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Cd-rom roundup. S3
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VlScorp to buy Amiga Technologies, NewTek to launch
Lightwave 5, where will it all stop? Tina Hackett finds out
MIGA GUIDE
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The official include files are
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coder. Paul Overaa explains
107
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ARexx works its inler-
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109
Dave Cusick takes over the
Comms column with a
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frank Nord discusses his two
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115
Steve White continues his
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116
Lights! Lighting rigs
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Cary Whiteley discusses
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and with other magazine sales dropping by
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aged to add about 47% to our readership
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Technofogies, and NewTek's Lightwave
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features every month that we bring to the
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The truth
But why do our readers like us? Well, as
always you can rely on Amiga Computing to
tell you the truth about a product Just
because the market is shrinking, it doesn't
mean we will puff products against our
better judgement, after all, it is you, our
readers, to whom we are responsible and
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We also appeal to the more mature!
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serious Amiga owner. The kind of chap, as
our survey reveals, that spends more time
using 3D packages than playing games, that
almost certainly has a hard drive and
CD-ROM, This sort of person doens't enjoy
being talked down to and we strive not to
do that
So here we are, poised on the brink of yet
another chapter in the Amiga's chequered
career, with VisCorp announcing that they
will continue to support existing Amiga mar-
kets and develop new ones, pretty much the
same stories we heard from Estom last May.
Well have to wait and see, a$ usual, but at
least Don Gilbreath, one of the head hon-
chos at VisCorp, was the designer of the
CD32, so he has more pedigree than most of
the current Amiga Technologies team. And
this time there shouldn't be any of the delays
in production of new machines* because, as
we understand it VisCorp are buying Amiga
Technologies lock, stock and barrel, so they
won't have to find a factory to produce
Amrgas which will need to be retooled and
so on.
Perhaps VisCorp might, may also attract
back some of the real Commodore talent
from their posts at other companies. Names
like Dave Haynie, Mike Sinz, Peter Cherna et
at would be the ones best suited to breath-
ing fife back into our favourite machine in a
way that Amiga Technologies, through no
particular fault of their own, have failed to
do.
From reading IRC transcripts and attend-
ing conferences we know that there is still
an awful lot of potential in the Amiga yet.
Other platforms have shown the way for-
ward perhaps, but there is still time for our
machine to rise from the ashes of
Commodore and E scorn and renew itself
phoenix-like, as the machine for artists and
multimedia types the world oven VVe know
there is a market out there from our reader
survey. We know you are now more dued
up than ever, and we know that you are
sticking with the Amiga because it is still the
best machine for your current computing
needs. Let's stick out the year and see the
looks of disbelief surface on the faces of
those fairweather Amiga owners who
ditched everything they knew for a person-
ality-free PC when VisCorp show a
PowerAmiga at next year's CeBit show...
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HOCK ACQUISITION OF AMIGA
TECHNOLOGIES BY VISCORP
J U 5 t as we were going to press, Amiga Computing learnt of the shock
announcement that E scorn were to sell Amiga Technologies to VlScorp, devel-
opers of set-top bo* technology. A binding fetter of understanding has been 'signed
between the companies and it states that VlScorp would acquire Amiga Technologies,
including the intellectual properties of the Commodore Business Machines. The trans-
action value is around HO million - $10 million more than Escom bought
Commodore for just over a year ago, The acquisition is subject to approval by both
companies' board of directors and terms were not disclosed
Gilles Bourdin, PR Manager for Amiga Technologies explained: 'We have changed
Mother companies because of the financial position of Escom, They were not in a
position to hold Amiga Technologies and so we have a found a company that are
more development-orientated - an Amiga-oriented company." When asked whether
this is definite he commented: "We are quite sure this Is going to happen." In January,
Escom posted losses of 72 DM million and in March they revised that to 1 25 DM
Million,
Although primarily
the acquisition is to
give VlScorp fuff access
to Amiga Technology
for its set-top bo*, they
have stated that sup-
port of the AT 200 and
fftf Surfer Puefc
- rvadp at test?
Menirmf Schmitt (pt^ turedjf quits
£ a Et c*m hoard. Me I# replaced by
e ^Commodore m*r$ r Helmut Jest
M000 wall continue. Hefmut Jost, now Chief
Executive of Escom AG (see separate story)
commented: "VlScorp anticipates the support
of ongoing European sales of popular models
such as the M000T and the AT200 as well as
the current developments and future releases
of Amiga Technologies,"
At the press conference at the World of
Amiga show, they outlined their plans further.
William Buck, VIScorp's CEO, commented on
the rumoured offer of S40 million when
Escom bought Amiga Technologies for only
S10 million, "People are saying that these guys are crazy. ..remember though that
money was spent subsequently, What we are buying is an asset. An asset that involves
the inventory of finished goods, inventory of components which we can use to do
what was being done but we can also use them to do what we want to do. Plus we're
getting the intellectual properties. We think we're getting a great deal," VlScorp were
present at the original auction for Commodore.
Petro Tyschtschenko offered: "This procedure is not affecting our day to day
business, on-going projects, or my position as president of the company."
It was also stated that the distribution deal already in place with Escom when the
original licensing agreement was signed was still in place. The preposed time scale for
development is projected to be the end of 1996 for Universal Internet Television
Interface for the US and the UK and the full set-top box with genlock and card-swipe
for 1997. We'll bring you a full report of World of Amiga and more on the VlScorp deal
next month.
All change
at Escom
Man lied Schmitt, Escom'* CEO, h as quit the baard and has been
replaced by Helmut lost. The Supervisory Board accepted Schmitt s
decision and he left his position on 31 March, However, he is still with
the company in the role of consultant
lost has been! head of IBM's German PC business since November
but previous Id that he was Managing Director of Commodore GmbH
and Vice President International, in 1993 he accepted a post on the
board of ISCOM AG where he was responsible for the Sales and
Marketing functions and for the management of subsidiaries.
Amiga Camputmg spoke to Gibes Uourdin. PR Manager for the
Company, about the recent events. He confirmed Sc ii mill had quit the
Board bul contrary to current rumours, he denied that Petro
Tyschtschenko was also leaving. Mote news from Amiga Technologies
this m <i Midi is (hat the Internet pack is finally ready. According to
Kourdin, the software and the modem are finished, and the delay was
put down to the fad that each country needed a different modern and
because the Telecom agreements varied between each country.
JUNE 199 6
H hotogenics 2
TO LAUNCH
11 Imathera have revealed that their
" much anticipated Photogenics 2 pack-
age is about to be released. As a follow-up to
their highly successful graphics package, it
contains many new features - so much so
that they have put it on CD-ROM. They have
included Animation support to load and save
standard IFF Anim files, powerful ARexx
scripting where you can create macro scripts
to automate conversion, build animations or
interface with other Amiga software, This
also allows Photogenics 2 to link directly to
Lightwave 30,
A new full -screen Effects system has also
been incorporated and provides many new
effects that you can apply to a complete
image or a masked area, Vou can write your
own effects but those included are Radial
Blur, Warp, 3D Rotate and 32-bit Fractal
generator. Another new feature is theft
Virtual Buffers which means you can work
with images larger than your memory will
allow. Almathera claim this is 'unique'
because it allows this without the speed
loss usually associated with virtual memory
programs. Hypertext On-line help is provid-
ed on the CD-ROM in HTML format, and a
Web browser is also included. The price is
expected to be around £99,95,
Almathera can be contacted on Ot&t-
687 0040- or e-mail almathera® cix,
compulink.co.uk
/ t
ICHTWAVE 5 ON THE HORIZON
U ewTek took the opportunity given to them at NAB to announce the latest version of
I™ Lightwave. The be$t new i$ that Modeler is to receive a much needed update, with tools to
bring it in line with the current range of state-of-the-art CGI programs. Modeler has been neglected
in comparison to Layout, with only Metaform being of any note as an update in recent reasons.
Lightwave 5 is set to change all that with several new ground-breaking features, firefly, there is
MataNurbSp and Lightwave is the first product with this feature. It breaks the barrier between spline-
based modelling and traditional polygons by automating the transition between the two. Another lea*
turs much loved by 30 Studio users is MetaBalls
which will be included directly in Modeller (rather
than having to be a plug-in, as in 3D Stud id),
Meta Balls is a system that is fairly hard to explain in
a few words r but allows for the kind of r globb/
effects as seen in the Organics advert on TV. In
addition to over 100 new features for both, Layout
and Modeler, Lightwave 5 also promises full inte-
gration with GpenGL a graphics system for realtime
shaded views in Layout, and, presumably (they
didn't say on the press release), Modeler. But
where will that leave Amiga owners who won't
have access to GpenGL? MewTefc don't say, but the
PC version will be the first available, with Alpha,
MIPS and SGI to follow. The pricing will be
31495 for the full version, and upgrades will
cost S433 from any previous version.
.4
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IP IT UP
omega have announced
1 that shipment of their Zip
Drives has passed the One
Million mark. In an announce-
ment at the CeBIT trade show in
Hannover, they revealed that they
have shipped more than one
million Zip drives in less than a
year and also shipped nearly ten
million Zip disks.
The to mtfi Zip
Drive has shipped
over one mfffton
uniiM
B am it
home
Trade paper CTW has reported that
games companies are being targeted by
RAM raiders'. Computer thieves are
breaking into the companies and stealing
thousands of pounds worth of memory
boards and other equipment. Code-
masters are the latest victim of the
robberies and want other companies to
lake noEe and put up protection against
the thieves-
IVE '96 AND
KICKING
The Consumer Electronics Show is all set to
happen at Earls Court, London, in September.
Scheduled for the 25-29 of the month,
companies such as Sony, Demon Internet
and Mitsubishi have already signed up. The
show also plays host to the Battle of the
Bands contest as welt as the latest in games,
computers, Internet, audio and Television.
THB 04MCUMPH rLTCTnoiiUJS
•EARLS COURT * LONDON
2 fi - 29 SEPTEMBER 1999
Q OPE FOR LEI SU RESOFT
Ilf holesaEers Letsuresoft hope to see off current difficulties by going into administration, it
was announced recently, The company are reported to be having financial troubles but
according to the joint administrator, Bob Bailey, they are giving out a 'business as usual' mes-
sage. Trade paper CTW said that 12 staff have been made redundant, leaving a workforce of
about 60, The administrator commented that people had expressed an interest in buying the
company but they had no intention of putting it up lor sale.
Leisuresoft are one of only two Amiga distributors, the other being SDL SDL also fell into
problems back in October and went into Administration, to be bought out only four weeks later
by Atir o Corporation. No-one from leisuresoft was able to comment at the time of going to
press what implications this would have for the future of their Amiga line
Premium
print
totfYe announced o new range of
Photographic Paper and Transparency Film
designed to get the best results from desktop Ink
Jet printed They ore offering superior grades of
photographtc-quality A4 paper and transpare-
ncy film which is idea! for producing high quality
print-outs in vivid colour or black and
white. They wilt enhance the quality of
documenfs or overheads by oinking accurate
graphics, so fid colour saturation and crisp text
possible.
Real gems
Giliet Multimedia,, the company behind the 'Uttie
Gem' Desktop Micro Audio Mixer and EQ Unit,
have announced tour due to the success of the
unit they have reduced the price. Originally
retailing at £6935, they have knocked this down
to £4-9.05. Launched fast summer, the unit has
sold in rts hundreds all around the world - If
even earned itself a 9 out of 10 score from
Amiga Computing, For more information contort
Gflfeff Multimedia on Q1S5S 559203,
Terminus
TERMINATED
According to rumours circulating on the Amiga
Directory , the modem terminal program r
Terminus is no longer being developed.
Apparently the author. Jack Radigan is consider*
ing a part So OS/2 but is waiting to see if the
Be&ox becomes a player.
Join the
club
A -rreiv Amiga computer dub has opened m
Lancashire at St Thomas The Martyr School Hall
Htghgate Rood, UpHolland, Wigan. The club
meetings ore held e^ery Sunday of Ipm, admis-
sion is £1.50 f and mumpers con benefit from
free advice r free software and a huge Public
Domain library totalling 18Mb of software.
Refreshments ate a&o available. If you're fntec-
ested and can actually get oaf of bed on a
Sunday before 1pm, take along your Amiga and
get computing.
Hugh Poyntcn
Amiga Computing
JUNE 19 96
Hews
Get your virtual
j\ new solution has emerged in Japan to the age old
problem of how to train motorbike riders without
actually exposing them to too much danger on the open
road.
Virtuality KK, a subsidiary of Virtuality Croup pic, have
announced that they have completed the development of a
motorbike simulator for use in driving schools in Japan. The
completion of the simulator has coincided with the Japanese
Police’s decision to revise the traffic law so that simulators
will have to be used as pari of the teaching programme,
particularly for candidates of bikes over 40Dcc,
Virtuality KK expect to make massive profits on the
motorbike simulator as the market is estimated to be about
U5 S5Q million and the only other company known to be
MOTOR RUNNING...
working on a bike simulator is Honda The real advantage of
the simulator is the fact that it can allow student drivers to
drive in hazardous conditions without Fear of injury. Dangers
such as difficult weather conditions, busy roads, and pedestri-
ans walking out in front of them will enable them to experi-
ence the worst they could expect to come across on the open
road, and to learn from their experiences.
Rather than use a flat screen, the simulator makes use of a
"Visette Head Mounted Display through which the student
sees detailed real time 3D graphics. According to Mr
Terushisa Tajima, HMD is used because "...it is the only way
to ensure that students turn their heads left and right before
they make a turn at an intersection."
Hugh Poynton
End I'd
like TO
THANK...
The Industry show, ECTS, has rapidly
approached and with it came the famous
awards night to celebrate the best and
the rest in the industry. The show was
hosted by BBC’s Emma Forbes (Live and
Kicking) and CamesMaster's Dominik
Diamond, and if that’s not enough excite*
merit for the evening, there was also a
performance by the Oasis tribute band.
No Way Sis. Nominations included
Worms, Destruction Derby and Wipeout
for the Most Original Title. Command and
Conquer, Descent, Worms (again),
Screamer, EF2000 and NHL Hockey '96
have been nominated for Computer game
of the Year, Well keep you posted...
ROADCAST INDIAN
he Broadcast India '96 Exhibition and Symposium will
be held from the 24-26 October at the World Trade
Centre, Bombay. The exhibition covers all aspects of TV,
Radio, Video, Audio, Film, Cable, Satellite, Computer
Graphics, Multi Media, Transmission, and many other
associated technologies.
India s broadcasting industry is flourishing after the
privatisation oi channels and the arrival of the international
networks in India. With 80 channels expected to exist in
India within the next year, it is thought that the Indian
ESKTOP
DREAMS
1* s P f ing saw the release of E.M.
Computer Graphic’s new professional
Desktop Video CD for the Amiga, the EMC
Phase4, The package is aimed at anybody
who uses their Amiga for video, presentation
or graphics work.
EMC state that the CD contains a large
number of fonts, music modules and sound
samples that will be suitable for commercial
presentations. As wefl as this, the CD con-
tains 300 megabytes of professionally
designed backgrounds covering such diverse
subjects as weddings and technology, and a
wide variety of backgrounds ate available toe
such as marble, fabric and stone. The CD also
contains countdown animations, on screen
timers, multimedia buttons and testcards so
that very professional looking presentations
can be created.
The EMC Phased Desktop Video Dreams
CD is available for £39.99 + p*p. Contact
them on 01255 431389
Hugh Poynton
H ama
SANDWICH
Hama have announced that they have
taken over the distribution of Videonics.
This gives them the largest range of Post
Production Product available from any UK
supplier.
'96
broadcasting industry will require over T, 000.000 hours of TV
programmes per year, 5uch a huge boom in the broadcasting
business means India currently needs 50 times more hard-
ware and technology for its existing and new facilities, mak-
ing one of the largest markets for broadcast hardware and
also computer software.
Anybody interested should contact Saieom Trade Fairs &
Exhibitions PVT, Ltd at phone: (91-92) 2151396, 215272] or
fax: (91-92) 2151269
Hugh Poynton
CompuServe, the world's largest On-line
Services and Internet Access provider,
announced an 2 April that Steven P
Stanbrook, formerly President of the
Sara Lee Corporation HQ in Chicago,
wos to be appointed to their newly
created position of President
International,
Stanbrook will implement Compu-
Serve’s global expansion campaign,
providing strategic direction and
genera! management of international
offices.
Hugh Poyntnrn
I Hacked
I OFF |
An Argentine computer hacker found
himself in deep trouble recently when
he was overheard bragging to his
girlfriend that he had broken into US
military computers and other top secun
ity systems. A judge authorised Julio
Ardita 5 telephone to be bugged and
he wtis heard boasting how he had
used the Internet to break into the
systems.
Ardita also hacked into the Argentine
telephone company, Telecom Argentina,
and they suspect someone had given
him the password - a combination
which would have taken years to unco-
ver, Ardita was allowed free on parole
but could face up to three years if found
guilty.
Worldwide
honours
The creator of the World Wide Web , Tim
Berners-Lee, is to be given on honorary
degree from the University of
Southampton. He will receive the
degree of Doctor of Science (DSc) this
summer.
Berners-Lee created the Web back in
1989 when he was working at the
European Panicle Physics Laboratory,
CERN. He now directs the W3
Consortium from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Nova acquire
Aladdin 4D
D t used to be that there were two rnajor rendering packages on the Amiga - Impulse's
Imagine on the lower end, and Newtek's Lightwave on the upper end, Contenders have
tome and gone. About a year ago, M axon's Cinema4D got an English translation, and its
low cost and high power set the market astir. It's just got quite a bit hotter.
Nova Design, renown the world over for their high-end image processor ImageFX, have
acquired Aladdin 40 from Adspec Programming. While Aladdin 4D has never actually gone out
of production, its interface and features are currently going through a major overhaul by Nova
Design programmers. Previous to Nova's acquisition, Aladdin 4D was often noted for powerful
animation control and its ability to create realistic vapors, clouds., and gasses. An old competitor
has returned to stake its claim on the high-end, low-cost rendering market.
Nova Design intend to release Aladdin 40 5.0 in the third quarter of 1996, but a price has
net yet been determined- For more information on Nova Design, ImageFX, or Aladdin 40, you
can reach Nova Design by phone on (001) 804-2 02-5BGB, by fax on (001) 004-282-3768, by
e-mail at kermit@cup, porta Ixom, or on the Web at http://www.portal.com/-kermrt/
NTERNET FOR THE NORTH
Internet Direct and Istar Networks are offering a special internet access package to
Amiga users, complete with one month's free access. With the Amiga Surfer and
Surf Ware packages still unreteased in North America, this marks the first time a
nationwide effort has been made to provide a one-stop Internet setup to Amiga users.
The package includes the demo version of AmiTCP 4,0, with companion auto dialer,
A Mosaic Web browser, GUI -FTP client, and telnet client. "Direct and Inforamp will pro-
vide regular updates of the software to their customers as it becomes available. The
package is currently in stock at Amiga dealers throughout Canada, and the iSTAft and
Internet Direct networks have dozens of dialups included in the offer covering Canada's
major metropolitan areas. For more information call (00 1) 905-723-0930,
rvnHxtfc
tmmu+B fffc*
ihi* one ix
easy WlM
Atatfrin 40.
Will it be
even better
under Nova
Design?
New setup
for WCS
World Construction Set T the package that
interprets geographical survey DEM files
into realistic landscapes, has reached a
new version. Questar Productions haw
decided to pat oat a 'pre-release' version,
without all the features fully implemented
and fixed. The pre-release will be less
expensive than the full package, and all
prerelease purchasers will be entitled to
a free upgrade upon its completion.
While Questar produce WCS for other
platforms, the price of WCS on the Amigo
svff/ be tower than their versions of WCS 2.
WCS V2 allows timeline editing of anima-
tions, a Configurable AfDi 1 interface, better
waves and water control , multiple DEM
files in a single project, and compatibility
with j/gAfLIfove through an impart filter.
WCS V2 Pre* re I ease is shipping now,
and dealer and distributor inquiries are
invited,.
Questar Productions can be reached on
(GO!) 303-659-4028, wcsinfo&arttkus
.burner.com through e-mail and http://
www.dimensfonal.com/-questar on the
Web.
ANDITS ON
THE WEB
Qpen AGAIN FOR BUSINESS
T he Wonder Computers chain of Amigo retail stores
went into bankruptcy in late January, but Wonder CEO.
Mark Habinski publicly promised the Amiga community
he would try his hardest to re -acquire as much of
Wonder as possible and re-establish it as a new ,
debt-free corporation. This has been done.
On I May , Wonder Computers International opened
their first store and corporate headquarter* in Ottawa ,
Canada. Habimki* s bids for the two largest Wonder toco-
tms, os well as for the physical capital of the corporate
headquarters and the trademarks and rights to the
Wonder name, ivere accepted by the bankruptcy
trustees. Keynes Emeruwa. former Marketing Manager of
WCi, said of the return of Wonder: *We ore more excited
now than ever before , We're looking forward to working
with and helping the entire Amiga community ; This
resurrection is a testament to the success of the Amiga .'
Wonder's initial five tocottons will be the home store
and corporate headquarters in Ottawa , with a sales
office in Vancouver ; British Columbia, and expansion is
planned for the city of Toronto os soon os possible. In
addition, two western Wonder stores whose assets were
acquired by a former Wonder manager may became
affiliated with the new company „ While the planned
World of Amiga \ Vancouver in June will not be possible,
Habinski has indicated that World of Amiga Toronto in
December will s till be held \ and that a date will be
announced soon ,
Dan Barrett, better known to Amiga users for
his BLAZEMONGER humour series, has
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Extracting
CoverDisk files
Before you even think of putting the
coverdisks anywhere near your
computer you should make sure
you write protect them by moving
the black tab in the top coiner of
the disk, so you can see through the
hole. Doing this makes sure you
cannot damage your disks in any-
way, There is no reason why the
coverdisks need to be written to, so
even if the computer asks you to
write enable the disks, don't do it.
To extract any single archive, sim-
ply double click its icon and follow
the on-screen instructions. If you
want to quickly extract the program
to RAM, select the NOVICE level on
the welcome screen and press pro-
ceed once on the current screen,
and then again on the next. The
program can then be found in your
RAM disk. Normally most programs
need further installing, so read the
documents on how to do this.
Hard Drive
users
Hard drive users do not have to
boot with the first disk, but you
must make sure you have the
Amiga's Installer program in your C
drawer, ro make sure your hard
drive has the correct files in place,
double-click on the SetupHD icon.
This will check if you have the
installer program and if not will
copy it across - do not worry as it
will not write over any existing files.
All you hard drive owners will
find Multi Extract very useful. It is a
separate method of extracting the
coverdisk files and allows you to
extract a number of files in one go,
to your hard disk or RAM
When you run MultiExtract you
will be presented with a number of
check boxes, each representing one
of the programs on that coverdisk.
lust de-select all the programs you
do not want extracting and then
press proceed. All the selected pro-
grams can now miraculously be
found in the selected destination.
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A complete C/C++ development
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Installing StormC
StormC is not a small program as it gives the programmer a complete C/C++ developments
environment. The total amount of hard drive space required is almost 4Mb. Installation is a
matter of a few mouse dicks on the installer icon then all you need to do is say where you
want StormC to be placed The archive is so big we had to spread it over the two coverdisks,
so half-way through installation you wifi be asked to insert the second disk. Once done!
StormC is ready to run.
With the StormC demo there are two example programs that you can compile and run.
To load them, click on the open project icon and go to the Examples directory. There are
two projects already setup for you, One creates a demo Gadtool interface and the other
makes use of the Amiga's BOOPSI colour wheel.
Select one and once it is loaded click on the run icon to compile and run the program.
This will show you StormC running through its compile and link sequence, and then the
debugger that works alongside the compiled program.
Amiga Computing
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There was up commercial C compiler, and
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sions, this left the Amiga lacking a very
important product- StormC looks like it can
wry easily fill SAS Cs boots.
The heart of StormC is the project mana-
ger, from which all other components are
invoked and are provided with data. The
project manager is not simply a better
MAKE, but the administrator for all your
program modules such as sources, object
libraries, documentation, ARexx scripts,
pictures and resources, along with compiler,
editor and project options.
A further component of the system is the
editor, with its ability to emphasise key-
words and syntax characteristics colourfully,
With this text colouring you can read your
program much easier because you will be
better able to see its structure. Apart from
this it also helps you avoid errors while
edihng your sources. As soon as a keyword
or an Amiga function is entered, the word
15 marked colourfully and you know you
completed it correctly.
Next is the extraordinary debugger, extra-
ordinary because it makes no difference
wnether the editor or the debugger is run-
ning. The debugger uses the abilities of the
editor which means that the debugger uses
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you can watch the source, set breakpoints,
look lorfunctions and variables and so on
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compiler for both parties, The traditional
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to object-oriented programming with C++ at
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their tool for the future. The others will use
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StormC is suitable for all programming
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music or game programs. For all these pro-
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compilers, these are suited just as well for
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ISKS
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program you need
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on your system. With*
out it you wilt not be
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ClassAction v3
Author: Gasmi Salim
Workbench 2.04 Magic User Interface v3jl
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This is a great program that makes your life a
lot easier. When you have a hard drive you
end up with all manner of files dotted
around, and it you had to have every program
necessary to display all these different files
you would not have very much room on your
Workbench,
ClassAction lets you define a whole host of
different file types such as GIF, Jpeg, I IBM or
any other file you like and specify the pro-
gram that should display rt, leaving you with a
single Applcon on your Workbench. If you
want to display a picture then you only have
to drop the picture file into the Applcon and
the corresponding picture viewer will be run.
Once you have installed ClassAction using
the provided installer you can run the prefer-
ence program, As standard there are a good
number of predefined file types, but you will
have to change the pre-set programs to your
own,
ClassAction has a number of handy fea-
tures that make it very good to use. Firstly, for
each file type you define you can have many
different actions, so when you drop a file
onto the Applcon you get a list of the options
you specified. Therefore, for Jpegs you could
have normal and grey preview options if you
use Fastview.
When It comes to adding new file types,
ClassAction gives you a few options, the first
is that you can simply define a file name
extension, such as #?.jpg to define a Jpeg file.
This is not particularly good because any Jpeg
file that does not end in .jpg will not be
recognised by ClassAction.
The second way is to define the internal
structure of a Jpeg file. If you want to know
every Jpeg file has the word JFIF six bytes into
the file you enter 6/JFEF' which tells
ClassAction to look at the 6th byte In a file
and rf it matches JFIF then it is a Jpeg. If you
do not fancy doing this yourself then
ClassAction has the ability to work this out
itself- If you pass it a few files of the same
type it can analyse them, see what is the
same in all of them, and work out how to
recognise them in the future.
If you are the sort of person that likes a neat and tidy hard drive with as few extra icons and
Hies dotted around as possible then this could be of use to you, if you install a gome on your
hard drive, 9 out of W times you hove to set up some assigns - usually the name of the disks
you ore copying the game off. This means you hove to create a separate script hie to do all the
assigns and run the program .
Easy Assign lets you make these assigns from the icon you run the gome from which allows
you to keep things a little more in order. To use Easy Assign , copy it to your C directory from
where it can be run . Next you need to find the game or program you want Easy Assign to work
on, you must first change the game's icon from a Tool to a Project type of icon - if you use
Swaxinfo you con use that to do the job „ otherwise you will need to use the IconEdh program ,
Once you have done this, set the default tool to EasyAssign i» then for each assign you want
to make add a new Toottype called ASSIGN— <devk:e name> for every assign you want to
make . You can also run other programs beforehand using the PROG=<name of program>
Tooltype , Once all of these have been done the game the icon belongs to will be rum
Lu PE
Author: Frank Toepper
Workbench 2-04
In one small sentence, lupe magnifies an
area of the screen - that is about the size of
it. As far as magnifying programs go, Lupe
does about everything you need. You can
open it on any screen from its menu, and a
handy scroll bar lets you easily change the
magnification level. As far as speed is con-
cerned, it is pretty quick and there is a spe-
cific 020 optimised version so you can
squeeze every last CPU cycle out of It.
If s stl peinj? surreal
These are two tiny programs t hat change the wdy Workbench displays its icons. Normally, icons
have to have o bevel box around them and they have to be opaque, so you cannot see
through them. These two programs, No fill and No Draw, allow you to stop your Amiga doing
both these things and can moke your icon $ look much more natural without the forced bevel. If
you want a bevel around an icon you can draw it yourself.
You can either run both the programs 6y adding them to your startup-sequence or f much
easier, drop them into the WBStortUp drawer. The NoFill command can cause problems with
norma/ icons as certain co/ours become see through and the icons con look speckled. The
NoFill program is of greatest use to people who use Newlcons, in which case these programs
can make your icons look much better.
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Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
To use the following pro-
gram you need to have
the Magic User
interface v3.2 installed
on yaur system. Without
it you will not be able to
run any MUi program. MUI is available from
any wad PD house.
Shell Bench
Author: Nick Christie
Workbench 2.04 Magic User Interface y3-X
is the quickest way to run a program
opart from double-didung on its icon? That's
right, use Workbench's execute function. If
you hit right Amiga F q smut! requester pops
op into which you can type the name of the
program you want to run. There are prob-
lems with this though. Firstly r it completely
torts the Workbench which is not good, and
s madly, you hove to type the entire path of
the program in.
SheHBench gives you a completely sepa-
rate program that runs any program sepa-
rately from Workbench r It has € history
msfht like the normal Amiga Shell, that you
am scroll through using the up and down
cursor keys. It mil also do filename comple-
tion, so if you type part of a file name and
then hrf Tabr ShellBench does its best fo
compete toe name. If it comes up with more
than one answer you con cycle through them
tit! by pressing Tab again . Hit shift and help
and you get a file requester allowing you to
add d program or File this way. You can even
assign your favourite programs fo the
function keys for quick retrieval
TaskBar v5.2
Author: Robert Ennals
Workbench 2.04
Windows 95 fever is sweeping the nation, and
this programmer took a shine to the task bar
that you gel on the bottom of the screen in
Windows 95,
His Amiga version performs the same func-
tions, giving you a quid and easy way to jump
to different programs and windows by clicking
on the buttons that appear on the task bar.
There is a text-based preference file that
comes with I ask Bar and this needs to be
copied into the ElWARt drawer in the prefer-
ence drawer. This preference file lets you
change a number of points about how TaskBar
works. You can vary the number of buttons and
the width of the bar, but the main use is to
allow you to add program* to its bunch win-
dow. If you dick on the Start button this pops
up a menu that lists programs that TaskBar can
launch, and these are defined in the preference
file
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Author: Stephan Fuhrman
Workbench 204
It really is amazing how many good ideas made it into Workbench 2 and
even more into version 5, yet so few are used in the standard Amiga pro-
grams that you get with your Amiga, Stuff like Applcons and
AppWmdows that allow you to drop icons into program's windows.
How many times have you been using the shelf on the Workbench
and the file name that you are about to type in is there on the screen,
but there b simply no way to get the file name into the shell without
having to type the complete path in.
Until now, that is, Appcon turns your shell window into an
AppWindow that you can drop icons and drawers into. If you copy the
program into your C directory when you type AppCon you will now be
able to drop icons into the window and its name will appear.
You will probably be best editing the Shell-Startup found in the 5
directory which is run by every shell before starting, and any commands
you place in there will be run before hand.
TolleUhr
Author: Gunther Niki
Workbench 3.0
What time is it? I don't know. Well you
should, and with TolleUhr you will have
no excuses. If you imagine an analogue
dock, much better looking than any digi-
tal one, that you can resize, change the
shape of the hands, face and even the
colours that everything is drawn in then
that is TolleUhr.
There is no installer with TolleUhr so
you will have to copy everything across
fay hard, hut there is not very much
involved in this. Most importantly, you
have to rename and copy the correct
tolieuhrjibrary into your Libs drawer. If
you only have an 68000 processor, the
one in the A500, then get rid of ,000 and
copy it across into your Libs drawer
All the options are changed through
TolleUhr' s menus - this is not the easiest
way to go about things but if works and
you have to do it as the initial settings
are horrible. When you have got every-
thing as you want, you can move and
resize the dock wherever you like and
then save your options.
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do it
UrouHack vl .7
Author: Time Urou
Workbench 2,04
I originally put this on the coverdisk out of
curiosity. It's a little hack that changes the
look of Gadtool buttons which is great but is
not realty of any use is it 1 Well, this latest
version is just getting plain silly.
Instead of just giving you the choice a few
different looking system gadgets, which
would be lair enough, this version now lets
you create your own system gadgets. If you
do not like the ones that come with
UrouHack, fire up your copy of D Paint and
draw your own. Using good old Datatypes,
UrouHack can accept IF images and; replace
the normal window gadgets, check marks
and radio buttons with these. Finally,
UrouHack comes with a lull installer that will
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machine, as it does with StormC. Therefore, I
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efl if you managed to get through
last months virgin Internet guide
you should now/ he FTFing, IRCing
and Web browsing to your hearts
content, and you will even he able to receive
news and e-mails. This just leaves the subject
of setting up AmfTCP so you can send out
e-mails.
At the end of last month's guide you wilt
have already installed what is known as an
SMTP Daemon. This watches out for new mail
that is destined for your machine appearing
on your Internet provider's mail server. When
you first link up, every few minutes the
Daemon checks to see if there is any new
mail, [f there is it is automatically downloaded
from the mail server to the correct mail box in
your UUMaH directory.
On top of this you need a number of other
small programs that many mail programs
need to allow mails to be sent from your
machine to wherever their destination may
be. If you used the Demon DIS95 installer, all
these programs have been already set up for
you and are happily running in the back-
ground sending the mail off. If you did not use
the Demon installer then you will have to get
hold of the programs that handle e-mail dis-
patch. To get your mailer up and running you
If you made it
through Neil
Mohr's AmiTCP
Jargon
— — box
need to get hold of a couple of programs that
will spoof sent mail and also post it to your
mail server. Possibly the easiest way to set up
the mail Is to get hold of the archive
commAcp/Ameonnectlha from Aminet, This
guide last month,
all you'll be waiting
for is to send thos'
• ■ .'fin codie - e-marJ rj used to
Iransmtt p)am ASOt text files If
you tried to .send someone A
maf picture ar program t/sing t-
tnoif tt-e person of the Other end
would just receive a bad of
garbage. Jh j'j is tentfJObASlGf
only uses 7 -bits, while a normo/
binary fib uses 5-torfS Therefore,
d you try to send d program fife if
foses every eighth bit. To get
around this iiutfiCading was
invented which rronsi'cres the
origin at binary fib t.nto an ASCII
alternative that can he sent using
e-mail. OnCc received the fife can
he uudecoded, leaving the angi-
nal binary fife mtact
MiMt Mathmedia internet Mat!
