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Printer showdown 27 Fitting Hard Drives 34 Which is the best printer for you? Hard drives have never been cheaper and Whether you need a printer for DTP, there's never been a better time to fit one to graphics, professional documents or rough your A600 or A1200. Let's face it, very few program listings, there's something on offer Amigas have been sold in the last year, so in our round-up of the best ink jet, dot invalidating the warranty is no longer an matrix and laser printers. But it's more than issue! We show you how it's done on page just a buyers guide. It's got detailed graphic 34. It's a lot easier than you might think. descriptions of the technology behind the various technologies and advice on which type of printer is best suited to your needs. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM
• My-Money 74 A new low-cost personal finance planner gets the privilege of playing w ith Andy Leaning's readies. e CD-ROM Round Up 78 Six new CD-ROMs are taken fo r a spin: M ultim edia Toolkit, The Beauty o f Chaos, Imagine Enhancer, A rt Backgrounds Collection 'A', Weird Science C lipart and 3D Arena. e Which Paint Package? 82 We test the four main paint packages for their ability to produce com plete pictures from scratch - no scanners, digitisers or clip art allowed! Photogenics 1.1. Deluxe Paint IV AGA. Personal P a in t 6 .1 a n d Brilliance 2 go head to head.
• PD Scene 88 An explosion of games has leant this m onth's PD Scene a joystick-waggling air, but there's still plenty fo r demo junkies too.
# PD Utilities 91 Graphic Adventure Creator is hailed as "the best licenseware release ever" in this m onth's comprehensive guide to the more serious side of the public domain. Cover disks
AMIGA 106 AMIGA ■ h m u n FULi PROGRAM ProDraw 3 OctaMED 6 Create professional structured artwork with your Amiga. 12 PIUS: clip ait anil utility disk AMIGA sla|hheads nidi this pla*.iblr drum 1 Get a taster of the latest version of the Amiga's top music sequencing package.
Baldies 15 Commend an entire race of folliculariy-challenged cuttes in the latest twist on . the God simulation theme.
Games PREVIEWS C D 32 e Brutal - Paws of Fury 43 • ATR 60 Cuddly forest animals replace blood and All Terrain Racing apina onto the CD32. guts In this new beat 'em up. • Theme Park 60 S Player Manager 2 47 All the fun of the fair, on a CD. The grand-deddy of Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmanagement footy sims gets an update. • KingPin 62 Want aoowling game? a Fears 47 This should b e right up your alley. Could this finally be the D oom clone we've been waiting for? • The Clue 62 Plot bank Jobs and make your fortune, • Virocop . 48 without the risk I Wipe out the viruses and restore the games arcade to Its former glory. a Final Over 48 Frankly It's not cricket. Well It Is actually and it looks pretty good too. PLAYERS GUIDES • Lords of the Realm 69 REVIEWS The final pert of our guide to this Olds Englande simulator. e Super Skidmarks 2 50 Car racing gone crazy, with cows and caravansI • Dr earn web 66 Overcome the forces of darkness s Super Loops 53 with the final part of our guide. Taka P lpom anls, changa It a bit. and what hava you got? s Italia '95 56 Taka on a top Italian football league teem In e bid for stardom. | E C T S Show Report iT
s Premier Multi Edit System 56 We reveal all the latest Editing system for Premier Manager that allows you to customise entire leagues. releases and gossip from the European • Man United - The Double 59 A The best update of the Manchester Computer Trade Show; United series yet? traditionally the launch • VFM 65 pad for the computer Award Winners Platinum Edition and Space Hulk get the budget treatment this month. industry's biggest and f 9 y boldest new projects. s
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0113*231444 The Amiga is dead long live the Amiga. By April 20th ACTIVE SOFTWARE 7S the Amiga's new master should be announced. Will it be ANCO. 70171 721 7S2S OVA. ASSOCIATES 07 Commodore UK who win the bid. with David Pleasance at BRIAN FOWLER COMPUTERS 94 013 10 01702-2 the helm? Or will it be an American distributor, a German CARS ILICTROMCS....38 0192 PD SOFT S3 01702-400933 PC manufacturer and retailer or some other outsider? The CU AMOA CLASSIFIEDS 112-11 071-972 0700 POWER COMPUTING IFC, 3. IBC 01234-043380 DELTRAX PO....SO-81 01492-015981 PREMIER MAIL ORDER . .123 01200-277172 biggest hope for the Amiga itself has to lie with the 1 3 DIRECT SOFTWARE..... 04 01906-379050 SSASOFT. 104, 110 01903-000378 Commodore UK bid. They have the experience and com EMPIRE SOFTWARE...... 19 0101 343 7337 SELECT A PONT. SO 01702-202835 mitment and they know the market. But no-one really EPIC MARKETING 20.46.70-77 * SILICA SYSTEMS— 23. 33. 40. 49 081-309 1111 knows what will happen if it goes to another party. Escom, reported in this month’s news as a rival bidder, has the retail network both here in the UK. on continental Europe and in the USA to p ut the 1517373743 Amiga o r some derivative of it back into the shops alongside its PCs, 01773-830781 but will it do so? And will it support the existing user base? With the o isi-e 01525-718181 Amiga out of production for over a year now it is going to take time I 13 0171 351 2133 and money to get the format back on track. Whoever wins the bid will 01543-419999 have to act quickly and decisively, for all our sakes.
Editorial News 2 0 EDITOR: Alan fruit dlot' Oykas DEPUTY EDITOR: Lisa tuna cRet' Collins On* of Europe's leading PC manufacturere has been report TECHNICAL EDITOR: Andy ‘cheese sandwich diet' Leaning ed as making a bid for the assets and trademarks of •REVIEWS EDITOR: Tony ‘pot noodle diet' Horgan Commodore International. Could this be the future of the GROUP ART EDITOR: Jeff microchip diet' Zle Amiga? Also game giants Ocean |oin forces with Team 17, ACTING ART EDITOR: Helen eer-teWete' Danby while a German developer has software it claims will allow ADDITIONAL EMERGENCY DESIGN: Aileen ‘cigarette diet' O'Donnell your Amiga to write to a normal CD-ROM disc. TECHNICAL CONSULTANT: John ‘guinness diet' Kennedy CONTRIBUTORS: Peter Lee. Andy Mitchell. Vampyra. Andre Oigerd. Rite Skews. Fancy League Results - Tony Dillon. Martin Davies end Stevie ‘groove town' Lee Webb. Month One 126 PHOTOGRAPHY: Mark Gatehouse Results of the first month's games in the Sensible World Of Soccer Fancy Football Laague. Advertising Ad MANAGER: Justine I want a funny caption please' Carlson SENIOR SALES EXEC: Chris the highly unlikely Keanu Reeves lookalike’ Perera AD PRODUCTION: Tine on time' Gynn end Vicky sitting comfortably' Jacobs 98 P R O D U C T M A N A G E R : Fiona y o u r s getting later e nd later’ M alloch Directory Opus HEAD OF MARKETING (AND SNAPPY DRESSING): Nigel Yvee' Taylor Andy Leaning explains how to give cover disk PUBLISHING DIRECTOR: Graham Taylor 100, D irectory Opus, artificial intelligence. EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: D avid Kelly Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMM ANAGING DIRECTOR: Terry Pratt ProCalc 100 (We dare not say anything silly about th# three director*) Calculating interest rates with ProCalc Is easy when you know how. Contacts 1: Send your letter, etc to th* right department end pi**. * do not Mod a (tamped **H- Buyers Guide 101 How to get the best deal, avoid the sharks and get your money's
Graphics Masterclass 102 More advanced tips and tricks for Photoganics are revealed in this month's masterclass.
M odeler 3D 105 READERS LETTERS AND TECHNICAL PROBLEMS The final part of our M o d eler 3 D tutorial covers For gonorol, non-t*chnical. enquiries send your letter, to Beckohat, for technical problem! lend them to ObA. Both aro a t CU AMIGA. Priory Court, 30-32 Farrtngdon Lane, London the remaining options, plus a few general tips. EC1R 3AU.
Video Ideas 108 i, but we're etill hungry for more. H Space cadet Tony Horgan shows how to make dynamic animations and effects using colour cycling. COMPETITIONS Questions and Answers 116 Technical problems tackled by Tony and Andy.
Frequently Asked Questions 119 Modems, the Internet and Comms are de-mystified by John Kennedy.
Q+A Masterclass 120 SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS: New compression techniques tested, plus Subacriptlont are available from Tower Publishing, Tourer Houee, Sovereign Perk. Lethklll how to spruce up your Workbench. Street. Market Harborough LE16 9EF Tel: 0858 408888 i a°rma"i Tony Horgan's Sound Lab 122 Advanced tips for mixing samples, simulating 10 track sys COVER DISK PROBLEMS tems using 4 sample channelsl If you have a faulty cover diek then w rit* or roturn your dlek to our 3.5 Inch poopls AMIGA COVER DISK RETURNS. DISKXPRESS, UNIT 7. WILLOW COURT. BOURTON II TRIAL PARK. BOURTON-ON-THE-WATER, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. OLS4 2HO Backchat 124 Reader's opinions in print. You can contact Andy Leaning, vie th* InterneL«mail CUAMIOAGicii.compullnh.co.uk.
Points of View 128 C EMAP Image. 1994 No port of thi* Mr Comms himself. John Kennedy, has a surprise go at bulletin boards! PRINTED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ABC: 61.409 Jon - Juno 1994. Player Manager 2 is a football Club History Anco Times ARSENAL CRASH TO management simulation with LIVERPOOL ONE BIG DIFFERENCE - you can actually test your managerial decisions where it counts - on the pitch.
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AVAILABLE FOR Far more detailed iafermatiee pleate write ta Anco. 7 H illside ladastrial Estate, Lawtea Read, Dartferd, Keat DA 1 SBH Sereeashots vary from fane at ta fanaat. AMIGA & PC CD ROM This month we've got something a little special for you. Not only the stonking ProDraw program (worth £200) but also a bladder-busting demo of OctaMED 6.
ProDraw 3 the pixels. When the pixels are ProDraw is a complete structured small, you can’t see the joins, but drawing package, allowing you to if they're blown up. the stepped create stunningly detailed pic edges become apparent. When tures. illustrations, logos and art you save the picture, every pixel work. You can load these and its colour value is saved. pictures into a DTP program for Structured drawing (sometimes printing or convert them to IFF called vector graphics) programs format for use in any normal graphics program. Even better, Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMunlike with normal Amiga pro Compatibility grams, when you resize these This is the full version of images they vyill remain just as ProDraw 3 and works on all good as the original, and won't W orkbench 1.3 and 2.04 go all blocky or jaggy. If you print systems. However due to them out (using a DTP program bugs in the program, for instancel they will take advan beyond our control, tage of the print resolution, get ProDraw does not work on ting better and sharper as your W orkbench 3 Amigas - the printer resolution increases. A1200 and A4000. Structured drawings work on a OctaMED 6, the exclusive I different principal to bitmap draw demo, (found on this ings. DPaint. Brilliance and other month's game disk 107) bitmap based programs work by does however work on having a screen full of different W orkbench 3 systems - coloured pixels. Pictures are h a v e fu n . drawn by changing the colours of
Feature Overload P ro D ra w is just overflowing w ith professional features and capabilities. In fact it’s overloaded w ith features that both new users and professional graphic artists w ill find useful. Amongst the more interesting ones are: • Text distortion tools • Wrap text around curves • Gradient colour fills - radial and linear • Import Encapsulated Postscript and bitmap graphics. • Save as Encapsulated Postscript for use with almost every DTP program • Pantone colours for professional colour work Structuied dianing Here we can see a small Bitmap drawing There isn’t much diHerence • Utility to convert bitmap pictures to structured circle and then the same circle alter its been between bitmap and structured lor the two drawings and vice-versa resiled See how the edges don’t break up as small circles, but look what happens when the ctrde is enlarged. the bit map version is enlarged These are all possible w ith our cover disk. You'll also find a range of utilities and simple clip art to help you get startec - all courtesy of your friends at CU Amiga Magazine. COVERDISKS
on the other hand store only the data lor the shapes that make up ProDraw Explained the picture, describing them as This is the drawing area. Objects (lines, circles, mathematical formulas. When you squares and text) are drawn here. To draw an object expand a ProDraw picture your use the tools on the right hand side. Objects are Amiga looks at the shapes and selected by clicking on the Null Pointer tool and then redraws them at the new resolu clicking on the visible edges of objects. To select tion, taking advantage of the more than one object hold the Shift key down whilst increased number of pixels. In a selecting them or use the Marquee tool and drag a bitmap program the pixels are box around the objects. stretched so pictures that looked To delete an object select it and press the Shift good suddenly become blocky. and Delete keys at once. You can abort most drawing Even if you stretch a ProDraw pic operations by pressing Escape. You can also force the ture hundreds of times it won't program to redraw the display at any point by press ▲ ProDraw can create stunning graduated fills of different rose any quality - try doing this in ing the space bar. kinds. Here can be seen both linear and radial His in actioa. DPaint'. Creating pictures in ProDraw will mean that they NULl POINTER TOOL CEck here to neve or adjnst GENIE TOOL This allows yon to run a range of an existing object Click on the edge of an object. AReax macros. Dae to space limitations we’ll be always look good, and get better A set of control points w il now appear, drag these covering these in a fatare issae. when you show or display them on around to change the shape of any object Alternatively click on the edge of an object and a high resolution monitor or printer. drag it to move the entire shape. You can also dick on an object and then doable dick on the SELECTION: Allows yea to qaicMy select Easily adapted Null Pointer tool bringing up a reguester allowing you type ia object positions. box around the objects to he selected - they'll It s also easier to change a struc then be picked. tured drawing. In DPaint when you draw a circle it becomes part of MAGNIFY: This provides a dose up view of yonr work for accurate object editing. Click on the tool I TEXT TOOL CEck here to enter text on the page the picture - you're just changing Place the crosshairs in the centre ef the area you the colours o f the pixels in the area want magnified and drag the monse out to the of the circle. To change the circle edge ef the area. The screen will now npdate showing a blown up view of this area. RECTANGLE TOOL This allows you to draw size you’ll need to change the rectangles and sgaares. Jnst like the Ellipse tool colour of the pixels again. A struc you can constrain the horizontal and vertical dimensions by holding down the AIT key. in this PEN TOOL CEck on this for lines and Berier tured drawing program on the case drawing a square. other hand holds the picture data carves. For lines move the cress baits into the drawing area and cEck once. Now move the cur- as shapes that float on the page - sot to another location and click again, a line will they can be moved and changed at appear between the two points. Yon can keep CURVE TOOL: Allows yoa to draw freehand drawing lines aatil Escape is pressed. For Bener will. To resize a circle ju s t grab the carves. Click oa the tool, move to the corves move the cross hairs to the drawing area, drawing area and now press and bold circle and drag it around! If a diag and while holding down the moose button, move down the left mouse button. Drag it onal line is in the wrong place, the cursor around and release it when Finished A around - you’ll see a line appear. Once carve will now appear you’re finished drawing release the monse Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMd ic k on it, pick up one end and button. The line will now be converted ta drag it to a new location -sim ple. a series of Bezier curves which yea can edit to form perfectly smooth carves. There are other advantages as ELLIPSE TOOL For drawing ellipses or circles. well. By only saving the mathe Click once on the drawing area, move the cress hairs away from it and an ellipse wiH appear. CEck matical shape data, structured again to draw the ellipse. To constrain the Ellipse ROTATION TOOL Amy to egaai vertical and horizontal radii (creating a drawing files are much smaller guesses what this does? circle) bold down the ALT key while moving the than bitmap IFF files. A black page Select an object. Click oa the rotation tool and with with a red circle in would be the crosshairs click on saved as 'draw a page, paint it either a vertical or hori black. Draw a red circle. 10mm in GRID TOOL Creates a grid or table Click on this zontal axis. This tells the and then drag oat a box. A rectangle divided program which axis the diameter, in the middle of the vertically and horizontally will now appear. Double object will be rotated page'. D P aint w ould have to save clicking on the tool icon allows yea to specify the through Move the number of rows and columns in the grid. crosshairs to a different every pixel in the page, regardless point hold down the left of the fact that only a small area monse button and drag the moase: the object in the middle was being used. SIZING TOOL With this tool yon can change the will then bo rotated. Yoa Over the next few pages you'll sin of existing objects. Click on this and then can also route an ohjoct find comprehensive details on with the crosshairs that appear click in one cor by entering rotation ner of an object Now move the crosshairs to a angles in same way as how to decompress and use this different point (away from the object) and press the sizing tool works. powerful program, and on page the moose batten - bat don't release it. As yon move the moase the object sire will change. 12 you can find out about all the Press the moase batten to set the s in. To resize exciting n e w features in OctaMED an object more accurately select an object and DISTORTION TOOL Changes aa object s then double click on the siring tool icon. shape. Select an object A recUngle with 6. Over the coming months we'll control paints on it will appear around also be running a series of tutori the object. Yoa can now drag these als showing you how to get the points oat to distort the shape of tho MIRROR TOOL Imagine drawing a shape and thea object. By holding down the Shift key and most out of ProDraw. holding a minor next to i t this is what the Minor moving a corner point the two sides tool does. Select the objects yea want mirrored. attached will make the sides a straight CEck the crosshair cursor on the object - this line. The ALT key makes the distortion Manic menus acts as a centre point of the rotation. Now move vertically symmetrical, and the Control Take a look at the panel on the the crosshairs to a new point and drag the peiate key makes it borizonully symmetrical - a line will appear indicating the surface of the right and try out the various mirror, it is a visual gaide only. Drag the tools. After experimenting them crosshairs ia the direction yon wish to rotate the with for a while you should be mirror and release the left moose batten. CUTTING TOOL Cats Bezier objects into smaller objects. Select an abject. Pick the cutting tool and cEck oa Ike familiar with the basic tools of control point in the Berier where yoa wish to cat the P roD raw and will be well on your HOOK TOOL Adds extra control points to Bezier carves and other objects - rectangles, cir object. Now before releasing the moase button drag tho control point to it’s new location Holding down the ALT cles etc. Select aa object Click on the tool and move the cross hairs to where you want the way to being able to create key whilst pressing the moase button aRews you ta new control point ta appoar. Press the left monse button. Dragging the mouse instead of detailed illustrations and logos. releasing it will aOew you U alter the slope of the tangent of the Bezier curve. delete a control point without catting tho carve. And P roD raw can do even more. Communicating with the world N o , P r o D r a w doesn't have buift.in modem, although if you've got a m o d e m t h e r e is a lot of structured clip art you could get hold of from the Internet. If you've created some art work you'll probably want to use It in a DTP program or another application. There are several ways
to do this. Firstly you can A Witli Cli,M«,. V at ■■ the cew A a k fa * cel c m - save it as a P r o D r a w C lip van real fieOraw fictiie a into III hies. file - this will load into GoldDisk’s Professional Page. Alternatively you can save the drawing as an Encapsulated Postscript File (EPS) which you'll be able to load into any other good DTP program. To save a drawing as a Clip use Speeding things up the Save option under the Clips menu. For EPS files select Output/Postscript under the Project menu. Structured drawings are made up of m athematically If you w ant load your pictures into something like DPaint defined shapes. To display these shapes it can often take you'll need to use another program. C lip M a p , for example, a few minutes to work out the complex calculations which can be found on the second P r o D r a w disk. To convert required and as a result you will often find yourself w ait your pictures using C lip M a p you’ll need to save your ing for the program. This is the case with all structured P r o D r a w illustrations as clips. drawing programs, on Macs, PCs and Amigas. But P r o D r a w has the answer. You can turn off the full detail coloured display and work with just object outlines, using colour or make the border thicker. the full colour mode just to preview and check your work This is done from the Attribute - making performance much faster. This is how most menu. Try this out by drawing a cir users work in P r o D r a w and other drawing packages. In cle. Now select the circle and click fact the leading drawing program on the Mac (Illustrator ) on the Gradient/RII under the has only recently allowed you to edit pictures in full Attributes menu. You'll n o w see a colour mode, previously forcing you to work in its requester allowing you to define a 'Artwork' mode. graduated fill (either radial or lin P r o D r a w loads with its outline mode 'W irefram e' ear). and alter the colours used selected as standard. To view a picture in full detail click and other options. Click on OK and on the W ireframe option under the Preferences menu - so then turn off the Wireframe and Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthere's no tick next to it. To see it in colour click on the black and w h ite display modes Black f» W hite line under the same menu. By turning these under the Preferences menu. You'll modes on, with a tick, you can make the display update now see your circle filled with a quicker and faster. W orking in W irefram e mode has no graduated tint! Try out the other and enter various parameters. You effect on the picture content, it m erely hides the time- options under the Attributes menu can duplicate the clone operation consuming detail from view. - this is fundamental for creating by pressing the Shift and Tab keys professional artwork. at the same time ■
Read on to find out more, Here's some text using the Text tool and I object a further look at some of then create a curve. Select both Under the Object menu you’ll find Coming Soon! P roD raw 's other features. objects (using the Null Pointer and a number of very useful editing That's it for P r o D r a w th is Shift key). Now click on the Align functions. The first of these are month. For now, you It's a wrap! Text to Curve menu and click on the Group and UnGroup func could do a lot worse than Under the Special menu You'll find OK. You'll now see the text flow tions. These allow you to take two just playing around with an option called Align Text With ing around the curve. or more separate objects and the various tools and Curve. This quite simply allows Group them together so they options. Learn how to text to be wrapped around curves Fill it become one. living in married m anipulate Bezier curves, - perfect for creating logos and If you've created an object you'll bliss fo r ever m ore, o r som e and object manipulation in typographical effects. Create undoubtedly want to fill it with thing... To reverse the action use particular. Over the next few months we'll be run UnGroup. The Align feature allows ning in-depth tutorials you to align several objects so their top, bottom, left or right showing how other parts b v . m u s edges all line up. of the program operate, Bezier curves allow you to along with many tips, draw curves at any angle. Cloned tricks and hints to get M oving the control points The Clone facility is one of the more out of this amazing w ill change the shape of most powerful functions of program. If you have any the line. C licking on a con ProDraw. With it you can not only questions, ideas or work trol point and then drag copy existing objects, but change created with P r o D r a w ging the tangent line the way they are placed on the send them to us (c/o Andy Leaning, ProDraw Comer. control points allow s the page. As it copies an object you angle of the curve to be can also shift it to a new position, CU Amiga Magazine, changed. Understanding scale it. changing size as it goes Priory Court, 30-32 this process is vital to and finally rotate it. To try it out Farringdon Lane, London working w ith P r o D r a w . highlight an object, select Clone E C 1 R 3 A U ). Z O O f X H Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM
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Preview the amazing etting started: Load the demo module from the disk by selecting Open from the Project menu, then double clicking the PianoNoteslTheme) file which can be found in the MOD new version of the drawer Alternatively, try out the MIDI piece. You will need a O MIDI instrument connected in order to hear this one Amiga's best music We don't have room for full instructions here, but assuming you have some basic knowledge of previous versions of OctaMED (w e gave away a complete version of OctaMED A with the July 1994 issue), there package, with our should be no trouble getting into the program. For loading instructions, see page 18. What follows is a guide to some of the most prominent exclusive demo on n e w features.
