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Medical Authoritieswarn that attending both days of the "Australian Gathering 97" could be dangerous to your well being. AAG Show We will be there With specials galore.

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(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 , 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 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.

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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

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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 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. What would Isle 2, Civilization 2, Command, such a powerhorse Amiga be Dark Forces, Daytona, Descent. without some breathtaking

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RockGen Plus . $230 .Seagate Ext Floppy Drive $125 2.5" IDE A1200 Hard Drives PRINTERS Standard Mouse 810Mb $439 1.08Gig $479 BJC210 360x360dpi $339 $29 1.3 Gig $569 2.2 Gig $759 BJC4200 720x360 dpi $469 400dpi Mouse $39 HPDJ400C 600x300dpi $359 InfaRed Mouse 3.5" SCSI-2 Hard Drives HP LaserJet 5L 600dpi $829 $24 1.08Gig $449 2.1 Gig $749 80W Speakers $99 4.3Gig $1919 MegaChip Exp $320 SIEUFIRIï Nita 6itVRU Oat Cobra 030/33Mhz for A1200 $230 Externat Moderns Cobra 030/40Mhz for A1200 $290 DynaLink 33.6K $190 68882 CoPro option prefitted $ 50 JetStream 33.6K $239 Ferret SCSI-2 add-on option $165 Maestro 33.6K $339 DKB1202 ram card for A1200 $155 DKB3128 ram card 3000/4000 $355 DKB2632 ram card A2500 $330 Quick Shot JoySticks Apache 1 $30.00 Rapldfire SCSI-2/Ram Card $250 Startighterl $17.00 Flightgripl $15.00 Wildfire 060/50Mhz Accelerator Aviatorl $49.00 with SCSI-2, Simm Sockets and for the $2,245 CompetitionPRO JoySticks 5000 Series $49.00 5000 Series (mini) $45.00 ProDAD Software Cruiser Colour $49.00 Adorage Professional Video Effects V2 5 AGA $210 Cruiser Turbo $49.00 Premium effects add on package for Adorage $ 55 Clarissa Super Smooth Animation Professional V3.0 $360 Animage Animation and Graphics Composing software $205 Axelen Mouses Monument Ulitmate in Titling & Video Effects $323 Standard Green Mouse $29.00 Monument Creativity set $ 85 Hyper Mouse 11 (400 dpi) $39.00 Loader Pack loads GIFPCX,JPEG for all the above $ 65

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benchmarked on a PowerPC This means MERAPI will also be duce transfer rates up to 660 603e running at 150 MHz. This incorporated into the Storm megabytes per second while software-only blitter performed Development System to enable using 64-bit wide SGRAM twice as fast as an AGA hardware to write JAVA ap- memory, allowing possible display blitter (please note: this is a com- plications on the AMIGA. resolutions of up to 1280x1024 in parison between hardware true colour mode with possible emulated in software and HAAGE & PARTNER Computer: refresh rates at 70+ Hz. Due in dedicated hardware, not software www.haage-partneccom August, the CyberVisionPPC will and software). The tests were have a recommended price tag of conducted on a PowerUP board More Power from Phase 5 US$299.00. by Phase 5, running a mixed com- bination of average blitter Phase 5 have announced ad- Phase 5: mail@.de, operations (not just simple copies, ditions to their range of PowerUp www.phase5.de but complex blitter logic). As more expansion boards. As the existing parts of the Amiga OS are ported Cyberstorm PPC for the A4000 ICOA Announced to native PowerPC code, and with and A3000 and the Blizzard 603e the fast evolution of Amiga for A1200s add PowerPC power The Society for PowerPC compilers, these results to these machines. The Blizzard Independent Computing an- can only get more and more excit- 2604 will enable owners of nounced at the World of Amiga ing. A1500s and A2000s to upgrade Developers Conference in London their machines to a PowerPC604e the start of two projects dedicated Cloanto: www.cloanto.com RISC processor. The board in- to the AMIGA, the Industry cludes a socket for a 68040 or Council (IS) and Open AMIGA JAVA for AMIGA 68060 companion processor. (OA). Part 1 of the full presenta- tion is on page 27. HAAGE & PARTNER Computer Phase 5 are also releasing the GmBH announce development of Blizzard 603e+ which is a The Jay Miner Society: JAVA for AMIGA. Code-named PowerPC board using a 200 MHz Fleecy Moss "MERAPF. JAVA is a program- PowerPC603e RISC processor ([email protected]). www.jms.org ming language which is not with a socket to add a 68040 or restricted to a particular operating 68060 CPU. Airmail Pro Released system. This way an application written in JAVA on one machine This differs from the Blizzard 603e Toysoft Development Inc. have can run on any machine. This is which is powered by a 175 MHz released Airmail Pro. Air Mail Pro similar in concept to Hyper Text PowerPC603e chip with room for is an email client program Markup Language (HTML, for a 68030 50 MHz companion for use on with short), the stuff web pages are processor. Workbench 2.x and above. made of. HAAGE & PARTNER's commitment to the creation of a SCSI will not longer be an option Three versions are available, v2.2 JAVA Virtual Machine (JVM) for as Phase 5 will include it with is shareware supporting neither the AMIGA means access to the every PowerPC board sold. MUl or ClassAct and two ver- Full range of JAVA applications sions of Air Mail v1.0 each sup- will be available. The CyberVisionPPC graphics porting either MUI or ClassAct. Air card is an option for owners of Mail Pro can be purchased from The MERAPI project will be hand- Cyberstorm PPC and Blizzard Toysoft. The MUI version costs led by Jeroen Vermeulen in co- 2604 PowerPC cards. The US$47, while the ClassAct ver- operation with the Storm team. CyberVisionPPC card will pro- sion costs US$40.

