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Kang Fu 68 Boxing kanga'oos - whatever next? Crab a N ew tinny and throw an emu steak on the barbie Tina Hack- from whai Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMBeyond Reality 78 We take a look at the creations from Software Construction Kit with games from BPM L ett Fishy Business 73 Your spac* the latest System interview Silltunna Software, the team behind Xtreme Racing
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Swos G u id e 76 Final writer ED The final, definitive solution to the Softwood's latest installm ent of their \VIIGA highly popular foootball sim excellent word processsor
N et C o n n e c t IQ The latest Internet connection package gets a sneak preview by Neil Mohr
EATURES W eb p a g e d esig n D3 IVIax Pow er ED Championship Manager 70 Dan Winfield continues his series on how to Jason Jordache gives advice on how to More footy - and you thought you'd finished create the best web pages be a Sysop with it after the European Championships. Learn how to keep your dribbling A r ex x G u i d e HI under control... Paul Overaa teaches you all the skills of ARexx
A m i g a C o m p u t i n g 4 OCTOBER 1996 OVER HE COVERDISKS C STORY A rtE f f e c t New Age M a s t e r s EE Possibly the greatest Amiga product of recent times, Amiga Computing gives you the chance to try out this stunning new profesional art package
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EGULARS Tina Hackett talks to the N ew s A c a s ED EE artists who have Tina Hackett brings you all the latest news and views Help, i you need somebody - to fix your Amiga that is. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMfrom what's new at VIScorp to Internet break-throughs ACAS, as ever, is ready to lend a hand swapped their paint- L et ter s ED Public sector ED brush and oils for a Your space, dear readers. Let us know what you think to Duty-bound Dave Cusick brings you the best (and the C O I D D U t G r the latest events rest) from the ever spinning world of PD
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Dataflyer SC SI* easily instais mto ■ hi in mi ii n i the A1200. A600 (Simply pushes « . no need to remove the metal shield' and provides a 25 way D connector through the blinking plate at the back of the A1200. full instructions and software suppled EZ DRIVES Incredibly fast i upto 4x faster than a ZIP drive) SCSI drive will st< lassrve 135mb per cartndge. Comes complete with p supply. SCSI cat*e. instructions and cartridge. DISCOLOGY THE ULTIMATE REMOVABLE DRIVE EZ DRIVES Dseo*o& is the ummae m d sk copying for ir e Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMga. The package composes the Dt$co&& Disk, OR with a Squirrel or Dataflyer nuai and Discofogy cartnqge for m akrg copies of iawty protected programs with an external Ask nve. Discokgy win also format a s k s , check o
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O------However, over the last few years we've seen the approach turn from the slight ly risqu6 to tie downright base. From the funny to the plain insensitive. And K seems The Games strange that the computer games industry has fallen prey to this new strategy more than any other. Especially as it's only games we're sell ing here and not some life or death com modity. Games publishers are vigorously pur people suing the trend of trying to out-shock the other as they leap across the undrawn line of what is socially acceptable. Consider, for example, the extreme mea sures taken to advertise Doom, where bags of offal were sent to the media. It shocked and even horrified, but it achieved its desired effect It got the game plenty of publicity and Play as the phrase goes: 'Any publicity is good publicity'. This little stunt would not get ignored and tirown in the bin along with the Has games advertising other countless press releases jaded journal ists receive on a Monday morning. gone too far? And to some extent it's easy to see why software publishers want to resort to such I Conquer, one of which depicted Hitler with guardian. The danger is that although you've tactics. The games market has seen rapid the caption: 'It's a great feeling’. Why is this managed to generate some publicity for a change - it's no longer an area reserved for more acceptable than a picture of Thomas game, it's at the cost of offending people so spotty teenagers shut away in darkened Hamilton? Maybe because it will upset less much that they don't want your product any rooms playing RPGs. These people are being people or because they think it is less L e way. rapidly replaced by 'cool' exec types looking vant to the generation they are talking to? The games industry is a fun market, and for a way to unwind. Twenty-something, Who knows? we wouldn't want it any other way, but if all upwardly mobiles who are being told that it's It's a matter that is concerning the outsiders can see are tasteless adverts, what acceptable, even fashionable, to want the lat Advertising Standards Authority too. kind of message are we giving? A shocking est gore-fest computer game. So the ELSPA (the European Leisure advert at the moment would be one that industiy had to reappraise its position Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMSoftware Publisher's Association) stressed how good the gameplay is! Nobody and gear the market more towards this backed the ASA up with a plea for the is saying that advertising campaigns will be new generation of gamesplayers with industry to take a more responsible any easier if this responsible approach is fashionable adverts. And fashionable at the approach. Whether this will be heeded is undertaken, but it could show that, like its moment equals shock tactics. down to the publishers, but if they fail to toe gamesplayers, the industry has grown up too. So along come the ads men with their lat the line they could see the Government tak est project i 3-D shoot-em-up, 'Blood, guns ing action and imposing restrictions. massacre hell - the revenge', and they choose This could have harmful effects on an to advertise it with pictures of Dunblane. It's L u v - e x . industry which is already under the watchful Shocking isn't it? Fortunately this is not going eye of the media and cautious parents, f the Tina Hackett to happen because it crosses the line of any trend continues, people could clamp down Editor sane person's moral values, but where do the on what their children buy just on the basis of Your Comments ads men draw the line? Pictures of a woman the advertising campaign. And although the If you'd like to address any issue we raise in hanging herself because she was sick of foot market has changed to see more gamesplay our Comment section or feel that there is ball was considered an appropriate, way to ers over the age of 18, a vast percentage are something you'd like us to cover, please advertise a football game. So too were the still minors whose buying decisions lie with a write to ESP at the usual address images used to promote Command and The AC team EDITOR Tina Hackett CIRCULATION DIRECTOR David Wren We regret Amigo Computing cannot offer technical hdp on a personal tow either by ART EDITORS Tym Leckey COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR Denise Wright Graham Parry phone or in writing. All reader enquries should MANAGING DIRECTOR Ian Bloomfield COVEFDISK EDITOR Neil Mohr be submitted to the address in this panel. 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From the M62 Junction 17 head towards Bury. • Unlike most other CD ROM drive systems We are 50 yards on the Ultra CD ROM drive does not cause the right hand side after long delays wtien booting up. the third set of lights. The door to our premises is next to the florists opposite the Masons Pub. All pilar-, include VAT. Putfafje and prckwj; yillt ho at £3.50 per order (U.K.). H 50 Europe and £12.50 real oi tlx? world, Amiga Web Browsers Released ne of the two commercial Amiga standard and some of the Netscape World Wide Web Browsers has official “enhanced” commands. The software ly started shipping, the other is being retails for US$45, and includes some advertised but is not yet on the market. HTML tools, including the popular □AmiTrix of Canada have released AWeb-ll HTML Heaven Web authoring software. for the Amiga. It fully supports the HTML 2 HiSoft of the UK have not yet released their IBrowse web browser, which has been an international cod ing effort Demo versions continue to be available, awaiting the sales of the A product W eb To order AWeb-ll, contact AmiTrix or / % _ f s j your local Amiga dealer. AmiTrix: by Katherine Nelson ++403-929-8459, [email protected]. jLYMPic A m ig a 1Im pact □ 1n APITAL PUNISHMENT Atlanta, perhaps best known worldwide for hosting the Summer Olympics and best known in the Amiga community for housing the highly active Am ga Atlanta user group, couldn't keep Expected at Amiga Convention '96 is the final release demoi sports and Amigas separate. of ClickBOOM's Capital Punishment, which the Toronto* A bold statement was made by a number of Amiga companies as they donated six Amiga based game development company has announced will be 4000Ts, decked to the gills, to the Olympic broadcast booth, where they act as online video edit available on Friday the 13th of September. T h o Vi ing systems. The computers housed full Video Toaster/Flyer systems donated by Newtek, as well ClickBOOM first started making waves in the Amiga game as products from Virtual Reality Productions, Anti-Gravity Products, MicroPace, and DPS. market last December, when the first CP demos were made QuikPak, the Amiga 4000T manufacturer and distributor for North America, provided the com public at the World of Amiga Toronto. Now, one of the most puters. impressive beat-em-up games in recent memory is finally! ready for release. Alexander Petrovic, manager of ClickBOOM, has decided j Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMe w W onder D eal to self-publish the title after discussing the product with a Wonder Computers international continues to rebuild its distribution network. After months of number of Amiga games houses. To help promote the title, jI discussicn, Wonder has completed an agreement with ACT of Germany to supply and service the the company is offering a free Capital Punishment T-shirt for Compu Apollo line of Amiga expansion cards for the North American market. all pre-orders of the game, which cost UKP25. sory se Apollo p ovides a full range of products, recently and most notably 040 and 060 cards for the ClickBOOM can be reached at PxL Computers, Marl A 1200 and A3000/A4000, as well as the world's only 020 accelerator for the Amiga 600. ClickBOOM, 1270 Finch Ave. West, Unit 13, M3J 2G4 Toronto, "firm s Further to this, Wonder has agreed with OTM to supply OTM's line of Amiga games to North Canada. access America. OTM hit the Amiga scene last year with Virtual Karting and has offered a number of either I products since. New titles are already in the works. stumbl Alongside OTM’s games, Wonder will also carry XP8, the recent Stardust/Asteroids clone. questic Contact Wonder Computers at 613-721-1993. in d EYE on ave To h Geodesic Designs of Atlanta has taken widesp advantage of the Olympic focus to announce ew CD32 title released the mo that the MindEYE will hit the market shortly. Bigg Wotf, until recently a computer and video retailer, has decided to try its hand at publishing panies Based on the Mindlight of the late 80s, the on the Amiga, Final Gate, a new CD32 title boasting FMV*quality graphics, has been released MindEYE is compatible with all Amigas, and and will oe shown at Montreal's Amiga Convention '96. is a small device that plugs into the joystick For purchasing information (both end-user and dealer), contact Bigg Wolf at ++301-933-5030. port. It "listens" to either the room around it or a microphone feed and turns the sound through geodesic math transformations into Q m i g a C o n v en t io n '9 6 sometimes interesting, sometimes bizarre video displays (AGA enhanced when avail □ The first week in August brought on Canada's First major Amiga-only expo of the year, and the able) on the Amiga screen. For DJ and Arevol biggest so far of 1996 for North America. The Montreal Amiga Convention, independently orga video-wall scenarios, the device is quite used ti nized, drew together users, dealers, and developers from across the continent to meet, exchange popular. Kod ideas, and no doubt fire a few questions to VIScorp's attending representatives, VP of Business Mark Adams of Geodesic used the Amiga station Development David Rosen and Communications Manager Jason Compton. Atlanta 10th Anniversary of last January to anywh Also anticipated was a strong presence from National Amiga, the Canadian-based Amiga test the waters of the reintroduced Evei retailer which does the bulk of its business online-so mu:h success that their retail area was MindLight. The demonstration was well- centre. expected to be among the largest at the show. Wonder Computers International and its distri received. The MindEYE has a suggested 'Everyl bution division will show off their newly introduced products for the North American market retail price of USS595. MindLight users can can sh Dale Larson and Al Mackey of 1AM are expected to be present as they were last year, to upgrade for $195. cessinj address the public in the many seminars offered at AC. A nore detailed report may follow in a Contact Geodesic Designs at ++770-822- output future issue. 0566, 770-338-8874 fax, markcdams<® send H Later in the year, the World of Amiga Toronto is expected to be held. Plans are also underway geod.com e-mail. The MindEYE Web site is The for Gateway '97 in S t Louis for early February 1997. at http://www.mindeye.com/ proces A m i g a C o m p u t i n g 10 OCTOBER 1996 IYAMA CUTS PRICES liyama, the leading computer monitor man ufacturer, announced a 5% price reduction on its Vision Master 17 colour monitor, liyama's price reductions are due to the improved Yen/Sterfing exchange rate and cost reductions at the factories. Tina Hackett Consumers will now be able to make a B y & £10 saving on the Vision Master 17 high Hugh Poynton specification 17" monitor. This means you r ■ v 1 / will be able to purchase it for £529 + VAT Only the 17" monitors will be reduced, but all Vision Master monitors come with a 3 year warranty. For further details telephone liyama at (44) - (0) 1438 74 54 82 e l s o n inal W riter miga 1ENT Following on from the piece in the USA HEAVEN News last month regarding Final Writer A new computer store has opened in ease demo S. please note that you should use the H contact number corresponding to your Northampton which claims to stock the e Toronto- country (or nearest). Harwood can be largest selection of Amiga games in the ced will be The Vision Master 17 from liyama has reached from the UK on 01773 836781. country. Direct Software aims to cater for all baat^raducad in price For the US th is is 602 431 1461. the Amiga owners in the country who have miga game found that other games stores don't stock a w re made great variety. >f the most As well as the hundreds of titles in stock. y is finally Direct Software will try to get any title OMPUCENTER requested, no matter how old or obscure. as decided They also operate a mail order sen/ice. luct with a Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMCRIIV1 EFIG HTER The store is also in contact with new soft te the title, ware houses and will stock games currently t T-shirt for Computacenter, one of the countries top IT solutions providers, is launching a business advi only available through mail order, such as sory service to help combat crime on the Internet BMP's Reality and Space Fighter. Direct omputers, Martin Hellawell from Computacenter commented, Software is also in the process of making its 14 Toronto, "Firms connecting to the Internet or setting up Intranet networks need to reconcile easy system own game using fully rendered animation access with the protection of internal networks. Around 85% of the Times 1000 companies are intros, clips and real film footage. either linked up to, or are considering linking upto the Intenet. However, if there is one main Direct Software are running a competi stumbling block to the widespread adoption of linking up to the Internet by corporates it is the tion to decide the name of their new outlet. question of security.” According to the 1996 Audit Commission, a preventable security breach A copy of Team 17's Killing Grounds is up on average costs a British Firm £16,000. for grabs so if you have any imaginative To help prevent these expensive abuses of the Internet, Computacenter has implemented a ideas for the store's name, write to Direct has ta k e n ; widespread research programme which will determine what aspects of computer security are Software, 166 Birchfield Road East, o announce the most vulnerable security loopholes in networks jn d operating systems, as well as the com Northampton, Northants NN3 2HF or rket shortly, panies most at risk. The results of this will be available later this year. phone 01604 722499. ate 80s, the Imigas, and the joystick om around s the sound lations into ies bizarre LYMPIC IMAGE vhen avail- or DJ and A revolutionary new imaging centre at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, is being e is quite used to capture and dispatch images to picture desks across the world. Kodak, the world-wide sponsors of the games, have established a 20 work the Amiga station Imaging centre that allows the press to scan and transmit images to January to anywhere in the world over ISDN lines. introduced Everything photographers need to do is located in the 20,000 square foot was well- centre. As Mike Tette, manager of the Kodak Olympic programme said: suggested "Everything photographers need to do the job is located in one place. They t users can can shoot for three or four hours at the venues, bring back the film for pro cessing, edit it, scan the image, enhance it in the Adobe Photoshop software, +770-822- output the image on a thermal printer, ColorEdge copier or Photo CD disc and rkadams@ send it an/where in the world..." Web site is The ceitre, staffed by 175 lab technicians and Kodak representatives processes an estimated 10,000 rolls of film a day. A m ig a C o m p u t in g i 1 A m More As fat The 1 MHz, a Cirrus Workbi Picassc auto s< also b< ging, fc and te> filtering 3D cap by S3.1 functioi backpU have series n 4000(T tower i 1240EC at a ver either work i generat Septem now be 50MHz Blittersc bankrup August Q ny. the Netf Christmc Escom A of troubl their A rr characters per 12 cps in letter quality okey 120 cpi). D 12 ki SIM M The 24-pin options, the ML339D and matrix printers. The nine-pin ML3320 (narrow mode (at Oki Systems have just launched four new dot column width) and theumn ML3321 width) (wide are col ideal high volume for data speedand word processing processing appli cations. Print speed is 435 characterssec per ond in super-draft mode at inch. Other speeds include 387 cps, 290 cps ML3391, are available as carriages narrow and can and wide print at utility up to mode 360 and cps at in and 73 cps. Q TAB 'J: r m - : . nfo I % X I I . /■ If NNOVATIVE LAUNCH VERY VERY REDESIGNS ROTECT THE INNOCENT from tho now \ ’ In response to the increased theft of memory products, each Panasonic TAB will be Caroline Abrahams, principal policy officer at NCH Action For Children said, "We're not The leaflet can be obtained at Live which runs from 25-29 September at Earl's Court The leaflet will give parents advice on topics such as pornography on the Internet I • According to Jan Perry, Marketing Communications Manager: "The new design reflects the Panasonic TAB SIMM memory. The TAB SIMM memory has a number of new innovations marked with a serial number and product code to memory enable from electrostatic easy tracing discharge. The of memory stolen erboard module on goods. the is marketcompatible and VTECwith offers a everylifetime moth warranty with next day replacement ---- VTEC Industry Europe has been appointed the European importer and distributor ofthe new which make the product unique. Another feature of the TAB is the metal shielding which improves reliability and protects the London or alternatively by writing to: Information Department. NCH Action For Children, for Children will be bringing out a guide at the Live '96safeguards show. that parents alsocan advice install on andhow parents the dangers can accessposed the by educationalBulletin sites Boards. for theirThere's childrensaying don'tin a letsafe I your childrensafely. Theuse Net thecan Internet,be a fascinatingweparents re saying learningto make ensure ground sureforthatcomes peoplethat to the theyof pornography all use information it ages and but chatit's is uplines." to! suitable for their child, particularly85 Highburywhen it! Park, London, N5 IUD. The Internet has been a cause for concern to parents so children's charity NCH Action way. redesigned range of computer furnitu'e which includes computer and printer stands lightweight and design VDU that enables the furniture to be moved easily and safely. increased emphasis on design and appearance poratesin the a office high ofdegree today. ofCrucially, flexibility, though, ensuring incor it it willdemands remain of office compatible technology." with the fast developing □ Avery Office Accessories, part of the trolleys. Avery The Dennison new range Corporation, is softer has and more revealed elegant, combining its new strength and stability with a in our review. They can be reached at (UK) 01525 211327 H Apologies to anybody who has been totrying contact HiQ we- put in their old contact numb® □ • • • • * mnd tip s w ! •• • o m p u t in g C i V - • » I A I I f !• Z Z IW'f . ; Vulcan Scftw an wob site Check out hint m ig a A tlanta A . Sunday 000200 School NYBODY f o r ULCAN UPDATE irtual Learn about graphics, hardware, music, Their new contact number is either Martin Turner said, "We have promised our More news from CompuServe is their keep you up-to-date with the latest game ly in the hands of Mindscape. They canreached at be 01705 670269. News from Vulcan Software this month is You findcan outthe latestscores and even that a Web site is in the offing which will developments, hints and tips and previews. They w il also bethat verypromising releasinggame that was Tiny original Troops - Stephen on 01695 625063, or Simon on ments are available. *•* School Hall, Highgate Lancs? Road, Up Holland, networking and programming and take away those boring Sunday afternoons at the If If you’re an Amiga user and you live in the 01257 402201. advantage of the huge ware choice available. of Admission free soft is £2 and refresh Amiga User Croup at S t Thomas The Martyr Wigan or West Lancs area why not while network' which offers ISDN access has been simplified which four numbers to choose 350,000 UK members abe service fast that ard would very delivering efficient it." and More now information we for is are members available on 0800 can 000400. call 0800 To join you area usingthe latest open standards technol demonstratingogy, our abilityto deliver time ly, easy-to-use services both to CompuServeusers and those on the Web at large." announcement of a new UK offersnetwork which speeds of 28,800bps and 57,600bps for the price of a local call. This new 'super from. chat with other CompuServe members about the games. Martin Turner, CompuServe's general UK manager commented, "We built this To To get the latest coveragegames have a look at of CompuServe's the new ser Olympic vice which aims to from Atlarta. bring the From the latestmain menu resultsGAMES) (CO you ATL- can access news*contributorsreports such from as Sports Illustrated,and USA TimeToday. SM3 \N Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM E SCOM FILE FOR IBa n k r u p t c y DNTO THE Escom AG have announced that they will be filing for bankiuptcy. The news comes after months M illen ium of troubles for the company who reported losses of USSl 18 million in 1995 and suffered poor Christmas sales. Manfred Schmitt, the companies general manager resigned and they sold off Everyone is looking forward to that big their Amiga Technologies subsidiary to VIScorp • only a year after they had bought the compa party when we move into the next mil ny. lennium - that is everyone except those The 1COO UK workers have been told that the UK unit will have to close whilst the division in who may be affected by their computer the Netherlands is thought to have been sold off through a management buyout not recognising the fact that it is the year As far as the future of Amiga Technologies goes, VIScorp will finally take control of AT on 2000. August 19. Until then, it is understood that the business will be run with the approval of the Basically, computers have only been bankruptcy trustee Hembach. programmed to recognise dates up till then and the new date could cause mas sive problems. So recently, the British Standards Institution got together to decide if their department, DISC, should LITTERSOFT LATEST have a role in resolving the problem. □ They met up with IT specialists from major UK companies who agreed that Blittersoft have announced that they are now an authorisec PHASE 5 main dealer. Blittersoft will awareness of the millennium problem now be supplying the full range of Phase 5 products which includes CyberStorm MKII 060- needs to be raised. 50MHz - 649.95, CyberStorm MKII 040EC-40 - 379.95, Blizzard 1260 50MHz * 579.95, Blizzard DISC plan to develop a Code of itact number 1240EC-Tower board - 279.95 and the SCSI-II for Blizzard 1260-99.95. Practice which defines the term More news is their announcement of the CyberVision 64/3D which will be released in "Millennium compliance" and will set September. Phase 5 digital products will release this new out guidelines for establishing compli generation graphics board, the CyberVision64/3D ance for vendors and users, It was also at a very competitive price. Designed for use as decided that all British Standards involv either a Zorro-ll or Zorro-lll board it will ing the representation of dates in IT sys work in all Amiga 2000, 3000 and tems should be updated to reflect the 4000(T) series models as well as with need for greater discipline and accuracy tower modifications of Amiga 1200 in applying them. >f the new series models equipped with Zorro-ll inovations backplanes. The new board will have the Virge graphics chip with IB will be 30 capabilities which is produced en goods, by S3. The chip can do complex 3D otectsHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM the functions in hardware, like shaded Q o p s ery moth- and textured surfaces with trilinear nent filtering as well as shading and fog In last month's Photogenics review, Neil ging, for example. Mohr got too big for his boots and said A new Picasso graphics card will Photogenics uses Class Act gadgets - oops, also be released in September, called Blittersoft sorry, it doesn't. It has only been included on Picasso IV. The board is fully Zorro ll/lll the CD so that you can use AWeb. auto sersing, with features such as 64-bit Incidentally, current owners of Photogenics 2 Cirrus Logic 5446 Chip, Max Pixeldock 135 might like to know that there is an update ed its new MHz, and Flicker fixer on-board. It also has Video on available. Contact Almathera for more details is and VDU Workbench - a scalable live video window on Workbench on 0181-687 0040. >ility with a reflects the gh, it incor- developing u r a s h a k e s THINGS UP BAura Distribution Services announced this month that the Aura Interador virtual reality backpack will available in the UK from September onwards. The Aura Interactor was released in the US ur new dot a year ago and so far 1.4 million people have bought the device. 