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I E \ I [ RI; s A2386SX Bridgeboard (CBM) .. 2 2 Full PC compatibility with IBM’s latest The By L iu Wallace , . , JO models. It’s the fastest, most powerful, and amazing­ ! 3.0(Micro-Systems) and ly “colorful” Amiga ever made. Find out why K in d -WORDS 3 (The Disk Co.)...... 2 6 the Amiga is back on top of the personal- There's one big winner in this duo ofWP computer heap in this special in-depth pre­ updates. view of the A4000, to be introduced this Fall. V irtual Reality Studio (D om arki ARTICLES Accolade)...... 72 Top-notch adventure-game building tool. P iec e N egotiations E x p e r t 4 D J r . (G enisoft)...... 7 6 By Steven Blaize...... 3 d Entry-level 3-D modeling and animation. Greative imagc-ct>mpositing techniques can yield interesting digital collages to B o o m B o x (Dr. V s ) ...... 8 0 use in your video, animation, or print It will huff and puff and blow I he cybersox off any Interactive music-making made easy. presentations. DC/Mae in the house. Check out our special prevail' of the Amiga 4000, due out this fall. P e r s o n a l VDA (DPS) and B r e a d ­ K n o w Yo u r R ig h ts b o a r d (Cardinal Video)...... 81 By Eric Giguere...... 3 9 Internal video-signal distribution amps. If you write your own programs and VIDEO S u ite By Paulo de Andrade ..60 want to sell them or distribute them as EXPERTDRAW (Genisoft)...... 8 4 for video buffs who are baffled by the bur­ 1*1) or , here's what you need Entry-level stimtured-drawing program. to know about copyright conventions. geoning array of videotape and \T R for­ mats, here’s a clear, concise guide to elimi­ Animatrix M odeler (duB ois)___ 8 4 P u b l ish W it h Panache nate the confusion. Low-budget 3-D modeler. By Vidor Osaka...... 4 3 Try this hands-on, A-to-Z course in print I)E PART ME NTS design il you plan to get involved in pro­ (i \ U E S O v e r s c a n ...... 8 ducing newsletters, bulletins, brochures, Crib Notes By Peter Olafson 9 8 A monthly roundup of the latest news, or any other “home-grown" publications. This month, A IV s top game tipster new products and network information tackles Ultima VI: The Filse Prophet. D ig g in g in t o D O S— 1 from every corner o f Mondo Amiga. By Sheldon Leemon ...... 4 7 SlMEARTH (M a x is)...... 9 8 H elp K ey ...... 9 2 A brand-new series on AmigaDOS 2.0 Sim games fans will be wowed by this one. AVI.OF is back on the air this month to debuts this month to show you how to provide answers to your tech-trouble get the most out of Release 2 of the M egafortress (Three-Sixty / EA) .101 questions. Highly detailed aircraft simulator. Amiga . T h e L ast W o r d ...... 112 Conquests of the Longbow: A n im a tio n LIVE ! By Gene Hamm ..52 1 lere’s a sampling of a Hood of mail If you want to do animation blit are not an ROBIN H ood (Sierra On-Line).... 102 we've been getting lately about the Colorful adventure/strategy game. accomplished artist, “roloscoping" may be magazine and the Amiga market. just the ticket to get you over the hump. Sh o r t T akes...... 106 AW P ro d u ct I n form ation. 1 0 4 Capsule reviews of new Amiga games. CO El MAS To contact the vendors of products mentioned in this issue o f Amiga World, T h e N ext R o u n d ...... 108 Editor’s Drawer By Dennis Bnsson . 6 consult our all-in-one “Manufacturers*/ Announcements of upcoming game There’s a new name on the corner of lice Distributors’ Addresses” list. titles. at AIV, so hid 'bye ’bye to Barney and give a listen to Brisson. REVIEWS NEXT MONTH: A c c en t o n G ra ph ic s By Joel Hagen ...... 3 8 Professional Draw 3.0 (Gold Dish) The annual Amiga Games Special! A few simple painting and image-pro- and ProV ector 2.1/PSImport Plus: Amiga claymation, 3-D digitizing, cessing techniques can help you quickly (S ty lu s)...... 2 0 ARexx Q&A, AmigaDOS 2.0 and more. create realistic, natural-looking back­ Major updates of two heavyweights in the grounds lor any type of presentation. structured-drawing arena. AmigaW orld

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The A 4000 is Commodore's latest computer, with a new DOS, a

faster processor, and a dynamic new graphics chip set.

But will it fly?

B y e -B y e B a r n e y A1000 rehash!” In the past, Commo­ offing, given Commodore’s marketing Publishers note: dore has been criticized for introducing history). This issue marks the debut of Dennis machines that feature the same old The A4000 will have its detractors. Brisson as editor-in-chief o f Amiga* technology* in a brand new package. Questions about the feasibility of World. He succeeds Doug Barney, w ho Whether or not you agree with that upgrading existing Amiga machines has accepted a position with Info World. assessment, you’ll encounter plenty of to the A4000 standards remain unan­ We wish Doug well as he leaves be­ new and exciting features in the A4000. swered. Also, some may complain that hind the luster of the Amiga market— In fact, there are several reasons we access to SCSI devices is an option, where music, art, animations, and great feel justified in referring to the A4000 and not a standard feature, with the games are the norm— and returns to a as Commodore’s first new computer A4000. However, while critics will market dominated by spreadsheets, since the A 1000. never be assuaged, fans will he databases and accounting software. Three reasons are Alice, Paula and pleased. Ill is eomjmter promises to Doug anticipates the upcoming chal­ Lisa, the most dynamic trio since Char­ excite those graphics groupies and lenges of his new position and takes lie’s Angels. This Advanced Architecture video partisans who are involved in with him manyJ fond memories from (AA, pronounced Double A) chip set multimedia productions, videos and his three-year stint with AW. establishes new standards for desktop animations. Dennis is a capable successor, with video and multimedia. The AA chips In this issue, we hint at the prospect nine years* experience in the Com­ offer an expanded choice of colors (you ol more good things coming from modore market—albeit the eight-hit can use up to 256 different colors on a Commodore. No doubt, the A4000 side. Some oi jyou may J already J be fa- screen at once from a palette of over 16- represents the first of what may devel­ miliar with Dennis’s work as editor-in- million colors) and screen resolutions. op into a new line of . In this c h ie f o f RUN, the C-64/128 magazine, The machine is also designed to accom­ case, the old show-biz saying. “You ain’t since its inception in January 1984. He modate a variety/ of memory-storagei O seen nothing yet,” applies. and expansion options. will continue to function as RU.AT I look forward to mvJ tenure as edi- editor-in-chief, along with his duties at Amiga third-part)' developers now tor-in-chief, which promises to be Amiga World. have a great tool to show off their filled with many new developments — Dale Strang imagination and talent. We’ve chatted from Commodore and the Amiga with several company reps who are community. Am igaW orld will continue A n A u s p i c i o u s B e g i n n i n g genuinely excited about creating prod­ to bring its readers the highest-quality I take over the reins ol''AmigaWorld at a ucts for the A4000. We fully expect that editorial with the latest new develop­ propit ious time. Commodore has just vendors in this market will, once again, ments in the market, the most objec­ taken a giant step in the evolution of rise to the challenge and create many tive and timely reviews, informative computing with the introduction of the interesting new A4000 products in the and entertaining features and useful A 4000. near future. and easy-to-understand tutorials. Be The specifics of the newest member In bringing the A4000 to market. sure to stav tuned. of the Amiga family are spelled out in Commodore did nothing to jeopar­ this issue’s feature article (see p. 30). dize its standing as the leader in Highlights of the system include a new graphics-intensive applications. We 25-MHz (58040 processor, a new ver­ predict that the niche they’ve secured sion (3.0) of Amiga DOS, expansion in the high-end multimedia and desk­ options galore, and the introduction of top video market will continue to a new graphics chip set. expand. Among multimedia zealots Some of you may be thinking: “Oh and DTV devotees, Commodore cer­ no, another new machine, another tainly solidified its reputation by introducing a high-end multimedia and desktop-video machine for an attractive ju ice (also, a tracle-up pro­ ogram for this machine may* be in the FOR THE AMIGA* 2000 SERIES

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How do you parlay experience as a on to tlie just-released , and race-car mechanic and a driller on a with an early version of DeluxePaint and Mediterranean oil rig into a career as a an HP PaintJet printer, he quickly ex­ top graphics designer? For British-born panded his operations far beyond the Ray Masters, the answer was: Get an beaches north of Miami. Am iga! Oddly enough, Masters—who now If you’re not from South Florida, you presides over a four-person company, may not be familiar with Masters’ name, Ray Masters Productions, that requires a but you’re sure to have seen his work. It high-priced firm of tax accountants— has can be found on beaches and ski slopes retained the simple computer-design ap­ throughout the world. His bold, colorful proach he employed in the early days. designs adorn fashion items from inter­ \'o 24-bit graphics, 16-million-color national sportswear giants such as Elho palettes, and fancy enhanced-display de­ Brunner, Ellese. Swatch, and Wilson. vices for Masters: “I’m basically a DPaint (Elho Brunner sold S 15 million worth of artist. I always use the same form of ma- 1990 GhflQ IveflT / Pwafl -MdR / clothing bearing Masters’ designs in one nipulation. I'm a low-res, eight-color year.) Masters has also designed striking n-o-Cft^BRny man. 1 don’t rely on the technology as posters and programs for major sport­ much; I depend on it as a canvas.” Yet, ftfjTfcc*Cwlrtn.^-/NnSUEq:Rit Cruise Unp ing events, including the Toyota Grand rtr despite this electronic sketch-pad ap­ TVE Po LP CLUB-H0CA TlrtW Prix, the World Water Ski Champi­ OCT Q -l*. proach to computer graphics, Masters is onships, and the Chris Evert Pro- one of the most successful Amiga artists

Celebritv Tennis Tournament (pictured the oil rigO off the coast of Sicily, / Masters in the world todav.* at the light), to name just a few. washed up on the Florida coast at Delray Beach. His first American design venture J a c k o f a l l T r a d e s Sketching on a D igital Canvas was making T-shirts—by hand— for the While acknowledging that the Amiga Some time after his apprenticeship on local sun-and-surf set. He soon latched has made a crucial difference in his work

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Digital Micronics' new Digital EditMas- Baffled by Workbench or ARexx? Help is as close as your bookshelf. Fast Guide ter (S2495) turns your A2000 or A300Q into to Workbench {Vidict. $8.95) covers Preferences, system programs, utilities, and a video-editing suite and promises to pro­ tools, Commodities and their hot-key codes, fonts, gadgets, keyboard shortcuts, and vide capabilities that would normally cost other operating-system topics. To make your own crib notes, the booklet includes you upwards of $100,000. The heart of the blank function key and numeric keypad overlays for reference templates. For a con­ system is a video compressor based on fufl- cise reference to ARexx commands and functions, consider Fast Guide to ARexx motion JPEG technology and LSI Logic's (Vidia, $8.95), which describes each command’s syntax, key words, options and re­ JPEG chip set. sults, as well as providing general language conventions. (RS# 112.) In real time, the board digitizes, com­ If you prefer a walk-through approach, flip through the pages of The ARexx Cook­ presses, and stores traditional video seg­ book hv Merrill Callaway (Whitestone, $24.95). Supplemented by thorough discussions ments onto your Amiga's hard disk, where of commands and techniques, lessons increase in complexity from writing simple you can edit and modify them. The board is stand-alone programs to making complex connections among multiple applications. capable of compressing and storing typical Whether you’re a rank beginner or a seasoned trying to control animation frames to a hard drive on a PostScript via ARexx, The ARexx Cookbook promises enlightenment. For easy and frame-by-frame basis, and you can play thorough reference, the book’s index and margin notes include page numbers for back the result in real time directly to tape, William Hawes’ and Commodore’s ARexx manuals, documentation for application without needing a single-frame recorder. software discussed, and the Cookbook itself. An optional ($5) companion disk (RS# 130.) rounds out the package. (RS# 113.)

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Circle 65 on Reader Service card. and its success (lie states lie could never M u l t i m e d i a M a k e o v e r have been as prolific and efficient with­ out it), Masters did come equipped with Scala MultiMedia 2.0 (also called Scala MM200) packs even more features into some natural talent of his own. After Sca/a's popular multifunction multimedia program. MM200 adds 25 more special leaving Harrow, the prestigious English effects, an unlimited-length horizontal crawl line; out-wipes; area transitions; a public school, at age 16. he worked as a link function for simultaneous movement of multiple text lines or logos; variables photographer and graphics artist at a and conditional branching for interactive presentations; support for DCTV stills London advertising agency. Sandwiched and animations; AnimLab (an animation-enhancement utility); and the long-await­ between his auto-racing days and his ed sound support. You can now synchronize music and sound effects with your stint as an oil driller, he also worked in presentation graphics and animations, as well as record your own sounds with design and marketing for the high-pow­ a sampler hoard. ered UK-based Norwood Group. The program's interface was also revamped. As an alternative to Scala's fa­ .All of this varied experience finds ex­ miliar (and now configurable) main menu, the Scala Shuffler lets you view and pression in his work. Masters’ love of rearrange thumbnail versions of your presentation pages. Reaching out for more sports, knowledge of race cars, and ad­ power, the Scala Ex system of control modules for external devices and pro­ ventures on llie high seas inform both grams lets you incorporate into your presentations images from laser-disc and the style (broad, bold, energetic) and still-video players, audio from MIDI devices and CDTV CDs, and input from subject matter o f his art. .As the title o f his ARexx-compatible programs. For new owners, Scala MM200 retails at $495. media kit/portfolio attests, his is "The Registered owners of Scala should contact the company for upgrade informa­ Art of Action.” —Jan Jackson tion. (RS# 115.)

ON-LINE

SCAN By Tim Walsh

Last month, I addressed the tions pioneers worked to create Usenet connections, such as Por­ suit. Familiar to many Amiga benefits o f Internet, the network voluntary protocol standards for tal, will have the address of the users, PC-Pursuit is the name of layer service recently made the network of terminals and author in a username, site, net­ the outdialing service that can available through Portal. With computers. Host computers work format. reduce the price of calls for com-

increased versatilityJ and interne- were tied into local networks, A generic, simplified exam­ puterists without local numbers tion between the nets, "telecom- and began to serve as “gate­ ple might appear as timw@ for Telenet and Tymnet. Fi­ municationspeak" is trickling ways” to such network services cs.hrown.edu. The first part of doNet is lesser known because down from the high-end busi­ as CompuServe. the sending party’s name is just it’s outside of the normal net­ ness and education fields to the In the course o f the next that—a person’s on-line name work circle, being comprised of

hobbyist level. Maybe you've decade, network la /vers such as or screen name. That is then large-scale BBS systems. heard of things like Telenet, Internet came on the scene. To followed by the “at” sign and So, now there you have it—a Usenet, and Tymnet, but is is get the various smaller nets the server’s site or location. glance at some of the words that clear just what they are? working in harmony, Internet Even the originating network is end with “net" and how they For a frame of reference on Protocol established standards sometimes included; in the came to be common in Amiga how these various services relate for sending e-mail and other above example, it’s Brown Uni­ telecommunications.Of course, to telecommunications in to­ data between servers and host versity. Some of the smaller nets this overview hardly scratches day’s networks, a Reader’s Di­ computers, opening up the keep this information intact the surface. There's a lot more gest look back into computer possibility of data sharing with with the e-mail, so you can typ­ of this information online; here history is in order. all platforms having common ically figure out where the mes­ are some good places to start access to a network. Portal is a sage originated. looking: Telecom m unications great example of such data H i s t o r y 101 sharing taken to a new, low-cost M a k i n g C o n n e c t i o n s BIX . In the 1970s, computer use was level on the nets. Telenet and Tymnet are not net­ generally limited to a teletype­ Many education centers and works; rather, they serve as 800/227-2983 like printing machine that read large corporations use UNIX- telecommunication packets for 617/354-4137 punched cards or inch-wide based mainframes, worksta­ connecting between networks. rolls of paper. These terminal tions, and even UNIX-based For instance, with a call to one C om p u Serve machines were connected with Amigas to send e-mail and other number listed in the White 614/457-0802 others via phone lines to a data to a variety of nets, Usenet Pages, I access my accounts on 800/848-8199

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The more things change in the Amiga industry, the more you need to know.

For instance, you should know that O ctree has changed locations (see new address v t: R IIE A R I) on p. 104) and has picked up Ditek's DynaCADD 2-D/3-D design program for distribu­ tion. The program is well suited to work with Octree's own Caligari 3-D modeling, animation, and rendering software. According to Octree, you can "design in Caligari, Workbench 2.1 is already shipping with follow up with precision design in DynaCADD, and then animate and render in Cali­ the . and it’s destined to be­ gari." DynaCADD, which has a suggested retail price of $995, is available for $499 (plus come available For other Ami gas. (Com­ $30 shipping and handling) from Octree. (RS# 122.) modore has not yet settled on a release The developer of Video Music Box has also made two changes: in its name and its date Tor upgrade kits.) So what can yon product. The Menasha, Wisconsin, developer has changed its name from Digital Expres­ look forward to in 2.1? There are several brand-new features, including CrossDOS, sions to Digital Expressions Research. The change was necessary because, unknown to the favorite MS-DOS/AmigaDQS-formai the Wisconsin firm, an established games manufacturer in Cleveland, Ohio, had previ­ transfer utility which now also allows access ously reserved the name Digital Expressions. Product changes come in the form of to MS-DOS formatted floppy and hard Video Music Box 1.4 ($109), which adds Workbench 2 compatibility, new parameters for disks. 'Hie new Local Preferences editor lets controlling pitch ranges and randomization, editing functions, and more. The upgrade is you read screens of 2.04-supporting soft­ free for registered users. (RS# 123.) ware in any of several languages. .An in­ Lissa 1.2, the 3-D curve generator from Technical Tools ($35), produces more com ­ staller utility, which automatically inte­ plex objects than before (you can create "wiggles within wiggles"), supports more ­ grates the new Workbench on your system, elling packages, and offers an enhanced interface, with icons for frequently-used con­ also comes with this release, as do printer drivers for PostScript devices and Canon’s trols and more comprehensive help features. The upgrade is free to registerd owners. Bubble Jet. (RS# 124.) Another printer driver, for the HP ASDG 's ADPro just keeps getting more capable. The latest module ($200), aimed at DeskJet, has been enhanced since the 2.0 video professionals, allows you to exchange digital images stored on 8mm cartridge release; it now supports the popular HP 500 Color DeskJet. Other enhancements tapes between an Amiga (equipped with a Commodore SCSI controller and Exabyte include simplified installation and activa­ 8mm tape drive) and an Abekas A60, A65, or A66 digital-disk recorder. You don't have tion of printers, keymaps, monitors, and an Abekas system, but need to send work to a post-production house that does? You DOS drivers. The Format and DiskCopy can create digital video streams (essentially treating the tape drive as a single-frame functions now provide graphical interfaces that allow you control. recorder). (RS# 125.) I Also expanding the Amiga's video capabilities is Interactive MicroSystems. The firm's MediaPhile video-editing setup now provides support for VISCA protocol decks as well as VBOX control for Sony CTL-L/LANCS-port decks and camcorders through the T r u e C o l o r P r in t s Amiga's serial port. (RS# 126.) MIDI Sample Wrench 2.0, the updated 16-bit sound editor from d issid e n ts (S299), No longer is your printer limited to gives musicians, audio engineers, and videographers a toolbox-full of new options. The 4096 colors and 16 shades of gray. TruePrint/24 (.A S D G t $89) prints 16-mil­ software works with a variety of MIDI keyboards as well as IFF samples, and it reads and lion color (24-bit) and 256-shade writes several file formats. grayscale (eight-bit) images on most The new Wrench promises extensive waveform-viewing options, from overviews to a Preferences-supported color or black- few points, and you can calibrate waveforms in terms of sample points, seconds, or and-white printers. Capable of out­ SMPTE frames. It also includes more advanced digital signal-processing features, as well putting images at any size (even p oster as resynthesis tools that let you expand or compress waveforms in time without chang­ proportions), TruePrint/24 offers 1 1 ing pitch. The program works with DOS versions 1.3 and higher, and is linkable via dithering and halftoning techniques, in­ ARexx. Registered owners of earlier versions can upgrade for $20. (RS# 127.) cluding a 32-shade gray-scale for such Designed with the developer in mind, version 2.0 of ARexxDB ($125) is the "records character-only devices as daisy-wheel manager for the serious Amiga user," according to JMH Software, In addition to ARexx printers. (RS# 111.) support, the program offers new features that include record searching, automated indexing, a query language, and a utility for creating files, ARexxDB is a database engine that you can easily customize, and it imposes no upper limit on either file or record size. With ARexx DB, you can develop database applications using your own custom inter­ face. (RS# 128.) E a s y S c rip t has upgraded some of its products, including LabelDex! ($74.95), which now promises an easy way to make professional-looking video anti audio cassette labels for cassette splines and faces. This integrated VideoLibrarian module supports HP LaserJet, DeskJet, Epson, and PostScript-compatible printers. BibleReaderPro!, which replaces BibleReaderl, includes an 800,000-word concor­ dance, supports Amiga speech, does not require a hard drive, and comes in four ver­ sions (KJ, Nl, NKJ, and NASB), each selling for $89.95. Without TruePrint/24, the Amiga OS is The higher-end BibfeScholar! supports speech, too, with version 2.0. It also comes limited to 16 shades of gray (left); with in PAL and NTSC display versions, and offers a 640x400 interlace display. Further, you it, 256 shades are possible. can fetch search results with the click of a button. (RS# 129.) External FDD Series ■ • Compatible with all Amiga"' computers 1 • Slim-line design with solid metal case • Additional drive connector and on/off switch