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The "World of Amiga" show after A chat on the Phase 5 stand closer examination of the side opening on the Saturday this revealed to me their enthusiasm furthest away from me that I year, crowds four and five deep for the Amiga as, having seen on realised the tower had virtually a could be seen around virtually their website adverts for complete A1200 built into it! I every stand and it was a case of products, I wondered have long wished for a tower but forcibly making your presence whether their devotion to the the carving and soldering have felt to gain any attention from the Amiga was waning. Apparently, always put me off. Obviously the busy staff. Amiga product sales account for best solution would be 82 to 85% of their sales and, even Micronik's tower, built for the job Several things caught my eye in these lean times, sales for with a tray for the motherboard as I wandered around but the one the first quarter of 1997 were up to be fastened to and the whole which really had me gasping ten percent on last year. tray then just clipping into the was the Phase 5 stand. There tower. The main disadvantage of were two machines both running I asked why, in the light of other these, to me, was the price the new PowerUp cards using the companies dropping the Amiga, although I realise that these units Motorola chips and was it they continued their support when are purpose built for the A1200 impressive? To see a 3D obviously much bigger markets and, as such, due to their very animated Workbench backdrop are out there in PC land. The nature have to be more moving in real-time whilst a answer lies partly in their expensive. fractal generator ran on another extensive knowledge of the window on the Workbench was, to Amiga and the attraction of the The tower is a full size me, a sign that the creatvdy of the Amiga OS. The basic Amiga OS tower leaving expansion room for Amiga community krgws no bounds. is, in their opinion, superior to all sorts of goodies. To fit your any other currently available and A1200 into it, you remove the top For those of you, like myself, far more flexible in its approach. case and keyboard and the whose knowledge of chips goes With further development, the whole of the rest sits into slots no further than the fact that AmigaOS could again become a vertically down one side of the they are there, a PowerPC603 force to be reckoned with and tower leaving all the A1200 ports board with a 68030 dual could also be ported to projects visible and accessible from the processor will use the 68030 for such as the A\Box very easily. rear. There is even room at the existing software and the top for a Squirrel to be attached PowerPC chip will be ignored I came away from Phase 5 to the PCMCIA slot vertically which makes it the equivalent of stand very impressed by their without the need for a right angle the Blizzard 030. Software commitment to the Amiga ideal adapter. which makes use of the 603 is and their wish to see operating currently in development by systems other than the current Also on the Eyetech stand, I several companies and this ones become a reality. This met David Ward. ex deputy Editor software should be up there with alone made my visit to WOA of the recently defunct Amiga speed increases like we have worthwhile. User International, who never seen before. So really, if obviously still has connections you have no intention of Next down the list of priorities with the Amiga community purchasing NEW software written for a 'must see' was the tower although no longer employed for the board, then there will be no unit in a glass case on within it. After offering my advantage. Eyetech stand. It wasn't until commiserations on the situation

~ >4rcaOtaltaa Miters ryagette #aae97 he has found himself in, I asked Amiga International had what at impressive range of Amiga his opinion of what he felt was first sight appeared to be a large software including the latest about to happen with the Amiga. stand at the top of the exhibition releases of Wordworth, He felt things were looking good hall. In fact, I only saw on a small Organiser, Money Matters, PPaint and was optimistic about the counter with a young lady sat 7 and TurboCalc 4 all of which I future. It was his opinion that behind it giving away leaflets on use regularly and can highly the Amiga was not dead and was current Amiga products, stickers recommend. not likely to be even after the (I got one!) and free mousemats (I non-event of the previous day's got one of these too!) - which Direct Software is a recent press conference and after now resides by my machine. addition to UK retailers and looking round the exhibition, I When asked, the young lady software developers and is have to agree with him. In all, said she didn't know anything unusual in that they ONLY over the two days, I was there for about Al as she was only a last- supply Amiga software. around 5 hours in total and the minute stand-in. Apparently, Apparently, when they opened place was never anywhere near Petro Tyschtschenko was in their first store, all platforms empty. Even on the Sunday when attendance at times but he must were stocked but the demand for it was actually quieter, most have been avoiding me 'cos I Amiga software outstripped all stands were trading steadily with never once set eyes on him. others. They then decided to go a continuous stream of visitors. Amiga only and have not looked Analogic Computers of Surrey back since. LH Publishing stand were on their stand were offering selling AmigaEM Magazine repairs and accessories for the One of the largest collections of along with their recently acquired Amiga range including CD's I have seen outside the PageStream 3 which looks like motherboards, chips, keyboards HMV store in London belonged taking over the DTP side of the etc., as well as a range of goodies to Epic Marketing and they were Amiga completely as the number from hard drives (on which they all CDRoms! The variety and of bells and whistles built in make would take your old HD in part- complexity of this range of this a superb piece of software. exchange) and welcome software varied from games to Their previous package to which customers from anywhere in the their own Interactive they had exclusive distribution world. Encyclopaedia (hope I've spelt rights was ProPage 4.1 which, that correctly - I don't yet have a although dated when viewed in Blittersoft had a large stand spell-checker on my text editor). light of recent Amiga software, with offerings of hardware, They have plans for further is still a competent DTP software, games and advice. It expansion by the introduction of package. actually took me three separate their own label 'Islona" for the visits to their stand on the publishing of games and multi- One of their other fairly recent Saturday and 10 minutes queuing media products. products was Image Studio (also to find out about the AWeb given away on a recent CUAmiga upgrade offer. To be honest, I have seen mag) and I picked up the manual better laid out stands at the for this for a measly fiver. The CUAmiga had Phase 5 local second-hand market than authors of both Image Studio and occupying half of their stand Gasteiner Technologies but there Draw Studio were in evidence on and both sides were exceptionally was no doubting their range of the stand offering help and busy. TFX was playing on the accessories was huge and very advice to those needing it. A very CUAmiga side always with a well priced. The hand-written impressive piece of software is large crowd around. It will, posters decorating the stands Draw Studio and one I am actively apparently, be a coverdisk gave it the air of a primary school considering at the moment. sometime in the future when all parent's day but the crowds were the bugs are sorted. (This last bit there! They even had a rummage stand had their was a rumour from someone who box which had a constant various experts in attendance asked as I couldn't get near). stream of different shaped and along with several people signing coloured arms going in and out of up visitors to subscriptions. Again. Another busy stand of a UK it like a twenty cylindered piston as with most stands, they kept software house was that of engine! busy throughout. Digita International showing their flae¢taal6an flrncC9a Oar-tee /`uKe97 13 More of the "World of Amiga" show in London

