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Foundation is a real-time strategy war gama which incorporates familiar pOCINDfiTION strategy elements with interesting new concepts Accomplished strategy game players will enjoy the enhanced control and complex resource management Beginners will enjoy the accessibility of the gamepfay when played In it's basic form and the depth f skill that Is attainable with experience. Forty game missions provided with more mission packs to be released soon. Custom games possible providing infinite landscapes with variable terrains and

AGA. CyberGraphX and Picasso96 graphics modes are supported. Hundieds of speech and sound effects with an option to use AHI. The game can use large, wide or small graphics for different screens. U ses a database of 10 Million names and 1000 scanned faces Can be installed fully or partially to Hard Drive Fully multitasking and system friendly Amazing original music and custom made CD Audio tracks, The game supports many languages with free language packs. Free updates to bo released regularly to provide advanced features. TCP/IP support and optimizations are to be the first updates. COUNDfiTION

Foundation roqui.aa a 2 Mag AGA aquippad (ag. A1200.) Tha gama h a t boon davalopad fo . 68030 baaad but an CbnqucM Gam: A1200 is enough to get the game running. The RTG version will require a CyberGraphX or PicassoM supported graphics card and Qisl.Mii Gant at least 8 Megs of fast memory. Four Megs of Video ram is recommended for hires screens. A fast processor is required for running the RTG version. LimkI Gam: Extra memory is also helpful as It reduces the amount of disk access during the game. Users with only 2 Mges of memory will find the game will access the disk very frequently While the game does use it s own system it is recommended that you Gam: Prcfcretxx-- use a dedicated cache program for better support and flexibility not to mention speed. Gam: Credits Exit G ant

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Activated in the Centex Supply Station your mission is aided by your unique ability to take over the bodies of humans, cyborgs and droids and inherit their skills and weapons Genetic Species offers furiously invigorating and thrilling 3D action with texture mapping speeds never before seen on any Amiga entertainment titlel W ith Atmosphere. Gameplay. Addictiveness & Presentation as its highest priorities you will experience the ultimate escapism in a violent and puzzling 30 world, coupled with the most awesome environmental effects and imagery which are all proudly displayed in 256 colours at an incredible (1x1) Pixel Resolution using the most advanced Texture Mapping Engine to date. - Huge Logic Plot Based Levels • Fully Texture Mapped 30 Environment at Incredible Speeds

Many Horrific Weapons Designed for Ultimate Destruction 200Mb 30 Rendered Intro Animation High Quality Digital Sounds & Effects with Stereo Surround Network PC provides a for Gateway! Volume 3 is a double CD-ROM and accessing your PC drives from the Amiga. with the roloase of NetBSD versio 1.3.2, a It will provide any WB program with access m ilestone in the widened space of -alike to any of your PC drives, including CD. Zip. operating systems has been set. Jazz, fixed hard drives and also networkod Gateway! Volume 3 offers NetBSD 1.3.2 in full drives. The PC acts as slave machine and featurod release versions with installation files can therefore not access the Amiga, for all 16 supportod platforms: Amiga, Atari, however an Amiga can read and write to the Archimedes, HP300, I386, Mac (68k), Motorola. PC drives. You can not only transfer files VME (68k), DEC 5000. Sparc, Sun 3 (68k) & between the two machines but also load VAX. Including X Window, all sources in files directly into you Amiga programs from compressed form, binary distributions for the PC. The system is WB 2.04* and Win95 m68k and 1386 for many tools, editors, compatible and the PC can perform other libraries, TeX, & games. Additionally Xfroe86 is tasks simultaneously. Network PC supplied for i386. contains all that you need to connect the You can boot from the CD-ROM without hassle two machines including full manual, on the Amiga. 1386 & Sparc - no complex installation disks and CD-ROM of extras installation, all menu driven. This CD is and the Amiga for the PC. directed at the UNIX-Meister. Price-£17.99 Price - £9.99

AMINET® Volume 25 offers you everything ® S ET 6 offers you everything that was that was added to the archive since added to the archive since AMINET® SET 5 / AMINET® Volume 24 w as made, plus the w as made, plus full versions o f Wordworth 5 Classic Games Collection. AMINET® S E , TurboCalc 3.5, PPaint 6.4 & Wildfire 3.38. Volume 25, dated Ju ly 1998, co nsists of approximately 1 of software in AMINET® S E T 6, dated March 1998, consists of thousands of archives. approximately 4 of software in 7.500 archives. Since the release of Aminet 23 more We have Aminet 20 to 25 in stock and than 440 MB of new software have appeared. Aminet 26 is available in August. The Aminet CD’s are the best selling Amiga All Six Aminet Box Sets in stock. CD’s and are released every 2 months. The Aminet series contains a mirror of the Aminet Box Set 1. 2 & 3 £15.99 each world’s largest Amiga Internet archive. Aminet Box Set 4, 5 & 6 £27.99 each

Aminet Set 6 Price - £27.99

REXECUTE is a fully featured Arexx SCALA MM 400 is the m ill known soltwaro to for the Amiga. Rexecute is generate perfect presentations or multimedia provided on and comes with a applications. At it’s simplest it is a fantastic Hard Drive installer and full documentation video titling package and at it’s best it is a on the disk. superb multimedia authoring package. Scala MM 400 provides a huge array of video fonts, With little or no programming experience it textures, fades and wipes for high quality is possible to create oxocutables from video work. This CD edition also contains Arexx scripts and with the on-line help extra materials on top of the original fonts, system Rexecute is a very easy program to backgrounds and buttons provided with Scala use. MM 400.

Included is a tour on the features of Rexecute to get you started quickly.

Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMUpgrade from Scala MM300 for only £49.99 Price-£19.99 Price - £69.99 2.0 slows users to share AMI-FILE SAFE comes of age with the release data between Amiga and other system s, of Professional Filo System 2 (PFS2). PFS 2 is and to use their existing an Amiga replacement file system for hard and data on non-Amiga hardware. drive users which provides superior Additionally, software, tutorial and performance with up to 500% improvements reference files are included. Amiga Forever over the standard Fast File System. Disks are includes hundreds of pages of F always valid with no moro ‘validating disk!’. documentation in HTML and AmigaGuide | P FS 2 provides unparalleled reliability and formats, with thousands of useful links and concurrent access without performance loss. cross references. PFS 2 comes on CD and improvements over t-nOfw 2.0 «*twort>no KII.M . .Men H IM you to I Ami-FileSafe Include...... connect in Amiga to m « me»» PC». AAfl MMM Amp AIM. I UAE A—g. •mutator lor Mtrultm »r>a DOS. •"« ftUom tc* OOS ' 68000, 68020. 68040 and 68060 versions. All —ui.tKm .UP«-1 I Amga BOM arrfOS. Cloan to Amiga I - improved testing procedures, more reliable. aofl-.ro. Pkaaao M drr-.r. Me| can Marty Po uaM By othar k imptatnamatOna lUnua. 6. ft..I. Me) of IBaoa •mo-lora. aa L ■ fully Ami-FileSafe compatible plus disk repair. -all aa By fiAn r— vatMo-a. • early problem detection mechanism. This . Ctoanao PMonal Pa— T.1 (paint animation Ptocaaalng aoft-arairOIrO*! H i detects problems with your disk before it is too fWUcaOon aoB-ar.1 and A-tTo*ir late, ensuring optimal protection of your data.

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Cross Dos 7 allows users to read and write Siamese 2.1 is based on the full 2.5 Siamese PC and Atari ST formatted floppy and hard RTG pack but without the TCP/IP Ethernet disks directrly from the Amiga. CrossDos capabilities and uses a normal null modem integrates into the Amiga Operating cable (not supplied) for connection between system, allowing access from virtually any the Amiga and PC. Amiga application. Provided is support for all serial speeds available to both PC and the Amiga. Supports Features include: third party high speed serial cards. Remote - Read & Write to PC Floppies & Hard Disks. control the Amiga from the PC . Most RTG - /98 Long Filename support. friendly Amiga screens will appear in a Window - Supports removoable drives such as Zip. [ on Win95/NT4. Single keyboard and mouse - Disk changes are sensed automatically. £ control for both the Amiga and PC. P C drives • MS-DOS hard disk configuration software. ■ are accessible from a standard AGA Amiga, - Utilities to partition, format, copy PC D isks I with up to 13k per second. Supports SCSI networking to speed up file transfer (1Mb I sec) Requires Workbench 2.04 or above. with suitable controllers on the Amiga and Amiga. Works with Network PC and Amiga Forever packages. P r ic e - £ 3 9 .9 9 Price - £29.99 E 7 M J J - T 8 D U A . N ^ 7] Make the most of this month's CU Amiga as it's the Game Previews J last you'll ever see. Sadly the magazine has been 44 Wasted Dreams J forced to close. See the news pages for the full story. Silly Putty J Even so, this hasn't stopped us banging out one last L a m b d a top notch issue for you. In fact we've tried harder than Game Reviews ever before to make sure this is an issue to remember. 46 Sixth Sense Investigations It's been great fun for us all over the years, and a great privilege for 48 X-Men: Ravages of the me personally to occupy this position. Many thanks for reading. Apocalypse Enjoy this one and I’ll see you again soon. 48 Quake Resurrection pack Tony Horgan, Editor 49 Tips Central 50 Explorer 2260 Diary

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16 Super CD-ROM 27 76 Amiga C Programming Cinema4D headlines the CD this 80 Sound Lab month, along with loads of special last issue bits and bobs, back catalogue 82 Emulation articles and all the usual stuff that 8 4 N e t G o d makes CU CD s the best in the world. 8 5 Surf of the Month 18 Cover disks 8 6 W ired World It’s that Cinema4D again! Not quite as much stuff as on the CD but the full 88 Reviews Index program is here nonetheless. . 93 Back Issues 9 4 Q frA 9 7 A t o Z 9 8 B a c k c h a t 102 Points of View 106 Techno Tragedies 26 Bye Bye Baby... Some people don't like long goodbyes. W e do, so here's one that goes on for eight pages, including that Halloween mask. OCTOBER 1998 • CONTENTS 34 Networking Made Simple

It w as going to be a three part series, but never Editorial mind. The second and final part deals with linking EDITOR 'Techno' Tony Horgan your Amiga to a PC. OfPtlTY IOITOR Andrew Kosh PRODUCTION EDITOR Rusty Cox STAFF WRITER Richard Drummond bass 41 It's All Gone Swirly! TECHNICAL CONSULTANT John T. Kennedy The demo scene comes in for a fair bit of flak one US CORRESPONDS way or another, but is it justified? W e don't think CD COMPILER Neil Koshwick DESIGN Ben Munday. Mandy Rushton so... find out why. CONTRIBUTORS Sjur Mathisen, Neil Bothwick. Jason Hslance. Oave Suoud. Chris Creen. Dhomss Treou. The

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e m a M F l o p p y D A500 Internal Drive . . £34.95 56.6 Modem and cables A600/A12000 Int Drive £34.95 Net and Web software A2000 Internal Drive . £39.95 iBrowse software PC880E External Drive .£39.95 One month free with Demon XL 1.76MB Ext. Drive . .£65.95 Modem Bundle 1 ...... £99.95 XL 1.76MB Int. A4000 . £60.95 Inc. Whippet serial interface for A600/1200

Backup 520MB onto a 4Hr tape Modem Bundle 2 _____ £119.95 Video Backup Phono £20 Inc. Surf Squirrel SCSI-2 serial Video Backup Scart £20 interface for A1200 PCMCIA Modem Bundle 3 . .. .£169.95

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4MB ol display memory Complete with 2,5" IDE cable For the A2000/3000/4000 Install Software, Fitting Screws Inc. ScanDoubler/Flicker Fixer Partitioned and Formatted Picasso ...... £249.95 For the A1200 Computer 1.3CB Hard Drive £129.95 1.6GB Hard Drive £169.9S Inc. cable, Zip tools cartridge 2.1GB Hard Drive £189.95 Zip 100MB SCSI* £135.95 Zip lOOMB/Squirrel . .£169.95 Zip 100MB Internal .. .£149.95 Includes Turbo Print LE 6i cable Zip 100MB Disk ...... £14.00 Epson 600 1440Dpi col £225.95 •Requires Squirrel Interface Epson 800 1440Dpi col £289.95 Turbo Print 6 ...... £39.95 Turbo Print L E ...... £25.9S £9.95

Power Graphic Tablet £159.95 A4000/1200 High c Zip RAM per M B £16.95 controller Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMBreathless 3D game .. .£15.95 Allows you to connect a Big Red Adventure CD .£19.95 drive Heavy Duty PSU 200 w .£65.95 Catweasel Mk2 (Zorro).: Official Amiga Mouse . . .£9.95 PC Floppy Drive Games joypad ...... £14.95

I x high speed serial Epson A4 flatbed scanner £9.95 Power Port junior ... 24-bit colour scanning 1 x parallel, 2 x serial Greyscale and line art modes Power Port Plus ----- OCR software available £20 2 xparallel, 1 x serial Epson GT-5000 ...... £219.95 Power Port Z3 ...... Epson GT-5000 + s/w .£249.95 A2000/4000 only Zo

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Includes interface and software Inc. ROM chip, software a Colour scanner is AGA 24-bit manual 400dpi A1200/3000 3.10S . . . .£41 Powerscan b/w £59.95 A500/600/2000 3.10S Powerscan colour/OCR .£99.95 A4000 3 .1 0 S ...... £4! Scanner OCR software . . . .£20 A500/600/2000 3.1 chipf A1200/4000 3.1 chip

GVP HC-8 SCSI int £99.95 CVP Guru ROM v6 £49.95 Original keyboard and ii DSS 8 sound sampler £59.95 (interface allows you to use 4MB RAM module . . £59.95 any PC Keyboard) 16MB RAM module . £99.95 Keyboard & Interface . £49.| A1200 SCSI interface .£59.95 -«5>l£49.95

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UNIT 82A SINGER WAY Includes 200 watt PSU PC Keyboard PC Keyboard Interface Floppy Drive facia/floppy cable All screws, port labels and leads Power Tower 1 ...... £129.95

Power Tower and keyboard A1200 main board 1230 33MHz, 8MB RAM, 33MHz FPU accelerator card Floppy disk drive 3.1 Workbench 3.1 Manuals Wordworth 4.5SE Turbocalc 3.5 Spreadsheet Datastorel.1 Database Photogenic 1.2SE Personal Paint 6.4/Organiser 1.1 Pinball Mania/Wizz games Power Tow er 2 ...... £399.95

Power Tower and keyboard A1200 main board 1230 40MHz - 16MB RAM accelerator card 24x IDE CD-ROM 2.1GB hard drive 4 w ay IDE interface/IDE Fix 97 Floppy disk drive 3.1 Workbench 3.1 Manuals Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMWordworth 4.5SE Turbocalc 3.5 Spreadsheet Datastorel.1 Database 120MB Floppy drive Internal ZIP Drive For the Power Tower Photogenic 1.2SE Cable, IDE Fix 97, 120MB disk Cable, IDE Fix 97 Suitable for ext. connection Personal Paint 6.4/Organiser 1.1 4 W ay IDE buffered interface Power Zip Tools Up to 7 devices internal Pinball Mania/Wizz games LS120 External ...... £149.95 100MB Zip disk Fits Viper Mk5 or any other Power Tower 3 ...... £629.95 LS120 Internal ...... £129.95 4 Way IDE buffered interface SCSI device for int. connection As above but with 1240 16MB RAM LS120 Internal no IDE . .£95.95 Internal Zip Drive . . . .£149.95 Int SCSI adaptor £19.95 accelerator card add . . . .£149.95 L5120 Disk ...... £12.95 External Zip Drive £169.95

Zorro (Please call for inform ation)...... £CALL A1200 2MB 020 14.3MHz Zorro III (Please call for information) ...... £CALL AGA Chipset PCMCIA V adaptor (allows Squirrel to be fitted internally) . .£19.95 Software External audio port (for internal CD-ROM) ...... £15.95 Amiga Magic Pack . . .£179.95 SCSI-1 adaptor (internal 50-way pin header, ext. 25 way) . . .£19.95 SCSI-II (micro high density connector, int. 50-way header external micro HD connector) ...... £25.95 Magic Pack SCSI-Ill (3-way ultra wide int. connector, ext. micro HD con) £45.95 4MB RAM Card included SCSI-Ill (7-way connector)...... £69.95 Amiga Bundle £239.95 SCSI-Ill T e rm in a to r...... £39.95 3-Way IDE ribbon cable (suitable for HD's, CD-ROM)...... £9.95 Inc. cable and software 3-Way SCSI 50 pin header (for HD's, SCSI CD-ROM )...... £15.95 £29.95 PC Keyboard interface (works with any PC/Amiga keyboard) £29.95 3.5" 2.1GB ...... £119.95 Printer switches - in stock ...... £call 3.S" 3.2GB ...... £149.95 25 Watt Speakers (inc. adaptor cab le)...... £19.95 3.5" 4.3GB ...... £169.95 260 Watt Speakers (inc. adaptor cable)...... £49.95 3.5" HD Stack Cable .. £12.95 200 Watt Subwoofer (inc. control b o x ) ...... £55.95 Ideal for the Power Tower

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UNIT 82A SINGER WAY □ 1234 351 BD□ KEMPSTON MK42 7PU H B A2000 68030-50MHz Not PCMCIA friendly Upto 64M B RAM IDE Buffered compatible FPU oplional 33MHz inc. 33MHz FPU Bare ...... £169.95 Compatible with IDE CD-ROM Inc. FPU ...... £199.95 1230 Turbo 4MB £59.95 1230 Turbo 8MB £69.95

A1200 68040 Accelerator A1200 68060 Accelerator Apollo 1240 25MHz . . .£129.95 Apollo 1260 50MHz £269.95 A1200 PowerPC Card Apollo 1240 40MHz . . .£189.95 Apollo 1260 66MHz £319.95 603e PowerPC with 68K CPU 66MHz is docked up No SCSI, cannot be upgraded Up to 128M B RAM A1200 68030 40MHz 160MHz with 68040/25 £249.95 Full MMU 160MHz with 68060/50 £469.95 Viper MK2 Bare ...... £79.95 200MHz with 68040/25 £299.95 Viper MK2 8MB ...... £94.95 200MHz with 68060/50 £539.95 Viper MK2 16MB ...... £104.95 240MHz with 68040/25 £359.95 Viper MK2 32MB ...... £119.95 240MHz with 68060/50 £609.95 Viper MK2 64MB ...... £199.95 B l i z z a r d S B Same specs as above BVsion PPC for A500 Accelerator Card Includes DMA SCSI-2 interface Blizzard 603e/e+ 68020EC 33MHz without MMU 160MHz with 68040/25 £299.95 4M B SGRAM . . .£169.9: PGA FPU Socket 33MHz Only 160MHz with 68060/50 £539.95 Space fo r IDE 2 .5 " Hard Drive 200MHz with 68040/25 £359.95 Cybervision PPC for 2 x 40-Pin CD-ROM/HD Socket 200MHz with 68060/SO £569.95 Cyberstorm PPC 8MB RAM On-board 240MHz with 68040/25 £399.95 8M B R A M £199.95 I 3.0 ROM inc. software 240MHz with 68060/50 £629.95 Fat Agnus slot to fit mini-chip CYBERBTDRM PPC Viper 520CD ...... £99.95 S p e c i a l O f f e r | A3000/4000(T) PowerPC Card 604e PowerPC with 68K CPU Special FPU prices when purchased with any 4MB 72-pin SIMM ...... £9.95 Ultra wide SCSI-3, inc. FPU/MMU accelerator card. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM8MB 72-pin SIM M ...... £15.00 200MHz with 68040/25 £619.95 16MB 72-pin SIM M ...... £25.00 200MHz with 68060/50 £779.95 20MHZ (PLCC) £10 32MB 72-pin SIM M ...... £40.00 233MHz with 68040/25 £629.95 33MHZ (PLCC) £15: 32MB Single side/Blizzard£89.95 233MHz with 68060/50 £839.95 40MHZ (PGA) .. 50MHZ (PGA) ...... £291

A600 Accelerator Card 68030 33MHz Processor Up to 32MB RAM (1 x SIMM) Monitor Bundles FPU Included, PCMCIA friendly A600 0MB 33MHz ...... £7S.95 Internal Scanmagic for £49.95 A600 4MB 33MHz ...... £85.95 when you buy a 14", 15" or 17" Monitor. A600 8MB 33MHz ...... £95.95 Scanmagic with internal flicker fixer £79.95 A600 16MB 33MHz £115.95 A600 32MB 33MHz £150.95

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C M o n i t o r 3 year on-site warrafity 14" Digital ...... £99.95 IS" Digital ...... £129.95 17" Digital ...... £249.95

Official 1084s inc. speakers 1084s Amiga Monitor . .£119.95 (Monitor not shown)

PHONE ORDERS We accept most maior credit cards and are happy to help you with any queries. CHEQUES/POSTAL ORDERS Ordering by cheque/PO please make payable to POWER COMPOUND IT D and specify which delivery is required. WARRANIY All Power products come with a 12 month warranty unless otherwise specified TECHNICAL SUPPORT Help is on hand with a lull Technical Backup service which is provided for Power customers. M A Il ORDER PRICES All prices listed are for the month ol publication only, call to confirm prices before ordering. EXPORT ORDERS Most items are available at Ta« free Prices to non-EC residents. Call to confirm prices. BEPO orders wekom e. MAIL ORDER TERMS All prices include VAT. Specifkalions and prices are sub|ect to change without notice All trademarks are acknowledged. All orders in writing or by telephone will be accepted only subject to our terms and conditions o l trade, copies of which are available on request. Please allow up to 7 days for cheques to clear before dispatching of the goods. External CD-ROM Drive Squirrel PCMCIA SCSI Interface Chaos Engine CD-ROM Oscar/Diggers CD-ROM £49.95£ 4 < 24x External CD-ROM . £169.95 32x External CD-ROM . £189.95

For A1200/600, A500 call 4Way buffered interface . IDE'97- £169.95 C h a r, Engine- Oscar/Diggers CD-ROM- Power Supply Unit- £79.95 24x Internal CD-ROM . . .£89.95 24x Internal ...... £49.95 32x Internal CD-ROM . . .£99.95 24x External ...... £89.95 CD-ROM comes w ith 3 w ay SCSI cable Squirrel PCMCIA SCSI Interface 32x Interna! ...... £59.95 External Power Supply Unit Extern a l...... £99.95 Chaos Engine CD-ROM with External CD-ROM drives. Internal d m * n £99.95 ■ret IDE Mertare and IDE B x '97 Oscar/Diggers CD-ROM

New CD Twin Box' New CD-R Writer

Create back­ ups, build your O own musk CD's or even make a backupHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM of any other CD.

A convenient "Twin Box" designed to give you the flexibility to choose a CD-R writer with either a 32x CD ROM or a built in Hard Disk. What's 8x Read, 2x Write more, you can pay a little extra and swap the IDE Buffered interface Inc. Make-CD Software with the award winning Power Flyer! 3 Blank CD-ROMs 9 8 0/ o Amiga Format on the Power Flyer Any size Hard Disk £POA External Case Power Flyer instead of IDE interface £59.95

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P h o n e F a x D1234 B554DD p o w e r c o m p u t i n g l t d □ 1234 8515DD M THE NEW SCANMAG POWER FLYER FLICKERFIXE

Power strikes back again with a faster E-IDE Controller for the Amiga A scan doubler works by doubling the vertical frequency of I 1200. If you have recently bought a Hard Drive and you've probably compatible Amiga modes (1 5KHz, Pal, NTSC and Euro36). 1 realised that it is slower on your Amiga than on compatibles. Power generated will then be displayed by any standard SVGA monitor. can now solve that problem, thanks to the Power Flyer, a software The more expensive flickerfixer adds one extra feature to the S and hardware solution which completely replaces the IDE controller of It eliminates the flickering from all interlaced Video your Amiga 1200. Amiga modes. In PIO-4 mode it is possible to reach a maximum speed of Nobody can stop you anymore from buying a nice, 16.6MB/sec. Most drives will increase their transfer speed from 2.5MB/sec. to 7MB/sec. compatible monitor (check our prices and models, all sizes a

Tested with most accelerator cards, we found that the best performance Doubles the Vertical frequency of the is achieved with Apollo cards, (especially the 68060 66MHz ones) Amiga PAL, NTSC and Euro36 video Up tp 4 E-IDE and ATAPI modes devices can be connected Allows you to use any standard VGA monitor with your Amiga 1200 and Supports mode PIO-0, PIO-3 4000 and PIO-4 (A1200 standard NEW Fits internally-easy installation controller supports PIO-0) VGA Adaptor included Meets specifications for ATA-3 Pass through of all other modes and FastATA-2 Internal ...... £54.95 Internal Inc. Flicker Fixer .. £99.95 External with Flicker Fixer . £99.95 ScanMagic External...... £69.95 VGA Adaptor...... £15.00

Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMOliver Roberts, of F1GP Editor's fame, is the author of the Power DC, the software for Power's Digital cameras.

VDC-100 Technical specifications Image/Video: 250,000 pixel CCD 24-bit colour Resolution: 320 x 240 (standard), 640 x 480 (high resolution) Memory Stores up to 20 images (20 standard, 10 high or a mixture of both) Real Time Video in Black & White (NTSC) Shutter Speed: 1/60 to 1/16000 Focus Range: 10cm to infinity Power Supply: 4 A4 1,5V batteries or DC Power adaptor

VDC-200 Technical Specifications

Image/Video: 470,000 pixel CCD VDC100 Camera ...... £99. 24-bit col VDC200 Camera £199. Resolution 320 x 240 (standard), 2M B Flash RAM (VDC200)£49 640 X 480 (high resolution) 4M B Flash RAM (VDC200) £T 45mm Colour TFT LCD monitor 50 Alkaline Batteries

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his is the last ever issue of CU Amiga. The decision to close the magazine Why is CU Amiga closing? then it wouldn't be worth no longer be the CU Amiga Because it is no longer the £4.50/£5.99 cover you currently know. was taken by its making a profit and price. Will CU Amiga return when publishers EMAP in light of its therefore cannot continue Why don't the staff all the new Super Amiga is recent financial performance. to be published. take a pay cut? r e l e a s e d ? Declining sales have forced the How can the best selling Would you do the same? W e hope so, although we magazineHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM into a position from Amiga magazine not make a Where would it end? cannot make any promises which it can no longer turn a profit when other smaller on that one. That Why have you lead u b t o magazines manage to do it? decision will be in the profit in its current state, and believe the magazine would hands of our (ex) understandably EMAP is not Smaller magazines have n o t c l o s e ? Idifferent publishing set­ publisher (EMAP). prepared to continue publishing a ups. different costs and We never did that. We have Can I take this opportuni­ magazine which consistently different distribution always been honest and said that there would come ty to thank the team for channels. Many are run at loses money. their dedication to the a slight loss or at break­ a time (if things did not While it may have been magazine and the Amiga even by dedicated people pick up) when the magazine would no longer be prof­ c o m m unity? possible to make major invest­ as extended hobbies. CU itable. No-one knew when ment cuts in order to regain prof­ Amiga is published by a Q Of course you can. Thank that time would be. Only you. itability, it w a s decided that the major magazine publishing company (EMAP), and as a very recently did it magazine would be laid to rest become apparent that the And what about us? Publicly Limited Company with dignity rather than starved of (PLC) EMAP must show its time was now. Well, there's always Amiga Format. Nick and resources and run into the shareholders that it is Is this a ploy to get Ben will look after you. ground. With no obvious short making their money work, Amiga users to buy PCs? which means they cannot We really are very sorry No. CU Amiga's publisher term prospects for growth in the publi sh maga z i nes tha t to have to leave you like has no PC magazines this. We would all love Amiga market this would merely make a loss. anyway. to go on working on the have been delaying the inevitable Why are costs not cut in magazine well into the Will "CU Amiga" bs turned While EMAP retains ownership of order to save the future but it's just not into "CU PC"? the magazine and its trademarks, m a g a z i n e ? possible. One way or NO. another we'll be around there are no plans to relaunch the We feel it is better to when the Super Amiga I leave on a high note than I have a subscription. How magazine in the near future. surfaces, even though it continually reduce the do I get a refund on The announcement of the most likely won't be a size of the magazine, issues I will not get? closure was made on the Internet remove the disks, reduce Class of '98 style You will be sent a cheque staff and investment in reunion of the whole team on August 17th, th e sam e day refunding the difference. the title to keep it going under the old banner. that official UK magazine circula­ regardless of quality. Why isn't the magazine So is it time to pack the tion figures w e re released for the sold to a publisher who Surely though e t h i n g Amiga away for good? first half of 1998 which show that can be done? can make a profit from it? No! Keep on keeping on CU Amiga is still the world's best We could reduce the Sacrifices would have to and we'll see you soon selling Amiga magazine. Here is magazine to a low quality be made by any publisher in happier times. the FAQ document which was pamphlet that was poorly that would compromise the i posted to the CU Amiga website: researched and written but magazine so that i t would Schindler Talks PhotogenicsNG Jeff Schindler, the General Manager ment after two of hours of frustra­ of Amiga. Inc. broke his three month tion. Schindler said: Paul Nolan has announced the specifications of his new paint package Photo- silence this week with a message *lt really "sunk" in.... why the genics NG ahead of a major preview at the Computer ‘98 show in Cologne, posted on the Amiga, Inc website. Amiga is different and w hy it's so although final release is dependent on other Amiga related commitments. Schindler talked about the delays important for us to reach our vision WtvtMrxA Sci—w affecting the planned announce­ for the future Amiga and get it right. ment of Amiga's partners in OS5.0 Thanks for your continued support and envangelised on behalf of the and patience, you make Amiga what Amiga vision'. He told the story of it is. Remember, its "adventures" how he and his children tried to like this that keep Amiga in our install an adventure game on their hearts.' state-of-the-art PC one evening, but Amiga Inc's web-site can be gave up in anger and disappoint­ found at http://www.amiga.com/

Microsoft bites Intel? The US Department of Justice anti­ which would show fake error trust case against m essages if it w as run on anything resumes on September 23rd with other than Microsoft’s own MS- new allegations of Microsoft DOS. applying unfair pressure on CPU Confidential m essages written giant Intel. by Microsoft employees between According to an internal memo September '91 and February '92 Features include: written by an Intel employee, an suggested that the final release of ■ User configureable GUI August 1998 meeting saw Gates Windows 3.1 should malfunction • Real time modification of colour, transparency, processing mode or I pressuring the chip manufacturer on purpose if it was run on com­ position of any element. into dropping a new series of mul­ petitors’ operating systems such • Natural media tools such as airbrush, chalk, pencil, sponge, water-coloutfl timedia extensions. The software, a s Digital Research's "D R DOS '. In smudge and smear. developed by Intel, was targeted February '92. Vice President Brad • Paint on image processing allowing you to draw or brush on - or off - ana by Gates for two reasons: a layer Silverberg wrote in a memo: "The effect. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMof O S independent code called most sensible thing from the • Advanced layer support with fade-erasing on right mouse button and I Native Signal Processing and differ­ development standpoint is to unlimited number of layers. ences between the two continue to build dependencies • Paint-on pyrotechnics such as lensflares, fire, and explosions. companies' future development on MS-DOS into Windows." The These can be combined with the smear tool to produce supernovas. I strategies. federal courts must now decide waves of fire, and even sunsets and waterfalls. Additionally, the Justice whether or not the findings • Open Architecture: Department has collected evidence were put into practice, or just Photogemcs is effectively just one big collection of plug-ins that blends I o f OS-detecting code in the an example of Microsoft's seamlessly to form one program. 3rd party developers can have access-.v 10to | ■ "Christmas beta” of Windows 3.1 "tough talk”. the same API as Photogenics does, allowing developers to extend the■ tcore I software to an amazing degree. This also allows Photogenics technology: . |V10 tt I be embedded into other products. • Fully Multi threading The GUI remains responsive while operations are in progress. Advanced I Infomedia Alpha channel support Text Tool - allows text to be written straight onto an| paint layer. 98 C64 lives again Infomedia 98 is one of the largest computer Web Computers International take emulator. shows in Benelux. This year's event will be retro computing to new heights with The W eb.it is built aroundund thet ■ held at the Bouwcentrum in Antwerp. Belgium the announcement of their AM D Elan microcontrollerr (a(. CPU ■ on the 3rd and 4th of October and will feature Web.it. The Web.it is derived from the 486) and1 thas 16M | two halls: one for PC and a separate hall dedicated to alternative platforms designed as an antidote to today's of RAM. a 3.5" 1,44MB floppy drivf like Amiga. Mac and . The 'alternative' hall is being organised by complex and expensive PCs. being a serial and parallel slots, an IR co Waaslandia. the largest Amiga-only user group in Belgium, so will have a user-friendly, console-sized computer troller and an integral 56k I significant Amiga emphasis. Exhibitors planned for the show include Amiga designed to plug into your TV and be modem. International, Siamese Systems. Waaslandia themselves and the User perfectly at home in the living room. The C64 W eb.it is planned for I Group Network. It will provide internet connectivi­ release at the end of September a A Tickets may be purchased in advance for 250 BEF or £5.00 UK. For more ty and has a suite of built-in software will retail at under US$400. More I information on ticket availability, travel, accommodation or stand hire visit including M SDOS 7, W indows 3.1, information is available from the Informedia website at http://user.online.be/-waasland/infomedia98/ or N etscape's Navigator. Lotus AmiPro http://www/webcomputers.net/ I contact: wordprocessor. Lotus 123. Lotus Tony M ees on tel. + 32 (0)3 744 13 19) Organiser and a Commodore 64 In Brief

Kickstart in a flash new web-based service to allow H & Pin Individual computers are develop­ people an easy way of finding their ing Kickflash, a ROM swapper with local user group. Thanks to IMM a difference. It contains Flash studios, who lent AmigaSoc use of ROM and enables you to exchange their postcode location database, Software your normal ROMs with a they can now locate the nearest flash-upgradeable ROM image. usergroup to within 5km of U ses include compatibility with old anywhere in the U K. Visit their software, and, more interestingly, website on www.uk.amigasoc.org. Explosion cheap and easy upgrades to any With the closure of CU and the new Kickstart version. More infor­ disappearance of the User Group mation can be found at Individual pages, organisations like Haage & Partner have a They will be offering it to Computers new web-site at AmigaSoc are even more valuable companies wishing to make PPC number of major software http://www.jschoenfeld.com/. resources for Amiga users. Sign up projects nearing release. only Amiga clones, but no further today! AmigaWriler (previously details of public releases are Cut Price Siamese EasyWritor) will be available about available. Siamese systems have decided to ... and take them to the time you read this magazine Other major developments are drop the price of the v2.5 software C o lo g n e ! in anticipation of the affordable AmigaSoc UK is organising a trip in both German and English the OpenGl/ Mesa libraries for 3D graphics cards and a StormC Ariadne 2 ethernet card. The price to Cologne to join in the party at editions, w hile upgrades to development. These include 68k drops to a bargain £69.95. The the Computer '98 sho w at a cut- WarpOS and ArtEffect have just and PPC versions of StormC, serial only v2.1 software remains price. Flight and B&B accommoda­ been made available. An entirely Storm PowerASM for PPC. at £29.95. Purchasers under this tion (in the Hotel Berg) will be schem e will still be eligible for a included in a price expected to be new version 3.0 of Art Effect is StormWizard, the RKM guides, discount from the £399 price of ju st under £200. For organisational expected by the end of the year, and a beta version of the 68k the Siamese PCI card. See the reasons, only user groups and and perhaps most interestingly, emulator, and will cost 498DM Siamese Systems website at developers or retailers will be the long anticipated 68k emulator (698DM commercial) or www.siamese.co.uk. or phone +44 included. If you want to take part is said to be finished and stable. about £160. (OH 525 210054. but aren't in such a group, you'll have to join first! Bookings will AmigaSoc find need to be made by about the u sers... 20th of September, so move Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMAmigaSoc UK, the UK representa­ quickly. Email Andrew Elia on tives of the international User andrew@ uk.amigasoc.org for Amiga gets Group Network, have introduced a more details.