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Harlequin comes with lots of software, including a program that lets you scale and for potential problems and then makes convert images to other formats, and a real-time 24-bit slide-show program with over 30 the appropriate repairs; 91 1-Recovery, a transitions. Among outside products that support Harlequin directly are Imagemaster specialist in recovering deleted files and (Black Belt), ADPro (ASDG), Real 3D (Activa) and Caligari Broadcast (Octree). (RS# 131.) data from crashed disks; Antiseptic, a disk wiper that clears everything from your G et in T o u c h disks; and Lab lest, a utility that checks and compares checksums for file corrup­ Why point and click when you can reach and touch? The CT-Amiga driver tion and virus protection. Overseeing (iCarroll Touch) lets you use infrared touch screens with your Amiga. The driver these programs is the Administrator in­ both emulates the Amiga’s mouse and allows a mouse and touch screen to operate terface, which lets you set up. schedule, concurrently. Compatible with Amiga Vision, the driver is free with die purchase of and perform whatever tests you desire. the company’s scanning infrared touch frames, which include systems for 14-inch (R S # 120.) Zenith ZCM-1492 flat-tension and Mitsubishi AUM-1381A Diatnondscan moni­ tors. (RS# 1 10.) Fo l l o w the S tars (a n d S a t e l l it e s ) C l im b in g t h e Fam ily T ree If you’re in search of space-science No matter how prolific your ancestors were, The Puzzle Factory claims that its ge­ software, the chances are that Kinetic De­ nealogical database, Origins ($85), is up to keeping track of them. In addition to cata­ signs has the right program for you. The loging over six million relatives, Origins can track multiple marriages, step-children, un­ company’s collection of public domain married parents, and other unorthodox situations. You can print reports on people, family and shareware programs includes satel­ group sheets, pedigree and descendants charts, and Tiny-Tafel listings, as well as import lite trackers, planetary-orbit calculators, and export GEDCOM formatted data. To help you connect faces with names, Origin even siderial -t i m c ealeu lators, weat her-related stores IFF images. (RS# 114.) programs, deep-sky databases, gravity simulations, telescope designs, and space A c c o u n t a n t N o t I n c l u d e d art. A complete catalog of programs is available, at a cost of only a sell-ad­ Bring your business’s books on line with Business Front (DesigningMinds, dressed envelope with two stamps, while $129). 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Accounts Payable features aging reports, standard object-editing tools (including bills due reports, a check register o f transactions, and the ability to mark bills for partial single-point editing), phis more exotic or full payment and to search for payments by index or vendor number. (RS# 117.) distortion options, such as multiply, scale map, twist, randomize, and gravity. In addition, you can bevel fonts, create 3-D O f f i c l a l I m m i g r a t i o n fractal objects, separate and combine ob­ Long ci popular import, the AMOS programming language is now available in an NTSC ver­ jects, cut windows, and add face and sion—American AMOS (S110). Featuring more than 500 commands, the language is optimized edge divisions. For further customiza­ for graphics and sound manipulation, and, with the new version, no screen-size adjustments are tion, the program has an ARexx port. needed. Europress Software has also set up a US technical support line (219/874-6380) and BBS On the conversion side, Vertex supports (219/874-0367) to give AMOS users easier access to customer support. (RS# 118.) Imagine, Turbo Silver, LightWave 3D, Sculpt 3D, Geo, and Wavefront formats. (R S # 121.) M em o ry M a g ic

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j j box, at a price that keeps the cost of imag­ proven to the world that when you combine ination very realistic. the brilliance of video, audio, and animation with a computer, incredible things can happen. FWell, now that the world has finally caught on to the concept, Commodore takes the medium to an fi 1 led with high-resolu­ entirely new tion graphics simul­ level: With the all-new taneously displayed in up to 256,000 colors from a Amiga 4000. palette of over 16.8 million The hues. You gain a heightened ability A 4000 frees to create exciting graphics with full video you to do more multi­ overscan. And you attain the freedom to create complex media computing animations at a full 30 Frames for less than any Per Second, not at 15 FPS. other personal computer. It You even have the empowers you option of choosing from a The A m iga 4000 r 11 i • features the powerful to create exciting spectrum of high resolution Jnew Mowro|*.. ^ modes while Still main- '"Coprocessor. professional tele­ vision effects, taining NTSC scan rate capability. stimulating interactive training programs, and All this multimedia muscle, of course, more powerful presentations like never before A comes through true design elegance. At the That’s because the Amiga is the only heart of every A4000 lies our new, unique, computer designed as a multimedia machine custom coprocessors, the Advanced from the ground up. Which means the A4000 doesn’t suffer the handicaps other so-called multimedia machines endure. There is no need for costly, cumbersome add-ons, no need to kludge together potentially incom-

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Professional Draw 3 .0 High-level Gold Disk, $199.95. Accelerator compatible. structured Hard-drive installable. Minimum system: 2MB RAM, hard drive. draw ing. Not copy protected. Recommended system: 2MB RAM, hard drive, ARexx. 2.0 compatible.

Structured P r o V e c t o r 2 . 1 , PSIm port 1 .0 draw ing Stylus Inc., $299.95/$89.95. Accelerator compatible; FFP version included. and Post* Hard-drive installable. Minimum system: 1MB RAM. Script file Not copy protected. Recommended system: 1MB RAM, ARexx. manipulation. 2.0 compatible.

B oth Professional Draw 3.0 and Pro Vector 2.1 One of the biggest additions is the Function implement structured drawing and Post­ Genie tool, which allows you to access many ARexx Script, but with different emphasis. While ho- scripts. When you execute one, a message explain­ (essiunal Draw 3.0 excels at structured draw­ ing what you should do next is displayed at the top ing, ProVector 2.1 proves to be the most help with of the screen. One of these Genies moves only PostScript output and exchanges. selected points on a line, another allows you to position an object at an exact layer, and so on. I hey P rofessional t o t h e C o r e are very useful, but the Function Genie tool has Pro Draw has, arguably, the best user interlace of usurped the place of the Hand Move tool. File any personal computer for creating Bezier curves. latter was always a bit unpredictable, but it came in In Pro Draw, unlike other programs, all the deselect­ handy in case you needed to nudge a page a hit in ed anchor points and oars (the control points pro­ some direction. truding on either side of a line) leave white after­ Gold Disk has also improved text handling images on the gray background that you can refer somewhat. You can now edit text directly on the to while you are dragging an oar or anchor point. page, although it goes a bit slowly. Treating a small

Similarly,✓ when jvon drag n an oar to alter the curve text file and importing it is usually the better of a line, you can clearly see both the initial curve method—especially because Pro Draw still does and the new curve. If you decide that you prefer the not have the ability to change a font once the text original curve, simply press the Esc key to abort the is on the page. If you want to change the font or change. Even the Mac's venerable Adobe Illustrator the tracking, you must delete the text and import doesn’t offer this convenience. it again. One disappointment: Because the manual So, what has version 3.0 brought to this superb staled that you can access characters from the ex­ drawing tool? First, Pro Draw 3.0 finally has Undo tended character set by pressing the Alt key and and Redo commands. In addition, it lets you import entering the ASCII value on the keypad, I thought 24-hit bitmaps and rotate and scale them with the I would finally he able to use true left and right same tools you use to manipulate drawings. You can double quotation marks, hut, sadly, they are still now double-click on the Rectangle tool to set a ra­ not available. dius for rounded corners. To speed screen redraws, I he Font Manager program supplied with Pro 3.0 lets you keep some objects in wireframe format Draw 3.(1 is an extremely valuable addition to the while viewing others in WYSIWYG. package. It allows you to convert Type 1 PostScript fonts into Gonipugraphic format, which you can To locate the vendors of the products reviewed, see the use for high-quality screen displays and dot-matrix ''Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 104. printouts with both Pro Draw and Professional Page. II you want to use PostScript clip art, however, Pro Draw will not help you; on the other hand, Pro Vector will.

R h y t h m o f a D i f f e r e n t D r u m m e r ProVector 2.1 is a breed of its own. Most structured drawing programs won’t let yon work in WYSIWYG mode, but in ProVector, you do everything in that mode, with all the colors and line weights displayed. Contrary to the norm, ProVector has no wireframe mode. Most structured-drawing programs require an extra step to make a corner when you draw curved lines. ProVector’s primary drawing tool op­ erates in the reverse fashion: You have to go back and adjust your curved line (a simple enough pro­ cedure) if you want your linejoins to be contiguous or tangential. Alternatively, its Smooth Polygon tool automatically creates averaged smooth cunes for your whole line (you do not have to drag anything while you are drawing the line). You can later edit the oars a bit. ProVector’s drawing tools are unusual, but they Two approaches for an interface to structured drawing: have a surprisingly pleasant feel to them, especially Professional Draw (top) and ProVector 2.1 (bottom). the primary drawing tool. When you drag the mouse, you drag out an oar from the previous an­ hide them, as in a CAD program. The Change tool chor point; when you let go, the oar from the cur­ lets you be veiy specific about painting a particular rent point is attached to your cursor. Click again to object with the current default settings or vice versa. put it in position. The Rectangle tool can actually In the case of merged objects (objects with holes in create polygons with any number of sides, and. like­ them), however, the default settings I made seemed wise, the Circle tool can generate arcs and pic- to affect the object immediately, rather than waiting shaped wedges. The program comes with some for the signal from the Change tool. ready-made pattern fills and allows you to create your own (displaying them slows down the program). P o s t S c r i p t P r o You can also control ProVector via ARexx to auto­ ProVector 2. I s exemplary PostScript skills com e from matically build graphs and charts from databases. an add-on module called PS Import, which lets you While its tools for creating graphs, charts, dia­ import PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript files. grams, and simple illustrations are excellent, I For my many test drawings, the module has per­ found several of Pro Vector's line-editing procedures formed very well. If it encounters an unfamiliar com­ difficult. When 1 “uncurve” a point on a line, I ex­ mand, it displays an error message. When you click pect the oars to retract into the point, and not trans­ Okay, it continues importing the file. ProVector 2.1 form into additional points. Similarly, the Make cannot recognize filled open objects, so it closes them Curve command does not cause oars to spring out by drawing a border all the way around. Similarly, it of the point; instead, it turns the two adjacent points cannot recognize lines with caps other than joins, so into oars. Luckily, the supplied ARexx macros oiler it simplifies those tines when it encounters them. an alternative to these methods. The module also imports PostScript Type 1 fonts, ProVector has some other convenient features: but without kerning information and at somewhat You can scale or rotate an object simply by typing a the wrong aspect ratio. The Stylus representatives— number and ending with the appropriate keystroke. who were very helpful in answering technical-sup- You can set any number of undo levels and cut and port questions—said that the developers were work­ paste from multiple windows. You can pm elements ing on solving these problems, of your drawing on separate layers and temporarily The differences between Fro Vector's and Pro^

•1 mign 11 or Id 2 1 If you can imagine it, R E V I E VV S Draw’s PostScript support becomes apparent when you try to GVP’s ImageEX can make import a Pro Draw PostScript print 1 lie into ProVector. Pro Draw’s PostScript file can address only 100 steps of gradation, while ProVector can address PostScript’s lull 256 steps. For ex­ it come to life. ample, if you want a light-blue sky gradation as a background, Pro Draw will show visible steps in it, while ProVector will not. If you’re serious about image processing for any Before saving the PostScript (or Encapsulated PostScript) file need—photography, graphics, video, animation, from Pro Draw, you should convert all lines to Filled/No-Line- Weight objects; you can reset the line weights and colors after and more — one look at ImageFX will tell you you import the File into ProVector. it’s a product you absolutely must have! So using ProVector with PS Import, you can access the art cre­ ated by Professional Draw and all of the PostScript clip art avail­ ImageFX is faster, easier to use, more expandable, more able in the Mac and MS-DOS markets. Just be sure, when you adaptable and more powerful than any other product of are using small text and detailed illustrations, to use the fast it's kind for the Amiga®. floating-point-math version of ProVector for greater accuracy. ★ Scan in or framegrab from virtually any image capturing device directly Also, note that ProVector 2.1 lacks the ability to describe the into your Amiga. screen density and angle for Einotronic black-and-white prints. ★ Use vour Amiga as an image prepress, color correction system including, Overall, Professional Draw 3.0 rates an A + for its drawing abil­ CMYK, RGB. HSYandYUV. ity, but gets poor marks for communication because it cannot ★ Digitally retouch any image with the most complete set of filters, color gradi­ read PostScript files. In the same vein, Gold Disk is not helping to ents, image distortions, masks, and text handling tools available. ★ Automatically convert from virtually all image file formats, (IFF, /VMM, open channels of communication by releasing an MS-DOS Pro­ TARGA". TIFF, IMPULSE A RENDITION’’, SCULPT, and GIF to name a few), fessional Draw that cannot read the files from its Amiga cousin. ★ Create true, full motion "morphing’ animations just like diey use in If you want to import PostScript clip art into a desktop-pub­ movies, commercials and music videos. lishing program, ProVector 2.1 and PSImport is certainly the ★ Make your own add-on combination for you. While I have criticized some of its draw­ features with kill ARexx ing procedures, ProVector applies good, innovative ideas to and C programming 1 3 structured drawing. language support —J im Silks

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Introducing Art Expression, the Amiga Illustrator Art Expression is the most powerful drawing program ever designed for the Amiga. It allows you to warp and distort text like never before. You can run text around a curve, warp it inside shapes and edit it in any way. Ait Expression even has color blends and shape metamorphosis! Since 1955 Rotate. Skew, Blend, Stretch. Fill and Edit. Text and objects are v completely under your control so you can create whatever you imagine. Change colors, edit character shapes, create transparent holes, and transform objects. Art Expression has the most sophisti­ cated drawing and editing tools of any Amiga drawing program.

Compatibility Art Expression can use any of the thousands of available Post­ Script Type ! fonts. You can load and edit IFF DR2D, Aegis and Adobe Illustrator files for compatibility with Amiga, Mac and PC standards. Save your illustrations in DR2D or PostScript for use with PageStream, Sign Engine, ProVector and other programs.

More Value Out of the Box You get a lot of value when you buy Am Expression. Not only do you get the leading Amiga illustrator, you also get BME tra c e at no extra charge. BME allows you to touchup and crop pictures, and to convert your bitmap pictures to jaggy-free structured drawings automatically. You also get 35 PostScript fonts and two illustrated manuals with a “cookbook" of examples. And when you send in your registration card, we'll mail you a disk of more free PostScript fonts and clip am! 2 . 2 ATIA

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board. The addition of a VGA card also in time to complete this review. However, solved a bug in Janos 2.(Vs color display another A2386SX user with a high-den­ e x c e l l e n c e ! 3 . 0 that causes the window to resize to a half sity drive reports he is running Windows Micro-Systems Software, $99.95. screen every time a program changes 3 .1 without difficulty. Hard-drive installable. graphics modes. (Commodore reports it If you’re looking to add PC compati­ Not copy protected. is working on a less expensive solution to bility to your Amiga’s many talents, the 2.0 compatible. this problem.) A2386SX is a stellar performer. At a list Accelerator compatible. 1 tested a variety o f PC software, includ­ price of$959, however, the Bridgeboard M inimum system: 1MB RAM. ing WordPerfect 5.1, Microsoft’s Flight competes with a complete IBM PC Recommended system: 1MB RAM, Simulator, Microsoft Excel, and the PC 38fiSX-compatible system bundled with hard drive. version of Electronic Arts* DeluxePaint, as a VGA monitor and hard drive. Unless well as Windows 3.0. I was unable to test desk space is truly critical, a complete Heavy-duty word processing; Windows 3.1 without a PC-compatible 386SX-compatible system might be a simple page layout. high-density drive, because Microsoft was wiser investment. unable to furnish a version on 720K disks — Bob E ller

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ne of the Amiga’s oldest word pro­ Ocessors, excellence! has never really HMt «*U rnx ism lived up to its name— until now. Version 3.0 may have finally reached world-class status, at least among Amiga software. Another recent update, Kindwords 3.0, has not aged as well. JiCTlS-St *.159x0611ww v-m excellence! 3.0: A New Standard? Sporting a new 2.0 look (even under Workbench 1.3), excellence! is an attrac­ tive program. It opens a full-featured but conservative ruler atop the screen and lets you toggle many display options, such as margins, paragraph markers, and the ruler. You configure its resolution from the Preferences requester, excellence! even has built-in support for virtual mem­ ory, so if you have a hard drive, you can work on files greater than your available memory would normally permit. Timed saves, one of the more signifi­ Cost-effective, high-performance system acceleration for the Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000. VXL-30 cant features added to version 3.0, are uses the low cost 68EC030 or the standard, MMU-bearing 68030. True asynchronous design supports handled elegantly. Besides specifying a versions at 25MHz and 40MHz. Installs into the Amiga's 68000 socket (and the 68000 is re-installed in time interval for excellence! to save your/ VXL-30). Accepts the 68882 math chip. User upgradeable. Compatible with AmigaDOS 1.3 and 2.04 work, you can also tell it to warn you of systems. Cold-boot jumper selection as 68030 or as 68000. Warm boot software selection as 68030 or an impending save by beeping. If you 68000. Supports separate VXL RAM-32 Memory board with 2 or 8 of Fast Page Mode want to abort the save and avoid inadver­ RAM with Burst capability. RAM autoconfigs in the Amiga FASTRAM space and is DMA-able; can be tently overwriting important data, press mapped high; supports mapping to 32-bit RAM even without MMU. RAM-32 has alternate the Escape key. As a further precaution, Kickstart ROM socket for optional 2.04 ROM. RAM-32 is also accessible (16-bits wide) in 68000 mode. excellence! will back up the current file Performance of VXL30/RAM-32 as a system is equal to an at 25MH2 and about fifty before a timed save, and you can specify percent faster than an A3000 when a 40MHz processor and math chip are installed (speed as many back-up levels as you like. Now comparisons based on averaging of sixteen standard benchmarks in AIBB 4.5). Typical raytrace times you can even have an audit trail of large at 25MHz (using Impulse's Imagine) are sixteen times faster than with the basic 68000. VXL-30 is the documents that effortlessly retains every price leader in affordable. 68030 acceleration. A vailable notv from yo u r A m iga deafer. incremental version in case you/ need to go hack to something written and “dis­ — MicroBotics, Inc. 1251 American Parkway, Richardson, TX 75081 carded” a week ago! ► ‘Amiga 500V Am ga 200D’ and "Hicksian* are registered trademarks o{ Commodore-Amga. ’VXL-30" and "VXL RAM-32" are MercBctcs, Inc. trademarks. AD516 Waveform Editor

The AD516 hardware pro­ The Studio 16 sound editor graphs the vides stereo in/out connectors, audio waveform and allows you to cut, plus a SM PT E in. Just plug your copy, and paste audio. Up to eight samples V T R , C D player, radio, tape deck, or other audio source di­ rectly in. Then record in stereo, direct to hard disk, with 16 bits at sampling rates up to 48,000 samples per second. Plus, the A D 5 1 6 ’s efficient design can be edited per window. And edits can allows 8 track playback direct be non-destructive or permanent. Zoom, from hard disk. The A D 5 16 can scale, fade, reverse, echo, normalize, loop synchronize and chase SM PTE FFT, resample, and many other functions time code at 24, 25, 29.97, and are available. Named regions can be de­ 30 fps (drop or non-drop frame). fined and used in the cue list or transport Designed to exceptional audio modules. standards, the A D 5 1 6 of­ fers 15Hz to 2 2 K H z fre­ quency response and 85dB dynamic range.