Golden Image had a big display, and magazines. For people who stand next door. The updates in of their own and other firms are unable to join such a local this version include full New accessories including scanners, group due to their geography or Icons support along with faster accelerators, mice (or should that lack of Amiga groups, this is FTP transfer. Having been an be meece!), hard drives, CDRom obviously the next best thing. Opus 4 man for many years, I drives, speakers, wrist pads, couldn't see the advantage of memo pads and laser lens PIGS. On the Saturday, the upgrading as version 4 did cleaners. Again, always a crowd two machines on show everything I wanted, I thought. about. displayed an obvious lack of Then I took the plunge and with electrical power to them all the Opus 5.5 I have a superb When it came to games, no-one time I was there. I kept going back piece of software now mounted else could beat the selection of expecting to see a demonstration as a Workbench replacement. Guildhall Leisure who have been of the abilities of the'PIOS 1' but Not only can you Australians at the forefront of Amiga software I was disappointed. The knock spots off we Brits at publishing for what seems like Sunday showed a lack of both cricket, you have come up with centuries. Their range of software exhibitors AND computers the finest piece of utility software including stuff from Microprose, replaced by a hand-written sign I have ever used in 15 years of ESA, and Acid. stating that owing to a change in computing. On odd occasions I flights, they had been forced to fly have had to revert to standard HiSoft Systems had all their back and hoped visitors would WB and I have felt as though I resident experts within shouting understand. It's possible that this lost my right arm! So, (I wasn't distance of the back of the machine may be the best thing bribed by the way) if you haven't crowd, offering Squirrels, Surf since sliced bread but there got it - get it and you'll never Squirrels, MPeg players and was no evidence of this on either regret it. other goodies along with the day. A disappointment all round I range of Microdeal software and fear as I really wanted to see what Overall the feeling of the show, hardware at exceptionally good this machine was actually capable from everyone I spoke to, prices. of. appeared to be cautious optimism regarding the future HiQ ALWAYS had a full audience Weird Science and Sadeness of our favourite girlfriend. I for their demo of the Siamese Software also had extensive enjoyed it thoroughly along with System and it was very strange, selections of - ermm - software having met some friends to say the least, to see and browsers could look forward previously only known by name Workbench sat on a Windows 95 to a lengthy time - ermm - on the Internet from the Pure screen. I have read several write- browsing! Perhaps Weird Amiga mailing list. The amount ups of this system and not one of Science stood out most to me as I of visitors were virtually a them has been bad - in fact they know the quality of their CD's is constant stream through the main have all been excellent. second to none. Well thought out doors and ranged from teenagers and laid out, their CD's are a to pensioners, proving that in the ICPUG stand, although only pleasure to use as I know from minds of it's users at least, the small, had a constant stream of experience. Amiga is a platform still worthy of enquirers and although they are support - they are also amongst now multi-platform as a user AND FINALLY, Wizard Software the friendliest people I have ever group and no longer Commodore were selling their huge range met. only, I wish them well in their of, would you believe, software search for members. I am quite hand over fist including, Directory Long live the Amiga! happy with our local group to Opus 5 (Magellan version) which whom I can relate face to face Dr Greg Perry of GP Soft was rather than through newsletters discussing with visitors on the

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"Ladies and Gentlemen, distinguished guests. I am looking around and I see a lot of people I know. People who have long experience with our AMIGA products and people who support AMIGA. It is nice to see that the AMIGA platform is gifted by a community of competent people. These strengths are going to be of critical importance for the success of the plans of AMIGA International, which I am going to explain to you later.

Anyway. I am happy to see you all and I would like to welcome you on this press event. I believe there is a bright future for AMIGA International, Inc. Let me just explain a few details of importance. so that you can have a better understanding of what has happened to AMIGA since the Commodore days. AG acquired AMIGA in April 1995. During this time, an effort was made to revitalize the AMIGA market, however Escom went into financial difficulties and filed for bankruptcy on July 15th, 1996. During this time, an effort was made to develop products, but due to financial difficulties, there has not been any significant amount of new product development by AMIGA over the past couple of years. Since tiling for bankruptcy, we have been trying to keep the marketplace alive through inventory sales by the trustee. However, it has truly been AMIGA community that has kept AMIGA alive through the development of products based on newer technology and software application developments. Now that AMIGA is owned by a successful company - Gateway 2000 - there is a bright future.

Gateway 2000 is a solid and well established company in the computer industry. Gateway 2000 has consistently been honored with awards for products and service. Gateway 2000 is the right partner to give AMIGA new life and energy for the future.

AMIGA International was formed as a US based company in March, 1997 to acquire the assets of AMIGA Technologies GmbH.

AMIGA International will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Gateway 2000. Over the past month, we have been very busy finalizing the acquisition, performing due diligence, setting up operations in and communicating with the AMIGA community.

We have a new office in Langen, next to the Frankfurt airport and I am happy to report to you that we are operational again. In Langan, we will have three people handling sales, marketing and general administration. We will be running at the beginning of June. Since early April, we have four employees in Braunschweig that are taking care of logistics and warehousing, orderprocessing and customer support, Internet support as well as technical service. Finally, we are in the process of identifying an individual to manage new product development and R&. What are we going to concentrate on ? Implementing our strategy. 1.Supporting the existing AMIGA community. 2. Leveraging the existing AMIGA technology through broad licensing. 3. Assisting in developing new products based on open standards to the home computer and video/graphics market.

How will we support the community that has kept AMIGA alive? Through conventions, press conferences, via the Internet, meetings and all useful initiatives coming from the AMIGA community. I have already been to conventions in Germany and in Sweden and will entertain any suggestions. Continuing to sell to the distributor network that has supported AMIGA. Working with developers through concepts such as the 'Open AMIGA Initiative" that is being formed with the support of many of the prominent names in the AMIGA community. The basics of success in this project is to work together with partners and to define a common path of development. The AMIGA market can not afford a split, we must go together into one direction. For us to keep the market alive it is neccessary to assist many companies in developing products through broad licensing. Our licensing policy will be very open, broad and focus on licensing and standard OIS, Chipsets and the trademarks. Also, licensing will allow the AMIGA to be spread to many different embedded applications in field such as medical solutions- simulation applications, fitness equipment, irrigation systems and kiosk terminals. Of course, we are looking for new partners. Through licensing and focused R&D managed by AMIGA International, we plan to assist the market place in developing new products for the AMIGA.

We are currently exploring many of the possible new products that have been suggested Including such things as an upgrade and new hardware platforms. We would like to keep the procedure as simple as possible. We need to talk with the technology companies from the AMIGA business and exchange know-how. It is also important that we explore an open AMIGA platform, use industry standard components to make it cheaper to produce, faster to develop and easier to upgrade.These things need to happen quickly, but in a very managed fashion. With this strategy and the support of the AMIGA community and Gateway 2000, we are convinced there is a bright future for the AMIGA.

That, ladles and gentlemen, concludes our presentation for today'.

