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To: The Amiga Community Distributors - North America From: David A. Ziembicki CEO, QuikPak Corporation MicroPACE 109 S. Duncan Champaign, IL 61821 Phone: (217) 356-1884 I want to give all of our loyal customers an update on our continued FAX (217) 356-1881 support of the Amiga market. We are making progress on all fronts and as of this date, and I am pleased to announce and confirm that QuikPak products containing Amiga technology have been licensed by Amiga Incorporated for Software Hut sale as "Licensed Products". This is the first step in recreating and enhancing 313 Henderson Drive Sharon Hill, PA 19079 the Amiga platform and evolving from the current level of technology to meet Phone: (610) 586-5701 the future requirements of multitasking / multimedia computing. FAX: (610) 586-5707 WWW: www.softhut.com EMAIL:[email protected] There has been a lot of talk and rumors surrounding what is or is not happening with the Amiga technology. The wide ranging list of topics goes Dealers - North America from opinions about the lack of commitment by the companies that have survived until now, through a laundry list of "must have" features for any "successful" Amiga based products, and to heated discussions of what is -=CANADA=- being done wrong by many involved with the Amiga. We at QuikPak will not CineReal Pro-Video participate in the rumor mill. There is much more important work to be done in 272 Avondale Avenue order to sustain the Amiga based products currently available, and devote Ottawa. Ontario K1Z 7G8 Voice/FAX: 613-798-8150 (Call first to fa x) R&D resources to continuing this fine "breed". My only comment to those that say nothing positive is being Cdone, look at the new companies and products Computer Shop of Calgary, Ltd. 3515 - 18th Street SW. being announced every month in this publication. Calgary, Alberta T2T 4T9 Voice. 403-243-4358 Fax: 403-243-2684 It is no surprise that many loyal Amiga users became impatience WWW: www.canuck.com/cshop during the years after Commodore's bankruptcy. The truly amazing part of the [email protected] recent Amiga story is that a QuikPak A40XX Tower, when coupled with Comspec Communications Inc available options, is still the best value for non-linear video editing available - 74 Wingold Ave bar none. With the release of Motorola's 68060 66Mhz CPU, available as a Toronto, Ontario M6B 1P5 Computer Centre: 416-785-8348 factory installed option, power users can get an additional 32 % increase in Sales: 416-785-3553 performance over even the fastest 50Mhz accelerators, and includes a fast Fax: 416-785-3668 [email protected], wide SCSI Hard Disk controller. Look for benchmarks for this system in the bry [email protected] weeks to come. Forest Diskasaurus 35 Albert St.. P.O. Box 84 A final thought. The key to how far and how successful Amiga based Forest, Ontario NON 1JO computers can go rests with you, the end user / purchaser. Show your Tel/Fax: 519-786-2454 saurus @xcelco.on .ca continued support of the platform by buying and / or upgrading your Amiga based system. We and Amiga Incorporated are doing everything we can to GfxBase Electronique, Inc 1727 Shevchenko bring you back the now and future Amiga technology, today and forever. Now Montreal, Quebec you need to help by supporting us with you product purchase dollars. Voice: 514-367-2575 Fax: 514-367-5265 BBS: 514-769-0565
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Circle IlIon Reader Service card. 9 New Products & other neat stuff Catalyzer from Legacy, 5-VHS for your Amiga, CygnusEd Professional 4, Flyer SCSI Cases, and more! 12 Wild Fire by Dave Matthews Amiga graphics heat up. In an age of lowered expectations for Amiga enthusiasts, it is particu larly nice to see the enthusiasm that the crew behind Wildfire display.
15 DiskSalv 3 by Nick Cook Second only to that horrible moment when you slam your locked car door and see the keys dangling from the ignition is realizing that you've just deleted a file that you need. 17 The SONY Digital Mavica MVC-FD7 , P.17 Mavica MVC-FD7 by R. Shamms Mortier Being forced to live without a digital camera is no fun, probably akin to trying to kick any drug habit. Shakes, shivers, and quivers disturb a night's sleep, and you find yourself sobbing uncontroHa bly while reviewing your stored image data. 20 YA3DTE- Yet anotheT 3D Type Effect by Nick Cook Adding an additional dimension to your text and Wild Fire, P.12 graphics is easier than you think' 26 On Line by Rob Hays Tricks to installing those pesky "floppy only" programs on your hard drive. Choose the right Amiga pet for your system.
26 This old Workbench: Episode 13 YA3DTE, P.20 Scalos and Newicons V4.1 / nr.:::I ' '.~., '" , r' by Dave Matthffils
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33 Color fix by R. Shamms Mortier A few suggestions on using ImageFX to apply a color effect to a forgotten image or animation to On-Une P.26 resusci tate it and give it new life. Cologne '97 Amazing Computl"glAMIGA Tilli ADMINISTRATION This issue, a speciaJ thanks goes to Bob made it. "When you see that boing ball, you Publisher: Joyce Hicks Scharp who has done an outstanding job in will know that it will work." Assistant Publisher: Robert J. Hicks getting photos and information from both the One main goal is to make sure the Intern: Nicholas H. Pacheco Midwest Amiga Expo in Columbus, Ohio Amiga is recognized. He wants to make Circulation Manager: Doris Gamble and the international Cologne, Germany certain everyone knows what an Amiga is. Traffic Manager: Robert Gamble exposition, Computer '97. I also want to Another important goaJ is to keep the Amiga Production Manager: Ernest P. Viveiros thank Kermit Woodall, of Nova Design, who backwardly compatible. This will mean the has also provided his insights on Computer Amiga will be able to maintain the large '97. I appreciate the effort put into these quantity of shareware and other applications EDITORIAL reports. Their appreciation for the work of already available. Managing Editor: Don Hicks Hardware Editor: Emest P. Viveiros others and the interests of our readers gives "It is critical that the Amiga adopt Illustrator: Scott Brown their coverage depth. world standards." Mr. Schindler admitted Contributing Editor: Shamms Mortier Bob and Diana Scharp do have an that there are some things the Amiga will be ulterior purpose. The Scharps now manage able to do on its own, but in every case, the the Gateway Computer show scheduled for Amiga should also be able to read and utilize AMAZING AUTHORS March 14th and 15th in St. Louis. They plan the standards from other platforms. Randy Finch Rob Hays on doing an even larger show this year and I Mr. Schindler stated that Amiga Inc. Marc Hoffman Dave Matthews heartily recommend it. had created a three year "road map" to drive Cologne '97 was a perfect opportunity the Amiga. One of the reasons he would not to contact European developers and go over these items was the secrecy currently 1-508-678-4200, 1-800-345-3360, encourage them to attend the Gateway event. required. FAX 1-508-675-6002 Of course, while they were priming these According to Mr. Schindler, projects http://www.pimpub.com developers, they were also viewing a lot of and user demands such as 3D, digital new Amiga products. Read their special broadcast and surround sound makes Amazing Computlng/Amlga r", (ISSN 1053-d547) Is reports starting on page 42 of this issue. chOOSing a current CPU almost impossible. published monthly by PlM Publicotions. Inc .. P.O. The demands of these projects means that Box 2140. Fall River. MA 02722-21 40. Phone 1-508- Amigo Inc.'s Announcements the CPU may need to be substantially 678-4200. 1-800-3d5-336O. and FAX 1-508 67~ . Prior to the Developer's event sched different than the processors available today. U.S, subscription rate Is S29.95 for 12 Issues. Subscrip uled for November 14, word from Amiga Inc. He stated that the Amiga must prepare itself tions outside the U.S. are as tollows: Canada & was that major announcements would be for a world of cable modems. Mexico 538.95 (U .S. tunds) one year only; Foreign made. Friday evening, Jeff Schindler, Amiga Mr. Schindler offered a lot of questions Surfa ce S49.97. All payments must be In U.S. funds on a U.S, bank. Due to erratic postal changes. a ll Inc.'s General Manager, addressed a large concerning the new design of the Amiga but torelgn rates are one-year only. audience on the basic scope and fuhlre with few hard answers. He readily admitted direction of the Amiga, but not the exact that the Amiga required effort in almost Periodical Postage paid at Fall River. MA 02722. details on new hardware designs or every area, but that Amiga Inc. was still POSTMASTER: send address changes to PIM PublI impending operating systems. surveying their options. "We want to make cations Inc .. P.O. Box 9d9O. Fall River. MA 02720. Mr. Schindler started by stating he has sure everything makes sense down the Printed In the U.S.A. Entire contents copyrlghl© 1997 talked to R.J . Mical a lot (an early collaborator road." by PiM Publications. Inc. All rights reserved. No port of this publication may be reproduced without on the Amiga) and he has watched old video Mr. Schindler recognized that there written permission trom PIM Publications. Inc. tapes about the original designers of the would be a lot of work on the Amiga OS 3.5 Amiga. "It really gave me the feeling of how accomplished by projects already completed AddiHonal First Clo ss or Air Mall rates available upon by other people. What Mr. Schindler did request. PIM Publications. Inc . maintains the right to special the Amiga is. retuse any advertising. PIM Public ations. Inc. Is not "It really really makes me proud to promise was that there would be no faJse responsible tor the c laims. content , and/or policies stand up here as the General Manager of announcements. Amiga Inc. would continue ot any advertiser or advertisement. Amiga Inc. You have the energy and from to announce only what they have ready to PiM Publications Inc. Is not obligated to relum unso that I get swamped with phone calls and lots produce. He stated they are taking a lot of licited materials. All requested returns must be re of email. So keep 'em coming." Mr. Schindler time building the right organization with the ceived with a selt-addressed stomped moiler. went on to say the Amiga is a community, it right people. is about people and they have a lot of input. In the question and answer session, Mr. Send article submissions in both manuscript and disk tormat with your nome. address. telephone. "We do have a vision and our vision is Schindler acknowledged that Amiga Inc. and Social security Number on each to the Associ to become a low cost standard technology for would be leveraging as much as possible off ate Editor. Requests tor Author' s Guides should be convergence products." Schindler was in of Gateway 2000 for best prices and possible directed to the address listed above. charge of Gateway 2000's Destination TV software ports. He also announced that there AMIGA TM Is a registered trademark ot project, the first true convergence of TV and was already a budget in place for both Amiga International Gmbh Computer technology in one system. Amiga organizations through the year 2000. Amiga Inc. will not produce Amigas. Amiga Inc. wishes to continue the Amiga Inc. will supply design speciJications Amiga business and Amiga Inc. has made its DisIrbuIed in the U.S. & Canada by Intemotionol PeIiodicoI DlslTibuloo to others. "Our business is to be in the fuhue first public appearance. These are hopeful 674 VIO de 10 Valle, Ste204. SOIona Beoch, CA of the Amiga technology. What we are doing signs on which to build our Amiga's future. 92075 is trying to move that technology forward & and come up with an architecture so that Ingram PerIodicals Inc. OEMs and others can take that and build 1226 Hei Quaker Blvd .. La Verne TN 37086 other parts we want." 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Dear AC, time. Additionally, Java has shown strategy of 'turn the crank in the I was pleased to learn from Mr. that it will not corrupt files and bring direction of the flow, only turn it a Hays' On Line column in the October down a machine. There will always be Ii ttle harder'. 97 issue that someone, Final Develop a place for assembler level and even Please extend my gratitude to the ment, is working to bring Java to the machine language code where entire staff of AC. Right now, you are Amiga. It's becoming obvious that processing speed is critical and for my lifeline to the Amiga community. platform independent Java is the wave other special applications, but that of the future. Java is not just for PCs; doesn't preclude Java being the Amazing Computing/Amiga will cover it's also being used for cellular phones, language of the Internet. the JA V A language as soon as it is smart cards, and network computers. The consensus seems to be a released. Interestingly, there are several A lot of software developers are fivefold increase in developers' companies working on a release of Java betting their future on Java, some productivity with Java. Some have for the Amiga. 