72 meg ■ Joystick ■ Out now
shake a
stick at. Ork's
got really nice graphics,
even if it looks as though most of them
were ripped from Shadow of the Beast.
On the sound front there's a lovely
little intro tune, but in-game there isn't
a lot to shout and scream about. The
sound FX are a little boring and don't
really do anything for the game.
I think why Ork has succeeded and
other Psygnosis games have failed is
because Ork has the puzzle factor to it.
Shadow of the Beast was just a fancy
beat-'em-up after all and all there was
to do was hit things and run around.
Ork, on the other hand, is a whole
different kettle of fishies. The puzzle ele-
ment means that you actually have to
work out what to do, rather than just
blasting baddies.
There isn't a lot that you can really
complain about - it's one of those
games that looks nice and plays well.
However, it's lacking that certain some-
thing, if you know what I mean.
It doesn't really stand out from the
rest. I mean, Lemmings had loads of lit-
tle cute green-haired creatures that
tried to commit suicide, but all you've
got in Ork is a thing that shoots other
things. I mean the main character looks
Hello there. If I give you this gold will you let me through the
toll? Yes? Oh thank you. What a nice man, a veiy nice man.
Err excuse me, it's no
time to be playing on
computers, there's a big
three-pronged beastie
about to kill you...
O rk, - what a name! What
you don't know is that the
word "ork" doesn't actually
mean anything and - more surprising -
that it isn't related to the game in any
shape or form.
The main character isn't called Ork,
there isn't a planet in the game called
Ork, the evil baddie isn't called Ork, so
why call a game Ork?
Why not, I sayl It's better than Mabel
or Edith, after all. Ork is one of those
words that you can put almost any let-
ter in front of it and make a new word
from - fork, pork, cork, dork, mork, york
and errr gork - well that's quite a few,
anyway.
I'm sorry, I'm definitely losing it - it's
just that when I see a game with a
totally pointless name I crack up and
can't control myself.
Ahem. Anyway, you play the part of
Ku-Kabul, a Heyadahl (that's his race,
not a foreign swear word), and you're
training to be captain of a star cruiser.
Ku-Kabul has reached the end of his
training and he now faces the
final test. Other Heyadahls
have taken the test, some
have passed while most
have never been seen
again.
Ncnone knows what Ku-Kabel has to
do except his examiners. Armed only
with basic twin cannons and an empty
jet-pack, Ku-Kabel has to go to the
planet Ixion to complete his training by
passing the feared final test.
The best way I can describe
Ork is to say that it's a cross
between The Killing Game Show and
Shadow of the Beast. Now Psygnosis
are famous for producing games with
brilliant graphics and sound, but they
always seemed to forget one thing -
playability.
In the case of Ork, they seem to
have rectified the problem because
there's more playability than you can
like a mutant chicken!
Ork is one of Psygnosis' better
games, but it's just not Gamer Gold
material. I don't think the public will be
rushing out to buy this one - they'll
probably go for one of the big licensed
games that's a load of rubbish, like they
usually do.
Never mind, Psygnosis - there's
always Lemmings 2!
Jonathan
V 1 S I o w
©©©©•
Nice graphics with more
than a hint of Shadow of
the Beast in them.
AUDIO
©©©••
A nice little intro tune,
but the sound FX do
nothing for the game.
FLA YABILITY
©©©©•
A Psygnosis game that’s
playable? Don't make me
laugh. No it's true, so there.
A E> E> I C T I O M
©©©••
You'll probably come back to
it - it’s one of those games to
play on a rainy day.
July 1992
Crusading in, err space, you've guessed it, heres...
Now I don't think red suits me, but I quite fancy that blue chapter
Look there's my posse, don't they look ard and well organised?
hundreds of rules that came with the
game as standard.
You know the sort; 'You can only kill
an Ork if its kill points are below seven
and its defence factor is above two, but if
you own a Heavy Bolter you must throw
three times to see if any shrimps have
eaten your fridge."
Well it's sort of like that. Whatever it
was, it was very confusing. So if you
didn't know all the rules you conse-
quently got beaten to a pulp by all your
chums.
Well, now Space Crusade is on your
home computer and things are a little
easier. I'll tell you why shortly - first it's
time for a bit of a story.
More than 25 millenia ago, mankind
took his first tentative steps to the stars.
The discovery of the warp drive was a
major advancement for space travel.
What was once a journey of several cen-
turies became a journey of several days.
Warp space is the parallel universe
through which starships may jump, but
unfortunately it's also the domain of
Chaos. In warp space
nothing may be taken
for granted. It is a uni-
verse filled with all
manner of evil powers.
Ships have disap-
peared without reason
and emerged from the
warp centuries after
they entered it, millions
of light years from their
destinations. These derelict starships, dis-
torted beyond all recognition, are know
as space hulks.
By entering warp space, man had
awoken an ancient evil - the minions of
Chaos had escaped from the warp. The
first great war, known as the Age of
Strife, had begun.
For over five thousand years, warfare
wrecked mankind - nation battled
nation, planet battled planet, race
destroyed race. Colonies died out, while
aliens plundered and grew fat on the
wreck of humanity.
Then came a saviour, the man who
would be know as the Emperor of
Human Space. A
shrewd diplomat, he
gathered what was
left of human society
and formed it into
the Empire.
A brilliant sol-
dier, he conquered
and reclaimed the
planets lost to
Chaos. For this task
f you're not familiar with names like
Orks, Gretchins, Dreadnoughts,
Blips and Genestealers, then
chances are you haven't been living for
the past few years.
As any decent role-playing games fan
will know, these names are all to do with
Games Workshop Ltd. Now if you cast
your minds back a year or so ago, you
will remember that Gremlin converted
Heroquest - The Board Game into Hero-
quest - The Computer Game (fanfare
please!).
This obviously delighted thousands of
RPG fans who owned Amigas. Now
they've converted Space Crusade - a
much loved RPG - to our computer
screens too (hurrah!).
Anyone who's not a fan of RPGs will
probably think that they're a little boring
and involve lots of old, hairy heavy metal
fans who move painted metal figures
around a board while throwing a
75-sided dice.
Well you're wrong! I've played a few
RPGs in my time, I can tell you, and they
are actually quite fun. The only thing that
bothered me were the hundreds and
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The marine players take their turn first.
After the marine teamfs] have had their
turn|sj, it's time for the computer to strike
back.
The marine players must attempt to
accomplish the mission they have selected
from the mission list. During their turn the
marines may move, fire or fight using
hand-toTiand combat.
As the marines explore the game map,
they will encounter loads of the deadly
members of Chaos. Marine players score
points for eliminating their opponents and
the player who scores the most points
wins the game.
That's basically how you play Space
Crusade - move in, kill the aliens, achieve
mission objectives, move out and be
home in time for tea.
Space Crusade is one of those games
where the reviewer tells you to buy the
game and read the manual because there
are so many little things to talk about that
he/she hasn't got enough space to write
them all down.
Guess what? "What?" I hear you all cry.
"Go and buy the game and read the man-
uaf because there isn't enough space to
explain all the twiddly bits."
There you have it. I've hardly got
he crested the Space Marines, the great-
est warriors of all.
Its members are acknowledged as the
most powerful and feared fighting men
in the Imperium. Space Marines are
organised into chapters, each with its
own fleet. The fleets roam through the
galaxy in pursuit of Chaos. End of story...
Now this is where you come in. You
get to control a squad of space marines -
one commander and four marines - and
you have to rid the space hulks of Chaos.
The computer version allows for three
players, each commanding one marine
chapter - either the Blood Angels, the
Imperial Fists or the Ultramarines. Chaos
is played by the computer.
At the start of a game, the marine
players choose the marine chapter they
wish to represent. They then choose
weapons for their marine teams.
There are plenty to choose from -
assault cannons, missile launchers,
plasma guns and heavy bolters are just
some of those available.
The marines must then choose which
mission they wish to undertake. This can
range from blowing a hole in the side of
a space hulk to taking on one of the
deadly dreadnoughts. There are 1 2 mis-
sions to choose from, so it'll keep you
busy for a while, plus there will be mis-
sion disks on the way soon. Once you've
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VISION
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graphics that look
good in 2D or 3D.
AUDI O
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OK tune and
plenty of sound FX
in game.
R L A V A B I l_ I T V
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A D D I C T I M
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Highly addictive,
plus the data disks
are on the way.
enough space to tell you about the fantas-
tic graphics and how you can switch
views from 2D to 3D, or about the fab
sound FX and how, errr, fab it sounds.
See, there just isn't enough space to
tell you about the playability and how it's
so easy to play because it uses a really
good icon system and there are no hard
rules to learn.
I can't believe I won't be able to tell
you about how you'll be addicted to it for
months and months on end. I don't
know, computer game mags these days,
tut tut.
Space Crusade is one hell of a game.
RPG fan or not, you'll love it to bits. Go
out and buy it today. You will not regret
it, I promise.
Jonathan
Snow business like snow business...
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piles of snow. More often than not,
you'll just end up face first in the snow
after an unsuccessful waggle. Too tricky
for it's own good really.
And that's also the trouble with the
ski jump. It’s too fiddly, and you don't
get enough time to make any adjust-
ments. You shoot down the slope, and
then have about half a nanosecond to
keep your skier balanced in mid-air, oth-
erwise he goes splat all over the
ground. And this happened every sin-
gle time I tried it. Ho hum.
Well, how does it all come together?
Quite nicely as it happens. The graphics
are just short of excellent, and the
sound is quite stomping as well. Obvi-
ously a game of this sort is best enjoyed
when you play against some mates,
and even then you'll all get beaten by
the computer players.
It leaves you feeling all humbled and
small. And then you kick your monitor
in, and feel much better about yourself.
In conclusion, the bobsleigh bit is
ace, the skiing bits are a bit samey but
still fun and the remaining two events
are too tricky and stick out like the
proverbial sore thumb.
There is a practice option, so you
can try and get the hang of them, but I
recommend that you just challenge
your friends to a bobsleigh competition
and scare yourself to death from the
comfort of your own home.
Daniel
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A welcome change, which
deserves to do well.
Especially when the bobsleigh is the
best event of the lot. In fact, it's one of
the most groovy little things I've ever
played. Add a few more bobsleigh runs,
and maybe an editor, and you've got
an above-average game in its own
right.
You see your bobsleigh from behind
as it thunders down a twisting and
turning track which should induce nau-
sea in even the most strong-stomached
among you.
As the scenery swings from side to
No. No. Anything but that.
It's Jimmy Hill! Aaaaargh!
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Half-way down the slope and already
everyone's sucking a boiled sweet to
stop themselves feeling sick
Hey! You can see my
house from up here
I t's been a fairly quiet year for
sporty games so far. There's been
not so much as a peep or a whis-
tle from the joystick-waggling fraternity,
except for John Madden's Football. But
fear not waggle fans, for spooky conti-
nental software blokes Microids are
here to make your day with the release
of SuperSki 2.
And before you ask, no I don't
remember SuperSki 1 either. But by
using some incredible powers of deduc-
tion I can guess that it probably had
something to do with skiing, and it was
presumably fairly super into the bar-
gain. And, lo and behold, SuperSki 2
follows along similar lines.
You get to compete in six cold and
frosty sporting japes, such as special
and giant slalom, hot dog, ski jumping,
downhill racing and bobsleigh. Quite
how bobsleigh fits into a game about
skiing I don't know, but who cares?
side, and your sled goes flying round
the bends, you’re guaranteed to start
swaying from side to side in your seat.
Just like on Voyage to the Bottom of
the Sea when the submarine gets hit by
something. Wow.
And that's just one of the events.
The downhill skiing bits are pretty much
the same in design, but each requires
different skills. The slalom, for instance,
requires nifty steering to get through all
the flags. On the downhill run you've
got to go as fast as possible without fly-
ing off the course and straight into a
tree. Each of these skiing sections plays
very much like a driving game, but with
the car replaced with some planks of
wood nailed to your shoes.
The only events that don't quite
work are the hot dog and the ski jump.
The hot dog is the only simultaneous
two-player event and requires you to ski
down the screen, performing little
jumps and fancy bits as you leap over
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T he castle is surely one of the
most stupid housing ideas in
the world. They're cold,
draughty, unhygienic and take years to
build.
And then hundreds of years later, they
fall to pieces and American tourists come
and trample them to the ground in their
loud Hawaiian shirts and take pictures of
all the rubble because it's "quaint".
No, castles are not high on my list of
great places to live. But here comes a
Brian Blessed looks on in a disinterested way,
while the tall one from the Set Gees has a
whinge
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ing should prevent you running out of
readies, and if by some stupidity you do
run low (ahem, like I did) then just up
the tax rate and take it from the little
people.
And every now and then, you'll be
approached by one of your subjects
asking for some divine advice from your
good self.
So Ethelred the Obscene has been
bothering livestock again, has he? Will
you let him off? Will you send some
knights round to give him a kicking? Or
will you have some of his more tender
organs removed with a large axe? Deci-
sions, eh?
Everyone knows that a good
medieval king just chopped everyone
up, and it's pretty good fun bellowing
"off with his doodahs!'' at the monitor.
You don't just make decisions con-
cerning the private functions of your
more dubious peasants, either. You
could become embroiled in a scrap
between two feuding dukes or some-
thing and have to prevent Civil War. Or
you may be approached by a rival king
who offers a truce. Do you trust him, or
do you chop his head off? Exactly!
You're getting the hang of it already.
All the while, just keep an eye on
how the castle's coming along. Give the
little fellas a holiday now and again,
make sure their pay is just enough for a
scabby loaf of bread and some dead
pig, and they'll be as happy as Larry.
Whoever Larry is.
Inevitably, you'll come under attack
and be forced to defend your half-built
homestead. This is where the army
comes in. Strangely enough.
You'll be given ample warning of
where the enemy are attacking from,
and then you get to arrange your
archers in the towers of the castle, and
along the walls, and set your infantry
jppose I a better buy some food for the workers or
they'll probably start moaning again, just like when I
introduced the 24-hour working day
game that
promises to recre-
ate the fun and
excitement of
building a castle,
or three. All the
joys of laboriously dragging huge
chunks of stone across the country to
construct a big, smelly castle.
In fact, I think the only reason peo-
ple lived in castles was because they
took so long to build that they had to
live in them, or they'd have wasted half
their lives building very big and heavy
garden sheds.
So, can you make an exciting game
out of such a dubiously entertaining
subject? Well, almost. Naturally the
rather sedate pace of such a task is
going to startle the hardcore
shoot-'em-up junkie, so if you feel that
applies to you then go and paint your
toenails or something.
On the other hand, if you're a more
laid back kinda person who likes to
ponder over problems and stroke your
chin in a thoughtful, Jimmy Hill-type
way, then stick around and well get
stuck into Castles.
Well, to state the obvious, you've got
to build castles. Rather easy, right?
Well, in theory, yes it is. A bit of a
drawn out process, but easy.
You just design the castle, making
sure you stick loads of walls in for no
good reason all over the place and silly
towers just for a laugh, hire some peas-
ants to actually build the thing for you,
tell them which bit to start work on and
leave them to it.
When they've finished, tell them to
start work on another bit. And if you
don't build the walls at the same rate,
they become unstable and the whole
thing crumbles to the ground. Not par-
ticularly tricky, and to be honest, it's too
long-winded to be any fun either.
So, just to keep your regal mouse
button a-clicking, there are a profusion
of other kingly tasks for you to turn
your attention to.
Recruiting and maintaining an army
in case of attack is always important.
Keeping a close eye on your spend-
Here's my original castle design (note the stupid little
wall at the top)
And here's my castle a few millennia later. Now watch
some scumbag knock it down
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Now, here's the perfect example of how not to build a castle. No walls, and some very
short towers. Brilliant.
facing the enemy. When they're in
sight, click on the infantry and watch
them scuttle off to get beaten up while
the archers do all the work and kill the
enemy from afar.
If the enemy get close enough,
they'll start to topple the walls and
undo all your hard work.
The enemy also have another rather
fiendish contraption. It's like a big tent
on wheels full of dead pigs and stuff.
They wheel it up to a part of your cas-
tle, usually one of the supporting tow-
ers, and then all the gas that builds up
inside the pigs as they rot explodes and
the wall collapses covered in bits of pig.
Very tasty. Who said chivalry was
dead, eh?
After the battle, providing it wasn't a
complete massacre, you start to repair
the damage and mutter under your
breath about what those dastardly Celts
can do with their battleaxes.
And so it goes on until you've fin-
ished your castle, at which point you
get to go to bed with a nice mug of
Old Rumble's Gut Rot Real Ale and have
a snooze in your new house. Probably
fl couldn't actually finish my castle with-
out running out of money).
Time to change into my Criticism Hat
now, for a bit of nit-picking. First of all,
it's slow. Not slow in a "badly pro-
grammed" sort of way, but slow in a "sit
watching for 1 5 minutes while some
stick men slowly build a wall" sort of
way.
This means that it takes absolutely
ages to build a proper castle, as they're
usually made up of about 50 or so sec-
tions. Plus, and this really annoyed me,
the manual doesn't actually contain
instructions as such.
It tells you what to do in the form of
a waffly tutorial all about some king or
other being told how to play Castles by
one of his chums. Very funny (not!) and
very useful (double not!). This meant
that for ages I was watching absolutely
nothing happen and I had no idea
why.
A simple step-by-step list of instruc-
tions would have made it so much
clearer, but instead you have to wade
through endless crap medieval puns to
find out where you're going wrong.
Other niggles are the jerky scrolling,
which makes the combat a real drag to
watch and control, and the fact that it's
sometimes hard to tell whether or not
you actually did click on
the options.
Some nice clear m *
icons wouldn't have gone
amiss. Still, even
after these
gripes, I quite enjoyed playing
Castles. But it took a while. Let's
just say that if you're looking for
an instantly appealing game then
you should run away from this
screaming.
But if you like a bit of strategy
with some building site-type bits
bolted on, and you can ignore
the sloth-like pace of it all, then
this may suit you.
All in all, a nice idea that just
doesn't work in the long run.
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Very nice stills, but jerky
scrolling and dismal sprites.
AUDIO
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tune warbles throughout.
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second and third glances...
ADD ICTI O
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find something rewarding.
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And despite the considerable handicap of being stick
men, my lot win the battle! Amazing!
July 1992
Jonathan Maddock dons his
combat boots and guides you
around the warzone that
is Special Forces
Before you go diving head first
into the warzone, you need to
know what your enemies are up
to, so it s a short trip to the Mis-
sions menu.
The missions can be performed
in any order, although if they are
played in order a story will unfold
and your actions during a mission
will affect the next mission and so
on and so on.
Once you've chosen your mis-
sion, read aN the subsequent
information. If you miss even one
bit, you will undoubtedly mess up
the mission.
Obviously it's better to start off
at Conscript level because you will
find that the enemy won t be as
aggressive and there won't be as
many of them. J don't really need
to tell you that but this is the
ultimate guide, so I have to. Edi-
tor's orders, you see.
Weapons are next and they re
very important indeed. If you are
just practising then you need to
take a wide range of weapons
with you, so you know how they
perform in the heat of the battle.
When the actual mission comes
around, you will need to be very
careful in choosing weapons. For
example, if the mission requires
you to blow up some fuel dumps,
you will need some explosives -
fairly obvious, but remember not
to give just one man all of them.
Try if possible to share them
out between the team ~ then, if
one member of the squad gets
captured or killed, you will still be
able to complete the mission. If
you select a stealth mission,
remember to take weapons which
are Jfght, so you can move taster,
andVhich don t make too much
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Stealth missions require extreme, err stealth, so a
handy feature in Special Forces is the camouflage
option. Depending on what level you are playing
the game at, the enemy will find it very hard to
spot you, but they will eventually find you.
It's best to use the peek-a-boo tactic which is to
hide, wait for the guards to pass, run to another
hiding place and so on and so on. Remember a
team member can only camouflage himself if the
surrounding terrain is suitable.
Another tip is to use the camouflage option while
undertaking an attack mission. This time, camou-
flage your men, wait for the enemy to pass you
by, then pop up and shoot them in the back. A
bit underhand I know, but hey, that's Special
Forces for you.
Diversions are very handy while doing any
kind of rescue mission. By planting the
remote controlled explosives a little way from
the enemy guards then letting them off, the
guards will move away from the prisoner leaving
him more or less on his own. This gives
you plenty of time to get the hostage and then
the helicopter.
The most effective way to destroy enemy patrols
and guards is to use trees, buildings and so on as
a line-of-sight cover for your men.
You now have the element of surprise and it
makes life so much easier because you can shoot
the enemy before he can shoot you. It also saves
on bullets because you're not firing all over the
place.
One of the best tips I can possibly give you is the
Blow the Bridges to Hell tactic. In some of the
missions there are only one or two bridges. Set a
remote explosive right where you start off, then
make your way to the bridges, hide in camou-
flage mode and set the explosive off.
The enemy will run to see what the explosion
was. Now plant explosives on the bridges, run
across the bridge towards your mission objective
and blow it up, leaving loads of enemy soldiers
on the other side of the river and you with a
much easier job to do.
In general, always keep your wits about you.
Keep those eyes skinned for the enemy. Always
check on how much ammunition you've got left
and most important of all, keep checking where
your men are if they get split up. Remember kids,
it's war out there.
July 1991
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Browning pistol
This is the steaPthrest of all the guns, but unfortunately it has a slow rate of fire, so it's nor very good when
you're surrounded by the enemy.
Not bad to have as a setondaiy gun because it won't gain much enemy attention, it's light and you can carry
up to a maximum of six magazines.
Grenades
Grenades will only destroy buildings, machine gun posts and enemy soldiers, They will attract a lot of atten-
tion. Ideai for mating good distractions, but always use a soldier who's a/most dead because once you've fet
them go, the enemy will be upon you in a matter of seconds.
LAW rockets
LAW Rockets wifi destroy ail targets except for bridges They must be used over a long distance as they need
the distance 10 arm. They wilf attract the same amount of attention, so get ready to get out of there quick
once you've fet them go.
Sterling machine pistol
This is a rapid fire, high power, automatic weapon. It can fire 34 rounds every magazine, it's fairly fight, but it
makes loads of noise.
It's best used for an attack mission, but sometimes It s handy to have one on a stealth mission, because if you
get found out and it's time to kick some butt, this is the ideal weapon for handling lots of enemy soldiers.
Lee-Enfield rifle
This is the best for sniping, (t has a slow rate of fire, but is extremely accurate. Ideal for stealth missions, espe-
cially the assassination missions because you can pick your target off from long range.
Laser Target Designator fLTDs)
Essential for some of the later missions. It's a handy little device to designate targets for later airstrikes. It's
entirely computer operated - all you have to do is leave it in the right place.
At a set time it will emit a laser beam which will allow any airstrike to be accurately pinpointed. Fairly light to
carry - each member of the squad can carry a maximum of nine LTDs, which is more than enough.
Explosives
One of the best weapons in the whole game. You run into an enemy camp, set five or six or maybe 1 6, run
out again to safety, hit the keyboard and Booom!
All the explosives are remote controlled, ideal for stealth missions because you can set them off at the end of
the mission with out attracting attention to your squad.
Engager machine rifle
The heaviest weapon of them all, thus making your men very slow. It's a high power automatic rifle, just like a
big brother to the Sterling machine pistol. It's more accurate then the Sterling, but just as loud. This gun
should only be used on attack missions.
Once more, crush your mate's ego with...
VISION
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Small, but cute
and they do
their job.
AUDI O
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Reasonable. The
speech is a handy
addition though.
PLAYABILITY
T here's nothing quite like beat-
ing your friends to a pulp, is
there? Not in the real sense,
of course. Not in the "getting a big stick
and hitting your friends repeatedly
about the head with it" sense. That isn't
clever at all. In fact, it's illegal.
What is fun is beating your friends to
a pulp in the "being really, really good at
computer games and embarrassing
everyone by winning every time" sense.