coverdisk 107. Sample editor The sample editor can now handle 16 bit samples, and has extra editing fea New features tures, such as: adjust Y offset, add I Here's a selection of the new features and improvements of OctaMED 6. workspace, overwrite paste, better chord creation, lots of loop controls, a ► Multiple commands on ► 16-bit sample handling tuning tone, and plenty more. Take a w ». ,.., „ , , —, —■ each line ► Loads and saves MIDI files browse through the menus and , »Custom screen modes (saving disabled! experiment. It can also load MAUD. AIFF, WAV, IFF and RAW samples * Custom font selection ► Improved sample editor The full version will be able to save these too. t ARexx port » Save as executable (disabled) • Aura and Toccata sampler support »Enable/disable audio channels Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMCommand pages You can now use more than one command on Instrument types each line of a track, to define how each sample is O ctaM ED 6 allow s you to played. This is a powerful new feature. For use a number of different instance, you could play a sample and strobe it on T im p It instrument types: Amiga and off with the volume command, whilst pitch J Hybrid samples, synthesised bending it to a lower note, and altering the sample J E x tS w I t Amiga sounds, hybrid offset value simultaneously! No other software Synthetic _ | Stereo Amiga samples and synth gives you this kind of control over your samples and MIDI instruments! 16-bit sounds, MIDI instruments. There's no room between the tracks to include more than one com Aura 12-bit samples and mand, so each block can be made up of a number of 'command pages k i t I Toccata 16-bit samples. Select Block Properties from the Block menu, and you'll see this win Obviously you'll need the dow. Click in the box labelled Cmd Pages, and enter a number, depend I Aura or Toccata sampler hardware to use those last two options. Any ing on how many simultaneous commands you want to use. This makes I combination of these types can be used in the same song. Select the a number of copies of the current block. These copies (command I type by clicking on the Type button from the Main Control panel. pages) are in fact sub-divisions of the original block. You can cycle through the command pages using the Shift and Tab keys, inserting additional commands on subsequent pages. You'll notice the note data MIDI loading and saving is carried across from the original, but the commands are not. All com I Standard MIDI files can be loaded, upon which they are mand pages are played whenever you play the original block. automatically transferred into O ctaM E D 's tracker format. The Font selection ___ conversion from MIDI to tracker Now you can use bigger fonts for format can be controlled from the various displays. Three differ the SMF Load Options window, ent fonts can be assigned to t h e ______from the MIDI menu. You can general screen, the w in d ow s and bOl — OOCOO — 03000 — 00000 0-3 »::: £-i t assign a command page to the tracker editor. This is very M2 — OOSKI C|3 COOOO f-i (MM 0-3 SCCM I-i t mm each of the MIDI controllers T l£1 Pin handy, as it frees you from the P® ^ ***} H ^ ~ 5-1 M n o - (see Command pages panel for Natt I l l i c i t ? .M CIimhI to lew eye-strain of reading tiny letters more info). The commercial Frtitt Ckin» JJ Ckirxwl Pmstnrt and numbers, particularly in the Eg s.j s.j r.j g.; JKM h P release version of O ctaM E D 6 lloitalatim HkHl M P itc h lend tracker editor There are no extra E] — MOM — MOM — MM C-i WC10 l-i P will also allow saving of songs fonts on this disk, but you can M — t m 1-3 MM C-3 JOOM 0-3 SK33 l- i F*J • in MIDI file format. You can't I *•>’( Uttoiix tpw 1 Tracks use any you m ay have on your I * H MOM M3 CHOC — MOM 0-3 SKI) l-i " M il use it here however, as all of hard drive or other disks. Select the save functions are disabled. Font from the Settings menu to access this feature. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM
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Mark your first blank disk 'P r o D r a w Program disk'. 9 Double click the icon marked P r o D r a w 2 . 10. Insert your second blank disk and press Return when requested. Before you do anything 11. Replace the cover disk one last tim e when asked to do do. Write protect your coverdisks! 12. Label your second blank disk 'P r o D r a w Clip Art'. 13. Insert the disk marked 'P r o D r a w Program disk' and reset Your coverdisks will be write your Amiga. 14 Double click on the icon marked 'P D r a w 3 . 0 Disk 1', and enabled when you take them off then on the icon marked ‘P D r a w '. 1 5 . P r o D r a w will load. Now refer to the instructions on page 8. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe cover of this magazine. Make sure you write protect them, by O ctaM ED 6 O c t a M E D 6 is on coverdisk 107 in compressed form. Before sliding the tab in the corner so you can use it, you need to decompress it onto a blank disk. Follow these steps to make up your O c t a M E D d is k . that there's a small hole. This 1. Insert cover disk 107 into the internal floppy drive and reset th e A m ig a . will stop you accidentally writing 2. Double click the icon marked 'CU*. 3. Double click the icon marked O c ta M E D 6 . over the original during the 4. Insert a blank disk and press Return when asked to do so. decompression process. 5. Replace the blank disk with the coverdisk when asked to do so 6. Label your blank disk O c ta M E D 6 . 7. Insert the O c ta M E D 6 disk, and reset your Amiga. 8. Double click the icon marked ‘O c ta M E D 6 D e m o '. IF YOUR DISK WON'T LOAD 9. Double click the icon marked ‘O c ta M E D 6 ‘. C lic k o n C a n c e l ■ W e go to great trouble to ensure that the CU Amiga Magazine coverdisks will work . when asked to 'Insert volume Fonts'. Now refer to the 1 on common Amiga models However if you do experience problems follow this instructions on page 12 . I simple guide. I Note: We've squeezed a few bonus samples and instrument 1 1: Remove all unnecessary upgrades and peripherals, such as pnnters and modems. | sounds onto cover disk 107 in uncompressed form. These can . Some trapdoor expansions can also cause problems. ■ 2 Follow the instructions on this and previous pages exactly be loaded into OctaMED 6 for use in your own compositions. 13: If you still experience problems loading the disk call the DiskXpress helpline on 0451 I 1810 788 between the hours of 10am and 5pm Monday to Friday | Baldies . If they advise that the disk is faulty, fill in your details m the form below, and send this . Before you can play B a ld ie s , you need to decompress it 1 form, along with the faulty cover disk and a 28p stamped self addressed envelope to: 1 I CU Amiga Magazine Disk Returns. DiskXpress Unit 7. W illow Court Boulton Industrial I onto a blank disk. Follow these steps. | ftirk. Bourtorvon-theWater. Gloucestershire GL54 2H0. | 1. Insert coverdisk 107 into the internal floppy drive and reset t h e A m ig a . I I 2. Double click the icon marked 'CU'. I N A M E :...... | 3. Double click the icon marked B a ld ie s . I AD D R E S S :...... - ...... — ...... I 4. Insert a blank disk and press Return when asked to do so. 1 TYPE OF AMIGA OWNED:...... j 5. Replace the blank disk with the coverdisk when asked to do si I DISK NUMBER:...... | 6. Swap the disks back and press Return at the prompt. 7. Replace the cover disk when asked. | DESCRIBE EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO LOAD THE DISK: | 8. Label your blank disk 'Baldies'. I ...... - ...... I 9. Insert the B a ld ie s disk into the internal drive, and rese I I the Amiga. B a ld ie s will now load. Refer to page 15 for L ______I playing instructions. inners EMMMGS IS A MODERN DAY ASSIC, A MASSIVE AND TRl Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM END. W HO NEEDS A SOCIAL LIFE DNTIER: PLAY THE ROLE OF A SPACE HADB3 DEALING IN ALL SORTS OF B O O H S , LEGAL OR NOT. FRONTIER- ELITE I IS A BEAST OF A GAME WITH UNNING GRAPHICS AND ONCE ITTBI, YOU’LL BE PLAYING THIS FOR Empire Interactive, The Spires, 677 Hiyh Road, IYS, NIGHTS AND MONTHS ON END. lorth Finchley. London N12 oDA Tel: 018131,3 911,3 Gentians launch sneak attack on Commodore! Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMne of Europe’s largest PC manufacturers and retailers has been reported as putting in a surprise $5 mil O lion (C3.2M) bid to buy the assets and trademarks of Commodore International. Escom is a £1.6 billion turnover com pany w hich operates in nearly all European countries and many of the old Soviet Block countries. Escom has major plans for computer ▲ CmM t in m m m i a y u m A t h h n ? retailing in the UK high street market. It A A t Esctm designed PC. UnustaJ hth? already has a chain of 24 shops in the UK as w e ll as a presence in 35 O ffice World out-of-town stores. It has also just purchased Rumbelows, the UK based chain which was recently closed down after significant trading losses. It now intends to re-open all of the stores whilst expanding its Office World presence too. In total it will have over 300 Escom outlets in primary high street locations, or major out-of-town sites by th e end o f the year. To run moving into telecom- Escom’s future plans. I these it plans to increase its UK staffing munications, and set-top- The Amiga would also * levels by 1.500 people. box technology. provide Escom with a low cost home computer Bernard Van Tianam - Managing CU Amiga Magazine first heard news of the to complement the higher priced PC systems Director of Escom Holland - told CU bid in mid March and it was then reported in the currently sold through its shops Amiga Magazine that the UK stores will ECTS issue o f the gam es trade magazine CTW. David Pleasance, who is jointly heading up a prim arily sell Escom branded PCs. However, when asked to comment on their prospective rival management buyout of including multimedia systems. Escom reported bid Mr Van Tianam would neither con Commodore's world wide rights, wasn't worried I claim they already produce some firm nor deny the presence of money on the by the move though, claiming that their bid was I 400,000 units (PCs) fro m their German table and was also unwilling to comment on the still the most likely to succeed. Either way it is manufacturing plants. In an exclusive the status of the Amiga if they won a bid for it. obvious that the Amiga is still in demand, not interview Mr Van Tianam went on to However, the Amiga's potential as a set-top deliv- just by users and dealers, but also by prospec say that Escom are also considering ery-box would obviously fit in neatly with tive manufacturers NEWS Ocean Mac-beating teams up Team 17 have signed a deal with Ocean Software to exclusively distribute their games on all formats. The deal, in which both Ocean and Team 17 retain their own separate identities, will increase the Team's software distribution from their current 18 countries to 64 countries and graphics will provide the necessary cash and back ing to launch title s across all hom e enter ne of the best structured drawing of $299.95 but for a limited period Stylus will tainment machines. At the moment Team programs for the Amiga is to be selling it at an introductory price of $199.95. 17 concentrate on the Amiga and PC but upgraded. ProVector Version 3 Stylus are also offering an upgrade for users of as part of the deal games like their forth from Stylus Inc will be released earlier versions of ProVector, Art Expressions, coming blockbuster W orm s w ill be © shortly. Version 2 of the program Professional Draw, Design Works o r Aegis released on up to 16 formats. suffers from several important limitations that Draw , although exact upgrade pricing was still In the future, games which fall under have prevented it from overtaking its rival being finalised at press time. the deal will be branded with both the ProDraw as the best structured drawing pro CU Amiga Magazine is currently liaising Ocean and Team 17 logos. Will Team 17 gram. The new version will give Amiga users with several UK distributors to arrange UK be swallowed up though? Alan Bunker, power previously only seen on Mac drawing availability and will bring you full details of their PR manager, was keen to stress that programs such as Adobe Illustrator. UK support, pricing and shipping dates "Team 17's branding will be maintained Version 3 looks like becoming the champion shortly. In the mean time Stylus are on 0101 and w e are still 100% independent". of Amiga vector graphics. Amongst the many 303 484 7321. new features are powerful clipping paths (allowing objects to be masked out), gradient His, file support for Adobe Illustrator, and numerous new object tools such as blending, Evasive skewing, mirroring and warping. The program wtll also provide full APexx support, on-line help, and other Workbench 2 and 3 enhance ments for improved ease of use. Action Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMJeff Blume, Vice President of Stylus, said of the new release, "We are committed to provid- Mindscape have been very evasive about «g Amiga users with a superior drawing pro their latest slice of aerial action. We gram and we will continue to improve the should have had a preview of this 'dog fight simulation' in the games section ftoVector family of products". H you thought this maith's ProDraw 3 coierdisk was good, The Stylus Pro-Pack has a suggested price wait until yna get stock into the forthcoming ProVector 3. this month but due to mysterious circum- . stances (probably something to do with the ECTS) we never got hold of it. It sounds good though, with four different fight scenarios promised: World War 1. World War 2, modern jet combat and futuristic space combat. Mindscape's PR department has gone to great pains to point out that Evasive A ction is not a flight sim in the conventional sense of Raging on the term; it is an air combat simulator designed to emulate one on one air com bat. using 3D graphics and arcade style rim a l Rage is now scheduled for gameplay. Hopefully w e'll have that full a September release on all for preview next month. m ats. First announced by CU Amiga Magazine back in O■•eember the coin-op conversion of this ■HK 'em up extravaganza is now well under ComieSetter h a y for the Amiga. [T h is is being handled by Mortal Kombat 1 success Bad 2 veteran Probe Entertainment and is CU Amiga Magazine's January 1995 issue pvected to be finished by the end of the ComieSetter coverdisk is being used to illus ■^wner. The coin-op has a multitude of dif- trate MicroManiacs. a car magazine for moves for you to master, but Probe Microcar enthusiasts. Although not quite up to to be able to incorporate all of them Judge Dredd standards, MicroManiacs is now I even some extra ones if all goes using the program to produce on-page to plan) using either one or two cartoons. For more information on the maga ... joysticks or joypad. Sounds like fun! zine. contact Steve Pepper. 42 Charles Avenue. V e l have a Work In Progress on Primal Harrogate, North Yorks. HG1 4PE. next month. Tel: 01423 524840. kfeikd Sc£m c® Tel. 0116 234 0682 or Fax. 0116 236 4932 CLIP' AR1T QBi Ovrr JJOHp at Clip An far at Cbp ranpc at 26X00 THE OfPK U L AMOS PO w Iff Bitmap. 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ICPUG membership gets you four ■ boarils now! Write to issues of the ICPUG journal, free PD s c ~ « technical hotlines and offers support and 1 If you're thinking about buying a RAM advice Contact Tim Arnot, 17 Colne D m ^fl upgrade in the next few months now. might Oakfields. Didcot. Oxon, OX11 7RZ Tel I be a good time to invest. The rapidly rising 01235 815725 after 8 30pm strength of the Japanese Yen means that far your CD! eastern manufacturers are having to swal low large losses when exporting products to foreign countries, and Japan is one of the A German software developer claims to have primary producers of memory chips. In the created a program that allows normal Amigas Twist last weeks of February and early weeks of and CD drives to write to compact discs. March alone the Yen rose by an astonishing Previously CDs have been read only, which eight percent. This compounds on the loss means that while they can store vast amounts correction es manufacturers suffered after Kobe earth of data you couldn't write your own informa Two mistakes crept into our review of m H quake. The two factors combined are tion to them. Twist database in th e April '95 issue. T w ^ M forcing some manufacturers to consider Now Ralph Babel and Stefan Ossowski (the actually published in the UK by HiSoft rising prices to customers. creators of the Aminet, Imagine Enhancer and and has a price of £99.95. This does nc- 1 other CDs) claim to have have developed a affect our rating of this program, which software application that, enables your Amiga one of the most powerful databases to write to CDs using normal CD drives. on the Amiga According to details from their German HiSoft have also announced that a r a J based company - Schatztruhe - the CD Write version of the program will shortly be software will allow you to store programs and able. 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Please allow 14 days for delivery ESOE Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Printer S h o w d o w n Everyone who has an Amiga should have a printer ... and I most people who have a printer would like a better one! ii I We round up ten of the most popular to help you out. printer technologies seen in this feature. They consist of three main pans: a print head, a Save money motor and a paper feed mechanism. The print You can save yourself money by head consists o f a square o f tin y pins. refilling your old ink cartridges Individual pins are moved forward creating the instead of buying new ones. shape of each character or pixel in the case of Although most manufacturers don't graphics printing. This shape is then pressed recommend it, several companies against an inked ribbon which in turn presses claim to offer refills that comply onto the paper, forming the shapes on the with m anufacturer specifications. page. After each character is printed the motor Refilling inkjet cartridges can cut moves the print head horizontally to the next your costs considerably. A new ink character. When it reaches the far right edge jet cartridge costs around £ 20 , of the page, the print head is moved back to depending upon the model. Refills on the start of the line and the paper feed mecha the other hand are available for nism moves the paper sheet up one line. under £10! Try Grey-Tronics on 0500 Finer detail and higher quality results are 737 800 or Care Electronics on achieved by increasing the number of pins in 01923 894 064. fier upgrading the internal hard the print head. The cheapest dot matrix print ware of your Amiga, one of the ers have nine pins, although the much higher have to deal with. One problem is that the most useful expansions money can quality 24-pin models now cost as little as the process requires specific ink fluidity. If it's too I buy is a printer. And there's certain nine pin models. thick it doesn't 'spurt' properly, too thin and it I O ly no shortage of printers available Colour dot matrix printers work by having a runs as it hits the paper. The ink container - just look through the pages of any computer ribbon composed of four bands of colour (typi must be free of bubbles as this would wreck I magazine and you'll see all sorts of models cally red, blue, yellow and black). The printer the ink flow. However, manufacturers have j But which is best for you? Here's where we can move the ribbon up and down so the print overcome these problems and ink/bubble jet I come to the rescue Over the next few pages head presses against the different colours. By technology is now very affordable you'll find everything you need to know about printing over the same character with the dif Prices start from £200 for monochrome ver-1 buying and using a printer with your Amiga. ferent colour bands, a wide range of colours sions and £250 for colour models. It's all here, from identifying the type of printer can be produced. best suited to your needs, to explanations of In recent months the prices of dot matrix Graphics the complex jargon. From ecological consider models, particularly 24-pins, have fallen dra The Amiga's capabilities for producing colour I ations to getting the best out of it once it's matically. 9-pin models can be bought for pictures are second to none, so it's not sur- J connected to your Amiga. And then of course around £100. although the quality is only really prising that demand for good colour printers there's the comprehensive buyers guide to ten suited for personal use. Higher quality 24-pins popular models ranging from low budget dot can now bought for as cheap as £150. which matrix to mid range, fast laser printers. is a dramatic decrease as only a short time ago they cost around £300-£400! General use Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMBut first, there are several important considera Word processing tions to be made before choosing which Good text printing is obviously a primary fea printer to buy. The first of these is what kind of ture if you regularly use a word processor, but document you intend to print. With the obvi with the increasing slant towards DTP that's ous exception of price, this is the most impor creeping into most Amiga word processors, tant thing to bear in mind, as certain printers it's also likely you'll want to print the odd pic- . are better suited to outputting text, colour ture or graphic, maybe with a splash of colour graphics or DTP pages than others. along with your text. So what is the best From our most recent reader survey we method of getting a good quality printout of found that most of you will use a printer for your text which will also do justice to any one of four main reasons: general use. word graphics o r colour? processing, producing prints of your graphics Ink jet technology is the solution. Ink jet and DTP printers produce near laser-quality results yet If you want a good all-rounder that can han cost only slightly more than dot matrix equiva dle the odd letter, maybe some program list lents. But they also have the capability to print ings and FteadMe files, with the ability to print in colour when needed. graphics too, then a dot matrix printer is often Ink jet printers work on a simple principal. A the best option. tiny heating element heats up a bubble of ink. Dot matrix printers are the oldest of the as it gets hotter the bubble expands and finally bursts, sending a splurge of ink through a tube and finally onto the paper which forms a dot. The remaining ink bubble contracts, sucking more ink in to the vacuum left behind. The new ink is then heated, starting the process again. This process is duplicated with multiple heating elements, ink bubble containers and tubes making up a print head. Typically there are around 64 tubes or nozzles in a print head. The more nozzles (and hence dots) the higher the resolution possible. Current ink jets achieve around 360 dpi (dots per inch). Different colour inks are used to produce mul tiple colour prints. So far it sounds simple enough. However there are several problems that manufacturers How printers work Laser printers Dot matrix printers Bubble jet printers *oir» \ Ink forced out — f i pands T/ ^ Elnmont-" # Jl M o re in k sucked in from r e s e rv o ir J •round £100. At the bottom end of the scale from these two previous types. For DTP work As the drum rotates it also goes past a trough there are dot matrix models, at the other it's quality above all else and there's only one of powdered ink, which sticks to the area end (with prices of £250 and abovel are ink type of printer that delivers the best quality: a marked out by the laser. The rotating drum unit |M devices laser printer With average resolutions of then passes over the paper, transferring the Dot matrix technology will produce colour 300dpi. which can be improved upon with ink to it as it goes. As a final step the paper vnages but it tends to suffer badly from band- enhancement technology, and print speeds of sheet is then heated to fix the ink. »ig - having lines running either vertically or at least four pages per minute laser printers Laser printers with resolutions above the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMhorizontally through the picture. This occurs have become the favourite printer for profes standard 300dpi are starting to become com where the print head moves from one charac sional DTP users. Falling costs also ensure that monplace. In 1993 Ricoh introduced the ter to the next and there's an overlap or gap they are growing in popularity amongst users LP1200 laser printer providing 400dpi. and between the characters. You'll also find that on a tight budget. other manufacturers (Lexmark. Hewlett- dot matrix technologies often produce prints Lasers printers work in a similar fashion to Packard etc) produce 600dpi models. that are too dark or too faint - although you . photocopiers. A laser beam is fired at a mirror. can compensate for this by altering the origi This mirror reflection targets the beam onto a Paper types nal picture and increasing the brightness. drum, and by rotating the mirror the beam can Your choice of paper can make a lot of differ be moved horizontally across the drum sur ence to the quality of your printouts. All print Desktop publishing face. The drum in turn rotates allowing the ers work by applying ink to the paper surface DTP has always been one of the more popular beam to traverse its entire surface, creating and drying it in some form. Depending on the applications for the Amiga, com ing in just the image of the page on the drum surface type of paper the ink will be absorbed into the behind word processing and graphics in our The drum unit itself is coated with a material, paper to various degrees and dry at different survey, yet the needs of DTP printer users differ o nto w h ich the im age is scored by the laser. speeds If too much ink is absorbed the print will look faint, if it doesn’t dry quickly enough it will run. In the case of ink jet printers better Ecological considerations results can be obtained by using special paper, There was a tim e when printers could rightly be accused of being one of the glossy surfaces being the obvious choice. An most environmentally unfriendly computer peripherals. Indeed with the amount in-between solution is to use 'normal' paper, of toner and paper they get through they still do more harm than most other but higher quality than standard photocopier peripherals. But recently manufacturers have tried hard to reduce their harmful stock. CU Amiga Magazine experienced high side effects. You may or may not take the 'green cause' into account when you quality prints when using Conquerer paper. are buying a printer but it's worth taking into consideration the efforts of various Other named quality paper produced similarly manufacturers as they can save you money and protect ol‘ mother earth as well. good results. For example, some Hewlett-Packard and Epson Stylus printers have power Fortunately (or unfortunately) you do get saving devices that shut down the engine, entering a standby mode, when not in what you pay for when choosing paper. Thick, use. The HP Laser's power consumption drops by 180 watts to just 5 watts good paper is expensive, but for jobs where when in this mode. Given that a laser printer is often on-line, but unused for quality is everything, the investment is worth it. long periods of tim e, this w ill save a lot in electricity billsl Ink usage is also environm entally and financially costly, so saving the And there's more ... cartridges m ust be a good idea. Once again HP score points by recycling your So there you have it. Your choice of printer used toner cartridges - they even pay the postage when you return used depends upon your wallet and what you actu units to them . The printer also has a special EconoMode which uses up 50% ally do with your Amiga. Over the next three less toner when printing. This is done by spacing out the dots, producing less pages you should find our guide to several of dense coverage. the more popular printers available and their relative merits helpful. Neither too faint or dark and with minimal DOT MATRIX banding it won our vote as the best all round PRINTERS budget printer. Dot m atrix printers are a cheap and Seikosha SL-96 BTel: 0181 309 1111 reliable method of outputting colour ■ P ric e : £ 1 4 9 and black and white pages from your Amiga. The various 24-pin models here start from around £100. The T2016 is a good, low cost, monochrome, Samsung SP-2417 9-pin printer. It's not capable of colour output One of the cheaper 24-pin models, the but if you want a printer only for personal and Samsung SP-2417 looks more sturdy than general use. program listings and directory attractive. However, Samsung describe it as prints, it may be worth a look. having a 'Life Style Design', even though we W ith just 9-pins you can't expect great A Samsung SP-2417: Paw output poor performance but relatively cheap. think it looks like any other dot matrix printer! quality outputs, but for the money it's OK. W e were disappointed w ith its print quality. Prints suffer from banding and paper crimp Output of pictures was faint and suffered from ing but this is to be expected with the tech an intrusive amount of banding and paper nology. and it's no worse than any other crimping. On the other hand the relative colour similarly priced model. balance remained intact. Text fared better Comparing its output to that of other 9-pin although it was a bit rough around the edges. models we've looked at in the past revealed In the speed trials it also performed poorly, slightly better than average character defini although better than its 160cps draft and tion. Noise levels were the most off putting 53cps letter quality mode specifications would element of the T2016 though. The constant have you believe. It came in wqll behind both clanking and whirring of the print head gets a the Citizen and Seikosha models, and tied bit tedious after a while. roughly equal to the Mannesmann Tally T2016. It's cheap and reliable and will be ideal for However, it should be remembered that this the those who just want a cheap way to print printer is cheap, and for your money you still get out text documents for personal use. If you a 24-pin printer that is faster and gives notably want colour, or higher resolution look else better results than any old 9-pin models. where, maybe the Samsung SP-2417 or the If you're looking for a low cost printer, and Seikosha SL-96, neither of which cost a lot aren't too worried about quality the SP-2417 is more but offer slightly better quality output A Seikosha SL-96: best all round budget printer worth a look. and colour. Samsung SP-2417 ■ Tel: 01293 547788 Mannesmann Tally BTel: 01734 788 711 ■ P ric e : £ 1 2 9 ■ P ric e : £ 1 0 9 Seikosha SL-96 Citizen ABC Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMLike Citizen. Seikosha have taken the trouble Citizen are one of the few printer manufactur to support the Amiga and a printer driver is ers who actually recognise and try to help provided with the SL-96. Unfortunately Amiga owners use their printers by supplying Seikosha's driver isn't as good as Citizen's but Amiga drivers with the ABC. Citizen's drivers it's still a lot better than having no driver at all are a credit to the company. They provide easy as is th e case w ith Mannesmann Tally. control of the printer hardware and result in The driver allows the Amiga to produce higher quality prints than can be obtained prints at the full resolution of the 24-pin SL-96, using the standard EpsonQ drivers. and get better colour output than would be As a low cost, general purpose printer the possible with the Epson emulations supplied ABC is hard to beat. It's a 24-pin dot matrix with Workbench. model, with resolutions of up to 360x360. In j In speed terms it produces a respectable speed trials it beat both its Samsung and but average 192 characters per second in Seikosha competitors, and held up to the draft mode, and a maximum of 140 cps in let claimed 192 characters per second. A Mannesman Tally T2I16: cheap, reliable monochrome printer ter quality mode. It also has a 'super speed Being dot matrix it's not going to produce draft' mode capable of 240cps. but we found brilliant print quality, but it's still pretty the print quality when in this mode to be respectable for home use. Text was OK pretty poor. although a little fuzzy, whilst colours were But speed accounts for nothing if the quali generally clearer than the Samsung also ty isn't there. Here however. Seikosha need seen here. have no worries. The SL-96 produced the best In general operation the ABC came out prints of all the dot matrix models seen here. well. Its paper loading mechanism proved Model/Specification. Price Type Colour or B&W Resolution Speed B u ffe r: Citizen ABC £189 Colour 360 192cps 8K Seikosha SL96 £149 D C olour 360 192cps 15K MT 2016 £109 D B&W 180 160cps 2K S am sung SP-2417 £129 D Colour 360 5 3 cps 14k Star SJ-144 £249 IJ Colour 360 1.4cps 21 IK Canon BJ200ex -£259 IJ B&W 360 3.5ppm 62K M T 7040 -£259 IJ Colour 300 3ppm 128K Epson Stylus -£559 IJ Colour 720 240cps 64K- HP LJ4L -£574 L B&W 300 4ppm 1Mb MTT9005 -£586 L B&W 300 4ppm 512k A Citireu ABC: Amiga drivers supplied. eiceHaat far home use. ' Type: L=Laser, D=Dot matrix. IJ-lnkjet. Resolution: Maximum resolution without enhancement. Speed:Characters per second for dot matrix models at 12cpi, pages per minute for some inkjets and all lasers. prints for DTP use, but are on a tight budget, Spurting Canons the BJ-200ex is a safe route to follow. Ink jet technology was Although slower than a laser printer its quality originally created by will be more than good enough for most Canon, with the origi users looking for above average output. nal patent for the con There are Amiga drivers available to sup cept recorded in 1977. port the printer, although these aren’t provid Canon introduced the ed w ith it. You'll need to contact Canon. first printer (the BJ-80) in 1985, Canon BJ-200ex ■ Tel: 0121 680 8062 although they demonstrated the ■ Price: £259 technology in 1981. The technology was discovered J^l^ijiesmann Tally when a researcher accidentally touched a hypodermic syringe full of Compared to the Star and Canon printers, the ink w ith a soldering iron, and the ink T7040 looks more like a relic from the sixties spurted from the syringe. than a home printer of the 90s. The T7040 is ugly, with flimsy bits of plastic sticking out at odd angles. If the Star and Canon printers faultless during the test period and as a were supermodels, this must be Nora Batty. result we experienced very few paper han This is all rather unfortunate because in dling problems. other respects it's a good, solid workhorse The ABC printer is a good, reliable printer that produces perfectly acceptable results. which shouldn't disappoint for home use. Although it only supports a resolution of Best of all it can now be picked up for under 300x300dpi, printed matter is clear and clean. £150, which is definitely excellent value The colours could be more vibjant, but in fo r money. general there are no major gripes. The final Citizen ABC ■ Tel 0181 309 1111 verdict? A good printer spoiled by poor ■ Price: £189 - but check advertisers in design and finish. CU Amiga Magazine for lower prices. Canon BJ-200ex ■ Tel: 0121 680 8062 ■ Price: £259 IN K J E T Epson Stylus At approximately £559 the Stylus is a very PRINTERS A Canon B J -tlle i: good qualitr. low cosl monochrome photer. For affordable colour printing ink jet expensive ink jet. so what does it offer to jus technology takes some beating. tify the rather large hole it puts in your pock et? The answer can be found from the first Star SJ-144 print you produce: quality! Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMThis model from Star was one of the most Whilst other ink jet printers spurt out 360 compact and stylish of all the printers we dots per inch, the Stylus pumps out an aston reviewed. It was also one of our favourites. ishing 720dpi, This is a true 720dpi and is not Everything about the Star seems well thought achieved by enhancing a 360dpi mechanism, out and implemented. and as such gives higher quality prints. In every respect the SJ-144 stood out from However, it's worth pointing out that you'll the rest. From its design, the way it stands need to get the correct printer driver for your vertically occupying very little desk space, to Amiga to print at this resolution, and you'll its paper loading mechanism (not a single also need a higher quality paper than normal. iam in the entire test period), to its print qual See the 'Print it with JAM' panel on the next ity which was wonderfully crisp, we could page for driver details. Custom paper is need hardly fa u lt it. ed because normal paper stock can't hold the Print quality was absolutely superb too, ink, with individual dots 'bleeding' into other hiding its only average 360x360 resolution. dots. Once you've got the right driver and Colours were vivid and consistent and didn't paper it produces wonderfully detailed prints. A Mannesman tally 11140: the Nora Ban> of printers! fade at all across large areas, while text came Another feature of the Stylus is that it uses out gloriously sharp. a custom print head. On other ink jets when As a printer for handling both text and the cartridge runs out you'll need to replace graphics the Star SJ-144 is hard to beat, and the entire print head. at just £249 it's exceptional value too. W ith Stylus technology, however, you Star SJ-144 ■Tel: 01494 471111 merely replace the ink well - new ones clip ■ Price: £249 onto the top of the printing head. This system also allows you to have two ink cartridges, Canon BJ-200ex one for black and one for colour. This printer isn't a colour model and is really One thing we didn't like about this printer only included here for reference and for users however was the start up time and paper looking for a low cost alternative to laser print loading system. It seemed to take an inordi ers for black and white DTP type work. nate amount of time to get going, with lots of Although the printer has a standard ink jet odious noises and clicks coming from it for resolution of 360 x 360 dpi, it features several minutes before it was ready for smoothing technology' that enhances the action. The paper feed system also seemed pnnt resolution, making its prints look like to take some time before it would print. 720 x 360 dpi. In this mode its output was Definitely one of the best printers in this better than its normal 360x360, but not as round-up, the Stylus is highly recommended. A Epson Stylus: high gitalin, high price! good as that from the Epson Stylus. Epson Stylus ■ Tel: 01442 61144 For users who want good quality mono ■ Price: £559 IGA LA SER P rintiH c^og^ouJ, PRINTERS Although there's no soft- The crem e de la crem e of printers. Laser based printers offer superb f f K a ware supplied with the S m HP 4L to let you print quality prints but at a price. ^ V ^ B from your Amiga there is a solution and it's cheap! A PD utility called 'HP' allows you to print from W orkbench. This is avail The 4L is a great little printer for desktop pub able on Am inet sites, on the various lishing and other monochrome print jobs. Its Aminet CDs or from other PD compact size, styling and design make it suppliers. This allows the resolution almost perfect to sit alongside the Amiga enhancement and EconoModes to be In use it's impressive. Pumping out a rea turned off amongst other things. sonable four pages per minute it's no slow coach and with a resolution of 300dpi it’ll give you the kind of print quality you could only pre viously have dreamed aboutl page through it and experienced very few Fonts and structured graphics come out problems with the printing process. wonderfully clear and detailed. 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Sue* Hcuu -----R0 Step-by-step procedure Here is how an A1200 can be fitted contact a company such as Eyetech d r iv e w i t h o u t having to do this. w ith a 3.5" drive in full technical tel: 0642 713185 who provide Before you start the job of installing colour. This operation was carried extrem ely detailed notes w ith their the drive you'll need a good, well lit out using a cable kit supplied by wiring kit. desk and some screw-drivers and pli Eyetech Group Lim ited, and a During this installation it was ers. An earthing strip is a very good Seagate ST3491A 428Mb FAST IDE decided to remove the m etal shield idea. You'll also need tin-snips and a drive. If these instructions do not ing totally. The Eyetech instructions drill depending on how you decide to seem comprehensive enough for you. include details on how to mount the m ount the drive internally. Warnings Neither CU Amiga nor the author can take any responsibility if you damage yourself, your Amiga or your hard drive by attempting these procedures. You must carry them out at your own risk. W arranty If your Amiga has any warranty on it, as soon as you open the case, the warranty expires. However, it is possible fit the large drives Sometimes, if the drive is extra small, it is wires to connect, and life is too short to waste ) the A1200 case. I've heard of drives possible to remove only the central portion of on fiddly things like this. I fitted into an A600. but I have never the internal shielding, and still have room to A much better approach is to buy a set of pted it. If you want to fit a drive internal slide the hard drive under Ihe keyboard. cables already made up. Several Amiga adver ly. it must be a 'Low Profile' type drive, and The second procedure is slightly more tisers sell cables, and the price is not much Ou must be prepared to make some alter tricky (believe it or not) but provides a much more than if you had bought Ihe individual ations inside the case. more secure way of fining the drive One fix components and made them up yourself. There are two options. The first is to ing rail of the hard drive is removed, and a These cable sets also provide the neces ••move the metal shielding covering the Amiga small portion of the internal shielding is cut sary power connectors. As mentioned, the t board, and stow the drive away in the away with tin snips. Two holes are drilled at ( space under the keyboard. The problems asso- the very back of the Amiga's plastic casing, r dated with this procedure are as follows: and two screws inserted to hold the drive in 1 It's very easy to cut yourself badly when place. With a piece of plastic shielding, this I removing the metal shielding. method provides a very stable and reliable way 2 The Amiga keyboard is connected to the of housing the hard drive. I motherboard via a small ribbon cable. The cable is very short and care needs to be taken Cables and power m fitting the drive around it. The cables themselves are the next problem, 3 The drive needs t o be insulated to make and there is no easy solution. The keen DIY [ sure it doesn't touch the motherboard. If it did. fan will buy two cables, one for 2.5" drives and I 4 could short circuit both the drive and the one for 3.5" drives, cut off the spare connec I motherboard causing damage tors and solder th e w ires together. A The shielding cannot be replaced. This Alternatively it's possible to re-press the IDC means the Amiga is now in breach of FCC reg- style 3.5" connector onto the 2.5" cable Both ■ idnaU arcM M tiinlk I ufations. which means very little except you are very tedious and error prone procedures Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM[ might notice some radio interference. and I cannot recommend them There are 40 as all modern Seagate and Connor drives, should present no problems. The drive should Eyetech's Cables filH U*! I drive dettntions auto-mount (allowing booting from Workbench The cables used in the above proce BwfKlrw l« : I rSFff stored on it) from power-up, not just from a dure came from the Eyetech Group IriwHw: Q iW alsW warm reset. If you switch the Amiga on and Limited. They can provide the cables Drivt Imsicn: hold down both mouse buttons, the drive by themselves (for about £15) or as should be on the list of available devices. part of a complete kit including (ilinfen: Some drives don't seem lo like doing this, earthing straps, full instructions and Ittdi: Sue 12277X (119 Hh ) Slicks »rr Truk: although there are a few tricks. First of all. if you a suitably prepped and adjusted hard Sinks « r (flia4»r: are using a Connor drive try altering any jumper drive. For example, a 545M b drive fjrt teri d irt (iifliWif): fTH 1 M x r t Write (rrw t settings which specify the drive 'CAM' setting. and all the kit required to kit it is iw iil Sepforts rru lK tin V} Secondly, try disconnecting Pin 1 fro m the IDE available for £224 — remarkably Drill Pn c w i_____ interface. This can be done by cutting Ihe wire good value for money. (flildKi jM £3 on the cable or bending Ihe pin. The instructions which comes i j Some drives cause the Amiga to crash w ith the drive are extremely A Getting the program to ash the drim what sett it is wiH sate a lot of when copying large blocks of data, or simply detailed, and are fully illustrated. trP'ag and omits. have read/write errors. Sometimes some hard The black and white images here are internal IDE interface only contains 5 voits, and drive-installed games don't run. If this is the taken from the manual and illustrate 3.5" drives require 5 and 12 volts. The easiest case, use the software for 'prepping' (prepar various aspects of the procedure. location from which to 'borrow' the extra volt ing to operate) the drive to alter the Eyetech are also extremely help age supply is the floppy drive, which uses MaxTransfer Speed, save the settings, reboot ful, and if you are considering both currents. Using a specially adapted con and try again. installing a drive into your machine nector it is possible to connect both the floppy These warnings are meant to protect you, give them a call. If you chicken out, and hard drive power cables to the Amiga not scare you off. I have to point out that over they can fit a drive for you for an motherboard. Both the floppy and hard drives a year ago I built an interface myself from addition £30 fee. will work perfectly after this procedure. scratch using two ribbon cables, a piece of Eyetech Group Limited, tel:06427t3185 With the drive housed, cabled-up and pow Veroboard and a lot of soldering. This cable email: eyetech@ cix.compulink.co.uk ered, it's only then a matter of prepping the has been driving a Seagate 80Mb 3.5" drive Many thanks to Alan at Eyetech for drive and installing the AmigaDOS Workbench since then very happily: or it did until I making this feature possible, and onto it. dropped the drive onto a concrete floor and Chris Johnston for the use of his broke it. It has been replaced with a 120Mb Amiga and arms. S t a t ic drive which is still working fine. Static electricity kills chips. When poking around inside an Amiga with the lid off, you Software disks (which you can change if you like) so must make sure you aren't going to destroy Unless you bought your drive from an Amiga make a note of it. Lets pretend for sake of the circuits inside. If possible, wear a proper dealer, before it can be used it needs to be example that the partitions are called 'CHCHDO” I earthing strip {available fro m M aplins) o r a DIY ■prepped'. In the old days o f SCSI drives, it and 'CHD1From the Shell window, enter the one made from a length of wire wrapped was necessary to Low Level Format a disk following lines: Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMaround your wrist and connected to a radiator drive. Because of the way in which iDE drives or water tap. work, you should NEVER low level formal an form at drive chdO: name Workbench IDE drive. If you do, you could damage it per QUICK Power manently. A normal AmigaDOS format, as The standard Amiga power supply brick is not though formatting a floppy disk is fine, but form at drive chdl: name Workb FFS an infinite source of energy: there are limits. If ignore any Low Level Formatting options in QUICK NOICQNS you have a memory expansion and some bits special hard drive software. and pieces such as sound samplers you should Although Ihe Amiga is under the impres This will prepare the drives. Reboot the n't have any problems when you add the hard sion that the drives you added are actually machine with the standard Workbench disk drive to the load. SCSI (because the operating system uses the on floppy disk, and when Workbench loads However, if you have a lot of extra kit hang scsi.device to control them), the drives are you should see the new disk icons. Select ing o ff the various ports (such as an accelerator, and remain IDE devices. To repeat: do NOT the files on your floppy (including the hidden a CD-ROM drive taking power from the Amiga low level format them. one sussing 'Show All Files' and 'Select All and external floppy drives) all going al once, Prepping the drives requires special soft and drag them over to the Workbench parti you might experience problems. ware, such as Commodore's HDToolBox or tion. Now reboot with no disk in the floppy One way to check is to discover the power RDPrep. Your local Public Domain library or drive, and you should see the Amiga bootin requirements for all the extra kit you have and BBS should be able to help you out. faster than you thought possible. ■ compare them with the rating of the power When run. the prepping software should supply unit (it's on the underneath of the box). detect a hard drive is present, although it will More powerful power supply units are avail probably refer to it as of 'unknown' type. (■ able from several distributors. There will be a 'Define type' option, and 0 llafw fillState J when you click on this you should be able to Cable lengths select an option to read the type of drive Ini fill Intel A The IDE interface is not intended for operating directly from the drive itself. liltru liw l M>: V over vast distances: the cable to an internal 2.5" You w ill then need to partition the drive. This llrH tv* fxle: drive would be about 10cm maximum. Unlike a allows the drive to be split into two or more Marat h ii urtltle: file testa IIkI liii: L* ill typical IBM-PC IDE interface, or that in the separate disk drives: or at least it appears that Ikotifiir ■ Ita w m c If sarin 111*Is it Amiga A4000, the A1200 and A600 connectors w ay to the Amiga. Typically, you make the first last ■ l E l f l l ir i i ; M in im II are not buffered, which makes them even more partition about 10 to 20Mb and call it lUTrntfir = | niin it j m ii I prone to errors w ith long cables. Try to keep all Workbench. Make sure that 'Bootable' is set. lengths to 30cm or less to avoid problems. The second partition is usually called Work and I» sisle le t tide: J it takes up the rest of the space on the drive. r tf m ta loot llxks TTT Spurious errors Save the changes to continue, but you also IDE is a standard, but some drives seem to be need to format the drives. 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Let's see ven though March's were, for the first time, on the Warner Interactive Entertainment, on a worldwide basis and on all European Computer Warner Interactive Entertainment now proprietors of Renegade, is platforms. This deal ensures tl Trade S how was dom i stand after being bought lock, part of the Warner Music group the Team's biggest release of nated by the n e w 64- stock and barrel by the multina and will be releasing Chaos year, the Amiga developed - Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM© bit CD machines, the tional giant last year. Both Engine 2, ViroCop and F ligh t O f W orm s, gets maximum publi Amiga and speculation about its Sensible Software and The The Am azon Queen before the And judging from the response future refused to go away. The Bitmaps have signed up for long Summer They also haven't ruled jealous rivals at the show it I* rival Commodore bid, from term deals with Renegade/Warner out releases later on in the year if like being a massive hit - it realli German PC manufacturer and dis Interactive Entertainment, but the right software comes their could be a Lem m ings-esque sue-1 tributor Escom was front page unfortunately Sensi Golf (still to way. Warner Brothers Interactive cess story. In fact, so pleased | news for the trade paper being distributed through Virgin, Entertainment is part of the movie w ere Team 17 w ith all th is news 1 Computer Trade Weekly, and not Warner) and The Chaos wing of the company, but is highly that they were impossible to get Amigas were present on rather a Engine 2 are the last products unlikely to produce anything for hold of - unless you wanted a L lot of stands. which these two developers are the Amiga. gam e o f W orm s that is. That was 1 Although David Pleasance was planning for the Amiga. Across the magic word. If you said it * quick to dismiss the Escom bid, the aisle from Warner Interactive Team work loudly enough members of the the show was buzzing with talk of Entertainment was Time Warner As reported in this month's news. Wakefield based development new investment, PC cards for big Interactive. If only Warner Team 17 have tied up a deal with house would suddenly appear box Amigas and Amiga cards for Brothers Interactive Ocean Software to exclusively PCs. The latter idea seemed to Entertainment had been there it market and distribute their games m iiW ikcnlnaiim icaian have gripped quite a lot of people, would have completed the trio of the reasoning being that a lot of competing companies all eventu people currently using PCs would ally owned by the massive enter prefer to use an Amiga some of tainment multinational Time the time and may already have Warner. Sounds confusing? Let software for it. Also there is still a me explain. large amount of quality Amiga Time Warner has many strings games available at a lower cost to its bow: it's into publishing than current PC titles, including films, music and cable TV net platformers and football titles working and each of these is a which have never translated well separately managed giant entity. on to the PC. The three different Tnteractives' are offshoots of three of these B ig f i s h divisions. Time Warner Interactive, The show was full of big fish who the oldest, came to the fore last had swallowed little fish: year by distributing and marketing Psygnosis (who. in their time were Rise O f The Robots This year's big fish) could be found lurking biggie from them (in fact the only under the massive columns of the Amiga game they are producing Sony stand, while Renegade in 1995) should be Primal Rage I four bars in Eatls Court power companies and get paid a 1 hall, eager to show off lot of money. Hmmm. fantasy I with the bazooka, blow mimics reality. The first of these f guided missile, games to be released, Ultimate f just like to publicly Soccer Manager, on A1200 only ! and n o w that Martyn was actually 95% ready on Amiga l Creative Director of Team when we saw it and we'll review ' unscrupulous cheat. I had it next month. I his w orm s nailed - dead Ascon. the German developer e. but I can now exclu- responsible for the On The Bait I that he told me to "... series was also at ECTS with a I bungie, go on". I did. I new management sim. this time I off the top of a cliff and based around the world of I on a mine which blew my Formula 1 racing. Titled Pole ' up, leaving his unharmed, Position, it will feature the current r changes in the game since circuit of race tracks, all Ihe rele I it w e re the pres- vant financial and management I of mines, ammo drops and issues, technology, rules, the ch samples. The new press and temperamental drivers, t for multi format release is some of whom may have r an d it’s hoped to Groucho Marx moustaches and p reach Amiga, PC. large eyebrows. n. Mega Drive, Saturn, Black Legend were showing an I Jaguar and others impressive line up of product at an had a massive pres- their stand, from various develop l with their own bar and ment houses. These included rac l of meeting rooms. In fact all ing gam e Leading Lap, Doom f were missing was Amiga clone Evil's D oom , an indoor ver ay. e, b ut w ith a healthy bud- sion o f Football Glory, an isomet i release schedule lined up ric RPG/shoot ’em up tilled Tower > their Hit Squad label and O f Souls and Ihe AGA version of 1 17 deal in the bag Turbo Trax. t're not exactly turning their There was good news for the I on the market. CD32 too with Mirage indicating that they intend to produce ver Impressive sions of Rise 2 : Resurrection, the sions had a, well, impres- follow up to ROTR w ith a new > line up o f gam es for the story line, more speed, more Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMa, all d ue fo r release moves (thankfully) and more other I now and September, things, too numerous to mention t t m : Cei w h u l l * . r were being fouled, three of or even hope for until w e actually l we've already reported on. see them in operation. They are I the versions we saw on PC also hoping to release The from Krisalis. who this year wisely »all but finished, while the Adrenalinfe) Factor, w hich is and popularly decided to get a get I ports o f tw o o f them are described in their press blurb as sound proof, air conditioned I a month or so away. These being an isometric 'Cyberpunk meeting room (ECTS is is noisier > Ultimate Soccer Manager, strategy/blast 'em up'. than a row with Spanish fisher i Seas Trader and Frontlines A CD32 version of Pinball men in a police siren testing fac sions were also demon- Illusions is on its way from 21st tory), (or both CD32 and A1200, ) PowerHouse, a new busi- Century and Pinball Mania, an all and th is Zelda-like gam e has posi > simulation where you run n e w all Am iga pinball gam e was tively exploded. The demo we touted as being possible previewed last year inhabited four Legends is the next big title disks, bul the release version will have al least eight: the result of protracted development and improved graphics. Krisalis didn’t rule out further releases this year, but like many other software development. However, they houses they are looking for out haven't forgotten that what could side developmenl and talent possibly become their biggest rather than developing Amiga selling game yet. W orm s, was software in-house. They are cur originally developed by an inde rently evaluating products both pendent (and soon to be very rich) from the UK and abroad. Amiga programmer. If you reckon you have a to p gam e in you, then Development contact software houses like This attitude seemed to be the Krisalis. Team 17 or Black Legend. theme of the show. 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TELEPHONE 0115 964 2828 OR TELEPHONE/FAX 0115 964 2898 TO PLACE YOUR ORDEP GAME PREVIEW o f Fury for release: June ■ Publisher: Gametek t ) 0753 553 445 Forget your Mortal Kombat, and Streetfighting is for wimps. There's only one way to kick some serious bottom, and that's the furry way. abilities ot the character you are controlling. The w a y it w o rks is quite simple When you start on the first level, your on-screen per sona is quite limited in the num ber of moves he or she can actually perform: basic punches and kicks essentially. As you work them through the levels of the game, they pick up moves and a H « n M v M i) k lif h lifkiHi as Ike s m j foes. one with the busted knuckles. new techniques, improving their ith any new or reborn turning into Ihe rabbity Yosagi B rutal is something quite dif chances of success considerably | genre, a trend of fol- Yojimbo Samurai Warrior. ferent, although the onus is still while giving the player the chance Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMr low ups always seems on combat. Like any other beat to master the controls of their to follow . O nce you Flavour of em up. you can select your char chosen hero, without all that has i your 'serious' contender, tne month acter and then battle your way sle of learning how to spin the ch as the arcade licence that Take a look al the games that through a selection ot oppo joystick like a windmill at precisely i everything off. you invari- have been causing a stir in the nents, with an aim of outwitting the right speed just to perform a i get the dozen or so copycat last twelve months, and you'll them one by one in a ring of simple fireball Naturally the com Wes. that try to emulate the look. see that current flavour of the combat, until you eventually, puter opponents will progress at I and them e o f the original, month is the beat-em-up M ortal meet the grand master in the the same speed, so the combat illy quite poorly And then K om bat I and 2. Super closing chapters of the game. doesn't actually g et any easier, i the versions with the slight- Streetfighler 2 , w ith added turbo, Unlike most beat 'em ups. just more intricate and involved. |T altered plotlines. Finally, and combo and a whole line of other however, there is more of a rea illy the one w o rth w aiting for. extensions with the letter 'o ' on son to beat each opponent than Harmless fun es the cute variant. See for the end, not forgetting merely reaching the next level of Gametek are adamant that this urself if you don't believe me - Dangerous Streets, Body Blows - the game. Gametek are including game will be suitable for all ages esis becom es FI-Type which the list goes on and on. A whole what they call the Belt System, - something that parents and om es Disposable Hero before bunch of bloodthirsty combat which allows you to progress the other moral bodies have been ting up as A pidya Way 01 The lilies where the kicks hurt, ding Fist w e n t through a punches land with a solid smack t of different guises before and the last one standing is the < a (raciM wet u tki A M. Utm i t.Ui l>M u Stars of the show There are no less than ten different characters to select, all of which carry different philosophies and very different styles of fighting. W hat's more, each of the characters has been designed to suit different types of player! Here's a little rundown of the kind of person you have to be to fight w ith these guys: KUNG FU BUNNY TAI CHEETAH KENDO COYOTE R H E I R A T Style: Relaxed Paw Style: Tai Chi Chuan Style: Kenjutsu Style: Thai Boxing The sort of person who Devotion seems to be the To take control of Kendo, Rats are generally chooses Kung Fu Bunny is name of the game if you you need to be an out and affectionate creatures, but kind and considerate. want the hand of the out winner - the sort of Rhei Rat is something Nothing will give them Cheetah. Clinical is another. person who won't let totally different. You have greater pleasure than seeing Rock solid w ith your friends, anything stand in their no tolerance for the people how they have helped anoth yet cold and impassive way. All setbacks get you class as fools. You er succeed. However, they towards the enemy, you are brushed aside as you race have trouble making will have problems when it modest, happy to hold your ever forward, over confi friends, as they always comes to making decisions ground rather than rush dent at tim es and reckless seem to embarrass you and sticking to them. towards goals and 'success'. amongst other things. with their ignorance. you and up to seven of your _ friends can play at once, as part I of a league. P But what happens when you I can't get that many people together in one room, you may 1 ask After all. it's all very well I having this option in there, but I Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMwhat if you have just moved to 1 the Outer Hebrides, or some- I where equally as remote like i hoping to club the enemy When Shepherd's Bush, and you can't I well choreographed, and played get anywhere near your friends?! between evenly matched players, This is where support for the Pf I it can be an exciting thing to M agic AT&T m odem device watch, and the instant replay comes in handy. This little p h o n j A E ll lo ir M l ID rn boote* facility 'captures’ the entire connection for your machine worried about since the dawn of look and feel that is every bit as match. This allows you to watch allows players from anywhere to| computers By using professional effective as StreetHghter 2, but the whole thing from the start, link into your game and join in. I cartoon animators to actually cre far more humourous and there frame by frame if you wish, as a rather like a modem link. ate the graphics for all of the char fore pretty harmless. means to gloat at your opponent The game is nearing conon l • I acters. the game has taken on a One of the neat touches is the after you’ve given them a right tion as you read this, and willw il l t ! « I decidedly unrealistic look, leaving instant replay feature. If you are royal hammering. available in the shops from J u n d behind the blood and gore of ever lucky enough to see on Amiga and Amiga At 200, I M o rta l Kom bat 2 and replacing it Nintendo Magazine's Gary Harrod Party! priced at £29 99 with Tom and Jerry cartoon action, play Streetfighter 2. you'll discover This sort of game is best played We should have a full review I where the player's body seems to that a beat' em up, when played with a group of friends, and so next issue, so until then, watch | stretch and bend against all laws properly, is a lot more than just the game includes a full eight this space. ■ of physics and biology, giving a hammering the fire button and player tournament facility, where Tony Dillon A Nice 01, - d|M w lb, |«t. A tu tu >*w Clin !•!> * * r branches AMIGA 3 2 CRITICAL ZONE OEXAIVS. 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Bomb Software have been very fast, but is sufficient to be ering away on this for some playable, and very impressive for e, determ ined to prove the a full screen display. Add an accelerator and some extra RAM, w ith your w id e ranging artillery. and rates of 50 frames per second Details such as authentic walking are common when things aren't effects and ominous background too busy. The developers are confi noises are being included to keep dent of doubling the speed in time the tension running high. for the gam e's release. Fears is very close to comple All of this technical wizardry tion at the time of writing, but so would be useless if the game was far no definite publishing and dis no good, but there seem to be no tribution deal has been finalised. problems on that score either. We'll keep you posted, with a full Fully animated scary monsters review to follow shortly. Until lurk around every corner, waiting then, ju st w a tch your back ... ■ to be splattered across the walls TH Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Player Manager 2 For Release: April 1995 Publisher: Anco © 01322 292513 he news that Anco recently. The new version is , software are produc- designed for up to four human I ing a new version of managers (in normal management Player Manager, six mode, there's also a Fantasy whole years after the Football-style dream team mode nal was first released doesn't in which eight can play) and fea ! as a surprise. The original tures the usual management » a major success because it tasks of dealing in players, satisfy > the most advanced and pro- ing the board, transfers, ground sional managem ent gam e of staff management and coaching. , but the opposition has To bring everything up to date ght up and got ahead of it however the graphics have been League Manager, reviewed last best team against up to eight completely overhauled month and Impressions Ultim ate other players and the ubiquitous, and new features Soccer Manager. P M 2 will feature never ending management Sim include an in-depth 'realistic' newspaper coverage and where you keep on going until play designer and Alan commentary on your skills as a you are a com plete expert and Flansen giving you the manager and abuse and ridicule buy another game. You can also benefit o f his vast from your computer opponents. take to the field as a real ’player knowledge before and There are four modes of play in manager' and control your man after matches. There is P M 2 : the Personal Challenge, on the field - however he's not live on-pitch action and which involves playing to a set exactly at his peak of skills and fit a play designer that target; a Knock Out competition ness, so things may not go allows you to create where you are up against the according to plan. your own set piece other managers in a There are loads of modern strategy for taking cor promotion/relegation battle; the management sims around at the ners and th ro w ins. In dream team 'Kick O ff' mode men moment, but P M 2 is looking common with tioned above, using real foot good. We'll have a review soon. ■ Audiogenics Super ballers to see if you can select the AD Due For Release: May 1995 Publisher: Team 17 © 01924 267776 have never, ever dimwits who think the game will presentation with small sprites understood cricket. be made more exciting (and more and a multi directional scrolling Yes, it's a g ood, estab profitable) by dressing the players playing field, one or two player lishment approved up in various coloured shell suits. mode and arcade style play, as O sport for gentlemen, played onTeam vil 17's Alan Bunker reckons opposed to the more traditional lage greens, in The Oval, in parks that Final Over might be very use management and stats adopted and stadiums all over the ful to me though. The players are by most other cricket sims. Commonwealth. And yes, I have all dressed conventionally, all the The game certainly looks inter sat watching it for whole after national and international league esting because, unlike most other noons - but I still haven't got to teams are in there, a variety of cricket games I've come across, it price ratio is kept up. then Final the bottom of how it is scored, match lengths are available from doesn't seem to take itself too O ver should be w o rth a look. why it is played and why the hell 1 to 5 day and limited overs and. seriously. The sprite size and char One final word though on t everyone isn't asleep after the first above all. he reckons, it’s a dream acter make the game more acces subject of Team 17 press relei two hours. But it's popular all to play and easy to understand. sible and interesting and the (of which we collected many i right, despite the efforts of They've gone for 'Sensible' style umpires are reputed to make the ECTS). Their new marketing dodgy decisions, which is likely to slogan is: Team 17. 