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COMPUTING 

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If your in the market for a 
hand scanner then forget the 
rest and get Powerscan" 

Amiga Format July 1992 

Power Scanner v3.0 



100-400 DPI scanning resolutions 
64 greyscales 
Thru'port for printer 
Award winning editing, image manipu- 
lation & scanning software 


Power Scanner v3.0 

Power Scanner Colour .... 


£115 

£239 


Epson GT-6QOO 



600 DPI Colour flatbed scanner 
24- bit colour 
A4 reading area 
Software included 


Epson GT-6QQ0 . 


£799 

. .iiiiij ■ i mini ^ 


Epson GT-8QOO 

BOO DPI colour flatbed scanner 
24-bit colour 
A4 reading area 
1 Software included 
1 Amazing scan quality 


Epson GT-80QQ 


Floppy Drives 

"This drive contains more gad- 
gets than Batman's utility belt" 

Amiga Computing Feb 1992 


£1199 


e Amiga can only display IS (fflyiCfilEK 


FC8SOB Power Drive 



Award winning drive manufactured by 
Power Computing 

■ Super slim design 

■ Anti-click (Cures that annoying click! 
-Virus blocker (Prevents viruses) 

■ Built-in backup hardware 


PCG80B with Blitz Amiga £60 

PC&8QB with Blitz Si XCopy £75 

PC880B (Cyclone compatible)* ... £65 

PC880B in black case £65 

■THIt tiffin is only Av^iiadis to restored owners XCopv 
PmftBfcmil V'Q j rr usl prouidE prool & p-drcha^B or XCopv 
PraFBS-Eiiw9il 


Power Drives 

PCBSOE Economy drive »»JF 49.95 

PC 881 AMD Internal drive ...£40,00 

PC882 A2D00 Internal drive £45. 00 


Dual Drive 

Two high quality disk drives built into 

one compact unit 

Same features as PC88DB 


Dual drive 


... £1 25 


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Backup disks at lightning speeds 
Stops all external drives from clicking 
Contains anti-virus from being written 
into the bootblocker 


Blitz Amiga «... 

1.44MB 


£20 

a I I I FRIB11 8 '#* *“ t ~ F 

Drive 


1,44MB disk drive 

High density floppy disk drive 


RAM Expansions 


A600 Memory Cards 



1 MB RAM with clock .... 

1 MB RAM without clock 


£39 95 
..£34 95 


PC 5 0 1 +■ RAM Card 

Our RAM board is designed especially 
for the A500+ computer and comes w th 
1 MB of RAM on board to expand your 
memory to 2MB of chip RAM. Plug-in aid 
go operation (Fits into the trapdoor) 


PC501+ RAM card 


£35 95 


3MB for any A500 

Plugs into side slot, fully auto confi 3 ' * 
thru'port. Expand 2MB-BMB 


2MB £109 4MB £169 8 MB £? 8 | 

1 X4ZIP Chips £14.951 


2MB for any ASOO 

Economy 2MB RAM externally cased 
18-Chip (1x1 DIP) 

Ne thru port 


2MB RAM 


£7* 


1.5MB RAM Board 

Fully supports 1MB of chip RAM 
Fully compatible with Fatter Agnus 


IKscksiarr l .3 and ibflve, -not comp8(IM» with A500 ■ 1 
I Your Ann^a. fiefids to be Spai&d, tfiis may triestym* w-- 


1 , 6 MB RAM board 


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1MB with Thru'port 

■ Expand your ASOQ's memory up to a 
total of 2 MB without disposing of you' 
existing 51 2K upgrade 

■ Works with 1MB of Chip RAM 

IQ12K RAM must b* A ch*(i or rrol-exCHEiingflcni :n it*-- rMi] 

lYftir AfnigH iltfdtstobBi apyried. this may #lf ect youF Wirr 


Upgrade Offers 

you consider your scanner system to 
e inferior to the Power Scanner, we will 
appily upgrade your software and inter- 
ice. (Power Scanner is compatible with 
lost scanning heads) 

3.0 Upgrade (inc, interface) £49.95 

3.0 Software upgrade for PowerScanner 
sers (send SAE) .—£ 1 5 


1,44MB Power Drive £PO A ’MB with thru port ....... 


.£*! 


PCMCIA Memory 


Ultra slim memory cards 
1 MB & 2 MB 
For A600/A 1200 


ASOO RAM Card 

512KRAM expansion with clock & free 
software (A500+ compatible) 


1MB Memory card 

2MB Memory card 


£POA 

£POA 


512KRAM (4 chip) 

51 2K RAM without clock 

512K RAM (16 chip) with clock 

51 2K RAM 1 16 chip) without clock 


Power Computing, Franco, 15 Sid V. 


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Power Computing Ltd ■ Tel 0234 843388 


Auto ROM Sharer 



■ Kick-off rs the I ate si Amiga add-on from 
Power 

■ One of the most advanced kickstart 
ROM sharers available 

* A ciever design on a small reliable 
board 

•Fits A 500 , A500+, Al 5Q0 

* Kickstart ROM can be selected from the 
keyboard 

* No messing about with switches 

* No XI A adaptor' or other trailing wires 

* Jumper to select which ROM boots on 
switches 

* Compatible with old Amiga board 
revisions 

■ Simple internal fitting* 

' t ck-aft requires the lid tn be rerrnvEd from ihe Amiga 
1' ,i fftiy inti fi data your WATraruy. 

ROM Share ,. , £17.95 

ROM Share inc, kickstart v2. 04 £55 

ROM Share inc. kickstart vl.3 ....£39 

ROM Share for A600 ,,..,.,.£29 

Kickstart v2.04 

2.04 Kickstart (chip only} £3995 

2 04 Kickstart ROM, workbench software, 
install disk 2.04. font disk Si extras £79. 95 
2.04 kit with ROM sharer ,£99 


A5QO Hard Drives 


G VP A530 Turbo HD 



■ 4QM Hz 68030EC accelerator 

• Optional 63SS2 maths co-processor 

• Up to 3MB 32-bit FASTRAM on-beard 

• Award winning 

42Q MB HO 0MB RAM .£549 


8QQM8 HO 0MB RAM .£649 

240MB HD 0MB RAM £1054 


68802 Upgrade kit £224 

G VP Series 2 HD 

■ Up to 8MB FASTRAM on board 

4DOM0 0MB £329 fiOQMB 0MB £399 

40QMB 2 MB £379 BOO MB 2MB ..,,£449 

40QMB4MB £440 8DQMB4MB £499 

400 MB BMB £509 BOO MB SMB £549 

ICD Novia Internal HD 

■ Fits inside your Amiga 500 

* Comes complete, just plug-in and go 


The Power BBS 

■ Free technical and buying advice 

* Thousands of free files available for 
download 

■ Great discounts on all Power products 

• On-line ordering to ensure speed of 
delivery 

■ Conferencing with top computer 
magazines 

■ Regular bulletins with latest product 
information 

The Power House BBS 

0234 8 4 1 5 0 3 

24 hours 

All speeds Up to 1G.8K 


Commodore CDTV 



■ CDTV player 
•Welcome disk + caddy 
■Keyboard 

-Floppy diskdrive (black! 

■Wired mouse 

■ Workbench 1.3 and manuals 

■ Infrared remote control 

CDTV multi-media pack .,,,,,£599 

A570 CD-ROM drive for A 500 £349 


Video Backup System 

• Use VCR as a backup storage device 

• Biank video tape is all that is required 

• 200 Amiga floppy disks wilf fit on a 4 
hour tape 

• Can be used for hard disk backup 

• There is room for 175MB of data 

■ Backup an Amiga diskette in 1 minute 

• Restore even to an unformatted disk 

■ Hard disk backup, software allows you 
to specify which files and directories to 
be stored 

■ low cost storage, 2 pence per M B 

• Menu driven software 

• Allows you to watch TV on a 1084s 
monitor 

■ Very high reliability 

• Log files, contain title and counter 
position of every backup 

• .idea connection check, ensures fool 
proof operation 

■ Effective error- correction scheme 

■ Easy to understand manual 

Video Backup System ..£59,95 


Mo via 401 40MB HO £279 

Movie 801 flOMB HD £349 

ICD Flicker Fixer 


Flicker Free Video 2 

■ Stop that annoying flicker 

■ Fits internally in the A5O0 

■ Multi-sync monitor required 

Flicker Free Video 2 £ 199 

NEC4FG Multi-sync monitor ,,,,,,£549 


Chips 

4MB xBSlMM £90 

1MB x 8SIMM £25 

256K x 4DRAM ... £4.00 

1MB x ID RAM £3,95 

1x4 ZIP £14.95 

U4 DIP ...£19.95 

A3QO0 Static column RAM 19i95 

SIMM 32 x 1MB-6D ,£65 


SIM 32 x 4MB-60 £243 

(These Chips Cflrtir musl. m«mnry hard drives i. B. 
GVP, Supra. Cmfimgdaref 


CDTV Software 


A Bun for Barney*. £29.99 

Barney Bear goes camping £29.99 


Battlechess 

Case of the Cautious Condor 
CD Remix v2 


£39.99 

£34.99 

,£34.99 


Fred Fish CDPD Collection ,,,,£19.95 

Fun School 3 (under 5's) ....,.£24.99 

Fun School (5-7yrs) £24.99 

Fun School (Over 7yrs) £24,99 

Guiness CDTV Disc of Records £34,99 


Illustrated Holy Bible £29 99 

Music Maker £34.99 

NASA Heroic Age of Space £19.99 

Power Pinball £29.99 


Sim City £29,99 

Trivial Pursuit £49-99 


World Vista Atlas £54.99 

Xenon 2 Megablast £29.99 

More titles available 



Award Winning Manufacturers 


Power pro duels Gont tv M h 
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The Power Mouse is my pick of 
the month' GU Amiga 

PCaaoi "We!! worth spending 
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excellent buy 11 A/niga Computing 

Dual Drive Now this is a bit 
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Power Scanner 

Amiga Shopper Bast Buy 

Po war Scanner 

Amiga Formal Gold 

Power Scan is quite simply the 
best Amiga bend scanner avail- 
able' Am iqe Formal 


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Award winning innovative products from Power Computing Ltd 




A2QOO Hard Cards 

G VP Series 2 HD 

• Up tD 8Mb SlM M RAM on-board 

* Supports external SCSI devices 
■14MHz SCSI controller 

Bare £129 

40QMB 0MB £249 80QMB 0MB £349 
40QMB 2MB £2 9 9 80QMB 2MB £399 
40QMB4MB £349 80QMB4MB £449 
40QMB8MB £429 80QMB8MB .£539 

Nexus Hard Card 



■ Up to SMB RAM on-board 

Bare ..£129 

4OQMB0MB £249 80QMB 0MB £349 
40QMB2MB £299 80 QMB 2MB £399 
40QMB 4MB f 349 80 QMB 4MB £449 
40QMBBVB £429 80QMB 8MB £539 

Bare SCSI Hard Drive 

40 Quantum ,,£179 80 Quantum .,£229 

t Suitable for GVP G -Force, GVF HO or Nexus HO) 

Other sties of HD available, please call 

RAM Expansion 

■ Aries A 1500 / A2QOO RAM 


2MB 

4MB 


.,£129 6MB 
..£169 SMB 


£209 

£249 


Macintosh Emulator 

“This realty is the best emula- 
tor we've seen tor the Amiga. It 
behaves just as if you really 
were using a Mac " 

Amiga Format Sept 1992 


Q 


AIVtax-ll Plus 

Amiga 1500 and above 
Huns Mac software 
Runs System 7 
Full support for all SCSI Mac 
peripherals and the ability to read Mac 
disks in your drives 
6B02(V68030 compatible 
AppleTalk emulation 
Can use Amiga ECS 
Easy to install 



24-Bit Colour 

Opal Visio n 
■24- bit graphic card 

■ 16.8 million colours available 

■ Operates m all standard Amiga 

resolutions 

■VLSI Microcode graphics co-processor 

■ Double buffered 24-bit and 15 bit 
animation is available in all resolutions 

■ 'Pa latte- mapped 1 design updates screen 
colours in real-time. Fade pictures in and 
out and change their palettes 

■Equipped with 1.5MB of display RAM 

• Auto-config lor NTSC or PAL 
•Available for all Amigas 

Software included 

Opa I Pa lot 

■ 24-bit painting and image processing 

Opal Pres Otlt$ 

•Presentation program 

• Control QpalVision images, Amiga 
graphics and live video 

• Includes fades, effects etc. 

■ Many more features 

King of Karate 

■ 24- bit computer game 

■ Exciting karate competition 

■ Demonstrates OpalVision capabilities 

OpalVision ....£699 

More information available 

OpalVision roaster chip available soon 

Monitors 

“For a monitor of this quality, 
the CM8833 is worth every 
penny" 

Amiga Format Sept 1992 

"The 4FG is an absolutely 
smashing monitor that beats 
every competitor" 

Amiga Format Sept 1992 

Philips C M 8833 Mk2 

■With cable 

• Available with Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 

■ Qn-site maintenance 


AM ax- 1 1 Plus 

iMhc RDM chips required! 


£229 


CM8B33 Mk2 

NEC Multisync 

•For use with Flicker Fixers 
•Very high quality 

■ Built-in degausser 

■ 15 J ' Screen 

NEC Multisync 4FQ 


y 

..£199 



Optical Hard Drive 



■ Manufactured by Power Computing 

■ 128MB on one optical disk 

• Read and write optical disks 
■40ms running speed 

■ Built-in power supply 

■ High power cooling fan 
•25-way and 50-way SCSI ports 
•Thru port built-in 

•SCSI ID switch 

• Compatible with major SCSI controllers 

128MB optical drive (Internal) ..£729 

128MB optical drive (External) £995 

128MB 3.5’ optical disk £39.95 ea 

SCSI controller card 

for A15OO/A2OO0 £129 

(Compatible with Amiga, PC, and Mac. A SCS 
controller is required on the Amiga and PC' 


Floptical Disk Dri 




£549 


" Stores 20MB on one 3 JT disk 

• Cost effective mass storage unit 

■ Can be used as a 1,44MB floppy with 
Amiga DOS and AMAX 

■ A MAX compatible with QMI Mac driver 

• Packs an entire bock-up onto one flopo jj 

■ Additional disks available 
■Internal version for At 500/2000/3000 
•External version for A5DQ 

•SCSI Interface required 

Internal A2O0D kit £289 

Internal A3Q00 kit £289 

External A50Q kit ,..„ H1 ,£38? 

A1500 

Accelerator 

GVP Q-Force 

■ 68030 accelerator board 

■ 68382 Maths co-processor 

■ DMA SCSI control lei on-board 

• 88000 fall-back mode 

■ Only' CPU slot is used 

■ Internal and external SCSI connector 

■ Converts to hard card with Hard Drive 
mount kit 

■ 32- bit RAM as standard 

25MHz 1MB RAM £52*' 

40MHz4MB RAM €7' 

50MHz 4MB RAM £12' 

Hard drive mount kit 


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All printers include cables 
end next day delivery 

Star Printers 

LC20Q colour £199 

LC24-2D0 mono £239 

LC24-20D colour ....£289 


Citizen Printer 

Swift 24e £279 

(includes colour kit and AMI} 

Epson Printers 


EPL-4Q0Q 
EPL-4300 
E PL- 81 00 


Laser 


SQ-870 

SQ- 1170 

'22 column printer! 

Dot 

LO-570 

LQ-1Q70 

132 column printer! 


Inkjet 


£63< 

... £79< 
£1345 


£50! 

£62! 


a t ri 


£28 

...,£44 



LXUM £189 


Supra Fax Modem Plus ,....£129 

Supra Fax Modem v32Bis .,.£275 

Supra Modem 2400 1 External) .£75 

Supra Modem 2400 Zl plus I Internal) .£134 

Supra 0600 ,..£2tO 


IVl iscellaneous 


p ower Mouse , £15 

Optical Mouse £29.95 

Replacement optical mouse mat ,.£9 .95 
tt) Maxell disks, optical mouse, 

u psti c k . iif.i.i , . ...... ...£45 

Maxell multi-colour disks |10| £9.95 

Floppy disks bulk £POA 

Aviator 1 joystick £35 

Intruder 1 joystick .,...£29,99 

Maverick 1 joystick ..£15.99 

Python I joystick £9,99 

Apache 1 joystick £7,99 



Colour PowerScan 


The Power Computing colour hand-held 
scanner for the Amiga is- now available, 
This scanner offers the following features 

■ 4096 colours 

■ 50-400 DPI 

*4 Scanning modes 

• Test 

• Greyscale 

■ Colour halftone 
■Colour 

The Amiga interface plugs into an 
A1 5CMUA200Q/ , A3DD(]/ A4Q00 expansion slot 
with a separate version which connects 
to the expansion connector of the 
A5Q0/A50Q+. The A50Q version has a 
through- port which is compatible with all 
Amiga 500 expansion peripherals, 

The software supplied with this scanner 
is the new PowerScan Professional 3, 
which also supports the greyscale scan- 
ner and will be available as an upgrade 
to existing users of PowerScan for £15. 

Colour PowerScan v 3 ,0 features 

■ Real-time True-feel’ scan option in 
colour halftone mode 

» Images are stored internally as 12-bit 
graphics, not HAM, This means that no 
quality is lost due to the Amiga only 
being able to display HAM images in 
4096 colours 


* Images are displayed as HAM pictures 

* HAM images may he loaded from disk 
and edited using PowerScan 3 

■ Image size that can be handled is limited 
only by the amount of memory available 

■ Memory does not. have to be chip 
memory as in many art packages 

■ Images can be saved in various file formats 

■ View whole image function 

■ Scale/rotate/skew imago or clipboard by 
any amount 

* Crop image 

■ Clean up, lighten or darken image 

■ Variable zoom mode 

* Draw freehand, lines, circles, boxes and 
polygons in various fill patterns, brush 
sizes, paste modes, or with the clip 
board image 

* Clipboards may be scanned directly, or 
any shape can be cut from the main 
imago 

■ The software is compatible with all 
Amigas 

■ Supports Workbench 2 and ECS screen 
modes 

Colour PowerScan now available 
New v3 ,0 Scan software 

PowerScan Colour v3,0 ^.^.....^...£239 

PowerScan Greyscale v3.Q is 

PowerScan v3,Q software upgrade J h £1 5 

The Amiga can only display 16 greyscales 


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War of the words 

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Some of the best Amiga floppy drives taken 
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by John Butters 


Industry enthuses 


over 


i HE AT 200 met a warm welcome from 
the industry at its London launch 
recently, with leading games houses 
pledging their immediate support for the 
£ '199.39 computer. 

Most of its key specifications had 
already been revealed in last month's 
Amtga Computing, but Commodore mam 
-.ied to shock almost everyone with their 
Jra-aggressive pricing. 

We can now confirm that the 68020- 
cased machine will be supplied with 2Mb 
of memory a nd Workbench 3, but ft does 
not have a high density floppy drive or 
SCSI II interface., 

Around 60 per cent of the 3,000 titles 
■available for the Amiga are claimed to be 
compatible, and recent releases are much 
more likely to load successfully. 

At the computer's launch several firms 
unveiled software they had been develop- 
ing behind closed doors lor several 
months, and many promised A1200 
games before Christmas, 

Among the companies working on 



A1 


software are Electronic Arts who will 
release Deluxe Paint IV AA, and top games 
houses Gremlin, Microprose, Ocean, 
System 3 and Psy gnosis. 

Many of the first releases will be 


improvements an current Amiga or PC 
games, but most firms said they expected 
to release A1 200-specific products 
around next spring. 

Mo software is bundled with the com- 



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A600 - the C64 of the 90s 


FOLLOWING the launch of the AI2O0 
with its state of ihe art graphics. 
Commodore promise that the A600 has 
a safe future as "the C64 of the 90s - an 
entry-level home computer". 

The firm have ruled out Immediate 
pnee cuts, but because of limited A1 200 
availability has featured the A6QG at the 
■.entre of a £3,5 million advertising cam* 
paign running until Christmas. 

Targeting children and their parents, 
adverts will appear in several consumer 
magazines, national newspapers and 
television. Most feature the line "Have 
you got what it takes?" 

Said Commodore's national market- 
ing manager Dawn Levack: "Our 
research shows that youngsters see the 


Amiga as an aspirational machine with 
superb software, 

"But it also shows that it's mostly par- 
ents, of course, who do the buying, and 
they want a little mane for their money. 
The Amiga satisfies both." 

The software industry also says it will 
continue supporting the 16-bit Amigas, 
with many firms now planning to release 
two versions of their games. 



Nntiumii TV ads far the AGO® 


Sumner denies 
console claim 

AN INDUSTRY insider's claims that 
Commodore are secretly working on 
an Amiga-based games Console have 
been vehemently denied by the firm's 
UK boss, Kelly Sumner. 

The source told Ajr?. : ger Computing 
that the £200 console would be based 
on a 68020 processor running at 
16MHz and feature the new AA 
chipset. 

A plug-in option would enable a 
motherboard to he added, effectively 
building the console into a full Amiga, 
with a keyboard, serial and printer 
ports for less than £50O. 

"We've said for a long time that we 
can sell as many Amiga s as we can gel r 



puter and although the AT 200 has an IDE 
interface, the manufacturer has decided 
against selling a hard drive version until at 
least next spring. 

And in an exclusive interview with 
Amiga Computing, Commodore boss Kelly 
Sumner said that a pnee rise for the 
A1 200 was a "real possibility". 

"Most international companies - 
including Commodore - deal in dollars," 
he said. "At the moment manufacturers 
are being hit by a weak pound, and the 
situation is likely to get worse." 

But he concluded; "The Amiga brand 
has been of the forefront of computer 
games technology since it was launched 
in 1987. The Amiga 1200 will keep it 
there." 



JlNUFIPf Amiga rnniuJV- o "dmun 
maMne* 

so why bastardise our price point 
to go into that market?" asked 
Sumner. 

He said that PCMCA costs 
would need to come down before 
such a machine could become 
feasible and said the Amiga con- 
sole was a '"dream machine". 

It was also claimed that future 
versions of the operating system 
will support Motorola's Digital 
Signal Processor, PostScript, net- 
working and printer and file shar- 
ing. 



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Amiga wears a 
Red Nose 


OMMODORE have joined forces with 
Ocean Software to support next year's 
Comic Relief charity when the first Red 

Nose game, Sleepwalker, will be 
Included in a special edition A 1 200 bun- 
dle. 

Keeping the computer's normal 
£^99 .9 9 price tag. r only 25,000 of the 
packs will be made. 

Commodore and the distribution 
c ■ » asn will give up part of their profits and 
it is hoped the packs will raise £250,000 
for the charity. 

Existing Amiga owners wilt also be able 
to play the game. Due (or released as a 
standalone product at the end of lanuary, 
I is expected to earn Comic Relief an 
extra £500,000. 

And Ocean are also organising a 
national Red Nose Challenge, where 
games players will be able to compete 
d gainst each other to raise extra money 
for the charity, 

"We are delighted to involve Ocean 
Software in the work of Comic Relief." 
said the firm's boss David Ward. 

"They have identified the games 
medium as a perfect way to reach a huge 
audience. We will do all we can to ensure 
that everyone who enjoys games will take 
part in Red Nose Day," 

Commodore managing director Kelly 
Sumner said he is pleased to help 
because the charity benefits British chil- 
dren - his target market. 

Games packed 
with Amigas 

SOME of the year's biggest games are 
being given away tree with every Amiga 
sold at Silica Systems (081 -309 111 I ), 

The four title pack is worth £127 and 
contains Zool, Pinball Dreams and Striker, 
as well as word processor TransWrite. It is 
supplied with ASQOs, A60Qs, A12G0s and 
CDTV systems. 

Studio sounds 
at home 

s 

POWER Computing (0234 843388) have 
been appointed distributor of Adept 
Development's Home Music Kit, a pack- 
age billed as a simple to use, all-in-one 
sound kit. 

Contained in the package are Digital 
Studio III, a program to transform the 
Amiga into a sound studio and Real Time 
Sound Processor ll for adding more than 
32 special effects. 

Once completed sounds can be con- 
verted into digital signals using Stereo 
Sound Digitiser. Price; £49, 




Europress to support show 

THE publishers of Amigo Computing, Europress, have confirmed that they will be 
sponsoring Lhe next International Computer Show, due to be held in February. 

Organised by Westminster Exhibitions, the three-day event is promised to be the 
launch pad for several new Amiga products from leading software and hardware 
firms. 

One of the show's main features will be on-going demonstrations which are to 
take place within five main sections - entertainment* education, the home office, 
music and consoles. 

"Following our successlul sponsorship ol the Iasi International Computer Show, 
Amigo Compu'fjng is pleased to announce its support of the forthcoming February 
event" said Europress Enterprise boss Ian Bloomfield. 

"We look forward to meeting our readers and being able to talk to them on a one- 
to-one basis about anything related to their Amiga. " 

Running between February 19 and 21 at Wembley Exhibition Centre, the organ- 
iser recommends that to avoid disappointment visitors should obtain advance tickets. 

The discounted tickets can be ordered by telephoning 0726 68.020, 

High storage Monitors tune 
from Power in to TV 


486 emulation 
arrives 



HOT on the heels of their Golden Gate 
386 K emulator, Vortex have unveiled a 
486- based version of the card which they 
claim to be up to 2.4 times faster than a 
25 MHz 386SX processor. 

Golden Gale 4R6SLC runs from 3 
25MHz 80486 $LC PC/AT emulator and 


BfcDFQRD-based peripheral manufacturer 
Power Computing (0234 843388) are set 
to release a (loppy disk drive that will give 
Amiga users almost twice as much 
storage capacity. 

The firm's, high density drive will con- 
nect to any Amiga and enable suitable 
disks to be formatted to give 1 ,44Mb of 
storage. Price: £99. 

Comfortable 

play 

DELTA Ray is the name of a new joystick 
due sochi from Logic 3 (081-902 2211). 
With four Fire buttons, two-speed auto- 
fire, six heavy duty microswitches and a 
"comfort* grip, it will cost £1 3.99. 



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VIDEO specialist R octet Electronics have 
announced a "picture-rn-picture" display 

for computer arid home video 
applications. 

PIP View is designed to display two 
video sources on the same television or 
monitor, with the main picture accompa- 
nied with a scaled-down image from 
another source. 

The device also has a built-in tuner 
which turns any composite monitor into 
a television, and its linear stereo capabil- 
ity ensures Nkam video quality is 
maintained. 

Full remote control is available for 
mast functions including tuning, vofume 
and programming. PIP View will cost 


can be fitted in AZQOOs and A3QDQs. 

It is supplied with 2Mb of memory 
and this can be increased to 16Mb with 
standard 1 Mb or 4Mb SIMMs. 

The board has an IDE hard disk inter- 
face which can support .i PC hard drive 
containing one AmigaDQS partition, A 
maths co-processor can also be added to 
the card. 

Monitor Master is an optional extra 
which allows the connection of an 
EGA/VGA graphics cards and Amiga 
video output on a VGA monitor. 

Golden Gate 4865LC costs £699 and 
Monitor Master is £79 from Silica 
Systems (081-309 11 11). Germany- 
based Vortex can be telephoned on 010 
49 7?31« 5972 0. 


around £150. 

24-pins for under £200 

PRINTER giant Seikosha (0753 685873) have signalled the start of a new price war by 
slashing the cost of their 5L-90 dot matrix printer, to make it Britain's first sub-£200 
24-pin machine. 

The firm aim the £199 price tag to be the spearhead of a Christmas drive to make 
24-pin printing affordable within the home and small businesses. 

Seikosha's Gareth Cornish said: "By dropping the price of the Sl-90 we have signifi- 
cantly boosted the price/performance level of the printer." 

At the time of going to press other manufacturers had not adjusted the cost of their 
machines, although industry pundits considered the move imminent. 


ADI meets juniors 

YOUNGSTERS are now able to meet the space character ADI in 
the latest software from education specialists Europress Software 
(0625 859333), 

ADI has already become popular with older children as a prt- 
GCSE learning aid and now ADI junior has been launched to 
cater for the needs of younger children, 

ADI is used to teach counting and reading, with bright and 
colourful graphics, sound and a series of games to keep the child 
amused. 

Help keys are available lor problem areas and each program 
contains Lhree difficulty levels to suit the user's ability, 

"We plan to extend the AO I programs even further next year, 
with the possibility of science releases, and even more of 



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languages," said Europress Software's Alcxa Czechowski. 

She added that next year the Macclesfield-based Firm will 
extend their educational range further with Fun School 5. 
Versions of AD! Counting and ADI Reading are available for 4 to 
5-year-olds and 6 to 7-year-olds and co^t £25,99 each. 


Amigo Computing J onuory 1993 






News 

Harry greets 
hospital kids 

HARRY 15 a new project aimed at 
putting Amiga? into the children's 
departments of British hospitals to 
explain treatments and acclimatise 
youngsters to unfamiliar surround- 
sngs. 

Standing for Helping And 
fie sponsible Reassuring Youngsters, 
the scheme enables hospitals to buy 
an A 600 and a kit containing more 
than £200 worth of software for 
£261 

Harry is the brainchild of 
Buckinghamshire father and son 
Mike and Chris Blackwell, who aim to 
get the project accepted by and used 
in thousands of sites. 

Jt grew from work that 15-year- 
old Chiis was doing for Wycombe 
Hospital, Using his computer he pro- 
duced cartoons to be given to chil- 
dren, each explaining a subject like 
blood test simply, 

Tn hospitals anything that can 
break the monotony for children has 
to be good news/ says Mike., 
'"Children see the Amiga as a friend 
and its acceptance by young people 
is staggering/ 

Linda Weiss r a professional hospi- 
tal play specialist agreed with the 
benefits of the Harry prefect Tt's a 
superb project because it works for 
children/ she said, 

"Making children understand 
what's happening to them is very 
important because hospitals are an 
alien environment/ 

Equipment is supplied by 
Commodore, Electronic Arts, Canon, 
Psygrmsis, Codemasiers and 
Cheetah. 


Upgrade for DaataScan 
Professional 


USERS of Pandas! International's DaataScan Professionals hand scan* 
ner can now upgrade their software to obtain many extra features. 

Among the additions are a dual screen layout, conversion of 
scanned dithered images into 16 true greyscales and colour control 
using 1 6 colours from a palette of 4,095. 

There is also a brightness control, two levels of zoom with full 
greyscale editing, freehand drawing and an add text option with a 
selection of fonts, 

Compatible with Workbench 3 , existing users can upgrade to v3 
of the software for £20. Pandaat International can be telephoned on 
071-328 1717. 



Improved ioJIwErre for Doolmcan Pra t tt ihtmri 


Consumer 
electronics 
show for 
Britain 

PLANS for a massive consumer eLectron- 
ics show to be held in London next 
September have been unveiled by News 
International, publisher of many leading 
newspapers, 

Many computer hardware firms 
including Commodore have already 
pledged their support for Live f 9X and 
the organiser expects up to 175,000 
people at the four-day event, 

"The UK has needed this pre- 
Christmas chance for consumers to get 
an early hands-on opportunity with the 
latest products/ said Bob Denton, the 
exhibition manager. "Manufacturers will 
be on hand to give demonstrations and 
advice from their stands and via our 
interactive seminars/ 

The event will be held at Olympia's 
Great Hall and Olympia 2. 


Amiga has a Bad Influence! 

DURING the dosing credits of Bad! Influence! - Britain's newest anti 
most successful computer games show - a special magazine Is transmit- 
ted for viewers with a video recorder. 

Even though the transmission lasts for only 20 seconds. Data Blast 
contains 50 pages of text; and pictures that are far superior to the 
chunky graphics of Ceefax and Oracle. 

The viewer plays the sequence hack and uses the player's pause Or 
}og controls to stop at hfnti F Ups and cheats for all popular computers 
and consoles, 

The technology behind! Data Blast could pave the way for the In it ant 
magazine of tomorrow, with one of Its major advantages being its 
price. 

All that Yorkshire Television needed to get Data Blast up and running 
was a £299 A600 and Europreis Software's versatile Easy Amos pro- 
grain min g language costing £34.99. 

The producers say the pair were chosen because It was felt their 
viewers would prefer to see something they would be able to create In 
the same way on their own computer. 

A special feature revealing the secrets behind Data Blast is published 
in the latest issue of Bad infh rencef magazine, on sale now at your local 
newsagent, 


Bright new pad gives 
disabled control 

JOVPAb is the name uf a new device for very young children and people who tanne 1 
cope with keyboards or conventional mice and joysticks. 

four large red arrow keys and an "action" key are grouped on a bright yellow pad 
li plugs into the Amiga's joystick port and can be used in the hand, on a tabletop cr 
floor. 

"The joy pad is suitable for many special needs users with minor disability/ daimed 
a spokespenon for manufacturer Holdfast Computing. 

"With its steel chassis, no need for a flat work surface and no exposed removab e 
ball, the foypad promises to be a robust mouse replacement/ 

Price: £25 from Holdfast Computing (0454 4111 26)> 



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Fast and friendly Genlock 

AMERICAN peripheral giant Great Valley Products have unveiled their lat- 
est Amiga product, a genlock called limply G-loCk. 

Billed as the easiest, most flexible, most capable, high performance 
genlock that can be bought for the Amiga, It Is claimed to boast many 
time saving features. 

It Includes push button 1 control panels and offers full transcoder 
operation with composile¥/C r andl RCB/YUV outputs, ESC/AA keyer 
modes control. interested? Call Silica Systems on 081-309 Till. 


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News 


Bad Influence! makes noise 


A COVER mounted cassette containing rare tracks 
from top bands h being given away free with the 
first issue of Bad influence* magazine, the new publi- 
cation for games players. 

On side A of the tape Is a preview remix of Right 
Said Fred s love for ail Seasons, taken from their Up 
album. This remix will never be available in Britain. 

Side B features the latest track from Brooklyn, 
Aptly named Bad influence. It is taking the US dance 
floors by storm. 

And running in conjunction with the Bad 
Influence! television show, readers are offered the 
chance to win a recording session with Brooklyn, 
who will create a song with the winner. 

Bod Influence! Is available from ail good 
newsagents or by sending a cheque/ postal order for 
£2,95 to Bad Influence! Competition, Europress 
Direct PO Box 2, Ellesmere Port L65 TEA, 





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Extra fonts for bubblejet 

BJ10/130 Fonts is an Amiga package used for creating, editing and downloading 
"soft fonts" for use with Canon's bubblejet range of printer 

The fonts act the same as the printer's own fonts and because the font is dumped 
to the printer's memory and forgotten about there h no need fora control program. 

Compatible with packages such as Scribble, Transwrite and Protext, the program 
Costs £T0 from Jeff Tullin, Ursa Software, ! 1 High we II Cardens, Felling, Tyne & Wear 
NEVDONB. 


Amiga tours 
the garden 


Visual editing 
for videos 


Kuma 
advise on 
top games 

KUMA Computers have 
announced details of a new 
book they will be publishing 
for Amiga users In the next 
few weeks,. 

Aimed at games players, 
Amigo five 0 contains tips 
and reviews on $0 top 
Amiga titles Including lool. 
Sensible Soccer and Sim 
City, 

Written by Ashley Cotter- 
Cairns, the book also has 
advice on joysticks, con- 
trollers and getting the best 
out of the Amiga as a games 
machine. Prfce; £9.95. 


CD titles hit 
the century 

COM MOO ORE have announced 
the availability of more than 100 
CD- based titles for Hie Amiga, 
and say they expect CD to 
emerge as the storage media of 
the future. 

Among the collection are hits 
such as Lemmings, Sim City, 
Sensible Soccer, and CDTV Sports 
Football, and others under devel- 
opment indude Zool, James Pond 
and Archer McClean's Pool. 

The form at also boasts a broad 
range of education, reference and 
music discs, 

"Amiga CDTV’s first ’century" 
simply pmves how far the 
machine has come/ said 
Commodore boss Kelly Sumner. 


GARDENERS and botanists are targeted 
for Plants for all Seasons, a ten-disk 
guide covering all aspects of the king- 
dom of plants. 

It has up to 20 pages of fields and 
linked disk files hold information on each 
plant, with the first page showing the 
plant's position within the kingdom. 

Further pages deal with special sub- 
jects and have several multimedia but- 
tons to allow access to object, sound, 
picture, text and video files. 

Users are encouraged to contribute 
information and files for inclusion in 
updates, and are promised royalties in 
return for their work. 

Developer Applied Research Kernel 
can be contacted on 0933 551 496. 


AN automatic video editing system Just 
launched by Mil an- based DeskTop Video 
(010 39 2 49S0 566) is claimed to be 
ideal for inexperienced editors because it 
manages sequences visually. 

Frame Talk allows videos to be edited 
in a similar way to film editing, where 
sequences can be viewed, cut and 
remounted at will. 

The package also features utility and 
control instruments, including a database 
and special system designed to synchro- 
nise the video and music beat. 

It requires an A20QQ or A 3000 and 
tan control up to four machines such as 
VDRs, switchers, mixers or DVE. UK avail- 
ability and pricing were unknown at the 
time of going to press. 


DIARY DATES 

4 to 5 December 1992 

Gomesmaster live 
Organiser: EMAP 
{0234 212m) 

Venue: NEC, firmrJngham 
A big games show with support from 
Channel 4 ' 5 TV programme. 

19to 21 February 1993 

7th International Computer Show 
Organiser: Westminster fohrWbbns 
(081-549 3444) 

Venue: Wembley, London 
An Compufrng-sponsored all 
formats event, 

4 to 6 April 1993 

European Computer Trade Show 
Organiser: Blenheim 
(081-7422828) 

Venue: Business Design Centre, London 
New software and hardware is pre- 
viewed to the industry. No public 
admission, 

23 to 25 April 1993 

Midi Music Show 

Organiser: tVesfriwsfer Exhibitions 
(QSl*$49 3 444) 

Venue : Wemhiey Exhibition Centre 
Catch up with the latest Midi 
products. 

OVERSEAS 

7 to 10 January 1993 

Consumer Electronics Show 
Organiser: {010 1 202 4578700) 

Venue: Las Vegm t USA 
Support from Commodore arid lead- 
ing games houses. 

24 to 31 March 1993 

Qftrf 

Organiser: Deutsche Messe 
(01049511890) 

Venue: Hanom, Germany 
A massive electronics show which has 
been used for the launch of many new 
products including the A600. 

» If your company is organ! sing a show 
relevant to the Amiga and \Cs not 
listed, iet us know so we can in dude 
the information in the diary, 

A - ~ - 3 

A fair discount 

AMIGA enthusiasts interested in attend- 
ing the touring AM formats Computer 
fair can now get 50 vouchers to entitle 
adults to £1 off the normal admission 
price. 

The vouchers detail the venues and 
dates for all events up to the end of April, 
and can be obtained by sending a 
stamped addressed envelope to Bruce 
Everiss, Maple Lead, Stre Lto n-on- Fosse, 
Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 9QX, 


DO YOU KNOW SOMETHING WE 

DON'T? 

Although Amiga Computing has scores of contacts 
fn the Amiga world we need you. If you have 
some hot news ring John Butters on the news 
desk now on 0625 878888 or fax to 0625 879966. 
All information supplied will be treated m the 
strictest of confidence. 


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A s winter nears and the tem- 
peratures drop below freez- 
ing, more and more American 
Arpiga users decide to sit by the warmth 
of a glowing monitor rather than brave 
the ice and snow outside* 

Some of this time is usually spen t play- 
ing the hot new games released for the 
Christmas season t but It appears that 
Santa may not be as co-operative 
this yean 

More and more American game soft- 
ware companies are going PC -only, cit- 
ing relatively low sales of Amiga software 
compared to MS-DOS games. 

Sierra, Dynamic Accolade, Spectrum 
Hobby te, Broderbund, and Activision all 
used to be big supporters of the Amiga - 
now they either don't do Amiga versions 
of their games, or they release them only 
for the healthier European market. 

Almost all of the US game companies 
which do support the Amiga are simply 
importing games from the UK nowadays, 
Amiga users are hoping that the A1200 
will revitalise the US games market, but 
with Commodore marketing the Amiga 
almost exclusively as a 41 multimedia work- 
station", that doesn't seem likely. 

So it looks like while you'll see plenty 
of neat hardware and productivity soft- 
ware from this side of the pond, the sup- 
ply of games is slowly drying up. 

Hooray for 
HollyWare 

One company which is still producing 
games in the US i$ Hollyware 
Entertainment, Their new game, Lords ol 
Time, traps astronaut Major Tom in a 



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medieval land of zom- 
bies and magic (some- 
one tell David Bowie 
and Peter Schilling - I 
think they've been look- 
ing for this guy). 

You have to guide 
Major Tom through the 
land known only as The Reaim in search 
qf a human king named Tanar, who may 
have the key to returning Tom home. 

If you ever played Microlllusions' cbssic 
faery Tale Adventure, you'll be right at 
home in this game. In fact, HollyWare now 


Denny Atkin reports 
on the latest 
developments from 
the USA 


market Micro! Ilusions' 
old products. 

It uses the same 
overhead, slightly iso- 
metric view, and you 
are once again walking 
around a giant land in 
search of spells. This 
game has more options, though, as you'll 
run across weapons, !eam spells, and con- 
verse with other characters as you make 
your Irek, 

Also the land Is magnitudes larger. 
Hollyware makes a big deal out the fact 


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Paying off credit cards 

You've got 2Mb in your cute littl-e A60Q., and you thought 
that would be plenty, After all, you're just going to use it to 
play games and pop on l the occasional letter to Mam, fight? 

Well, since you've discovered the joy of multitasking you've 
probably found th3l 2Mb just isn't enough, especially on an 
A60QHD. 

NewMcdia, a California company, has come out with two 
PCMCIA RAM cards designed specifically Tor the Amiga, 
Available in 2Mb and 4Mb sines, these cards use a custom 
dynamic RAM scheme called PS RAM instead of more expen- 
sive static RAM (SRAM), 

This allows them to fit more memory on the card (4Mb 
versus the 2Mb maximum of current SRAM technology} at a 
lower price, 

You can l use the PSftAM cards as storage devices like you 
can SRAM cards - they're usable as system RAM only - but 
not many people are going to use a i2S0 card to replace a St 
floppy anyway. 

I tested NewMedia's 4Mb card in both the A600 and 
A1 200. You simply plug the card in and turn on the machine - 
no messing around with PrepCard necessary, 

The card works well with both machines, but is a better 



bet for use on the A600. Unlike DRAM, PSRAM needs to be 
refreshed periodically, and when you combine the time nec- 
essary for this refresh and the overhead of only running on a 
16-bit but, adding memory in the PCMCIA slot can slow your 
A 1200 by over 30 percent. 

The A120O's tTaprfoor local-bus DMA slot is the best place 
to put memory expansions on that machine, since it s a full 
32- bit slot- 

On the A6QQ, though, the NewMedia card didn’t affect the 
speed at all. A 6Mb A6O0 certainly makes for a powerful little 
transportable machine, 

NewMedia's president told me that the company plan to 
release a whole line of PCMCIA expansion cards for the A6Q0 
and A120Q, including SCSI and serial port adaptors. 
NewMedia can be contacted at (71 4) 453-0550. 


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Antfsrp Conapwfliiij January 1993 


that the cities, objects, and dungeons m 
the land move each time you start the 
game, allowing infinite re -playability, 
However, after you send 35 or so 
hours solving this the first time, l doubt 
you'll want to dive in again, 

The game itself is entertaining, 
although 111 have to admit that I'd rathe- 
have spent more time solving puzzles 
and exploring than killing lire annoying 
spiders that kept following me across the 
countryside. 

not ground-breaking by an;* 
means, but there's enough here to 
keep the casual player occupied., It 
works fine on the A120G, although it's 3 
bit touchy on the joystick on fas" 
machines* 

Contact HollyWare Entertainment at 
1 3464 Washington Blvd,, Marina De 
Rey r CA 90291 ; (31 0) 822*9200. 

Be adaptable 

Have you ever wanted to use a Microsoh 
ff 0ove bar" mouse on your Amiga? Or 
are you looking for an analogue joystick 
to gain that extra degree of control in 
your flight simulations? 

DigiPrint has the solution. The DP Bus 
Mouse Interface and DP Analog Interface 
adapt IBM bus mice and joysticks respec- 
tively to work on the Amiga. 

These aren't your typical "built-in -a- 
garage" adaptors with screw- together 
connectors, either. These high-qualit 
devices have factory-manufactured 
moulded ends that won't come apart it 
you jerk the cable accidentally, 

The DP Bus Mouse Interface is elegan* 
in its simplicity - just plug in an IBM Bus 
Mouse ar trackball and then plug the 
interface into your Amiga. 

If you want to use a top-quality PC 
mouse, or save some money and buy a 
bargain-basement replacement mouse 
this interface is for you. 

The DP Analog Interface is a musi- 
have for flight simulator aficionados. 
Unlike simple analogue adaptors, which 
just rearrange the wires and add a capac- 
itor to increase the joystick's range, the 
DP interface has a switch that adjusts the 
joystick's precision* 

In the past, an interface that worked 
well with F-19 might not have offered 
much control with Birds of Prey, for 
instance. Flipping the thfee-posi;ion 
switch allows the DP interface to 
work well with all Amiga Night 
simulators. 

These interfaces retail for only JtS 
each, and DigiPrint says they should be 
available through UK computer shops 
thanks to the their agreements with 
major distributor. 

DigiPrint can be reached at PO Box 
13016, Richmond, VA 23225; (804) 
560-1 769. 


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& SCANNERS 


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17 MONTH ON-SITE MAINTENANCE 

Lotesl vasiai, 40OJD 2iViHi. IS" USCK f D ♦ spare drive boy jar 4 
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3.571 .74 MB 3.5' drive nus Cmss DOS for transfer cf fite between 


25 MHz, Mouw, Amiga 


AmNjfl DOS *M5 DOS, 2 rear + 2 frarti 3 .5" berys^ U J.2F bay, Ha^d 
Orfra as below, Arniga DOA 3,0 iyaem and (fold Socvic* tawi y 

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inc Jill and swivel ^[jq £25? 


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free 3D day, next day courier cdleciion and delivery ot Ht'iV 


tow* 1 .? 1. 


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AMIGA 600 


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4tuwr 
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MW wilh !? month wi-wft warranty 
IMS. WB 7,05, J.5' IQ + Smart Card Interim 
Mania and Momials 

WITH4433./CBM 
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ta-frow wafmnty 


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1200 ID 359.00 

1200 40MB 559.00 

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from 1 6 million colours phis on silo. 

