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Scanners
"if your in the market for a
hand scanner then forget the
rest end get Powerscan"
Amiga Format July 1992
Power Scanner v3,0
* 100-400 □ F I scanning resolutions
■64 greyscales
■ Thru'port for printer
■ Award winning editing,, image manipu-
lation & scanning software
Po wer S c a n n e r v3. □ .£115
Power Scanner Colour .£239
Epson GT-6000
■ 600 DPI Colour flatbed scanner
■ 24- bit colour
■ A4 reading area
■ Software included
Epson GT‘6QQ0
£799
Epson GT-8000
■ 800 DPI colour flatbed scanner
■ 24-bit colour
■ A4 reading area
■ Software included
■ Amazing scan quality
Epson GT-8000 £1199
Upg rade Offers
If you consider your scanner system to
be interior to the Power Scanner, we Will
happily upgrade your software and inter-
face. (Power Scanner is compatible with
most scanning heads)
v3-Q Upgrade (me. interface). ...... .f 49,95
v3.G Software upgrade for PowerS tanner
users (send SAE) .* , El 5
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Floppy Drives
"This drive contains more gad-
gets than Batman's utility belt"
Amiga Computing Febl 992
PC8SOB Power Drive
■ Award winning dnve manufactured by
Power Computing
■ Super slim design
■ Anti-click (Cures that annoying click!
■ Virus blocker (Prevents viruses!
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■ Built-in backup hardware
PC880B with Blitz Amiga EbO
PC8B0B with Blitz & XCopy — .£75
PC08DB (Cyclone compatible) 1 ..£65
PQJ8PB m black case £65
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Power Drives
PC88QE Economy drive £49.95
PC 881 A500 Internal drive .£40.00
PC 802 A2000 Internal drive ..£45.00
Dual Drive
■ Twd high quality disk drives built into
one compact unit
■ Same features as PC86QB
Dual drive ...£125
Blitz Amiga
■ Backup disks at lightning speeds
* Stops all external drives from clicking
■Contains a mi -virus from being written
into the boetblocker
Blitz Amiga £20
1.44MB Power Drive
■ 1.44MB disk drive
■ High density floppy disk drive
1.44MB Power Drive £POA
PCMCIA Memory
• Ultra Slim memory cards
■1MB&2MB
■ For A60CVA 1200
1 MB Memory card ,..£ PO A
2MB Memory card £POA
roducts fro
RAM Expansions
A6QO Memory Cards
1MB BAM with dock .,£39
1MB RAM without dock £3 4
PC5Q1+ RAM Card
Our RAM board is designed especial' ,
tor the A5MGi+ computer and comes with
1MB of RAM on board to expand yoi. 1
memory to 2MB of chip RAM, Plug -in
go operation (Fits into the trapdoor!
PC5D1+ RAM card £35
8MB for any ASOO
■ Plugs into side slot, fully auto config
thru'port. Expand 2MB-8MB
2MB £109 4MB £169 8MB £2
1 x 4ZIP chips £14,
2MB for any A5QO
■ Economy 2MS RAM externally case:
-16-chip (1x1 DIP!
■ No thru' port
2MB RAM
1.5MB RAM Board
■ Fully supports 1MB Of chip RAM
■ Fully compatible with Fatter Agnus
jftickElart 1.3- and above, not corrpabbf b wiLh A50D* i
jfGwr Amiga needs id ae opmed, this rn a v elf-ad your
1.5MB FI AM board
1MB with Thru d port
■ Expand your A50Q s memory up to a
total of 2MB without disposing of yoi r
existing 51 2K upgrade
■Works with 1MB of Chip RAM
• F. 1 7 K HAM must he % cHiipiypeor not exceeding 9c m m
i You - Am j | .is iu.'ihtIk in In: ixii^ ii^il. rths may ertecryow W-
1MB with thru'port
£r
A500 RAM Card
- 51 2K RAM expansion with clock 3 • 1
software (A500+ compatible)
51 2K RAM (4 chip)
51 2K RAM without dock ...
512K RAM (16 Chip! with clock
512K RAM (16 chip! without dock
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ASOO Hard Drives
The Power BBS
* Kick-off is the latest Amiga add-on from
Power
* One of the most advanced kicks tart
RDM sharers available
■ A clever design on a small reliable
board
* Fits AS0Q p A500+, At 500
■ Kickstart ROM can be selected from the
keyboard
B No messing about with switches
1 Ho "CIA adaptor' or other trailing wires
■ Jumper to select which ROM boots on
switches
■ Compatible with old Amiga board
revisions
■ Simple internal fining*
' K-Lk-pPI requires IhH l«d t& he remo^ad frem rte Am-ga.
this invalid atB your w.irMirv.
ROM Share £17,95
ROM Share inc. kickstart v2.Q4 ...£55
ROM Share inc. kickstart vl .3 .... £39
ROM Share forAGOO £29
Kick start V 2.04
2.CW Kickstart (chip only! „ £39,95
2-04 Klckstart ROM, workbench software,
install disk 2.04, font disk & extras£79.95
2.04 kit with ROM sharer £99
Video Backup System
Use VCR as a backup storage device
Blank video tape is all that is required 1
200 Amiga floppy disks will fit on a 4
hour taps
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
io specify which files and directories to
be stored
Low cost storage, 2 pence per MB
Menu driven software
Allows you tD watch TV on a 1084s
monitor
Very high reliability
Log files, contain title and counter
position of every backup
Video connection check, ensures foot
proof operation
Effective error-correction scheme
Easy to understand manual
video Backup System £59,95
CVP A53Q Turbo HD
muVW
* 4DMHz 68Q30E C accelerator
» Optional 63882 maths co-processor
* Up to 8MB 32-bit FASTRAM on-board
* Award winning
42QMB HD 0MB RAM £549
80QMB HD 0MB RAM £649
240MB HD 0MB RAM ' £1054
68882 Upgrade kit £224
GVP Series 2 HD
* Up to 8MB FASTRAM on hoard
40QMB LIMB £329 000MB 0MB £399
4QQMB 7MB ,...£379 0OQMB 2MB £449
40QMB4MB £440 BflQMB 4MB £499
4QQMB SMB ...,£509 000 MB 8MB £549
ICO Novia Internet HD
» Fits inside your Amiga 500
■ Comes complete, just plug- in and go
No via 401 40MB HD
No via 801 80MB HD
.. £279
,..-£349
ICO Flicker Fixer
Flicker Free Video 2
■ Stop that annoying flicker
• Fits internally in the AMO
■ Mulli-sync monitor required
Flicker Free Video 2
£199
NEC 4FG Multi sync monitor
£549
Chips
4MB x SSI MM £90
1 MB x 3SIMM .. .....,.£25
256KX4DRAM £4.00
1M8X10RAM £3 95
1x4 ZIP £14.95
1x4 OEP „ ...,,,,.£19.95
A300C Static column RAM ,.£19.95
SIMM 32 x 1MB-6G £65
SIM 32 x 4MB-G0 £243
fTltese Chips carver mnsl memory >i hnr-tJ dirve; i,£.
GVP tf Supra* Commodore)
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
inform at ion
The Power House E
0234 841503
2 4 hours
All speeds up to 16.3K
Commodore CDTV
■ CDTV player
■Welcome disk + caddy
■ Keyboard
■ Floppy disk drive (black)
* Wired mouse
* Workbench 1,3 and manuals
» Infrared remote control
CDTV multi-media pack
A570 CO-ROM drive for A500...
£599
£349
CDTV Software
A Bun for Barney £29.99
Barney Bear goes camping ......,,£29.99
Batdechess „„ £ 3 9 . 99
Case of the Cautious Condor £34.99
CD Remix v2 £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
„, ,,£29-99
.,.,,,£29.99
£49.99
£54.99
£29.99
available
Power Pinball
Sim City
Trivial Pursuit
World Vista Atlas
Xenon 2 Megablast .....
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your hard carr.od pennies on. an
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Dual Drive Now this is & bit
special 4 Amiga Computing
Power Scanner
Amiga Shopper Best Buy
Power Scanner
Amiga Format Cold
Power Scan is quite simply the
best Amiga band scanner avail-
able' Amiga Format
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Award winning innovative products from Power Computing Ltd
A2QOO Hard Cards
24-Bit Colour
Optical Hard Drive
G VP Series 2 HO
Up to 8Mb SIMM RAM on-board
Supports external SCSI devices
14MHz SCSI controller
Bare £129
40QMB 0MB .£249 30QMB 0MB .£349
4QQMB 2MB .£299 80QMB 2MB £399
40QMB4MB .£349 8DQMB4MB £449
4DQMB 8MB .£429 80QMB 8MB .£539
Nexus Hard Card
Up to 8MB RAM on-board
lare £129
OQMBOMB £2 4 9 80QMB0MB £349
00MB 2MB £299 8QQMB 2MB .£399
QQMB 4MB .£349 8QQMB 4MB .£449
0QMB8MB ,£4 2 9 80QMBBMB £539
Bare SCSI Hard Drive
40 Quantum £179 80 Quantum £229
1 Suita hie for GVP G-Fi>rca, GVP HO or Nexus Hfl
Other Sizes of HD available. please call
RAM Expansion
Aries A1500/A2000 RAM
2MB .......
4MB
£129 6MB
£169 8MB
£209
£249
'3
AfVlax-ll Plus
Amiga 1500 and above
Runs Mac software
Runs System 7
Full support for all SCSI Mac
peripherals and the ability to read Mac
disks in your drives
' 68020/68030 compatible
i AppleTalk emulation
> Can use Amiga ECS
' Easy to install
AMax-ll Plus ....
I Mar ROM chips required)
Opal Vision
* 24-bit graphic card jdffTjk
» 16.8 million colours available 'Ajjr
* Operates in all standard Amiga .
resolutions
■ VLSI Microcode graphics co processor
■ Double buffered 24-bit and 15-bit
animation is available in all resolutions
■ Palatte-mapped' 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 for NTSC or PAL
* Available for all Amigas
Macintosh Emulator
"This realty is the best emula-
tor we've seen for the Amiga, It
behaves just as if you really
were using a Mac “
Amiga Format Sept 1992
£229
Software included
OpalPaint
24-bit painting and mage processing
Opal Presents
Presentation program
Control OpalVision images, Amiga
graphics and live video
Includes fades, effects etc.
Many more features
King of Karata
24-bit computer game
Exciting karate competition
Demonstrates OpalVision capabilities
0 pa IVision ....£699
More information available
OpalVision roaster chip available soon
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Monitors
For a monitor of this quality,
the CM8833 is worth every
penny"
Amiga Format Sept 1992
ri
The 4FG is an absolutely
smashing monitor that beats
every competitor "
Amiga Format Sept 1992
Philips C M 8333 Mk2
• With cable
• Available with Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
• On-site maintenance
m
C MU 833 Mk2
£199
NEC Multisync
For use with Flicker Fixers
Very high quality
Built-in degausser
>15'’ Screen
0
Manufactured by Power Computing
123MB on Dne optical disk
Read and write optical disks
40ms running speed
Built-in power supply
High power cooling tan
1 25-way and 50-way SCSI ports
'Thru'port built-in
i SCSI ID switch
' Compatible with maior SCSI controllers
:
128MB optical drive (Internal} £729
12BMB optical drive (Exiernall £999
128MB 3.5‘ optical disk .,.....£39.95 each
SCSI controller card
for A150Q/A20Q0 £129
(Compatible with Amiga, PC, and Mac. A SCSI
controller is required on the Amiga and PC}
Floptical Disk Drive
■ Stores 20MB on one 334" disk
* Cost effective mass storage unit
■ Can be used as a 1.44MB floppy with
Amiga DOS and AM AX
■ AMAX compatible with DMI Mac driver
* Packs an entire back-up onto one floppy
* Additional disks available
■ Internal version for A1 500/2000/3000
* External version for A500
■ SCSI Interlace required
Internal A2Q00 kit ...£289
Internal A3000 kit £289
External AMO kit.,,,., ...£389
A1500 £599
Accelerator
£549
GVP G-Force
■ 68030 accelerator board
• 63882 Maths co processor
• DMA SCSI controller on-board
■ 68000 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
40MHz 4MB RAM
50MHz 4MB RAM
Hard drive mount kit
£529
£759
£1249
£35
Power Computing- France,
NEC Multisync 4FG
lb Bid Voltiarp 3S011, Paris. Frditee. T*l Ml 433S6Z06 (G lines} Fn* Hi 433BDOZ*
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Printers
All printers include cables
and next day delivery
Star Printers
LC200 colour £199
ICZ4-20Q mono £239
LC24-20Q colour £289
Citizen Printer
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Swift 24e £279
includes colour kit and AMI)
Epson Printers
Laser
t PL- 4000
£639
EP.L-4300
£799
tiers
EPL-8100
£1349
729
In
kjet
SQ-870
...£509
999
SQ-H70
£629
each
(132 column printer)
Dot
Matrix
129
LQ-570
£239
SCSI
UQ-107D
£449
Cj
132 del unin printer)
ve
Supra Modems
289
supra Fax Modem Plus ,,,,,>,.,..£129
Supra Fax Modem v32Bis £275
® ^ ® S upr a Modem 24Q0 (External) £75
Supra Modem 2400 Z I plus (Internali £134
Supra 9600 £210'
Miscellaneous
:r
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629
759
249
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Power Mouse „„,£15
Optical Mouse . £29.95
-placement optical mouse mat ..£9.95
1 Maxell disks, optical mouse,
- pstrck .. £45
Maxell multi-colour disks |10) ....£9.95
□PPV disks bulk £POA
-.iator T joystick £35
I ' Tfu d e r 1 jo y stick ... £29.99
Maverick 1 joystick ...£15,99
Python 1 joystick £9,99
-;:‘3che 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
■Text
• Greyscale
■ Colour halftone
■ Colour
The Amiga interface plugs into an
A150Q/A200Q/A30QQ/A4000 expansion slot
with a separate version which connects
to the expansion connector of the
A500/A5Q0+. The A500 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 F
which also supports the greyscale scan-
ner and will be available as an upgrade
to existing users of PowerScan for £15.
Colour PowerScan u3.0 features
* Real-time True-fed 1 scan option in
colour halftone mode
■ Images are stored internally as 1 2-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 be loaded from disk
and edited using PowerScan 3
■ Image size that can he handled is limited
only by the amount of memory available
■ Memory does not have to he chip
memory as in many art packages
■ Images can be saved in various file formats
■ View whole image function
* Scale/rotate/skew image or clipboard by
any amount
■ Crop image
■Cleanup,, 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, dt
any shape can be cut from the main
image
■ The software is compatible with all
Amigas
* Supports Workbench 2 and ECS screen
modes
Colour Power Scan now available
New v3.0 Scan software
PowerScan Colour v3.0 , .,„ tlPr £239
PowerScan Greyscale v3.Q .,.,.£115
PowerScan v3.Q software upgrade ...£15
The Amiga can only display 16 greyscales
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the wortd of the Amiga
can be a wierd and won-
derful ewpefisfice-
The (gfting ot satisfac-
tion at having completed
a game of superb audio^
visual quality, typing and
printing your first letter
with a word processor, or
adding the finishing touches to that PPairn masterpiece
all are unique to what is the most flexible and powerful
home computer in the world.
To reflect the experiences of new owners and begin-
ners who might never have contemplated life after
games, A-nipo Compufr.nc? attempts every year to place an
emphasis on as wide a variety of subjects as possible and
to approach these subjects in a down-to-earth way, thus
welcoming new owners and new readers to our
magazine,
This year, we've gone a Nttfe further than usual. Your
magazine this month includes not only a guide to placing
those first few footsteps on the road to prodirftivity, but
also makes an effort to de-mystify the virus hoodoo,
explain the new AGA chips, which many of you will find
inside your At 200 machines, and we have an in-depth
look at sound samplers, one of the most popular serious
uses of the Arm-ga over the past few years.
UK readers will also find our exclusrve B(hpage book,
yosferfr^ (h? Antiga, designed to help you over the first
few stumbling blocks, and we have the usual array of
quality reviews, games coverage, and shopping guides in
our features, Gamer, and Amiga Market sections respec-
tively,,
Our second disk, containing the sLperb BiSoFt Basic,
allied to a major beginners’' programming series begin-
ning ne»t month, should see many of our readers quickly
become competent and comfortable users of some of the
most advanced technology available on the high street
All this simply goes to prove that there's only one
complete Amiga magaz'ne in Britain, and you're reading
it - Arrvga Cumpu'rjVig! — — ,
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This month we bring you one of the
Amiga's most powerful and easy to use
programming languages , HiSoft Basic ,
which well be supporting from next
month in an extended beginners' pro-
gramming guide .
There's also an invaluable extension for
musical Amos users and the usual collec-
tion of superb shareware games and utili-
ties' including Mouse Impossible t a
Lemmings-style strategy game, and CAG
for those who'd love to produce their own
graphic adventures.
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CDTV roundup
All the best and most exciting CDTV
software gathered together and reviewed...,
S-Express
Two top S-VHS genlocks, Hama and
G-Lock r battle for video mastery
AGA close-up
The new Amiga chip set examined
microscopically in a, warts-and-aSI report
Grabbing with ease
The latest Amiga video digitiser, Vsdi 12,
shows off its talents.^ - .
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First steps
A gentle introduction to the Amiga's myriad ol
useful skills for bpginners and experts alike.,, n.
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Every major piece of sampling hardware
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Reader offer
Save money on the best range of Amiga
books in the business.,
Effortless FX
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the hands of our multi -coloured mechanic.,,
Nasty bugs
The ylti mate viral threat tamed with a bit
of expert help
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Workstation 2
Indispensable, and fully explained
- the Amiga Computing killer disk.
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AS EXCLUSIVELY forecast in last month'*
Amrgo unfavourable currency
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all Amiga packs.
The move is due to come into effect
on lanuary 1, and will Lake the entry-
level A600 back above £100 and the
new A1 200 to over £400,
Like most multi-national firms,
Commodore calculate their British prices
basr-d an the pound to dollar exchange
rate, making allowances for slight
variations.
But since September Lhe pound's
value has sunk over 20 per cent from
around 11 r 9fi to below J1.55 r although
Amiga prices are due to be increased by
less then ten per cent.
The firm had tried to maintain their
price policy by cutting retail margins,
but like many other computer manufac-
turers now say rises are now
inevitable". Commodore's Andrew Ball
by John Butters
said: "Our margins have been adversely
affected since September. lL r s more than
likely that our prices will go up"
And now only an unexpected sterling
recovery can stop the A6GQ rising to 029,
Lhe Wild, Weird k Wicked pack to £379,
and the AoOti Epic pack and standalone
A1 200 to £529.
The A1 200,. however, still remains in a
perfect position to combat any possible
threat from rival manufacturer Atari, when
their 32-bit falcon computer becomes
available.
The 1Mb machine was due to be
released in Britain during September with
a £499 price tag, but as we went to press
had still not appeared with dealers.
Commodore have promised to cut
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Expansion trio on the way
Faster maths
for A1 200
AMERICAN periphef.il manufacturer
Creni Valley Products are set lo release
three new products For the Amiga
Including an internal hard drive and
RAM acceltTdlor card,
Ttve hard drive plugs into lhe AfrDG
and A 1 200 s IDE slot, and has 85Mb nl
storage capacity, Supplied with appro-
priate utilities software, it costs 099.
And A 1 200 users can iriso Increase
the speed and memory of their com
puiers with a new 68Q30EC RAM accel-
erator card, running at 40MTL.
The £199 card will make AmlyaS run
about lour limes I aster than normal,
and has a do! for a maths co processor,
Between two arid 12Mb of hi speed
memory can be added.
No prices were av ad able for the
memory, although an Industry expert
said loMh SIMMS like those used in
the expansion are "seriously
expensive''
The third expansion horn GVP will
give the A 1200 a SCSI interface, a slot
lor a maths co processor and up lea
8Mb of extra memory.
Supplied with 4Mh of 12 bit fast
RAM, the board will cost £199
"Once Again GVP have come to the
aid of Amiga ui*rs, pushing the bound
a firs of Amiga technology ever For-
ward/' said a spokesman for UK
distributor Silica Systems.
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r, for the Hr si time home users can
have a 12- bit true colour home com
puter with workstation performance at
a price everybody can afford,"
Silica Systems can be telephoned on
081 309 tilt.
MlCRGBOTICS MBX 1200 Is an A12C
upgrade, giving owners a Motorola floats
point unit and up to 8Mb of fast RAM,
fitting onto the A 1 200's internal expand
connector, the board is claimed to speed t
floating point operations by up to 55 tin
that of the standard machine.
Those who will see most benefit from
board are users of memory and maths-inte
sive applications such as animation, ray-tra
mg, morphing, scientific calculation ar
image processing.
It is made by Texas-based MitroBolics [O'
1 214 417 5330), but is available in Bnta
from First Computer Centre (0532 11 9444)
- Sterling prices were unavailable at the t?n
of going to press, although in the States ti
board sells far SI 89 without memory.
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Epilepsy
warnings played
down
M1BH doctors have played down warnings
taw two leading games console manufac-
turers and scares in national newspapers
: r r patterns used in video games
i trigger epileptic fits.
Iristnictiom supplied with Sega's Sonic 2
lj. that ^he video game may induce an
epdeptk seizure, and advises players to dis-
continye use 4 they feel certain conditions.
Sega say they issued the warnings to pro-
tect Themsetv« against possible legal action,
although the firm were unaware of cases of
epileptic fits being caused by games.
Similar advice to Nintendo customers was
: . en after one or two isolated incidents, a
ipokesiTian said.
But experts stress that games cannot
. ause epilepsy in people not affected by the
condition, although they admit that light
■ ashes in games played on some television
sets could trigger fits.
Sue Cooper, spokeswomen for the British
: p epsy Association, said that there are up
?o 350,000 British epilepsy sufferers but
■ 3 s*r than 10,000 are sensitive to flashing
tights.
'If s such a small proportion of sufferers
that we don't consider it a problem/ said
Sue She advised parents not to be put off
buying video games lor their children.
Children learn
with graphics
HiLDREN between two and 12 years old
m targeted For Childsplay, a new educa-
1 c nal wordprocessor which can also be used
i J creating puzzles and graphical ideas.
Developed by Helios Software (0623
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• GRADES could soon be available to
enable owners of 32-bit Amigas such
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A leading American developer is
•Jieved to be working on the device
i conjunction with Commodore,
chough it is not known whether a
working board yet exists. Details
main sketchy but we will give you
more information as it becomes
pliable.
News
Amiga hits the airwaves
THE world's first weekly radio show dedicated exclusively to Amiga enthusiasts is now
broadcast across Europe every Tuesday on satellite station Euronet.
Available to 33 million homes with normal satellite receivers, Mouse Trap is a 30
minute programme oF news, reviews and opinion on ail things related to the Amiga.
II is the brainchild of television and radio broadcaster Chris Denning - who himself
owns two Amlgas - and will feature erstwhile Amiga Computing technical editor (eff
Walker.
The First programme in mid-December discussed the A4QQQ and contained an explana-
tion of ISDN, the state-of-the-art service which allows video to be sent down telephone
lines.
It is planned to fun for at least two months, and providing the audience builds to a
respectable level it will continue indefinitely.
Chris says one of Mouse Trap's main strengths will be its ability to launch Amiga prod-
ucts in every European country
simultaneously.
"We've had availability of air-time
tor quite a while;" says Chris, "At the
moment it r s used mainly for music, but
we have found specialist shows work
better on Sky/'
"Mouse Trap feels more like a bul-
letin b&ard than a radio show, and we
envisage phone-ins with experts once
it becomes established "
Transmitted at 9.30am,, it is
repeated at 5.30pm and Wednesday
morning at 1.30am.
How to receive
Mouse Trap
• Tune your satellite receiver into Aifrcr
Transponder 20 (Sky 5 port*)
* Comutt your satellite receiver's manual for
fiistracfwns on how lo change audio channel s
# Tune in to audio channel 7J6MHz.
# if your satellite receiver is connected to your
audio amplifier , turn your television set off
oncf your amp on.
554826), colourful graphics cart be mixed
with text, and a dual-layered display enables
letters to be overlaid onto a graphical
backdrop.
Text is entered into the word processor
through the keyboard and various Facilities
are available for inserting and deleting indi-
vidual letters or blocks of text.
Whole texts or single tetters and words
can then be recited using three voices con-
tained in a computer speech facility.
Other features include the ability to alter
or supplement the program’s gfaphics, and
a scrolling list of words that can be selected
to allow progressive introduction to new
vocabulary.
And the wordpratessor doubles up as a
jigsaw puzzle. Full pictures can be used as a
backdrop, over which kids may be taught to
assemble jumbled set of blocks.
"Childsplay has an exceltent flexibility of
design which allows a parent or teacher to
constantly recreate LFie program to keep
pace with the learning process of the child/
said a Helios spokesperson.
"It's immediately enjoyable, and even the
smallest children can play with it creatively
without any instruction. The program really
excels, however, as a means for parents or
teacher to provide children with progressive
creative activities and puzzles."
Available now, Childsplay costs £24,95.
Extra choice
for CD-ROM
A RANGE of CDTV-compatible CD-ROM
drives has just been launched fo t most
Amigas by Almathera Systems (08 1-636
6418). Based on Toshiba SCSI CD drives,
they are claimed to operate twice as fast as
the CDTV and be more than 90 per cent
compatible with CD-based Amiga software,
They enable A5Q0 users to use compact
discs without unplugging hard disks like
the A590, and owner* of A 1 5 00s. A2t)00s
and A 3000s can also use the drives.
Three CDs are included in the pack,
among them Almathera's CD PD public
domain collection featuring Fred Fish dtsta
one to 660.
Prices are £395 for an internal kit and
£495 for an external mocteE Supplied with
a SCSI card, the drives cost an extra £ l 00-
Hard drives to
go inside
INTERNAL hard disk drives with between
20 and 120Mb of storage capacity are now
available for the A600 and A12Q0 from
Bradford-based Trilogic (0224 691 1 15).
A connecting cable is supplied and the
disks tit straight inLo the Amiga's hard drive
slot. Each is formatted ready to use and can
be re-partitioned if required.
Tri logic claim the drives havE a "very
fast" access time and are quiet in use.
Prices start at £1 19.99 for the 20Mb
model, and range up to £349.99 For
120Mb.
Adorage adds
video effects
GERMAN video effects software Adorage is
now available to British Amiga users From
MkroPace (0753 551886).
The package enables users to create
many digital-like videa effects for IFF graph-
ics, as developed with paint packages such
as Deluxe Paint IV.
It has more than 700 effects based on
transitions, wipes and visual graphics, and
features the Super Smooth Animation for-
mat, cutting jitter when complex anima-
tions are played back. Standard effects
include mosaic, splinter, shatter, windmill
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Shareware form eases registration
SUBSCRIBERS to CompuServe, the giant on-line information service, can now register for
shareware programs through their modems.
By completing an on-line form, users can register tor programs and have the charge
billed to their account. CompuServe then forwards the fee minus a small charge - to the
author.
in addition to convenience, the service eliminates currency exchange problems found
by shareware users who live in a different country than the author.
By typing a keyword such as Utilities or Carnes, users can vrew a list of programs by cat-
egory, enabling them to easily find programs that suit their needs,
Jl Shareware authors who make their programs available in CompuServe forums will be
encouraged to submit their programs to the registration database/' said CompuServe's
Martin Turner,
"Several hundred programs have already been submitted to the database, which is
updated on a continuing basis." CompuServe can be telephoned on 0800 2893 7 B.
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News flashes
• ROM* can now be bought tor Apple
Macintosh emulator* from Design by
DiicGrete (0202 604104). The Poole-
based film sells Mm Plus 128k chips far
£140 and all Mac II and LC ROM* for
£303.1 5.
• THE lirst in a chain of future Zone
computer games stores was opened in
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
recently, and there are already plans for
a nationwide network of 1 30 shops.
Famborough and Aberdeen will see
the next stores and in each town where
Future Zone opens there will be a mas-
sive publicity drive.
• SKY ONE are set to become the latest
station to broadcast a games show, with
a programme called The Game Zone
due to be shown every weekday from
March,
The show will he produced by
Hewland International, the same firm
that makes Channel 4's existing
Camesmaster, Each show will have its
own theme such as cheats or new
releases.
• LEEDS-based computer dealer First
Choice Computers have been renamed
First Computer Centre (0532 319444).
The move follows the introduction of a
larger product range and service.
• MOTOROLA are to extend their
68000 senes of microprocessors with the
release of a 68060 chip by the end ol
1993. It is claimed that the processor will
run at 100 millions af Instructions per
second.
# GREMLINS struck November's review
of the Order v2 da La base, South Hams
Software's telephone number should be
0752 8B0906 and we apologise to oor
readers for the mistake.
# THE A300Q and Opal Vision competi-
tion published in last month's Amigo
Computing was sponsored by Calculus
Stores (0543 251275), and not the firm
previously mentioned. The second part
□( the competition appears this month.
# CARRYING cases now available for
A6 DQs have enough space lor peripherals
and disks to be packed with the
computer.
The grey holdall are padded and fea-
ture Velcro fasteners, shoulder straps and
rubber feet, Price: 04.95 from Silica
Systems (08 V3f>9 1111).
Epson improve their scanning
He MARKETING (0753 6BGOOG) have been appointed as a distributor for Epson's GT650G
colour A4 ftatbed scanner - the successor to ttw CTGQOO.
Using driver software from A5DG, images can be scanned into any Amiga for incorpq-
rating into desktop publishing or desktop video applications.
!lt has a colour output resolution of up to 1,700 dots per inch, and can also handle line
art, and 256 greyscale images for mono work and computer-aided design.
The £93S scanner also has an optional sheet feeder for bulk optical character recogni-
tion work and can use an
adaptor lor scanning
transparencies and reflec-
tive materials.
Said Epson's Tony
Petford: "We encourage
customers to question the
logic of buying a mono
scanner when they can
have a quality colour scan-
ner with comparable
mono capabilities at a sim-
ilar price.*’
Meanwhile, ASDG (010
1 608 273 65S5) have
announced that their latest
Epson scanner driver now
supports two extra colour
machines - tfie ES600C
and ESSiJQC.
>
and page- peel and the distributor recom-
mends the program is run on machines
with 2Mb of memory.
Supplied with English documentation,
Adorage costs £79.99.
Book gives
Amos tips
IDEAS, lips and inside Information on
how to get the best results from Amos
are contained In a new book just pub-
lished by Kuma Computers (0734
844339).
Amos Jn Attim also contains details
and opinions on the add-on packages
available for the top Amiga program-
ming language, and advice on getting
yout games published.
The book was written by programmer
Len Tucker and is supplied with a
coupon Lo enahle readers to obtain a
free games disk. Prices £12.95 (ISBN
07457 0221 X),
Growing with
AmigaDOS
EXTRA pages have been added to
Mastering AmigoPQS Wjfume One ■„ Btuce
Smith Books' (0923 894355) guide to
the Amiga's operating system.
New chapters include Commodities,
and Fountain and Pipes, and other
revisions bring the book up to date with
the latest versions of AmigaDOS.
Written by Bruce Smith and Mark
Smiddy, the 4 16-page book keeps it*
£21,95 price tag, Its ISBN number is
1 -373308-1 0-S. ’
GTGSQO- Cpaijft'f sufEoirf to f-he CT^WD
Utilities grow
for video card
SOFTWARE supplied with leading multi-
purpose video card 1V24 is soon Lo be
upgraded, and an extra two programs will
be included with the package.
New utilities will include a dedicated
frame grabber called Mylcid, and Digital
Darkroom, an effects package for produc-
ing wipes, fades and transitions.
Paint program Macro Paint, meanwhile,
is promised several new features, and wi i
run much faster.
Silica Systems (001-309 1 1 1 1 ) have not
finalised upgrade details, but they will
appear in our Updates pages once they
are released.
Watch and learn
A VIDEO just launched by Manchester-
based Crystal Concepts (0942 523 307
aims to teach newcomers to modem com-
munications how to get started. The one-
>
Cheaper drives for CDTV
CALCULUS Computer Stores (0543 251275) are offering CDTV owner* Datapac 65Mb
external hard disk drives at a special launch price of £349.99,
Housed in a black impact resistan t box, the front panel ha* power on and hard drive
access indicators , At the back there are two SCSf socket* - one of them for daisy chain-
ing up to seven 5C51 devices - a device number selector and power on/ott switch.
The drive is supplied with an Encore SCSI controller and installation disk, a SCSI con-
nector cable for linking Datapac to the CDTV and Workbench 1 .3 disks.
DfafCMinEnf
hard 1 drivef far
CDTV
Naked mice
roam the City
TH| latest craze in the City s foreign
enchange dealing rooms are see-
through mice, claims manufacturer
Spectravideo (081-902 2211),
The company says that television
coverage during the recent ERM crisis
showed naked rodents on dealers
desks, and now they have added an
Amiga model to their Datahjx r^nge.
It has enlarged trigger buttons, and
k claimed to have a high degree of
sensitivity, accuracy and smoothness.
Price: £22 99,
Cteor m K f - rtSi" lokir (niif fcWfft
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size of the
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Joystick comes from outer space
CHEETAH (02 22 8967777} have unveiled Argotfick, the latest
member of their Euturi Stick range of Amiga joysticks.
It has been designed so that ee resembles machinery you
would expect to see roaming the far-away land of some forbid-
den planet light years, into Lbe future.
However, it retains all usual joystick features,, including auto-
matic fire and several Nee buttons.
"The shape and texture has been carefully sculptured to pro-
vide ultimate comfort and control for the most serious games
players/ 1 said a Cheetah spokesperson.
"Cheetah's attention to detail is highly respected in the mar-
ket place, but even the company's biggest fans will enthgsE
over the Arggstick/ 1
Two versions of the joystick are available, une costing £1 2.99
and a microswitch model with a £14.99 price tag.
Argottkii - foam
far trW&y foeidf
>
hour video shows beginners how to ^et up
software, how to download files from, bul-
letin boards, and flow to get tbe best from
the boards, once they have logged on.
It A\io says which archivers will get the
downloaded files up and running, and
contains 150 bulletin board telephone
numbers and four software titles.
These include N Cam m 2 . SID, PKAzip
and LHArc, already seL up and ready to
run. A three-month free subscription is
also available with one of Britain's leading
bulletin boards. Crystal Concept boss Mr
Cubes fill with disks
TWO new low-cdSt 3. Sin disk storage systems are now available from Action Computer
Supplies (071-586 3429).
Offioedata Micro 15 is a cube which can hold up to 15 disks, it can be pushed from
a cube to sLaircase design, a Hawing disks to be selected easily, A pack of six cubes costs
£19.95.
The more conventional Officedala Datafile 10 ts an easel-opening storage bo* which
holds up to ten disks. It costs £22.95 for a pack o f eight boxes.
Meanwhile, Sony have developed a 3.5in floppy disk which they claim reduces drive
power consumption by up to 20 per cent. The disks are aimed at laptop users.
Mirrn 15 - tiThAj form O JftrfFTPM? design-
Blundell, *aid; ,r We believe that with this
package it is now possible for someone
with absolutely -no experience whatever Lo
get into tomms.
'They will be saved the hassle and frus-
tration most beginners experience when
logging on to boards," Price: £28.95.
Zone kelp opens
A LEADING distributor of Amiga music
equipment have now opened up their
technical support lines tor all musicians.
Non-Zone Distribution (Q71-73B 5444)
customers will be asked to pay a small
registration fee, but they will then be
offered unbiased technical and buying
advice. ■
Technical help
found online
TECHNICAL advice is now offered free to
Silica Systems (081-309 1111) customers
through a bulletin board just set up by tbe
firm.
Mailboys are available tor many types
of popular computer including the Amiga,
and technical support staff monitor the
board frequently during the day.
In addition to finding answers to tech-
nical problems, the system can also be
used for downloading latest software
upgrades such as printer drivers and pub-
lic domain programs.
It operates 24 hours a day, and the
dealer are currently looking at ways of set-
ting up an online ordering service.
JI We are continuously looking for ways
to improve our support and service to our
customers, " said Silica spokesman Andy
Leaning.
*We have offered telephone and fan
support for some time and this new bul-
letin board extends the service further."
To access the Silica bulletin board at up
to 2,400 baud, modem users should dial
031-309 5255, The protocols are 8 N 1.
DO YOU KNOW
SOMETHING
WE DON’T?
Although Amiga Computing has
scores of contacts in the Amiga
world we need you, If you have
some hot news ring John Butters
on the news desk now on 0625
S788B8 or fax to 0625 879966. All
information supplied will be
treated in the strictest of
confidence.
DIARY DATES
19 to 21 February 1993
7th International Computer Shaw
Organiser; Westminster Exhibitions
(081-549 3444)
Venae: Wembley, London
An Amiga Compwtfrflj-spansored all
formats event,
25 lo 28 March 1993
(deal Electronic Comes Shaw
Organiser: Ideal Home Exhibition
(061-432 2642)
Venue: Earls Court, London
A new section added to the Ideal
Home Exhibition.
4 to 6 April 1993
European Computer Trade Shew
Organiser: Blenheim
(081-742 2828)
Venue: Business Design Centre,
(London
New software and hardware is pre-
viewed to the industry- No public
admission,
23 to 25 April 199}
Midi Musit 5how
Organiser: Westminster Exhibitions
(081-549 3444)
Venues Wembley Exhibition Centre
Catch up with the latest Midi
products.
16 to 20 September 1993
Live '93
Organiser; News International
( 071-782 6000)
Venue: Olympia, London
A public consumer electronics
show. Commodore plan to attend,
OVERSEAS
7 to 10 January 1993
Consumer Electronics Show
Organiser: (010 1 202 4578700)
Venue: las Vegas, USA
Support from Commodore and
leading games houses.
24 to 31 March 1993
, Oft:
Organiser: Deutsche Messe
(010 49 511890)
Venue: Hanover, Germany
A massive electronics show which
has been used for the launch of
many new products including the
A600.
• If your company is organising a
show relevant to the Amiga and it's
not Jisted, let us know so we con
include the information in the diary.
Amiga Computing February ? 993
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USA news
N orth American Amigans lusting
after Commodore's new A1240
could flirt with the machine,
but not take it home, at the Worfd pf
Commodore-Amiga show held in Toronto,
Ontario on December 4 Id 6, 1 992.
The Amiga 1200 was on display in a
number of dealer's booths, but wain! yet
available for sale, Commodore wa*
promising machines for the US before
Christmas, but couldn't commit to a 1992
release in Canada,
Interestingly, it seems that Canadian
Al200s will have the UK-style keyboard
with the small Return key and two blank
keys, white the US machines will have key-
board wifth full-sized Left Shift and Return
keys and no blanks. It r s unusual for the
two countries to end up with different
configurations.
The crowd was a bit smaller and more
subdued compared than in past years,
which is unusual given Commodore's new
releases and the increased attendance at
US shows this year. The exhibitors were
enthusiastic, though, and were happily
showing pff their wares.
Hot stuff
There weren't many completely new
products, as most manufacturers had at
least previewed their new programs at the
World of Commodore show in Pasadena
earlier this year Hj but there was some hot
stuff on display.
One of the big hits of the show was
Digital Creations J Brilliance, the 24 -bit
paint program. Brilliance supports all AGA
screen modes and stores data in 24-bits
internally.
This means you can load in a 24-bit
picture and touch it up, even on a classic
ECS Amiga, and not lose any colour inlor-
Whats New
mation or detail. The
company had just got
the HAMS version of the
program up and running
for the show, so it looked
like they were going to
miss their December ship
date.
It should be available soon after you
read this, though, if it's not already.
Gold Disk was showing the new
Professional Page 4.0, which was almost
complete. Along with 256-colour screen
support on AGA Amigas, this update also
adds a font previewer, visual letter-pair
kerning, a free paint program (the creators
of DPaint and Brilliance need not feel
threatened), a page-sorter, and a number
of new Genies {special Pro Page A Rex*
macros)*
ProPage has got a bit better at talking tg
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Denny Atkin reports
on the latest
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modules and a much
wider range of graphics
import filters including
GIF, TIF, PCX, BMP,
Adobe Illustrator, Aldus
freehand, and of course
IFF and Professional
Draw. The price is still
E295, and the upgrade fee to v4.0 is J75
US.
INOVAfcromts demonstrated Directory
Opus v4.0, a vastly improved version of
their popular directory utility. It had better
be improved, as the retail price has umped
up to %99 f with a 140 upgrade fee from
previous versions (more than some people
paid for their original version!).
Along with a new,, cleaner interface,
Directory Opus v4.Q now supports AC A
screen modes (for both running the pro-
gram and displaying pictures);
Noise tracker, SoundTracker,, Protracker,,
Vista gets more colourful sunsets
A long awaited upgrade lo VlilaFTo U getting ready lo vhlp
IroiTi Virtual Reality Labor j lories |m I he <oiTip4f1p provided
me with a hr Ik! vtrslon to preview fur this column, and ii
looks hoi (check out I he accompany trig ittetnrwhols),
VisMPfn 1,0 will now render pictures in 2 So colour or
HAMH modes an the Amiga 1200 and 4000. Support has also
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supported,)
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logs and roads on your landscape, as well as tree! and grass.
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when you uq your camera view very close to a small patch of
terrain The cloud generation In VhiaPro 3,0 makes for more
realistic scenes you can now generate clouds randomly, as
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Admit picture rendering is much taster, as several critical
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MED (with Midi!), Oktalyzer, BSVX, a
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Soft-Logik is finally shipping A
Expression, their structured drawing p
gram that supports EP5, ProDraw, an
DR2D formats. Over three years in th
making, the program is well worth th
wait, and promises to bring new flexibi-i
to Amiga graphic artists.
The company also showed their nc
TypeSmith program^ an outline font edit
that supports PostScript type 1, Soft-'
DMf, and Compugraphic Intel Wonts.
No longer are you limited Lo using
font with one program and having ro
□ut and buy the same font in a ditte
format (or use with another TypeS mi
wifi easily convert between all the formats
supports.
It will even let you load in Amiga bitr
fonts or IFF pictures and trace over them!
full set of drawing tools and automat
kerning features will delight the deskt
typographer.
Look for some great PD and sharewa
fonts after TypeSmith hits the market
January at a suggested retail price
SI 99,95.
Rumours
Commodore's Lew Eggebrecht spil
the beans on new chipset devetopmen
whetting Amiga users' appetites for h
24-bit machines (see my Pasadena sh
report for more details).
Even mare interesting, though, we
rumoured products that were suppo
discussed in more private settings b
Commodore representatives. There w
talk of the already-known 5CSI-IS control
for the A4GQ0 and the AT&T DSP modu
which are apparently sEt Lo ship in the li
quarter of 199 3, but even more interesti:
were rumours of both a 6S030 and le
expensive 6SECQ30 model of the Ami
400b that would appear early next ye
along with the A4G0Q tower
■ These machines could be j ust the Lh;
for folks who want more power than r
AI2O0 can provide but who can't Foot
bil for an A4000/04G,
Other interesting rumours included
PCMCIA 386SX emulator for the A60Q a
A1200 developed by a third- party in
operation with CBM, lull- motion video
ware for the Amiga operating system,
future support of the Kodak Phato C
formal.
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I n the vast Amiga world out there are
quiet a few versions of Basic, but
none quiet as easy to use and power-
ful as HiSoft Basic. One of the main advan-
tages of Basic is its easy to understand
commands which makes programming
much more simple.
Unfortunately, though, most Basics are
extremely slow. This is due to the fact that
the computer has to turn each command
in Basic mLo something which K under-
stands before it can move to the next
command in the program.
This process slows it down a consider-
able amount, so to get a Basic program to
work at a more reasonable speed it has to
be turned into something which the com-
puter can understand more easily, which
in turn Will speed jp the Amiga's running
□f initially Basic programs.
Compiling
The process of converting basic pro-
grams into something which the com-
puter understands is called compiling,
HiSoft Basic has two main programs -
HiSolT Basic, which is the integrated editor
and compiler, and HB. Compiler, which is
the compiler itself (required by the editor).
When you want to start programming
you only need to load the HiSoft Basic
program and not the HEkcompiFer. This is
because when you program with HiSoft it
always compiles the program for you and
then runs it. This makes HiSoft one of the
fastest Basic programming packages
around.
To use HiSoft Basic you have to reset
your Amiga and place the CoverDisk
which contains HiSoft in the disk drive - it
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will auto-boot. Once loaded, click on the
HiSoft Basic Editor icon, which is mam
part of the program.
Once loaded you are presented with
the main editing area which at the
moment is blank, If you now hold down
your right mouse button you will see sev-
eral menus appear at the top of the
screen.
One of the main advantages of HiSoft is
its compatibility with other Basic packages,
This means that you can load., say, an
Amiga Basic program into HiSoft and com-
pile and run it This also means you can
export HiSoft programs into most othed
Basic packages.
HiSoft is compatible with all A m i cj . = ■ =
with Kkkstart 1.Z or higher. Obviously the
more memory you have the easier pro
gram min g will be - it is also handy v
have an extra disk drive but this is not
essential.
There are four poll-down menus site
gether which are Project, Search, Options
and Program. Hi Soft acts rather like j
wordprocessar enabling you to edit yCM./
programs with ease.
Fast
We wilt now load one of the demos on
the CoverDisk to see how easy it is and
how fast HiSoft really is. first of all pui ■
down the Project menu and select the
Load option. You will then be presented!
with the file requester. Click on tii?
demos drawer and then double click on
the triangles.bas file.
You will now have a program called r r
C overDisl
n:m This program when
■ft «■£ draw coloured triangles to make
parrt^i - you now pull down the
fr-ugr* *nu and select Run, HiSofL will
(W i- *'■ ingles* and then run it. To
•■o f |u£ press the Esc button and you
it nr um ed to the listing.
1 * notice how fast this program
ftft* ■ you were to bad the same pro-
A i^iga Basic it would run con-
lOr^jr, skiver,
l ft®*en yOtl load certain programs you
*%a* jrt an error telling you that the text
ftLftr s not large enough for the pro-
^re trying to I gad. This does
p -r-t mean you have fun out of memory,
rf at the standard preset of 10,000
“M r . not large enough.
* mj cm set the text buffer by pulling
to* ’ the Options menu and selecting
tau can then type in the amount
: n to reserve For the buffer.
Buffer
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* ■ . already have a program in memory
ir ave run out of text buffer space, you
m* r save your program before trying to
*■» - .^e the buffer, as changing the text
t r sire will dear the memory and you
mw lose your program. You must leave at
Iftfe&i 1 00k for the system to operate in.