20 (narrow It’s now available in the UK for the price of £69.99 (wide col- The Aura Interactor is, basically, a pack which straps on to processing your back and allows you to feel the sound from a computer sing appli- game. rs per sec- It works on the concept that low bass noises are mostly felt rather than heard. The Interactor responds to the bass sound racters per s, 290 cps effects of a Film or video game and actually allow you to feel the rumble of explosions, crashes or punches. As well as seeing and 5390 and hearing the action, you can also feel it and wide The Aura Interactor is compatible with any games machine or 160 cps in television which has a headphone socket or audio output. For more information phone: 0171-331 5300. ter quality Feel end hear all the action of beat-'em-ups with the Aura Interactor A m i g a C o m p u t i n g Extracting C overD isk files ArtEffe the high Before >ou even think of putting the cover - All funi disks anywhere near your computer, you proce should make sure you write protect them. - ArtEffe This is done by moving the black tab in the - A spec top corner of the disk so you can see - A spec through the hole. You cannot then damage • Furthe your discs m any way. There is also no rea select^ son why the cover disks need to be wntten - ArtEffe to, so even if the computer asks you to Datatyp write enable the disks, don't do itl - ArtEffi To extract any single archive, simply dou There i: ble-click its icon and follow the on-screen - ArtEff- instrucfons. If you want to quickly extract the gra the program to RAM, select the NOVICE natural level or the welcome screen, press pro - ArtEff ceed once on the current screen, then Is this Photoshop for the Amiga? A truly outstand compa again on the next The program can then be gramrr found h your RAM disk. Normally most ing new art package from the author of StormC programs need further installing, so read the documents on how to do this. I nstalling A r t E ffect Hard Drive Users If you can use the normal Amiga Computing installer, you should have no problems getting? Hard dnve users do not have to boot with ArtEffect up and running. You should extract ArtEffect straight onto your hard drive, as onenee: the first disk, but you must make sure you done it can be run almost straight away. have the Amiga's Installer program in your Before you do run the program you will need to double-click the installer icon in the ArtEffect C drawer. To make sure your hard drive has drawer. This copies a library across and will set up an assign that ArtEffect needs. Once you have the correct files in place, double-click on done this you will be able to run the program with no problems. People with only 2Mb of Ram the SetupHD icon. This will check if you can use ArtEffect, but they will have to use a 16-colour screen and make do with only a fraction have the Installer program. If not it will of the program's power. copy it across - don't worry, it will not write over any existing files. All you hard drive owners will find A rtE ffect MultiExtract very useful. It is a separate Haage and Partner Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMmethod of extracting the cover disk files. It Workbench 3.0 allows you to extract a number of files in _ one go, to your hard disk or RAM. Just when it was getting to the stage where it effects with countless options. All effects are: When you run MultiExtract, you will be seemed like a truly new program was never used in the same way, and they all have the! presented with a number of check boxes, going to be released for the Amiga, and we same user interface. Each function has a pre- each representing one of the programs on would be stuck with the ever increasing view window in which the effect is applied to that cover disk. Just de select all the pro updates of Wordworth and Final Writer, bang! an image section. The preview area can be grams vou do not want extracting, then An all-new art program appears on the zoomed in and out and a progress bar shows press proceed. All the selected programs scene. how much of the operation has been com- j can now miraculously be found in the From the same people who produced pleted. selectee destination. StormC, ArtEffect unites painting and image While many of the Amiga's normal bitmap processing under a particularly productive paint programs only allow painting in a single user interface. When the program was in colour, ArtEffect gives you access to a full development, emphasis was placed on pro range of natural paint tools that allow you to rz viding productive functions which are quick simulate paintbrush, crayon, airbrush, chalk,! _ J Cf# t* «*> and simple to use. So, beginners and profes coal and oil colours. sionals alike are well catered for. To do a good job of simulating all these I ArtEffect is not 'just another' graphics pro drawing tools, ArtEffect offers man> controls j gram for the Amiga. Neither is it oriented for the mode, opacity, intensity, density, T h is is MultiExtract tor all you *»nsible towards the current 'standard' Amiga pro roughness, form etc With this, everything people with hard drive a grams, but rather to classic image processing from the transparency of water colour to the programs such as Photoshop and creative harsh look of chalk can be simulated excel painting packages such as Fractal Painter. lently. ArtEffect goes one step further and1 r! C W J B l The proven concepts and ideas of these even offers you the ability to paint on different classic programs have been merged with the materials, such as canvas, wood, stone, mar uncontested advantages of the Amiga, and ble etc. m t e E you can see the results for yourself. The properties of the three basic tools - Particularly important are the functions stencil, brush and airbrush - can be complete that allow you to select certain areas of an ly redefined. The form, intensity, density, image for processing. Of course some filters roughness, transparency, opacity, pressure are applied to the entire image, but when sensitivity (only on graphic tablets) and Fade f f l L S f j w dealing with touching up images, it is neces Out can be adjusted freely. With all these sary to select a particular area. So, one can properties, natural drawing tools can be sim ~ r retouch a scanned photo in a specific area ulated very well, and without any fringes. The without affecting the rest of the picture. properties of these tools are stored in the E 7 ArtEffect offers more than 30 different brush manager. A m ig a C o m p u t in g a r t E f f e c t f e a t u r e s S te n c il - ArtEffect is a pure 24-bit art package. All operations and manipulations are carried Out in the highest possible quality One of the powerful features of ArtEffect is its PACES • All functions in ArtEffect are very fast Some time-critical filters are even optimised for high- stencil function. This is sort of an amalgama ( er processors tion of Photoshop's magic wand and - ArtEffect can display multiple views of the same picture Photogenic's paint layer. In Photoshop the ■ r a p B I - A special light table allows pictures to be overlayed magic wand allows you to select areas of a B W - A special perspective tool supports the creation of perspective drawings picture that contain similar shades of colour, • Further mportant features are: Zoom, Pipette (for colour selection) Lasso (for freeform so when you apply an effect it is only applied selections), Colour Interpolator and Undo function to the selected area. - ArtEffect offers many loaders/savers (IFF, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, BMP), and also the Amiga ArtEffect lets you have this quick area > r Datatypes and the new 24-bit datatype selection but instead of using Photosiop's - ArtEffect offers an efficient 24-bit printer driver that uses tie standard Workbench drivers. basic outline it gives you the ability to direct There is additional support for TurboPrint and Studio ly 'paint on' this stencil layer, in a similar way - ArtEffecl supports the graphic tablet Wacom ArtPad II (a special driver is needed!). With to Photogenic. [ the graphic tablet, all drawing modes become pressure sersitive. This is very important for As both methods are combined, it makes natural diawing for an incredibly easy way of selecting areas ^ p £-j_ • ArtEffect can be extended externally by a flexible Plug-Ininterface, which allows third party that you do not want to be affected by cne of companies to offer new functions. There is also a special GUI for these Plug-Ins, so pro- ArtEffect’s processes. Or, by using the invert, ) d gramming them is very easy you can mark the area you want to be affect ed then select invert masking off the rest of the picture. To give you even more control there are extra »ms getting menu items that allow ire, as once you to expand or reduce the size of the masked- he ArtEffect off area. On top cf this :e you have there is a feather com ’Mb of Ram mand that will 'fade in' ly a fraction the edges of the stencil to any background graphics or effect applied over it Thm colour amlmction Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMtool allow a you to dmtlnm thm atm ncil by picking a pacific ccloura effects are ill have the i has a pre- > applied to rea can be i bar shows been com- mal bitmap | in a single s to a full How you to ■ush, chalk, g all these ny controls !y, density, everything ilour to the 1 ated excel- urther and on different stone, mar- Anyone who's heard of disk doubler will know about the basics behind DeepX. It is a program that runs in the background and waits for programs to load or save files. When they do, it com isic tools • presses and decompresses them, so saving up to 50% disk space (normally you can expect to i complete save on average 30%). ly, density, F lo xib lo DeepX is a commodity that will run quietly in the background, watching programs and files. and maay to !, pressure If you want DeepX to watch a program, run the program and select it from the list of tasks. You ( • I up a n d ;) and Fade can now select what type of compression the program's files should be crunched with. You can umm, DmmpX i all these w ill hmlp also choose not to have saved files compressed. DeepX allows you to choose files by a direc an be sim- y o u M M tory path and with pattern matching, making it even more flexible. dlak apacm fringes. The As it uses the standard XPK compression libraries, there are a huge number of compressors »red in the available, and for each program you can choose an individual compressor. A m ig a C o m p u t in g MacWB A p p A ssig n Author: Doguet Emmanuel Author: Daniel Balster Workbench 2.04 Workbench 3.0 Assigns are a constant pain in the rear for Amiga users. The situation has got a little better with the good old Installer setting them up in the user startup, but there is always gaing to w hile n Well, I gave in to temptation, again. For some be a time when a program is going to need one. But jf y reason I just like all these stupid hacks that AppAssign is a little program that makes assigns a little easier to sort out The current provide change the way your Workbench looks. This assigns can be listed and removed, and new assigns can be made either using a file Popper latest one will give all your Workbench win requester or dropping a drawer or program icon into AppAssign's window. giving dows a Mac-style look, but they're about 10 times as fast as a real Mac window. that M To get MacWB running you need to copy Making your Ilia aaaiar, AppAaaign extra fe aorta out Utoaa troubleaomo aaaigna the Chicago font into your fonts drawer, copy So, the MacWB command to your C drawer and add the line: run >nil: J\uthi>fs OOsifih) Workbench 2.04 A MMU processor You never seem to have enough memory, and even with the recent drop in the price of Simms, adding extra memory is not going to be cheap. What you need is vir tual memory. This is when the operating system 'fools’ programs into using hard drive space as adual memo ry. What actually happens is that using the MMU found on the fill versions of the 030, 040 and 060 chips, Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMpages of memory can be swapped between the hard drive and your real memory whenever a program accesses it Virtual memory is a lot slower than real elu x e S o l it a ir e memory, as the pages have to be moved off the hard drive, but some memory is better Author Martin Longstaff Workbench 2.04 than no memory. There are MUI and Bgui ver sions of the preference program, so one of those should suit you needs. What, another card game? Well yes, but get on the PC and Mac, Deluxe Soltaire I this one is a real good looker. If you have aims to look every bit as good and play You will aavar bo abort ot memory again ever wanted a decent playing aatience just as well. Go on, give it a go, and r you game, this one will suit you down to the do not know the rules, ask someone ground. Based on all the card games you Halifaivr. Hal if aim Halifairr. Hal Halve. Hal If aim Hal if aim Lai if aim hr. Hal If aim Hal if arm Halifairr Halffa II you are having trouble, the aute-Unlth game helpa you look good A m ig a C o m p u t in g T rash man Author: Tomasz Musrynsl Workbench 3.0 The Amiga's operating system has loads of Window menu on Workbench, press the right Magic Menus have been around for a long nice features. It does have a nice trashcan, mouse button, select the menu and press the while now, and nothing new has been added. but it's not very good having one on each left button. The menu will now stay on the But if you a e looking for something that can separate partition. We've had replacement Workbench and a window bar will appear on provide a little more in the way of functions, trashcans in the past, but this one is the best top of it, allowing you to drag it around, push Popper could be what you want. As well as so far. it to the back and close it when you like. If giving you the normal new pop-up menus From a single Appicon you can happily you want ta update a window, select it and that Magic Menu provided, Popper has the delete and retrieve all your files. It will move then the update menu selection. extra feature of tear-off menus. all the files off to the trashcan directoiy and So, if ycu regularly need to access the remember their original location if you want to retrieve them at a later date. It al The horror of renaming hundred; of files! Well alright, this might not be something you come up against every day, but for peo ple who deal with large 'animations and have many similarly named files with num ber extersions, this is a distinct possibility. RenameIt is a program to help you get around this nasty situation. It allows you to rename multiple files in various different ways. Primarily it allows you to alter the suf fix and p’efix of file names. — iJ - M B P ress Faulty disks Author: Steve Anderson If you should find your Amiga Workbepch 2.04 Workbench 2.04 Computing CoverDisk damaged or faulty, please return it to: This is a set of specialised libraries that was To go along with the AmigaGuide medical this written so as many different compression month, MBPress is a tiny program that is used TIB Pic TIB House, 11 Edward libraries ard crunchers could be supported by to detect what combination of mouse but Street Bradford, W. Yorks BD4 one single library, thus allowing programmers tons are being pressed. By holding down one 7 B H . to support all different types of compressor of the mouse buttons at bootup, you can without needing to know anything about select a diferent startup sequence. Please allow 28 days for delivery them. A m ig a C o m p u t in g own specific TCP stack and could cause patibility problems with some software. There will also be the latest version Am FTP - in my opin ion the best FTP around - along with AmlRC again one best IRC clients available far any Both these programs should be updated interface for the NetConnect NetConnect promises even easier net access for making them even easier to use. Web support will come in the form Voyager vl.1 . This is not going to be as Amiga users. N e il M o h r takes a sneak preview plete as Voyager NG which will support thing that NetScape does, but it will and possibly animated Gif support. This th the recent boom in media the majority of Web sites will be perfectly dis coverage of the Internet it seems played. Additional programs such as everyone is slapping together all- and mFinger both look good and are not pro ©:n-one Internet access packages - # w l •£• vided for currently by the other Net packages. first Amiga Technologies with m Due to the heavy use of MUI - well all their Surfer pack and most recently HiSoffs programs use MUI - the latest version will be Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMNet & Web. NetConnect is hoping to surpass bundled with NetConnect This version will be both these products by offering simplified 3.5 and has many more bug fixes along with configuration and setup along with the latest even more speed increases and new pop up versions of the most popular Internet pro menus. grams. Currently NetConnect looks an excellent all- The first thing that will strike you about in-one package with a lot of thought having NetConnect is the toolbar front end, from 44.■». • — k-*«»k> -----• fc»-.l. gone into it With the final version all the pro which all the configuration and programs are grams will be installed from c single installer accessed. The toolbar is very reminiscent of An up-to-date version of Voyager will that will also initially set up ycur account and the docks used by ToolManager and is setup make Web browsing an easy task provider details letting you get linked up and in a similar fashion, allowing variable rows on-line as soon as possible. and columns of either icons or text buttons. uitous TCP/IP stack which has quite a few With the simple configuration GUI, the full Anyone who has had a look at Miami will be advancements over previous versions, general version of AmiTCP 4.3 and the all-in-one icon glad to know that NetConnect has 'borrowed' ly making it far easier to configure and setup. driven front end, NetConnect does looks good the simple setup front end used to configure Th s is an advantage over Miami which uses its and should be out soon. / 7 * f all the aspects of logging on to your Internet provider. NetConnect will simplify this even beyond Q o w e r M ai L whet Miami offers by maintaining a list of One of the completely new programs that comes with Internet providers and their details, so making NetConnect is PowerMail. Written by the author of the initial setup a matter of selecting which MetaTool, a Mime compliant mailer, PowerMail is the country you live in, your provider and the local PoP you will be using. Currently the next generation version of the original software. NetConnect database covers a 140 providers Taking advantage of all the new features introduced in MUI 3 PowerMac's interface is fully drag and drop, in 30 different countries, 40 of which are British. allowing you to move mail attachments to the dip Once this is done you are left with having to board, between mails and save them off to disk. Another enter your own specific user details such as spin off is that if you multiselect a bunch of mails and user name and password. As with Miami there crag them over to the address book all the email r is a large list of modems which, if it includes addresses of the people who sent these mails will auto yours, will handle the modem initialisation matically be added to the address book. automatically. Any induded images will be displayed in-line with the received mail and similarly images can be dragged So NetConnect gives you a good program o/er into mails and will be automatically decoded as launcher and set up interface but what else Looking every bit as good as it Is to use, does it offer? Well for starters you will be get part of the mail using the installed Datatypes. PowerMail Is an escellent Mime mailer ting AmiTCP 4.3, the latest version of the ubiq- A m i g a C o m p u t i n g O C T O B E R 1 9 9 6 ause com are. version of P program one of the computer. jetting an ret release form of e as com- >ort every- )dd tables us means fectfy dis- AmTellMet ' not pro- xkages. ell all the in Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMwill be n will be ong with ' POP up ?lient all- it having the pro- mstaller >unt and up and NOVA DESIGN, INC. f 1910 Byrd Avenue, Suite 214 - Richmond, VA 2323$ Phone: (804) 282-5868 - Fax: (804) 282-3768 - Customer Support:) (804) 282-652 restructuring lengthy sections of text than arch-rival Digita Wordworth - and that after all is what a good WP is about. Now on to the refinements introduo with release 5. First up, Final Writer now includes a new Auto Correct facility. As name suggests, this will instantly corn your regular typos - thus teh will miracu lously reappear as the, for example. It's also possible to use this feature to automate repetitive phrases and lengthy names. If, for example, you were creating a tutorial for Final Writer 5, you could add an Auto Correct item to change fw5 to Finol Writer Release 5. Then whenever you typed fw5 the program would correct it to pro duce Final Writer Release 5. More useful ing to than it initially sounds, believe it or not. ent Wl This : fin a le Auto Correct will also capitalise the first letter of sentences and correct two initial a half capitals in a sentence. work Release 5 now allows you to create doc Final uments using a template. The 'New from Amiga Regular as clockwork, Softwood have released the latest Template' option doesn't just open your ish it document, it updates the dates and times in ing yc instalment of their award-winning word processor. But the document and leaves the name set as forma Untitled. So what? This means you can't the fir accidentally save a newly modified version and r is Final Writer 5 a major update, or just another fine of the document on top of your template, work making it perfect for protecting anc using (The tuning? Gareth Lofthouse reviews... templates for regularly used letterheads and w ill • forms. Macs Swapping between regularly used docu sorts provi ou've got to hand it to them. Not next two paragraphs). Final Writer has vied ment formats is also made easier by a new only does Softwood continue to for the position of top Amiga word proces option allowing you to save sets of style the F fight tooth and nail for domina sor for years, and with good reason. A WYSI sheets and assign them to documents. In Sc reali tion of the Amiga applications WYG product, it was one of the first to fea practice, this means you can have templates Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMGmarket, it even has the gall to take on Mr ture a user-friendly GUI complete with for different business letters, invoices, ingly enst Gates himself. Yes, Final Writer is about to neat control icons and point-and- personal correspondence and so challenge Microsoft's monolithic Word in a dick requesters. In other on, allowing you quickly to spec bid to make a serious dent in the lucrative words, it doesn't just develop regularly needed mad spec world of PC word processing. work well, it looks good document types. But before you bombard Softwood with too. Possibly the single Ever non letters of protest at their treacherous betray Final Writer most important inno al of the Amiga, take a moment to look at includes basic draw vation for serious WP occi will Final Writer 5. You might just be surprised. ing tools to enhance users, however, will Far from releasing an old product with a and illustrate the be the introduction of Wltf few tweaks to milk a dying market, content of your doc full featured, industri C Softwood has actually put Final Writer uments. More importantly, it's faster when it al strength RTF import hig l through one of the most substantial over comes to manipulating, formatting and and export filters. RTF is vital for use-s want- hauls it's had in a while. With, over 24 enhancements since release 4, this looks like the product of a company that remains very serious about Amiga-based develop OP OF THE TABLE m ent □ But first the basics (the majority of you It's been a long time coming, but at last The 'text flow’ option allows you to who've heard this all before should skip the Final Writer 5 allows you to create and have the document's body text flow incorporate tables into your documents. around the left of right of the table, or Tables are independent objects you over the top of the table. A 'distance' * e r. • • T f Giommar can position anywhere. They are vital for option tells Final Writer how much space /] Capfaliz# Rut lene* of Sonfeocei documents where you need to present to leave between the table and the text 23 Correct TWO Mrx* CAp«olt numerical data in a manageable and flowing around it, while if you type in a /} Replace woroi oi you type ------Word! and Reptocemeoh visually effective form - so much so that title for your table in the T itle ' area, the I Word : Replacement — Acftom once you have them, you wonder how table's title will be appended to the spe p F'noJ Writer Add | you did without them. cial Table of Illustrations sectioa ana Still, better late than never, and Tables can be customised with 16 dour dont I I Softwood have now done an excellent background colours (useful for contrast ind rd a d e occurrence job by introducing an extremely versatile ing different columns or rows of data) receive tables generator. The 'Tables and different thicknesses for the lines Preferences' requester is a powerful that divide the table up. Sove | Ute tool, with all the options you're likely to It's as simple as it sounds - and that's need. how it should be. Following in tho stops ol Wordworth, Final Wrltor now Includes and auto-corroct facility A m i g a C o m p u t i n g 20 O C T O B E R 199 6 text than that after Q irst TO THE FINISH i - ■» h" ■ - I ■ T " - » y r -T - T - ' , ...... introduced Despite troublesome times in the Amiga Amiga product undergo a serious and sub friter now market, both Digita and Softwood have stantial update that brings it up to speed ity. As the continued to develop their products and with the sort of modern WP functionality Staff R ota August 29th ly correct release regular updates of their highly we should expect I ’ II miracu- regarded word processors. The truth is, It's even better to see it retaining an le. though, some previous product updates extremely affordable price tag for the feature to have been disappointing; expecting pow home user. d lengthy erful new features, we have instead been Final Writer 5 is a big enough step for creating a presented with small refinements that are ward to ensure that Softwood this time — — i ill ii ill i Id add an useful but uninspiring. deserves an unqualified recommendation. u \ m u ii n i a id i iii v a il i b u i m l ; 11 n i — > to Final It's therefore heartening to see an Excellent. fou typed it to pro- i;?nrw j L t l A . i U L »re useful ing to swap text documents between differ requests. For example, Softwood had made Creating tablaa in Final Writer takea half a minute, ir not ent WPs, and different platforms as well. the 'Open Font' requester available from the even when adding colour enhancementa i the first This means that you will be able to take Type Specs' requester in Release 4. Thanks wo initial a half-finished document from the PC at to requests from users, however, they've work aid load it into now made the ...... eate doc- Final Writer on your 'Font' requester lew from Amigasat home to fin- Final Writer 5 is a big accessible direct Uatf /!),% pen your ish it off. Then, provid ly from a menu enough step forward to i times in ing you save it in RTF item. ne set as format, you can take ensure that Softwood this Again in ' 0 • ^ou can’t the finished document response to cus 11 14 IB time deserves an unquali ict-m ■ Ut» d version and reload it on to the tomer requests. - template, work PC the next day. fied recommendation. Release 5 also P V ACATONHAWA I nd using (The same procedure Excellent. allows you to n be a eads and will work with Apple save sets of pref r - Macs, and between all erences and u e z i e : ed docu- sorts of different WPs assign them to a by a new providing they support document. This The tables facility la flexible enough to quickly create a wide range of object a that enhance and llluatrate your data of style the RTF format). means you can save nents. In Softwood have the current prefer resource for the exchange of information emplates realised how increas ences using any Jargo n that's really relevant for Amiga owners. invoices,Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM ingly important this feature will be and have name you wish. And here's the link with Final Writer. To e and so ensured it complies with the latest RTF Release 5 continues to enhance Final BOX participate, users are invited to send infor luickly to specifications. Furthermore, they've even Writer capabilities for text manipulation too. GUI - GroohtCol User mation for their home pages as a Final needed made certain that RTF files using future In previous issues, re-arranging copy was a Writer document along with any other links HTML - Hrper-Text Markup messy matter of manual cutting and past specifications will load without problems. Longuogt; the most com and graphics - then Softwood promise to » single Even interchanging files with fonts that are ing. Now, all sections can be arranged using monly used language for do the rest. You will be given the opportu creating Web pages nt inno- non-existent on the Amiga (a common the 'Arrange Sections' requester. nity to update this information orce a year. Requester - Point-and- rious WP occurrence) is not a problem; Final Writer 5 With the release of the surfer pack, more ck k gadgets that pop up A year's subscription to this service will ver, will will simply replace an unrecognised font Amiga jsers are at last getting connected to onscreen to give user a cost you £35 - not too high a price for your choice of options uction of with a preset Amiga font. the Internet - only to find that many sites own section of the Net, we think. RTF - Rich Text Format4 a industri- Other major enhancements include a use software applets that don't support popular text tile standard Final Writer 5 itself shows further com F import high-ca ibre tables generator and an HTML their machines. Oh well... allowing users to inter mitment on Softwood's part for incorpo change tile; between differ irs want- export option for WWW pages (see our box Softwood's pro-active development of an rating the WWW into their plans as well. ent hardwere and software outs). Improved data support for imported on-line customer support service for Amiga platforms Release 5 now includes an excellent HTML graphics is a boon as well, allowing you to - owners is therefore particularly welcome. Tablet - Independent export option allowing users to create objects used in WP docu import GIF, JPEG, BMP and other image file From Jjly 1996, customers will be able to documents that can be used immediately ments to present and con- formats directly into a document. publish their own page on the Personal on a Web site. Otherwise there are numerous sgiall but Web Site of Softwood's Server for 12 WP - Wori processor useful tweakings to the WP's functionality, months. This facility, combined with the WYSIWYG - What you see »you to is what you gee the w p will revealing a company that's in touch and established Amiga News forum, should print documents the way ixt flow they appear onscreen Bottom prepared to respond to its customers hopefully grow to become an invaluable able, or listance' line :h space P roduct details the text ppe in a Final Writer Release 5 irea, the Softwood Products Europe the spe- £74.95 (Upgrade £22.95) vith 16 01 775 836781 ontrast- )f data) le lines 88% Implementation 9 4 % id that's Value For Money 9 3 % Manual cut and paste In large documents can be Final Writer retains the speed and user-friendly 8 1 % interface that have made It so popular replaced by the new rearrange sections facility A m ig a C o m p u t in g OCTOEER 1996 Software Hut AMIGA Folcroft East Business Park 313 Henderson Dr Sharon Hill, PA 19079 softhut@ix. netcom. com Info 610-586-5703 Hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 6 Sat 10 to 4 • Eastern Orders 800-93-AMIGA FAX 610-586-6416 Disks work n • All our customers worldwide can now reach us by E-Mail. 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ETTERS JI4.9S -$7.95 Many different subjects, from 4195 w budget games to faster processors, :_N have provoked you into putting pen to S K paper, so take a moment to peruse what your fellow readers think UAL rou MICADOS - ALIVE AND KICKING lbl» □ th r 19 As a dedicated fan of 'Amiga Computing' and outlet with a 16Mb SIMM giving me 18 Mb things Amiga, it is interesting to both read and RAM. It is, I suppose, still technically a stand hear about other people's point of view, partic alone machine, in that I could if I wished take it ularly our friends across the water, as they to another place and run it fairly easily, but in invariably see things differently from 'us'. practice I have it connected to a HiQ Several of your correspondents had some Powerstation - it has on-board my CD-ROM, interesting and sometimes valid viewpoints, but separate stereo speakers and room to add sev ;5 I am not letting them get away with some of eral other things to the SCSI chain if I wish. It Cot something OG the points made. To make things easy, I'll list provides power for my Project II printer and I need to get the ones I disagree with in more or less the use my Zip drive for back-up. off your chest? CH order in which they appeared in 'Postbag'. Alright, t has cost me dose to the price of a /ant to share some 'Dying but not Dead?' - 1 can see the logic of quite reasonable PC, but I chose the Amiga handy hints with other readers? 6 his reasoning, but it totally ignores the vast because I prefer it to the PC and it does almost Simply put pen to paper and write to number of people world-wide who like everything I ask of it That it cannot yet do is Ezra Surf's Postbag, Amiga AmigaDOS and wouldn't give up their Amiga entirely down to my lack of expertise, not Computing, IDC Media, Media House, I whatever happened as far as other formats AmigaDOS! Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMAdlington Park, Macclesfield, were concerned. Furthermore, most of 'us' are When Escom bought out what was left of Cheshire, SK10 4NP. There's 150 up ready, willing and able to spend money to get Commodore you will remember I wrote saying for grabs for our star letter. —$195 what they want out of their Amiga, which leads that I thought Escom was a disaster. When I _ 1 9 5 me nicely on to the next point heard that VIScorp was taking over from Escom, 795 The Americans are talking crap when they __3700 I felt considerable relief. At last here was a firm, there is a ready market - I for one would jump __too want an upmarket machine as I understood it, with limit at the chance of buying several of the classics _4100 for nowt as we say in ed resources, but which on a CD. Think of all the hassle it woiid save — 195 Yorkshire, and in saying that knew what it wanted the trying to install games on your hard drive. 