First supplies now orrivod- Very limited 


CURRENT TITLES VARY - INCLUDES: 

Paperboy It Hum for Red October 

Co chib Chess D iky's Story Sthaol (under 12) 

Ctic c-rqe Co'f Battleships 

tem Games - 5 events Iketxe to Kill- Bond Game 
Cisco Heat - Polite rmt rate Silkworm Helicopter jeep mission 93% ( U 
ted the Dudt [under 1 2] Cent aental Oras ■ S Int r ni:e circuits 92% M 

MoflerBlmir-3Dspefts Inrrphmsiq - THfiia done 94SJ Tznp 
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+ LOTS MORE - AT LEAST 25 TITUS TO (NOOSE FROM) 


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TOTAL VALUE 

WITH AMIGA/C9TV 
SIPAMIELY 

PIUS Stpiiof Pqck 


VALUE/HRF 

I^t.95 

9.St5 
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2999 
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67,99 


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WAM VALUE /RHP 

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ptd^TinrfE GVf IE ccrirollei card, 

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3 &-C ! iP - BC’MB HD H 9 . 0 D 
D 0 +CTP+ 3 MIH 0 577.00 
DD+Cff+ 3 KiM* HD I 049 JM 
Wrth B1K/1 DWS ADD J 79*99 
Wilh 70M ■+ m/W FF ADD 379.99 

Pg flKfcra ?MB (vtted IcGVP 
Ab with KJcfcral 13 4 ROM Slier 
Ab with Dlizon 2Dfl 24 pm (nl Prinl^r + Starter Ffldt 


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ply with 1 .S00 r 1 SOD IVk Eictra al only - 
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2D0 24 ?i ml prinler H 1 SOO Es?tm whwqre 
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ADD €60.00 
ADD 09.90 
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CDTV 


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AS ABOVE WITH MATCHING DRIVE 
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* 5 C Prog. Habbyle PD Creals P«[k II » Includes ftp garnet Ike 
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danirs. benrd dowitf ana siioal em ups'. DPenl dtp ori, Ulili 1 
Word P'diciiar, ^preudd* eel, Doftbase + D«klop Publnhcr and ihe 
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TOTAL VALUE 513.71 

WITH AMIGA 49 99 

SEPARATELY 69 + 99 

SPECIAL ALSO IQ extra 'Hffl lift' gsraK ADD 25,00 


WWW EXTRA - OR 
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* 3 dHc Homo Feck kl. W foocminr, DLck Sproabhci'i 
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TOTAL VALUE 

WITH AMIGA /CDTV 
SEPARATELY 


79.99 
9.99 

9.99 

4.99 
1B1.93 

49.99 
59-99 


EPIC PACK EXTRA 

Needs IMS and Herd Drive VALUE /KRP 

Epic Pod: liiviol Pursuir. languor Lab, Amigo taxi 29.99 

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7 K1 dtp art pWgrophiG for DPoinl 111 9.99 

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IOTA! VALUE 212.92 

WITH AMIGA/CDTV 3t,W 

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( 1 MB REQUIRES*) 


REQUIRES*] 

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The Simpsons Tcti 
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* lit Ms MflSinun Word PtacBssnr. SpraadsilGcl 

* » 1* Eh*i 

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169.99 
29,99 

4,99 


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WITH AMIGA/CDTV 79.99 
SEPARATELY 99.99 

Aba with CrtiiBR 200 24 PIN 
ftfcitr and Sturtw Nds AMMAN 


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led Number I ChnibiRlEr 2 

5*to- MS OJ Amiga 2 

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■ ** MuKSp* — --■- J44,99 

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Mm [oiojr livid Scwntr ....,„ M .......»._.™™™™ — ,_.._....719.49 

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EM&ftdli'i Midfaler Digirisor, _ ti _il9.W 

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M DVHD diw a,OT SO 3bnk ft/M diKi -....27,99 


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VALUE /R BP 

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pnekege. with beni/lirul pictures eMdling; flnimnhem + musklhui 
hrfps in ifevehxi ni-mbetri, 4 utW skik Up Ic 6 1 tut nf 
diniuJly. Confatm wilh Nalionol Curriaiym 

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siilh.. G n wav i^iildrcn «ill knt. 

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dklicfinrv + ip«Ml Kletiion ofvwfef^r nneifi gF Jyilwk children 
4 par-wife ran cr-Mle wn diefannry af words requiring werml 
ettMifar 

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• tipkbflp Inf nnl nr JuiMr (specify ! Educaliand Hack, leaiuring up la 

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Sd and uifier rap eniertpining FU life 1 9^99 

* Ik4uxe Pain* HI vrj^i affiimoiiDn + 7WO:p Art pcs Fur OP 89J9 
int. diildren, Fairytale 4Legwid dherpciers.. Wl, Oirteons ek. 

« Inyslkk + 10 blank riius 1 5.98 

TOTAL VA^UI 197,92 

WITH JUHKA/CPTV 39.99) 

SEPARATELY 59.9*1 

SPECIAL lack njilrt tilk Sr m fir si 
sekiiiafi M jvii ! 5.01 


A3000 24 nr 

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WE SPECIALISE 

• Extra HAM * 68040 accelerator 
* 24 bit colour card * 24 bit colour red lime digifii 

• 24 bit 3D Arl +■ animation i/w 
• Filling and Free 1/2 day customised training 

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2- B YEARS 

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declaring Trampy end Irier Js ta BmourngB «arly i 
pre-r?ading iilFs. WHh muw 


29.' 

numbr reudicg and 


OR Thomas the Tank Engined Fun with Nerds - i wparnia Busy id m 
■E^tninq programmes wiih viimction andwirnd. 

OR Noddy s Ptaylime lie J years) - S mapol learning nnnes gi 1 levels 
PLUS Jumor An ixnkage inc Culavioi efertrmk Puny Fell 1 , FREf ' 
Tcwtt enop,. Keykccrd overlay and vcbiilBr. 

■ Shapes G!id Cnkhjri - lobby lha Clown ctaartain^ and leys down ihe 
foundnlinn for malki unit wntam in 6 tnlnnHul Pninaffd gnmai. 9. 
• Fvi khed 2, 3 or 4 - iiu Yun Shod' suHe hava wan |usl linirl 
award 1 guiag. 5 v 6 wundarfyl antrnaiwJ 24, 

{davlul and amusing gun 
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visible, press Esc to remove it. At the top 
oi the screen you will see the two Status 
lines and beneath them, the ruler line. The 
status lines contain details- of the docu- 
ment being edited and also of the settings 
For various Pretext features. 

The ruler lire always displays the ruler 
which is currently in use in the document. 
You should see a flashing cursor on the 
left of the line beneath the ruler line. This 
is the editing cursor and always indicates 
where the next character will be entered, 
or where the nest action will take place. 

Depress and hold dawn the right 
mouse button and the Menu Bar will 
appear at the top of the screen in ptacE of 
the top status line. Move the mouse 


painter up to the menu bar and you will 
find that a menu drops down as soon as 
the pointer highlights one of the menu 
options. Move the pointer to right and left 
and you will find that different menu 
boxes appear For each of the available 
options. 

Now you have seen what the menus 
look like we can get down to creating a. 
document, Unlike some programs, Protext 
does not require you to name a document 
before you can start entering text, so you 
can start immediately. 

|ust type in some text and you will see 
It start to appear in the editing part ol the 
screen at the cursor position. When you 
wish to start a new paragraph you should 
press the Return key twice. The First press 
tells Protext that it is the end of the para* 
graph and the second one puti a blank 
line between paragraphs. 

You can move around the text by using 
the cursor keys to go up, down, left or 
right a character at a time, or by holding 
down the Shift key and using the left and 
right cursor keys you can move through 
the text a word at a time. 

The Del key can be used to delete any 
character which is under the cursor m 
addition to using the Backspace key to 
delete the character to the left of the cur- 
sor, as already described, 

In addition to deleting single cFiatac- 
ters, parts or a word, or complete words 
may also be deleted by holding down 
Shift and pressing Del to delete from the 


current cursor position to the end of r*l 
word on which the cursor is placed. M 
Shift and Backspace to delete From in* 
character before the cursor to the start fl 
the word. Experiment with these to sed 
the effects . 

You are now going to add a new 
Lence at the start of the current paragraph 
so move the mouse pointer over the ™ 
character at the start, of the paragraph a ■ 
click the left mouse button to move ‘M 
cursor to the start of the paragraph, 

Menu options J 

Alternatively, you could have used 
of the menu options. To 5 Ee this in acta 
we shall use another of Protest's features 2 
rcstorE the cursor to its previous posit -<t 
Click on the right mouse button and se*ecl 
the Move menu. Move the painter do*4 
to the Last position option and selec: 4 
The cursor will be restored to its forr-i 
position. This is a very useful option whaf 
you find you have accidentally mo.-i 
somewhere you didn't intend to! 

Now you can select the Move merl 
again,, but this time dick on the prevroM 
paragraph option and the cursor will h 
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the paragraph. 

This is one of many examples you 
find where Protext provides more (hn 
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have made use of Frotext's spv:-i 
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selves with these in this tutorial If y€ 


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Editing screen 

Once Protext has loaded you are pre- 
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►*nt to try them,. the appropriate 
*S | ‘ ' r ^K are shown to the right of the 
iptions in the menus and are fulty 
Y& ! cribed in the m^in manual (see our 
I Bpgr ade options tor detai Is), 
jgjl I T -pe io a further sentence or two at the 
■tt ot the paragraph and you will see 
il.InjL I the existing text moves over to the 
writ automatically to make room for Lhe 
' * -ext, This is called insert mode but 


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IPfcxrxt also has an overwrite mode. 

□ splay the menu bar and open the 
H ' m menu. You will see that this menu 
m Lar to the other menus we have used 
I Mccpt that some of the options have a 
i * jgainst them on the left-hand ssde. 
•hrbe options determine the defauft way 
Ito which Protext works and their settings 
■muii in force until such time as you tog- 
| 9 * them again. 

Toggling 

' ect che Overwrite mode option and 
* will appear on the left. Close the 
pe^. by clicking the left button with the 
: tbt outside the menu and then try 

3 iurther sentence. This time,, you 
■d find that instead of moving the exist- 
P9 ten to the right to make room, the 
[ prw text overwrites what was already 


of the 
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Most people choose to work in insert 
* ■> for most of the time, but it can be 
to be able to overwrite things rather 
delete and replace them sometimes. 
fate 1 r the Option menu once more and 
1 off the Overwrite mode option. 

V^w move the cursor back down to 
fc frid of the document wrth the mouse 
MPd press Return a number of limes until 
t> text at the top of the screen starts to 
% out of sight, then type in a few more 

We shall now go to the starL of the doc- 
and insert a new paragraph. As the 
: ift: of the document has scrolled off the 
iftc of the screen we can no longer just 
|pM the cursor to where we want. 

fnslead, we can either use a menu 
or scroll the screen with the 
•ftw until we can see the start. If you 
•wt to use the menus, you can select the 
► - menu and the To Start of Text 
W ■ n, but for now we shall use the 


] lion the pointer on the lower status 
to* r he second Line down from the top of 



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the screen) and dfck the Iteft button. Each 
lime you click on this line the screen will 
scroll a screen page towards the start of 
the document, until the start is on the top 
line, You can then position the cursor at 
the start of the line by moving the pointer 
to the position and clicking. 

We now need to insert a Wank line at 
the top of the document into which to 
start typing the new paragraph. Select the 
Line menu and the Insert line option. A 
new line will be inserted above the line on 
which the cursor is positioned- Now type 
in same more text, When you have fin- 
ished, press Return twice to end the para- 
graph and insert the blank line between 
paragraphs, 

Delete it 

Having learned how to insert new lines, 
we shall now learn how to delete them, 
Position the cursor on the tap line of the 
document. It doesn't matter where on the 
line the cursor is placed as we shalf be 
deleting complete lines. Select the Line 
menu and the Delete line option. The line 
an which the cursor was placed will disap- 
pear and the lines beneath will move up 
to fill the gap. 

Protext also has an Undelete feature 
which is capable of restoring the last 
block of teal deleted. As far as Undelete is 
concerned, a block is any section of text 
over three characters long removed in 


one go. This includes lines as well as 
mariked blocks of text (described later in 
the manual). To see this is action, posi- 
tion the cursor at the start. 

A useful tip is that the same block may 
be undeleted more than once. This can 
be put to good use when you have a 
number of lines which are similar which 
you want to enter, fust enter the line 
once, delete it, then undelete it as many 
times as you want. You can then go back 
and make any minor changes required to 
the other lines. 

YVe shall now go to the end of the 
document, either by selecting the end of 
text option from the Move mentis or by 
scrolling Lhe text with the mouse. To 
scroll to the end, move the pointer down 
to the bottom line oF the screen and click 
the left butLon repeatedly until the end is 
visibFe, then position the cursor by point- 
ing and clicking. 

It would be a good idea to save the 
document at this point, as it is always 
good policy to regularly save your work. 

Select the Pile menu and the Save as ... 
option. Note lhaL the option is followed 
by three dots, as also are some other 
options in menus. This is an indication 
that the option leads to a dialogue box. 
When Lhe option is selected, the dialogue 
box will appear, containing the message 
"SAVE filename:". 

This b the first example of a dialogue 


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box that we have encountered. Protext 
has a number of dialogue boxes for differ- 
ent purposes and we shall come across 
further examples later, but in this case It 
is a Text Box, These are used where you 
are required to type in text, rather than 
fusl select something and always contain 
text describing what is required. Key in 
F f R S T OM E as the name and press Lhe 
Return key to confirm the entry. That's it. 
Your document is safely saved to disk. 

As you will have noticed, the Move 
and Line menus provide a number of 
other options in addition to those we 
have already used. 

the Move menu allows you to move 
the cursor to the start gr end of a sen- 
tence, or line, to the previous or next 
paragraph, or page as well as the start 
and end of a document. 

The Lsne menu allows you to not only 
insert and deFeLe lines, but also to defete 
parts of a line or sentence, from the cur- 
rent cursor position. 

As these options function in the same 
way as those which you have already 
used, we suggest that you Experiment 
with them now^ to see the results., using 
the document you have already created. 

File selector 

The file selector is automatically dis- 
played whenever you select a menu 
option to load or merge a file and in 
other situations where a file is to be 
loaded, such as a different configuration 
file. The file selector may also be called 
from the File menu by selecting the 
Catalogue files option. 

Pretext's file selector allows you to 
carry out various disk "housekeeping" 
tasks, such as copying, renaming, delet- 
ing files and creating new directories in 
addition to loading files. Other house- 
keeping tasks not available in Lhe file 
selector, such as formatting disks, delet- 
ing directories and so gn, may be tamed 
out from Protext's command line. 

Select the Load File option from the 
Files menu and a IF the screen, apart from 
the status lines, will be replaced by a 
large file selector with a menu of options 
at the bottom. Depending on how many 
files there are in the current directory, 
one or more columns of filenames and 
directory names will be displayed. 

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files in alphabetical order. 

Directories are always indicated by a 
entry to the right of the name, whereas 
Ehe available option 5 are displayed in a. 
two line menu at the bottom of the win- 
dow and may be selected either by press- 
ing the key indicated in square brackets, 
or by double clicking inside the square 
brackets- 

Loading files 

To load a file, select the required file by 
pointing with the mouse and double click- 
ing on the entry, or highlight the entry 
with a single dick and then double click 
on the Return menu option, this same 
procedure is used when the Merge Hie 
option is selected, but when you click on 
the requited file, it will be merged into the 
document at the current cursor location. 

Select and load a document now, then 
move the cursor to a suitable place in the 
document and use the Merge File option 
to merge a selected file into the existing 
document. 

It the current drive/directory is not the 
one containing the hle[s) you want to load 
or work on, you will need to change to It 
To change drives, you must select the 
;D]rive change option, either by double 
clicking on the D, or by pressing the D key. 

A dialogue box will open with the 
prompt "Enter path: H , and you should 
type in the name of the directory you 
want. The file window will clear and be 
replaced by the contents of the new drive 
and the heading at the top of the window 
wifi change to show the new drive and 
directory. 

Move the mouse pointer to a directory 
entry and dick on it to highlight it. The 
directory may then be selected as the cur- 
rent directory by pressing Return or dou- 
ble clicking on the entry in the menu. The 
list of files will change to show the iiles 
available in the directory. 

If there are a large number of Fites it is 
often more convenient to see only a range 
of the files. This can be done by changing 
the file specification. Double dick on the F 


inside the square brackets to select the 
[FJile specification option and edit the 
existing entry, using wildcards and charac- 
ters, to something which will match only 
some of the fries. 

The list of files will change, showing 
only those files which match the file speci- 
fication. To show all files again, double 
dick on the [A] Show ALLoption. 

Several options are provided to enable 
you to rename, copy or delete files. Select 
[G]opy file(s) and a dialogue bo* will 
request "COPY from (filename); 1 , this is a 
request for the name of the file, or files, 
you wish to copy. The filets) do noL need 
to be in the current directory, which is 
why it does not automatically use a high- 
lighted filename. 

Wildcards 

Copy will also allow you to copy a 
number of Files at the same time by speci- 
fying wildcards. Once you have entered 
the name of the filets) you want to copy 
and confirmed the entry, a second dia- 
logue box wJl request 'COPY to (file or 
path): 11 . If you have specified a single file 
name you may specify a different filename 
for the destination, but if you have sped- 
fled wildcards, you must specify a destina- 
tion directory. 

The final menu option in the file selec- 
tor is the [N]ew dir. option and allows you 
to create a new directory as a sub-direc- 
tory of the currently selected directory. 
Select this option now and a dialogue box 
will open, requesting MKDIR directory 
name:. Key In the name you require and 
press Return. 


Next month, we r ll he continuing our 
guide to Pretext 4.3. If you can't 
wait until then, full Protext manuals 
can be purchased from Arnor at a 
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the vay down the screen. This shows that yen ace in Prat 

Htfde vfuch need not be used when Mentis are being usen. 1 
visible press Esc to peruwe it. 

At the ray of the screen j/gu Hill see the two St 
beneath then, the ruler line - ISie status lines contain a 
docunent beins edited and ,ilsa of the settings fee vane 
features. The ruler line always displays the ruler which 
in use in ike dncuhent k Yen should see a fishing cursor 
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always i nil i cates where the next character will be- entire 
the next acEaon will take place. , . u R B 

freprifs and held down the MshT rwuSe but tan and Uie Nefin bar 

tit) I appear at the toy of the screen in place of the ton status June- 

Hcue the Mouse painter isp Ea the Menu bar ana van Hill f inn that a 
menu drops as scan as the painter highlights Dfte of the mjbu 
options . have the peanter la right am 1 l?ft .md you him find that 
different nenti bases appear far each of the available op t ions. 

Now- vow have seen utiat the Menus Scofc like we can geE down to 
creating a doc wren t. Unlike sort* prograHS, Pretext ao&s not require 
you to rtaiie a document before you can start entering text, so you can 
start infiediatelv« 


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Author; Ray Lambert 

Ever wanted to store all your phone 
numbers and important addresses cm your 
computer but been put off by complicated 
databases? Well weVe got the solution for 
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Amigadex is essentially a computerised 
version ol a rolladex, which stores 
addresses and phone number^ on cards. 
Each file will store a person's name, 
address, phone number and a short 
memo. 

Once you r ve set Amigadex off and run- 
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■ ' - *e some time), Once all of this is finished you should have a self- booting 

■ * of Fighting Warriors. 

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Andrew Harrison 


Once started this program presents you 
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STD codes, All you have to do is type in 
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ShowSTD is quite useful if you've been 
given a phone number from someone 
with an STD code you are unfamiliar with. 



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the other side of England before cheap 
rate times. 

Grammar 

Author: R Sarna 

Grammar is a program used to check 
your grammar in text files you have 
made in a wordpnocessor, It can be used 
to check things like repeated words, split 
infinitives, the use of certain words and 
much more. To use grammar you have 
to enter CLI and type "grammar < FILE- 
NAME:* " where Filename is the full paLh 
and the actual name of the file. 

As Grammar is a CLI command, just 
copy it into the C: directory of your 
working disk for it to be readuly available. 

Batman 

This is a rather good version of the old 
batman tune from the original series. The 
tune Es completely self running so just 
click on the Tune-of-the-fvtanth icon and 
then the Batman kon to hear it. All that 
is left then is to put on your cape and 
run round the house shouting ROW! 
ZAP! and things like that. 



Author: Gemot Reisinger 


Toasters is a program which blanks 
the screen and then displays flying toast- 
ers after a nominated time during which 


Sharewai 
needs yo 


Please remember that many of the 
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Computing CoverDisk are shareware 
releases. This means that the 
authors have kindly allowed you, the 
reader, to sample the program 
before paying for it. 

If you decide to keep a program 
and intend to use H regularly, you 
should register as a shareware user 
with the author. Full details on how 
to register can be found, where 
appropriate, in the on-disk docu- 
mentation. 

Shareware authors. If they don't 
receive enough registrations, will 
eventually stop releasing programs 
to the pubhc, which would dry up an 
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the computer has not been touched, 
thus saving the screen from phosphor 
burning. 

Them are two versions ot this program 
on the CoverDisk, one for standard WO 
Amrgas and one for accelerated Amigas 
with a 680x0 processor fitted. 
Flying ToasLefi works as a background 
task so when you first start the program 
you need to press shift+Fl to fetch it to 
the screen. 

Its use is fairly self-explanatory once 
up and running,, but docs are on the disk 
for those who become Confused. 


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I he Commodore monster has always been a strange 
beasE but over the last yea t the/ve out done them- 
selves with more seemingly conflicting product 
launches in 1 2 short months than over the previous eight 
years. 

As release after release piled up the inevitable confusion 
and subsequent frustration began to build- One minute the 
A5QQ, then the Plus, then the A600, suddenly the 500 was 
no more - where will it all end, screamed countless shell- 
shocked punters* 

Well folks, after the chaos, the calm. Although the big C 
have pulled numerous fast ones courtesy of the A500, A50CI 
Plus and A60G fiascos, the A120Q should bring all that to an 
end. 

For those who Ve sunk hard-earned pennies into an MOO 
recently, the release of an amazing new machine probably 
won't be the best news yoii r ve ever had, especially consid- 
ering its price point hovers only a hundred pounds over 
that of the A6Q0, 

Tomorrow's machines 

Although irritating for some, it J s time to cast all confu- 
sion asr-de and usher in tomorrow's machines. 

In simple terms, the A 1200 is basically a cut -down 
A40QO Although the CPU is a 6BO20 as opposed to a 
63040, the basic structure ot custom chips remain rhe 
same. 

The aforementioned 6802Q isn't exactly state of the art 
in computing terms, but when combined with the awe- 
some AGA chipset the partnership is a real world beater. 

Because of the new CPU, and the full 32-bit architecture 
that comes with it r the new machine obtains speeds 
between three to five times faster than a standard Amiga. 

Carnes especially will undergo a revolution in the com- 
ing months thanks to the extra speed and incredible graph- 
ics potential of the AGA. 

The AGA is one of those computing acronyms bom to 
create confusion, especially when ir's already undergone 
two title changes prior to general release. First Pandora, 
then AA, and now AGA, or Advanced Graphic Architecture.. 

The power of the AGA system comes Irom a combina- 
tion ot factors. Firstly there's the aforementioned 32-bit 
design as opposed to the 1 6-bit system within a standard 
machine. 

In addition 300,000 transistors have been crammed in to 
handle the staggering amounts of graphic data required for 
the improved repertoire of colours and power screen modes 
- Standard 256 display, Hamft 1,280 x 58D resolution, and 


L Games will 
w undergo a 
revolution in the 
coming months A 

so on. In addition to the new screen modes, there is a 
24-bil palette which becomes 25-bit with the addition of an 
extra bit for genlocking. 

From the 167 million colour palette, the available num- 
ber gf on-screen has exploded from the 4fi96 of Ham and 
just 16 greyscales to the unbelievable quality of HamS 
which with the assistance of 64 colour registers makes 
262,000 colours on-screen second nature and up to 
700/000 possible in the highest resolutions. 

As well as the huge jump in screen colours, the 64 base 
colour registers drastically reduce the dreaded fringing 
which haunted Ham of gid. For greyscales there's been a 
similar quality explosion with 256 levels of grey as opposed 
to just 1 6 on a standard machine. 

Even without the new Ham format, the increase in the 



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machine's colour power is still awe-inspiring, with 2 St 
offer in all standard Amiga modes. This instantly bnng 
machine on a par with the best any PC or Mac can oh- ■ 

As well as colour, eight diffErent screen modes await 
built-in software flicks fixing as standard. No more net J 
a Commodore or third-party flicker fixers. |ust like the 
on Lhe A5D0 Plus and A60O, all that's required for 
modes such as productivity is a monitor with a suitable 
rate - either VGA or multisync and you can kiss 
goodbye for good, 

32-bit architecture 

in short, the Amiga's repertoire as a productivity 
more precisely a DTP/ precis ion platform is complex 
more importantly available from a machine retailim 
under £4O0. 

With the increase m resolution and colour, an ol 
worry is that of screen update. However, thanks to the 
bit architecture as opposed to 1 6 there's an Immediate 
bling ot data transfer. 

This Is added to by the super fast AGA which effi 
manages 64 -bit transfer. Thanks to RAM technology 
makes two fetches per cycle transfer rates are effi 
quadrupled. As standard the At 200 is shipped with 2Mtal 


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We've compiled a list of popular games which dp and don't work on the 
new machine. Remember,, none of these games are written specihcally for 
the A 1 200 - you'll have to wait for dedicated games which take advan- 
tage of its new Features - rather, those listed here are established Amiga 
titles. 


Games which work... 

Putty, Zcol, Guy Spy, Psyborg, Doodlebug, Flight of the Intruder, 
A«assin, Troddless, Ween, Ashci of Empire, Anarchy, Nicky Boom, 
Panza Kick Boxing, IK+, Air Support. R.V.F, Honda, Dungean Waiter, 
Ten nil. Cup, Shadow of the Beast 3, Alcatraz, Aqua ventura. Kick Off 1, 
Discovery in the steps of Columbus, 1000 Migiia ( 1027*1933 volume 
1), No Second Place 




...and those which don't 

Switdhlade 2, Kyrandia, The Cod Croc Twins, Jimmy White's Snooker, 
Supe rears 2, Predator 2, Street Fighter, Leisure Suit Larry 5, Pang, 
Heroquest. The Carl Lewis Challenge, The Adventures of Robin Hood, 
Super Sapce Invaders, Space Crusade, Paradroid Q 0, Campaign, Gravity, 
Suspicious Cargo 



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. ‘up RAM - yet another bonus those nice Commodore peo- 
ple should be commended for, 

However, 2Mb is only the beginning 55 third-party sup- 
pliers are already offenng compatible 16-bit RAM expan- 
sions and perhaps more 1 importantly IDE band disks fitted as 
standard, ranging from 40Mb up. 

Although third-party hard disks are availably your official 
Commodore guarantee is invalidated by the installation 
process, so I strongly advise any would-be buyer to ensure 
that (he retailer in question offers a personal guarantee for 
^ny subsequent repairs. 

This being the case, it's again wise to ensure your sup- 
pi er is reputable and can actually back-up the guarantees 
on offer, If the prospect of invalidation is a risk youVe not 
willing to take, Commodore have promised factory -fitted 
IDEs during the spring of *93 ranging from 2 QMb right up 
to 200 . 

In addition to a hard disk, RAM expansion is equally 
important. Here again the A1200 scores well with two 
upgrading options. The simplest method is to employ the 
PCMCIA expansion port which will accept up to 8 Mb of 1 6- 
bit RAM. The PCMCIA cards employed are identical to those 
used on the A6O0 which as mentioned above are already 


Entering the game zone 


With the transition from a standard 
16-bit 6 SOOQ to a full 32-bit 68020 
there J s obviously going to be certain 
amount of incompatibility between 
formats. However compatibility may 
not be quite as big a problem as 
you'd expect. 

Commodore are quoting Figures 
that suggest around 60 per cent of 
existing software will still work per- 
fectly with the new AG A, and this fig- 
ure can be improved even further by 
holding down both mouse buttons 
on boot-up which produces a mode 
election screen which allows the user 
to specify which chipset the machine 
will employ. 

Both the 0C5 or old chipset and 
the EC5 or enhanced chipset are 
stored alongside thi AGA. As a result, 
mode selection \$ an invaluable tool 
in the battle against incompaLibility- 


ln addition to mode selection, addr- 
tional RAM could also play a part in 
the struggle as often many programs 
require a certain amount of last RAM. 

As the A! 200 ships Exclusively with 
2Mb of chip RAM, investment rn a 
suitable PCMCIA may well be worth 
the additional cost in order to resur- 
rect a few old friends. 

Sacrifice 

Although a problem, it's the new 
machine's gaming strengths that will 
make the sacrifice o( any old soFtware 
well worth the heartache, 

For example, although the A12O0 
offers only a 6S02O at 14.2EMH2 - 
roughly twice that of a standard 
Amiga - the increase in graphic: han- 
dling courtesy of the AC A will mean 
graphic update five Limes that of a 
" normal machine. 


IT is is a performance which in 
real terms will easily match any 
386SX PC for speed and totally anni- 
hilate it lor smoolhness thanks to 
2Mb of chip memory as opposed to 
the maximum of just 640k of base 
memory found on even the fastest 

Aside from pure update speeds, 
the animated images themselves will 
undergo a revolution with a leap 
from an average of 16 colours to 
anything from 128 to 256, providing 
the kind of gaming environment the 
average PC owner has been all to 
keen to show stuttering along in the 
past. 

As, if that's not enough, hardware 
scrolling has been dramatically 
improved while an additional Lwd 
16-colour playfields allows 
Hedgehori-style parallax scrolling. 


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Improvements 


A welcome planned improvement is lhal of a high 
density floppy as found an the A40Q0 and the vast 
majority of PCs. 

Although a relatively minor inconvenience the lack 
of a high density floppy is a strange omission as 
Workbench 3,0 - the shared OS of both the A4000 
and A 1200 - supports the option by default. 

With I he increase in file sizes prompted by Hamtt, a 
high density would seem an obvious choice from the 
off. Still, as with almost all the upgrades mentioned, 
Commodore have assured that high densities will 
appear in She A1200 during the first quarter of 93. 

However, I’m sure with the option already available 
to the machine it won't be long before the Amiga's 
army of S bird party developers begin to offer high 
density floppies with their 1.76Mb storage as an 
added Incentive to prospective investors. 

And before you lament the demise of your existing 
software, it's worth mentioning that the high density 
within the A4G0G is equally at home with a standard 
Amiga disk as it is with a high density, reading both 
formats automatically, 


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widely available In their 2 and 4Mb forms. Although this is 
an instant and easily accessible method of expansion it J s not 
the ideal approach for certain applications. 

The main drawback of 16-bit expansion is one of speed. 
Obviously employing 16-bit access on a true 3-2-bit 
machine involves compromise. A faster alternative is to use 
true 32-bit RAM which provides direct memory access or 
DMA for the CPU. 

Again like its predecessors, the Al 2bQ has a trapdoor and 
it r s here where additional 4Mb of 3 2 ’bit HAM can be 
installed. Alas the aforementioned upgrade like the Ci-licial 
hard drive option won’t be available until early '93,, but its 
an option which may prove invaluable. 

In order to get the best from any 32 -bit CPU additional 
and directly accessible fast RAM is essential especially when 
using power applications that require fast transfer of large 
amounts of data, such as DTV r D I P and so on. 

Another addition is an optional FPU or Moating point 
unit, The advantage offered by an FPU is again one of 
speed, but in the case of an FPU its primary concern is seri- 
ous number crunching. 

Once installed, an FPU takes care of the vast majority of 
the complex maths needed lor applications such as ray trac- 
ing thereby freeing more valuable CPU time. 

The option for either a Motorola 6S881 or 68832 like 
everything else won't be available until spring '93. 
Unfortunately there’s absolutely no option to upgrade at a 



later date. FPUs 


Basically I think the facts speak for themselves. Jmt H 
the Amiga was the successor to the 64, the new AG% 
machines are sure to supersede the ageing 16-bit tech- 
nology of their predecessors. 

As lor features, the A1 200 is nothing short of specta - 
ular in both its standard form and as a platform fotj 
expansion. 

For enthusiasts and game players alike the A12Q0 i 
ideal although a mid-range machine based around 
030 is certain for the middle of '93, bridging the q^: 
between the Al 200 and A4000. 

If you're looking for the next step up The evolutions 7 
ladder the A12Q0 is quite simply the only option un-~ # 
£ 2,000 worthy of consideration. 


are strictly 
factory fit- 
ted, and 
there's no 
way to 
upgrade later 
without upgrading 
to a faster CPU/FPU 
combination. 

The entire A 1 200 
chipset - with the exception 
□f the CPU - is surface- 
mounted, including the FPU,, so 
I'm; afraid there's no turning back, If 
you have ray tracing tendencies or a 
liking lor power applications, waiting for 
the arrival of the FPU option is worth very 
serious consideration. 

Another planned upgrading route concerns 
the CPU itself. Although a huge improvement on 
the original 68000, the AI200 boasts up-chipability 
built directly into the design. Here again the trapdoor 
adds yet another twist by allowing CPU and presumably 
FPU accelerator combinations to be fugged directly into 
the machine. 


Curious strip 

As a result, there's no reason why -030s, -G4Gs and 
beyond can’t be added simply as an old-style trapdoor 
RAM expansion. As you may see from the photography 
there's a rather curious metal strip on the rear of the 
machine, 

Could it be that this is a cartridge slot for the rumoured 
Amiga console? According to Commodore's very own 
Andrew Ball I'm afraid not. Apparently the aforesaid slot is 
designed with even further expansion in mind, 

Because the side of the machine is already taken up by 
the PCMCIA slot and the trapdoor potentially packed with 
a 32-bil RAM and accelerator combi nation, it’s here where 
DMA access take place. 

Apart from the usual profusion of gadgets, this small sil- 
ver orifice opens some very interesting possibilities. Far 
example, with direct 32 -bit DMA there's no reason why 
the DSP or digital Sound Processor promised for The 
A400Q won't be able to make a move towards the Al 200, 
especially as foster CPUs appear for the machine. 

On top af Lhat there's instant potential for standalone 
Zpiro boxes which could be independently powered and 
connected directly to the machine, offering the one thing 
that the Al 200 lacks, namely access to third-party Zarro III 
cards boasting 32-bit transfer 

Such cards are ideal for super fast SCSI-2 hard disks, the 
aforementioned DSP 16-bit sampling technology, graphics 


cards and so 
which in the past ha« 
been purely the domain 
larger members of the Amiga rai 
such as the A300Q and now A40Q0 
course, this is all hypothetical at the m< 
but the potential is there, ready to be taken advantage 
by third-party developers and perhaps even Commr 
themselves. 


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nhancemenfs to the Workbench 


As you'd expect,, all the new features of 
the AG A are supported by the new OS 
collectively titled Amiga OS 3.0. 
Although in many respects very similar 
to AmigdOOS 2.04 there are a number 
of new features an hand. 

Not surprisingly, all the enhance- 
ments offered by the AmigaDOS 2.1 
upgrade recently issued for OCS.'CSC 
machines await, 

These include language localisation, 
PostScript printer supports enhanced 
support for outlined fonts, an improved 
ASL file requester and the option for 
sampled alerts. 

Like its predecessor, v3-0 also includes 
a licensed version of CrossDOS which 


allows the machine to read, write and 
format 720k MS-DOS disks. 

This presumably will include an 
option for 1 ,44Mb PC disks - as is 
already the case on the A4&G0 - when 
the aforementioned high density flop- 
pies appear. 


Library 


Perhaps the most exciting addition is 
that of datatypes which work via the 
new dalatyped library. The end result Is 
that whenever a new datatype is written 
and added to your system, other 
datatype- compatible programs will be 
able to utilise Its potential. 

Far example, if a PCX datatype is ere* 


ated^ siny program which employs 
datatypes as an option, will instantly 
gain the ability to display PCX images. 

To illustrate the point, a program 
entitled Multiview comes with the 
machine which courtesy of datatypes 
already included with OS 3.0 has the 
ability to display standard IFFs in all res- 
olutions including HamB, view text files, 
hear sampled sounds and examine 
AmigaGuide hypertext files. 

Obviously with the improved screen 
modes and colour selection, Preferences 
has been improved to handle palettes 
of up to 156 colours via a new colour 
wheel. 

And In addition, an impressive new 


feature allows the user to specify If : 
pictures as backdrops far boll 
Workbench and windows. 

As well as Improving the environ 
ment, sprites have also had some lane 
overdue attention and no longer haw 
To suffer the indignity of lo-res. No 
longer the ugliest part of the 
Workbench environment, they're nov 
resplendent in the resolution of you 
choice and completely independent < 
the screen on which They appear. 

A small improvement perhaps but rn 
matter how trMal a 64 - pixel Super N-re 
pointer may be r it’s a lot more attractive 
than its chunky lo-res predecessors. A* j 
they say, the little things add up. 


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F or a year now, the big battalions in 
the Amiga's productivity sector 
have been sniping at each other in 
a fairly desultory fashion. 

The odd bombardment of fonts, a 
dawn raid in the form of PostScript sup- 
port, or sporadic gas attacks through 
magazine advertising pages have been the 
sum total of activity. 

The stakes, however, have just been 
raised and the comfortable phoney war is 
about to end. 

Months of propagandist outpourings in 
the Amiga press during which the WF 
arms race went into top gear saw compa- 
nies scrambling to support the new 
chipset with upgrades of existing pack- 
ages, and the stage is now set For a battle 
royal between the Wysiwyg warriors. 

for the winner, the spoils of war will be 
a large slice of the home productivity mar- 
ket, and for the loser, urn, a smaller slice. 

The opening shot was fired by 
Softwood inc r reversing the American 5 11 
normal trend of always arriving late for the 
war, but Digits and New Horizons weren't 
stow to shoot back. 

Final Copy I) is a product made for the 
instant appeal merchants. It is fast, colour- 
ful in the extreme, and very Mac-like in its 
user interface. 

ProWrite 3.3 and Wordworth 2, on the 
other hand, are more traditional 
word processors with excellent Wysiwyg 
displays and more powerful features, but 
neither matches final Copy 11 in the looks 
department. 

Whether one approach wilt succeed 
over the other is a matter for every 
reader's preferences, but the standard of 
Amiga word processing has taken a step 
Forward with all three packages. 

In some respects at least, the Amiga 
seems finally to be threatening compari- 
sons with industry benchmarks like Word 
5 on the Mac and Word for Windows 2 on 
the PC. 

Final Copy II 

Though we didn't see the original Final 
Copy in this country due to font copyright 
laws, v2 has been released at last after the 
Americans went bananas for its DTP 
qualities. 

If the hype is to be believed, FCI1 is 
"designed for people who need high qual- 
ity personal and business documents", 
and is thus the answer to both wordpro^ 
cessing and professional publishing 
problems. 

Tall claims though these may be to live 
up to, the program sets about the task 



Stevie Kennedy takes to the trenches as the wordprocessor 

winter offensive opens on three fronts 


with verve and energy as soon as it ss 
booted, FCil has a dean, well-designed 
interface which immediately pleases the 
eye, and looks beautiful when used with 
the AGA-equipped A1 200 or A40EX). 

Of the three packages on test, FCli is 
the only one to properly display 
256-colour graphics, and what's more it 
does so with remarkable speed. 


Final Copy iii - P-? 1 e-ase 1 


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Speed 


kike its ancestor, Pen Pal, FCll will 
imparl, reposition, re -size, and crop IFF 
hie* faster than almost any -other package. 
Same might point to the AG A chips and 
say "so what?", but speed of graphic 
manipulation is equally impressive on 
older machines. 

When placed in documents, text flow 
around graphics is handled welt, with con- 
toured left and right flow as well as the 
usual vertical options. 

FFow around both sides of an irregular 
object isn't catered For unless the object 
straddles a column bfeak r but this is iden- 
tical to the way the others work, so FCll is 
in good company. 

Picture settings enable the user to 
choose a border weight and colour, and it 
is possible to specify colour zero as trans- 
parent or opaque, handy lor flowing text 
around irregular bitmaps. 

In addition, the picture can be reposi- 
tioned either in the current document or 
onto another page from the same 



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requester, and standoff (the space 
between the graphic and the text) is 
user-definable. 

Graphic elements can also be layered 
using the Send To Back and Bring To 
Front options, and can be locked or 
unlocked to prevent accidentally re-sizing 
or moving them, thus causing a screen 
refresh. 

This adds up to graphic manipulation 
tools not far short of DTP packages. Final 
Copy II lacks only a rotate function to 
complete its list of ability though in fair- 


ness the only such feature it boasts 
the other wordprocessors on test la k 
the crop (unction, 

I would have liked a hide/show p 
toggle to avoid sometimes lengthy 5 r 
updates, but this option is absent. 


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Other graphic tools include line, 
angle and circle/ellipse, so the FGI 
has plenty of options For brightening up 
document. 

Any square or ellipse can be filled 
a colour from the palette requester 
surrounded by a user-definable bor 
lending FCll a more than adequate 
over the other two programs. 

Neither Wordworth 2 or ProWrite 
offer direct on-screen graphics dra 
tools. 

One problem I encountered 
graphics was when margins became t 
around a picture. The program's m 
ten'ce on squeezing text around i 
obstacle, even if this meant cutting 
in two without hyphenating them, r 
in a mess which can be cleaned up 
by repositioning the graphic or by 
lengthy session of manual text editing. 

In general, FCll does a good job of 
formatting, but in this area at least it 
less than perfect. 

As a wordprocessor rather than a D 
package, FCll is not much better t 
adequate. There are many solid featu 
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Amiga Campaling January 1993 


W ordprocessors 




jnd good spell checker arid the- 
but bn some ways the program falls 
short of its competitors. 

There is no '’'show invisibles* option r 
q rt impossible to discover the 
is of carnage returns, tabs, and 
tr which means that when text is 
m Ascii format, the user will be 
l 'vised to clean up any formatting 


kith a basic omission in what is, after 
A i wordprocessor, came as something 

0 t shock. 

OTP aspects of text handling are 
» with control over text width, lead- 
4 ue percentage (amount of italici- 
to you and me}, and colour, so it 
maM be a niggardly accusation to say 
test control is fatally flawed, but 
A?” vou buy a word processor you 
«t Lo support basic wordprocessor 
is. 

put beside the lack of index or 
to generation as offered by Wardworth, 
mi t ^ package's non-support for Adobe 
or Agfa CompuGraphic fonts, the 
1^*1 Copy II bandwagon starts to hit a 
txrthotes, 

h would be too easy to concentrate on 
fee program's admittedly superb list of 
DTf features and its stunning AG A sup- 
skimp over the features it could 
‘ ou d have, but this package is being 
is a wordprocessor and it must be 
as such. 

Tor owners of the AGA chipset 
•^chines, it would be hard not to recom- 
■md Final Copy II. It is virtually a full* 
Ml ur DTP package capable of superb 
PostScript output and works as smoothly 
t could wish. 

However, those owners of older 
fltKhmes unable to take advantage ol 256 
colours, and who have plans to produce 
brge documents requiring more meaty 
itit<runching features, would be advised 
H: "eat the program as a basic DTP pack* 
®ge rather than a first choice wordsmith. 

Final Copy II is a stunning program, 
m i when it does what it does, it does it 
tttrvmely well As a foretaste of the AGA 
packages we might soon see, it whets 

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Computers are all ahout data, and word processing is no excep- 
tion. How, then, do the three packages fare when importing or 
exporting data in a variety of formats? 

it is essential for the user that when an important document, 
perhaps passed on from the office PC P or sent through the post, is 
presented to his or her wordprocessor that the program doesn't 
turn up its nose or shrug its shoulders in ignorance. 

To this end, all three packages make a varying degree ot effort 
to support other file formats* 

All Lbree will load and save in Ascii text format, and all three 
can import any IFF format, including HAM8- and 24-bit. The simi- 
larities, however, end there. 

Final Copy IS is reasonably served by loader modules for 
Pro Write, WordPerfect, and Pen Pal, but its refusal to open clip art 
files is a blow to its flexibility. 

The uset need only copy new loaders to the FCLibs drawer cre- 
ated by the program's installation routine for Final Copy to recog- 
nise other file formats, but when and if SoftWood will release 
these modules is not known at the moment. 

Pro Write hits a home run with support lor Pro Draw dip art, 


but falls flat with its document importing restrictions. Only 
Pro Write and Ascii format are recognised with the addition of 
documents from New Horizons' Flow program, whose tiles are 
virtually identical to Pro Write's, 

The user with access to a PC or another wordprocessor is thus 
restricted in his or her File swapping activities. 

The program's separate file conversion utility will convert doc- 
uments from a number of formats, including Pen Pal, Final Copy, 
excellence. Kind words, and WordPerfect, but 1 would have been 
happier to see this sort of feature built in to the main program lo 
save a lot of faffing about. 

Word worth takes the impart/export challenge head on and 
stamps it into the ground like some mad bull intent on free trade 
lor all 

Graphic support covers IFF, PCX, BMP, EPS, and clip art, and 
document load/save options are available For no less than eight 
other WPs, including MS Word and WordPerfect (M5D05 only}, 
WordPerfect Amiga, ProWrite, and ProText, 

The Grits are obviously much more communicative than the 
Yanks in this respect. 


what will be an insatiable end-user 
appetite For more colourful, more power* 
fill software. 

Unfortunately, tailing between two 
stools as it does, it hits targets which the 
word processing user might not aim at in 
the first place- 

ProWrite 3.3 

New Horizons and ProWrite have been in 
the Amiga wordprocessing business 
longer than almost anyone else, and the 
package has undergone a long evolution- 
ary process. 

It Is no surprise, then, that vl-3 has 
been released partly as one of ProWrite's 
regular upgrades, but mostly to take 
advantage of the AGA chip set. 

What is surprising is that New Horizons 
have failed to completely support 256 on- 
screen colours when ProWrite SJ is used 
with an AGA machine such as the A4Q0Q 
and At 200 on which our copy was tested. 

Instead, the imported graphic is 
dithered as a screen picture with a maxi- 


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> mum of eight colours. True, 25 6 -col our 
iFFs and the new HAMS format are recog- 
nised and imported,, but there is no visible 
evidence on-screen of the new colours. 

In terms of the speed at which images 
are imported, screen versions calculated, 
end then displayed,, ProWrite fails far 
behind Final Copy II. 

Ore HAMS image I tested with both 
packages was loaded and displayed by 
FCll in little more than five seconds, while 
Pro Write took over a minute to build a 
representation of the same IFF, 

When it takes this long on an A4QGQ 
using the fast AG A chips and a 68040, 
something has to be wrong with the basic 
approach taken by the package to graph- 
ics in general. 

Dithering using Eight colours is a useful 
way to save memory and represent the 
graphic more accurately to those using 
eight-colour dot matrix printers, but in 
the days of the AG A chips and colour 
PostScript output there should be an 
option to enable truer 256-colour 
displays. 

Attractive 

Paradoxically, this situation makes what 
is basically a less powerful wordprocessar, 
Final Copy li, look much more attractive 
to the Power users with A4000s and 
colour document requirements. 

When manipulating graphics,. Pro Write 
can keep up with the colourful upstart, 
though much slower when a picture is re- 
sized, and has the usual left and right ver- 
tical and contour text flow, 

Irregular text flow is handled in the 
same way as FCll in that small gaps 
around objects are used to squeeze text to 
the limits. 

The result, in common with the other 
two packages, h that words will some- 
times be split into their component let- 
lera,, one on each line. 

This is as far as Pro Write's graphical 
capabilities goes. There are no line draw- 
ing tools as found in FCll, though 
ProWrite will at least import structured 
drawings from other packages, something 
which FCll will not do. 

Text handling is another story. 
Pro Write is d fully-fledged word processor 
with to emphases firmly on the words, and 
this shows as soon as serious word 
crunching starts. 

The program has several powerful fea- 
tures not found in FCll and one or two 
which Wordworth 1 can't match. In par- 
ticular, I liked the Retain/ Apply option, 
which enables the user to choose the for- 
mat or style from a block of text, then 
apply it to another block. 

The usefulness of this feature when 
using large documents cannot be under 
estimated. Not as powerful as FCITs style 
lags, perhaps, but more flexible in use, 

There are also several text formatting 
commands, such as the column break and 
variable undo functions which, though 
less glamorous than full AGA support, 
become essential in the user's document 
■creation. 

Without such seemingly tiddly extras 
the ph of the writer can becoms tire- 

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processor that this kind of feature is avail- 
able. 

Text routing may be simple vertical 
flow from one to another or may be set to 
"snake" horizontally r useful for pages bro- 
ken up by ce rurally located pictures, and a 
bookmark may be placed at any point to 
Facilitate rapid movement from one part 
of a document to another. 

Unfortunately, only one bookmark per 
document may be placed, which limits 
this feature's usefulness. 

In reply to the master page system 
used by FCll, Pro Write li enables the 
user to set differenl headers and footers 
for odd and even pages, essential for mul- 
tiple page documents printed on double- 
sided pages. 