Extension. This rs used by mailers
and Web browsers to determint
hie fype*r and takes the fo^m of
extra 'portaging' fhaf is serf with
your e-mqr/ This describes what
sort pr fife each pan of the mad
JS, and to afbw pictures and other
binary files to be Sftlf vib e-mod cr
new form
of auencodthg ts used cafled
8ase64
SMTP Stmpfe Mod Transfer
Protocol. Tte is a set standard far
haw servers talk to each att\er.
When you send or receive mail
your computer talks ta your
Internet provider s server ustng
SMTP. This runs tn the back-
ground and you do nor have to
worry about it
e-mails. Here's
how to do it
Sawn 4 - ts Similar to uuencodfng
ff] that it performs the some func-
tions but removes some cgmpoft-
bihiy problems that were associat-
ed tri(fr uueaoded files
Daemon - tf program that farks
ir\ the background waiting far
certain conditions to occur before
jumping into action. The SMTPd
is arie Such daemon, it waits
fat mail and r/ian 50^5 and
fetches if
has all the files required to post and recede
both e-mails and news articles, and it comes
with a good installer script that will get you
going as quickly as possible.
When installing Amccnnecl there are a
couple of points in the installer script that you
do not have to do because you will have a
ated these files last month. The first part
when rt asks if you want the mail Daemo
Qnternational rescue
The internet is a worldwide phenomena, and you c an quiet easily find yourself com-
municating with people from all over the world and not even realise it Due to the
international nature of the Internet you would have expected to be able to use the
international characters that are available in the ASCII character set For English
and American users these are not used very much except for the British E sign, but
every other country in the world will need access to umlauts and the other accents
found in French and German and most other non-English languages l
The problem is that normal e-mail only uses 7-bits per character, where as ASCII
requires 8-bits. So if you try to use a pound sign or any of the other international
characters they just appear as spaces fo the recipient o f the e-mail.
The only way a round this situation is to either a uencade your original mail - a lit-
tle round the houses - or use a MIME mailer Using MIME you can specify to send e-
moifs in a number of different formats that will keep all of the international charac-
ters intact Along with being able to send text encoded as 8ase64 f you can tell your
mailer la send it as the normal 7-bit or full ASCII 8-bit As standard the MIME form
of text is called quoted-printable and will send you text, so it will not be affected by
the normal 7-bit e-mail limit, even though you should be aware that text that you
send is ward wrapped fo 70 chars across. Therefore, if you send a uuencoded file
using a MIME mailer you should select 7 -bit text as this reproduces what a standard
mailer will do
Amiga Computing
JUNE 19 96
' Tfi* oniy wmr r«i an ¥ rfe*** Cfutr*cr«ra Iff to
tioid of on* o f the MIME fttmilrr*
Logon De tolls
Disconnect
]1 I I U* I
Save
Cancel
A if*.- * & t& TCP tront-^nd, Amconnect Fiuhtff on tin* Efi*r bif #*« f*r
lems after this, try reducing the modem speed.
Once installed you are ready to rock and roll,
apart from the fact you may need to get hold
of a mail package. Many people use the Uni*
ports of Elm or Pine, but these are a little com-
plicated to set up and I prefer something
more straightforward, A demo of the new
package Voodoo is available on Ami net and
also Metaled is worth a look if you use MUl.
installed - this is already in place so you can
say no. The second point is that it will ask you
where you wart a number of direaories cre-
ated, but again these are already in place so
you can proceed past all of these without
worry.
The installer will then ask you for various
details about your Internet account and then
your modem setup. Do not worry about the
modem details as Song as your modem Is
Hayes compatible, which it should be. When
it Bsks you if you want to change your
uuli&config file say no because you should
have already created this. And that is it
Amconnect will handle all your setting up
and logging on to your Internet account If the
program has trouble connecting to your
modern go to the modem setup and change
the ATfibl to AT and make sure all the other
entries are in capitals If you still have prob-
Qoodoo
The latest, ond in some people's opinion r the greatest
mailer for the Amiga or any computer , Voodoo is a
MIME compliant mailer that provides many feature s f
some of which are unique to Voodoo . The first thing
yotr o re going to notice is that with Voodoo , oil your
octms are performed from o single good looking and
simple-to-use GUL
Voodoo works slightly differently from other moil
programs Usually mail programs iteep the destination
mail boxes that are created by the SMTP Daemon t hut
each time you start Voodoo you ask it to collect mail
from these files. It will then extract each mail and cre-
ate a separate file in its own corresponding mail
tStetihry*
The demo version of Voodoo only allows you to
have a single mail box ; but the fully-registered version
allows you to have os many as you like. After you
hove installed Voodoo , which is done for you via a
normal install script t you will need to point each
Voodoo mail box at the correct mailbox spool fife
Orice this is setup, Voodoo will extract all the files
from this spool file and generate a list of all the mails
in it For each mail the various MIME parts of it are
displayed as icons as part of the speed button bar
that runs across the middle of the window , These
albw you to jump fo each different section of o mail
wtth text pictures and sounds all being displayed in
the s xrokabie window. Even uuencoded mail can he
handled automatically with Ore file being automatical-
ly decoded ready for you to save it off os the correct
binary fife
When creating mails you can J insert f new parts to a
moil using a file requester, Voodoo then automatically
takes care of packing it in the mail just as it takes
care of unpacking ii Currently j you can save off sepa-
rate MIME sections but there is no way to view pic-
tures an its own screen - you have to moire do with
the representation in the Voodoo window. Nothing
_ ( t On* l#i* mpi! r
Anti** *mf H sfrtiw*
can be perfect and there are a few problems with
Voodoo . t moinly with its interface. For starters, the pro -
grammer is on some sort of personal crusade about
the fact the Amigo does not have any built-in public
screen support Because of this he has refused to
inc/ode any option in the program to select a screen
to run Voodoo on . This forces you to use n secondary
program such as Screen Wizard to allow Voodoo
to open on its own screen. He is making a valid
point, but there is no need to inhibit your program
over it
Another problem arises from the mod list and the
mail viewer being lumped into one window, if you
have a good number of moils in your mail box you
are stuck fo having a fairly small view af this list - if
would be much better to have a separate mail list
window. This would also open the possibility of being
able fo read more than one mail at once, which would
be nice .
The other problem that arises from the GUI is if a
mail has more MIME parts than icons that fit in the
tool bar. This means you will never be able to access
them f as their icons are not accessible unless you con
make the window bigger. Something allowing you to
scroll through all the icons would be needed in this
situation.
These ore only minor quibbles and overall Voodoo
is on excellent program that is very easy to use.
Ejetatool
^ m
This is another MIME mail reader, and one that we use in the office. It uses
MUl which some of you may not like but it is totally based on listviews that
are very speedy to use. MetaTool is completely multithreaded, so every win-
dow opened in MetaTool works independently of the others. Therefore, you
can have multiple mail box windows open as well as being able to read as
many maib as you like.
K you followed last month's guide, once you have extracted MetaTool it is
ready to run. The only thing you will need to change rs MetaTooTs Maiicap
file. For each MIME type you need to specify what external program should
be used to view it Normally Mufti View will be fine, but you need to make
sure the path of Multiview is correct - this should be sysiutiiities/mukiview
otherwise MetaTool will not be able to find MultMew to run.
! MetaTool uses the standard mail boxes generated by the SMTP Daemon,
and each time you open a mail box MetaTool scans the file generating an
index file and mail list The current version will also automatically update vf
new mail arrives while yap are online, so you do not have to quit the
j I program, li may not be as flash as Voodoo but it is simple and fast to use. . n u*v* to d**f with jui m«ir, c* Four provides a powerful interface
Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
CD drives have
become an
indispensible
part of any
serious Amiga
set-up. Now
Gareth
Lofthouse
brings you the
definitive
head-to-head
Jargon
box
Smalt Computer Sps tern interface, an inter-
face standard (or peripheral devices to
a computer system
iO€ Less advanced interface tf\on 5C5i|. only
citaw s you to connect two penphenak and the
dot $ transfer speeds are fro f os fast.
fr-'lto ** *
CD-RO
any train or bus. In this form the Reno is a well-
designed lightweight unit that can be carried around in
the supplied protective case. A pair of headphones
have been supplied, and it's so simple to use that the
casual observer will be clueless about it's more
technical half-life,
A small LCD screen gives you the usual track search
details, while routine play and Selection buttons are
dandy. In terms of sound quality, it won't have the
audio-buffs in a frenzy but it will do the job efficiently
enough for anyone else, Many people would be happy
to pay the asking price for the Reno in this capacity
atone - though the fact that four alkaline batteries will
only give you 90 minutes of play will make it costly to
He NO PORTABLE
me
When it was released in 1995, the Reno was acclaimed
to be the product that brought a bit of style, innovation
and flair into the all too-uniform CD drive market.
While everyone else was trying to outdo each other in
terms of speed, going from triple- . to quad- r then six-
speed or above. Media Vision released a relatively slow
dual- speed drive that still makes more sense for the
average Amiga owner,
In a world of square hardware, the chic Reno is
sleek, wedge-shaped and unashamedly purple. It fea-
tures prominently mounted controls you can adjust
wtihoeif tweezers,. it's lightweight and, unlike ifs office-
oriented rivals, it looks like a gadget you can have a bit
of fun with.
As indeed it is. Uniquely, the Reno can be trans-
formed from a multimedia workhorse into a portable
audio CD player fit for irritating fellow passengers on
use without the mains lead after a while.
But, of course, the Reno is mentioned here because
it can also be transformed into a CD-ROM drive. Users
simply attach the docking station - a small adaptor
that is easily snapped on and off at the base - and
plug it into a Squirrel SCSI interface- From thereon it
Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
JOUBTS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF CD
Until recently CO was seen as the ley to multimedia* it
was going to open the doors to the information revolu-
tion everyone has been banging on about for so long,
and software/hardware manufacturers everywhere
.ere jumping on the bandwagon in search of a fast
buck.
Certainty the CD market has proved vitally important
for not only the development of multimedia on the IPC
However, this medium's importance in the future
becomes increasingly questionable as possibilities for
multimedia applications on the World Wide Web
increase, Already, Sun s Java is allowing users of the
Web to interact with a rim died content, and as on-line
technology improves the importance of CD may decline.
Long-term, the CD ROM is likely to prove to he an
intermediate technology, successfully filling the gap until
on-line capability is both widespread and efficient {Le.
fast, cheap, and easy to use), which may be len or more
years away 1 ' claims future Media, a recent report on
interactive technology from the London Business School.
Mriny agree that Bill Cates, who himself admits to have
been wrongfooted by the speed of the Net's develop-
ment may indeed have gone down the wrong pErth for
once.
For the consumer, however, this will remain an area
of purely academic interest at the moment It may be
that CDs eventually become no more glamorous than
the floppy disks that preceded them, but they are likely
to remain equally indispensable peripherals for a long
time to come.
R ONY CDU-76S
H j , , L L r
30IXQIn
Fost yet ungiumorous, reliable and effi-
cient, this is your bog-standard SCSI CD-
dim There's not a lot to distinguish it from
Jhe others- Of course, there r 5 the usual tray-
kxsrkr (thank God they got rid of the point-
less caddy method)* head-phone socket
with volume dial on-off switch, ..you get the
picture.
What is different is that the drive now
features a new Sony mechanism which
their lob says has greatly improved reliabil-
ity - or J 00,000 hrs MTBF as they pot it
Wal having the iuxury of I QQ r GQQ hours
before deadline, IV have to take their word
for it; suffice to say l f ve never had any
problem with a Sony mechanism before t
despite rough office use.
One thing you'd have hoped a company
like Sony would hove gut rid of is those
infuriatingly fiddly jumpers at the back of
the CD ployer, tt T s a picky complaint , but it s
important to correctly set the SCSI unit IQ of
the ployer or your drive won't be
recognised by the Amiga : Having to mess
around with these things make s it easy
to screw up. It's unnecessary, because
other drives visibly display the IQ number
and allow you to adjust at the click of ■
a button. So much hr user-friendly plug-
on thplay,
Product
Product
Supplier
Price
Tel
Quad speed CDU-7G5
Sony
£144
01 81 -760 0500
Scores
Ease of use
Implementation
Value For Money
Overall
ftCPfe
i0<to
B0%
ao%
OWER QUAD
Probably one of the easiest options
for AG00/ A] 200 owners. Power sell this
quad as a kit that comes with a Squirrel SCSI
interface and the relevant software to set
it up.
Typically for most drives from Power
Computing, rfe big and takes up a bit more
desk space than is necessary. That said, it
has a sturdy metal casing and a good record
of reliability behind it, which is ultimately
more important
Praise is due for the simple but helpful
inclusion of a SCSI ID address selector,
which means you don't have to mes$ with
biros and microscopic switches when setting
the drive up. If only other manufacturers
would follow this example, life would be
that bit easier.
For those who want to listen to audio-
CDs on their drive, there's the usual audio
leads, headphone socket and volume dial,
plus the necessary software provided on
disk.
Most importantly, however, is the fact that
this is one of the best value starter kits avail-
able for the* standard Amiga 1200/600. It's
not six speed, but as a quad it's fast enough
for most current uses. Furthermore, it's exter-
nal and it comes supplied with a Squirrel,
which is an invaluable piece of hardware in
itself, plus CD32 emulation software which
will allow you to play CD games.
behaves just like any other SCSI drive.
Of course, nothing's perfect. Compared
to the other drives on test as a dual-speed
it's relatively slow, and the Reno appar-
ently won't play Mpeg movies. But since the Amiga so far remains sadly
lacking in the a f I- s i n gi n g- a ll-d a n c i n g multimedia department, this is
unlikely to be a problem for most Amiga owners at the moment.
Certainly, it is adequate for enjoying the wealth of PD CD titles currently
available.
Another slight fear is that, being a lightweight portable, it doesn't feel
as durable as something like the Power Quad. But then you wouldn't
want to foot-tap round the park with Power's monolithic drive round your
neck, would you?
Basically, the Reno is a rare example of a hybrid product that really
works in both its guises. As a CD- ROM it represent reasonable value in
teetfp but the fact it converts to a portable diseplayer makes it a bargain
that must not be overlooked.
£129
0113 23 1 9444
Scores
Ease of use SHJ%
imp lamentation pM
Value For Money 95^
Overall B2Wo
Bottom
line
Power Quad Drive
Power Computing
049 (Indudes Squirrel}
01234 273000
Ease of use 05%
Implementation BfMfe
Value For Money 90%
Overall
Scores
Amic a Computing
JUNE 199 6
0 UN DU P
LEXTOR SIX
SPEED
Another ultra-fast drive here, but the Plextor
initially looks less attractive than the Toshiba
or Goldstar because of its pike tag.
However, SCSI drives always cost more than
their fcDE counterparts, partly because they
can be chained together with numerous
other peripherals and also because the SCSI
interface is generally considered more
advanced.
The control facia actually looks slightly
more consideted than is the case with most
of the other drives tested- Two LCD lights
may not sound like much of an advantage,
but in the past they've given me a clue as to
whafs been going wrong when the drive
hasn't been working. Track advance controls
are also obviously better for audio CDs.
Ifs strange, then, to find that an otherwise
modern unit is still using a caddy loading
tray. So what, you ask? Having already lost
two caddies in the past, and knowing that
even the cheapest drives come with the nor-
mal mechanical tray, I just find them unnec-
essarily cumbersome. Otherwise, those who
want a combination of a high-speed drive
plus the convenience of a SCSI interface
should give it a thought - though for most,
Power's Quad will represent a better overall
package.
bun
ill
UCT DETAILS
Product Plextor 5ix Speed
Si ippBor Plextor
m 045
Tel 01782 577677
Ease of use
Implementation
Value For Money
Overall
77%
82%
76%
78%
Goldstar six speed
lifi
□
Quad speed is more than fast enough for
most uses with the Amiga, but those who want
to ploy animations and movies directly from
CD may wont or? even faster drive. If so, o six-
speed drive is os fosf as they came at the
moment though most manufacturers are on
the verge of releasing their eight-speed drives
in a few months.
The Goldstar drive features a blistering
900Kb transfer rate, a 160ms Average Access
Time and a 256Kb Buffer Memory. It also fea-
tures audio connections to play music CDs f
which explains the track advance button
mounted along with the ubiquitous eject and
volume controls . Thi% of come ; is combined
Ease of use
Implementation
Value For Money
Overall
Gofdstar CCD-R56DB
G oldstar
J} 14 {Ex VAT)
01753 500400
ES
78%
m'%
86%
82%
with other drive-standards like support for
CD-DA, and the motorised tray mechanism.
Until more multimedia CD products ar&
produced due value of such a fast drive is
debatable. But being an IDE drive (which you
should be able to use wrtft Btittersofi's ATAPt
interface) the Goldstar six-speed is extremely
affordable and is recommended
OSHIBA
This drive looks boring and has
nothing on the surface to distin-
guish ft from any of the others.
But - and it's a big but - it's six
speed, and it costs just E76.
At that price you r d be mad
not to consider it as an option,
though it 1* of course, an inter-
nal IDE drive for use with the
ATAPI interface, It includes all
the standard features you'd
expect of an up-to-date drive,
though unlike SCSI units you can't use it at the same time as six other
peripherals. That said, many of us can do without that luxury.
Beyond the fact that Toshiba drives are a well-respected make - in fact
Toshiba mechanisms are what you'll find at the heart of many of the CD
ROMs made by Amiga stalwarts - there's not a lot more to be said. This is
an efficient, super fast drive at an incredibly affordable price,
Recommended,
IjULLDW
tine
Toshiba Sin Speed
Ideal Hardware
£76
Tel: 0181-286 8000
Scores
Ease of use
Implementation
Value For Money
Overall
88 %
68%
96%
j
UST PLUG, NO NEED TO PRAY
Plug and Play - (his was the bun term that heralded the
Launch of Microsoft's much -vaunted Windows 95, After
year* in which PC users had to struggle with a difficult
operating system every time they wanted to use a new
peripheral, si last they rould buy a CD drive end simply
connect and go'. Plug-and-Play was Hailed in newspa
per* as a gre^t innovation and the future of mufti media
computing.
Of course, those wise to the Microsoft propaganda
machine knew Plug-and-Play was a new name for an
rslabfished idea, in fad as multimedia specialists like
SCALA wilt testify, the Amiga has long tt^en a Plug and-
Play auto- configuring machine In other words, you don't
have to be a techie to broaden your Anuta's horitonv by
connecting a CO drive.
You will, however, require an interface so that your
new CD drive cm talk to your Amiga and vice-versa, tsy
Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
far the most popular of these is the affordable Squirrel
for the At 100/600,
When looking at buying a CO drive for use with the
Squirrel, it's worth remembering that many Amiga spe-
cialist dealers sell them as part of a bundle. Bear in mind
when first connecting tip that the pins on the Squirrel's
plug are fragile, so if you’re too rough you can knacker Hi
before you've even got round to reading the instructions.
Owners of big hot Amigas like the Ad 000 wilt have to
use either Siren's Data flyer or Octagon's controller card
if they want to use SCSI drives
A more recent alternative lor Amiga users is fhr ATAPI
IDE interface from B hirer so ft which allows you 1o buy
the cheapest drives on the market though it's not as
flexible an option as SCSI. Whatever you choose, make
sure you buy the right sort of drive for the right sort of
interface
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and cheaper, just like other tonv
puter media. Where once you could expect to
pay -1000 for a single speed burner equipped
with primitive software, you could now buy
about four of these jobbies and be able to
write to disc aft twice the speed you previously
experienced. It is possible that CD-ROM writers
wifi replace DAT tape streamers as the bed up
medium of choke, given the sturdiness of a
gold disc compared to the relative frailty of DAT
tapes, and now that the cost is coming down
rapidly, and the write speed is increasing, per-
haps CD-ROM burners will become a viable
alternative.
Of course, backing up data is merely one of
the options available to you once you have a
CD-ROM burner, Amiga owners who also have
the MasterlSO software from As im ware,
creators of AsimCDFS, will have the ability to
compile music CDs of their work with existing
12- and 16-bit sampling cards like the Toccata,
and also make CD-ROMs that will boot on a
CD 52, But mole on that later, Lefs first have a
look at the physical aspects of the burner.
Frank Nord
examines a
tool that is
coming into
the reach of
Amiga owners
Looks
As you might expect the KP402Gi doesn't look
much different from ordinary CD-ROM drives,
with the obvious exception of there being a
write status LED which glows red when there is
data being written to a gold disc The case itself
is pretty much fully enclosed so you won't have
to worry too much about touching static sensi-
tive components as you are inserting it into
your machine. The connections at the rear of
the drive will also be instantly familiar to exist-
ing owners of CD-ROM drives, with the stan-
dard SCSI and power connectors, four-way
audio lead and jumpers. All these are very
dearly marked so that you don't plug the SCSI
cable in the wrong way. for instance,, and the
jumpers aren't too difficult to get to.
The drive functioned just fine with both the
Standard A3000 SCSI controller and the
Oktagon we have at work, and performance
under them was almost identical. However,
before you rush out to buy yourself one of
these beauties it is worth remembering that
you will need some other items on your SCSI
Uxft MoifirJSO
tf simpt* procedure,
thtiag all the fifes In
ppyr directory so you
tun build your image
chain. Of course, you'll Ere able to dump that
CD-ROM drive you already have, unless, like
me, you like to listen to audio CDs while you're
working.
More importantly, you will need some hard
drive storage space. We re talking about serious
amounts of hard drive storage space here now.
For a start, you'll need somewhere to keep alE
your file* while you are working on them on
the hard drive, then you'll need somewhere to
store your ISO image once you have built ii
Now there's not much point devoting a whole
gig drive for files if you can only Fit 650Mb's
worth onto a CD r but you’ll -still need about
1.3Gb just for CD development (these drives
needn't actually be SCSI Master ISO works just
as well using an IDE drive for this purpose, it's
just that you will need a SCSI controller for the
CD burner ftsef). This shouldn't prove too big
(or expensive) a problem these days.
But there might be another pitfall in the lurk-
ing form of the dreaded Rigid Disk Block which
will limit the amount of space you can devote
to hard drives to a paltry 4.3Gb. Well, it might
seem like a tot to start with, but rf you are going
to be developing CD^ you! soon feel the strain
of keeping within those limits.
Using Master I SO is pretty painless - you
simply point it at a hard drive or directory and it
lists all the files therein. From there you can
build an ISO image onto another partition and
finally write that image onto the CD-ROM gold
disc. Although it doesn't seem like a lot of
yOU BURNT MY
This drive is great Once you have actually created an 150
image of whatever you want to put onto CD it only takes
about half an hour to write the whole lot onto disc ■„ Of
course, compiling the data and building the ISO image
might take you a lot longer, but that's life I guess.
One of the uses I have considered putting it to would be
to dump my whale Work partition to it all 450Mbs. That
way 1 can then use all that space for other things like
frames from Lightwave or dip art, etc. and my programs
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from CD os from my hard drive # but then it s not like hav-
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session, so the slowdown won't cause too mony problems.
As for whether I think you might have a use for it well I
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and don't have a CD-ROM, it might be worth the extra
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much and they have more than one use.
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o you bought yourself a CD32.
Okay r so it may've been a good
idea at the time because the
future which was rumoured to be
ahead was looking mighty fine and games
companies were interested 1 in releasing top
qu dirty games. After a!f it was the first 32-bit
machine available - well before the likes of
the Playstation or Saturn - and all that was
lacking was the support. And to this day,
companies are still very hesitant about
releasing software for it - and quite rightfy
so.
So can you continue to play delights such
as Cannon Fodder and Microcosm for the
rest of your life? I don't think so.
There were no actual games on the CD32
which took advantage of the machine's capa-
bilities. Unfortunately, all we saw were con-
versions from the AT 200 floppy version so
the CDs were released when they weren't
even half full Something should have been
done then but CD 32 owners were left pretty
much in the dark. And once again, it we$ left
for someone else to dig Commodore out of
their hole,
Eyetech are the masterminds behind this
fabulous way of turning your CD32 into a
fully functioning A12Q0, making proper use
Tired of using your
CD32 for games.
Now you can turn it
into an A1200
with the SX-32
Module. Andy
Maddock
revea I s
all
7
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Workbench 3.0 and than Magic WB -
your GQ32 can took ilka Chi*
of the CD32's AG A chipset The actual mod-
ule makes use of the CD32‘s expansion port
at the back of the machine, although it's not
just a case of taking the screw out and sliding
n t td Install the networking
s ettwMra fnrar 90 ethers could ahi
the delight* of my hard drive
it in. Firstly, you wilt Nave to take all the
screws out of the main plastic base, making
sure not to dislodge the laser ribbon, and
then you have to stand the ltd up vertically
sticking it down with two sticky pads to aid
you, although it may be handy to get some*
one to hold it while you firmly slide the mod-
ule into the expansion port while the actual
board slides over the metaf casing.
All you have to do then is screw it up
tightly so you don't see the board through
the side of the CD32. The whole
process itself caused me no problems
JUNE 1996
OLOUR COORDINATION
if'j difficult to see the Amiga A 1 200 in such a mismatch package, it's all in bits and the CD32
if and always has been an add blue/grey colour while the rest of Amigo's equipment has
■j'iwjjfi been white or c ream. So what exactly was the thinking behind the design ? Was it
because they were bod} meant to be completely different pieces of kit?
the only real downpoint of the module is the colour scheme, The cream keyboard and
foppy may not look suited next to the blue-like case of the CD32 and powerpack, but who's
tomptoining? If the keyboard was a blue cotour similar to that of the CDTV It may look slightly
note professional but nowhere near as Amiga or home computerlike.
O A from CD is Afca included
to kick off j four CD-ROM tun
C ffit nrholt pi 1 eft*?# is
eatnpHm+ntwd wfth an
inifnIJifiiM disk
ihisoever and rt managed to slide in with
ease and perfectly in conjunction with the
instructions-
The module has five ports on the back
which give you the access an A 1200 can
afar. The Parallel port enables you to con-
nect lo a printer or onto another Amiga using
i Garnet cable, the Serial port lets you con-
nect Eo a Modem or another networking
nethoif via Sernei and the VGA port in the
middle is for a VGA monitor. The external;
Happy drive will fix up to the drive port and
farty there's the video port so you can use
m ordinary RGB output for a much sharper
picture than the composite, which is your
only option with a standalone CD32. if you
Tike a look at the bade of an AT 200 you will
« the SX-32 module now has every port
”e A12Q0 has to offer.
That's about all the installation there is -
the only thing left ts to sort the hard drive
aut There Is an installation disk with utilities
"Eyetech are the
masterminds behind this
fabulous i way of turning your
CD32 into a fully functioning
A 1200, making proper use of
the COST* AGA chipset"
software, and something which CD 32 own-
ers have never been able to get their heads
arnund ~ saving. Before, there was always a
complicated key method lor locking and
Unlocking save games built in to the CD32's
hardware. Finally, you can output all your
own files to the hard drive inside or on a
floppy via the floppy drive.
What makes the SX-32 module a dream
to use is that the actual CD32 unit isn't really
modified in any way. Basically^ they are a If
peripherals which merely add-on to the unit
itself. For instance, if you have never opened
your casing out of curiosity you would never
believe there is so much room inside. The
hard drive works away quietly and quickly
and certainly makes all the difference, /r^
Bottom
— line
enabling you to read and configure and then
partition your hard drive perfectly. Our hard
drive was 240Meg which is quite amazing
when you imagine it's merely a CD32. In
fact, it's impossible to think there is a hard
drive in the CD32.
With the SX-32 module you can make
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CD32 should have been.
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A50Q/32GG is 1 . Try and run Scala or Gloom or
load a Jpeg, etc and see how easy it b, Ef only
you lot would wake up and expand/upgrade
your systems (A500/600s are dead), then
maybe the world would take note.
Q., Why do people think of the Amiga as a
games machine and not a serious PC?
A. Because just about every user/mag spends
most of its time reviewing games (look at the
adverts for the Amiga Magic bundle and what
do you see - games!), and going on about
competing with the console market, etc The
A 1 200 doesn't even come with a hard drive or
monitor as standard.
disappointed that their favourite Doom
done only runs sluggishly on a quarter
screen on their machine, but when I ask
about an upgrade, they shrug it off as being
too expensive to play games. Any Doom
game is going to be expensive - a lot of pro-
cessing power is needed to generate all
those 3D graphics - hut people would
rather bemoan the fact that AB3D2 is too
slow, or that Breathless looks rubbish.
Q. Why don't PC mags mention tfie Amiga?
At Because they don't care (they do mention
Macs). If you lot would build up your machines
and stop slagging off other platforms, then the
software houses would be back in droves and
we would have a platform that could compete.
This letter is dragging on so I won't write much
more You probably think 1 am a PC convert
and you wouldn't be far wrong, but I love my
Amiga just as I love PCs, Macs and just about
all other platforms - don't knock them until
you have tried them.
The thing is that if we only stopped griping
and whining we would soon see that we need
to tell the world we want to move on, so it can
help us. Imagine Netscape, Word, Lotus 123,
etc. on the Amiga, it can happen if we want it
to.
Finally, sorry there's no "great mag' and all
that, but you don't need me to tell you what
you already know.
Kevin Anderson Waltham Abbey
A combative stance there from Kevin, and
one I think a lot of people In the Amiga
community now share. Unfortunately, it
often seems as though the people who were
upgrading their machines are now the peo-
ple who have left the Amiga and gone onto
the PC r or other platform, while those that
never spent a penny on their machines now
form the main body of Amiga users and can
be justly accused of b^ing moaning minnies.
I have had people telling me that they are
I hare had an Amiga since the OS 1.2 ASQO
and would never think erf leaving the platform,
I also have a Pentium PC which, funnily
enoogjh. cost me less than my A 1 200 setup.
Anyway; to the point of my letter. I read just
about all the Amiga magazines that have any
serious content and am sick and tired of read-
ing sad letters from whining Amiga users
about Escom, AT, software houses, PC and
Mac users, etc and how they are all out to get
the Amiga or how the Amiga isn't supported
property.
Then you get the 'lemon heads' (sour
faced) going on about how the Amiga multi-
bus better than any system built Remember
you cm only multitask as far as your physical
RAM permits without an MMLL If 5 great being
abfe to multitask, but if your machine slows to
a halt to do it it ain't mu ch good.
So. I would like to ask a couple of
suesbons and. answer a few:
1 . Why did we lose the best bits from 051 .2,
i.e, no borders around icons, diskdoctor,
NotePad PM (performance monitor), memory
map, the graphical tutor (The Very First, if you
remember it) and Say?
1 Why do we slag off D05 and Windows 3.x
so much when they at least gome with Virus
Scan, Defrag, ScanDisk, move, Compressed
backup, disk doubler, file manager, word;
processor, card file, Paintbrush, media player,
sound recorder, Terminal, on-line help, unfor-
rrat undelete, proper sounds, object linking
(QlE), extensive printer drivers and a proper
riiptaard as standard?
3l Why do we say that the Amiga is the only
system that can be used straight out of the
bo*? Have you ever tried typing a letter on a
1Y saeen? If you have. I'll be surprised if you
can now read this. The Amiga is only good for
games out of the box, you need a monitor for
any sort of serious use (standard on a PC you
don't even get one with the £2000+ A4000)
Now, here are my answers to some
questions:
q Why don't the software houses write any
decern software tor the Amiga any more?
A Because you are so tied up slagging off
other platforms and 'How they spend so
much on upgrading their systems to tun the
latest software and how great my standard
Excuses, ex
I like to make two observations arising from articles
in the March issue. Firstly, with regard to the article on
piracy, any person that uses the cost of games as an
excuse to buy pirated games (or indeed any software) is
?eing a touch cheeky. The quick answer to this rather
rm postulation is to wart for a while and the price will
almost certainly fall to a lower level.
I waited until both Eye of the Beholder 1 and 2 were at
FI 5,99 instead of E3Q before making a purchase, and the
games themselves did not diminish one iota in the mean-
lime The same can be said of more recent games as well
both Gleam and Alien Breed can now be bought for
mder £20 and neither can be described as expensive at
this price. 3 have purchased them both from Special
Reserve Mail Order at £1 9.99 and must say that they are a
t^gain. Most game prices will fall after the initial release
to a very acceptable price, so lefs have no more of ihb
‘games are too expensive' crap.
My next point arises from the review of the PD effort
Deluxe Patman A 1200 and the comment that the pro-
grammer deserves the fee he asks for. I agree with this
and indeed I did so back on 1 3 December last year when
I sent the required fee (by registered post) for the regis-
tered game with its extra levels, etc to Mr VigdaL 1 then
heard nothing for two months, so sent a letter to Mr
Vigdsl asking for confirmation as to whether he had
received my payment or not. It has now been over a
month since l sent my last letter and, as yet I have had no
reply. Even allowing for the shortcomings of the postal
service (which ore few and far between - Ed) t this is a
sad state of affairs.
All things considered, I would be reluctant to send
money to another PD programmer in light of this experi-
ence and would urge all programmers to honour their
commitments if they wish to continue with their trade.
Neil Adams, Cramer
1 guess It's a bit like the conversation you can have
about books. Do you buy the hardback for between
£1 0 and £20, or do you wait for the paperback version
to come out at half the price. I know most of my book
collection is softback but then I suppose there isn't
the hype over new books that there is over new
games. As far PD programmers, the vast majority, in
my experience, are extremely quick ta reply to any
mail or e-mail and are very happy to receive any sort
of payment for their program, so I wouldn't let one
bad experience put you of.
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Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
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0ETTER SOLUTIONS
I have been reading your magazine's US edi-
tion since the demise of Amiga World here, I
have been impressed overall with the quality
of your magazine, even with only limited
&■ coverage of goings on here in the States.
I must admit, however, that I was not very
impressed with your response to Mr Jose
Ferreira's letter in issue 7 of the US edition
(that's issue 96 - February for European
readers). While I agree that Amiga
Technologies is facing an uphill battle trying
to convince users that the Amiga is a bet-
ter choice for them than other com-
puters on the market, ] very much
disagree that this could be accom-
plished by making future versions of
the Amiga more (ike other computers,
I cannot vouch for the European mar-
ket, but I do know that if the new
PowerPC -based Amigas are not better at
processing graphics and animations than
Windows or PowerMac systems for the same
cost, it wiir fail miserably in the US. ! am so
certain of this that I am willing to put money
on it fight now,
You might disagree with me, but remov-
ing the custom graphics chips from the sys-
tem to make way for a slower PCI bus
graphics solution hardly seems like an
advancement for the Amiga architecture.