Alive Media Soft have announced the and cartoon drawing games, jigsaw upcoming release of an Amiga conver­ puzzles, and 30 assorted activities to sion of Abidoo. a education­ improve reading and numerical skills. Educational al package for 4-7 year olds. Coming Price and final release date have on 2 CDs. Abidoo is yet to be announced, for more infor­ a serious piece of mation mail stevenalive@innotts. software with a co.uk or phone +44 (0)1623 467579. custom multimedia Further details will be released in interface running in Alive's next catalogue, ask them to be 640 by 480, so you put on their list. will need a reason­ Mystique Corp.. who are also ably fast Amiga to working on Amiga educational run it - a graphics software, have a major update to their card is ideal. website, with more information about Abidoo contains a the Made for KiDS campaign and an wide range of activi­ outline of the plans for the next year ties designed to be and a half. According to MD Connor fully compliant with Kerr, "Months of work has gone into the National assessing the future of the Amiga in Curriculum. It has Children's/educational computing... segments designed the future looks incredible and we to help children at hope that you will all be there to help varying levels of us usher in a new era for Children's development, and computing." Visit the Mystique supports plug-ins for website at www.mystcorp.com. future additions. Sub games include a kitchen where virtual cakes can be made - or the recipe printed out - portrait [U Stateside News by Jason Compton: Editor in Chief of Amiga Report Magazine And Then There l\lova Design Releases Were Six?!? ImageFX Update One ol Amiga Inc's first employ been a mainstay of the Amiga ees, fan favorite Joe Torre, has Inc trade show circuit, and will left the company. Torre, whose be missed by his friends around Amiga resume includes pioneer­ the world. ing development of custom No official reasons were accelerator technology, Amiga cited for Torre's departure and I t h q g e F X animation fo r Hollywood film s, a he has not made any public stint as president of the Amiga statements since going on Atlanta user group, and a seem­ vacation in July, but it has been ingly never-ending stream of theorised that a hardware engi­ V "boing ball levitator” inveniions. neer was not a good fit with was one of the first recognis­ Amiga Inc's predominantly soft­ able names to Amiga fans after ware focus. As of this writing. Je ff Schindler began to build his Amiga Inc now has six acknow­ South Dakota team . Torre has ledged employees.

Bugs are the stuff of life, but Nova Design c Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMues to clean up after theirs. The latest up the ImageFX. version 3.2. has been r This revision cleans up som e image format h Amiga Evangelist TM dling. augments the new layers capability, and ] enhances the built-in ARexx and drawing tablet support. For ImageFX 3.x users, the update is free. I Tackles Fast Food R l IFX 2.x users can use this opportunity to upi for US$80 (about UKP60), and earlier users it's not likely a coincidence that Inc’s Jean-Louis Gassee over est about a product it promoted (including CU coverdisk owners) can move to the Amiga has attracted a fair what he perceived to be a con­ as vegetarian, and since being 3 2 for US$125 (about UKP75). For more detalM number of people interested in descending attitude towards exposed has not necessarily contact Nova Design at ww w novadesign c o n H campaigning for a cause, and it the Amiga a couple of years taken the steps it promised to shouldn't be too surprising if -back, is hammering away at rectify the solution. German TV some Amigans see our comput­ fast food giant Wendy's for came to interview Mr. Fish, who er as just one of many causes false advertising. Apparently made very certain his surround­ Advertisers Index they champion. Rat Fish, who Fish discovered that Wendy's ings were covered in Amiga last made news going after Be was being far less than hon­ merchandise and memorabilia. 00 496113SI7H | im s u s sn 1171 17217« • • 32323*508 Epic MirterMf •171 M W Epuct 01142 7131 tS SoftSynth Frees JForth Fast Computer! 1171 252 3551 First Computer Centre •113 2311444 Sometimes lost in all the excite­ language, your life has been downloading instructions. Golden Image 1181 988 9211 ment over Java and whatever made a lot easier by SoftSynth. Although SoftSynth will not pro­ H M t 0500 223MI new languages people can who have released JForth as vide any technical support, a Owl Associates •1543 251377 invent this w eek are the time- freeware. First released com­ JForth support mailing list will. •1234 151SM tested and proven languages mercially in 1986 and main­ To subscribe, write to •1712 2«2«35 that sometimes fall by the way­ tained fo r the better part of MDaemon@ChaosSolutions. •111 24S3IM side because they don’t make a decade, you can now break in comwith "subscribe JForth" in White Knight Technology 11921 122321 front-page news. If you're inter­ for no investment but your the body of the message. Wirard Development! 0181 303 1888 ested in programming in Forth, time. Check: a very powerful and scaleable www.softsynth.com/jforth for The biggest event for the AMIGA and all AMIGA fans in the world! 13.-15. November 1998 Cologne, Germany Come and see all new AMIGAS, Exhibition Grounds peripherals, CD-ROMs, games, Halls 11 + 12 applications, and, and, and ...

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II CU CD s are designed to be used whether you t from the CD or your normal Workbench If you I from the CD, everything is setup and ready to go. I you want to acce ss the CD from your Workbench, T you should first run InitCD. This sets up various assigns and paths | needed by programs on the CD, so if you don't do it. things won't 1 work. It doesn't make any changes to your system , or write any ] files to your hard drive, all changes are temporary and can be reversed by running InitCD again. The error some people were 1 experiencing with updatecopy has been fixed now. and the fix 1 means that you won't see the error again, even with older CDs. I

Your own custom CD In the past you had to use whatever file viewers we set up on the CD. since these had to work with all Amigas they were quite ed. From CUCD12 we decided to allow you to specify how the CD - * l - , 2 T i w 5* " 1 -— ■— ■ should work on your Amiga and included CDPrefs in the CDSi _ ------drawer. If you have never run this before you should be asked if you want to when you run InitCD. CDPrefs lets you specify which pro­ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMgram you want to use to handle each type of file, graphics card 1 users can view pictures in full 24 bit colour, ProjectXG users can lis- ] ten to midi files through their midi card, people with sound cards 1 Welcome to CUCD27. This CD is can listen to mods with an AHI module player and PowerPC users 1 can use the fast file viewers and mpeg players available for their 1 crammed full of programs, games, machines. It also means w e w ere able to provide different defaults I for Workbench 2 .x users. P utilities, mods and a host of other O nce you have run CDPrefs, your settings will be saved to your goodies. If you don't yet have a hard drive and will be used every time you use this CD or any other CUCD. CD drive, this is your reason to Some people had problems with the original use of IDer. partly through a lack of understanding of how it worked and partly buy one. Prices have never been through a lack of explanation from us. All icons now use CUCDfile lower and 650MB of quality as their default tool, and the previous IDer problems should be a thing of the past. InitCD now copies CUCDfile and it’s confi software each month is just too to your hard drive, if it's not already there. This means that files _ copied from the CD will now work without needing the CD present j good to miss out on. You will almost certainly need to run CUCDprefs to set it up to use I your own view ers, but you should do that anyway a s it will result in faster access. If you do have any problems, make sure you have run InitCD. at least once. CD-ROMS

Finding what you need The CUCDs have long been equipped with basic search facilities for the CUCD and Aminet CD index files. Now there is a new SearchCD program that covers both CD sets from a single interface. You can select which type of C D s to search, and select individ­ ual CDs or all CDs for searching A progress bar informs you of the status of the search so there's no more staring blankly at a busy pointer. This needs Workbench 3.x so the old search tools have been left on the CD for W B 2.x users

Making things work Wherever possible, w e have tried to make software work straight from the CD. this isn't always possible for a number of reasons. Some pro­ grams need to be installed to your hard drive to work, often requiring specific system files. These files are usually on the CD so running InitCD often helps here. Most software contains a list of sys­ tem requirements in the documenta­ tion, and som e will not run unless you have the required processor, memory version or chipset. Some programs, particularly demos and games are written in an OS illegal way. This can m s m mean they only work on specific machine specifica­ € 9 0 $ $ 3 a tions, sometimes the •* readme states this, but not always. Many demos are ? 9 I a ! * u 4 !w intended to be run for a shell, the icons we add sim­ t r ply start them from a script. » * • H t i • ► Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM ♦ v ( : -'«& In som e cases this will not work, especially demos that 9 1 * 1 K * need a lot of Chip RAM. In ? £ 4 this case you will need to 9 A 4 | I >> 4 A 1 boot without startup- '*&m '«* m i Inm sequence and run the pro­ i gram from the shell. Your -B A -J 4 « 9 ft Workbench manual should W» li nk. i .i ? Km. explain how to do this. ■ Nell Bothwick

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WCP use of another computer for the ini­ N e w sR o g been on last month’s CD. but are CUCD/Utilities/WCP tial setup. CUCD/Online/NewsRog definitely here this month. Customisation is a complete collec­ Try the demo of the new news read­ tion of icons, sounds and backdrops Wasted Dreams b er. reviewed this month. Putty Squad to enhance the appearance of your . E v ils D o o m A demo of Putty Squad arrived min­ Workbench. The icons use the CUCD/Games/Wasted www.thule.no utes before mastering the CD. It palette remapping system of D r e a m s & CUCD/WWW/http/www.thul cam e as a DM S but I couldn't get it Newlcons but have their own. CUCD/Games/EvilsDoom e .n o to run on my 4000/060 with or with­ unique, style. A particular feature of Two exclusive demos that arrived Dave Haynie has uploaded some out caches disabled. The DMS file is the icon design is the way it high­ just in time for the final CD. documents from his days as a on the CD, you can unpack it from a lights icons to leave you in no doubt senior engineer at Commodore. This shell with: cd CUCD27: c/DMS write as to which are selected A m id e c k gives an intriguing insight into the PuttySquad DFO: Graphics/Amideck workings of Commodore, some use­ S triC Q This is a prototype of a new multi- ful technical information and a P h a tT ra x CUCD/Online/StrICQ media program. The concept is to glimpse of what might have been CUCD/Sound/PhatTrax ICQ has become incredibly popular use a single interface to handle had the Amiga been managed differ­ Another collection of high quality in a very short time, but their has many types of data such as images, ently. som e of the files are scanned samples for use in your own compo­ been no Amiga port. Now there are audio files and CD audio tracks. documents in pdf format, you can sitions. a few. but StriCQ is the best, and view these with xpdf in the C direc­ the only one that doesn't require the tory of the CD. These should have DISKS inema he Amiga seem s lo have reached saturation point with 3D packages, but Cinema4D is unique. Unlike other packages. Cinema4D uses the stan­ dard Amiga user interface. The result is a clear, easy to use program which A The s ii diflaiaat Cinema4D leaves the others standing in terms of ease of use. Not that Cinema4D lacks m « c im n M la tka iattiMt features or rendering power as a the .ew d is'U n at CM.ect result: far from it, as it's still one of the most useful and creative graphics programs you can use. Cinema4D allows you to quickly XYZY create complex scenes, and then ren­ der them making full use of any extra hardware you may have invested in. XZ 3D Graphics cards, accelerators. FPUs - even 68060 processors are supported directly. This is one software applica­ 4T Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMThe original Cinema4D CD contains tion which will help push your hard­ ware to the limits. Pl over 470 MB of data. We magically shoe-horned the package onto two The Toolbar floppies - but it's a drastically cut The Toolbar provides quick access © Click here to to all the tools you will use to Move an down version. If that isn't an incen­ create and edit objects. Cinema4D object. Drag makes a slight alteration to the with the left tive to buy a CD-ROM drive, what is? standard user interlace, so it's vital mouse but­ you notice that some buttons have ton down for a little triangle at the bottom. up/down, Most notably the floppy disk version supplied requires an FPU to run - These buttons have extra func­ left/right. that is, you must own an 020 or 030 processor with an external FPU, or tions: click on them with the right Drag with the have an 040 or 060. A lot of the example textures, objects, fonts, etc. mouse button to see them. Some right mouse had to be removed to cram this program onto the disks. For more menu options have a dot after button held information on Cinema4D read the following pages. them - hold down the shift key down for while you select these to bring up a in/out preferences window. Here are a list ® Click on these buttons to Installation and setup of key buttons and their purpose. determ ine the axis for scal­ £ Click here to alter the view­ ing and rotating. point of the entire scene. © Click here to cycle between To install Cinema4D, first boot up your Workbench. Insert disk 192 an object's own axis and the | and double-click on its icon. Drag the icon called ^ Click here to alter the posi­ main display axis when "Drag_Me_To_HD_and_Click” to a temporary location on your hard tion, size or rotation of an rotating or moving an object ] drive. Alternatively, if you have about 4MB of free memory, you can individual object. drag it to your RAM drive instead. Double-click on this icon and the ^ Click here to Rotate an © Select a front view Cinema4D archive will be unpacked. About half way through you object. You need to select the © Select a side view will be prompted to insert disk 193. When finished, update the win­ Axis around which to rotate. Select a plan view dow where you copied the icon and you will see a Cinema4D draw­ £ Click here to Scale an (0 Select a 3D view er. Open this. You can now launch the the Cinema4D installer by object. The default is to double-clicking its icon - this w ill install the program to your hard scale in all directions, but © Select front, side, plan and 30 disk. When asked which version you wish to install, make sure you it's possible to select axes © Select the camera (perspec­ select the FPU version. individually. tiv e ) v iew Getting Started There are three ways of altering the Applying a material to an object is to edit the material so that it suits When you start Cinem4D. you'll see a appearance of an object, although all easy. First of all. open the Materials your exact needs. Cinema4D offers single window displaying a gnd. This are brought together to create a sin­ Manager window from the Windows/ extensive control over the materi­ grid won't appear in any renders you gle "Material": Material Manager menu option. This als: you can adjust the colour of make it's only there to help you find 1. You can adjust the object's physi­ displays the currently available materi­ your bearings. As with all 3D pro­ cal attributes. These include als, which you can apply to your object. grams. it’s important that you grasp colour, transparency, Reflectivity Load some more, by using the the concept of axes. The V axis is the and Luminance. For simple Material/ Load menu option. Cinema4D "up and down" direction, the X is the objects, such as a snooker ball, comes with a collecf on of Materials -lef to right" and the Z is the "in and pane of glass or pool or water, which you can use. You'll see them out" of the screen this is how you would control appear in the Manager window once The cluster of six buttons at the their appearance. they are loaded. ( ) bottom of the toolbar allows you to 2. You can map a texture to the switch between one of six view object. For example, you can cre­ points Three view modes are "flat" ate a chequered floor by applying A l f f h a n araUfiah la atiecta la auta Aaa -are lie; two dimensional) views, two are a fling pattern, or create a picture 30 views and one is a mixture of both in a frame by applying a scanned You can swap between these modes photograph as a texture. These course, but also the physical attrib­ at any time, so simply pick the one textures are simply ordinary utes (to make an object appear which gives you the best view. images such as those created by hard. soft, shiny or transparent). any Amiga art program. You can also load in your own Textures and 3. You can create a "bump map". textures (standard IFF images) A Tfci Malarial! Maaagar windaw tins all Ac tax- Appearance Again, this is an ordinary flat and even make them "bumpy". tares yea caa apply to yaar objects When you first create an object in image, but this time the intensity All this is possible by editing Cinema4D it s bland and white by of the image is used to create To apply the material to your object, the material: and to do this you default. To make realistic renders you bumps in the object. This is a select it in the Materials Manager win­ only need to double-click in the can alter the appearance by creating great w ay to add realism to dow. Then make sure your chosen material in the Materials Manager window. If you don’t want to alter different "materials" When you ren­ objects: for example, adding object is highlighted, and pick Apply der in Scanline or Raytrace mode, craters to a planet, or dimples to from the Material menu. This will an existing material, create a new you’ll see the difference at once. an orange cause the chosen object to appear in one first using the Material/New renders a s though it were covered in menu option. ■ your material. John Kennedy Creating a simple scene For best results, you will want (More Cinema4D on Page 22)

To help you get to grips w ith Cinem a4D, here’s a short step-by-step guide to 00 BOUWCENTRUM Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMcreating and positioning an object. Refer to the Toolbar buttons key to learn how to switch the various options on and off. o* ANTWERP - BELGIUM ~1 It's possible to ■ Start a new P '0*®01' - and select “Torus" I deal with individ- * 3rd - 4th October 98 from the Object / I ual objects - | Primitives menu to J rather than the 10 - 18 h HALL 2-3 create a new object Cinema4D entire scene - in the same way. defaults to the 3FD view, w ith the Click on the Edit Object button "Move" button switch on (the beneath the Eye button and then arrow) and the Edit Entire W ork on the Move switch. Now you can SUES Area option. drag objects around the screen in any view you like. Toggle the X , Y DEMO'S — 1 Hold down the left and Z buttons and movement is mouse button and limited in the direction of the AMIGA drag the mouse, object's axis. 1 and you can move APPLE the entire grid (including the 'I You can rotate an object) left and right, up and | | object in the same PC down. Hold down the right mouse 125 way, and this time the button and the display zooms X. Y and Z buttons MOBILE PHONES in and out. Zoom out far enough, determine around and the camera appears in the which axis the poor object is to be MAGAZINES scene. spun. Remember, it's going to spin around the internal axis of the object, INTERNET “ i Now click on the unless you click on the cycle gadget Rotate button and pick “ World" (indicated) and try NEW MULTIMEDIA clicking and drag­ The P view is the view ging again. This time you can from the camera, so INTERNATIONAL spin the view around in order to when you Render the get a better view. You can rotate scene this the view point the view in this way from the 3D which will be used. Try it views, but only move in the flat now: the Render button is the tool­ COMPUTERSHOW v iew s . bar button which looks like a piece of film: click it and select a render info:++ 32 3 744 13 19 mode such as Mono-chrome shad­ ed to see your shape. http://titan.glo.be/waasland/infomedia98 lliS o f t S y s te m s

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A Create rear am materials from scratch, at edit eiistiag ones. Getting the lighting can always be a chore when rendering a scene. W ith Cinema4D you can create as m any light sources as you w ant, and scatter them Rendering Modes around your scene to provide illumination. Shadows can be calculated when Whenever possible, Cinema4D always renders im ages with Ray-trace mode is used, and these w ill provide an incredible degree of realism 24bit accuracy. This means that there could potentially be over to your work. However, the easiest way to get started is to select Sun from the 5 million colours present in the rendered scene. Unfortunately, Objects/Special Object menu. This quickly provides a yellow -y lightsource high lless your Amiga is fitted w ith a graphics card, it's not possi­ in the sky to provide your scene w ith illumination. You can always go back later ble to display these wonderful 24bit im ages directly, although and change it if you need m ore control. it's possible to get pretty close if you have an AGA Amiga. The Object bar (W indows/Object Bar) provides useful shortcuts to get to ema4D has six rendering modes, each one producing more important tools. Leave this window floating on your desktop and you'll speed up ail than the last. You select the one you want by clicking on editing of complicated scenes. the Render button in the main tool palette.

1. Monochrome Wireframe Advanced Expansions useis will appre­ ciate the floating (extra C4D to o ls)------► -4— Boolean operations - ;u ; This mode is perfect for testing animations. Object bar. which Objects are rendered only in black-and- piovides quick access to tools Primitives ------► gj'/J ■*— Create polygon white outline form, This is the fastest rendering mode available. Polygon object -----*- i i -«— Special objects

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e s . th is is the last ever issui of CU Amiga. Well techn it isn't definitely the last ever, l as EMAR CU Amiga's j f Y publisher, could reopen the title at any time, but there are no plans to do so. If EMAP decide to service the next generation A m iga u ser b a se it's unlikely that th e CU Am iga nam e w o uld b e used (for a start;tan f the "CU" prefix would mean even less then than i it does now). So, based on that, it's safe to say ! that this is the last CU Amiga ever. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMW h ile th e current team co n sists o f m yself (Tony). 1 A nd rew Korn, Richard Drum m ond, R u s s Cox and a long list of dedicated freelance contributors, CU Amiga has roots that stretch back so far that no-i actually kn o w s w h en it all started. W e can pinpoint ii change from simply "CU" to "CU Amiga" but the magazine has evolved through a number of forms including Commodore User and Vic User before that! ■ What a shame it is then that there's no suitable evolutionary step that can be taken at this point. Had we I managed to stick it out for the next year or so, no doubt the magazine would have shed its skin once again and re­ invented itself as the world's best Super Amiga mag.

Conspiracy theories We've already had our fair share of conspiracy theories suggested by disappointed readers. There’s one particularly -informed one that claims EMAP is ditching all its compu titles. That's total rubbish. Then there are the more predictable ones about us closing CU Amiga and starting up a PC magazine. Let me assure you. at this point none of the CU j team has any intention of moving 10 a PC magazine (not that I w e should be ashamed of it if we were - everybody has to make a living). A few readers have suggested w e all take a pay cut. Well we are, a 100% pay cut! However, most have been very kind in their response to the news and I'd like to say a big thankyou to all of them on behalf of the team. It means a lot to know that all our hard work w as appreciated by so many. There are a few small consolations to this situation. For example, w e are now at liberty to let a few cats out of a few bags, such as the double lives lead by the CU team. As many suspected, Mat Bettinson is actually a cyborg: half man, half What they wanted to say

q u e e r s o f| felt they had u fe ww^^fgs^^, I so h^ ^ ^ ylr^ ^ HE U IT I M AT' G*■ A------M E S G U ID *■0 ------THE------E UlTIh P e tro Tys o, Amiga International 'T he grandest of *1 pssive developiSrf Thf C |j /5hL always supported i ally hard for me to realty* Uiat « 98 no new r.sueissu e wifiwill be publishedpublis I would like to thank you all, the edRors and Amiga. His recently shaven head w as due enip|oyM^ltthiod the CU Amiga Magazine, who have donl a great job Thanks. My special ^ to his having yet another CPU upgrade thanks te Ahthi’w Korn and Tony Horgan." inserted into his cranium. Then there's Andrew Korn. By night he transforms David Link, HiSOFT Systems f into "The Great Kornholio", a "HiSOFT is sad to hear of the closure of CU Amiga We wo H i > thank the m agazine j, stage hypnotist who regularly draws large and all its staff and readers over the years for their loyal suppoi the Amiga We would audiences at West End theatres. Richard also like to assure everyone tf^ we are fully committed to tlte Amiga platform and w ill be Drummond pleaded with us not to here for its users as Iona as thev need u s!" Pamsuf>r*usits t>ox t© re-consuler." ^ I'm not writing this. I developed a copy generating machine many years ago lan Greenaway, White Knight Technology 5K ere t 1 1 was bored of writing formula "White Knight Technology are very sorry to hear of tlw dem ise of our favourite Amiga 9 reviews. It's been programmed to magazine Over the years it has enabled us Jo^build » ■ business significantly, and much ol adapt to changes, request a few this can be attributed to the good, honest advicef*n i»itSU g jlW fSl staff. W een *amis tmai keywords and then pump out words to fit company committed to the high-end Amiga user, and vs IhffSithis came as a sh g jjf*^ !)!,^ 0".1;, a specified space on the page. I did this us here, we have a dedicated and loyal customer base, and we will continue - as WHI the because I was actually cryogenically Anagevlwfe'wtnh every success to thdtflV&miga team. See you on the i back when Commodore went bust. Hopefully my request to be defrosted Chris Wiles, Active Technology T /B B A M I B i the Amiga makes a comeback will "We thank CUCU AnugaAmiga for the su|sopeon offere d us duri Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMhn be granted. Otherwise, this copy we look forwardward to supporting tthe A ■rket with new product* generating system is programmed to spill Cologne show in November th is y e * f carrying on 'as normur lots more secrets about lots more people to find our advertisement within Amiga Format from next montl|.# il they unfreeze me. And that's the truth

Love hate Let's not deny we all have a love-hate relationship with our Amigas. CU Amiga 1 has always been honest about its lings, but it seems appropriate that we y lay down our real loves and hates, so here they are:

Love • Easily renderable logo • You guys (no really I) the!. co yip jO g a that runs on a 640k mono AT? • Cult status people just want the odd gam e of SW OS^J • Its immortality To us and moan, and they don’t delude themselves capable of running decent modern s o f t w a r e . But to th e^ R f Hata decent computer, and get a %@ #&inglife. People like yoTTB ■ Can't keep us in a job ■ No-one knows what it is • Tha rasponse "Oh yeah, aren't they rubbish now?" you notice how w e never once managed to warehouse to have little old ladies blank • Official Amiga theme tune get all the folios (page number tags) to line out the offending word with a marker pen •AMOS up? Then there was the time someone on well over 100.000 copies. Then there forgot' to put CDs on all the overseas was the wrong bar code on the July 98 R While we're here, we may as well let copies of the June 97 edition - how we is su e ... you in on some of our 'favourite' cock- laughed... Many moons ago some not so In case we forget to say it anywhere ups. Does anyone remember the bright spark entered an obscene word as else in this issue, goodbye! W e love you! [ September 1995 Contents page which his player name before taking screenshots Thanks for reading and knowing which was had half of the product descriptions for a game review. A bit of a laugh? Not the best Amiga mag in the world! See you pasted in from the previous month? Did when they all have to be returned to a all again soon... Y o u H a v e B e e n We couldn't think of a better way to pay tribute to those who have helped shape CU R e a d i n g . . over the years than printing a load of embarrasing old pictures, so here's a selection of them in no particular order...

Name: Jason Holborn Name: Andy Leaning Name: Jo n Sloan Name: Alan Dykes Former position: Former position: Technical Editor Former position: Deputy Editor Former position: Editor Freelance Contributor Most likely to say: Do you like Most likely to say: 'Watch it! I'm Most likely to say: "Anyone Most likely to say: "Oo-aar. it be my novelty tie?" Third Dan in Tae Kwon-Do" fancy a Chinese?" nice in Frome" Last seen: editing a medical Last seen: swanning around as a Last seen: tucking into a Last seen: in Frome (probably) supplies trade paper big-shot games PR person Singapore fried noodles at PC Gaming World Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM

Name: Nick Veitch Name: Mark Patterson Name: Dan Slingsby Name: Lisa Collins Former position: Technical Editor Former position: Staff Writer Former position: Editor Former position: Deputy E Most likely to say: 'M y alarm Most likely to say: "I'm not into Most likely to say: Let s put a Most likely to say: Does it clock didn't go off" heavy metal any more" bird on the cover" give you cancer?" Last seen: striking curious poses Last seen: leaving for the Far Last seen: directing a Last seen: in a cafe in Sc" in a certain rival Amiga mag East to seek his fortune 'glamourous' photo shoot in Bath Name M atl Broomfield Name: Malt Broughton Name: Mat Bettinson Name: Tony Dillon Former position: Technical Editor Former position: Games Former position: Technical Editor Former position: Games Editor Most likely to say: "I'm not Consultant Most likely to say: "F'ckl This M ost likely to say: "You'll never being funny, but ..[insert offensive Most likely to say: "Arse" thing sucks!" guess what happened to me comment here]” Last seen: blagging free drinks Last seen: surgically wired to an today..." Last seen: writing for a PC mag everywhere ISDN link playing Quake 2 Last seen: flogging "Secrets of with a lower sale than CU Frontier" down Islington market

Name: Dave Stroud Name: Jason Compton Name: Andrew Korn Name: Richard Drummond Former position: Freelance Former position: US Former position: Deputy Editor Former position: Staff Writer Contributor Correspondant Most likely to say: "Sorry, the Most likely to say: "Donald Most likely to say: "I cant Most likely to say: "You’re just Northern Line wasn't running" where's your troosers?" believe it's not Topaz I" going to love this feature idea" Last seen: lectuhng art on the Last seen: trying to convince Last seen: knocking on the doors Last seen: at a training camp in Open University everyone that he's actually not of Amiga Format Arizona Scottish at all Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM

Name: John Kennedy Name: R u ss Cox Name: Neil Bothwick nam e: lony norgan Former position: Technical Former position: Production Former position: CD Compiler Former position: Editor Consultant Editor Most likely to say:"...llo Wirenet" Most likely to say: Mmmmm. Most likely to say: "no really. Most likely to say: "You've got Last seen: making a new life for Pot Noodle... my favourite. you should try WindowsCE" . five minutes.to finish the news' himself as a Geoff-Capes-o-Gram Last seen: Out on the piss with Last seen: stuck between width Last seen: touting his mobile Kevin Sapwell restrictors on his BMW bike disco around Surbiton What's happening to The Am iga?

Does the closure of CU Amiga mean the end of the Amiga? The simple answer is no. Don't believe us? In a last effort to remedy that, we asked Amiga Inc to spill the beans. Fleecy Moss - the man Petro calls Flossy - has quite a lot to say.

A few words w ith Fleecy Mo:

Fleecv Moss nent questions, we wanted to has allowed us to progress in th a t n ext step fo rw a rd s, pushing is not a know how Fleecy explained the leaps and bounds. His presence at o u t into th e undiscovered counti nam e m any perceived silences. the WoA. in spite of his packed defining the future and then dai are familiar "The first point I would like to schedule w as a ringing endorse­ ing it for ourselves. To do that w ith. To make is that everyone at Amiga ment of Amiga. requires vision, cutting edge ted m an y peo­ Inc. is as frustrated about the "So really, w e have only had nologies and most impor-tantly ple exp ect­ time our efforts are taking as is the necessary power to move p artn ers. A coalition fo r the next ing the the rest of the community. We since January, and we have only millennium. We have been work return of a want to be using the new had the team capable of making ing on all of those parts and we Haynie or a Sassenrath, Fleecy machines in our offices now. We the Amiga great again since April." had hoped to have everything in was just an unknown with an odd are sick of Windows crashing. W ell, it's certainly reassuring to name. So who is the man who Powerpoint losing files and email hear a reasonable explanation of " A Coalition for the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMsome people are calling a major disappearing. We are sick of the delays. Sometimes it has computer visionary - and other rebooting, freezes up and the seemed on the outside that next Millennium" people are calling Mossy Fleece? blue screen of death. We want things were going smoothly but "I am British but currently machines that let us do our job painfully slowly at Amiga Inc. It's j working in the U S .' he tells us. I and have fun doing it. That good to know that the delays place to sh a re w ith the commute am a project manager and sys­ machine is the new Amiga." have been precisely because ty a t th e W oA . Unfortunately, leg tems architect responsible for Don't we all. Fleecy! So why is it things have not been totally entang le-m ents m eant that that implementing enterprise level dis­ taking so long? smooth, because at least we can w as impossible. As it turns out tributed computing systems. I "Well, the first thing to under­ now be content in the knowledge though, this may have been a have been an Amiga user for stand is that we have only really that w e shouldn't suffer so many b lessin g sin ce w e m ay now have about B years, and started out on been able to concentrate on this delays in the future. However, solution superior to the one we a Commodore Pet and Vic20 when since April, when Bill McEwen, delays are damaging, and given were putting together for the I w a s about 1 1 . 1 have never Allan Havemose and myself were that it took so long to get things W o A " looked back. brought on board. The initial started, wouldn't it have made a What about the OS partnet the* "W h a t I lot more sense to just develop a Fleecy cannot be specific, but hope I bring The Amiga is in a unique position PPC version of the OS and go that reveals a little. to the way? There would have been a "W hat I can tell you is that A m ig a is a to provide the technology to take natural progression, somewhere once w e have the deal signed, respect for the world by storm ." for current developers to go. and sealed and delivered (ie: past th its philo­ things would start happening lawyers), then w e w ill be able t< so p h y and now. Fleecy is known to be a fan . announce our kernal partner to community ideals, as well as ICOA contact helped to firm up of the PPC line of chips, but the Amiga community. a good feel for the future of com­ this understanding, which is thinks th is w o uld h ave been a We are very impressed with puting and the digital information when they appointed Jeff bad id ea.. their product, and the fact that revolution. With the explosion of Schindler as general manager, to " Where would we be? We'd some of their chief engineers connectivity and the ubiquitous look into ways of bringing the have a standard PPC machine still have A2000s in working presence of digital information, the Amiga back to market. and a five year old OS that runs order made it seem more like a Amiga is in a unique position to "Our visibility suffered some­ fast. Our market would still be fam ily reunion than a business provide the technology to take the what also, despite Jeff and small, we would have no part­ m eeting ." w o rld Marilyn (Marilyn Flint, ners, we would have nothing The people who have suffered b y sto rm ." Operations manager) putting for­ really special to drive us for­ from a lack of info is of course thi Hmm Sounds promising, but wards a number of proposals. w a rd s. average user on the street. Most will it happen? It’s been a long 18 "It w as only just after "Rebuilding the Amiga isn’t just o f u s in the industry have at least months of promises for every Christmas that Jim Collas found about rebuilding the machine and some inkling that there is more Amiga user, and a fair few people out about us. He became very the OS. That would be relatively going on behind closed doors than are losing the faith. Never ones to excited and has since taken us easy (although it would still take a meets the eyes, so why is there shy away from asking the perti­ very much under his wing, which year or more). It's about taking such a veil of se crecy over it all? Even this question seems a dark on a money is no object basis. So the disappointment we had at "If we did an upgrade, it secret, as Fleecy offered OMERTA how good will it really be? Is it WoA, we have been inundated would be done because a) the like veiled threats o f concrete really as radical as all that? with mails from people asking com m unity has asked for it and boots and horse's heads if I find "The beauty of the superchip us to please reconsider. We are b) we saw the period of overlap out too soon, but w as willing to is that it offers a very impressive now looking at our schedules, between the classic and the new impart two basic reasons. across-the-board price/ perfor­ our resource budgets, and I Amiga as being too long. In that "a) In creating and trying to mance ratio. Thus we can have have also been very active in case, a strong upgrade would sell a vision for the future, we our webTV/intelligent television the on-line community, chat­ hopefully serve to make the are talking to many companies. products, our S500 A1200 ting to users, developers, transition much le ss painful. They also have visions, product machines, our $1000 desktops retailers and anyone else that "However a transition it plans and strategies, most of and our $2000 workstations can sit on the other end of a would still be. Any upgrade which are the key to their suc­ and servers. modem. If we can satisfy our­ would be the last official incar­ cess in the middle and long "Also remember, as the selves that we have the time, nation of the classic Amiga line. term. That they are willing to Amiga has proved before, that and that there is the demand OSSDev (for developers and talk to us and share with us is a it is not just a question of for a classic Amiga upgrade, curious users) and OS5Prod will sign that our plan holds a lot of processor speed or fill rates of then we will put a plan togeth­ be the next Amiga products. So promise. However, they certainly hardware. It is about blending er to make it so. we cannot say that PPC would don’t w ant others knowing the OS and the hardware "From what we have heard be the next CPU of the classic about it. together in perfect harmony to so far. the Am iga community Amiga line because, as far as "b) There are large "compan­ create something that is so would like us to provide an we are concerned, the classic ies'' that already dominate the much more than the sum of its upgrade offering new features goes into graceful retirement present in both hardware and parts. In Allan H avem ose, w e and functionality that allows when OS5 coming into being. software, and they have a lot of have one of the most talented people to upgrade their "We see the transition taking clout. Many companies are gen­ OS designers on the planet." machines and provide a much from 18-30 months, which is uinely concerned about damaging OK, but there's more than one higher baseline. why we think Amiga users their existing, profitable relation­ company eyeing up the integrated "This is turn would provide should upgrade their classic ships for the potential of future multimedia system market. How system s, relationships. We have to prove will the new Amiga compete with and should ourselves to each of them, but it the likes of the Sega Dreamcast "The Amiga community would like buy new has to be done behind dosed and the Sony Playstation 2? us to provide an upgrade offering softw are, doors. "They are both likely to be very new features and functionality." peripherals "So, whilst we are in this strong products, giving people and cards. planning and development $2000+ computing power in a A t the phase, then secrecy is required. $300 package. We have the tech­ a much higher new baseline moment, there seem to be sev­ What you can be guaranteed of nology to make these look very for software developers, eral compelling arguments for though is that when we and our ordinary." allowing them to show off an upgrade, including the fact Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMpartners are ready, the launch Well, if that is really true, there their talents to the full. In that the classic Amigas will con­ will be like nothing that the will be a lot of happy Amigans. addition, the extra demand for tinue working long after OSS is industry has ever seen." Playstation 2 specs are a couple of accelerators, CD drives, sound released and will continue to Sounds good! Does this mean months away from announcement. and graphics cards and PPC give pleasure to many. I know that Amiga co-processors should see a mine will stay plugged in until Inc. are plan­ boost in the retail market. every chip and track has burnt ning - and “...the launch will be like nothing These are all good reasons, as out,... I still have to finish have budget­ the industry has ever seen." far as we can see for an Cannon Fodder." ed for - a upgrade. Please stay tuned." Well, there's a good reason for launch com­ That sounds dangerously the New Amiga to have a nice parable to the 1984 Macintosh but Dreamcast already has the close to an official sanction. built-in classic Amiga emulator "think different" campaign w h ic h world's games developers in rap­ Does this mean that despite as standard if ever I heard one! caught the imagination of the tures. What will they make of a selecting something else for Thanks, Fleecy. whole industry? computer that makes them look the long term future, PPC could "With the launch of the Mac ordinary? Fleecy continues. be the official next CPU of the in '84, there w a s only one com ­ "We also feel that they are Classic Amiga? pany. As I have mentioned first and foremost games before, the key to all our suc­ machines which only pay lip ser­ cesses with the launch of vice to the digital conver-gence 0S5Prod will be that we are market. There is no desktop or working in conjunction with workstation that can play the partners. We hope that all will Dreamcast CDs (that launch their first generation a normal user has anyway). products at the same time, They are very fixed function using their own marketing devices. They are definitely strategies, but that the common moving in the direction of our theme of ‘ powered by Amiga" m arket though, and if anything will link them all together, pro­ they give us added impetus to viding a very compelling argu­ get moving." ment for choosing Amiga OK Fleecy, enough about the NG enabled devices and products." Amiga, our readers want to know Of course the most compelling about the classic line. argument will be power. We have "Our original plan saw us hav­ heard much about the superchip, ing OS5Dev out before any clas­ although it is all pretty vague. The sic Amiga upgrade (that would specs announced so far are be worth calling an upgrade any­ impressive, but not world beaters way) could be completed. Since Further Reading Despite what we might have previously had you believe, CU Amiga is not the world's only Amiga magazine. Here's a selection of the most prominent alternatives from around the world. Check them out.