400,000 as of June 97. Microsoft is reported a tenfold increase. With forcing independent developers to performance like this even Bill Gates Dear AC, look to Java for their survival. Java is can't stop platform independent Java. I want to say thank you for all too compelling to ignore. Developers The Sun Microsystems is currently the effort that goes into the magazine. can develop a product once and with suing Microsoft for Java license The front cover is always filled with relative ease test and market it to all violations. Microsoft allegedly has stunning graphics, the articles are platforms connected to the Internet. made their Java programs platform very informative, as well as the ones In the near future the average specific to Microsoft. It appears that that tutor new techniques with consumer won't buy a Windows Microsoft is trying to lock users into software. I always look forward to machine. Who wants to be locked into their fractious suite of operating the next volume. I thank the Lord a big clunky expensive machine that systems. Even if Microsoft wins, it will and ask him to bless all who work, to breaks down when you ask it to rub its only slow the emergence of Java. make Amazing Computing the best tummy and pat its head at the same I hope Amazing Amiga will do an Amiga resource magazine on the time. Migrate to Windows 20xx with article on Java for us Amigans. I also market. I would also like to write to no guarantee that your application hope that Amiga Inc. develops a close Amiga International and thank them software will even work? Forget it. and intimate relationship with Sun as well, however, I lack the proper High level languages are slower Microsystems. If we, the Amiga address. I really feel the need to than assembler languages and use community, embraces the Java thank the ones, who are fighting to more RAM, still faster CPUs and more paradigm, make it our own, the Amiga keep the best computer ever made, RAM are cheaper than programmer's will grow to its rightful position of up and running. prominence in the Information Age. ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION We then can glory in our triumph over Thank you so much. the forces of darkness. In the mean time I'll continue to May you be richly blessed, 4x5 bang out brilliant and insightful work Patrick J Payne COLOR TRANSPARENCIES with Final Writer on my trusty A3000. Portsmouth, V A And one of these days I'm going to bring my A1000 out of the closet, Dear Patrick, 35mm install a 6810, and use it for off-line Thank you for your kind words, they are COLOR SLIDES printing. Hey it's still a good machine. always needed and appreciated. You can from YOUR Amiga Computer send all correspondence to: & V'd T t G •h' Sincerely, Petro Tyschtschenko -4000-line Film Recorder ResolutIon- Bill Kehrberg Amiga International Inc. -NO Scanllnes - Brilliant Color- Pinnacle, NC Robert-Bosch-Str 11 B 63225 Langen Germany Call or Write for order form, price list, p.s. I see no reason why AC shouldn't and FREE sample slides: rise to world-wide prominence along Please Write to: HAMMOND PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES with Amiga Inc. A 'go with the flow' 4301 N. 75th Street, Suite 1018 FeedBack Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 strategy may bring some short term c/o Amazing Computing successes and extend survival a little P_O. Box 9490 (602) 949-6066 longer, but the winners adopt a Fall River, MA 02720 Circle 103 on Reader Service card.
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No rnt Catalyzer: Video Tutorial for ImageFX Legacy Maker, Inc. of Chicago, IL has annoLU1ced its latest videotape product for Amiga computers, Catalyzer: Video Tutorial for ImageFX. ImageFX is the engine. Your Amiga's tank is full of gas. This video is the Catalyzer. Learn about the power and secrets of lmageFX from one of its experts. Bohus Blahut, who Nova Design (lmageFX creators) entrusted with the creation of their latest ImageFX demo tape, guides you through four projects on this one hour videotape. Catalyzer explores ImageFX's region handling, powerful text effects, warp and swirl animations and even the secret of animating ImageFX's famous lightning effect. Catalyzer includes a support that are commonly used in Toaster /Flyersys • Optimized text editing and output floppy disk with aU the material you'll terns. It will also provide cooling to keep code written in assembly language; drives running at optimum levels. need to follow along with the videotape. text can scroll faster than the eye can National Amiga calls the device, "a styl Catalyzer'S SRP is $39.95. see or smoothly depending on your ish looking box built of high quality, and is LegaClJ Maker TEL: 773-465-5158. E preference also rather simple to assemble. All drives mail: [email protected]. Web Site: http:// • All new Search and Replace requester mount on snap in rails for easy maintenance. www.xnet.com/-jcompton/catalyzer.html. which supports escape sequences like It has been designed with the Flyer Octopus \n, \r, etc. cable in mind since there are 3 Centronics • Search/Replace history fLU1ctions "Sorry, Wrong Number" SCSI connections on the back for the three • Fast search routine that scans over Nova Sector Engineering separate SCSI channels that the Flyer uses. 100,000 characters per second on 68000 The information in our December Powered ISA slots are also avai lable inside for machines - faster even on 68020 and issue had an incorrect telephone number adding in time base correctors and vector higher machines for Nova Sector Engineering. The correct scopes. • Editing undo/redo feature limited contact number shou.ld be 616-831-0765. For more information, please view National's website at http:/ / only by available memory National Amiga Offers www.nationalarniga.com / flyercase.html. • Matching token support for brackets, 'C' style comments and HTML tags Flyer SCSI Cases National Amiga, A Division of ARCHTECH • Increased characters-per-line limit National Amiga has announced a SCSI Incorporated, 111 Waterloo St. #101 , London, (now 32000 characters) case for the Toaster /Flyer. Sold for some time Ontario N6B2M4, Phone: 519-858-8760, Fax: • Alternate numeric entry in binary and to their local clients, this case will house the 519-858-8762, email: [email protected] hard drives, tape drives and CD-ROM drives hexadecimal Two Specials from Schatztruhe • Cursor position and other information The press releases and news announcements CygnusEd Professional are stored with project icons in New Products are from Amiga vendors Release 4 • Graphical macro editor; enhanced to and others. While Amazing Computing The premier Amiga text editor be able to print the macro list maintains the right to edit these articles, the celebrates its 10th anniversary with a • Updated ARexx interface with new statements, etc. made in these reports are revised and enhanced edition. commands those of the vendors and not Amazing Highlights include: • AppWindow and AppMenu support Computing. (drag & drop) JANUARY 1998 9 The CDs in this package contain: (uncompressed) Aminet Set 1 app.4GB OM 39, Aminet Set 2 app.4GB OM 39, Aminet Set 3 app.4GB OM 39, Aminet Set 4 app.4GB OM 59, Aminet Set 5 app.4GB OM 59,- Aminet 20 app. 1GB OM 25,- Aminet 21 app. 1GB OM 25,- Instead of: OM 285, only: OM 199, save OM 86 compared to the regular prices! 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Make the Technical Support:(905)575-1507 AmigaWeb Directory your starting to point to exploring the Amiga on Asimware Innovations Inc., 600 Upper the World Wide Web. Visit the AWO at: Wellington Street, Unit D, Hamilton, http://www.cucug.orglamiga.htmltoday! Ontario L9A 3P9, Canada. S-VHS From Your Amigo * Updated, font sensitive user interface; * Asynchronous printing The VideoTurtle, from Turtle Enterprises, this includes proper menu layout * Special editor version included for attaches to the RGB port of your Amiga * New menu items for 68020 and higher machines and will allow you to view your Amiga's o Indenting blocks * Editable document size limited only output on an S-VHS monitor or you can o Erasing blocks by available memory tape directly to an S-VHS recorder. o Changing spaces into tabulator The Video Turtle works with and the other way round and many more new features! any and all Arrugas systems that o Highlighting single words output the TV RGB signal, 15.75 KHz o Changing the text block to lower The complete Aminet Pack NTSC. All you need is a standard case or upper case characters Order the entire Aminet on 1084S 9-pin OBN male cable. The Video o Using the text block as CD-ROM. It's finally done. Now you Turtle can be purchased for $149.95. replacement text can grab the whole Aminet on CO Turtle Enterprises can be reached via o Moving to the location of the last ROM for an inexpensive package email: [email protected] or by dialing editing operation price. In this package you receive (818)-967-3341. * Compatible with Picasso II, more than 20GB of data in more than CyberGraphX and Picasso96 software 50.000 archives on 22 CD-ROMs! * Updated and revised on-line docu The Aminet package mentation; now includes a complete contains Aminet Sets 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 and description of the ARexx interface and Please send the single Aminet-COs 20 & 21 and is its commands therefore the complete Collection of New Products Info to: * Multiple views Aminet on CD-ROM. Some of these * Hot-key activation Amazing Computing, * Crash recovery tool included; if the CD-ROMs do also contain special P.O. Box 9490, operating system crashes, the files you commercial highlights (including were editing are no longer lost upgrade offers). Fall River, MA 02720 * Text formatting commands FAX: 5086756002 10 AMAZING COMPUTING Wildfire is a new entry in the PowerPC versions- more on this later). Unlike the more painterly Ami ga graphics market, one that looks Figure 1 shows Wildfire's main approach taken by other programs, to be a must-have for the serious screen; behind this unassllming fa cade where you generaIJ y apply an effect, Ami ga graphi cs maven. Developed by li es a wealth of graphical magic. The see the result in the preview window, WK-Artworks, Wildfire is a 3D large window shows Wildfire's apply another effect etc., Wildfire's graphics and effects generator, with "desktop" which is structured like the approach is more structured, more some very innovative ideas. Workbench, and allows you to visually project oriented. While this approach According to th e authors, The organize your Wil dfire projects. has less immediacy, and a hi gher commercia l release on CD of Wil dfire Wil dfire shares most of the common learning curve, (W il dfire can be a bit 5 w ill make it's debut at th e Com image processing abili ties fo und in baffling at fi rst, so be prepared to puter'97 in Cologne. Th is will include other programs of this type, but artists spend some time poring over the a printed manual, and tons of ex familiar \-vi th programs sllch as 'ova extensive documentation), once you amples, tutori als, effects etc. In th e Design's ImageFX will find Wildfire get the hang of it, you ca n do wildly meantime, there is a Demo available takes a somewhat different approach. complex images and an imations with a on Aminet (i n both na ti ve and Amiga few mouse clicks. This "batch" type approach allows for easy creation of complex effects requiring multiple images and steps that would be extremely difficult in another program. I was somewhat disappointed to see the tutorial fil es were missing from the Aminet demo. A few small tutorials would do wonders to help the newcomer get up to speed. These are promised to be included in the commerci al release. In particular, this approach is very powerful for working with animations, and this is where Wildfire really shines. Wildfire is just as happy to apply an effect (or multiple effects!) to a single image, a series of fra mes, or an entire animation. Further, you have considerable control over the process, with time dependent special effects, and you can even sync your sound track (P roTracker modules, and BSVX sound Figure 1: The Wildfire main screen 12 AMAZI N G· COMPU TING samples) to the animation. You can also setup up projects, to string multiple images, effects, and anima ATTENTION AMIGA USERS tions together. Wildfire even has a Having problems surfing the World Wide Web? dedicated Transition maker for Let LOCKJAW VIDEO give you the answers stitching animations together in to your Internet questions with ... interesting ways. Wildfire supports (among others) Amiga ILBM, PNG and JPEG image "THE PACKAGE" formats for loading and saving, plus Informative and Comprehensive tutorial IFF and the new YAFA animation for you and your AMIGA. Easy to follow formats. Not happy with the current video unlocking the mysteries of installing ... In an age of lowered AmiTCP - GuiFTP - EMAIL expectations for NEWSGROUPS - The WEB Amiga enthusiasts, it Special Introductory Price is particularly nice to only $29.95 + 5.00 S&H see the enthusiasm Send cheque or money order to that "the crew Lockjaw Video Productions behind Wildfire RPO Westbrook, P.O. Box 34243 display. Calgary, Alberta, Canada,T3C 3W2 For more information send request to ... state of Amiga animation formats, [email protected] or Michael Henke's YAFA is an attempt to leap frog the old Amiga anim [email protected] format, with such features as support Circle 158 on Reader Service card. for 2 ... 