Adding third-party graphics confusion would
not help the situation, unless Amiga
Technologies very carefully wrote the stan-
dard library routines that these proposed
graphics cards used. If you doubt me, pick
up any bent for a game written for Windows
systems and read the system requirements
section of the cover. If you don't have a
degree in computer Systems manage-
ment, don't expect to understand
what you are reading.
A much better solution would
seem to be redesigning the cus-
tom chips and placing them on
the system bus, with a slot added
to the motherboard for an upgrade
card as better versions of the chip
become available. This would probably be
similar to the CPU slot On the A3000/4000
machines.
As for the idea that the A 1200 currently is
a good bargain, again 1 cannot vouch for the
European market, but here in the US it
should be possible to put together a
4660X2 G&MHz system with 16Mb RAM, 64-
bit SVGA graphics (VLB), a 1Gb hard drive, a
Qenewal quandary
I recently received notice that my subscription to Amiga
Computing is due for renewal AC is a fine magazine -
no question about that - but I am most hesitant to
renew, Why? Because in several past issues, columnists
and editors have urged readers 'to support Amiga
product dealers, especially during this difficult time of
transition between the demise of Commodore and the
establishment of Escom.' ( think that you, as AC, need to
know what's happening 'out there' with such dealers.
1 own an Amiga 500 with JMb RAM, one external
floppy drive and an A570 CD-ROM drive, but no hard
drive. Obviously, I need to upgrade in order to utilise
most of the software products reviewed in Amiga
Computing , But I do not know enough about upgrade
items such as additional RAM hardware, hard drives and
interfaces listed in the ads of the dealers. So t wrote a
letter in mid-November asking the folk at Software Hut,
Sharon Hill, PA, which of the upgrade units listed in their
ad would fit my machine. My intention was to order
such items once I received the needed information, This
would have amounted to a sizeable order.
my hesitancy is not crucial, but I mention it to complete
the picture. The crucial reasons are the obvious useless-
ness of the adverts since dealers are apparently not too
interested in selling Amiga products - at least not
the ones needed to upgrade an A50G. And crucial,
too, is the uselessness of information and reviews for
products which will not work on the AS 00, so for
all practical purposes, I have been shoved out of the
market,
I have decided to wait and see what Escom do. Wait
and see if the Amiga does, indeed, make a comeback, I
do like my A5Q0. But if I can't obtain needed hardware
Of information, why should 1 buy a magazine which will
only add to my discouragement as I read it and realise
that none of it is for me.
I would welcome a comment or reply. If I don't hear
from you, I will add AC to the same list on which l have
put Software Hut and their kind. If in the future, J find a
practical use for AC f you will hear from me. And 1 do
thank you for the service I have received from your
branch of IDG.
To date, I have received neither a reply to my fetter,
nor the letter itself returned by" the Postal Service as
und elver able, (In other words, I must conclude ft has
been ignored.)
Other dealers have been about as unhelpful as
Software Hut. So where do I have to go for upgrade
hardware? No dealers near here; I would have to order
out of the area. How do I support dealers like that?
Sure, I could use the telephone to obtain the needed
information. But do you like paying long distance
charges for 20 or 30 minutes of being on hold until you
give up in frustration? I am not about to use the phone
any more.
Most of the information reviewed or published in AC
is for units of greater capability than mine. So what good
is that information to me right now? The last reason for
Wilfred L Zieken, Branson, WO
While I sympathise with ydur attempts to contact
Amiga dealers to help you upgrade your machine, t
think the genera! consensus of any dealer hearing
your tale of woe would be that you would probably
save yourself a whole heap of cash if you just put that
ageing A50D to one side and bought yourself a new or
second-hand A 1200 with a hard drive* You would
need to replace that As 70, but other than that you
would have a far superior machine to the one you
currently have, even if you do manage to find the
remaindered upgrades that are still out there. You
would also then have a use for 95 per cent of the
material we publish in AC, and have a pretty decent
home computer to boot.
16-bft sound card and Windows 95 for ony
slightly more than an A 1200 with a BOMfc
hard drive (less than Si 00 difference if y&g
shop around). You might have to assernbli
the system yourself, but at least you would
have a decent idea of how to fix it if ft evei
broke down. You would also have the
advantage of a larger software bast (c
choose from. It might not be the killei
graphics system that an A4D0QT is, but ri
would be considerably less expensive anc
more versatile overalf.
Apple Computer has recently discovers
the problem with trying to market cheap,
low-end computers in a high-end market bj
posting a Jfifi million loss for the last quarts
of 1995. Apple has mostly biamed this lo^S
on expecting the Macintosh Performs line to
be the better selling system during the
Christmas shopping season. In fact, they are
now backlogged on orders for their A ft
PowerMac systems and overstocked on their
Performa range.
For many people a Windows-based con-
fute r is probably better than an Amiga
they will be certain to have support for ther
computer for some time to come r and sel-
dom have to worry that they will only haw
NE WORL
As an Amiga owner, I feel I have to pOini
out that not only is the Amiga going down
the drain, hut so are Macintoshes
Archimedes and every other mdepeodem
platform. With the might of Mcroscfi
behind it can it be long before the only
machine anyone will be able to buy will
be a PC done and Windows 95, 96, etc
This will surely be the endl of computer
csvilisation because with only one produ-
cer of software still existing, having
bought out everyone else, Microsoft will
be so huge it will take them forever la
produce new software, and they will onlv
want to make programs for the PC Many
companies who produce innovative soft-
ware for other platforms have been
absorbed into the Microsoft monster like
Blue Ribbon Bakery and Wavefront, anti
where are their products now? You'll
probably see them again under a difforeii!
name with Ehe same bland Microsoft (
interface and with features you have to
pay extra to get over the Microsoft
Network which will drive the Internet
underground because everyone will have
iE as standard on their machines.
Barry Mangon, Chinghfd
Microsoft are now in a position where
they not only control the operating sys-
tem of the world's most widespread
platform, but also produce the major
software packages. We can but hope
that market forces wilt stop Microsoft
from taking over the entire range
of computing products before it's too
late.
Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
Ghfr dealer in town {if that) who might go
under at any moment. In all of Silicon Valley
I lave been able to find just one Amiga
dealer, and they seem to be phasing out
Itieif Amiga stock- Even small towns in
id [forma usually have at least one place
whwe people can get Windows software,
I Amiga Technologies expect to survive in
an American computer market, they will
have to build; a computer that can handle
graphics and animation significantly better
than other computers on the market, and do
it at The same price. This is what the Amiga
has always been best at being a cheaper
tt-jfeon to an SCI Indigo series, not a Mac
dene.
I hive owned an A3QQD almost since they
came out and quite admire the little
whine's powerful graphics abilities, but if
Amiga Technologies think they can convince
■ne to purchase a PowerMac done with an
obscure operating system and a smatf
software base, they had best rethink the
Nation.
Edward K, Smallwood, Scotts Mo/fey,
California
i hale 10 pick you up on some of the
more contradictory statements you have
made in your tetter to us, Mr Small wood,
but we really reed to settle the issue.
First you ask for Amiga Technologies to
redesign the Amiga graphics chipset to
be better than the current standards for
the PC, and then you deride the A1200
for only being marginally cheaper than a
486, The reason the AUDI is so expen-
sive now is purely because of its custom
chips. If it used a cheap VGA chipset, I'm
sure the cost could be practically halved
when in conjunction with other, more
standard, parts.
"Adding third-party graphics confu-
sion', as you say, will be the only way the
Amiga will be able to catch up with these
Other platforms. After all, how long do
you think it would take to design this
killer graphics chipset? The people who
work for companies like Cirrus Logic,
trident Diamond and others have spent
the last six or seven years purely concen-
trating on graphics chipset design. You
then say that the A40Q0T has a killer
graphics system, when in fact, if Is no
better than the AOOO s and falls far
short of any current VGA chipset, fin
short the best thing the Amiga has goim;
for it is its operating system, and it is this
that drags its graphics kicking and
screaming into the ‘90s and gives it some
sort of edge over the competition.
In my opinion, the only way the Amiga
can survive vs as a top-notch multi-plat-
form operating system that offers proper
multimedia functionality for programs
like Scala, etc. on any platform. AT could
still make machines, but they should
license any custom hardware to other
companies who would then be able to
make more specialised machines for spe-
cific purposes like video editing, network
computing, POI displays, 3D modelling
and the like.
The only way to do this is to make
sure the OS can handle every eventuality
in terms of libraries for graphics, sound,
and pretty much every other operation
that can be updated or even replaced by
individual manufacturers. There is still an
awful lot of work to do to achieve this,
but Amiga Technologies have made a
start and 1 can only hope, for all Amiga
users' sake, that they succeed in their
endeavours.
0Y SIS
TER WAS ONCE BITTEN BY A MOOSE...
Hi, I’m a 20-year old Amiga fan who is going
to buy the forthcoming A 1200+ in sum-
mer/early autumn this year. This new
machine is believed to be powered by the
™ Motorola Coldfire hybrid Rise processor
will user-accessible SIMM sockets on the
^theitoard and should be bundled with a
%g and Play Internet bundle. Do you have
further information on the AT 200+ and
wtal its features will be?
J really hope the A3 200+ will be a world
beating machine with a new Workbench
and Kickstarf on flash ROM for easy upgrad-
ing. Itcou Id even be called Workbench 06!
Ditching the AG A chipset and going for an
emulation of it in a VGA-type system would
*50 be a good idea because it would allow
for easy painless upgrades, for example to
2 4- bit graphics, 16-bit; studio quality sound
with more channel 3D manipulation and
more.
Why not ask AT to sign a deal with RBF
software to bundle the forthcoming
OctaMED pro Soundstudio package and
include the complete set of high quality
samples from Walkabout Music with the
A12D0+? Including the new Doom done
'Breathless 1 in the AT 200+ bundle would
aEso be an excellent idea, and all at a low
price!
Helge Kvalheim, Flakfveit, Norway
Nice to hear from our Norwegian readers.
If you've read last month's piece on CeGvt
96, you'll know a lot more about the
A 1200+ or Walker, as it is known in
development. It is unfortunate that the
ColdFire processor hasn't been used for
the new machine, but at least it is a
whole lot faster than a base Aj 200, As for
Workbench, it would appear that it will be
updated, but perhaps not as much as we
would ail like for this machine, The idea
of having Kkkstavf on a flash ROM might
also be scuppered by the fact that
Kickstart will now require a 1Mb ROM to
sit in, and flash ROMs of that size might
be extremely expensive.
Stilt its a start on the way to the
Power Amiga s of next year and we can all
hope for an Amiga renaissance!
NCIENT HISTORY
mi rooting about in a little used cupboard over the
uwtenff and discovered a book entitled 'Choosing and
iiij your home computer, an introductory course. 1 It
sK published by Orbis in 1984 and to be honest I have
w^er before read it in any depth. Fascinating stuff,
ncstly basks about what a net how to do it, as you would
rdftet but some of the comments make fascinating
iding in 1 996,. particularly in context with the ongoing
• •* ga vs. PC saga.
There is an early comparison between various models
ah i graph showing how the price of ‘the micro' has
idm since the Apple II which in 1978 cost £995, down
trough the various machines until the Commodore 64
was quoted as 'Approx £200' in 1984. At the end
d the introduction to that particular graph, the book
: ‘these are selling prices from dealers of the most
competitively priced computers with at least 16k of RAM 1
Wow! One of the comments in the review of the 64 was
enlightening - 'die User's Guide is of the low standard
associated with Commodore manuals 1 - they never
learned, did they? Most of the problems I had as a begin-
ner were directly associated with the unclear instruction
manual I received wrth my Al 200,
i won't bore you with any more, but it serves to high-
light the current debate between Amiga users in all their
varieties and the current preference being shown
towards the PC in certain quarters. 1 read, for instance, in
the leading PC magazine, that the reason the 486 was
being offered complete at only £499 {including VAT!),
was certainly that PC users must ‘now consider the
Pentium TOO with at least 16Mb RAM as the entry
point,/, I would only comment from a personal
viewpoint that as fares I am concerned my Amiga 1200
with 4Mb RAM and a 170Mb Hard drive, plus my lovely
Zip drive, all working happily through my HiQ
Workstation via the Squirrel SCSI interface does all that I
ask of it, or need it to do. And when using FastVrew, I can
view all tiie pictures I need in glorious colour as near to
instantly as makes no difference - so who needs to
spend much more than £1500 to get a Pentium I GO?
Ian Aabrttf Hunton r N Yorkshire
Nice to hear from you again Ian. As Kevin Anderson
said, people should get whatever best suits their
needs, and it looks like you've found your ideal
machine, so Why worry? Even in five years your Amiga
will still be doing all it is today, which might just still
be enough for your needs.
Amiga Computing
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I have an Amiga 1 200 with a 1 20Mb
J tDE hard drive and OS 3.1. 1 curren-
If Ely plan to buy a CD-ROM drive with
J a Squirrel interface and also intend
to buy a larger internal hard drive with
more space.
How do I put in the hard drive myself? If 1
buy a SCSI internal drive would I still need
The Squirrel interface? Would I still need
swne kind of interface for a SCSI hard drive?
tour advice is appreciated.
Michael, fair Lawn, New Jersey,
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If you intend to buy a CD-ROM
drive fur your A 1200 then the
Squirrel is your best bet r and
it really is just a case of slot-
ting it info your PC slot and
installing, the software. You say you
intend to buy an internal drive.
Hits would mean you
would have to remove the
current drive you have in
jfDiir A 1 2D0 as there is sim-
ple not enough room in an
AI100 to have two hard
drives.
if you intend to replace .
flair internal IDE drive, which
lam assuming Is a 2W inch
drive, fitting a new 2 W inch ts]
drive is very simple. It is just a
case of taking the old one out
of its tray and replacing it with
Your new one. If you are thinking of
getting a 3'.^ inch drive this complicates
things a little more because you will also
r^d a new interface lead to connect the
Ji inch drive to a 2% inch connector.
Dtpending on the siie of the 3'iinch drive,
Qmage perplex
it may also be nec-
essary to modify
your computer's
case.
I would
think your
best bet is to
go for an exter-
nal SCSI hard
drive because you
cannot fit a SCSI
hard drive internally on
an Al 200. The difference
between SCSI and IDE drives is
that IDE drives have the interface elec-
tronics built into the drive, while SCSI dri-
ves rely on an external interface such as
the Squirrel. Therefore, just owning a SCSI
interface is not enough. The Squirrel is
a very good solution because
you will be able to easily
I have an Amiga 1 200 with an 850Mb
J hand drive. Last June I installed Image
^ FX onto rny DH1 partition and
deleted it two months later as image
processing is not really my scene.
The problem is that now when I load some
?D utilities, I get the message 'please insert
imaged - cancel/retry'. Then the program
<rads with no further problems. Sometimes I
m asked for the AmigaCuide library but this ts
m Tfly lib drawer .
I have tried SnoopDoS but am unable to find
fthich libraries or files are missing. By the way,, I
deleted ImageFX by highlighting the icon and
ddefag it from Workbench.
Adrian Bemastone, West Sussex
1 My first reaction would be that
! a«~i I — . ImageFX may have added an
extra path in the user startup,
but as far as 1 know it only adds
m assign arid a new drawer in the Env:
I iiwhny.
Generally, when you install software,
using the normal Installer program we use
Gr flu hie toverdisks, many programs add a few
the user-startup file which is found
in the S drawer. Usually this is limited to an
assign statement but some programs such as
MUI can add quite a lot
This afl means that when you come to
removing a program from your hard drive, if
is not only a case of deleting the program's
directory, but also removing its related lines
from the user-startup - not the most friendly
way of working, I know. This is a problem
with the Amiga s assigns, and you can blame
Commodore for not implementing some sort
of assign demon that sits in the background
watching assigned programs and updating
them when programs are moved or deleted,
and programmers for not using the PROGOIR
assign more often, which could potentially do
away with assigns,
The best advice I can give is to tell you to
carefully check your User- Startup, Shell-
Startup and Startup Sequence for any men-
tion of ImageFX and remove it from these
files.
As for the AmigaCuide library problem,
there are a couple of version doing the
rounds - one is for workbench 1.3 and is
around 70k the other is the one you get with
your Workbench disks and Is around 2 Ok.
You want problems solved,
you've got problems solved
Yqu wijf nev&r regre t
owning Mi of these -
ivift f Ofa drives
rt*f vmry cfieep
fit your CD-ROM drive and an external
hard drive. With all this extra hard
drive space you may want to repartition
your internal drive, giving yourself a
larger Workbench partition. Depending
on the size of your external SCSI drive,
it may be a good idea to use the
entire 120Mb as your Workbench
partition.
The easiest way to do this is once you
have set up your Squirrel with the external
hard drive* you wilt be able to drag over
your entire Workbench partition to the
external drive, Now use the Squirrel soft-
ware to produce a boot floppy disk,, and
then repartition the internal IDE drive.
Doing this destroys ah the data on the
drive. If you now boot using the Squirrel
disk you will be able to drag your backup
copy of Workbench back over to the new
internal partition.
Jargon
box
IDF - integrated Drive Electrontcs, the bard drive
interface found an A&QQ, At 200 and AaQQQ, The
cheapest way to get d bard drive connected to a
computer
SCS/ - Smdi 1 / Computet Systems Interface, a rmwe
complex interface than IDL allowing afl manner of
peripheral!: to be connected to it and as ffldny as
seven devices
Pafftitaft - when d hard drive ts spin* into sections
th&F.e individual sections are coiled partitions and
appear fo he independent drives
Library - part of the Amiga operating systorai,
Afeflflries oHqw AmigaDOS to be extendible, so if
you want to add new functions you fust add new
libraries
RiSC -■ deduced Instruction SeJ 1 Computer a design
methodology thnt mokes the processor as fast as
posstble by streamlining the execution patn The
tint Stop rs to 1 / 51 ? oniy the mo-sr essential
commands,, so reducing the number used
G5C - Complex Instruction 5eJ Computer, basically
designed fo make writing programs ns simple
as possible by putting the complexify tn the
processors command set and not the compiler
C++ - An extension to the normal C language tfiot
gores it ubjea-oricntea abilities, allowing Mesons
to sbdfe and inherit abilities from Other functions
Amiga Computing
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JUNE 199 6
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Technical
CMlABlIMPtCI IWf
Qtupid frank
I am 5' 10" but am standing in a pool of s**t 6'
0" deep. Before 1 go any further I have an
A 5 00+ with 6Mb and a 120Mb CVP hard
drive. I've bad this lot for about five years
doing bits of DTP, invoices, work sheets, bill
heads and stuff like that, and have never bothered
about how and why things worked, just as long as they
did.
Last week 1 could not go out because of a chest
infection, and being at a bit of a loose end l thought I
would tidy up five years of rubbish that had accumulat-
ed on both DHO and DH1, S went a bit silly deleting
files I thought I did not need, but obviously some of
those I deleted were definitely needed because when 1
went to boot up from the hard drive all l got was what
looks like a CLI screen with:
fciigiDtil
[Dp-ffightO 1 W-1991 CamoderMii^
ILL Rights Rsstrvtd
I had the stuff I wanted backed up on floppies, so in
my little tin pot way I thought 'No problem, I'll just
reformat the hard drive', That was mistake number two.
Number three came when I tried to get everything back
with Quarterback - a coverdisk back in December 1993
- but this just seemed to make things worse, Could
LOW 60s
Nemac IV, your so-called system
| friendly game, doesn't work on an
Amiga fitted with an 0-60 chip. This
also applies to Breathless. It is a wor-
rying trend that makes both the com-
panies that write these games look very
unprofessional indeed. The 060 may only be
used by a small number of people now, but
as time progresses and the 060 boards for the
A 1200 arrive, this number will surely increase.
It is annoying to find that spending money
upgrading your machines actually reduces the
amount of software that it can run, and not the
opposite. Publishers should maximise their
markets and not alienate high-end users. ECS
compatibility is sensible, after all the PC does
this in its support of lower-end graphics such
as VGA as well as SVGA, but more
powerful AG A machines should not be ignored,
Sam Smith, Worth Yorkshire
What we found when trying the
Blizzard 1260 board is that
S — f\ games such as Nemac IV and
Breathless ran, but incredibly
slowly. This is to do with how the 060
works, and is something the software pro-
grammers could not have foreseen. To
stream line the 060 execution path, not all
the 680x0 instructions are built into the
060.
Unknown instructions cause a trap and
during the trap the emulation has to find
the right emulation routine and run this
function. In a trap the processor is in the
Supervisor mode and no other tasks can
run. This effect is visible by the mouse jerk-
ing around. The system will become mare
unusable the more un implemented instruc-
tions are used by a program. If you buy the
you please tell me what to do to get back to normal,
and I promise not to be stupid ever again. Also, please
inform the rest of your readers to follow the great
American saying: 'If it aint brake don't fix if
Stupid Frank, Manchester
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Oh dear, it looks like you managed to get
yourself in a right mess here. I will start
off by saying It is a good idea to go
through your hard drive and remove
old/unnecessary files, as long as you do
not start trashing the system files. This is one reason
for always having two partitions - one containing all
your Workbench files and the other for your day-to-
day work files. If you then delete stuff from your
Work partition you will not damage any of those ail
important system files, but you should learn from
your mistakes.
The first priority is to get your Workbench back up
and running. Assuming, from what you have said,
you have completely formatted your drives and there
is nothing of use left to recover, you will need to
boot your computer with your original workbench
disk. Once Workbench has loaded you will see your
now empty hard drive partitions. To get Workbench
set up as quickly as possible, and assuming you
do not have any hard drive install disk, do the
following.
t. Select your DHO partition and do a quick format on
it to make sure it is completely empty
2. Open up the Workbench disk's icon and select
'show all files' from the Window menu
3 . press the right Amiga and A keys, to select all the
files in the Workbench window
4. Holding the shift key down, drag all (he files over
to your DHO partition
5. Once ail the files are copied, reset your machine
and Workbench should bootup from the once
defunct drive.
This will give you a working Workbench on your
hard drive, but it does not do much to get your lost
files back. If you cannot get any files back from the
backup you have done then there is very little you
can do in retrieving the old files. It may be possible
to use something like DiskSalv. but if you have for-
matted the drive and written back over it then there
will be very little left intact for DiskSalv to recover.
Your only option is to reinstall your software from
scratch.
A general rule to follow when deleting files is,
do not touch your Workbench Files. These are things
in your C, 5, Devs, Libs, l. Classes and Locale draw-
ers. Just stick to removing old data files such as pic-
tures and text, or programs you do not use any more.
Afojl progrmmt ni«
irttt+dibty quicfcllfr
art# or Ewe ciifit
jjro&Jorai* (or ihm 060
Blizzard 1260 you get a program with it
called CyberPatcher that attempts to
change the instructions in these programs
to one that will not cause a trap, therefore
making the program run at full speed. One
such program is MandlOOti which goes
from running at around the same speed as
an A 1 200 to running almost three times
faster than an A4000. Unfortunately, this
patch does not have any effect on Nemac
IV and Breathless,
You might like to know that Alien Breed
- The Killing Fields also suffers from this
problem, but the CyberPatcher program
does work, therefore allowing you to run
the game on full screen.
The only real way around this current sit-
uation is to recompile programs especially
for the 060 chip - perhaps the companies
could provide an upgrade to 060 owners.
The compiler would then make sure that the
code ran as fast as possible and remove!
these speed problems. The problem wit
this fool-proof plan is that 1 am not sure
any such compiler exists. There is, howevr
a new C++ compiler coming out ffffl
Germany called StormC that can apparent
compile optimised 060 code.
I do sympathise with how you feel - whn
the A1 200 first came out many programs fd
straight oven This was them either doini
naughty things to the chipset or it was did
use of self modifying code that choked ■»
the 02 O s cache. We at Amiga Compute
have always complained when software di
not support accelerated machines and he
drives. If they do not do this, what is lb
point in upgrading in the first place? The Of
situation is an unfortunate, but unavqidabli
one and you really are at the mercy of Ik
software manufacturers producing Of
versions of the original.
Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
LOW
SCREENS
thought my current setup was all that 1 would want I have an Amiga 1 200 with BMb FastRAM
M a Viper board with an FPU, I mainly use the Amiga to access the Internet and for playing
carries. I originally got more RAM because 1 found out that the screen slowed down when a lot
kvindows were opened, At times it go so bad that the mouse would sometimes hardly move,
or the computer would freeze, end this was with 4Mbs sometimes still available
I may have got it wrong but I think I might need a graphics card or something. [ wondered if
could help me out by letting me know what I need, and the rough cost.
Mark Williams, wtlliams@madmark,demonxoMk
Unfortunately, you are pushing the Amiga's graphics to the limit To correctly redraw the
Workbench screen every window needs to be refreshed, and with a lot of windows this
starts to take a long time, A graphics card would help the situation as they use their own
high speed blitters, but are only available on big bo* Amiga*. You do not say what pro-
grains you are running or what screen mode you are using, as processor intensive programs
Arj| obviously slow screen refresh. Also if you are using one of the new AG A monitor modes
i best slow screen refresh except on 3 or 16 colour screens.
The best way out of this situation is to run as many programs as you can on their own
mens. Wrth the introduction of Workbench 2 this became a lot easier with the use of pub-
lic screens, and just about all programs allow you to open a new screen or run them off an
gifting screen. This will leave your Workbench as clear as possible, and therefore your
windows will redraw as fast as possible.
Qelp please
l recently replaced the Commodore
^ installed 200Mb Seagate IDE hard
drive with a 1 OBGMb Seagate AT Fast
IDE drive, and I used the standard
3.0 HD Tools on the install floppy disk
lo format and partition the new drive. The
drive was recognised and I copied all my
Workbench and Work files over to the new
drive.
Everything seemed to be normal as every-
thing copied over correctly, but when t came
Eo run programs such as Brilliance, 1 get the
requester 'Unable to open your tool,
Brilliance' or the name of the program I
^™pted to run..
I have tried everything, checked the parti-
tions, rebooted, and even reformatted and
ft-pied the software back onto the drive to no
avail. I then tried to copy the programs from
their original floppies and voila, they all
worked perfectly. This is obviously very
tedious and makes backing up programs to
my Sysquest pointless, I suspect there is a
problem with the copy function from one
drive to the other, even though I use the all'
statement and it only affects tools, since
Workbench and all other utility directories
operate normally.
1 need your help. The Amiga is an orphan
in America and 3 cannot get an answer,
The drive manual refers to PC installation
only, and all technical support personnel
are programmed for PC- related problems
and seem to have no Amiga knowledge what
so ever.
William Trotter, Metairie La- USA
Do you hove a problem? Do you
sometimes find yourself poised
over your Amiga with use in
hood, spouting profanity at the
stubborn re fusal of your software
or hardware to behave properly?
Weft, calm down and swap the
axe for pen and paper , jot down
your problems* along with a
description of pour Amiga setup,
and send it off to Amiga
Computing Advice Service* IDG
Media, Media House* Adfington
Park * Macclesfield SKIO 4NP r
Alternatively, e-mail us at
ACA S^otomp. demon, c o. uk
J / I am afraid you are not going
to like my reply too much as
unfortunately, I have no idea
what your problem could be.
The frustrating part is that we
have just installed a 1.6Gb IDE drive to
our A4UQ0 and are now having the same
problem. At first we thought it may be
the Msxtransfer rate or the Mask that you
can set through tiDfoolBox, but none of
these seemed to have an effect
I found that using the copy command
from Shell die copy the programs over so
they worked, but this is still a very unsat-
isfactory situation to be an as we cannot
use Workbench or Dopus to move pro-
grams around. If anyone has the solution
to this problem then please send it in.
Qome installation
4 vitjiJ program that is essential in Bettinq up your hard drive corrwctiy.
\ am one of those individuals who still has an
p J A600m with a 120Mb hard drive. The hard
J drive has recently refused to work - the
computer appears to think it no longer has one.
The physical installation looks OK and when
I try to use install v2.05 it seems to correctly prep the
HD, but cannot format it Instead, the following message
appears: 'Warning: Hard disk partition WB ,2.x: cannot be
fend! This script formats partitions WB_2x and Work:.
Make sure the drive is property connected and propped,
and the partitions have the correct names/
Any ideas, except buy a new hard drive?
flobert Mitchell, Ireland
/ As long a* the hard drive is installed
V— correctly, and you can hear it power up,
/ -f I would think your best bet is to try and
format the drive by hand as all the pro-
grams you need are on the install disk.
This involves using a program called HOToolbox.
When you First run the program go to the 'Change
Drive Type' and define a new drive. If you now read
the drive configuration you should see all the differ-
ent parts of the drive such as the manufacture, how
many cylinders there are, heads, and other informa-
tion you should not change. It will also work out
how big the drive is from this information - this
should be around the 120Mb mark.
If you click on OK and return to the main menu,
select partition drive. Here you can select how big
each partition should be and how many you actually
want, I would stick with the normal Workbench and
Work partitions, and make the Workbench one
about IS to 20Mb, You should also make sure
Workbench is bootable and that Work is not. Now
select OK and save the changes to the drive. When
you quit the machine it will reset and you will need
to boot up with the install disk again. You will then
be able to, if that worked, install Workbench using
the installer provided.
O A 3 00th issue deserves something special, and
this month's pubfic domain and shareware
selection would certainly seem to fit the bill
Honourable mention this month goes to the
latest version of ClassAction r version 2.7 of which I seem
to remember reviewing a while back. CbssAction creates
an Ap pkon which can trigger all sorts of different pro-
grams when files are dropped onto it. Version 3 not only
implements the Commodity controls properly, but also
oses the incredibly popular Magic User Interface. The
Preferences program, which is used to define exactly
what actions are performed on given teletypes, also
includes a 'learn' mode which allows you to teach
CfassAetton to recognise various file formats. ClassAction
is an extremely handy utility to have knocking around
your Workbench, and is available either from a PD deafer
near you a or on Ami net
6
Dave CusicFsHms the raffleniniafPD trough with!
an air of quiet inquisitiveness, or something
I A R S
Produced by ; Nerve Axis
Available from:: OnLine PD
Disk No: OX3D2A/B
Nerve Axis,, his driver shot him on that fateful
day in Dallas Whether or not you believe the
rather amazing claims made On this disk is up
Liars is not so much a demo as r well, a public
information broadcast, or something.
Dispensing with the customary wibbling
shapes and generally cheesy dance tunes
(at least until near the end), liars attempts to
educate the world at large about the full
extent of the nasty American government's
involvement with alien races.
Apparently, the Americans made an agree-
ment with aliens over 50 years ago, gaining
the benefits of alien technology in exchange
far covering up the continued abduction of
human beings. Eisenhower initially negotiated
with the extra-terrestrials, but Presidents right
through to George Bush are alleged to have-
been involved, liars claims government offi-
cials who didn't like the situation and threat-
ened to tell were systematically eliminated.
John F Kennedy found out and so, claim
to you. Liars doesn't feature stunning graph-
ics, and it doesn't offer much in the way of
visual excitement or sonic fulfilment
However, it's nice to see a demo that
attempts to do something slightly different,
and even if you come to the conclusion that
the whole thing is just a figment of some
bored individual's Imagination, liars still
makes an entertaining read
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AM
Programmed by; Marcel Beck
Available from: Ami net (as com m/m ai l/yam 1 2.lha)
Qaskbar 4.29
H Vof Another Matter: Sul af tem*i Me
tlm# it r * one of the ben Ground
The Magic User Interface plan for world domination
continues apace. Hot on the heels of the superb
AmFTP and AmlRC packages (which will, of course,
feature in the new Amiga Internet bundle) conies Vet
Another Mailer, which also uses Mill and consequently
abo boasts a stunningly attractive and easy-to-use
interface.
YAM also has an impressive range of features. The
address book facility is well implemented-, and the con-
figuration screen is fairly straightforward. There is a
built-in UU encoder/decoder, meaning binary files can
be sent and received. There's even an ARexx port, so
other programs can control YAM - AMosaic for instance
- and script files can be used to run mailing !i$t$.
Interestingly YAM does not use external programs to
send and receive mail, unlike Voodoo, the mailer Amiga
Technologies chose far their bundle. This makes YAM
incredibly easy to set up and use. Unfortunately, as far
as I can see it may also mean YAM is of no use to
Demon subscribers because with Demon, users receive
their mail using a different system to the one YAM sup-
ports, Still, if you use another service provider (or if
there turns out to be a simple way around' this), then
I'd strongly recommend getting hold of YAM.
Programmed by: Robert Ennals
Available from: Aminet (as utiS/wb/taskbar4Jha)
Windows 95 eh? A multi-million dollar advertising campaign,
total media saturation, that dreadful Rolling Stones tune,., and
ail for a piece of software that simply enables nasty PC com-
patibles to do what the Amiga and Apple Macintosh have been
doing for years, And rt doesn't even do that very well.
Still, some people like the odd thing about: Windows 95.
Robert Ennals liked the taskbar feature so much he wrote a
program that simulates it on the Amiga.
Taskbar can open on any public Screen you care to specify,
It makes a thin little bar appear across the bottom of the
screen, displaying current tasks and allowing you to flick
instantly between them with a simple dick. It can launch tasks
from the start bar and is easily customised to suit your pers^
nal needs. Taskbar automatically adapts itself to the font and
screen mode of whatever public screen it is running on.
This fourth incarnation, which boasts a number of significant
improvements and bug fixes over the popular version 3, weighs
in at a handy 32k, meaning rt's ever-so-slightly more memory
efficient than Windows* tf you don't fancy having a Toolmanager
dock floating around, Taskbar is a stylish alternative.
Amiga Computing
JUNE 199 6
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B omb (battle of the
MASTER BOMBERS)
All
Programmed by: Silicon Circus
Available from: Aminet (as game/2play/bombv]_2.lha)
tie aptly but appallingly named BOMB is a
Ik’mberman/Pynablaster clone, which hap-
pens t o have won a competition in a certain
m magazine. However, I won't hold that
against what is an otherwise magnificent
pme.
I must confess that in my time I have par-
ticipated in rather too many late night
Bomberman session* on the MegaDrive to
approach any done without a hint of suspi-
cion. Copying such gaming perfection with
any degree of success is invariably a tail
flrder, and is rarely achieved. The AM05-
iwitten BOMB is definitely one of the better
grtempts.
Although the game does have a one-
player mode, the real fun comes when up
rite
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to four players participate in a highly
chaotic bomb-fest. The objective is simply
to blow up your opponents, but if you've
never experienced a good Bomberman
done, you realty don't know what you
are missing. It is probably the greatest
multiplayer game in existence.
