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Special Notice: AmigaFest98, ow "One day only" âturday 24th October doors open 9am == =4= 1101E11{.1=1. l. ~~~i~~...~'"" sTNEtM16A SPREADSHEET WiTH THi-MaSTo i~~ == vim is• •imr•iminr Computa Magic Pty. Ltd 75 Spence St Keiior Park Victoria. 3042 Ph. 03 9331-5600 Fax. 03 9331-5422 Email commaaicamagnafield. corn. au New! We are now selling PFS2 & Kang Fu Upgrades are available from original versions of AFS to PFS. Final Office arriving November order now!! Image FX v3.x & Wildfire 680x0 in stock Wordworth 7 Full & Upgrade packs available. Aminet 27 Here for the show, we hope!! Show specials Amiga CD's from $ 2.00, Most software 5% off our usual low prices. Most hardware discounted, and many items are older stock, so you can beat the price rises. Over 200 Amiga products available at the show, but quantities are limited, so get in early for the best bargains. Credit card purchases will be available, but no EFTPOS, some items will attract extra charges for credit card purchases. Please Note Our new trial trading hours are 12:00-5:00 Mon to Thurs. 12:00- 8:00 Friday, 10:00-2:00 Staurday. These hours will change if business does not warrant Friday night and Saturday trading. Special notice. We will be closed the weekend of 24-25 Oct for the show, And will close from Thursday 29 Oct reopening on Wed 05 Nov 1998. \ ~\~" » \\\\\ \\\\\\\ \\\ \1; ~\1~ t\.‘. , \\ \~I\ \ \\ \ \~~~ ~~~ \ \\\ \.: ~rcanatia,ttr~en 9ajeeee dcta~en i~ • Editorial Dribble 4 • Alive Mediasoft 20 Michael packs up the Amiga ready The guys at Alive Mediasoft give for the trip to Melbourne. us an update on future projects. Amiga News 5 • AAG Subscriptions 22 All the latest Amiga happenings Special Show Trial Offer. here and over-seas, 4 pages. Get 4 issues of MG for $15 • Amigafest 98 9 ' Homemade GVP simms 23 All the detail on how to get to Part one on "How to make GVP the show on Saturday 24th. combo board simms", cheap. TurboCalc-5 10 Contact Manager & X-Arc ... 26 Michael C, powers up Turbocalc 5 Vaporware releases two new to check out the improvements. utilities for the internet user. • 0S3.5 is Coming I 12 Name the Amigans 29 Yes you read right, a new WB in Name the 3 Amigan and you the pipeline, here's the first info. could winning a 1200HD. • AmigaFest98 Fashion Comp.. 15 • Y2K9 30 WIN! a A1200HD at the show by Is your Amiga year 2000 friendly? wearing something "Boing" Turn to page 30 to find out ! * A bit of MS haha 16 ' Readers Classifieds 34 What if MicroSoft was a car Let your fingers do the walking manufacturing company. in your free Amiga sales section. Etlitorial flribbIe The Australian Amiga Gazette is a grassroots publcatiortt aerated for the purpose of keeping the Special Notice: Amiryan cive h Arsbafa and baja AmigaFest98, The options expressed h € tonals, articles, rev'_._ and lettes are solely the Now "One day only" resporsbifj of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of AAG' Saturday 24th October Lettes to the editor are invited lettes may be doors open 9am eited to meeteditar{al rcyu tenerts Due to factors beyond my control around 4pm. For those who have Editon (that's just another way of saying prepaid for the banquet you Michael Burns "we can't fix It") I have had to should receive a refund In the mail compress the show using LHA. If soon. Writers Olaf Barthel you are unfamiliar with the term "LHA" better come to the show on My apologies for screwing up Michael Srah Michael Czgka the Saturday, but only the anyone's arrangements and if it Stever Howes Saturday not the Sunday, OK. will make you feel better come Pascal 'P chaff Jam and hassle me at the show. So all the stuff that was going to happen on the Sunday at the If you have a spare hour free on Adverbs g show will be happening on the the Friday before the show and Advetistrg rates available on Saturday thanks to the help of you are In the boundaries of application AI copy may be disk-doubler. edited, condersed or refused Albert Park around 1.00pm how for publication about dropping Into the Plt In place of the scheduled banquet building and joining a group of there maybe a BBO In the park happy Amigans busy setting up adjacent to the show starting for the show. 4 sFuacalearc "Faaeqa. 