Now that is fun.
And, lo, the Software Houses did
recognise this need to triumph over
one's peers in the course of digitised
entertainment. And, yea, they did create
the Multi Player Option and it was good,
and it did allow all and sundry to gloat
and jeer at their friends who could not
get the hang of the controls.
And, verily, everyone had a really
good laugh with the exception of the kid
that nobody really liked who had been
lumbered with the dodgy joystick with
the Fire button that didn't work.
And so we find yet another multi-
player extravaganza plopping into our
collective laps. It's Indy Heat, in case you
make a point of never reading the title at
the top of the page, and it's quite good
indeed,
But, and this is the big question that
hangs over every multi-player game, is it
any fun on your own? What if you've
got no friends, or you live in the Aus-
tralian outback? Is it worth shelling out
for a game that's really only worth play-
ing with other people?
Thankfully, in the case of Indy Heat,
this problem doesn't occur. Even on
your own, it's a rollicking little fella.
The basic idea is fairly simple. You
take part in a series of races against
three other cars, of which two can ft
be controlled by
other players. So,
you've got four
little cars
hurtling
round vari
ous tracks,
each with
its own tortur-
ous bends and
niggly bits,
the idea is to
complete a set
Don't forget to purchase a green strip for your windscreen that says Trevor
and Beryl" - it could be the difference between first and second place
number of laps before the others. Obvi-
ous really.
Mind you, you'll have to take into
account the technical specifications of
your car. If you don't keep improving it
by spending your prize money, then
you'll find yourself running out of fuel or
breaking down every two laps while
everyone else keeps zooming past you.
And those aren't the only tactics
you'll have to employ. If you really want
to win, you'll have to play dirty. Smash-
ing your opponents off the track isn't
just fun, it's downright essential.
Another clever trick is to ram them up
the bum while they're in the pits and
send them fly-
ing back into
the race with
4th
1st
2nd
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hardly any fuel. Arf arf arf. There's also
the added bonus that you might kill a
few members of the pit crew.
And while we're on the subject of silly
little features, you can make it that bit
more challenging by reversing all your
controls. For masochists only...
The graphics are tiny, but this gives
them a bit of extra zip, and means that
the tracks can be more fiendishly
designed due to the smaller sprites.
There are some
nice "touches ", as we
say in the trade. For
one thing, you can
choose what your
driver looks like, and
you also get to see the
little men in the pits
running about and
getting run over. Not
graphically brilliant,
but they do their
job and look
"groovy", as
advertising per-
son Simon Lees put it.
The sound's actually quite
"groovy" too.
As well as the
Tittle vroom noises,
you also get some
speech telling
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you’ll pop back to while
away a few minutes.
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you when to pit for more fuel. Just when
you're in the lead, you're guaranteed to
hear a little voice say "Red Pit". Typical,
There's also a fairly rockin' tune with gui-
tars and stuff. Very pleasant on the
shell-likes.
All in all. Indy Heat is a "nice" little
game. Not outstanding by any means, but
the sort of game that you'll come back to.
"Oh, I'm a bit bored. I know. I'll have a
quick game of Indy Heat." That sort of
thing. With only 1 1 tracks to get used to,
it might not have much of a long term
challenge, but it's a laugh all the same.
Worth having, methinks.
Daniel
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jostling by the pits there
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July 1992
My team, played here by the Banana Splits, prepare to enter Darkmoon
W hat a cliched world we
live in. Everything comes
and goes in such a pre-
dictable way. Take music for instance.
One minute everyone's wearing
flares and listening to those Happy
Monday fellas, and the next thing you
know, it's all bleeping techno music,
B&Q dust masks and Vicks vapo-rub
(and you call that predictable? - Ed).
And what about computer games,
eh? That is, after all, what we're hear to
talk about. Trends come and go in this
cosy little world as well.
There was, for instance, a time when
Ultimate were the grooviest company
on the planet and any game worth its
salt was an isometric 3D arcade adven-
ture. Unfortunately, people eventually
cottoned on to the fact that all the Ulti-
mate games were the same, but with
different graphics. Bye bye Ultimate.
And then there are shoot-'em-ups.
They never really went away, but I'm
sure we're all familiar with the "lone
spaceship against several billion enemy
craft and a big endof-level baddie''-type
scenario.
Or how about the kidnapped girlie
who sparked off a zillion beat-'em-ups?
Or the ubiquitous cross country car
race? Oh no! Total cynicism attack! Are
there any new ideas left?
Probably not. And so we come to
the very latest computer trend - the
role-playing game. There are two dis-
tinct types. You've got the strategy-ish
3D version, like Space Crusade,
Shadowlands, and Legend. And then
you've got the "blimey, it looks like
I'm actually there" type, like Dungeon
Master, Eye of the Beholder, Elvira 2,
Abandoned Places, Black Crypt, Knight-
mare et al.
And, well blow me down, just as the
RPG bandwagon is picking up speed
and all and sundry are leaping aboard,
along comes the sequel to one of those
original dungeony faves.
The trouble with the current overkill
on RPGs is that there's very little imagi-
nation being used. Every single time,
it's the same old story. Four adventurers
battling it out deep in some dungeon
or other, trying to vanquish some
unpronounceable evil that's woken up
Disaster! Fleegle's dead! But can this spooky thing help?
with a bad attitude. It's nearly always
the same story, it's always the same
control method, and even the graphics
look the same. It is, to be perfectly
frank, getting a bit tedious.
However, each game is rather good,
and that's the annoying thing. The
same goes for Eye of the Beholder 2.
It's chronically unoriginal, but it's also a
splendid game in its own right. Let me
explain...
EotB2 (as it shall be known hence-
forth to save my poor fingers] has all
the RPG cliches you know and love.
You select your characters, you name
your characters, you fiddle with their
attributes (ahem) and then you click on
the direction arrows to move them
around and on their weapons to attack.
You cast spells, you find keys, you solve
puzzles, and it's all very slick indeed.
The quest starts in a forest, and you
must find your way to the Temple of
Darkmoon and defeat the spookiness
within. On your way to the temple you
can hone your battle skills by beating
up some wolves, and if you're lucky
you'll find some hidden rooms with
goodies in them.
Enter the temple, kill the religious
nutters guarding the entrance and get
adventuring. No surprises there really,
although the forest section is quite a
nice scene-setter and it does ease you
into the game.
There's just not a lot you can say
about EotB2 that hasn't already been
said about any other RPG. Yes, it's got
really good graphics and plenty of vari-
ety, from the forest to the swanky tem-
ple to the dingy dungeons, which add
plenty of moodiness. The baddie sprites
Look out, its Roxette with their deadly “rawk 1 ' singles! Or is it?
Just one of the many spooky and puzzling dead
ends in Darkmoon
Making good use of the things that we find, things that
the everyday folks leave behind...
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are well drawn, but not very well ani- style and atmosphere that actually
mated and they tend to lurch towards makes it an exciting game to play,
you. A pity, but not terribly important as There are problems though, not least
the overall "feel" of the graphics is very of which is the way that combat
atmospheric and spooksome. becomes very stilted with more than
The sound is good too, if a little two baddies on-screen. Selecting spells
sparse, and complements the mood and swapping members of the party
generated by the graphics. The omi- takes up too much time and you often
nous "it's behind yoo-oo" footsteps are get beaten to death as a result,
particularly worrying and they gen- It's also a fairly linear game, at least
uinely make you feei uneasy as you as far as I can get. You solve this puzzle
prowl the corridors under the temple. which reveals a key which opens a
Some grinding noises for doors and door that reveals a baddie who leaves
levers, and some grunts and moans for behind another key when killed which
combat just about make up the rest of opens a door that leads into another
the FX, but they do their job in a puzzle. That sort of thing. This means
vaguely inoffensive way. that while you get a good feeling a
The playability is the tricky bit. There progress, you also start to wish for a bit
are so many similar games around at more freedom to explore by yourself,
the moment that you've really got to On balance. Eye of the Beholder 2 is
judge them against each other to find the best RPG around. If you've already
the best. And I've done that, and on got an RPG then think twice about
reflection I think that EotB2 is probably whether you want another just yet, but
the best RPG so far. if you're still pondering over which one
All the others are certainly worthy of to buy then I'd recommend this one.
Gamer Golds on their own merits, but Hardly original, but there's life in the
while this one just does the same old old dog yet. Just,
things as the rest, it does them with a Daniel
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slick and atmospheric
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through another RPG, this’ll keep
you off the streets for a while.
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Microprose are changing their style radically
for their next big release. Its a flight sim. Blimey,
Daniel Whitehead says "What ho..."
I n their seemingly endless
quest to simulate every con-
ceivable form of transport
on the planet Microprose are cur
rentiy beavering away down in
rural Tetbury to bring you high
flying Hun-bashing with the B17
Flying Fortress. So what's it all
about, eh? Let's find out...
Well, for starters Jet s discover
exactly what the B17 Is. A quick
peek through the Eye Spy book of
Aeroplanes (and the Microprose
Kevin Costner. They're very simi-
lar but a B1 7 would've been more
convincing as Robin Hood fa little
bit of satire for you there).
Getting back to the matter in
hand. For defence the B17 is cov-
ered in little gun turrets that spun
around and shot the nasty Nazi
planes down (and more often
than not, they shot their own
wings off and other stupid things
like that).
Rather astonishingly, these gun
press release) tells us the follow-
ing handy facts about the big cud-
dly ball of fun that is the B1 7 Fly-
ing Fortress.
The B17 is the great big
chunky bomber that the Ameri-
cans used in the Second World
War. You've seen the film Mem-
phis Belle? That was a BI 7,
And did you see that Steven
Spielberg s Amazing Stories on
BBC1 about a bomber with Kevin
Costner in it? That was a B17 as
well. The bomber that is, not
turrets only held enough ammuni-
tion to fire for two minutes. Con-
sidering the missions went on for
slightly longer than that, the gun-
ner s job was not an enviable one.
The BI7 is also quite a large
plane. Hence its nickname. Flying
Fortress. They flew in squadrons
from American airfields down in
East England, chugged across the
skies to Germany, dropped lots of
bombs wrlly-niliy, and then flew
back in time for a cup of coffee,
the rock n' roll barn dance and a
bit of snogging
with the local 9
lasses while their
husbands were
getting blown up
in France. What a
life.
Of course,
things weren't —
quite as easy as that. I may have
skimped a bit on the flying bits.
The idea of chundering through
the skies in a wobbly sardine can,
while smaller and faster enemy
fighters zoomed aJJ around you
going 'akka akka akka" and "die
Engiunder stwemhunden isn't a
lot of fun, really.
Even less fun was hanging in a
see-through bubble on the bottom
of the plane and being expected
to shoot the enemy with a gun
that ran out of ammo or jammed
as soon as you touched the trig-
ger. Mind you, there was always
the snogging to look forward to, 1
suppose.
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machines onto some floppy disks
and let us experience the leather-
clad thrill of flying one ourselves.
And how have they done ft?
Here's how..,
B 1 7 will have all the usual
flight sim trimmings that you'd
expect from the Prose, There's a
campaign framework to the mis-
sions, of which there are 25. After
completing them, and providing
the crew don't have any extra
holes in their bodies, then you're
allowed to retire and set up your
own software house to make
flight srms. Possibly.
The game also features some
cute little touches that you won t
find elsewhere. For starters, you
get to choose which design you
put on the nose of your bomber.
You know, those sexy dolly birds
who drape themselves all over the
name of the plane. Like Bomber
Bessie or, er, Edna.
Another quite groovy feature is
that you can leap around the
plane. Not in the physical sense
of course, but you can jump from
one crew member to another. So.
if you get bored of just flying the
plane, you can nip back and be
the tail gunner for a bit. Or the
bomber. Or the navigator.
And while you're doing this,
the computer takes over the rest
of the crew so you don't plummet
to the ground just for taking pot
shots from the belly gun for a
laugh or get shot to pieces cos
your gunners are all asleep.
This means that you can play
the game in loads of different
ways. You can spend the whole
mission locked rn one of the gun
turrets, or you could be in charge
of the actual bombing. You can be
responsible for navigating the
plane, or you can be a traditional
old boffin and fly it.
Or if you reckon you're really
really hard, you can nip from one
crew member to another and do
absolutely everything.
I managed to wangle a go on
an early demo of the PC version
and the air battles are quite apoc-
alyptic. Each plane that gets hit
starts to belch thick black smoke
from its engines. You can then fol-
low it down until it crashes into
the fields miles below.
Thankfully, Microprose haven't
gone for the "total realism"
option, so the gyns have infinite
ammo. A game where you ran out
of bullets after two minutes might
be realistic, but it wouldn’t
exactly scream "playability " at
you.
The sound effects were particu-
larly beefy, with the thunder of
the engines competing with the
booming guns and explosions.
Whether or not they'll be the
same on the Amiga remains to be
seen, but the overall effect is
astonishing.
And the moment you ve ail
been waiting for, when will it be
in the shops? Well, the BT 7
will roll out of the Microprose
hangar in June for the PC, and us
Amiga fly-boys will only have to
wait until August to get our
hands on it. Remember, patience
is a virtue.
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he kills everyone, really
Aha! I wondered
where he went
ey, it’s a Dungeons and
Dragons ride". So began
that stupid cartoon
where five American brats and a pon=
cey unicorn wandered around a vast
land filled with dragons and monsters,
and somehow never got killed.
And every episode they almost went
home, but couldn't because they didn't
want to leave the unicorn behind. Soft
fools.
And did you know that the voice of
that one with the shield was Ralph from
Happy Days? Bizarre but true. He really
went up in the world, didn't he?
I mean, trust the Americans to do a
spin-off cartoon from a board game, of
all things. Snakes and Ladders - The
Movie, anyone?
In fact, they didn't just do a cartoon
spin-off. No, we also got Dungeons and
Dragons action figures (I know, I had
one), D&D lunch boxes, and if you
looked hard enough, you could proba-
bly find D&D yoghurt. And we also got
the official D&D computer games. And
byjiminy, they were boring.
No wonder everyone and their dog
began trying to write a decent RPG for
the home computer. And just our luck *
they succeeded. Now we get a new
one every month. In fact, this very issue
contains no less than four games with a
distinct RPG tang. And this is one of
them.
Legend shies away from the tradi
tional first-person perspective, and
plumps for the isometric 3D approach,
not unlike Shadowlands.
Oops, that's given the game away a
bit. Legend is, it must be said, very simi-
lar to Shadowlands. But it's also better
in some ways, and worse in others. Let
me explain.
The plot is the usual dribbie about
four adventurers ridding the land of
evil, so we'll skip that and go straight to
the game itself. You start by defining
your characters, as per normal, by
changing their names and, hem hem,
their sex if you wish.
Then it's onto a map where you
move your party, as an icon, to differ-
ent towns. Enter buildings, chat to
locals, get clues and buy weapons. Sim-
ple. Eventually, the clues should lead
lar, and find a permit that will prove
that you're a bunch of well 'ard war-
riors. T
Along the way you'll have to master
the art of reading and casting runes,
pulling levers to open doors and, of
course, killing loads of monsters.
So, what sets this game apart from
the several million other RPGs on the
market? Well, the spell casting is pretty
in-depth. Rather than just finding spells
and using them, you've got to use your
magician to find scrolls, mix ingredients
and read runes.
And it ain't easy. The manual helps
you out plenty, but the whole magic bit
is too daunting really and will put all
but the most dedicated off. At least it's
got spells in it, though.
The only really original option is the
special powers that each adventurer
has. Pressing FIO while selecting the
appropriate bod will make them start
doing whatever their particular forte is.
So for the magician it brings up the
magic menu, while for the bard it
arf. The only trouble with Legend is
that it constantly reminds you of other
games.
The map section is identical to the
outdoors section of Abandoned Places,
the indoors bit is Shadowlands, the
AutoMapping appears in Black Crypt
and the spell mixing also appeared in
the first Elvira game.
It's not quite as good as any of those
games, but an enjoyable little chestnut
for all its shortcomings. If you want a
slightly more accessible RPG than Shad-
owlands, then this could be the one for
you.
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And thus we go into the RPG bit.
Simply get your team through the cel-
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which will affect your team's attributes.
The assassin becomes invisible and -
this is my favourite - the warrior goes
into a Beserker rage.
Which brings us quite nicely to the
battles. Rather than just fighting one
foe at a time, combat occurs when you
stumble across a roving band of mon-
stersr There can often be as many as
five or six in a band, and all you have to
do is press Enter and your team will get
stuck in.
With at! the special powers going it
turns into a right big scrap and is really
quite entertaining to watch.
Just put your feet up and chuckle as
the warrior goes bonkers and squashes
the enemy with a sinale blow. Arf arf
The bard will play any of eight
tunes, and some nice FX crop
up too.
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back! Larry Laffer hits your
computer screens for a
fourth time. Eh a fourth time, how can
ft be a fourth time when this is Leisure
Suit Larry 5? Well my little pervsters, all
will be explained... soon. First a little bit
of history behind the man in the white
polyester suit.
What can be said about Larry Laffer
that Is suitable to print? Oops, before
this review gets too risky I'll have to do
something
Warning - as per usual this
'Larry game contains adult
subject matter and
^parental guidance while
playing the game is
advised, so aii you kids out
there turn the page quickly
"land ignore the screenshots.
Right, lm now deailng with a mature
adult audience.
Larry first appeared on the Amiga
games scene a couple of years ago in
Land of the Lounge Lizards which
involved Larry trying, err, weiJ, to put it
bluntly, to sow his wild oats,
Larry 2 was titled Looking for Love in
Several Wrong Places which had Larry
trying to escape a spy-infesred tropical
jungle and trying to thwart the plans of
the evil Dr Nonookie as well as sowing
his wild oats |againij.
The third game in the series starred
not only Larry, but a certain woman
who features heavily in Larry 5 - Pas*
sionate Patti. Subtitled Passionate Patti
in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals,
Larry again had to sow his wild oats
while Patti had to rescue him from
man-eating cannibal Amazon women.
Now to be honest, the Larry games
aren't really that
dirty. The first
game
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fairly smutty, but the sex scenes were
fairly naff and you didn't see anything
that you woufdn r see on page three of
the Sun.
However, lots of people objected
and the game designers made Larry 2 a
lot less smutty, but - and this is a big
but - everyone who bought and loved
the first game complained to the game
designers saying it wasn't smutty
enough.
So lo and behdd, the game design-
ers made Larry 3 the smuttiest. The
graphics and sound in the first three
games were fairly rubbish, but now in
Larry 5. Sierra have found a way to con-
vert graphics from the PC, and it has
wonderful graphics and mega sound.
Lany 5. which is subtitled Passionate
Patti Does a Little Undercover Work,
features Patti as a super-secret agent
spy working undercover [and under the
covers!) for the FBI.
Meanwhile, Larry is working a low-
level job for a porno prime-time TV
show, America's Sexiest Home Videos,
and the mob is out to get pornography
out of the living room and back onto
the profit sheet.
Together, Larry and Patti must take
on the mob, the FBI, the music industry
and the United States Congress in a mix
of sex, thuggery and rock h roll.
What the hell happened to Larry 4,
you might well be asking. Well the
Gamer team stiJJ haven't completed
Larry 5, but Larry keeps on remember-
ing things throughout the game and
wondering himself where Larry 4 has
gone, so maybe all will be revealed at
the end of this one!
The game can be controlled by
mouse or joystick, but to be honest the
mouse is the best option. It uses a
new "click and grope" interface
which makes the game
easy to control - it also
means that there's no
typing to do. It's so
easy - you click
Here we are in the
arcade, perfectly
normal apart from
the naked women
holding balloons,
that is
Ulr L9V
It's the casino, time to win big money and go see the female mud
wrestlers, I love this game...
on the walk icon and
then dick on screen
where you want to
go and - voila -
Larry/Patti walks to
the place you clicked
on.
It's quite clever.
Say you aren't doing
very well - the com-
puter will shout at
you for being rub-
bish, but It might also
give you a hint or
clue on how to complete the part that
you are stuck on or give you a friendly
shove in the right direction.
The graphics in Larry 5 are fantastic.
Sierra must have had a whole load of
professional animators working on
them.
In fact there were no less than 13
animators and seven background artists
working on Larry 5, so we are talking
Disney-type quality here. Soundwise?
Weif put it this way - a guy cal Jed Craig
Safan composed the music for the
game. Wow, 1 can hear you ali cry.
Weil, Craig's work has included com-
posing for the Cheers TV show.
He also composed movie scores for
films like The Last Starfighter and A
Nightmare on Elm Street 4 and many
others, and has been an Emmy nornr
nee.
So there you have it - a stonking
I quote: 1 like the
rook of your
hardware and with
my software maybe I
could download onto
your hard drive." I
didn't write ft
July 1992
guidance advised, its...
That's an oddly shaped Ice cream sundae, tetter take a
photograph and send it In to That's Life...
you do need is a hard drive. You can
play it using two floppy drives, but it's
really a waste of time and energy.
Even if you've got a hard drive, you
still have to wait in-between "scenes"
and at points the animation slows
down to a snail's pace.
forgetting all that though, Larry fs
still a damn Ffne adventure game and t
would say the best yet out of the Larry
senes, if you want a smutty, sexy, outra-
geous adventure then Larry 5 is for
recommended ■ Mouse ■ Out now
0OOO
© 00 ©©
Sexy, and I realty do mean
sexy graphics -quite
astounding
AUDIO
Brilliant sound and there's
even some speech dotted
here and there.
Rl_AYABIILITY
0000 #
soundtrack. In fact Larry 5 had over 60
people working for it, but hey I, the
Americans always do things bigger and
better.
Larry 5 isn’t crude. Well OK It is
crude, but not crude as in expire Ft sex
scenes and bad language. It’s crude as
in sexual innuendo and double enten-
dres. You don't actually see anything,
but the implication is there. For
instance when Larry is, erm well lets
put it this way, when Larry is getting a
bit randy with a young Jady under a
table, all you see is the expressions on
Larry's face. A Jot of the humour is lairiy
childish, but it's not for children, if you
know what f mean.
There s not really a lot else I can say
about the infamous Larry Laffer and his
white polyester suit so I think it’s time
to end this review before I get into trou-
ble from Mary Whitehouse. If you are a
fan of Larry then this is the game that
you’ve been waiting for. Even if you're
not a fan, I d strongly recommend buy-
ing Larry 5 anyway, because that's the
kind of guy J am.
The graphics - as I've sard tjefore -
are fantabulous, and the sound is bnJI,
so I can't whinge on that front. What
“Why, my is Uny: Larry Laffer " yvu raply.
Hurrah, this is what we want - schoolboy humour...
Here's Larry's boss Mr Sememe!!, art art
you.
Right you lot, you can bring your
kids back in now - we wouldn’t want
them to miss the rest of Gamer, would
we?
Jonathan
July 1992
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Hit Squad
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H Gremlin
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The Manager
US Gold
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Hitec Software
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GBH Gold
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BM Action 16
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Manchester United
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Eye of the Beholder 2
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July 1 992
> lEHIISlH < /
^ ►PENGUIN
rUADTC .'I OWL ED S'Y GAlLLP 1
uwn fl m
Eight new entries this month,
nine going up and fourteen
going down. Touchdown'
There Is a new number one,
and it s John Madden Ameri-
can Football by Electronic
Arts.
Dan s tip for the top - Pro-
ject X - continued to improve
it's position by shooting up a
coupie of places and now
finds itself at number three.
Other notable new entries this
month include The Manager
by US Gold and Eye of the
Beholder 2 by US Gold
(again!). Pinball Dreams by
21st Century Entertainment
makes the chart at long last.
Those bothersome budgets
still plague the chart with 19
games compared to the full
prices' eleven. Quite a few
games disappeared from the
chart this month. It s goodbye
to A120 Airbus which will
break guite a few hearts
including our stewardess-toy-
ing news editor John “Come
up and see my afterburners,
girls" Butters,
Its also bye-bye to
Harlequin which was my pre-
diction for the top last month,
but hey I'm only human after
all (I beg to differ - EdJ. It s
tatty-bye to Shadowlan ds, that
great l?PG from Domark - I'm
surprised that drdn t do well.