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Dave Haynie interview continued in terms of economies of scale, off-the-shelf CPUs, some used from last month. standard parts. etc. Some of the off-the-shelf parts for the rest of Amiga's hardware lessons, like the system. Commodore was a Ok, point taken, you're the expert use of DMA, use of interrupts, etc. chip company, so they solved after all :9. Still, for an Amigan is available in the PC architecture problems with custom chips, or (and I know, of course that you're now anyway, and most of what's custom versions of pre-existing one) it all seems like a missing there (the resource limits, off-the-shelf chips (the 8520 in the capitulation, that we're saying to mainly) was covered by PCI or Amiga, for example, is a small the PC world, "ok we were CHRP (the Common Hardware tweak of the 6526, two of which wrangr Reference Platform, developed for are in every C64). But a chip PowerPC machines by Motorola, company back in the early 80s Not at all. We were right. So right, IBM, and Apple) anyway. could do reasonable work for little in fact, that everyone copied us, in money, chip technology just hardware anyway. But Still, you say that the PC is now wasn't that expensive. But with Commodore didn't improve very superior to the Amiga? Have we each advance, ils getting more fast. After they had copied the all been deluding ourselves in expensive. Only the biggest chip Amiga, they kept going. It's only keeping the Amiga alive for as companies, like Intel and recently, with things like 3D chips long as we have? Motorola, are building their own and/or "multimedia" chips (see the chip tabs now. Even the fairly Philips TriMedia or the Chromatic I'm saying the hardware has been large companies are teaming up M-Pact for examples), that they've improved past the point of the to get to the 0.25um generation. done anything but make chips Amiga's. That's Commodore's You're talking billions to get to the with Amiga-like features that just failing, though, not anything next level of technology these go faster. specifically wrong with the Amiga days. notion. Part of that is simply the I can't say this is better than age of the Amiga system. The last Also the chip complexity. Just like where the Amiga might have new high-end system architecture CPU specialists existed in the gone, had it been treated right we did, the A3000 architecture, early 80s and gave rise to the with development resources. No was designed mostly in 1989. The personal computer revolution, one can, really, and its a moot AA chips improved the display, now we have specialists in point anyway — had that but they didn't change the system system chips, graphics chips, etc, happened, I would still be doing architecture any, and in fact, they It's very hard to justify reinventing my thing at Commodore. were largely based on the original the wheel here. In fact, this was OCS architecture from 1985 and seen as a big problem at So what you are saying is that the before (in fact, the Paula chip was Commodore, and we were looking PIOS is basically a machine with totally unchanged). to change our design philosophy the lessons learned from the for the future. The problem was experience of the Amiga and the The other factor is simply the what I call "horizontal" integration. PC? changes in the computer industry Like the fact that the three Amiga since 1985. Back then, the only chips do all these different jobs. Right — the good stuff from the piece of a system that was given As one chip, no problem. But as Amiga, in terms of modularity, the kind of resource that required three, it's expensive to fix upgradeability, operating systems, the support of a big chip company anything, since I have to fix three etc. The good stuff from the PC, was the CPU. So everyone used separate parts, often, just to

10 ~4ucDeaGLaK Amager Cfayette tf rae9T improve one (unction. With their PCs every year. It's worked name, it suits me just fine. Once vertical integration, you could that way long enough for he said it stands for "PowerPC have functions tied to only one companies to have grown up or re Information and Online Systems", cht. Which is exactly what has to formed based on it. And this last but I'm sure that's subject to happen with different companies year or so, both in hardware and change. make them, so that's what you get software, signs are there that using PC industry chips. That's people just aren't going to take Recently PIGS gave its support to also where the Amiga was slowly this anymore. ProDAD's pOS operating system. headed. It just never got there. I am worried about pOS. How That suits me just fine, because many companies are going to What is the point of building an I'm trying to build the PIOS line support it? How realistic is it? alternative if the PC does along the Amiga philosophy of the everything we need of a platform. A basic platform Sure that's a problem. No computer? (motherboard, box, etc) should different than the PhaseOS idea. last at least five years, maybe except that pOS will be available NEED and WANT are very longer. The pieces that really to anyone who wants it. It's different things. The PC might change fast these days are the certainly no worse an idea than weH do everything most people CPU and the graphics. If you . It could get lots of Amiga NEED. I used to work on text- really need to upgrade these. hacker support, some existing based computers that ran at replace the cards. But also, we'll Amiga companies are likely to 1MHz, certainly a 200MHz try to make sure you get OSs that port to pOS if it's as easy as Pentium with Windows is better at are intelligently designed, that ProDAD has been claiming. But most jobs than that. I claim you actually use the power that's realize also that ProDAD is a can still do better. CHRP takes there. Or' loss-free" upgrades, like leading vendor of graphics/video from the PC architecture, but adding CPUs, where you don't software in , for the Amiga. eliminates many of the nasty bits. throw anything out when you So their stuff alone may be The PC could have too, it's just upgrade. enough to allow pOS to work in that never made this an certain turnkey systems. We issue, and no one else in the PC The worry at the moment is if backed it after they showed us it industry is brave enough to try to Apple goes under, what happens was real enough to consider. change the PC architecture. to the PowerPC? Personally, I have more faith in PPCs are a clean architecture, the BeOS making it beyond the not ugly like the x86. So you can I don't think Apple will die that niche level (compare 100 use simpler chips that go faster quickly, if at all. They have registered pOS developers to (my favourite example is the new problems, but not on the 4,700 registered BeOS PPC603ev, goes 300MHz, draws Commodore scale, and they have developers). about 2.5W of power, versus 8- more backers in the industry with 16W for Pentium family chips, up money. Like I said, I hope they fix Although most Amigans would to about 45W for the Alphas). And their own problems. Or at least prefer AmigaOS (what if it could the OS is probably more live long enough to get the PPC become the standard on important than the hardware industry Mac-independent. If the CHRP???) today. But who wants to challenge PPC dies, that pretty much kills MS head-on? Or live with the x86 the market for any non-Intel chip I would too. But no one could port if it's not necessary. on a personal computer. So I have it. We tried to get something to do a Pentium (or K6 or M2) happening with VlScorp last Besides, the PC buying public are board for the PIGS One. 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So many companies seem to be since such systems aren't viable to choose the Amiga's successor. working on different projects. for the desktop any more, and Most Amigans just wish that you we're not interested in building Even with Gateway involved now, would all work together and pool STB's right now. I hope they there's no guarantee that they'll your resources. support the AmigaOS and port it. do anything true to the Amiga but really, any REAL answer right gestalt, even if they have the legal We have been working, or at least now is better than the constant rights to the name. Believe me, talking, with nearly everyone out questioning we've all been 'the PC' is primarily Windows - there. Phase 5 is not interested in through. most people would be really an open AmigaOS. or, far as I can happy with AmigaOS even tell, AmigaOS at this point, except What do you think of the running on an x86. And we could via a 3.1 . There is no speculation that the AAA Amiga or have approached it that way, but need to cooperate on hardware, even Project Nombre may be ultimately that would have been in fact, it's good to have a variety resurrected? wrong. Being tied to the PC of systems in the market, just like architecture would be inevitable for the PC industry. PIGS could It makes absolutely no sense to result, also wrong. Don't mistake have done a proprietary, revive the AAA project. If Gateway the ability to use PC industry AmigaOS clone, given more has a chip design group and they components, where they work, money and three years to do it want to do a new Amiga-type with being tied to the PC right. But what's the point? No system, they could study AAA, architecture. We're doing the one will support a proprietary OS both for what it did and didn't same thing Be did, only with a again. So we've been backing achieve, and learn from that. But more modern architecture that only open OSs (open in the sense it's too little for too much money now has the side benefit of being that any company can license it: these days, nearly nine years CHRP compliant (do realize that only Linux is open in the sense from when the AAA project CHRP is primarily a software you can get the source, sell it started. thing, the part that affects the yourself, etc). hardware is really not going to The Hombre, or what the Hombre hold you back in any way like Can we expect to see the PIOS in concepts have become since Dr. some components of the PC Australia and if so, when? Hepler left Commodore and kept architecture do). working on his own, hold much I don't know. PIOS has been more promise. Even there, you Best of luck and take care. I look looking for distributers for areas would have to make sure there's forward to seeing a PIGS in action we can't directly cover. But it's strategic value in making such (you should get the rest of the really not my department. chips. Are they better, or crew together like RJ Mical to substantially cheaper, than parts work on the PIGS). How do you view Gateway 2000's you can buy from established chip acquisition of the Amiga and what companies? Will they really be At present, we would be happy to could it mean for PIGS? cost effective, even including have others involved, but we're development costs? The answer basically spending all of our Well, the waiting's over, at least: may well be yes, especially if money on development, the Amiga will live or die, once Gateway has the capital to do it production, and basic overhead. and for all, with Gateway. If they right. But on the other hand, that's When we get to the point where decide to get serious about not the PC way, so they might not we can actually pay, we'll bring in building desktop Amigas, they will even consider it. more engineers. Whether RJ is likely want to form partnerships interested, or onto his next with other companies in the Dave, thank you for your time. startup, we'll see And really, RJ Amiga market, including PIGS. With Regards to the next 'Amiga' and I would love to work on the That would be good for us. debate now its up to the Amiga same project, but we seem to community to decide (as long as keep missing each other on If they don't do anything with the they don't go PC of course) :") ! these. Amiga, or keep it forever as a 68000 system, well, it's not likely That's exactly what I've said all to change what we've been doing, along: its up to the marketplace

