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Group Editor L A T E S T Alan McLachlan NEWS 3 As Commodore winds up for the big We revie Editor Chrislmas push there is a host of together Simon Rockman companies7 geared up to make sure environn the Amiga triumphs this year. the Amif Production Editor Peter Glover
Art Editors AMIGA SCENE COMMUNICATIONS ADVENTURES Mark Nolan Doug Steele
Editorial Assistant: I l l SH O W 1 ^ IN TO I f a X ACTIVE Elaine Rawlins JL \J REPORT J* SH A D E S JL J L ADVENTURING 4 Whirligi The recent PC Show at Earls Court Down al MicroLink central there is a Electronic Arts proves that Bard's Tale News Editor saw the launch of a host of new world within an office. It's a land of can be bettered and Rainbird finds Nebulut a Virus Mike Cowley games software and peripherals. We Shades, where danger lurks and something Corrupted coming out of from thi highlight this major industry event. advenlurers act out their dreams. Magnetic Scrolls and into the city. Advertisement Manager John Snowden
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PROGRAMMING
■ ■ ■I AREXX AND ^ GAME y J L I WSHELL KJ KILLER We review two programs which work Max "The Hax" dishes out the trusty together to provide an integrated Speedkings to the gamesters for hints environment for complete control of with Faery Tale. Skyfox, Mercenary. the Amiga’s multi-tasking facilities. BMX Simulator and Starwars.
HARDWARE
4 7AMIGA - INTO THE SILICON JL # ARCADE U UNDERWORLD I’s Tale Whirligig myth exposed, a medal for Fat Agnus refreshes the ram other Nebulus. some Seoul searching and chips cannot reach. Rupert Goodwins Active Adventuring Page 14 a Virus you won t mind catching explains why she needs some help from the publisher of Corruption. from a little chip called Gary.
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M IG A 2000 computers success...the C64 A are cleaning up at Lever Brothers' new £12 million KY to the Amiga's though he stressed he was soap making plant at Port ongoing success is the talking A500 machines. K Sunlight. humble C64. says Commo "The Amiga is now THK T h e m achines - housed in dore boss Steve Franklin. He 16 hit product as recognised special protective casings - was explaining his com by the trade; dealers see the fully control the flow of soap pany's philosophy in an perceived benefits over our constituents through eight interview with A m ig a nearest competitor” , he miles of pipe by means of ('.omputing deep within the added. 1.500 sensors. bowels of Commodore’s To boost sales there is a "W e felt PCs just weren’t massive stand at the PC new concerted promotional man enough for the job", Show . effort centred on the Amiga. said project control engineer Many observers expressed The national TV and poster Chris Fox. "That's why we surprise that Commodore's campaign will cost several chose Amigas. million pounds. o n ly real product new s at “We have no way to run Karls Court concerned two Franklin ruled out the pos the plant other than via the bundles built around the sibility of a bundled Amiga Amigas - there are no fall venerable C64. because he said the price backs. no manual controls. "People forget that a new would be counterproductive. “ It was a conscious generation of computer users And he decried critics of l- is a decision to design the new is coming through” , said the Karls Court event. ne wail plant so that it runs fully Franklin. "The kids of today Holding a trade publication automated or not at all". are the business users of An operator, surrounded by with the headline "PC An in-depth report on how apestlo tomorrow and we have to Show: Same as it ever was" some of the eight miles o f pipe, the Amiga 2000s control the I Micro- look after them, get them he said: "This sort of thing checks data on his specially encased Amiga 2000 at fe v e r new plant - opened by The Kt vou involved. upsets me. loHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM do is brothers' new Port Sunlight Q ueen - w ill appear soon in "W e're remaining strong "The show isn't the same rd soap plant. Amiga Computing. in the 8 bit market to encour as it w as. and neither is the will be age these youngsters and computer business - there's lailbox. bring them into computing. a real buzz about the place or you. Games players today are this year. Disney Amiga users tomorrow ”. "There's a lot of business re-promoting the film again Franklin revealed that being done here and a gen film deal this Christmas", said Active Amiga sales in the UK are eral feeling of optimism managing director Robert now between 60 and 65.000. about the future". arketin g and dis Stallibrass. M tribution rights to Future titles from Coktel products from French and for the Amiga will include German software houses Freedom. Kmanuelle. Peter have been acquired by Pan and Terrific. A c tiv e D istrib utio n (01-385 Active has also signed 7622). marketing agreements with They include the Walt German software house KAS Disney licence for an Amiga for its hit release Zero version of jungle Book from G ravity. French publisher Coktel Other pre-Christmas Visio n. releases from the same "Jungle Book is a classic source will be boxing simu film which appeals to young lation Ringside, and a three- and old and Walt Disnev are game Amiga compilation.
Shot Irom the Amiga promotional campaign New plotters Munsters allel interfaces as standard, based on the old TV series launched .0125mm resolution, 42cm/ move in recently revived on Channel sec speed in all directions, 4. The programming duo of N EW range of A3 plot and toothed drive belts. NKW sister label to Peter Harrap and Shaun llol- A ters has been launched A ll have auto pen capping, A Alternative Software lingworth of Teque and Pac- by Roland Digital (01-847 pen select and point of origin called Again Again (0977 mania fame are behind the 5665). The high precision setting. 797777) has been launched. arcade game, which will be machines are priced between There is also a novel fea AMC11 Its first game for the released this month, price £795 and £1.295. ture of pen-to-stock return if Amiga is The Munsters - £24.99. They have serial and par no command is received. HK Commodore Christ HIGHLIGHTING the Amiga’s Fa: T mas Show, being held graphics capabilities. Pre- from N ovem ber 18 to 20 at cison Software will be dis wia l.ondon's Novotel, promises playing several new and to be bigger than ever - and upgraded products. Commodore is forecasting The Professional Ani L f a "an all singing, all dancing mation Sequence Editor facilil type event". offers owners of any Amiga 87881 Undoubted star of the paint package the means to cult a show will be the Amiga, turn cartoon sketches into De w h ich w ill be put through its full-blown animations, while Mien paces in two new major Page Flipper Plus F/X are t attractions - a Graphics provides the full power of mult Workshop and a Music desktop video. like Room. Precision is also intro allov Involving the UK's leading d ucing C haro n 5. an 11 level. mes: lights in the use of both 5.400 screen epic which sound and graphics on the combines strategy with Amiga, they will provide ON sale for the first time Mini Amp 2, has two arcade action. N« platforms to illustrate the at the show wifi be two compact speaker units. And Precision's Superbase huge potential for the unique products from Trilogic's budget- range will be out in force, v i machine in these areas. Tri logic which allow priced Audio Digitiser including the new Superbase And. again for the first users to get the m ost from features adjustable input Personal 2 w ith added mail- time, the show will provide their Amiga's sound level, and an overload merge and text editor, and T the venue for a Xmas Card capabilities. indicator to ensure con the upgraded Superbase Pro hel. Design Competition. A bank M ini Am p 1 drives one sistently good results. fessional. For of Amigas will be at the dis or two pairs of stereo No software is Also on the Precision the! posal of any visitors who headphones, is easily con supplied. since the stand will be an extensive 1 would like to enter the nected to and powered Digitiser works with most range of Amiga software and ins competition, with a major from the Amiga - and readily available commer peripherals - all with special Me prize being presented daily allows you to listen in cial programs, including show discounts, and m any at to by a celebrity judge. stereo in complete pri Audiomaster, Prosound "silly" prices. dal Commodore is once more vacy. Its big brother, and Perfect sound. ma * * * reaching for the stars for the toi Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMshow, with Adam Faith and 1 VISITO RS with a preference Anita Dobson - both for hard copy won't be headlining the new West Amiga sound and neglected - George End musical Budgie - among Thom pson S e rvices w ill be P those scheduled to put in an using the show to launch its appearance. s graphics star in latest book. Professional And ICPUG has revealed Results with Deluxe Paint II. that it is to have a significant Full of tips and tricks and presence at the Christmas } Christmas Show accompanied by more than se show, hosting regular ques 200 illustrations, the book A tion and answer sessions and Micro way managing direc- launching a new higher combines basic techniques S€ presenting demonstrations tore Simon Shute. "And accuracy lightpen and an with Amiga graphics power. Oi on the Midi scene and that's something it has never enhanced 16 piece suite of Subjects tackled include hi Comal. done before". software. slide production, video More than 100 exhibitors A Fully menu driven and backgrounds and landscape w ill be in attendance - many ★ ★ * incorporating architectural design. h of them using the show as and electronic design aids, h the launching pad for new AN informal - and noisy - the software features pixel- I Amiga products. welcome is promised for vis accurate freehand drawing. itors to the 17 B it Softw are tl All sorts of graphics il * * * stand. utilities are provided - in a 17 B it is keeping a special choice of 16 colours. A DOUBLE first will be on attraction under wraps until offer from MicroWav. with the last minute, but visitors * * * the company’s first product will certainly have a chance for the Amiga making its to learn more about the com LEADING software pub A new agreement means European debut at the show. pany's club, which offers a lisher Microdeal will be th a t F r o n tie r S o ftw a r e has Micro Way’s Flicker-Fixer disc-based magazine, tech previewing several major addeil the Supra's Amina board provides stable pic nical help and access to a lib games at the show , including hard drives to its range of tures in high resolution rary of more than 800 Am iga International Soccer. Fright products - and they’ll all mode, making the Amiga a public domain programs. Night. Turbo-Trax. Tetra b e o n d is p la y a t th e sh o w . very practical alternative to a Quest. Replay. Airball and The high performance M ajo r M otion - all priced at PC or AT for CAD and DTP Amiga SupraDrives are £19.95. applications. available in 20. 30 and A SPEC IA L product at a spe Also available w ill be VTX "The Flicker-Fixer allows 60Mb capacities for the On-line, a graphics-oriented the Amiga display to achieve cial price will be on offer Amiga 500. 1000 or 2000. its full potential", says from Meedmore. who will be communications package. ■AMIGA SCENE!
Amiga’s *, Pre- Fax and addresses simultaneously. be dis- One of the world’s most w and wizardry popular interactive adven ATEST additions to the tures. Shades allows up to ! Ani- fast-growing range of 128 people to play at any one Hdilor L facilities on MicroLink (0625 time. Amiga 878888) include fax and the MicroLink subscribers fans lo cult adventure game Shades. w ill now be able to join the )S into Derek Meakin. head of m ore than 6.600 people from i, while #*/ MicroLink. said: "O ur plans around the world who have i F/X are to offer subscribers a attempted to achieve the wer of multiple fax service which - exalted rank of Shades like our telex service - will wizard - a feat accomplished New Workbench is intro- allow subscribers to send a by less then one per cent of I level, m essage to u p to 50 participants. which here at long last with News and JIM BUTTERFIELD erbase photographs of local beauty reporting from Canada force, views spots, wildlife, recreation srbase facilities and places of gen ITH the year 2000 a h o ld in g a W o rk b e n c h 1.3 mail- WO Amiga 2000 eral interest are held on the W sca n ! 1 2 years away, disc - before that disc ver and machines have been Amiga databases. some Commodore public sion was available! cPro- T helping visitors to the New When a visitor wants relations types are thinking As a matter of interest, it Forest get the most out of information about a par in terms of a "This is the age seems likely that there will ision their holidays this summer. ticular subject a single key of 2000" campaign for the be no regional differences in insive The computers were stroke brings up a series of Amiga. Long before the year the various releases. eand installed in the New Forest menus and displays. 2 000 arrives, however, it Europe may not get exactly necial Museum and Visitor Centre People can plan their seems likely that mainstream the same discs as will be my at to provide an interactive expeditions by using a spe Amigas will carry higher seen in the U SA and Canada. database containing infor cially designed keypad num bers ... 2500, or even the The 1.3 Workbench disc is mation about the famous which calls up animated fabled 3000. getting quite full, to the tourist attraction. sequences of various Users are still chattering extent that printer drivers Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMHundreds of digitised activities. about the great 3000 hoax and fonts have tended to perpetrated on a USA west migrate to the Extras disc. coast user society. The The 2084S monitor is now Programmer machine was really a clev availab le. It’s sim ilar to exis ware have both called A m ig a erly redecorated Apple, ting Amiga monitors, but has shortage C o m p u t in g asking for the shown by a group claiming stereo sound. names of programmers who to be Commodore VIPs. The Computer shows here still A S Christmas approaches might be interested in date of the club meeting? have the original 1.0 Devel more and more shops working in-house. With a April 1, of course. oper's Kits for sale at greatly seem to be saying that the large number of pro The long-awaited Work reduced prices. Sometimes Amiga is comfortably out grammers wanting to work b ench 1.3 system has fin ally they come with weighty selling the ST, with a couple at home it is the really big almost arrived. A Commo (literally) documentation; of major London shops projects which require coor dore spokesman said that 1.3 sometimes the individual having stopped selling the dinated teams w h ic h seem to is “ released, but not yet elements, such as C compiler Atari. be suffering most. shipping". It's high time, and MetaComco assembler, The success of the Amiga Clement Chambers of CRL especially considering that are packaged as a separate has rebounded on software said he wanted a "red hot Commodore has shipped a unit. houses which have found (>8000 programmer and a number of Amigas with 1.3 Some users are fearful of that there is more work than competent coder". One soft Kickstart roms in place. buying material that is rela there are programmers to do ware house said it would New users might be tively dated, but it's a it. take on as many good pro puzzled to sec the initial bargain. CRL and Argonaut soft gram m ers as it could get. screen showing a hand Art for The book looks at ways in art’s sake which to get your picture into and out of the computer EORGE Thompson using traditional art methods 7«n Butterfield, who G Services is to launch a and video. The comic strip fives in Toronto, new book called Profes advice should be especially is acknowledged sional Results with Deluxe useful to anyone using world wide as the Paint II. Aim ed at the novice DPaint with ComicSetter. C om m odore artist it teaches drawing The book will cost £24.95, guru techniques as well as how to and is available with two get the most from Electronic discs of utility programs and Art’s much loved program. clip art for £44.95 Commodore was packing no surprises
ALTHOUGH Commodore products. Remainder of the such as: “ 1988 is d e fin itely Meanwhile it was left to w as boasting the largest - it public access floor space turning out to he a great year third party suppliers to certainly hail just about the was given over to hands-on for us - the impact of our provide interest for Amiga most imposing - stand at this opportunities to play with price restructuring in the users. year's PC Show there were existing Commodore tech sum m er for the Am iga 500 is This again seemed to no big surprises there for nology. now starting to have a dra centre on the games sector, visitors to Karls Court. With nothing really matic effect” . though there was a Commodore’s huge black newsworthy to promote. But he promised: "W e will scattering of interesting seri pyramid contained a 1 0 0 - Commodore marketing man be taking a stronger stance ous packages on view seater theatre offering pres ager Dean Barrett was left in all of our key markets around the show if you entations of third party mouthing vague generalities over the next 12 m onths". looked hard enough.