627.95 _ I2D0 a cheap machine would p i ^ J S Amiga for. Hopefully it would That's enough rabbiting from me for now, __195 certainly sell in America. even be prepared to license although I don't promise not to bring you some _I400 M ich planet do they live the technology and carry it more in the bright Amiga future! - 4 9 $ Companion llko PIOS will -1100 on? Severa of the American hal^puraua a brighter forward. -1400 PC makers are planning to fuiture ti tor ttht h e A m ig a This is already happening. Ian Aisbitt, North Yorkshire JU O flood the European market Phase 5, who made my -4 0 0 -1595 with what I would describe as ‘downmarket Blizzard board, has already announced that the Ah, a regular contributor to our postbag, I J29S PCs' - the equivalent of 486/586 pre-Pentiums, new PowerPC rs in development and that it will see. You mention the availability of second -29.00 because they cannot sell them over there in the be backwardly compatible with AmigaDos 3.0+! hand Amigas and I think this is definitely a -7 0 0 saturated market! _ 1 9 J Similarly, John Smith has joined the new PIOS small but significant step forward, at least .24 95 Like mcst people our side of the water, I company together with several other Amiga afi for the time being. This provides a very -IMS came to the Amiga when I acquired, quite late cionados like Dave Haynie and Andy Finkel, and cheap way of buying an entry level comput J9 0 0 on, an Amiga 500. It was a brilliant games will be developing a computer based on the er and then upgrading it to suit your needs. —495 -19.95 machine, and although much better made than PowerPC with an operating system 'similar to The only problem with this is that the num -I2J0 the later 6D0 and 1200, its design limitations the Amiga OS' - quotes courtesy of this month's ber of people opting for second-hand - 1.00 did not lend itself as well to expansion as the Amiga Computing! machines won't be recorded, hence develop -295 J29S 1200. Being entirely fair to the 1200, it was If I had either a 500 or 600, I wouldn't be ment companies won't see an increase in .3495 never really designed as a big box Amiga; that looking to go over to a PC I should be snapping Amiga owners - until they start buying new .2295 slot was filed by Amiga with the 4000. As an up one of the many 1200 bargains to be cur hardware and software. _7.95 aside, I am still kicking myself for not taking out J295 rently had - in our local paper the other day A budget CD-Rom sounds like an excel -400 a loan to buy the second-hand 4000 that I there was a 1200 with hard drive and a lent idea. I'm sure many Amiga owners who could have had for just over £1000 after Commodore monitor for just over £200! either missed the game first time roind or Commodore went bust But it is no use ciying Your prize letter this month was well aimed don't want to have to mess around installing D. over spilt milk now, because at the time I could at the games companies, and I would only add disks would snap them up. As far as we n't afford it Subsequently I spent considerably that it is a shame somebody doesn't start trans know, no plans are on the cards - apart from G more than that upgrading my 1200 to where it ferring some of the older Amiga games over to the usual budget releases on disk. But who rs: is at now; Seagate 1.1 Gig hard drive inside, a budget-priced CD-ROM, like the ones current knows? Some nice big publisher out there 15 Blizzard 1230/4 accelerator and SCSI board and ly available on PC at around £12.99.1 am sure might take notice of our humble column— A m ig a C o m p u t in g S EDITION PROBLEMS First off I would like to say you have an out printed here in the US. Am I wrong? Amiga standing publication and it has made my World was also an IDG property but it was turmoil over the death of Amiga World here always on time. in the US extremely bearable. Okay, now Thank you for your time. that I've buttered you up with accolades, James Vigliotti, USA here is a complaint (you knew one was coming)- Do not feat We have sorted this out and Delivery of Amiga Computing US edition apologise for the problems you've had in here in the States is extremely slow, and the p a st The way it w ill work in the future always la:e with regard to any pertinent (from this magazine onwards) is that information in your magazine. I was looking everyone - including our American sub forward tc purchasing StormC at the special scribers - will receive an International Amiga Computing reader price, but unfor edition. This is because Amiga Computing tunately the offer expired May 29 and I did and Amiga Computing US have merged to not receive my magazine until May 30! I produce an even stronger title. don't know how publications in the UK are The advantage for you is that you will scheduled, but here in the US all next get the magazine at the same time as our month magazines are sent out before the UK readers. Plus, you get a bigger maga end of the previous month. zine both in terms of editorial content and In this way readers receive the May edi actual size (English A4). So hopefully this tion before May has turned into June. Is will keep readers on both sides of the mail really that bad? Over 30 days? I pond happy as we strive to bring you the assumed since Amiga Computing was an latest news and developments from the IDG publication that the US edition was Amiga world. Q want it all Why can't we have it all? Ever since the late cable set-top boxes (ED). Amiga Computing, Amiga community is still strong, and it's Jay Miner and Amiga, Inc. developed our I love your magazine and your world amazing to see the wealth of support still beloved machine, it has been looked on as a support for the Amiga. Keep up the excellent around for the machine. We hope that computer that has always been years ahead work. VIScorp will use this to its advantage and Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMof its time. My personal view is that the Amiga exploit the fact that it could have top prod operating system is fast and efficient, and the LeRoy Parham, Jr., Clinton, MD USA ucts in certain areas (ie personal computer system architecture is still envied by many workstations, set-top boxes). computer cevelopers who try to mimic its Glad you like the magazine. I agree that I'd disagree with you that the CD32 can functions with system boards and chips (ie what the Amiga needs is a faster processor stand alone as a direct product in the video, audio, and I/O). But the one thing that - if it's to compete with these 100 and 133 games market It's too late for it now. part has been a great disappointment for the MHz Pentiums, it's essential. People seem ly due to the fact there were no CD32-spe- Amiga is its processor, the heart of the quite content to shell out £1,500 for a cific games, but mainly because It's been machine. machine that they want to word piocess superseded by the likes of the PlayStation I do not understand why the fastest with and play games on. However, the and the Saturn. processors ever created have still not been VIScorp's plans for the set-top box do incorporated into the Amiga (ie PowerPC or look promising, though, and with things DEC). IBM jsers are now playing games on such as networked gaming, the 133 MHz Pentium Ultimate Gaming PCs. Amiga could take off in this area. These processors are 20+ times falter-than It's not VIScorp we have to con the average 030-based Amiga. Serious Amiga vince that the Amiga is a good users like myself (A1200, 6 8 0 6 0 ,18Mb RAM) machine, it's those who don't are forced to incorporate IBM compatible even know that there is an option DECs, MIPS, and Pentium Pro workstations available beyond buying the into our work areas. The CD32 was blighted by latest PC the tact that thara was little What I believe many Amiga users want is CD32-apacltlc software an Amiga, with its powerful operating system and custom chip set, combined with a processor that runs around 300 MIPS (million instructions per second), all in one box. Amiga third-party developers have believed this, but fcr some unknown reason it has always been the corporate owners of the Amiga who have seen differently. The Amiga community is unique in that it can easily stand alone in this vast computer industry. VIScorp, with proper planning, industry co-operation and development, could be the only computer company with direct products in three of the now top com puter areas: gaming (CD32), personal com puter workstations (A1200, A4000T), and ETTER FROM THE LAND OF THE VIKINGS First I wculd like to say congratulations on your growing readership. Before 1995 I almost never bought your magazine. In fact I only have three from before 95. Now I buy Amiga Computing every month. I espe* daily like your reviews of serious soft ware and the news and reviews of different companies who use the Amiga. Why haven't you covered i Phase 5 and MacroSystems yet? Second, I would say that I don't us like your game reviews. Not because tcrib e ra of your writing but because of the bad games you review. I believe that you should only review games with extremely ciflc U S good graphics or gameplay. A good exam Hon. ple of a game with graphics is Breathless, iga nputing and for good gameplay, Sensible Soccer 1 Amiga gets my first place. The others are mostly from 1992 for nputing junk. When some PC friends of mine look at more than £2000? I surely have the games section in my Amiga Computing •ged to wouldn't have paid that much for a iu c e a (and all the other Amiga mags) they all machine that old if I were to buy a new >nger wonder if the magazines are from the end computer today. The only reason for me jaxine of the 'M 's. The Amiga games these days staying with the Amiga today is the OS and don't exactly strengthen the Amiga's posi the real Plug and Play. The only OS which tion in the home computer market. can almost compete with AmigaDOS is Every second month or so there are System 7 on the Mac, but the software on some Amiga users from the UK who com the Mac is extremely expensive compared plain about the price of Amiga Computing. to software on the Amiga. g, and it's Next time you even think of complaining What should the future Amigas be like? ipport still about the price, remember that all the Take a Icok at Phase 5's Internet pages and hope that Norwegian readers, including myself, pay £8 read the configurations for the Power PC ntage and for Amiga Computing with a smile on our Amigas. This is the kind of Amiga system I ! top prod- faces. would gladly pay for in 1997. If 1600 xl2 0 0 becomes necessary to show some of the i computerHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMI would also like to encourage all Amiga pixels at 24-bit colour depth and a refresh less than perfect titles just to give you an owners to buy as much software and hard rate of 72Hz seems too good to be true, idea of what is available. Despite this, we CD32 can ware for your Amiga as possible. About check out Phase 5 on the Internet. are far less guilty than other magazines ict in the two-and-a-half years ago I bought my To all Amiga users: Keep on supporting of taking up pages with these kind of now, part- Amiga 4000/030 bundled with the Amiga. It is the only computer with a games. Instead, we leave it in Andy CD32-spe- ScalaMM210, a 260Mb hard drive, 10Mb of user-friendly approach and has the fastest ! it's been Maddock's capable hands to find other RAM and the Vlab Y/C card for 23000 and best written OS on the Earth today. Any ways of filling the section. For example, layStation Norwegian krones (that's about £2300). comments?... we bring you helpful cheat modes or fea And, aftei I got a job last year, I have bought tures on games companies, which I'm >p box do CyberStorm060, CyberVision 64 (4Mb ver Ole Haugland, Norway sure our readers find more interesting ith things sion), 540Mb hard drive, 1.3 Cb hard drive, than reviews of poor games. ming, the two 4Mb RAM chips, one 8Mb RAM chip, I'm glad you have seen the error of your Also, what you say about the 44000's this area, MicroVitec 1438, Oktagon SCSI-2 controller, ways and decided to buy the magazine is true - only real enthusiasts will want re to con- ZIP drive. Photogenics 2 and Cipema 4D monthly. And at £8 - well, Amiga to purchase the machines at these s a good v2.1. And I haven't finished buying yet! You Computing is priceless isn't it? Who can prices. You're very enthusiastic ho don't may think that I am rich because I have put a value on all the helpful reviews, about what Phase 5 will have an option bought all this, but I'm not. I only earn previews and tutorials we have? It saves offer in the future. We too Ing the about £180 a month and take small jobs you money in the long run because you hope that it can revitalise when I have time - last summer I earned only buy the products that are worth the market with the £400 by writing procedures on my A4000! while. Anyway, enough of this blatant impressive PowerPC In the short time I have had my A4000 I self-promotion. project. have spent £2500! To address your other points. Firstly, Finally, I would like to encourage all the we will be featuring MacroSystems and readers of Amiga Computing to save up Phase 5's current projects in the very some money so we - all the Amiga users - near future. We would not neglect such can buy the PowerPC Amigas that Phase 5 important issues but we want to make is making for 1997. But don't forget to buy sure we can give you proper, in-depth Amiga products in the meantime. Phase 5 articles on them. If you prefer, and MacroSystems seem to be the only Secondly, I agree with your comments you can send us hardware-related firms who really do some about the Amiga games market. However, four letter via Email. thing whh the Amiga these days. New I'd like to point out that we do try our Simply point your mailer to: Amigas should have at least an 040, not a best to review the better games rather ESP 4-acomp.demon.co.uk. You could slow 030 which seems to be the processor than fill the section with useless titles even send it in on a disk - it makes chosen by AT for the Walker'. that nobody would buy, but with the our lives easier too. 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NY 10977 914-578-6522 • 800-815-3241 800-595-5534 • 888 PAXTRON FAX 914-624-3239 I'axlrmi Hours: 9-5 pm E S T • Add $6.00 Uf>S Charges • MC/VISA • Prices subject to chango CORPORATION W E SHIP WORLDWIDE.' Ilf. up 10 □ its AND BATS 415995 $69 SO .1199 95 $59 95 ( f e k I f’ave recently had one or two problems with my computer and I would be $59 50 j j y immensely grateful if you could help out $79 96 .-.$99 95 J I. The other day I dropped the shell icon into the Workbench partition of $245 95 .$224 00 £ my hard disk, but I cannot get it back on the main Workbench background —$37.50 screen. I have tried Snapshot All from the Workbench menu bar, but it does not $10 95 ...539.50 seem to work. Could my Magic Workbench be anything to do with this? 2 .1 read that SCSI hard drives are supposed to be faster than the IDE equivalent Your $19.95 review said that my Seagate drive is IDE, but Sysinfo says that it is SCSI. Why is this? ... $22 50 $22 95 3. When reading the speed of my hard drive using Sysinfo with my Blizzard 1230 disabled, the ....$22.50 $1595 transfer rate is always between 1.4Mb and 1.5Mb per seconc. But when I use the Blizzard, cur $7.95 rently with no Ram, these figures drop to just above 1.2Mb. Will this change when I get more $1175 memory? Has this anything to do with the low speed ratings you gave it in your review? I used EBElOW to have the Blizzard 1220 accelerator and the speed was 2.5Mb per second. CAa Craig Humphries, Fosdyke ....$59 95 -57.95 1. If you want an icon to stay put on the Workbench and reappear in the same $7.95 place each time you reboot your machine, you need to use the Leave out $6.95 Fear not if $19.95 option in the icon menu. The easiest w ay of using this is to select the $24.75 E BELOW icon you want 'left out* on the Workbench and press the right * Amiga and L keys. The reason this works as opposed to just your Amiga is ...$19995 dragging the icon onto the Workbench is because the Leave out function ...$21995 $53 75 creates an extra file called .backdrop, in which there is a list of $19.95 the files that should be left out Each time Workbench on the blink. —$12.50 starts, it reads this file • that is on the root of each r_$17.50 5*50 drive * and will place any file found listed in there ACAS will CAU out on the Workbench. tx $25.00 ...$24 95 2. Generally it is taken that a good ...... CALL $23.00 SGI 2 hard drive and controller will sort you out $24.00 produce better results than an equiva $2.95 CALL lent IDE drive. Good transfer rates for an )..$24 95 and send —$19.95 IDE drive trill be around 2-3Mb/s, w hile a ...$169.95 fast SG I 2 controller, such as the one found $900 $1950 on the G-Force accelerator, will produce you on your ... 52 99 results at double this speed. The speed you get Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMback does rely greatly on the speed of the con way with a troller, processor and the hard drive itself. Before the A600 and A 1200 came o u t IDE drives on the Amiga were fairly rare, with SCSI controllers cheery wave and hard drives much more in favour, mainly due to the extra flexibility of the SCSI interface. Because of this, Amiga software was written with SCSI controllers in mind. So, when the A600 and A1200 came out H was decided to make things more compatible. The internal IDE interface would therefore appear to software as though it w as a SCSI interface, thus enabling software to access the IDE drives w hile being unaware of the different interface. 3. Why have you bought an accelerator without any memory? Without extra memory you will only get a fraction of the extra speed of which your new processor is capable. You are right in thinking that getting fast memory will cure the transfer rate problem. The probable cause of the drop in transfer speed when you use the Blizzard board over table Accelerator% a re a lm o a t u s • ( • • • lore. the A1200's built-in processor is that it cannot transfer data as fast to chip without aotno oxtrm memory. So got memory. s o m o - ft ’s dirt choap at the moment I will cure $74.50 0600 SQUIRREL 50. 1602. no 1950 v I need some technical help with installing a drive? face at a slight angle as the end pins can end T J squirrel SCSI interface and a Reno Portable 3. If so can the Squirrel software be modified for a up being pushed down out of the way. If you 2D32 and $39 95 drive to an A600. I have installed the parallel port usage or do I need other software? get a jewellers screw drive and a torch with a I Squ rrel software several times using differ •(boards. Anthony Whiteman, New York little bit of care you can realign these pins. NTSC or ent configurations but the CD-ROM icon will As far as I know the Squirrel should Other than that the best way to see if the $289.95 not show on the screen. work fine with either the A600 or SCSI interface is working is to use I have changed devices and unit numbers on the the A 1200, but it does seem strange one Most SCSImounter which comes with the Squirrel. If a noxtto tool types of the CDO DOS driver. I have also tried a \ that you are having so much trouble when the CD-ROM is connected SCSI mounter •I box and different CD-ROM drive and a second mother board getting your Amiga to recognise the Irtg for a just returns errors then there Is definitely 4199.50 without success. I finally sent the Squirrel back to CD-ROM drive as the Squirrel install software is something wrong with the interface. the company to check it out very straight forward to use. To answer your last two questions there is 1. Do you know of anyone who has been able to Normally the most common reason for a PC- no way you can get the Squirrel software to set up an A6Q0 with a CD-ROM drive via the Squirrel Slot device not working is that some of the pins work with the parallel port It is theoretically 2. Can a CD-ROM be connected up to the paral on the interface have become bent out of shape. possible to use the parallel port but H would lel port using the SCSI cable that comes with the This is easily done if you try to insert an inter- be so slow there would be little point. A m ig a C o m p u t in g □ hE HARD WAY □ I purchased a Syquest EZ135 drive I TThere1 is nothing worse than drive, but once it is done, next time you ^ j and an Oktagon SCSI card from accidentally formatting your will only have to deal with the new files. / Casteiner at THE computer show at hard drive. On the whole, Therefore the amount of time you kave to the Novatel hotel and had a lot of DiskSalv does a good job of wait is only a fraction of what you would -I ■J pioblems in getting my Amiga recovering deleted files, and think. 4000/030 to recognise it. It was all very hit- there are two approaches to using it in your In fact you don't really have to wait and-miss. situation: around at all. As the Amiga mulli-tasks During one of the times when it 'hit', like a You can use DiskSalv's unformat func you can have you back-up program run Person Rapidly Approaching Termination tion. This will try to resurrect your hard ning on a low task priority in the back drive in its original state with all your files Time Of PRATT for short I inadvertently for ground while you get on and do some /- matted my internal hard disk using the where they were to begin with. thing else. Also, if you have a large pro Oktagon preference program. And yes, you've Unfortunately, it has the best chance of suc gram such as Final Writer, all you really guessed, it the only back-ups I had were of cess if you have not used the hard drive need to back-up are any document files. In chanci my Workbench partition. Oh woe is me, and since the format as any writes to it would this way, if you do lose the copy on your w ell k thrice woe at that! have disturbed the original files and hard drive, you can just re-instal Final As I However, as it only took a few seconds to DiskSalv will not be able to do as good a Writer then restore your documents from hopefi format I am assuming that all it did was a job. your back-up. you to quick format So, whilst all the files and draw The second way is to use the undelete But un ers are there, on boot-up the system cannot function. This w ill scan the the co find the various partitions. formatted partition and I have tried DiskSalv 2 extensively, but I make a note of every file Salvage Operation Device Scan find that fie names do not correspond to the header H finds. You can actual contents of the file. At present and then choose which files with many thanks to Darren at Casteiner, I you want DiskSalv to try am using the EZ drive as a second hard drive and recover. I would think until such time as I can get my old partitions this last option would be back, or at worst have to re-format it your best bet as you will FILE DISKSALV-EXTRAS/DIR-276FB/GreenMarble.IFF (Key DF60 I- 27E01) Now the burning question: Can you help be able to try and FILE DISKSALV-£XTRAS/DIR-276FB/MovieChar lFF (Key ElDF »« 28083) me get the system to 'find' these partitions? undelete as many files as FILE DISKSALV-EXTRA5/DIR-276FB/PinkMarble IFF (Key E20C !* 2 8 0 A E) Is it possible that using DiskSalv I have man you can from your hard UDIR DI SKSALV-EXTRAS/D IR-276FB /Planets (Key E2AE (» 2814D) any to FILE DI SKSALV-EXTRAS/D IR-2814D/Earth.IFF (Key E2 A F I- 2814E) aged to mess things up good and proper? drive onto your EZ drive. I ha~ FILE DISKSALV-EXTRAS,'DIR-287EE/TmeOetorean IFF (Key E9E8 I- 28889) And finally, yes I will be making regular back Other than this there is FILE SAL V-EXTRAS/D IR-276FB/WWte-8kjebar. I FF (Key EA54 b 288F3) that ap ups in the future, especially as I can fit my not much left you can do. FILE DI SKSALV-EXTRAS/D IR-276FB/Xmas j8afl IFF (Key EA9D b 2893B) play ar 120Mb hard drive onto one EZ-Drive cartage. I suppose the main rea FILE DISKSALV-EXTRAS/DlR-28994/Woodurn.IFF (Key EEB3 !* 28053) prop’. ■ Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMLet this be a lesson to the 'I can't be both son that people don't FILE lV-EXTRAS/DIR-265D2/ChampBubWeerush IFF (Key EEFA »- 28090] type *c< FILE DI SKSALV-EXTRAS/D I R-263D2/Checker8ump. IFF (Key EF4D b 28DEF) ered, I haven't got the time, it won't happen bother properly backing copies FILE DISKSALV-EXTRAS/DIR-26302/ColorBrush IFF (Key F 126 !- 28FCA) up their hard drives is lazi Wha to me, I'll do it tomorrow' brigade. Be both UDIR DISKSALV-EXTRAS/DIR-26302/Computer (Key F 138 b 28FD7) ered, make the time, it will happen to you ness. The first time you FILE DISKSAlV-EXTRAS/DIR-28FD7/MlcroChip24 IFF (Key F139 *- 28FD8) Founta and tomorrow never comes. It is always too back-up your entire hard diskfon drive can take a good ther mi late! DitkSulv dome a good Job ol recovering damaged S Mallion, East Sussex while, even for a small-ish flloa, but It can only do ao much putting Q u e s t io n s q u e s t io n s I am a computer programmer who is rela- 5 What are you talking about when you refer to none-interlaced screens. Traditionally, however, are foi ^ V tively new to the Amiga computer. My the future Amigas new custom chipsets? Have these the Amiga main display has been either PAL or 4 . 1 thii J brother gave me his old £miga when he new chips been developed, or are you referring to NTSC, which are the standard TV displays used in monito 1 bought himself a new one, and I have existing chips that could be incorporated into the Europe, America, Japan and Australia. Because of blue di —• foind a lot of things I like about the Amiga new Amiga? If these chips exist what are they and this, most Amiga software is geared towards is beir compared with the PCs I use every day at my work. what are they used in now? these display modes and there is no real incentive screen My Amiga is an A500 with a 120Mb hard drive and 6 If the future Amigas use a standardised chipset for people to use VGA monitors. PC and 9Mb of Ram. I would like to develop software for the does that mean it could use the graphics cards and 2. DMA refers to the ability of a device or chip to 5. Basi Amiga but find the manuals I have dry, boring and sound cards of the PC? What would that do to the access the computer's memory independently of known difficult to read and understand. Also, they do not colours the Amiga displays now? the processor, and stands for Direct Memory that th really address the question I have about the Amiga. 7. Why does the Amiga have a different method of Access. A device that can perform DMA has the Amiga As I find you do a pretty good job of explaining the writing to floppy disks than PCs? What is the possi advantage of freeing up processor time, bul there W hent Amiga to those who write to you, I am listing the bility that the new Amigas will use the new floppy dri is the possible problem that it can stop the these c questions I have: ves developed by 3M that can pack 120Mb of data on processor from accessing memory. One thing that more p 1. Why don't most Amigas use SVGA monitors with theii 3.5* floppies? made the Amiga special when it originally came Becaus none-interlaced screens? 8. The Workbench looks so plain with all the draw out was that all its custom chips could perform fanatic 2. What is a DMA? ers the same and everything different shades of grey. DMA, and so work independently of the proces must h 3. Why can the Amiga multi-task while a PC can I am used to having lots of colour and many different sor. not rea not? icons on the PC, and I would like to change the 3. The Amiga can multi-task due to its operating Time 4. what s it that allows the Amiga to have such colojr scheme and icons on the Workbench. Is there system. When ever you run a program, the oper have la terrific handling of bitmap colours when compared to anything out there that would help me do that? ating system add this to its list of all programs develo| a PC? I have to work on PCs at work and I find that if Ken Haigh, S t Jacob USA running, and when it asks for processor time, the Anyboc I look at a bitmap image close up, colours like orange 1. Well, for any ACA Amiga or big box operating system will 'share ouf the total proces would I are just a bunch of red and yellow dots, whereas on Amiga with a graphics card, there is sor time between all the programs that request it Basical my Amiga, orange is orange with a nearly infinite no real reason why they cannot use With the advent of Windows 95 the PC cai now worth i number of shades and hues. • an SVGA monitor and high resolution multi-task, even though the system requirements the-she A m i g a C o m p u t i n g B OINTLESS PRINTER time you I have recently purchased a Commodore IP3300 colour printer to new files, ^ J go with my Amiga 600. However, I do not know which printer dri- u have to j ve' to use when using Wordworth v l .2, as there isn't one listed for ou would ■ this model and any I have tried result in the printer going berserk! Could you please help? i to w ait D Burdey, County Durham ulti-tasks I suppose you could be excused from thinking a Commodore Do you have a problem? Do you sometimes find printer would work with an ex-Commodore product but ;ram run- yourself poised over your Amiga with axe in hand, spout :he back- you should never really buy any hardware unless you ing profanity at the stubborn refusal of your software or Jo some- know you have the correct software to use it arge pro- i The worst offenders for this type of thing are print hardware to behave in the correct manner? ers. Unless you know you have a correct printer driver, the ou really Well, calm down and swap the axe for pen nt files. In chances are the printer is not going to work. And if it is not one of the and paper, jot down your problems, along with f on your well known makes, you are asking for trouble. tall Final As for getting the printer to work, I have to say things do not look too a description of your Amiga setup, and send it off to mts from hopeful. Most printers come with Epson compatibility, which may allow Amiga Computing Advice Service, IDG Media, Media you to print out using black and white output and grey scale graphics. But unless you can get a specific printer driver you w ill not be able to use House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield SK10 4NP. Alter the colour side of the printer at all. Sorry. natively you can e-mail us at ACAS(a)acomp.demon.co.uk O FONTS I have an Amiga 600 with an extra 1 Mb of thing else I should have done? I would appreciate a lit it from the computer. This bitmap has to be gen memory, plus an external drive and an tle help and advice. erated by a program such as Wordworth. This ) Epson FX-100 printer. My problem is not C £ Baity, Surrey takes all the fancy fonts and graphics you have being able to use the fonts. I can display I You seem to be getting a little con- laid out and generates the bitmap at the coirect — and use them on-screen, but cannot get > fused with how the computer han- resolution for your printer. The only w ay you can any to print out other than the default type. J r — dies what appears on the screen do what you want is to either use a paint pro I have installed the printer as per the book and AJ \ a°d how this data gets to your print gram or word processor; the Shell will only ever that appears to be satisfactory. Using Shell I can dis er. In the Shell it does not matter in output plain ASCII. play any font I want by typing 'setfont name size what font the text appears, as the only data being The problem you are having with Fountain is prop'. This then displays the named font If I then sent to the printer is the ASCII characters you are caused because it needs a more recent version Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMtype 'copy * to prt:' followed by a message, this only typing. of the diskfont library that is found in your libs copies to the printer in Topaz. Low end printers will generate printouts in two drawer. What am I doing wrong? Also, trying to use ways. One is by using 'built-in' printer fonts. Most If you have Workbench 2.04 or higher you Fountain, I get a message 'unable to open printers have a couple of sets of printer fonts that should have the correct version. It could be that diskfontlibrary'. Clicking OK leaves me with no fur can be used, but the output you get is still basical you do not have any version on the disk you are ther moves tc make. I have a feeling that I should be ly what a typewriter would give you. using, and in this case you should copy the putting a tool type in somewhere. Or is there some The other way is by printing a 'bitmap' passed to original from your Workbench disk. however, w four times what the Amiga uses, troller chip is very slow - it cannot even use nor r PAL or I think you will find any picture displayed on a H K r. B HI • • • mal double-speed HD drives. As a result it is like s used in monitor or TV is made up of tiny red, green and ly that a future Amiga will have a more tradition icause of blue dots. How visible they are depends on what ft. ft rc jfn P3 b R al PC-style 1.4Mb HD drive. towards is being displayed, the display itself and the I n k p; d-R! U U I doubt it would be feasible to use the 3M dri incentive screen resolution. Essentially, the display of the ves, as the only real reason to have a floppy drive PC and Amiga are the same, is to swap data between machines, and as very r chip to S. Basically, all the current Amigas use what is few other computers would have these there Jently of known as a custom chip set This refers to the fact would be little point You could actually argue Memory that the display, sound and other parts of the that a base Amiga would not even need a floppy has the Amiga are handled by chips unique to the Amiga. drive if it had a hard drive and CD-ROM. Thm nmwlcon ayatmm dome m m uch bmttmr Job ot >ut there When the Amiga originally appeared 10 years ago, amlmcting Icon colour* 8. The standard, four-colour icon set is rather rtop the th«se chips were what made the Amiga so much bland to say the least Over the last few years a [ling that more powerful than any thing else at that time. money on developing the system software. number of different icon sets have popped up try Ily came Because of this, certain Amiga owners have a 6. If a new Amiga is developed with an operating ing to make the Workbench a bit brighter, but the perform fanatical belief that any new Amiga absolutely system that has been designed to have retar- main one that has stuck is Magic Workbench. proces- must have a new custom chipset otherwise it is getable graphics and sound, it could take advan These icons are based on eight colours, tend to not really an Amiga, tage of the standard PC graphics and sound cards. have a stony look and are favoured by us perating Time moves on and now huge corporations This would mean the Amiga could have lightning Europeans. he oper- have large teams of engineers with huge budgets fast 1024 x 768 resolution displays in 24bit A more recent alternative has appeared called rograms developing graphics and sound cards for the PC Doesn't sound too bad, does it? 