Well it's time for those pre-
dictions. Dan the Ed has
thought long and hard about
his prediction and has chosen
John Madden American Foot-
ball to stay at number one for
another month.
Well that’s not very exciting
is it readers, so I've chosen
Eye of the Beholder 2 to rise
up out of the dungeons and
claim the number one spot,
although I still think Project X
might be in there with a
shout.
Well 1 wonder whether I've
got enough space this month
(remember I ran out of space
last month) to tell you ahout
the chicken and the celery
incident? Wow I've still got a
few words left. Well the
chicken goes into the barn
and what does it see, but a
wet stick of ceiery. The
chjcken starts ducking and
grabs the ceiery and. ..damn
1 ve done it again.
Jonathan
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at the taxpayers' expense. Phew!
So, let s look at the four main sec-
tions in turn, shall we? First of all,
there's Phone Tapping. This takes the
form of a puzzfy bit in which you have
to cut of the flow of electricity to the
phones without tripping alarms. Aid it's
supernatural^ hard. Luckily, It's not
July 1992
OIC hold everything. This Is the Furniture Police* Look at the state of this room!
place and stuck the bug to the frame.
My informant had assured me that
this was the building from which the
Colombian Cartel were working. We
knew they were up to something, but
what? Telegrams had been traced, cash
transactions were taking place, but
what was it leading to?
My motion tracker showed a guard
approaching from the south. I replaced
the picture and took cover behind a
desk. As the guard opened the door,
my booby trap exploded.
The guard was hurled backwards in
a cloud of smoke and flame. More
hard to compare Covert Action to any-
thing at all. It's actually, gasp. An Origi-
nal ideal
OK. so what do you do? Well, you
take on the role of Max Remington, ace
secret agent and inventor of that thing
that shaves jumpers. And by the way.
Max can stand for either Maximilitan or
Maxine, so there's none of this sexism
nonsense here.
You /I be given your tasks by the CIA
bossman (who looks alarmingly like ol‘
Gorbyl and you’ve got to do them. Out
it s not that easy.
Rather than (effing you what to do,
the bossman just tells you that some
terrorist organisation or other is getting
a bit suspicious and you've got to find
out what they're up to. How you do
this is, more or less, entirely up to you.
You can tap into the phones of sus-
pect organisations, and gain the info
that way. You can follow enemy agents
and find out who else is involved.
Or you can go for the obvious
option and break into their buildings
and have a rummage around to see
what you can find, Slowly but surely
guards were behind him.
As they charged into the room, I
rose from behind the desk and raked
my Uzi from left to right. The guards
fired back, and a bullet thudded into
my body armour.
Seconds later, and the guards' bod-
ies were hidden out of sight and I was
continuing my work, the alarm bells
shrieking out a warning. Hard to
believe that only one hour before I'd
been soaking up the sun in Rio.
Blimey! ft could almost be Anneka
Rice on the Holiday programme,
couldn't it? But its not. No, surprisingly
enough, that is exactly what you'll be
doing when you play Covert Action.
Yep, its Microprose s long-awaited
spy simulator.
Well OK, its not
really a spy simulator.
Its actually billed as a
'techno thriller', but
there's no sign of
drugged-up ravers in
dust masks, you'll be
glad to hear.
In fact, its quite
■ gripped my Uzi tighter. My pa [ms
were sweating and my gloves
felt sticky, i glanced over my
shoulder. The motion detector was
showing nothing, but I could have
sworn something moved. The stun
grenade booby trap was still intact. !
went back to work.
The safe-cracking equipment did its
job and I began to search through the
papers. A name, a photo, a meeting
place. I photographed them aif for
later use.
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across to the picture on the waff, I
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tact now, or Eater on? One wrong
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goes into hiding and then you're
really scuppered.
In short Covert Action is massive.
Afi the missions are interlinked, with
ail the enemy in cahoots and work-
ing towards some fiendish conclu-
sion. Solve one mission, and you'll
find that it leads on to the next The
whole thing sloes together perfectly
to create probably the first ever truly
intriguing spy game.
There are a few moans. The
graphics are a bit on the dull side,
and the fact that you have to photo-
graph a file to see if there's any-
thing of use in it is a pain. This
means that you waste precious film
just looking in empty desks and
stuff.
But what the hell? Covert Action
is by no means a perfect game. It’s
not even brilliant. But it is an inter-
esting and novel change from the
currently creaking RPG bandwagon.
You II know already whether or not
it sounds like your thang. IF so.
investigate itf
Can you guess what it is yet? (Thanks, Rolf)
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OK tune, and suitable FX add
that tense atmosphere.
Chase section. This is. unfortunately,
utter crap, it looks terrible and it's
very hard to work up any excite-
ment at ail about it. Just watching
some little bfobby sprites chug
round an unconvincing city map.
Ho hum.
Mow we come to Code Breaking.
This bit is good fun, actuary. Each
letter in the coded message actually
stands for a different ietter, so A
could really be F ( For instance. Work
out what each letter really is, and
the message starts to take shape.
Simple, but fun and rewarding.
And finally, the Combat/Break In
section. This is the best bit of all.
Pick your tools carefully From the
inventory and then start to move
through the building. Shoot guards,
rifle through desks, crack safes, use
gas grenades, set up traps - it's
great.
The control system does seem a
little strange at first, but it soon
becomes second nature and you'll
be leaping over furniture and dodg-
ing bullets with no trouble at all.
On top of ail this, there's always
the question of who's involved, and
can you trust the local information?
Should you arrest the enemies con-
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some nice static screens.
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Look at all these icons, I can't decide which one to dick on next...
Oh decisions, decisions. Will Whelan be fit? Will Barnes demand
more money? Will Burrows play as bad as last time? No wonder
Mr Souness had heart trouble...
Nice easy icon system makes it
great fun to play.
Y es, this is a joyous day for
every football fan in the
whole world. At last, a
decent football management game.
Hurrah, thank God! Somebody,
somewhere has got some brains left.
This is the footy game computers have
been waiting for.
Do you remember Football Manager
on the Spectrum? What a footy game
that was. Since then we've had rubbish
football management game after rub-
bish football management game - well,
apart from Player Manager, and even
that was only an extension of Kick Off.
But now it's US Gold to the rescue
with Software 2000's The Manager. The
Manager is controlled via the mouse
and an icon system, thus making it
really easy to play, especially for the
beginner or the non-football fan.
What is a bit unique about it is that
four players can take part, which is a bit
of a first for a football management
game. There are three types of game -
the one-year game, the three-year
game or the unlimited time game.
The one-year option starts you off in
Division One, giving you the chance to
Yes, it's there. Liverpool put one in the old onion bag and I bet
the other team are as sick as parrots
reach the top of the league by the end
of the season.
On the other hand for should that
be foot?) there is the unlimited game
which starts you off in Division Three,
and first of all it's your duty to survive
the dreaded drop, because If you don’t
it's game over, man.
Your team will start off being fairly
rubbish, but as the seasons pass you
will gain experience and slowly get bet-
ter. As well as the FA Cup there are, of
course, the European competitions,
where you could find yourself battling
against the giants of Europe like Juven-
tus, Marseille and Inter Milan.
To be honest, I don't think one page
is enough to describe all the options in
The Manager, because there are literally
hundreds of 'em. Well there probably
aren't hundreds, but there's enough to
give you a slight headache.
To give you a bit of an idea. I'll go
over a few of them. Take the Training
option, for example. You have to
decide how intense you want the train-
ing and whether you want to train on
tactics, shooting and so on.
You have to decide which training
camp you want,
which sponsors you
want, what stadium
improvements you
require, whether
you wish to raise
ticket prices and all
the time, not forget-
ting the cut-throat
world of transfer
deals and the impor-
tant task of choos-
ing the team.
Blimey, that's
only about ten per
cent of the game, so
as you can see. The
Manager is one hell
of a huge experience. I haven’t even
got to the good bit yet - match day!
When Saturday finally comes round
and it's time to get the lads out on the
pitch to parade their skills fooo-er) then
it's time to admire the impressive 3D
animation sequences.
This is what makes The Manager
stand out from the other so-called
"exciting'' football management games.
You actually get to watch the highlights
from the match, you see all the goals,
the near misses and even the complete
"donkey" shots.
It gets quite intense at certain points
and you find yourself in a
football world of your
own. Imagine - you need
a win to go top of the
league, there are ten min-
utes left... you find yourself
screaming foul language at your
players and it can get quite
embarrassing!
The graphics are quite
fantastic - they're very
small, but because they are
so detailed you can easily
work out what's going on.
The atmosphere that this part
of the game creates is unbeliev
able - if you're a true football
then this is definitely for you.
I can't really think off anything
bad to say about The Manager,
other than that it might not
appeal to a lot of people
because off the time that you
have to spend playing it.
Remember, it's a manage-
ment game not an arcade game
- if you want an arcade game
then I suggest you
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for the ultimate football fan - I loved
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On a sad final note, com-
miserations to Manchester United
fans for their team losing the
championship in such terrific
fashion, and I'm not just
saying that because
I'm a Liverpool
fan, ait arf arf.
Jonathan
July 1992
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Diplomacy
We are tine of the few libraries who take Switch
PD and Shareware
The main menu showing the various
topics covered In the tutorial
Once more Darren Evans guides you
through the PD Universe, so in the
words of a balding starship Captain,
"let's see what's
out there!"
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tutorial. Here, It provides Information on graphics
PUBLI
Basic Tutor
Ground Zero PO •
Disk No UI52
Basic is by far the most commonly used
programming language around and
AmigaBasic will probably be the first pro-
gramming language that a newcomer will
have experience of, being included in the
package when you buy the machine.
This PD package sets out to provide
absolute beginners (good title for a film
there, eh?) with a tutorial on the concepts
of Basic.
The structure of the tutorial consists of
descriptive text with occasional short
pieces of code, along with a quiz section
to fortify what you have just learned.
It does not attempt to be as compre-
hensive as some of the books available on
the subject, but it is still a good way to get
to grips with the intricacies of pro-
gramming.
Topics covered include graphics, files,
the keyboard and many other aspects of
Basic.
If you are interested in Basic program-
ming then this disk is for you.
Fastlife and
Vertex
Fish Disk No 608
This disk has a couple of good programs
on it. Fast life is a speedy version of the
good old Life program. It has a good intu-
ition interface which makes it easier to use
than other variations of the program.
Some of Fast Life's features include four
screen sizes, 35 generations per second
(Amiga 3000/25) or 19 generations per
second (Amiga 2000/500/1000) and 153
patterns in text file format.
Vertex is a pretty good 3D object mod-
eller. It allows the choice of any view,
including perspective, when selecting
points or examining objects. The view can
be rotated, positioned and scaled at will
either by typing in values or using the
mouse.
The main display showing a wire frame
representation of a boat. Would you sail In this?
Colour It 1.3
Star Tronics • Disk No 58
I spent a whole half hour messing around
with this disk. It brought back memories of
being left alone with a mountain of multi-
coloured crayons and a massive colouring
book (well it seemed massive, or was it just
that I was small?).
"Sit there like a good boy and draw a
nice picture for mummy," my mum would
say.
After about an hour's peace, she would
return only to spend the next three hours
cleaning the furniture and wallpaper, not
to mention frantic research into the toxic-
ity of crayons and their effects on kids with
a tendency to eat anything placed in the
right hand.
Colour It is a electronic version of the
>
Animation
Tool Box
Ground Zero PD • Disk No 11139
This disk contains many useful tools in the production of
animations. Those of you who like to delve into animation
production may find some of the tools useful. Some of
the programs included are:
• Andrew's Animation Studio - another simple animation
creator. Not the most powerful of programs but Is good
for "messing around" with animation.
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One frame
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from the
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example
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animation file
1 - *
with Direct
Action. Here ,
good old Tut
Is about to
become
f v
Irritated
1
by a fly
• Direct Action - used for creating animations using sim-
ple cell animation techniques. It uses frame-by-frame edit-
ing and also has some sound capabilities.
Because only the position of shapes are saved, you can
have animations of up to 25 minutes.
• Animation Bridge - here is a standard for animation
files referred to as ANIM-5 or ANIM opt 5. However, lots
of animation readers and editor/special effects packages
sometimes have problems with variations on the format.
An example is when some readers allow changing the
colour map "on the fly", while the animation is playing.
Other readers will either abort or completely crash if they
find more than one colour map in a single animation file.
Animation Bridge is useful if you want to use a special
feature on another animation package which is not avail-
able on the one you are using,
tt allows changes to and from the following formats -
Deluxe Paint III, Animagk, The Director, Movie 2.0,
Animation: Editor and Animation Studio.
• ATI-Anim to IFF Converter - this program allows the
conversion of an animation file back into its component
IFF files. However, it does not seem to work very well with
HAM animations.
• Makeanim - this is a standard ANIM compressor.
Here you see the various blocks that make up the
animation of the fly and Tut s facial expression
0 Showanim v5.3Q - this lets you play ANIM and IFF 1LBM
animations. Many options allow the running of animations
from the actual animation files default tool and input of
options into the tool type simply by using the Workbench
pull down menu's Info command.
• VidBDFix v2,Q - allows the processing of Aegis
Videoscape 3D v2.0 animation files so they fully conform
to the published specification for IFF animation files.
Amigo Computing
July 1992
PD and Shareware
>
paper variety, therefore a lot safer for the
furniture. The program uses IFF format
pictures, which you can draw yourself
with any art package which supports IFF.
They're presented on-screen ready to
colour in using up to 32 colours.
Clicking the right mouse button brings
up the colour palette, while clicking the
left button fills the area on-screen, where
the mouse is positioned, with the selected
colour.
There are some pictures already
included on disk, and when the colouring
is complete your effort can be saved to
the Album directory ready for viewing
with the My Album program.
Home
Business Pack
vl.O
Star Tronics
They say that money isn't everything and
they're right, but I would like to add that
although it isn't everything, it's not far off.
So wouldn't it be a good idea to efficiently
keep track of how much you spend?
Enter the Home Business Pack. With
this suite of seven programs you can keep
tabs on how much damage you and your
bills do to your bank account.
It allows the entry of transactions into
the cheque book journal as they occur. It
presents you with the remaining balance
after each transaction is entered, and you
can customise the expense code table to
suit your particular situation, specifying
budget amounts for each category.
There is the option to produce detailed
and summary reports as well as the ability
to search the cheque book journal using
any desired search criteria.
Cet organised with
Database Wizard
What's going
on in the PD
world?
Catalogue
Workshop
Disk
showing expense
codes and amounts
Do you have any news about any-
thing relating to the world of PD?
Maybe Prince Charles has opened his
own PD library or your library has
just topped one million individual
titles. If so, drop me a line.
and why he should do it in the first place.
Having said that, I still found myself
taking the odd moment out to load it up
and have just one more go, probably with
a subconscious attempt to fathom it out
once and for all.
Maybe that's the whole idea behind
the game. Tell the player nothing and
watch while his/her curiosity overcomes
him/her.
Star Tronics
There comes a time in ones' life when you
just have to get organised. So why not let
the computer do the tedious work for
you?
This disk consists of a collection of vari-
ous cataloguing and organising programs.
Video Librarian, for example, is a database
for organising your collection of home
videos and films.
It allows you to view or print informa-
tion sorted by title, star, subject or a com-
bination of criteria. It has good search
facilities for locating specific text and dis-
plays any records which contain that text.
It also allows the printing of labels for
the videotape showing tape number and
title. If your video collection resembles a
precarious mountain of plastic with ad-
hoc ordering, then maybe you should
consider getting this disk.
When submitting disks...
For all those PD libraries who already supply their wares for Public Sector, and for
those who are Intending to, please Include a contents list explaining what Is on
the disks along with the corresponding disk number.
Some PD libraries are adopting the good habit of including a contents doc file
on the disk with a brief overview of the programs on ft.
I tend to decide beforehand what type of PD programs to cover in following
articles and it would save time If I could just scan the Included list In search of
those types.
Those disks which do not include lists tend to be put to one side in favour of
those with lists, while I find time to load them, search through the doc files to see
what the program is for and then decide whether to include it in this month's
issue or following ones.
Ensure that your disks are labelled with the disk number.
If any significant changes to your catalogue disk occur, please send the updated
catalogue disk to me.
The little spherical hero of Ball Lightning. “ Who am I? What
do I do now?" Don't ask me matey, I don't know either
A true masterpiece
and I'm not taking
the Mickey (what
a sad attempt at
humour - Ed)
Ball Lightning
Seventeen Bit Software
This is a strange game. You apparently
control the direction and fate of a rather
spherical chap (herein referred to as Bob),
around a multitude of different screens.
I think everything takes place within
some sort of house - the light fittings and
fireplaces are a dead giveaway I suppose -
and you must control the bouncing char-
acter through the rooms.
There are hazards along the way such
as electrical sparks and other odd airborne
objects that aren't beneficial to Bob's
health whatsoever, so your duty is to
make sure he avoids them.
Along the way, you pick up various
items which I assume will come in useful,
but I'm not quite sure!
By now, you are probably thinking that
I don't quite know what the hell is going
on or what the game is all about and you
would be absolutely right, I don't.
Such ignorance is brought about by the
fact that the game disk contains no doc
files explaining just who Bob is, what Bob
is meant to be doing in this strange house
106
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July 1992
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GAMES
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+ 908 STARTREGK (2 DISKS)
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>910 CHESS
>915 MISSILE COMMAND
>916 AMEOBA INVADERS
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>913 AMIGA DRAGON
TILES V2.5 Great tiles game
>919- ZEUS
>920 HOLLYWOOD TRIVIA
+ 922 THE SIMPSONS
925 WIZZY'S QUEST
>926 THINK TWICE .. Master Mind
+ 927 HYPER-BALL... ArkanokJ done
♦ 929 SEALANCE ..Submarine Sim, Good
* 930 SHAPES Goad for Ktdz
*931 WACKO Jr In Wonderland
+ 934 SCRABBLE
+ 935 WORMHOLE
>936 ANAGRAMS
>938 POM POM GUNNER
+ 939 SKY FLYER
+ 940 GALACTIC FOOD FIGHT
+ 941 ATICATAC
1 942 D-TRlS (TETRlSt
+ 943 ARCADE CLASSICS inc space invaders
>944 NU THE SHOOT EM UP Great stuff
>945 CARD GAMES tots
>947 E*TYPE The best Asteroids
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+LPD22 LC10 FONTS New fonts for
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+LP03 1 CU PRINTER DUMP Prints a
screen dump of the screen
display,
+LPD34 INVOICE PRINTER: Quick
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paper
+LPD35 T-TECHDRAW: Technical
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+LPD36 FRACGEN II Great fractal
program geneiator
>LPD44 FORMULA t CHALLENGE A
great racing car game
+LPD47 DIRTY CASH VI. 06 The best
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Amiga
+LPD52 LC24 FONTS DISK New lonts
for you to download to most
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+ LP065 POWER PLANNER Personal
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>LPD66 HOTEL MANAGER A great
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+LPD71 8ATTIEGARS Racing game
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+ LPD75 VIDEO LAB Simple to use
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i LPD77 POWERBASE 2,1 Powerful
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+LPD79 MUSIC ENGINE Plays music
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+ LPD81 POOLS PRO Program to help
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+LPD86 NCOMMAND V2.03 Adds
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AM/FM +
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812 WINDOWSBENCH . 2 disks YOU'VE HEARD OF WINDOWS ON THE P.C NOW ON AMIGA
, 797 TYPING TUTOR MEASURES TYPING SPEED AND ADJUSTS LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY
t 799 CLERK .... FANTASTIC ACCOUNTS PROGRAM FOR BUSINESS OR HOME
*839 DESKTOP PUBLISHER MAKE LEAFLETS etc WITH GRAPHICS * TEXT GOOD
+ 85? SUPERKILLERS KILLS SAOAM PLUS 171 MORE VIRUS'S LATEST
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+ 731 S MOVIE AMAZING TITLE AND TEXT SCROLLER FOR VIDEO ETC
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(700 CLIPART A.B.CD.E 5 DISKS BEST IFF PICS FOR DTP FTC
+ 650 QUICKBASE.IABHPRINT. VIDEO-LIBRARY MENU 1 DISK GOOD VALUF
+ 703 GRAF’HIC U1 ILITIES TOTALLY PACKED WITH GRAPHIC STUFF
+ 781 2 DYNAMITE TONTS 1 & 2 2 DISKS FULL OF FONTS TO USE IN DPAINT ETC
+ 76 1 MEGA UTILS 50+ YES OVER 50 USEFUL UTILITIES
. 725 ANTIFLICKER STOPS SCREEN FLICKER IN INTERLACE MODE
+ 787 HARO DRIVE UTILS INCLUDES MR BACKUP AMONG OTHERS IS GOOD
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Creative Utilities
U24 1 FONTS LOGOS - Muse* for wt wiLh L> Paint
U237 PROFESSIONAL DEMO MAKER - Crate your own
den*] nasctpkccs
U299 SLIDES m MAKES - Shire* hem lo pram
slideshows in dHkiwu wavs
I'm SPEEC1 1 TOY - Go your Anujfi uiking.
I m VOICES - Add sfxtch in your demo* «r,
[M2 MAKDLEB ROTS - The bes Jtamfldftttjf frnnalw around
1 3 15 ULTIMATE ICONS - Include* Icon Lit), Icon Maser X
Icon Me ■■i'. r - splendid disk.
1321 SUPA FONTS Mis*» o| ibtm lor isw with [Waint etc
t:i)79 ElECTROCAD - Iiiiprtvxive package
UDY MCAD - G read 3D Desjgr) Racteigjr
U331 LAND BUILD 3.2 - General* lamhcjpes and view item
any angle. Aitming'
[ 346 UHlAPAlNT - Fan pj:rg paduRe
UjM SCREEN MOD - CuSTomise the way programs and
screens appear
L366 SHADOW DEMO MAKER - 3 Bnlbw derail nukiny;
utilita.
i m DEMO CREATOR PACK (6 DISKS) - Gd the most out of
par An - 2,v; ucaiivi.-.
rot i)Kl3 TRACE - Excellent Ray Trace pros
Creative Music Utilities
U2T SOUND 'FORKS! iOP - Essential mils for tase wib
fountit tackcr type prags.
U2HI MED Y'3 2 - Latest and Ik# PD musk maker.
C>! HOI 'll' SAMPLES (2 DISKS) - Ail you ravers get these
now - Sound’
L 319 SOL JM) TRACKER SAMPLES (4 DISKS) - Crannied with
twr 500 samples!
1 33') FILM SAMPLES - Chunfo from your five fins.
UJ4 1 SAM P 1 1 MAKER VI 0 - Create your own
samples - excdleni
U499 SOt ND& NOISE TRACKERS - Crammed with tifawit
progs.
L"45ft At DIO MAGIC V] - Full of useful must*: sequencers *
sound rippers.
Dlftti AUDIO MAGIC Y2 - Mott gnai music ULifilics.
Ml) 1 2 GAMES MUSIC OEATON - Create lucres to go with
games.
1 : 03 PRO TRACK E R - Anal ier great music cresting package.
Business Utilities
UGH BUSINESS CARD MAKER - Very useful utility
\m FLEXIBLE - Very vesatifc daiaiose.
Uft)6 BUSINESS PACK (3 DISKS) - ^-Processor. Spreadsheet
+ DiUlxae
im L'EMT - Bat lea editor in P I)
1317 HOME BUSINESS RACK 2 - Keep yarr bank accounts in
onkr.
U326 AMIGAFOX - Die firs! DTP package ko merge in P D.
L'3 if AMICASH - Gd your accounts ready far the tax man.