As mentioned earlier, HiSoft's main
-a milage is its ability to compile Basic
prt ir aims to make them run much faster.
*■ you have a Basic program loaded and
wish to compile it, you can do this in
ft* ways. To compile something, go to
ttte Program menu and select Compile,
fcu will then be asked if you want to
a rnpile to disk or memory,
If you select Compile To Memory, it
compile the program and allow you
1 ■ .n it, This is the quickest way to com-
ply something, and it is also ideal for try-
ing things out and debugging programs.
When you select Compile To Disk,
H ' ft Basic will compile the program and
it to disk. If you have not previously
5 • d the program, HrSof t will call it
MON AWE. The compiled version will have
the extension ,bas T
When you have compiled a program to
disk it becomes a standalone program
which you can then run by double click-
ing on its icon from Workbench, but the
program will need the hisoftbasic. library
file to run.
Whenever you're doing any type of
work with your computer it is a good
practice to save out regularly, but more SO
when doing programming as the com-
puter tends to crash more often if you
haven^t de- bugged your program prop-
erly, Regular saving of your work will save
you a lot df typing?
If you are writing a new program which
when run puts up a error message. HiSaft
will ask you if you wish to continue run-
ning the program, Until you are familiar
with Hi Soft Bask you should reply with N,
then go to the line which Hi Soft tells you
the problem is in and rectify it.
To get the most out of HiSoft Basic you
should take advantage of our reader man-
ual offer in this issue. With the manual you
also get a version of Hi Soft Basic specifically
designed for 1Mb Amigas enabling you to
use some more advanced features.
ParCheese
Author: Xavier Egusqmea
This game is a cross between Frustration
and Luda The main idea is to get all of
your markers safely around the board to
your home base.
You can play with up to three other
playere or against the computer. Before you
start you have to pull down the Players
menu and select which colour you wish to
be, then select who you want to play. If
yog select the computer you must also
select which level you wish to play the
computer on and what colour the com-
puter is. The computer can play For several
opponents. Once you have selected who's
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Mouse Impossible
Author: Steve Holt
Mouse Impossible is a Lemmings-style game where the main object is to stop the
mouse from stealing your cheese. This may sound a simple task but It's definitely not.
There are a total of 30 levels for you to try to complete and with each level the task
becomes harder and harder. Once Mouse Impossible is loaded, saving your cheese is
the name of the game.
A mouse will try to float down to your cheese and steal it using a bunch of balloons.
Once he has the cheese, a cannon starts to fire across the screen and you have to put
various obstacles in the cannon's way to deflect the shots towards the mouse, making
him drop the cheese,
When the mouse begins his descent you must place obstacles in the path of the
cannon. You can only place the obstacles while the mouse is descending, so it's best
to think about the level before trying it.
You place the obstacles, which are on the right edge of the screen, by clicking on
them with your left mouse button then putting them where you think they should be,
finally clicking the left moose button again.
While you are holding the obstacle you can dick the right mouse button to turn it
around - this makes the obstacle deflect the cannon's shots differently.
When you complete each level you are given an end-qhlevel code, so when you
play the game again you don't have to do the levels which you've already done
before.
This game requires some skill in judging where to put the obstacles and the best
bet is to study the level hard first, and try turning some of the obstacles over to see
what effect they have on the cannon's shots.
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playing and what colours they're using, it J s
time to start the game, so pull down the
project menu and select Start.
The computer will then ask the player
who is to go first - click the mouse button
to roll: the dice. You can't start to move
your players until you roll a six.
When you've managed to roll a 31 * you
can then select which one of your men Is
about, to start his trip home,, then you
roll the dice again to see how far your
man is to move.
If you roll a six you can move six
plates then roil again, but if you get a six
three times of more then one of your
men must go back to the beginning and
start again.
If your opponent lands on one of your
men then that man must return back to
the beginning and wait until another six
is thrown before starting again., The aim
is to be the first to get all his men home.
CAG
D-Sam
Author: AZ Software
D-Sam is an extension for Amos, giving you an extra 46 sound-related commands.
Before you can use these extra commands you have to install them into Amos, which is
a very simple procedure - just follow these instructions:
* Copy (he file W D-Sam.!ib" to your Amos system directory
# Run the Con fig J .3. Amos program from Amos
4 Load the default configuration
§ Set loaded extension number 15 to ■ M :Amos_System/D-Sam,lib^
m Select Save configuration menu
The D-Sam Jib is in the Utilities, -D-Sam drawer. Once you have followed these simple
steps you will have the 46 new commands built in to Amos. The new commands are all
designed to make it easier for you to create programs using music and samples.
With the extra D-Sam commands fitted into your copy of Amos you can play back
samples and music directly from floppy or hand disk, which enables you to save mem-
ory, or you can load the samples into memory first then play them back.
To start using D-Sam you only need to team five commands:
5MP OPEN csarnplenum>,< M filename's
(samplenum is valid between 0 and
65,535)
Opens IFF or RAW samples for playback
direct from disk file.
SMP LOAD < 5 amplenum> F <'filename J, >
(samplenum is valid between 0 and
65,535)
Loads IFF or RAW samples from an
ArmgaDOS file to memory. The file must
exist, ie be lockable, and capable of
supporting a seek() call.
SMP PLAY ^samplemjm>,<channels>
(channel is valid between 1 and 15]
This plays a sample (num) on the channels
specified.
SMP CLOSE <samplenum>
(samplenum is valid between 0 and
65,535]
SMP RESET Stops alt channel playing,
frees all channels and closes all opened
samples.
Once you have [Earned these commands, you would be well advised to take advan-
tage of our-spedal manual offer and start learning and using the more powerful com
mands D-Sam has to offer.
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Author: Marco AG Pinto
CAG is a utility for making your own
adventure games. This may sound compli-
cated but it's actually quiet easy, assuming
you've sat and planned your adventure
out first - this stops you getting in a mud-
dle later on.
Included in the CAG drawer is full doc-
umentation on haw to use CAC. There are
also some demos for you to look at. If you
get stuck just take a peek at the examples.
Note that although there is a menu for
sound, this is not supported as yet.
Author: Paul Overaa
MidiFlayer is a CLI command used for
playing standard Midi files out to your
Midi instruments without the need to toad
a Midi sequencer. It can be used in your
startup sequence to play your favourite
compositions every time you reboot your
machine.
To use MidiPlayer just type in:
lidlPLijer path :&opg^aie
If you use it in your startup sequence then
you must type it in as follows.
run >irtl: *nil: i i d : p L a ye ;■ j)jfh:spsigna*B
Degrader
Author: Chris Hames
Degrader is a special software utility to
help people with Workbench 2.0 compati-
bility problems. It temporary degrades a
WorkBench 2.0 machine to a 1.3 to
enable you to use software intended for
use on the 1.3 machines.
When degrader is used it will only
degrade the machine until it is reset more
than once, so gnee yau have reset you
machine more than once it will return to
its original \VorkBend~i2.0 status.
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Please remember that many of the
gram distributed on the Am
Computing C overDisk are sharew
releases. This means that the au(h
have kindly allowed you r the reader,
sample the program before paying for
If you decide to keep a program
intend to use it regularly r you sh<
register as a shareware user with
author. Full details on how to rega“
can befoundn where appropriate, in
on-disk documentation.
Shareware authors,, if they dc^l
receive enough registrations, will evt
ally stop releasing programs to the
lie, which would dry up an in dispense
supply of superb software. Keep
faith, and keep sending those fivers!
Tune of the montl
Author: Torch
This month's tune, Duelling bam
can be heard by either double did
on Us icon or selecting it from tl
shortcut menu. Once started the U
will run in the background leaving
to do something else, maybe a bit
painting in D Paint.,,
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Y ou can now buy a CD-ROM drive
(or your Amiga and use the grow-
ing range ol CDTV software that
is available. But why should you part with
approaching £300 anyway? What can you
do with it? Are the CDs now available
worth handing over your hard earned dosh
for?
To answer to these questions I locked
myself in a room, plugged in my trusty
Amiga with attached A57Q and examined
some of the growing tangE ol CDT\ titles.
A Bun for Barney *£29.99
BBC Multimedia
1 his is a great advert for CDTV, In its raw
form - without any interaction - it is a fairly
Simple Story (or children tasting for around
1 5 minutes.
Even at this level, with its beautifully
drawn pictures, Tom Baker narration and
sweet story line, A Bun for Barney would
keep many young children happy.
But the best it yet to come. As the
pointer is moved around the screen, which
any inquisitive child is bound to do, and
over certain areas of the pictures, it
changes into a magic wand.
Press the button at this point and the
pictures spring into life with bunnies thal
jump out and dance, (nogs thaL leap and
trees thaL sway. A definite trendsetter and
one which all prospective CDTV developers
should take a look at!
Advanced Military Systems
£29.99 • Dominion
Most us, speaking from a masculine point
of view, go through a period of being fasci-
nated with guns, tanks and weapons. For
Writing
Katakana
Mrs i ohnson b c l
tart in Derbyshire
i san wa dabTsha de
ru taruto o rimashita
ji (T pan World b deiifntd to teach iopartwr inietvcthHtiy
a Rnbmrrrv T 993
anyone going through such a
p^fiod this one's a mtibt -
masses of information on the
most deadly and exciting {?>
military hardware in the world.
Combining the world oE
computers and war, two popu-
lar pastimes of a lot of children,
I would guess this is likely to be
a small success!
Alt Dogs go to Heaven • £34.99
Merit Software
A pretty basic painting package which suf-
fers Irom being to simple for its own good,
Very simple in concept, you have a series of
drawings which you then add your own
colour to - the '90s version of painting by
numbers?
Select the colour, move over an area
and then pour the colour into that area. For
small children it's probably quite good, but
lor everyone else it's just too limiting.
Even for children it has the limitation
that there are only so many variations. If
there'd been additional picture disks it
would have had more potential.
into the CDTV
revolution to fini
some good, som
bad and som
ug!
Animals in Motion • £29.99
On-Line
A bit of an odd one this. Why anyone
would want to spend just under £30 to
took at a collection of black and white pic-
tures of animals 1 don't know. However
artist friend ol mine has assured me that
budding animators, illustrators and pani
this collection is invaluable so I gut 5!
£30 it's good value.
Apparently the work ol Eadwe
Muybridge, which this CD is all aboui
trai lb lazing stuff when originally done
still is for artists creating movemerf
animators.
This CD shows his work as stills and
nations and I have to admit that ewn
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’his made me want to try draw-
ve got artistic leanings take a
\{ -VTi
e Chess • £39.99 * Interplay
t oi chess with a difference. Using a
Jf tfie board, you watch as your
^ove around the board - under
auctions -and do battle.
.qh It's another Amiga conversion
I ■ " a great one at that, i! still has a lot
• ■ iy value and plays a reasonable
chess, something to waste away
evenings with,
tf someone would only do a vcr-
re you actually played the game
a Pace's -eye view, and charged
Che board., I think they'd have a far
■ f hit on their hands. But for the time
6-jtde Chess is a good attempt at a
uction to computer chess.
He Storm *£29,99 - Tfiys
k-i T Amiga game perfectly adapted to
T * media. Notf It's a bask arcade
with multi-directional scrolling, lots
m, jussive aliens trying to blow you to
ic which you must react in a like
*• advantage of using this on the
3Tv and pretty standard as arcade
mtt go. Overall boring and
truing.
jse of the Cautious Condor
£34.99 • Tiger Media
te of people have raved about this par-
tide and admittedly it shows what
- done with masses of storage space.
* i simple detective story where you
n solve a murder by wondering
s, listening ro other people's convex
and picking up dues. The graphics
i a there are loads of J em - are f antes-
most real cartoon quality and the
is impressive,
t fortunately I found the depth of
lacking - the only way you are
- r ed from solving the case in the first
a by a time limit (given enough time
Td solve it on your first go). Worth
’•'4 but don't bank on it as a long term
of entertainment
4 Let's face if
fractals can
look pretty
impressive
sometimes...
CD-Remix v2* £29.99
Microdeal
The quickest way Id describe this title is as
a sequencer few CDs. You specify parts of a
music CD which you can then remix, toop-
ingi and repeating them at will
There are a couple of niggles but noth-
ing sqfiouis, ie changeovers are a tittle
rough but these aren't the fault of the CD
software and without some awfully expen-
sive studio equipment there are no easy
answer. ,•
These gripes aside, it's very simple and
sweet CDW application that will give own-
ers hours of enioyabse fun.
Connoisseur Fine Art Collection
£34.99 * Lascelles
Personally I've always wondered just who
buys books with nothing but picture after
picture m them. However someone must
and given that, this disk is quite reasonable.
It's basically a collection of digitised pho-
tos of paintings across time, with explana-
tory text. If you're into this kind of thing,
open your wallet and take your flexible
friend for a walk, you won't regret it.
Of Wellman * £54.99
Digita Multimedia
When? as most of the games reviewed here
started off badly, Dr Wellman started well
and kept up appearances. There are several
different ways of getting to the information
you want, and all well presented.
The software utilises the medium well
with lots of informative text, most of which
is backed up with pictorial support.
To further help and give you confidence
in the product - important given the sub-
ject matter - there is a lot of narration, and
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the voice immediately helps being in a
relaxed but confident manner. It contains a
lot of information covering a many of the
general medical topics you'd expect to
come across an the home.
This is probably one of the few titles I
looked at that I was sad to return * it
almost made me want to cut my finger to
find out how to apply the plaster!
Falcon * £49.99
Spectrum Holobyle
for the armchair pilot who's doesn't have
another computer, Falcon is a pretty good
introduction to combat flight simulators.
For A5 70 -owning Amiga users, however
there are several better programs available
for the Amiga.
Posslbily Falcon's biggest problem is that
given the amount of control you have
through the remote controller, you have
only a small amount of control aver the
plane.
This asitJe however, it's still a good game
with lots of different missions, nice graph-
ics, reasonable speed and OK graphics.
Fractal Universe * £29.95
Atmathera
A lot of people are fascinated by Iraclals
and if you're one of them then this is the
CD for you! As well as the ability to gener-
ate f radicals {'and let's face if, fractals can
look pretty impressive sometimes - see the
screenshot of the fre-d Fish Collection)
Fractal Universe also includes full back-
ground information and a lot of text on the
subject of fractal art.
1 can't help feeling however that £29 for
this is a little over the top, but if you're into
fractals then you should have it.
Fred Fish Collection * £19.95
At math era
The Fred Fish Collection is a large assort-
ment ol programs, utilities and games.
While for normal Amiga users their colla-
tion on to a single CD is to be welcomed
(you don't want to know how many floppy
disks it takes to store this collection nor-
mally) I'm doubtful of their use to the
CDTV user,
This is because many of the utilities and
programs were designed for use with a key-
board and as such CDTV owners will have
to buy a keyboard to gel the maximum
benefit from it.
For A500 with an AS 70 however it's a
great collection and a useful CD.
Fun School • £24,99 • Europress
On the Amiga the Fun School range of
educational software has been well
received by children, it's a fun and easy
educational range that get children learn-
ing while they're having fun - which must
be a good thing.
There's nothing exceptional in this Fun
School series of several CD-ROMs each
costing £24,9? that provide an educational
age range from under five to over seven.
CDTV
The ham* video Iflffftf system
1 TypeftTces Fn marry different rfies
2 rfiskf wffh nil kinds of symbols
Mrrny useful bockdrups
15 t jfflWB s on Text and symbols
34 irtrnsiltans ati pktures
ProFessJonar Credit ceratlng
H
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35
The only question I have is that given,
that CDTY disks are supposed to be
cheaper to produce and the capacity of
one CO disk equals a lot of floppies -
couldn't Eurapress have put more than one
Fun School title on a CD-ROM and charged
the same?
Still if you've got the money and chil-
dren to educate (surely a contradiction in
terms?) wander down to your dealer and
take a look.
Garden Fax Series * £34.99
Intersearcti
The Carden Fa* Series are in fad lour disks,
each costing £14.99 T but because they are
all so similar - the only difference being the
type of plant they cover I'm looking at
them as a whole.
Initially they are disappointing - gaudy
colours and; poor graphics they don't
appear to offer much. But cm further exam-
ination they provide an informative,
detailed analysis of plants (along with pho-
tos), all of which is easily accessible.
Using a simple selection process which
starts you at the top of a list of 200-odd
plants, answering various questions you
work your way through a series of condi-
tions (light, colour, temperature etc) that
your prospectwe plants must live in.
The program then presents you with a
small list of plants to chose from, on which
you can call up growing information and so
on* Neat, simple and effective but could do
with a little tidying up around the edges.
Global Chaos
If you're into the rave scene this is a definite
must. Abstract patterns set to some pretty
wild audio tracks and a simple game
thrown infer free.
The result is likely to become a cult
product and will unduutedly further the
Amiga's street credibility, but unlikely to sell
in great quantity .
Guinness CDTV Disk of Records
£34.99* Guinness
One of many encyclopedia-type CDs, It's of
reasonable quality with digitised photos,
pictures, speech, the odd animation and
film clips. For those interested in records,
this provides what must be the definitive
reference guide and a really useful, yes
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really useful, product giving near-instant
access to a vast amount of information.
Hound of (he Baskemlles
£29.99* On-Line
This is the CDTV title ol the famous
Sherlock Holmes case and I have no prob-
lem in recommending you stay with the
book version.
I can only describe this CDTV title as,
emn, poor, poor and poor. Very few pic-
tures, no moving images that I saw, very lit-
tle interactivity and generally tacking in
quality.
The only redeeming aspect is the quality
of the vocals - these at least have been
done by someone who knows how to nar-
rate -dear and authoritative.
If you're looking for a detective story or
Sherlock stories, take a look at Sherlock
Holmes Consulting Detective.
illustrated Holy Bible - £29.99
Animated Pixels
A disappointing CDTV title this one. It's
immediately obvious that little work went
into this. Tlsere are blatant mistakes in the
text where it has been mistyped and the
Amiga-drawn pictures of scenes from the
bible are lousy .
Add to this That thEre's very little true
interaction and it's a disappointing CD all-
round, The only real point of this CD is that
you can search for particular words and
verses, but I'd seen this clone about 12
months ago on a PD floppy disk-based ver-
sion. That cost about £B... it's you choice.
tftJT'Uoh £ -
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COTV
l suppose
Japan World! *£49.99
Global Learning Systems
Imagine a language tuition course where
you could hear and see the language in
question. You could also call up informa-
tion on just about every aspect of life in the
country of the language. You J d have a
powerful aid.
Japan World is just such a package-
Maybe it's because l r ve always been Fasci-
nated by Japan, or maybe it's because this
is a good disc in its own fight, but either
way I was really impressed by japan World.
If there were other language courses
(say French, German, Spanish) of a .similar
quality to this, Commodore would have a
strong advert for CDTY!
Lemmings • £34.99 • Psygnosis
Wliat needs to be said that hasn't already
Urn city - a got? gum? for Idum plottnen everywhere
lime I tried I just ended up with a
Given a decent controller like a
tablet or light pen this program
great Philips CD-I system has a ch
controller that looks like it's out of a ft
Price factory and 11 such a product <
available for CDTY Td be only to happ]
recommend this.
NASA - The Heroic Age of S|
£19.99* Trokia
This title uses Commodore'* Otm
answer to FMV, CDXL Unlike FMS J
can display moving images necup;. r ;
complete screen, CDXL can only ha 1 "*!
quarter of the screen.
The consequence on this particular
is a like watching a scrambled Sky %*4
been said about
Lemmings? This is a pretty
standard implementation
of the classic Psygnosis
game.
It's a little disappoint-
ing that with all the stor-
age space available
thousands of more levels
weren't added and that
the CDTV controller is not
the best way to command
your Lemmings, but it's
still a great game. It CDTY
is you're first computer
you should Lake a look at
this.
MyPainl • £29.99
SaddleBacfe
Graphics
This bad gteat potential.
The CDTV ai a home
entertainment environ-
ment will obvious have a
large number of young
children using it. Every
child I know loves to paint
and draw 1 and as such a
CDTV painting package is
agreat opportunity.
Sadly, MyPaint suffers
from the CD TV's con-
troller, which just isn't
suitable for painting. Every
CDTV and CD-ROM
options
In addition to software there're also a number of perip-
new starting to appear For CDTV which acd to the enjo»
possible. The more notable ones is;
Trackball Controller * £79,99 * Commodore
Basically an alternative way of controlling the pointer
screen. A large ball is mounted in a casing. lolling the ■
the palm o? vour hand move* the pointer onscreen.
Tracker baits have been available for the Amiga roc a
but never really managed to rival the mouse to r conm>
one, although a good tracker ball, fails because CDTY
ware doesn't require the precise placement that tracker
offer. The Trackball Controller also has interfaces for
joysticks.
Video Genlock Card * £149.99 * Commodore
Allows you to take moving pictures from video camera
player and the tike and mix them with the tfisplas tha
CDTV is producing, and then record this bac* out to a
recorder. Ideal tor video titling^, pe applications
Voice Master • £39.99 • Microdeal
Simply th,s allows you TO add your voice io CDTV 1 titles '
support St. in language courses for instance you can ;
nounce |F>e foreign language youwtt tg see bow your v«r
differs from the correct version.. Limited |b, the numb-
CDTV titles that support it, but worth keeping an eye on
Amiga Computing February 1993
If you wont to take o closer look al the new Wordworth
coll 0395 270273, or wriie io
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Actually, you're looking of the new
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technology which produces on-screen
fonts at sizes from 3 to 800 points
Wordworth comes with 1 7 genuine
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just about the best quality around.
Best of all, Wordworth prints silky
smooth fonts at the highest possible
resolution of your printer.
Which means, in human terms,
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you - ' II be printing jagged-free letters and
graphics.
But, there's more to new Digita
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New features include • columns *
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endnotes * improved mail merge and
file support * bookmarks * text sorting
* improved search and replace •
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features and improvements.
So, if you want to print the sharpest
passible letters around, trade up now
from any Amiga word processor for just
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Cezanne STILL LIFE 1SSS
Louvre, Paris.
Cezanne stressed the form and volume of objects by
simplifying and synthesizing outlines and arranging
vanishing points above or below the horizon.
more.,,
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:hanneb This is a shame because The
iiTok Age' has real potential. The in for-
natfcOfikis very interesting, the audio
accompaniment is well done (you can for
nstance hear Neil Armstrong's immortal
words as he first set loot on the moon!}
ind as a "multimedia" application Its
□retry good.
Ifs just a pity it's mot FMVI Hopefully
when Commodore sort FMV out, Trokia
will come up with a lollow up which will
really show the COTV off-
Psycho Killer * £29,99 • On-Line
Some has described this as the closest any
CDTV title has yet come to an interactive
movie. I wouldn't. It's long series of digi-
tised photographs (of London) which you
move through screen after screen.
The only action comes on certain
screens where you must quickly move the
pointer to a certain part of the screen and
click the button. Get it wrong and you're
history. Sadly lacking in excitement,
graphics or enjoyment.
Sherlock Holmes Consulting
0 elective * TBA
Icon Simulations
There review is o( a brand new title from
America, and was responsible For bolding
up this articles |usl as l was about to send
the cop/ off, through the door popped
this title. At first I ignored ft, but on closet
inspection it merited holding the whole
review back tor.
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
is a title which is on most American CD-
ROM owners' "must buy" lists and for a
good reason.
This is no easy way to describe this -
QK r maybe there is, but don't want to
spoil the enjoyment you'll get from this
when you see it, except to say that it fea-
tures professionally recorded sound, nice
atmospheric pictures and masses of qual-
ity CDXL mowing pictures.
The narration is perfectly timed to the
CD XI pictures so you begin to believe
that Sherlock and Watson ate actually sit-
ting there talking.
There are no rough edges and few
unexplainable pauses as the next
images/data is loaded. Best yet, instead of
just dumping the graphics to the screen,
a slide projector-type screen (complete
with video-style buttons) pops up, in
which the moving images are displayed,
This game will probably sell a lot of
CDTV units in its own right and should be
in every CDTV/A570 owner's collection -
it's the best example yet of what CDTV is
capable of. Buy it.
Sim City * £29.99 * Itfogrames
A classic Amiga program adapted lor
CDTV. Unlike many other games con-
verted lo work cm CDTV, this is far more
than a straight adaption.
The concept of Sim City is to build a
City, attract a population and then keep it
going, Throughout this period; various
disasters befall you which you must also
cater for,
SimOty is very absorbing and enjoy-
a hie and also has serious side lo it all-
in-all it's a great garni?. 1 he CDTV
incarnation builds upon the original with
Exekias ACHILLES AND PENTHESILlA 550 B.C.
Vase Painting, British Museum, London.
Achilles was a famous Greek warrior during the
Battle of Troy. His body was magically protected
except for his heel.
more.
arrctolt CrtTfc. arid flflf with education no* noftfi
fi
impressive studio recorded sound, more
than 10Mb of graphics and several new
features.
At the ECTS trade show this was the
application that picked up the very first
CD-ROM software award. Highly recam -
mended for any CDTV or Amiga CD user,
goes nowhere from here,
control doesn't work with
game, the game graphics
pretty poor sound (given
have been achieved) and li
play. Nothing really bad,
really good either?
The Demo Collection * £19.95
fllmathera
Following on from CD PD collection, the
Demo Collection is a must for A5?& own-
ers, but not recommended for the CDTV
owner. It contains loads of pictures, ani-
mations, fonts, games and two versions of
the Amiga's operating system (1,3 and
2.04).
If you're a serious or hobbyist Amiga
owner you'll find this a valuable CD-ROM,
although some of the stuff could do with
more documentation.
Women In Motion * £29 J!
On-Line
Another library of work horn Each
Muybridge, this time a collection
rather unattractive n»ked women. 1
peculiar, but once again useful If yn
into animation and drawing, or slig
perverted...
Xenon 2 * £29.99 * Mirrors!
A well known Amiga game, Xenon 2
must for any CDW players siri
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Wrath of the Demon • £29.99
REAHYSFT
This title didn't even start well. Three
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CD disks can hold 550Mb! Starting the
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very nice introduction sequence. Sadly it
because it's a great game. But for
users owning an A57G it's now a little
of date compared to recenl gi
released on floppy.
As a conversion little has been
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the Bass added Lo accompany the g:
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feer ; ,''ng than zapping baddies or cal-
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Ip of fun, but have you ever considered
m+r else you can use your Amiga for?
So pul that Joystick down and pay
tk»n while we reveal another side of
po ■ fc avourite computer - productivity.
■ Huh? And just why should productive
I) Interest me? JI you are probably asking.
\% « | d you're old enough to have friends,
Muessiom, money, hobbies and a desire
ta communicate with the outside world
jo. might just find that productivity could
Approve your life, or at least help to make
imore manageable.
If you run one of Britain's increasing
Ifcmber of home-based businesses you'll
* r to keep accounts, turn out letters
i : reports and file information on cus»
1 ~ers and services - productivity car
here too.
However, productivity doesn't have to
ust for the serious things in life. Maybe
school, youth group, sports club or
- pany needs a newsletter and you
rt to produce as well as do some
illustrations for it, Productivity can
Np here top, since it covers a multitude
sins.
Spreadsheets, databases, desktop pub-
hhmg, wordprocessing, disk utilities,
accounts and graphics packages are all
pr duttivily applications, and they can all
-c, you do better things with your Amiga
• n endlessly playing games.
As you've seen, productivity software
can be very wide-ranging. So lo help you
1 ;ure out what's what, here are a lew
oductions to -the main animals in the
uetivity jungle.
Databases
Every lime you make a list of informa -
’ on, such as the names, addresses and
phone numbers of your friends, you
* r - producing a database.
In many cases this will take the form of
1 1 tile notebook, card index, Filofax insert
or, in more upmarket circum stances, as
j ita stored in an electronic personal
anganiser.
A compuiensed database is also a list of
First steps to
productivity?
You're wasting your machine's potential if all
you're doing is zapping aliens. Gary Whitely
looks at some more productive applications
information, set up and entered according
to the requirements of the user and any-
thing which can be listed can be set up as
a database - library books, video cassettes,
stamp catalogues, recipes ~ you name it,
you can database it
By first designing a screen template to
take the data you wish to enter and then
typing the data into a blank form for each
separate record a whole database can be
built, up, and updated as necessary.
The data files can be selectively printed
out, or specific data can be found by
searching for keywords, such as all occur-
rences of the surname Jones, or all books
about Amiga computers, for example.
Database design requires both disci-
pline and an awareness of exactly how
you may need to extract the data in the
future, but like most things a little practice
will go a long way.
Graphics
As well as producing business graphics,
which are often catered; ror within
spreadsheet software, it J s nice to be able
to produce your own illustrations
for newsletters, birthday cards, reports
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ommend Deluxe Paint III or IV. Although
Deluxe Paint IV is the latest venion (4.1
actually), I still prefer Daint in many ways,
as I find it simpler to work with, though o(
course it doesn't handle HAM (Hold and
Modify, 4Q9& colour) graphics, which
probably isn't that important if you plan
on printing in black and white anyway.
Graphics produced with Deluxe faint
(or any other which can output IFF format
images) can be imported into Dt P or word
publishing packages which can utilise
bitmapped pictures, though in some cases
there arc restrictions on the number of
colours that the software will use.
Even if you carYt draw for toffee there is
always the possibility of scanning in a logo
or picture by using a relatively inexpensive
hand scanner, or even an expensive 1 lathed
model. By running a hand scanner across
an image it can be turned into a greyscale
(or even colour with newer models) IFr tile
which can be used just like any other
image.
Another way of grabbing pictures is to
use a digitiser (such as Rombo's Vidi -Amiga
12) to capture images from a video camera
or video deck with solid freeze frame.
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What's the difference between
wordprocessing and desktop publishing
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which can he quite confusing - especial!;
as some software packages now seem to
be blending features which were
previously regarded as being exclusively In
the domain of DTP software,
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Software
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is the processing ol words. In essence this
means typing text into your computer,
editing it to your requirements, spell
checking St, doing some basic layout and
then printing out the results.
The inclusion of good spell checking
software with a wordprocessor is very
Important, even if you consider yourself to
be literals, as many silly mistakes often
creep through when working at speed.
Most of these goofs can be filtered out
quite easily with a spell checker, though
you' H still need to proof read to catch
those occasions where a correctly s pel led -
word Is in the wrong place - eg "the"
instead of 'them".
This article was written on a wardpro-
cessor (Cold Disk's Transwrite 2 r in fact)
but instead of being printed out it was
delivered to Amiga Computing as a text file
on a floppy disk.
By importing the text and laying it out
with the pictures in a desktop publishing
program the pages that you are now read-
ing are constructed.
The major difference between DTP and
word processing software is that OTP can
also incorporate hue graphics elements -
pictures, dip art, structured graphics and
specialist typefaces, where word processors
only deal with text.
Inevitably this means that a DIP pack-
age requires much more memory to run
successfully than a wordprocessing pro-
gram, as it has to cope with so much
more data - psrticularty when producing
pages which contain large amounts of
graphics.
But the distinctions between wordpro-
cessons and DTP programs have become
Increasingly blurred by "word publishing" -
programs such as Pen Pal, Word worth,
Kind Words 5 and Final Copy r which mm
some of the features of DTP packages
(such as graphic fonts and picture import-
ing) with more traditional word processing
functions. Of course, this car only be an
advantage to the user, as such software
inevitably offers more bang (or the buck.
Spreadsheets
Putting it very simply, spreadsheets are
definable gnds in which numbers can be
placed and then manipulated
mathematically to provide results.,
By adding headings and column infor-
mation and entering numerical data
which relates to these headings it is possi-
ble to build up complex applications, dou-
ble entry book-keeping, financial forecast
sheets and the like.
I use a spreadsheet to keep track of my
income and expenditure because the
Inland Revenue, in particular, are keen
that I tell them what my earnings for each
financial year are.
On one side of the spreadsheet I enter
my income, along with any necessary
details, and on the other my expenditure
- which I break down into categories such
as travel, bank charges, computer pur-
chases, Natrona! Insurance payments and
so on.
Every month I input all the relevant
data from my invoices, bank account and
purchase receipts and then total every-
thing up.
This way ! can have an instant view of
how the old bank balance stands, and
where the money goes.
In the simple example shown l J ve taken
a theoretical cafe and looked at some ol
their monthly grocery outgoings.
By dividing the year into months it's
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and by breaking the purchases dowr
specific items it r s possible to see
how much has been spent on each ih
Tach of the monthly costs is places
*ceir, for example cell D8 holds the
ol tea for March. The total yearly ex;
lure on tea can be found by adding a
monthly spending on tea tog el her
entering the formula SUM|D6:D1 7] in
TOTAL cell at D19.
When this formula is executed it
up all the costs in column D from
D1 7 and shows the result in D1 9. If
the data is subsequently altered, the
will adjust automatically, saving a
recalculation.
By printing out the results you can
a hard copy of precisely what has
happening in the kitchen during the
By designing different spreadsheet
possible to keep a check on all kii
things - profit and loss accounts, l<
league tables, stock control and so on
Printing out endless lists of figures
the only way of seeing whafs going
many of the better spreadsheets and
grated software packages allow graj
be produced from selected, sets of datiu i
Pie charts, bar charts, line graphs
choice is yours in this voyage imo
realms of big business.
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Instead ol using a spreadsheet to lay
financial matters, a program sue*
Digita's Home Accounts i takes an
different approach. By defining a
transaction types such as CASH, Hi
SAL etc (for cash, hobbies, salary m
on) and then setting up as many sej
accounts as you need to reflect your
Dial affairs it is possible to keep tn
your financial transactions across a
range of accounts and spending
Expansion - what is it and why do it?
You might think that once you've bought your Amiga that
that's the end of it, and that you've got all the hardware
you'll ever need. But don't be fooled for one minute,
unless of course you've bought one of the high-end
machines such as the A3tH)0 or 4000 which include extra
memory, hard drive, fast processors, and all the rest.
The range of add-ons which supplier! are keen to sell
Amiga owners seems never-ending, as you will no doubt
be aware from reading the adverts in this magazine.
Mice, tracker balls, disk drives, memory, hard drives,
graphics tablets, monitors, printers, scanners, digitisers
and accelerators all crop up with monotonous regularity
because these are items that people not only want to buy,
but quite often actually need to accomplish their desired
tasks.
Probably the most vital addition you can make to your
Amiga is to upgrade the amount of memory (RAM) which
it contains. Extra RAM tan make all the difference to suc-
cess or failure, particularly in applications like desktop pub-
lish ing, where large amounts of data or graphics can be
involved.
RAM can also help to speed things up, as the computer
has more room to crunch data in and doesn't
have to spend so much of its time rearranging its
storage areas.
An extra 2Mb of RAM can do wonders for your
machine's versatility^ and upgrading to a megabyte -of
chip RAM (for those faithful to older Amigas] will help to
ensure that you don't run out of screen display during
those vital last minute document changes. In fact, many
serious software packages require aL least 1Mb of chip
RAM just for starters.
The next essential for serious productivity work, and
more relaxed eyes, is a good monitor - preferably one
which connects to the Amiga's RGB output for higher
quality.
Professional users often use multisync monitors and de-
interlacing hardware to reduce the screen flicker, but I
■imagine that such equipment will be well beyond your
modest budgets, so enough said,
A second disk drive will prove invaluable to many users,
especially when lots of multiple disk access is required,
though a hard drive will certainly be an option you should
consider if you decide to get seriously involved with
productivity.
Some programs, particularly DTP software, can require
access to huge amounts of data, lor instance
Compugraphic fonts or dip art r and a hard drive will save
a great amount of access time and disk swapping.
Buy the largest capacity drive that you can afford
fill up much faster than you might expect - and go ft
SCSI one if you can.
Naturally, if you need to gel hard copy, you'll neec
printer. Your c holce will inevitably be based* both
requirement - and cost. While there are truckloads
cheap 9-pin dot matrix printers knocking about they
well not provide the quality you are looking for, espeo
(or DTP work.
Laser printers currently give some of the highest qi
but can be pretty expensive to buy and to n
j wen iy 4 our pin dot matrix printers offer good quality
reasonable cost,, but are noisy* though they can do rei
able-cost colour work and graphics.
For my money, a good printer buy would be a
inkjet model like the Canon B]10ex or Star S|48. Thi
provide very good print quality with whisper-^uiet
mg. With some ingenuity and coloured ink refills they
also provide nice colour output if you are prepared
improvise a little.
A word of warning though - make sure that the pnr
you choose has a proper Amiga printer driver, other
you may well be buying a dead duck.
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Directory Opui Is o brilliant disk utility program
Amiga Computing February 1993
gories.
As a newcomer to this approach I
found it to be very accessible and easy
to get to grips with - though remember
all the categories will take a bit of prac-
tice.
Because the accounts can be inter-
linked, anything transferred from one to
another can be tracked easily. Reports
based on selected da La or formats can be
printed out for easy reading or inclusion
in documents.
I reckon that's lt r s just a matter of
choice. Spreadsheets are probably more
flexible in the long run, but for day to
day administrative work in small business,
home accounting or cost tracking, an
accounting package will do an admirable
fob in all but the toughest circumstances.
Disk utilities
If you have ever tried to use the CLI or
SHELL Interfaces provided with
Workbench you'll know how frustrating it
can be to do some very simple tasks, such
as formatting a disk or moving a few files
around.
Disk utilities are designed to free you
from such drudgery
Poductivity
could improve
and add
power to your
elbow by providing
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en v i ro nme nt where , v
an of the usua i disk your life, or at least
operations (and #
often a great deal Jfl(lK€ it more
more) can be easily
and quickly manageable
achieved, °
Current
favourites such as Directory Opus (which i
find absolutely invaluable) or SID 2 are so
flexible that they can also be used to
launch other programs, display
pictures, play sampled sounds, archive
Hies and print out documents, in addition
to all the disk manipulation, formatting,
copying and other tasks that they
perform.
Hard drive owners will find such soft-
ware especially useful.
As you've probably
gathered by now, pro-
ductivity can bum quite
a hole in your pocket.
But if you are Sr business
you'll appreciate the
time, effort [and cost)
saved on doing manual
book-keeping, typing let-
ters, and producing
printed materials, while
the creativity involved in
producing a newsletter can be very
ing r as well as educational.
By all means continue playing ga *
as we ail know that all work ai
play makes lack a dull boy (or so they j
- but once in a while consider do*
something a little more serous. You nd
know, you could even end up ma»*
money out of it.
• Special thanks fo Micro- P •
UK Ltd for the loan of the
Office and Home Account
software illustrated in this article.
Recommended products
As a guide, here is a small selection of
productivity software. Where possible
costs are based on advertised,, not
recommended, prices.
Mini Office- Europress Software £40
Integrated spreadsheet, wordprocessor,
data base, busin ess graphics and disk
utilities package.
The Works Platinum - MrCrra 5ys(emi
Software £40
Integrated spreadsheet, word processor
database, business graphics and commu-
nications package,.
Cold Disk Office 2-H» Marketing £90(7)
Integrated word processor, DIP program,
spreadsheet, database and business
graphics package.
Pogcsmer 2 - Cold DHk £40
The same program as bundled in Cold
Disk Office 2. Reasonably featured
budget DIP program.
Word worth - Digiia International £ SC
Word publisher with many
DTP functions.
Final Copy 2 - Softwood fnc £6?
Word publisher with many
DTP functions.
Transwrite 2 - Cold Disk £30
Low priced but fast, well-featured
word processor ideal for almost all
word-crunching tasks,
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- Home Accounts 2 - Digito £38
Directory Opus - INOVAtronics £30
Mega disk utility with lots of power.
Deluxe Paint 4.1 - Electronic Art. £60
Power Scanner m 2 - Power
Computing £99
Hand scanner to produce mono IFF file-
Plus, of course, the offerings from
many PD libraries.
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1 2 MONTHS ON SITE WARRANTY
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AMIGA 1200 ZOOL PACK
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Trans write
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And 9 Pin Quolltyprfntpr
1 2 MONTHS ON SITE WARRANTY
only £499 Inc vat
Or wrth 8833 Mk 11 Monitor
+Turbo Challenge II Promotion
©rtty 4709 Inc vat
D 475 IFOR 24 PIN COLOUR PRINTER
Or with 8333 Mk If Monitor
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only £609 Inc vat
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68040 Amiga DSOS 3, 6Mb RAM, 1 20Mb Hard Disk
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New (CD nicker fixer £209
GVP Impact Vision 24 Bit Cord
(1500/20X1/3000) from
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Rocgen
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Rendale 8806 RGB
Commodore 2300 Int
G2
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Video Pilot V330
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£1550
£440.00
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Impact Series II HCB+ & 240Mb Hard drive £43 9 .99
Impact Series II HC8+ & 420Mb hard drive £ 1 169.99
GVP Impact Vision 24 Bit Card £1 499,00
AMIGA 1 500 / 2000 ACCELERATOR CARDS
G-Force 030-25MHZ with 1 Mb 32-Bit RAM £549,99
G-Force 03040MHz with 4Mb 32-Bt RAM £699 .99
G-farce 030-50MHZ with 4Mb 32-Bit RAM £1269.99
G-Fcice 040-28MHz with 2Mb 32-84 RAM £1699.99
FLOPTICAL DRIVE £549.90 (21Mb disk 45740)
A A5Q0 HARD DRIVES
G VP HD8 + 52Mb Quantum £3 1 8,95
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£658.95
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68882 Co-Piocauoc For A53C
GVP MEMORY RAM MODULES
Series II RAM 8 RAM Card for Amiga
1 500/200 with 2Mb £149.99
32 bit 60ns 1 Mb SIMM for Accelerator
Cards (A530 + G FORCE) £44
32 bit 60ns 4Mb SIMM
(A530 + G FORCE)
MONITORS & TV ,
8833 Mklt 4 Turbo Challenge II £199.95
CBM 1960 Monitor £449,95
CBM Flicker Fixer £299,95
Philips 14'SVG A monitor, suitabe for use with
A30G0 or 1500 with flicker fixer £229.95
Please add £1 4.95 for connecting tead
NEW PHILIPS MODEL 220 GDI W40
MEMORY UPGRADES
New Smart Card memory upgrade (A600J
2Mb only £129 4Mb only Sl6?
New 2.04 Official Upgrade with
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A500 Plus 1 Mb Expansion £39.95
New A600 1 Mb Expansion £54.95
Scpf a 500RX 2 Mb Expan. (600/500+ ) £139,95
51 2K RAM Expo nsion + Clock (500) £34.95
Above without clock £29.95
1 .5Mb Mb Expansion (Not Plus) £79.95
1Mb Expo nsion with Thru-Port (500) £49,95
BMb RAM Board for A 1 500 or 2000
Arles Board 0Mb £79.95
For each 2Mb RAM Odd £69 .00
INTERNAL DRIVE KIT
1 Replacement A 500 Internal 3. 5" drive kit, fully
compatobewith 1 Mb unformatted capac-
, Com es with easy to follow guide £59.95
£ M U LATG R S
Gdden Gate 386-20 for 1 500/2000 £349.00
Golden Gate486SX25. 1 6OO/2/3/4O0OS749 jO 0
GVP 1 6MHz PC-2 06 1 600/2000 £239.99
Vortex AT Once Plus 16MHz £214.99
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itch box £13.95
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AMI GA Internal! IS9.9S
CDTV drive £74.95
no click ft. Virus protection
on track 0. £55.95
Diamond Amiga
Drive
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60Mb £175,00
80Mb £229.00
120Mb £359.00
130Mb £37900
160Mb £479 00
200Mb £549 00
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ASOO ROM SWITCHER
Switching between vegans of Ktckstart on
yOUf A5Q0 is could not be easier tha n with our
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Kickstart 1 ,3 FK)M{SLfj|jiM»«»f;r«iv> £29,95
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[power supply
odore A500 A600 PSU with the switch
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UNO EXTRAS
Amiga Souid Enhancer £35.99
Stereo Speakers £39.95
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Tun your Amiga into the litimate hi-tech
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lor only £299.95
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Music X 1,1
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SOFTWARE
Wordprocessing & DTP
Trans write
Kindwords 3
Final Copy £99.95
Wordsworth Vl .1
Excellence 3 £79.95
Home Office Kit
Pagesetter 2 £39.99
Page Stream 2.2
Saxon Publisher
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AMOS start er Pock
Easy AMOS £24.99
AMOS 3D
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Cross Dos £34.99
Das 2 Dos
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Imagine 2 £374.99
Map Master for tmogne £44.99
Morph Plus £349.95
Presentation Master £169.95
Surface Master for Imagine £24.99
Real 3D Beginners £54.99
Real 30 Pro £229,95
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System 3 £39,99
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ADI Maths 12-13
ADI English 11-12
A D I English 12-13
Distant Suns 4 449.95
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Home Office Kit - Includes
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DOT MATRIX PRINTERS
STAR LC20
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STAR LC 24/200 COL
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STAR XB 24 250 COL £435 .92
CITIZEN SWIFT 9 COL
CITIZEN SWIFT 224 COL £205 00
CITIZEN SWIFT 24E COL £235.00
CITIZEN 240 COL £25027
CITIZEN SWIFT 24X £303.15
CITIZEN SWIFT 24X COL £349.00
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£295.00
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Oki 400
NEWOki 014101Mb
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OKI LASER 810
OKI LASER 830
Postscript 2Mb
NEW OKI OL 850. (Feature
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Advanced $. Prog. Guide £24,45
3D Graphics Prog. Bask:
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Arnica C Advanced Prog.
Amiga C tor Beginners
Afirto^DCSInalda&ajt
Amiga Das Quick Ref,
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Disk Drives Inside £ Out
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Machine Language
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Systems Prog. Guide
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TOP 10 TITLES
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£19.49
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£19.49
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£1949
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£22.49
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£22 49
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£1949
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£2249
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AMIGA BUDGET TITLES
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Live k Let Die, Onslaught, Pipe Mania, Be k DangetOLfi,, Rock r N r Ron,
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Predator 2, Caiv-Up, Corporation, Codav#r , Line of Ftrey Teenage Turtles.
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January IDth 1993 unit February 1993. However many prices have not
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THE DIAMOND PRICE PLEDGE
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Even If out prices hove increased we wil honour the price m tins
advertisement on items In stock as tong as you bring this advert with you.
This pledge applies only to customers retying on tbb advertisement before
the 10th day of the month of publication . it does not apply to competitors
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to better waveform detail.