'newicons'. This combines both a new icon set ime, the Anybody now hoping to develop a new chipset 7. The Amiga has a custom disk drive controller design and a new icon system that property I proces- would have tD compete against these companies, that allows quite a lot of control over the drive remaps the icon colours to your current screen quest it Basically, the time and effort required is just not read write heads, and is one reason why the display and allows much more colourful icons to can now worth it It is far more effective to buy cheap, off- Amiga can fit 160k more onto a single DD disk be used. Personally, I find the icons look a little irements the-shelf components and spend your time and than a PC disk. The problem now is that this con childish, but Americans do seem to prefer them. A m ig a C o m p u t in g For those Internet users who haven't yet noticed, Public Sector now has a Web presence in a small comer of my own site -O simply follow the Software link from Amiga Computing's homepage. At the Public Sector page you'll find alphabetical lists by category of every program I’ve reviewed since I took over the column in Issue 79, e- mail addresses or links to the Web pages of various PD Libraries, and quicklinks to Aminet allowing you to download the rele vant archives. I'll endeavour to keep the site as up-to-date as possible, and constructive criticism is welcomed. Fcr readers who are not connected to the Internet just a reminder not to be dismayed when programs are listed as available from Aminet because most PD libraries will prob ably have the programs in stock by the time you read this. If all else fails, don't forget that several libraries offer Aminet download ser vices too - try Your Choice for instance. Dave Cusick once more deliberates, cogitates and indeed digests plentiful helpings of PeeDee pie Q E E ditor MAGIC Programmed by: Lars Malmborg Programmed by: Various MagicCopper and ColorMagic shouk Wh Available from: Aminet Available from: KEW=II Software between them make it possible to have fancy Disk No: U1175 rainbow effects going on in the background CR of these AGA pictures, although I must con fess I couldn't get things to work exactly as Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMThis is a multi-program disk which, unsurpris they should. Whether or not you can trarans- ingly given the title, is designed to make AGA form your Workbench into a technicolclour Workbenches look nicer. It includes the utili whirl, this disk is still worthy of attention | ties MagicCopper and ColorMagic and a only for those pictures... selection of AGA backdrops. The backdrops are all extremely impres sive. They are all in the region of 724x566 pix els, but they use just four colours so they shouldn't chew up too much- memory. With the theme of fantasy and featuring stunning GEdkon so mimplo yot b o w o n d e rfu l artwork, they are definitely worth investigat Let's face it MEmacs is horrible. Yes, as text ing if Magic Workbench backdrops are start editcrs go, it has a few handy features, but ing to look a little tired. they are hidden behind a prehistoric front end. The program lacks pretty standard tea-" tures like scroll bars, and doesn't even wrap lines around - so in fact if a line is too long it is impossible to read the end of it. These fea tures become particularly annoying if you reg ularly write script files or use MEmacs as the T h e A G A M a g ic default text editor for an attractive and mod disk contains ern E-mail program like YAM or Metatool. Bomo superb GEditor will therefore be the answer to pieces of fantasy srtwork and all prayers around the Amiga world. It appears in In only a law a cute little window of its own, allowing it to colours, making be run on the same screen as the aforemen them ideal for tioned E-mail programs. It uses the all-con Workbench back • d ro p s quering Magic User Interface, and in itself it uses very little memory owing to its simplici ty- Using GEditor you can incorporate an exist ing ASCII file into your document cut copy and paste text and save it out again. The resiz able window has a scrollbar and all text ts auto matically word-wrapped. That in a nutshell, is it GEditor does everything that is required of it and nothing more. Truly indispensable. A m ig a C o m p u t in g Q rgue 07 Programmed by: Thorsten Stocksmeier The average Amiga Workbench these days is a Available from: Aminet pretty impressive site. The vast majority of Amiga users now employ their trusty machine in various 'serious* activities and so want everything to be as attractive and user-friendly as possible. This G * t hold ot the accounts ;or the astonishing popularity of Magic User Interface, and the appearance of programs gorgeous Argue and you nood like Argue. Argue's sole vocation in life is to take away the need to use the shell at all, replac never enter ing command lines with nice MUI interfaces tailored to individual CU programs. c o m p le x c o m Easily installed and including several example scripts, Argue is indeed extremely pleasant to m an d llnem use and certainly makes the Workbench a friendlier place. a g a in Alas, however, Argue is not perfect The principle problem is that using a MUI interface tends to be a lot slower than simply entering a command in the shell once you know the command syntax, it’s a lot quicker to enter “lha x foo.lha ram :' than to click on the IhaCUl script and select the source file and destination directory using standard file selectors - especially if your Shell is various choices, a command-dependant GUI enhanced by programs such as KingCON (which adds drag and drop support scrollbars, and becomes somewhat redundant anyway. command- and file-name completion). However, if you don't like ClassAction and Secondly, users of ultra-helpful Workbench enhancers like ClassAction (which recognises file- abhor the Shell then Argue is definitely worth types and presents a list of options accordingly) will encounter difficulties using Argue because a look. It is well implemented, easily config the latter program relies on script files. Besides, since you can configure ClassAction to offer you urable and visually appealing. Q he E x p e r im e n t Programmed by: John Clay a primitive tribe from extinction whilst he's involving. Available from: FI Licenceware about it The Experiment costs £5.99 and comes Disk no: FI-142 In adventure games the user interface is highly recommended for adventure fans. If always a critical ingredient. If the interface is you're not sure whether or not it will be your unwieldy and longwinded then playing the rMagic shouiWhen a few months ago in these very pages I cup of hot steaming stuff, a demo is also game can become something of a chore. >leto havefantjeast an inquisitive eye over GRAC (the available from FI Licenceware or from Fortunately for The Experiment, and perhaps the backgrourfCRaphic Adventure Creator) I confidently pre- Aminet unsurprisingly for a game created with GRAC, Jgh I must coJdicted that within a few months Public Sector the interface here is neat and intuitive, leaving The Experiment shows Just what can be achieved with a little work exactly iwould be submerged beneath a deluge of the player to get on with Imeglnatlon and a copy ot the ORaphlc Adventure Creator : youHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM can tranfgraphic adventures. Frankly, it hasn't hap- enjoying the experience. The a technicoloipened - irdeed, The Experiment is the first graphics are nicely drawn too, 1 of attention (GRAC adventure AC has received since then. and though the sound is However, seeing the quality of this effort it rather sparse things surprises me even more that more people are atmospheric have not tried their hand at creating their own enough to epics. remain The Experiment comes on three disks and Offers a stimulating challenge for anyone Remlnlecent of the who thinks games should involve mental Lucaafllm walk/- ion. You play Bud Lightning, whose pointy adventuree, The Experiment Space base has been attacked by the evil give fane of the Stingons. Bud must piece together the genre plenty to b e events leacing up to the attack, and save thinking about illy S t o r ie s Prsgrammed by: Paul Riggs Available from: PD libraries, or £1 from Paul Riggs This is a curious little offering which I felt was worthy of a mention despite the author ask ing in his letter whether I considered it wor thy of review in the Amiga Format public domain pages... The idea is that the user enters a few Our very own ellly newspaper etory words and the program then slots these sound effects. Sets of words can even be words into one of four preset texts to produce saved to disk for reloading later. However, the the titular Silly Stories. Often the results are program would certainly benefit from a few somewhat non-sensical, but just occasionally extra texts into which those words could be they can be genuinely funny. inserted. At present the long term appeal is SIMy Stories: good inserted at given points in the text. There is an attractive interface too, and all somewhat non-existent because you will fun, for about ton Still, it might cause a few sniggers your actions are accompanied by wacky quickly recognise which words tend to be m in u te s the first time it is run. A m ig a C o m p u t in g I isten To T he B and and then. However even if you don't hav\? P L AY V 1 a fast processor in your machine. GMplay highly recommended because it opens up Programmed by: Alessandro de Turn /our Amigo a world which hitherto required vast into a full acAle Luca/Chnstian Buchner amounts of expensive equipment to 32-note poly Available from: Ammet p h o n ic CM explore fully. tyn th with On the other hand, if you do have a G M p la y MIDI setup involving your Amiga, but you do not have the large amounts of cash EJid 2IV1 i D required to replace a standard MID key board with a GM compatible one, Mid2Mie Programmed by: Simone RicceU' offers a solution. This is a command line Tetris rei Available from Aminet of the machine, whereas Amigas have always program which strips out GM instrument it no lor required an external MIDI interface costing changes and replaces them with ones some around twenty pounds. But if you don't hap appropriate to your MIDI synth, saving you MegaDn Cast your mind back, if you will, to the late pen to have an ST sitting collecting dust in a the time and effort which would be Bean M 1980s The full force of the economic corner somewhere, or a MIDI keyboard and involved in doing this manually. Mid2Mic hour pic recess on was still to be felt House music interface, until now the vast collections of GM needs to be configured to your keyboard it neve was rampant in the Charts, the Six O CIock files available from music companies and on using a simple program included in the Machine News still used that tacky filing cabinet the Internet would have been rather an irrel archive, but once this is achieved, large the cor effect on the opening credits, and the Atari evance. numbers of files can be converted quickly against ST was the most popular home computer GMplay enables any 68020* Amiga to and easily. Outfc in England. Every recording studio in the emulate a GM keyboard. The 1.4Mb archive Mid2Mid does have some limitations Apart fn land owned one too, running Notator and includes a large number of sound samples however. Firstly, it only converts MIDI for a carbo using MIDI keyboards to produce all sorts which the computer plays back using a spe mat 1 files. Whilst these are probably the divided of tuneful pieces. cial 14-bit sound driver. On faster Amigas. commonest files around there are also for MIDI of course marched on, and we saw such as those fitted with an 040 or greater, mat 0 files out there, and unfortunately the introduction of General MIDI. A GM the sound quality is roughly comparable with you won’t be able to use Mid2Mid to synth could be hooked up to a computer that obtainable from a CD player (sample quickly configure them for your keyboard and any GM file played through the quality permitting, of course). However, even Secondly at the moment there's no nice sequencer software could be heard with on a standard 020 machine, playing back GUI, although one is promised for the the instruments all playing as intended, MIDI files at around 10khz, the output quality future and the command syntax is scarcely without preconfiguration. is respectable enough. complicated. In the end then, Mid2Mid As things turned out. the Amiga never GMplay does place a fair old strain on your offers a simple but practical solution to S Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMreally took off as a MIDI computer. The processor of course, so 020 owners can't real common problem, and as such will appeal An intere Atari ST designers had rather cunningly ly be doing anything much in the meanwhile to many MIDI users- few dull placed MIDI In and Out sockets on the side without causing the sound to stop every now describee mouse ai tive is si before tl v e r y d a y O r g a n is e r level. Yo hand wr* Programmed by: Mathew Wilson the facility to dial someone's telephone num Also included on the disk are a few extt gamepla’ Available from : KEW—II Software ber at the press of a button, and support for utility programs. The first of these is the con demandi Disk No: A ll 19 external "notes" files under entries. ASCII pletely useless but highly comical Talk, i weak me files can be imported and addresses can be replacement for the pathetic Say program thl Althoi printed out used to come with Workbench, which garble sound ar Everydav Organiser is (says the W u *) a col Alarmist is, unsurprisingly, an a arm pro in an equally incomprehensible manner, will weai lection of four programs which are designed gram, featuring multiple alarms. It is really is also a MUI Time Preferences program t ly, this is to help manage day to day activities. They are, designed to be used alongside On-Time, replace the standard version, a file encrypts ing in 1f to be specific, Locate, Alarmist On-Time and although it can be used separately On-Time called Coder, and a datatype-based sounj played o Tasker. All the programs use Magic User Locator, the displays a calendar on screen and for any player called Sam. erwise tl Interface, making them highly configurable accompllthed MUI given date, appointments can be entered into Whilst the extra utilities vary drastically r than frer addreee book pro and visually pleasing. a small list Drag and drop support and a well usefulness, the organisational programs are) gram from the for £1.10 Locate is an address and telephone book E v e r y d a y thought-out layout make On-Time a pleasure well done and the net result is a useful d$ program. It boasts configurable field names, Organlear eat to use. which will appeal to anyone who needs a ft Finally, Tasker is designed to help keep tie help keeping track of their business s track of all those annoying jobs that need social lives. doing. Each task is assigned a priorty, one of On-Time replace a a conventional diary end five levels ranging from Lowest to Highest A helpe you organlee your life more list of tasks to be completed is then displayed with the tasks organised into priority order. There's also a Chart option which attempts to summarise the information in an easily digestible visual format, although as the author points out this is still in the experi mental stage at the moment The author 'tf 0 * g eventually hopes to integrate Tasker's func tions into On-Time, but for now it works as an interesting little stand-alone reminder pro gram. A m i g a C o m p u t i n g 38 OCTOBER 1996 beans fall downwards, with one flashing bean around which the other bean can be rotated. Your jcb is to collect together groups of four beans of the U > r\?m same colour, whereupon the group will vanish Whenever a group vanishes, a black bean falls down B irric u irj of the month the opponent’s well. The more groups of four van RLDiim ish as part of the same move (for instance when beans fall from above to form groups after a lower group has vanished), the more black beans arc SCORtS Programmed by: David Papworth deposited at once onto the opponent's pile. Black i m fin in g Available from: FI Licenceware beans do not disappear Disk No: FI-141 whert four or more are together, only when D r Robotnik's kdoan... u m , I they are adjacent to a meant to aay Outfall Tetris remains a classic, but in the falling blobs genre vanishing group of four it no longer rains supreme, at least in my eyes. For colours. One player wins levels, configurable bean speed and some time that mantle has been held by a when the opponent's Starting heights, and a wealth of other MegaDrive cartridge called Doctor Robotnik's Mean well fills up completely. options. The graphics are superbly slick Bean Machine, which I confess I've spent many an If all this sounds con and faithful to the original, with the hour playing in my time. Tetris has one flaw, in that fusing (and no doubt it beans looking at one another and it never had a multiplayer mode. Mean Bean does), then rest assured outtm in th o r* a r * atm w a y wobbling entertainingly as they land. Machine, on the other hand, pits you either against that it all makes for one of the *° in Andy The music is passable too, and every . . Uaddock'a company the computer directly or, far more entertainingly, rrost engaging strategy puzzle now and then the tempo increases as i against a friend. games around. It is a truly magnificent game to p la y T levels reach their climax. Outfal brings Mean Bean Machine to the Amiga. with friends. On top of the hugely enjoyable twc Outfall is a Licenceware classic, there's no doubt Apart frcm a couple of presentational differences, it's player mode there is a tournament option whereby about it For £3.99 it would be a foolish individual a carbor copy of that superb cartridge. The screen is up to eight people can participate. There are also who did not add this to their games collection. In a divided into two Tetris-like wells. Pairs of coloured demonstration and practice modes, three difficulty word... essential. PLAT L ast Programmed by: Matthew Cutts T rain To Available from: Matthew Cutts C larksville Matthew Cutts Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMAn interesting little game which could fill in a few dull noments here and there, Splat is 3 Greenwood described sy its author as involving “flies, the Killingworth mouse and a lot of finger abuse'. The objec Newcastle Upon Tyne tive is simply to annihilate flies NE12 0FE before they deplete your energy level You control an on-screen hand with your mouse and the FI Licenceware re a few e?xtra gameplay, whilst mentally scarcely 31 Wellington Road - * S sse is the coonv demanding, is not for those with a >mical Talk, « weak mouse. Devon EX2 9DU y program that Althoufji the graphics and Tel: 01392 493580 which garbles sound are scarcely stunning, and it manner. There will wear a little thin rather rapid E-mail: [email protected] ss program to ly, this is a diverting enough offer i file encryptoe ing in the short term. It is best KEW=II Software -based sount played on an A1200 because oth PO Box erwise things can be a little less t drastically in South Croydon mm* than frenetic. Copies are available n s n ograms are all for £1.10 from the author. Surrey CR2 9YS ; a useful di Tel: 0181 657 16177 J2 to needs a m r business Paul Riggs LITTLE BIT YOU 17 Cameron Avenue Abingdon II want to hear from you if you have any program, whatever its purpose, which you con- Isider worthy of review: Whether it w ill be freely distributable public domain, shareware Oxfordshire or licenceware, if you feel it's of sufficient quality to merit coverage then stick it in a 0X14 3SR jiffy bag or padded envelope and send it in with all haste. Although Public Sector j i j receives too many submissions to cover them all, I promise t il at least look at your Your Choice PD work - even if it's yet another Lottery program or Klondike cardset. It does make my 39 Lambton Road job a lot easier though if disks are clearly labelled. Please also include a cover letter detailing the disk contents and price, and giving some basic instructions. The magic I f a £ Chorlton m address is: | | | H B f i l l Manchester M21 OZJ Dave Cusick: PD submissions, Amiga Computing, Media House. Tel: 0161 881 8994 Adlington Park, Macclesfield, SK10 4NP A m ig a C o m p u t in g The next generation of Apollo accelerators are upon us, either B i Neil Mohr powers either in Once board at up his old A1200 only dra the pov with them with the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM50Mhz. desig n,; irct Power released their Falcon board tc £ 040/060 accelerator, then gant as Blizzard in their uncompromising works at style brought out an 060-only There board and now Apollo have caught up with that use the rest of the field and released their own extent top-end accelerator. Unfortui Apollo have taken the same route as the want to Falcon board and gone for a single board be thosi design, taking advantage of the fact that both This i the 040 and 060 have the same pin layout where r The only difference is the 060 only draws 3.3 to four • volts. . when it fitting the 040 version of the board is as tracing • straightforward as any other A1200 board. If scender you read the Falcon review you would know that to fit it you had to open up your A1200 to fit a fan. The high power demands of the 040 processor means it requires extra cooling D h ry either by using a large heat sync or a fan. In use the 040 works fine - the one prob 040 library and a new 060 library. The Apollo 040 version's solution is to use lem I did run into was due to lack of power. With the Blizzard board you get quiet a both a small heat sync and a tiny electric fan, On my A1200 I have an internal 3.5in IDE Installer script that make installing these files all glued to the processor and so the unit just drive powered off the internal disk drive's a breeze. The disk that comes with the Apollo slots into your A1200 the same as any other power supply. This along with the 40Mhz 040 does have a AmigaDOS script installer thal board. The fan used is very small - a couple of was just too much for the standard A 1200 works but is nowhere near as easy to use as centimetres across - but in use the 040 stays power supply. When I switched to a 2.5in the normal Amiga installer. quiet cool and the fan in conjunction with the internal hard drive everything work fine, but if Along with the new library files )0 u get i heat sync does a good job. you are considering this board this is some couple of support files. The main program cf Once slotted in, away you go. The only thing you should keep in mind. importance is CPU60 - a supplement for the extra thing you may need is the 68040 library. fitting the 060 version is a little more original CPU command and gives you contra This should come with Workbench as stan involved as before you can start you need to over the 060's new system features sjch as its dard but this may not always be the case. The install some replacement libraries. Just as the branch prediction cache, super scalar architec library has replacement routines, mainly to do 040 needs the new 68040.library the 060 ture and store buffers as well as the usua with the 040 math co-processor being slightly needs a new library to take care of the differ control over the 060’s standard data and different from the traditional 030's. ences. The new files consist of a replacement instruction cache. Two short cut instructions*] A m ig a C o m p u t in g UST HOW FAST? AIBB benchmarks relative to an A4000 Board 040 060 EmuTest 1.76 3.13 Dhrystone 1.59 3.0 Matrix 1.98 3.68 IMath 1.6 3.6 MemTest 4.6 4.75 InstTest 2.35 4.38 Flops 1.61 2.84 FTrace 1.65 N/A there is a large plug-in chip opposite the Simm socket This means if your Simm is much wider than about 22mm you are going to have trouble slotting the Simm intc place. Really this should not be a problem as long as the Simm is relatively new as these tend to be very streamline. The other thing you should consider is that the speed of the memory is getting quiet important with these extra fast processors. Even though 70ns and even 80ns Simms will work fine you will be best off with 60ns Simms. Just as with the Flacon and the Blizzard, the Apollo board can have a SCSI module added either B or W, let you quickly set the 060 to be reduced to about the speed of a standard to the underside. This has a set of phs that either in its worst possible setup or its best. A1200. push into an expansion slot and the cable and Once the software is in place you can fit the Blizzard offered the best solution by releas SCSI interface are fitted to the expansion hole board and fire up your computer. As the 060 ing a patcher program that could fix this prob at the back of the A1200. only draws 3.3 volts you do not have any of lem for a few of the more well known pro Currently if you buy either the 1240 or 1260 the power or heating problems associated grams such as Lightwave, Real 3D, Imagine, from Siren, you have the opportunity to pick with the 040 even though it is running at Gnema 4D and Mand2QQQ, Even this is not up a 16Mb Simm for the bargain price of £100 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM50Mhz. Due to both boards having the same perfect and the only solution is to either re even if you do not need quite this much mem design, a power converter is plugged into the compile the programs for specific 060 code, ory on the Amiga side. With such a fast accel board to reduce the voltage. It is not as ele that would also be a lot faster as this could erator and 16Mb of memory it would be well gant as the Blizzard 060 board but in use it take advantage of the 060 super scalar archi worth installing Shape shifter as you would works as well. tecture, or replace all the operations that the have one heck of a Mac into the bargain. /TW There is still the problem with programs processor does not like, which is not very that use a lot of floating point and to a greater practical. extent transcendental maths operations. The Apollo board comes equipped with a Unfortunately the sort of people who would single Simm slot that can take a single-sided Bottom want to buy the 060 accelerator are going to Simm up to 32Mb in size. Similarly to the be those who would lose out the most. Blizzard boards you can also use 72-pin PC line This is tfiown very well when using A1BB Simms that are either 36 or 32-bit, depending R equirements where normally the 060 returns speeds three on whether they have the extra parity bits or RED essential BLACK recommended to four times as fast as a normal A4000. But not Jarg o n when it comes the FTrace test that mfthics ray- -The only real problem memory wise that tracing operations and FTrans that tests tran you could run into is if you are going to be BOX scendental functions the speed of the 060 is using your own Simm chips. On the board Cadre A smoS onouni d on processor memory that is accessed far faSer than the computers moral memory. Coche greatly increases a processors performance P roduct details ns Nano second, used fo .*t quiet a nice measure the speed of dips. Product Product: Apollo 1240/1260 Portrcdaify memory chips ng these file? Supplier Siren software Current 60ns memory n good ith the Apollo enough even for the fastest Price 1260 50Mhz £574.99 installer that PeoBums even though 40 and 1240 40Mhz £449.99 asy to u s e . 20ns memory a o-cifaWe but s much more eipersae. 