~ Who said that there are no dealers left? Hardware Amiga A1200 HD, Amiga A4000 Cobra 33 68030 33, Mhz Cobra 33+ with 68882, Cobra 40 68EC030 40 Mhz, Cobra40+ with 68882, Ferret SCSI card for Cobra 1202 32 bit ram+ clock, 1202+ with 16 or 33 Mhz 68882, Squirrel SCSI, Surf Squirrel SCSI plus RS@232, 2 Mb PCMCIA Ram A1200/A600, Spitfire SCSI A2000/3000/4000, Rapidfire SCSI + RAM A2000, Wildfire A2000 68060+ram+SCSI F/W+network, Megachlp, 2Mb chip ram A500/A2000, Securekey Security card for A2000/3000/4000, Picasso Graphics cards, SCSI and IDE Hard drives. Accessories Green Mouse -320 DPI with pad, Hypermouse II 400 DPI with pad, Pen mouse - super small, Joysticks, from Quickshot and Rocfire, GI 105 hand- scanner with touchup 4 and OCR Jr, Colourburst colour hand scanner with ADPRO loader & OCR Jr, Master 3A 880 K External Floppy drives, Rocgen Plus genlock, Electronic Design Genlocks and TBC, Neriki Genlocks Syquest EzDrives, External SCSI Cases with A500/A600/A1200 power lead included & CD, or hard drive option, A1200 3.5 IDE Kits, Monitor adaptors, ROM Switches, Air Freight Magazines with CD. Plus Much more Available. Software Over 70 titles in stock including games, productivity, CD rom titles, and Utilities, all at competative prices. Servicing We have a fully equiped workshop, and our techs have a total of over 50 Man years of experience as technicians in the computer industry. We do repairs and upgrades including specialist work. The Complete Amiga specialist. Computa Magic Pty. Ltd. 44 Pascoe Vale Road, Moonee Ponds, Vic. 3039. Phone (03) 9326-0133 Fax (03) 9370-8352 In business and in AMIGA since 1987 • Editorial Dribble 4 • Real 3D Classic Part 2 26 Michael slowly losses his marbles, Geoff continues his tutorial on using then has to go have a nap. Real 3D classic.

• Amiga News 6 • Getting Involved 29 OuikPak are in the running for the Amiga Yes the User Groups still exist, we found SmallBiz want programmers in Australia. a few more to help you out with problems.

• Review: DraCo 8 • The Best of PD 30 Darren gets his hands on the beast More intersting PD tools to make of Video Processing and Production. Workbench lire easier again.

• Cinema 4D 12 • QuikPak 31 The German 3D design program is put QuikPak release an open letter to the through its paces. Amiga community to clarify their interests.

• Review: Clarissa 16 • A Spouses PerspeetWe 32 Grant takes Clarissa out for a night or A look at adopting a babyAmipa Into the two, and gives us his impression. family. Sharing the attention.

• AM Letters 19 • Amiga & Video 34 Our readers are writing in. Paul shows us how to use the Amiga to spruce up those home videos.

• A\BOX The text Amiga ? 22 • Amiga Class 101 36 Phases's plan to project the Amiga Darren gives our new Amiga users some into the year 2001. help on files and where to put them.

• Amiga on the NET 24 • AM Information Page 39 Michael Gruber shows us how to get All the facts about AAG and the Amiga on the net In one easy step. how to contact us. o4actaalr.an flaatga ryafette la.e47 3 Editorial Dribble

Happy new year! I hope you have computer show for a deadend hardware and software in such a had a restful time over the platform where over 3,000 people way that each complements and Christmas break and took that attended? extends the other and does not long needed holiday because limit nor hinder. 1997 is going to be a exciting year Why bid 40 million American for Amiga owners. dollars for a redundant computer What this means is that I have no system considered by many as sense of constraint in regard to Amiga will finally be owned, and just a toy? what can be achieved on my by a company with the foresight Amiga and in the manner and spirit to project the Amiga into Why develop a new operating comfortable to me. the year 2000. We will see a new system for a product that even Amiga model that will wipe the Cash Converters will not deal An example is called for: grin off any PC owner's face, a with? proliferation of User Groups here I choose not to use the standard in Australia, and a stack of ground Why do people still want games, editor that is built into my email breaking software & hardware mouses etc. for a computer made program - that's fine. My email products to blow your mind. in 1985? program is happy to pass the text to my wordprocessor of choice How can I be so confident that Finally, why can I write this (Finalwriter). But FW's spelling these events will unfold this year? editorial in Finalwriter while checker doesn't meet my needs - Well Amiga owners world wide Pagestream is waiting in the that's fine too. Finalwriter will (millions of them) have decided background with a 40 page conform to my choice of a PD they have waited long enough magazine open at page 4 and spelling check. Wait one moment. and it's time to take action. Don't have my modem connected to the I have changed my mind. I think I forget Amiga owners are a loyal internat which is downloading the will tax this email reply Instead. bunch with rebellious tendencies new demo of a pc emulator No problem. With a click of the verging on fanaticism and will not capable of running Windows95 mouse the fax is on its way. My allow the Amiga to just fade away. and change tracks on my Beatles email program will not complain If at this point you think I have lost CD using the function keys one bit. Come to think of it, I could my marbles and should be without leaving Finalwriter - all on use my email program to send committed to a padded cell a computer with only 16 meg of faxes directly. embossed with Amiga logos ram, crawling along at only 50Mhz evenly spaced 2cm apart, answer - a computer considered by many The above is not possible on an me these questions. as just a toy? IBM compatible without creating a specific program, which in itself Why has the Amiga lasted this The answer to all the above is incurs limitations. long in view that no new model simply that the designers of the has been produced for years? Amiga have managed to do the Well that's the end of my dribble. one thing that no other platform We have some interesting stuff Why waste energy promoting a has. That is, marry together this month. Please enjoy.

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"DRACO"- the word means 'The chips for the handling of an software comes on a single CD. Dragon"- but in this case it is a AMIGA style parallel port. In the Macrosystems have purchased well established AMIGA based very near future there will be an the rights to all of Elastic Reality Video Editing Suite. option to install a PowerPC based (ASDG) programs. The CD con- processor to give the DraCo the tains an '060 version of ADPro This not so little box quite literally ultimate in speed and future and MorphPlus, There is also a breathes fire, with its DraCo direct growth. copy of Xi Paint. I would really like slot it can get some awesome to test the '060 version of ADPro transfer rates between its internal The other card that uses the but there isn't enough time. cards. DraCo direct slot is the DraCo- Motion card. This is a card based The Altair video card supplied The DraCo has been around for a on their Vlab Motion card but has with the DraCo is capable of couple of years now. It is a project the major advantage of direct resolutions up to 1600x968 in 256 that was put together by the access to the hard drives and CPU. colours on . With a people at Macrosystems. the large variety of lower resolutions makers of Vlab Motion and The whole system is 99.9°%o and screen depths, including 24bit Tocatta Cards. They felt the need Workbench 3.1 compliant, modes up to 1024x768. The to have much greater transfer Macrosystems actualy have a full system ships standard with a rates between Memory, Hard Commodore licence to use the 1 2gb Quantum fireball hard drive Drives and the Video Editing card. AMIGA OS. for the Workbench partition and it As the Zorro II technology was not is recommended that it also be fast enough for the future of Desk The '060 machine ships with a used for the audio partition and a Top Video, the DraCo was born. It Quad speed CD-Rom, and 4gb Seagate Barracuda II drive is based on the current AMIGA Workbench, and all other supplied be purchased for video. technolgy, but it leaves out one important factor that the AMIGA is built upon- the Custom Chip set. Instead, the DraCo relies on Workbench 3.1 and subsequent Retargetable Graphics libraries.

The Video display for the DraCo is based on the Macrosystems n video board and is capable of run- ning the CyberGFX R.T.G. libraries.