The master page system is more flexi- 
ble in that it makes possible the produc- 
tion of graphic folios such as the AC 
symbol used on most Amigo Computing 
pages, but odd /even headers and looters 
are better than nothing, When spell 
checking a finished document, ProWrite 


can mix it with the best ol them 
its 1 00,000 word dictionary and thi 
with 30O r fH)0cross-references. 

Cross-matching 

Checking is fast, efficient, and aca 
and the thesaurus has a more than 
quate system for cross-matching m 
adjectives and adverbs. 

A pleasant feature, given that this dj 
American product, is the dictiom 
acceptance of British spellings sur~ 
colour and labour. 

The only distinguishing feature ot 
spell checker is its capacity to chec^ 
spelling ol words as they're typed. 

While a pain in the neck at timei 
option to have the machine beep 
flash every time a word is spelled wre 
ideal for young children, Bang forced] 
stop and retype a word until it is s[ 
correctly is more conducive to leal 
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The term "hot links" has become something of a buzzword since 
the release of SoftLogik's Hot Links package stirred the Amiga 
world lo consider its lack of a dynamic data exchange (DOE) sys- 
tem similar to that used in Windows 3.1, 

Dynamic Data Exchange is the process where a program ere- 
ates a hoi link for a graphic or a block of text, then monitors it for 
changes. 

In effect, a hoi linked graphic is placed only temporarily in a 
document Che package remembers where it came from, and if 
changes have been made since it was last used, the new version is 
used. 

All three title contenders make their own attempts Id meet 
DDE needs, though only ProWrite implements the SofLogik sys- 
tem. Final Copy If and Word worth 2 make use of Workbench 2. Ox 
links, enabling the user to save the link to a graphic rather than 
the graphic. 

Final Copy II uses hot links alone, which automatically update a 
picture as il is changed, while Wordworth offers a more flexible 
choice between coot links and hot links. 

A cool link simply creates the link, then waits until the docu- 
ment is loaded at a future date before showing the changes on- 
screen. ProWrite lakes a much more thorough approach by 


completely supporting the SoflLogik HotUnkj standard. For a I 
review of this package, see ACs passim, but suffice to say it wor 
with both bitmap graphics and text, enables ProWrite lo "pur 
iish" text for use in, say, a DTP program or "subscribe" to tei 
and graphics created elsewhere. 

All updates take place simultaneously if both the subscriber 
for example ProWrite - and the publisher (DPaint) am running, 
at loading time if a document contains Hot Linked text or graph 
which have been changed since the last session. 

Hot Links has a much more sophisticated approach to hot Ik 
ing than the Workbench alternative, but it has the disadvani 
of being useless in the ProWrite context unless the user at 
purchases the system itself Irons SoftLogik, 

The major advantage for Workbench hot (inks is that they <n 
simple links to any type of graphic the package can import. Thcs 
Wordworth 2 users will be able to hot link a ProDraw clip, a PC' 
BMP, or even a 24-bit file for editing in Art Department 
Professional (ADPro won't load EPS files - only save them), 

Final Copy II users, until the program improves in the Impon 
department, will at least be able to edit IFFs, including Hit 
2 S6 colour and HAM 8 varieties, if they have DPaint IV AGi 
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~ 1 ikes at the end of the document, 
Overall, ProWrite has continued its tra- 
3‘ :.n of being the Amiga's most consis- 
" J - tly "almost there" product. It is 
perfectly capable of most wordprocessing 
(Mo and has excellent PostScript support 
However, with its failure to properly 
i -i port AC A and its lack of some features 
i in Word worth 2, it will be a second 
Choice for most users this side of the 
Atlantic. 

As a counterbalance, ProWrite can offer 
i k>ng histone of stable performance on all 
Amiga models and a regular upgrade 
poky. 

il the consistent New Horizons support 
r- me past is anything to go by r this is not 

1 program which will be left behind by 
r developments. 

Word worth v2 

t net its release fast year. Word worth has 
enjoyed its fair share of success, due 
mostly to a combination of full Wysiwyg 
! preen display, excellent font and printer 
: port, and solid wordprocessoi features. 
The latest release builds on what was 
m already sound base by adding many 
new features without losing the original's 
concentration on power, 

Like ProWrite 3.3, Word worth 2 will 
import 256-colour and HAMS graphics, 
but will not display them on-screen in full 
colour. The program has support for a 

2 S 6-col our pale tie, but Digita da im to 
h*ve received their 
AGA machines too 
m for the WW2 
launch, 

Plans are afoot to 
please a free 
upgrade disk to users 
as soon as the new 
graphics formats can 
be fully implemented, at which time 
Wordwortfl should look as good as final 
Copy U does now, 

Graphics flexibility in WW2 is aided 
enormously by its import options, which 
n elude not only ail IFF formats, but 
• Draw dip art, Encapsulated PostScript 
EPS), and the PC bitmap formats PCX 
*">d BMP, Neither ProWrite nor Final Copy 
:an handle this variety of graphics. 

Once on-screen, graphics can be repo- 
sitioned and re-sized as normal, though 
■mere is no crop function as in FCII. Screen 
update, when moving or scaling a picture, 
si 'aster than ProWrite, slower than Final 
C<Wi but at all times acceptable on faster 
machines. 

in common with ProWrite, WW2 cam 
not offer FCII's line drawing bools, though 
ts and ProWrite J s acceptance of previously 
reared clip art will offset this to a degree. 

Textual ly, Word worth 2 is far and away 
r ^ best of the three packages on test 
Not only does the program support more 
font standards than FCII (which has sup- 
port only for its own type), WW2 is sup- 
plied With two disks containing !7 official 
a Comp uG rap hie typefaces, and will 
so use the Adobe Type 1 fonts built in to 
tt e standard PostScript laser printers. 


File conversion utilities are available in 
shareware to convert Adobe fonts to Agfa 
standard, and a goodly selection of Agfa- 
compatible fonts is available from: aur 
advertisers (see under DTP in the Locator), 
so Wordworth users should have no prob- 
lems when expanding their font libraries. 

ProWrite users will also benefit from the 
ready availability of new Compu Graphic 
fonts, but with only seven typefaces 
shipped as standard, ProWrite suffers 
typographically. 

Printer drivers 

Word worth's usual printer drivers are 
supplied with the package, which enable 
the user to choose from a long list of pop- 
ular pr in tecs, install the correct printer 
driver and printer fonts, then use the fonts 
directly from within a document. 

In total, WW2's support for printers is 
of a far higher standard than either 
ProWrite or FCII. 

My one gripe with font handling is that 
alLhough WW2 includes Ay la’s In te Hi font 
technology, screen representations of 
fonts, both Agfa and others, can be less 
than perfect. 

At sizes below 12 point, the type 
become & almost unreadable, especially 
when using the PostScript printer driver 
and its internal Fonts. 

These are displayed using (airly crude 
one-size bitmaps,, which distort badly 
when used at low or high type sizes. 

Quick Screen mode will show printeref- 
fects such as bold and so on, but use a 

standard Amiga 
font such as Topaz 
for screen fonts, 
and this can be 
used to increase 
speed or enable 
the typing of, say, 
9-point text. 
However, with a 
Wysiwyg word pro cess or, I would have 
expected better screen fonts. 

Having said this, ProWrite is no better 
in the screen font department, its own 
fonts appearing scrunched and eye- water- 
ing at lower point sizes. 


Final Copy II scores highly in print tests, 
and has one of the most comprehensive 
printing preferences requester of any 
Amiga wordprocessoi 

Graphic density and greyscale thresh- 
old can be set, RGB colour correction and 
halftone or ordered dithering is available, 
and page orientation (PostScript only) 
can be toggled between landscape and 
portrait. 

The only major omission is the option 
to print a page at less than 100 per cent 


Final Copy II scores well here with its 
screen magnification option, enabling 
users to zoom in up to 400 per cent, but 
this can be a slow process when IFFs are 
on screen. 

Having perused the program's Wysi- 
wyg features, the WW2 user will quickly 
find when he or she moves on to large 
document creation, that Wordworth has 
several superb professional wordpmeessor 
features which elevate it above its com- 
petitors on the power curve. 

Automatic indes and list creation will 


Size, vital when proofing a page whose 
final destination will be a PostScript print- 
ing bureau, but whose dimensions make 
it impossible to fit onto an A4 page. 

Word worth and ProWrite both offer 
these options, and have full PostScript 
support. Initial tests with the office 
LaserWriter II NTX and a very expensive 
Phaser III PXi colour laser printer suggest 
that Final Copy's output has a slight edge 
over the other packages, but there is 
little in it 


do for a start. Index generation makes it 
possible for users to highlight any word in 
a document and include it in an index to 
be appended to the finished article. 

What's more, the process enables sub- 
items to be indented below the main 
entry complete with their own page 
numbers. 

Index generation 

for example, one could index Amiga as 
the main entry, then trawl through a doc- 
ument indexing every occurrence of 
A1 200 or A40Q0 as sub -items. 

The resulting index will have an entry 
under A for Amiga with the sub-items 
showing all pages where the text A1200 
pr A4000 occurred. 

Added Flexibility is included in that 
users can choose to de-select certain 
occurrences of an index entry or choose 
whether or not all occurrences will be 
listed. 

Authors of large documents will find 
this feature invaluable and it is in itself a 
reason for Students to type their disserta- 
tions on Wordworth 2. 

Lists are more or less simpler indexes, 
and may be used to create a table of 
contents or list of illustrations. 

Strangely, though indexes cater For 
only two levels of sub-entry, lists can be 
created with up to seven levels of indenta- 
tion, allowing for chapters, sections, 
paragraphs, and so on. I wouldn't like to 
put this to the test, but 1 fancy WWZ's list > 
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gage agreement. 

Bookmarks are also included and are 
mare flextole than in ProWrite. The author 
can create as many bookmark* as required 
to make nicking back and forward 
through a long document a* easy 
as possible. 

Endnote 

Markers for chapters or indented 
quotes, or other places of interest such as 
the location of an illustration to be 
imported before the finished document is 
printed make any VM2 user's life immea- 
surably easier. 

Probably my favourite new feature 
though, is the endnote option. 

By simply placing the cursof immedi- 
ately after the word or phrase in question 
and selecting insert... Endnote from the 
Document menu, the user can sit back 
and watch as the program appends a 
superscript number then lumps to the end 

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of the document to type the same 
number. 

All the user need now do is insert what- 
ever note is required. Notes are automati- 
cally re -numbered if another is inserted 
above existing notes, and if the note is 
later removed in the main document, its 
attendant endnote entry is removed from 
the list. In conjunction with the index, list, 
and bookmark options this feature makes 
Word worth the only choice for author* of 
professional business, or legal documents, 
and certainly the only package worth con- 
sidering for student uses such as disserta- 
tion*, theses, and longer essays. 

Home users looking for a good letter- 
writing package will find the extra features 
less useful, but given that Wordworth has 
excellent fonts, a spell checker and the- 
saurus as good as the next package, and 
will soon completely support 256 colours. 

On®-.’ DTP fans and those looking for 
very glitzy graphical documents will be 
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Word wo rth v2 

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Final Copy II 

Smport/Export: Ascii, WordPerfect, ProWrite, Per Pal, IFF (HAM 
and HAMS) 

Graphics tools: Line, circle, boK crop, scale, position 
Text tools: find /'re place, sort, mail merge, spell check, thesaurus, 
column mode, leading, width, colour, variable oblique, style tags, 
wrap around. 

Fonts: Six with 21 typefaces (bold, bold-italic, and so on) 

Printing: PostScript (colour/bw), draft, NLQ, colour correction, 
dithering 

Unique features; Full AGA 256 -coIouf screen display, fast, line 
drawing 

VERDICT: Superb colour DTP, slightly underpowered wordprpcE*- 
sor 

Pro Write 3.3 

Import/ Export: Ascii, WordPerfect, Pen Pal, Kind Words, TextCrafi 
excellence, BeckerTeat, Final Copy, IFF (HAM and HAMS), 
ProDraw* 

Graphics tools: Scale, position 

Text tools: Fmd/replaee, soit r mail merge, spell check, thesaurus, 
column mode, colour, wrap around, bookmark, column break 




fonts: Five with seven typefaces (wide and normal) 

Printing: PostScript (colour/bw), draft, NLQ 

Unique features: Spell check while typing, speak text, 

Retain/Apply style/format 

VERDICT: Poweriul wordprocessor with good features that jU5l 
about makes it 

Wordworth 2 

Import/Expart: Ascii, WordPerfect, Ren Pal, Kind Words, ProWrite, 
Protext, WordPerfect MSDOS; MS Word MSDOS, Windows Write, 
IFF (HAM and HAMS), PnoDraw, EPS, PCX, BMP 
Graphics tools: Scale, position 

Text tools: Find/neplace, sort, mail merge, spell check, thesaurus, 
column mode, colour, wrap around, bookmark, endnotes, auto- 
matic list, automatic index, glossary, column break 
Fonts: 1 7 Agfa foots with 68 typefaces (bold, italic, bold-italic, 
normal) 

Printing; PostScript (colour/bw), draft, NLQ, high quality 
Unique features: Automatic list and index generation, endnotes, 
multiple bookmarks, loots and printer options 

VERDICT: More powerful than the competition with more 
features than any other package except Protext 



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I .s always been suspicious of so-tailed 
miraculous musical tuition courses since 
the days when, Les Paul copy in hand, I 
struggled and failed to master the arcane 
' playing Stairway To Heaven with the 
If p of a dodgy fingering diagram and a 
| fay akw*g*g*Max flexi-disc. 

' was with a certain amount of cynicism, 
thenelon, that \ approached Mid scape's 
li rade keyboard tutor. If the marketing 
tt*b was to be believed, I would be play- 
rg me piano in three weeks and reading 
tneei; music "within weeks". 

Apprenticeship 

Sow, if 5 a well known fact that "weeks" 
l^rai can mean anything up to ten years 
LS2G "weeks' 1 } and beyond r but the hinted 
K three week timE period for my keyboard 
ri-rfntkeship was a definite figure I could 
jft rny doubting teeth into. This in mind, I 
lounged a keyboard and sat back grin- 
iwg smugly, fully anticipating another real- 
“ ;.jo between marketing claim and; cold! 
truth. 

-ive minutes following the simple instaJ- 
tot Dfi procedure and a few hours at the 
Irenes was enough to turn cynicism into 
astonishment as my first rendition of 
Dvorak's Largo (the Hovis tune to you and- 
me), complete with left hand chord 
changes, floated serenely from the Miracle's 
tereo speakers. I sat back with a grin which 
had been magically transformed from 
~ ug cynicism to gloating pleasure. 

Miracle is a hardware and software dou- 
ble act combining a standard 4 9-key key- 




own musical idiot 
evie Kennedy 


discovers the 
hidden Mozar 


in all of us 


board and software written by the Blue 
flabbon Soundworks people. At the heart off 
the system is a simple cable connecting the 
keyboard to the Amiga's serial port and 
three disks' worth of extremely clever 
software. 

When the user strikes a key on the 
Miracle's pressure-sensitive keyboard, a sig- 
nal is passed down the connecting cable to 
,J -t software, which displays the key press 

graphic form using an on-screen key- 
board. Data transfer is virutally instanta- 
neous, and as the user progresses from toe 
■ : r sections detailing proper keyboard 


posture and how to use Miracle to the 
lessons themselves, the software begins to 
show just how central this interaction is to 
its operation. 

Over 40 types of error are checked for, 
grouped into seven categories, and two 
phrase oanks are used to generate reports 
on the user's performance. This means that 
messages coming from the "tutor" to the 
pupil are varied and tailored to each indi- 
vidual performance with the result that the 
Miracle owner has, in effect, a captive 
piano tutor in a box. 

Hypertext is used for most reports and 


MIDI options 

Miracle is basically a MIDI keyboard, so it can of course be used in conjunction with any 
MIDI sequencing package and MIDI interface , However, as the Miracle software is written 
Blue Ribbon Soundworks, Bars and Pipes Professional is particularly useful. 

This top end Amiga sequencer has a Miracle keyboard driver as standard, and selecting 
Mirade during Bars and Pipes installation wilE enable the user to directly address the 
Mirede's patches by name rather than MIDI patch number. 

No MIDI connector is required when using Bars and Pipes, as the diwer software will 
Mise Miracle's serial connector lt r s difficult to imagine anyone buying Gars and Pipes 
Professional without also paying the £20 or so for a MIDI interface, but the feature is a use- 
ful one nonetheless.. 


information screen, making it possible for 
the user to simply click on the word 
"Beethoven" for example to summon a 
screen of information. All musical: terms 
used bavE their own hypertext screens, so 
the software can be very educational in the 
more traditional music education sense. 

Fingering 

Lessons are grouped into chapters, each 
dealing with one complete tune, and start 
with a blackboard containing details of the 
phrase, chard, or notes about to be prac- 
ticed, When first introduced, all new notes 
are indicated an the keyboard using 
fingering numbers to encourage 
correct technique from the start, 
and a variety of tuition games are 
used to stave off boredom. 

These include Ducks, where the pupil 
attempts to shoot ducks moving across 
musical staves by pressing the corre- 
sponding key, Ripchord, where a 
correctly fingered chord 
results in the safe landing 
of parachutists (failure 
can be messy), and 
Aliens, where one 


attempts to follow a sequence of notes 
played by a Close Encounters-like flying 
saucer. Belter still, though, is hesitation 
mode. 

Where everyone begins, hesitation 
mode is used to display a piece of music in 
standard notation but without the 
metronome and with a box outlining the 
next note ta be played. 1 11 e user then plays 
at his or her pace until confident with the 
tune. Miracle will not move on tp perfor- 

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correctly,, so there's plenty of room for 
error. 

When errors begin to multiply, repre- 
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Miracle will skip backwards to simple one- 
handed practice or to rhythm-only mode, 
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wrong. 

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handle on quarter notes,, 

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sort out what's going wrong 
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edy it. This can range from 
right handed melody prac- 
tice, to left-handed chard 
changes, or Even a trip back 
to the duck shooting range. The latter is 
particularly humiliating tor the budding 
keyboard jockey and prompts my only 
criticism of the software - it can be very 


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Budding pianists will be able to progress with 
Miracle as far as about grade four in standard 
piano tuition terms, but at this point the 49-key 
limit will be reached. 

A full piano keyboard covers at least si* 
octaves, while the Miracle can handle only four. 
For the advanced stages of tuition, therefore, a 
larger keyboard will be required, and unless 
Mlndscape produce another version of the pack- 
age, users will have to part company with Miracle 
and hunt pul a decent full size Synth or piano. 

Before this stage is reached, however, a selec- 
tion of add-on song disks and advanced lesson 
disks will be available, the first of which should be 
released after Christmas containing popular mod- 
ern songs by Madonna and others. In addition, 


the miracle manual makes every attempt to point 
pupils In the right direction, 

Suggestions are included concerning the best 
places to go in search of a decent professional 
tutor, which artists to listen to for keyboard 
ideas, and even what sheet musk to opt for. The 
authors make no hones about Miracle's beginner 
status and recommend that ambitious users 
study musical theory and technique with a quali- 
fied tutor. 

Of course by the time the user moves on to 
such advanced tuition. Miracle will have per- 
formed Its task, and may have been developed 
further, Mindscape say they are looking at fur- 
ther developing the whole system, so keep an 
eye on our updates column for the latest news. 


The friendly t ate uf MifOCie 
tuition greeting men by nam* 

picky. Very picky, that is, when the pupil is 
consistently fingering the wrong note, or 
coming in early on an upbeat, but the 
built-in ,v near enough will do" approach 
compensates for this when a nearly cor- 
rect performance is acceptable enough to 
allow advancement to a new lesson. The 
authors have obviously given a great deal 
of thought to the problem of computers 
having a much more finicky ear for Liming 
than the average human, and the com* 
promise works admirably. 

Evaluation 

At no time during my own lessons did II 
have cause to complain about the soft- 
ware's evaluation of my progress. I did, of 
course, swear vociferously at the machine 
when it asked me yet again to go through 
the fourth measure (It could have been 
the fifth measure) of forgo and get that 
chord change just right, but the machine 
was correcL and ! eventually mastered it 
properly instead of in the 
cobbled up fashion I 
would have found accept- 
able. 

In less than three days 
□f fairly intensive practice 
(! couldn't be dragged 
away from it once I’d dis- 
covered how much fun it 
was), I progressed from 
being unable even to play 
Chopttkks to playing a 
tune with both hands 
involving three chords 
and a tricky thrice-in-one- 
measure chord sequence. 
As far as I was concerned, 
the last note fading away 
to the accompaniment of 
rhythmic banging from 


The big night 

What can you do ante yoi/ve started 
find your feet {or fingers) and wish 
expand your musical horizons? Mir 
can be an excellent tutor, but will it ki 
you occupied once fingie Bells begins 
drive you mad? 

Although there are 40 chapters in 
Miracle learning curve, each based 
one song, there are in fact hundred!: 
songs available on the disks supplied 
every keyboard. These range frci 
America (using the same tune as oji 
national anthem) to John Lenna-- i 
Yesterday and the Be a tie s J YtUi 
Submarine, and any one of them can ‘ 
loaded by the user. 

By simply going to the practice rou- 
tine user is presented with a file requev er 
and, once a song is chosen, with a ran 
of practice options. He or she can cht 
to practice right, left, or both hands! 
rhythm, the notes themselves (as in hesi- 
tation mode), play a solo with tf * 
metronome, o fa duet with another compi 
puler-controlled pianist. 

Once happy with the song, popping 
into the performance hall enables prac- 
tice with a full orchestral backing, which 
will be in a style to suit the piece. At th s 
point, the warm glow of satisfaction from 
having practised a song lo performance 
standard without the help of the tu&ftt 
is not to be underestimated.. 

my Irritated neighbours at one in 
morning, Miracle had lived up to its ni 
m no uncertain fashion, 

For the parent or teacher, never mi 
the thousands of us harbouring o 
dreams of musical success, Miracle is I 
of the most educational and enjoyal 
pieces of hardware yet released for if 
Amiga. Its simple design, superb soflw< 
and open ended potential for add- 1 
disks, MIDI sequencing and so on, wt 
make it a good buy at the price ev« 
before the cost of piano lessons was tal 
into account. 

Value 

When the £10+ per hour fees, mu! 
plied by one Lo two years and possii 
more than one child are calculate* 
Miracle shines as much on its value fi 
money merits as it does on its musical and 
technical abilities. This product is already 4 
success on the PC and Nintendo sysif 
and can hardly Fail to be a big hit on 
Amiga. 

Now then was that a G7 or a 
pended Cl And how many times do 
have to practice that triplet 
octave stretch? 


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rum Lhe makers uf Pen Pal comes a 
brand new, unique WYSIWYG Word 
Processing package, that's simply the 
only choice for those who demand the 
most from their Amiga, 

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Word Processor with every feature you’d expect 
- plus many mom found nomiaflv in DTP packages - 
but also the only Wont Phxessor that gives gqsb 
scaleahle outline fonts from any Amiga - even U's. 
1 1 1'agine outputting to your printox highest resolution, 
with almost PtsKcripf laser perfection - no matter 
which printer you may have. Even with a simple 
nine pin dot matrix you'll get perfect 
printing* from Final Copy's 
30 smooth outline typefaces 
that are inducted! 


...in Word Processing with Perfect Printing 



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An in-depth guide for Workstation 2 users 
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B efore we delve into TDM's con- 
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the program's more subtle fea- 
tures h in order. Perhaps the first and 
most vital port of call is TDM's attendant 
p files which instantly leap to your aid if 
confusion or disaster strikes. 

If you hold down the right mouse but- 
'on and move to the TDM Utilities menu 
■ will be revealed - simply release the 


button on Help or alternatively hit H on 
the keyboard to execute the burl! in hot- 
key command, when the requester 
appears simply click on the subject of your 
choice. 

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move to the central 1 device lilt another 
hidden feature will be revealed. At present 
the list will read ,r DF0:, Dfl:, 0F2:, FLAM:* 1 
and sg on, If you move the pointer to the 



top of the list and click 
just above the first device 
the selection will toggle to 
an additional five device 
names. 

At present all of the 
additional devices will 
read simply SYS;. Later in 
the article HI explain how 
to configure these extra 
source devices to suit your 
specific system. 

if you now move to 
the bottom of the screen 


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we'll run through the 
options available on the 



ATdfetf TDM all 
pavr otiffl by 

addiiitf ±ifra 
aptiam in 
secattdi 


lower control strip, 5ome of the features 
are fairly sell explanatory, such as IconJfy 
and the arrow gadgets, while others are 
slightly more mysterious. 

To apply the File Info option simply 
select a file - denoted by an arrow along- 
side the filename - then hit the File Info 
button. 

This is particularly useful when applied 
to directories as they can be scanned to 
reveal their total size - extremely useful 
when copying large amounts of data from 
disk to another, 

Alongside the file info lurks the essential 
command button. Before you click on the 
button itself first run through numbers 1 
to 4 on the keyboard - this will reveal the 
built-in commands already configured to 
work with TDM. 

Within the T-DMConEd section I'll 


expiain how to add additional commands 
of your own, but for how simply list the 
Workstation 2 disk and highlight the file 
entitled AC. IFF, 

Now press 1 on the keyboard and click 
on the command button. TDM will now 
use an external IFF viewer and display the 
AC backdrop image. 

To the right of the command button 
you'll see the Zoom option. This is used to 
provide detailed information on the contents 
of specific drives or directories. From here 
you can examine the state of protection bsts, 
comments, creation dates and so on. 

Now exit the Zoom option and either 
select the TDM Con Ed from the TDM main 
screen or alternatively return to the 
Workstation 2 main screen, highlighting 
the general pull-down and ■r~T F J 
releasing on TDM Config. r ^ 


TDM Configuration Editor (TDMConEd) 


Device gadgets 

We r ll start the editing extravaganza with the ten Device 
gadgets on the upper left, in this areas you can add or 
modify the devices you wish to appear in the devices 
section of the central control panel. 

To add or change a name, simply click in the box 
and add the appropriate sting. When you return to the 
TDM main screen the new device will be ready and 



Commands gadgets 

In this area you can add or modify the commands that 
appear in the External gadget in the lower centre of the 
screen. These commands must be in the C: directory or 
: amatively have a path assigned. For example: 

p 

If 1 :||t1 Lt/UrdpLiytr 

Archivers gadgets 
(19 characters max) 

n this ares you can add the archivers you want to 
-mploy when you press die letter V within TDM. These 
. mmands must be in C: if no paths are defined. 

To discover the required syntax for your particular 
sr Oliver copy it into your C: directory, open a shell and 
'.pe its filename. At this point a list of commands 
' ' 1 ■ Id appear which can then be added to the Extract, 

. vt and Add gadgets. 


Auto Floppy Directories 

Selection of this mode (on or off) will cause TDM to automati- 
cally load a directory when a floppy is placed in one of the 
floppy drives. This will only take effect if either of Che display 
windows contain the appropriate drive as the directory listing. 

Hot Keys 

This function allows you to switch the hot key function on or 
off. When set to the off it doesn't mean the hot key operation 
is totally disabled, it simply means that a key combination of 
the light Amiga and the key Setter needs to be depressed 
simultaneous iy. 

Full Paths 

if you wish to have the FULL path displayed in the source win- 
dow for the directory you are currently using (ie: C: would be 
displayed as Bench ;C/ in my case), then select this option. If 
you select off, then the display will show what you type. 

Palette gadgets 

To edit one of the Screen Colours, simply dick on one of the 
boxes containing the colour you wish to edit. You can then 
use the sliders marked % G or B to adjust that colour as 
required. 

TDM External Files Path 

To give you more freedom in using TDM, you can tell it to 
toad the TDMConEd and TDMHeip programs from whenever 


you like. This feature has already been implemented for 
you, but feel free to move the files and reset the path if you 
wish. 

T'ie External files path offers an excellent opportunity to 
free some space on the disk. You could copy both fifes onto 
a separate disk and then use the path name to access them 
when required, for example: 

Dll : T E*H St u f f r 1 

This would simply instruct TDM to took for the TDMStuff 
draw on drive DFl while searching for help fitos and the 
tDMGonEd program. Movng bath files instantly Trees over 
60k of valuable disk space allowing you to add even more 
utilities, to the system., 

TDM External Read Font 

You can now define the font you wish to use for reading 
files within the fteadf He option of T DM. Simply type in the 
name o- the font you wish to use and press Feturri. 

You do not have to type .font at the end, as TDMConEd 
will automatically do this, however, if you do, TDMConEd 
will not add it. 

Minimum Memory 

This option has come about so as to give yog warning 
when your system is becom*ng low on memory. You may 
entEr any value between 50k (50,000 bytes) and 500k 
(500,000 bytes) as your warning level. This must be 
Entered in k rather than bytes. 


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Computing investigates 
the hottest craze since 
the space hopper. If you've 
switched on a TV or watched any 
selF respecting 5ci-fi during the 
last year or two you've almost 
certainly experienced morphing 
and warping in action. 

in the past magical FKs of this 
magnitude were strictly the 
domain of the Hollywood 
moguls^ but now thanks to 
ASDG, CVP and Black Belt, the 
ultimate in movie magic awaits us 
all. 

Before the three ring circus of 
Morph Plus, Cine Morph and 
ImageMaster step out to the roar 
of the grease paint and smell of 
the crowd a brief description of 
what a morph and a warp actu- 
ally are is well worth recount. 

The First thing to keep in mind 
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morph and metamorphosis. We'll 
start with the latter. When the 
phrase metamorphosis is used in the com- 
puting sense it refers to a transition of one 
three dimensional form into another with 
both elements sharing an equal number of 
points. 

Mind blowing 

If you J re not into ray tracing or 30 mod- 
elling this has probably done little or noth- 
ing to clarify the situation, as the technique 
is almost exclusive to such applications. 

Although a truly mind-blowing effect in 
the right hands, metamorphosis tends to 
fall woefully short when it comes to believ- 
able real, word emulation. 

for example to create a convincing 
metamorphosis a seemingly real human 
head into another would be a difficult if not 
impossible task on even the most powerful 
ray tracing package. On the other hand 
sudi transformations are second nature to 
any self respecting morphing program. 

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methods is the number of dimensions 
employed. Unlike ray tracing, morphing is 
strictly Two dimensional. In other 
words, morphing software has no 
concept of distance or perspec- 
tive, ifs only priority is the manip- 
ulation of a flat 2D image. 

Because of this its perfect for 
manipulating real world imagery 
that's been captured from video 
tape or alternatively scanned From 
existing artwork. 

The owl to baby examples are a 
perfect example of morphing in 



action, just two scanned images manipu-* 
lated to create and unlimited number of 
"Tweens" which gradually trans- 
farm the ultimate in mouse mur^ 
derere into mother's pride and joy. 

To initialise the effect the promi- 
nent features are linked by either 
vectors or alternative^ a mesh sys- 
tem, the outlines set, the transition 
and dissolve parameters applied, 
the sequence number added and 
you F re otf. Spectacles stretch into 
windscreens and teeth transform 
into the grill of the latest star of the 


showroom Floor 
no matter now 
package it helps If 
least a tenuous link 
the source and the 
For example morp 
sub-post office into a 
ture of Phil Collins 
quite amusing bu* 
unlikely to be part 
believable - especJ 
the less accurate 
systems. 

Although the 
morphing has stolen 
limelight in the p 
press its lesser known 
lerpart namely wa 
almost certainly the 
frequently used of the 
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of a hero to his ma 
alter ego is indeed 
rable it’s by no me 
common as the by I 
eyes, stretching of e 
ties and general m 
features found throughout popular 
ing and TV. 

The basic difference between the 
methods is that warping operates or a 
gle image producing a single or se 
transition of the specified features. 

For example, a simple eye bulge 
consist of encircling or defining the 
around the eyes, adjusting the fin 
positions of the target, then either r 
ing a single image to produce a strai 
ward before and after, or altemat 
entire series ideal for animation. 

This last reference to animation is 
clarifying a little before you road on 
animated or moving warps and rr 
mentioned below. When a series oi 
images arc morphed or warped over a 
of frames the resulting images can 
combine to produce animation. 

However, this is not an animated 
morph. The end result may indeed 
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Although the title is new, the soft ware 
itself was the first to bring morphing to 
the Amiga, Formerly known as Image 
Master but recently renamed for legal rea- 
sons the software is now shipping in its 
9,20 revision. 

At its release the software offered mor- 
phing was one of its many image process- 
ing options. Now Black Belt have added 
warping to sweeten this already sugar- 
coated package. 

Like its rival MorphFlus, Image Mr 
offers both animated as welt as static 
morphs and warps, which again like its 
counterpart from AS DC, employ point 
editing as their desired processing format. 

Like CineMorph the package uses a 
double window display for the before and 
sifter images and boasts a new zoom 
option allowing accurate editing of fine 
detail, 

In addition the morph panel offers the 
option to employ an optional skin overlay 
similar to that used within Morph PI us enti- 
tled Arc vectors. Unfortunately the Image 
Mr option is noticed hly slower and lacks 
the instantaneous image mixing options 
and separate blending controls found 
within its counterpart. Nevertheless it's yet 
another string to the bow. 

The morph and warp interface benefit 
immensely from the main program's film 
strip option which when active instantly 
creates thumbnails of the new^-generated 


Moving morphs and warps 


Before the inevitable techno- jargon that goes along with any com- 
plex computing procedure I'll point out perhaps the perfect exam- 
ple ol an animated morph in action. IF there's an advert of recent 
times that's expiated morphing more than any other it's sporting 
example offered by fteebok. 

For the benefit of those readers who r ve missed this particular 
masterpiece in marketing the advert features sev- 
eral lycra-clad sporting types running, jumping 
and generally extolling — in graphic terms at 
least - the virtues of their expensive designer 
footwear. 

On the face of it nothing particularly 
unusual - apart from the amazing transfor- 
mation of the vanous athletes during the 
action. As the assorted Olympians stride 
across the screen they seamlessly flow 
from man to woman, black to white 
and back again without even breaking stride. 

I'm sure those of you wha J ve seen the ad will agree 
the effect is spectacular and never fails to produce the inevitable 
"How do they do that" query from the suitably impressed buying 
public. 

The answer to that particular question is simple - animated 
morphing at its best. Although it may be hard to believe anyone 
with an Amiga and suitable software can now create exactly the 
same results. But be warned, creating animated morphs is a very 
time-consuming procedure. 

Unlike static morphs their animated counterparts require a 
source and destination image for every frame in the sequence. So, 
for example, a 30 frame sequence would require 60 frames for a 
true animated morph. 

Obviously digitising, scanning and processing this amount of 


imagery takes a long time and a sizeable amount of disk space. Alas 
this is only the beginning due to rhe differences between each 
image pair in die sequence. As a result il r s impossible to simply set 
the paints on the beginning and end frames as you would with a 
static morph, allowing the software to generate the tweens. 

As you may have guessed automation can take a back seat when 
it COmes Lo truly animated morphs and warps. Because software has 
no concept of what you're trying to achieve, ideally every one of the 
60 before and after frames should be adjusted manually. 

Although this may sound about as appetising as a broken glass 
barm cake it's not nearly as painful as the initial description sug- 
gests, thanks primarily to key frames and the option to 
save points from one image and then load or carry 
them to the next Frame. 

Because of point carrying, editing time is vastly 
reduced, as the original points need only be moved 
rather than added from scratch for ever frame in the 
sequence. 

In addition Lo canying points, adding key frames to 
the sequence can make Itfe much easier as in affect 
you are adding target point positions within the 
sequence which allows the program to tween some 
of the frames for you — at the expense of a slight loss in accuracy. 

Obviously key frames can save a lot of Lime but if must be 
stressed that key framing i$ basically a compromise in disguise. If 
you only apply a few key frames in a long sequence the end results 
will obviously suffer badly in relation to a similar sequence with a 
key frame at every other frame. 

A similar key framing and point carrying process applies when 
dealing with animated warps within MorphPlus and Image Mr. Alas 
animated warps aren’t directly supported with CineMorph - a real 
pity - 


The only downside is that is can become a 
little confusing a* tp which points on each 
image relate to each other. 

Like the twp other packages in the 
round-up, the program also boasts defin 
able transition and dissolve options. An 
added bonus shared with MorphPlus is 
the ability to define separate settings for 
selected groups which means,, un ike 
Cine morph, individual elements within 
morphs or warps can be transformed <\t 
different rates, 

As you'd expect, Image Mr also boasts 
key Ufa me options for animated morphs 
and warps plus the option to save and 
load points as required. As for speed the 
package fails 


static. It's only the "tweens" generated by 
the software that produce the elfect of 
movement, the original images 1 hem selves 
never move an inch. 


frames. And when all the f ramies are com- 
plete the film player built into the warp 
and morph control panels allow syou to 
play back your creation in miniature at the 
frame rate of your choice. 

It there's is one area in which Image Mr 


scores particularly well it is in 
speed of editing and ease of 
use. Urtlike both the oppo- 
sition packages, the pro- 
gram defines before 
and after points as sim- 
ple crosses on the 
source and target 
images. 

To morph or warp 
a feature means sim- 
ply adding the points 
to the source image. 

These are then instantly 
generated on the target 
where you then simply 
move the target points to 
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MorphPlus and like all three packages it's 
surprisingly quick considering the com- 
plexity of the subject. 

As far as quality is concerned again 
Image Mr falls roughly between its coun- 
terparts. Like CineMorph the program is 
particularly strong when morphing ele- 
ments within a fairly uniform background. 
For example bulging eyes and features 
with soft or undefined edges morph 
extremely well 

Alas, like CineMorph, the program does 
suffer in comparison with MorphPlus in 
that hard edges tend to ghost. As you 
probably see from the Image Mr baby-to- 
owl example, when the head shrinks the 
edges do tend to fade and ghost rather 
than transform. 



erdict 


Although sfs easy lo knock the output, 
both the morph and warp options are 
extremely well implemented and are 
only out-gunned on the flexibility and 
output stakes by MorphPlus. 

For the enthusiast looking to make his 
or her debut in serious image process- 
ing, Image Mr is the ideal choice. It 
must be stressed that morphing and 
warping are only a small pad of the 
Image Mr repertoire, which in total 
offers image processing and special 
effects numbering in the hundreds. 


CineMorph 


Unlike bath MorphPlus and ImageMaster 
this particular chestnut takes a totally differ- 
ent approach to both morphing and warp- 
ing. Rather than umq the point approach 
of its counterparts the program employs a 
mesh system which allocates areas with 
each square of the mesh which are then 
moved during the morph or warp to the 
position of their counterparts on the target 
imag«. 

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static morphs and warps plus animated 
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Unfortunately there appears no automated 
method of producing animated warps. 

Given a little effort, it's possible to simu- 
late the effect by splitting a sequence ot 
frames intn numerous sections which can 
then be processed individually using the 
static warp option. 

The results could then be appended 
together to form a pseudo animated warp. 
It involves a lot more effort than is neces- 
sary with the other programs, but at least 
animated warping is theoretically possible. 

The interlace employs the duel window 
design similar to that offered by Image Mr - 
but thafs where the similarities end. For 
example there's no built-in zoom option, 
instead close inspection requires the win- 
dow to be stretched via the sizing gadget 
in the classic Workbench style. 

Obscured 

Although the aforementioned resizing 
technique is quite usable, it does mean that 
close inspection of one image inevitably 
means that at least part of the second 
image is obscured. Another minor gripe is 
the inability to adjust the contrast and 
brightness of the source and target images 
- particularly useful when you're dealing 
with dark or complex artwork. 

Actually adjusting the aforementioned 
mesh is a simple case of dick and drag, 
with group point selection taken care of 
courtesy of shift and click combinations. 
Additional rows or columns can be added 
to the mesh by hot key or menu selections.. 
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simply a matter of placing an area of the 
mesh ewer the desired point and then re- 
arranging the same points on the target 
image. 

As you can probably see from the 
examples like Image Mr, this particular 
approach to defining transformation is 
extremely good on soft areas such as eyes, 
but unfortunately suffers quite badly, 
especially in relation to MorphPlus - when 
applied to hard edges and outlines. 

The problem of ghosting haunts 
CineMorph as it does Image Mr, 
Admittedly this does sound rather damn- 
ing, but it's not an insurmountable prob- 



lem 11 you are willing to put in a little a ^ 
tional effort.. 

For example when a sequence or stiis 
complete there's no reason why tl 
images can't be touched up with a 
able paint package. Another alternative 
to be slightly more selective concemi 
the image you choose to morph or wai 
The mare extreme the different* 
between source and target the more 111 
you are to encounter ghosting. 

in addition to both of the above, yd 
can also improve image quality by adjust 
ing the fade and transition waves whirl 
determine the speed and strength of bei 
effects during processing. 

Alas, unlike both Image Mr a- 
MorphFlus, CineMorph doesn't offer tN 
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*ives as required. For example, this means 
f * mpossibly to morph the eyes of a sub- 
first and then gently add additional 
It j'ures later in the sequence. 

Although slightly lacking in the Hex ibi lily 
•'akes CineMorph isn't without its 
'K-ngths. At the forefront of these is 
i^eed, which without doubt makes 
t neMorph easily the fastest of the three 
ptkages on test. 


Rendering 





However,. I did find the saving on ren- 
ewing time was counterbalanced slightly 
by the mesh editing System, which on 
Complex images does require more effort 
ir comparison to its counterparts. 

The aforementioned rendering speed 
Combine* this with an impressive selection 
Jf rendering options including 24 bit, 
ham, PCTV J and 4 bit planes, Ham-E and 
i* ! standard Amiga modes. 

But: having said that both Image Mr and 
a combination of Morph Plus and ADFro 
can offer all o( the above and more with 
Te only exception being OneMorpb's abil- 
i to generate standard AnimS animations 
a* Ihe final output format. 


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li-ndenty to ghost. However with a little 


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smility and 


magi nation, additional editing, and care- 
i image selection very reasonable results 
in be achieved, especially when applied 
n situations that suit the programs 


‘rengths. 

Above all, the package's strongest asset 
nas to be it's price, which, at literacy hall 

I n at of MorphPlus must make it an attrac- 
tive option to users who already have a 
Tiage processing system and merely wish 
■o add the ophon to morph and warp. 


However, if you're planning your first 
■ntative steps Into image processing the 
Iditional £70 required for Image Mr 
vould be a very vwse move consideong 
Tie huge collection of additional effects 
:.nd composition tools that come in addi- 
tion to the program's morphing and 
warping options. 



MorphPlus 


As you may already be aware MorphPlus is 
the latest addition to the ADPro image pro- 
cessing system. Like its predecessor Fred - 
ADPro'i frame editing and sequence com- 
positor it works as both a stand-alone 
package as well as seamlessly integrating 
into the ADPro environment. 

For example, if any would-be user 
already has ADPro on their system installing 
MorphPlus In the same drawer means that 
all the loaders, savers and operators from 
each become a shared resource. 

While we're on the subject of operators, 
this is a perfect opportunity to mention the 
"Plus" in MorphPlus. In addition to static 
and animated morphing and warping the 
package offers a selection of new ADPro 
style operators including warp, rotate, rip- 
ple, .sphere, twirl and perspective 

Firm grip 

By now you should have a firm grip of 
what can be achieved with the warping 
operator but some of the others may need 
a little more explanation. 

Rotate, for example, allows circular areas 
La rotated to the angle of your choice while 
the ripple option allows you to add slash 
points from which an unlimited number of 
user-definable ripples emerge. 

AN the user needs do is define the splash 
point and assign the intensify and general 
dynamics of the effect. Next on the list 
comes the sphere option which allows total 
control over the familiar wrap-la- sphere 
feature found on numerous paint packages. 




Twirl, the penultimate operator on the 
list, works in a similar manner to rotate but 
adds a definable twirl by twisting a preset 
circular area. 

Lastly we come to perspective scale. 
Again a rather self-explanatory effect, but 
ike all the new operators it's been imple- 
mented beautifully via the now familiar 
ADPfO-Style grey Scale operator screens 
which accompany all the effects listed. 

Ihe interface of MorphPlus at first 
glance is almost identically Id ADPro with 
the only noticeable exception being the 
parent program's separation controls and a 
slight ^-arrangement of the various screen 
gadgets. A pointer to the similarity of the 


two is the requester which appears if you try 
to bad ADPro in addition to MorphPlus. 
The aforesaid requester instantly informs 
you that a copy of ADFro <s already running. 

In addition to MorphPlus - the program 
- the package also supplies Fred as part oF 
the bundle and, of course, Morph itself, the 
program that automates the sequent i at 
warping and morphing options. 

Morph, unlike the MorphFlus program, is 
not stand-alone and requires that 
MorphPlus oir ADPro be active before any 
processing whether animated or otherwise 
can commence. 

Unlike both its counterparts, Morph 

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defaults to & single image window which 
employs a definable onion skin effect to 
show both source and target images simul- 
taneously, The mix of the two can be 
adjusted to provide the perfect mi x via a 
slider which determines the relative trans- 
parency of each image. 

in addition to definable image mix, the 
interface also boasts the option to adjust 
brightness and contrast on each of the 
images within the display. For complex 
warps and morphs this is a real godsend. 


Authority 


When such a high degree of controf is 
combined with the freely interruptible 
screen refresh and instant zoom. 
Morph Plus begins to stamp its authority as 
the Amiga's premier warping /morphing 
environment. 

To actually set up either a morph or 
warp, points are added via a mouse click 
and keyboard com bin at ion. Each point 


appears with its counterpart appended via 
a connecting link which can then be 
stretched to the desired point on the tar- 
get image. 

Once a series of points are complete 
they can then be linked via another dick 
and keyboard combination to form a 
group. These groups can then be selected 
as individuals, moved around the screen, 
cut, pasted and deleted as required. 

In addition, once selected, groups 
become separate entities within the pro- 
duction and, like Image Mr, MorphPlus 
allows each group to have its own Fade 
and transition settings within the overall 
project 

As a result any element can transform 
or fade as and when required. If s even 
possible to specify that selected features 
should remain the same, so, for example,, 
the beard of a source subject could be 
grafted on to the face of its dean-shaven 
target image. 

As with all three packages, points and 



When all pi the above, plus the whole host of subtle additions and, superior outp £ 
quality are added together, Morph Plus can rightfully claim the LilSe as the best in thl 
business. 

However, as usual there's a price to be paid. Firstly like Sts parent program ADR- 
MorphPlus is a mat memory monster, needing at least four megs of Ram to operate * 
addition Workbench 2 is an essential as indeed is an accelerated machine and a ha : 
disk, although the manual implies the latter of the two are optional -ho, ho.,.. 

As the price tag and system requirements indicate, MorphPlus is a professional 
age and proud of it For those who fall into that bracket and consider perf orman 
rather than price their pnme consideration, there's only one choice. 

But for the semi-pro/enthusiast building a system Irom scratch Image Mr al just £l“> 
has to be the obvious choice, as to build an arguably belter system with a comhinat:. 
of AD Pro and MorphPlus would set you back a staggering £5&G plus - and tha‘ 
before the hard disk, accelerator and other image processing essentials. 


groups can be saved and loaded as 
required but in addition the program 
offers the option to carry specified features 
on to the next frame of sequential pro- 
jects, thereby avoiding any time wasting 
incurred "during the load and save process 
employed by the opposition. 

Other editing Features include the abil- 
ity to hide points and group selections in 
order to further clarify what on a complex 
project can become a very confusing col- 
lection of inter connected points and 
vectors. 

Fastest 

As you'd expect, key frames also play 
their pari, so with the combination of 
group carries and key frames, Morph plus 
h easily the fastest editing environment of 
the big three. 

When all the points are in place and 
the frames sot yet another feature allows 



MotphPhts warping 
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you to watch the animation in its wi 
frame form before rendering the com 
sequence. This again is a real time savt r 
any potential problems can be spottec 
advance of the generation process whr 
contrary to ASDC J s marketing, is in 
□pinion the slowest of the three pack 
on test. 