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The Video Toaster goes a long way towards solving your video problems. But what about sound? Do you Professional Digital Sound for want to do A D R or voice-overs? Do you Your Video, Music, and Radio need to synchronize background music with DSP Supercharger

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Ok SEVERAL YEARS, Amiga users and developers want access to SCSI devices, an optional 32-bit SCSI-11 have been clamoring for a major upgrade to the Ami­ controller card will be available. Interestingly, the includ­ ga custom chips. During this time, the Mac and MS- ed floppy drive is a high-density 3.5-inch unit that can DOS systems equaled, and then surpassed, die Ami­ read and write in either 880K or 1.7MB modes, and can ga’s graphic-display system in terms of both resolution read and write to standard MS-DOS formatted disks. and number of colors. Like the A3000, memory expansion in the A4000 al­ Because of the increased emphasis on multimedia lows a total of 18MB on the motherboard— two megs and desktop video, the Amiga’s screen size, number of of chip and 16 megs of 32-bit RAM. You can add more colors and total palette became limiting factors. Al­ via plug-in cards. The base configuration of the A4000 though third-party developers have filled the void with includes 2MB of chip RAM and 4MB of 32-bit RAM, sophisticated 24-bit display cards, this hardware is although this is subject to change. aimed mostly at static displays, is basically unsupported by the Amiga's operating system, and has had little im­ A m ig a D O S 3.0 pact on most of us in our day-to-day applications. These hardware improvements and additions require It has become evident that change is needed. And new software to take advantage of them. Not surprising­ I'm pleased to say that this fall a real change is com ing ly, the operating system shipped with the A4000 is a new to the Amiga. The first sign of this renaissance is an en­ release called AmigaDOS 3.0. It is an enhanced version tirely new machine, the Amiga 4000! The lirst public of the 2.1 OS, introduced on the Amiga 600, and it in­ demonstration of the A4000 was scheduled last month cludes all the 2.1 features, plus support for the AA chips for the World of Commodore show in Pasadena. and their new color and screen-resolution features. The A4000 is the most significant upgrade to come New to OS 2.1/3.0 is the addition of CrossDOS, a out of Commodore. It boasts many additions and program by Consultron that lets you easily read and changes, the most significant of which concerns its write clata between Amiga and MS-DOS disks. Printer graphic display. The A4000 is the first of a new line Preferences now supports PostScript directly, ancl new of Amigas to incorporate the AA (Advanced Architec­ printer drivers have been added. A Sound Preferences ture) graphic chip set. which immensely expands the editor lets you customize your system with the sound Amiga’s graphic potential. Hie AA (called “Double A") effects of vour choice. Also, a Local Preference editor chips are Alice, Lisa, and Paula. While Paula is essen­ lets you tell the system what language to use in its mes­ tially unchanged, the other two are full replacements sages and text displays (use the language library of for the Agnus and Denise chips. your choice). This feature should bolster the interna­ tional appeal of the Amiga. (AmigaWorld will address A 4000 S p e c if ic s new operating-systcm features further in future issues.) The A4000 is the first in a new line of Amiga comput­ Commodore says that AmigaDOS 3.0 will, for the ers to take advantage of these new chips. It is also the time being, be limited to the A4000 and other AA ma­ lirst Amiga to be based on the 68040 processor. Inter­ chines. That’s reasonable, as the unique features of 3.0 estingly, there is no CPU on the motherboard. Instead, are designed to take advantage of the new chip set. the .VI000 CPU resides on a plug-in card that installs AmigaDOS 2.1, however, is another story. Any Amiga in the 200-pin processor slot. This approach means that can use the 2.04 version can take advantage of 2.1. that the 32-bit A4000 is completely configurable— at Look for an upgrade path at some future date, as yet the dealer level. unspecified by Commodore. While the initial version is a 25-MHz 68040, as other processor cards become available, you will be able to buy O ver t h e R a in b o w (or upgrade to) faster 68040s, custom CPUs, or even fu­ With the AY chips, you can forget about yesterday’s ture high-performance processors like the 68060. 4096 color palette. These chips feature a full 24-bit Internally, the A4000 has four Amiga Z.orro I I/I 11 palette, which gives you access to any of 16,777,216 slots as well as three PC/AT slots. As with earlier m od­ colors for use in your screens. The total number of col­ els, though, using some PC! slots precludes using other ors on screen will depend on how many bitplanes you slots for Amiga cards. As in the A3000, the video slot use and on the display mode. You can create screens is in line with one of the Amiga slots. This arrange­ using one to eight bitplanes, which translates into two ment will encourage development of specialty video to 256 colors at once. Most importantly, there is no cards (much like Cheat Valley Products’ IV24 multime­ limit on the number of colors vou can use in the var- J dia/ video package). ions screen resolutions. 'The CPU case is a hit larger than that of the A3000, While current Amigas allow up to 32 colors in low hut not as big as the A2000’s. 1 here is room inside for resolution, 16 colors in high resolution, and four colors two floppy drives and two hard disks; an external flop­ in Productivity and SuperHires modes, the AA chips py connector is available for more drives. In addition, have no such limitations. With eight bitplanes, every the front drive bay can accommodate a 5.25-inch disk screen can use up to 256 different colors, a fact that you device, allowing you to mount large internal hard will appreciate even more when we discuss how many drives, CD-ROMs, or other removable media. new displays and resolutions are available. A 120MB IDE hard disk is standard. For those who For those who think 256 colors are not enough for ► some applications, the AA chips have yet another color graphics is the bandwidth of the chips. Bandwidth surprise in store. Remember how the Amiga’s HAM measures how fast information can be processed, and (I loltl And Modify) mode was able to create stunning the new AA chips have a fourfold increase in bandw idth low-resolution images using all 4090 colors with the over their predecessors. This increase does much more older chips? Well, the new chips have their own eight- than give you improved color resolution; it improves bit HAM display mode, which lets you create images the performance of the graphics as well. that use over 256,000 colors simultaneously. Regardless of what processor you have, when you The AA HAM mode has 04 base colors instead of the open a 16-color, overscan, hi-res interlaced screen in 16 available in the earlier 11 AM displays. This means your existing Amiga, your overall system performance that software can minimize the fringing that often w ill degrade because so many of the Amiga's CPU cy­ accompanies HAM displays. And, as with the stan­ cles are required to support this display. Thanks to the dard color modes, you can use AA HAM mode with AA chips’ increased bandwidth, however, such a display any screen, regardless of resolution. performs as well on the A4000 as a two-color display: Im agin e a 6 40x480 display with 256,000 colors! It is fast and effective rather than sluggish and futile. Sounds impressive, doesn’t it? Now trv imagining Of course, even with the new chips, using the maxi­ 640x960, or 800x600 or 1280x400 with that many col­ mum resolution along with the maximum number of ors! Then add overscan. Are you excited yet? colors will cause a performance hit—but one not nearly as pronounced as with the older chip set. E x o t i c R e s o l u t i o n s Sprites benefit from the extra bandwidth. The new The A4000’s AA chips offer all the standard Amiga system allows sprites that are 16. 32. or 64 bits wide. NTSC and PAL screen sizes that the original and later (The previous chips onlv allowed 16-bit-wide sprites.) ECS chips sup poll. These include the original displays Game developers will be able to use these verv large, of 320x200, 320x400, 640x200, and 640x400 with or very fast sprites instead of slower bitmap objects, also, without overscan. Also included are the ECS 640x480 sprites (such as your pointer) can be set to various res­ and 640x960 Productivity mode and 1280x200 and olutions. independent of the screen resolution. 1280x400 SuperHires modes. AA chips go even further One chip missing from Commodore s newest ma­ with their Super72 modes, including a verv nice 800x600 ch in e is th e A3000 display enhancer, which creates a display. And. these resolutions do not include the extra non-interlaced, flicker-free display. Because of the in­ display area you get when you use overscan modes. creased bandwidth and programmability of the chips, In fact. Commodore engineersO are now defining o software can define a deinterlaced, flicker-free screen, even more screen resolutions. T hese new chips are pro­ provided vou use a multisync monitor. Examples of grammable: Vou can van' the horizontal and vertical these modes are the Productivity 640x480 and Super72 screen sizes in a great variety of , so many more 800x600 displays. exotic displays are not only possible but vety likely. And Bandwidth is not the only factor that contributes to keep in mind that all screens can support up to 256 col­ the chips’ speed. Another important A4000 compo­ ors (out of 16.7 million), as well as the phenomenal AA nent is 32-bit access to chip memory, instead of the 16- bit access of earlier chips. This means that the proces­ sor can read and w rite data to chip RAM twice as fast. Another feature of the system architecture, 32-bit page­ mode access, also means faster access to RAM.

W h e r e D o W e G o F r o m H e r e ? W o rk s McrklBPywq/ytetwrpsruoe I Will you be able to upgrade your existing Amiga to the AA chips? The quick answer is no. AA chips are 32-bit wide and not pin compatible with the earlier Amiga chip sets. One possibility—w hich Commodore neither confirms nor denies— is a motherboard upgrade. This would require you to purchase ancl install a completely 6eLux.e new motherboard, designed for AA. While this is pos­ pAiNtf p| 3dpro:oicturoivt imiq-i sible for the A3000 (which is a 32-bit system), it is a much more difficult proposition for A2000s, A600s, and A500s. Even if it does become available, though, a drawback to the motherboard option is cost. Moth­ erboard replacement is often expensive enough to jus­ tify a new system. This will be an even bigger consid­ The AA chips are used here to display multiple 32-color IFF images. eration if other, less expensive AA machines appear. There is, however, another force in the market that HAM displays of 256,000 colors. T he possibilities for can make such an upgrade feasible. That is the ever- artists, animators, multimedia producers, and desktop creative third-party companies that often provide so­ videographers are monumental, especially when you lutions to “impossible” situations. 1 have no inside in­ consider that all these features will now be standard on formation about such upgrade scenarios, but experi­ the A4000 and all future Amigas. ence leads me to expect them.

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UNLEASH THE POWER OF YOUR IMAGINATION! C ircle 56 on R pader Service card to enclure is knowing about Commodore’s plans, but A pplications f o r A A being restrained from talking about them. This has been especially problematic lately, in the face of much As you might expect, Com­ an A4000 and have not al­ speculation and commentary concerning a lack ol de­ modore has been keeping de­ ready registered your copy of velopment for the Amiga line. I'm happy to report that velopers informed of these Imagine, it is time to do so. there is much new technology coming from Com­ hardware changes, and quite O ctre e , publisher of Cali- modore, and A migaW orld will continue to bring that a few have been developing gari 3-D products, is also news to von as soon as we can. / products to take advantage of jumping on the AA bandwag­ I am impressed with the AA chi]) set and am eager the new features. While many on with Caligari 24, an up­ to start using an A40U0. The new displays will be a were not willing to “pre-an- boon to artists, multimedia producers, and desktop grade to Caligari 2. Octree is videographers, and game developers should have a nounce” their work, others excited by the new hi-res, field day with the color, speed and resolution Double were far enough along that eight-bit HAM mode, which it A provides. So will the rest of us! ■ they felt comfortable dis­ thinks will satisfy users who cussing their new AA products. really do not want or need a ► iv .1 L;tn •3 1 ...... - ...... 5? (To locate vendors of the prod­ full 24-bit framebuffer. ucts mentioned[ see the "Man­ ..... iELft ASDG's ADPro image pro­ fcwt«te to hurt ufacturers VDistributors ’ A d- cessor and FRED (FRame 0CkpiH^ In ImM litiitrter : 05* In fcmfcf : » • 31 : tOU < iCM dresses” list on p. 104.) EDitor) animation utility al­ St S ilZ t a u * | M a rin i INOVAtronics is upgrading ready support AA. I used AD­ I t t o r * * 1" Ur* . Irwjfl ta s rm J M h . M tonrfiMM ►•tot* its CanDo multimedia applica­ Pro to process 24-bit images W*r. H.'Sfe — | jJ M it tion language and Directory into both 256 color and eight- w w » - ■ _____ J Mifcnil. yj Opus file manager to support bit HAM displays, and was *" .1 .<“ U AA machines. The firm also surprised to find that it would promises a new, high-powered already open the new screens text editor, as yet unnamed. and display the images it cre­ jflte M flute: t M U Ip S ca la tells us it will fully fcafiffjC g i-whi 1 tm-. t (jj ated. ASDG’s Morph Plus will MKtndw.,. support the AA chips in Scala also offer features based on . futate: p.rwita i Multimedia 2.0 (scheduled to AmigaDOS 3.0. E l ! r ...... i l l . ship this fall), a greatly en­ Digital Creations 24-bit - * J ! ; hanced version of the existing paint-and-animation package, Scala presentation software- Brilliance (scheduled to ship Some new Preferences toots displayed in 256-color SuperHires. included with the package is a in late October), uses every utility to create animations us­ display mode your system can ing the new eight-bit HAM generate, including AA modes. A4000 Specifications modes, which Scala can play. Soft-Logiks PageStream 25-MHz 68040 CPU New Horizons was sched­ is already designed to work in Base machine includes 2MB chip RAM and 4MB uled to release ProWrite 3.3 at the 256-color mode as long as 32-bit RAM Up to 18MB RAM on motherboard; additional RAM last month's World of Amiga you open it on the Workbench. via RAM cards (to 1.7GB) show. This update will fully sup­ The company plans further Upgradable CPU via 200-pin sfot port all screen resolutions as enhancements to take advan­ 120MB IDE hard disk well as graphics with up to 256 tage of other AmigaDOS 3.0 880KB/1.7MB internal floppy colors. A new version of De- features. Supports four internal disk drives (two floppies and two hard drives) signWorks, scheduled for a G o ld D is k is upgrading Four ZORRO ll/lll expansion slots Christmas release, will also Professional Page and Pro­ Three PC/AT expansion slots support the AA chips. New fessional Draw to take advan­ Video-expansion slot Horizons also states that its tage of the new color modes. Full 32-bit system architecture The next release of Profes­ 16.8-million color palette other packages, such as Quar­ Up to 256 simultaneous colors, plus 256.000 colors terback, QuickWrite and sional Page is scheduled for using HAM display mode Flow, will work with AA, al­ later this year; a Professional Advanced Architecture (AA) Graphic Chip Set (Alice, though by the nature of their Draw update will follow. Lisa and Paula) tasks they do not require the Electronic Arts' Deluxe- Programmable display resolutions include 640x480, 640x960. 1280x400 and 800x600 extra color. Paint IV 4.5, which is expect­ Video overscan modes supported Im p u lse plans a free up­ ed this fall, will have full AA All color modes available in all display resolutions grade for any registered Imag­ chip support. A Deluxe Music Flicker-free interlaced modes ine 2.0 owner with an AA-chip Construction Set update, AA chip set backward compatible with earlier ESC machine. This new version will scheduled for release in early chip set Price: S3699 support the extra modes and winter, will also be compati­ resolutions. If you plan to get ble with the new system. □ P IE C E NEGOTIATIONS CREATING A COMPOSITE IMAGE

Where disparate images meet, an

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A COLLAGE IS an artistic medium used by professional artists and grade- school kids alike. The hard-copy ap­ proach involves cutting and pasting vari­ ous pieces—pictures and other mater­ ials—-to create an entirely new composition. The digital approach involves combining images from various sources on screen. Whether you create your collages by hand or by comput­ er, von must carefully select each clement so the final com- 4 4 position is a new work of art. The concept behind any good design is to convey your message to the intended audience. This is true whether your design is for business, television, art, or feature film. Although the selection of pieces is specific to each project, I can offer pointers and assembly lips that can help you time By Steven Blaize and time again. The examples I use to illustrate this article are intended for video, but the techniques work equally well for animation and print. Also, while my primary tools for ere- ► ating collages are ASDG’s Art Departiitent Professional composition and changes to copyrighted imagery. So be (ADPro), Digital Great ions' DC I"V, and Impulse’s careful: If you arc digitizing a published piece of art or Light24, you can apply these same ideas to whatever video, you should get permission to use it. programs you use. Once you have collected all the pieces you want to in­ clude, you are ready to start cutting and pasting. Paint P i c k i n g U p t h e P ie c e s programs such as Light24, Toaster Paint (NewTek), Before beginning to assemble a collage on screen, you Macro Paint (Lake Forest Logic/GVP) and DCTV Paint need a source for your digital art. You can use any paint, allow you to work with images in 16.7 million colors (24- draw, or 3-D rendering program to create original art. bii), bill require display hardware to provide this color You can also employ clip-art disks, the purchase of accuracy on the Amiga. (Each of these programs conies which generally gives you license to use the included packaged with the appropriate hardware.)