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Monday-Saturday 10.00am/6.00pm Access/Visa/Eurocheques accepted On line to fantasy Neils Reynolds on the story behind Shades, the fast-growing multi-user adventure
EEP in the wooded wilds of and as far away as New Zealand, This leads you into the game with a D Southern England, far beyond There is no denying the party full information centre about the Land the Stockbroker Belt where no Yuppie atmosphere of Shades. Even those of Shades. Progressing through this has ever ventured, lives a mysterious who are not accomplished you eventually arrive in the Land being who has created a strange and adventurers can enjoy the game, proper and your quest begins. mystical land. He is the Arch Wizard talking to other players, acting out Shades currently has a user base of Ha/.eii - adopting the name of Neil fantasies or just getting used to the more than li.OOO players. O f these Newell for everyday use - and the game at their own pace. only 40 have achieved the ultimate land is Shades. Help can be asked of fellow rank of Wizard - given special No longer a figment of his travellers, but then you are never sure powers and privileges so they can imagination. Shades has been made whether their advice can be relied directly affect the progress of the accessible to any mere mortal who upon... game. has the use of a telling bone, a There is much on offer to serious Indeed, even the all-powerful modem and who is enrolled in the adventurers too with brain-curdling Hazeii himself treads the paths of the fabled society of MicroLink/Telecom problems to solve, a whole babble of Land (sometimes invisibly) and his Gold and Micronet. beasties and nasty characters to deal wrath is said to be terrible if roused The Arch-Wizard first became with and promotions to achieve — by by those with ideas above their interested in multi-user adventures fair means or foul. station. when he encountered the original So the adventure does not become The fantasy is constantly under multi-user game M UD running on a too crowded and all players have a development and new locations are Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmainframe at Essex University. good opportunity at treasure- currently being designed and built However, he soon felt that the game grabbing. Up to 16 independent into the game as the Arch Wizard could be improved in many areas, games can be running at one time concocts ever more fiendish devices and what started as a hobby was soon and you can choose which of them to to entrap the unwary travellers in the taking up all his time. S o it w as that join. Land of Shades. the I-and o f Shades cam e into being You are also told who is playing in • and mild-mannered Neil Newell which game, so that if you have an A regular lour o f the m ystical land became Hazeii. Arch Wizard. especially good relationship with o f Shades starts in next month's Shades is a vast sprawling another player - or a vendetta to Amiga Computing. landscape where lost souls, knights, pursue - you can join it, if there’s Shades is available on: wolves, witches and wizards prowl room. MicroLink/Telecom Gold key >Shades looking for treasure or trouble - or Starting out is made easy for the Micronet/PresleI...... key 'Shades# both. You create your own novice by a special introduction area. personality within the game, travelling through the mysterious kingdom, forging alliances and fighting battles in your quest for treasure. You strive to wrork your way through 13 ranks o f Innocents, Soothsayers, Necromancers and Warlocks until you attain the ultimate rank of Wizard or Witch - depending on your own personal inclination. H tSfSsas# *1-*' In this true multi-user game, other travellers you meet in Shades may be computer generated, but are more likely to be insomniacs attached to a telephone line anywhere in the country. The character you are talking with could be your next door neighbour or a lighthouse keeper in M by * l’°rrtbl. , hrl, k, the Orkneys - players have been Adventuring through the l^nd of Shades: known to log on from all over Europe Keying WHO shows the players currently in the game Dave Eriksson fights demons from EA and mammon from BT
Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMo llo w in g the success of The F Bard's Tale, Electronic Arts has now released the Amiga version of The Bard’s Tale II - The Destiny Knight. If part one was tough going then wait until you enter the realms of part two. Part three is also in the p ipeline - heaven help us. Bard's II is a role playing adventure sim ilar in format to its predecessor. Puzzles are much improved, with many cryptic clues to be found and interpreted before each stage may be completed. The story continues from where Bard's I stopped. Members of your team were looking forward to living off the tales of their exploits, but this is not to be. Evil still stalks the land and it is their fate to solve the mystery of the Destiny Knight. They find themselves in the Adventurer's Guild in the town of is to find and restore the seven segments of 1 0 feet a turn — when there are no only a few gold pieces and must visit the D estiny W and. opponents w ith in 10 feet. O ne strong Garth's Equipment Shoppe to buy Towns and places in the wilderness creature can hinder the team’s weapons and armour. Each item of must be visited, mapped and their advance while archers, dragons or armour will reduce your armour puzzles solved before the final magic users are showering death from class! which in turn reduces damage objective can be achieved. afar. sustained in battle. W ith such little Follow the instructions to copy the One particularly unpleasant money, you can only buy fairly low master disc and create a character situation you w ill become familiar quality equipment. disc and you are ready to start. As w ith is a m agic user at 90 feet Money is all-important, for better before, six ready made characters are creating a series of further magic equipment, to heal wounds and as provided, you may use them, create users or death-dealing Slayers payment to the review board for your own or import characters from a between him and you. Some of these magic users to learn more spells. Bard’s I disc. additional magic users creating Items found on your foes may either When you create a character you further magic users. be used or sold at Garth’s. You can first choose his race — human, elf, The cities are smaller than in Bard’s cheat a little by creating additional dwarf, hobbit, half-elf. half-orc or I and are easier to map. There is a members, pooling their money and gnome. Random values are given for map of Tangramayne in the then deleting unwanted characters. strength, dexterity, intelligence, instructions which shows all the As in Bard’s I, low level warriors constitution and luck. If you do not useful places to visit. are expendable; concentrate on like what you are, you may re-roll keeping higher level characters alive another set. Finally you must decide and improving the levels of your class: Warrior, paladin, rogue, hunter, magic users. monk, bard, conjurer or magician, ILLIN G monsters adds both to Importing high level characters and name your traveller. your experience and purse. As from Bard’s I seemed too much of a Classes have different abilities so K experience grows, visit the review cheat, so I only transferred a very rich read the instructions carefully before board; if experience is high enough magic user and started from scratch choosing. Initial attributes are you w ill gain a level. This is with the others. Even so it was hard important, especially in relation to the important as an increase in level adds work keeping the team alive through proposed class - strength to a fighting to hit and spell points and also to one that first dungeon. As a reward for man, intelligence to a magic user, of your main attributes. success, their experience was bumped Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMdexterity, constitution and luck to all. Greater hit points enable you to up to 200,000, Although you can take out a team take more damage and spell points Even with the levels that this gave of seven, it is often desirable, determ ine the n um b er of spells that the party, the other dungeons were no sometimes necessary, to leave one or may be cast. Loss of hit points in a walkover and that original imported more slots free. These may be fight can be restored by visiting a magic user is still with the team. occupied cither by creatures you meet temple - in exchange for some of All special areas are loosely called or by others called to your aid by your hard won gold. Spell points dungeons, even if they are in fact your magic users. Friendly dragons slowly restore as time passes, visit towers, crypts or fortresses. In all but are useful long range weapons in Roscoe’s Energy Emporium and you the first, they end up with a timed areas where magic does not work. can buy them back - for more gold. puzzle snare. Once this section is A Bard can both fight and cast As in Bard’s I. the initial stages are entered, there is no turning back and spells by singing special songs. not easy. Each character starts with Singing is thirsty work and between drinks he can only sing as many 9 o f Return 800 songs as he has levels of experience. (?Pov*erstaff 1100 He is a pretty weak magic user but Bi'eathi'ing 300 his ability to use magic instruments PDnnd Plate 8000 PWarglowes 4000 can make him very useful. Cold horns PUizhelm 9000 can freeze a number of foes and PDra.Qortwand 12000 Death Drums administer the coup de PDea.thi'ing 10800 Speedboots 38080 grace to almost anything! 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surprisingly concentrate on people not an easy game to solve and rather than scenery. There are the without sensible help some less than the on-screen clock tick on one usual frustrating-to-kev-in ciphered zealous players may falter on the minute. Not only does this mean you hints and at first glance they seem to wayside. must clock watch to ensure you have be less useful than in the past. This time to get to any appointments, but may be a mistake, as Corruption is REPOR T CARD also that people and items of interest TH E BA RD 'S TA I.E II - The Destiny may appear and disappear as time REPORT CARD Knight goes by. Electronic Arts Unless you have an exceedingly CORRUPTION £24.95 good memory you must make notes Magnetic Scrolls Rainbird of what you have spoken about with £24.95 STORYLINE ..... No frills plot with twist in its tail. various people. Some events and STORYLINE .... replies w ill only happen if you have A plot that could win an Oscar. AURA ...... completed specific actions. Only when your party limps home with As time is important, you will AURA., its dead and wounded can you relax. certainly be using the save facility. If Has you on the edge o f your seat. S T A Y1NC P O W ER . you return to a previous save you STAYING POWER. I Many many days o f concentrated must know what you have said and A daunting problem to solve in time. action. what you have yet to say. The box contains some vital GAMEPLAY ...... r H H H D Fine interpreter makes all possible. Proven svstem with even more features. information presented in the form of sheets from a filofax notebook and V A L in a VALUE ...... also an audio cassette. The latter you Good if you've got the staying power. | Lots to Find, lots to do in Bardland. w ill be cued to play at the appropriate lime and is a lovely example of how, DIFFICULTY .... DIFFICULTY I n ijj| Not easy but dedication pays off. Survival and mapping not always easy, with clever editing, new teams should stay near temples.
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PEECH balloons are structured S graphic items, whereas graphics bitmaps are unstructured. The difference is that all ComicSetter knows about the latter is their size, whereas the structured items are displayed from a set of details about the start and end of lines, the radius of curves and so on. Structured items take up less memory as a rule than bitmaps, and can have their fundamental structure changed. Bitmaps can only be edited by setting pixels or drawing lines on top of them, although ComicSetter User-ilefinable speech bubbles ► < can flip them horizontally or vertically and resize them - an amazingly useful way to neaten up a com ic. Onto the frame with the figure and the speech balloon more pictures can be layered, some text can be added, all the individual items can be moved around by the usual select, drag with the hand pointer and drop, and freehand graphics can be tacked on. The draw/paint capabilities of the program are extensive. Squares, circles and other polygons can be created and filled with colour or a pattern - there are 25 patterns, and I couldn’t find a way to edit/create new ones.
