Issue 9, Winter 2001 £3.50 Read our full review We play the new PPC/Warp3D Version NEWS NEWS Contents Clubbed.info Update Clubbed is published quarterly by South News Essex Amiga Link. For subscription details please contact us at the address below or SEAL Update...................... 3 Editorial Meetings Future Meetings visit our website. elcome to the ninth issue of Editor: Robert Williams World of Amiga South East. 4 Clubbed, if everything has It has to be said that things have been Once the show is over we aim to Design: Robert Williams fairly quiet at SEAL meetings over the Features Wgone to plan you could well revitalise SEAL meetings, hopefully this Contributors: Elliott Bird be reading this just before the World of last few months, we think there are will be aided by the release of new hard- Mick Sutton Reader Opinion................... 10 Amiga South East show which we’re all several reasons for this. Firstly it has ware and software at around the same Kevin Twyman Payback PPC Preview........ 11 working hard preparing for as I write. been the summer when many people time. So SEAL members, now is the Jamie Winter are on holiday or at least would rather time to be thinking about topics you Proof Reading: Sharon Sutton DTP Explained.................... 12 I’m sure regular readers won’t fail to be outside than sitting in front of a com- would like to see covered at future Cover Art: Roy Burton spot that this issue is on time for a DTP Utilities........................ 17 puter. Secondly it has been a quiet time meetings and if you could contribute in change! I would like to thank all the con- Contact Us in the Amiga market as a whole, there is any way to make them more interesting. Mediator Multimedia CD ..... 24 tributors to this issue, and everyone who If you have any queries suggestions or a great feeling of “wait and see” with lent a hand in getting it finished. Special One idea we do have is a “bring and buy want to contact us for any reason please Reviews several big developments on the use one of the following: thanks should go to Mick Sutton who sale” where members can bring along horizon. Finally several of SEAL’s Metaview............................. 20 spent a lot of his evenings helping me any kit they want to sell and can also EMail: [email protected] movers and shakers have been very with the layout, in addition to writing buy from other members, we had one of WWW: http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/ ArtEffect Plugins Collection 22 busy with the forth coming WoASE show several articles. these in SEAL’s first year and it was a Post: Clubbed, 26 Wincoat Drive, Epson Stylus Photo 790 ..... 26 which has also meant that this issue of success. Also SEAL has received BENFLEET, Essex, SS7 5AH, Memory Card Reader ......... 27 The next few months look like being a Clubbed has greater urgency than usual ENGLAND. several donations of hardware and soft- time of significant changes for Amiga we’ve had to look for a new printer for too. Telephone: +44 (0) 1268 569937 PhotoScope ........................ 28 ware in the last year and those items users, several major products, from this and future issues. (19:00 - 22:00 UK time only please) All that said we have had some interest- which are not needed for the club Shogo ................................. 29 Amiga and others are expected in this Before I go into the ramifications of this I ing meetings, bizarrely most featuring machines will be available for sale at Only Amiga Made it Possible PD Paradise........................ 32 time frame. There is the Amiga One and would like to thank Jeff for all the hard CyberVision 64/3D graphics cards! We this meeting, all contributions going to Clubbed is designed and laid out using: OS4, then there are the other solutions Archive Utilities ................... 40 work he’s put into getting Clubbed had a go at fitting an AMon automatic club funds. Hardware: based on OS 4 from Elbox, Matay and printed, including putting up with my last monitor switch to Alf Whitfield’s Amiga 3000 Support anyone else who chooses to take up a CyberStorm PPC/060 minute phone calls of... “don’t print it yet, CV64/3D. Next Elliott Bird asked for SEAL on the ‘net license. MorphOS, probably best CyberVision PPC Top Tips.............................. 34 I’ve spotted a major typo!” (oh yes folks, some help setting up a CV64/3D in his described as an Amiga compatible PPC SEAL has several, rather under used, 128Mb RAM, about 8Gb HDD space. Issue 7’s cover very nearly referred to A4000, he had installed the card under DTP Tutorial........................ 