A festamenL to the power of the 
gram is that after lengthy experimental! 
fm still at a loss to Find a editing or 
cessing tool l J d like to add. A prime e 
pie of that power is the program's a 
automatically to duplicate or remove 
Lional frames for animated warp a 
morph sequences, ensuring both irn 
groups share an equal number of fra 


Image Master 




Ease of use 
Flexibility B 
Image quality 8 
Value for money 1 0 
Overall S 




Available from: .Amiga Centre Scotlam.' 
Tel: 0696 875S3 
Price: £1 75 



CineMorph 


Ease of use 6 
Flexibility 7 
Image quality 7 
Value for money 7 
Overall 7 


Available from: Silica Systems 
Tel: 081 309 1111 
Price 199 



MorphPlus 



Ease of use 9 
Flexibility B 
Image quality 10 
Value for money 7 
Overall 9 


Available from: HB Marketing 
Price: £199 
Tel: 0751 686000 


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ibys trfpufduse. UPIIDNS 

■ HOI VI DfUVRIY an ill ^Optima' puriti 

If you wish to upgrade any major item of bard wars in the 'Option Pack 1 , simply tell us at the time of ordering and we will just 

charge you the difference in price between the two products. Easy! 


FREB DUST COVIRS Jot Computer, printer u.nd muni Lor whrn 
purdLUiiiu in uptiDits pack 

EXO.IsrVE technical helpline number 

The ltoiledgh iiiai inu arc pudiasirg (nmi one aOhe premier mail 
order company In Europe 


titles 

’ 3_i jgjg 

Our friendly, highly trained sales 
team will ensure that your order is 
dealt with efficiently and with the 
minimum of fuss. 

At the time of 
! ordy we will 

regarding your 

>*u- — ® - 1 ^ purchase. Ail 
major credit cards accepted. 


Once you have made the 
decision to purchase from 
Phoenix your order wifi be 

dispatched 
promptly and 
^ 1 without fuss. 

Using one of the 

^ leading courier 
I I . services 
^ Eg ensures that 

— vu or , i m[ > 

intact and in the same condition 
they left our stock. 


PHOENIX 
OPTION 4 

A 500+ Carte on 
Classics 2Mb 


Captain Planet 
lie Simpsons 
Deluxe Palm III 


A A A A A A A A A A 


Welcome to our three 
page Christmas- Special which has 
the products you need to make this a “Happy Amiga Christmas !” 

Page one is devoted to Options packs trhkh m design#} to tekv ike kemiadn e our ofyour cbotce this Christmas. 
f\Oym uw bam b&en gathering rogtrfar feedback from our customers tm u bai (be v think are ffje essential items to he 
found m a pack, fwm this mformatitm hare assembled what i tv and the Amiga buying public hetiem fo he (he 

ultimate in packs at tmqaestkmabty the best fnices. 

Make ‘Options* your only option this Christmas! 




lames Milliard 


I fana 


Director 


your own ^ IS ' 

in tiDuse’ ail- act Jon arcade environment 
Exploit Hie Amiga as the ultimate games 

machine!!! 


NORMAL O P. inc VAT.,,, 

PHOENIX 
OPTION 1 


Two Joysticks 

tiuliv ntlcruswllclied) 

Mo use- Joys tick 

Switch 


Bin m Mouse Mat 





Probably the home Computer of the 
decade, the A120Q is the idlest addition to 
the Amiga family 


Incorporating a new internal 
onjjtno and rn-iriy itflNa exeiLin:; and powerful 
features, this machine t r u lv lakes the Amiga 
family imta th-o- noxt t0OBFatIofl!!!M!fH 




6 BO 2d Processor Running at 14 Mhi - 2Mb Chip RAM 
leipanffalfi 10 ID Mb using 4Mb fast raE-morv PC 
MC I A cants und * Mb 32-bii RAM in CPU si«j • New 
douhfo “AA r graphics chip iet 1 2&B colours on 
screen tram a ifi.S t?iI on colour palctie * Full Amya 
Key board fwnrh Aipba numeric kay padi ■ CPU local 
BUS j!ot jeard idge), QO 

Phoenix Price Ortlv .«....., t J'/Sj*9d 


NEW PACKS 


"THE WILD, THE WEIRD & THE WICKED' 

1 Mb A GDO as saandard and includes the ercetent value 
Software tittes. Deilixe Pant III * RmnUa One Grand Pm: * 

Phoer ik Price Only. .<«***. £339.99! 

A 600 2Mb fiiKi atom t £379,99 


'EPIC* LANGUAGE PACK' 

T Mb A BOO as standard and includes 2QME HARD 
DRIVE th# ejcpelfem value Software titles: Deluxe 
Paint 1 1 1 * T rivial Persy it ■ Ep^c * Myth \H ome 

Phoenix Price Only £484.99! 

A G002Mh420 Mb Hard Drive ....£524.99 

ICiatfi rfteMe tH #&0rt JtfdyiVu jutovwv/ 

Tbs stand-alone 

A 690 is compact, 
sflmi portable, 
fully lealured and 
can be purchased 
in the following 


configurations: 

A 600 



PR S» ■ >4 E 4 til Mum id ■ ■ ■■ 


£274.99 
a 6oo hd MK3?£429.99 

A 600 2Mb £314.99 

A 600 HD 2Mb £469.99 


RAM EXPANSION 


Phoenix PA GOI-popul&l&d-IMb £44.99 

Phoenix PA 601- unpopulated -0Mb , .£2 A. 99 
Phoenix A 600 ROM Sfcnrer„ £29.99 

wicij Ws.r 



Features Fncluda; SS04D 32 Bit Processor running 
at 25 MHz [upgradable f * New Double A A chipset 
with 16.8 million t olcur* * high density L44 Mb 
floppy ■ 120 Nb IDE hard drive * New Workbench 3 

AMIGA 4000.....'. £2,229.00 

A*®) wins vmum Mb HardDnve... £PQA 


AMIGA 1500 


2,04 Workbench Includes: Deluxe Pamc 3. Platinum 
Works, Home Accounts, Tuki. PuzzniG, * Eli Amiga 
Format Book and Joystick apm aa 

AMIGA 1500 ....... (HUB Cu9,99 



GVP PC-286 16MHz £239,99 

KCS Power hoard (wftti DOS 4011,..,.. £199.99 

KCS Powerboard £184.99 

KCS adaptor for 1500/2000... GBP £59,99 
Vortex A Tone* Plus 288 jitMHzi. £214.99 


.KCS *di 

9 m 



AAA 


MONITOR 


The incredible a 


32- Bit tech no! □□ y at a uric a 5 
you can af lord only from ^‘5 

S.SL, Ray tracing an image A 
that takes 24-hrs an a standard Army,-: takes just 
1 hr. 38 mins with an A50DDI ! FRtEmaihs cn-pro 
included with both A/BSDCU accelerator cards, 


A 5000 + IMS 16.67 Mhz 
A5000 + 2 MB 16.67 Mhz «, 
A5D0D + 3MB 16.07 Mhz ... 
A5000 + 4 MB 16.67 Mhz .... 
BSD90 + 1MB 25,00 Mhz... 
B5000 + 2MB 25.00 Mhz <rH 
B50QCI + 3MB 25,00 Mhz ... 
B50Q0 + 4MB 25.00 Mhz . 





.£24999 
£289.99 
£119.99 
...£34999 
..,£49999 
....£669.99 
.£829,99 
....£97999 



VP IMPACT SERIES tl Hard Drives, the 
fastest Hard D rive/C d nlr-i Her for the Amiga. 

Features Gama Switch, external SCSI pnri 
FAAASTROM SCSI Driver. GVP's custom VLSI 
chip and internal RAM expension up to 3 meg! 
Units, use high specilicetion fesi-accuss 
QU AM7UM Herd Drives coming with 2 yr. guarantee 

ASOfl-HDa* 42 Mb j£7 W! £289.99 

A50U-HOB+ BO Mb HUS-- £379,99 

AH0-HOB+ 120 Mb £424.99 

A 500- HDB+ 240 Mb ., £689 99 



SALE OF THE CENTURY!! 


Phoenix in association with Roctec and 
Connor, continue to achieve massive sales 
on this high specification, qualify product 

Due to the buying power of Phoenix we are 
able to maintain theso incredible prices- 
p rices that have left the competition GREEN 
with envy-arid the Amiga buying: public 
licking tfinir lips. Stocks will only last until 
the end of November 

ROCTEC 48 MELh „ £259.99 

ROCTEC 85 MB £299.99 

RDCTtC 120 MB £364.99 

Featuring Connor drivas’very fast access nmes- 
i19ms nr betterf * expand up e& a Mb usmq l Mb 
Simms only * I year guaranis * slimline design 
ideally colour matched to the A50Q * Own p^wer 
supply. 

ROCTEC (controller Only! £164.99 

Same specification as the above but without the 
herd drive Fitted so you can fit your own. Please 
specify IDE or SCSI, 

EXTRA MEMORY Only £25.99 per Mb. 


STAR 

LC-100 Cotour ZES £159.99 

3 PIN cniour printer with paper parking, eight Font? 
an d ui^ch'ooi^ DFP switches. 

LC24-uia ct £189.99 

24 PIN with compressed data made, 16 K buffer and 
10 Iuiebt quality rontsjwith Star pnnter driver only). 

i p.m f 1 7Q QQ 

LC-2W Colour.,.. £195 99 

lc 24-20 £199,99 

1X24-200 Mono £219.99 

LC24-200 Colour £268,99 

XB24-200 Colour £ 379.99 

SJ4B- Bubble jet BQ7E219.99 

Scar printers come with one year warranty 

CITIZEN 

Swift 240 Colour £215?/ £279.99 

Swift 24D Mono fxVUVJi £259,99 

Swift 200 Colour rrrilllll £219,99 

Swift m Mono mm £199,99 

Swift 9 Cnbur. £179,99 

Citizen priirtart eome wrth Z year warranty. 
HEWLETT PACKARD 

Deslt JO1-550C {cviwpfwtefl... £559^99 

3EO dpt in i!.- q >. 1 9, 1 1 r y oUihjL ’ sharp Sl acks nnd IFi thI ich 

CCiIwwi ii vt: . lAtil i; **lx buili: in type iac-e.5,4 scHlabln * 
improve n m&dis h*ndlm!i * several paper s zes * FOUR 
TIMES FASTCfi prnvmus M P Deskiet^ancL:. 

Deskjfli 500 £329.99 

Desk jei-500 Colo ur ,..,,.£449.99 

HP punters come with 3 year warranty. 

HP black ink cartridge .,....^£24,99 

HP coisur ink cartridge ,.£29-99 

AUTO SHEET FEEDERS 

star lcm £57.99 

STAR LC200 f59.99 

STAB LC24-2D0 £62.99 

STAR LC24-2D...., £62,99 

STAR 5J4B £49.99 


PHILIPS BQ33Mk II iE37£1 

Colour Storoo Monitoir now including 'Lotui 
Challenge', and 1 yoais on-Site wflrriitW. 

COMMODOHE 1085 SDI £21 1 

COMMODORE 1084 SDI...., £1 

All monitors Lire supplied with 
CHhle far connection in youa 

MONITOR ACCESSORIES 

14" Dust covers,..,..,... 

N" Tilt & Swivel stafid H .„,. HR „„„ B „ r £1 

Anti- Glare filter sersan 

A4 Copy Holden EIj 

“This is is the second time I have 
with yoti atui each time have had 
excellent se nice and rapid dcliv* r 

Bwl vr W- B^auniont- llLuhl^i'sHt-r 


Don’t confuse these quality disks with DiS 
currently available. 3.5" 1<30% certified error fre« 
clip. A I disits inc lude FREE high quality Phoenix I 

ifl...„ £4.98 200,. .El 

25 £12.99 500 £17i 

50 £22,99 754 £i 

100 ,,.£39.99 imo. £: 

TDK Branded disks- High performs! 
media from lFie experts-ihux ID with labe i. 

10 £5.99 lUO £52 

SO..,, £26.99 son £249 


IDOL Phoenix Disk Labels. 


■P4444I t hfiHI *■ 


EADS 

lABLE^ 



CANON BJ IDeX £HIS? £224.09 

Upgnjd#d v^rsson of BJlOe, the worlds bsypast 
Sul irm perlehliH inkjet printer. 

canon bj 20 nim £31 9.99 

More Features than Hie BJ10, includes Auto sheer 
leeder. Fop selling- Highly Recommended 

CANON BJ 340 ES\T3 £374.99 

3D column bubblejei provides laser q-uelrty output 

CANON BJ 330. m TOT £499.99 

1^ column bubtleiet. 

CANON Bubble jot cartridges,.... ,.£1 7. 99 



PHOENIX PRINTER PACK 

with ALL 


Series II Herd Disk Control AMI canf-.f ! 14.99 
Series II 42 Mb Hard OUk ami RAM card . £269,99 
Series II « Mb Hani Disk and RAM card.. £339.99 
Series It 12B Mb Hard Disk and HAM card. £399.9*.! 
Serins H5« Mb Hard Disk and PLUM card £6399*1 

EXTRA MEMORY Only £25.99 per Mb. 


Supplied with A|LL prmlers containing Urn srd. 
printer cable, printer rihhc: nsjc a rtudg e arvd 250 
sheets q 1 paper absdiLtBly FREE 


Midi Midi 2m. , .£3. 99 Modulator **I_£9 
Midi- Midi 3m., „£4 ,3 9 Amiga-Scarl a ...£5‘ 

Midi Midi Sm .x5.99 Amiga -BH33PHhf I.C9- 
Disk Drivo fxt..™£9.99 Joystick long fixt.M 

M ouse/ Jeysticl «§xl.. £4 

Mnuseydoysticli sglitler...........,..,..,...^ £^ 1 

*S Bf ial/Modom t ables.„. r £| 

* Am i g a - Multisyn c from £9 

* Ami g a ■ Microv Kl e t. H . „ . , , , . . „ £ 9 

*An.ig H CPC monitor.. ........ „£9 

* AmiQfl - RGB/T £9, 

"SCSI Cable various £9 

Primer 1.8m..... £5.99 PriilerZdm HQ. ..£7 

*For full details of these cables 
informal ton regarding the righi cable 
Lhe- job calf D532- 3116^4. Cuslcm built le< 
arc no problem Phoenrx 


PRINTER ACCESSORIES 
We have a largo rang a of high quality printer 


PHOENIX ziiri 

fiAM y.^j£ratfe MLoci 


eg 

■ile-s 


accsssprms for oil the printers wu ±hA inducting' 

dusr covers from E2,$% - Ink cartridges Srgm 


£13.09 * Mono ribbons from £3.50 *Cnlnur 
ribbons from £7.99 ■Printer slands from F7.99 



GVP CoftiniNATlOftl AnCELERATORS & HtWti DtlMS-The 
ultirrtHto expansion product fnr tfrt Amiga 500P 

A530 Cwnbi 40MKz * S2Mb Hard Drive....... £659.99 

ASM Combi 30MHz 4 120Mb Herd Drive. £757.99 
ASM Combi dOMHi + 240Mb Hard Drive..., £979. 99 
ASM 68882 Go-Processor £204,99 



AMIGA CUSTOM CHIPS 

Kickttsft 2.(M DOM ,„„ E3A99 

Kickitan 13 MOM., .171 ^ Fniinr Agnus S3V2A. -99 
WEW Super fi 0 nlieTZ9.99 CIA S5MA. ~.-..X9.S9 

MEMORY CHIPS 

4 Mb s 9 \-m SiBfn_fma 1 1 N mi; Wt ^j, liim - m JTO 
1 Mb r at -BQl Sinnm...£77 M rnk K 4^D| ZSp_„ *m09 

256A k 9 (-flfl) Simnk C 1 2.W i Mb h 1 DRAM .E4S 

256k E 4 DHAM MAS -This prkH is tor l Mb m HAM 


A PHOENIX RAI 
moctula can nxpai 
your Chip RAM up 
Z Mb by using tl 
trapdoor expansh 
port, Extr* ram 
nacBS&arv to unleash 
incredible graphics c*i 
liiIiCil l uF your Amiga All our boards carry a lull 2 y?r 
quiii b!p ruplacarpent pu a ranee e ll's never bsi 
ehuuptr Co upgrade! 

1 Mb Fully populated aa m 

RAM board /Ml ' MW/ ttQ.l 

1 Mb unpopufal-ed RAM hoard £16! 



GVP G -Forte 03^2SMHz + 1Mb 

GVP G-Forco 0»-4DMHi * 4Mb,. 
GVP G- Force 030 SOMHjt 4 4Mb 


■a-f-f-1-l-SPIpi 


EB45.99 

|£7B4.99 

£109999 


Thase chiris cover practically uvery pupDlaf m am c ry 
Expansion or Hard Driye sysetm on Che for tha 

Amiga ia. GVP r SUPRA, MICRUBQTlCS. COMMODORE 




/ must write to congratulate you an 
the efficiency of your mail order staff, " 

Robert S. Blair ~ Itienrnark 


1Mb Simm-33 Bit 60 Narfoseconds., 
4Mb Si rTim-32 Bit 60 NaiiDsoppmj$- 


..£65.99 

£162.99 


EMULATORS 
1 1 500/2000 3(Mn}/ijCH)0T 



Rnmhp's Vld! Amiga 12 is tho roplacaminf For 
complete colour solution bringing you the wotttfTi 
first mass md rtcet colour dig itisor For under C10C 

VIQI-AMIGA 12 H 2w£79. 

Diimsnding faaiures and plenty aF VFMI-fVa/ 
ter money! 1 f-J4ighly Rh^ ommend ed. 

R0CGEN Plus ... ...£129.! 

Quality Foaturos und pirfdTmance-Decornmendec 


Vortex GOLDEN GATE' £41 9.99 

This emulator is the ultimate bridge toeiweort 
PC/AT platforms and the Amiga. U you think th»s 
for you. cross to page three tor specification 
details in this months 'Trail Blazers' sectioo! 


SUPRA 50QRX the ukiwurtB in Fast Ram 

expansion units .FUses 255x4 £pt) 

B Mb pop to 1 Mb # . H ,__ hM ,„„.„.., , H £99.99 

I Mb pop to 2 Mh # „ £12^ 

B Mb pop ro 2 Mb.,., £14! 

8 Mb pop to 4 Mb.. 

8 Mb pop lo S Mb ....... 


. ■ URL! ■ 


HOCKEY BY ROCTEC 

Tne new chromo key unit - used m conjunction 
o Genlock * allows you to su pern poke live vice 
over graphics or v deo-Gubsi l u i h the hrqhtrpj 
portion of a vidsa source with a keyed image- 
Ernbe d live videa in graphics ! _ ^ — ^ 

£269.99 


Phoenix Price. 



AAA A A A A A A 



A A 



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nnlL BLAZERS- WHAT'S NEW IN NOVEMBER 1 992 ! 






* * 


PHOENIX 1Mb A6DQ UPGRADE 

Simply 

t the 

^ Best ! 


fM 


ROCTEC RQCUT1 

This famous super slim drive has now 
been upgraded to include Anli-click 
and virus checker - We have 
reluctantly had to raise the price of this 
product duo to the variance of Ihe 
dollar rate. However lo soften the blow 
we will i lie Inch: a FREE disk heed 
cleaner worth £3.519 

Phoenix price 


VORTEX GOLDEN GATE' 

Designed lor the Amiga 1500/2G0Q/3Q00 
and 3QOOTlh« is a 25MHz 803A6SX PC/AT 

Emulator. PC/AT slot support- Max 16 Mb 
PGffiA M f 4Mb for Amiga-WR use PC/AT IDE 
Haiti Dlbk and floppy drsk drives 2 86 Mb under 
Amiga DOS, highly racarnmendud 

Phoenix price.. £419.99 


FINAL COPY-UK VERSION 

iSJLjq Til is powerful, unique 
#?fr=1 rsd WYSIWYG word processing 
piHE-kFHjit rs the best value choice fur 
your Amnia, sharing many of the 
Features ut full-blown DIP packages 

Phoenix price £69.99 

Be safe in iha knrjw!adi|i Hurt you nre buying 
the nlfieial UK version of the prPdutl bum 
Plums nm RFWA Rf of doaters ottering 
"Laiest torsion" of fmni Cuyy HWt may Aer 
Amorioan product nmt should mit he soht in 
the UK' 


AMOS PROFESSIONAL 

thfc nofil eagerly a wailed SCihwHTG [HfcCiliaij.e ul 
I'm? yr/iir.. h ii r r | u ’.1 received An award nl * 9 > 7 ‘ in 
til AMIGA Frnritrji& LioiwFs superb creuliui 
hiS- now FJVGtvcrt to include numcrair. new 
(■e-ii m rre & developed ham Amiga u£cr& idsa-s 
mul Icudhach. Dnn'l miss Mur. six disk 
Banpnra! 



Credible perhnrmanca, this is simply 


Phoenix price 


PRODUCT 


Mouse/ Joystick Switch £ 13.99 

Don's damage your Amiga's pofis^his device nwi 
■"■fir and iear makes swkthwvt FAST, and 1 rtu&s NOT 
r qM T- power unfai fi'-any 1 1 1 ■ i c i k . 

Compute r/V i de d Scare Switch. ,£ 19.99 

" ip Gatween VldHOftWYipurgr iigimls m. tbs push ijl * huKcn 

Phoenix Stereo speakers..... £ZHF £23 99 
T jperb sound &nd txjcellant dynamics. These two 
ivay sLeren Hi-Fi speakers are an Amiga standard- 
EiceUant dHTfinrion^ cm any gaining soiree* 


DISK DRIVES 


All drives feature super slim design, enable- 
■ sabie switch, thru port and come wish a 1 year 
-ulriCfiititnl guarantee !' 

Phoenix Deluxe Drive........ £ 47.99 

Rnciflc Roc Hie.. £SlS £ 64.99 

Th s famous drive has now been upgraded m 
ndude Anticlickand Virus Checker 

Disk head cleaner. * I<+P £ 3, 99 


FREE MSI UK DELIVERY 


AMIGA MUSIC 


Attention all you music lovers! Phoenix have 
kept Hiis unbeatable music doal running fur you 
ihroughnuf ihe Christmas period. 

music-x jv....oiii ricnn 

When purchaeifig Riliier a fa I UlUU 
Phoenix Seated Sampler nr Pro Midi 2 Interface 
Plata HdIh: Ehi* b ■ IwniUMi oHw only wtikl& stocks latl 1 

Stereo Sampler £ 29.99 

Gcunbinis use of use w-n sla:e of the an a n 0 le-gu* to 
diffiSfl! c 0>n v«r $i □ ii tuGhnc logy line. FREE sample editing 

sahwiii @ rpi.^in learji 

PrO'MiOI 2 INTERFACE £ 24.99 

This My featured prulessianal quahiy midi iitiurln-tg si 
ygry Unxibl* giving seni-pBleh bay 1‘,-itil i;h$. H h*$ livi: 
eoris m. am. (h*u and t we ewttchahle t,«nvlhiu. Me. FREE 
midi lead! 

GVP Digital Sound Studio...... £ 64.99 

High qu h 1 v a-aunrl samplei lor all Amiga Corr-putera 

Amiga Music Made £a*y- 0 nly From Phoenix! 


A 570 CD ROM 


NEXT-DRY COURIER 9NLY E4.5D 


This essential add-on has finally arrived, 
suitable for A 5 O 0 /A 5 DO+, A 57 Q. 

Phoenix price.. ^ £329.99 



MICE & 
TRACKBALLS 


Upgrade Mouse.... £ 24.99 

[With OperiitiQn Stealth, met & hold erf 

flo de d FYl ouse.^ , , , £ 13,99 

GOLDEN IMAGE 

Met|a Mouse ......XI Z P 3 S 

(Has just received 90 % Amiga formal Gnld Awardf 

Optical MqusUH + .. + .HH.a..4 k . +k a + r ..£ 29 .M 

High precision, pointing device. 

Crystal T r&ckb a II ™,„ H+ ,.,.£ 37 ,99 

Infrared- Cord loss-Mouse... £ 47.99 

[Rachargaabla top selling innovation f 

Opticaf Pen Mouse...... £ 39.99 

High Quality Smm mouse Mats.. „ £ 3,99 


SCANNERS 


Powerful imege processing tools lor the 
office or the home environment, 

POWER-Fealures include; 100 - 4 CO dpi * 64 - 
Greyscales Thruport to printer * FREE Edrtinci 

Power S caimer u 2 . 0 , £94.99 

Power Scanner Colour.. . ......... £234.99 


GOLDEN IMAGE-Hand Scanner Series 

Features: 400 dpi ^SC-Greyscalc * Touch up 
and Merge it software. 

Alfa Sc on £ 124.99 

AlfaiScnn PJus £ 149.99 

Alfa Scan OCR. {tic OCR Software j„„. £ 279.99 

EPSON GT-60DO FLAT BED FULL 
COLOUR SCANNER^Ping into Amrga 
parallol pgrf, 600 d.p.i. resolution, up to 16 
million colours fOOQ IU1 

ASDG-SOFTWARE -Scanning software 
tomes in two farms, integrated Into art 
development as a new module or used as a 
stand-alone programms. aj aa a a 

Phoenix Price; tTUil.yy 


ACCESSORIES 


Control Centre £.> 4.99 

Heavy duty construction.rubljeT edging, 
norfect colour match, makes an iilaal 
workstation for the A 50 O/A 5 O 0 + A GOD 

conlro \ centre now availablf 

OAT A SWITCH ES/» pin 0 type.' 

2 way,„ ....£ 15,99 

3 way ...£ 17,99 

4 way £ 19.99 

STORAGE: 

90 Capacity BANK ....£ 11.99 

150 Capacity POSSO £ 16.99 

Disk Be* TO Cep ,....£ 1.99 

Disk Bax 25 Cep ■ I-PH 1914 4 -H-RI ■■■■ li i riisuri Mi £ 2.99 

Disk Boa 50 Cap £ 4.99 

Disk Sox TOO Cap £ 6.99 

Disk Box 120 Cap £ 7.99 

Top grade, hoavy duty miechcm moulded botses. 
Low cost high quality. 


RELEASE 2 


Now Only,. 

£ 79.99 



The popular upgrade kit for 12/ 13 owners from 
Crimmodure is in slock and selling fasti 


WARE 


I 

WORD PRD CESSING /DTP ~ f 

Kindnurds 3 .,., £ 36.99 

Final Copy 2 SSI SS2B £ 66.99 

Professional Page £129 99 

Saxon Publisher f , TiTF £ 189.99 

Pagestream v 2.2 £ 126.99 

Pagestream Font pack 1 .. .£ 44,99 

Pen Pal 1.4 FMgt -lW £ 39.99 

P rewrite v 3 .X £ 57.99 

Quick write . h Oj ,99 

Word worth £ 79.99 

Hot Links £ 52.99 

INTEGRATED PACKAGES 

Gold Disc Olfice .,,....£ 59.99 

Mini Office £ 73227139,99 

CAD & DRAWING 

Design Works E 53. 99 

Professional Draw 3 7 >f v . r rVi-- v ,/ £ 79.99 

Intro CAD Pius ,.£ 74,99 

X CAD 2000 £ 99.99 

X CAD 30 C 0 £ 269.99 

UTILITIES 

Lattice V v 6 Z 31 I 37 £ 214.99 

AJilfa 1 fJ 4 40 

l| ‘ LI ■ n iJ ■ > ■ ■ l b b l h ■. b i.. . .. « i. a^i. ■ - i. ■ i | r , r , I I I I I I ri i null * _■ ■ ■ mf** 

Cross Dos v 5 mc r Cross PC EmtiswU,.* ,,.£ 29.99 

□iskmsster 2 ■ ■ ■ ■ ,.....^.^^£4199 

B as 2 Oos ..™£ 2 ft 99 

Opus Directory £ 29.99 

X c op y .£ 36 . M 

Quarter Back UBbidJibUdgiH^-n-iirniiirniiriiiBn £ 45.99 

Quarter Back Tools Vs 5 MJS _._. H .. H „„,. m £ 49.99 

DATABASE 

Superbase Pro 4 ,. rr ,„ r „ rr , ,.£ 1 64.99 

Super ha so Pers 2 U'ii& Y.T/ £ 3 S 99 

VIDEO PRO D UCT 1 0 N.-TI TUN G 

SCALA 500 £ 79.99 

SC ALA Professional H4 ™, hH1#H , rr „, r .,. J 21 !L 99 

Big Alternative Scroller ....... rr E 35.99 

Broadcast Tltl&r 2 £ 179. 99 

Font Pack 1 for Broad east Tiller 2 ET 8.99 

Foot Enhancer for Brcadcast Tiller 2 . -£ 83.99 

Pro Video Post £ 168.99 

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Evesham 

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I (Evesham Micros £39 .99 ) 

Problem: internal drive on Amiga 500 starts 
choking on everything you teed rt, munch- 
ing disks, or just plain not working, 
Solution 1: suck you brains out with a 
vacum cleaner and drop your Amiga in the 
bin. Solution 2; take it to the menders and 
get an estimate of the damage. 

Wait till he says the drive needs replac- 
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Evesham and ft it using the simple instruc- 
tions, labour costs = 0, and it doesn't Lake 
an electronics genius to do it either. 

The drive is good quality, in my opinion 
better than the native Amiga one that it 
replaces (they are generally pretty ropey as 
•3 rule). The button to pop the disk out has 
been altered to lit the oddly positioned 
hole on the side of an Amiga, so yes, it's 
supposed to look all wiggly like that. 
Lovely job, 

[ Ease of Installation 5 
Build Quality 8 
Bang for bucks 6 
5 

Power 
Computing 
Dual Drive 

(Power Computing £125) 

This is the real king of the external drives, 
killing Several birds with one very large 
store. More like a brick actually. ff J s not 
what you might call a slimline drive but 
then it does contain two complete disk 
drive units and delivers twice the punch in a 
package only a tad larger than the old fash- 
ioned fatline single drives. 

The drive contains the same features as 
the company's popular PC830B single 
drive, which is to say theit is sold with Blitz 
Amiga hardware, -'soFtware Combo enabling 
you to back up disks at lightning speed and 
it has a virus blocker and anti-click 
mechanism- 

Amiga Blitz is part software and part 
hardware. On the back of the drive is a 


Hardware E5 



T here comes a time in every Amiga owner's life when he discover that although 
the Amiga has a nice neat little disk drive inside, life ain't so sweet when all you 
do ss change disks all day. An externa I drive is what's needed, and dang me 
poem if there aren't about 68 billion on the market. 

If you don’t have a second drive you should really get one as il adds a lot to your enja^ 
men! of your machine. Imagine copying a disk without having to swap the disk a few 
times? Or how about loading a btg game simply by putting the first two disks in both 
drives and sitting back? 

There are various types to choose from, some with little LED track displays, some thal 
click and don't click, some are thick and some are slim, but which is best for you? Well the 
best one is really always the cheapest one. 

Drive technology has really come on in recent years and almost all the standard slimline 
drives are the same in reliability and function give or take the odd few duds. Generally the 
drive mechanisms are from the same lew manufacturers, with the casings and interfaces 
bolted on by the retailer. On with the reviews! 



Phil South looks at the pick of the new 
floppy drives on offer and asks: 
"Can you have too many floppies?" 


function switch which selects anti virus 
mode, normal mode, or Blitz mode, and the 
latter is used in conjunction with the soft- 
ware to create one of the Fastest disk copiers 


ever devised. There are small drawbacks to 
this function, however. 

You have to re-boot before using the 
drive in any of the modes, and you can't 
use the drive normally with Workbench 
when in Blitz mode. 

To avoid any problems with power 
overheads, the unit has its own power 
supply, though 3 r d have thought for use 
with the Al 5 DO / A20 00/ A 1000 this 
wouldn't be a problem, There's a port on 
the back for daisy chaining and a disable 
switch so you can turn the drive off when 
a program doesn't like external drives, I 
think this is brill, and I hope Power 



Computing forget I've got it,,, (dring 
dring). Oh double drat. 

Ease of Installation S 
Build Quality 9 
Bang for bucks 9 
Overall 9 

Evesham 

Micros 

External Drive 

(Evesham Micros £47.99) 

If there's such a thing as a good bog stan- 
dard external drive, then this rs probably it. 
Slimline design, disable switch, through 
port for daisy chaining, it's all there, and 
the price is right. 

This is the same unit that Evesham have 
been making for years, and comparing it 
with the one I bought about five yeara ago 
I notice that it's identical. Why change any- 
thing if it does the job, eh? No frills, but 
then who really needs them? 

This h the unit on test that I can really 
comment on the reliability of - five years 
without a single screw-up. Not bad. Not as 
slim as the Zappo, or curvy as the Cumana, 
but drop dead solid. 

E tare of Installation 8 
Build Quality 8 
Bang for bucks 6 
Overall 7 


Cumana 
C AX 354 

(Cumana £56) 

As I recall back in the old days, Cumana 
were the people who used to make disk 
drives for everything, BBC, Acom r Sinclair 
QL„ ah r I remember when,,, (knock it off, 
Snouty and get Lo the point! Ed) Sorry. tL r s 
nice to see that they're still around, and so 
they should be as one of the premier drive- 

> 


Daisy chaining 

The act of chaining another drive on to 
the back of another one. Some disk doves 
have another drive port on the back and 
you can plug another drive into it. The 
name comes from the way the drives look 
when fixed together resembling a daisy 
chain. 

Device name 

All drives on an Amiga system have a 
name, and to make rt easy the names arc 
device names, that is to say they have a 
colon Jr : w on the end. The internal drive is 
called DFO:, Lhe next external drive is 
called DF1:, then DE2r etc. Interestingly 
enough, if you have a A-Max II Macintosh 
emulator, the First external drive ts the Mac 


Jargon buster 


drive, invisible to the system, and so the 
first Amiga drive is always 0F2;! Strange 
but true. 

Drive Click 

Amiga drives dick every few seconds or so 
because they ate looking for a disk in Lhe 
drive. Some PD programs exist to stop 
this, but some drives actually have a hard- 
ware solution to the problem. 

Mountlist 

On your boot disk or hard drive partition, 
the list which describes all you* devices 
and drives which are mounted to the sys- 
tem. The list describes the amount of sec- 


tors on the disk and what the drive 
number is. 

Power overhead 

Daisy chaining drives together cs a little bit 
hazardous on the ASOO, The power over- 
head (the power left alter some Is drawn 
by each device down the drive port) 
decreases to very low levels as more drives 
are added. One or two external drives is all 
you can really get away with, and it's 
always safer to add a drive with its own 
power supply. 

Slimline 

Drives used to be big lunking great bug- 
gers, and then came the slimline drive 
mechanism. We said at the time "some 
time all drives will be made this way" and 
we were nghl as usual. 


Amiga Computing 


January 1993 






QH ardware 



Tllr Ci/rntrrua i^n l 
frpfif vrovnit for a 
white, bul li hllii a 
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masters in the UK. 

fitting then Lhat their drwe shag Id Cm? so 
distinctive. With it's bevelled cream plastic 
case and heavy duty hardnut lead and 
plug, il looks like it means business. 

The unit has all the features of the oth- 
ers, but feels more solid and positive. I here 
is an on/off switch on the back to disable 
the drwe, but you don't know which way 
the button should be unless you look on 
the base. 

This is a good quality unit, but a little bit 
more expensive than the rest. 



of instakati 
Build quality 9 
Bang for bucks 6 
Overall 6 



Zappo 

External Drive 

(ZCL £49.99) 

Once again Ehe same deal. A slimline drive 
with sturdy cabling and on/off switch, The 
switch is a slide type but very positive and 


has a short throw. The Zappo is in fact lhe 
slimmest drive of the bunch, although I'd 
say there's only about 3-5 mm in it. 

It's visibly smaller, and it could be my 
imagination but Zappo feels a lot more 
robust than the other units. The slimness of 
the thing means that the drive button is 
narrower, and could be a little harder on 
the finger, 

Lovely bright LED though, which gleams 


out even the sunlight is pouring through 
the office window onto the drive. Good 
solid job. 



ase of installation E 
Build quality 9 
Bang for bucks 7 
Overall 8 



Zappo i fiKiifrJ II Ifimnier fJSovi mo a I 


Drives to look out for 



This is a very clever unit designed tor use 
with Lhe KC5 Power PC Board, available In 
the UK through Bilcon Devices. The unit 
functions normally as a dual drive on the 
Amiga side, but the trick is thaL it can be a 
normal si^e or high density drive on both 
units. 

However, the really smooth part is that 
it can also be a high density and 
normal density drive on the PC side 
tao, meaning that you can read and write 
1,44Mb PC disks and run the programs 
from them. This makes windows applica- 


tions accessible to the KCS user, although 
First you 11 have to have a partition on 
your hard disk capable of holding 
all the files from the Windows master 
disks. (Okay, so you'll be running V-E-R-Y 
slow, but you can't have everything, eh?) 

If the KCS drive has the same build 
qua lily and reliability as its PC emulator 
then this will be the drive everyone will 
want to own, It'll be pricey but then of 
course you are getting a very high speci- 
fication product. 

No more details at the time of writing 
but by the neat issue of Amiga Co/rrpuong 
we should have at least some pictures of 
the thing, So keep a weather eye open. 


Amiga CDTV Drive 

(Commodate, £42) 

A cool black drive to go with the cool 
black CDTV. Just your basic 3,$* compact 
drive but in a nice satin finish black case 
to match the CDTV, Add a keyboard and 
a mouse in the same finish and you've 
miraculously turned your CDTV into a 
Fully functioning Black 1,3 Amiga with an 
internal CD ROM drive. 

Wow. Power Computing sell the entire 
k if n "caboodle with CDTV, mouse, key- 
board and disk drive for £599, which is 
extraordinary as this is cheaper than the 
CDTV used to be for just the unit alone! 


And the 
winner is... 

1, Power Computing 
Dual Drive 

You've got Lo love a product whkh a 
big and strong, The Range Rover d 
disk drive world. 

2, Zappo 

Slim and neat Good value. Not a 
more a sort of MR2, 

3, Evesham Micros 
External Drive 

Small, neat, cheap, IL does the job an 
messing about. ford Sierra, I'd say. 

4 Cumana 

Very posh if a little pricey in this f 
Dead good though. Think BMW. 

5, Evesham Micros 
Internal Drive 

Few circumstances when you’ll war i 
change your internal drive, bul when m 
do this is your man P following the me A 
ing analogy I guess this must be a kit crl 

Although the very best deal in exlf # 
drives is always lhe cheapest you can * 
at the time, I really like the Po*H 
Computing Dual unit. It's simple to 
and install and yet powerful in use. 

A tad more expensive than I per ;i. 
would like, but you get a lot lor y .* 
money t two drives worth £50 each, r 1 J 
virus checking and fast disk cop'. 
thrown in. You can do all these thing: * 
software (virus checkers and XCopy pm 
haps) but having them online in hardw 
does seem a very attractive option, 


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Unit 9 

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Worts 


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Teh [0386) 765500 



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Eastern Avenue 
Litch field 
Staffs 
WS13 7%F 
Tel: (0543) 41481? 



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Fortunately lor A5Q0, A6Q0 and A12G0 
users all that has changed courtesy of the 
new Vlab/Par which consists of a slimline 
vanilla box with a connecting cable direct 
to the Amiga's parallel port. 

As tar as aesthetics are concerned we're 
not exactly talking awe-inspiring, as control 
of the beast is handled exclusively by the 
accompanying software. 

The only visrble sign erf life is a small LED 
on the rear of the unit which sits alongside 
a basic on/off toggle switch. Like the origi- 
nal internal version two female phones 
await the composite only input - again on 
the rear of the unit. 

Three-pronged 

In addition to the parallel cable the only 
other connection is the power supply 
which on the version tested consisted of a 
Europeamstyle block which required a two 
to three-prong converter prior to use. 

However, it must be stressed that the 
unit tested was a direct import from the 
German manufacturer. As a result it's highly 
likely units intended for UK distribution will 
boast standard plug connectors. 

In addition to the hardware, an all-new 
version of the Vlab software itself is supplied 
with the package, The new software is now 




V tah v. ?, fTfflNr totflfm* 
that fust keeps yf-ITrriy Eitlftr 

at v2. T „ offering several bug fixes and 
enhancements. 

These include support for Workbench 
J.O screen resolutions, transparent control 
of both internal and external Vlab formats, 
an option to save 24-bit files in the IFF- 
D EE P 'ormat as well as normal Iff 24. 

More subtle enhancements include 
improved support for the Harlequin graph- 
ics card plus an optional "Hue" slider a well 
as a whole host of new and updated ARexx 
commands, 

The software itself looks and operates 
just lake ail! previous versions with a senes of 
individual requesters available via pull- 
downs that allow a combination of cus- 
tomisation, image capture and processing. 

Although rather intimidating with its 
vast array of requesters actual operation is 
very straightforward thanks to a combina^ 
non excellent interface design and logical 
operation. 

Assuming youVe set up the system to 
suit and imported an image - either live or 
paused - conversion is usually the next task 
although if ultimate image quality is 
required the complete 
24-bit itself can be 
saved direct to disk in 
the format of your 
choice. 

ft conversion is 
required Vlab offers sev- 
eral unique features 
including the option to 
convert the 24 -bit cap- 
ture into any standard 
Amiga image including 


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again on Vlab, the Amiga's premier frame 
grabber - a product that's just found a new 
lease of life in its external form 



256 greyscales, 256 colours, or the ultimate 
quality of HaniB.. 

This alone makes Vlab stand head and 
shoulder* above the opposition, as creation 
of such images on other grabbing plat- 
forms would require the assistance of a 
dedicated image processing software such 
as ImageFSC or AD Pro - both of which 
weigh in at well aver £200. 

In addition to the impressive selection erf 
image formats the software also boasts a 
few primitive processing tools, not least of 
which is the essential de-interlace which 
automatically strips one of the interlace 


The ADPro connection 




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Alongside the release of the ! 

ware comes the long-awaited L j "TTimT; ' ”_|J 

ADIVo toadtrs 1 w^h liave bt«^ | ^ J ^ in iw.miv '.' ■■mi..- , 

might expect, the first of the two __ j ti ’ ^— | Cral ' j { criml*! 1 ” 

is simply a standard file loader for 
Vlafa's default 24 bit File format 
while the second allows direct 
of the Vlab direct 

from the ADPro interface, combination. 

As the screenshot shows, the taller offers the usual ADPro The only downside 

operator window with selection options for off set, image size, which at present is not 



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source and so on. Strangely there* 
no option to monitor the Incoming 

1 video signal necessitating the con- 
nection of a separate monitor or 
TV to the video source. 

Only when the grab has been 
made can the preview option be 
employed. However, even with the 
monitoring limitation the loader 
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both you, and a hard pressed CPU, 
which previously would have to 
contend with a memory-hungry 
ADPro and Vlab multitasking 

concerns the external variant of Vlab 
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Because a parallel connection \i unavoid- 
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transfer from Live Vlab to the Amiga does suf- 
fer. For single frames the difference between 
the two formats is negligible with tile only 
difference being that de-interlacing on the 
external tends to be a must rather than an 
option. 

In addition, the delay between the moni- 
tor window display and what the grabber 
actually captures does tend to increase on 
the external, requiring a certain amount ol 
guess work lor accurate capture. Not an 
insurmountable problem but nevertheless 
mildly imtatng. 

The only area that suffers badiy in relation 
to the internal is sequential grabbing, i^ain 
because of the limitations of the parallel link 
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Letters 



4D con trick? 


When I picked up your November issue 
54 from the newsagent's shelf, I read 
the Cover Disk label, thinking to mi-self 
"that looks good* Model 4D, a complete 
4D modeller and Tenderer." 

However wt>en I got home and reached 
the CoverDisk pages, I realised I had been 
had. The disk pages state "being a complex 
package, and one into which the author 
has invested a great deal of time and men- 
tal sweat, Model 4D doe^ not come r o v on 
in its complete form*. 

Please make your minds up! Is it com- 
plete or is it incomplete? I car apprec ale 
that shareware authors work hard and 
should receive donations, but at the same 
time I think you should make things dearer 
gn your front cover or disk label. Most peo- 
ple would, I think, resent paying for some- 
thing then finding out that ft wasn't what u 
said it was. 

I hope you can remedy this problem, as I 
do enjoy reading your magazine. I will jus? 
have to open it before I buy it in future. 

Mr Motley, Worthing 


label. Model 40 is complete in that 
none of its functions are disabled, and 
it saves your work to disk, 

What we should ftaitf s aid in the 
disk pages Is that the program is still evolv- 
ing, new features ore being added, and 
those who register as shareware users will 
benefit by receiving ail the upgrades. 

In effect Mode! 4D Is on unfinished pro- 
gram. hut no more unfinished than , , soy, 
Word worth version J compared to the 
newfy-rekased Wordworth 2. 


Old Basic 


Good point, Mr iVforiey l T m sorry it you feel 
cheated, but the mistake was nof on the disk 


am v. ruing with two requests for articles 
n sour magazine. My nine-yea Mild son 
uses our Amiga 500 in many different 
ways, including DTP, programming, and 
games playing. 

He also enjoys writing simple pro- 
grams in Amiga Basic and would like to 
oe able to encode a games program. Is it 
possible to print an article containing a 
sample program which would teach the 
reader about Basic programming and 
result in an executable file? 

finally, since we got our computer 
two and a hall years ago, we have 


PC protagonist 


Ezra Surfs Postbag 


Cof something to soy through the pages of AC? Ezra Surf is our 
mailman, dedicated to sitting in a corner reading your letters and 
selecting the most interesting for publication. 

Drop him a tine at: 

lira Surfs Postbag , Amiga Computing, 
luropa House, Adiington Park, 

Macclesfield SK10 4NP. 

Please don 't enclose sues as Ezra just hasn’t 
— got enough paper fo reply personalty . He might also 

have to shorten your letters , so don't be offended if you end up 
getting the chop, 


endeavoured to complete the game 
"Dungeon Master". Can you publish 
some game cheats to enable us to com- 
plete this game? 

We are regular readers of your maga- 
zine and enjoy the mixture of serious 
applications, news, and games, Keep up 
the good Work? 

Pete Wotting, Worcester Park 


Aliens return 


The problem with Amiga Basic is that il is no 
longer supplied with the Amiga and il rs loo 
old and clunky ro qualify as a modem pro- 
gramming language. True many coders sut 
their teeth on this ancient language, but we 
tend these days to concentrate on mare 
popular packages such as Amos. 

Our regular Amos A/monac column caters 
for most ability levels, and os Amos is es sen* 
daily Basic with lots of added extras, I would 
advise you hoy a copy far your son. With 
diligence and persistence, he could be pro- 
ducing full colour arcade games within 
months, 

Dungeon Master is on old chestnut and 
has been covered extensively by most maga- 
zines. When still a current game , several 
complete gome guides were printed, so if 
you can hunt out on old Amigo mag you 
might be in luck, I'm afraid W€ con 'l devote 


In the November 1992 issue, Richard 
Harrison wrote saying that Hi«tks in 
Aliens shouts H Drake! We are leaving!"' 

Well, l r ve watched this lilm more 
times than I tan remember, and I'm 
sure Hicks shouts "Marines! We are 
leaving!" Stay frosty. 

Paul iVfotttavs. J| Uonord's-on-Ieu 


We could watch the film to find out who's 
wrong ond who's rights hut we 're a bit 
too lazy (busy - Ed) for that. Tell you 
What, the first person who sends us a disk 
with the origin*)/ soundtrack section in 
sample form can have the honour 
of settling this pressing debate through 
the 1 Ezra pages, 


much-needed space to such old Odes, there 
being so much mare demand for tips on the 
latest chan-toppers. 

That said [ the Gamer flack Stroke page 
is open to letters from frustrated gamers 
everywhere, so if you drop the guys a line , 
they may be able to help you. 


P, : teller 


I have noticed that there have been a number □! letters 
recently from Amiga users considering changing the r 
machines to a PC. 

Having seen Links Pro on a PC, I was very impressed 
The graphics are outstanding to say the least, and rt this is 
typical of all games or prospective games for the PC, then 
this is what I want. 