1240 25Mhz £299.99 Simm Single M n e Memory SCSI module C79.99 les you get Module, a k m at memory 16Mb SIMM £100 n program podogng. Due tc its vwfo use Tel 0161 796 5279 iment for the n PCs and that bey are quite is you control handy, Snms hjie become the mqor standard for memory res such as its Super Scalar M ers to the Ease of use 90% :alar architee design af A m ig a C o m p u t in g # ^ rt is many things to many differ- W * m ent people. To some a post- modernist sculpture is a concep tualises masterpiece, symbolic of a world at conflict. To others it's a bunch of rusty tin cans. So who is right? Does modern art bare comparison with the work of old masters like Rembrandt, Titian and Turner? Are the years. Andrew Powell is an animator and uses] likes of Damien Hirst redressing the way that Okay, but both methods do have advan the Amiga in his work. He shares this vie we perceive art itself? tages and disadvantages, and as those who "Paper and pencil may not have an 'undo'] As the art elite grow to tolerate more practise computer art will tell you, one of the button, but they're quicker to get vour idea bizane pieces of work, they also begin to main advantages of working on the comput down. However, computers allow artists to accept the different means being used to er is its flexibility. get basically instant results and easy effects] create these masterpieces. As new technolo Kise comments, "The greatest advantage as opposed to the large amoun: of ski gy emerges, it is embraced by forward think of art on the computer as I see it is the abil required for fine arts. After I have a bunch ol ing artists as a medium in which they can ity to experiment without the fear ol destroy line drawings loaded into memory, I can | express themselves. This is particularly true ing your art. Take a realistic scene and make the cell painting job as simple as 'dick- of compjter art, and with its growing popu change the colours, distort shapes, apply tex and-next-frame'. And with still art, high-lights] larity in the art world, the boundaries that tures etc. If it doesn't look good tc you, hit and low-lights can be flawlessly added using were once so wide between computer art ‘undo* and you're back to the start. One orig a gradient fill.” and more traditional art are narrowing. inal artwork saved in the computer translates Patrickson again: "I don't believe the dif-| Tony Patrickson is an artist He trained in to many new styles and 'new* artworks". ferences between computer-based and tradi- Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMdrawing and sculpture but became intrigued by computer art He comments, "In many cases where there has been opposition or hostility to computer-based work from more traditional Q ony P a t r ic k s o n concerns, it seems to have been based on a heady mixture of prejudice and lack of "The sort of work I do depends to a large knowledge. The most dismissive and out-of- extent on the venue or situation in which touch voices seem to be those of certain art it is going to be exhibited. These have critics and the usual suspects who like to ranged from raves, art galleries and live decide for other people about these things". events, to CD-ROM and at present a cou He continued, “In contrast there seems a ple of Internet-based projects." genuine curiosity in both artists and audi Amiga hardware and softwaie used: ences about what is going on and what it is "The Amiga side of my studio is based possible to achieve through thes^means. It around an A4000, boosted with a has to be said that most of the negative Cyberstorm '060 accelerator and 14Mb arguments trotted out were those already RAM. In terms of day-to-day work, for rehearsed over the use of video or photogra video grabs I use a Vidi-Amiga 24, either phy". from tape or live input from a camera. Rick Kise also uses the computer for his Lightwave 3.5 would probably be my batch-processing being handled oy FRED. artwork. 'I can't say there is 'versus' between most widely used item of software. Nowadays I tend to rely primarily upon traditional art and computer art Fine artists "A lot of preparatory work is done with the Amiga side for producing the raw define themselves as 'oil', 'watercolour', 'pas a mixture of ADPro and ImagcFX, any materials for a project. To take things fur tel' and 'graphic’ artists, and now there is a ther, particularly for more sophisticated new classification, 'electronic' artist It just multimedia work, means porting material happens to be another medium to work across to the Mac to be able to use the with. As to the style of a rt ie abstract or real likes of Photoshop, Premie-e, and istic, you most definitely have a versus situa Director. tion, one that can never be reconciled." "Having Lightwave on the Amiga is fine To Patrickson, the biggest disadvantage - it's a wonderful tool - but beyoid a cer shared by computer art and traditional, is tain point the software and compatibility when a cistinction is set up between them. just isn't there for dealing with projects for He remarks, "To my mind, using computers the likes of the World Wide Web and so to make art is simply the continuation of on.” something which human beings have felt compelled to do for at least the last 30,000 A m ig a C o m p u t in g r Tina Hackett investigates the growing popularity of computer art and asks what does it have to offer today's DaVincis? tional means of making art are anything well as this, it is practical to create things appeal to a new generation of talented compared :o the similarities. The big distinc which either don't, or couldn't exist in the artists. tions occur in terms of the nature and real world* Ultimately, the key to the computer artist's extents of techniques involved. In many Doran Golan also sees the advantage of success will be based on long-established cases >t is jjst as valid (or sometimes better) computer art: "After many years of showing principles. Like the best artists, the electron to address a particular question with a video work as an expressionist painter, I began ic painter will focus on the art itself for, as camera or a piece of chalk as it is with a using the computer in my art in 1984. To John Ruskin, the English art and social critic, computer. A/here I think computers are dif work on the computer was a natural step in said, 'Fine art is that in which the hand, the ferent is in their 'synthetic' nature - being the progression of my work, because with head and the heart of man go together". based on Turing’s idea of the 'Universal' com the computer I could explore a realm of 'Pure puting machine. With the technology I have Abstractior'. To me, the work I create on the in my studio I can not just work with photo computer is literally abstract, because it graphic images, but with sound, clips of 'does not exist' as an object in the conven video, animations and words, either individ tional sense as I am working on it ually or in combination with each other. As “In a time of rapid changes in the world, Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe computer seems more suited to express the flow of thought and emotion than the more static medium of painting. As an ana Q ick K ise logue of the human mind, the computer facilitates change and flow, and reflects the 'My style of art is, I would have to say, speeded up tempo of the contemporary eclectic From landscapes to non-objec social enviionment" tive abstract. In 1989 I bought a used Howeve', even in the computer art sector, Amiga 1000 for the purpose of scanning there are divisions in audience. Patrickson photos cf my original paintings and draw defines them as an arts audience and a com ings so I could print my own art prints. In puter user audience: “An arts audience is 1990-91 I was the only one exhibiting more likely to focus on what the work is computer art prints in the Oklahoma City about regardless of how little the work has area art shows." pushed the technology out of the ordinary. Amiga hardware and software used: Conversely, a computer user audience can "I sold my A 1000 in '93 after I bought my too readily succumb to the 'Gee-Whizz' factor A3000. As an ex-Commodore stock hold - that it doesn't matter how dire the work is er I'm sad to say that since December '93 as long as the special effects are okay." all my commercial work has been done This, it seems, is the pitfall the electronic on a PC The A3000 gets used periodical artist must be wary of - computer art can be ly, transferring my Amiga paintings to the treated like a gimmick, a special effects nov PC, whtfe I convert them to 24 bit and elty that becomes outdated as the technol repaint them in Adobe Photoshop." ogy becomes pass£. When we first saw William Latham's organic artwork in the early 90s, for example, most people were impressed. Now some believe his work was a gimmick that has lost its charm. Computer-generated art has yet to pass the test of time. There is no doubt, however, that the computer will be increasingly adopted by the serious art establish ment. Hi-tech special effects for their own sake will be shunned, but the advantages raised by the elec tronic process are bound to A m ig a C o m p u t in g Q ndrew P owell Q o o ls of the t r a d e “My biggest current project is a fully animated feature called For a budding artist there are many options and end points of your sequence. 'Magic'. This film will be a comedy medieval fantafy with available for the Amiga which will help you Brilliance 2 is also worth overtones of some of my favourite authors, like Terry achieve your desired effect These vary difficult to get hold of these days, but Pratchett, JRR Tolkien, and Monty Python. The story is mostly from the basic paint packages to rendering faster than DPaint and has a proper seriots, but also has scenes where we just HAD to have a lit and animation. There are plenty available version with fast HAM-8 display. tle fun. of good quality, but your choice will Almathera's Photogenics is also a 'Co-author of the script, and personal friend of mire, Bob depend on what you want to do with it. regarded product which provides Milne came up with a scene where the main charaders TVPaint has always proved very popular as painting package and image encointer a troop of Vikings on a portage. a professional option, and with a Wacom Version two, complete with an What I'd REALLY like to do is get Terry Pratchett’s permis graphics tablet you have an excellent art and new features, was released only sion to work on a cartoon version of his Disc World novels. environment in which to produce your month. Almathera decided to put this That would really sell!" masterpieces. ond version on CD, making Amiga hardware and software used: "I use Disney Although expensive in price, the latest quick and also allowing more room Animation Studio for Pencil Test animation, Deluxe Paint 5, version, 3.0, proves a desirable option for example files and a tutorial. To paint Brilliance 2.0, Photogenics 1.25 NTSC for clean-up and the serious computer user because of the Photogenics, you work on an invisible colourisation, and MainAdor Pro for final produdion and many features it offers. These include the sort of like a protective film over your editing. Big Edit option, which is invaluable to com inal image. This means you can draw "I know Disney Animation Studio is getting more than a lit mercial artists as it takes away the problem to your hearts content, and if tle obsolete these days, but it is totally geared for animators of resolution demanding huge amounts of happy with it, you can wipe it who recognise the tools it offers. I use it to get the line ani memory. This works by defining the size of aging the original image. Version two mation done, and then I can move my work to a more the project then selecting a scaled area to provides plug-ins called Effects advanced program. work on. Another aspect which impressed allow you to apply an effect in three "DPaint and Brilliance have always been the most popular was the layers function, which lets you ent ways rather than just being able to packages, but Photogenics is a total MUST-HAVE for serious view multiple 24-bit images on the same it to the paint layer. It also has a artists For Hardware I use a Tabby Graphics Tablet and the screen whilst still being able to edit them image function which allows you to cut trusty GVP G-Lock genlock. Both are great because of their independently. You can view layers A, B, or an area of the larger picture and paint affordability." C work on them and view them together. separately. TV Paint does require a graphics card to Image FX has been mentioned in work, though. article previously - for many artists, One of the older but still superior with ADPro, it is the essential options is Deluxe Paint It is now up to ver processor for the Amiga. Image FX it sion five and has still kept up with the best being developed for the Amiga and of them. Deluxe Paint offers the user the recently received a major new ability to create pictures and animate. On Version 2.6 has many new feature* indut Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe pictures side it offers realism in that the ing a fire generator, bubble effects and media you wish to paint on can be chosen film grain facility. from various oil canvasses to wire mesh. If you're feeling inspired after all thi The brush types, however, are limited to simply turn to this month's coverd sk for watercolour, felt tip, oil and cialk. For demo of a new 24-bit art package Deluxe Paint 5, the airbrush feature was called Art completely overhauled and the animation Effect option improved to allow you to enter your key animation frame at both the beginning Q he C rea tio n The Amiga is an excellent creative platform and-many 'I mainly use paper and pencil to get most of the char famous artists have benefited from the machine. acter animation done in rough. Let's face it sketching Arguably the most famous was Andy Warhol, who with a pencil and paper is a LOT quicker that trying to once commented, T h e thing I like most about doing do the same thing with a mouse or a graphics tablet this kind of art on the Amiga is that it looks like my When the drawings are done, I can scan them using a work". Others include Dave Gibbons, the man behind flat-bed scanner, and use the computer for the final the Watchmen comics, and the Aardman Animations line and adding colour. team. Andrew Powell offers his views on why he "Doing animation the traditional way requires thinks the Amiga has a winning formula: reams of paper, coloured pencils and acetate sheets, "The bottom line would be the price of equipment not to mention a peg-bar, hi-8 camera, lights, film.. I and ease of use. I would need to use a Pentium 130 could go on... Really! with an Mpeg board and 100 Mb of RAM to get the "The Amiga takes the place of some of the really same results I get with my A4000/040 with 18 Mb expensive stuff and lets me get on with my w o * with RAM. The fact that the Amiga is so geared for video out totally blowing my budget Plus, it speeds up the makes it the most cost effective choice amongst all the process SO much that I can do the jobs that would nor machines out there. It's also a whole production stu mally require three or four other maniacs working dio in-a-box, where I can get 06 Frames Per Second alongside me. (NTSC video) in two to 256 colours on-screen, in High- "And lets face it using the Amiga to do artwark is Resoktion." actually fun and enjoyable. It's a medium that Can you give us an idea of how the Amiga helps allows an artist to make sharing their work as easy your work? as copying a file or dicking a link." A m ig a C o m p u t in g % v'> AMITCP v4.4 DIALUP ■ T / N E W / / FULL TCP CLIENTJ fence. 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Max lacks the power of BBS software you pa/ for on the market nowadays, kind of like using Deluxe Paint 2 with Brilliance 2 and its power, extras and more polished look, should you take to pixel art. But what better way to try the waters of comms than via a free Public Domain, easy- to-use, all-in-one package. I'm going to show you what's possible with this program and the trices up its sleeve that give a polish, mak ing all the difference as to whether new users call back. After a few months, if you like what being a Sysop is all about, you might consider upgrading by buying one of the newer BBS Want to be a Sysop? systems available like Zeus and Xenolink. Or you may stick with Max’s. A Sysop can make his BBS a permanent agenda on his HD, Then let us begin. going 24 hours, but finds Max's still offers all he requires. Jason Jordache M a x c o n f u s i o n Though one of the most easy-to-use BBS sys takes you through tems, some parts of Max's and how they link together can confuse;; the general under standing of how it works taking time to sink in. You might well end up reading the manu Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMal through by the end of it, but dipping in at random is probably how you'll begin. Before getting stuck into the secrets and LL ABOUT ways of improvement behind Max's, we'll T h e BBS directory make sure we're together. We'll assume you on your herd drive have a modem, a hard drive, and have expe won't be the MAX s a m e , but similar rienced the comms scene long enough to be Long ago, everyone W3S hooked into a past the teething troubles of downloading mail network called MaxNet, built around files and logging on to BBSs. containing everything you need. a gathering of Max's BBS Sysops spanning Max's BBS version 1.54 is available to The 1.52 archive of Max’s should come all the way - via a link - to Australia. The download on plenty of BBSs. The 1.54 archive equipped with a startup-sequence and all the people loved Max and were demanding is largely to be found containing just the mas drawers necessary for booting from floppy. updates, They didn't even mind paying for ter program and none of the manuals and There have been Max's boards run from flop the pleasure. Apparently some guy down assorted bits necessary to go into your BBS py, complete with limited mail network abili under had taken over updating Max's directory. If this is the case, use- the search ty and a few files in the external drive. A hard from the original programmer, Anthony files option on a BBS to track down version drive makes sense with a BBS, and not just to Barrett, but the rumour goes that his hard 152 - usually the archive you'll find avoid people feeling sorry for you. With the drive crashed and all the work for Max's was lost The project was never restarted, if indeed it began. As far as I know, Max's will stay in its current form, the 1994 ver Thousands of HD files, extensive mail network support, with thousands spent on graphic designers compared to sion 1.54. I came in at 1.52 where we multiple on-line CD-ROMs, a 24 hour BBS and prefer the original text scribbled on bits of paper. The image, stayed for a while before 1.53 came ably an extra node is what a user wants from his local how the information looks in its presentation, decides along. This was quickly backed up with board when he's after the works to pick and choose the first and continuing impression. If you don’t feel the release of 1.54, which had a back from. Boards offering much less are still used, usually artistic you need to track down ANSI. To hep with this door removed that had been originally when it's the only local one or when he gets along with there will be fresh ANSI screens - to add to and replace coded in and known only by Anthony. But the Sysop. the old - that I created for my own BBS for you to build it's gone now. No system is completely This, above all, helps in creating a professional BBS, upon. safe of course - a hacker finds his way along with upgrading by buying better software more One night I wondered what could be done to make a into the most well protected area, back capaNe of handling the system of mail nets and so on BBS different Mine evolved into a novelty approach door or no back door, but there's no great you may wish to offer the user. In the end, anyone can based around a medieval castle, Knights and wenches, cause for worry as far as hackers are con save up and buy and work on setting up these things, but which most appeared to take to instantly. That explains cerned. You never hear reports of hacked whet about a BBS that stands out? It's all in the ANSI. the nature of the ANSI you'll find on future coverdisks Max's boards, and Sysops sleep sound at Folished, well designed ANSI will set your BBS out and lets you in on the secret of one potential path to night with their BBS left on. It's only when from the rest - like reading a well presented fact sheet success using the themed approach. someone hates you... A m ig a C o m p u t in g f i I / Moving from how It always begins to a moro professional Image HD, what amounts to a respectable mail and Max. Save the User-startup, reboot your Assign BBS: < p i t l n n t to BBS directory, ie file storage area is offered to users, and the Amiga, and with everything in place run Max's Vork:B8S> Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMlonger redraw times of ANSI screens and add BBS. Have a play around and try to get a feel FF, which should be in C, is a 3K file standing on programs loading from floppy become of the way things work before we meet again for Fast Fonts and works in conjunction with T minimal. next month. Alternatively, call the PD library 17 Bit Software on 01924 366982 to get the latest version of Max's, making sure it comes with AX TIP into a N SI all the files you will need. iround If the 1.52 archive has files all over the Depending on memory, you can have any inning I EDITORS place, bung them all into one main directo number of Max's nodes running. Simply run ia. The ry called BBS on your HD so you know HyperANSI - we all have our favourite ANSI the program a second time to launch node inding everything is in there. Any files (like FF) in editor claimed to beat the rest and mine is 2. You can do this while someone is online, ingfor Max's C, Devs, L, Fonts and Libs not present HyperANSI vl.07. Track this down because selecting Sleep at the requestor so as not to down on the HD partition you boot from, can be I'll be using it to outline ideas behind throw them off. Useful for accessing things Max's copied intc the relevant draw ers.on the preparing ANSI. PlusED 2.0 is another ANSI such as the files editor which otherwise you ithony boot partition. editor we'll use. The interface is more pol- couldn't get at. shard Copy the main “MAXsBBS" program from ished-looking than Hyper, but for me I've Max's the 1.54 archive into the BBS dir, thus over found Hyper to be the best for most jobs. the top of the old Max’s program. However, So that's five archives mentioned this ed, if the update needs to be converted to use month: Max's v l .52, Max's v l .54, ConAll.Izx, Max's AMING the old 1.52 files. There's an archive you HyperANSI vl.0 7 and PlusEd 2.0. 4 ver- should find in the Max's support file area on e we BBSs, often named ConAll.Izx. Containing, NAMES came among others, MAXsCon52-54, it converts with between data files from established Max's AXsBBS. User-startup: - this is an ordinary text file back versions, so even if you've adjusted an old residing in the S directory, containing a list inally of commands on successive lines that the Max's config, it can be revamped to be com CONFIG f. But patible with 1.54. Amiga executes when booted. If the file isn't krtely Simply run MAXsCon52-54, move to your This is found in the root of your BBS direc present, one can be created with any v/ord way BBS directory and select MAXsBBS.Config tory - the gold mine from where to build processor by saving out a text file called back before clicking the Convert button. It then your identity. This should be backed up as 'User-startup''. great goes through all the data files, changing you continue to make changes to the basic con- only their headers. Therefore any config Max's structure. Lose this file and you start Pathname: - a pathname points to or tells cked changes yoj've saved using an older ver from scratch, but starting again has its merits. the computer where a given file or directory id at sion of Maxs will still be there unaltered. Should you ever buff up and lose everything, is on a hard drive. If your BBS drawer was in rtien Load your User-startup from S into a text the second time round you will understand a a HD partition called System, the pathname editor. A roiinlp of lines nped to bp addpd: great deal more rebuilding the eonfigs. would read, 'SystemiBBS'’. A m ig a C o m p u t in g H O W T O O RD ER LOW COST DELIVERY Telephone Q | | 3 2 3 I 9 4 4 4 Late Night Opening O rdrr by telephone quoting your 2 4 H R M A IL O R D E R S E R V I C E F A X : 0 1 13 231-919 Credit C ard Number. 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A few months ago, Aminet 10 featured a full version of Pagestream, and Aminet 12 is no different because once again, it offers you a full veision of a commercial product This Andy M addock brings you the latest time all Amiga music fans are in for a rare treat as OctaMed V5 is included. In my opinion, version 5 was the release I and greatest from the world of CD always felt comfortable with. I found it diffi cult to adapt to version 6, regardless of how many etta features it boasted, so I always he Utilities E xperience returned to my good old version, and still do. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMSo what more can I possibly say? With all Basic, ImageFX, Storm C and Xi-Paint, and all the lates: releases in the entire world and a these packages are surrounded by various pro full commercial, professional music program, grams which you would expect to be on a util buy one today! ities CD. There’s really too much to say in this short piece, although I will say that most of the software is ready to run, whch most Amiga users appreciate because there's no de archiving process involved. As far as Utility CDs go, this is pretty much standard in content only it comes wth plenty of commercial demos so the public :an get a taste of the whole program. The bigger Amiga users probably wouldn't purchase this A guitar with a nice because they would prefer to gain individual lightning affect. Around two months ago we reviewed AGA programs, but any other user whose Amiga is Ooh, it's the beat Experience 2 and gave it a nice heahhy score. in need of a rapid update in the way of data This month, Sadeness PD and Blittersoft have types, disk tools and icons will need this CD. joined forces to bring you the Utilities Bottom Experience. Which is nice. Bottom If you've ever needed things such as fine graphic tools, icons, commercial denos, shell line tools as well as programmer's tools, and P roduct details source code, then a CD is almost certainly your P roduct details best option. Unless, of course, you want to pay Product: Am inet 12 a PD library an awful lot of money to send you Product: The Utilities Experience the products individually. Supplier: GTI Supplier: Blittersoft The highlight of the CD has got to be the Price: £14.95 Price: £14.99 amount of commercial demos. There are +49 6171 85937 Phone; demos of packages such as Cinema 4D, Blitz Phone: 01900 261466 COR ES m % s COR Ease of use Ease of use 84% Implementation •7% On tha Militia* Implementation 81% Experience, la a Value For Money 8 8 % demo ot tha Value For Money 8 6 % O verall 89% excellent Digital O verall 85% U n lva ra a . A m i g a C o m p u t i n g I □ MC INDEX Bottom alone have them in your collection. Oh, line EWS that's another point Just in case you're confused, you don't actually get all these CDs roduct details for the price. You're already supposed to P have them in your collection - I'd just like to Product: EMC Index d ear that up! Supplier: EM Computergraphic The problems I came across when using it were, Firstly, that w e only had a couple of Price: £14.99 Aminet CDs left in my bottom drawer, which Phone: 01255 431389 meant it could only search two, so the Index CD seemed a bit pointless. Secondly, EMC stresses how quickly it is to search through all these CDs to find the picture you require, but Ease of use 8 0 % it doesn't even include a search engine, which Implementation 8 2 % would have been invaluable. I understand The Index CD by EM Computergraphic is Value For Money 7 8 % that a lot of CDs simply name their pictures exactly what it says on the front cover. It's an O verall 8 0 % something ridiculous like Az98b45ZX.45, index. It will help you find pictures of a par which won't show up on a search engine, but ticular type without having to desperately it would have been better to include a search fro n CD to CD just for one picture. description of the picture. As an example, if Here at Am iga Com puting, this problem you were looking for a picture of a foctballer, arises far too many tim es. When w e need a simply typing 'football' would have found a r picture to accom pany an article, nobody number of matches and it could have told knows where to start or w hich CD to start you which CD and what directory you could with. In an ideal situation, the Index CD find it in. should be the perfect solution, but it isn 't As it stands, the Index does seem a little test Firstly, the Index CD contains thum bnail pointless, especially as most of the CDs con screens of each directory from each CD. The tain thumbnail screens anyway, and you also variety of CDs stretches from Am inet 3-7 to 4 s you con too, have to own the CDs covered. For £14.99 the tho Index CD is specific picture CDs such as Gfx Sensation, Index CD certainly doesn't boast value for full with... money, but if you use a lot of different art World of Clipart, Gifs Galore and Gif Galaxy. indexes. It you Some of the CDs are based on the PC too, so w a n t to b o work on a regular basis then you may end up CE you may not even know some of them, let organisod, buy it paying full whack. t, and all iousHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM pro- ANTHOLOGY Dn a util- I absolutely hate a huge chunk of it, ly in this If Amiga music is your kind of thing, then this especially the tunes which feature a badly most of massive release by GT1 will almost certainly sampled saxophone and loads of beepy noises. h most impress you. The package contains four CDs Okay, so the sampled stuff from original tunes is s no de which feature a number of artists in alpha betical order. In total, there are a whopping good, but only w hen it has been remixed, I just can't think of a good reason for wanting such a fy much 18000 mods, which works out at nearly 1000 hours of music, but that's not all. There’s also huge amount of mods. h plenty I suppose most users would happily rip out m get a 25Mb of modules, players, converters and the good samples and include them in their own f Amiga utilities to enable you to hear every single one. tunes to save time on sampling. Ah, so there b >e this There's only one thought which crosses my an advantage. dividual mind, and that is: 'why? Why would anybody want to sh down and listen to over 1000 hours If you want an absolute ton of Amiga music imiga is then you should seriously check this CD out You of data- of Amiga music Come on, hardly any of it's won’t find a bigger collection anywhere else. 05 CO. professional in any way. Tho Mod Anthology com e a on tour CDs. Bottom in The last features players such as tho Hippoplayor line P roduct details 1 nence Product: Mods Antnology tersoft Supplier: GTI 14.99 Price: £tba 51466 Phone: +49 6171 85937 ES B4% Ease of use 9 0 % 11 % Implementation 84% 16% Value For Money N/A% 15% O verall 8 5 % A m i g a C o m p u t i n g Orders Only IT i s i c t i S t v L I Orders Only P.O. 