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A company called 'Index' have Access is based on the Amiga Index will be looking to sell it to developed their own unique Chip Set and Operating System are; AMIGA system. while cost has been kept down using common parts for 90% of - Education/Interactive training - Index Information Ltd is a com- the motherboard. CDROM or Ethernet network pany, formed in 1991, which delivery - Public Displays - provides custom hardware and What makes Access so unique is Museums, public buildings, attrac- software solutions for multimedia its shape. The motherboard when tions - Internet access - Integrates applications. fitted with its mounting frame and a modem and hard disk in a half drive fits into a stand- height case - PC Integration - Their extensive use of AMIGA ard 5 1/4" drive bay. Allowing it to Works with Siamese System and based hardware allow Index to be mounted in a range of cases. fits in a drive bay implement and maintain cost including standard PC cases. In effective products. the pictures you see the case These are the features of Access; which Index packages the Access Recently Index finished work on system in. - 100% Amiga compatible their prototype AMIGA called - Motherboard fits into standard 5 'Access". It is now working at Access will be marketed as a 1/4" hard disk drive bay 100% capacity. Corporate Information Delivery - Motorola 020 processor running Platform. The kind of markets at 14MHz - On board 2Mb CHIP RAM, on board 0Mb, 2Mb, 4Mb or 8Mb FAST RAM - 2.3 times better per- formance than a stock A1200 - IDE Hard disk inter- face - IDE CD-ROM with driver in ROM - Standard Amiga floppy disk drive - ISA expansion slot for low cost modems and Ethernet networks - Sound sampler with microphone input - Real Time Clock - CD-DA audio input connector and mixer - Non Volatile RAM for configuration informa- tion

24 s¢uetaaltaK Asters 9`agette /fa.ae97 Access also comes with all the - sound in - mono 3.5mm standard ports, plus a few extras. socket - Power In (standard PC 5 1/4" - RGB - 15 pin High Density power header) - Parallel - 25 pin D - IDE - 40 pin (for 3.5"; Hard disk - Mouse - 9 pin D and CD-ROM) - Keyboard - 5 pin Mini-DIN - ISA bus 8 bit - Serial - 10 pin (for 9 pin D), - Floppy drive DFO: - 34 pin signals also available in keyboard header connector - Composite video - phono While Access is designed for cor- - Stereo sound out - stereo 3.5mm porate markets Index will produce socket, front volume control a retail version in the coming weeks. AAG will post information Copyright© 1997 on this other machine when Index Information Ltd details are released.

Mick Tinker is the contact for Index Information Ltd: +44-(0)1256-703426 +44-(0)1256-701023 [email protected] www.cix.co.uk/-index/access.htrn

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Not long now for the AAG, centres and some stores play You could consider a sound effect Australian Amiga Gathering '97 at music while you shop. It would be to be a very short, slightly strange the Sydney Showground, the hard to go through a single day musical piece that adds to the premier Amiga event for all without hearing a dozen or so visual, voice overs could be Amigans throughout Australia, but different songs as we go about our thought of as a song without now its time for my bit with Amiga daily routines. notes, and music could be and Video. considered a string of melodic If you want to see how the sounds. In all of these cases what impact of music can have in our we are talking about is somehow video production, try taping a adding additional sound to a video minute or two around the house production. You can always just with no sound at all, then go back use the sounds that are recorded and tape the same scene with the during the taping but sooner or stereo or radio on playing different later you should think about music in the background. Another adding extra sounds, music and way to see this effect is to turn the voice overs. sound down during a dramatic scene in a horror movie. The scene will suddenly be less frightening.

Music, sound effects and visual entertainment have gone together since the beginning of time. If it There are really only three times was someone imitating some kind that you can add sound to a video of animal while they acted out a production; during taping, during story, singing or playing an editing or during playback. Each of instrument during a puppet show these methods have their own or a whole orchestra playing advantages and disadvantages. behind a stage performance, it Each of them have their own There are a number of ways to meant there was sound in the unique problems. Also each of get music and sound effects into a show. Even the early silent films them are necessary in different video production depending on would be shown in theatres with a situations. what you want to achieve, what piano player trying to enhance the you have in the way of equipment mood. These days we hear more Unfortunately, the audio is one and what you are planning. First of music than any time in history. of the last things that we think all I'll talk about some general Almost every television about when we are setting up for a elements of sound in a video commercial has music and sound shot. We are usually more production and then focus on how effects. Every movie has a theme concerned about how the shot the Amiga comes into each of song, background music and looks through the viewfinder of our these methods. In most cases the sound effects galore. Radio camera. While it is true that no terms music, sound effects and stations play music, shopping amount of audio magic will make voice overs are interchangeable. up for a bad visual it is also nearly