The heart of the beast is a spe- cially designed CPU board that is completely removable. The machine can be purchased with either a Motorola 68040 at 33mhz or the superfast 68060 at 50 or very soon 66mhz. This board con- tains four Simm sockets for up to 128mb of ram onboard. It con- tains two sockets for the optional CIA's. These are AMIGA specific

8 yluatmalta.a Amen yagetter Fan97 Now to satisfy the Technophiles - is that the DraCo doubles the thereby increasing the possible some real info and statistics. clockrate on the Zorro II bus to transfer rates up to just under move data around much quicker. 10mb/sec. This speed rating is The DraCo's primary purpose is not the hard drive capablilty as to edit video in a digital non-linear External interfaces include SCSI some systems state it is the real environment. The AMIGA has Il, Serial, Serial Mouse, Parallel, working speed of all components always been ahead of the rest of Keyboard RCA Audio, Composite in the system. the world for affordable Broadcast and S-Video Connectors. Video editing, but this machine How do you use it - All video pro- goes way beyond that by giving How good is it - Broadcast quality, cessing is controlled by near real-time edits for any video compliant with CCIR 601, 4:2:2 M acrosystems proprietary soft- recorded onto the Hard disks, standards for PAL video at ware called MovieShop. The cur- especially for cuts only editing. 720x576 pixels. This is better than rent version is version 4, This BetaCam SP standard. 16 bit software has unparalleled The recommended configuration 48khz Audio (DAT Quality), functionality in the Desk Top is the Motorola 68060 at 50mhz or Selectable compression rations Video realm. It allows video to be 66 mhz. 16mb or 32mb Ram. from 50:1 upto 3:1. With the final recorded to the hard disk along Even though the whole system compression adjusted on the fly to with corresponding audio. You could run and multi-task within fit under a specified transfer rate. can select cut and paste, drag 4mb Ram- the more the merrier. The DraCo is the only system and drop methods, which bits of The Draco-Motion card also con- capable of 3:1 compression onto video you want to use and which tains a version of the Tocatta and off inexpensive hard drives. audio tracks you want to use over Audio card built in. The Altair The compression method is the top. All of this is straight for- Video card with 4mb ram and built Motion Jpeg. where every video ward cuts editing. Movieshop in Fast SCSI II controller. With at field is compressed individually. does not stop there, at any point least one 4gb Seagate Barracuda There are 50 fields a second in in time you can use any of a wide Il video drive. The system actually PAL video, 2 fields interlaced range of special effects. From works very well without the A/V make a frame. The same as simple fades between two sec- rated drives but they are so cheap AMIGA PAL interalced but be- tions of video to picture in picture, these days it is worth getting cause it is 24bit colour there is no re-scale, colourise, B&W, and film them. noticable flicker. effects. This all controlled by a time line that vertically lists the The Case contains space for six The transfer rates for the DraCo effects being applied to which 5.25' drive bays (1 used for the direct slot are 35mb/sec without designated piece of video. Each floppy drive another for the CD- any affect on CPU load, unlike the time line can have 1000 effects on Rom) and four 3.5' sideways PCI cards in good MAC and lowly it. And theoretically you can have mounted hard drives (1 used by PC edit suites. With twice the a thousand time lines on a master system drive). It also contains the transfer rate of PCI and no CPU time line. This is absolutely mind expansion backplane, which has loading, this is the only way to fly. boggling flexibility. The effects are slots for the CPU board, 3 DraCo PCI is currently being redesigned a modular system of plugins that direct slots and 5 Zorro II 'FAST' again to allow for graphics to be are constantly growing and im- slots. The reason for the Zorro II updated while transferring data off proving. The current list of effect 'FAST' slots is so the DraCo can the hard drive, but this change will is about 60 strong. Newer more use any of the standard Zorro II not be enough to allow the PCI powerful effects are appearing, cards ie: 2065 or Hydranet bus to keep up with the DraCo like the new drag and drop effect Networking cards. direct slots. which actually calls Monument Titter for special titling effects. The DraCo can actually be pur- Using the Seagate Barracuda II chased with no DraCo direct disk drives transfer speeds of cards, and be made to utilise all 6mb/sec are easily achieved. With Zorro II cards ie: VLab Motion and the optional SCSI RAID Tocatta boards. Why one would (Redundant Array of Inexpensive want to do this is not understood, Disks) module it allows two identi- but it is possible. The reason why cal drives to be addressed as one these are classified FAST Zorro II drive with interleaved data,

Auctzal6a+s >talctga farm 1a.497 9 The DraCo System Continued

The way the effects are used is to blocks, so the filesystem is proven use. It is faster than anything else drag a piece of video on to the to be 100% compatible for file on the market, it has a proven time line. You could then drag a storage. The extra CIA's are to track record and it has quality second piece of video onto the allow the Lightwave dongle to second to none. While you use time line, then grab the re-scale work so you can also run the DraCo for video work it will effect and drop it in under the lightwave modeler and rendering run most of your old software, second video piece and stretch it on the DraCo. lightwave scenes can be dropped to match the second piece. 'Voila° in, anything you already have on you have just created a picture in Other programs that work succes- tape can be dropped on and picture. As shown below, a fade fully are TV Paint, some may say reused. can be done the same way, by this program is essential. TV Paint overlapping the two pieces of is a 24bit multi layer Paint program The only other thing you really video and dropping in an effect to with real-lime 24bit updating. need to make this system work is match. Most effects are not real a very large capacity , ie time. A true cross fade may take As far as audio goes there is not 4-8gb uncompressed, as 100% 20 secs to create, which is many much that is going to work straight quality Jpegs 50 times a second times faster than linear editing. off, as the AMIGA audio quality is really use up disk space - about so good nobody has gone to great 30mins per 4gb if you are lucky. What else can you do with it - lengths to change it over the last Well it will run just about any 12 years. This means that very The guys down at Macrosystems AMIGA program that can run on a few programs allow redirection to have not been resting on their 24bit board at the moment. I have another audio source. Two that laurels either. The SCSI RAID used one that was running come to mind as workable are module is available now. In the ShapeShifter 3.7. running DOOM Octamed sound studio, which can very near future they will be Il of all things. It will also run file play most files and send releasing a PowerPC module to utility programs like the brilliant them to the Tocatta. Delitracker is replace th '060. This will run the Disk Master 2 and Directory another possiblity as it can do pOS that is currently undergoing Opus. Games will be unlikely to redirection also, and if it finds trials at ProDAD. The pOS is an work as they generally use tracker something it can't understand ie: AMIGA OS clone that runs in audio files that talk directly to the no chip ram, it struggles on the PowerPC Native mode, as well as AMIGA chip set, which just aint best it can. run on stock 680x0 processors. there. ImageFX 2.6 runs rather Evidently it will also run in parallel quickly, though at this point I When you run Workbench 3.1's with th AMIGA OS an a standard wouldn't say it was much faster Showconfig it shows all available AMIGA. than an AMIGA 060 plus memory as Chip Ram77. But Cybervision64. when you look at the work bench The advantage of this OS is that it title bar it shows 4mb video ram takes very little code changes to It can handle running MIAMI TCP which is on the video card, and get software to run in an AMIGA suite using a Maestro 28.8 the rest as fast ram. There are like environment on a PowerPC modem no problems. Using subtle differences in the 3.1 roms right now. (browse on a workbench screen and OS used on the DraCo to that is 1024x768 is just fabulous. cover up its vastly different ar- There is also a DEC Alpha It will also run the entire AMITCP chitecture. bridgoboard coming for the DraCo suite and utilise ethernet network direct slot. This will allow the DEC cards. The verdict - This machine is a Alpha to process the more time world leader in its power and consuming Video effects. I have also used the Iomega Zip functionality for the price. It has and JAZ drives on the DraCo in- an even brighter future with the cluding a Workbench 3.1 format- upcoming hardware and software. ted cartridge with 16kb block size If you are seriously into Desk Top rather than the standard 512byte Video then this is the machine to

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CINEMA 4D CINEMA 4D CINEMA 4D CINEMA 4D CINEMA 4D CINEMA 4D REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW

BY GRANT REGAN

Cinema 4D is the latest in an 4D requires 2.0 or appropriate editing view. There is extensive and impressive range of greater and has been flogged on a choice of six at the bottom half raytracing packages for our my A4000/040 @ 25mhz which of the toolbar. In the middle of the machine. In truth, Cinema 4D has has 2MB of Chip RAM and 8MB icon bank are four icons which been available in Germany, its of fast RAM. control the type of rotation and land of origin for the past two below these are three smaller years where it has acquired a THE ENVIRONMENT buttons which enable the three large and dedicated following, and Apart from Lightwave, Cinema 40 axes to be enabled or disabled in with good reason. The English is the most intuitive rendering the rotation. The top six buttons version supplied by HiSoft has package on the Amiga. Cinema allow the user to select whether been available for just under a 4D is style guide compliant. they would like to rotate or year, but only now it is available pursuing a system based on manipulate the environment, the Downunder. . Most of the important highlighted object, selected points modelling tools are to be found in of an object, the axes of an CINEMA 4D - ALL THIS AND A floating icon banks in addition to object, the highlighted texture, or SET OF STEAK KNIVES menus, allowing the user to work the axes of a texture. Lastly there Well, not quite. However, bang for with their preferred system without are four buttons which control buck, Cinema 4D is the most having to resort often to the other. magnification. parameters for the powerful, versatile, and intuitive Cinema 4D also includes display (an excellent feature package in its price range. In tact, keyboard shortcuts. which allows objects to be it is truly the only available redrawn as bounding boxes or package (at present) within its In its default setting, Cinema 4D partial wireframes thus saving price range. loads a 30 'Perspective window time during redraws), redraw, and and a floating icon bank on the the rendering options. Installation initially requires 10 MB left of the screen. This primary of Hard drive space but takes just icon bank contains the essential , The icon banks for objects, under 8 MB when installed: this is modelling environment controls. textures, and points are as quite economical when compared Three minor icon banks may be equally well laid out. In the object to other packages. Installation is launched from the 'window menu icon bank, the range of primitive straight forward and utilizes the as required. These icon banks are objects (thirteen in fact) are Standard Installer (Why use labelled, 'objects', 'textures' and extensive (although a rectangular anything else?). When running, 'points' and provide easy access cube in addition to the cube would Cinema 4D will work on a 3MB to the primary tools for, as the not go astray). There are also system, but is a happy little titles suggest, objects, textures, icons for selecting Boolean vegemite when it has 4MB or over and points. If this isn't simple operations, for creating polygons to play with. On these facts alone, enough for you there is an (axis, flower, circle, line, N-side, Cinema 4D is the most ideal optional Help bar at the top of the and star) and for polygon objects package for those with limited screen which gives a description (lathe, extrude, path, morph, and funds or limited system resources of any feature the mouse pointer skinned objects). The Special (or both). Cinema 40 can run comes to rest upon. objects button contains some very either on its own screen or on the useful features. From it the user Workbench screen: a very handy The primary icon bank presents can select a basic humanoid memory saving feature! Cinema the controls for selecting the figure ready to animate. The

