~icS Bio-Con t° ~G5 ~~2Ph ~f~ Commodore Hornsby User Group tynttecr' ~tiect AAG SPs Digita g eau Amigads Genius 28th Defi $~areWare 8 DKB E!ectroni o GPsoftware Contests 29th pmet`ts Computs Magic P!L Nie‘o MotherBoard Computers Wizard Sy6'0e1 Phase 5 Tech Media Two Days • Resource Managment Force AAG 28th Amadeus Come DKB h`a, g~e DKB Golden Image cg Lead rgwground part er Prizes esic Cloanto rt9 Design Inc y June er Comeu ti Pow North West User Group prao HiQ ProDAD 29th Conferen ces r „...MAustralian IGA= .... ~~.... Gathering Medical Authoritieswarn that attending both days of the "Australian Amiga Gathering 97" could be dangerous to your well being. AAG Show We will be there With specials galore. Hardware Software (Limited stocks get there early Credit card Games, Education and surcharge will apply) Productivity GI 105 grey scale hand scanner with touchup v4.0 & OCR Jr V1.5 r and brand new games, Normally $200.00 Olde starting from $9.95 Show special $ 165.00 DKB Security card for CD Roms from an unbelievable A2000/3000/4000 stops anyone starting $5.00 each your computer, normally $ 80.00 Show special $ 60.00 , 2 Mb PCMCIA Memory card for Special bundles unavailable anywhere else. A600/A1200 Normally $ 190.00 Show special $ 160.00 New game titles you thought Cordless infrared mouse was $45.00 were unavailable in Australia, Show special $20.00 Brush mouses various styles Rereleased classics. From $ 12.00 to $ 25.00 Mouses starting from $ 12.00 Productivity titles all reduced. External floppy drives $ 100.00 Plus lots more, AND AS THE DEMl£L MAN SAID YET THERE S STILI, Pkmt Free Golden Image tie clip with every sale !! See the New internal and external flicker fixer systems!! The full range of available DKB product will be there including Wildfire 060 for A2000. Buy yourself a pen with a laserpointer inbuilt. True 80 W PMPO speakers, mains powered, only $80.00 (These speakers are rated at 240 Watts by some PC dealers) All special deals are available only at the show, and will not be extended The Complete Amiga specialist. Computa Magic Pty. Ltd. 44 Pascoe Vale Road, Moonee Ponds, Vic. 3039. Phone (03) 9326-0133 Fax (03) 9370-8352 In business and in AMIGA since 1987 • Editorial Dribble 4 • Amiga and Video Part 6 28 Michael thinks about the coming year Paul Graham takes us into the world and what Amiga owners should expect. of music, sound effects and visuals. • Amiga News 6 • Monument Designer Review... 30 All the latest news in the Amiga world, Paul our video guru opens up the here and overseas. German titling package. • London Correspondent 12 • Upgrading Workbench 32 Geoff takes us along to the "World Peter gives us a run down on all the of Amiga" show held in London. excellent WB addon available. • Amiga International statement.. 16 • The Best of Public Domain ... 34 Petro Tyschtschenko has started Daniel Hajduk reviews five more the ball rolling for Amiga's future. of the best PD programs. • A Beer with David Haynie II ...18 • Dear Dianna 38 The second half of Grant's exclusive Readers' write in and beg Dianna beer with the famous David Haynie. to solve their computer dilemmas. • Access AMISA 24 • AM Information Page 39 Michael Gruber has a look at a This Gazette is put together by "new concept" Amiga from Index. a dedicated (and strange) team. • Coning Involved 27 Michael Gruber updates us on the User groups around Australia. ~4rcabutlta,c lffMttgrs ryaqette fa.ae97 3 Editorial Dribble The Arsfalnn Amiga Gazette At the London 'World of Amiga" the PowerPC upgrade boards is a grassroots publication, show Petro Tyschtschenko, which we will see demonstrated a'eted for the pupose of President of Amiga at the AAG Show this month. keepig the Amiga ctsErn alive International, gave the Amiga Many software developers have n Austrian and beyond. community a glimpse of their expressed support for these new intentions regarding the future boards. The opinions expressed of the Amiga personal computer. h editorials, articles, reviews Personally, I was hoping to hear As well as all the exhibitors and lettes at sorely the about a new wiz-bang model, an showing their wares, we will responsbiily of the authors exciting marketing plan and the have a number of attractions that and do not necessatj Rflt<t drop in the price of the standard are worth mentioning. the position of AAG A1200 and A4000T. The 'Tent of Knowledge" will be Letters to the editor at My hopes, however, were short- at the Show. Within its canvas invited letters may be edited lived. (You can read the full confines you will be able to to meet editorial recnibmene transcript of the press release glean insights from the from the show on page 16.) developers of various products; Maybe I