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• Amiga News 6 • Amiga & Video 28 Grant our news hound gives us an Paul our video guru shows us how to update on program updates. add those nifty closing titles to video.

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Personally, it is my belief that the The PC dominates the market Perhaps a new cutting edge chicken came before the egg. place, not because it meets a Amiga to rival the PC, eg the You may argue to the contrary, but need by creating a better system, A/box. This would work as long as such a debate holds no value but because it has created the its not too different from our because we have both the need by forcing the PC owner to beloved Amiga. chicken and the egg. If you constantly replace their system. remove one of the elements from Quickly turn to page 29 and have The Amiga could be refine even this equation an entire poultry a look at the comic. Incompadsion further by enhancing the current industry would fall into disarray - to our A500 owner, a PC owner system, better graphics, sound, worse more, your bacon would be would have replaced their system etc, eg Viscorp strategy for the lonely on a Sunday morning. The four times. A1200 & A4000. This one is Amiga market exists within such a closer to the mark. scenario. Let's have a closer look at the lack of need in Amiga onwers. We In today's commercial You have most likely heard the use a host of programs in environment a product's level of saying 'necessity is the mother of preparing AAG; one of which is success relies greatly on how well invention". In 1985 someone needed Dpaint 4. Why not version 5 ? No it is promoted. It doesn't matter if a computer that was easy to use, need, version 4 does everything you sell the world's best multitasked, had good graphics, we need. Let's say I own an A500 corkscrew Ktel could sell more stereo sound and great games. with Workbench 1.2 and would solely because of its promotion. So the Amiga was created. like to upgrade the operating As we all know Commodore never system to the latest version. Do I promoted Amiga as it should have The need was met and the crowd have to replace my computer? No and expected the system to rejoiced. The problem was that need. promote itself. , on the the designers of the Amiga were other hand, created such a driven by inspiration to build the This lack of need by Amiga demand (a need) for its world's most advanced home owners to upgrade is part of the Windows95 package that people computer and the accountants reason why the machine has been were lining up outside Harvey were not allowed to help. orphaned for so long (a company Norman's at midnight to buy it. A will not invest in a product if a few of these people didn't even The Amiga is unique in that it consumer need is not recognised) own a computer. doesn't have built-in redundancy- and why it has endured in the it was not designed to become wilderness (my Amiga continues No matter who owns the Amiga in obsolete after a given period of to do all I require- I see no need the future if a need for people to time. The result is that many to change). buy it is not generated the Amiga people who bought a A500. will remain a shadow of its former A2000 etc. wayback then, are still I have heard many opinions as to glory. happily using it to play games, what would have to take place to draw pictures, write letters, etc germinate a need within the and it continues to meet their Amiga community. needs.

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Upgrades from Cinema4D 2.1 to imminent release of 's bitmap and vector-based 3.0 are available. Contact your PowerPC accelerators. Haage graphics. All vector objects can be favourite Amiga dealer for price and Partner also claim that the filled with a colour, a gradient, a and availability of these packages. port of StormC to pOS will be pattern or a bitmap. Graham and complete within the few weeks. Andy Dean of ImageStudio fame HiSoft may contacted at: are the developers. +44-(0)-1525-718181 ArtEffect has also undergone a Haage & Partner are also reputed [email protected] significant update with the release to be working on a new Word- of ArtEffect 1.5. ArtEffect is a processing package which will 24bit paint and effects package to certainly add an interesting twist , HAAGE & PARTNERS RELEASES rival PhotoShop. The latest to the Wordworth/FinalWriter German developers Haage and release includes HAMS support duopoly. At the time of press, no Partner GmbH have quickly for AGA which lacks a distributors have been announced established themselves as one of graphics card. The previous for Australia and New Zealand. the most significant Amiga release, although working in 24bit developers in the post- previewed images were only in Demo versions and patches of Commodore era, and their 8bit (256 colour) on AGA Amigas. StormC 2,0, ArtEffect 1.5 and commitment to the Amiga and its Due to the modular design of DrawStudio 1.1 are available on future were demonstrated by two ArtEffect, a number of plug-ins the home page of Haage & ground-breaking releases in 1996, have been incorporated into the Partner. StormC++ and ArtEffect. Now latest release: MotionBlur, Tile, http://ourworld,COMpuServe.com/ Haage and Partner have not only MakeTile (this module creates a homepagesMaage_Partner just released significant updates tile that can be used with the to these programs, but they have module tile to create an endless Haage&Partner can be contacted on: also released a new structured texture), and ScanQuix (this Phone: +49 - 6007 - 930050, drawing program, DrawStudio, module calls the external scanner Fax: +49 - 6007 - 7543 which is reputed to be one of the software ScanQuix if it is installed [email protected] best structured drawing programs on your computer). on any platform by those who have seen it. Two modular extension packages AQCVid AMIGA CAMERA for ArtEffect have also been ADAPTER RELEASED StormC++, the award winning 68k released, AE PowerEffects and Omnilink Corporation have made C/C++ compiler for the Amiga, AE SuperView. AE PowerEffects their first expedition into the has gone to version 2. StormC adds new effects like PageCurl, Amiga market with the release in now includes a new Profiler which Wave, Wobble, Ripple, Polar, December of the AQCVid, a makes speed optimization easier. Warp, ObjectMorph, Smear, Blur, hardware and software interface A second editor has also been Prism, Alien, Shift and which allows Amiga users to included in the package, the Lightchange. AE SuperView connect and use the Connectix shareware editor, GoldED 4.0. incorporates 32 new loaders and Corporation's PC QuickCam(tm) StormC also now includes savers including PhotoCD, IFF- digital camera. hierarchical projects, external ILBM, IFF-ACBM, IFF-YUVN, IFF- ARexx control, persistent break DEEP, IFF-PBM, PCX, GIF The AQCVid is a points, disassembler, CPU 87a/89a, QRT/POV Raytrace, adaptor for the PC version of register display and stack BMP (Windows, OS/2), JPEG QuickCam. Power is supplied by checking. (JFIF v6), TIFF, PNG, PNM (PBM, the Amiga and there are no PGM, PPM), IMG, WPG, MacPaint, modifications needed to be made Haage and Partner are also C64, and PostScript(TM). to the host Amiga or the working on StormC for the QuickCam. PowerPC and for pOS (see our DrawStudio 1.1 is a new feature article). The PowerPC port structured drawing program for is currently at the beta stage the Amiga. DrawStudio allows for although it should be ready for the the sophisticated combination of