~ féaatmalta.e Amin ya;etee!' fiax97 'fractal' option generates a basic material's colour, transparency. relief landscape. 'Emboss' creates Ken reflectivity, relief, specularity, a relief object from an ILBM luminosity, and shine may be brush. The 'Sun' option is a very manipulated. A texture's degree useful tool which creates realistic of refraction, whether it casts a outdoor lighting according to the shadow, and fog effect may be geographic location, time of year adjusted or selected. The and the date. This option, I feel, Materials Manager however, would be better implemented if should include for those using the location and the time of year higher resolutions or with beefier were selectable from a world map processors - an option for rather than keying co-ordinates. . . previewing textures and materials The 'Text' option allows the _...... b. . on a sphere as is found on many creation of instant 3D font objects. t other packages. Unfortunately, the user is limited to using the included Diamond Cinema 4D allows the user to Cinema4D allows the user to and Helvetica fonts as it lacks the manipulate the texture and its create complex polygon models option of extruding Postscript properties on the applied object in through contour and path fonts. A font engine known as real-time. modelling, however, Cinema4D CinemaFont is promised as a currently lacks nurbs modelling, a future expansion, as is a fractal When it comes to the employment method of creating objects by landscape generator known as of icon banks, Cinema 4D has a freehand. CinemaWorld. Apparently, these few glaring oversights. Selecting expansions will simply 'bolt on to the options within a button is RENDERING the main package through the performed by pressing the right Cinema4D provides a rendering 'Expansions' button which is also mouse button. However, selecting option which may be launched located on the object icon bank. the option to adjust default within the program or Finally, there are two buttons settings is performed by a independently if memory or speed which allow the Sky and Ground combination of holding the left are at a premium. Multitasking objects to be easily enabled or mouse button and the SHIFT key. may be disabled and screen disabled. When is comes to icon banks, use blanking enabled to accelerate of the keyboard should be the process and to conserve Chip Equally, Cinema 4D's 'texture' minimized as much as possible. RAM. Renders may be generated and 'points' icon banks allow My other gripe is that there should as wireframes, shaded displays, complete control in conjunction also be icon banks for the Tools' scanlines or full renders and with the primary icon bank, over menu which controls features Cinema4D can even render a points and textures. However, for such as 'Crumple', Duplicate', scene in the selected screen- complete control from toolbars, 'Deform' and 'Wrap' to name just ' mode and simultaneously save it a few. An icon bank should also as a 24-bit image! Cinema4D be included for the 'Materials supports all Amiga screen modes Manager' which is otherwise a as well as the leading graphic very intuitive method of applying cards and renders may also be and manipulating materials and performed to a window. During textures to an object. rendering, a progress bar is displayed and the render may be Cinema 4D employs a hierachical cancelled at any stage. With method of managing objects and regards to rendering time and their materials: a system which is quality, Cinema4D is neither the (quite sensibly) very similar to fastest or slowest of the packages Workbench. A relatively extensive and the quality of the renders are materials library is included with on par with Imagine. the package and this may be expanded through standard ILBM files. In the Materials Manager, a s9u4tucltax Amiga gagette tfaa97 13 ANIMATION FEATURES Cinema4D also includes a Moreover, there are separate Cinema4D incorporates a number number of animated effects. sections for the novice and the of animation techniques which including explosions, melt object. serious render-head. The novice allow the user to create extremely a simulated wind effect, a morph or Basics section also provides realistic and complex animations. object, a pulse effect and a comprehensive information on the Keyframe animation is where an vibrate effect. But at present processes and the theories animation is created from Cinema4D lacks complex behind modelling and ray-tracing interpolating between two or more animated particle. gas. and fog without being unnecessarily dry frames. Cinema4D allows the effects and it lacks the much used and mouldy or condescending. user to accelerate and decelerate. and abused lens flare effect Cinema4D also includes a quick and brake objects and to combine outright. May be these will appear reference card to the functions of a number of animated objects into in future upgrades. the toolbars and to the keyboard a timeline sequence (like shortcuts. Imagine). Cinema4D also AND THERE'S MORE... includes Hierarchical Animation Cinema4D comes with an ROUNDUP where sub-objects of a greater impressive stand-alone object Cinema4D is absolutely ideal for object may be given individual converter called Magiclink-Lite those who are frightened by the animation properties. As well as which not only converts objects to price, complexity, or the system Keyframe Animation, an object and from the Cinema4D format, requirements of packages such may be moved along a set Path. but additionally converts the as Lightwave or Imagine. textures, materials, and object Cinema4D is a powerful, user- Cinema4D also includes Skeletal heirarchies - seriously cool stuff! friendly and affordable package. Animation and Inverse Kinematics What's more, Magiclink IS fast where sub-objects are attached to (around 5 to 10 seconds for a Cinema4D's affordability and low their parent objects through their complex scene on my machine) requirements come at a price axes. Selected sub-objects are and converts flawlessly. Magiclink however, for it lacks some of the 'dragged' in a realistic manner easily surpasses Pixel 3D Pro impressive features of its bigger according to the set motion of the which to date is the leading object brothers. Whilst 1 wouldn't go so primary object. format conversion software on the far as to recommend that Amiga. professionals trade in their copy Textures and Materials may also of Lightwave for Cinema4D, I can be animated, creating for THE MANUAL certainly recommend it as a instance, a talking texture Cinema4D is virtually worth worthy and useful addition to mapped face or a marble vase purchasing for the manual alone. anyone's repertoire of packages. transforming into a glass vase. The Contents and the Index Cinema4D allow allows the sections are comprehensive and camera, lights and sun (and their clearly organized. The manual properties) sky, and ground to be itself is 426 pages and includes a animated. number of useful tutorials.

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No, you are not looking at the method. Therefore, an SSA Disk Operation). DDO doesn't wrong magazine: ClariSSA isn't a animation is capable of achieving require the presence of a MMU buxom bottle blonde who likes smooth playback speeds of up to (Memory Management Unit) and ping-pong, fast cars and candle-lit 50 frames per second without the allows the user to conceivably dinners, and who is really quite a requirement for additional work with animations which in shy girl at heart. hardware or brute processing terms of size far outweigh the power (although a faster available RAM of the host Now that you are over your processor always helps!). machine. disappointment I will explain. ClariSSA is an animation The capabilities of the SSA AREXX is recommended in order manipulation program which system are nothing short of to utilise ClariSSA's macros. allows the user to incorporate impressive. For example, I loaded AREXX comes standard with multiple animations (each may an ANIM5 file which was 167,804 AmigaOS version 2.0 and higher. have a different resolution and bytes and which ran at Those using 1.3 will have to palette) into a single animation. In approximately 20 frames per obtain AREXX separately (or addition, ClariSSA provides the second. Converting the 50 better still, upgrade to AmigaOS ability to move the animation frames of this ANIM file to an SSA 3.1). around the screen during animation was a simple procedure playback and to incorporate a and it took less than 7 seconds on ClariSSA was tested on my range of effects and wipes. my machine. Once converted the A4000 which has a 25mhz 040, same animation in SSA format 2MB of Chip RAM, 8MB of Fast With ProDAD's SSA system, weighed in at only 118,222 bytes RAM, and AmigaOS 3.0. ClariSSA is capable of and ran at 50 frames per second! compression rates and playback Enough said! INSTALLATION speeds which are unachievable As with Animage, (which I with the standard ANIM format. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS reviewed last month), ClariSSA What is SSA I hear you ask? Well, ProDAD claims that ClariSSA will unfortunately incorporates a non- for those of you who missed my work on a 1MB Amiga with standard installer. Even though review of Animage in Issue 1 of Kickstart 1.3 although of course this installer is simple and AAG (shame on you), here is a as with everything in the computer painless to use it is nonetheless brief rundown on SSA. industry, size DOES matter! an inferior substitute to good of Therefore, those Amigans using Commodore's standard installer SSA, or Super Smooth Animation with ClariSSA on a machine which we all know and love. is a proprietary animation equipped with Kickstart 1.3 will Please ProDAD please consider algorithm which provides the encounter a number of limitations using the standard installer. back-bone to ProDAD's range of with ClariSSA's interface albeit, products. The SSA system utilises fortunately, not enough to make it MANUAL Fast RAM if available and thus unusable. Users with one 1MB The manual is divided into two the availability of Chip RAM machines will still require a hard- sub-manuals with the first sub- resources is not a limitation on drive, not only because ClariSSA manual serving to explain the playback speed. Furthermore, the is ONLY hard-drive intallable but second! The second manual is in SSA system doesn't replay an because ClariSSA comes with animation frame by frame but in an excellent and indispensable pagel 'half-frames', rapidly 'blending' the virtual memory management C 18 ) images using an interlacing system called DDO (Dynamic