images.Q Ifvou/ have a Iranicgrabbcr o or still digitizer, O 7 /vou You really do not need special display hardware, can capture images from video, live sources, or static however; in order to create 24-bit collages. The Art De­ pictures. In digitizing, keep copyright in mind; there partment Professional and Image Master (Black Belt has been 110 clear definition of the impact of digital Systems) are specifically designed for processing im­ ages in 24-hit color, but they do not require anything beyond the Amiga’s normal display. This is a major benefit, even if your final output will be 16-color or HAM. (While Image Master comes packaged with Black Belt’s HAM-E display hardware—which it is es­ pecially suited to take advantage of-—it is sold sepa­ rately, as is AD Pro.) By combining your elements in lull (24-bit) color, you can mix multiple pictures, even HAM images, without palette problems. Then you can render your collage in 24-bit or in any of the standard Amiga modes with an optimized color palette. (Native display modes limit you in terms of palette: To combine ele­ ments of two images in paint software, both must share the same palette. If the images’ palettes are different,

jvou must either convert one image n to the other’s palette or change both to a third.) You can also use programs such as Digi-Paint 3 (NewTek), DeluxePaint IV (Electronic Arts), or Spectra- Color (()xxi) to combine Amiga-mode images— that is, images that do not require a special device for inicom- protnised screen display. I suggest these programs be­ cause they provide transparency controls that are very Figure 1. This composition is derived, in part, from the images helpful for such things as see-through drop shadows. in Figure 2. Figure I, which illustrates basic image compositing, served as the opening fide to an environmental news segment. 1 digitized the two dolphin photos using DC FV (see Figure 2) and loaded the clip-art image of the Earth onto the jump screen. Then, with the paint program’s stencil features, I cut the dolphins as clips (bottom images), resized them appropriately, and stamped them into position on the jump screen. I saved the result as a 24-bit IFF file. Although I coidd have added the text directly in O 4 DC'fY, I instead created it—along with its near-black drop shadow—on a solid-black background in another program. Keeping the background and text pieces sep­ arate allows you to change the text quickly if you later find that necessary. 1 then loaded this new picture with the Earth and dolphins into AD Pro. Making sure the Comp button was on, I then composited the I EE and title files, set­ ting RGB values to 0 and Mix to 100. This permitted the black background of the title screen to become to­ tally transparent, while the rest of the image was mixed at 100 percent. (By setting the RGB and Mix levels, you can make any specific color in an image transparent while mixing the rest ol the image to any level of transparency.) Figure 2. The DCTV-digitized dolphins, before stenciling (top) Finally, I scaled the entire image clown one percent and after. before scaling it hack up to the final 736x480. This al- ing ensures that the background will he of the verv lowed me to create anti-aliasingn around the text with- O O 4 out sacrificing image quality. highest quality. The easiest way to composite fixed backgrounds into M a s k s a n d S h a d o w s an animation sequence is with an ARexx script. AD Pit) Paint programs such as DeluxePaint, Light24, and comes with several ARexx scripts that give even novices DCTV provide the ability to create stencils to protect a good start, and you can use this approach with any areas of your image from changes. You can then com­ ARexx-controltable paint program or image processor posite other images into your collage over the unpro­ that lets you composite images together. tected areas. You can achieve this same effect through While I do not have space here for an ARexx lesson, AD Pro by creating a two-color mask. The top-left im­ I can offer a few pointers. First, create a list of the names ofyour rendered frames. You can do iliis easily age in Figure 3 demonstrates this: It shows the entire / 4

deco-stylc design in black and white. from the Cl.I bv/ changing n o the directoryj to the loca- After deciding which parts will he the same color, you tion ofyour images and typing List> filename sort can use your paint software’s fill tool to create the sep­ quick, (You can use an editor to remove the extra en­ arate mask files. (The first of the mask files for our ex­ tries from the list and also to easily rearrange the or­ ample appears in the top-riglu corner of Figure 3.) You der of the images.) ► then simply load die background (in ibis case the mar­ ble shown at the lower left) and then composite the mask, making the black transparent. T he result is shown in the lower-right corner of the figure. For this particular image. I used three types of mar­ ble for different parts of the design. 1 hen I composited these intermediate files together, with white being transparent. The final image (see p. 35) was placed on a black background for added contrast. Some ofyour projects may involve 3-D graphics and animations. The third example includes 3-D text ren­ dered in Imagine (Impulse), Looking at Figure 4, you can see most of die elements dial were used to create the final image. I fie top half shows die image before processing, while the bottom half depicts the processed image. 1 created the blue background using the ARexx script for embossing that’s included with AD Pro on the picture of wicker. 1 then composited tfiis at a mix of 30 percent over a plain blue backdrop. You achieve the embossed look by first loading a negative ofyour image, and then loading the original image one pixel to the right and one pixel down from the negative, with only a 50-percent mix. (ft works best if your image is made of various gray levels and has Figure 3. These parts went into the creation of the image on this good contrast.) In this manner, you can use your paint article’s opening page. programs to create the same type of look. I created the red rectangles in a paint program and added them next, first with a 30-percent mix and each of the RGB values at 255 (to produce white), t hen 1 shifted the image to the right and down, using the helpful visual indicators in AD Pro’s Composition Con­ trol screen. J his created die transparent drop shadow, which adds depth to the image. I then added die same file at a mix of 100 percent. Dually, I rendered die 3-D text on a black background and added it in the same manner, with a lull 100-percent mix and black designated as transparent (see Figure 5). Those of vou who work with 3-D software niav won- dei'why I would composite a rendered 3-D scene over a background rather than use the latter image as a backdrop in die 3-D program. There are two reasons: time and memory. The 3-1) software must read the im­ age from disk and load it into RAM before rendering takes place. I his consumes significant amounts of both commodities, as an overscan 24-hit background is about 1 MB in si/e. While some of die time saved is losl again during compositing, my experience shows that there is an overall saving. Furthermore, because the 3-D program may com­ Figure 4. Different dimensions: The 2-D and 3-D elements that combine promise the backdrop during rendering, composit­ to make the image in Figure 5.

A wiga I Vorld ? 7 When writing the ARexx script, use the command high-resolution, severe-overscan, 24-bit clip-art images. for your program that can load your background im­ I created the red, white, and blue borders in Dcluxe- age (with ADPro, use Get File). Now create a loop to first Paint at 772x516 and saved them as a single file. I then load the background file; then load the Foreground pic­ loaded this border into AD Pro and, using the Center ture, specifying mix levels and transparent color (AD­ buLton with a 100-percent mix, composited each scene Pro uses parameters after the load command); finally, into the middle between the borders. I then scaled each output the image. With .ADPro, you could even save the scenic image down to one-third of its size and temporar­

result to a framebuffer (such as Impulse’s FIRE­ ilyi saved it to disk as an individual file. To form the CRACKER or GVP’s IV24), and then trigger Microll- transparent drop shadows, I also created a plain-black lusions' Transport Controller to record your images au­ rectangle the same size as the reduced images. tomatically to videotape. To create the final image, I loaded the marble back­ ground and then added the first black rectangle, with W e D o W i n d o w s a 30-percent mix. Although I positioned the rectangle The last example (see Figure 6) involves a few more by eye, I noted the exact starting positions because I steps, but should give you further ideas of what you can knew that the next step involved adding the first small easily achieve. All of the original scenic pictures were bordered image ten pixels up and to the left of the shadow. I handled the three other images in the same man­ ner, placing the shadow first and then the scenic. In this way, I was able to have see-through shadows on the marble as well as on the underlying scenics. This ap­ proach added depth to the finished picture. The final touch in this example was to add cut-out titles— instead of standard text— over the images. I cre­ ated a mask for the title in a draw program where I could easily manipulate the characters. I saved the mask—black characters on a white backgound—as a simple two-color picture. Then I composited it at a 30- percent mix, with the black totally transparent; that created the gauze effect. Later, 1 added the outline around the letters using a similar mask. This time, I used RGB values of 1 in­ stead of 0 for the black element—the outline—so that the composited result is not transparent. As in the last example, I used the same scaling technique for better antialiasing. Regardless of what type of project you are working on, remember to think about your final design before you begin. Collect and arrange your elements carefully, Figure 5. 3-D graphics are exceedingly good news in the realm keeping t he goal of effective communication in mind. of compositing. When considering source images, look for unusual ideas— such as the use of wicker for texture in the third example—that can enhance your design. These cre­ ative touches can make a great difference. finally, be sure to save intermediate files temporarily as you progress. If you change your mind about one of the elements you are including in a multilevel im­ age— such as that in the third example— the interme­ diate files will save a lot of re-creation time. Besides, saving along the way lets you experiment with various results. And with a little experimentation, the possibil­ ities are endless. ■

The Earth Matters image is a derivative composition, with elements from original 1990 copyrighted works of Laurel Canty and Pieter Folkens/Earthviews. Except for the dol­ phins, all 24-hit images are from Texture City's professional image libraries.

Steven Blaize is owner o f Creative Fire, a multimedia pre­ sentations company, and co-owner o f Texture City, developer o f 24-bit backgrounds and textures. He is an author lecturer and consultant on Amiga and MS-DOS platforms, as well as the Assistant Director of the Amiga Video-Graphics Guild. Figure 6. A 30-percent white overlay gives this composite image Please contact him do AmigaWorld Editorial, SO Elm St., its gauzy feel. Peterborough, N H 03458. ITO

So you’ve written a program. Here’s what you should know about copyright

law— whether you intend to sell your work, make it freely distributable,

or place it in the public domain.

ou’ve just downloaded a new program from I ntellectual P r o p e r t y R i g h t s your favorite bulletin-board system and are Most software developers feel a sense of attachment scanning through its documentation when you to the software they create, especially if they depend come across this paragraph: on that software for their livelihood. The computer Y industry as it is today would not exist were it not for This program is (c)1991 by Joe Cool. This program is intellectual property rights— a term that includes copy­ public domain and may be distributed only for noncom­ rights and patents. mercial purposes. A patent grants an exclusive monopoly for a limited If you don’t know why the above statement is flawed, period of time (the length of protection depends on this article is for you. For now, let’s just say that Joe the country) to the inventor of a new, nonobvious Cool would be in for a surprise if he tried to sue for product. In exchange for this monopoly—which allows copyright infringement. the inventor to license the product to manufacturers ►

B Y ERIC GIGUERE and collect royalty payments— the inventor discloses they« are enforceable. While tliev / certainly / are. liliga- O the complete plans for the invention to the govern­ lion ft>r copyright infringement is expensive, and if ment, which puls the plans on file. Once the patent the violator has little or no money, about the best you period expires, anyone can use or sell the invention can hope for is to stop the infringement. Unless your as he sees lit. software is worth something substantial, there is little Gan software be patented? T his question is being you can do in a practical sense to prevent infringe­ hotlv* debated even as you J read this. The US Patent ment.You must just have faith that your copyright will Office has already granted several patents on soft­ be respected. ware and program algorithms. Whether the patents A copyright can be bought and sold much like ma­ are enforceable will not be known until a few lawsuits terial property. The owner of a software copyright have wound their way/ through O the legal u system. / In anv / is usually the person or persons who wrote the software, case, obtaining a patent is a time-consuming and unless it was done in the normal course of employ­ expensive operation, so the vast majority of developers ment, in which case the employer owns the software. depend on copyrights to protect their software. T he owner of the copyright is granted certain exclusive A copyright grants the creator of an original work rights: ol expression—a book, a painting, a sculpture— the exclusive right to make (or to license the making of) 1) the right to make copies of the software in any copies of that work and to prevent others from using form (this is the origin of the term copyright); the work without permission. Unlike patents, copy­ 2) the right to self, lend, give away, or otherwise rights do not protect ideas, only the expression of license the use of those copies: and ideas. Copyright protection also lasts longer, usually 3) the right to prepare derivative works. the lifetime of the creator (author) plus a fixed number of years. As you can see, copyright protection enables software Software can definitely be copyrighted, as can pro­ developers to peddle their wares to the public in the gram documentation. Most Western countries consider hope of making a profit and with reasonable expec­ software to be akin to literarv/ work and deserving n of tation that their work will not be pirated. Except for the same protection. For most developers, copyright is backup copies, anyone who makes and distributes the only viable way to protect software. copies of copyrighted software without the permission of the copyright owner is liable to be sued for copyright Y o u r R i g h t s infringement. Countries that are signatories to the Berne copyright I lie third right, that of preparing derivative works, treatv—includingr U Canada and, recently, / the US—do is an important right. "Derivative" in this sense means not even require that a copyright notice be present for works that are based on one or more other works, as the work to be protected. Copyright exists the moment in new versions of programs. Even if you make substan­ a work is created. Not all countries, however, are mem­ tial changes to a copyrighted program, the copyright bers of the Berne convention. For many years, the to the new program as a whole belongs to the original United States was a signatory to the Universal Copy­ copyright owner. right Convention (UCC), but not to the Berne conven­ tion. For protection in non-Berne countries a copyright P u b l i c D o m a i n notice like this is required: Copyright provides protection for a limited but lengthy period of time, especially where software is ©1991 Joe Cool concerned. When a copyright expires, the work that I he word copyright can be used in conjunction with was protected is said to enter the public domain, or instead of the copyright symbol, and for maximum after which it is available for use bv anvone for any j J / protection in certain countries the phrase “all rights purpose. In other words, it belongs to the public. reserved” should appear immediately after the notice: Copyright protection can also be lost if the work is improperly or fraudulently registered. Copyright ©1991 Joe Cool. All rights reserved. Software can also be placed in the public domain by The copyright notice should be displayed promi­ the copyright owner at any time before the copyright s nently within your source code and on the screen as expiration date. This should not be a decision lightly well, il possible. taken, however, because once copyright protection is Note that the letter c in parentheses— like this: (c)— withdrawn, it is lost forever. W hile derivative works is not a valid substitute for the copyright symbol, so to of public-domain materials can bv copyrighted if the be safe, be sure to use the word “copyright" in your pro­ changes are sufficiently substantial (such as an English gram source code. translation of Dante’s Inferno drawn from the original Although registering your copyright with the gov­ texts), no one can copyright original works that have ernment is not necessary,v doing n so affords /vou maxi- lapsed into the public domain. mum protection. In this way, you can sue for statutory It should be evident at this point that the phrase damages as well as actual damages in a copyright "this software is public domain" must be used with the infringement case. Typically, this involves filling our utmost care in your software. Think it over carefully; a form describing the title and nature of the software do you really want to relinquish your rights to the and including two copies of the source code (or parts software? Remember that once your software is in the thereof) with a registration fee (less than $20 in most public domain, anyone can do anything with it. This cases). includes selling it to others without giving you a single Of course, copyright restrictions are useful only il penny, or including it in commercial software without ► Real-time 24-bit graphics for your Amiga or Video Toaster!

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Circle 157 on Reader Service card I. ImpactViston 24 Is a registered trademark ol Great Va’ ey Products. Inc.. Video Toaster and ToasterPamt are regjsie-ed trademarks ot NewTek, inc.. Arrvca. Workbench, Intuition, and AmigaDOS are registered trademarks of Commodore Am-ga, Inc. giving you credit. (The ethics of such activities are In addition to these notices, you should include debatable but beyond die scope of copyright law and information on how to contact you by both electronic this article.) There is nothing wrong with placing your and paper mail. software in the public domain, of course, but you II ihe program is interactive, make it output a short should consider the option thoroughly. notice like the following when it starts in an interac­ tive m ode: F r e e w a r e a n d B e y o n d Another option is to give your software away without Gnomovision version 69, Copyright © 19xx name of author. placing it in the public domain. There are a number Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details, type "show w". This is free software, and you are of reasons for wanting to do this, such as making sure welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type no one makes radical changes to your program without "show c" for details. your approval. Copyright enters the picture here, since one of the rights attached to a copyright is the ability The example commands "show w” and “show c” should to distribute the program as the copyright owner sees display the appropriate parts of the General Public lit. It is not unusual to see a statement immediately lb]- / License. Of course, voui may i want to use other com- lowing a program’s copyright notice that says some­ mands, or even mouse clicks or menu items. thing like this: “Permission is granted to freely dis­ To make the process complete, you should also get tribute and modify this program for non-commercial your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your purposes only.” school (if you are a computer-science student) to sign Copyrighted software with such a notice is usually re­ a copyright disclaimer for the program, if necessary. ferred to as or freely-distributable software, be­ Here is a sample: cause it can be freely shared with other users. (Techni­ Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the cally, all public-domain software is also f reeware, as there program "Gnomovision" (a program to direct compilers to make are no copyright restrictions to prevent its being shared. passes at assemblers) written by James Hacker. However, the term freeware is not synonymous with the phrase public-domain software.) A program that can be shared, and for which a payment is requested if you use # 1 April 1989 it after a trial period, is referred to as shareware. If you are interested in making your software truly Ty Coon, President of Vice freely distributable (thus allowing it to be of greatest possible use to humanity), you may wish to examine what is known as the GNU Public License. Some­ F o r M o r e I n f o r m a t i o n times called a "copyleft,” the copyright statement is I here are many books available dealing with copy­ used on all software developed by the free Software rights and other intellectual property issues. If you can­ Foundation. A copy of the statement is included with not Find any at your local library (don’t forget to check even' FSF software product and is available separate­ the section on book writing) a good bet is the nearest ly from the FSF (675 Massachusetts Ave., Cam­ college or university library. Be sure to check the pub­ bridge, MA 02139). Be aware that the Public License lication dates on the books, as copyright law is always is somewhat controversial and that you should exam­ evolving. Software Protection by G. Gervaise Davis III ine its ramifications carefullyJ before using it in vour , (Van Nostrand Reinhold) is a good introductory book, softw are. if somewhat dated. For those with a keen interest in the To implement the Public License, attach the follow­ subject area, The Law and Business of Computer Software ing notices to the start of each source file to most edited by D.C. Toedt (Clark Boardman) is also a good effectively4 convey 4 the exclusion of warranty. 4 (At ' choice. United States residents can obtain copyright- the very least, each file should have the "copyright” registration information by writing to the Register of line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.) Copyrights, Copyright Office, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.' 20559. professional legal advice. When in doubt, consult an Copyright ©19xx cname of author> intellectual property lawyer—your family lawyer is

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or unlikely to have the expertise you need. modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as By the way, the example “copyright statement” at the beginning of this article illustrates what not to published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 1, do if vou wish to keep the copyright on your software. or (at your option) any later version. ‘I'hat statement might be ruled nonsensical (because This program is distributed in the hope that it w ill be useful, of the use of the words “public domain”), and copyright but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied protection could he lost if an infringement case ever warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU­ came to court. ■ LAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Eric Giguere is the author of ’Amiga Programmer's Guide You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public to .ARexx (Commodore/Amiga, 1991), and a member of the License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Computer Systems Group at the University o f Waterloo. Write Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Massachusetts Ave., Cam­ to him clo the Computer Systems Group, University of bridge, MA 02139, USA. Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont., Canada N 2L3G 1. Producing a fresh, captivating

publication involves more than

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prose. We’ll show you how to make the

right choices in terms of fonts, layout,

image manipulation, and more-

so you can get your point

across with style.

UBLISH By Victor Osaka

P a n a c h e

ITS 11 IK CONTENT lhai really matters, right? Who needs to design a newsletter? In truth, both content and design are important. People are more apt to read your material if it is pleasing to the eve. If they must strain to read the text, however, they will neither enjoy it nor he in a state to absorb its content. Imposing blocks of tiny or unreadable type mav cause readers to skip over your text altogether. I laving seen scores oi newsletters and produced one myself, I know that the quality and appearance of your newsletter depends less on your equipment or desktop- publishing program than on your sense of design aes­ thetics. Careful use of type and graphics make the real difference between a good design and a great one. This article offers some design ideas and concepts to make your newsletter more elfective, and shows how your Amiga software can help. In describing some parts of the process, I'll refer to the black-and-white monthly 1 publish, the 3D A rt Forum International (3DAFI) newsletter, which is pro­ duced entirely on the Amiga. It is 12 to 14 pages (I 1x17 sheets folded in hall) and contains lots of liigh- resolution IKK images in addition to text. (To locate ven­ dors of the products mentioned, see the “Manufacturers''/De­ velopers' Addresses'* list on p. 104.)