100% drive you up the wall, but is pretty Gameplay 0% Bullshit. Now i close to real life. this, about Final Over: “it's ano Q- □ V-"r The best news though is that er fine addition to the Arcade Team 17 are releasing it at £12.99 Sports series th a t has already on disk and £14.99 on CD. as part thrilled Amiga games-players to of their Arcade Sports series of unthinkable realms of gai simulations, of which the best so ing heaven." Time to get the far has been Arcade Pool and the out. Something smells. B latest KingPin. If this quality to MD Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Due For Release: May 1995 Publisher: Warner Interactive Virocop Entertainment © 0171 391 4300 o be a fam ous novelist wheels who, armed with over | or poet you have to twenty different weapons, is ' have a vivid imagina capable of destroying all the virus tion and a strong eye es and returning the GameDisk to Ofor continuity, rhythm, detail and relative peace, or something. atmosphere. To be a successful For one or tw o players. Virocop scrolling shoot 'em up storyline is good fun but difficult. On the writer you have to have a mad first level, known as the Sport streak too. Bonkers. Stark raving, zone, the viruses have whipped sit in the park talking to the squir various sporting objects into a rels loony. Now I haven't met Ian frenzy and DAVE has to contend - Wallington, John Kershaw or with fast bowling footballs and Steve Turner, the chaps over in snooker balls as well as virus GraflGold who originated and spawn. Because he is mounted L . _ L - U designed Virocop, and I have no on wheels DAVE is limited to doubt that they are rich, well edu climbing up ramps and some cated and successful, but the idea times can only go in one direction behind this game demonstrates because of this. Various weapons that there must be lunacy hidden and power ups appear out of the So far Virocop looks maniacally DAVE doesn't eat things. I somewhere within them. floor and whenever you knock off playable and good fun. The demo have to chase objects th Virocop is set in a 'virtual holi a baddie. we tested was fast and furious regularly gets chased hims day theme park' called GameDisk, There are fou r zones, each one and the detail and quality of the the levels are very busy with where fun is the order of the day with its own individual baddies: the graphics was well up to scratch. sorts of enemies and pick-r until a nasty strain of octopus-like Sports zone; the Platform zone A vertically and horizontally Hopefully Virocop should I viruses invaded the*park and (guess what is likely to happen scrolling shoot 'em up. the game reviewable in the next r caused mayhem. Enter DAVE, or here); Military zone and a shoot play is a little like a Pacm an for so, and we're looking fo the Digital Armoured Virus 'em up zone. 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Still, this is product had expanded so much in the sort of thing we've come to development, plus of course it Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMexpect from New Zealand-based would have to compete against Acid Software. the likes o f Team M 's AH Terrain They first hit the scene at the Racing as well as Acid Software's tail end of 1993 with Skidmarks. o w n Roadkiii.. Unfortunately amazingly written in Blitz Basic. It there’s no track editor on offer in breathed new life into the over Super Skidmarks 2. but it is possi into the game. Although the head racing game genre, with its ble to render your own sprites sprites are very small and pseudo 3D viewpoint, responsive w ith im agine, and import them use only a few colours, you could still do some interest ing things with this feature, Hunting high and low such as racing with digitised If you have a standard A50O this probably w on't be of faces of your mates instead much interest to you so don't read the rest of this until of cars for instance. You can you've upgraded. Ah. you're back, that's better isn't it? As also use your own custom well as the standard low -res mode, AGA owners can also sound samples. the championship courses is enjoy the delights of hi-res w hile playing Super Skidmarks Of more use to me is the fact called California Cows, and 2 . W hat's the difference? W ell... that you can incorporate and use requires the player to race a < the tracks from the first complete with its own set of Skidmarks, which at least stops wheels, against other similarly _ Lo-res: O ffers a close up Hi-res: M ore detail and more the original game from becoming equipped cattle! It might sound I view which is best suited action on screen is coming redundant as it so often the case bizarre, but it's tremendous fu to the one player mode, to a m onitor near you if you when you buy a sequel. There's that's lo-res in a nutshell, select hi-res. Things can not really any need to use the old my friends. become cluttered though. tracks though, as 12 n e w ones have been included, all of which are superb. Some courses are fairly basic, straightforward affairs, but most are packed full of hazards like sharp dips and steep ramps. The cars from the original game have returned to race on these tracks and there's a whole host of new models including the Mini. VW, Formula 1 and a cow. A As I §«■» progresses Dm trsek starts M That's right bovine fans, one of Its m u and leer cassep bj tbs itiU a g can •nd proved a surefire crowd puller the office. The weirdness The car's the star nues with the option to tow caravan behind your car (or your A choice of eight cars aw ait your driving skills in S u p e r cow)! Hook up a trailer, and Skidmarks 2, each of w hich features different handling ve got the added problem of characteristics. mertia to deal w ith. Car power car has its own handling The Cow: This isn't a car, it is a fully :eristics, so the Formula fledged heifer. M oves faster than Tony is extremely fast, while the A Follow the attows to get atoned the tieck as fast Horgan at a rave but is easier to control. Mini has exceptional handling. In you were wondering, the cows e in fact the fastest 'vehi- competing at once as opposed to The F1: Super fast and super lacking in de' featured in the game. Just four on other Amigas, and a hi-res control, the form ula car is definitely best >oes to sh ow the pow er of mode which shows more of the left to the expert drivers out there. methane eh? screen at once but might prove The different characteristics of too cluttered for some. But even i cars aren’t too important on an A4000 there's still some however, as the difficulty level noticeable slowdown in the two The M ini: The M ini is M r or Mrs average be altered to suit everyone or three player mode. Don't get that doesn't excel at anything really. from eginners to experts. The me wrong, it doesn't hamper the Average handling and average speed. other major new feature is the gam eplay in any w a y and even split screen multiplayer option makes som e o f th e faster cars like allows up to three people to the F1 easier to handle. That isn't i against each oth e r using the point though, and considering Amiga. the obvious technical prowess of The M idget: The m idget is hard to cate Super Skidmarks 2 has plenty the Acid Software programmers I gorise but it's bouncy and a handful on f benefits for AGA Amiga own- don't expect to see slowdown in some of the more obstacle-laden courses. . These include music on the one of their games. COMPATIBLE WITH A ll AMlGAs HIGH QUALITY SONY." 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WKHIowmg© similar lines to the classic Pipemania, in its simplest on screen but later on in the form Super Loops is a puzzle game it’s no joke when the grid Too little time A Hardly aay gresa left ne w s tine's aeariy Of. It mightn’t sound particularly game which involves linking up starts to fill up and you’re trying exciting having to juggle bits of OOC6JO bits of pipe to create as many to squeeze big zig-zag pipe into a tiny gap. However, I found the piping into interlinking shapes, complete loops as possible. You , ft best way around this was to lay and to be honest it wouldn’t be get all sorts of bizarre shaped if you didn't have to beat the • a a * piping thrown at you at random piping down for huge loops and then try and fit smaller ones clo ck to do it. 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W ith 37 Serie A and B no one who exactly fits the bill, so team's on the losing end of Teams to choose from , you're you get the reply "N o players avail In between the delays and things, it can all go pear-shaped spoiled for choice. Next comes able". You then have to go through long-winded selection screens. squad selection which takes time the whole procedure again, with Championship Manager Italia as it is near impossible to remem different statistics. '95 is a very engrossing man ber all the different requirements The fun starts once you get to agement sim. Anyone who o f each player, and you have to play som e football. You don’t get to doesn't mind nipping off to flick back and forth between sever see the action, but a screen keeps make a cuppa every ten min al different pages of team info. you informed of the score in text utes would After picking your team and form. It's immensely satisfying and do well to starting the season, you have a strangely addictive. The results take a look. couple of weeks to make trans update and transfer news goes on fers This is far more awkward a bit, breaking up the flow. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM P re m ie r j VJ jjJ-jj take place. So you could con struct a league entirely from Edit System superteams or have the European Cup Final take place at ■ Price: £14.99 ■ Publisher: Gremlin Interactive © 0114 275 3423 a non league stadium! Perhaps the best and the most amusing option is the one remier Multi Edit statistics to be aKered. fro m trivial gameplay I recommend trying it that allows you to change the System is an editing things like his name and photo, to with at least one player though! terms used for player ratings, so package for use with more important features like length The third icon is more of an exten instead of being good' they Premier Manager 3. It of contract and which team he sion of the second and allows play could be term ed groovy’. You O allows the user to customisemanages the Next up is the ability to ers to be moved fro m team to can change the names of injuries eight major aspects of Prem ier edit player data. This is an area team without the need for transfer and how long they will keep a M anager 3. where self control needs to be negotiations You want Stoichkov player out of action. In m y ver Each section is selected by exercised because it's possible to at W ycom be? You g ot it! sion an upset stomach now clicking on one of the icons. The change every player's rating to Option four allows club data to affects a player for 23 weeks! first icon allows the manager's 99%, which quickly makes for dull be altered, everything from keep It's hard to rate the Premier ing up with ever changing football Multi Edit System as it isn't a strips, to lowering the safety rating game in its own right. 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Also some control and gameplay as Premier transfer values can appear conser League Champions, but the over vative. but these are alterable by head perspective has been ditched tinkering With the player's skills. in favour of an isometric viewpoint. Anyway, player valuations are next to useless most of the time, who What's new? ever would have thought that The main addition to the game Andy Cole would have been sold engine is a comprehensive editor, for £7 million for instance? which works in a similar style to Grem lin's P rem ier M u lti League Trying too hard SSSS Edit System for Premier Manager The original Manchester United t seems software 3 (as reviewed on page 56). Unlike Premier League Champions had companies must be Gremlin's editor. The Double con its critics, but I preferred it to FIFA -rad or supremely con- centrates purely on the editing of and rated it a close second to fident to release a players. Everything from their Sensible Soccer. The problem for Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM» ty title these days. For one names and skin colour to their The Double is that it has been hng. such an overcrowded various skill ratings can be released at a very unfortunate enre. Then you’ve got try to live altered, or if you want, players time with two competitors offer c to the standard set by the can be created from scratch. ing better products. In my opin wgely popular Sensible World of Leagues can be built up in the ion, as far as the arcade gam e is occer. regarded by many (myself same way, while a nifty kit design concerned. The D ouble is beaten nduded) as not only the greatest option completes the editing in every department other than ooty title ever, but simply the package. Players can now be sound when compared to the lest computer game ever. So bought and sold too, courtesy of seemingly unbeatable Sensible >hat can The D ouble offer that a transfer feature. W orld o f Soccer. I also think that »VOS can't? Gameplay remains exactly the Gremlin’s Premier M ulti Edit sys Well, there's pedigree for sam e as it did in Prem ier League tem mops things up as far as the :ers. The M anchester United Champions, which is hardly a bad editing options go. lovers. Unfortunately, The Double eries has been running for over thing. The excellent Tacti Grid is Don’t think that The D o ub le a suffers from that old problem of years now, with each succes- back. If you’re not familiar with bad game, because it isn’t. The trying too hard to appeal to all kve game receiving more praise the system, it allows precise con control system, once mastered, gamers. It succeeds but there are the last. The D ouble is built trol over the positioning of a is excellent and the presentation other titles out there which, in my round an updated and enhanced team's players on the pitch, and graphics are much clearer opinion, do a better job. *rsion of Krisalis’ last M an U regardless of their overall forma than those in SkVOS. The transfer R ik S k e w s »ame. Manchester United - tion. Use it well and it's a sure option adds plenty of lastability fire way of increasing to the game and stops the MANCHESTER UNITED your chances o f w in annoyance of seeing the likes of ■ workbench version...... 1.3 + ning. For such a pow Andy Cole still at Newcastle ■ number of disks...... 3 erful system it's a big months after he has left, a prob ■ RAM...... 1Mb sticky piece of choco lem which plagues Ski/OS (you’ve ■ hanl disk installable...... no late cake to use got a thing about Andy Cole g r a p h ic s ...... 8 1 % (that's a good thing) haven’t you? - Ed). If like me s o u n d ...... 7 3 % and puts the tactics you’re nuts about football and lastability ...... 8 6 % system in Sensible footy games then The Double is an A150O playability ...... 8 0 % W o rld o f Socce r to ideal second purchase. B ut if shame. Other key fea you're after a game which is the A2000 tures of the game best in its market then I’d recom include up-to-date mend Sensible World o f Soccer for A3000 squads and numbers, arcade fans and Premier M ulti Edit ASflOO A Citcfc oat oioiatats tl alary yil tfca action rofUy as well as bookings System for football management T h e m e P a r k ■ Price: £34.99 ■ Publisher: Mindscape © 0444 246 333 u llfro g's Theme Park finally Strange b u t true. makes it to the CD32, after There’s a built- scoring a hit on just about in beginner's every other computer and con guide to help you Osole format. get started, Despite the subject matter. Theme Park although it's still isn't a white-knuckle thrills extravaganza. a bit confusing to Quite the opposite in fact. There's all the the first time fun of the fair, but you don't get to go on player. O nce A Whae - all the fan af the fair. I any of the rides. Instead you play the man you've passed l("m r * * cBc“ to' ! ager of the park, with the job of building an the Olympian task that is the beginning, entertainment centre to rival those of bought a few rides, deciphered how to A Build up yuur dream park from a tuft al grass to a spectacular caraival Walt Disney. open your park and started the game boaaiua with all sorts of attractioas and rides. Before you start, it's advisable to read properly, things become more fun. the 'New Business Portfolio' (why can't they Watching your little customers milling around frames and end up looking like something just call it a manual?) as it's nigh on impos with their balloons is quite entertaining and from a weird Eastern European cartoon. sible to get into the game without any back the sound effects and music are very pleas There's plenty of satisfaction to be ground knowledge. The instructions are ing. It's like Sim City with rollercoasters. gained from building your park and watch bigger, longer and chunkier than a box of If you have been playing for a couple of ing your customers enjoy themselves, but Yorkie bars, but then big games call for hours and you want a rest, you would think it the lack of a proper save game feature big manuals. wise to save. In this version, you cannot save spoils it all. Having to rebuild the park The trippy 3D cartoon intro sequence your actual park, only your details and the every time you play is demoralising, and gets things off to a good start. As the amount of money you have. This means that will be enough to put many people off game loads, it checks to see whether next time you come back to it, you have to fo r good. you've got a joypad or a mouse connected, start with an empty park, which detracts sub SLW and adjusts itself accordingly. 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Also, some of the obstacles are so there's nothing added, there’s ently. Before you race small and unobtrusive that they look like bits nothing taken out either. you can do a bit of of the background, until you crash into them What we've got is a scrolling shopping, upgrading It really gets the adrenaline going though your car to suit your and in the end, the sheer excitement and driving style. Nervous playability win through and you forget about drivers could go for the minor faults. extra grippy tyres, I would have thought they would add CD while speed freaks can quality sound during the conversion, but no * in c. i lip thi buck ruck’ boost the engine matter. It's thoroughly addictive and. like a power. Shock good record, you'll keep coming back to play absorbers and power steering are also avail the best bits. able for generally improved performances. SLW The races themselves are fast and furious. Tearing round the cleverly designed tracks is B f iil thrilling. 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All parcels are sent by recorded delivery for customer peace of mind. All items subject to availability. All prices subject to change without notice. E&OE. Please allow for cheque clearance. Some titles may not be released al time of going to press. Aw ard winners Ptaftinum edition I Price: £34.99 ■ Publisher: Empire © 0181 343 7337 t's a testam ent to another, custom built planet. You moon for the last cou Civilization's addictiv- start the game in 4000BC with ple of years. ity that the name of very little opposition but as the Which brings me to it s creator. Sid Meier boundaries of science and dis Frontier, in which you has become so covery widen you will encounter can start off on a fam ous in the com puter enter the other civilisations and war m oon if you like. tainment world, and that the w ill ensue. Frontier is the product game still ranks among the top Millenia later, if you are not of David Braben. who three favourites if you ask destroyed you will see rockets, jet became famous in the games players and journalists aircraft and atomic power, and if 1980s fo r Elite. It's now - four years after it was they don't destroy you, well, the follow up to this firs t released. you're God. gam e and involves In Civilization you have to Lem m ings has sold over 2 mil trading, fighting, min guide your people from the lion copies world wide and has ing and exploration of stone age through to the space been Psygnosis' biggest success a vast uqiverse, build race, trying to keep at least one story. The concept is simple ing up your statu s and step ahead of the opposition by enough, but the practice is mind power and the size of building cities, controlling eco bendingly addictive. Lemmings your space ship. The nomic conditions and the mili are suicidal rodents who. every ship (and game, for tary. mining and exploring year in the Fjords or Norway, take that matter! can be territory and developing new it upon themselves to jump off viewed from a variety technologies, products etc cliffs en masse. In the game they of different angles You can have up to seven are equipped with a number of and all communication with the as a ship to ship space combat- computer opponents and can devices and tricks which the real outside world is carried out from eer will be tested to the full. play the game on Earth or on animals don't have, such as shov within its confines, You're not just Although it's a good game I els and umbrellas, and limited to the same ship though. must admit that I'm not mad on if you get sick of them As you become richer and more Frontier, but the general con you can press the successful you can upgrade, sensus of everyone else in the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMnuclear self destruct which in turn increases your range office is that it's brill. button with hilarious and money making possibilities. There's only one fla w in results. The basic idea Frontier is possibly the biggest Empire's marketing strategy, is to stop them from game ever packed on to one dou though Surely everyone has dying though. Oh ble density disk. You can choose these come onl If you don't from a wide variety of 'careers' to games already know about make money, including transport, already, Lemmings you've mining or military and both your don't they? been living on the skills as an overall strategist and AD * r» e. ii e. «*« h «« toe. k S p a c e H u l k ■ Price: £14.99 ■ Publisher: Hit Squad © 0161 832 6633 n space everyone infiltrates a space ship to even more realistic game, where uses the same d estro y ene m y aliens. But I the main view was first person. fo r th is ty p e o f gam e until cliches, especially won't. Once upon a time Gremlin When a Soul Sucker attacks you. D o om appeared and few other when trying to produced a game called Space you can see him coming through role playing games have the describe a game Crusade, based around Games a central screen on a control same sort of shoot ’em up O W orkshop's W arham m er 40,000 panel (see left), and it's not a action and genuine suspense as where a squad of marines series of tabletop role playing pleasant sight. This control panel it. To succeed at the 50 odd games. It was best played as a also allows you to view what up missions you need to know the 2D gam e b ut there w a s also an to four other Marines can see and controls inside out. It'll take you isometric 3D view, which was has an overhead map, showing a while to get acclimatised but slower, but more illustrative. your location in the 'hulk'. There Space H u lk is an enjoyable and Not content with this admit is also an overhead 2D viewing rewarding tedly rather good effort. Games and weapons screen and the ga m e once Workshop teamed up with action takes place in real time. Electronic Arts to produce an Space H u lk held pole position AD Dream web Hello again and welcome to our second and final solution to Empire's top adventure T i p s game, Dreamweb. Sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin ... The TV Studio Chapel's House Go to the TV studio. Walk as far right as possible, In the Dreamweb, talk to then as far down and go left. Use the gun on the old the keeper once m ore and security guard. Examine the barrier controls and use then examine and use the them. Walk left and up into the studio. Pick up the right hand door in the main passcard which is hidden under the brochure. Go left corridor. Use the key on the and down into the storeroom. Examine the fusebox, plinth as usual. Ryan w ill use it with the screwdriver and take the fuse. Now go m aterialise in a car park. far right and up the ladder. Examine the winch control Go left and examine and and then open it. Replace the blown fuse with the one take the wire cutters from from the storeroom. Use the winch control. Splat, one the back of the car. Go to dead General! Chapel's House via the travel screen. Walk to the lake Ihe wire cutleis liom the bark of the cai in the cai paik wall, examine and then use it. Examine the cartridge and then take it. Return to Ryan's flat from the travel screen and put the cart from Chapel's Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMhouse in Ryan's interface. Use the network interface and LOGON w ith the tag BECKETT. Type SEPTIMUS as the password. Type CARTRIDGE and then READ BRIEF. Sartain Industries in your inventory, you'll need it later. Once back in the Dreamweb, talk to Use the netw ork interface w ith the Keeper and pay special attention Eden's cart. Use the netw ork in the to what he says about, 'knowing usual way and type LIST CARTRIDGE. someone w ell'. Go as far south as Now type READ CODE and take down possible and take the purple crystal. the number. This w ill let you into Go as far le ft as possible, examine Sartain Industries. EXIT the network and then use the door on the bottom interface. Proceed to Sartain right. Use the key on the plinth as Industries via the travel screen and usual. You'll m aterialise outside enter the doorcode 7833. W alk to the Sparky's Bar and from here use the com puter and use Ryan's gun on it. Keep pressing the N or P keys to gel Sartain’s address travel screen to return to Eden's Go left and enter the m alfunctioning house. W alk left to the bed and lift doors. Examine and then use the examine the organiser hidden under lift controls. Use the crystal. Eden's purple shirt. Head down, walk to the briefcase Use the organiser and keep press and exam ine it. Take and use the ing the N or P keys until Sartain's papers to get Chapel and address comes up. Go back to the lift Underwood's addresses, as well as doors and take the cartridge marked other useful gossip. W alk to the door 'Sartain Industries' w hich is resting on the right, w alk up the steps and on the table. Leave Eden's fla t and then walk to the doorstep. Walk to return to your own flat via the travel the tarm ac and use the gun. Boom, screen. Pick up any m ug and stick it there goes person num ber three! GAME TIPS M p W f Com puter Discount Club. The Boathouse VV . w h * jo a receive I f you Join; ■•turn to the travel screen and go to the boathouse. F re e B i-m onthly Catalogue. Examine and then use the railing. Walk to pipe and use the Free Bi-monthly disk (P.D. Games.Utilities & more) H uge discounts on a ll purchases. ?*pe w ith the m ug which you collected from Ryan's flat. No obligation to buy anything. Go right and walk to the junction box. 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On the other hand it merely make your job more difficult in the long © increases your potential revenue run. If you completely surround a county then ■ u provioes you with multiple opportunities for just leave it alone, it will not bother you again Bade And hey: it's also the aim of the game. When you're done with most of the other Lords I In order to hold on to your new conquests you can then conquer it if you want - but as BOu will need to make sure that your home long as it's not bothering you there's really no Bounty is connected up to them, otherwise you need You can also station soldiers in uncon p i l l lose control. If an enemy army invades or quered counties to spare your own food ■he peasants rebel in an intermediate county resources Beware of these counties, though, BOu will not only lose your far flung realms, any they may seem empty and undefended but pasties you have built will disappear too, leav they can contain a surprisingly large amount of Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMing the occupying army stranded. To avoid this. peasants and may need a large army to con- • By to order your conquests so that they always quer if you wish to do so. ■hare more than one common border with Manually controlled battles can be fun - if . b th e r counties under your control Remember you have a 50MHz machine! They are slow and BKtugh, the same thing will happen to oppos- laborious otherwise, but you will need to take p g nobles and to avoid having to destroy or control if you adopt hard level warfare because to zero and increase the amount of builders to lake all of their castles, why not make them the enemy will beat you easily if you don't. the maximum Then build as many trebuchets pagically disappear by cutting them off from Taking control is also terribly tedious if you are (large destructive catapults) as possible. Build ■ h e ir hom e county. fighting with less than 500 troops. If you've read ladders with any spare men. Leave this screen your handy guide to hit and defence points and wait until the next season. Continue you’ll discover that swords are best for both, building trebuchets next season until you have • b ' * m bows have the longest range and crossbows at least three, but the more the merrier. Target M.0B V have m ore pow er but less range than regular the first season's catapults at the weakest and L * *1- S i'**- ■HIV j ^ j bows Knights are cool too, but expensive lowest outer wall, but don't send in any Move your army forward a little (leaving ground troops yet. If the walls are large you V some swordsmen or knights in reserve), placing may need some siege towers but these take a I - r r archers and crossbowmen just behind the lot of men to build and may not be of use. swordsmen Target the enemy with your Once you have knocked plenty of holes in - archer's bow s and let them com e to you. You the castle wall it's tim e for a m ass assault. This will pick off a lot of troops this way. Once they should take place in season three or four, and if •3 . Summer ? LitdWJn.J s Li. 130 have nearly reached you set your swordsmen you have destroyed enough walls each season * The amy above is 900 strang, but bewan ol columns this size. They on them. At this point withdraw your archers with your trebuchets then it will fall very ■di oat a comity into bankruptcy and night become bandits if dtssabsfed. back to their original position. See how the bat quickly. Remember, when using ladders or tle is going and if necessary send in your assault towers your troops can be doubled up. ft. t . / ? m j reserves to speed things up and finish them off. You may also be able to take a castle by aiming all your trebuchets at the flag. Keep on pound b 3 f If all is not going well and you are being really slaughtered, withdraw your troops and ing it w ith enough firepow er and it w ill fall. K *„*•-- set the archers firing at the enemy again Let To defeat all of the other lords you may the enemy follow your troops into the fire and have to neglect parts of your kingdom, and * pP* then release your reserves on their flanks. The peasants may oust you from some counties; white flag is basically useless: you might as don't worry about this too much (but try to well fight on until all of your troops are dead police rampaging peasants and ex-soldiers or they could make things difficult). Once the y i ^ Siege warfare serious opposition has been defeated you will When besieging a castle don't try to storm it be made Lord Of The Realm whether you ■r COM k u U t . M n ia n l h » • ! « • « * Sir Gn ir *et Ike eat el tfeii ty n u r? straight away. Reduce the amount of fighters control them or not. ■ BREAD STREET. PENZANCE. CORNWALL. 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I explained that for life-like photorealis paint programs and a look My-Money - a new tic quality he'd need financial package. But it's not all software; an AGA Amiga at least, or buy a big box there's a super new genlock tested as well. It's Amiga and add a 24-bit card. But he said he didn't have the money all here in the next few pages. and wanted to know why his Amiga couldn't do it as standard. I hear this argument frequently. | The Amiga is a fantastic computer and its basic hardware is better • CTV Micro Studio 2000 ...... 72 than PCs and Macs which cost It'* big. It'* covered in knob* and Tony Horgan's in lova w ith th i* all singing all much more. However, Mac and PC dancing genlock, chromakey and mixer. owners constantly upgrade their systems (how many 286 PCs are still around?) adding 1 6-bit sound • My-Money 74 cards, graphics cards and are Got a problem w ith your cash flow? Andy Leaning checks out this financial planner. therefore able to edit and display W ill it help or is it not up to scratch? much higher quality pictures. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMUnfortunately, some Amiga own ers don’t seem to realise this. They • CD-ROM Round-Up ...... 78 assume th a t their unexpended Amiga will be able to do everything Another slew of silver slivers elide elowty into the CU Amigo Magazine CD-ROM that expanded PCs do and when it mecheniem (who w rites this stuff?). | doesn't they complain. It's [ Commodore's fault, Amiga soft- ire Isn't as good, developers • Graphics Comparison ...... 82 aren’t supporting the Amiga etc, Andr* 'M onet' Digard test drives the top four Am iga paint packages to find which etc, etc. offers the best painting tools. Strangely it's never their fault. They don't seem to consider th a t If they spent more money on their • PD Scene ...... 86 Amiga, software developers would All the letest games, demos and oddities from the public domain. be able to produce better pro grams. Let's face it, Microsoft Word would never run on 286 PCs, • PD Utilities ...... 91 It's only because PC owners have Andr* Digard goes on a m ysterious adventure as he explores the fascinating world upgraded that M icrosoft have been of public domain utilities and applications. able to develop and release such a | powerful program. If Amiga owners would do the same the Amiga market would be a lot stronger than It Is now. Likewise software developers wouldn't be held back by the slower systems and could devel op big powerful do-everything applications. As a result we could gloat at the over-priced PCs th a t our neighbours had bought. If you chose to buy a basic model Amiga don't expect It to do what the super expanded PCs and Macs do and d on't com plain when it doesn't. ■ SVHicre Studiol Make your own pop videos, sci-fi epics, grass roots documentaries and corporate presentations with CTV's new video ■ Price: £750, £1100 (with TBC) ■ Developer: CTV Multimedia ■ Supplier: CTV tel: 01206 330670 A Flashy pop-yideo tyye effects era possible with A I n il a strobing colo r bockdrop fvooi year Amiga. A the Micro Studio 2111 ii well stocked witb audio aod hdoo inputs sod outputs, slferiog both VHS the chreeuhey eel lomakev (eatwei. Old yli'ro traflspoited to Frpokml City AritOMl composite mid S-VHS compatibility, along with monitor outputs lor video, audio aod computer graphics. s we mentioned in our video sources. These can be sockets), plus a monophonic And... cut! animation feature last e ither S-VHS (Y/C) o r com posite microphone input (mini jack sock Most Amiga genlocks overlay month, CTV have sources, although both sources et). The combination of these graphics onto a single video pic released what's potential must be of the same type. sounds is output through a pair of ture. with the option to fade the I ©ly one of the most powerful toolsThere are three sets of video stereo phono sockets. There's graphics in o r out. In general, ever available for Amiga video pro outputs, plus a through port for also a m onophonic line level that's about as far as they go. ducers. The Micro Studio 2000 is a keeping an eye on the computer phono socket which can be used This is fine if all you want to do is I video mixer that combines two graphics on another screen. The to monitor any of the three sepa add some titles or logos to your video inputs, chromakey, lumakey main output offers both S-VHS and rate sounds, prior to fading into video productions, but if you're and genlock mixing of Amiga composite connections, and there the main soundtrack. serious about making your own Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMgraphics, four types of wipe, three are two of each, giving greater films, you'll need more inputs, channel stereo sound mixing with flexibility for monitoring and more outputs, and more features. I bass and treble EQ, noise reduc recording. The third video output is The Micro Studio opens up far I tion, and separate audio and video a composite connection, which more options, giving you the monitoring. It's available in two ver takes its signal from which ever power to create professional-look-J sions. with or without an internal channel is assigned to the preview ing videos that cut and flow neat- I tim e base corrector. It all sounds monitor. This allows you to moni ly from one shot to the next. very impressive, but can it live up tor one of the video sources on a Four wipes are included for to such a promising features list? separate screen, prior to fading it transitions between the video into the main display. sources. They slide one picture Connecting up On th e audio side there are over the other, either diagonally. I Getting hooked up is a simple two stereo line inputs (phono A Replace bti|ht parts ol video with graphics. horizontally, vertically, o r from the enough affair. A lead comes with top left corner of the screen. the Micro Studio to connect it to They're hardly dynamic, but can I your Amiga's RGB output. The add a bit of spice when used spar-1 lead that came with our test ingly. There's also the option to W model was actually too short to switch or fade to black and white. reach around to the back of a big This can come in handy for transi box Amiga (A4000 for example), tions between mono and colour although w e are assured this over footage, when you don't want the sight will be rectified on units sup change to be too intrusive. plied to the public. Along with the Amiga, you can connect up to two Chromakey The main attraction for most users will be the chromakey and lumakey functions. These replace parts of the video picture of a cr tain colour (yellow in this case) or brightness with the image comil from the Amiga. This is brilliant for creating special effects and abstract visuals. For example, if you were to place your subject against a yellow backdrop, you A I n night into day with Mother leying efiecL A 19 April 1995 - London hit hy nuclear blast. Only kidding! VVe nocked this ap with a copy of DPaiat! could then 'key out' the back- Check out all those knobs and sliders M l ADJUST: The chromakey and Inmakei modes can TOhf CONTROLS: Bass and trahle controls ars O v e r l a y be set according to the amount of colour or light in the included for adjosting the freqeencies of the yidco picture, to obtain the best possible affect. cemhieed microphone and two stereo line signals. S e n s ib l e NOISE RE0UCT10N: Optional noise reduction system to eradicate unwanted ill IIIIH \t lt il background sounds. MONOCHROME SELECTOR: | a Tie genlock feature works wed. handy for adding Allows au instant switch | and credits to your productions. between a colour and black and white picture, PRE-FADE LISTEN: ■ ground and replace it with the or a smooth lade Sends either or both between the two. of the stereo line I Amiga graphics, transporting your signals to the audio ■subject into a whole new world. monitor output for ■Alternatively, the lumakey could cueing up sounds before fading them | b e used on an outdoor shot to onto the videotape. lace the sky with Amiga graph- o r anim ations. Slip in a 3D ren- anim ation o f an alien AUDIO FADERS: Adjust rship behind the skyline, and the levels of the three i've got an instant sci-fi epic! audio channels. You're likely to experience le fringing around th e edges WIPE ANO CUT FADERS your keyed subjects. This can AND SELECTORS: The KEY INVERT: Switches the position of keyed graphics be reduced by careful adjustment main controls for general lades and cuts. with the video picture. the lighting in the video shot, fine tweaking of the Key ljust knob. that if your video source isn't luma key effects, genlocking, mul Genlocking Amiga graphics on assigned to the time base correc tip le w ipes and stacks o f inputs of video pictures is easily tor, and there's a break in the sig and outputs makes this a very ie. The background colour of nal (such as when a camcorder powerful bit of kit. Compared to Amiga picture is cut out and switches from camera to tape your average £200 genlock, it’s laced by the video, which mode) your Amiga is likely to not cheap, but then it really is so ■s through from behind. crash. If the TBC is assigned cor much more than just a genlock. rectly, this shouldn't happen, but The option of S-VHS and compos Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMAudio mixing it's easily done all the same, ite VHS connections gives com As part of the Micro Studio's mis especially during the setup proce patibility w ith lower-end sion to give you everything you dure. The other problem regards equipment, but also takes advan could ever w a nt in one box. regards compatibility with certain tage of superior S-VHS picture A Heie’s another wipe ie action, diagonal this time. Ihere's a decent audio mixer built A m igas (in o ur tests, A500 Plus, quality when available. The time in. This offers two stereo chan A1200 and A4000). This was recti base corrector will be a necessary nels and a microphone channel, fied on our second review model expense for those using domestic recom m ended to anyone w h o is each of which has its own fader. with a stop-gap fix, although VCRs and camcorders (ie non serious about using their Amiga Either of the stereo channels can we're assured that units shipped stable sources). If you use only to produce professional looking be assigned to the audio monitor from now on will include this fix stable sources however, then you videos. It's also worth noting that output phono socket. This works as standard within the box. can save yourself some money it's the only chroma/lumakey unit like the monitor output on a DJ Those problems aside, the on the overall price. A TBC can still available for the Amiga, as mixer, although you can't plug in Micro Studio 2000 is a wonderful be fitted at a later date if the RocTec's RocKey has now headphones directly; you'll need tool. The combination of audio need arises. been discontinued. ■ to route it through a hi-fi o r an and video mixing, chroma and The Micro Studio 2000 comes Tony Horgan amplifier first. Bass and treble controls allow you to tweak the overall sound, and the level of cut and boost is enough to make a substantial difference. Finally there's the noise reduction switch, designed to take out rogue frequencies picked up from camcorder microphones. Sound quality is fine, and the addition of the noise reduction and tone con trols is very useful. Conclusion The Micro Studio certainly has some mouth-watering features, and in general, they're implement ed pretty well. The ‘metal effect' plastic casing is quite sturdy, and the fader travel is fairly smooth. One extremely irritating feature is A Hmb'i 0,1 of Ike Micro Studio’s wipes ie action. The picture of the church tower is faded ie from the top left center el the settee, maskiep oet the origieel videe picture heoeath. used for anything more than oi the odd occasion. Conclusion M y-M oney has the makings of a My-Money program. ■ Price: £25.00 ■ Developer: My-Soft ■ Supplier: My-Soft just that. ■ Andy Leaning Yet another financial planner for The program can keep track of your money no matter where you your income. But does this one choose to keep it. You can set up savings accounts, current match up to the rest? accounts, and have it regularly allocate money to your pocket. This is something I particularly like. I’ve tried accounts programs before that allow you to define salary payments, and transfers to savings accounts but they fail if you forget to record when you've taken small amounts out of your account, and before long the pro Repeat j| Repeat Repeat SPENT | gram is completely out of sync Pe-icd with your actual balance. Planned Accounts Single || Single Pocket money Unplanned W ith M y-M oney, however, you can have it transfer £100 a week Balances tmplotter to a 'pocket' account. If you do |S H D 111 H E [ Batfe take more out you can of course Recounts/Types still record it. You could do this Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMOne fill with other programs, but the ease M y-M oney lets you do | Overvieui j Cash Floui | with which this seems to have an effect on | Finish Oetail the subconscious, and I found myself make an effort to keep it up to date. y-Sofl is a company comparison and is aimed at indi Unfortunately, it's not all good few people will have viduals who want to plan their news. The program has bugs, and heard o f before now. In own fiscal well being. It allows we're not talking head lice here the great traditions of you to set up records of your either, but bloody great big cock Amiga developers it is bank balance and savings, to roaches that scamper across the a small company developing automatically calculate regular floor. It crashed with alarming affordable software. incoming and outgoing payments frequency, requiring a complete M y-M oney. their first program, and then monitor them individual reboot of the Amiga. Some of is a financial planner. All pro ly or as a whole, showing your the graphs were impossible to grams of this nature work in a total financial status. That’s about read as some of the tops of the similar manner. They allow you to the extent of it. bar graphs were outside the record and track your income, viewing area. Error messages spending and savings. The big Keep it simple appeared that were completely ger. more professional programs What makes M y-M oney special, meaningless, and at times the like Easy Ledgers, provide compa however, is the ease and simplici program just locked up, forcing ny finance management, taking ty with which you can set up, yet another reset into account invoices, purchase maintain and track the movement Another annoying aspect orders and so on. o f your money. To a large extent about My-Money is that once B ut M y-M oney isn't a heavy this is because it's far more limit you've started entering data weight program. In fact it's tiny by ed in what it can do, compared to there's no way to abort the oper the bigger alternatives. It avoids ation or cancel it. There are hard the 'features overload' syndrome ly any cancel options. If you Available from suffered by similar programs. The accidentally clicked on a payment M y-Soft are selling My- basic range of facilities is all that button for instance, you'd have to Money direct. Their it needs, and anything extra enter a payment, which couldn't address is 71 Springfield would compromise and confuse be deleted afterwards. This could Avenue. Whitehaven CA28 its functionality. lead to confusing account state 6TT. No telephone number An example of this is the way ments. More cancel options and was available at the time regular transfers, payments, delete functions are definitely of writing. incomes and bills are handled. needed if this program is to be Ordering Details Public Domain Prices Key Public Domain 99p WB 2 * For Workbench 2 or 3 & ACTIVE Postage on all orders 75p WB 3 * For Workbench 3 Only IMtUHEU *M10%DTOTAL 2D) The Number ot Disks SORT W ARE -wtwr* 1MB) Minimum Memory Catalogue Disk 50p AGA) For AGA Machines tefacttn 030) Processor Needed Dept CUM95, P.O. 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SPECCY EMULATOR & 50 GAMES SPG 15-7. 100 CLASSIC SPECCY GAMES £ package. rtse Nol tor the com- SPG35-33. 400* SPECCY GAMES • EM. £ DENIED plete begiriifr 4' * 0 DC O n ly £4.00 CDSPS3. SPECCY SENSATION CDROM £ pPSWICMJPASSWORP SET EYC4-2. EYE CATCHER CLIPART □ SPECTRUM STUFF AAMGA C OROm TITLE./) TTTLE MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE AT TIME OF GOING TO PRESS______J Incfudes over 500 all time classic spectrum games on one CD for CD32. CDTV. Zappo etc. Includes actual bed. Missile command, Speccy emulator aswoll Orty £14.99 and loads more £9.99 GFX SENSATION Vol.1 SPECCY^ SENSATION CD □ GROLIER ENCYCLOPEDIA ARCADE CLASSICS CD Lucky dip volume one contains a var tools for ied range of games, ''J w jB Includes Hundreds of essential utilities M m o o lIc s etc. £5.00 Just £9.99 Iq l U C K ^ D I^ C D Volume One ESSENTIAL UTILITIES Vol.1 'ic.v con r TC B Sou-10 o iric ssarifi a ri(i ees s aaic ic The biggest collection of ClipartClipad available EVER! Colour ♦ B&W IFF, EPS, Pagestream. GIF. PCX. ■® nundnund'cds ods cl p c:..r^sc\.iss H 4000 full colour Adult images for use on BMP. TIF. Pagesetter. WMF. Over 60 catagones. Now only £14.99 ■S Only £27.99 r Amiga or PC. OVER 18 Only £19.99 DOUBLE CDROM A bargain at just £17.99 |ADULT SENSATION CD AMINET 5 March/April 95 STARTREK MULTIMEDIA CD □ WORLD OF CLIPART CD A Whole Lai Multimedia Toolkit Many of the CDs that we've looked at in previous issues have been let down by poor front ends. Most CDs give you nothing more than MULTIMEDIA Workbench, leaving you to fumble your way around the contents trying to find programs to load the files and figure out strange meaningless file names. TOOLKIT However, the Multimedia Toolkit is different. It features a simple menu- driven program that allows you to pick the type of file you want to work , M ultim edia Collection tor the Am iga CO with: images, samples, demos etc. Click on this and a list of corresponding files pops up. click on the file and then on an action button (view for instance) and hey presto there's the file. Wonderful! Multimedia Toolkit also contains a wodge of reasonable quality fonts, CD '2 Weird colour and mono clip art, music modules, and samples which are accessed via Workbench. In brief, this isn't the biggest or best collection, but it cer com patible Science tainly is the easiest to use. W eird Science, 1 Rowlandson Close, Leicester LE4 2SE. Tel: 0116 234 0682 Price: £19.95. r 76 * * r f t ? The Beauty of Chaos If you like fractals you'll just fall in love this disk because it’s filled with Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMnothing but fractal images. Some of them are impressive, some are rather dull. There are 507 pictures in all of the mandelbrot set. These are saved in mainly IFF or GIF formats and a viewing program is supplied on th e disk. However, we had problems opening many of the GIF files in any Amiga S r _ ■ GIF reading graphics program. There are also a number of TIF files on the disk, should you want to see the fractal in more colours (the GIFs store pictures with just 256 colours). It would have been nice to see a collection of fractal generators on the F m disc as well letting you explore the world of fractals yourself. And maybe some fractal animations, let's face it we’re not pushed for space are we! Not having these on the disc is definitely a missed opportunity. Still 1 2 1 if you're into this kind stuff you'll love it, otherwise avoid. PD S oft, 1 Bryant Avenue, Southend-on-sea, Essex SS1 2YD. Tel: 01702 466933. Price: £19.99. 70 o Q Imagine Enhancer ■ This disc offers a wonderful collection of fonts, attributes, backdrops, and O objects for Im agine. There's also a gallery of wonderful pictures all pro 00 duced with Im agine. The discs holds roughly 100 new attributes, 25 fonts, DC 10 image backdrops, eight reflection maps and 12 vehicles. This isn't much, LU compared to some of the CDs available, but the detail in the objects, the II I LU quality of the attributes and the definition of the fonts makes it worth hav z ing. The biggest problem with this disc is that many of the file names are in {• o German (particularly drawers - Bilder, Wolken, etc aren't exactly helpful) but r :: * '--.if it won't take too long to figure out what they stand for. If you use Im agine this disc is definitely worth having. If. however, you „ z TL'#. ■ work with a variety of rendering programs [UghtW ave and Real3D, for o t * ~ < instance) then the Amiga 3D Raytracing volumes (reviewed in the March < I issue) or the 3D Areana disc (see opposite page) are probably better bets * as the offer objects, textures and files for the other Amiga rendering appli z cations in addition to Imagine. Gordon Harwood, New Street, Alffreton, Derbyshire DE55 7BP. LU Tel: 01773 836781. Price: £49.95. Another month has crept up on us and sure enough another batch of CDs arrive in the CU Amiga offices. PICTURE Art Backgrounds Collection A E E I E n ] One of the problems with many CD clipart collections is that the authors BoX cram the disc with loads of images, and in the race to fill the disc grab images from anywhere, often sacrifice quality for quantity. Serious users, however, want quality, not quantity. A better approach would be to cut the number of images, ensuring each one is well scanned, supplied at decent resolution and cleanly edited. Field of Vision have taken just this approach with their Art Backgrounds disc, it contains just 60 pictures all of which are very well produced. The images supplied are mainly colour tones, atmospheric effects and washes. Each image is supplied in a variety of resolutions (from 128 by 192 to 2048 by 3072) so you won't need to resize them (losing quality in the process) too much. The only downer to the disc is that the images are in PhotoCD / *RT format so you'll need to something like PholoGenics to use them. If you're looking for a collection of professional, high quality, abstract, backdrops get 6 A C K G R 0 U N D s th is disc. Field of Vision. 45 Beversbrook Road. London N19 4QQ. Tel: 0171 263 5054. Price: £40. 91 AMIGA CD Clipart In recent months I've seen bucket loads of CDs claiming to offer profes Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMsional clipart for DTP users but in reality offer nothing more than a rather crap collection of black and white, low resolution, pictures. On loading this disc however I was pleasantly surprised. This disc con tains bitmap images, structured images and EPS files. The structured clip art is in the form of ProClips for ProDraw. handy for this month's coverdisk. There's also a collection of CorelDraw images (not very useful for an Amiga owner)! The real surprise, however, is the bitmap images. As usual there's a col lection of black and white pictures but there's also a large number of Amiga painted colour graphics. This are all impressive quality, looking much like the painted images to be found in old style encyclopedias. For DTP orientated users the Weird Science Clipart disc is well w o rth having. W eird Science, 1 Rowlandson Close. Leicester LE4 2SE. Tel: 0116 234 0682. Price: £9.99. 85. 3D Arena Almathera have been doing CD discs for a while now, ranging from Aminet collections to professional clip art discs. Their latest CD is yet another collection of objects for 3D rendering packages. 3D Arena provides a collection of objects and textures for L igh tw a ve. Im agine, and Real3D. There are also files for 3D S tudio and DXF if you happen to have access to these PC based rendering programs. The objects are of impressive quality, and certainly up to the mark we've come to expect of Almathera products recently. The textures are also very tasty, although I'd like to have seen some more innovative textures: marble, wood, stone etc are a bit common these days. We'd probably buy this disk because it's got some useful objects on it. although, in our opinion, there could have been a greater variety and choice of textures. Alm athera. Southerton House. Boundary Business Court. 92-94 Church Road, M itcham , Surrey, CR4 3TD Tel: 0181 687 0040. 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DELTRAX PD (CU), 36 Bodelwyddan Ave, ^ £1.10 Each UK £130 Each Eimp* £1.40 Eacti ROW. Old Colwyn ^ M o a t M u d * 1st Ctasa Postage Clwyd LL29 9NP ^ For Every 10 Dteks You Buy ■ r. Choose 1 Exke FREEII v. Catalogue Disk £1.00 inc. P&P. Printed Catalogue 50p inc P&P Name.... Fast, Friendly Service Please M ake Cheque/Postal O rders Address: Note: Prices are per disk not per set Payable to: “Deltrax PD” Overseas O rders W elcom e, Payable In Sterling Please Postcode: Which is the best paint package when it comes to drawing pictures on a blank page? CU Amiga Magazine goes on a mission to find out. reating a picture from Curves Fix button. This allows you to draw for a few scratch is still one of the Photogenics doesn't have any curve minutes (or as long as you like), and then if most satisfying methods drawing tools. Curves must there you’re not happy with it. you can delete the I of producing computer fore be drawn by hand. In certain sit whole of the last few minute's work by click- j © art. We took the Amiga's uations it's possible to use the ing Undo. You can't undo any changes until J fou r leading paint packages, Iellipse and circle functions, discarding thethey've been fixed. Depending on how you litoj Photogenics, Deluxe Paint, Personal unwanted parts to leave a curve, although this to work, this can be either a pain in the back- i Paint and Brilliance looked at them is usually more trouble than it's worth. side, or quite handy. fro m the point o f view o f an artist Brilliance and Personal Paint both have The best solution is again offered by who wants to paint a picture with options for normal curves and bezier curves. B rilliance and Personal Paint. They both offer l nothing more than the mouse, the Bezier curves are drawn using four points multi-level undo/redo. On both programs you j Amiga, and the software. No fancy instead of three, allowing lines to be bent can set the number of levels and amount of scanning tools, no ray-traced texture through any angle. Deluxe Paint settles for nor memory available for the undo. If you have mapped backdrops, and no composi mal three-point curves. enough memory, these undos can take you J tion of digitised video images. back for miles. Once you’ve used them you'll I Undo features never want to use anything else. Tools of the trade The undo function is essential for Deluxe Paint is quite basic on this front. It I All four packages are based around a correcting mistakes. will undo the last operation only, which can be set of basic drawing tools. We start Photogenics uses a strange kind of very limiting. If you are drawing with the icon j our test with a comparison of the i undo system. Permanent changes to bars turned off. and then turn them back on to \ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmain tools available to the artist. _'J: the picture aren't made until you click on the access the Undo button, that key press counts i I as the last operation, so the Undo does noth- ] ing. The way around this is to use the U key to I The contenders undo when the icon bar is hidden. PHOTOGENICS 1.1 Filling areas The new boy of Amiga graphics, |The ability to fill an area with a Photogenics is a 24-bit paint and colour, an image or a pattern is image processing system . Looks like f |essential for any paint program. hot contender w ith its many simula photogenics' best aspect when it ] tions of natural drawing mediums. comes to filling, is the variable tolerance level I This allows you to fill all pixels of a similar BRILLIANCE 2 colour, rather than only those of exactly the I The favourite of many Am iga artists, same colour. Otherwise, filling an area of a 2A-1 developed as a direct rival to DPaint. bit picture would be impossible. However, that's the only frill you get with the fill options I Brilliance is very good at filling areas with 1 brushes. It can stretch a brush to fit the size I Photogenics I I - lores conventional artists with its many and dimensions of any shape. Its gradient fins I simolations ol real lile painting materials. are quite good too. Personal Paint has the most useful gradier* fill available. Its Shape gradient was used to I Speed and special effects are produce the seats in the picture of the car. arm Brilliance's strong points. took me about two minutes. The gradients I also have the smoothest dithers of any 256 PERSONAL PAINT 6.1 colour package {Brilliance's dithers are pretty Personal Paint has found many fans much its equal). However, these are Personal thanks to its speed and flexibility. Paint's only advantages when it comes to fills It has no circular fill, no angled linear fill, and DELUXE PAINT IV AGA no decent brush fills. It's long been the favourite for m ost Am iga painters, but has recently lost Palettes ground to increasingly sophisticated Palette and colour range selection is another I Brilliance 2 - acclaimed lor ils speed and usability com petition. D P a in t 5 m ay reverse this. important factor. In order to set up a decent I gradient from one colour to another, you noodl while you get kind of used to it and although I doubt I'll ever love it, it does have its advan tages. Chief amongst those is that there are no pull down menus. This makes navigating the program so much easier. It also has a lit tle box which constantly tells you what you are pointing at. Neat. The biggest pain for me was the way the menus obscure the screen until you switch them off. Personal Paint has a similar front end to Deluxe Paint. Almost. The major difference is A Personal Paiat shews ell some el it! maay image piocessiag th a t P ersonal Paint w o rk s the w a y Deluxe options It can even tu n images iata Magic Ere piclnres. P aint should. The whole thing feels respon sive, the menus are all clear and everything to define Ihe colours, and set them up as B rilliance has some image processing, happens quickly. The windows can be a range. though it's strictly limited. All of its processes dragged around the screen so that you can Photogenics uses the whole 24-bit palette are set and cannot be adjusted or fine tuned. see what they are affecting. It is modern at all times, so there's no need to define a This is definitely a major downside. whilst still being traditional. Anyone familiar 'sub palette'. However, it has one glowing Personal Paint scores best out of the tradi w ith Deluxe Paint will pick it up instantly and feature, its long list of predefined colours tional paint packages. It is the original cross after a few days be completely hooked. Most such as apricot, midnight blue and breed. It has image processing features to of the keyboard short-cuts are the same as Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMforest green. write home about. It can do anything from tint Deluxe Paint too, accelerating conversion. B rilliance has a nice simple palette, and the ing to producing a stereo image random dot By comparison Deluxe Paint's user inter range selector is OK. 'magic eye' picture. All of the processing can face is old, cranky and worn out. Far too Personal Paint lacks som e o f the range be adjusted to your heart's delight. They work many options are hidden at deep level within but it has a few tricks up its sleeve, well and you will certainly use them extensive some menu or other. It’s still not too far is the fact that it shows RGB and ly. There are som e annoying exceptions like behind most of the others though. HSV functions at the same time. It also has anti-alias, pixelise and texturing, but it makes better colour spread options, palette merging up for this by letting you edit the functions or Natural media and colour reduction. even create your own from scratch. The latest fad in computer art pro DPaint used to have a really easy range Deluxe Paint dies in this section. It has grams is ’natural media’. This selector (prior to Version 4), which only need hardly any image processing features. Tint, means airbrushes which work like ed start and end points to be picked. Now you anti-alias and transparency are the only notable real airbrushes, chalk which leaves have to pick up each colour and place it on a ones. All of them are really basic. Elittle flaky bits on the paper and watercolours line, which is limited to 64 colours. The palette which saturate and almost run. is simple enough though. User interface It also means having the screen behave Ease of use is just as important as like canvas, paper, blackboard or another real Image processing advanced features, especially when world surface. Image processing is the use of special effects it comes to keeping the creative Photogenics is the only one to have these to alter parts of a picture - effects such as juices flowing. simulated pen and paper types. They work blurring, sharpening and false colouring. HPhotogenics almost certainly has the best best in high resolutions. If your pictures are Image processing has been used extensively front end. Everything is in windows including going to be rendered in HAM-6 or HAM-8, the to produce all kinds of effects. The woman's the picture being worked on. This means you fringing can be more obvious in lower resolu face and hair (abovel went through several can drag things out o f your w a y easily. It also tions. However, with a bit of practice, some darkening processes to produce the heavy has lots of really neat features, like the screen realistic effects are possible. shadow effect. The trees were blurred to pro selector which holds a small cameo of all the Deluxe Paint 5 promises some of these. duce a better motion effect. The road behind pictures currently loaded. Move a cameo to Our October 1994 cover disk demo version of the windscreen was darkened to account for the second box and you can rub bits of it DPaint 5 allows you to try these out. They use the e ffe ct o f the glass. through onto your main image or use it as a IFF brushes as texture guides, to give the Photogenics is primarily an image proces texture. It does still have a fair amount locked impression of painting onto various surfaces. sor, so it scores p re tty w e ll here. It has a away in the pull down menus, which is a pity It's a rather crude system, but can actually which can be as this is the only use it makes of the right work quite well, and has the advantage of 'paint mode'. If you decide you hand mouse button. allowing the user to create his own, simple effect you just used, you can Brilliance has a user interface that's been by saving out custom brushes into the rele change it to another before it's actually designed from the ground up. Initially the pro vant D Paint directory. N either B rilliance nor ‘fixed’ onto the image. gram is a major pain to convert to. A fte r a Personal Paint offer these features. get beaten by the competition in quite a few close to Personal Paints usability but not quit And so we have areas, no one package can boast all of its close enough for my liking. The menu system the results features. D P aint has always been a favourite it uses is a big step in the right direction but ii for Amiga artists, and will continue to be for a long way from reaching its target. It just get Photogenics 1.1 the foreseeable future. in your way a little too often. Producing the drawings in this feature with Once Version 5 hits the shelves (it's due out Otherwise, this is the program to go for if Photogenics would be tricky. It differs from the any day now), it should consolidate its posi you like plenty of features at your fingertips. _ other three packages in that it's not a ‘what tion. A bit slow, a bit quirky, but still up there Almost anything Deluxe Paint can do Brilliant* ■ you see is what you get' program. If you want w ith th e best. can do better. It has multiple brushes like P to be able to specifically define each pixel in Personal Paint. It also has the best brush han- I the picture, you'll have a hard time of it, as Personal Paint 6.1 dling. Its ability to fill a shape with a brush is r you're always painting onto a representation of Personal Paint has some of the best features the best I've ever seen. the actual 24-bit picture. of the lot. The user interface is remarkably If you need an art package but can only I However, there’s so much you can do w ith free of clutter. The image processing is afford one. Brilliance should be it. It can do I Photogenics that is impossible with the others. remarkably useful. The ability to edit the almost anything. It's a long way from being a n Top of the list are the simulations of different image processing functions gives it even ideal tool, but it has the best combination of I pens and brushes, which allow very subtle more flexibility. Its automatically scaled mag features and usability. shades to be added with little fuss. nification is very handy. You drag a box over Photogenics is best suited to the artist the area you want, and the magnification is The bottom line who wants to output images to high resolu calculated appropriately. So which one of these well known paint pact-1 tion 24-bit systems. If you want to design a Colour reduction and palette merging ages comes out on top after all this extensr*«| title screen for your latest game or demon prove to be incredibly useful too. Multiple testing? Can you stand the suspense? Well. I stration. you'll probably be better off brushes changed by a single key press are ju s t for you here are th e results at last; in 1 looking elsewhere. invaluable. It also has a virtual memory func descending order we have: tion which seems impossible w live without Deluxe Paint 4.1 AGA once you have used it. 1. Personal Paint 1.1 Everyone uses Deluxe Paint, don't they? In P ersonal Paint may lack certain features many ways, it's started falling behind the from the others but makes up for it by being 2. B rilliance 2 opposition, and the delayed release of the best workhorse. It's especially good if Version 5 hasn't helped that. Nevertheless, it you're upgrading from Deluxe Paint. didn't get where it is today without being a 3. Deluxe Paint 4 damned fine program!. Brilliance 2.0 In its favour, it's the standard that all the The star of the computer press. Brilliance is Q 4. Photogenics 1.1 others have had to live up to. While it does somewhat different from the others. It comes ■ Arndre Digard Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM ■ CD0S3 -n * P Clip an. Educational disks. Adode type I fonts. DPaint | ^ P u 7 i 3 fonts. Scalable fonts. Business programs. Word processors. Graphic^uiilities^Workbench ^tools. Magic Comnts, Virus Killeis. ^'idco proction. Emulators. DOUBLECDROM Hobbies, Fractals. 