256 color anims, and also HAM and HAM8, planar or chunky frames, 3D effects will swamp low end Powerup boards. Wildfire also options timecode and palette per systems almost immediately. See supports Cybergrafx v3, as well as the frame, delta or XPK compression, Figure 4 for examples of Wildfire's 3D native Amiga chipsets. For more annotations and more. prowess. examples of what is possible with See Figure 2 for the Convert For those power hungry Amigoids Wildfire, do a search on "wildfire" on Window. This is the foundation of with a PPC Powerup board from Aminet, there are many Wildfire Wildfire, where you select your input PhaseV, you will want to grab the example pictures and animations and output options, whether a single latest demo from Aminet, which available. picture, animations or sequences of supports both native Amigas and the pictures. Figure 3 shows the Proces sor/effects window, in which you select from a myriad of special effects. These effects are external "plugins" which makes it pOSSible to easily add new capabilities. In addition to the normal array of effects, Wildfire also features many 3D effects, such as warping, wrapping images on a cube or other 3D objects, bump mapping, and can even import Lightwave 3D objects! You 'll want a hefty pile of RAM to use these however, and a fast processor, and lots of hard drive space; while Wildfire can certainly be used to good advantage on an '030 Amiga wi th 8MB RAM, the Figure 2: The Wildfire converter JANUARY 1998 13 Some Wildfire features: • fast and comfortable Converter: input: YAFA, ANTM5/7/8, MPEG, image-sequences output: YAFA, ANIM5/7/8, image-sequences • Preview for almost any operation • Project-Editor which allows the creation of large and complicated projects easily using the mouse • Effect-Generator featuring time dependant parameters via envelopes • a stunning library of effect PlugIns • some really new effects, real 3D- effects • (un)loading of PlugIns at any time • Envelope-Editor • Timecodes-Editor • Transition-Maker for easy creation of transitions between two animations • easy-to-use Player-interface • Filmstrips to simplify the perfect timing of huge projects • AnimInfo-function displaying size-profiles etc. • font sensitive GUI without MUI • internal gadget-tool box which handles mathematical expressions instead of only plain numbers • calculator which allows for example the export of user defined symbols to the gadgets in the whole-program • ARexx-port with about 400 commands • macros, custom-windows, docks Figure 3 (top): Wildfire's arsenal of 2D/3D effects • import of images from other Figure 4: (Bottom) Examples of Wildfire's 3D Prowess programs Wildfire homepage. Stay tuned for an Aminet: BIZ/DemojWildFirePPC.lha • Developer-Kit (with working and BIZ/Demo/WildFirePPC2.1ha in-depth look at the full release of example) which allows you to URL: http://www.oberland.com/amiga/ create your own effect-PlugIns version 5, with hopefully more wildfire/ information on purchasing it here in System requirements: AGA or graphics boord, 68020+, OS 3.0+, XPK (for YAFA) In an age of lowered expectations North America. for Amiga enthusiasts, it is particularly And as always, I can be contacted Contact info: nice to see the enthusiasm that the via Amazing Computing, or by email: Wildfire-Support: [email protected] crew behind Wildfire display. Simply [email protected] (Andreas Kuessner) Wildfire-Homepage: put, Wildfire is a must have program http://www.oberland.com/amiga/ for aU serious Amiga artists, particu Wildfire Professional Animation Sequencer wildfire/ larly those into animations and video. Authors: WK-Arlworks - Andreas Wildfire Distribution: At the time of this writing, no Maschke, Program Author Oberland Computer In der Schneithohl 5 information was available on price or Andreas Kuessner, Wildfire 61476 Kronberg, Germany availability of Wildfire in North Project Manager Michael Henke, YAFA Tel. ++49-(0)6173-6080 America, though the program is listed animation format and player email: [email protected] at 299.00 DM and 499.00 DM on the 14 AMAZING COMPUTING ae __ Ca djsk prell Help ~s on .. he •• Second only to that horrible moment when you slam your locked car door and see the keys dangling from the ignition is realizing that you've just deleted a file that you need. by Nick Cook Your hard drive tosses up a it is now commercial. "DiskSalv 3" salvage them later, or just delete them. requester curtly informing you that it adds functions over those in the last Although you can choose a "Fast" or has a check sum error. Or you stick a public domain release (which is also "Slow" option, the Repair mode can disk into your floppy drive, only to provided on the disk). take some time to complete. I've left have the drive gronk and gronk and DiskSalv offers enough options to my Amiga on overnight while gronk and gronk. You sputter help make the unpleasant task of a file DiskSalv worked through a particu lessly at the screen for a second, then rescue easier. SpeCific pattern matches larly knotty error. tmleash a torrent of abuse, questioning can be saved for reuse, for instance. The "Salvage" mode attempts to the computer's parentage. Most welcomed is DiskSalv's ability to extract as many file objects as possible Welcome to the wonderful world work on logical or physical devices. from a damaged partition, including of disk errors. Every computer For example, I have a 540-meg hard previously deleted files or parts of files platform is prone to these demons. drive divided into several different (using a pattern match can reduce time You could experience a hard error, partitions. If a problem develops in saving "junk"). You can select and caused by damage to the surface of the only one, DiskSalv can focus on just copy objects to safer media. While disk. Disruption of a directory or file's that partition. This is good deal faster DiskSalv can't save everything, it pulls data structure triggers a soft error. In than if the program had to process enough from the abyss to make you either case, you are in trouble. each partition on the hard drive, good feel a little better after a hard drive A "must have" program (not to be or bad. crash. Like Repair, this process may confused with "must see" TV) is one take some time to complete. which restores damaged files. Early Salvage and Repair Second only to that horrible Amiga operating systems included the You will probably spend most of moment when you slam your locked dreaded "disk doctor," a program your time in the "Salvage" and car door and see the keys dangling which held the dubious distinction of "Repair" modes. "Repair" tries to fix a from the ignition is realizing that sometimes creating more problems device's file and directory structure on you've just deleted a file that you need. than it cured. Former Commodore the disk itself. Any offending files Really, really need. DiskSalv's engineer Dave Haynie created a much (usually the ones that caused the "Undelete" mode lets you recover improved product named "DiskSalv." problem in the first place) are detached those oopsies. However, the files must Although originally in public domain, from the directory. You can try to have been recently deleted; older deletions are generally history. For example, if you delete File A, then later File Band still later File C, it has been my experience that DiskSalv probably won't be able to get back File A. I've also had Undelete trash a few file headers, resulting in a restored, but unreadable, file. But Wait, There's More! "Check" mode does just that: scans a device's file structure. You may want to use it before launching on a full-blown Salvage or Repair opera tions. Bits and pieces of deleted files JANUARY 1998 15 written doc files I've seen, with perhaps only ImageMaster R/T's on line docs topping DiskSalv's for quality and clarity. I sometimes wandered off topic by following the TURTLE LIGHTNING AMIGA SOFTWARE ~I~III\OJ~· lfO"'!a>OX P_O_ BOX 30499 ORDERS: 91 5-563-4925 interesting links Haynie provides. MIDLAND, TX 79712 24-HR FAX: 915-563-4315 -Visa-MC-COD The included standard Install program does the job well. 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Even if FLAMES OF FREEDOM Populous & The Promised Land FORMULA MASTERS 1 SEEK & DESTROY 'Copter' you are extremely lucky and never KNIGHT FORCE SPACE HULK 'Piall1III1II Edition' experience a file foul-up, having MATH BLASTER PLUS Special Forces 'GreatWlrGlllle' DiskSalv 3 nestled in your software PRIME MOVER SUBVERSION 'Sub Gallle' ROTOX (Space GIllie) SYNDICATE 'CyborgASSIIIIItTealll' collection will at least give you peace Sootys' Fun With Numbers GET OUR 6-DISK WING COMMANDER of mind. Because, who knows? One TARAGHAN ( D & D) CATALOG SET WORMS 68020 OR ' ....~ATJ::D' day, your hard drive may toss up a UNTOUCHABLES JUST $ 3 Golden Image Brush Mouse WORLD TROPHY SOCCER PowerPlayers Joystick 4_95 requester informing you that it has a ZERO GRAVITY FREE CATALOG: CALL Shipping Ave.: US-~ 6_50, Cln-~8_50 check sum error. DiskSalv 3 olLJJ~ fP->lfii can scatter across a hard drive after a while. The "Cleanup" mode removes ONE MORE TIME! this file flotsam. DiskSalv also In a letter, Horace Walpole wrote "it was includes ftmctions best left to those The BFormat command contains said of old Sarah, Duchess of switches to flag for the file system type, who know how to use them, for Marlborough, that she never puts dots as well as the options FAST, QUICK, and example, device writers. over her i's, to save ink". You ma y not be SLOW. The latter verifies each track with The "Backup" mode seems to be that bad, but perhaps you do tend to be four different patterns, and lives up to its nothing more than a glorified batch "thrifty," like using a printer ribbon until name. and-copy command. While it the print is only legible on the Bold I have used BFormat only on outputs to tape or disk, no data setting. floppies. One disk contained 22 bad compression is available. This limits The BFormat PD utility is for all sectors. After BFormat completed its its usefulness significantly, so fellow cheap-skates. AmigaDOS formats task, the disk indicated that it was 1% owning a separate backup program only perfect diskettes; even if only one full - those were the bad sectors. Two is still a good plan. block is "bad," AmigaDOS deems the cautions, though: entire disk unusable. BFormat is a CU 1 BFormat does not restore data; all See Here! only utility that allows you to format data on the disk will be lost, just The font-sensitive interface is those less than pristine disks by mapping as with a regular "format" clean and well designed, although out the errors. The program supports the command; the small picture icons can become Fast File System, any type of floppy disk, 2 If your disk has one hard track hard drive partitions, and RAD: devices. error, that may be a sign that the difficult to distinguish if used on a The only limitation is that Track 0 and disk is on its way out, so don't put high resolution, 24-bit screen. Track 80 must be good. your life's work on one. However, a small box at the bottom BFormat camouflages the bad of the window labels the button as blocks from AmigaDOS. When a block BFormat is a cinch to use, even to the mouse pointer passes over each cannot be formatted, the program marks those of us who use the CLI as a last one. it as "in use". These marked blocks are resort. The docs are concise and easy to Documentation is provided in not attached to any specific AmigaDOS understand. AmigaGuide format (which can file, so AmigaDOS doesn't attempt to use BFormat 4.0 double as DiskSalv's "Help" them. l .A, Nery, R.W. Bowers, Bob Bush function). It is one of the better- Aminet: disk/misc/bformat4.1ha 16 AMAZING COMPUTING The SONY Digital Mavica MVC-FD7 Being forced to live without a digital camera is no fun, probably akin to trying to kick any drug habit. Shakes, shivers, and quivers disturb a nights sleep, and you find yourself sobbing uncontrollably while reviewing your stored image data. by R. Shamms Mortier At the moment, I do not own a expensive Lithium AA still-video camera. I have owned two batteries ($7.00 a pair), previously. The first was a Canon and could take about Xapshot, which I reviewed in Amazing 500 images before the about five years ago. The Xapshot was batteries needed one of the first affordable prosumer changing (as long as I digital cameras on the market. Its high was careful to turn the end cousins were being sold at prices camera off between ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 when takes). the Xapshot was released at a price of Getting the images about $1,000 (if you can find one, it to my Amiga was a could probably be had for around more time consuming $100.00 today). process. The Kodak DC- The Canon Xapshot was not the 40 came with its own best camera when it came to image connection cable and resolutions, since the pictures it took software, but only for were configured as 320 x 200 72 DPI the Mac or Pc. So to get images. It had a somewhat expensive the images to my disk ($10.00 each) that held 50 images Amiga, I had to utilize a in a prioritized Canon format. A video Figure 1. The top half of the image out cable could be connected to the shows the back of the Mavica MVC FD7, with the red arrow pointing to the video-in on an Amiga digitizer (I used side where the floppy disk is inserted. the DC TV unit), and the images could The LCD screen is in plain view. The be downloaded to the screen. bottom half of the image displays the Once on the screen, the images front of the camera. could be processed and enhanced in Mac or PC first, then save them out as ImageFX. I remember using it to do an TIF files on a PC disk, and access the article about my visit to Greg Gorby, images from that disk on the Amiga the father of Aladdin-4D, on a journey (as you know, the Amiga can read PC to his Ohio studios. The Xapshot used disks). regular AA batteries, and as I recall, I used ImageFX again to save the they had to be replaced after about 200 images as IFF files. Resolution was shots. I finally traded the Xapshot for somewhat better, corning in at about an audio board. 