36 OS, with the BPlan Pegasos mother- resources available on the Internet, with Software: the little known prehistoric era the Picasso 96 but it was very unstable. Back to Basics Archiving ... 39 board will probably be shown to the more and more members getting on line Amiga OS 3.9 by Amiga “Scantasic” instead of “Scantastic”!). This turned out to be a hardware incom- public for the first time at a show in I think it’s time to give them a bit of a PageStream 4 by Softlogik IRC Tutorial......................... 41 Everyone at Clubbed and I’m sure all patibility between early DCE manufac- Cologne, Germany in mid November. plug. There are several mailing lists ImageFX 4 by Nova Design our readers wish Jeff the very best of tured CV64/3Ds and Zorro II (see Top Photogenics 5 by Paul Nolan Finally we have the Amiga OS XL x86 which use the Yahoo Groups service, Next Issue........................... 43 luck in finding a new job. Tips on page 38 for more details). Then Final Writer 5 by Softwood emulation package from H&P, which these allow anyone with EMail to easily Steve Willis brought along a Power Ghostscript 6.50 from Aladdin Enterprises Gallery ................................ 44 gives Amiga users yet another option! From our initial enquires with local prin- receive information about the club. Seal- Tower, Z4 bus board and, you’ve There are also some essential utilities we ters it seems that our printing costs are announce is for club related announ- From a Clubbed point of view we’d like guessed it, a CyberVision 64/3D making couldn’t live without: Directory Opus 5, going to increase considerably, probably cements and is a very low traffic list, it SGrab, MCP, Turbo Print 7, MakeCD. to hear your opinions on these develop- him the latest SEAL member to ex- nearly doubling in fact. Because would be great if all members with EMail Our thanks to the creators of this and all ments, and which products, if any, you perience the wonders of high resolution, Clubbed is non profit making there is no could join this list as it makes sending the other great Amiga software out there. Do The choose to buy when they are released. high colour fast screens. way we can absorb this increase. announcements much easier. To join the Clubbed is entirely created on the Amiga, We can then start thinking about the fu- Therefore we have had to make a But not everything revolved around the list, which is free, simply send a blank no other machines are used at any stage of ture direction of the magazine, although decision as to how to continue without Phase 5 designed card, new member EMail to: seal-announce-subscribe the design or layout process. that will also depend on the choices making a loss on every issue sold. As Philip Beasley had trouble with booting @yahoogroups.com Seal-talk is an in- made by our contributors. Thing we need to have the magazine printed in his A4000, when we opened it up at the teractive list for members to communi- Legalese Write Along with the big changes in the Amiga time for World of Amiga South East (ex- meeting it not only had some interesting cate outside meetings, to join send a The views expressed in this magazine are those world we have had quite an eventful actly four weeks away as I type this) we hardware (a time base corrector for blank Email to: of the author of each piece, they do not necessarily reflect the views of the editor, other We’d like to make Clubbed more “in- month here at Clubbed. Currently the have decided that we must put up the video work and a GVP ‘040 accelerator) [email protected]. teractive” so we need your input! contributors or SEAL. magazine is printed for us by SEAL price of the magazine in time for the but it also showed just how much dust Then you can post your Amiga problems Please Note: Clubbed is produced by SEAL Got a question you’d like answered member Jeff Martin who works in the show. The new price is £3.50 per issue can collect in a machine that hasn’t and comments to everyone belonging to members in their spare time, while we will always printing department of a large insurance with UK subscriptions at £14.00, current been opened for six years. We also the group by sending one EMail to: strive to produce the magazine on time and or an opinion you’d like to share? include all the advertised contents this is not Write to us and we’ll include it in a company. This means we get Clubbed subscriptions will not be effected, but found a leaky battery, as mentioned in [email protected].