G oon D e s ig n To begin thinking about design, I suggest that you start a “good designs” file for tear sheets and clippings from the most effective, attention-grabbing newsletters you sec. Von can refer to these for inspiration and education in the liner points of good design. Think you don’t know w hat good design is? Really, at least on a subconscious level, you/ do—and von / re- sponcl to it. What you must do is educate your conscious mind to implement what you already know. Ask your- ► self "What is it about these designs that makesrae like your newsletter, you might choose a serif font (Palatine,

them?" You will find that ; vou can indeed recognize O for example) for the body text and a sans-serif font good newsletter design. (such as Univers) for the headlines. In any case, a good When looking at the designs in your clip file, notice design will minimize the variety of fonts used on a sin­ where your eye gravitates to. Your eyes should move log­ gle page. Different type styles help to organize and em ­ ically over the page, lirst to the title of the newsletter, phasize elements, but should not distract the reader. then toward the headline of the main article, and finally Using style tags will speed up the process of designing to other auxiliary information blocks. Also, pay attention your newsletter by allowing quick and effortless global to the flow of information from page to page. Does your changes for experimentation.

eve» easily i find where the article continues? lb help determine a readable font treatment, you ( .o ahead and model your newsletter after a success­ will need an ASCII l-format text file for “greeking.” ful publication, hut do not copy it directly, and do not (Some say that it is best to use nonsensical type, but I duplicate articles or images; they are copyrighted. just use the documentation from one of my programs.) Your design sets the “personality” of your newsletter, The file should he large enough to fill your entire which depends in large part upon your audience. To newsletter, and you should use the same file for all your determine your graphic-design goals, lirst analyze your design iterations. Flow ibis type into a page and run audience. Is it technically or artistically oriented, young out samples using a variety of fonts at t he size o fyour or old, academic or otherwise? Review examples of newsletter. Vary the leading, kerning, and type faces for newsletters, promotionals, and trade magazines in its these rests and save them as a reference for future type- Held ol interest. Knowing what your readers encounter design decisions. in other publications will help guide you to what they On the Amiga, both Professional Page and PageStream might expect from yours. In the end, though, it is vou use outline-font technology. This gives you the best qual­ who must be pleased with the results. ity type for any printer. 1 recommend purchasing a vari­ Before implementing a design on the computer, cre­ ety of fonts for your library. There are several hundred ate a "mockitp" of it with pencil and paper. The grid sys­ Adobe Type 1 fonts, which you can find on many Mac tem helps you to determine your margins, column width and PC BBSs. Both PageStream and Pro Page can easily and space between columns. Do a few different grids and convert these to Amiga-compatible outline fonts. let them sit for a dav. Then look at them again with a PageStream allows you to scale, stretch, twist and ro­ fresh eye tomorrow. The resulting template is important, tate outline fonts, abilities indispensable for creating as it forms the basis of all your future issues. dynamic headline type. You can use its drawing tools Programs such as Professional Page 3,0 (G old D isk) to create stylized filigree and then save it as an IFF im­ and PageStream 2.2 ISoft-Logik) allow vou to set vour age for use in any layout program. You can get a similar final grid system and apply it to all pages ol vour effect with Gold Disk's Professional Draw and move newsletter (except, probably, for the lirst page or cov­ the results into either Professional Page or PageStream, er). When you are ready to import the text of your ar­ the latter of which also allows you to manipulate your ticles, it will How right into your pages automatically. Professional Draw clips. Outline-font technology makes it easy to include T h e E l e m e n t s o f S t y l e drop caps in your design. A drop cap is a very classy

I lie ultimate ntioal of design o is to facilitate effective com- treatment that involves enlarging the first letter of an mimical ion. To achieve that o goal, 7 you/ must ngrab the article, making it anywhere from 3 to 20 points larger. reader’s attention and hold it. The article titles should For variety, try a reverse letter within a black box, or

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• Create a grid system that sets mar­ • Send your files to a service bureau number of pieces you must distribute and the quality you wish to achieve. If you need to print more than a gin and column widths in which to for Linotronic output or print them at thousand pieces, consider paper or metal plates. Paper flow your text. the highest resolution of your printer. The results are your masters (or me­ piate is a relatively inexpensive process, although the • After flowing the text files into chanicals), ready for the print shop. images it produces are generally not verv crisp and contrasty. The more expensive metal-plate method gives you beautiful image quality and clean, sharp type (only as good as your originals, of course). Because of Design Checklist the quality metal plates afford, in using them you should go to Linotronic output of your masters. • Do your eyes follow a logical pat­ ing make the text easy to read? Simple photocopying is not recommended unless tern: first to the masthead, headlines, • Is there a good balance of white you require only a very small number of copies and im­ pull quotes and then subheads? space, type columns, and graphics? ages are not an important element in your design. Al­ • Are the headlines and subheads in­ though laser copying is a bit more expensive, it is worth • Are the pull quotes and subheads triguing and to the point? it. I have found the quality to be superior—as good as effective and clear? metal plates in most cases. • Do the type face, type size and lead- I create all the masters (mechanicals) for the 3DAFI newsletter with H ew lett R ic k a rd s DeskJet printer. Because the newsletter’s cover is so important, I send it to a service Working Conditions bureau for Linotronic output at 1250 resolution and 120 line screen. All the originals then go to a print shop, where WITH THE RIGHT hardware, Work­ true if you use PageStream or Profes­ they are output on a high-quality laser copier. bench 2.0 allows for a larger working sional Draw: Screen refreshes and file The issues involved in publication design and pro­ screen, which both Professional Page imports speed up to more reasonable duction are vast and cannot be adequately addressed and PageStream can take advantage of rates. in one article. For more guidance, I recommend you automatically. Digital Micronics' DM I Organization is paramount when look into a number of sources. The Designers Guide to Resolver board upgrades your screen to you are dealing with many files. A Text Type, by Jean Callan King and Tony Esposito (Van a high-resolution graphic display. And good disk u tility such as OPUS (/NO­ Nostrand/Rein hold, 1990), is a time-saving compila­ personally, I am a firm believer in anti­ VA Tronics) or DiskMaster (Progres­ tion of several dozen type faces, styles, and leading radiation screens. I find that I can work sive Peripherals 8 Software) makes combinations. Newsletters— From The Desktop by R oger much longer at the computer without managing them much easier. Be sure C. Parker (Ventana Press, 1990) is filled with excellent fatigue using NoRad Corporation's anti­ to keep your original work files in information and examples. ■ radiation screen, which I feel is the best. archive. Programs like Quarterback Accelerators and extra memory do (Central Coast Software) and Am i- Victor Osaka is editor and publisher of the 3D A it Forum In­ wonders for desktop publishing. Don't Back (Moonlighter Software) are es­ ternational newsletter which semes the Amiga 3-D educational be mistaken; your life will change dra­ sential for irreplaceable files. I com­ foundation that he founded. He is also president of the orga­ matically if you install an accelerator, press my files with the public-domain nization. overseeing support, in formation, and discount offers preferably a 68040. This is especially program LZ before archiving them. □ to members. Write to him at 13 4 1 Ocean Ave., Suite 349, San­ ta Monica, CA 90401-1066 , or call 310(398-7649. □ jWorkbench

A SERIES THAT EXPLORES THE AMIGA’S RELEASE 2 DISK OPERATING SYSTEM

This, our first installment,

investigates things you should

elease 2 incorpo­ know before you modify your archive/sys drawer, rates by far the which bears the logical- most significant set device name ENVARC:. ofR changes to Amiga- AmigaDOS startup-sequence. The startup-scquence DOS since the operating script creates the env and system was released as ver­ env/sys directories in the sion 1.0 in 1985, While some RAM disk and assigns ENV: modifications may not be to RAM:env. It then cop ies all readily apparent, they alter some files and directories from EN­ of the “rules" we have come to take VARC: to ENV:, including the pref­ for granted. erence files, which go to ENV:sys. One area that includes many such changes Later in the startup-sequence, tfie IPrefs is the boot procedure. In all 1.x Workbench versions, program executes. IPrefs not only reads the prefer­ Kickstart reads the user preferences from the DEVS: sys­ ences files in ENV:sys and establishes the initial set­ tem-con figuration file before it opens the initial CXI win­ tings, but also watches those files and alters the set­ dow. By the lime it begins to execute the s: startup- tings when it detects changes. When you select the Use sequence script, Kickstart has already opened a Work­ option from one of the Preferences editors, a new ver­ bench screen that conforms to such user-defined pref­ sion of the preference file is written to ENV:sys. IPrefs erences as screen type (interlaced or noninterlaced) and reads the new file from there and changes the setting. font (Topaz cS or 9). Editing the startup-scquence file Because ENV: is assigned to the RAM disk, this change is a time-honored tradition in Workbench 1.x versions, lasts only until you reset or turn oil your computer. and there are not many ways to generate problems by When you select die Save option, however, the file also adding commands to it. copies to the ENVARC: directory, making the change In Release 2, however, the whole system of prefer­ p erm a n en t. ences has changed drastically. Settings are stored in in­ This new procedure works very' well and has a num­ dividual files on the Workbench disk in the sys:Prefs/env- ber of benefits. It allows Commodore to easily add new ► BY SHELDON LEEMON preference items, such as sound or Postscript Prefer­ put text from a program or to display an error message ences, without a ROM upgrade. This scheme also or requester. That is why the initial screen stays blank seizes as a model For third-party hardware and software so much longer under 2.0 than under 1.3, developers. By following Commodore's example, com­ If you examine the 2.0 starlup-sequence file, you panies can create their own preference editors with the will sec that output from commands coming before same look and feel as Commodore’s, and use their own IPrefs is either suppressed with a Quiet switch or redi­ programs to monitor the preferences files that these rected to NIL:. If you put one of your own commands programs create. at the beginning of the 2.0 starlup-sequence and if Because Kickstart automatically copies the contents that command generates some texi before IPrefs es­ of the env-archivc directory to ENV:, you can even save tablishes the screen and font preferences, the Shell will archival copies of environment variables to this direc­ be forced to open a window on a default screen. Then, tory. By thus creating permanent versions of these vari­ when IPrefs runs, it will be unable to close the old ables, you need not re-create them at each session with Workbench screen containing the Shell window, and the SETENV command. will complain by issuing the following mysterious mes­ sage in a requester: S c r e e n i n g R o o m Intuition is attempting to reset the Workbench screen. As with the old Kickstart, IPrefs must set screen pref­ Please close all windows except drawers. erences (such as mode, font, and overscan) before any screens or windows open. If a Workbench screen opens If you get this message every time you boot your sys­ before I be new preferences are established, Kickstart tem, you have probably added a command line some­ must close that screen before IPrefs can open one that where in the startup-sequencc before IPrefs. The simple matches the preference settings. The problem is that solution is to redirect the output of any new command Workbench cannot close a screen containing windows line to NIL:. If the program is called MYCOMMAND, (such as the Shell window) that it does not directly con­ for example, and it lakes the command arguments “ar­ trol. To avoid this situation, the new Kickstart does not guments,” change the command line from open any display until it is absolutely necessary to out­ MYCOMMAND arguments

to

MYCOMMAND >NIL: arguments

The only other time you may see this message is Programs in when you change screen or font preferences after the WBStartup opening a program that puts a window up on the d ra w e r run Workbench screen, such as VirusX or the Shell. Intu­ automatically ition cannot reconfigure the Workbench semen until all w hen you “visitor” windows are closed. boot—usually H e r e , N o t T h e r e in the order in w hich you The new preferences scheme is not the only thing to added them. keep in mind when modifying your startup-sequencc file. Lots of crucial system functions (such as monitor descriptions) are included in this script in 2.0, and Commodore will add more in the future. The more important it is to run the commands in the startup file in the proper order, the greater becomes the risk of bringing the whole system to a halt by careless editing Information of this file. ‘ ’s* ".-J : To minimize this risk, Release 2 introduces the con­ Blanker (Tool) cept of a “user-startup” file. If you put such a script file in the S: directory, Kickstart executes it automat­ Adding the ically as part of the startup procedure. Commodore ToolType advises all users to add new commands and assign­ DONOTWAIT to ments to this file, rather than editing the startup-se- a programlcon quence file. It is also a good idea to make sure that instructs l a s t Chan 23- J u 1-92 11:16:56 programs designed to modify the startup script (such WBStartup not as hard-drive installation scripts) perform their oper­ to wait for the (o m e n t • .v ? ations on the user-startup file instead of the startup- program to sequencc file. finish before DONOTUAIT OC_POPUP=HQ Of course, modifying either the user-startup or the starting the I startup-sequence file requires some familiarity with next one in OLP0PKEY=ctrl alt b OLPRID«ITY=0 text editors and the AmigaDOS command interface. the drawer. SEC0MDS=388 Because one goal of the new operating system was to New | B el | |POHOTHflIT free the user from having to deal with nonvisual, user- hostile interfaces, Release 2 introduces a completely Save | Cancel | icon-driven alternate method of automatically run­ ning certain programs every time the computer boots. ►

The new Workbench disk contains a new drawer Should 1 w ait some more? called WBStartup, To automatically run a program each time you start, just drag its icon into the \VB- You can instruct the system not to wait fora program Startup drawer. It’s as simple as that. to finish by adding a ToolType line reading DONOT- You should know, though, that programs in the WATT to the program's icon. Just click once on the pro­ WBStartup drawer execute in the order in which thev gram icon, select Information from the fools menu, appear in the director)'. This generally corresponds click the New button under ToolTypes, type DONOT- to the order in which you dropped them into the di­ WAIT, hit the Return key, and click on Save. rector)'. You can see this order by calling the names Commodities programs such as Blanker and Click- with the LIST command (LIST Sys:WBstartup) from IbFront (found in the fools drawer) make excellent the CLI. (DIR is not of use here, because it alphabet­ candidates for the WBStartup drawer, but many of izes the list.) these programs pop up a settings window when vou 11 the order of execution is an issue— if one program run them, even if the settings are saved just as you like will not run unless ARexx has been started, for exam­ them. If you add t he ToolType CX_P( )IT T =N () to the ple—you can usually modify it by dragging all the files icon of a Commodities program, it will not open a set­ in the WBStartup drawer to the RAM disk, deleting tings window when it runs. them from the WBStartup drawer, and then dragging When you think about it, you'll probably come up them back to WBStartup in the correct order. If this with lots of types of programs that you want to run au­ does not work, you may have to add the command that tomatically; ARexx, virus checkers, keyboard enhancers, runs first to the s: user-startup script, which executes appointment calendars, a clock, and soon. Bv using the before the WBStartup icons, WBStartup drawer, you can modify your boot procedure .Another point to keep in mind is that the system with the greatest of ease, and with no fear of generating waits for each program to finish before it launches the some obscure error in an arcane script file. ■ next one. If any program does not finish within a cou­ ple of seconds, Workbench pops up the requester: Sheldon Lee man, a respect eel authority on the Amiga, is finish­ ing a hook about Workbench 2.0. When he's not writing, you Program 'Name_of_program' has not yet returned. can find him at Slipped Dish, a Detroit-area Amiga dealership.

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For animators who aren’t professional artists,

rotoscoping is a neat trick for creating smooth, high-quality animations.

toscoping— tht* process of tracing over live Rotoscoping can result in very beautiful animation, as action, frame by frame, and turning it into in the old Betty Boop cartoons and 101 Dalmatians, or a moving drawing— is probably one of the in awkward, jerky movements, as in the movie Lonl of more controversial and least understood the Rtngs. I he trick to rotoscoping is to know when to i techniques in animation. But while profes- be interpretive with live action and when to be literal. T h e I sional animators are divided over its mer­ fundamental rule to keep in mind is this: If live action its, computer animation buffs who are not is not altered in some significant way, it is not animation. accomplished artists can get a lot of mileage out of So, if the animation appears so real that it seems live, this excellent technique. save yourself a lot of work and just use live action. The reason that rotoscoping is a dirty word to many Generally, literal rotoscoping is good for (pardon the of the pros is that they view the technique as a crutch pun) “inanimate’' objects, where the mechanical look for people who cannot draw the human bodv. Yet other is a plus, while interpretive rotoscoping is best for shrewd practitioners view it as a handy trick when they humans and animals, where smooth, fluid movement need to quickly capture the essence of an action or is required. Often, the best rotoscoping results are gesture. Let's leave the debate to the academy and obtained when the animator—working interpretively— move on. Whatever its pros and cons, rotoscoping is looks at the live action to estimate not where the out­ used by animators more than they care to admit— and line of a figure is, but where the skeleton is. The skele­ often to great effect. ton is what is traced, with the animator then dressing ►

A miga 11 orltl 55 the skeleton in whatever flesh he or she chooses. Let’s ematically correct position of the arc of a sworcl swing. take a look at a few examples of how each method has Each individual drawing was an exquisite work of art. been used to produce some very effective—and not-so- The trouble, however, was that when projected at Film e fleet i ve— resu 11 s. speed, the animation lurched along as if it were some­ thing out of the movie Night of the Living Dead. L e s s o n s o f R o t o s c o p i n g P a s t What went wrong? The animators neglected to re­ Cab Calloway’s exaggerated, rubbery dancing was well member the basics of “squash and stretch.” You must suited to animation. In several of the Betty Boop car­ keep in mind that the faster something moves, the toons, animators used Calloway’s timing, altitude, and more it stretches out. As an arm picks up speed, it looks gestures as reference points to create fluid dancing char­ deformed. But don’t perform cosmetic surgery on acters. One of the cartoons, “Minnie the Moocher,” is a it—draw it deformed! \Vhen it goes even faster, an arm good illustration of interpretive animation because the turns into a streak, so draw a streak. Although the in­ rotoscoping employed in it transformed Calloway—a tall, dividual drawings may look strange, the animation will thin man— into a roly-poly walrus. It was easier for a man be a lot smoother because it is the cumulative effect to act as if he were a walrus— leaving the rest to an ani­ that is im portant, not the individual frames, mator's imagination—than it was to find a real walrus dancing on its hind legs and rotnscope him literally. R o t o s c o p i n g B a s i c s On the other hand, literal rotoscoping was put to To rotoscope on the Amiga, you need a VCR (a cam­ excellent use in Walt Disney’s 101 Dalmatians. Cruel la corder is best), a digitizer, and an animation/paint pro­ De A il’s car was a white cardboard model, outlined in gram. Personally, I find the best digitizer for my jobs black so that the animators could see it dearly./ Shot in is A-Squared Distributions' Live! because it captures framc-bv-frame stop motion and copied directly onto multiple frames from a VCR in real time. Once the cels, the car looked just like a drawing—without any images are grabbed, 1 use Electronic Arts’ DeluxePaint help from the animator. Cruella was then animated by IV to process and play them back. (See the list on j). 104 hand, silting behind the wheel of the car, and the cels jo r vendors ’ add nesses.) were painted and photographed with the background. Shoot your subject against a blank wall. The wall This is as literal as rotoscoping gets, (In recent years. should contrast with the subject: A light subject calls for Disney has replaced cardboard models with computer- a dark wall, and a dark subject requires a light wall. generated ones. Amiga users can choose to digitize Forget about subtlety in acting for rotoscoping. Ham models or build them with 3-D programs, depending it up and exaggerate movements. Tell your subject to on the kind of software and hardware they/ use and the pretend to be a stage actor and to make broad sweep­ complexity of the model.) ing gestures. What appears ridiculously overdone in Finally, the film Lord of the Rings serves as a caution­ live action will look completely natural and restrained ary example of what not to do when rotoscoping. The when turned into animation. entire film was live action, and the individual frames With the Amiga's ability to manipulate and reprocess were blown up to 8x10 photographs. Some scenes were digitized shapes, you can turn a live actor into a “toon,” copied directly onto cels, while others were traced by Professional animators who look down on rotoscoping hand. The film contains a lot of swordplay and fast usually brag that they can always spot whether some­ action—so fast that, at times, a sword arm becomes an thing was rotoscoped or drawn by hand. One of the indistinct blur or disappears altogether. giveaways is that the finished character is always Faced with tracing blurs and invisible arms, first-time shaped in the proportions of a normal, realistic hitman animators did the logicalCJ thing: O They / drew anatOmi- body, just as in a monster movie you can tell that it’s tally correct, perfectly foreshortened arms in the math­ only a guy in a lizard suit.