Amazing Computing/Amiga Amiga Informer

Amazing Computing/ Amiga The Amiga Informer is the longest running magazine is a bimonthly, monthly Amiga periodical in grayscale publication the world (first issue released produced in the U S for January 1986) AC is the only nearly the past three years North American full colour catering for broad-based monthly publication and it is Amiga users. Subscriptions distributed through are the best way to get The subscriptions and Informer, but plans are in the newsstands works to bring it to a UK Issue price: S3.95US distributor soon US/Can: 1 -800-59-Amiga Others: 508-678-4200 www.amigainformer.com www.pimpub.com email: [email protected].

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Creating a cross-platform a PC to your Amiga. These offer you the any Amiga users now use or n e tw o rk chance to do things with your new own PCs, either through the As with the Amiga-to-Amiga networking network that simply would be Mn e ce ssitie s o f their w o rk or discussed in part one of this series, your unimaginable in a PC-only environment. study, or simply because there are now a Amiga-to-PC network can be as simple as T h ese options range from basic one­ plethora of unique and "industry just cobbling together a b a sic null- way file transferring and drive sharing tc standard” software applications and modern link between computers and a full tw o w a y data com m unication with hardware upgrades for the PC platform using terminal-based comms packages printer and even m odem sharing to the that will sadly never make it onto the on either end for basic file transferring. ultim ate co ncep t, the ability to converge Am iga, Then again, there is so much ingenuity the two machines into one system, usir N eedless to say, it is highly likely that among the Amiga programming scene one monitor, keyboard and m ouse to you also own either have long-term access that a number of specialised and truly operate both machines simultaneously. to a desktop or laptop PC in addition to fantastic software packages have been Obviously, the more advanced your you Am iga. If you are one o f the thousands developed to cope solely with connecting intentions or requirements become, the o f people w ho run a PC along with their Amiga, today is perhaps the best time ever Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMin Amiga history to attempt networking the two machines together.

W h y b o th e r If you use both, you no doubt swap files between them. The lack of a high density drive on most Amiga machines makes the laborious process of moving software on floppy d isk s even w o rse than it already is. What if you could take all that effort out of the equation? What if you could use the high density floppy drives of the PC for your Amiga (remember HD Amiga drives are hideously expensive, as- is the combination of a PC floppy drive unit and a Catweasel if you aren't using HD disks every day). But why stop there - you could do the same thing with the floppy and CD drives on the PC. If you have an Ethernet link, you can even access these at full speed! But wait! There are other capabilities within a decent PC that can only benefit your Amiga. Graphics cards for the Amiga are expensive, whether you go Zorro, PPC or even AteoBus; you are still looking at spending £200+ for one. What if you could use you PC to display your Amiga screen, taking the load off the graphics chips and utilising the huge screen sizes. True Colour and High Colour modes that modern PC graphics cards offer. All this is achievable by linking your Amiga to a PC. in M C, using add-on high-speed parallel and serial cards on both systems, particularly on the Amiga side, you can The available ranges of add-on I/O ports often double the parallel transfer rate are the following: and quadruple the serial rate. This is b ecau se th e built-in p orts on the Amiga are particularly badly Active Technologies, 01325 460116, www.active-net.co.uk implemented: not to mention limited by the ageing CIA controller. Boards H ypercom l: Clock port single serial port for A1200, £39.99 such as the Hypercom put this right by em ploying m o re up-to-date I/O Hypercom 3: Clock port twin serial and single parallel ports for A1200, £79.99 hardware.

Hypercom Z3: Zorro 263 twin serial and single parallel ports for all C o n c lu s io n Zorro-based machines, £74.99 Network solutions need not break the bank in order to deliver decent Hypercom Z4: Zorro 263 four serial ports for all Zorro-based machines, £89.99 results. File sharing, which is what the bulk of users need, can be done with Ey e te c h , 01642 713185, w w w .eyetech.co.uk enough change from £20 for a pint of lager. For a few pounds more, you can PortPlus: Clock port twin serial and single parallel ports for A1200, £79.99 go the whole way and truly combine your machines into one fully PortJnr: Clock port single serial port for A1200, £39.99 integrated system. No other computer offers this degree of integration, Hisoft, 0500 223 660, www.hisoft.co.uk surprising in this day to a PC owner, but if you have used an Amiga W hippet: PCMCIA serial port for A600 and A1200, £49.99 seriously, you'll already know that this level of flexibility is inherent to almost all Amiga software and hardware. Particularly while w e wait for the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmore expensive the software will also new Amiga hardware to emerge, be, with commercial software options linking your Amiga to a PC, you can ranging from under £20 up to around begin to experience much of the PC £ 10 0 for the most advanced systems. technology that the recent years of inactivity from past Amiga owners has H a rd w a re seen overlooked and dismissed as There are basically three hardware viable for our own platform. Cheap methods for forging the link between hard drives, graphics cards, sound the two machines, the most basic cards, monitors and keyboards are all being a parallel link cable, which will within reach, without having to tower provide the cheapest, easiest, but or surgically dissect your niost CPU intensive method of motherboard, just with the use of a connection. cable and some very enterprising From there is the trusty but ageing so ftw are! null-modern cable. Using the serial ports of the machines to create a link Serial and Parallel by cross-linking the send and receive If you are not going to go down the lines results in a connection which Ethernet road, then you should functions just as two machines seriously consider using an add-on connected across phone lines with serial or parallel card rather than the modems would. This bandwidth is in-built ports of the Amiga if your higher (so therefore faster), more network usage is to be anything other reliable and far less intensive on CPU than light. time than a parallel link, as well as Add on cards are available in being very cheap. various forms, either as Zorro cards, Then there is Ethernet, which offers PCMCIA adapters or as plug-on vast bandwidth and super-fast transfer boards for the clock port of an A1200 speeds, even less CPU intensive than (if you actually have one that is). Sadly serial and the ability to connect into if you are an A500 user, your options networks of more than two machines, are pretty much zero I'm afraid, unless unlike serial or parallel. you can find one of the few serial Parallel can transfer on average 50K adapters that connected to the side per second. Serial about 115.2K and expansion slot, all of which went out Ethernet around 10Mb and higher. By of production many years ago. Network PC £17.99, Weird Science, www.weirdscience.co.uk, 0116 246 3800

Network PC is by far the simplest written Commodore installer script. DOS programs on your PC, one for pre-packaged method of getting your What's more, such is the thought configuring the PC end of things, and Amiga talking to your PC. and consideration put into this the other to handle the connection.

The pack consists of a couple of package, the Amiga disk is bootable The configuration program, while IS?? os> floppy disks containing the necessary bootable, allowing you to test a small is very useful, allowing you to driver software, a small but highly connection or use a Network PC link sw itch betw een printer ports if you useful instruction book and a laplink on an Amiga without a hard drive. have m ore than one, as w ell as letting parallel cable. Like the former two The actual software itself can be you opt for a serial link instead of the packages. Network PC really needs practically transparent to the user, as supplied parallel cable. The actual Windows 95 or 98 to work properly, you can either start the network comms program, while DOS-based, will although you can actually use it sit m inim ised on the K under Windows 3.1, but with a great W ind ow s 95 start-bar, I deal of difficulty, not to mention and unlike Windows | I defeating the whole point of the 3.1, will happily Network PC system. multitask in the Unlike Siamese and Amiga background, allowing I Forever, the connection available you to continue using I here is only one-way, with the Amiga the PC w hile letting gaining full access to every drive the Am iga access its | device (hard drives. CD-ROMs, ZIPs drives whenever etc.) on the PC. This is implemented manually as needed (done by clicking necessary. in a way that these drives appear on the MountPC icon in the newly In practise, Network PC works and can be used ju st as if th ey w ere created NetworkPC drawer) or copy extremely well, as it should do actual devices connected to the the launcher script into your considering its basic capability. Amiga. By this point you should have WBStartup drawer. Doing this allows Windows 95 long filenames are noticed the striking similarity MountPC to run on start-up and sit in supported and Amiga applications can between this and ParNET, the Amiga- the background w hile it w aits for the be installed and run from the remote I to-Amiga package covered in part PC on the other end to finish the drives. The software on both sides is I one. connection. Running Network PC this extremely stable, while the supplied Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMConnection between the two w as and not actually engaging the cable is of equally good quality. machines is achieved using the network at both ends won't impair Sadly, as with all parallel supplied cable, which attaches to the your Amiga, a great boost for people connections, you can forget about printer ports on each machine. Much who want networking on demand, multitasking while transferring data, as I like a ParNET link, on the Amiga side but without having to think about both machines begin to grind to a hah, I Network PC mounts a drive-like running software to trigger it. only m ore s o on the Am iga. Not a real ] device within Workbench called PC: On the PC side, you again get just problem if you are a light or occasional which when opened reveals a a single floppy, containing all the user, but if you plan selection of sub-directories. These equivalent software, this time with on PC networking are mapped to the physical drives installation handled by the Windows on a daily or heavy fitted to the PC which your machine Amaya It a InstallShield script (the Windows b asis, then this is is connected to, as well as mirroring PC. equivalent of the Commodore not for you. the PC drive names (A: B: C: and so installer). This deposits two small on). The PC: device and its contents are treated just like any other mounted device and can be accessed by any piece of software that runs under Workbench and uses a normal file requester. Even better is the fact that the PC: device is mounted with an icon, letting you access it via the Workbench desktop, allowing drag- and-drop file operations and mouse control unlike many early ParNET systems, which were only reachable via a Shell and through requesters. The supplied software is exceptionally well crafted, considering how small the whole package is. For the Amiga side you get one floppy containing all the necessary software and a readme file, with hard drive installation handled by a standard, but well Amiga Forever £39.99, Weird Science, www.weirdscience.co.uk, 0116 246 3800

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EZJHH Scala UK LTD. Mill Studios. Crane Mead, Ware, Hertfordshire. SG12 9PY Tel: 01920 484811 Fax: 01920 484148 Email: [email protected] Website: http/toww.scala. L It's All Go Swirly! Right from the start, the demo scene has been at the cutting edge of Amiga software developments, pushing the hardware to extremes to perform the impossible. But why? And what sort of shape is the scene in these days? g ■ ■ umanoid - dit. dit, doiiii!" achieving impossible audio- g j m was a noise you wouldn't 1 visual effects. From these expect to hear from a initial intros, mega-demos H I Commodore 64. but some emerged as multi-disk extravaganzas "On a happier note, the quality of I m time in 1988 a couple of designed purely to make you go work now produced is certainly a lot inventive coders managed to get it to do "Wow!". But enough of the old days. higher than back in the late 8 0 s/early so. A mamcly strobing se rie s of acid Recently 'the scene' has slipped from 90s but that's only to be expected smiley faces w e re put together w ith a prominence in many Amiga circles, so really as we have more resources at rough and ready rendition o f Stakker's has it had its day, or is it just that it's our fingertips. The thought of Humanoid, a big rave anthem o f the day, gone out of fashion? We spoke to producing a demo purely to be run and squeezed into a modest C64, members of Nerve Axis, now the UK's from hard drive would have made !Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Previously in my experience ‘d em o s' had only active group on the international most people keel over with shock in been twee little com binations o f bouncy scene. 1992. On a sadder note, the quality coloured bars and jangly version s o f crap Tango of Nerve Axis: "The size and may be improving but the quantity is tunes. It was the first dem o I ever saw feel of the scene has changed shrinking. that measured up to established forms of dramatically. The Amiga is now "Old hands constantly talk about the art and entertainment. 1 w a s excited. approaching lor has approached?) the 'old days' in an affectionate manner cult status era, and as a and it's true, the early 90s were the result of this, a lot of best years for a lot of people, simply talented individuals have because the scene was so active, but moved to the PC and/or times change and w e must change moved into the with them. People are still supporting commercial arena. The the Amiga and there's no reason for global spread of the that to change." Internet has brought the remaining people together Dawn of the Net in way never before The Ripper: "Internet is the name. The possible, but at the same history of the scene can be split into time there is always a two eras, before and after Internet. destructive and pessimistic Before, contacting people was element within the scene something extremely difficult and that sees doomsaying as expensive, so, all members of a crew their only 'creative' input. A would have to live if not in the same sham e. "The scene is in a way a ______reflection of the Amiga hardware. When the In the b e g in in g machines were being produced and The arrival of the Am iga on m illions of sales were booming, the scene iktops around the world provided a flourished and popularity grew, but ger. better, brighter stage for these when Escom took over and the ky code artists. While the point of uncertainty set in, people moved away many demos w a s still to act a s a flashy in droves and others refused to take nt end to cracked software, legitimate the plunge and buy into a financially ders began to distance themselves unstable platform, and so went toward i the pirates and put their efforts into the PC. FEATURE

r town, in the same area. Now it's possibie WO Vi to have productive groups featuring members from different countries. Maybe the 'spirit' w as better once, but I trust in progress, and I prefer nowadays..." U S: "in tho se early um w here ! made each day. There f pioneering, of doing som ethii ne had done before To push the limits of what was possible B u t w h y ? became the norm, to make world records So at least it’s out in the open 1 | guess.' In code and so on. Now. we've tried most not \ main reas of what can be done, or at least w e think ways. Why then do those still involve so, so demos tend to look like one stick wii another, and it's hard (at least for me and The other diehard nostalgics). to feel this because 'rush' in the stomach, when seeing a new a w a y to demo. Still, the scene continues to get my work fascinate us, and we're a kind of and get resp community where everybody knows other people, even 'ards a l each other" in a very restri idness! ] "In 94/95 the scene hit an all time low N ow that I'm s notf in productivity and members, but after old. sceneing bby. as that, we've slowly become stabilized mainly believini all o f us are in f again, and now the scene is quite an 'differences'. ET em ploym ent so its active place again, thankfully. For me, the a form of art w ay to relax?!?! best scene year was 1991 though." 'official' or 'recog financial reware using a computet :ies can't even le is still chosen and a break even situation imposed by the market, idays, so there's and getting in contact inly no profit for th| with people from rk. There are i everywhere. Just think 'ards of 'fam e' withi that in these seven year; the scene, something Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMI've had the opportunf w e 're only really startini to share ideas with scene to experience recently people from countries with the Relic demo Ira such as Brasil, Israel, isembly 98. Theresa South A frica, Saudi :he im m ense buzz you <; Arabia and even Kuwait! seeing your demo sho' Ganja of Nerve Axis: on a huge projector "I understand people screen in front of who aren't interested in hundreds of people. It's them, especially those ; certainly a great feelir who weren't in the early w h en everyone's talkin 90s when demos didn’ about a project on whic look nearly a s im yo u've worked so hard. as they do today. Then R elic to u s w a s around again I don't understand nths

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Crash explains... Initially, they were one and the same. The demo scene really evolved from the 'warez' scene, from the small intros (cracktros) presented on the front of cracked programs to show off the name of the group which cracked the game. These small intros then evotyedjfltofull p*fij|jftionsJn their own right, through to single file der%#*on a d is k (which were-*pre^)l a s com pilations by groups such as SAE), to trackmpS (autoloading custom disks with as much crammed on one or two disks as |i uaaMWWff Tlj mag a d e m o s on ever-increasing amounts of disks. The final progresapMf%Hpre we see the today, producing large hard drive-only productions. The heritage still exists though, as groups still make intros today. The parties still hold 64K and even 4K intro compos, to see how much people can cram into a set limit. These are often great feats of programming, and some groups specialise in these and not 'full' demos. Ten 'things' about the scene... according to Tango of Nerve Axis

1. It's not a geek thing. We are widened as years have gone by. contribute. Plus it should shock be bought for little more than a by and large (fairly) normal Now a gulf separates the two. most of the new UK people into kebab! Well, maybe throw in a people with a life outside of the At the moment diskmags and realising that mainland Coke as well. We also cater for monitor. An interest in demos are pretty much the only Europeans speak and write childrens parties too. computers is becoming more thing keeping the Amiga scene better English than half of the the norm fo r the 90s individual, in one piece. UK. 8. Not everyone involved on the v e were just ahead of our time scene is under 16. Most of the in taking it up as a hobby. 4. Attend a scene party. 6. Nerve Axis is currently pretty 'big' names still active and Whether it be in your own much the only true Amiga scene enjoying themselves have been 2. If you can program, w rite country or one abroad. Avoid group left and actively in this game since they were music, draw pictures then load the kids playing network Quake supporting and releasing in the kids. I'm one of them. Pretty up your Amiga, get in touch and try socialising. Parties aren'tt United Kingdom any more. I m uch every other member of with someone on the Internet just about staring at a computer’ * hone^^fart to remember when Nerve Axis is the same. We've and become involved in the screen f(|3 w 4 dtifs, they're I last teal and*>roj||| grown up with this machine. Amiga scene. It is not just about the people you demo from an English group Some of us can even grow facial limited to some sm all clique talk w ith 6n the Internet, or other than Nerve Axis. Ara hair. Cool. that accepts no new members. other m emoirs of your group vould sa y som e time New talent is always welcome w ho live in a differJT»t country^— I996pbrhaps. 9. Hey World Of Amiga. Give the and with a decreasing user base Try it. It truly is a superb-* " 1 I sceners something too. Lend us I think the Amiga needs all the experience. ;ene is still alive. So your ears instead of simply help it can get. Remember, ksn't the com mercial talking with the journalists. If I everyone started off somewhere 5. Read the disk magazines side of Amiga realise this? All fill in one more questionnaire with a vanilla A500 (or 1000) so available, such as Pressure, this talent sitting here and about the 'future of the Amiga' don't be put off if you don't ROM, Generation, Seenpoint, doing it for fun. Instead of using only to find no feedback and think you're good enough. Showtime and The Official old anims to show off the nothing changes I think I'll Persevere! Eurocharts. These will give an Amiga in a shop window, why scream. Take notice of us as insight into what happens, who not get in contact with a 'scene' we're the ones who keep buying 3. Please don't confuse the are the movers and shakers and group and commission them to the new technology. creation of demos w ith cracking. upcoming events. It certainly design a fullscale demo to run They started from the same can't hurt, and in some cases and make prospective buyers go 10. Can't think of a num ber ten. point but the divergence has you may be ideally suited to "Wow". Most of these guys can Sorry. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM

Where to next? the competitions, and a lot of them put which are really anything special. I guess What of the future then? D o es the scen e m any of the supposedly superior PC to with this new processor, it's a learning have one at all? sham e. process and everything Crash: "The Amiga demo scene is "There have really has to start all currently developing towards cult status, already been a over again. I can see something akin to that now enjoyed by couple of PPC the demo scene the C64. People at Assembly 98 were dem os released for dividing somewhat - very impressed at the quality of the the Amiga, neither of into a PPC direction and Amiga demos and intros in also many people sticking with the 'C la ssic' A m iga. I fo resee th e Am iga stifl being around at the parties in five years time, and hopefully even longer. W h ile th e new machine!?) and the PC t get more powerful, there will still always be the challenge to see what people can do with the 'limited' Am iga." If you’d like to get in on the scene, make yourself known to any demo group you like the look of (investigate the demos' readme docs for contact details) as they're always open to newcomers. Specifically. IRIS are after a talented pixel graphician but whether you're a coder, a graphic artist or a musician you'll be welcomed into the fold, providing you bring something to the party! ■ Tony Horgan ^ u Mmigo iviagazine nas iw o survivors rro H old days of Commodore U ser: N ew s pag and Screen Scene. We‘re not sure exactl when it all started because records do n< far enough back into murky prehistory to record the origins of this section, but it t Ffor almost fifteen years. That decade and a h he bulk of the history of the computer game, of us wasted our childhoods skiving off scho nvaders a few years before that, but Screen een here to watch computer games transfon jrs and 5K to the 24-bit CD-ROM games of tc Sadly, as the years have gone more and more of the most e inq develoDments have of

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Late Putty Don’t waste '. hen we put TFX on our coverdisks a year ago. your dreams! i‘I thin- anyone at CU knew quite what we After playing the latest .. :'e lotting ourselves in for. Ever since, we've demo of Vulcan's next h'ic! :.f;op|e writing in and asking us to cover- commercial release for ount mofe unreleased g im es, Simon the the Amiga, w e can •cerer 2. Magic Carpet. Frontier 2. Pizza report that it's looking Tycoon. Putty Squad... like quite a stunner. Some of these games were never finished, ^Designed for owners of t;rs were hut w e happen to know that they ^CD-ROM drives and .■.ore far too 'ubbish to be worth it. That eliminat­ requiring only marginal­ ed most of the options, but one notable survivor ly more memory than of the process is System 3's Putty Squad now an unexpanded A1200, soon to be released by Alive Media Soft. On a Wasted Dreams thrusts est to rescue your fellow putties, you lead a you 60 years into the »c like goo around a multi lay- future and puts you in our way scrolling environment with a range the place of a young ______s , objects to pick up and drop, and environ- military soldier turned [jjy 11 puzzles. Armed only with a mean right hook space explorer by the h ^ HHBHB body that can twist, stretch, float balloon - name of Johanson. navigator body shield ound the screen and generally putty around. Finding himself th ro w i^ j| r Squad has all the hallmarks of being a true from an exploding ^ ' a c of the 2D platform genre. space ship in an escape pod. only to crash land Wasted Dieams on the planet he was leaving just alittle while beforehand, not only is body shi elds (unlike the demo), which means you our hero incrediblylcalmincredibl$calm and collected enough to should get to explore some of the beautifully write all of his thoughts dowrrdow n inIn a diary, but hand-drawn scenery which looks incredibly varied. i Agillera just happens to be populated with an , as you can see from some of the screenshots on f ideal number of green-skinned alien beings to m these pages and get to talk to. interact with and make Johanson's time on the planet as eventful even shoot some of the quite realistic, rotoscoped as possible. Stiff,Still, whc'sgoingwho/sgoing to argue with such characters. If the full game is as varied and as convoluted plotlines when you can jump straight captivating as the screenshots we’ve seen, in and play the demo on this month's CD* After Wasted Dreams will certainly live up to its name J j playing the demo here in the CU Amiga offices and keep you awake at night. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMand mentioning a few things to Vulcan, they have assured us that any minor glitches will be L a m b d a C Pitty Squad in aga nwiti-coioar overload. looked into before the final release^ It can get More details have emerged about space war game quite frustrating when, for example, you have to Lambda. Development has continued apace and ;? There are no Tomb Raider style 3D realms, and line yourself up properly with the enemy in order things are getting rather exciting. A whole bunch of doesn’t have the ultra smart modem sophistica- to shoot them whereas they seem to be able to features like hypertunnels, enemy Al and custom on of the Abe’s Odyssey games, but this throw- get you in their sights with surprising regularity, sound routines have been added, and an experimen­ ack to the heyday of bright cartoony platformers even if they're not in a direct lin ew ith your char- tal 70fps PPC port has been made - although PPC s certainly a welcome one to us if it is profession- acter. The demo appears to be rather strict on the support is still undecided. The Lambda team are now I enough. Putty Squad has good looking AGA position of your character when trying to interact looking into the possibilities of using chromakeyed iraphics and plenty of variation. From the demo with other elem ents of the game, which can give real actors along the lines of the PC hit F*rivateer 2. have played, it has the gameplay potential to the false impression that they’re not important One of the most exciting sounding aspects is the e well worth adding to your game collection. when you first come across them, and some of introduction of LambdaC. an internally compiled by Playing Putty Squad is like taking a trip back to the situations you find yourself in can defy expla- tecode based scripting language, inspired by • early nineties, but unlike so many video gam e nation, .like the spikey balls which bounce down QuakeC. LambdaC is designed to allow complex < ostalgia trips, this one isn’t looking set to be a corridors, and take big chunks out of your body scripting of in game functions for mission design. letdow n at all. shield for no apparent reason. Wasted Dreams, It will accept cut-scenes for linking or intro anima­ Putty Squad will be released for £14.99. proba­ being an amalgamation of Monkey Island style tions. and importing oi replacement models for bly in mid October. If you pre-order now. Alive i | puzzles and Chaos Engine style gameplay. is as ships. We might just see someone producing a Media Soft are offering it for £12.99. Contact much about thinking ahead as it is about shoot- WipEout Lambda total conversion at some them on -44(0)1623 467579, or email steve- ing whateve you come across. The final point! ■ [email protected]. release w ill

W h e re n o w ? Screen Scene closes up shop now, but that Net if you aren't already. Amongst the many shouldn't be taken to mean that there will be valuable resources on the Net are two excellentl no more games to find out about. You'll find Amiga games 'zines, Amiga Flame (www.ami- that there are other magazines that cater for gaflame.co.uk) and Amiga Nutta your needs. Amiga Format will no doubt suit (www.nutts.demon.co.uk). Check them out, most of you, but our overseas readers will they are both great. There's also comp.sys. often find local equivalents such as Amazing, amiga.games amongst the Usenet newsgroups,! Informer, Info, Magazyn, Plus and so on. a place for Amiga gamers to meet, discuss and | You would also do very well to be on the ask for tips. See you there! Sixth Sense Investigations

■ Price: £29.99 ■ Available from: Epic Marketinge © 01793 490988

It's too early to start proclaiming a renaissance, but it is at least fair to say that graphical adventure games are starting to enjoy a bit more respect again these days.

ith Big Red Adventure and most notably Day of the Tentacle. now Sixth Sense It is impossible to be "killed" or to Investigations, those who hit a dead-end in the game. This have just completed Mon­ can be a blessing and a curse - key Island lor the 30th more on that later. timeW at least have a few more options. Sixth The idea of the game is inno­ Sense was actually released some time ago cent enough. Your character, on floppy (many of them), and is finally see­ Frank, is the proprietor of a small ing a proper CD release complete with full detective agency. Your staff con­ speech, not to mention extensive hard drive sists of a pesky mouse that lives savings in the floorboards, Ben, a some­ what wild-looking individual with In case you forgot the ability to tap into the spirit The full graphical adventure evolved from the world to help you solve cases, E H ftniM E impulse to get away from all-text adventures and Arthur, an inhabitant o f said I f S E Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM{which could be exquisitely crafted prose or spirit wodd. But you've got the big — quick and dirty diversions - see the May pipe crammed in your face, so that makes can disable voices at any point during the 1998 issue for more details) or mixed you the ringleader of the ragtag group. (Later game, but if you're in the middle of a text/still graphics gam es. Sierra's King's in the game you become Ben for certain exposition there's nothing you can do Ouest is typically identified a s the mould- scenes.) ten carefully. A "voice and text" option wd breaker, but even it relied on a good deal of Although the packaging is rather straight­ have been nice. And then there's the mex-1 text input. LucasArts's SCUMM system is forward, the instruction manual is bound in plicable transformation that was done on 1 considered by many to be the perfection of the shape of a detective's notebook - a very Frank's voice - on the CD it is stored bolhij the form - a GUI where characters can be nice touch. The typeface is rather small, its original form, and in a slowed-down ver. moved simply by clicking on a destination, unfortunately. Further, it’s a very good idea to sion to give him a deeper voice, but it’s very where inventory management is easily done both read the manual and watch the game's obvious to the ear that is exactly what has | by scrolling around a list, and there is a small intro cldSely. They provide very different sets been done, and it’s very irritating. And Fra on-screen list of commands - usually very of information about the game wodd. but says a lot of irritating things, so it’s only simple, "talk to ', "use", "give", '•examine" . understanding both is necessary, because made worse. and so forth. Coincidence or not, SCUMM very early on the game presumes you under­ games also tended to be quite whimsical in stand who is who and what history you have A D ifficult Assignment tone. with them. By the developer's own admissions. Sixth Sixth Sense follows very closely in those The CD edition of Sixth Sense adds high- Sense is quite difficult. They didn't want ai footsteps Further, it adopts the "no-kill" phi­ quality digitized speech to virtually every bit one to feel they hadn't gotten their money's losophy of some of the LucasArts games. of text encountered within the game. This worth - in fact, the authors claim that even replaces the normal text display with a walkthrough in hand, completing thl 4 That of the floppy version. The talents game takes between 8-10 hours! The curvf appears to unleashed on the world in this is fairly steep, though - most gam es, regar be a Queem' game won't be giving your less o f difficulty, present a few "warm-up" poster on favourite radio performers a run scenes to build comfort and confidence wit) his bedroom for their money any tim e soon - the game world and the story, but Sixth w all. I don’t in general, the job they do is Sense affords no such luxuries. (There's a think I want more or less adequate, although locked door that can't immediately be there are a few places where the opened in your own bedroom, for goodnes actor didn't grasp the of sake!) There is certainly an epic adventure his line and so spoke it with the feel, however, especially when you are able wrong em phasis, and other to step beyond the bounds of the conven­ places where the speech gets a tional world and head into one of the two bit mumbly and you wish you'd more unusual realms - that of the robots or turned the text display on. You that of the cartoons. It's not very likely that communicate with the spirit of a sarcastic man." But hey, sometimes a hit is a hit no matter who wrote it first: "Heroic quests are waiting for the detectives, for example the investigation in a cheese storage." The verdict on Sixth Sense is that,

< Is that a overall, it is a solid effort. The "no-kill" radiator policy creates a serious problem that I don't knob on his think the game designers fully appreciated, head... or is however. In a game where one can make he just fatal or "no-win scenario” mistakes, it's possi­ pleased to ble to learn from those mistakes. (“Oops! see you? The house blew up when I turned the lights on. I guess I'd better make sure the gas isn't stuck on before I do that next time.") In a game like Sixth Sense, however, that can't happen. One w ay to solve that problem would be, for example, to have the character say "I don’t think I should turn the lights on - it sm ells like gas in here!" Unfortunately, in Sixth Sense there aren’t many "I can't do that, but here's a clue" clues. Typically, the game just feeds you a stock ”1 can’t/don't want to do that thing” line which is fantasti­ you're the type who picks up a new game the new "Vega" system, works quite well, and plays through a weekend that you'll be but there were a surprising number of loca­ done by Monday morning. It's still unfortu­ tions that the main character doesn’t walk to nate that the "pre-game" wasn't a bit more properly - taking a detour only to turn > l k V 3, because it's nice to feel an early around again. This happens most noticably sense of accomplishment before being on the main map screen, a nice addition to a T + * thrown into the story proper. For example - game like this one. where each location you w m — 1 * * , in Zak McCracken. LucasArts's second can visit fin the early going, such places as a •MM game, the title character had to face laboratory, a used car dealer and garage, a IP jh challenges as retrieving a cash card toy manufacturer, a cheese shop) are shown from under his desk and finding his remote roughly to scale on a scrolling map that you -» 0 PE« e i / f fi Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMcontrol (under the sofa cushion, where else?) can take Frank down. □ n m i before tackling the larger issue of saving the I was pleasantly surprised with the quality □ E M i world from alien mindbenders. I didn't feel I of the graphics in Sixth Sense. While it’s was treated to such a warmup, obviously derivative of the LucasArts style. cally unhelpful. And despite the manual’s fair however ..you walk out of your office with a Sixth Sense's artists had the good sense not warning that the gam e uses "a totally sick few items in hand and are suddenly on the to simply clone it wholesale. The art is pleas­ logic", it doesn't explain that said logic may main game map where a half-dozen puzzles antly steeped in fantasy without being overly not be very clear to you even after you stum­ await you and it’s not at all clear in which gaudy or distracting. fThe comic proportions ble on the right solution. For example, if I tell der you should try to solve them. of Ben’s slouch and Frank’s pipe were a bit you that you can put the piggy bank but not Sixth Sense's interface is about as annoying, though.) If only the animation met the tennis ball into the barrel of acid, could 3htforward as they come - nine com- the quality of the still images. Characters you tell me why? I can’t tell you w hy either. js , plus an implicit "walk to." By default. don't walk so mi/ch as glide through the And it doesn't multitask very well - boo, hiss! game, and even then not always An unlimited load/save capability rounds smoothly - such as when Ben off the package. The flaws in Sixth Sense are sets off on his first assignment of there, but they don't stop it from being a the game in the early going. pleasant, even rewarding game once you get into a rhythm. The CD version J a , F u n n y ! represents superior value if for no other What would happen if a group of reason than convenience - my guess is that Germans and Italians got together, you won't want to leave the speech on wrote an adventure game, and full-time. ■ then had it translated into English? Jason Compton Why, Sixth Sense Investigations, of course! The now-famous Amiga Translator Organization (ATO) lent Sixth Sense Investigations a Herculean hand to the conver­ ■ Processor...... 020. AGA | sion of Sixth Sense, but there are ■ Disk*...... he pointer on-screen acts as a "walk to" indi- quite a few reminders that what you're hear­ ■ RAM 2Mb (4 lor speech) I ing for reading, if you can't take the r. but when placed over an object or per­ ■ HD...... Required son. it switches to the "most likely" action voiceovers) probably didn't come from the push for a button, talk for a person, take for pen of a native speaker. OVERALL many other objects, etc.) In this way. the Even the game's promotional materials Uneven at times but still a I T interface is something of a synthesis have that "straight from the translation dic­ worthy submission to the world O ' L between the SCUMM and the Sierra inter­ tionary” feel - "The base storyboard tells of of adventure gaming. I* faces. Most of the time the game, written in a crazy young guy who has the ability to GAME REVIEW

X-Men: Ravages of the Apocalyps

■ Price: £18.99 ■ Developer: Zero Gravity ■ Available from: Alive Media Soft © 01623 467579

Marvel Comics' famous mutants make it to your Amiga, by way of this commercial Quake conversion.

t might seem obvious for an X- Although professionally done, they are with Men licensed Quake conver­ a few exceptions rather uninspiring, with lit­ sion to let the player play a s an tle of the clever constructional trickery X-Man, but would be a bit of a which marks a really good Quake game. waste of the licence fee if you never actually The biggest problem most people will saw the licensed characters short of looking have with X-Men is that it is damn hard. in a mirror. Instead, Zero Gravity have come Even the weakest x-clone is likely to take a up with an appropriately convoluted plot couple of hits from your best weapon, and ► Go on. shoot down those X- about a pair of supervillains who are plan­ their superpowers can make them really clone scum... ning on taking over the world with an army tough work. Storm can summon up winds of X-Clones. This gives you the opportunity to blow you around the place. Iceman can launcher, you can't chose your character. I to fight famous X-Men characters and gets temporarily freeze you, and. Wolverine keeps Zero Gravity told us they love the idea of X- H all those licensed images on screen as often getting up after you thought you’d killed Men on the Amiga and will be sending AliveH as possible. The plot seems like nonsense him. If you aren't conversant with circle the codes to make multi-player work, so to me, but then X-Men is not my type of strafing or, heaven forbid, use keyboard only expect an Amiga launcher for this soon. comic strip and I concede that Cerebus the (some people do) just forget about this I'm not hugely impressed with X-Mei Aardvark might be less appropriate for a game, you'll be dead before you know Ravages of the Apocalypse. It’s definite Quake total conversion. what’s happening. not rubbish, and if you are an X-Men fan j X-Men: Ravages of the Apocalypse is On the PC. a custom launcher is used to you are certain to appreciate it. but for j graphically well put together, and manages configure the Quake engine properly to most people, until multi-player is workini without too many hefty textures, keeping cope with the multi-player section. This the CU Superstar winning Time of the speed up. Weapons are all upgraded allows you to pit X-Men against each other, Reckoning disk bundled as a and look pretty nice, and the character using their superpowers. This is much the launcher will actually be a lot graphics are impressive. Level design does best thing about this game, but unfortunately more fun. ■ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMnot keep up to these standards, alas. without an Amiga version of the custom Andrew Korn Quake: Resurrection

■ Price £25 (£50 with Quake) ■ Available from: Alive Media Soft. © 01623 467579

Getting bored of Quake? The Resurrection Pack aims to bring it back to life.

ere's the deal. Twenty five quid collection of vast scope which makes and you get Time of Reckoning. games of Quake enormously variable. Q- Q-Zone and Malice. Another Zone is a much more Quake like conversion twenty five and the game’s yours than Malice, the only obvious difference too. Q-Zone and Malice are Quake total con­ being four new monsters and a new versions, while Time of Reckoning - bundled to weapon which fires ninja stars. Level graph­ make launching them easier - is a collection ics are often ugly and design is all over the of Quake add-ons with an easy front end. place, with signs of rushed work (texture M alice w e reviewed in the Jun e issue at peeling) in places. Probably the weakest £15, and it got a Superstar. Tim e of commercial add on I’ve played, certainly less set in a jumbo jetl Reckoning got a Superstar last issue at a ten­ interesting than PainKeep, a shareware con­ Thanks to Malice and Time of Reckoni ner. I'd say any Quake owner ought to get version included in Time of Reckoning. The the resurrection pack certainly does what it both, meaning Q-Zone comes for free, fortu­ only really good part is the deathmatch level sets out to do. If you haven't got Quake yet. I nate given that it is the worst of the bunch. £50 with those two bundled should not be I I won’t go into detail with the two I have • missed. If you do, you can think of this as O j already reviewed, but to recap: Malice is Zone for free when you buy Quake plus, with external views, vehicles, Malice and Time of Reckoning. superb design, lovely graphics and a narra­ Either way. a recommended tive with cut scenes - probably the best purchase. ■ game on the Amiga. Time of Reckoning is a Andrew Korn T ips Central

Firstly I'd like to thank C U for letting me be part of the crew, you've done a fantastic job and I hope to see you all involved with the Amiga in the future - 'We need dedicated people like you!' Now for the last solutions, this side of the millenium anyway.