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This means the CAIPIRINHA's video DMA PowerPC operating core through development of ABOX clones engines is the fact that windows their soon-to-be-released where phase 5 simply becomes need no longer be merely PowerUP project for the current an Intel-like controller of the rectangular, but can assume Amigas. The new AmigaOs will central technology, be it the practically any outlines. Special support transparent Pentium processor or the pipelines and FIFO buffers within multiprocessing. Additionally, CAIPIRINHA. CAIPIRINHA's video DMA ensure phase 5 plan to implement a stable data throughput. The NetBSD and version in co- The IBM clone has proven itself to complex display possibilities are operation with partners. These be incapable of overcoming the controlled by an integrated operating systems will be fundamental limitations imposed display-list RISC processor transprently integrated into the by its outmoded architecture, (DLRP). primary AmigaOS. despite the incorporation of faster processors and better graphics The CAIPIRINHA has a highly An. exciting feature of this system chips. The ABOX if implemented, complex functional unit (FAME, is that the ABOX is upgradable by will offer a truly elegant system Flexible Area Movement Engine) simply replacing your older that will never be matched by the for rapidly writing into, copying CAIPIRINHA with a newer chip PC, hands down. and linking memory locations or when an upgrade becomes images, and which, in a similar available. 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A PCI-bus CD-ROM disk drive). any developments. interface for medium-performance I/O applications such as ATM and So what do you think? For years, Phase 5 may be contacted at: Ultra-SCSI, a local 16-bit DMA many pundits in the computer bus with 66.7 MHz and a industry have argued that mail@.de maximum band width of 132 M- multiprocessor custom chip [email protected] bytes/second for universal low- computer architectures such as cost applications, and an the Amiga are an obsolete integrated IEEE 1394 firewire concept. They have argued that controller for digital I/O processor speed will eventually applications, The ABOX will also overcome any limitations imposed incorporate an integrated Fast in systems such as the IBM SCSI II interface and ISDN. compatible. The ABOX represents a strong rebuff of this argument. The ABOX will initally employ the PowerPC processors of types The ABOX appears to overcome 603e and 604e at 150mhz. the two main arguments against Theoretically these can be custom chip designs. One, that operated with clock frequencies of they are more expensive to fiuetzaltaa Matta Oar-tee laa9T comEcr TO DIE ItififtotEr M "CMf" EASY STEP By MiCNA-El GRUB&ER When you hear people talk about MIAMII1A.LHA). tory. either to your RAM drive or the Internet and the Amiga you : This is the browser pro- your T: directory. It will create its always hear them say how great gram with which you'll use to view own subdirectory. the Amiga is for such an applica- Web pages (Archive: Step 1.5 In the Voyager directory tion - how, with the Amigâ s multi- VOYAGER.LHA). click on the 'Installer" icon. tasking ability, you can run all YAM: Yet Another Mailer is the 'Proceed" past the first couple of your internet software at once program you will use to send and pages then select your without a worry. receive E-Mail (Archive: INTERNET directory for the in- Well I'm not here to talk about YAM13 2.LHA). stall. that, nor will I be raving on about Step 1.0 Shop around for an ISP Step 1.6 Keep proceeding how cool the Internet is. What I (ISP: Internet Service Provider) through the install until you reach will attempt to do is get you online you like and get the following in- the 'Environment Variables" page. to the Internet in "one" easy step formation; Deselect all the check boxes then so you can explore the Internet for 1) Ensure they have PPP (Point to continue. Voyager has now in- yourself. Point Protocol) access. This is stalled itself in its own sub- Before we start I'm assuming that what we'll be using. directory in your INTERNET direc- you can do the following; 2) Their phone number! tory. 1) You can create directories 4) Your login name (or tell them Step 1.7 Now load Voyager and 2) You can used LHArc to un- what you want it as). select 'Network" from the archive programs. 5) Your password. 'Settings" menu. 3) You've seen and used the 6) Your Email address. Step 1.8 On the 'Proxies" page standard Amiga Installer program. 7) Their Web address. click the 'Use" box on if your IP The system requirements for this 8) Ask whether they use proxy ad- server uses proxy addresses. If activity will be an Amiga (of dresses or not. If so, you will need so, you will need to fill in the course) with Workbench 3.0 or to note the address and port address and port fields with what higher and two or more numbers for; HTTP, FTP, Gopher your IP server gave you. If they megabytes of ram and a hard and WAIS. do not use proxy addresses then drive. Step 1.1 We'll install all the soft- don't activate the 'Use" box. There are four pieces of software ware into one directory, so make a Voyager is now setup to use. Your that we'll install on the Amiga directory called INTERNET on settings will be saved when you which will give you the needed your hard drive. quit Voyager. tools to use the Internet. These Step 1.2 Extract the MUI archive Step 1.9 Now extract the YAM will take up about four megabytes into a 'temporary" directory, either archive into a 'temporary" direc- of space on your hard drive. to your RAM drive or your tory, either to your RAM drive or MUI: Magic User Interface. This is INTERNET directory. It will create your T: directory. It will create its a system enhancement software its own sub-directory. own subdirectory. package which the TCP/IP and Step 1.3 In the MUI directory click Step 1.10 In the YAM directory browser program will want run- on the 'Install-MUI" icon. This will dick on the 'Install" icon. Then in ning in the background. We install all the MUI files to a MUI the Install directory click on the require version 3.3 or greater. (Do sub-directory in the SYS: direc- 'English" icon. Again proceed not use version 3.5 as it has many tory. Once the install has com- past the first few pages then bugs,) We'll use version 3.6 pleted you can delete the files un- select your INTERNET directory (Archive: MUI36USR.LHA). archived to the temporary direc- to install YAM in. The rest of the Miami: This is the TCP/IP pro- tory. install is pretty straight forward gram that will be used to connect Step 1.4 Next extract the Voyager (believe me), just click 'proceed" you to the Internet (Archive: archive into a 'temporary" direc- until the end.

2.4 vlaataattaa rl.xtga C'ja;ette tfa«97 Step 1.11 Now load YAM and connect, off and you have to enter `Location" field and enter "http://' select 'Configurations" from the them yourself. Some servers then your Web location. 'Settings" menu. won't work with this on. For example,'http://www.cucu Step 1.12 On the 'Start" page Step 1.20 The next page is the g.org/amiga.html" will take you to enter your name, Email address 'dial window". When you get to the Amiga Web Directory web and password in the fields this page turn your modem on as page. provided. In the 'POP3 server Miami!nit will now dial-up your ISP Step 1.27 Once you get your field enter your IP servers Web and attempt to connect to it. When browser running you might want address without the 'www" at the you're ready click the 'Dial" to try out your mailer. All you do beginning. button. here is go into the YAM directory Step 1.13 Then select the Step 1.21 The first time Miami will and click on the 'YAM" icon. YAM 'receive" page and enter your get you to enter your userid and will load and start checking for user name in the 'POP3 Userld" password. It will then setup some mail periodically at the interval field. Click on all the check boxes parameters. Then ask you to you had set earlier. except 'Avoid duplicates". The enter your real name into the field Step 1.28 Now you should be 'Check for mail" sets how often provided. online and surfing the net. Please YAM will go and check for mail, Step 1.21 If you want a hard copy note that the unregistered copy of the interval is up to you. of all the settings then ensure the Miami that we are working with Step 1.14 Now select the 'Send" Print Information Sheet" check times out after an hour and will page and in the 'SMTP server" box is active, otherwise switch it log you off. Of course the full ver- field enter your IP's Web address, off. Press "continue" and the sion will fix this, but this may help again without the 'www" at the Miami installation is complete. those of you who wish to control front. This will get your mailer pro- Step 1.22 Everything should be their use of the net - it up to you. gram up and running. The other configured, now to use it! Step 1.29 I said at the beginning options can be tried out later to Step 1.23 Go into your Miami that the Amiga could run all your customise the program to your directory and click on the "Miami" programs at once, true, but only if tastes. icon to load it. you have enough memory. Step 1.15 Now create a subdirec- Step 1.24 When the Miami screen Memory problems can be reduced tory in your INTERNET directory pops up in the middle of your by turning off all your commodities called MIAMI and unarchive the Workbench screen click the and just running Miami and Miami archive into it, 'Online" button. This will have Voyager or Miami and YAM, you Step 1.16 In the Miami directory Miami log onto your ISP and es- get the idea. click on the "Miamilnit" icon. Read tablish a connection. Step 1.30 Once you have this all the text on each page as you pro- Step 1.25 Once Miami displays running smoothly I really do sug- ceed through the install. Click 'online" in its window you can load gest you read the guides and 'Continue" until you reach the your browser. Go into the Voyager docs provided as they will 'init string" page. From this page directory and click on the 'V' icon describe the software in more you can select your modem (if it is for non accelerated machines or detail and provide ideas on how to in the list) or use the default the 'V020" icon for Amigas further customise them. Anyway generic settings provided. powered by 68020 processors or have fun! Step 1.17 The next page of Miami greater. (Well technically it was 'ONE" will ask you to enter the ISP's Step 1.26 Once Voyager has step!) phone number. Please do so in loaded there are two thingsyou the box provided (no spaces and can do; Michael Gruber area code if required). 1) Click one of the 'Fastlink" [email protected] Step 1.18 Now select 'Dynamic" buttons. They are preset Web http://www.dot.net.au/-michaelg as your IP address type and page locations you can try out 'PPP' as the Protocol. (Voyager allows you to change Step 1.19 Next enter in your login these from the 'Links" page in name and your password in the 'GUI" from the 'Settings" menu). boxes provided. The 'Use login 2) Select your own Web page dialog" check box toggles on/off location (maybe one you've heard the login script. If on, then your about). It's recommended you go userid and password will be auto- to your ISP's own Web page first. matically entered in when you To enter a location in, select the