512 x 400 at 144 DPI, which was easy to Soon after disposing of the translate into what my Amiga video Xapshot, and being by now addicted to productions needed (72 DPI full screen digital photography, I purchased a Figure 2. Extreme close-ups, like these overscanned graphics). The Kodak shots of printed pages from about 1/2" Kodak DC-40. It also sold for around away, produce pretty sharp results. use produced images in its own prioritized $1,000. Instead of a disk, the Kodak a tripod and positioned lights if you format, so the TIF conversion had to held 48 images internally. It used more want the work to look scanned in. happen first on either a Mac or PC, JANUARY 1998 17 since Kodak did not (and as of FROM THE MAKERS OF this writing, still does not) offer AMIGA REPORT COMES: any DC-40 drivers or enhance ment software for the Amiga. In October of 1997, forced to upgrade to a Windows NT machine from my aging Pentium, I traded the Kodak camera as part of a barter. Being forced to live without a digital camera is no fun, probably akin to trying to kick any drug habit. Shakes, shivers, and quivers disturb a nights sleep, and you find yourself sobbing uncontrolla bly while reviewing your stored image data. Well, maybe that's a bit over dramatic, but once you have tasted the delights of using a digital-still camera in your work, it is difficult to do without. In late October, I got a call AMIGA NEWS • TUTORIALS from a well meaning friend REVIEWS • GAMES who described his recent DEMO TAPES • ART GALLERY purchase, a SONY digital-stiJJ camera known as the Mavica SUBSCRIBE NOW! MVC-FD7. Even worse, he Latest lasue features: suggested I borrow it in order • Low-cost 3D packages to test its features, hoping that • ImageFX tutorial I would get hooked and join • Columbus Expo the emerging Mavica users • New Deathbed footage worldwide. Borrow it I did, and now, I know I must find a way to own one myself. Here's Over 60 minutes why ... Figure 3. Even with the flash turned off, the of fun, informative MVC-FD7 takes sharp and usable images. FD7 Feature List video -. -'-"""'.- Unlike the previous digital-still 5 times a year! cameras I have experienced, this SONY SONY camera saves its images to a PC camera has a rechargeable Lithium high density floppy disk that you battery pack. Right off the bat I find insert directly into the camera. This is 5 Issues $11.95 each so exciting I almost can't stand it (easy, 3 Issues $12.95 each that tremendously attractive. Not 1 Issue $14.85 having to purchase new batteries big fella!). The images are saved in (+2.05 s&h per Issue) constantly takes a load of frustration JPEG format, at either a comparable away. There is a slight catch however. compression ratio of about 65, or at a Since it wouldn't be fun to have the more quality related compression ORDER TODAY! Write to: Legacy battery pack run down in the middle setting of 90. Higher settings mean less P.O. Box 60711 / Chicago, IL 60626 of a shoot, it's a good idea to purchase compression, not more, so higher an extra one, and have it fully charged settings take more disk space. At the 1 issue: send $17, 3 issues: send $45, and ready in the case. low setting, you can store about 30 or 5 issues: send $70. Illinois residents There are a number of other so images on a disk (depending upon add 8% tax. Make checks, m.o. 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This means the This includes Negative (reversing the If you plan to take still life shots, disk can come out of the camera to be hues in your image), Pastel (which it's probably best to use a tripod. inserted directly into an Amiga high creates a soft painting effect), Sepia That's because shooting while looking density disk drive (these drives are (replaces the hues with a range of through the LCD viewfinder can typically built into 3000s and 4000s). sepia tones), and B&W (instantly disrupt your ability to hold the camera Since the images are JPEe compressed, translating your color shot to still. If the images are to be used for they can be accessed through ImageFX, grayscale). Another group of Auto video stills, the lower quality setting and even PageStream (as long as you Exposure settings are also included: will suffice. If your output is targeted have PageStream's JPEe converter Soft Portrait Mode: Blurs out the to DTP, then use the high quality JPEe utility installed). All of the major backdrop so that your foreground option. platforms read PC disks (Amigas, image pops out. If you lust after an Amiga digital Alphas, Macs, SeL), so the Mavica Sports Lesson Mode: For record- still camera, I highly recommend that disks are instantly recognizable by aU ing fast moving subjects, like individu- you investigate the SONY Mavica platforms. Besides, JPEe is as ubiqui- als involved in sports. MVC-FD7. It has a market price of tous an image format as they get, so Beach and Ski Mode: Adjusts the around $800.00, and I'll bet the street the PC Floppy /JPEG combination settings to compensate for strong and/ price will be about $600.00 if you wait makes the Mavica a digital-still camera or reflective light. a few months. As an Amiga camera, its for all seasons. Sunset and Moon Mode: For resolution of 640 x 480 pixels at 72 DPI taking pictures in dark environments, is perfect for capturing videographic ... and more like fireworks at night . imagery, and doubling the DPI Instead of looking through a Landscape Mode: For blurring out settings in your image processing viewfinder, the SONY Mavica has a foreground features in favor of distant software (from 72 to 144) gives you built in viewscreen, just like a high end background elements. very good images for DTP work. There video camera, allowing you to see Full playback features are also are higher resolution cameras on the exactly what the framed area looks folded in, and can be played back on market, but not with these features at like. Unlike the lower priced FD5 the camera's LCD screen. This includes this comparatively low price. Now,.. Mavica, the FD7 offers digital zoom as a thumbnail slideshow display of all of how can I get my own, .. hmmmm. well. This allows you to zoom way out the images already on the disk. I like to SONY Mavica MVC-FD7 digital-still for widescreen captures, and also to use this as little as possible, since camera playback features are too much of a get as close as 1/2" from a subject for SONY Electronics, Inc. c1oseups. Flash can be toggled on, or drain on the battery. When necessary 1 SONY Drive you can trust exposures to the auto however, you could use these features Park Ridge, NJ 07656 to see and delete specific images on the http://www.sony.com/mavica mated setting. ·AC· JANUARY 1998 19 Figure 1: The translucent white and black text objects in position. *Yet Another 3D Type Effect Adding an additional dimension to your text and graphics is easier than you think! by Nick Cook You've read enough of these DRAWSTUDIO the list. Otherwise, click on introductions by now that a new one DrawStudio's ability to fill New then Edit to go to the Edit isn't needed. Instead, we will have a characters with bitmaps simplifies the Bitmap Fill panel. Click on the pop quiz. Ready? What dimension do production of an embossed headline. New button to bring up a file desktop publishers and designers STEP ONE: Create an object to requester. Once you've loaded want to add to the page? I'll hum the serve as the text's background. a texture bitmap, click on its Jeopardy theme while you think ... Next, we need to fill it with a name to use it. Set the Fill Type Ding! Well? texture. Select Attributes from gadget to Tile. If you said "The Fifth Dimen the Object menu or use the STEP TWO: Enter your text sion," thank you for playing and we right-Amiga L keyboard somewhere else on the page, have lovely parting gifts (see that shortcut. Click on the Bitmap then click on the arrow icon to really big stack of Rice-A-Roni over button in the Fill Colour make it an object. Use the there?). But if you said "the third section, then on the Edit Clone or Duplicate functions to dimension," congratulations! This button. If you've preloaded create two copies. With an month·s tip adds depth with an bitmaps with the embossed object, you may embossed effect for headlines. View>Bitmap menu item, want to see some of the select the desired texture from underlying texture's character in the embossing "hills." DrawStudio's nifty Opacity command comes in handy here. STEP THREE: Select one text copy and re-enter the Attributes gadget. If not already active, click on Solid in the Fill Colour section. Choose Edit. Make sure 100% Black is highlighted, then select New. An entry, suitably named "New_Black," is added to the list. Click on Edit, and the Edit Colour panel appears. Change the color's name to something snappy like Figure 2: There was this evil orge named Billy, who wanted to rule the world. "Translucent_Black." 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Select between the white and black text objects, click on the text OK three times on the different objects. In other words, only icon and use the mouse to requesters to fill the copy with white should be visible behind highlight the text. Select Line/ your new Translucent Black the top and left of the original Fill from the Type menu and color. text, and only black should be fill the characters with black (if STEP FOUR: Repeat Step Three seen below and to the right of it is not black already). You with the second text copy, but it. may want to "fatten" the text fill it with a Translucent White Group the objects and export the by adding a 2 point black col.or. graphic. You must export the illustra outline. STEP FIVE: Place the translucent tion as a bitmap; the Encapsulated STEP FIVE: Repeat Step Four with white text on top of the object PostScript (EPS) format does not the other copy of the text object, created in Step One. Then stack support bitmap filled characters or but this time fill it with white. the translucent black on top of, transparent colors. STEP SIX: Place the white text on but slightly below and to the top of the object created in Step right of, the translucent white PAGESIREAM 3 One. Then stack the black on text object (Figure 1). You can also emboss inside top of, but slightly below and STEP SIX: Make the original text PageStream 3. Here's how: to the right of, the white text object active. Fill it with the STEP ONE: Load your graphic for object. texture bitmap used for the the background texture, STEP SEVEN: Duplicate the background object. STEP TWO: Enter your text. Click background image. Stack the STEP SEVEN: Stack the filled on the arrow icon, then on the duplicate image on top of the original text object on top of text to make it an object. original text object. JANUARY 1998 21 Before version 3.2, PageStream A second way would be to fiddle didn't include the Mask Graphic with the palette so that the gray of the command needed for Step Nine. embossing effect is color zero, the Substitute this workaround instead: transparent color. We'll use Cloanto's STEP NINE (prior to version 3.2): Personal Paint to illustrate this example, Draw a rectangle around the since it defaults to a gray page. text object that is as wide and STEP ONE: Load the texture bitmap tall as the image. Click on the as a brush. Remap the brush's arrow icon and select