Sixth Sense bank. Then you have to head back You need a wire Investigations to prison and pick up the clock on my friend. You'll fvs gotten as far as Toons City, but the wall. You might grab the glue find it by following now I suddenly have no idea on what on the desk while you're back this procedure: Go to do, Please help! there, as you'll need it soon. Back to the cave with outside the bank you'll meet the four holes in the PM McCracken, Belfast fugitive, and BANG! As a last hint wall. Look into the I'll say there's an envelope in the holes and some­ Ml try to give you a hard push mailbox, and som e sticky fingers thing should pop then. Go as far to the right as you might help you grab it. out. Now look into can on the screen with the statue. the far right hole Use the doorbell, and a speaker on U ltim a IV and you should see the statue should start making I've found seven pieces of the some twigs. Use it sounds Answer all the questions missing map but now I'm stuck on with the seaweed I any way you want, and just cry level two of Dungeon Wrong unable hope you already like a baby until they let you in. to get any further! Please aid me in have in your inven­ Now talk to Mr Peanuts until you my quest. tory, and you've Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMhave nothing more to talk about. made yourself a mask. Grab the spraycan and the bottle Joe Maplin, Cleethorpes Go to the 'Computer Cave' Simon the Sorcerer before you leave for Glen's store and look into the hole in the wall. How do I get into Golum's cave by (It's the only one that's open). The map piece can be found in There's what you need. Now take the waterfall? He juit keeps saying Spray the only pair he has on Dungeon Wrong. Try going to level the computer and head for the "My Mum always told me not to display before you steal his three where you'll find the Hydra's cave with the plank. Stand behind party with strangers"! account book and the newspaper. Chamber, and in it a secret door hid­ the plank and throw the comput­ Give the book to the policeman ing what you seek. er. Enjoy the ride and pick up the Roger Bannister. Melton Mowbray hiding in the shadow of the statue. magnet when you land. Back in Next you have to free the guy the cave that used to be the one Well., this is a tricky one. It's stuck in prison. To do it you have Curse of Enchantia with the computer, use the string more than tricky actually. It's to go back and forth between the I can't get past the part where the with the magnet, and throw it impossible! You're not supposed staff talking, until the guard falls sand monsters come up from the onto the hole. You now have to get in. What you can do is give asleep. Now use the scissors on ground. Please help! what you need. the Golum a nice jar of the desk to get the keys for the cell Swampling's Stew. He'll give you door. Free the guy and go to the Gill Bates, Derby Quest for Glory - his fishing rod in return, so why Hero's Quest don't you try your luck fishing? I can't get in to see the baron. The guards tell me "you need the barons permission". I've selected my charac­ Zak McKracken ter to be a fighter. Please help. I have the blue crystal and the crystal shard, but how do I get my Stan Dingsby, Hereford hands on the crystal in Mexico? Also, what do I do in Stonehenge? The baron doesn't see just any­ body. You'll need to prove that Ben Doon, Perth you're interested in his welfare. H you ask the guards about the In Mexico find your way through baron and all his problems they the maze to the map room, were might eventually realise that you you'll find the crystal. Now use might be able to help him solve the yellow crayon on the strange som e of them. Ask about the marking, and draw the symbol baron, his son, his daugther, from the huge statue on Mars. At Yorick, Babayaga. and about brig­ Stonehenge try using the blue ands. Now you should get it:) crystal on the altar stone. Founding Worlds 4 Explorer 2260 dial From the start, designing Explorer's look has been a unique challenge. With a huge game universe, its visuals couldn't feel mundane... graphics artist Rob Asumendi takes you through the pitfalls and surprises of bringing it to life.

ew projects are more reward- f l ing or frustrating than design- I ing the future. Theoretically.

_F U L M the,e a ,e n0 limitations to what goes - creating aliens, spaceships, and intergalactic delicacies makes for much more artistic freedom than you'd get working on. say. a racing game. Since aerodynamics don't apply in space, a ship may be any shape. Alien aesthetics throw the door open for an even wider range of design possibilities, but in prac­ tice, the audience’s imagination throws a wrench in the works A spaceship needs to look like a space­ ship. Feedback on one early fighter design Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMexplains: “It's not a spaceship, it's an egg carton with wings!" TV shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation and Babylon 5 have opened many minds to very different designs (the Vorlons with their organic spaceships, space inhabiting creatures, etc) but a large portion of the creative possibili­ ties remain unseen. This is something The evolution may be creating an intelligent ere World Foundry wants to remedy with ture that looks like a car seat with 6 1/2 tat Explorer. On the other hand, if a design looks legs attached. Alas Explorer’s critics would too much like what the people have already interpret this creature as just a poor remli' seen, they say. Hey. you've |ust ripped off they just expect humanoid or animal forms Star Wars!' With every new blockbuster film, Some of our races are a deviation from the it gets harder to create an original design. norm though: the Sar'Den and the Rahn lor Explorer's graphics artists must compete instance. with the professionals behind television The original plans lor constructing shows and video games, producing ships Explorer's aliens misfired when SETI (the U- that are at least reasonably familiar yet based Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligent unique. Because of the inevitable compar­ project) told us that they actually had no ph isons to Frontier: Elite 2 duplicating one of tographs of extra terrestrials. Plan B w a s m those ships, for example, is unthinkable. haled - 1 would have to design them myse: The guiding concern for our spaceships H ow to do it? remains functionality. Expect to see many To begin with, only the Ovaskans had a useful' designs and details Each ship must required look - large and insectoid w hich have an airlock, docking clamps, landing meant lots of collaboration wilh Chris. gear, weapons mounts, power systems, and Countless sketches had to bo made of sucl som e cargo space. Some races, like the a foreign creature, from almost every angle Mogensen. build more artsy forms, but we A good place to find ideas w as the Internel humans will spend billions on design effi­ microscopic images of dust mites and othe ciency to save pennies on production costs. tiny, ferocious creatures provided the msp.r In other words, just like nowl tion for features like the spikes, hands, and face. Final sketches then were drawn to scale in all three critical positions Hop. from Aliens must also look familiar of course and side). About a Lightwave week later. there's no telling what strange and bizarre Explorer's first creature made its way to the things could be out there... as you read this. yclopaedia Galactica. Listening to Moby’s Becoming a Video Game Artist ■iimal Rights" album always brings back ■fimories of m odelling the Ovaskan. as I card it for the first time during those long, W hat are the Risks? >ng hours, Well, there are quite a tew. The style of the game may not be right for you, the team may fold before A fte r that, the game just kept getting the game's complete, you will lose several hours of free/sleep time per week |l spend over a dozen ■ er. Som e alien faces were much more on average with Explorer), you may not find a publisher, or at least a good one, and thus might not : iiio u s than the effective but simplistic get paid, and you must constantly monitor the state of the market. Any of these things may leave ivaskan. Subtle models called for such tech- you and your artwork out in the cold. The best precaution to take is to research teams thoroughly i.;os as spline patching, metaformations, before committing. Make sure it’s a game you're enthusiastic enough about. If a group has a mailing .^BS and using a much faster machine! list, join it. That's the best way to find out who they are. Remember, good graphics artists are few t w a s tim e to diversify - and to turn off and far between. Every aspiring coder will want you, but make sure you want them. •e com p ute r.

tra-Terracottas Do I have to know 3D? here’s no telling what a thorough search of This is something I definitely wondered about before joining the Explorer team, as its relevance in tte re d room will turn up. As it happens, the video game market has become ever more apparent. The answer might surprise you though, me tu rn e d up a block of unused modelling because it's 'No'. A good basis in 2D is all you need to get started on video games. 3D can be . and a cheap plastic cup. The clay was learned in a couple months - my first spaceship (pictured here) is proof. This image was created i iy fu n stuff, and the cup had a curvature shortly before my joining the team in May '97. Prior to that, I had only used 3D software for logos, • r'e ct for sculpting a face over. In about but my 2D training dates back to pre-school. Don't be afraid if you don't know the difference : hours, the first Mogensen w as a physi- | between inverted non-planar polygons and Boolean subtraction macros... if you can draw, you'll be entity. He had no body, or back to his I a very useful addition to any development team - just as long as you are willing to learn. 11, but the results were encouraging. A t lifetim e of a crylic painting suddenly So, should I really join? ed its value, a s the model transfigured If you love doing your artwork, and have considered the idea long enough to ask the question, then m a sterile shape to living colour. From yes. Helping to make a video game will refine your talents (and probably uncover new ones), create coint, the model was digitised and real goals, give an enormous sense of completion when those goals are realised, and develop collab­ hed up in ImageFX {the graphics tool of oration skills - certainly Explorer 2260 has been a collaboration like no other project I've worked on. oice, barring none) for dramatic effect. It It can give a younger person a sense of direction towards their career, or allow an older person to > to show that, attached to them a s we finally pursue a lifelong interest. Both will make new friends. A great opportunity in your life could iv be. our computers are just tools like a be an email away! thrush or a chisel. An artist should

an ’060/50 well over an hour to render, mak­ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMing testing and ‘quick’ checks a laborious process. It’s easy to eat up an entire week when rendering, but thankfully, the Amiga still multitasks well enough to work on differ­ ent' aspects of the game during that time. From a developer's standpoint, the new Amigas are incredibly exciting for this very reason I for one. hope that development information is made available soon. This is the final part of the E2260 Diary because of CU Amiga's closure after this issue. All of us in World Foundry are deeply

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vs lake their respective advantages and About 50 spaceships are prb&ent in a n y ' " — . advantages into account when choosing given scene, som e containing qifHe a few he right one for the job. more. Add to that half a gigabyte of t&xture maps, some of which weigh in at 15M B^x. d Finally, each Many of these will make their way into he Introduction... the game engine thanks to its advanced ­ v one person knows much of anything turing features. To date. 1500 frames have Extreme saddened at this being the end of the road •'out the intro movie to Explorer. That situa- been rendered out of an estimated 2000. The detail is the for the magazine but would like to thank n shall remain unchanged until musician final product may be downscaled to ham8. game when it TonV« Andrew. Neil and the rest of the staff ir.cn Monteiro produces the accompanying but early tests are indistinguishable from true comes to f0r giving us the wonderful opportunity to sic. and for good cause. With hundreds of colour. Expect action, comedy, drama, brav­ textures.1 This share wi,h lhe r®aders development of c jr s spent modelling, texturing, lighting, ery, sacrifice, and romance! Well, maybe not one weighs in our game and giving it a distinctive appear­ .m g. and producing effects, the last thing so much romance, save that for the next ance. We will ofcourse share any news of mtro should be is old hat! So. w hile no game.... E2260's development with the last big Amiga n enshots will be published, here are a Producing such a large animation really magazine Amiga Format. Goodbye, old .v technical specs. Each frame is rendered demonstrates the Amiga's need for new friend. ■ i■ a resolution of 376 X 240 in 24 bit colour. processors like PowerPC. Some frames take Rob Asumendi and The World Foundry We're saying goodbye, but not before giving you the long awaited low- NetConnect 2 down on two of the most eagerly awaited prod­ ■ Price: £59.95 ■ Available: Active ucts; NetConnect 2 and The Ateo Tower. ® 01325 460116

Connecting to the Net

52 NETCONNECT 2 has never been easier. David Stroud gives you one rea­ son to get connected to the David Stroud takes Internet. apart the software bundle that Active 56 NEWSROG Neil Bothwick looks at a brilliant Technology have only new news reader program. just put together.

57 REXECUTE hree or four years ago, a never know - you might just like the intt Neil Bothwick. dissects this package like NetConnect 2 gration that NetConnect 2 has to offer. latest ARexx compiler. would have been hailed as som e kind of m ysterious fruit In the beginning... from the Gods I Net God him­ Genesis, the underlying TCP (Transfer 58 POWER CDR self, perhaps?) 8ut then, three or four years Protocol) stack used to get you connected to Richard Drummond tries out this ago, netizens were the equivalent of the 'net, is a breath of fresh air compared to superb CD recorder Irom Power. Stoneage Man - banging stones and rub­ older versions of AmiTCP The compreh. bing sticks together just to make a fire. Prefs program will be of particular interest to 03 NetConnect 2 is an integrated suite of experienced users, who may wish to tweak 61 ATEO TOWER Internet software, covering a range of their Internet connection, set up a LAN Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMRichard Drummond asks if we need Internet services - Email, News. FTR IRC. Area Network), create multiple accounts with another A1200 tower solution Telnet, the World Wide Web - all in one fell separate passwords and configurations, or o swoop. NetConnect 2 is to the average a few bells and whistles to their default si netizen what a Zippo lighter would have If more than one person uses your Ai 62 ATEO BUS been to Stoneage Man: Powerful and ver­ for connecting to the Internet, you'll be da Richard Drummond tests out this satile, yet easy to use. ing in the streets after using the multiple budget expansion card. The provided script makes installation a accounts feature of Genesis. Rather than j breeze, and allows you to choose which forcing everyone to use the sam e setup, sif} elements and programs you would like through the sam e list of websites, IRC 64 KODAK DC210 copied to your hard drive. Installing the servers and email addresses or even use the CO Andrew Korn sees if the DC210 complete package is the best option, even same ISP setting up separate accounts for ' Zoom is worth the money. for those who are already 'netted up and each user with different passwords will aim familiar with other programs, because you each user to use their own ISP and keep all their contact infor-; 66 PD NET mation in the Dave Stroud, helps himself to his Contact Manager final sackful of PD booty. separate from everyone else's. For the inexperi­ 68 PD POST enced netizen, or Richard Orummond plays with his even the experi­ floppies for the last time. enced one who wants to see how easy it is to get 70 ART GALLERY connected these Andrew Korn peruses those digi­ days (so they can I tal art contributions. argue that it w as I so much better ] when you had to 1 72 USER GROUPS do everything by 1 Contact lots of other fluffy Amiga- hand,even though I deep down they know it's not true), A The huh of the NetConnect 2 package, the Contact Manager does a sterling job keeping the Genesis Wizari track of all poor names, addresses, phone numbers, neb addresses. IRC servers... is the business its hotlist to the Contact Manager, Microdot-ll can use the information contained within Contact Manager's database for emailing purposes, and so on. A s it recognises the multiple accounts offered by Genesis, it’s possible to keep your names and addresses separate from those of any other user. On load­ ing, a requester asks you for your username and password, to make sure you’re accessing your database of information and no-one else's. The level of integration between the separate programs provided ▲ For downloading all manner of files, AmFTP does by the Contact Manager certainly the job. makes keeping tabs on all o f your When loaded, all you need to do is tell the information easy, because you only Wizard a few basic details like how to find have to look in one place. What’s your modem, the phone num bers) of your more, you can import existing data provider, your login name and password, and from all sorts of programs that you whether or not it will need to use a login might have already built up an exten­ script to connect to your ISP If you're still sive list of addresses in: , under the impression that getting connected IBrowse. AWeb, AmFTR Dopus, to the Internet these days is a tricky, time- Thor. YAM. Microdot-ll, STFax and consuming business, read the “ Step by AmlRC are already supported. This Step* boxout. feature alone is a life-saver, a s it Once you've configured your setup with saves you having to type everything the Wizard, loading Genesis itself will let you in all over again - an unenviable task, even if you only have one web site in your IBrow se hotlist or one

server configured in Am lRC. A Before and after the moment of connection - the Genesis GUI is both informatiie and highly configurable Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMManage your contacts O f course, you'll have to be careful that you don’t leave this information available to other ly, as anyone who's ever had to recover an users after you've imported it into the important file will understand). Contact Manager: It would be all too easy to A s well as protecting information, it would forget about that IBrow se hotlist and leave it perhaps be an idea to allow one user to send lying around for other users to import the information across to another user's database, very sam e information. Perhaps an option to so that sharing information doesn't require each delete or encrypt the old data files should be user to enter the information separately. That a X-Arc makes dealing with archives a piece of cake. included in a future release (remember that aside, the Contact Manager provides an essen­ deleting a file doesn't get rid of it complete- tial part of the NetConnect 2 package. You could connect to the Internet for your first online session, simply by clicking the "Connect" button. Once you're connected. G enesis will report the connection speed, tell you how MIME long you've been online and show you a little more information like the setup you're using | IM E (Multi-purpose Internet Mail ing with the files you receive via the 'net, and the account you're logged in under. This l a i J Extensions) is a set of standards and add your own definitions if there isn't window is configurable, so you can show as used when exchanging various types of already one to suit your needs. little or as much information a s you like. media over the Internet. Attachments to an The NetConnect 2 package comes with Keeping in Contact email, files downloaded from an FTP site versions of aMiPEG. CyberAVI, CyberQT or transferred over IRC - they all need iden­ and Songplayer for dealing with Mpeg. To help you fully experience the wonders of the Internet. NetConnect 2 provides you with a tifying by the computer they end up on AVI, Quicktime and audio files respectively, big bundle of software which should leave you before they can be used. and plenty of other tools are available from ( wanting for little more than free local calls By using MIME, a picture viewer can be Aminet, so with a little effort on your part, from your phone company. In all. there are ten loaded to display files ending with ".GIF", you should be able to deal with pretty I applications included on the CD (11 if you ".JPG" or ".IFF". Files which end with much any file that's thrown your way, all count Genesis)... AmFTR AmTelnet, AmTerm. "LHA", ".LZX" or ".ZIP" can be passed to thanks to MIME. AmlRC. Microdot-ll. Voyager. Netlnfo, AmTalk, X-Arc for unarchiving - the list is almost If you want to read about M IM E in XArc and the Contact Manager. In other endless and, as you might expect, highly more detail, try the MIME FAQ, available i words, you should be kept busy for a few configurable, allowing you to use the pro­ from: http://www.cis.ohio state.edu/text I months. The Contact Manager provides an grams you have on your system fo r deal­ /faq/usenet/mail/mime-faq/top.html ideal hub around which the other applications can operate. Voyager, for example, can save sit for days al a lime, entering information into Integration Fascination its numerous fields, rearranging groups and NetConnect 2 is all about integration. That’s subgroups, experimenting with sending and w hy it’s bundled together at such a bargain receiving information to and from other price, and that’s why anyone who buys it applications... but you’ve got to stop some­ should install everything to their hard drive at where and look at all those other programs. least once. Alright, so there are a few glitch­ The MIME prefs program is another key es with the software, and setting everything part of the NetConnect 2 package which up in a hurry is inevitably going to cause the //A G ttV M keeps a list of all sorts of filetypes, and odd crash when you least expect it, but if you $ About Active actions that can be performed on them. take it one step at a time and save the Although on its own it doesn't sound that changes you make a s you go along, you'll interesting, coupled with other applications soon have the hang of all this surfing malarky it springs into life, showing any DCC’ed Add to that a fe w extra resources (a nippy Am73*-C w » M -U V g iT a file using the configured tool, without processor, plenty of RAM and a graphics card needing any further intervention from providing you with som e nice large screens) 31 Latest News the user. and you'll be laughing all the w ay to your Furthermore, setting up your MIME online bank. types in Voyager means that AmlRC, However, with the level of integration that AmFTP and XArc will recognise and use the NetConnect 2 suite of programs offers, them, without the need to make the it’s a shame that it falls short in some areas. changes in each individual application. AmFTP may be good, but it’s not as great as a Voyager NG in full flight.

Individual Programs

AmiTCP Genesis A m F T P

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is the com­ For downloading plenty of files, or maintaining a v mon standard used by all computers to com­ site, you'll probably be using Am FTP municate over the Internet. Genesis is the latest version of AmiTCP which offers a high A m T e ln e t degree of configurability and supports multiple accounts. Another program with minority appeal, AmTelnet will Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMallow you to log on to and work on a remote machine, i M icrodot-ll you have an account with a university, for example. > could use telnet to log in and check your mail. Or you 1 ■ On- or off-line email and n ew s reader could just u se it to play M UD s :)

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Internet Relay Chat client, considered by many Allows two users to talk to each other in real time, A to be the best on any platform. precursor to IRC, and will therefore be little used, again, nice to know it’s there if you ever need it. Am Term X - A r c A terminal emulator. Useful for connecting directly to another computer system, such as a Downloading files from the Internet, you'll inevitably ha' Bulletin Board System (BBS). to deal with lots of archives. LHA. IZ X and ZIP files - they’ll all need unarchiving, and X-Arc handles the job t N e tln fo liantly

a Provides information on mrscellaneous Internet D o c k services like Lookup, finger, whois, traceroute and ping. You may never use it. but it’s nice to know The Netconnect 2 dock is a configurable toolbar (not j it’s there. restricted to the NetConnect suite of applications) that sits on a public screen and will launch any program at Contact Manager the click of a button or the press of a hotkey.

An integral part of the Netconnect 2 package, M U I 3 .8 Contact Manager provides centralized access to Email, FTP and Web site addresses, IRC servers m An unregistered version of MUI, used by all the and all manner of other useful information. Netconnect 2 programs, is provided on the CD and is the only part of the package which needs registering V o y a g e r-N G for unrestricted use. Whilst some people may want to avoid it like the plague, without ©J The latest version (2.96.7) of the Web browser MUI. NetConnect 2 would lose all of its configurability Voyager. and integration.

5 4k it was. You can’t upload a directory to a remote site, tor example - instead, you need to create the directory first and copy ou're slill a little concerned about how to actually get your Amiga connected to the internet in the all ot the files across afterwards. When you've used software like Dopus Magellan, fear not. With NetConnect 2. it's this easy: which can treat FTP sites just like any other directory, or FTPMount, which allows

Install the NetConnect 2 software to your hard drive, and reboot so you to a remote FTP site as part of that the necessary assigns take effect. From the Netconnect drawer your system, having to load AmFTP sepa­ on yo u r h ard d riv e , open the "AmiTCP" drawer and double-click the rately from the rest of the NetConnect 2 GenesisWizard" icon. programs just to get access to a remote file server does seem like overkill. Much better would be the possibility of clicking on an "ftp://" link to bring up an icon on Read the text contained in the first window which appears. Turn your your Workbench screen for the remote modem on, click the "next" button. site, and add it to the list of available vol­ umes in file requesters.

Get connected too Having said that, for under 60 pounds you The second page presents you with a choice of using a modem or a really can’t go wrong. The full-colour, multi­ network card - you shouldn't need to alter the default option, so page CD inlay provides what information just click "next". you need to get started (although all you really need to do is pop the CD in your drive) and the online documentation pro­ vided on the CD is both thorough, clearly written and well illustrated, covering not serial d evice" if using the Amiga's internal serial port, or "squir- only the basics of each package but more Iserial d evice" if you're using a Squirrel PCMCIA interface). The advanced topics such as a step-by-step nit setting should be left on "0". Next, choose your modem type guide to setting up a Local Area Network is described, leaving it set to "Generic" if your modem isn't listed. (LAN) with Genesis - interesting reading even if you’re never likely to try. Getting connected to the Internet has EHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM The "initialisation string" on the following page shouldn't need never been easier or more important to the ^ changing. H y o u need to enter a string yourself, "ATF" should be Amiga's future. The Amiga community has ffkient (consult the manual which came with your modem if you gone online, providing those who are con­ 1en't sure) On the same page, enter the dial prefix. Either "ATDT" nected with everything they need By shar­ ‘or tone dialling) or "ATDP" (pulse dialling). ing information with others. Amiga users are ensuring we have a future. PC owners may outnumber us, Amiga magazines may fold, but the online Amiga community »xt. you w ill be asked for three details relating to your Internet remains as bouyant as ever. Buy ervice Provider: The name you use to login, your password, and NetConnect 2, get yourself a modem and e phone number. You should have received this information from join the rest of us online. I promise you :>ur service provider when you subscribed. won’t regret it. ■ Dave Stroud

| oe "protocol" setting on the following page shouldn't need alter- g, as most ISPs now support PPP ("Point-to-Point Protocol"). Your NetConnect 2 SP w ill be able to tell you if they support the PAP/CHAP login pro- dure Otherwise, you'll need to select the "login script" option. System requirements 68020-F, CDRom drive. Hard drive. Internet account.

ie login script itself is recorded from this page, which gives you a cription of the available buttons and lets you control the login _ K. U ia it. Refer to the decBmeatation every tow aid again il necessary. rocess. S h o u ld you need to. you can type directly into the text ox to provide any other information. Take the mtegratiee a step farther, and yM U hare ta prise the CCO l Hbaa a a y ceUt dead fingers

■— T — . — M h — ter you have successfully logged on to your ISP, the Genesis *ard w ill gather some further information directly, disconnect OVERALL id bring u p the final window, which allows you to view the con- If you aren't on the 'net already, uration it has set up, print it, or just save it for future use. You're and you aren’t on the phone >w ready to connect to the Internet. ordering your copy right now, 94 you're mad. NewsRog H§

■ Price: £40.00 ■ Supplier: Questar Productions * http://www.questarproductions.com

News reader programmers face a dilemma, The Competition either make it easy to use and limit the number The obvious comparison is with THOR. of features, or build a powerful program that is The interface is certainly more modern, and initial use is much easier. However, more complex to get started. it doesn't handle email and has no port (aside from the basic one from ow there is a brand new news MUI). If you don't need th e total control reader that attempts to give or email facilities of THOR, NewsRog is N the best of both worlds. a strong alternative. NewsRog boasts a compre­ MicroDot also handles email, and is very hensive specification, especial­ easy to set up and use. But NewsRog is ly for a new program, yet claims to be more a far more powerful program, maybe a user-friendly than most. b it too m uch fo r th e casual n ew s user, First impressions were good, the program but much better for anyone serious installed without a hitch, including some about usenet. comprehensive documentation in HTML. The documentation is excellent, providing a good introduction to Usenet and a series of help, using the browser of your choice on tutorials on setting up and using NewsRog. NewsRog screen, would be a real benefit. Unlike many programs, you cannot start to The MUI bubble help for the various gad; use a news reader until you have set up a and windows is very comprehensive, but Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMbasic configuration. This was pretty simple using broken news readers (or browsers) that ▲ File there are times you need more extensive with NewsRog and fully documented in the omit References: headers, or have an incor­ attachments documentation. As the provided docu tutorials. Once you are online and subscribed rectly set clock. NewsRog copes with thread­ can be tion is already very good, it's a shame tl to some newsgroups, you can choose to ing well, with a single key used to both scroll displayed it's not already linked. download either complete articles for offline the contents of an article and thread to the inline. NewsRog is a very powerful, and n reading, or just get the headers for a group next one when you reach the end. As with ably easy to use. news reader. If you want before selecting articles to download or almost everything else, thread display is con­ news only, say as a complement to YAM. iti read. The integration of online and offline figurable and can be remembered when you well worth a look. The system requirements use is very good; you can use both methods quit, avoiding the need to save settings each may seem high for a news reader, but this A in a single session without any change of time you change something. a powerful program and deserves an Amig^ configuration. The configuration options of NewsRog are to match. If you're still not convinced, havet NewsRog makes extensive use of multi­ immensfe. Although it is easy to set up for ini­ look at the demo on this month's CD. tasking. For example, you can select a num­ tial use. you can spend hours playing with Neil Bothwick ber of groups for header download, then the various filtering, display, killfile and other select some more groups for full download. options. However, it then shows the same While the second batch is downloading, you problems as most programs with a large can start browsing the headers from the first range of options, it can sometimes take sev­ group. You don't even need to wait for a eral attempts to find the place to change a System Requirements: Mimimum: 68020, download to finish before you can start read­ particular option. For example, NewRog has a A GA, 8M B RAM . Recommended: 68040 ing articles. This multi-threaded approach neat filter option to hide signatures, replacing Graphics card. 16MB RAM extends to all aspects of the program. You them with a small box that you click on to can have multiple show the sig. I wanted « NewsRog newsgroup windows to disable this for a has a wide open, reading threads while, but whatever I range of in several groups at did in the Group Filters options and once (this assum es that window made no differ­ a kigllT Does almost anything most peo|pie need ii your brain also supports ence. Later I found configurable concurrent multi-thread­ another setting in the interface. ing and memory global config window. caching). This is a fairly minor I with the shareware alternatives. One .of the most dif­ problem, but is indica­ ficult tasks for a news tive of w hat's involved reader is interpreting with so many options. and showing article threads correctly. It's The documentation is provided in HTM L, so made all the more difficult by other people an option to display context-sensitive online Rexecute Link libraries A link library is a collection of functions that you w rite once and then call from ■ Price: £19.99 ■ Supplier: Weird Science other scripts. For example, every tim e you w ant to open a file for reading you need C 0116 246 3800 * http://www.weirdscience.co.uk something like:

You can solve problems easily in ARexx, without if —open(infiie,'Peth:to/myfile, ,'R') then do say ‘Error message' learning system programming in a lower level language like C. This ease of use has its price, so the report of a new ARexx compiler caught my eye... W ith Rexecute you can compile this and other routines you use into a library, declare it at the start of your script and call . execute does not turn ARexx but it does the job. As well as selecting the it w ith : | scripts into machine code, type of file created, you can control tracing although the files it creates are and interrupt settings, which is more conve­ calt ReadFile{infile,Path:to/myfile} I executables, they still need nient than editing the script to make a tem­ irexxmast running to work. This porary change. One criticism of the GUI is This not only makes writing the scripts d means there is no speed increase a s a that because it is not resizable, you can only much faster, but if you ever find a better t result of compilation, although the see the last couple of lines of output in the w ay of doing it, you simply rewrite the oiler removes all comments and indenta- status window, an option to log this to a file function and recompile any scripts that use i, which in itself can give a 10-15% speed would be very useful. it (a m ake utility could do the last part increase. The shell and ARexx control make it suit­ automatically). This is a very simple exam­ However, there are several other advan­ able for control from an external script or ple. for m ore complex functions, the tim e tages. The compiled file is an AmigaDOS makefile, very useful if you have a number of savings would be much greater. executable, it can be run in w ays that a linked scripts to maintain. There is a demo script can't. You can use it as the default toolHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM of a project icon, or give it a Tool Rexecute v1.5 icon and pass arguments to it by shift m t e O u t p u t clicking other icons. Provided rexxmast is running, it behaves exactly like any I v p » : I I ilers ion other Tool. S o u r c e : [OTCTg7TTSipcggTFiSojJ e9J I v / I V e r b o s e O b j e c t : |Rexecute:O bJectfIlei/H ej [ Rexecute can produce three different I I B u n H op i l t r l i types of file. The most obvious is an exe­ JExecut ab I e : |CU£b27:$earchCD | I I X c o n S b f tU b M r cutable that can be run from shell or Rexec u te:L ib /n i sc. I R e x e c u te S a s i s . . . Workbench. It can also compile into a L ib ra r ies h i e r t f 1 Ip urittp.n nnt script. Why? Because many programs have the facility to run ARexx scripts m ^ a& e.»rlt?en ially. so you can take advantage of g a n g ] a i the other features of Rexecute and still -T.rac^pptsU interrupts; 1 c o m p i l e I 1------T u n - be able to run the script from within cFX or whatever. The third type of

file it produces is a linkable object, usually script supplied that shows how you can con­ A It nay not stored within a link library. trol just about every aspect of Rexecute be the pretti­ through its ARexx port. Rexecute is extreme­ est front end, but it’s f»c- REXECUTE Not quite right ly fast, compiling a 100K script tonality that yoo really libraries are potentially one of the most (CfgSortMail.thor) in less than half a second System Requirements Nothing mentioned in the manual, ul features of Rexecute. but. and it’s a on my 4000/060, and reducing it to less than tested on WB 3.1 but should work on 2 04 very big but, the implementation has a seri­ 20K as an executable. Small scripts do end ous flaw. When you try to include more than up larger when compiled, because of the pne function, either from a single library or extra code needed to run them from separate libraries, only the first is Workbench. The new SearchCD program on ‘ to the final file. this month's CD is 18K, from a 6K script. I Rexecute reports finding and adding each tion, but only the first appears in the Conclusion ~pt. Weird Science were quick to try and I like the concept of Rexecute, but it doesn't with this, but it’s up to the programmer quite live up to its potential yet. The GUI is a no fix had appeared by the time this bit clumsy, although functional. If the link L...... —— J was completed. Rexecute can be library problem is fixed this would be a OVERALL •*ted from it’s GUI. from a shell or much better program, one that I would II the link library feature could be fixed, ~h its ARexx port. The GUI looks a bit strongly recommend. ■ the rating would be much higher old fashioned - it's not even font-sensitive - Neil Bothwick mm EZ-Writer revisited

Power CD-R Writer Last month we tested Eyetech's EZ-CD Writer system. We liked the drive and gave it, in my opinion, a good review. ■ Price: £249.95 ■ Supplier: Power Computing Eyetech, on the other hand, disagreed and made a number of com plaints. The © + 44(0)1234 851500 * http://www.powerc.cpm bulk of these complaints were rather trivial, but they did object to us saying 'the Mitsumi mechanism has a poor Richard Drummond investigates mass reputation for reliability'. As this mech­ anism is used in the Power drive, also, storage on the cheap with Power's I believe this would be an appropriate CD writer. place to clear this up. I wish to stress that no problems or faults occurred while testing either ower's CD-R drive uses the same process of writing a CD-ROM drive is a com­ Eyetech's and Power drives; the above Mitsumi ATAPi CR-2801TE mech­ plex one, nothing like the transparent way in quote was based on opinion only. anism a s Eyetech’s EZ-Writer, which we are used to copying data to mag­ In fact, Eyetech claim that Mitsumi have reviewed last month. Similarly, netic media. Thankfully, the MakeCD soft­ had a record low number of returns too. it is offered in a range of ware supplied is excellent. It features a with this mechanism. Eyetech were guises,P internal and external. The device on novice mode and context-sensitive help; the clearly fishing for a Superstar medal for test here is the external version, which is latter gives a simplified GUI and is ideal for their drive; but I stand by my initial shipped in a slim-line steel case with an the beginner and for quick jobs. The expert review. The EZ-Writer is good - but not external power supply and weighs in at mode provides the more advanced control exceptional. £299.95. It is bundled with Power's buffered over MakedCD’s options. Eyetech are now shipping a cheaper IDE interface and cables, the full IDE-Fix In operation, the Power CD-R system version of the drive, too. The economy software, the MakeCD CD writing software, performs adequately. With an 060 processor EZ-Writer SE is identical to the and three blanks disks. Other external and plenty of RAM there is enough CPU EZ-Writer package we reviewed, except options include the drive housed in a rather cycles left over to do som e low-grade multi­ that it's housed in a slim-line case with nice SCSI TwinBox case with either a 2.1GB tasking (anything less than 040 though, and external PSU like their EZ-CD SE drives. IDE hard drive (for £429.95) or a SCSI 32x your machine will grind to a halt and the CD-ROM (£389.95). d isc being written to will suffer). It copes Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMadmirably with writing on the fly as well as Cheap *n' easy from an image file. The drive does struggle able from PC vendors for a shade under | The advantages of taking the IDE route for to reach its claimed double speed writing £200, and MakeCD. the TAO version of I CD writing is that it provides a solution that at times though. which retails in the UK for £34.95. A quick) is low cost, simple to install and easy to bit of arithmetic reveals that you are payinfl configure. The disadvantage is that, because The competition at least £65 for the case and any other I of the Amiga's poor IDE interface, a lot of The only differences between Power's CD-R extras. processor time is required to maintain suffi­ system and Eyetech's is the packaging. With There really is not much to pick and I cient throughput of data to the drive. CD-R Power your £300 nets you the drive, a cheap choose between the Power CD-R and the drives need to be constantly fed with data, quality case and PSU. MakeCD and the four­ EZ-Writer; essentially they are the same L otherwise the disc being written is ruined - way adaptor; with Eyetech the same money package. If you haven't already got IDE-Fix I a so-called 'coaster*. To be fair though, simi­ buys you’the drive, a high quality case and and a four-way adaptor then Power's systeJ lar problems would occur when using a MakeCD. offers slightly better value for money. For mfl SC SI device if the controller w ere'a non- W hile both these packages offer fair money, I would opt for the Eyetech systt DMA, low bandwidth one like the Squirrel. value for money, neither are outrageously merely because of its better case. ■ The case that houses the Power drive is cheap. The essential components o f both Richard Drummond serviceable; it has a sm all footprint, but system s are the M itsumi m echanism , avail- lacks the ruggedness of the Eyetech case. A really annoying fault with it is that the | POWER CD-R WRITER connector for the PSU has a ten-_ dency to fall out. This is obvi­ System Requirements: A nyAnigi. ously not something you WB 3 .0 + , IDE interface (040+ processor b 16MB wish to happen when recommended) WTXT writing E a s e o f u s e . . 9 1 1 a CD. The Easy to install, configure and use. actual Performance 80 ory but not exciting performance.