4reataaltua tFncGga gayette /fak97 25 aliCitVIREMIG e REM:3 CIL i MSIIC by Geoff Milnes

REAL 3D TUTORIAL ANIMATION window and make sure that 'root' animation to cover all 50 frames is selected (highlighted). With so again these can be left alone. This month I thought wed look at RMB access the 'PROJECT All that remains is to OK the the animation of objects, /ANIMATION/SIZE' menu and requester, wait a few seconds (the observers and aim points. release the mouse button. You will mouse pointer will change until be presented with a requester - Real 3D has completed its action) Almost ALL objects with Real 3D enter 50 - and then OK. This and the animation is complete. can be animated but we will start obviously gives us 50 frames of with the simplest version by just animation to work with. Go to the WIREFRAME screen rotating some objects. and when the drawing appears, IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE- PANIC! click PLAY and watch as you go Start by creating an object and around the objects or the objects calling it 'Floor' or some such as Mistakes are easily made but also appear to spin in space. If you this will be a base. Inside the easily dealt with. Should you need wish, you can go to the RENDER 'Floor' object directory LMB click to change any move in an screen and set up a render of the on the rectangle icon in the Tool animation, it is possible to 'un- all the frames. Bar and draw a rectangle that animate'. Simply select almost fills this Top View Window. 'PROJECTS/ANIMATION/DE- When you first enter the RENDER EXPOSE and when the requester screen, it will still be set up for Using the LMB in the bar at the appears, type in the number of single frame so if you wish you top of the 'Selection Window' go frames the animation consists of can test render any single frame back to the 'root' directory and (in our case - 50) and click OK. by selecting the frame number create another object called This will return the animation to using the arrows at the top of the 'Objects' and within this directory, 50 STATIC frames. If your screen and clicking on render. create several actual objects to sit animation is complex involving on the 'rectangle' (prisms, cubes, different movements for different Once you are happy with the test pyramids etc.). bearing in mind objects, select the object to have renders, you need to give Real 3D that the more objects you create, its animation removed and follow a path to save the pictures to - the slower the rendering time will the above. This will just remove unfortunately there are no be. The idea of creating SHAPED the movement attached to the accessible requesters and the objects rather than, say spheres, selected object. path has to be typed in by the is that rotating around a sphere is side of 'NAME' where it currently virtually like standing still - you Just as an aside, for those new to says 'root'. You also need to can't see much movement unless any form of animation, an name the actual animation within it has a sharply defined texture animation is a series of still the path so let's assume you wish mapped to it. In this particular pictures played back at up to 25 to call this 'RotateAnim' and wish animation we will stick to 'Fast frames per second to give the to save it to a drawer called 'Test' Rendered' screens so that you illusion of movement and this is on your 'Work' partition, type in can see the results fairly quickly. what we are about to create 'Work:test/ RotateAnim' and press That way, you can appreciate the return. techniques involved without Having done that, RMB access having to wait for days! 'PROJECT/ANIMATION/ROTATION' A word about the way in which and release which brings up a ReaI3D saves Animations is in On the assumption that you have different requester asking three order here, I think, as it doesn't created your floor with several questions. As we wish to travel all save in any animation format but objects sitting upon it, go back to the way around the objects, leave as individual pictures to be turned the 'root' directory in the 'Select' the first as 360° - we also wish the later into an ANIM5 or whatever.

26 Aaatmaltaa vFextga 9ayette tfaK97 A utility is included with the used in Real 3D's render screen the objects back to their original software to do this so don't worry but with '5' at the end of it - this positions which will be static. about having to load individual shows me it is an animation rather Make sure you are on the first pics into DPaint. Real 3D will also that a pic. frame in the editor (on the top bar add a suffix frame number to the right hand side there are reverse name (e.g. 'RotateAnim01') to The next set of text asks for the and forward arrows with a number each frame it saves so you are path of the pictures and again it is in-between - this number is the aware how many frames you to type in and if we take the same current frame) and in the Select have generated and whether the parameters as before this is: Window move back to the root process has actually completed. 'Work:Test/RotateAnim'. DON'T directory. Select the 'curve' icon This is useful for other reasons type in the frame number. (Toolbar at the bottom right, third as, at times my animations are left row up, first left) LMB click near at least overnight to complete and Finally, we have to enter the the outside of the Top View should there have been a power frame or picture numbers that window and start drawing an glitch, the machine will have re- were added by Real 3D when it irregular line near the edges of booted leaving only part of the saved each individual picture. the window. When you are very project completed. It is possible to Please note that these START at close to the original start point of re-start the animation from the Zero and finish at 49 for a 50 your line, RMB click to end the render screen part way through frame animation. The first drawing process. This is the path rather than having to start from requester is for the FIRST INDEX your observer (camera) will follow scratch. so enter Zero - Click OK - next is during the animation. We will call the LAST INDEX and enter 49. this a circle (rename it if you The last thing to do is turn off the wish). 'SINGLE' button and click 'RENDER. The software will load in each individual picture, add them all If the circle is too high or low in DELTACONVERT together and complete the ANIM5. the Front View window, move it This is the software which will until it is approximately at the convert your pics into animations NOTE - WHEN YOU REACH THE END centre-line of the objects in the and is accessed from WB by OF THE COMPILATION TO ANIMS, THE window. Make sure the 'circle' is double-clicking. This produces a REQUESTER DISPLAYS TWO BUTTONS selected in the 'Select Window' window on your WB asking for the AT THE BOTTOM WHICH ARE 'OK' AND and RMB in the menu bar, select Conversion Mode. If you wish to 'ALL DONE. CLICK ON 'ALL DONE' AS 'FREEFORM/ POINTEDITING/SHOW use your animation in say, DPaint CLICKING ON THE' OK' BUTTON WILL POINTS'. When you release the or Scala then ANIM5 is the one to START THE PROCESS ALL OVER mouse button, black dots will select (the others, although AGAIN. appear on the circle in all the view extremely good are NOT useable windows. Lets try a simple move outside special players). The text Now you will be able to find your to give you a idea and then you in the window is replaced and you animation and in the above can play to your hearts content. are asked for the SAVE PATH - example it would be'Work:Test2/ again there are no requesters to RotateAnim5' and can be loaded RMB on 'FREEFORM/POINT help you select the path so I'm into say, DPaint or Scala to be EDITING/SELECT NEW' and afraid it is again a case of typing displayed. release. In the Top View window, in the FULL save path. I would LMB drag a box around a couple suggest here that a different Rotation in animation is simple - of the black dots nearest to the drawer be used for saving to keep you just click on the rotation point bottom of the screen - the it separate from your pics - if you and away it goes. But what about selected dots will change to green have 180 pics from Real 3D in a rotating in a pattern OTHER than while the rest will remain black. drawer it can be most frustrating a circle - what then? This is Activate the Front View window finding your ANIM5 file in the slightly more difficult to do AND a (Top left) by LMB clicking in it; amongst them. So, if your drawer damn sight more difficult to pressing the 'M' key will now allow is called 'Test2' and your partition explain clearly. you to ONLY move THE POINTS is 'Work' then that path to type in selected to wherever you require is: ' Work:Test2/RotateAnim5' Use the same objects you used but for now, just move them about previously and select'PROJECTS/ half an inch upwards from their I usually use the same name as I ANIMATION/DE-EXPOSE' to set current position. When you LMB t4aataa66a.c v4Nccga gagette fa.s97 27 click again, the points will be set this, press the 'O' key (NOT Once you are happy with the where and the line of the circle ZERO) and this will reset the Wireframe animation, go to the will follow the point in a sharp, screen display. Render Screen and render the upwards line and back down whole animation. Although there again. Now, with the Observer still are a diverse range of features selected, select 'PROJECT/ involved when animating in Real IMPORTANT - SELECT RMB ANIMATION/ ORBIT' which 3D, the procedure outlined here is 'FREEFORM/POINT EDITING/ DE- produces the words 'define orbit' capable of producing some quite SELECT ALL' AS, WHILST POINTS in the menu bar. Press the SHIFT professional looking frames ARE SELECTED, ALL and "' keys (the number '6' key capable of being transferred to OPERATIONS WILL BE CARRIED on the QWERTY keyboard) which video tape. OUT IN RELATION TO THE POINTS changes the wording on the menu AND NOT THE DESIRED OBJECT. bar to 'select object for point Individual objects can be rotated definition'. LMB click on the 'circle' around their centre of gravity quite To actually animate following this in the Select window if you have easily by selecting the object to circle, we need to create an renamed it or 'curve' if you be worked on, select 'ROTATION' Observer (camera) and attach it haven't. The Select window will from the animation menu and to the circle. Make sure you are have changed into a type of click on the centre of the object in still in the' root' directory and LMB requester and once you highlight question. click on the icon with 'obs' in it. In the 'circle' or 'curve', click OK and the Top View window, LMB click a further requester appears in one Several other operations can also on the circle itself. This places the of the View Windows giving you be brought to bear on certain Observer on the outline of the the opportunity to alter the animation procedures like Macros circle. Checking the other view number of frames over which the which could be covered in a future windows will probably show you animation will take place. Make tutorial. Please contact me that although the observer is over sure, in this instance, that it reads through AAG if you would like the circle line in the Top View. it is FROM FRAME 0 TO FRAME 49 further tutorials. If there is way out in the others. Press the and click OK. sufficient interest, operations such 'M' key and move the Observer as Boolean, short-cuts for adding over the circle line in the Front After a few seconds, Real 3D will backgrounds to animations, View and Side View windows have completed the animation lighting and so on could be wherever necessary. and by pressing 'SHIFT' and 'P' covered. you can watch the animation play. To ensure that the Observer is Go to the Wireframe Screen and For now, though, I have to directly above the line, press the click the PLAY button to make immerse myself in MIDI for a SHIFT and COMMA keys with the sure your distances from the demo at our local club meeting, Observer selected in the Select objects are acceptable and you so whilst I am bashing my ears Window. This zooms in on the (the Observer) are not too close. into Submission with all manner of selected object, which is in this If you are, return to the Editor, musical instruments, take care case the Observer. If you have select 'PROJECTS/ANIMATION/DE- and above all - HAVE FUN! positioned it closely to the circle in EXPOSE', set the requester to 50 the first place, you should see an and click OK to set your frames Geoff Milnes object similar to /11 in the centre of back to static. Now select the Top the windows with another line View window and press the '-' key Our Thanks to Geoff & close to it. The /l\ object on the numeric pad to zoom out a "Third Dimension Disk Mag" represents the Observer and the few steps, select the 'circle' or for allowing us to reproduce other line is the circle. If you cant 'curve', select 'HIERARCHY/ this article. see the circle, press the MINUS STRETCH' from the menu (or key on the numeric pad to zoom press 'G' on the keyboard) and re- out slowly until you can see it (or size the circle larger. When you RMB menu 'SETTINGS/DISPLAY/ZOOM are happy, LMB click to set it's OUT) . With a series of 'M' moves size, re-position the Observer on you will be able to position the the 'circle' and re-do the observer with its pointed top animation as shown in the above touching the line. Having done paragraph.