both the colors if needed. Do not allow rectangle and text objects. colors zero (gray), one (black), Choose Object>Merge Paths and two (white) to change. Click command (this creates a on the Fill icon with the right composite path of the two mouse button, and select the objects). Select the Object>Line brush as the pattern fill. & Fill menu to open that STEP TWO: Click on the filled requester. Change the box Fill rectangle icon, and drag out to solid White and toggle off your text's background. the line stroke. Stack this STEP THREE: Enter your text in Circle 126 on Reader Service card. compound object on top of the black. image. STEP FOUR: Hit the "b" key (or STEP EIGHT: Make the text and click the cut icon) to start the image objects active, either PERSONAL PAINT cutting tool. Holding down the through shift-clicking both or Some of you may be asking right mouse button, drag the clicking the left mouse button yourselves, "Self, why should I muck bounding box around the text. and dragging the dashed line around with stacking type when most Release the button to pick it up. around both. Amiga image processing programs STEP FIVE: Select Process from the STEP NINE: Select MasbMask have embossing filters?" Fair question. Brush menu. When the list of Graphic from the Object menu. The embossing effect most image effects appears, pick Emboss The text "fills" with the texture processing programs output has a flat (either High or Low, your bitmap. gray background. If that's what you choice) and click Proceed. STEP TEN: Stack the masked text are after, you have got it made. STEP SIX: Not a bad Emboss effect, object created in Step Eight on However, if you want to use textures, huh? Move the brush over the top of the white and black as we have in the two previous texture rectangle. Since gray is objects. Arrange the masked examples, you'll have to do something the transparent color, the text so that it slotted between different. One method would be to texture is visible inside the the white and black objects load the texture bitmap as a brush in a embossed letters. (Figure 2). paint program and use it with the Fill You could stamp the brush down function. at this point, but you may want to perform one extra step. Select Process again, then apply the Light Blur filter. When the blurring is finished, stamp down the brush (Figure 3). The blur smoothes out the sometimes rough edges of the emboss filter, and generally softens the text. On the other hand, it dulls the colors and reduces legibility slightly. You'll need to decide if the trade off is worth it. *Yet Another 3D Type Effect Embossing type can give an "elegant" look to a page, or is handy when having to recreate things such as credit cards. A simple adjustment can also change the effect. Just by reversing the position of white and black stacks, the embossing becomes engraving. 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Choose the right Amiga pet for your system . The New Year; traditionally the The demo version forces a wait of time for reevaluations and resolu about a minute before the game will tions. If your resolutions include begin, limits you to single floppy reducing that stack of floppy disks games that are on bootable disks, and around your Amiga, or getting a pet, will not degrade your AGA Amiga you will want to check out some of automatically. One other thing to these programs I recently found on remember, dci creates a directory AmiNet. called DaThing, so if you plan to install more than one game, rename dA cOOL iNSTAllER the first directory, or both games will One of the really frustrating be in the same directory. things about many games is the The biggest limitation to this inability to install them on your hard program is it will not install games drive. This is the result of protecting that don't use the standard Amiga the software so that it cannot be floppy disk file system. In other copied (at least under normal words, if you insert a game disk into circumstances). There is little that is the drive, and "NDOS" or "???" more annoying than long pauses in a appear under the disk icon on the game for the next section to load Workbench, dci can't install it to your from a floppy, especially when the hard drive. hard drive is just sitting there, spin Figure 1: Amitamagotchi gives you more to dA cOOL iNSTALLER is ning away. look at while your virtual pet grows. shareware, with a registration fee of While there have been patches Enter Andreas Falkenhahn with US$15. System requirements are an and programs for years that will copy dA cOOL iNSTALLER (dci). This gem Amiga with OS2.0+, Workbench this or that game to your hard drive, it lets you place almost any floppy-only installed on the hard drive, and is often not enough. When a favorite program any place on your hard drive reqtools.library from Nico Francois. game refuses to run under a newer you desire. What's more, the registered This last is included in the archive, version of the Amiga Operating version automatically will degrade the along with AmigaGuide documenta System, you have to resort to another system to accommodate the installed tion. sort of program, known collectively as game. You can find dci as the file a degrader. This effectively removes When run, dci opens a standard CoolInstalledha in the game/ patch the newer portions of the OS and system requestor for you to choose the subdirectory on Ami Net. (virtually) removes extra memory, and destination of your program. After other things that chokes older pro this, you are prompted to place the Virtual Pets grams. Often, by the time you have the game disk in the internal floppy drive. There are many respected medical proper patches and fixes, apply them After a bit, the game is on your hard studies that indicate various health and get everything set up, you have drive, and you are ready to play. It benefits are derived from pet owner lost interest in playing that game, or it even supplies an icon to start the ship. Unfortunately not everyone can is time for supper. game. have a pet. Budgets, allergies, and 26 AMAZING COMPUTING SIMM Adapters !!! Year-end Clearance Sale AmiFAST 3000 $79 with 16Megs $119 with 8Megs $99 AmiFAST-// $35 with 8Megs $55 DIY Christmas Special ff AmiFAST 3000 Kits Just $50!! ProvTech VOICEIFAX (812) 254-1721 Figure 2: AmiPet gives you the choice of what your virtual pet grows up to be. : [email protected] landlords are just a few of the reasons decide what your "pet" needs, select Circle 134 on Reader Service card. that can keep you from sharing your the appropriate function and click the living space with a live animal. right buttons. tluough either keyboard shortcuts or a While I know of no studies As of this writing, Arnitamagotchi menu. concerning the effects of virtual pets is only at version 0.53, and not all of One unique feature with AmiPet on your health, I do know they have the functions work, but most do. is the ability to change what sort of been the hottest electronics fad in AmigaGuide documentation in both animal it grows into. Several are Japan for the past few years. They English and Spanish is included in the available on AmiNet now, and a haven't had quite the same impact archive. Arnitamagotchi is freeware, template and conversion utility are here in the States (yet, anyway), but with the author asking for a message if included if you want to design your they are growing in popularity. you use it. Find the file own "pet". If you haven't heard of them, amitamagotchi.lha in the misc/emu If your Amiga is short of system typically they take the form of a subdirectory. resources, this may be the virtual pet keychain attachment, about the size of for you. The docs say it will run under a small egg. There is a Liquid Crystal AmiPet OS 2.0+, and uses only 60 kilobytes of Display, and three or four buttons. The From Loony Juice Software (no memory once started. AmiPet is at idea is, a puppy, kitten, or other small author listed), AmiPet opens a simple version 1.10b, and can be found in the animal is born, and you have to care window that the little creature bounces game/wb subdirectory on ArniNet. for it. By pressing the buttons you around in (Figure 2). All functions are have to feed and care for the animal, play with it, take it to the vet, etc. If you do all of this correctly, the "pet" grows and thrives. Mess up and it dies, and you have to start again. There are several clones of these virtual pets you can download from ArniNet to liven up your Workbench, two of the most recent are Amitamagotchi from Pedro Gil Guirado, and AmiPet. Amitamagotchi This one is a clone of the typical tamagotchi pet (Figure 1). Three Get It! buttons at the bottom of the display ~ini.~~~l~I~~~a~~·or.Qtllet.. B!O .'!!~etS are used to control the various 'JiJ~~(j : ~~'~d ' screen Shots functions. Alerted by audio tones, you have to select the status display, and Figure 3: Be sure 10 get the latest AWebll patch file. JANUARY 1998 27 COMPUQUICK MEDIA CENTER to version 3.0b and corrects several problems. Go to: 3758 TOWN & COUNTRY RD., COLUMBUS, OH 43213 http://w\A/W.amitrix.com/aweb.html TEL: 614-235-3601, TEUFAX: 614-235-1180 Speaking of AWebII, I've recently acquired the full commercial program SYSTEMS ACCELERATORS OS3.1 PERIPHERALS AMIGA 4040T $1900 CYBERSTORM MK·3 A500/2000 $94 CUSTOM CHIPS, CD package, and next month will be AMIGA 4060T $2600 060/50 MHz $790 A3000 $105 ROMS INT/EXT. WRITEABLE CDs, devoted to a review. AMIGA 1200 HD $595 200 MHz PPC $1289 A4000 $105 SOFTWARE, DISK CD32 + 6 CDs $229 1230/50BLlZZ $220 A1200 $105 DRIVES HIGH DENSITY, SX32 $230 1260/50BLlZZ $650 A600 $94 INT/EXT. ALL AMIGAS, Who Va Gonna Call? SX32 PRO/33 $400 1260 APOLLO $590 3.1 ROMS $36/52 HARD DRIVES SCSI/IDE, SX32 PRO/50 $440 1240 APOLLO $300 3.1 BOOKS $57 ALSO FOR A1200 NAME: Techno Mages Guild AMIGA600 $225 1230 APOLLO $120 + SOFTWARE MICRONIK TOWERS PHONE: (619) 549-0278 POWER PC BOARDS ALL AMIGAS. 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SETTINGS (DIALUP): 8-N-1 PICASSO 4 $435 MEGA CHIP $185 AMIGA REPAIRS TELNET: Telnet:/ / CYBERVISION 64 $275 APOLLO MEGA CHIPS $155 WE TAKE TRADES. midnight.harborcom.net AUTHORIZED AMIGA INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTORS FOR A1200S SETTINGS (TELNET): Port 23 WWW.lNFINET.COM/-COMQUICK. EMAIL: [email protected] ISDN connection to Internet. 24 hours/ SECURE ORDERING FOR INTERNET ORDERS. 7 days OPEN MON-FRI11AM TO 7:30PM, SAT 11-7 Circle 124 on Reader Service card. Where To Find Me [email protected] http://www.kiva.net/-rhays Updates to the system when Miami is iconized. [email protected] Miami For the latest, check out the Miami RHays5 on Genie The TCP replacement program homepage at: 72764,2066 on CompuServe Miami from Holger Kruse is currently http://www.america.com/-kruse/ For US. Mail: at version 2.91p, with a new version 3 amiga/Miami.html Rob Hays in the works. This promises to offer the p.o. 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This Old Workbench: Episode 13 Scalos and Newicons V4. 1 Scalos offers a more traditional workbench while providing a set of new features and Newicons is ... well, newiconsl by Dave Matthews Scalos In the November 1997 issue of Amazing Computing, I covered several Workbench replacements, namely Directory Opus Magellan and Mbench. Since then, another Work bench replacement has been released: Scalos. Scalos, programmed by Stefan Sommerfeld, stays very close to the look and feel of the original Amiga Workbench, while adding many new features and power. As with the Magellan and MBench, Scalos features a fully multitasking Workbench, with each window having its own task. Open a Window with many icons, or drag and drop a file from one window to another, and you can keep working, unlike the standard Amiga Work bench. Scalos requires MUI for the preferences, and several third party add-ons to be fully functional. These are listed on the Scalos Home Page and are all available for free download on the Internet. See Figure 1 for a screenshot of the Scalos Workbench replacement, with windows showing Newicon support and the "view as text" enhancements. Some Scalos features: • 100% Workbench replacement, all functions should work like the WB ones • 64-bit arithmetics for Hard disk sizes • alllcon-image types are supported such as Backfill or Complement • full multitasking, every window has its own task, Figure 1 (top): Scalos- A new Workbench Replacement while loading icons any Figure 2 (bottom): Scalos Preferences 30 AMAZING COMPUTING window fW1ction (e.g. Drag & Drop) is available • icon data type system, newicon data type included • cybergraphics and 24-bit data types support • unlimited window patterns, configurable via tool types • optimized backgroW1d patterns routine • directory-notification • Menu-Preferences to have full configurable menus (includes ToolsDaemon and Parm import) • big Application interface, anything is possible from outside • custom Palette and Pattern preferences program • nearly all WB-preferences will be used, install and uninstall is very easy • plug-in