[because on the Amiga the Fin j -m
will in most cases be placed usinq ttwfl
nal sound chips, amplitude dlgifeat j i
most Amiga digitisers fs performs J tl
accuracy of eight bits (allowing ' ^1
possible "loudness" values).
One term you will hear over and I
again in the world of Amiga samr m
"flSVX", which is one of the IFF slmm
ised file formats used lor sampled sajl
its claim to fame, as many of youl
already know, is that allows one Amiga
gram to load and
samples created I
any other Amiga ^
program.
As far as W
equipment goes,
m you really need
into the world t i
pling is some d*oi
hardware and the i
Kl ware to control I
many ol the A-»
shilting the time-position of a sample
before adding it back to itself,
These are things which are either diffi-
cult or impossible to do using conventional
analogue recording techniques.
The quality of any digital sound depends
on the accuracy of the original digitisation
process and here there are two different
variables to consider - the sampling rate,
and the resolution of the number* used to
define the amplitude,
It should be pretty obvious that faster
sampling rates will give better waveform
detail, and equally obvious that increasing
the range of numbers used to represent the
ampFilude measurements should also lead
ie digital, copy of the original sound,
for what should now be obvious reasons
the hardware units which provide this
magic conversion are called "digitisers'".
Once the digitising process has been car-
ried out the sound will have been turned
into a stream of number*,
This then allows a computer to be used
to perform sophisticated editing effects - a
user can take a piece of one sound, mix it
with another, speed up or slow down the
rate at which the sample is played
G etting into sound sampling on
the Amiga nowadays just
couldn't be easier. There's a
good range of hardware and software with
prices that start from virtually free - ie the
public domain software offerings - to units
Vvhich have the price4ags and specifica-
tions which attract professional users.
In short, there Is something on the
^Ptoaa for everyonei Despite its popularity
Shfter there are still plenty of users who
ftasAjilyet to jump on, and enjoy, the sound
sample bandwagon.
^whether you are a newcomer or not
B^sn't matter this month though, because
mere should be something in this sampling
supertest to help or interest everyone.
l Topics first and foremost on the
[agenda? How about we start with an
Explanation of what "sound sampling"
actually is.
J Complex
Musical nates are made up of sound
waves that have a certain frequency (pitch)
aid a certain loudness (amplitude). When
jjgJyijt en to a piece ol music, or any other
ing to a
or even
produce phasing and flanging effects by
■HI come to that, you
aiMplex mass of sound waves which
include many different frequencies and
■piitudes.
Pf at any point in time you could take a
snapshot of the sound you were hearing
and measure the amplitude of that part of
fche soundwave then, using some agreed
^Convention, you could Express the ioudness
as a number.
If you did the same thing over and over
ligain, a whole series of numbers could be
Obtained and r at the end of the day, you
would have a list of numbers that repre-
sented the original sound.
. jMfcsrii these ideas which fami the basis of
^B&ling, By using special hardware
WhfchrriiHjsur'Ljs that amplitude information
marfp thousands of limes a second it is pos-
sjjote Id build up a very detailed numerical,
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iljfiv Computing February 1993
available and providing you have the soft-
ware to utilise those sounds you can mix,
alter, and use those samples to your hearts
content
Most people however, once bitten by
the sampled-sounds bug r do go out and
get the necessary hardware- software so
that they can actually sample their own
sounds.
Although Midi doesn't come into the
picture when you are creating and editing
sound samples, you will find that having
access to a Midi keyboard will be a big help
as far as composing music is concerned.
Many tracker programs and sequencers
which allow sampled sounds to be used to
create songs also allow the musical note
data to be entered using a synthesiser key-
board rather than the Amiga keyboard.
This makes life much easier and if you
are going to use sampled sounds in this
way a cheap Midi keyboard will be a good
investment!
Almost all sound sample digitiser units
attach to the Amiga's parallel port, Basically
snal soul
sg the ini
i sati on v
med to
ig for 2
Eight-bit
\miga digitisers
at around A
Up* packages include both]
i^Y : f Amiga digitisers start at about
■ mtr me top of the range units costing
mjt ten times that amount. Hard disks
iS <* r RAM obviously help any applica-
p b- 4 'bey are not absolutely essential
m r* Mb Amiga user without a hard
In if nil! do an awful lot of sound
Be warned
the sampling process is
initially r your results may not be very good.
It takes lime and practice to learn hoWo
get the recording parameters to their optk
mum values.
Practice does however make perfect anu
after a lew attempts the whole process
becomes second nature.
Tracker |
In the early Amiga days r programmers
needed a fast, convenient way of creating
music for games and demos and one of the|
earliest utilities to appear was called |
SoundTracker,
Within a couple of years a number of
these programs had appeared and H*tj|
became generally known in the tratfe as
trackers.
Being essentially programmers' tolls,
these trackers adopted programmer-!®
conventions lor specifying music-'
sequences. Song: descrip-
I lions were built around
lists showing the times^
and the pitches at which j
various samples should be*
played, and so on.
While not ideal from a
musician's viewpoint, this
method of composing
musk rapidly became
established, but the
was then on to
grams that were more
user-friendly.
One of the most sir
cessful trackers was a p^J
gram called MED (shon
for Music EDitor) which
allowed songs to be cre-
ated by linking together!
small blocks of music.
These blocks could be
arranged and repealed in
any way so,, once thd
blocks had been defined"
building the song became
very easy indeed.
During the follo^fl
years a number otoM|
MED versions syerl
you plug one end into the sound source -
which might be a tape unit, CD, micro-
phone, or some other audio signal output -
and the other end into the parallel poH-
The lower-priced units will probably
have no controls at all. Higher priced units
include tjoth line-level and microphone-
level inputs, signal gain controls, swilchabie
parallel-through port connections [so that
the digitiser can be left permanently
plugged in) and perhaps a number of other
goodies.
Having switched on and booted up the
sampling editing software the rest is com-
paratively easy. Set an appropriate sample
rate, adjust the volume Of the input signal
to a suitable level, and then just hit record.
Your sample will be sitting in the editor
wasting to be saved or edited,
OK , so some details do vary from pack-
age to package, but the above scenario
should give you the basic idea of how easy
. nest it is possible to get into the
M of aound sampling even before get-
? t : : ‘laer unit, Theie are literally thou-
*: st good sound samples readily
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Some terms explained
RAM scanning This means
exactly what it says programs which
provide RAM scanning facilities allow
you to scan through the Amiga's mem-
ory and, by "playing the data, look for
sound samples.
Raw Sample Basically a copy of
the byte values of a sound sample
waveform just as they appear in mem-
ory (as opposed lu a sample stored in a
specially designed file structure such as
IFF 85V X),
Clipping A waveform distortion
caused by a signal being too strong for
the input circuitry of a recording or sam
pling device.
The circuitry gets overloaded and the
top parts of the incoming waveforms gel
distorted or chopped off. The end result
is always the same a poor quality
sound.
IFF 85V A This is the IFF (Interchange
File Format) name of a file arrangement
used lor storing sound samples
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reused providing new editing facilities a
standalone song player utility called
EDPlayer, and support for Midi
instTuinents.
Up to this point these programs woe -
nri the original programs still are - public
omain, but when MED’s successor,
GctaMED, arrived a decision was made to
go commercial
enhanced version, called OctaMED
now been reieased and, as youTI
m our product/ price listings, it is by
na^hcans expensive.
^JbctaMED Pro is more powerful and
jftSpih easier to use than the original MED
Tffogram and is highly recommended for
those of you who need a tracker.
Samplers
Lots of magazine and PD disks include
sound samples that can be extracted and
d for your own purposes.
Finding them is easy enough if you onty
have a few directories on the disk - espe-
cially if the samples have been given obvi-
ames such as crash, iff, bang.snd or
asvx.
ting them when the samples have
tuitive names (eg PDX„SD) can be
harder, especially if the disk is packed
many directories.
More to the point - it may take a lot of
time Lo look at every file in every directory!
result of course is that all too often you
n miss potentially useful sound samples
t because they were not easy to idemtify.
Fortunately there's a nice easy solution -
automate thE whole process and let the
iga da all the hard work...
Search is a small CLI /5 hell utility that
does just that. It look* not only for BSVX
d samples but all common IFF files
ictures. SMUS files etc),
ill even find things like Music X
Can Do DECK standard Midi files
Files), and the new AIEF (Audio IFF}
that are going to be used by the new
it sampling products due to appear!
to use it P just open a CLL/Shell window
and type Search followed by the disk drivE
:o be looked ah SearthDFO:, for sample,
ill search all of the directories of the disk
Public domain
freebies
Don't forget also that there are liter-
ally hundreds of disks containing
sound samples floating around in the
public domain The only trouble is that
it ts usually a hit and miss affair as far
as quality is concerned.
There afe some really excellent sam
pies floating around, hut you usually
have to wade through a lot of rather
more average sounds to lind them.
Having said that, it doesn t take
that long to build up a reasonable col
lection of good sounds. Public domain
libraries like PD Direct, who offer a lot
of musk disks, will be able to point
you in the right direction.
in drive dfO and give you a list of the
required files and their directory locations.
This is the sort of output you'll get,
Aiica CDHpjtiRg IFF/SRF Search U till \-f (FsU
'■vt r a § 19021.. .
I FI ELGNr
dflitiflQDI
IFF 3L1II:
4FQ;p d_j uif i fv I c S
IFF ttVX;
rrtCiEQigsiiycaia.spd
EJF 8SYD
fj 1C : s&nss/cticl
rn File:
dfOswn|i/LBC?*LlHt/iGiid
If you are searching a hard disk or a floppy
with many files and nested directories then
the program may lake a minute or two to
locate the required information, but it will
be a lot quicker than other methods.
You can, incidentally, cancel the search
operation at any time by hitting Ctrl-C or
Ctrl'D. If you need a permanent copy □(
the program output, just redirect the out-
put to a disk file, or to the PUT device. For
instance, the command-
■
SEARCH >RMI; EOnteifS Of >:
will send details cl the dfl: analysis to a
“RAM disk file called "contents - " ,
Sampling
hardware and
editing software
AMAS 2 ■ Micro deal * £100
This is an upgraded version of ihe very
popular AMAS sampling package which
includes stereo digitising hardware that can
sample at rates ol up to 9tfkHz.
This sort of sampling speed can't be
realised with the current Amiga range but
the AMAS 2 software doing the driving can
achieve mono recording sampling rates of
up lo 55.9kHz and stereo recording rates of
2?. 9kHz (replay frequencies are up to
55.9kHz),
Software adjustable input level controls
are provided and as well as the usual
cut-copy/ paste type editing controls there
are a whole range of effects that can be
produced (echo, phasing, chorus, reversal
and so on} and it is possible to overlay sam-
ples, swap and copy channels,, fade In
and out, and do things like stereo
bouncing.
Sampled sounds can be saved in IFF and
raw formats, and in a new “executable"
form that allows samples to be played out-
side of AMA5 I simply by clicking on an
associated icon.
The software also includes things like a
3D TFT (fast Fourier Transform) display and
a dual real-time spectrum analyser.
A small, but reasonably useful, sample-
orientated, Midi sequencer is also provided
and you even get a microphone thrown in
as well
AMAS 2 offers new users a very attrac-
tive total package and 'it’s probably to this,
plus the fact that it is a well supported
product, that the package owes its
popularity.
When you compare raw AMA5 2 results
f£«i Computing February 1993
MUNnt wry capubH and welt supported pvthagr
with those of less expensive packages, such
as TechnoSound Turbo and &eat Studio,
you r ll often find surprisingly litUe difference
(or no difference) in sample quality,
AMAS 2 software however is reasonably
powerful and, as an integrated sampling
and editing package it must be said that
because of this AMAS 2 does, at a price,
win hands down over the cheaper
alternatives.
Audio Engineer Plus
HB Marketing * £204
This Ramscan/GSOnr offering is, quite sim-
ply, the best S-blt Amiga sampler available
at the current time. Unfortunately it is also
the most expensive.
The stereo digibsing unit is a CSOFT
Audio Imager and this includes two sepa-
rate, and very fast, A/D (analogue to digital
converters. The hardware is in fact rates
excess of 100k samples per second and
is capable of sampling at rates well
that obtainable with Amiga* fitted
6BQ20/68030 accelerator cards.
Audio Engineer boasts solid const!
Lion, swikhable microphone and
inputs, signal level adjustment, prin
switch -through connections (so that
digitiser can be left permanently pM
in) and above all a quality by which
other Amiga samplers are judged!
Audio Engineer II, the associated sai
recording/editing software, is a‘
extremely good - as weII as offering all
usual types of edit Effects, the software
includes fme-strelching and time-corn
Sion, frequency cut and boosting via
ware filters, very powerful loop creai
Sampled sounds
IFF Sound Sample Library • Walkabout Music
One disk; £2.50, ten disks: £19.95 all disks: £49.95
There are a lot o! sample libraries around but this one Is absolutely brilliant and eo
everything from the usual types of drums, bass, synlh and piano sounds to obscure tK
like African and Indian instrument collections.
Each disk contains samples from a particular sound category and in fact the full lib
Irst goes something like this... Airican, Indian instrument. Indian percussion, Arabic,
East, European, Oceania, Americas, FX percussion. Drum Kit, Analogue Percussion, La
percussion, guitars, bass guitars, analogue bass, digital bass, brass, syntri brass, pian
strings, synth strings, choirs, organs, bells, and sound tX.
The number of samples on each disk ranges from about 20 to over 100 and there's
doubt at all that Walkabout Music have done an excellent job (helped no doubt by t
fact that they are all musicians and know the difference between a good sample and a
one).
If you want to get an idea of the quality of rhe library just get hold or the bass gu
samples disk fit's actually disk 14 in their catalogue) - all too often bass guitar samples
mediocre but this stuff is so good it'll blew your socks offl
Sample Series * Gajils * £9.95
A range of high-quality IFF samples for use with music programs. Percussion k Lit
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currently available.
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facilities, and special methods for providing
playback of stereo samples at rates of up to
56k samples per second.
When used with machines such as a
standard Amiga A50Q or A2QQ0, quite a bit
of Audio Engineer Plus's high-standard
hardware specification is inevitably wasted,
but there's no doubt that this package is
nevertheless the business, for the serious
3 r it is worth every penny of the asking
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AudioMaster IV
HB Marketing • £70
is is basically the Aegis release ol
RamScan's Audio Engineer Plus software
and needless to say its not only brilliant
but is generally regarded as the best Amiga
8-bit sampling software around at the pre-
sent time,
Audition 4 * HB Marketing * £50
This piece of stereo/mcno sound sample
editing software comes from SunRiie, a
pany that know an awful lot about
sampling.
ough the configuration menu has
it options for selecting Perfect Sound
lers {another SunRize product) a
eric option allows the program to worlt
h any other parallehport based 8-bit
Amiga, sampler.
Audiftioo A is ao excellent piece ot soft'
are with a great many useful features,
needing being able to preview and adjust
effects in real-time before making perma-
nent edits, and direct recording to disk or
Although it has been overshadowed in a
number of respects by AudioMaster SV it is
Miscellaneous hardware and software
Audio Sculpture * Software
Management Group * £49
This program by Expose Software B4 rela-
tively new tracker utility which compares
favourably with GciaMED Professional in
all but one respect - it costs over twice as
much!
Music Pack 5 • PD Direct • £12
This pack contains a whole host of public
domain programs, songs and samples
including MED vl.2 and Pro Tracker.
OrtaMED Professional
Amiga nuts * £22.50
Despite the fact that it has a few rough
edges, this is one of the best tracker pro-
grams around at the present time and is
excellent value for money. QctaMED users
can upgrade for just £12,50! OctaMED
still a very capable, and well supported,
program.
Beal Studio • Pandaal Marketing
£40 approx
This fairly new offering from City Beat
comes complete with all the hardware and
software necessary to get into the world of
Amiga sampling.
The manual is lousy but what has sur-
prised an awful lot of people is the fact
that, with a little care, the hardware can
produce extremely good results.
The editing software is adequate but it
Pro contains a whole range of different
screens but two areas in the display are
always visible, firstly there is a status bar
which provides current edit modes,
block.' instruments numbers or names, and
route/ pi ay track status.
Secondly there is a 15 -but ton menu
panel, Ten of the menu panel buttons
cause other control panels to be displayed
and these control the loading and saving of
songs and instruments, the setting of rela-
tive track volumes, transposition, Midi set-
tings and a variety of block/track editing
facilities.
The remaining five menu panel buttons
switch between the five main GetaMED
Pto editors.
There's a Block editor which is used for
entering note data in conventional MED
tracker format, a Graphic note editor which
allows you to enter and display/print music
a bar at a time using conventional nota-
tion, a Sample editor, a Synthetic
editor and a Sample List editor,
Compositions can incidentally be
in a variety of different formats: Song
Ties with song and instruments/samj
and modules containing multiple songs
a single file.
Arrangements can also be saved
Sound/ Noise/ProTracker-compatible for
Another point that is worth mentioning
that the GetaMED Player program is AF
controllable so it is possible to load £*«
play songs under ARexx script contrail
Sound Enhancer Plus
Omega Projects • £34.95
This unit sits between the audio outputs
your Amiga and an external amplifier
can improve the audio qua ity
Amiga's internal sound chip outi
considerably.
cannot compete with offerings like
AudioMaster IV or Audition 4.
Crystal Sound * BlltSoft • £94
This 8-bit sound digitising unit has only just
started to a reive in the UK and there's no
doubt that it is very good indeed. It pro-
vides twin, ultra fast, low noise A/D con-
verters which can sample at up to 7QkHj in
stereo,
It has microphone and line level inputs
(with active audio filters on all inputs), sep-
arate left and right gain controls and a
printer pass-through,
Crystal sound is directly compatible with
Audio Engineer Plus and Audition 4 if sam-
pling in Perfect Sound mode.
Dalel Stereo Sampler
DateL * £50
This sampling hardware and software pack-
age does its job but it is not particularly
impressive considering the competition.
Digital Sound Studio
Silica Systems • £50
This is a good, easy to use, hardware and
software 8-bit sampling system and one
that has earned much praise from existing
users.
Good documentation is provided and
the program includes things like software-
controlled input levels and microphone/line
switches which makes it easy to adjust
input signal strengths.
Another plus for this offering is that a
four-track sample sequencer is included in
the software, The digitiser itself Is well
made and, all in all, this package is good
value for money,
Meg a Mix Master • Rombo
Productions • £40
This is anoLher budget-priced sampling
hardware and software package that
the ranks of Beat Studio, TechnoSound
etc,
The hardware does what it is supp
to well enough but that's about all that
be said. On the whole TechnoSound
a much better proposition, and it is
what cheaperl
Micro Sampler • Datel • £25
This is a budget-priced mono sam]
hardware unit which comes with
software. The hardware seems to do a
son able job!
Perfect Sound 3 • HB Marketing
£60
This is another combined hardware
software stereo /mono sampling sysr
which is able to produce excellent resui
comes from Sunltize and the software
vides most of the common editing fa<
including fades, sample mixing, revei
tenng, resampling etc., required lor si
work,
Pro Sound Designer Gold
Power Computing * £39
A reasonably priced hardware /$ofb
sampling system which, as far as value
money goes, competes well with other
itarly priced offerings.
Sounri Master
HB Marketing * £130
This Aegis offering is one of the £n
hardware,- 1 software stereo/ mono sam|
systems available and perhaps most ii
tant of all ifc now comes with the
Audsomaster IV software.
The hardware includes a volume
control, overload indicator, line and
phone inputs.
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Sampling tips and tricks
The key to good sampling is to get a good input signal to start
with. Where passible this means sampling directly from source
rather than using a microphone.
The object of th« exercise is to avoid clipping but still ensure
that a strong, dear signal is provided to ihe digitiser. The
cheaper samplers will not have signal controls on (hem so it's
dally when tracker programs are being used the drum track
becomes ridiculously simple because only one single note and
one voice (the sampled drum track) per bar is needed to
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musician /hi-fi freak who already taj
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If on the other hand you want to
pie voices using a microphone or
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but have no external way of alte-
signal levels, then you will net.
digitiser whose input levels car
adjusted.
lt J s quite dear that qua lily- wise
Audio Engineer Pius comes out on
but as far as digitising hardware is
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also made a very good impression
the software front it is AudioMaster
which is essentially the Audio Eng n
software, that steals the show.
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e digitising hardware but can be sup-
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costs £69.99 and this is quite a
and cost-effective, combination.
At the higher
end of the
market
have been announced foi the Amiga but
already there am three units to choose
from.
ADI 01 2 SuuRizc Board
HB Marketing * £470
The ADI 012 audio card fits inside the
A20QO/A3QOO Amiga series and adds 12-bit
digitising and SMPTE facilities to the
system.
It comes complete with SunRizc's Studio
16 recording and editing software and this
can record and playback directly from disk.
You need a hard disk system with a fast
drive to get the best out of this digitiser
and rf you are thinking of intensive use with
an A20Q0 machine you are likely to find
youl need a 68030 accelerator card as
well!
Clarity 16 ■ Microdeai * £150
This is the first law-cosL hardware and soft*
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for the Amiga and Us due out any time.
If it lives up to the press releases it is
going to be a winner because not only will
it offer a 1 6*bit system that can sample at
up to CD rates (44,1 kHz) but the software
can convert between 3-bit and 1 6-bit for-
mats so you'll still have IFF 8SVK support as
well as 1 6-bit file format support.
Samples will be able to be played both
through the stereo 16-bit cartndge output
and through the Amiga's standard output
channels.
The hardware includes an integral Midi
interface and the software will provide a
sample sequencer and options for using the
Amiga as a sample-based Midi sound
expander,
AD516 SunRize Board
HB Marfceting * Price: TBA
This is a 16-bit hardware sampling board
with software and a specification that is
going to attract professional audio-visual
users. It seems as though it is a rename for
Itudfa Ilf In Jit i Auriga lumpllttg to tht limit*
a board originally announced - some six
months ago or so - as the SunRaze
ADI 01 6. The AOS 16 hasn't arrived in the
UK yet but there is little doubt that when- it
does it is going to have a price tag much
higher than the ADI 01 2 board - prices of
around £800 have been suggested!
Conclusion
All the S-bit digitisers tested behaved
extremely well svhen presented with suit-
able signals. With the more expensive
packages you get things like input level
control Midi connections^ printer
through ports and so on* but whether
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extra cost, depends very much on your
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Sound Trap 3
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This is a popular budget mono digitiser
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b connector (so you don't have
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Sound Trap comes with its own software
serious users prefer to use it with
like AudioMaster.
nomprofessional users, Amiga samplers
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no doubt that the S-bit amplitude limita-
tion has severely limited professional and
professional interest in Amiga
comparison, CD sampling uses a
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is only comparatively recently that
her amplitude resolution digitiser units
Master * Microdeai * £40
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Incidentally,, is via a 3,5mm stereo jack
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Stereo Master offers the same basic
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created by entering just single notes.
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your Amiga monitor
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systems available and if it is physically convenient you can
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AMIGA 1500
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Ro dec Mouse,.., ....... £13.99
GOLDEN IMAGE
Mega Mouse .£1 2,99
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0 pti co I Mo use PP , +ll £29. 99
High precision, pointing device,
Crystal T r&ckb a 11 ,.£37 .90
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High Quality 8mm mouse Mats... £3.99
WORD PROCESSING / DTP
Hindwords 3 £36.99
Final Copy 2 SB .,.,. l?7iT?r £66 S9
Professional Page 3, £129.09
Saxon Publisher„..„ u ,.. u „ M ^ HH /s/tfV f £189.99
Pagestream v2.2 26.99
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Ptn Pal 1.4 £39,99
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AllaScan Plus ...£149.99
Alfa Scan OCR fr/?c OCR Sofrwero)^ £279.99
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ASDG-SOFTWARE-Scanriing software
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A- Talk 3 £44,99
Cross Dos V5 fat, Cross PC Emulator). £29,99
Di skin aster 2 £43 99
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Xcopy £36.99
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DATABASE
Super base Pro 4 ..,,.£164,99
Suporbase Pers 2 [jZZTtJ £39.99
VIDEO PROnUCTiOtyTmJNG
SCALA 500 £79.99
SCALA Professional ...£219.99
Big Alternative Scroller ,,.£35.99
Broadcast Tiller 2 £179.99
Font Pack 1 for Broadcast Tiller 2 £8B.99
Font Enhancer far Broadcast Tiller Z.£88.9S
Pro Video Post ^,..£168,99
TV Show Pro £51.99
TV Text Pro £84.99
1 i 1 M M 3,^1 |
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D ATA SWITCHES - (25 p'Vt U type}
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Deluxe Video 3 £71.99
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1 thin kbit's needless to say that you are the
■ — -i Amiga magazine in the world (need-
les? Say it all you like? - Ed).
I have written to you once again about
piracy, and this Lime l J m sending you
me names and addresses of pirates all
over Europe,
I would like a reward from FAST, and if
tr ey'd send me what I'm asking m send
4 -other 20 addresses of English pirates for
-t
in the prosecution of those you
consider to be pirtiles.
However, if you supply fA$T with
pirated software and proof of its pur-
chase, or some other so/rd evidence of
piracy connected to on identifiable indi-
vidual, they wifi act at once *
Your concern and willingness to oct fr
greatly appreciated, and we urge you to
keep up the good work.
It's a giveaway
'■ would like to Inform them and to give
le i hem these addresses and details of
^at I'm asking for.
ktichoei Arvanith, Piraeus , Greece
rhe seeled paper you included with your
*-‘er has been passed to fioh Hoy at FAST,
i ut don ’t be surprised if the people named
•* r bin it are not arrested at once *
fAST receives a great many phone caffs
and kttm concerning pirates and alleged
"'fates, but have resources to follow up
those for which there h evidence or a
fkely chance of successful prosecution If
■■ ur tetter to FAST contains simply a list of
tarrm and Addresses, it (s unlikely to resuft
As an Amiga owner of a few years now,, I
have col let Led a wide range of PD soft-
ware, and although I only recently started
teaching myself to program the com-
puter, I have now written a public
domain program. The problem is I now
realise I haven't a clue how to release it.
Please print an answer to my question,
as there is no program of its kind, and t
think it will benefit a number of Amiga
owners.
Chds Dobson, Bingfey
Releasing a PD program is as simple as
appending some documents to it stating
your intention that it be PD, then sending
Calling Croatia
My name is Matija Babic and I live in
Croatia. This year, I finished my classes,
ifid now l J m going to high school for
computers. One of my English friends
sent me your very best magazine, Amiga
Computing, but I don't have money to
buy it. '
Please, if you can r send me some pic-
jres and text from your new issue. I
r ealy love the Amiga, but I have a C64,
so I hope that if I can't play on an
Amiga, at least I can read about it.
I hope I didn't lake much of your
bme + Thanks in advance for help. Sorry
my English, but they don't teach it
u* schools - all I know is from games
and television.
Matija Subic, Zagreb
four English, it learned from TV and
games., h startlingly p
good , and not some-
thing you should apologise hr. We are
pleased to help you, and a copy of the
December issue is in ffre post os / type.
Now ft's the turn of our negator read-
ers! Your full address is primed below in
the hope that some of our helpful
Amiga enthusiasts will send back issues so
that you con read to your heart s
content
If this helps your linguistic progress > so
much The tetter.
Matija Babic
Afeja Partizanskih Pilota 5
41010 Novi, Zagreb, Croatia
OK, folks, get those seasonal hats on and
send Matija Some presides.
Ezra Surfs Postbag
Cot something tin say through the pages of AC? Ezra Surf is our
mailman, dedicated fo sitting in o corner reading your letters and
selecting the 1 mast interesting for public of ton.
Drop him a line at:
Ezra Surfs Postbag, Amiga Computing ,
Europe! House , Adlington Park ,
Macclesfield SKI 0 4NP.
Please don t enclose sees as Ezra just ftris-
n t got enough paper fo reply personally. He might
aha have to shorten your letters r so don't be offended if you end up
getting the chop.
the disk to a number of PD libraries or
uploading ll to a few bulletin boards*
ft you wish to retain copyright of your
program to stop commercial software
oaf hors using the idea to make money,
say so in the documents.
As soon as you write and publish some-
thing , , be it a program or a piece of text, it
h your artistic copyright, so don't worry
about the legal aspects.
ff you wish the program to be share-
ware, state so in your documents and pro-
vide information on what donation to
moke, how to register, and where to send
the registration fee.
A good bet if you're unsure about how
fo do this is fo study the documents
attached to many of the programs on the
Amiga Computing CoverDisk, as these
are often written and distributed hy expe-
rienced shareware authors*
C Compendium
I am learning the C programming lan-
guage, and find your Almanac program-
ming column very interesting. What
would be even more useful is a compila-
tion oF all the programming features ever
published in AC
Pm sure I'm not the only person stock
with books that don't even mention
sprites or sound or IFF picture Files.
By the way, a note to anyone starting
C - NorthC from Amiganuts United is an
excellent, easy to use compiler, complete
with editor. I highly recommend it.
And finally, has anyone else had trou-
ble with the GLl command Install? The
common “Install Drive DFD-" asks for
Workbench, loads the command, then
tries to install Workbench!
After hours of thinking, I came up with
the solution. Copy the command to RAM
and use it from there.
Abhprd Wihon f Newton-on -Ouse
Thanks for the tip , though if you'd fol-
lowed our beginners' column early fa
J992, you wouldn't have had to sit for
hours working ft out.
Having said that, the best way to team
is to figure something out for yourself, so
Not a bum deal
I have just purchased a CDTV after
selling my A 500 Plus, so you could
imagine my apprehension and the
niggly doubts about whether t was
doing the right thing. Well, readers,.
CDTV is fandabglous.
It is far more compatible with
floppy-based programs than my AS GO
Plus, and yeah it's a Workbench 1,3
machine, but what programs came
oul to utilise the Plus's extra capabili-
ties except a few hacks?
Even if CD programs never take oft,
it's not a bum deal. CDTV is a very
high quality audio CD which would
cost you an arm and a leg, It has
remote control and plays CD+G- What
audio player can say as much?
Also, it's an Amiga in a very tidy
box with an internal fan to keep it
cool. Best of all r I have the entire Fred
Fish PD library on one CD. and all this
for less than a return to Madrid! for
two.
Wait for the day when Monkey
Island 3 or Eye of the Beholder 3
arrives on a single CD rather than a
van load of disks. Think about it.
5 WSkinson, Bedford
Hmm .,r I can't help wondering from
[he number of recent CDTV plugs if on
internal Commodore memo might not
have circulated fo the effect that ail
employees were expected to write to
Amiga magazines and extol the
virtue* of CQTVr
joking aside, everyth fag you say
about CDTV is true r and doubly so
since the price drop fast month. The
only worry I have at the moment Is
that at the recent Amiga show in
London , many software houses were
present, but only a few were demon-
strating even demos on rhe machine,
let atone CDTV*specifit titles *
Let's hope this situation improves.
Amiga Computing Fmbrua . 7 1993
65
well done, I hope you find the Mastering
The Amiga boo* on this month's cover of
help In your future s trugglei.
yet again feel complete and remi-
nisce to my heart's content
about my mis-spenl youth? \
await some kind of reply with great antic i-
Ai for compiling the programming fea-
tures *n one magazine or booklet, it s some-
thing we r ve thought obaat in the post ond
decided against because we fett there was
not enough interest.
However f if enough beginning coders
were fo request such o booklet, we might be
tempted-
Star search
Each month I purchase a copy of Amigo
Computing for my daughters, and more
often than not ! find myself in the position
of hogging not only the magazine but the
computer for many hours.
I began, after a period of time, to remi-
nisce about my misspent youth sat in a Star
Wars simulator game down at the local
amusement arcadt happily playing away
until all my pocket money was spent,.
Anyway, enough bout my past, as the
wife would say, I need help and plenty of it.
Over the past three months I have tried
to no avail all possible avenues available to
me to find and purchase the Star Wars
Trilogy game, but 1 have often drawn a
complete blank. Using your many contacts,
could you please help me with my dilemma
and find a copy of this game so that I can
pation,
P Melbrs, Bournemouth
The Star War s games were produced by
Domark 7&0 2222), then released in
compilation farm some years later.
Whether or not they are now de listed I
don t know , though f suspect they are.
Try Domark, and if they can t supply
you w/th the games, pfuce an ad in our
dasstfkds section , One of our readers may
tw prepored to send pou the (ftJa or do a
wap, you never know.
Piracy excuse
How can companies say piracy leads to
higher prices? |ust look at the prices for
the uncopyable console games. Imagine
paying £35 for a game which has the
same graphics, sound, and playability as
a C64.
If piracy was stopped. It would not
result in more games being sold because
nobody would have more money to buy
the extra games.
You could say someone will not buy
an original product if they have access to
the pirated version, but this would not
hurt the industry as the money saved
would result in the user buying a different
piece of software,
Richard Barrett, ^J/iVigfXKnougb
7o be fair , the problem of large-scale pro-
fessional piracy h rife in the cartridge
industry ; though home copying is of
course Impossible without
specialist equipment This
is not the reason for high cartridge
prices, however.
Console gomes ore often sold at ridicu-
lous prices because many contain, in effect
up lo 6Mb of RAM. In addition , the consoles
themselves are sold with ve/y imaM profit
monjmi, and you will find that the major
manufacturers mofce most of theif money
from cartridge sates.
What will be a more accurate measure of
industry claims about piracy wifi be the
expected CO- ROM explosion. If CD-based
titles sell for the same price as floppy-based
games once fbe ma^eE begins Eo expand,
Eire piracy argument will be scotched and
the industry's cynical profit -making
exposed.
Short and sweet
Value for money is, I suppose, a personal
thing, but after some more than
lavourable write-ups I set forth and spent
more than £20 on lure of the Temptress,
then sal down ready to witness those
comments over weeks of puzzle solving.
After two evenings, I was in a state of
shock to wander Into a location and find
it was the end sequence. Being new to
computing and a novice at adventures, I
couldn't see how hardened gamers,
including yourselves, would find this the
least bit taxing.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with all
that was said about the game, it's just
that there's not enough of it compared to
Bloodwych, an old game that took me
Suffering from archive agony
Concerning the few, and i should imagine it's just a tew, AC
readers complaining about the archiving process on the Iasi
lew CoverDisks, one lEtter in ESP cam plains about PD disks not
chap! Keep on telling your customers to get themselves a
proper killer.
Chris Srieo, Swansea
being full, yet the At disks are crammed to the top. 1 know
which I'd rather have.
As tong as the directions on these disks are clear and work-
able, l think I'd much rather have my AC disks. Put them al in
the melting pot, I say 1
I know the Quadrix game didn't de-archive on my WB1.3
machine, but it's working now, and it's nice to watch what's,
happening when one archives a program,
Sony to have lo say this, but your Home Accounts disk had
a little bug in it. The archive calls for Home Accounts?, but the
disk has the name HomeAccounts2_ Your customers will have
to rename the disk from Workbench by putting a space
between Home and Accounts.
1 have had my Amiga and bought Amigo Computing since ]une
1991, and in that lime I've had no trouble except for Quadflx,
This includes no problem with viruses, missing disks or dam-
aged disks. I have tried all the other dedicated Amiga mags,
but this is the best. Oh, and keep on your soap box, Ezra old
Thairki tor the teilimonial Chris. Clod you Itke the magazine,
and hope you coutrnue to do jo for a long time.
As for the archiving debate, we kept well clear of the tech-
nique for three yean became we thought ft might route prob-
lems, arid it firms out we were right,
Mowewr, our techie bods are on the cose and they ossure me
that oh future archives wj7/ be fine.
One small problem remains in (hot Kkkstort 2.04 has a bug
when formatting a disk fit the interna t drive. If the dfsk you
booted from is w rite-protected, every disk you fry to format
from that disk will appear os if it is write protected, regardless
of the position of the protect tab.
This is Commodore's fault and It ft a widely documented bag
recently fixed with Kkkstort 2.0 S. All those AjdO Plus owners
out there who have had problems should simply write enable
the Cover Disk, reboot, and de-archive from there. Problem
sofved.
Reply service
I am writing to convey an idea I hav?
on improving your already excelled
magazine. A common feature 1 Sind ip
most magazines of ibis genre is the
statement "no SAEs please" oft each o*
the letters pages-
To merit a slate menl in print I sus-
pect this is a regular occurrence. Thr
suggests, does it not, that it such a ser-
vice was provided it would be popul*'
with the readerehip.
I hope that this letter will achieve, at
least, a question on this issue in your
next reader survey Of, more optimist
tally, a trial period whereby readers
queries and problems can be answered
in return for an SAE.
Philip Bids, Lanbc r
Sorry to disappoint you , Phil hut if w
wire to offer such 0 service, we would
spend so much time answering letter
that we d never produce another Issue
of the magazine.
There ore so mony hundreds of
Pen that we d either have to spend a
our time, as it would be Impossible tc
employ people for the job.
Replies in the Ezra column, whether
in person or in print, are statemem
direct from the magazine to the read
eri, and as such have to be written by
Ezra (ml). Sorry, but there you have it
months with no disk swapping, at all,
Where is the value for money? for
me H YFM is a game like Monkey Island .
or Bloodwyth,, or any game that takes a
lot of time to finish and gets you thin*
ing.
Graphics, though nice, are nothing
without gameplay, and l suspect a
Lure's disk space was taken up by graph
ks and sprites.
All said, I enjoyed what there was
and think this game could have hidde
value in that it could be a good intro
duction to adventures for children. l r d
buy a sequel providing there was mor-
to it, but that would require a full m
stones unturned review.
Anthony Biackhurst, Hawes
Ah ... am ... i light problem here. Tht
Comer guys are a dedicated lot and a:
their best to give each and every game e
righ t good hammering.
However, there are occasions whir
perhaps they don't have time to com
plete o game a/ - rarefy - haven't Iht
ability to flrwWi It
They usually make an effort to pair.'
oaf where a game wilt hove less lasting
appeal than others, but k Isn't always
possible. Res t assured welt be looking
long and hard at any new graphic
adventure s with value for money n
mind.
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FLASH ROM. This ‘FiHune Proof' technology prelects the investment you make when
you buy a Ricoh LP1200, as it enables you to keep up lo date wilh new laser firtnwaie
developments. FLASH ROM is an area of memory inside ihe LP1200 which holds the
printer's controller instruction Firmware. If new firmware is developed, eg an update to
the printer's command language, it can be downloaded into this memory. Other manu-
facturers would require you to buy a new printer? Fonts, macros, graphics and addilional
emulations can also be stored In FLASH ROM, or on removable, industry standard
FLASH ROM 1C cards. The new Ricoh LF12Q0 is the only laser printer to offer this
FLASH ROM facility. The LP1200 comes wilh a 100 sheet M paper tray (letter and
legal trays also available as extras) and the facility to feed smgio sheets of paper and
card up to 157gsm. An optional exlra universal teeder provides the facility to
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CDTV MULTIMEDIA PACK
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ONLY £439.95
NIT0R5
GOLDSTAR
TV Monitor complete with remote
control ft deeptimer
ONLY £154.95
Amis* cable for above €4.95
PHILIPS 8833 Mklt
Simply the best value stereo colour
monitor. UK model complete with 1
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ONLY £209.95
Amiga cable for above £4.95
Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 £6.95
(when bought with 3333)
CBM 10845
Commodores official stereo colour
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ONLY £174.95
Amiga cable for above £4.95
CBM 1935
14" SVGA colour monitor ,28
Pitch
A MUST FOR A30O0/4OOO
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ONLY £254.95
Amiga cable for above £4.95
CBM 1940
14" Multiscan SVGA colour monitor
.26 Dot Pitch
ONLY £409.95
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MONITOR ACCESSORIES
CUMANA CAX 354
Reputation speaks for itself
ONLY £49.95
Solid Drive with anti-click
ONLY £49.95
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New superslim drive now with anti
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ONLY £54.95
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in blitz copier
ONLY £59.95
iRIVES
52 Meg Hard Drive filit.fi
BO Meg Hard Drive tMf.fi
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Additional 2Mb Ram for above .£39,95
Additional 4Mb Ram, for above .fifths
Additional 8Mb Ram for above .fiff-93
52 Meg Combo
80 Meg Combo ....
ISO Meg Combo ..
213 Meg Combo ..
£639.95
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£919-95
A4 Copy Holder t £3^ff
14" Monitor Dust Cover, , £3.99
12/14" Screen Filter.. .£6*99
14" Tilt & Swivel Stand . . £9.99
View Centre/Monrtqr Stand £94^5
View Centre/Control Centre. £99.95
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52 Meg Internal™..,,..-* —£564.95
SO Meg Internal ai .„ fc .„ 4 ,,<Jff + 9l
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160/40 CPS
2 year guarantee
ONLY £159.99
Colour version £166.95
SWIFT 200
A500 Vf Meg no Clock £14.95
A5QQ Vs Meg with Clock.,.,.,. £17.95
asoo Plus 1 Meg Expansion
upgrades A 500 Pius to 2 Meg }£9 7*91
4600 1 Meg Expansion
no Clock .. b . 1 .. . . .£39 , n
A60Q 1 Meg Expansion
with CfOC k......,,., £24.95
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keyboard Switchable Rom
Sharer £19.99
Kiekstart 1.3 Rom £11.99
Kiekstart 2 04 Rom £19,99
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fnpandaple up to 8 Meg, fully auto-
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2 Meg Ram Board £104,95
* Meg Ram Board ,,£U4 tl
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AMIGA CUSTOM CHIPS
CIA 8SS0A £4.99
Super Denise .,£10.99
farter Agnes 8372A £19.99
f.V. Modulator... .,i'i4.9i
Replacement Power Supply .....£34-95
Replacement Internal Drive .... £39.95
replacement Quality Mouse.. £9.99
Mouse/Joystick Switcher
Box Unit -,.,., .....£9.99
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when purchased with printer
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MUSIC
Music X Junior qii.i ■Aiiilif + l III! 1 ..,.£9.99
Music X Vers 1,1 „ ,.,..£17.99
Pro Midi 4 Port Interface .**.£1 *-99
Rombo Megamix nsiar + vrHI -!-l4¥**P £2499
GVP Sound Studio. ...£49,99
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Scafa 500 ■ I Hl-H-M'***' ■***♦* + » £69.99
Scala Professional £1 79.99
Take 2 (New enhanced vers). .£39, 99
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Rocgen ............ ... £84 . 99
Rocgen Plus 11 14-99
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ART
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Deluxe Paint III < ,X9-W
Deluxe Paint IV — £.54.99
Sprite Paint ♦ , „ . >++ -£4-99
Photon - ■ — ,X4.99
Photon Paint 2
SV119 JUNIOR TURBO
6 micro switches, twin fire ...£3.99
SV123 SUPERCHARGER
6 micro switches, autofire ,,,£7,99
SV1 26 JETFIGHTER
6 m/s, pilot grip, auto, S/M...69.99
SV125 SUPERBOARD
10 m/s, stopwatch, variable
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SV1 29 FOOTPEDAL
Box of 1000 £319.99 (dea | tor Flying/Driving, £19.99
Branded precision disks made by gvi 33 MEGASTAR
top manufacture Dysan, All boxed stee| Shaft 7 m/s g/ M £t 9-99
3.5" DS/DD
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complete with labels.
Box of 50-,. £19.99
Box of 100..,,,..... c.37-99
Box of 200., £69.99
Box of 500...... ,,.,,...£159.99
in 10's complete with labels,
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500 Disk Labels £4.99
1000 Disk Labels £7.99
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40 Capacity Lockable Box £3.99
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90 Capacity 'Banx 1 £7.99
150 Capacity ’Rosso' £15.99
SV127 TOPSTAR
6 m/5, Pistol Grip, Heavy
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r i H 4 4 ■ ■ B * “ + “
£16.99
BONDWELL - QUICKSHOT
QUICKSHOT 1
Basic Leaf Switch ,,,,.£3.49
QUICKSHOT 2
Pistol Grip - Classic ,£4.99
QUICKSHOT 2 TURBO
Mi croswitch ve rsion £7.99
APACHE
Leaf switch, Pistol Grip .,,.,...£5.99
PYTHON 1 M
Super Pistol Grip with m/s, .,.£8.99
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2. ZOOL-.... £17
3. CIVILIZATION £24 1
4. MONKEY ISLAND 2 £26
5. PUSHOVER £17. (
6. FORMULA 1 GP £24J
7. PREMIERE £21
8. BEAST HI,, £20
9. DUNE i,,,......62 1 1
10. ADDAMS FAMILY,. £17-1
1 1, FALCON........ .£10
12. MAN. UTD £3
13, PGATOUR+ £20 1
14- TEAM SUZUKI .£3/
15. GRAHAM TAYLORS. ..,,.,£1 7 1
16. WIZZKID. ..£17.'
1 7 . ESPANA GAMES ’92 £20 1
18. SPACE CRUSADE £17.1
19. COOL CROC TWINS £l7.‘
20. STRIKER £17.'
WORD PROCESSING/DTP
Kindwords Version 3 .......... £34, 99
Final Copy 2 £59.99
Wordworth Vers 1.1 Mft
/Special Purchase) W7.99
Pagesetter 2 £39.99
Pro Page Professional. ,,,,..£124.99
Saxon Publisher,., £179.99
UTILITIES/BACK-UP
X-Copy Professional ,.,.£29.99
(Includes Cyclone cartridge)
Action Replay - Latest vers £54.99
Amiga Release 2 ,.,,.£76.99
Blitz Amiga £ 1 8 99
CONTROL
Manufactured by Premier Micro's
- the leaders in solid control
centres. Made from sheet steel
and epoxy coated to match
A50C/A600.
Comprises of monitor platform
plus shelf to store extra drives,
etc. A500 version complete with
extension leads for joystick/mouse
ports.
A600 version ,,,.£27.29
A500 version £32.99
MICE & TRACKER BALLS
Sqgik Quality Mouse £9.99
RocteC Mouse... ,,,£12.99
Golden Image Happy Mouse £18*99
Golden Image Brush Mouse £23.99
Haksha Mouse £23.99
Golden Image Optical Mouse, £28.99
Zydec Trackerball £23.99
Golden Image Crystal Trackerballt35.99
8mm Mousepad £3.99
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SUPERSAVERS
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Industry standard, robust I/s £6.99
MACH 1
Robus Microswitch, steel
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STARPflOBE
Superb handling, m/s, steel
shaft £11.99
THE BUG
Beautiful! Available in green/
black £10.99
BOLL1STICK
Ergonomic hand held,
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Over 7 ..,.,.£14,
IUN SCHOOL 4
Under 5
S to 7
f tO 1 1 a,..-., a 1
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French Mistress ,£13.94
G e rman Maste r £1 3- 99
Spanish Tutor £13.99
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AMIGA 500 DUSTCOVER
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GFA BASIC (REP £49.95)
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N ever has an imminent software
release been quite so imminent
for quite so long. First we had
Montage, then Mirage and now at long
last GYP have Imally thrown copious
amounts caution to the wind and pl umbed
for ImageFX,
Regular readers may remember AC's
exclusive preview of Montage - as was - in
our Septemberimage processing special.