28 rlaemtaal6aa flaetga gasette faa97 Oam'f IQ I 1 We at MG understand the important role Tuggerah Lakes Computer User Group Inc. User Groups play in the Amiga community. Location: Berkeley Vale Public School To continue this support we want to ensure all Frequency: 1st and 3rd Thursday of month 7:00pm Amiga users are aware of their location. Membership: $7 (Joining), $18 (Annual) Below is small list of groups we have contacted. Contact: Darrell Keirnan (President) If there are any groups we have missed Phone: 043 32 1087 Fax: 043 32 1087 (believe us, there are a few) please contact Snail Mail: PO Box 659, Toukley 2263 AAG so we can include you in this list. Western District Amiga User Group New South Wales Location: Suite 19 9-11 Abel St Penrith NSW 2750 Frequency: Every 2nd Thursday 6:30pm till late Amiga Creative Enthusiasts Membership: Free Location: Illawarrah Yacht Club Contact: Michael Gruber (Vice President) Frequency: 4th Wednesday of each month Phone: 019 651 284 Fax: (047) 215 277 Contact: Brian Gale (Secretary) Email: [email protected] Phone: 042 752 493 Home Page: www.pnc.com.au/-mother/amigauserhiml Snail Mail: 16 Cowper St, Port Kembla 2505 Snail Mail:Suite 19 9-11 Abel St. Penrith NSW, 2750

Amiga User Group Location: Rodin Library Victoria Frequency: 3rd Thursday of each month 8:00pm Contact: Steve Kennedy (Vice President) North West Amiga User Group Phone: 06 254 6711 Location: Moonee Ponds Community Centre Snail Mail: PO Box 409, Curtin 2605 Frequency: 1st & 3rd Wednesday of month 8:00pm Membership: $25 East Coast Amiga Inc. Contact: Gregory Thomas Contact: Neil Scott (President) Phone: (03) 9337-8788 Phone: 04388 2339 Email: [email protected] Contact: John (Secretary) Snail Mail: 19 Mary St Essendon Victoria 3040 Phone: 043 67 7386 Snail Mail: PO Box 344, Gosford 2250

Muswellbrook Combined Computer Group Queensland Location: Red Cross Hall Frequency: 2nd Saturday of each month 7:30pm Bundaberg Commodore & Amiga Computer Users Group Membership: $5 joining fee, then $10 annual renewal Location: 14 Miles St Bundaberg 4670 Contact: Wanye Millerd (President) Frequency: 1st Sunday of month 12:30pm - 4:30pm Phone: 065 41 1024 Membership: $24 (Annual) $1 attendance Snail Mail: PO Box 648, Muswellbrook 2333 Contact: Mr R Attwood Phone: 071 529 215 Southern Sydney Commodore User Group Email: [email protected] Snail Mail: 14 Miles St, Bundaberg 4670 Location. Smut Hat CornelyS, Perslu (Behndthe RSL) Frequency: Every 2nd Monday 8:00pm Membership: $20 (Annual) Any inquiries or feedback can be posted to Michael Gruber at Australian Amiga Gazette my Email Contact: Steve Perry (President) Phone: 02 528 6117 address is: [email protected] Snail Mail: PO Box 217, Beverly Hills 2209 fluceuelta+c Armen 9a8ette fia.c97 Z9 THE BEST OF PUBLIC DOMAIN THE BEST . OF IS DEDICATED TO PROMOTING EXCEPTIONAL PUBLIC DOMAIN AND SHAREWARE PROGRAMS.

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all the matching results in a Once the destination icon is FindFile window which details where the dragged and dropped into the FindFile is a particularly useful file was found. A search can be destination window the icon is file/directory search program. I aborted at any time by pressing copied. Unlike other similar find this type of utility particularly the stop search button. utilities. if you make a mistake useful for those people who have there is the all important undo a lot of files and can't always Overall I found FindFile to be a option in the file menu. Although remember where they put those useful program that is easy to not big on the features list, I files. FindFile will install onto install and use and the large found IconCopy to be a very your hard disk with a minimal of range of options that are useful utility which can be used to effort using the standard Amiga available make the program a copy icons quickly and easily. installer. The program is fully better choice than all of the other Simply Drag the destination icon functioning and does not contain file/directory utilities. FindFile will into the right window and it will be any annoying message or ensure that all your misplaced copied. requesters saying that a function files or directories can be found Programmed by: Tino Wildenhain is not available. Included with the with minimal fuss. Available From: Public Domain program is a well documented System Requirements: OS 2.0 or higher AmigaGuide file which lists an Programmed by: John Corigliano introduction and instructions on Available From: Public Domain how to use some of the features System Requirements: MUI + of FindFile. What makes FindFile OS 2.0 or higher. Etonian 3 better than other file/directory Iconian 3 is a fully featured icon search programs is its detail and editor which was designed to excellent environment that IconCopy utilize every OS 3.0 makes it easy to use. By using IconCopy is a simple utility used enhancement. Iconian is fully FindFile you can specify your to change Icons without changing operational and can be installed search string, along with a range their tooltypes and positions. onto you hard drive quicidy and of conditions such as Name, Installing IconCopy is quick and is easily by executing the standard Date, or Size. There Is a as easy as dragging the Amiga install script. Iconian is advanced option which lets you IconCopy icon to the destination quite a large program so I wasn't perform the search using any or of your choice. IconCopy comes surprised to find a equally large all of the three search conditions with an AmigaGuide file which Amiga.Guide file, which is very available along with some more details the use and functions of well documented and available at specific conditions which let you the program. Personally I found all times when using Iconian by perform the search that matches this not to be required because pressing the help key. all or any of the conditions. IconCopy is very simple to use FindFile lets you choose where and required little explanation When I first started using Iconian you wish to perform the search through the use of an Amiga I immediately noticed its vast which can be either by drive, Guide file. IconCopy uses a range of features. Everything window which is split up in two partition, directory or file. Once from drawing tools to arrex is sections, one for dropping the FindFile begins to look fur a available, along with a vast range source icon into and the other to matching search string it will list of functions from scaling to brush drop the destination icon into. effects. One Such feature of