8 s¢acaSaal6a.c risen gaSett6 7e197 At present, the AQCVid supports Omnilink also invites developers COMMODORE BORN AGAIN several file formats (JPEG, IFF, interested in supporting the Like a door to door evangelist it ANIM and CDXL animation AQCVid for their software and seems that the old chicken-head formats, AVI, MPEG and hardware Amiga applications, as logo refuses to go away. AAG has Datatypes) and may be used in a well as interested Amiga users, to received an unconfirmed report number of applications such as contact them at: that the Commodore brand name desktop publishing, games, [email protected] and logo has been acquired by multimedia, Internet (home pages, the Dutch division of . etc.), image processing, family Sales or ordering information digital picture albums, video- please send Email to: Apparently, despite the collapse conferencing, etc. The AQCVid [email protected] of Escom last year, the Dutch also incorporates an ARexx division survived the break-up and Commodity whereby the Other enquiries may be addressed is now trading under the QuickCam may be controlled by to Vance Schowalter on'. Commodore name and logo. other applications. viking @freenet. edmon ton. ab. ca Although the Amiga is no longer associated with the old chicken- Omnilink intends to add support QUIKPAK ANNOUNCES NEW head logo, it is nonetheless for other QuickCams and support AMIGAS INFORMATION interesting to see what has is tentatively planned for a more COURTESY OF STEVE COLLINS. happened to a once great name recent QuickCam model which Quikpak, the Leading contendors in the computer industry. Why has a resolution of up to 640x480 for the Amiga certainly appear to anybody would want it now, in 24bit colour. At present AQCVid be living up to their slogan, 'Now however, is anyone's guess, supports only the greyscale things are happening with the although I suppose that I wouldn't QuickCams. Onmilink also hopes Amiga" for in December 1996 they want the Escom name either. to incorporate l6bit audio announced the release of two new sampling and playback support Amiga models. for l6bit Amiga audio expansion WE'RE THREE!!! cards. Also planned is an The A5050 is a 4000 tower with a Hooray for us, we're three! After a ImageFX module which will allow Pentium CPU card, Zorro, PCI, short but difficult birth, things here direct control of the QuickCam and ISA slots. A button controls at AAG are finally beginning to through ImageFX. Omnilink is the switching from the Amiga to run smoothly. Thanks to the committed to supporting future the PC side. The model displayed support and encouragement from developments and advances in at a recent AmigaFest you, our readers and fellow the Amiga hardware, including incorporated a LCD monitor Amigans we plan to unveil a new models. which flips out of the side of the number of improvements over the tower. coming months. The AQCVid works with all ECS/AGA Amigas, and includes The second model is the A4060L, If you have Amiga-related news CyberGraphX support. AQCVid a luggable 4000 with an attached contact Grant Regan at requires 1MB chip RAM or LCD monitor, keyboard and [email protected] greater, AmigaOS 3.x and a hard- powered by an 060 processor. drive. Omnilink state that support From the pictures we've seen the for 2.1 is forthcoming. A4060L appears to be marginally smaller than an desk-top A4000 At the time of press no distributor minus the monitor of course. for the Australiasian region had been announced. Vance No announcement has been Schowalter, Director of Sales at made about the price or Omnilink told AAG that interested availability of these models in parties should contact him. Until Australia and New Zealand. such time as a distributor is Contact your local Amiga dealer announced, Omnilink are happy regarding price and availability. to take direct orders and Quikpak may be contacted at:: enquiries. [email protected] [email protected] dasd'eaeta« ,loaga. 9ayetae 7etf9 7 9 Image FX 2.6 Review by Darren Robertson and Grant Regan

Ever since its release in 1992 running out of memory. Comparing the price to power ImageFX has consistently grown Fortunately, ImageFX comes with ratio with similar packages on and developed to become the a life-saving and very quick Virtual other platforms, ImageFX 2.6 is a Amiga's premiere image Memory handler to turn your hard- real bargain. ImageFX processing package. ImageFX drive into much-needed RAM. incorporates the power to modify began as a product of that once and manipulate images for just illustrious Amiga developer, GVP Incidentally, although AGA is fine, about any purpose: printing, (). Sadly, in when using ImageFX you really publishing, art, video, animation, 1995, the uncertainty and decline begin to crave for a graphics card web-design, anything that in the Amiga market forced GVP (Donations anyone?). Lucky requires serious image to dose their doors. (Later, the Darren is the proud owner of a manipulation power. GVP name and hardware CyberVision equipped development were purchased by A4000T/060 which has ONLY ImageFX also comes with two Power Computing of England and 140MB of RAM and copious batch processors, IMP and M-TEC of Germany who now quantities of Virtual RAM drive AutoFX for the automated continue the product line). space (and no, he's not going to processing of multiple images. ImageFX and Cinemorph were donate it you - I've already These can be launched salvaged by the development asked). Of course, ImageFX runs separately to ImageFX, or team, headed by Kermit Woodall like a dream on this little baby. internally through 'Hooks' who founded Nova Design Inc. modules (scripts). AutoFX creates INSTALLATION processing scripts without having 'PUTA STUFF!! ImageFX comes on 5 double to be familiar with AREXX. Unfortunately, for those Amigans density disks. Installation is a long running anything less than a 4MB but straight forward process and Just as a point of interest, Darren machine, ImageFX is not for you. utilises a variant of Commodore's has discovered that ImageFX can Nova Design claim that ImageFX Standard Installer routine. Once handle images to a maximum of will work on any Amiga with installed, ImageFX consumes 32,768 by 32,768 pixels AmigaOS 2.04 or higher, 2MB of approximately 6 to 7MB of your (providing you have the memory). memory and 7MB of hard-drive hard-drive. ImageFX allows you ImageFX also provides internal space. Yes, ImageFX will run, but to install versions of the program software-based MPEG 1 who wants to spend just under which directly address a variety of encoding and playback. This is $400 Australian dollars on a graphics cards including of course impressive stuff indeed and a system kludge? For less powerful the Picasso, the Retina, and the testament to the power of Amigas I would recommend a CyberVision cards among others. ImageFX. combination of Photogenics 2 and Support for CyberGraphX has Personal Paint 7: both excellent been substantially improved under INTERFACE and powerful packages in their version 2.6. Upon loading the main ImageFX own right. program the user is presented Recently we have seen more with an interface not too dissimilar ImageFX is a powerful resource Amiga software released with CD- to that employed by the paint hungry package. Therefore, my ROM versions. Nova Design package Brilliance. A small, clean recommended minimum should certainly consider this as innocuous bank of buttons and requirements would be AmigaOS an optional release for Image FX. gadgets sit at the bottom of the 3.0, 6MB of RAM, AGA (or screen. To the left are the Load, equivalent) and at least a 68030. WHAT DOES IT DO? Save, Preference, and Quit With the price of RAM so low at Maybe this question should be buttons, and a distinctive status the moment my advice is to avail rephrased: what doesn't ImageFX indicator which informs the user of yourselves of the fortuitous do? ImageFX may have a price the progress of a any process circumstances. Even with my just shy of 400 dollars but with A4000/040 which has 10MB of ImageFX you get of lot of image RAM I find myself occasionally processing power for your money.