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9 Price: from £129.00 ■ Developer: Ateo Concepts The AteoBus | ( l l Supplier: White Knight Technology © + 4 4 (0)1920 822321 One of the most compelling reasons for towering your Amiga 1200 is to I Is there room in the market for another provide room for expansion cards. For the Am iga this has always meant A1200 tower solution? Ateo Concepts clearly Zorro and for the 1200 meant buying I thinks so. an expensive Zorro busboard, such as those manufactured by Micronik and RBM. Not any more, however. Ateo

|h e tower case is perhaps the erboard with your original external PSU. You have created their own custom bus most desirable upgrade for Amiga can still use the internal unit to power stor­ system, derived from the ISA stan­ dard. W hile this system is not com­ 1200 owners. You only have to age devices and so on. but it is not a perfect patible w ith Zorro it is cheaper and remember the scene at this year's answer, since it in some way negates the faster. Turn to pages 62-63 to read World of Amiga show when advantage of owning a tower. our review. s of avid Amiga users descended on The second problem, that of attaching the ;r and Micronik's stands intent on buy- keyboard, this tower solves effortlessly. The §8 new home for their beloved 1200s. For At6o Tower is shipped with their excellent ewho haven't yet rehoused their keyboard Neat solution hines, there is a new tower on the block The striking aspect of the At6o n Ateo Concepts, Tower is how integrated a solution it s newcomer, the Ateo Tower, is well provides. With the exception of the icted and finished. It has a sturdy power connector lack, everything jl frame, the moulded front is attractive, functions so well together. The reset f and the rear slots have been professionally button works (via the keyboard inter­ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMd. The unusual feature at the rear of face); the status LEDs work (a small e tower is that instead of having slots to PCB clips over the header on the rrodate expansion cards, it has a A1200 motherboard and diverts the e cutaway. This is so that the tower signals to the front panel); even the y be used with both Zorro card system s - clock speed read-out works. [where the cards are mounted horizontally - The At6o Tower is a professional and dwith the At6oBus system - w here the well-finished product. While it lacks rds are mounted vertically. the beef-cake look of the Power Tower and is short of the gigantic Tower trouble storage space offered by Eyetech's n you consider the number of Amiga EZTower, it is nonetheless an attrac­ s who have performed tower conver- tive option. If you plan to buy the i. you can see that it's a relatively At6oBus ■liaightforvvard task that anybody who can system then this is the ideal tower I use common sense and a screwdriver can choice. ■ ■perform The Ateo Tower is no exception. Richard Drummond I The instructions provided are rather hazy, but | may be easily followed with som e thought. I The three common problems to be solved I Ateo 1200 Tower |wben transferring an Amiga 1200 motherboard o a tower case are how to connect the of the best on the market: it works with both System Requirements: Amiga 1200. common tools ir supply, how to connect the keyboard Amiga and PC keyboards, offers a sensible dwhat to do with the floppy drive. These keyboard mapping, allows multiple keypress­ ■ns are corollaries of the fact that the es and provides a reset line which may used ) motherboard simply wasn't designed to with the reset button on the front of the n anything else but its original case; the tower. •ent tower packages available tackle these The floppy drive problem is more of an tts in various ways. aesthetic than practical issue. If you install The Ateo tower attempts no solution to your A1200's internal drive into a tower, the 6 first problem: unless you have a Zorro lack of a front bezel leaves an ugly gaping tard or the At6oBus system, there is no hole in the otherwise immaculate frontage. OVERALL y way to hook up the internal PSU. You Ateo are currently working on a face-plate to An elegant and well-finished tower, II have to construct your own connector remedy this, but the other option is simply to e s p e c ia lly if you in tend to g e t an v this PSU (not too tricky a task, but buy a new drive; White Knight will supply A teoB u s Brequires some soldering) or power the moth­ one for £30. AteoBus & Pixel64

Price: £299 ■ Developer: Ateo Concepts Supplier: White Knight Technology © + 44 (0)1920 822321

The AteoBus promises cheaper and faster SUPERSTAR expansion cards for the Amiga 1200 than Zorro Does it deliver?

he advent of tower kits for the Considering the array of hardware that The card its6 Amiga 12 0 0 has opened up forms the package, the AteoBus is surpris­ comp T realms of expansion that the origi­ ingly easy to install. The bus consists s abou nal designers would have never primarily of three parts; an adaptor half have believed possible. However, board, a controller card and the lengt the one feature lacking from the 12 0 0 is the busboard itself. The adaptor a typical Zorro ca| ability to use plug-in expansion cards like its and controller slot together has only one conn big brothers; the big box Amigas employ a and attach to the edge on its backplate, a ste proprietary standard known as Zorro for their connector where your dard 15-pin VGA socket* expansion slots. accelerator normally output to your monitor. This Zorro is an excellent system, although lives, and the jgs the question of what I showing its age. For example, its AutoConfig accelerator then pens to the Amiga's AGA displ system has always been truly plug and play, plugs into this. modes. Well, At6o are working c much to the envy of PC users. But Zorro The bus board is scan doubler module for use with the cards are expensive. Not only that, the graft- connected to the con­ Pixel64. but have no release date planne on Zorro buses - such as those developed by troller via two ribbon as yet. Until this happens, you will need Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMMicronik and RBM - which enable the use of cables, and is fixed to the separate monitor to display the Amiga's Zorro cards with an A1200 are expensive, floor of the tower with five sticky native video modes on. This is not as mu( too. Also, in today's dwindling Amiga market, plastic feet. Any cards installed in of a problem as it seem s. The Pixel64 ship Zorro cards are becoming increasingly harder the bus, mount vertically. Connect up with the Picasso96 RTG software; most to find. Ateo Concepts have attempted to the power and you're ready to go. Simple, modern software supports retargetable I

solve all these problems in one with the Some software must be installed into A Small, bn screens via this. For an OS-friendly progra* release of their custom bus system, the your startup-sequence for the system to perfectly that doesn't, you may use a mode promo® formed: the At6oBus. recognise the AteoBus and any installed Piiel64. cards. A command called StartAtdoBus ini­ On the cards New from old tializes the bus and ties it into the Amiga's The AteoBus is an enhancement of the ISA normal expansion card system. The AteoBus To m ake th e A teoB us a tru ly useful (Industry Standard Architecture) bus found in also allows software provided on ROM a la system, more cards are obviously PCs. It does not allow DMA transfers, but the Zorro's Autoconfig. This allows your machine modification does allow a greater bandwidth to be booted from drives connected to an required. Ateo Concepts are currently of 9Mb/s - significantly better than Zorro. The IDE or SCSI controller card on the At6oBus. It working on a multi I/O board for use bus controller plugs into the expansion (trap­ would have been nice to test the system with the AteoBus which should be door) slot of the A1200, and provides a pass with more than just the one currently avail­ ready by the tim e you read this. It will through for any existing card. The At6oBus is able card. At the moment it is unclear how feature two 115Kbaud serial ports and compatible with a wide range of accelerator difficult multiple cards would be to configure two parallel ports. The parallel ports boards, but you should contact White Knight or whether the use of several cards would are’rumoured to be ECP/EPP ports of to to make sure your board will work. have any effect on bus performance. the type used in modern PCs. This Obviously, the bus system can only be fit­ At6o say that their cards are shipped with ted to a towered-up 1200. The new At6o all necessary jumpers preset and that the dri­ open ups the possibility of using par­ Tower (see review on page 61) has been ver software prevents IRQ conflicts; this will allel Zip drives and cheap parallel modified to make the installation of the ensure that there are no configuration prob­ scanners with your Amiga. Others AteoBus as simple as possible. The problem lems like those associated with ISA on PC. cards planned include a Sanall com­ is that the cards are mounted vertically - pliant Ethernet card, a S C S I controllei rather than horizontally, as expected by most Pixel perfect an IDE controller and a 16 bit sound towers; there is a conversion kit available to The first compatible card for use with the card. W ith the exception of the sound­ ease the process of fitting it to other towers. AteoBus is the Pixel64. a 2D graphics card The AteoBus does not mask the whole of the employing the Cirrus Logic GD5434 video card prices are aimed to be about £50 A1200’s motherboard like the Zorro bus- processor. It is shipped with 2MB of memory per card. Stay tuned to boards do. but the clock header is obscured, and supports screen modes of up to http://www.ateo-concepts.com for a point to note if you already have some 1280x1024 at 75Hz in 8 bit and 800x600 at the latest information. hardware that attaches there. 85Hz in 24-bit. PRODUCT TEST

The WSpeed test WSpeed is a benchmarking tool which assesses graphics performance via standard OS drawing functions. Higher figures mean better performance.

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Pul Pixels 7 7 3 1 7 0 3 4 8 7 8 3 3 8 7 2 6 4 7 7 6 6 5 7 3 7 6 4 4 3 2

Draw Lines 1 1 5 2 0 1 0 4 4 6 7 2 1 1 7 9 1 8 1 5 0 1 4 1 3 6

Draw Circles 3 6 6 9 8 4 0 1 1 5 7 3 3 8 3 1899 1898

Draw Boxes 4 2 1 0 7 4 6 7 3 1 4 2 4 1 7 1 3 4 0

Scroll X 7 9 6 1 4 4 7 7 2 3 7 7 3 8 0

Print Texts 3 1 8 0 6 1 7 0 5 6 3 5 2 6 8 21012 2 0 7 6 4 CON: Output 6 9 9 1012 72 9 7 7 3 4 4 4

Open Windows 3 4 4 210 3 9 7 ~473 4 2 2

Sue Windows 5 5 2 686 6 1 4 568 5 6 6 Move Windows 19 0 8 4 2 0 3 323 ~ 200

Swap Screens 5 9 3 500 5 9 4 500 501 Area Fill 39 1 2 9 8 6 2 448 1176 652

Screenm ode 5 060/66 CV64/3D P96 800x600x8 1) 060/66 CV64/3D CGX 800x600x8 11200 0 6 0 /6 6 Pixel64 P96 800x600x8 A1200 060/66 AGA 640x256x5 A The use. The Quake tests really shows where the A1200 060/66 AGA 640x512x8 AteoBus in increased bandwidth of the AteoBus comes place in one into effect. Quake playing on the Pixel64 y (there is one supplied with the card, or the speed of screen updates, even in high of Atto's varies from a third to twice as fast as the feMCP's screen manager) to force it to resolution, high colour screens. After running towers. CyberVision card. n on a Picasso screen. your Workbench in 800x600 with 65.000 [The Picasso96 software supplied is easy colours, you'll wonder how you used to sur­ T h e c h o ic e tstall and configure. The predefined vive with AGA. The benchmarks stated in the The AteoBus and Pixel64 is an excellent, low- Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMnmodes should work with m ost moni- boxout appear to show that the Pixel64 with cost package. If it had appeared a year ago, I i, but if not, the PicassoPrefs program Picasso96 performs significantly slower in would have had no hesitation in recommend­ s the definition and editing of screen som e tests than the CyberVision64/3D card ing it to anyone. A s it is. if you have not cur­ s suitable to your particular monitor, under CyberGraphics. My guess would be rently expanded your A1200, this is the way edrag and drop interface is straightfor- that this difference is caused merely because to do it. However, if you are lucky enough to J to use, and the edit feature makes it CGX is the more efficient of the two RTG own a Blizzard PPC card, you may wish to pie to define a screenmode, and tweak it packages; the Pixel64 is the faster of the two wait until the more powerful BlizzardVision j being displayed. when both cards are running under card appears. Still, even if you have a [ In operation, the Pixel64 is fast. If you are Picasso96. Strangely enough, considering the Blizzard, you should still consider the At6o. d to AGA then you'll be blown away by results, the Pixel64 seems quicker in general since it promises a cheap w ay of adding eth- ernet and a 16 -bit soundcard, traditionally The Quake test expensive add-ons for the Amiga. ■ Richard Drummond

Playing a game of Quake is a good test of the overall performance of your machine. On the Amiga, with no 3D hardware, the frame speed of the game is dependent on how quickly the processor can calculate and AteoBus & Pixel64 shovel data into the video buffer. The higher the processor speed and System Requirements: Amiga 1200 in a tower case, the better the bandwidth to the video memory, the faster the game. The a compatible accelerator and 4MB Fast RAM. following results were obtained running Quake on a 70%, 1x1 pixel screen on an Amiga1200 with an 060/66. Surprisingly easy to install. The Picasso96 software mww simple to configure and use. OWnovjU AtiA With only one card available, it is difficult to judge b M performance. The Pixel64 offers good but not outstanding I performance.

The cheapest way to get 24bt graphics on au A1 with more cheap cards to follow.

OVERALL A flexible and cost effective way to expand your A1200. Kodak DC210 Zoom ■ Price: £599 (street price £540)

Developer: Kodak Digital Science * http://www.kodak.com

Kodak's highly acclaimed mid market digital camera has become Amiga friendly - but is it all it is cracked up to be?

* Close-ups of ower Computing's budget won­ the Kodak DC210. Kodak’s award winning Image quality is good, with little JP EG artifai (liftta right). ders have tied up the lower end camera is only the second megapixel camera ing visible on best quality, but better images hi res good. of the digital camera market on to hit the Amiga. The other, the Olympus can be had elsewhere. The lens is soft and it j P high-res bettei the Amiga, but up - market it C1400L, is a very nice camera indeed, but does show in the final image. Kodak are not I high-res best becomes a little trickier to find the even with recent price cuts has an RRP of a noted for their lens design, and convenient as I (cMrtistr •( iM iifl) right product. The only software support for thousand pounds. The DC210 offers 1152 by zoom lenses are. they are inherently inferior to l mid priced digital cameras has come in the 864 pixels (about 4,500 short of megapixel fixed lens designs. The MegaPixel Konica Q- form of the Camcontrol software for the resolution, but we can forgive them) and a 100 sports the rather excellent little Hexanon | Olympus C range and the Minolta Dimage 5. 2x zoom with a field of view roughly equiva­ lens and a better resolution at a lower cost, Matthias Bock has just given us another lent to a 29-58mm zoom on a 35mm camera but is lower specified and, most importantly, choice with the release of DC210Wizard, a or a 50-100mm on medium format. It has has no Amiga software. simple utility for downloading images from 4M B of storage on a removable card, a 1.8" The Olympus C1400L remains a better TFT colour LCD screen, PAL/NTSC video out camera in many respects, but is a lot more and so on. all for a very fair price. expensive. At this price range the Kodak The autoexposure seem s accurate in a DC210 is. on the Amiga at least, unrivalled. range of lighting conditions and white bal­ Smart, easy to use. much better results th ancing is good under tungsten or flourescent the cheap cameras, and all in all worthy - Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMlighting. The aperture and shutter speed just - of a Superstar. ■ cover decent ranges, and the CCD sensitivity Andrew Korn is a respectable ISO/ASA 140 equivalent. The built in flash will do automatic, fill in and red-eye reduction.

Liquid crystal The LCD display is icon driven, with a dustbin icon for discarding images, a magnifying g lass for zoom and so on. In review mode you can scroll quickly through thumbnails of the stored images and display them at full size, scrolling the LCD screen across A Bmi SHhry with s e n , post processiiq c r u s t y ol ImageFX the image. In the preferences screen you can choose megapixel or VGA ▲ At 800*o enlargement there The software (640 by 480) resolution, and have a choice of three levels of compression. Unfortunately is still pleaty of detail. Matthias Bock's DC210 Wizard is as sim­ all this functionality com es at a price - ple as it gets. A window displays a list of power consumption. Batteries are consumed the pictures in the camera's memory and at an alarming rate, so stock up on NiCADs allows you to mark the ones you want and keep recharging. The power supply, for download. There is as yet no pre­ rather annoyingly, is an optional extra. viewing facilities, but the camera can do Ergonomics are good but not perfect. The that for you. You can find the software control buttons for the LCD are so logical on this month's CUCD in the mag draw­ you won't need the instructions, but the er, and with enough interest Matthias power button and the shutter button are so will add more features. As the close to each other that you can mix them KodakDC200 series encodes everything up. and the lens is positioned too near the internally, I guess this is a simple serial hand grip, making it prone to greasy finger­ OVERALL download protocol, so the software will prints. Having the front element of the lens For th o se w h o w an t a se rio u s probably work on similar Kodak cameras exposed like this is not good, it makes it vul­ digital camera without paying silly including those with 1.3 or 1.6 M pixels. nerable to scratching. money. Kodak comes up trumps. Email W E ACCEPT Mastercard hite_Knight_Tech Visa, Delta Com puServe.Com and Sw itch 2.5% Surcharge on White Knight T e c h n o l o g y Prices IN C LU D E 17.5% V A T Tel: 01920 822 321 9.30 - 5.30 Mon - Fri F a x : 01920 822 302 P.O. BOX 38, W ARE, HERTS, SG11 1TX, U.K.

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0 M y z a r Type: RC5 client GUI c: From: http://pratesi.it/~patriot/Myzar/Myzar.lha ■ S ize: 36k Requirements: MUI, RC5-DES client (680x0 or PPC, version 2.7100.413 - available from: http://homepage.cistron.nl/~ttavoly/rc5/download.html)______

O f you've picked up any passing (having enjoyed a short spell at sixth information about "RC5" or "DES" before being overtaken by the "slashdot" I RCS Buffer - 21 d io c k s Icontests, you could be forgiven for team) and all of the information about CL thinking that it's very technical. It doesn't the RC5 contest (what it is, why you I BIO C K i have to be. RC5 and DES are merely should join in, and how to participate) is La3t: 808933 Avg: 808454 encryption algorithms, used to encode available from the Amiga RC5 effort data with a key (in this case, a 56-bit key) homepage at _____ which, in theory, would take an insanely http://homepage.cistron.nl/~ttavoly/rc5. If you have a long time to crack. Distributed.net From these pages, you'll be able to Net connection, (Http://www.distributed.net) are download Myzar, the GUI which makes and you're not yet organising the challenge to crack the running the client a piece of cake. contributing to the code and find the key, legitimately, to an Myzar does away with the need to Amiga RC5 team Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMencoded message. By running a client for use the CLI to configure the client. It can effort, you no be launched from the Workbench screen, longer have any their machine, computer users all over I ' l y n j r the world are putting the spare cycles of or dropped into your WBstartup drawer. excuses. PPC their CPU to good use in an attempt to It can be iconified so that it operates as owners can control break the code in as little time as unobtrusively as possible, or it can open the PPC and 68k clients by launching t possible. either of two windows - a large one for copies of Myzar, although there are plans If you haven't already joined in the displaying what would normally be to support both in one executable at a challenge, now is an ideal time. The output to the C LI by th e client, and a later date. The Amiga RC5 team effort Amiga team is currently in a very small configurable one, displaying the needs you, so what are you waiting for admirable seventh position overall information in the form of progress bars. Get cracking!

Ex View 1.3 Type: Graphics viewer From: Aminet: gt«/show/E>View. S iz e : 32k Requirements: OS 2.04+ Z A V kvSlpi

ou may wonder about the point to Workbench, so that on slower monitors, you and clqar-cut. It °_L yet another graphic-showing utility. don't have to wait for the re-sync to see doesn't pretend to be | PAL Y We already have tools like Visage and what you're looking at.) You can also tell anything bigger than V\ DBLPAL Viewtek which are quite configurable, and ExV iew how much overscan it can use, and it is. | EUR036 can cope with many different file formats. Ryan claims that the program can handle So, if you've got a | EUR072 Why, then, would anybody be interested in "even the most stressful and bizarre of lot of IFFs lurking | MULTISCAN ExView? It's not exactly feature-laden: It conditions" - although it took me a moment around on your hard | SUPER72 only shows IFFs (and then only up to 8 bit), to realise that he was referring to the Amiga drive, I can I D0U8LENTSC and it doesn't yet support graphics cards. rather than myself. recommend giving So w hat's it good for? W ell, showing IFFs Okay, so there isn't a lot going for it in ExV iew a try. Let Ryan know what you of course. You don't need to mess about the face of current competition. Viewtek, think, as he w ill hopefully continue to with the CLI. It has an Applcon, and a GUI, Visage, Superview... they probably all do improve on the features already present from which you can limit the choice of what you want anyway. But ExView isn't his program. It certainly has potential, and screenmodes (handy for getting all pictures predominantly CLI-based (although you can for one would like to see this program to display on a screen like that of the use it from the C U ) which makes it intuitive after another six months work. * * * * VWM 1.5 Type: U tility From: A m inet: util/m isc/VW M 15.lha :e: 25k s uirements: OS 2.04+

n these days of large screenmodes and refuses to open its w in d o w in the top email program, and the bottom half for many applications and utilities, it right of your screen, no matter how much your web browser, for exmaple. Now, if Imakes sense to keep your Workbench you shout at it, it's time to think about a you load another program, chances are it screen (and a n y other screen fo r that solution. Thankfully, Bahman Moallem has will pop up its window(s) in the top half of matter) as organised as possible. When already thought about it. Virtual Window the virtual screen. If you're using the that program th a t yo u've ju st downloaded Manager is the result, and 1.5 is the latest bottom half, you'll need to scroll up to the version. top half before you can see it. Not very You'll require a little patience user-friendly. to get VWM operating to its VWM can solve this, and many other full potential, as you'll need window-positioning dilemmas. You can to create its prefs file by hand tell it to open windows at absolute or in your favourite . relative coordinates (from the top left of This is where the provided the whole screen, or the top left of the manual is very helpful, listing visible portion). VWM will also force all the options available to windows to open under your mouse you in order to specify pointer, in the corners of your screen, or at exactly where a window a specifiable distance the screen's edges. should open. Not only can you position windows Virtual screens (larger than accurately, VWM will bring the newly their visible size) aren't a opened window to the front if you tell it problem either. Say, for to, and can even delay windows from example, that you had a opening for a moment, so that you can screenmode that could position your cursor in the position you display 640*512, but the want it to open before it appears. Not only screen was 640*1024 - is VWM highly configurable, it is also free double the height. You might to register. What more could somebody use the top half fo r your ask for? **★ ★ ★ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Top Tunes s aanyone who has given the Aminet faithful Amiga owning public. So sit up and otherwise), you aren't required to wait for memore than a passing glance can take notice. it to stop moving before you get off. Apriirobably appreciate, the mods This month's selection begins with Finally, we finish on a calmer note with directory is a daunting prospect to browse "Lost In Space" (mods/pro/Phm_US.Iha - "Road of Memories" (mods/misc/mw- through. W ith more tunes than your local 252k), a name familiar to all of us by now rmemories.lha - 266k). It's a long, winding chemist, you could be forgiven for thanks to the film, and indeed the road by the sounds of it, probably snaking pretending they didn’t exist so that you Lighthouse Family's single by the same its way through the Lake District or around wouldn't have to deal w ith them , in a w ay name, although the module isn't a rip-off a Scottish loch. If you're driving anything not entirely dissimilar from today's of the film's soUndtrack or the single. down this road, it would probably be a treatment of global warm ing, famine or Picking up speed after the first minute, and cloud. Lose yourself in two and a half shampoo adverts that try to baffle you lasting a spacey seven minutes, it endured minutes of gentle, calming mood-music. with science. longer than my interest in the film. More relaxed than a Horlicks factory . In an attem pt to make your path Although I have to admit th a t's only through the jungle a little clearer, then, because I haven't seen it yet. comes "Top Tunes" - the result of yours Next up, "Contradiction" truly being voluntarily subjected to hours (mods/nork/Contradiction.lha - 560k). It Exclusive! of dancey, trippy, hoppy, hippy, moody, wouldn't sound out of place in Turrican grungey modules, before dissem inating the 2 , and lives up to its name by not being You may have noticed the lack of a resulting information to you, the ever- in Turrican 2. Featuring nice changes in game review on this month's pages. mood and lasting a more kettle-boiling W ell, that's because we have a three minutes, you won't be left with a special little bonus package for you headache after listening to this one. - namely, a bumper selection of Then, in keeping with a kind of dance games from "IMC.Gamez," the tradition, we have a mod featuring a makers of Bloog (reviewed back in i * . M y train. "DanceTrain" the June issue). Marcus has kindly (mods/techn/DanceTrain.lha - 127k) provided us with full versions of features a thumping bassline, and lo ts of Fayoh, Moped, SnakesSE, Jackm an, train sounds, but thankfully no "all the more recent Polataa 5 and, of aboard" sample. Quite repetitive though, course, Bloog. All exclusive to CU and just when you think the train Am iga, and all yours for the price of bon B] Auto I AutcSetect Ciaptey v j sample's been exhausted, back it comes. opening the drawer on the CD. Thankfully, unlike a real train (dancing or Believe it, for it is so. l l i l

Richard Drummond, with one final glassy-eyed look at PD software on floppy disk...

Complete C Programming From:Underground PD, 54 Carmania Close, Shoeburyness. Essex SS3 9YZ m Price: £8.50 (15 disks)

-Project PD is a new public about this collection - apart from the this set has opted for quantity not 0 domain company, and this, their packages named above - is the rather quality; The other major fault is the poor X first release, is an ambitious one. indiscriminate attitude with which installer provided. Everything is merely CL They do distribute the normal single-disk software has been shovelled onto these de-archive en masse to your hard drive, type of pd software, but they specialise disks. No decision seems to have been everything is provided as is. No attempt ■ in themed compilations targeted at made as to what would actually prove to is made to install or configure the particular areas. Complete C is a 27 MB be useful or not. Clearly, the compiler of individual packages - which, in most collection of material aimed at cases, is a non-trivial task. Some kind of G Amiga C programmers. explanation of the software provided The set comprises 15 disks would have been useful. worth of archived software Nevertheless, despite its faults, you a , with an installer script. The cannot dispute the value for money main packages here are Matt offered by this collection. If you are into Dillon's excellent DICE C programming and don't have access to Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMcompiler, the equally excellent the Internet, the Complete C may prove a vbcc compiler and the C Manual useful starting point. Beginners should (an in-depth, Amiga-specific C avoid it, though. *★ * tutorial). The remaining space is taken up with a myriad of different programming tools and utilities. What immediately struck me

Twiddlers Disk 7 Type: Compilation From: Classic Amiga PD, 11 Deansgate, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 2SH Tel: 0161 723 1638 Price: £1 plus 75p P&P per order

his is a bizarre name for a bizarre exchange data with foreign ^ _ collection of software. The most platforms. Z100 is CD-ware: w games in existence. (Perhaps T noteworthy item in this oddball if you use it, the author ------the author w a s trying to make a collection is a suite of programs called requires you to send him an philosophical point about the Z100. Thomas Omilian's Z100 is a set of audio CD. futility of existence.) tools to improve the life of Amiga owners The rest of this disk is really just filler. Bringing up the rear is HTML-Creator, with Zip drives: FrameZ100 allows the There is OXO, which has nothing to do a set of tools to automate some types of easy copying of data from a Zip disk to with cooking, but is yet another game of HTML page creation; VWBeetlelcons, a your hard drive and vice versa; SafeZ100 noughts-and-crosses. Why is it that collection of colourful drawings of VW is a tool to enable the Zip's password people still insist on writing these Beetles fo r desktops w ith N ew lcons; and protection and locking features; things? Here we are in the 1990s; we TuneUp, a next to useless program that WatchZ100 is a background process that have this powerful invention, the will allegedly help you diagnose engine can be configured to launch another computer - a tool to perform those problems with your car. program or script when a Zip is inserted. monotonous tasks, to analyse masses of Twiddlers Disk 7 is a worthwhile The package also comes with various data, even to amplify talent - with the purchase only for the excellent Z100 mount lists and is designed to function potential of processing many million tools. If you don't own a Zip drive and seamlessly with the CrossDOS and instructions per second. And what do we are not a Beetle-maniac, then it's best to CrossMAC systems to let you effortlessly do? Play one the most dull and senseless give it a miss. * *★ * Vlini Tiles______Music Bugs______p e : P u z z le g a m e ______Type: Novelty ______: Classic Am iga PD, 11 Deansgate, From: Roberta Sm ith DTP, 190 Falloden Way, Hampstead Garden Suburb, :liffe, M anchester M 26 2SH ______London NW11 6JE ______: 0161 723 1638 ______Tel: 0181 455 1626 : £1 plus 75p P&P per order ______Price: 90p + 50p P&P

usic Bugs is a M unusual sound creation tool. The idea behind it lies in four bugs wandering about your com puter screen. W h e n o n e o f t h e s e crosses a line, a sound is played; the pitch of the sound depends on the colour of the line. You. the user, are presented w ith a ini Tiles is another of those palette of several colours, M puzzle games in which you have w ith which you can draw to remove pairs of m atching tiles on the screen using the from a stack of tiles on-screen. The mouse. You can assign the difference w ith this one, however, is that sound sam ple of your it doesn't em ploy the tiles from M ah- choice to each bug. It's Jongg. M ini Tiles is colourful, com petently sounds silly, but you'll quickly get the each m usician reading from a different executed, but for som e reason lacks the hang of it. The paths of the bugs m ay be score. Perhaps that's due to m y own o n e - m o r e - g o f a c t o r t h a t g a m e s o f t h is controlled, too: grey lines make them inadequacies. The bugs tend to be type usually possess. • * * turn through ninety degrees, w hite lines unw illing to be guided unless you can through one hundred and eighty. draw straight lines - w hich, when you The ''melodies'* I m anaged to produce are as dextrously-challenged w ith a Revenge AGA______from these insectoid m eanderings m ouse as I am , is frustrating. A lack of an Type: Shoot-'em up game ______sounded more John Cage than Mozart. It effective delete tool is annoying, too. Anyway, M usic Bugs is an amusing From: Classic Am iga PD. 11 Deansgate. takes a bit of practice to figure out where to place the lines in the bugs' paths. diversion. It'd probably appeal to young Radditfe, M anchester M 26 2SH ______M ore often than not the end result is like children (or anybody w ith a less Tel: 0161 723 1638 ______Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMan orchestra playing together but with discerning ear for music). * * * * Price: £1 plus 75p P&P per order

his is a sequel to a gam e I featured T in this colum n in the June issue of AmigaDOS Guide V2.5______CU, a game of utter sim plicity and Type: Online help ______

gratuitous violence. The author has From: Classic Am iga PD, 11 Deansgate, Radcl’rffe, M anchester M 26 2SH revised and updated it in response to Tel: 0161 723 1638 ______floods of users contacting him w ith Price: £1 plus 75p P&P per order ______suggestions. You depraved lo ti In the interests of decency the screenshot above hat do you do H you cannot help like this is a sound one; it is let features only the title page of the game. W remem ber the syntax of a dow n however, by poor im plem entation. The reason Revenge gets a m ention particular Am igaDOS This guide feels too much like an here is because the new additions are . com m and? W ell, you could reach for the application, is too obtrusive for quick highly am using. There are extra victim s to m anual that w as shipped w ith your reference. It's not supplied w ith an shoot at (Hmm, w ho does that Bill Grates com puter; but chances are you've either install script - when clearly, to be of use, figure look like?), extra w eapons to shoot lost it or can't be bothered to dig it out. this package w ould need to be readily with (Alien Experim ent is a laugh) and This is w here som e online help would available on your hard drive. some cute sound effects. The w hole thing com e in handy. Am igaDOS Guide comes I t a ls o la c k s a s e a r c h f a c i lit y a n d is is very slickly presented. It still only has a to the rescue! This is a new update to m arred by a few errors. «■** testability value of about ten m inutes “ this Guide and w as created w ith Gold though. *★* Disk's HyperBook authoring system . If you've not seen an earlier edition, it has an easy to follow if rather dated interface. It is a sim ple m atter of just clicking on the com m and or program you are stum ped w ith and - hey presto - the required inform ation appears. The topics covered here include Am igaDOS commands. W orkbench programs, error codes and a glossary of Am iga terms. On the w hole the concept of online Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM U ser G roup,

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r part 15, the final episode, Jason Hulance uncovers the H ook tea- I ture from the depths of the Am igaO S. Soundlab

omas Trenn gazes into his crystal ball to see w hat audio develop- ents are due to occur. Em ulation

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let God gives you his final serm on... 'and finally' Neil Bothw ick has ne m ore w eb news. Surf of the Month