However haVmg read PC magazines for the last tew 
weeks, I believe that operating one isn't quite as straight 
lorwand as operating an Amiga, i mean, a mouse driver to 
run a mouse? Why can't you just plug in and go? 30Mb 
disk space fora paint program? Sounds incredible. 

I use my A500 Plus with hard drive for wordprocessing. 
Home Accounts, and playing games, but I want a 
machine which can give me the graphic quality of Links 
Pro. The Amiga version is nowhere near as good and is so 
slow in screen updates that ft is unplayable. 

The sort of graphic quality I want is that of the 
PlanetsFde demo produced by Psygnosii for CDTV. II this 
was available, I'd buy a CD-ROM drive and put up with 
having to swap it and my hard drive every time I wanted 


to use one or the other. 

However, after speaking to Psygnosls I am informed 
that the demo program will go no further. Why not? 
PPanetsidie is the sort of game \ thought CDTV was 
intended lor When CDTV was first announced I was going 
[o be one- pt i he first to purchase one, but having seen the 
software available and the lack of hard drive through part 
on the AS 70 I will wait a bit longer, 

When can we expect to see Flight simulators in the form 
ot Ptenet5*de? 



letter 


Furry fullbrooK Highbury 


You soy you've seen Links Pro on a PC, but you obviously 
haven't placed it, or the game's mind-numbing sfowness 
would have put you oh, Whai f z mure, the present batch of PC 
games are unkkefy to improve for a variety of reasons. 

First of ail, PC game programmers have encountered the 
dreaded and rrwjfi prehistoric 640k barrier. Due to the PC's 
obsolete design, single executable programs can never have 
more than 640k base memory in which to run, and there ore 


several gomes already which 
depend on the user fuming 
off many standard PC startup programs to free as much base 
memory as possible. 

Can you imagine having to edit your startup-sequence 
every lime you wanted to play a game ? 

Secondly, the VGA graphics standard has a fair number of 
colours and decent screen modes to offer, tool these wort 
fornpnfaWy stowiy when animation Is called for. The Amiga’s 
buik-in graphics chips work much more effectively than most 
VGA cards, (/lough the PC owner prepared to Spend hum 
deeds of pounds on a graphics accelerator could dose the 
gap. 

As for the future, AA chips offering lightning-quick 256 
colour animation, faster and bigger sprites, and more power- 
ful CPUs should keep the Amiga well ahead of any competi- 
tion, be it in the shape of PC clones or tiddly little cansa/e 
roys. 

Again, your objections to CDTV are valid, but don't be too 
surprised if CDTV software starts to look a tat more attractive 
over the next six months. 




4 mi get Cony pitting January 1993 




etters 



All washed out 


I have recently taken out a sending order for Amigo Computing and look forward to a 
long association with it. 

I have a problem perhaps you or one of your readers could help me with, I pur- 
chased a copy ol Magnetic Scrolls' 1 Wonderland game for my daughter whilst at a UK 
Amiga show, but have since spilled white spirit on the instruction book, ruining most of 
the contents. 

Can you tell me where I can get a replacement? I know Magnetic Scrolls have the 
copyright to the game, but I can't find any mention of them in AC If required, I have 
the original book which 3 can produce if necessary. Any assistance would be appreci- 
ated by an Alice in Wonderland girl. 

0 F Goodyen Caii Magvsa, Turkey 

Magnetx Scrolls pomes are distributed in the UK by Virgin Gomes (OS ? 960 2255). if you 
contact their customer services people and offer to send your original book or pay a nominal 
fee for the replacement, I'm sure they'll be able to help you. 

ft nol try our Qassifieds, found in the Amiga Market A smart ad mighi turn up o helpful 
fellow gamer. 


> 

Not tempted 

l r d like to air my views on Virgin's lure of 
the Temptress. This is the first virtual theatre 
game dm the Amiga, and it scored highly in 
all the reviews, 

I completed the game today and overall I 
found it to be very good. The graphics and 
sound were certainly a cut above the rest, 
and the concept of virtual 
theatre makes lor a very entertaining game. 

The only problem is that I only purchased 
the game six days ago! I don't consider 
myself to be a parti cularly good gamer, just 
a very dedicated one, To complete a full 
price game in only si* evening sessions, well, 
to bE honest I felt quite cheated. 

I'm sure that there are other readers who 
have completed this game even quicker 
than I have, and the problem with games of 
this ilk is that when you finish them you 
rarely go back ft/them, | bought Monkey 
Island 2 and Eye of The Beholder II almost 
three months ago, and ii am nowhere near 
completing either of them, 

What do you think? Are my complaints 
without foundation, or do you think as 3 do 
that Virgin could have done better? t hope 
to see more virtual theatre games in the 
Future, but I hope they will offer a bit more 
challenge. 

Ferry Edge, Hornchurch 

Your commits are not wi (tout foundation if 
the number of letters we receive from disap- 


pointed gome players is anything to go by. 
With the increased emphasis on graphics 
these days, it is becoming dear that some 
games offer little else. 

Monkey island 2 is a perfect example of 
o product which incorporates both superb 
gameplay and superb graphics , tbougb I 
mast admit I finished it in less than two 
weeks with the help of the Gamer cheat 
page. Other games have enjoyed less suc- 
cess, but given that we are in an early stage 
of the heavily graphic-based adventures , 
and that a standard has already been set 
by the lucasfilm games , we should see a 
gradual improvement, 

Gur Gamer editor ; Paul Roundel!, assures 


me that we will in future indicate the lasting 
appeal rating of fbrs type of adventure. 
Hope this helps you when the next virtual 
theatre (whatever that is - Ed) game is 
reviewed. 

Flopped Falcon 

I am sure you will be aware of Atari's latest 
computer, the Falcon. Jt is obvious that 
none of the existing Amigas can even 
hope to rival it* and what I want to know 
is what da you intend to do about it? 

I've got quite a few games for my 
Amiga and I would prefer it if I could buy 
a new computer which would still run 
them, but If the Amiga cannot offer the 
quality of games and programs that Atari 
can, I will definitely consider leaving the 
Amiga for the Falcon. 

If this Falcon is all that It's cracked up 

to be it should be able to emulate the 

* 

Amiga anyway. 

F mean, how can the Amiga 500/600 
compete with over 65,000 colours on 
screen, a palette 262,144 colours, Over SO 
video modes, high quality gen locking, a 
blitter, and CO quality sound! 

Neil Hudson, Bailey 

How can falcon compete with J 6.7 million 
colours , 265,000 on screen in any resolu- 
tion, a built-in flicker fixer hard drive inter- 
face, massfve base of existing software and 
developers, true multitasking, incredibly fast 
graphics chips, 2Mb chip RAM, and the 
Amigo nome ? 

Atari's wunderkind is yet to appear in 
the shops, yef the AI200 i$ already on 
sale , hocked up hy Commodore 's £4 
million advertising campaign. First ship- 
ments of ihe machine sold auf he/tire they 
had been delivered and a number of major 
software houses have already pledged their 
support, 

In short, giver? the 5Fs terminally ill mar- 
ket and the delays in production, it is dear 
that the Al 200 will wipe the floor with 
falcon. 


In praise of PD 


I am writing to extol the virtues of 
purchasing PD software. Last year I 
purchased Footbal League 
Manager, a brilliant program hy 
Tony McManuy deigned to keep a 
record nl any fooLb.ilI league I able, 
l duly sent off my L5 fee and wav 
delighted In receive this year's 
update* 

The program now has Ihe facility 
So update and print out any league 
together wish goal scorers, squads, 
man of the match* and match 
cum menu. In I act, a complete 
record of all that is relevant in the 
league 

Mr McManus even went to grt^s 
lengths to help me wish a printing 
problem I was having. When I told 
him Ihe disk wouldn't print to my 
i.C-200 printer, a great deal of 
postal toimj and Irg inrj eventually 
led to him configuring the disk for 
me. 

The point h f would I have got 
the same service il I had paid £80 
for a commercial program of this 
type? The answer Is no, because 
there is no com inertia I program 
of this type, and the majority of 
companies don I ant to know 
anyway. 

I have had similar help from Paul 
Hobemhaw of Mental Image* 
and in both cases Paul and 
Turly, realising I was new to com- 
puting, didn't treat me as if I was 
thick and gave me loads of 
expert help. 

To anyone reluctant lo try PD I 
would say go ahead and do it. 
Provided you pay your shareware 
fees* you will be surprised and 
delighted with the service you will 
gel, 

Brian Ball. Ipswich 

4j you pojnt oaf. paying the small 
shareware regiilrafron fees normally 
pays off many times over, as many 
authors will be more than happy fa 
discuss their programs with you , keep 
in touch, and supply upgrades. 

Your letter is an excellent reason for 
all our readers fo nofe where one of 
our CoverDrsk programs ?s iharewore 
rather than P£f or freeware. 

One pciifJl I would raise is that 
you're a hrffe hard on commercial 
companies, many have efficient user 
registration and upgrade services, 
some supply regufar newsletters on 
their products, and a growing number 
are realising trie importance o/ offers 
mg quality ci/sfomer support 


Fly by night 


My copy of Airbus A 3 20 did not load* so l returned it to Thalion in Germany, "hat was 
on 9th September and despite another letter on 28th September \ have still heard 
nothing, When I bought A3 20 F registered with Uialion using the postcard supplied. 

How do I get a replacement? Have any of your readers come up against a foreign 
software supplier which ignores complaints and il so, what did they do? The program 
is rather pricey to write off r so please help, 

Crahom M Ross, Largs 

If a product fails fo function, the consumer should always first return it to the retailer from 
which it was bought, as this person rs legally responsible under Jow. Assuming you bought 
■4T20 direct from Thalion (you dan? slate whether you did or not), the company should 
have replaced it, especially as you are a registered user. 

A more direct method would be to phone the company in Germany. While this would be 
expensive, it is more likely to produce resort j. If art else fails , try your local Trading Standards 
Officer. 


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M'-r 


trouble with modem computers, especially the Amiga, is their dependency on 
RAM. The base level machine ts capable of a lot, but it's only when you try to 
push things a bit that you realise a lot more RAM is needed to really make the 
machine sing and dance, especially if you are looking at mid to high-tevel applications. 

One problem is that memory can mean a lot of things. RAM stands for Random Access 
Memory, and although there is a really important reason for it being called this, forget it 
and concentrate on the word RAM. RAM Is the name for the temporary memory space 
Qti [he Amiga computer, into which programs are loaded before they are run, 

Any memoiy you add to your Amiga is expansion memory Of fast RAM, unless aeded 
through the A5Q0 Plus or A600 trapdoor, in which case it is chip RAM, Fast RAM is distinct 
from chip RAM, which is a preset amount ol memory used by the computer lor the graph- 
ics and sound used by the custom chips. The more memory you have, the less space in 
chip memory is taken up by programs, giving you more leg room for graphics and sound. 
Chip RAM is usually the base ievd dF RAM you have in the machine when you buy it. 

The original Amiga 1000 had 256k of chip RAM and In all could address 6Mb of RAM 
maximum. The 500 and 2000 had the same 8Mb upper limit, and although later versions 
of the machines had the fatter Agnus allowing 1Mb ol Chip RAM, most of them were 
SI 21c. Chip machines. 

Chips for alt 

When the 500 Plus was released, the chip RAM limit was lully and finally fixed at 1Mb, 
but the AejflO soon pushed that up to 2Mb. The A 1 200 also has 2Mb of chip RAM., as 
does the A4OO0, and we can look forward to between 4Mb and 3Mb of Chip RAM 
machines in the not loo distan t future , 

One thing to bear in mind is that even when you have a certain amount of RAM in 
your machine some of it is eaten up by the system, so when you say you have 1 Mb ol 
RAM in your machine, only about 800k of that will be available to you once the machine 
is hooted and ready to rock and roll, So if you have a 2Mb animation which needs a clear 
2Mb ID run, then you need 3Mb to run it. 

It's best to ignore the first 1 Mb of any RAM you might have, and think only in terms of 
l\)f expansion memory as your free memory. T his is why Amiga 2000s fo eitar i .1- ■ wit ■ 
“3 Mb" really have 5* Mb on board including the base memory. 

There are many different types of HAM expansion. FirsL the traditional apdoor type, 
which fils under the trapdoor in the bottom of an AiQQvSQOPIus. Next there is the moth 
erboard type, of which there are very few r which fit into a socket on the motherboard, 
fsome trapdoor expanders use a tead plugged into the Gary chip on Lhe motherboard to 
allow for the extra RAM). 

Mejti there are the DMA slot units which use the slot on the end of an A50G or Plus. 
These are easiest to fit and give you the most memory. Finally a new beast on the scene is 
the misnamed "smart card" type, which is a card designed to fit into the PCMCIA slots 
on AGOG and A1 20G machines. These can carry memory or even programs, although very 
lew of these special uses for the slot have been revealed. 


Phil South examines memory expansion, the 
first upgrade most Amiga owners require 


AMRAM 
Megaboard 
A500 1Mb 

(Evesham Micros £42.99 

The Evesham 1Mb Megaboard is a trap- 
door model with a white flying lead con- 
taining a small daughter board with a 
socket far your Cary chip. 

Adding RAM to your A50G was always 
easy, but adding more than the regular 
512 k upgrade is a little harder. 

The Gary chip has to be circumvented 
in some way, and this is commonly 
done with a little (lying lead and a 
daughter board which fils into the Gary 
socket. 

You pop the Gary chip out and insert it 
in the daughter board. The daughter 
board goes in the Gary chip slot, o: 
course the main board goes into the trap 
doer expansion slot. 


The trick with this board b that it 
tures a pass th roughs allowing you to 
another board to the circuit, although 
the main you are limited to addii 
another RAM board, possibly a really 
one with a battery backed clock on 
bringing the tola! memory to 2 1 
(5 1 2K+51 2K+1 Mb=2Mb!). |usl 512* 
the HAM in the final configuration is 
RAM. 

A good route to add just a little 
'RAM to give your old Kkkstart 13 
that extra little push over the cliff tor 
tfcmal graphics capability. 

This isn't the best idea for heavy 
animation or 3D rendering, but it 
give you access to one or two gra| 
modes otherwise closed to you as a 
level user. 


Installation 
Con « ruction 7 

Bang For Bucks 3 

Overall 7 


; 


A infer a Comp off no January '993 




AM PLUS A500+ 
1Mb 

(Evesham Micros £37.95) 

This card is a simple trapdoor alternative 
to the official Commodore RAM upgrade. 
No dock or any unnecessary frills, apart 
from the cut-off switch, which is an easily 
accessible switch for disabling the RAM, 
should you need to do so. Easily accessi- 
ble means that if you leave the trapdoor 
off you can tilt the machine up and reach 
■n and flip the switch. (Remembering of 
course to turn the Amiga off before you 
start to reconfigure the amount of mem- 
ory it's looking for; a quick way to crash 
and buml) 

Once fitted you have a 2Mb chip RAM 
Amiga 500 Plus, sufficient to allow Lhe use 
of more RAM hungry graphics modes but 
not really enough to go for large 50 ren- 
dered objects-, or OTP for that matter, 
other than simple single or double page 
documents. 



Installation? 
onstruction 7 

Bang For Bucks R 

Overall 8 




Hardware 




How much is enough 


1 Megabyte 


ly for games use, but more technical programs will c 
and bum r especially if they are more graphics intensive. Almost 
all programs will load, but oner you start i^ng shem to pro- 
duce professional quality graphics or text you start getting the 
horrible out ol memory e*r i ; a? least c you're lucky. 


grams start to 
i n A Mb but far Iks < 





2 Megabyte 


•Til 


With more memory 30 ray tracing prog 
themselves, though for this you ‘31 need a f, 
070, 030 or 040, where available. Shifting megd 
»cs around requires a much faster machine, 
about that. 


•fulfil 


4SD0FVni 

mb 


More leg room for cMp RAM nut r not rnrnjgh to get realty 
serious. Most of die room you 4 d )T i n ‘■sxen up by your system 
so you only really have about 1 .2Mb of I nee RAM for programs 
and data. 2Mb makai DRaint Hy along a bat smoother but you 
try loading overscan * c r -rtures tnd see where that 

gets you. Memory gets fragged and you meet the guru. 2Mb 
chip RAM machines art better perform ers In this range. 


4 Megabyte 

DTP now become* possible- It is possible to nan such programs 
In a 1Mb computer, but as the documents get larger the pro 


8 Megabyte 


This is Max Headroom as far as 1 6-bit RAM is com 
With the full amount of memory addressat 
regular Amiga you will get no crashes due to 
loss, and you pul off the fragged memory problems 
indefinitely. 

Newer Army as can address much more memory 
than this, and attendant with this you'll find they hi*vt 
faster processors too. Check out this month's A1200 review for 
details, 


A 500 
1 .5 Mb 

(Evesham Micros £69.99) 

An alternative to the 1Mb Megaboard 
and additional board b the 1 5Mb solu- 
tion including the extra memory and 
clock. The board is similar to the 
Mega board but is longer and with a black 
flying k-ad terminating in the same 
daughter board for me Cary chip. 

The board has no through port but 
then as e: already has rht capability which 
a through port would provide, it doesn't 
need one ft does however ha-.'e a disable 
switch, which like the unit for Lhe A60Q 
mentioned just now means you can turn 
off the extra RAM physkaJly to allow the 
execution of software which takes excep- 
tion to being run in m expanded 
machine. 

Once the unit is fined you have the full 
2Mb of RAN!, of Which 512K is Chip RAM, 
This means you have more teg room, but 
the 512k chip limit still means you will 
experience some problems with out of 
memory errors, although certainly less 



Memory 


than with 512k or 1 Mb, 

(Note; this board is also available 
unpopulated with clock for £39\ 95.) 




AMRAM A500 
512k 

(Evesham Micros £22.99] 

This is a tiny board, which can be used a 
simple stand-alone 51 2k upgrade for 512k 
Amiga 5005,, but also finds use as an addi- 
tional dock and RAM upgrade for systems 
using the Megaboard 1Mb card with 
through port. 

On the back edge of the card is an 
on/off switch to switch out the extra RAM 
for the benefit of programs which can't 


No matter how much memory you 
have you will be prey to memory 
fragmentation. Imagine lhe 
Amiga''! memory as a big round 
pizza. (Slurp, Ed) You cut a quarter 
of it but replace it without eating 
it, then you cut another quarter of 
It and replace it. It looks like a 
whole pizza but the largest slice 
you can cut from the remaining 
pieces Is a half or a quarter. 

Slices 

Next you cut another slice 
amounting to a third of the total 
pizza, and again replace it on the 
plate and; go on to cut a quarter 
from the piece which was a third of 
the total area, Now if you try to cut 
a slice which is a third of the total 
area, you can t find a piece big 
enough to do that. The biggest 
piece of memory pizza you can cut 
For use in programs is a quarter 
(think about it - Ed). 

This is what the memory of Lhe 
Amiga is like; apportion a piece ol 
memory for a big piece of data and 
you can replace it after use, but 
you'fl never re-lntegrate iL with the 
rest of memory, unless you re 
boot. This is why having a lot ol 
memory is a good thing, because it 
allows you lo go for longer before 
the frag monster catches up with 
you, or you run out of sufficient 
continuous (all In one slice) avail 
memory. 




Amiga Computing Jonunry l 993 









Hardware 



Amtam AIOO JflA 


handle it. This is part of a interesting 
modular system, and it seems to me that 
Evesham have gone out of their way to 
ensure that there's an upgrade path tor 
everyone along the way from a simple 
51 Jk doubler right up to 2Mb mini-mus- 
cle machine. 

The A500 really needs the extra RAM, 
but as previously stared the 51 2k Chip 
RAM limitation will get in the way of real 
power user computing. (Also available 
without dock for £1 7.99.) 



AMRAM A600 
1Mb 

[Evesham Micros £44,99) 

The A6GG version of the AMRAM for 
A500 Plus, with the same benefits, A 
neater construction to fit the more petite 
A600 trapdoor, and the same disable 
switch as before, but this time mounted 
underneath the circuit board as there isn't 
any clearance for the thing to poke out 
like it does on the other designs. (Most of 
the internals in a A600 are so closely 
packed you r d have trouble sliding a 
cigarette paper between them!) 

The only real difference between this 
and the A5Q0 Plus version is the shorter 
and fatter edge connector, but again this 
brings your machine up to 7Mb chip 



RAM. The unit has an on board clock, so 
you can set this and the battery will keep 
the time ticking over even when the com- 
puter isn'Lon. 



Power 
Computing 
A600 1Mb 

(Power Computing £49.95) 

A slimmer board than the Evesham 
Micros job, due to the use of a Lithium 
coin-sized watch battery rather than the 
bulky cylindrical Varta jab. A 1Mb 
upgrade for the AGOO giving you 2Mb 
chip. 

Board construction is excellent, and 
the FCB itself is a cool blue colour rather 
than the usual green. 

The documentation in almost all the 
Power Computing stuff is very 
nicely printed and readable^ although 
confusingly the docs lot both this unit 
and the A6Q0 Automatic Kickslarl 
Switcher are in the same book. The A600 


Ppwrr CampErling 
Aet-00 1*Wb 


instructions take up a single page, so 
wouldn't it have been better to use a sin- 
gle sheet of paper? It's a very nice little 
book, though. 



Power 

Computing 

A50O/A5O0+ 

2Mb 

(Power Computing £109) 

This unit daps onto the end of 
the A500 using the expansion port 
designed for Lhe A590 hard disk/memory 
expansion unit. It doesn't give you a hard 
disk, but it does give you the full 2Mb of 
memory. 

Along with the 51 2k base memory and 
the 5 1 2k expansion memory which you 
may have in your machine already, this 
gives you JMb in total, 2.5Mb of fast 
RAM and 51 2k of Chip RAM. 

The unit is a big flat metal box contain- 
ing the familiar blue circuit board and 
room for 8Mb of fast RAM, The test 
Unit was a 2Mb unit and so only four of 
the upright memory chips were fitted, 
and it doesn't take a mathematical genius 
to figure out that these are 512k RAM 
chips. 

Loose 1x4 ZIP chips {£14.95 each) 
tor the user to add themselves to the 
system are available from Power 
Computing, That's four per Mb, and so to 
completely populate the board to 
3Mb you'd need another 12 chips (16 in 
total) costing you an extra £179.45. The 
amount of RAM on board is set by a cou* 
pie of jumpers on the circuit board and 
these must be changed when you add 
more RAM. 

This is one route for the real power 




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user who wants to take it to the 
especially if you already have the A: 
The 590 can be added to the system 
the Power Computing unit has 
installed as the unit has a though 
enabling you to get the benefit* of 
expansion slot with the benefits of 
mum RAM. 

No dock on board, but then you 
fit one in the trapdoor anyway, so 
don't need it. The installation Is a piece 
cake, as you merely slap the thing into 
slot and sure enough the next time 
switch on the machine you have 2 1 
more RAMI Magical. 


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Power 
Computing 
A 500 1.5Mb 

(Power Computing £75) 

Another one of these "go straigh’ 
2Mb, do not pass go, do not col 
£200" jobs. The board includes a 
b of fast RAM so you can slide 


F&wer tHampurJmj 
A500 l,$Mb 



baby into your trapdoor and really smoke 
it. The on board dock is another one o H 
those porky Varta Jobs, and the overall 
construction of the board is good 
although it doesn't have an on .'off switch. 
(This is possible in software anyway, but 
this isn't as concrete a solution as a h ■ rd - 
ware switch.) 

The docs give details on installation 
and the steps required for a machine 
packing a fatter Agnes to be expanded to 
1Mb of Chip RAM, once the 1.5Mb board 
is installed. 

This involves the soldering of a wire 
onto the motherboard of your Amiga and 
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vety brave and/or stupid, or know what 
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With the modification in place the first 
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about the solder job are included, and the 
bit of wire and jumper pFug you need to 
do it, phis a disk of RAM Utili as well! Nice 
one, Power. 




Power 
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A500 1Mb 

(Power Computing £45) 

Similar idea to the Evesham 1Mb 
board, with the same type of through port 
and Cary board. This model has the 
added bonus of the same instructions for 
upping chip RAM on fatter Agnus 
machines, and the same little lead for you 
to do it with. 

No battery backed clock here, but you 
can easily add 1 one using the through port, 
bringing the available memory to 1.5Mb if 
>ou just add this unit or 2Mb Including 
additional ST 2k with clock. The Chip RAM 
will be just 5 1 2 K_ unless you make the 
previously mentioned tricky and danger- 
ous hardware mod (on Blue Peter they'd 
tell vou to get an adult to help you). You 
ger a disk of RAM utils to add to the value. 
Can you spell value For money, boys and 
girts? 




AX601 A600 
1Mb 

ijAshcom £44.95 

Another tidy [ob irom Ashcom, this 
time the A60D version. .Also available in a 
version with or without clock (again the 
sans clock version being 12 cheaper) the 
review unit sported the clock md big flab 
tened cylinder Varta battery. No switch on 
this version, leaving you to switch the 
RAM out by software means 4 you need 
to. This k a good basic 1Mb unit, taking 
you up to the magic 2Mb with 1Mb of 
that being chip memory In the A60Q. Nice 
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Hardware 




Ppurvr Computing MSOO 7 Mh 


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is therefore vitally important for all ss 
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' and 500 Plus. Originally designed for the A590 expansion device, 
d tavour with third party developers for expansion devices of all 
m big RAM expanders, 

Fast RAM 

. 

mgry m your current configuration additional to the base ( 
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expansion 











Kilobyte 

Usually abbreviated to k. A kilobyte is 1 024 bytes, the Mandarti u 

^^^^Megabyte 

s Mb or even Meg. A chunk of 1024 kilobytes of me 
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PCMCIA 


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naturally enough the cards which use L ‘ 




An acronym For Random Access Memory, Vou can read it, you can write to it. Yol 

a * 

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Read Only Memory, Computer chips containing the operating system of the com- 
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Trapdoor 




! 1 usual memory expansion slot on an ASM is undernear h the machine in 
trapdoor. This is lire most heaviley used ASM expansion method. 


a siiue 





Unpopulate 

A memory board with no memory chips on It PreEiy unless eh? Che 
you have existing chips oi know where you can buy them 





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ADDAX 

A500/A500+ 

2Mb 

(Ashcom £115) 

This is a 2Mb external device which can 
also be expanded up to &Mb, Basic ton- 
liguration allows for use with other 
peripherals by way of the through port 
and comes fitted with 2Mb of RAM. 

More chips can be added to bring the 
coni igu ration tip to 3Mb, but each Lime 
more RAM IS added jumpers have to be 
altered on the main board ot your 
ADDAX, You can buy the box with more 
RAM on board from the start, with ihe 
4Mb version being £165 and the hilly 
populated 8Mb version running out at 
£265, 

Construction is very solid, though the 
casing is plastic and takes a bit of prising 
to get into. Undoing the screws doesn't 
release the cover, you have to bend the 
plastic, which I have to say I wasn't at all 
happy about. On the upside, though, the 
unit is the same size and shape as the end 
of an A500 and only about 1 ,5 inches 
wide, and so it's certainly more sleek and 
good looking than the functional but 
frankly pug-ugly Power Computing unit. 



ADD501 A500 
512k 

(Ashcom £19.95) 

This tiny unit is a 51 2k expander for the 
A$00, either for stand alone use or f or 
augmenting a 1 Mb board with through 
port, There is a clock on board (the ver- 
sion without dock is L2 cheaper) and a 
disable switch lor killing the RAM should 
you happen across a program which 

doesn't like fast RAM. 

Unlike the other boards which have 
cheap slide switches, the Ashcom unit has 
a nice positive stem switch. The battery is 
the by now familiar Varta job used on 
most of the other units with clocks. 
Constructions quality was very good on 
the review unit and the board design very 
tidy, 



New Media 
Corp PCMCIA 
2 Mb 

(Calculus £129.99) 

A new idea, at least they've not been 
available until now,, is the RAM card for fit- 



AJcw 

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IT is is the future of RAM expansion, to 
je sure, but don't lean on It when it's in 
>r you'll snap it! (lust kidding!) There's no 
iced for a disable switch, because il you 
Jon't want to use it you tan simply yank it 
?ut . 

Power must, of course, be off as the 
;afd is slotted into the motherboard and is 
part of the circuit. Ripping it out without 
powering down is like doing major 
surgery without anaesthetic. Yup, crash 
and bum, with possible permanent dam- 
age. A 4Mb version also exists, priced at 
£199,99. 




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* Deluxe Pamt 111 

* Home Accounts 

* EH game * * Toki game * Puzzle g^me 

* T 'My Python joysticks 

* 100 capacity lockable disk box 

* Amiga 1500/2000 Pack 

* A 1 $00/2000 with 52MB HD 

* With 2MB C h.p Memory 


Star Printers 




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* Game players paradise 

■ Push Over gamp 

* Formula 1 Grand Prix game 

* Putty Game 

■ Extra free game 

* Deluxe Paint Ml 

■ 2 Python joystick* 

* 100 Capacity disk box 

* A6Q0 Pack 

A600 Pack & 20MB hard drive 
AGOG Pack & 40MB hard drive 


£329 

£429 

£509 


* 32-bit 6&020 Full power 

* Super Hi-Res graphics 

* 2 MS Chip memory 

* PCMCIA Technology 

* Alpho numerical keypad 

* Two Python joystick! 

* Free game 

* 1 00 Capacity disk box 

* A1200 Pack 


£385 


* A1200 with 20WIB hard drive £485 
■ A \ 200 with 40MB hard drive £ 5 8 5 


14 inch high resolution colour 
display 

• High clarity stereo sound output 

• Full RGB and composite inputs 
. free i ,5 metre long RGB cable 

• Full UK. warranty 

• 3 Free games 

■ Philips 8833 MKII Monitor £199 

• When purchased with £189 
an Amiga 




Star LC20 Mono 

* 1 80 characters per second, NLQ moi 

multi Font, 9 pm head ^ 

Star LC2Q0 Colour 

*225 characters per second, NLQ mock 
multi font, 9 pm head 

Star LC24-100 Mono 

* 204 characters per second, LQ mode 
10 fonts, 24 pin head 

Star LC24-20O Colour 

*222 characters per second, LQ mode 
IQ fonts, 24 pm head £ 

Star SJ48 Bubble Jet 

* Quality comparable with a laser prim 
very quiet and portable- Mams and 
tery powered, adaptor supplied £. 


Workstations 


Peripherals 


Scanners 



* Ergonomically sound 

* Facilitates up to three external floppy 
drives 

* Made m the UK 

■ Strong and robust 

* Aesthetically pleasing 

* Keep your desk neat and tidy 

* Supplied complete and assembled with 
free mouse mat 


A500 Workstation 

AGOG Workstation 

> Swivel and tilt monitor stand 
for the above 


£36 

£36 


£5 


100 Capacity lockable disk box 
Squick mouse 
Mouse mat 

TDK high quality DSO (10) disks 
1000 colour disk labels 
LC20 printer ribbon 
I ei Fighter |oystick 
i Apache joystick 
1 Python joystick 
1 Zipstick joy stick 


£4.99 

£15-99 

£1.99 

£9,99 

£12 

£ 3.49 

£13.99 

£6.99 

£9-99 

£14.99 


Vast range of leads lor many 


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Please cal 


* Allows image processing in a useful and 
unique fashion 

* Comes complete with operation 
manual and the latest version of 
processing software 

■ One of the fastest growing applications 
tor home and professional users 

* High specification coupled with cost 
effective pricing 

* Power Hand Scanner 

* 64 greyscales 1 00-400 DPI 

* Thru 'port to printer 

* Fully compatible with Delux Paint 4 r etc 

■ Power Hand Scanner £93*99 








MINIMAL 



Est. since 1984 


UH, Beds, LU 4 8 EZ Tel ( 0582 ) 491949 (6 LINES) S 




Pro Agnus 2MB 


* Provides a tul 2MB of Chip; Memory ftx The 
Amiga 500 tjnd AlSCCWDOO * Designed j 
built i ft England * Supplied with 8375 Obese 
Agnus * includes 2 Mb Memory 1 on boa r ;i - 
the form of low power Zips * Al ows the c r >_- 
tfissing of elaborate animation ard sound 
sampling * Provides the same ma* tti ; n *rr 
3s the A3D00/A6DD &500+ * Increase's 
addressable memory from 9MB *,q 

TOMB * Com pie re with 'ull rv-.tr ud * 
British made 


■ Pro Agnus 2 M0 
* Rtted 


£139 

£159 


gh Current Power Supply Cumana 3.5“ External 



Memory Expansions 


ASM Pro-RAM 0 3 Meg. Upgrade 

■ Chip memory cgmpatible * Brutish made 

* Without dock £16 - With dock £19 

A 500 Pro- RAM 1.5MB Memory Upgrade 

* Gives a full 2MB of internal memory £74 

A 500+ IMS Memory upgrade £29.95 

Supra RX500 (2MB-8MB} 

* 2MB II 30 #4MB £194 * 3MB £299 

A60D 1M8 Memory upgrade £3B 
10MB Memory upgrade ASQO £40B 




Supra Modems 


* AHows the addition of peripherals 
without damage to computer or power 
supply 

* Why nsk damaging your expensive kit 
when one simple investment will ensure 
total peace of mind now and for the 
future 

* Switch mode design 

* Fufl crow bar projection 

* A500, AS0Q+ and A6Q0 compatible 

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Chips and Spares 



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impact plastic 



A 500 Power supply unit 


£44.95 

£44.95 


■ Cumana external drive 

* Cumana external drive 
+ 1 00 capacity disk bo* 

* Cumana externa drive 

+ 1 00 disk box + 2D blank disks 

* A5Q0/A5OO+ 

Internal replacement disk drive 


£54 


£63 

£39 


* Utilise hundreds of PD Bulletin Boards 

* Communicate with fellow computer 
users 

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fast efficient baud rates 

1 100% Hayes compatible 

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* Standard RS232 Interface 

* Programmable number storage 

* Free Corns software 

■ Supra 2400 £84 

"Supra 2400+ £129 

* Supra Fax PSus (0-9600 BPS) £148 

* S up ra v. 3 .2 (Fax Modem ! £ 1 9 9 

* Supra v.32 BIS {Fax Modem) 


* WT5 have sole dFStribution nghts from 
Americas biggest Commodore chip 
distributor 


■Workbench 2.04 Kit 

l Includes manuals, disks S chip) 

• Kiekstart 2.04 

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iSwap hE-tiVt+n kiekiiam? 

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Credit Card ordering by phone is easy. Simply prion? our sates hotline quoting your credit card number., expiry date, name and address and 
the products you wish to order arid well do the r es: terra lively write the above details on your tetter when ordering by post 

When ordering by post in cheque form please write your cheque card guarantee number on the reverse of the cheque and send along with 
your order. Postal Orders are also accepted. 

NO DELIVERY CHARGES TO UK MAINLAND. NO MINIMUM ORDER AMOUNT. 

Should you wish your order to be sent by Group 4 Security service please add £5. This method is normally faster than the postal service. 
WARRANTY: One year return to base (excluding chips). 

ONE YEAR EXTENDED WARRANTY: Available on all products (excluding chips) 3 t 10% of purchase price when ordering. 

Where To Find Us! 


Head Office 

Vlff 5 Electronic Ltd 
Chau! End Lane 
Luton 

□ 532 491949 


Computer Mall Bedford 

No. 16 Downstairs 
The Harpur Centre 
Bedford 
0214 318228 


Computer Mall St. Neats 

No,6 

Priory Mall Shopping Centre 
St, Meets 
0480 421117 


Computer Mall Hertford 
49 Railway Sf. 

Hertford 
0992 50380$ 


Computer Mall Dunstable 

84 High Street North 
Dunstable 
Bedfordshire 


* 1 prices quoted ot products stocked are subject to stocking levels and availability. WTS cannot be field liable for force impure, or items, which are out of stock due to demand or low 
' jck at its suppliers WTS reserve the right to amend prices or revise packs or specifications wrthout prior notice at any time without liability upon itself 






Cumona reserve the right to increose the price at any time. Prev.ous price C49.9S 


SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 


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COM 201 3-in-l in terface 
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For less than some 0.5Mb RAM upgrades, the COM 201 is i a 3-in-l 
interface card combining 0.5 Mb of RAM, a battery backed real- 
time clock and a calendar with an ST 506 hard disk 
fits in the A501 expansion slot beneath the Amiga 500. Check o 

some of the features: 

• Unique bt RAM refresh circuit. 

• Utility software disk provided. 

• Production static control management 
system increases reliability. 

• Full auto mounting of hard drive* 

• Many more features too numerous to list! 

PreporTfVe way for a hard disk drive hy fitting a memory hoard 

with all the extras 


Easy to install - it just plugs in. 
Fast RAM. 

Direct memory access (DMA) 
improves performance. 

Memory enable/disable switch. 

Auto RAM configuration* 




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In Noddy's Playtime, 
children can drive with 
Noddy in his car, explore 
the magic of Toytown, visit 
eight special learning loca- 
tions and develop their cre- 
ative abilities with the 
Junior Art package. 


Noddy ami Big Ears are making a come- 
back i n Noddy 's Plav t me - a brilliant 
new graded creativity and 
entertain ment package tor i Iiree to 

seven-year-olds. 

Now Arnica Computing and The 
1 limping Bean Company have conspired 
to bring you a great bundle of Noddy 
goodies worth nearly £700. 


The five main winners 
receive a library of the 24 
original hard-backed Noddy 
books worth about £1 00. 
Each book contains approxi- 
mately eight stories. The 100 
runners-up will 
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Enterprises Ltd. 

NODDY jj a trademark of Darrell Waters Ltd and Is used under licence. 

ENID BLYTON (signature logotype) is a trademark of Darrels Waters Ltd and is 
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AMIGA A600 THE WILD, THE WEIRD AND THE WICKED 


Once again Commodore have pul together 
a winning she me pack So complement the 
already popular Amiga A600, 

The Wild, the Weird and the Wicked Pack it 
□n ideal starter pack containing a considered 
mix of software making ihe mo si of the 
Am i go 's amazing cop ab i liti e i. 

To make I his pock a perfect gift INDI hove 
added p further four awardwinmog games 
and a staggering list of valuable extras total- j 
FREE of charge. Also included al no extra top 
to you ore the lo test 'Zap $ac J carry case and 
Zappa T-shirt, Crucial Amiga accessories. 
Impressed. Who wouldn't be. 


12 MONTHS AT HOME SERVICE 


C' Cijpirriyr 


PAC K AS STAN DAftD CO NTA I NS 

i Amiga A600 single drive 
B uilr i n TV Modu I alo r 
• \ Mb mam or y 

Push Over i Silly Putty 
Grand Prix • Deluxe Paint 1 1 1 
Mouse and Manuals 


INDI VALUE ADDED FRII 

* Micro Switch Joystick 

* Lockable Disk Sox 

* Disk Wellet 

* 10 Blank Disks 

* Kickoff 2 * Pipemonio 

* Space Ace * Populous 

* Zap sac Carry Case 

* Zappo T-shirt 

TOTAL 


• Zopsac Carry Case 

* Zappo T-Shirt 


AMIGA A600 HD (HARD DISK) EPIC PACK 


EPIC by nome r . r definitely by conlenl, 
Commodore's talent for pock creation has 
never been better The software included in 
ihii pack; EPIC,. Rome, and Myth tolally 
exploit the burning features or the Amiga 
A600, Add to ibis Trivial Pursuits language 
lab edition [playable in 3 languages), Amiq 
Text [Word pro} and the now standard 
graphics package: Deluxe Paint 111 for 
seriou ^'educational applications and you' I 
start to realise just how dynamic this pock is. 
As with all products supplied by INDI, we 
hove added agr extra dimension to on 
already incredible offer (see below for IND; 
Value Added Pack ratal I y Free of charge) 

PACK AS STANDARD CONTAINS: 

• Amiga A600HD (Hard Disk) 

Built in TV Modulator 

* Mouse and Manuals • T Mb Memory 
« EPIC, Rome, Myth, Trivial Pursuits 
[language lab edition), Amigo Text, Deluxe 


1 2 MONTH S AT HOM E SE RV1CE 


INDI TELESALES 

0606 43860 Fax 0606 43825 


INDI VALUE ADDED FREE 

* Microswplched Joystick 

* Lockoale Disk Box 

* Disk Wallet 

* 10 Blank Disks 

* Kickoff 2 * Pipemanio 

* Space Ace * Populous 

* Zap sac Carry Case 

* Zappo T-Shirl 

TOTAL 


* Zapsac Carry Case 

• Zappo T-Shirt 


IGA Al 200 


1084S COLOUR/STEREO MONI 


Thfr lots ft, ih* ultimate, the best harm cc^puier 
available. 16.13 million colours, superfasl 
protestor, supcc stereo sound, lightning speed 
— the otl new Amiga 1200 has- them oil, Marvel 
dt the ease with which the Amiga 1200 and ils 
c mazing 32-bit processing power devours the 
most demon dmg software. At this price the 
AT 200 has no equal — forget the reit^ it's 
definitely the basil / - - . 

1200 STANDARD FEATURES (iffiS* 

6BG20 Premier e PCMCIA Slot ^ 
■ 2Mb Chip RAM * 3.5“ Iflfwnal Floppy 

* AA Oiipiei • HuiU-in IV rnedirtaler 

e Alphg-nu merif e Ftm 12 Merrths Afl- 

kaypcd Hume Maintenance 

INCH VALUE AtfiEO FREE 

* 3 Supirb Onrraii * trTtirnoliQflol 

Sporld ChGlIingi * Th* CmI Cr«£ A I QQ 

* ^***''* ** * ^ **** ^ 


Commodore's own Amiga Monitor. Design*;: 
solely for use with I he Amigo range of 
computers, With Sts ergonomic design, 

Hi-res graphics display and stereo sound 
capabilities, the 1084 S will really bring 
your Amigo la life. 

Apart from offering this product at a very 
competitive price IN Dl are including two 
great software products totally free of charge 

INDI VALUE ADDED Flf I fj 

* Days of Thunder w 

(Driving Simulation} £19.99 i 

• Night Breed (or oftern olive 

exciting game} £19-99 


INDI PRICE 


INDI Direct Mail Is original and vary 
exciting, Safer* you buy moil ardor 
you must first be confident that you will 
twelve the product you ’¥« Ordered and 

that the supplier will still bo the re in the 
future, should you tie ad them, 

A mail order purchase from INDI Is a 1 
safe and secure decision, and hero's 
why, 

INDI Is a wholly owned subsidiary of a 
public company now in its tenth year of 
trading and special Islfig In rh# supply 
of computer products. 

With a turnover approaching £30 
million per annum, we hove the 
resources and the purchasing power to 
offer you the best deals, deliver them 
next day nationwide and always be 
around when you need us. 


The INDI sales team have been trained 
to take your o rder with the utmost care 
and efficiency. All stock offered for sale 
Is held in stock, centrally at our group 
warehouse complex and is available 
far next day delivery^ direct to your 
home or business, if at any time we ore 
outaf stock your money will not be 
banked untM the product Is ova liable 
(a point worth checking should you feel 
temptud to purchase eTsewhere). 


General information regarding 
product Is available from our soles 
team, however technical support Is 
always on hand should you need 
assistance, 

AIK prices q u of od are inclusive of VAT 


All orders received by &pm Monday to 
Friday are despatched that day for 
next d ay d e livery us! ng our notional 
carrier — Securkor. (UK Mainland only] 
Saturday deliveries are a va Habile at a 
small surcharge- If you are out when 
we deliver □ card will be left at your 
home giving you o contact telephone 
number to arrange a convenient re- 
delivery. 

Delivery queries can be resolved 
immediately using agr on-line 
computer. 

All orders are despatched on a next 
working day delivery bails. Cheque 
orders are despatched immediately on 
cheque clearance, usually 10 working 
days from receipt. A delivery charge 
of £5.00 Is made per Item unless 
otherwise stated. 


WE ALSO ACCEPT B.F.P.O. 
ORDERS (DUTY FREE). 
CARRIAGE CHARGED AT 
UK POSTAL RATES. 











AMIGA COTV 


COMPUTER 


TOTAL HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM 


THE INDI GUIDE TO CDTV 


AUDIO 

&!u« BrOthm 

PAwiojcia.w 


MONITOR NOT 
INCLUDED 


tT'S A CD PLAY Ell -Yes, if will pfoy a 


. your Primal Scream, 

Pavarotti, Pink Floyd and any other CD you core to mention in superb 
high c juality stereo, with remote infra red control. 

IT'S AN AMIGA —Plug in the keyboard, switch on the external disk 
dr ive and the colossal range of inexpensive Amiga software can be 
used on your CDTV. 

IT'S A MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM —Just imagine, stereo sound, 
images and text all on screen. It asks □ question, you respond, it 
responds — truly interactive! Each CD disc holds hundreds of 
megabytes of data with instant optica! access. The whole of 
Hutchinson's Encyclopedia fits onto I disc. This Interactive system is a 
unique aid for Education, Business or Leisure. The future is here! 

PACK CONTENTS A5 • Manuals 

STANDARD • Fred Fish CDTV ffSg&A 

Amiga CDTV Player INDI VALUE ADDED V\Sj 

< < CDTV keyboard • Lemmings COTV (£34.99^? » ’ 


mm 

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KidipFf2*5pa*fct 
£121^5? 


MULTIMEDIA 

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GOLDSTAR 14' REMOTE TVMCSWfTOR 
FEATURED AVAILABLE SEPARATELY AT Cl 79,99 


• Blues Brothers (£12.99) 

• Pipemanio, Populous, 

Kickoff 2, Space Ace (£122-52) 


INDI PRICE 


CDTV CONNECTS DlUKTLvtP YOUR TV S£T 


CDTV 


ir you already own a lu i v or ore |ust about to purchase one yc 
pleased to know that INDI stock probably the largest and most 
comprehensive list of CDTV software in the country. Below is a li 
selling titles we are offering at very competitive prices. For more 
please phone our sales team. [Prices include postage). 

EDUCATION I NTEKTAI NMENT 

A Bun for Barney 24,99 Defender of The Crown I 

Asteri* and Son English 19.99 Battle Chen 3 

N ASA The 25th Year 19 . 99 Battle Storm 5 

The Paper Bag Princess 29.99 Clank Board Gomes 3 

Thomas's Snow Suit 29.99 Houiidof Baskervilles 3 

Tale of Aster Rg bbit 34.99 Psycho Killer 3 

My Point 24.99 Trivial Pursuit 4 

Cinderella 34.99 Wrath of Damon 2 

MUSIC Basketball 2 

Music Maker 31.99 Dinosaur* For Hire 1 

Rflraix 24 r 99 All Doos Go To Heaven 2 

REFERENCE Raffles 2 

Dr Wei I man 49.99 Prehi$torik 2 

Guinness World of Records 31.99 Town With No Name 2 

Illustrated Holy Bible 24,99 Team Yankee 2 

Electronic Cook Back 29.99 Snoopv 2 


You've got the CDTy you've got 
the keyboard and floppy disk 
drive — for a total computer 
solution all that's needed is on 
ultra-fast hard disk drive. m 
The CDT V-H D unit boasts a j 

massive 65Mb of hard disk 
storage with lightning fast access 
times through its SCSI interface. 
The unit comes complete with 
Workbench 1.3 and all 
necessary cables. 


CDfV Starter Pack - Includes CDTV, Remote Control 
Hutchinson*, Lemmings & Welcome Disk CD's 

A570 External CD drive for the A5QO&A5QO+ 

MEGACH IP - 1Mb ChipRAM Upgrade for CDTV 

CDTV Keyboard (block) 

CDTV 3.5" External Floppy Priv^ 

ENCORE SCSI Ca nfrol I er+ Internal Mount Kir 


INDI PRICE 


CDTV Internal Genlock 


CDTV Remote Mouse 


GOLDSTAR TV/Monitor with Remote Control 
SCAR! TWMonitpr Lead (me. stereo phono lead) 



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Panasonic 


Quiet Printing 




We researched the colour printer market In great depth to find a colour printer good enough to cope with Amiga 's powerfu I 
graphic output, yet at an affordable price. 