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You irrangement of immobile squares and a small number of don't play against a computerised opponent - movable counters. instead you win money according to the amount The object of the game is to move the counters into you bet and the odds for the hand you end up the positions indicated in the box at the bottom of the with. To keep it from gening boring, you also get screen. You can slide the counters up. down, left and bonus games such as 'Higher or Lower' or 'Find 'ight, but they only stop when they hit an immobile the Ace'. Bright graphics and good sound effects square, so you have to plan your moves carefully. A neat make it an entertaining diversion. Worth checking I, a Pu“,e 9ame. out for a bit of fun. m w 9 ■# Available from: Available from: Freestyle PD. Freestyle PD, 108 _ 108 Woodside \ IM lt t IU I I I IMJ H ill -air Woodside Way. Way. Short Heath. Short Heath, W illenhall. West W illenhall. West Midlands WV12 1 Midlands WV12 ■, sil l InJ.' liH T 5NH. Price: £1.50 5NH. 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It means you can play an Utilities. animation when two objects are placed together, or have a cut scene like in a Guitar Com panion film, with the musical aid action switching Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMto a different e main program in this location. Or i th tn is limit aa the number ol m ars ton csa -ies of five is an old m aybe you *iti> gbac - it's w ta rmi- 'ourite of mine. Guitar could have o rd Directory, which has rvludic 2 some object come crashing down when the character -n updated to Version 2. walks over a particular spot. s designed to teach guitar However, there are limitations. There's no AGA sup ords. It’s really simple to port, which is OK if you want to save disk space, but e. Pull down a menu, not so good if you want stunning graphics. There's no lect a chord, and up pop sprite scaling, so characters won't shrink as they walk ree variations on that into the distance, and multiple player characters, such ord. Neat. as the gang in Maniac Mansion, would be impossible. The number of chords Character animation is also rather basic, which can limit s been increased to 276 the camera angles for your scenes. ' ith 1,008 positions. That The whole thing is admirably rounded off by Lethal obably makes it the most Formula. It’s an example game on the second disk. nprehensive list available Whilst it's not quite Indiana Jones, it is considerably * 4 ° I (T1F1 any format. Good news better than some of the old Sierra adventures. It doesn't r USA users is that the have too many locations but manages to do very well ■gram is now NTSC com- A Thb Music2Tab piagfMl fiaal the Gaitar Core(meion A licaaiawata asset- considering that it fits on a single disk. tial tar laitai plants. ■tible. It still shows the fin- You do need to have a little programming experience “ ing too. Not a major update, but worthwhile all the same. to use GRAC. It wouldn't be half as good if you didn't. It There's a companion program too. 8ar Chord Index shows all of the power will take you a little while to get to grips with it, but ords. It would be even better as part of Guitar Chord Index. then all the best programs do. Every adventure fan There's a simple tuner - a good idea, well implemented but the samples are a should have this. It won't turn you into the next I rough. Then there's Song Book, a simple program detailing 22 songs by their LucasArts, but it will give you just about everything you ords. Lastly there is MusicZTab. Pump in some standard music and out comes need to get damned close. To the best of my knowl e tablature. edge this is the first program of its kind on any comput The only things missing from this compilation are vertical chord diagrams and a er. GRAC is easily the best licenseware title ever. st Fret style program. This set of programs is essential for any guitarist. When -d in conjunction with Fast Fret (CLR Licenseware) they make for a killer learn- Available from : F1 Licenseware, g environment. 31 W ellington Road, Exeter, Devon EX2 9DU. Available from: PD Drome, Tel: 0392 493580. Tel: 0191 584 0917 Price: £5.25 including P + P. Price: £4.99 including P+P. G a s T r i c k Little Blue Plastic D isk bill calculator various utilities Here's a nice sim ple B ar Clock is a sm all pr o n e . G a s T r ic k is a which puts the time and I fc.li.ll small program date on the Workbench t4 designed to calculate bar. Last Alert 2 is a boon I your gas bill. It's w rit programmers. It gives you ten in Amos, designed information on any softwa to be really easy to failures without you havinjj use. So far so good. to scribble down numbers G a s T r ic k le t s y o u from Guru meditations. save your w orkings and Z p e e d Up is a supposed load them at a later ZModem accelerator. It’s date. 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SUBJECI TO AVAILABILI1Y ESC* r WORKSHOP INTRO E DIRECTORY OPUS 98 • I How to make Directory Opus 4, our February 1995 coverdisk, even smarter by getting it to automatically load files into applications. PROCALC 100 Spread-meister Andy Leaning shows how ProCalc's complex and IF functions can be combined to solve difficult spreadsheet problems. BUYERS GUIDE 1 0 1 9 It’s all a question of credit in this month's Buyers Guide. Our resident shopping expert gets the credit for writing this month's column, while you can get credit by reading it. GRAPHICS MASTERCLASS 102 • Peter Lee reveals the secrets of mixing pictures together using the powerful composition tools of Photogenics. MODELER 3D 105 In the last of the Modeler 3D coverdisk tutorials, handy tips for 3D object creation are included along w ith the remaining menu functions. SUBSCRIPTIONS 106 • Don't miss out on the amazing coverdisks and special offers we've got lined up. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMturn to page 106 now. VIDEO IDEAS 108 On yer bike! Tony Horgan checks out the wonderful world of colour cycling. Round and round we go. BACK ISSUES 110 6 Missed a great issue? Here's your chance to catch up! F A Q 1 1 9 • A John Kennedy answers many of the most common questions surrounding the fascinating world of the Internet, modems and comms. SOUNDLAB 122 • Tony Horgan pushes Amiga hardware to the limits as he reveals how to make your Amiga sound like it has much more than four channels. Q + A 1 1 6 The questions and answers crow are ready to answer your m ost challem jim i technical questions yet Q&A MASTERCLASS 1 20 less is definitely m ore as M i Kennedy finds out w hen he delves into the 1i<|ht spot that is com pression softw aie BACKCHAT 124 W hat’s on the m inds of Am nia users around the w oild? Users from across the W qlohe voice then opinions, views, hopes am i feais POINTS OF VIEW 128 W hat's this? M i Internet him self sla<|<|in<| o ff bulletin hoaids? S titely no t1 Q uick, rush to pope 128 to find out m ore Directory Opu In this month's tutorial learn how to teach Directory Opus to act intelligently, automatically loading files into their relevant applications. ast month we showed you how to files would then be automatically loaded into what to do. In this case we need to create a I set up buttons to load your most the relevant application. n ew file type, so select File Type fro m the ] commonly used programs Configure menu and click on New The However, there's an even quicker DMS decom pression requester that appears lets you chose the ty p a O way of loading those programs, As an example let's set up DQ pus to decom of operation that the new file type will carry I which doesn't involve creating new buttons. press DMS files in this way. DMS is the com out. In this case it's an AmigaDos style com- I It's possible to configure Directory Opus to pression program used for our cover disk mand so click on AmigaDos Program load specific applications by clicking on files programs. You'll find it in the C directory of From the next requester, click on the butWB in the directory windows. most of our recent 'technical’ cover disks. It's to the right labelled Edit Class. Yet another 1 For example, you could tell DO pus to no problem if you normally use a different requester pops up. In the middle of this one I automatically decompress any files with a compression system, as this example you'll see a line called File Class and next to ■ .DMS extension. can easily be adapted to work with another field called Class ID. Change the tea I Alternatively you could have D O pus load alternative programs. in the first one to DMS Compression and the I your word processor whenever you clicked DO pus doesn't automatically understand next one to DMS. Having done this click one*I on files ending with a WP extension. The th e concept o f a DM S file, so w e need to tell it on the word Match in text field below - it J should turn red and the cursor will be placed | in another text field below this that is now orange In this field erase w h a t's already thee Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMand ty p e in: On the same line as this instruction you'll seed magnifying glass Click on this and in the nnarl requester that appears click on the line that I reads MatchName and finally press Return. 1 F ile t y p e s What you've just done is set up D O pus to J watch out for files of a certain type. In this case it's now looking for filenames that end with the extension of DMS. The operation* I we're about to set up will only be carried am on these files. This allows us to perform j selected operations on specific types of f*e I and we can check for files in a wide variety of ways. In this case the ".dm s' line you typed in j was a file name pattern You could type in j any AmigaDos wild card pattern here The I MatchName reference tells the program to j take this pattern and compare it with the selected file names. You'll have noticed other types of compaf son in the requester that appears w h en yea click on the magnifying glass. From here yd can tell the program to watch for files creaL on a specific date. time, or that have com -1 ments and so on. Now you can click on OK. Next you can I define the operations that are carried out. dl_ what actions the user needs to do to pertd^ them. In our case we want to invoke the 01 program when a DMS file is double clicked. In the box next to the word Events ... click on the line that reads Action Double-Click. In the field below this box labelled Event Description, type in something to the effect of 'UnDMS files to DFO'. This text is just for your own notes, so it doesn't really make any difference to the actual operation. We've now told Directory Opus th a t w h en ever you double click on a file it should check to see if the file name has .DMS at the end of it. If it does it can perform an operation we're now going to specify. Click on the New button on the left-hand ide, half way down the screen. A cursor will iw appear in a text field just below this, pe in: w r i t e ( f ) Don't press Return just yet. Instead click on the button to the left of this field, changing the operation type to AmigaDos (just like we did in last month's tutorial). Now in the box next to the word Flags move the scroll bar down and click on the line Output Window. You can finally press Return and click on the OK button. All being well you should now see the windows we saw at the start, just before clicking on the New button. This tim e howev er you'll see a new line added showing the new DMS file type. Click on OK and then on the next OK but ton that appears. You'll now be back in the main D O pus screen. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMT r y i t o u t Tross your fingers, because it's now time to try it out for yourself. Insert a recent CU Amiga Magazine cover disk into a drive and copy a file with the .DMS extension from the :over disk to the RAM disk. To do this move the mouse pointer over the left-hand window and click on it once. Move the mouse pointer down to the but tons in the bottom left-hand corner and click in the one labelled DFO:. Now move the :. In the left-hand window you'll would be the same, but double clicking on touse over to the right-hand window and files, one of which has the letters the file is simpler. Once you've understood :lick once, and then click on the button end of it. Click once on this file what's going on, have a look at the other file and then click on the button types that come supplied with D irecto ry Opus below labelled Copy. and see what else is possible. The best way Now remove that disk and to get to grips with software is to experi insert one you don't mind over ment. There's very little you can do to perma writing - making sure it's write nently damage your Amiga using software, enabled first. After a few min but just be careful when you’re deleting files. utes you'll see the DMS file Next month we’ll explore some of the appear in the right-hand win menu function configurations. ■ dow. Move the mouse pointer Andy Leaning over the file and double click on it. A window will appear and up comes the DMS program, Diroetory Opus 5 which decompresses the file to th in t ii 10 1 id I lovm o -fitiy ( ) / n » \ the floppy disk. This may take a J, the W orld'* lio il Am itjn utility lliin while on some Amigas. wrt» ulven (iwoy on the leh iuo iy You’ve now added the DMS file i a a o e o f t ! l l A m i n e M « u « ; i n e 1*» type to DOpus. If we wanted to ortlei Veiaion t» o f POptta. w h ic h we could have set up a button looka like heinu one of the heat to do the same thing using the ■ eleoaea of Ittfttl. » oil W irou l examples from last month. Why l>evelu|»inent« on O 1 .t'JJ J/J'W tl I t not have a go? In this case ahouhl ho nvoilohlo hy the lim e you A When checking a fill DOgai comparn it ta ■ March pattara i f a baea pieaioasly gnca. you'd click once on a file and l e a i l t h in Kara we caa aaa pome al dm types al aaatch patterns it caa tu rtle then on the button. The result ProCalc Tutorial Thinking about buying a peripheral and want to work out who offers the best interest rates? It's easy with ProCalc - we show you how. his month we show you how to monthly repayments given the data we already build a handy little spreadsheet that have. Three PMT functions are used to calcu allow s you to com pare interest late the repayments for the shop, bank and rates from various sources to find credit card. As the shops will often let us put O best rate o f return. down a deposit, the shop's PMT arguments A typical example would be if you were to differ from those of the other two. with the compare the interest rates offered by a bank, a deposit being subtracted from the total hire purchase company and a credit card to find amount to be spent first (see figure two). out which is best for you. Although it might seem obvious at first, deferred payment and Adding deposits deposits can make this a fairly complex process We've now got all the information and in most for the human brain to handle. ProCalc. howev cases it will be obvious which lender offers the er, eats such calculations for breakfast. best terms. B ut if deposits com e into play it The first step is to set up a spreadsheet gets a bit more difficult. Let's put ProCalc to w ith the three different payment terms (see fig work and get it to work out the best deal. ure one). Here w e enter the start date, the initial Here w e use an IF function (covered in earli price (£299), the num ber of m onths over which er tutorials). We need to test the three rates of it will be repaid (24 months) and any deposit return, to find out whether the shop, bank or required. We also enter the percentages for the credit card company is the lowest. Thankfully Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthree financial lenders, in this case the shop, using nested IPs. ie one IF function inside the bank and the credit card company. The another, and string arguments this can be done. rates I've used here aren't meant to be realistic, The complete IF function reads: so don't try finding them in the highstreet. Note how percentages are entered as 19' '=IF((E13 Keypad Problems the initial deposit. All being well the cell con A Raare three: boro aa IF hroctroa fiads ait Ho lowest laaa rati Several readers have experienced taining the IF function will change to show problems using the numeric keypad which is the lowest interest rate charger. of the A1200 and A4000 with And there you have it. Although not the most ProCalc - our November cover disk. It vital spreadsheet in the world this example will work with the keypad which can does start to sh ow som e o f the real power of be used for either cursor control or to ProCalc. using the program's powerful financial enter numbers. functions to work out otherwise complex sums, To use the Numlock hold down the and then using it's IF functions to identify the Shift key and the Numlock key. As you best option fo r you. Rgure fou r show s the do so you'll see a message appear in results when deposits come into play and the window title bar saying Numlock works out what is best for you in that case. is turned on or off. For data entry, turn Next month we'll be giving the world of numlock on. For cursor movement high finance a break and exploring some of tum it off. the program's other capabilities. ■ Andy Leaning BUYERS GUIDE Buyers Guide Buy now pay later m ight sound ideal but there are . b u y n o w pros and cons to purchasing PAY LATER'- goods on credit. CU Amiga Instant Crn.riit M agazine looks at both Pay as I'rttiE as £10 a month sides of the coin. ■ E B S 9 credit companies' rates. You may any disadvantages. This is the best think that saving 10% over a year arrangement and is increasingly fur fit nwttK. nTTfW t is small change, but just consider common amongst big retailers that it could also buy you some Another payment scheme thing extra for your Amiga - a appearing is delayed credit, the c a ^ e® s f o r 400dpi mouse or a RAM board, buy now pay later' scenario. Here for example. you pay a deposit, get the goods Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMThen of course there's your and only start paying for it at a flexible friends. We've covered later date. These are invariably hire the advantages of buying on cred purchase arrangements, where it cards before so I won't dwell on you pay more than original price. this. But one point to remember This approach is very popular with is that credit cards often offer the large household goods (freezers. alk into any shop these you pay 25.5% more than the best of both worids. Instant avail HiR etc) but is now starting to days and you'll find price of the goods Watch out for ability, average interest rates and appear in the Amiga market. hundreds of bright this. The higher the percentage protection if things go wrong. Just like hire purchase check notices tempting you the more you pay. In a quick sur At the end of the day the the amount of interest that you will ® to part with your vey of interest rates advertised in choice is yours. There are certain have to pay as well as the principle money. One of the most favoured the high street and dealers the ly times when it's worth paying ie the final amount payable It may mechanisms that high street retail average interest rate hovered extra. For example, if an end-of- be tempting but is it really worth ers use to lure you into spending around thirty percentl If you are line model is going for a song or if paying hundreds more? Could you your readies w ith them is credit. looking to buy via credit shop the bank refuses you a loan (even get a better interest rate from your To som e people instant credit around and see what the various if you have a perfect credit histo bank? This month's ProCatc (page can seem like a dream com e true interest rates on offer are, the dif ry). But if. for whatever reason, 100) tutorial show s you h o w to cal It all sounds so sim ple You see ference can be surprising. you do decide to buy on credit culate the interest payments and something, a monitor for instance, tread carefully - it's easy to take a find the best credit deal. ■ you w ant to buy but your current Is it w orth it? wrong turning and end up in an Andy Leaning funds won't allow it. Enter instant But if you haven't got the cash uncontrollable debt situation. credit and you can have the item readily available and want a new you want that second and pay the printer or monitor surely paying a Interest free company back at nice affordable Tittle' extra is w o rth it. A fte r all However, not all credit deals are m onthly installments. All you have you won t notice the difference in nasty pitfalls waiting to drag you to do is fill o ut a fe w form s - sim the monthly payments and you into the arms of the debt collector ple O r is it? There is a catch. You get to use that shiny brand new There is such a thing as interest must pay interest on the am ount Microvitec monitor and AGA free credit which means you can borrowed and unfortunately the screen modes now rather than in still borrow the money to buy the interest rate is generally fairly 18 months when you've finally goods instantly and pay it back steep. You may thus end up paying saved up fo r it. over a period of time, but you w ay over the odds fo r the item Well yes, it can be. But there don't pay any extra for the privilege that you are buying. are other options. Why not take - there's no interest - it's freel For example, most interest out a bank loan to pay for it? Bank This really is customer care. repayments are described as interest rates (whilst still being The shop is making it easy for you Typical APR 25.5%'. This means steep) are generally lower than to purchase the goods without Graphics Ma One of the most powerful image processing Alpha box at the lower right of the screen in the Images toolbar abilities of Photogenics is Composition; with it you can blend two images together Text effects Now we begin work on our text I seamlessly. CU Amiga Magazine explains Select the blurred image, and c rfl up the Mode requester; click on I the technique. Emboss, then on the Fill screen I gadget (the white tool above the | his m onth, a tw o in place your text where you’d like it. called. As it stands now, you word Fix on the menu toolbox) I one tutorial; the rudi For the first part of the tutorial could co py this onto another and watch as the words take o n 1 ments of text manipu we re simply going to write our image window, but we want to a raised, solid look. 'Fix’ this lation within text, and turn it into highlighted add some sparkle to the lettering, effect now. as this saves the on- 1 O Photogenics and our first attemptgold lettering. O n the w a y w e 'II and to do that we need to make a screen changes, and allows you J at image processing. The aim is learn about masking, mode mask (which is another name for to experiment to get the best ] to convert a digitised picture into effects and placement stencil - something which pro look for the text. something which looks like an Start Photogenics and from the tects certain areas of a picture). Try the Antique mode for a j artist’s sketch. If you glance at pull down menu Images select From the Project menu, select gentle glowing effect, or how | the finished item now, you'll see Open as/Other, and choose the clone and a copy of your text is about a Gradient Fill to simulate I just how close we can get using Text loader The font w e re using created on screen. We will gold, by using yellow as the the most basic of skills. came with the software, so it will smooth this new image to give it palette colour To create a dap- I Unlike most other art pack be listed in the directory of fonts more subtle 3D characteristics so, pled, stone-like quality you could I ages, text is created in its own (provided you installed it with the from the Image menu, select try the AddDust or AddNoise L image window in Photogenics. On program); it’s called Stengun and Blur/Gaussian Blur, and choose a modes; to try anything out, seletM Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe plus side, this means you can we want to use it at size 74. radius of four. Once it's complet the Mode, then click on the fill W transform it in any way you like You must enter your text ed this lengthy task, select the screen icon If you’re not happy I before committing it to your main before it’s rendered, so type in original text window, and make with the results. Undo the proc*-l picture; the downside is that you the words star profile, and OK this the Alpha (or mask) image by dure (click on the icon to the have to go through a number of that. The text is now drawn into a pressing key 3; a miniature of the of Fill Screen) and start fresh. I steps before you can actually separate window, or buffer as it’s picture will locate itself in the A s w ith anything in aterclass h e Phologenics. if you like an effect, To add o ur golden te x t to this The first step in our art-forgery is image, you can Paint with a white you must 'Fix' it before going new image, move your text image to get rid of the image colours; coloured chalk/pastel brush (size onto something else or you will icon into the Secondary slot, and we’re aiming for a pencil/charcoal 6, pressure 39%. Transparency lose your changes. Frequent select the Image/Compose effect after all. So using the filled 38%) on the cheeks, forehead, saves are also recommended option; this brings up a requester, rectangle tool, draw out a box chin and lips. Check out the illus because you'll find yourself and also superimposes the text starting below our text (which we trations to see what a difference developing ideas on the fly which onto the colour picture. Using the want to leave intact) and including this makes, bringing the 'dead' you may want to change later. mouse you can position the text the remainder of the image. From image to life. Going back to a previously saved anywhere on screen; place it the Modes menu, select 'Fix' the changes and save. The image can be a life-saver. directly at the top of the screen. Greyscale. Once the image is con final touch is the Mystery Girl text. O nce you're happy w ith the Note the handles on the corners verted to monochrome, 'Fix' the As I mentioned before, here's text, save it. For the record, my of the text image box; these allow changfes and save it. how to make the background of text uses a yellow gradient fill. you to re-size the image horizon Now from the Mode menu, the text invisible: use the Text Move the icon representing the tally o r vertically. select LineArt, and drag out a sim loader, and using the Bodacious completed text image, as shown You'll notice that I retained the ilar filled rectangle to remove font type your words. on the b ottom display bar, to the black background on the text, as many of the in-between greys, In the same way as we added slot marked Secondary at the far a severe contrast to the image. leaving us with an outline and a the Star FYofile text, m ake the right. You can delete the Alpha But don't worry, if you're wonder touch of subtle shading. new text your Secondary image image now. as it's served its pur ing how to simply place text on 'Fix' the changes you've made and Compose the new text onto pose in protecting the area around screen, we'll clear that problem when you're happy with them, our artwork, but this time ensure the text from being altered . u p in a short while. and add a shadow behind and to that the boxes next to Brightness Next job is to load in an image Once the text is placed, OK the left of the woman's head by key and Use F’aint mode are onto which we can position the Compose, then 'Fix’ the image using the filled polygon drawing ticked. That w a y ju s t your text w ill text. For this tutorial, open up the and save it. tool in AddDust mode. Set the be painted on to the image. And Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMgirl.jpg file which comes with the dust count to a value of 1 2 % to once again, you can move and re program. It shows a rather refined A r t w o r k get a nice, strong textured shad size the text before you commit it woman, but of course you could For this second part of the tutori ow. To set a Mode value, click on to th e drawing. NOTE - brush load in any digitised image: for al. we're going to simulate art the tool to the right of the type and settings affect the way the time being though, stick with work using the powerful mode Mode button. images are composed. ■ this one. and drawing tools in Phologenics. To add a 3D effect to the Peter Lee AMIGA i3 (01903) 850378 ^ ^ V S O F T =f b b *11 0 0 OHIV AUOO OMLV MUSIC UTILITIES OAMESS 1MSM>tUTUTVS(J) 1934 MAGIC WB EXTRAS (2) AMIGA PD & SHAREWARE 1706 AUOO MAGIC 8 4(1) EDUCATION FM Synfi. 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W O R D SE A R C H A N D l-SPY Pre-Early school fun Matha tutor Each colourful activity h as various skill levels making this title Ideal for c l e 66 S a s ic n o t e tu to r (C3.95> Udaofalages Leam to read music and music quiz ollowing on from last point to the nearest grid intersec L month's look at some tion. In the screen shots shown TRICKS AND TIPS * of the Modify menu below I used it with a globe to To finish o ff the series here are a few tips and tricks we © com m ands, w e con- create a ridged satellite type picked up whilst using M o d e le r 3 D . cludetnes serseries by concentrating shape. Use the Grid menu option The key elem ent to creating realistic 3D objects with on the remaining options from the to change the grid size. M o d e le r is understanding the program's many tools, and as Modify menu, along with some The Array com m and creates usual, experimentation will bring rewards. Play around with general tips for 3D modelling. duplicate copies of selected K and learn w hat the various functions do. We're jumping straight in where points and polygons. It can create Once you've got an understanding of the program you we left off last month, so it might as many copies as you require can then start thinking about constructing complex shapes. be a good idea to have a quick and offsets each copy by a fixed Look around you at everyday objects and try to imagine scan of part one of this tutorial amount that you can specify. them not as one complex image, but as a collection of lots before you get into this one. Once you've done this you may of smaller shapes. How would they all fit together? need to use the Autoscale option Other tips include keeping the number of polygons to a M erging points to resize the objects so they can minimum whenever possible. Try to get into the habit of The Merge Points function is used all be seen on screen at once, as using large polygons (this saves processing tim e), and use for reducing the number of a shortcut press the A key. Merge Points whenever you've used Quantize or another points in an object. This has the That's it for the tutorial. If function that's likely to result in overlapping points. When combined advantages of speed you've got a 3D rendering pro you do use Merge Points, try to select an area first - it will Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMing things up and saving memo gram, Lightwave or Imagine for save you lots of waiting time. ry. It looks a t every p o in t in the instance, you can have a lot of fun To save tim e when building up objects, save common object and compares it to every w ith Modeler 3D. W h ilst it lacks objects and build up a library. W hen you've established a other point. If two or more points the power of the dedicated mod reasonable library you'll be amazed at how quickly you can are closer than 1/1000 of the elling tools built in to these appli knock up new shapes. If you w ant to move a point, first total object size they are cations, in some instances its select it. Now hold down the Shift key and click where you replaced by a single point. This simplicity makes it faster to use. If want it to be moved to - for individual points it's quicker distance can be altered with the you don't have one of those pro than the Move Points tool. Merge Distance function. grams, then we hope this has Merging points can be quite given you some insight into the tim e consum ing w ith large wonderful world of 3D modelling. program VideoScape 3D. If you've as Binary (ie click on Save A s -> objects, so you g e t a progress bar got this you'll be chuffed to learn Binary). 