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his month we're going, Hooking into the E x a m p le 1 to look at improving the L is tV ie w T file lister by distinguish­ /* Run through buffer load of entries Ordering the directories before ing files from directo­ struct ExAIIData* ead = EABuff; the files is a useful w ay of sepa­ ries. That way we'll be while(ead) rating the directory entries, but a step closer to a useful file ( the current display does not oth- i requester. /* If ed_Type>0 then it's a directory * erwise visually distinguish However, the main topic for addNode(ead->ed_Name, ead->ed_Type > 0) between them. this month is the 'Hook' feature of ead = ead->ed_Next; If you examine the standard a number of parts of the ) ASL file requester you'll notice AmigaOS. W e’ll see how this is that it marks directories by draw­ related to our file lister after we've ing them in a different colour (th~; built some foundations. about: user values for 'In Type' be invalid.) standard Amiga setup has dir start at 'N TU SER' and grow The second subtlety is that the ries as white text and files as File or directory? downwards (so you didn't ought subtraction can be performed black). Th e first step is to g et ExAIIO to to have more than about 2 0 0 !). without causing overflow, since The only way w e currently return slightly more information the operands have been implicitly have to do something like this is about each directory entry than Directory order cast to 'int' and this has a much to use a custom rendering routin Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMjust its name. What we need is So, now we know what type each greater range (on the Amiga) than for the ListView. To do this we the type of the entry: file or directory entry is we can fiddle 'unsigned char'. need to write a 'hook' function. directory. the sort order so that we group In general, you would really The second example, This is a simple change: directories together (at the top). need to do two comparisons 'hookl.c'. starts us off on this instead of using 'EDN AM E' with The standard ASL file requester (greater than, or less than each path by creating and using a very ExAIIO, we'll use 'ED TYPE'. Take does this, so it should be a famil­ other) to validly order the two basic hook (based on official a look at the new version of the iar concept. elem ents. code). Example 4 is a snippet fillListl) function in the first exam­ Rem arkably, th is is a very trivial ple, 'hookO.c'. change: all w e need to do is alter E x a m p le 2 By specifying 'ED_TYPE', the the compareNodeO function to 'edType' field of the 'struct check the nodes' types first (see ExAIIData' buffer will now be valid E xam p le 3). ’ Constants for the Node type, deciding dir or file and can be read. If it's greater Notice that the three types of than zero then the entry is a direc­ return value (less than zero, zero, •define MY__FILE (NT_USER) tory. Otherwise it's a plain file. or greater than zero) that this •define MY_DIR INT_USER-1) This new information can now function must make can be calcu­ be passed to a slightly modified lated by a simple subtraction of void addNode(char' name, int isdir) version of addNodeO that records the type values. < the status of the directory entry in The validity of this subtraction if(name) the nodes that we're collecting is extremely subtle in several < (s e e Exam p le 1}. respects. First, the result of sub­ struct Node* node = AllocVec(sizeof(struct Node), The status is passed to tracting the two 'unsigned char' MEMF_PUBLIC | MEMF_CLEAR addNodeO as a new boolean para­ values is (on pretty much all ANSI if(node) meter. 'isdir' (see Example 2)..This C ) an 'int', and these { is stored in the node as the two operands are automatically if(node->ln_Name = AllocVec(strlen(name)+1, Tn_Type\ upgraded to 'int' before the sub­ MEMF_PUBLIC)) In general w e can use the traction is done. strcpy(node->ln_Name, name); 'InType' field of our nodes for The ’int’ type is signed, so it node->ln_Type = (isdir ? MY_DIR : MY_FILE) ; whatever w e like (although it's can handle a subtraction that AddTail(Smylist, node); only an 'unsigned char'). Having gives a negative result. If this cal­ mycount++; said that, w e really ought to abide culation were performed with ) by the guidelines and use recog- unsigned values, we would never nisably non-system values. get a negative return value, so That's what the constants compareNodeO would really mess 'MY FILE' and 'MY DIR' are all up our sorting! (It would, in fact. E xam ple 3 Pen A rra y int corapareNode{const void" a, const void* b> I P e te r P a n 's e n e m y , b u t t h e A m ig a To enable the user to custom ise struct Node** na = (struct Node**)a; program m er's friend. This is a their interface, the pen num bers * struct Node** nb = (struct Node**)b ; fairly generic (and portable) way used by are not fixed. L /* Check the node types first */ in w h ic h t h e g u t s o f t h e A m ig a O S Instead it records them indirectly int diff = (*na)->ln_Type - (*nbl->ln_Type; can m ake use of user- supplied through its ow n pen array. For , if(diff) code, usually for custom isation of exam ple, the norm al foreground return diff; standard OS features. The main pen colour is taken from the r b e n e f it o f t h is m e c h a n is m is th a t 'TEXTPEN' element of this array k retreturn stricmp((*na)->ln_Name, (*nb) ->ln_Name) it c a n a ll o w a v a r ie t y o f p r o g r a m ­ and the background from 'BACK- m ing languages to be used. GROUNDPEN'. Other elements W it h o u t t h is , y o u m ig h t r e a s o n ­ include 'HIGHUGHTTEXTPEN', a b ly e x p e c t c u s t o m is a t io n r o u ­ FILLTEXTPEN' and FILLPEN’. The hook function t in e s t o h a v e t o b e w r it t e n The user can specify w hich pens O v e rflo w The main part of the hook func­ (carefully) in Assem bly. W orkbench uses for the various tion is shown p a r t s o f t h e G U I u s in g t h e This happens w hen an operation in Example 5. j g . T r . s s Palette preferences program. (usually arithm etic) exceeds the It has to be range of values that can fit in a marked with type. The m ost obvious exam ple compiler-spe­ in the width calculation. is subtracting a large positive cific modifiers The TextFitl) function also fills value from a large negative one. (like in the extent' structure to show The result is (by and large) ' sa v e d s'l in how much space will actually be unspecified by the C standard. the same way taken up by the node name. The ■o a com piler can generate code as we've seen remaining calculations use this that does anything (it m ay even befo re. (In (to g ether w ith the cause a crash or term inate the fact, this Tvdm Bounds') to centre the text iram). So, you're best to code is for vertically in its slot. avoid running into it at a ll costs. Sto rm C ; if you're using < Bafsl TW ’!•' ka a ■i.-.utii. i n MnaS SAS/C, you'll M r i a m the setupWindowl) function, need to add shows the small amount of ■_asm' after the '_saveds'.) E x a m p le 5 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMneeded to make the The first thing this hook func­ ie w u se our hook (or 'call- tion must do is check the Our code which will draw each node •/ /)• 'Ivdm MethodID' to make sure it static ULONG saveds Of course, because w e will be responds to only 'LV DRAW RenderHook(register al struct LVDrawMsg* msg, :ng some drawing our program messages, even if it w as called register a2 struct Node* node) needs to open and manage with another one. Therefore, all { Graphics library, in the normal other messages should be struct RastPort* rp; ignored, enabling future exten­ UWORD* pens; sions to safely use this same STRPTR name; E xam ple 4 m echanism . ULONG fit; The next thing to do is to WORD x.y; t Hook renderHook; extract some useful information rHook.h _ E n try = from the draw message, like the i f (msg->lvdm_MethodID !■ LV_DRAW) KFUNC)RenderHook; target rastport and the screen return LVCB_UNKNOWN; pens. The drawing mode and ...Rest of gadget cre­ pens can then be set to their /* Extract the RdstPort and Pen info from the msg •/ ation code... */ normal values. rp = msg->lvdm_RastPort; The omitted section (just pens = msg->lvdm_DrawInfo->dri_Pens; Now create it and add before the actual rendering) t to our list */ deals with calculating where /* Setup the normal fore- and back-ground colours •/ ' (listgad=CreateGadget(L exactly to draw the text of the SetABPenDrMd(rp, pens[TEXTPEN]. hTIEW_KIND. listgad,& new node, and how much of it will fit pens[BACKGROUNDPEN], JAM2); on the display. This code is shown in Example 6. name = n ode->1n_Name; •V__Labels, imylist. All the hard work is done by the Textfitl) function. It returns /* ...Code to calculate x and y position, •/ GTLV_CallBack.irenderHook the number of characters of the /• and how much of name actually fits... */ node name that will fit into the space indicated by the last two /* Finally, draw the item •/ _ D 0 N E ) ) parameters (which use the Move(rp,x,y); createWindow(glist) ; TvdmBounds’ element of the Text(rp,name,fit); se draw message). printf(‘Error: could Note that w e’ll be putting a 2- return LVCB_OK; t create gadget(s )\ n #); pixel boundary on the left and right, hence the final subtraction E x a m p le 7 fixes these problems. Example 7 E x a m p le 8 shows the extra code needed to UBYTE state; colour directories and selected items. The 'state' is 'LVR_NOR- /* Setup the fore- and MAL' for unselected items, and back-ground colours */ the 'node' can be examined to /* according to whether decide if it's for a directory or the item is selected */ a file. state = msg->lvdm_State; The next fix is to draw the if(state == LVR_NORMAL) remaining part of the display slot in the background colour to { apen = pens[node- remove any extraneous text from >ln_Type == MY_DIR ? earlier renders in this slot. HIGHLIGHTTEXTPEN : Example 8 shows the addition­ TEXTPEN]; al code which is used after the bpen = pens[BACKGROUND- TextO call in the hook function. It PEN]; makes use of the (very generall FillOldExtentO function, which t else is shown in Example 9. I M - ~ / apen = pens[node- T h a t's it ! >ln_Type -- MY_DIR ? We're still quite a way from hav­ BACKGROUNDPEN : FILL- ing a file requester, but we've TEXTPEN|; made some good steps forward. bpen = pens[FILLPEN]; Even the last example is not yet complete: we ought to deal with } SetABPenDrMd(rp,apen,bpen the case that the ListView has , JAM2) ; been disabled. See if you can w o rk out w h at you m ight need to do for that. Sadly this is as far as we can C o lo u rin g take this series. Hopefully we've If you run this example you'll see achieved enough to get you well that we've not really improved on the way to some serious C ▲ The liied version, with lice colouring on directories. things. The nodes are still programming. We'd definitely Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMcoloured the same. Actually, you advise you get hold of the official might notice that w e’ve intro­ Rom Kernel Reference Manuals. duced a couple of problems: They are on the 1.2 version of the E x a m p le 9 clicking on an item does not visu­ Amiga Developer's CD in ally select it and long text is not AmigaGuide format. The Amiga C /* Erase any part of "oldExtent" •/ overwritten by other items. You'll Mailing List is also worth sub­ /* which is not covered by "newExtent" */ see this latter error if you scroll scribing to. See www.azstarnet void FillOldExtent(struct RastPort* rp, the list up and down carefully. .com/~midian/amiga/c.html for struct Rectangle* oldExtent, (One of the screenshots shows details. Remember, the Amiga struct Rectangle* newExtent) the mess too l needs coders like you! ■ { Our final example, 'hook2.c\ Jason Hulance if(oldExtent->MinX < newExtent->MinX) RectFill(rp,oldExtent->MinX. oldExtent->MinY, E x a m p le 6 newExtent->MinX-l, oldExtent->MaxY); WORD slack; struct TextExtent extent; if(oldExtent->MaxX > newExtent->MaxX) RectFill(rp,newExtent->MaxX*l, /* Calculate how much of the name will ‘/ ©ldExtent->MinY, fit, and how big it is oldExtent->MaxX, S. oldExtent->MaxY); TextFit(rp, name, strlen(name), &extent, NULL, 1, msg->lvdm_Bounds.MaxX-msg->lvdm_Bounds.MinX-3, if(oldExtent->MaxY > newExtent->MaxY) msg->lvdm_Bounds.MaxY-msg->lvdm_Bounds.MinY+1); RectFill(rp,oldExtent->MinX, newExtent->MaxY+l, /• How much taller is the target area? */ oldExtent->MaxX, slack = oldExtent->MaxY); (msg->lvdm_Bounds.HaxY - msg->lvdm_Bounds.MinY) - (extent.te_Extent.MaxY - extent.te_Extent.MinY); if(oldExtent->MinY < newExtent->MinY) RectFill(rp,oldExtent->MinX, /* Put it on the left and vertically centred */ oldExtent->MinY, x = msg->lvdm_Bounds.MinX-extent.te_Extent.MinX+2; o1dExtent->MaxX, y = msg->lvdrruBounds.MinY-extent. te_Extent .MinY* newExtent->MinY-l); ((slack+1 )1 2 ) ; Sim ply better Better service, better pricing from the long established Amiga supporter Best pricing on CD ROM Drives & Hard Drives. 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In this, the last The ARTAS project issue of CU A new retargetable audio iven by thefomei.device o n A system is in development I Amii|assor soundcard ^or a particular process (say you Amiga, Dhomas that already h a s support leson future systems. Irom many Amiga audio developers philosophy ••■napfes you to (ilft but y ic tim ing■ I s' IT a d river is not availab le concern. in the pipeline.

etsoff Limited Partnership digital (SP/DIF) input/output incoming sounds with applied working on the possibility of continue to expand their expansion for the Delfina Lite and effects to any AHI program. This some special features for the Pline of Delfina audio cards. a new Delfina Pro sound card. ’sound piping’ will be greatly Delfina sound cards \ Soon to be released is the The DelFX software allows you to improved with the Delfina Pro. with the upcoming DelfExp expansion (a serial port) redirect audio streams through where modular sound effects ProStationAudio software. Soon with up to 625 kbps throughput, the card's DSP effects, such as processing is planned - just to come, as well, is a long await­ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMand the A1200 Delfina internal to apply real-time effects to any what's needed. Jyrki Petsalo of ed hardware based MPEG lay sound card. Also planned are a AHI sound source, or to redirect PLR indicated that they are also player for all Delfina sound

ProStationAudio

etails of the forthcoming oundProbe 3 is in the works real-time effects processing), com­ the top Amiga sound editors i ProStationAudio (multi­ for release next year, with pressed storage, new graphical dis­ a merging of the two would be a Dtrack digital audio editing S 1G-20 new effects planned, plays. and a programmable effects much appreciated achievement. A system) from AudioLabs are still enhancements and improvements editor allowing linked effects with PPC version of SoundProbe is scarce, but here is a little of what to the existing effects, dynamic variable parameters for more pow­ also under consideration, and you can expect. ProStationAudio access file storage (no more wait­ erful signal processing. ifAvhen the next generation will offer a multitrack, region- ing for file based cut/paste func­ There is also the possibility of Amigas appear, expect to find based. visual time-line editor tions), faster FFT routines based on hardware based DSP effects, par­ SoundProbe among the first avail­ (grab and drag objects to fade in. the Radix-4 algorithm, more and ticularly with the Aura 16 sound able programs. For those o f you out, cross-fade, trim, etc.) and a improved editing functions, multi­ card. One of the more exciting venturing elsewhere. SoundProbe fully automated mixing console level undo, better AHI support (with plans is the integration of apparently works under the Amiga with multiple DSP inserts and SoundProbe Forever emulator, with just a few sends per track. Automation with Stefan minor problem s. Upcoming AHI tracks can be graphically edited Kost’s share­ support for UAE will mean that on the time-line, superimposed to ware program SoundProbe should be able to audio waveforms, or operate on- SoundF. so that output directly to PC sound cards. the-fly though the mixing console. the two pro­ If not. direct PC sound card plug­ With support for the ’Alps’ system grams can be ins are also being considered. you can expand ProStationAudio used side-by- While HiSoft Systems have just by adding new plug-ins. Alps side. They are just released SoundProbe 2, they plug-ins can process tracks in also planning a do not have any immediate plans real-time and react in real-time to common plug­ for new audio products. David parameter variations. Using both in format so Link promises that HiSoft will con­ D S P inserts and D S P sends you that effects tinue to support all of their music can build complex serial/parallel interchange products (ProMIDI, Megalosound. networks of D S P algorithms that between the Aura, SoundProbe etc.) so long as work in real-time. Got that? two. These are there is demand. Sam plitude E* Prelude

.C.T. Germany are continu­ existing products, but also have WaveBlaster compatible wavetable ing to invest both time and some new ones coming soon. board (such as the Roland SCB-55 willstations imoney into development of Expansion modules for the and Yamaha DB50XG) with your writer, MIDI interface 3 and software prod- Prelude sound card are on the Amiga. Also soon to come for the recording system all b ; Albrecht says they will way, including the Rombler which Prelude are an MPEG audio 3 to concentrate on their will allow you to use any decoder and an SP/DIF digital I/O compatible with their soon to be interface. Particularly exciting will released (freeware) ARTAS project. Be a new Zorro III. 24 bit, 96 kHz, Samplitude Opus author Thomas 12 channel (6 in - 6 out), expand­ Wenzel is also working on the able audio card called the Festiva. ARTAS project and says that Samplitude Opus 4.0 will be com­ called the MIDI-PortAI will offer up pletely eased on it. His immediate to 3 MIDI units each with 3 out, 1 plans for Samplitude are to move in and 1 through, giving you some of the internal effects routines acce ss to a possible 48 MIDI into loadable plug-ins and also to channels with compatible MIDI add some new ones. Once ARTAS is software. available, Thomas will begin work on For audio CD production, be the successor to Play16. a new sure to check out Melting M usic multi-format sound player based on for details of an as yet unnamed the ARTAS system. Further improve­ musical workstation that will be ments are in the works for everything you need to take a pro­ AmigaAMR an MPEG 3 song player, fessional audio project from start with plans to re-write the to finish. It will come in three loader/decoder routines to give bet- forms: a tower workstation, a 19" tet multi-tasking performance and rackmount version and a hard- also to improve the playlist editor.

n OctaMED SoundStudio

HI'S Martin Blom is optimistic about his plans for the Amiga, with hopes of i PPC accelerator board and next generation Amiga developer system in his Since being officially Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMIfuture. Development has been restarted on the much delayed PPC version shelved by its origi­ fl AHI version 5 is in the design stages, but high expectations of the new nal developers. HAS standard may or may not see its release. Whatever happens though, the OctaM ED II source code will be released either as part of version 5 or in its current state. If SoundStudio has HAS is a hit with the developer community as It is expected to be, efforts will be recently been put 5 to allow old AHI programs to work with this new system. Fferhaps little back into develop­ . is that AHI was originally designed with Martin's dream of a new high-end ment via a third i card in mind - with lots of local memory, a very fast DSP and high quality party. The core of \ convertors. Martin has also been asked to port parts of AHI to BeOS: work, the program is it would most certainly Benefit any Amiga version, too. being rewritten so a s to be audio hard­ ware independent with a system of plug-ins to allow oung monkey studios will continue with their development of MIDI soft­ specific sound cards ware offerings. Upcoming is a program called MSE Snapshot. with to be used to their full potential. The interface is getting a facelift Y which you can define a project (songl and assign MIDI devices to it which will see the end of fixed-size windows and problems with Then, with a dick of a button. MSE-Snapshot will retrieve all MIDI data from the graphics cards. It’s still quite a way from completion but is shaping up associated devices. To recreate the song setup, select an existing project and to be a worthy successor to the current release. As you might expect, let the program do all the woik for you. Development of MIDI SYStem EXplorer it won't be available for 68000 users (020 minimum). More info can be IMSE) will continue, including added support for the new AFHAS project when it gleaned from the OctaMED web site: www.ocfamed.co.uk becomes publicly available.

Further Inform ation

A C T Germ any D issidents Martin Blom Richard Koerber WWW a c t nel.com/ www: www.dissidents.com/ w w w : tysator.liu.se/~lcs/ahi.html w w w: shredzone.home.pages.de/ email: em ail [email protected] email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Richard.Koerber@koeln..de

Audio Lab s HiSoft Sy stem s www Petsoff Limited Partnership Thomas Wenzel www: audiolabs.it/ www.hisoft.co.uk/ email w w w : sci.fi/- petsoff/ w w w : Snuxrz.fh-hannover.de/~wenzel/ email: [email protected] [email protected] email: [email protected] email: [email protected]

David O'Reilly Kenny Nilsen RBF Software young monkey studios W W W york.ac.uk/-djorlOQ'sprobe.htm ww w: youngmonkey.ca/hands/ www:.co.uk/amiga.html www: youngmonkey.ca/ email [email protected] files/Sunrize/index.html email: [email protected] email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Emulation: New Horizons on Gaming Tired of hearing about the same old f I ever became a Professor of Emulators, I'd be the sort that emulators? Interminable versions of I preached the classics to my charges: Spectrum, C64, Apple Speccy simulators got you down? Jason emulation and the like. But new developments are just as important, if not moreso - after all. w here else would w e get Compton's investigation of some of the more classics from? Avid gamers have mostly had to haunt the classics to get their thrills: the 8-bit com puters and consoles. fresher faces should be just the job. But new developments around the wodd have started to bring advanced platforms to Amiga gamers, and even crusty old pro­ fessors can't help but take notice.

A number of arenas of A rcade machines are com­ but that's generally not too bad some new games, even PPC software development puters too. They're in big - it gives everyone a chance to owners will find them selves get­ have been benefitting cases and they have loud catch up, and upgrade their ting le ss than optimal framerates recently from the ability to speakers and you have to put hardware, since M AME is pro­ - in part a testament to all that port code from other plat­ coins in them to run their pro­ gressing rapidly from the primi­ hardware being emulated, and in forms. That's why we have grams, but at the root of the tive Pac Man-esque machines of part the costs that come with Quake, will soon have the matter, they're not very different the distant past to the beefier portable C code. Opera and Mozilla web from your Amiga Many arcade hardware of the late '80s and Of course, M AME is not browsers, and can avail our­ machines share common hard­ beyond - the sort of custom exactly like having a few selves of one of many, many ware but simply u se different hardware that isn't nearly as m achines in your basem ent or Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMfreeware Unix programs. ROM chips for different games. easy to emulate. reliving your arcade glory days. Emulation fans have come out After emulation programmers M AM E also has certain You m ay be surprised how dif- j winners in recent times as had conquered most of the economies of scale Because all ferent it feels to play these well, with many of the new tough computer and console emulators run more or less the gam es sitting down with a joy- emulators being based in part nuts, they turned their sights on sam e, there is only one set of pad in your hand rather than or in full on work being done arcade machines. The result? An directories you need to keep, standing up with industrial- for other platforms. arcade machine that looks just only one interface GUI you need strength joysticks and buttons The positive result is that like your Amiga! to learn, and only one set of in­ on the console. Many games we get emulators that we The ultimate expression of game keys (like coin insert and have custom controllers which would not see for a long arcade emulation (and perhaps start) that you need to remem­ are poorly imitated by keyboard, while, or ever, on the Amiga the most monumental undertak­ ber. Plus, the M AME system mouse, or joystick (basically any­ with a relatively small amount ing for any emulation) is MAME. provides would-be emulator pro­ thing with a driving/biking/flying of work on the part of the the Multi Arcade Machine grammers with a front-end that's theme, or anything with a pad­ porting programmer. The neg­ Emulator On the one hand. already given - all they need to dle). And, of course, it’s harder ative side is that since the MAME is blatant bloatware. It is do is provide an emulation mod­ to gather throngs of people code has been written in a a single program whose express ule that conforms to the MAME behind your shoulder to watch portable language - usually C goal is to emulate, within one standards. To date, dozens of you rack up high scores. Still. - it's not as fast or efficient as single program, as many differ­ programmers have contributed M AM E is the number 1 emulator it might have been if it w as ent types of arcade game as to the M AME project, and it's in town for arcade action. built from the ground up by an possible. This leads to an exe­ not too hard to imagine that they Amiga programmer using cutable size which, at last count, would not have been nearly as large amounts of assem bly reaches neady 7MB on the productive on their own. code. So, while we do get the Amiga (for the PPC version). M AME versions exist for the emulators we want, we need Som e emulations require literally 030, 040. 060, and PPC faster machines to run them dozens of MBs of memory to (PowerUP software). Of these, than probably would have launch. It's almost enough to the 030 version can be solidly been the ca se if the emulator make you sick. considered unusable (unless you was a 100% Amiga assembly Ah, but the gam es you can don't mind waiting a few min­ effort. The benefits of actually play! MAME supports hundreds utes between frames). Fast 040 having access to these won­ of arcade classics, and more are and 060 users can expect good derful new programs tends to added with every (rather fre­ frame rate performance on a outweigh the inconvenience of quent) update Amiga M AM E is number of older games, but it expanded executable size usually a revision or two behind greatly helps matters if you're additional overhead. the pace set on other platforms. willing to forego sound. And for Another fine MESS

he MAME learn has pro­ Presently. M ESS emulates a the MAME port, mean­ vided a very good exam­ rather eclectic group of ing you have to rely T ple of how to successfully machines The Megadrive emu­ more on CLI options iring a lot of emulation power lation is the eye-catcher, but than the GUI. The gether for one directed effort, with limited functionality it's not Genesis emulation is ji new p roject, d ub b ed M ES S the star. That would be the very extremely promising i-Emulator Super System) solid (and far more compatible but alas, speed and ks to stand on the shoulders than other Amiga alternatives) compatibility truly bog f the MAME giants and do for NES module. Rounding off the it dow n nputers and consoles what group are the Colour Genie, the But M ESS is in its sir predecessors did for TRS-80 and the Colecovision. all very first version - both de games. In the not too three machines of which either its first general release ant future, emulators may unpolished or no emulators and its first Amiga port I under two headings: MAME exist for the Amiga. Future ver­ - and it's definitely r arcades and M ESS for sions promise to emulate a going to be fun to iverything else." whole host of new machines - w atch . The number 1 reason for such esoteric favourites as the stigating M ESS is that it's Vectrex and Bally Astrocade, sently the only Amiga way to along with the Atari 800, Apple et one of the emulation Holy II. PDP-1 and CP/M sils: Sega Megadrive/Genesis machines. No word yet on ulation. It's incomplete, as is when, or if. they'll up the stakes ESS in just its first release, and work on more modern emu­ ut it does work for some titles, lations any time soon. peed is pretty hard to come by M ESS is functionally a near | at this point. The only port of dead-ringer for M AM E. with 4ESS is to the PPC - it seems very similar configuration and t's not worth porting the code operation. The Amiga M ESS ) anything slower. port is a little less polished than

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xcuse me. sir, would you released their 32-bit CD con­ add-on FX chips are not yet like a Super Famicom soles. right up until the release implemented. i u i u i o i u u r s i u u e E (SNES) emulator with din- of N64. when they answered As for speed, only serious te promising for I ner? You bet I wouldl Coming their own question. So. there's entrants need apply - even Tiers. As the kinks get I to the Amiga in both 68000 and a lot of pressing value in being powerful PPC systems can't worked out of all of these | PPC (WarpUP) formats. SNES9X able to recreate a SNES con­ squeeze out a 10 0 % m atched emulators, w e should have i the first solid emula- sole on your own system. framerate. With a couple of more opportunities to redis­ I tion for that machine. Serious The ports are still in frameskips. 060 users can com­ cover old favourites on our I development only very recently progress: the SNES' 16-bit fortably explore the SNES back own desktops. And then there I stopped for this console - in mode is not supported, mean­ catalogue with abandon. are the still unexplored realms. I America, Nintendo used the ing that all games are rendered A CD32 joypad is highly rec­ A very preliminary PlayStation "Who needs a new machine?" •down to a tether funky 256 ommended, as the two are emulator is under develop­ slogan to push SNES Killer color palette. Sound is similarly nearly identical (SNES has one ment. presently running as I Instinct while Sony and Sega missing, and certain modes and extra button). one big debug mode. Reports of some extremely basic (and extremely slow on 060s) func­ tionality have begun to trickle out. but it's clear that the aver­ age system is not up to such a task. MAME and MESS seem to grow like clockwork, and the buzz is that PPC Mac and PC emulators are around the corner, thus giving us the ability to run more, laster PC and Mac games. So. for the tortured souls who feel that there's nothing quite like gam­ ing with a little emulation over­ head. take heart - we re in the middle of some tremendous growth in opportunities! Surf's Up!

Catch up on all the latest Amiga Net news and gossip, and all rise for NetGod's final sermon.

ast month saw the even­ just reported receiving more than NetGod speaks... tual release ot 300.000 hits in less than a year,; L NetConnect 2 and we ting on for 600 per day. AmiBench In the past month, tw o major should be getting the first has been mentioned several times softw are packages that I use glimpse of Miami Deluxe Surf of the Month, it is well worth have been cracked by hackers. this month. This long awaited visiting if you have Amiga gear to W hile claim ing all sorts of justifi­ upgrade will add many new fea­ buy or sell, need to find an Amiga cation for their actions, these tures. giving it similar capabilities to company or want any of the other groups are w orse than parasites. Genesis. It’s too soon to say which information they offer. At least a parasite allow s its will be best (I doubt there will be host to go on living, but these that much in it) but it will be good The Amiga RC5 T». hacking groups are likely to kill to have a choice of two TCP stacks the software market they pre­ that are full-featured, easy to setup ICQ tend to care about. and actively supported by their Despite the failure of recent negotia­ Amiga RC5 challenge Developers of both hacked authors. It looks like a healthy com­ tions with Mirabilis to officially port The Amiga RC5 team has recently [ p r o g r a m s h a v e s a id t h e y a r e petition is developing between the ICQ to the Amiga, there have been a slipped down to seventh place in * considering ceasing develop­ authors o f Genesis and Miami, few Amiga versions released recent­ overall standings of the inte m ent since they can't earn a liv­ which can only lead to better pro­ ly. the most complete of which is code-cracking competition, due to 4 ing when their w ork is being gram s for all of us. STRICQ. The problem was that new team climbing at an astonishin continually stolen. Even if they M irabilis wouldn't release details of rate. The good news is that the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMc o n t in u e , t h e y w i l l h a v e t o the ICQ protocols, but some enter­ recent growth in the use of f divert resources to im proving prising individuals have reverse engi­ Amigas has resulted in an overall copy protection, instead of neered them by monitoring the data increase in progress and the ch improving the product's fea­ on an ICQ connection. Although no of regaining sixth place. All Amiga tures. It's not just the author code has been stolen, this is still of owners online - but especially th they are stealing from, if you dubious legality, so there's no copy with PowerPC cards - should join h a v e p a id f o r y o u r c o p y o f t h e of it on the CD. For those that have the challenge. The process runs in softw are, you could be losing been in hiding all year, ICQ (pro­ the background and has no effect < out on future developments. nounced l-Seek-You) is a means of the normal running of you machine. I These cracked programs communicating with other people by only using the CPU when it would ™ d o n 't a lw a y s w o r k e x a c t l y a s t h e New news reader notifying them when you are online, otherwise be idle. ■ proper version, they have a ten­ Miami is of course different to although it does a lot more besides Neil Bothwick dency to crash the machine, NetConnect in that it is only a TCP It is tim e that Mirabilis realised that behave oddly or do other dam ­ stack. It will get you online but you the Internet is not for PC s only, and C o n ta c ts age. It's no m ore than the user w ill need additional software to do that users of alternative computers deserves for receiving stolen anything. Fortunately, the Amiga's m ay want to communicate with the Miami g o o d s . Internet software market appears PC owners currently using their http://wwwnordicglobal.com It m ay be easier to distribute pretty healthy system. illegal softw are over the Along with updates to all three NetConnect2/Genesis Internet, but that doesn't make browsers, the last few weeks have http://wwW ractive-net.co.uk it right. M any ISPs take a dim seen the release of a brand new view of their service being used news reader called NewsRog. NewsRog for illegal purposes. If you see a Despite the rather unusual name, http://www.frii.com /-srk/Shad owW orks Preview NR.html source of illicit softw are, inform this is a very professional package the authors and, where possible, with a wide range of features and STRICQ the ISR It's you, the honest buy­ extensive documentation and tutori­ http://www.momo2 0 0 0 .com /- ers of softw are, w ho w ill be the als. We've sneaked in a review o f it mclaughd/ real losers. The authors can on page 56. Also check out the A m iB e n c h m ove on and earn a living else­ demo version included on this AmiBench have reported some very A m iB e n c h where. you w ill be the one stuck month's CD. impressive statistics for their site. http: / /thunderstorm s.org Am i B w ithout updates. Think about it. After a ench/index.htm l period of falling Amiga RC5 Team http://homepage.cistron.nl/~tta interest, Mu»™au coma voly/rc5/ . they have Surf of the Month

That rubber-suited water sportsman (no reference to his surfing antics either), Neil Bothwick, dips his toes in the drink for the last time ever... at least for CU Amiga anyway.

e haven't covered mind, most of the advice on here is numbers. After seeing John many Amiga-spe­ applicable to all computers. One Kennedy's piece on the Sinclair C5 W cific sites lately area of Internet security that can be in last month's Techno Tragedies, I (none at all last very confusing is P r e t t y G o o d thought I'd look for a C5 devotee's month) so let's P r iv a c y . David Rosoff’s PGP pages site. I didn't find one. but w hile look­ start by remedying that. Pure Amiga try to put this fairly com plex subject ing at Alternative Transport, I found Started from a group of people who into an easily digestible form, with the V e g g ie V a n . This van runs on a net on IRC. se t up a few web suitable warnings like "the rest of fuel made from used vegetable oil, rages, then a mailing list and then it this paragraph is chock full of techie although it is a little more involved ust grew from there. Their site is crap. If you are confused enough than frying your chips then emptying rery clearly laid out with easy navi­ already and would just rather not the chip pan into the tank. It's sup­ gation and sensible u se of graphics. know, skip it". If you've ever won­ posed to be very environmentally The range of information con- dered about using PGP but have friendly, but you'd probably have a content is good. ined in the site and linked to is been put off by its apparent com­ heart attack after eating all the fried Finally, while w e are all waiting lite im pressive. This is w ell worth plexity, this would be a good place food needed to keep it on the road. for more news on the next Amigas, I a look. It seem s that Amiga users keep an eye on the various official •er tire of customising their and authoritative information irkbench. The range of icon sets resources, especially Amiga Inc and and backdrop images just keeps Amiga International for official 'ing. A n ew site has just announcements, and sites like the :ared dedicated to this. The Amiga Web Directory, Amiga Org Workbench Custom ization Page and Team Amiga for other news. ■ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMhas a collection of icons, images, Neil Bothwick kdrops. fonts and sam ples to nge the appearance of your liga. The icons are a new style illed G low lcons that use the Icons colour system but don't Living fairly clo se to Liverpool, I w as k like Newlcons. They have a less interested to stumble across 'cartoony" look to them, but the to start looking at it again. We've Scouser.com This site is devoted to ique feature is the way each icon looked at online telephone directo­ Liverpool, the city, the people, ins a halo when you select it. ries before, here's a variation on the places to go and the humour. It's theme. How often have you seen an not exactly official. I'm not sure advert that gives a phone number what the tourist board would make without saying where in the country of it. but I enjoyed it. Some of the they are. or .dialled 1471 to find an design is a bit dodgy but the unknown STD code? The Brainstorm STD Codes page has URLs the answer, you can either type in a single code to get the location, or P u r e A m ig a http://www.pureamiga.co.uk you can download the full list to use Workbench Custom ization Page http://reality.sgi.com/mchaput_aw/ it offline. It also has some informa­ in d e x .h tm l tion on international dialling codes Internet Security 6 Privacy http://wvirw.lib.m su.edu/weasejos and access to a couple of university /internet/security/index.htm databases on telephone codes and PGP - Pretty Good Privacy http://www.arc.unm .edu Workbench Customization /—drosoff/pgp/pgp.html I hence the name. Any discussion of UK STD Dialing Codes http://www.brainstorm .co.uk/utils/ the Internet soon gets round to std-codes.htm l I security in one form or another. V e g g ie V a n http://www.veggievan.org I While many people worry too much Scouser.com http://www.scouser.com/ ] about this, others don't worry A m ig a In c http://www.am iga.com enough Internet Security 6 Privacy Am iga International http ://www.am iga.de [ covers several important topics, Am iga W eb Directory http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html eluding o nes that many people A m ig a O r g http://www.amiga.org give too little thought to. like the T e a m A m ig a http://web.wt.net/-gpeake/ choice of a password. While parts of teamamiga.html the site are written with PC s in CU Am iga Online http: //www.cu-am iga.co.uk Desperately trying to avoid any puns about muted clowns of French persuasion, Neil Bothwick has a look at MIME types.