system to exchange or add features One thing that both MBench and Magellan have that Scalos lacks is a progress gauge when copying files. This is one area where Scalos sticks a little too close to the original Work bench. On the other hand, one very welcome feature is a Workbench Menu deSigner, with a nicely laid out CUI. This is one of my favorite parts of Scalos, right after the multitasking! See Figure 2 for the menu preferences program, and Figure 3 for the Scalos take on the Execute Command, Rename, and Delete requesters. I was somewhat disappointed Figure 3 (top): Scalos Requesters with the lack of documentation. The Figure 4 (middle): Newicons V4 Installation small readme file is adequate to get Figure 5 (boHom): Newicons V4 Preferences Scalos installed, but far from complete. Of course, much of Scalos is identical you are finding the Amiga's original advantages over the stock Amiga in usage to the Amiga's Workbench, Workbench limiting, you should handling of icons. Primarily, Newicons which obviates the need for much of definitely check out the Scalos demo. offers a method of keeping the Icon the documentation, but more thorough colors consistent, regardless of palette coverage is still needed. Newicons V4 or screen mode. The Amiga's standard Scalos is very compatible There are a lot of new things system makes no provision for an with most all the Little goodies I've about Newicons V4. New authors, new icon's palette, and a carefully crafted presented over the course of The Old icon imagery, and a slew of new icon can turn to instant mush by Workbench, including Magic Menus, features, Newicons is a must see for copying it to a friend's Amiga, or even MCX, and Newicons. I found it to be those interested in workbench en by changing screen modes. Newicons reasonably stable, though keep in hancement. And it's still free! inserts palette information in the icon, mind this is a pre-release, and thus For those W1familiar with as well as patching the Amiga's system may have a few bugs to work out. If Newicons, this system offers many to recognize that information, so the JANUARY 1998 31 Figure 6: Newicons V4 Deflcons icons will maintain their colors as close In addition to the technical Scalos as possible. In addition Newicons stuff, many of the icons have been Shareware AliEN DESiGN supports up to 256 color icons. given a face lift. Also improved is the Stefan Sommerfeld ([email protected] The first thing you'll notice is Deflcon system, which improves upon berlin.de) an improved installer. One nice feature the Amiga's fake icon system, which WWW: www.cs.tu-berlin.de/-zerocom/ is a graphical interface for installing display default images for files aliendesign.html Requires: Kickstart 3.0 or higher and drawer and disk drive icons. See without icons. Deflcon includes icons MC68020 or higher, MUI 3.x (for prefs) Figure 4. for LZX, PNG and other new files. See Scalos also supports: Some new features include Figure 6 for the new default icons. guigfx.library (available at http:// transparent areas for icons, including If you are using Newicons, tek.flynet.de or the Aminet) popupmenu.library - which is needed to transparent dragging, support for rush to Aminet and download the use the popup menus (available: Aminet: util/libs/pmuser.lha or http:// If you are using Newicons, rush to Aminet www.algonet.se/-henisak/pm/pm.html) newicon.library (available: and download the latest version right Aminet) awayll' you haven't tried Newicons, NewiconsV4 you really should. Programming for Newicons V3 and up: Eric Sauvageau ([email protected]) Cybergrafx and RTG, font outlining latest version right away! If you Documentation, installer, and artwork for Newicons V3 and up: Phil for better viSibility, and an option to haven't tried Newicons, you really Vedovatti ([email protected]) remove the borders from icons. All should. If you don't care for the Aminet: util/wb/ these options are accessible using a included Icons, Newicons can be used Newicons41.lha Class Act based GUI. See Figure 5 for with any style of icons, from plain to Official Web site: http:// www.amiganet.org/Newicons/ the New Icons Preferences. MagicWB. It takes a little work to convert them, but you might find the benefits well worth it. 32 AMAZING COMPUTING Figure 1. At the upper left is the original image. Using the Chrome 1, 2, and 3 Color fix Presets produced these altered color images. The progression of images displays increasing quantities of customized brightness curves, from 1 to 2 to 3. Computer graphics is defined by movies (erroneously called black and animation is perceived. A while ago, a two ingredients, image and color. Each white movies) seem to hold so much person called a "colorist" was assigned presents the viewer with information more potential for meanmg. the task of applying color to the image that acts to cause emotional and Conversely, grayscale cartoons or arumation. In most contemporary inteUectual responses. Images range and fantasy films have a lot less digital studios, this is no longer true, from cartoony to abstract to potential for involving the audience in since budgetary demands make it photorealistic. Color ranges from black realms of fantasy than do color necessary that the same person who and white to grayscale to a mixture of cartoons. One reason might be that generates the image also decides what hues. Whatever the image is capable of color is closely associated with fantasy, the color scheme will be (unless an art suggesting on its own is moderated and even the impact of hallucinatory director or client intervenes). and augmented when we consider its vision. Remember the feeling you got Color has always been a core palette. , when Dorothy stepped out of her feature and subject of interest on the A photorealistic image presented house in the Wizard of Oz, and the Amiga. When the HAM (Hold and in black and white looks posterized, film went from grayscale to color? Modify) palettes were introduced, stark, and decorative. Many times a Amiga artists could finaUy render grayscale image presents more image Handling Color what seemed to be photorealistic informatjon than the same image How the computer graphic artist images. When the Amiga pushed past presented in color, because the and animator handles color becomes a the 16 color barrier in other ways, and sed uction of the color has been tellmg aspect of the imagery, and can allowed for 256 colors with the AGA removed. This is why grayscale radically alter the way the image or chip set, a loud roar of applause could Figure 2. Here is a selection of Negative Color fix. Negative 1 is a standard negative application. The second image was adjusted by making only the first half of the pixels in the brightness range move from positive to negative, while the rest move from low brightness to higher brightness, affecting all of the hues. The third sample uses the negative Posterization effect, which results in negative hues, but less total colors overall. JANUARY 1998 33 ImageFX, Nova's central application, contains eaSily accessible tools that can give your color work a wide range of possibilities. Most Amiga artists and animators have images and animations that having been used for a targeted project, now languish untouched in a forgotten corner of their hard drive. Applying a color effect to a forgotten image or animation can resuscitate it, and give it new life. Here are a few suggestions for using ImageFX to alter the color content of your images, new and old. ImageFX Options There are several ways that you can use ImageFX to your advantage to alter the color content of a selected image There are several ways that you can use ImageFX to your advantage to alter the color content of a selected image or animation frame(s). or animation frame(s). They include: Color fix, Balance fix, Render fix, and global palette operations. Color fIx These options are designed specifically for color enhancement and alteration. They include: Custom, Negative, Solarize, Posterize, False Color, Gray to Color, Color to Gray, B&W to Gray, Halftone, Change Color, and Antique. Of these, those that are not immediate obvious include Solarize, Posterize, Halftone, Change Color, and Custom. Solarize makes the graphic look like it is reflecting an atomic explosion. Halftone breaks the image up into a series of dots or other patterns that give it a printed-on paper look. Change Color allows you to globally change any selected color in an image to another hue, a powerful option when needed. That leaves the Custom setting, which is the most interesting and variable of the Color fix choices. Figure 3. These images were altered through the use of the Balance fix controls: Red to 80 and Blue to -40 Custom Color fIx makes red replace blue in most of the mid-range of There are sixteen presets that can be loaded in as either the Image; moving the Red and Green sliders up to finished fix or as starting positions to customize further. +50 gives the image a decidedly yellow cast; The settings are displayed on a graph, and can be adjusted moving the Green channel to -127 brings out the reds and blues. in several modes: Point, Spline, or Line. Points can be added or deleted in any selected mode. For most situations, I be heard across the Amiga community. 256 colors, espe recommend Spline Mode, since this allows a smoother cially when animated, can imitate thousands of colors very transition between points. effectively. What you are manipulating are the pixels in your The Amiga was fortunate very early on in attracting image, from the lowest to the highest brightness levels. If some of the best developers in the world to write software you move the low points of the curve higher, you are telling that explored image and color enhancement. Nova Design, the software to "make all of the lowest bright pixels in my one of the original developers of image enhancement image very bright". You can Load and/ or Save any custom software on the Amiga, is still around to offer a number of ized curve you design. The preset curves in the IFX library options to the Amiga artist and animator for exploring color include the following seventeen choices: Bumps, Compress, options. Chrome 1-2-3, Contrast, Destroy, Gamma 1-2, Halve, 34 AMAZING COMPUTING Negative 1-2, Negative Posterize, Posterize, Rough, and Threshold. each of the Presets is there to be customized. The Posterize option, for instance, allows you to posterize selected bright pixels in the image, something no other image processing software allows on any platform. See the accompanying figures for a display of some possible results. Balance fix ImageFX allows you to alter each color channel (whether RCB, CMYK, or HSY) separately, and also to adjust the "Y" or brightness of the image. This is accom plished in the Balance requester. It is managed through Dithering should not be used for animation frames, since different dithering from frame to frame creates bothersome jumps and flickers in the palette. moving sliders that control the amount of the mix each channel possesses. Set to zero by default (indicating that the channels contribution to the mix is balanced), you can adjust the sliders either up or down. In RCB mode, for instance, moving the Red and Creen channels all the way down will de-emphasize the yellow component of the image (which is 100% red and green), and allow the blue to replace yellow. Moving the blue channel up at the same time will make the effect even stronger. Other effects are displayed in the accompanying Figure 4. Render fix ImageFX allows you to alter the number of colors in your palette, no matter what the palette format of the targeted graphic. Most times, Amiga users change a 24-bit picture with millions of colors to an image with 256 colors, in order to animate a series of 24-bit frames. Figure 4. Reducing the number of colors in an image's palette When you transform the number of colors in an radically alters the impact of the image. Using image's palette, ImageFX allows you to select from a rendering transformations in ImageFX, the following number of dithering options. Dithering allows adjacent effects were created: 24-bit image reduced to 8 colors with no dithering; 24-bit image reduced to 2 colors in the image to transition more slowing, being colors with no dithering; 24 bit image reduced to 16 divided by dot patterns that contain either one or the other colors with high ordered dithering. Notice that color. The eye perceives this as a blended color transition. although the 16 color image is about 10% the file You may also select no dithering, in which case size of the 24-bit original, it looks very close. ImageFX decides which colors dominate in your image, and imagery into the illustrations found in traditional comic which can be dropped. Transforming a 24-bit image to a 16- books, and also works well in illustrations accomplished in color palette with no dithering produces a posterized image vector drawing applications. See the examples shown in with less colors and wider areas of the same color. Dithering Figure 5. should not be used for animation frames, since different dithering from frame to frame creates bothersome jumps Global Palette Transformations and flickers in the palette. Using the Palette requester in ImageFX, you can alter Reducing the number of colors in an image also tends an image's hues by replacing its original palette with to flatten it out. This is perfect for turning photographic (continued on page 38) JANUARY 1998 35 th ACI graphics. Nick walks uS through a few of them, by Nick Cook. How to Organize Your Life, A few helpful hints to organize your work life and define YDur goals that work as well for a video producer Dr an average, overworked, under-funded, Amigan, by Steve Yankee. The Gateway Computer Show, An Amiga User group of 32 peDple bring together a computer show that attracts Amiga users and vendors from around the world and revitalizes an industry. McFiler Version 4.3, Tired of never knDWing where your files are? Check out this catillog Volume 12 Number4; April 1997 utility for a multitude of media, by Dave VOLUME 12 Number 7; JULY 1997 New Products and other Neat Stuff, A Sweden Matthews. New Products and other Neat Stuff, It's Official Amiga Show, Draw Studio CD, four new CDs A New Beginning, Amiga developers meet to Gateway 2000 is in charge! 