This demo version of BOMB features
plenty of power-ups, fast and frenetic
game pi ay, and hours of irritatingly addictive
entertainment However, for a paltry fiver
you can register with the authors. For your
trouble you'll receive a version Featuring
even more power ups, a serial link option
incorporating 'Widescreen Largeo-rama',,
league and cup competitions, an d all
manner of other tasty titbits. Cool.
' • Sarntorman Cf&n** ihcultf
carry a public hlfl ft#i warning
they arv addictive
REALLT WA
I want to henr from you if you have any
program, whatever its purpose, which
ynu consider worthy of review. Whether
it will be freely distributable public
domain, shurewete or licencewore, if
you feel it's ol sufficient quality to merit
n. a vi' i dye (her stick it in a jiffy bag or
padded envelope and send it in with all
haste. Although Public Sector receive*
too many submissions to c nver them all,
I promise I'll «t least fook at youi work
- even If It's yet another Lottery pio-
gram or Klondike card set it does make
my job a lot Upler, lh&igh r ^gHws are
dearly fain Ned. Pk>,ise also include a
cnvpr letter det 'Mling j the disk font ents
and price, and jiving some bask
Instructions, The magic ad dp w* 1st
Dave Cusifk. TO sobnrxsstofls
Amiga Competing, AJcdlff ffoasv
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YOU OUCHTA KNOW
Frustrated by alt this talk of Aminet? Irritated that you don't have a
modem with which to access this vast on-line software
archive? Despair no longer, foF Your Choice PD now offer an interesting
alternative.
The idea is that you order their two-disk Aminet calatogue for a
quid, sift through the index of hies available on-line using the attractive
interface,, and write down the archives you'd like to get hold oh The
next step is to contact Your Choke, who will download them for you at
a cost of £130 per disk. Since everything on Aminet is archived in Lha
format, a fair few archives can often be squeezed onto an BGOk floppy,
so the service should offer very good value for money. Your Choke say
they'll even update the catalogue disks free of charge. Isn't that nice?
QJoris ball
Programmed by:
Available from: FI Ucenceware Disk No: FM33
Admittedly, there are far too many Breakout clones
already in existence. Practically every programmer has
probably attempted to create one at some point, and
fortunately, as with so many simple ideas, the result is
usually a highly entertaining game. Boris Ball is no
exception.
The graphics are smooth and effective and the sam-
pled sound effects are nicely done. There are also ample
bonuses to keep the gameplay interesting, ranging from
ones changing the size of your bat to those giving you
extra balls and suchlike. You can also have lasers moun-
ted on your bat with which to demolish more blocks,
confusing bonuses which reverse the direction the
mouse must be moved in, gravity bonuses which suck
your balls towards the edges of the screen, level clear-
ance bonuses, ones which allow the ball to pass through
all the blocks including the metal ones... the list is
seemingly endless.
There are five different speed settings and there’s
even a handy built-in help mode which will remind you
n n f m t urn, Bre&k&ut
what a certain bonus does when you are in the thick of
the action. And if by any chance you should tire of the
100 levels which are provided, you can create up to 100
of your own using the built-in level designer.
Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
45
OURMET GURU DEMO/WINE STEWARD
Programmed by: Len Platt/Mike Riehan
Available from; Roberta Smith DIP
Disk No: OS221
Gourmet Cum offers the perfect solution
for flustered folks planning dinner parties. Ll
allows you to build up a complete database
of recipes, which can then be searched
using a variety of filters: for instance, you
could ask it to suggest a recipe for si?? peo-
ple or one involving Coriander.
Gourmet Gum has a colourful and attrac-
tive graphical user interface, and there are
enouph example recipes supplied with it to
get any database off to a decent start. There
is also a built-in Bartender offering a wide
selection of cocktail recipes, and a wine list,
although this only has a couple of entries
included.
As a result. Wine Steward compliments
Gourmet rather nicely. Once you've picked
a meal it can be used to suggest a suitable
wine, briefly describing the wine and offer-
ing various helpful details. Although father
primitive in presentation and design, it's
O Very nice.,. buf
give m« a Chicken
Biryani any dmv, with
m tide order at
Man end mtidi
G
UITAR FRETMASTER
Programmed by: Bob Stanley
Available from: FI Licencewaie Disk No: Ft -132
Guitar Fret master is a friendly and well designed tuition tool Its basic
purpose Is to teach you to play scales, whether they be major, harmonic
minor, melodic minor, modal, pentatonic or extended pentatonic. It also
teaches arpeggios, and there are numerous drills r starting with basic
ones and working up to the introduction of Dire Straits' Private
Investigations.
Selecting the scale you wish to attempt causes various coloured
blobs to start appearing on a graphical representation of the frelboard,
indicating precisely where each finger should be at any given moment
You can also optionally have your Amiga produce the note you are sup-
posed to be playing. However, I can see this being more of a hindrance
than a help because the note is a rather tinny internal effect as opposed
to a sound sample.
Also included on the disk is a large AmigaGuide Guitar file. This
includes plenty of fascinating background information from the history
of various types of guitar right through to instructions for tuning up r fit-
ting strings and generally caring for youf instrument The explanation of
guitar tablature is sure to be helpful, and there is even a quick glossary
of guitar terminology. This guide makes for a handy addition to a very
useful disk.
n Hfoufdn't it be weird if ft turned out Noel GaHatjhor h*d J earned
to piay the ij uUar irsliif an fimfqa program, Or something
Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
not a bad effort. Goth programs are share-
ware, although the Wine Steward demo is
probably the more crippled of the two in
that only a few wine facts are actually given
in comparison to those in the full version
Gourmet Guru is a strong title in its own
fight, and for that reason keen amateur
chefs are advised to seek out this disk.
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Qreed 96
Programmed by: Damian Tamawsky
Available from: Ami net (as
game/m i$e/breed% .1 ha)
Cross Sim City with Dune 2 and you'd end up
with something similar to Breed 96, Your task
is, essentially, to build and run a space colony,
meeting the needs of the inhabitants and
protecting it from alien invaders.
Breed 96 is a brilliant strategy game which
offers a wealth of gaming possibilities. Your
first prio% will surely be to ensure there are
adequate residential facilities and your inhabi-
tants have sufficient food. Then you will have
to establish law enforcement agencies, make
sure the employment level doesn't soar, and
ensure there is ample electrical power to
keep things running nicely. On top of this,
new technologies can be researched, trading
alliances can be formed with neighbouring
planets, and interstellar wars can be waged.
The graphics are suitably dinky and
detailed, and unsurprisingly are rather remi-
niscent of those of Sim City. Some nice ani-
mations are also included - whilst you go
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about budding and managing the colony,
traffic crawls around your road network,
ships dock and unload their cargos, and alien
droids rampage around the outskirts of your
settlement
You can save your colony to disk at any|
point and continue the game at a later date,
and therefore you wlfl probably become
quite attached to your little world It is the
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self in for hours on end, and is also another:
example of an excellent game written in the |
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Amiga came with speech support
and after that Commodore proba-
bly saw a way to cut expenses
^nd dropped the narrator and translator
ibraries, so removing thb Speech support. To
be honest for most people there would very
little lost but for visually impaired people
speech would be of great help,
SofTalk b a diop-in replacement for the old
n an>:tcir device and translator library, and as
king as a program can access them in an OS
ega! way, all the old speech functions will
w \ t correctly. The new SofTalk files add extra
iisictionality to the old Amiga speech and, in
lombmaticm with the PhonMaker and
ransVaker program, allow you to create new
speech translation files. This allows different
saunding uoices to be produced and for
Merent languages.
Once SofTalk is installed off the floppy, any
Drcgram that can make use of the old Amiga
speech libraries wilt now produce speech via
r h new SofTalk software. Multiple channel
variable pitch, speech rate, slur, stammer, Eisp
and a number of other control* are all avail-
able and the major point of Sofia Ik is that
Vo u can define your own text to speech
translation via two extra programs,
!he software does claim to give better
quairty speech than the standard software, but
the output is still the same sort of 'robotic'
voice like the original Amiga speech. Your
RANSMAKER
IVfier? the Amiga translates written text
xm spoken re*t it uses codons to apply a
corresponding sound to a section of text.
When you pass a sentence to the transla-
tor it splits it into smaller and smaller
seams until a match can be made in a
hok-up table.
When a number of codons are placed
together you can recreate spoken words .
Tm&Maker allows you to create and edit
your own codon tables for use with
SofTclk, and this allows you to produce a
much better conversion process f as
specific words con be given their own
wdon.
One subject that is covered in great
detail in TransMaker documentation is
how lo code your own language parser.
Tfe is the code used by the translator
library to translate normal English text into
the sets of codons * As a tutorial it
describes ft aw the default translation cade
is written t but suggests that marry
mprmements could be made by anyone
witting.
0 a you don't Oka your Ami#*'*
Eons of vote*, fttu emit It
main reason for buying Sofia Ik would be if
you needed speech on a Workbench 2.1
machine, or you wanted the extended config-
uration that is possible via the PhonMaker
and TransMaker tools.
It is obvious that the author has spent a lot
of time writing the manuals as they do go
into great detail about the theory and
techniques involved in using computers to
translate written text into spoken English.
The two extra programs you have to pur-
chase separately to the SofTalk software are
not essential and are there so you can
change how 1 the computer sounds. If you are
thinking of trying to do this then you should
not expect to get results straight away
because both programs are complex, due to
the subject they are dealing with, and can
therefore cope with whatever request made.
At the end of the day, you will know if you
...let your Amiga talk to you
with this new set of speech
tools. Neil Mohr takes a look
at what's available
need this sort of software, as it is very spe-
cialised. The extra configurability b there but it
will take you quite a while to get good results,
and the standard speech is no better than ihe
Amiga's original
At the end of the
day, you wifi know if
you need this sort of
$oftware r as it is
very specialised
□honmaker
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The second part af generating speech on computers uses phonemes
which are the Smallest recognisable elements of speech and are
represented by codons.
The phonemes ore strung together to produce the actual word This is
very difficult to do os you are trying to model the complex mouth f tongue
and larynx movements that produce speech, but using simple algorithms.
The default phoneme set has 40 such basic sounds that represent
transitions from one sound to another r and when used in the right order
a word can be produced.
PhonMaker allows you to create either extra , or completely new sets
of phonemes, and is easily the most complicated program of the
three. You do get three good manuals that outline aspects of phonetics
and how to use each part of
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ckome to this feature detailing some ol the Amiga's Northern Ireland, troubles in Northern Iceland again, a US presidential
history over the past 1 GO issues. We've seen changes election and, most recently, the scare over mad cows.
in personnel, design and the fortunes of die Amiga. So what will the next 100 issues be like far Amiga Computing! We
Bad* when A/mjijcj Computing was young, a halt meg
■.|:vMM3H for an ASQd would set you back somewhere in the
vend El 20, and a floppy drive was about £300. As few a hard
lik. well il you had over a grand burning a hole in your pocket
nen you might be able to alford a slow 6QMb SCSI box added to
:v of your machine.
n he big wide world the UK's Value Added Ta* went up by 75
i/i cent, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the Yugoslavians
ded themsdves. we saw asteroids hit fupiter and comets fly
partied, There have been elections, assassinations, peace in
don't know.
With the fortunes ol the Amiga in die baiance we don’t know if well
even be around to reprise diis feat ol research, but we look forward to
seeing you in another 100 issues time anyway when we'll have Amigas
with thought interfaces, CD-ROM drives that are faster than the fastest
liard drive, and more memory than you can shake a stick at. Wait and
see, it'll come* So well kick off this feature with some of Amtga
Campus's history, go onto the Amigas^ and on the way well find out
more about tl>e people, companies, and stories that have made the
Amiga's and Amiga Compufrngr's history such an interesting one.
official, Amiga
100 this
month, so
i -sue 31, the mag received a design change that meant our
filers had to make their own minds up about how they
'mci^H a product performed, because the scores were removed
:ni wrything, AltSvough a lot of people wrote in to say they
■ I the new design brought m in the May issue in 1994, we've
i hit more mail from people saying that they didn't like it
■‘ 0 , which resulted in the revamp first seen in our January 95
IVSLfc
ih? mag has changed its look over the past eight years^ as is
• be expected, but there are some leatutes that haven't been
_n such as the fibfaJc-styfe games cheat cards that started
•.lining free wiih the October 91 issue. There were six cards in
h issue for about six months for all you yuppie Amiga owning
■ s players out there. Amrgcr Computing has also given away
mh (those &4-page jobbies seemingly printed on recycled
i paper that seem so popular with certain internet maga-
■s), supplements, and competitions to win flights in light air-
ili subscriptions to Microlink, and even E 3000's worth of
'll and games art one time. Our January 9i mag was ^
l he first issue to have ACAS m it, although it didn't have a tide at that
lime, but by issue 34 it was called 'Interactive Rescue'. In issue 37
ACAS made its first appearance. Despatches (the letters column} was
renamed Externa! Input in issue 35 (April 93), but was called ESP for
the first time in June that year.
Esstie 36 was the first issue at the current page si*e Previously, AC
had been strict A4, now it is A4 wide (in the UK that is, US readers
will get a style they are familiar with from Amiga World), and issue 4 1
was really the first full colour Amryo Computing, In issue 42, Dec 91,
the news page announced that AC had a readership of 150,000, but
no ABCs were available to prove it. Issue 4B saw the first appearance
□f the Blue Chip award and the one ai*d only appearance of a sdl
through videos and SkyTV review page called Entertainment Xtra.
Issue 51, Aug 92, was the debut appearance of the Amiga Mart sec-
tion, long since gone, but not forgotten, and issue
J 57 was the first Amigo Computing to have the
now familiar System Essentials and
Gottorn Line sections of a review.
NTERESTING USES OF THE AMIGA
Jitf IVfflkvr now works
for WiS oft. Unfit
recently ho also
s in le-hande dly
produced Just Amigo
Monthly magazine*
Stevie Kmnndd\ is
romtFiHy editor of Tho
Wot magazine
Simon ATo
Phil MQJ'f-ft {Amiga
Computings fflnf
aukhed Ustod who was
on the m * Iff for two or
*o y*at*l Is now a Pd
for a nightclub in
Manchester
was jut ipoMMr
writing for Ommort’s
in-house mmgmiin*
and edit* his o wn
mobile phono mag
Hie Yeli^la
currently editor
of Amiga format
magazine
Paul AustHp currently
managm^ Mit&r for
both Jidhj i Odfnputing
Tho W#h
Eddie MoKondrloU no
works for Hichatodeoi
the totmylslon ftfllS
f N E 19 9 6
• In volume 1 issue 4, we toid of how [he BBC were using
A mi gas - linked with Laserdisc players for the Domesday
Project.
• in volume t issue 7, we detailed how Lever Bros, - world
famous soap powder manufacturers - used Amiga 2000s to
control the flow of their production lines.
• Vol 2 issue 5, Aug 89, we told of how the Australian
stylophone maestro Rolf Harris
used Amiga 2000s for animation
stations on his TV program,
^ a • Vol 2 issue 5, Oct &9 h George
Lucas {who is supposedly an avid
Amiga fan - or at least was)
— arranged with Commodore US to
* produce four TV ads (we jf
. a don't know whether or not j€
1 K M 1 he ever m a d e th e m.„) .
* ■■1 # Vol 2 issue 10, Mar /VI
\ 00, A 2000s used for /
.1 * II medical
bought A^OOOs equipped with Seals to help with this
presentation.
• Issue 61 had a feature on how Amigas are used to he’
produce a children's IV game show called ((nightmare.
1 Issue 61 also heralded the first appearance of Jafel
Brambles (now ex Radio 1 DJJ presiding over their advert
According to her spiel, she was apparently an avid Amif
owner.
• In our Inly 95 issue we interviewed percussionist Eve
Glennie about her use of the Amiga and Bars and Pipes P-
in her studio,
• In issue 66 we told our readers about a huge video wz
at Wolverhampton Wanderers which wa
■ i by Amigas.
sue 70 r London Transpo
seum now to use CD32s fi-
le underground train simufali
using 3D graphics produce
with Real3D
• Issue 77 we featur
the Robocop TV series, ano;
her use of the Amiga fc
broadcast TV graphics,
I Issue 80 carried a news sto
jour how the Star Trek. Voyagf
k cts were produced with th-
f the Amiga and Lightwave
> 95 issue sports a handserr
Wallace and Gromit cover story as we reve t
how Aardman animations rely cm PAR card-equipped Amigc
to produce the Oscar laden animations (about a year befer
any of the competition get to the story).
■I • Our April 95 issue had a big feature about the
r. Camera Company's work on a film called Cyberfar
and about Mu-Media's work on The Grid's mus
videos and BT information lilms.
• Issue 90, Sept 95, and we went to the zoo
i Colchester, Essex, to look at a CD32 informatic
system used to tell visitors all about the zoo's bi
♦ Issue 93 we tell about how the Imperial VL'-i
oVC Vt^S i Museum uses Amigas for visitor information.
'• Issue 96 r two features on profession
Amiga use. First is Eureka, a children's scien;
museum where Amigas are used to pravid
A/V displays, and then a visit to the Magi
Camera Company where Amigas were us*
to provide some of the special effects for the Jams
Bond film Goldeneye.
• Issue 97 featured Granada Television, one of the (JK
largest entertainment companies, and their use of the Ami;
for shows like The Krypton Factor, Cracker and others.
imaging in j
f ■ ~ |«VF ~ tests at Imperial I 1
1 College London.
* Vol 3 issue A, Sept \
90 r London Transport \
Museum use Amiga 500s \
-■4fa fp r the undergound train
# Vol 3 issue 6 r Nov 90„ A 50 0s
used al Jodrell Bank - probably Britain's most famous set of
large scale telescopes - to help with imaging.
Issue 33, Stan Haywood, creator of Henry's Cat, uses an
A20OQ for his animation work.
• Issue 31, 190,000 worth of XGad installations at
Ham worthy Engineering for architectural
• Issue 35, the first girl guide to
win a computer literacy badge did \ JhVt JF t;J
so using; her brother's A 500.
• Issue 39 Aug 91 j dentist uses
Amiga 3000 with CanDo to teach
endodontics - his name is Andrew ©ifiSSA
Gould, now at Premier Vision. \ 4
# Issue 40 Sept 91, an Amiga is used to i r«
pitch convert a sample of the world's .
fastest talker in order to prove his record - t' Ex ^T\’ 1 . 5
637 words per minute. i ^
• In our issue 55 we reported how, when g»jgF ’
Rolf Harris asked foe animations for his TV , ■ '
T *
show, o^er 70% arrived on Amiga floppy
disks.
# Issue 60 carried news of how the Manchester 2000
committee (to get the 2000 Olympics to be at Manchester)
Set ? Girl's do use e ot iuju t ers ,
■i i loasi Kerrie Stevens does
ONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Volurnt 2 Issue 2 July 69, WordPerfect Corpo ration
Amiga Development
I lsiue64 September 93, HB Marketing goes bust
1 Issue 64 September 93, Microdeal bought by HiSoft
t Issue 69 December 93, Access Amiga advertised for
the first and nearly foe last time .
t issue 72 April 94, Digital Creations say that Brilliance
2 is their last Amiga product and Gold Disk also stop
fcniga development
I Issue 75 July 94, Commodore International and
Commodore Electronics go into voluntary liquidation.
Also in this issue ASDO, Nova Design, Digital Creations,
Amiga World magazine, SoftLogik,. Centaui (Opal Vision
creators), Prolific 1AM and Blue Ribbon all promise to
continue support for the Amiga if CBM goes bust. Out
of p his crowd, the only people I eh in the Amiga market
today are Nova Design, SoftLogik and l AM, with
Pioli lie's status uncertain (they created circuit board
design software). Centaur and Amiga World went bust
and AS DC, Digital Creations and Blue Ribbon were all
either bought up or merged with companies not pro-
ducing items for the Amiga and ceased their Amiga
operations.
# Issue 76 August 94 r New Horizons software doses
down.
# Issue 77 September 94,. Med hi Ali officially leaves
Commodore.
# Issue 61 Christmas 94, Europress Publications bought
by IDG.
# Issue 06 May 95, WTS raided by police after numer-
ous complaints. In the same issue we carried news of
Amiga World s demise.
# Issue 07 June 95, Rumbelows (a large chain of
electrical retail shops in the UK) closes down, but
Escom buy the shops. Also this issue the news that GWP
liquidated on 5th April 95.
* Issue SB July 95, VRLI announce they are to stop
Amiga development but Chaocity pledge to continue to
develop Vista Pro, etc
• Issue 89 August 95, David Pleasance and Colin
Proudfoot won't be joining newly formed Amiga
Technologies UK and ZCL go bust taking their retail
shops Calculus, and mail order division Indi Direct with
them.
• Issue 93 December 95, Rasputin (games developer)
goes under.
# Issue 97 March 96, Amiga Technologies UK
Maidenhead office closes. The two remaining staff
move to Stanstead.
* Issue 98 April 96, Canadian dealer and distributor
Wonder Computers go bust.
ommodore/AT product releases
IVjMI
t in our Feb 1909 issue Commodore announced the 2500 -
an A20QO with Commodore's own 030 accelerator and SCSI
hard drive controller.
t In May B9 we announced the A590 for Commodore. It was a
SCSI AT drive controller for the A500.
# August 69 saw the announcement of the A3QGQ, the first
r&i v new machine since the A500..
I January 90, the announcement of the Class of the 90 F s pack,
■ Vb Amiga 500 with educational software for E499. Demand
-stripped Commodore's predictions and they had to triple
'he number of packs prodoced
# Our July 90 issue saw the Flights of Fantasy A5QQ pack
finnunced to fill gap left by Batman pack. The pack contained
^ Retaliator, Rainbow Islands* Escape from the planet of the
i>Dt monsters and DPaint II.
t Fust reports of ’Baby r - the machine that will become the
CDTV in our August 90 issue.
Itoen Gems bundle announced with Days of Thunder, Back
lolhe Future II Shadow of the Beast II Nighlbreed and Dpaint II
in ^ov 90 issue.
I CBM UK offer a £200 discount for an A1 500 when you trade
in in old A5QO in our March 91 issue but in our April 91
issue they say it was a mistake, but that the price of an A 1500
would drop to £999 inclusive of VAT, a saving of 1 50 at the
time, They also offered a trade in of my other console for an
A500 discounted by 70.
# CDTV launched on 10 April 91 at £599.99, but because
of Commodore's insistence that it not be marketed as a com-
puter, not many of the independent dealers can, or want to,
Stock it
# Commodore dropped the price for a Class of the Nineties
First Steps bundle by ICO in our August 91 issue to compete
with a similar offering from Atari,
• CBM UK launches new 'Cartoon Classics' bundle in our Sept
91 issue. The 399 pack includes a 1Mb Amiga 500, Bart v the
Space Mutants, Captain Planet, Lemmings and DPaintllL
• Rumours of a new Amiga surface in our October 9t issue.
The new machines are to be upgraded A3000s with 66040s
(in other words, the fabled A30QQ+). Other machines using
RISC processors are also on the cards and both could be with
us by August 92. Both machines will have improved sound
and 256 colours onscreen for VGA emulation. Commodore are
also guaranteeing backwards compatibility. The same issue
sees the notice that the Workbench 2 upgrade kit will finally
How your
money gacs
etoCFi Further
win* Commodore.
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Copperhead Technologies announced in our Dec 93
issue that they were offering an AT 200 upgrade for
A50Q owners that would allow them to have access
to AG A and the IDE controller and trapdoor expan-
sions that A120Q took for granted for just S225.
Nothing has been, heard since.
Cigatron announce a portable Amiga in our March
1990 issue, it was supposed to be shown at CeBit
that year, but as our report in the July issue states,
they were nowhere to be seen. Nothing has been
heard from them since
Although the Opal Vision board had been out for
quite a while and was reviewed in our 54th issue
(where the addH3n modules were promised R5N), it
wasn't until our 83rd issue that we printed a press
release that stated that the fabled Roaster chip was
going to be available at any moment and that peo-
ple should Start holding their breath now, The
Roaster chip was finally shown in a flawed form that
year at one of the London Amiga shows, but it never
appeared on sale, nor did the other modules like the
flicker fixer, TBC, etc
Our 82nd issue in January 95 had a company
called Computer Answers announcing an Amiga
compatible With 030 and Akiko chip. Whatever
happened to that?
Amiga Computing
51
F EATURE
Jits and bobs
* Out August B9 issue carried a review of Vortex's System 2000 external 40Mb hard drive for the A500
(cost 573,85) and we said 'Most users will find 40 megs more than adequate for their needs, 11
• We were even more prophetic in our January 1990 issue when we reviewed the SyQuest 2QMb remov-
able (without a SCSI interface: 1220) J thi$ is a pointer to the future, We will sfl have hard disks in a couple
of years' 1 time. Removable disks can wait until the mid-1990s' We gave the drive 59%.
• Our March 1990 issue carried a review of Battle Squadron. Stewart C
Russel concluded his review by stating: "Everyone went gaga over
Xenon II, and rightly so - it was the best available then. But now Battle
Squadron is the best Xenon II scored the perfect tQO per cent How can
we express that Battle Squadron is even better? Hmmm. Ill show you
how™*
• Our thirtieth issue way back in December 1990 carried an ad from
Greater London Computers offering an A3000 with a 100Mb hard drive,
a muitiscan monitor and 6Mb RAM tor just £3793.85.
• Issue 34 carried a news story from Howard Wewmark, then head of
The Software Business, who stated that in the future all games for the
Amiga 500 would come on a cartridge his company was creating to
stop piracy. It never happened.
• We reviewed the Courier H5T modem in our May 91 issue. This 14.4k
modem then cost just £1 144.25
Yau can anly gat away with
thia soft at thing on a vary
irregular baaia.*.
be on sale by Christmas this year.
# Our November 9! issue earned details of the A500P as it
was then called, also known as the A500+ It would have I Mb
RAM Workbench 2.04 and the enhanced chip set found in the
A300G. Commodore hope to sell il loi the *ame price as
die existing A5D0 (when this machine did start to ship in num-
bers. dealers threatened to drop support for it if compatibility
problems with games continued 1.
# Issue 49 (June 92) saw the announcement of the A6DG and
Commodore showed
(he A57Q CD-ROM
drive lor (he first time.
They also launched a
set of CD TV peripher-
als designed So make it
more like a home
computer.
• In July 92, only eight
months alter we first
covered it, Commo-
dore announce that
they are ceasing pro-
duction of the A5QQP.
CBM US announce that
they will be launching
new Amiga* later in
the year and rumours
surface about a new
machine codenamed
Amiga Classic 2200
based on 020 with
hard drive as standard
and sepaiate keyboard, monitor included for under £1000. The
A57Q is also further delayed this month.
• In October 92 s issue, CBM state that there is np AB 0€„ bui
that the A4000 and A 22 DO are due for launch in September 92
(remember, we probably wrote October's news in about )u nt
of that year). CBM cut the price of the A6Q0 to £299, but teavE
I he hard drive version at £499 and C6M US announce that the
States are to get the A600 in the autumn,
• Qur November 92 issue carried news of three new A6DQ
based bundles. The Wild, The Weird and the Wicked' contains
DPamt III, Microprose Grand Prise, Putty and Pushover for 04?
and Epic and Language Lab bundles also have a hard drive and
different software for £499. We also heard that a new factor-,
had been started m Irvine in Scotland and that the A400G
would be on sate by the end of October, The A220Q has offi
daily been dropped, but insiders reckon therell be another
new Amiga next year. The A4QQ0 is shown for the first time ir
the US.
• Our December 92 issue gave the first details of the Al 20C
and the A400D is finally launched in the Slates at a price ci
5 2 BOG, but the double A chipset is renamed to AC A, apparenLl
to avoid confusion with an association that deals with alto
holies. Hmmm, maybe I shouldn’t fly with American Airlines on
that basis now..,
• Our Feb 93 issue told about the trouble with exchange rates
and how the dollar’s rise in value from $1-98 to I he pound tc
51 53 to the pound was responsible for Commodore putting up
the prices on all Amiga* by E30.
• In April 93 we told the wtuld about Commodore’s plans fc
the A4OD0T and DSP module, which would be on sale, accus-
ing to Commodore, by the summer of 93. That issue CBM ah®
announced 1 an AC A display enhancer
• May 93 saw the launch of the AI20CHD with an 80Mb drive
• In our June 93 issue we told you that Commodore h^;
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• Video Toaster (first announced 1987, released 1989). Never really reviewed in AC owing to the fact that it was a pure
product and we then had no US version.
• Lightwave 4 (first announced in our April 95 issue. UVe promised reviews of it almost constantly For a year).
• TFX (Ocean gave us the finished version for review back in March 95. The review appeared in May’s issue and we gave it
The game has still not been released, but may be by the end of April this year).
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• PAWS. The Portable Amiga Work Station. We first published details of this monster in our March 95 issue, but it had alre
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ell, we had a resounding success with
our latest reader survey,, and I'm glad to
see that most Amiga owners are actua-
lly intelligent enough to work out whet*
to send their entries, even though we purposefully
didn't include an address to send them to, honest,.
Actually, we always knew that you lot were
brighter than the average Amiga user, and proba-
bly a bit more mature, and the results we have col-
lated bear this out. There are very lew of the old
unexpanded Amiga fraternity content to spend
their hard-earned merely on games and a joystick
every year, and most of you seem to be quite
to Lavish a fairly large amount of money
on your machines over Ike course of the next year,
MllltS
So let's have those results then shall we"? It came
CD-ROM drJlr*# - Idim* you /usl
can't <f#t P* l#ie#n
as no surprise that the machine thai was most pop- accounts for the fart that most of you who have a
ill'
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f/f
ular was the Alloo, closely followed by the
A20QQ/A1 5tiO,Jn fact, quite a lot of you seem eager
to actually own more than one machine, which
would obviously mean that a network port as stan-
dard on an Amiga would prove to be a papular
derision on ATs pari Even more pleasant to relate
is the fad that over 91 per cent of our readers have
a hard drive, with only a recalcitrant or poor 3.1
per cent having to suffer the ignominies of the
floppy drive y<Sj
The fact that most of you are using At 200s is
borne out by die processor stats showing the vast
majority of people using an 020, Funnily enough,
though, the figure for 020 usage is actually only
just bigger than that for 0)0. meaning you all must
like upgrading your 1200s, * fact which is -also
shown by the statistic that says that nearly half of
you own an FPU of one description or another.
AHEAD
The number of CD-ROM drives out them is at
prisingly high, especially when you consider the
dearth of really good CD-based software, but very
nearly half of our readers actually have a CD drive.
Maybe you all use them for playing musk mod of
the time, like I do? SM
monitor still only have a 1034-type monitor,
although the low-end and high-end multiscan
figures put together nearly match the 1034-type.
Disappointingly, most of you still only have a
dot-matrix printer, although the inkjet/buhblejet
camp is in a close second place. Only about eight
per cent of you don't have a printer at all. so let's
keep those letters coming in please!
That At 200 bias pops its head up again in the
Workbench revision answers, with the overwhelm-
ing majority of you using Workbench 3-3. WB 3.1
accounts for the next highest figure and thankfully,
I.) only now accounts for 5 per cent of our leader-
ship. Even so, this 1$ far too many people. Cel your
acts together and upgrade!
As far as software is concerned, it seems that
very lew of you actually use your Amiga* for CAD,
but a huge proportion of you actually do spread-
sheets on your machines. Games are as popular as
ever with only a small amount of you denying you
ever pfay them. The Amiga's supposed strengths
are not being used to the full by our readers either,
with a poor showing for video titling, editing, mul-
timedia and animation, although an increasing
number of you are using Ami gas for 3D graphics.
Unsurprisingly enough, not one of you never uses a
input we rely on.
Overall, you
seem to like the
magazine though, with Only the Amiga Guide
Uon getting a higher than average 'poor'
Then again, It also gets a larger 'eij
response than most Other sections so l'i
what we can learn from this, Howevei
putting our heads together to see if
the section in some way. The most
aspect for us is the fact that most of
reviews and features - the core of oui
are either good or excellent.
One of the set of statistics wi
fusing to start with was the fl
you find the mazarine easily, until we realised
should have worded the questionnaire slightly i
ferently to take account of subscribers saying *Vt
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at so many
it's on my doormat every month'. What we afl
meant to ask was whether those of you that do
subscribe found it easily in your local newsag*
, —
but never mind.
ms was an area surprisingly unde
:ribed to, especially considering how buy the
Aminet is, but it shows that Wfl are actually provid-
ing you with a service when we put Aminet relea-
ses on our coverdisks. In the end, only just over a
thirdi of you have a modem, just over half that
number hove a 14.4k modem, and just over half
that number also have an Internet connection.
Perhaps because oith^prepOAdera nee of A1200
owners, there are very few (Hfucplnfiiive graph-
ics cards, although quite., flaw stated that their
favourite piece of Hardware would be one of these
word processor, so it looks like Softwood and
Dii’ita are right to keep up their arms race.
Onto the magazine now and it seems that most
of you think we are doing a good job overall,
although a lot of you say you would tike more ESP
and AGAS pages. To be honest, we wouldn't mind
filling the entire magazine with problem* and let-
ters, it would certainly make our job easier, but we
cant do it. Why not? Because of the fact that you
lot have to actually write the letters and problems
lore we can put them in the magazine. We don't
■Hbefore
have a
policy of making up letters to fit the number
high resolution output devices. This probably of pages we have set aside for them, so it is your
Subscript! ons
Of those subscribers we have, the majority of
have only subscribed for between one and b
years, which can only be put down to our
American and Canadian readers from the demise
Amiga World, but we do have a hardcore of r
who have been with us for over five years.
The Last section of our survey dealt with the
biological questions of what sex you were and b
old. I think if s a shame that we have so few f
p coders, or at least ones who were willing to
their questionnaires, with only 2.6 per cert
respondents wearing frocks (to our knowledge) I
readers tend to be more mature than the de
graphics would appear to show for other mi
with a large number of respondents putting
in as their occupation, but the largest
are aged between h and SO.
We've picked a winner from the huge set
of entries we had. He's a sixth year studen
Tilehurst near Reading and he has three Am
an A5D0 an A5Q0+ and an A2000 - and likes
30 graphics and a lot more. He's one of our 50
cent that don't have a CD-ROM drive yet a
doesn't have a modem. 50 ff Stefan t Young
like to get in contact with us, we'll see what we
do to give him a copy of his most wanted
• Cinema4D.