( 333 600 Hi 51 NESS tETTERS Can be kaded into tew
editors & word pfMBHfts,
0496 TEXT PUB 3 - The blest and pntahty best
wnfdprocesscrr in P D.
U#i CLERK - FtilMk accounts program.
L'l>i 1 AAflBASE - Powerful and eiiv to use djiikisL- a iih 1
maths. furKiKiru
U-i93 QUICKBASE - Label prat. Video ijbntry. menu
\m DESKTOP PUEfLLSI IER - Mike killed etc .. w ii h itop fakt
and text. Crtsrd.
Useful Utilities
1 MW D-PA1M TUTORIAL - Gd the most d D-Paim 344.
0490 TYPING TT TOR - Measures hoping speed and adjusts
difficulty.
UD5S NORTH C - Kind out about C ctmn piling
U313 AQl AiUL M - Find out was on Ms disk* ]
L’3 (H SYSTEM TEST DISK - Fend oul tvluls wrong wih your
.Amiga.
U322 SUPER KILLERS - Totally indicate ilxwc whims - map.
disk!
I 32 i I LARD DISK 1TILS - IXtful jfo w -:i full dues lot Hard
dfpVT3.
U}2tf 5QSZ0BAN C COMPILER - The mo«t comprriierLsive
disk or tT vet.
1329 TURBO IMP!, ODER \\i} - Ve*v ouWul ounchcr.
Utf6 PRINTER DRIVER PACK - Carets [nr Jt, 5 , (Hi s*i pr-rtetv
I '337 QUICKBENCI I PLUS - Speed iking* up on vtair A500
plus.
GW) POOLS CHECKER - Find 1 KJt if yi .1 vr won .1 fornr w .
UYO CHESS TI.TOR - Breorae the nest Karpov
L 341 | Q. TESTER - Sir if yo-i're a> f A .is r-mytsie linnk>
U545 ASSASSINS LABEL PRINTER - Sminm up yi iur disk
Slimy.
U3S7 SID V.2 - Makes all 0c QpefaHow vpritk Jirf simple.
U35H SUPER ’C - Masses of CU uftlitics - Excellent.
UVhi W) N DOW BENCH - Sol just a ptflty w< >rk) amdt Suit
n"e r ui L'lih uxorponted.
1 3-32 ARTM - View inner workings of Am igas excri'er: system.
Blank Disks
12 In own plastic storage box ,,..£7.50
50 £22,50
100 £40.00
These prices include P&P
clip Art
Slideshows
CAI Antnuls plus, collection in/ormrUion
CA2 AniiTi.iLv, .Crchitcaurc. People, Art 1
CA3 An 2 (ftMits)
CA t Arrows, Art Deco. Logos, Stars, Explosions
CA3 Education, Financial. Art Mist.. Symbofs
Ca 6 Foot! and Drink
CA7 Environment. Food 4 Drink, Health
& 1 IrlfTK
CAB Valentines. Weddings and Lee urr
CA9 Biiilxbys, Xmas, New Year, Easier
< MO People (Children, family, fashion,
roiivtrKT)
GaI I People (Men & woahco)
CA 1 2 Signs ( Beam, Xmas and rmsc )
CAI3 Spits (American Foothdl to Water Polo)
CAEi Works and Trades 1, Transp-.jn
C.\ 15 Works a n d T rades 2
P¥i2 Invisible World
D329 Bo-Derek
D-H6 Oorgeous Mode)')
D442 Gulf War
D129 Maria Whitaker
D130 Sam Fox
D3.13 Paradise Picture Show
l»35 Ramlx? Slides
D170 Girls on Spirt
D444 Terminator II
D269 Simpsorw
D303 Saucy Postcards
D470 Katliy Lloyd Slideshow
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Fred Fish
Kilti v- ..1 \n ; u c : an is m which
iro^'pixf!) -fe comm an lL-, Requires Perfect sound
I or Sound mister
Fv3> LXTAMEJi - The Fl Gunnd vasian d Mod
i‘ ,! u 1 Hlil ITR v2 ■ 1 1 -Yc , G -Vs ■ pa |
F368 C4L.URIEB.ASF - '(Cl irk a.n how many
calcines ysurc coniuTiiing,
F3 LI IA - Very fjsl archiver corapai ibk
wuh LH ARC.
F372 MUL71FL0T - Data pksHK* txocpm.
F5B2 DEPLOMaCV - divvi: stnienv game h.ivd
Wl
F590 CRYSTALS- - GaitipjiL-r siiauEation of 3D nysd hum
Ffiflb SPELLQiKCK - Tesfi vnu on foreign vumk.
m MWGfA H - Go>s., ikjik as m m game
Fps 1 ' VERTEX Brii’iant 3D object edto
Star Trek
Dae?
D 121
m
D419
G04i
TG52
U3Ui
Animations
Plicnoniefti L)en»
Gins di Fdm
L> hH Mr Potato Head - Dir chips an- up
1)121 Star Trek Aitiinaiwn
D43I Virtual Worlds
W23 Walker v Amy (], Mb)
Dl 12 Stealthy ][
D321 Stnp SUjt NGchme
D1B3 Svim Activities
1)316 Vtaria Whitaker Arum (IMgi
D-i36 P.D Aniirauans
STAR TREK ANLM - T Ri. . _.x 3D anin :
ENTERPRISE LEAVING DRY DOCK - Another Rk filer
ClaSSC J IlllZCtllt H';
(2 disks I, Mb) All NPJL' STAR TREK - Tbr hnt Stir Trek
' to date
! diwcG- VisuaD)’ intprtssivr & enleruming
omr.
G disks ■ l drive. | Mb; - S S 4 Tick • .Gotta i«y Kmi si-e
(2 disks ■ 2 drives 1 Mb) STAR EHF.K MEGAPFMO -
Includes an aniniaiion and J t fa fc w .Accorapaniesi itv
sausd. V Good.
TRUK THIN I A - How much do you irilly know.
TREK TRIVIA V 6 - %c+rd-jng quesiuns.
(2 Disks) THE 1 iNA, * By .wi 1 - ll:jthlv disk
roBinnc Highlv recommeixlcd
f3 Ms) 71 If FINAL FRONTIER YOU - AW of infor,
<,ides and arims. A niusi fw afl Trekkx'S-
We now have
FRED FISH 1-650
Music
Shadow Music Disk - Well put together,
anginal trucks.
Expressions 2 - 4 brilliant long rave tracks.
Outstanding.
Manic Raves 2 (4 disks) - Probably the best
rave music around. Accompanied by great
graffix. A must.
Hit The Decks (2 disks 1Mb) Vark has
come up with 2 great rave tracks
I Lose to smoke Marajuana - Pumping rave
music
Wacko Jacko (I Mb) - features Black and
While and It's So Mental
S00 Tilings Fight Back - Great original
music.
Technomania 2 - An absolute must for all
rave fans.
BCD Music Disk - Good original scores.
Zero-G - Demo sample disk - Great sounds
for use in NoLsctracker type progs.
We now have
T-BAG 1-61
Games
G,Yj7 iKiHlS CLONES Ready enjoyable den vain e*
GS3H AIRNLANIA Win a trip uf a ilc: r r
G339 EXILE GAME PACK DISK I - Great nMkdron of
games,
G360 Battle of Britain - Not y« im.
G361 CARD SHARP - Not yo seen
G362 GALLACTIC FOOD FIGHT - Groat shoot etn-up.
G.V)3 RAPHAELS REVENGE - Tui . h n.
G364 GROWTH - Blitz that expandmn brain
GV)3 MISSION X - Net ye sees.
G36b JE1ALAV - Yersii.es uf Spc«rui:: game
Gjh 7 GAMES BLITZ - Qimpuaiion uf Spiky girr.es.
The following games hare been reviewed and given
80% or over:
G.369 CaBERET ASTEROIDS - Diroet copy of arcade
asteroids,
G3T) AMIGOIDS - Fab graphs on the istatta-. done.
G371 SEVEN TILES - Punirtak toeKbalt syle game.
G573 LADYBUG - Variiui on ihc uld Pieman dasak.
€3" t ANlU iATTtATlON - A collection uf briUiint nbnd
pm«.
G3T 1 STORYLVND ]j - Dnlliim role pbv game
GOG .ALL NEW STAR TREK (2 DISKS - 2 DRIVES - IMG -
The cm Star Trek game around.
G27H AIR ACT II - Bn^oyaWe shont-n up in [iLnes.
G2)" AfRWASt - A large number of flight cna.hk.rs.
G051 FRANTIC FREDDIE - Brilliant platform game
G310 SI RY1YOR - GuOlanuing role pbv game
Cm PROPERTY MARKET - Find out if you've got ;s head
for husmess.
G292 SEaLaN'CE- ELghly praised sul iirutnne game
G321 SCUM HATERS - HLm die c u'n run erf Ed si London
Gm STAR TREK (3 DISKS - 2 DRIVES UMGI - Very
jrtfciressve.
G2 7 ~ TRUCKIN' 'ON (2 DISKS) - Fnjovable s>|raicgv game
G26S WHEEL OF E'OKTI NF. - Excellent rn nn (rf TV prog.
G'34-2 DOWNHILL CHALLENCiE - Great fun .doirig game
G343 POM POM GUNNER Show down rhose enemy
p‘ 1 1 ■>
G3 19 SIMON SAYS SPACE MATHS - <ta yuuj kids fo Jtam
sound- Viviiur/maths.
G39J EDUCATION FOR UNDER 1 UN - Ln-jds of enjoyable
edurtiknat pmti
G3S3 DARK STAFF - Speanim advemure game now
shareware - very' entertaktirtg.
G3Si AM ulciv rn;: * ' ’ mJe pbv game.
0355 HOUJWOOD TRIVIA - Very frne quiz game. '
G501 TEXT ADVENTURE GAMES PACK (4 disks) - Over ifj
great games including Survivor jftd Star Trek.
G499 1.1TIMATE PLATFORM GAMES - Wtuzzy's Quat N
Mayhem Miner
G.33-S NO MANS LAND BuJ 2 prayer mmb.il ©me
G339 GAMES BONANZA 22 Games on one disk - .Amazing!
G) ri LLAMA COLLECTION - UlffiflttdA * Mvugaiaclic
Lbitrw
G.345 ST JOOT 'EM UP PACK - iocludet Star Trok and
Reijjiitnr A more great fun.
Games compilations
I; - Drip, Bally, Yah.wt, TicTac Tuv
Amnrba. Othdlo, Tron, dvess, Tilts, Dafoes
GAMES GALORE VQI, 2 - Skv-Ftan Kap-OikTo, bun,
Jailland, P-uurca, B'uemwn. WclhfLx, W ■ vdstgrch
GAMES CM 1 :|i.E VQL 3 - AMtujitb., Gravity Pi-y Pong,
OHnl 3-D. Mtabtai, MM, Gravarulk.
G V MFS G AJ.URE VQL a-. - Cat. Mr Munk. Backguiunon,
Egyptian Run, Nturanis, Spuottlte. Diplomacy, Game
Cheaiy.
( lAMES GA l OR E VOUA - Trekuivia, Mom.^trfy, CuStiw.
MazfTJr.. S\s. Fharoh, Dad, Cal N M> Rr-flon.
( I .AMES (• ALONE S QL C - Iruiipv, King. Rips, Cruh.ns. Death
SB Tins. ATC
GAM M ORE VOL ~ -Train 1 Yawn \V< V.-nUry,
A i 1 1 A P e M ■ • ]•
GAMT-S GAI ORE \( )|- ri; - Game Tamer. Spaa VYr CoIouuil,
M-Command. Trippin, Give Runner, Spjevs
MEGA G.ysiFs VQL 1 i. Vi - Banlanee'i. liullrm
Supeihrca2tOL;i. Egyptian Hum
MEGA GAMIN VOL 1 iji) - Cos. vuceage Ollrollo, Q-Bcr.
CryMal Vision.
M EGA GAMES VOL 1 tC - Hack. Saved Games, Tuunsl,
Kcight, (jveman. Spdlolojjfl, Wizard Fighter.
MEGA GAMES VOL ! iD) - MorHiraiiv, Puzzle. A>u;nnT,
Deluxe Burger. Vlemcmrv.
M EGA GAMES VOL UF' - Four iff 2 Po Mi^iJe Cdmjstajd.
Invades
MEGA GAMES VOL 1 (El - Battle, Hi, Descender, Hies, PA
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Stevie’s big boobie!
I am following your excellent Beginners'
Guide series, but I have a problem with
part three.
I followed the instructions in your col-
umn and when \ came to boot up
MyDisk all I got was the Commodore
copyright message, then the error mes-
sage:
mm FAILED HEWN CODE 20
Could you please tell me where I am
going wrong?
Jeff Davies , Rhonda
You're doing nothing wrong at all - it's
our so-called expert who's messed things
up. You see, before Workbench can load it
has to have access to the icon.library file
which should always be in the UBS direc-
tory of the disk you're trying to boot
from.
Stevie Kennedy, who would like me to
pass on his abject apologies to all those
following the series, forgot to mention
this, with the result that none of your
disks will successfully boot.
If you caught the June column, you'll
have noticed that he sneakily tried to
make it look as if he'd meant to leave out
the icon.library. Nice try, loser!
Tool types
Like many others I am new to the Amiga,
having bought an A500 Plus at
Christmas. I have been trying to assemble
a disk of utilities and useful tools, most of
them programs from your CoverDisk
such as AddTools, Print Spooler, Last
Hope, and so on.
I have got as far as opening drawers
on a newly formatted disk with
Workbench in place, and the utilities
seem to copy across, but on trying to
select them from the new disk I get a
warning saying:
UNABLE TO OPEN Y&Uft TOOL iC/NRPP
I haven't a clue what to do about this.
Can you help?
Mr P Southey, Westergate
The problem lies in the fact that not every
program represented by an icon is com-
pletely independent. Many need other
files to be present on the disk before they
can run.
In your case, the file in question is the
text viewer MuchMore_PP (MMPP for
short) which we use on every CoverDisk to
enable users to read an author's doc files.
To remedy the situation, you'll have to
copy MMPP to the new disk . Let's say
your new disk is called NewDisk and you
are using the latest CoverDisk. To carry
out the copy, boot from Workbench, open
Shell, and type:
COPT COVER PISK33 : C / WMPP TO NEWDISK : C
Technical H
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Printer out of puff?
Computer cracking up?
We re here to help!
Write to ACAS, Amiga Computing,
Europa house, Adlington Park, Macclesfield SK10 4NP
Save your saes - we can’t reply personally
Now when you double click on a doc icon,
the correct tool will be available and
you'll be able to read the file.
Solder job
I have an Amiga 500 revision 6A which I
upgraded to 2Mb using the 1,5Mb
PCS 02 expansion from Power
Computing. I also have a fatter Agnus
which supports 1 Mb chip RAM.
The expansion was wired in the 1Mb
chip RAM mode as detailed in the man-
ual and it configured correctly as 1Mb
chip and 1Mb fast, which I was able to
check using the AVAIL command.
However, when I load DigiView 4 or
DPaint 4 and try to access the various res-
olutions, the computer crashes.
I hasten to add that both programs
work perfectly when the expansion is
wired in the normal mode for 0.5Mb
chip and 1.5Mb fast RAM.
Can someone offer a solution?
Charles Haber, Santa Lucia, Malta
To eliminate one of the possible culprits, it
at least doesn't sound as if you have
damaged RAM chips. If this were the case,
your paint programs would crash no mat-
ter which configuration you used the RAM
card in.
The PCS02 , in common with every
other 1Mb chip RAM expansion board.
requires the user to solder a link on
jumper JP2.
If you have a badly soldered link you
will have plenty of crash problems,
though they should happen all the time
rather than just on certain packages.
As long as the RAM is configuring at
all and you've soldered the joint properly
- as well as making very sure that the link
between the other two pads on }P2 has
been cleanly cut - the only problem can
be with the board's control chip.
In this case, if you send it back to
Power Computing, they should replace it
for you.
Productivity mode
I own an A500 Plus and I am considering
buying a multisync monitor so that I can
use Productivity mode.
Not many companies seem to be
advertising this type of monitor, and I am
at a loss as to which is the best for perfor-
mance and value.
I presume that the multisync monitor
should be able to display the normal hi-
res and super hi-res modes without diffi-
culty, but the only models I have seen
advertised are the Commodore,
Interquad, and Panasonic monitors.
I understand that none of these pro-
vide sound output like my 1084S. Also,
would I have to get a special lead for this
type of monitor - where would I get
one?
Chris Thompson, Orpington
Commodore, rather predictably, recom-
mend that you use one of their own 19S0
monitors with Productivity mode. These
are high quality monitors and can handle
any of the Amiga's video modes, includ-
ing the new ones.
Connecting the monitor will be a prob-
lem, as your standard 23-pin video port
will not talk to the monitor's 15-pin
cable. To connect a Commodore multi-
sync to your A500 Plus, you'll need a con-
verter which, happily, is supplied with
every 1950 multisync making them the
most appealing buy from your point of
view.
New virus?
I have an A500, an A590, 1.5Mb RAM
expansion, Star LC200c, and external
floppy. I have installed Virus Checker on
my hard drive and have not found any
viruses, but recently I found that I could
not format or copy disks. When I tried to
format a blank floppy I was given the
error message:
INITIALISATION FAILED , BAD SECTOR.
TRY A DIFFERENT DISK
Also, any disks that I had already for-
matted and tried to reformat gave the
same message and became unreadable.
Then half my software collection mysteri-
ously became unreadable.
I thought it was a virus, but Virus
Checker has not reported one. Please
help.
Paul McClean, Cookstown, N Ireland
There are two possibilities. Either your
internal drive is damaged and will need
to be replaced, or you have been given a
"trojan horse" copy of Virus Checker . By
this I mean a hacked copy which pretends
to be the original program but which in
fact contains a deadly virus.
Several trojan variations of VirusX
were floating around last year, but I've
yet to come across a wooden equine ver-
sion of Virus Checker. This leaves the pos-
sibility that your internal drive has
packed in.
If you get a lot of read/write errors
and other disk-related problems, then the
internal drive is probably the cause of the
problem.
If, however, the bad sector error is the
only one you're getting, I'd seriously con-
sider laying hands on a different version
of Virus Checker to check the first one.
You could, of course, have fallen prey
to a new virus, so I'd be obliged if you
could send us a disk containing your ver-
sion of Virus Checker and a floppy which
is suffering from the bad sector disease so
we can check it for ourselves.
If we find a completely new virus,
there's a free subscription in it for the per-
son who alerts us to the danger.
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Software
I f you're a regular reader of AC you're
probably waiting for the promised
update information on several prod-
ucts reviewed in last month's issue.
The programs with updates pending
included MakePath and Terraform, which
as you may remember are additional utili-
ties for the excellent VistaPro 2.0.
As well as the Vista additions we'll be
taking a look at vl.2 of the Vlab control
software which has just arrived in its
English form, as opposed to the German
variant that was employed for last month's
two-page preview.
As if that were not enough, we'll be
supplying the very latest news on
Hotlinks, a program which in its beta
form has already been previewed in AC
but has now arrived in its final form and
promises to revolutionise interactive
Amiga applications.
New dimension
We'll start with the duet of Vista addi-
tions which add a whole new dimension
to Virtual Reality Inc's stunning fractal
landscape generator. The most impressive
of the two programs has to be MakePath.
In short, it's an animator's dream come
true.
In the main program itself animation is
possible, but only in straight lines directly
between the camera and the aim point.
MakePath, on the other hand, allows you
to create almost any flight path you could
wish for.
Once a path is complete, its associated
script can be loaded into VistaPro and
then rendered frame by frame in the for-
mat of your choice, producing a perfect
fly-through sequence complete with banks
and rolls as the camera hurtles over the
terrain-hugging every contour.
The subsequent animations are impres-
sive enough in standard Amiga formats but
if the process is applied to 24-bit or DCTV
images the finished sequence is nothing
short of spectacular.
For anyone wishing to put their cre-
ations on tape the DCTV option is ideal,
thanks primarily to its 24-bit, VHS-compati-
ble composite output. Aside from the
A dose look ot the
blissfully simple path
creation process
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As usual, AC brings you the best first in
the ever-changing world of the Amiga
enhanced image quality, DCTV provides
perhaps the biggest bonus to animators
via its relatively tiny file size, especially
when compared to RGB-based 24-bit. On
average a DCTV file is only 1/1 0th of the
size of an identical 24-bit RGB.
As a result, it's possible to compile a
standard Amiga anim and record it to
tape in real-time, as opposed to RGB's still
frame recording, which as any pro will tell
you can be a frighteningly expensive pro-
cess.
If you're feeling really adventurous,
there's nothing to stop you employing
Vista's foreground and background
options to incorporate other images
within your creations, Imagine being ideal
for this as it, too, supports DCTV.
Now we've looked at what can be
The interface in action , with a close-up
From 2D text to 3D mountains in minutes
achieved, the next question is how the soft-
ware manages such stunning results.
If we assume the program is loaded, the
next task is to import the landscape within
which the animation will take place, before
specifying the parameters for the flight
itself.
These include basic elements such as
speed and frame size but perhaps more
interesting is the selection of vehicle in
which the camera will make its journey dur-
ing the anim.
The choice, like the program itself, is
impressive. You have the option of either a
glider, jet, cruise missile, helicopter, dune
buggy or motorcycle. Unbelievable as it
may sound, these simulated craft are
extremely accurate.
For example, if the glider option is
selected the camera sweeps over the land,
banking gently and gracefully climbing and
descending in relation to the land beneath.
At the other end of the scale comes the
cruise missile which skims across the sur-
face hugging the ground at an altitude of
just 70 feet, constantly weaving and bank-
ing to avoid oncoming obstacles.
The dune buggy bounces over every
contour with nauseating realism - not rec-
ommended for those who suffer from
travel sickness...
Once your mode of transport is
selected, you simply draw the flight path
directly onto the landscape. When com-
plete, a click on the right mouse button
defines the finished path either as a
straight A to B flight or alternatively as a
seamless loop.
If you now click on the Makepath gad-
get, the program automatically generates
the flight which can then be previewed in
its entirety as a complete full-screen wire-
frame animation.
Redefining
If you like the finished sequence but
want to make a few alterations, a whole
host of options allow you to redefine
almost any aspect of the sequence.
You can adjust the amount of roll dur-
ing banking, increase the degree of pitch
during descents and climbs, adjust how
accurately the vehicle will track to the
undulations on the landscape or even the
amount of acceleration or loss of speed
during a dive and a subsequent climb.
In short, if you want to change some-
thing you can, and when you're happy,
simply regenerate the sequence by hitting
the Makepath icon once more.
As you can see from the screenshot, the
interface provides a bar chart of the flight
showing the paths relative height to the
ground with individual key frames marked
by boxes.
If you want to either add additional keys
or adjust the height of existing ones, you
can. You may also specify whether the
path should pass directly through each key
point or alternatively employ a spline path
which creates the optimum trajectory
between the various points. It's even possi-
ble to vary the aim point of the camera
during the flight, producing gradual cam-
era pans. All in all, it's almost impossible to
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Software
find fault in what is a near perfect answer
to the thorny problem of script generation.
If you are about to invest in VistaPro 2.0,
MakePath is an essential for any would-be
animator. Highly recommended...
TerraForm
As the name suggests, TerraForm is aimed
strictly at landscape generation. Although
VistaPro does support the export and
import of palettes and 2D images which
can then be transformed into landscapes,
it is a little rough and ready and doesn't
offer anything like the degree of control
that TerraForm can.
To be honest, TerraForm isn't as impres-
sive as MakePath but it nevertheless pro-
vides a lot more flexibility to the creation
of designer landscapes.
Its main bonus is that you can instantly
see the 3D results of your 2D actions via
the small arthrographic projection on the
right-hand side of the main screen.
In the example, you'll see the letters AC
inscribed on the landscape. This was sim-
ply handwritten onto the landscape which
was then translated into a 3D view on the
right giving immediate feedback as to the
results of 2D artistic exploits.