28 sFuxlratta.a ti.atga gasette fwrc97 impossible to correct poor audio. socket on your camera try many devices during the camera Ignoring the audio during the plugging in another mike but recording. taping will make your job as the before you do this wrap some thin editor a lot harder later on. People cloth (sock, cheese cloth or You will probably not be adding don't notice good sound in a video stocking ) stretched around it. You sounds during the actual editing but they will notice if the sound will certainly notice a difference in process but just before an quality is poor and unclear. the quality of the sound if you are individual scene, or just after you recording in the wind. have completed editing the video. The two most important things Planning is the main tool that you you should be concerned about at There are many times when you will use when adding sounds the taping, whether you are might want to add extra sounds during this stage, This is where adding extra sound or not, is to during the recording of your the computer is going to go to get the cleanest sound you can in production. If your master VCR work for us. In the creation of the first place and to be aware of has audio dub features (the ability music and sound effects the background noise that you may be to add new sound without effecting Amiga can help us to compose taping inadvertently. Getting the the pictures) then adding extra and play back music. With a cleanest audio sound you can at audio during recording is not quite sound sampler or audio digitizer the taping of the video is important as important. If your VCRs don't you can create realistic or some because it is next to impossible to have audio dub features then rather bizzare sound effects. clean up the sound you don't want whenever possible you should later on without some very think about including extra audio The advantages of adding audio expensive audio equipment. Trying during the initial recording of the during the editing stage is that you to lip-sync voices later on can be a scenes. The main advantage of have complete control over the nightmare. Being aware of adding extra audio during the final results. You can also take the background noise is important for recording process is that you can time to compose your music or the same reason. Once the sound avoid an extra tape generation sound effects so that they fit in is on the tape it is nearly before the finished product. exactly the right spot on the video impossible to take out sounds you in relation to the picture. Getting don't want without taking out all In a studio situation ( something the timing right is much easier the sound track on the tape. we don't all have ) you can usually when you know how long the Getting everything as quiet as plan far enough ahead to prepare scenes actualy are. You can also possible can help in both these extra audio to include during the get special sound effects to cases. A person will sound much recording. Music, sound effects happen exactly when you want better talking in a quiet room than and voice overs can be recorded because you can watch and time trying to shout over crowds, cars onto audio tape ahead of time and scenes before adding the sounds. and machinery. ICs a good idea to mixed in while the video camera is The biggest problem with adding tum off all TV's, radios and other rolling. With a little ingenuity you the sound track at this stage is sources of music or audio noise. will even be able to add pre- that it will, mean adding another You won't be able to eliminate recorded computer generated generation. A VCR that has audio these unwanted sounds later on sound during the recording of dubbing features will eleminate and the sound of a TV in the Grandma's 70th birthday parry. this problem. Even if your VCR background can add unwanted or does not have an audio dubbing inappropriate moods, especially if There are a number of problems function you may be able to avoid you're recording Grandma's 70th associated with trying to add extra an extra tape generation on some birthday with Freddy's Nightmares sound during the recording of the longer scenes, animations playing on the TV in the process , the co-ordination of extra or during the credits. background. Just before recording audio equipment with your video any of your video take a moment equipment is always going to be a Well, with such a lot to cover in to listen for unwanted sounds. The problem. The timing of audio and the music field of video I will have one unwanted sound that you visual effects events can be to leave you now until next issue won't be able to hear by doing this frustrating. Audio mixing in the when we will look at the different is the wind. Recording a scene field can be difficult or impossible. equipment in respect to the audio out-doors on a windy day can If you are working on your own it side of video, so until then keep cause a lot of problems even for might be best to look at adding the shooting. professional audio engineers. If audio sound during the editing Paul. you have an external microphone process rather than trying to juggle rlxatsaGta+s finters .rja.Sette parxe97 29 Monument Designer, from the title for the right application. The the program were... same people that brought us additional integration of graphics - object- oriented editing Adorage and Clarissa, primarily allows you to use photographs - picture editing functions offers you the possibility to create e.g. as a background for the title - restricted text rotation titles and scrolling of titles for use you create. The titles are - (processed) gradients on in video work. integrated into the moving video in graphics and text And may I add that this is the a semi-transparent - printing of video tape covers first, Australian mag to do a full superimposition, thus avoiding the - roll and crawl effects in SSA review on the Software, thanks to sterile impression of the so far (super smooth animation) Computa Magic from Melbourne. used simple overlay effect in video Monument Designer has been titling. As with the other programs developed especially for the from Pro Dad, Adorage and creation of demanding video titles. Clarissa, Monument Designer also This is why the strength of uses the SGA animation method Monument certainly lies in the because it has now been design of slides for which even a acknowledged as being the fastest picture editing function is animation system, here used in an available. Text and graphics can advanced form, scrollings and be mixed in all possible ways. other motions (wipes) in high Also the standard page effects like resolutions and colour depths are scrolls and wipes are available in no problem at all to Monument the program in many different The main aspect here certainly i Design. A completely new and variations. As a special feature. the creation and/or the editing o perfect anti-aliasing method (SEA) Monument Designer consequently characters and slides. Slide completes the professional supports WYSIWYG (what you created in Monument can also be production of titles in video work. see is what you get). This way, used in other programs such as The video enthusiast will find the you can already see on the Adorage, to achieve spectacula possibilities of Monument monitor how the final result will effects with titles and characters Designer endless, limited only by look on the video while you're still The display of characters i the users imagination. Some of creating it. The colour display, various materials and differen the particular aspects I liked about however, is only approximate to ways allows you to make the righ increase the speed of the animation. The number of colours of the user interface as well as that of the animation can also be selected separately.

Monument Designer also does a lot of work for you automatically. You can use graphics with different palettes and Monument will automatically process the best possible palette for the slide. Graphics can freely be resized. Additionally, graphics can be masked out or be made darker or

30 1ffK2t4atlaa siactqa Cfafette~fuae97 brighter via Alpha masks. Text can program, you will realize the explore the possibilities of be turned and rotated in many enormous effort necessary or the Monument. The title creation directions, and processed impossibility of doing it this way. page in Monument works with a gradients can be used for text and As already said, Monument saves time line, so you get frame and graphics. you a lot of work and you can second accuracy when composing Monument executes all these spend more time into designing your title. This allows you to make tasks (size, colour, punching your slides. Monument works in titles or captions for a particular mask, transparency) automatically 24+8 Bit-mode (16 million colours frame or second of video footage. without you taking the slightest bit + Alphachannel), thus you can of notice of it. There may be some achieve the best possible results. I would give the program an over- delays when in paint mode, but The manual is well written with all rating of 87 percent. The disks only because of the large amount plenty of tutorials included, as well are very easy to install, with of data that Monument has to as on the disks. These tutorials Commodores installer being process. Should you try to reach are really in-depth so you will have present. the same results with a painting to follow the manual as you