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complete the drawing. Again Some Conventions press the 'n' key and rename the cylinder TOP RING. The cylinder Commence drawing object - ONE LMB Click and let go you have drawn needs to be only Complete drawing object - ONE LMB Click and let go about 1/4 inch (5mm approx. for the modernists amongst us) thick Cancel drawing an object - RMB click so LMB click in the top left Menu Access - RMB window (top view) to activate it and press the key. Don't' forget to save all your projects as you go along and use PROJECTS/ANIMATIONS/SAVE even though it may not be an 'FIX A POINT' will now appear in animation. If yousave as an object, you won't get any colours or the menu bar and this is to set the materials you may haveattached, just the object itself. sizing point for stretching the object. LMB in the centre of the Hierarchical directory type structure allows larger objects to top line of the cylinder, hold down becomposed of many smaller ones - think of it akin to the drawers the Right Amiga key (RA) which on Workbench. limits the mouse movement to vertical only, and shrink the front view of the cylinder until it is about 1/4 inch thick .Now press the Amiga owners these days are I have been using 3d renders fo key, LMB click and move the TOP more likely to have accelerated video work for some five years RING down until it is central in the machines even if this is only a now on machines from a humble window. standard RAM expansion (which A500 to my current A1200 030 is capable of around doubling the FPU ( and hopefully in 1997 - an Press the key to create a copy speed of an out of the box A/BOX - what a machine eh!) and (TOP RING1) and rename this machine) but even so, I have the hardest part of an animation is CUTTER. You won't be able to limited myself to describing in the original idea. Once you see this object straight away as it operations which are not have your idea, you will be able to is directly over the first object - particularly complex. The reason find a way to carry it out - honest! leave it there for the moment. for this is rendering time. If you With CUTTER selected have an 030 or greater, you will Right, down to brass tacks. (highlighted in white in the be able to carry out the routines selection window bottom right) far more quickly than a standard LMB click on the button OBJ - press the 'g' key again, LMB click Amiga can but I also have to bear press the 'n' key and rename the in the centre of the top line exactly in mind that not everyone can wait 'obi as RINGS. Click on the as you did last time and stretch 36 hours or so for a 180 frame CYLINDER tool (second row the second object until it is twice animation to render. So, if you are down - fourth from left), LMB click the proud owner of an 060 you in the centre of the top view will be able to add more detail to window (bottom left window) and the following project. Let your draw what appears to be a circle mind run riot! so that it's size nearly fills the IWP window. LMB click again to

~ ,4acturltaa >inter* t9aselle ÿeô97 as thick as the first and LMB click show you a ring instead of the RINGS object to change the to complete and position the rings cylinder. colour of both TOP and BOTTOM RINGS at the same time) using a Now LMB click in the top view Return to the editor, activate the different colour. window (bottom left) and you front view, press 'a' key, LMB click need to find the exact centre of on the top right hand corner of the Re-render to make sure your the top view of the cylinder (a tip TOP RING, move your cursor to colours have been accepted. here is to follow the grid line left the left hand side of the ring, LMB Now, in the editor window, go to across from the top of the cylinder click again and move the left hand the PROJECT/ANIMATION/SIZE until it meets the grid line which side of the TOP RING upwards to and in the requester, enter 50 goes down and touches the left an angle of about 45 degrees. frames and click OK. hand side, click and hold down the LMB at this grid 'corner' and Having got the ring into the Without selecting an operation, drag a box to just cover the correct position, if we copy ('c' LMB dick and hold down to draw cylinder. When you let go the LMB key) the first ring, rename it a box around the top view of the a little cross will appear and be in BOTTOM RING we can now RINGS just touching the sides the exact centre of the cylinder). position this one easily by which will place the little cross in pressing the 'h' key the exact centre. In the select Press the 's' key (to size) and (HIERARCHY/MIRROR) and window, make sure RINGS is LMB click on the little cross in the drawing a line horizontally just selected and using the menu, centre of the cylinder to select the touching the bottom RH corner of select sizing point - now LMB click again the ring (use the R ALT key to limit PROJECT/ANIMATION/ROTATION and holding down the R ALT key movement) and when you click and in the resulting requester (limits mouse movement to your mouse button to complete accept the defaults by clicking horizontal) and size the second the line, the BOTTOM RING will OK. After a short pause, the cylinder until it is slightly smaller be a mirror image of the TOP screen should refresh leaving it than the first one (about 5mm RING. looking exactly as before. again) and LMB dick again. If you wish to re-render again to Press the SHIFT key and 'P' Make sure the CUTTER is check, please do so at any time which will animate the objects on selected and go to the (its up to you - you're in charge!). the edit window. You can also see MODIFY/OPERATIONS menu this on the wireframe screen by and select AND NOT - then LMB LMB click on the title bar of the clicking PLAY. It doesn't look click on TOP RING in the select select window to go back to the much in either the edit or window and click OK. This will root and LMB click OBJ. Rename wireframe screens but will look use the selected object object as BASE, select and draw totally different when rendered as (CUTTER) as a tool to cut another a rectangle in the top view window an animation. Stand by to be object in this case the TOP RING. so that it completely covers the amazed! Make sure the cutter is selected rings. Check for position in the top and press the 'd' key which will and side views (the bottom of the Move to the Render screen and delete the CUTTER - select menu BOTTOM RING should just be sat select LAMPLESS - de-select item on it) and should it require SINGLE by LMB clicking on the EXTRAS/REPRESENTATION/ moving press the 'm' key and button and at the top right, LMB RETHINK which will re-draw the move to the required position. click by the side of the words objects on screen and remove NAME root to place a cursor. most of the CUTTER. For a fairly simple result, make Delete the word root and replace sure the rectangle is selected, it with a complete path name to If you wish to see what has press the 'f' key and select a where you would like to save the happened, go to Wireframe, use colour from the PALETTE menu. animation the positioner block to move the When you have your selected object for a view which shows colour, LMB click in any view other than a side view, LMB click window to accept it. REC and go to the render screen. Leave all the settings as they are Select the RINGS and do the and click render. This should same with these (you can use the flacsm4lt4a rioters g4fette ?ea 7 23 just use them to make the quit Delta Convert otherwise the animation. conversion is not complete and you won't be able to find your Then in the next requester, enter animation to load into a player. the full pathname of the pictures as saved from Real 3d but without That's it for this time, folks - the frame number at the end. You perhaps in the near future I will will be then asked for the first show you the easy way to tackle picture number which should be orbits for animation and how to zero and then the last picture make more complex objects at the number being 49. After you have click of a couple of left mouse entered the last number the buttons (or even two clicks on the software will begin to convert all SAME mouse button). the pictures into Anim5 format for replay in DPaint or Scala etc. Geoff Milnes. Once complete, click on ALL Huddersfield - England. 18th DONE in the requester (not OK January 1997. otherwise it will start to convert e-mail again) and you can view your geoff animation in all it's glory. http://www.geemil.demon.co.uk