Aside from simple freehand drawing,
the program offers an impressive range of
power tools which include bombs for
crater creation, rollers for levelling and
instant mountains, all added to the scene
over definable areas.
Other tools include inversion from low-
land to highland, plus hardening and soft-
ening of features.
A full altitude palette allows you to
select the colours - or should I say altitudes
- of your choice as a painting medium.
Once the features of the landscape are
complete you can used the definable zoom
to examine your creation in full via the 3D
window.
Existing DEM landscapes can be
imported and edited as necessary and then
saved for later importation to Vista. The
usual array of scaling and orientation tools
are on hand, so almost any viewpoint or
altitude is possible. Unfortunately,
although useful, TerraForm doesn't match
its counterpart MakePath for speed or per-
formance. Screen update can be, and usu-
ally is, painfully slow. And the rather
limited collection of painting tools do
make rather hard work of the creative pro-
cess.
In short, TerraForm is well worth
Impulse Inc's paltry asking price, but it
nevertheless pales into insignificance when
compared to the exceptional MakePath
utility.
If you're interested in VistaPro and its
associated utilities, they're all available
from Genisoft Ltd., Unit 3, Poyle 14,
Newlands Drive, Colnbrook, Slough SL3
ODX.
Vlab revision
If you caught a glimpse of last month's
preview of the amazing Vlab, you can't fail
to have been impressed. Well, as they say
in the commercials, now it's even better!
As you can see from the grabs, image
quality from the new 1.2 version is still
stunning, but thanks to the latest update
their capture is even easier.
Basic improvements include a new
requester that gives total control over
colour correction, including chrominance,
and luminance for mono images, plus
gamma control for both colour and black-
and-white.
The display window has now doubled
in size and also benefits from much
improved image quality which no longer
suffers from the rather unpleasant blitter
effects present within the original software.
Aside from the software additions and
improvements, perhaps the most impor-
tant revision concerns the program's
enhanced speed. The original program
did indeed grab instantly, but the process-
ing time which followed - although bear-
Another example of the impressive power of Vlab.
Picard's alter ego captured for posterity by Dynamic Data Exchange
able - did cause a rather
annoying delay between pos-
sible captures.
Now the time between cap-
ture and display is blisteringly
quick even in full-colour Ham
mode. I must confess I've not
yet seen the associated manual
but to be honest it's unlikely
you'll ever need it (unless
you're a devoted ARexx user)
as the installation and opera-
tion of the hardware/software
combination is simplicity itself.
As mentioned last month, Vlab is easily
the best real-time grabber on the machine
and is well worth the Amiga Centre
Scotland's asking price of £299 incl VAT.
Martin Lowe of Amiga Centre Scotland
assures me that the manual is on its way
and will be dispatched post-haste to any
existing users as soon as it arrives at the
ASC offices.
ASC are the sole distributor of Vlab, so if
you're interested in putting your money to
good use phone the Amiga Centre
Scotland on 0896 87583, or fax them on
0896 87456.
HotLinks
Editions
SoftLogik's Dynamic Data Exchange system,
HotLinks, as previewed a couple of months
ago, is now shipping at a retail price of £65.
As far as the content of the package
goes, little has changed since we last cov-
ered it, but interesting developments are
now taking place behind the scenes which
could help establish Hotlinks as a DDE
standard.
Support for DDE within Windows 3.0 has
led to its inclusion in a growing number of
PC packages, such as Word for Windows,
but as yet there is no recognised standard of
the kind for the Amiga. Third-party support
is vital in this respect, because unless a rea-
sonable number of major manufacturers
recognise a new system, it can quickly sink
into obscurity.
In the fight for supremacy that would
be a standards war if only another manu-
facturer had the imagination to release a
DDE system, HotLinks has an important
advantage - it is an open system, indepen-
dent of any one package, and has been
made available to all software houses who
care to support it.
This sort of approach is the only way to
rapidly gain acceptance for a package, so
to gauge its success I asked SoftLogik's
Ellen Kazmaier for an update.
She told me that SoftLogik are currently
talking to a number of interested develop-
ers, including ASDG (makers of the Art
Department Professional) and
Commodore, and although no third party
has committed itself to HotLinks, SoftLogik
are cautiously optimistic.
This leads to the intriguing question of
whether Commodore are thinking about
including some sort of DDE support in the
next release of Workbench.
Andrew Ball, Commodore UK's press
spokesman, refused to be drawn on the
subject, commenting merely that "a manu-
facturer such as ourselves cannot in the
long term afford to ignore [DDE]".
Watch this space for further
developments.
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Letters
Elusive tutorial
In the May issue's Painless Programming
feature, Kyle Rees mentions a tutorial
manual by Mel Croucher as one of the
best for beginners in the Amiga.
I have tried to obtain this book but to
no avail. Could you please give me the
relevant information about this book so
that I can order it?
Faisal Ali, Chopwell
The manual Kyle was referring to is the
Easy Amos Beginners' Manual as supplied
with every copy of the package.
Easy Amos is designed as possibly the
easiest to learn computer language in
existence and can be ordered from
Europress Software on 051-357 2961. It
costs £34.99 and is the only way to get
your hands on Mel Croucher's manual.
Defending beginners
I have just bought an Amiga 500 Plus
and am very gradually learning how to
use it (work does tend to get in the way).
On browsing through the various
Amiga magazines on offer I was attracted
to Amiga Computing by the promise of
articles for the beginner and the free
database on the CoverDisk. When I
reached the letters page, however, I
couldn't believe the letter from Graham
Woodcock.
How does this person expect people
to learn how to use the Amiga if there are
no articles of this kind? I appreciate that
he may be beyond this kind of thing, but
there are many who are not.
I sympathise with C Kostryke who
unwittingly wrote the original letter as
everyone has to start somewhere, even
Mr Woodcock.
Ms I Wadsley, Lincoln
To be fair to Graham Woodcock, he was
complaining mostly about people who
have Amigas for years without learning
the basics about AmlgaDOS, though I
agree his comments were a little over the
top. The letter was printed because it is
indicative of the sentiments shared by
some of our more technically-minded
readers.
Judging by the response from outraged
beginners - your letter was one of many -
the letters page fulfilled its function by
creating a debate. Thanks to everyone
who wrote in on the subject, and let me
reassure everyone that we have no inten-
tion of abandoning either our beginners
or expert readers.
CDTV supporter
Since the price of a CDTV has fallen to an
acceptable level I have recently bought
one in addition to my existing Amiga sys-
tem rather than wait for the A570 drive
to be released, and after using it for
about a month I feel qualified to make a
few observations which may help anyone
else out there pondering whether or not
to buy one.
First, look at the price of a CDTV com-
plete with keyboard, floppy drive and
infra red mouse/joystick, then compare it
to a standard A500 with A570. The differ-
ence in price is quite small and I know
which one I'd vote for.
The CDTV system is very sexy, has all
the Amiga printer and modem ports, has
built-in Midi ports as an extra, and is a
very good CD audio player as well.
Even with just an external floppy and
no keyboard it can play games which
only require mouse or joystick control
and the infra red controller, which I find
has a good range, doesn't cause a mess
with all those cables associated with nor-
mal joysticks.
The bundled software is OK, though
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Amiga Computing July 1992
Ezra Surfs Postbag
Got something to say through the pages of AC? Ezra Surf is our mailman , dedi-
cated to sitting in a comer reading your letters and selecting the most interest-
ing for publication . Ezra's favourite letters now get rewarded with an exclusive
Amiga Computing designer T-shirt.
Drop him a line at:
Ezra Surf's Postbag , Amiga Computing , Europa House , Adiington Park ,
Macclesfield SK10 4NP.
Please don't enclose saes as Ezra just hasn't got enough paper to reply person-
ally. He might also have to shorten your letters , so don't be offended if you end
up getting the chop.
Lemmings
is disap-
pointingly identical to the
floppy version, and Hutchinson's
Encyclopaedia, though slagged off in var-
ious reviews, has loads of useful informa-
tion even if the user interface is pretty
awful.
I hope to get the Fred Fish megadisk,
which should keep me occupied for a few
months, but why is CDTV software so
expensive? A CD costs about 60p to pro-
duce so someone is making an unethi-
cally large profit. Commodore would do
well to include this disk in the bundle.
I hope CDTV succeeds, as this nearly
un-piratable medium could encourage
software houses to release cheaper
software.
Dave Walker, East Grinstead
Most CDTV owners will agree that it is an
excellent system for the money, especially
as major rival CD-I systems will begin to
retail for £500 to £600 when finally
released in the UK, but the arrival of the
A570 is going to change the market for
CD-ROM Amiga products.
On the plus side, from CDTV owners'
point of view, large sales of the A570 will
result in more of the large software
houses producing CDTV-compatible titles.
On the minus side, the A570 and Amiga
combination could eat into the sales of
CDTV systems in a drastic way.
We'll have to wait and see what hap-
pens, but Commodore's decision to repo-
sition CDTV as CDTV-Amiga shows that
they are less than completely happy with
the unit's success as a consumer electron-
ics product.
If most sales of CDTVs are coming from
already Amiga-aware people, the A570
could rapidly overtake the system.
One area I'll be watching with interest
is that of software prices. As CD-ROM is
so much more difficult to rip off, if the
software houses continue to sell CDTV
software for over-the-top prices once the
user base expands, they will have to find
a better excuse than the traditional piracy
argument. Perhaps they'll take a truly
original stand and use "unadulterated
greed" instead?
Not yet!
I have an A500 Plus and I was interested
to see in your June issue that there is a
new Workbench (v2.10). All I really want
to know is whether or not I will be able
to buy the new version, as it should
work with Kickstart 2.04.
lain Mackay, Ellon
The Workbench v2. 1 0 disks we looked at
in the June issue were early developer
test versions. Commodore don't have
plans to issue an official upgrade to
Workbench until at least later this year,
possibly early in 1993. Sorry, but you'll
just have to wait.
High standards
Having just bought the May issue of
Amiga Computing, I was pleasantly sur-
prised to find a free database worth £50
on the CoverDisk. However, it seems to
be an example of keeping up with the
Joneses.
Although most people will welcome
the move, I would draw your attention to
your competitor, Amiga Format, which
used to be excellent, but became
obsessed with CoverDisks and in the pro-
cess produced total dross in the rest of
the magazine.
Please keep the magazine's standards
up! I would especially like to know where
all the articles have gone to that Amiga
Computing was so famous for? By this I
mean readable articles, without incorpo-
rating sales pitches, an example of which
would be the excellent piracy feature in
the October 1 991 issue.
These provide interesting insights into
the Amiga world without exhorting you
to buy anything, and greatly expand the
readable life of the magazine.
Having said this I don't want to dis-
courage you from producing excellent
CoverDisks, but don't fall into the trap of
your competitor-turned-games maga-
zine.
Jonathan Parry, Rhuddlan
We enjoy producing exactly the
sort of article you mention, but you have
to face the fact that in a consumer market
there are precious few "issues" on which
Letters
to write. Last year alone we addressed the
problem of pornography in three separate
articles (long before other magazines
took a serious interest), and piracy in the
major cover feature you mention in your
letter .
The issues of over-pricing, poor cus-
tomer services, and dishonest dealers are
attacked every month in the letters pages,
and will be hammered home even more in
the new Amiga Mart section you'll find in
next month's magazine, so don't worry
about our avoiding the sort of features
you find so readable.
If anything, we would hope to increase
our coverage in these areas. What do the
rest of you think?
Computer people
In reply to Ian Hodgett's letter in the
May issue, I would be only too pleased
to send him our copy of The Little
Computer People for the price of the
postage if you could connect us.
On a more serious note, I would like
to mention my observations on the atti-
tude of a lot of the retailers who attend
computer fairs. At the last two I have
visited, World of Commodore at Earl's
Court and the 16 Bit Show at Wembley,
I have had the misfortune to purchase
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turned out to be faulty.
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Scanner, whose software crashed out on
my machine. I returned to the show the
following day and was given an updated
version of the software. This, too, regu-
larly crashed the machine and, as the
show had now ended, it took three faxes
to Power Computing before I received a
response.
I was subsequently offered a further
software upgrade and any others which
followed free of charge.
In a separate incident at the 16 Bit
Show, my 10-year-old son purchased
four games at discount prices from a
stand only to find that when he tried to
run them one wouldn't get past the
intro screen and another seemed to be a
blank disk in a glossy box.
Once again I returned to the show
and, mainly due to my insistence in
obtaining receipts for these goods when
purchased, I managed against a marked
reluctance on the part of the sales staff
to have my son's money refunded. It
should be the responsibility of the
organisers of these events to ensure that
all their exhibitors operate in the same
way as they do in their normal retail
shops.
Robert Lye, London
Thanks for the offer of Little Computer
People. If Ian Hodgett sends us a
stamped addressed Jiffy bag we'll for-
ward it to you.
On the point of your experiences at
the shows, it sounds as if you may have
an ASOO Plus. At the World of
Commodore show, where you had prob-
lems with the Power Scanner, the ASOO
Plus was brand new and many pieces of
software were still having problems
with it.
The response you had from Power
seems to have been as good as you can
expect from a large retailer, and
although the hassle you personally suf-
fered should have been avoided - service
is rarely as quick as it should be - your
experience is one of the less aggrieving
we've heard of.
The games company who sold you
two duff games at the 16 Bit Show
Apology
In May's ESP column, a letter entitled
"Mr Angry vs Beginners" was, by an
oversight on our part, printed con-
taining a statement which was found
to be offensive by the person con-
cerned, Mr Colin Kostyrka.
Amiga Computing would like to
take this opportunity to apologise to
Mr Kostyrka for any offence or distress
the letter caused, and assure him that
the sentiments expressed by the
reader's letter are in no way shared or
supported by this magazine.
should have been more careful, as any
problems with the ASOO Plus should
have been sorted out by then and incom-
patible software clearly marked.
If your machine isn't a Plus model,
you were probably just unlucky enough
to receive a faulty disk.
At least you had your money
returned - some high street shops will
only do this after threats to report them
to the Office of Fair Trading!
Is copy protection a swindle?
I have owned an Amiga for three years and consider myself an experienced user. I have
always read the letters page with interest, especially the ongoing piracy debate.
As a serious user of both games and business software, I am constantly appalled by
the way Amiga users are treated by software companies, and probably like many other
serious users am considering a move to the PC.
The reason is copy-protected software, which has been the bane of my life, along
with software which cannot handle non-standard configurations and poorly written or
converted software, all in the name of piracy. I have had enough!
This won't load, that won't load, this won't install on my hard drive, that won't run
because I have 2Mb fast RAM and a hard drive.
How much more? How much longer? I have a
long list of games which won't load on my
machine, for example Speedbal! 2, FI 6 Combat
Pilot, Jimmy White's Snooker, Kick Off 2, Stunt
Car Racer, and all three games from the Cartoon
Classics bundle.
I've checked my floppy drive, which is fine,
so it seems obvious that all the software which
won't load does so because of on-disk copy
protection.
The software houses' excuse for their bizarre
on-disk protection routines is piracy. Yes the
problem exists in a big way, but the software
houses desperately need to wake up to the truth
that there is no on-disk protection which can't
be cracked. If you want cracked software you
can get it, and even Ocean's dongle didn't cut
the mustard.
Who pays for it all? The honest user. In addition, the average honest user pays not
just at the till but every time he or she puts a disk into their beloved Amiga which defies
every rule of AmigaDOS. Who at the software houses, with hand on heart, can say that
the over-complex routines aren't killing disk drives?
Just listen to the sound of the drive heads crunching away attempting to do some-
thing they were never designed to next time you load up a protected game.
And how many hard disk owners have bought a game only to find that it will not
install on a hard disk? It is an absolute joke that Amiga users are letting the software
houses get away with this.
Considering the expanding user base of the Amiga and the decreasing cost of addi-
tional hardware, more and more users are benefiting from hard drives as they are the
best way of expanding memory as well.
More and more people are therefore finding out what a hazard copy-protected soft-
ware is and how the software houses are treating Amiga owners as kids.
The idea of manual copy protection may not cure piracy but I reckon it could be a
major step in the reduction of it. I for one won't be buying any more copy-protected
software of the on-disk variety.
I don't like it, my drive doesn't like it, and if anyone else doesn't like it I suggest they
boot up their favourite wordprocessor and tell the software houses.
John Clover, Camberley
I Manual copy protection is as vulnerable to piracy
/ ) T T LJ J as any other form of protection , because if a
cracking crew can get around a hardware dongie
you can bet your breeches they can get around
simple "type in a word from the manual" rou-
tines.
Only recently we saw a copy of Microprose
Coif which asked for a word from the manual
then went onto the game no matter what you
typed in.
The software houses have to keep sales up,
and they can't do this if pirates crack and dis-
tribute their latest game before it has reached
even cost-effective market penetration. However,
you quite rightly point out that the situation has
become unbearable.
Crackers are keeping one step ahead of
even the best on-disk protection, prices are spiralling upwards, games seldom work with
hard drives, some are disgracefully badly converted from PC to Amiga, and some are
unstable with anything other than a very standard ASOO. It has to stop somewhere.
Perhaps the answer lies in CDTV and the AS70 drive. The CD-ROM medium is pirat-
able only by very professional operations, and crackers would have to invest heavily in
duplicating equipment if they wanted to make money from their "hobby".
With 650Mb of data on a single disk, games could be written as to be so dependent
on the CD-ROM that even after cracking it and downloading it to floppies, the crackers
would find that huge lumps of data on six or eight disks coupled with massive loading
times would leave their "product" dead in the water.
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imiga Computing July 1 992
122
Debugging is easy with
this powerful language,
as Alex Gian discovers
125
Oxxi's Presentation Master can
have 'many uses in a video
environment, as Paul Austin
reports
127
Numer crunching '5 the name
of the game as Margaret
Stanger gets down to some
serious computing
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Paul Austin with the very
latest hardware and software
from this year's impressive
Midi Mush show
Adventuring online, os RPOs
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Pat Winstanley heads»oH in
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AMOS 133
Lei ferity scrolling become a
thing of the pash Peter Hickman
smooths ffye jvoy with Amos...
Process rug and printing
grander greyscale images,
with Jeff Walker
As CDTV hits its first
anniversary, tfbve Winder
looks oh its process so far, and
ftrhat the future holds
ARexx provides the power of an assembler with the
ease of use of interpreted languages. Alex Gian
shows how debugging needn't he debilitating...
T he greatest advantage of an interpreted
language is its interactivity. The source pro-
gram can be easily edited and changes can
be tested instantly.
This is very important, particularly when one is
learning a language, or making a program proto-
type. Interpreted programs are run line-by-line, and
while this slows them down quite a bit, it gives an
enormous gain in flexibility.
Because they are run line-by-line, it is also possi-
ble to trace their execution step by step - this makes
the finding of "bugs" a lot easier. Assemblers and
compiled languages do not share this happy state.
Whenever a change is made in a piece of code it
must be recompiled, linked with all other relevant
bits, loaded up and run again. This is very frustrat-
ing when you only want to make a one-line change.
ARexx distinguishes itself yet again by providing
first class tracing and debugging facilities. In this
issue we will look at two of the most important ones
- the Trace and Signal instructions - and see how
we use them effectively to help track down and
eliminate program errors.
Once again we will use an example program -
trivial perhaps in its use, but which contains the
basis of many useful techniques on which to build.
The program - interact. rexx - is in the ARexx drawer
of this month's CoverDisk.
The Signal instruction acts as a "guard" or "over-
seer" on the system. If any one of certain internal
conditions - such as errors, interrupts and so on -
arise, then it makes sure the appropriate action is
carried out.
The conditions to check for, and the relevant
action to take, are set by the programmer - it is also
very easy to activate or deactivate these checks as
desired. The syntax of the command is as follows:
SIGNAL M/Gff 'code"
The ON/OFF option simply tells ARexx whether to
turn the test for the event specified in the "code" on
or off. The "code" itself describes the test, and is
also the name of the label that the program jumps
to should that event occur.
For instance, if you wanted the program to notify
you upon encountering a syntax error, you would
need the line:
SIGNAL ON Stum
Somewhere else in your program you would need
to have the appropriate label, which might look like
this:
sjfnun:
say "syntax error found m Line" SIGL be tore
careful “
exit
The special system variable SIGL stores the line
number where Signal was activated. If, further in
your program, the line:
mni OFF SYNTAX
is found, this feature will be disabled. The following
are the "codes" of the events which the Signal com-
mand can test for:
SYNTAX- Syntax errors
IOERROR- Error in input/output
HALT- An external halt request (described in the
section on inpc)
NOVALUE- This very useful feature will check
whether a variable without a value has been called.
Remember that normally ARexx would automatically
give an unassigned variable the value of its own
name, in upper case, ie the line "say x" where x has
not been defined would output "X".
What use might this be? Well, ARexx can create
variables dynamically, even while the program is run-
ning. They may even be given as input strings! It can
be important to know the state of a variable.
This is a whole subject on its own, and we will
examine it another time, when we look at the
Interpret instruction and the ValueO function. These
dynamic properties of ARexx are a very exciting fea-
ture that can allow interesting, powerful and com-
pact ways of solving problems.
In some ways they are similar to features found in
Logo, Lisp and other Al languages. But we digress...
BREAK_C/D/E/F - Used to check if a Ctrl-C (D, E or
F) has been issued at the keyboard.
Finally, it is also possible for the Signal instruction
not to be followed by any of the above "codes", but
by an arbitrary expression (the optional keyword
Value may also precede the expression).
If that is case, the expression is evaluated, and the
result is the label to which the program will jump (of
course, this label must exist, otherwise you have an
error! Dynamic programming style requires a lot of
care). Eg:
*yi - "here'
SIGNAL %yi I* of SIGNAL VALUE xyi */
here:
t* This is ihere tie end up *f
In this way, Signal is like an intelligent GOTO state-
ment for transferring program control.
Signals from our program are very useful, but
sometimes we need to trace it even more closely for
debugging purposes. Trace provides us with a large
number of options on how to perform the trace.
Here we list them all briefly, and then look at the
main ones.
ALL COMMANDS ERRORS INTERMEDIATES
LABELS RESULTS SCAN
Note that these options have some unusual features.
ARexx
It is permissible to specify only a part of their
names. In other words, Trace Labels, Labels, Trace
Lab and Trace L are all equivalent.
The options can be either strings or variables.
This is a bit weird. It means that variables are not
evaluated. So Trace 'al', Trace A and Trace al are all
the same.
The trace may also be set from a function, eg
Trace(r). The function TraceQ simply returns the
current Trace mode.
As with the Signal instruction, it is possible to
have an expression as a parameter for the Trace
instruction. However, if this expression begins with
a string or a symbol it must be preceded by the
keyword Value. In the following example,
a = 'lab':
TRACE VALUE A
would be the same as:
TRACE LABEL
There are two more special options, "?" and "!".
? is the Interactive mode, described below, and
! is Command Inhibition mode, described in the
section on interprocess communication. These
two options must precede any others. Every time
they are called they toggle themselves on and off.
In general, Trace Off will disable all tracing.
Right, now before we get totally lost in the
syntax, let's have a look at what this instruction
will do.
The All option traces every single line, and will
be most useful for beginners. The Intermediates
option goes a step further, and expands every
expression as well as tracing it. Labels and Results
are fairly obvious.
The Normal command traces the points where
the program would fail and Errors traces com-
mands that generate problems in the command
host. Scan only checks the syntax, but does not
run the program.
The Interactive mode - ? - pauses execution
after every single line. This allows you to
single-step through those tricky bits of your pro-
gram.
During Interactive mode, anything you type in
will actually be interpreted, and added to your
program. If you just press the Return key, then
the next program line will be executed.
During the trace, ARexx precedes each line
that is printed with a short code that "explains"
it. These codes may initially look confusing, but
they are really easy to understand, and very use-
ful.