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Welcome to my latest guide about how to upgrade Palette Workbench without much cost using or This program will set the colours to be used by shareware now widely available from BBS' and Workbench. If your screen has more colours, the Aminet (via Internet or on CD). icons will look much better. Common palette is Magic Workbench which uses blues, greys and pink colours. The Standard Workbench The current version of Workbench is 3.1 and is Top 17 Essential programs available for all Amigas from the lowly A500 to the The following list is only a guide and may or may not new A4000T. It comes on 6 disks: Workbench, meet everyone's tastes, so apologies if it doesn't Extras, Storage, Fonts, Locale and Install. Utilities include your favourite or includes a program you and tools are few and basic and rather old. hate. These programs are considered to be essential, Workbench uses four colours for its default screen something Commodore, forgot to include or never got mode and its icons and looks dated although much round to writing one. They are not in any specific order. better than 1.3's colour scheme. 1.ToolManager. Setting up Preferences for you. Allows you to add menu items to the' Tools' menu in Workbench preferences change the way the Workbench (a daft oversight by Commodore). Also, Workbench works, looks and feels. The main allows to provide docks, sounds, icons or access programs to use are: objects on the Workbench. Saves time by providing short cuts to your favourite programs. Screen Mode Sets the resolution and number of colours for 2.Reorg Workbench. Using a higher resolution will give you After a lot of use, your Hard Disk will suffer from greater working space. The type of monitor will fragmentation and will take longer to boot and load determine what modes are available. files. The program will optimize your hard disk and make it faster. WBPattern Sets up patterns for Workbench background, its 3.FastView windows and the screen. You can create your own A very good picture viewer program which will view pattern or use a picture to display instead. Using this all sorts of pictures in various formats, includes program can turn your dull WB into something more animations and various other options. pleasing! 4.BED Font The Editors provided by Workbench are very old and This selects the font for the Default System, Icon text limited. BED or Blacks Editor is a reasonable small and Screen Text. Installing new fonts into your Fonts: text editor which is Freeware. There are lots of other directory can improve readability and if you want use editors about, some specialised, some complex and really fancy fonts for that extra individual look. some simple ones. Another editor worthy of mention is GoIdED. Sound If error messages or other messages appear you can 5.DIskSaly set which sound to play when it occurs. The program This program has saved me a lot of trouble in the is rather limited as only one sound can be played for past and it is essential you get this (or a equivalent). all events. Repairs disks and undeletes files for you. Version 2 is shareware and widely available, newer versions are commercial. Mother salvage program is Quarterback.

32 sFacttaltgur Amer 6'fapette f aae97 6.HDToolbox 13.VirusZ II Another essential utility as it preps your hard disk. Unfortunately, Viruses occur on the Amiga and to Not everyone gets this but if you can get hold of it protect your self you must have a Virus checker then you can manager your hard disk better. As well program to detect and remove virus. VirusZ is a as settings up hard disks and partitions it can also popular memory resident virus checker. There are Verify the Data Surface and map out those annoying many other Virus checkers available but make sure it bad blocks which DiskSaly cannot fix. Other prep doesn't go out of date nI software worth having is RDPrep and GVPPrep. 14.HippoPlayer 7.SnoopDOS If you enjoy listening to music then this essential This program can help you when your programs stop utility is a must as it will play most music modules working. It will display all the libraries, drives, config (MODS), there are thousands of modules available files and so on programs access and whether it was especially on Aminet Mirror sites! Other players are successful or not. An absolutely brilliant program to about including OctaMED Player which specifically have. plays MED modules.

8.AIBB 15.PicBoot Ever wondered how fast your Amiga runs or what the Sick of looking at a boring screen when booting your configuration is then AIBB (Amiga Based Amiga? Well, Picboot allows you to display any ILBM Benchmarks) is the program to have. Lots of picture while your Amiga is booting up. modules are available that give the setup and speed results for different Amigas and accelerator boards. A 16.ValidateWait simpler and older program to look out for is SysInfo Has your Amiga ever crashed and then the hard disk but its Speed calculation is source for controversy! is invalidated? If so, then if you reboot, the Amiga Another new program to look out for is SysSpeed tries to Validate the HD while booting up and causes which will speed test your hardware too! a lot of disk thrashing. To prevent this, include ValidateWait in your startup sequence to wait until 9.XOper validation is finished before booting up the Amiga. A This advanced program will display tasks, libraries, useful until to have about. devices and other resources and allows you full control of tasks and intuition. A good program but be 17.Assign Manager careful it can crash your Amiga! A lot of Amiga programs require assigns to be set up for it to be used and that can make your user-startup 10.Installer very, big and slow down booting up. Assigns allow Most Amiga programs are installed by this recent you to make ALL your assigns in one go with just one program which uses a standard interface to install command! Includes a profs program to add or delete other programs for you. Ensure that you have the any assigns without resorting to Editing user-startup. latest version (V43) which fixes most of the bugs.

11.LHAtZXIDMS Replacement Programs These are the most common archiver programs for Amiga Workbench comes with a few utility programs the Amiga. If you use Comms/BBS' or the Internet a to look at files, print them out and enhance the way lot and download files then you will need these to your Amiga works. Unfortunately, over time they have unarchive them. If the CLI gives you the shivers then become quite dated. Now, there are thousands of there are plenty of Archive GUI Interface programs Public Domain and Shareware programs available to around to make it easier. LHA and LZX are file update them with more features and enhance current archivers while DMS (Disk Masher) is a disk archiver. facilities.

12.ARO Requesters in Workbench are quite boring, so ARO provides animated requesters instead and if you set up UPD as well you can play your favourite samples as well such as an Explosion if a disasterous error occurs, or a Scream if the Amiga Gurus. Great fun! ~ (P36)

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WinCommodity v37 does not require much RAM to placed into your WBStartup operate. There is simple install drawer, or you can implement WinCommodity is a program script which will install the the supplied dock to your which adds some additional program to your hard drive, and ToolManager dock bar. The system HotKeys to your Amiga's there is an Amiga Guide file preference Program for ShutAll Workbench. WinCommodity included which will tell you operates using MUI. deals mainly with the way everything you need to know windows appear on your screen. about using WinCommodity. Some of the useful features that WinCommodity provides include Author: Michael Gollmick the ToggleWins, which activates Available From: Aminet CD 16 the next window, CenterWin, Requirements: 082.04+ which centres the active window to the screen, ZipWin, which will size the active window to either ShutAll v1.0 its maximum or minimum size, Take your pick: Cancel or ParentWin, which moves the ShutAll is for anyone who has safely Reboot active window below its parent experienced a read or write error one, CloseWin, which closes the on a hard drive. ShutAll is a Author: Stephan Nicole active window, TopLeft which commodity program which Available From: Aminet CD 16 will place the selected window in prevents a hard drive crash Requirements: 68020+ 053+ the top left hand corner of your while rebooting or switching off MUI3.3+ screen, and finally your computer. ShutAll works by CloseWBWins, which closes all Calling its HotKey which will pop Workbench windows that are up a window. ProgED V2.2 currently active. When ShutAll is executed you ProgED is a new and powerful Using WinCommodity can be a will first be informed that all disk text editor which has been little difficult at first because you activity has been stopped. This designed to serve as a front end have to remember all of the will then enable you to either for programmers of 'C', or other HotKey combinations to perform safely switch off your computer programming languages. any of the functions that are or safely reboot your machine. ProgEd is similar to the popular available, however you can There is a preferences screen CygnusEd and GoldEd editors make it easier for yourself which allows you to add any for the Amiga, but what makes through the use of the supported sound file that you ProgED better than the other preferences program to edit the have a DataType for. Sound files two is that it has many useful key combinations to your own can be fixed or chosen features combined with personal settings. randomly, so that when you flexibility, ease of use and execute ShutAll a sound will be speed. Some of the features The best thing about this played to accommodate the shut include fast scrolling and folding, program is that it is fast and down process. ShutAll can be project management, undo and