Since those beta -testing days, ImageFX
has come a tong way, implementing all the
features hinted in the early days while
adding a few new twists fit to whet even
the most discerning artistic appetite.,
The software and attendant donkey-
choking manual come in the now almost
mandatory ring-bound hardback, complete
with an Sea la style storage sleeve - Ideal tor
easy access and perfect to impress your
friends.
Installation as you'd expect is simple,
however the results are fairly surprising as
not one but four separate programs appear
in the newly created ImageFX drawer.
Alongside the expected ImageFX the addi-
tional contents include lmageFX_WB,
CineMorph and the curiously tilled IMP,
As the name suggests, the 1mageFX_WB
program in the collection, GneMotph, may
already be familiar thanks to last month's
Morph Mama spectacular, like ADPro's
MorphPlus, the program can run as either a
standalone or in the case of ImageFX as a
Hook or plug-in module which can be
loaded directly from ImageFX on request.
Due to last month's feature. 111 concern
Altered
program allows you to open the program
on the Workbench window, providing
the power of ImageFX in the style of a
commodity, instantly accessible as and
when required.
This instant access is further enhanced
by a "put to sleep" button which appears
on both versions of ImageFX allowing the
user to temporarily iconify the program
while either retaining or disposing of any
images already present,
The only notable difference between
the custom and Workbench version is the
lack of a Preview option within the latter.
Buffer
However, this doesn't mean you can't
view images, as simply rendering the
selected buffer instantly throws the Cur-
rent image to the rendering medium of
your choice, whether that he a standard
Amiga mode or alternatively a dedicated
display device such as the JV24, HAM-E,
DCTV and the like.
Although the difference between pre-
view and render may be rather confus-
ing, all will be explained a little Eater, but
for now perhaps the simplest analogy is
to describe the Workbench option as an
ADPro-style environment, where you only
see the effects of your actions when the
render opbon isapp'ied.
Conversely, the custom screen coun-
terpart provides a constantly updated
preview every step of the way. The next
trate primarily on ImageFX and IMP, but
for those who missed the last issue here's a
brii ef a synopsis of GneMorph and its
assorted morphing and warping skills.
As you can see from the screenshots,
CineMoTph employs a dual screen system
for source and targe L images, like both
MorphPlus and Image Mr, the package
Paul Austin takes a
long lingering look at
Image FX, GVP's latest
graphics spectacular
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supports both static warps and
plus animated morphs - alas the
option for animated warps.
Again as is obvious from the sc
GneMorph uses a mesh to define
ences between the source and d
images. Although undoubtedly the
morphing package as far as ren
concerned, it must be said that a
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Now we're reaching the heart of ImageFX. Although fairly bland,
Che toolbox is undoubtedly where most time will be spent, like its
predecessors, ImageFX offers an impressive array of processing tools
and special effects including, balancing, composition, sizing, rota-
tion, convolutions, transformations, filtering. Alpha channel sup-
port, special effects, brush handling, AFtexx and last but not least
the invaluable Hooks.
The Hooks apply pre-designed ARexx programs to produce addi-
tional SFXs, but perhaps more importantly allow access to external
programs such as the aforementioned IMP and GneMorph.
Aside from image processing, the Toolbox is also the home of
the program's built-in painting tools. These tools include all the
classics which benefit en musse from the added power of a true
34-bit painting environment thanks to features such as optional
alpha channel, gradients, trace through, rub through, saturation,
colorize (sic), hue and so on.
One of the few faults of the painting environment is the limited
Using the toolbox
number of display formats offered during preview. These are
(V24, Amiga, Firecracker Of HAM-E- Obviously if you're without
of the three aforesaid display boards you're stuck with basic
graphics.
Alas in this case bask really means basic with just 16
colours or greyscales plus optional HAM. These
between straightforward colour, dithered colour,, the aFar
tioned greyscale with HAM remaining strictly old-:
4,096 lo-res.
Although bearable when image processing as a rough
the 24-bit buffer such basic Amiga graphics simply aren't
enough for serious applications. No doubt GVP would like us
rush out and buy an IV24. Back in the real world it simply
going to happen,
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cumbersome mesh editing system,
the results of the morphing/warping
car be spectacular, especially on
Matures such as eyes and mouths
lie on a fairly uniform backdrop,
lunately ClneMorph isn't quite as
when dealing with hard edges such
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ig display boards shouldn't be a problem, If CVP do the
-■ni thing and issue preview modules for, let's say the
in in, Opalvislon, Avrdeo or even DCTV, the success of
TX would be assured - the question ts r will they?
* ike me you're without either the now defunct HAM-E or an
•he only option left is to move to the Render screen and re-
Ihe image for an accurate overview,
: 'no ugh this provides access to a much wider selection of
Formats, it invariably means painting is at best hit and
and invariably much more time consuming than a normal
package.
The next minor gripe is the actual application of the pdinl
1 Unfortunately CVP have insisted on sticking with the infa-
*pamt and wait" approach pioneered OH the IV24,
far ihose unfamilsar with the IV24 and Macro Paint the prob-
-jppears whenever paint is applied to the canvas as only the
of the effect rs applied in real time,
for example, an airbrush first appears as a series of overlap-
ircles which are only replaced by the chosen colour after
is complete.
A similar problem affects fange brushy as they first appear as
^crv Pixel lines and only expand to their true size and colour
r ”ie event,
lines. When morphed or warped, hard
edges do tend to ’ghost" around the
edges rather than transform with the same
degree of accuracy otrerc- ! by both Image
Mr and to a greater extent MorphPlus.
Having made a point oi the program's
ghosting probfem it‘\ worth stressing that
in effect CineMthph comes as almost a
freebie - very appealing considering that
Cinelvlorph in its Stand abrte form retails at
a staggering £99.9$.
The last software surprise ^ mysterious
IMP which when stripped of its acronym
becomes ihe Imaged Multi Processor
Although you d never guess from the title
the IMP is a batch editor
in the style of ADPro J s
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novice rt r s much easier to
use than the aforesaid t
mo, bu- in turn do« prOCCSStUg tO
sacrifice a lot of the
sophistication and ftaiW* fag maSSCS...
ily available from its
ADPro Friendly counter-
part. Like CineMorph, IMP operates as a
hook as well as a pseudo-standalone which
opens the IMP interface alongside the
lmageFX_WB program as a processing tool,
As you can probably see, the interface is
pretty simple with a main and swap field
for source images plus an excellent Alpha
channel option which allows you to use a
predefined series of greyscale masks as a
transparency filter
between the two
source images,
Below the Alpha
lurks the essentia!
destination field,
which as you'd
expect works as a
definable repository
for your animations,
rendered images or
batch-processed
24 bits.
Next conies the
Fint/Last file parame-
ters closely followed
Colour organisa-
tion is an essential
for any sttf -respect-
ing image proces-
sor and here again
imagc-FX scores well with a whole selection of spreads and swaps, grabs and saves,
pick options and ranging features.
The available pots for colour placement default to 12 but with the assistance of
the program's add and subtract arrow gadgets the selection cart vary from just two
colours up to a maximum of 256.
Building colours from the ground up is equally well catered for with RGB, H5V,
CMY, VFQ and YUV colour space models. If you prefer to pick colours rather than
create them, a toggle gadget allows you to select colours either from a default
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Other processing essentials include palette
lock which when active applies the palette
of the first frame to all subsequent images.
Delete frames does as suggested while
*waiL for source" simply instructs IMP to
wait for all frames to be created by an
external source prior Eo executing the
batch. The Prep and Proc options are per-
haps the most impres-
sive ol all the available
gadgets.
The Prep option
allows you to specify
either a single or
selection of com-
mands to be applied
prior to processing,
while Prat allows a
separate selection to
be applied after processing .
Fortunately no knowledge of ARexx is
required as long as you stick to the sup-
plied ImageFX commands. Customising
the commands and the required rendering
format is simply a matter of defining the
required effects within ImageFX before
clicking the begin button.
As a result,, once batch processing
begins IMP simply reads the existing set-
tings within Ima-geFX and acts upon them.
Although fairly unassuming, IMP is in
my opinion one of the strongest: selling
points of the ImageFX package^ bringing
batch processing to the masses without the
need of any ARexx experience. For the busy
graphic artist with neither the time nor the
inclination to master ARexx, IMP is nothing
short of a dream come true.
ImageFX itself is separated into five dis-
tinct areas, all of which have their own
unique interface occupying a strip on the
lower portion of the screen. The five areas
are Scanner, Palette, Toofbox, Render and
Print. Although each panel is unique to its
intended application a few select gadgets
are generic throughout the program. These
include load, save, prefs and of course quit.
The load and save options r although self
explanatory, do have a few surprise in store
when applied. For example when loading
images there's no format selection
required, as the software automatically
Rendering
As ihe name suggests, it's here where you
can see your creations in all their glory -
providing you have a suitable display
device attached. If however you don't
have either an IV24 r HAM-E or DCW, I'm
afraid you're stuck with standard Amiga
modes.
However, aFl is not lost, especially if you
own an A12GQ/4Q00, as it's here where at
least some of the potential of the ACA has
been applied,
ImageFX is totally at home with a 256-
colour display which with the assistance
of the four available dithering formats,
three dithering styles - either left to right,
right to left or zig zag - and three defin-
able strength settings ensures that excep-
tioma! good results await in the resolution
ol your choice.
The software automatically senses
which machine is being used and as a
result Automatically tailors the selection of
screen modes and resolutions to suit.
Once the display method and dither-
ing options are set simply clicking the ren-
der .button instantly sends image to the
device or screen.
As you may have guessed, thanks to
the distinction between display and ren-
der it's impossible to actually edit the ren-
dered imagE as it r s designed purely to
give the best possible representation of
the 24-bit buffer.
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S oftware
As is almost essential within any serious image processing package, printing is taken *
ously. In the case of Imaged the present options include 24-bit printing via prefer-
and perhaps more importantly full PostScript support
If you select the PostScript option you're presented with two choices, either to *
your creation as a full PostScript page or alternatively as an £PS - Encapsulated PostScr
which can then be imported directly into any DTP package as either an Ascii or ,
PostScript file. - - .
Although PostScript support is fully implemented, it must be said that it S oy no r ■
as comprehensive as either Image Mr or ADPro.
Nevertheless all the base essentials are there allowing page and image suing, in
centralisation plus the option to either ignore or retain aspect ratio.
As you'd expect with EPS support, GVP have included the ability to save the PostS
imaae direct to disk rather than printer-only output, In short, a basic but effective sysh 1
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already supported,
Such files include Alias, Anim x BMP,
DCTV, DP1IE, FLI r GIF, HAM E, ICO, IFF -
including IFF24 r Impulse, info, (peg, PBM,
PCX, QRT, Rendition, Sculpt, Unix’s PBM
format, Targa, Tiff and VMEM. An impres-
sive selection and no need to specily a
thing.
Added twist
On the output side, things are equally
impressive with an added twist □! a whole
selection of options including Lhe ability to
save the working screen, the rendered
image, the 24-bit buffer itself and finally
the swap buffer -again in its 24-bit form.
For the working, rendered and swap
buffer images the save options include
anim, UMP r Clipboard and IIBM, white tor
the 24-bU buffer the selection expands to
AJias r BMP, Clipboard, 1LBM, PBM, Jpeg,
Rendition, Sculpt, Targa, Tiff, and TO EM.
Aside from the quit option the linal
ubiquitous gadget leads to the excellent
Prefs screen which like IMP is a high point
of the package. Although Prefs screens
don't tend to lead to unbridled excitement
this is a real exception.
On entry you're presented with a hoge
range of customising features, the most
notable of which has to be Lhe excellent
virtual memory option which allows you to
assign a drawer on hard disk as a tempo-
rary storage medium which will then mas-
querade as RAM.
This cs nothing short of a masterstroke
an the part o5 GVP. ADPro and to a lesser
ex tent Image Master are notorious for their
ravenous appetite for RAM which often
means a massive Investment in additional
hardware or a major re-think of the project
in haiKi.
As you might expet t r VRam is notice-
ably slower than the real thing but thanks
to intelligent design you can define when
the option is to be applied.
For example,, you # .
can specify that VRam ffj£ VlftU&l
should be used only
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Other Prefs high- masterstroke
lights include the
include the
option to deline the
Preview and Render options, whkh in the
case of preview include Amiga, HAM-E,
and IV24 as either greyscale, colour.
Flexible scanning
Supported stannera and grabbers include the Espon E5300C, the Sharp JXlOO, Frame-
grabber and the,IV24's EVfG. Alai there's no option for the latest Epson M scanners such
as the ES-600C and ES-80DC or the excellent Vlab frame-grabber.
Having said, that, as with the majority of ImageFX functions scanners and grabbers are
simple plug-in modules in the style of ADPno loaders which means in theory new releases
only require a suitable module to join in on the act.
As you'd expect, all the necessary scanner setup options awail including Landscape and
portrait, the essential mono preview, image cropping via definable boxes, DPI sellings,
separate colour or full RGB scans and of course greyscales - in short, everything that the
scanners own software cart provide plus instant access to the image processing power of
the main program.
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dithered colour, or HAM - but no HAMS
|'m afraid. Rendering output lares a little
better with Amiga 1.3, '2/3. DCTV, FGS,
Sage, IV24 and HAM-E,
but unbelievably enough
there's still no sign of
HAMS.
GVP are promising a
HAMS update io the
package but as yet it's
still unclear how it is to
be implemented and
even worse whether the
revision will! be free or
not.
This particular sin is
compounded by the fact that ihe program is
more than happy with all other screen
modes available via WB 3.0. As a result, a
super hi-res 256-dithered render is a piece of
cabe r so why no HAMS? Infuriating.
The remaining options deal primarily with,
customisation including a complete selection
of definable paths for eveiy input/outpul fea-
ture of lhe package plus the required presets
for any scanners, frame-grabbers or printers
attached to your system.,
The only remaining generic option is the
loom controls which consist of three gad-
gets, two oF which increase and retard the
levels of zoom while the third altews instant
screen refresh back to the default image s*ze.
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If you read the preview of ImageFX way
back in our September issue you may recall
that the program won the title as potentially
Ehe best all-rounder. Mow it's finally arrived
that verdict remains pretty much the same,
Although the GVP marketing machine
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would argue otherwise, ImageFX a-
doesn’t blow either Image Mr or AD
of tine water when it comes to pure
processing power. However
SmdyeFX really scores highly is its ex
intuitive design, ease of use, Ftexibi 1 '
overall value for money.
If ^ou class yourselF as a general
user ImageFX is probably the one fo r
With ARexx, free anim generation,
scanning station, special effects, c
tion, morphing and printing, it's pe
dose as the Amiga has yet come to a r
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T he scenario is simple. You have
quite happily swapped disks with
friends,, bought and used a sdec-
or ?D disks or r in some rare cases,
ted from a magazine CoverDisk (not
one, I assure you), when calamity
!S„ The Amiga starts to do strange
is and your software suddenly stops
ting,.
Chances are, me old matey, that you've
infected with a common or garden
outer virus, and as if this isn't enough,
I also more than a little likely that it's
own silly fault
‘'ecautions are the name of the game
swapping disks every b\ t as much as
swapping sexual partners, and the
who exposes his or her machine to
ravages of Saddam or Lamer rs usually
of negkgence.
Computer viruses, once the subject of
liar myth and superstition, have over
past two years been tamed by the
urity of careful ownm due r in no small
to the efforts of a small band of dedi-
shareware virus killer authors.
However, for those green users still wet
Digital
As a host of new owners boot
an Amiga for the first time,
Stevie Kennedy takes a look at
what could be their first disaster
behind the ears, the virus remains probably
the most deadly threat to trouble-free
Amiga use, and it is for those new owners
that this article is repeated every year.
Having sa*d that, treating the threat of
viruses with contempt - usually brought
about by the mistaken belief that today's
virus killer will work tomorrow - is often the
downfall of more experienced user*, so we
might all benefit from a refresher course.
There are two stages to virus security -
prevention and cure. The first is immeasur-
ably passer than the second and more effec-
tive, but it is surprising, judging from the
number of readers' letters on the subject,
fust how many people either don't know
d iseases
the basic rules or never apply them.
Follow the guidelines laid out in this
article and you should never suffer the
agonishg and strangely humiliating expe-
rience of viral infection. Fail to stick to a
strict regimen, of precautions, anrf
heartache will - eventually - follow as
surely as day follows night Let's identify
Some basic safeguards to avoid infection
T o avoid virus infection, the easiesi precaution is- to keep ell
■ sks write-protected unless data Is to be saved to them.
spite scare-mongering reports a couple of years ago, it is
rnpo£$ibta fur a wnle-protecicd disk to become inlected.
Step i wo is to find a good virus checker. Unlike some sup-
isedly expert advisors, we won't attempt to list the various
heckflrs Jn order of effec liveness, as the only useful checker
the best checker.
For example, a recent article in another Amiga magazine
VirusX al number five In a list of ten besl checkers.
Though good in its day, VirusX development has for long
en abandoned by its author, Steve Tibbel, who made no
•nos about the fact that the program s design made updating
for all new viruses a tiresome and ultimately pom ties 5 task.
Since the middle of 1M1 s VirusX has been obsolete and,
xiugh still louled by mosl PD libraries (and the odd foolish
^gazine), should be avoided at all costs.
Similarly, some supposedly good virus killers have proved,
"!er prolonged use. to be either inaccurate or in efficient,
faster Virus Killer is bugged in many of its versions and
refuses to work as a background 24-hour checker, limiting Its
otherwise comprehensive virus detecting ability. Nuke, which
many now mistakenly believe to be the best checker, has an
annoying knack of "finding Saddam on a clean disk, even
when the disk-validator has been copied from a fresh disk.
Such popularly promoted checkers, though worthy pro-
gramming feats in their own right, should only be purchased
from PD pundits as second-1 ine defences end used in conjunc-
tion with a tried and tested Checker uni if their effectiveness
under fire can be gauged.
Step three is simply to apply the rules we have been urged
to adopt for sexual relations - minimise your partnerships and
always use a condom.
Translated to computer virus speak, this means don't swap
and change disks with others whose virus defences may be
nil. and! when a new disk is introduced to your system, make
sure that it has been thoroughly virus checked
By applying the three golden rules, no user need fear for his
or her disks. Ignore them and it won t be long before uncle
Saddam or cousin Travelling Jack pops by ic say hello.
the enemy, A computer virus is a small
piece uf code whose primary purpose m
life is to copy itself from one disk to
another.
Secondary considerations depend
upon the virus, but range from simple
repeated duplication, damaging enough
in itself, to deliberate criminal damage of
data and program files.
I say criminal, because it Is illegal to
knowingly spread a virus, let alone invent
one of your own, and if any of our readers
can ever prove that someone has carried
out such a sad and pathetic act i would
hope they'd do the decent thing and call
the police immediately.
Boot block viruses
The majority of Amiga viruses are
known as boot block viruses, because they
hide in the tiny amount of space kept to
one side for the boot block on. a disk.
Without a boot block, no disk will auto-
baot, and without a special custom boot
block, few protected commercial games
will work, so even the most primitive boot
block viruses, sometimes irresponsibly
described as "harmless",, can be fatal.
A second and less numerous type is the
file virus, so called because it exists on a
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disk as a separate file. These are by far the
most dangerous, as they use a variety of
cunning methods to disguise themselves,
thus fooling your system deFenees.
Standard- link viruses, such as IRQ, will
append themsefves to a program file,
often the first command run in the
startup -sequence, then attempt to go
unnoticed.
Unless a virus killer is intelligent enough
to figure out that, say, the Selpalch com-
mand has suddenly grown in size or con-
tains tell-tale code, link viruses will sneak
through and cause their havoc at a later
date.
Saddam
Others, sometimes called! Troian
horses, will entirety replace the infected
file, change Lheir own name to suit, and
sometimes even try to match the size of
the original. A prime example of this virus
type is Saddam, which became notorious
shortly after the Gulf war, and which shot
rn fame when iL was inadvertently dis-
tributed on the Amiga User International
CoverDisk in December 1991,
Saddam replaces the disk-validator file,
pads itself out to the same sue as its host,
then corrupts the bitmap on the disk's
root block,
As the bitmap is a digital map of the
disk, Amiga DOS sees that it is inaccurate,
assumes the disk is unvalidated, and runs
the disk-validator program in an attempt
to sort out the problem. Hey presto,
Saddam is invoked by the Amiga itsell,
In addition, the infected disk will no
longer work it Saddam is not running,
Safe hex
In an attempt to coordinate fhe lie
against viruses, promote informal!
exchange, end publicise the dang
posed by viruses, a group of a bo
250 Amiga users, including a numt
of virus killer authors, came logeth
last year to form Safe He
International.
The group maintains a virus ba
containing all known Amiga virus
(for killers to be tested on), releas
virus killers at regular Intervals, a
offers a reward of Si ODD for intern
lion leading to the prosecution of an
one Found to have written a virus-
Any reader who is interested
either joining the fight against virus
or keeping in touch with an organis
tion offering the best and most up
date information should contact E’
Soerensen at;
Snap ha neve) 10, DK-4720 Pngestoe
Denmark, Phone: (+45) 55 99 £5 12
FAX: £+45) 55 99 34 9B
Speedy Gonzales, as Erik is otherwi
known, will be pleased to receive an
virus information, new viruses^ or ju
moral support from Amiga users. %
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The only virus killer I would recommend without reserva- friendly commoditieS-Style interface is available
Iron is Virus Checker from John Vefdthuls. Now In v6.19 Workbench 2i3 users. VirusZ is probably the only oth
(at time of writing) Virus Checker has been constantly checker worth relying on at the moment. Its ccmpreFn
updated in line with the latest operating system changes sive library of link viruses (69 are covered by release 5-2
and virus threats. and a host of options including Boot Lab for boot bio
Saddam, Menem’s Revenge and Travelling Jack are all saves and loads, user preferences, and file/memory sc
catered lor. and if any user doubts the program s abilities, ning abilities, give Georg Herman's program a dislr
a quick glance at the comprehensive list of viruses in edge over most other checkers,
John's documentation should calm any fears. Not as simple in operation as Virus Checker. VirusZ ii
Like all good checkers. Virus Checker can be fired up superb second-line package for those sticky momen
by a disk's startup-sequence and used as a full-time sen- when doubts begin to creep in. It has also undergone a
tineh or can be kicked in from Workbench for the odd disk of thorough, regular upgrades, and shows no signs
check. obso I escence.
In addition, the program's file virus check can be inslh Another prime contender, BootX, has gained in popul.
gated at any time, and memory scans are available if the Uy over the past year, \ can't say how good it Is as l'i
user suspects something funny is going on in RAM. used it without relying on 11, but reports from around
The program use& a fc, bralnfile' s to keep track of boot Amiga world are positive enough to make it Is worth tryir
blocks - handy for those nor^virus custom boot blocks tor a white in conjunction with either Virus Checker :
which would otherwise prompt a virus warning, and a very VirusZ.
which makes, it a certainty that if a suit-
able virus checker is not used the disk is
doomed.
Unlike some less aggressive strains, the
Saddam vims, like the filthy little parasite
it is, simply wipes out its host disk.
Saddam was just the first of a new
wave of link viruses, varying in their
sophistication, to hit the Amiga last year,
and only a tew virus killers have managEd
to keep up,
St is therefore pointless to assume that
your checker is effective if you have been
using it for more than about a couple of
months.
By far the most effective method of
4 1 Saddam , like
the filthy
parasite it is, wipes
out its host disk
M
ensuring that your defences arc solid is to
get hold of one or more goad checkers,,
then register with the authors as a share-
ware user.
For a nominal fee you will be sent a
new version of the program as soon
is updated, saving you time and m
scouring the PD columns, and a
heart attack when your obsolete d«
defences keel over at the first sight
brand new virus.
Without such people as Steve Tibfij
and John Veldthuis, the Amiga m
would be a much more dangerous oofli
nent than at present.
Were it not For the efforts of INI
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U ntil recently S-VH5 hardware has
been way out of reach for Ihe
average videophile. Fortunately
prices are tumbling and the time could be
right to take the next step up.
Well start our adventure with G-Lock the
veiy latest offering from CVP, a unit which
leads the field in the battle against inflated
pricing by retailing at literally half that of its
Hama counterpart. The question is, does
the cash saving mean missing features?
The unit itself is a fairly bland black
beastie offering RGB input from the Amiga
via a 2 3- pin flexi connector plus the gen-
locking essential of an RGB pass-through
which connects directly to either a monitor
□r at worst a modulator.
In addition to the RGB options sits a
rather curious joystick connection which
serves a dual purpose as both a power sup-
ply and means of input for the unit's sec-
ondary role as a colour splitter - ideal for
both Vidi and Digiwiew,
Along the side await the essential I/O
connections which for input consist of two
CVBS/RCA phonos and a single 5-VB5/Hi-B
mini-DiN. On the other side ol the I/O coin
await a single RCA phono out and of course
the essential S-VHS mini DIN.
Pleasant
The final and rather surprising I/O option
concerns soundl. Again connected via a
selection of phonos boasting two- separate
audio ins and a single/mono audio out.
Although a pleasant addition l must
admit ft/s not exactly the ultimate
audio; video answer primarily due to its
mono only output.
To accommodate the feature software
sliders allow adjustment of both bass and
treble plus the overall volume. In addition a
selection gadgets allow you to toggle
between input channels or alternatively mix
both signals Into a single combined output.
Unfortunately there's no way to adjust
the input gain of the audio signals. As a
result, the relative mix between the two
sources is defined purely by the strength of
the incoming signals.
As a consequence you may still require
an external mixer to achieve the desired
effect,, thereby cancelling oul the advantage
of the internal mixing options. Not perhaps
the definitive answer to audio/video but
nevertheless a worthy addition.
Once the software and hardware are
safely installed, it's time to boot-up - a pro-
ecialist
—
7 /
cess which involves first activating the unit
and then reboot to run the attendant
software.
When active you're presented with the
basic video control panel which can be tog-
gled to reveal alternate audio panel. As the
au dio options have already been mentioned
well stick to video control which consists of
a. signal indicator, a selection of sliders con-
trolling colour, contrast, saturation and
brightness - all of which relate to the outgo-
ing video signal.
Tallowing these come the three input
gadgets which toggle between the two
CVBS inputs and of course the single S-
VHS/HiB. Switching between them is instan-
taneous and can be achieved either via the
G-Lock and Hama represent the cutting edge
Amiga S-VHS genlocks. Paul Austin brings yoi
the definitive guide to two true power produ
control panel, a hot key combination or
ARexx.
Alas G-Lock can only process a single
video input at a Lime so there's no way to
cross-fade between sources, In addition the
connection of both CVBS an-d S-VHS simul-
taneously although possible - rs not rec-
ommended as signal interference between
the two formats can cause real problems.
Although cross-fading is out of (he ques
the unit does offer basic input switching
ARexx, Illustrated by an accompam
script which fades one composite source
black, swaps inputs and returns with
second. Due to CVBS/S-VHS incompatii
this can only be achieved between the
CVBS signals.
Beneath the input selection sit the J
tlafs of modem Amiga
Kiting in the form of
external option which
piy operate* a* a pass-
tigh for the incoming
signal.
This b followed by the
iiga option which in
is the reverse of the
pvc showing only the
iiga's output completely
k passing the incoming
signal,
Next comes overlay, the
read and butter of any
respecting genlock, pro-
the classic combina-
n of Amiga graphics
the incoming video
flgnal,
-.astly we arrive at the
option which simply
:erses the effect of the
•rementioned overlay
colour zero opaque
transforming all other
lours of the overlaid
ik transparent to the
Getting connected
ic
sse
jur
rid alas
Towards the rear of the Hama uni" awai
input/output options including composite and
Alas there's pniy a single >et for eacn format i
the G-Lock there's no way to crossfaoe between
Having said :h.v -nr- unit does boast automatic wng e .
tng when either source is detected meaning that unite 1
Lock the Hams ft perfectly happy with, bom VH5 and
recorders connected simultaneously
Alongside the selection of wd*.o ports ,* C SS
out and a joystick connection which writs in conjunction with
both Digi-view Cold and De-Lux-View to aufomattcaly gener-
ate colour separations which are then sent sequential to the
aforernenhantd hardware
The only other notabk featim-
which curiously enoumh doesn :
3 If
power rocker switch
■Kb.
ii p ay j: pari when
using the unit in conjunction wi& the Amod.
This option has been *dc4 d ouneh because oF the Hama's
secondary roll as an ROB-to-Pal or Y C encoder. When used
solely for this purpose the unit need not be connected to the
Amiga and because it is then deprived of Its primary power
source a 12V PC PSU is required
The onFy remaining O pflf l fl d fcw e Etat df the RGB signal
from the Am»q] wh ch slots to the rear of the unit and -a-
emerges in |he lorn >l ?>_• essential RGB pass-through, which
I ike G-Lock connects f ■ da attendant monitor pr modulator
ling signal.
tetaw the keying options await the three
Enable setup gadgets which allow you to
ify a complete keying and signal pro-
sing environment - Including audio
- which can then be saved or tog-
as and when required,
in addition to the basic audio and vkJeo
trals another four control panels await -
* which are devoted almost entirely to G-
's primary strength of signal processor,
Extensive
As you can see from the control panel
shots, the support for signal p-nocesv-
* very extensive and reveals G-Lock 's real
as a professional signal processing tool.
: ram the fourth advanced panel you can
advantage of the chromakey functions
into the AG A allowing you to specify a
lion of colours as the keying channel. In
on you can also select any of the 8-bil
nels as a keying medium In
style of the ECS.
As the more astute readers may
already spotted there's been
jalily no mention of wipes,
or indeed dissolves, and with
reason, as there are virtually
e on offer, with the only
sption being the storemen-
input switching.
Above all else this*is the hard-
's most damning indictment,
for the bask keying quality
* genlock - which admittedly is
en-t - fades and dissolves are
ps the most important feature of any
I purpose genlock,
Without the ability ta Subtly move
n keying states a genlock becomes
si useless to the average punter Mot
does G-Lock refrain from keying trans-
ition either via Akexx f hot keys or Fiarri-
bul it also offers no means of adjusting
amount of static effect applied in any of
wing modes.
The end result of this "all or nothing"
approach means that G-Lock will almost cer-
tainly have a very limited appeal to the mass
market. Unless you're the proud owner of an
AB roll editing system, a separate video
mixer and God knows what else, attempting
to employ G-Lock with any degree of sub-
tlety would be at be-st a difficult proposition,
For the average user with an Amiga, a
titter and suitable video hardware it's safe to
say G-Lock isn't the ideal choice, unless of
course your artistic aspiration* stretch no fur-
ther than bag standard overlays and inver-
sions with no intros.
Having suffered a severe slap in the face
as far as punter appeal is concerned, it must
be said 0-Lock will have a degree of appeal
to professionals, primarily thanks to its unri-
valled signal processing and transcoding tal-
ents which leave all other Amiga friendly
S-YHS units For dead.
Used with Scafa or other such multimedia
DTV
applications as a multimedia tool, G-Lock
could nevertheless be useful for, say, corpo-
rate applications, where some of its omis-
sions waid not be required anyway.
Still, even with this on its side 1 can only
envisage a select few who would be willing
to invest such a sizeable sum for a signal pro
cessar which happens to boast basic gen-
locking as almost an afterthought.
iGs possible you may have read a
rather conflicting review of G
Lock in another surprisingly pop- m
>1
ular Amiga magazine. If that 1 * the
case it only goes to prove the old
adage that you can't always believe
what you read, especially If it
doesn't appear in AC.,
Hama
rn* iiuuf. nr
nrnfjtf vidm
contra! pliri a
1 " iiNic Pimnpfr of
ffr^ Amt extra
J puncfi Ltiiir.TMrj
In the wlngi
Etup i : f Setup i I Eeiajp j
Although the Hama editorial is dwarfed by
the G-Lock section, it's by no* means a reflec-
tion on the product. The situation comes
about simply due to the relative simplicity of
whal is d straightforward qualrfy product
with all the essentials plus a reasonable spat-
tering of extras.
The most noticeable feature of the Hama
is its overall look which basically screams
quality from the moment if emerges from its
packaging.
The most dominant feature must be the
twin faders on the right of the unit, both of
which are dampened to altow smooth and
accurate transition between the Amiga and
video signals.
To the left of the aforesaid sliders luck the
six video processing controls,, the upper row
of which allow variation of the RGB mix by a
factor of plus or minus 30 percent, resulting
in bizarre colourisalion effects beneath the
overlaid or inverted Amiga graphics.
Below the RGB controls await the chroma
- alias colour, contrast and finally luminance,
otherwise known as brightness. As you
might imagine these final three are primarily
concerned with getting the very best from
Lhe available source.
Having said that, even here a Few tricks
can be applied. For example a simple effect
such as overlaying colour Amiga
graphics on top of an initially
black and white video source
which then gradually transforms
to lull colour. Simple but never-
theless effective.
Beneath the signal controls sit
keying toggled buttons which
like the G-Latk r s software alfeern^
lives consist of a bypass,
Genlock/Amiga and finally invert
all of which operate in exactly the
same manner as their G-Lock
counterparts.
As you've probably guessed
the Hama is essentially a simply product
which easily wins an award as one of the
simplest plug-in and go products on the
market
The actual keying quality in all states is
nothing shod of breathtaking especially
when working with a 5-VH5 source. As for
ease of use, again the Hama scores high with
key mode switching and signal processing
beginning a simple matter of tapping the
odd button and twiddling the occasional
knob r The only slight
problem concerning changes
□n the fly appears when switching
between key modes while the effect is fully
applied, as occasionally screen glitches
necessitate a fade out prior to application.
Although almost all of the above is basi-
cally a glowing testament to Hama's talents
there is one area in which it does suffer. If
you've happened to glance at the product
box there's a chance its already been spot-
ted - the jaw-dropping price of the unit.
Although excellent I must admit I'd like
to See a Few more whistles and bells for the
£740 asking price. Such enhancements
could include audio support and crossfads
between an increased number of available
Inputs. Still having bad my almost inevitable
moan the Hama still remains the ideal
choice for any would-be professional. If you
can afford it, buy it. If youcau't, start
saving...
SYSTEM ESSE NTIALS
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monitor
I am an Amiga user who Currently owns
an unexpanded A15GQ. I wish to expand
tny machine, but want to be able to
upgrade to Commodore's new mid^
range computer when it becomes avail-
able (probably the A 2200, or A2400),
if I buy a Commodore I960 multi-
sync monitor, will I be able to use it
without a flicker fixer? I have heard that
some of these monitors suffer from vari-
ous problems (pin -cushioning etc). Is
there a test that I can make in the shop
to see if the monitor suffers from this
problem before I buy It?
Can you suggest a hard disk drive
(around 52Mb) which is suitable for an
Amiga (ie auto-parking and auto-boot-
Ing), is reasonable cheap and would be
mast likely to have hardware compatibil-
ity with any nexv Amigas?
Also^ Power Computing, are selling a
rewritable optical disk drive. Can this
device be booted from under
Workbench 2 and how reliable are they?
jamthan Dale, Switzerland
Commodore's I960 monitor is quiet a
good choice and can be used without
a flicker fixer, but to use it to its full
potential you will need one.
Pin -cushioning is where the edge ol
what you are displaying is curved, so
to test a monitor for this the best
thing is to just display the standard
Monitor moaning?
Interfaces ill?
We re here to help!
IGA COMPUTING
AOVICE
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V I C
E
Write to ACAS, Amiga Computing, Europa
House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield SK10 4NP
Save your saes - we can 't reply personally
Workbench screen and see if
and right sides of the screen
or out.
As for which hard drive to bJ
choice would have to be a QlM
52Mb with either a CVP or ■*
controller.
Unfortunately Quan turns aft
controlled and the new
1200/2200/2400 machines ai
with IDE controllers on-boarri
are extremely slow compare _
SCSI controllers.
Some companies are piann
controllers for the new ra
Amigas, though - Inc
Commodore themselves.
The optical disk drive y O'
mentioned Is quiet a good
and can he booted from
Workbench 1.3, 2 or 3. Wl*
tried the Floptical it handled
very well indeed,
PCM card
I hope that you can provide m
definitive answer regarding the
card slot of my CDTV.
The article in the December
your magazine regarding the \
the CDTV proclaimed that the
als now becoming available
A 600 would be compatible w
CDTV via its standard PCMCIA
card slot
It was therefore with great
asm that I reached for the pi.
Does the AA chipset outperform a 386?
As the owner of an almost obsolete Amiga A1 500, I was
wondering what would be the next logical upgrade step
now that Commodore have scrapped the promised
A22GD mgdel-
I already have a 1&MHz 68-020 accelerator with $2Ml
fast RAM and 52Mb hard drive, I use my A 1 5 00 for just
about everything fun but which isn't actually useful -
programming, Midi sequencing, games, writing the
occasional letter, artwork (well I think it's art, anyway)
and ray-tracing.
Can the AA chipset be fitted in Ehe A3Q0G, and do
Commodore have any plans to sell future ATGGQs with
the AA chipset as standard?
And the 64-thousand dollar question - what about
the cost? I have thought many times about smashing
my piggy- bank and getting an SVGA-FC/ISd. Only the
AA chipset would convince me not to. Time is running
out. Commodore]
fust how fast can that monster processor access chip
memory? A megabyte of fast memory never seems to go
very far these days! By the way, how much does it cost
lor full-speed expansion RAM?
Is it really zero- wait-state at 25 MHz when you disable
the caches? Is a 6BBS1/68882 an optional extra? I
haven't yet aspired to a maths processor on my current
system, although I enjoy a bit of ray-tracing.
I also want to play games as well as use serious appli-
cations. How compatible are games with the 660307 My
68020 has been very poor in this area. The only games I
have which Lake advantage of it are Stunt Car Racer and
Formula 1 Grand Prix_ Mast games don't even load,
1 swear that Archer Maclean is trying to play a tune
with the disk drive stepper motor on IK+L What worries
me is that even fairly recent games such as
jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker don't run on my
6EG20.
To write in small print on a sticker on the box "not
compatible with the Amiga A 3 DOG and some 68G3Q
chips" is just not on - any PC owner would have a fit if a
game didn't run on his B03E6 PC but worked fine on his
friend's B0B6 PC,
Now I've got that mini-editorial off my chest, thank
you for taking the time to read this letter. My apologies
for asking so many questions!
5 WOlktrm, Blackpool
Unfortunately It's hard to suggest which machine
you should consider next, mainly because you use
your machine for quite a number of applications.
Face it, is it compatibility you want or a better
machine than your present one? If it's a better
machine you want then go for the A4QQ0.
QK, it costs ardund £2 r 0QG plus VAT for a 52Mb
hard drive r 2M'b chip memory and 4Mb fast memory
machine, but It's definitely worth It.
Also Commodore have still got plans to produce
the A22O0 and possibly the A24QG, which will
the new AA chipset and probably a 6SG20 or
and some internal expansion slots.
It s not clear if they will come with the mam
processor on board already or if it s a factor u
It Is unlikely that Commodore will produce an
with the AA chipset in, as the A3000 used to be
top of the range Amiga and now the A4OQ0 ha*
nitely stolen that position,.
As for how much memory costs, its about £51
Mb. The A4Q0D uses 72-pin SIMMs and yes r it is
wait-state access
As I mentioned earlier, 3t r s hard to upgrade
new machine with more advanced chips fitted
without running Into compatibility problems,
Commodore have gone some way to try to
this problem* by including a nifty hard
downgrade option which is triggered by h
down both mouse buttons white rebooting
machine.
This presents you with 4 menu asking you
graphics mode you wish to bool up in, and if
wish to use CPU cacheing - although it must be
that ll doesn't work with everything.
You're quite right - software houses should
more attention not only to testing there softw*
all machines, but also dearly marking their pr
for compatibility.
Amigo Computing February 1993
A
T echnical H el,
one oF the 4Mb memory cards
being advertised For the A6QQ.
• v dismay I was informed that the
redit card slot, only supports the
and extremely expensive personal
cards,
eterred, I contacted the dealer
whom I had originally purchased
CDTV f who stated that, yes indeed.,
DTV memory card slot is a sLam
PCMCIA but unfortunately they
not supply me with a 4Mb card,
rai other phone calls resulted in a
iv equal split of affirmative and
responses regarding the nature
CD TV slot,
^erefore determined to seek the
of the perpetrator of this eonfu-
■»>e mighty Commodore itself- After
J anyone should know then they
Jortunately I was solidly refused
to any part of the organisation
than the telepFione switchboard
rterred back to my dealer,
must be said that with an attitude
ii this Commodore do not deserve
oyalty which I and many others
shown in the past,
gripes aside,, please could you
my problem, since £200 is a lot
d dfi an ill-informed experiment.
0 Madeley, Staffordshire
answer to your question is yes,
"CM slot is identical on both the
and the CDTV, so Ihe memory
‘es should work, but some soft-
and hardware options which
4dvantage of the PCM slot might
is because the CDTV is running
Workbench 1.3 and the A60O is
brkbench 2-0 machine, so you
have to check software ava li-
on PCM cards for compatibility
Workbench 1.3 machines.
€ of tjhe main problems with CD A'
lack of memory. The CD drive
quite a lot just to operate, and it
may be worthwhile investing in a chip
memory upgrade which will give you
2Mb of chip memory.
There are quiet a few companies
offering this upgrade, called Mega-Chip.
Try Alternative Image on 05 33 440041 .
If you're having trouble getting hold
of PCM memory cards Lry get^ng m
touch with either Silica on 081-309 1111
or Power Computing on 0234 &433B8
Fonts
In the November issue of Amiga
Co nr Kpofinig l saw a letter From a reader
looking for Bengali outline fonts. I am a
newcomer to Amiga platform and S
own an A3G00
When I was looking for Ikndi outline
fonts, I came to know about this com-
pany m Toronto which makes fonts in
just about every Indian language for
Amiga, Macintosh and PC,
They have fonts for Hindi, Bengali,
Tamil, Malayalam, Thai, Sinhalese (a
language of Sri Lanka) and Urdu in a
variety of styles. The fonts are available
in PostScript and Compugraphic for-
mats They can be reached at;
Ethno Multimedia
2Q55 r Dundas Street Wesf
Toronto
Canada
M&R 1 WB
Phone: 4 1 6 5B8 7193
V Bramendro, Toronto
Games compatibility
I have an old Amiga 500 with 1 Mb gf memory which \ bought five years ago purely
£u play games on. I now have a massive collection of games - I especially enjoy role-
playing adventures which I have collected quite a lot.
M ( machine is currently being repaired,, having a new internal drive fitted,, as I am
told the I/O errors and crashing that kept happening when trying to resurrect charac-
ters was due to a faulty drive.
What i would like to know is, when my machine finally conks out, which computer
I should be settjng my sights on lor games only? It must be compatible with as many
oF my existing games as possible.
Carmen Brute, Essex
Unfortunately you're in the same boat as a lot of people with existing software
collections who want to upgrade to a belter machine.
It isn't possible to move up to a new machine like the A600 or A12Q0 and still
be able to use all of your existing software, in our tests the A60Q is definitely
more compatible, wrth around 90 per cent of existing software working fine.
The A 1200, on the other hand, is only about SO per cent compatible, but once
software houses start writing games specifically for this machine it will be defi-
nitely the best upgrade choke.
Odd letters
I have an Amiga 500 Plus expanded to
2Mb, which I purchased last January
from Silica. 1 have external floppy and i
use a Philips 8B33 MKII monitor and a
PC compatibility
Citizen 224 printer, I started to answer
correspondence using KindWorris 3
which has up Co now been very good.
Recently though, as I type, odd letters
have been appearing in tFie text - "j" and
*p* were the most common.
I slowed my typing speed down to
ensure that 1 made no mistakes, but
Chose odd insertions kept occurring,
Have you any ideas as to what the
problem Is? I thought maybe it was
KindWords so I changed Co Scribble but
the same thing still happens!
D f Goody er, Turkey
It sounds as though you have a prob-
lem with you r hardware and not your
software. What 1 would do is open up
a CLE window and then start typing.
If the problem still occurs then
check you key map is set correctly in
your startup-sequence. If this doesn't
work, get your Amiga checked out by a
reputable dealer,
S own an A5Q0 vl ,2 r and was on the vergE of upgrading to
m AT 500/2000, or whatever might be arriving m the next
grso,
nately, 1 have now reached the pomt where I need to
able to take work home and r you guessed it,
DrawPerietL on the PC is the order of the day.
ng a bottomless wallet, the time has come where I am
to have to choose between a new Amiga and buying a
patible. I'm atraid that my computing knowledge is min-
md the idea of fighting with a bridgeboard without help is
that m mind, do you have any reasonable suggestions
how | can stay with the Amiga, a machine For which I
i great respect having seen the PC in action* and yet be
lo actually go home at night?
f 5 JtfcCamey, Shropshire
I can see why you might consider buying a PC but it's not
needed If you buy say an A.1200, which is able to read and
write PC disks directly, then invest in WordWorfh 2 r you will
be able to bring home documents written on a PC using
WordPerfect, work on them then Lake them back to work.
The PC at work will be able to read it back in with no prob-
lem at all.
As for importing pictures from the PC, again this is quite
a simple l ask. Simply save your pictures on the PC in
almost any format and then use a graphics
converter on the Amiga.
You can get a graphics converter from most good PD
libraries or if you find they don't convert as well as you want,
Ad Pro 2 definitely will. AdPro 2 will convert virtually all for-
mats of graphics into any graphics format you require.
Make a disk
Is the quality ot your CoveiDisks slip-
ping? Or has my A500 started to go
sEnile? On the November disk, loading
Cybernetix caused the machine Xa
crash with a guru message.
This also happened to a Friend with a
1 ,3 machine. I expected an update to
rectify this in the December issue, but
as there wasn't one. Fs it an isolated
Also, on the December disk loading
Home Accounts to the Make a Disk
icon results in a message "disk is write
protected", even when it isn't. Any
P R Southey’ Chkhester
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The new AG A graphics chip set
brings a vivid new range of
colour to the Amiga line.