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FREE GIF I b OFFERS OPEN TO UK RESIDENTS ONLY ¥ideo Ideas Colour Cycled Effects aint programs such as DPaint. Personal Paint Liven up those drab videos and graphics and B rilliance allow you to define a range of colours within the palette. These colours can with some rather excellent colour then be 'cycled', so that each colour in the range is changed to the colour of the one preceding it. The cycling effects. O colours are shunted along the sequence, with the last colour moving to the first position in range. When colour cycling mode is turn on, those parts of the picture drawn with these colours appear to throb or move. The effects T r a c e r s you can achieve are ideal for livening up videos or any of It's easy to create a m otion-blur effect w ith colour cycling. For this your graphics. Here’s a run down of the effects available. example, set up a range of 16 colours, so that the first 10 colours are black (assuming that you also have a black background) and the fol lowing six colours fade from black, through grey, to white. Turn on Fairground Lights colour cycled drawing mode and select the first colour in the range as If by any chance you w ant to create a fair the pen colour. ground style notice board effect, complete Using a small brush and either continuous or dotted drawing mode, w ith flashing lights that run around the border, have a quick doodle on the screen. The lines you draw w ill be invisi then this is your lucky dayl Select gridlock ble in places, but then fade back into view for a short length, before mode and a circular brush. This brush w ill be disappearing again. This is because 60% of the line is drawn in black the tem plate for your light bulbs, so scale it ink on a black background, while the rest is drawn in white and accordingly. Select cycled drawing m ode, and shades of grey. paste down your light bulbs around the edge of Now press the tab key to start the colours cycling. You'll see the the screen. The gridlock will keep them all white 'head' of your line tracing around the screen, w ith a grey blur evenly spaced and in line. If you w ant a bit Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMfollowing in its wake. This can be used to sim ulate rain, fireflies or more realism, you can make up a little highlight tracer bullets. Alternatively, you can just use it as an effect to exag using a non-cycled colour and add this to each gerate or stylise any part of your anim ation. The screen with the tiny of the bulbs. men running across it is an extension of this basic technique. When you press the tab key, you get a stream of little people running around. Instead of using a normal brush, the trails were drawn with an anim brush. If you want to replicate this, rem em ber to switch to colour cycled drawing mode after you've loaded your anim brush. m * i t ••••••••••••• Come to j * • the ; ; CIRCUS! ; 4 * A Tbd little w e draws by riieiiieg ee M ix b sense tbs sensa esisg csisar cycled yaiBtiae Oac cycliej is terse! as tbsy n a rigbl ecreis tbs icitsi b (reedy little srstioa-UxTsd tracers bebiad tbera. Time Tunnels This has got to be the most instantly gratifying usa of colour cycling. You'd need Oe/uxe P a in t " * symmetry func tions to get the m ost out o f it, although similar effects can be done with other software. Here's the plan. Set yourself up w ith e range that graduates smoothly between two or three colours. Turn on colour cycled drawing and select dotted drawing from the icon ber. Pick e nice big round brush, by selecting a small one, and dragging it out to about 2cms in diameter. Click on the symmetry icon from the tool bar using the right mouse button. This brings up the symmetry options. Choose either 'cyclic' or ’m irror’ in this case. For a sim ple tunnel effect, W eather Forecast change the number The TV weather forecast graphics are getting a bit flash in the ’order’ box to these days, but at a push, you can still do sim ilar things something high, w ith your Amiga. Scanning a map or using one from clip such as 60. This art collection should be no trouble. The clever bit is using g iv e s y o u 6 0 c lo n e s colour cycling to anim ate your weather symbols. of your brush, which Save your map in a screen mode that uses half the appear in a circular form ation around tha centre of the amount of colours you have available. For example, if you screen. Click OK to get back to the main screen. can work in a maximum of 32 colours, sava the map as a Now you can start drawing. It’s best to move the mouse 16 colour imaga. This leaves the rest of the palette free Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMquite slowly, as the com puter has its work cut out drawing for you to draw the symbols. Some of these colours need 60 copies of the brush each tim e you move. If you move to be cycled, so it’s im portant that they're not used for too fast, you won’t get a very smooth greduetion. It's best the map graphics, otherwise the map w ill appear to glow to keep the colour cycling off at this stage (not to be con in p la c e s . fused with cycled drawing mode, which should still be Change the number of colours to m axim um , and load turned on) as it slows things down evan mora. As you the map back in, retaining the currently selected screen move the mouse in or out of the screen, the trails form a mode (don't chenge it to that of the m ap). On a spare set of concentric circles. When you start colour cycling screen, draw your symbols and use the 'tracers' effect as (with tha tab kay), the circles appear to move in or out of explained in the Tracers panel to draw rain and snow the screen, depending on how you moved the mouse. falling from the clouds. Save the symbols as a single The other method is to use the filled circle drawing tool. screen. Now you can cut them out, jum p over to the map Click on this w ith the right mouse button to call up the screen, end paste them on where you like. Press the Tab options. Click the ’cir’ button, move the dither slider to key to anim ate the rain and snow. ■ the left, click the random tick box and then click on OK. Tony Horgan Move the pointer to the middle of the screen, and pull out a circle that fills the screen. Move back to the centre and press the left button. This will now draw a serias of circles from the middle to the edge of the screen. Press m t o s e e t h e m m o v e . 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What are the system require Answers to 420MB IDE Hard ments I would need to run the queries on disk drive. It Is program and print hardcopy? I particular actually meant have an A1200 with 130Mb hard p ie c e s o f for an IBM PC but since it is an drive. Power 2nd drive. s o ftw a r e . IDE standard drive. I assume C om m odore 1081 m onitor and there should not be any major 120D printer. problems getting it to work with If this program is not available Music, sam my Amiga A1200. pling. MIDI and for the Amiga could you tell me if £g’5S$Pcker anything that However, I need a cable to there is another program avail makes a really connect it to my Amiga as the able which has the same func .,ic i I want to thank loud noise. IDE interface on the A1200 and tions and commands? Peter van I the drive are of different sizes, as Campen and, of you are probably aware. R o y B e e r. course, all of you Miscellaneous Please show me how to make L o w e s t o f t . at CU Amiga tools to keep such a cable or where I can get M agazine for Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMyour Amiga one from (in the UK). I know that Autocad is not available fa r the VideoTracker 2.0 AGA (coverdisk ru n n in g the four pins on the right are for Am iga, but there's good news. The 94 of your November 1994 issue) s m o o th ly . the power supply. I have no prob December 1994 issue o f CU Amiga - it is a software masterpiece. lem getting an external power M agazine came with a complete I am using it on my unexpand-1 supply for the unit but I am not fally-fu n ctian al version o f X-C A D ed Amiga 1200 After watching ] Form-feeds, sure how to connect the other 39 designer, plus a fu ll m anual. You can the Copper Magnify 3 AGA exam - J page-breaks, preferences pins to the 44 pins on the AI200 order a copy fro m o u r back issues pie video. I was completely f a n d lo ts m otherboard. Please please department, on 0858 4 6 8 m . X-CAD amazed by this powerful routine, lo ts m o r e ! please help me. I shall be forever Designer runs on any A m iga with but I haven't managed to use it grateful if you could solve my 1 M b o f R A M o r more. with a brush other than the cable problem. Composite brush on the M onitors, TVs. Incidentally. I have also just VideoTracker disk. Is there a cer modulators, acquired a modem. Is there any S h o u l d I w a i t ? tain format my brush must have • | screen-modes way I could E-mail you guys I o w n an Amiga am using DPaint IV AGA)? Or are j and all that over there? and have a stuff. 1200 there any width or height limits’ I f couple o f ques E r ic H o i. tions. I would Christos Batzios, Pixels, sprites, M a la y s ia . like answered: Thessaloniki, Greece. animation, pic tures. In one Turn to page 32 fo r the answer to 1. Is there an MSX emulator for The brush needs lo be in H A M -6 small word: your hard drive problems. You can E - the Amiga? m at, with a m axim um height and g r a p h ic s . m ail us at: width o f 2 5 6 pixels by 256 pixels, cuamiga&eix.compulink. co.uk 2. I am thinking of buying a CD- long as those requirements are met with any views you m ay have. ROM drive for my Amiga. Should I there shouldn't be a problem. Spreadsheets, buy the Zappo CD-ROM drive or databases, organisers, wait for Commodore's CD1200? accounts ... CAD questions Would it be worth the wait? RAM I am studying Autocad Release 1. There's no M S X em ulator avail Does the fully 12 part time at able fo r the Amiga. populated Haw* Not everything college and 2. Don 'I hold your breath fo r any I RAM board f i t s in t o a would like to official Commodore products. The disable the pigeonhole, but know if I could C D I2 0 0 is unlikely to appear fo r CIA slot? anything you run it on the Amiga, and if so some time, so take your pick fro m the like fits in here. where I can purchase the above Zappo and Power C D -R O M drives. Peter Rooney, Ireland. AMIGA It worked fine with PCMCIA periph the CVBS IN connector. When this erals in a ll o f ou r tests. has been done the RF signal goes black and white but the genlock signal is still colour. Does any genlock work cor -JiandiiiiinrjuLiJjXlttlTiHdHM fftfarftsreak rectly on the A1200? Are the gen - l —L I am w ritin g to locks tested on all Amlgas as it t X S r V tM tW FI! f t IF fWCtlMt. you on th e sub stated on the adverts? Do maga je ct o f genlocks; zines that test genlocks and IM M itrt IF t*ck»i Ilf * i f (HWiriM tW t lm I have an Am iga other peripherals test them on iotiffst fit is (ciU*l*tM Hitt mi) ml fi it ' If * • te d i m b f l i s t . 1200 and I am all Amigas? i le d ttrlat s k n iii tM best I Me U I Tbi* it M M i t M i l ( I I . becoming a bit ncerned about the state of the Anthony York, Northampton. Cist i f M M s : CM.M Amiga peripherals market, in par IniMMt FeeiM: ticular genlocks. I was in the mar Firstly we can assure you that CU In is it (IF m u V* ket for a genlock for my Amiga to Amiga Magazine thoroughly test the t k f i i t M M t : m Hiothly lnipMt: tU.M go with the rest of my video products th a t we review, although i 3 IftMMti I* IlMtktf iMDMMt; I M . 22 equipment so I went to my local we can’t comment on the testing (M ill (M l Interest; f* HMtkll iMMRMti £15.17 Amiga dealer and asked what was procedures o f other Amiga maga on the market at the time. I was zines. Depending on the type o f llti lie tanllir; told there was a new genlock out product, everything reviewed goes by Amitek. This had been adver through a battery o f tests to check tised in most Amiga magazines as f o r perform ance, ease o f use, value A Click Ac Ontpit tuadioa ia Ih« hajact aiaaa ia PioCalc aad fia caa print oal ao pisbleai. 'Amitek Professional Genlock' for f o r money, and how they compare to all Amiga com puters, so I pur competing products. under the Project menu you’l l be importance when choosing a chased my new genlock, wired it The Am itek genlock in question able to prin t out yo u r spreadsheets. model. Would it be possible for up as per the instructions, pow f o r instance was tested on several F o r graphs go to the ‘F ile ’ menu and CU Amiga to test A1200 accelera ered m y m achine on and. .. and ... Amigas, and indeed fa ile d on an select Output. You’l l then be able to tor boards for PCMCIA compatibil nothing happened. I was faced A 1200. On fu rth e r investigation it p rin t them. You can order a copy o f ity in the future? I’m sure it would with a blank screen. The power was found that the genlock had a December CO Amiga from our back be useful.Could anyone let me light w a s on b u t nobody was problem on the A 1200 an d the gen issues department, on 0858 468888. know of a compatible model? home. I unplugged the cable from lock m anufacturer assured us that a my extra drive, the genlock and revision had been made to the circuit Paul Davis, Somerset. my printer and tried again, still board so, that models now shipped Accelerated nothing. By this time I was look don’t have this problem. A second t r o u b l e The problem o f P C M C IA card and ing for the insurance documents u n it tested showed no sign o f the Since buying an accelerator incompatibility lies in for the Amiga because I thought it fau lt. This was a ll reported in the Overdrive Hard the Am iga operating system using had blown up. I then realised that review on page 92 o f the M arch drive unit over a the same area o f memory fo r both - Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMI had left the cable from the gen issue. I t ’s probable that you were y ear ago I have so they conflict. The solution is fo r lock still connected to the com unlucky and got two early models. been trying to developers o f the accelerators and puter and phew, the Amiga was The Rendale an d Rocgen gen find an accelera- PCMCIA peripherals to work still with me. I presumed that at locks should also work on the A 1200. tor card for my A1200 that will around the problem, as Phase 5 with least I had found the fault, a T ry calling Silica on 0 IS 1 3091111. allow 8Mb or more fast RAM to th eir Blizzard cards an d H iS o ft with dodgy lead I They're the main suppliers o f Amitek be added without disabling the the S q u irrel have done. Sadly it's A couple o f days later I products and also have a technical PCMCIA slot. I have written to a not easy to test this in reviews as :eived a new lead. This did support team who should be able to number of magazines (including each card and P C M C IA device is exactly the same as the first iron o u t yo u r hardware problems. CU Amiga) but to date no one different, an d w ithout testing each cable, so I asked my local dealer has published my queries. an d every card we couldn't give a to try the genlock on one of their Hardware retailers have given me definitive answer. "mputers. It did exactly the P r o C a l c lots of conflicting advice (even How ever we are looking a t ways same on their A1200 and A500. I buy th is maga from different branches of the o f testing fo r PCM CIA compatibility The next day I received another zine regularly and same organisation). an d w ill hopefully announce this in genlock, which w e tested in the was very pleased In your FAQ section on accel an im m inent issue. In answer to shop, but this too failed to run. By w hen th e ProCalc erator boards in the March 1995 yo u r immediate question the this time I was getting very spreadsheet edition you mentioned this prob Blizzard card will work (with 8Mb nnoyed. I was refunded my beer appeared in the lem so I was surprised to find RAM) and an Overdrive. ■ tokens and shot off to a camera November issue. I missed the your review of the Blizzard 1230-111 hop that I noticed had a second December issue but bought in the same issue failed to indi hand Rocgen Plus for sale, only to January 1995.1 checked out sev cate whether this board was NO SAES PLEASE be told that this would not work eral newsagents to try to obtain PCMCIA compatible. I appreciate We regret that we can on the A1200. the December issue. Is there any that when reviewing hardware it not respond to I was now beginning to won way that the tutorial for ProCalc is impossible to test all hardware readers' queries by post combinations for compatibility but der whether any genlock would (Part two) can be obtained? Is or over the phone. .vork on the A1200.1 ventured the re any w a y I can print w h at is in the case of the A1200 accelera Please do not include back to my local Amiga dealer to shown on a screen? I have tried tors popping something into the stam ped addressed pose this question to him. he was to print out graphs from ProCalc PCMCIA slot surely would not be envelopes w ith your let too inconvenient. nsure as this was the first time but can't use the drop-down ters, as w e sim ply don't Now that there are PCMCIA he had noticed the problem. He menu for printing. Can a keyboard have tim e to answer the interfaced hard drives. CD-ROMs, en offered to sell me his command be used? thousands w e receive. SCSI interfaces, samplers and oth -ndale 8802 FMC because he Responses are only pos ers of the 4Mb memory limit/ as due to change his. This Mrs Clarke, Wigan. sible through the pages orks perfectly all right until you compatibility problems of certain of the magazine. put an external video source to I f you click on the O utput function boards is a point of utmost 40 FREE UPDATE Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Yes, it's true! The official s s H Sensible update disk, getting rid of all those unwanted bugs and niggles in Sensible World of Soccer, will be ~ ^ with your next copy of The One Amiga magazine! Sellotaped to the front of the May issue, on sale 28th of April, the update will come in a blue, attractively square package, just ready for you to slot into your Amiga. Simple! Kills all known SWOS bugs, dead! 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Any exter required for reliable 28,000 baud includes tens of thousands of bul nal style modem will work with connections. There are several pro letin boards, all sharing mail. You Board name: 1024 BBS Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMModem number:01952 - 419664 the Amiga, all you need is a stan grams around which claim to can post a message to a FidoNet dard RS232 25 way cable to con speed up access. A500 or A2000 chat area using your local board, Board name: The Slimelite BBS nect it to the serial port. Some owners might find these useful. and everyone else will be able to Modem number:0181 230 1566 PCs have 9 pin serial ports, so read it the next day or so. Most check your leads. Try to buy the ■ Q_ What's the boards also have file areas with all Board nam e: Slim elite BBS fastest modem that you can difference between the the latest Public Domain software Modem number:0181 230 1566 afford; don't get one slower than Internet and BBS? fo r you to download. 14,400. If getting a fast 28,800 Board name: Backyard BBS modem ensure it supports the V34 B A . A Bulletin Board is a H i O - I have a modem Modem number:0181 424 2065 standard (rather than the Vfastl. site where groups of users com that works at 14,400 municate with each other about baud. I've set my comma Board name: Ethereal Cereal ■ CL What software common interests. You can swop software to work at this Modem number:01707 275 567 will I need? messages, transfer files etc. The speed but nothing hap Board name: Darkside BBS Internet is a world wide network pens. What's wrong? Modem number:0181 771 9100 I A . M odem s always seem of communication lines set up by Although the modem will to com e w ith PC softw are in the the US military, which can be H A . Board name: Autopilot BBS box, which is no use to the Amiga. used for free transmission of claim to w ork at 14,400 baud it Modem number:01332 660 768 If you buy your m odem fro m an data. It links thousands of BBSs works faster due to the data com Amiga dealer they will probably around the world. pression algorithms. Most 14,400 Board name: Amnesia BBS '“ elude a disk w ith several Public BBS come in two flavours: modems will only recognise Modem number:0151 606 1984 main/Shareware programs such commercial systems and non-com speeds of 19.200 baud. This might as N com m o r Term. You can also mercial systems. The commercial sound confusing, but there are two Board name: Crooked Spire buy a program such as Termite boards charge fees and include d ifferent speeds at work. First, Modem number:01246 551 626 vailable from HiSoft, tel: 01525 companies such as CompuServe there's the modem's transmission Board name: Frost Free BBS 18181, reviewed in CU Amiga (tel: 0800 289378), Almac (tel: speed to the modem at the other M o dem num ber:01484 842 341 Magazine, February 1995). All of 0324 666336), CIX (tel: 01492 641 end of the telephone. No matter 961) and Delphi (0171 757 7080). what, this w ill remain at the these w ill let you log onto a BBS. Board name: Shades BBS The non commercial systems are a modem's stated speed: in this Modem number:01670 787672 ■ Q_ Will H work as a lot smaller, but usually free. case 14,400 baud. However, due to fax machine? On the Internet you can use the data compression the amount Board name: The Lakes BBS tools such as FTP (fo r download of data being transferred is higher, Modem number:01768-866059 I A . Nearly all modern ing programs), Telnet (for logging so the speed of the link fro m the odem s w ill operate as fax into rem ote com puters) and m odem to the com puter is about Board name: Zeons Lair •chines but you need the neces- M osaic (for using the W orld W ide 19.200 baud. ■ Modem number:01768-899420 ry software. Although modems Web). The Internet is fast, if you John Kennedy AMIGA 9 Masterclass As you can see, in both cases the LZX com pression was slightly better — especially with text files. The time difference however was minimal (and slightly worse for the text files). Whether or not a change over to the LZX sys tem is merited remains to be seen. An update to version 1.01 is expected 'real soon now ', and this will be worth checking out. In any case, if you find that you need to pack up a lot of data it will be worth your while to see if LZX makes any difference. Interestingly, both these coding systems rely on the LZW (Lev Zemple Welch) com pression system, which was at the heart of the recent CompuServe to charge for GIFs' stories you may have read in the computer press. The GIF graphic file standard belongs to CompuServe and it uses LZW, which was developed by Unisys. LZW belongs to Unisys, and they want to get some money from it - hence the proposed GIF-tax. It w ill be fun to see Unisys try to get money for all the pro grams which are compressed with LHA o r LZX. W orkbench icon Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMreplacem ents Have a look at the nice Workbench pictures J A n i l if what )0>r ngitheach cotW kwh lita if tea ifiu lle l Magic Kaitheach. Hatica that >■ the fiawets hue hen ilteref ta that r e cm M l shown on these pages. Look a bit different what is ia them hefote yaa ana agaa thaat: aaat Maa. from yours? Well, unless you have Newlcons installed on your Amiga, it should. Like Magic Following on from last exactly the same was as LHA, that is, from the Workbench. N ew lcons is a set of replacemer* Shell w ith com m ands like: icons to smarten up your Workbench display month's discussion on A lso like M agicW B . it's available from the lzx a my archive Aminet Internet site and many BBS and PubK data compression, we Domain libraries. This will bundle up all the files in the current Many folk are worried about using new take a look at the directory ending in .iff and store them in a new icons, especially as some users have reported much-used LHA system. file called my_archive.lzx. In order to check out unexplained crashes. First of all. the original the claims for LZX, I performed the following programs like M agicW B contained icons tests. First o f all I archived ten large IFF image which were only that - icons. When you loo* ast month we touched on data files (which usually don't pack up well as they at any files stored on your disks, you'll see compression, and how it can save are already encoded slightly) and secondly I files ending in .info. These are the files w hich on disk space and downloading archived a pile of text files. contain the information the Amiga uses to d * times for modem users. The stan play the little graphic. They are not programs O dard Amiga archiver has always in their own right, and are stored separately been LHA, which you can see for yourself if from the programs they are associated w ith Graphics Text you log onto a BBS and see all the files end The Workbench clock program for example. • J F i l e s F i l e s ing with the lha suffix. You'll find the LHA actually two individual files: the program itsdl program itself lurking on magazine cover and the .info icon file. Without the .info file, disks or on your local BBS, and you should O riginal Size 6284520 2284752 there would be no icon display but the pro add it to your collection of Amiga utilities as gram could still be used (either from the Shdl' or by using the 'Display All Files’ option from soon as possible. L H A S iz e 5063205 805418 Recently a new archiver called LZX has been L H A T im e 2m 03s 0m 44s the Workbench menu). Thus there is no way popping up a lot in FidoNet conversations. LZX that the new icons themselves could interlay promises to run faster and work better than with the program. If things do go wrong w tm l L Z X S iz e 5018060 710674 LHA; so of course it deserves some attention. experimenting with icons, there are a few L Z X T im e 1m 59s 0m 46s You can download LZX from the usual on-line things that should be checked: places (such as the Aminet, which is where I got it) and Bulletin Boards such as Creations LHA version 1.38, LZX version 1.00 1 . I c o n t y p e (modem number: 0181 66598871. It is used in Icons are classed into different types, in oada to inform the Amiga's operating system if it although unless you can display a is working with drawers, disks or programs. DblPAL or Multiscan image on If you copy an icon from a program file and your monitor you may find your make it into a drawer you may forget to alter screen starts to become a little the type, with odd results. You can check the too cluttered. type by loading the icon into the Icon Editor I'm quite happy with this set program supplied on the Workbench up. which is a collection of bits Extras disk. and pieces I’ve collected over the Remember that if using the Workbench years. And by the way, the line of 3.0 Icon Editor that it sometimes goes icons which appears in several of bonkers and saves a large outline around the images is produced by the your images. If this happens, your only ToolsManager program. This pro recourse is to use the Workbench 2 editor, or vides you w ith an easy way of a third party program such as Iconian (avail leaving programs out on the able from the usual Public Domain libraries Workbench: especially handy if /shareware outlets). you have a hard drive. As with all the programs mentioned here, 2.Tools keep a look out for it on-line or The .info file stores the graphical data, but it fro m your library. also has a secondary purpose: storing tool types. If you examine an .info file using the W a l l p a p e r Information option from the Workbench Something else you should watch (highlight the icon and press Right-Amiga-I) out for is the Wallpaper collection. you might see a list of tool types associated There are hundreds of well drawn w ith the icon. This method is used to cus textures for you to tile as a badk- tomise programs: for example, you might drop pattern. They range from the want the program to use certain screen usual mottled shades or grey to colours or certain keyboard shortcuts. pictures of that girl from Twin If the program has been written to look at Peaks who everyone apparently the tool types then these can be changed to fancied a while back. These pat reflect your own purposes. The stack size is terns are widely available so try sometimes set from within the .info file as 'em out. None are quite so tacky well - the stack is the amount of memory as 'Sexybench' which includes which a program is allocated. Problems can several, in my opinion, very poor arise if you simply replace one icon with Manga-style cartoon drawings of another: you might overwrite the .info data the female form. Not the sort of and lose all these settings. If you are chang thing you want on your Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMing icons, remember to look at the tool and Workbench when our Lisa walks stack settings first. The install program with in to the o ffic e ... ■ ▲ This is the dome picture which comes with Newfcees. lestead of shading, the icees are M a g icW B and N e w lco ns w ill try and retain all John Kennedy a mere OS/2 style coieered image. They may be a little aa the large site H yea dea’t here a these settings and therefore there shouldn't Bicker-free large screen mode. be any problem s. 3. Disk and memory usage All the new icons are considerably more detailed than the standard icons and so use up more space. For the best visual effect you can run your Workbench with more colours than you are used to (8 or 161. This will use up more chip memory than normal which can lead to problems on unexpanded systems. If you are running totally from floppy, you'll have to think carefully about using an icon replacement scheme as it will slow things down ever so slightly and use more memory. Beat the system N e w lco ns works slightly different in that it virtually re-writes the way the icon system works. It adds some programs to your start up sequence and alters the system to display the new images. It sounds a bit extreme, but it has the advantage of fixing the short-com- ings with the Workbench palette system. Have a look at the example pictures and if you decide you like what you see, either get the file from the Aminet or local BBS or PD library. The newer versions of M a g icW B also includes some 'active' parts, specifically some programs to make sure the palette is organised sensibly. As you can see from the a My tm *«>..«, . M . dm. „ , a , a . - , a. r. m-,« . a . tad,™.