You can quickly build a pane with Clip Art U NUSUALLY. Rezier curves are provided. These are curves defined by a set of four points to doobries normally inhabit the which the computer fits a smooth memory. curve as best it can. The manual gives The final stage in any comic's life up a little on describing exactly how is. of course, the printing. ComicSetter this works, recommending - as any comes, as mentioned, with bits of sensible reviewer would - 1 0 m inutes Workbench 1.3, namely the printer experimentation as worth any amount drivers. These include better laser o f earnest text. printer support, as well as such There are airbrush and smear tools salivatious beasts as the Xerox 4020. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMfor fudging the issue, and a There are manyprinting options, to paintbrush to make fine changes. Much more fun than regular text do with page size, kind of greyscaling Once any of these tools have been to convert colourful graphics to used, the results are part of the enough resolution to make out words monochromatic output and such bitmap and cannot be individually or picture contents. From there, the familiar themes. altered or deleted. There is a single- page can be magnified by 50, 100 or Unfortunately, the Epson drivers on step Undo command, which can 200 per cent; the 100 per cent being &m y copy of ComicSetter failed to sometimes extricate the the most useful for working within a drive my printer into anything other fumblefingered. Sometimes. frame and the 200 per cent good for than a muted clicking; however a new The manual recommends frequent individual pixel picking. Interlace can set of drivers from the most recent 1.3 savings to disc of work in progress, a be turned on or off at will; on for Workbench cured the problem. sentiment strongly endorsed as often crystal clarity with a headache within a naff idea only com es to light 30 five minutes or off for flickerfree minutes later when undoing the work and eyestrain within 10. A ND since ComicSetter is quite damage is unthinkable. There’s a memory limit, depending happy to work with the Large-scale changes to finished on the amount of grunk onscreen, of hum b le F.pson-compatible £150-and- pages are possible by using the Edit about two/three pages. ComicSetter it’s-yours-John printers that infest the command menu; items can be cut. has a page caching feature, which by face of the planet, it is not impossible pasted, copied, aligned, grouped shuffling finished or otherwise to finish the opus at home, then strike together for a quick move, in short inactive pages off to disc makes the a deal with the local computer dealer anything you might want to do can be only limitation to comic size the spare to let you churn out a polished done. They’ve thought of it first. space on the floppy or hard disc. product on a Saturday morning on The only gripe in this area is the his I.aserjet in exchange for some single-item Paste buffer. It would be fancy display material. W ho knows, nice to maintain a short list of cut P AG ES or panels can be saved as you might convert an IBMhead into items to work from. Something of the IF F files, which means such an Amigalover, because there’s no sort can be synthesised by careful use luxurious special effects as your IBM PC in the world that can do what of the save command, but it's not easy favourite paint package can furnish an expanded Amiga 500 with to avoid mistakes. That’s my excuse. can be used. ComicSetter makes good ComicSetter does. T he com plete page can be use of the graphics-oriented The final bit of the manual, called displayed in various ways. All at once environment the Amiga provides in Comic Tips, is a small collation of is useful for an overview of the general; it is. of course, a well hints to help the final product look general layout and flow of the visuals, behaved application and lives professional. There are a number of although there is nowhere near peacefully with whatever desktop ► I-C-P-U-G with the the Independent Commodore Products Users Group is the largest and most helpful computer club in the country
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of unmentioned details, most of item, there have been eight people s p e e d ...... H H H H H O Z n which are nice and just what you working on ComicSetter. and they've Re-drawing frames is time consuming, w'ant, just when you want them. To been at it for quite some time. Apart but probably as fast as can be coded. cope with all the things that car. he from amazement that anything val ue...... done to an object, there are a number coming from a programming team Seventy quid for a program which of non-obvious special tricks but that big hangs together so well (these appeals so much to younger users is a these are necessary and once learned guys must love comics), I'm lot. For a top notch DTP program it is a come naturally. impressed. It’s a wonderful program, bargain. This is, alas, version 1.0, and this capable of wonderful things. More show's occasionally; graphics did get than that is up to you. m corrupted from time to time (slightly, A s for m e? I a lw ay s w anted to be A good score which could earn another nothing unfixable. but odd), the an underground artist in the ‘60s... the 10 per cent by fixing a few bugs and cutting the price. pointer stayed in Zzzz mode during ‘90s w ill do just fine.
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The sheer power and artists who are unfamiliar with flexibility with which you can computers. manipulate your artwork, both as a conventional and computer artw'ork. However, even the easiest to use whole and as specially captured Aliasing is the most immediate by program can appear a little daunting areas, is incredible. product of this media transition, and Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMwhen you first load it, especially with The book uses worked examples to as such deserves close attention. one as complex as Deluxe Paint II. take you through topics such as the There are a few other minor But not to worry! A book exists that custom brushes, use of colour, weaknesses in the text. The chapter will dispel all your fears and banish drawing tools, text, patterning and on use of colour could have been all confusion. No more w ill such perspective. It finishes with a step by more. Although the book refers to the things as rotating brushes and step guide constructing a picture emotional impact of colour and how perspective fills be shrouded in using many of Deluxe Paint II’s powerful this aspect can be, I felt that mystery. The book Using Deluxe special features. more could have been said about the Paint II by Steven Anzovin is an The use of brushes, perspective and physical nature of light and how it essential guide to doing just that. It perspective filling are about the most interacts w'ith the presence and lack has a friendly, readable style and complex features of the program to of an atmosphere to produce the gently tutors the reader through all master and use to full effect. For the colours we see in everyday life. aspects of Deluxe Paint IPs features. user who likes to be spoon-fed Also, the human eye loses Although versions of the package information, this situation is ideal. It sensitivity to colour as the light level exist for the Amiga, the Apple IIGS is good to see a book where no aspect is reduced, and so as night falls, the and the IBM PC, this book only deals is glossed over. colours we perceive fade to black and w'ith the first. Since it takes pains I have only one serious complaint, w'hite. None of these facts were to explain various machine specific and this concerns the description of mentioned. features, this limits its value to the aliasing and anti-aliasing, which is This is on the whole a very well IBM PC user. Despite this however, weak. The book doesn’t really explain thought out and w'ell presented book. most of the book is useful regardless what anti-aliasing is, and also how I would say that for someone just of which machine you’re using. very significant an effect it has on any entering the realm either of computers Anzovin starts with some fairly form of computer artw'ork. or artwork using Deluxe Paint II, it is basic introductions to the program Since aliasing - the staircasing a must. environment, the nature of computer effect - is the biggest gremlin of any For the experienced computer user graphics, and the advantages and graphics system, the book should or artist using the program for disadvantages of using a computer for have devoted a lot more time to w'hatever reason, the book is artwork. It also mixes in an explaining what it is and how' to definitely well worth considering as introduction to art concepts and how reduce it. your next purchase. Deluxe Paint II the computer can take the pain out of The division of the work area - the took the traditional agony out of tricky freehand art constructs such as monitor screen in this case - into conventional artwork and gave new circles, ellipses and straight lines. finite areas of colour (pixels) is the scope to artists everywhere. If you find this introduction too primary difference between Christopher Humphries. AmigaBasic Inside and Out by Hannes Amiga owners to get used to their Rgheimer and Christian Spanik machines. The beginning of each chapter has a teaser program - something short to A FTER seeing the name Abacus type in and run which produces an on the cover of this book I interesting effect, though the reader is must admit I started reading with unlikely to understand it at this time. much trepidation. This American By the end of the chapter though all publisher has produced a large the relevant areas have been number of books about the Atari ST, described in enough detail for full all translated from German originals, understanding. A good rendition of the quality of which varies from OK the Star W ars theme opens the sound to poor. This is the first Amiga book chapter. of the same pedigree that I have seen The main emphasis is on graphics, but I'm pleased to say that this is a detailing the low-level operations quality product and genuinely useful. together with windows, screens and program line involving a conditional There are more than 500 pages, even IFT file formats, culminating in a SHARED statement, something that is with nearly 400 devoted to tutorials non-trivial drawing program. Other p oor style and com pletely un- covering a range of AmigaBasic chapters detail serial and random compilable (believe me. I know about topics. The opening is aimed at the access file handling, speech and compiling AmigaBasic). raw beginner, someone who has used sound, all handled in an easy and The appendices include a complete neither an Amiga or any Basic before, fun-to-read way, with useful reference section on all the though I feel readers with no previous programming examples. AmigaBasic keywords and error Basic experience at all w ill soon get M y only reservation about the book messages, together with guaranteed out of their depth. The authors start is with some of the programming error-free program listings. Helpfully slowly enough, but dive into more style - while line numbers are not a disc is av ailab le fo r £9.95 advanced Basic topics very rapidly - used, labels are. together with containing all the programs. arrays and multi-dimensional arrays GOSUB and the dreaded GOTOs. One This is a very good book for any get no more than a co up le of of the most important features in AmigaBasic programmer, both as a paragraphs, for example. AmigaBasic (and other modern tutorial and reference work. I'm Assuming you have some Basic Microsoft Basics) is the concept of pleased to say that the U S dollar price Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMexperience, the introductory sections SUB-programs, but these are has been fairly converted to pounds describing the use of Workbench and mentioned only briefly. und it’s well worth £16.95. Intuition should be enough for new There is also one very dubious Andy Pennel Amiga Machine Language by Stefan about other processor's architectures, Dittrlch it would give enough to be going along with. The next chapter explains how to T H E Amiga has brought high use three different assemblers. The power, a combination of the example code in the book is written hardware and systems software that using the AssemPro assembler and exploits it to a large number of the text often references it. The other people. The profusion of display two assemblers covered arc the hacks, interesting applications, and Metacomco product and the K-Seka games amply demonstrates this assembler. K-Seka gets a full power. However, for the large description. Assempro a fairly simple number of users to take advantage of one and M etacom co one page. it for their own purposes, they must Having covered the procossor and find out how to get at it. how to get code to run on it. chapter The systems software for the Amiga four covers simple bit bashing, not has been developed with a mixture of assembler to take advantage of the specific to the Amiga. This serves to C. Assembler and BCPL. There now Amiga hardware and operating introduce writing programs without exist compilers and interpreters for system. the complications of the Amiga. many languages, allowing varying The book starts out with an The book then starts covering the levels of access to the system. overview of the Amiga’s architecture, Amiga itself, starting with some of the However, to take things to the limit, and then moves onto the 6B000 hardware registers. The areas covered the solution is usually to head for the processor. This section does not are the keyboard, timor, mouse, silicon and develop in assembler. provide enough to learn all about the joystick and sound. The more Amigu Machine Language is aimed at 68000 from scratch. Given a powerful areas such as the blitter, people who wish to use RHO(H) knowledge of programming and a bit ► Copper, video generator and discs are Amiga Tricks and Tips by Bleek. ignored. M aelger an d Weltner. Having really bashed silicon up to this point, the focus moves to above H E Amiga is supplied with the operating system. The Amiga T Microsoft's AmigaBasic. This systems software revolves around has some built-in support for the libraries, and the work needed to call Amiga’s features, but not the whole these is explained. Coverage of the range. To really start exploring these libraries themselves is limited. capabilities requires a good Various methods of I/O are covered - understanding of AmigaBasic and the speech, screen, keyboard, printer and ability to get directly at the operating serial. Next comes coverage of how to system from within it. access the disc, both at the file system Amiga Tricks & Tips is intended to spooler. This chapter also covers the and sector level. aid this understanding and ability, as startup sequence script. A whole chapter is devoted to the well as briefly covering other areas of Attention moves on to AmigaBasic. use of the Intuition library. This the system. It uses AmigaBasic The first subject is writing graphics covers the use of screens, windows, exclusively for programming, no code. The technique used is to call requesters, menus and gadgets. This other language being covered. the operating system graphics and coverage is by no means complete, The first chapter talks about the windowing routines directly from but does give a grasp of the CLI. This is not a complete within Basic, giving increased speed commonly used areas. description. It covers solutions to and flexibility. Finally, a short chapter explains a common problems, an overview of A large am ount o f the text is couple of more advanced areas of the the new CLI commands in version devoted to example programs. Some 68000. namely Supervisor Mode and 1.2, and a collection of script files. of these, such as the full IFF picture exceptions. The last do things like setting up display program, are quite powerful, I found the style of the book to be commonly used commands in RAM: providing good code for use low level, somewhat reminiscent of and implementing a simple print elsewhere. The section goes to a fair the days when machines were Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMhardware and operating systems scarce. There are good reasons for bypassing an operating system, but old habits and laziness are not among them. Learning C: Programming Graphics on both Atari and Amiga users, catering T h e coverage of the A m ig a is the Amiga and Atari S T by Marc B. for five different C compilers. A nowhere near complete, many areas Sugiyama and Christopher D. Metcalf header file is listed at the back to are left totally untouched, both at the make the graphics calls the same on hardware and operating system level. both machines. This method generally To be fair, the Commodore T H IS attempts to be two books in works, also allowing incompatibilities documentation stands at several one, the first half a C primer, between compilers such as integer inches of A4 size books, and nothing while the second deals with graphics sizes to be avoided. C is not as short of microfiche techniques is algorithms. The 400 page volume is portable as it is supposed to be. going to get that into a 250 page spiral bound, so it lies flat on the The listings are presented in a book. There is not much in the way table making listings much easier to typeface which makes it very difficult of explanation of the Amiga features type in. to distinguish between the = and = = being used - the style is more T h e C prim er section is aim ed at operators, something which any C oriented towards "recipes". programmers with experience of programmer will tell you makes a This book will not reveal the secrets Basic or Pascal and with a knowledge huge difference. Most of the programs of the Amiga, but for a first dip into of the lower level aspects, such as are large and the optional disc at the system by someone who has pointers, bits and bytes. Users £9.95 is recommended if you want to program m ed before, it is fine. To without such knowledge will find this experiment with the book’s graphics produce progams of any weight will section vary hard going. section. require other texts. I was interested to As a C primer it works reasonably Having introduced much of C. some note that an advertisment in the back well, but doesn’t start well: The first of it less detailed than others, the of the book for AssemPro had the function listing does not agree with authors start on the graphics section following small print: "Machine the text describing it, something proper. If you want to find out how language programming requires a which took me ages to work out. Intuition, the graphics library or the solid understanding of the Amiga's Complete C beginners may well give Copper works, this book is not for hardware and operating system. We up by page 17. This was the only you - all the Amiga-specific calls are do not recommend this package to serious typo I noticed though, so hidden away in a header file. The beginning Amiga programmers". perseverance is worthwhile. graphics algorithms presented are Sam Littlewood The book attempts to be useful to general methods for producing two depth, covering Intuition, fonts. 