They are explained briefly in the program
itself. The instructions are also included as com-
ments.
There is no better way to see this than by
example. Run - and study - the program inter-
act, rexx, in the ARexx drawer. It will allow you to
watch a program running under different traces,
which you set. Make sure you read the section on
interprocess communication before you do so.
Next time we will look at practical program-
ming with ARexx.
Here we will look at three special facilities provided by ARexx, which can
only be achieved due to its multitasking nature.
Clips
These do not have much to do with debugging, but they are so useful, that
it is about time we mentioned them. Basically, Clips can be seen as a way of
defining global variables that remain available to all ARexx programs even
after they exit.
Now admittedly Clips are not the only way to do this. We could save data
in a file, perhaps in RAM:, and read it as we need it. We could also use the
AmigaDOS environmental variables. However Clips are elegant, neat and
supported by ARexx.
Clips are set with the SetOpO function, eg:
SetClip(pi,3.14)
In practice you are more likely to use them to store information that gets
updated by various programs, but needs to be available to ail. Memory
pointers are a good example.
Clips are retrieved with the GetClipO function, eg:
iy_screen = GetClip(screendata)
it is assumed that the Clip "screendata" has been set by some other pro-
gram. Clips can act as a temporary work database. The current list of dips
can be checked with the ShowQ function.
Command Inhibition
We have already mentioned Command Inhibition. It is activated and deacti-
vated by the Trace ! instruction. Command inhibition is necessary for a mul-
titasking language, in order to disable potentially destructive external
commands.
While in this mode, the program will print out the commands that it
would normally send, but it will not actually send them to the command
host.
The ARexx command utilities
We are referring to the utilities supplied with ARexx itself. Here we will
look at those that are relevant to our current subject - TCO,TCC, TS,
TE and HI.
HI (halt interrupt) issues a hall command to all programs running
under ARexx, This may be useful if some programs are running out of
control, but in practice it is not going to be used a lot. We mention It
for completeness, since we touched on the Halt Signal above.
A command that is going to be used a lot is TCO. This opens the
external Trace Console. The Trace Console is a window to which all
the output from the system traces is displayed - it also accepts the
input when traces are executed interactively.
If a Trace Console Is open, all trace output will be automatically
directed to it. If it is not, the output is directed to STDIO -your Shell
window.
However, some programs may not have a STDIO stream, especially
if they are running as background tasks. If you want to debug pro-
grams like this, you will have to open the Trace Console.
Another case where you may want to open the Trace Console is if
you do not want the trace output cluttering your CLI window.
In this case, alt the output relevant to the trace will appear In the
trace console - all your normal output will still appear at the CLI win
dow, where you would also have to enter any variables that are
PULLed into ARexx.
Before you run the interact, rexx program, first open the Trace
Console by typing TCO at the CLI When you are finished type TCC -
Trace Console Close - to get rid of the console window, Try running
the program without the trace console as well, to see the difference in
operation.
The command TS forces all tracing into interactive mode. This can
be useful if a program has run out of control you could type an
appropriate command to bring it back into control.
The TE command forces the trace flag off for all the programs cur
rentiy running under ARexx,
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Full colour graph creation also awaits the user via
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cessing software - which again can appear on
screen, paper or slide.
All well and good if you're into presentation, but
how do all these additional features lend themselves
to D7V? As I mentioned earlier, the Amiga and its
applications are spreading far and wide, and as a
result consistent output - no matter what medium
Paul Austin looks at incorporating Oxxi's excellent
Presentation Master into a video environment
it appears in - is becoming more impor-
tant all the time. If you happen to
wander into the field of corpo-
rate video, the option of sup-
plying hard copy in the form
of slides or PostScript-qual-
ity print could make all
the difference between
you and numerous other
hopefuls.
At this point it's
worth stressing that
Presentation Master isn't
as stylish as Scala and
couldn't match it or other
high-end packages such as
Broadcast Titter II as a standalone
titling system.
Having said that, as a designer graphics
creation and display platform it can still be very
impressive, especially when combined with a gen-
lock.
Static
The primary difference between Presentation
Master and other possible titling applications is that
all available screens are static. This doesn't mean that
the screens are totally free from movement, as each
screen can be introduced with a variety of wipes and
fades.
Unfortunately, full screen introductions are the
limit of the program's internal animating features. If
you require actual animation within the screen itself
you'll need to take advantage of PM's Animation Play
option, which allows the user to incorporate normal
Anim files into the show at a pre-defined point.
To retain continuity you could save individual IFF
images, charts or text from the main program and
then employ these as a basis for a subsequent anima-
Sharing the limelight
If the prospect of still frames is too much for your artistic soul to bear, the power users could always take
advantage of PM's IFF output and still retain continuity while enjoying the titling, text and animated brush
effects that programs such as Scala have to offer.
For example, if you already have a Scala in your collection there's nothing to stop you taking advantage
of PM's IFF output option and use the subsequent IFF images as backdrops for various titles or perhaps as
animated brushes above other stills.
Fortunately all PM's output is strictly standard IFF with no nasty Hams to ruin the introduction of text or
graphics. Although a rather expensive approach to the problem of unified output, the PM and Scala combi-
nation gives perhaps the perfect platform for a total multimedia/video-based presentation.
With the assistance of Scala we have a perfect and complementary videographic display - complete with
animated text and graphics - plus an option to offer you prospective employer totally compatible hard
copy to supplement your whizz-bang, whistles-and-bells video.
If you do take this route, PM will happily save an entire show frame by frame ready for importation into
Scala* Obviously this is an expensive and a somewhat less than efficient method of employing PM within
your system, but it's still no more expensive than using a dedicated DTP packages such as PageStream or
ProPage - plus their associated structured drawing software - as a vehicle for the creation of quality artwork.
tions which could then
be brought back into PM
for later use as a stan-
dalone anim section within
the overall show.
As you can see from the
examples, PM's artistic features are
pretty impressive. Imagine the time it would
take to create such logo types in DPaint, for exam-
ple. Thanks to PM such artwork is only a few mouse
clicks away.
The reason for such speed is the program's use of
its own selection of Poly fonts. These are a variant of
Compugraphic fonts which allow total control over
each letter within the text
An added bonus is that PM also accepts standard
Compugraphic fonts which can be manipulated in
exactly the same manner as the program's own Poly
font variety.
All the user need do is add an appropriate line of
text, assigning colour and point size prior to impor-
tation into the paint program. Once on screen, the
text can be stretched and shrunk at will.
Letters themselves can then be edited individually
to produce the exact style you require. It must be
said that individual letter editing can be a tricky pro-
cess, as small levers and assorted points appear on
the letter allowing you to push, pull and generally
interfere with the character in question.
Thanks to this process, it's possible to create or
perhaps more importantly duplicate any font style
you require. Once the text itself is correct, the pro-
gram can really take you and your text into an area
of styling that standard paint programs can only
dream about.
Because all the elements are merely collections of
points, the new logo can be bent, twisted or gener-
ally interfered with without losing any image quality
or character.
As a result, extrusions, perspectives, drop shad-
ows, bends and assorted re-sizing effects are all
added automatically in totally user definable man-
ner.
To sum up, PM is not the ideal package for the
DTV beginner, but if you're looking for a way to offer
more than video alone while retaining continuity
across the board its the ideal answer to a tricky
question.
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PROGRAMMING
Closel
C omputers are very good with smallish,
uncomplicated, positive whole num-
bers or “integers". They handle nega-
tive integers like -1, -360, and -32760 equally
well.
Fractions and decimals, like one and a quar-
ter, 8.3333, -1.56, and -2/3 are often used in
calculations. They are called "real" numbers and
consist of an integer part (like "8") and a deci-
mal part (like ".3333").
Sometimes they are called "floating point"
numbers because the position of the decimal
point is not fixed. Electrical engineers and A-
level maths students also have complex num-
bers available to them.
These numbers consist of a real part and an
imaginary part. The C language does not seem
to have a corresponding storage class for these
numbers - perhaps it is as well.
Short integers can be stored in a "short" or
"short int" variable of two bytes, larger integers
in a "long" variable of four bytes.
If you display an integer variable of 255 in
hexadecimal format, the result is 00FF in a short
variable of two bytes, and 000000FF in a long
variable of four bytes. What you see is what you
get. Boring.
If a real number, consisting of an integer and
a decimal part is stored in a four byte "float"
variable, the result is much more interesting.
The number 1 is stored as 3FF00000, and -1 is
stored as BFF00000.
This indicates that the most significant bit is
used to store the sign of the number. Examining
the floating point storage of integers, it seems
that numbers like 1, 2, 4, 2 to the power of any-
thing, get special treatment.
Interestingly, 2 A -1 is stored as 3FE00000 and
2 A -2 as 3FD00000 . From this it can be seen
that the floating point number is made up of
three chunks of information - the sign (one bit),
a number representing the power of 2 (the
exponent) or binary point (11 bits), and the
Missing link
Calculations involving Integers can be done
using the normal add, sub, mulu, muls, divu
and divs commands in the 68000 instruction
set. Floating point number calculations
need the help of routines from the one of
the Amiga point maths libraries.
I used the following code to fink with the
Amiga IEEE floating point maths library:
I FROH LIB:c.o+ H float.o H
10 "float"
LIB LIB: Lc.Lib LIB:aiiga.lib LIB:LC«.lib
There are other commands and libraries
available for enhanced Amigas.
It's generally thought that Amiga owners do not
attempt serious computing, preferring graphics
and sound. Margaret Stanger thinks otherwise...
number itself, or mantissa (20 bits). The man-
tissa is normalised to always be between 1 and
2. The number is exponent x (1 + last 20 bits as
a fraction).
Hence 3 = 2 x (1 + (0x80000/0x1 00000)), 5 =
4 x (1+ (0x40000/0x100000)), 6 = 4 x (1 +
(0x80000/0x100000)) and so on.
More interesting, real numbers are stored in
the same way. 4 / 3 is stored as 3FF55555, 5 / 3 is
stored as 3FFAAAAA or 1 x
(1 +(0x55555/0x1 00000), and 1 x
(1+(0xAAAAA/0x1 00000)).
For a number with a very large integer part,
the error in accuracy may be quite large. The
program on the support disk demonstrates this
loss of accuracy by multiplying by three num-
bers with varying sizes of integer and decimal
parts.
Floating point
A floating point number can be stored as a
"double" of eight bytes rather than as a float of
four bytes. If each float in the demonstration
program is replaced by a double, the answers
can be very different.
Another factor that affects accuracy is the
way that numbers are rounded. Usually num-
bers 1,2,3 and 4 are rounded down, and 6,7,8
and 9 are rounded up. The number 5 can get
special treatment which varies depending on
the architecture of the computer.
The program on the support disk demon-
strates this by multiplying numbers by five num-
bers with varying sizes of integer and decimal
parts.
Sometimes "printf" supports the %e, %f and
%g options to display floating point numbers,
in addition to the usual %c, %s and %d options
do to display characters, strings and integers.
My compiler does not have this option, but it
does have two routines, fcvt and ecvt, which
will provide an Ascii character string corre-
sponding to a floating point number. This
enabled me to write a routine to put the Ascii
form of a floating point number into a buffer for
display.
A fully commented version of this routine -
ftoa() - is available in the program source code
(float. c) on the support disk. Here is a brief
description of how it works.
After the character buffer is cleared, the func-
tion "fcvt" is called to put an Ascii character
string version of floating point number "f" into
a buffer, and return the address of the buffer.
The input parameters are :
• The floating point number
• The required number of decimal places
• The address of an integer to hold a number
representing the decimal point position
• The address of an integer to hold the sign
of the floating point number
All that is then necessary is to copy the Ascii string
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decimal point in the right places.
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for a negative number. If the decimal point number
is positive, it indicates the number of digits in the
string before the decimal point.
If the decimal point number is negative, it indi-
cates the number of zeros between the decimal
point and the first character in the string. If the deci-
mal point number is zero, the decimal point should
be placed before the first character in the string.
The ftoaO routine looks at the value of the deci-
mal point number, *d. If it is zero or positive, the
sign is placed in the receiving buffer, then the char-
acters that precede the decimal point, the decimal
point, then the rest of the digits.
If *d is negative, the sign is placed, then the zeros
before the decimal point, the decimal point, then
the digits in the string.
C routines
Previously, all reading and writing files was car-
ried out using the Amiga system routines. The C
Library has its own file handling routines which can
be used as an alternative.
The C Library routines are identical for every plat-
form, and will call the appropriate system routines.
This program opens a file, writes a text string into it,
and closes the file - it may not break any speed
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The program on the support disk (float) demon-
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The program first demonstrates how floating
point storage handles positive and negative integers.
It then looks at the storage of fractions and decimals,
including inexact decimals with recurring numbers.
Calculations with floating point numbers demon-
strates how inaccuracies can occur. All this data
would clutter up the screen a bit, so the program
opens a file imaginatively called "output", stores all
the data as text in this file, closes the file, and exits.
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MUSIC
Help Is at hand
As Midi becomes more widespread and inevitably more complex, the
number of Midi -re la ted sleepless nights is bound to rocket. Fortunately
for all the alone and confused users out there, there is an organisation
called the United Kingdom Midi Association which could be the perfect
alternative to lobbing your kit out of the window in the early hours.
They produce a bi- monthly Midi magazine full of the latest releases,
along with assorted hints and tips on how to get the best from your
setup. To be honest their advice isn't exactly cheap, but for the serious
user it could still be money well spent.
Aside from the magazine, the biggest appeal of membership is the
access it gives you access to a hot -line offering instant Midi advice to
any member in need.
The United Kingdom Midi Association (UKMA) can be contacted on
081 m 2245 or faxed on 081 368 7918.
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A fter infuriating the hordes of patiently
waiting punters by nipping straight
down the press lane with the rest of the
assorted journalistic types, I arrived in what's best
described as a twiddler's paradise...
At every turn a new collection of fades to slide
and buttons to press, interspersed with countless
keyboards all doing their best to impress the eager
masses milling around the stands.
After half an hour I finally managed to control
my kid-in-a-sweet-shop tendencies and get down
to some serious sniffing around.
Much to my surprise there were still relatively
few Amigas on hand, with the ST for some bizarre
reason remaining dominant.
Having said that, the gulf between the faltering
Atari and the pack of Amigas, PCs and Macs is def-
initely narrowing. A primary player in the Amiga's
challenge, was Zone Distribution, was surrounded
by the usual crowd bobbing up and down with
jaws agog as Zone's Andy Bishop put the Amiga
through its multitasking
paces.
It was quite a moving
experience to see the
smiles slowly fade from
the faces of countless
PC, Mac and especially
ST fans as Andy pulled
down screen after screen
of active programs all
running in unison under
the auspices of MPE (multi-program-environment)
within Dr T's KCS sequencer.
As in the Amiga market, the biggest buzzword
among the 140 exhibitors was multimedia, with
almost every major hardware manufacturer trying
to take advantage of this new medium thanks to
this latest addition to the Midi repertoire.
During the formative years of the Midi format,
the prime concern was simply to enable across-
the-board control of keyboards from various man-
ufacturers. However, over the last year Midi has
taken the next step in control and now reaches
out to embrace more than simple control compat-
ibility.
The advent of CM, or General Midi, is one of
the first steps in this new direction. As a conse-
Paul Austin boards the Amiga Computing tour bus
and heads for the bright lights
of the third annual
Midi Music Show
quence, many of the latest
module releases on show
now embrace this new
design format which will
virtually ensure that Midi
will become one of the
kingpins of future develop-
ments within multimedia.
The benefit of this new
format is that it ensures
playback compatibility
across the board by assigning compatible sounds
or patch positions to all modules employing the
system.
As a result, sequences written with any GM
module as the original playback medium will be
totally compatible with other CM modules from
different manufacturers in both synth and drum
sounds.
No more piano where a cello should be or trian-
gle for a tambourine. Bliss, absolute bliss...
Of course, the sounds on each module will be
particular to that instrument, but all instrument
locations will remain permanent. This has obvious
appeal to the multimedia market and with each
module capable of playing 16 sounds simultane-
ously, whole orchestras await the touch of a but-
ton. The big players have
already seen the potential
that a little co-operation
can provide and to that
end both Roland and
Yamaha were displaying
GM-compatible modules
on their respective stands.
Instrument manufactur-
ers aren't the only people
taking advantage of CM.
Commodore were also
busy waving the corpo-
rate flag under the ban-
ner of CDTV, highlighting
its ability to take advan-
tage of the new modules
via CD+Midi - a format
which we explored in the
May issue of AC. Perhaps an even more significant
step has been the development of Midi machine
control. Although Fostex has had its own system
on offer for about two years, the ability to control
both your instruments and a multitrack from the
comfort of your sequencer will soon be available
to us all as the various manufacturers take advan-
tage of this latest Midi ability.
Entrenched
Again, the expansive nature of Midi provides a
platform from which to emulsify all aspects of the
creative process.
As the Amiga has already become the premier
multimedia machine the future never looked
brighter, with Midi-compatible programs such as
ShowMaker already well entrenched in the Amiga
market.
Now the prospect of a graphical, musical and
video workstation will soon become a reality
rather than a distant aspiration, thanks to Midi's
new abilities and the spread of MTC onto other
mediums.
Next month
As you've no doubt noticed there's a lack of
specific product information in this month's col-
umn, This is totally intentional as next month's
feature will be devoted entirely to Midi and
Desktop Music Systems (DTMS). During the
article I'll he looking at all the latest Midi-com-
patible hardware and software releases, hope-
fully providing the best possible advice for any
would be investors.
If you're looking for some help on the tricky
business of setting up a Home-based Midi stu-
dio, you can't afford to miss next month's issue
of AC Keep reading.,.
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Pat Winstanley gets involved in an adventure game
with the capacity to span the whole world!
H uman nature being what it is, cutting
your comms bill by using a cheaper
phone service, faster modem or offline
reader can eventually have the opposite effect.
It's very tempting to look at how much you are
saving by your virtuous behaviour and careful
management of online time, then blow the whole
thing by getting hooked on online games.
Online games are aimed at solitary players who
are fed up with only having a computer as an
opponent. Games like Scrabble quickly become
boring when played against the computer which
is why several BBSs run live versions where players
from all over the country can log on simultane-
ously and play each other via their modems.
Unfortunately it's very easy to get carried away
and run up enormous phone bills even in the
middle of the night. Get interested in the game
and time flies. Only when you log off do you
realise that you've just spent your monthly
allowance in a couple of hours.
Having said that, with care and an eye on time
and costs, online games can offer lots of fun and a
unique style of play.
Proliferation
Probably the best known online game is MUD
- its popularity is reflected in the proliferation of
different versions running all over the world.
MUD stands for Multi User Dungeon and is
effectively an adventure game which runs con-
stantly. As with normal adventures there are
plenty of non-player characters dotted around
with whom you can perform a limited form of
interaction.
The attraction, though, is the addition of other
human players like yourself. Computer-controlled
players are fairly predictable - human ones are
not!
Over the past couple of weeks I've been look-
ing at a version of MUD being developed by Matt
Holmes at CiX under the working title of Blunder.
Although at the time of writing it is not yet fully
running, the promise is for something very spe-
cial.
The game itself is based on a system from
America which can be modified to suit any partic-
ular set of users. It is a simple text adventure with
the normal type of commands such as north,
west, examine hedge, kill ore and so on.
Scattered around the playing area are various
goodies such as weapons, money, treasure and the
obligatory ropes and torches. Virtually everything
you find can be sold in the shop for gold pieces,
and this gold can be used to buy better armour
and weapons or if you prefer, experience points.
Gaining experience is mainly a matter of killing
anything you can then going off to the guild to
have your level raised. The higher your level the
stronger, more intelligent, more dextrous and so
on you become.
Also with higher levels comes the ability to cast
spells. The aim of gaining levels is to eventually
reach the dizzy heights of wizard, and this - if you
can afford to play long enough to reach it - is
where the fun really starts.
Wizards can do literally anything to any other
player in the game. There you are, chugging along
in the game, waiting for your health to restore after
a particularly difficult battle in which you finally
managed to defeat the monster who carries hun-
dreds of gold pieces, and a wizard spots you.
Before you know it you are forced to drop all
your ill-gotten gains, cry, laugh, grin, smirk or
whatever else the wizard's devilish imagination can
Start exploring...
Blunder should he up and running by the
time you read this. Contact CIX on 081*
390 8446 for further information. Vou can
contact me by Email as "peewee@cix.com
pulink.co.uk" or by snail-mail at the AC
address.
come up with - you're generally a helpless pup-
pet.
Depending on the wizard's mood he might let
you go empty-handed, or perhaps create a brand
new super turbo-nutter weapon and give it to
you. It pays to keep in well with wizards if you
don't want to be teleported, weaponless, to the
centre of a band of ores elsewhere in the game.
The other aspect of being a wizard is the ability
to create fiendish castles populated with vicious
monsters, fabulous treasures and mind-blowing
puzzles.
Each wizard has his own castle, several of which
are dotted around the main playing area.
Although the aim of the game is to become a wiz-
ard, use of the abilities gained on achieving that
level rather depends on your programming skill.
For instance, in this version you need to be able
to code in C to program a castle. However, lack of
this skill doesn't stop you acting as a puppet mas-
ter.
Harmony
From the ordinary player's point of view, other
players in the game can be a source of either grief
or companionship. Some puzzles are encountered
which positively require two players to work in
harmony.
For instance, one might be needed to operate
the controls of a door while the other player
explores. Communication in this situation is by
shouting, such as "Wizzywig says, OK Dobbin, I've
found the treasure - let me out now", to which
the response might be "Dobbin grins an evil grin.
Dobbin says no!".
Friendly rivalry between players is the major
attraction of the game. A voice call to arrange a
login time is all that is needed to make up a party
of two or more players who can then storm across
the system as an avenging army, killing everything
else in sight.
But if you are the slower typist, be prepared for
your companion to pinch all the booty before you
can even hit Enter. If this happens you will be
reduced to hunting out the objects lying around
in open view, although even then you may find
someone has been there before you.
However, the play area resets at reasonably
regular intervals so there's always something for
the newcomer to find.
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kick kiss
love no an
pout puke
shake shiver
slap snirk
snicker sniff
squeeze stare
twiddle whistle
> force wizzywig nibble odin
Wizzywig nibbles on your ear.
Ok -
> spuiijj lIUJ j\it
you spit.
) shiver
Brrrrrrt! !
) llizzyuig pouts,
french wizzywig
You give wizzywig a REAL kiss.
kiss
knee
1 a ugh
lick
no an
nibble
nod
poke
puke
purr
ruffle
screan
shiver
shrug
sigh
sing
snirk
snile
snap
sneeze
sniff
snore
snuggle
spit
stare
strut
sulk
thank
wh i s 1 1 e
wiggle
wink
yawn
) Wizzywig slaps you!
enote Awwwww?
Ok,
> Wizzywig winks suggestively .
no an
You start to no an,
) Wizzywig whistles appreciatively,
ose
'ou send a ball of fire into the sky.
it lasts a long tine.
Lots of feelings ' commands are available to both players and wizards alike as this extract shows. However , wizards
can farce ordinary players to perform any of these actions on command. Good fob Odin was feeling friendly,
otherwise that slap might well have ended up with the rapid demise of poor Wizzywig
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AMOS
I any people bought Amos in the belief
that it would help them create fantastic
software with ease, save the universe as
we know it and make the perfect cup of coffee.
Unfortunately life is never that simple and to get
any satisfaction from using this language you will
have to get to know your Amiga and its capabilities
a little better. It also helps to have good Colombian
beans.
There are two main methods of producing a
scrolling screen. The first is to take a series of
interconnecting picture "blocks", place one on
the screen, move it a bit and then place the next
section.
This is known as a software scroll, because it is
up to us - the programmers - to do all of the hard
work. Xenon II uses this type of scrolling.
One of the advantages of software scrolling is
that it requires very little memory because you
really only have to have a standard sized screen
open which is 320 x 200 pixels in size.