We found the perfect printer in the Panasonic KX-P 21 80 + KX-P 2 1 23 quiet printers. 

We then considered that if you were going to buy a Panasonic printer, you would probably need a quality word processing 
package to use with it. We found that too, in 'Word worth', yet at a retail price of £129.99 we thought that might be a little too 
expensive on top of your printer purchasel So together with Panasonic we decided to give a copy of Wordworth free with 
every Panasonic printer. How's that for added value? 

KX-P2123 


2180 




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Th# new Panasonic KX-P218G9 pifi quiffi colour printer. 

Produces crisp door lexl in mono or In 7 atari on £ colo urs wilh new quid 
technology- The new KX-P21RQ is typiooRy !5d6A quiver in operation. 


hnology 

than the competition. 

* ifaft Paring Sp**di 102CPS Draft and 38 
CPS NLQ 

Colour Printinq 7 colour palette |.biua, ted, 
yreen F y allow, viola?, mogenta and black) 

# QuiefPrinlifig Supar quiet 4i-46dBa sound 
level (moit matrix printers, ora typically in exceii 
qFOOdiA) 

6 Re*id*nl Fimti Ow6,10Q typ* styles 
losi ng Courier, Pretfiga, Bold PS, Roman , Scrip! 
and Som SeriF Fonh 

* 3 Paper Ffjthi P^par hondlirtg trq-m bottom H 
tap Q nd rear lor Ida I Hfrnibilily 

• 1 ¥*a=r Warronty Forlotd pwcsof mnd 


INDI 


The now high perform once Panasonic KX-P2 1 23 24 pin. 

Quiet colour pnnter offer? boding edge quid priming technology an 
affordable price. 

* Fort Printing Sp**dt 192 CPS draft, 64 
CPS LQ and 32 CP SLQ. 

f Colour Printing 7 colour patette {blue, red, 
graan, yellow, violet, mogonto and black) 

# OuiiotPrinting Super quint 43. 5-46kBA 
sound Ini {fWGH matrix primers ore typically in 
excett of 60dftA] 

# 7 Retident Font* Over 1S2 ,000 type stylos 
using Super LQ, Courier Preilige, Bol d P$, 

Roman, Scripl and Sans Sarrf Fonf? 

* 24 PIN Diamond Printhead High 
performance and high quality Oulpul 

1 Y« r We rrenty for lota I peace of mind 



PRICE 



* WORDWORTH — COMPLETELY FREE! 

WITH PANASONIC QUIET PRINTERS 

The writers choice. The ultimate word processor for AMIGA computers, Wordworth is undoubtedly the ultimate word /document 
processor for the^l I range of AMIGA computers. The graphical nature of WORDWORTH makes producing documents foster and 
easier, with the enhanced printing fonts [including full Panasonic KX P218G and KX P2123 colour printing support), Collins spell checker 

and Thesaurus, no other word processor comes close, . 

"Without doubt this i$ one of the best document processors for the AMIGA, Today. (Amiga format), 

NORMAL RRP £129.99 ine. vat 


ESSORIES 


_ 


Following the outstanding response to the Panasonic printer range 

we are now in a position to offer new and existing Panasonic printer owners a complete range of accessories saving £££'s on recommended prices. 

KX-P2180/KX-P2123 Deluxe Accessory Pock 


Panasonic Colour Ribbon 6 Pack 
6xCoiour Ribbons for ihe KX-P2180 A KX-P2123 

RRP cm. W £00 0Q 
INDI PRICE to V • 77 

Panasonic Ribbon Pock 2x Black & Jx Colour 
Ribbons for the KX-P21S0 & HXP2123 

RRP £99.99 P£Q QQ 
INDI PRICE t07 .77 


Panasonic Sheet Feeder 

Automatic A4 Sheel Feeder for (he KX-P2123 

A KX-P218Q printers. Holds 83 sheets paper. 

RRP £89.99 mh nn 
INDI PRICE fc/7.77 


Pack Co voir s: Automatic Sheet feeder 

• 2x Block Ribbons 2 x Colour Ribbons 

* lx Du si Cover * 2 Piece Primer Stand! 

RRP £ 169 . 99 ft|AA qq 
INDI PRICE 1 1 J/. 77 



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The Amstmd Notepad Computer couldn't 
be easier lo use because you simply follow 
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* RGB feed through, allowing for a preview monitor, 

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The Rendaie Super-8802 is a development of the basic 8802 unit, it performs the same functions, 
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If you're amazed by AMOS 
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The current AMOS Compiler will work with 
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• On-line help provides details of rhe command at the 
cursor posit ton - Mosher click takes you. to a lutly 
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# A new edilEX wUh dfopnT *wn menus. kcylxjurd macnis, 
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■ Two discs crammed with working examples, and tutorial 
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Planet Zybex, a scrolling shtJOt-'em- up. the File O’ Facts 
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product — AMOS Professional — designed for all 
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AMOS Pro fe ss ional lias ZOO new commands, [a king the total to over 700 . 
Included in live package is a 6 50 - page manual w r ritteri by Mel Croucher 
who wrote the highly -praised Fa-sy AMOS mitnu.uk and Stephen Hill who 
wrote die original AMOS manual. Programs umren using earl Lei versions 
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commercial cash flow forecasts. 


• A versatile DATABASE which i$ simple to use and powerful 
enough to deal with anything from basic address book 
functions to club membership lists and business records. 


• A supremely friendly DISC MANAGER to make using your 
Amiga as painless a task as possible. 


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Database- Suifcd up .1 
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Workbench blues 


Help please, I .am relatively new Ip Amiga 
computers, but have an A5GD upgraded 
to a Plus with Workbench 2.0, 

I got the Virus Checker off October's 
Amigo Computing but can't seem to drag 
It into my startup-sequence. I get a sys- 
tem message: "Workbench is fuir. 
Perhaps I am doing something wrong - 
any ideas?. 


T M Dodd, Northallerton 

The simple answer is that your 
Workbench disk is full, so there's no 
room for Virus Checker on the disk. 
What you'll have to do is remove some 
less useful programs like Graphic Pump 
and CMD. 

If this doesn't work, remove the 
printer drivers you don't use from Ihe 
printers drawer and that should give 
you enough space. Then all you have to 
do is copy Virus Checker into the Ci: 
directory and add the line "Vims 
Checker" to your startup-sequence. 

NEh Make sure you are using a copy 
disk of Workbench when you do this! 

Sounding off 

Having recently purchased m A6M l was 
disappointed to find that my A600 would 
not produce sound on my Commodore 
108^ (not 10B4S) monitor. The monitor 
was fine on my C64 and the A6G0 
worked well on a borrowed protable TV. 

The 1084 has no 21 pin O-port, so I 
purchased at great expense from CPC a 

6 -pm linear to 23-pin D ring, This has 
giver me a picture but no sound. 

As a soldier in Germany I have Found 
German Commodore retailers 'less than 
helpful, but would like to thank Gordon 



Startup 

problems 


Printer out of puff? 
Computer cracking up? 
We re here to help! 



AMIGA COMPUTING 


ADVICE SERVICE 

Write to ACAS, Amiga Computing, Europa 
House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield SK10 4NP 

Save your saes - we can 't repfy personally 


Harwood Computers for putting me in 
contact with CPC. Is this an upgrade 
problem, or can you let me know where I 
can get a cable to do the job? 

5 Prowse, Germany 

We are afraid you've been sold the 
wrong cable. On the back of your 


monitor is a socket called a Start con- 
nector which takes care of both pic- 
ture and sound, 

What you need is a basic Amiga to 
Start cable - your best bet is to pick 
one up from Phoenix Mail Order 
(0532 11 1932) for about £!G plus 
p&p. 


i need help with the Zoom piogram Irom 
d Workstation menu which I use to speed 
up the mouse. 1 would like this to be acti- 
vated automatically on booting up, 

When I move the Zoom program to a 
convenient directory and call it up from 
Lhe startup program it crashes the boot 
sequence. 

I think it actually runs Zoom and then 
rtFuses to proceed out of Ihe end of it Is 
if possible to modify anything to achieve 
thiij bearing in mind that the Zoom pro- 
gram seems to be in a fundamental 
non-English type code and I am 
only a computer user, not a 
computer buff? 

A second problem rebates to an HP 
LaserJet III printer which I currently drive 
only from my Protext word processor wi th 
its own appropriate driver. 

F would like to have a suitable printer 
driver in the Amiga's drivers drawer so 
that I could drive the printer for other 
applications by setting the driver from 
there (the Laser|et driver supplied is too 
rudimentary). Do you know if a suitable 
driver is available to enable me 
to do this? 

D Price, Pontypaot 

You are right about your first prob- 
lem. When you call certain programs 
from your startup-sequence the pro™ 
gram runs and then does not return to 
the startup-sequence. 

What you have to do is teN your 
startup- sequence to run the program 
and then return to the next line after 
the pro-gram you have called. To do 
this put Zoom in your " , C^ directory 
and add the line: 

rim >|jU <HU: IOOW ► 


Memory switching for the brave at heart 


I have an Amiga 500 fitted with a fatter Agnus and a 
512k RAM expansion and a fnend of mine had ihe sane 
setup. Then he wanted 1 Mb of chip RAM pnd sent off his 
Amiga to have it fitted 

Eut he was then stuck with the 1Mb configuration. 
This seemed a bit off to me, so I decided to do the con- 
version myseFF to enable me to switch between \ Mb chip 
RAM and 51 2k chip/fast RAM, 

Those readers who feel confident enough to do as l 
did should follow these three simple instructions after 
opening the Amiga's casing. A steady hand is essential: 

* locate J R2 next to the ROM chip and JP7A next to the 
internal expansion port. 

• At 1 P2 cut the link between tracks 2 and 3 and solder a 
wire to each track.. Take them to a 6 - pin toggle switch, 
making sure the wire from track 2 goes to the centre 
pin. 


# At (P7A, cut the link between tracks 5 and 6 and sol- 
der a wire to each of these tracks. Take these to the 
switch, making sure that the wire from track 5 goes to 
the centre pin on the opposite side of the switch to the 
track 2 wire. Also-, the track 6 wire must he opposite the 
track 3 wire (see diagram). 


JP2 SWITCH 

<*■ -- 


JP7A 

.#4 


Cut 

link 


2 G 



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#5 


u6 


Cut 

link 


And there you have it - instant selection choice 
between 1Mb chip RAM and 512k chip/fast RAM 
configurations. All you need to do now is find a suitable 
place for your switch. This conversion will only work For 


Amigas fitted with the fatter Agnus chip and a suitable 
512k memory upgrade. 

/ iynftey; Rugby 

Thanks for sending this tip in. Do make sure that you 
always turn off your Amiga before flicking the switch 
and that the RAM expansion you use Fs chip-memory 
compatible, 

If you have any useful tips you consider worthy of 
printing then send them in and if we think there of 
use well consider printing them. Send your tips to 
David Pibnah, ACAS, Amiga Computing, Europa 
House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield 5K10 4NP, 

Arrrigo Competing and J Lunfcley point out that we 
cannot toe responsible for damage to Amigas caused 
by people carrying out this conversion - which will 
invalidate any warranty you may have. 


Amiga Computing January F 993 



echnical 


This should run Zoom and then return 
to the startup-sequence to continue 
the boot sequence. 

Several PD houses have a new 
driver for the HP Laser jet HI printer, 
but if you have difficulty give HP a ring 
on 0344-369222 and they should be 
able to help you. 

Missing software 

With my Amiga Class of the '90s pack I 
got a Da tel Electronics Midi Master 
Interface with one Midi in port* three 
Midi Out and one Midi Thru without 
instructions and software. 

Do you know how to use it? If I am 
allowed to sell it l will do so for £12, so 
can you please print my address? Finally 
will the Amiga Action Replay cart MK III 
wort with 5Mb via a thru pert?. 

D Eyre, North Humberside 

We presume that you bought your 
Amiga new, and if that Is the cast you 
should have received some music soft- 
ware and instructions with it. 

The Midi Interface is a way of con- 
necting an Amiga to a musical instru- 
ment like a keyboard. It translates 
computer signals into signals that the 
musical instrument understands, so you 
end up with the computer playing the 
instrument. 

As for selling your kJt, you'll find a 
classified ads section at the back of this 
magazine in which you can advertise 
unwanted items. The first ten words 
are free. Fill in the coupon and send it 
in. 

As far as we know the Action Replay 
MK III cartridge requires extra mem- 
ory,. so check with Datel first before 
buying one. 


I have a 1,3 Amiga 500 mathEfboard 
version 6A holding a Fat Agnus 
8372A, a 512k memory upgrade 
(trapdoor), external disk drive and 
also an external ROM sharer on the 
expansion port fitted with Kickstart 
2.04. 

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2.04 I am not able to access 1Mb of 
chip RAM? With the memory upgrade 
switched on I have 44l r 232 graphics 
memory and 360,176 other memory. 
With the upgrade switched off I have 
277,152 graphics memory and zero 
other memory, 

Is something wrong in the system,, 
or must l undertake major surgery on 
my computer? I know this is not a 
drastic problem, but it's annoying 


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PAL to NTSC 

if\ about Lwo months' time i J m relocating 
to Texas and am thinking about taking 
my Amiga 500 with me. Now the mains 
voltage in the Netherlands is about 220 
while the United States is on 115 volts. 

Will my European-bought Amiga still 
work in the United Stales, and do you 
have any useful addresses in the United 
States where I can buy a new power 
transformer to fit the 115 voltage over 
them? 

Finally, I must say I really enjoy read- 
ing your magazine every month, as I find 
it one of the best around for the Amiga. 
Thank you very much for your time, 

5 Abraas, Maastricht, Netherlands 

The main problem you are going to 
have is with the different screen for- 
mats in the States, if you have an 
Amiga with a fatter Agnus you’ll bo all 
right because it Is capable of displaying 
PAL or NTSC. Once you are over there 
you should have no problems picking 
up a suitable power supply from most 
Commodore dealers. 

You may have to invest in a new 
modulator if you wish to plug your 
Amiga Into a TV r hut you would proba- 
bly be better off buying an American 
monitor. 

memory 

knowing I have 1Mb RAM which I 
cannot fully access. 

R Hardy , Bad Lippspwge, Germany 

You cart only perform the chip 
memory upgrade on version 6A 
upwards motherboards with a fat 
Agnus fitted - which luckily you 
have - but you also need a memory 
upgrade which is chip memory 
compatible. 

Once you've sorted yourself out 
with a RAM expansion which is chip 
RAM compatible (if you have prob 
Jems finding one then contact 
Power Computing on 0234 &431B8) 
you will need to make a small alter- 
ation to your motherboard. 


More chip 


A piece of pie 

A while ago I bought a Pen P? I VI .4 wordprocessor. Et is perfect for my needs, giving 
high quality documents and graphics. However, one other Lfting I was hoping to be 
able to do on my new "toy" 1 was to create graphs and mathematical charts (Hoe 
graphs, bar charts, pie charts.), but to my huge disappointment this was not possi- 
ble. 

I have scanned every Arrifga Compute magazine from cover Ld cover, but am 
unable to find any software Lo suit my needs. I need somthing relatively cheap - PD_ 
shareware or cheapish commercial - that can create the diagrams I stated above 
simply by typing in the relevant statistics, 

1 am more than happy with Penpal’s documental and graphical capabilities. I also 
have a Citizen Swilt 24E colour printer and my computer is an A50Q with 1Mb of 
memory (I am hoping to upgrade to 2Mb in the distant future, money permitting!). 
E hope yau r ll be able to suggest something before my head explodes from reading 
so many PD lists! 

T Shorrard, Sussex 


This is a difficult one. Now if you had a PC the answer would have been simple. 
As Easy-As, which is a PD clone of Lotus 123 r the best spreadsheet available. 

However, here are two suggestions, first try a Shareware program from 17 
bit called Alpha Graph (con lad them on 0924 366982), Failing that you might 
like to take a look at Mini Office spreadsheet, database, wardprocessor and disk 
manager available through Furopress Software on 0625- 859333 


Business 

accounts 

I have owned a 500 Plus Amiga since 
lone and have found it a wonderFul 
machine except for one thing - I have 
tried now for 1 2 weeks tg put my simple 
business accounts on to a floppy disk 
and still had no luck. It is driving me 
crazy. 

1 have read and re-read the manual 
and followed the instructions step-by- 
step, still without success. 

Can you please supply me informa- 
tion as to how I can accomplish this sim- 
ple operation and advise me what book 
to buy? 

M Bunion, Nanis 

You haven't laid which accounts 
package you are using, but they alii 
work In a similar way. 

The answer to your problem proba- 
bly lies In you saving your information 
into the default path* that is the 
same directory as your accounts pack- 
age.. 

When you go to save your accounts 
you should see a window called 
"Drawer", Simply change this to 
"dfO:^, (drawer) being the name of 
your directory 

As For an Amiga book, you should 
take a look at Mustering Amiga 
Workbench, by Bruce Smith Books. 
Contact them on 0923 894355. 


Cybernetix 

1 recently got Cybernetix off your 
CoverDisk and unfortunately it faib Lo 
run on my ASOO Plus. I've he?rd this 
is due to the game using fast mem- 
ory. I have an A500 Plus with no fast 
memory. 

Is there any way of making my 
Amiga more compatible with older 
software which was not designed For 
the Plus machine other than having 
to buy fast memory and a ROM 
switcher? 

Robert 5ote, 


We've had a few enquires about 
Cybernetix not working on the Plus 
machines. The problem is that this 
program was written in New 
Zealand and they don’t have 
the Plus machines there yet. 

As ■you've already said, one 
answer is to buy some fast memory 
but this only works with programs 
which specifically use fast memory. 

One other solution is to get hoEdl 
of a PD program cal fed Dograder. 
Apparently this program Is able to 
degrade the A50b Plus and the 
A1.3 600 into an old Amiga, which 
in thoery will make your machine 
more compatible with existing 
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W e've a wider selection of qual- 
ity, affordable software this 
month than possibly ever 
before. Who could argue with the range? 
From the Nutcracker Suite completely 
Amiga- ised to an involved Antarctic-based 
strategy/arcade game, the public domain 
can boast more than ever that it provides 
something for everyone. 

Some of these programs are shareware, 
which m>eans that should you find them 
useful, you should send a small, specified 
fee to the author. 

Do it - only by people being honest will 
shareware five on for the good of us all. 
Anyway, you usually get a manual, a better 
version of the program and news on 
updates as and when they happen, so ift 
worth It from an economic as well as a 
moral standpoint 


Nutcracker 

Suite 


17 Bit, 2238 A/B, by Hugh 
Gammon 



As tar as Romantic classical music gae^, 
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite must be one 
of the most famous pieces of all time. 

All seven movements of the suite are 
included, and can be selected individually 
from an opening menu - a little like select- 
ing tracks from a CD. 

The instruments were created using 
Synth ia U and E-2FM- but it is with the 
instruments that this program's shortcom* 
ing is exposed. 

Classical music is obviously a much big- 
ger job to program than a pop or dance 
number - it is much more complex, the 
arrangement will almost invariably be more 


A huge variety of software is available that 
will cost you little or nothing. Phil Morse 
looks at this month's offerings from the 
Amiga public domain 


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Involved, and it relies a lot more on subtle 
nuances and expertly composed changes 
in feel which mark out the true genius 
composers from the crowd. 

While Hugh has managed to quite suc- 
cessfully port the essence of the music to 
the Amiga, it does sound more like a 
Lemmings soundtrack than an emotion- 
moving masterpiece. 

However, as an exercise in computer 
music, this is good stuff indeed, It's well 
presented, with some nice touches (the 
mouse pointer turn* into a conductor who 
actual conducts while the music is playing) 
and will appeal to anyone who is interested 
in the actual mechanics of Amiga music 
programming. 


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Lyponov 

Space 

Generator vl .0 


17 Bit, 2237, by David Head 

Fractal generators really are old news 
nowadays, I had one on my ZX61 „ so that 


shows how long computer programmers 
have had an interest in the little random 
beasts. 

While the graphics and speed of genera- 
tion have both improved with computer 
hardware over the years, the basic formulae 
and patterns have remained pretty much 
the same. 

However, the Ly panov (who?) fractal 
generator claims, with some justification, to 
be different. To quote the programmer, it 
creates plots which "have a more organic 
feel than normal fractals". 

Quite what this means is only apparent 
when you see one of the Lypanov-ge Der- 
ated fractals - they are undeniably differ- 



ent, and taking into account the ovi 
we've witnessed with the other van 
much more attractive,. 

Once you've generated a fractal, 
can zoom in and out on it and impro\£ 
looks in a number of ways. Selecting 
Contour feature will embellish your pal 
with a myriad of colours, while Coh 
while not allowing you to define your 
colour palettes - will allow you to cl 
one of three different p re -programs 
ones. 

When you are happy with your dfa 
you can save your fractal out as an IFF 
Ly panov custom file, for loading into 
program or any paint package wh 
accepts IFFs [ie any worth having). 

The programme! has also include 
slideshow which contains a selection 
very different but equally impressive fr; 
generated using the system. 

If yauVe a penchant for this kino 
thing and are getting bored with the 
favourites, Lypanov could be right up 
street. 


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■ utilities provided. There really is no room 
'q lilt them here, by I suffice to lay that, 
everything from saeen bankers to & cop- 
per editor to a fix for the popular music 
anagram Protracker ate here, 

LSD are to be congratulated lor these 
lisks - pot only are they highly useful and 
jood value, but show a real commitment 
c-y a group of people to the Arnica scene 
What better way to help Amiga usm than 
to release a pile of utilities that you fond 
useful yourselves? 

This is altogether a much more com- 
mendable attitude than the "I'm never 
:el 1 ir>g you how 1 did that!* slant many pm* 
9 rammers take over their personal 
“tricks of the traded Up the people, 
that's what I sayl 


Skyflyer 2 

17 Bit, 2221 

Written with SEUCK (the Shoot- 'Em- Up 
Construction Kit), this game looks.,, well, 
similar to every other SEUCK game. This is 
not to put it down, just to say that there Is 
a little element of "you've seen one, 
you've seen them air about SEUCK 
#orts. 

Anyway, Skyflyer is a little like 
Thunderblade, but with (surprise, surprise) 
a permanent aerial view of the proceed- 
ings - oh, and yo u control a biplane, not a 
hdicopter r 

The idea is (sur- 
prise, surprise) to shoot 


Dreams 


everything that moves/shoots things at 
yau/gels In your way. The planes fly in 
diagonally bom both sides, while tanks 
will attempt to shoot you from the roads 
below. 

There are also power-up style bonuses 
which float around in a bubble-like fashion 
waiting for you to pick them up and add 
to your score. 

The graphics and movement are^ well, 
SEU-CK-like, with the scrolling a tad dodgy 
and the icons of a suspiciously familiar 
$ize r but the game itself is actually quite 
difficult and addictive - even if it fs ulti- 
mately a little out of date. 

Intrepid 

PD Soft, 2674. by Peter 
Gage 

This is a slickly presented arcade/st rategy 
game, in which you must guide your tank 
through the Antarctic to rescue a scientist 
who has befcn taken hostage by dastardly 
terrorists. 

On booting, the computer executes its 
"pre-drop procedures" (!) And you're off 
into the snowball- ridden wastes at the 
bottom of the world. What a lucky soul! 

The game is basically strategy with 
arcadey bits thrown in. There's a naviga- 
tion computer which displays the position 
of your tank with regard to the enemy,, 
the ammunition dumps (what your scien- 
tist was doing with those well prob 
ably never find out), fuel 
depots and so on. 

You will find: yourself 


Calling PD 
libraries 


Crackle... Crackle... A message struggles 
across the ether..., \ need .your PD-™, Al 1 of 
it... Send it to me, Phil Morse, at Amiga 
Computing, Ad ling Lon Park, Macclesfield 
SKI 0 4NP... Avon! The signal's cracking 
up, and Blake's still on the planet's sur- 
face! (Phil, you're fired - Ed) 


selecting the navigation computer quite 
regularly, because this is the part of your 
tank which you use to move yourself 
around, by a system of arrows and a grid 
which straddles your map. 

When you're ambushed by the enemy, 
you are presented with a bleak* snowy 
backdrop on which the enemy appear 
from behind rocks and the like to take 
shots at you, Arid it's not snowballs 
they're dropping, either. So you must rap 
them before they fry you, 

Control is via the mouse, and you sim- 
ply move the target to the enemy on the 
screen and press the button. Easy! 

Only they appear with alarming regu- 
larity, and you need some pretty deft 
mouse-to-mouse mat co-ordination to get 
the lot of them without them hitting you 


In ( his brand new animations and 
demos column, we'll be featur- 
ing the best cartoons,, still art- 
work, fantasy fractals - 
Indeed anything demon- 
strating ncw r interesting or ,q ■« jrl 
lust plain impressive uses CVliW 
of the machine's graphical 
capabilities. 

The Pure Fantasies Slideshow { 1 7 


111 


2241A/&) features some competent 
space based and futuristic pictures. 

I presume they've been 
k scanned and then retouched, 
but the end certainly justifies 
' rneans - The accompany- 

mg music fs spacious if a lit- 
tle disjointed. 

My only complaint is the artist's propensity 
to digitise scantily clad women - a cheapening 
quality, but one which fails lo distract from the 
disk's overall air of an exciting technological 
future. 

The next disk is the Shining 8 Slide Demo 
(17 Brf, 2220). Wonderful atmospheric music 
and a dog wearing shades (obviously had a 
long night) introduce this slideshow of seven 
picture, which range from magic spheres lo 






biplanes. 

One picture, 
called Presir has what I 
think is an Amiga disk or magazine in a 
press and rather squashed by all accounts. 
It's bizarre and comically coherent and is 
my favourite on a disk where all of the pic- 
tures are of a high standard. 

Nothing else really jumped out this 
month, but hopefully a. dedicated column 
will encourage you libraries to send In 
more slideshows, visual demos and graph 
ICS to me at the usual address. 


fon-fnikTi 




Amiga Computing 


January 1993 








and Sha 


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W if I 



better things from Intense Ultimate 
Gance {t? Bit, 22$ 3), Indeed, this 
sounds much better., This isn't more 
mid rave, but dance music with a 
more considered and soulful edge. 
Our first house disk? Yes indeedy. 

Topped off with a nice picture of 
One of the more disturbing charac- 
ters from TV’s liquid TV, this is a wel- 


> 

too many Limes. 

It's all rather complex, which - certainly 
when first played - makes you glad to have 
"on-line* access to the manual at all times, 
simply by clicking on the relevant icon, 

Oh and if it all gets to much, they're a 
safeiy-catohed self-destruct button. Always 
good for a laugh, big red buttons. But I 
digress. 

This is a nicely presented game, with 
enough variety in it to prevent it from 
becoming tedious. 


Contact 

addresses 


Grinder 

Graphics 


PD Soft. V794 


Or the Grinder Graphics Conversion Utility, 
to give if its full title, frustrated with having 
to use long* winded CLI commands when- 
ever you want Lo convert a graphic into a 
different format? 

Fret no more, Amiga users] Grinder 
replaces the familiar CLI headache with an 
altogether far more agreeable user-friendly 
point-and'tlFck style interface. Not only 
that, but as Grinder is a batch processor, ft 
can convert loads of graphics at once, with- 


The Grinder conversion utility is easy to use and attractive 


Amiganuts, 1 69 Dale Valley Road 
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TIFF and even HAM-E are all catered for 
a highly usable, wel presented and so 
mately very useful program. 

Sound module capabilities will be 
to the next version of this program 
will elevate it into the realms oF the - 
penSablc r but only if the author 
enough interest (re shareware fees} 
people for this version. So register! 


true for coffee-lovers everywhere, 

Of course, to Fully utilise such a pro- 
gram, a hard drive is pretty much essential. 
Due to the targe size of your typical graph- 
ics file, a floppy disk could hold very few 
images. 

Also, the batch processing 
capabilities of this pro- 


severely disabled by yoyr needing to 
change disks in the drive at regular inter- 
vals, when you could be curled up in front 
of Eldorado with a coffee. On the other 
hand, though... 

It handles most well-known and a cou- 
ple of not so welF-known for- 
mats - IFF, ST, JPEG, 
GIFS9a, 


PCX 


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WeFtome to |u Icebox ■■ vi 'i:u vv:c .. 
jury, the brand new 
column dedicated to 
sifting musical master- 
pieces from turgid ! /\ V 

tunes. All decisions are 

irrevocably final, and "EEZER GEEZER* 

the judge and jury will 

consist of... erm, just t 

me. So on with the 

game... /'■ 'I 

First up this month 

Is Eb^neezer Goode ! J 7 Art. 22 |9J= P which is a purely 
musical remix (the screen stays static all the way 
through) of the number one hit by Scottish visionaries 
The Shamen. 

This is outstanding for Its clarity - the mtisit is 
extremely well digitised, sounding clear and dynamic. 
Coupled with an interesting and value- for money 
lengthen rem s the |ury say H HFi! H + 

Next m the drive is ftave Attack FI (J 7 Bit 2241% Oh, 
the good-for-nothing scoundrels! This disk either had 
the wrong name on it or it comes under extremely 
dodgy pretences. 

The opening graphics lull you Into a false sense of 
weft-being by Their air of quality, but just when you're 
committed and the music starts, you realise that 
you're listening to yet another version of that rub- 


i 

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graft:: HfiNi; come change fro*- 

mSki Dftkflos nose bleed non 

sense. The fury sav 
Muff respect! t 
Well, two hits am~ 
a miss this month 
but as Meat Loa' 
once sang, "two our 
of three ain't bad 

I And we can only fea 

> « - -~"~r . - lljre what VOi. 

f L 1 i 1 1 r 1 I C ; C Ei-Pv.l' i H:M> I I f 

^ libraries out there 

send so if you think dance is an evil technologic*) 
King Kong ripping the heart out of frank Sinatra 
Ate w York, IVpw York, then send me your alternatives! 1 

Some of next month's disks are already lining up i r 
our sad little studio here at AC Towers,, and very inter 
estriig they re sounding too. So tune in next time 
Good night! 


DECRUSJCNfN^ 


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bishy rave racket, Sesame s Treet by the Smart Es* im 
sorry, but the Great British Novelty Record hat always 
had a shelf value of no more than two weeks or three 

listen*, whichever comes first, and 

frankly this has outstayed its wel- 
come. The Jury say: "Miss!'\ 

Hmmm, maybe we can expect 


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INTERNAL 3.5" 
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,,,...£10.99 

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Easy Amos *"£21 > 99 

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FI 5 Strike Eagle 2 £15*99 

Fire & Ice * - £15.99 

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100. £36.90 

200.. .... £68. 95 
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500.. ..E167.50 


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Double 

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All Disks come with labels P&P included 


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3.5 inch 20 Capacity *-* £1 50 

3.5 inch 100 Capacity .,£4.75 

150 Capacity Posso Box ,....£13.49 

3.5 inch 250 Capacity ....£22.99 


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Zydec Zy-Fi Speakers ,,.,....£33.99 

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Zydec Virus Protector £5.99 

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Alfa Data Megamouse , £15.99 

Vi Meg Upgrade w/clock £21 .95 

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D-Day 

The latest in a spate of war games is D-Day from Futura rpy / j 
as a foot soldier and progress through the game onward 
upward to the level of supreme commander (in theory) , 

you can choose to be in the mfontjy, a paratrooper or cake * 
m of a tank, ship or plane M you gam experience you will t.r 
mand entire divisions go from one battlefield to another and e. 
tually control a whole army, 

From what I could glean the game seemed quite module 
you could play it at various depths, so it ’Will appeal to arcade ■ 
strategy types alike 


Yes, indeed Hudson is not icavng 
because Alien Breed is hack" Alren 
Breed - Special! Edition 92 will hit 
Che streets in mid November for 
die bargain price of UO 99. For 
cnose of you thinking that the 
game is identical to the original 
think again because Ifs not. The 
Special Edit on is enhanced with 
game-tweaks, new missions and 


over, man.. .NOT! 


new Beatties Iv^ce 'he size of the 
original Alien Breed - Special Edi- 
tion 92 will untfoubifr a huge sue- 
ceis. Many pint; o f lager should £>e 
sen: to Team 17 for rewriting the 
rules and being clever enough to 
think up [he idea and perhaps 
some otnef companies snou d fo>- 
low suit Quality and quantity 
couid well E>e then motto because 


other news is that Afic-n Breed 2 
will appear in mrd 93, but the next 
full price release from the learn 
w?!l be Superfrog and/or Body- 
Brows and will be available m Jan 
u ary/February next year, Ir defi- 
nate.'y seems that Team 1 1 are one 
of the hardest working games 
companies around at the moment. 


I really like games that follow a horror filmy type of vein. So the > 
comrng arcadey 3D thing from Ocean is going to be a corner as 
I'm concerned 

Old Dr Van Hefsing. Dracula siahbcr himself, drove alf of the 
beasries- namely Frankenstein, Dracuia, Wolf Man. The Mumm 
the Creature from the Black lagoon - into the underworld, rht 
door down from Bitfa 

Then he performed an annual nit? which kept them down f 
But being a bit of a plonker, he forgot that he was going (o |>- 
clogs. So When he did it was roll out (he bairel for Drat and Co 

You take the role of Kefsing’s grandson and gatecrash Drat i ■ > 
and barmcake party to give him a good seeing to. You must fine 
pieces of the amulet which will keep them next door to Biffa fore. 




Lemmings II 

The only game ever created that will stand the test of time 
than Tetris. Lemmings is back with some iris after its name. 

The new version Jeans a little more to the arcade side than 
previous version, which has 1 2 different tribes of lemmrng, « 
from Beach Bums to Egyptians, You have to lead each 
through eight levels - which makes a total of 96 levels to cor 
Spooky eh? 

And just to really confuse you, you no longer have the 
eight Skills, climbers and SO on - your lemmings have 50 df 
skills, some of which are specific to some tribes and others a 

l-jn it\ hl/lvaf Fi Irt 


Good lordy, it's a 


Norses for courses 


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Bah! humbug! 


Enter the mystic world of Norse mythology in tfagnarok R^gnarok is a rndepth strategy board game and appar 
entiy offers- a greater depth of gameplay and more visual appeal than chess. Adapted from the ancient Vikmg 
Game’, the two sades of good and evil must do battle to the death . Each srde has a different goal. Good have to 
guide Odin from his starting square in the 
centre of the board to one of the four corners 
whereas evil must prevent this from happen- 
ing. Each piece has different strengths and 
abilities restricting rt '& movement and power 
over other pieces. Ragnarofc can be played 
against a friend or you can play against one of 
the twelve computer controlled opponents. 

Ragnarok has been programmed by Fmagitet 
Design and should be reviewed rn this high 
quality magazine very soon, It wjN cost you 
09.99 and should be out either just before or 
just after Christmas. Don’t forget no norseing 
around 


Banzii, plorn 
dacker, sore 
finger etc 

Those wacky Japanese are back on the Fifm 
making trail with the release of a new hatch 
of Manga Videos. The cream of the crop 
seems to be the totally unpronounceable 
UtotsukidOfl. Legend of the Qverficnd 
The story involves big beastics with moral- 
istic problems, not to mention young men 
possessed by various devils who pour (heir 
energies into the bodies of young girls [yes, 
yes I fcmw it sounds a hit fnarj. 

Every 3. DOG years Chqjin the king of the 
monster world, attempts to brmg together 
the three worlds in which the universe sup- 
posedly exists. This wjII produce a world of 
eternal debauchery violence and supernatu- 
ral forces - a bit like the AC toilets really 
Ifs got all the usual Japanese violence 
with a bigger chan average helping of sck 
thrown in. A possible rival to the mighty 
Akira 


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Serious? Oh no! 

F« things first four omnipresent Gamer is to change \is furmat slightly this 
month wrffi the introduction of ^ new page. The recent staff durujes Ivve 
forced the ever-ridiculous Gamer crew to take a slightly more serious 



approach 


But will this stop Biffa making re%EJXes ro Lager, or prevent Ben being a 
muwablt? sod? Qh no! Murry your fittle minds not" 

I The charts are moving there from their usuaf place arid it waif be full erf 
riirnsand tips you mi i .ill'nrd iu miss Jfyou aH sin* #1 ffl game jnywhtrc 
we will try our best not to gaggle and make you fed inadequate, but wV 
answer your plea for help. So get writing. 


Legend in their 
own disk drive 

US Gold are really going for it at the moment. As if 5F !l wasn't Stocking 
enough, soon to be seen is the 
massive RPG Legends of Valour, 
part one 

Designed by Kevin Bulmer* of 
Corporation fame and Itaofution 
r01 r s Ian Downend, Legends is a 
veritable "virtual world' 1 according 
to the golden ones. Weti they 


■would say that, 
but it does iook 
big, and besides, 
any game that 
allows you to 
enter a tavern and 
get drunk is ail 
nght by mf 1 




It's poptastic, mate! 

fi i more than Nkdy that many of you have bought Ptopuf Bus 2 by Electronic 
Arts, but by now you Ve probably compteted it or forgotten it. Well, its time to 
find it again because those kind men and women at Eiectronpc Am have 
brought out a handy data dr$k. Populous Z - the Challenge Games should be 
out around about now and ItTl only cost you a mere £14.99. The Challenge 
Games are 42 special worlds chat wril once again put your strategic expertise 
to the test, instead of helping your peopte to prosper and to destroy foeir 
enemies, this time your main goal is to help your people survive. Yep, your fol- 
lowers are faced by tidal waves, burning forests and hurricane winds hmm 1 
don’t know sounds more like Florida to me. There are also SOD new -worlds 
complete with brand spanking new 'Shogun 1 graphics, but remember you 
need the original game to play iL Populous fans, run down to your local com- 
puter shops right this minute, it's the bargain of the month. 


The final flight sim? 

Tornado, the flight Sim to end all flight sims, is nearing completion The boys 
as Digital Integration ere still iocked away deep in the Tornado dungeon, 
but hope to have rwde sufficient progress to be allowed home for a few 
^urs at Christmas. 

from what we've seen, the hard slog - over two years in development - 
■vi prove worthwhile with a massive hrt. 

I he revel of detail, features and speed should make this an essentiaf pur- 
chase for every flight sim fan and may turn the heads of a good few nor> 
rnmers too. Coming to an Amiga near you early ! 993 


What'll be wiggling in year Christmas stocking? 



Doodlebug.. 

Dangerous deeds in downtown Cartoon! a 

Pinball 

Will someone please tell Ben that it's no good tilti 

Campaign ..fl 

Relive those fond wartime memories - Vera Aynn < 


onitor? 


id black bananas 


Shadow Worlds.. 

Biff climbs into his tinfoil suit and pa 

Sabre Team 

God knows what this is all about 
read the review I suppose 

IfllMANI 

We review the game that's 

Assassin........ 

Too late - Bill Clint 

Power - up ...4 

The A1 200 


25 million years to make 


re for the gametastic new Amiga? 


ces as Paul goes exploring with a fruit bat 

Ktrandm 

All the satisfaction of healing trees without having to put up 
with David Bellamy 

McDonalds........ 

Whatever the game s like. It's a damn si 
their food 4 


More Carter 


mGw*********** 

than eating 


Joysticks.... 

Will some thing be wiggling in y 

Onword ...... 4 . 

Good Lordy - look at that^g 


king this Yufetide season? 


outdated than Top of the Pops 


The only chart th 


a top flight sim. The full monty follows 


Reach for t 
next monti 


Ben andtEffff suss out Capt'n Birdseye s big bruvver, Hook 


J^anuAry 1913- 






Bombs away - it's the, 




J riti Li .i ry 1 941 


Camera 


Htlto lircifi mm. J m. the its* monitef and I'm going to eat fou up. Ma h* h* 


Eire use me. but can I borrow your shoe* to go bofillng^ 


oOdlebugs They were rftose 
strange coking bOffibs with 
wingTike things used in tbe Sec- 
ond World Wat wenen r they? And correct 
me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the contempo- 
rary term refer to both the larva of ah ant- 
lion, and indeed a non-scientiflc device to 
aid in the location of minerals? 

impressed? Don't be - 1 found alf this out 
From the dictionary The First and only thing 
that sprang to mind when th n disi aiwed 
in the office was that awtyi song from a few 
years ago, whereby the banal chant ’Do-do 
the doodlebug' was repeated about 300 
times to the lacklustre rhythm of a cou- 
ple of snare drums and an wous 
tic guitar 

Gwen the above informs 
tion then, you would be 
Forgiven for believing that 
this page is dedicated to a 
strategy game set around 
1945, where you as the 
hero invade hostile territory 
atop a Flying bomb in search 
OF minerals fusing your non-sci- 
entrfic device) which you must feed 
to the larva of an ant-lion 

Or possrbiy not Doodle Bug is m Fact a 
cartoony platformer set. astonishingly 
enough, in the colourful world of Cartoonia 
The king oF Cartoonia rs up m arms - his 
beautiful daughter, the Princess Udy-Bug, 


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has been kidnapped, spirited away rn the 
dead of night by a large shadowy figure 
with an evil cackle. 

Herein lies the p?oblem - obviously 
the king would like his daughter 
back Fairly sharpish but Car- 
toonia, by its nature, is a bit 
short on large, shadowy 
evif people who might: be 
up to the job oF rescuing 
her. 

You see f most mhabFtanss 
this unlikely land are small 
bright and friendly, and much 
better suited to working as a stunt 
double for Tweerie Pie than as a destroyer of 
dark overtords. 

There'S always one though isn't there? In 
this case it's you - a brave little bug-1 ike 
creature" who steps forward to answer the 
king's plea, namely to travel through distant 


W-flhpy! Watch out 
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slippy it is 


Whit the betl 
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toONirtg at? 


addiction 

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! still km sneskMig a crafty 
game when hunk's looking. 

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lands battling with dozens of creatures 
about eight times your size untrl you reach 
the princess prison, where you must 
release her and return her to her ever-loving 
fappa 

The king is grateful or your offer - so 
grateful in fact that he promptly presents 
you with a few magic pencils and various 
other pieces of brightly coloured stationery 
to assist you on your quest 

A tong-handlecf sword, a pocketful of 
grenades and the odd automatic weapon 
would have been nice, but hey - you got 
penciFsl Cest fa vie,.. 

Toyiand is your first port of call, and very 
mce it is too. Jack-in-thf boxes, aeroplanes, 
downs, and that's just the nasty elements, 

Things are moving around everywhere, 
and Doodle Bug can even get help from 
one or two of the nicer people In town 
who'll talk to him and give him advice. 

It's here where you realise that the magic 
pert-cits aren't quite as useless as they first 
appeared. Foe instance, when thrown, the 
blue pencil turns into an umbrella which will 
slow down your descent should you, say. 
fall off a doll's house or something. 

Other pencils wiN turn into balloons |to 
take you to higher places), potion bottles 
ffor temporary invincibility) and itopwarcnes 
(freezes the enemies for a few seconds). 

Don't despair if you find yourself in a 
tricky situation - Doodle Bug carries a rub- 
ber at all times ’which rather handily cfouhfes 
as a kind of smart bomb for instant disposal 
of hostile creatures. 

Other levels are in a similar vein - bright 


colours and cute creatures asunder 
to the theme - Forbidden Forest 
Fortress df Doom to name but, erm... 

What else then? Well, Doodle Bofl 
quite a nifty spin attack with which he 
do away with hrs adversaries, and 
loads of stuff to collect such as mone. 
and power-ups, all of which add a 
your paltry armoury. 

The sound throughout is really gooo 
the art girlie is driving me mad hur 
the tune as I write. Amiga owners 
chuffed with the number of effects, 
graphics are great, 

Although they don t come rrght out 
say ft. f guess this game is aimed 
younger market, just in time for Chri! 

The ernth is. I had a good time 
- it's a little bit easy, but fun, and 
loads going on so you, or your bcl< 
spring, won t become bored too quickly 


VISION 

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In another era I could have said 
n was “bright wd gay wtfiovi. 
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Catchy tune and plenty oF 
good R, butthere'i always 
room tor more 

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Plenty lo do... simple » puy- 
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got a direct sample of the flipper n ois^s, so 
as you can imagine its pretty convincing 
The music itself at first sounds pretty dodgy 
but they are very cleverly written and irritat- 
ingly catchy tunes. 

If you have Pinball Dreams there might 
not be much point buying Frnbali Fantasies, 
but if you were madly in love with it then 
this is probably welt worth a look because of 
[he extra Features it offers 

Sen 


A sure sign of a misspent youth ss 
a good pinball player, in which 
case I think our resident 
H?nage deimquent/old man Da??a had a 
\T dhood SJmiFar to that of Oliver Twist. 

.vnereas I personalty was a good, God- 
Eanngi child who never went anywhere 
j r such things as the pinball machine - f 
■ is- an Afterburner and Galaxrnans man 
- . -.t'f Biff wasn't born, as he is a genetic 
■ ’periment gone tragically wrong. 

Alas there rs no escaping the simulation 
bandwagon, and one must put up with 
such things. All right, I admit il it's very 
, jod. in fact as far as simulations go this is 
one ot the most realistic Jve seen.. I m more 
.. ed to seeing rubbish football manager 
imes and flight si ms with the minimum 
: - irification being a MENSA member 
On starting the game you have the 
hoice of four tables. They all act like the 
eal thing, and none is easier than the 
r^hers. 

Tour playing screen is the view you 
would normally have of a real table You 


can t see at! of it at once as you could in the 
older console-type pinball games, but this 
means you get a closer, dearer view of the 
part you are concerned with. 

The table scrolls with the ball when you 
knock it up the table with the flippers You 
might think that this ‘would be a bn conf us- 
ing to watch, but the scrolling is silk smooth. 

Graphically the game is fantas&c and an 
the illustrations on the bed of me machine 
are colourful. The Pairs movement is per- 
fectly smooth, even though on some of the 
tables it gets flung around at a mi of a race. 

I played first on cable two. 7 no theme 
here is rally driving and an unusual feature 
is extra flipper which involves a heir of a lot 
of skill to use it e^etbvety When using the 
other Flipper it was almost as though you 
were playing independently of the lower 
i<ib e - you rat'd get massive scores at the 
cop. 

Tfct me of ine other tables are a game 
show horror setting and theme park, all 
with the? Side quirks. A lot of the time you 
not only control the flippers but also small 

Hes the Pinball Wizard 


games of skifl Further up the table, tike mov- 
ing the light which the ball wilF run over - 
very simple but very effective. 

\ think the only thing lacking is a multibaiJ 
sequence with two or more balls on the 
screen, but it’s understandable why they 
didn't do this as multiball scrolling would be 
a nightmare. 

To polish off their product 21st Century 
have added cracking theme tunes, even a 
creepy one for the horror tahfe. Also they've 






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Tank you very much, it's... 


EMPIRE ■ £34.99 m '& meg ■ Mouse/keyboard * Out now 


Ere ilop Riiiilim About In that lank.,. 

W ar, What is it good for? Abso- 
lutely nothing, except for the 
load? and loads of ace 
wartime simulation? involving killing multi- 
tudes of the enemy , 

Yes, you can be transported back in time 
to the early 40s and fight World 
War II against 
Bosh. Yes 
indeed, for 
n l 
£34, 


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you can go and show Hitler exactly what 
you think of him. A bargain, Revive the war 
without any chance of getting blown up or 
shot at. 

Computer games - 1 love 'em, You can be 
transported to space one minute and then 
off ro the Middle Ages and then win the 
k war and strif be back home in time 
h for tea. 

There are two types of war 
game - the run around, shoot 
lots of soldiers and watch the 
blood fly everywhere type, like 
Frreforce, and the climb into a 
tank of plane and strategically win 
the war that way by looking at 
maps and deciding which tactics 
to use against the enemy type. 
Campaign Is of the latter 
kind ar>d is Dilfed on the box as 
the most comprehensive military 
simulation of warfare in World War 
II Wei l it could be true, but you'll just 
have to wait until the end of the 
review to find out. 