30 ylrce.taat[a.c oFNctpa ÿayette faa47 Iconian that I found to be friendly sketch program. Iconian 3 Iconian's vast range of features interesting was the ability of save has support for Image structures, and ease of use would have to your icons as in both planar and chunky format make it the best icon editor either C, , or ASM. This and can also be used to design available for the Amiga, and a would be a bonus to those out mouse pointer images, brushes product that is of commercial there who like to program using and thumbnails. With Iconian 3 it standard. any of these languages. is possible to specify the icon format being (Disk, Drawer, Tool, Programmed by: Chad Randall Iconian 3 is not limited to Project, Trashcan, Device, Kick or Available From: Public Domain designing and editing icons. With Application), size, and System Requirements: OS 3.0 an extensive set of drawing tools, appearance. One excellent or higher plus the ability to import and feature of Iconian, which is not export many file formats, it is also normally found in other programs, ideal for designing other small, is the customizable work image related things, and ideally environment. could be used as a Workbench Overall I'd have to say that

Open Letter To The Amiga Community From QuikPak

The past few years have not been computers and we have been forefront in innovation. We kind to the Amiga Community. shipping the 060 Accelerator for believe that working closely with Since the demise of Commodore, the A4000T. We believe this developers, other manufacturers, the ownership and future of the product development clearly distributors, and dealers is Amiga has been continually demonstrates our commitment to necessary to make the Amiga a uncertain. The only thing that has the Amiga. success. And, perhaps most remained constant is the loyalty of importantly of all, we believe in Amiga users. It is with respect to It now appears evident that listening to you, the person who this loyalty that we feel it negotiations between VisCorp and has kept this platform alive. necessary to let YOU know the Amiga Technologies have reached current state of affairs and what a standstill. As a creditor of We hope that the new year will QuikPak is doing to see that the Amiga Technologies, QuikPak has allow us to bring you good news, Amiga has the successful future it a vested interest in seeing the that QuikPak will be successful in so deserves future of the Amiga handled our negotiations with the German properly. To this end, QuikPak liquidator. We trust that the Back when Amiga Technologies has placed an offer in front of the liquidator will move quickly, and was owned by Escom, QuikPak German liquidator for Amiga justly, to see these events was selected to manufacture the Technologies, and we are through. We encourage any and complete A4000T and awaiting further information all input from the Amiga components for the A1200. regarding this. Community - let us know what During the collapse of Escom and you want to see. And, finally, we the subsequent negotiations with What does this mean to you, the encourage those responsible for VisCorp, QuikPak continued end user? QuikPak believes that handling the Amiga Technologies' manufacturing and servicing there is more to the Amiga than a assets to be as open as we at Amiga Computers. Throughout simple set top box. We believe QuikPak are striving to be. this time of uncertainty, QuikPak that the A4000 and its successors continued to support the platform, have a place in the market. We Sincerely, placing ads in the North American believe that a model along the Dave Ziembicki publication Amazing Computing, lines of the A1200 also can play C.E.O QuikPak Corporation • forging alliances with Amiga an important role in the future of developers and supporters, and the Amiga. We further believe Contact:Dan Robinson developing new products of our that products currently under Director of Business Development own. Recently, at AmigaFest in development at QuikPak can of Amiga Computers QuikPak Toronto, we unveiled two new bring the Amiga back to the Corporation. r¢rcat'cattauc flmen Cjapette arc97 31 A Spouse'sesy erspective

It was bound to happen sooner or supposed to know about Ladies, shall we use the internet later. My spouse's souped-up everything, I explained that the for our own frustrations? I think, beloved A4000 is having a baby. target market for such childrens' YES. We could chat, send email, We have adopted a cute little games are boys, so most of the check gossip, and compare notes A600 to complement the A4000 heroes in games are males. such as: does your husband do work horse. Parents of little (and big) girls the dishes?, pick up his socks?, should note this and, if necessary, have domestic blindness?, will To be absolutely honest, dear complain. Barbie the bimbo has letting the children watch the readers, last month this very some games out on the PC Simpsons or The Nanny harm column was typed up using an old platform and no doubt our little their sensibilities?, does Hillary half dismantled 486 PC with one (she's a real girl) would love Clinton love her husband?, which windoz (you read correctly) it. However, at present she is brand of clothes detergent really looming in the background. What content with the fairly gender is the best and will anyone notice a pain! Even as a self confessed neutral pre-school games such as if you use it? These questions computer know-nothing Noddy, Fun School, and the like. can be zipped around the world at (ignorance is bliss) like myself, I lightening speed with the sure must say windoz seems silly and So the question begs to be asked. knowledge that men will neither paternalistic. Anyway, with that Are computers in general (games. know or care about such matters. bit of guilt off my chest, you may the internet, business software) now understand why we now gender neutral? Well, from my need another computer (Amiga of point of view - not yet. My spouse course) - hence our A600 is always showing me things on adoptee. his beloved Amiga which I find about as interesting as an ad. for 'How cute", our elder child a bar of soap which contains one- remarked, "can I play my games quarter moisturiser; and the often r, on it?". 'Yes", I replied cautiously, colourful language used on the 'it is also for mummy and daddy Internet is of kaleidascopic to send faxes", I quickly added. proportions! The last drop in chat It's like posting letters, but only my husband and I had on the through the computer", I Internet featured some idiot fellow explained. Number one child who wanted to have sex with the seemed suitably unimpressed. Pope! I dare say few women would find this funny. Although I letters to No wow or gee wiz from this do have a theory - the more a Please address "Dear Dianna" generation I tell you. Just man talks about sex, the less (if Gazette questions like, 'where's the any) he is getting. So using the C/O Australian Amiga Abel Street mouse mat gone?", or, Why is Internet or BBS's is often a way Stile 19, 9.11 the character in the game always for a man to vent frustration. Penrith NSW 2750 a boy?". Why, indeed? Of course, as a mother who is

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So you've got yourself an AMIGA put inside the AMIGA for the sole By far the most common desktop and you want to spruce up those purpose of giving the AMIGA the video application has to be video- home video movies you've made. ability to work in conjunction with titling. Although most camcorder Well you've certainly come to the professional video equipment manufacturers produce dedicated right place because over the next hardware-based character few months we will show you how Developers of video hardware for generators (some camcorders to put zip and pizazz into those the AMIGA have been quick to even have them built in), you boring tapes. take advantage of the AMIGA's would have to pay a lot of money unique capabilities. They have in- for a character generator which The AMIGA and VIDEO are per- vented a whole range of video came close to the sort capabilities fect partners. With an AMIGA, it is tools such as Genlocks, Digitisers, that the AMIGA delivers. Most possible to connect it with a and Editors (which I will describe character generators are limited V.C.R. and output to tape the con- in later issues). From this, a new to rather chunky monochrome text tents of the monitor screen to tape term has arisen- DESK-TOP- with just a single font on offer. A (The A500 and A4000 require a VIDEO, (D.T.V.). and it was the video titling program running on modulator or similar device how- AMIGA which inaugurated this your AMIGA allows you to gener- ever). revolution. ate and place text onto the tele- vision screen with multiple colours In recent years, other platforms Many films, music videos, tele- and fonts, and (thanks to the have since acquired certain vision commercials and programs AMIGA's animation capabilities) capabilities to output to VIDEO, have been created with the aid of allows you have the text fly onto yet the AMIGA still reigns the AMIGA (Babylon5, SeaQuest, the screen from different direc- supreme as the choice for the Jurassic Park, Batman- the list is tions and perform different effects. home video producer on a tight long). Video titling packages come in a budget. Why the AMIGA when variety of flavours from the other machines such as the Although computer technology SCALA series to ADORAGE, and the PC can offer changes rapidly these days, MONUMENT TITLER, ANIMAGE the similar output capabilities? anyone with a fairly basic AMIGA, and XDVE. Some of these pro- The AMIGA provides a unique a camcorder, and a second VCR grams not only handle text, but custom chipset which continues to can get involved in the D.T.V also let you create animations, set it apart. One chip in particular, world, While most applications perform functions through Arexx known as Denise in ECS are limited by capabilities of the scripts and even include audio machines or Lisa in the AGA machine they are running on, tracks into the production. A1200 and A4000 gives the there is no reason why you can't AMIGA the capability to directly create anything from a fully titled The introduction of outline font synchronise with an external Wedding Video to your own car- support into the AMIGA'S operat- video source. These chips were toon series on a basic AMIGA. ing system has significantly