9a;ette Oetsâe: fir nan. et" ✓VVyflfOeJrlLr,1'Lxrrin winos..ea~`j. Former CU Amiga Columnist Joins r NewTeknique Epic Marketing Trenn will write a new column called "Amiga In Motion," which Announces will appear in the on-line bonus Amiga Classix area for readers every issue. Epic Marketing has pleasure in announcing our Latest release "I am excited about joining the Amiga Classix. A CD full of Amiga NewTekniques team and look Games many of which are full forward to getting to know a new columnist for NewTekniques," versions. audience," says Trenn. "Although says Joe Tracy, NewTekniques my focus is intended to be on the editor in chief. °Readers have Amiga Classix has over 300 Amiga computer and its requested more Amiga-type games many bf which are full applications, I hope to find the coverage and the addition of versions which have been interest of all readers." Trenn says Dhomas is our first way of included with permission from the that readers can expect to see answering that request. We take authors. The CD also contains "new and creative approaches to reader comments very seriously." over 100 megademos, some of some overused and stale the games included on this techniques" as well as tried and Tracy also stated that there would product include. Ameg as, true information. For CU Amiga be no magazine content cut to Testament, Better Dead than magazine, Trenn regularly wrote make room for the new column. Alien, Charlie J. Cool, Full House about using the Amiga for sound "Because NewTekniques is a joint Poker, DNA, PP Hammer, and music, including digitallanalog print and Web publication, we are Starblade, TechnoCop, Zero audio, Internet resources, able to add the Amiga In Motion Gravity, Boondar, Blaster, Boston commercial hardware, MIDI, and column to the Web portion of the Bomb Club, Fruit Salad, Lex, public domain software. He had a magazine without taking anything Nemeses, Project Buzbar, North & regular column called SoundLab. else out," says Tracy. "With the South, Turn IT, Vietnam and "I am probably known best for my addition of Dhomas, we have just more... To find out more strange and experimental uses of grown the magazine. It is part of information please visit our computers to enhance art of all our commitment to giving the recently updated website and look kinds," says Trenn. This includes reader more versus less." up CD526. things like using image-processing www.epicmarketing.Itd.neU software to process audio files and In order to access the Web portion the development of weather and of the magazine, readers must Former CU Amiga brain monitoring systems for have a subscription to manipulating image and sound NewTekniques. The Web portion Columnist Joins data. His approach to problem of the magazine effectively NewTekniques Team solving is very creative and doubles (and sometimes triples) Dhomas Trenn, a longtime unique, causing people to take the size of NewTekniques contributor and columnist for the different approaches to solutions magazine. Trenn's first column popular CU Amiga magazine, and techniques. was posted to the NewTekniques before ft closed down last month, has joined the NewTekniques I'm very glad that Dhomas Trenn team as a regular columnist. accepted our offer to be a regular AraaLra.t6au sQam6ya. gagette Octai4ea 4P 5 August/September bonus section web site will feature information for readers. The entrance to that specific to the ICOA such as its section is at mailing lists, software and www. newtekn lq ues.com/bon us/. hardware development information Trenn says that "Amiga In Motion" and FAQs, production and will cover a number of different marketing Information, and other avenues, but maintain a focus on news and information that touches software and hardware products on all aspects of developing and advertising for a product and that are particularly useful to video publishing a product for the Amiga more. The CDROM will include a production in the areas of audio, platform. A special feature in the wide variety of contents that video, ant/ the business in works is an piracy reporting should include everything from general. NewTekniques magazine mechanism that maintains code collections to catalogs of can be reached at anonymity. advertising and promotional www.newtekniques.conV. products to help companies grow. The web site is located at http://www.amiga.net and will be Like a user group, members of the ICOA Announces initially active in the first weeks of ICOA will get out of it what they October 1998. The site is put Into it. Phrased in computer Changes and Goals designed to grow and is being built terms this will mean, 'garbage In = IThe ICOA (Industry Council Open under the direction of the steering garbage out'. Right now with Amiga) steering committee has committee with the active work of what's going into the web site and chosen to refocus the ICOA. While Ted Wallingford and Gary Peake. what we've seen of the ICOA the ICOA has always been about seminars, we can say we're developers serving developers, a Future plans for the ICOA will getting caviar - let's keep that clear and understandable focus depend highly on developer direction as we move forward) was needed.