Custom chips
A hardware scroll is something which is handled
mainly by the Amiga's custom chips, which are
known as hardware. It is produced by defining a
big picture, looking at one section of the picture
and then panning across the rest, just like a televi-
sion camera looking at a wall-mounted mural. Kick
Off uses this type of scrolling.
Although fast, hardware scrolling eats up lots of
memory. Fortunately the ease with which we can
manipulate a hardware scroll more than makes up
for the memory consumption. Before we do this I
think we should look at how versatile the Amiga
screen system really is.
Amiga screens are something special. You need
to imagine them not as literal pictures but as a win-
dow looking into your machine's memory. By mov-
ing our viewpoint around we can examine almost
any part of the chip memory contained inside the
Amiga. Incidentally, this is how many graphics
"grabbers" work.
AMOS allows us to manipulate these "windows
on the world" using the Screen Display and Screen
Offset commands. Screen Offset controls our view
of the computer's memory through our window,
while Screen Display controls the size of this win-
dow and its position on the monitor.
OK, now we all know how to open a screen
inside Amos, don't we? It's pretty simple - load
AMOS and make sure you are inside the editor (not
Direct Mode). Type this line in:
Screen Open 0,320, 200,16, Lowres
This tells Amos to create screen number 0 with a
horizontal resolution of 320 pixels, a vertical resolu-
tion of 200 pixels and 16 colours in lo-res mode,
which means the pixels are pretty square and
chunky. We now have a screen we can experiment
with.
The next step is to define two variables XSIZE
and YSIZE, these will tell Amoshow big our window
will be:
XSIZE=320
YSIZE=200
Smooth, fast scrolling is often important for
convincing gameplay. Peter Hickman looks at
ways of moving your backgrounds
OK, now we must start a loop which will allow us
to change the characteristics of this window with
the mouse buttons. Every time we go around the
loop, the mouse co-ordinates are put into the vari-
ables X and Y.
These are then used to position the window on
your monitor. It sounds confusing, but if you imag-
ine the window as a piece of paper being moved
around on a desk - which is your monitor! - it may
seem a little clearer:
Repeat
X=X House-100
Y=Y House-160
Now we must check the state of the mouse keys.
If the left button is pressed the variable XSIZE is
decremented. If the right button is pressed the vari-
able YSIZE is decremented.
The command ADD allows a little more control
over variables than the standard INC or DEC com-
mands. By using ADD we can make the number
contained in XSIZE wrap around from 0 to 320 with
very little work:
If House Key=1
XSIZE,-1,1 To 320
End If
If House Key=2
Add YSIZE, -1 , 1 To 200
End If
OK, now for the magic command. As you can see
the first parameter is the screen number, followed
by the X and Y positions plus XSIZE and YSIZE:
Screen Display 0,X,Y, XSIZE, YSIZE
The final part of our program waits for you to press
both mouse keys before it stops:
Until House Key=3
End
I hope this has not been too complicated to follow
so far. The concepts are simple, but I must admit
that the whole subject can become overpowering!
I have now introduced you to the basics of using
Screen Display, but what about Screen Offset? It is
this command which actually creates the scrolling.
If we defined a standard sized screen and used
Screen Offset to look above - or below - it, we
would see what is contained in those portions of
memory.
To start off with, let's open up our screen by typ-
ing the following lines into the Amos editor (remem-
ber to save your last program if you want to keep it):
Screen Open 0,320, 600,4, Lowres
F Lash Off
Hide On
Curs Off
Palette $O,S90
Cls 1
You will notice that I have reduced the amount of
colours from the standard 1 6 down to four. I have
also increased the size of the screen to 600 pixels
high, which is three times the height of a normal
screen.
The next Screen Display command features four
commas in succession. This is not a printing mis-
take! It tells Amos to use its own defaults instead of
the missing parameters. The last part of the line tells
Amos that we only want to display 200 lines of this
600 line screen:
Screen Display 0,,,,200
I am not a great lover of football - or football simu-
lation computer games - but they can be useful to
demonstrate the principles we are dealing with
here. So in the best tradition of Blue Peter, here is a
pitch I drew earlier...
Draw 0.299 To 320.299
Box 0,0 To 319,599
Circle 160,299,105
Even though we cannot see the whole screen,
Amos will draw it for us.
Neat, huh? The penultimate step in this program
is to let Amos know which part of the 600-line
screen we wish to display inside our small 2 00-line
window. Once again, the Screen Offset command
contains a couple of commas, this tells Amos to use
the default value for the X position of our view.
YP0S=0
Screen Offset 0,,YP0S
Now for the exciting bit! By pressing the left mouse
button the screen will scroll smoothly upwards by
telling Amos - through the Screen Offset command
- to look at a different part of the picture held in
memory through our small screen or "window". If
we press the right button the screen will scroll
downwards:
Repeat
If House Key=1 and YP0S>0
Add YP0S , -5
Screen Offset 0,,YP0S
End If
If House Key=2 and YP0S<400
Add Y POS , 5
Screen Offset 0,,YP0S
End If
We must put a WAIT VBL command here to tell
Amos to slow down. Try removing it to see how
fast the program runs!
Wait Vbl
Until Housekey=3
On the CoverDisk this month you can find an
example program using horizontal scrolling.
Why not experiment and see what you come up
with?
• This is a rather sod AMOS column hr me, U s
my last one. Ye s, after two years t have decided to
move on fa other things. So it s goodbye from me,
and hetio to Phil South from next month.
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DTP
Tweak your pictures
P rocessing and printing images to best
effect is vital for professional-looking
DTP output.
I want to concentrate on this aspect this
month, following on from last month's look at
achieving results from even the most humble of
hand scanners.
Once the image is scanned in you are left with
a massive black-and-white "dithered" picture - a
representation of the original made up of lots of
black and white dots.
These dots are arranged into things called
grains. For 64 greyshade scanners the grains are
eight pixels across by eight pixels deep, and
each grain represent a shade of grey from 64
white pixels (solid white) to 64 black pixels (solid
black).
This dither pattern is not a lot of use to us,
firstly because it is so big and secondly because
black-and-white printers - even high resolution
inkjet and laser printers - can only really produce
about 1 6 discernable shades of grey.
This is why any decent Amiga scanner soft-
ware has a Convert to Grey option.
Conversion
So the next step is to convert the black-and-
white dither to 1 6 shades of grey. The software
does this by reading each eight by eight grain of
the dither and deciding which of 16 displayable
shades of grey it should be converted to.
Because each eight by eight grain gets changed
into a single grey pixel, the image is reduced in
size to an eighth of the size of the dither.
In truth, such a greyscale image is actually too
small. It will typically be about 200 pixels wide,
less than a third of the width of a hi-res screen.
To get a decent sized picture on the printed
In the second of two parts, Ben Pointer shows how
to process and pr it impressive greyscale scans
The best greyscale
images are produced
by softwore that
double-dithers. The
smoller Image in this
screenshot Is only
single dithered, and Is
consequently smaller
and less detailed
Using The Art Department
you con adjust the gomma
value of the image, thereby
creating a greater contrast
between the darkest parts
of the image and the next
level of grey. While it moy
look o bit wishy-washy on
the screen, the gamma-
adjusted image will
print better
If you are thinking about buying an Amiga hand
scanner, make sure the software double-dithers
when it converts to grey; it makes a big difference
to the quality of the image. A full width scan should
reduce after conversion to a screen image about
400 pixels wide - about two-thirds of full screen
width.
After converting to grey you might decide that
the image is too light. But you have to remember
that the grey shades put out by your printer are not
the same as the grey shades you see onscreen,
which are usually a bit darker. Before twiddling the
brightness wheel and scanning again you should
dump this first scan and see what the printed out-
put looks like.
Sometimes, even with the brightness wheel at its
lightest, you end up with a dark and muddy
greyscale picture. In this situation you will need fur-
ther software with which to process the image. The
Art Department (TAD) is what you need - the basic
package is good enough, but go for the more
expensive professional version if you can afford it.
TAD has a a number of options that allow you to
alter the brightness, contrast and gamma values of
images. Gamma conversion, put simply, means
adjusting the image's shades of grey between black
and white, but leaving the actual black and white
parts of the image untouched.
On top of this, TAD will let you add a number of
dithers to the picture, which can help to reduce the
blockiness of the printed image, thus enabling you
to print it at scales larger than 50 per cent.
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Printing professionally
For printed output you are ultimately dependent upon the dither
patterns produced by your printer. At high resolutions the dots the
printer puts on the paper are too often close together to be able to
discern 16 levels of grey, especially at the darker end of the scale.
Consequently you'll find that greyscale images will always dump bet-
ter at a lower resolution - something between 120 and 180 dots per
inch - because the individual dots are further apart.
If you are using PageStream for your DTP work you can force the
dots in the printed output to be further apart by changing the
Screen Frequency value in the Edit Co-ordinates requester for the
graphic. The number you enter is a lines per inch (tpi) value, and 1
think you'll find that 60 tpi is best for most dot matrix output.
Professional Page users can only change this Ipi value when out-
putting to a PostScript device. PageSetter II users can t adjust it at
all. But all is not lost. There is a program available called TurboPrint
Professional that gives your printer better dither patterns and -
among many other things - allows you to alter the brightness, con-
trast and gamma levels of graphical output.
In fact you could say that what The Art Department is to the
screen, TurboPrint Professional Is to dot matrix printers - it s proba-
bly a compulsory purchase for anyone who is serious about hand
scanning on the Amiga.
page you will have to keep it at about 1 00 per
cent scale, and because its resolution is 75 dots
per inch (the resolution of all IFF ILBM pictures), it
will be a bit "blocky". To reduce the blockiness
you have to scale down to at least 50 per cent,
thereby doubling the out-
put resolution to 150 dpi,
but then you're left with a
tiny picture.
Which is why any Amiga
scanning software worth its
salt it will employ a tech-
nique called double dither-
ing.
Instead of converting
each eight by eight grain
to a single pixel of grey, it
converts each grain to a
two by two matrix of grey
pixels.
Not only does this pro-
vide a bigger greyscale
image, but by clever use of
shades of grey in these two
by two greyscale grains the
eye can be fooled into
thinking there are more lev-
els of grey in the picture
than there actually are.
The end result is that we
have a bigger, more
detailed greyshade pictur
Amiga Computing July 1992
KCS Power PC Board
PC emulation
on your Amiga
About.*.
Tha KCS Fewer PC is a compl&ie 1 1 MHz 1Mb PC
sub-sysla m that can be filled to ary Amiga In
mtrmles
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tt» Power PC Board offers a very big h degree of
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The 1Mb of AutQcgnfrg ,M memory can be
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PC Board is a real alternative to buying a
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Installation
The KCS Power PC board fits to any Amiga in
minutes:
• On A500 and A500 Plus machines it simply
slides into the trapdoor expansion; and doesn't
invalidate your warranty!
• On bigger Amigas, such as the
1500/2000/2500/3000, it drops into a vacant
Amiga slot using the custom designed adaptor
board.
• Once fitted, your Amiga can be switched into PC
mode simply by clicking an icon. Just reset and
it's an Amiga again.
No fuss, no hassle. Just two machines in the
space of one.
Video
■ Supports the majority of EGA and VGA modes in
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for soma modes but a software flicker fixer is
built In,
- Other video modes include MDA and CGA text
and graphics. Also supports Tandy colour
graphics adaptor and Hercules monochrome.
■ EGA and VGA graphics can be displayed on a
domestic TV or monitor. UnHkoraaf PCs, no extra
hardware is required.
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• DOS can be started from any mounted drive
5,25‘ or 3.5’ and mos: Amiga bard drives.
• Supports most popular hard disks Including
GVP Impact, Supra and A590 iGmi! and SCSI).
• A massive 200K ramdrive (up to SMbwith
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Memory
■ Even with a base Amiga 704K is free for DOS
programs (640K in EGA and VGA modes).
• EMS (expanded memory) is supported allowing
you to run Microsoft Windows without problems
and store massive files in Lotus 1-2-3. So, if you
have 8Mb on board the PC can use it
• XMS (extended memory) is supported - even
1 hough this is not usually possible on NEC V3G
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Speed
its Landmark speed pots It way ahead of marry
true PC systems - It even compares favourably
with many AT clones,
However, the crux of Ihe matter lies with the
video spefrd: and this, as many critics have noted
is where the KCS Power PC Board scores over an
others. It's no use having a wzz-banp processor
if Ihe screen takes several seconds to redraw
itself.
• Tests in text modes have shown it is several
times faster than evenAT clones with dedicated
vrdeo hardware. Even in graphics modes, <rs no
slouch although the emulation is limited by
Amiga hardware.
■ Add a processor accelerator card, andthe 32-bit
clean KCS cache software will use it to its full
advantage.
Mouse
• Automatic serial mouse emulation is supplied as
standard - using your existingAmiga rodent.
• Mouse can be configured as C0M1 or COM2.
Joystick
• Up to two sticks can be employed at any time.
You decide how they are arranged.
Printer
• Youi Amiga's parallel port is accessed as LPT1
In PC mode.
Seri at
• DOS usually supports two serial ports, but one
is taken by the Amiga mouse. The Amiga's serial
can be set as CQM1 or COM2 as desired, for
MODEM elc. up to 19200 baud full-duplex
Sound
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volume control available in software.
Works on...
• All Amigas (except the alOOO) filled with
Kickstart 1 .2 and Workbench 1.2 of higher.
• Extra memory is not required, Put lull use will
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TC emulation is a contentious issue - but the KCS Power PC board
is the only one to carry my personal recommendation, it is an
excellent product that does all it claims and does it well."-
commejits ftfarft Smiddy, co-author of Mastering AmigatDOS 2 .
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One and counting...
C DTV is a year old. It was officially
launched on April 30, 1991 at the
British Academy of Film and Television
Arts, better known to us all as Bafta - yes, the
ones that give the British "Oscars" away each
year.
A lot has happened in the twelve short
months since then. Many critics of CDTV would
have you believe that nothing has moved, but
this is just not the case, so let's take a quick look,
shall we?
Most important, in my view, was the price
reduction that came a short while ago, reducing
the cost of a CDTV from £599 to £499. This
clever move by Commodore means that CDTV
becomes a realistic purchase for many types of
prospective customer.
Not only does it make the CDTV affordable as
a standalone, multimedia entertainment system,
it should also appeal to people purchasing an
audio CD player, and those who are thinking of
buying an Amiga and want that little bit extra.
Software
The other vital factor in the success of this
product - especially in the long term - is the
quality of the software available. I am glad to say
that the available titles have started to improve
beyond recognition compared to those which
were initially released.
Titles such as Hutchinson Encyclopedia and
Women in Motion were truly awful. I am sure
that many people would have gained the same
negative impression after sitting through
Hutchinson as I did, not helped by the fact that it
came bundled with the CDTV
and so was endorsed
by Commodore
as far as |oe
Public was
On CDTV's first anniversary, Dave Windera
charts its history and looks to the future
concerned. Luckily, with the
appearance of titles like Japan
World, Learn French with
Asterix, Town with No Name
and of course Fractal Universe, it
is apparent that developers are
now really getting to grips with
just what is possible on the
CDTV.
With software of this stan-
dard appearing - and it can only
continue to improve - the future
of the system seems assured.
Also making an appearance
during the last year have been a
host of peripheral items. As well
as a keyboard, remote control
mouse and external floppy drive
- which effectively turn your
CDTV into a fully functional Amiga 500 - we have
seen a remote control trackball (with ports for stan-
dard joysticks), an internal genlock and a
redesigned remote control pad with the annoying
mouse/joystick control replaced with a more robust
and easier to use design.
Not yet available as I write is the Advanced
Video Mode card - better known by its acronym of
AVM - which should be at your dealer by the time
you are read this page.
This is much awaited and will provide
amazing graphics with a palette
chosen from 16,000,000
colours. Best of all is that
pricing should be
around the £50
mark, so making
it within the
reach of
Fine tuning with CDTV
So what could be improved? Well, I would definitely replace the
awful Welcome disk if had the opportunity to do so. Although it
fits nicely in with the ideal of CDTV, being a manual on CD-ROM,
I think this is one area that needs a manual on paper!
After all, it isn't exactly easy to look things up in the disk man-
ual when you are trying to figure out what to do within another
program.
There is also the obvious disadvantage that you don't know
whal to do until you read the manual, but you don't know how
to read the manual until you know what to do, if you see what I
mean.
Apart from that, I would say that the SCSI card should be
made available to one and all, and not just developers as at pre^
sent, so opening the doors for the use of all sorts of extra
devices, such as hard disks.
most CDTV owners. Third-party manufacturers
have also started to produce CDTV peripherals
now, with Roctec making a CDTV external floppy
drive that sells for a lot less than the retail price of
the official Commodore model.
It should be pointed out, of course, that any
external floppy drive for the Amiga will work hap-
pily with the CDTV - it is just the colour that is
different The same is true of the keyboard, as it is
quite possible to use a standard keyboard from an
Amiga 1500/2000 - providing you can make up
the appropriate connector adaptor to fit. Of
course, it does look so much nicer if everything is
colour coded in black!
MicroDeal recently launched another add-on
in the shape of their Voice Master product. This is
basically a microphone and interface that allows
you to record speech for use with some compati-
ble CDTV titles.
It works with Learn French with Asterix for
example, enabling you to record and play back
your spoken French from within the program.
At just £19.95 this will become a very useful
addition to your CDTV outfit once more titles
make use of it.
Another addition that is worthy of note is not to
the CDTV range itself, but to the Commodore
CDTV team.
Jim Mackonochie joined Commodore as General
Manager of CDTV Development Europe, and
has been very busy trying to ensure that
the success of CDTV continues. So
happy Birthday, CDTV - may you grow
in your second year as quickly as you
have in your first.
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Database Power for all Amiga Users
Features include:
• Database structure to your own design, with field types
such as text, number, date etc.
• Ability to modify database structure even after using the
database.
• Powerful data entry, modification and deletion facilities.
• Full sorting and selection capabilities, plus full printing
functions including the design of reports and listings.
• Database files are compatible with the PC version of
Powerbase allowing interchange between the two
systems.
# Works with all Amiga computers including and supports ,
Kickstart 1.2 and 2.0.
Powerbase has the facilities only found in sophisticated
database systems, but is designed to be simple to use by
anyone and is at a price that makes most
other database packages look very expensive jct^s phcs
1 9502 £19 .95
★ Userfriendly menus so easy to work with.
★ Full support of Kickstart 2.0 and hard disks.
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1 9663 £ 14 , $5
Features:
** Userfriendly utility to produce your own
(hard) disk menu’s
Ideal for floppy and hard
disk users
Full support of mouse,
joystick and keyboard
Multitasking
IFF picture (background
pictures) and Amiga font
support
Big Agnus support
Built in virus protector
Comes with PD menu compiler so you can
spread your menu
Several system functions (chipmem on/off,
time) included i c,de
__ j 9362 £1795
• Simple to use, powerful user interface. Databases of all
complexity normally designed in less than 15 minutes.
A professional viruskiller that
recognises more than 138 viruses.
Features include:
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through a custom screen 3D
gadget version (KDV5).
Brainfile which is being updated
through PD channels and of
course on Newsflash so you will
always have an updated version.
Store your bootblocks on disk so
you can restore them when
bootblock is destroyed by a
boot virus (Saddam
etc etc).
Checks your memory and will
kill any live virus to avoid further spreading on healthy
disks. Any unknown bootblock will be analysed with a
’learn’ option so next time it can be identified.
*
You can't pump up a disk, but with POWERPACKER you can
compress its contents into less than two-thirds of the space otherwise
required for storage - on a floppy disc or hard drive.
POWERPACKER uses sophisticated crunching’ algorithms to reduce the sizes of tiles,
allowing and average of 40% more material to be
stored on the medium of your choice,
POWER PACKed programs load, ’auto-decrunch' and run.
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PPMORE A fully-pledged screen text reader with options for string j
search and sending an on-screen image to a graphics printer,
PPANIM Plays a crunched anim file. Tremendous savings
possible for storing and playing your animations,
PPTYPE Formats a crunched text tile to the printer, including
pagination and perforation skips.
Plus DECRUNCH, a utility that restores files to original sizes,
POWERPACKER PROFESSIONAL f) 1990 By Nico Franpois
Features:
* Make your files 70% smaller!
Crunch (compact) executable/datafiles and make your files to 70% smaller. With the help of the PPIoadseg
utility, which you can install on your (hard) disk, you now can even crunch libraries and devices.
A Extra Powerpacker utilities
PPmore » Displays packed ascii files
PPshow » Displays packed IFF pictures, PPanim » Displays packed animations
* Comes with 2 new libraries.
Powerpacker and a new requester library with even more features and better menus.
A Crunchfactor even better than version 3.0b
A Detects Data or Command files. * Special Kickstart 2.0 version Included
A Improved Menus and Colour Table A Full Arexx Support. Co
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983$
Price
£14.95
To order see
form on
Page 143'
It s no secret that the Amiga is the most i- I I
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powerful home computer of them afl.
What has remained a mystery for most
newcomers is how to make the most of
its immense potential. Now Amiga
Computing has produced a floppy disk
that is packed with everything you
need to take the hassle out of
harnessing the inbuilt
power of your Amiga.
Many months of research and testing
have resulted in a simple-to-use,
single disk replacement for Commodore s
Workbench which we re calling The
Workstation.
This indispensable collection of utilities,
including some outstanding shareware never
before assembled together on one disk,
is now available for just £3.50.
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Putting pnni to paper? The Workstation disk indudes a
superb text editor This powerful package has art
unashamedly no-frilb approach to producing and
formatting professional looking text that would be envied
by many of the more expensive commercial products.
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The Workstation has a fuffy
configured dynamic recoverable ram
£Wve which acts like an extra
Inviirtwe drive to your Amiga. It s a
«tfl improvement on the standard
flmip amt because it Is very flexible
and goes easy on memory.
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The ability to design
custom icons as standard
is virtually unique lo
computers in the Amiga's
class. The Workstation
turns your Amiga into a
comprehensive design
studio, providing a wide
range of graphic tools
that can make icon
creation child’s play.
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Price
9958
£3.50
• Artistic aspirations?
Picturesque is colourful,
so very easy to use and
ideal for ail kinds of
artwork
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9876
£4.50
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PLAY IT AGAIN WITH
PRO MIDI INTERFACE!
This attractive wedge shaped
Midi Interface incorporates MIDI-
IN, MIDI-THRU and TWO MIDI-
OUT ports. The Hat ribbon coble
plugs straight into the Amigas
serial port and uses high quality
computer standard ribbon
cable that eliminates the
possibilities of data loss
between the computer and
interface.
PRO MIDI INTERFACE can be
positioned alongside the
computer rather than behind
it so that swapping cables
from one Midi device to
another becomes a simple
task.
PRO MIDI INTERFACE comes with a disk full of public domain programs
allowing immediate use, plus a user's guide that explains Midi ana how to
connect up different devices to tbe computer. (Midi cables not included).
PRO MIDI INTERFACE is a full professional standard interface, fully
compatible with all Midi keyboards, drum machines etc.
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THE COMPLETE
COLOUR SOLUTION
Code
Price
9513
£22.95
Thanks to a breakthrough by Rombo
Productions in frame-grabbing technology, you
can now produce good colour images quickly
and cheaply with Vidi-Amiga and the VidiChrome
colour software.