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Hays. news reader, more news on Ja va for the Arniga, a Creating and animating anatomical models with a A Polished Edge, Burnish your headlines for a 3D new browser, a new home for a program Mac or a Windows PC for Amiga uses, by R effect, by Nick Cook. previously mentioned here, and a new venture for Shamms Mortier. Network PC & The Siamese System, With the a long time Arniga guru, by Rob Hays. Directory Opus 5.6 Magellan, GPSoftware's right tools, your Amiga can utilize the better parts This Old Workbench: Episode 10 Hodgepodge Directory Opus can bring your Amiga Workbench of any Pc. by Dave S. Matthews. and Miscellanea, The Tooling of the Shells, by into an entirely new reality, by William Near. Game. on the Amiga, Jd's Quake is on the move Dave Matthews. This Old Workbench: EpIsode 11 A New Face for to the Amiga. 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Tyschtschenko, Managing Director, Amiga Games on the Amiga, This month, Peter has International Inc., Petro explains that there are outdone himself. There are four sections to this now two Arniga companies with one united goal. issue's coverage of games on the Amiga you do not want to miss: Command & Conquer, Briefs: News on Arniga Gaming, Reviews, and Caught in the Net, by Peter Olafson. ANIMfaces, AnimBrushes, only the AMIGA can boast of AnimBrushes. Use Shamrns' technique to dabble in your own quick and easy animations, by R Shamms Mortier. Books of Note: Net Research: Information Online, Avoid detours on the Information Superhighway. Volume 12, Number 10; October 1997 Daniel J. (BLAZEMONGER) Barrett has written a New Products and other neat stuff, Gateway 2000 collection of strategies for research and discovery fights off Amiga rights encroachment, Pa xtron & for everyone on the net, Reviewed by Nick Cook. Software Hut expand their distribution, Haage & For a listing of every Amazing ComputinglAmiga Partner create more Amiga power tools, and Volume 12 Number 11; November 1997 more. New Products and other Neat Stuff, Amiga ever printed (over 120 issues), AMIGA Inc.?, Gateway 2000 continues their push Developers' conference, AmiCON Amiga Show, please see our web site at www.pimpub.com USEDAMIGA EQUIPMENT FOR SALE • 4000-040/18 MB desktops $995 • PAR cards $575i TBC-IVs $475 • Toasters $525 UPi Flyers $2995 • Sunrize AD516 cards $595 • 3000 $245 UPi 3000T-040 $795 • Accelerators, memory/SCSI cards • Amiga 1200s $275 BUY/SELL USEDINEW AMIGA SYSTEMS MICRONIK TOWER KITS F/ALLMODELS WE REPAIRALLAMIGAS HARDDRIVERS CO. 407-636-3393 [email protected] Circle 155 on Reader Service card. (continued from page 35) another. The new palette can come from another image or animation frame, or from one of the included preset palettes that ship with ImageFX. There are 34 customized palette presets in ImageFX that can be used to alter your imported images. This is a technique not spelled out in the ImageFX docs. Here's how: 1. You will need to begin with a 256-color image, because we will be working with "color registered images", that means images whose color palettes have numbered color wells. Either use a 256-color image you already have, or translate a 24-bit image into 256 colors in ImageFX.It's best if the image is not dithered. 2. Go to the Palette panel in ImageFX, and load in one of the palettes from the ImageFX Palette library of choices. 3. Go to the Toolbox panel, and click on the Color option. In the Color fix list, select False Color, and select "Use Palette" from the choices. That's it! Your 256-color image will be remapped according to the new color palette you selected. You can also load in a color palette from another image, which is especially useful when working with animation frames. See the samples in Figure 6. 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The Midwest run on 0.5. 2.1 or later. It's shareware fee is Ami Expo, (MAE), produced by AmiCON, $30, but John had a show special of $24 that the Arniga Central Ohio Network. Mr. Dave was irresistible when you consider you get Pearce and Ronn Black were my contacts. to talk to the author. (www.calweb.com/ (www.amicon.org) The club reserved the -jzachar I) ballroom at the Concourse HoteL located at Mr. Ethan Dicks of Software Results the Columbus, Ohio airport. MAE was Enterprises was there. He's the author who open both Saturday and Sunday with Petro produced the Golden Gate 2 Bus or GG2 Petro Tyschtschenko, President of Amiga Tyschtschenko, President of Amiga Bus+. This is a slick little piece of work. It International Inc. gave his welcoming International Inc. giving his welcoming lets you add IBM-compatible hardware to speech Saturday, shortly after the show speech Saturday, shortly after the show your Amiga. The most common additions opened, from the Amazing Computing opened. are extra parallel and serial ports, and booth. The Midwest Ami Expo was well network cards. (www.infinet.com/nerd/ attended, with people anxious to hear some GG2/) news about their Amigas. Attendees and NCAUG (National Capital Amiga exhibitors alike were busy selling and Users Group) was there. Brian Koetting was demonstrating items. Sunday was lighter demonstrating a most ingenious program with most of the folks returning to purchase for children. Maybe that's why I was drawn items they had looked at the previous day, to it. Kids Stop is an entertaining program or to get more information about products for children. If you have children who want they had seen on Saturday, but could not some good visual and audio entertainment, get the information on at that time due to without all the blowing up shooting up of the crowds. most games, this is worth looking at. Brian had it running with a touch screen, but Amiga Society of Kentuckiana (l-R) Exhibitors etc. mouse, joystick or even keyboard inputs are Mike Buford,- President and Quan lee. Dale L. Larson of Connect Your accepted. (email: [email protected]) They did custom buttons and name Amiga! fame was selling his Guide to the Ami Tech Dayton of Dayton Ohio was tags. Internet and other items from his l.A.M. on hand. The whole group appeared to be table. (www.iam.com/iam or 610-853-4406) present from the Schwartz family. Eric, Ron James Harrison and James Ceraldi of and Phil plus Len Carsner manned the table Aurora Works in Canada had a table. They selling a II kinds of stuff. Of course Eric's were showing a beta version of their new excellent graphic work was well repre game H-BOMB. It's designed as a multi sented at this table as well as Weingarten player game and deserves your attention if Gallery and E.s. Productions, which was you are a gamer. (www.auroraworks.com conveniently right next door. He had lots of or 613- 549-0204) Ami the Squirrel items for sale, and was Frank Davis of FWD Computing was quite busy. (Weingarten: 937-435-0134, attending his first Amiga show as a dealer. E.s.Productions: www.coax.net/people/ (http://members.tripod.com/ -index or ericsl and AmiTech Amiga User Group at: 765-473-8031) w""w .coax.net! people I erics I amitech.htm) Mr. John F. Zacharias of AEMail fame Arniga Society of Kentuckiana (ASK) was selling the latest version of his internet were doing custom buttons for the show Jim Krych of Video Turtle. The Video email client. (I bought a copy myself) and name tags. I wish I had got one of the Turtle converts RGB to S-VHS for your AEmail can be used to send and retrieve name tags, they were neat. I did manage to monitor or video recorder. 42 AMAZING COMPUTING Kermit Woodall (right) introducing the A luncheon on Sunday for User Group ICOA's speakers at the Columbus representatives was hosted by Wayne Developers' Conference. Hunt and Lee Stanford. secure the button. Mike Buford, President Legacy Maker Inc. was on hand. Katie and Quan Lee were manning the table Nelson and Anne Wilmore were selJing when I went by. Legacy issue 1 of their video tapes about ProvTech the Sim adapter folks were Amiga happenings. They also had PAN present. Keith Siders was selling his Ami Canvas a plug in for lMAGE FX and Fast 3000 sim adaptor for the A.miga 3000. Catalyzer, a tutorial for IMAGE FX. Keith stated that he didn't have too many Kermit Wodall of Nova Design had a left, so if your interested, you might want to table. He was selling IMAGE FX and call pronto. (812-254-1721) Aladd in 4D. 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Vulcan Software of America was on "Boogie Woogie WHALE". It's a sing along They also brought my A4000 back for me, hand to display their library of Amiga by Phil Nibbeling who was animation which they had been repairing. Yup, it titles. director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The works now, that's what this article is being Photos by Bob Scharp video is made with the Amiga. done on. JANUARY 1998 43 the Gateway Computer Show Vendors sign up now for the fourth Gateway Computer Show, Amiga 98. • Our experience shows in producing the very best US Amiga shows from year to year. • Size, quality, hall display and layout are unmatched. • Quality of vendors and the total experience are unsurpassed. • Just ask anyone who has attended previous shows. • Read the review in the May 1997 issue of Amazing Computing on page 42. March 14th and 15th, 1998 Harley Hotel, St. Louis, MO, USA Sponsoring the third International Developers Conference. 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The ones we purchased were black and endorsed by G.A.C. You can view our with large words AMlGA running up and web page at: www.amiga-stl.com AE Mail- John F. Zacharias. down the sleeves, and a big I on the front. Last but not least was a very promi They were also available on white nent table in the corner due to Don Hicks' sweatshirts. They really look cool! twinkling Christmas lights covering a large I had my own booth set up next to Amiga sign hW1g prominently on the wall Amazing's. It was a professional booth with behind Amazing Amiga/Computing's a backdrop and lights showing off the mugs table. It's the one that Petro spoke from. The my wife Diana and I were selling. These one where crowds were signing up for porcelain, five color mugs with gold rims subscriptions to Amazing. Don also had have been a big hit. They are microwave copies of Amazing for sale, and was asking safe, and when you put hot liquid in them, developers/dealers/clubs to sign up to be the colors change to reveal a different image listed in the AC GUIDE. If you haven't W1demeath. The Amiga checkmark on done so already, or you have a new these large white mugs looks great. On the product, please update your file by filling back a smiley face appears when heated, out a form in the Amazing magazine, or caU indicating the smiles back, because the at: 800-59-AMIGA for subscriptions. Amiga is back. (www.pimpub.com) L-R Rick Giannine-Tech support and In the same booth John Wilson, Dave Tammy Lynn Rodley- Manager of Sales Chapius, Dick and Bert Koerper, plus Diana What else can I say. I spent too much and Marketing of and T were representing the Gateway money, had a good time, and hope to see Asimware Innovations Inc. Amiga Club, (G.A.C.), of St. Louis, MO. We you aLI again soon. were seLling cozeys. That's a foam holder 44 AMAZING COMPUTING It was a chilly weekend in Cologne Germany, but that didn't They had support, they had new computer boards from third matter to the thousands of Amiga fans that showed up at the party vendors such as the Access, a motherboard that fits into Messe' for Computer 97. The former World of Amiga show was standard 51/4" hard disk drive bays by Index Information Ltd. The the largest in Europe a few years ago, but with the demise of A5000, a brand new Amiga compatible computer available in the Commodore, the show changed names and