die It like a GIF file, no matter what although it's not mentioned in the RFCs (RFCs are the official stan­ dards documents of the Internet). ■ A c tio n VJDEO/MPG is for mpeg videos*! There are three main choices of although playing these on a 68K I action to be laken for a particular Amiga while maintaining an Internefl type ol file use the browser's nter connection is not really a practical ] nal routines, pass it to an external option. The only audio type officially program, or save it to disk There defined is AUDIO/BASIC even may be other options here, like though most audio files on theim BQ using datatypes or using a PIPE to are in WAV, MIDI, RealAudio or M pass it to an external program but j MPEG format APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM is j a general term referring to a binary I V ie w e r file A browser should treat any file j If you use an external option, th it doesn't recognise as the command Ihe browser will application/octet stream. The Stan- j Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMe have come a T ype The browsers also have codes' dard behaviour lor this is to open a \ long w ay since This is the name given to each can include inithcftom mand to file requester and save the file to I W the days of having MIME type and actually comes in resent the name of the file, the disk. to edit text files in two parts, a type and subtype. The or the browser s screen All thr( ENVARC: to alter main types are TEXT. IMAGE. Adding your own the M IM E settings for AM osaic. but AUDIO, VIDEO and APPLICATION. vary between browsers so check Now let's look at setting up a despite the MIME configuration Each one is then subdivided, so for the documentation brow ser to handle som e m ore rife- ■“ GUIs of the current browsers, there IMAGE we have IMAGE/JPEG. There are a number of officially types. Wherever possible the pro­ is Still some confusion about what IMAGE/GIF and so on. defined MIME types, but you can grams referred to here will Be on MIME types are, how they affect You can also have a subtype of define any you want Unofficial the CD, along with a page contain- you and how you can u se them to \ IMAGE/1 which covers any image M IM E types should start with ''X-" H g links to the various types of files improve your web browsing. that hasn't got it's own specific to avoid clashes with any future offi­ so you can test your setup. MIME types are the Internet M IM E type. cial ones You could define a MIME First you need to make sure your standard for recognising and han- • type lor OctaMED modules as default MIME types are set up for dling a wide range of different types E x te n s io n AUDIO/X MED with a .med exten­ IMAGE/1 and AUDIO/1. These will ' of file Although originally aimed at Unlike datatypes (or CUCDfile). sion and the appropriafe call to be used for any files that don't fit dealing with file attachments in MIME uses a very simple method OctaMEDPlayer as the action. into one of the specific types. email (MIME is an acronym for of determining the type of a file: it IMAGE/1 is usually best left to the Multipurpose Internet Mail looks at the file extension This Setting them up internal view ers, which generally call Extensions), MIME types are most can. and does, cause problems Let’s have a quick look at the offi­ datatypes for any format they can't often encountered in web browsers ’ For instance, there are sites using cial MIME types and some ways to handle. You could use datatypes for Each MIME type definition ipeg images saved with a gif set them up. then we can see how audio files too. by using Multnnew - relates to one type of file, and extension. II you use a datatypes you can deal with a wider range ps an external program, but Pl$y16 specifies two things, how to-, based viewer, or something like of files. TEXT has two subtypes, is better for this. Copy Play16 to recognise it and what to do with it. Visage, that handles multiple PLAIN and HTML, both should be your C: directory, if it’s not already It is a little like the current image formats this doesn't matter. handled internally by the browser there, and set up AUDIO/1 as: datatypes system, or the But if you use a GIF-only viewer IMAGE/JPEG and IMAGE/GIF are CUCDfile/CUCDprefs combination for GIFs and a JPEG-only viewer, generally dealt with by the brows­ TypeiAUDIO/1 used on the CU Amiga cover CDs. for JPEG s they could get a little er's internal decoding routines, Ext.Leave blank since this is a default’ Each browser has a slightly differ­ confused. Flowever, there is anoth­ although PowerPC owners will find Action: External ent configuration GUI but they all er factor to consider here. it faster to u se the akJFIF PPC Co nm a nd: C P Ia v 16 work in basically the same way. Generally the server will send-a datatype for JPEG images rather Arguments:>NIL: %f t There are four elements to a MIME MIME type before it sends the than the browser's 68k based type configuration: Type. file, so if the servers sends decoding. IMAGFrPNG afso seems There are differences between Extension, Action and Viewer. IMAGE/GIF the browser will han- to be used as ar othoal type. browsers here. Action is called key pdflile You will not need this line if you run

• H 1 C r e d o r ie s | -a > o ut 1 H I M . C is p | your browser on the Workbench. Vine Acllon 'LICATION/X-LZX Ilh a B x^ | CU vie stack 20000 And that's all there is CiSTool F to it ... -stream lha IzI^S^ Workbench#' You should be able to configure i* l- t e ~ a l viev/e' ip g ip e g M e '- a l view *' c:xpdf (pdffile) your browser to recognise and han­ 1- t e - a v ie w e ' dle just about any type of File now. l- te 'n a l vievve- e n g STool is there to a s w ell as altering your existing xblunaa xbm Internal view er I 1 1 l-M e r-a l vicv/er bring the MIME types to use the viewers you Intern al vlev-cr Workbench prefer. screen to the With the exception of the iype. [APPL CAt ON_ front to stop streaming formats such as MPEG xpdf opening on audio, you can test all of these : fpdT offline with a file from your hard O Inte rn a l v ie w e r ® Ex'., v ie w e r O S a v e to d isk the browser's O A s k u s e r Z J Netw ork U R L screen, since drive. ■ that causes Neil Bothwick crashes here

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I Program in AWeb. External containing the URL of the audio iver in IBrow se and V ie w in stream. There is a handy ARexx Don't worry, it's just differ script on the CD that will read this t nam es for the sam e thing. file and start playing the audio r doesn't have an Arguments stream with MPEGA. The MIME adget. so you put "C:Play16 >NIL: type settings are: p f " in the Command gadget. The is replaced by the name of the Type:AUDIO/X-MPEG •t each case It's best to give Ext m3u mp3 ull path for the command, Action External ivsers sometimes have trouble Command.rx (or sys:rexxc/rx it your ding programs otherwise. browser needs the full path) Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMPlay 16 will handle most sampled Arguments:mp3spool %f %p idio formats, but there are a tew (change the % p to %n ter AWeb) ihers you may com e across MIDI Kfio is w ell suited for w eb usage The % p or %n is replaced with the nee the files are very small, even name of the browser's screen. This it a long tune. GMPlay is an excel is so the script can open a window nt MIDI player that requires no on-the screen. Smce the link is-to e IIDI hardware, set it up like this continuous stream of audio data, you need the window to b e able to pe:AUDIO/MIDI stop the playback with Ctrl-C. t mid (note you do re ■ the dot before the ext. Application types fAction External You could set up application MIME jCommand: GM : GMPl.iv types for ju stab ou t any kind of file •guments:>NIL: %l you like. We covered using a script A Setting the MIME type* in Voyager - eete the lech ef M Arguments gadget, yen include arguments in the to automatically unarchive LHA and’ Viewer gadget instead H you want to use any other options IZX archives in the July Wired with GMRtev pul them before the World NetConn#ct2 com es with Live and direct %f. like ">NIL: frequency 16000 voyager pre-configured to load volume 120 priority 3*. archives into )VArc. If you look in There is another type of audio There is a player available for If you have MIDI hardware, such the Wired World directory ory the on the WWW, called streamed the Amiga, but it is of dubious •as ProteciXG or a Yamaha MU10, CD you m ay find a script to load audio. This is where the data legal status, so we can't cover there is a command supplied with them into a lister is supplied as a continuous it here. There is another for­ I MidiPlay that simply plays the file . with ArcUir ("may" meaning I stream and played in real time, mat for streaming audio, I with no GUI. Put midi.library in UBS haven't written it yet but hope to / as opposed to the usual mpeg. Streaming mpeg uses a | and tinymidiplay in C: and use this: have done so before the CD's method of downloading a file much lower quality setting deadline). / / completely and then playing it. than for the CD quality files Timand:c:tinymid

This index contains a summary of Hot Products product reviews from only the pre­ Aminet Sets The m ust-have shareware archive vious four issues of CU Amiga, . Draw Studio Am iga s best structured art/illustration package. sorted by issue and then Elastic Dreams Sw irly picture m anupulation hi-jinks. alphabetically. This symbol 'O' indi­ Epson Stylus Photo For photo-realistic hardcopy. cates a Superstar award winner. F o u n d a tio n Ultra-detailed God game.

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phase5 PowerUp cards PowerPC accelerators.

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AWeb-ll 3.0 Comms (browser) The first Amiga browser with Javascript 9 0 % O

ImageFX 3.0 Graphics (paint/process) The best image processor goes from strength to strength 9 5 % O

M a lic e ( f o r Q u a k e ) 3D game Utterly brilliant, worth buying Quake for alone 9 5 % O

MasterlSO V2 C D - R W s o f t w a r e A great all round package 8 8 %

Micronik External Scan Doubler Scan doubler Well deserving of the Boing Ball 9 3 % O

Micronik Internal Scan Doubler Scan doubler An inexpensive route to a high quality display 8 8 %

Power Digital Camera Digital camera Easy to use, fun, and cheap - but results don't impress 8 1 %

Quake 3D game The ultimate in atmospheric shoot 'em up action 95% O

Sirius Genlock Genlock Superlative video output - at a price 9 0 % O

The Labyrinth of Time Adventure game Some design flaws, but an engaging game nonetheless 7 8 % T itle T y p e Comment Score

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Turboprint 6 Printer drivers An essential companion to any modern printer 93% O

TV-Amazing T V tuner Good, but not ideally suited for Amiga use 75%

! J u ly 9 8 Amiga Forever Amiga emulator Very workable Amiga emulation 87%

Aminet 24 Various The latest downloads from the Net 89%

Aminet S e t 6 Various A gargantuan collection of software 90% ©

Eyetech single-slot Zorro Expansion (A1200) Functional, but inelegant and expensive 78%

EZ-PC Tower Tower system An excellent, all-in-one Siamese system 89%

Flyin' High Patch/Data Disk Racing game Bug fixes and extra courses to make Flyin' High playable 74%

Pyromania DTV (clips) Loads of quality fire animation clips 92% ©

Quake: Mission Pack 1 3D game A great way to get more out of Quake 87%

Shrak for Quake 3D game Probably one of the finest add-ons for Quake 88%

Tornado 3D Graphics (3D) Flawed, but exciting enough to risk 87%

Virtual Karting 2 Racing game A sequel that should never have happened 40%

Wheels On Fire Racing game A fun game, marred but system unfriendlines 50%

Yamaha MU 10 Sound card (MIDI) Good, but not as flexible as a proper sound card 85%

A u g u s t 9 8 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMCatweasel Mk II Floppy drive interface The best way to improve your floppy capabilities 89% Eyetech CDPIus SE CD-ROM drive No excuse not to buy a CD-ROM drive now 90% ©

Foundation God game A Superstar despite the flaws - and it's getting better 90% O

Genetic Species 3D game A great synthesis of adventure, suspense and blasting 94% O

Samplitude Opus Audio package The best hard drive recording and editing system 86%

Scan Magic Scan doubler Gives a cheap, high quality display 90% O

Scan Magic (with flicker fixer) Scan doubler The best Amiga display this side of a graphics card 92% Q

Siamese V2.1 Network/RTG package The best thing to happen to a PC 94% Q

SoundProbe 2.0 Audio package An essential piece of software for anyone into sampling 9 2 % ©

VDC200p * Digital camera Good package with acceptable output and a great price 86%

Septem ber 98 A ir M ail Pro 3.1 Comms software Well worth a look if you fancy a change of mailer 86%

Amiga Developer CD 1.2 , Developer tools A must for all propeller heads 90%

Ateo A4000 Tower Tower case Opens the world of tower conversions to A4000 users 89%

C ro ssD O S 7 Read and write PC disks - a long overdue upgrade 90% O

Epic Encyclopedia 1998 Multimedia Plenty of information, let down by the quirky interface 73%

EZ-VHA Mk2/Plus Scan doubler A quality scan doubler that dares to be different 89%

EZ-Writer C D -R drive Good entry level CD-R system 87%

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L o g o s Enhanced CDs n — i, I, ___ 1 am writing in refer- M ysteries and m eanings... Y y enc® r y o u . liques of encoding say. OptyCDPIayer recognises it the FPU instructions that are not data into an audio CD a s a d a t a . im plem ented on the 68040 The fact that you get Guru number 8000 ROM drive to any of the ports at stability and the fact you can con­ like digital cameras, DV cam­ DOOB re-inforces this diagnosis: it is the rear of your Amiga. The two nect up to seven devices. The corders and monitors. Planned an emulator error. usual ways of connecting up such a advantages of the IDE option are uses include anything from net­ The latest version of the drive are either via a SCSI interface cheapness and speed. The Squirrel working to interfacing of storage TiC.library is V44.3, which can be or via an IDE interface. Both these device is not particularly fast, due devices, printers and scanners. found on the phase 5 ftp-site at solution require some extra hard­ to the poor bandwidth of the Because Firewire is peer-to-peer, ftp://ftp.phase5.de/pub/phase5/06 w are. PCMCIA port. With a fast proces­ no host computer is needed to 68060-V44_3.lha. You will proba­ 2. SCSI (pronounced scuzzy. sor, you will get higher speeds control communication; it would bly need a new er version of Small Computer Systems Interface) from an IDE device. be perfectly possible to download Patch as well, since this is the is a bus standard for communica­ You should look out for dealers the data straight from a digital mand which causes the tion between a computer and sev­ who bundle drives and interfaces camera to a printer, for example. "library to be loaded. The lat­ eral devices, usually storage cheaply. For example, Eyetech sell 2. No. Although superficially est version of this isV43.6b and can devices like hard disks, CD-ROMs, a 24x speed drive and their similar to Firewire, USB (Universal be found on Amiga International's etc. The standard specifies the pro­ buffered IDE device for £85.95; Serial Bus) is a completely sepa­ ;cb-site at tocol, cabling, connectors, etc. HiSoft sell a double speed SCSI rate bus standard. While Firewire http://www.amiga.de/files/PublicB SCSI is a fast and reliable, although drive with a Squirrel for £79.95. is aimed at high bandwidth multi- iA/SetPatch43_6.b.lha. Both of expensive system. these are also on this month's CD 3. The Squirrel is a SCSI inter­ in the Q+A drawer. face for the and 1200 A1200 040 accelerators can which connects via the PCMCIA cause a number of other problems. port, the card slot at the left-hand 68040 chips are quite power-hun­ side of your machine. The Surf gry and the standard PSU shipped Squirrel, in addition, has a built-in with A1200s lacks the muscle to fast serial port. cope - esp ecially if you have a 4. The Amiga 600 and 1200 have large hard d isk, etc. There is also a an internal IDE interface which was problem of heat dissipation: the intended for use with one internal 040 can get hot enough to fry a full hard drive. With the correct cable English breakfast on. If yo u've got a and software it is possible to desktop m achine, it's a good idea attach up to four devices to this to leave the trapdoor cover off and interface. However, the IDE inter­ mount your m achine on taller legs face is not buffered and it is possi­ to increase air flow . A bigger fan ble (although unlikely) to damage wouldn't go am iss, either. your computer by overloading it. A buffered interface is designed to Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMCD-ROMs, the Universe prevent such damage. and Everything. 5. If it is an external device it I am writing to ask if will come with its own PSU any­ A Not last enough? The Cfberstonn PPC board. you could please help w ay; if internal, it is intended for me. I w ish to spend use in a desktop or tower case. about £120 on a CD- These type of cases typically have media applications, USB is intend­ ROM drive for my a much larger power supply than a Light m y fire ed for connecting things like Amiga 1200 (2MB). As I do not know standard 600 or 12 0 0 and are able I have been reading keyboards, mice, joysticks, anything about these drives, could to provide power for a CD-ROM. frequently about modems etc. USB allows maxi­ you please answ er m e these 6. The only time when the speed Firewire devices in the mum transfer rates of 1.5MB/S. questions: of a CD-ROM drive is critical is computer press of 3. None that we know of. There 1. Do the drives operate through when spooling animations directly late. are not many places on a current any of the ports at the rear of my from disc, e.g. in games; some 1. Ju st what is Firewire? Amiga that could permit the nec­ Amiga, or do they have to be fitted games specify a minimum of 4x. 2. Is it anything to do with USB? essary bandwidth. If someone did inside my machine? For other use, the speed of the 3. Are there any plans to imple­ wish to do so, it would have to be 2. What the heck is a SCSI device drive is immaterial - although as ment it on the Amiga? - built into an accelerator card. If and what in heavens does it do? usual the faster, the better. you read our CU 2000 feature last 3. What is the difference between There are several cheap solu­ Ed Smithton, month, our hypothetical new a "Surf Squirrel" and a "Classic tions for connecting a CD-ROM Loughborough. Amiga featured both Firewire and Squirrel"? drive to your Amiga 1200 (or 600). USB. This is a fairly safe bet. 4. What is an IDE buffered inter­ One way is to get a Squirrel SCSI 1. Firewire is a trademark name for face? interface and a SCSI drive. As men­ Apple's implementation of the Faster, faster. 5. Is it better to buy a CD-ROM tioned before, this device connects IEEE-1394 high speed serial bus I recently purchased a drive that is not powered by the to the PCMCIA slot, so is easy to standard. Firewire was originally Cyberstorm PPC for Amiga (ie; it has its own power install. The other option is to buy a conceived by Apple as a cheap and m y Am iga 4000. A s a supply)? 4-way buffered IDE interface and simpler replacement for SCSI. It subscriber to your 6. Is a double speed (x2) drive suf­ an ATAPI CD-ROM drive. allows speeds (at the moment) of excellent magazine. I ficient for everyday use? Installation of this interface is inter­ up to 50MB/S, supports hot- read your December nal, so requires your machine to be unplugging (devices may be con­ '97 piece on overclocking the 68060. C. Forrest, opened up. However, it is a fairly nected and disconnected while I am as a rule rather wary of over- Lincolnshire. straightforward procedure: if you still powered on) and is plug'n'play docking CPU s but in this case it managed to install a hard drive, (devices do not need any configu­ seems quite harmless: due to manu­ Some short answers to your ques­ then it should prove no problem. ration with IDs, jumpers, etc.). facturing changes the '060 can quite tions are (the detail follows): The advantages of going for the The only devices that support comfortably run at 66MHz and soon 1. You cannot connect a CD- Squirrel are the simple installation. Firewire at the moment are things 75MHz. HI

The Cyberstorm PPC has two Is there any way for me to use 1. Which is the best option for needed for the best performance. oscillators: one times the '060 and this scanner and printer on my adding extra devices, SCSI or IDE? 3. Yes. It w ould be best to put it the SCSI controller, the other the beloved Amiga as the scanner has a 2. The Eyetech mini tower with in the tower, though. PPC. The SCSI chip (or rather parallel interface with a through port CDPIus seem s ideal. This will give 4. U r n , n o t q u it e s u r e w h a t y o u chips) doesn't seem to want to for the printer. If I can u se these me up to 5 IDE devices. Will this m ean here. It is possible to install run at 66MHz. accessories then I can ditch the PC cause any problems or bottlenecks SCSI devives into the tow er as I have noticed that on the 040 and purchase som e decent soft­ having this many connected to the w ell. However, you can get an IDE version ot the Cyberstorm PPC ware like Wordworth 7. instead of IDE port? v e r s i o n o f t h e Z ip d r iv e . the SCSI controller is timed with a having to use Word which on my PC 3. Can I also run my internal hard 5. The best 040 board to go for separate oscillator. On the ‘060 is sooooo slooooww! drive if I use all the drive bays in the is the Apollo one. If you have version ot the Cyberstorm PPC tower? m oved all other devices to an the socket tor this crystal is Nick Sawyer, 4. Is there a SCSI interface external tow er case, it w ill be quite empty, but there nonetheless v ia e m a il option? I really would like to u se the safe to run one of these in a normal M y question is: how do I acti­ Iomega Zip drive A1200. Heat w ill still be a problem, vate this extra clock to time the I sym pathiza w ith you; at w ork I 5 .1 would also like to fit a 1240 so see the question Check the SC SI chip on the 060 version ot have a PC w hich I only use w hen I board. If I get the mini tow er I will library' on page 94. the Cyberstorm PPC? That way I w ish to print something out - sim ­ have to fit the board in the trapdoor. can overclock the 060 without ply because getting an Am iga to Taking into consideration the heat Y o u C A D ! affecting SCSI operation. print across a netw ork is such a generated by these boards, which is I am currently stud’ p a in . the best board to go for? Electronics at uni Ben Hermans, W ell, there is good news and About the mag, where would we ty and w e use pack­ Antwerp, Belgium. bad news. The good news is that all be without CU dropping through , V ages like Spice on the you can use the Lexm ark 1020 the door every month? Excellent. PC for circuit Phew! This is an interesting printar w ith an Am iga. You w ill I own an Amiga 1200 with an question. W e have been trying need to use the HP DeskJet driver Robbie Randall, card and 16MB of memory and I to glean inform ation from phase supplied w ith W orkbench. The bad v ia e m a il. would naturally like to use my Ami 5 on the overclocking of their news is that there is no w ay to for homework, rather than having to Cyberstorm PPC boards for use the O ptic Pro scanner w ith an 1. See the previous CD-ROM ques­ buy a PC. Are there any similar som e tim e - w ith little luck so A m ig a . tion. Other things to consider are; ages available for the Amiga? far. The reason for this, I sup­ T h i s s c a n n e r c o m m u n ic a t e s v ia * 2. You m ay only connect up to pose, is that phase 5 do not an IEEE-1284 interface, the four IDE devices. You could use Stew art Green, w ish people to tam per w ith their Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) stan­ the spare space in the tow er for v ia e m a il. boards (notice the oscillators are dard. W hile IEEE-1284 is back- SCSI devices via your Squirrel. alw ays soldered on and not wardly com patible w ith normal There is a lim itation in that these The Am iga is blessed w ith a very s o c k e t e d ) . parallel ports, the converse is not four devices w ill w ork In pairs, good port of Spice. It can be found Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMThe Cyberstorm PPC 040 and true - the Am iga parallel port does tw o in one channel, tw o in the in the archive spice3f5r3 in misc/sci 060 boards are identical in lay­ not support EPP. Perhaps, in the other. W hile the speed of the tw o on the Am inet. out. You w ill also notice that future, som e hardware manufac­ channels is independent of each There is also a graphical front-end they have no jum pers to set. The ture m ay produce an add-on like other, the speed of tw o devices for Spice available on the Am iga, boards are configured for differ­ the fast serial ports w e have at the connected to the sam e channel is w hich allow s you to visually lay ent CPUs and clock speeds by m om ent - a plug-in board which restricted to the speed of the out com ponents, define analyses, means of solder pads. Hence the equips your Am iga with an EPP slow er of the tw o devices. Also etc - instead of m essing about only w ay to m odify them is to However, even if you did find note that both the IDE interface w ith script files. It has a nice physically cut tracks or connect som e w ay of interfacing this scan­ and the Squirrel are non-DM A: all graphing tool, too. It is called pads. This is obviously not ner w ith your Am iga, there is cur­ data transfer is perform ed by the Am iSPICEed and can also be found som ething to perform lightly rently no softw are support for it. CPU. Hence a fast procassor is in m isc/sci. (It's on CUCD26 too.) w ith a piece of hardware as The 4830p is a TW AIN-com pliant expensive as these boards. scanner, but there is no TW AIN W e suggest that all readers softw are.for the Am iga, either. interested in overclocking their Until there are more develop­ Cyberstorm PPC boards should m ents in this area of the m arket, if — ■— ■ j ; ------p e s t e r p h a s e 5 f o r t h e in f o r m a ­ you really w ish to use your scan­ -C ...... JT jr n*t IT■ ■T I Jrlt ...... A A J _ tion. I know I w ill continue to do ner w ith your Am iga, you could l|[fW vs s o . t o o . alw ays network the tw o machines [ • T and use the PC as a large scanner — _ 1 L ------; Ditch the PC driver. Our netw orking feature this • •a l* ■ r~ I have a towered up m onth w ill give you som e ideas ______Amiga with a 2GB o n h o w t o d o t h is . V / V hard drive. 2 speed CD-ROM. 030 A tow er on the side M iiMiiaiM accelerator with M y system is an 10MB of RAM, soon to be A1200. 1.2GB hard replaced with a spanking new drive, A w ia CD-ROM. 200MHz PPC card. What I would Blizzard 1230 MkIV like to do is ditch m y PC in favour with 16MB. Surf of my Amiga. However I would Squirrel and a Supra Express like to keep my Optic Pro 4830p modem. I’m thinking of expanding, flatbed scanner and my Lexmark but don't really want a big tower 10 2 0 printer if possible. system . ▲ Spice ip your Amiga s life and analyse a few circeits along the way. A t o ^ N

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N is fo r... when com puters used to com­ com m and line interface contents when the power is m unicate w ith us users by typ­ w in d o w . rem oved. Exam ples of non­ N a n o s e c o n d ing text on a tele-printer. A s it volatile m em ory include A measurem ent of tim e, one spewed out its little characters, NFS ROMs, EPROM s and the nanosecond is 1e-9 or it w ould eventually need to take Netw ork File System , a file sys­ Flash m em ory w hich is used 1/1000000000 of a second. a new line and start over. Now tem which allows com puters to in digital cam eras. Nona of Nanoseconds are often used to the new line character has been s h a r e f i le s o v e r a n e tw o r k . these form s of m em ory need express the speed at which included in the various charac­ Com puters with com patible a constant supply of power. memory operates: for example, ter sets in used, such as ASCII, NFS system s can browse each If they did, your Am iga 70ns RAM is faster than 80ns and still causes text to move other's hard drives. For exam ­ wouldn't know how to boot RAM. dow n a line, and back to the left ple. an Am iga can be included up when you sw itch it on, hand side of the screen. on a PC netw ork by using a util­ as it stores its core operat­ NE2000 ity called Sam ba to create a ing system in ROM. A m ake of netw orking card, N e w b ie com patible NFS. Non- using the Ethernet standard. Slang term for som eone who is does need pow er to read its T h e t e r m N E 2 0 0 0 h a s c o m e t o n e w t o t h e I n t e r n e t , o r n e w t o N o c a p s lo c k contents of course, but mean a generic, w idely support­ posting in newsgroups. Often An AmigaDOS commodities unlike m ost form s of RAM - ed standard. It's possible to use used as a term of abuse, exchange program which tem­ such as the Dynam ic RAM NE2000 netw orking cards in an although this is clearly against p o r a r ily d is a b le s t h e c a p s lo c k as used in the Am iga - they Am iga fitted w ith a GoldenGate n e t iq e t t e . ke y . N e e d le s s t o s a y . t h is is n o t w ill remember their con­ 2 bridgeboard card. used very often, except perhaps tents when the system they Newcli b y p e o p le w i t h f a t f in g e r s . are in is sw itched off. N e s t in g An Am igaDOS command Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMPlacing som ething inside som e­ which opens a new window on Nocarerefresh N o t w o r k thing else: for exam ple, in pro­ the Am iga desktop. The w in­ A flag som etim es used in the A network w hich isn't w ork­ gram m ing term s a nested loop dow offers a w ay of entering definition of an Intuition w in­ ing properly, is a notwork. is inside another loop. text instructions - the dow structure. It tells the Terrible pun, I know. AmigaDOS commands - and Am iga's operating system that N e t i q u e t t e executing them . You can open the program w hich created the N u ll Largely un-written rules on how m ultiple w indow s and run w indow doesn't need to be told In com puter term s, null to behave when using the com m ands in them all sim ulta­ when the w indow has changed means nothing. W hen pro­ Internet. To sum m arise: try to neously. From W orkbench 2 and is therefore in need of gram m ing for example, a null be courteous, don't quote more and onwards, newcli does the r e d r a w in g . string is empty. than you post, avoid large sigs same as newshell. , at the end of m ail, and read any N o f a s t m e m N u ll m o d e m FAQ lists before asking a silly Newsgroup An Am igaDOS command which A null m odem is actually an q u e s t io n . One of the services available on tem porarily disables all non- ordinary serial cable, w ired the Internet is News, w hich is Chip RAM on the Amiga. This slightly different from usual, N e t w o r k like a giant bulletin board full of program w as m ost useful in the and w ith tw o fem ale con­ A connection of tw o or more gossip, chat, technical argu­ very early days of the Am iga, nectors at each end. It com puters, connected together m ents and an aw ful lot more, when programmers were learn­ allow s a com puter's serial and able to share data, m ail or including binaries w hich are ing the ropes. port to be connected to resources such as printers. best left alone to save your eye­ S o m e p r o g r a m s w o u l d f a il another com puter's serial Netw orks com e in two main sight. There are thousands upon because they w ould (wrongly) port, instead of to a modem. types: peer to peer, in which thousands of newsgroups, each assum e that all the memory This allow s the tw o com put­ every com puter is an equal and w ith an individual name they requested was Chip mem­ ers to com m unicate using shares w ith every other; and describing its subject, and o r y - a n A m ig a w i t h m e g a b y t e s standard term inal (modem) client-server, in w hich a central som etim es its contents. Alt.digi- of Fast m em ory w as just too s o f t w a r e . server com puter provides tiser is m y favourite, as every­ r a r e t o p la n f o r T h e s e d a y s , resources to a collection of oth­ one is alw ays so friendly - when any decent Am iga system Num eric keypad ers system s. There are a few especially when they find out has at least 8M B of Fast mem o­ The cluster of keys w ith dig­ n e t w o r k in g s y s t e m s f o r t h e you use an Amiga. ry, this com m and is sim ply a its. m athem atical operations A m ig a . relic of a bygone age. and an enter key to the right Newshell of the m ain keyboard. N e w lin e An Am igaDOS command which Non-volatile memory Except on the A600, which A c a r r y o v e r f r o m t h e d a y s is identical to newcli. O pens a Mem ory w hich w on't forget its doesn't have one. B a c k c h a t

pened. as one year ago I bought Sadly this is the last ever Backchat, so don't write in Capital Punishment (91% ) just to find any more because we won't be here. it w as completely unplayable Now I I'm afraid I can't rely on your reviews anymore! See, you won't help the High scores Amiga by overrating products. Millennium New Amiga" article As much as I enjoy reading your w hich as the disclaim ers pointed out mag, I sometimes wonder what's Diego Pappalardo, Belgium was a complete load ol rubbish. happening to you guys. After read­ I regularly purchase CU Amiga ing the Quake review, I got that Review scores are a tricky and and I felt let down a s I expect to be Quake Player demo version and always controversial subject. For able to read sensible and informa­ launched it to check the speed on instance, should we mark Quake tive articles I regard this type of arti­ my 060 50Mhz AGA You guys must down because it runs at unusable cle as childish and harmful to the be nuts to think this thing is speeds on an 'average' Amiga? We present and future credibility of our playable Even my brother's old think not. as it's the hardware at beloved Amiga. Pentium 75 does better) How fault not the game. You complain Please. I emplore you, refrain ashamed I w a sl The problem being: because it is slower than your from this type of article and concen­ you rated this game 95 % and I brother's computer, yet his CPU trate more on your usual high stan­ quote "You can expect up to 10fps runs at a 50% higher clockspeed. dard of informative (factual) features. in full screen on a 060/50Mhz (...) 10 and we'll bet it has better display is great". I don't think so. I think you hardware too. If you were to com­ S Butcher, Gosport guys waited so eagerly to have pare it to PC hardware of around Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMQuake running on Amiga that you the same power, you'd find that Sorry to hear you didn't like that got carried away at the review, giv­ the Amiga version is indeed faster. little glimpse into the future. It ing it an outrageously high score. We stand by that review. w as backed up by lots of facts and ADoom is fast and playable. Quake A s for your difference of opin­ Complete rubbish educated guesses. See how much is not. no matter how technically ion with our Capital Punishment I am thoroughly disappointed with of ft comes true. Did it really say advanced it is. So 96% it might be, reviewer, you will be glad to hear CU for publishing the nine page "Disclaimer: this article is a load of but not until w e get a PPC version! that the reviewer left CU Amiga spread regarding the "New rubbish"? We think not) It's not the first tim e it has hap­ two years ago. so you can be sure