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24 s¢uetaaltaac >BNctga. Gfayetta 7e697 plot fly-bys or drive-throughs of a wants to show their support for a Just to show how involved in the VistaPro landscape. GeoMorph is long standing Amiga developer, it computer industry Clint is, Clint another tool for VistaPro that might be an Idea to send a short and one of his brothers formed allows the user to project and message to Clint to encourage VRLI. I have also noticed that analyse Land form changes, and him to keep producing great another brother does the Web erosion effects on the landscape. software for the Amiga. For Mastering for the Chaocity site. Terraform is a visual DEM file people who have never used editor. DEM stands for Digital VistaPro, have a look at the Clint also plans to complete an Elevation Mapping. It was Aminet CDs or Aminet Site-these upgrade for Distant Suns some originally devised by the US contain some fantastic rendered time into the future. I know a few Government for storing Satellite scenery. The price for new people who have used it on both landscape Imagery. It uses colour purchasers of the CD set is PC and Amiga and say that it is to show changes in altitude. approximately $180US, which is great. It's probably as good at Terraform allows you to paint in a less than what I paid for VistaPiro stars as VistaPro is at pseudo 3D, X and Y being the 3 four years ago. It also includes landscapes. As I don't plan to limits of the file and the Z being the extremely powerful add-ons at travel to the stars I have never the intensity of the colour. no extra charge. really looked at the program. VistaPro 3 is available now in the GeoForge sounds more along my Another program that Clint has same sort of configuration, so buy line of thinking, World Domination been writing for a while now is that now and upgrade in 2-4 all to myself and I don't have to GeoForge. This will be a grand months. The biggest advantages answer to anyone about the way it daddy of a utility for VistaPro. It is for VistaPro 4 are for people with looks. a Planetary Fractal editor and 24bit Graphic cards as there will designer-basically the Genesis be direct support for most of them. I haven't heard of a confirmed project from Star Trek on your The other new features that are in month for Geoforge to be Amiga. VistaPro 4 are reflective water released. It is a way off yet, but surfaces on lakes, stratified cliffs maybe with some e-mail sent to Clint has given me a rough and some improved clouds and him, Clint may find some more schedule and package details. trees, (with possibly new types of time in his Chaos. The upgrade kit for anyone with trees If he can come up with some As for the future, Clint will develop VistaPro or Vistalite is to VistaPro that look good). for the Power Amiga if he can 4 plus Makepath, TerraForm, afford one. He is waiting, just like GeoMorph and about 3500 One famous person who has the rest of us, to see what the landscape files. This will only cost been hooked on VistaPro for a future of Amiga will be. $39.95US for the floppy version long time now, is Arthur C Clarke. and $49.95US for the CD-Rom. He started out using VistaPro on a The expected arrival date for small Amiga and got hooked into VistaPro 4 has slipped back a the virtual realms he could create. couple of months due to financial A book that he is currently close juggling. It is still due before June. to completing is a science fiction Further information can be novel called the Greening of Mars. obtained by reading through the This whole storyline came from details on the Chaocity Web Arthur C Clarke deciding to see Pages. WWW.CHAOCITY.COM what the Mons Olympus DEM file (It contains sections for questions from VistaPro would look like in and answers, tech support and a blues and greens rather than the contact e-mail address). If anyone red dust of Mars. 4* rg ua.ttalCsc risers Oar-tee ?ass T 27 AMIGA and Y18KO PART 2 :q Peal ..:?elm,,,

Hello video makers and welcome EQUIPMENT FIRST BEFORE The best resolution to use for this to part 2 of AMIGA and VIDEO. YOU MAKE ANY CONNECTIONS purpose is HI-RES Interlace This month we will be putting a mode (if using D-Paint), but any title or graphic onto video tape. O.K first plug the video out resolution will do because all can You probably took videos of the on the AMIGA to the video in on be recorded to video tape. If you family and visitors during the your V.C.R. (called the composite are using D-Paint go into Anti- Christmas and New Year period- out jack on your AMIGA and Alaise mode for better results be- Ahh,... didn't we all (those of us video in on your V.C.R.).... Next cause it takes away the jagged with a video camera, that is). plug your monitor or television edges from the lettering into your V.C.R. (R.F. out or If you have ever looked at the aerial out for a television and By now you should have on your end titles of a movie on T.V. you video out to video in for a monitor.) TV. or Monitor screen, the screen will notice that the text is usually of your Paint program. If not, white on a black background. Now we'll get our paint or titling check the conections and make This is because it makes it easier program up and running, making sure they are firmly in position to read. even though it scrolls sure we can see the out-put of and make sure the signal is run- (moves across the screen), too the AMIGA on the television or ning the right way, as per Setup 1. fast or is too small to read the monitor; which ever is con- anyway. nected to the V.C.R. Let's make our title- first by selecting our font and letter The most common and most size...OK. A font size of 30 is widely used method of putting good because it allows us to read titles on video is to use the the text easily. The colour of the method below. It dosn't require text should be white on a black any special hardware or software background, or any light coloured to do this. The only thing you will text can be used, to add a bit of need is a good Paint package, colour to our screen and make eg: DPaint- any version will do. the title more pleasent for our au- Any other paint program can also dience to read. be of use for this exercise. WARNING TURN OFF ALL