3D list variables, and display files in AmigaBasic run the same code faster, vector graphics and palette hexadecimal. The main coverage this and gives benchmark programs that manipulation. chapter provides is of the various file show how various aspects of the code The next chapter does not expose formats associated with AmigaBasic. can affect speed. any more features of the Amiga: it is A brief interlude follows, which is a The final chapters give some about user friendliness. This talks short coverage of the Workbench. coverage to some aspects of about, and has large amounts of code Included in this is how to read and interfacing AmigaBasic to the rest of for. comunicating with users. Ideas write Preferences from within the system, how to write library files like sliders, selection from tables, AmigaBasic, and coping with the Info allowing AmigaBasic to call code rubber-handing and animation are screen of Workbench. written via a compiled language and explored. Icons are a target of much how to access the Amiga devices, in Chapter 5 deals with the use of creativity, the next chapter describes particular the sector level disc device. AmigaDos from within AmigaBasic. how they can be created from a The title of this book is somewhat In a similar way to the graphics program. The example programs misleading. It would be better named section, the limited functionality of allow creation of icons, including something like AmigaBasic AmigaBasic is bypassed in favour of icons with two images associated CookBook. If you are using heading straight for the operating w ith them. AmigaBasic then there is a lot of system. The examples implement Chapter 9 is back on the subject of useful code here, but in many cases, routines to rename files, search a real users, and is about making not much explanation of what the directory tree, read a directory listing programs robust in the face of code is up to. into an array, call CLI commands and possible errors. Example code is given In conclusion, if you are interested so on. for testing various situations, like a in getting performance out of Chapter 6 dives into the internals of file not existing, or the user giving AmigaBasic. this book w ill interest AmigaBasic. It discusses the format of bad input. you. It is not however a reference or the saved programs, and provides Chapter 10 focuses on effective tutorial for either the Amiga or several long utilities. These do things program m ing in A m ig aBasic. It AmigaBasic. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMlike generate cross-reference listings. describes the steps needed to make Sam Littlewood and three dimensional graphics, shading, and hidden line removal. A note of caution - the reader needs a good understanding of maths, particularly coordinate systems, vectors and matrices to understand the majority of the book. Don’t worry if your maths has got a bit rusty. I must admit several sections caused some areas of my brain to be accessed for the first time in many years. If you haven't done O level maths don’t try this hook, though A level students will be OK. If you want to know about guneral Using Deluxe Paint II Compute. £17.95 graphics methods, as opposed to Am igaBASIC Inside and Out specific Amiga features, this is a good Abacus. £16.95. program disc £9.95, hook. It doesn't detail many alternate disc and book £24.95. methods, four dimensional matrices ■.earning C: Programming Graphics on the Amiga and Atari ST are used for 3D objects but some fine to me. Compute. £17.95, program disc £9.95, arcade games get away with 3- This book does a reasonable job of book and disc £24.95. dimensional matrices. However, the introducing C and explains complex Amiga Machine Language methods described are detailed both graphics operations in about as Abacus £12.95, program disc £9.95, disc and book £20.95. mathematically and in actual C code. painless way as is possible, though a Amiga Tricks and Tips I was a little worried by the Atari good understanding of general Abacus. £14.95. program disc £9.95. 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I thought that the problem was my cheapo dot matrix printer, so I went mad and bought a laser printer, only to discover that the problem was not tin* printer at all. The trouble is that high resolution A m igalf on the Amiga screen becomes decidedly low resolution on the printer - even a cheap printer has a horizontal resolution of 1.750 dots, whereas the Amiga only manages 640. I n o w k n o w tin? solution to my problem - AmigaTeX. It abandons the Amiga fonts, resolutions and A m i g a l t e X printer drivers, and in doing so produces the finest quality output I Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMhave seen from my setup. M y laser printer is able to produce documents A m i g a T E X at its full 300 dots per inch, with a selection of thousands of fonts. And my dot matrix is able to produce such high quality output that I wonder why I ever bought the laser printer. AmigaTeX is a commercial version of the TeX typesetting system. TeX was written by Prof. Donald Knuth of Stanford University towards the end of the 1970s, and is in the public domain. Versions can be found on almost every popular computer capable of supporting a megabyte or more of memory. Radical Eye Software has taken the basic public domain version of TeX and added numerous features, making Typesetting AmigaTeX one of the most useful and productive TeX environments available on any computer. It is not uncommon to find commercial versions of TeX - a quick flick though the pages of the U S magazine Byte for experts w ill reveal several for the PC and other machines. Note that the word TeX isn’t pronounced how you might expect. Paul Ockenden looks at a publishing package To quote from The TeXbook by Knuth: "Insiders pronounce the X of which has been ported to the Amiga from a TeX as a Greek chi. not as an x. It's mainframe - and outperforms the original the ch sound in Scottish words like ► ■4 completely integrated development environment.) loch or German words like ach. When W hile preparing this review I paid you say it correctly to your computer, a visit to the local university - all the keyboard may become slightly universities seem to use TeX - to see m oist". what they thought of AmigaTeX, and AmigaTeX - or indeed any version I discovered that they were already of TeX - is capable of really using it. Apparently they used to use outstanding results. It can be used for TeX on a VAX minicomputer, but anything from simple one page flyers when they got a Macintosh they and CVs to complete books — pop into started using MacTeX exclusively. your local technical bookshop and However since the university bought inspect The TeXbook which was a copy of AmigaTeX the Mac has typeset entirely using TeX. It been neglected, and students are automatically copes with ligatures, queuing up to use the Amiga. kerning and a host of other used for your output, the layout and They are using an add-on called typographical problems. It is also fonts would be exactly the same - LaTeX. which takes most of the very good w h en it com es to only the resolution would change. heartache out of producing a m athem atical form ulae, and its The disadvantage of this method is document. You just state the hyphenation algorithms are second to that if you make a simple change you document type - thesis, report, article, none. w ill have to print the whole letter - and mark the beginning of document again to see what effect chapters and sections. Everything else that change had. This can be very is taken care of for you. LaTeX is D O N'T fall into the trap of wasteful of time, paper and printer included with AmigaTeX package as thinking of TeX as a simple ribbons. standard. document generator such as Notepad AmigaTeX avoids this waste by There is no documentation on the or Word Perfect. It is a document providing a screen previewer. This TeX language with the AmigaTeX compiler, much like one of the C Intuition-based program allows you to package, just like you don’t normally language compilers - and nearly as view your document on screen at a get a book on C with a C compiler. difficult to learn in its native form. variety of resolutions before For that you’ll need a copy of The Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMYou will have to supply your own producing your final copy. What is TeXbook or LaTeX, a document favourite editor and produce an input more. Radical Eye has provided file preparation system. However, a well file for TeX. which looks not unlike a tracking between the TeX compiler written manual is provided giving computer program in places. It then and the previewer. Using this facility details on installing and running the works on this input file and produces you can have TeX, your editor and compiler and previewer. The manual a device independent (or DVI) output the previewer all running at the same is laser printed and is supplied in a file. time, with the previewer standard ring binder (the manual is Using most other versions of TeX. automatically displaying the output also provided in TeX source on one you would feed the DVI file to a from the compiler without any action of the discs). converter program which would by the user. (For the more technically Depending on which printer driver produce output suitable for your minded, AmigaTeX also fully yo u order, T e X comes on up to 20 printer. No matter what device you supports ARexx, allowing a floppies. At first you w ill be doing quite a lot of disc swapping, but due to a caching system built into AmigaTeX, this is reduced a lot after using the system a few times. Most oi ve Up to the Typesetting Power of AmigaT these discs contain fonts, both for the previewer and the printer drivers. ides a powerful alternative in document Output DeVlCG Independ Interestingly. Radical Eye uses a dual gives you the power to typeset complex provides output identical to within t colour coding to identify the discs, its, especially those oi a technical nature printers used. Your page will appear on > and this seems to work quite nicely nuals or journal papers. It gives you the printer in the exact iorm at and position'll /"please insert disc hrown.blue in any be called typesetting. Compare it with printer or typesetter. You can use your E d r iv e " I. the market. a home proofing device ior the laser printl Q u a lity or use the laser printer to see your pages 1 them to be printed on a phototypesetter. ltput oi unparalleled quality. This goes lth o u g h you can use erning and leading capabilities oi conven- Interactive Environm ent AmigaTeX on a 512k machine. >ublishing program s; TgX uses ligatures, I would suggest that you really need T e X on the Amiga provides the best Tg A enation and special line and paragraph IM eg (AmigaTeX is very happy on a currently available anywhere. The poweri hms to yield typeset quality output. and message-passing capabilities of the A hard disc machine). Drivers are available for the QM S KISS. QMS . 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A must for any «• U Uittt I U let Lie* business user, or anyone job hunting in »1* I as tit ti «1 U>!J niila«iliungtU«uMt HE two packages reviewed here T do not produce attractive pictures or mind-bending sounds. So can two text based, silent products really be som ething to talk about? "Yes" is too short an answ er to be Mission called a review. ARexx is a faithful implementation of the Rexx language which was designed by M. Cowlishaw of the IBM UK Scientific Centre. A feature of this design was the active feedback from users, resulting in an easily learnt and used language. The language is interpreted, and is Control aim ed at writing macro scripts for the basic operating system or other packages. ARexx is a compact 30k library, written in assembler. It bears Sam Littlewood reviews ARexx and no comparison to the usual cryptic WShell, programs which give your micro the script languages; it is a clean and simple language that holds no horrors script-like control to which mainframe users for anyone who has dabbled in have become accustomed programming before. An aspect of ARexx that makes it not just another (albeit good) language is the ability to communicate with other packages, /* w hich can invoke a Rexx program, * P e n u ses C s t y le comments just as a Rexx program can send • commands to the package. * The say’ insruction simply prints out it arguments WShell was developed by the same •/ say hello, world person as ARexx. and is implemented Listin g I in the sam e manner, in this case 10 k of assemblor. The Amigados CLI is not ideal for regular use. The user interface is little different from that of • A simple variable • a paper teletype, and speed is not a */ feature. W Shell is ono of several say something /> p r in t s SOMETHING */ products that aim to rectify this something=42 problem, others being the Metacomco say something /* prints *2 •! Shell, the new shell on W orkbench say 2*REVERSE(something) /• prints *8 (REVERSE reverses a string)*/ /* 1.3. and several public domain * A compound v a r ia b le - p ro g ra m s , */ somethingsSAS Surname.SAM * Littleuood FACILITY that W Shell is say Surname.something /* prints littleuood */ A Listin g I I totally lacking and that most other CLI replacements provide as their m ain feature, is line editing and then interpreted, possibly resident process has been started it a history mechanism. This is not a concurrently with othor running will print that well know greeting. gross omission - such features are scripts. The 30k occupied by the The rx command is not necessary if handled by a separate package, the resident process does not have to be WShell is being used, "greet" could shareware program called ConMan. duplicated for each new script. be typed, and W Shell will recognise it This was written by the same author In the tradition of first program s as a Rexx script and subm it it to the as WShell and ARexx. adding line Listing I shows a sim ple rexx interpreter. editing and history to any CON: program in the file greet.rexx. Like most langauges. Rexx has window, whether it is W Shell. the old This can be executed from the CLI variables. There is however, only one Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMCLI or your own program. Conman is by typing rx greet, and providing the provided with WShell and has been availiable through the Fish discs for s o m e tim e . ARexx comes on a single disc accompanied by a 150 page manual. It does not require two disc drives or extended memory. Installation is simple, well documented and there were no problems. The visible aspect of ARexx is a set of sm all commands which are copied into the C: directory. The functionality is provided in the form of shared libraries which are copied into the LIBS: directory. HE ARexx interpreter is not run T for every script: it is based around a single process called the resident process. This is ususally started at bootup, and lurks in the background until needed. The resident process can handle the execution of many Rexx scripts at once by virtue of multiple tasks. A command rx subm its a Rexx script to the resident process. The interpreter does not include an interactive means for typing scripts in. They have to be created using a text editor and then sent to the interpreter. 