Basically Campaign is a pure 
strategy game, but it does have a cer- 
tain "arcade'' efement to it. Thfs so- 
called 'arcade' bit is where 
you take control of the 
tank platoons and 
choose any tank to 


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friend gsti down 
to the latest 
tunei tram 
Nirvan*- M, mil 
da lights mu, 1st 
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TW fF 


j Battteqroup Sherman M4fi3E8 


Interesting Map He 
- Grlmhsy 

run around in blowing 
other tanks up, 

M ore a bout that later. 

Job-w^e, Campaign is very 
flexible. Indeed, if you want 
to be a lowly tank driver 
then that s up to you, bui 
you can take the position of 
a General or even take the 
top job as Field Marshall - 
or you can do 5ll three! 

As General, you control the fighting of an 
individual battle with tanks plus artillery and 
air support. As the Field Marshall, not only 
do you stay about 35 miles away from the 
battle supping tea and scoffing biscuit* with- 




Here 5 a Sherman M4 Tiirtk, mmetliirtq yau 
wou inn t want to meet on A dark nrqUt 


out any fear of getting shot oc blown 
: ,-ou also get to coordinate the strategy 
all the tanks, convoys, aircraft, ships 
production centres. Lowly tank driver is 


De HaviLland Mosquito 


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j i n u a r y 1995 



HpC: for me though, going wild in a nice big 
pnfc with a nice brg gun blowing away the 
mem/ for King and Country and shouting 
boo sucks" to the Hun. 

Iis much more exciting than sitting 
>.n nd a desk Foaking at maps, hot that's 
fnty a persona* opinion 
To be perfectly honest lm not a huge fen 
c proper strategy games, but l liked Cam- 
psgn For two reasons, One. it had a bit of 
icuon in it, unlike some other strategy 
..-hes 1 could mention, and two. it is so 
damn authentic. 

For starters, included in the package is 
re user guide which gives a historical back- 
pound to the war You also get two World 
pat II propaganda posters and postcards, 
plus a D-Day landings battle plan map - you 
M gel an authentic wartime newspaper 
repflnt 

You certainly feel more involved with the 
game than you would with just a couple o f 
and a flimsy manual Obviously a la* of 
irork has gone into Campaign in trying to 
it as real as possibfe This must have 
alien a lot of research ana also a lot of time. 

For instance, you get another manual 
with air the tanks, aircraft and sNpi in It 
utiith it gives you all sorts of information on 
each one. ranging from speed to weight to 
I he date it was first available As well as 
teng informative it also serves as the man 
ual protection. 

Everything js just » accurate and abso- 
L:eiy huge. For instance the playing area 
covers up to an amazing ten million square 
yometre 5 and features detailed towns, vil- 
lages. rivers and woodland 

You can take full command of up to 
iOOO vehicles of which there are over ISO 
feilcte types on over 20 historicalfy accurate 



maps. Locations of the maps range from 
the desert wastes of the Sahara to the deci- 
sive D-day landings. And if that isn't 
enough there is a map editor which allows 
you to modify the existing maps and create 
new ones of your own, $o the possibilities 
are endless 

In fact if you fancy it you can even swap 


An, time Ed 
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Barrett 
homes Into 
rubble. Ha 
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they ftkftiijy 
are rubble... 


sides and take control of the German army 
Just think you could he a Hitler reincarnate. 
Guspt 

Right, back to the "dftKfe“ tank driving 
bit. if any of you have seen Pacific Islands, 
also by Empire, then you’ll realise by looking 
at the screenshots that the lank bit of the 
game looks very similar. 

Well, yes it is, but that's not a bad thing is 
it because Pacific Islands was pnefty good as 
weN The actual driving of the tank is really 
easy and simply involves nine keys of the 
keyboard After a few plays of the game it 
becomes second nature. Oh and I can rec- 
ommend biowing up some houses in the 
town, just for laugh 

So is Campaign going to be as victorious 
as our good old British Tommies- were, or 
will it end up growing a smalt moustache 
*nd shooting itself in a small bunker in 
Berlin? 

Weil overall this js a really good game, 



but fm afraid a lot of people tend to ignore 
this type of thing. They probably think that 
strategy is for incredibly boring people, but 
it’s not true - chat's just stereotyping strat- 
egy fans. 

Right, if people get over their strategy 
fears then I think that Campaign could 
become a good seller and could be up ihe 
chants before you know it. 

The only niggle that I have is that after a 
few hours play it tended to get ^ bit boring, 
- no, not boring exactly, but F started losing 
interest. 

Other than that I can t really complain - 
top marks go to the actual presentation of 
the game, plus I forgot to mention the excel- 
lent introduction disk that comes with it. It 
features some great graphics and some sam- 
pled speech and is a good, err, introduction 
to the game 

So, if you feel lake you want to go and 
bash the Bosh and defeat the evil tyrant 
Hitter, Campaign could well be the game for 
you. Tank you and goodnight 

Jonathan 


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Mice 3b pflfygpn gnplw ci plus 
an amaijng intrcriyOKHi disk. 

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*tia£ there is is quite good. 


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migtrt go slightly off the nais. 



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C <t$[ your rntncfs way tack to April's 
issue of Gamer and you might 
remember ShadowJands, a brilfianl 
adventuring rote playing game reviewed by 
yours truly. I gave it 94per cent and a 
Gamer Gold, 

Well hold do to your bits and pieces, 
because here for your enjoyment and enter- 
tainment ij Shadow worlds by kri satis 
It’s a sort of a sequel - I say 'sort or 
because it doesn't fallow the storyline from 
the original, although it does use tf*e same 
game routines. Saving grace ii (bat it has dif- 
ferent graphics because it's sec in space 
Spate, the final frontier and afl that busi- 
ness. but in Shadow Worlds things have 
changed. There is no need for Captain Kirk 
to run around chasing Klingons or far fjuke 
Skywalker to battle with the Empire, 
because now there is universal peace 
Yep, aliens hold quiet and pleasant coffee 
mornings and every man, womaa chiid and 
squidgy bfab are happy in the knowledge 
that they are united as one There's » ’ bur 
coming up very soon. 

Peace, love and happiness crusades 
across the universe, but jthere it iSi| mysteri- 
ous farces are at wort in the outer reaches 
of the galaxy. 

Someone in the government decided to 
open himself a n.ce littfe weapons develop- 
ment centre. Everything was quiet, in fact a 
littfe too quiet - last week ail communication 
with the centre dropped off and the crew 
working there have disappeared. 

This event is definitely hot good news for 
the authorities who are trying to keep the 
peace, and a centre full of unguarded 
weapons is a bit like giving a camera to 
Madonna and asking her to take pictures of 
the landscape., 

So they decide to send in an expendable 
task farce. That's you and four companions. 
They are a bit of an odd bunch, ranging 
from dribbling psychotic serial killers to 
beautiful ‘wouldn't hurt a fry' clairvoyants. 

There you have it. Shadow Worlds story 
all told. But what about the actual game? 
You control your four warriors using the 
mouse At the bottom of the screen 
are graphics of youf four brave warrior 
and a icon of a figure 

This is used to control the movement and 
actions of your men/Women. Clicking on the 
legs means you can move either an individ- 
ual cnaracter or all of them at once 
Clicking on arms allows you to pick up 
and drop objects and also manipulate 


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Talk about leaving people In the dark. 


ohjects white cricking on the head allows 
you to look at objects and enemies and also 
read the computer monitors which are liber- 
ally dotted about the place, 

Your view of the playing area is at a 
funny angle, but works well. You actually 
look dawn and across at your warriors, 
which enables you to see everything 
around them. 

What I’ve forgotten to mention is the 
light No, I've not turned into a American 
evangelist, I'm talking about light as in torch 



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J mu if y 1993 



meg • Mouse ■ Out now 

or lamp, in Shadow Worlds rt is called Super 
Fhotoscaping, and the light actually works 
m real time 

for instance, the light on your helmet 
wi If move around che room as soon as you 
move your man It is powered by batteries 
and as they aren't Durat-dls they only last 
fa r a short feme. 

As your batteries run out the hefmet light 
gets dimmer, which makes the game that lit- 
tle bit more interesting You also have to use 
the light to solve puzzles and problems 
along the way. 

Right, lime to put on my Brian WAfen 
impressron and ask Hots of questions and 
queiy the quality of Shadow Worlds. H H 
any good? Is it let down cy bad playabirity? 
is it Fun to play? Does it whiff of stale 
cheese? 

The answer^ would be yes, no, yes and 
definitely not. Shadowortds is more or less a 
director's ait of Shadow-lands, Tiny bits and 
bobs have been added, and it does vary 
sFightiy doe to the different theme. 

Ft dk>e5 r however, 
play almost exactly 
like Shadowlands, 
but seeing as that 
was absolutely bril- 
liant there are no 
worries on that 


scone. 

If you loved Shad- 
owlands then you'll 
kill for Shadoworlds. 
It rea Uy is one of the 
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ot only offering we've had 
this month that is having an 
identity crisis. This one thinks it's 
?n arcade run jure p-and -shoot game, but ‘i> 
iie does it know that it s really a strategy spe 
ciality that will have you tearing your half 
out with startling regularity. 

For those you who don't know what a 
Satire Team is, I shall explain. It is one of the 
formations that the SAS use to diffuse many 
political flash points, diffuse meaning killing 
everyone who looks a bit threatening. 

The team is a group of four crack com- 
mandos who have at their disposal 3 vast 
array of armaments - guns, bazookas and 
machine guns that look like they belong on 
the top of a tank. 

AH the gear's there, hut what about the 
game? Well, all kitted out you have to 
parachute your men into the action zone. 

That's simple enough, you just choose 
where they are going to iand and off you 
go. You view the playing area at a 45 
degree angle with quite a high perspective 
similar to Shadow Lands or Space Crusade 

After - you lave chosen the four to carry 
out the mission you have to equip them. 
This is where the strategy kicks in. Vou must 
choose weapons that aren't going to slow 
your men down too much but still provide 
enough firepower to do the job. The job 
usually being to turn lots of foreigners into 
sieves. 

As l sard before you have a pretty awe- 
some weapons package, everything bom CS 
gas and stun grenades to pistols and 
machine guns of all shape and size. 

Each of the characters you control has a 
certain amount of points which allow him to 
move and do anything he wants to do, 
which is shoot people. 

This action points setup is one of the few 



Klrfc la Scotty, beam me up 

things i disliked about the game - it's a 
good iden which doesn't work very well in 
practice. For example, if you were to walk 
five paces m a northerly direction it would 
cost you five action points. 

Fair enough, but sometimes just turning 
round can cost you several points, so once 
you've ,ust turned on the spot to shoot 
somebody you might not have enough 
points left to shoot them. I don't like this 
because it takes away a littfe or the arcade 
action. 

But rf that's not what you're playing the 
game for then fair enough - it takes a more 
strategic mind to uses your points more 
carefully 

Along the bottom of 
the screen are icons 
which depict the 
actions that your char- 
acter can carry out such 
as pick up. drop, 
throw, and you have a 
graphical representa- 
tion of each of the men 
which shows the state 
of their health. 

There are other 
things to keep an eye 
on, for instance if one 
of your compass points 


Thii tells y»U wh»l your 
enemicJ art doing. 
Thafrt getting Idol molt 
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goes blue Ji means that the 
character you are control- 
ling has heard something 
in that direction. 

you move each of your 
characters in turn, I heir 
action points depend on 
how healthy they are and 
how weighed down with 
equipment - so make sure you don t have 
them carrying five machine guru at once as 
I did. 

There are five scenarios - an embassy 
siege, a hostage situation on a boat, a 
ground hostage situation and two other 
search and destroy missions Some of them 
wili be marksmen and some of them will be 
totally bogeyed like me, 

Sabre team is one of the best arcade/strat- 
egy crossovers I've seen, infinitely playable 


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Right: Dinosaur steak*, 
dinosaur steaks - it i all Wt 
ever have. What about same 
chicken or a rue* veggy 
bugger? 



J [n the few short months during 
which it has been my humble privi- 
lege to Serve the mighty Gamer, 
barely a couple of days have gone 
by without some desperate souJ dragging 
him or herself over to the damp and rancid 
corner in which my Victorian sthooldesk 
nesdei lopsided ly, and asking - imploring - 
open mouthed and eyes agog, as to 
whether Humans had yet arrived. 

I'm not a sick man by any stretch of the 
imagination |our survey disagrees - Ed) but I 
have to admit to feeling a dark satisfaction 
at the look of anguish and emptiness that 
sank deep into their faces as I pressed my 
lips together and glumly shook my head 
Frankly. I couldn't understand why these 
ptjopfe were getting their undergarments in 
such a twist - we've got literally cupboards 
full of games to while away those dull 
lunchtimes. And Friday afternoons And 
Monday mornings 

Then I saw a demo version and the 
scales were lifted from my eyes: I became 
one of those sad people, carrying out my 
duties with a heavy heart and tortured soui 
- knowing that my life would be incomplete 
until the day of arrival. er„. arrived. 

That day is now here, so with nerve ends 
a-tmgling and eyes lifted gratefully to the 
heavens, tec ui wrthout further ado boot up 
our collective Amiga and see if it's all been 
worth the wait. 

Humans is an BO level puJiiy platform 
affair along the fines Of - dare I say it - Lem- 
mings. You control a small tribe of some of 
the very first human Inhabitants on our 
planet, and the idea rs very simple - you 
have to evolve. 

Easy enough to do when you have a 
good few million years to spare - simply 
exist and produce a few babies and the job s 
a good 'un, but it's a bit more tricky than 
that when you work all day and have to do 
Che evolving ar night on a Computer- 
Beginning with just a few paltry pot-bel- 




Longer in production than they were in evolution - finally... 




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the idea r reel 

Once you are in possession of any 
wiFI stay with you throughout the 
game: your collection of discoveries 
grow as you progress - each one is 
to solve the levels you reach after 1indtf0 
Geddit? 

You will begrn the game with oni> 
humans in your tribe. The sprites ther 
are very small hut brilliantly detailed 
pot bellies, flyaway hairstyles, a big 
and a great expression or perpetual s< 

Obviously only one human at once 
be controlled, requiring much toggNng 
the cursor keys in order to shift all the 
chaps to their destina tion This can be 1 
□f a pain, but is offset by the muftidirecE 
scrofling as different humans are locate : 
screen. 

More tribe members can be added by 
cuing fellow cave dwellers who r. 


lied mofonic cavemen, you must help them 
to complete certain tasks before moving on 
to the nest level 

Many of the tasks simply involve moving 
your tribe to a different section of Ehe 
screen. Sound easy? Don't you believe it - 
remember, this, is 20 trillion or so SC and 
there isn't exactly a lot of help available rn 
the form of implements and the like. 

You see, it's ail very wet! if one happens 
to be, say, that Super Mario chap; any prob- 
lems he comes across can usuafly be solved 
by finding a magic laser gun or some such 
nonrense, but the time in which Humans is 
ret is just a rittle bit before laser guns and 
hoverbfkes were invented. 

Puzzles are solved by using whatever you 
happen to "discover"'. For example, the first 
discovery you 3re likely Lo make will be a 
spear. This is very handy indeed for stabbing 
things, hut could it have more uses do you 
chink? Well you IF have to find out - thacs 


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January 1^*3 











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j Decome trapped m .Ti^ny oF [he levels, m 
lome cases the actual rescue completes rhe 
I Mission on that particular level in others 
you may sh II have a destination to reach 
Once you have begun to make some 
Headway and the size of your tribe 
nc reaves, «: isn't necessary to use ail the 
! hi. mans ro complete a task. Good job too, 
since there are any number or ways o* 
dying, and you'll find you need plenty cl 
^serves to keep going. 

There is afways the danger that your tribe 
a- ll become esona This happens when you 
"on t have enough humans to complete a 
Warn level, and therefore cannot progress 
^ny further. 

Hurrah and huzzah for the trusty old 
password system is what f say - you wtIi be 
■ ndly provided with a password after every 
level which is invaluable if you arc to refra n 
tor any length c-F time from burring your 
hardware through the window 
One of the features that i was most 
; ^pressed with is the many different ways in 

I -vhrch your tribe can utilise their discoveries 
3y clickmg on the cons at ’.he bottom of the 
slayscreen you wifi find mat. among other 
ihings. they can throw, jump, climb, r?de |l), 
push carry and kill, 

The latter of these attributes rs very 
mportan: as you wifi find yourself battling 
gainst ar>d dodging afl manner of strange 
I and hostile creatures Other tribes exist and 
I Tom time to time one of their members may 
decide that his family deserve something a 


Duih * J wonder whnt to*pp*rw ff I put my hand 
Info l hi , 3 orange CfJtfMy thing 


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- ^ yo-u know that the world"! flrrt prlfonir was found guilty of pteradactyJ abuse? 




E arty Polo mint origins' here, There'S flOttlJng 
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VISION 

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Brilliant Ihrwjghout wrtfi bcnuE, 
OTimfltWH to boot 


AUDIO 



Nke tunes and hilarious 

speed effects 


PLAVABt L | TV 

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CEHttkol is latKjrkaii, 

but - if that mattes 
sense? 

ADDICTION 

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Setyouralanii for mutants or 
you'll waste sway 



tittle more than dinosaur steak for tea - 
something a little more tender, if you're 
getting my drift 

Speaking of dinosaurs, keep your eyes 
open for any you might encounter - it's 
worth sacrificing one of your tribe mem- 
bers just to hear the hilarious gobbing 
sounds it makes as he is devoured piece 
by piece. 

Looks like it's time to Sum things up 
then: lets talk about the graphics first - 
they're brilliant One thing I haven't men- 
tioned so far is that the game js spread not 
only over 80 screens but also rn srx differ- 
ent scenarios - cave, deleft, summer, win- 
ter, forest and swamp, in which the detain 
are brilliant. 

As it alf this wasn't enough, whenever 
your trite completes a particularly impor- 
tant task you are rewarded with a funny 
little anrmated sequence. The onfy draw- 
back to thrs is that it involves a lot of disk- 
swapping: best idea Is to see these a cou- 
ple of times and then turn the animation 
off. (Another little option from your kindfy 
chums at Mirage]. 

You are given the choice of music or 
FX The music comes in the form of 
numerous /aunty/joUy tunes that I think 
make the game more fun. All rhe FX are 
clear and funny r but a good few more 
would have been very welcome. 

As for the game itself, ( can't say 
enough about it The humour, easiness to 
play and progressive difficulty of the puz- 
zles should appeal to Fans of just about 
every genre - even the strategists among 
you who may be happy for a welcome 
break from the norm. 

Buy it soon, and If you re not happy 
send me a cyanide Man Bar through the 
post. 


Paul 


January V?93 










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single 

pedrfy tear 
wells in- 
the eye of a eating 
newscaster as yet 
another body of a ravaged child is polled from 
the debris of a shellshocked bmidiog n war- 
corn Sarajevo 

Angry defiant women converge on news 
cameras, asking in the name of God what 
kind of person would do this... and why? The 
camera pans around to reveal the remains of 
an army barracks an the Ulster border that still 
smoulders as the dead and wounded are 
rushed away by grim-faced paramedics. 

While the Democrats and Republicans ton- 
nnue to smear their respective parties, each 
one looking more stupid by the day. the 
inhabitants of a small suburban town in an 


unfashionable state of the USA 
mourn the relatives and friends lost 
™ in the devastation caused by the 
deadly combmafron of a madman and 
a gun. Without a doubt there is a lot of 

violence on our 
r‘ planet and the 
world of computer 
games is no 
exception, Wouldn't it 
r be nice to be awe co review an 

adventure promoting peace and harmony 7 Or 
a nice tittle program specially designed to re- 
unite the whole population 1 

Nah, ifd probably be dead boring - spend a 
good few hours finding your way through the 
various levels, earning bonus points for being 
polite and handing out food parcels onfy to be 
confronted by the end-of-game boss who s 
doing everyth ng in tvs power to avoid being 
presented with the bunch of flowers you 
brought him 

Team 1 7 think so too - that's why those 
kindfy |and slightly mad) gentlemen who 
brought us Arlan Breed and the flunking Pro- 
ject X have decided to let Sting and Bob Geldof 
concentrate on wwng the world, while they 
get on with the task of producing murderous 
ronq?s- this trme in the form of Assassin 
You will be informed at the outset by the 
excellent sampled speech that the evrl Mitten, 
whoever he may be, lies deep in hrs under- 
ground lait, and that It's up to you to go m 
with, er... boomerang ablaang. destroying his 
cronies and finally taking out the chap himself 
Coo, sounds (ike a brt of a challenge. 

Well, that doesn't bother you much - after 
all, you are an assassin, So in you go hike any 
brainless hardeaSe should, hanging casually off 
the bottom of a chopper and chewing a match 
while tattcomg yourself with a rusty spoon, 
Once behind enemy lines you are alone 
with only the aforementioned boomerang to 
ward off hideous death by a hundred various 
methods. It's actually quite a good weapon - 
not like those crappy things rich relatives bring 
back from Australia that have a lower return 


Get off! gtl of If 
Can't you find 
y&LjrieJf a 
female dog? 


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race than 
dirty books from 
a library. 

Although quite weedy to 
begin with, plenty of power- 
ups are scattered around the 
levels that give it extra strength, 
speed, length of travef etc. 

Beginning in the for^i .after 
dropping From the chopper, 
your assassin £ met by gunn- 
ing nasties who seem a little 
confused as to where the trig* 
ger on their weapon is. After 
approaching angrily and look- 
ing just about ready to use your 
leg as a toothpick they seem to 
lose all enthusiasm For their task 
and proceed to prod you 
meefcty with the barrel of their 
guns. 

Its a different story with the 
dogs though - (hey just won't 
let go and are absolutely deter- 
mined tn make your trouser leg ' 
their own The sounds are de^d 
realistic too- toud harks and 
nasty Flesh- wrenching noises 
(hat made me want to go and 
hide behind my mum like I 
used to do when I saw a dog 
down our street. 

Mow that I'm on the subject — 

I must say that all the sound effects are good, 
as indeed are the graphres - big bold-as-you 
like sprites, on colourful and detailed parallax 
backgrounds. The end of level Posses are 
awesome, using some of the best graphics 
you're likely to $-ee in this type of game 
Assassin-dude is a pretty impressive guy 
too, He can run like the dappers, jump tike a 
j^ck-in-the-box hang From ceilings like a mon- 
key and 1 stick to walls like a... fike a... erm, 
thing ihat sticks to walls realty well 

As welt the crusty boomerang, you can coi- 
lect Mega Weapon power-ups throughoul 
the whole game which *dlow you to wipe out 
hordes of gits at one go. 

Each leve^ is sec progressively Further into 
Midan's lair, until you eventually find yourself 
in the horrible labyrinth. People to watch out 
for in particular are the doctor who just 
wants to give you a little prick the skeleton 
geezer and probabty the last working mmer 
in Britain, 

You are probably aware by now that 
Assassin is Far from an original concept in 
gaming; however, with top notch graphics, 
nice FX, difficulty settings and a choice of how 
many lives to begin with. It's an extremely 
appealing product nevertheless and should 
make fans of arcadey adventure-style shooty- 
uppies very happy For a good while. 

Paul 


You II liMd your wits atoul you to 
defeat the efid-oMevel streamer 


Ere, what 5 your game - sre 
you hittin on my missus? 


VISION 


L&vchr, super, 
vn«!iing, ^reat. 

A li D I O 

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V. nice *itro music* 

tmiFt FX bui lads an 
di^anMe time. 

PL AYAftl U TV 


O©dksofmanoeu^ 
vresthM ire dead 
easy to do. 

ADDICTION 

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Anypiwtfifltaiows 
you to kill ao-gs it si 
light toy me 




Jtnutrv 19?1 



pmmodore cal! it the AG A. The 
industry Calls iff the double A. To 
me it's just the new Amiga. Offi* 
’!!y named the A 1200 and reeling at just 
penny short of £400 - you'll no doubt be 
* 'or than I am after getting the complete 
down in this very magazine - the 
j rhme rs compatible with about 60 per 

■ nt of exifiing Amiga rifles 

Bui its mega-powerful 32-bit capabilities 
mr *n we re m for some stoning great new 
*mes too - 4 anybody bothers to develop 

■ -‘m rhat Is. Lets find out what's first in 
Ine... 


Mindscape 

Three new games out soon from Mind- 
scape - BattJetoads, Wing Commander 
■mri The Miratle. Enhanced versions of 
all fbree will be available, but that's 
about air we know at this stage. 


Gremlin 

Gremlin welcome the rntroduttion of the 
AJ 200. Boss Jan Stewart was ml-. ml, 
quoted in CTW opining the importance 
of Commodore strengthening the p 
brand. 

Nigel Mansell and smash hv Zoof (97 
per cent. AC November) wifJ be avail * :: '*• 
for the machine in enhanced fotm 
before Christmas 

Gremlin are fast establishing a repute 
Iron for producing some of the best 
products around - anyone who has seen 
Zqol will undent nd why 
jf such excellence can be achieved on 
a 'bog standard* Amiga, who 
what heights they can reach wan 
new twrefwar-T 1 :IMI be mo»t: spedaojlar 
than anything were seen 
wait to find out 


Microprose 


An A : ZGO version of dvifisatiort |93 per cent. AC September) is currently in development 
ji the company's Gloucestershire headquarters, 

As weH as utilising the advanced graphics and ?56<otour capabilities, the game wifi 
include a triritopedia', eatpteinmg the 9BS concepts used throughout the game. Latest 
v matron leads us to believe i: should be available by the time you're reading this 




Whatever else it may be, the all-singing all-dancing 
At 200 heralds the advent of an exciting new era in 
gaming. Paul Roundell feigns intelligence and dons 
his deerstalker in an attempt to find out more 




Mow CJvflkFd Iftan ever With Z 56 toloun and a roupl« of extra feature's to boot 


Ocean 


The three twq imminent Ocean Pleases 
are all sot to be frilled up - Lethal 
Weapon WWE and Cool World will afJ 
be making appearances in enhanced 
form in the nest future. 

Managing Director Gary Bracey says 
that as Commodore begin to- really push 
the machine in the new year. Ocean 
will begin to djtyeJop ipeciffcafJy, but 
not at [he expense oF other formats 

A bra Ad new -goFf game could be the 
First specific title we see com ng out of 
the posh end of Manchester sometime 
next year 



System 3 

With the highly original Putffy (9? per 
cent, At December] among the front 
runners for the Christmas top spot, Sys- 
tem 3 are cautious about their pfans for 
the AT 200. 

Director Adi ran C^le pgrnted out that 
although no specific version of the 
stretchy tomfooFery has been developed, 
Putty rs nonetheless compatible with rhe 
machine 

AJ subsequent System 3 releases will 
be compatibFe with the machine, 
although they prefer to gauge public 
response before throwing ail rherr 
weight behind ir. 

A Favourable response could mean 
that we see an A i 200-specific Ferrari CP 
Challenge oe^t Spring 

Should you be a race game fan that 
should be enough to provide you to get 
a 1200! 






Electronic Arts 


One of the most consistent software houses in terms of quality product. EA were responsi- 
ble aforig with Bullfrog for the damn-near legendary Populous, which turned many a mee* 
gamester into a screeching megalomaniac. The two have teamed up once again to bring 
Syndicate to the A 1 200. 

it s a game of industrial espionage, whereby you as the leader of a covert syndicate 
manipulate the population of your nation state in an attempt to undermine society. 

Up id eight players Can take part in this high-resolution 3D manipulate em-up that 
promises yet again to bong out the worst in us all 


Millenium 



Daughter of Serpents - an epic and mystical adventure 
recently released on the PC, is set to make a new year 
appea rance on the A \ 200 
ff the J-ype is to be believed, we will he treated to a true DiM9hCcr of 5 ^ rpcntr “ hnn 9 m g 
photographic quality 256-COlour story set in Alexandria.. toBPCs Bp 
Egypt 

The ptayer becomes involved in murderous deeds and 
centuries-old skullduggery and must unearth sordid and 
evil secrets to restore the cquifibrium of the hofy land. 

The game has been meticulously researched,, sporting 
original 1920s film matcnaL and shourd be available some 
time rn March. 

The graphic* wlli be matched fcy 
an *iEfncspherie t&utidtrack 



January 1^93 • ®R 











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The game with the hourglass figure 



THE PROPHET 


Digital Integration ■ £29.99 ■ 512k ■ Mouse ■ out now 


ave you noticed jusl how many 
adw(ure/RPG garra there are 
knocking about noways? in 
*se you haven't I'll tell you - blooming 
* thats how many, and a happy tact is 
fiat the quality seems to be getting better 
and better. 

Actually,, if you're anything like me then 
t*S isn’t always good news, It's veiy easy to 
which product to buy when there's 
tniy a couple of decent choices on the mar* 
but take a look through the rest of 
Gamer - there isn't a bad mark to be seen. 

If I were a punter [to use a technics? 
.-ml I'd probably spend hours dithering 
yju which game looked that little bit better 
and then end up buying two or three* thus 
scuppering my Friday night beer feast 
because all my money was In the till at the 
■ ?mpo shop. Am I waffling? I trunk l proba- 
cy am. Let's get down to business. 

Coktel Vision - the team behind Ween - 
have a slightly chequered past if previous 
3dmer reviews are anything to go by [and 
Of course. Gamer reviews are the ONLY 
r^ng ro go- by, as you all fcnowf, 

GobNirns was an excellent interactive pu 2 - 
r»e-type thing, and we eagerly await the 
sequel which you should see next month, 
fhdr most recent offering Fascination* how- 
* • er, wasn't quite as well receftfl, to say 
the least. Since I have seen very^irtie of 
« p hec it was with an open mind that I 



Tills a whtf* ihp adventure staff i, ic what are you waiting f«? 



opened up the box and inserted 'rirsk 1 into 
drwe A", 

On dorng this I was met almost immedi- 
ately by a funny looking old man with a 
heard who, it transpired, was Okrham the 
master sorcerer, and great-grandfather of 
Ween, the character you pfriy, Wow it was 
pretty obvious that this guy was a bit agj^ 
tated about something, as he began to 
explflm... 

Ten years ago Okrham was saddened by 
the change in his understudy Kraal, an 
excerrent sorcerer who had a big future 
ahead of him - Paul Danrels had been in 
touch and everything - but he began to 
realise that far greater power awaited him 
on the dark side of magic, 

Eventually Okrham was forced to banish 
him from the kingdom of the 
Blue Rocks, which is where 
the acbon takes place, to 
whatever strange place 
is reserved for such 
spooky people. Milton 
Keynes probably, 





Hhhht what in ttename 
Beb Hairvtrt is Itatr 


Anyway, the 
boot's on the 
other foot now 
Okrham ps 



very old and his magic is fading This 
wouldn't be a problem usually, and he'd be 
happy in gracefully retire! trouble Is, he 
knows land don't ask me howl that Kraal is 
planning to return to the Blue Rocks on the 
day of the erripse to fulfill his ambition of 
ruling the kingdom from whence he was 
banished 

Since Okrham's powers are weak he wall 
be unable to defend the Blue flocks from 
Kraal's evil r so surprise surprise., it's up to 
you. as Ween. to do the decent thing 
The eclipse is only three days away and 
the one hope you have of defeating Kraal 
ties in the power of the Revuss, or magical 
hourglass. According to some prophecy or 
other, all evil wild be banished from the B^ue 
flocks only when the Revuss is furnished 
with three grams of sand 
To manage this you II have to overcome 
three major obstacles, bang rewarded 
with a smgie grain of sand for every 
success, luckily and somewhat pre* 
dirtably, the Revuss Jies deep in 
a hidden temple* 
the entrance to 
which can be 
found in 
Okrham's 



house. Its a pojnt-and-cfick, pick-'em-up^nd- 
use-'em adventure, viewed from the eyes of 
Ween, or you. Several strange inhabitants 
of the Blue Rocks will show their faces from 
time to time to either help or hrnder you. 

Most helpful of these is Urm the frutbat, 
who wifi perfrom certain tasks for you rn 
return far a snack. Petroy is a friend of 
Okrham's and frequently communicates lefe- 
pa thickly, deciphering ancient text and 
other such things you might expect of a 
wrse old man with psychic powers 

There are certainty plenty of purges and 
obstacles in Ween - not all of them iogical - 
and the screens are detailed enough, it's 
true. Unfortunately the colours are very 
monotonous and in certain instances you 
could be forgiven for believing that you 
were using a monochrome monitor. 

Sound is in the fonm of a very forbidding. 
Omen-like tune that f think enhances the 
game by providing an atmosphere which 
the graphics lack. There appears to be a fair 
brt of depth to Ween, and despite my gripes 
I enjoyed playing it very much. 

As I mentioned at the start* there are 
oodles of RPGs on the market and although 
Ween is not a poor relation by any means, it 
doesn't exactly stand head and shoulders 
above the rest either. 

pr you're an adventurer with a cupboard 
full of RPGs then Ween rs worth a try 
because if s a good adventure - but those 
looking for their first game in this genre 
could very well be dissapointed by the way 
in which Ween is presented. 

Unfair perhaps, but a fact of rife. 

Paul 


He M e UK I lti i * <\W£ I 


Ml comedy duo* Uibl and Qrfck Why jww t you falling around laughing? 



VlSIOM 

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Nicety drawn taut needs a bit 
af^iaflfnph 

AUDIO 

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A dark tunv of fowfcodmg that 
condiments the same w*t, 

PlAYABILITV 

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Grear, tam smmr of the items 
art a rather fiddly to mdc on 

ADDICTION 

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If you like itw^H&hkl you'll 
like file game 


Madl Bit. Rearrange the Iftterj and you get 
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A SimpP* caption, A frog and fl couple of Stffrwtaerriei^ 


January 1993 





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Looks 4 bit omiriEHif - Ihinh 111 give it a mill far now 

ello, good evening and wel- 
come to circled Introductions, 
p^n one. Are you ready? Then 

I II begin,,, / 

Once upon a time far r far away in EFG 
kind, there erased the kingdom of Kyrandia - 
a green and pleasant place fulf of beautify! 
trees and flowers, and inhabited by happy 
people who loved each other and were 
always doing some good deed or 
other Creeps . 

The ruler of this land was Kkig WiFlianx a 
nobfe and just man who cared For his people 
and was respected by them. 

Kyrandia derived res beauty from the 
Kyragem, a powerful gemstone whose mor- 
tal spell held sway over the territory it pro- 
tected. White the magic of the Kyragem pre- 
vailed, no harm could come io Kyrandia, 

Right, that's the SFCkly but over with, so 
where did it all go wrung |rt had Co do really 
didn't \i? 

During his reign, William had cause to 
order the imprisonment of Malcolm, the evil 
jester, for murdering the parents of Brandon 
fthats you]. 

Now I m sure you've guessed the next bit 
but PH tefl you anyway just in case - Malcolm 
has escaped incarceration and stolen the 
Kyragem, placing Kyrandia under an evil spell 
whereby the beauty has been replaced by a 
withered, desolate and barren landscape 

On a visit to his Grandad KaflaK who just 
happens to live in a tree. Brandon arrives 
only to find that to hrs horror Kaflak wifi today 
he even less interesting company than old 
mean usually are, due largely to the Fact chat 
he's been turned to scone This is where the 


Stone- ttw gMndtfd- you re rock hard. PMevsr mind - I II t^lk to she- tftt uiftead 1 



January 


Talking trees and wrinkled men 


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whole WOFfci is caving 
in around me 




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adventure begins, as rather surpriiingly die 
tree in which KallaHi lives suddenty begins 
tefiing Brandon of (he evil that is afoot, and 
urges him to restore the Kyragem to its right- 
ful place and avenge the death of hrs par- 
ents, hy destroying the coiot/rfuNy dressed 
doommanger, Malcolm. 

Speaking from a personal 
point of view, if anyone 
(tilled my parents broke out 
of prison and turned my 
grandad to stone, rd be 
pretty annoyed and might 
want to do something 
about it. But if a tree sud- 




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denfy started giving me the FowdOWJl on 
exactly who the cuFprff was an d how to get 
revenge, chances are I would check into my 
local sanitarium, condemning myself indefi- 
nitely to a life of eating soft foods and wear 
ing shoes without laces. 

But not Brandon, Brandon keeps his cool, 
(is tens attentively eg the tree and promptly 
secs off on his (langerous mission Git- 
On leaving the treehouse and venturing 
into the Forest, Malcolm's work is evident - 
the grass is brown, the trees dead and there s 
not an animal to be seen anywhere - not 
even 5 Leeds United fan. 

Now it 5 a case of coll erring whatever 


objects you need - you can hold up to 
- and blagging the required inform; 
take you eraser to your ultimate conf 
with the Roy Wafker of the underworld 
Spell casting is kept to a mini mu i 
Kyrandia - much more important is Brar 
interaction with the character animals 
inanimate objects he comes across. 

Something can be gleaned from m 
every screen, be iE information from Bryn 
mysterious and strange tempte dwell’ 
the odd teardrop From the pool of sorrow 
The game is divided into four sr 
chapters - that's levels to you and me 
begin, as menfroned* in [he forest and 






Just how many flight situs can a person take? ff 
Reach is as good as the hype suggests, I’m sure 
we ll find room for just one more 


OK It's an altar. Id where's the twa»7 


rmye through on the second chapter, 
riekking through (he labyrinth of caves 
before winding up among the trees agam for 
he grand finale. 

A great deal of thought seems to have 
gone into every aspect of Kyrandia. Riemem- 
•?r in Bast month's 
issue t was 
i-ressed by the 
haracters m Rome 
AD92 and the way 
“ - j y not onfy prch 
■ •ded information 

but came out with some funny off-the-wall 
.Aliments too?. 

Well there's plenty enougn of this kind of 
1 ng In Kyrandia, rn fact considering Bran- 
; dh is an orphan with a stone grandad to 
c intend wf th, he’s quite a funny guy, 

Not Ostfy must you dash about hither and 
[, yon all over the show collecting artefacts and 
9 Js$ip, hut also endow yourself with the 
powers necessary to complete the game 
'here are tour - the power of healing is 
important quite early on, but as for the ocher 
tour . well I promised not to grve coo much 
ray. 

Tne animation u absolutely superb. Every 
screen is full to busting with detail and 
: : stour, and (he way in which the characters 
mm enhances things 3 DO per cent, r know 
rm particularly new. but I'm a big fan of 
mu graduating sprite" for want of a 
term 

sou Know what I mean, youi J character a 
■■ iftinq away, getting smafler and smaller 
Lhtii he J S nothing but a dot m the distance. 
- on t yawn damnitJ 

Art through writing this IVe been srnjg- 
with my conscience, but its no good - 1 
'1 lie to you! f don't know what the 
s like. There, I’ve said it. It's true, and 
Em sorry, but t saw this game at Virgin Man- 
ors in london, and there was no sound on 
version that I played.. 

I dd ask the opinion erf Richard Branson, 
%tfO d ju$| made me a brew and was pro- 
: -ding to clean my shoes at the time Said 
fchaid: 1ft better than dropping add and 
ing to Cliff Richard records payed back- 

won 't vouch for that (not because I 
ven t tried it but because he didn't pay me 







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enough}, but J will say that ff the sound is hair 
as good as the vision, then 1ft damn good 
indeed. 

Developers Westwood Studios are edge* 
to point out that their product contains abso- 
lutely np vrofence. Apparently in the USA 

where Kyrandia hai 
been available for 
some time, it has 
attracted many 
women gamer* who 
have been drawn io 
its “gentle' element 

But blokes, don't be fooled into tanking 
this is one for woofters - its as good a game 
as you re likely to come across this year ™ arid 
besides, who need* blbbd and gucs when 
there * this much going on already? 

KyrSndia is the first release m (he Fables 
and Fiends series by Westwood It s only/ust 
hit [he shops, but I'm already locking forward 
to the next one, 

Paul 


V I S I O M 

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since last Urrw J 
some very good ones 

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A D D I C T f O H 

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I'm (hkk*sow|iiiPe r bw 
I can tiapply report. 

I towd it! 


A dark shape emerges from 
the clouds and all conversation 
rn the hangar ceases as the 
static front the loudspeakers 
threatens momentarily to 
drown out the roar of the 
enemy planes.,. 

'Bandits approaching? Ban- 
dits approaching! Scramble? 
Man your stations? This is not a 
drill! Repeat - this is not a 
drill" 

Coo, Jet's find out more. 
Reach for the Skies is a flight 
sim based around the jerry 
shooting action of the Battfe of 
Britain. Designed and written 
by flight sim supremo Rod 
Hyde, Reach promises to be a 


massive hit with alf fans of the 
genre. 

A big plus as far as im con- 
cerned is the ease with which 
you can enter the whole affair. 
Boot it up and simply choose to 
fly as a good old boy of the RAF 
(silly callsigns optional], or as a 
Luftwaffe nasty intent on kick- 
ing some British bottom and 
faced with the not inconsider- 


able task of altering the whofe 
outcome of the war. 

At the time of writing, the 
sound and explosions are still a 
trifle weedy, and the control's 


just a bit wobbly, but Rod 
assures us /and we believe him 
because he s got an honest face] 
that these will be tweaked and 
beefed up on the finished ver- 
sion. 

As a simulation it's just about 
as accurate as they come - 
there s a real feeling of speed 
even on a standard machine, 
and the added smoothness on 
an accelerated model is brilliant. 
For the real sky hogs among 
you, even greater speed can be 
achieved by sacrificing a little 
detail. 

The Gamer night sim dept 
assure us that the external 
scrolling is top notch clobber, 
and that the options and 
touches, such as shooting bits 
off the enemy planes, bode well 
for one of the best flight sims 
for yonks, 

Paul 













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(tern, br-gtlt crHCHJni <]*tare 


Cute rune*,. nice etnevgh IX 


This is my opinion, blit it's 
net esatttY aimed 4t 
M-year-oldi, is It? 


Would you like fries with that? 


VIRGIN ■ £25.99 ■ 'k meg ■ Joystick * Out now 


■ t had to happen. As sure as the 
I sun sets in the west, as sure as 
| the star* are in the sky, as sure 
as you can never find the TV page in 
your dad y newspaper - it had to hap- 
pen. 

We ve eaten their burgers, we ve 
been patronised by their bored, 
spotty teenage staff, and weve writ 
ten letters to their complaints depart- 
ment And now, God help ui all... we 
can play the computer game. 

if you haven't heard of McDonalds 
then you're dead- I'd lay odds that 
there's not one person reading this 
review who hasn t at one time or 
another sampled the delights offered 
by these emporia of healthy eating. 
There wifi be very few parents who 
haven t been dragged down the high 
street by their screaming offspring 
who genuinely believe that their 
world will come to an end without 
the intervention of a Ronald McDon- 
ald Happy Meal. 

Get your wallets out mums and 
dads - this one s for the Suds, Virgin 
tell me the game is aimed at pre-high 
school bids aged between about five 
and ten ffhe ones who are old 
enough to know what they want but 
still young and shameless enough to 
damn well cry their heads off until 
they get it). 

ft's a platformer as you d expect, 
with the intrepid gamester taking the 
part of Mick or Mack, two of Ronald's 
young chummies. 

The Ham burglar - h e* the fat one 
with the stripy sweater on the adverts 
- has run off with Ronalds magic bag* 
Ronald has really only got himself to 
blame however, since he was showing 
off with said bag at one of the many 
picnics such an ambassador as he 
must attend: 

Although not mentioned in the 
story, we in the Gamer office believe 
the importance of the bag lies in it's 
power to transform a dead dog i 
tongue into a 100 per cent ham- 




Erin,... rtSW he is an a blftCH. The 
block is. ill the sky. Yes 


burger in a sesame seed bun". Out 
don't quote ui on that- 

Ronald i got a heavy schedule, so 
he enlists the help of daring duo Mick 
and Mack in his quest to recapture his 
pilfered saKhef, insisting for no obvi- 
ous reason that they gather all the 
puzzle cards he so carelessly scattered 
around the various levels as they go, 
The levels then - there are seven in 
all, each watched over by a different 
one of Ronald s bizarre friends, and 
each containing about half a dozen 
sub revels, making around 40 in total, 
plus the odd bonus level here and 
there. 

The idea is to avoid the cute little 
nasties and generally bounce and 
jump your way to the end of the 
level, your pockets bulging with the 
all-important puzzle cards. 

There's a theme to each one too - 
for example Birdies Treehouse is, as 
one might imagine, set up in the 
trees, with clouds and 5 other sky (ike 
objects providing added obstacles. 

Other goodies that need col reeling 
are the |injfamous golden arches, 
McDonalds' trademark - these sus- 
pend in mid-air and if memory serves 
me correctly provide bonus points at 
the end of the level, 

A nice touch is the way in which 
Mick - or is it Mack? - can run upside 
down on certain platforms as long 


and the pockets of their dads - is r 
fts versatility. 

For starter* there is a two pi: 
option, whereby Mick and Mac ft c 
ate not in a competitive way, but jo 
forces to foil the evil Hamburg 
together jaaahh). 

At the beginning of the first le* 
a simplified map shows the vant 
levels within Ronald's tlubho 
Using the joystick you can guide y 
geezer to whichever level you wan: 
tackle first. 

Once the first main level has k 
completed, you are given the cht 
again with level two. 

But that's not all - oh no. Wh* 
you are on a subsequent level, r 
only are you given the choice 
attempting any suHevel therein (r 
read this carefully because if get: 
bit muddledl but can travel bar 
using the map r through any of 
levels you have already completed. 

So for example when on the 
level, you can choose between abc 
40 places as to where you want to c 
Well l think it i good p anyway. 

Now be warned - don't buy i 
game if you're looking for an iftno 
five challenge, it s just not for yc 
But for those of you whose h 
run around the house all Chn 
mas upsetting aunty Beryl a 

W knocking over everyone s bee- 
W get your hands on this and 
f keep the buggers quiet for a go 
few days. 


Scary upside down 
i&W. Try it *1 
heme kids 


Springboards eh? 
That! a Jtarflrng 
new concept. Not 


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Cheetah 125+ 

I remember when this joystick came 
out. At t hat time ! still owned a Spec- 
trum and the Quick Shot II was the 
best, even if it was as brittle as an ici- 
cle. And what a winner it is - every- 
thing a classic should be, boring, 
unadventurous and above all reliable. 
Yes it won't tall to bits even if I play 
decathlon on it. 

The Cheetah 1 25+ is nothing spec- 
tacular. with bog standard ergonomic 
grip and the usual Tire buttons. Like 
all today's kit it uses micro switches 
instead of the old terminal switches, 
which rn all honesty were usually 
knackered in about three days, 

It performs admirably when used 
on racing games and the like because 
it is not too sloppy - it was inva> uabie 
on Stunt Car Racer when Biff insisted 


on beating me. The major down 
point is its stiffness, ft isn't so fesi and 
you don’t get that satisfying click 
sound when you move it, 

The auto fire as suitably placed 
between the front two fine buttons - 
unlike a lot of the competitors who 
try to put them in the most awkward 
place possible - and there's no dan- 
ger of you flicking it on by accident 

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Crystal Turbo Clear - Powerplay 

Hiis joystick made by Powerpiay is similar fn style and feef to ttw 
Cruiser and the lipstick, although the shaft on tins joystick is com- 
pletely different to the ones mentioned previously. 

it is In fact moulded to fit your hand better than other joysticks 
and it gives you quite a firm grip which is very handy if youte 
playing a driving game like Lotus Turbo Challenge 111 The unique 
feature on this stick is chat it is completely clear, so that means you 
can actually see how a joystick works, how very interesting - ,notl 






Cheetah Mach I 

Another early Cheetah joystick, this 
one came out a little later than the 
1 2S+, but in my opinion the 125+ had 
a far superior design. 

it's biggest let-down is the 
ergonomic grip, which is slightly less 
detailed than usual and the shaft team 
forward at a 20 degree angle which 
feels comfortable at first but gives you 
wrist ache in the long term. 