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28 slaetealtaa „F4er¢tga Casette 9e4f97 In this exercise, let's write the to know how we created our title, Well everything looks fine, but are words do we?) The Pros don't tell us we going to have all our videos AUSTRALIAN AMIGA GAZETTE. how they make their's, do they? with just a title at the front of the (For D-Paint press F10). Now that movie? Why not have some titles I've slanted the words because of our title is the only thing we at the end, or, in the middle of our the size of the font. To make it all should be able to see on the out- production as well. It's only a fit on one line,we would have to put screen, be it monitor or TV, matter of creating a new title, and make the letters or font size you can now press record on the pressing the record and pause smaller, but then it makes it V.C.R. button on the V.C.R. harder for our audience to read. Record this segment for about ten That's all from me for this month. seconds then press pause; now Next issue we will be looking at playback the tape from your cam- connecting a Genlock to our set- corder or V.C.R. with your original up and mixing the title with live footage of your home video and video. TAKE 2 FELT W drectcr record for about one minute on A11.57H,ALLAN t7M/GA the out-put V.C.R. (The one your Bye for now, Paul. GAZETTE monitor or T.V. is connected to.) After one minute press stop, or The next step is to take away the pause on the record V.C.R., then border of our Paint program so press re-wind to review what we that there are no tool boxes on have just recorded to the tape. he screen with our tide, so that all Press play on the V.C.R. to play we're left with on screen is our back the sequence we just title. (We don't want our audience recorded.

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MaagicMenu also click the RMB anywhere and Programmed by: Martin OK now we've done it. The a verticle version of the menu will Kordorfer & Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel programmers of Magic Menu pop up under the mouse thus System Requirements: OS 2.0 must have heard our complaints. Saving a lot of mouse movement. or higher. What is Magic Menu, for those who missed our first issue, Magic So, what's new? It now is Fab WB Startup Plus Menu is a Workbench enhance- menu aware so if you are using This one is not just a WorkBench ment. Some Workbench enhan- (browse or any other program Patch, it is nearly essential. Ever cements are system friendly and that uses Fab menus, you can tried to boot your Amiga and it some of them are dangerous- now leave the pop up anywhere keeps crashing, you suspect it is this one can be classified as dan- menus are on. If you are pointing a commodity but there are so gerous as it modifies some of the to an object that Fab menu is many of them you don't know events that happen aware of it will take over from which one. You could keep when you use Workbench. When Magic Menu. If there is no rebooting with no startup and you hold down the Right Mouse special object under the mouse it move them out one by one. What Button the whole of Workbench will just call up the top menu and happens if you don't have a waits to see what you want to do put it under the mouse. 15khz capable monitor? next. Magic Menu can bypass The archive is now 170kb which Workbench Startup Plus is the some of this and allow updates includes an 020 version of the answer. As usual, it is simply a to continue while using the program and a prefs program. case of expanding the archive menu. This can cause some The prefs program can be called and double clicking on the install weird problems, so if your up at any time by pressing Icon and answer the two or system starts playing up, first dis- Control+Alt+Space. three questions and you're done. able Magic Menu. That said, I You can experiment with your What did it do? Well by default it have always found ways of keep- own prefs. One feature that is creates two new sub directories ing the system happy and still documented but not given due in your WBStartup drawer. One using Magic Menu. One of these credit is the CONTROL key. If for Enabled and one for ways is to allow blocking of you press CTRL after selecting a Disabled. The first thing you updates. menu it reverts back to work- should do is move Exchange You can now use your menus in bench two colour menu. If you from WBStartup (Enabled) to two new ways as well as having hold down CTRL before selecting WBStartup as this one some- colour and style in your menus. a menu, Magic Menu will hide times has a major spack attack. You can use the old fashion RMB itself. Interestingly, by pressing All other programs and com- at the top of the screen and the CTRL twice when trying to select modities work fine- in fact Power menus will drop down from the a Sub-Sub Menu you can get Packer Patch no longer has a top of the screen. You can past the hangup by then pressing software failure. access the menus at the top of the down arrow. Therefore, if You can use the prefs program the screen using only the key- your mouse is totaly stuffed you that was installed in your prefs board, but it doesn't seem to can use keyboard menus. drawer to switch on or off any work for sub-sub menus. You can program you want. All new