Denny Atkin reports
A round the beginning of 1986 a
group of Amiga enthusiasts
met at my local computer shop
and crowded around the screen of an
Amiga VQOO displaying one of the tint digi-
tised 4096 <otourHAM pictures,
Ji Amazing/ one of them said. "It looks
just like a TV picture/ I don't know where
that guy is now, but the poor fellow would
have probably fainted dead on the spot *f I
could have shown him an AGA-mode pic-
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Commodore's new A1200 and A4000
computers include the first truly enhanced
chip set since the Amiga's introduction, The
original chip set (DCS) was revolutionary foe
iti time, with 32 and 4096-colour graphics
and what was, at the time, unparalleled
graphics speed.
The Enhanced Chip Set released a couple
of years ago was nowhere near as innova-
tive - it expanded the amount of memory
available for graphics and let users run both
PAL and NTSC software, but the new rest>
lotions it added stowed down die machine
considerably and offered a paltry four
colours from a palette of 64. Amiga users
were disappointed.
I've heard very few complaints about the
newest Amiga chip set, though. With a
range of 16 million colours, 256 or
700,000+ colours available on-screen at
once, and a four-times graphics speedup,
who could gripe?
Oh, sure, you say, but with those
improvements got to break most of my
software, right? Wrong! Perhaps the most
amazing thing about the AC A chip set is
that it's almost completely compatible with
programs written for the earlier CCS and
ECS chips.
The AC A chip set started We in the sum-
mer of 1990 as a project code-named
Pandora. Commodore's Bob Raible was in
charge of the project and designed the Lisa
chip, which replaced Denise; Bill Thomas
was in charge of Alice, which replaced
Agnus. &y the lime the chipset reached pro-
totype form it had been renamed AA
Advanced Amiga), and was the heart &
prototype enhanced Amiga called t
A3Q00+.
Akhough the A3QOQ+ never made it
the prototype stage (about 50 mac hi
were built lor use for software and hardv-
development), the AA chip set w
approved for a new Amiga r original
named the A34GO. Designed by Da
Haynfe and Greg Berlin, this system even
ally evolved into the Amiga 4000 releas
Idle last year.
By the time the chip set was released
the A40QG, the name was changed agai
to Advanced Graphics Architecture or
(there seems to- be a sort ol unofficial i
paign going on amongst Amiga softw
companies and magazines to keep the
name, but AG A is the official Commode
moniker).
Older Amigas
This chip set is standard in the ne
A1 200 and A4000 r but can't be plugg
into older Amigas. One of the big adv
tages of AG A is its enhanced speed -
most operations it's four times faster th
ECS. Unfortunately, the faster chip archifcec
lure requires much faster access to the a
puter's chip RAM,, and there was no way
get a performance boost with AG A ai
remain compatible with older Amigas.
II you've got an older Amiga and wa
access to the new AGA modes, it's time
buy a new computer. Although it's feast
to create a replacement motherboard I
the A5QQ and other classic Amigas with
AGA chips on it, such a board would pro
It's the free flicker fixer!
AGA Amigas don't have de-lnteiiacing circuitry built in like the
chip In l he Amiga 30 00. There's no need for one, since non-
interlaced equivalents of all the original resolutions exist now
that colour depths have been Increased in the hi res, non-
interlaced modes.
For instancOr instead of opening a 640 x 512 16 -colour
interlaced screen, you can have the operating system open a
640 x 512 16-colour noninterlaced screen iha.1 doesn't flicker.
This wasn't possible on ECS Amigas because the non-inter-
laced resolutions with 256 vertical lines were limited to four
colours.
AGA supports two methods lor opening such screens.
Programs designed with AGA in mind can use the new A5L
screen mode requester to allow you to select which resolution
you want to run In,
If you have a monitor that will handle VGA scan rales
(more on this soon), you can choose a high-res, non-inter-
laced mode, but if you're using a standard 1084 style monitor
you might choose 640 x 256 to avoid interlace flicker,
But what about those older programs that don I know
about AGA? if they open by default in annoying flickering
modes, how do you tell them about the new AC A equivalents?
In the IContrd preferences program there's a button marked
Mode Promotion. IF you toggle this gadget on, most older
programs that request an interlaced screen resolution will
instead open on a non-interlaced screen ol equivalent
resolution.
5o programs like PageSiream, for instance, can now be
opened cm a 640 sc 512 x 16 non-interlaced screen
One of the ott er advantages of installing a de-interlacer on
classic Amigas was that it got riel of those annoying scan lines
between rows of pixels. If you have mode-promotion turned
on, even So-res r n cm Interlaced 320 jc 200 screens will open on
VGA scan-rate screens, free ol ugly scan4ines r
A few programs, such as DeluxcPaml IV and Art
Department Professional, explicitly specify interlaced screens
using AmigaDOS 2 calls. Such programs aren't affected by
mode-promotion and will come up in flickering interlace mode
even with promotion turned on, due to- compatibility
considerations.
However, there are a number of hacks available in the pub-
lic domain such as Steve Tibbett's Doubled that will force all
screens to be promoted regardless of how they open their
screens.
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Coil almost as much as an A 1200 la
te.
So just how big an improvement is AGA?
i bout as big a jump over the original
;a graphics capabilities as those were
over IBM's twr-cotour CCA graphics,
"he original Amiga chips had a total
e of 4,096 colours, which translates to
evels gf each primary colour. AGA
eases squares the number of colours
l able, offering 256 levels of each pri-
colour for a grand total of 16 million
jrs available to choose from.
And you can now get more of those
irs on-screen at once as well. While the
a! Amiga graphics chips were limited
relaying 32 colours {not counting tricks
HalfBrrte and HAM) on lo-res screens
16 colours an hi-res screens, the AGA
can display up to 256 colours in all
lions.
Modifying
he real fun comes in HAM mode,
•&ugh. Now that HAW has eight bitplanes
to lay with (thus the name HAMS for the
mode), it can display over 262,000
urs on-screen at once. The original
mode created; new colours by modrfy-
« 6 base colours; the new mode has 64
colours to choose from.
This not only means you can get more
irs on the screen, but it also virtually
in ales the colour fringing evident on
ffial HAM hies. Although Commodore
ertlses HAMS as a 262,000 colour
, that's not a real limitation,
With careful picking of the 64 base
! , you can actually get up to 700, QOQ
r^ tn the highest resolution graphics
si
'he AGA graphics chips don’t provide
resolutions than were available with
though. In fact, the available resofu-
are exactly the same as on an A600
ling Workbench 2A - 320 x 256, 640 x
p 1 x 256, 800 x 300, 640 x 480,
the interlaced versions of those modes,
h have double the vertical resolution.
But there's a big difference - while some
those modes were limited to 1 6 or even
colours with ECS, they can all display
colours or even HAMS with AGA.
One thing to keep In mind, and this
fes to ECS as well as AGA, is that the
With hi-res
sprites you can
now make that blacky
arrow pointer
look less clumsy
Amiga chip sets no longer have fixed built-
in resolutions - they're completely pro-
grammable.
An example benefit of thss programma-
bility is the 800 x 300/600 made added in
Workbench 2.1 - Commodore added a
completely new graphics mode without
requiring ary upgraded hardware. This
means- that industrious programmers will be
able lo create new custom screen modes.
The colour palette isn't the only thing
that was improved in the AGA chip set. The
sprite system has also been completely
revamped. Sprites can now be up fo 64 pix-
els wide, which means the entire screen can
be covered with sprites.
Blocky
Under OCS and ECS f sprites were always
built from lo-res pixels, which made them a
look rather blocky, especially an a hi-res
semen. With tihe AGA chips sprites can now
be lo-res, hi-res, or even super hi-res, np
matter what resolution the screen is cur-
rently in. With hi-res sprites you can finally
make that blocky arrow pointer look a lot
less clunky.
Sprites can now be placed with much
more precision. With previous chip sets,
they only moved in lores pixel increments,,
which meant there were only 320 horizon-
tal positions possible for a spnte.
This made precise editing on hi-res paint
program screens a bit challenging some-
times, Under AGA the sprite now moves in
Super hikes pixel increments, meaning you
can place the pointer with precision in any
screen mode.
As mentioned earlier, the new graphics
chips are much faster than the original
Amiga chips. Previous chip sets talked to
Chip RAM 1 6 bits at a time - even on the
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DoublePAL: hi-res no flicker
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VGA
DoublePAL: lo-res
320x256
VGA
DoublePAL: lo-res laced
320*1024
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320x512
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640*200
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Euro 36: hi-res
640x200
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Euro 3 6: hi-res laced
640*400
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Eura36: lo-res
320*200
1084
Euro 3 6: lo-res laced
320x400
1084
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Euro72: Productivity
640x400
VGA
Euro 71: Productivity laced
640*800
VGA
Multi scan
640x240
VGA
Muftiscan: Productivity
640x480
VGA
Multiscan: Productivity laced
640*960
VGA
NTSC: hi-res
640*200
1084
NTSC: hi-res faced
640x400
1DS4
NTSC: lo-res
320x200
1084
NTSC: b-res laced
320x400
1084
NTSC: Super hi-res
1 280x200
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NTSC: Super hi-res laced
1280x400
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PAL: hi-res
640x256
10&4
PAL: hi-res laced
640x512
1084
PAL: !o-res
320x256
1084
PAL: lo-res laced
320x512
1084
PAL: Super hi-res
1280*266
1084
PAL: Super hi-res laced
1280x512
1084
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400x600
Multiscan
Super72: Super hi-res
800*300
Multiscan
Super72: Super hi-res laced
800x600
Multiscan
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1024*800
A2024
A2024: ISHz
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otherwise 32-bit Amiga 5000.
The AGA chip set gets a two-times ^p^ed
increase automatically because it lias a 12-
bit read/ write path to chip HAM, flawing it
to move twice as much data every time it
accesses graphics memory.
However, that's not all! Newer RAM
technology lets the AGA chips do two
fetches from Chip RAM in a single memory
cycle. This gives you the performance of a
64-bit chip set - four times that of the origi-
nal Amiga chips-
If you've ever tried to run your
Workbench screen in 1 6 -colour mode,,
especially with overscan, you've seen a fully-
saturated chip set.
Your entire Amiga system stows dawn
because the custom chips and. processor are
lighting for access to your Amiga's RAM,
With AGA's 4x bandwidth the chips work so
much faster that you can nun in hi>-re&, 256-
colour mode without impacting processor
speed at all.
Bandwidth
Running a hi-nes, 16-cotour Workbench
screen on an AGA Amiga actually uses up
the same amount of bandwidth as a !□- res,
two-cotour screen does on a classic Amiga.
The new chips are so fast that, when you
use the new Intuition double-buffering rou-
tines in your programs, you can actually cre-
ate 6 0-frames- per- second animations in
even the highest resolution modes, without
taking over the machine!
The blitter in the AGA chips is actually
the same as the ECS blitter - it s no faster a l
actually performing blits. However, blitter-
intensive graphics can still be much faster
under AGA. Since the blitter has to share
the RAM bus with the CPU and video dis-
play, it operates faster now since the graph*
!cs chips take up less of the bus time.
The AGA chips are amazingly compatible
with the original Amiga chips. When run-
ning programs that only support 12 -bit
colour values (four bits each of red, green,
and blue), such as early versions of
DeiuxePaint the operating system simply
copies those bits into both the upper and
lower 12 bits of a register, maintaining the
appearance of 1 2-bit colour.
No problems
The vast majority of productivity pro-
grams that I've tried to run on the Amiga
4000 and 1200 have no problems with the
new AGA chips or with mode promotion.
Games and especially demos are another
matter, though, and many lend to flake out
(nan-graphic intensive games such as Sierra
adventures and Maxis' Sim senes work fine,
though, even supporting mode promotion).
There's a solution for those programs
that donT like the AGA chips. The chips can
be told to turn off all the features that didn't
exist in earlier versions of the chip set, thus
increasing compatibility dramatically.
Simply hold down both mouse buttons
when booting the computer to reach the
boot menu. Click the Display Options but-
ton and you'll be gwen a choice not only of
NTSC or PAL displays, but also of which
chips you want the system to think it has -
Original, Enhanced, or AGA.
Simply picking Enhanced fixes most pro-
grams (you may also want to click Boot
Options and turn off the processor cache as
well to increase compatibility further).
Booting a game with a custom boot block
automatically selects ECS mode - you have
!□ run the 3.0 version of SelPatch in your
Startup-Sequence to activate the new AGA
chip set features.
Most of the programs that require you to
deactivate the AGA features have problems
because they break Commodore's guide-
lines and attack the Amiga’s hardware
directly, bypassing the operating system,
If these game and demo programmers
want to start creating stuff that supports
AGA, they're going to have lo break down
and finally read the manuals and learn how
to do things the right way, Commodore
doesn't guarantee that the next generation
of Amiga graphics chips (code-name AAA) is
going to be register- compatible with the
ACA chips.
This means thaL any hackers who hit
the AGA hardware directly now are going
to find that their programs break on the
next-generation Amigas, To keep this
from happening,, Commodore isn't going
to document how tq directly program the
video hardware - they want programmers
to go through the operating system.
The speedy AGA chips and the faster
processors found in ACA Amigas, com-
bined with things like intuition double-
buffered graphics support, should provide
programmers with all the power they
need to create fash action simulations or
dazzling demos without breaking all the
rules H
Commodore's official word is that any-
one who bangs the AGA hardware is going
to break in the future. This means we
should see a lot more games that run from
the Workbench in the future, and that you
should probably not get too attached to
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colour depth arid Super VGA-like nesol
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already working on luture chip sets that
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The AGA chip set gains its resolution flexibility because
it has programmable scan rates. However,, to take
advantage of the chip set's flexibility, you'll need a flexi-
ble monitor.
Unfortunately, you'll actually need a monitor more
flexible than the vast majority of those on the market.
The original Amiga chip set output at a horizon ta I scan
rate of 15.75kHz, and this is the rate supported by the
original Amiga monitors such as the 1 Q84.
This scan rate supports resol utio-ns up fa 640 x 256
non-interlaced, and 640 x 512 interlaced (more with
overscan), The new hi-res, non-interlaced modes added
with ECS require a monitor that scans at the VGA scan
rate of 31 .5kHz.
The Amiga 3000‘s deinterlacer circuitry and add-on
flicker fixers also require a 31 -5kHz monitor.
You have three monitor choices with an AGA Amiga -
a 1084 -style 1575kHz monitor, a VGA 31.5 kHz monitor,
or a multiscan monitor that supports horizontal scan
rates ranging from 15.75kHz to 31,5kHz (A 1 200 users
can also use a composite monitor or TV set). If you want
to be able to use all the AGA screen modes, you really
only have one choice - the multiscan.
If you choose to hang cm to your old 1084 when
upgrading to an AGA Amiga, you'll have access to all
the new colour modes including HAMS, but none ol the
newhi-res, non-interlaced resolutions.
You'll still be much better off with AGA, since you J l!
get the faster screen updates and the new colour modes
(television sets and composite monitors offer the same
modes as a 1084-style monitor, albeit in a much blurrier
form. Still, the cotour PAL composite output is much
sharper than on an A520-equlpped A500),
Using a VGA-only monitor is going to cause most
users problems. These monitors don't support the stan-
dard old Amiga resolutions, just the double-scanned
31 5kHz modes. If you run mostly Workbench-launch-
able programs, such as word processors, paint programs,
and desktop publishing software, you'll be OK because
you can turn on mod-promotion and have all those
screens run In 31.5kHz made. However, any disks tha'
must be booted from, such as games, will come up in
15,75kHz mode, which will just look like a scramble'
mess on a VGA-onEy monitor.
Also, the Guru and Boot Mode screens come up in
1 5.75kHz mode, so you won't be able to view these on
a VGA- only monitor. Only consider one of these man ■
tors if you never -ptoy games and if you don't need
access to the Boot Mode screen.
The best choice is a multiscan monitor that supped
horizontal scan rates between 15.75kHz and 31 .5kH;
Unfortunately, such monitors are somewhat more
expensive than the other two choices.
Be careful, as many modern multiscan monitors
won’t sync as low as 1 575kHz and will only be as useto
as a VGA-only monitor when used with an AGA Amiga.
One of the best choices is Commodore's 1960,
which of course supports all the Amiga scan rates. With
a wide-range multiscan you can access every mode the
AGA Amiga offers.
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Software
H AM has always been a trouble-
some medium in which to
work. Though capable of
impressive effects and colourful static
graphics, it was always a non-starter for
games purposes,, and less than useful even
for most animations.
Graphics produced in Hold And Modify
mode suffered from much larger file sizes
than their 12 -colour or Halfbrile {64-
colour) cousins, and in addition there was
the dreaded HAM "fringing".
This effect, which crops up when HAM
pictures are being created by hand or
edited, rather than rendered direct fio-m a
ray tracing package, is the inevitable result
of the compromise which lies at the heart
ot HAM*
Of the 6-fcrits which make up every HAM
pixel, only four are used for colour data.
The other two are used to calculate screen
colours by modifying
one colour in respect to
the others around it.
In arithmetical terms,
four bits give \6 true
colours, but the extra
two bits lead to this fig-
ure being multiplied by
16 twice (because the
older chips are 1 6-bit
chips), and 16x16x16
is 4,096,
Subsequent faffing
about on-screen can
olten lead to rather inap-
propriate colours being
selected,. and when
screen values are dis-
turbed, such as when the
user cuts and pastes a
brush, so much messing
about with colours goes on that the poor
old 6-bit HAM standard can't cope.
Fringing is the result, and a messy result it
Is too.
With the new HAMS, or 8 -bit HAM,
many users might be bewildered as to how
so many extra colours can come from just
1 two extra bits.
The answer is that the colour data is
now made up of six bits with the usual two
added on for screen colour calculations,
and as the graphics chips are now 32-bit,
each ot the two modify bits can modify a
pixel 32 times over-
True 6-blt colour leads to 256 colours,
and if you multiply this figure twice by 32,
you get 256 x 32 x 12 — 262, 1 44 colours in
Mien tan rio* touch up JJ- WI rendered grvptfkt dn d itonM Amrytf
HAMS, Fringing is still a
problem with HAMS,
but as there are now so
many more colours and
as the mode can be dis-
played in much higher
resolutions, the fringing
which does develop is
much less obvious than
with HAM6.
In addition, the AG A
Lisa and Alice chips (best
thought of as replace-
ments for Denise and
Agnus respectively) do
their best to minimise
the damage.. Result?
The first AGA-
capable paint
package is at last
available in the
shape of an
updated DPaint
4.1. Stevie Kennedy
samples its wares
Stunning, near-24-bit
quality static graphics,
ample testament to
which you can find in
the screenshots on
these pages,
Problem? We're still
dealing with HAM,
even if in a much
sm proved set of
clothes. Early reports
from excited develop-
ers working cm the
new machines indi-
cated that HAM 8 suf-
fered from no fringing
And all sorts of wild
claims were made as to the A4QG0's
lion capabilities.
Until the release of DPaint 4 AGA,
ever, there was no way to judge how
rate such claims were, as no paint
or animation creator existed which
use of the new chips. We now have a
world benchmark with which to put
AGA proteges through their paces.
DPaint 4 AGA is new in only a
respects. Virtually nothing has
changed over v4.1, and more or s e? :
only new features are related to sup[
Kidotart 3:0 and the AGA chip set, but
in itself is enough to warrant a very
inspection.
When run, the package immed-
shows its Kickstart 3.Q origins by ot
the user a number of display modes -
total - ranging from olde wodde lo-nei
res, and tii-res interlace, to AA Ha
P roductivity, and Supe-
rs.
Workbench 3,0's att
to detail means i
advanced information
pixel speeds, scan rates,
so on is available for e
L mode before the user
L his or her choice, enab
selection ot the best mode
any particular setup.
Those using stano
medium resolution mon
will be restricted in th
choices, as will those u!
cheap, single scan rate
monitors.
The former will not be
to use modes which scan
frequencies of more ir
15.5KHz P and the latter
more than, likely be stuck with VGA moc-
Ideal ly r good multiscan monitors,
as the better PC models (I've used an
14in with no trouble) or the Comm.
1950/60 range should be used with
machines if the best display results
required.
Though on the whale silent on 'this
ter, Commodore will sooner ar late*
to admit that improved machines req
improved and more advanced penpher.
and the 1 08 4S/ Philips S83 3 monitors
prevalent in today's Amiga market are rdEj
up to scratch as far as the A12Q0/A4C * Vj
range is concerned.
Once a display mode is*chosen,
familiar DPaint 4 interface pops up a- 3
HAMS h tuperto tur pfesffftntian tjraphiti
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Software
ration of the colour capacities of the
Ami gas car begin, lei's start with
graphics.
Apart from AA Halfbnte mode, which
the usual 64 colours, though from a
tie of 16.? million, all modes offer al
:t 256 colours.
Productivity modes (referred to as
tiscan in accordance with Workbench
monitor drivers), handles up to 256
jurs, and AA-HAM+ offers 262,1 44 from
palette oF the same size.
PAL mode* the only display mode to
support genlocking, has a similar
■ead of colour and resolution options,
io-res HAMS to Super hi-res (1280 x
2) in 256 colours.
Excellent
Static screen images generated in PAL
£ laced 256 colours are of excEllent
lily, and for many purposes far more
il than HAM#. They don't suffer from
jing, animate faster, and can be used
with a genlock,
however, for static computer art, HAM#,
:ial|y in Productivity mode, is hard Lo
In fehhs mode, a respectable 640 x 480
in resolution results in almost square
Is, and HAMS makes full screen grads-
H fills possible without noticeable
iping. For presentation graphics, art-
work, and IFF export to other packages,
this flicker-free mode will probably be the
AGA user's favourite so long, of course, as
that user also has a VGA monitor capable of
displaying it,
The only blot on HAMfi's copy book is
fringing, a problem which becomes acute
once a lot of detail is present on-screen, For
example, il is virtually impossible to type
text across a I1AM3 screen, never mind a
HAM# screen which has been treated to a
gradient fill Fringing in these circum-
stances destroys image quality.
Though a problem associated with the
HAMS compromise rather than DPaint 4
AGA, the extent of fringing was a disap-
pointment to everyone in the office, a sen-
timent which will surely be echoed by
many future AGA users.
Not all is gloom, as there tire ways to
partially avoid hinging, but initial impres-
sions are that NAM8 will remain, as HAM 6.
a mode most usefully employed by pack-
ages which render directly to it, such as ray
tracers.
Id give fringing a body swerve, l tried a
text logo over a very gradual fading back-
ground from green to blue. The logo, utilis-
ing a red lo yellow ftlf, could not be
stamped down on the background without
slight fringes developing, but it was at feast
a major improvement on direct typing to
Super Hires Interlaced HAM 8!
feit L«fT hr cut rfowrr in certain
Imparted rejrdrrrd graphic ( foofe Stunning
screen. With a black background to the
logo itself, the situation improved
dramatically.
By progressively reducing the logo's
black background until it was no more than
a key ine, I found it possible to produce per-
fectly good presentation graphics with
fewer HAM# headaches, but the problem
never quite goes away unless the text is sur-
rounded by a straight-edged solid box.
Rounded outlines, such as are unavoid-
able with most fonts, cause greater fringing
than straight edges.
Laborious
□ Paint's spare page comes in very
handy for such work, as it enables the user
to create and Cut out text in a clean envi-
ronment before swapping over to the
main graphic for final positioning,. The
process is a painfully slow and sometimes
laborious one, but is capable of good
results.
Animated graphics using the new AGA
screen modes have caused probably the
most intense speculation since the A400G
was launched, Initial reports from the
Pasadena show of a full colour Sentinel
animation running at 60 frames per sec-
ond in NTSC interlace caused heightened
expectations ol full screen, full motion 24-
bit movie work on a standard machine.
While I wouldn't like to completely
deflate these expectations, I have to at
least put a dent in them, if only as far as
PPaint's animation capabilities are
Concerned,
In anything other than lo-res
Productivity mode (320 x 4§G), large ani-
mations are fitter too slow oc not of suffi-
cient quality to be used in professional
video productions.
Beautiful
In hi-res PAL interlace using overscan,
which is the standard video mode
(remember that VGA and Productivity do
not support genlacking), DPaint 4 AA can
chum out beautiful images, but can only
animate them in a jerky and less than use-
ful fashion.
Having seen Seals run DPaint-produced
HAM8 animations smoother and quicker,
the suspicion that it is the software which
the addition of
titles and other
is at fault rather than the hardware is a
hard one to avoid.
Smaller animations in 256-colour full
video spec (hi-res overscan) are possible,
and animate smoothly on the A40GQ, but
try to use hair screen or larger animations
and smoothness quickly falls off..
Against a black background, Fargiertext
logo animations, scrolls, and so on are
excellent, so DPaint 4 AC A should suffice
for high quality video titling, but video
quality computer movies are, as many cym
ics suspected, oul of the question without
the use of single frame video recorders.
What can Ibe achieved with this package
Far outdoes any previously available
paint/animate program, though to be fair
to manufacturers currently developing
competition for DPaint 4 AGA, the new
chips and video modes are a major factor
in this.
Full screen 256 animations, superb
HAMS titling complete with colour g radi-
ated text, and static images only the better
24 -bit boards can better make painting and
animating in AGA supremely pleasurable.
However, given an A1200 rather than
an A40Q0, less than about 4Mb RAM, and
a hard drive of less than 40Mb in capacity,
much of Ibis potential wiN never be
realised. i
Al 200 owners who have read the
inflated claims made by some companies
and the odd press report should be pre-
pared lor disappointment if they are not
ready, or cannot afford, to purchase the
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I 've always liked the idea of digitisers. IL
is so rewarding when you eventually
grab a brilliant image and spend hours
idling with \% and it's always nice when
have the equipment that will do the |ob
«wth ihe least hassle.
VI Dl Amiga is one such piece of equip-
ment. It's relatively simple to use and It
cost you an arm and a leg.
To look at, it's a bit of an uninteresting
piece ol kit. In the box you get the disks, a
:'*ono-to-phono cable and an anonymous
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minor hassle, but f was surprised not to find
One in the box, though Rqmbo will' supply
the cables on request and they are a doddle
to construct at home.
The next task was the software. Usually i
would recommend that large commercial
packages like this be installed onto the hard
drive if you have one, but in this case it
doesn't seem to matter.
There is only the one disk supplied in the
package so you don't have to do any disk
swapping, thus it's not essential to install it to
hard disk. On booting up the program you
are faced with a main screen where you can
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viewing of the image and another menu
which lets you en ter the editing carousel and
grab options.
The grabbing screen is a relatively friendly
environment. The- top half of the screen is
taken up by the image window. In the win-
dow you see the image which the video
source b producing. Colour grabs are taken
in about a second, and mono grabs in real
tune, Along the bottom of the screen are ihe
grab options.
These range From HAM and HAM-E to
mono images. It also supports the 2S6-
colour Format which will please the prospec-
tive A1 200 buyers out there.
If you grab an image the machine will tell
you what you have grabbed by ticking the
RGB and MONO boxes and the respective
separations,
Viewing
Digital
To view the images you just click on view
but the machine must first mix the RGB
together. How Fast it will do this depends on
the processor in your machine - in the 4000
it took only a couple of seconds because of
the 040 processor but even when I tried it
on the A50Q it still wasn't that slow - ]G sec-
onds at most for a complicated image.
So you have your image saved and you J re
pleased with it - now what can you do? Flip
back to the main screen along with the pref-
erences and you'll find an editing option.
When selected this screen opens out into
a full editing screen which lets you am the
Tie box that plugs into your parallel port.
The first thing to do was to set the thing
wp* I "m not an expert with complicated
firing jobs. The machine i used was an
-^OOD so 3 could get the most out of the
Software to begin with.
The box plugged straight into the paral-
M port and the lead that comes out of the
box goes into the floppy disk part.
it J s a bit ungainly, the box r so your
should make sure you have a Jot of room at
the back of your machine before you start
Sidling.
i then took the phono-to-phono lead
*~d plugged it into the Video Out slot on
•Te video. When using digitisers I always
**~id it helpful to have another monitor set
to see what the image will k>ok like on-
reen before you actual take a grab,
^rwever. unlike most other digitisers, VIDI
Amiga 1 2 doesn't require a second moni-
’: r . and displays all its images on one
icreeru
For maximum flexibility, though, I
;-^gged another monitor into the back of
k video as you would for usual domestic
- this way I had the Amiga Workbench
wing and the direct signal from the
yku^o going into the TV. Jf you're a bit con-
, refer to the diagram.
! must stress now that the VIDI's physical
r ioe makes using it with A1 500/2000
►whines impossible unless a ribbon cable
fc -sed to connect the digitiser casing to
parallel port. This is little more than a
doodles
Ben Styles looks at the VIDI Amiga 12 digitiser
Totally wired
This diagram is designed to make
the wiring of these image grabber
boxes a little simpler.
Remember - the seperale TV is
not necessary to use Vidi 12, but it
will make Fife easier when grabbing
fin colour
Urn age through filters. There are various
options, some oF whrch let you really ring the
changes, such as the psychedelic filters.
To be fair, the filters are very well done
and don't detract from the image's original
clarity unless you are selecting a sott filter to
put over your image.
Improvements
1 was impressed most by the negative filter
which gives a really dean negative image.
ihi 1 editing booth also has image improve-
ment optkms like find edges, image blur and
image sharpen. On top of the usual filtere
you can Hip the image on its X and V axes
and cut and paste sections of the image.
If you have plenty of memory you can use
the Carousel option which allows you to
show all of the pictures that you have stored
up during you grabbing session.
It's also possible to grab several frames
from the video image, store them into mem-
ory, mess about with them by pulling them
off the carousel then playing them back as an
animation.
You would need a pretty awesome
amount of memory to do this with Full size
colour or mono images, but the end result
would be well worthwhile.
\ liked VIDI Amiga 12 because of its sim-
plicity. Setting the equipment up in the first
place is always a bit of a struggle but once it's
there you can forget about it. I found that it
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With PoweTScan Professional v3 p the ante
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Unshaking
Colours can works in the same way .15 all
”d scanners in that the user must employ
un shaking hand to drag the scanning
- over the target picture at a steady rate.
r he image is imported using a fairly nor-
Mocking 105mm scanning head, but
ad of being stored as a 64 -colour image
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"tware as 12-bit data in 4,096 true
lurs,
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Ttiis enables ColourScan '5 software to
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Files.
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Stevie Kennedy finds
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The roller, so important for good results,,
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ColourScan. The software could be faster
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however, will not. To fix an unvalidated
disk, load FixDisk, then click on the
Directory gadget at the top of its win-
dow, There's no need lo scan the whole
disk for bitmap errors, as FixDisk need
merely ascertain where everything is
located.
Faulty
s more readers begin to sample the delights
of Workstation 2, we examine more of its
capabilities and sort out a minor problem
odcStation 2 was designed
with the A50G Plus in mind
to take advantage of
^start 2.04 and the more advanced
.bench interface it offered. However,
ce the original design of the disk,
modore have released the A60O and
200, and this has brought on one small
lem.
The A60O has no internal battery
.-up clock, which means that when
Workstation 2 disk boots up, the
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hkldh im
trying to load the time from a nomexis*
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• code of 20 is returned and every-
g rinds lo a halt,
r he solution \% a simple matter of edit-
ihe startup-sequence using Q£D and
Jrg the line:
muT 2i
"■iis
e the Setclock command.
effectively tells the Amiga not to
er with commands which fail for sim-
r easons, When the revised startup-
?nce runs on boot-up, the user will
the message:
MTTElir BlCtEi-UF CL3iK ml FM
startup will continue as normal.
My thanks to Mr T Gigg of Bristol for
ng in with thJs enquiry, All future
Station 2 disks will be dispatcher
this bug fixed, but any users of unex-
led A6QD machines with first issue
•ran either carry out the modification
ned above or return their disks to
*ress Direct for a replacement,
keep chose letters rolling in, folks. As
can see, they are all examined for
He problems or support issues and
ougs or suggestions passed on
jh this column.
I n with the support column. Mr T
ch of Anglesey was confused by
! sk, He managed to operate it to
his Workstation 2 disk, but writes:
There are so many buttons, V m begin-
ning to wonder what happens when I
press the wrong oner
FixDisk is a disk retrieval system
designed to cure some of the many prob-
lems which crop up on floppy disks,
including read /write errors r corrupted
files, and the odd validation problem. As
the latter will be more common, well Jock
first at how FixDisk can be used lo
remedy it.
Validation errnrs crop up when the
"bitmap u is corrupt Basically, a bitmap is
a digital map of the disk's contents and
where on the disk they can be found. Any
disparity between the bitmap and the
structure found by Amiga DOS when it
examines a disk will cause the Amiga to
look for the disk-validator file.
Disk -validator, built in to the Kickstart
2/3 ROM, can correct minor problems,
but will give up on major messes. FixDisk,
Next, click on the drive containing the
faulty disk and dick Disk Inserted when
prompted. FixDisk will now slog its way
through the directory structure, checking
every file's exact location, then compare
this to the bitmap. If the bitmap is incor-
rect, FixDisk says so and asks for permis-
sion to re-write it.
Once the go ahead is give, the pro-
gram takes only a few seconds to rectify
the fault and the disk will be back lo nor-
mal, For mole serious faults, such as
read/ write errors, the complete disk scan
will be needed,
IF, for example, the Amiga complains
that a disk has a read error or a write
error on block so-and-so, you will find
that under normal circumstances the disk
is rendered useless. Using FixDisk, how-
ever, some of the damage can be
repaired.
Repeal the procedure for the bitmap
error, but this time click on the All but-
ton, which prompts FixDisk to trawl
through the disk examining each and
every file in turn until it finds a corrupt or
damaged part of Lhe disk. When this hap-
pens, a number of options will be
available.
Many of these are best presented to
coders and system experts, but most of
us can expect at least to be able to
attempt a save..
Let's say the program tells you that:
there is a read error on block 1605, which
happens to be cylinder 72, head 1, sector
10. The error is a bad sector checksum
(Bad Sec Sum), which means that FixDisk
cannot match the corrupt contents of the
block to the "checksum" which is used as
a method for making sure none of the
data has been messed up.
At this point, the temptation would he
to scream in confusion and despair, but
the canny user will click Retry, the Ignore
if the fault recurs, then wait until the scan
is complete. The next step is vital,
In the window to the left will be a list erf
the disk's contents complete with the disk
block where the file header is located. To
attempt to rescue data from a damaged
block, select the file containing the dam-
aged block, then click on Selected below
the Check Fites option.
When the error is encountered, you can
attempt to save the damaged part to
another disk gr the RAM disk, write over
the block and destroy the anginal data, or
keep on trying. While it may sometimes
be possible to save the damaged data,
some errors are too serious ta remedy.
Crippling
in this case, writing over the block may
be the only option which, though erasing
some of the data and possibly crippling a
program file for good, will at least allow
the rest of the disk to operate without,
those annoying read/ write errors.
If a damaged fils is a data hie, you may
be able to save at least part of it, which is
a lot better than nothing at all.
For now, that/s all we'll covei on
FixDisk. it enough enquiries come in from
Workstation 2 readers, well attempt to
cover the more complex aspects of the
program and look in more depth at its
operation, but until then your manual
should contain enough information to
allow you to usefully employ
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L ast month we gave away Protest
v4.3 From Arnor on our cover. We
also included a brief beginners 1
guide on hqw to create documents, move
them around , and save them. Well now
you have had time to familiarise yourself
with Protest's layout, if s time to look at
same of the more powerful features this
version of ProtexL has to offer.
One of the most important tasks before
printing a document is to spell check it,
Spell checking is very quick with Protest
and well worth doing even if you are gen-
erally good at spelling, as many typing
mistakes can also be picked up in this
way.
Checking while typing is most conve-
nient when used with a hard disk, or
when the dictionaries are loaded into a
RAM disk so that they may be accessed
almost instantly, This option may be tog-
gled on and off using the Typing Check
option in the Option menu, whenever you
want.
If this option is turned on, every time
you type an unrecognised word Protext
beeps to indicate the fact, allowing you to
backspace and correct the word.
The other spelling checker options are
accessed through the Spell menu which
also has options to cany out maintenance 1
on dictionaries and to use special com-
mands to search for words in dictionaries,
find anagrams and so on,
Apart from checking while typing,
Protext provides four other ways to check
spelling. Individual words may be checked
Become a word-crunching pro in the second
part of our Protext v4.3 tutorial guide
by positioning the cursor on a word (or
immedtately after the word) and selecting
the Single Word opt ion.
if the word is recognised, a message
saying so is briefly displayed, otherwise a
dialogue box appears. Type in “teh" now,
position the cursor over it and select the
Single Word option.
The dialogue box which appears when
a word is not recognised contains a num-
ber of boxes which may be clicked on, or
selected by pressing the highlighted letter
in the box.
The Store box stores the word in the
dictionary so that it will always be recog-
nised at any time in the future. The Ignore
ft) stwe fJfjFrtf you ran spilt tit&ck fust ch* word
Working with more than one document
Protext allows you to load and edit
many different tfocu merit & {subject
to available memory), switch
between files and split the screen so
that more than one file may be
viewed at the same time.
To do i his, load a document then
select the Swap menu. At the bot-
tom uf Ihe menu will be the name of
the fife you just loaded and beneath
that an entry New File.
Click <in the New Ole option and
the existing document will disap-
pear; leaving you with an empty
document, Select the Load File
option again and select another file
for loading.
If you now open the Swap menu
again you will find that the name of
the second file you loaded has been
added to the list of files being
edited Repeat the process again to
load a third file. Up lo 36 different
fifes may be loaded at a time, sub
ject to available memory.
Clkfc on the name of the file you
first loaded and it will be re-dis-
played. If you watch the status lines
you will see that all the details
change to reflect whichever file is
the current file and that wht-n you
switch files, Protext remembers all
details of the various settings and
cursor positions for each file.
You can swap between files at will
just by selecting the required file
from the Swap menu. If you select
Mew File and create a new document
Instead of loading an existing file,
its name will change to Unnamed
until such time as you give it a name
by saving it, or by using the Name
file option in Ihe File menu.
Blocks of text may be copied from
the alternate file to the current file
at any time, Mark a blnck in the cur-
rent fife, then select another file.
The file you have marked the block
in has now become the alternate
file.
Position the cursor where you
want to copy the block to, then
select the Copy Other Block option
in the Block menu and the block will
he copied into Ihe current
document.
Swap hack to the file in which you
originally marked the block and It
will still be present. You can then
delete the block If you no longer
require it, or just de- select the block.
Delete the block for now and then
swap back to the file into which yew
copied the block. Mark a block In
this file, then swap back to the
other file and use Copy other block
again.
As you will see, blocks can he
copied in either direction as the
alternate file is always the one you
were editing before you swapped to
a new current file.
box causes the word to be ignored for
remainder of the time that docu
being edited.
The Skip box ignores that word for
Current tame only. Chang l returns
edit mode to make whatever char
necessary to correct the spelling,
If you don't know what the co
spelling is, Protext may be able to
you by displaying one or more w
which it thinks you intended to use
is done by selecting the Lookup op Li or
Select the Lookup option and al
instantly a window will appear contai
a list of words. Select the word you
by double clicking on it and it will re
the mis-spelled word in the text.
If there are more words than will
into the window, arrows at top an
bottom may be clicked on to allow yex.
see earlier or later suggestions. The
CANCEL lets you return to editing wir n
selecting an alternative word.
While Single word is useful for
checking an occasional word, it would
tedious if you had to check every wd
Lhis way r so Protext has the facility K
check the document in other ways.
The Check From Cursor option is pa
ticularly useful for checking a sectior 4
text of text from the current cursor pea
tion to the end of the text.
When an unrecognised word is fnn
the same dialogue box is displayec $
described for Single word, Once the q
reef ion has been made, the check can
recommenced by selecting Check i
cursor once more.,
Both the above options are parLicu
convenient tor checking text when
have made alterations, but if you warn
spell check a whole document, Prol
has a quicker method.
Select the Check Whole Text opt
now. Once the spelt check starts,
screen clears and is replaced by a new
play. Across the top of the screen is
menu of available options and beneatr
ss the area in which unknown words
listed. Once al! unknown words h..i
been displayed, each word is offered
turn, The Store option is the same
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Laying out a document
>nv of the most useful features of a wordproces
w Is the *ai# with which the Appearance of a
locument can he changed. We shall start by look
ng at Ruler lines.
These deter mine where the left and! right in ar-
ms will be and can also contain tab markers,
^roteat has three typei of tab markers - Normal,
Decimal And Centre - indicated by l, * anti C sym
hjIi in the ruler line.
You may have as many ruler lines AS you want
n a document and Protest stores these in the
i fit. When the document is printed, the ruler line
recognised and the text printed according to
he settings of the niler r without the ruler line
•leing printed.
Tabs are useful for a number of purposes, par
cularly far ensuring that columns of figures or
text are aligned neatly and the different types of
ib marker have different effects.
The normal tab marker (?) has the effect of
diguing All text with its left edge aligned* The
Decimal tab marker (,) aligns numbers so that the
decimal points all line up, or. if no decimal point,
the number tines up with other numbers before
she decimal point.
The decimal tab marker may also be used for
right aligning tent. The centre tab marker (t)
causes text to be positioned equally either side of
the marker. As many of these markers may be
used In a line as you want and the different types
may be mixed.
The active ruler Is always J the most recent ruler
earlier in the document than the cursor' F or* If
there is no earlier ruler, the default ruler set with
CONFIC and is displayed beneath the status lines
when in Document mode.
If you scroll up and down through! a document
containing a number of rulers you will see that
the displayed ruler fine beneath live status tines
always changes to reflect the currently active
ruler.
The left and right margins may also be altered
by dragging them to the required positions on
the displayed ruler line. Note that this Is not pos-
sible on the ruler line in the document, but ruler
lines can be changed by editing them as normal
text anyway.
One thing you will notice while experimenting
with rulers is that certain thing*, such as moving
a tab marker to a different column, have an
immediate effect, while others appear to change
nothing. An example of the latter is when you
move the left and right margins.
By default* Protext has the Auto Reformat
option selected In the Option menu, but it li
important to understand the way that auto refor-
matting works. Protext reformats the paragraph
when you perform some action which causes the
cursor to move.
This is preferable to reformatting as each char-
acter is typed which would cause the words to
keep shuffling around as you edit to maintain the
formatting.
If you move through an existing document,
having changed the ruler widths, no changes
will be made to the format unless you edit
the paragraphs* In which case they will
be reformatted to the new margins, or specifically
make use of the various reformatting
commands.
A document*, or part of it, may be re -formatted
when required using either the Format Text
option in the Text menu, Format Block in the
Block menu, Or you can use the Format Paragraph
or Format To End Of Para options in the Sundry
menu*
All of these perform the (Arne task, hut on
different parts of the document. The complete
text within the relevant areas Is reformatted, so
that It appears with all the currently set effects
and margins.
re, a* also is Ignore hut the Change
ion Is slightly different in that it just
s you to edit the ottered word. Once
pieted, the word is re-checked and
tfse next word ottered,
The Lookup option is similar to that
.ady described* but the correct word is
selected by pressing the appropriate
■ .mber alongside each ottered word.,
The View option allows you to see the
recognised word in context by
: splaying a number of lines from the
document, with the unknown word fligh-
ted so that you can see what action
fdi wish to take,, The Back option is also
■tra and allows you to go hack to the
zreYious word if you want The Check
.me nt block option performs the same
type of spell check, but only on a marked
block of text.
As already mentioned, this method of
spell checking is the fastest* but rf there is
Insufficient free memory Pro text will be
unable to check in this way. The solution
is to save the document and then select
the Check a File option*
You are then presented with the file
selector to select the file you want to
check, The checking process functions in
the same way as just described, but with
large Files the document may be checked
in several sections, requiring you to
correct any unrecognised words before
continuing with the next section of the
file. It there is still insufficient memory the
Check from cursor option should be used
as described above.
Dn completion, you are informed i?
any of the changes you ha^e made affect
the formatting of the text and are asked
whether you wish to re-load the
document. It you wish to continue editing
the document, you should elect to reload
it at this point,
• Next month well be
documenting some of the
more advanced features
of this powerful package.
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A great selection of this time r
especially chosen for the skint*
after^Christmas crowd who
desperately need software without the
shelling out...
There's no Jukebox jury this month
(watch out for its return next time) but
there are a number of excellent anima-
tions in the Dreams and Vinsons section,
including the best Amiga movie ever! Stay
with me, dear readers,.,
Moria v5.4
PD Soft
Running from the Workbench, this menu-
driven adventure beckons you to "enter
the dungeons of Moria.,.". Once you've
selected the name, race,, sex and class ol
your character, you can begin the game
proper.
The different moves or activities avail-
able to you are pretty comprehensive -
you can (once you've got 'em) use spells
and scrolls, you're free to attack monsters,
tun. look around - indeed most of the
usual adventure commands are there,
tucked neatly away in the menus.
The graphically-represented playing
area occupies most ol the screen, and
although Lhe icons are small and a little
plain, they do their job perfectly well -
and it's not realism we're after here any-
way, rather representation. The fantasy is
always far mare tangible if you let your
imagination fill in the gaps.
Involved and thorough, this is bound to
keep the silicon wanderers out there is
Amiga land happy for a good while.
Canon Studio
vl.1
PD Soft, by Wolf Faust
This is a utility written to provide support
for dll Amiga users who have Canon
printer drivers. Basically it prints IFF graph-
ics to a very high standard, but it's in its
ease of use and flexibility that it proves its
worth.
Printing is done straight from disk,
which means that there's no call for a
truckload of extra RAM every lime you
wish to print something more complex
than a simple line drawing. Indeed, ail you
need is 300k spare, so it will run quite
happily on an unexpanded machine.
It supports most IFF-lLBM formats,
which means that you should find little
difficulty with compatibility of graphics
files and this program.
But its main claim to fame is surely the
power it puts in your hands as regards the
quality of the printouts. Suddenly you can
print qraphics with up to eight greyscales
on any black and white Canon printer,
including the whole Bubblefet range.
Should you be lucky enough to own
one of Lheir colour models, such as the
BjflOO, you will be absolutely astounded
by the 24-bit-quality printing capabilities
that this program lends your printouts.
There is a small but detailed ReadMe to
Want a whole new world of graphics on
your Canon Bubblejet? Ever fancied
wandering around Ramsey Street? Phil
Morse rounds up
this month's
eclectic selection
of cheap and
free software
PUBLIC?
get you started, but in its complexity this
program remains simple to use, and you
shouldn't come unstock..