Biff and I gave it a good seeing to 
on Cybernet!* when it proved very 
responsive, but it was a Tittle too light 
on car driving games - you couldn't 
get it to hofd nice and steady on the 
bends. 

And they've done it again, they've 

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pur the micros witch at the back of 
the case in the middle where you 
are likely tu switch ii on by acch 
dent, 

My only real beef is with the tire 
buttons. They are so heavy you 
have to exert a good amount of 
pressure to move them - the last 
thing you need when playing Pro- 
ject X unfess you want your finger 
to fell off very quickly. 

This fs not the joystick I would 
choose personally, but no doubt 
some people would swear by it. 


Competition Pro - 
Powerplay 

Ahh, it's my old. friencT the Competition Pro - 1 
remember the d<tys when 1 used one to play 
Spectrum games with it it's [hat old. In fact 
my little brother still uses it for playing Kick Off 
2, \t is a pretty simple device, for rnstance it 
hasn't even gor an Eiuto-hre, so you can't 
cheat on shoot- ’em ups. 

The latest Competitfon Pros now have 
muen^itttres, which make the joystick twice as 
good as it was. It is very similar to Che Zipstick, 
but tends to fit rnto your hands rather better 
You wont attract members of the opposite 
sex with this particular joystick due to its 
rather boring black and red colours, but you 
can get luminous green and pink versions. 


While I'm on the subject of colour, I personally 
would like to- see some other joysocks bright- 
ened up - most of them are either very drab 
or boringly black. 

Verdict? The Competition Pro is a classic 
joystick and a lot of games players would not 
swap it for anything. 

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Cheetah Stare Probe 

What a monsterl Thrs really is a refugee 
from me arcades or the 70s, chunky 
beyond chunkmess, just how a joystick 
should he Everything about this stack is 
old, even ihe pfastic Teels that way, yet 


despite this it s a pleasure to use. 

ft's J x% microswitchecf and you get 
all the nice clicks in use. The shaft Itseff 
is very heavy, so even on car sims you 
can still hard the stick steady, yet it's stair 
a corker for shoot-‘em ups. 

There's your average ergonomic grip 
again but the lire buttons are massive 
so you can't miss The autofire as in the 
same place as the 1 25+, In the middre 
of the two fire buttons on the base. 

Thrs is probably the best asunder I 
have used out of the Cheetah range, 
and it ceriainfy looks the most durable I 
wouldn't pick a fight with ii in the pub. 


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Ask almost any games reviewer which joystick 
they prefer and eight out or ten wnl say that they 
go for the Zipstick The reason 15 probably 
because of its simpFe design There s nothing 
fancy to get in the way of those furious joystick 
thrashing moments. It has a nice Mack and yel- 
low design and is fully micro switched. 

The only major gripe is the positioning of the 
auto-fire switch, which (ends (0 turn itseff on 
without you knowing - until it's too late. Fa* 


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instance, imagine you're playing Kick Off 2 and its 
2-2 with 30 seconds to go and you accidentairy 
switch the auto-fire on 

Quick as a flash your man slides in the area and 
crops one of the opposition, so iris a penalty and 
your smilrng opponent slams (he ball into Che back, 
of the net. AH of a sudden you get an uncontroT 
iable urge (0 chuck the joystick across the room and 
watch it exptode into uny bits. 

However, apart from that minor gripe the 
Zipstick is indeed one of the bejt joysticks 
avaitotoie. 


To be honest all this see through business is a bit of con, afl the joystick 
manufacturer is trying to do is show you something different so you'IF 
put your hand in your pocket and spend some hard-earned wonga. 

The ready bad thmg about the Crystal Turbo Gear is the shaft. FFs 
really foose and it looks as though it won't last five minutes In a rough 
session of Kick Off Whether or not you want a dear joystick is really up 

to your own joystick fetish, but 
RESPONSE apart from the loose shaft iris quite a 

good model 

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Cruiser - Powerplay 

Thrs joystick brings a fair few tears to my eyes because i( has 
only just broken down after four yean. Yes, a long and happy 
relationship cut short by a Eerribfe mtsunderctanding 

Okay, so l did throw it on the fioor and jump on r( r but 
when your litrie pipsqueak of a brother beats, nay thrashes, 
you at Sensible Soccer then it's rime for a change of joystrek. So 
I rituaFly destroyed it, just like Mirvac^ do with their equipment. 
Qh boy. did F regret itl 

Weil, enough of my misery, what about the Cruiser? Well 
it's one of those that you efther love to bits [more tc-nriMe mem- 
ories) or hare to death 

There are two modds, one like mine, green with a pink 
shaft and yellow fire barons, or an ail black one. it boasts a 
unique controF - by twist- 
ing the pink shaft you can » fCp0l|tf 

make (he joystick’s action 
vary from Foose to stiff. 

This is ideal, because you 
can adjust It to su ft the 
game you're paying. 

The Cruiser does feel 
very bulky, but you do get 
used to ft after a while. 

Yep, I'd recommend it to 
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quickly swing pack to the balcony again 
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me washing line to get the jacket and 
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three mugs and the three coins io the 
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the right to get some money, Now go 
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dead wood - use it with the string. Take [he 
'lower go to the chicken and use the 
Coochshell. 


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lo the round pond and grve the flower to 
"mkerbelL take the branch from the tree, 


V7 Go back to the sling shot and use the 
itrong elastic on the broken strap, Use the 
branch with the stung. Return to the work- 
up and use the bow with the pan pipes. 


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jie yourself on Che far comer of the fence, 
rpeat this three times then ask fhudbutc 
what he thought about that. 


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yourself. Ask Thudbutt what his happy 
■noughts are, go to the dining area and talk 
to Rufio, 


2 0 Say ‘On Rufio! Go to the round pond 
and walk to the middle on the screen to get 
•nside the Mevertree. Tafk to TinkerbelF then 
ermine the bed, the chair and the 
Replace. 


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memo-nes. Having discovered that you are 
Peter Pan, its trme to defeat Hook. When 
the sword fight starts use these taunts in the 
following order: 

'Peter Pan the Avenger!" 

'Good form James 

Tick took tick lock Hook's afraid of the 
dead old Crock. ' 

'You kidnapped my kids Hook you 
deserve to die' 

’Pur swords it's Hook or me this time" 
'Peter pan the Avenger" 

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Intuition 


B efore we begin, rhere ire a few com- 
ments on Intuition programming that 
should be kept in mind. Intuition, the 
Amiga's Graphic User Interface, consists oi a collec- 
tion of routines which reside in ROM, These rou- 
tines are used to create the typical Amiga windows, 
menus, gadgets and so on that give the Amiga its 
distinctive look and feel. 

They are available to anyone, provided their lan- 
guage can access therm. Because oJ the Amiga's 
design and history, it is assumed most program- 
mers will be using C or assembler, but Intuition can 
be just as easily be accessed from Basie, Pascal, 
Modula and soon. 

We ought to make it dear though, that just 
about all good documentation on the workings ot 
Intuition is described wflh examples in C. This 
means that if you want to understand them you 
must have at least a reading knowledge of C. 

On the other hand' if you are planning to do 
any Amiga programming at all, it certainly won't 
hurt you to understand the basics of C. 

A good read 

The best book on Intuition is probably the 
ROM Kernel Manual (Libraries), which now 
covers Workbench 2.0. There are other good 
books too r but they probably do not cover 
Workbench 2-0 yet, so check what you buy! 

We should also mention Amiga C Encyclopaedia 
by Anders Rjerin of the Amiga C Club. The first 
four disks of this excellent PD 1 2-disk set have a 
very good explanation of Intuition. System struc- 
ture browsing utilities like S Browser, Xoper, and 
ARTM will also be very useful, and can be obtained 
from PD libraries. 

However, back to our subject, which is pro- 
gramming Intuition from ARexx. There are certain 
distmet advantages to this. Firstly, it is much easier 
to do interactive work, and make changes last, 
since there is no need to compile, assembly fink 
and so on. There ire also far fewer initialisations to 
be made, and hence less code to confuse things. 

The library we are going to use is Ronnie Kelly's 
ARlG.library, which, despite its name, is actually 


The ARexx Library 

Calling all ARexx programmers . . . 

If you've recently written an ARexx 
masterpiece and want the world to 
know about it, send it in to AC. 
Continuing to support ARexx is a high 
priority and as a result wc are opening 
the AC ARexx Library. 

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will be redistributed free of charge on 
the AC CoverOisk every month. 

If you want to play your part in the 
ARexx explosion, send your scripts and 
additional programs to: AC ARexx 
Library, Amiga Computing, Europe 
Mouse, Adiington Park , Macclesfield, 
SKI 0 4NP 


Alex Gian shows how to 
design attractive and 
practical front-ends for 
our ARexx applications 

quite good. APIG stands fpr ARexx Programmer 
Intuition and Graphics library, and this ts exactly 
whit this library does - it makes most intuition and 
Graphics calls (as well as some of the Exec lilt func- 
tions) directly accessible from within ARexx, 

ThE version of AJPIG used is 1 J and is available 
on Fish disk 55 9, with many excellent examples, 
although a copy should be on the CoverOisk 
Alternatively an updated version (33) is available 
on Fish disk 634. i have found APIGJibrary, along 
with ragen, library, to be quite sufficient for any 
programming job. 

Of course, for mathematical calculations 
assume that everybody is using WCfs rex* mar 
lib. library, which was also included on the 
CoverOisk a while back. 

Dispatched 

The way that APIG works is fairly typical o' 
many ARexx. utilities that support Intuition. 
Essentially, any IDCMP everts (mouse dicks etc 
occurring at any particular window are "tians- 
feted" to ARex* messages containing the sarr^ 
information. These messages are then dispatched 
to an appropriate port for processing. In most suet j 
utilities, including A PIG, the port must first b 
specified by the user. 

For those a bit more familiar with the Arnsq^ 
system, hem Ls what happens. Any windows you j 
open with APIG are themselves separate tasks, an 3 
even have their own .ARexx port, called apig.tftkJ 
apig.task.2, etc. These "window"' tasks interce^ 
the IDCMP events, convert them to ARex* mes- 
sages [RexxMsgs in C) and dispatch them to the J 
specified port. An Arexx message has sever - 
fields, and their full description can be round in the 
documentation. 

The port apig.task,n accepts only one AReMj j 
command, 'DIE'. If it receives this command, k j 
will close the window, and deallocate all tl t 
resources used. This can be useful if your ARe*. 
program hangs, leaving unwanted windows ope^ 

Our program 

Here is a brief description of our program 
APIG jest. rexx, shown in Listing L You should ab*| 
find it on the CoverDisk, to save you typing it bM 
You can run it by typing rx APIG Jest at w.r 
shelf window. When you are finished, clicking oi 
the close gadget will shut everything down. j 
do not need to understand the program to run it 
Now, inevitably in describing this program, w*| 
are going to have to make same detours awjf 
from pure ARex* into the workings of Intuition m 
general and APIGJibrary in particular. 

We stress once again that rf you ire a beginnd 




program 


you should take some time to study at least the 
basics of Intuition. The description of the program 
assumes at least some familiarity with Intuition.. 

I think that this type of programming Mill be 
most useful to those who want to do some "quick 
and dirty" Intuition work, perhaps to try out an 
idea interactively, without having to drag out the C 
compiler. 

The first section of the program does some ini- 
tialisations. First, it opens a port - this is essential to 
APIG - and thgn calls a function which creates a. 
whole lot of global variables. These variables are 
mainly Hags, as defined in the system's C header 
files. 

This is very convenient, since most programmers 
already know the flag names, and they ate much 
easier to remember than their numeric equivalents. 

The flag names are still in their old 1,3 form, for 
example WINDGWCLQSE rather than v2.0 p s 
wf LG.CLOSEGADGET, but this should be no great 
problem, since the actual value (8) is unchanged.. 

We then open our window by calling the 
OpenWindowO function with all the required 
parameters. The parameters are very similar 
(though not exactly the same) as the Intuition 
library call. 

Note that when the arguments are null pointers, 
ie J GDOO GGOG\ can be left out altogether, pro- 
vided the comma separators are in place. 

APIC assumes that you know what you are 
doing, and incorrect parameters are practically 
guaranteed to crash the machine. 

You should also remember that if a line is too 
long in ARexx and you want to split it on to two 
lines, they should be separated by a comma. APIG 
has quite a lot of potentially long lines, and if you 
are not careful you w-ill get a ""wrong number of 
arguments* error. For example: 


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hs the same as: 


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which links the gadget to the one before it. This 
creates a LIST of gadgets, just like Intuition wants 
it 

We then add the list of gadgets to our window, 
and refresh it so that everything appears as ft 
should. The APIG functions used lo do this are 
exact equivalents of their Intuition counterparts. 

Remember that Intuition's refreshing system is 
not as smart as it could be, and the toggled 
Boolean gadget will do weird things on occasion, 
especially if the window has been resized. This is 
not a fault of the program, hut a weakness in the 
Intuition refresh routine. 

The standard way Lo implement a gadget with 
alternate images is by using the C ADC HIM AGE flag 
and pointers to image structures. Any good refer- 
ence text on Intuition will explain this, 

The string gadget is quite straightforward. Note 
Lite 64S argument in the proportional gadget. This 
is so that our slider will have 101 positions rather 
than just 1 00 {85535/W&). 

Once the gadgets are all set up we enter the 
loop where we wait for messages at our program's 
port We have dealt with this at length in the past 


and w?n not repeat it here. Our program uses the 
standard method see the November 92 Amigo 
Computing for full details of receiving ARexx mes- 
sages at ports. 

Having received the messages, we can now 
interpret them. We have used a very simple 
approach in our program. The Hags we have speci- 
fied for each gadget ensure that the Boolean gad- 
get only sends a message as soon as it is clicked 
down, while the other two only when they arE 
released. In (act, if the string gadget is selected, 
according to Intuition convention, it will only send 
its message once return is pressed. 

Therefore for each gadget there is only one case 
where it will send a message. We can simply check 
the gadget ID (since there is only one window) or 
the gadget address. This approach is a bit simplis- 
tic, but it works. 

tven though our program is perhaps Oversimpli- 
fied, it shows how we can use the Intuition inter- 
face to send an ARexx message at the dick of a 
mouse. There may be many cases where this is 
much more desirable than having to type in the 
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Replacement 

The second alternative is to have the hard disk 
fitted by the supplier. Again this invalidates the 
standard Commodore warrantee but more often 
than not the larger suppliers offer their own war- 
ranty agreements as a replacement 

With this method it can work put slightly 
more expensive but at least your peace of mind 
is ensured. 

As yet I can't offer any specific details as to 
which companies will be offering a hard drive 
option, but it's a near certainty that Power 
Computing will be leading the field alongside 
ZCL and Silica. 

If you do take the second method please bear 
in mind that suppliers' warranty agreements are 
only as good as the company that issues them. 

As a result, sCs often well worth spending a lit- 
tle more cash with well established 1 companies 
such as those listed rather than taking a risk with 
a lesser know company who may well be cutting 
their margins to the bone in order to offer seem- 
ingly spectacular reductions. 

Finally we come to the RAM options which 
again are vital for serious DTV applications. The 


As some famous person almost certainly once 
said, r 'A machine is only as good as its soft- 
ware..,'". Fortunately for the new breed of 
Amiga the future hraks very good indeed. 

At the forefront of the mad scramble to 
take advantage of the new 256- colour si an 
dard display and of course the 262,000 colour 
HamS mode Is our old friend DPalnl, re-born 
under the new title of DFaint IV AA. 

As the name suggests the new release 
boasts full support for the amazing variety 
and quality the AA chipset can provide In all 
screen modes. 

Although I've only used a Beta copy at the 
recent A 1200 launch the software already has 
the makings of a monster. Alas, 
the Beta version wasn't In a 
fit state to animate so 


agonising question of HamS animation speeds 
may have lo remain a mystery for another 
month at least. 

As you may be aware thanks to our 
American correspondent speeds of 25 FPS 
interlaced and 50 FP5 non -Interlaced are 
already being claimed on the A4QG0. 

Only the release ol DPafnt IV AA or 
Brilliance from Digital Creations will answer 
the speed question on the A 1700, (test assured 
I hat AC will he the first to bring you the facts 
the minute either package crosses the pond in 
a finished form. 

If like me you can't wait to apply the power 
of the new machine and more precisely its 
amazing chip-set ell is not tost - both AD Pro 
and Scala MM 200 already take advantage of 
the AA and the machine's 2Mb of chip RAM 

which means the new wipes which refuse to 
work on anything but an A3DQ0 are 
now within the reach of anyone - 
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The optional co-processor is factory fitted as required. If you're plan- 
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and other such number crunching marathons, an FPU or co-processor 
will save a lot of valuable rendering time. 

As mentioned above, the standard machine comes without an FPU 
and unfortunately there's no option to add one later - it you're thinking 
about this it must be fitted at the factory. 

The FPU itself comes in two Forms,, either a Motorola 6S8SI or 
6^882 with a price point reflecting the difference in speed. Like all the 
chips within the machine these wLJI almost certainly be surface 
mounted, again making a future upgrade a difficult if not impossible. 




machine, like the 
A 3000, will offer up Lo 2Mb 
of chip RAM, 

At present it's still unclear 
whether the 2Mb will come as slan 

dard or whether 




there will be 1Mb fitted 
internally with the second 
added via the trap door. The 
question is, will Commodore 
add the expansion at the 
factory? 

On the fast RAM front the 
future looks equally rosy 
with up lo 4 Mb of 32-bit 
RAM in the CPU slot with an 
additional 4Mb of 16-bit 
RAVI available via the 
PCMCIA slot. 

Again the option for addi- 


Ilona! 
RAM Is an 
important point for 
D TV and specifically anima- 
tion, To get the best from the 
machine's 32-bit architecture, the 
4Mb of 32 -bit RAM is a must with the 16- bit RAM 
being a useful addition but by no means as fail - 
as we're all too aware when animating speed is 
everything. 

The mention of the CPU slot also raises another 
interesting point. One ui the machines strongest 
selling points is its built-in up-chippable design - 
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T he picture on an Amiga screen can be in 
up to three independent layers. The fore- 
ground is made up of sprites, small 
graphic elements 16 pixels wide, Ewo bitplanes 
deep, and of any height. 

The Amiga library routines use a ^impleSprite 
structure that holds data for each sprite - the 
height, horizontal and vertical co-ordinates, sprite 
number and a pointer to a data array in chip 
memory, This array contains word pairs with the 
sprite's bitplane data (labouriously typed in). 

The two sprites on the CoverDisk were 
designed using DPaintll. I saved each sprite as a 
separate brush, taking care to make the brushes 
16 pixels wide. The height of the sprite did not 
matter. I used four colours (two bilptenes) for the 
brushes, but the first sprite colour will be trans- 
parent, 

Interpret 

DPaintll produces a short IFF (International File 
Format) file for each brush. The file reader module 
readsprite.c can read and interpret this file, or a 
similar file produced by another artist 
program. 

The routine readfileQ has been adapted from 
the general IFF picture file routine that has graced 
these pages in the past. Sprite bitplane data is 
only two bytes wide and is not usually com- 
pressed, so a routine to decode compressed data 
has not been included. 

A sprite uses one of four sets of four colours. 
Sprites 0 and \ have colours 1 6 to 1 9; sprites 2 
and 3 have colours to 20 ■ 23; sprites 4 and 5 


Margaret Stanger explains how to use a program 
like DPaint to produce your own sprites 


have colours 24 to 2 7; sprites 6 and 7 have 
colours 2§ to 31, The height of the offending 
sprite is returned by this routine: 


tpritfhplght " n?jd* i UflSr0i?,iprdata r uieiipflri r pairS 


The inputs are : 


name 


sprdata 


viewport,' 

pair 


Pointer to the name of the file 
containing the data 
Pointer to the chip memory array 
to hold the sprite bitplane data 
Pointer to the current Viewport 
0,1, 2,3 depending which of four 
sprite pairs is to be used for the 
sprite 


The output is spriteherght Height of the sprite 
contained in the file. 

The routine will look for the usual chunkhead- 
ers in an IFF file. The GMAP chunk will be 
decoded to give the sprite height; the other data 
is either known (width and depth) or irrelevant 
(data from the screen the brush was saved on). 

The CMAP contains the colours used, and 
BODY or ABIT the bitplane data. The calling pro- 
gram allows space for a maximum height of 256 
pixels - this may be over-cautious. IF the file to be 


read is missing, (or not an IFF picture ILBM or 
ACBM hie),, the routine returns a sprite height of 
zero, the program will be stable but not attempt 
to display the missing sprite. 

The demo program on the CoverDisc con- 
tains two source modules, rsprite.c and 
spritemadx, which can be compiled and linked 
together in the normal way. 

Chip memory 

the object module, sprite, opens a Screen, 
and a Window in that Screen, tach ILBM picture 
file (DPaintll brush), with the filename specified 
in the calling program, is opened and the sprite 
data read into the appropriate array in chip 
memory., 

The colour data in the file determines the 
sprite's colours. The file is closed, and control 
goes back to the main program, which updates 
the sprite height in the Simple Sprite structure. 

I he sprites are displayed an the screen until 
the user closes the window, or clicks a mouse 
button, Ihe sprites are freed, the window and 
screen closed, and the program exitL 

Although I can now design sprites and read 
them in to a program more quickly, their quality 
has not improved as much as I had hoped. I vtili 
need an artist! 


there are several Amiga Libraries, 
each containing routines for use in 
your programs. The main libraries 
used are Exec, DOS, Graphics and 
Intuition. 

Exec library routines handle the 
multitasking and the lowest level ol 
interaction between the hardware 
and the software. DOS library rou- 
tines handle input and output 
control. 

Associated with each library is a 
special file with extension .fd. These 
files are usually found on the Extras 
disk in their own directory. 

An '.fd' file contains a list of the 
routines in the library, together with 
the input parameters that each rou- 
tine takes, and the corresponding 
registers used in assembly language. 

Any value returned by a routine 
will be in register DO, but other regis- 
ters may have been overwfitten,espe- 
ci ally AO, A1 and DL 

To access a library routine you 
must First open the corresponding 
library. In assembler, when a library 
is opened, the pointer (or library 
base) is stored by the program- If a 


library routine i$ declared as an 
external reference (JtRtF), the linker 
can calculate its offset from the 
library 1 base. The linker knows where 
to Find the routine, and can link it to 
the rest of the program. 

The 'QpenLibrary' routine is 
found in the Exec library, but the 
Exec library base is always available 
to us from the same location ( 
_AbsExecBase}. Once a library is 
open, its routines can be called as rf 
they were subroutines or your own 
machine language routines. For 
assembly language the correct 
library base must be in register A6 
when crneol its routines is called. 

The short demo program on the 
CoverDisk uses Five library routines: 
OpeniibraryQ and Close Library Q 
from the Exec library, DelayO, 
OutputQ arid WriteO from the DOS 
library. 


bEr required. A pointer to the library 
base is returned in register DO. 


1 1 G &f Li b r a r y ( 1 i br a r;r } ( A3 J 


fully, the program displays a short 
message, delays for a few seconds, 
closes the library and Exits, 


closes a library. 

library" Is a pointer to the library 
base. 

IrlirftlisfliitiKOl) 



Devpac users 


waits for a given timeout Ttimeoutls 
the rime delay requirEd, in millisec- 
onds. 

QulputO 


finds the file handle lor writing text 
in the current window. 

A pointer ta the File handle is 
returned in register DO, 


QpinLI b r a r?U 1 &H ait f Tt *r 1 1 a n H A 1 r D 0 3 


H^r 1 1 > Cf 1 hutf e lcn>g:thl < b 1 , Dl, D S ? 

will write to a file or a window. 

'file" is a pointer to the chosen file 
handle. 

’buffer" is a pointer to the buffer 
containing the data to be written, 
length" is the number or bytes to 
be written. 


opens a chosen library. 
libName" is a pointer to the name 
of the library to he opened. 

Version" is the lowest version num* 


When the abject program (intro) 
is run, the program opens the DOS 
library. If the library opens success- 


The Devpac Assembler has 
Macros available for calling 
Amiga library routines. Using 
my usual assembler, I would call 
the Delay routine jsr _V VO Delay 
To call the same routine in the 
DEVPAC programming environ- 
ment, use CALLDOS Delay. 

The macro CALLDOS would 
save the contents of register A6, 
load A6 with the library pointer, 
call the required DOS Library 
routine, and restore the original 
contents of register A6. 

It would not be necessary to 
declare each library routine as 
an external reference, but the 
header files exec/exec JibJ, 
Ilhrartes/dosJ, and 

libranes/dos liib.i may need to 
be included. 









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machines and 
begins the search 
for the missing 
DSP 





the plan is to J 
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board alnng- 



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could become 1 h e 
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wilh lhe arrival of lhe 
DSP upgrade In 91 


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that, even more additions are required to the 


MKk fter a lot of speculation, and a whole 
host of rather misleading leaks from 
# ^countless third-party developers, the 
Format for the new breed of machines has finally 
hit the streets. 

Although both the A40GG and its pint-sized 
counterpart the A12QQ are truly wonderful 
machines they do lack one feature that casts a 
rather grey shadow over the earlier launch. 

Alas, the tong awaited Digital 5ound 
Processor or DSP is obvious oniy by its absence. 
In addition there's no built-in Midi ports as 
widely suggested earlier m the year, 

With the average plug-in Midi connector 
retailing for as little as £20 I can understand why 
Commodore have sacrificed built-in Midi ports, 
perhaps in order to save space or alternatively in 
an attempt keep costs an check. 

The missing element 1 can't understand is the 
DSP itself. Why, oh why have Commodore let 
the ailing ST Off the hook yet again, when even 
the Atari top brass are openly admitting the 
problems with their dying product line. 

In defence 

To add insult to injury, the bug -rid den Falcon 
boasts a DSP as standard, so why not the A4QOO 
and A1 200? 

In defence of Commodore the DSP situation 
isn't quite as bleak as it may first appear, 
Although neither of the aforementioned 
machines ship with a DSP at present, plans are 
afoot. 

To clarify the DSP position I spake to Andrew 
Ball* the man behind the infamous Commodore 
press machine. After a fair amount of verbal 
jousting he finally confirmed that the A4GOO will 
indeed feature a DSP in the future. Unfortunately 
the time scale for the launch was at best rather 
sketchy, 

Even after my best efforts as an investigative 
reporter, Mr Ball wouldn't commit himself to a 
specific date other than to confirm that the 
upgrade will appear sometime in 93. 

The good news is that the addition of a DSP 
will be an upgrade and won't require replace- 
ment of the entire machine. As you may be 
aware, courtesy of our A4G0Q feature in last 
month's issue, the A4QOO has been designed to 
be upchippabie. 

Jn other words in theory anything from a 
680020 to a 68060 - when they become avail- 
able - will slip directly into the machine via the 
CPU daughter board already built-in. Apparently 


side a replacement CPU. 

As yet it's impossible to stats how Commodore 
will handle daughter board upgrades but ifs 
highly likely that they’ll implement a trade in sys- 
tem, so existing usem with 040-based A4QG0s can 
send their existing boards in exchange for an 
identical or faster CPU/DSP combination. 

Not so rosy 

"his is all good news for A400Q users but alas 
the situation far A12QQ owners isn't quite so rosy, 
in shop Commodore have no plans to add a DSP 
option to the A12QD range... end of story. 

The reason for this decision is two-fold. As you 
may be aware, the A1200 like the A4000 is an 
upchippable machine - due to the machine's lim- 
ited expandability, implementation of a DSP via 
the trapdoor CPU slot is a best a tricky business. 

Although Commodore themselves have no 
plans to offer the option, Mr Ball was very careful 
to mention that the addition of a DSP is by no 
means impossible and is very likely be taken up by 
third-party developers sometime in 93. 

If the hoped for 
third-party DSP systems 
do indeed see the light 
or day during 93 it 
adds yet another twist 
to this already complex 
tale. As youTe probably 
aware the AI2QG ;s a 
true 32-bit machine 
and as a result is only at 
its best while using 32- 
bit memory. 

In order to do exactly 


ever-expanding CPU daughter board. Like the 
A600, the A 1200 can lake advantage of PCMCIA 
cards as a source ol additional RAM. 

Unfortunately additional PCM RAM is strictly 
16 bit, and as a result can’t by definition fully 
exploit the potential of the A1200 is 32-bit archi- 
tecture and aiiendari CPU- 

To counteract the problem, the daughter 
board comes to the rescue yet again by allowing 
the addition of up to 4Mb of 32- bit memory 
directly onto the board. 

32-bit memory 

It you're planning to take advantage of the 
proposed third-party DSi systems if and when 
they arrive, a certain amount of 32 -bit memory 
may become essential, as any DSP system is very 
likely to be married with a direct-to-disk record- 
ing system in such situations fast transfer 
between the CPU, DSP and hard disk is essential. 

Even if the proposed DSP releases fail to 
appear a certain amount of 32-bit RAM is a real 
advantage no matter what the application. 

For example if you plan to employ the A12G0 
as a platform for power sequencers such as KCS 
and Bars h Pipes Professional with therr accom- 
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limitless selection of windows and screens r addi- 
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This becomes even more important if such 
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Compatibility across the range 

As far as compatibility is concerned it's highly unlikely problems will arise 
on existing sequencing software, as the majority of the enhancements 
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If the unspeakable happens and incompatibility does rear its ugly 
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Reading at 


T here are two methods of keeping dawn 
costs when using bulletin boards regularly. 
One is lo invest hard-earned cash in a fast 
modem while a cheaper method is to inrest about 
half an hour of your time to set up an offline 
reader, 

Reading and replying to messages online both 
costs you money and also clogs up the board, 
making other users wart to get through. If you've 
ever tried dialling in to a popular board in the 
evening you'll already know how frustrating it can 
be. 

Most sysops encourage the use of offline read- 
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fines. 

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them lo you in whatever order you choose and 
allows you to make replies or write original mes- 
sages yourself ., These replies are then bundled up 
again ready to be sent (uploaded) to the BBS. 

At the BBS end, the sysop will have set up a 
lv door* where you can choose which messages 
you want to read, have them bundled up and 
compressed, then downloaded to your machine 
for the QLR to work on.. If that all sounds terribly 
complex, (don't worry - it's really easy. 

This month I've been looking at the Blue Wave 
Mail Door, and an QLR for use with it, Q-Blue. 
Each of them takes about ten minutes to set up, 
one while online at the BBS and the other at home 
on your Amiga. 

From then on, the only time you will spend on- 
line b the line it lakes lo bundle your new mes- 
sages, download them, and upload yoL.r prepared 
replies, This also has Lhe advantage ol giving you 
more time to download files, instead of spending it 
all reading messages. 


as you like them, This 
includes the message area* 
you want, how many mes- 
sages are to be bundled in 
each area, which particular 
messages you want from 
each area and so on. 

For instance you can 
choose to receive just those 
messages which contain the 
word ■“amiga" from a busy 
area whkh covers many dif- 
ferent machines. Or if there's 
a particular person who 
annoys you, simply set the fil- 
ter to exclude all messages to 
□rfrom that person. 

Another handy option Is 
the password. This can be set up to operate both at 
the BB5 end and on your machine (with different, 
passwords for each). Thus other people using your 
machine won't be able to read your message bun- 
dles. 

Once everything is set to your liking, simply tell 
the program to bundle up all the messages you 
want, and download them. Then log-off. 



Pat Winstanley looks at inexpensive E mailing 


B-iu-e Wjvt mes^ag e% ready lor downloading 


Configuration 


Important 


Looking at the BBS end ot things first, some- 
where on tf>e main menu there will be options far 
she various mail doors the board supports, 

Once selected you'll be presented with another 
menu, the most important option pf which is con- 
figuration. The Blue Wave Mail Door is extremely 
flexible and allows you to configure things exactly 


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Back on your machine you will have a compressed 
File which you've just downloaded, Now comes 
another period of configuration lo prepare Q- Blue to 
your liking. First of all you need to make four new 
directories - downloads, uploads, work and reply. 

These can go anywhere you like, but you nEed Lo 
specify the complete pathname to them in the con- 
figuration option, You also need access to a text edi- 
tor of some kind. I use a small Freeware program 
called Texira, which is in the c: directory, renamed 
as ed. 

Q-Blue offers several ways of sorting and display- 
ing messages such as by number,, age, name and so 
on. There are also several compression methods to 
choose Hrom r with the facility to set up others if you 
wish. 

Once everything is ret up, and the configuration 

saved, the next step is to 
load in the packet of mes- 
sages you downloaded ear- 
lier, Q-fllue then 
uncompresses the file, a 
nice touch being that it 
doesn't simply fall aver if 
you have selected different 
methods at the two ends, 
but corrects your mistake 
for you IF it can. 

Now you can read all 
the messages you down- 


loaded in whatever order you choose. Options 
include hopping from area |p area, skipping back- 
wards and forwards, writing new messages, replying 
to old ones and even sav ng particular messages to 
disk. 

Messages tan be displayed singly, or as a list, and 
bath mouse and keyboard may be used, with some 
of the common menu options duplicated at Lhe bot- 
tom of the screen for quick selection. 

All your replies are collected together, bundled 
up and compressed at the end of the session. Then 
the next time you call the BBS this file tan be 
uploaded, in Lhe same session that you download 
your next batch of new messages. 


Messages 


Q-Blue understands both QW'K and Blue Wave 
style message bundles. It can read messages pro- 
duced by any mail door compatible with either of 
there, and create replies that they can understand. A 
BBS neaf you is likely to have at least one door avail- 
able which you can use. 

Ask the sysop lor guidance and he or she will tell 
you what to do on that particular board. A BBS 
which supports mail doors will almost certainly have 
Q-Blue available for download. 

The unregistered version is slightly disabled in 
that no more than Five replies may be uploaded at 
any one rime. If you register ( J20) this restriction is 
lifted. Meanwhile you have a month to try it out 
before being obliged to register. 


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AMOS 



T he Amiga is a WIMP system, and hy this I 
don't mean it backs may from a fight. 
The idea of a computer interface contain- 
ing Windows, Icons, Mice and Pointers was origi- 
nally developed by Xerox at Palo Alto Research 
Centre, 

When the Amiga was designed in 19S4-S GUIs 
were all the rage, so the designers incorporated a 
mouse and a GUI called Workbench in the new 
machine. Only with Amos cart we get the real 
power of windows and menus. Although they're 
not the kind of windows you're used to in 
intuition, they are as functiona. 

If the kind oF programs you want to write are 
more utility or productivity type, then yau r ll have 
to use the windowing functions of Amos. A win- 
dow js basically an independent little area of text 
and graphics on the scteen. To open a window on 
the screen you must employ the WIND OPEN 
command, like so: 

vfnd Dptn UtJ, 10,50,10 

This, for example, would open us a window on to 
■ n e screen (window !) # which would have its top 
eft corner at screen location 10,10 and would be 
iQ characters wide by 1 0 deep. The point of this is 
that you can have two or more windows on the 
screen at the same time, all with their own text, 
and graphics, like this: 

StfEpr Open .Hires 

CLs 0 
Flssl Off 

Piper 7 s Wind Opt^ 1,0,0,411,211 : Print H T!i5 is 
p i r d :« ■ n jr b ■=• r V,,. . 

& lpFf i \ Wind Dptn 2,320,^40,20 i Print %,,jnd 
ills is flUl Ur 2!" 
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Each window acts like a little version of the 
=.:reen and anything you can write to a screen you 
an send to a window, 

Picture windows 

".Though the windows you get in Amos aren't the 
imi as the kind of thing you are used to In 
Amiga DOS r they still have a range of styles and 
■ jpes, and can be made to act like real windows 
v th the minimum of tweaking. 

: qf example, you can re-size them and even 
i-Jd gadgets like Intuition, but aFI this must be 
tfone manually as Intuition is not loaded when 
**10$ is running, alas {all this is changing with 
Amos Professional, of course). 

Re-sizing is a good example so let's look at that, 
j t p s make a window on the screen which you can 
pull at the bottom right-hand corner by clicking 
" ii with the left mouse button. The window can 
■f ■* -sized on the screen^ and when you let go of 
outton the window snaps to that shape, 
n order to grab anything on the screen - unlike 
very convenient Intuition code which does It 
* 1 For you - you have to draw a window and then 
'"he d Zone around it to sense the presence of 
i mouse dick. 

"nen once you've sensed it you have to see 
w* it moves, and then resize the window with 


Phil South opens out the Amos windowing 
system, and sheds some light on the subject 



WIND SIZE. In this example program we first open 
a hi-res screen and set the colours as normal: 

Scree- Opsn M4D,2Sfr,1MifU 

Piper 0 : CLj 0 

Then we activate WIND SAVi, which means our 
windows are smart and don't screw up anything 
we might have on the screen below it. This is really 
groovy because it means you can open a window 
ovef a game screen for example, like an IFF File, 
and nothing on the screen will be erased when 
you dose the window: 

iiiftd 

Next we RESERVE ZONE, which is what you do 
every time you are about to SET ZONE. What this 
means is that if you Reserve Zone 1 you are basi- 
cally saying "look, Tm going to define a zone later 
on in the program, so allocatE some memory for it 
and I'll get back to you": 

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Now we set up all the characteristics of the win- 
dow we'll be defining, in this case Window 1 is a 
20 x 20 character window, whose tap left corner is 
positioned at location 1 0,50 on the screen, After 
that we set the BORDER and TITLE TOR functions 
to describe a little bit more about the window, like 
the title tex{, in this case "Grab my comer, man I", 
and the colours of the border: 

ifind tipm 1, ID, It jlQ, 20,1 
tardtr ,0,4 

TitU Tup " Grib ly earner, (Ian] H 
Set Zone 1,10,50 Ta 10*110,5(1*141] 


The last bit is the interesting part. Next w§ 
open up the Zone we promised earlier. It covers 
the area taken up by the window, and does this by 
specifying the Zone number, in this case 1 r and 


the co-ords of the top left and bottom right cor- 
ners of tl>e Zone. Bottom right ra set here by lazily 
multiplying the top left figures by 160, that is to 
say S x 20, 8 being die number of pixels in a char- 
acter, and 20 being the width of the window. 
Then weTe into the main loop of the program: 




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This checks for the MOUSE KEY and MOUSE 
ZONE functions to see if the mouse is within the 
zone and if it has the left mouse button pressed 
down. If rt does then the PflOC called RESIZE_ME is 
activated. 

The PRGC then does all the work, creating a 
rubber band effect to show you where the sides of 
the window are, altering the variables containing 
the window co-ards, and checking to see if the 
mouse button has been released yet with the 
WHILE WEND loop: 


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Once the button is released the window is 
redrawn to the new size. When the new co-ords 
have been stoned the old Zone is cancelled and re- 
drawn to the new size* and it's all ready to start 
again, 

.And there you have it, perfect windows, and not 
a single patch of putty in sight, Now you can create 
multiple-windowed programs and multi windowed 
games too! How about a dungeon master done in 
the PD, then eh? 


Write Stuff 

II you have an Amos question, then please 
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D esktop publishers car never have 
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design a lot of leaflets or advertise- 
ments. In past issues we've looked at shareware 
typefaces from George Thompson Service and 
Ihe commercial Computer Safari typefaces from 
EM Computergraphlc. 

Both were extremely goad value for money, 
but neither car top what PD-Soft has come up 
with - 300 typefaces on 15 disks lor a penny 
under £40. That's about 1 3 p each. 

The faces are all in Adobe Type 1 format. For 
PageStream 2.1 and 2.2 users these can be used 
just as they are. The Font Manager part of the 
program needs to he used to add the new type- 
faces to the ProPage system, hut after that it J s 
just a case of selecting the typeface you want to 
use, and then using It 

Mo bells and whistles are provided on these 
disks. In order to give you as many typefaces as 
possible for your money, in most cases just the 
Adobe Font Metric (AFM) and Printer Font Binary 
fPfB) files are supplied*. 

Just typefaces 

There are no icons to drag around, no auto- 
matic installation programs, no readme files, no 
example pictures... just the typefaces. On a few 
Of the disks there are unnecessary files, like a 
200k BMAP file on Disk 4 that is of no earthly use 
to Amiga owners — a little oversight that PD- 
Soft will no doubt rectify. 

Installing them for PageStream isn't difficult, 
just a simple file copying job from the original 
disks to your PageStream fonts disk(s) or 
Page St ream /PS Font 5 directory on your hard 
drive, 

By far the easiest way to install the typefaces 


where you want them is to use a file manager 
utility like SID or DirtVork, PD-Soft is a PD library, 
so if you don’t already own one, it might be an 
idea to ask about a file manager at the same time 
as inquiring about Ihe ivpefaces. 

Now I've not had time to test all 300 faces 
with PageStreami, but IV toed a couple at ran- 
dom from each disk and have had no problems. 

Professional Page 3 and Professional Draw 3 
users can also use Adobe Type 1 typefaces by 
running them through the FpntManager pro- 
gram and converting to Compugraphic format 
Alas, not all the lypelatEs in this collection will 
convert. FpntManager complains that some 
"can’t be read", other times the program just 


hangs half way through the conversion. 

it’s a problem that other libraries have 
addressed by converting as many as will convert, 
and making up special Compugraphic collec- 
tions, PD-5oft may we^l do the same with this col- 
lection, but that 300 may come dow ! n to as few 
as ISO or 200, 

Once converted to Compugraphic, of course, 
these files can be converted a further time by 
Founta in for use with Workbench 2. 

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Despite the "exclusive" claim by 
PD-Soft and the copyright mes- 
sage cm the disk labels, all of the 
typefaces in this collection have 
been generated from Macintosh 
public domain and shareware 
typefaces. 

If you have already bought 
shareware Compugraphic or 
Adobe Type 1 typefaces from 
companiei like George Thompson 
Services or EM Computergraphic, 
then you will already own a fair 
number of the faces In this PD- 
Soft collection - perhaps as many 
as hall of Ih em, maybe more. 

Studying the AFM files I can see 
that they have all been altered 
from how they were originally dis- 
tributed, and each now contains a 
comment to the effect that the 
J ile has been “Converted /fixed for 
Lhe Amiga"’ by B0 Track Software, 
the Stateside company from 
which PD-Soft has licensed the 


disks, Missing from sill these AFM 
files are the Original copyright mes- 
sages put: there by the original 
authors, 

Also missing are the readme hies 
that originally accompanied these 
shareware faces, the text files that 
identified the authors and specified 
the distribution and usage rights. 

5-ome typefaces have had an 
,H R5 ,J prefix added to their names 
and appear to be newly -genera ted 


versions of older typefaces. 

Mi ami Mights might be a type- 
face name you recognise? Or 
PoluSemiScripl perhaps? How 
aboul LowerEastSide? Well, these 
and about 30 or 40 more faces are 
present in the Collection as 
R 5 MiamiN Ights, R SPokjSemtScripl, 
and so on. 

The PFfl Piles are different from 
the original generations ol Ihe 
same faces without the 'W prefix, 


and the copyright messages of ihe 
original designers of the faces are 
not in these files. Bui apart from the 
fontname being different, they 
appear to be exactly the same 
designs as the originals. 

Mow I'm not trying to dirrih on 
to the high moral ground here, I'm 
simply reporting my findings, And 
what Tve found is a typeface for 
almost every occasion. 

if you want something for the 
body text of a fanzine or newsletter, 
then you'll find serif and sans-serif 
faces here. Including a few small 
type "families" like CKasska Roman, 
Cl a-ssica Italic and Classic Heavy — 
normal slanted and bold versions of 
the same basic design, 

Handwriting or Curstve'faces 
abound, and there are a fair number 
of black letter' faces, including one 
called Manage that would look 
good on wedding invitations. 










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T he new Kodak CD-ROM based initiative 
known as PhotoCD is a new storage tech- 
nology created by Kodak (you'd never 
have guessed!) for everyday 35mm photographs. 

In the veiy near Future you'll be able to take 
your snaps to a local shop and have them trans- 
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ihen wander home, slip this into your PhotoCD- 
compatible player and view your embarrassing 
party snaps on the television. 

You need never worry about your photos fari- 
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drinks again! 

A £4,99 PhotoCD disc will hold roughly TOO 
images. Your photographs can be transferred to 
disk for £8.75 For 25 exposures, {I believe your 
existing negatives can also be converted) and a 
nationwide chain of shops to convert films is now 
being set up. 

To view PhotoCDs you'll need a special player. 
Much to Commodore's embarrassment CDTV can 
not, at present, handle the PhotoCD format. 
Embarrassing because, as older AC readers witl 
know. Commodore originally announced that it 
would be compatible? CD-I ^s compatible, and 
there are also several PhotoCD specific players 
wath prices starting at £299. 

Rising safes 

The advantages of PhotoCD far CDTV and CD<I 
are pretty obvious. In a fairly short period there 
will be a large number of people wanting to view 
'heir pictures, and sates of CDTV and CD-I prod- 
ucts as potential viewing systems should rise 
according^. 

Most interesting, however, are the advantages 
to multimedia users. As anyone involved with the 
production of MM applications knows, one of the 
more difficult areas of production is getting colour 
;or even black and white) images into the 
computer. 

With the arrival of PhotoCD, however, you can 
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down to a local shop and in a short time have 
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lor use. This is a lot cheaper than traditional scan- 


New technology 

Another new technology is the Sony Mini Disc, which could well 
end up overshadowing both CDTV and CD-3 systems Why? Well 
suppose I described a technology that offered compact cassettes 
(smaller than CDs), capacities of roughly 220Mb and fast access 
time but which could also be written to - wouldn't yon want it? 

Given this specification, Mini Disc s could easily replace CDs. 
Alternatively it could fust become a rival, but I can't see Sony set- 
tling for that. 

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CD R Unlike normal CDs, which are WORM systems (Write Once, 
Read Many), CD-R can be written to many limes. Currently CD fi 
is limited in that you can only write an entire CD at a time, raiher 
than Jumping in and recording tracks, then play other parts and 
go back and record another track. But it's a step in the right 
direction, and has an interesting future. 


Julius Alexander looks at new technologies that will 
affect Amiga CD and 
multimedia 


ning and 
much more 
convenient. The 
result will hopefully 
be an increase in the num- 
ber of MM applications and a pos- 
sible drop in their price. 

Another development set to have an impact on 
the Amiga is the Philips DCC - Digital Compact 
Cassette. Unlike normal cassettes, DCC is digital, 
which means that it will provide far superior quality 
- effectively CD-type sound reproduction. 

But while having CD sound quality, it has the 
advantages of traditional tapes, in that you can 
record on DCCs, and compact size. 

How can DCC technology squeeze enough 
information to reproduce 
high quality 1 6-bit sound for 
two hours play on to a cas- 
sette only slightly bigger than 
existing analogue magnetic 
types? The secret lies in a 
new compression system 
developed by Philips known 
as Precision Adaptive Sub- 
band Coding (PA5C to its 
friends). 

What this does is to watch 
the recording signal and 
record only what can be 
heard by the human ear. By 
doing so it can vary the bit 
rate being recorded and use 
a quarter of the space that 


16-bit systems 
require. While access 
times are too slow to be 
used in real-world applications it is 
likely to have a tremendous impact on a back-up 
device with a cost of just £499 for recorder and 
player. 

To finish off this month, I've just received news 
that the CD disc version of Sensible Soccer is going 
to be priced at a rock bottom £19.991 More inter- 
estingly, Commodore are actively promoting the 
idea of budget CDTV software (sub £1 0 is the fig- 
ure being handed around). 


Acceptance 


So what, you may ask OK, it's great news if you 
want that particular title, but what does it mean for 
the rest of us? Well consider that currently CDTV 
applications start at prices around £29. Also con- 
sider that the acceptance of CDTV depends largely 
on the applications that are available for it and their 
price. 

There are roughly 1 1 0 applications, so no short- 
age there. It's merely a matter of price, and if, as f 
expect, other companies follow the lead and drop 
their prices accordingly, CDTV could soon have a 
mass of low price discs that will make CD-I look 
very expensive. 


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