30 f4xat>uslta.c Amiga ga;ette 9e497 programs should be dropped into the installer script which as per of work with the shell. the enabled drawer. The prefs usual is easy to use. If you program will find it automatically. require help on any of the Programmed by: Pierre Now for the good bit. If your functions, there is a well Carrette & Sylvain Rougier machine has a wobbly hold, featured help file which Available From: Public Domain down the Left SHIFT key and all documents help on areas ranging or Aminet System WBStartup programs will be dis- from running Browserll, cus- Requirements: OS 3.0 or abled, (this is the standard on tomising Browserll's work en- higher. MAC's). If everything now works vironment and menu options. you could reboot and hold down Browserll is easy to use, how- PopPhone the Left ALT key- this will ask Yes ever I would strongly reccomend PopPhone is a simple program or No for each program whether that you read the manual as this which lets you create an address it should be allowed to start. If will document ways of per- book, PopPhone is installable you hold down the CTRL key it sonalising Browserll to work ac- onto your computer's hard disk will bring up the WBStartup cording to your personal tastes. via the standard Amiga installer. Prefs. You could get really smart Browserll operates on the There is a help system included and set up a group of programs Workbench screen, however if with the program, however I was that you know always work. Save you don't want to clutter your unable to get the guide file to them with a group name, and Workbench screen with a lot of load so I am unable to comment when you need to, select the open windows, you can have on this. This didn't cause too group after pressing CTRL when Browserll operate in its own en- much of a problem as PopPhone booting. You should have the vironment. Personally I don't is quite simple to use. I was able CTRL, ALT or SHIFT key mind having the windows on the to work out all the functions im- pressed just before WBStartup Workbench screen as with mediately. Once the program is Plus would run. This little pro- Browserll you eliminate the need executed using the icon, you will gram can make life so much to click on icons and open up be presented with a window that easier for people who like to ex- drawers to guide your way lets you enter data on your periment with new software. around the computer as this can friends or contacts. There are all be done using browserll, and several buttons that are avail- Programmed by: John in fact Browserll can be used as able each having a specific and Hughes Available From: a total replacement to the self-explanatory task. One of the Aminet System Requirements: Workbench. One excellent fea- features which first got my atten- OS 2.0 or higher. ture of Browserll is that it lets tion is the program's ability to you create a menu with short dial a number that is stored into Browserll cuts to commands that are the . This is done by Browserll is a multi-window file frequently used. For users of highlighting the number that you management utility, which unlike Arexx, Browserll will allow you to wish to dial and then clicking on other utilities of the same nature import your Arexx scripts. One the dial button. If you wish to dial is not limited to two scrolling lists, overall aspect of Browserll that a number that is not stored on but in-fact can have as much will be noticed almost im- the database, it is possible to scrolling lists open as you like. mediately is its speed. dial a number manually. Browserll can be best described Performing some tests, I found PopPhone is not an example of as combining version 4 of browserll to be faster than other programming masterpiece, how- Directory Opus and Workbench utilities. This combined with its ever I did find PopPhone to be a together. Throughout the easy use will make all your file useful program for storing windows Browserll's information management tasks faster and details, whether it be friends, status is quite in depth and will less demanding. clients or intemet addresses. let you view all information about Overall, Browserll is an excellent a file such as the size, date, file management utility which is Programmed by: Pierre time, protection, file type and worthy of replacing commercially Carrette & Sylvain Rougier comment. available packages. Browserll is System Requirements: OS 3.0 Browserll will install onto your a must have program especially or higher. computer's hard disk courtesy of for those users who still do a lot rPuatzalta,c Amer* gaSette 7a97 31 A Spouse'ss Perspective yoanna As the new school year Yes, that's right. Programme is So what is to be done? Well, in approaches, the excitement spelt p r o g r a m m e. However, my opinion, nothing. With the builds. I am to be a first-time since the age of the computer has information revolution and school mum. All the anxieties are heralded mass communication pressures on young people to surfacing. Will I be able to help trans-globally, one must accept perform well at school, digesting with my child's homework? Will that the English language will information and processing it into my child freak out if I am running change. Perhaps even for the useful material will take up most a few minutes late at pick up better. Being an old-fashioned of their time. There has to be time? Will my child make new career secretary has caused casualties. I think spelling and friends easily? But most of all ... some friction in our household in grammar are these casualties. is my child academically inclined? regard to spelling and punctuation (and oral reading skills). So, until next month mind your p's One aspect of my child's new However, I give in. Change is and q's. If anyone can tell me school is their belief in the inevitable and unstoppable. where the saying 'mind your p's traditional three R's. What and q's" comes from (by March bothers me about this is just that - Our English language is already 31, 1997), the first correctly drawn the R's. O.K., so there is Reading full of silly inconsistencies - so answer will win the game ... but Writing starts with "W" and why not change them? Who 'Vahalla & the fortress of Eve" Arithmetic (maths) starts with 'A". decides this? Well, for now, the courtesy of Vulcan Software U.K So much for the traditional, basic mass communicators are. building blocks of education. The (Newspaper and magazine teachers can't even spell! publishers, internet users of all levels and telecommunication Super computer guru husband giants) - in other words, the won't be involved here. Like Yanks. many of his computer colleagues (programmers, technicians, When I was young (I am now columnists and plain old intemet thirty-something), a gig was a rock junkies alike), spelling, grammer, concert. Now say the word 'gig" punctuation and reading fiction is and most people will assume you about as relevant to them as the are talking about a hard drive. truth is to the daily tabloids. It's Mister (abbreviated to Mr.) is now nice, but not necessary. 'Mr" as the post office sorting computer does not like '."s Don't be so harsh you say! I am everywhere. We have changed " not the first one to notice that avid our punctuation to fit in with computer users are usually very computers. Programme is now Please address letters to poor spellers. 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Directory Opus is the most REQUIREMENTS capabilities of DOpus with the famous and widely used utility on DOpus 5.5 requires at least 2MB functionality of Workbench and the Amiga: and it's Australian. of RAM and nearly 3MB of hard- Intuition. However, the installer Directory Opus has always been drive space (a far cry from earlier provides a number of installation regarded as: 'The most powerful versions of DOpus). AmigaOS 2.0 options. file management solution on the or better is required. The ideal Amiga", or on any platform for that system should have a 68020 or I tested a number of these matter. For many Amigans (myself better, at least 4MB of RAM and installation formats: as an included) Directory Opus has AmigaOS 3.1. DOpus 5.5 is not upgrade to DOpus 5.11, as a proven to be an indispensable suitable for floppy-based systems. complete installation from scratch, addition to Workbench- once you For this reason, it is probably a as a Workbench replacement, and have used it, you'll wonder how good idea to keep a copy of as a separate file manager to be you ever lived without it. The DOpus 4 on disk as I once found launched from Workbench. latest incarnation is so powerful it essential for retrieving files that it actually sets out to replace during a freak event. As I was de- DOpus 5.5 utilises the perennial Workbench! (ragging a partition on my drive a Commodore Installer routine. If power failure occurred! With updating from a previous version THE CONCEPT BEHIND DOpus 4.6 I was able to salvage of DOpus 5, the installer provides DIRECTORY OPUS 5.5 most of the files to the other the option of backing up your old With the release of Directory partition. configuration files before Opus 5, many Amigans have upgrading. If you are upgrading been reluctant to upgrade. The shareware archive programs from version 4 of DOpus, it is Conceptually, Directory Opus 5.x LHA, and possibly LZX, ARC, and advisable to manually back up is a significant departure from the ZOO (although the latter two are your configuration files and delete linear approach of other file rarely used nowadays) are DOpus 4 before installing the managers and of DirectoryOpus required if you want to perform file latest version. DOpus 5.5 accepts 4.x. Instead of one source and archiving and extraction through version 4 configuration files for one destination window, Directory DOpus as these are not supplied. the environment, options, buttons, Opus 5 and above provides a true To see if you have them, go into menus, drives, file-types, and mulititasking, multithreaded file your 'C' directory in your hotkeys (yes, hotkeys are back!). manager which allows for multiple Workbench partition. These However, as DOpus 5.5 is far source and destination file- programs are readily available more configurable than DOpus 4 I windows (known as listers in from all good Public Domain recommend that you avoid the DOpus). For those Amigans suppliers and from Aminet. temptation of importing old comfortable with DOpus 4, the configuration, or if you must then approach taken by DOpus 5.5 DOpus 5.5 was tested on my do it as a temporary measure until may take some getting used to. A4000 which has a 25mhz 68040 you have become accustomed to Some Amigans however, may processor, 2MB of Chip RAM and the new interface. Otherwise, you never approve of the new 8MB of Fast RAM. may not be getting the most out of approach. In the end it's all a this program. matter of personal preference. INSTALLATION However, in terms of features, Clearly, DOpus 5.5 was When installing as a Workbench configurability. and the power developed with the express replacement, DOpus 5.5 replaces achievable through the new purpose of being a complete the original 'LOADWB' command interface. I have no hesitation in Workbench replacement. It has in the 'C' directory with a new one stating that DOpus5.5 is a vastly been designed to seamlessly and backs up you old command superior package to DOpus 4. merge the file managing as 'LOADWB_old'. Therefore, it is