Should you have a Canon printer/driver
and even the vaguest interest in printing
graphics, be kind to yourself and order a
copy of this essential disk.
Neighbours
17 Bit* 2250 A/B, by Arron
Here is a little beauty, as they'd say down
under. Even if you don't give a XX XX. for
the TV programme, the concept and the
humour will more than likely endear you
to Lfois original graphical adventure.
Here's the pint - Paul has bought
Ramsey Street* He's finally done it* the
cold-hearted fiend, and the residents
aren't too impressed. Your hapless task is
to stop him. A dodgy digitised title screen
from the TV starts you off When in control
I headed straight for Jim and Helen's to do
a little investigating.
Every 'location has a digitised piccie
straight from the program, which is a
major selling point, because it's a lot of
Sun. There are all the basic adventure
commands which can be controlled from
the mouse, aiding your progress.
Thete was a bottle on the table in Jim
and Helen's house, So I took it, only to
find it disappear from the screenshot and
appear at the bottom of the screen in my
inventory section, Vefy nice!
Anyway, later I found the twins in con-
versation with the everwonderful world-
wandering Dorothy, and decided to ask
Christine to help me "stitch up" that ras-
cal Robinson..
Being his wile she refused, but her sis-
ter - loyal as ever - told me that
Mangel could '"lend" me a key to Pi
office. What a girl*
I could document my attempts lo
Ramsey Street forever - suffice to say
was highly improper and had a lot cr
in failing to achieve anything coristr
at all.
My only slight gripe is some ol
author's comments. Most are hig
amusing, taking a dig at the aforer
tinned XXXX and its contemporaries
instance, but adotescEnl sexism ha^.
place anywhere.
Maybe the author does really belh
that one oF the programme's charact
Dreams
A wide selection of Amiga art, anima-
tion and all things pictorial this month,
starting with the amusing Road Hog
Animation (Hugh Crove, 17 Bit r
230IA/BL
This two-disk cartoon tells the story
of a laddtsh motorist with an evil grin
and an Acme Animal Annihilator fitted
to his car, who likes nothing better than
to cruise the countryside looking for
creatures to squash.
Well lhe puts pay to the life of an
innocent worm (who, judging by the
lovely red rose he was carrying, was
more than likely on the way to his dol-
ing worm-ess), but like all good stories,
Mr Bad gets his come uppance in the
end - this time, at the hands of a
hedgehog with a secret! Intrigued? Well
all S can say is that it makes a refreshing
charge, if you know what I mean.
The cartoon is impressively animated,
with fine attention to detail - the evil
motorist and the hedgehog both draw
you in to the action thanks to the ani-
mation of their features, Give it a go-
Santa's Grotto (?/ Btl r 229S) shows
rather sickly family in 3 rather sick
Vulelide scene with a rather sickly 5an
- except, look! They’re getting up to
load of mischief!
Little [imrny is firing a pea-shoolc
the cat s pulling sister's jogging par
down (I jest thee not) and various olh-
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The Itedgrhop hm l#w Jmf laugh. but
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he should have kept such njbbish to
’ :eTf, Still, this game is by and large
faful - get it!
Play and
Rave 2
| Vims Free PO, CLU9,
by Dave Paterson
is a music module linker, -'ctemo maker,
%, it allows you to link together any
loer of pre- written Amiga musk modules
p^ay them in a predefined sequence.
‘Meanwhile, the screen displays, chops
changes and generally keeps the audh
:? amused wnth pictures - again they're
gsen hy you, and faded in and out,
jed and so on wherever you wish them
be.
'he program is compatible with all
]as, even the CDTV, and you don‘‘t need
■ board, as it's totally mouse controlled,
mpatibje with hard drive*; the finished
may be, A passable curiosaty.
By the way, the Highlander deino
(77 fift 2288A/B) fares similarly - all
good stuff, but try doing something
original with such rich source material!
One demo which does do some-
thing original, if unbelievably crass, is
the Gladiators slideshow (17 Bit r
2278A/8) giving Top Trump- style la cl
cards'' (complete with photos) of all
your lave Gladiators stars. I'm sorry,
but there are limits. r ,
Robert helper's Stemming* (17 Bit,
2284 ) has our faw suicidal chums play-
ing baseball, it's nicely animated stuff
complete with aclfon replays, and
there's beer humour there too (right
lads?).
The Style is original, and for this
atone - and the rather strange dosing
sequence * this demo, rough around
the edges and all, deserves a look in.
I can t finish with nut telling you
about an j mazing video cassette called
Space Wars, its ovoiloble from 17 Sit
(come on other PO houses, get your tfyft
to me! This Isn't a 17-Bit monopoly!} and
it feature on eight-minute Amigo onrmo-
f/ort - although "movie" is probably a
better term.
This video contains far and away the
most impressive animation I have ever
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ftufoolerie* are guin' down in the Grotto,
to speak,
This is pretty basic, static stuff and flat
= a pancake, but to be fair there's been a
fc t of attention and thought put into what
actually going on (several things happen
the same time) and as it s the only
r imbo anim I'Ve had, I'll let it off.
The Gif Slideshow (17 fl/tj contains a set
r piccies grouped into various categories -
■pace" gives us various digitised photos of
t» earth, spacemen and radio telescopes,
k>r instance, and "Money" displays the
■nts and backs of obscure bank notes
■donesia obscure enough?) - they've
< i en printed "specimen" over them!
Some of these pfrs are mildly interest-
g, but at the end of the day, anyone tan
I s'tise pholog^phs, however pretty they
seen, period. Based on the Star Wars plot,
it is wickedly humorous, and Amiga graph
fes supremo Tobias Richter should feel jusr
Hfjahly proud of this 50 Frames persecond,
24- bit, HAM -based masterpiece.
Still not reaching for the phone? Well, it
took four A3Q00s six weeks working
around the clock to render this animation.
Gel ordering, it's wicked! Latent
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demo can be saved where you wish, and
spread across any number of floppy disks.
There are basic controls over the music
and pictures, and ! would imagine that the
largest bunch that such a program would
appeal to would be the demo-makers
whose main interest is music.
for instance, a nice picture show could
be generated by anyone with neither the
time nor the interest to generate one
from scratch, simply by using existing pic-
ture fries from anywhere, or maybe scan-
ning record covers, pop stars' faces and
so on,
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If you run a PD library, or have rel
anything as PD, then send it to
and thaL r s an order! Although I
promise to review everything, I do
at every submission - what more
harassed revtaMT offer?
rm especially looking for weird
wonderful PD (go on! deviate!) as
as music disks (they don't have to
rave or dance) - anything you think
grab a jaded, world-weary hack s
don. The address?
Phil Morse, PD Submissions
Amiga Computings turopa House
Aldington Park, Macclesfield, SKI (Ml
jiffy bags In the area!
Storyland 2
Amiga nuts
This is described as an ''activity adven-
ture". It's pleasingly simple, bdng based
around clear pictures of various objects
and a central "text box*, with a big,
chunky font.
There's the usual mix of magic and
spells, seemingly irrelevant objects which
turn out to be useful, and some nice ani-
mated graphical bits, such as the one
when you move to another land (there
are five) which looks like the Time Tunnel,
as in the cult sci-fi bash as shown a while
back on TV.
Obviously intended for children, and
testing powers of memory as well as
logic, this game nevertheless would best
be played with an adult present or avail-
able - sometimes it's not quite as intuitive
as it could be.
Still, it's all presented very clearly, and
I've never seen an adventure quite like
this before. 1 liked it.
Wizard Wars
Nebula Software
A strategy game f or one to five players.
Wizard Ware is complex and compiling,
Once you've told the computer how
many people arc playing and what then
names are [the computer can play for any
of the players should a deficiency of will-
ing humans be the problem) you are
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Some PD libraries have been advertising DciaMED v3 when it Is, in (act, a copy-
righted program, making this action illegal,
Apj ,rt from vt and the non save v4, OctaMtD is only available from Amiganuts
at 169 Dale Valley Road, Southampton SOI 60 K. Anyone else offering this pro
gram is breaking the law.
Hwyhmif Z ti simple ami cotafrrfU
shown a map of the island on which the
game takes place, complete with features
such as hilts, mountains, forests, cities,, vil-
lages and castles.
You are a wizard, and you must
destroy all the other players' wizards in
order to claim dominance over the island.
Quite why you couldn’t all live together
as one family is not explained, but suffice
to say that none of you are in any mood
for conciliation.
like the other wizards, you live in a
tower. You need To destroy their towers
to get them, and to do this you
must summon demons. To summon
demons you must gather certain
attributes.
Pacifists will frown to know that even if
you wish to do a little pottering around
instead of mass destruction, you'll still
need demons, because they are your only
protection against the other wizards'
demons, unleashed to get you.
The graphics are good, it r s well pro-
grammed, and any strategy fan who's
looking for a new challenge will find mJ
ot interest in this game.
Apart from one or two niggles - 'M
program returned me to AmigaD05 or
unexpectedly and is some Limes not
friendly as it could be - this is rati
good.
Contact
addresses
Amiganuts, 169 Dale Valley Road,
Southampton SOI 6QX
PD Soft, t Bryant Avenue, Southend -
on-Sea SSI 2YD
17 Bit, First Floor Offices, 2/S Marke-
Street, Wakefield WF1 1DH
Virus Free PD, 31 Fardingdon Road,
Swindon $N1 5AR
rAirt.mfirin ■.'■hnirrrV 1993
MIS HUE PD
31 Faringdon Rd, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN1 5AR. England
Tel: 0793 512321/512073 Fax: 0793 512075
Amiga software for ANY Amiga *
MISO UTIL'S
MANDELBROT GENERATOR Ie a very easy lo
mandiebrot maker. $ runs al a speed
± :, J teataras uwr deF "-able options -as well 3.5
efcmo ptceies,
DEGRADER. la a j>owertul new utility that
♦Tables you to run incomjja&ble software on Ihe
mine's,, Very u$elgl
1EE COPY 1.0 the latesl version of tni& pow-
•ifut backup looli il can remove password proiec-
tei form hundreds of commercial titles, gat a
ftow, ti also means most &ohware can then
e metalled pnto your Hardi$k
= KTERMiN 0. Do you wish you could get the wry
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-GOPY 2. Thia could aoon lead Ihe way in dupli-
cation Software, DCQFY2 is so advanced rc>m-
, ared to other dis-, copiers, it reMtos around 0
copy modes, various Formaters, disk checkers
■ X. Thra is easily Ihe mosl powedgl Amiga soh-
iMire copier currently aveilaPle. If you r -eec to
- aha a backup, you need lhis,
%iTTLE OFFICE, is a very useful oMice krt, which
: anlums a neal little Word Processor, a data-
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Superb value for money.**'**
•EM SIMULATOR (NEWS', especially lor
kckstad 2 .kk. this version will allow you Id run a
r jg<> qua ” 1 :y c 1 reads v avadabe -C software
r® dos required) caw for ludhar dele is If nesd-
PCl'ASKI.4. FC emulator but tor 1.3 Amiga a*
ATARI ST EMULATOR
C®4 EMULATOR
SPECTRUM EMULATOR L#Ls ytnj ren speety
Jamas on Ihe Amiga Call tor further details
AMS DOS lor use wrth PC emulator disks
aaso)
AMQS UPDATE 1 34. The letesl release 0 1 Amos
featotoft new mu*»C routine®, which means no
"Tore cotwedirvg modules before playing them
J ttJl stuff
SCREEN fiL ANKERS A whota disk toll & ultefirt
Hankers, essennal for your monitors dis-
^iOILER PLATE. Here's a greal new disri lhal
conta nft hundreds of pre-wntfen leders. all you
no is simply fell n wtmi 1 add rest eic and print it
out.
FlK DISK H youV# gOl prdHems wrlh Faulty disks.
Mia lhaS have tead/wole effort, than order s
Wpy dF fix disk. Anolher essential diak.
DYNAMITE PRINTER DRIVERS This d®k eon-
Urns every driver you could imagine, from slan-
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Panasonic etc.. Got a primer gat this.
ISM EMULATOR PACKAGE
CnmplMc- mtn t-*erylh ig ydl itri.
Cjw vniy popim IBM cnuiutor 4 PC Tati*, an yipnH CJC'r
i*W, P ItiP (M PC Siiergwvfli* as +. >UJ {Hfrflid emula-
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honfppdc fVLRYfMIvS fPu n£& 3 FCft A MERE fU.M
^Lirfled slockL » rur*y i
tfCR FILER DATABASE ir youVo got a laige
-dec- collection you warn lo store on computer,
then this is the eoFlwaro to do iL
ANTt FLiDKEfl Fs an ing«^ious titsla tool lhat
^educes ITre Amiga screen flicker when used in
hi-res interlace
ENGINEERS kit (NEWi is a useful new utility
cdlKtion lhal contains tools la nllawyou lo lest
every par! of 1h* Amiga mdudma moim il |oy-
stek
CROSS WORD CREATOR Cnealo your very
own cfoaa word puzzles with a touch & a taw
txiiLons
TETptA GO^Y, With lhis powerful disk tPpier y*u
:»jn play a decent game of T&trrs at Ihe 5Bme
limft,
CONS GALORE This grc^l disk CdfifcolhS Kf*ds
' workbench ioone suitable for a variety of &ub-
iecis
TV GRAPHICS- is a whole disk full of uaable
-.ick drops tor video tilling, anolher bnllianl disk.
PD PACKS
L1ESK TOP PUBLISHING PACK, « yWffl nHo dtp
■ you want lo- get into it, then get ahold of thia
PHI coteaion of disks. Includes Amiga Fax
DTP. and four disk of various clipart including
Rooters. Ey e catchers, and fwo other very popu-
sr Clipart disk^ E& QQ t
LIPn'PASTE. Is a new sel dI diaks that contains
*e« over 10O ddforen! colour tonls thsl can b*
ised in OPa.nl III. L5 DR
CHEATS PAK Now here's a TantaEJic pack tor al
te« games players out ihom in Amiga land, ii
onlama Ihousande ol hints, Tips & cheats for
fcbads o 4 arcade strategy, adventure games A
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BUSINESS
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you* little black book into some kind ol order,
stare all your clients delays on computer.
LITTLE OFFICE. Is a very useful package lhal
stains a super frIUe wo*d prooftsso*, a dala-
base, a spreadsheet & G raphics package.
A'jTo GRAPH IF you wont lo print pie charts,
Bar graphs etc, then hares a brilliant lihle pre-
grn.fl> HKat does the 1r»ok.
=:'jDGet wnti altort 8 you 10 easily bud^ your
■■come over Ihe following months.
71 XT PLUS 4.0on Is a pcwertul new w?rd
processor, that Pus ali ma lealures you would
upect to lind in a -commercial WP
ASM/M0+ DUST COVER
Aeoa-'AeDgHP Oust Cover
Mouse Mai.
Mouse House
RoboShifi switcher,
13 capacity disk box
Blank disks
l 600 BUSINESS LETTERS. A colteclion of laH
loned Mttirs ranging from lale payemenHs lo
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MORE UTILS
FIX. DISK repair your lautly programs
□COPY 2. Entremely powerful copper
L SCREEN BLANK£R$. A disx Ml
iFF CONVERTERS, convert Amiga 3 PC gfx
□ SLIDESHOW GENERATOR. AAows ydu lo Cra-
Bta greal slideshows with ease.
□ IBM EMULATOR Kkketart 2..xx
ANIMATIONS
LEMMIN'S REVENGE, a greal 2 d«k. 2meg ani-
m^liCh by Roddy Mcmiinn
: DUNGAN THE DUNG BEATLE 2. A AS disk en*-
malityi that iiMui^ 4rmg &f memory ip run,
LJF E S A BITCH Hilanous by grouse arum taken
1rc*n Golden A*e, (16|
5 WAYS TO KILL A MOLE! a^wther s«k anima-
liopi aboul nwles and how to get rid ol em.
DEMOS
_ RSI MEGA DEMO <2 an aU lime dftS«ic
ALCATRAZ 'ODYSSEY h . a five dak adventure
through space, totally awesome all Ihe way
_ thrcuoh 1he$ 43 minute comptria*- him.
TEF r GIGA MIX’ 2 disks.. 2 dnvas required, ove^
20 minulo? of puie samplea. Cpreal! musiCl
FILLING THE MACHINE an h^noue demo m
Che linea of the famous Nat West advedisement.
£3.99
£3-99
£2. SO
Et.50
£14.99
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59p
1-29K- LEMMIN'S REVENGE (2di5ksJ. 2MEG.
Amasing new 2meg animation by Roddy
McMiR*m
C +2947. LEEDtNGS. A brl like Lemmings
G +2943. APC MISSION (Zdlfl k*] am-
martton
+29S1 E-TYPE II AMAZING Asle^oids clone
C +2952. GAMEBOY TETRIS. Ifttfi* Qam#boyPl1
[ +29S3. K.K. NORMAN PARTS. 2MEG. followup
to Knighty Kn ghL Norman. Superb o^imakons,
+2954 DOLPHIN DREAM. Colourful amm
+29SS . TOP SECR ET Exlramely addictive stub
□ +2956. CYBER 7 Gama compilation
+2957 THE DEGRADER. Atlowe you to run more
old sottware on your new machine. Essential
+2950- SPECTRUM+MATHlX. 2 great games;
-2900 TURBO THRUST, fanlaslic new game!*!
□ +2961 SPEED LIMIT, (3 disks) 3MEQ oniril
1 -t2954 EVE CATCHERS. -Bnllianl dipart aelec-
lion
J 42955 ARAZMAJC. Bang Bang
->2966 SPACE TRA^ . 2 player shoot emup
Brillfl!
+2967. TECHNO BAN. Ve*y addictive puzzler
Z -2969 HELL ZONE H-T™ eat your hoari oul
-29E9 UTTLE OFFICE. WP r Spreacaheel eto
□ +29172. WBASE 1.3. Very small WB database
-2373 CYBERNliTDL Totelly fartlaslic] shoot em
m
►2974 LITTLE B6MCH2.G RoptKWWit W0
^2975 COSMOPOLITAN FONTS ft -4) (4 diskai
^2979. ASSASSINS GAMES 28, Latesl games
comps
* *2986. VIDEO WIPES. Essential for video enlhw-
siasts
” -K2990. BOUNCE N BLAST. Super new platform
cum shoot' em up. Very colourful, fantastic GFX
_ +2992 SLIDESHOW GENERATOR V#iy easy lo
use Slideshow maker.
._ +2993. TRAIL BLAZER. This is the latest £ best.
+2994 SOCCER CARDS ferift
game
□ +2996. ROTON New Asteroids dona
1-2996 PROTRACKER 2.2. Latesl vefsion WB2
□ +3MO. TEXT ENGINE 3 4, fentaslie Y^P packagi:
□ +3001 . DONKEY KOAIG. a classic
. +5002. CLI TUTORI AL, essential For beginners
_ +3063 PASCAL
+ 30M AMIGA TUTORIAL
□ +3006 THE INTREPID, FAnListic rpg g*o>o
Li +3067 ANGLIA COLOUR FONTS t. dpa^l fonts
□ +3012 MULTtDOS 2. File Iransfer system
□ +3021 FORTRAN COMPILER A Iflbgui 199?
+3023. HISTORY OF AMY. Amy tha squirrel
□ +3028 CRAZY SUE 2 S bnB plalformor
PRINTER TOOLS
□ NEW PRINTER DRIVERS. A greal i>ew MtfGlton
of divers lar STAR. Canon BJl 0, and mere
FANCY DISK LABELLER Creale fancy looking
disk iBbe-rn w;1h this easy to u&a package
TEXT PLUS 4.0e. Is a great new word processor
_ lhai featow an the HfoM hits
LABEL BASE. Store loadsl of names and
address mr prinllngi onio la&e^
PRINTER DRIVER GENERATOR. Allows you ta
make your owri printor driver Ipr your prinior. m\
the- easiest thing tc use, but il weeks.
FONTS
COSMOPOLITAN FONTS 1-4 la a unique doIIbc-
lion of standa+d awiiga S&nJe for USA ^ DHuk*
mr Ilf. etc
AGESTREAM FONTS 6-10 A collection of
Supo-rb quality Fonts for ws# In Pege^reatn 2 1 or
22
CQMPUGR APHID FONTS 1-3, O^er 08
Compugraphlc fonts tor use m Pro Page. DPatnt
4.1, Page Setter, a WB2
i BAD EJOYZ COLOUR CLIP FONTS, a *hole disk
toll ol full colour clip Fonts, great lor dpairn or
even AMOS
MINI FONTS II A massiua colleclion ol small Fanis,
□ GELIGNITE FONTS II UmNI odledion ^ IFF dips.
GAMES
] DP MARIO, Anolher hugely popular Tains' type
of game, 1ealu r tng immense payability and iriari-
o'rsh graphics .
AMIGA COLUMNS Vary Sihiikr ro tot Go+Ii?
Gear varsion but with better SDuna g^s
DONKEY KONG In the year tgeJ'? there was a
game lhal rocked Ihe computer wtstfd, that gam*
was Donkey Kong. Even if you were net around
SO*** It, blip H.*™
BOUNCE N' BLAST Hana- e a great new PD plat-
fafitt turn 5 hoot! 'em up, Hectoring grn^i game play,
graph cs & sound, don t mias il.
HELL ZONE. R-fype eal your hoart out. here's a
lanto$tic new ehdel'em up baaed an R-Typ#,
Super action, gel a copy now
. M^GABALL Is an iiddtoitvt Breess’qut dtorri lhal
features fantasllc digrlized speech and awesome
graphics. PD al if s best' 1 '”
GAMEBOY TETRIS, theta right a gamefray enu-
lalor! Play Telria on Ihe Amiga, ihe same as you
w&uld oh ft G$mef»y t
DELUXE PACMAN (NEW) The is the late si ver-
sion of Pacman available. II leatore& utterly Fan-
taalfo graphics, thg nLam clwarter n ftrlll.
Just in..,.
ARCADE CLASSICS
Ajrjf» d i 4 rr Jl yetv .\n Vraynu. IncUI+ig Span
I'ivki' t ^tKinan. AsIv^kLs tlL ha >d .-nys.
“ FULL HOUSE POKER. Play against good old
Jack, m lhis ^aniastre quality Poker game, easily
the b*3l Amiga Pc*fif game available,'*"*'
GIRL ACTIONS No. -\ s not whaE ynu think, if 5 =,
V4iy sddidivq vemeo n ot CsfeK^ians
□ BUNNY BLAST Now lhis is whal I call sick, ba&i-
cally lha idea ol Ihe game is 10 Shoot 8 maim as
many poor and defenceless rabbits as possible,
... MISSILE COMMAND in tha good old days this
was br>e bl tha most ptoyod ^atuas amund. *ftd
now Jl s avaslabla on Ihe Amiga, Gel ll>
RIM DATABASE. Is a simple yet powerful rela-
tional Dakidase. Superb Tor storing names A
Addresses etc.
AMIBA3EPR0 2 Is Nghly praised by all it's cur-
rant user baito tor h&mq exl remaly f lakiblfi
AMID EX. Is an Amiga Tila card syslam, Very aaay
to use. perfect (Or simple names & addresses etc
I JiArB BASE vehry smaK ft compart a nple dba&e,
lhal is made Eo run m Ihe background of your WB.
MUSIC/SOUND
.J MED 3.2 1 D real# your awn musical Oomposl-
lions with ease, you don I even need 1 to know
music.
J PURE SAMPLES 1-3, 3 disks lull to 1h* rim cl
^ gh quafify if samples, various inatru merits ate.
VOCALS 1 '5, A Lctoby awosoms cMbn of rtf
samples. Each sample has been recorded at aver
17600 samples a second sd frey are d Ihe frigh’
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J BEATS 1 -5 Frve dsks full of high qualify fegals
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□ TEDDY BEARS a Mu tui d pkrtures of cute tltfla
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. i SAD BOYZ COLOUR CLIP FONTS. A rollachon
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C.L.FL WARES
Only £3 50 a title, unless slated
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Superb Educational Irle an averylhmg you n#ad
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□ CLED9. WORDS ft LADDERS. Brilliant snakes
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CLElQ. BASICALLY AMIGA f3disks) is a ne#
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GLUOl . VIDEO TiTLER. Inlo video tnirng? here's
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□.GLU03. TtPING TUTOR. Laam to type properly
with this eKceflenl typung tutor, one or the easiesl
to us#.
I CLUD4. ALPHA GRAPH A very snazzy utility that
ollcrec you lo easily produce vnrious graphs.
□ CLUD5 SAS MENU MAKER. A great new menu
maker trom SAS, allows you to creale a menu
where you can position buttons where you like on
the screen, have a snazzy logo al tha lop. and
load ary program you like by simply clicking on
lha seteet&d button,****
II CLUD0 SUPER SOUNDS III. la a very powerful
and versahto "Sampling' -software. It is compali-
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ler :han mosl commercial atuH available,
I I CLU6B WORD FINdiR Plu*. £4.^6
Word tinder plus -s a powerful new crosswor-d
*uiv#r As ri new stands rt ■conteins t tficttonary ol
over 40,060 English words, h can solve ana-
grams. croMwOndte. word searches etc, ILs amaz-
mgiy #a^y to use and features simple po*rt ft
click ooerations *****
[ CLU09 PLAY'n'RAVE 2 £4,50. Play'n'Rave
allows you to produce groat demo's just like
DigriaT Concert ft. TEF Giga-mix, easily and pro
l&saionelly Link Tracker modutes 1o^e1h#r to prtj-
duce an amazingly long and varied music hack.
An o«c*llftntpi*C# OF programming
CLLG l NORRIS. Exotlmg plattcdii romp
ClGC 2 DARK THINGS 'Cotourf jI priaHarmaf
CLGKJ PHASe 2 Mum level parallaK hbnZONal
scrolling ahoolam up great value. - ****
CLG04 X-SYGTEM Another Fantastic game Fea-
turing ericallenl GFX and superb- platform action
Wail worth a look al. **'*
CLG05. TfiUCKN ON 2- C* 56 A superb maAag-
menl game to say tha laast.***
ClGDb OBLIH RATION 1 .3 Amiga's only Frantic
shoolem up artfem.****
G CLG08 DRAGON TILES (New VereionJ. Very
hen indeed, this is Ihe i&igesl selling Cuft into
areund. It s basically a PAIR IT type game wrlh
htrfwtreds of levels ft great graphics, tt's ated
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□ CLG69 MOTOR DUEL. Batttbcart. jailldd up
version.
□ CLG10. FUTURE SHOCK. Another superb CLR
reteM* where (he object cn lh® game is to simply
rotf your ball e round a maze colled ng various
items, sounds easy but il aint.
r I CLGl 1. All GUNS HLAZING. Fart paced top
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I J CLGl 5- SPOLDGE Great new platform game,
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U CLGl 7. iMriMlLJML A sort ot 'MorKfiy Island-
game where you lake oorrtrol oF a Mlario" charac-
ter.
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Other Licensed Titles
Free % the adventure creator £5 .00 Gu leksilver, arcade pinball
A-Gene, track your fam ily tree £1 5 .00
T imetab ie Planner, for students £2.50
Master Virus Ki Iter v2 .2 £2.00
Ami/Fdsffladc, hard disk backup £3.00
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A-Log, for animal breeders £8 00
Amnuts, multi-fort text printer £3.00
Amiaase Pro. not Che PD version £3.00
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As the European distributors of the T-Bag series, we have the fastest
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Assassins Games Compilation, each disk contains a selection of
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Hell zone, the best PD shoot-em-up, Top Secret, a good platform
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Catacombs, graphic adventure. Mental Image II, compilation. Sanity,
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Utilities
Word Power, spell checker 4 more. AGraph & Freepaint.
Text Engine 3-4, shareware wordpro. UEdrt 3.8, shareware text editor.
PC Task, IBM CGA emulator. 3 Disks. Magnetic Pages, multi -media tool.
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ACTION REPLAY MK3
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ting up and it looks 55 though Ocean are
preparing to load iheir big guns. Coming your
way this Crirnbo is Lethal Weapon, WWF Euro-
pean Rampage and as previously reported
Cool Worfd and Universal Monsiers.
LethaJ Weapon is based on the Urals and
tribulations oF Martin Riggs and Roger Mur-
taugh from the Lethal Weapon Film trilogy.
You get to choose to play either Riggs or Mur-
taugh - each has varied abilities and has to
tackle the missions in a different way.
There are Five missions in all in which you
have to conquer drug smugglers, terrorists
and the Organisation or save hostages under
siege.
The game which is an arcade shoot-'em-up
is Ocean's biggest fifm licence ever and should
be available now For a measly pn : ce oF E25.99,
Ocean's big game is WWF European Ram-
page and hopefully icTI be better than their
first effort. This time all your Favourite wrestlers
unite for a European Rampage Tour ,
Hufk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior The Nat-
ural Disasters, The Nasty Boys and Legion of
Doom are all Featured. The game can be
played as a two-player Tag-Team or a one^n-
one grudge match
it says on my wonderfuf press refease that
there are over 62 [count 'em* I individual 1
moves for each wrestler which f Frnd very hard
to belreve, but we shall see.
Expect to see a review fairly soon. WWF
European Rampage will cost you 125,99 and
should be available at the beginning oF
December,
Cobblers as an art form
News flash
Thank Gad that articles like the "Screen
Dreams piece that appeared in this month's
copy of The Face are infrequent, and that mis-
informed writers such as the one responsible
for the piece are few and far between in the
computer world,
I would advise any mate gamer out there to
read this article just to see how clueless these
idiots are + I say male because the article Is
directly aimed at men.
Gavin Hills, author of the aforesaid piece,
makes a sad, unfounded and pathetic attempt
to trivialise and break down the computer
games world into psychological similes.
It is dear from the article that Mr Hills has
no idea of the current games market Your aver-
age grandmother knows as much about the cur-
rent games scene.
For those of you who haven't read the arti-
cle r 1 IT give you a brief idea of what he was
faying., The opening paragraph has references
to the fourth level of Desert Storm - an inaccu-
rate reference I might add, as the game is
Desert Strike, a Meg ad rive title.
How many of you male games out there
agree that ^masturbation and computer games
go hand in hand ? Not many I'd imagine. And
how many dedicated male gamers agree that
"shooting them up on screen and soiling your
favourite hanky may both be furtive
exercises... ''7
He goes on with this poor excuse for a
Freudian interpretation of the computer game
world, deciding that racing games encourage
joy riding, that computer games are a sexual
outlet for the average adolescent teenager, and
indeed that they're "a healthy alternative for
potential child murderers and perverts".
Gut his doesn t stop there, the obscenities go
on, Knights of fCnobt**t ,r P Colostomy Cattle ...
f think old Gavin is the one who need* the psy-
choanalysis, don't you?
They think it's all over.
But they're wrong - ft's not over yet. Sensible Soccer, the
biggest Sport game of 1 992, has just been improved. With
the new title oF Sensible Soccer vl.l, [he game has loads
more features and is almost guaranteed to be in the top
three Christmas sellers.
It now Features new and improved goalkeepers. In [he
first game the goalies were a bit wishy washy, but now the
goalies can recover more quickly, catch the ball properly,
punch the ball away and when its too hard tn catch and
tip the bail over the bar or around the post. Thus all these
coupled together make the goalies a Jot harder to score
against.
For all you V\m y Jones fans there « trouble on the hori-
zon, Any Cynical professional fouls will now earn your
players a red card and a long walk back to the dress
room - Plus there's monel
The new baokpass rule is included, so that means
goalie can't pick the ball up, but he can ntn all die way
the piK h and score a goal .
All the new season's team and players names a 1
included plus there are some more brand new comedy
tom teams.
Well what can I say? J'm speechless. Having played
new version f can say that it's loads better and much
fun than the original - a bargain if ever I saw one.
There Is good news For peopre who own the origi-
game. You can upgrade your copy by sending your disks
Renegade Call them on 07 1 -481 921 4 for more details.
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s
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Kixx out the jams
s Budget label Kixx has just released a brand ni^w sub [abet. Entitled Kixx XL tne company have a whole forry-R
forthcoming releases lined up These Include Midwinter, Batclehawks 1942 and Future Wars which are reviewed In
Cheap Seats this month - check them out.
Also released are Zak McKrafeen and the Alien Mmdbendecs and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - The Gra|
Adventure. The games are more expensive than your avenge budget software. All oF them cost El 2.99 except for India'
Jones which will cost you a penny uncter £ 1 5
Looks; like a lot oF money For a budget game, but I think you II agree tea t these games are an really good and are
that kttie bit extra. Just don't make the prices any higher, OK? All releases mentioned here should be available now.
Large sweaty men and big weapons
5 *^ 1 1
Contraptionsgate -
Cute repair man in
bug scandal
Mirbdsd^pe's next release is a game called Contraptions n s an ^metric 3D
puzzle game very mutfr in the style of
efoe now classic D/Generatioa
You take ihe part of a 'cute” reparr
man and must work your way through a
huge machine fixing 'bugs' and making
repairs white looking tor the tools with
which you can exact these repairs.
Switching levers, jumping on pressure
pads and turning screws wifi
enable you to enter other r oom
which in rum allows you to
progress through the levels.
IF it’s half as good as D/Gen-
eration then it'll be very good
indeed. Contraptions should be
avarrable around about now for
the quite cheap price of £ 1 9.99.
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BBRACSLE, Hmm, err
I know, SCRABBLE...
Yes. the world s lead mo word gam# if just ana jt to appear on
your Amiga, Ml ed as the ultimate game of verbal wizardry to hit
the home carnoute*.
Computer Scrabbi? is the definitive 90s version of the famous
game, ft s the same Fun-packed blend of skill and chance which
enhances your word power as you play, but it does have some
ip€:ial features.
BrilJtant computer graphics give an extra dimension to the
game, as well as having the advantage of all pieces stapling on
board, so there s no chance of one of your relatives having one
too many on Boxing Day and crashing into the board and ruining
the game.
Locked into the games memory is every page of the Chambers
Official Scrabble Dictionary lover T2 & 000 words} so bluffs can tie
called in seconds. A special souvenir computer print-oirt of the
'inal board position can be put into effect at the touch of a but
son, so you can remember how b^dJy you lost.
Release date and price are as yet unknown as we go to bless,
but it should be available very soon.
ICirlc to bridge.
I'm skint...
sy The game that fury collars and strange people who a, rive Capris have
been waiting tod Star Trek the game rs being ported over From the FC.
IF like me you are an intensely ad and unfortunate git and you rush home so
vatch the re-runs of the '60s classic, then the game, when it finally reaches the
miga, will be a necessity.
Sources say that the majority oF tfse s fcnes have been taken from the Four
ones witli ail the tfomufans, Klinoons and Forms of Alien Life that are "not as we
•now if.
INNER VISION
Full to bvstin 1 - not even room for
Nigel Mansell’s World Championship .* 4
The man with the most earns a bit more
Road Rash
Quck relief for frustrated motorcyclists
Tearaway Thomas ...
A funny looking chap who jumps on thing
Nicky Boom ......
Another funny looking chap who j
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Bin's Tomato Game *•##4
Wins first prize for this month)
Premier Manager m.JvL
Sit on a draughty bench ,nd sw
jumps on
izarre Nam
ame competition
ar at men in short trousers
James Pond* icyAftiFS
Sporting frolics as the fishy spy swaps his Magnum for Reeboks
Gobuins 2 M HP w+* 9 *wv+ty******m**w * 9 * 9 ##****# V S
Why put iris after the name when you can have them in the middie?
Oalek Aim;; ft* * ** a »•*#•* »•»*#-■ * + • p **# p 20
Put your hands together please for the walking talking dustbinsJ
No Second Prize 24
No need for one. This comes top every timei^A
Peach for the Shies *
Wartime nostalgia - with Robert Mite
.JRJ
hum now
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where to be seen
Onword
The news section that just he ips^jrowmg!
Source: Lei
The return of the brail
cut re pies
This is what
something jd
K U WALKER
en you cross Robocop with... erm.
Chi
Ween;
Mode •••••• **********
as we could get and still produce a magazine
February 1993
GREMLIN ■ £29.99 ■ 1 meg ■ Joystick/keyboard ■ Out now
Off to a good Jta#t - even
Johnny Herbert's In from of us
p£ ljrijar|
E lsewhere in this itupcndou!
issue of Garner you will find
me tinging in a loud voice the
praisex of Gremlin's other release, Pre-
mier Manager, and vowing to collar
either Biff or Ben into reviewing
Mansell so I can spend as much time a
possible with my beloved Wycombe
Wanderers,
Weir, a true Indication of the
authority i wield is evident in the fact
that here I am, reviewing them both.
Have you ever noticed bow much of
a miserable sod Nigel 1 Mansell is? it's
unbelievable - the guy lives in a three
million pound house in a tax haven,
and gets an eight figure salary for
doing the thing he loves most, yet the
only time we see any noticeable
twitch of his moustache is when
Ayrton Senna spins out off the track
in a horrifying accident.
All credit to the broke though - not
only is he one of the few truly success-
ful contemporary British sportsmen,
but he also has to cope with the slob-
bering schoolboy adulation bestowed
upon him by the ever-excited Murray
I Walker.
In order to supplement his meagre
income, Nige has lent his name to the
latest §o-ve ry-f a st-a ro u nd-a- track-' em-
up from those LotuS-like fiends from
Sheffield,
Ben had a good look at the game
for his review in ST User Gamer, and
was far from impressed, which worried
me greatly as I didnt want to believe
that the game I had been looking fan
ward to so much was a small but pun-
gent heap of Tibetan llama droppings.
Nervously, I investigated,,-
- On loading you are presented with
Ah. SihrtHtone - IwrtW cf the
British GP and £5 pints of togtt
a generous options screen that as well
as offering you the standard gear and
control method choices, alto enquires
politely as to whether you would like
to "improve with Mansell" or take
lessons in "driving school" before
launching yourself into the full race
season.
well 1m no nance, and was raring
I for a bit of real racing action, hut,
dedicated chap that ■ am, thought it
only fair to explore ail the avenues, so
to speak.
Driving school was my first stop,
and the concept is very simple.
Choose any track on which to practice
- no other cars are present, and the
I maximum speed of your car is
restricted, the idea being that this will
(enable you to learn how to control
I the car. Come on, please » I'm Sure we
I can cope with moving the joystick
I from side to side and pressing the Fire
* button occasionally. One visit to driv-
iriaa c a
PEES
m/I l/i
ing school and you'll never return -
it's daft.
Improve With Mansell allows us to
zoom around the track to the accom-
paniment of a running commentary
from the man himself. This is a much
better idea than the Driving School -
the racing line is indicated, and in
theory the comments from Nigey-
babes should teach us the best tech-
niques to use.
In practice, however, whenever i
tried looking up from the track at the
snippets offered ("stay on the track ,
"avoid hitting things }, the result was
invariably my car wrapped around
some advertising hording or other, ft's
a nice touch, birt not much help at all,
I'm afraid-
After dispensing with all the frills
and inconsequentlaiities it was time
to get me some action. Every track
from the 1992 Grand Prix circuit is
here in all its macadamised glory -
you can choose to race a single cir-
cuit. in which case you take your pick,
or pack some dean clothes and a cou-
ple of new engines and opt for the
fulf GP season.
The fulf season begins in South
Africa and culminates in Australia as
does the real thing. A handy intro
screen gives some indication as to
which bits on your car you should
tamper with by outlining the nature
of the track - bends, straights and so
on.
You can if you wish get straight
into a race, in which case you will find
yourself at the back of the 1 2-car grid.
Qualifying Is a better idea - two laps
round the track with Just a couple of
other cars provides an excellent land
a little too easy} chance of beginning
the race on the front row.
As far as the gameplay g
NMWC is good, but not great,
tracks are well laid out but the si
updates are just a bit too slow to
ulate a Formula One rating car trJ
ling at nigh on 200 miles per hour
The minimised track in the
corner of the screen succeeds wi
"Improve With Mansell fails in pn
ing you with as much in-race infoi
tion as you need.
AM it does is tell you where the
are on the track, but then you're
really intersted In the price of
Brazilian Cheddar when your chi
are wobbling with G-force, are you?
One element of the game wltif
suppose is realistic, but annoyii
nonetheless, is the sheer difficulty
overtaking other drivers. The oi
time f won any races was wke-
started in pole position.
Points are awarded as per the usi
Grand Prix rules, and a place in
top three in any race earns an a
mated sequence which takes a w‘
to load and would be better left out
As you would expect from Gremi
Mansell is a polished game, not w
out its faults, but which shoe ;i
appeal to race fans due to the optic-
it sports and the full GP season.
VISION
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graphics would have midst great.
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Everything h well drawn and the
backgrounds arc dead srr^rt
Run-of-the-mill bike noise.
Tunet aren't exactly pippin?.
Easy to play
but tw slow
Excellent short term appcdl
Little challenge.
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Biff models his
spiffing new cricket
sweater
H ey, I remember this! Road Rash
was the second game I ever
played after buying a Megadi -
oops, nearly dropped myself in it there.
Ahem, well anyway, it was - and joUfy
good fun it was too - whizzing around varr-
ous fictwai parts oF America on a fast farkc,
avoiding the police and knocking oft anyone
who got in my way. Top entertainment At
the trmc
And now here we are in Amrgatand 1 3
months later, busy reviewing alf the first
goodies of the New Year, when who should
pop up for perusal hot my oiri mate. Great - \
irtxiJdnt wail for a quick sfiufry.
Road Rash on the Megadrive was aceoro
panted by a stirring tale oF ccsTi'peiiEfon and
confrontation between two mean riders over
a girl - they ended up facing each other on a
treacherous highway for a no fiords barred
race without njfes.
The girl swooned over the wmneo the
race was brilliant etc etc, and it was decided
that <t should be held every year to find the
best "rasher", or some such gobbins.
Well we've alf grown up a bit since then,
and EA suttee with tellrng Amiga owners that
"nice guys come fasr, and leave it at that
As with any raerng game, the aim is obvi
QosJy to win races, and since we've jusi been
informed that mild-mannered citizens such as
ourselves generally come a good way down
the field, it's necessary to enter rnro a Jrttir?
roughness.
We have two basic moves with which to
temporarily immobilise our leather-clad com-
petitors, and on which the game was really
sold to Megadffre owners.
Depending on which joystick control
method is chosen - there are two - either a
dab on the Fire button or a quick push
upwards on the stick wiff see your rider
punch anyone within arm's reach
Srmrlarly, by pushing down on the stick
you are able ro kick anyone who odes too
dose for comfort. A particularly well placed
punch or kit* can see an adversary knocked
off fas or her bike, but that doesn't mean
that they're out of the race - you'll nonce
them in your rear view mirrors as they
scurry back towards their bikes and
re-mount
Bikes are the ultimate status symbol for
types like yourseif - you begin the whole
shenanigans on a Shuriken 400, the
motorcycling equivalent of die XRZ, in
that it looks quite nice and sounds OK
but rs about as likcfy to rake you to the
front of the pack as a Salisbury's trolley
with a wonky wheel.
You wiri therefore be wanting to win
some money in order to invest in a bet-
ter bike, and the only way to do it is by i
winning races.
There are five tracks in aid, and
despite boasting such varied names as .
Grass valey and Farm Desert, they are
disappointedly aWce in terms of layout
Beginning always as last in the Fine
of 3 S competitors. you must fight you* .
way through to at least fourth p ice on
each circuit before qualifying for the
second stage
Each time you take a fall or if, say,
you're careless enough to let another
rider knock you Off. the energy ba r on —
vria handlebars reduces accord ng.y ■
Your trusty cycle also has its own bar I
- ir this reaches the bottom yuui'l [ nd I
your self Out of the r Ke and fikefy as I
Its more thkirv juit llw lyrei ^qucaFing M Rude Bey delivers an elbow to the parti you shouldr
Subtle « ever, ttir poNcr knock you to
Iho Flour for having ri faulty t>t!J Irg h(
It s (Flat BrPf again ! A iwift c rubbing lo
tho head should reNeve that? frjjjiffltiom
not in the knocking shop for some
ccsstly repairs
Everything I remember playing
on the Megadrive version rs here -
the tunes have been watered down a
bit, but the colourful and Fast- moving
multi parallax backgrounds are if any-
thing enhanced.
Wfiat about the bike speed
then? WfeflIL there's really no skirt-
ing around the fact that it’s not very
fast at air - this rs quite a major prob-
fem and detracts from the game m a
big way
You see. it's great fun riding
abound the five tracks punching
and kicking as many people as you
can, and ift nice to choose a new
bike when you've won enough
money.
The policemen and women
who constantly patrol are a nice
addition, and the occasFonal cow
on the road adds a touch of
humour Gut what we really need
from a racing game is speed - if
there's no speed it just doesn't
feel fike a iace. And frankly Road
Rash doesn t.
I m still a fan of the game, but
F'm not bfind to its faults. Couple
all the polished elements with
the lack of speed and the fact
That ti^e fater stages are nothing
_ but more laps around the same
[rack, and what you have is an original
fun game that offers not much real eft
lengc and soon becomes boring wh
played for any length of lime.
In the eupftori* out IWnfli ff llrtj k fty believes the handlebars are ramewhert n*t»ve Wf head
Worse than air sickness, its the
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Fm? Membership with First Order Wd o6f^afn?n to w-order.
o you remember - on, about two
years ago - Britain was in the rel-
atively early stages of a deep
isfon repossessions were on the up,
ipfoyment was spiralling once again,
to top it ail England were knocked out
World Cup thanks to a pathetic Chris
:ie penally. Remember? It's all coming
isn't it?
ftygnosis - a fine upstanding software
from the ciry that gave us the Beatles
car theft - took a good look at the sorry
of the people around them, and were
4/hat was once a great and happy land
awash with gloom - the population
something to make fife worth Jiving
more.
k> they created Lemmings - a 459,000-
ll cartoony puz 2 le frenzy that was so
>L so funny and so damned addictive
the economic and social problems of
-ntish Empire were solved overnight.
3K, 50 it didn't have quite chat much
:t - but the vast majority of Amiga and
owners who played Lemmings found
selves spirited away to a distant pfane
the existential problems of humanity
:arre much less rmportant than saving
big-nosed beasts. Yes, it went down a
A year or so later, as discontent began to
is err itself and the nobs at Psygnosis
ime bored with the Forschcs and Ver-
suits that were the fruits of Lemmings, a
lbfe programmer presented Bernard
isps with his next meal ticket - Oh Nd
Lemmings, the data disk-
Once again the gaming public went
and even the office cleaners browsed
Lambourghmj showrooms in between
to Monte Carlo.