So, thanks very much for providing us
information we need to continue to mal
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can look forward to seeing changes based an
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If you are baud stupid, Neil Mohr
looks at the cream of the modem crop
to get you out of your on-line blues
mrnd storage hungry Web pages whose sises
can easily reach the JOOs of kilobytes mrk
Luckily technology never rests, and fast year
saw a plethora of 2S,SE}0bps modems swamp
the market These 'beasts' can handle around
3k a second on a good line and can make
light work of downloading information on the
Internet and bulletin boards, Recently, their
prices have dropped dramatically so making
fast access available to everyone. With most
modems offering group I or 3 fait support
along with some with fast voice/data switch-
ing there ts plenty of choice for everyone out
there.
\ s a student I was privileged
■ \ enough to have access to free
-1 highspeed access to the Internet,
i ii all thanks to the University il went
to and paid for by the good honest tax payer
However, for most other people who want to
get connected from home, money can start
to play a key role in how long and how much
you can participate. Ifs all fine and dandy for
computer journalists and the big cheeses at
large computer corporations to sing the
Internet's praises if no one else can afford to
get on fine.
A large part of your total expense is going
to be your phone bill Apart from taking spe^
dal offers with BT r Mercury or a local cable
network company, possibly the most practical
way of cutting bills is to buy the fastest
modem. Ten or 15 years ago a 2400bps
modem would have been considered an
absolute luxury, but at these speeds a page
of text is torture to watch download, never
ftnod roii: refers to the
omouot of dote the n fodtm
J5 Currently handling. The
tGbd to ic a narmnUy fitted
but certain modems con hove
dy.'iGfwi: baud rates
&ABT - any device that is to
be used an BT lines should
be BAST apprn\'9rf
AT- one of the ffchest
telecomrmjmcatfgf} compa-
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Hpeedco
r/te Speedcom modem is one of the aider modem models
in thfs roundup but speed wise ft has aged very wetl. The
28, S model comes with support for
VA2 and V.42bis error correction
and data compression, as well as
having the ability to send class !
or 2 faxes - as long os you have
(be correct fox software.
The casing seems a iittle plas-
My but is styled quite niceiy and
the whole thing is very small, not
mueft bigger than your hand, it
has o iine out connector to allow
mi to hove a pass through phone,
and the single power button on the
lop is well placed.
Due to it being a slightly older modem the Speedcom is
(uftently available af a lower price than most of the other
models , and for people on a very tight budget the 1 4,4
veafon represents possibly the cheapest modem available.
The manual that accompanies
the modem is large and helpful,
and for the beginner it is very use-
ful in explaining all the modem ter*
minoiagy and the setting up
Product
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process,
Like muny other companies.
Siren throw in off the /eods and a
couple of Amiga disks to help you
gel going, Ncomm comes on one
disk and the other has a very com-
prehensive guide to using c omms
on your Amiga that supplies invalu-
able help for the beginner and o list of bulletin boards
which have recently been overshadowed by the rise of the
Internet.
Product
Speedcom
Supplier
Price
1 4,400 - £79.99
26,800- £159.99
Tel
OSOO 34054B
Scores
Ease of use
Implementation
Value For Money
Overall
100%
80%
50%
90%
PORSTSER VI
US Robotics have always been renowned for thdr quality modems and this latest one Is no excep-
tion;. The SportsteT is a fairly compact affair, only marginally bigger than the Speedcom modem. The
casing is made of a tough dark grey plastic add the whole unit has a very solid feel to it, and com-
pared to US Robotics' earlier efforts the casing is styled quite well, with the usual bank of status UEDs
Inching the front of the modem. There s even a stand to allow you to use the modem uprrght
and a usefully positioned power switch and vol-
ume control are placed on the side of the modem
lor easy access.
As lor functionality, the Sportster has pretty
much everything you would need. With V.45 and
V42bt5 error correction and data compression, as
weB as having the ability to send class l or 2 (axes
to use the Sportster proves itself to be one of the
fastest modems around.
line
The Sportster also has voice mail support which
would allow you to use the built-in microphone
andi speaker to send and receive spoken mails
using your Amiga. Unfortunately, no software exists
to allow you to take advantage of the voice mail
Standard which is a shame.
This is a great modem. It is very compact and
supports all of the current standards. The manual
seems a little brief, concentrating mainly on inter-
nal Rtfing to a PC, but as there is usually very little
involved in setting up an external modem it is not
really a problem. Probably the best BABT approved
modem you can buy at this price.
Product
Supplier
Price
Tel
Sportster
First Computer Centre
14, 400 -Ell 1,95
33,600 - £193.95
01 13 2319444
Scores
Ease of use
Implementation
Value Fot Money
Overall
100"*.
90%
90%
too%
Qupra Express 288
The SupraExpress is another tiny modem and comes in a fairly thin
plastic cose that does rwf seem very rugged and has only the barest of
sfoft /5 displays on the front However, it is meant to be a budget version
of its big brother the SupraFax modem.
A couple of real plusses for the SupraExpress are the five-year
guarantee that It comes with and the fact that Supra actually
provide direct support for the Amiga . Admittedly, it is only an American
'+*'"*"* mUkm
also a specific Amiga
e-mail address. How-
ever, if you are having
problems with your
modem this might oof
be too helpful!
I am not too keen on
the built-in modem
coble that comes with
the SupraExpress. it is
long enough hut if you
need to replace it you
are either going to have
to send the modem
away or face the perils
of replacing it yourself
which would mean
invalidating the five-
year guarantee you get
with Supra modems.
product
Supplier
SupraExpress
Price
First Computer Centre
£153.95
Tel
E-Mail
01 13 2319444
f i rstcom(§ftrstnetco.uk
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100
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60%
Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
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I TAN
Another new modem from Wizard, the Titan is a
very well priced,, high-speed BABT approved
modem. Being BABT approved is important
point because onfy BABT modems can be used
on BT lines, and only BABT approved modems
can be guaranteed to work problem free.
The casing of the Titan might not be the most
attractive, but the metal casing gives the modem
a very solid feel so it could probably handle a
good bashing around - more so than many ol
the plastic cased ones.
As with all ihe other modems in the roundup,
the Titan has a small amount of non-volatile
memory in it. This allows you to store modem
configurations and up to four phone numbers in
the modem's memory r and will remain stored in
the modem even when you power do wn.
Being a V.34 modem, the Titan supports all
the usual baud rates up to 28,800 bps, and the
usual V.42 and V.42bis types of error checking
and data compression, as you would expect
If you want the cheapest BABT approved
modem the 14,4 version is excellent value for
money P and as with alt modems ffoni "Wizard
you get Ncomm thrown in - which is perfect for
connecting to bulletin boards.
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Titan
Wizard Developments
14 400 - £99,99
28 r BGO - £1 99.99
Phone: 01 322 527000
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Implementation
Value For Money
Overall
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i
A newer modem to the market the X-Unk comes in a fairly plain box. The
mode/ we had was c ream coloured,, and the colour compliments ihe
Amiga casing , ; but a plain black one is also available.
The case has a couple of feet at the bottom that can be pulled out to
allow the modem to be placed upright On most modems the front is
adorned with plain LEDs with a couple of initials to show you what it is
meant to represent, but as a change the X-Unk modem uses illuminated
icons to indicate what is going on.
All the usual compression and data correction modes ore supported,
along with class l and 2 fax transmission and reception , Wizard can also
supply the CP Fax software as part of the modem bundle for an extra £40.
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esting... testing
lore, two, three ^
W There's nothing quite
fi^c-like the feeling of firing up
pour own recording studio for the first ftH
time and hearing a voice coming back
■ta ugh you t headphones. lift '^^HL
what constitutes a recording studio? Well
dirt's a question, and one that doesn't have an easy ^^B
answer. If you're into* techno musk then your system may be an ft
Amiga with, say, the Bars and Pipes sequencer a MIDI interface, a LV*
couple- of multi-timbrai synths, a simple miser, and a cassette deck for ft
gartering - perhaps £1,000 all in. At the other end of the scale, recording ™
pop musk with instruments and vocals would require an 8- or 16-track
ftcuder, a sophisticated mixing console, various synth modules, outboard equip-
'Ht like re verbs, delays, gates and compressors, a selection of microphones, a separate
booth for vocals and drums - and a second mortgage to put that little lot together!: Yep, you
could be talking about getting little change out of £40,000.
This feature will help you understand ail the components of a recording studio so that
■ju can decide what you need. While it won't present a procession of specific product
-sines, it will g/ve you a reasonable idea of prices. So, an with the show!
ou ve got a sequencer running on your Amiga
Hind wagtix) flesh out a full-blown recording
ta/w- ^ftmdio? Then let Ific Leonard and
OUHDUP
OUNDS LIKE MIDI
Finding a synth you're happy with is not an
eesytask. With so many available, confusing-
ty-named sound generation systems and
misleading polyphony figures are just the tip
of the iceberg. So lets look at what is
required of a good all-purpose synth.
The First thing is to try it at the shop to
see if you like the sounds. If you don't then
there's no point going any further. The next
thing to look at is how many sound presets
are available and how many user-pro-
grammed sounds can be stored internally.
After a white you're bound to get bored with
the facto ry sounds, so you want to be able
to create and store your own.
Most modem synths are capable of play-
ing in a multi-timbral mode.
This means that by using a
sequencer, the synth
can play a bass
so u n d on one
MIDI channel a
piano on a second,
and strings on a third
- all at the same time.
This is very useful but qurc
kfy uses up all of the synth's
sound generators. A bass part will
probably require just one note at a
time, but add a piano, some strings and
brass and you are probably asking the synth
to play ten or more notes simultaneously,
Polyphony is the measure of the number of
notes or voices the synth is capable of play'
ing at any one time. The issue gets more
confusing because in many cases the synth
uses two or more voices to generate a sirr-
gle note to make the sounds thicker and
richer. Just knowing that a synth has 24-
voice polyphony is not enough - you want
to look at how many voices are used to
generate a typical sound.
Many synth models are available as key-
board-less sound modules and it's sensible
to buy one with a good keyboard and then
add sound modules as required, The synth
with the keyboard will be your master key-
board, used to play ail the sound modules,
sampler and other MIDI devices in your stu-
dio, so look lor a keyboard that feels right
There are several features to look for. First,
velocity sensitivity is a must A keyboard that
doesn't respond to how herd you play will
create monotonous and lifeless music.
Aftertouch is less important, but can be just
as useful, tt works by allowing you to modify
the sound by pressing the keyboard harder
after your initial touch. Typically, aftertouch
is used to add vibrato, filter sweeps, or other
effects to the
sound
Also
Qua ff I y p*rciis*i&n h n
.protein if\ any re |_
up and tbit offers a u tii/tion
EARING IS
BELIEVING
A mater keyboard and a
BAPPra gfvt stunning
%nundf and touch stnikivffy
Before yt?u start buying your
egupfnrnr, give half a
thought la where you're
gti(fig to pot a alb Muring
and muitj- frock
recorders are u svotly pretty
J’iedvy, So paw '.T gaiflcj- to
need a strong, first Surface
think about a table
with a fifth leg frxed to its
centre.
Most effects and MIDI
equipment ore of the rack-
mounted rarity r/iey re o
standard Width and have four
hates for hxing ,'n to a r act
Are yoo (jOiUg la use your
equipment for ttve gagging?
Then invest m same fitght-
cosed racks. Otherwise, get
the sloped kind an wheels -
they're good far up rp ?i5
urai'fs high.
Signal processing
is vital M yau'it aiming
for prnrquafity -end
results m
look for the modulation and pitch bend
wheels. Some synths feature a handy user-
customisable slider that can be used
to control and record volume
changes, for example.
Another factor worth
considering is the
number of
audro out-
puts avail-
able. Most
synths have a
stereo output,
but some support
additional outputs so
you can separate a bass
sound, for instance, from
the rest. This is useful if you
want to use different EQ and
effects on the bass part. Finally, if
you intend to buy or swap MIDI files, GM
(General MIDI) compatibility is useful
because it allows song files created on one
system to be played on another with the
minimum of hassle.
A sampler is a usefui addition to any MIDI
set-up. Although not essential, and generally
more expensive than the average synth, a
sampler can reach the parts other synihs
can't? With a few drum and percussion sam-
ples,. your sampler becomes a dedicated
drum machine. You can also use it to pinch
short sections from records and loop them
(well dodgy!), or to emulate the sounds of
orchestral or oriental instruments. The main
factors, apart from sound quality and
polyphony, are the amount of RAM and hard
disk space, and how upgradable they are. A
drum machine rs also handy - check out
the Alesis SR-! 5 *
but less important if
you have a decent-
sounding drum kit
on your synth or
sampler.
You need to hear your musk as dearly ns
possible. This means you'll need o good
power amplifier ; a set of speakers, and a pah
of headphones l if you're on a tight budges
you could use a Hi-Fi stereo system, but
there's no substitute for decent monitoring
equipment Most Hi-Fi systems tend to colour
the sound - mixes thot sound great on your
system will probably sound odd on you?
friend's,
A good amp and speakers designed far
studio use has a fiat frequency response and
a dear, well-defined sound, When shopping
for a power amp, get the most powerful one
you con afford, mifr 1 per channel os u
working minimum. There's a wide range of
speakers on the market Speakers con be ver}
subjective and can sound very different
depending on the room and amplifier used
In principle, look for the most efficient spea-
ker: efficiency is measured in decibels pot
watt (dB/w) and the higher tfre figure the bet-
tec Three-way speakers that use three sepa-
rate drivers are generally better than tmwoy
ones.
When recording vocals or acoustic instru-
ments your best bet is to use headphones. S
you try to use the speakers you will have fe
battle with feedback and other problems.
Walkman-type headphones will not do as
they lend to leak sound that yuur microphone
will happily pick up I Closed-back headphones
are specifically designed lor recording wort
and have a minimal amount of sound
spillage — and cost upwards of £100,
Check your mixes on a variety of play-bad
systems. Even if it sounds good on your
system, always try it on o car stereo and
a ghetto-blaster, A good mix is always c
compromise.
aster!
The I list stage in the recording process is
the mix. All the channels are balances
and EQed, Effects are added and the final
stereo output is fed into a stereo master-
ing device. In the old days, people used to
use a 1/4" or 1/2" reel-to-reel, but the
standard today is the OAT machine.
Originally designed as a consumer prod-
uct, it found a home in the recording $tu
dio due to its superb audio quality. Sound!
is recorded as digital information onto a
small cassette, similar to the ones used in
camcorders. Tape length varies from 60 hi
120 minutes. The more expensive models
(£1,200 and more) offer extra features
and better sound quality, but even the
cheapest models {about £600) sound al
least as good as a domestic CO player.
Art alternative to a OAT would be a
high-quality cassette deck - and you wl
probably want one anyway so you can
make copies of your final mix to play it
others. The cassette is not an ideal forma:
as audio quality is relatively poor and
tape can degrade very quickly.
A
Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
TAPE OR NOT TO TAPE
faur most expensive purchase is likely to be the centre
of your studio, a multi-track recorder. There are three
□ptions here; analogue tape; digital tape; or direct-to-
disk. Analogue multi -tracking is a system that dates
hack la the 1950s. The tape width is divided into a
number of equal bands, each of which can hold a
recording. So r for instance, a Fostex R8 splits l/4 ,f tape
into eight 'strips'. You'd be amazed what can be
achieved with eight tracks - the early Beatles albums
only used Four tracks, and even Sergeant Pepper was
recorded on just eight tracks,
Analogue recording
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means a degree of hiss is created on
every recording. Secondly, mix-
ing, say, three backing vocal
tracks together onto a single
track, commonfy called
1 bouncing 1 , results in a poorer
quality recording than the origi-
nals. Also, such a system will prob-
ably have to be obtained second-hand.
Digital multi-tracking seems to be the direction in
which the medium budget market is moving. Starting
with the eight-track Alesis AD AT system and the looka-
Eike Fostex RDB, a studio can now have eight tracks of
sparkling digital recording on a standard 5-VR5 car-
tridge. You can even use more than one unit to get
multiples of eight tracks and have them run-
ning in time with each other by the addition
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Disadvantages! Very few, aside from the
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lent analogue system costing around a quarter
of this second-hand. Play-back quality is stun-
ning, although you have to be careful not to
have too many noisy items in your system -
such a$ cheap synths and effects units.
The third possibility is dkecMo-disk, This may
be based around a computer system, or can be a
Stand-alone product Such as the Fostex DMT-S,
Fifteen hundred sovs will buy you a digital worksta-
tion with eight track capability, a 540IUb internal hard
Higher than CD
quality - &nl ft'f IJpamiVr
disk for about 12 minutes' -worth of
eight-track recording, cut, copy and paste editing simi-
lar to working with a MIDI sequencer, two- band EQ,
and a fulty-furictional eight track mixer. This would cut
down on the cost of a decent spec mixing console,
Other companies are also getting involved with $uth
products such as the similar spec VS-BBO from Roland.
Disadvantages? In a word: backing up. The DMT-B
has no expansion port for a second hard disk so you
have to transfer your song data to a DAT recorder once
the internal hard disk is full. This means relying on a
tape- based medium for long-term storage. The MS-BBQ
has a SCSI socket to which you could attach a CD-R
recorder like Yamaha's CD 102 and so burn the data to
a CD - a more reliable option for those with more
serious aspirations.
four mixing desk is the nerve centre of the
■midmq studio . ideally), all your micro -
phrns, synths and effects units should be
plugged into the desk along with the inputs
aurputs of the multi-track recorder. Using
rie dfefc you can adjust the volume of indi-
raW instruments, change the sounds by
niing the equalisation (EQ), and add effects
weft as detay end reverb.
Most mixing desks shore a similar design
wb&e each strip on the desk represents one
outfo c/idnnef - hwf /here is no relationship
Wheert l/re number of channels on the desk
(fie actual tracks on the tape l In a typical
Wkbased studro, you hove some audio on
bpz while your sequencer runs in sync with
■is tape This allows you to have your MIDI
g ear ploying along with the multi-track
wiflOUt occupying precious tape tracks . The
tope outputs oil your
synths, and
samplers in this set-up must be connec-
ted to the desk which means your desk
has to have enough channels to
match. The more , the better!
Apart from the number of chan-
nel you need to look at the
number of auxiliary sends, also
known as effects sends.
These are used to feed a
channel's signal into a
global effects unil T
allowing rffo he used
on more than one chan-
nel at a lime. The number of
effects sends determines the number of
effects units you can use. Another useful extra
found on some mixers are effects returns -
regard these os bonus channels i They norma-
lly lock many of the features of the regular
channels, such as EQ, but allow you to spare
full channels for mare demanding /osfcs such
as getting a good Sound on your drums and
vocals.
Each channel should offer some EQ
to allow you to control the sound . EQ
in its most basic form consists of a pair
of boss and treble knobs, such os those
you would find on any Hi-Fi. if your bud-
get allo ws, try to go for a system that fea-
tures a mid-range control with a sweep
facility. This addition can moke a vast dif-
ference to the end result giving you fine
control over the sound of each instrument.
Many microphones require external power r
of so Amawm as phantom power ; which is
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via XLR connectors. It's
useful if the desk can
supply this power, at
least on some channels.
The better mixers feature
a set of insert paints that
you wilt also find at the
hack of the desk. Insert
points are used to put an
effect unit such as a com-
pressor or a noise-gate into
the signal path - useful but
not essential The meters are
often overlooked by the begin-
ner , but the professional record-
ing engineer knows their value.
A good metering system difews
you to record at the optimal level
and get the best qualify out of your
equipment
One additional item you should consider i$
a pafehhcry unit. This consists of a few raws of
jack sockets similar to an old telephone
exchange. All the audio input s and outputs in
the studio go into the back of the patchbay ;
and you can then connect any two devices by
simply patching the /wo corresponding points
at the front of the patchbay with a short lead.
ft may seem low-tech , but it'll make your life a
whole lot easier!
For an eight-track system i, you'll need a 12
or 16 input desk - and this will set you back
between E50G (for a four group desk) and
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Unless you're going to work solely with MIDI, you*re going to
need a microphone or fivo. There ore two main types: dynamic
and capacitor,
A dynamic mic r also known as a moving coil mic T has a small
color diaphragm attached to a coil of wire that is fitted into a tight gap
in a magnet Sound received by the diaphragm makes it move and gener-
r ...a good condenser
mic will cost you
upwards of £400!
Favourite of the
bunch isAKG's 414
ates on electric current that is amplified by a special mic pre-amp, The j
main advantages are the bw cost and rugged nature - you can
record a/motf any instrument including a bass drum , with one of this I
variety. The disadvantage is the inefficiency, leading to a generally
poor response - it T s very difficult to record the breathy nature of a vocal.
Check out the offerings from Share, Beyer Dynamic and AKG
4 capacitor mic uses two plates, one made from metal and the other from a
thin piece of plastic with an ultra-thin metal coating , Such a mic requires external
power from either a 48 volt phantom supply on the desk, or sometimes an inter-
nal battery. Advantages? Superb recording t including every nuance of a voice or
instrument. Disadvantages? Mainly price - a goad condenser mic will cost you
upwards of £400! Favourite of the bunch is AKG r $ 414
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Listen to youi favourite current pop song.
Does the kick drum sound ultra-even? Are
there any odd extraneous sounds anywhere
on the record? Does the vocal sound
extremely breathy and present? The answer
to all three of these is likely to be ""yes" -
welcome to the age of dynamic control!
What are dynamics? In a nutshell, it's the
range of sound, from the quietest whisper
la the loudest, percussive instruments.
Analogue tape, whether it r s a mufti -track
recorder or a cassette player, cannot cope
with the kind of dynamic range that music
produces, So the range has to he reduced.
This is true even with most digital recorders
- whiie a little distention on an analogue
machine may pass unnoticed, any degree
of digital distortion will ring out like a
chainsaw.
Compressing
Top of the list is a compressor. As the name
suggests, this reduces (or compresses) the
dynamic range and tends to be used on
individual instruments rather than across an
entire final mix. Typical instruments that
benefit from the heavy use of one of these
are bass drum, bass guitar or synth, and
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lead vocals, especially with an inexperienced
singer. Compression to a fesser degree can
also be used cm most real instruments, sim-
pfy to keep the recording level within rea-
sonable limits. Avoid compressing MIDI
synths - most realistic sounds have already
been compressed by the digitising process.
Most compressors allow you to use high
compression ratios, upwards of 20:1, This
prevents the output level from exceeding a
set limit; hence the name used for this
process - limiting. If you’re intending to
record vocals and instruments, get yourself
a two-channel unit that provides both
compression and limiting.
Prevention
Noise exhibits itself in various different
ways. Hard disk whine, radiator burbling,
overhead aircraft, cars outside - all are likely
to appear on your vocal recordings unless
you take measures to stop them. Here you
have two choices; buy a compressor with
gates on the input, or buy a dedicated noise
gate. The first of these is very useful if you
have to record in an environment with extra-
neous noise, such as a lunge or other room
without sound-proofing. A noise gate usually
offers a number of gates (between two and
eight) that Can he set to silence all noise
beneath a certain level. That way you can
get rid of, say,
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If you al ready play a non-keyboar
instrument like an electric guild
there are various alternative MIDI a > r
(rollers available, Roland sells a Ml;
kit that works with any electric guild
consisting of a special pick-up and
dedicated synth modulo. Other mari
fact liters offer a variety of MIDI co-
trollers - MIDI accordions, MIDI $a
ph ones, and MIDI drum pads Ed
example. Most of these suffer fro
various technical problems such
late response and inaccurate not
tracking, so it s best to try before v
buy.
unwanted hiss on your favourite Ml]
synth, but make the gate open a s soon
the synth makes a sound.
The fourth item in this category is oi
that tries to put back some of the
dynamics, often due to over compress*
An exciter can add quite a sparkle to
top end of your recordings, bringing
bihats, cymbals and vocals* Its partr
in the bass department can beef
your bass drum and bass sourn
Neither of these is essential, but youll
amazed how scintillating a mix can
with a little judicious use of either
these items.
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check the heads, They should be
clear i of tape residue and without
my fiat, worn surfaces. Record
onto each trad ploy back and
check the iOuna quality fa there
any 'warbling' of the sutmd? If so.
filer hoods a. r u probably knack-
L'tod
studio would be
ptete without at least one effects
wit \o provide reverb or other sparkling offar-
ijs FAe ricrfc/re of the recording process
r o produce dry sounds that lack the not-
m i echo and resonance of o room or a can-
cerf hall. A decent effects unit will let you
pirn your instruments in a wide range of
imaments, from a small roam to a long
tmd. This type of effect is called reverb In
fa ik?/ world \ reverb is the result of a large
number of echoes that are reflected from the
, ;Jfs and furniture and bounce back and
around the room , The result is a wash of
mnd where the individual echoes merge
Mia each other. A digital reverb effects unit
muhtes this by sampling the incoming
mnd and playing it bock in a complex
!er a/ echoes. Naturally, the more you
spend on your reverb unit the more natural
miding and flexible it will be,
Tfterc ore many devices on the market that
an do much more than just add reverb to
aw mix, such os the Afesis Midiverb 4. They
am easily generate effects such as repeating
ette,. ping-pong delays, pitch shifting, and
q mkty of doubling and flanging effects, Alf
t^ese can be used creatively to enhance the
sounds you record. Automatic double-tracking
feskd ADT for short), for example, can be
trsed to great effect on backing vocals to
irate them sound bigger*. Same units go a
’it-p further and can generate several effects
tithe same time. Such multi ^ effects units'
such as the Alesis Quadraverb, tend to cost
more fiyf are very useful. Having one dedica-
ted reverb unit and
one all-purpose
mufti-effects device is probably
the best compromise.
The nature of these effects require them
to be mixed in with the sound, you would
normally want to hear a mix of the dry
sound and the reverb effect, Unlike com-
pressors and noise gates which are norma-
lly connected via insert points, effects like
reverb and echo are added by using the
effects sends and returns on your mixing
desk . Typically, a unit will have a pair of
stereo inputs and outputs , but in most cases
the left and right inputs are merged internal-
ly and you may as well use just the left one.
The output f however ; is true stereo On the
majority of units and the stereo effect is cru-
cial to the realism of the reverb , This output
is usually routed into a pair of effects returns
on your desk which should be panned hard
left and right If your desk doesn't have spe-
cific effects returns you will need to sacrifice
two channels for this purpose.
An effects send works by feeding some of
the sound into the effects unit which then
produces the reverb or delay and sends it
back via its Outputs. By adjusting the
amount of effects sends on the Individual
channels on your desk you con determine
how much of the sound is fed into the
effects unit and \ therefore, how much effect
will be added to it This allows you to
have a lot of reverb an, say, the snare
drum, while keeping the bass drum sound
relatively dry.
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if you own a mufti-track, some synths, a
computer with sequencing software, an
effects unit or two, a mixer, amplifier, and
the various other items that go to make
up a studio, you'll probably have 20 or so
plugs to fit into, perhaps a couple of
mains sockets. Do you buy a few four-way
mains blocks, some two and three way
mains adaptors and cobble the whole lot
together? No! Here's the right way to
handle your cabling.
If possible, consider running a separate
power supply from the fuse box to your
studio and terminate it with an isolating
switch. The advantage? A lack of mains-
borne noises such as dicks from refrigera-
tors and other pieces of equipment turn-
ing on and off. The isolating switch allows
you to cut all electricity in case of an
emergency, If this is impossible, consider
building some small boards with mams
blocks attached to them, each with a
switch to allow you to disconnect that
board from the mains.
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Use good quality mains plugs that have a
plastic sleeve on the positive and neutral
pins r and also use decent quality mains
blocks and adaptors (if you have to).
While it may be difficult to overload the
fuse in a block, it is easy for a plug or
adaptor to pull half out - use a few extra
blocks and avoid adaptors completely,
And remember to label each plug with the
name of the piece of equipment it is
attached to!
The total current being drawn by your
equipment will be nowhere near the stan-
dard 13 amps that is allowed for by a plug
fuse. Work out the total current draw of
your system by adding up the power fig-
ures for your gear {check the rear panels
for each wattage) and divide by 24Q. Work
out the current draw for each piece of
equipment, get hold of a selection of
low -value fuses (1, 2 and 3 amps), and
substitute these for the standard t3 amp
type.
This will ensure that should a fault
occur with a piece of equipment drawing,
say, a quarter of an amp, the fuse in its
plug will blow first. All mains blocks
should have 13 amp fuses so that you
don't need to worry about the total cur-
rent draw for all the equipment connected
to this block.
When you turn on some pieces of
equipment, the initial surge may draw
more current than under normal running
conditions. If you leave all your equipment
on and then turn on at the watt, the
instantaneous current draw could exceed
13 amps and blow fuses. Other damage is
also possible when current surges occur.
For safety sake, many people prefer to
turn each individual piece of equipment
on and off.
OU N DU P
N CONTROL
This feature has only scratched the surface of set-
ting up and running your own recording studio.
Here on this page are some final pointers:
• Subscribe to a decent music mag such as Sound
On Sound- This wifi keep you up-to-date with the
latest bits of kit plus educate you on your current
equipment
# If you're just starting out get a good begin tiers'
book - MIDI Survival Guide from PC
Publishing (OJ732 7708B3 JL The author? Vic
leirnordf (shameless plug!).
• Don't be in too much of a rush to spend all your
money - buy the essentials and learn flow to get
the most from them first Also, allow at least ten per
cent of your total budget for cables (MIDI, audio
and mains), patchbays, disks, tapes, cleaning kits,
footswrtches, ink stands and so on.
# Speak to people! Go to as many public musk
shows as possible to ask questions and test any-
thing that interests you. Strike up a good relation
ship with your local music stores - make r em feel
guilty to rob you blind!
Above all, enjoy yourself - your music will be that
much better if you're having a good time.
ENERAL MIDI
You may need to send your songs to
other people purely as computer data. No
problem: chances are your sequencer can
save a song in the general form of a MID!
File. But how do you ensure that the par-
son loading this song into their sequencer
gets the same sounds as the ones you J ve
been working with?
This is where General MID! comes in.
Arty synth or sound module with the CM
logo guarantees 24 simultaneous tones,
125 specific sounds, and drum notes
mapped to certain keyboard notes.
if you need to transfer songs to other
people, make sure you both have a
sound module with a GM logo, or possi-
bly Roland synfchs with the extended CS
format
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What do the various knobs on a mixing desk do? Here's a quick rundown:
Mic/Line; lets you toggle between a microphone (amplified) or standard lesref input
Gain: adjusts the channel's signal boost.
High: increases or reduces the top end (treble) of the sound spectrum.
■ Mid: two controls. One increases of reduces the part of the sound spectrum selected wil
the second rotary.
Low: increase or reduces the bottom end (bass) of the sound spectrum.
Aux 1/2: feeds some of the signal to the Auxiliary outputs and on to effects units.
Pan: adjusts the position of the channel's stereo picture from left to tight, and feeds it
signal to odd and even recorder tracks.
Track buttons: select which of the eight tracks to record to.
Fader; fine level control
ERFECT TIMING
How do you keep your sequencer in time with your multi-truck? By using a SMPTE to MU
Time Code converter. This small box allows you to record a special code (SMPTE r pronoun
“shnptee") onto one track of your recorder and then translates this into commands yourM
sequencer con understand - that's the MIDI Time Code bit So when you fast-forward p
recorder to a point part-way through a song f your sequencer will instantly move to the cam-
location.
While you lose a truck on an analogue recorder, most digital multi-tracks have optrn,
boxes that can output the MiBl Time Code without needing any special code on tape.
ARTH TO EARTH
A common problem is that of a low frequency hum coming
from the loudspeakers - an earth loop. This is usually due to
trouble with earthing in one or more pieces of equipment A
few tips;
Don ‘r remove the earth lead inside a mains plug I Break
the hop by ensuring the audio system is earthed and by hav-
ing a 270 ohm resistor wired in line with the screen in the
offending hem's jack plug.
Equipment con cause on earth hop even when turned off
os moins and audio connections are still being made . If there
are problems with racked equipment remove the morns plug
far each item and start racking them again one at a time.
A com moo situation is where mains adaptors are built into
plugs , The electrical field can be picked up by other mains
leads close by - so-called proximity hum\
9 Try not to run audio , mains and MIDI cables next to each
other r There are unlikely fo be problems with goad quality
audio and MIDI cables, but mains leads can induce hum if
the cable quality is poor. If you have to run such cables near
to each other, make them cross at right angles L
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he topics of] the agent fa this
month are the techniques used to
create Easy Base At f s menus grid
gadgets. Gadtods, the library that
was introduced with Ref ease 2 specifically to
simplify the creation of Intuition-based user
interfaces, plays a big part in these discus-
sions and since the menu- related issues are
easiest to understand this is where I'll start.
Gadtocl menu definitions are based on sets
of data blocks called NewMenu structures
fiat,, for the C coder, can be described like
Ak
ttruEt
NfiNHenu C
UBYTE
"Jw;
STRPTt
ITRPTt
ni^ioiiKe^;
UHORP
Tii^FLagg;
LQHS
na_Rutij3 LExtL ddt;
am
Tin^UsiFpaTd;
It
lie rtmjype field is used to specify one of
three entry types: a menu title, a menu item,
or a dummy ‘end of menu' value. Standard
definitions, such as NM_ TITLE which indi-
cates that an entry refers to a menu tide, are
dtiilable in the Amiga headers, The only
other fields you need to know about are the
nm_Label and nm_GommKey fields which
are pointer* to test strings containing a name
and a keyboard shortcut for the item in
question. All we need da to build a menu
these days, then, is set up an array of
tlewMenu structures to represent the various
menu titles and menu items uve want, and
■iff Cadtools do the rest. Take a look at listing
l - the three arrays shown are all that are
leeded to define the complete EasyBaseAC
mu system!