was under the such as DirOpus, DraCo, PPaint, Publications Committee misunderstanding that computer and more. companies make computers. It Editor. seems that Amiga International The 'Shareware Registration Michael Barak intends concentrating on Booth" will allow you to pick up providing support and fully-registered PD programs; Writers assistance to the Amiga such as WildFire, MagicWB, Daniel HaJd k community and developers. ShapeShifter, AirMail, and Daren Robertson more. Dema It seems that Al is hoping that Grant Regan third party manufacturers will do You will be able to pit your Michael Grube. all the work. This may fast track Amiga knowledge against other Paul Grdrau some most needed technology Amigans in our version of "Sale Igor Meter upgrades, but Al will need to of the Century" take responsibility for their Advertising product (the Amiga) and be On the Sunday afternoon there willing to spend serious money will be an Amiga Swap Meet, Advertising rate available on on its development. where you will be able to trade application AA copy may be all your unwanted Amiga gear eited candesed or refused On the positive side, we are for wanted Amiga gear. Please for prblication already seeing the direction the contact our office for details. Amiga is taking in the shape of 4 r+laataeal[aee data ryagette tfa.ee97 Just some of the companies that will be represented at the AAG Show ' *AA aadcas Computers \Ei~tra#ûin #nai TESIEdi4 mindEYE _°-~~y° ~p'~~ g~ ÿÿ, $ â~C.} s~°4 2 i.~.„ax.7 GP AM_IGA SOFTWARE 1• 1, OIGITA (see you at the Australian Amiga Gathering 97 Here at AAG it's our job to keep Diablo, Doom, Duke Nuken 3D, you up to date with the latest on Earthworm Jim, Fifa, Grand Prix Amiga. The past month has been 2, Hexen, Indy Car Racing 2, very dynamic, most of it centering MDK, Mechwarrior, Mortal around London and the World of Combat 3, Monkey Island 3, Need Amiga show that was held on the for Speed, NHL 97, Red Alert. amusement? Still fast, but less 17th and 18th of May. Putty Squad, Quake, Resident fun... It's really impressive and Evil, Screamer 2, Settlers 2, good to see that ClickBOOM is in AMIGA's future Confirmed Simon the Sorcerer 2, Tekken, the front line of visionary develop- Terminal Velocity, TFX, Theme ment for a new performance Mr Petro Tyschtschenko confirms Hospital, Tomb Raider, Ultima VIII, dimension." the sale of AMIGA to Gateway VF, Warcraft 2, Wing Commander 2000 at a press conference held 2-4, Wipeout 2097. X-Wing; Tie Release dates have yet to be con- in London on Friday May the 16th. Fighter firmed. A full transcript of the statement can be found on page 16. ClickBOOM and Power Amiga ClickBOOM: [email protected], AMIGA International: ClickBOOM are also committing home.ican.net -clkboom M. Grohmann (webmaster@ themselves to PowerPC Amiga amiga.de), www.amiga.de expansions created by Phase 5. Personal Paint 7.1 released Alexander Petrovic producer of Conversion Wish List PXL and ClickBOOM has said, At the World of Amiga show in 'We strongly believe that the fu- London, Cloanto launched PXL computers and ClickBOOM ture for the Amiga computer lies in Personal Paint 7.1. This is the have announced the "Conversion PowerPC processor. Furthermore, latest upgrade to their graphics Wish List", After their popular we believe Phase 5 is and will program. Features include com- response to their MYST conver- continue to be the Amiga hard- patibility with 68000, '020, '030 sion, ClickBOOM have taken the ware leader. Therefore, we have and '040 machines; more ARexx initiative and will now start con- selected Power Amiga as our fu- scripts, more efficient chip ram verting popular game titles from ture platform of choice". library, improved support for other computer platforms. PowerPC. Wolf Dietrich of Phase 5 is quoted To ensure they convert games as saying. 'We are happy to see Cloanto: www.doanto.com that the Amiga community want, how engaged ClickBOOM has ClickBOOM have setup a page on realized all their ambitious Cloanto goes PowerPC their web site for people to place projects in the past, and we are their votes. This site received excited that their new projects will The 'personal _ppc_blit. library" for almost 1,500 submissions on the be targeted for the PowerUp ac- Personal Paint 7 and other first day. People can vote for three celerators", 'Beside all the Cloanto programs have just been of the following titles. including demanding creativity software that released on Aminet their own suggestions. we expect to come for the (bizlcloan/PBlit PPC.Iha). The PowerUp boards, it's good to see PowerPC version has been 3D Lemmings. 7th Guest, Albion. powerful games with the real thrill Battle Arena Toshinden, Battle coming also soon.