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Directories, icons and graphics will appear much faster and programs will load quicker The SupraDrtve for the Amiga 500 consists of two parts The SupraDrtve SCSI interface plugs into the Amiga's expansion bus and converts the computer’s signals into S C S I (Small Computer Standard Interface) and also includes space for mounting 1 MB and 2MB Fast FIAM expansion boards. The SupraDrtve hard disk then connects to this interface via the included cable (which supplies power from the drive unit to run the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMinterface and RAM boards - saving unnecessary strain on the A500's own power supply). Other devices can be added by simply plugging them into the SupraDrive s S C S I expansion port. The Su p ra D rtve indudes features that the competition forgot. Its fully buffered Amiga bus pass-through is designed to ensure compatibility with FiAM boards, digitisers and other boards that you may want to conned to your Amiga. Also included is a SC SI expansion port onthedrivetoallowyouto connect additional hard disks, tape drive, CD- ROMs or other SC SI devices to your system. The high performance A2000 Su p ra D rtve takes full advantage of the sophisticated architecture of the Amiga 2000 computer. Its DMA interface board can plug into any Amiga 2000 Zorro slot and features custom PLA (Programmable Logic Array) semiconductors to insure the highest possible performance. This interface features full auto configuration and includes an extra S C S I plug for conneding additional external hard disk drives or tape back up devices Installation of the A2000 SupraDrtve i6 simple and can be done by an inexperienced person in less than 10 minutes. All you need is a Phillips screwdriver - everything else is induded. All you need to do is remove the top of the Am iga's case, install the hard disk into the 3.5" or 5.25" drive chassis, plug in the interface board and connect the included cables. Reassemble the case and you will have a working SupraDrtve inside your Amiga 2000! For more details and prices, please contact your local dealer or Frontier Software. AMIGA 1000 SupraDrive I Frontier Software See Ihe Amiga SupraDrives on Stand 89 at the P.O. Box 113, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG2 OBE. forthcoming Commodore Show - The Novotel, Hammersmith on 18th-20th November. (0423)67140/530577. sort of data, a string of characters. /* * Enanpl# of control of flow Numbers, integer or flouting point are •I stored as a text representation, Such say E n te r a number g r e a t e r th an one - as 42.3. The interpreter decides the pull ual . /* PULI reafls data fron the input into a variable */ meaning of the data according to the context in which it is used. s e le c t yhen 0«T»rYP£(val) '= NUB then There are tw o sorts of variables, say That »as not a nuober simple and compound. Simple yhen val xl then variables are just that. Compound say That vas le s s than one variables are like multi-dim ensional o t h e r y is e 00 say Wov * you gave ee vhat I asked for arrays, but arc indexed by arbitary do i = 1 to val strings as opposed to integers. say Loop: i end end T HE syntax for referencing a com pound variable is a base say Non, type YES - name followed by the indexing do until j = YES Listing III p u ll j symbols separated by dots. Variables end do not require declaration or • Eiaiple of subroutines and functions initialisation: an uninitialised variable ■ Output is: • F00 is: Bain-foo Ban is: BySuO-Dar has the value of its nam e as an • ByFunc re tu rn s 8 uppercase string. Listing II shows •/ some exam ples of variable manipulation. foo=Bain-foo ; bar= Bain-bar c a l l BySub Control of execution flow is of the say FOO is:* foo BAR is: bar style found in most high level say Byfunc returns' MyFuncU) programming languages, the familiar e x it IE'...THEN...ELSE w orks as usual. Execution involving blocks of code /• • Subroutine, all its variables are local, except for fbar such as loops is based on one pair of • / instructions. DO and END. The DO instruction can be followed by BySub: Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMinformation that describes what sort PROCEDURE EXPOSE bar of block this is. The SELECT foo= BySub-foo ; bar: BySub-bar re tu rn instruction provides something akin /• to a case or switch. This is show n in * Function, no PROCEDURE, so a ll callers variables are exposed Listing III. */ Loops can be based on iterating a variable, continuing while something B y F u n c: arg i /» Grab the argument into i */ is true, continuing until som ething is r e tu rn 2=i true or forever. In addition, the loop List in ft IV can be broken out of, or the next iteration can be skipped to. The examples have used an own local variables. A subroutine or program to continue. instruction for input - PULL - which function indicates that it would like Typing = will re-execute the is the tip of an iceberg called parsing. local variables by using the instruction. Anything else is taken as A string for instance, a user’s input, PROCEDURE instruction. Listing IV an ARexx command and interpreted, command line arguments or a show s that it is possible to select and the user is prompted again. This variable, can be broken up and the som e variables that will not be local, allows variables to be printed and individual pieces assigned to but can be imported from the calling modified and the errant code re variables. The breaks can be at spaces environment. e x e c u te d . or particular columns. People do not write perfect Interaction w ith other applications programs, and ARexx has a takes place through the Amiga's debugging and tracing system to cope message ports. ARexx creates a A NOTHER area that the with this. The system is conceptually message port called REXX. and any examples have touched upon is very simple - tracing can be turned program can call it up. Sending the that of built-in functions. The large on for various events, such as all nam e of a script causes the ARexx num ber of these cover a wide range instructions, errors or calls. resident process to look for the script, of areas from string handling that W hen the appropriate event occurs either in the current directory or the leaves Basic in the cold, converting the line or data is printed out. This REXX: directory if it is assigned. It data from binary to hex to strings, can be to the same window as the then starts a new task executing that m anipulating files, to using a pool of program was run from, or a separate script. It is also possible to send a variables com m on to all Rexx debugging window. If interactive Rexx script as a message itself - p ro g r a m s . debugging is turned on the user is useful for sim ple operations. Subroutines and functions arc part prom pted to type something. Just If a program provides a named of the language, and can have their pressing Return will cause the ► message port, Rexx scripts can direct commands back to the program. This Try to conpile the naned C file , arid then junp to the first allows applications to use ARexx as a error. Usually invoked from editor. script language, having only to provide the specialised functions particular to the application, not a arg conpileargs /* grab the arguments */ whole language. In addition, if several applications /* support ARexx a script invoked from * ADDRESS s e le c t s a p o rt to send c m a n d s to one can draw upon the resources of */ them all to get a job done. A script ADDRESS CE invoked by an editor command could compile coopileargs /* Tell the compiler driver to go*/ grab information from a database, next-error /* Ask the conpiler what the first error was */ chew it about, and then put it in the if result = " then exit /* If none, go away */ text being edited. Listing V shows a parse value result file linenumber errortext ADDRESS UEHACS /* S t a r t t a lk in g to th e e d it o r */ script which uses a com piler driver f i n d - f i l e ' f i le and editor. goto-1ine* linenunber W riting your own programs to use write-message Error: errortext Listin g V or be used by ARexx is a relatively sim ple task. The necessary include files and libraries are provided, and become less clear. The num ber of use other com puters is that ConMan the m anual covers the process in packages that support it is limited, handles Control-S and Control-Q, detail. Typically, 1 or 2k of code may but likely to grow. On its own, it does stopping and starting the output. be needed, possibly a lot less. The provide a good fast language that is The ConM an features are available languages supported are C, easy to use for text-bashing and to anything that uses a CON: window. Benchmark M odula-2 and assembler. calculations. It also allows m uch greater control If you are inquisitive and bored over the style of window opened, with AmigaBasic, I would windows can be borderless, have a REXX can be extended by recommend it. If you use the Amiga Close gadget, not have a sizing gadget A writing function libraries in solely to run applications, then it is a n d s o o n . one of the above languages which worth buying ARexx when the behave as if they were the built in applications you use support it. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMfunctions. Again, the necessary files and documentation are provided. W SHELL itself is compatible ARexx comes with two of these with the existing CLI, and libraries donated by users. One is an W Shell is provided on a single will respond to the same commands extended maths package and the disc with a 60 page manual. and run the same programs. A new other an interface to the ARP library. The installation is sim ilar to that of W Shell is create with ncwwsh in One of the most useful things in the ARexx. some small commands need much the same way as newcli. ARP library is a general purpose file to be copied into the c: directory, and Newwsh can be given arguments selector window. W hen called a a shared library is copied into LIBS:. FROM and CMD. If FROM is used a function pops up a window and A setup program is included to do all nam ed file is executed before allows you to mouse around and this for you with no problems. commands are read from the user. select a file. The nam e of the file is WShell uses a shared library, so each CMD specifies a command to be then returned from the function. new command window does not executed directly. Newwsh can have a The ARexx manual is excellent. It require a new copy of the code. .info file associated with it, and both was produced on an Amiga using However, the shared code is still only FROM and CMD can be put in the AmigaTeX, and is clear, concise, and 10k; W Shell is not memory-hungry. option list. Using CMD allows batch covers all aspects of the langauge. In The most noticeable thing after files to be run from icons. Since relation to the price of the product it installing the program is not WShell can com unicate with ARexx, really gives cause for thought about W shell itself, but ConM an, the this means that ARexx programs can the quality of m anuals on other, far replacement console handler that also be run from icons. more expensive products. provides line editing and a history W Shcll provides aliases, for ARexx is a well documented and mechanism. The current line can be example. Ink could be an alias for robust im plem entation of a good edited using the cursor keys, words "blink libx.o m ain.o rest.o to foo lib language. It fits into the Amiga can be deleted and the cursor moved libde.lib lib:amiga.lib". There is no system extremely well, and does not a word at a time. need for a separate batch file. At a occupy much in the way of disc space Previous commands can be sim pler level, it allows abbreviations or memory. It is fast - obviously not retrieved and edited by using the Up of common commands such as f to as fast as a com piled language — but and Down cursor keys, as well as by dir, cat to type, mv to rename and so m uch better than AmigaBasic. searching. Pressing F6 after typing a o n . That still leaves the question, do few letters will go back in the A feature of the old CLI w as that all you need it? If you are programming command history and try to find a of the commands existed on disc. The on the Amiga, then I would command that starts with the same time taken to load them resulted in a wholeheartedly recommend buying it. le tte rs . poor performance. One solution was If you are more of a user then things A particular bonus for those who KEENEST PRICES DELIVERY SERVICE We’re programmed lo help, so ring us now. 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Macclesfield SK10 4NP Enquiries: 0625 879940 Order Hotline: 0625 879920 r 2 n d A M I G A D I S K D R I V E NEC mechanism Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM880K capacity By selling direct we can provide 2nd PRINTER INTERFACE the best price and maintain the highest quality. Rest assured that if, for any reason, you do not wish to keep the item, then return it to us within 14 days of purchase and we will refund your money in full. Use your Amiga’s serial port to Should any item purchased from drive a second Centronics us fail during the first 12 months compatible printer. A 3 metre then we will repair it free of cable is included - no extras charge. required. MIRACLE SYSTEMS NBC, Dean Road, Yate, Bristol BS17 5NH Telephone orders welcome on (0454) 317772 Am iga Arcade NEBULUS The technical achievements in Nebulus arc impressive, the graphics are beautifully illustrated and sup erbly animated. The colour scheme used is gorgeous and it seems at times that even more than 32 colours are on the screen. The music at the start of the title page is very effective, and spot effects are some of the best I've heard on an Amiga. Not only are they well sam pled. but their interaction with the game have also been well engi neered. I can't recommend this one highly enough, it's one of the most refreshing and enjoyable games I've had the pleasure of playing this year. If you only buy one game this month make sure that it's Nebulus and you won't be disappointed. Chris Holmes Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM D OWN on the planet Nebulus all Some of the ledges dissolve, while underwater game are most complex. is not well. Someone has been others are slippery causing you to The rotational scrolling runs at 25 building giant towers in the middle slide comically. Flashing blocks, frames a second while the of the sea - and they didn't even bouncing balls and strange creatures underwater scene is nearly twice as apply for planning permission. are intent on knocking you off your fast. The tower is reflected in the Awakening from your morning balance. You are equipped with a surface of the water using a math nap in the offices of Destructo Inc. blaster that if fired accurately can ematical formula. you are told by your boss about your stop or destroy some hazards. latest destruction job which involves The most amusing part is being the new Mk.7 Min-Sub and a pay knocked off a ledge and landing back rise. on a lower level or in the sea. You The submarine surfaces at the base only lose a life if you tumble into the of each tower with an almost effec water, so the higher you are the safer tive burst of sampled sound. Your things become. task is to climb to the top of the tower If by some minor miracle you - which is stewn w ith ledges, tunnels manage to reach the top of the tow er and lifts - within the allowed time. you enter the final door. A destruc tion sequence will be set off. the tower collapses and bonus points awarded for the time left. When a tower has been destroyed you get back in your submarine and travel underwater to the next tower. Trav elling from tower to tower you can collect bonuses, catching fish by shooting air bubbles. Nebulus was designed and pro grammed by |ohn Phillips initially for the Commodore 64 and has been converted perfectly by the same man. Although the design is very simple, some of the mechanics used to create the rotational 30 scrolling and the multi-layer parallax scrolling on the VERY once in a while a game mare - making things a lot simpler E arrives which blows the until you get used to it. Some other competition clean out of the water. obstacles are always present, of Leaderboard Golf was one of these, course. The trees for example - a ball and when it first arrived on the CM it on the rough is worth two in a tree. marked the beginning of a new era in And last but not least the bunkers computer sports simulation. Not least and lakes - just as tough as real life. I because it made computer golf a assure you. playable game. When you make it to the green the Before very long the much club selection changes to a putter anticipated sequel arrived in the form automatically. Now you have to of Leaderboard Tournament. Using judge the shot power