- TiU, II imm a . | images, the end result IS very snazzy. Gian's Causeway aad go back ta good old marble MakeSoundlab four sample tracks sound like fourteen, with some cunning mixing tricks. ace it. fou r tracks are strain on the Amiga than playing there w ill be parts where the bass tracks, is combining basslines or never enough. Even the bass drum - after all, they are drum sounds w ith the high hat, riffs with your breakbeats. the most minimal both just sound waves. You can but another place where the bass This sounds complicated at compositions easily use this fact to your advantage, to drum sounds with the high hat and first, as you would need two iden © can eat twice as many make your Amiga sound as if it’s the snare drum. In this case, you'll tically pitched loops in order for sample channels, so how on earth playing far more samples than it need to make tw o n e w samples. them to match up, but you don't are you going to compete with actually is. However, although it might actually need two loops, just the professional 32-track productions? seem obvious to combine the breakbeat and a single bass or With a bit of ingenuity and some Mixing sam ples bass drum, high hat and snare synth sample. clever tricks, that's how. The basic trick to learn is sample drum for the second sound, you The trick is to make use of The first time you laid down a mixing. Drum patterns can often could leave out the high hat with your sample editor s pitch change drum pattern using a tracker like be squeezed onto a single track out making any noticeable differ or re-sample feature, and mix re OctaMED or ProTracker. you proba by mixing the right samples ence. Certain sounds use similar pitched copies of the synth or bly put the bass drum in one track, together. Before you get started, frequencies, and so mask each bass sound into the breakbeat the cymbals in another and used it's a good idea to make up a new other out. as is often the case Using two tracks, lay down the up the remaining tw o channels set o f sam ples fro m your stan with snare drums and high hats. breakbeat and your bassline or with snare and assorted percussion dard drum sounds. Load up the Each time you combine sample riff. Once you've got this running, arrangements In an ideal world or basics, say a bass drum, a couple waves, you lose a little of the defi jot down the order and pitch of an expensive studio, that wouldn't of high hat cymbals, a snare nition from both sounds, as they the notes in your bassline. Use be a problem, but it is in this case, drum, a crash cymbal and a hand both have to share the same your sample editor to make re as that's just taken care of your clap. Using all four tracks, build space. Reducing the am ount of pitched copies of the bass sound Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMentire sound output capacity, up the kind o f rhythm you're after. mixing will help keep the fidelity for each different note in the Although the Amiga can play Now look at the block, and see of each individual sound. bassline. This is so that you can no more than four internal sam where two or more samples are Depending on the sample edi m ix these sam ples into the brea«- ples at once, it doesn't mean that played at the same time. These tor you use. your mixed samples beat sample it can only play four sounds at are the samples that you'll need may come out at half the volume Now set the block playing, an once. As far as the computer is to m ix.. of the original waves. Check for call up the breakbeat sample wir concerned, it makes no difference Keeping your original samples this, and if they need boosting, dow. A s th e sam ple is played, whether each sample is a record intact, copy the waves into blank amplify them accordingly. Usually you’ll see a scan line running ing o f a single bass drum , o r an sam ple w in d o w s and use the a 200% volume boost will get through it. This tells you which entire orchestra Replaying the sample editor's 'mix' function to them back up to their original vol part of the sample is being orchestra sample puts no greater combine them. It's likely that ume. Once you've got a string of played. Listen for the notes of the combined drum sounds, save bassline. while you watch the them o u t fo r future use. sample scan line. It's likely that Now you can create a new the notes will sound as the scan block, and using the initial four line passes the peaks o f the track drum pattern as a guide, breakbeat wave. Watch to see you can recreate the rhythm on a where the scan line is on the single track with your new sam breakbeat wave for each note of ples. The only places you might the bassline. need to use two tracks would be Copy the first bassline sample when there's a sustained sound, and then move to the breakbeat such as crash symbol, which sample. Zoom right into the po*- overlaps with a following sound tion where the note occurs, high- In this case, you'll need to use an light the area, and click on 'mix' extra track. Now get the next bass sample into the copy buffer, and mix it B r e a k b e a t s into the next spot on the break Breakbeats, complete drum beat wave Repeat this hght aiong loops, are very effective at saving the breakbeat, until you've over tracks. A whole percussion laid the whole bassline. If necea- J arrangement can be contained in sary. boost the volum e o f the Use peaks as guides for a single sample, and if you want mixed sections. You now have to break away from the monoto drums and bassline on a single [ inserting re-pttdied notes ny of a continuous loop, you can track, leaving the remaining thiea always chop it up and rearrange for new sounds. ■ it. What can save yet more Tony Horgan 'P xcm iex T Jtact O xdex Please Send Cheques/PO s (made out to Premier Mail Order) or Access/Visa/(Switch + Issue No) & Expiry Date to: Dept: CU05 9-10 THE CAPRICORN CENTRE. CRANES FARM ROAD. BASILDON. ESSEX SS14 3JJ. Telephone orders: 01268-271172 Fax your order on: 01268-271173 Mon-Fri 9ant-7pm Sat&Sun 10am-Jpm. We are open 364 days a year I ; P&P and VAT included lor all UK orders. Please add per item C2 PSP lor Europe and C3.50 lor Ihe rest ol the world. Next day service available UK only At C4 00 per item Please note: Some titles may not be released at the time ol going to press. Most titles are despatched same day. but can take up to 28 days. ESOE Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Got something you want to say? Write it down and send it to CU Amiga Magazine, Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane, London EC1R 3AU. Home business Magazine' so why don’t you cover the Commodore PC I’ve got? I await your answer. LETTER OF THE MONTH I am a fanatical Amiga 1200 user, who original ly purchased my Amiga for its vast array of Paul Jenkins, Birmingham. O n t h e u p superb games. However, since reading maga I hnvn ii thiiiirful notn to /tdtl to tho zines such as yours. I have become more and Greetings!! You’ve been reading C U Amiga ongoing riohatn conctrninu tho more interested in the more 'serious' side of Magazine fo r a while have you? Well, i f you have futuro of tho Atni(|4i I work for of computing. An area which has particularly you should have realised by now that we’ve never Forto, 4i hitj hotol chain which him caught my eye is public domafn software, covered Commodore P C (except in news), in fact it’s rocontly now TV ay»tmn« which I use regularly. I now want to set up and been several years since they've even been made. in thoir Potthoufto*. Through thi* run my own PD library from home. I have all Looking at the fro n t cover o f this magazine you’ll aytjtom, Intolvuion. y o u cart m .cu** the equipment that I need already, so all I notice that the word Amiga is rather large, and the •ill your (fot4tiU on acroon ( i.o need now is some advice. I am concerned ‘C U ’ bit is rather small. This is because we're an hillin'), w/ikoup call* otc). T l i o r o '* n over the legal aspect of the business especial Amiga magazine, nothing else. The Commodore *tato-of>tho-4irt graphic* channol ly but I also need some general advice, on reference is because Commodore make the Amiga. (hopl/iying nil tlio«o facihtlo*. and contacts and ideas especially. I would be eter I f you want to keep reading the magazine, why not guo** what I «aw whon t l i o y c a u io nally grateful if you could help me out in this upgrade from your PC to an Amiga? to inatall tho *y*t«mi? Vo*, an venture, as I am looking forward to running a A m ig o 4 0 0 0 / 0 3 0 r u n n in g S c u ta . PD library of my own. Now thoro aro 01 forto Po*thou*i>* Where's the disk? in tho UK and tlioy aro all hnkod up Daniel Strangward, Berkshire. For a long lim e n o w I have thoroughly enjoyed Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMvia rnodorn to tho control offico all your coverdisks. They and the magazine whoro tho itrip tt aro uploadod to P D works on the basis that the author o f the soft have been a great source of enjoyment. I've tho unit*, hut oach hotol will ho ware releases his o r her program into the public only ever had problems with two of the uhlo to adapt *oftwaro to include domain. Whilst they generally retain the copyright coverdisks. The first one was replaced within thoir own topic* rolativo to tho (meaning you can't alter it) you can copy it and days w ith ou t a hitch. The second disk, D irector, hotol. W ho'* worriod nhout tho part pass it on, which is what P D firm s do. A s fo r Opus, (coverdisk 100) however, is causing me tho Amigo lia* to play in futuro sources o f good P D software, get hold o f the A pril great concern. I returned it approximately one tochnolotjy/ I cortainly ain't. issue o f CU Am iga Magazine. This contains a P D month ago but I still haven't received a reply or Finally, for tho pooplo who will Special showing some o f the best P D titles around replacement since. I rang DiskXpress and was novor got onough of 30 animation, and where you can get them. told that a replacement disk would be forward watch Rohoot, a cartoon *orio* ed to me but I have received nothing since. which i» shown on ITV on Tuo*day* May I appeal to your good offices to lend a little at 4.00 put A foreign affair weight to having a replacement disk forwarded Hello Amiga people. I live in France. The Amiga as speedily as possible? I have also checked Michaol fiarkhordar, Covontry is great. I have a problems with your the March issue for any news about what migl* coverdisks, though, because I don't speak be causing the delay but to no avail. •much English and your coverdisks are all in English. So. could you do tw o versions of the D Steele. Kent. coverdisks - one in French and one in English? There was a slight problem with this disk concern- Pierre M onto, Paris. ing individual Amigas that did not happen on any o f ou r test machines. However, i f you contact Sorry P ierre, no can do. T h e problem is that we DiskXpress they’l l now be able to supply you with couldn 't fit two versions o f the programs onto our a decompressed Directory Opus coverdisk which cover disks because the disks are always overflow w ill work on yo u r Amiga. ing with goodies an d there ju s t isn 't any more room unfortunately! Absolute pants In response to Jonathon Robbins' letter moan Tell me more! ing about Sensible World Ot Soccer (B ackchal Greetings from Birmingham. I've been buying March 95). I think he is talking absolute p a n ts' CU for more years than I care to remember. The improved goalkeepers add a new dimen However. I've only just recently noticed an sion to the game but can actually be beaten - alarming trend - you only seem to be covering by long distance shots, the odd clumsy deflec the Amiga. Commodore produced PCs. and tion and even the occasional normal effort. you're called 'Commodore User Amiga In my first attempt at a career I took BACKCHAT THC FAR SIDE By G ARY LARSON lei us cover m ount ou r own. However you could try calling Silica on 0181 309 1111 who did have some T E A M TALK P ro C a k s left in stock. You m ight be able to get Last month's video and a manual, as part of the complete package, fro m them. animation feature made a big impression on the CU Red alert Amiga Magazine team. The situation is becoming critical here in Portugal. I'm an A1200 owner with a 240Mb Or maybe they've just been HD. A s a loyal reader o f your magazine, I’m w rit watching too much TV ... ing to leave an important message: here in Portugal it's becoming very hard to find a place to buy hardware and software for the Amiga. If ALAN DYKES we want Amiga software, the only way to get it Alan was busy getting ready for his trip to is to import it from other countries. Even some New York this month. His preparations stores that had the Am iga, n o w don't have it. consisted of developing a streetwise Now York accent to help him cope if ho mas The reason? Most people don’t know the Amiga into any trouble. This has involved spend and the ones that do think it's only a games ing the month studying Robert Do Niro's Taiidriver aad at every available opportu machine. The Amiga is being crushed by the nity staring at himself ia the mirror, other computers. Don't let the Amiga die. snarling ‘ you lookin' at me paek? R'YOU LOOKING AT ME?‘ Luis Santos, Portugal. USA COLUNS "Say- —It's only a paper moon." Torquay Utd lo the top ot the premier in tin 's beta gening teejg U assume tbe Pop videos ihrone ol power. once more, so she's successive seasons, knocking out top teams in Thanks for your anim ation feature in the April ■ipped dowi the local vid shop aid ruled cup competition and never had problems with out Catherine the Great'. The only prob issue. It convinced my older brother to get a lem is she heeps coming into work with needing two defenders to clean up at the back. second hand Amiga 1200 with an accelerator, her lace covered in white talcim powder My only grumble is that the computer RAM expansion and a hard drive, instead of the aid it's frightening the hell o il of is. Still it's a good way of getting the copy io - teams are a bit too predictable as they try to PC he was saving for. He's been asked to make we re all teo (Tightened to move away get the ball back to the middle of the pitch all a video for his mate’s band, but until now horn our desks » case she beheads as. the time. Also the computer team's players hadn't been able to afford all the kit. Now he's never get injured and taken off as yours can; got a brilliant set up for a really good price, and and there is no African Nations Cup. It's still the video's looking good so far. ANDY LEANING great though, so Jonny Robbins, get some The best bit is that now I get to play Sensi body's taken the whole Internet thing talent, Sensi rules the world (when I’m World o f Soccer, Cannon Fodder 2 and Super too far this month, he really has. Ha watched a rerun al that film where two Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMin control), Skidmarks, and I can also mess around with lads hack into a computer and create O ctaMED when he’s not using it! I thought I thair ideal woman, Kelly le Broc. Now Giggsy of the South West, Torquay. he's convinced that the global highway was going to have to wait another six months can da the sama for him. AH that playing before he saved up and I got to play all those aboat with Cindy Crawford's statistics ia games every talks about at school! Thanks. DataStor (reviewed March SS)has gone Even more ProCalc A to his ... er head (!?). I am new to the Amiga 1200, having just Alistair Dean, Norwich. upgraded from the Commodore 64. Because of TOIMY HORGAN the differences in the two machines I am find Tony Horgan, still researching how ta ing it d ifficult to get to grips w ith . For example, Green with envy become a top DJ has been watching re I have been following your tutorial on ProCalc I have seen many advertisements for ‘green’ runs ol Top 01 Tbe Pops from the seven ties and is now refasiag ta speak English. (Coverdisk 94, November 1994) and while the PCs. which are kinder to the environment, and Instead be will oely attar hip phrases program is exactly what I want, being a novice, this seem s like a load o f rubbish to me. H ow trom the radio one catalogue, interlaced I am finding it hard to get on with. Will you be can something made of plastic, metal and sili with modern techno babble. It's driving os mad. "Want a cap of tea, Tony” now publishing a manual for the program? con be environmentally friendly? Still, it’s all elicits the reply: "The Life man. It's Deep comparative I suppose: some will be better And It’s Real, aad it s all lor charidee!” C.R Weston, Kent. than others. Which brings me to the Amiga. GoldDisk, who originally published the program, Surely Commodore could advertise the fact no longer have any manuals and were unw illing lo that not only are their machines cheaper but HELEN DANBY also more environmentally friendly. They use The Oanby design machine has decided to less plastic and metal, smaller motherboards pat her nice, shy aad retiring girty image to rest Fed up having to swallow buckets and less power than any of their crappy com ol coffee to koop her awake through the petitors, so come on, sell the benefits. night as a result of lata copy, she’s decid ■ n p r h i * ed to adopt a rather... e r... firmer approach. After seeing T2 she's started •m t o VM aitf IF Touctiem. Seamus Googe, Dublin shouting things like "the world is going to end, aad you're all goiag to dam unless yon got year !@$@!% act together!" E r, we don't mean to be negative here, an d we're sure you've researched this properly, but since Commodore have not produced an Amiga fo r at JOHN KENNEDY least a ye a r now an d haven 7 advertised one fo r Still preparing for his own wedding, John even longer, the message is unlikely to get across. has been singing things like Tm getting (f&L* 5 married ia the morning' (ason though ha isn't gaita) aad watching Four Weddings Funeral. His Hugh Grant image isn't No letter helped by this particular photo- though and tbe foueral will be You sent us an em pty envelope, sealed, w ith a s unless we change it soon. Perhaps A ProCalc - one ol the best s first class stamp. Mr John Cawley of Glasgow. wo coaid pat a photograph of tbe happy interest rates. coaple ia instead. We ll see. MATCH SCORES MONTH 1 The following are the full results of all matches played in the 14 rounds of month one of the Sensible Soccer Fancy League. Use these figures to findd out how many goals were scored against your goalkeeper and defenders. Remember, if your goalie's team AJAX 5 GALATASARAY.. RANGERS 1 RIVER PLATE I concedes no goals you get a +4 BAYERN MUNICH 4 LIVERPOOL 3 bonus, if any of your midfielder’s BLACKBURN 2 FC PORTO 1 teams have a clean sheet you get a MAMEIODI SUNOOWN I TOTTENHAM 3 ATliTICO MIMEIRO 0 SAMPDORIA 1: + 3 bonus. MAN UTD 2 ARSENAL 2 NEWCASTLE 1 REAL MADRIO 1 AC MILAN 1 PARIS ST GERMAIN 1 NEGUYA GREMPUS 1 JUVENTUS 2 R o u n d 5 LAZIO 1 BARCELONA 1 LIVERPOOL I AJAX B BAYERN MUNICH 3 GALATASARAY 2 FC PORTO B RANGERS B BLACKBURN ROVERS B RIVER PLATE 1 R o u n d 2 ARSENAL 2 MAMELODI SUNDOWN 2 AJAX 3 RANGERS 1 MANCHESTER UNITED 3 TOTTENHAM 1 GALATASARAY 1 RIVER PLATE 1 You've phoned or posted your entries by now, and REAL MADRID B ATLETICO MINEIRO 1 BAYERN MUNICH 0 BLACKBURN 1 NEWCASTLE 1 SAMPDORIA 1 you've probably told all your mates how brilliant FC PORTO 2 UVERP0010 AC MILAN B BARCELONA 1 MAMELODI SUNDOWN 1 ATLITICO MIMEIRO 2 PARIS ST.GERMAIN 4 NEGUYA GREMPAS 1 your team is. But Sensi has a way of being TOTTENHAM 1 SAMPDORIA 3 JUVENTUS 1 LAZIO 1 unpredictable, especially in the clammy hands of MANCHESTER UNITED 1 NEWCASTLE B ARSENAL • REAL MADRID 1 jaded EMAP journalists. Here are the results of the MILAN 5 NEGUYA GREMPAS 1 R o u n d 6 PARIS ST.GERMAIN 1 LAZIO 1 BLACKBURN D AJAX 1 matches and the goal scorers for each team. JUVENTUS 2 BARCELONA 1 FC PORTO 2 6ALATASARAY 1 RANGERS 3 BAYERN 1 RIVER PLATE 4 LIVERPOOL 3 JON HARE'S TEAM NEWCASTLE B MAMELODI SUNDOWN B R o u n d 3 TOTTENHAM S AC MILANA Just how sensible was Jon Hare's choice? RIVER PLATE 0 AJAX 4 ATliTICO MINEIRO 1 PARIS ST.6ERMAIN 1 GALATASARAY 2 RANGERS 4 Name Position Code Value Goals SAMPDORIA S NEGUYA GREMPAS 2 FC PORTO 1 BAYERN MUNICH MANCHESTER UTD 2 JUVENTUSD BLACKBURN 1 LIVERPOOL 1 LAZIO 1 ARSENAL 1 m t3M SAMPDORIA 2 MAMELODI SUNDOWN 0 REAL MADRID 2 BARCELONA 3 TOTTENHAM 0 ATLETICO MINEIRO B REAL MADRID 1 MANCHESTER UNITED 3 ARSENAL 2 NEWCASTLE 1 R o u n d 7 JUVENTUS 1 AC MILAN 0 AJAXO FC PORTO 0 BARCELONA 3 PARIS ST GERMAIN 1 GALATASARAY 2 BLACKBURN 0 NEGUYA GREMPAS 1 LAZIO 4 RANGERS 2 LIVERPOOL 1 RIVER PtATE B BAYERN MUNICH 1 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMMAMELODI SUNDOWN 1 REAL MADRIO 2 PARIS ST.GERMAIN 2 TOTTENHAM 2 R o u n d 4 ATLETICO MINEIRO 2 AC MILAN B BAYERN MUNICH B AJAX 1 SAMPDORIA 3 JUVENTUS 2 GALATASARAY 1 LIVERPOOL 1 NEGUYA 6REMPAS B MANCHESTER UNITED 1 Thirty points! Luis Henrique in goal. Dave McPherson in defence and RANGERS 2 BLACKBURN B BARCELONA 1 ARSENAL 3 FC PORTO 1 Sergio Araujo are the stars of the show, while Paolo Negro did well: RIVER PLATE 1 NEWCASTLE! LAZIO 3 he would have had a negative score but for his goal. Both Miguel MAMELODI B MAN UTD 1 TOTTENHAM 1 ARSENAL 1 and Vladimir Jugovic are strong in midfield but might have per ATLITICO MINEIRO 1 NEWCASTLE 1 R o u n d 8 formed better considering they were both bought for around the SAMPDORIA 1 REAL MADRID B AJAX 2 MAMELODI SUNOOWN 2 £2M mark. And just what does Stig Inge Bjornebye think he is up to? LAZIO 1 AC MILAN B GALATASARAY 1 TOTTENHAM 3 PARIS ST.GERMAIN 3 JUVENTUS 2 RANGERS 0 ATLETICO MINEIRO B 7-0 to AC Milan against Liverpool? Pull your socks up boyo! BARCELONA 3 NEGUYA GREMPAS B RIVER PLATE 1 SAMPDORIA 3 BAYERN MUNICH 1 MANCHESTER 1 LIVERPOOL B AC MILAN 7 BLACKBURN 2 PARIS ST.GERMAIN 2 HOW TO ADD UP YOUR SCORE FC PORTO 1 NEGUYA GREMPAS 0 Iw oM ly tw ii loom a w ain |tiinlad ill llio M ail'll find A |ifil ieoiiao of CU A m iijfi M aua/ino m ill ARSENAL 2 JUVENTUS 1 Ilio O lio I in Am iijn (iam en. m ill yi»U should have thonau plnynic from Al loos! six III llioin BARCELONA 3 NEWCASTLE B REAL MADRIO 2 LAZIO 4 W o w on 'I ||‘* *»llo «*'»V m m o dolail filim il I i o w Ilio loom a w oio fitiiuod heiaiine Ilio im npoli- lion o n liy dale lino now panned an you « on'l ontoi any m iiio I'oil i Is oio nddod o i de dnrtad hy IIOIII "d ing ill* u****ln hi a ino h It, ni o iittu AUAlnal Ilio u|>|»na R o u n d 9 TOTTENHAM 2 AJAX 1 Intj loom oiid lo lliiiu III U "»IB fl'B follow inu lint w ill lo ll you |un» linw Ihol w m hn fo i oo« ll |iloyoi MAMELODI SUNDOWN 2 GALATASARAY 2 • CiOAl HI I |*| HR (Ci) GiVO ym im elf fo u r p o i n t n ( • 4 ) i f V©UI nolei.tod u»<*lkoo|ioi lion kept o SAMPDORIA B RANGERS B ATLETICO MINEIRO 4 RIVER PLATE 2 i loon nliool (io, lio n m il lol in any u«>«lo hi o uam o) l>oihn:l lino |ioinl f t ) for ovoiy uuol BAYERN MUNICH 1 ARSENAL 2 ho lion lol in LIVERPOOL 2 PARIS ST.GERMAIN B • I>1 I I NDI HR (l>) Dofondom io i oivo loin pointn ( • 4) fm ovoiy goal llioy nniro om l lh»0o AC MILAN 2 BLACKBURN B LAZIO 2 FC PORTO 1 im inln (• .1) for oyoiy i loon nhool llio y koop lluw ovoi llio y Inno OIK* |»Olllt ( I) fo i ovoiy MANCHESTER UTD B BARCELONA B Until llio ii loam i.m u odon NEGUYA GREMPAS 1 NEWCASTLE 3 • M IDI II I D l HR (M ) M idfioldom nim o four |ininln ( i 4) f o i ovo iy ipud *»»«’¥ JUVENTUS D REAL MADRID 1 • A l fA G K I HR (A) A lta i kom ioi oivo lliio o puiuln ( ' I) foi ovoiy goal «hoy im ho R o u n d 1 0 fu w in k m il yum nveioll loom innnaum neut n« m o odd up Ilio pointn lln tl ym u fo u l d o f o m l AJAX 3 ATLETICO MINEIRO 3 om. fo il! m idfioldom and tWO attaikem liovo gained hy ni uiiuu hi U»o fim l m m ilh'n lohlo of GALATASARAY B SAMPDORIA 2 U'*ol m m om on Ilio uppunilo |iA||A IIio ii odd lo lliin Ilio om oim l of oloou nhool nhool m m on RANGERS 2 MAMEIODI SUNDOWN fl RIVER PLATE 2 TOTTENHAM 1 yo ili goal liaopoi om l dofondom liovo hod fina lly a ilil up oil Ilio goaln llia l liovo hoon NEWCASTLE B BAYERN MUNICH B oi m od agaiunt ooi h of ym u dofondom om l ym u gualkoepei “ "•* ouhlioi I lldn lulo l 1*010 NEGUYA GREMPAS 4 LIVERPOOL 2 ym u piovim in puinln m m o lulol You now liovo youi ovoiall m om BLACKBURN B JUVENTUS2 FC PORTO 1 BARCELONA 2 An on exam ple DUO Im w Rounihlo R uflw oia m m oi nupiom o Jon llam n loom wm kod m il LAZIO 1 MANCHESTER UNITEI1 lo lu tl Ihin nt.-ming nynlom in Ilio Im x olm vo ARSENAL 1 AC MILAN B REAL MADRID 1 PARIS ST.GERMAIN 1 R o u n d 1 1 R o u n d 1 2 R o u n d 1 3 R o u n d 1 4 SAMPOORIA « AJAX 3 MANCHESTER UTD 1 AJAX 1 AJAX 1 ARSENAL 1 NEWCASTLE 2 AJAX 4 AIliTICO UINEIRO ] GALATASAAAT 1 CALATASARAT 1 ARSENAL 2 MANCHESTER U T II GALATASAAAT 1 REAL MADRID 5 GALATASARAY 3 TOTTENHAM 2 RANGERS 1 NEWCASTLE 2 RANGERS 3 RANGERS 3 REAL MAORI! 1 AC MILAN 1 RANGERS 2 UAUELOOI SUN DO UN I RIVER PLATE 1 RIAL MADRIO 1 RIVER PLATE 1 RIVER PLATE R NEWCASTLE 1 PARIS ST GERMAIN 4 RIVER PLATE 3 BATERN MUNICH 2 REAL MADRID 1 IATERN MUNICH 1 MAMELODI SUNDOWN 1 TOTTENHAM 1 BAYERN MUNICH 1 NEGUYA GREMPAS 1 BATERN MUNICH 3 UYERPOOl 1 LAZIO 3 JUVENTUS 1 UYERPOOl 1 UYERPOOl 1 BARCELONA A UYERPOOl2 MAME100I SUNDOWN 3 BARCELONA 1 BLACKBURN S BLACKBURN 1 NEGUYA GREMPAS 1 BLACKBURN 0 LAZIO 2 BLACKBURN 1 MANCHESTER UTD 2 AC MILAN B FC PORTO 2 FC PORTO 1 PARIS ST GERMAIN 0 FC PORTO 2 JUVENTUS 2 ARSENAL 3 FC PORTO 2 PARIS ST GERMAIN 1 MANCHESTER UTD 1 LAZIO 1 TOTTENHAM 1 MAMELOOI SUNDOWN 0 AC MILAN • JUVENTUS 2 TOTTENHAM • ARSENAL 7 NEGUYA GREMPAS 3 BARCELONA 1 ATLETICO MINIIRO 1 NEGUYA GREMPAS T ATLETICO MINIIRO A ATLETICO MINEIRO 3 LAZIO 3 JUVENTUS 1 NEWCASTLE S AC MILAN 1 SAMPDORIA • PARIS ST.GERMAiN 2 SAMPDORIA 5 SAMPOORIA 1 BARCLLONA 1 GOALS SCORED MONTH 1 Paal Gatctigae M 1121 7 Patrick Celtetar • 1716 1 The following figures relate to the total amount of goals scored by Roberta Di Mattee M 1121 1 Daaiel Bravo M 1721 1 Gr.SMpeS.9Mn A 113B 6 Paal la Gaea M 1727 2 each player in all 14 rounds played this month. Use this to calculate Atealaksk A 1131 7 Yiacaat Gaaria M 1721 2 the plus points for defenders, midfielders and strikers. Oand Giaala M 1728 8 UYERPOOL (EBGUUB) Vatea 1728 1 resmoa coot mo or 1 •812 • ■ . Band James 6 1211 • Gaarya Weak A \ 1731 7 GBAiS • 1814 1 RabJaaM 1212 AC MILAN (ITALY) H •628 2 I • Nedladdach I 1213 • Raagers (Scattead) Sebastian Retsr 6 B1BI • H •828 1 Philabb 0 1214 • Aady Garam G IN I • Chnsttaa faaacci D BI 12 • M •827 1 Jaka Scales D 1216 1 Dave McPkersaa • 1112 • Freece Rami D B in 1 M 1828 1 St>| laf . Bferabre D 1211 1 Alaa Mclaree • 1113 1 N n u r t i Cosucart. 0 1114 1 M 1821 2 Stan McMaaaaiaa M 1227 • Basil* Bali B 1114 1 Peele Maldiai 0 •111 1 A •831 3 JnMolby M 1221 1 Band Robertso. D 1116 • Roberto Doaadoai M 0128 1 A •631 7 Jaka Baraas M 1221 1 Craig Moere M 1121 3 Oametno Albert,., M B127 1 Robbie Fowler A 1231 6 Smart McCall M 1127 1 Marcel Desadly M 1121 3 BLACKBURN ROVERS (ENGLAND;INO) Alaa Rash A 1231 18 Plater Haistra M 1121 • Giaelergi leatiai M 1121 4 Tim flower* G 1781 • Briaa Laadrap M 1128 8 Dejan Sawcevic A •131 5 Heaaiag Bet j D •712 1 MAMELOOI SUNDOWN (SOUTH AFRICA) Ally McCeist A 1131 3 AIMSaadn Mali A •131 1 TeayGate 1 1713 • Crai| le Graage G 1311 1 MarkNateley A 1131 • Code Headry • 1714 • Samad Kamhale D 1312 • AJAX (HOLLAND • 1718 1 Jakaaaas Madaa • 1313 • REAL MAORIS (SPAM) Edana Vaa N r Sar G B2B1 • M 1721 • lathy Mated • 1314 1 Fraacoca Bay* 6 IN I 8 Mickad laiiigar B •212 I M •727 • Jm s Magatego • 1316 1 (M m B 1812 • BanyBlted D 1213 • M •721 1 Eraast CNirarak M 1321 1 Rateal Atearta D 1I1S 8 freak Be Baer B 1214 • M •721 • lahkteMtripa M 1327 1 M ig ^U sa B 1814 1 MGaarga M B22S 1 A 1731 • MatM Hand M 1321 • Mckat M 1821 1 ftaab Rqkaard M 8221 2 A •731 6 Zaae Mass M 1328 2 Feraaada ladaada M 1826 • Edgar Dadds M •227 • U nm an Ckdaayi A 1338 6 Feraaada Hierra M 1827 1 Jan Utaaaaa M 1221 2 FC PORTO (PORTUGAL) BaaMtt bUsragt A 1331 2 Mickaal Laadrap M 1821 2 Marc Bnraian M 1221 4 G •111 • Rated Martia Vaigau M 1828 4 Patrick Kteivart A 1231 1 1 M12 1 MANCHESTER UNITED (ENGLAND Jase Emilia Aauvisca A 1838 6 RaaaM la Baer A •231 11 B •113 1 Patar Schme.chel G 1411 1 Ivaa Zamwaao A 1831 • • •114 • Paal Parbar 0 1412 • ARSENAL (ENGLAND) 0 •116 1 Stave Brace 0 1413 1 RIVER PLATE (ARGENTINA) Dand Seaaaa G •311 • M 1826 2 Gary Fillister D 1414 1 Laaaarda Agairre G 2881 • Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMLaaOiioe D •312 1 M •827 1 Deaais Irwia D 1416 1 Ricardo Altamiraaa 0 2812 8 Steve BaaM D •313 • M 1828 2 Aadrai Kiachelskis M 1421 1 Guillermo RivaraU 2813 8 Taay Adams D 1314 1 M M 2t 2 0 Pad lace M 1427 1 Roberta Clerico D 2814 8 B 1318 • A •831 2 BayKeaa. M 1428 1 •teg. Caeca • 2818 8 Baridhfter M •328 1 A •831 4 *-*•** M 1428 4 laaaarda Astrada M 2821 8 Jake Jeasea M 1327 • Erie Caataaa A 1431 1 Jaka Ter esam M 2827 8 Sttpkea Sctam M 1321 1 CAIAIASAIAY. (TVHEY) Mart Hagkes A 1431 1 Bart M 2821 1 Pad Manaa M 1321 3 G •M l I lamaa Medtea Bale A 2138 2 Rada Campkafl A 1331 1 • M l 2 • NEGUYA GNEMPAS (JAPAN) Ateyaadrt Araada A 2838 1 laa Wrifkt A •331 7 • M13 I ftcb Haveaaar 6 1M1 • Waltar Sinai A 2831 8 • M14 • Taskiysbi Ktsag • 1112 1 ATLETICO MINEIIO (IRAZll) B M i l 2 Garca 0 1613 1 SAMPDORIA (ITALY) Lais Heankee 6 M il • M M 2I • Tesbrbisi lljaaia • 1814 • Waltar Zaaga 6 2181 8 M n D •412 I M M27 1 Hrsataki Fajihawi D 1616 1 Manaa Maaniai D 2812 • Nets D •413 • M 0121 • M 1628 1 Riccarda Ferri D 2813 8 Paale laberto 0 •414 1 A 1831 1 Mabata Yeaakara M 1627 0 Pietro Vierchawod D 2814 AH.sa.dro 0 •415 1 A 1831 « • llivaltaa M 1621 3 Sinisa Mihajlavic D 2815 3 VaMir M 0426 2 A •831 1 Tetsaya Nahanishi M 1628 1 Attiha Lombardo M 2828 2 Cristave M •427 1 Gary bather A 1631 1 Vladimir Jagavic M 2127 1 Cartes M •421 3 Shifoo Sawairi A 1631 1 •avid Plan M 2121 4 Teaaaba PttTtira M 1421 2 GINI 1 Albenge Evaai M 2128 1 Raaatea A •431 3 • 1112 • NEWCASTLE UNITED (ENGLAND) Raad Gaftt A 2831 SariteAraaia A •231 IB • 1113 1 1 Pavel Srakah 1 1M1 • Rakerts Maaciai A 2831 1 I 1114 • Mart Hangar 1 1112 • BARCELONA (SPAM) • 1116 • •ante Peacock 1 1113 • TOTTENHAM MTSPM (ENGLAND Cartes t e M 6 •M l • Aagak Bi livte M 1128 1 Ptekppa Albert B 1114 • laa Wafttr 6 2281 • AftartFarm B •812 • M 1827 • Jaka Bensterd 0 1616 • •and Karstekt 2212 1 DaaaU Katmaa B •813 • M 1121 1 • RaalFH M 1626 2 Kma Scett D 2213 1 AkalarHe Fer Maker B •814 1 M 1128 • Barry VeaisM M 1627 2 Sd Campbell D 2214 8 GaHtema Amat M •52 S 4 A 1131 6 Rabert lee M 1621 1 Jastm Ediabargh D 2211 • Migael Aagel Nadal M 1826 1 A 1131 1 ScattSalten M 1621 1 Darrea Aadertae M 2221 1 Jasef GaatdioU M •827 2 Peter Beardsley A 1631 I GbeargNe Papesci M 2227 Jasa Maria Bafcars M •821 3 • Aady Cole A 1131 1 Jasaa Doirdl M 2228 4 Sergi Barju.n M 0521 2 G 1111 • Hit Damitresca M 2221 8 Hrnto Staichkov A •831 7 • 1112 1 Paris St-Genaiia (France) Jargaa Klinsmaan A 2238 8 Romano A 1831 8 • 1113 1 B.r.ard lama G 1711 • Teddy Sheriagham A 2231 4 1 1114 1 Joss Cabas 1 1712 • • 1116 3 Alaia Rack# B 1713 1 •M l M 1121 3 Next Month Ricard. Gomes 1 1714 • M l 2 M 1127 • ANbaaab Ika resalts d tka maaaaar d tke maatb sdactea an aat yat kaawa. am i aahfcsh the* cm aad base d tka «te 54 a iaagon bam *m mattes m m m d tea aar « ■ W elds, bn - ynibe resdts dfta teal 14 mads d mattkev aa apdatc aa Jaa Nan s te a aad ! M r £ r . . g T * a POINTS OF VIEW doesn't have to do anything clever. The only changes the SysOp has to make is to include an HTML option for the menu screens he has on-line. There are problems to over come of course. The Internet was originally designed on the principle that connection was never a problem: machines were on-line permanently. If you have ever seen a really fast Internet link running a program such as M osaic, you'll know what a really smart tool it is. and how trying to Bulletins use it with a 14,400 or 28,800 W ide W eb system on modem link is really a bit of a the Internet. It's brilliant joke. M osaic, and most Usenet — click here, click news readers and E-mail sys there, colour graphics, tems. are all geared for on-line has some < / % sound, animation. It's use: there is no off-line option the way comms should for the reason that the origina be: not som e archaic tors were always on-line 100% of system of ANSI charac the time. Besides, the W o rld ter sets. The W orid W ide W eb works because all the W ide W eb works other systems are on-line and f t 1 ; ' ) because the pages of there is so much information to inform ation which choose from that trying to make make up the text and an off-line system is ludicrous. pictures you see are all Unfortunately, in the UK the based on special majority of modem users know ulletin Boards are bor embedded codes called HTML. It's that every second they spend on ing. Before you rush to a brilliantly simply system: you just line costs them money: and as my the end of this rant to used codes like this to telephone bills will testify, it's not find m y E-mail address make changes to the text style. cheap if you have to use it a lot. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMOand toast me with a You w a n t a picture? Easy, add What we need are new tools, flame, please hear me out. I don't something like this I 2-3 Days £ 2 . 5 0 S atu rd ay £ 10 .0 0 44a/b Stanley St Bedford M M ^fceliveries are subject to stock availability Tel 01234 273000 Fax 01234 3522*' r o " up to 7 days for cheques to clear T E L E P H O N E 0 1234 273000 CASES ■ EO DAC 18-BIT ■ The A 1200 Tower comes complete w ith 3 x Video Dac 18-bit is a graphics card Medium Ret: 320 x 256 PAL 5.25’ drive bays. 5 x 3.5" drive bays, real time which allows the Amiga to display 320 x 200 NTSC 262.144 colours simultaneously. 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Available for all formats Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM ProDraw 3 Marketed by H orn 0 1 4 3 8 &t.:> playable Virgin. Future* Available to- «. Salvo. menj scher K.-WO Over 50.000 «rd ddtxvary « 4 ■ •0018. and images Woditortfh 2 A 3 irechree Oder code GFC5-2 games. CO s. wdoos «K Code CTG5-3. of the home computer user. Boards are dull and tedious by def This is all possible thanks to the M osaic isn't enough, and a nor inition and are used by dull and ‘Client/Server' systems. The client mal BBS is too limited and down tedious people w ith a tenuous program runs on your computer, right difficult to use. grasp of true social interaction. Far the server runs on the remote sys So we have to capitalise on from it, my local board has given tem. Rather than just display text the facilities we do have. The lat me a great deal of enjoyment sent from the server system, the est modems, the V34 28,800 thanks to the FidoNet system client acts intelligently and can dis modems are far from ISDN links, where I've met and chatted with play graphics or sounds, or move but they are probably as fast as other comms enthusiasts from all icons and w in d ow s around the we can expect to get down a over the world. And they were not screen. For example, the server telephone line and they are get dull, tedious or socially inadequate. might transmit the code '< b > ' and ting cheaper. So is off-line stor instead o f displaying the letter 'B' a ge - the oth e r day I g ot a SCSI Too difficult? the client executes a routine that 21 Gigabyte drive for less than I Bulletin Boards are boring because changes the font into bold style. spent on a drive of only a third o f they are based on ancient technol that capacity a year ago. ogy. The firs t boards were slow, The answ er? We've got fast processors, text-only systems, where users Recently I've been working on a and great graphics. In theory we had to register, log in, then pick system called Balloo which tries have a terrific platform on which options from on-screen menus by to take the HTML standard and to run a stunning client system. selecting the right keypresses. hammers it into a form that What can we do about it? Once into the system, they could Bulletin Boards can use. The The Balloo project is a start I look through message and file problem is not with the B8S Host know there are systems such as areas, struggle with options and Software, but with a suitable RIP out there, but I feel they are maybe get to download stuff. client. To this end I've been cod probably not the direction in And what has changed since ing a new form of comms termi which we should be moving. If those first boards? Practically noth nal for the Amiga. It looks like you think you would like to help ing. I recently watched an intelli any other, except when text from or have any comments please The opinions expressed in this article gent computer literate adult use a the BBS host arrives in HTML for get in touch with me either b y are not necessarily those held by CU BBS for the first time. He was mat. it is rendered properly. This post through the magazine or w a : Am iga Magazine. If you hold an stuck within minutes. This is the includes graphics and buttons electronic mail. ■ opinion on the Internet or any other problem. Comms is too damn diffi that the user can click on: click Am iga related topic then Email us at cult. It's a crazy situation. Look at ing on a button simply returns a E-mail: [email protected] CUAMIGA@ cix.compulink.co.uk. or key-press, so the host system FidoNet:_2:443/13.4 the one@ cix.compulink.co.uk. the Mosaic browser for the W orld N e x t D a y £S .O O POWER COMPUTING .