34 rféuctaal6an Amen Cfagettc /4497 advanced the AMIGA's video bundled with every Amiga 1200 in video, you will need a screen- titling capabilities. Now that out- and 4000 sold. Scala is now grabber. Fortunately these are line fonts can be used, it is possi- available on the PC and the Mac, available from any good P.D. ble to expand and shrink text to but are in many respects inferior library or the Aminet. any size with no loss in quality. to the AMIGA version as these Combine this with the AMIGA'S machines lack bit-plane screen- That about raps it up for this SuperHiRes mode and you've got modes. month. Next month we will look at what amounts to the perfect video ways of hooking up your AMIGA titling machine. Pagestream is a desk-top publish- to a VIDEO source. ing program which although not Scala, the most renowned titling designed for video production can See you soon, program for the AMIGA offers the be very useful for titling. Thanks Paul video director an extraordinary to PageStream's use of outline number of screen transitions and fonts, text remains smooth and All the best for the new year. effects. Currently, Scala is up to without the jagged edges, no version MM400, although the matter how much you twist and penultimate version, MM300 is distort the text. But to use the text

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Hi There. second volume is normally called use drawers. What are Drawers? I will be taking over from Igor this Work. This is where you should be They are simply places put files - month as he is on holidays. What storing your personal files. Those the same as a filing cabinet. we are going to work on this people who use floppy disks may Drawers have to be created month is files and where to put want to run the format program before they can be used. We will them. and format an unused floppy disk create some Drawers now. On the and call it Work. If you have a Workbench.screen you will see an VOLUMES hard drive in your computer do not Icon called Work, Double click on What is a Volume? As discussed call the floppy disk Work as all of this Icon, and if you have done in last months issue we were your files on the hard drive called this right a small window will open working with the Workbench disk Work will be hidden away until you up with the name Work in the top and a blank disk that we format- remove the floppy disk called left hand corner near a little ted with a name. These are both Work. If you have a hard drive but square button. This is your vol- separate volumes. For people want to do this test on a [hippy ume called Work. Inside it most of with hard drives, their Workbench disk call it Work1. Once you have the time is a little Icon called volume will be part of the hard a Work volume in your Amiga, Trashcan - ignore this for the mo- drive that is installed internally. A either as the internal hard drive or ment. If there are any other Icons Volume is just another name for a your newly formatted floppy disk, there already they may be pro- formatted disk; either a floppy disk it will show up on the Workbench grams that have been installed or or hard disk. So why don't we call screen as an Icon with the name work you have done previously. them disks? Well technically a underneath as Work. We will avoid these for the mo- disk can be broken down into ment. Now that you have the little many volumes each with different DRAWERS window open, move your mouse names and different files stored Now that we have a work volume to the top of the screen and hold on them. With a floppy disk this is what do we do with it? Well we down the RMB (Right Mouse impractical so you end up using could put files straight on to it one Button). A bar appears at the top the entire disk as one volume, after the other, but what file of the screen with four names called EMPTY or whatever name names are we going to use and across it Workbench - Windows - you used when you formatted it. what is going to tell us what the Icons - Tools. If you move your With a standard formatted hard files are for? The Amiga will help mouse pointer so that it sits drive you will find it divided into us out with some of this by storing somewhere on the word Window two volumes - one called an icon with each file, that most of a menu will drop down. The first Workbench which actually con- the time will show us where we tains copies of all of your original created the file. There is a way to separate workbench disks. The make things easier, and that is to

36 .rluataalcaK o4actga rya;ette Pang item on this menu is called New Drawer with a little Amiga A and WORK the letter N after it. Move your mouse down one line so that the item New Drawer is selected and Personal Business release the RMB. A very small window should appear in the top I I I left hand corner of the work bench Letters Letters Memos screen, called Rename. This means the Amiga has created a fo two things: you can have as drawer called Business we can Drawer for you and it wants you to many drawers as you like in your create a drawer called Letters as rename it to something you will Volume and you can have multiple well. This Drawer will only contain remember. The name it used is drawers inside drawers. Now we the letters that were written for the 'Unnamedl" which is not really start to get a little tricky. We will business and none of the letters useful. There should be a little repeat the process above, but first written for personal use will ap- square cursor sitting at the end of double click on the drawer called pear here because they appear the word Unnamed in the box for Personal, then use the mouse to only in the Personal filing cabinet New Name. If not, move your select the New Drawer from the or Drawer. Which ever window is mouse pointer to the end of the Menu bar. Or if you are feeling like highlighted before you select word Unnamed in the box and a power user press and hold create New Drawer either from press the LMB (left mouse down the right hand Amiga the top menu or left Amiga key + button). Now that we have the symbol near the space bar, then N. This is where the new drawer cursor at the end of the name press the letter "N" and let them will be created. You could even press the backspace key. This both go. This is the keyboard double click on the drawer Letters key looks like an arrow pointing short-cut to the create New that we just created inside left "<-". It is on the right hand top Drawer function. The same little Personal and create a New of the main set of keys on the window will open in the top left Drawer and change its name to keyboard Press this once and the hand corner asking for a new Mary, then you could put all of 'd" at the end of 'unnamed' name for 'Unnamedl". We will your personal letters to Mary in should disappear. Keep pressing backspace the word Unnamed' here. the Backspace key until the box is and type in 'Letters" and press the empty except for the Cursor. Now Enter key. A new icon will appear FILES type the word Personal, and then in the window called Personal. So What goes inside these Drawers? press the enter key. The enter key we have now created a filing Files that's what. What is a file? A looks like '<-1". new Icon should cabinet drawer within another A file can be a picture you have now appear in the window below filing cabinet drawer. Now we are drawn, a letter you have typed that has the name under it of really getting organised. If we and spreadsheet you did the ac- Personal. The Icon should also write any letters we can put them counts on. Basically anything you look like a cupboard drawer. You inside the Drawer called Personal create can be stored in a file so have just created a Drawer. which is inside the Drawer called you can get it back with out redo- What's in a Drawer? Nothing yet. Letters and know that that's where ing the entire job. A file can have What can be put in a drawer? they will be next time we go to use any name you want within a small Any files you want, but in this them. As well as creating a number of rules. The name case we are trying to get or- drawer called Personal in the ganised so we will only put per- Volume Work we could have sonal files in here. Drawers are created one called Business and like filing cabinet drawers except one called Games. Inside the fivatualtaa lloxt3a ÿayette la.c97 37 ass 101 GAT

cannot be more than 30 'WORK:Personal/Letters". In the considered the same i.e. a file Characters (alphabetical letters, box below this you should be able called FRED and one called fred symbols or numbers) long. This to type the name you want to use can not exist it the same Drawer also applies to Drawer names. It for this letter. 'FRED Smith as the spelling is the same even cannot contain the characters : Holiday". This could be the file though the typing is different. In or / as these are reserved for tell- name you want to use for a letter the save or load window the ing the system where the files are. to Fred that was the letter written Drawers are displayed in one A : is used to say what the volume to Fred Smith about your holiday. colour and the files are displayed is i.e. WORK: and the / is used to By using a descriptive name like in a different colour. It is also ad- show drawers and sub drawers. this, you know without having to visable not to use spaces after the i.e. read the letter that it is written to file name i.e. 'WORK:picturef" 'Work Personal/Letters/Maty/my letter" Fred and it contains your holiday and 'Work: picturel '. These are This is called the file path. It is adventures. You will also see next two different files as one has an just the text version of the graphi- to the file a date - this is usually extra space at the end but when cal windows that workbench the date the letter was last saved displayed on the workbench shows you. The ' symbol is used so if you find a letter to Fred in screen or in the load file list the to surround a path, to show it's your Letters Drawer but you space is invisible. beginning and end. When you are cannot remember when you wrote using a wordprocessor or spread- it, the date should give you an This should keep you busy until sheet it will ask you where you idea which holiday you were writ- Igor returns from his holidays. want to save a file. The save ing about. One thing to remember window should have a button is that you cannot store two dif- called Volumes. If you click on ferent letters with the same name this with the LMB it will show in its in the same Drawer. If you want to 4* list a volume called WORK. This write a letter to Fred about your will either be linked to (HD1) the new holiday and don't want to internal hard drive or (DFO) a delete your old letter, you must floppy disk named Work. If you change the file name to 'Fred Double click on the word WORK Smith Holiday?. This will keep the save window will then display separate files because the names a new list and in this list there are slightly different; or you could should be a Drawer called create a New Drawer called Personal. If you double click on 'Holiday to Hawaii" and save the the line of text that says Personal letter to Fred as 'Fred Smith a new list will appear. Do the Holiday". Because it is stored in a same for the Letters drawer. The different drawer, there is no dash Save window will also be building with the file name in Letters. a path in another box Upper and Lower case letters are

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