and angle given exactly the same formula as the the lay of the green and the distance original the new game added features to the hole. like the driving range, hole skipping Even if you already have one of the and tougher courses. originals. Birdie is well worth the The Amiga versions of both games outlay. If not, get it anyway. promised, once again, to be standard Mark Smiddy setters and'so they are - with a few extra features to bool. But since they've been around for a while, US Gold has revamped the re-release with a two disc pack for the price of hole is displayed to aid your starts to climb. Releasing the button one. Considering the bundle includes decision, even though the flag may sets the power and starts the a score card, maps and stand-up club be hidden by trees, across a lake or downswing phase. power guide, it represents very good whatever. After the downswing comes the Graphics value for money. Next, using the mouse a small snap indicator. Correct timing here is The game is played entirely in 3D, crosshair is positioned to set the essential to ensure the ball is hooked viewed from behind the golfer. At the direction of the shot. or sliced the way you want. start of each shot you select a club Now comes the tricky bit. Pressing On the beginner level, the snap fea from three woods, nine irons or a the right mouse button starts the ture is disabled as are the winds - Overall - 80% Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMpitching wedge. The distance to the backswing and the power meter yes. it includes every golfer's night BUBBLE GHOST UTE is the right word to trying to manouevre the bubble past C describe this rather simple but a moving fan which blows it every fun game. There are 40 screens to which way is a real test of your conquer and the objective on every patience and dexterity. one is exactly the same - to push a The title music is pretty good - floating, iridescent bubble from one unfortunately, it is only heard once, side of a room to the other without immediately after the initial loading - bursting the fragile sphere in the but other sound effects are few and process. far between. The graphics are fairly modest and The bubble-pusher is a small, uninspired and animation quite lim appropriately dead-white ghost ited. although the ghost is nicely which is guided around the screen by realised - cute and cuddly, if you like moving your mouse in the desired that sort of thing. direction. Pressing the left or right Although Bubble Ghost is quite hand mouse button causes the phan IMBIW S H U T novel and is enjoyable, harmless and tom to rotate in a clockwise or anti Don't let it spook you! ever-so mildy addictive, the fun and clockwise direction Asteroids style. challenge per pound sterling does The only means the ghost has of turns to face you, scowls and lets rip racting needles, and assorted pointy not represent a good long-term getting the bubble to move is by huf with a short burst of angry gibberish. objects. investment, Nice, but at this price not fing at it - a press of the shift or space The game is over when you’ve burst To add to the fun, a timer ticks that nice. key causes the spook to puff out its five bubbles - although extra away - the quicker you get the Bob Chappell cheeks and exhale. Providing the bubbles, can be earned by taking a bubble to the exit, the higher the spook is close enough, the bubble Bubble tibosl trickier route. bonus. Failure to make it to the exit will float away for a short distance, Each screen represents a room. The before your time runs out only results £24.95 propelled by the ghostly breath. bubble is usually positioned on one in your failing to score any bonus, Infogrames As you know, ghosts can pass side of the room with at least one exit not the loss of a life. through solid matter and in this case at another - another includes the There are some neat points to the such matter includes the bubble. ceiling and floor. game. The ghost turns bright red and However, although the ghost is Every room is different and in chokes if he puffs away for too long immune from coming to grief on any addition to an increasingly more dif in one go - this temporary seizure is objects, the bubble is not. Should it ficult maze-like configuration of accompanied by the sampled sound touch any solid item, the bubble will walls and passageways, also features of a cough and wheeze. pop with a satisfy ing "Flink". a variety of obstacles such as lit The ghost can blow other light O verall - 60% When this happens the little spook candles, electric fans, spikes, ret objects besides the bubble. And SUMMER OLYMPIAD HE Seoul Olympics have been T and gone, but despite that Tynesoft is cashing in with another of its sporting simulations. However like many companies, Tynesoft has been criticised of late for converting ST games directly to the Amiga. After all. the two machines share many similarities - with the ST coming second every time. So has Tynesoft’s team breathed life into the Amiga version? This new offering is supplied on a single disc containing a staggering 1.2Mb of programs and data, which seems good value for money. There are five events - skeet shooting, diving, fencing. 100M hurdles, and triple |ump. The opening ceremony is featured, but surely couldn't be called an event. As the game boots, the screen opens out requesting the names of the competitors - up to six people can play at once. While selecting complete and the quality of your only way to beat the sucker is with addictive. your home nation, its flag is dis entry - sorry folks, belly flops won’t cunning, but you have to go three The sound is lacking in places, but played waving in the breeze. This do. rounds to qualify and the computer the title music makes up for it - play doesn't add anything to the game, but When the time came for the triple gels better with each. this on your hi-fi and boogie on it gives the feel of a professional and jump I thought it was my birthday. At long last came the joystick- down. On your marks, get set, go - well designed product - a taste of No problem this. Rattle the joystick bashing finale to the Summer down to the shop and experience what is about to be unveiled. like there's no tomorrow, press fire at Olympiad. Deservingly, it's graphi Seoul for yourself. The first event is skeet shooting. In the right time - and hop-skip-leap cally the best. Let's face it. the 110 |ulia Forester Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMessence, this is a variation on the old into the sand. metres hurdles doesn't sound very duck shoot theme, although there's Needless to say 1 forgot about the thrilling - until you place the view the option at the start to use a joystick angle control. And while getting the behind the competitors. or mouse - it’s easier with the mouse. perfect 45 degrees on take off isn't too Couple this to a nice 3D sequence Pressing the fire button selects which hard, you’ve got to keep it near there where the camera drifts into position is required automatically. for the whole sequence or else you behind the player and you have an Your marksman stands a full half won't make the sandpit. amazing event. As usual, speed is height in the screen and as you move I've always fancied a quick riposte. controlled by frantic joystick the targctting circle his whole body So, now was my chance as the cur wiggling, the fire button being used moves aiming the gun - no surprises tain raised on Tynesoft's interpret to jump. here. ation of fencing. Once again Tynesoft has produced However, as the circle teaches the Launching in with typical Forester a winner, albeit an expensive med left or right hand edge, the screen charm. I was soon foiled neatly by alist. Both the still and moving scrolls sideways - beautifully mv computerised opponent. The graphics'are very good, the gameplay smoothly. Clouds and other scenery add to the effect. Press the left button to pull, and a skeet whistles across the screen from one of the catapults, subtending a beautiful arc through the air. Initially, I was so surprised by the graphics, I completely missed the point of what I was u p to. There are seven stations in all with a mixture of singles and doubles. For each skeet launched you get one shot, and two can be in the air at once - although some seem to move rather too slowly. Next up comes the diving, and memories of poor Greg Louganis bashing his head on the springboard come flooding back. Diving in Olympiad is from the 10 metre board. Control is by joystick only with four directions used to pike, tuck, roll and straighten up for a good entry. Marks ate determined by the number of rolls, pikes and twists you r B O M B J A C K OIN-OP conversions are still another and what I take to be a the music. 1 suggest you use it. Homb fat k C being chumed out and here’s French chateau in yet another. Once On the plus side, Bomb Jack is £24.93 another. Bomb Jack is looking a little you've completed the six screens, simple to play, slightly addictive and Elite long in the tooth now, having been they recycle with a new platform the backdrops are pleasing to look at. layout. around for the 8 bit machines for On the minus side, the game lacks sound H m m m some time, and its age clearly shows. Bomb Jack tends to float rather depth and variety and is far too This conversion, while competent than fly - when he's on solid ground, expensive for the limited entertain Graphics and fun to play, does nothing to make the fire button launches him ment it offers. use of the Amiga's potential, yet costs upwards. He continues to float If it were less than a tenner then I’d Gameplay ^ H n H H O ID a whole lot more than those for far skywards until he runs out of steam say go get it - but at its current price. less powerful machines. (or humps his head on a platform) Bomb jack is definitely not good The game consists of six differently and he descends slowly earthwards. value for money. backdropped screens whose prime While he is floating he can be guided Bob Chappell O verall - 47% constituents are platforms, bombs to the left and right. and aliens. The bright-red, fused When Bomb lack touches an alien, bombs are liberally strewn and must he does nothing more exciting than be defused before progress can be spin a couple of times to show that he made to the next screen. has lost a life. Bomb Jack, the hero of the game, is Animation of the aliens is similarly a diminutive caped crusader, not a basic. These beings, some of which little unlike the Mighty Mouse of look more like unbaked gingerbread cartoon fame. His task is to fly men than creatures from outer space, around and make contact with each move gently about the screen trying bomb, thereby defusing it. to hamper Bomb Jack's mission. The platforms are there both to After the loss of a life, Bomb Jack is help and hinder him in his duties. replaced on the starting position of The aliens flit around trying to make that screen but, thankfully, any contact with Bomb lack - one touch bombs already defused do not and he loses one of his three lives. reappear. Each of the six backdrops, which Other objects pop up from time to are quite attractive even if they do time and must be touched for bonus serve little purpose other than orna points, and extra lives. The game can Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmentation, represents a country. For be played by one or two players with instance, there’s the pyramids and one or two joysticks. Sphinx in one, the Acropolis in There is also an option to turn off Pretty graphics fail lo hide poor animation NETHERWORLD etherw orld is Hewson s The game is set in a world of fanta spend the rest of your days dodging run of the mill but the music which N first dip into the Amiga market stic structures and wonderful beings. acid bubbles and dragons. accompanies the title page is very having been programmed by You are trapped in this mystic place, The aim of the game is to collect a good. Imagitec. designed and developed by and the only wa v back to reality is to set number of diamonds within a Netherworld is a well designed the Finnish programmer Jukka collect enough of the local currency time limit and then exit through a and executed game on 8 bit com Tapanimaka. to pay your way out. otherwise you'll teleport. After each level there is an puters but on the Amiga it doesn't intermission, and an extra life is quite make the grade. True, it has awarded if this is successfully some nice features and original completed. touches like alien generators, but at The playing area consists of fea the end of the day it's poor VFM. tures which can assist or hinder your At the same price you could go out quest. For example a brick smasher and buy Hewson's other new release will shatter a wall and allow you for the Amiga. Nebulus. which is a access to the diamonds. far more entertaining investment. Teleports can whizz you to random Gary Wilson locations within the playing area in times of emergency, and demon kil lers allow you to destroy deadly foes \e l hern or III simply by touch. £19.95 Extra lives and invulnerability can lli'n son be picked up as surprise bonuses, but sound ^ H n n i] these are not advisable as they could also result in an uncontrollable ship Graphics or reversed controls. I am a little lost in summing up just GameplavHB^m HII how good or bad this game is. The graphics are consistent throughout value B u m m and the multi directional scrolling is very smooth. The sound effects are Overall - 52% IRUS is a game with a history. It mouse is dead on the spot it was on missile every 5000 points, it says in V started life on the Archimedes, when the plane was launched. If the the notes. I believe these, as so far for which Acorn wanted a really mouse is moved away from that spot their description of all those deviants good demo. They contacted David the plane tilts in that direction. has proved devastatinglv accurate. "Elite" Braben, well-known miracle Firing the rocket under the plane There are so many ways to die... worker for brain-damaged micros, will start it moving thuswards. but as If this sounds too. too nasty, then who some time later came up with the mouse is moved farther away rest assured that the graphics are Zarch. from the central point the plane tilts wonderful - the first shoot-’em-up For reasons still not likely to con more and more until it is upside- that really works in a three- vince anyone of Telecomsoft’s sanity, down. The rocket motor now points dimensional landscape - the sound the game lost some features - upwards, and will propel the plane just right, even down to the little Firebird deemed the smart bombs into that glorious quilt of a coun plips and ploshes when you manage silly, and gained some new aliens tryside at a speed which seems to get as far as the ocean before cra Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMalong with the name Virus during its impressive the first five or ten times shing. and the animation of smoke, trip to the Amiga. But here it is, you see it. particles and almost everything else nonetheless. By the thirtieth time you've exam strategy, to spiral downwards and scrumptious. The sense of achieve Virus is a shoot-em-up. Compared ined the interesting geology of ten spray away like an incontinent hippo ment when you hit something is to others of the ilk it’s like selling an feet under, you will have found that on a helterskelter. pales when you almost incidental. ST to someone who’s seen an Amiga the mouse is so sensitive it bursts into notice that every blob fired results in You haven’t lived ‘till you’ve died - fiendishly difficult - but apparently tears during Blind Date. a point taken away from your score. in Virus. it can be done. It is a moment of considerable Negative scores are not uncommon Your Hoverplane flies over a triumph when the plane is steered in the early days. patchwork landscape. It is not alone; towards that blip on the radar and You have three short-range guided a range of aliens has also taken a gets close enough to hear the chilling missiles, which if fired from too Iow liking to the area and they are whine, let alone close enough to see an altitude, are also liable to take up determined to turn it red. They do the circus tent decor of the alien gardening. However, it is possible to this by seeding the old green and seeder. Now all that needs to happen rise to the flight ceiling and let off the pleasant with viruses, whereupon the is to hit the blighter - just dip the missiles with a fair chance of hitting crops fail, the people starve and you nose a little to aim and... oh well, you all three seeders on the first screen. - yes. you - get to go out there and always wanted to be a landscape gar This leaves you nothing but your marmalise the critters. dener. wits and the laser to cope with the The most difficult thing about Eventually it docs prove possible to bombers, drones, mutants, pests and Virus is controlling the hoverplane. It steer the plane well enough to hit the fighters which infest the later flies straight upwards when the seeders with the laser gun. The best screens. You get an extra life and You haven't lived 'tillyo u 've died in in Virus QUADRALIEX