OF course, apart from the menu defini-
tions we also need to get the menus dis^
played. A number of steps have to be per-
formed here and I'll deal with them in the
order they need to be carried out Firstly, in
is month
at how the Esk syl
and gadgets were created
order for Gadtools to be able to work its
magic; information needs to be provided
with details of the screen on which display
items are going to appear This is achieved
by making a cal! to the Gadtonl
GetVisuallnfoO function and on exit a corre-
sponding Free Visual InfoQ function also has
menus
FH-OHS.'T
1 Jl LJL'J l gJl
Li
PHHBUCLD IV nenuDl ] BET IN] T I Lift
Fflfl&lKED HV nmn*i2i 1 ornN1T]U«
H-L L RHHjCCft *Y *tnu1El BEF EHITIDN
O AH thei« meflui a produced hy
the NfwMenu definitions shown In lifting I
struct Hiifltflu is«nu3[] - {
(BPLTlTLE/ilfy-HLT \0jD,M>,
{NRjTEI/Etii* YindDiVt'AOJ),
{nr iRMmAMA,
>f
s fruit hMtu »*iui2U * (
(NR_T11IE,"I!EC9M EDITOR'* DA Mb
tNRJTEI,"Ufl« WindiiN", 't'AM),
{NRJMALLAMA,
struct Heulenn ««i>uT[] - (
(NIJiTLE/PWJEtl "AUA,
(NRJ T El , “R M Jjtahase AO, Ml*
{NRJTEI/LmiI Ritibis*,,, VL"AM)h
(NR_I TE It, Jl I JJHUB-E L A fl , (1 , D) ,
(NRJTEI/Sivt Jd [abase", ‘ i' ,D,B,D>,
{NRjTEB,"EMt &a [abase ,0,0,0),
(NR_! TE If , N «_? HUSE L ,fl ,0 , 0),
{NR [TEIt/Mt to Yorrtenttyj 01,
CMRJtaE,"(E«i»S-, 0,0,0,01,
(NRJTEII/»1i, 0sl ? Hindoo. ,<1,3,05,
(NR_ITEII,"EdUar yrnduii,,, VE'AMh
WlJTEMMMUKLAflAQ},
{NRJTEI/Cscr Ts Clfplmrd VC",MA,
{NR_1TER,IIRJJHU6EL, M ,0,0},
{NR REI/teLltt Hicnrd\VAM>,
{NR mLE/mt'ADAEU,
{NPJTM/Cet Holp., A&A,
C^R_i h 6 , r H J L L , -3 , 0 , 1" , C ’ ^
If
f i Listing 1i T ft* NewMofiu structures
used to provide menus for iho three
EesyBAMOUC windows
ADTOOL GADGETS
As well o$ simplifying menu creation, Godtools also
provides a set of routines for managing a whole
range of gadget types - button gadgets, used for
Gtt/CANGEL type operations, string and integer gad-
gets for text and number entry r checkboxes for on/off
items ond so on. The gadget type is identified by
specifying one of the ^defined types specified in the
lihraries/gadtooIsM file. As with the Gadlool menu
balitieSf Godtools gadgets are programmed at a s ig*
ntficantiy higher level than the Intuition library is able
(o provide. The function used to create a gadget is
c ailed CreoteGadgetQ and it uses a data block known
us NewGadget structure:
itfdtt Nfir^dgpt (
nD^D nfl_Uft!dgt, o p E d g e ;■ position */
flfljpiiltk n^Jteight;: ■'* tilt *}
r ri^jadggtteit; t* 3*09* t L a q±L *1
s trust Ifstftttr t n5_TlitHttr; /■ Font for Label *1
<Lfndget[|; /* gadgjtt ID */
VUM naJUgs,
*PTR np_Vi sual Info;
IP"E n^UserDat*; f* fidget Userbiti *t
h h
induding sets of text-based gadgets for displaying the
individual fields associated with database records.
The window Jx module., the vkw-Qniy window code
provided last month, used TEXT_KfND gadgets which
ore essentially view-only string gadgets. The module
for the record creation and editing window (provided
on the coverdisk this month) uses STRING KIND gad-
gets because these allow a user to type text into
them. A couple of Boolean on/off type BUTTON KIND
gadgets are also used to provide the Store/Clear
boxes that appear in EaSfBaseACs editor window.
The basic code for creating a single gadget
involves throwing suitable values far position, size
etc f into the NewGadget structure ond making a call
to the CreoteGadgetQ function. All gadgets created 1
using CreoteGadgetQ need to be freed by using the
FreeGadgetsQ function but, because Gadtoofs
gadgets ore automatically linked together, only one
call to this function i$ necessary no matter how many
gadgets eventually get created!
—
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tDj f uhl f inn: fi LrMinVTT
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iriuHfAftr
Lisles. 1 : NiATf T r « Hr4>[ 1
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■O Tli^ l#jfi di*pl*y g^dgftf ufvd in to&ih t lie vrew-
on!y and the c ivmdcw may J^olr the same
hut they are aeltiaJJy tjrmmtmd ysif>g two different
Irinas of Gadtooi $*dimtw!
Store
Clear
toySo^eAC tues a number of Gadtool gadget types n These Stara/Clo.-tr u*#d in the editor window are Qadtaoi BUTTON KIND gadge t-
Amiga Computing
JUNE f 996
ATU RE
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to be executed, Secondly a CreateMenusQ
routine must be performed. What this rou-
tine does is perform all the underlying
Intuition- related menu structure setting up
work. This call, too, must be coupled with a
deallocating FreeMenusQ function before a
program terminates.
The menu structures created by the
abovementioned library calls still contain no
size or position information. With Gadioots
this information has to be provided in & sep-
arate step involving a call to the
U Thf* diagram shows file
berwtefi ffr#
varioii* fil&s which go to
wdfci! up the EasyBitzeAC
program
U you t Menu sO library function, and again
this cat! needs to be checked for success
(although there is no corresponding deallo-
cation routine to be performed in this case).
Finally, the menu can be installed in the cho-
sen window using the conventional Intuition
function SetMenuStripQ. This function, inci-
dentally, must be coupled with a
CkarMenuStripO call prior to the window
dosing.
The unfortunate thing about what would
otherwise be a fairly 'bearable* scenario is that
we've got a whole load of library routines to
tiRIN'C
91 a in C on t no I no rtu ( o per f orn 5
in It ial Sett iriq UP dnd nonitors
hlgh-l&vel event t oqp in order
to pass hessages onto the
pr opr late u indoui event
hand 4 er
RLL OCR TOR , € \
C t> n t -a in? genera l routines for
Stdtk-based resource nl I ut at ton
J ( ortq with the routines Associated
with the Initial a 1 oc a I i o fis
perf orned by EasyBaseRC.
CL I P . C 4-
Contains the clipboard routines
M 1 SC , C
hiscel igneous support ruut ines
TITLE. c t
La s vB a s efl C title graphic as an
Intuit I on In age struct ure
HIH DOM 1 .C If
Lasv0a5eRC J i na in
l % sN i eu up i ndou
far
r ec or d
edit Lng
MINI) UN 2 . C
EdsyBaseRC ' S
Cl eat ion and
«J ( nduu
UINDOU 3 .C ( I
EasyBaseftC's record
v i eu -on I V U I ndou
sthck_ri>t_m
Provides access Macros
for the stack ADT
resource handling
PROTOTYPES - H
Provides prototypes
tor all function^ used
GFNFRRL . W
This header is used
bv all EasyRaseHC
nodules,
Defines all constants
and glob a Is used wit hi:
EasyBaseftC. Also bring
in all required Rniga
and standard C header
f k lea, STRCK_RDT_H
and PROTOTYPES , H
W IHDOWTM
This header is
Inc iuded in all
three u indou
nod u I es
OVERDISK CODE
On the c overdisk this month you'll find several files. One,
called title.c, is just the Image structure hr the title graphic
i hat appears in the main EasyBaseAC window. You had to
be given this file at some stage, and this month seemed os
good a month as any since there is very little that needs to
be said about it The graphic started life as an IFF brush
which took about fwo minutes to create using OPainL tt
was then converted to the equivalent Intuition Image
structure using Ken Howes freely distributable BrushCon
brush converter utility, becoming the source file titled
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wmdow2.c source Ate. This latter file contains the code for
the editing window and what I'd like you to do is compare
this wrfb the view-only whdow3x source provided last
month. The thing tg notice is that the overall layout of both
sources are very simitar in respect of alhcation/dealhca-
bon arrangements f window opening, gadget and menu
creation and so on. Needless to scry, this Is quite deliber-
ate. You'll notice also that the menu and gadget event
handling cade also has a similar type of structure in
both module s. Gadtaoi and Intuition event handling ,
inddentolly is the main subject on the agenda next month.
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JUNE } 9 9 6
perform, any or all of which could condeivdb
fail. If an error did occur we would have
ensure that onfy those routines that ha:
been successful get their equivalent dealli
tion routines executed. This, incidentally,
why you'll find all this menu creation co-d
embedded safely with each window"
resource allocation/deallocation arrang
ments ~ if anything goes wrong and a wir
dow fails to open, \ know that any steps tf
have been carried out as far as part-treat
menus are concerned will be automatical
undone rather than left hangang,
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LOOPY
If you have gadgets whose MewGadget
definitions have significantly different
attributes, then it is perfectly acceptable
to create a gadget set by building j
number of separate MewGadget strut- 1
lures. Often, however, you may want to
set up a series of related gadgets whose
gadget structures differ only in, say, their
horizontal or vertical position co-ordi-
nates, or their text fields. In these types
of cases it is unnecessary to set up indi-
vidual MewGadget structures. Instead, a
loop can be used which reads, or calcu-
lates, any fields that need to be set up,
thereby allowing a single NewGadge*
Structure to be used for creating a whole
series of gadgets.
C — " — ~
This loop approach is important with
EasyBaseAC for two reasons, Firstly,
when a user resizes the editing window
I do a calculation to see how many text
or string gadgets could be displayed,
store this value as the database field
count, and then quickly dose and
reopen the window to provide the new
display. When a new database is loaded
the field count is again used in the gad-
get creation loop, so the number of gad-
gets that first appear is the same as
those used when that particular
database file was last saved.
There are a few other things about
Gadtool gadget creation that need to be :
mentioned. Firstly, GadtooEs needs to
store a number of private data items
relating to the gadgets placed in a
window, and it stores this 'context 1 infor-
mation in a dummy gadget which actu-
ally forms the start of a Gadtools gadget
list.
Because of this, a call to a
CreateContext{) function needs to be
made before any real Gadtool gadgets
are created. Once the window is open ;ir
is also necessary to make a call to a
GT_RdreshWindow() function which
completes the rendering of the gadgets
You'll be able to see how I do this from
the gadget creation routines that are
present in the EasyBaseAC window
modules.
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Dave Hay me (Shareware)
The first thing that any Amiga owner should
purchase is a hard drive - using Workbench
from floppy disk soon becomes very irritat-
ing. However, the only problem with a hard
drive is when it goes wrong. And when
they go wrong you'll curse yourself for
not doing more to protect your precious
data.
Fortunately, much of the best application
software is Shareware and often appears
on the Amiga Computing coverdisks. One
such program is DiskSalv - an excellent
program that not only repairs hard
drive faults but can also recover previously
deleted files,
DiskSalv comes with an extremely user-
friendly interface that will even allow you
to repair and salvage files from floppy
disks. You can be sure that your hard drive
will choke at some time, so make DiskSalv
your top priority - be prepared.
1 1 ^ in #?rc etlerrt program
lor rejj.iFrjjig damaged hard drives
and im-04f#frng previously deleted
tries, It's shareware too!
BACKUP
Denis Gounelle & Reza Elghaii
(Shareware)
Protecting your hard drive is one thing but it
is also sound advice to back it up to floppy
dbks once every six months. There are many
good programs that will do this for you but
certainly the best, and rt's shareware, is
ABatkup.
ABackup allows you to store any part of
your hard drive onto a set of floppy disks
which you can, if you wish, restore back to
your hard drive at a later date - also via
ABackup.
Just like DiskSalv, it comes complete with
a very user-friendly interface which is self-
explanatory, even fen the beginner. ABackup
will calculate how many disks you will need
for your backup and even compress the files,
therefore reduce she amount of disks
required. Just like DiskSalv, ABackup is
essential for hard drive users and if data gets
damaged you will also have a recent backup
to restore.
n Keeping a regutor floppy hack up of ymtr
hard drive is essential and ABackup does it
ail tor you with earn* and speed
Jargon
Part 6
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chased from PD libraries alt fof if if pn€e of a d rsJk, Of
found on the Amiga Computing coverdisks. Shareware
m-i-ii.ns thn! i fof author Q ofy requires you fra pay q registro*
Lion fee if y-au trk,e and use the Hoftwors Shoremirn fS ikr
major backbone behind the Amiga's success rTna’ should
ne supported
PD - Public Domain companies provide sbt jrewarp
wqre for onfy l/ie ptke ut a disk plus a srnflii cmentig
charge fo keep the Company /n business. This ffnaOb yau
can purchase software for around f 3 - c bur gut ft i ihtnk
you *fl agree as much af rfie ahorewofe jofovctfr i j betfef
than its commercial counterparts
In this, the last
instalment Steve Whi
demonstrates essential
software for you and
your f
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CP Software (Commercial)
Unless you use your Amiga solely for games, which would
be a waste, all Amiga owner* eventually have to dabble
with files directly, whether ifs deleting, renaming, copying
or moving them. The only means Workbench provides to do
this is the Shell which although powerful is not very
user-friendly - especially for the beginner.
There are many good shareware file managers but by far
the best is a commercial product called Directory Opus by
SNOVAtromcs, Directory Opus has been around now for
quite a while but it still retains the File manager crown hol-
der. It is an excellent program that is completely config-
urable so as to provide the maximum power for your sys-
tem, as well as an interface suitable for your own require-
ments. Directory Opus allows you to manipulate files
every way as well as many other functions including vir
pictures, playing sounds and editing text The latest version!
5 but Directory Opus 4 is considered by users to be the
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IRUS CHECKER
John Veldthuis (Shareware)
A virus is a specially written program that attaches teeff
to your hard drive or floppy disks and goes all out to
destroy the data on them - usually accompanied by a
message from the sad and lonely individual who wrote
the virus.
The virus menace used to be fairly commonplace for
Amiga owners but thanks to virus killers the spread has
been severely reduced and new viruses are few and far
Wsi*
between,. However, it always pays to be cautious. Viir
Checker, by John Vddthuis, is certainly the best and mi
up-to-date virus killer there is, and constant upgrade
always ensure the virus threat is kept under control
Virus Checker is an unobtrusive program that simply si
in the background of Workbench and waits for disks to
inserted in your Amiga floppy drives. It then checks th
and if it finds anything suspicious informs you of tf
problem and asks you if you want it to be eradicated,
tt also has the ability to check a directory and its conti
for certain viruses as welt as kei
a constant eye on particular fill
that are vulnerable to ceitj
viruses such as the Startui
Sequence in the S directory.
H Yhm virus menace ia a
one so keep your
Afrlfeji weft-protected with
¥irus Checker by John
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Amiga Computing
JNt 1996
WE
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PROFESSIONAL
Hko Francois (Commercial)
The floppy disk, and to some extent the hard drive, do
have one major drawback and that is their capacity. A
Sloppy disk will fill very quickly and, due to the large pro-
grams that it can take, a hard drive will also do the same
eventually. Apart from deleting programs which you may
not want to do there is little else you can do. Or so it
seems.
PowerPacker Professional is a program which effectiv-
ely squashes programs so that they are smaller than
originally but still run. Although the programs take about
an extra two seconds to load (big deal), you can make a
saving of almost 50 per cent. This means that a hard drive
&f SSMb could be packed to hold 160Mb. An impressive
saving you'll agree, If you want to squeeze the most out of
your disks or hard drive, PowerFacker is an excellent
choice,
O You crpi intr^aj* Che stoMfje capacity of your
hard drirf Or Noppy rfj'alrs by compressing (ho
files with Pow*rP*Gk*r professional
Martin Huttenloher (Shareware)
When you first get your Amiga, Workbench looks fairly dull - four colour icons and no background. Workbench
provides plenty of programs to help you transform its look but they are still fairly limited with regards to design.
Magic WEI is not a program but a brand new face lift for Workbench which includes a collection of spanking new
icons for every program on Workbench and a large array of backdrops for you to drop on your desktop and
windows. The design work is excellent and gives Workbench that professional look it has always needed.
Also supplied are a series of new fonts as well as icons for floppy disks and every conceivable drawer you could
ever imagine. For the full version you have to become a registered user (see the jargon box below), but the price is
well worth it.
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repine omoni of
icons, fori (3 antf graphic
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B isk
expander
Stefan Gssowski {Commercial)
Although Po we rP acker is excellent at
compressing programs, its only drawback
is that you have to load it every time you
want to compress something. If you own
a hard drive, DiskExpander is an excellent
and powerful alternative.
Once installed, DiskExpandef com-
presses everything on your hard drive
and then sits forever in the background
compressing and uncompressing files as
they are copied onto and from your hard
drive. This process is so quick that you
will never notice it actually working.
There are several compressor* avail-
able with ftiskExpander which will allow
you to alter the type of compression -
fast but less compression or slow but
high compression - to suit your Own
requirements, with the best balance
increasing your hard drive's capacity by
up to 50 per cent.
If you want to return everything back
to normal, DiskExpander is also capable
of uncompressing everything back to its
original state as well as providing statis-
tics on how well the initial compression
perform edi
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OLM AN AG
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Stefan Becker (Shareware)
ToolMandger is an excellent shareware program that allows you to access programs at
it* mere dick of a button on your Workbench desktop. You tell it which programs
you wish to access and then how you want that program presented to you - either as
an image on the desktop or as an addition 4o the Tools menu on Workbench,
This means you don't have to go wading through windows and drawers in order to
access a particular program. All you have to do is click the program's ToolManager
Icon or select it from the Tools menu - ToolManager will do the rest.
v To miikv your Mi*
easier ToolMmnagar
provide# fjicl
access by
presenting
programs
graphically on Cliff
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right * fete of screen J
Jargon
D 0 X
Rtfiifriiion - □iT/ieuc^ n kjsj
shareware authors provide software
for free. sometimes certain features
rn o program are disabled ic enCQut‘
age you to register as a user. This
natmalfy involves sending □ imoiV
/E^isfjuciDJ'i fee to the user who, in
return, sends you q spedai Me (nor-
m ally cai'ud d keyfib) that unlocks
the dhukfed features. You ore invari-
ably also guaranteed free updates to
the software you f helve* registered.
(omprfUipfi - compreJJWfl H the
meoas by which a program rS com-
pacted to a smaifet r.n order to
make ft more portable Of fO Sffkr
Space, on u hard drive or floppy disk
Most compressors mditt foe pro-
grams uniiserifo unit! they are
uncompressed hut PawcrPuCker
compresses hfes so that they can be
f\jn ( making iJ on exceftcni drake for
saving space. Compressjm is otsa
referred to as pocking, cmnthifrg
pod Of chiving,
Qctamed
Tel jo Kinnunen (Commeicial)
If you have a musical bent you'll find your
Amiga finely suited to producing not only
sound samples but also producing complete
musical scores quickly and with ease.
The bost music editor available for the
Amiga is OctaMED, written by Tdjo
Kinnunen, which is now at version 6., It
allows you (o load in samples and add them
to a notation or track editor in what are
known as blocks which can then be bolted
together in any order to provide a complete
tune.
QctaMED also comes complete with a
sample editor which is almost as complete as
a dedicated sampler package. You can even
add special effects to your tunes and samples
in order to spice them up a little. OctaMED
also has a dedicated user group which pro-
vide tree samples, tunes and information for
members.
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System News
Tracksuit Manager 2
We haven’t had a football game for months and then two come
along at once, Typical
World Golf
It’s a long time since we had a golf game to review
We only wish it was good enough to challenge the
likes of MicroPros© Golf
Slamtitt
little metal balls and buzzers and things
Pinball is a _
You even get bright lights and sound - it’s great
Data Disk Special
When we use the word ’special’, it’s because
there are two data disks. If there had been a
couple more we would have used round-up
Championship Manager 2
Hurrah! Hip hip Hurrah! It's here, Yes it s here. No, it really is
here. Just have a took at this my son. Prepare to be amazed!
Featured
Ooh! Happy Birthday and that
Oh yeah. It’s our Birthday too. We’re \QQ
issues old, so you can send alt your presents
and cards to the usual address
Rugger. Let’s have a good old game of
rugger with big dirty blokes with thighs
the size of tree trunks, Er, I’ve changed
1
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Your essential guide to Amiga gaming
SYSTEM
news
By Andy Moddoek
Virtuol karting tor £15? || A trophy cabinet
TM have decided to re-reiea$e Virtual
Karting for Easter, They've also decb
ded to set a new price which is £14.99,
So hurrah for them.
OTM's Virtual Karting has gene even
cheaper. 4 bit of a ‘mare If you already
bought it but otherwise... great!
We hove been assured we will finally have a
preview copy of Atrophy very very soon -
hopefully as soon as next month. Tp keep you
in further suspense here's a piccie...
Here's the excellent title screen
piccie fro m the interesting new
shQDt- f em-up corning soon
’s nearly gone again
Many football fans are already pulling
their hair out as the football season Is
almost at a close and the final version
of Championship Manager 2 is still not
here. However, we hove been
promised we will have o reviewable
copy next month,
Also, Domark are said fo be
'moved 1 after all the response and
patience they have been given. So
remember - next month!
GTI Charts - March 1996
The big German distribution company have sent us their latest charts
from March i 996 so you can see what the best setting games have
been over the last few months.
Top Ten Amiga Games 1
Top Ten Amiga CD-ROMs
1 , Gloom Deluxe $
1 .. Aminet 10
2, Star Crusader AG A * fl
2, Amirvot Set 2
3, Sensible World of Soccer 1
3, Meeting Pearls
4, Breathless AG A B
4. Aminef 9
S. Slamtifl B
5. Gateway CD 2
6. Obsession B
6. Gamers Delight 1
7. Worms H
7. Aminet Set 1
8. Super Streetfiahter 2 AGA B
8. Amiga CD 3/96
9, Super Tennis Chomps jjL
9, Workbench Add On
10. Black Viper
1 0. Eric Schwartz CD
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Hey look, I’m Bonehead now
Yep, our com petition is hotting up as our mail
oag is filling up to the top once again with more
entries for our 'Song for the Amiga' competition,
Actually, we won't tell you how many we got,
but er, we could do with a few more. As I men-
tioned last month, the ones we have received
are absolutely brilliont and we will announce the
winner soon, Keep them coming f Come on. oil
you have to do is jot down some lyrics - it's as
easy as that, You don't have to perform it if you
don't want to.
Send your ’Song for the Amiga' to: Hey took, I
could be Guigsy next month!, System, Amiga
Computing, Medio House, Adlington Park,
Macclesfield SK10 4NP
The hilts are alive with the
sound at*. er sorry, wrong film
Oh dear
Last month we Informed you about how to
download a free demo copy of Alien Breed 3D
j 2, but we printed the wrong Internet address, If
you did try entering the address on your Web
browser, you would not have got very far,
I wilt come clean, it happened because 3
didn't have access to the Web to find the orig-
inal address and pianned to change it a later
date, Sorry,
Oh yes. that magic address is definitely
http://www.team 1 7. com/team I 7/Tl 7/ab3d/a
b3dli.html
As you can see the charts are quite surpris-
ing. Sensible World of Soccer third best fo
Gloom and Star Crusader? Also, Pinball
makes quite on appearance with the
excellent Slam tilt and Obsession. And to
lop off the charts, at 1 Oth place is a game
we’ve never heard of, so there you go.
The CO charts are quite predictable with
Aminet occupying four spots in the entire
top ten including the top spot with the
latest Aminet release. There is only one
actual game CD which appears and that's
Gamers Delight 1 which was far better than
the sequel. The last spot is taken by the
Eric Sehwort* picture and animation CD
which is, of course, excellent value for
money.
The Internet is great
Although you may have read elsewhere in the
issue that we have a Web site containing the
news, AC AS, ESP and other features contained
in the mag, did you know that System can be
accessed toe Yep, you will find the latest news
and possibly a review or too as well as a tips
section which we are working on at the
moment.
Let us know if you have any views or ideas
you could put forward to make it special, Write
to us at the usual address marking your letter
'System News/
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Next month
Okay so you’ve only just turned the first page of System and already you or© look-
ing at what could be coming next month. It doesn't matter though does it? Weil, it's
the first time weve ever done o System next month bit so it's quite exciting, isn't it?
Hopefully we'll hove a full review of Championship Manager 2, XTB Data Disk,
Legends, and we will also have previews of Atrophy and... well you'll hove to wait
and see because we promise it'll be another packed issue full of the latest news,
reviews and previews os usual.
review
Reviewed by Andy Maddock
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DISKS
4
HD INSTALL
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SUPPORTS
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Timekeepers
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□lean Software have delighted us con-
tinually in the past with releases such as
the excellent speech adventure
Valhalla and more recently Hill Sea
Lido, the seaside management simula-
tion, This time their data disk Is for the excruciat-
ingly frustrating puzzle game. Timekeepers.
It was sometime last year when it was reviewed
and for It's efforts managed to receive 80%, and
quite rightly so, It was an excellent puzzle game
destined to frustrate even the most patient of
people. It was viewed from above the action and
the idea was to guide these little things into this
kind of hole. Sounds easy, but no There were
loads of obstacles and annoying gadgets that
liked to prevent you from being successful,
the data disk has finally arrived containing 60
new levels aver four different worlds, but the main
area of improvement is the difficulty level, If you
thought you were a bit of a professional then think
again because the difficulty level has been
increased tenfold. Along with the brand new lev-
els there are slight graphical enhancements and
Super Skidmarks
S
uper Skidmarks. Is that what you get
after a curry? No, it's the data disk
for another excellent racer, this time
courtesy of Acid Software..
There are 12 new tracks and loads
mare cars, and there are even new champi-
onship modes for people who saw Skidmarks as o
walk in the park This one will bump up the diffi-
culty level tenfold as there are new difficulty lev-
els for you to mess around with. And that's not all
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to get them in those little holes. Dp you see?
no doubt it is generally made better. If you're
a big Timekeepers fan, £5.99 is really cheap tor
the package and you could do a lot worse. So
don't delay, update your copy of Timekeepers
today.
The package comes complete with a hard drivi
installation script so you can, thankfully, add evei
Single Skidmark disk into your collection - and;
when you buy this, there Is a need for a hart
drive. If you manage to swap this many disks you)
will end up with very sore hands and a red hot disk
drive.
Whether this add-on is worth £1 5 Is another mi
ter. If you like Skidmarks enough then go for if In
mind there's no better racing game of its type.
Cf5 for a data disk may seem expensive but if you
tike tfie garnet rt F s like a present from heaven
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excitement due to? Well, it was the
fact World Golf arrived in a CD case. It had to be
o gome for the CDi32, a gome which would
spring life into our now dusty and tattered 32-bit
I once got it hole In one in a game of soff-
it took me three shots... so or, move along!
wild machine. Without haste I spent half on hour
searching for a power pack to give the CD32 a
r .Rv life, It was oil set up. i was ready, I opened up
the case to discover a cleverly mode CD cose
which to my disappointment held,,, floppy disks!
After I was persuaded to come down from the
office roof I sat back and though hard about the
whole design concept. Some stationery meister
somewhere in the world must have thought of
ths. and my one and only question Is, why? To
assign a case to protect invaluable information
stored on floppies in the shape Of a CD case with
exactly the same specifications surely must be
one hell of a coincidence - or was it? It was part-
ly my own fault as it did state 'Amiga 3 1 /2~ Disks'
on the front.
So, golf then, It's not particularly a great sport
n my opinion. But when I'm a middle-aged busi-
-essman with a Sunday morning round of golf to
took forward to my opinion may change. As it
stands, it's basically a chance to smash golf balls
at people, blaming the results on the wind and
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make it as realistic as
possible 9
forgetting to shout "fore." Apex Software are
kicking off their Amiga game career with a gotf
game, it may not be the best choice although to
be honest, we have waited for ages for a proper
effort to follow Microprose Golf.
World Golf is viewed from a top-down, sidey
kind of view. It's difficult to explain, Your little golf-
ing sprite is about 10-15 pixels high and if looks as
if the main aim is to make it more of a simulation
for avid golfing fans than a graphical feosf for
any type of gamesplayer fo pick up and play.
AH the options such as dubs, direction and
power are on screen and can all be fiddled with
to enable you to make a half decent shot The
animation may not be quite what it should be but
It's possible to live with it - you II always be more
conscious of where the ball’s going rather than
where It came from.
GRAPHICS
GAMEPLAY
PUBLISHER
Apex Software
DEVELOPER
In-house
PRICE
£14.99
DISKS
2
HD INSTALL
No
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want from me?
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fancy then why not order if
via mail order. If you want to
order by credit card call
0114 296 7825, or it's also
available from:
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Final word
World Golf may not have the graphical
advantages of delights such as Sensible
Golf, PGA Tour or Microprose, but for a
keen golfer a III the options are there to
make it as realistic os possible. There's
also a nice little character design screen
that certainly doesn't look like the one
from Sensible Golf. Honest.
I'm pretty sure this will appeal to the
golfing fans among you - although I'm
not so sure about the neutrals. But, what
the hell! It's only £T 5!
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Reviewed by Tina Hackett
and Andy Maddock
ake our hand and let
us lead you down the
bright and cheery,
yet sometimes cloudy
streets that was and still Is
Gamer and System, Gamer, the
laddish rock ‘rV roll-type maga-
zine, hit the streets way back in
1991 and was later replaced in
1994 when System oppeared
with a more serious approach
(Hal) providing readers with a
more modern look and feel
using on almost electronic
design, Eventually we believed
the design was way ahead ot
the times and decided to give
it a more 'approachable' look,
and this is exactly what you're
looking at. Oh, Happy Birthday
to us... Tra la la.
Over the past few years.
Gamer and System have seen
many members of staff as well
as games. Some of them ever
came back to haunt us. Not
the games - the staff. Theri
have been good times an<
there have been bad timr
Wait, no there haven't, We'w
had more good times that
most and we continue to do
bringing you the latest nei
previews and reviews mon
than ever before, But befoi
we do that, here are soi
of the best games ever t<
grace the pages of Ami{
Computing.
Zool
Issue 36 May 199T
Issue 54 November 1 992
Reviewed by: Jason Halborn
Score: 97%
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Reviewed by: Ben styles
Score: 97%
I 'm not sure Psygnosis actu-
I M ally realised how much of
a success this could be when ,
they first laid eyes upon It,
Who would have thought
such a bizarre creature
with a bizarre will to live
could have been so
successful.
Lemmings boasted hun-
dreds of levels of puzzle
and problem solving
teasers and was,
and still is, one of
the most frustrating games
ever. Lemmings certainly
put Psygnosis on the
map and when if
was brought out on
other formats such as
the PC. their success increased even more, It
doesn't surprise me that Psygnosis are no longer.
Where are they now'? They're currently lapping it
up releasing games for the Playstation and PC
under the title Sony Interactive. Not bad consid-
ering their success has much to do with the
Amiga,
This, along with ZooL was the highest scored
game ever in Amigo Computing's game's sec-
tion, and whether it's still worth that Is definitely
much of a debate,
□ was never fond of Gremlin's platformer.
think it was because I was more interest!
In Sonic on the Megadrive - not that I shoi
mention it here. However Zool was a very
success and was certainly something to rival th<
Sonics and Marios of the world,
l know 97 per cent is a very big scare
according to serious gamer guru Ben Styles. y<
wouldn't regret it He was right too. Not mar
people, if any, regretted buying Zool, and If w<
one of the most successful games on the Amig<
and was ranked as the highest scoring gai
ever along wrth Lemmings. Eee, those were
days.
Like Psygnosis, Gremlin had a series of relei
ses before Zool and it was only after this relea:
that you could really notice them beginning
take off - recently too, with other successf
games such as Premier Manager 1, 2 and 3,
And to prove how popular it was, to this d<
wear my Zool T-shirt (Sad),
Secret of Monkey Island 2
Issue 51 August 1 99?
Reviewed by: Daniel Whitehead
Score: 95%
0 ack in the time Of Monkey Island
there weren't many other adven-
ture games available other than the
Incredibly crude and, might I add,
excellent Leisure Suit Larry series, and
Police Quest and Indiana Jones.
US Gold were another big Amiga
software house producing gam© after
game of outstanding quality. They
were noted for their film licences
which, two years ago, used to arrive In
abundance every day, although today
it is a different story
The game was one of the "irst to
amaze gamers by producing a massive
11 disks to swap and change every so
often, Back then, hard drives were
much of a luxury while today they’re
nothing short of □ necessity. So after swapping
disks this many times, was it worth the wait? Of
course it was, according to Daniel Whitehead
who recommended that fans of the gsnre
Pictured Above Ore former
editors Jonathan Maddock {Biff}
arid Paul Roundel! who are now
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should seek It out without delay. A whopping 95
per cent was the final verdict and i still believe
nothing has bettered it. Some have come close
but nothing has touched it in terms of playability.
Sensible World of Soccer
Issue 82 January 1 995
Score: 93%
To me, this was one of the finest games ever
, j on the Amiga. If it was up to myself. Sensible
Wbrld Of Soccer would hove received 98 per
cent just to make it the best game Amiga
Computing has ever had the pleasure to review.
Before SWOS there were a number of previous
efforts, each one slightly better than the last and.
of course, we must not forget the comedy Public
Domain versions featuring Apples. Oranges, War
Spacemen and my favourite, England versus
Germany back in 1966, which, of course, is seen
in black and white.
Don't forget there was life after SWOS, An
updated version was available courtesy o' Time
Warner who are associated wth Renegade, tt c.
< previous publishers. And following that was their
latest version. Sensible World of Soccer 95/96,
Simon Clays, who now works in
London for art other pt/tolfshirtg
house, used to be piJR fn-liHHrae
games expert
which featured new options such □straining and
management records and was generally made
better all round, which back at the first release
seemed pretty much impossible.
Adam Phillips previously wrote
for AC and now surfs fh* Mot
for The Web magazine
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Cannon Fodder
Issue 70 February 1 994
; Jonathan Maddock
Score: 94%
O ' his was another game by the successful
team Sensible, this time employing tittle 'sen-
sible men' to run around with big guns blowing up
the opposition.
Back then the world was Sensible Software's
oyster as they had a way of designing games with
this fantastic new method. Sadly, it was only used
for a sequel to this excellent game which didn't live
up to expectations, and also a rather poor golf
game which could have been so much better, it
was a bad choice and Sensible Software then
waved farewell to the Amiga market and made
for bigger and better things.
Cannon Fodder receivea a highly acclaimed
94 per cent from Jonathan Maddock and was
one of the many games to sport a ’Gamer Gold'
logo which is a symbol that goes down as a
significant point in history. The 'Gamer Gold' was
priceless.
There was serious trouble afoot before the
game's release, The slogan. War has never been so
much fun' and the logo of a poppy resulted In
Cannon Fodder being labelled 'monstrous' by an
outraged Liberal Democrat The ’Daily Star' labelled
the gome as 'shameful' and advised people not to
buy it, This in itself generated more publicity than
Sensible Software could have ever wanted.
In the end the poppy was removed and Cannon
Fodder became one of the most successful games
ever.
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Issue 94 Christmas T995
Reviewed by: Tina Hackett
Score: 93%
hanks to an imaginative setting, enjoyable
puzzles and intriguing plot. It has all the
ingredients to become a timeless classic/
Flight of the Amazon Queen Is probably one
of the most addictive adventure games to date.