34 ffaatrsaltax Jatga C9a;ette 9r447 quite easy to revert to Workbench used to. DOpus 5.5 integrates the able to view remote picture files and, if you want to access intuitive concepts of Workbench and play MOD files as if they were Workbench directly this may be with the file-managing power of located on my hard-drivel done by holding down the shift DOpus. DOpus' configurability, its key during booting. intuitiveness, and its features are The power of this FTP module an improvement over Workbench. and of DOpus is demonstrated by THE MANUAL Moreover, unlike the previous the following example. I have The manual supplied with DOpus releases of version 5, your configured DOpus to extract LHA 5.5 is a vast improvement over Workbench configurations are not files to the destination lister when the pathetic booklet supplied with overridden by DOpus 5.5. dragging the file from the source DOpus 5. The previous manual lister. I was able to do exactly the went into lavish detail describing One of the features which gives same thing with the FTP module. the features and the the user increased functionality LHA files on the remote server configurability of the new version and power are the new pop-up were extracted to a destination on without ever fully explaining how 'sticky menus. These enable the my hard-drive simply by dragging these features could be user to set the properties to an and dropping! The FTP module implemented. The latest manual icon, file or lister with a simple allows for the integration of has been almost completely re- right-mouse button click. For Workbench, of file-manager and written and it shows. The new example, it is possible to snapshot of remote server. Impressive stuff manual now includes a large the selected object, alter its indeed! section on configuring and properties, or extract an archived optimising DOpus and handy tips file to a destination through these DOpus5.5 also incorporates a and pointers are listed throughout. menus. The pop-up menus differ scripts feature. Essentially this according to the type of icon allows you to execute a DOpus also includes extensive (tools, project, disk, trashcan etc) predetermined function or AmigaGuide help support which is or window. command when a event or action activated by the 'HELP' key. However, these pop-up menus do is performed. For instance, you conflict with the Magic Menus can create a script which will WORKBENCH REPLACEMENT? commodity. If you are using a two display the contents of a disk in a The first version of DOpus 5 with button mouse it is advisable to lister when it is inserted, or you its ability to display multiple disable the pop-up menu function can have DOpus play a sound file source and destination listers and in Magic Menus as this conflicts when you select a lister's close its internally multitasking, object with the 'sticky' menus. Otherwise gadget or if you click on an icon. orientated, modular design; its set the 'sticky menus for the DOpus5.5 allow allows the user to Amiga-style compliant intuitive middle mouse button or remove it attach Arexx, AmigaDOS, approach; and its comprehensive from your WBStartup completely. Workbench, or internal Opus drag and drop facilities commands to a script function. introduced the concept of DOpus Also new to DOpus 5.5 is the as a Workbench replacement. incorporation of an FTP (File With the release of DOpus 5, and However, I was never really Transfer Protocol) module. This the cessation of a publishing comfortable in running DOpus 5 feature blows me away by this contract with the now defunct and 5.11 as a Workbench feature. If you have your own Inovatronics (alas!), Jon Potter replacement. internet account or if you have and GP Software lost the rights to access to one, the FTP module the routines and libraries that With DOpus 5.5 I am more allows the user to open a lister DOpus 4 incorporated to support confident in running it as a window to the remote FTP server a large array of sound and image complete Workbench as if it was simply a directory on file-types. Lacking these routines replacement, although - the your hard-drive. Connecting to DOpus 5 internally supported little approach stills takes some getting Livewire mirror of Aminet I was more than ASCII, IFF (BSVX and