3ut the cfock keeps turning friends, and
: almost a year since we were blessed for
second time with the gormless deaths
ling tomfoolery,
ftygnosfe - who m che meantime have
iloycd an entirely new staff, since the
rmming generation' have Jong since
ired to luxury villas on the Algarve and
:vta Brava - realised that: the time was
pin right for the green -haired sheep
to grace our TVs and monitors, and
duly obliged. The result is a full sequel,
sports the moniker Lemmings 2.
Of course there will be those sad few
Paul Rounded, the closest thing to a lemming
we've got, points the stupid creatures in the
right direction
Much more Versatility allows your Ferns to jump, float, build and oven fi re arrows !
We re looking forward to It mate
who don’t know what Lemmings is all
about, so HI briefly explain, The basic idea fs
to ensure that X amount of Lemmings make
their way safely from one end of a level to
the other.
A major obstacle that stands in your way
fs the unshakeable fact that Lemmings are
thick. They're stupid. They just haven't got a
bloody due mate - over cliffs, off tall blocks,
'hey just cannot grasp the concept of death.
You must therefore steer the empty-
headed rarely-seen mammals fn the direc-
tion of safety, all the time making cunning
use of what few talents they actually do pos-
sess. such as the abilities to jump and dig.
There - now you know.
Anyway, Lemmings 2 If here, and
whereas the prequels had us saving lem-
mings just for the sheer nobility of it all, we
now have a plot.
The lemmings want to ieave their island
home, and must build a big vessel for the
purpose. However, they can't leave without
the fabled magic talsman, and as with most
games nowadays ft seems, the talisman rs
broken and the parts spread around the var-
ious levels just waiting fo be collected.
Psyg no sis have given their pets loads
more skills this time, and depending on the
situation rhe foms can jump, dig, float
upwards on a balloon and even ski!
Although the spates are the same size as
ever, you'll see Beach Lemmings, Fofar Lem-
mings, Space Lemmings and others, per-
forming against even better backdrops than
before.
Complete with the harder puzzles and
funky tunes. Lemmings 2 seems set to he a
massfve hit on its release in the early New
Year - and of course, the full and unexpur- *
gated review will appear in ail its glory in
these very pages for your consumption.
the more ^dvtrrEuretri ameng yen, skiing Icifcmt art available at reasonable rates
Lemming liFand. Can't ik why thif d want tb ftavfr real ly. It's nicer than where I Jive
February 1993
Straight from the morgue's makeupdepartment comes
P latform games are all very much
alrke. you know. Actually, you've
probably worked this out for your-
selves by now, haven't you?
Dashing madly through garish land-
scapes, jumping on strange creatures of
varying $jze and nastiness to either save a
loved one or to collect the bits of some alt-
important machine seems to be about the
sum of most platform plots,
It doesn't stop them selling by the bucket-
Foad though, so perhaps I should just stop
moanmg and get on with doing what I'm
pad for,
Micky Boom has jumped well and truly
on to the bandwagon of dull plots (there I
go again] as we are informed by the manual
- though not in those exact words
obviously.
Micky is just your average six-year-old
French boy r spending his days doing what-
ever French boys do (make your own lewd
comments at this point}.
But Shock horror! NrcJcy's grandad has
been kidnapped by a wicked witch who is
keeping him forked in her dungeon until he
spills the beans about the secrets of the For-
est PeopJe, of whom he is custodian.
On hearing the news, Micky immediately
lets go of the kitten he was torturing and
sets off into the (probably enchanted] forest
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Now does this boy look the super hero type?
to rescue the senior male patriarch of the
Boom extended family unit Why he didn't
just didn't rell his dad 1 don't know, but
&nyway.-~
The usually friendly and cure forest beast-
res have been turned by the witch into her
snaking protectors, so Nicky must - surprise
surprise - jumo on their heads 10 eliminate
them. Sweets and cakes are littered around
to give our hero extra strength, and bombs
can be found from Dme to time.
Qn progressing through a number of the
levels F was surprised by the depth and skil-
ful mapping of the game. There is actualfy
quite a Farge, if simple, puiifp etement to
the whole affair that I found very addictive
Sound FX are weir above average -
there's even what I think is some French
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and detailed.
Micky Boom rs unFikely to be rem
as an all-rime Amiga great, but having
that, it does possess that certain addi
and Fun quality that many games in
genre lack.
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SOUNDWARE
K eep in platform mood folks - at
least for now - because tfr time
to meet a cute Fittle Britrsh bull-
dog called Thomas. WeN actually, he's not
particularly cute - in fact to be brutally hon-
est it seems as though this beast has chased
at least half a dozen parked cars too many.
Um r come to think of it, the probability oF
Thomas being British is quite remote too,
since Sound ware are a German company
and far more likely to plump for a native
canine to Fill any vacancies in the hero
department than they are to empfoy a for-
eign mutt.
He is definitely a bulldog though - oh
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yes. a leg at each corner, a stumpy carl at
the back, flabby jowls and a big ' I am a
bulldog’ badge that effectively ends all
speculation.
Having just complained at some length
in the above review about the unoriginal^
of platform plots, you will excuse my lack of
gushing enthusiasm as I briefly outline Tear-
away Thomas. Are you ready? Here we go
- you nave to collect stuff and avewd/jump
on things, Wow, eh?
The items Thomas must collect are dia
mo nds, which have carelessly been scat-
tered throughout tons of levels by a person
or persons unknown. They'te all over the
brooming show - in trees, under bridges,
and the more you collect, the more points
you earn. Riveting stuff this, innrt?
I'm a sarcastic old so and so. and: to be
fair Tearaway Thomas is actually quite a
nifty little game. The fun begins in the
woods near Thomas's home, with most of
the alMmportant diamonds at first nestling
tantallsingly in the branches oF trees.
Strange and improbable though it may
seem, bears inhabit the woods of this pic-
turesque German Forest, nasty brg bears
that will eat small bulldogs whole given half
a chance
Well no - the truth is, the bears are of
the variety that you might find in a Child s
bed. and the only nastiness they exude is
the knack of making Thomas flash briefly
and lose energy points should he encounter
one OF them.
The rest of the game is very much in the
same vein, with cute creatures aplenty
adorning brightly coloured cheerful
backgrounds.
Tearaway Thomas m^ght very well find
itself rn the large bunch of also-rans if it
wasn't For one specific feature that lifts it
above many - its speed. The sprite is one of
the fastest moving I ve seen, making the
game far more enjoyable to play,
The cute ness of It all means that few
gamers above the age of about ten or
twelve will be impressed, but for the young-
sters among you, Tearaway Thomas is a fun
game along the lines of Doodle Bug,
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vegetable as the hero, Before you write in.
yes I know it's a fruit but is anyone really
bothered what che hell it is?
Bill's Tomato is a puzile game, but it’s
nothing Nke Lemmings. The 'dea behind it is
simple - you have to gee your tomato from
one side of the screen to another in the set
time limit.
There's nothing I like better than a game I
can instantly understand It does sound so
sample chat you might think it s crap. Well, it’s
not. Bill's Tomato Game is one or the most
challenging punk games I've ever played.
Your tomato starts off on a springboard
and the idea is to get across to another plat-
form situated on the other side of semen.
There is a go/stop icon which amaiingly
Starts and stops the process of your tomato
being hurled
The only problem is chat the springboard
throws your tomato straight up m the air, so
there's no way the tomato is going to get to
the other side unless some divine interven-
tion Is puc into effect. The divine interven-
tion comes in the form of fans, springy pfat-
forms, jack m the boxes and bricks.
As f sa*d before the game is set against
time, so your tomato will never die unless
you don't complete
the pu/jle quickly
enough. This enables
you to test where
your tomato lands,
so you know where
to put the objects to
help him across.
Easy, huh? Nah
mate, there are ail
manner of evil
objects and beasts
trying to stop you.
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First IfeVtl ^rKj time *o jet down to some vegetable/frUM h*
Blimey, the worlds first tr^mpffNnlng tomato.
tomato friends
dreamed of that little
house in the hiJfs
with 2.4 little
tomatoes bouncing
around their feet.
This is where dis-
aster strikes. Mr
Squirrel is overly
fond of our red
chums, spies our
v i s i o w
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torn g*eat backdrops.
audio
These range from annoying wise Japanese
men to fire monsters.
Well, the game r$ so easy to explain that’s
an you really need to know. Unless you
want the plot. Oh you do, that's good news
because it's coming right up.
The story goes that our hero tomato
dreamed of all things peaceful and quiet
and spending the rest oF hrs days as a
wrinkly tomato with his beautiful girlfriend
On rhe way to the dreaded greengro-
cers, our hero deerdes it's time to act and
jumps with his girlfriend out of the van that
was transporting them there.
Wow without a care in the world, our
hero's girlfriend and decides to kidnap her
Our hero is now distressed and decides to
wage war against Mr Squirrd.
5o, off he sets up Mr Squirrel s tree to Save
his girlfriend. Will he succeed and be forever
nappy or will he get to the top of the tree
and find that she's been made into a salad?
OK, jo there's the plot. Oh stop laugh-
ing, it's not that unbefievable, well OK it is,
but don't tell the tomatoes, you'll hurt their
feelings.
So, is Bill's Tomato Game any good? Well,
yes and no, Yei because cf the original idea,
the great graphics and the delightful little tuns.
No, because after a while it does get a bit
monotonous and a littie boring.
If you’re waiting for Lemmings 2 as your
next pu 22 ie game then I'd strongly recom-
mend Bill's Tomato's as something to be get-
ting on with. Ketch up on Bill’s Tomato
Game, it'$ a reet smart laff to whrie the
hours away.
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W hen we learned that the
kindly Gremlin person was to
pay us a visit fast week, a
wave of anticipation swept through the
office,
Wfc'd been looking forward to the arrival
of the much talked about Nigel Mansell
Wortd Championship for weeks, and since l
had long since scheduled myself to review it
I was delighted at the prospect of a Friday
afternoon swerving round the circuits and
genera ify being a right pain in the aerofoil.
Somebody asked If he was bnngrng ' that
Football management game'" as well.
I replied, uninterested. " Uh. yeah,,, i sup-
pose so k ’ - and promptly returned to that
small place kn my mind where I had already
begun tuning my Williams,
Well Gremiin Man duly arrived and [
could literally smell the fumes from that ultra-
powered engine as he neared the Gamer
hovel - he swore blind it wasn’t his aftcr-
shave With the Mansell bon raiding
ingly under hs$ arm we exchanged
logs, and then before I knew wha?
happenfng he hit me with the b
"All right, shalf we have a look at
Manager first then?'
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of joke? Mow. S‘m happy to rook at
about any computer game - It's
after ail - but when you have a
licence thrill-’em-up such as Niger M
you* disposal £ Football management
starts to look a bit poxy.
There was nothing for it - Biff was
celled m for this one, so over he came
talked through *t, while I perched
tiently beside him
Lip to four players can take pan
learned, and I was invited to join in
Ptable managerial feast
This was at eleven o'clock. Six
later, long after Gremlin Man had
Famous footballing quotes no. 78 - Tommy Docherty:
"Welt f didn't know she was your wife?"
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OPERATION SCREEN
This is the main screen, from which ail the major features of the game are control!*
Finance, club staff, transfer markets, player profiles, league tables and more are
accessed from this point
February
TEAM
OH so were Wycombe Wanderers r and
~ere ri the motley crew that constitutes
our team, A team is ranked through five
trying levels of fair, good, very good
id superb, and through world class,
exceptional and finally The Ultimate,
As you can see, we've got a Jong way
3 go - think we'd better check out the
vansfcr market.
peared and Biff was arranging his lift home,
was still doggedly gurding the mighty
■Wycombe Wanderers through the league
and cups - bladder full lunch uneaten and
Migel Mansell discarded and untouched
Needless to say,, some hectic workload
jggJmg and rapid arm-twfcting - not to
mention bribing - took place m order that I
could review this masterpiece, and thus fur-
■ncr my excuse for playing it lots nxwfe
I understand that Mansell has row been
opened and will be renewed by someone
or other in this issue, but frankly r just don'E
care anymore... i'm in love.
Let's just dear one thing up before we
go on. If this were a review of computerised
Chess, and you couldn't play, it wouldn't
too much interest for you would H 1
Similarly those who loathe football are
unlikely to be swayed by even my enthusias-
l K persuasiveness - but hey - read on you
never know.
You begin your career as the manager of
3 GM yauxhall Conference League team -
sne choice of exactly which is yotFS - and
tm basic aim is to achieve as much success
n possible from your humble beginnings,
nopjng eventually to become Premier
’.eague champs and maybe even win tne
European Cup.
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HENI witr.M DATA
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FINANCE
Before we can splash out on any new
players, it might be an idea to consult
our finances. If might look like a lot of
money - but good players don E come
cheap and wages, bills and ground
repairs wan t take cart of themselves
either*
Loans are available, but interest rates
are high,, so be warned.,
TRANSFER MARKET
Having kidded ourselves that we can
afford to spend, its rime to see just
what's for sale. All team details are cor-
rect to within a Tew months, and there
are plenty of famous names up For
grabs.
By clicking on the magnifying glass
icon more detailed information - and
the asking price, gulp! - can be learned.
Not only will you utilise all of your
mighty managerial skills, but a goodly
j nc int of business acumen is required too,
in order to ensure the overall stability of the
dub.
Premier Manager has got so many fea-
tures char I really don t know 1 where to start
so look at the boxes littered around this
page for a run-down of die game's various
features. This isn't all of it by any means - J
haven'? even touched upon the cud compe-
titions or injuries or... I could go on.
Most people who do follow football are
likely to support a league team, and may be
disappointed that they can t jump straight
rnto the game as Liverpool or Man United,
In fact the only way in which you can
change dubs rs by being offered a new
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position aj Che end of a season - obviously
dependent upon how well you fared. This
doesn t detract from the game in any way.
and if anything only makes the whole thing
more realistic - lets fece it - Liverpool versus
Mytvidge Celtic m the Conference league
rsn t really likely, is rt?
If you are a fan of this kind of thing, or
have been disappointed by previous
attempts - mdeed even if you are an Eskimo
hermit living on a glacier above a Norwe-
gian hamlet with no access to electricity -
buy this game.
Buy it buy it; buy it. I Jove Premref Man-
ager so much I want to have its babies.
Paul
SPONSORSHIP
This is the most frequent and lucrative
form of income available. Companies will
be queuing up to sponsor you at the
beginning of the season (even the odd
quality magazine!) but a string of poor
results will soon see the support drop.
Check for new sponsors after every
couple of matches.
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Well it's neaHy all icorra. a id text
j&iify-birt wfist els* do
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Nice 5#np*n and fcoty crowd
noses, but Again, wfiart else
*c#d there be*
plavabiutv
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wee easy. Why went all games
t«e this?
ADDICTION
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justice. Err ant.
93 %
OPPOSITION
'.nee you have made sure your team is
• j ainrng hard, you're almost ready to
slay the first match. Have a look at the
nosing team first - they're ranked in
‘he same way as your own team - and
your formation and playing style
^carding to your strengths and their
weaknesses. This should be a walkover!
THE MATCH!
Yes, I know the game screen is small,
but it’s the result that matters. The
match can be played at six speeds; the
slowest is about 1/4 real time, the
fastest about 30 seconds.
The name of the player currently on
the ball lj displayed, as are those of the
scorers. Substitutions can be made at
any time and - oh... Tve lost.
TRAINING
You could be forgiven for thinking that
you had a team of slackers after that per-
forma nee I Phone the coach to ensure
your players are being properly trained..
All players can train to either shoot
tackle, pass or handle (advisable for
goalies onlylj. On returning from injury,
a player will not train until instructed to
do so - keep a check.
LEAGUE TABLES
Hang about - what s all this? Were in
Division Tf Well I did tell you I spent a
lot of time on this game. It's all very well
being in Division 1 r but a look at my
finances at this stage would show a bar-
ante that's £7 million in the red.
Excuse me while I go and sort it out.
Oh by the way. Gremlin Cheat 1 is just
my nickname - honest..
I ts nice to see a company that has
though? of a different way to produce
a sequel to a game instead of adding
the usuaf ITI's after the name of the old
game
Miffenium have done a bit of lateral think-
ing and produced Aquatic Garner the
sequel to the classic James Pond,
Old James is a tx knackered after doing
this spy lark, so he decides to go get a bit of
re/a*aDon in, But there wi/l be none of this
namby-pamby tying around on a teach rub-
bish. Old James wants some good whole-
some exercise - sad but true So w here bet-
ter to get the exercise he's after than at the
Aquabc Games?
For some reason you don't play James in
alJ of these events, ft tin t stressed who you
are but it's not really that important - alf I
know is that air of the competitors are sup-
posed to be friends of James.
The first event fs just a sprint, whrch
entaih the usual obscene waggling o+ the
joystick, but you are not running on a track -
that's much too easy.
For the most part of the race you are fun-
ning on water so if you slow down you will
sink. You are racing against a frog who is
pretty speedy.
Event two - Feeding time You play a
tubby character standmg on a bridge, and
you have to fill up your bucket and feed the
fish that poke thar head out of the water,
l\rext up is the Grass Race- A friend of oW
Jimmy's is a unicycling shark - everybody
should have a umcyeJing shark for a friend,
but alas we don't.
You have to pedal his unicyde afong the
course and jump overall trie different obsta-
cles that stand in your way. The course runs
from reft to right, like the sprint but it has rots
of hills and things that you've got to pedaf
up,
I found the control method on this a bit
tricky. Its like trying to rub your stomach
while patting your head. You have to pul/
Just what
does James
think lie Is
doing mil
walking on
water stuff?
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Shell catching... very relaxing
Sponge frolics abound
Be cartful firt the sponges
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Feed the fish to ke«p cm dewn, Ait very surreal
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the joystick round in a clockwise
mats fine until you have to jump
obstacle, when it r s a bit tricky too
momentum gorng.
Reading the list of the various
make you think that they re pretty
you'd be right, After the Grass Race you
Kipper Watching which is almost as
as it sounds. You are in charge of sw
who are having a kip |a nap to our
friend's}.
The rowdy beach people keep th
beach balls at our comatose friends
stop them waking you have to jump le
deflect the barls away 'with your head m[
seal style.
Along wrth the 1 00-metre splash The
a couple of adaptations to normal
like Leapfrog which is just a version
l ] Q-metre hurdle,
There is also a trampoline [sea
section of the games, the first I h
seen. You have to- go through all the
pieces like a proper trampolinist. Once
have done the set moves in the time
any extra somersaults you do grve you
points,
By far the trickiest game in the
ment is the shell 1 shooting section. Gd
mg crabs come at you from either side o r
screen and you score points by flipping
catching them', flipping them into vats €*
oil or shopping them to burst the ove
balloons, f always seem co get elect/
by the electric eekype thmgs,
I liked the Aquatic Games a lot - g
cafly they're sound and the FX are
amusing in places. It's a nice change
run^f-the-milf sports games.
r also thought that the practice op
were a hell of a Jot better than no*
Instead of the usual one practice mode
are three on different levels, so if you
real dowy like me you can go on the
level first. We/I thought out and good fu
VISION
00009
LdveIy cAfloon-hKe graphics
tflit raise a smile.
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Cod lift!? fcjnes and sort*
good wund FX
P L A V A H ■ L I X V
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A wdeoflic change from your
nonnal sports $*nie.
ADDICTION
Good fun, but you coiid k>«
irtfctffisl after i while.
lebruary 1991
■•onsler Mash - Warke* gels a miffing
- heft rty slap on the hitch h
Reserved by Psygnosis for
this one I think. After their
recent run of turkeys th is
rne looks like is could be the
fie to break the deadlock.
How many of you readers
nit there aged between 17
nd 1 0 collected Star Wars fig-
-ret in your youth? Quite a
■*w f would expect, and if you
eally saved up you pocket
loney you could get the Mine-
um Falcon or a Scout Walker.
If you are either too old or too
oung to have had Star Wars figures
hen you are bound to have seen
"eturn of the Jedi, th# last instalment
3f the Star Wars trilogy. On this firm
appeared Scout Walkers, large
ungainly machines which walked on
legs and took a two-man crew,
This Scout Walker and the subject
f Psygnosiy s new game have rather
n uncanny resemblance. But Biffa
I are not bothered what the
game looks like in relation to other
Mings.
On screen. Walker is a lateral
scrolling shoot-em-up stroke strategy
^me, a simp re, get-to-the-end-of the
vel and-kilMhe-big guy sort of thing.
You, being the single-man crew,
^ve to get to the end by guiding
3ur machine with a simple left to
■ght movement and using the mouse
o aim your gun.
It's a bit of a tricky control method
- first but its challenging instead of
Stating, Alio it quite fun having
le person on the controls and one
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SluFfcrf again, by the Irttle guys an the fFcor
They run at you with
admirable stupidity and
chuck grenades in your
general direction.
Some of them fly heli-
copter!. tome of them
even climb up the back
of your machine and
plant bombi. Mot satis-
fied with grenades
they fly helicopters,
drive lorries, bombers
and various other
mechanical armaments.
Graphically the animation on the
helicopters and the other ground
vehicles is pretty but 1 was really
impressed with the sound. When your
gum overheat there is wonderful sam-
Grinny Smith drives m fhe shops
p(# of predator when one of the sol-
diers rs firing art empty gun (you
smart jod - Edj,
The other ready impressive bit of
sound is when the hefJcopters fly on -
you get the sampled 1 sound of a heli-
copter and some really dodgy funk
music banging away in the background.
Qn the finished version of Walker
you'd be able to view out of the cock-
pit of the Walker while it is moving, as
wed as the side view,
Tm not sure what the point
of this wid be - seeing as the
on the guns - a bit less challenging
but you can enjoy the carnage more.
Walker is also another poke in the
eye for the myth that says you must
have good graphics for a good game.
While being graphically sound as far
as the background and the Walker
itself go, the graphics are a fair and
smooth representation of the pro-
grammer s idea. The enemy troop,
however r are nothing more than
badly-drawn lemmings, if that. But
they are wed animated, and they cer^
fainly do the job of doing you in.
head is swinging around ad the
time it might be a bit of problem look-
ing at what you are doing but. Jet s
wait and see.
When the full version of Walker hits
the streets ft should be a rtonker and
it shouldn't be too far offi
Ben
* uns - Iwries, and bomber planes., they really don’t Irke this Walker guy The evenings will f|y fry
February l$P3
o, I'm not going to mention the
spelling - dubious though it is -
-or aim any cheap puns at the
French developers who ought to have speni:
a little more time ponng Over their English
dictionanes especially since ihey made a
similar mistake last time with the ortgmaf
Gobliink
I'm not gomg to do that at atl; but iF l was
going to, I’d say this - the spelling is ridicu-
lous and our eross^Channe! cousins are
completely daft.
]£ s not long since we reviewed Goblrins.
but already those industrious bods at toktel
Vision have come up with yet another
adventure tor our erstwhile eJFen friends.
At least this is what one would assume.
On closer inspection though, it transpires
that two altogether new Gobfiins |no letters
about the spelling please - rt's all correct, I
assure youf have replaced the original three.
This makes GobJims 2 a sequel something
along the lines of that Fabled movie
Grease 2, whereby an already dubious story-
line was minutely changed and similar char-
acters introduced in order to milk the profits
even further
The king Goblrn (let's just dispense with
the silly spelling for now, eh>j has. had his
son Kidnapped by the nasty and evil Amo-
mak, who's still narked off over berng
defeated in a battle by the king some 50
years earlier,
To complete the king's humiliation. Amo-
n uaK has made the king s son his jester, and
although new to the job the now Prince
Buffoon is said to be already challenging
such comic legends as Shane Ritchie and
Andrew O'Connor for the title of funniest
man in the world.
This is all well and good, but the king
would rather Nike his son back, so he can
once again engage m the customary royal
duties of wearing maroon pantaloons and
having ht$ friends beheaded for beating him
at hopscotch.
A problem i$ the fact that Amoniak has
« 4 %
You rc not I he only ere who ran catch fl-iti Ail hit tengue - see!
A & D t C T I O H
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CoiHd be an easy ode for
Experts, but you wont want (a
tent untf it's o*er-
PL AYABI L ITV
GGGG#
Once ycwj're used to
“ controlling bath guys togetiKi,
fOuw away,
Still spelled wrong, but getting closer
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Who j.ftid vWf* games didn't incite vinJent tendencies?
about four mi If ion ferocious beasts protect-
ing himself and the prince at aff times.
OF course the only people stupid enough
to attempt the unlikely rescue are a couple
of dedicated GobFins, Winkle and Frngus
Winkle Fancies himself as something of a
card - he's a cheeky young Fella and tends
to get a good drubbing at some point from
just about everybody he encounter.
Fingus Is the gentleman
of the two - a kind of Sid
Little to Winkles Eddie
Large if you like, the
difference being Frngus
doesn’t attempt to play a
guitar only to be disturbed
by Winkle's comedy banter,
as was the itk the with
aforementioned duo. But
enough of these comedianic allegories, and
onto the game.
Those who have pfayed the original will
be familiar with the gameplay, but will prob-
ably be thankful that this sequel sports one
less spnte. and is therefore less fiddly to
control.
Since the whole point is to rescue the
dippy prince, who as mentioned rs under
extremely heavy guard, must of the game
involves overcoming various guardians in
finding your way to his captor.
The goblins must work together so solve
the puzzles - in a specific order in some
cases - and although Frustrating at times,
there are loads of humorous asides that take
away some of that b Aarrgghh! ..." element
that quite often causes serious malfunctions
in machinery due to its being repeatedJy
bludgeoned by a variation of heavy h :
hold implements.
Despite their being two character
manipulate, the point-and-dick cort
very user Friendly. A nrce touch I Fuunc
the Notepad option which allows you
record any pieces of pertinent informa*
An irksome feature that occurs in a
many games of thFs nature is thai soi
the puzzles am quite bizarre and not i
logical, and GobJims 2 is no exception
Thankfully the superb cartoon gra
and funny FH (not the musrc mind -
off for God s sake] more than -compem
Hardened adventurers are unlfkei*
sustain major brain damage in atEem r
to complete the game, though the jo’:
it all will more than satisfy
In short Gobiuns 2 is a hilarious
jure that will provide a good few hm*s
chuckles and hafr-pulls for just about
game fan.
vision
GGGG©
Lonely graphics^ and just check
aut She expressions on
those faces!
AUDI
dhiUtery chattery speech and
fuiwiy ft, but
times - asrrgghh!
February *991
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Unless you tune in to Radio One
between three And six on weekdays
you coufd he forgiven for believing
that the cheap but cheerful adver-
saries of Doctor Who had dropped off
the face of the planet,
Call it sentimentality, call it a cheap
way of filling air time. Out all things
Who-like are going through some-
thing of a comeback at the moment,
Rc-runs of the old Doctor Who
series are popping up not only on UK
Gold, which will readily show any old
pap r but also on the rather more cred=
rble terrestrial outlet, BBC 2.
And now, to fop it all. Admiral soft-
ware - little brother of education and
budget specialists Alternative - are
releasing for our delectation the game
of the favourite foe, Dalek Attach.
I remember when f was about four
or five years old and Jon Pert wee was
our erstwhile do-gooder from the
planet GaMefry. We got a coloured
television a round this time.
It took my mum about three weeks
to peel me from the living room ceil-
ing after I discovered for the first time
that the monsters weren t ail black
and white after all Potty training was
set bach months, I m telling you.
Like all Doctor Who fans, E was
enthralled by the scary and futuristic-
looking Dale Its (this was around 1974
rememberf, but even at this tender
age was a little confused as to how
these robotic wash tubs could navi-
gate a terrain full of potholes and
contours on wheels the size of ha pen-
nies, Despite their dodgy synthesised
voices and point blank refusal to
adhere to even the simplest laws of
physics though, the Da leks were, and
remain the favourite and most recog-
nised of all the Doctor s adversaries.
Davros, the -
Dalek leader and
part-time kebab t I
shop proprietor, *
has wheeled him- j
seif out of retire- ^
ment once again
for yet more _
outer-planetary " 1 ^*+9 -
evil. Well actually &{§*,. 1^25®^
it s more like
inner-planetary Thjs is Shara - or it H f<
evil, because hes spaceship, ormay&e a satellite
attempting to
destroy the earths ozone layer with
the herp of his evil minions.
Somebody should have told him
that the job s already been taken -
most of the population are undertak-
ing it on a voluntary part-time basis -
but anyway, that's what he s doing,
and he s happy, bless hrm.
As usual. It s up to the Doctor to
foil this dastardly plan, doing what
he does best, which is... er, just what
does he do exactly, apart from run
around forbidding landscapes with an
assortment of hapless assistants, that
h? Well anyway,, let s just say the
Doctor must foil his plans, and leave
it at that.
Dalek Attack Is a five-level multi-
scrolling shoot- em-up. Oops - no,
stop right there - it Isnt a shoot- em-
tip at ail, because if memory serves
me correctly, Doctor Who is a pacifist.
It s a sonic screwdriver* em-up, this
implement being the trusty tool that
the Doctor is never without. Having
said that, one blast from his screw-
driver and the baddies certainly look
dead to me - maybe they re just
mildly con-
cussed and
suffer no seri-
ous after
effects. Oh
who cares?
As I was say-
ing before I so
rudely inter-
rupted myself,
the game is set
over five levels
- beginning in
London, we
travel through Farit, Tokyo and Mew
York before finally arriving on Skaro,
home planet of Davros.
Each level is very large, and the
whole game is quite a challenge from
the start. Nothing much new to
report rn the game play area - dispose
of the nasties {a large proportion of
which are obviously Dalekt) in tradi-
tional fashion, picking up bonuses
and other useful items as you go.
The Doctor himself is a very versa-
tile chap - jumping from buildings,
hanging off ledges and scaling walls -
poor old Sylvester McCoy would turn
in the grave his career was burred in
if faced with challenges such as
these.
Speaking of Sly, hes one of the
three Doctors you can choose to be -
the Others being Tom Baker {complete
with daft scarf) and Patrick
Troughton. fn two-player mode you
even have a choice of which assistant
you want to take, although thank-
fully Bonnie Langford isn't included.
Good God - it'll be Lionel Blair as the
Dodgy character rhrs one - kept
winking at m# he did!
Doctor next,
There will be those who critic
the graphics for being fiat. Its ‘
that a few parallax backgrourr
could only have enhanced the g*-*
but I was more than impressed .
the level of detail, and the realise
the city backdrops, particularly '
part where the Doctor gets f latte-
by a New York yellow cab.
its not often we mention price t
jn a review, the idea being that
game either win or wont stand up
its own merits. Dalek Attack is i
original twist on a tried and tes r
formula - at seventeen quid it f t
standing value for money, an at
lute must for all Doctor Who fans.
In [ypiC,iF NY Mshion, the Doctor is as sculled
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Ben's selection
Kixx XL ■ £12.99
Just when you thought that the old war ghost* had laid
down and died, along comes another dodgy war game to
dredge them all up again. Mot only that but it's go t one of
the most ridiculous copy protections ever.
Its a fright simulation m which you can fly rn famous
battles, so if you like the old war games Then this one is for you Looking at the manual you would thi nk
this is history lesson rather than a game.
it goes into great detail about ali of the planes used rn the great battles of the Second world war. But
ft doesn t stop at the manual - rt goes right though aJI the game.
Frst you have to choose which plane you are going to jfy There's a pretty awesome collection and
not just the Englzsh and American planes - there are a couple of Japanese ones too. Then choose the
mission, whether it be drve bombing or torpedoing, and tally ho
One of the best aspects of this game is the mouse control of the
plane Usually the mouse is way too responsive for the plane but Kixx
seem to have got it right on the head. The rest of the controls arc good
too - not too many for the game to gef ridiculous and not too few for rt
to lose depth rhe screen updates quite fasr too which was a nice sur-
prise. ewci thought the graphics arent particularly stunning For war
game fans exclusively.
Prince of Persia
Hit Sqaud ■ £7,99
This is one game that gives orhei computer own-
ers a swift sharp poke in the eye with a pointy
stick. Graphically Prince of Persia is brill with
extremely smooth scrolling.
So its Persia, the Sultan has done a bunk and is
fighting some war somewhere and the Grand Vizier Mar has taken over and is exploiting me people
to an enormous degree.
So enough about where I work, what about the game? You have to rescue the princess from where
she is rmprisoned, destined to many Mar
It's a very piarForm-ooented game but don't let that put you off if you aren't rear y a fan of oiarform
games. You begin your quest in the middle of the castle. You ate unarmed so the first thing to do is
frnd a sword. For the most part it's a case of running around and jumping. But you have to be really
careful because there are a Jot of unsafe floor tiles - some of them open up new rooms to explore and
some of them will dump you on huge spikes.
So let's say you ve got the sword Now you can start chopping lit-
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to dispatch when you've got the sword and there are only a couple
of moves to master Prince of Persia would be a pretty nondescript
game rf it weren't for the graphics, which make it a good buy. ^
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J have to say that, as a rufe, i would
much rather play a board game than
a computer game. It may make me
look fike a boring old fart but there
ft Is.
to persuade people like me to p4ay their poxy computer games, software houses
nave started producing board games on computers. Weil J <Jon't care, I wont play.
Foremost of these compu-board games is Trivial Pursuits A dassjc game up there
with Monopoly, Cluedo and Snakes and Ladders - but does ft w uthl
Well f will tell you now that there is a fair difference between this and the normal
board version Instead of using dice the game use5 darts to determine a random
score. When you move your piece the pfaces you can
move to are highlighted
One thing I reafly liked about rhe game is that you
can set a time fimit - something whch is racking on
the board game.
There is a question master cafled TP - an annoying
Me bloke but he does the job. I 'm miserable, cos l
prefer the board game, but it is a fair conversion.
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Biffa's selection
Tn s ^qv.e :o the oassic Switchblade was drooled all ewer by
the computef press arx) :j stiff juit as sexy today as it was
way back then,
ht story -goes like this. Havoc has been living up to his
name and has decided to take over control of tfie Cyberworld. The onJy person who can possibly save me
wt rid s a Blade Knight and it just SO happens that a chap called Hiro is [he only riving Blade Knight in the
whole world And guess what? He lives just around the comer from Havoc.
Cue platform romparama which involves our Japanese hero kicking some robot and other such nasSes
untri he gets to wreck Havoc's deadly plans.
One of the best platformers you re ever likely to see - it's certainly on my
top five list of platform games.
The graphics arid sound are brilliant plus the level of playability rs simply
stunning. The game is a right toughy to complete - believe you me, it win
take you more than a couple of goes to finish it.
Some things do improve with age and Switchblade 2 is one of them
Absolutely bloody brilliant.
Switchblade
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Supercars
GBH Gold ■ £9.99
Are you still sadly mourning the disappearance of Niger Vlansef' from
formula One Grand Pri* racing? A*e y . u weeping because that nasty
Ayrton Senna rammed Our Nige in the last rare .r the season?
Are you crying because Ng* go ng to ma^e mi lions while driv-
ing for Paul htewman and will be that rich that he will be able to fill up his swimming poof with champagne
and use £50 notes as toilet paper 7
Wen are you? Do you need a nice little budget rating game to take your frustration out on? If you answered
'yes’ then with a bit of luck here ; Suoercars 2
instead of just simply racing around the track, you can also blow up other competitors using various violent
weapons Good fun, eh? Supercars was the original game and there are loads
of differences between Super ran 2 and its predecessor, One is the graphics
which are a lot smaller, but are more detailed.
Personally f don't think it's as playable as the original, You tend to concen-
trate on killing your opponent rather than winning the race. Apart from that
Supercars is a really good car game and is well worth buying, it's good, but
not That good!
I lost my sacred copy of RVF Honda about two years ago, so imag-
ine die smile on my face when it arrived in the office last week. 91 VF HOflQc)
Yes, it's been re-released on the Kixx budget label and I m as
happy as tarry. KiXX ■ £9.99
RVF Honda is one of my afl-time favourite games. I think it s
because when I asked my parents for a motorbike they sa'd 'No so I sobbed Tor a bit and then found RVF
at my local computer games store and it cheered me up no end.
l raced around some of the greatest tracks in the wortd. gasping for breath as I went around comers and
screaming as I was flung from my bike crashing into a tree due to oil spillage on
the track
All my emotions and senses wore being put into overdrive, ft has great
graphics good sound, but it Is as playable as something that is sc playable it's
banned, Addrction wise you couldn't go far wrong - it certainly kept me enter-
tained for weeks and weeks
JtVF Honda is briflrant and for only a tenner you'd be a complete fool not to
buy it.
Midwinter
KixxXL - £12,99
Cor lummc Mr if it isn t Mdwrntef. hfpw heft? is a game that I've
heard a lot About, Dut raver actually played Until now that is,
Midwinter is essentially a strategy game, but it d oe* have some ele-
ments of action lumped into It.
You play the rote erf John Stark and you have to travel across the icy
wastes getting together a team oF crack commandos to destroy die evil enemy.
Who the evil enemy r$ I haven't a due, because somebody has lost the manual Vou get the idea though, good
against evif and good has to save [fie wortd
The action bits are presented m a 3D poJygorvstyte - pF any of you have
seen the 3D Construction Kit you'll know what f mean Unfortunately the
game is showing to Age. JE docs hold your interest for a couple of hours and
then it tends to get: a hit monotonous and boring.
ff you Jikc this type of game then you'lf already have Midwinter. One rruer-
esbng thing is [he price. Midwinter wifi cost you £[2.99 - £3 more than your
normal budge( game JHmm, a Itole bit much for a game thafs a Few years
odd and showing to age
O ne of the biggest disappoint-
ments of my life came when I
was about seven qi eight years
old. 1 think it was Halfowe'en, but it might
have been Christmas, and occurred at a
fancy dress party held at our locaf oarish
church.
Now my mum is dead good at sewmg
and had spent days working on what
turned oui to be an absolutely top wizard $
outfit - pointy hat. moon-and-stars jacket,
magic wane* - the lot
I was a bit shy as a lad and didn't realty
want to go, but after a little persuasFon and
the threat of a spanked bottom, along I tod-
dled in ali my regalia
On arriving my mood improved afmost
ins rant Jy, not only because f spied the
Grandstand 'Pong" video game and numer-
ous chocolate treats that constituted the
p™s, hut because all the other kids' outfits
were completely cack,
Well I was laughing, i can ten you, as that
sorry bunch of misfits traipsed hopelessly
around th^ parish hail in dress that looked
about as fancy as a Michael Foot overcoat.
Pong was mine for the taking?
When it was tune for the prize giving I sat
between my parents with a smug grin on
my greedy Pictre face - a grin that would
soon turn to utter disbelief as some girl or
other from my cfass at school was ushered
towards the makeshift stage and presented
with the fabled Pong as a reward for her
pathetic-looking fairy outfit,
"But well done to everybody, especially
Paul Roundel - and his mum! J r boomed our
compere jovially. Afl was nor lost - at least
I'd won the sweets
And now ladies and gentlemen, please
give a big round of applause to our infants
fCH last week's smashing playr he contin-
ued, whereupon a do^enor so five-year-old*
trooped towards the front to be dutifully fur-
nished with Spangles and Texan Chew Bars
Scandal! The sweets were for the krddjes
and I would go home empty handed for
there was,. . No... Second.,, Prize.
Video games have come a long way
$ince the days of Pong now renamed the
Sega Master System - and Thalion are taking
a bit of a risk in thrusting yet another racing
game rnto a market already overcrowded
with mediocre offerings.
If No Second Prize is to have a hope in
hell of raking in a decent chunk of the
Christmas loot it Will have to provide us with
substantially more entertainment than the
vast majority of rts predecessors.
Jr does - In fact I think it's safe to say that
ifs one of the very best racing sims around,
and it even has a story The most compfetely
fabulous oneof-a-kmd biketastle dreameyde
in the world is up for grabs - the owner is
unknown but has offered his machine as a
prize to whoever proves chermeif as the best
motorcycfe racer in the cosmos.
Competition has been narrowed down to
just Six riders * twd women and four chaps
- who must now race tiead ro head for ulti-
mate supremacy.
You can choose whichever rider you
want to be after checking their individual
strengths and weaknesses. Some are partre-
utarfy good on bends, or may be very fast,
while others have a high hit pornt count,
meaning they can sustarn all manner of
damage and continue racing unabasned
After makrng this
momentous decision
you will then need to
decide how to set up
your bike Basically this
involves choosing a sen-
sitivity setting for the
mouse - no joystick
option at ailL which is a
bit of a shame - and
locking the g ears, onto
either manual or auto-
matic, Having done
this, you re ready to
race There are 20
tracks in aU t and you
must chug b;avely round them ail for points
- coming last actuafly results in a deduction
from your overall scone
Chug really wasn't the right word to use
at all, as the game is incredibly fast. Viewed
from a 3D driver $ eye perspective, it will
have you and anyone watching swaying
from side to side as you swing around
bends, under bridges and into surprised
bystanders.
Changing gear manually involves tog
glrng a coupfe of the keys, and is a bit tricky
at first considering control is by mouse, The
game has a replay mode, and you can
watch your hopelessness from four separate
angles including from a chopper - f enjoyed
playing the replay backwards as rt gave me
the impression that l was actually overtaking
someone.
Graphics and sound are pretty much
what you would expect from this kind of
game, which is not meant as a criticism -
how could i complain when its as fast as
this? Since my last encounter wrth a real
motorbike resulted in treatment for abra-
sions m a Grrek hospital, I might not be the
best person to advise you about the diffi-
culty, but it does seem very hard
fn the races I did manage to finish I came
sixth out of £ix every smgfe time - there s
nothing at all wrong with the control once
mastered - it s just hard
Hard it may be but l played it SOM
coupfe hours without becoming
slightly frustrated and I'm dying for
go rrgftt now. Well done I lialion on
ing one of the best racers I’ve seen.
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Fetors* More to the point, ah the
planes In these to-called flight Simula*
tars are very hi-tech and practically
anyone can fly them.
Shooting down the enemy is no
problem - click on a button and your
missiles will hit the target, even
though the target is SO miles away.
What you really need is a flight sim
to test your raw ability. What could
be better than a World War 2 plane
timuFator like, err Knights: of the Sky?
Watt a minute, that £ far too old, what
we need is brand new World War 2
sim like, err, iimm...
Oh well there doesn t seem to be
another one. Thank God for that i r m
bobbins at plane games {crash of
lighting followed by small thud). Oh
dear. God does move in mysterious
ways. Look what I vc just received - a
brand spanking new copy of Reach
for the Skies. Guspf
It s 1940, it's summer and the
future of World War 2 hangs in the
balance. The German Luftwaffe and
the might of the RAF are about to go
Into battle once more. This time it's
the Battle of Britain and whoever
Wins will have a damn good chance of
winning the war.
Well, in Reach for the Skies any-
thing could happen because you get a
Choice of who you want to be, Ger-
many or Britain, the choice is entirely
up to you, So, if you're good enough
ypy could Change history.
Everyone knows that Britain won
the battfe because we re smart, but
what would of happened if Germany
had won the Battle of Britain and
eventually the war? Ft doesn't bear
thinking about - all I can say is that
there is no way you'll get me scoffing
frankfurters although it has to be said
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on holiday,
Wahey, follow me on a journey, a
journey back through time where the
sights and sounds of the 1940s will
shack and surprise you, A chance to
become a World War 2 fighter ace
beckons, So. let's don our flying jack-
ets, grab out yokes and take to the
skies. Or. instead f could just boot up
the ST and play Reach for the Skies.
Right the game has loaded. iHmrn,
it offers a choice of air fortes. I could
become a fow-down, dirty Luftwaffe
pilot or i could became a brave and
heroic Brit and join the Royal Air
Force, The choice is mine. Hrnm. a bit
of a toughie, Right, proud British
fighter pilot it is. Time to jump into
the old Spitfire and give those Jerries
a right thrashing and be back in
Blighty in time for tea and cakes.
Chocks away. chaps.
Almost all of the game is spent In
the air in your plane - or I should say
planes, because you actually control a
squadron. This enables you to hop
from plane to plane during battle -
very handy if you're about to get
blown up.
The 3D is quite impressive, espe-
cially when you fly the plane over
land, There are plenty of external 3D
views, all with the option to .room fit
and out.
The controls in Reach for the Skies
are really simple, Run back on the
stick to gain altitude, push down on
the stick to lose altitude and left i
go left and right to go. err right, 0
and you push the Fire button lc
umm, fire. See, simple.
There are plenty of dials an
meters to confuse you and the cent?
panel looks authentic enoughs
There is only one little probfe
with Reach for the Skies, and that
that when you take off it takes yc ,
ages before you finally get into batt
with the enemy.
You can accelerate time, but It s nc
very realistic. Fortunately there is at
option to start off in the air. so you r*:
much closer to the enemy.
The game i i quite difficult and
chasing the enemy over land and se*
is tough. The enemy always seems to
be that one step ahead of you and it
is really tough to shoot it down. Ft
wouldn't he much of a challenge if
you could shoot them down really
easily, though.
Once your flight hay been com-
pleted you have the great chance te
watch it all again by using the video
option, OK. so camcorders weren t
exactly available back then, but the
video option is a very nice touch. You
could even send your finished comedy
dogfights ante* Jeremy Beadle and win
loads of money.
Despite the little problem. Reach
for the Skies is an excellent flight sim-
ulator. The presentation in very nice
and everything down to the tiniest (rt-
tfe detail has been researched, which
makes the game that little bit more
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interesting.
There if a go^cJ manual that goes
wfth the game explaining all about
World War 2 and other such interest-
ig facts about the planes and so on.
fou almost feel like you're actually Fly-
ng a World War 2 fighter plane.
There if an ideal opportunity to
chance the atmosphere in three s im-
fe, but effective ways. One: Get a
m and position it on your monitor
nd set it at full blast. Two: Grab a
■hite scarp and some swimming gog-
■ cs and wear them. Three- Get some-
one with a shotgun to shoot it over
t our head every couple of minutes.
Hey, who said Gamer wasn't full oF
Formative ideas? fme, get on with it
jOu prat - Edj, One thing that I defi-
nitely would recommend, even
though it s not essential is that you
play the game on an accelerated
machine. This makes it mega fast and
you win fall in love with ft instantly.
If you re looking foi a World War 2
flight sim that s as good as, if not bel-
ter than Knights of the Shy, then
Reach for the Skies could be the game
that you're yearning for.
