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tali ► an Amiga Februar y 97 Issue No 3 Gaz te rip $3 Who said that there are no Amiga dealers left? Hardware Amiga A1200 HD, Amiga A4000 Cobra 33 68030 33, Mhz Cobra 33+ with 68882, Cobra 40 68EC030 40 Mhz, Cobra40+ with 68882, Ferret SCSI card for Cobra 1202 32 bit rami- clock, 1202+ with 16 or 33 Mhz 68882, Squirrel SCSI, Surf Squirrel SCSI plus RS@232, 2 Mb PCMCIA Ram A1200/A600, Spitfire SCSI A2000/3000/4000, Rapidfire SCSI + RAM A2000, Wildfire A2000 68060+ram+SCSI F/W+network, Megachip, 2Mb chip ram A500/A2000, Securekey Security card for A2000/3000/4000, Picasso Graphics cards, SCSI and IDE Hard drives. Accessories Green Mouse -320 DPI with pad, Hypermouse I1 400 DPI with pad, Pen mouse - super small, Joysticks, from Quickshot and Rocfire, GI 105 hand- scanner with touchup 4 and OCR Jr, Colourburst colour hand scanner with ADPRO loader & OCR Jr, Master 3A 880 K External Floppy drives, Rocgen Plus genlock, Electronic Design Genlocks and TBC, Neriki Genlocks Syquest EzDrives, External SCSI Cases with A500/A600/A1200 power lead included & CD, or hard drive option, A1200 3.5 IDE Kits, Monitor adaptors, ROM Switches, Air Freight Magazines with CD. Plus Much more Available. Software Over 70 titles in stock including games, productivity, CD rom titles, and Utilities, all at competative prices. Servicing We have a fully equiped workshop, and our techs have a total of over 50 Man years of experience as technicians in the computer industry. We do repairs and upgrades including specialist work. The Complete Amiga specialist. Computa Magic Pty. Ltd. 44 Pascoe Vale Road, Moonee Ponds, Vic. 3039. Phone (03) 9326-0133 Fax (03) 9370-8352 In business and in AMIGA since 1987 • Editorial Dribble 4 • ChaoCitp 26 Michael compares the Australian Amiga We catch up with Clint- one of the guys market to a chicken cheep...cheep... responsible for giving us Vista Pro. • 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. • Review: Image FX 2.6 10 • The Best of PD 30 Darren & Grant Join forces this month Even more interesting PD tools to with an indepth look at Image FX. make Workbench life easier again. • Dear AAG 14 • A Spouse's perspective 32 Some of our readers have taken pen Win Vahalla 'Fortress of Eve" by just to paper to say hello. (thanks guys) answering a simple question. • User Groups 16 • Review: Directory Opus VSS .... 34 Michael explains what to expect when Grant gives Directory Opus the thumbs you join a local Amiga user group. up with a rating of 83%. • FTPs, IRCs and You ..18 • Amiga Class 101 37 Even more ways to connect to the Darren gives our new Amiga users interner and surf that data highway some help with things and widgets. • Real 3D Classic Part 3 22 Geoff concludes his tutorial on Real 3D this month and will be back with more. dFu2tualca.v vFmen ga;ette 9eâ9 7 3 Editorial Dribble 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. Microsoft, 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. 4 rQaxtnalta4e Amara farm ?e497 ‘111"--Trs- kirsE —117, ii7o11T11-TlllTZ`1 i9t~~Î~I1Ii WESTERN AUSTRALIA'S ONLY 100% AMIGA DEALER Dedicated to keeping the Amiga on life-support (until a cure is found) Over 600 ! Ne,w & Used Amiga, AGA & CD32 Games IN STOCK lln Free Delivery in Australia on orders over New & Used Hardware t,t . 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AMITAR HOME COMPUTER SYSTEMS 1/25 Gillam Drive - Kelmscott - Western Australia 6111 - Phone/Fax (09) 495 4905 email - [email protected] www-http://crystal.com.au/ amitar MasteriSO v1.25 UPDATE ASIMCDFS V3.7 UPDATE Registered users can obtain either On December 5th 1996 AsimWare AsimWare have obviously been of these updates via AsimWare's Innovations announced the busy beavers because on BBS, WWW or ftp site: release of MasteriSO version December 6th 1996, AsimWare ftp://ftp.asimware.com/ 1.25, a maintenance update for Innovations also released version rtp:irwww.asimware.com the MasterlSO V1 package. 3.7 of its AsimCDFS, CD-ROM BBS: (905)332-9207 control system for SCSI and MasterlSO is the Amiga's only ATAPI CD-ROM drives. CINEMA4D V3 UPDATE commercial CD authoring and Following our review of this ray- recording system. MasterlSO AsimCDFS allows access to ISO tracing package in the January allows the user to control a CD-R 9660, High Sierra, Rock Ridge issue, Maxon Computer Gmbh recorder to create custom CD- and Macintosh HFS CD-ROM and HiSoft have just released ROM and CD-Audio discs. CD- formats; it supports CDTV and version 3. The version includes a ROM discs are formatted in the CD32 emulation, complete with number of the features found to universal ISO 9660 format which autobooting from CD-ROM discs, be lacking in version 2.1. is compatible with Amiga, IBM, and supports Kodak and Corel Macintosh and virtually any other PhotoCD discs. Cinema4D now includes improved CD-ROM equipped platform. render times and editing speed; AsimCFDS also includes the addition of visible light effects For CD-Audio discs, MasterISO AsimTunes, an audio librarian which can be used to create formats to the Red Book standard providing advanced librarian and spotlights, floodlights, engine which offers universal playback features; support for exhaust etc; highly customisable compatibility with standard CD direct- digitizing from standard lens flares; improved Inverse players. audio CDs and playing audio via Kinematics; and enhanced the Amiga hardware. AsimCDFS replacing dialogs. The previous version of incorporates full ARexx command MasterlSO supported the flowing set available for all programs.