OGOTRON was reknowned for where everything is going to end up. L little in the gaming field except There are loads of differenls types for Xor. a strategic 2D maze game. of objects, plenty of options for Suddenly, after the excellent Star making the game more playable, Ray. the company has hit the Amiga such as code words to bypass the scene with a bang. The next release is lower levels once completed, and a Quadralien, a sci-fi puzzle game with number of ways in which it can be shooting, back in the Xor tradition. tackled. As well as a reactor heading for David Whittaker’s music is pleas meltdown the luckless player has to ant enough, but the crude flip screen contend with an invasion of aliens, a scrolling Is irritating, and although rogue computer, and a whole host of the graphics are serviceable. fiendish puzzles. The reactor, known Quadralien isn't pushing frontiers as Astra, has three levels comprised back in any department. I found it all of six chambers and the reactor core. a little tiresome. The complex part of this game comes in the form of slave droids Mark Luckham which either repel or attract, just like magnets, and supposedly control the Q u u d ra lirn plant’s day-to-day maintainance. The you must maneouvre one of your illuminate a darkened chamber to Illinium whole thing is rather confusingly droids so that it sends water barrels brute strength when shoving objects £79.95 refered to as the Dynamic Magnetics down chutes, or reduce the entropy out of the way. The correct choice of System of Entropy Control, or level which is a measuure of the droid depends on which environ sound ■ ^■ n rn iD DyMSEC movement of the DyMSEC Tortuous ment you are confronted with. The primary aim is to avoid a or what? You control two from an What makes the game interesting, Graphics meltdown by preventing the core initial selection of six droids as they or stupifyingly dull depending on temperature from getting too high, or run around the various mazes, shoot your point of view, is the way the Camepl. M M BM LU ILIj the operations energy from sinking ing obstructing objects and various objects on screen interact too low. Plus finding and destroying absorbing others. with each other. So in order to create Value ■^H H U ID the Quadralien Mother. Each droid has its owrn special cha a certain effect or reach a certain Overall - 56% To reduce the plant’s temperature racteristics, from using a headlight to place it is first necessary to work out Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM WHIRLIGIG NCE upon a lime, before Ihe among other things - solution. An O fateful day when Clive Sinclair eigensomething is a something gol his first tricycle, computers were which matches the conditions, so an rare. Huge metal cabinets filled with eigenbus for East Ham is the number valves and filling large areas of uni 15 versity labs, they were designed and An eigenspace has a number (from used by mathematicians. one to four billion), and a combin it was confidently predicted that ation of stargates (links to other there would only ever be six com cigenspaccs), missile, chaff and fuel puters in Britain because it would be depots and even the occasional per impossible to train enough math fect solid. Missiles and fuel are stand ematicians to operate more. The ard space game issue - except that if mathematicians got quite excited by you fire a missile and there's no this, sensing a chance for a real job at target they loop around and hit you - last. and chaff is an electronic fog that can But sanity prevailed. Nowadays, confuse attacking ships. Computed shading on sprites any intrusion of mathematics into You’ll find a fuel store in an computing is viewed, quite rightly, eigenspace which can be divided by reduced to playing the game, and much livelier. with suspicion. On odd occasions a 2 after you take 1 from it (so 5-1=4, talking of coarse plots... Rupert Goodwins pure mathematician does chance which divides by 2. so in 5 you'll find The only fun about is shooting at across a computer; a progeny of just fuel), likewise missiles in sectors that the ships which guard the solids. As such a strange match is Whirligig. can be divided by 3 after taking away some of these are invincible, you Take the game screen. In the 1. and chaff in sectors that do the might have to run away. middle sits a comfortably familiar, if same by 5. Perfect solids - of which This game is for retired professors a little angular. 3D shaded spacecraft. there are just five - have to be collec who find spreadsheets just a little too Shame about the colours, but you ted; get the set and return to Earth’s exciting for the old ticker. Mediocre can’t have everything. But the area Golden Age. That's 1988. according graphics - sprites dressed up as 3D around the craft isn't yer ordinary to the hook; a sobering thought. solids with a light source - poor hard interplanetary vacuum in which All this wonderful numbercrun- mouse control and frustrating screen a thousand heroes have died, my ching means that, if you have a doc changes, combined with hyperactive goodness no. It’s eigcnspacc. Come torate in integer mathematics, you marching music, might put the rest of eigen? can plot a course around the network us off. Spend your twenty quid on Eigcn is numberwallah jargon for- of eigenspaces. If you don’t, you’re Russell & Whitehead’s Principia, it's its way from Victoria in Australia. No not som eone called Victoria, it's actually from Keith Fung. He’s a Star W ars space ace and offers these tips: In space fire only at the fighters in There’s magic the m iddle third of the screen. This means you can shoot all the fireballs before they hit you. Concentrate your fire against Darth Vader’s ship, in Cornwall although you cannot destroy it. you get twice as many points. Closely spaced hits do not allow him to take evasive action. F IRST off, Giles Lovegrove from made it to level four, the bikers Use the time while Darth is stunned Cornwall offers som e help with should take the inside line and to take out Fighter escorts. Try to Find Faery Tale. He advises that the jade overtake the com puter at the tyres the Darth Vader ship when the level skull kills all your enemies on the near the Finishing line. It is best to go draws to a close and get as many screen. Crystal orbs allow you to see over the starting line, missing out the shots as possible in while he flees. hidden doors, green jewels enable top left-hand corner. As you fly over the surface of the you to see at night, magic rings freeze But Jonathan is not just good at Death Star memorise the patterns of your enem ies and blue stones teleport pedalling, he has some airborne hints. the towers as they rise. Shoot slightly you when you are in a rings of stones. First for Skyfox, where he suggests above the tower, allowing it to move In houses where there is a fire there that you kill all the planes first, then into your Fire. Work methodically will also be an object. Press look and the installations, refuel and finally knock out the tanks. it will appear. All the forts which lead S ' up from the village need a green key. His hints for M ercenary are pretty The only one you need is the first fort good. Fly the Dominion dart to 350 1 on the left and you can get into that metres, level oft to a speed of 1.781 without the green key by walking kph and fire a missile. Pick up the along the left wall and going through it halfway up. Straight down from the village is -- —- Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe city of Marheim. Don’t bother going into the palace, because the king tells you he can’t help and you from left to right, taking the towers in cannot draw your weapon. If you turn. It's quicker than random cross the river behind the village and b la s tin g . follow the coast up you will Do not try to follow a tower to the eventually come to a raft which is top of the screen. Wait for it to h e lp fu l. reappear later. Be sure to shoot Fireballs. It is m ore im portant to defend your shields than to destroy J ONATHAN Good has some hints all the towers. for BMX Simulator. He says that In the trench you can use the Force. on level tw o the best line is to come This means not shooting anything out of the First turn and com e off into missile when you get close enough until the exhaust port appears. Fine the rough. Staying on level two, if and then land. Go to 0808 and take for the First few times around, but you are riding along the straight and the crashed intergalactic craft to 0806. things get tougher and you have to the fence is on your opponent's left Leave the ship and go through the rely on your weapon. Do not bother you can go through the fence and triangular door. This leads to the trying to shoot the Fireballs which are then through a gap to the finish. author's cheat room, where you will not going to hit you, they are not Sneaky huh? find keys to all the doors, the ability worth risking shields for. On level three you should go round to carry lots of items and get out of Since you are safe if you touch the the hill up the side and through the jail free cards floor or sides of the trench, use this to flag when you cannot go over the hill, Amiga (Computing itself is truly dodge the enemy Fire. The Fireballs hut watch out for the cone. Having international. The last tip has winged move comparatively slowly towards your current position so do not fly in line with a gap until the last minute, Max “The Hacks" Tennanl is the master of this will lead the fireballs astray. game play. Whatever the game he'll win at it, Try and keep low. as this is the best fair means or foul — often with a little help position for weaving fwhereas you arc from his friends. If you have a tip for a game bast off keeping high in the arcade - send it in. For every one we print we'll send ed). Perhaps the best tip Keith offers you a game from the collection in our goodie is to turn the mouse mat vertically to drawer and a fabulous Konix Speedking, as remind you to keep within the middle used by all serious joystick jockies third and to help you dive and climb more quickly. 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T underworld hove a wide variety At the bottom is that valuable Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMof iobs. Paula sings. Denise paints, resource, the computer's ram. and Fat Agnus drives a has. And Connected to it are old pals Denise juggles. Fat Agnus is the second and Paula, the 68000. and slap in the cleverest chip in the Am iga, after the middle is Fat Agnus. 6SOOO processor, and together w ith its All of the chips are hooked up to (her? One never knows) sidekick Gary the ram 's data bus. along which all controls most o f the rest o f the the information about graphics, sound c ir c u it r y . and programming flows. But only The diagram on page A - ll of the Agnus is connected to the address chunk of information to make thousand capacitors into an area the lines is solved by a Sherlockian available when. size of a ram chip means that each inspection of the internal structure of Before delving into the ways in capacitor is very small. Small the Dram chips. The memory which Agnus exerts total control, it's capacitors can't hold much charge, elements are arranged in a grid with worth taking a closer look at the and they also have tin* embarrassing separate row and column lines, an address bus. The Amiga can habit of leaking. arrangement which not only make comfortably handle one megabyte of sense electronically but also makes it memory. One megabyte - 1.048.576 easier to get at sections of memory separate locations - is 1 followed by CAPACITOR is two when needed for refresh purposes. 20 zeros in binary, which means that A conductors separated by a non An individual bit is accessed by the address bus needed to get at all conductor. and on a chip that’s two setting up first row and then column the memory is 20 bits wide. But areas of conductive silicon addresses: in the memory chips used Agnus' link to the ram chips is only sandwiching a non-conducting in the Amiga there art? 512 rows and nine bits wide. Some mistake? region. And non-conducting silicon 512 columns giving a total of 256 The ram chips used by the Amiga isn't as good an insulator as a full- thousand separate locations - a 256k (and all other sm all computers these timer like rubber or plastic, so what chip. 512 is nine bits o f binary, which days) are Drams - dynamic random little charge the tiny capacitors can happily coincides with the width of access memory. I.ike most other hold vanishes in a few hundredths of the address bus between Eat Agnus chips, they’re made out of small a seco n d . and the memory circuitry. slivers of silicon. Silicon is a To overcome this forgetfulness, any There are also some other signals - semiconductor - in some circuit which uses Drams needs to RAS and CAS. standing for Row circum stances it conducts electricity, refresh them. This am azingly Address Select and Column Address in others it doesn’t. technical term - perhaps the Select, which tell the chips what to do In Dram chips, most of the on-chip designers of the first Drams couldn't with those nine bits. To complicate area is dedicated to banks of quite face up to the embarrassment of matters, there an? two RA Ss and two capacitors whic h store charge. That's having a REM IN D signal - means that CASs: the two CASs go to two banks how memory remembers - a the computer needs to read each bit of chips to speed things up. Ram capacitor is either charged up or of mem ory at least once every so chips can only shovel the information discharged depending on whether it many milliseconds. Reading the bit is in or out at a certain speed, because it has a digital one or zero. Each bit of enough - the rest of the rani circuitry takes time for signals to travel within memory has its own capacitor which can then top up the capacitors if the chip and the transistors that route Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMis charged up (or not) when the? n e e d e d . the signals to switch. com puter writes a one (or a zero) to This has to happen regularly, W ith two separate CASs. one bank the memory location. Next time the otherwise programs and data can of chips can be partially set up while com puter reads that bit of memory, become corrupted, and it needs to another is busy producing or the memory chip checks the state of happen independently of any other accepting data, thus elim inating at the charge on the capacitor and memory operation that might be least part of the delay between reports a one if it's charged, a zero if going on. Stand up Agnus, and go get reading bytes. The separate R A S goes n o t. the refreshments. 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Please add £15 courier charge on goods under £900 Software post FR EE signals on to one set of wires. Television has a crude MUX - if you're watching BBC you can tell from the title music whether you’re watching the news or East Enders. The sam e channel carries both information and entertainment, and even East Enders. but special signals let the recipient (you) tell the difference. The MUXs in Agnus combine (at the top right hand corner) signals to the internal workings of the chip itself and the control registers of the other chips in the Amiga. W hat chip gets which information depends on the multiplex signals generated, but by com bining many signals on to one set of wires the com puter is kept both cheap and reliable. You do want a cheap, reliable computer, don't you? B ECAUSE all of the Amiga’s functions have to be carefully synchronised, the controls of the various chips have to be run from one source - Agnus. Another way in which Agnus keeps the com puter running smoothly is by controlling the clock. Most of the circuits in the Amiga are Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMsynchronous; they do their business in time to each other. Railway carriages are synchronous because they are all driven from one engine; a convoy of Ford Sierras taking a set of sales executives to a wingding is want to get at the memory first, and if asynchronous - individual drivers can to the extension ram, and together so who has priority. decide to pop into a service station or w ith other signal switching within If Paula is going to need to read the d o 120 mph instead. Agnus and Gary lets the 68000 read memory at the sam e time to get some In a com puter such as the Amiga, and write the extension ram while sound data, then the Agnus/Gary all the different functions have to Agnus does video things with the team prevent the processor from operate in step, and the signals they lower 512k. Sounds fast, and it is. making a conflicting memory request get to keep them that way are all sent It’s a com prom ise though, as on an by stopping a signal that says Data from Agnus. unexpanded Amiga with only the one ready (DTACK - Data Acknowledge) The video bits of Agnus are clever block of 512k the video and the to t h e 68000. in their own right. Because Agnus processor fight it out for dominance, The processor just thinks that the controls all the DMA (Direct Memory and the video has the chips in its memory is slow today, little Access - doing things to the contents favour. So the 68000 spends a imagining that some extra read of memory without getting the reasonable amount of time doing commands are being processed under processor involved), it is the perfect nothing but waiting for Denise to its nose. Perhaps Agnus isn’t the candidate for the job of moving bytes finish displaying. second cleverest chip after all... around video memory, a job also This can be avoided only if the known as blitting. video and the processor have two Blitting is a tricky business. On a separate busses, which needs more ECIDING priorities is one of the plain, toast-with-no-M armite and bigger chips. This is expensive. D trickiest parts of Agnus' job. flavoured computer, moving images Hence the compromise - do you want After all. the other chips covered so around the screen is a matter purely a com puter that’s fast, or one that’s far rely on Agnus to provide the right for the software. Somewhere in cheap? You want both? am ount of data at the right time. memory, a set of numbers All this gets trickier, because even Looking at the top right-hand corner corresponding to the shape to be the compromising has to happen very of the block diagram of Agnus on moved is stored. These are copied to fast. 