Some reactions from the Internet to the news of our impending closure

I have alw ays had this idea that episode two: The Empire Strikes and snap up a few new employees. No one else would help so much and the computer world is like Star Back. W e've had a serious lo ss but George Elliott I don't think I would be here to say Wars. Bill Gales and the PC are we haven't yet lost the struggle, and goodbye to ye if it w as not for the obviously the evil emporer sitting we won't because you've helped Yaaarrrgh! That's me screaming in great staff at CU in his Death Star head quarters us to survive through this most agony over the loss of my favourite Ju st like the C64. the Amiga will go and their Storm Troopers Then difficult period on FOREVER you have Petro as Obi-Wan and Good Luck and thanks to you all. If anyone does read this, then I Carl Sassenrath as Yoda maybe. Adrian (a bit of a dork) hope ve all will have one tast great Then of course you have all the [he said that himself] time doing the last issue as it just users who are the Jedi Knights up the latest issue of CU Amiga. don’t get any more special than this with their new PowerUp boards as I'm going to be really sad to see you But, alas, no more. But maybe again Farewell guysi their light sabres, with which they go One Amiga mag fix a month just in the near luture... Keith Killilea. fight the evil might of the PC. doesn’t seem to be enough for me. Per-Gunnar Eriksson Galway, Ireland Then last but not least you have To be honest I thought AF would be UmeS. Sweden yourselves (and A F) representing lirst to go as your mag is far superi­ I have owned an Amiga since 1985 the generals of the rebellion or or and your web pages always Thank you for entertaining m e with I have enjoyed your mag for many Luke even, inspiring us to keep seem ed to be up to date Hopefully CU A m ig a here in Ireland! Thanks for years. I got a CD ROM about eight fighting and not lose hope. the bosses at Future will realise all the help in getting SEUCK to me months ago and have been buying So maybe this is the end of what a great team you have going on a disk, and I will do a game for ye. the CD version each month. I am 4 TlM 700.000-*- sellm, FHM: coaid this be the way forward lor Aniga magazines’ he won't bother you again - nor spokesper­ Well, you certainly aren't too design of our pages to suit the will we for that matter, seeing as son inside, happy, are you. Taking it from the subject matter, thus you will find this is the last ever issue of CU etc. All this top, Amiga Inc never promised an more pictures in the games section Amiga. and more announcement two weeks after than the Tech Scene section. must be the World of Amiga show, that was However many readers have An angry Amigan done to just an Internet invention. What applauded us on the more serious I So just what has happened to the ensure they said is that they would layout we have come up with - one I announcement from Amiga Inc that the announce the OS partner as soon even likened it to the Guardian. I which had been promised to be Amiga as it was settled, which they As for the relationship between released just two w eeks after the gets hoped would be within four sales and advertising, you are mix­ World of Amiga? A nsw er: Nothing. back on w eeks. It wasn't. ing up cause and effect. FHM Not even an apology from the com­ track as a platform. A pany on their w eb pages. few years ago both magazines were "Is this nothing more than just a scam to keep a few Is this nothing more than just a selling 12 0 ,000+ copies and the employees for two Amiga magazines in work? ” scam to keep a few employees for Amiga was outselling other plat­ two Amiga magazines in work? Is it so forms. and companies other than A s fo r their failure in general doesn't sell hundreds of thou­ that the now very disillusioned Amiga Amiga retailers w ere advertising. If it to keep the Amiga community sands because it is full of generic owners go out and buy just a few means making the magazine look informed, alas you are right. Just advertising. It gets the generic more products from the remaining like FHM in respect to advertise­ keep in mind that it doesn't mean advertising because it sells hun­ Amiga companies? Amiga Inc have a ments, by all means do it if it brings they aren't doing anything just dreds of thousands. The reason we lot to answer for. Not informing the I in revenue for the magazines. More because they aren't talking about sell less than in the past is because user base is a grave error for a compa­ money, more pages, more content, it. We would certainly welcome there are a lot fewer Amiga users ny that wants to make an impact and more discussion - but will it increase input from them, regular updates than there used to be - it's that generate an enthusiastic repsonse. sales? How many of you at CU and adverts would be great but simple. If anything both CU Amiga and Amiga and Amiga Format would that doesn't seem to be their plan As for the pay back thing - why Amiga Format should both take par­ actually go out and buy the magazine right now. do Amiga Inc owe you something ticular criticism . Although undeni­ (as it stands) if you didn't work on it? As for your concern about mag­ because you bought something ably supportive to the Amiga the I have forked out more than azine design, we welcome your from Commodore? We don't see child-like style of both magazines enough money on two Amigas to be opinions but we also realise that your logic. Besides when you buy has to be dropped. Large title fonts considered for some sort of pay back the look of the magazine is never something, you are making an and over-sized pictures throughout from Amiga Inc. and all Amiga maga­ going to appeal to every one of exchange: money for product. Even make both a laughing stock when zines. past and present (and future?). our incredibly diverse set of read­ if it was Amiga International you trying to present a case for the Maybe there'll be an announcement ers. The thing is that people gen­ had bought your computer from, Amiga as an alternative viable plat­ by the time you read this, but I'll stake erally don't complain about a they wouldn't owe you anything form. I am not saying reading both a claim as to nothing will have been magazine looking boring - they for the money you gave them any Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmagazines should be like reading revealed as for the new CPU that just don't buy the magazine. That more than you would owe them The Guardian, but a more profes­ Amiga Inc will use. nor any apologies m eans com m ents about it being something for the computer they sional attitude should be taken. from Amiga Inc nor Amiga "too childish" have to be offset by gave you. And as fo r the CPU Okay, so this has gone slightly International to the Amiga user base our own instinct as to how the announcement, you're right that off-topic from Amiga Inc. but we for being complete and utter mugs mag should look, or to put it there is unlikely to be an announce­ need their input into the Amiga mag­ and sticking with the Amiga. another way, how all of the infor­ ment by the time you read this, but azines as well. By that I mean adver­ mation in the magazine should be then Amiga Inc always said they tising. monthly updates from a Rob Wilson, via email. presented. We try to balance the wouldn't be revealing much on the

sorry to see you go. I must be honest. A couple of years tied my friends that use superior Skip Compton ago I started buying English Amiga flying through all the good times. hardware with inferior OSes. magazines. I bought them all and h a d times and impossible times. We Your magazine w as very profession- I can't believe you’re leaving us. In decided that Amiga Format and The will remember you. You have left ally published with such great British all this tim e (I can even remember One were the best ones, so I behind a wealth of information and humour it made a joy to read and it when it was Commodore User) CU bought them regularly. Since then. some of the greatest CDs on any was read cover to cover. Amiga has |ust got better and better. I've never read CU. Sorry mates. Af computer ever (part II). Thank you for Andrew McPhee Please, do something, anything Get has satisfied my needs so I’ve never believing in creativity, individuality, Amiga Inc/Int on your side, make bothered to try CU But thanks any­ rebellion and the unique. They have been the worst ten min­ some dodgy deals, sabotage Amiga way for what you’ve done for the Shelley Hannan utes of my life: I connected to the Format, kill Bill Gates, anything!!! Amiga community! Net to get mails as always and sud- But seriously, to all the people Gustav Gnosspelius, Sweden Having recently subscribed to your dently received the news through who've worked on CU Amiga and all magazine. I am overcome by its a n AmiComSys user; I reached your the people I’ve talked (or argued) I have been a reader since 1984. I impending demise Any time myself great web site and scanned the with on the mailing list, good luck in fought off the Mutant Camels. I con­ or a relative visited the UK I begged announcement looking for some the future. I hope I'll see another quered M anic Miner, I fought The for them to return with your cover good, but more and more unexpect quality mag appear for the next Seminal. I Defended the Crown... I disks or in later years CD-ROMs. ed. new s... My eyes became moist Amiga revolution. never made Elite. Nor, it would Every month you brought new won­ a s I lealized that a part of my life Somone whose name we lost seem, have Amiga users ders to my cute lil' A1200 that star (last five years) were near to end At CPU for about a year. We wouldn't IBrowse/ YAM and now find that I disagree that there is plenty to can only achieve 57600 bps where­ moan about, but at least get your as with Miami 115200 w as not a facts right. problem. I can't make head nor tail of T w o p o in ts Voyager’s offline cache system , or Just a few points I feel like making the cache browser. Perhaps I am (I'm tired, I'm going to bed soon...) missing something, but I feel that 1. The Amiga needs a revamp, not NetConnect2 is a non-starter a s far just for the increased processor a s I am concerned. power blah, but also because of the hacky-ish state that people's Simon Quigg, via email Am igas are turning into. I must have about 10 patches. BlizKick. Yes, you are missing something: MCR MultiCX. everything, all to the NetConnect mailing list, and boost performance or make life the NetConnect support website. easier. It's commendable that The cache browser problem is a people are making these patches, known fault and you can down­ and that the AmigaOS is good load a fix. Your speed problem can ▲ Hon about portina Grand Theft Auto to Amiaa? enough to be able to use them, probably be solved too - if you about the good old days, and how but an OS revision is needed are sure it is configured correctly, now most of them are PC owners sticking to it. If they can do this, pronto, even just one with stuff check your 1230 isn't choking on a or are going PC. I can't for any rea­ and a bit more, the future will be like MagicMenu. MultiCX etc. all 256 colour screen, which can put son blame them. The total lack of bright - it'll be boing shaped. If built in or stuff like them. too much of a drain on the CPU to control at the top of the chain (ie; not, I fear it'll go like CBM did: pear 2. Everyone should get a modem allow faster serial speeds. Amiga International) has messed up shaped. and Internet a cce ss now. It is bril­ I think it’s fair to say that the liant. You get a cce ss to loads of "PowerPC could have been a credible way of holding the Amiga users cannot and should not stuff. To those who don’t have be the sole thing that supports the Internet access. I'm sure you've Amiga together until the new 'Future Amiga' is here. ” platform. heard it a million times before, but I was like you a few months the whole plan of the Amiga. Mark Wilson, member of the ago. now I can’t imagine life with­ Long and hard I am a very avid Amiga user, who AmiBench Team, via email out it. W ell, it’s great anyway. It's been a long and hard tim e for uses his Amiga on a daily basis, but NetConnect2. whilst still in need Amiga owners the last few years, I cannot rule out being a PC owner Grand Theft Porto of a little fine-tuning, is excellent, and months. There's a lot of issues in the future. This is a small request to all CU Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMtoo. that needed to be resolved to sort I can understand that people feel Amiga readers who would like to That's all I have to say for now. out the Amiga’s future, like the they have to jump ship, for whatev­ see the PlayStation and PC game Keep up the good work also. bloody m ess that Amiga Inter­ er reason. I just hope that they'll Grand Theft Auto converted to the national made over the PPC. I really come back for the new Amiga. We Amiga. I am not planning any peti­ Isaac Abraham, via email feel that this issue alone could have need, now more than ever, for tion a s most multi billion pound helped make a turning point in the Amiga International, to talk to us. companies will not be interested NotConnect? Amiga's future. PowerPC could have advertise, and support the Amiga even if there is a market. In their I've just installed NetConnect2 on been a credible way of holding the users. How? eyes it's PlayStation, N64 or PC. No my system (A1200. Blizzard 12301V, Amiga together until the new Maybe by sponsoring the devel­ other computer even gets a look in 8M B RAM , Surf Squirrel) and I am "Future Amiga" is here. opment of games (a true crowd (that's until Amiga makes a come far from being impressed. I installed I see a lot of people on the puller) or by coming up with a road back). Anyway I am interested in it as a replacement for MIAMI/ Amiga IRC Internet channel talking map for the future and actually making an Amiga specific version of

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least one thing remained; write to know you got along really. Anyway, more and more over the last too. It has also been enjoyable writ let you know how good you were I'll leave it at that. Thanks again, you monthsA'ears with some of the very ing the E2260 development diary and if you will be back one day I'm w ere all great! best issues and CUCDs appearing late- along with my fellow developers for going to do a lifetime subscription Tim Parkin ly. Anticipation o f the new Amiga com- CU Amiga although sadly w e will ing late next year and also the PPC never be able to finish its six month Ebo My thanks to you all for the many boards, cracker games like Genetic run. W e have been really proud to years of quality entertainment and Species and Foundation, applications be honoured in sharing the develop and hardware appearing recently. ment of E2260 with your many read trying to stay positive about this. I would also like to thank you for run- But it also couldn't be much ers. Hopefully CU will return when All I want to say is thanks. You ning this mailing list, which has worse with my favourite Amiga mag the new Amiga is released an d get kept me going on a computer that brought a new dimension to the anouncing its closure after a stead y to do the preview proper o f E2260 is five years old. and I've loved magazine. I wish you every success drop m sales over the last fe w y e a rs , that was so well done in the It was the first Amiga mag I e ve r September issue, what I’ll do now. whether I'll stay S teve Clark bought way back in late 1990 when I So farewell to Tony, Andrew. Neil with the Amiga or move on and Manager, DruidPoet Enterprise got my first A500. And ever since and the rest of the gang, it has been wait. I'd like to hear what Ben and It w as the best of times, it w as the it's the one Amiga magazine I have great knowing you. I'm sure we Nick from AF will say. Obviously worst of times. bought every issue of since then haven’t heard the last of you in the it's bad news for them too w e all Best in that CU has been improving (well most of the other major ones Amiga world. Grand Theft Auto, which takes the any better, or at best 'm uch better' good software and the Amiga could more grotesque than anything seen Amiga's strong points and puts than PCs that will be around in two well once again be the machine for before, all happening in the middle them into an Amiga version. GTA is years time. 'everybody*. of the 20th century: his name was not the most power hungry game Take the graphics capability. You Long live the Amiga, in whatever “Hister". Closel Later the world war ever with its basic graphics and sim­ say around five times faster than shape or form it takes next. would be ended with something ple overhead gameplay, but it is Voodoo II. but then in a screenshot described as mushroom-like things quite addictive and lets players do you show the Glint 3D. which I Paul Jones, via email with a destructive force so powerful what they want, which appeals to a believe is available for the PC very it w as like the sky being torn apart! lot of gamers. soon? So in reality, the PC already Things can always get better. We You get the picture? He is frighten­ A s I am not a very good pro- has a graphics card much more think the key to it is exploding cur­ ingly close! gramer and have no talent in graph­ powerful than Voodoo II, so just rent and future PC-oriented hard­ Now. the same man has predict­ ics or music I am asking other imagine what it will have in two ware expansion technology where ed a war in 1999 so big. so destruc­ talented Amiga users who would years timel Then, we move on to appropriate whilst developing a tive and so violent that almost the like to give something back to the sound. How much further can platform from the base upwards. entire human race will be wiped Amiga market to get in touch with sound go than what an AWE 64 Fortunately this seems to be the from the face of the earth. I don’t me and hopefully get an Amiga ver­ Gold can do? Amiga Inc strategy. It's the w ay it have the details in front o f me now, sion of GTA out. It will not be an Finally, the CPU. Mass PC sales all sits together (including the OS) but it's ugly! exact copy due to copyright laws My point is: hurry up Gatewaylll etc. but a good clone of GTA in the “If we have to wait until the middle of 1999 before we get Or else we'll m iss those new Amiga PD or commercial market Amigas. If w e have to wait until the would be nice to see. If any pro­ those new Amigas, we might have to use them in heaven" middle of 1999 before we get those grammers, graphicians or designers new Amigas, we might have to use are interested in making this GTA means millions upon millions of that's the important part. them in heaven: or hell, but then clone please get in touch with me people will buy Intel processors You ask how much further you there would probably be som e kind at the address given below. You can keeping ultra fast CPUs very cheap can go than an AWE 64 Gold of checksum error on the harddisk be a programmer in anything from for Mr Average to buy. sound card. The answer, as with surface! And what if we find out AMOS. Blitz Basic. ASM. C. C+ or So. in my view, the Amiga can­ the other components, is that you that there is no heaven or hell? A any other capable programming lan­ not hope to possibly beat the PC in can go on improving forever! nice dilemma isn't it? guage terms of performance Even if the Now you're sitting there laugh­ Please send an example of your Amiga did overtake, it wouldn't stay Suma darts on ing. thinking what a paranoid soul I programming, music or graphics ahead for long. Therefore, I believe Hi. thank you for a cool magazine am. But how do you know?! Send them to: Chris Seward (GTA). software support and belief in the (getting better each month!). 10 Scafell Close. Eastham. Wirral, Am iga w ill keep it alive, not superi­ W ell. I don't know if this has Gunnar Alvheim, Norway Merseyside, L62 9EU. ENGLAND. or technology. The Amiga even in struck you, but have you all forgot­ Or email [email protected] its current state is more than capa­ ten about Nostradamus? I'll bet Hmmm... Nostradamus was never Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMble of running applications like you're all familiar with his work, and that direct with his poems, and he Chris Seward, Merseyside Word, N etscape etc. But it just the fact that worryingly much of his never meant to predict anything with doesn't have the support. Instead predictions have become reality. them anyway, and Hitler was bom in Glint Eastwood of producing a wonder machine, And for you out there who aren't Austria... but you’ve got a point! After seeing details about the new why isn't money being poured into familiar with his work... Amiga coming in about two years' encouraging development for the He w a s a man who lived Scarlet pimp time, I feel the question m ust be Amiga? between 3-400 years ago. He wrote So what's the deal? Lisa, Paula. asked: "Will it really be so wonder­ The only hardware improve­ hundreds of poems which turned Agnus. Denise. Gayle and GARYII! ful?" I agree the specifications are ments that are needed in my view out to be predictions of the phuturel Who the •£%$ is this Gary bloke? Is impressive at this point, but as tech­ are PCI slots and an Intel CPU slot, For example he wrote about a terri­ he the pimp or what? nology (namely the PC) moves on I with drivers and the necessary ble guy who w a s born in Germany don't think the new Amiga will be modifications. Couple this with who would start a war that was Andrew Clarkin. via email

Bui. there is hope Maybe when cou ld start the mag up again when Ed Collins these new super Amiga machines w e have the n e w Amiga? Maybe World Foundry come out. just maybe thoy‘11 make a not, but the romping insanity of the huge impact and we can let the CU Amiga team will remain with ------Though I’ve ivot been an Amiga user for A m iy a users worldwide, and you'll thn narf Kiia , me past two > fears, 1 was just getting all be r e n o w n e d amongst the entire could hope- for'^dC, and I hope your back into the . . community for producing the best spml will live on UHJlha IlCWno> UUVf;ilo a . m ad e Amiga magazine, even up till At least w e may still see some ol It’s a long sto their io worldwui iu uiof uthe ie miAmkia i ny

: Points of View Time for a few last opinions... please note that the views expressed here are not necessarily those of CU Amiga.

Anecdotes of an upstart

next Robin Candy. tim es I've typed "This is not a joke" PC m ags are far from the top of Looking back it w as only a year just recently. So many people have m y list at the moment. M aybe I'll until I managed to bag my first job commented that it’s like losing a be an astronaut (after all it's only doing what everyone had said was impossible, although at the time it "So many people have commented that it's like losing a close seemed an eternity. Regular mail­ friend. I can honestly say it’s the same for me." shots to all the magazine editors backed up with reviews and mock- close friend. I can honestly say it's a short step from being a space up layouts initially got no response the sam e for me. I'm not saying cadet) or start up a techno club. but soon reaped the satisfaction of you're all my best mates or anything Maybe I’ll combine the two and rejection letters. It w as Antony like that. I don’t even know you real­ start up the first techno club in Jacobson, then Managing Editor of ly. I suppose it's more like losing an space. Bring an old copy of CU Commodore Computing imaginary friend. I'm used to with you and you'll get in for International and the fledgling Amiga banging free. User International (then The last thing I must say o here w e are. almost at Commodore Business and before I sign off is don't the end of the last CU Amiga User, the world's first assume that it's all over now S Am iga ever. What is left to Amiga magazine), who finally that we've gone. Sure be said? Sometimes it's been a broke under the strain and agreed enough it's going to knock barrel of laughs. Other times it's to give m e that elusive first real the confidence of the been so frustrating that for the job. Despite long hard hours and scene in general, but it Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMoccasional brief moment it all low pay. it w as buckets of fun and needn’t be terminal for seemed pointless. It's been inspi­ just as importantly in the schem e of the Amiga as a whole. If rational and in recent years it's things, proved to there's no more Amiga been a hell of a challenge just to development I'm going keep the mag alive. to have a hard time find­ Personally it's been an ambi­ ing decent subjects for tion realised. W hen I w as a 1 c h e c k any freelance work I know-it-all school kid of 15, rev manage to get with elling in other technology cruelly humiliating) my mags! I want to see Computer Studies teacher ImageFX 4.0. Sound whenever he made a mistake Probe 3.0, in class. I w a s asked what it Wordworth 8. w a s I wanted to do when I left OctaMED SoundStudio school. I dug out a copy of 2, Wildfire X.x (whm number is it Crash, the seminal Spectrum "Hassle Nick tar up to now?), and I'm sure I'm not games magazine, and stated freelance' the only one. If you do too. make "I want to do that". After a said John Kennedy, so I did... my first sure you let the developers know. cursory glance down the list work for CU Amiga. If you haven't yet got an Internet of eligible careers had revealed me that it's accgunt then this is the time to that Computer Game Reviewer worth having faith in yourself, not lis­ away at this get one sorted. The Net has been was not an option, the teacher tening to the knockers and doubters, keyboard talking at once to no-one. crucial to the Amiga's survival responded "Yeah, some chancel". and just getting on with whatever it each individual reader, and everyone, over the last few years and will I'd asked for it I suppose, but that is you believe in. which is a bit strange but hard to continue to be a valuable medi­ was the response from everyone stop doing. If you see me walking um. Meet people, buy products, else too. not just the teacher I'd Funny fortnight down the street chatting away to swap creations, help each other been winding up for the last cou­ The last couple of w eeks have been myself you'll know I've not handled out, keep it going. ple of years. Regardless, when strange. W e heard of the decision to the change too well. Thanks to Nick and Ben over everyone else was sorting out close the magazine half way through at Amiga Format for giving us a futures focused on a narrow band the production schedule of this G is s -a -jo b good bit of sport. You can have of what to me sounded like the issue. W e announced it on the Net It’s assumed by many that I'll be your old strapline back again now. most tedious vocations imagin­ as soon as we could and ever since going off to work on a PC magazine. W e've finished with it. able, I asked my mum for a type­ have received a constant flow of I'll be honest with you. at the I'll get my coat then. ■ writer for Christmas and set about emails from disbelieving readers. I'd moment I really don’t know where Tony Horgan, figuring out how to become the rather not count the amount of I'll be going or what I'll be doing, but Editor of CU Amiga Proud as punch

tion was packed wilh reviews of games I wouldn't have touched with a ten foot pole in the Commodore 64 days. We made a very conscious effort to make it better, finding odd little projects, encouraging small developers, giving publicity to titles in development that looked good rather than already released com­ mercial titles that w e knew were

Mags for other platforms fill their news pages with press releases, but we figured you can read about joined CU about 22 months ago. the latest Hewlett Packard printer When I took the job. I thought anywhere, so w e have gone out ICU w asn't likely to last very long and hunted news down. Sometimes and I d be out on my ear within a we've had to dig hard and do a bit few months. The second Amiga of serious investigative journalism, buyout was dragging on. A couple not something all that common in of minor players in the US had been the computing press. It's been fun. linked with it, but these companies w ere far too sm all to keep the S p a c e b o y Amiga alive. Amiga magazines had We've constantly tweaked our for­ been dropping like flies, and the mula and brutally cut out anything market w a s down to four. Why we consider dead wood. We've were these idiots hiring me. then? been able to get away with a few A s it turned out. CU w as still a innovative things, such a s selling pretty healthy proposition, our publishers on the AirLink cir­ although on a downward spiral. cuit board. We've been allowed It has been common wisdom here to do imaginative covers that from the day I joined that unless would never have happened in Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMsomething happened in the a market w here publishers are Amiga market, the magazine would too scared of competition to be eventually close. We have defied different - the Quake cover, expectations for a long tim e, but the controversial (but excellent!) finally the day has come. Ironically Rian Hughes Spaceboy cover, the our long belief was wrong, and sperm cover. This month's certainly ▲ If yon thought Ibis cover was fibbish then you're wrong - Shat it! the magazine closed when some­ is. too. thing is at last happening. Alas We've moved heavily into new Controversy corner from a commercial viewpoint, media, with a CD which evolved W hat is it about John Kennedy? He w rites a great POV on w hat makes "Sometimes we've had to dig hard and do a bit of serious investigative the Am iga w hat it is and it gets com plaints. I seem to be able to w rite journalism, not something all that common in the computing press.” anything and people agree - even when I suggested that Am iga and Apple co-operate on a com m on hardware platform, no-one com plained. EMAP didn't fancy the long time under the auspices of Mat It's my last chance, so here's som e controversy fodder for you. span before the results of this Bettinson and Neil Bothwick into 1. Em ulated Am igas are real Am igas. If an Am iga w ith a PPC in it is activity would have any chance of what I have no doubt is the best still an Am iga, then w hy shouldn't one w ith a Pentium in it be an paying off. CD-ROM on any mag for any plat­ Am iga? Is PowerM AC UAE more real' than x86 UAE? Of course not. If form anywhere. We lead the way it runs Am iga software, it's an Am iga. Com puters running UAE are 6 0 % d o w n with our website, and were planning Am igas, they're just rubbish ones. In those 22 months, the market has innovations (an instant news ticker) 2. Am iga Inc M UST sort out their PR. Excuses about wanting to continued to shrink. The first issue I until the very last moment. We've keep 'under the radar' are nonsense, the Am iga industry needs to worked on posted a circulation of had a policy of extensive interaction know that they are doing something, not necessarily exactly what. 36,836 in a market of 100.000 mag­ with our readership, notably through They are losing the confidence of the Am iga com m unity totally unnec­ azine sales a month. This month, our mailing list - almost unique in essarily because they are seen to be sitting on their arses tw iddling we have posted a circulation of publishing at this scale. their thumbs, and they want you to sign a non disclosure agreement 21,599 in a market of just under It has been an odd sort of gold­ before they'll deny it. 41,000. This has made it tough in en age for the Amiga. Sales are 3. The new Am iga has an excellent chance, but it m ay not be what more than just financial matters. It poor and getting poorer, which sad­ you or I initially w ant. Everyone is crying out for an alternative, and has been a continual struggle to dens me. but the products are Am iga Inc seem to be doing exactly the right things to provide that bring you reviews of new products, some of the best there have ever alternative. How ever a home com puter for the dedicated specialist news and articles of relevance and been. It's been an odd sort of gold­ enthusiast w ill not have a m assive market, so expect an em phasis on interest. Oddly it has made working en age for CU. too. I am very proud the W ebTV/entertainm ent centre/gam es console sector first. for CU much more interesting and to have been a part of it. ■ 4. N ot controversial for the vast, vast m ajority of Am iga users, but challenging. Andrew Korn, m ight seem so for a sm all but influential num ber - not Class Act, for W hen I joined, the gam es sec- Deputy Editor of CU Amiga god's sake! The future's open

do this upgrade; they lack can only be good publicity. dity is its portability. If the source experience of the OS itself and of to the Amiga's OS were available, the markets real needs. By pass­ The Linux model it would be free to be ported to ing the burden to the Amiga com­ The greatest success story in any hardware platform, too. munity as a whole, they would operating systems today is Linux. Certainly. 68K emulation would be relieve themselves of the From its humble beginnings as an required headache experiment by one Finnish stu­ fo r legacy compatibility, but this The rumours currently circulat­ dent, it has become a respected, presents no real problem. ing about OS3.5 claim that Amiga mainstream OS with an estimated The AmigaOS needs to adapt Inc. would wish to sell 70,000 copies of an OS upgrade. This "The view seems to have been that the core of the OS, by is clearly unrealistic. I think they being burnt into ROM. is carved in stone. This must change." would be lucky to recover the development costs. user-base of around five million. to survive While there have been his is my final point of view . A precedent exists for the System administrators are turning som e spectacular developments in the final issue of C U ; I'd release of code that software to Linux in favour of Microsoft's in the last fe w years - all of T better make it count, huh? companies can no longer directly flagship, W indows NT, because of which w e re third party - these Before I leap onto my soapbox, a make money from. Netscape's the former's low cost and bomb­ im provements have been limited few points: thanks to everybody Communicator is a very visual and proof stability. in scope. The view seem s to who has bought and supported successful example. Many of the The robustness of Linux is a have been that the core of the CU-Amiga over the years and best recent Amiga games originat­ product of its bottom-up mainte­ OS, by being burnt into ROM. is thanks for all the comments and ed from a similar source: Doom, nance and development. There is carved in stone. This must good w ish es with regard to its Quake, Descent. Abuse. no single guiding force; updates change impending closure. Six months There have been tentative and improvements are effected by simply was not enough time . . . steps towards this trend in the the users themselves. Not only The battle plan The Amiga market will survive OS market, too Sun have made does this mean that each update If you wish the Amiga that we CU’s untimely mortality, it is clear. Solaris freely available for non- is subjected to rigorous peer- know and love to survive, there But for how long, is the question. group review, are things you can do. It is my belief that the one thing but also that Firstly, you can petition Amiga that could turn the ebbing tide at updates Inc. to do the decent thing and this point would be if Amiga Inc. occur more release the source code to w ere to release the source code quickly and AmigaOS. Phone, write, e-mail - 1 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMfor 0S3.1 into the public domain. are more rel­ don't care - just do it. My reasons for this are set out evant (the Secondly, you can pledge your below. First, what would the bene­ users know support to the AROS project. For fits to Amiga Inc. themselves? best what those that haven't heard, this pro­ features they ject is the reverse-engineering of The Pros for need) A AmigaOS to produce a compati­ A m ig a In c . knock-on ble. portable and bug-free operat­ Amiga Inc. claim to need the effect is that ing system . If the A RO S team support of the existing Amiga the Linux had a cce ss to the actual OS community, despite the fact user-base code, their jobs could be made that their performance to date is well- so much easier. is evidence to the contrary. informed and Thirdly, if you haven't yet got If they really did care about the technically Internet access, then go out and Amiga community, then the great- • able. The get netted, now. The internet has est gift they could give would be Linux com­ been responsible for the flourish­ the source to the OS. This deed munity was ing of Linux and likewise it has would recompense all their empty awarded the been one of the factors that has mouthings of commitment. best techni­ enabled the Amiga to survive this Such an act of generosity cal support far. The im portance o f the net would have no ill effect on their award in for the Amiga's future cannot be proposed new Amiga. This new 1997 by the overestimated. Lastly, buy a sub­ machine is an entirely separate InfoWorid scription to Amiga Format. As entity; it is an Amiga in name only. A A if OS tfcal km a c . t i n * * . . on|ine the single remaining Amiga mag­ The "Classic" Amiga user-base magazine. azine in the UK they require and can only be a small slice of the commercial use, while IBM have Parallels can be drawn between deserve your support. target market for the mythical next been pressured to do likewise for the Amiga community and the And if, despite everything, the generation machine. their OS/2 The release of the OS Linux community: both are dedicat­ "Classic" Amiga does turn up its Amiga's on-again, off-again atti­ source code would be a good PR ed and vociferous; both have a vig­ toes and dies, then - oh, w ell. It tude to producing a new version move for Amiga Inc. orous internet presence. If the w as fun. Now raise your impu­ of AmigaOS - the much-fabled Openness is a current buzz­ AmigaOS source code was freely dent digit to Amiga Inc. for letting OS3.5 - begs the question word in the computer industry and distributable as well, then the bene­ this happen and get yourself a whether they lack the will or com­ one that Amiga have bandied fits that this open policy has given copy of Linux. ■ petence to perform the task. about in connection to their new to Linux could apply to the Amiga. Richard Drum m ond is Staff Certainly they are not well-placed machine A real act o f openness A crucial factor in Linux's fecun- W r it e r f o r C U A m ig a Letter from America

together. But a local software store giving them som ewhat questionable been able to write for CU over the carried CU and I was pushed over reviews (I’ll never forget CU’s high- past three years. the edge by the "Win a CD32!" est-ever gam e score of 97% for The CU w e must leave behind is competition - they weren’t available Frontier... will you?), but it was a fun not Dan Slingsby’s CU. I was gen­ over here yet. I didn't win. needless resource to have around. I was uinely proud to write for CU Amiga to say. but I read the issue anyway. working on Amiga Report quite reli­ and its editors, who were nothing I started reading more often, giously back then, so it w as nice to but helpful and open to my sugges­ especially when my girlfriend, who have a diversion around. Editorial tions. They let me indulge my curi­ ous obsessions with text games and "I was genuinely proud to write for CU Amiga and its editors, emulators, and even believed that an American could talk about soccer! who were nothing but helpful and open to my suggestions." More importantly, they had turned CU Amiga into a truly great publica­ worked in that store, could get the changes started to set in. some of tion. I honestly cannot think of any distinctly remem ber my first unpurchased issues smuggled those gam e reviews gave w ay to other Amiga magazine, at any stage issue of CU. I had never really home for free. CU was a bit much meatier coverage, and when CU’s of its life, which provided a more Iread a British Amiga magazine - for my tastes, seemed obsessed Mat Bettinson asked me one day if competent and balanced mix of cov­ and they were and still are some­ with games, had a rather silly "hint I’d like to do a US news column, I erage than CU has for the past few what different from American pub­ vampiress" (how many of you really said ’’Sure!" A half-page turned into years. I only wish it could go on. ■ lications, although changes in the felt there w a s a busty maiden churn­ a full page, a full page turned into Jason Compton, market have brought them closer ing out tips for Monkey Island?) and the many reviews and features I’ve CU Am iga's US Correspondent

Keeping the Amiga on track

advertisers and buyers, between mation and technical help, including reducing telephone charges as BT enthusiasts and professionals. posts from Amiga Inc staff and and the cable TV companies Some people have cited the growth other developers. compete. of the Internet as a factor in the The Internet isn’t just a file reposito­ Who should w e blame for decline in magazine sales. I don't ry like Aminet, you can get that w hat's happened? The list Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMbelieve this is so. In fact, the instant from CDs. it isn't just a of potential culprits is feedback of forums like the CU collection of long; Commodore, Amiga mailing list has enabled web Escom. Viscorp, everyone to express their opinions Gateway, the lawyers, and desires, this has certainly developers, software improved the quality of pirates, magazine the CUCDs by tak­ publishers, apa­ ing onboard many thetic users. The of the suggestions truth is that there he news of CU Amiga's clo­ and criticisms is no single fac­ sure came as a great shock received. In fact, my tor in the com ­ T to just about everyone. It's involvement with CU plex history of another sign of the fragile position Amiga and the CDs came the Amiga, of the current Amiga market. about as-result of a post­ blame is Although the magazine was increas­ ing to som e Amiga news­ negative ing its market share, the publishers groups by Mat Bettinson. and back­ made a commercial decision based Now, more than ever, there is ward on how much profit they thought a need for the sort of instant looking. they would make. However, this information on the Amiga mar­ W e does not mean the Amiga is dead J ket that the Internet provides. need to look to the "Now. more than ever, there is a need for the sort of instant future, to move on. to be constructive. I will m iss information on the Amiga market that the Internet provides." CU Amiga. For the past two years I sites have been lucky to work with a dedi­ didn’t feel much like working the Keep buying magazines of course, to be read cated team, working on something next morning, but when I eventually there is always a need for them, for passively like watch­ we all care deeply about. There may sat down in front of my Amiga, it the in-depth and unique information ing TV. It is a m eans of almost be no more magazines after this worked as well as it had done the only available when you have people instant communication between one, but the spirit of CU Amiga will previous day. The Amiga will go on. working on it full time, but get Amiga users (and everyone else) continue in the online Amiga com­ What has been lost, more than any­ online too. The CU Amiga mailing worldwide. It has never been easier munity. Don't m iss out. join us. ■ thing else, is a channel of commu­ list w ill continue to provide informa­ to get online, and operating costs Neil Bothwick. nication. Communication between tion and discussion, the Amiga are falling with faster modems and CU Am iga's CD com piler 6 developers and users, between newsgroups provide valuable infor­ almost monthly announcements of Com m s Consultant TECHNO TRAGEDIES

And now, the end is here...

The thing about Techno Tragedies is that they aren't fair. We all know that they should have succeeded, that they deserved to win...

e know that Bettinson and Andrew Korn, CU many a magazine, and I'd like Betamax was became close to the technically to pass my thanks onto the technically supe­ authoritative magazine which the team at CU Amiga for making rior. that the C5 Amiga never had. While at times it one of my favourite titles. would have lacked the flashiness of its rival, it Personally and professionally they madeW our streets safer and more w as innovative in many other were a great bunch of people to environmentally friendly. It’s obvi­ w ays. It w a s the first magazine to work for over the years. I'll always ous that the Konix would have have a regular CD-ROM coverdisk, remember the people I've met at made a great games console, and for example. CU. From chasing Lisa around the that the Sam Coupri w as a lovely desk trying to get one last pre­ little machine. W e can only begin Do it yourself marital kiss, to being dragged to appreciate the disappointment CU also had a love of DIY electron­ around Dublin's bars by Alan Nick of those behind these heroic fail­ ics stretching back many years: in and Dan both moved to the Evil ures, the people who put so much fact, the first and only letter I've Empire, and if you look through Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMtime, effort and energy into pro­ ever received from the Press back issues you'll see many famil­ jects, only to see them cancelled. Complaints Commission was due iar nam es in other magazines Now, ironically, it's the turn of to one of my CU DIY projects and on the news-stand. And of CU Amiga to take the spotlight in the value of a stupid 4.7uF capaci­ course there is also the Techno Tragedies column. We tor. In recent Tony's originally thought about writing times, this about the Amiga, but that wouldn't DIY passion be fair: the Amiga is certainly not has re- out of the game yet. In fact, for emerged, the first time in five years there although thank­ seems to be a real chance of mak­ fully the projects t ing a go of things: helped by new have been technology, an over-reliance on designed by Windows, the growth of the someone who knew Internet and emergence of tech­ what they were doing, such nologies such as Java. as the MIDI project Heck, CU even had a PCB taped to the front thumpin' Bye bye baby of one issue. chunes: it's only a matter of time But back to the case in point, and So what went wrong? Not a before he appears on TOTP Immortality the demise of CU Amiga. The UK - difficult question to answer. CU Thanks also to the names which And what.about the Amiga itself? Amiga magazine market was once Amiga wasn't profitable A maga­ never get printed larger than 8 Sim ple: the Amiga will never die, buoyant enough to support half a zine has to make a profit, and sim­ point text: the art designers, pub­ Even in the worst case scenario, dozen titles. Magazines like Amiga ply the incomes from advertising lishers, sales and advertising the Amiga will live on through the Computing. AUI, Amiga Shopper and sales have to exceed the out­ teams support of many tens of thou­ and Amiga Power have now all going costs. Sadly, that wasn't And the person who wrote me sands of fans, eventually as an passed on, and CU Amiga is going happening any more and so the my contributor cheques - I'll emulation on other systems. The with them We don't think that this magazine is being stopped The miss you the most. Finally, thanks best case is breathtaking: is due in any w ay to the quality of Amiga magazine readership fig­ to all the loyal readers who have Gateway pull it off, and release a the magazine: in fact, under the ures have tumbled over the last kept the Amiga alive, and who state-of-the-art multimedia com­ editorship of Tony Horgan the few years, and are now about a have written in with praise or puter which captures everyone's magazine was re-born with a new tenth of what they were at their insults. Occasionally I tended imagination and knocks the WinTel vitality. I happen to think it's been peak - can you imagine what to forget exactly who I w as systems off their perch. the best twelve months of issues would happen to any market if writing for. and it did no harm to When that happens, we'll see the magazine has ever had. With sales dropped that much? be reminded from time to you again. ■ contributors such as Mat As a freelance. I've worked on time. 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