~ rlrcat'ea.lGax ffoaqa gayette firene97 / redo, syntax highlighting, user you like. There is an Amiga present on the screen. To defined keywords, and Guide file which briefly describes access RunBar your mouse Programmable keyword colours the purpose of ASP, and how to pointer needs to be at the for easier readability. One use it. Overall ASP is an bottom of the screen. This will feature which is excellent is the interesting utility, which will give signal the RunBar to popup, automatic phrase completion. you an insight to the background show all the tasks which are This feature will complete a functionings of your Amiga. currently running, along with the phrase for you without you start button. having to type out the entire Author: Zeno Montresor phrase. This can be useful for Available From: Aminet sites There is an installer script with quick or repetitive typing. Requirements: Any Amiga the program archive which makes the installation easy. ProgED comes with an ARexx There is a well documented port which will allow you to add RunBar Amiga Guide file which will help extra flexibility to the editor. The you sort out any difficulties that menus are user defined so you RunBar is a program designed you may have using the can customise the editor to suit to replace the popular program. Initially this program your needs. ProgED can be Tool Manager utility. Using may take some time to setup, opened on any public or clone RunBar will allow you to run however once this setup is done Workbench screen. ProgED can your programs, tools, prefs and you will find it faster and easier be installed onto your hard drive ARexx scripts faster to use than ToolManager or the via the installer script, and there thanTool Manager. Visually standard way of executing is an Amiga Guide file included RunBar is very similar to the progarms. with the editor. Windows95 task bar. Programs can be setup and launched Author: Giovanni Lambiase using the start button that is part Available From: Aminet CD 16 of RunBar. There is a prefs node Requirements: 052.1, 68000+ which automatically builds a list processor, 1Mb RAM, HD (1.2 of your prefs drawer. Using the Mb free) start button to access the prefs drawer is quicker and easier than using the traditional ASP windows and icons method. There is also a node which lets ASP (Amiga Scan Program) is a you search for files or execute a intuitive scan program designed clock window which you can for programmers and hackers. place anywhere on your ASP permits you to investigate Workbench desktop. and retrieve a lot of information about what is happening in the The only set back to this background of your Amiga. To program is that you have to be more specific ASP lets you manually setup the programs or monitor what libraries, ports, scripts that you wish to appear in The start menu has many resources, expansion boards, the start bar. Thankfully, using resemblances to the start bar monitors, memory and even the preferences, this is simple to of Windows95 fonts that are currently being do. You can assign an icon to go used on your Amiga. with the program or script which makes it better to look at. Author: Sergej Kravcenko Use of the program is very easy. The best thing about this Available From: Aminet sites Simply execute the program and program is that unlike Requirmements:Amiga OS click on the buttons to view the Windows95 which is processor 3.0+MagicWorkbench and MUI particular resource that interests and memory hungry, RunBar you. The program can be operates quite quickly and installed onto your hard drive by memory efficient placing the drawer anywhere When RunBar is running it is not

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Workbench Replacements Alex If you find Workbench itself too limiting them there If you ever needed to look at the contents of files are replacements for that too! File Managers such as such as Programs at byte level then this program is Dir Opus, DiskMaster, SID and so forth are quite for you. You can see the files in hex or and popular. search for strings of bytes or hidden messages.

If you find the Information menu option too limiting Scsi_List then why not add SWAZINFO to add some pretty If you have a SCSI adapter on your system and wish useful options such as file requesters for default tool. to find out whether all the devices are connected Ability to change the file type and get directory sizes! properly then this program can display all the devices connected to the SCSI chain with name and other details. Additional programs Other programs which may turn out useful, but not essential, to Workbench are worth installing to make Libraries AmigaOS uses shared libraries for its operation and Workbench easier to use. this allows programmers to expand and enhance the Amiga by writing and releasing their own libraries. Filefinder There are hundreds and hundreds of libraries, some If you have a large hard disk and want to find a are specific to particular applications and some are certain file which you know you have but unsure where it is then this program will be handy. All it does more general and can be used by any program. is search a given disk for one or more files using a given filename pattern and lists the path and names MUI - Workbench programs used to use Intuition for WB1.3 found. and then GadTools for WB2/WB3. MUI is a Versionwb replacement user interface library system for programs to provide a powerful and pleasing The Version command supplied by Workbench is not . It is getting popular but without its bugs and crashes sometimes on managled version strings esp. the math libraries. If requires an expanded system to make full use of it. you have a large collection of programs, libraries and Arp, datatypes and want to keep them up-to-date then this Req And Regtools Until WB2.04, programmers had to write their own program will ensure that the files you have are the File Requesters from scratch for their programs and latest by displaying its version number and date is was written or released. ARP (Amiga Replacement Project) provided a library to fix this oversight. Req and Reqtools replaced ARP and CBM's ASL library. Iconcopy Copying icons between files is impossible under Explode, Powerpacker, Crm, Xfdmaster, Workbench but it is possible using the Shell or a File Manager. IconCopy (or even Swazinfo) is a very Xpkmaster, Decrunch useful program to copy icons between files and it These libraries provide functions to compress files keeps the destinations stack and tooltype settings. and then decompress files usually in real-time by Unfortunately, if the file does not have an .info file to compress-aware programs such as PPM ore, start off with, it tends to default to the Tool type and PPShow, Muchmore and many other programs. They are helpful when space is at a premium and requires changing by IconEdit to its proper type. compressing large files and saving them to disk Guiarc would free up vital space and using a program to If you handle many archived files with LZX, LHA and decompress them for you when you need to view or DMS then using the Shell can be a nusiance. GuiArc modify them. provides a Workbench interface which allows you to add, view and extract files from archives.

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Translator This library is an up-to-date speech synthesis with locale support for the Amiga and can now be used on Amigas with W82 or better! N C Backdrops and icons m Workbench uses a standard 4 colour icon system which is quite bland and boring. To improve the way Workbench looks, there are replacement icon collections available to make Workbench more colourful:

Magic Workbench This a direct icon replacement using 8 colour icons using a grey/blue/pink type palette. It is very popular and doesn't require much extra system resources to ~.__. ensure speed isn't affected.

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