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BOX 38, WARE, Sony, MicroniK Parts Not Sold Separately HERTS, SG11 1TX, UK Amiga and PC working in perfect harmony? Surely not. N e il M o h p a i r i n g J / looks at this strange mutant think I must be one of the few people left in the country who doesn't actually own a PC. With even our editor having recently Obought one, it is getting to the stage where I'm think ng, "A P I20 would be quite nice to play Duke Nuke'em on". Well, for anyone who is in the same situation but needs or wants to keep easy access to their Amiga, HiQ has come up with a product which allows your PC and Amiga to share many of the same parts. In essence, the Siamese system works in Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMtwo separate sections. You have the actual Siamese board which basically acts as a mon itor switcher. It is controlled by the Siamese software and pipes in the serial signals from the Amiga, Alongside this is a SCSI network on which your shared drives sit Due to this setting up, the hardware side is done in two steps; ore for the Siamese board and the other for the SCSI network. The first steps in installing the Siamese sys tem are done on your Amiga. Now, as both your Amiga and PC will be sharing the same monitor, you have to make sure the screen mode your Amiga is using works with your Current monitor. If you do not hate the luxu ry of a low-syncing multisync you will have to set your Amiga to run in a VGA-compatible screen mode. Your best bet is to use the Multiscan monitor driver along with the VGA- is to act as a software-controlled monitor I came across a problem once I had fin only driver, as this works at the magic 31 KHz switcher, so once it is in your PC you route ished fitting the Siamese board and was ini horizontal scan rate of a VGA monitor. the Amiga's video output - using the supplied tially testing it Due to the height limitations The Siamese board takes up a single ISA cable - to the Siamese board. The PCs graph on ISA boards it w as im possible for HiQ to fit board in your PC As I said earlier its main use ics card output is also piped into the Siamese the three 15-pin monitor connectors. board, again with a supplied cable, and final Because of this the second video connector ly you can plug the monitor into the 15-pin that takes the PCs video output is a round ESTED SCSI connector on the Siamese board. connector. Now, depending on youi PC, the H you are not familiar with the innards of a thick, black, plastic covering may stop the DEVICES PC (like me), the final part to setting up the connector fitting property and result in the PC Siamese board could cause a little confusion. video signal not being in sync If this is the It involves re-routing the PCs Comm2 serial case all you have to do is cut four or five mil Amiga PC port to the Siamese board and then using a limetres of this covering away and all will Oktagon 2008 NCR 810 PCI 'replacement' serial port from the Siamese work fine again. DKB 4091 Adapted 505 ISA board. You then have to connect th“ Amiga Once that is done the second half of the Surf Squirrel Adaptec 1541 and PC serial ports, again using a supplied hardware installation involves setting up the A4000T controller Adaptec 2940 cable. The serial cable is used to transmit the SCSI network. In theory this should be a sim A3000 controller mouse, keyboard and other signal between ple process. At the most basic level it would each computer. involve plugging an Amiga SCSI controller to Amiga Computing the PCs SG I controller, and as long as both have easy access to the software on the PC controllers had different SCSI IDs, all would side. be well. The hub of the Siamese software is the In practice, SCSI controllers tend to use the main Server program, which passes mes SGI ID number seven, so before you can get sages between the machines over the serial the SG I network up and running you need to cable for all the services that can be running change either the PC or Amiga side's ID num on the Siamese system. The main function is ber. Currently, the two PC SCSI cards that HiQ to watch out for the user requesting the mon guarantees to work do not allow you to itor switcher to kick in and switch between change their SCSI ID's, so it is left up to the the two machines. On the PC side this is Amiga side to do the compromising. Luckily, done using an Amiga sizing gadget that most Amiga controllers do allow you to appears on the tool bar. change their ID numbers either by adjusting On the Amiga side there are a number of jumpers on their boards or by using software ways, including the most visible use of the such as the A3000 motherboard controller. Windows 95 button. You can also use the left The only major exception is the Surf Amiga C combination, and there is an option Squirrel, b it to get around this, HiQ includes al ARexx port which has commands to give a replacement Squirrel device driver. you total control over the PC. So, you can Basically, you drop into the DEVS draw er and switch between the Amiga and PC screens sets the Squirrel's ID to five. All this palava and launch PC programs all from a single with ID numbers does m ean that you will ARexx script only be able to use up to six S G I devices Other basic functions provided by the sew instead of the usual seven, but this shouldn't er include mouse and keyboard sharing that ing any other file. worry anyone apart from the real psycho S G I allows yoi to use the Amiga mouse and key The only potential problem here is with the users. board whi e using Windows 95, or if you wish two SCSI cards dashing over shared access, Once the S G I controllers are set up, you use the PC mouse and keyboard while using but on a shared monitor system this will hap next need to decide how you w ant your S G I the Amiga An incredibly useful feature is clip pen very rarely, as both the Amiga and PC devices arranged. If you have a large PC box, board sharing that allows you to cut and have to save to the drive at exactly the same it would be normal to add hard drives or CD- paste between machines. Another handy time. If you are using decent S G I cards they ROMs off the internal PC SCSI controller, but function will update the Amiga’s internal should arbitrate between themselves for if you have a big box Amiga there is nothing clock to match that of the PC's. This is helpful access to the drive, so unless you have auto Stopping you from using this instead. For if your Amiga does not have a built-in dock. matic processes running this should not be a externally boxed or removable S G I devices, The Siamese software is constantly being problem. such as a Zip drive, it is possible to connect updated, and new additions include I do have to say that I was a little hesitant drives 'in-between1 the S G I cards. As long as MountPC. This puts a new disk icon on your at first about the idea of the Siamese system, none of the S G I IDs clash and the end of the Workbencri called PC Opening this allows but having used it for a few days you do start SGI chain is correctly terminated there you to access all the drives mounted on the to forget you are using two separate Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMshould be no real problem. PC side of things, including floppy and CD dri machines. If you are put off by the possible So, you have the hardware side of the ves. As this works over the serial lead it is extra cost of the SG I network you should Siamese system all set but this is not going to nowhere near as fast as the S G I network, but remember that this is actually not necessaiy be of much use without the software to back at least you have simple access to the normal for the Siamese system to work, as you can it all up. The Siamese software comes on a PC drives not on the S G I network. still have the monitor, keyboard and mouse single PC disk along with the CrossDOS 6 The preference program has also been sharing, along with MountPC If you are only package, v/hich makes mounting the PC dri updated and allows you to alter the serial dealing with small files you could get along ves just a matter of pointing and clicking. device you want to use. As a result. Surf without the SCSI network. £ & Installation of the Amiga software is han Squirrel owners will be able to take advan dled by a normal install script, leaving you tage of the higher transfer speeds. with the simple task of dragging the SiSys Once yau have everything properly set up. Bottom program to your WBStartUp drawer. On the the Siamese system very quickly becomes PC side you need to drag a drawer containing second nature to use. Flicking between the line the Siamese software to the PCs C drive. By PC and Amiga, screens is just a matter of then dragging links to the SySis program to pressing two keys, and sharing files over the R equirements the Start button and Startup drawer, you will SCSI network is the same as loading and sav RED essential BLACK recommended PCI Windows95 PC SCSI Card VGA Monitor S G I drive Workbench 2.04 Multisync Monitor 1 3 T H B ETAI LS | Product Siamese system Supplier Blttersoft Price £149.95 Tel 01908 261466 s Ease of use 79% Implementation 85% Value For Money 80% Overall 85% The p rtftrtnte program has boon updated to benefit Surf Squirrel owners A m ig a C o m p u t i n g Anyone who has read about programming on the Amiga would have come across refer Q m IGA DEVELOPER CD ences to certain books and files, particularly something known as the native developers' Enforcer an essential debugging tool that development files for Envoy from 1AM and the kit This CD is the official developers' CD from shows you any badly written programs INet files from Interworks. the vario Amiga Technologies and so has all the files which are accessing parts of the Amiga's For beginner programmers, on top of the m ands e: and references you need. operating system that they should not be large amount of example files that come as the case arrangen One of the most important inclusions is touching. part of the NDK, there is AmigaMail - a bi repeatec the native developer kit. This has all the Possibly of interest but not quite so much monthly magazine in which examples of 'include' files and libraries you need to com approact use nowadays is the complete CD32 devel Amiga programming are posted. These cover gram s g« pile your operating system source code with opers' package that includes full CDXL refer all aspects of programming including subjects difficult t either a C compiler or assembler. ence material and utilities to covering how to write well-styled code that if it is w r Along with these you also get an build CD32 CDs. will be easily maintained and understood by of instru important section describing the A A/1 I ( ^ A A developers' section on the other people. best way to program for the The s CD is interesting reading as it Seeing that originally the native de/elop you are Amiga and to maintain future details what parts of the operat ers' kit was £22 to buy from Commodo e this standab compatibility. ing system could change in a CD is excellent value for money and is an coding j Other parts of the NDK include future PowerPC operating sys absolute must for would be Amiga program build yc the documentation for all the tem, and which functions you are mers, giving invaluable advice and develop blocks t Amiga's libraries explaining what best avoiding using to keep pro ment files. that w h each function does and how you grams compatible. should use it These are just plain There are also details of a your sc w ith sir text files but in a separate section TrackDisk64 which is an enhanced Bottom T h e t the entire 'includes' can be refer version of the trackdisk device called / enced in AmigaGuide format written to remove the cirrent line tained j making for quick access. 4Gb hard drive limit. Contributed tio n .w i Included as part of the NDK is by third parties there are the roduct details P to you. and lay Product Amiga Developer CD Two specialist jam packed CDs get trawled through exampl Price £14.95 by Neil M ohr OVERALL: 91% BoxVol irg r volui retufi This Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMBoxVol 0 * t t t becaus S e e d y w o r l d ing abc inform ly. the* the fui The current CD market is awash with c|ipart in the and font CDs from the likes of Epic and EMC agic u b l is h e r with a So any new publishing style CD is going to P follow have to offer something more than just m allyi another bunch of tired old collection of fonts have to look at each one individually to find 'variabl and clipart out what it is like, if you can be bothered. re Well Magic Publisher takes the view that Clipart is organised in a similar way to the other1 bigger is better and is a whopping four CD fonts with printed previews in the minual The collection. In reality you can immediately dis corresponding to each file on CD. All the cli called card one of the CDs as it is for BBS users and part is organised into separate drawerc on ARexx provides lha'ed versions of all the fonts on the CD but even so a directory read can take the CD - handy but for a few people. a while on a slow drive due to the amount of Talking of fonts, the CD claims to have stuff in each category. 10,000 of the rascals but really this is some With all these fonts and graphics it would be thing of a misnomer as what you have is nice to have something to use them with and E something approaching 300 scalable fonts in lo and behold one of the CDs is dedicated to five different formats - publishing software. Along wnh a So you can try out all thoao fonta - a Bitmap, DMf, IntelliFont, demo of Wordworth 4SE there is a version ol Final Wrltar 4SE la on the CD Postscript and Truetype. To full version of Final Writer 4SE. make life easier all these A full installation of TeX is set up fonts are printed in the 108 ready for use on the CD. TeX is aimed page manual that comes at scientific and technical manual with the CD collection. Bottom layout as is a right pain to setup, but On top of these is a if you have ever com e across DVI huge collection of stan files then the utility ShowDVI is setup line dard Amiga bitmap fonts and lets you view them. along with a collection of Also on the first CD are 150 P ro d uct d eta ils colour fonts. Unfortunately printer drivers, a large collection of Product Magic Publisher there are no preview pic PD and shareware programs cover tures, either on disk or in ing all of uses and a selection of Price £49.95 the manual so you will backdrops of varying quality. OVERALL: 90% A m i g a C o m p u t i n g he m aao s that w e w ere talking about last month consisted of just More useful info a few lines of code. Whatever need W and th e ed doing was achieved by having for newcomers Othe various ARexx or program interface com ■ ■ k B ORIAL op of the mands executed either one after the other or, in the case of the last example, by using a loop to ARexx from come as EM, arrangement to have a series of instructions i\ - a bi- nples of repeated a given num ber of tim es. This Paul Overaa fse cover approach is fine for small scripts, but as pro grams get larger it becomes increasingly more I subjects ode that difficult to keep track of what your code is doing stood by if it is written in what is effectively a single block of instructions. The solution is to break down whatever it is develop- you are trying to do into more easily under dore this standable (smaller) tasks, tackle these smaller id is an coding jobs n relative isolation, and then finally irogram- build your script out of these program building develop- blocks that you've created. The benefit of this is that whilst writing or debugging (trying to fix) your scripts, you then only ever have to deal m m m t III with small sections of code at any one time! :e The building blocks that I'm talking about are called ARexx functions, and they are self con ment which lists the variable names that have >e tained pieces of code that, given som e informa been chosen to hold the supplied arguments. tion, will acton it and return some kind of result With the example definition, three arguments to you. The easiest way to explain the purpose are expected and the variable names chosen and layout of an ARexx function is to take an per CD are width, height and depth. example; Immediately after the ARG statement comes £ 1 4 . 9 5 the ARexx statements that do the real work of BoxVolwe: Procedure the function. With BoxVolumeO we are just erg width, height, depth multiplying the three function arguments volMe=uidth*height*depth together and assigning them to a variable called return voltae volume. The last line of the function definition is a This is the definition of a function called RETURN statement and this is important for two S u rfa c e area of a box I* easy to find Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMBoxVolumeO- I've placed parenthesis markers reasons: Firstly, it signifies the end of the func 0 at the end of the name when mentioning it tion definition. Secondly, the variable or expres /• testl.rex: *1 beGuse it's lormal practice to do so when talk sion supplied with this statement determines I* ...... */ ing about function names (most functions need the value that will be returned by the function /• first col.ect details froa user... •/ information to work on and, as you'll see short when it is used (in our example this will be the siy * what is the width of the box?1 p ul l w ly, these parenthesis markers are needed when current contents of the volume variable). s«y 'whit is the height of the box?1 the function is used). Do notice, however, that p ul l h in the function definition itself the name ends siy * what is the depth of the box?' with a color. The PROCEDURE keyword which p u l l d siy 'aetil-pMce per unit ares?' follows the f jnction name is optional but is nor pull aetil < mally included because it tells ARexx that all the p !> rx testl * * | siy 'hinge p*ice?' variables used inside the function should be p u l l h i n ge regarded as local, i.e. should be isolated from siy 'required I profit?' other variables in the script pull profit I* ...... *1 The data items required by a function are ’ that both of thia month'* /* non calcu.ite box price... •/ called the function's 'arguments', and with exam ples need to be run from the say 'The price of the box is' BoxPrice(w,h,d,aetal,hinge,profit) ARexx these are specified using an ARC state- Shell using the RX command e xi t / * »/ BoxPrice: Procedure irg width, height, depth, «etilj>rice, hinge_price,percentage_profit i r e a *2*(uidtl*height+keight*deptb»u{dth*depth)unit_cost*irei*»eti._pr1 c Q u n ctio n use e*2'hinge_price /• reoeiber - two hinges ire used */ selling_pric value to be assigned to a variable you sim and in the second case the value 40 would Listing 1: This standalone script shows ply write the function name on the right- be displayed. one way of using the BoxPrlcef) function hand side of an expression, placing the It's wcrth pointing out, incidentally, that /* */ argument values you wish to use inside the although, for clarity, the results of multiply BoxPrice: Procedure parenthesis (separated by commas) like ing the three arguments was assigned to a irg width, bright, depth, »etilj>rice, hinge_price,percentage_profit this: separate variable we could, in the case of irei*Z*(yidtl'height*height*(ltptlitiridtli*dtpth) this simple function, do away with the unit_costsirri*ietil_priceo2*hinge_price /* reaeober - two hinges ire •ybox:BoiVoluae(2,4,S). intermediate multiplication statement and used •/ seUing_pncisuriit_MJt*(10Qtpercentage_profit)/10()tQ,00Q1 write the function in this form: deci«il_point_position=lndex(selling_price/'.') On the other hand you can use the returned nuaeric digits deciaal_point_positiont1 value immediately: BoxVoluie: Procedure stUipg_prict=$giUng_pMce+0 irg width, height, depth nuaeric digits 9 siy BoxVoluat(2,4,5) return width*height*depth return sellirgjrice I* ------•/ L is tin g 2 s The improved Box Priced function A m i g a C o m p u t i n g OCTOBER 1996 m Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM TORIAL □ The number on the right ahows the improved teat2.rexx output teat2.rexx improved the ahows right the on number The □ the box, we sim ply m ultiply this by the cost of the the of cost the by this ultiply m ply sim and side we each box, of the areas the calculate just you - ward cus final the calculate to price. er ar tom m available be profit a to And have box. ill w the gin making of cost unit the per out etal work m the of price the box, the of ensiors im d for customers, so you w ant an ARexx macro that w ill ill w that macro ARexx an quotes ant w provide you to so job your customers, It's for hinges. the of cost the metal hinged-lid akes m that pany com a for ork w you it margin, rfere's a function that w ill do the job; the do ill w that of prof function the a for couple rfere's a account of to up margin, it price price the that on scale and add hinges, area, unit per metal of area surface total the got Having together. them add to needed be ill w hinges the of price the and area function, ple sim a of layout take the let's out sketched Having be able to calculate a custom er price for any particular particular any for price er box. custom a calculate to able be boxes these plus box of given any in price etal m of the ount am that the on and depends order, to suppose boxes Let's job. particular a do to created be might that ARexx, w hen it isn't actually doing calculations on calculations doing actually it isn't hen w ARexx, that math performing operations. hen ematical w used precision the adjust to It also characters. of groups or characters particular for an including use, can e w that routines built-in) called to used string character final the of layout the allows £91.88. to up this round to too with back comes often price box resulting the that provides a NUMERIC DIGITS statement that allows us us allows that statement DIGITS NUMERIC a provides string text a search to us allows that hmction IndexO so- (or ready-made other of plenty have doesn't, does it ARexx but modified. be to number the represent which function FormatO figures. built-in a has actually based, significant want probably ) few we'd a reality in produces hen w example, £91.875 too of for price (or BoxPrice(2,4,2,1.8,0.75,25), any m in difficulty minor one is there but - respects enough most in well job its does it that find you'll disk), cover If you run the testl.rexx script (which you'll find on the the on find you'll (which script testl.rexx run the If you acltn h srae ra fa o i straightfor is box a of area surface the Calculating the Well needed? be to going is ation irform What ut afw aibe i ue ko, u te basic the but know, I use in variables few a Quite o ling e used d e s u re e s ge n i l wo t 0 0 1 - / t ) i t f r o i e r f b p o a _ r e e i p g e _ i r e t g n e e * c t / r n e e p c e r c e i , p r e * p c 0 _ i 0 e r 1 g p ( n _ * i e t h g s * n o 2 i c h » _ e t c i i , n r e u » c = j i e l r c i p i _ t r l e p a « _ t * g e i n a e i r l « l , s e h t s t s p o e c d _ t i , n t u h g i e h e r ireis^lwidth'keighteheighfdeptheuidth'depth) u d e idth, c w o r P rg a *: ic Pr oi B eun rellingjirice return The thing you need to be aware of at this stage is stage this at of aware be to need you thing The o RX, h lnug uo wih Rx is ARexx which upon language the REXX, Now CLN SM PATCL SNAGS PRACTICAL SOME ACKL1NG OE ELSI EXAMPLE REALISTIC MORE » m ore realistic exam ple of w here a function function a here w of ple exam realistic ore m A 6 9 9 1 R E B O T C O a g i m C c n i t u p m o must perform som e kind of mathematical operation mathematical of kind e som we effect perform take to must setting accuracy new the For ple sim this; like accuracy ARexx place make can decimal 2 e p-ovide w that precision means answer. an this in together numeric places Taken decimal the two provide produces to needed this to 2 adding to search the selling_price variable used in our our in this: like used point decimal variable selling_price the able we're search this of to Because text of pieces stores it Ike many digits are in front of the decimal point and and point decimal the of front in are digits many BoxPrice function and locate the position of its its of position the locate and function BoxPrice much characters, of series a as them stores numbers, uti digits 9 • ee t Men's de ul */ e u l a v lt au ef d s ' n e M to reset 0 + 1 e /• * c n i o 9 r i t ) i j s s t g o i n p g U _ i l t d n e i s o * i e j c l i i a »uitric r i p _ «c g d n i s l t l i e g j i d •uaeric comment • lines written / as tionto carry out the calculation.details of Thethebox testl .rexxand scriptthen standalone write acalled in script that collected the BoxPriceO various the fjnc- costing £1.8 per square ft, hinges £0.75 each and a a and each this: £0.75 like hinges ft, square per £1.8 costing price the culate the statem ents present in the function as though they they script though ain m as the of function this part the in 'without were - present use to ents trying script script, statem the the the executing of on carry end' ould w ARexx 'logical that ARexx the it tells defini is because this function essential is the before incidentally, tion, just occurs that statement Ssting 1 shows how youcould do this and notice how profit margin of 25 per cent we'd use an expression expression an use we'd cent per 25 of margin profit cal tc instance, For called. is function the hen w function details the Using understand. should to steps easy the of each in reasonably be ents statem the of purpose used to separate various parts of the scrip t The EXIT EXIT The t scrip the of parts various separate to used s just going to be a matter of supplying the vaiious vaiious the supplying of matter a be to going just s The reason for adding zero to the selling price is is price selling the to zero adding for reason The Subtracting 1 from the resultant value tells us how how us tells value resultant the 1 from Subtracting ) ' . 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Amiga Computing "Capital Punishm ent has been proclaim ed as the ultim ate video gam e." Amiga Format "It looks im pressive. Fram e rate is higher than any fighting gam e I've seen." C U Amiga f 4% Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Beware...Punishment is coming. September, Friday 13th n e w s By Andy Maddock Justice at last ecently we heard that a brand new, amazing gam e called Justice, which looks a bit liki Syrdicate. is com ing out very soon for the Amiga. It requires you to control special law-enforcement officers who are ordered to blovi TheE aw ay any criminals on the spot. However, to spice things up a little, you're allowed t( w e'rf B use tanks and bazookas am ong various other military. Am ic The gam e is bein( • -« -• - - from developed in nate Sweden by a team * * Althc f * called Silicon d e p l Cactus and as you guar c a n see from th ly th< 4 screenshots, it looks To like a cross between n o t e Syndicate and goo« ‘ i f t U F 5 Cannon Fodder top ------ja Hopefully we'll be ^ p s s s s s a A / sole J able to give you ly. v more information on mayba with a daahlng ol Syndlcata all t A* you can a— , Juatlca looka remarkably it soon. Ilka Cannon Foddar... conr Leisi mer Inte Com po Winners (At last) War m * * Oh. and if you are a winner don't everyone else. Congrats!) expect your prizes to be on the doorstep as soon as you read this. Pete Pointon, Walsall Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMW e 've got to find the games, plaster “I am a tarnished ball on the pinball them up with packaging, scrawl your table of life.' nam e and address on them and then (A very bizarre tie-breaker from Pete send them out by 3rd class or some there) thing ridiculous so they'll get to you before the next millennium, so be Mr N Crump, Wrexham patient I “To give me a break from my sons watching and talking about Euro'96.' Hero are those all-important win- (We feel you're being a little harsh there nersl Mr Crump, but never mind, you still win Steven Gurevitz, by default as someone else ridiculously Middlesex scrawled on their entry form and we *1 need refuge from my Dad. found It Impossible to figure It out) Please help me and send relief.' (I'm not entirely sure what he Mr C Cotton, Northants means: although I've enclosed "Because I'm a sad old fart who wants NSPCC's telephone number) to re-live his misspent youth In the pinball arcades.' No name, or address (Yep. we know.) "Because I am a poor, dull person...' Hooray, w e 've finally m anaged to dig (This person didn't print their name or Ian Sherwood, Oxon out some competition winners after address on their entry form. If that per “I'm a member of the National Pinball months of searching. Remember the son would like to write to us with their fn- Defence League and would play them competition we set about two months ished tie-breaker. just so we know it's until they are ready for release.' a g o with those eight sets of Pinball you. then we can send you your prize!) (Right you are my son) games? Well, you'll be pleased to know every single one of them was nicked Scott Hughes, Liverpool Terry Everest, Kent from our office which means everyone “Because I m a ball breaking, chute “Doubtless you'll cast this hopeless entry who entered will win absolutely nothing. shooting, light flashing, bumper bashing, Into the infinite wastes (or bin). But No. seriously, we were inundated with number crunching, bonus breaking, remember, I'm asking you very nicely. entries. (I think we counted 10) which Is table tilting, pinball wizard.' Please. quite rare and we can happily (Ooh Scott Hughes, you cheeky mon (Yes. In fact we did throw your entry into anrounce the winners nam es right now key. You provided us with the best entry the bin. but hey. everyone is a winner along with their tie-breakers. which means you win the same prize os with Systeml) it like b lo w The ECTS is com ing up really fast now, and id to we re hoping there's going to be lots of Amiga products on show. The show runs eing from 8th to 10th September and unfortu in earn nately it's not open to you. the public. Although after you have read our in- Jeon depth report In a few months, I can you the guarantee it will feel as if you were real ly there! boks yeen To be honest, the show will be domi nated by the PC and Playstation a n d goodies sd er, us lot here will have a top time playing on all the latest con II be sole and arcade games. N o truthful you ly, we'll be too busy hunting down mon all the latest Am iga products from companies such as Guildhall Leisure, 21st Century Entertain ment, Acclaim, Gametek. Gremlin Interactive, O c e a n a nd Time I Warner. ballHi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMYou cornin’ out or wot? fe te Do you remember that shoot ’em up by OTM shelved due to contractual problems. Well, at Publications and Promotions called Atrophy. least it m anaged to live up to its name. Well we've just heard news that it's never However, do not despair. In its place comes com ing out. The reason is that it has now been an even better horizontal shoot ’em up going ons by the nam e of Atrocity, and It's planned to • be even better than Atrophy. We shojld have we something on it for you next month..; providing win OTM don't scrap It two minutes before our usly deadline. we Atrocity should feature: • 6 meg of music • 6 Giant levels ints • 5000 frames of animation ball • 60+ Objects on-screen at once # E \pfK/ftf*r • 300 colours on screen Get your • Intelligent aliens E t i / 1 a y . • No slow down football ball Th/a /a n t coming out. So don’t look tor It In tho ahopa. • Multi-layer, parallax scrolling iem boots ready for our The Human Enigma ntry ultimate But Oh, hang on, some news has just com e in from entitled Enigma. It is being developed by a the fax machine as I speak and It's about a team called Centillion Software and looks © V footy new game in the pipeline from OTM and It is rather good. Into mer guides inside pr#vtow Kang-Fu certainly looks original The cockerels are quite odd so weave your way past them Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM Kang-FuPreviewed by Andy Maddock ood platform games have always heard of them as ‘Greed' which looks ttiWay been a rarity on the Amiga. There was bizarre abbreviation. ex,t once Superfrog, Zool and Fire and Ice. You are in control of a Kung-Fu-kicking kon iav€ Although they weren't particularly roo called Klont, and your job is travel around g u a | ground-breaking in any department, world rescuing all the bab y kangaroos that o< they were just a-joy to play. Just recently, w e've sionally get lost. This is quite obviousy a com -\y had absolutely nothing in terms of decent plat scenario - especially here in Britain. grap form games. During your quest for success, you will cc ^ , However, not for the first time, a brand new soft across loads of other insects and objects that qua ware com pany get their ch ance to put the world take delight in stopping you. You will also bet ^at* to rights with their latest release. And if originality to pick up various power-ups to give you ol car determines success then Great Effects weaponry apart from your trusty left foot. suc\ Development could turn out to be outright win In the final gam e there will be ID levels e< ( ners. with their own graphics and enemies. Wjth We managed to stumble across the developers M y first impressions were actually quite goo< sj0r of Kang-Fu one Friday morning and within a week the main sprite was really chunky and insta |mc the gam e was sitting on my desk - that's how reminded me of a cross between Sonic the eager they are to broadcast their plans. H edgehog and Zool on the Amiga. Another tt D\\\, The first obvious thing that struck me was the which instantly struck m e was the number m c fact it was on CD!. The last half-decent gam e on sprites on-screen at once. There seemed like h the CD32 I remember was Littil Divil by Gremlin dreds, although to be honest, the backgra Interactive. So I had to go through the rigmarole of screens tend to merge in giving an impressioc finding our CD32 dusting it down and then setting a very busy playing area. riM TO VNMTT off on a quest to find a working power-pack. The main object of a platform gam e is usud I After a good few days of searching I was all set to get to the end of the level unseate d. Kang Yc to play the one-level dem o of the brand new plat once again goes against the grain by requb 1 & GREED form g a m e Kang-Fu. you to pick up small kangaroos which fol Itt c 96 i-trt/ferrt r*vno*—e~r r/fStMto* - The developers g o behind their label of Great behind you confusing things even more A c f t * * * M* <•) 31 t46 9179*1 r»e~*rf)i, 9/99/S Effects Development although you may have that's not all, you have to solve puzzles on y< Q Baddies Wasps You have to to careful around wasps because they will manoeuvre in c circular movement giving you little soace to work in especially when you need to get across a platform Dragons The dragons don't pose too much of a threat as they just stand there with big axe trying to chop the life out of you. Just try to get on platform above them Cockerels The cockerels will just run about making noises which don't seem to harm you at all. So. er... just avoid them anyway because they're off their heads Flying umbrellas The flying brollies will take delight in flying into you, almost piercing your body. Well, not quite, but you get the picture Klont has the job of rescuing baby kangaroos Weird things You will undoubtedly encounter many other weird thngs like bendy objects rolling about for no apparent reason. Just thought Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMI'd let you know. 5ks like vay too. like finding keys before you get to the xit. And when you do get to the exit you will ig ka nS lave to battle against some huge end-of-level round * guardians which are reminiscent of the old con- lot oc cfcie days. com m The final ga m e will feature HIRes bitplane graphics, thousands of colours on-screen. It will will c o nJun at 50fps. there will be 40 minutes of proper C D sthat ' quality audio and overall around 80Mb worth of )be a ^fdata on the C D itself. We'll have to see if Kang-Fu 'ou othkan really live up to platform gam e standards t. such a s Sonic and Mario across other formats. 