let in other platforms. spring of 98 was shown in board level, developed by Thomas Last year Petro Tyschtschenko was there, but he could only Dellert and distributed by Power Computing Ltd., or the BoXeR by promise like Douglas MacArthur that "I will return" and with an Blittersoft and Index Information. Amiga booth when they had a new owner. MacArthur didn't have There was also HYDRA Systems's PCMCIA card for the anything on Perro, as he delivered on what he promised in a big Amiga 1200. This network hardware consists of an IBM Windows way. compatible PCMCIA ethernet LAN card plugged into an adaptor On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov 14-16, 1997, the biggest which then plugs into the Amiga. The CyberStorm PPC board and portion of Computer 97 was Amiga! Yes, Petro had a huge booth the BLIZZARD PowerPC 603E board were making a big presence. with lots of developers surrounding it, displaying and demonstrat Shareware and public domain authors were aJso showing their ing aJI their latest innovations. Hardware, software, you name it, products. Newly enhanced programs for drawing, Art Effect 2.5 by and Petro's Amiga International Inc. had folks there showing it off. Haage & Partner was demonstrated by Alexander Pratsch, StormC 3 was shown, and a new writing program, DecisionWORD, which can show calculations and formulas in the text. Network products such as NetConnect2 by Haage & Partner, were on hand. Angela Schmidt was showing off MakeCD, a high quality CD mastering software for the Amiga. Celebrities were there as well. Not only did Petro spend lots of time on the show floor, but he had people like Kermit Woodall of Nova Design, Holger Kruse of Miami, and many more there. On top of this, Amiga Inc.'s team of folks showed up: Jeff Schindler, General Manager, Darreck Lisle, Events Coordinator, and Joe Torre, Senior Engineer. Developers' Conference A developers' conference was held with approximately 250 phase 5's lecture and demonstration area was packed with people in attendance. Mr. Schindler went over the questionnaire eager Amiga enthusiasts watching with eager anticipation that was distributed in Columbus, Ohio to developers, and as various products were shown off. answered questions about Amiga Inc.'s part in the business. Petro described Amiga International's part and together they stated that they were a team, and bringing back the Amiga was a team effort. An effort by them, the companies they represent, the developers, the dealers, and the end users. We must aJl do our part to grow the Amiga market. Unfortunately, there was no announce ment about 0.5. 3.5, other than they will work on it once their engi.neering team is assembled. The Exhibition Hall The show floor was reaJJy busy, and many companies had their own booths. MicroniK had a large booth, selling more stuff than you can find at a Radio Shack. I saw lots of MicroniK Amigas going out the door. Amiga 4000s were selling as well. phase 5 had a big booth showing off all thei.r accelerators. They also had a large screen and viewing area for folks to sit and watch various demonstrations of products running with their Amiga support at the Amiga International Booth. equipment. JANUARY 1998 45 Over 200 developers and enthusiasts filled the large hall for the Cologne Computer '97 Amigo Developers' Conference. Pelro Tyschlschenko's opening address for the Cologne Computer '97 held in Cologne, Germany on the N!JVember 14, 1997. Village Tronic had a big booth, railroads, shopping malls, museums, etc. showing off the Picasso IV, as was Amiga using SCALA and the Amiga. The Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Madame, Plus, Eagle Computer Products, Epic advantages are a better operating system, Dear Sir, Dear Amiga Friends Marketing, and HiQ Limited. Haage & reliability, and if you bump the kiosk, the The past has shown that their exists Partner was showing off Font Ma chine, a thing doesn't crash. I was impressed. a market for the Amiga which we can professional fonts generator that has many Dr. Greg Perry of GP Software and also see at the fair here in Cologne. In effects and X-DVE v3.0 from ProDAD OPUS fame was at the fair demonstrating 1993, there were 45,000 visitors at the Fair Software. OPUS Magellan. The list of folks and in Cologne, 1995 already 65,000 visitors N1GHTSHIFr Multimedia Design was companies just goes on, and I'm sure I and this year we expect more than 70,000 demonstrating SCALA MM400, which is missed some. My apologies to those, and visitors. Those figures are quite respect available on CD-ROM. They're hoping that best wishes to all. It was a great showl I'm able and it shows the big faith and the if enough copies sell, SCALA will bring out already making plans to go back next year! enormous community spirit towards an MM500 version. They made a continu Amiga. Of course these figures contain ous presentation of how they use SCALA interested people from the PC market. Today I will tie up to my speech of for kiosks. Nightshift has done work for the last year, in which I said: "Due to the current situiltion, we do not have a fair booth this year. But I'm very optimistic to Computer '97-A Developer's View by Kemlit Woodall The first thing I noticed when entering schools or busin s es had I t out. I was told up with new mod I Amiga that will the KoIn-Messe convention center was that thi was nothing. redefine Amiga computing in my it was big. Really Big. Saturday I found out just how many opinion! Then I reaLized that the hall Computer people they are willing to pack into these The general mood of the show was '97 was in, was just one hall of about 14 shows. About five ti me what I would have highly upbeat. Wi th all the new halls. The one hall wa big enough that just called packed! I was told Saturday that products and the fresh momentum entering it could get you lost. Koln attendance was at 50,000 attendee. On given by Amiga, Inc. (not to forget all (Cologn ) even had street signs to help you Sunday others were guessing around 15,000 the new Amiga Licensees courtesy of find Computer '97 (running joke with more - I don't know which number is more Petro!) everyone was having a really than a touch of reality: if you got lost in accurate, but there were a heck of a lot of good time and doing good busines . Koln, follow the ubiquitous signs to KoIn people there! The developers' conference was a Messe and you can't get lost). New games were being shown, new success with Amiga, Inc. finally, and On my arri val Friday I made my way utilities, and new hardware. I like new officially, stating their overall 3+ year to the Amiga booth to orient myS<'lf and hardware and I wa totally impressed with plan for developing and improving the prepare for the first ImageFX/ Aladdin 4D the new DCE A5000 and A6000 machine Amiga core sy tem in hardware and in seminar. The show was packed and it was and Index Information, Ltd's new BOXER the as. only 1PM local time. Long before the local motherboard was incredible as well. ext Stop: St. Louis and Amiga '9 Literally these two companies have come 46 AMAZING COMPUTING Petro's Show Remarks Petro Opens Amigo at Computer '97 ,)Iknd th" l',hibili(lTl in C(lll'.~Ill' \\'ilh .In • I C\"L'I".lgillg till' l"i;-,IIIl,~~ ,\mi~,l h,1 .... ,111 ,,-'\tr<1UI"llil1lH\' glH1d rl'l.ltiol1 to\\·,Hd .... (l\\'i1 t.lir L'i.lulh ill Itp.,17." h:dlnpl(l~~.' thrnu,~h bru.ld lil·vn .... ing I'''''"l' ,mel dfiul'lll'\, I Ill' ,llh',lIlL1gl" "I Ii/\nlig.) i ... IIld('slructibll' - ;\111Ig.1 i .... • ,\ ...... j ... ti!lg ill dt'\l'[uping Ill'\\" 11rodul-h ;\l11ig,l .lr(' tl", (lpl'r.llillg SI,;tl'I11, I h" h,h "liH'!"I h", 111\ dl''''' tril'nd~, IV," Ill<' l'nd (If bd''',cd {}Ii (}~)l''' :-.t JANUARY 1998 47 An Interview with Jeff Schindler, General Manager of Amiga Inc. by Bob Scharp The Amiga Inc. Team on hand in Cologne: (L-R) Darreck Lisle, Joe Torres, And Jeff Schindler, General Manager. As we sat in the Amiga international's Schindler: Amigas could lend themselves shipments of more products, both booth at the Computer '97 show, I had the to that type of product. We want Amiga Amigas, and Amiga convergence opportunity to speak with Mr. Jeff to become a recognized name, and a products. We currently have 19 compa Schindler. He is the General Manager of standard, with the software and nies licensed, some of which are Amiga inc., based in North Sioux City, SD. hardware working together. Amigas distributors. Sitting here in Cologne Germany, so many would make good convergence products AC: What do you see as the next steps for miles from the pasture land of the Midwest, as well as Amiga computers as we know Amiga Inc.? I wanted to get to know this new head of them today. Schindler: The product we wish to bring Amiga. AC: What is a convergence product? out first is the improved operating AC: Mr. Schindler, Jeff if you don't mind, Schindler: It's a combining of a consumer system, 0.5. 3.5. This would include the would you please tell our audience a electronic product and a computer best of say the internet, drivers and little bit about yourself, and how you product. A coming together of the two printer support to name a few. First came to be involved with Amiga. technologies. however, we need the tools and developers to release it. So our first step is to put together our technical staff. The product we wish to bring out first is the ICOA has been in contact, and have improved operating system, 0.5. 3.5. This proposed an interface for developers for feedback. We want to get the information would include the best of say the internet, from developers and users groups. There are people who want to form drivers and printer support to name a few. nonprofit groups to do work with us. All of this has to be looked at and decided Schindler: My background is in Electrical AC: Why is this so important? upon. We hope to support these groups Engineering. I was funded by companies Schindler: Convergence products will be a with an internet forum. If anyone is to do training and seminars. This gave growing area in the business. We need to interested in working for Amiga inc. they me a background in software and get Amigas recognized as a standard, should fax a resume to us at 605-235- hardware. My senior project in school accepted by everyone. This is a good 1002, or email us. Marilyn Flint will was to do a program for the university, a way to that end. The more products that handle receiving these. She can be football statistical programming are available with a recognized Amiga reached at [email protected]. analyzer. [t would give you expectations logo, the more people will come to accept After that I would expect it would take of what an opposing team would do and the Amiga. We can grow the Amiga and us just over a year to develop an entirely the project alternatives or defenses. I fell lessen the costs by spreading the market. new Amiga. That's a year from the time in love with software programming. AC: What do you intend to use for your we decide what the new Amiga is, until Later J worked for Zenith for eight years logo? What lends itself as being easily it is ready for production. Then a little in th eir Data Systems department. I was recognized, no matter what type of more to actually produce and market it. in charge of portable systems. I have prod uct it is on. AC: What effect has the Chinese had on been with Gateway 2000 for four years. Schindler: The Boing Ball is probably the your decision process? AC: What have you done at Gateway 2000? best example of what we have in mind. Schindler: We need to know what the Schindler: J wanted to look into the future AC: Do you foresee any problems or Chinese want. We would like to have the and put Gateway in the lead. That's how obstacles? The U.5. is a big market. Chinese as OEM. to Amiga with all of I came about developing the Destination Schindler: One problem is how to keep the us working for one architecture and 0.5 .. TV. It's done pretty well for itself. DTV legacy technology and keep leading It would be a win-win situation. is one of the first products of its type. technology together. Thus, if you AC: Thanks Mr. Schindler for your time. People who use it, love it. Much like purchase a future Amiga, it will run the I'm sure everyone is as anxious as I am, Amigans love their Amigas. Destination majority of programs from the former to see you well on the road to a success TV is what I call a "convergence operating systems. To do this, we have ful here at Amiga Inc. We can't wait for product". The TV is digitized. You can to define the core architecture and get the the new 0.5. and future machines. put the picture in a box and put graphics licensees to make their products work over it if you like. It's screen is a super with it. The U.5. is big, but it is also fast VGA monitor, not a regular TV. to adopt new technologies. We will need AC: What do you see for the Amiga? more OEMs more advertising, and 48 AMAZING COMPUTING sl\.·s'f v (')P'lxtron~H -'( " V\fI(}r- J j\\11{.. 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