Rowan Software, the creators of
such hits as Flight of the Intruder
and, err, umm Flight of the Intruder,
have come up with a cracker,
It s not exactly original stuff, but
it s damn exciting and damn realistic,
God damn. Reach out for Reach for
the Skies, it s brill
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R ight kids, without further
ado, here s how to do it...
Pick up tongs. Open cup-
board, Take the lard and the knife.
Take the crystal bail. Take the copper
balk £ Kit through the left-hand door.
Take the straw. Use knife on reed.
Use knife on reed again m create a
flute. Use tongs on guard rail.
Take the wood. Go hack through
door. Go through facing door. Take
portrait and place on hook. Take the
sleeping draught and use it on the
seeds to create a drug. Use drug on
hideaway and the rat will fall asleep.
Click again on hideaway and take
the wooden mould. Use grey key on
the skull. Take the ring. Exit room.
Use ring on copper ball. Use the straw
and the wood on the fireplace. Use
flute on Ween. Use strawberries on
Urm.
Take gold. Take strawberry jam.
Use flute on Ween. Use the jam on
Ufin. Use Urm on the fireplace. Use
the cauldron on the fireplace. Use the
gold on the cauldron. Take cauldron
and use it on the wooden mould.
Take the golden key hat you ve just
made. Exit through facing door again.
Use golden key on padlock* Take the
half statue. Click on trap door to exit*
Use the flute on Ween* Use black-
berries on Urm. Use Urm on hole
above the door on the right. Take the
key that Urm drops for you. Use the
key on the door lock. Exit through
door. Click on the sword.
Click on the hook holding sword to
wall. Take sword and use it on the
statue. Put the sword back. Click on
the trap. Use cauldron on add twice.
Put cauldron back in your inventory.
Exit back through door
Click cm the stele. Use acid from
the cauldron on runes* Place moon-
stone in the niche, Place sunstone In
niche on top of the moonstone. Exit
right to the other room once again.
Click on sun and moon symbols, then
the crown symbol.
Take elixir from the hole in waif.
Mow click on the moon and sword
symbols then click on the crown sym-
bol again* Take effigy from the sec*
• L ■ 4,
tie e
feather on the chest. Some objec'
will appear*, Take the pollen and v
venom. -
Experiment with them on the tfirr
pieces of qiraru that are lying nearb
Now mix the venom and polf* r
together in the cauldron to create
potion. Use newly created potion c
Stuck? Well, yes you probably are if you're reading
this page, Don t worry I won t laugh at you. I'll just
smirk slightly...
Take the tibia. Take the torch and
use it on the hearth. Take the torch.
Take the planks. Exit through the
hole in the wall. Take the rope. Click
on skull. Use ring on cauldron. Use
copper ball on orbit on the skull* Take
the moon stone.
Use the tibia on opening. Take cop-
per ball back, Exit through the hole.
Use ring on the copper ball. Use caul-
dron on hearth. Use the lard on the
cauldron. Take cauldron.
Exit back through the hole. Use the
oil on the opening. Click on the lever.
Exit right once more. Use the rope on
the ranks. Use the now bound planks
on the precipice- Exit through the
hole faerng you.
Click on skull that s on the tomb.
Take the sun stone. Use the torch on
the torch holder. Take the spear that
the guard on the right is holding.
Take the tibia - it would be quite hard
to find If it wasn't for this Cheat
Mode.
The tibia is at the bottom of the
guard on the left guard s right leg.
Use the tibia on the spear. Use the
newly constructed tibia-spear on cur-
tain. Use tibia-spear once more on
the blackberries. Take the blackber-
ries-
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leaver Take strawberries from bust
Use flute on Ween,
Give the strawberries on Urm. Tai
gold and use with half statue. Use (r
now full statuette on the water. Ur
will take the elixir before you cros
the water.
Click on strawberries. Urm wi
ond hole in wall. Exit back to the
stele- Place effigy in the niche, Swap
the sun and moonstones around and
you If obtain your firrt grain of sand.
Click on bridge, A monster will
appear and wont allow you to pass
over the bridge. In the meantime a
feather will float down, Use the
Vft tfi In*
to beat him. You have to change the
dragon to a wasp. The puzzle is actu-
ally easier than it looks. All you have
to do is click on the bottom pendant
until the dragon changes to a wasp
and you change into a worm.
Now all you have to do is use the
wasp trap on the dragon who is now
of course a wasp., Lise the ffute on
Ween and Urm will appear,. .again!
Take the cherries from the bottom
of the tree and give them to Urm P
Urm will then take the wasp trap from
out of your way. Exit via the door or»
the right-hand side* You are now the
proud owner of the second grain of
sand.
Click on mechanism and take the
phial. Now this puzzle does vary, but
me Petroy to help you figure it out. It
simply involves clicking on the pic-
tures of the circle, triangle, square
and the hexagon.
The key to the puzzles is how many
corners each shape has. Once you've
tried the combination, dick on the
lever and the door win magically
open. Exit through the door to con-
tinue.
Take the hammer and use it on the
arm of the statue. Take the amphora
and use it on the hearth. Take the
wood and use it on the hearth. Take
the ECU and the rag and put them in
your inventory,
Take the gargoyle and use it on the
cyma, Click on stone. Click on foun-
tain and take the lichen. There are
appear and so will a pile of fold.
Pinch the Sword from the frog c rea-
lise and use it on the large rock. Use
four cauldron on the middle hole. An
Oliver will appear Use the Orivor on
the pile of gold. Exit by clicking on
Ehe temple.
Use the venom on the make and it
*i(f turn into a piece of quartz. Take
"he tiara. Use the torch on the bram-
bles, Use Cauldron with the ring, then
jse the copper ball with the tiara. Use
the pipe on the wasp trap. Use wasp
rap on wasps. Exit through door.
Its now time to fight the dragon.
*ou are given three magic pendants
some numbered teeth, dick on them
in this order, 1Z, 4 P 6 and I and the
fountain will start to work.
Use the lichen on the hearth, Use
the magnifying glass that s now on
the floor on the beam of light. Use
phial on the enclave. Use rag on
water Use wet rag on head of statue
then use ft on the head s eyes to
reveal some quartz.
Use the pollen on the right eye and
take the flower: Use the venom on
the left eye. Use pipe on snake. Use
coll on gargoylei. Use wet rag on coil.
Use flower on hearth.
Use leaf on hearth* Finally use the
phialtre on the guardian. Once trans-
formation has taken place use copper
ball on small statue that has
appeared. Click on jtatue. Exit
through door,
You now own all three grains of
sand. You might think you have com-
pleted the guest but the Frmreis has
been kidnapped by the evil Kraal and
taken to Volcano island and if you
don't rescue her she s just about to
become a wife to the slimy Kraal.
So, there s still plenty more of the
quest left, but I m not going to tell
you how to do it. I think f've given
you enough help, but if you are really
desperate to complete the whole
game then you might just find the
rest of the solution In next months
Gamer.
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Nine pages of applications
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ARexx 1 52
Communication' s the name
of the gome, as Alex Gian
gfjfs his teeth into Amos Pro
DTV 1 51
As tor os video trickery is
concerned, the Amiga is the
ideal machine, Paul Austin
surveys it . s abilities
PROGRAMMING 1 51
Take a teat oot of Margaret
Stanger's book as she looks
at the Amiga's libraries
Taking your first steps In
Amiga musk? Let Paui
Austin advise you Ott fbe
best software
COMM 5 1
To get on in Me world of
camms, you'll need to
practice your etiquette -
Pat Wins tonley teaches
manners
Looking to write an original
soondtratfc for your Amos
creations? Pkii South tells
you how *
* 16 *
flip art is the saviour of the
non-artistr'or those pushed
fob time - Ben Pointer looks
at some of the best available
MULTIMMA - 1 67
Ever vmndemd bow software
gets from on Amiga to a
shiny p/asfic disk? ivfjps
Alexander explains
Talkin
T he arrival of Amos Professional has caused
quite a few ripples among Amiga pro-
grammers, and those of you that have
been reading about it will have noticed how
much attention is given to the ARe*x interface -
and rightly so.
The problem with Amos For many program-
mers was that ARexx was a bit too alien to the
Amiga environment. Adding an ARexx interface
goes a long way towards making iL a truer Amiga
environment, while at the same time allowing it
to live up to its name as an alternative AMiga
Operating System.,
The thing with Amo* is that it makes so many
things so easy - it can almost be viewed as an
application generator (like Can Do for instance)
rather than a language.
For instance, iL offers split screens that are not
available under Intuition, it has automatic dou-
ble-buffering that makes the intuition alternative
look like a nightmare, not to mention all the
sprite and animation stuff. With a little
thought, it can be used to design excellent
interfaces.
Possibilities
Linking all this presentation power with exist’
mg Amiga applications opens the door to a lot of
possibilities. Most modern Amiga programs sup-
port ARexx these days, and it is nice to know that
all this software can now be linked to Amos Pro.
After all, there are almost no Amiga applica-
tion generators without an ARexx port. So I was
more than a little curious to see what Amos Pro
had to offer.
First of all, if you are using Amps Pro directly
from its boot disk, then you will have to load up
ARexx separately, using the " rex x mast" com^
marid, but iff you have beer folic wing this series
you probably already know that! If you are work-
ing from Workbench 2.0, then, ol course, ARexx
should already be running.
Amos Pro has a special command for running
other Amiga programs in the background, called
" J Exec jr - don't confuse thii with any other part
The ARexx Library
Calling alt 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 we are opening
the AC ARexx Library.
f his new source of ARexx software
will be redistributed free of charge on
the AC CoverDisk 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, Europa
House, Adiington Park , Macclesfield,
SK10 4NP
With Amos Pro and
ARexx, you can get your
programs communicating
with an unprecedented
degree of ease. Alex Gian
discusses a minor
revolution
of the Amiga 's operating iysteml Any program
that could be launched from the CL) can also be
launched Irom within Amos, eg:
hec "<if 1 ’Hfdi r/iypr&qi ,i li '
Rexxmast can be started like this if necessary.
The "Exec* command can also take an optional
argument, to determine where the output of the
command should go.
The default is NIL:, This option was not work-
ing on my version of Arnos^ but a small bug like
this is inevitable in these early days, i am sure it
will be fixed soon.
If you want to redirect the output of your
"Exec* command to a file or window s you can
Still do so by using the standard DO 5 redirection
operator > P eg:
Eisc >t iteipfi It
But since this article is about the ARexx inter-
face, why am I concerning myself so much with
the CLI interface? You will see in a minute.
The following Amos instructions and functions
are provided for direct support of ARexx;
ARexx Open - Open a special ARexx. port..
ARexx Close - Close the ARexx port.
Exist - Check if a port is really there.
ARexx Wait - Wail patiently for an ARexx mes-
sage at the special port,
^ ARexx - Return the status of any messages at
the parL.
-ARexx |{n) - Return the nth ARexx argument
string,
ARexx Answer n - Reply to an ARexx message,
and set the return code,
As you can see they are useful for opening an
ARexx port and receiving ARexx messages. They
correspond roughly to the equivalent functions
of the rexxsupport. library, which we have
already seen, but are even simpler, since only the
specially opened port is checked.
These commands are meant to be used inside
a loop which constantly checks if any new mes-
sages have arrived, and processes them as they
come m. The technique has been fully described
in the Oct *92 issue.
"But hold on a minute!" you may say, "that's
all fine far receiving ARexx commands, but what
if I want to send an ARexx message?"
A good question! After ail, since we are likely
to be using Amos as a front end„ it is probably
more important to send commands out, than io
receive them. That is, you are more likely to want
to use Amos to control other programs, than the
other way round.
Interestingly, there is no direct wav to send
ARexx messages out- There is no equivalent of
the ARexx instruction "ADDRESS'* or any other
means of accessing external host ports.
As a result you are left with an ARexx interface
that is well implemented, but only half there. I
am almost led to suspect that the dcsiignen ot
the ARexx interface were not fully aware ot the
possibilities of ARexx.
For the time being, if you want to send out
ARexx messages you will have to resort to the
"Exec" command which we have already
mentioned.
Instead of sending out an ARexx command
drrectiy from Amos, you write an ARexx script
that does the job, and launch it from Amos. If
your script is called sendcommand rexx , then
this will do the trick:
Ei#c ' n sr _ dt;
Your ARexx script must be saved in the rexx:
directory, otherwise you must specify the full
path. Small command sequences can also be sent
directly as strings, but you must remember to
embed the quotation mark, eg
ixec H r* i tthrt(34)+
V 1 DO IT 1 ‘
As you can imagine, the above process is not
the most elegant, and also slows down the ARexx
messages, since they have to go through the
DOS layer.
If you want your ARexx scripts !o run asyn-
chronously, you can launch them using the:
Et« 'run n ‘l ltUMMP
combination. Script Outputs c.in be redirected
Amo* Pro with 1*0 Afeuc
tefftrfocr Cfln now be
looked upon as an
dr^jJjrtjrppni generotof
Programming interfaces
There is good news for those that would like to program their
own Interfaces - Amos Pro supports assembh code at two levels.
firstly, you can open any Amiga library, stud the processor rey
isters, and call any function, simply by specifying ill offset Special
facilities are provided (using an Amos bank: whkh wiH automati-
cally give you the EQUates of all the Amiga system struct and
all LVO’s of all functions. Even structure fields are handled intelli-
gently, This is a brilliant touch.
Unfortunately the automatic system (the SET EQUATE RANK
instruction} was not working when I rested it so I had to get all
the values from the include files, but I trust that this will be fixed
soon too.
These features are a great way to program the heart of the sys-
tem interactively, whether you are designing custom ports or
anything ef« a
Secondly, you can run assembled machine code directly from
your Amos programs. Obviously, with this feature any addition
can be made to the language.
(and saved) to files for
later use.
Does this
mean that Amos
ARexx port is a fail-
ure? Not in my
view. The fea-
tures provided
are sufficient for
the occasional
user, and pro-
grammers who
need more can
easily create it.
J am also certain
that we will see
many extensions to
Amos Pro, and better
ARexx facilities wi
appear if they are needed.
In other words (or to put It
bluntly), Amos Pro is a Fully-
Fledged language, rather than a
Special-purpose application gen-
erator, and if you need a custom ARexx interface,
you wifi have to program it yourself, eiiher in
Amos, or more probably in assembler.
|ust as in any other language, the standard
message-passing and port handling routines of
the exec. library apply; so do the ARexx message
rules of the rexxsyslib.fibrary.
I managed to write a routine
to invoke ARexx macros
directly in fust a few lines of
Amos code. Macros can be
either commands or Functions
and results are returned as
Amos Basic strings.
That's more like ill Now I
tan use my library of spe-
cialised string ^processing
ARexx macros from within
Amos. Without this Feature I
would have had to rewrite
them all in Basic - that would
certainly have put me off using
Amos as a front-end.
More purpose-built Amos-
ARexx interfaces are bound to
appear in the future. There is a
large area to explore. Getting
y/
dr
Amos to co-operate with other
Amiga programs via ARexx is going to be more in
the domain of so-called sennus. programming, so
a bit of DIY is only natural at the beginning.
As someone who is interested in using Amos
Pro as a fronbend for applications, l like it. Be
prepared to see some really interesting programs.
The potential is certainly there.
An apology
In a previous article (Oct '92), I described the
ARexx interface oF Gold Disk's Hyperfiook.
At the time l said that despite having one of
the best ARexx interfaces I have ever seen, there
were minor problems with Workbench 2,0, 1 am
phased to say that Gold Disk l^ave in fact cor-
rected this.
While it does not have the advanced graphics
abilities of a Can Do or Amos, HyperBook still
remains one of the most charmingly simple pre-
sentation packages to use.
Its excellent ARexx Interlace also allows it to
be hooked up to all sorts of things, My apologies
to anyone who may have been put off. Rest
assured that HyperBook now works just fine with
Workbench 2,0.
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If the Commodore compendium is wearing a
little thin, perhaps it's time to get serious.
Paul Austin explains the basic steps of DTV
With DPAinfs
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possible
H ave you been putting your dose friends
and family through festive camcorder
torture, endless shots of unde Frank
yodelling into the great white telephone, little
[ohnnie doing unspeakable things with the
Christmas pud, and countless other memorable
cinematic moments?
The question is, how do you add a little style to
the proceedings? Well, as you've probably
guessed, here's where the Amiga comes in
Although Santa may have only delivered the
basics in the form of a standard machine, you're
still well on your way to a masterpiece without the
need for any addi tional add-ons.
But before you dive for the record button it's
well worth spending some time with the software
exploring the massive potential of what has
become the ul timate DTV workhorse.
There are a few points you should keep in mind.
First, video signals are made up of interfaced sig-
nals. and as a result you should ensure that the
Amiga is using interlace prior to any recording,
Secondly, a standard Amiga display in any reso-
lution is by default smaller than full-screen video.
As a result, use of overscan is essential it you want
to avoid annoying borders around the edge of
your artwork when they appear on-screen.
Saturation limits
The final essential is to ensure that the cotours
used within the image do not exceed the satura-
tion limits required by a composite signal. To do
this before committing any images to tape, first go
to the palette requester and select each used
colour in turn*
As you do this, the various RGB saturation levels
will show as a figure between 0 and 15. As you
cycle through the colours ensure that saturation
levels does not exceed 12 iin any of the three
colour fields.
This is an essential to avoid the dreaded colour
bleeding often associated with Compos ite/VHS
video. This prerequisite applies to any project
bound for videotape. As a consequence, always
stick firmly to this figure.
Within certain packages the 0 to IS levels are
replaced by a 0 to 255 system for increased accu-
Built for the job
Due to the baste design of the Amiga, DTV
comes as second nature. Apart from * he
machine's unrivalled graphic power, other
essentials include a video standard 15Hz sig
ml overscan and Interlaced output and in
the case of the A600/120G a built-in modula-
tor which makes the DTV connection almost
embarrassingly simple.
Aside from I he essential hardware in the
form of an Amiga and a suitable VCR 'cam-
corder, the only other prerequisite is good
old DPaint which almost everyone gets as
part of the Commodore bundles
racy. Within such packages the maximum levels
should not exceed 192 to avoid excessive
blood-letting.
Aside for the essential interlace, optional but
advisable interlace and of course adherence to suit-
able saturation levels, Lite rest is pretty much up to
your imagination.
However, there are a few pointers which make
life much easier and your creations even more
impressive. For example when using brightly
coloured text on equally colourful backdrops it's
always a good idea to use a dark keyline around the
text
This is yet another ploy in the battle against
bleeding. Even when composite saturation levels are
met, second or third generation copies can still
bleed badly without the intervention of the afore-
mentioned keyline.
Yet again good old DPaint comes to the rescue
with an automatic keyline feature entitled Edge
which can be found lurking within the brush menu.
To employ the feature, simply cut your text out as a
brush and then highlight and release the edge
feature.
It may need several applications to arrive at the
desired key line, but once complete you instantly
solve the problem of second gen eras ion bleeding
and in addition make your creations far more eye-
catching in the process.
Apart from basic colour precautions the only
other essential aspect of quality control is to invest in
quality RCA/phono connections Whenever possible
always use well insulated connections and try avoid
excEssrve cable length.
It both of the above are ignored, image quality
will invariably suffer due to the sometimes I lighten-
ing amounts of interference generated by assorted
household appliances..
As far as design is concerned, a touch oF anima-
tion is always a real crowd* plea sen Again DPaint
comes to the rescue with arguably the best anim
generation and control system of any Amiga paint
package. If you're still not in a fit state to begin
wading through the DPaint manual, a little experi-
mentation can soon fill in for actual study time.
First create the number of frames you require then
design a logo or opening title.
Next cut out the graphic as a brush and then
stamp it down with the right mouse button in the
desired position. Now select tho move requester
from the anim pull-down menu and simply type a
few random figures into the distance and angle
windows.
Experimentation
In the case of the angles it's usually a good idea
to stick with 45 degree increments in order to
keep things tidy.
Now before you do anything else, under no
circumstances hit the draw button as It's here
where the experimentation begins. On the other
side of the requester you'll find the Preview
option which allows unlimited dry runs prior to
actually drawing, which on complex or large
anims can take an age, especially on standard
machines.
When you’re happy with the effect, simply click
on the draw' button and make yourself a well-
earned coffee while the software automatically
renders the anim.
Once complete you can add additional frames
by simply moving to ihe end of the anim and
appending as many frames as you need. As long
as you don't go mad, even a Standard machine
will be more ihan capable off generating an
impressive anim/titte sequence.
Once your creation h complete, simply connect
the Modulator Out Lo the Video In on your VCR
and record your masterpiece onto the desired sec-
tion of tape using the RF out on the video - con-
nected to a TV - as a guide to placement
If possible make a copy of you master prior to
recording as once the button is hit there's no way
back. Happy titling...
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Using
third-generation language like Basic or
MM Cobol can be coded quickly, but the pro-
mf ■kgram runs slowly - the source code is
people friendly,
A second-generation language like assembler is
coded slowly and painfully, but the program runs
quickly - the source code is computer friendly
The C language is somewhere in-between - it is
reasonably quick to write,, and can be compiled into
fairly efficient machine code.
C is becoming standardised. This makes it very
portable. Source code can be written and tested on
one type of computer, then compiled into object
code, tested and run.
The source code can then be copied to a com-
pletely different type of computet (of network), and
should compile and fun successfully.
C does not have input and output facilities of its
own - these are added from a library or set of
related routines that can be linked with the object
code. Each compiler comes with a set of standard C
library high level input and output (unctions.
Lower level
In addition there are several Amiga libraries, each
containing lower level routines for use in your pro-
grams. These functions are often called by higher
level C library functions,
These programming pages will concentrate on
the Amiga library routines rather than the C syntax,
unless I have a storm of protest from my readers.
The C language can be extended almost indefi-
nitely, by adding routines and creating a custom
library, or by including third-party I bcanes.
Let's look at C libraries. The main compiler
header directory contains some header fifes (they
have ,h as a suffix) in addition to its subdirectories.
These header files contain the ANSI-compatible
prototypes of the standard input and output (unc-
tions, and other definitions.
To use one of these functions, the appropriate
header file should be included with the source
code. This command tells the compiler to add the
header file at compile time, but not clutter the
source code with it
This source code will be more portable than the
source code using Amiga Library routines, but not
Library routines can help
both assembler and
C programmers.
Margaret Stanger does
some borrowing
Demo routines
The short demo program ami lib on the CoverDiik uses five
library routines. From the Exec library. Qpenlftiraiy(libName, ver-
sion) opens a chosen library. A pointer to the library base is
returned. OoseLibrary(library) closes a library,
from the Dos Library, Delay ( timeout) waits for a given time-
out. GutputQ finds the file handle for writing text in the current
window, A pointer to the current fllehandle is relumed,
Wrrte(f i leha nd le, bu Jf erjength) will write to a file or a win
dow. The compile program source code listing {amrlib.c} is on
l he CoverDisk.
When, the object program (afnNtb) is run P the program opens
the DOS library. (I the library open? successfully, the program
displays a short message, delays for a few seconds, doses the
library and exits.
as versatile or efficient. The program source code
Fisting (iolib.c) is on the CoverDisk. When the object
program (iolib) is run, the program displays a mes-
sage using the built-in formatted print "printf
command, and then another message by using the
standard library IprintF command to write to the
current output file or console.
The mam Amiga libraries used are Exec, DOS,
graphics and Intuition. Exec library routines handle
the multitasking and the lowest level of interaction
between the hardware and the software.
DOS library routines handle input and output
control. Associated with each library is a special file
with the extension ".fd*, these files are usually
found on the Extras disk in tFieir own dsnectory.
An ,fd file contains a list of the routines in the
library, together with the input parameters that
each routine takes. The more recent ANSI-compati-
ble compilers have a proto directory included with
the compiler headers.
Prototype
This directory has a header file lor each library,
containing the prototype for each command. If you
open an Amiga library at run time, all its routines
become available. The linker knows where to find
the routines, and can link them to the rest of the
object code.
The Open Library routine is found in the Exec
library, all the Exec library routines are always
available.
Assembler program me re can now have sprites
designed using a program like DPaint. The height
colours and pixel data can be saved on disk and
read into an assembler program when required.
Each sprite has a data list of data word pairs. The
first two words of each sprite's data
are control words to initialise the
sprite.
Bits 1 5 to 8 of the first control
word contain the vertical position
of the first line of the sprite, bits 7
to 0 contain the spnte's horizontal
start position.
Bits 1 5 to 8 of the second con-
trol word contain the line after the
last vertical Sine of the sprite. Bits 2
to 0 of the second control! word
contain the most significant bits of
the first line, last line and horizontal
position respectively.
The last two data words always
contain zero. The intervening data
words contain the pixel data. The first two sprites
use colour 16 to 19, the next two 20 to 23, the
next two 24 to 27 and the last two 2B to 31 .
The sprite data is copied into chip memory. The
Copper list can be set up to copy the address of the
start of each sprite's data into the appropriate
5PRFT registers. The colour instructions can also be
included in the Copper list.
The DPaint Utility was used to save two sprites as
separate "brushes", producing a short IFF file for
each brush, I designed the sprites to be 1 6 pixels
wide., I used four colours, the first being transpar-
ent.
The file reader module "Teadsprite.a" can read
and interpret this file, or a similar file produced by
another artist program.
The routine Teadrile' is similar to the IFF sprite
file in last month's Amiga Computing, a simplified
picture file reader without a routine to unscramble
compressed data.
The routine can return the height of the sprite to
the calling program. The routiners;
bprllth eight = react i 1 1 lniit,sf‘ i te*5aTj, scUnr \ i st 1
Cd3,dUd2T
The inputs are :
name - the pointer to the name of the file
contaEning the data
spritedata - a pointer to the memory array to
hold the sprite
birpfanc data (the address of the third word of
the sprite)
colourtist - a pointer to the memory storing the
colours for the sprite (the cotouriist address plus
an offset for colour 1 6,20,24 or 28)
The output in Register 'do 1 is;
spriteheight - thE height of the spdte contained
in the file
The routine will look for the usual diunkheaders
in an IFF file. The BMAP 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 an).
The CVIAP chunk contains the colours used
when the sprite was designed. These colours will be
copied into the correct place in the colouriist,
The BODV chunk contains the bllplane data -
the routine copies it into chosen area in memory.
All other chunks are read, and their data ignored.
The routine could easily be extended to process
these chunks.
The sprite height is returned so that the position
of the last line of the sprite can be calculated and
put in the second sprite control word. The
main program will then have all the
necessary sprite and colour information for the
Copper list.
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Easy affordable Midi
ft you’re looking to side-step the internal tea
tures of the Amiga al together, there's a whole
selection of budget conscious sequencers wait-
ing in the wings.
Although dll of the programs listed are pri-
marily aimed at Midi, they also all fully support
the machines internal abilities with equal
enthusiasm.
While This is not a particularly strong selling
point in the eyes of serious users, it does mean
that if Midi music is your goal hut finances
mean a wait for the necessary hardware, you
tan still come to terms with the software via
standard Amiga samples and then apply your
new-found skills later on, ideal choices for any
potential investor indude Sequencer One Plus,
MusSeX and Sans k Pipes Professional
The first of the three is perhaps the ideal
choice boasting an extremely user friendly edit
mg system and intuitive design.
On the downside, the package isn’t the cheap-
est as the now rather elderly but usable Music X
easily lays claim to that particular title.
Music* Itself was easily the hottest item on
the Amiga musk scene a few years back and still
remains a viable option especially if you’re pre
pared to shop around. The final option is to
throw caution to the wind and invest in Ears &
Pipes Professional which although tar from
cheap offers a degree of expandability oniy
equalled by KC5 15.
The reason for the Bars & Pipes Pro bias as
opposed to KCS is simply that although the
two aFe on a par for power, Bars Pipes Pro
is much easier to master for the outrFght
beginner.
■ MUSIC
Sound essenti
W hether you're a dedicated muso or
just an interested bystander with a
shiny new machine waiting at your
fingertips, getting into Amiga music can be much
cheaper and simple than you might imagine.
To start we'll look at the market from the
bystanders position, highlighting the cheap and
cheerful products which for as little as £2 a flow an
absolute beginner to create music on a par with
anything found on commercial games software,
As you've probably guessed, we’re talking PD
and more precisely Med - a program that's been
the premier PD soundtracker clone for longer than
most Amiga musos would care to remember.
Due to Its prolific success and countless updates
- courtesy of its creator Tetgo Kinnynen - the PD
libraries are literally frt to burst with countless revi-
sions of the aforesaid Med,
However, if you're after the very latest offering
Amiganuts United is undoubtedly the first place to
look, primarily because they've managed to obtain
exclusive rights to distribute the licenceware eight
channel version which when complete with man-
ual comes in at a less than PD price tag of £30.
Commodore 64
Although eight channels may sound; more
attractive than the four track shareware alternative
the additional tracks do not play samples but
merely sequence Commodore 64 -style synth
sounds.
For the beginner these additional tracks aren't
essential. As a result, the four track is perhaps the
ideal beginners choice for testing the water prior
to the larger investment in the licenceware
alternative.
As mentioned above, almost all the major
libraries - with the exception of Amiganuts - carry
the four track version for around £2- When order-
ing be sure it's the latest, namely vl20.
Like all the soundtracker clones, Med employs
standard 8-bit samples as its primary sound
source. These can be either created yourself - see
this month's sampler roundup - or alternatively
there are a wide selection of pre-recorded effects
and instruments that can be bought direct either
on disk or CD from PD libraries or dedicated sam-
ple suppliers.
If you're happier with pre-recorded sounds,
quality commercial sources include the Zero-G
Datafiles which cany both CD and disk-based cot
Tfcp ultimate Midi ar*d Amicj.i tiSmbinatiDn in the form of (.hie rxCflffefit Super \am
lections. The/re available direct from;
Time and Space, FG Box 306
Herts, HP4 3EP
Tel: 0442 870681
Although of excellent quality, the vasL majority of
the Zero-G samples are heavily dance-oriented with
assorted scratches and popular hook lines.
For any would-be DJs or rave fans the collection
is ideal. However if you're planning to build original
tracks from the ground up the next collection,
namely the Sample Series, is probably a more attrac-
tive proposition.,
This series comes from those loveable
Mancunians at Gajits Music Software, Unlike the
Zero-C collection, the Sampler Series is comprised
entirely of sounds borrowed from the latest synfchs,
ff you’re interested in a more purist approach to pla-
giarism you can obtain the aforesaid collection
from;
Cajits Music Software , f-Mex House
40 Princess Street f Manchester
Ml 6DE Tel: 061-236 2515/4
A step up the ladder
If you've still got a few pennres- spare from
Christmas, Blue Ribbon Sound works offer an inter-
mediate package which allows the user to employ
their own or pre-recorded samples as part of an
automated six-part accompaniment.
The software, entitled Super|am, allows you to
begin building a bridge between the internal
sounds of the machine and the world of Midi, The
package works by allowing you to assign any one
of numerous styles which then form the framework
within which your five automated musicians will lit-
erally jam along with.
All you need do is add the chords of your choice
and of coufse play your part as the lead soloist. Ho
matter what chord progression you add, the otfiEr
members will automatically play a suitable
accompaniment
For example, If you Specify a rock style with a
chord progression of say E minor, G ^nd A, your
automated bass player is almost certain to rip
straight into Smoke on the Water]
Ok, nobody said the package is perfect, but
with a bit of practice you can easily generate per-
fectly acceptable lift music which can then be
worked into a pseudo-original or used directly as
backing music on various multimedia exploits.
Besides the fun and functionality of the pack-
age, the beauty is that it's equally at home with
Midi information as it is with converted Amiga
samples.
If you're looking for an affordable and interest-
ing Introduction to composition plus both an edu-
cational and speedy production tool, Superfam is
perfect
Paul Austin
singles out
the best
selection of
software for
any musical
beginner
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Joining the bustling comms sub-culture brings
with it its own responsibilities and rules,
Pat Winstanley talks etiquette
I " wonder bow many people reading this have
acquired a shiny new modem over the fes-
tive period? If you are one, do you know
how to behave in the comms world? Do you
know what to do and not do to make youfietf
welcome?
Like any other community activity, the golds n
rule is to consider others as well as yourseh. In
comms this basically means you should be aware
of what your activities are costing others
Although access to most BBSs is free 'other
than the cost of your phone bill), somebody has
to pay for all i he files and message areas made
available lo you,
A BBS is generally run on an amateur basis.
The sysop is using his own equipment that he's
bought with his own money. He f s also paying at
least rental for the phone line you dial in on.
One of the biggest attractions of a modem is
the opportunity it gives you to grab software
cheaply and easily. You find the Me you want,
download it, and bingo - the latest version, or
patch, or demo has cost you just a few pence.
But how do these fifes become available to
you in the first pi act? Where does the BBS get
them from?
Cheapest
Well there are several ways for sysops to grab
files for their lists. The simplest is lor users like
you to upload interesting programs to the BBS.
This h also the cheapest for i he s vsop.
Another way is for the sysop to download new
Files from other boards, which costs him money,
Vet a third way is For you to s^nd the sysop files
on disk - a lot cheaper than uploading if you
have a slow modern,
|ust check to make sure the sysop can handle
your disk - many boards catering for Amiga users
are actually run on PCs.
Most boards have an upload download ratio
policy, This simply means that you can only
download a certain number ol tiles before you
must upload something to the board.
The snag with this is that you might not have
any software that isn't already on the board.. If
you feel like this, don't worry, You're not alone.
An alternative which many sysops are happy with
is for you to become active in the message areas.
The more interesting messages a board contain*, the
more attractive it is to other users of that board.
Yet another alternative is a download credit syv
tern. With this you literally buy credits, each credit
allowing a certain number of bytes to be down-
loaded.
Some boards running this system even give
download credits as prizes in competitions on the
board,
Panic
When either uploading or downloading, try to
check your own setup as tar as you can before call-
ing on the sysop for help. Take your time too.
It‘s very easy to panic while you're worrying
about a phone bill, but it’s well worth checking
out any instructions . Menus and prompts are gen-
erally easy to use If you stop and think about what
you're trying to do. Common sense is all you really
need to work things out.
One of the most regular problems is setting
■"protocols". These are methods of computers talk-
ing to each other like Zmodern and so on and
need to be the same at both your end and the BBS
end.
What it boils down to is that your local BBS is
providing you with a free service. If you want to
stay on good terms with the sysop you should try
to put rn as much as you get out of the board.
A very common complaint among sysops is the
fu den-ess of callers who log In to their boards,
trawl the file lists,, download everything in sight,
then simply log oh again without so much as say-
ing 'Thanks*,
it only takes a few seconds to leave a message
for the sysop^ and your feedback on a board's ser-
vices will always be welcome. That's not just a
computer at the other end of Lhe line. There's a
human being there too!
Pat Winstanley can be contacted on Fidonet
at 2:250/107:99 or as preewee$clx.coni-
pulink.cn.uk, or you can write to her c/o
A mtga C omputmg .
• Always give your real name and
phone number when you register.
Think how you would feel »t j
stranger knocked on your door and
gave you a false name.
• Take a few seconds to read any
news, bulletins, instructions and so
on - it' IS save you far more time and
money in the long run,
• Don't ring the sysop voice at
night - the BBS may be funning but
the sysop is probably Lucked up in
bed. If you need help during unso-
cial hours, just leave a message then
log on again another time.
Keep your sysop Happy
i
# H d board stales the hours it's on-
line, respect the fact that the BB5
probably shares the Family phone
line. Don't call outside the stated
hours,
# Always log off the board! using
the option provided in the menu. If
you don't you could leave the
board thinking you're still there,
and denying access lo other users.
# 11 you must log off "illegally 1 "
{dropped carrier for instance), try to
let the sysop know what happened -
it will help him sort out any problems
your accident may have caused.
• When uploading files,, try to com-
press them first - sysops don't have
unlimited hard disk space. And try
to use a common compression tech-
nique to make things simple for any
other users.
ft IF the board's File areas are sorted
into sections, upload to Ihe correct
area.. If not upload to the sysop's
general area.. Either way, leave a
description of the file tog,
# If you want to download a file
which wilt take longer than you
have available, ask the sysop nicely
and he'll probably upgrade your
access temporarily.
# Don't pester the sysop for privi-
leged access to the board. When
he trusts you, and knows what
you want and need, hell
probably upgrade you permanently
anyway.
Amiga Computing february fPP 3
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AMOS
I 1 t seeing that every program on the Amiga
written with Amos has some lovefy piece o'
musk to go with it. Don't you wish that you
could make music like that? Well you can
It's tempting to steal other people's music oh of
bulletin boards, demos and so on. But wail don't
touch that dial.
The tracker programs you need to make beauti-
ful music am all public domain, with the exception
of certain versions of MED which are what they call
iicencewareT
These disks costs a bit more than PD disks, but
the aulhorof the program gets a fova tv every lime
the program is sold. They almost always feature
what we call in the trade a "pattern editor* like you
fund on most modem drum machines and certain
Midi sequencers.
The sounds in trackers are always samples, like
the kind von can make with your own sound sam-
pier, with the exception again of MED which also
uses the sound chip in the Amiga to create synthe-
sised sounds, what we call "chip music*.
Most trackers come with disks of sounds for you
to get started, The way they work rs that you
assemble patterns, short sequences of music lasting
for 64 beats.
Make a chain
Then when you've made a pattern for your
versej chorus and other li!1-ins etc. you chain them
all together to make a complete piece of music.
You specify which pattern you r d like to play and
in what order, and the program plays each pattern
in turn to make meaningful music. Sometimes.
So for example you could have an intro on pat-
tern 1, a verse on pattern 2 , a chorus on pattern 3
and a fill-in on pattern 4,
The real kick of a pattern- based sequencer is
that you only have to input your patterns once and
then they can be played and arranged as many
times as you like, rather than a more linear system
which would mean you'd have to type the fune in
every time .
Creating pleasant music with a tracker is easy, as
A recent addition to the Deja Vu licence ware
library is Music Engine by Paul Townsend (aka
Technical Fred Software),
This program lets you use tracker music with*
out having to convert it. What this program pro
vides is an interface between Amos and me Shell
You can use this to play many different music
file formats, and this is done by running an
appropriate "player program'' which means you
can hear the music without having to convert it.
□nee you've bought the Musk Engine pro-
gram from Deja Vu, you are free to use the
source code, if it's for public domain, shareware
or licence ware use,, providing of course you
acknowledge the source of your source. II you
Writing a convincing soundtrack for your Amos
creations is actually very easy. Phil South
says: "Let the music play..,"
Pro users
take note
Lucky users of Amos Professional will know
that, of course, Amos Pro is able to use files
from MED and Noisetracker (and its various
clones) directly using libraries and features
built in to the program,,
If you are using Amos Pro you don't need
to use a converter or any of the programs
mentioned- You do however need a copy of
MED or Noise tracker to make the music in the
first plate.
I should also say that the most up to date
version of MED isn't in the public domain, but
is available as licence ware, where the author
gets a fee each time the program rs bought.
You can get information about MED from
Amiganuts United, 169 Dale Valley Road,
Hollybrooki Southampton. Tel: (0703) 78S680.
you can have four tracks (in some cases even eight
with programs like QctaMED Professional) and you
can put the notes in one at a time in what we call
"step time", or play along with the other tracks
live on the keyboard In what is termed 'Teal time",
Step time is easier for learners as you can fiddle
about with each track of the pattern until it sounds
right, like typing words Into a wordprocessor and
editing them until the spelling and syntax is
perfect.
Once a piece of tracker music has been made,
or produced, you can convert it to Amos ABK for-
mat and load it into a program or into a bank in
Direct mode. The Amos disks contain many differ-
ent converters to serve most of the different kinds
of tracker such as Noisetracker, Soundtracks,
StarTrekker, Protracker, Games Music Creator,
Sonix and so on.
All you do is run these very clever little Amos
programs and they read in a tracker file and spit
out a AEK Tile onto disk ready to be loaded!.
Some of these programs work fine, but the
problem is that so many of the tracker programs
(being in the PD for some time now) have all
been revamped and re-written so that they are
very different in format from the originals.
Some tracker tunes will not play properly once
they've been converted. Usually the reason is that
the samples are too long or the system has
changed.
Either the tracker has a pattern length which is
variable and not fixed at 64 r or it stores its sam-
ples in a different way, Luckily, there are ways
around this - see the programs documented in
the box on this page tor some ideas.
Do try to cultivate the use of tracker programs.
You'll find they are not as hard to use as you
might think, and the results will be a!! your own
work* rather than just a steal from someone else.
Write stuff
If you have an Amos question, then please
write to Phil South, Amos Column, Amiga
Computing, Europa House, Adlington Park,
Macclesfield SKI 0 4 MR.
want to use the routines in a piece of commercial
software, however, then you have to contact the
programmers to arrange a suitable fee.
Music Engine is a very powerful tool, and not just
for driving music programs. The trick is a very good
one, and although it's handy for music, ifs power-
ful enough to run any program from the
Workbench, effectively making your Amos system
multitask with other programs.
For more details of Music Engine (disk number
LPD79) get in touch with Deja Vu Software, or
write direct to: Technical Fred Software, 11 7 Hilton
Lane, Walkden, Worsley, Manchester M2B STB.
Phone or Fax:061-703 7842.
Another fine program disk from the Amos PD
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MED v2.B and some convert utiFilies to make the
SoundTracker modules from MED more palatable
to the STto-ABK converters,. The disk number is
APD155,
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O ne thing that can really slow down the
desktop publishing process : ***-
you haw to stop and dim a grapftc
to illustrate something, especially if > :*j are not toeft
good at pixel painting,
I tend to draw things on paper ar i cN i tear
them, finding this a much quicker i w
what I want than trying to do n <v*' >■ " art
□r whatever.
But it still takes time, and It woUti speed lip
along no end if I had a massive dp art Ifcnr* r*o
which I could dip and puB out in appro pr ia te
graphic.
Good Amiga dip art has been hard lift find.
Many PD libraries have disks tul d the tiiA but n
my experience 99 per cent of 4 o other
because it has been poorly drawn «i the in* place
or because the images are so smal or d such a
low resolution that you can hvtfy see what they
are.
It's encouraging, thef% to see mot® and more
dedicated Amiga dip art companies advertising
their wares. We're going to look A two cdtections
in this article, both of bitmapped (tFF-JUM) dip
art.
Volumes
The Artworks clip art c otectiy i contains more
than 1,400 images in total, spread over eight vol-
umes, each disk containing between 115 and 270
images.
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Each volume covers a spedk theme. Currently
these are: Pets; Cast to, Cottages k Churches;
Trees; Signs k Symbols; WW Animals; Prehistoric
Lie; Signs & Symbols It and v.eddmgs h Family
Occasions.
Everything is in straight biadi-and-white, perfect
for the mono desktop publisher. The individual
images are collected together on a number of
pages. To use an image you must load the page
into a paint package, cut c jt the image you
require, and save it as a brush Then you can
Import it into your DTP package
All the images have been expertly drawn on a
computer - no roughly scanned stuff here. Some
are incredibly intricate, like the skeletons on the
Prehistoric Life disk and the bouquets of flowers on
Ben Pointer gets into
artistic mood
The Artworks evritoeffort contains some oi the highest
quality bitmapped dip art i Auvf rvf r teen
Weddings & Family Occasions. Others are simpler,
like most of the incredibly useful Signs k Symbols,
If you were to buy the whole collection at once,
it works out to an average of fess than 4p per
image - buy a single disk and they work out at
between 3p and 6p each, depending on which disk
you buy.
Jaggies
If P have one criticism it is that on the whole the
individual images tend to be too small, Most have
to be pubfished at quite a small s*ze in order to get
rid of the bitmap jaggies - scale them up targe and,
like ail low resolution bitmaps, they look awful
But most of the time you don't tend to use this
king of clip art large, so I guess it's the old swings
and roundabouts scenario again - if the images
were larger you wouldn't get so many on a disk,
and consequently they would end
up costing more each.
Unlike a lot of ciip art collections
P have seen, 99 per cent of
Artworks 1 stuff is extremely high
quality with respect to perspective,
scale and detail
Perhaps the only area where
there is room for improvement is
with the few images that feature
people's faces,, which don't con-
tain much character.
8ut f'm. picking nits. This collet-
fib# Jnwgv s In the Mogk Olp>Ari
cntfcctHw hove been arHi-atlattd
around the block OUtliOei in Jhfff rh?
joggles ore let s wide nf when printed
lion is certainly very good value for money, and is
highly recommended.
The Magic Clip-Art Company has come up with
an idea to try to reduce the bitmap jaggies.
Although all the images in its collection are basically
black-and-white, they have all been subtly blended
with greyscales around the black outlines {called
■’anti-aliasing") so that when they are printed the
jaggies are not so evident
Ihere ane 2T disks currently available, grouped
into seven subjects. Because these are 1 a colour
pictures, each disk contains only between 1 8 and
26 images, but each image has been saved individ-
ually so you don't have to bother loading them into
a painting package to cut out brushes.
Whimsical Animals, 94 images on four disks, are
cute cartoons oF animals, usually with a large white
space left free where some text can be added.
This kind of stuff is of limited use and tends to
get tired quickly when use a lot, but on the plus
side the images are quire large, and are very well
drawn.
Well drawn
Three diikj ef Funny Attention Getters (76
images) are along the same fines as the Whimsical
Animats - well drawn cartoon images with white
spaces for text.
The B6-image Sports collection comes on four
diski and features action snapshots from most pop-
ular sporting activities,, and a few that aren't so
popular.
These real-life images aren't so expertly drawn as
the aforementioned cartoons, and a few of the ath-
letes look positively unathletic
But if you are producing a sporty newsletter,
you'll 4 ind them useful enough. The Recreation col-
lection is really an extension of Sporty another 79
images on tour disks.
Finally there's Silhouettes, 70 on three disks.
Subject matter vanes greatly here, from sport to
jiimals to shopp ng to weddings.
The anti-aliasing does indeed help to reduce the
apparent jsggineH of the images when printed
Urge, although if printed very large everything
tends to have a fuzzy look around the edges.
Printed small they look fine.
Cost per image averages out at about 25 p each,
making them a tad expensive compared to the
Artworks collection. But then these are larger
images, so you are able to publish them larger
without the jaggies getting too bad.
Artworks Clip Art Library
£6.99 per disk (£48 for all & volumes)
Artworks, 1 Pond View, Wootton, U Ice by
DN39 6SF, Tef 0469 588138
Magic Oip Art
£5.99 per disk (£499 each tor 4 or more)
Magic Clip-Art Company, B4 Thorpe Road,
HawkweJI 555 4|T,
Amiga Computing February 1993
Remember this ?
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