Figure 1. Some sample frames from the finished animation sequence that was created through rotoscoping techniques. Toons, by contrast, are half the height of regular four times. Next, I stamped the brush so that the waist humans, as was graphically illustrated in the him Who registered to the knees and then repeated that proce­ Framed Roger Rabbitt. Roger came up only to Eddie dure on every frame. After playing this cycle to see if Valiant’s waist. Real humans are eight heads high; it animated smoothly, 1 saved it as an ANIM. toons are four heads high. Rotoscoping can turn nor­ With the grid still on and starting back at the first mal human proportions into toon proportions, thereby frame, 1 grabbed a brush of the head, enlarged it by eliminating a vital clue to the source of your animation. pressing the + key three times, and stamped it down so it appeared to sit correctly between the shoulders. 1 R o t o s c o p i n g i n A c t i o n repeated that procedure on every frame, and when the For my sample rotoscoping demonstration (some of sequence appeared to animate smoothly, ! saved it as which appears on the opening spread of this article), an ANIM. The proportions were then correct for a I videotaped my subject acting as if he were a cute, shy, cute, baby-bunny-type character. Disnev-like baby bunny. His hands clasped in front of For the final phase, I started at the beginning frame him, feet pigeon-toed, knees together, upper body once again. After each frame, I added another and twisting left and right, and head tucked into bis shoul­ then cleared the added frame so that I wound up with ders made a nice repetitive cycle. even'even frame clear. From the Anim menu, I turned After viewing the tape, I found the section I liked on Lite Control panel (Alt-A) and then the Light Table best and opened Live!. In the Capture menu, I set the (1). I moved to frame 2, the Clear frame. With the number of frames I wanted to grab, choosing a number Light Table on, I could see frame 1 and the figure it that was a bit higher than I actually needed just to play contained as I was drawing on frame 2. it safe. 1 played the tape and pressed F9 to capture the I looked at that body as if it were an x-ray and drew frames. After pressing F10 to replay that sequence to only the stick figure inside it for frame 2. I drew a stick make sure it was the section I wanted, I saved it and figure for each body, until the succession of frames returned to the Workbench. At the Live! window, I became body, stick figure, body, stick figure, and so on. double-clicked on the Playriff icon. From the only 1 then deleted all the bodies, leaving only the stick menu present there, 1 selected 1 st Frame and then Save figures. When this cycle passed my viewing test, I saved Frame, and then continued with Next Frame and Save it. Next, I drew the finished baby bunny in another Frame until I had saved all the frames. color over the stick figure, and stenciled out the stick When I bad finished saving them, I closed Live! and figure. After a little minor tweaking here and there, the opened DeluxePaint IV. I loaded all the Live! frames animation—several frames of which you can see in at once via the Picture menu. In the # of Frames box, Figure 1—was done. I set the total number of my captured Live! frames and Through rotoscoping techniques, the digitized live double-clicked on the first frame, which saved me f rom actor can be invaluable in determining timing in your having to load them individually. I then pressed 4 to animation. You can do this as precisely and as religious­ run the frames continuously so that I could see if there ly as I did in my demo, or you can simply rotoscope were any that I needed to trim in order to ensure a the extremes and then draw the in-betweens freehand. smoother cy cle. (If 1 had wanted to lose a frame here, Much can be learned from digitizing humans and ani­ I would have gone to the Anim menu and looked mals and analyzing their movements. ■ under Frames for Delete.) To be on the safe side, I saved the cycle as an ANIM. Gene Hamm is a veteran animator who works for Colossal .After turning on the grid, I grabbed a brush from Pictures. His credits include work ort The Guniby Show. the top of the head down to the waist and enlarged the Write to him do AmigaWorld Editorial, 80 Elm St., brush to the correct size by pressing the Plus key ( + ) Peterborough, N H 03458.

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If there is a 30- or 60- give you some bright ideas.) upgrade offer in its box. point version of the same typeface in the On its own, Kindwords is a fairly com- fonts drawer, Kindwords scales down the B e t t e r t h a n L e g o s plete entry-level word processor. It sports larger font and prints with it instead, get­ Difficult to imagine creating one of these a unique left-hand toolbox that handles ting a better result than is possible with on your lonesome, eh? Well, it is now most of the tasks (such as font control the size actually selected. within reach. Starting with just a green and paragraph formatting) usually rele­ Kindwords has its share of idiosvncra-z field and blue sky, you use plain-English gated to a ruler atop the screen. A help sies, as well. With over three megabytes icon- and menu-driven commands to icon also produces an on-line guide to of memory available, I was unable to create eight basic shapes— from a cube to the program’s features. open more than two documents simul­ a pyramid to a straight line— in the play- Two major format requesters, Para­ taneously, even though 1 couldn't find field at the top half of your screen. You graph and Page Layout, control the ap­ anything in the manual about the max­ can color them, stretch them, shrink pearance of the final document. The imum number of files I could open at them, move them, turn them, connect Paragraph requester lets you select line once. Also, as far as aesthetics go, I them up in complex objects, and roam spacing. You may specify line height as found the Kindwords ruler and toolbox among them to ensure the lit is just six or eight lines per inch, automatic (ad­ to be a tad ugly and a bit large, even in right. A cube flattened and lengthened justs to the selected font), single, double, high resolution. becomes a wall. The copy command cre­ or custom spacing specified in points. Despite the fact that Kindwords is a ates another. (Just push the copy over to You can also tell Kindwords to skip an ex­ simpler word processor than excellence!, the right with the move buttons.) tra line before or after each paragraph, I couldn’t shake the impression that it A second clone, pivoted with the turn and you can mix styles throughout the was, in fact, somewhat more difficult to command and shrank to fit the gap, be­ document. The Page Layout requester use. Kindwords has all the basics, but comes the back, and a pyramid, with a lit- lets you specify page size and margins. lacks many of the amenities a seasoned tlejiggling, forms a little peaked roof. Nice Headers and footers are shown on typist looks for in a word processor, ex­ garage, eh? T im e to get started on the car. screen, and they may be different on op­ cellence!, on the other hand, is in a dose And so, area by• linked area, vour 4 en- posing pages. 11 you like, paragraph race with New Horizon’s Pro Write 3.2 for vironment grows. You can add animation symbols may also be visible. Have you the best of the best. and up to 32 sampled sounds—the pro­ ever wanted a vertical ruler to comple­ —Dave Johnson gram comes with six pre-dcfined ones ment the standard top-of-page model? (but, alas, no music support). Kindwords accommodates, letting you The BASIC-like Freescape Command measure how much paper you have con­ Language (FCL) permits you to set up sumed. Unfortunately,/ the ruler is not conditions and variables for interacting precise enough for accurate positioning V ir t u a l R e a l it y with this world within your Amiga. You work, as there is no zoom control. S t u d io can use your paint program to create a As you m ight expect, Kindwords offers Domark/Accotade, S89.95, custom IFF border that frames and pro­ the ability to insert numerous things in vides the controls with which you will run Hard-drive installable. a file, such as page breaks, the date, and your program (or use the two that come Not copy protected. the time. Depending on vour preference, with the program). And. finally, you can 2,0 compatible. Kindwords inserts the current date and create a stand-alone game that runs in­ Accelerator compatible. never changes it (useful for reference dependently of the creating program. Minimum system: 5I2K RAM. documents) or updates the date every (In England, the public-domain and “li- Recommended system: 1MB RAM, time you load the document (useful for censeware” market is already sporting hard drive, accelerator. form letters). some very stylish VRS games.) Kindwords also includes the requisite 3-D game creation. VRS doesn’t make you work that hard. spelling checker and thesaurus, and you The program has multiple perspectives that make it easy to center one object on can easily/ add *vour own words to the asy to learn, easy to use, and fun to user dictionary via a convenient module just play around with, Virtual Reality another. There’s a coloring utility that right in the program. EStudio (VRS) is a wonderful tool for doesn’t require each side of a given object building scrolling, ill led-polygon adven­ to be visible for clicking. (You merely dick St r o n g S u it s ture games. With a little ingenuity on on the appropriate patch beside the Two areas in which Kindwords has a dis­ your part, the results will look great. palette.) If you get tangled up in your tinct advantage over excellence! are The expression “virtual reality” gets architecture, you can quickly bounce back graphics and printing. Kindwords allows tossed around as much for games these to your starting perspective. .And while you to place graphics anywhere in a file days as “multimedia” does for applica­ there’s some programming to do—the and contour text around them via a sim­ tions. VRS actually pre-clates the con­ more the better, actually— it’s very much of ple requester. This is in stark contrast to cept. This is an improved edition of the the “if X and Y, then Z” variety. excellence!, which treats pictures as al­ Freescape system used by England’s It’s easy to understand why this prod­ phanumeric characters, severely limiting Incentive Software to create such com­ uct, upon its initial release in England, their placement in a document. mercial first-person adventures as Total Continued on p. 76. D

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(Note to Dornark: You could really use a Virtual Reality Studio Handbook here.) Also, I do think that a program so dearly designed as a construction kit could behave a bit more like one. The manual cover and the video are full of stull that appears nowhere in the pro­ gram. How about a data disk of pre-fab »00ElS1£PlX-l,. objects and generic scenes to edit or cut and paste with your own? VRS comes equipped with only the 15 or so scenes from the sam ple gam e, an d the object li- braiy consists of a helicopter, space shut­ tle, and a palm tree. That might be OK Your imagination can blast off in three While simple to use, Expert 4D Jr. lets if you were building an adventure about dimensions with Virtual Reality Studio. you create complex objects. a pilot on vacation, but it’s rather thin for works as well: Von can jam with Virtual the novice feeling his way around. Oth­ editing them. Alternatively, you can use Reality Studio without a fixed idea in erwise, this 3-1) gam e m aker is 1A by me. the Extrusion and Spinning functions on m ind, then take off on a them e w hen you —Peter Olafson a separate screen consisting of a grid of hit the right note, whereas a language dots. After placing and adjusting points such as Aegis Visionary requires advance on the grid in the shape of your object, planning. It’s the first real game kit you extrude or spin the shape. If you ex­ since Electronic Arts’ ancient Adventure E x p e r t 4 0 J r . trude, the program adds a user-specified Construction Kit. (Another, Interplay’s Genisoft, S75. depth or thickness to the flat outline. If Bard's Tale Construction Kit, may be Hard-drive installable. you choose the Spin option, E4DJr spins available bv the time you read this.) the outline around a vertical point you J J f Not copy protected. 2.0 compatible. deline. Spin is helpful in designing sym­ S t r a y P a r t s Accelerator compatible. metrical shapes, such as vases. You can Most of my complaints, such as they are, Minimum system: 1MB RAM. even create cutaway objects by spinning are little picky ones. The file requester is Recommend system: 3MB RAM, your shape less than 360 degrees. awkward; on my Amiga 500 (but not on hard drive. the A3000), the program always accesses B a c k t o t h e M o d e l i n g B o a r d dfO: the first tim e it loads data from disk, Beginner 3-D modeling and animation. Objects appear on the modeler screen in rather than detecting (or asking me for) wireframe mode. When you click on an the device in which it resides. FCL could A streamlined version of Expert 4 1 ) object, it becomes surrounded by a box use a set of macros. The hard-disk instal­ (currently available in Europe), Ex­ with eight handles, three of which alter lation program looks for a missing .info pert 4D Jr. (E4DJr) is designed for be­ the object’s size and live of which control file to create the program drawer, and ginning users of 3-D modeling and ani­ the object’s rotation along the three axis you'll have to make it yourself. (Then mation software. dimensions. Clicking and dragging these again, just when you think the age of cre­ E4DJr is made up of three modules. handles allows for visual scaling and ative Amiga icons has passed. YRS throws The Modeler is the main section of the rotation of the object on the modeler up a cute one.) The program does not p rogram , w herein you create all the 3-1) screen. For more exact adjustment, you seem to multitask, but also doesn’t take objects, assign them attributes, and build can also control the size and rotation over the Amiga, and on a three-megabvte animations. The Renderer draws the im­ through separate panels. The one prob­

machine, I was able to keep other pro­ ages and animations, and the Playback lem with usingD the handles is that theyJ grams comfortably in memory with no lets you view your completed animation. look exactly alike, so it is difficult to re­ evident effect on YRS’s performance. To begin work, you enter the Modeler, member which handle does what when While very speedy and smooth on a which provides a view of 3-D space from you are learning the program. 25-MHz .A3000, movement within YRS the camera, or observation, point. If you Abu can edit objects in other ways, as games is a bit slow and jerky on 68000- prefer, you can change the view to look well. For low-level changes, you can alter based machines compared to more re­ at the front, top, or side of your scene. them on a line-by-line or poim-by-point cent games in this genre, such as U.S. The Rotation and Zoom commands fur­ basis. The Magnet tool attracts points in Gold’s Cybercon III. The program’s ther alter the view. With these, you resize the object to the spot where you place the repertoire of shapes is understandably or rotate a bounding box in the scene to magnet, while the Mirror function lets limited to those consisting of straight establish a new viewpoint. H ie orienta­ you create an exact opposite of your se­ lines. (For instance, it can create a hex, tion of the scene can also be specifically lected object, lb build a complex struc­ but not a globe, cone, or cylinder.) defined by entering coordinates in a di­ ture, you can join objects together, and The docs are a bit two-dimensional. alog box. All the methods are very intu­ then assign a color and texture (the latter The 78-page manual is very solid when it itive and simple to use. making it easy to controls how much light the object re­ comes to explaining the commands, and create and edit scenes. flects). If you change your mind, the has a nice tutorial on creation of the ex­ You have a choice of object-creation U ndo function cancels the last edit. W hen cellent sample game, but it is rather lean methods in E4D|r, as well. You can gen­ Continued on p. 80. Since 1982 fW i • i . A M W 1 1 ’ 92

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REVIEWS DPS- 2 3 0 From j). 76. are interested in learning about 3-D ani­ the objects are finished, you can save mation, take a look at Expert 4D Jr. Infinite them in either E4DJr or Sculpt format. —Dave Thomas Each scene may have up to ten lights, Window of all with user-definable color, intensity, _ « £ 5 and aperture size. The light object on 53 £= i3 ?3 i: Opportunity. I d ’ C O the modeler screen looks like a stage B o o m B o x light, and the direction and size of the il­ Dr. T ’s Music Software, S59. luminated area is defined by a series of W e 'v e Hard-drive installable. lines emanating from the light. This is a a u g m e n t e d Not copy protected. great feature, making it very easy to po­ 2.0 compatible. o u r h i g h sition your lighting. Accelerator compatible. quality infinite To put your scenes in motion, E4DJr Minimum system: 512K RAM. uses the kev-frame method of animation. window com­ J Recommended system: 1MB RAM, You place the objects in their initial po­ ponent TBC audio amplifier and speakers, sitions for the animation, and then select with standard hard drive. Animate Scene to indicate the first key special effects frame. To make other key frames, simply Simple interactive music-making like color change the scene a n d save it. T h e p ro ­ and entertainment. b a l a n c e , gram interprets the movement between freeze fram e, the frames, giving a smooth animation t’s one of those long, hot summer w hen rendered. You can save as m any key nights, and you’ve got the urge to kick freeze field I frames as you need, and E4DJr makes it out the jams a bit. Reach for BoomBox; and variable easy to add, delete, and modify them. it will pu t som e stm t in your stride. Billed strobe. Both Once satisfied, choose the Renderer as providing “interactive fun with music,” N T S C a n d module to generate the finished product. it fulfills the promise exactly and ad­ S-Video inputs The software supports all standard Ami­ mirably. BoomBox’s metaphor is the tape ga resolutions, with image size ranging deck and mixer. With one of three control and outputs from postage stamp to full overscan. You screens, you can play back four virtual are included can render in wireframe, polygon, or, for tracks of music using only the .Amiga’s in­ w ith built-in best quality, pixel mode, and even add ternal sounds, controlling volume and transcoding background and foreground pictures. adding sound effects. You can then b e t w e e n E4D|r does not ray trace, so it generates record the result as a virtual mixdown. images at a reasonable speed even on un­ The opening screen is an animated formats. Plus accelerated machines. portable cassette player, complete with digital proc Because E4DJr does not render 24-bit moving cassette tape, LED meters, and a m p w it h graphics, DCTV support would be a wel­ speakers. To m ake them pulsate, load one s e t u p m e m ­ come addition (as would the ability to pre­ ory and our view animations in the modeler). When your animation is complete, you can view e x c l u s i v e it with the provided player program or " P E R S O N A L any program that plays animations. S E R IE S " R S -232 E x p l a i n I t A g a i n r e m o t e in t e r f a c e . 'The only weak spot in E4DJr is the man­ ual. It does a barely adequate job of cov­ Opportunity ering the program, is not well organized, k n o c k s . and is written in a confusing and some­ times irritating style. Moreover, the doc­ A nd the price umentation contains very little infor­ is infinitely mation on the basic concepts of 3-D affordable. modeling and animation that are vital BoomBox’s Remix screen lets you be the for the beginners whom E4DJr targets. $1,995 DJ at the mixing console. Otherwise, E4DJr is a great introduc­ tion to the world of 3-D animation. The of the supplied mixdown files, a set of program is reasonably fast on unacceler­ four pattern tracks for drums, bass, synth, ated systems and is very stable. E4DJr is and solo, with six IFF samples for effects. also easv to use and does not confuse the A volume slider controls the playback lev­ DIGITAL novice with a multitude of advanced fea­ el of each track, and transport controls PROCESSING SYSTEMS INC tures. In addition, it lias features—such as start, stop, pause, fast-forward, and ••• in the U,S. the abilities to see the scope ofyour light­ rewind the mix. If you like the results, you ing and to save the object in a common can record and save the playback mix. Call 606-371-5533 formal— that are not available in many The Remix screen has all the features In Canada higher-end 3-D programs. Even better, of the first and adds a few additional Call 416-754-8090 the price of the program is much lower control possibilities to the mix. Its than that of its nearest counterpart. If you metaphor is a DJ’s mixing console, giv- R E V I E \\ S