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ILBM), and Datatypes. Internal file Icon Modes list files and CONCLUSION support was replaced with support directories as icons in a similar DOpus 5.5 is a considerable for external players and viewers. fashion to Workbench. The update and this review has only For many users of DOpus 4 this problem is that for file- touched upon its many new lack of internal support was a management and manipulation features. Some Amigans may backward step. nothing beats a file-manager and never feel at home with DOpus 5 hence for this purpose I tend to or find simply too powerful for DOpus5.5 attempts to get around use the Name Mode. However, their needs. For them there is this problem with the inclusion of when launching programs, file- DiskMagic, DirWork, DOpus 4 and an Automatic Filetype Creator. managers tend to be clumsy and a vast array of public domain and This system attempts to create time-consuming. Therefore, for shareware file-managers. But for usable filetypes for files that this function I tend to flick over to a file-manager which does DOpus fails to recognise. Still, the the Icon Mode or Icon Action everything except make a pot of results are often limited and for Mode. Of course you can leave tea, you must choose Directory the novice user the Automatic the icons for your favourite Opus 5.5. Maybe GP Software Filetype Creator can be confusing programs 'out' on the screen or will incorporate that function into and frustrating. incorporate them into toolbars but the next version? this tends to create a cluttered ALMOST PERFECT... mess especially on low resolution DOpus costs $129 and $69 to DOpus 5.5 is a powerful screens. Maybe GP Software upgrade from version 5. Workbench replacement (and a should consider including an powerful file-manager otherwise) option which displays thumbnail Thanks to Paul David for and yet I wouldn't go so far as to icons next to the file name listings supplying the review copy. claim that DOpus 5.5 'seamlessly' in the next update. integrates the concept of file manager with a Workbench GUI. My other concerns are that DOpus 5.5 tends to devour 200K The fundamental problem is that a more Chip RAM than Workbench file-manager and a GUI such as itself on my machine. Moreover, Workbench serve entirely different DOpus 5.5 isn't entirely happy functions. For each lister, DOpus with Magic User Interface, as I 5.5 has a'Name Mode' and two found that the pop-up menu 'Icon Modes' (Icon and Icon window gadgets on MUI-based Actions Modes). The Name Mode programs don't work. You decide presents files and directories as a whether you can live with this. list as with any file manager. The

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Things and widgets. That's what selected mode and will possibly problem is a text file that wants to we will be explaining this month. display a slightly different Icon. load PPmore. This is a program Well not precisely, but that's what Now if you use your Right Mouse that is not part of Workbench and they appear to be to some people. button with the mouse pointer at is not used as much as it was. It is The widgets are those funny little the top of the Workbench Screen a substitue for Workbench MORE Icon Default tools and Tool types. a menu called Icons can be seen. text display program. Its If you move down the list to an Advantage was that it could read Have you ever double clicked on item called Information, a window a compressed text file. an Icon for a picture or text file, will appear telling you what the only to be abused by the system. system knows about the Icon. If So how do we tell the system It keeps asking for you to insert the Icon you have clicked on is a what it should use instead? In volume Dpaint. Or it tells you it is file you have created It will be your Project Icon's Information unable to find your tool called a project. window you will see a line that AmigaGuide. This action is con- trolled by the Icons Default Tool- it is a setting that tells the system which program created the file and where to automatically run the program when you want to use the file. This is excelllent when using you own files created on your own mdchine. You can click on any file you have created and the program will load and then load the file into itself ready for work. But when you get a file from someone else that you want to access, or even if you get says Default tool: next to this will something off the Aminet CD's or One of the more common be a program name. If it is a FTP site, these files could have problems is a text file or a help program it will just be been created using a program that won't open. For workbench AmigaGuide or something similar. you don't have. version 2 there was a If it is a picture from display program for help it will have a Volume name Using the Amiga means that most documentation called followed by a program name. For files will load into another program AmigaGuide. Its formatting was example Dpaint:Dpaint, or if it with similar features. So how do incorporated into MultiView in you tell the system to do this. Well Workbench 3. Any help file written it is a little tricky but you can't do for a Workbench 2 program will much harm trying. When you click insist on trying to load on an Icon once it goes into a AmigaGuide. Another common rluxtaalta.a rlelrtga ryantti 'Pen? 37 wants PPmore it might have If you get a picture that wants for simple hand drawn artwork. If C:PPmore. The C: is an automati- Dpaint, you can safely change you are going to change any of a cally reserved volume that is part Dpaint:dpaint to Multiview if you Tools tooltype setting I suggest of the Workbench volume. The are using Workbench version 3. If you read the manual to check that main thing to remember is that you are using Workbench 2 or what you are about to do is safe every Machine has a C: Volume less you should get a copy of a for your system, le: don't enable that stores all the Workbench program like Viewtek that will dis- Graphics card support if you don't Command Line tools. These are play pictures. For Viewtek you have one. Most Tooltypes that you the ones available in a NewShell should copy the file VT into the are allowed to use will possibly be window. For example Dir or Copy. WorkBench:c directory and then already typed into the tool types Not everyone has all the same set the Icon default tool to VT. box. Any tooltype that is sur- tools in this C: Volume but the How does the system know which rounded by brackets eg: (tool) is workbench ones are the same. If Volume VT is on? It doesn't at avalible but switched off. If the a program is asking for C:PPmore first, but when you don't specify a program has a help file or you can always change it to More. volume ie: C: the system has what AmigaGuide file this will be able as More is a standard program for is known as a path. This is a to explain all of the settings you Workbench. Once you have sequence of Volumes and can use in a program. In the replaced C:PPmore with More Directories that it should check in Brilliance there is about 60 click on the Save button. The Icon if a program is not found in the Tooltypes that can be set. They will now be double clickable, and directory you are currently in. It's control the size of the default will load the More program suc- just another way the Amiga saves screen, number of colours and the cessfully. on hassels. size of the Undo buffer. As you What is More I hear you ask? It is can see from the screen dump I just a simple text display program The Tool Types in a project should have not set any defaults yet. If I that can read any readme files be left alone as the program that wanted to set up a undo buffer of text files, or update notes. It will created the Project knew every- 500kb in size. I would change the pause every time it gets to a full thing that it had to before saving line (PREFS.UNDO window of text. Once you have the Icon. So these setting will be KBYTES=0..999999) to PREFS. read the displayed text press correct. UNDO KBYTES=500000. Press space and the next page full of the save button and the next time text will be displayed. ToolTypes for Tools (Programs) I double click on the Brilliance are different. These are available Icon the program will allocate What happens if the text file really to allow you to make settings to 500kb of memory especially for does need PPmore to read the file your liking. They customise the Undoing the changes I make to a because it is compressed? Well, way the program will work. I will picture. the best thing to do is to set the use Brilliance as an example be- Default Tool back to PPmore and cause it has quite a few tool types then try and get a copy of PPmore available. Brilliance is a graphics from the Aminet CD's or Aminet painting program similar to Deluxe FTP or maybe someone who Paint. I don't know whether either does already have it. Then copy it of these are still available for pur- into the Workbench:c directory. chasing, but they are ve y good 4*

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