Set In the Amazonian jungle, the plot follows the
exploits of Joe King, a pilot who is trying to rescue
the glamorous film star, Faye Russell, and on his trav-
els he meets various characters who will give him
clues or objects to find. Although there was nothing par-
ticularly new about this, what was particularly good was that
the storyline evolved as you went along and the puzzles, although faxing, were fairly
logical. You didn t find yourself stuck in one area - you could always move on. solve
something, then come back.
Binary Illusions and Warner Interactive chucked In a fair amount of humour, both
visual and spoken gags, which made the title move along at an entertaining rate. The
graphics looked pretty impressive too and It oil gelled together very nicely'
JlRB Nil
H lien Breed 3D is, and always will be, one of
the finest Doom clones on the Amiga,"
Doom, Doom Doom, There have been no
shortage of contenders over the fast six months
for the Tm Doom, but on the Amigo' contest, but
by far the best (and I have this on good author-
ity. well Andy’s anyway) was Alien Breed 3D,
Team 17 surprised us all when they announced
that the latest in their series of Breed games was
going to be from a 3D perspective, and desprte
cynicism that they were jumping on the band
wagon, we were alf damn impressed, Sound
effects added to the eerie atmosphere and the
many collectibles added variety. A messy test of
blowing up aliens, walking around gloomy pas-
sages and trying to find your way through the
mazes. Lovely.
Worms
Issue 96 February 1 996
ed by- Tina Hackett
Score: 91%
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Issue 95 January 1996
Score: 91%
t's been a long time since we saw a flight
simulator of this quality on the Amiga, and I
con guarantee you won't bs disappointed."
Not. as you might expect, a cute platformer
□bout a cuddly critter from Australia but a he II-
copter action game. Developed by Bitfusion
Virtual Realities and published by Empire, this vir-
tual reality arcade simulation looked nothing short
o? stunning. The developers created an impressive
3D setting which gave you a highly realistic flying
experience and not only that playability was spot
on too. Described back then by Andy as a cross
between Th underhawk and Desert Strike, there
were many missions to take part in - these were
set at different times, from dawn, noon, sunset
and night, Artificial intelligence was used to good
effect too, For example, you could fly around the
sky stalking other aircraft rather than getting
blown up yourself. The mixture of simulation and
arcade play proved a winning combination.
Andy Martin, oor pmloum
games gurii for Gamer t was
unfortunately involved #n a
road traffic acoidftnf* Wo hope
you get better aeon m-ata,
from all tfie AC crew
H ours of entertainment from one game - who'd
have thought that a garden invertebrate
could be so much fun?'''
Yes, you've probably heard the hype but even
so it was a great day for the Amiga when this
came out. It was released on all the new gener-
ation machines but what was it developed on?
None other than the Amiga. The idea behind this
was to control a team of worms against another
team of worms who all hove one mission in mind,
namely to destroy the opposition. Vou could then
choose from an array of weapons to blow the
enemy into oblivion.
This game was kind of an up-to-date
Scorched Tanks go me pi ay wise, but where *his
succeeded was with appealing graphics and
nasty methods of destruction for the Worms, Cute
little sound effects added to the appeal with the
characters screeching 'Fatality' or Stupid at
appropriate moments, Brilliant, what more can i
say?
Issue 96 February 1996
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a bit of a departure for Vulcan Software,
one were the murky browns and greys they were
) fond of and replacing them were bright colour-
ii settings of the seaside. The game was Hill Sea
do, a management simulator, and I don't mind
draining that this game had me gripped for
iany an hour when I should hove been doing
roper work.
The idea behind it was that you had to take a
ir ©Tty desolate looking beach and promenade
tnd turn it Into little gold mines, tt was something
ibout the fact that you could buy rubber dingy
tails and set up candy floss counters ali in
be name of a 'serious' business simulation. Cute lit-
le animations mixed with making decisions about
low high to set your prices and when to hire and
ire staff mad© for a highly entertaining game,
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Congratulations and respect go out fa them
for winning a place in Europe
D s It my imagination or Is it finally here?
Why don't you fust sit back and
breathe a sigh of relief because
Championship Manager 2 has finally
arrived - the waiting is over, The game
is almost completed and here's the preview.,
Championship Manager was spawned a long
time ago by a bloke named Oliver Collyer and he
was responsible for presenting us with just about
the best football gome - well actually, just about
the best game ever, It was so good lhat it even
managed to sell 300,000 copies across Europe
and when the update disks were released they
were like gold dust everywhere.
Now the sequel Is almost finished after being
put back month after month, The off idol release
date was 29 February and advertisements had
been put around months beforehand. But then
came the news that it would be put back another
month, However, I'm sure that If anyone has had
the chance to play the PC version then Amiga
owners will be crying out to Domprk to get them to
take their time and make sure they don't rush it as
it could spoil everything, PC owners will know all
about lengthy waits especially for installation and
for calculating results during mid’Season, although
how Domark will manage to squeeze an 8Mb PC
game onto a l Mb Amiga defies all logic - unless
they decide to cut out some of the main features
which would be disastrous.
The PC version contains sampled commentary
by none other than Clive Tyldsley and boasts
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striker Kevin Francis from Stockport. Wo
don't c are T ho wasn't that good anyway...
digitised pictures of every football ground in the
country - obviously the Amiga version can do
without these as they’d only take up disk spaa
which isn’t there anyway, but maybe it woul
be nice to say "Ooh, I've been there," or Tvs
stood there I have!' However, these so-calles
cosmetic changes shouldn't affect the actual
game at all.
So what about the actual game? Well, thera
will be 4000 accurate player stats and histories Ja
like the original, although this time if you manag<
to take your club team to a number of heig
during your career you can expect the nation
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Chinese whispers
A fantastic rumour which is circulating the
whole Amiga world is the ability to allow 92
human managers to battle it out against each
other, so If you've got 92 close mates who
promise not to trash your house when they lose
then you must be pretty amazing to have such
friends. So why the ability to have 92 human
managers? It's not as though you can invite the
entire pub round for a season or two, Is it for
Play-by-Mail competitions whereby you con run
a football management game via the excellent
British postal service? Who knows ., Who really
cares?
If you do happen to become a big fan of the
whole game you wilt be pleased to know that
later in the year. Do mark are planning to release
some data disks containing leagues from coun-
tries such as Italy. Spain and Germany - so all
those dreams of Kuntz and Ravioli will come true
after ail,
This is Les F&rtfm^rfrd, fte's a
great player. Ooh f yes. At least
Stockport didn't turn him ttown
baton he went ta QFH. Damn?
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Here's the next tot of fug/anri
fixtures, You ivo-n't have much
to do between them so make
your&etf a cuppa
job to appear - and considering it's popularity
and discussion during the last months you may
decide to stick with your club - but surely a hole
would be left on your achievement sheet. The
national job is supposed to be what football's alt
about - only the press seem to muck it up some-
what, This is easily the best aspect about
Championship Manager 2 - there is no press..,
you'll be pushed hard enough to moke your own
fans happy never mind anyone else,
Championship Manager will also follow the
actual season calendar so the Coca Cola Cup
first round matches may be played before the
Premier League starts, there will be weeks free in
tie top for International games, and the cups
such as European and Cup Winners will all be
played mid-week. If you're unlucky enough to
have matches postponed you can expect a
hefty build up of games during your last two
months. It's that realistic.
Hopefully, all the bugs will be wiped clean
from the sequel, especially for loan players. I’m
not sure whether this has happened to anyone
else but when l loaned a player out he stayed at
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the club until the end of the season, and when
the new one began he decided to disappear
completely from the entire game, It's probably
just me though, He was probably there all the
time.
Insight
If you can remember the amount of detail that
Championship Manager contained, There will
be a lot more. There are more stats fo look at so
even the biggest statistic buffs will think they're
In heaven. The match sequences have also
been drastically changed, adopting □ very
exciting look which certainly will not contain any
bland system fonts which make the game look
totally unprofessional
Anyone who's already ordered a copy of
Championship Manager 2 has done the right
thing. I've gat a feeling this will be one of the
best-selling Amiga games ever. You can check
out a full review hopefully next month - if it has-
n't been put back another month I
• Anyone
Championship
Manager 2
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93
Jan IBII
NPVi
A
ttef native Software have been noted
for their past releases such as Thomas
the Tank Engine's Pinball. Sooty and
Sweep paint packages and. more
recently. Tracksuit Manager 2 which is
reviewed In this issue. Who would have thought o
Yorkshire software house with such o crazy track
record could release an arcade Rugby game?
Rugby has appeared in the media limelight for
quite some time now, with the main area of dis-
cussion being the Super League. Some of the
great Rugby sides from all over the world have
already begun batltlng It out for the champi-
onship. The likes of Wigan, Casflefofd, Warrington
and St Helens are pitted against the likes of Paris
and er, that's it Well, at the moment,
fhe main attraction so for is the fact it will ibe
the first Rugby League game on the Amigo,
According to the company boss of Alternative
Software, Roger Hultey, he couldn't believe there
hadn't been a Rugby League game already:
"There have been plenty of Rugby Union games,
but that's not the same thing," The development
team involved are called Charybdis who hail from
Nottingham and have only been in the business
for a short time.
Previous efforts of a Rugby
game come from Audiogenic
with their game Rugby World
Cup which looked quite
impressive, although the
sprites failed to keep up
with the speed of the
action. I'm not sure where
the other game came from,
although it was viewed from
overhead like Kick Off 2 and
It wasn't at all bod.
However, two games is
never enough to ful-
fil the dreams of
Rugby loving
Amiga owners, so
can Pro Rugby
be the first Rugby
League game to
take the world by
storm?
The PC and Play -sta-
tion version of Pro
Rugby is still a long way
One more feature rumoured to appear in the Amiga version is the commentary, Yes,
l said commentary. Never before hove we heard a real life commentator on the
Amiga woffle on about the action. We all know about the Ami_
ties yet they never seem to be used in games - just music and graphic demos, If
you've watched a league match on Sky Sports you will have heard two of the best
commentators who have ever lived, the
greats like Hugh Johns or Kenneth Wolstenhome, but for entertainment they just
cannot be beaten. These men are Eddie Hemmings and Michael ’Stevo Stevenson.
Eddie is the main commentator on the action while Stevo will chip in with his quick
wit, making a superb comedy duo who cannot fail to please lhe commentators are
certainly the icing on the cake of what should be an absolutely brilliant
off completion, never mind
ihe Amiga version, so we’ve
decided to label it as work
In progress rather than a
preview,
Basically, the game w
be viewed from a halfway
line perspective (like a view
from a Main Stand) which is
-usually the best option for
the Amiga after seeing a
number of footbail games
adopting various
angles. lt r s also the
simplest and
! con see all
your players
on the pitch
so you can
plan attacks
and position
your line Of
defence.
Also, as the
gome is meant to
be os realistic as
possible the pitch will
become torn up as you
begin diving about the
pace, you will be able
to control and see the
spin on the ball when
you're passing it down
toe line, and a whole
lot more, Obviously,
details for this on the
Amiga are quite
sketchy but you
can bet that
Alternative
Software will squeeze as much as possible in for
Amiga fans to enjoy,
The graphics (although on the PC) are pretty
outstanding and feature massive sprites for the
YvU can see Ille sprites from tfi* PC version
took excellent - ehonlcy foe. TTiey t*fHI each
have their own* JmffviiflMf Joofc and personality
/u£f like realdife* I mentioned before that Pro
ftughy is a long way of eonTpJofiof? and it's diffl*
cult to say which features from the PC version
will make it into the final Amiga version.
The chosen one
So why Rugby League? Well, obviously it is the
best idea as It seems to have injected new life
into itself from the Super League - especially
with armchair supporters. However, the main
factor is that Roger Hulley is a big Castleford
fan and for him to see his own team in his own
game isn't bad,
Rugby League is also pretty strict in the way
it's played. For example, there can only be
five tackles then play must change hands.
You can imagine that this is slightly easier to
work into a computer program rather lhan
the Rugby Union approach where you don'1
stop and start as much, and there aren't as
many rules,
, players who will also have their own char-
„ acters, personality and looks. But again
these graphics will certainly excel on the PC,
so we'll just have to wait and see how clever
the programmers are in maintaining these
original features, it will be difficult, but worth
the wait.
• The graphics
(although on
the PC) are
outstanding
and feature
massive sprites
for the players
who will also
have their own
characters,
personality and
looks *
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SYSTEM
review
GRAPHICS
PUBLISHER
Alternative Software
£ 24,95
2
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Reviewed by Andy Mad dock
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Who am I? I'm Scottish. Vm pretty miserable, I think I know what Cm doing and I bought Andy Cole. Tee hem.
A
new football game? What's happen-
ing? Shouldn' t there be a Doom clone
here instead? Well the answer Is no, At
last we can review what all you gamers
have missed during the fast four months
- a brand new football management game.
And as you can see, on first looks Tracksuit
Manager 2 could possibly pass for the sequel to
the once reigning football management sim.
Championship Manager 2, The first Tracksuit
Manager was reputed to be either the first or one
of the first football management games ever, and
to be honest It showed It might've been quite a
game when it came out but try playing it now
and you'll be on the edge of throwing your
computer out of the window,
So Tracksuit Manager 2 is here and I know what
The whole game set-up takes IS minutes. It's a
good job that cuppa s only take about five to
make, so you can have three. Hoo-ray !
you wart to hear. Is It going to be as good
Championship Manager 2? Well, Let me tell ya
what it's all about,
Basically, if you've ever played Championshii
Manager you will know exactly what to exp<
You can manage an English club from the|
Premier League to the 3rd division and there is
real objective or goal (Ho ho) to be achieved -
you need is success,
When you begin the gome it will seem as if y<
are sitting down at your desk within the stadium -|
Incidentally, no other football managemei
game has used this idea to great effect apai
from On The Ball, You have access to a telephoi
for transfers, a filing cabinet to keep the cii
Match crisis
Now here comes the crunch. When you've m<
aged to cycle through each day to get to
match day (which, incidentally, is a Sunday!),
tactics screen comes up allowing you to alt*
your individual team tactics, name your captai
push players up or drop them back. Everything
set up. so you anxiously dick on the ’exit' butt<
and are lead to the match sequence screen.
Is where Tracksuit Manager falls flat an Its far
There are two badly digitised commentators
be ring to each other about the action whit
pauses for a number of seconds each time tl
ball goes out of play. There are two buttons
the right-hand side of the screen to speed up
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in m season drew 0-Q t It would be quite bland
Here's the Man City Staff list . As* Hartford used to manage
Stockport County you know. See* a use toss fact for you...
records in, the newspaper to check the head- green and red and os you switch between
lines, a calendar so you know what — screera vou will get a pretty badly digi-
day it is, and what's this? A pack
of Fizzy Ghewits? Yes, Fizzy
Chewits I said. Tracksuit
Manager 2 is sponsored by
those tangy flavoured
delights... right where's my
£50?
So everything O mana-
ger could need apart from
a £1 5 million striker is close at
hand. Now all you've got to do
is pick the team, negotiate bids,
and do all management -like
tised picture of Steve McManaman
and Rod Wallace, The interface
Is so friendly and perfect it’s a
shame it's presented in this
way. The fonts are big and
bold and you can always
see what you're doing
which helps a great deal.
( suppose I would go
as far as saying the actual
menu system is better than
Championship Manager, The team
selection screen is easier
tk ,. c .. trtnm to anyort0 know why you can't turn p^cause it informs you of the
things to take your learn to fht commmtators otf on $ ky sports
the top. anymore? Write in and tell us...
The actual interface is
players that have either been
injured or suspended by high-
quite cheap looking. The colours are d mix of
lighting the missing number from your squad,
Also, the finance is included In a lot more detail,
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action, but it still pauses, and If you score a goal
an annoying flashing display will come up and
you have to press the button to kick off again,
This, in my mind, defeats the object of speeding
the game up.
The whole presentation of the match looks iike
a PD program written in Amos, When you return
to your desk to view league tables it looks so
much better - it's like a different game, Although
the game lasts for seasons and seasons, I could-
n't get through the first month without becoming
annoyed and frustrated, Even the biandness of
the original Championship Manager's match
sequence was more enjoyable and exciting.
Here f s l/te complete squad* Here are
some players. Here are some
numbers..* Here's a bland caption
Here are all the cups. You can find them under
the menu Cups Man Utd will never win again'
4 If you think
you can put
up with the
awful match
screens then
there's
enough detail
here to satisfy
you to make
up for It}
Final word
The only thing stopping
Tracksuit Manager from
being a Premiership con-
tender is the truly awful
match screens. If you think
you can put up with them
there's enough detail here
to satisfy you to make up for
it although with Champion -
ship Manager 2 minutes
away, maybe you should
think twice,
jin i»i
SYSTEM
review
GRAPHICS
The graphics use a graffiti
style which works well
LanesJtvcr forces the belt back info play ivhen
ft would otherwise disappear down the lane
PUBLISHER
2Tst Century
DEVELOPER
Liquid Design
PRICE
£29.99
DISKS
5
HD INSTALL
Yes
A1200/A4000
iicpurd Pei/fifn, a Swedish
team, fpok eerie in to make
their mark with fjhis title
A
s any Amiga gamesplayer will know,
publishers 21 st Century have always
been prolific in bringing out high qual-
ity titles for the platform, Their games
usually fall info the category of pin-
ballers and each time a new one comes out it
seems a step up from the last one they released -
despite the fact you thought that one couldn't
get any better, Firstly there was Pinball Dreams,
then Fantasies then Illusions, All getting better
each time.
However, sometime last year they brought out
a title which unfortunately brake this rule. And
nobody was impressed - except perhaps Amiga
Technologies who made the questionable deci-
sion to include the game, Pinball Mania, In their
MagicPack bundle. The problem with this title,
though, was that rhe development team they'd
chosen was different to the one who'd done the
other games. This new team didn't quite have the
flair that Digital illusions had and although not a
terrible title. It wasn't that wonderful either.
6 There has been no
compromise on
gameplay, graphics or
sound and you
immediately get the
feeling of a polished
product ^
Mediocre most aptly described it, After that we d
pretty much given up hope, We thought 2 1st
Century might, at this point, just give up on us all.
Fortunately though, they must still have faith in the
Amiga platform, and good on them too. Signing
up the talents of a new Swedish team, Liquid
Dezign, a new title wag soon on the horizon, ft
happened quicker than you could say "If s a new
pinball game from 21st Century" and no sooner
had we rime to do a preview then we were sent
the final copy - no delays or anything - ready to
review. Too good to be true?’ we thought. Weil,
no It's pretty impressive stuff,
Despite a speedy release, there has been no
compromise on gameplay, graphics or sound
and you immediately get the feeling of a pol-
ished product - and one which will boost a jaded
Amiga gamesplayers collection You get four
tables to fry your hond at, and each is themed
and has music, graphics and missions to match
First up is Mean Machines, a motor racing table.
illt 1111
91
Pirates: sfi-ooi (he Mmrmmtd
Ball-Trap ta get the Mermaid
bonus. This smarts at i t QQQ,QOQ
points but can he raised
(hrdu^h the Magnatafate- This
r* a mii^nctid pJayfreJd where
there are magnets placed
under the red lamps - these
can he controlled with the
flippers. Vou will also have to
control a mutiny and a raging
storm, various mufti-fash
modes-
Mean Machines: hit
the road as you pit
your wits against
Monster Car Mode
where you can use
your Monster car to
crush the smafJer
car5 r or Formula f
Race Mode where you
use the flipper keys to
steer you car around
the true* shown on
the scorepanel video-
Ace of Space: Survival in space
is the name of the game. You wifi
have to destroy the Asteroid Belt
and fcjJ! the Aliens with your
flamethrower in the S-faall multi*
hail mode- The Final Mode is The
Big Blam where you can destroy
the whole universe. When youWe
played Ihrough every mode then
voti can Irr your hand at this 4-
mghi of demons: This is
fhe horror themed table
and you will need fo
defend yourself against
the evil Zombies. To hill a
Zombie and earn an extra
5. POOp 000 points r shoot
«iny ramp showing a
flashing yellow lamp . If in
Bat Stftcher Mode you will
have to shoot the flying
bat from fhe shy with your
shotgun.
to Pirates you will need to defend yourself from
sharks and can dive for sunken treasure
the next is Pirates, with, (surprise) pirates, piranhas
and mutiny, Ace of Space has a futuristic theme
where space ships, asteroids and aliens provide
ihe setting, and lastly, Night of Demons is a fable
inhabited by a naked (bar a strategically placed
: serpent) vampiress. Being a pinballer there s not
T Yacks and ramps have been well
designed for players of ail skills
a great deal to explain about the gameplay -
you simply use the keys to flip the flippers and
send fhe ball snooting around the table, There are
plenty of missions fo get to grips with and each
table has a variety of modes to keep things differ-
>
Video modes
The Video Modes are played in the
scorepanel and add some variety to the
game. Here are some that are available-.
No Brain No Pain - you must try and keep
track of where the brain is going while the
skulls are rotated. When they stop you have
to pick the skull that the brain is in.
Death Planet - fly your ship through the inner
tunnels of the planet to get to the centre,
It's harder than it sounds because you have
to guide your ship through the narrow
tunnels with the flipper keys.
Knife Throwing - throw knives at your ene-
mies and try to avoid being taken out by
cannon fire. The flipper keys allow you to
move left and right whilst the return key will
throw a knife.
Formula 1 Race - there are^ix windy tracks
that you have to steer your car around with
the flipper keys, Don't bump your car too
much though as you will lose energy
SYSTEM
review
i Graphically,
the tables are
well drawn and
detailed
enough to look
good but not so
much as to
interfere with
the gameplay •
Ace of Space of fers a video mode which has
you pitting your skills against depth-defying
tunnels in your space ship
ent What makes this rather different from the
rest, though, is the LED score panel at the top of
the screen, Rather than just showing simply the
score, you also get various video modes which
provide different arcade challenges. On Mean
Machines, for example, the video mode shows a
car which you'll have to guide around the track
with the flipper keys. These extra challenges work
exceptionally well (although they definitely don't
have enough gameplay to stand up In their own
right) and keep things interesting,
As far as the main gameplay goes, the move-
ment of both the ball and the flippers feels real-
istic and the tables vary from being quite simple
with only a few tracks to windy, complex efforts
where you'll need to keep your eyes peeled. The
J
Night at the Demons looks quite simple in tayout
but the various missions keep it taxing
Jin lilt
The scorcpanet at the top provides animation* J-
add atmosphere such as giving the impression
you are flying through the gmtany
sound effects also work well in enhancing
realism. Graphically, the fables are well dras
and detailed enough to look good but not
much as to interfere with the gameplay, Night
Demons, for example, may suit a beginner beft<
as the table is quite plain with only a few rami
and tracks. These different levels of difficult
whether intentional or not, work well and
the game ideal for any pinball player - whethf
novice or expert .
There are some other nice little extras such
a Lanesaver Feature which is a metal fence
the sidelane which forces the ball bock into pl<
instead of allowing it to be iost down the sit
lane. Another is the Mag notable which is a ma;
netlc playfield where you control the magnel
with the flipper keys to get the ball loekt
between them which results In various awards.
al word
Siam fitt is without a doubt an excellent title,
the one level this is an accurate simulation
the real thing (as much as it can be in 2D ai
way) and on another, the arcade elei
makes for something different to keep It vari
Graphics are colourful and detailed with
designed tracks and ramps to keep each tat
individual. The cartoon style in the scorepi
adds novelty too.
The sound tracks work well enoui
(although some are rather cliched such as
rock tune), and they accompany each tal
appropriately, Whether it is up to the
standards as Digital Illusions' last veni
Pinball Illusions, is really going to be down
individual preference. It's up to the same q\
ify technically and it does look as good,
whether you buy it or not depends on whetl
you're bored of Illusions. This is a great g<
and if Liquid Dezign keep this up then it
tainly looks like this new team have a orii
future ahead of them. Let's hope their
plans Include the Amiga.
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This month Frank
Nord presents
three handy hints
and tips for
Workbench users
m fg iruses ore s«ary things made scarier by she
media now thai ihey seem to hove lalched
onto ne silicon version af AIDS os news-
I worthy copy, But as on Amigo owner you
{□n real easy about mosl of ihe viruses yon read
obout in the pope* - theyll only affect PC owners.
There om o lot of myitis obout viruses, probably
spread by their creators, thai leod to people being
^necessarily warned aboui their software odle^tion.
You don't hove to worry oboul catching o virus From a
3isk brmaHed under anything other than AmigaDQS,
Iso don't worry aboui putting PC disks into your drive.
You don't have to worry obau* a virus contaminating
your Amigo's clock or Kiek&tort ftOM, it won'l hap-
oert r you don't even need to worry about o virus
invading your machine vio modem, although if you
download software and the archive has a virus, you
wiM have a problem.
There are certain measures you can take to ensure
hat your exposure to viruses is minimal. The First is to
make sure you know the source of each and every
Floppy disk you use on your machine, and, iF you are
; del * games player: make sure you hum oFf your
machine for about a minute between different games.
You should also always keep diski write-protected
whenever possible. There's not much point write pro-
tecting your hand drive, of course, but then you'll
probably be onto the next stage of protection
anyway.
The next stage is to moke sure you have some sort
of virus checker running, Although new viruses for the
Amiga seem to have toiled off somewhat (is this real
proof that o machine is in decline? Noone wants to
write viruses far if?], shere ore still plenty of PD
programs dedicated to eradicating the ones that do
exist. AC 5 firm favourite is still Virus Checker, even:
thought the newest versions of it seem o little blocted
in size, but it doesn't really matter which one you
choose, they all do the job admirably.
Dragon who?
Wot Orogfdn who,! drag ‘n drop* T ft is fcflfur? of the OS is much underused by
owners, even though it hai been routed os the next best fhing by Microsoft
and Apple in the latest versions of their operating systems* The Amigo has had
drag f n drop capabilities for a long time now and quite o lot of programmers hove
included things coifed App Windows, AppMe nus and App Icons in their programs, flut
what ore they?
Wei/, Appwindaws ore windows in a program that you ran drag icons to load
them or perform operations on them, fxomp/ei of this would include Too/sDoemon
2.1 and SworJftfo* Try dragging icons into the windows af either of these two pro-
grams or many orb ers and see what happens. App Menus put a new menu item on
your foots menu that a/fows you to access the program that treated it easily , espe-
cioffy if you have a lot of screens open, and Applcons are also there to make access
to programs that use another screen easier* Try dragging a pichire fife onto QPaint's
Appkon and see what happens. These aren't the only programs to hove these
features, so check all the stuff on your hord drive now for App- compatibility!
Mvd Dftvo PrepariElori, P*rl fconing and ForritfUrr^
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HDT&afboK nirght fravp beeit
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H DToolbox
Hove you got o third-party SCSI/fPE ton f roller?
Do you have Commodore 1 ! HD Toolbox program
sitting on your machine doing nothing, because
your herd drive software come with o configu-
ration tool? Well, if your controller supports the
RUB standard* as most do these days, then you
con use HDToo/box to prep and partition your
hard drive ond hare the added security of the
knowledge that you can follow the instructions
laid dawn by Commodore, and taken up by
Amiga Tcdinalogies, for the formatting of hard
disk drives*
All you need do to get the program working
is examine HD Toolbox f s foof types* wfll see a
tooltype colled "SCSI DtVICE NAMS^ You con
change this to match the SCSI device used by
your controller* For example, the SCSI device for
an Qktogon is called oktogan, device , while
that for a GVP hard drive controller is known os
^gvpicsfi device ^ Activate the foo/fype by remov-
ing the brockets around it and add your device
name, making sure you use the some cose, Now*
when you use HDfaofbox, if will look far the
drive (or drives I on that card .
Further, if you have a CD-ROM drive that
causes you problems when you boaf (the
Amiga looks for something to boot from the CD
and it fakes ages], then you can do this* Make
your CD-ROM drive's SCSI ID d, if at all possible
- some A 3 000 owners won't be able to
fake advantage of this tip - and load
HD Too /box to check you've done if right.
d open its
altvae that
says as tne max aaoress ro inis wm stop
HDToofbox from seeing you CD-ROM drive*
It won f matter to the CD-ROM or your SCSI
controller, they'll stiff be able to see it, but if
you go into HDToofbex now you'JJ sea that the
drive with the highest unit number now, has a
changed' mork on it. Save the changes to the
drive foil that's happened if that the flog that
marks the last unit in the SCSI chain has;
been updated! ond now when you reboot
you should have no trouble with that pesky
CD-ROM drive r
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JUNE 1996
Paul Overaa looks at
the official Amiga
include files and 1
outlines the benefits
they offer
T o a large extent; coming to terms wish
690x0 coding on ihe Amigo simply means
coming lo teems with the purpose and use
of the routines present in the Amigo's sys-
tem libraries, Exec r DOS, intuition, godhxJs and so
on all provide ihe programmer with massive eolfee-
lions af functions lhai simplify a great many coding
tests.
To ease the burden on programmers,
Commodore, now Amiga Technologies,, make avail-
able a variety of system Files containing thousands
of EQUoie definition^ macros,, system slruchjre tem-
plates and so Forth. IKe existence of these Files helps
in two ways: Firstly r it eliminates the need For pro-
grammers to create theif own definitions (a jab
which is dearly bolh time consuming and error
prone), and secondly, it promoles standardisation -
alt |or mast) Amiga programmers soon get into the
habit of using the ready made definitions provided
in the includes.
Recognisable
There ore, in fad, two versions of the system files. C
programmers use o set of header files' con laming,
os expected, Gstyle system definitions and these
files con be easily recognised, nol only by their con
tents but by the fad they all have J .h‘ filename
extensions Assembler programmers have □ similarly
arranged set of system definitions wrilten in ways
usable to the 680x0 coder. These 'include' files ore
again always instantly recog nisobfo since they have
\i filename extensions.
The Amiga system files then provide the C and
assembly language programmer with broadly paral-
lel universes, A C programmer mighl, for instance,
use definitions token from the devices/ send. h head-
er file. Someone coding a similar application using
680x0 assembler would use the device s/serial.i
include hie.
AIE commercial assemble* packages, such as
Devpac, came with □ set of ihe assembly language
versions of the include files. Public domain assem-
blers, such as Charlie Gibb's A68k, da not and, in
this latter case, the files hove to be purchased sepa-
rately, There are, in fact, some significant advan-
tages to buying the separate official files anyway
because you nol only get the includes themselves
but the function autadocs - text files which explain
Compatibility issues
The latest system hies avoffabte are Far version 39* T of fhe Amiga's operating sysfem
and these, life# afJ previous releases, ore 'backwards compatible'. This means, for
example? that a Workbench I. J -based programmer ran use fhe up**0'dafe system
Fites providing fhey stick to using only those library routines which were, in fact,
available with fhe L3 operating system release *
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Serious about the
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your code there's a utility called Find Hil that will fry
lo locate the source line that caused on Enforcer
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of the SegLists created as programs are scatter
loaded, toob called Mungwdl and Munglist that
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owners of memory blocks in use. Dozens of other
programs ore thrown in os well. You also gel the
Amigo FD (function description) files and utilities
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the only aulhoriitative prinled details of Amiga
library fundi on use, those in the Addbon Wesley
Includes 4 Autodocs ROM Kernel Reference Manual
|RKMf, ore now very aul of dote. Even ihe iatesl
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This month Paul
Overaa offers a
beginners eye
view of how ARexx
oerforms its magic
A while ago someone wrote to me asking
how ARexx allows programs to communi-
cate with each other, You knowj, how
AJRexx makes sure ihoi ihe right messages
end up being senl to the right programs and so on,
Since this is 0 1op;€ which might be of interest to quite a
few ARexx users, I thought I'd devote this month's instal-
ment to explaining the general principles behind the
A Rexx messaging system,
The First point worth making mgy came as a bi* erf a
&hock - you see AUexx doesn' t octeolky do that much af
ihe communicahons wort itself, Instead it mokes use d
the general message passing facilities that Exec
provides, and il is here ihoi <he story really stork.
Exec is the Amiga's multi-tasking executive, In other
words it is the part of ihe Amiga's operating system
which controls sharing the Amiga's processor time
between all the programs lhal ore running in. Exec also
performs o host of other operating system 'housekeep-
ing' [abs and many oF ils facilities are based on
generalised routines presenl in ihe Exec library.
One of Exec’s support arrangements is o message
system based on the use of a system structure known as
q message pari and any program which needs tg cam«
municate with another has therefore, as a first step, to
&ei up one of these message ports. Ta transmit a mes-
sage □ program will allocate a blodk of memory, fill it
with ihe data which farms the message, and then send
ii to the message port belonging to the destination
program,
Once a message has been collected, i.e, unlinked
from ihe receiving program's message port and used, it
ge«s ‘repl ed' la This is a job which involves ihe pro-
gram which received ihe message linking lhat same
message into Ihe message pari af the program that orig-
inal ly sent ihe message. The only difference on this
return |Oumey is that the message will be given a fin-
ished wirtV marker - tins tells the sender that the mes-
sage has been dealt with and, therefore, that ihe block
of mem cry being used for ihe message is free For re-use.
But nothing moves
f very one talks fn terms of these messages being sent and revived because that, in a
logical sense, is whof s happening. Information is being passed from one task to
another. If* actual fact, however, nothing realty gets 'sent', copied, or moved of alt -
the data that forms the message stays exactly where if is in memory. What happens
is that the block of memory representing the 'message has various address fields
present which get adjusted so that the message gets 'logically attached to the
message port it is destined for.
The good thing about this arrangement is that there if never any need to copy the
message information * Programs that receive a message read the contents of the very
some block of memory that the program sending the message allocated, and this
makes the arrangement extremely fast «
Another important point about Exec-style messages is that the Exec arrangements
only specify the fay out af the initial port of the message (list pointer areas and so
onj. Exec ignores the rest of the message contents so programs ore free to add on ta
the basic Exec message structure any data they wont.
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OW FOR THE AREXX CONNECTION
ARexx parts are just ordinary Exec message
port Si Nothing more, nothing less * They are
referred to as 'ARexx ports simply because
they ore being used to collect ARexx -oriented
messages. Similarly, ARexx messages, as you
hove now probably guessed, are just ordinary
Exec-style messages, with the only distinctive
feature being that they have Aflexx»specifrc
information tagged on,
ARexx's real jab, as far as its communica-
tions facilities are concerned then, is primarily
to act as a sort of control centre. Programs
send their messages to ARexx using Exec func-
tions, and ARexx sends then? on to the required
destination, again using Exec functions * How
does ARexx know where the messages should
be going? Weil, as for os the scripts that you
write are concerned, you tefl it by having your
script set the current host using the ADDRESS
command .