ing you control over playback tempo and signal is more like water than electricity: It gets its video signals directly from effects samples. Solo pads let you load, Split it several times, and, as with water in the Video Toaster, passing Toaster input control, and trigger individual effects a pipe, you'll get that much less through signals through to its own output, BNC and, of course, record the resulting mix. each pipe. In video terms, that means the I) is always Program output, and BNC] F From die Remix screen, you can also signal strength diminishes enough to se­ can be either Program output or Preview. monitor which of the four patterns per riously affect the overall picture quality. The maximum number of outputs from track are playing, trigger the current A distribution amp (DA) solves this a single signal is three (Toaster Preview, measure again, or set it to loop. problem. It splits the video signal several and BNCs D and E set to Preview), so you The final screen, Jam, has all the pos­ times, but boosts the signal strength so could distribute a signal to three devices. sibilities of Remix and adds the ability to that each is as good as the original. This The other three channels have a some­ interactively change the patterns that play is useful when you want to simultaneously what different use. The Toaster takes time in each track. This is the deepest control record an image to video tape and view it to do what it does, introducing a 440- the program offers. You cannot record on another monitor; make multiple nanosecond delay. If you have a switcher new patterns or alter the supplied ones, copies of a tape using several recorders; or other device connected to the Toaster although there are a lot of permutations send a genlock reference signal to several o utp u t (in video terminology, it is “dow n­ available. The on-line help clearly ex­ devices; or simply add more program out­ stream” of the Toaster) and you want to plains every button, fader, and option (it puts to the Video Toaster. .As you’ll see, the mix it with other incoming video, the sig­ should be a model to other developers). two internal DAs available for the Amiga nals will be out of sync with each other. There are a surprising number of mu­ have quite different uses. The traditional solution is to add de­ sical variations you can make with Boom- lay lines that delay the other video sig­ P e r s o n a l V id e o B o o s t e r Box; it’s a natural tool for making quick VDA: nals so they arrive at the same time as soundtracks and spotting in custom The Personal VDA (video distribution those from the Toaster. This is the pur­ sound effects. For musical entertainment, amplifier) comes in two models. The pose of the other three outputs, which it’s...well, entertaining. I wonder, though, VDA-1000 fits into an IBM slot so you take the video from the Toaster inputs, how long the limited range of Boom Box’s can use it in a PC or an Amiga, while the amplify them, and allow you to add a de­ musical palette will hold a user’s interest. VDA-1050 plugs into an Amiga slot. Both lay, adjustable from 25 to 525 nanosec­ The fact that you cannot create new pat­ versions provide four 75-ohm terminated onds. You can then connect them to your terns or vary the style is a severe limita­ outputs from a single PAL or NTSC downstream switcher and everything will tion, as is the lack of connection to MIDI source. The input is ac-coupled and fed work together (assuming that all ofyour devices. If BoomBox added these capabil­ to two separate video amplifiers, both of cables are the same length, as even the ities, it would be a useful creative tool, in­ which provide two video-out BNC con­ trip down a cable can add some delay). stead of merely an enjoyable toy. nectors for a total of four outputs. With The unit comes preset for input 4, key —Michael Hanish the rear control, you can adjust each bank insert, and alpha channel as the three of two for a gain range of ± 2dB. The ter­ outputs. The alpha channel provides mination switch is also on the rear of the matting capability for high-quality key­ board, so you don’t have to open your ing with an external switcher/keyer; sim­ P e r s o n a l VDA computer for simple adjustments. ply connect the second provided cable to If you already have a heavy power-sup- the Toaster’s JP1 connector. Besides pre­ Digital Processing Systems, $150. ply load from other internal cards and serving the quality of the background A2000, A3000. can’t get enough -12 volts dc, the board video in keys, this opens up the options Internal; IBM or Amiga slot adds a positive dc offset that cuts the -12 of interesting mix effects with three pic­ connection. load by half, although it increases the +12 tures on tlie screen at once, multiple Installation; Easy. load by 40 mA. You would turn this off keys, and multiple dissolves and wipes. only if other equipment is affected by it, Preset is an appropriate term in several Distributes a single video signal to ancl it should help reduce power-supply ways: You must configure the board the multiple devices. problems. You can also switch to -5 volts way you want it before installation, and it dc. What this all comes down to is that the is not adjustable once installed. All of the Personal VDA has a much better chance settings, including unity gain, are directly B r e a d b o a r d of operating in your machine when you controlled on the board via small poten­ Cardinal Video, $398. have a lot of other cards installed. tiometers that require a tiny screwdriver or A2000, A3000. The downsides to having a VDA inside tweeker. You must power down and open Internal; PC-slot and Video-Toaster your computer are that it occupies a ii]) your computer to change anything. connection. valuable slot and that you have to reach Installation: Difficult. behind the computer to plug and un­ W a n t e d : M o r e E xplanations Compatibility notes: Requires plug cables. The big pluses are low cost My only complaint is one that I have with NewTek’s Video Toaster. and compactness for small studios. most Amiga video peripherals: very poor documentation. While the Personal VDA B r e a d b o a r d : T o a s t e r D elay Delays video for downstream manual is sparse, at least it provides the switcher/keyer and limited video If you have a Video Toaster, you may want minimum of information you need to distribution requirements. to take a look at the Breadboard. While get started. The Breadboard, however, is it is not designed to be a general-purpose a more complicated device, and its few ven if you’re not a video professional, DA, it does have some DA capabilities. Its photocopied pages of documentation you’ve seen the problem. You split primary function is as a delay line, and it are worse. They tell you that you can sc- E / your incoming cable so it reaches several takes strong advantage of the fact that it lect which Toaster inputs you want to de- TV sets in your home, but the resulting is plugged inside die Amiga and cabled la)', but not how to do it. If you want to picture quality is not very good. 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R e m o t e Compact Subwoofer Computer speakers have always been a compromise. Either you had tiny, self-amplified Unheard of Low Price!! standalones that didn't have the volume or bass response that you really wanted, or you had to AMIGA 500 COMPUTER. connect your Amiga to a stereo amplifier system with big oookshelf or floor speakers. Using the Includes A500 computer with built-in keyboard and drive, power supply, mouse, amplifier and bio speaker approach gave you pretty good sound, but had its own problems: not documentation and Workbench software. only did the speakers take up a lot of space, but the farther away from your computer you put Amiga 500 C10527 299.95 them, the more separated the sound source was from the picture. It was sod of like watching TV and having voices come from the other side of the room. Now. TENEX brings you the first Special Upgrade Bundles!! (inciuctos Lemmings lire*!) computer speaker system without compromises: The Altec Lansing ACS300 Multimedia AMIGA 500 BONUS PACK. Computer Speaker System. The ACS300 actually includes three speakers with built-in amplification. The two satellite speakers are compact and can be placed on your computer Includes A500 computer PLUS TV adapter, Tetris. Carmen Sandiego. and Textcraft software. desk, attached to your monitor, or even wall mounted. They're shielded, too. to avoid any Amiga 500 Bonus Pack wI Lemmings C10204 339.95 interference with your monitor's display. What really makes the ACS3000 different, though, is the AM IGA 500 POWER PACK. compact subwoofer that can be hidden anywhere. The subwoofer adds the booming bass that Includes all A500 Bonus Pack items PLUS 512K memory expansion w/clock and calendar, makes the speaker system sound like one five times ils size, and. because your ears can t WICO joystick and typing tutor, games, and productivity software. localize where the bass is coming from, you can hide the subwoofer out of signt! When you Amiga 500 Bonus Pack w/ Lemmings K10575 399.95 connect your Amiga to the ACS300. you'll find out why we think it really is the ultimate speaker system for computers! AM IGA 500 SUPER GRAPHICS PACK. ACS300 Computer Speaker System Cl 1743 299.00 Includes all A500 Power Pack items PLUS 1Q84S Stereo monitor. Amiga Adapter C12055 7.99 Amiga 500 Suoer Graphics Pack w/ Lemmings K10586 669.00

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BRJDGE0OAKD. A 64 Package By popping the Bridgeboard into an A2000 expansion slot, you add IBM-compatible features to Thinking about upgrading to an Amiga, but don't want to give up your valuable C64 software your Amiga— while retaining all of the Amiga's advanced abilities. The board features an 8083 and data? Now. with the A64 emulator package from Questronix. you can connect your 1541 microprocessor, 512KByte RAM, a PC-XT BIOS, a 5.25' 360KByte floppy drive, an external or other Commodore disk drive to your Amiga 500 or 2000 and actually run your C64 software floppy drive connector, and a socket for a math coprocessor. These IBM-compatible features on the Amiga! AmigaWorld called the A64 Package "a breeze to install' and "far more refined allow you to run thousands of MS-DOS software programs at ihe same time as you're running than its competitors." Some software which incorporates disk "fast load' may rot work, and the your Amiga applications. speed of operation of some games may change depending on the speed of your Amiga. Bridgeboard XT 84706 179.99 Package includes bolh disk software and special adapter. BridcjeboardAT^ 84719 299.99 A64 C10550 39.95