• Take snapshots in 16 shades live from video
• Multiple frame store
• Dynamic cut and paste
• Full palette control
• Hardware and software control of brightness and contrast
• Compatible with all video standards
It includes full colour capabilities with additional Vidi-Chrome and also
comes with an RGB Splitter which enables the 3 primary colours to be
digitised separately without the need for a conventional filter set. And for
a limited period we are including, free of charge, the photon paint
package Deluxe Paint II
Code Price
9936 £99.95
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COMPUTING M L M L j ^ I
THE WORLDS MOST
POWERFUL FREEZER-
UTILITY CARTRIDGE
Features:
Save the entire program in memory to disk
• Super powerful trainer mode
• Improved Sprite Editor
• Virus detection
• Burst nibbler
• Save picture and music to disk
• PAL ot NTSC modes selectable
• Slow motion mode
* Many more instant CLI commands
• Restart the program
• Full status reporting
* Powerful picture editor
• Improved debugger commands
• Music sound tracker
• Autofire manager
• Joystick handler
• Diskcoder
* Set map
• Preferences
• Disk monitor
• Improved printer support
• Dos commands
• File requester
• Boot selector
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Price
9512
£ 57.95
The Trojan Amiga compatible
lightpen can be used as a
complete replacement for the
mouse in many applications.
Particularly useful in drawing and
design, the two button pen
provides the user with a very
direct method of control.
This package also includes
KWIKDRAW - a lightpen
compatible drawing program,
plus a lightpen driver that
allows the pen to be used with most programs that
run from Amiga Workbench. The lightpen is also
compatible with: DPaint III and IV, Photon Paint,
Workbench 1.2/1 .3, Battlechess, Professional Page,
Music-X and Audiomaster V2.
Easy to use, the Trojan lightpen will have you
producing designs and drawings that
are far superior to those produced
using a mouse.
Code
Price
9670
£ 34.95
Bring Your Amiga to Life!
Have you ever dreamed of making your Amiga
really work for you? Or wanted to harness to the
full its awesome hidden power?
Well now you can!
Even if you're a complete
beginner, Easy AMOS will
propel you into a fascinating
new world where you will
quickly learn how to:
• Produce impressive
graphical effects
• Create and animate colourful objects
• Scroll large text across the screen
• Make your Amiga actually talk to you
• Add exciting music to your creations
Soon you'll be turning your craziest ideas into
reality: Computer art, cartoon animations, home
finance, educational software, demos, arcade
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Amiga Game Maker's
Manual - with AMOS Basic
by Stephen Hill
Stephen is the author of Sigma's best-selling The Game
Maker's Manual for the Atari ST - and he's the author of the
new AMOS (Amiga Operating System) Manual, so nobody
is better placed to write this book.
The creator of AMOS, Francois Lionette, has produced the
most powerful games programming system. With it, Amiga
games equivalent to such best sellers as Xenon 2 and Blood
Money can be produced - it’s so straightforward that many
people will buy an Amiga simply to run AMOS Basic.
Amiga Game
Maker's Manual -
with AMOS Basic
Code
Price
9504
£2995
The contents include: Game
planning - graphic design, mock-
ups and sprites; Shoot-'em-ups -
high speed AMOS sprites, fire
control, collision detection,
background animation;
Simulations - from simple 3D
movement to flight simulators;
Role playing - characters,
scenarios and magic; Adventure
games - plans, rooms and
commands; Animation, scrolling,
sound and 3D; Links to
assembler. Numerous tested,
working programs illustrate
the book.
AMIGA
COMPUTING
READER
Amiga Computing Magazine Binder & Dust Cover
Using a system of strengthened steel rods, this handsome binder, embossed
with the Amiga Computing logo, will hold 12 issues of your favourite magazine
securely in place. Made from rugged PVC, bound with strong cotton and sporting the
Amiga Computing logo, the Dust Cover
is perfect for protecting your computer. Magazine Binder £5.95 9509
Dust Cover £4.95 9507
Amiga Computing Mouse & Mouse Mats
Elegant high quality mouse from Gasteiner. Designed to use with any mouse driven
application. Also, our mouse mat with the Amiga Computing logo is the perfect
desktop environment for your mouse, with its specially designed perfect grip surfaces.
Mouse Mat
Mouse
£4.95 9508
£19.95 9988
Spell!
This unique package makes practising spelling loads of fun. Suitable for children from
5-15, SPELL! allows the user to learn at his or her own pace. It includes five different
tests, each making use of more than 5,000 words - so much variety that you'll never
get bored.
£8.95 3614
Re-Ink Spray
Save up to 90% on ribbon costs and help the environment with this simple cost
effective answer to exhausted printer ribbons! Open up your ribbon cartridge, spray
with Re-!nk and you have a ribbon which is as good as new, and give a cleaner
blacker print with no blotches. Works for all fabric ribbons.
£12.95 9998
Amiga Computing Back Issues
April 1992 + 3. Sin disc
£3.10
9746
May 1992 + 3,5in disc
£3.10
9747
June 1992 + 3.5in disc
£3.10
3748
Back issues from other months are available - phone for details
| Add £2 Europe/Eire, £3.50 Overseas (or postage per issue
Amiga Computing Back Issue Bundle
January 1992-June 1992 + 3.5in disc
Add £6 Europe/Eire, £12 Overseas towards postage
£18.00
9893
SPARE DISCS
5 Assorted Amiga Computing cover discs
£7.50
9887
25 Assorted Amiga Computing cover discs
£20.00
9888
Huge Professional
A complete program for producing icons, sprites, brushes and bobs. With Icon editor,
simple user interface, advanced drawing capabilities, font support and bitmap editor
why use several utilities if one program can do it all, Supported formats: Image (C &
ASM), and Icons (Workbench). Also features advanced zoom concept, featuring
custom magnification trailer zoom and co-ordinates display.
t-1 / Q8H5
Amiga Made Easy
Make the most of your Amiga and use it to its full potential. This book explains exactly
how to use the Amiga effectively - even for newcomers with no previous experience.
Existing owners will also benefit as a comprehensive guide to more advanced
applications is included.
£12.95 9871
Amigados: A Dabhand Guide
A comprehensive guide to the Amiga's Disc Operating System, this book takes a new
approach to understanding and using the Amiga and contains a wealth of practical
hands-on advice, hints and tips.
£14.95 9866
Amos The Creator
AMOS is the definitive programming language for everyone wanting to make the most of their
Amiga, It is an extremely easy to learn and use package featuring literally hundreds of special
commands to directly control the Amiga's legendary graphics and sound capability.
AMOS The Creator
AMOS The Compiler
£34.99 9834 AMOS 3D £24.95 9836
£19.99 9835 Bundle of all 3 products £74.99 9837
Stereo Master
Stereo Master is the latest full feature STEREO sound sampler for the Amiga. It
contains DUAL analogue to digital convertors, ensuring the ultimate in 8-bit sample
quality. The system can record in high quality stereo from its twin phono input sockets,
sampling anything from a portable CD player to live radio.
£34.95 9814
Auto Mouse/Joystick Switch
Now you can instantly select either your mouse or joystick by simply a touch. You
won't need to fumble under or behind your computer to swap your mouse and joystick
cables ever again. It's easy to install and ideal fcr 2 player games.
£17.95 9882
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COMPUTING
ORDER
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Products are normally despatched within 48 hours of receipt
but delivery of certain items could take up to 28 days
By phone: 051 -357 1 275
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rivia
Seventeen Bit software, well known for their predilec-
tion for demo disks and the crushing weight of their
entire nigh-on 2,000 disk collection (last weighed in at
2.5 tons, give or take a scrolly demo), may soon be
taking the revolutionary step of removing a disk from
their collection.
The reason for this is that its inclusion in their library
could result in a short stay at Her Majesty's conve-
nience. LSD is an Amiga user group concentrating,
among other things, on cracking, which is just another
name for software theft. They circulate a disk-based
magazine called Grapevine.
Issue 9, which was released as 17-Bit disk 1,800-
odd, contained a complete set of instructions on how
to crack the copy protection of a popular, if ageing,
commercial game, by way of a general tutorial for
novice crackers*
An LSD "editorial" made a lame and hypocritical
attempt at warning potential pupils of the legal impli-
cations of cracking, but went ahead with the instruc-
tions anyway*
When asked if they were aware of this fact, 17-Bit,
whose screening process - assum ng that one exists -
seems to be about as effective as an MI6 security
check, said they would "remove the text file in ques-
tion" or, if this proved impossible, remove the disk
from the collection.
Rest assured well be keeping tabs on them*
A300 goes
underground
Pundits who read the Amiga Computing news pieces
on the A300 a few months back and credited us with
nothing more than sensationalism will be interested to
find out that the machine has in fact been available
here for over a month.
When we opened the casing on the A600 sent to us
for review, the motherboard was stamped "A3G0 rev
1.1". Even the power supply casing bore the stamp of
the A5G0 J s smaller brother, indicating that
Commodore changed their minds very late on in the
day.
Look out for the following new releases — the Amiga
2300, the CD-ROM A670, and the high end A3500.
Into the valley
of death...
... rode the A6GQ? Continuing industry head-
scratching about Commodore's intentions for the
A60G, why they released it at the same price as the
A500, why ft hasn't got a numeric keypad, and just
"why?" in general, recently had a first chance at
some sort of clarification when the machine finally
went on sale to the unwashed masses (you and
me).
The Amiga show held at Wembley was the
machine's unofficial UK debut, though it had been
selling mail order for about a month previously,
and many a Commodore rep was to be seen hover-
ing anxiously around the stand on which the A60Q
was being prominently displayed.
Sweaty armpits and ravaged fingernails were
much in evidence as the suits awaited punters'
verdicts*
Here is a selection of the comments we over-
heard:
* "What is itr
* "Where's the hard drive, then?"
* (Upon being asked why he'd just bought an
A600) "Stands to reason. 600's a hundred more
than 500, but it costs the same."
We understand manicurists and chemists based
in the area of Commodore's Maidenhead HQ are
expecting a busy time.
Let's face it , there's useful jargon (more usually
acronyms for clumsy phrases such as Random
Access Memory - RAM ), but there's also a lot of
totally meaningless tripe , such as CDTV
(Commodore Dynamic Total Vision , whatever that's
supposed to actually mean ), DTMS (Desktop Music
System), and the hilarious ZIP (Zig-Zag Inline
Packet, a type of RAM chip).
Much of the latest jargon has been dreamt up by
marketing suit-fillers and the rest seems to be
applied by elitists who're scared that joe Public will
begin to understand what they're talking about and
realise it's just a had of old cobblers.
Competition results
The answers to the March Multimedia competition ques-
tions are, of course, B-B-C. The winner, who picks up a
copy of the excellent Scala presentation package is
Howard Maryon-Davis of Fulham.
Runners up were M J Skelton of St Leonard's on Sea
and John R Kitcher of North Tawton, both of whom will
receive a copy of Scala 500. Well done to all three lucky
winners.
ADVERTISERS' INDEX
17 Bit Software 104
3 Amigos 120
ACS . 112
Advance Electronics 112
Amiganuts United 132
Applied Research Kernel 103
Audition Computers 10
Barkman 126
Batlleaxe PD 107
Best Prices 116, 117
Bitcon Devices 136
Blit 136
Checkmate 45
Compulink 128
Computech Services.... ...115
Computermates 62
Computer-Tuta 132
Contax Computers 134
Cooleen Computers 64
Cottage Industries 120
Delta Pi SW 103
Dial a Disk 130
Direct Computer Supplies 115
Dynamite Computers 16, 1 7
E. M.C 134
Europress Direct 140-143
Europress Software 134
Evesham Micros 48, 49
F. C.C 47
Ferguson-Smith 66
Firecrest 128
First Choice Computers 55-57
Futureworld Computers 146, IBC
Gasteiner 58
George Thompson Services 132
GHS Technology 99
GJS 128
Gordon Harwood 6, 31-37
Ground Zero PD 115
Hawkwell Electronics 128
Hi-Soft 9
Hobbyte 26, 27
Intracom Applications 64
K2 Software 126
Ladbroke Computing 100
LCL 120
Manor Court Supplies.........™. 130
Marcam 28
Microdeal 20
Microdrive 65
MJC Supplies... 42
NBPDL 136
New Image Videos 102
Omega Projects 121
Orion PD 103
Pathfinder PD 120
PD Direct 124
Power Computing 12, 13
Rombo OBC
Safelight 132
Saxon Publishing 15
School Software 112
Silica Systems 23, 25, 41 , 61
Soft-Logik _ IFC
Solid State 3
Star Associate Computers 115
Strictly PD 108
Switchsoft ....... 128
Syntronix 102
Thuderhead 102
TK Computers 126
Trilogic 110, 111
Ultimate Computers 102
TK Computers 126
Trilogic 110, 111
Ultimate Computers 102
Core Design OBC
DMI 11
Eagle Software 27
Entertainment International 17, IBC
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• Panasonic KX-P1123, 24 pin mono
printer for sale, including cable, £150-2
months old, mint condition, boxed with
manuals, selling to upgrade to colour,
George, 0908 370582
• Amiga 500, Imb Expansion, £250
boxed software, £220 ono, Tel 041 647
4872, Glasgow Area
• Wanted Athletics/Runners Cup Art , 3
Sandringham Road, Parkstone, Poole,
BH14 8TH 0202 740684
• Mega disk 1, Two disk magazine
packed with reviews, games, news, music
and twenty utilities - Send £2.50 to: R
Wild, 8 Cranleigh Place, Whitley Bay,
NE25 9UD
• I will Swap or buy software for Miracom
Miracle Modem. Call John on 0772
431834
• Unused Deluxe Paint 3 £15. Phone
0482 822770, Ask for Paul
• Help wanted with Commodore Mps
1550c, colour printer preferences, Tel
0305 778273
• For Sale, 4 mb Supra Ram 500RX £180
ono, Tel Coventry, 444991 Buyer Must
Collect
• Want friends to swap PD disks. Mrs
Metcalfe, 18 Northumberland Avenue,
Scampton, Lincoln, LN1 2UQ
• PD swappers wanted, Send lists, tel no.
to: Ardaven, Westra, Dinas, Powys,
Cardiff, CF6 4HA
• Members for new Amiga Croup wanted
(coders, GFX + musicians) please send
example of your work 31 1 803 16337
• B2000 with 2 drives, 10845 monitor,
Action replay 2: £600, games available.
York 0904 624637
• Xetec Fasttrak SC51 Interface £35.
Commodore A2092 disk interface £30.
Ideal for A1 500. 081 449 0036
• Amiga 500+, Ram expansion, external
drive, modulator, £250, CPL Moffat, QM
Dept, BMH Hannover, BRP0 33
• Star LC10 colour printer excellent con-
dition with ribbons £99 Tel Peterborough
0733 391 353
• Amiga PD sell or swap. SAE Peter, 65
Meadowside, Lingfield, Surrey, RH7 6BY
• Group needs members, swappers Tel
0925 39676. 29 Cranborne Avenue,
Lower Walton, Warrington, Cheshire,
WA4 6DE
• Wanted Amiga Tutor, D Paint Videos,
also Amiga games for sale. Tel 0274
488198
• Amiga PD to swap. Over 1 75 titles in
my collection. Phone Dave on 0483
572021
• Wanted "Art" of Chess, contact G H
Johnson, 091 548 1379
• Amiga Action replay MKIII, Never used.
One month old. A500+ compat £40.
Phone 0403 562709 Evenings
• A500 Search contacts all over the world
Niesen - 202, Rue De Gaulle - 6180
Courcelle, Belgium
• Wanted Amiga tutor and DPaint videos
D Platts, 69 White Hall Road, Norwich,
0603 61 7095
• Sam Coupe, disk drive, Datacorder, joy-
stick, games, boxed as new £150. Phone
Shrewsbury 0743 365184
• Wanted TV tuner for Phillips 8833 MKII
monitor. Call Richard on (Evenings) 081
451 4885
• Amiga 500. 1 meg upgrade, monitor,
lots of games, £950 ono. Amiga moni-
tor, £550 ono
• Got Amiga PD/Shareware? Send to PD,
7 Wakening Avenue, Shoebury, SS3 9BE +
best gets free Yamaha keyboard
• Mega Disk mag £1.50 or SAE for info,
PB Stanley, 1 02 Kesteven, Stamford, Lines,
PE9 1 SS
• Cheat disk packed with cheats solu-
tions, send blank disc with £5, SAE for
1 00% reply
• Contacts wanted all over the world.
Write to Rob, 64 Hurrell Close, Southway,
Plymouth, PL6 6NE
• For sale: Case 4624 modem 2400 baud MNP
5. Mint,only£60. Phone 0734 694824 (Alex)
• X-copy Pro/Cyclone hardware + soft-
ware copier. Backs-up ANYTHING £30.
Tel Steve 0227 462674 after 4 pm
• Bridgeboard at 2256 for Amiga 2000
5" + 3" floppy + dos, manuals £390. Phil
Tearne 0865 842149/777799
• Micro-Bottics 8 up Ram expansion,
(Populated to 4 Megs) £160 ono. Tel
Paul 0707 270988
• Mac 2 disk copier hardware/software
by Ashcom. Unwanted gift £22 Post Paid.
Tel 0738 828991
• Write to: Gregory Laskawski,
Warszawska 159/149. 25-547 Kielce,
Poland, to establish PD and Shareware
Library
• 2 Meg chips for Amiga A590 hard drive
- £45. Ring York, 0904 421 968, evenings
• Amiga PD required, please contact,
Martyn Thompson, 42 Harbord Crescent,
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 3EG
• Colour ink jet printer, new 300 * 300
DPI, with Amiga driver. Only £200. Call
Howard after 6 pm on 0529 240082
• Wanted, the Games Rings of Medusa,
released mid-1 990. Tel Dave Strange on
0865 58531
• T.B.A.G 1-60 inc. £32. Fish 521-620
inc. £60 will split. Tel 0543 462908
• PD Swaps, send lists and SAE, David
Milicevic, 1 Falstaff Court, Kennington,
London, SE1 1 4RP
• All Amos programmers, Contact: Ape, 7
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Majestic Road, Hatch Warren,
Basingstoke, Hants, RG22 4XD
• Amiga contacts wanted in
Helston/Falmouth area, Call John, 77
Albion Road, Helston, Cornwall, TR1 3 8JL
• Contacts wanted for assembly language
coding. Robert Dabell, 7 Manor Road,
Barlestone, Warks, CV1 3 0HY
• Amiga contacts wanted 100% reply.
Chris, 28 Spring Close, Fair Oak, Eastleigh,
Hants, SOS 7BB# Atari 520 STFM for sale,
around 170 Prgs. Plus much more sell
£370, 0384 73660
• Wanted Amiga contacts. Send info etc,
to Matthew West, 86 Gordon Avenue,
Portswood, Southampton, S02 1BZ
• For sale, Digiview III £65. Deluxe Paint
III £25. Deluxe Photolab £20. Boxed, Phil
Tearne 0865 842149/777799
• Star LC1 0 colour printer, boxed as new,
including Workbench Driver £125, Phone
0933 623463 Evenings
• A500, dual drive, Atonce emulator, 52
mb GVP, much PD pre-configured £750,
James 0730 6414
• A1500 Supraram 2 mb fitted, never
used. £130, new colour HP paint set
£449, 0734 426522
• Stafford area - Programmer seeks per-
sons into coding, graphics or music.
Contact Matt 0902 225052
• Sega games for sale, Amiga games for
sale, or swap. Call Martin at work 071
353 5272 Ext 270
• A500 Cartoon Classics pack. Originally
cost £369, will accept £250, Tel Bristol
0272 590438 Evenings
• Cl 28 computer, disk drive, star NX
1000C and Okimate colour printer and
mouse. £200,0638 711563
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LIGA 600 PACK ★ Exclusive to Futureworld ★
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* IDE Hard Disk Controller
(Optional 20Mb Internal Hard Disk)
Very latest Amiga featuring: A600 Pack
A600 (incl Deluxe Point III)
A600 HD Pack: As above but featuring
TOTAL RRP = £779.72
RRP £399.99
Astra Ten Games Pack RRP £229,78
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Complete with Bart Simpson • Captain Planet • Lermv.ngs ■ D Paint III
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ASTRA TEN GAMES PACK
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Powerptay * RVF Honda ■ Shuftlepack Cafe ■ Soccer ■ Tower ot Babel
(NB All games individually packaged)
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2 FIGHTER MICROSWITCH JOYSTICKS
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QUALITY MOUSEPAD
TAILOR MADE DUSTCOVER
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51 2K RAM EXPANSION WITHOUT CLOCK £1 9.95 WITH CLOCK £24.95
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1 MEG EXPANSION (Gives your A500 plus a massive 2MB) £39.95
1 MEG EXPANSION WITH THRU-PORT £49.95
NEW 8 MEG RAM BOARDS FROM POWER Complete with Thru-Port Populated board
with OMeg RAM £99 • 2 Meg RAM £129 • 4 Meg RAM £189.95 • 8 Meg RAM £299.95
DIRECT A500 REPLACEMENT DRIVE with instructions £44.95
POWER PC880E Robust slim drive with anti-dick £49.95
CUMANA CAX 354 SLIMLINE DRIVE £54.95
POWER PC 880B with Blilz/Virus hardware £69.95
POWER PC880B+ X-COPY PROFESSIONAL £99.95
S DUAL POWER PC880B complete with Power supply £1 24.95
GVP 52 MEG HARD DRIVE WITH RAM EXPANDABLE TO 8MB
0 Meg RAM £379.95*2 Meg RAM £429.95*4 Meg RAM £499.95*8 Meg RAM £679.951
GVP 105 MEG HARD DRIVE WITH RAM EXPANDABLE TO 8MB
0 Meg RAM £579.95*2 Meg RAM £629.95*4 Meg RAM £729.95*8 Meg RAM £899.951
POWER SCANNER WITH VERSION 2.0 SOFTWARE £99.95
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Real Time Digital Effects
MEGAMIX master is a low cost, high specification digital effects cartridge that plugs into your printer port* It will allow you to sample or record stereo
sound from almost any musical source. Special effects such as echo can be added in real time, perfect for the up and coming Karaoke singer who wants
to get that live sound through his Hi-Fi. You will find that MEGAMIX masters performance and ease of use is unmatched by any rival. Just plug it in and go ... .
CUT-Remove samples between
pointers and stores it in the cut
buffer.
COPY*Copies sample between
pointers into the cut buffer.
INSERT-Inserts the contents of
the cut buffer into the
soundwave.
SPLICE-Removes the sample
between pointers, stores it In the
cut buffer then slides the rest of
the soundwave together.
C HOP-Removes all of the
soundwave except for the sample
between pointers.
DELETE- Erases the sample
between pointers.
MlX-Mixes the contents of the
cut buffer with the soundwave.
ECHO-Adds user definable echo
between pointers.
IN-Makes Sample between pointers
start quietly and build up to full
volume.
OUT-OfFers the opposite effect to
IN.
PHASER-Adds phase shift to your
sample.
LOUDER-Adds volume,
QUIETER*Decreases volume.
SEEK 0-Finds zero points nearest
pointers, used in looping.
FILTER-Removes hiss or high
frequency noise from your sample.
PACK-Removes every 2nd sample
between pointers.
FLIP-Reverses the sample
between pointers.
PLAY CUT-Replays the contents
of the cut buffer
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ECHO-Adds echo to and
incoming sound in Real Time.
DIRECT-Plays incoming sound
direct through Amiga.
SYNTH-Adds user definable
distortion to sound in Real Time,
PHASER-Apphes variable phase
shift again fn Real Time,
STEREO ECHO-Adds digital
delay between L & R speakers.
VIBRATO-Rapidly varies
frequency of sound.
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Other features include , , ,
* Fully multi-tasking
* 3D animated Icons.
+ UNDO function,
* Compatible with workbench 2.0.
* Runs perfectly on the new A500P.
* Mono sampling up to S2KHz.
* Stereo sampling up to 26KHz,
M or 8 bit sampling.
* Thru-port for printer or Vidi
digitiser.
* Stereo 3,5mm jack plug and lead,
LOAD IFF — Load a single IFF
sound sample
SAVE IFF-Saves your sample
between pointers as an IFF file,
LOAD SONG-Load a song
sequence
SAVE SONG-Save a song
sequence,
LOAD MIDI-Load a midi
sequence.
SAVE MIDI-Save a midi
sequence.
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