ARexx checks far and, all being welt, locates
these ports by looking at a 'public ports' list
which Exec maintains* Because of this any port
that is used for ARexx communications has to
be mode visible to the system by h oving its
name added to this list (this is something which
is taken core of automatically by any program
which contains an ARexx interface }, Luckily, all
this complexity is transparent to the ARexx
user because almost all the communications
magic gets handled automatically* As far as
ARexx parts ore concerned, there are only two
things ARexx users need ro remember* Firstly f
a message part must be recognisable to ARexx
af the time you try to communicate with if- In
other words, the program you wish to 'talk to'
must be up and running before you try talk to
if via ARexx,
Secondly , you need to be aware of the fact
that the functions used to search the Exec public
ports Jilt ore case sensitive * This, by the way, is
the reason why when you get the case of o
port name wrong in an ARexx script the port
never gets found and ARexx issues on error
message!
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JUNE 19 96
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Dove Cusick extols
the virtues of Internet
Relay Chat - the
Nets best
conversation kit
M
W hen ihe moss media talk about the
Internet whgt they mean is, of
course, the World Wide Web- With
■i*. Its stylish front-end it certainly bob
ih-e part, and indeed the impression lhat many
advertisers give is that ihe WWW is the be-all and
end-all of the Net,
Admittedly, if appearances counted For every-
thing, this might be ihe case. &ul there are plenty of
other considerations - interactivity being a prime
one. Surfing the Web is often □ lonely pastime Yes,
you could participate in o heated discussion on a
Web Chat site, but it's a slow off air, if you really
want to have a conversation over the Net, by for
the best option is lo try IRC, or Internet Relay Chat.
On an IRC channel it is possible to exchange
□pinions and advice m a mailer of seconds, not
only with the people on the channel as a group, but
also by engaging in private conversations with ane
other person at a time. You can also transfer files
directly ffom one user to another, and many chan-
nels also support exlro commands which ore
granted to certain users individually
There are plenty of Amiga-specific chat channels,
although my personal favourite is easily
#Amigacofe- Even an IRC newbie is welcomed
*Amigacafe
has a Wet
jjr«s*nce loo
All the standard IRC commands can be accessed
at Ihe click of a button, and after o little playing
around with ihe settings it is possible to customise
Am IRC to your precise requirement! Silly sound
AmiRCt (ft* JffC
ch#*l tfr*(
tailing
in Jflve tiHiA
Raising (Browse
At ffie rime of writing, (Browse pre-release demo 5 fversmn
0,8 fji bos jMt arrived, wifri new demos seemingly appear-
ing of monfrify intervals, Whi/st it is jfiH not the most sfabJe
of application*, the program look* drop 'dead gorgeous
and is a joy to u*e. However, you ' re not in the habit of
reading dacomenfarion, make sure you of least take a lock
at the details of known bugs- browse bos been known to
fake down hard drives if if crashes whilst writing to the
cache file, so Vd strongly advise using a RAMt cache if
possible .
there, and the atmosphere is always friendly and
often very entertaining. Things are nicely organ
ised, with elected Ops keeping an eye on ihe pro-
ceedings, and Rangers who step in when there
aren’t many Ops around. However, the supervision
is refreshingly low-key and friendly, and you need
not fear being booted off the channe- without good
reason. After a couple of visits, no matter what lime
of ihe day oir nig hi you turn up, ihe chances ore
you II get to know the regulars well. Some charac-
ters seem lo be more or less permanently conn Eded
- these are the student folk (most notably horn
Canterbury] whose Amigas are actually connected
to the Net from iheir rooms. Talk about
convenience,-.
Indeed most IRC channels inevitably tend to be
dominantly populated by university students with
free Mel access, although this is probably typical af
the Net os o whale „ It's not necessarily o bod thing
anyway. Not oniy ore students a generally Friendly
bunch, but their standard of English tends to be
exlremely high, even if it s not iheir first language!
With the emergence in recent months of
Vaporware's excellent AmIRC dtenl, there really is
no reason not to get involved in IRC. This marvel-
lous application, which will of course be making a
welcome appearance in Amiga Technologies'
Surfer Pact, makes use of Stefan Sfuritz's hugely
popular MUI. This boasts a beautiful user interface
that is really simple to operate. AmIRC is also heav-
ily laden with incredibly useful options, all af which
are explained tn the accompanying documentation.
effects con even be added, and the ARexx support
means that scripts can be executed easily. These
could perform handy operations like launching a
mailer program, as with Oliver Campion's YamlRC
script. On the other hond, they could just he for
amusement - such os the highly comical Chef scrip*,
which turns everything you say into ihe mack
Swedish spoken by the Sesame Stree* chef. Ask nice-
ly and somebody on an Amiga channel will happily
send you the scripts using the DCC file transfer
method,
Don't bother grappling with the likes af
Grapevine, good though i* is - toddle along to
Aminel and download ihe unregistered version af
AmIRC now and you couid be chatting owgy within
minutes, Don't forget lo register it later though, ond if
you are not one of the lucky few who has a free con-
nection, remember to keep an eye on the phone bill
because charting con be addictive, It's generally a
good idea to do your Web surfing in the background
at the same time, assuming you have sufficient memo-
ry lo do so. rd also get into ihe habit of running a
phonebill meter (such os Gnlineometer] on your IRC
screen so you don't get corned away.
If you fancy finding out a little more about IRC
before you leap in, there are o couple- o<f useU Web
pages you might like to visit;
IRGnbrmation:
http:://www2 . under net.org : SGSQ/^csWj (1/ IRC . html
#Amigacafe home page:
http: //www, ocropoli s.net/clu bs/om iga/omiga_cafe/
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money? Stationery
packs are an easy
money spinner, as
Frank Nord explains
Completely
stationery
S \q hungry pacta are an everyday nECEsaity
for companies and individuals who write a
lot of letters, and can be made easily and
v: cheaply an the equipment you hove at
home. Let's start with personalised stationery and
move onto ihe more serious business of creating
corporate stationery.
The first thing to bear in mind if yau are going lo
sell your services to individuals is ihe fact that they
a r e notoriously fickle and indecisive Don't offer up
your entire font Jist for appraisal, yaull never get a
dec? sion. Just after a menu of a few styles, say eight
or ten, in a variety of ihemes - bc^d, fancy, futuris-
tic, and so an. f^ost of yaur customers are going to
be letter writers SO you won't hove too much call far
real y funky display faces - they just won't appeal
to the sort of person who likes to write letters lo
people n stead of e-moil. So go with □ conservative
mix with jusi a couple of the more outlandish fonts,
far variety's sake.
Set up a print sample haoklet with a fake name
ond address used as the beheading, jusi so peo-
ple can see exactly how their letterhead will look,
and bear in mi nd the fact that plain copier bond
isn't redly good enough ro charge money for letter-
heads. It definitely pays to look for nice paper to
offer yaur customers. PoperDirect is c great source
of paper that looks very professional {including vel-
lum effect and patterned papers} ond they offer
papers at up lo 1 35gs*n r for that really weighty feel
|of dinary copier bard is usually BGgsm'U They also
have heat transfer foil that you can use
with a loser printer to really ]ozz up 1
Four very simple
designs knocked up
in (wo minutes flat -
I'm sure you can do
better
letterheads., al on additional cost of
course.
Final presentation will also help you
sell yaur product and a nice bit of ribbon
to lie ihe paper together is o goad touch,
as would be a box lo keep the paper in.
Now, before you ail rush la yaur local
printers to gel A4 boxes, stop for a
minute and let me explain the really
goad bil to you. If you are going ta
make up a box of 4& sheets of writing
paper, you will anfy use 12 sheets of A4
and only actually print on, say. four of
those sheets. Why? Because nobody
writes falters on A4, and Basildon Bond
certainly isn't available at thal si zb. No,
people write on A5 paper, a quarter the
size of A4, saving you heaps of cash for
paper and your printer's loner cartridge
or ink refills.
So the answer lo your box size ques-
tion fs to gel a box lhar is capable of
holding 43 sheets of A5 paper,
envelopes and the rihbon la fie ihem with
One individual ! know of actually went to his
local printer ond go! a set of 50 of these boxes
made up with a nice marbled finished and lined
interior for about £30. Not loo much to ask far,
□nd it will have o great impression when given lo
the punter.
Although this enterprise can be seen as □
license to prim money, you'll need lo know whai
Id charge people, f have seen personalised sta-
tionery packs advertised far as much as
£30, but I think these were
probably printed on gold leaf
or something to warrant this
high a price tag. I think o price
sel somewhere between £10
and £20 h reasonable and
mokes o good gift idea, far reta
lives. If you were to charge £10
fof the pock of 48 sheets, you
could probably expect to moke
somewhere between £6 and £8 in
profit, provided you aren't required
to post the pock anywhere. This
would break down to aboul 50p for
ihe box and soy 2Qp for the ribbon,
£1 for the envelopes Ond 5Qp fof ihe
paper, plus costs For printing the sam-
ple booklet and advertising, Your ser-
vice won'i appeal to absolutely every-
one, fewer and fewer people seem to
hand write letters these days, but you
should be able io moke a tidy sum, partic-
ularly at Christmas lime,
‘w o test points: the first *s to keep a
database of your customers’ names and
addresses |she dtp File for
their letter head shouldn’t be too big to store either},
just for future use. You may be able lo sell them
alher services like the company stationery packs we
will discuss next month, o-r invitations, etc,
The second point h la include a reorder sheet in
with every stationery pack so that the receiver of
your customer's generosity will be able to gel
more stationery without having to go through a
middleman.
Printer
power
A note now on your printer's copobifi*
fies. Be warned that people aren't going
>o be wiffing to fork out a handful of
cash for printing work that has banding ,
or that has soaked the paper and made
it wrinkly , Spend some time making sure
your printer is giving The absolute best
performance ft con ond Then ju dge
whether or nor you Think people will be
prepared to pay for its output. You may
as well give up now if you only have a
nine pin dot matrix, but a decent inkjet
or any sort of laser printer should be
sufficient for the job.
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Phil South begins a
series about how to
olan and execute
an Amos program
T his is o subject I come back to lime after
time, and is it any wonder, the amount of
mail and e-mail I get asking me how to write
Amos programs* I'm not running a corre-
spondence course, in Case you were wandering, but
at Limes it feels □ bit like it, i though! it was time to
visit Amos afresh, and show how you would plot out
and plan a program from start to finish, and how
you would ensure ihol no! only does ihe program
perform well but also is easy and attracts? la use,
Before you even start Amos up, and I've said this
time and again, you should have a plan. Of course,
like most things, you might get your ideas from a
piece of code or on experiment you've conducted,
or a routine which you've evolved which does some-
rhrng cool, Sul ideas can't be developed into a fully
functioning program by hocking away a! the pro-
gram editor and hoping lhal you remember to hong
everything together. You hove to figure out what the
program wifi do frrst, what order things will happen,
and how the program will look on screen.
Interface development h a key issue in the mak-
ing of any software, and the user should know just
by looking at your screen what he has to da and
which button he should press to get the effect lie’s
looking far. I see so many Amos programs which
have horrible graphics ond difficult to fathom con-
trols and, worse still, methods of working the pro-
gram which are counter inluitive. Graphical inter-
faces are well aver IQ years aSd now, and most of
us are familiar with at least one very good example,
she aptly named fntuition interface which is pari of
Ami-go DOS. Ygu could da a Sqi worss than follow
that example or, better yei, use it in your program
with ihe many useful Amos extensions which ore
available,.
So, you have to firsi figure out who! it is that your
program does ond how it does it, but high on your
list should be how does the uset see the buttons
and menus, and is it obvious what must be done at
every stage 3 ’ If you ask yourself this question at
every stage of development ihen you will end up
wilh □ program which looks ond fads right,
fcn planning how he program works, you would
do best to work in a kind of pseudocode, a list of
instructions which describe in words of English
A clear interface is a
must these days
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Ideas Software
pfCHhift*
rolher than Amos, what the program must do and
In whai order. For example, if you want to write an
arcade game the pseudo-code might look like this:
sti-
init
bad
star
Inti
ialise variables
up scretn
The bdckgrour.es
initial positions ter sprites
t min prggris Iddd
eheii tor joystick loves and button
tHn
■>: b
calculate ilitn pasitians
sort sprites
chest cnUisisii detection
it fkrre is i co-L LI si on
activate hit suhrajMn*
it not ccntiflyt
sek tc start of sail pfcgrin Loop
ol ready, car-’t you, and if you know anything about
Amos ihe commands la make this pfOgram work
suggest themselves immediately.
Ihe slages you should go through are these:
ideas, pseudo-code, interface, coding, testing,
revision, compiling. Don’s bather compiling a
program unti you're suto tt's totally bullet
proof, Equally, don't do any coding till you know
what order the routines should be in or before
you've got your interface drown ou? on paper and
created the graphics m □ paint program These have
a bearing on what you will code and how you will
do it.
Write stuff
CUllfslen 5 Lb rout ir«
exploits sprits by repllfiftg uilh
tzpioslatt graphic
■ skf teni fiouni
t e t urn (& rain lt&p
You con begin to see the program emerging
Summary
So when you ore embarking am a new project, start
with a pen and paper rafher than hacking about
aimlessly with the Amos program. By all means cre m
ate small routines to cope with each part of the pro-
gram, but don't attempt to fit them together until
you have a clear Idea what it's all going to Joofe like
and how it's going to work . Keep a notebook of
good ideas - this serves a dual purpose of beeping
all your ideas in one place where you r on refer to
them as well as giving you somewhere to jot down
anything which occurs to you while you re on the
bus or at work far away from your Amiga.
Next month we'll get this process raffing by start-
ing to create a multimedia program which will com*
bine graphics and tent and sound to show off o
range of products* forming o demo which you could
upload to the internet os arc electronic brochure. See
you then,
If you have any other Amos programs
or queries about Amos, then please
write to the usual address, which is: Phi)
South, Amos Column, Amiga Computing,
Media House, Adlingtan Park,
Macclesfield SKI 0 4NP. Please send rou-
tines on an Amiga disk with notes on
how the program works on paper,, not
os text Hies on the disk. Make the rou-
tines short enough to appear in print,
i.e. no more than about 30-4 0 lines of
cade, and if possible moke them use no
external graphics, or if they can't he
used without them then be sure to pro-
vide them on the disk in native IFF for-
mot, and the some goes for sound Files.
Follow these guidelines and it's just
possible you might get your programs
puhHshedn
Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
11 !
Steve White explains
how you can add
bone and muscle
and the dynamics
of movement
L ast month I demonstrated how to draw the
human form easily and quickly using only □
few simple tules. This month my aim is So
explain briefly ths techniques ihat can be
empJoyed to add realism so a lifeform, whether it be
human or animal, This involves adding anatom jed
references such as bone, muscle and flesh in order
to create a sense of realism and dynamics to a
creature,
Drawing a human head or body is fairly simple
provided you stick to ihe rules, but Fleshing out a
form with bone and muscle requires some knowl-
edge of anatomy Fortunately, rhat means you only
have to understand bones and muscle, and nol the
internal organs, and only I hose that effect the skin
on ihe body.
The first thing to da when learning anatomy is to
locate the points on the body where bone and mus-
cle is prominent, However, it is also a goad idea to
get as many references So a particular poinl in o
variety of different positions as bone and muscle
changes os the body is moved.
As an example, lake a look at your forearm.
Apart from the elbow and wrist the^r are no real visi-
ble muscles or bones, Bui clench you r fist and
Dr s bring *nhn*!«
raqulr**
Study .ind, tf ypu
t h*m r -cPn
undpnMrtdtng pt
iftp dynflmiff Pt
rrrpvprnent
When %ht is thro wn astro** (fw
fa ce the prominent features
•uph as the cheekbone^ ne*a and
mouth fight up and cast shadow*
muscles push up the skin along the side of the fore-
arm In this example we would use the muscles Id
demonstrate a punch or thrust. Already you have
recognised a particular anatomical feature associat-
ed with □ particular dynamic or position. Learning
about anatomy isnl exoclly exciting but it is vitally
importonl iF you want to design lifeform images that
are realistic and accurals.
Animated forms
If you ore planning to create an animation that
will include life farm} (l hate that form), you will
a at only have to learn about the basics of
anatomy but aha understand the movement
and flexibility 1 of a body. By understanding the
way the muscles and bones change as the body
moves you can make your animation much
more dynamic ond add weight, age and sex to
your subject matter.
The best way to understand movement a fa
form h to study it and moke notes- Obviously,
you're teen to get into the nitty gritty of
design, but take time out to understand the
subject m after first and you'll reap the
rewards. Take a look at the muscle that runs
from below your ear to your collar bone. When
you turn your head to the side this muscle is
pulled and stretched and becomes more promi-
nent . If then returns the head back to its normal
forward looking position * These ore the types
of muscle you should pay dose attention to as
they are visible and indicate a particular pose,
if you take a look at the leg example in the
screenshot you will see that the tea* ore pain-
fed, Because of this the caff muscle becomes
more prominent and because of the rigidity of
the knee, so too does the thigh muscle and the
muscles around the knee itself. This leg was
jjuit port of o logo but if had to look real , and
Mcrv can i «0 rh« leg iricfr (fra
And cjfPt muscles fensetf. Tfra Jfcnat- la
men ris ible as a re s ui t of tansing
adding muscle and bone to convey an overall
dynamic was imperative. If the muscle and
bone had been incorrectly added the teg would
have tost its identity and the complete image
would have faffed*
Obviously, another very important feature of
bone ond muscle which should not be ignored
is shadow. Under* to tiding the shape of bone
and muscle is essential 1 if shadow is to be ren-
dered accurately* However, cast shadow Invarh
ably falls on other bones and muscles, so the
Amiga Compu in
process has a cause ond effect nature . fake the
thigh for example* When the thigh muscle is
tensed it causes a shadow to be cost on the
inside of the leg- However, due to the oval
shape of the teg the cast shadow is also pulled
around and curved as a result* This con be
clearly seen on the thigh muscle and the inside
of the thigh.
Understanding non-human anatomy is even
more difficult Once again it all bails down to
study and raking notes* There ore some very
good books written by artists who have
already done the hard work, so you can save
yourself a lot at bother and time-consuming
work by purchasing such a book*
I hove found wildlife videos to be one of the
best reference aids when drawing nan -hum on
tifeforms. They invariably capture animals in
their most characteristic poses and if you can
recreate this in your Amiga paint package
you re guaranteed success.
It jf always the case that the artist who stud-
ies produces the better war k. Try not to be put
off by the complexities of anatomy , Only study
what you feel is necessary and remember -
your best reference is yourself. Don't feel stupid
standing in front of o mirror and making notes
- if if helps to improve your design skills it can
only be a good thing.
JUNE 1996
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Paul Overaa takes a
look at a lesser
i
known application
of the Midi
sequencer.
La
music
til
k
mw
W hen ever Amiga Midi sequencers
gre mentioned mo si people auto-
matically think of music, keyboard
s synthesisers, sound modules and so
on. There ore, however, a number of other control
applications that sequencers can be used for and
one of these is lighting control. There ore a variety
Qt tmis available that can be used far everything
From department stone window iightirg displays to
certain types of stage show, club arid disco/dance
lighting applications. One benefit when you are
already using sequencers for ploying music, of
course, is that it allows the lighting conirol lo be
synchronised to Midi sequencer music - you sim-
ply add an additional lighting control track to your
existing music sequences!
One kght conlrol box that Is quite popular is
called ihe Lite Show. It's aimed primarily at serni-
pra use and provides eight 300 watt outputs
which can be pragrammably switched and faded
using Midi channel 16, The l He Show responds to
three types of Midi message - Note on messages,
program change commands and active sensing,
ft's the note on messages that control the lights,
with Midi: notes 60-67 electing the lighting chan-
nel and the velocity byte of each message deter^
mming the brightness. Program change messages
are used to switch between one of s65 pre-set
FrpfiJ# Music's MPQ20 light c&ntroitar
and 15 dynamically changing 'super scene
settings.
A slsghtly more sophisticated unit is the Profile
MP820. This provides eight channels with a
power rating of over 1000 watts per channel and
Midi Line Drivers
for some lighting applications if may be necessary
fo use long Midi cable funs and for quite a few
years now if has been possible to overcome fine 15
metre Midi iisjnol cable length limif* fra fact a few
years ago, the Philip Reef company pfodaced"a
Mil? Midi Line 0 river iystem which not only over*
came the 15m h'flift but hi Midi srgraofs he sent
down cable* of up to a kilometre in length* The
original MID sysfenr was unidirectional bat in
some iissta/fcrtionf bidirectionoi Midi cammwrtita-
Hon is required, and the latest units to help in fbii
area also come from Philip Rees.
Tbey^ce called MTR Midi line Transmitter
/Receiver boxes and consist of a pair of units with
the coble link between each unit being mode either
with screened twisted pair cables or, as is more
common in professional applications, by incorpo-
rating the devices into path* that end up being
sent dawn rmjJficore coble*
With the MTR system only one unit is morns*
power p d. This 'master transceiver' has power f
Midi In, Midi Out and line Conner tori, plus an indi-
cator LED to Jet you fcnaw that the unit is powered-
up* The second, remote,, stave transceiver derives
its power from the line itseff, so has only the Midi
In, Midi Out and line connectors. With these units.
cable runs of up to 1 J0m con be used and,
because the MTR can work down mufticore, youfl
often find these units installed in theatres to con-
hoi lighting and trigger stage effects* There are, of
course, plenty of other situations where the
ability to get Midi data down long coble runs is
equally important. In recording studios, particula-
rly with remotely located control rooms, an
MTR system can be part of the permanent
installation.
As well as the well known Midi gadget manu-
facturers like J l Cooper f Midi Solutions, Philip
Rees and so on, quite a few specialised companies
have arrived ora the scene who are able to build
customised Midi control units far professional
users. Such companies can add things like wire*
less-based and fibre optic-based Midi links to a
Midi lighting system although, needless to say, the
cost of these types of esoteric options fends la put
them out of reach of the average Midi user. The
fact remains, though, that where basic lighting
control is concerned there are quite a few units
that are affordable and , linked to an Amiga run-
ning say Dr Fs (CCS or Micro Illusion 4 Music X, cart
provide an extremely cast effective pathway into
this areal
both the Midi channel, and the range of notes lo
which the unit respond*, are user selectable. The
MPS2Q again u&es a note/ve lady based light con-
trol scheme but in addition lo this, Midi continuous
controller #P6 has been implemented to allow lode
and delay characteristics to be thonged under
Mdi control. For professional users. Profile Music
also offer a cock mounted expansion unit which
allows banks of MP320s to be linked together,
providing up lo 2048 lighting channels (and
potentially over 2 mega warts of lighting control!).
Profile also alter a light unit from Ryger
Electronic* called the M12 which, again, is Midi
controlled and provides additional intelligence'
functions. The same company also market
Midi/DMX controllers and there ore even some
Midi controlled laser product under development,
B o 1 1 o
L i n e_
Philip Rees MTR line drivers
ftka: £99 per pdr|
Phone t
01606 811215
BCK Lite Show lighting control let
Wee: £199.99
Phone;
01992 524442
Prod wef:
Profile MFB20 lighting controlle r
Price: £199.99
0115 9245454
Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
Main Contents List:
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1 Other full programs ^TBC)
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1 "Get Connected' to the Internet
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Essenlael PD 10 Got Started!
Exclusive Stuff fram various
user groups and companlesl
Hi* History of th# Amiga
Who Irweniad I f? The old Commodore. Hb bosses, kte&a, m»-
tak#s etc. The Esoom rtvtval artf much mora.
Armga Environment
What fe your Amiga? Why is it so spegl&l? What Is me
■isoehe'7 Who* are Amiga TechhOlOgioH and whel do they *5?
¥h* Amigo Hardware
Inside, outside! ports, chips all explained
Workbench and DOS
What Is It? Using it. Data and' file manaaemont, Woridwnch
environment tips, the CLi. advanced WB and Cu irtoke
Programming
AMOS, BJffce, assembry, C, Amlgu E and AREXX examined
&ecam« on ArViif Overnight
Raytraclng, 30. anlmsUon. bitmap drawing analysed
Sflcome an Amiga Music Maettro
Oqtamed explained, MIDI discussed, rmrafetans tniervlewed
Getting Your Words into Print
Wort PTOCMtlO, Desk Top Flushing, Printer, Clipart elc
Surfing the Super Information Highway
Intro to !he Internet Surfing the Internet, WWW design. Amiga
interTiet Providers, Ajnlya internal software, The Arnica
T^chnologlea Internet peck taken ter a test drive,
General Arena
Emulation, Operating Systems, storage Systems, Amiga in
Bufilrtssa. Multimedia ate ate ate
Tho Amiga Future
Where Is the Amiga gcntf? Amiga Tbertnotogtas' plans, Am^a
vtekwia, possible Indusby comment^ Amiga ‘VIskMitf 1 - the
oompar<a$ that wfli bring us Innovattvo products In 1390 . We
Inlervfew Intersect Development, Rskte of Vision and more.
And Fina My
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Multimedia At Its Best!
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sf Educating and Informative
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Got a digitiser that's
collecting dust?
Gary Whiteley
has a few
suggestions
I f you're one of those people who bought them-
selves- a video digitiser but gave up because you
gol bored with grabbing chunks of your
favourite video or TV pfcgramme, go and dig it
out, Find the connecting leads and get it plugged into
your Amigo because I'm going to run a few onimo
lion ideas post you which might just grab your
imagination.
You’ll also need occess to o video camera jo cam-
coder will do fine) and a Itrpod or copy sland/W
Ff^m with a suitable camera mount, a couple of
Anglepoise w similar lights, and a quiet dart corner
where you can remain undisturbed for days on end,
with □ table or other solid surface to support yaur
work, $o much far the actual recording hardware
and shooting location.
Decisions
Now come* the difficult decision of what so animate.
Wellj you're hgrdly stuck far choice! Almost anything
that you can fil in front of a camera con ce animated,
but try to ovcnd children and animals as they tend to
be unable to keep still for any tench of time, no ma^
ter how much you pfead with ihem. Instead, think
about afl the possibilities offered by drawing or point-
ing o series of different images on paper |o* even
animation cel if you con |a] afford it and |b) you have
□ suitable rostrum with peg-bar to keep the cris 'regis-
tered' - i.e. fij<ed in the same place fror frame la
frame). But why limit yourself to two-dimensional wort
on paper or cel? Look around you and see what
l/s*r etrthor ^
ro s trutn ■ m o u n i ed
camera, qt one on
a tripotf r The
cJloici? is youFS
Under fhe hat camera tight* yc *ur
grapes canid men turn ittfo currants
other possibilities present ihemsitvej. A good place
to start is rn the kitchen where food iPems such as
groins, nuts, beans and pasta shapes can be used to
construe! pictures. Then consider toys, models, things
mode from wire and plasticine,, cut-outs from maga-
zines, and oilier objects which you con build youn
self, Some af these things will make for 2D anima-
tion, bul you con also do 3D work with many of
them. Just let your imagination run wild For a change
- bul avoid using objects which will quid*, y fo&e their
shape, such as fresh plants and fruits, or melt or
otherwise be affected by the hot (ighis shining an them.
Contact
point
Gary Whitefey can he e-mailed as
drgaz@dK.cam pulink .co.uk
Deceptively simple
Animation is simply a sequence of stilt images
which are played back fast enough to tool the ”
eye and brain info thinking that fhe movement’
fhey contain is smooth and flawing, just like
television and cinema; In the UK the playback
rate is generally 25 frames per second for
video and 24 for film, which equates fa 1500
frames per minute for video and 1440 frames
for film * Either wap, fhey're both frighteningly
large numbers of frames to contemplate,
especially if you re thinking of making a ten
minute animation I
fly? hang ant Most animators shoot every
frame twice, making only 1 2.5 frames to the
second, so your workload is immediately
halved* Sometimes you can get away with
even fess frames per second — even severer/ sec*
ends of fhe same frame if the story caffe for if -
so don't be scared off af fhe prospect of hard
work just yet*
To make animation with your digitiser you *11
need a reasonable amount of computer
memory and, preferably, a hard disk . ff you
have neither af these , you should still be able
fo fesf fhe water, but you II be much mare firm
ifed in bath the resolution of the animation
which you can produce and the speed and
number of frames which your Amiga can play
back.
Start with a titffo planning - decide whaf you
want to achieve and work towards if. Sef up
your little animation studio , switch everything
on f and white*balante the camera (read the
in i fraction s if you don*t know how or whyj.
Set up the first frame {image} af your anima-
tion and make a test grab with your digitiser .
Check fhe fightings colour and how the image
is framed wifhin fhe screen.
When you're happy fbaf off is haw you wish
- taking into accoynf that the picture quality
won't be so great unless you hove a 24 -bjf
digitiser, plenty of memory and a hard disk -
It s time to start animating, so open a new fife
(or whatever your particular digitiser requires)
and take a new grab of the first image. You
only need to take one frame {not twoj as your
Amiga can be made fa play the sequence back
at half- speed (if you have animation -cap obfe
point software such as DPaint or Brilliance or a
program like View or other speed-controllable
animation player software]*
The next step is fa make a small adjustment
to your animation jet, for instance by moving
your model /s, replacing the original drawing
with the next in the sequence, or by adding or
subtracting something from the scene.
Whatever you dc> keep the movements quite
sirrah or fhe resulting motion wifi appear jerky
when you ploy the animation back. Grab your
second frame, make more adjustments, fake
the third grab, and so on*
fventuaffy {aver hours or even days), you
will have bail? up a series of images which
together comprise your animation. Phy them
back as a sequence using your digitiser soft-
ware ar save them as an ,anim file f which you
could then food into DPainf. for rn stance, and
add extra details, text etc. fa. Watch out
Waff ace and Grommitl
Amiga Computing
JUNE 1996
Paul Austin continues
his tutorial on the
do's and don'ts of
basic space craft
construction
A fcr a fair amount of head scratching, sketch
mg and second thoughts, regarding design
and construction, 1 decided to opt for the
simplest possibte starling point, and see how
much could be squeezed out of il.
As you've probably gathered, the storting point
was q basic faceted cube, the idea being to demon-
Sitrole haw quick and efficient building a respectable
bit of cannon fodder con be. Needless to soy, the ship
is meant to be □ bod guy, and as a result it pfagknv
ses most af ihe classic iroits you J d associate with a
bad guy, Down swept wing fronts, aggressive raked 1
wing design and, most important of all, a general loo*
and fed of something unpleasant from ihe real-world
The beastie in question is a bat, but of course
you've already sported thai hadn't you? Anyway,
here's a step by step guide of transforming a box. into
Q bod guy.
Although there seems very little car relation between
the first and the Iasi model, there's been little added or
taken away. The only major changes Consist of mow
ing and merging a Few points to create softer earners
■ :ire ond there, ihe odd move,, scale and taper on
setected point and polygons, plus one or two addifio
nol dices to provide g few additional control points.
Figure one and two cute simply progressions, with o
few point merges os mentioned above. Figure three is
obviously where most af the action takes place.
However, after establishing a basic Form I was
happy with, ond before progressing from two tD three,
I decided to save myself a lot of extra wort by detet
mg half ihe model. Now I know Ihot may sound like o
very silFy thing to do, but once you've decided on a
direction for any symmetrical model, them's very little
point in plodding an ond being forced to measure or
eyeball everything when the mirror command will do
□II the Nrn&consuming stoff for yum
By deleting half the mode! along she Z axis you’re
instantly giving yourself o lol more freedom to
part 2
Build on the
sics
1 m “ St /Vrfrtw point of the excise isn't to simply replicate the mad el I'm
pu fing together. Ideally, you should be applying your own ideas using the basic
principles outlined in this and the previous issue.
You Should Stars out with a faceted cube to keep things simple, but go for your own
Jeofc ond feel, Alt the bo sic principles should remain the some, ond although the
shape may differ, the basics of adding detail and texturing the finished model will
worft fust as weft on any model your imagination can come up with.
experiment with the liner design paints. Needless to
soy, once you're happy with the shape a simple mirror
fa I 'owed by a merge command on the duplicated
peinfc along the z axis completes ihe basic conslrudion
stage. At this point yon con simply select the detail
areas and add the finishing Touches, a prime example
being the well area in ihe centre of the ship, which
next month wifi hold some of Ihe all-important fine
detail.
As you've probably guessed, one of ihe prerequi-
site! in the design spec is a fow polygon count
However, i J you're planning lo see the ship clomp il's
important there's some detail ta enhance the general
look and break up the monotony of an essentially sym-
metrical form. Just about! every decenl space ship ever
madefied has liftte dusters of detail ond assorted 'sticky
oul bits' here ond there, ond this one is nq exception.
Luring next month s column I'll be running through
the creation of whol Ran Thornton calls 'nurnies', which
for the rest of us translates into innocuous detail thal
does nothing — but looks like it should, In the case of
my creation, th<s wdi translate into piping and mechoi>
ics in the recess on (he top of the ship, plus assorted
engine parts, the oil-important guns, and possibly even
rhe add fuel pod here and there.
However, before moving on to ihe finer points it's
essential to take some time oul to define the basic
surfaces before the overall structure becomes too cam
pis* lo make selection and naming of surfaces simple
Too be honesl ihis particular rule of thumb doesn't
apply quite as much ta Ihts particular model because
the Slrurture i; relatively simple, but il's well worth get
hng used to applying surface names sooner rather
ihon bier cm all your modelling jabs.
Up and
COMING
In the next issue i'll be adding the finish
mg structural touches but, more impof'
— “ • J ■ mrr-m-m w ■ ■ | V ft#
fan fly, turning my attention to the trick j
problem of texturing* Particular point *
of interest wifi he the creation ond foyer
ing of various textures in the colour,
specular and diffuse fields to create a
photo-reo/psJjc array of surfaces*
if there's enough spore I *U ako put
the model m context with engine flares
and a suitable virtual universe for it to
blast owoy in* However, it's highly
likely that wtff ipill over into rfijs subse-
quent issue 4
Start with thm baric cube and mme what four imafln^fron
CMn rfo - htJf don't target to keep your ariginat sketches
cte*# by. irt vaxy ta made J yourself into a comer
Uwe a few stretch, taper and move commands combined
wnh the odd slice and you're an your way into deep spade.
Frem harm make the most af it w mirrar command
Ffdrrr here on ft'* ;u*( a question ot adding fina dm tail
amf the all-important texture maps. Qon't forget to
tune in neat month for the fine points
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