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H o u rs : 8 a m - 6 p m EDT. F09: Morla This has great graphic controls, multiple spells, similar to Larn and Hack. Play time several weeks' FOiQ: HackLite - A dungeon adventure game. Considered a must-have clas­ $3.45* ea. sic This is the second release of this gam e on the Amiga. Great graphic interface. Play time several w eeks' FD tt: Las Vegas and Card Gam es ■ Las Vegas Craps - The best Las 20-29 Disks Vegas Craps simulation every written for any computer. Contains extensive HELP features. Also Thirty One.VideoPoker and more FD12A.FD12B: Star Trek. The G am e ■ This s by far the bes! Star Trek gam e ever written tor any computer. It teatures m ouse control, good graphi­ cs. digitized sound ellects and groat gameplay Counts as 2 disks Req. !Mb p R lC tS " and two drivos (or hd) FD13: Board G om es contains multiplayer Monopoly. Dominoes. 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Simpla words can t begin to of 20 or more give you the feel of piloting a 30 - 40 foot tall, lire breathing, earth shaking colossus that obeys your every whim G u a r a n t e e - We believe so strongly in our product that we offer a disks- FD26:Arcade G am es - Marble slide is a commercial quality gam e—similar full lifetime, complete satisfaction guarantee. No questions asked. -a $20 value! to a Lucas gam e nam ed PipeDream s. excellent playability and entertainment. M utants—a small version of the sam e arcade gam e. Supe-rBreakout is a Pong. Arkanoids type gam e We have been the official Public Domain Library of all the best Amiga maga­ FD27: Arcade G am es - This disk is loaded with some great gam es Includes, zines. Find out why these magazines choose us! The first two letters on each disk indicate Raceoram a a great racing car gam e wish ten different courses, MimBlast a hehcoptor gunship Type clone, Shark in the sam e class as frogor. and the orientation of the disk; WB# general interest - most programs can be run from the work­ SBroakoul the original breakout wilh more bench. FD# games and entertainment, VO# are video related programs/utilities and DD# FD29: Shoot'em up's WWII ■ you're tho pilot o' a WWII plane (lying through advanced-requires thorough knowledge of AmigaDOS/CLI. Thanks to our extensive arsenal ol enem y territory, you've just been spotted, good luck on you mission, SpKHer - try and penetrate enem y lines with this gam e, and Retalialor ■ another great anti-virus software ; ALL of our software is guaranteed virus free! g a m e FD31: G am es! ■ Air Traffic Control - a good ATC simulation. Black Jack Lab • images, this gam e even looks and sounds tike a genuine Star Trek terminal! a full featured set ot card gam es. ChessTel - play chess with your friend in U n b e a t a b l e V a l u e ! VERY thorough and complete! Counts as 2 disks. distant and rem ote places with this gam e and a modem, labyrnth - a well FD70: SpaceG am es - Contains ArmGoids. >finaliy!< an Asteroids g3m e that WB119ABCDE: Font Set This collection contains over 100 done text adventure game (like an infocom game), and M ouseTrap • a 3d takes advantage of the Amiga—totally configurable with great sound and typefaces for use wilh Professional Page 3.0 or PageSlream m a z e g a m e . grpahics. In Cosmosfruetion the object of the game is for each FD32: Flight Sim ulator An Instrument fi ght simulator tor a DC 10. 2.1 + . These fonts will output to any laser primer or dot-mafrix Cosm oslruction team to acquire the m ost points Whifo construction energy FD33: A rcade G am es Ffreddy a Mario Brothers Type ot gam e Gerbils a tar­ primer wilh no jaggies. thanks to outline font lechnology. Very ducts between the space station and planetoids ge! practice gam e, Pipe Line a Germ an interpretation of P ;pe Dream s. Tron a FD69; M lndGames • Had enough of shoot-em up gam es? Relax and lot professional looking typefaces. 5 disk set. counts as 4. ighl cycles version, and W etroids a wonderful version of asteroids w,th a these 21 gam es exercise your mind instead of your wrist hilarious twist F068: Potpourri ■ Eternal Rome is a strategic simulation of the Roman FD3S: Om ega {v 1.3) - A new outstanding dungeon and outdoors adventure Empire including military, d plomatic. political, econom ic and social factors. gam e in a similar vein as hack, rouge, and m ora This version is consider­ N e w D is k s / Lord of Hosts is a board strategy gam e for 2 players In Moonshine, you've ably faster and better that all prevrous versions. Play time several weeks. V 09: 24-Bit - Contains Rend24 which allows you to proof Toaster generated got to get the hootch across the slate line— a great rolling, scrolling driving FD37A5,B:Tactlcai G am es • Empire (2.2w) This great game com es hghly 24-bit animations A so contains ut!s to convert IFFs to IBM VGA'W indows g a m e ! recom m ended With a fu i-graphic front end readable format Also contains latest release ot JPEG->IFF convertor. FD67: Arcade • Includes Uamatron a well-done 'Robotron' clone Hate is a FD38: G am es ■ Cnbbage M aster * A great cnobage gam e and tutor, Spades VOS: CompuGraphlc Fonts - Contains 2 clipart-stylo lonts and 4 aclual *terrjfic* commercial grade Zaxxon clone with multiple eveis worids and • n well done card cam e ChineseCheckors A computer version of this clas­ typelaces lor use wilh W B2.04 and it's Fountain utility. Great for desktop smooth diagonal scrolling a 101 sic. Puzz ■ a slide piece puzzle gam e and construction set publishing and or video projects. 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An extremely smooth and well done World War II V06: M odelling O bjects - Contains 20 vector objects in Imagine format FD44: G am e - Mechfight is an out ol this world ro!e-play;ng adventure com ­ These are perfect to* use with V 05 or your lavorite 3D modelling p-ogram gunner simulation. Requires f megabyte of memory parable to hack and mcna. The setting, interplanetary colonies and space Indudes A m ga 3000. space station & many more1 stations. In your quest to explore the world, take time out to liberate bad guys V 05: M odelling ■ Vertex allows you to create 3-D oo;ects without using the S p e c ia l P r o d u c t ! of tho r m ost valuable possessions, engage m a mortal combat or two against abstract X. Y ana Z views Loads Sculp:-3D 4D. Turbo Silver. Imagine. robots and alien life forms, pick up a new Amiga 9000. M ost of all. don't forget UghtW ave. GEO and W avefront formats. 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Req. 1 MB RAM. special 'power-ups* with o u s ta n d :n g graphics. TninkAmama is the classic and addicting gam eplay. Gravity Attack is a psychadeltic trip through several WB116: D atabases This is what you've been waning for! Contains 5 gam e ol concentration-with beautifully crawn HiRes images. different worids—each distinctly different. unquety specialized diabase programs for tracking: Videotapes. CD's. FD83: A rcade Serfes: Conta rrs Croaker and Squambie. two great cones of FD58: GAMES! - Incfuces Stetnschlag: a great Tetris clone from Germany M agazine Articles. Comic Bocks and Trading Cards! the arcade gam es ‘Frogger* and "Scramble." with music SCorribat: simulate battle between up to 40 players & monsters. 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DD85: AralyllRlM • Tis incredible program is a comb nation ol a powerful one ol Ihe best public domain communications programs ever m ade on the board game-conquer or be conquered! Galaga requires 68020* spreadsheet and a Relational inlormaflon M anager (database) Not for the Amiga, Handshake (2 12a) Handshake is a Full featured VT52. f 00 102220 FD76: Catacom b 'S a full graphic dungeon adventure gam e with beautiful WB5: Fonts #1- Seve-al fonts (35) for the Am ga, also included are five graphics and a very slick icon m ouse driven interlace. faint ot head, this is a heavy-duty package1 Req 1 MB RAM DDB4: Proteus BDS This disk contains the full-blown verson ol the PageSlream lonts,and ShowFont - a font display program. FD75; A rcade Series - Descender is a done of the classic arcade game WB6: Fonts 9 2 • ShowFont(4 0} This program allows you to quickly and 'Tem pest': complete with vectorized grapnics Tanx is the classic battle ol Proteus BBS software. Totally configurable & ultimately powortui. Requires painlessly view all 256 characters in a typical font. Large AmigaDos system trajectories and inertia between two tanks— incredibly well done! Search is a a hard drive. ARexx and at least a meg of memory. lonts (many up to 56p;s) m aze gam e unlike ary otner— included is a level editor too (Tanx requires t DD83: IBM No: one, but TWO IBM em ulators that will allow the running of M S-DOS software wifft Amiga programs!!' Com es complete with programs to WB7: Cflp Art This disk is loaded with black and white clip art Art m eg chip memory=Fat Agnus} turn your Amiga floppy drives into 720K IBM compatable drives. includes, trees, watches, tools, US and State maps, ana more. FD74: A rcade Series - RingWar is an Outer Limits' done with vectorized DD82: Unix - Contains a working dem o of Minor - a Unix workaiike. Mlnix is W B9: Icons ■ Truly a multitude of various types and kinds. Also includes graphics. MotherLode is a Lode Runner' clone with 50 levels! in BiitzTanks, system cai com patable with V? ol Unix IconM iester, IconLab. and others great utilities to help generate icons. they're coming at you from at! directions'! Call in air strikes and use your WB10: Virus Killers Tho latest and best VirusX(4.0), Kv(2.t), and heavy artillery to survive! un is k s Z e ro V iru s III FD73; A rcade Series Intruder Alert! is a MULTI-level ■Berserk' clone F D / WB11: B usiness Ctark(4 0), finally a full featured business accounting PD Features smooth gameplay, groat graphics & digitized sound f/x, FD5: Tactical G am es BuHRun ■ a Civil war battle game. Metro you play the program for tho small tc medium company. Includes receivables, payables, FD72; Sword ot the W arlock - This is a demo version of a great public role of a city planner Build wisely and your system will be a success, but poor end of momh and uch more. domain graphic durgeon adventure game The adventure spars three planning will lead to disaster and financial rum Very very habit terming W Bi2: Disk Utilities This great disk is loaded with wonderful utilities tor diskettes and allows two players to go adventuring. The gam e has a Bards FD 6 : GAMES! - This disk is chock lull of gam es including. Checkers. Clue. everything including making disk iabels. disk cataloging, disk optimizing, disk Tale' feel to it. Three disk set. counts as 2 Requires 1 meg ot RAM and 2 Gold - A new slide the pieces puzzle. Jeopard - An enhanced version ot Risk. and tile recovery archive and organizing, and at sorts of file manipulation. A floppy drive$--HD installable. RushHour - Surprisingly addicting, and SpacoW ar - Best described as a cross m u s t h a v e ! FD71ASB: Star Trek: TNG Trivia Challenge So you think you know The between Combat-Tanks and asteroids. W B13: Printer Drivers and G enerator ■ over 70 different drivers, and it Next Generation, huh? Complete with fantastic sam pled sounds and digitized FD7: Pacm an ■ This disk contains several pacm an type gam es including. t h o s e d o n 't d o It, w ith PrtQrvGen you can m ake your own 7, M azMan and Zonlx. WB15: Business This disk contains a spreadsheet, a database, a WBG1: Interm ediate U tilities ■ Includes program s to help lo drashcaiy projoci/limo m anagorrent program and financial analysis (stocks). decrease dicker in interlace and hi res m odes (antiHick). an Alari-sl em ula­ T " WB105A&B: Workbenc"ff.O Extras W ~ \ W B16: B usiness This disk contains an inventory m anager, a loan analysis tor, an eprom orogrammor, turn your nmiga into an e.ght channel digital IThis set contains the programs that should have been included with WB2.0.J program, a great calendar/scheduler, a roladex program, and penriywise a data analyzer cr oalloscope, and more I These powerful utilities take tull advantage of the many new capabilities j good "Cash Book" accounting tor home or ottice W B62: Midi U tilities - Several useful midi utilities including, program s to J that are available in \Vork!»cnch 2 .0 . | WB18: W ord Text Processors - This disk contains the best editors. transfer to and from several music program s to m»di. a midi sysex handler, a I Tool Manager - u wonderful utility to add programs 10 your TOOL menu.j Includes.TextPlus (v2.2e) a lull leatured word processor. Dmp(v1.35) a midi recorder with tim ebase. display midi info, file sequence player, and a I create a collection of icons on the to easily launch frequently! great programm ers editor with strong macro features,TexED(v2 8) an fe w s c o r e s I used programs...and much more! A Iru r must have utility!!!— A ll of ourl enhanced Emacs type editor, and a spell checker W B63: Disk Utilities #3 ■ Several highly recom m ended program s to aid in lAroigas rely on this utility. (Sec the review in Amig»World-May'92)l removing duplicate files Irom your hard drive, performing fie backups. W B22: Fonts #3 • Several more great lonts These, like the other ford dsks J Virus Checker • Full virus protection can be yours by simply dropping this J work groat wilh Dpamt and WYSIWYG word processors B nary editng, fas! formatting, file recovery, disk track recovery, and forced I icon in your WBStartup drawer. j W B23: G raphics and Plotting Plot (20b) a thruo dimensional mathemati­ DISK VALIDATION of corrupt disks leg ruder • gives you tools to try to make non- happy programs work! j cal function plotter Can plot any user defined function, BezSurf2 ■ produce W B66: Icons #2- Lot s ol neat Icons Also, several wonderful programs that II 2.0 I Icon - Enhances Workbench's "Show All" to display over 40 distinct icons | aw esom e pictures ot objects one could turn on a lathe Can also mao ill to te! you create your own icons, modify and m anipulate icons and info image files onto any surface that it can draw. Now compatible with m ost 30 S tr u c lu re s I for different types of files (text, IFF’s, source codes, libraries, etctj packages, and VScreen - makes a virtual screen anywhere, great for DTP' W B68:M usie Utilities • several good utilities for the Amiga muSiC enthusi­ j FnnI Editor - Create/edit bitmap font.s wilh full color support!* W B25:Educatfonal - On this disk are two programs that can generate maps ast Includes, Noisetracker - a great music creat.cn program. Sonix2MGD - I Screen Blanker* - a)a fractals and spliners and swarming bees! No more| of differing types. World Data Base uses the CIA's data base to generate converts scnix to mod files which then can be used by noiselracker, sound- I bonne black screen. Colorful, interesting and highly hypnotic effects! j detailed m aps of any entered user global coordinates Also Paradox a great jraker, and MED. SpeakerSim ■ a speaker design tool demo, V/ondersound [ Requester Enhancers - no more stale Please Insert Volume' requesters—| demonstration of Albert Einstein General Theory of Relativity. is an additive harmonic instrum ent design tool with a separate envelope I these are animated requesters fur a ll of the system's requesters.! W B26: Disk Utilities HZ ■ M rBackup. KwickBackup ■ two well done utilities design window and '6 relative harmonic Strength and phase angle controls jC PlJB IIi • speeds up text displays for owners ot 68020+ C P L 'v j to do harddisk and floppy disk backups. FileM ast ■ a binary (Ho editor. W B69; M usic This disk has over 90 minutes of classical and modern elec­ |SufeRebo«i| - adds a safe way to reboot your computer ..can greatly reduce | Labelprinter • Disk label printer with very powerful features. tronic m usic for you Amiga I disk validation errors! | WB27: Nagel - 26 Patrick Nagel pictures ol beautiful women. W B70; Desk Top Pub • Atcp ■ transfer M acintosh screen fonts, M ac or IBM 1 TWO DISK SET, COUNTS AS TWO 1 W B29: G raphics and Sound ■ Th.s disk has several dillerent Mandelbrot format AFM metric files, to Amiga screen fonts and PPage metric files I______I type program s for generating stunning graphics. Includes. M andelM ountams With this program, open the door to the libraries of Adobe and PostScript - a realistic terrain generator. Fracgen - generated recursive fractals from fonts' Calendar - month templates m PageStream form, Post - a full fea­ WB1 C6: Home Manager - Tms is a great all-in-one address book with an user input, M andelbrot and Tm ardei - two fast mandeibrot generators, also tured postscript Me Display and pnnt utility. autodialer/notepac.'to-do list/appointment scheduler/home inventory W B75: M usic over 100 instruments files ( inst) and sample sound Lies database and phone number dialer. (,s$) for your music program s. WB107A&B: Educational - Drawmap is a program that generates repre­ W B76: A pplications ■ This disk contans Slithery ■ a often requested knit­ sentations such as hem isphere# v ews. and orbital views of the Earth's sur­ KAO 31'2" Blank Diskettes DSDD ting design program, LoJta - a rather com plete lottery tracking and prediction face complete with national boundaries Screens can be printed or saved utility. SSS • this screen capture prcgram can grab almost any screen to disx as standard IFF files Full user-configurable online help facility. 10 for $9.20 (.92 cents ea) including gam es. Today - a personal calender. Tarot - fortune teller, and 6802C *■ vers cn included. 2 disk set. counts as 11 Grammar ■ grammar checker. WB108: OctaMED - This breakthrougn program doubles your Amiga's 25 for $21.25 (.85 cents ea) WB79; Home £ B usiness Accounting - Includes Ckbacct - the most com­ sounc capabilities from 4 channels to an ear-poppmg 8 channels! All the plete checkbook accounting program going. iCD Calc - this wei done calcu­ renound editing caoabilities of MED plus 4 more channels! If you thought lator has a very large display and operates from the keyboard or m ouse. your Amiga sounded gooo before...you arnt heard nuthm' yet1 50 for $38.50 (.77 cents ea) M ileage m aster • monitor your autom obile m ileage with this m ileage log. WB109: VerseWise - Display, search and output The New Testam ent to Gram m ar - a gram m ar checker, and W orldhme - find out what time it is in up text files or your printer. 100 for $72.00 (.72 cents ea) to 50 global cites WB110: Electronic Baby Book - Immortalize your children on your Am iga1 Tracks everything about your newborn — t e s t steps, woros. tooth, birthdays. No shipping charge on USA blank disk orders, Canada and Mexico WBB1: Groat Applications DataEasy a very easy to use. database pro­ gram Don t lot the ease of use tool you. this is a very full featured database X-mas. friends, etc—even space for a aonixed p h o to ! add S. 15 each, other foreign add S.SOcach. program including full printer control lor address labels and mail merge W0111- Cellular Automa - Straight fro m (he pages ol the J a n u a r y 1990 applications Also includes. TypeTut a good typing tutor, RLC a full featured ssue ol Scenttlfc American, tm s electronic model w ilt aJtew you to simulate M estra - the best IFF display program to date, wifi display ALL IFFs incud- label printer, 3anne:, a multi-font banner maker, anc Budget a home c e llu la r c LiiLU irc u its Id. .JDUIUI r ng Dynamic HAM, and Sound - a great IFF sound player, will play anything accounting in a program. Highly recom m ended WB33:Clrcult Board Design - several terrific routines Jor the electronic W B82: A nim ations - Four fell length, we i Cone 'movie* styte an matrons. D e v D is k s / enthusiast. Including PCBtool - a circuit board design tod. LogtcLab ■ circuit Inc'udmg. Coyote. Juggierll. G hostPoo. & Mecnantx. 2 disks, counts as 1. DD45: AREXX Programs • Thtsd'Sk contains several useful pro­ tegic tester, ard Mead (1.26) a wen done new release d this PD CAO pro­ W B83: Com puter Art - this disk has som e of the best Am ga generated grams and e x a m p l e s PopCLt4 - T h e latest o! a m ust have utility. gram. now com es with predrawn common circuit com ponents for insertion com puter art that we have collected >n tho past 5 years. DD47: Pascal - This disk contains everythmg needed to program n Pascal. m to schematics WBB5: G raphics ■ Contains several progfam s for manipulating 24 Brt color Inc!Udes. A68k t1.2) 68300 Ussembter Blink linking software and PCO 11.0) WB34; Utilities - Several well done utilities, som e will roqu re m ode’ale images (ham e) and a rather nice iff image processing package, a nrocest Pascal sub-set compiler knowtedflfl ol a CLI or Shell for salup. Chatter Box ■ th i s one will p la y any W B86: C enturian P ress * An electron c new spaper • requires AmigaViSten. DD49; C Compiler - conta.nt z c l l . O t JJdHy K8R zccfl.O) Iront end u s e r oofined sound a f t e r a n y event («©. a*sk Insert,, mouse dick. d .s k YVB8BABC: Tho C om plete Bible A three disk set. with the entire text of A68t(i 2 ) assembler. Bt.nk linker. rem oval...),. Artm ■ The Am ga real fm e monitor, g i v e s you full control o t the tre New Testament and Old Testamert-Kmg Jam es vers on A great uhftry DD5Q: A R e x x #2 - a rnust h a v e s e t of tu to r ia ls on ARexx and several useful A m ig a O S . very powerful progron, Heiper - help program to make te a m in g Threediskset. counts as three exam p es and utilities for ARexx developm ent. t h e CLl e a s i e r , and m o r e 1 WB9Q: Rippers, Strippers and Beats - Ear the Amiga music enthusiast, DD51: Circuit Analysis * A soce (2.3) A full featured program fof electric WB35: 3D Graphics • This disk contains sever# neat programs to use with this rf®k conta ns m any program s deigned strip music from your favorite circuit analysis. y o u r 3d m o d e l ng raytracteg p r o g 'a m s 3cFonts ■ Fu i vector font set for u s e gam es and programs Also contains Drums a very nice drum machine DD52: Scientific • Includes Elem ents - an incred.fcly well done periodic ■with 3 d p - o g r a m s . FontMaker - m a k e 3d fonts from a n y system lo n t, This disk requires som e knowledge of the C U table program with source. Scientific plotting - over 603k of Lattice C source M ake3DShape * create 3d shapes hem a n y imago, DumptoiFF - create 3 d WB93: W o r k b e n c h Extras #2 This disk contains the utilities that routines that can be included in your own program s animations preserves pilet. and Wotid3d a damo program of a front end Commodore should rave shipped with the Amiga; VirusX4 o. Snap. FixDisk DD54: Compression • This dsk ^ loaded wilh all of the best Me com pres­ for use w.th DKBRender (recover corrupt deleted tiles}. Disk Optimizer (floppy & hard), M achlll sion programs and aids fcr the Amiga Many Of the programs can be used WB36: Graphics - O n t h i s disk aro s o v o r a l programs to create stunning (screen biankeh hotkey, m ouse accel. macro, cfock utility). GOMF (a guru- by the new user, indudes Arc. Lhare. Lhwarp. Pka*. PowerPacker a must g r a p h ic a l images including, ‘/Path - creates darting gaaxy images Roses - buster)and PnrtStudiO have oy all. Zip. Warp, and 2oo Also iFFcnjnch an excellent compression produce an unlimited n u m b e r of variations of images that a symmetrically WB95: Checkbook A ccountant 2.1 ■ Tms is cehrvteiy commercial grade: for IFF files s mi ar to a rose Sm G en - display those soectacular images as pan of your we've seen many checkbook programs and this is absolutely the best. Full DD55: ARP - O n t h i s disk y o u will find the com plete ArpRei3.0 release w o rk b e n c h screen, and RayShade ■ a very good raytracmg program, create budgeting, transaction recording and reoort generaton. incluang the fell user docs, tie full Developers guide. ARP is the official y o u r o w n beautiful 3d graohic m odels with this one1 V/B96: Dupers Contains Xccpylll & fJ b wmcn w II backup copyprotected AmigaDOS Resource Project (ARP) release 1.3. ARP makes many WB37: Educational - Educational gam es and puzzles that cover math, programs FreeCopy removes copy protect on from several programs, and improvements to AmigaDOS and makes your DLI more powerful geography, spei ing. and books Ages 6 - 1 5 Supe'D uper wi I crank-out fast Am gaDOS copies DD57: A d v a n c e d Utilities - Msh ■ like Cross-dos. ccpes files to and from WB38: Plotting and Graphics Plotxy is the m ost powerful lull featured WB9&: B usiness ■ Inc udes BBasell a race, powerful database: BizCaJc—e MS-DOS, Pal-NTSC - ccnve-t any pal prcgram to NTSC and vice versa, plotting packago. Used by many colleges and universal es A we’cont® a d d i­ personal or m ortgage loan calculator With amortlzat on caoabihes. Loop—a A'so several boosts for your startup-sequence. plus 25 more program s tion to our library' Highly recom m ended Plans - a incredibly well done flowchart maker. Formmakei - design professional terms on your Epson LG- DD62: Basic and X schem e - Cursor - a fun featured Amiga Bas e compiler, Computer Aided Drafting program, very lull featured Tesselator • a pro­ 2500 compatible pnnter sbasic and ftext - several wondertut routines to help in bas e program ers. gram that helps generates lantastic looking, recursive M C Ecsher type pic­ W B99: Lifestyles - Includes AGor-fl— ‘armiy tree program that tracks up to anc Xscheme - an mterpteted object oriented language. t u r e s 609 peopla-'marriages etc. Landscape is a CAD program to create DD66: Programming ToolBox - Many programs to help in your develop­ WB40: M usic - 'CD on a disk'. SO m inutes Of modern music on this well gardens landscapes. Loom sim ulates an 8 harness loom; experiment with m ent efforts (most for C som e for basic) Includes program s to generate presented collection Requires 2 drives or HD. pattern design in an instant feedback environment requesters, an ine'edibte sprtemaker toolbox, to greatly a d compiling, con­ WB41: M usic - MED an incredibly well done, lull featured music editor. W B101: C hcm esthotlcs - is a prog-am that displays molecules as a calotte v e r t DPainr brushes to C structures, a great library m anager, and many Create your own stunning music directly on your the Amiga Similar to model This kind ot display contains a certain esthetic attitude, even m o re wonderful time savers' SoimdTracker but better. Very powerful easy to use program Version 3 20, extremely poisonous m olecules like nicotine and dtenne look quite nice. DD69.Advanced Utilities SerNet and ParNe: ■ Connect two Amiga's ana which ;s com palabic with WB 2 0 4 W B102: Tolocom m unlcailona • Contains the programs NCcmrn 2 0 and share resources, MemMomlor ■ Similar to W Frag but greatly improved. WB43: Business T h is d sk contains Anaiyi Calc - probably the m ost pow­ VT100-29B. Zmodem protocols, XPR protocc: support, full VTlOO em ula­ Selector ■ put m enus On your workbench screen, and more erful spreadsheet program on the Arrnga A tull featured spreadsheet with tion NCamm's senpt language Is SO powerful H com es w Jh a script file that DD71 AS.B C Compiler - This disk contains DICE, Matthew D lion s full fea­ many features expected »n a commercial packago. Requires 1 2 MB Of creates a teii-teaiured BBS system. tured, powerful C compiler and environment system 2 D sks. counts as 2 m e m o ry ! T WB103: Music - Conlams 12 'great' Soundtracker MED music DD77: Fortran - Contains a tell featured Fortran77 developm ent system . ■ H ig h R e s c lip art with the following motifs - WB46: Clip Art emoeflsh- M QDuies . com plete with programm able-shuffle player...8 bit audio never Also contains EzAsm a strongly macro cependent 6 8 0 0 0 assem oler. ments (borders, d o d a d sp e o p le , and transportation sounded so hot! Two disk sei counts as two. DD79abcd: Amiga "C” Tutorial - This is the most comprehensive C l a n ­ WB47: Clip Art • H ig h R e s C lip art wilh the following motifs - hair, draffng. W B104: GrabBog Q&A Tnvia (requires AmgaVis on) is a trivia gam e for guage-Am/ga o r ie n te d -set of tutorials available. Includes full working summer, animals and macfood 1.2 players aoa your own Questions to custom ize tho dificulty level I exam ples, source code and an incredible set of lessons, induded are full C l ip ■ H ghR es dip art with the loHowing motifs - Holidays, WB48; Art Sysmfo is groat for telling you how last'sfow your com puter is. what boards discussions and exam ples for Amiga programming 4 disk set. counts as 3 music. medical, and misc are installed, chipsets, etc AmiGazer will plot stars in the heaven from any WB49ABC:Anlmat(on Sam pler On Ifvs three disk sampler set (counts as position on earth com plete with m agnitudes and constetlat an identification D e a l e r i n q u i r i e s a n d subm issions w e l c o m e . two disks) aro som e of too best animations that have been created over the last three years Several exam ples of 'M ovie' type animations som e with soeclacular raytraced reality (cooiroby. watch, spigot and egg). Also several Total disks @ S ea. = S_____ european style or 'D em o' an mat on with incredble graphics and cutstand- TPIease send me the following disks: ng electronic m usic (aknlight, copersine. doc. dps 2 0 1 0 , impact, and logode- Disk based catalog (S2.50) = S_____ mo) These truly show o'f the creative edge of ar Amiga! Enter disk ID (Example: DD79, FD57, WB105) ,0 ^ ^ come* with a coupon for j free d isk w ith vour next order); WB50: Animation - Seven of the best european style ammalions or Anti-Virus ($19.95) = $_____ Dem os', including - scientific 451, subway (a U S. entrant, also our tavbrile). Sunnde, thrsldemo, 'night, w aves, and woow KAO Blank Disks #_____= $_____ WB53: Graphics Raylraeing programs generate absolutely stunning real C A Residents add 7.75% sales tax S______slic looking planes, rockets, buildings . , and surreal m ages often consisting ot highly pol.shed spheres and objects. 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AT ITS BEST, playing SimEarth (Maxis, $69.95) is like being in some wonderful, omnipotent bio-physical laboratory. The steaming, shifting Earth is on the slab, the scalpels and retrac­ tors are at your right hand, and it’s time for dinner. Based around fames Lovelock’s Gaia theory (Earth's evolu­ tion is a single, closely knit, self-regulating process), SimEarth is a grand-scale version of Maxis’ lovely small-systems simula­ tions (SimCily and SimAnt). Using an icon interface similar to the earlier games, it places at your disposal a wide array of in­ struments to coax a planet to a happy, healthy and prosper­ ous—or possiblyjust weird— future. Overall, my reaction is pret­ ty warm—much like the Earth a few hundred million years ago. Once past the pleasantly simple copy protection, you pick one of eight scenarios. You can terraform Mars or Venus. You Who’s on Earth? can build continents or encourage civilization. You can pick up where Earth left off in 1990. And you can shepherd a random that you do not understand it. It’s not a hoot-ancLshoot, hut a world from glowing hall of hot rock to one bursting with life real simulation, and even God needed Sunday off after creating from prokayotes on up to carnilerns (carnivorous, occasionally Earth. The spiral-bound manual is 220 pages long—and you II sentient plants a la Little Shop of Horrors). find it useful and interesting, even if you hate reading manuals. You can influence that growth both in broad terms via a set With that little phone book comes a 16-page quick-start of models—for instance, the one for atmosphere allows you to gtiide and two copies of the game-—a very sharp hi-res regulate the “greenhouse effect" and rainfall—or edit it in detail (640x400) version (requiring one megabyte each of chip and by triggering events, setting terrain, and placing lifeforms.. .or fast RAM) and a lo-res (520x200) one (requiring 5 12K of each). even monoliths. (l)o these folks like the movies, or what?) SimEarth runs under AmigaDOS 1.3, but Maxis recommends This is not SimCily, however, where simple human experi­ using 2.04, a 16-MHz processor, a hard drive, and, for the hi­ ence was a pretty sound play guide for the beginner. Do not res version, a deinterlacer. rush to install this baby and loudly proclaim 15 minutes later Continued on /;. 101.

Ultima VI: The False Prophet ing relatively few, so don't feel you (O rig in , 569.95) is on the high side C R I B N O T E S By Peter Olafson have to sell the farm to fill up tfiat of huge. Here's the first part of a little black book. Travel fight. guide that will make it a little small­ So listen: Take only what you k n o w weenies when it comes to combat. I've seen different accounts of er. This time we'll deal with the you need, not what you think might (Exceptions: Gwenno, Gorn and, in which spells are strictly necessary game in general terms, and in future be useful at some point, and simply particular, Seggallion, who you'll for success. Here's a conflation of columns get into specifics ... and note the whereabouts of the rest; find at Serpents Hold. He's a good them: Dispell Field, Dispell Magic, some interesting oddities. you can come back to it later. fighter and a regular pack horse.) Explosion, Great Heal, Invisibility, First off, there is an enormous By the same token, don't load up You can complete the game quite Mass Dispell, Mass Invisibility, Pick­ number of takable objects in the your party with too many extra happily with just your starting pocket, Telekinesis, Unlock Magic, game. I mean hundreds of 'em— members. There are around a dozen quartet and the occasional hired and Wind Change. If you've come crockery, clothing, raw materials, nonplayer characters whom you hand... or paw. across any weird uses for the oth­ food, tools. It's part of the fun, of can invite into the fold, and, natural­ Magic isn't that big a deal here ers, let me know. course, but it can slow things down ly, it's fun to have the whole crew compared to the earlier games. For Behave yourself. And neatness if you don't exercise discretion, and from Ultima V on hand. But it one thing, the Avatar is the only one counts. I've heard stories to the ef­ some people are having inventory makes life much more complicated, who can cast spells. (Don't even fect that social graces aren't as problems— either struggling to to say nothing of speed and play­ bother looking for NPCs who can closely enforced in Ultima VI as in its manage a pawn-shop's-worth of ac­ ability issues. Besides, only a few of turn that trick.) For another, while parent games, but I suspect that cumulated possessions or agonizing the IMPCs have anything to con­ there are a lot of spells in the game, impression comes from the fact that over what to dump or not to dump. tribute, and some of 'em are real you apparently can prevail while us­ Continued on h. 101.

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and fist-whitening puzzles— and only the last two Zorks have even a sem­ blance of graphics. If you've played these text adventures, you'll experience tear-to-the-eye deja vu; it's like going back to a place you once lived. If you haven't, you're in for a right good treat.

M e r c h a n t C o l o n y An 18th-century trading-and-colonizing game. Merchant Colony (Merit Software, S29.95} is one of the dreariest things I've played in a long time. Maybe it's that I lost money while just following the trading tutorial. Maybe it's that even getting your ship into port is a supreme hassle. Maybe it's that the interface is anti-intuitive. Maybe. .. oh, why bother? Nice music and animation here and there, but I'll pass.

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