'els ea< Overall, the graphics seem pretty polished with the ganeplay to match. However, the ver- good tion I playec didn't have any sound but I could instan magine the types of sound effects coming from )nic tlh the wasps, cockerels and dragons - the opportu- h e r th iin 'flies will be endless. We'll have a full review next mber honth. You can be sure of it. like hui kgroun ession Some Cheese Please usual Kang-F You can contact the Dutch developers to get equirin some more information if you wish. I'm sure folio they'll be happy to answer any questions. You ■re. An can reach them on +31 546 017727. So, g o on, get in touch. on yen On your travels you w ill m eet m any other anim als who w ill try to hinder your progress hints & tips AVERAGE m i 594 1 1 MILAN 53240 K i l l £ 212© ROMA 507 14 ■ 44545 KU NAPOLI 4 1 175 ■ J t A i 37853 k : i GENOA 34729 m *m t 3345 4 m im SAMPOORIA 30507 ■ I B m ATALANTA 25329 m i mi 2505 1 WkLM PARMA 207 1 1 ■ L S I 17329 MLM REGGIANA 11352 M k M 10292 ■ I ■ CREMONESE 7©39 I think he's supposed to be one ot those I personally hat the Serle A bee a sue hall Both Milan's are firmly at the top ol the Laudrup brothers. I don’t know which one ■the time you don't know who anybody la attendance league Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM With Championship Manager 2 just around the corner, we feel it's time to finish with the old, now out-of-date, version 1. We here at System, along with special help from Championship Manager king William Sapsed, show you how irst of all. to gain loads of cash right (providing you have the money), and you wl from the start, all you have to do is secure the player. Okay, so you're stll having tc choose your team as Tranmere fork out for decent players, but at least you don' B Rovers and type your name in as ‘Mr have to worry about the competition. Bulgaria. All you have to do then is O ne of the problems that can occur espo choose your character as arrogant. Once the dally during the end of a season, are playe * game begins you will find your bank balance retirements. This can lose your team a lot of aW has increased by nearly £20 million pounds, ity, especially if he's one of your top players. The although some of the players will hate you. only way to get around this is to get loads > Typical. money from him so you can just about afford If you start the gam e with a pretty small side, replacement. such as second or third division, you will have an When he's about to retire, put the player \ absolute nightmare trying to buy players which the transfer list and then fine him for no re are currently wanted by clubs such as Now take him off the list and insure him for Manchester Utd. Newcastle and Blackburn, and of cash. At the start of next seasor he'll h the chances of getting them are very remote gone, but will have left a huge amount of unless... behind him. First of all you need to bid less than the other Another handy hint is that when you are look clubs on two occasions, and then on the third ing to buy 30+ players, put them on your scout' offer one more pound than every other club shortlist so when they retire at the end of the Christmas tree The best formation to work your team around is this: When dealing In the transfer market, always scout a I player a week before, just to check you need him Throughout the game you will be informed of injutires, suspensions, contract disputes, young players and job I offers. You must act as soon as you see the notice as you are likely to lose a potential vote of confidence Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMWill’s dream team Finally. William Sapsed has Included a list of all his favourite buys and even though they sound like Donkey FC. you shouldn't overlook them. 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Business M 1-yillat.W W kjnno— tStunna wcs set up os a limited company in llya«-*Vol S i l l t u n n a bvember 1994. We were however working on it i It.. store that, since about June 1994. Our first «H 10 a*m< ome was Dentaku 26. we worked on that while Softw are sprang lex completed his University course. After Alex ft Uni (July 1995) we decided that there were from nowhere oy too many Doom clones coming out on the miga. so we shelved it in favour of a karting w ith their first yie game - which became XTreme Racing, ttunna is a full time occupation for all of us (me. gam e XTreme lex and Mark), financially and it keeps us ticking r&r. Racing. Jason How did XTreme evolve? Jreme Racing started out. as I said, as a karting J o r d a c h e 3me - until we saw Virtual Karting! At this point e decided a more standard wacky car theme Gothic City from the XTrem e Racing data disk. chats to the 8# ,w lira ould be better, and looking back: I definitely How the graphics are stretched to fit into the lay if i COSani link it was. The 3D engine was originally chunky I out of the game opper screen, which we changed to proper W arw ickshire 2o routines and blitter modes. The whole pro- or two limits on the palette (ie XTreme - first 16 Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM>cf only took around four months, from concep- colours reserved, last 16 reserved for colour based team of in to completion, and we were pretty chuffed cycling). fifh the end result. enthusiasts w ho However, when we released it there were JJ: And for those who try and fail to view the unplaints about certain gameplay problems, graphics on the XTreme game disk? are aim ing to ), being the conscientious bunch that we are. We use Crunch Mania - not to disguise GFX sim te decided to rectify them. ply to crunch them - the GFX start out as ILBM. m ake it big in For all our XTreme racing GFX, we have our are then converted to chunky for the game GFX. ustom. in-house object cutter coded by Mark raw for the front-end GFX. and then crunched. irhich appears on the data-disks). The tiles are The object cutter converts all GFX (except tiles) to t h e g a m e s lid on screens in rows, and the code automati chunky. Tiles, as I said, are automatically convert on generates chunky versions for use in the ed by the code. i n d u s t r y . ome. they are simply placed using the editor ofeo on the data-disks). JJ: With you living in Warks, Alex in Sheffield, Mark ol.l Talking about restrictions in creating"the in London and Andy in Staffs, do you use modems ames; not too many, generally mainly size for to keep in touch? How often do you guys get !fferent things (ie XTreme race tiles 64x64 pixels, together personally to work on a project? oulderdash 3D textures 128x128 in size. etc.). We keep In touch via e-mail and the BBS for most olours - so far everything is 256 colours, with one It’s the patch The problems Richard mentions as regards XTreme are rectified in a free patch now available. Along with improved playability and removal of miscellaneous bugs, here's some of w hat's on ofer • 4 player joystick adapter support • All cars now handle differently to each other Modified • Deathm atch rules • W eapon explosions now more spectacular • All new w eapons • 6 seconds invulnerability when you are put back on the track after you are killed • Option to auto-save best lap times & screen settings W e 'v e got a couple ot dodgy looking JPEG s they • E Z handling - Option for slightly easier control, especially for beginners GmbH said. Cheers guys. Alex and Richard, part of the • Utility to merge and view best-laptimes Silltunna team . Alex is the yellow one m a n / 245 JJ liUvtlll feature the Amiga, others may not. One that I will t rate on Is Boulderdash 3D (the title changed!). With Amiga. PC and Playstc sions under development this is 3D platform j ing - a Doom style engine, with platform j gameplay. There will be a lot of strategy and tc involvedI and tremendous multi-player see up to eight players. There will be several dit level types, such as Hell. Caverns. Hi-tech. Urban and Shopping mall. There will also be Impressive graphical features too. such as 3L ture m apped environment, look up/dc crouch/jump; various shading effects inch depth shading and mist effects: animated i Sprites from the sleeping Dentaku doom clone. M it's textures and outside areas. as fast as they claim, thousands of Amiga gamers would w ish this game finished and available JJ: It can be difficult giving a release date > project still in development like Boulderdash. I things, and voice how about a vague release date? calls a few times a Lets say 'released by Christmas '96. week. It varies the amount of time we JJ: Talking about Boulderdash. does this bear< get together - it's less relation to Dentaku? now since Alex None (code wise), it does however contain o| moved to Sheffield - few textures that I had drawn for Dentc currently I'd say about 50% of them in one form or another, once/twice a month one or two Dentaku enemies may apr tops. there too. More artwork from the game jj; What gam es do you have planned for the JJ: I had word from people impressed future? Dentaku's fast 3D engine. How does it comp< We have quite a few projects underway, but I to the current Doom clones available on can't say too much about them at this stage - Am iga and are there plans to finish it off? Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthey are multi-format, some will be appearing on It still remains by far the fastest engine aroa and there were some good little graphic effects coded that haven't been seen in ott Meet the team clones. There are no plans to complete Dentc - but the code and graphics still live on (ripp Silltunna currently consists and rock music, watch won (for now). Tends to out and stuck into other projects). seven people, four of them early'60s Italian gore flicks work the weirdest hours - full time members. They and anything on the car night shifts only - must be Richard says a "very early demo “ of BoulderdQ are on the look out for toon channel and. err do the London air. Can't han 3D is available . Those of you with the hard\ other programmers and lots of shopping. dle his beer despite what can download that along with other freebies i artists to join the ranks. he might say to the con the XTreme Racing patch, from the Sillt Alex Amsel, age 21 trary. Mark likes to dabble Support BBS (opening times 10pm-7am) on 01 i Richard Whittall, ag e 22 Lead programmer with Jungle - in fact, he's a 842105. Graphics and gam e design [email protected] total jungle freak these [email protected] Boffin! Has just graduated days. He's had a couple of Usual school malarkey. 2 from Exeter University with pro jungle tracks released years A-Levels. followed a degree in Cognitive too. and there's another in by a BTEC in design. I got Science, that's Al and psy the pipeline for him. offered a Uni place at chology. However, there is Wolverhampton. but a darker side to him. he's Andrew Cashmore declined due to their poor a football lout - supports Graphics quality football. Decided I Wolves and gets ham "Our new little fledgling! didn't want to do any mered on Banks bitter or He's a bit of a graphical thing like graphic design vodka after matches. wiz - he's currently heavily on paper, and had a dab 7 spend most of my into the 3D rendering side. ble on tne computer time watching Wolves EC. He's been working with us instead. Sent a picture to an English football club - I for about the last 2-3 a magazine, which was have also helped organise months and used to be a published - and this is how supporters clubs and so on. games coder.' I met Alex, he saw the pic If not doing that, you will ture, phoned me and find me listening to Indie or Simon Speight we Ve been together industrial music, or watch Music for XTreme Racing since then (Aaah!) ing Monty Python films' "When not working I Tony Farrel spend most of my time Mark Fitt Additional m usic for with my gorgeous girl Additional coding XTreme Racing friend - down t'pub. 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However, do remember that other international jobs can be offered and doesn't A s you c an see, t h e Man U squad to you. is formed entirely of brothers. To get the elusive job you must impress the Well, or... sort of do a bad job chairman almost every season. You must at least finish in the top 10 every year, and if you fail to m anage that then winning a cup will be sufficient enough to impress the president of m anaged to win the European Championships. Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMyour country, f you can achieve the right This and the World Cup are the major blend of these wins then an international job competitions, but as there is a four-year wait will be offered to you. between them, I had to play a lot of For instance. I started my career with absolutely pointless friendlies. At the end ot the Liverpool. I never won the league title and I year you will be presented with a nice tour only ever won the league cup once in about somewhere where the opposition is about as 10 years! It doesn't sound like a go o d record, This Is the Premiership before good as Doncaster, thus allowing you to pick the season begins. Interesting but I finished ir the top 10 every season and up a small, rusty trophy. That always impresses is n ’t it? the team was a finalist in several competitions, the president. including those in Europe. When I m anaged to qualify for the World The Republic of Ireland job was eventually Cup, the ‘President' of England was impressed offered to me and I took it. Obviously I wanted enough to hand me the job. Blimey, it felt like to manage England and I could have waited, real life. but no>. I was too excited and pressed I was faced with the prospect of doing v/hat ‘Ac ce p t' as soon as possible. every other England fan dreams of, and that's I w as then presented with the horrifying to pick their own England side and take them prospect of finding 20 go o d Irish players in the to -he World Cup finals. Although it's not entire world - it wasn't an easy task but I still always as simple as that. O oh, a g oo d o ld lo c a l d erb y. You can’t beat them can you? Especially the M erseyside one ! f V .’ „> r *py • , » • , .*•* £«• ■ ,«•* .«•*• *.»• .» To be the greatest England manager ever, you have to Always hammer the button when taking See that bloke there. Well, you'd better be better than me... Hah penalties; no pansy side-footing ■wake him up otherwise he’s out of the game Take note Glenn Hoddle! Your first job is to pick 19 players who you will take everywhere. But remember, these can be changed at any time, so you don’t have to stick with them. Your first idea will probably be to fill the team up with English players who play for the club side you support in real life. Whether it's Blackburn or Bury, that striker will be the first choice for your side, but don't do thatl Pick the best 11 from the entire world, not from your own side! Player Position Club Selection reason 1: Tim Flowers Goalkeeper Elackburn Valued 1.8m 2: Rob Jones Right Back Liverpool Speed 3: Stuart Pearce Left Back Notts Forest Tackling 4: Paul Ince Midfielder Inter Milan Tackling, passing 5: Tony Adam s Defender Arsenal Heading and tacklirg WTi A b i ^ B B ■ ] ? - 6: Gary Pallister Defender Man Utd Heading, tackling, speed WORLD&OF 7: David Platt Midfielder Arsenal Passing 8: Paul G ascoigne Midfielder Rangers Passing, speed 9: Alan Shearer Striker Blackburn Shooting, speed 10: Les Ferdinand Striker Newcastle Utd Speed, finishing 11: Steve McManaman Right wing Liverpool Speed 12: Graeme Le Saux Left back Blackburn Tackling 13: Dcvid Seaman Goalkeeper Arsenal Second most expensive Gk 14: Roobie Fowler Striker Uverpool Finishing, speed 15: Stan Collymore Striker Uverpool Shooting, speed 16: Gareth Southgate Defender Aston Villa Penalties (Hah) Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COM17: Steve Stone Midfielder Notts Forest Speed, passing 18: Teddy Sheringham Striker Spurs Heading, finishing 19: Dcrren Anderton Right wing Spurs Speed, passing • Remember, when a player gets Injured for more than a week, drop him completely from the selected 20 and replace him with someone fit to gain more ticks. My career achievements 1995/6- Liverpool 1999/0 - Liverpool Premier: Runner up Premier: 6th Cup: Semi final Cup: Semi final League Cup; Semi final League Cup: Round 3 EUFA Cup: Quarter final EUFA Cup: Rourd 1 1996/7 - Liverpool 2000/1 - Uverpool Premier: 3rd Premier: Runner up Cup: Fnalist Cup: Semi Final League Cup: Round 4 League Cup: Round 3 2003/4 - Republic of Ireland 2006/7 - Republic of Irelcnd EUFA Cup: Semi Final •Resigned* Euro Position: 1 - Qualified World Cup: Round 2 Friendlies: Won 1: Drawn 3: Friendlies: Won 3: Drawn 0: 1997/8- Uverpool Lost 1 Lost 2 Premier: Runner up 2001 /2 - Republic of Ireland Group Position: 4th Cup: Round 3 2004/5 - Republic of Ireland 2007/8 - England World Cup; Not qualified League Cup: Round 4 Euro Champ: - Wirners Euro Position: 1 - Qualified EUFA Cup: Semi Final Friendlies: Won 3: Friendlies: Won 2: Drawn 2: Friendlies: Won 0: Drawn 3: Drawn 1: Lost 1 Lost 1 Lost 3 1998/9- Liverpool Premier: 5th 2002/3 - Republic of Ireland 2005/6 - Republic of Ireland 2008/9 - England Cup: Round 5 World Cup: - World Cup: Qualified World Cup: Won League Cup: Winners Euro Tour: Won 2: Drawn 1: Lost 0 Friendlies: Won 1: Drawn 2: Friendlies: Won 3: Drawn 2: EUFA Cup: Quarter Final Friendlies: Won 3: Drawn 1: Lost 1 Lost 2 LostO review Reviewed by Andy Moddock Beyond f you read the news article in System News around two months ago you would've caught wind of a brand new software construction kit enti tled Reality. Well already the devel Realit opers have knocked up some games to prove what it can do. You m ay have seen a couple of Joker Poker gam es featured on the front of coverdisks across various magazines as BPM Promotions are insis tent their name and products should pop up everywhere. Each gam e isn't really outstanding in quality and Is certainly not going to set the world on fire although if you take a small feature from each and mayte put them together mentally you m ay be able produce a picture of a gam e of a 6 0 INSTRUCTIONS much higher quality than these and possibly even to the standard of a full price commercial game. Obvioust/ each of these offerings should be Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMlooked upon as demonstration programs as the A quick way to make load* of cash and ge * instant real full-price gam es by BPM will be along shortly popularity. Poker... the name ol the game just as soon as they are finished. The titles are going by the names of Robin Hood and This is probably one of the most intriguing of the I Spacefighter and we are assured there are oth titles as it sounds like it has connotations of 1 ers the pipeline. gam bling which suits me dow n to the ground. All these games were created using the Basically all you have to d o is play poker. I'm Reality software creation package and for a rel not saying anything else because all I ca n d o is atively small donation, you too can sample the explain the rules of the gam e and I'rr certainly delights of programming without attending a not doing that. two-year computer course learning C+ or anoth Joker Poker is a fine example of what Reality er programming language which frequently ca n create because of the sheer variety it can seems to prevent new users from putting their produce. Whether it's shoot ’em ups, platform own thoughts and ideas into practice. gam es or card games. Reality ca n do ’em all. Charlie Chimp - The Great Escape Chim p boy Chartie returns to grace the Am iga Free Demos screens once again. And unfortunately it suf fers from the sam e problems as the rest. Having If you want a FREE demo of said that, the graphics d o look a little better, Reality then write to or and that's probably the result of time being phone BPM Promotions and spent on the gam e as a whole. ask them. They’re a nice As you play Charlie Chimp you do begin to bunch and they’ll be willing notice aspects which would be good in other to help answ er any games and it shows the quality of software enquiries. You ca n reach Reality has the ability to produce. them at: O nce again, if a serious Am iga user who saw something in the gam e would take the time to BPM Promotions improve graphical/gameplay glitches then a 8. Magnolia Park Dunmurry commercial product would be a certainty. As Belfast BT17 ODS a standclone version it just doesn't offer Or you can call them on enough to give Amiga users any value for 01232 626694 Here’s the monkey boy him self Chartie Chimp. Ho la with money. out doubt the king of all monkeys - 71 Treasure of Wrath of Tutankahmun Gwendor You are Theos the Warrior and your job is to • ’ f r * ' : " ^ »!?•! »Y- — ‘T f . -* rescue your brother from the evil clutches of v . , T the knight Gwendor. There are eight levels to ; « t ~ . V r r .~ v - v M r * battle through, each one requiring much skill 9 \ v '^ O H rjy& p • 2 B n r pnnv « rot p \ r r y • / €* ' B [ to negotiate the nasty snakes among other C K VC«I S*™ 7 ...... n energy-sapping things. n r - f ' V • t - - . v / Not only is Wrath of Gwendor a none stop action game, it also contains a puzzle aspect * whereby the idea is to switch switches and use magic potions. V •*'ff 5» T * ^ r . It's unfortunate that the gam e doesn't real 1 — ------. ly boast quality. The idea is go o d although it's not put it into practice. I suppose if more time was taken graphically, it could present a challenge and maybe even enter the world Oh look, its tho monkeyboy himsell Charlie Chimp. He y la without doubt tho king of all m onkeys, again of PD. As it stands it needs more work. Charlie Chimp stars in yet another adventure. S H 1 This time he's after the treasure of Tutankanmun. The series has obviously been the most pop 1 % ular with Am iga users as there have been new releases now and again. In my opinion Charlie Chimp is right on the e d g e of becom ing a r standalone full commercial release. If more .1 - time went into the planning and presentation it could easily be boxed and put out on the V shelves on the pretty much redundant Amiga gam es market. What’s it This release is actually better than the others because the graphics seem a tad better and all about? the gam eplay seems slightly more involved. « a 4 J J i ^ ♦ All these games are con Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMThis is a relatively decent gam e contained in I ------I ( 1 $ & & I tained in a special Reality tant the packs which boosts the value for money. i Oh dear, the animation is possibly the poorest games pack priced at just aspect along with the terrible gameplay £12.50 for the lot incudlng I of the another Charlie Chimp 6 n s of Underwater Capers adventure or two. iround. As most people know, the :er. I'm 0 0 5 8 5 2 > 0 2 5 Toyland Capers production and develop in do is This is the first in the series of the “capers" ment of a computer game jrtainly adventures starring Seemore Doolittle in his little can take at least 6 to 12 K spaceship type thing in which the idea is to months, and as these gam es Reality blow every toy out of the sky like a m ad child. are produced by the cosign it can Toyland C apers is pretty similar to ers of Reality, the whole 3 tfo rm JLi 0 y \ 4 Underwater Capers, although this time you're pack should've taken at sm all. bombing about places like Lego land. Top least four years to put ~ v stuff. together. And did it? I very WL * much doubt it, as they also had to put together the .(■it vw w yyyw iw w w rrow i actual gam e construction kit 0 beforehand. I’m mure everybody will agree that the small sprite Although, when yoj, the looks very familiar indeed punters, get hold of this you'll This is the second release in the “cap e rs' series, be able to spend much only this time you take control of a “Pinkie' more time and create some lookalike nam ed Seemore Doolittle and your top quality stuff. Reality job is to rescue your fantastic bird Marion the could be the way forward Mermaid while battling your way through for all budding gamesplay- hordes of underwater aliens, collecting as ers. It will certainly present m any power-ups as humanly possible. non-programmers a chance The Seemore Doolittle sprite looks like to pursue their own ideas. Millenium's Pinkie and the collision detection is We should have a 'eview a bit dodgy, although apart from that it's a of the full package next nice little blast 'em up gam e which with a little month, so keep you' eyes more though and planning could easily be peeled if you want to enter thought of a commercial release, especially in H e re 's “P in k ie b o y ” trippin' around the with- the world of programming. today's Am iga gam es market. world of toys. Marvellous Innlt? 25 SOUTH OLD BALTIMORE PIKE LAFAYETTE BUILDING I SUITE 202 OVERNIGHT NEWARK DE 19702 (302) 738-9046 ORDERS ONLY DELIVER) (302) 738-9267 INFORMATION & RMA (302) 738-9259 FAX ONLY 9.95!* •up lo five pounds actual weight & dimcnsioml v>« ®D(D » 4KD412) call for other details. Shipped Airborne Fxpre*. 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It will then execute the new startup, which L assign t: files:itra/ituff lecving the maximum amount of memory sets all the slandord assigns and loads C:SetPatck QuIET at your disposal. The problem is that it is a little Workbench without executing any of the cd fil«s:utils/iaagcpro/ie laborious il you have to mess oround like this each WBStartup programs. You may want to change assign ie: stack 33000 time you need to run a program. So, this month the T and CUPS assigns to a ploce on your hard run ie we'll look at o couple of ways in which the memo drive ogain to save memory, and the copy com ry-saving process can be made easier. mand is just there for people who hove a RAM Before you could use this script you woud have to Both methods involve AmigaDOS scripts and icon stored in ENVARC change lines two and four to suit your own needs different ways of circumventing the original startup- Additionally, you may want to add some of the line two sets up the temporary directory that sequence, which is where most of the system soft following extra commonds before the first rename AmigaDOS uses now ond ogain to store things. ware that we want to avoid originates. The neatest command, depending on your needs. You could just assign this to RAM, but as we ore try solution involves one small program called ing to save as much RAM as possible the hard MBPress and a few lines added to the startup DEVS:Honi tors/NTSC drive would be better. sequence, so get your favourite text editor reody. DEVS:Roni tors/PAL The fourth line changes the current directory to Using the program MBPress ot the very start of C:AddDataTypes REFRESH QUIET the one containing Imoge Engineer. Again you will Run >N!L: Execute S:User-Startup your stortup-sequence, it is possible to detect what have to change this to wherever you instdled Image combination of mouse buttons you are holding Engineer. The next assign simply assigns he volume down. MBPress is very flexible ond will even take The two monitor commands set the proper PAL IE to the current directory. occount o’ three-button mice, but for us, holding and NTSC screen drivers. The AddDataype com Now type this into your text editor one save it off Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe right mouse button down will be enough. So, mand will initiate all your Datatypes if you need to your C directory os StorHE You then need to at the very start of your startup-sequence, you them, and the last one runs the user-startup. type the following in a Shell protect cistartie +s should odd these lines: Normally you can do this without losing much This adds the script protection bit to the StartlE file, memory, as it is mainly only assigns that are telling AmigaDOS that StartlE is a script file not an C r l t B P r m stored in it. executable program. Using this, if you reboot your S et m m s r c The other method of making memory-saving machine holding down both the mouse buttons and If IANS4EI Efl 2 easier is not quiet so neat, but is equally usable. It select boot with no stortupsequence and then type Skip Quick involves moking on AmigaDOS script soecificolly StartlE, the AmigaDOS script will execute, and E nd If for each program you want to run with the maxi Image Engineer will ryn with os much memory avail mum memory available. As an example, this is the able to it os is possible. This secticn of AmigaDOS code will check, using MBPress, to see if the right mouse button is being held down. If it is, the normal stortupsequence will be skipped and our new startup will be used in its place. If now ot the end of the stortupsequence you odd the following lines, we will be almost finished. 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Eliminating global variaales when Resident creating memory- resident code, with Paul O veraa cede he theme this month revolves around the V a r i a b l e , 0 AirigcTs resident command focility and soaa.veriablet what you have to do code-wise to moke soae.variableZ T 5o»!