Issue 18 £4.00 Summer 2004 8.00Euro Features • AmiGBG Show Report Reviews • Hollywood Designer • Pegasos II • MicroGoldEd • SoundFX 4.3 • KVM Switch • CrossFire II Support • MPlayer Tutorial • C Programming Tutorial OS 4 Pre-Release part 3. If you don’t see what you want, just ask! News Our range is always growing! About... Kicksoft Total Amiga is published quarterly by South Essex Amiga Link. Editor: Robert Williams Editorial rare beast, but AirsoftSoftware’s Design: Robert Williams Issue 18 elcome to another issue new Hollywood Designer Contributors: Tony Aknes of Total Amiga which, as definitely qualifies as a member Sam Byford W Summer 2004 usual, is packed with items from of that elusive species. Designer Amiga Forever 6 Sean Courtney a wide range of contributors. is a graphical multimedia David Pitcher News application that can be used to Michael Carrillo This issue we finally have some Fast Amiga Emulator and create presentations, slideshows Mark Smith Editorial............................. 3 concrete news on OS 4 to report and even simple programs with a Mick Sutton News Items........................ 4 with the release to early-bird Connectivity Package for Windows whole host of impressive Matt Treasure customers of the Developer Pre- • Fast JIT emulation. graphical effects. Find out what Proofreading: Mick Sutton Features Release on CD. These long- Designer can do and how well it • Amiga runs in a window or in full screen mode. Sharon Sutton awaited discs let AmigaOne AmiGBG Show Report...... 9 does it in my review on page 18! • Amiga Explorer for Amiga connectivity. 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Moovid Metaview Mediapoint Home built x86 PC development did not stop with Graphics Play AVI, Mov and QT files on your The best Clipart viewer on the Multimedia presentation tool on your In a strong support section this AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Next Issue....................... 51 the pre-release so we also look Drawstudio Amiga©. Comes on CD. Amiga©. Comes on CD with clip art Amiga. nVidia gForce 2 MX400 month Dave Pitcher has come at some of the features still This excellent package is avaliable £12.00 images. £40.00 512Mb RAM, 40Gb HDD. Colour screenshots etc... 52 up trumps with another part of once again! On CD and includes £18.00 under development that will be SoftCinema Software: his in-depth “C” tutorial. In my Texture Studio & Image Studio. PPC AVI, QT and Mov player. On CD Diavolo Misc included in the final version. £35.00 Amithlon by Bernie Meyer et. al. PDF tutorial you can find out with example Movies. The best backup program on the Advertisers Photogenics 5 Amiga©. 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This £39.99 £30.00 Make CD (DAO version) Aminet addresses in this section. Amiga market place. It certainly is because I will be away on FxPaint CD writing software. Compatible with Latest Aminet disk or the latest The views expressed in this With over 70 effects this is a superb most CD writers/rewriters. series. Gigabytes of Amiga Software. magazine are those of the author Amiga is a registered trademark gives some food for thought for holiday (in Canada) for just over addition to any software collection. £50.00 Single £14.99 of each piece, they do not and the Amiga logo, the “Boing companies and organisations three weeks during the £60.00 Utilities Spitfire 2 Series £29.99 necessarily reflect the views of the Ball” device, AmigaDOS, Amiga that would see Amigas and production period so I don’t think PFS 3 If you have a 3com Palm© or com- editor, other contributors or SEAL. 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