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Remember that this background. watching the trailer tape of new picture is going to have to be read on Before you put any text on the movies. Then it cam e to me. The a norm al television display. If screen, press F10 to remove Deluxe trailer didn't have any special titling. possible, work on a composite colour Paint’s menus. It'll give you a better W hat would it be worth if I could monitor. Or better still work on the idea of the finished picture. custom ise the lape for the video store, display you are aiming to use. Don’t just as a little project to while away judge the display by what you get on the evenings an RGB monitor, as this can mislead The first thing to do is make up the you into thinking som ething is clearly Y OU can now type in the text. If Amiga images. There are plenty of drawn, when on a TV it’ll sm ear and you don’t position it correctly, ways of doing this - you probably s m u d g e . use DPaint’s brush facility, cut out the have a copy of Deluxe Paint. Like all For your first title, practice not on text, move it somewhere else and creative things on the Amiga, the the black background that Deluxe delete the old text. It's easier than im portant rule is to practice and Paint gives you, but on a light grey brushing out the old text and retyping know what you are aiming for. In my background. W hy? Well, when you it. case it was sim ple text titles. So, the display on the TV screen, you won't Once you have the text on the first thing is that you can sacrifice rely as much on the colour and display use DPaint to add some colour for resolution - 32 Colours sharpness of the TV and the display graphics of your own. Electronic Arts may be impressive, but when will look m uch better. sells a library disc with a lot of ready som eone’s trying to read text it’s just Until you are confident, a good idea made artwork. Keep it simple though confusing. The best mode to go for is is to use the Grid feature in Deluxe ► the VCR and the television). Using the that many of the animators don't and don't clutter up the display. composite video eliminates one of allow for sliding or wiping Thanks to most software designers those stages and im proves the picture. backgrounds. using the IFF format for storing Connect up your television to the pictures, there arc public domain VCR as norm al, and set the VCR to ROGRAMS like Deluxe Video do discs with graphics you can use too, display the picture from the Video in allow for this, though they are in fact you can use graphics generated socket. You should now get your harder to get "instant" results than by most Amiga programs. Amiga display on the TV, via the are the anim ators. But, as ever, the There are plenty of other ways to VCR. You are ready to roll. more work you put in the more get a good picture on the screen. By now, you should have put im pressive the results. Deluxe Paint II and the more together a selection of pictures you So, we have covered here how to advanced paint packages like Photon want to display. The Amiga offers a use your Amiga as a video source, to Paint come to m ind immediately. The num ber of ways to display them for generate graphics. W hat we haven’t technique is basically the sam e for recording. Slideshow is a shareware covered is m ixing the Amiga's video these packages, but you can do program which can pick up IFF with other video sources - which "special" effects like perspective pictures and display them by fading we'll get to in a future article. lettering m uch m ore easily. the images in and out or rolling the Always make sure that the text is picture on to the display. W here to get your still readable when you do this - you Using this basically consists of might know what it is meant to say. copying all the images on to a disc video goodies but half a dozen pixels at the end of with the program , creating a text file the line of text usually doesn't mean of com m ands which will tell Ageis Animator HB M arketing much to most people. And be careful Slideshow which pictures to load and 0895 444433 to make sure that your text doesn’t how to put them onto the screen, then £ 1 0 3 . 5 0 melt into shaded backgrounds. running those commands. With FantaVision If you want to get even better text, Slideshow, there's usually a file of Amiga Centre Scotland it may be worth looking at a documentation, so read that for more 031-557 4242 d e ta il. dedicated titling program like £ 3 9 . 0 0 TV’Text from Zuma. TV’Text is But Slideshow is only the start of Deluxe Video designed just for titling so don't what you can do. One presentation Electronic Arts expect fancy brushes or spray paint technique you can use is displaying 0753 49040 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMhere. W hat TV’Text does have is its the pictures and text through a 2D £ 6 9 .9 5 own range of fonts, like 'fast' and anim ator like Aegis Animator or T V ’ T e x t 'Swiss’, and these are available in a Fantavision. Using these programs, Zuma/HB Marketing m uch larger size that traditional you set up the anim ation so that it 0895 444433 Amiga fonts, even up to 102-Point. loads in your pictures, and then does £ 6 9 .9 5 some animation over the slide. Add a Photon Paint logo and make it rotate while the A c tiv is io n ITH TV’Text, you enter the slides change, or anim ate a pointer to 0734 311666 W text, then the program treats pick out text. The drawback here is it in a m anner you select, for example, with a black edge, yellow body and a black shadow cast on the background. You can then position that text on the screen. 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It is also the only Phil South delves deeper into the workings of means by which you can edit, the Amiga’s OS, and checks out some useful exchange and generally twiddle with files on disc. file utilities built into AmigaDos Although this is a tricky thing if you are used to an entirely window is all part of the Amiga’s open But the same structure goes for the oriented system like the M acintosh, it architecture. redirection of data streams. This is has to be learned. But to be honest All functions of the computer, due something you’ll be more interested they've been doing it this way for to the fact that locations in memory in when w e all get the PIPE: device in years, and there's a good reason for are not exclusively for the use of any W B1.3, but for now the redirection of that. Files on an Amiga disc can be one part of the operating system, are files and data is governed by the < > moved around in all sorts of ways, ASSIGNed to logical devices, as I’ve symbols, usually referred to as "angle and the AmigaDos bit in the manual said before. But another brilliant b r a c k e ts " . m akes all kinds of references to the piece of design m eans that you can And lo and behold, what do we power of AmigaDos in handling files. use the same call to any device and find but the same sort of file handling OK. so what are these powerful get a different result. COPY a file to ease: f e a tu re s ? w in d o w : DATE > file n a m e COPY file n a m e TO CON:10/10/200/100/ TYPE filename and it prints up in the window sends the DATE stam p to a File called OFY is a good example. You defined by the CON:. COPY a file to a ‘filename’ and then TYPEs it up on can COPY a file to another disc, printer, the sam e statement notice: screen. How about this one: or another directory on the sam e disc, sure. But did you know you can COPY filename TO PRT: DIR > catalog COPY a file to the printer? Or to a window on the screen? Or indeed to and it prints it up on your Preferences dirs the current directory, and instead any device used by the Amiga? This p rin te r. ► little number: of sending the file to the screen, TYPE .info opt h stores it in a text file called ‘catalog’. 0000: F34C0012 00000F39 00000258 00000B61 . L 9 . . . X . . . 3 You could make a file of all your disc 0010: 45787061 6E73696F 6E0A436C 6F636B0A E x p a n sio n .C lo c k . catalogs this way. Another of these 0020: 5368656C 6C0A5072 65666572 656E6365 S h e ll.P r e f e r e n c e fancy file utility com m ands is called 0030: 730A5574 696C6974 6965730A 53797374 s . U t i l i t i e s . S y s t 0040: 656D0A45 60707479 0A547261 73686361 e n.Em p ty.T rash ca JOIN. This is a much more 0050: 6E0A n. complicated command, which cleanly and simply joins, or concatenates, up Interesting, huh? It gives you a hex You can get SEARCH to look for to 15 files like so: rendering of the file, plus an Ascii ALL entries of a string on the disc, dum p down the side. So that’s what’s from all directories, and log the JOIN disci disc2 disc3 disc4 disc5 AS in that .info file, eh? searching into a text file by d i s c l i s t redirecting the output from the screen to a file marked "searcher” or This is not to be confused with F INALLY, a command which something. Then you can go out for LINKing, a process you encounter in doesn’t see much use in the CLI bite, watch TV, or even run it as a writing programs with compilers and is SEARCH. With this you can search background task as you use another the like, but nevertheless it is a directories, subdirectories and text p ro g r a m . powerful command for the handling files for strings. I used it the other day of loose text files. with the Fish Disc Catalog. The # If there is anything you would like And talking about text files, most of catalog comes on disc and finding a to see explained in depth, please you will use TYPE in the sam e way as program can be hazardous to your write to: Plain Man's Guide, Amiga it is used on a PC. to flash the health. The most useful reason for Computing, 78-84 Ongar Road, specified text file on the screen in a using SEARCH rather than flipping Brentwood, Essex, CMI5 9BG - but generally quick and dirty fashion. But through by hand is that there might remember we can only answer did you also know that you can TYPE be an update to the program you’re questions through the pages of the a binary file too? Yes. how about this looking for later on in the disc. magazine. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM MaiI Order Offers 'Here, , ...here Brian Clough's Football Fortunes is a football management game with a big difference. 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It is unfortunate that everyone com pares products to industry standard program s like WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3. I feel that everybody has their own opinion as to which one they like to use. I think that the only way to get a Starglider quirksj t M m fair review of any business program is to let several people try it out for a I HAVE been playingtying Slarglider II few weeks, then and only then can an since it first cam e out and have found honest review be made. a couple of quirks. If you fly out of I rate Kind W ords very highly. The the Solice system and keep going you manual is very well set out. I agree com e to a second solar system. This is don’t need an Introduction. Why that perhaps there should be more a reflection of Solice, with everything don’t you have book reviews as a tutorials to help the first tim e user, working backwards. It takes about an regular feature? but if one tries each command in turn hour to reach this reflected sun and )agbir Lally, it soon becomes quite easy. doesn’t seem to offer any advantages. W olverhampton I use the program with 1Mb and a A nother "feature" of Starglider II is second disc drive, and everything You'll find that we have assembled a a tim ew arp in Paint with Rolf. If you works to my satisfaction. The most panel of expert book reviewers and type all nines you get the message im portant thing is that the program intend to feature as many reviews as "Tim ew arp A OB 02". I suspect that has got is the SuperFonts with the 1.3 this is a gam e killer mode but can't we can. The Addison Wesley books are an essential purchase for the printer drivers. get it to do anything. Incidentally, my I am very impressed with the local shop said that they only had serious programmer. A cheaper alternative is Kickstart from Ariadne quality of the printout whatever the Atari ST copies but after reading printer I use. So far I have tried the 101 - 960 02031 or Compute's Guide to about the ADLS disc format in your Citizen 120D. Amstrad DMP 3000. AmigaDos. Many of the advertisers in m agazine I bought what they said Star LC10 and Epson RX80. 1 must Amiga Computing are go o d at was an Atari disc and it worked adm it that it can be a very slow perfectly on my Amiga. recommending books which suit specific needs. process to print out a whole Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMM arc Bladon, document, but this is not such a bad W ilts . thing. I believe that further drivers Goodbye cruel words will be coming out soon. Sound advice I HAVE just finished reading the I have found one or two minor review of Kind W ords, the low cost problem s with the graphics, but WHENEVER I reboot the Amiga the word processor. I have been using the having this facility in the first place is 1084 m onitor shows blurred black a real bonus. The main reason I lines across the screen. Is this program for two weeks and up to now cannot say I have found any real bought Kind W ords was the spelling norm al? I am also having problems fault with it. checker, which I have found to be not w ith the synthesiser voice. The output only one of the best I have tried but is locked on a robot’s voice. Should I I suspect that Mr Tomlins was because it resides in memory it is also take my m achine back to the shop? expecting too much from this program . As a word processor it is one of the quickest. Mohammed Saeed, very good. In my opinion better than * M r Tom lins gives the impression B ra d f o rd . either Textcraft or Scribble; that is not that he doubts that it really does Try looking a! another machine. The just m y opinion, several of my contain the claimed 90,000 words. I Amiga cycles through dark red, dark colleagues have the sam e view. think his suspicions are unfounded. I grey, light grey, red. green, blue and The most im portant thing is that it have found Kind W ords to be very yellow on power up. These will is low cost. The Disc Company has good value for money. Of course this identify a fault to an engineer if the produced a word processor which letter was written using Kind W ords. screen freezes on a colour. does not burn a hole in the pocket. I |.B Palmer, Black lines over the hand which know of at least half a dozen people H a v a n t asks for Workbench is a fault which who have bought this program. should be looked at. Your speech It is very easy to use. I have used Expensive Amiga problem is more puzzling. If the robot W ordPerfect, and it took me at least IT seems to m e that there is a voice works then all the voices two days to read the manual. The two prevailing prejudice among should. Experiment with the SA Y programs cannot be compared. How companies which support the Amiga co m m an d from Basic. We suspect you M r Tomlins even dared mention such in terms of both hardware and will Bnd that you have mis-read the an expensive program in his review I m anual. software that if you can afford to buy an Amiga you can afford to pay the Machine code only top price for anything else you need Write to: The Editor, Am iga to build up your system. I RECENTLY bought an Amiga 500 Computing, 78-84 Ongar Road, It seem s a pity that when and want to start programming in Brentwood, Essex, CM15 9BG. Commodore lowered the price of the assembly language using Intuition. We’ll send the writer of the best Amiga the supporting companies did However I can’t find any books which letter each month a program from not follow suit. explain how to use Intuition in Peter W hitaker, our goodie drawer. assembler. I know 68000 already, so I H u ll. 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