_vanabti3 • • • use of it. Resident programs, as most of Variables SIZEOf you will know, are loaded into memory just once (usually via the AmigaDOS Resident command), link iS,f-Yir1iblii_SI2E0F space for variables and from that point on, the code slays there and a o v e a . l a2-a6,-(a7) preserve registers lea -Variables_SIZE0:(a5),a5 aodify fraae pointer is, therefore, instontly available for use without having to be re-loaded. The other benefit is that * This is where the ’guts' of your routine would go. the scheme is extremely memory-efficient - no * Needless to soy you would odjust the structure definition matter how many processes uses the command, * to suit the variable types you were interested in storing! only one ccpy of the code is ever really available in memory at any one time (and this is true even if ■ovei.l (i7)t,s2-i6 restore registers different processes use the command at the same u nl k sS rts time). For code to be made resident in this way it has Listing 1: Typical framework for creating instanct ■specific globals to be pure, i.e. both re-executable and reentrant. wm w t m m m Whof this latter term means is that it should be possible, wiilst the code is olreody being used by that is created eoch time the program is run). One like this: one proces>, for a second process to be oble to handy trick for doing this is to set up a structure execute thct same code without interfering with that represents the variables needed by your pro link a$,t-Variibles_SIZEOf spier for gram, and then allocate the appropriate variable v a r i a b l e s the first use. The necessary safety requirement lea -Vari#bles_SIZEOF(a5),a5 here is that any process that uses the code should space on the stack using the 680x0 Link instruc aodify fraae pointer Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMleave it in exactly the same state as it found it - tion that we looked at last month. and the main bug-beors in this respect are the Now, the whole point of using the structure Remember, incidentally, that this type of frome global variables being used by the program. macros available in the system headers is that it pointer modification needs to be undone before If, for example, a command hos to allocate should be possible to use indirect addressing with the program or routine terminates - the 680x0 some memory and it stores the pointer returned the offsets thot have been produced os displace Unlk instruction will expect the frame pointer regis by AllocMem() using: ments to access individual variables. But there is a ter to be unchanged (i.e. still pointing to he top of snog connected with using the 6 80 x0 ’s Unk/Unlk the stack frame). The easiest way of ensuring this acioryj) ds.l frame pointer mechanism when dealing with is to copy the original contents of the frame point Amigo-style structure access. Suppose, for exam er register at the same time that you preserve any then that pointer would prevent the code being re ple, we define the following structure to hold the of the other registers that are going to oe used. entrant. Any second process used that occurred local data for a program: You might for example start your routine like this: during the time that the command was already active would result in that pointer location being STRUCTURE Variables,0 link aS,!-Variables_$IZEOf space for UttORb soiejrariablel over-written with a new address. As farjos the first v a r i a b l e s ULCUS soiajrariable? aovea.l a2-a6,-(a7) preserve registe*s process is concerned, that memory pointer would UlQNfi soae variable3 lea -Vanables_$IZE0F(aS),i5 then be conuptl LABEL Variables SIZEOF aodify fraae pointer The ideo, then, as far as producing reentrant code goes, is to eliminate ALL statically defined This definition produces structure offsets of 0, This type of entry point code then allows the global variables whose values might change on +2, and +6 respectively, but if you try to use these normal movem type of routine termination to reset re«xecution and replace them with an equivalent sorts of structure definitions to access variables the frame pointer to its original value; set of 'instance-specific' ones (i.e. a variable set stored on the stack via the Link instruction's frame pointer register, you'll find it all goes wrong! You a o v t i . l Ia7)*,a2-a6 might think, at this point, that the solution is to use unlk aS rts the offset values in their negative form, tut if you play around with the offset values generated by If we put oil these ideas together we end up with these structure definitions you'll find that this ^ r the framework shown in listing 1, ond within this doesn't help either. you'd simply use indirect addressing to access the Why? Because the structure offsets are variables. Initialising some_variable! to zero for designed to work in conjunction with o low mem instance would be done like this; ory base address, and this, of course, tells us exactly what we need to do to get things in iovt.it I0,»oitjtiriabl«1(i5) order - we alter the register being used as the frame pointer so that it points to the bottom, Next month, incidentally, I’ll be giving you a rather than the top, of the memory oreo that hos runnable example thot shows how all these ideas T h e k e y to c re a tin g re s id e n t code likes In been set oside. If, for example, we wonted to fit into ploce and explaining how you physically the elimination ot conventional global variablea create the variables defined by the structure tell AmigaDOS that the code you've wrtten is to HBHHlHHiHHim iHH described earlier we’d adjust the frame pointer be regarded os 'pure'! 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Without a coubt, AmlRC is the most powerful and configurable program of its type I've ever seen On any mochine, but in order to harness its full poten tial you mo? wgnt to make a few adjustments and improvemerts here and there. First of all, let's take a look at the simpler ways of making your life easier. When you're selecting your Nicknames, it generally makes sense to keep With a little bit cl them as similar as possible so people will know tweaking AmlRC can make your Ufa a whole who you are. My nickname on IRC is Hedgie, so lot more pleasant os my reserve nicks I use _Hedgie and Hedgie_, so that even il some heartless soul swipes my nick, friends will be able to recognise me. on your nick. I use 'Hedgie1 and 'Hedge'. Now go to your browser to save you the effort of entering Another advantage of using sueh similar nick to the Setup screen (also from the Settings menu) the URL manuolly. names is that you can easily configure AmlRC to and on the GUI page, change the colour of high Finally, as mentioned in issue 100 o' Amigo alert you whenever somebody uses your name. lighted text to something that contrasts with ordi Computing, one of the best features of AmRC is its Take a peek at the Lists window (which is accessed Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMnary text. support for ARexx scripts. There ore some scripts from the Settings menu] under Hilite. Click on the D o n ’t fs rg e t to You might also like to add a sound effect using you absolutely should not be without, and you'll be button to Add A New Hilite Pattern, then enter your r e g is t e r yo u r c o p y the Events page. This way you con happily be able to get hold of them either on Aminet or by nick in inverted commas. Also, odd likely variants o t A fn ,w c • e o n ... browsing away in the background and whenever asking nicely on certain channels. They are all someone addresses you, you will be olerled by a straightforward to install, a process which is gener sampled sound and your attention will qiickly be ally explained in accompanying documentation. drawn to the highlighted messoge on screen. If you use YAM for e-mail then get hold of Whilst you are on the Events page, it would also Oliver Campion's YamlRC script which ollows you make sense to add a sound effect and highlighted to e-mail people from within AmlRC simpfy by typ text for Private Messages, or o sample when some ing: “/mail Hedgie blah...". Another handy script one new joins the channel so you can keeo a look from the same bloke is FAQ, which ollows those of out for friends. us who oren't privileged enough to enjoy Channel Operator stolus to create our own Frequently T im e s a v e r Asked Question entries and recall them wth a sim Make use of the Function Keys page to store ple command line for all to see. There are other lengthy but frequently used messoges, sudh as the handy scripts knocking around too, which automat location of your home page or the Amiga system ically greet people you know, grant Op status to configuration you are using. This con save a lot of friends when they enter (if you are a Chcnnel Op typing. There are also some labour-saving devices yourself), and so on. built into the program which are worth mcking use A word of warning, though. One script I used to of, such as the URL Grabber (added in version use, which automatically accepts any fibs being 1.1), which sends any Web sites people mention sent to your mochine, can prove a pain at times. If some irritating fool decides to flood the channel wilh DCC send requests you will find yourself flood ed out and will have to rejoin the chonaeJ. With this in mind, rather than employing that particular script you would probably be best woiting for An attractive front-end for Net users is due to full support for AmiTrack (a handy program AmlRC's own version of selective AutoAccepting, be released imminently as Freeware. which allows you to see when people you which ot the time of writing is promised, amongst Konnection from Piper Communications is fully know are connected). It can also launch a host of other features, for the forthcoming modular, saving precious memory by only AmiPhone, AmiTalk and AmiSlate and tonnect version 1.2. loading modules when required. 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Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMuse for our multimedia program, as we simply To write to the window simply use the: So we've taken a program from start to finish put the text crea off to the right of the screen and and while this will not set the world on fire, it's a i l « VindOM 1 put text to the window. good basic program for multimedia uses. Windows operate just like text screens so they command to write to window 1, and so on. Obviously if you have acres of MOD files and are simple lo clear and odd new text to. JuSt pul Putting o picture into the frome is similarly sim pictures to show it's worthwhile moking he pro a loop into your program which puts the appro ple. You can either combine two screens wth dual gram on CD ROM (see issue xx for information 29 9 priate text with the correct pictures. So now playfield, or simply reload the whole screen with about CD ROM burners) and compiling your m when you click on a product button the text in the the chosen picture pasted into the slot. Personally I code so it just runs from an icon on the 2 9 “ 19 box will alter prefer the latter course as it*s easier and quicker Workbench. The (ormct for windows is like so: to learn. And it's much more effective h code terms because all you do is load another IFF • Next issue I'll be looking at speciol effe:is, ond Wind Open A ny o th er b u s in e s s W rite stuff Anything else you should know about planning grams to make new programs in half the time. and making programs? Learn your AMOS. Either • Try to employ the services of someone who can If you have any other AMOS programs or read this column on a regular basis, buy a batch draw to design the interface. I know it sounds a queries about AMOS, then please write to of back issues or buy a good book on the subject bit lame, but I've seen so many programs which the usual address, which is: Phil South, (I believe my Mastering Amiga AMOS is still in look like they were designed by a chimp. In fact Amos Column, Amiga Computing, Media House, Adlington Park, Macclesfield, print!) and try out all the tutorials. I'm sure some of them were designed by chimps, • Get on to the Internet and share information but they are just better coders than they are S K I (M N P . with other AMOS coders. But most of all planning artists. Please send routines on an Amiga disk is of crucial importance. After all, if you don't Set out your interfoce clearly, so that anyone with notes on how the program works on know what you're planning to do in great detail, can see what it does at a glance, and the function paper, not as text files on the disk. Make the routines short enough to appear in how are you going to figure out how to write the of each button and menu is obvious. Quirky print - no more than about 30-40 lines of code? methods of operation are not funny, especially • Make the program in bits and assemble those when you are looking for a menu ond can't find code, and if possible make them use no into the full program. Separate each routine and it. And while you are at it, make as few controls external graphics, or if they can't be used work on it, making it do its own thing properly, as possible, and don't spoil people for choice. without them be sure to provide them on before you move on to the next thing. Where pos Choose o simple elegant scheme and stick to it. the disk in native IFF format, and the sible make sure you pass the variables to each There that's all. Good luck, and send me some same goes for sound files. Follow these guidelines and you'll be sure of making routine using the same variable names, so that of your multimedia programs so I can see how you can mix and match routines from other pro you're getting on. me a happy man if nothing else. 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Incidentally, a special new offer ng Is the sample mixing routines 'Smoothing' switch is available now when digi — line which allow up to 64 independent audio chan tally recording to disk that, by filtering out nels and support both 8- and 16-bit somple unwanted frequencies, is able to improve the R equirements use. Insteod of the old arrangements, which overall audio quality. RED essential BLACK recommended were tighly tied to the audio hardware of Needless to say all this hi-tech wizardry Amiga, the new scheme is far more flexible comes at o price, and at the end of the day, 1 M b since it is hardware-independent. Already, sev it'll be the speed of your Amiga that provides ^J^8020 52b eral output options are available, namely the overall limiting factor. Mix mode uses spe RAM Workbench Amigo (8- and 14-bit), Toccata (16-bit), cial tricks, and notes can lose sound quality on Maestix (16-bit) and Delfina (16-bit). slow Amigas. In short, the faster your processor P ro d uct d eta ils Audio data, being pre-mixed before being the better, and for acceptable quality you real Product OctaMED Sound Studio thrown at whatever sound hardwore you are ly need a minimum 68020 processor (cs found using, has opened the floodgates for many of in the A1200). Supplier RBP Scftware Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMthe other enhancements found in the Sound Adress 169 Dale Valley Road, E n h a n c e d Studio, induding the fact that it is now possible Southampton S 0 16 6QX England to store song modules (or parts of them) direct It's not just the new sample arrangements that Price (with manual) Registered V6 users, ly to disk 3s digital sample data. This means, have hit the headlines. The notation editor, (include your V6 owrercode which didn't exist in OctoMED V6, is now back with order), £35 sterling inc postage. in enhanced form. The Sound Studio, however, The full (not registered V6 owner) is still primarily a tracker-based sequencer, and price is £65 plus £5 postage the notation editor really exists just to offer a fJhij FUU price includes o year's bee different way of displaying and entering notes, membership to toe M ed Use’ Group) rather than providing comprehensive ond pro (/ M r s o t o atllor fessional score entry. That said, the Sound " E T T 1 OctaMED varmlona will find It m s y to Studio's nototion editor should be more than Ease of use 95% get to grips with adequate for most needs. It’ll handle up to 16 Implementation 95% the new Soand staves and each tracker track can be cssigned Studio way of to any staff. Staves (treble, bass and ako clefs) Value For Money 92% doing things. can be named, and even their vertical positions Overall 94% A nd m o r e , much m o r e than this Another feature of the new package is that in have also been added (useful for users who tion. There's a menu item for opening 4-channel mode, samples can reside not only use samples prepared on PCs). And, if you're AmigaDOS shells on OctaMED screens for in ChipRAM, but in FastRAM. You can, there lucky enough to own two Amigas, there's quick command line jobs. Instead of request fore, fully utilise all the memory you have another bonus - you can use the MIDI menu's ing the file format when saving instruments, installed. There's a new window which Slave Mode Active item to link them. You can the Sample List Editor now has menu items allows you to do search-and-replace opera then compose your song using one Amiga for default formats. And Cut/Copy operations tions on notes, instrument numbers, com with the other just acting as an extra note now optionally affect either all command mands and so on, an instrument list window player. pages o f the block, or just the current page. for easy viewing end selecting of instruments, There are, of course, many smaller Having seen all the beta test versions and and a greatly improved ARexx interface. improvements over earlier versions as well. A so on, I've known how good this program The package can now also load modules song annotation window allows you to attach was going to be for a long time, and the final created on two different PC sequencers: copyright notices, author name, explanatory version really does live up to all expectations. ScreamTracker 3 (53M) and FastTracker 1.0 text and so on to your compositions. Default A lot of work has gone into the package and (not all S3M effects are supported, but most directories for loading songs, instruments and it shows - the OctaMED Sound Studio is quite modules play without trouble). Some executing ARexx scripts can be set and simply the best tracker that has ever signed/unsigned and byte swapping raw saved. ARexx scripts can be executed with a appeared, or is ever likely to appear, on the sample conversion options for 16-bit samples new menu item and file requester combina Amiga! A m ig a C o m p u t i n g OCTOBER 1996 93 Steve W hite continues his Blitz and tutorial, this month he looks at adding interface gadgets elcome to the third instalment of in foct gadgetid* 1. You may remember that the The next line, AttochGTlist attaches the previ the Blitz Basic 2 tutorial. Last variable gadgetid is set to 50 to avoid canflict ously defined gadgets to the window. The first W month we started writing the octual problems with Workbench 2 in which the design number is the gadgets GTUsI number (0) a x l the ■ ■ ■ ■ 1 code for the BOOTIt main pro ers pinched ID numbers 1 to 50. second is the window ID number (0). Once this gram. Now we will be adding the interfoce gad Using a godget ID of I to 5 0 is fine on command is executed the gadgets ore drown in gets to the main window and creating a loop to Workbench 3 but if you use these number; on a their correct positions in the window. check for gadget presses. Workbench 2 application it will crash. Therefore, The next three lines drawn the borders that give The first thing we need to do is to define the our first gadget ID is set to gadgetid*1 which the interface that special look. The GTBevelbox gadgets befcre we actually create the window. makes if 51. Subsequent gadgets are colled god must be executed after a GTList has been arached Last time I cemonstroted the various gadgets getid+2, godgehd*3, gadgetid+4 etc. to a window. The 0 is the GTList that the be»elbox- BOOTIt will require and labelled them. Yov can The above code will effectively create eight es belong to - and ID is not required as there is no see the definitions below for the gadgets and this gadgets of the GodTools class but you won't see need to reference GTBevelBoxes for content. The code should be placed directly below the line them immediately Godgets must be placed after a flag at the end of the command, $0, tells Blitz window has been defined. Unlike the old godgets, which woy to render the GTBevelBox - JO for Let gadjetid=50 GadTools are actually attached to the window with raised and $1 for recessed the AttachGTlist command. What we need to do If you wont tc check the syntax of eoch godget you now is to create a window and then attach the I HE RIGHT EVENT can find them in the manuol. The basic syntax is gadgets. godget type, GTList number, 10 number, x pos, y Now thot the main interface is finished with we pos, width, height, title name and then the flogs .■aln can then start adding some interactivity to he pro which chance the position of the labelling text. Vindou 0,(VBMidth-391)/2,(U8Height- grgm, This means we have to provide sorre way (158»font))/2,391,158*font,$l}Q04!J0M8|S1)00| Type in the following: in which the user can actually select options from Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMJ0002,'800Tit v1.0"+CkrS(223),1,2 91 = AttachGTlist 0,0 the interfoce. We do this using a loop that con . ga dg et s GTBevclBox 0,4,11*font,266,126,J0 tains code to test for events such os key presses, G T l i s t V i e n GTBevelBox 0,270,1Hfont,116,126,J0 gadget hits and window events. Underneath the 0,gadgetid«1,8,15,250,96,‘YBStartup GTBevelBoi 0,4,137+font,382,19,J0 interfoce code enter the following: Contents:",S4|$2G,conterts() G T C y c l e . loop 0,gadgetid+2,274,J,100,13,’",SI,"lone|Alt* The first line creates a suitable window. The K epeat G T B u t t o n window is given the ID number 0 and then the x FlushEvents 0,gadgetid+3,274,17,100,13,".Rescan",JO and y pixel positions are given in (WBWidth- R epeat 6 TBut ton ev.hValtEvent 0,gadgetid^,274,82,100,13,"A.bout", JO 3911/2. (WBHeight-l 15 8+font))/2. Until ev=J200 OR ev*J400 OR tv*S40 G T B u t t o n Once you hove got the width and height cor 0,gadgetid«4,274,96,100,13,".Okay",JO rect, in this case 391 and 158+font, you can use If ev=S200 A IIP EventWi ndow=0 G T B u t t o n these values to position the window slop tang in Pop Repeat 0,gadgetidrS,274,110,100,13,“.Cancel",JO Goto endit G T T e i t the middle of the Workbench screen. You elective- E n d lf 0,gadgetidr7,71,129,303,13,"Report:",frll20,M ly take the window width and height from the Waiting.. .* Workbench width and height using the WBWidth If ev=S400 G T C h e c k B o i ond WBHeight commands, and then divide that Let aJ*InkeyJ 0,gadgetid*8,228,111,20,20,"Usable User- If aJ="r’ ANO 8ual1fier*128 Startup f i le?*,S1 |S20 result by 2. The font voriable is added to he win P op R epeat dow height to accommodate for varying System GTSetString 0,gadget1d*7,"Rescann1ng You will notice that the first godget ID number is Font settings (see last issue). |.is.2e.ze.7*.» ! .69,317.87,13 . i n * : : Co I M < : >4 Designing interlaces can prove a real hit and miaa affair. You might want to Designing interfacea can prove a real hit and m /ss affair. You might want to c h e c k out QadToolaBox which It available on Aminet, Yq v 'U *ia o n e e d th e B lit* check out QadToolaBox which la available on Aminet. You'll alao need the Blitz S a s ic co n ve rto r Baaic convertor A m ig a C o m p u t i n g VBStartup drauer...' GTChangelist 0,gadgetidt1 Sosub readubstartup GTChingelist 0,gadgetid+1,contents!) STSetString 0,9adgetidt7,"Nailing...* G o t o loop E ndlf If i l * V AND fiualifitr=128 Pop tepeat S ot o oki) Endlf If i J = Y AND 8ualifier*128 Pop Repeat Soto endit E ndlf If a$-"b' AND 8ualifier*128 Pop Repeat Goto aboit Endlf If Asc (tf>=139 Pop Repeat Th# m ain loop In BOOTH chocks for window, koy and gadget • wants. So, when you click on G ot o help a gadget, the loop registers it and follow any Instructions associated with that gadget Endlf E ndlf If evsU0 If 6adgetHitsgadgetfd»1 Now although the above code may look com Goto, a new section of code, in this instance Pop Repeat plicated it is fairly straightforward on closer called endit. Let ec=EientCode inspection. The first Repeat basically rurs the This means that we are prematurely exiting a Goto togflestatus E ndlf main loop. If an event occurs but it is not one Repeat loop (this is the first Repeat that loops If Gidg?;Hit=gidgttid42 we are checking for the bop is continued by the with the Forever command). What happens is P op R e p ea t Forever command at the end of the loop. that when a Repeot is executed, the position of If s e l e c : e d = 0 The next Repeat controls the checking of the program at the time the Repeat was encoun Let selected=1 Soto allstatus events. After the repeat we wait for an event, tered is pushed onto the stack. When the Else using WaitEvent, the result of which is stored in Forever commond is executed this position is Let selected=0 ev.l. The next line keeps looping to the second popped off ogain and program flows continues Goto nontstatus repeat Unlit ev=$200 (o window even ) OR ot this point - in this cose this is the first Repeat E n d lf E ndlf ev*$400 (a key press) OR ev=540 (a gadget and this is how the loop works. If Gadge!Hit=gadgetid+3 hit). If one of these events is received, program Now, because we hove exited the Repeot P op R epeat flow breaks the loop set by the second Repeat Forever loop premoturely we have tc forcibly 6TSetString 0,gadgetid*7,"Rescanning b'BStartu) drawer..." and continues down the code pop the position set by the Repeal bock off the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMGTChange.ist 0,gadgetid*1 stock. You must alwoys exit loops cleanly ond Gosub readwbstartup A LITTLE INTERACTION thgt means popping off any positions that hove GTChange.ist 0,gad9etid*1,contents!) previously been popped. Invariably this means GTSetString 0,gadgetid*7,"Waiting...' Once the loop is set up we can then begin test GTSetAtfs 0/gadgetid*2/IGTCY_Aetiifa,0 Repeat Forever loops, Repeat Until loops (the ing for specific events. Notice the section of Let selected=C second Repeat type), Gosub Return loops and Goto loop code that reads: For Next loops E ndlf If ev does not equal $200, program Row con If Gadge:Hit:gsdgetid+4 If cv=S200 AND Ev«ntU1ndoM=0 tinues after the Endif command ond the next set Pop Repeat Pop Repeat G o t o oka; Goto endit of event checks are executed. Using this knowl E ndlf E n d lf edge you can probably make a fair judgement If 6adge*.Hit=gadgetid^5 as to what the other checks ore for. Pop Repeat This basically tests ev for $200 |a window Don't worry, I’ll explain eoch check indepen Goto end-t E ndlf event) and then checks that if a window event dently next month. The code will still not compile If 6adge:Hit=gadgetid+6 did occur it did SO in window ID Q. The next line without errors SO next month I will provide Some Pop Repeat is very important - Pop Repeat. In the line below small code examples on how to make BOOTIt Goto aboit Pop Repeat we exit the entire loop and jump, or E n d lf compile with the code so far. If Gadge:Hit2gadgetidt8 P o p Repeat If s s= 0 Let ss®1 Else Let ss-Q E ndlf 6 o t o loop E ndlf E n d lf Forever C ode Corrections In lost month's instalment of the Blitz Basic 2 guide there were a couple of errors that somehow crept into the demonstrated code. In the section tilled The Sforoge Array you will notice that line 5 and line 13 hcve the text & » before them. Just delete this otherwise the program will kick up on error. 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Although deep space is blcck it's invariably much more attrac Texture type Froctal noise tive ond believable if you o d d o little colour. Texture size 0.1.0.6,0.1 Using the background gradient controls, simply Texture centre 0,0,0 A bog-standard sphere Is all you need to adjust the zenith and nadir colours to deep, start your engines World coordinates off almost blacc blue colour, leaving the sky and Texture falloff 0,0,0 ground colours at their default black. Although the effect doesn't, and indeed there’s no real rule to this process, but it's usual Texture velocity 0,0.03,0.001 shouldn't, jump out of the screen, it does odd ly wise to use colours which blend easily such as Texture colour 255,255,0 depth to the image while enhancing a feeling of reds and purples, blues and green and so on. Frequencies 3 volume and truly huge perspective. Simply slapping down wild variations in Contrast 0.5 For the next trick it's time to head off to your colour isn’t very convincing. If possible, also favourite paint package to start constructing and vary the opacity of the brush stokes which, in the Hi Quality Version Available on AMIGALAND.COMgalaxy. It sounds tricky, but in reality it's pretty finished image, will enhance the feeling of varia T ransparency simple. Using a soft edged air brush simply tion in doud density. When you're happy with c o n t r o l draw some large splurges of colour. Obviously, the overall look make sure you bleed and smooth the image, removing the majority of Transparency 100% harsh tonal changes. If you wish you could also experiment with twirling the area's image. Texture type Froctal noise Assuming your masterpiece is complete, save Texture size 0.05,0.15,005 it out, but don't close the image. Now your Texture centre 0,0,0 colour mop is complete it's time to create the oil* World coordinates off important transparency map. To do this, convert Texture falloff 85,40,85 you original image to a greyscale and save out. If you don't create a transparency mop your Texture velocity 0,0.03,0.001 goloxy will obscure anything behind it such as a Texture colour 255,255,0 planet, a ship and of course the star field - not Texture value 0 very believable! Frequencies 3 Our improvised galaxy plus tha Once yovr maps are complete, intrcduce a Contrast 1.0 subtle gradient tor added emphasis flat plain into the scene, and planar image mop B u r n in g a m b it io n Although, in this case, we'll be developing an takes your fancy. To ochieve the effect we'll Once again we'll use fractal noise to create engine flare, the some flame effect can be used need the assistance of our old friend froctal the desired effect. However, the real key is to with a wide variety of flames. The first step is to noise. Once the object is loaded, select it ond make the texture fade as its energy dissipates - produce a suitable shope of the object, ond open the surfoces requester. see transparency control. Apart from adding the invariable this will be an elliptical or egg shape. Make the colour field 255,0,0 then click the necessary parameters to the texture field, it's This is achieved by simply creating a default colour texture button and select fractol noise, important to set transparent edges to soften the sphere in modeller ond then selecting the upper making the texture colour 255,255,0. The key overall form. hemisphere and stretching it until you produce here is to make the texture size taller i* the Y The final task is to animate the texture and the appropriate teardrop shape. When you're direction and slightly smaller in the X and Z, therefore bring our flame to life. To achieve this happy with the shape, save it out and lood up making the texture itself Stretch upwards, In this we'll use texture velocity to move the texture Layout. case I elected to moke the texture size slightly along the Y axis. It's also worth adding a small Then it's lime to add the appropriate colour to larger to produce a longer flare on the overall amount of X and/or Z velocity in order to make the flame. In our case the flame is a traditional flame. Once all the texture parameters are set the texture undulate slightly as it troves along red/yellow, but depending on the project you The finished flare In correctly - see flame colour control - it's time to the Borne. Add o light ond lens flare to the heort could elect for a blue/white flame or whatever all Its glory move on to transparency. of the flare ond you're done. Hove fun... 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